The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 8, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE /EWS ALL THE TIME” — ] VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,112 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ——— R R NEW ANGLE IN MISSING BOY TRAGEDY PROTESTS T0 (GRIMSTORY OCCUPATION OF TERROR BYRUSSIANS REIGN TOLD Iran Parli;fil—ent lodgesf}Hundreds of?lipinos Are Complaint-Has Adher- | Forced to Jump Info ed to U. N. Charter | Huge Well fo Die 8 — The Iran| By DEAN SCHEDLER pretests today MANILA, Nov. 8—The grim story occupa- | of a Japanese reign of terror in tion of parts of the country. Bantangas Province, where 25,000 Dr. R. Etebar, a deputy, told the|men, women and children were legislature: | brutally mistreated or murdered in “Iran fulfilled its pledge to the| seven months, began to unfold to- United Nations charter, pefticular-| day before the military commission ly toward Russia. The evacuation | hearing war crimes charges against of Iran has been announced and|Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. confirmed by United Nations lead-} Survivors have said that the ers. Despite this, T regret that to-|death toll of civilians was far day the Red Army occupies 45 greater in Batangas than it was in buildings in Teheran and the Rus-|Manila. Populations of entire vil- sian occupation army hefldquurtors‘ lages, these survivors reported, were still are not evacuated. |held at bay at the point of Japa- R |nese guns while the invaders burned down all their homes. GI Blll GETS One witness was a Filipino, TEHERAN, No Parliament heard about continued Russian who related that he was tied up with “about 700 men and I don’t know the number of wcmen but there were many,” and “led off to a well about 300 feet wide and 60 feet deep.” One by one they were made to jump into the well, Umali said. “When my time came, about 200 Pampilo Umali, from the Province, WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—The Sen- ate today passed by voice vote a Gus Edwards ' REPARATIONS Song Writer, BY JAPAN IS Passes Away BIGQUESTION 1 HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 8 — Gus; Edwards, beloved Tinpan Alley tunesmith and discoverer of count- | |less stars of the stage and screen,| is dead. | The 66-yecar-old songwriter, nmm'} | Allied Commission Digging Into Complex Problem of Getting Payments TOKYO, Nov. 8—The Allied rep- Writer of such song hits as|arations commission today began 3-;‘;(-h(,.’,1 Days,” * the Light of |digging-into the complex problem the Silvery Moon,” “In My Merry | of how poverty-ridden Japan can | Oldsmobile,” and “Sunbonnet Sue,”|pay reparations for the |Edwards discovered and helped |damage spread by her armies. along such outstanding performers| All members except the U, S. as Eddie Cantor, Georgie Jessel,|commissioner, Edwin W. Pauley, ‘.'md producer died in his apartment {last night after a long illness. colossal | | | PRICE FOR PEACE MADE T0 CHINESE Yenan Communists An- nounce Terms to Central Government of China BULLETIN — CHUNGKING, Nov. 8. — Chinese Communists demanded teday that Lt. Gen. Atbert C. Wedemoyer, U. $. Commander in China, apologize and that compensation be paid for alleged American terfer- ence” in China’s internal strug- Siraight Dope Is Given On Occupation of Japan; ~ Americans, Japanese Talk Japan will be a useful member of the family of nations with no desire or power to make war again, This picture was developed from talks with the highest leaders of both Americans and Japanese. The confidence expressed is perhaps more American than Japanese; there are many Japanese who view the | future darkly. A few express the hope that American occupation will last many years, regarding it as a shield against further disaster. General MacArthur and his staff were among those with whom I | By GLENN BABB (Associated Press Foreign Editor) TOKYO, Nov. 8.—America's tre- mendous task in Japan possibly can fulfilled within three to five ears, with an occupying force of approximately 200,000 men. | That is the expressed opinion of many of the men who should know best, provided the present rate of progress is maintained and there are no drastic changes in policies given occupying authorities. There is confidence here that within such a period militarism can Lila Lee, Mae Murray, Lillian Lor- | raine, Larry Adler, Eleanor Powell, | Mervyn LeRoy, Bert Wheeler, Earl | Carroll, Helen Menken, Hildegarde, gle. The Reds also demanded that Chinese Govenment troops withdraw from all Red-domin- met with Brig. Gen. Richard| Sutherland, Gen. MacArthur’s chief of staff, and planned futare con-| ferences with other Allied officers! be eradicated, a reasonable facsimile of demccracy planted and a re- stricted measure of economic well- being restored. Then, according to discussed Japan’s future, but the General would not permit his con- versation to be quoted and he is in {no way responsible for the state- ‘Johnn,\’ Hines, Groucho Marx, The|as well as leading Japanese | Duncan Sisters, Ray Bolger and | cials | Eddie Buzzell | Pauley was | Edwards was born in a small| next Tuesday. | German town, came to this country | The commission’s dual scheduled to arrive advanced to song boy in tho‘mmv what of Japan's few remain- theater. After he became a song|ing assets will be used for payment. writer he produced several hits,|To be considered when the settle- among them “Gus Edwards’ Mes-| senger Boy In his early years Edward: Welter Winchell, Cantor and Jessel | wer the old “Shoeshine Boys| Quartet” that sang in the Tender- | loin District of New York. hito’s personal fortune and Japan's actory machinery. D IS DERIED RIGHT offi- | | job is to { as a boy. Sang in restaurants and |total up the damages and deter- ment comes will be Emperor Hiro-! I | ated areas, as the price for peace, but asserted that ihe government, instead, was plan- ning an all-out offensive for which 92 divisions already were being massed in the north. The demand for Wedemeyer's apolegy was contained in one of four protesting letters sent to the American commander by the Communists’ Yenan head- quarters, By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Nov. 8 The Yenan Communists demanded to- day as the price for peace in this view, American and other Allied | ments made herein, My talks with armies can be withdrawn, possibly | Premier Shidehara and members of to be replaced by some other form ' his Cabinet contributed to these of control, with confidence that conclusions. OLD SABOTAGE YLIKON TI STORY IS TOLD YUKON TIED wir perans UP, DISPUTE AT SEATTLE Landing of Germans from| bill iberalizing loan and educational provisions of the GI Bill of Rights. It rejected, also on vpice vote, an amendment by Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) to grant widows of men killed in the war the same benefits their husbands would have received under the measure. —— . FROM SITKA already had jumped and after I, jumped at least another 100 fol- lowed me.” Before Japanese soldiers covered the well with native bamboo sheets, Umali said, they threw in some rocks, “dropped a sewing machine,” and fired in many shots. Sometime after midnight, the witnes§ continued, some Filipino FOWLIE GETS ' THREE YEARS 'TO CERTAIN FILES IN China that the Central Govern-| 'PEARL HARBOR CASE 8.—A Senate denied to the WASHINGTON, Nov House committee today Senator Brewster (R-Maine) right to lock into Navy Department | | files in search of what Brewster said | women sneaked to the well and lowered ropes up which six men escaped. Many of the women lib- erators were captured and never Mrs. Al Brookman and Helen Opkalheff of Sitka have arrived in Juneau and are registered at the Gastineau Hotel. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 8—| Alexander Simpson Fowlie, found guilty of perjury and polygamy,| was sentenced to serve three years| is a missing message bearing on the Pearl Harbor disaster. Brewster’s motion that he be giv- en authority to look through the; i ment withdraw all Communist - dominated areas in North China. Chou En-lai, Yenan heére and No. 2 Chinese Communist, announced the Yenan answer to ¥omintang peace proposals short- ly dfter reports that the Russians had withdrawn from the Man- churian ports of Hulutao and Ying- kow (Newchwang) leaving the Chi- nese Reds in command, heightened the already tense atmosphere. troops “liberated"” from | negotiator U-boats, Subsequent Ar- rests, Change Nazi Plans WASHINGTON, Noy. 8—One of the eight German saboteurs landed by U-boats in 1942 made a beeline | for the FBI and spilied ti ails of their mission. |« This tip resulted in the group SFATTLE, Nov. 3.—Two Seattle- Alaska passenger ships still were | idle today as negotiations between iopernmrs and unions failed. [ A dispute between the Marine Cooks and Stewards Association and the Alaska Steamship Company has ! dslayed “indefinitely” the sailing of the steamship Yukon, which was lwbemg rounded up within 14 days,’ posted to depart at 10 o'clock yes- | | ruining their play to wreck TVA— terday for Southeast and -South- I source of power for the ammlc: west Alaska with 220 passengers. {bomb project—and other key wnri The motorship Northland, oper- ! at McNeil Island Federal Peni- files was defeated on a § to 5 tie| Chou gaid ‘the Communists de- and communications projects. |ated by the Northland Transporta- ———e The Washington Merry '_Gfl' Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — In Tuesday's column it was revealed that the Army board probing Pearl Harbor had written a supplemental report marked “Top Secret,” not hitherto published. Among other things it discloses that a secret Jap message was received and decoded on Nov. 20, 1941, two weeks before Pearl Harbor. The decoded message read seen again. | tentiary yesterday by Federal Judge & George F. Alexander. Fowlie was extradited from New York during the summer after he - - MOTHER'S "URGE !had married Aquina Barnhill in i l" E ll | Juneau. | | In another case before the court, - INMURDER CHARGE Elunice Vivian Franks was quitted of murdering her husband, | HOUGHTON, Mich, Nov. 8 — A by reason of insanity, 26-year-old mother was scheduled | > for court arraignment today in the Ideath of her three-year-old son RESUMED. SHARP |wha was suffocated in ‘his crib 7 Tuesday night. DENVER, Nov. 5.—Removal of the vote, Chairman Barkley (D-Ky) |told reporters after a closed meet- ling of the investigating committee. Barkley said the committee also rejected, 6 to 4, on a strict party | division, a motion by Senator Fer- |guson (R-Mich) to postpone the ac- | starte of pubic hearings from Nov.| 15 to Nov. 23. The : committee’s action came shortly after President Truman had | crdered that the committee must be | supplied with any information it de- ; sires. RIOT STAGED manded- that the Kuomintang with- draw to positions outside the “lib- erated” areas before the civil fight- ing began and order all Nationalist troops to cease firing The worried looking Communist representative told newsmen of the Yenan reply to Chiang Kai-shek's offer and said he would deliver it to Nationalist Government officials later today. “The situation,” he added, “ap- pears dangerous.” The reported Russian withdrawal in Manchuria posed still further troubles for the Central Govern- ment. Disclosing this yesterday in a tion Company, has been idle in’ | statement, Attorney General Tom'Seattle since October 23 as the re- K. Clark said arrest of the group, sult of a dispute between the com- | caused the Germans to change pany and the Sailors Union of the plans ‘to send over a batch of Pacific. | saboteurs by submarine every six| The dispute that tied up the Yu- | weeks. kon invclved the use of the ship’s | The informer, George Dasch, con- dining saloon for crew meetings at tacted FBI Director J. Edgar sea, steamship company officlals | Hoover soon after slipping ashore said. The union demands also in- | with $80,000 in cash and boxes of | cludzd payment of overtime for pan- explosives. He said he and Ernest trymen working through fi{eh' meal ! Burger, apother of the saboteurs, perfods and compensation ior feed- had agreed to notify the FBI | ing passengers after the ship had ! Dasch had lived in the United been in port more than four hours, States from 1922 fo 1941 when he ' *‘BCC(:de\BA‘/O {OSPph Harris, Union returned to Germany. At the secret Business Agent. ; A ! military commission he testified ! alifidars for tha 'arew; Whih 'TURKEY {bacon and one “delooooshus™ if Tokyo broadcast the phrase|charge against the mother, Mrs. “East Wind Rain” it was to mean Robert Salo of nearby South Range war with the United States at any Township. moment. “West Wind Cle & was to| Schumacher charged the woman mean war |(¥ith Great Britaia. | stuffed three handkerchiefs This “Wirds” message is part of |the mouth of the son, Ronald, as the file which Republican members he was asleep in a bedroom also of the Pearl Harbor Committee!occupied by his 1-year-ald sister. claim is missing. Six copies of the| The sheriff asserted that the decoded “Winds” message were woman then made her way to the made and distributed to different nearby home of Rev. Kyllomen of branches of the government, but|the Baltic Finnish Church where the original copy made by the Navy the clergyman said she told him has disappeared from the files, and | What she had done. some insiders now contend that| Rev. Kyllomeh rushed the baby into ! | Houghton County Sheriff Emil G. Schumacher signed a murder| ban on gold mining, coupled with returns of miners from the armed forces, is bringing new life to old Colorado mines and sharp gains in (gold receipts at the D2nver Mint. Moses E. Smith, Director of the | Mint, said today October gold re- | ceipts totalled 24,705,584 ounces, val- ‘ued at $864,695.82. This represented | a 60 per cent rise over October, 1944, | when 15271,43¢ ounces were re- ceived. | “The rise in gold receipts was due |to a revival in mining,” Smith de- | clared. “We now ars getting gold POLITICAL SNAG IN BU(HARESP IS STRUCK: PEARL | BUCHAREST, Rumania, Nov. 8.—1 | Troops machinegunned crowds dem- onstrating before the royal palace | ‘today in defiance of a governmcnti WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—Republi- order prohibiting celebrations of cans and Democrats on the Pearl King Mihai’'s 24th birthday and}Harbcr Investigating Committee Communists precipitated a six hour contended alike today that political riot in attempting to scatter the|considerations arc imperiling the | throngs. value of the whole inguiry. The “They have given it such a po- fighting erupted when 15 | that his sole purpose in under- | taking the mission was to get out of Germany again, He said he had !no intention of committing sabo- [ tage. Berger had served 17 months in 'a concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi Party. He told FBI agents !Ihnt he and Dagch had agreed to | desert the sabotage assignment. | e TO MAKE HOME IN KANBSAS | Mrs. Dorothy Turek and little sen, James, acccmpanied by her company officials said would take 50 per cent of the passenger ac- | commodations. \ -~ PLANE CRASH | ! | CAIRO, Nov. 8—United States EIGHTKILLED, | this advance warning never was received. The “Winds” message in Navy file “No. 7001, gontained the logs of three Navy ‘monitoring stations tuned in on Jap short-wave broad- casts. This . entire £ has dis- appeared.. oo * % % = F to a hospital but the child Was|fom some Rocky Mountain opera- degghfinm:c:;:a:uowd Mrs. Salo as ticns‘thnt Havet R ORRE 4 S| deposits for years. | saying she had “an urge to Kkill” P’I’here wel;e no big individual land said she was “grief-stricken”|shipments in October—just a con- |over the boy's death. | tinuing again throughout the terri- | Her husband, who left here re-itory. We got gold from various | cently after spending a leave, Was parts of Colorado, Montana and from | reported enroute home from a San|Alaska receipts that clear through | Francisco Naval base where he is|our Seattle office.” truckloads of Communists, waving clinched fists and shouting “Long \live the Groza Government!” roar- ed into Royal Square and tried to disperse the 40,000 to 50,000 people there. At least three persons were Kill- ed and perhaps a dozen were wound- {ed in the machinegun fire which started after. noon and continued for nearly four hours. ARMY'S SECRET HISTORY Lo However, ample information re-|stationed. mains in the files to get an all- S, 13 4 ' fo Be ‘MacArthur to . . " Aided, Breaking too-clear picture of what happened inside the War-Navy Departments when the advance Jap warning was received. It is given in detail in the secret report of the Army's Pearl Harbor Investigating Com- mittee. On Dec. 4, three days before Pearl Harbor, Tokyo sent out the “Winds” message notifying Jap| embassies and all Jap ships that war would come any moment, Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes, Chief of the Naval Communications Section, phoned this information to Col. Otis K. Sadtler of Army Intelli- gence at 9:30 a. m., Dec. 5. Col. Sadtler immediately noti- fied Gen. Sherman Miles, head of Military Intelligence, and Col. R. S. Bratton, 'Army Intelligence ex- pert on the Far East. The secret Army report then states that Sadt- ler was instructed to call Admiral Noyes back and get the exact text TOKYO, Nov. 8—Anti-trust au- thorities from Washington will aid | Gen. MacArthur's officials in | breaking up Japan’s system of | financial combines. Col. Raymond C. Kramer, chief of MacArthur's economic section, |said today that the government | specialists are coming to Japan in the near future. He doesn't have nearly enough manpower to carry |out the huge job. The most immediate task in liqui- dation of the Zaibatsu, said, is selection of a Japanese commission which, with Allied su- (Continued on Page Four) free trade declaration, Up Jap;t'.ombinesi Kramer | | kiri qismissed the attempt against| mother, Mrs. Marie C. Boyer, at- | week is the purchase, from the drains, foundation and roof of the been a contest to see who could up- his lifg, as “unimportant,” except | tended school here about 1935, trans- | West Juneau Company, Inc., of ail"ngldnire store building on South ' set the largest stone.” The ban on gold mining was re- moved July 1. ' Assassination Of Horikiri , Is Atfempled | FORMER LOCAL GIRL IN v n—— | BONDSELLING CONTEST, mikaze e WESTERN WASHINGTON | former Kamikaze pilots who waited | with drawn knives in the darkened | halls of the Home Ministry at-| According to advices received by lThe Empire, Miss Jean Boyer, ’rormer Juneau girl who was presi- The King himself, at odds with | the Soviet-sponsored government of | Petry Groza, was not in the palace but was reported 85 miles north at i Sinaia. —ee | | | | tempéd vainly last night to ass: | sinate Home Minister Kenjiro Hori- kiri. tacked as he returned from ad-[bemg sponsored by the United Air ‘t?n mgl incregs_e of_ crime Bnd[w;\shxngton Victory Queen title, in | “Chaotic” conditions in Japan, was| connection with the Vietory Bond {not injured. The assailants were|drive. Bond purchases entitle the | taken in custody. | buyers to vote for her. At his desk as usual today, Hori- Miss Boyer, who lives with her “restlessness” among the people, School in Seattle, | { | dressing a meeting of police chiefs| Lines in Seattle for the Western | 'as follows: Industrials, 191.72; rails, | litical turn,” Senator George (D- Ga.) said of the Republicans, “that I doubt the committee can accom- plish very much.” Senator Brewster (R-Me), term- ing the Democrats’ stand “very un- fortunate,” added: “If there ever was a committee that should be free of partisanship, it is here.” Brewster's contention was that otherwise the public confidence in the ultimate findings. George and Brewster were in- terviewed separately prior to a closed-door session of the com- mittee. : .- STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 8 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 7%, American’ Can 102%, Anaconda 39%, Curtiss- would lack a | Wright 8%, International Harvester | orderly, have been fined $25 each |92%, Kennecott 45, New York Cen- iy city Police Court. Chester Zinn °f Oklahoma { | fatiok | dent of her class during her junior;“”’] 29%, Northern Pacific 31'%, U.|was fined $50 on a disorderly con- | The 6l-year-old minister, at-|year in the Juneau High School, is | S Steel 80%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,960,000 shares. Dow Jones averages today were 62.46; utilities, 37.89. e PROPERTY DEAL Recorded here during the past pervision, will execute terms of alas it emphasized the increased|ferring here from Roosevelt High 1ot in West Juneau by George and Franklin Street. Estimated cost is' Ellen Harju, mother, Mrs. Flossie Carr, sailed Army officials announced that eight on the Steamer North Sea enrouté men, including former Oklahoma | to Kansas, where the Tureks "“"‘CongTEssmnn Jack Nichols, have | make their future home. |been Killed in a plane crash in Eri- | Mrs. Carr, who has been a POpu- trea, Africa. Nichols was a vice lar member of the staff of B. M. president of the Transcontinental Behrends Store, did not divulge and Western Airlines. | | her plans, but may accompany her Two other T-W-A officials died in| daughter to Kansas. |the crash on Wednesday. They were ——te |A. J. Naslor and Milo H. Campkell. WERNER TO PETERSBURG | The names of the five Army crew members who also perishéd are being | Joe Werner, Regional Accountant withheld pending notification of | for the U. S. Forest Service, sailed relatives. for Petersburg last night aboard| The plane was a B-25 bomter. It the Steamer North Sea, for a trip crashed at the Asmara Airport as| of a week to 10 days. He will make it was taking off on a flight to the an audit of the Petersburg Divi- Etheplan capital of Addis Ababa. I sion office. | Nichols had been in Cairo for sev-| | RS Sl By " eral months making preparations for | DRUNK AND DISORDERLY | his air lines passenger service to! | |the Middle East. i | Edwind Kasko, Paul Bell, Virginia ! | Brown and Mrs. Chester Zinn, all | eharged with being drunk and dis- Word of Nichol's death was 're- ceived in Washington earlier in the| day by Representative Jed Johnson | - D SUPERMAN e SANTA MONICA, Calif —Survey- | One new Luiluing permit was 15- ing six grave stones overturned by | sued here during the past week by|vandals, J. C. Browder, Superin- City Engineer J. L. McNamara to tendent of the Municipal Woodlawn | W. P. Johnson, for repairs to|Cemetery, said “This must have i DEl R | | | BUILDING PERMIT 2 MEN ARE HUNTED IN SUDEN CASE California Police Aleri‘ed'— Boy Snatched from House Adds fo Big Mystery SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8—San Francisco police alerted all Cali- fornia points early today to be on the lookout for two men who may have missing Dickie tum Suden, 3, with them In a late model sedan. Inspector Joseph Donegan broad- cast the alarm after Mrs. Mildred Beer of No, 3, Pinto Avenue, Park Merced, reperie¢ a three or four- year-old boy resembling the tumt Suden child had come to her door just before midnight, and was seized some time later by two men who forced their way into her home and knocked her down. She told Donegan she heard a noise at her door and found the blue-suited youngster outside alone. She took him inside, fed him some milk and about an hour afterward called the police. Three radio squad cars’ were dis- patched immediately to Mrs. Beer's home in a new, suburban residen- tial district in Southwest San Fran- cisco. Five minutes after Donegan had received the woman's call he phoned her back to see if police cars had arrived. During that in- terval Mrs. Beer said two men came to the door, claimed they were policemen and pushed their way inside. One struck her on the forehead, knocked her down and held her while the other picked up the boy and carried him to a car parked outside. His companion joined him and the pair raced away with the lad. The driver of one of the squad | cars reported a few moments later that on his way to the Beer home he had seen two bareheaded men in a late model Hudson or Stude- baker s¢dan pull off a Park Dis- trict side road onto the Skyline Boulevard. - SHOOT DRAWS THRONG 10 ELKS' HALL Fifty-six turkey orders, a side of ham were toted home by fortunate mem- bers.cf the community that throng- ed the Elks Hall last evening for the annual Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot. M. H. Sides, chairman for the vent, today described himself as cxtremely well pleased with the way Juneau turnel out last evening for the yearly charity evemt. At the high point of the “shoot” more than 200 contestants filled the hall and many others came and went through the evening—some copping their birds right early in the doings. Winners of the “special prizes” were: Mrs, H. 1. Lucas, the bacon; Mrs. Vance Blackwell, the ham. It was reported that: “The Simpkins (George) family will—as usual—eat turkey this Thanksgiving.” EARTH SHOCKS NEW YORK, Nov, 8.—Instruments at two eastern colleges today record- ed moderately strong earthquakes about 3,000 miles southwest of New York City. At Fordham University, the shocks were set between 4:13 a, m. and 5:17 a. m., Eastern time, and at Weston College in Weston, Mass., similar emblors were recorded. A spokesman at Weston College esti- mated the center of the 'quakes as south of Mexico City, near Central | America. ——— STEAMER MOVEMENTS Steamer Princess Louise, delayed | by snow and wind storms, arrived from Skagway early this afterncon and sailed south at 3:30 o'clock. Steamer Alaska scheduled to ar- rive from the westward at 4 o'clock this afternoon and sails for Seattle at 6 o'clock this evening. Steamer Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver, November 13. Steamer Taku schedulsd to sail from Seattle Saturday, November 10. Steamer Cricket due Monday eve- The smallest weighed 600 pounds, $1,000. Hans Berg is contractor, the largest 3,000, ning from Seattle and sails Tues- day evening for Skagway.