The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 10, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,114 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1945 " PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS = —_—— ——————__} CIVIL WARFARE BREAKS OUT IN CHINA g ‘British Start Shelling, Strafing FULL SCALEU.S.TROOPS | ‘WARFAREIS WILL LEAVE BEING WAGED CHINA SOON Naval Basa Soerabaja Under Attack-Bombers, Fighters Roar Out LEIF ERICKSON Nov. 10.—Brit- engaging in full disarm resisting Commanderri Wedemeyer Makes Statement - No Move to Manchuria By SPENCER MOOSU CHUNGKING, Nov. 10.—Lt Gen{ Albert C. Wedemeyer, Commander of American forces in China, pre-| |dicted today that all United States forces in China would be out of ‘hei | country by early spring, and asserted | |flatly that the United States wou]d‘ not help China move troops into| | Manchuria i He emphatically declared at a| press conference that U. S. Forces | and 1esources were “not being em-| ployed to assist the Central Govern- | ment against dissident groups.” | Difficulties in debarkation of Chi- | Stsatha. and: Bambed no?ebNanmmlN fronps in So\'i.et-i‘ 5 secured Manchuria, he added, are| British planes, Mosquito bombers | ;¢ o.s patween the Chinese and | and Thunderbolt fighters, strafed g c... };o\"&xnmenth A and bombed the postoffice and gov- A;‘d He RAaGd: e onit he abie ) . . : , he 3 3 be able | Feien. b‘,"ld”_‘gfs m. Rooabaly and to move Chinese troops to Manchuria one Mosquito was forced down When ;.. aii. * The Chinese themselves can | da';n:esefii;mm“% said large num: 0. 1nal ‘ bers of native youths assembled in | al;l;‘l:«:\dvc(::;:;:\:d ];8 X;{’;?;({;T.Lr:;:‘ Jogjakarta, 175 miles io the south- K 5 2 ¥ west, had decided to proceed lof::‘o;)'feplanea R Soerabaja to reinforce their coun- ( v 4 v % p trymen and were rallying to the ery | he fm( s m",’m“"dm Saphp “Wpht tar Preedbin however, that the United Sorelan MiBisey Soebm‘djn of the States would continue to assist in " b the repatriati apanese said the telephone manager at Soera- [; .o 7oL, 0 ST o baja had reported that }hei natives | an» s far as the strife betw there apparently had decided to car- ¢} central Government and Communists is concerned. | Wedemeyer expressed great regret | about isolated clashes between “my | M men and dissid s,” but as- The Washington fu s s 2 i vAmorir'un.« taken the initiative. Merry - Go-Round s il b 1,000 Rabbis By DRFW PEARSON ‘plan Ma"h pvAsHINGTON -~ 4 uisn sy On Washinglon reports that Stalin suffered a se- i T vere heart attack and will have to| NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—In a dem- take things easy from now on. The ons!‘ratmn to coincide with Prime same general reports there is dis- 'V!.illlstel' Attlee’s visit, 1,000 Rabbis sension in the Red Army over Will "March on Washington” Mon- Stalin’s successor . George Al]en,idm to seek immediate admittance so-called “Mi carpet- into Palestine of 100,000 European ger” and one he men|JeWs: :Iaoi:zl to Harry Trumaxll. is re-| Rabbi Baruch Korff, advisor to Z the Hebrew Committe of National tiring from the White House. Al-| h® T f > though drawing no salary and still | 1 S"*“"f}' said between 300 ang 400 Vice President of the Home Insur- of the Rabbis would leave New York ing | City for Washington and delegations ance Company, as well as having 3 : sl | 3 { . i 7 e, | hls finger ‘in any other would come from Boston, Baltimore, pies, | o Allen held down a desk at icago By BATAVIA, Java ish Indian troops scale warfare to Indonesian Nationalists, opened an attack on Scerabaja today. British shells and bombs raked the naval base of 500,000 population. Indonesians were evacuating their families from the city Indonesian spokesmen said Brit- ish naval guns as well as land ar- tillery opened fire at 6 a. m. (6 p. m., | Friday, Eastern Standard Time) in preparation for the attack by the full Fifth Indian Infantry Division. the | (Continued on 71’age i"xlve) - e and other| 'LOST CHILDREN "INTELLECTUAL | HOUSING MJ'AI\)IAMEI)'('IE&D'I':(H OUTLOOK JAPPREMIER OPTIMISTIC OFFICIAL DIARY OF STIMSON IS WANTED IN PROBE Java Tod ATTLEEHERE COMMUNISTS, FOR ATOMIC NATIONALIST Pan - Asiatic Prop‘aganda! GI_OOMY OVER FUTUREEPearI Harbbvr'(ommineej BOMB TALKS‘FOR(ES (lASH School in Tokyo Cause of Present Trouble TOKYO, Nov. 10 - Javanese “trained in discontent” in a Japa- nese Pan-Asiatic propaganda school in Tokyo are responsible for present fighting in The Netherlands Indies, the American chief -of counter- intelligence here asserted today ir The Japanese school “left intel- lectual land mines which are going off now and will for some time to come,” said Brig. Gen. Elliot R Thorpe at a press conference In addition to Javanese, pupils to the “School for Greater East- Asia Culture” included Malayans, Chinese, Koreans, Manchurians Burmese and Filipinos, he said. The school was conducted in American- built St. Paul's University. Graduates were sent out to try to drive a wedge between the Allies by arousing native populations to revolt against colonial rule, on the theory they would inspire the pity of some Allied nations for the underdog. The general American Fami|ies Must “Double Up"* for 1946 Accommodations WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—At least 3,000,000 American families, includ- | those of 1,000,000 war veterans must “double up" with other fam- ilies in order to have living accom- | dations in 1946 That's the outlook John B. Bland- ford, Jr., National Housing Adminis- trator, gave in a letter to mayors of all cities of more than 25,000 population along with a warning of “a continued tight housing supply” next yes said about 1,000,000 families are living doubled up now and that preliminary estimates show that another 2,000,000 families must double up by Dec. 31, 1946, unless their plight can be relieved by a far greater volume of new housing than anyone considers possible.” This would be beyond a goal of 475,000 uriits hoped to be completed in 1946 - > - BULLETINS NEW YOhs ne said the program was far more successful than the Japanese realized but the results came after the war. The propaganda did not have a chance to become effective in the Philippines, Thorpe said - General of the Army Henry H. Arnold, Commander of the Army Air Forces, proposes that the world-wide facilities of the Air Transport Command of the AAF | be made “available to commercial operators.” OF LIDICE WILL BEHUNTED NOW BERLIN, Nov. 10.—The Berliner Zeitung called upon all Germans today to help trace the lost children of Lidice, who were scattered after the SS destroyed that Czechoslovak town in revenge for the death of NEW YORK-—Jerome Kern, one | of America's best known composers, continued in a “very critical” con- | dition today at Doctors’ Hospital He collapsed Monday on Park Ave. FRANKFURT, Germany Gen Eisenhower took off for Paris today on his first leg of his flight to the Shidehara B;Iieves Mac- Arthur's Methods Can End Milifarism By GLENN BABB TOKYO, Nov. 10.—Premier Kijuro Shidehara believes General MacAr- thur is moving “in a fair and ef- fective manner” to out his pr gram of ending mill ism and es- tablish democracy in Japan | Many Japanese, he added, hope the American Supreme Commander will succeed in bringing freedom, and lasting peace to Japan This 73-year-old statesman, called from a l4-year retirement to lead his conquered country through the crdeal of occupation and dictated revolutionary change, is among the few declared optimists in Japan “When w2 contemplate the Ameri- can oecupation as the result of dis- astrous dofeat, we can't help some feeling of bitten he told me. “But we can also hope it will prove 1 blessing in disguise.” “There is a terribly dark time ahead, but far in the future per- haps we can see the light and hope for better days. I'm trying to insti- gate in my people courage to face the future and now I believe there is some revival of our spirits from utter despair This defeat was a terrible calamity, but that's war. We can only hope it will prove a lesson that will lead us to a better future.” Shidehara was Ambassador to Washington in the early 1920s and then gained fame as Foreign Min- ister in a series of liberal cabinets He went into eclipse in December,| 1931, after the militarists, having be- gun the conquest of Manchuria, top- | pled the last such governments from power. He insists he and his col-| leagues were powerless to stand qainst the Army’s determination to | Asks for Day-by- Day Account WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) disclosed today he has asked counsel for the House Pearl Harbgr Inquiry Com- mittee to obtain the official diary of former Secretary of War Stimson. Ferguson told a reporter he wants to head the day-by-day account of Stimson’s official acts before he cross-examines the former cabinet member on testimony Stimson is ex- pected to give in public hearings. “I don’'t know how I could cross examine him intelligently without ln‘«vhm a chance to see such records in advance,” the Michigan Senator said He asked William D. Mitchell, the counsel, to request the War De- partment for the diary two weeks ago, but has not yet received it, Ferguson said Eenator Lucas (D-III) suggested yesterday that the committee pause to pull all “loose ends” of its inves- tigations together after it has had about a month of public hearings. Hearings begin next Thursday. .| BIG FLEET HANDED TO RUSSIANS Transfer Takes Place at Cold Bay, Alaska, Says Admiral Wood SEATTLE, Nov. 10.—Adm. Ralph| enate- | Hangman Heinrich Heydrich Czechoslovak authoritiss have pro- vided the names of 93 children dis- | persed throughout Germany after ithe Nazis slew all men of Lidice {over the age of 15 and put the women in a concentration camp, The Berliner Zeitung, organ of the Berlin’ city government, urged that the children’s names be posted in all .public buildings and that | every individual aid in the search as “a work of atonement,” with a spec- ial effort to restore them to their United States where he will testify before Congressional committees. LONDON-—Great Britain is ex- pected to announce recognition of | the Albanian government of Pre-, mier Enver Hoxha today- provided that assurances of a free election in Albania are given WASHINGTON — Senator Sher dan Downey, California, has re-| peated his request to the Army for ceize power. That was the begin-| ning of the end which led to utter|Wood. commander of the Northern catastrophe 14 years later. |Sea Frontier, disclosed to newsmen between March and September, 1945, - \ships, Mahaffay wrote. The opera- |were turned over to Russia at Cold . [dh]mlt’h fron |statf correspondent, visiting Adak. | About 15,000 Russian sailors passed [ Bay, near Kodiak, under lend-lease | threcugh Cold Bay in taking over the some official figures on how many | neyxy Monday will be a general hol-| tion, conducted in 'Aufo Thieves Had mothers for tmas. doctors are being kept in uniform.; ator Clyde Reed of Kansas, a leader | in the move to have more doctors | released from the armed forces. | Better Keep AWay = vuexsnenoanocsiion ot sens| in the press gallery for the trials| From Alaska Post of top-ranking Nazi war criminals | was made today to more than 300 | LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10.—If there is one particular place Los Angeles newspapers and news agencies rep- | automobile thieves had better avoid, ' resenting more than 30 nations. ‘ DETROIT—Ford Motor Compan_", it's the island of Attu in the Aleut-' ians. employees have voted nearly 11 to 1| From a man aboard the fleet tug {in favor of strike action to back | claims for 30 per cent wage increase. Sarsi stationed there, came a plain- ‘ tive letter today to Police Chief C. B. Horrall: “Every time we tune in on a good program, a loud husky voice breaks in on Dinah Shore’s song to report Cotle | a stolen car . Tune that police| WASHINGTON—Admiral William radio of your so . ... Man Perkins' Halsey, Jr., 63-year-old Commander third daughter can finish having her | of the Third Fleet, announces plans | baby without a riot being reported to quit sea duty on November 22| at Sixth and Main.” before his retirement mext year WINDSOR- UAW threatens work ' stoppage throughout Canada to back | two-month-cld walkout at Ford | plant here. | iday in Juneau. All Federal, Terri ed, also the Post Office. | Stores will be closed although drug stores will observe holiday hours,|Wood was quoted. “Wa assisted him | Oliver, all 230 pounds of him, has noon to 6 p. m. | Restaurants and cocktail bars will | observe their usual hours | The Empire will publish as usual. | > - | Makes Pleafor | British Unions 1 To Aid Industry LONDON, Nov. 10. - Ch'.\rl(‘fi! Dukes, Chairman of the British Trades Union Congress, asserted to- | that British unions “must have | a voice in the direction of industry at higher I2vels” in order to assure | a maximum peacetime production. | “Many of our basic industries are fusiide E that 138 United States ships, such !the Seattle Times said today in a recy, was not as minesweepers and landing craft, m Robert Mahaffay, a revealed until last September after His action was applauded by Sen-|oyia] and City offices will be clos- the war's end “The Russian group was headed by Rear Adm. Boris Popov,” Admiral in all ways possible. What differ- ence cropped up were composed eas- | ily and we had very good coopera- tion from the Russians.” Only about 15 of the three or four hundred Americans involved Russian. B o o Eight-Pound Boy for Col. Mrs. J: Roosevell LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10 Col. and Mrs. James Roosevelt are the parents of an eight-pound, 12- ounce son, born yesterday. Their first child, the boy, will be named James. Mrs. Roosevelt, the former Romelle Schneider, nursed Roosevelt during an illness spoke | Overfiiremé Made * Argentine by Soviefs SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The 11th | Naval District announces crash of | a Navy bomber 40 miles out at sea. | The Marauder exploded and crash- | ed with six trewmen. All are be- being allowed to decay and schemes in 1938. She and Roosevelt, son of put forward by employers have done the late President, were married in little to improve their position,” he | 1941 said in a speech prepared for the| Roosevelt has two daughters, 13 Trade Unions Conference. and 9, by Betty Cushing Roosevelt, s >ee — who divorced him here in 1940. the | Philadelphia, White House, . . . War Department | Z LY appeasers ares causing trouble for| Secretary Byrnes' plan to demo—;RADIO IAT cratize Japan. Last week the Army | S IoN didn’t even want to send 'to Gen. MacArthur Byrnes’ order to re-| CONIROL SOUGHT move all Jap businessmen guilty of | lords. . . . The Army also hankers | l" lEGlslAlIo", to prosecute Jap war criminals it- self. President Truman, however,| WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—Legisla- insists that one of the most out- |, providing for stricter super- standing prosecutors in the country,| vision of radio broadcasters took Joseph B. Keenan, handle the -’“b-:shape and encountered opposition cutions in Japan moves at a snail's| Ernest Adamson, counsel of the pace. Eisenhower has arrested 70- | gouse Committee investigating un- 000 Nazis, MacArthur only a couple american activities, told a reporter of hundred Japs. ! he is preparing for committee con- i * |sideration a bill specifying that: IDLE SHIPS—FRETFUL TROOPS| 1—Radio stations must clearly Congratulations to Secretary of|identify commentators, including an ting around to ascertaining how porting news or opinions. many troops can be returned on| 2—Radio stations must have a battleships. He waited a long time|legal agent in each state, so they (until after Navy Day), but now|can be prosecuted through the several battleships are being meas- courts of the state by any person ured to see how many troops they | 4 can carry. . . ..By scaling bame-} 700, they can carry about 3,000 re-| turning G.I's. . . . Use of battle-| ships ought not to be necessary,| however, if the nation’s tremendous | surplus of shipping were utilized. This now approaches scandal . . . While Seabees, Sailors, Marines, ! | metropolitan cemters. supplying munitions to the war/ . Meanwhile, war crimes prose- simyitaneously today 1 the Navy Forrestal for finally get- anrouncement whether they are re- ships’ crews from about 2500 to! Soldiers wait on island hell-holes! damaged by their broadcasts. Rep. Ellis E. Patterson (D-Calif.) promptly issued a statement term- ing the proposal “an unconstitu- tional attempt . . . to control the airways.” Adamson denied this. He said in an interview “we do not want to control or gag anyone. We just de- sire to provide for closer regula- tion of wild, irresponsible analysts| | lieved to have perished. BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 10.—The e ! Soviet Union has made “overtures”' SAN FRANCISCO — A breadless toward the establishment of diplo-| weekend is in prospect for San Fran- matic relations with Argentina, For-! cisco as the result of a wage dispute eign Minister Juan 1. Cooke says. between the AFL Bakery Wagon He said contacts had been made| Drivers and the Lagendorf Bakeries, between a representative of the Pol-| which producé 20 per cent of the | ish government and the Argentine|city’s bread supply. The drivers Ambassador in London. Iauuck after a U. S. Labor Depart- The contemporary importance of | ment conciliator failed to bring or in European ports, 55 Victory | and to make a clear distinction be- the Soviet Union makes it “advis-|agreement on the union’s demand ships have been removed - from| tiween news and prejudiced view-|able” for Argentina to maintain re-| for a 17 per cent pay raise. militarys service and switched; “ to commercial trade. These werel (Continued on Page Four) points.” birds in the world. lations with her, Cooke told a press | iconference. He added that in the| past there has been no opportunity to effect liaison. - eee - Harvard College, chartered in 1636, at Cambridge, England. HE OUGHT T0 KNOW oY e _ | PITTSBURG, Calif. — Here's one veteran who thinks a year's compul- sory military training would be good for youths. Pvt. John M. Nolan, Jr., of Cedar Lake, Ind., says: “I believe it would teach the youth to be self-reliant and teach him how to work, besides giving the nation additional protection during times |of emergency.” Nolan, 16 years old, is about to e he is underage. MRS. CADY RETURNS Mrs. Pauline Cady, of the Royal Blue Cab Company, who has been visiting for several weeks in Mon- tana, returned by PAA plane yes- terday -oo— FAIRBANKS VISITORS Billy C. Dale and L. M. Campbell have arrived from Fairbanks and are guests at the Baranof. pte AL D FROM WRANGELL Lee Barlow from Wrange:l has ar- was modeled after Emanuel College discharged from the Army because rived in Juneau and is registered at the Baranof. | Prime Minister of Britain Fighting Iakt;sPIaceAIong Arrives in Washington Great Wall-U.S. Marines for Big Conference Stall One Attack By RICHARD BERGHOLZ CHINWANGTAO, Nov. 10—Heavy fighting between Chinese Commun- ists and troops of the Central Gov- ernment broke out along the Great Wall of China north of here last night, bringing artillery and heavy mortars into play in the Chinese civil war for the first time. New clashes were reported along the main Chinwangtao-Peiping afl- road south of here, | WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 Prime | Minister Attlee arrived in Wash- |ington today for atom bomb talks with President Truman and Prime Minister Mackenzie King that may shape the world's future The British leader’s plane landed fat 9:32 a. m. (ES.T.) at the Na- | tional Airport. He left England at |1:30 p. m. (ES.T. yesterday, fly- ing by the way of Newfoundland As he stepped from the American made master® he was greeted by Secret of State Byrnes, Brit- | ish Amb dor Lord Halifax and other British and Ameriean offi- clals The talks will aboard the Yacht Potomac River. Despite speculation in Britain American Marines reported the booming of the heavy weapons could be heard throughout the night from the direction of Shamhalkwan, fort- ress city which is the eastern anchor of the Great Wall, and a key gate- way into Manchuria. Large forces of Natlonalist troops, that Generalissimo Stalin might i;"l_,dfdha{,r:";“fi";fg:;"d";‘;!w‘s take part in the meeting, both the | pefore Shankhaikwan, where Com- White House and Attlee’s office | munists of the Eighth Route Army said they knew nothing of such a|ave i control and strongly en- plan. trenched, Mr. Truman said some time ago New Clashes he would discuss atomic pmblenvs‘ The new clashes along the Chin- | first with the leaders of Britaln |wangtao-Peiping rall line where and Canada, which shared in war- south of Peitatho Junction, where time development of the bomb, and | the Nationalists have established an later with other countries. aid station to handle the wounded | Diplomatic officials said the aim!peing brought in. |of the conference, which will last| that the Communists had ambushed | several days, is to consider ways|pa Natonalist platoon and annihil- of handling the atomic bomb and | ated it, but there was no defi | policy questions cn the peaceful | confirmation hv Apsaican sources. ydevelopment of atomic energy. ! A sizeable rorce of Kuomintans | " I troops are encamped at. the junction | l d N l Fv d as a guard and & small detachment D T Marti 14 Gold Path Tougher - As 6.1.s Come Back ere wounded. DURHAHM, N. C, Nov. 10—/ e presence of the Americans, While Byron Nelson was reeling off | j,owever, prevented the Communists begin Sequoia Sunday on the Marines Nol Involved There have been no new incidents involving Marines in the past few days and no Marines have been golf victories with almost MONOL- | from carrying out an intended at- . onous regularity, some said that,|y,cx on the village of Shin-Lung, | with du> respect to the terrific| wpich is also on the railroad. | Texan, things would be different The Communists had advised the | when the stars in military service | parines of the intended attack and | came back to the tournament wars. | qoced them to pull back out of First it was slamming Sam Snead | quno0r during the fight. | who, after serving a Navy hit(‘h,‘ The Marines, assigned to guard | returned to win a handful of events| 4,1ies at a double-trestle bridge At | last wintor, breaking in on the Nel- | the village, refused to leave thelr ! son monopoly. Then Ben Hogan, re-| yocic The Communists failed o ‘l«‘znsvd by the Army, picked up the carry out the attack, which was | slack when Snead cooled off, .| aimed at a garrison of still armed Now another ex-G.I, Ed “Pork”| jonanese. e - | moved to the fore. The Wllmmgmn.1 Del, pro, was top man with a (wo- | under par 63 as the $5,000 Durham | Open moved into the second round | Bos'on Boy Geis TP — [ R s Dwight Eisenhower his heels. Back of them were seven | with par 70s, nine at 71 and 14 very | much in the running with 72, 1 It took a score of 79 or better ito stay in the fight. Thirty-six BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 10.—Last | holes tomorrow wind it up. September seven-year-old Michael | s Harting wrote to Gen. Eisenhower, pointing out that they both had the same birthday—October 14. Weeks went by, and there was no answer. But terday a letter from the JAPAN WAII F General arrived at his home, thank- OCCUPAHON END ing the youngster for what Eisen- hower led “such a nicz note.” Michael figures that the reason Underground Movement Is (i, v umeching o s sz 1o Not Making Much Headway Yet roxvo, xor w-wea wen OCCUDANiON Forces the General. As Michael puts it: ‘T wrote a little uphill.” e . Asia is that there are signs of an| underground developing in Japan. | S‘heduhd 'o lea'e ’ et P4 e e (1@ChOSloVakia Soon intelligencse for Gen. MacArthur. e |not been able to make much of ed to the Provisional Parliament what sentiment there is for the today that Russian and American in Japan is that subversive ele-| He indicated the Russian and ments hope the Americans will get | American governments had reached This news comes from Radio Cor- | respondent Bill Downs who quot Howeyv Thorpe asserts that| PpRAGUE, Nov. 9.—(Delayed) — Japanese die-hards so far have premier Zdenek Fierlinger announc- underground movement. The gen-|occupation troops will leave Czecho- eral adds that one reason it’s quiet slovakia “in & short time.” tired of the occupation and go an agreement to withdraw simul- heme, taneously. It was reported * ship was something of a puzzle to .