The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ‘ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,106 JUNI AU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOV EMBER 1, 1945 IEMBER ASSOCIATE D l’Rl \S Communists Threaten Civil War In Chzna ALASKA ROUTE Baruch Dedares Japs, EXPLAINED BY | TWA BOOSTER Would Be f}om Frisco, Se- attle, Alaskan Point, Then fo Orient WASHINGTON, 1—on the basis of existing traffic, the North Pacific air route should originate “at San Francisco, a Transconti- red science of Germany and Jap- nental and Western spokesman (Iv-":\n the white-haired adviser to clared | Presidents asserted. George A. Spater, TWA attorney, told the Civil Aeronautics Board | that a successful operator of. the northern route to the Orient must tap the west coast, occupy a strong position in the east and connect with a trans-Atlantic route. He ac- knowledged that the bulk of Orient bound traffic may ultimately move h Chicago but declared the route is from the Pacific| “you can't change trade rela-| tions overnight.” If given the route, eral other airlines are contesting, ater said, would fly from cisco through Seattle to an Alaskan point and on up the Siberian coast. At some point in China aid, the route should c with TWA’s trans-Atlantic ASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Bernard M. Baruch said today “the Germans and Japanese will strive unc through scien hnology and er gineering to devise some means for waging a third Worid War.” The United States should estab- lish a national science foundation whose duties would include counsel for “effective policing of the w te Nov. for which sev- | he s Adjutant and Mrs. Charles .| Newten of Kake have arrived in Juneau to attend the Salvation Army's Forty-First Congress. The Wash ington Army's Dmharge | Score Is Lowered route, thus far authorized only to Calcutta. Spater anticipated an “enormous” expansion of business traffic, a a gradual increase in tourist busi- -+ ne: He said round-the-world | \VASHIN()TON Nov. 1.—The Sen- travelers have been estimated at|ate today put its Okay on the $5- around 6,000 a year. 1620,000,000 tax-slashing bill and sent mended that Northwest Airlines ture. i § fly the route via Chicago and that| The legislation strikes 12,000,000 Pan American extend its present|Persons from the. income tax mus Central Pacific route to Tokyo and |lightens levies on others, eases tax use taxes on automobiles and boats. ! The Senate also heard Senator pa(ifi( (oas“ine McKellar's view on the future of . I should hang on to its atom-splitting Of Russia Will Be - ' | Tennessee said he didr’t think even u le or u y a little bit of the atom energ: C- wr:‘L should be shared until the atomic |bomb actually is outlawed by inter- !‘]ninn's P;ngnnc E‘Oflmi“fid‘“n :‘f :2( The lawmakers meanwhile got subject of important studles by e | gnotner prod from President Tru- Sgviet Academy of S"_"“;‘C,“f‘ 8N | man to get on with so-called “ful hing with an oceanographic expedi- | )b vment” legislation. In a letter {" S1meeliyg of 3us:sian acfldyen)ifll- mack of Massachusetts, Mr. Truman fans. Other studies in geology, ¥0l said such legislation 1s “of the ut- cn‘l(\oloiiy and biology will be un m';mmt urgency and importanc teken (nler, | But mostly lhe xnu: was of scie pert, told fellow scientists there are vast mineral riches in the zone ex- w G S' tending thousands of miles alnng.M's. rong Russia’s Pacific coastline and across S Dies af Ketchikan KAKE VISITORS i o KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 1-' ter of Washington State pioneers who was born at Port Dise near Port Townsend, but who (north and lived in Alaska many night. She will be buried at Port ! Townsend. She had lived here with Merr = GO _Round‘her only daughter, Mrs. W. K. Y Spfluldmg By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Harry Truman i would be surprised to know that Fortes o' Army Alf the Full Employment Bill in me{ ! House Executive Expenditures Com-| WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The Ar- mittee is from a Republican. He is|my Air Forces has announced a red-haired Charles LaFollette of | |new policy for discharge of enlisted late .progressive Senator, youn ave 50 or more points and two years Charley follows his principles ard | |of service are eligible for immed- has been battling away for the iate discharge—provided they are bill, despite fierce opposition from |classed as surplus and are in the Last week President Truman|must have at least 29 points and a called the committee chairman, |year of service. Carter Manasco of Alabama, and| Surplus enlisted mep who have 50, William Whittington of Mlsslssippflpmms but are now overseas, will them to get behind the bill. | this coumry But here is what happened: When they went back to the com- | mittee, both argued against the| after the White House visit, Man- asco even read to the committee several sections from the Soviet | ot Constitution. Sarcastically, he re-{ WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The Ar- ployment Bill, we might as wel! Went down automatically today from pass this, t00.” 1'10 to 60. The drop makes approx- | Observers on Capitol Hill say lmately nine hundred thousand ad-| the Full Employment Bill, as Tru- |ditional soldiers eligible for release. SENATE TODAY “terrific” government business and [ CAB éxaminers have recom-|it to President Truman for signa- 'w]nnf'l‘\).’ | burdens on business and wipes out atomic energy. He said the U. S. The Democratic Senator from MOSCOW, Nov. 1.—The sm"‘t‘mltinna] agreement. tion in 1946, it was announced today |to House Democratic Leader McCor- Alexander Zavaritsky, volcano ex- | 3 the BP!n\g Sea into Alas kn Mrs. William G. Strong, 75, daugh- years, died of a stroke Tuesday New Dlscharge for the best support he is getting for| Evansville, Ind. No relation to th en. All A-A-F enlisted men who the ranking Democrats. | United States. Surplus Air WACS to the White House and begged Le discharged upon their return to! bill just as before. The morning marked: “If we pass the Full Em- | my’s discharge score for enlisted men man outliried it, doesn't have a|The discharge score for enlisted chance of getting out of the House WACS also was reduced from 36 to! New York Central passenger train! Committee. The only Democrat|34 points. But scores for all of (Continued on Pune Four) ‘ed. Means, | rep Germans Will Devise 3rdWorld War EXTREMISTS DEFY (EASE FIREORDER LUSTFULORGY, Brother and Sister fo Wed TURN DOWN MASS RAPING ARE REVEALED e long - SladmiElnt VD Confhd with Brmsh Con- Details Told at Yamashita, scientific resources of Germany and Japan must continue for m after 1y years the last occupation troops until there has been a spiritual 1 ples,” he said wruch made his statements in timony prepared for a joint Sen- Military-Commerce Subcommit- te tee studying bills on Federal aid to | science ‘Afernic Bomb Test by Navy May Destroy Fish; Generalfears Expressed : 1.—Officials and Wildlife concern thday WASHINGTON, Nov of the U. S. Fish Service expressed | that the Navy's ocean tests of the { atomic bomb might destroy large numbers of commercially important fish. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations, has an- | nounced that bombs will be exploded both in and above the sea to de- termine the effects on the hulls of surface ships and submar Elmer Higgings, Chief Fishery Bio- logist of the Fish Service, said the concussion underwater explosions of dynamite kills sea life within thousands of feet. umed,” Higgins said in the atom bomb »n will be the most potent ths has occurred in the sea addition to the concussion, it is like- ly that radio-activity started by the bomb will be deadly to the fish.” It would be difficult, Higgings continued, to designate a time and vlace for the least destruction to ea life because little is known about the spawning season and migration habits of some important Pl(‘lfi(‘ fish, netably the tuna. Dr. N. Gabrielson, Director of the service, and Higgins said they would be interested in an investiga- tion to determine the effects of the atom blast and radio-activity on fish. Higgins suggested that the service ht request permi: ssentatives with crew, or the Navy search S5 forme: in the Navy to pick specimens of dead fish for analysis. He said there is a possibility the explosions might bring to the sur-| mc'- hitherto unknown species. Lo La QUG Rt BURNED, MANGLED BODIES REMOVED, NAVY PLANE WRECK PAGE, Okla,, Nov. 1—The burned and mangled bodies of 14 persons killed in the crash of a Navy trans- port plane on Rich Mountain near Page yesterday were being removed from the isolated area today, U. S. Forestry Service officials said. Names of the victims were not disclosed. The entire crew was killed when the transport plunged into the mountain near the Arkansas- Oklahoma border and burst into! flames, scattering the bodies over a wide area. - 15 German POWs Killed in Collision of Train and Truck 1 BLISSFIELD, Mich., Nov. Army and civilian autherities to-i |ddy began | train-truck collision that took the | an investigation of a lives of 15 German prisoners of war and resulted in injuries for cther prisoners Wednesday. The prisoners, several of them members of Rommel's Afrika Kory died when their -open-body type [truck was struck broadside by a s they were returning to Bliss- ebirth of those peo- | and Wildlife | 5¢ from ! ion to send | re- | ask the Navy to| service biologists now | up floating | 11| tinues as Soekarno Af- temps Understanding | By RALPH MORTON | BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 1—Extrem- | ist Indonesian forces, out of control President Soe- karno of the “Indenesian Republic,” were reported intensifying their ¢ tacks on the thin British forces in several sections of central and western Java ton in defiance of an order of president to cease fighting At Magelang three planes struck at supported Gurkha capturing most of the Indonesians with mortars. A of itish fighter extremists and troops in re- the town after ad opened up bombing line was reported to have been established agelang to prevent extremist ces from reaching the town. ewhere, the tensen which gripped this island for weeks lifted perceptibly following a meeting between Dutch and Nationalist leaders, the first attempt at reach- mutual understanding. President Soekarno, heading Nationalists at the conference in Batavia last night, presented ar- guments for recognition of an In- donesian de facto government, and the Dutch pleaded for cooperation as serving the best interests of all concerned. The Dutch information ervice, announcing the meeting, it was informal and “discus- were Of orientating na- the said sions ture.” A squadron of snum tanks - of the Eleventh Cav was unloaded at Soerabaja nndn to reinforce | British troops at that naval base Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Christison, | Allied Commander in The Nether- lands East Indies, was host for the | meeting a its chief architect. It | seemed rl(-'n that 'Britain ‘was anxious to show the world she could be scrupulously fair in arbi- trating such differences, and de- sired to solve the crisis in order to raise hér prestige in the Easts - ‘4Arel(llledm ‘NewOutbreak - InPalestine JERUSALEM, Nov. 1—Four sons were killed and at |injured as Jewish-Arab political | differences led to a new ombwuk of disorders during which te- matic attacks were made on rail- way communications Palestine. British an per- least ary headquarters an- | nounced that Palestine rail lines | were cut in about 50 places. | A British military communique | | attributed the attacks to Jews {Blame was not immediately at- tached to any specific group, but an exhaustive police and military investigation was underway all over Palestine. Police captured five armed Jews following the holdup of a train between Jerusalem and Lydda. Police launches in Haifa Jaffa harbors blew up from mines at 2 a. m. One sank and two others were seriously damaged. R - 'PACIFIC TROOPS BY - THGUSANDS ARE ON WAYTOHOMELAND HONOLULU, Nov. 1—A total of 1198,000 American troops are in the process of being returned home |from the Pacific today. | A Naval headquarters announce- ment said that of the total 66,000 would land today in San Francisco, San Diego and San Pedro, Calif.; that 100,000 others were enroute to the United States aboard trans- ports and the balance were being loaded aboard ships in various Pa- | eific ports. - FROM ELFIN CO Mrs. Roy Elliott and Mrs. Foster of Elfin J Cove are staying |cers and nurses were left unchang- | field POW Camp after completing|at the Gastineau Hotel during a Iwork on a beet farm detail. visit to Juneau. apparently | 10| throughout | ILAW IS CALLED OFF and | “Trial Most Revolting -Public Barred MANILA, Nov. 1.—Details of the mass raping of 25 Manila beaut —~many of them only 12 to 14 yea cld—who wera passed from Japanese to Japancse were related today at the war crimes trial of Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita | The twenty-five were selected from among 400 females rounded up from Manila’s rich Ermita district | and submitted to a selection board | which picked the most comely for the lustful orgy. | The Filipinas were passed from man to man and room to room. Their protests and screams brought only slaps and more brutal treat- ment. Pitiful scream: “Mother, Mother,” were heard throughout the night. So frank and detailed was the Fil- ipinas’ testim ‘that correspon- dents as well as the public were barred from the room where a U. S. military commission of five gener- als is trying Yamashita. Military police flanked every door and corri- r of the High Commissioner's residence, scene of the trial, the press was handed resumes of the testimony to spare the witnesses as much embarrassment as possible. Yamashita, as Commander in the Philippines, is charged with re« sponsibilities for the actions of hi troops. Martha MeGinty, sister, have received a S!rike on - Greyhound Bus lines - LERGTHY TRIAL OF GERMANS 15 AROUSING RUSS Sovie t Red Star Criticizes Dragging Proceedings at Lueneburg MOSCOW, Nov. 1--Red Star, pressing Soviet concern at length to which the Belsen War|y woeo qispute umm trial is dragging, feized | e walkout British-conducted proceedin S| agents and gar u,u W by publishing stic cari- | oo ceoccrul effort ire and poem | affected service Red Star said a defen 1t ab the | jineq serving scores of cities. A bus | concentration camp trial at Luene- | ook stoan Ko Mg ok Tolty burg, now in its seventh week wa: lin d the runs would be shut | fed and cared for until “he shines the. compssTall aebi ol from tall to neck [ hire substitute drivers “He s ardently defended before| "y, gerikers left thelr the court,” the army DNEWSPAPr|ney york, Chicago, Cleveland said. “He howls and screams back | Columbus, ©., Washington, Boston What are the judges waiting for?anq other cities at the midnight When will they hang the dog?” |gpige deadline shortly after a fed- Both the defense attorney andepq) gonciliator in Washington said li‘v- accused were pictured as dogs. |a three-man parley had failed to AR i {effect a settlement. The AFL Amalgamated Street Railway and (By The Associated Press) Travel of thousands of bus sengers in a wide section of country was impeded today vice on Greyhound bus lines of Chicago into New England southern states was halted strike of 4,000 AFL employee pas- the ser- eas| and by a over ex- the of drivers, ticket a ca conciliation, at x Greyhound on to jobs in 'NOME WRECKAGE IS 'SURVEYED; MARTIAL inc J drive cent asking for a quarter-cent |in the mileage rate for from three-fourths of a | a full cent Across the labor disputes kept idle 1255,000 workers, a drop of 120,000 in the last 24 hours A strike vote involving 50,000 Western Union Telegragh Company to tinuing sout some country, ¢ NOME, Alaska, Nov. 1.—Gov. Ern- | est Gruening, General Anderson, | Ccommanding General of the Alaskan ‘Dtlmtmwt and his aide, Captain |employees outside New York City | Clark, arrived here yesterday to|was asked yesterday by an AF make a survey of the wreckage board representing three unicns caused by Monday's storm. |after members said efforts to settle | The Governor said his office w a wage dispute failed | ready and willing to give ever The number of workers in the sistance possible to citizens of Nome | san Francisco Bay area made idle | who have suffered damage or 10ss|py a strike of 10,000 AFL and CIO in the storm. The party conferred with Mayor today as labor and management Edward Seidenverg, Town Council jesumed conferences aimed to settle | members and various other Nome |{he work stoppage. Operations in | residents to ascertain the extent of ¢ome 200 plants In the area were the damage and whether or not re- I paited or curtailed and the closing lief assistance would be required of a plant producing paper car- Martial law was discontinued {tons threatened milk deliveries. 2 Ry Milk, however, still was available & in most San Francisco stores Examlners al Mass supplies- to hospitals were s Graves of Prisoners normal e Isonel STOCK QUOTATIONS Reveal Burial Alive .ov vors v 1 cion o S quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine METZ, France, Nov. 1'—Examin- |stock is 7%, American Can 1031, ers at the mass graves of 23,000 Anaconda 39%, Curtiss-Wright 8 Russian prisoners of war near Bou- International Harvester 90%:, lay said today they had found evi- York Central 29%, Northern dence that many victims were buried | cific 30%, U. 8. Steel 81'., Pound alive by their Nazi captors. $4.03'% German prisoners of war con- | Sales today were 2,000,000 shares tinued exhuming the bodies by the Dow, Jones averages today are thousands, working in shifts around follows: Industrials, 188.81; rails the clock in the two enormous pits, 61.07; utilities, 3742 near 18, and Raymond MeG special court order in Pittsburgh which will enable them to become man and wire. employees after| down ! Motor Coach Employees’ Union was 2 2| pose machinists increased to about 45,000 ¢ v ¥ ¥, 30, fester brother and (AP Wirephoto) BYRNES SAYS RUSSIA BARS COOPERATION U. S. Stands Firm on Righi of Any Nation fo Form Own Government . By JOHN M WASHINGTON, Nov. 1--U. S.- Russian differences over how to bring forth pro: viet governments in central and eastern Europe ap- peared Lo to be the great bar closer cooperation between the (w0 pow This from erg HIGHTOWER s problem, it was , learned, an important part of Gen- ssimo Stalin's reply to Presi- dent Truman’s letter urging tighter relations. 1t played a major part in Secre- tary of State Byrnes' speech before the Herald-Tribune Forum in New York last night. With respect those countries, mainly the Bal- n States, Hun“r Czechoslo- and Poland, nes laid down three-point pullry 1—The United States fully recog- nizes Russta's “special sec terests” in having friendly govern- ments there. He implied this coun- adily accept an eastern stem, similar to the American system, built around Russian leadership. 2—-The United States does not recognize, however, the right of Russia or any other nation to im- governments on other peoples force. 3—Any rangement, view, “be Nations by leadership ar-| in the American art the Security atomic 4 isolationism is even is national regional must, but p. World of System” re- more isola- day in told a apped Truman ence ths response to his a friendly one - Ketchikan Pioneer Fred Chapman Dies| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 1.— Fred Chapman, 61, former City Couneilman and alted Ruler of the Elks here, is dead here after a long illness. He came here in 1906 | a new confe Stalin’s message ad been and | and had operated a laundry since 1908, -se EDGECOMB HE G. L. Edgecomb has arrived Juneau from Pelican. He is regis- tered at the Gastineau Hotel to| rity in-| United | Premier ( in | PROPOSALTO KEEP PEACE Reject Plan of General- issimo-Developments in Manchuria By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Nov. 1.—A semi- official Chinese dispateh from Tien- tsin today said that Soviet forces in Manchuria would start a large scale withdrawal tomorrow and it lwould be completed by Dec. 1 The Chinese report, from Chang- chun, asserted that Chinese forces | would shortly be transferred to Man- churia to take over garrison duties and the entire operation would be completed by December 3. Prob- lems connected with the transfer of | euthority have been settled, the re- port” said. Negotiations leading to the séttle- ment were conducted for China by Gen. Hsiung Shih-hui, Director of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's | Branch Headquarters at Changchun, and Chiang Chung-kuo, the General- ssimo’s elder son, who is Special Cemmissioner for Foreign Affairs in Manchuria. Object to U. S. Role Meanwhile, Chinese Communists cxpressed open dissatisfaction over the role played by United States forces in China and spurned the latest proposal of the Chinese Cen- ‘tral Government aimed at avoiding 1 full seale civil war, ,_The No. 2 Communist leader, Gen. Chou En-lai, said here in an inter- view there “is no necessity at all for United States transportation of Ku- omfintung (government) troops to reas which Comm . have re- ‘cnvercd from the Japaress.™ The latest such assistance was the .mnvement this week by the U. S. Seventh Fleet of Government troops to the port of Chinwangtao, east |of Peiping. Only ten miles south- |west of that port, occupied recent- ly by U. S. Marines the Communists announced yesterday they have seiz- ed the Peitatho station on the Pelp- ing-Mukden railroad. Proposal Rejected The Central Government recently proposed that the Communist forces {in the trouble spots of North China | withdraw from rallroad lines as evi- (dence of good faith in return for | permission to police sectors they now oceupy. Teoday informed quarters said the | Communists have rejected that pro- {posal and countered with these: | 1. Government forces should halt their advances and cease occupying new territories. 2. Government forces should stop alleged utilization of Japamese and puppets to fight the Communists, 3. Both Government and Com- munst troops should stay away from railroad lines in the troubled areas 4. The Government should not Ilransport troops along rallroads i without previcus approval by the Communists. -+ SECRET OF ATOMIC ' BOMB 'MISNOMER’ - STATES NEWSMAN | Broxi, Miss., Nov. 1—A news- paperman who has studied closely the development of atomic power declared today the so-called secret ot the bomb is just a “misnomer” and that the “basic principles al- | dy are known the world over.” “The bomb is a secret the same as a 16-inch gun,” Howard W. Blakeslee, Associated Press Science Editor, asserted in a speech p pared for the econvention of tho Alabama Farm Bureau Federation. Every nation knows about the \glant naval gun, and the United (titates keeps to itself merely such !information as the formula for ‘ mixing the metals and powder, and | the precise curves of the rifling, ‘Blukeakc pointed out, adding: It is only details like that which | we have not published to the world |on the atomic bomb. It is unlikely we will give those away. Any efforts to throttle scientific investigation of atomic energy would constitute a threat to Am- erica’s i“tulil) Blakeslee declared. - HERE FROM Mrs. R. A. Evansen, from Sitka, has arrived in Juneaun to join her 'husband, who has been here on business for some time, SITKA