The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY 08 CONGRESS SERML RECORD NOVZo ;:’45 { | VOL. LXV., NO. 10,095 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS E | PRICE TEN CENTS FLEET COMING TO JUNEAU NEXT WEEK REVOLT IN VENEZUELA IS SERIOUS President E_Reponed fo Have Surrendered- 32 Persons Killed WILLEMSTAD, Netherlands West Ind'es, Oct. 19.—The Laguarira ra- dio in Venezuela said late today that President Medina has surrendered to young army officers after a re- volt in which it was reported that 32 persons were killed and many wounded. The Barquisimeto radio, loyal to Medina, had declared that the rebels were Fascists. Airplane passengers arriving yes- terday from Caracas said the San Carlos and Maracay garrisons led the revolt, and 32 persons were kill- ed. There has been no plane commun- ications with Venezuela since yester- day. TWO CITIES CAPTURED ‘W YORK, Oct. 19.—Private re- ports received by Venezuelan resi- dents here today said rebel forces using tanks had captured the cities of Maracaibo and Caracas, the capi- tal UPHEAVAL REPORTED UK e, - OPPOSED BY “gavior say Japs BIG GROUP st i - st Massive Criminal In-| i ‘ H | ‘ S0 . on Question or Hiro- Communists Seek Aid of< hito’s Refirement Socialists-Toilers, How- | ‘ | (Asscciated Press Correspondent) ever, Resent Move | rowvo, oct 1o The man | ~— Tokyo'’s rubble - bordered streets| munist leaders asked the Socialist|dent Truman's proposal that the| Party today to join in a united|Japanese should be permitted to| front. against the Shidehara Gov- vote on whether Erperor Hirchito ability to cope with the present Of 21 persons interviewed at | situation.” random, only seven favored such | The Socialists did not reply im-|a ballot. The others thought either | the groups were set for tomorrow,|line should remain enthroned and |but the National Federation of the emperor system be retained. !Toilers, a workers' organization,| A civil policeman, who hesitated | suggestion at the first toilers’ not be used, said he thought the | mass meeting since the surrender.| emperor should retire in favor of | Task Before Cabinet Crown Prince Akihito. l;iNl)SLEJY TOKYO, O !'9 —Japanese Com- |glances with scant favor on Pl'r‘l\l-‘ ernment, which they said “has no|keeps his throne. | mediately. Further talks between|Hirohito or another of the imperial strengly denounced the Communist|until he was sure his name would| Meanwhile, Foreign Minister] A brawny middle-aged black- Shigeru Yoshida told his first press conference the chief task of Pr mier Kijuro Shidehara’s cabinet | was to carry out terms of the Pots- !dam conference as smoothly and ¢ rapidly as possible “to demonstrate our good faith through deeds.” | Communist leaders Yoshio Shiga, | Shigeo Kamiyama and Ichizo Mat- | sumoto called at the office of the | Japan Socialist Party and formally smith favored changing to Akihito| “as things couldn’t be much worse than they had been.” The prince also got the vote of a junior high school student, who expressed the view that the em- peror should assume all responsi- | bility for the war. A well-dressed movie house op- | erator said: “The emperor stem definitely should not be' abclished, and there should be no call for an WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—A United | asked the party to join in opposing election. The Japanese claiming States embassy officer at Caracas|the cabinet. Z was fired on last night in the course| The Communists and the Social-|they want the emperor fo retire of spreading revolution in Venezue-|ists once were bitter political foes,|are merely saying so as a gesture. la. but Shiga expressed belief that, the|The emperor and the throne are The conflict is between rebel mili-igl'oups could cooperate in a “uni-|indivisible—I can’t think of one | > | MAIL ORDER HOUSE | " REGAINS CONTROL tary and government forces. The|fied single trade union.” | without the other.” ) incicent involving the embassy offi- | Support Tmperialism | Lo g ety partment today in making public dis-!ence at their first mass meeting 2 patches from Ambassador Frank P.|after four of their leaders attacked en' I we Corrigan on the revolt. the Communist plan for one-front The upheaval, according to these opposition to Shidehara, they af- official reports, began at 4 p. m.'firmed support of the imperial in-| yesterday at San Carlos barracks‘stitulion, said Domei agency. night the rebels had control of the|Domei said, more than 2600 Nip-| At President’s residence at Miraflores, ponese navy officers and men were| MONTEREY, Calif, Oct. 19—A and the nearby military academy. | bing investigated on suspicion of| big, silver B-17 from Honolulu The had set up headquarters in misappropriating war materials,| “buzzed” a Carmel home here yes- the academy. |and the number of Japanese re- terday and then landed at the o , patriated since the end of the war Monterey Airport. Out stepped a n‘rival of the Destroyer Hibiki at|pattered campaign hat. Gen. Jo- | Uraga port from Yap with seph Stilwell was back from the M G R d}flrmy and navy men. |wars just in time to spend his errY -Uu0-Lnoun | - | thirty-fifth wedding anniversary | e TR H | with his family. | By DRFW PEARSON DEVE[OPME“T OF ; The commander of the Tenth WASHINGTON — The next two Army on Okinawa was met by his months of President Truman's life are filled with junkets similar to that which he has just /taken | Hawaii, despite threatening wea-, “ow ADVO(ATED\m”‘ because he wanted to reach Twain country. At first, newsmen | ‘his Carmel home for the anni- covering the White House figured | AT | versary. he tock these trips for political WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—A long| reasons, but they have now changed {range policy of aircraft dcvulnp-i their minds. The President takes these junkets|vocated today by Senator Mitchell (D-Wash). that fateful April day when he| He proposed creation of an inde- took the oath of office has he had |pendent board similar to the, more fun than at Caruthersville,| “Morrow Committee” which under-! Mo., where he swapped yarns with |took the task after the last war. | the local postmaster, got up at 6:15( A good board, headed by Dwight to “spit” in the Mississippi River,|W. Morrow, was developed after| PLANTS IN 7 CITIES Army Gives Up Possession| PERONBACK INPOWER, ARGENTINE Army to Permit Him fo Run for President-Puzzling Situations Arise By LAURENCE R. STUNTZ (Associated Press Correspondent) BUENOS AIR! Oct. 19 — Col. Juan Domingo Peron will be per. mitted by the army to run for| president next April 7, a reliable source reported today as a stunned populace dazedly accepted his swift return to power. But the army, patently the power behind Peron and President Edel- miro Farrell, was reported to have | stipulated further that the govern- meni must remain impartial in the elections, giving no direct aid to Peron. | This source said the navy, rep-| resented by the powerful Campo de | Mayo garrisen had laid down con- ditions for Peron's return from custody to the dominating position in Argentina's violent politics. Retains Iron Grip Evidently intent upon retaining | its iron grip on the government, the army was said to have vetoed any attempt to install either Hor- tensio Quijano or Armando An- tille, both staunch Peron sup- porters, in the new cabinet. Qui- jano was interior minister and Antille was finance minister when | Peron resigned Oct. 9 as war min- | ister, labor minister and vice presi- dent under pressure from Camp de Mayo group. Neither Quijano nor Antille appeared in the cahbinet which was sworn in yesterday. Explains Puzzle This version would explain a| number of puzzling circumstances: The presence in the capital, un-i| molested, of Admiral Hector Ver- nengo Lima, a Peron opponent who served briefly in the past week as navy minister; and the fact that the army stood idly by and per- mitted the streets to be dominated by Peron demonstrators. As for Gen. Eduardo Avalos, leader of the Oct. 9 movement, who had taken Peron's post of war minister, one report said he had patched up his differences with the strong man after quitting the war ministry. Midnight brought an official end to the 24-hour general strike which had paralyzed the capital and left it in the hands of marching dem- onstrators—many of them young- sters beliw the voting age who pro- fessed allegiance to Peron because their apprentice schools had been formed by him. CHINESE ATTACK JAP CIVILIANS IN VIOLENT OUTBREAK PEIPING, Oct. 19—A crowd of | | today on Z3 Germans who must face | ied Neave to the cell 'motor-powered craft. cial was disclosed by the State De~! The toilers drew a capacity audi- near Caracas and by 9 p. m. last| Elsewhere on the home front, Th WaShlngio | rose to nearly 35000 with the ar-|plain, tall, gangly man wearing a | RAFI’ p ucv | wife and three daughters. He had | ordered the plane to take off from through the heart of the Mark ment for national defense was ad- | because he loves them. Never since and ran out in the street to ring/the last war but Congress paid, the bell of a small-scale locomotive. The lecomotive was being con- ducted through the streets of Caruthersville by the “Forty and Eight” club of the American Le- gion (commemorating the “40 men —8 horses” capacity of French freight cars in the last war). Sud- denly the President of the. United States spied it. Perhaps it re- minded him of 1918 when he un- loaded artillery haorses from those same French freight cars in the Meuse sector. Or perhaps he just felt very much at home in Caru- thersville. Anyway, with a shout to War Mobilizer John Snyder, who once worked behind the cashier’s cage of small-town Missouri-Arkansas banks, Harry went over to the locomotive. Right then and there the War Mobilizer and the Presi- dent of the United States had the time of their lives staging a loco- motive bell-pulling contest. Of course, the Secret Service men didn't like it, them, Harry Truman certainly en- joyed being Harry Truman, Another incident the Secret Service men didn't like was when the President arose shortly after 6 a. m, left the austere frame 42-room Majestic Hotel which had been cleared of guests in his honor, and walked down to the Mississippi River. It seems that there is an (Continued on Paa? Four) but regardless of | little attention to its recommenda- | tions with the result that, at the| beginning of World War II, we| had nothing but a haphazard pro-| Company Properties gram,” Mitchell told a reporter. S i | .—Fresh de- He said hearings he conducted| CHICAGO, oct. 19 135;9 sfxmmer as [’chaiiman | fiance of War Labor Board directives of a Mead Subcommittee on Aircraft tgomery, Ward. hd of Montgomery, Ward |came from Mon Production revealed that the air-|COmPany today as it regained from {plane industry wants some type oflme Ammy con}tml of properties whic! coordinating program. were seized in seven cities by the He observed that no aircraft was|SOVernment more than, Ao mahis operating at the end of World Warl:lgélgffix’;ionpmlongea dispute with }gf ‘:mi:,}::r :Lo:rt::e“ conceived © 4"the Army yesterday prepared | | .‘%Ve 4 faced” he said,|to relinquish its control of the huge| ) withe t;erene':;: it ac!eo ¥4 confinuamgllmm order house, effective at 11:59, : - ” |p. m. (EST) Thursday, Sewell L.| |this: vital activity if we are 10|,yery poard chairman and central {sintain; on snrforc? ,w;‘m ol "helligure in the controversy with the, newest _elements which researchynion and the government, announ- | makes possible. |ced abolition of compulsory main-| 1Lensmce of union membership and i DO(K STRIKERS IN “check-oft of union dues. These were the principal issues | |by the CIO Mail Order, Warehouse, | lo“DoN GEI A“GRY jand Retail Employees Union in con-‘; |tract negotiations. Ward’s refusal to| ¥ Th d (\chey WLB orders embracing them 7 3 pany by the government. e lasf stalemated wage negotiations, t"d“y‘seizzre,yon theg late President Roose-| marched through traffic - snarled | .1ps order, was on Dec. 28, 1944, e s . 28, | streets to the Towef of London injgng jtg legality still is in dispute be- | |2 ‘““5(5 ‘rmms"‘“g‘;“das the na- fore the U. S. Supreme Court. | tion's food stocks ebbed. | When the Army tock control the Despite the strikers' cries of maintenance of union membership| “stick it out,” the British Pressiang check-off of union dues were in- Association’s labor (‘(?rresponde.nt‘augum[ed_ Avery, in his announce- jveported that work might be re- ment yesterday, termed them “illegal ‘sumed this weekend, requirements,” ! Japanese | Chinese attacked Japanese civilians ‘in the Little Tokyo district of Pei- (ping last night in the first out- |break of violence since the sur- render of Nipponese forces. | Three deaths were reported. | Other Japanese were beaten and stoned. The outbreak followed similar disturbances at Tientsin, where |homes were entered and several | hundred Japanese were beaten four ! | days ago. | Local police re-established orderi quickly in Peiping and there were | no recurrences. The Japanese were{ warned to stay in their quarters and streets normally crowded with both civilians and soldiers of - Nip-| pen were nearly deserted. I An angry little mob of jeering, screaming Chinese school children, buzzing like bees, chased three girls into the Pekin |an American crew were killed today | near here. | Field from Hankow in Hotel grounds prior to last night's| clash while astonished American | Marines and soldiers in the hotel | looked on. The mob broke up as| quickly as it formed when Marine Military Police reached the scene.| e MRS. JACOBSEN RETURNS | Mrs. T. J. Jacobsen, who has| been visiting in Whitehorse for the past two months, has returned to Juneau. ,ee * DALE TUTTLE HERE Dale Tuttle of Sitka is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel, | vancouver Island has failed, the Native Service office staff, is to hop| HEARS PROBLEMS OF WOMEN & 23 GERMANS GET NOTICE FOR TRIALS Most Nips >A"gainst Vofing dictments in History Served on Criminals NUERNBERG, Germany, Oct. 19.| ~—The most massive criminal indict- ment in history was served formally VETS a Four-Power International Mili- tary Tribunal in trials for their lives at Nuernberg next month. { The 24th defendant, Martin Bor- | He ; : 4 | mann, apparently still is at large| g F 5 1 and probably will be tried in ab- | > E - sentia. i Maj. Anthony Neave, a British lawyer, gave copies of the 24,000 word accusation to the men in their | carefully guarded cells. Ho explain- | ed to all exactly what their rights | were. | Lt. Col. Richard Owen of New Haven, Conn, and two attorneys attached to United States forces in the European theatre accompan- PREPARED TO HELP IN SOLVING the assorted problems of the 300,000 young women who have been serving in the armed forces, Lt. Col. Mary A. Brown takes over as advisor to Gen. Omar N. Bradley on matters concerning women vets. Here she talks things over at Ft. Myer, Va, with WAC T/4 Hattie Green, Linwood, N. C. and WAC T/3 Helen Camp- bell, Pittsburgh, Pa., awaiting discharge from the Corps. (International) Neave, in his militar; er, was | captured by the Germans in the British retreat from Dunkerque. He | escaped from a German prison camp in 1944. The defendants have 30 days in which to prepare their defenses. e Vels Get Tax [VETSIN | BOAT (aPsizes; | Breaks from MANILA * KICKING 1 *losE W Lge Congressmen i i Declare Army Officials De- | laying Homecoming- WRANGELL, Alaska, Oct. 19 _'Senate Gmup Would FOf" ! Ships Refurn Empty MANILA, Oct. 19—U. 8. en-| One man drowned and a second give TO”S on En"s'ed listed men in the Philippines,| was rescued from a flood-menaced ( Service Pay writing in the “letters column” bar in the Stikine River Oct. 9! after their boat was swamped by a| WASHINGTON, Oct, 18, — The of the Army newspaper Dalily Pa- cifican, accuse Army authorities huge swell, it was disclosed today | with the arrival here of the rescue craft piloted by Capt. Al Ritchie. |Senate Finance Committee voted The man lost was William Aiken, | today to forgive all Federal incom= who left Telegraph Creek by boat taxes during war years on the service with Walter Simpson and Dan!pay of enlisted personnel in tho McLennon. Fourteen miles down- armeod forces. | supervising the homeward shipment stream they made an effort to pass| Veterans below the grade of com- of veterans of stalling, inefficiency | a rock in Glendora Rapids when | missioned officers won't even have and promise-breaking. the swell capsized their outboard- | to file returns on their service in The writers complained that the Army was failing to make use of dozens of cargo vessels sailing empty for the United States. They said they sailed in these ships in | come if Congre finally approvi varicus Pacific landings, and de- | the provision. H the eiderdown sleeping bags and( The committoe, driving to com- ’scrlbcd as “phoney” the Army's 'solicitude for their comfort now. were swept two miles downstream, | plete a $4,780,000,000 tax-cutting bill the former reaching a river bar before nightfall, voted two other Recently, Army officers said freighters were unsuitgble for de- Simpson and Aiken clutched at| 2 the dark to Telegraph Creek to re- | veterans were: took. i, SboRrd (BB SFINEr: BORE | ot Lecel chnacha ravided thay T Bide, GueS ARIS g - - i could put Liberty Ships in shape!| after hearing Aiken’s final struggle, | Penefits for veterans and a llke port the accident, thinking McLe g non also had lost his life. | 1—Officers would be granted an pioying troops home, but one letter | additional three-year extension of Hazel B. No. 3 just a few minutes ' P Sidv Inatali This morning s issue of the Pa- paid off in twelve quarterly install-| i i ouoted Col. C. H. Davidson, | ! before the pay-as-you-go tax law | went into effect would be granted - H pRERs il et g . Sk e £ carry 75 trocps each, some with Plane with Troops g Ml o gy Simps led” 18 ‘milas. | number for corporations. \HRVE. 8. miles through | ", 7 iher provisions affecting = 3 said: “Give us a case of ten-in-one A search party une next day!the time in which they could pay yations and we will be tickled to found McLennon alive on a bar and the tax on their service pay, with- | before a sudden rise in the river ' ments | inundated the bar. | Men who entered the service :v!uwru\mndmn of the water divi-| sion, port of Manila, as saying he! | similar " three-year extension ior | payment of their tax liability on . jesmen: 9 o Veterans of the Philippines also ») Crashes;Many Killed PEIPING, Oct. i7—(Delayed)— More than 50 Chinese troops and earned income (not in excess of $14, that complained the Army was i viclating its promises to send home | the highest point men first. They |said the policy of sending divisions ! 000 earned in civilian life) for years {home by the unit, including some | 69-pointers, leaves 70 and 80- prior to 1942. — e o | pointers sitting on the docks with ISSUE SIAIEMENI 'no transportation. v A when a troopship crashed attempt- | ing to land at Nanyuan A!rflrld“ The plane was one of the first arriving today with Chinese gov- BRITISH i{ -, ernment troops on an accelerated ek l schedule under which 29 planes, LONDON, Oct. 19.~The Daily EVERY MEMBER began bringing the soldiers from Herald’s political correspondent said Shanghai to Nanyuan. teday that a British government OF NAI' pAR'I'Y | | | Other government troops con-|statement on Palestine could be ex- tinued to arrive at Peiping’s West|pected “within ten days.” LONDON, Oct. 19.—~A Pravda editorial broadcast by the Moscow an overall| Britain is convinced the problem migration alone” and Prime Minister radio today indicated that the So-| NO. PACIFIC ‘FLAGSHIPTO VISIT HERE Navy Day fo | Be Observed by Vessels Calling af Alaska Port Cities Navy Day, October 27, will be oh- served by a “fleet week” in Alaska port cities. Announcement that the Territory’s coastal towns will be visited by amnits of the North Pacific fleet force, was made today by the office of the Governor of Alaska, which has been advised by Rear Admiral | Ralph Wood, Commandant of the Seventeenth Naval District, that 18 naval vessels, in all, will begin to arrive in several Alaska ports on or about October 24. The fleet units will remain in their various ports for one week to 10 days and residents of the cities are invited to visit them. Flagship Here Three fighting ships, headed by the flagship of the North Pacific Task Force, ths USS Panamint, will visit Jureau. Aboard the Pana- ‘mh\L which is commanded by Capt. K. G. Ammon, will be the Chief of Staff of the Commander of the North Pacific Force, Capt. M. Van Metre. Besides the Panamint, which is one of the larger units of the North Pacific Forca. Juneau will be host | to the USS Charleston, Comdr. W. g.m‘hskonky, and the USS Halford, r. R. J. Oliver on. tha bridge. ’l'fm Vessels Coming. The Panamint is offieially desig- nated a Combined Operations Head- quarters Communications Ship. The Charleston, well-known in Alaskan ports, is a Patrol Gunboat. The Hal- ford of the Destroyer class—one of the fighting “tin cans.” Ketchikan also is scheduled to be visited by top officials of the North Pacific Fleet. Aboard the Destroyer Fallam, due to visit there, will be Capt. J. C. Daniel, Commander of Destroyer Squadron 45. The De- stroyer Escort Ramsden will sail into that port with Comdr. J. . Forney, Commander of Escort Di- vision 23, aboard. A third vessel which will visit Ketchikan is the Destroyer Guest. In his letter to the Governor's Office here, announcing the pending Navy Day visits by his vessels, Adm. Wood stated: Admiral's Letter “It is a custom of long standing to bring the ships of the Navy and our people together upon appro- priate occasions. Such opportunity aptly is at hand with the forthcom- ing celebration by the nation of Navy Day on the 27th of October and it is being taken to afford Alaskans and the Navy a happy re- union. As Commander North Pacific and Alaskan Sea Frontier Forces, it is my intention to sail naval vessels to various Alaskans ports to arrive on or about the 24th of October for * a stay of one week to 10 days, thus enabling the ships to be present on Navy Day. Many of these ships have a long and illustrious record, not only in these waters but alsc in other theatres of the Pacific War. “I wish to have the ships, the of- ficers and crews see the Tarritory and meet the people they helped defend during the war. I extend a (Continued on Page — ALASKA TO COME BACK FOLLOWING RECESSION PERIOD SEATTLE, Oct. 19 — Foster L. McGovern, vice president of the National Bank of Commerce, said here that Alaska already is suffer- ing a “recession” as the result of the war's end, but that it un- doubtedly would experience ‘“sub- stantial” expansion. McGovern spoke to the Alaska committee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce yesterday reporting on a trip which took him to all major Alaska cities except Valdez nd Skagway. Alaska citles like Anchorage, Five) forces from Shanghai to North| Nations,” Ernest Jay wrote. |a war criminal Navy Ship Aground; avy !p groun ] TEL AVIV, Palestine, Oct. 19.— 409 Nagj party membership cards. in Southern Palestine today, limit- {). «crimes were committed by | second attempt to pull the Athana-| A | zation which they created and in the the rocks on the west coast of Miss Ethel Rose, of the Alaska stitution.” The company’s salvage vessel and| Sunday. She is bound for her “there can be a division into lead- air movement which will transport “cannot be settled by Palestine im- the Ninety-Second Army and othcr‘cx e gl ement Attlee is “likely to suggest ... ynjon ma e y insist ,upon trying China within three weeks. it must be dealt with by the United oyory member of the Nazi party as| D g V. 8. authorities in Germany re- EMERGENCY ORDERS | cen(ly seized a master file of 8,000,- | | Emergency orders were issued in . . & . st Pravda was quoted as saying that salvage 'rles Fal |Royal Air Force and Army Camps i, pyuernburg indictments revealed | b c ing soldiers’ leaves and compelling eyery Hitlerite monster individually VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 19—A |officers to carry arms at all times. |, by the whole monstrous organi- sia, 6,000-ton U. S. Navy ship which LEAVING TO WED |center of which was the German went aground in fog Sunday, off| JFnsctsL party with its auxiliary in-| The editorial said the indictment Pacific Salvage Co. reported Loday.‘.south from Juneau by PAA plane “completely refutes” any theory that two salvage craft from Seattle are|former home, at Schnectady, N. Y., ers who are guilty and agents who standing by, where she is soon to be married. bear no responsibility,” Fairbanks and Kodiak, he said, were hardest hit by the war's end and the resulting exodus of service personnel and war workers, but tourist trade and gradual economic expansion will bring them back,