The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1945, Page 1

| six ydid the , carried G.I's, but an airplane load td THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW ALL THE TIME™ VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,109 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1945 MEMBER AS PRICE TEN CENTS S— TWO ALEUTIAN ARMY PLANES MISSING COMMUNISTS (TRUMAN N RussiaMakes DOOLITTLE BIG SEARCH ARE BITTER STIFFTALK, Accusations ONFLIGHT, ON PACIFIC AGAINSTU.S. CONFERENCE Against U. 5. WEST, EAST UNDERWAY lew Heigms of Virulence PresidemSays Peop|e Tir- Aftack Upon‘ "American Conie Wlfh‘m One Minute Huni Made for 11 Men, 1| ed of Strikes-Give 3 Broad Proposals Hurled by Newspaper- Charges Are Made BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—The White House said teday there have been no clashes between Chinese Communists and United States armed forces. Eben Ayers, Assistant Press Secretary, made the statement to reporters, at first limiting it to “United States Marines.” In response (o inquiries, Ayers later said he had checked and that the denial of any clashes with the Ccmmunists applied to all United States armed forces. WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—Presi- dent Truman put the National Lab or - Management Conference on notice today that if it fails to find | remedies for industrial strife, the ple “will find them some place be es and lockouts “cannot to check the nation’s climb high civilian production, Mr. | Truman told the top men of business | | and labor. Shortly afterward, Secretary | Commerce Wallace tossed the con- —_— troversial wage-price question into By SPENCER MOOSA the meeting—which already was di- 4+ CHUNGKING, Nov. 5—The Chi- | vided on the question of debating it. nese Communist New China Daily “If wages are not increased, prices News reached new heights of viru- ' will undoubtedly be forced down,” lence against the United States! Wallace said in an address prepared | today in charging that Lt. Gen.|for delivery. Profits too, he said, Albert C. Wedemeyer's promise that | would be endangered, and business Americans would avoid participa- Id risk incurring “public dis- tion in Chinese internal strife was favor “nothing but a lie.” | Appearing before the 36 manage- | The charge against com- | ment and labor delegates at their mander of American troops in|Opening session, Mr. Truman said a China was carried in a dispatch | Worried public expected them to “wom the Communist headquarters find “a broad and permanent foun- | at Yenan. The Americans, it said, ! dation for industrial peace and prog- not only armed and equipped Cen- | ress.” without government control tral Government troops, “but have While-collar pickets who stationed invaded our liberated areas in themselves before the Labor De- North China, opened fire on us, Partment auditorium-—to protest the | arrested some of our army per- |absence of independent unions from | sonnel and disarmed some of our the conference- withdrew to let the | AU‘OOp‘v “ v President enter-without incident. Say Marines Fired First Mr. Truman made three broad When American Marines first | Proposals to remedy industrial ills: landed at Chanwangtao, the Com- | First Open-minded eollective inunists sent representatives to con- | b.\rk;xxntnu (-undumnq ‘\vnh a firm tapt them, Wt “they werh fibed Iv&‘tflhc to reach an agreement fair- upon and had to reply,” the dis-| > atch said, adding the Communi Wwithdrew after an hour of hos- tilities. After the marines had occupied Chanwangtao and the nearby town of Haiyang, the dispatch said, the Communists, who were not in-| formed of the Americans’ inten- tions, and considering ‘“China’s territori: rights involved,” sent' representatives to negotiate with them. . Envoys Arrested The Americans arrested the ne- (Continued on Page Five) of | the Second—If bargaining fails, the | use of impartial machinery to reach | | settlements “on the basis of proven facts and realities.” Third - “Responsibility and integ- on both sides in living up to agreements once made. John L. Lewis walked through the picket line to reach the conference table, but labor’s other two big | names—President William Green of | AFL and Philip Murray of went through a side door. —— e The WashingtonrDawn Merry -Go-Round Curfew Issued ( sromwrsnsor I Jerusalem { WASHINGTON — Navy Day was! i a thrill for thousands here at home, ol e, but not for a million others going| JERUSALEM, Nov. 5—A precau- to seed on Pacific islands or twid- | tionary dusk-to-dawn curfew was dling their thumbs in Europe wait-!in force at Palestine trouble spots| ing for transportation home. itoday after a quiet week-end in| Transportation has come to belwhich there was no recurrence of ! the biggest bottleneck of the whole | jast week's Arab-Jewish disturb- | ‘discharge system. And what burns | ances. | men up is to see transportation| (cairo also was reported calm. squandered by officers while they|Tnere was only one small anti. | re powerless to get home. Here| zionist demonstration yesterday and | are some illustrations: ! police quickly broke it up. How- | 1—A total of 650 German horseslgver_ dispatches said that 1,000 were loaded on the S. S. Stephen| persons were under arrest as an| Austin at Bremershaven for trans-|aftermath of rioting Friday and| portation back to Fort Riley, Kans. | saturday.) | the Army’s cavalry school. Many of | them were race horses. Not only[ horses take up va]uab]ei space on a ship which could have| cIo-~ ! : -fo-Dusk - SECRET MISSION 10 WASHINGTON; | of brass hats flew across the At- fantic from Fort Riley to make sure their steeds got safely aboard. BA(K IN SEoult The boys who loaded the horses ; remained on in Germany. SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 5—Six na- 2—One week-end, top Air Trans- |tionalist leaders returned to Seoul| port Command officers gave No. 1 secretly tonigt from Washington on; priority for three army planes to an undisclosed mission but presum- | carry football personnel from ably under State Department spon- | ) Nashville to Washington. Of course, | SOrship to aid Dr. Syngman Rhees | this was in connection with theito establish a provisional, Korean | ATC football game, but the boys|sovernment. The group was headed | sitting on Eniwetok or Saipan can’t | by Jacob Kim Dunn. | ‘enjoy football, and airplanes could P g help to bring them home. (Many WED AT DOUGLAS i combat veterans discharged from 6 Clement W. Christoffel, of Jy-! Fort Lewis, Wash.,, have to ride|Reau, and Beverly Courvoisier, San | 3,500 miles in day coaches.) | Francisco, were married Saturday | 3—The other day a Liberty Ship,fafterncon at Douglas, in a cere- | the Connie L. Kluxton, arrived in|mony performed by U. S. Com- Baltimore from Germany bringing | Missioner Felix Gray. Attendants]| 'only 47 soldiers but 15,000 tons of | Were, Melvin I. Carlson and Nellie sand ballast. It's true that Liberty | P. Falkiewicz ships are not equipped as troop- | T ' carriers, but soldiers don't care| -ee FROM DILLINGHAM Roscoe Spears of Dillingham is a| | guest at the Baranof. (Continued on Page Four) on “American Isolationists” and ac- jcused them of being “originators of | beating the transcontinental speed |togay for 11 men and a woman mis- landed in'sing in the forced landing at sea ,of Ge | airplane production. Isolationists”” Broad- | of Beating Transcontin- cast by Moscow ental Speed Record LONDOCN, Nov The Moscow WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 A B-20 ‘adio today broadcast an attack up-,piloted by Lt. Gen. James Doolittle has come within one minute of the idea of using economic and mil- | record. Doolittle’s plane itary might as a means of exerting pressu 1 other countrie ident, Herbert Hoover and Senators Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) mnd Burton K. Wheeler (D-Mont.) singled out for special mention. | minutes. “The American Isolationists Taft The intrepid flier who led the and Wheeler have tried to take ad-|first bombing raid on Tokyo de- vantage of a discussion of interna-|cjareq that he made no attempt to tlonal problems for their ;’“‘“ l’”"(‘; set a new record. Said Doolittle ocative the broadcast said,!.ywe 't gei he adic {“We just didn't get the predicted quoting from an article in the Red' inqs» Fleet Magazine International Ob-! " myic was borne out by members ik ; 1| of the B-20's crew, who explained Reactionary politicians have zeal-| ¢ wnen they were only one hour cusly oppos collabdration among | ¢ Oakland, they knew they the St ¢ every erence Inevi- 1 ¥ of unfavorable winds. The crewmen - g riviiy :‘f{;f;}:’:f“‘ \‘;‘(”“‘“ :rl;“l:‘.\:u(i their average ground speed S et kA | was 369 miles an hour—about 50 Vo [‘h‘P m‘l"‘“_ dv“,‘]{()“)“,(“_ pro- | Miles less an hour than they had { to refuse loans to those coun- | c¥pected to make : fries which do not agree to comply! Mrs. Doolittle went along for the with political demands of the United ; ide- The Superfort took off at tas."" 1t Asclased | Oakiand at 9:24 a. m. Eastern This presumably was an allusion | Standard Time, and landed - at to an address which Hoover made at | Washington at 4:23 p. m Chicago on Sept. 17, when he urged | e OIL DEPOSITS OFF - COAST OF AMERICA shape of the world is more clear.) | i Washington Sunday afternoon aft | flying non-stop from Oakland, Calif,, in six hours and 59 minutes The record, set last year by a C-69 | Constellation, is six hours and 58 were ends,” of e - e Chal fenge fo Debate;Labor Vs. indusiry | May Prove fo Be Last Great ; Source of Petroleum, i Strafegic Reserve | | {INGTON, Nov. 5—Interior DETROIT, Nov. 5. — The Vice-|Secretary Harold Ickes has warned nt of the CIO United Auto|that oil deposits off the American Walter Reuther, today in-| ¢ may be our last great scurce ident Charles E. Wilson|of petroleum. For that reason, he al Motors to debate public- |said, those deposits may be the key union’s demand for a thirty to tk s ability to hold its Vorker vited Pr ly th Eer cent wage increase. Early in the | place as a world power. war, Wilson and Reuther debated| President Truman announced two before a news conference on the,months ago that the United States wmerits of the Reuther plan for con- | was claiming diction over oil ing the auto industry to mass|resources in the continental shelf, | which extends out to sea to a depth b 2 | of 600 feet, Ickes predicts that his- jtory will record that action as one of the great advances made by our nation. New discoveries of oil in this country are falling off sharply, he pointed out, and it is vital Ithat adequate supplies be taken over now to see us thrcugh any 5 ‘lurther emergency. Ickes described | tegic reserve of oil. He added that janyone who would jeopardize the development of those resources Guard disclosed recently that 0“"iw0uld be contributing to the even- of its air sea rescue units savedtual suicide of the United States the lives of 151 B-29 airmen in|as a world power. the war against Japan. The rescue - eee unit was headed by Com. Anthony DeJoy of New London, Conn., who DRESS REHEARSAL | 1 NUERNBERG TRIAL, now flies a plane , for former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgen- NUERNBERG, Germany, Nov. 5— |Supreme Court Justice Robert Jack- thau. DeJoy has been awarded the |son witnessed a dress rehearsal for (the Nuernberg trial of .Germany’s Bronze Star Medal for his record as commander of the rescue unit. war criminals today. Accompanied by his executive of- s S T Roosevelf's Files, Pearl Harbor Rald, I 'ficer, Col. Robert J. Gill, the Ch‘ff” WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — m.hf“,""f‘;‘“";‘b“s .fm J"df,(:‘o ml:m; late President Roosevelt’s White N°YS and witnesses go throug House files—64 bundl b T | prepared seript before microphones. i es each as b | "o mock trial was the first of a bale of hay—have been made # 4 several scheduled to make sure there ayulable_ to a Senate-House Com-|. .. 1o kinks in the elibomia me- mijttee inquiring into the Pearl e G | chanical system by which the pro- Harbor disaster. ceedings will be conducted in four Senator George (D-Ga. told a languages. reporter today it is his under-| ' wao reported today that the standing that no restrictions have|,.me of Martin Bormann probably been placed on the committee's will be stricken from the list of 24 looking over the documents. defendants when the trial opens on Committee members said the files | the presumption he is dead. are locked in a single room under| he United States will be ready to the custody of Miss Grace G. proceed with the trial-on schedule Tully, personal secretary to the on Nov, 20, but the opening may ke late President. Miss Tully alone'delayed beyond that date by defens has the key to the rcom, they'requests for additional time to pre- said. . pare, Jacksen said. the continental NEW YORK, Nov. 5—The Coast shelf as potentially a great stra-| | Woman Missing from Forced Down Plane | HONOLULU, Nov. 5.—Seven ships ‘nml six eirplanes searched the Pa- |cific Ocean 450 miles of here of an ATC Liberator Saturday. Meanwhile, two escort carriers |stecamed toward Honolulu with 23 lsurvivors of the forced landi | Pan-American Honolulu clipper and | with eight survivors and the bodies of seven victims—one a woman—of |the crashed Liberator. Capt. S. E. Robbins of Palo Alto, the Clippe pilot, made such | masterful landing” on the smooth Pacifi fter two of his plane’s en-| gines failed that none of the 10/ crewmen and 13 passengers was in- | fured. They, were picked up a fe i hours later by a merchant tanke |the Englewcod Hiils, which trans |ferred them to the baby top, | Manila Bay, for the voyage back to Honolulu miles distant. The Clipper was being towed to Honolu- lu. | The escort carrier Casablanca was taking the eight survivors and sev- en bodies from the crashed Libera- tor to Honolulu Capt. Robbins, mentioned in the above dispatch, is well known to Alaskans. He has been pilot on PAA planes flying from Seattle to the interior via Junean, for a number! lof yeare before being trapsierved to {the Oriental route. | e NOTED FLIER PASSES AWAY IN ARIZONA 1 | | . | ed Army’s First Round World Flight, Is Dead TUCSON, Ariz, Nov. 5—The body of Col. Lowell H. Smith, 53, one cf (the Nation’s pioneer aviators who commanded the Army's first round- the-world airplane flight on its fin- al leg, may be interred in the Na- {tional Cemetery at Arlington, Va., {friends of the family said today. Col. | Smith died yesterday of injuri fared in a fall from a horse Satur- | day Smith, although mostly noted for (his participation in the Rcund-the- | World flight, was closely identified with post World War I aviation, He {held 16 world records for military |aircraft speed and endurance marks |and won the Mackay Trophy as the | cutstanding pilot of that era. He was | credited with developing th2 tech- Inique for refueling aircraft in flight; piloted the first plane to per-| (form mass parachuting of troops; and was among the first to develop and use a bomb from an aircraft. | | Smith took over command of the f!lo:|lud-the-Wor:d flight in Alaska after all but two planes in the group | had crashed or been forced out. The | tlight began April 6 and ended Sept. |29, 1924 in Washington, D. C. The { world-girdling pioneers requirad 175 ldays and 365 flying hours to com- plete the 26,103 mile journey. Smith was awarded the Helan Culver gold| medal and a cecond Distinguished | Service medal for his part in the | feat 6IS IN JAPAN T0 ~ REENLIST; STRIKES INU.S. IS REASON TOKYO, Nov. 5—~A good many American soldiers in Japan want to remain in the Army for awhile More than 1,500 have applied for {reenlistment. The Eleventh Corps headquarters in Japan says that labor conditions t home are so uncertain that many GI's think the ARMY is the best place for a young man. jand more ominous, of a| o A Hundreds of searchers are combing for Dickie tum Suden, three-year- san Francisco Ba last Thursday momring, Nevember home. expressed the Pictured e arc the child and X of Berkele Mr. and Mrs. Joseph tum Suden. T Dickic’s maternal grandfathed, Alfc Creek geld mines, four miles south o ville. His paternal grandparents Suden of Redweod City. 100 men into the searc Nationalist Uprising in JavaFeared Fears were be Indonesians Defermin- ed on Revolution By RALPH MORTON BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 5—Dutch officlals were understood taday to be considering a plan to gain firm contrel of a small part of western Java and lish that area as a rallying ground from which they would oxtend theifefforts to end the native nationalist uprising in the East Indies. The Duteh plan to bring in many Lroo| although there has been no ofiicial announcement on the subjoct 10 uncificial e mates of the size of the reinforce- ments run high as 20,000 men be- fore Chri Stiife tol icllewing the flare up of sporadic fighting in the northern section of Batavia during the night. But it was like the quiet before the storm. But the picture as a whole is blacker with tens of thousands of trigger happy Indo- :esians armed to the teeth and de- termined on revolution BELGIUM TO HONOR GEN. PATTONNOV. 14 BRUSSELS, Nov. 5.—Belgium has a special honor to bestow on General George Patton. It will be given to the commander of the 15th United States Army when he visits Bdus sels on November 14. General Pat- ton will be received by the Regent, Prince Chark presentation of the high STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 5 — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 7%, American Can| 1017, Anatonda 39'%, Curtiss-| Wright 8, International Harvester 91, Kennecott 45, New York Cen- r 30 Northerin Pacific 23%, steel 817%, Pound, 04.03! E today were 1,650,000 shares, Dow Jones averages were as fol-| lows: Industrials, 189; rails, 63.14 utilities more wward 27.90. Liffle Boy Missing area family who m, I 4 \ Java was quiat teday * o 3 the Sierra County rugged terrain old scion of a socially prominent steriously dropped from sight 1, near his parent’s Downieville oy might have been kidnaped. mother, the former Sally Merritt The blonde, blue-eyed little boy is the only child of 'hey live at Geodyear’s Bar, where ed L. Merritt, opcrates the Brush I historic and picturesgue Downle- @ Mr. and Mrs. Richard tum weral O, M. Abbott 2t Camp Beale rushed NO TRACE OF CALIFORNIA MISSING BOY Col. Smith Who Command- Uneasy Quiet Prevails with Kidnap Théory Held Out as Hope as Searchers’ Ef- forts Fruitless DOWNIEVILLE, Calif., Nov. 5 — ‘I hope it is kidnaping and that he is alive and safe—rather than lcst in those mountains,” the grief stricken father of Dickie tum Suden, 3, exclaimed last night as weary searchers began 'to despair of finding the child alive. The father, Joseph tum Suden, who operates the Brush Creek Gold and other members of the clung to the kidnap theory cne of the last rays of hope tired searchers and footsore cluded their fourth fruit- day of hunting in the towering 4 Neva . Denman Dorr, mine superjntend- ent and spokesman for the family, and A. L. Merritt, Sr., Berkeley, maternal grandfather, expressed the belief the boy had been kidnaped despite the fact that no notes have been received Blonde, blue-eyed Dickie peared Thursday from the y: his home at Goody 16 A!euls:fiisoners 0f Japs, Backin U.§. FRANCISCO, Nov 10 Aleuts seized by the Japanese when they invaded the Island of Attu in 1942 arrived here recently on the Transport Gen. A W. Brewster, and were taken in disap- ard of 5—Six- With them were month-old infant and a two-year-old child born in a Japanese prison camp jon Hokkaido. Army headquarter here said the group will be re- turned to Attu e WESTBOUND PARATROOPERS IN PORT HERE SATURDAY Aboard the Denali, in port Sat- urday afternoon, were 112 soldiers, mostly paratroopers, bound ‘for the westw place esoldiers be- ing discharged or transferred to the 3 There were also 58 Army rs on board, a DISAPPEAR ON FLIGHT FROM ATTU 'Slick Found on Water Near Umnak - Search Con- tinues in Westward ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. Two P-38's of the 18th Fighter Squadron disappeared from a flight |of 50 planes near Umnak Saturday, !October 27, Alaskan Dapartment i headquarters announced today. Following the disappearance of {the two craft, the flight landed at | Umnak, from which place a search | was conducted over & wide area. To !date no * has bean found of the missing planes. Two cil slicks were | spotted near Umnak, but authorities at Elmendorf Fleld said that this could not be taken as conclusive evi- |deno> that the planes had gone |down at that point. The search is being continued. The flight ot 50 planes comprised the 18ih amd 54th PFighter Squad- rons of the 11th Air Force, which were en route to Elmendorf Pield from Altu, where the two organiza- d operated during the war. vived at Elmendorf Fleld Nov. 1, and will be sta- ied there for the present. he 18th is under command of Maj. Glenn K. Oberst, the 54th un- der command of Maj. John H. Har- rison, f | Bt > e STRIKERS BARRICADE BIG PLANT . Trouble at Ford Company at Windsor Results in Sympathy Walkout WINDSOR, Ont., Nov. 6. — A threng of union pickets estimated by police at 2,500, threw- up a barricade of autos and busses on two streets adjoining the strike-bound Ford Motor Company plant today. ‘Windsor police sald there had been no incidents as the strikers used the vehicles to establish the barricade on streets at the frent and one side of the plant. L Workers at Windsor plants of Gencral Motors, Chrysler, Kelsey- | Hay Wheel Company, Truscon £tzel and Motor Products, Ltd. struck today in sympathy with the Fcrd werkers. Union spokesmen: pre- aictad all 8,500 members of local 195 United Auto Workers (CIO) woulg join the walkout, which affects 10,- | €00 members of Ford Local 200. Heavily re-enforced police detalls wer2 held in reserve, Epecjal prayers far speedy settle- ment of the dispute wers offered in |several Windsor ehurches Sunday. { - Alaska Pilot Pool Gels (oymended SEATTLE, Nov. 5-Members of the Alaska Pilot Pool, who guided large shipments of vital war supplies to Alaska army bases and as far as Nome and Attu when the Japanese submarine menace was at its height, have been officially com- mended by the commandants of the Coast Guard at Washington, D. C, and the Thirteenth Naval District here. Originally, bers. there were 50 mem- “They made a large contri- who will make the! charge by the American Red Cross.' bution to the war effort, with re- | markable success,” Rear Admiral F. A. Zeusler, district Coast Guard of fi said here. Truman fi;;VisiI ' Normandy_in Spring PARIS, Nov. 5—The Paris news- paper Midi, said in an uncredited dispatch today that President Tru- !man might come to Europe in the spring for a visit to Paris and Nor-