The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE | EWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,110 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = ————— | JAPANESE COMBINES ORDERED SMASHED -6THOUSAND Guide Dog Summons Aid for His Injured Master Who's Blind STALEMATED MASSACRE BY NIPPONS | | | | | R |- i "More Starvation, Torture| _ e wwor s WHITE HOUSE tonsstis vl (OURSE STIRS MANILA, Nov. 6—A Spmmn;SHARp DEBATE priest and a Filipino laborer, testi-| v 1ying at the war criminal trial of Lt. | en. Tecmoyuki Yamashita, recount- | ed today the starvation, torture and) massacre of 6,000 Filipino and Clu-{ nese civilians by Japanese troops | before the fall of Manila last spring. | Father Belarmino Decelis of the Spanish Augustinian Order, said| that last February 5 the Japanesci jammed the 6,000 civilians into the ancient church of St. Augustine, old- est building in Manila The men were thrown into the old | dungeons which served the Spanish | 100 years ago. Women and ch\ldrcn‘“’,m_ he said, were kept without food in| the church compound until theyl were so hungry they ate the grass| ™ and roots of the patio gardens. i On February 9, the men were tak- en cut and forced to stand in the cpen streets under heavy artillery| fire and then marched to Fort San- { By JAM HALSELMA Presidenl'smPr_ogram Lik- ened to C10 Handout- Critic Called Partisan WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — A dis- | closure that President Truman has |advised Sen. Wiley (R-Wis. that Congress should take responsibil in fting a na 1 defense ram plunged the Scnate into ¢ Mr. Truman's policies over ley the te | thought read the letter and asserted that he a conference, similar to | the labor-management meeting now underw should be called on the question of peacetime conscription. tiago, where the burning and slaying | Wiley criticized the labor-man- agement conference, however, as took place. Juan Paleda, the Filipino, testified | Unrepresentative. He said it lacks he was one of 100 packed into a|@ny representation of the public stone dungeon 20 feet square. He |independent organized labor and was stabbed later and left for dead | unorganized labor i in a pit with 500 other bodies. He said he and many of his Defense attorneys sought to show | colleagues like President Truman, that the civilians in the historic old | “find inereasing dissatisfaction area might have died in the all-out | welling up in ‘our minds on the American attack with tanks, point|actions of Har Trtiman the blank artillery fire, grenades and|statesman.” flamethrowers, . “The President makes wage Earlier, an 11-year-old girl, Rosa- | speech which goes up the hill and linda Andoy, showed the military back down again and leaves the commission conducting the trial the | situation as badly muddled as be- scars of 38 bayonet wounds. She | fore,” Wiley declared sobbed softly as she told of her mis-| “The President pleads for a pro- treatment and the death of ber fam-|gram which out-New Deals the ily at the hands of the Japanese in-' New Deal, which item for item vaders. | sounds like a CIO handout. ‘Spend, Her father was taken away to be!spend, spend’ with never a heed as murdered, and her mother and her|to where and how the money is aunts were bayoneted before her|coming from.” eyes. Even while her mother told Senator Hatch (D-N.M.), de- her to “be a good girl, dearest,” a!scribed Wiley's criticism of the Japanese used the woman for a live| president as a partisan attack. | ~ i bayonet target, the frail girl testi- - ! l . . LEWIS wins to fied. - The Washingtion| FAREASTERN COMMISSION ! 1 | CHICAGO, Nov. 6.—Tex, a guide dog, injured with his blind master when they were struck by an auto- mobile last night, limped more than two blocks to his home to summon aid for the sightless man he has led | to and from work since last May. | - When Tex reached the home of M. HIGHTOWER | his master, Willlam Wallman, fol- TON,'Nov. 6-—Russian- lowed by persons who had seen the American differences ovi how to| accident, he barked and clawed at|run Japan threaten: the front door. Mrs. Wallman, not- | to hobble the work of the Far| ing that her husband was not with | Eastern Advisory Commission, Tex, was told by the witnesses that | which has the job of planning long | h_l-rlrmd llm'n‘ in‘JlllPEd- 2 A ! range Japanese control policy | The dog had limped off toward| The Russians are said by diplo- | the .sxmvul‘ut the accident u'nd .hen'm;mc officials to be insisting on | l\«fn \‘«u%unan did not follow lfl:'](hs immediate creation of a four-| mediately, h“‘“““ back and barked | power control council at Tokyo, in | ’I!wIn he started again, taking MIS.| which the American representative, | Walrian Wi T Mo heen po. | PrESUMably Gen. Douglas MacAr- | n_fl\;g" i 1‘ ol 11‘0;;“‘:] “;) \;V"l‘l"h;“,thur. would have the decisive voice. | i 028, R ¢ M| The four powers would be Russia,| 2 4 3 . " | China. ture of the ribs, but he urged his| ~mye’ United States is insisting,| wife to return to care for Tex, who! . ST S ey Y hed . bash < Buklet: Heraath i the (‘“V_me'nmnu to the same officials, on and had suffered foot injuries. She creating some sort of less direct Russian-AnE;'can Differ- | ences Over Japan Con- trol Policy Unsettled By LEGISLATURE OF | FRANCE MEETING IN FIRST SESSION BULLETIN—PARIS, Nov. 6.— again today - MAYOR CANDIDATES_New York City's 1945 mayoralty campaign is a three-way race among (left to right) Willlam O’D=vyer, Democra Goldstein, Republican, The winnes UNDERGROUND FIGHTERS PREVENTED SURRENDER OF MUSSOLINI TO ALLIES " AS PLEDGED BY ITALIAN GOVERNMENT ifidependence To Be Given Indonesians Government of The Neth- erlands Issues State- ment to Nationalists By RALPH MORTON BATAVIA, Nov. 6—The govern- ment of The Netherlands East In- dies, trying to restore order in this land wracked by a struggle for independence, made public today a plan for ‘rapid development of Indonesia as a partner in a king- dom which will be constructed to guarantee the self-respect of all member-peoples.” | H. J. van Mook, acting governor general of the Indies, who released the program, disclosed that it had been presented more than a week ago to Indonesian Nationalist lead- Newbold Morris, “No deal” party; and Judge Jonah will succeed Mayor F. H. LaGuardia. VOTERS CAST BALLOTS IN hters in Milan last spring pre- vented their government from ful- Many Cities Voting Mayoral elections in New York, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Boston, Cleve- land, Louisville, Albany, Syracuse and Buffalo hold the center of the spotlight on the political stage. Merry -G_o- Round By DREW PEARSON ! WASHINGTON—The Joint Con-' Br Pearl Harbor has a hushed-up: ‘War Department report on the dis- | aster, which is going to be very hot | to handle. It shows woeful, un-| explainable or deliberate neglect | inside the Army-Navy in Wash-!| ington. | The report, prepared but never released by the Army's Pearl| Harbor Investigating Board, di-/ rected by Lt. Gen. George Grunert,! onal Committee investigating | Seaton Key {ommittee i s control machinery within the Far! "‘C'['l::::)i‘;l’mc and took him 10 &g, e Advisory Commission. This| ool i [body now has 10 members. With | | Russia it would have 11. | THOUSANDS WAI.K | Pending a settlement between | ithe United States and the Soviet| Union, Moscow. has given no indi- | {to the advisory commission. This EN wASHINGIo !m(-um that so far as Russia i | concerned none of the commission’s | s | work can be final | . . Moreover, since the Unilted States Capital Transit Company |wanis to change the powers of the | . commission in order to handle the| Drivers Leave Jobs [contror councit probiem. the mem-| {bers now assembled here do not | Early Today Ugven ™ ichbw "ighat AuthOriys whes | {may or may not have : WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. — Thou-'! Nonetheless, they scheduled their | sands of Washingtonians hitch-hik- [second meeting tcday, and United | 4 or walked to work today after:States informants said they would Capital Transit Company drivers try fo get down to work by be-| left their jobs early this morning. |ginning studies on the various eco- | Many office-bound workers beg-|nomic and political problems with ged for spots in Washington's ever- | Which they are supposed to deal.| crowded cabs. Others were just|They are forbidden to take up stranded | military matters. A company official, who said the - buses and street cars carry 1,500,000 fares a day, declared the tieup was! complete The tieup developed suddenly and most of the citizenry had no| inkling of the impending stoppage | when they went to bed last night.| Members of the AFL Union met| in a hurlesque house at midnight to discuss demands for increased wag- es. They decided to continue the| all night meeting on into the day, thus leaving the public service ve- hicles unmanned. - - Labor Heads Wrangle Bit- . . SEATTLE—A general fall of snow 'efly n Momlflg SeS' | is reported over the States of Wash- . | ington and Oregon today. Continued sion of L-M Confab 1/ cola weather i forecast. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. — Mine Union leader John L. Lewis today | won a fight for a seat on the key | executive committee of the National PEIPING - Lt. Gen. Albert C Wedemeyer, Commanding U. S. forces in China, arrived in Peiping today from the United States, and NS is marked “Top Secret.” It unfolds!apor-Management Conference. a fantastic chain of developments.| Originally the committee was to beginning Nov. 20, 1941, more than | he of eight members, four each for two weeks before the Japs struck.|jabor and management. Labor’s votes On Nov. 20, the Japanese GoOV-|were to be divided between the CIO | was scheduled to confer immediately | ernment sent a coded message to | its embassies in Washington and| London, warning them to be on the lcokout for an important announce- ment - dealing with thé “Winds, which would be broadcast on news program from Tokgo. This was to be the tip-off to| Jap diplomats as to whether Japan would go to war against the United States, Great Britain, Russia—or all three. It was also to reveal whether war would be made against | the Dutch. In addition, the ap- proximate time of the breaking of | relations with these nations was to| be given. This communication was known | as the “winds alert” message. It was intercepted and decoded | two days later by U. 8. experts according to the secret Pearl| Harbor report. Thus Washington higher-ups knew on Nov. 22, about | two weeks before the Pearl Harbor attack, that the Japs were deri~: nitely preparing for early war. That same day—Nov. 20—another | message was sent by Tokyo to| Japanese Ambassador Nomura in| Washington stating that Nov. 29 a (Continued on Page Four) and AFL. with top-ranking American Marine, Navy and Army officers in this North China trouble spot. SITKA, Alaska—Fire swept the | the responsibility for placing sub-'tack in her sleep early Saturday | Inlet, hds arrived in Juneau and!pected is registered at Pioneer Bakery last midnight, caus- ing damage Andy Lorentzen, owner, estimated at $15,000. Lewis- demanded a place for his| United Mine Workers and prodded the conference into enlarging the executive committee membership io | 16. Eight seats each, went to manage- ment and labor but labor’s votes were split to give Lewis’ Mine Work- | ers a committee post. Under the revised plan, approved | i NEW YORK—This is city election | day and the New York Stock Ex- change is closed, no stock report. WASHINGTON — President Tru- | man today proclaimed November 11 unanimously by the conference, 85 Armistice Day and called upon | labor’s eight votes on the commit- | the people to observe it by dedicating | tee are divided this way: | themselves to the cause of enduring | Three each for AFL and CIO and Peace. one each for the Mine Workers and | the Railroad Brotherhoods. | HELSINKI Former Finnish Lewis and CIO President Philip | President Risto Ryti and seven other | Murray, as well as AFL President | wartime leaders were arrested to-| William Green, wrangled bitterly at | day and charged with responsibility | he conference’s morning session | for Finland’s 1941-44 war with Rus- | over the executive committee make- | 5ia at the side of Germany. up. | -ee - 1 The matter was important be-| BERLIN, Nov. 6—Frau Josephine cause the executive committee will von Losch, mother of Actress Mar- | sift all conference business and have lene Dietrich, died of a heart at-| ject matter before the conference. {in her apartment in the Friedenau | - - | district, which is in the American FROM EXCURSION INLET | sector. She was 69. Howard J. Bailey, from Excursion| Miss Dietrich, in Paris, was ex- ibe constructed. Gen. de Gaulle submitted his resignation as Provisional Presi- dent today to the Constituent Assembly, returning the reigns of government to France's first elected legislative body in five years. The Assembly, charged by the clectorate with writing a new constitution for a Fourth Re- rublic, was expected to ask de Gaulle to continue a caretaker government until later in the week. Then the delegates will name a new Provisional Presi- dent to serve during the seven menths assigned the Assembly for its task. PARIS, Nov. 6.—The first elected French legislature in five years con- venes today, charged by the elector- ate with the task of replacing the 1875 constitution with a foundation of constitutional upon the Fourth Republic of France will law which The first official act of the As- sembly will be the formal accept- ance of Gen., Charles de Gaulle’s| wartime government. H Under the procedure previously laid down, the Assembly will request | de Gaulle to continue a caretaker| government until later in the week, | when the delegates select a presi-| dent of the provisional government. There seemed little doubt that de Gaulle would serve during the per: iod alloted the Assembly for crea- tion of a constitution to be submit. ted to a people’s referendum. - —— | STALIN RETURNS the th Publication of the 26-month-old | Muni(ipa"y, Na"on' self to apprehend and surrender “in- But in tre final days of the Axis| The first Tuesday after the first of the surging Allled troops. They States, And today is the day. It's left their bedles to be kicked and country mayors, judges and other 01> | gressional election also is attract-| The analysts will be watching for ARMY plANE bearing they may have on the HONOLULU, Nov, 6.—Eight sur- hope for a speedy return of order were in an Army hospital here to- cuss all aspects of his proposals, |Dody of an unidentified WAC was atmosphere of growing tension,' Bearch- continiied for 11 ipersons miles ncrtheast of Oahu, where the | Indonesian leaders were reported disaster urday enroute to | his proposals—which m‘:-‘ far short! filling at least one of its 1943 sur- et e amies | Several Important Issues, | armistice terms today disclosed that the Italian government pledged it- a"Y MGY Be Se"led to the hands of the United Nations” SR cne Benito Mussolini, among others. (By The Associated Press) 'military collapse, the northern Ital- Monday in November is traditional- fan partisans got to Il Duce ahead ly election day in these United | quickly tried and shot him, along first post-war election day and in| with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and scores of communities across the | pattered by an angry crowd in @ elective officials are to be chosen Milan square by the voters., One special con- - - ing the attention of political an-| possible “trends” or “indicators” in these off-year elections for the 1946 congressional races and the 11948 presidential campaign. ers as a basis for settlement of VIVOrs Of an Army transport com- their deman He expressed his mand plane’s forced landing at sea 5 ; day under treatment for injuries. to Java so that >und table con- lI:x_fl;(Yc' ;’mh',x e ehed to dls. One of the survivors said that the ng s o1 5 ht here Growing Tension fring, SeeRseon binwga Do His statement was issued in an oM still missing. Planes and Navy sur- emphasized by a new outbreak of . o\ ooieq the area 460 strost. Hlgting iin) Badoyia. bekmseudicy. v sels. sootbed (i e Ix.vdnu‘ns)an extremists and Duteh Thberat ype transport and its 21 troope. passeng and five crewmen met {to have urged van Mook not 10 ayinland from Henolulu, release the document, f 3 that | {of their demands—would o in- crease the gult between their people In New York, observers say na-' tional interests have crowded out the local issues in the three-way race for office. ‘The candidates for the office of mayor to succeed Fiorello La Guardia are William O'Dwyer, | backed by the Democrats, and the | American Labor Party; Judge Jonah Goldstein, the Republican Liberal-Fusion candidate, and City Ccuncil President Newbold Morris, a Republican Independent. Backed By Truman O'Dwyer has the open backing of ~aticnal Democratic figures and the implied backing of President Truman. His supporters say an O'Dwyer victory will be a set-back and the Dutch. In essence, van Mook's statement was a reiteration of previous Dutch offers fo grant the Indonesians SEARCH FOR - MISSING BOY for New York’s GOP Governor, Thomas Dewey, when he seeks re- election next year. Dewéy has sup- ported Goldstein’s candidacy and |a self government and indepéndence | within the limits of a Dutch com-| monwealth, but it was reinforced o by assurances of racial equality and | full partnership with The Nether- lands. Development Program DOWNIEVILLE, Calif, Nov. 6. “Room will be made for the de- A cold rain was falling in the High velopment of business of every size Sierras earlytoday as weary search- for all racial groups, and the par-|ing parties prepared for the sixth ticipation of Indonesians, Indo- day to climb the steep, rocky slopes Chinese and Indo-Arabs in big in search of three~year-old Dickie business will be furthered,” the tum Suden. statement declared. The grief stricken parents remain- “The Central Government of this ed secluded. Friends said the mother, country will have to be recon- Mrs. Sally tum Suden, is under a tructed by legal process in such doctor’s care. a way that it will consist of a Officials continued to doubt the democratic representative body with possibility of kidnaping. substantial majority of Indo- i S nesian members and a council of GREECE A HEAVY ministers under a governor general| REPARATIONS PAYMENTS FROM VACATION MOSCOW, Nov. 6.—Generalissimo Stalin was back in the Soviet capi- tal” today after his month-long va- cation in the south, and reportedly | was preparing an address to the| Russian people on the eve of the 28 to arrive tonight or to- "morrow to arrange for the funeral,’' i the Bara.of anniversary of the “October Revolu- tion." as the representative of the crown,”| van Mook said ATHENS, Nov. 6—Finance Min- e - ister Gregory Kassimatis announced FAIRBANKS MAN HERE | today that Greece would ask $3,000,- Andy, Retusan, Fairbanks resi-|000,000 in reparations from Ger- dent, has arrived in Juneau. He is many, $300,000,000 from Italy and stopping at the Baranof. $400,000,000 from Bulgaria. The fig- > - ures were released after a session FROM SKAGWAY of the advisory financial council Donald E. Boitinger, Skagway, is | presided over by Premier Cancel- n guest at the Baranof { lopoulos his backers disagree with predic- tiens that the outcome of the municipal election will affect next year's gubernatorial race. i In Motor City Ranking next to New York in interest is Detroit’s’ mayoralty con- test. Voters today will settle the bitterest political campaign the ued on Page i‘;mi (Contin - - Here's Latest And It Includes Alaska, Too! PITTSBURGH, Nov. 6.—~The W. J. Dillner Transfer Co., announced today that Nov. 15 it will begin op- erating “the nation’s first aerial moving van service.” Houschold goods, two or three tons at a time, will be flown between Pittsburgh and any other point in the U. 8. and Alaska, at rates about 10 per cent higher than truck costs, the company stated. Dillner now operates a fleet of 40 ORDERS GIVEN 10 DISSOLVE BIG CONCERNS Drastic Move Is Made fo TerminatePrivate and In- ternational Agreements RAMIFICATIONS OVER WORLD ARE AFFECTED Complete Refirement oi Four Big Jap Familes Is Far Reaching By MURLIN SPENCER TOKYO, Nov. 6—~Gen. MacArthur today smashed Japan's four great- est financial and industrial families and gave notice of his intentions to break up all such combines to “aid Japenese economic develop- ment along peaceful, democratic lines.” The Japanese Government was ordered immediately to prepare to dissolve Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumi- tomo and Yasude Zaibatsu and their holding companies and to eliminate their controls of Japanese finances and industries. MacArthur further told the gov- ernment to set up a holding com- pany liquidation association to di- rect the dissolution under indirect Allied control and warned that all policies and personnel must have his approval, X To Smash Combines Along with the directive aimed at the great Zaibatsu interests with their ramifications, which spread throughout the world before the war, the Supreme Allled Com- mander said he intended to smash all such combines so as to permit “wider distribution of income and ownership of the means of pro-~ duction and trade In Japan and to aid the Japanese economic develop- ment along peaceful, democratic lines.” The government also was directed to take immediate steps to ‘“ter- minate and prohibit Japanese par- ticipation in ptivate international cartels or other restrictive private international contracts «r arrange- ments.” Sweeping Order This sweeping order—the most drastic of all against individuals . or corporations yet {ssued by Mac- Arthur—means the complete re- tirement from Japan's business life of four big families—Yasuda, Mitsul and Sumitomojm, whose companies bear their names, and Iwasaki, which controls the Mitsubishi in terests. ! “The way has now been cleared for the first time in Japanese his- tory for the Japanese people to achieve economic freedom,” Mac- Arthur said, INTERNAT.ONAL HEADACHE TOKYO, Nov. 6—The breaking up of Japan's fabulous houses of in- dustry was expected today to create an international financial head- ache in the question of how to dis- pose of thousands of shares of stock held by American and other foreign firms. * Supreme Allied Headquarters fis- sued a survey revealing widespread ramifications in the pre-war tleup between Japan's “Big Four” in- dustrial empires and firms through- out the world. The survey said that American corporate big names such as West- inghouse, Tidewater Associated Oil Co., International Telephone and Telegraph, Aluminum Co. of Am- erica and Libby-Owens Ford had business links with such houses as Mitsibushi and Mitsui. All of their stock holdings and unsettled debts pose a huge problem. There elso was a close relation- ship between the powerful “Big Five” banks and American banking institutions from coast to coast. YUM! YUM! TURKEY! OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 6.—Agri- culture Director Fred J. Martin says that Washington's turkey crop will be so large there will be three- fourths of a turkey for every man, woman and child in the state. The crop is estimated at more than a million and a half birds and trucks and special service cars into 27 states. Martin says it should bring a re- turn of 10-million dollars.