The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 7, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ‘ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,111 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1945 YAMASHITA STALIN DOES PERMITTED NOT ATTEND BRUTALITIES GREATEVENT Planned Pr;gTam of Star- Permits Molotov fo Give vation at Sanfo Tomas "State of Nation" at Prison Camp Celebration By DEAN SCHEDLER MOSCOW, Nov. 7 MANILA, Nov. 7—The Japanese Stalin, for the first cperated Santo Tomas civilian ju, en prison camp under a “planned pro- ame th der of Soviet Ru gram of starvation” for approxi- | failed to attend the massive pa mately 4,000 internees, Magazine |of soldiers and civilians celebrating Editor A. V. H. Hartendorp testi-|the Socialist revolution in Red field today at the war crimes trial | Square. of Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita The Premier broks a precedent At least eight internees died of ©® er by allowing Foreign Comm starvation or malnutrition in the V. M. Molotov to deliver th last four months of Japanese oc-! State of the Nation ldress at cupation, he stated. St. Andrew Hall in the Kremlin last The Japanese commandant re- |Might. Stalin did not attend. Foreign fused to hear internees’ complaints | diplomats suggested that perhaps he because he said Japan did not|‘emained a to take none of the e rom 10 recognize the Geneva Convention. “‘Ltl“'lmn vaH“‘MU‘.(.t(;\ S Permitted Brutalities Stalin was reported yesterday to Hartendorp told the U. S..mili- have returned to Moscow from a —Generalissimo time 'since he ade Siz) e FROM GLACIER BAY and Mrs. Sam Cotton epglihe et B The troops and civilian marchers 1844, through the liberation, Feb,|I'icS around the center of Moscow cets, sailors, motorcycle unfs and vide food and medical supplies to o oy & onrargLl I S Workers by the thousands carried Dis(harged GI world leaders on this 28th anniver- |tary of State James F. Byrnes were -Attlce and Foreign Secretary Ernest W YORK, Nov. i—A discharg- | carried a message from Generaliss- ed Brooklyn movie house yester-|Roosevelt have been among the most | of the Philippines. | wore civilian clothes and had a dis- g Armed Forces Must Not Be WASHINGTON — Elder States-| LONDON, Nov. 7—Gen. Alexei | cently in an off-the-record session|day' that Rus$ia had “entered the Baruch's prediction was that the must “continue to perfect them-| Piecemeal increases in wages,| Antonov’s address, broadcast by7 wages lagging behind. For thatbration of the 28th anniversary o(w prices and wages. Our only hope, be a reliable bulwark of the free- nine months without running into |clared. “It stood and will stand in from the war boom are good. of the people of the democratic| the next nine months is a very|and Admiral of the Fleet Nokolai Selces down, clared that Soviet forces played a| tax reduction of any nature af this an unhealthy thing for our gen-| Milwaukee asked what Baruch| will meet Friday afternoon at Wilson that if wages are raised 30 Mrs. Burrass Smith leading the dE-‘ on the general question of misinn \mll be E. L. Keithahn as guest question. Hostesses for the meeting will be | * % % give. a 30 per cent wage increase| M. Bay are guests at : y """ | month-long vacation in the south tary commission hearing charges| %0 that Yamashita permitted whole- | kg . started pouring theugh Red Square A bill of particulars covering the | 5 gt B Bakts TOtnhe - S Xehrs Ciot. around high noon and streets for 4 2 3 e filled with tanks, armored 2, 1945, charges the Japanese With|.u;q pargchutists, infantrymen, ca- wilful failure and refusal to pro- X o e 0 imovile gun groups who filed past more than 3,000 civilian internees.|in.tomb of Lenin (Continued on Page 1 W4 banners and slogans Newspapers carried greetings from sary of the revolution, but messag from President Truman and Secre- Takes Own Life ~“2.ici o, w I h, M i Congratulations of Prime Minister a ‘ Ing ovl ‘Bt‘\lu of Britain were featurad —_ prominently in Izvestia, which also ed serviceman shot himself through{imo Chiank Kai-shek In past| tha heart while seated in a crowd- yea messages from President day watching a film “Back To prominently displayed. Bataan” which depicts the liberation -+ tification card ring the name of | George T. Packard, Kokomo, Ind. He 'I‘o KEEP ARMED charge button in his lapel === KEEP PERFECTION By DRFW PEARSON Their Laurels man Bernie Baruch revealed someAntonov, Red Army Chief of Staff, interesting figures on inflation re-|told a cheering crowd in Moscow to- with 14 younger Congressmen at:period of peaceful development” but! his Shoreham Hotel apartment.|warned that the Soviet armed forces ' nation was hell-bent for inflation |selves” instead of resting on thelh —and soon. {1aurels. | profits and the cost of living have|the Mcscow radio and recorded in been uneven, Baruch said, with|London, was a highlight of the cele- | reascn he no longer favored his the Red revolution pre-war idea of a freeze on both| “The Red Army in the future will said the elder statesman, is that|dom and independence of the so- we can weather the next six to |cialistic motherland,” Antonov de- serious ifflation. If we do (hm,‘?h(‘ first rank of the United Nations our chances of a strong recovery |in defense of the peace and security | “The huge, pent-up demand for |countries. products which we will see during; Marshal Alexander M. Vassilevsky serious threat,” said Baruch, stress- | Kuznetsov previously had issued or- ing the importance of holding dors of the day in which they de-| He amazed his listeners by saying | “decisive role” in the defeat of the| that he is completely opposed m Axis. time. “Not only does the gover '<w0RlD SERVI(E (IR(‘_E : ment lose needed revenue, but it is| MEH'S Fn' An[ ! eral economy,” argued Baruch. RNOON Representative Andy Biemiller of |. Tne wWor¢ Service Circle of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church | thought of the statement by| 2 General Motors' President C. E.!gwclock in the church parlors for their regular monthly meeting, \.\n.hY per cent, prices must go up 30 per cent. Baruch talked at some length |yotionals. Also on the afternoon program prices, but gave no direct answer. Finally Biemiller repeated speaker, and Mrs. Don Butus with a vocal solo. “I'm afraid I can’t agree with Mr. Wilson,” Baruch said. {Mrs. A. E. Glover, Mrs. C. T. War- | field and Mrs. Henry Larsen. WAGE, NOT PRICE INCREASE “Isn’t it true that industry can| of | Glacier the Baranof. (Continued on Page Four) | vide | monwealth lings with Henr: INTENSIFIED BATTLING RAGING IN C HINA POLICE SYSTEM IN TOKYO GETS ARREST J rougH snakeup N KODIAK ELECTED AS Are Released Scorched Money Results in| Jefiries, Reelected, Defroit| ToKYO, Nov. 7_suan save ws, Apprehension of Men Over CI0 Candidate once-domineering police system an- In San Fl’an(iS(O l F[ankens'een other rough shakeup today by firing more than 5800 enforcement | g and surveillance personnel, and an-; SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7 (By The Associated Press) would appoint civilian rency, scorched when a stolen safe| Democrat William O’'Dwyer swamp- boards in major Tokyo opened with an actylene torch,|ed two majors opponants and won| police dis ts with unprecedented led to the est of two men ye -‘elecuun as Mayor of New York (‘JL) power to icize actions of of- terday on of burglary at|yesterday ficers X as | His vote far exceeded the :\ggre-: Some time ago the nation's in- The Federal Bureau of Investi- |gateé of his opposition. It prompted| famous thought police and military gation filed complaints against the democratic leaders to see good police organizations were dissolved men, Harrison Lee Barber, 27, and things ahead for the party in the| on, Allied orders and their leaders Edward A. Kubillus, 33 |state and nationally. They saw in imprisoned for questioning Barber had been a jockey's agent it a decline in the political fortunes Also at the command of Gen. at Bay Meadows, California, and of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey MacArthur, the Japanese govern- Kibillus tended bar in Oakland,| Republicans withheld comment !m ment released 507 political prisoners the FBI said the time being. i and discontinued , “protection and| The removal comy In the second municipal scmplhnm surveillance” oVeR Q086 ‘other ih-|fore U Sornrat captured more than local atention dividuals Fox, said the men terday’s fivst postwar voting, Elsewhere dicted in Alaska for the ward J. Jeffries was elect- front which occurred Oct. 21 ed to a rth term in Detroit's het The Ministry of Education abol- was set at $5,000 each BRI A0 (AYORIILY, TAON S48 NG jahed from schools ‘Samural-fiavor=| / O,-H. Van, Pelt/of ‘the FBI.gftice | HIChaR T, Frankensieen, CIO. Un- ed courses in glider training, judo, here safe was stolen from 'O, R e jiu jitsu, fencing and military the 1 of Bill Schultz and mv“:E}ri',\hlfi.‘,;n‘n.-“.}( the drill taken taxicab while | " 5 A new Barber entertained the Schultz ““p Renovationist Party, came into ex-|family at dinner. The FBI agent| .- " F To 0 o T New istence, advocating elimination of said Kubillus, a taxi driver, took| p 0" qiinoe Rebublicans retain- feudalism and liberalization of |the safe away and huried it. Later o = 5 o 0% 0" iR by economy { the safe was cut open with a torch, Biliieie, . TR & MAThaNa: A labor legislation committee was|Van Pelt related, and some cur-; fon | OB candldate. appointed by the Welfare Ministry | rency was scorched. The indictment ed 15k Wirs tian T to frame a law to encourage de-|charged $32,000 and some jewelry g o Katshbich 33 recila velopment of labor unions and pro- | was stolen Bk A afs nomieh s, sadond for mediation of labor dis- (:n:v of the 1)\:nlzui‘ lmu/:\xl"‘\“ thitlis only Breaticis] coites putes ound In possession y Lieut. Gov. William M. Tuck, was The newspaper Asahi announc ed | Iacopetti of Kodiak, Van Pelt (lc ted Governor of Virginia by bet- that nearly ‘300,000 Japanese, in- and hé is serving time PV INAYT Lo “to Ons’ OVEr" bwWrr 0D~ cluding 170,000 demobilized service | . — ponents, men, had been repatriated by the end of October by American and Japanese ships “ Lo ¥ VALDES RESIGNS; 10 HELP CONVICT ARE KILLED "BEAST OF BATAAN' Ba- 25| Army bomber crashed 1last night six miles southeast of the Chico army air field, and officials of the base doubted this morning hat the four crewmen aboard sur- | vived. Salvage crews, hiking in through Valdes was appointed to the yji4, mountainous country, had not commission by Gen. MacArthur on'yeached the scene six hours after the recommendation of the Com-'tre crash Government. He went | through the Bataan Campaign \n(h MacArthur and escaped to Au: tralia with the late Preside: Manuel Quezon. Valdes testified this week at the war crimes hearing of Lt. Gen. Tomoyukl Yamashita that he found the bodies of his brother and his | nephew in a pit with other slain Filipinos after he returned to| Manila with Lhe American onm». CANADIAN STRIKE AT FORD PLANT IS STILL DEADLOCKED WINDSOR,*Ont., Nov. 7.—Canad- ian Labor Minister Humphrey Mit-| chell today continued efforts to end | tke eight-weeks strike at the Ford Motor Company, Ltd., while Union- ists maintained a 1,500 car barricade near the concern’s plant. O'DWYER IS ~Cur nours it advisory filed be Fran been in- burgla 1942, Balil nt, ioner had on the occupation backing of action commit- away in a I 1 the Japa 3 political party, the Japan only major congressional a 1 well was E said, - Thanksgiving Day Cheer Coming North , SEATTLE, Nov. for Alaska residents holds of the Steam prepared to sail tod e vessel carrie ludes cold-stc , eranberries the Holiday cheer lay in the Yukon as she y from Seattle a cargo that age turkeys, poul- nuts, candies and territory’s Thanks- MANILA, Nov silio J. Valdes resigned today chief of staff of the Philippine Army to take a place on the mili- | tary commission which soon will] try Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, Japan’s “Beast of Bataan,” on war crimes charge: 7—Maj. Gen. 7.—A B-29 and burned ‘ r liquor—for giving. The Yukon, operated Steamship Company, will call at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Cord Valdez and Seward. by Alaska CHE TIED-UP SEATTLE, Nov. 7—A dispute be- tween the Alaska Steamship Com- pany and the Cooks' and Stewards' Association over privileges of mem- bers of the crew aboard the ship, today tied up the steamship Yukon which was scheduled to sall from Seattle at 10 a. m, for Southeast and Southwest Alaska. The pas- | sengers were sent ashore and the ship tied up. > e Lord Haw Haw Is Denied Appeal on Death Senience LONDON, Nov. 7—William Joyce, |who won the nickname of “Lord Haw Haw” for his propaganda | broadcasts over the German radio today was denied an appeal from his conviction on a charge of high treason. Joyce, under sentence of death, took the decision with outward calm - , The next step open to his attorneys l“ (H I N A SE | is to seek the attorney general’s per- | mission to bring the case before the ——— | SHANGHAI, Nov. 7-The reported seizure by Chinese Communists of several American crewmen from a; Liberty Ship in the Clnnwangmo area today brought a prompt news' blackout in U. S. Army head- quarters in Shanghai. Newsmen, dependent on British sources, were told some scamen were seized by the Chinese Com- munists but some were released | with apologies. American Army spokesmen fused to discuss the matter the United States Consul Gen s office here said only that “vague” reports had been received. R CONSIDERATE THIEF SANTA FE, N. M.—Toby has received a garage storage for $5.10 for his sedan car he ported stolen August 29. Checking up on the bill, Younis found it was his car all right and in it safe and sound were his fishing tackle and new suit. Younis' big question is how the car got there, re- and Youhis bill re- of Says Edgar Bergen Ford II and top| Labor-Management meeting for to-| McCarthy squawks a lot about ‘wunden stooge didn’t let out a peep NEW YORK, No¥. 7 — Closing | Ventriloguist Bergen, 40, in- 102%, Anaconda 39'%, Curtiss-iman, 22, beauteous former Powers 182, Pound $4.03': | senada, Mexico. She is known pro- lows: Industrials, 192.04; rails,| -> FAIRBANKS VISITOR | several trading posts cn the Seward House of L ds for review. Mitchell after a rapid series of conferences Tuesday, including meet- | Ma"ied Mon'hs Ago Canadian officers of the United | Auto Workers (CIO), called another | HOLLYW()OD No\ 7—Charlie {day- | treatment at the hands of Edgar 5 i ., Vg | Bergen but at least the little SIO(K ouolAIIONS {that his boss has been married | | secretly for more than four months. | quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine | formed Hollywood friends yester- stock today is 7'2, American Can|day that he and Frances Wester- Wright 8, International Harvester | Model whom he met five v 91%, Kennecott 45';, U. S Stvvl‘ngn, were married June 23 at E Sales today were 2,380,000 shares. | fessionally as Frances Westcott. It Dow Jones averages were as f0l- | was the first marriage for each 63.27; utilities, 37.92. MRS. JOHN CROSS HERE e | Mirs. John M. Cross, owner H. C. Weidman of Fairbanks is!Peninsula, has arrived in June: a guest at the Gastineau, She is registered at the Baranof. 1chect, President Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson sells President Truman one of the first “Victory Loan Bonds” at the White House. (o top cleven hillion dollars. Demandsthat Wage Issue Be Taken Up WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—CIO President Philip Murray today form- ally demanded that the National Labor-Management conference take up “the all-important” issue of wages Murray made his plea at the ini- ¢ tial committee which had placing matters before for discussion, sion of the key executive he confe ence The committee took no immediate action on Murray's proposal that tha group recommend cordierence ideration of the issue AFL President William Green told reporters ain as the committee convered that the conference should continue its discugsions to dispute settlement procedures. It is his idea, he said, that all disputes—including those over wages -could be worked out either on an industrial or plant basis once bar- gaining procedure i3 firmly estab- lished D MAYORALTY ELECTIONS (By The Associated Press) he following is‘a round of re- sults of mayoralty elections held yes- terday New York City— C'Dwyer (D) Det -Won by Edward J. Jeff- ries «Nun Partisan) n—Won by R2p Lmley (Mon-Partisan) Pittsburgh—Won by David L. Law- rence (D) Cleveland— Won |Burke (D). Leuisville—Fk Leland Taylor (D). leading. Syracus tello (R) . Buffalo—Won by Bernard J. Dow:d (R) Portsmouth, N, H--Won by ary C. Dondero (D). New Haven, Conn.~—Won by liam G. Gelantano (R). Hartford, Conn,,~Won by (‘mm-.- ius A. Moylan (R) Bridgeport, Conn.—Won by Ja per, | McLe: (Socialist) . Waterbury, Conn.—Won S. Monagan (D). Cengressional Races Illinois, 24th District-~~Won by Roy Clippinger (R) New Jersey 4th District—Won by Frank A. Matthews, Jr., (R) Guternatorial Race Virginia—Won by Lieut. Gov. Will iam M. Tuck, (D). > EIGHT FROM ANCHORAGE -Won by Wiliam James M by Thomas —Won by Frank J. Cos- Mrs Ms Wil- by John ht arriy: from yesterday included: Mr. Lloyd Childs, Lt. Comdr. Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. Gus F. Ra- R. K. Gebo, Vincent H Daley and Lou Brady. All are registered at the Baranof Anchorage and Mrs orge B the power of * { L BuysBond = GOVT. FORCES DEFEATED BY COMMUNISTS Fighting R;;(;ted in Two Provinces—Reinforce- ments Coming Up By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Nov. 7. — Chinese Communists claimed a victory today over 70,000 Nationalist troops in fighting aleng the Pelping-Hankow railroad as the Kuomingtang official news agency reported intensified battling throughout the provinces of Shansi and Suiykan The Communists also said they had recaptured the Hopen Province {rail junction of Tsehsien October 25. The already strained relations between Yenan and Chungking were | further endangered by the Commun- ist claims, The sale hopes Ring of Steel Under the veteran Gen. Ho Lung, the Communists are tightening a ring of steel around Kweisui, Sui- yuan capital, while other Red col- |umns move from the west, pre- paratory to assaulting the important city of Paotow, also on the Pelping- | Suly\mn railroad, Large Communist reinforcements lare pouring into the province, the Nationalist dispatches said. | Meanwhile, the Yenan forces con- e | tinued their attacks against the be- | leaguered rail junction of Tatung in | northern Shansf, In the south of | the province, Communists were at- uukmg different points along the | Tatung-Puchow railroad, including SEN. REVERCOMB URGES DRAFT BE ENDED AT ONCE ilitary Affairs Committe Member Claims Volun- teers Exceed Need | Hohien, WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Senator A Several Town Cost Re A) sa that | : overcomb (D-WVA) said today that | oo el FORR M L ! unle the Army and Ni uu, fhioe x‘xlwn Al ‘ww'k" CJI);{‘I"‘R" raflroad was acknowledged by the b f | Central government, but is con- should proceed immediately to end! s ‘”(](‘m'. 1(1"\i('l’ll’ M{ o | tended that Kuomintang forces beat Revercomb, a member of the Sen- g‘,: freisk: l‘h“{"uwdf“,"“k* b oo ate Military Committee, told a re-| CHN0SINE TH TOLE dave, : porter figures show that the draft—| -+ 7€ ”"‘"‘"l"i“"" Slkny, 1 G which: took millions “of men into 1o, THAC JiE tovenient. of (e \wh:-m impairing occupation for- | *10n8 the = TALEg g ¥ 1‘ toward Nerth China .\nd Manchuria | had been smashed. High Officers Surrender The Communists asserted that M This comment was in amplifica- | ticn of a Senate speech in whh)u he said the voluntary enlistment g program is getting all the men the | MOSt of the Gentral government Army and Navy need. Revercomb| W00Ps Involved capitulated with added on the floor that unless the | their arms. They gald that high Servit act promptly, “There wm\gnvf‘rnmem officers who surrend- Le legislation offered.” | ered included Gen, Ma Fa Wu, De- “Vou recall that President Tru- Puty Commander in Chief of the man fixed the number of draft|11th War Zone; Gen. Sung Yen-tan, calls per month at 50,000 in order | Chief of Stalf of the 11th War Zone. not to delay the return of soldiers| Another official, statement from who have served overseas,” he said| Yenan demanded the arrest and in the interview. | punishment of Gen. Soy In-chin, “Now, it is very evident that vol- | Commander in Chief of the Chinese unteers are far exceeding the selec- | ArmY, accused of “engineering an tive service number. It is a matter I"”"l ive by 800,000 troops against of reasoning, a matter of logical de- | the liberated dreas” dominated by Attebid - llhn- (‘nmmunhu Revercomb also plugged hard I(n | the release of men with dependents. | H2 said the country’s peacetime | needs make it imperative for these | men to take up their lives in :he- —e>e Resents Nippon Girl ~ Dafing U. §. Soldier; One Biff, Lip Split TOKYO, Nov. 1 ‘The Army | newspaper Stars and Stripes said today a Japanese sailor struck a Japanese girl in downtown Hibiuya IN ALASKA OFF T0 FINE START o S o Eparked by the opening day d‘nvc, ¢ % cver the top at Fairbanks, Alaska|*how ‘1’”""”"'"‘""' Spalngk 1N bas made a good start toward its|* s - Victory Loan bond goal of $2,500,000, th”; o5 “:;";& s’t:"‘“:‘m]::f“’n“l“h;:“] tho War Finance Committee office gy B by headquarters by a group of Ameri- here reported today. soldiers and. was ti od g Reports through November 3, show (“”}r";’v‘ Pt g g 2 a total of $403329 of all types of| 10 TOYO PO Ce. FT G WS BIVER bends sold within the Territory dur- | tfeatment for a split lip |ing the opening week of the cur-| b ddtocs "rent apaign. Total Series E bond % e sor e e of s e U] S Naval Aireraft Crashes;But There Are No Casualties ‘ H\ JI)I]I’ au-Douglas area is far 'from being one of the top-rankers in its Bond-buying performance to! |date. Total E sales here are onl $6,150 WEBSTE DUTH | MANILA, Nov. 7—The Sangley Mrs. Anna Webster, of the Ju-|point Naval Air Station at Cavite neau-Douglas Telephone Co., leaves announces that the Naval Air Trans- on the North Sea for the south to|port long over-due there on a flight |remain several months | from Guam had crashed and burn- < {ed at the edge of the jungle rear ! MR, MRES. STEEN HERE | Puerto Real on Lamon Bay | Mr, and Mrs. William Steen, resi-| There were no fatalities the Navy dents of Cordova, have registered said, but added that most of the 13 at the Baranof | passengers and seven crewmen - - 1lemml the plane were injured. FROM FAIRBANKS - — Bud Selteureich of Fflh‘bunks;‘ PELI(‘-\‘{ CITY MAN HERE is @ guest at the Baranof, He is C. Raatikainer of Pelican City is Jthe owner of an airplane service, registered at the Gastineau Hotel | eivilian (-umom‘ V!(IORY LOAN th D MRS. S