The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 9, 1945, Page 1

LY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,113 : CHINA NATIONALISTS LINE UP FOR FIGHT British Demand Indonesians Surrender Now —_— | ULTIMATUM 100°%RAISE DOOUTILEURGES ~ GEN.ESENHOWER BIG WALKOUT Draft Violations Being (GOVT.FORCES THREATENED IN CANADA DELIVERED 0 JAVIANS Told to Lay Down Arms Be- for 6 A. M. Saturday ~Tense Situation By RALPH MORTON BATAVIA, Nov. 9.—British planes dropped leaflets on Indonesian forces at Socrabaja today calling for their unconditional surrender—a move which may signal a general uprising by well-drilled, Japanese-trained Nationalists throughout the entire island of Java The ultimatum ordered the Na- ticnalists to lay down their arms be- fore 6 a. m. tomorrow. Issued in the name of Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Christison, Allied commander in the * Netherlands East Indies, the leaflets said the order would be backed up by the use of all Naval, Army and Air Forces under his command. Tense Situation An explosive tension gripped all Java. A British army official ad- mitted the situation at Soerabaja was critical. He announced that more troops of the Fifth Indian Division arrived there yesterday, and unoffi- cially it was learned that 4,000 Dutch treops would land in Batavia tomor- TOW. | Christison pointed out carefully| that the Soerabaja situation was different from that existing else-| where on the island, and that the: gxtremists at Soerabaja who were| guilty of attacks on the British) would be punished (Continued afi P;gé Five) The ‘;Ii;;flingtoni Merry - Go- Round i By DRFW PEARSON | SWARTHMORE, Penn. — It's a| sure sign of age when you revisit} the haunts of your hoyhood. But I have been doing just that, and having a glorious time. I have been re-examining every | tree where I ever carved my in-| itials, every bush where I found a| bird-nest, the old grapevine where| we swung out. over Crum Creek, the little stream where we used to catch garter snakes to bring out of | shoe boxes during dull moments in| Sunday School. Some of the trees are gone now,, and I couldn’t find my initials on| those which remained. And Doggie ! stream, where we caught snakes, is| now lined with lovely lawns sloping down from affluent houses with duck ponds and white paintéd! fences, where there used to be| thickets so dense and wild that I once found a lot of silver plate hidden in a hollow log, apparently by a burglar who hadn’t had time to get away with his loot. Ogden’s spring house, where Doggie Stream- begins, and where we used to catch frogs and pick ! water-cress, was locked today—the first time I have seen it locked in 30 years. And the watering trough {men whose families cling to the fu-|that Generalissimo SINGLE DEPT. OF T0 BE SUCCESSOR IN FREIGHT "NaTioNAL DEFENSE TO GEN. MARSHALL| RATES SEEN?WanIs Air Power on Par F European Commander fo | with Army, Navy and i Return fo U. S. fo Be arifime Commission fo, Under One Head Chief, Army Staff | Hold H&afing on Alas- ‘ WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—Lt. Gen I ‘ | By WES GALLAGHER James H. Doolittle gave Congress FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. kan Rate Structure |& ek toaay at what the Army air WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Govern- | —Gen. Eisenhower will return to Forces want in peacetime. the United States within a few! A force of 400,000 officers days to confer with government| ment shipping experts figure that| men, backed by a reserve of 1- officials in Washington, his head- Alaska shipping rates may be up to ' 000,000. quarters announced today. 100 per cent above prewar schedules,| But an administration proposal Delegate Bartlett (D-Aalaska) said to build up a reserve for the armed today. forces through a year's military The War Shipping Administration training for America’s young men has ordered hearings into the €n- yas in trouble in the House Mili- tire Alaska water rate structure in tary Committee. Opponents tem- Seattle, probably late this month, he porarily have disrupted hearings announced. The maritime commis- which began only yesterday. sion will conduct the hearings. Doclittle talked to the Senate The inquiry is necessary, Bartlett Military Committee. He spoke up because WSA operation of all ro,. 5 “gingle department of Na- a carriers is expected to With= tiona) Defense in which air power draw within a few months. would be on a par with the Army “This poses a problem of extreme .4 nayy urgency for all the people of the! “rmyiq i needed, he said, because: Territory,” Bartlett said in a state-| ,poneq's military planes of the ment. sovernment sources state| oo " ool pe able to go to any that, despite the surc‘hargc.; still in part of the world and return. effect, very large deficits are being incurred. I am told this has run| into millions of dollars in 1945." | He asserted that if marine ra(cs‘TAx must be established at “fantastically | high levels, we might as well forget | talking about Alaska as a land of o IHERE MONDAY2 opportunity for the returning veter- J‘ | | It will be an opportunity forr [ ] | I M and ficers here s Eisenhower is ex- farewell to his ccmmand in Ger- many and Austria and then return to Washington to become Chief of Staff of the Army, succeeding Gen.| George C. Marshall. Gen. Marshall reached the retire-| ment age of 64 last Dec. 31 and| is known to have expressed desires, to retite around his sixty staff predates the outbreak of war lon Sept. 1, 1939. Rumors have been current since September that Gen Eisenhower would succeed him. an. no one.” waows sooms; EFFECTIVE IS FORECAST tile and tormented hopes. % : “ They lie, these men, beneath shal- and Attlee, said tomg_ht As far as| low mounds along the deathtrapf” know here lh‘ere is nothing in| hedgerows of Normandy, beside wood | that repert at all. | i Juneau's storekeepers expect to be | IN IHOUSANDS oF WASHINGTON, Nov. 9-The first |right busy people tomorrow—but, | tax reduction bill approved by Con- | that's all right, they'll have Sunday; E R A v E s | gress in 16 years now has becOmefand Monday to rest up from the Sat- NA E S P |law by virtue of President Tru- |urday splurge when local houscwivcsi L ‘man's signature. !lay in supplies for the two-day week | . g . | The bill signed by Mr. Truman end. Army Registration Service| reueves some 12000000 Americans | Stores. banks, business and ail A . | of the burden of paying any income | varieties of government offices will, IS solvmg R|dd|e of |tax at all next year. | be locked up on Monday, when Ar-| | Cuts of 10 per cent or more are |Mmistice Day is observed. Hotels and | Anonvmous Dead |granted higher - salaried persons restaurants will be operating as us- | 4 who earn up to $50,000 annually. ‘ual, but ‘bur.», liquor stores and drug PARIS, Nov. 9—The U. S. Army! The new law wipes out the $5 use ‘;t:res .»:'m be .kliegl‘nt! hull;lay hours. is pressing a determined search to| tax on automobiles and boats. And |~ ‘;iz&f Will be open ‘from noon recover and identify the bodies of | business is getting a three billion- | (i L‘ | 22000 unknown American soldiers|dollar Christmas present with re-| who lie in nameless graves between | peal of the excess profits tax. | pERM"S ISSUED the “littered beaches of Normandy | e | and the wreckage of Berlin. { As Armistice Day drews near and | IHAI BIG IHREE JUNEAU pRoJE(ISi scldiers and civilians prepare to do! homage to America’s war dead, men | TEg of v.h%e U. S. Graves Registration CONFEREN(E up | SEATTLE,; Nav. .0—Fermiits /s Service are redoubling their efforts sued by the Seattle District En- to solve the riddles of the fighting| IN AIR REPORI‘K""C"'S office, as announced today, | men who died in anonymity. 1] included: There can be no higher honor o | Bristol Bay Packing Co—Can- paid, they feel, than to give name! LONDON, Nov. 9—A spokesman' nery structures, Kvichak Bay. to the nameless and write the tragic |at Prime Minister Attlee’s residence,| Mrs. Henry Seaberg—Rock fill | ending to the military histories Oficommenting on published reports | and building, Gastineau Channel. Stalin might| William Cleveland — Addition to |Join the talks of President Truman | residence, tidelands, Sitka Harbor. Alaska Glacier Sea Foods Co.— Wharf extension, Wrangell Nar- rows, Petersburg. | Dean H. Goodwin |pected further Labor Alertedifor Domin- ion-wide Demonstra- tion Within 48 Hours | WINDSOR, Ont., Nov. 9.—An es- | timated 330,000 members of the Can- | adian Labor Congress were alerted | unless the Ford Motor Co., of Can-| The deadline was set by Congress | officials as Canadian Labor Minis- ter Humphrey Mitchell said he ex- word today from Henry Ford II, with whom he con-| ferred Thursday in Detroit. | He did not disclose the results of to met again with officialse of MARKED GRAVES e OSED CITY OF 14 AMERICAN ALASKA HiGHWAY FLIERS LOCATED | Were Shot Down Over Osaka During Raid-Tak- | en Prisoners, Executed | | TOKYO, Nov. 9—The crudely-, marked graves of 14 executed B-29 | fliers, hidden in undergrowth, havel been discovered in Osaka, the U. S. | Sixth Army disclosed today. Nine of the 14 have been identi- fied gentatively by means of names cut on pieces of plank stuck into the graves but they are being with- held until next of kin have been notified. The grim discovery resulted from a letter sent Gen. MacArthur's headquarters by a Korean who told of 18 fliers being shot down June 5-6 during a raid on Osaka. The 18 were brought in as pris- oners and held in the basement of the prefecture building where two died a few days later from wounds. - A WAR REPARATIONS | COMMISSION MEN | | FLYING TO TOKYC SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9—Edwin | W. Pauley, U. S. representative on the War Reparations Commission, is enroute by plane to Tokyo to- day, convinced of two things——that Japanese economy must be reduced | (which planned the |land streams of the Marne where |their fathers fell before them, in the still forests of Hills where the snows that covered warm bodies will fall again soon. In other theatres there are other | thousands—among the minefields of Anzio and the raw crags of the Ap- penines in Italy; on shrapnel-laced the Ardennes| NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—On Wednes- | ay, reporters asked Eben Ayers, as- | sistant White House Press Secretary, about reports that Stalin is or hasj been in the United States. “If it is so, Ayers replied, “we know nothing about it. The President | has no knowledge of it.” e — Seaplane hangar 2% miles north of Juneau. Ketchikan Cold Storage Co. — Wharf extension, Tongass Narrows. ->>e - Methodist Church outside, where horses stopped for Pacific Islands and in green Bur- a' drink going into town, has dis-"mese jungles. : appeared. Nearly half of the unidentified The dirt road which used to be a |dead in the European theatre flew sea of mud beside the spring, is|with the USAAF in planes that nev- now macadamized, and all the er returned. stone carriage houses, where those| Identified or not, each body is re- | who could afford them Kkept their moved to one of the 37 permanent horses, have been turned into|U. S. Military cemeteries in the Eu- | garages or modernized apartments, ropean theatre. So careful has been ok % |the identification check that there SKUNKS IN WASHINGTON |are only 3,362 unidentified dead in I walked on, beyond the spring, the cemeteries at present, in addi- beyond the row pasture on the edge |tion to the 22,000 unlocated dead. of Baltimore Pike, now studded| i | with prim and proper houses, on | ENGINEER LEAVES | | “could be completed in less than 10| Conference. - | Swalloped Up by | Sergeant “(rashes™ = Modernism, Claim Receptionfo Zhukov, .oicxe rom wor o e | testing that the “Methodist Church BERLIN, Nov. 9—An American|has been swallowed up by mod- Staff Sergeant who “crashed” Mar- | ernism,” Dr. J. H. Hamblen, a shal G. K. Zhukov's reception Wed- ‘( Methodist pastor for 40 years, was nesday night quoted the Russian granted his request yesterday to military leader today as saying the ' withdraw from the denomination Allied occupation of Germany|by the Northwest Texas Methodist i years if the operative.” Germans are co-| He told the conference that he ‘was not making the request be- to a bare minimum, and Russia is entitled to little if any indemnity for ibs' part in the Pacific war. * He and his newly announced special assistant, U. S. District | Judge Pierson M. Hall, of Los Angeles, began their flight to the| Far East here last night. | Pauley said he is anxious to get' to Manchuria “as fast as I can”| to investigate reports that Russia had been removing industrial ma- chinery from that area. | The United States policy, he as- serted, .is to leave Japanese assets| intact im Manchuria and China,| where they will be considered pflrz‘,’ of the reparation payment to the Chinese. —eee Servicemen in Jap Invesfigated; Many (ases | | | | . In Alaska Get Atfention Kisses for Rent Doesn't Go With One Landlady CHICAGO, Nov. 9.—Mrs. Cele Sie- gel, 31, complained to Municipal Judge Leon Edelman yesterday about After the Washington trip, of-|today for a Dominion-wide walkout g couple of men tenants who tried to stall off paying their rent by pected to return to Europe to say|ada strike here is settled “within yissing her. 148 hou She doesn't like such goings on, Mrs. Siegel said, and especially she didn't like the five kisses she said Walter Mack, 42, stole when she went to collect room rent. Another tenant who kissed her in lieu of rent payment was evicted, Mrs. Siegel told the court. Judge iftn | Dis conference with Ford, nor did Edelman, fining Mack $2 for cach birthday. His tenure as chief of |D® indicate whether he is prepared of the. five stolen kisses, told him if he didn't behave he would order | striking Local 200 of the UAW-CIO. | him to vacate his room. Mack ad- mitted the charges of disorderly con- duct. SSRGS 10 BE DISCUSSED IN WASHINGTON Canadian Prime Minister to Talk Over Route with Truman, Magnuson WASHINGTON, iNuv. 9 — The Alaska Highway may be discussed with Canada’s Premier Mackenzie King during his visit next week. Senator Magnuson (D-Wash), told a reporter he has an appoint- ment with President Truman next week to discuss the proposed in- land route and will endeavor to talk it over with Premier King at the same time. Magnuson has proposed that the State Department and the Tana- dian Premier each appoint two representatives to discuss procedure leading to an agreement between the two countries for construction and maintenance of t¢he route, which would utilize part of the Army’s Alcan Highway. He said Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson informed him today the State Department has requested information on the route which Magnuson recently sypplied to the President, and indicated the de- partment was ready to take some action. Magnuson was chairman of the old Alaska Highway Commission inland route before the war. i oo 'Former German Field Marshal ’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—The FBI| has investigated 525,756 World War |11 draft violations, involving enough | |men to fill more than 30 infantry divisions—and new cases are being |opened daily. | Investigations during the past five years resulted in 12,789 con- victions. $entences imposed to date total more than 34,000 years, with| fines of $1,089,181. On Sept. 30, the | FBI had 15,727 pending draft de- linquency cases. On Nov. 11, 1918, there were 295,184, | Included in the list of investi-| gations, the FBI reported, were 855 cases handled by the Anchorage Alaska, bureau. Only five ended in convictions while 850 cases were ! closed after the subjects complied | with the law by registering or enter- | ing the Armed Forces. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, in | an interview outlining the FBI's cur- | rent policy in enforcing the Selective | Service Act, said that there had| been no reduction in the intensity |of Selective Service investigations. “New cases on registrants who have not reached their 26th birthday are | being opened daily and investigations are being pressed.” | | Violation Is Felony | | Violation of Selective Service laws now is a felony and the maximum penalty is five years in prison and a fine of $10,000. | Many persons with no intention of evading military service technically violated the Selective Service act. In such cascs the FBI hustled the registrant to an induction’ center and no charges were preferred. In 1942 the Unalaska, Board ask- ed the FBI to locate a registrant. The FBI found him-—although he had sailed to the South Seas, across the South Pacific to Chile and fin- ally to Panama. There he was ar- rested. The registrant contended | that when he left the United States| men of his age were not being draft- ed. He was accepted by the Navy and the complaint dropped. Hides Behind Skirts What the FBI calls “aggravated cases,” Involving deliberate efforts to escape the draft, were another story. Hoover cited the case of a New York registrant who literally hid behind his wife’s skirts. After changing his name five times and living at a half dozen addresses,| he was arrested crouching behind his wife’s dresses in a bedroom closet. Some investigations turned up—-' not draft dodgers—but women. A/ 35-year-old Texas ditch digger failed to report for induction. “He” was located in Phoenix, Arizona., sent to an induction center and rejected —as a woman. Reparation Talks - Starled in Paris | PARIS, Nov. 9—Representatives fof 17 Allied nations convened here |today for a conference which will divide up the still unknown total of reparations to be exacted from German zones western now Dies; I!e Was 95 LUENEBURG, Germany, Nov. 9— German Field Marshal August von Mackensen, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and a commander on the Eastern Front in the First World War, died at his estate near Celle last night. He would have been 96 years old Dec. 6. | The Marshal once was a colonel of the famous “Death’s Head Hus- sars,” a close friend and military adviser of Kaiser Wilhelm and one of the foremost cavalry lead-, , the under control of Britain, France and the United States. The Soviet Union is not repre- sented. Under the terms of an agreement made at Potsdam, 25 per cent of the total reparations levied on the zone will automatical- ly go to Russia and the other na- tions divide the remainder. NOW YOU SEEIT, - NOW YOU DON'T PUT ASHORE FOR BATTLE Communists Well Dug-in Along Great Wall . Ready to Fight CHINWANGTAO, Nov. 9.—Chin- ese Nationalist troops transported in American ships have landed at this northeast Hopeh Province port and taken up positions facing Commun- ist forces along the Great Wall. The elements of two Chinese Na- tionalist armies, the thirteenth and the 52nd—were put ashore by Unit- ed States amphiblous forces under Vice Adm. Daniel Barbey. At first the Chinees trocvs crowd- ed into this relatively small harbor city and milled about doing nothing before they spread out toward the Great Wall of China — and the strong forces of the Communist Eighth Route Army along it. Now there are thousands of Na- tionalist troops lined up south of Shanaiwan (Linyu), the ancient city which forms a part of the Great Wall and its Gulf of Chihli anchor Jjust north of Chinwangtao. From all indications the Commun- ists are well dug in both in and around Shanhaiwan and are suf- ficlently mobile to swing in either direction to combat any forced en- try into Manchurla along that sec- tor. INTERVENTION CHARGES CHUNGKING, Nov. 9—Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, just returned to his China command from Wash- ington, found himself involved today in a long range controversy with Communist leaders, who renewed charges of U.:S. intervention in China’s civil war. Wedemeyer denied intervention, but asid his troops had been caught in minor skirmishes. Simultaneously, representatives of the Chinese Government and the Communists reported some progress as they resumed negotiations on a four-point peace program. The Red spokesman sald the chief obstacle was a demand that National troops be withdrawn immediately from all Communist-liberated areas. The Communist New China Daily News, while specifying that the lat- est asserted U, 8. intervention had been bloodless, charged that Am- jerican troops and armored vehicles spearheaded the Nationalists' cap- ture of a rallroad station and a village. Wedemver, in Shanghal. told As- sociated Press Correspondent’ Rich- ard Cushing that American troops definitely were not provoking trouble but said they had been drawn into i minor skirmishes. PERARGE 0S5 SRR, ATTLEE COMING T0 U. §.; TALKS ON WORLD PEACE LONDON, Nov. 8 —Prime Minister Attlee, speaking a few hours before he was scheduled to board a trans- Atlantic plane for the United States | today, declared that in the face of such a danger as the atomic bomb “one cannot conceive of any exten- sion of territory or any jrandicse dream of domination which has the slightest value." Unless new human relationships are devised between peoples, “de- struction on an unbelievable scale might fall upon our civilization,” the Prime Minister said in a speech at the Lord Mayor's luncheon. “We have to get together with all the nations to consider how we can live together in peace. The Sergeant, cause he is out of harmony with out to Lownes’ Run and the open | Land Geiting Mail lers in German military history. fields and woods where we used to| hunt. There, under a ledge of the stream, I found the same spot where once we had caught a mink. A mink caught within 11 miles of Philadelphia. It is hard to be- lieve, but there, one day in| February, we found the bank of| the stream literally chewed to| pieces where the mink, caught in| (Continued on Page Four) | Nov. 20 Harold Kempner Regional Engineer A. E. Glover, of Philadelphia, is a reporter ror‘the doctrines of the church, but for Ketchikan on the Steamer | “Grooper,” the weekly newsmaga- | because “the Methodist Church has Princess Louise. He will be engeged | zine of the American Military Gov- | been swallowed up by modernism, Princess Louise. He will be engager | ernment. Kempner had no invita- | its literature tainted and the effect there on road plans for next spring | tion to Zhukov's party, at which|of this tedching is lack of the! and expects to return here about|Gen. Eisenhower was the ranking|spiritual power of the church.” guest. i T Tl | e | FROM SKAGWAY PATRICIA DANIELS HERE { | Mrs. Malcolm Moe and Mrs. G.| Patricia Daniels arrived in Ju-|L. Budd and child have arrived | neau from Hoonah and is registered | from Skagway and are guests at 'at the Baranof, ‘the Baranof, . — e NAVY OFFICER HERE | Lt. Comdr. V. S. Carrier, USNR, | has arrived in Juneau from his| post at Sitka. He is enroute to Kodiak. YOKOHAMA, Nov. 9—Letters for | servicemen stationed in northern | Japan are reaching the Seventh | Base postoffice in Yokohama at| the rate of 70,000 a day. Fourteen entered an apartment from which 53Ty of the Cushing General Hos- officers and 435 enlisted men are|loud screams and cries were issuing. Pital's Mess Department. .employed to distribute this mail. | Letters from the United States and shook him out of his night- tained 90 pounds of sugar, 40 pounds are arriving in Japan within eight to 10 days, but packages are re- quiring from 30 to 90 days to reach their destination. BED-FOXHOLE PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 9.—Police They found a veteran asleep in bed mare. He looked around, bewilderfed. “Am I in bed?” he asked. “I thought it was a foxhole.” | FARMINGHAM, Mass., Nov. 9.—A |650-pound fruit cake disappeared like magic when 3,000 patients and personnel piled into it last night in observance of the second anniver- The cake, bearing two candle, con- | lof shortening, 55 dozen eggs, 10| 'quarts of milk, 80 pounds of flour, 60 pounds of powdered sugar and 80 pounds of prepared fruit, “My principal purpose in visiting President Truman is to discuss with him and with Mr. Mackenzie King (Prime Minister of Canada) worlc affairs in the light—the terrible light—of the discovery of atomic energy,” Attlee explained. B JOE T. KNAPP HERE Joe T. Knapp, resident of White- horse, Y. T., has arrived here and is a guest at the Baranof.