The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1945, Page 1

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LXVL, NO. 10,117 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1945 MEMBER AS m()( IATE 1) PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — R e = -, —_—— | FURIOUS FIGHTING RAGES AT JAVA BASE ‘Chinese Forces Land At Tsingtao Unopposed Alaska Roil Chisf | JADS MAKE ALASKA MAY 2 Americans Are Burned TROOPS POUR OFF SHIPS AT TROUBLE PORT JEWISH STRIKE STARTED . | | | APPEALFOR SAILNORTH FOOD, FUEL ON SATURDAY Alive by Japs; Inhuman Bayonefings Revealed of nll\fl bayonet killings and Twelve Hdur Demonstra-‘ tion Against Britain’s Proposals Underway American M_é‘rTnes ‘May Be| Released from Coop- | ed Up Positions Promise to Pay in Insfall- All Other Vessels of Alaska [,,?’:,“,‘.‘.,’,fim”.?.‘.,(.1.1';?;‘?.“‘21“’53,"‘.’5 ithing oY stotlthna: tholghals ‘the] BRITISH IN ROUND-UP OF INDONESIANS Two Japanese Command- By RICHARD BERGHOLZ TSINGTAO, Nov. 14—Thousands | of American-trained and equipped Chinese Nationalist troops are landing unopposed today from U. S.| transports at this North China city, occupied Oct. 11 by American Ma- rines who since have been cooped up by the presence of Chinese Communists nearby. Whether the Marines will be pulled out of their lone foothold | on Shantung Peninsula, reportedly dominated by the Reds, was not made known. The Leathernecks, of | Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr.’s Sixth Division, have Qeen limited | to garrison duty since acceptmg‘ surrender of more than 10,000, Japanese. | Some of those Japanese, allowed to retain arms, stand guard over Tsingtao industries which include nine large cotton mills. Many Japa- | nese civilians are keeping the fac- tories open. Port Is Ringed | Chinese Red troops ring -the port by land. On the peninsula’s tip, the strategic ports of Chefoo and Weihaiwei are in Communist hands. American warships were an- chored off those two ports for sev- eral weeks but no Americans or) Nationalists were landed. ¢ (American officials in denying repeated charges of the Com- munists that the United States/ is “intervening” in China's unde- clared civil war have emphasized | the primary mission was to re-| patriate the Japanese.) The Tsingtao landings, by mxuor‘ elements of the Chinese Eighth! Army, nearly 300 miles south of (Continued on Page Siz) > < " The Washlngion’ Merry-Go-Round| By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Ernie Pyle nnd Heywood Broun were two great reperters who championed the, cause of the under-dog. After they died two ships were named for them. But those ships have not been permitted to live up to the| tradition of their sponsors. | Last month, troop-carrier Ernie| Pyle lay in San Francisco Harbor| absolutely idle for three weeks before sailing out for a new load| of returning GI/s. The lay-over was not made necessary by re- pairs or any other unavoidable factor. The case of the S. S. Heywood | Broun was worse. Arriving in Naples in September, Army repre-| sentative came aboard to ask how many men the ship could carry home. The steward, who is the chief man to decide because he has to feed them, estimated that he could carry 200 men by using only his present dining room facilities. But by putting field kitchens in the hold and letting nen sleep any- where, he estimated, he could carry between 700 and 800. After receiving this report, how- ever, the Army gave the 8. 8. Hey-! wood Broun exactly 38 soldiers to carry home. (Note—During the war, troops!| were necessarily crammed and jammed aboard vessels. They were | even loaded aboard above live am- | munition. In at least two cases, ships carrying live ammunition ex- ploded, with about 2,000 killed.| Now, with no ammunition, the| War Department suddenly has be- | come solicitous about crowding men, | even into empty ships). * % ® BOWLES HOLDS INFLATION FLOOD OPAdministrater Chester Bowles (Continued on Page Four) | I towns during 1 about | forthcoming Anglo-American-Cana- BULLETIN — JERUSALEM, Nov. 14.—Several hundred Jew- ish youths stoned bus drivers today in protest against con- tinued operations of their ve- hicles during a 12-hour general strike cailed by Jews at noon. The strike is a protest to new British proposals for settling the Palestine preblem. The stone-throwing was the only incident immediatley re- ported. JERUSALEM, Nov. 14—A 12-hour general Jewish strike in protest to new British proposals for settling the Palestine’ problem started at noon teday without incident. All Jewish shops, restaurants, work shops and factories were closed and Jewish-operated buses and taxis | stopped Jewish workers in essential ser- vices were requested to continue work in military camps, hospitals, | postoffices, telegraph and broadcast ing stations as well as at the El! Aviv Harbor, ip to arrive since 1940 began dis- charging merchandise. The people of wer studying British Foreign ‘ie(n*- tary Ernest Bevin'’s statement. number of mass meeting demonstra-~ | tions were planned in Palestine the afternoon. There was widespread throughout Palestine to the state- | eagerly Ernest Bevin that Britain and the United States jointly would attempt | to solve the problem, and to his in-| timation that eventually Palestin would be placed under a trusteeship. | Britain at present governs Palestine {under a League of Nations mandate. | The Jewest elected assembly, made jup of representatives of all Pales- | | tine political parties, will meet Nov. 119 in Jerusalem to discuss the Brit- | ish statement — e INTERNMIONM - ATOMICCONTROL - MAY YET RESULT Exchange' of Reassurances| Between Russia and Allies Sought WASHINGTC;:‘JOV. officials involved in the atomic bomb talks here indicated today they are largely ,concerned now Russia’s reaction to the dian proposal for controlling atomic ! force. There is strong evidence recently available from British authorities that President Truman, Prime Min- ister Attlee and Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada will seek particularly in their com- munique plans for international atomic controls to reassure Russia. This may be done by offering to share scientific knowledge- of atomic power fully with the Soviet Union and other countries. Indications are that at the same time Russia will be invited to re- assure the Western Allies about her policies and intentions by agreeing | to toss her scientific information in the contemplated pool and, pos- sibly, by her long-range territorial and po- litical aims. - - BUILDING PERMIT A single building permit was is-| |sued here during the past week by City Engineer J. L. McNamara, to Kenneth Trafton, for remodeling a garage into a house, estimated cost $1,000. The property is located on Seventh Street, between Main and Seward. where the first cnrflu‘ objection | 14—Allied | giving some evidence of COLONEL John P. Johnson (above), | Topeka, Kan,, of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps, has been ap- pointed general manager of the Alaskan Railroad by Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Johnson suc- ceeds Col. O. F. Ohlson, who has managed the 500-mile government line since 1928. (Intcrnational) ‘Induslry Plans To Lay Card On Table, Face Up iExpecied Statement May| Be Made Today or To- | morrow, Many Issues WASHINGTON, Nov. table—face up—on every big issue | |confrenting the administration? sponsored labor-management con- | ference now underway here. The statement of industry’s position | may be made today, or The conference now is in its tenth day. And industry spokesmen | }su\ they are making this move to | speed things up a little. Virtually the entire 18-member industry | delegation worked through night in preparing the statement. | Spokesmen say it will deal with \uullectivc bargaining, observance of contracts, jurisdictional disputes und other ‘confewnce agenda. The hope of the management 14- m(lnxtly] ment of British Foreign Secretary. s planning to lay its cards on the | tomorrow. the | important issues on the| ments fo Stave Off Famine 14 Nov. Desperately- hungry Japan appealed officially ' today for Allied food and fuel, promising to pay—in installments— by shipments of gold, diamonds, silk and other goods. Gen. MacArthur's headquarters reported that it was not ready to indicate what the Allied answer might be. Japanese Minister of Commerce Sankure Ogasa! nounced the formal applic the imports—mostly from America —to stave off threatening famine. He made it clear that Japan's al- ternatives are simple: Barter or die. Lt. "Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger meanwhile reported that occupation forces in Japan and Korea are near their peak and soon will de- clinee from their present 460,000. He did not say, however, how soon the U might reach the minimum 200,000 which Mac. hur has indicated will, by next spring, be adequate Reparations Studied While American reparations rep- resentatives deliberated the pri Japan must pay for her war of ag- gression, Japan up their own reparations commis- sion to study the problem, Kyodo news agency said. Experts from the ministries of finance, foreign com- ne merce and industry, agriculture and | lagent, said there are overtime ad- ! justments to forestry, and transportation expected to be included. Ogasawara, in announcing Japan's fapplication for U. S. Imports, ac- knowledged that Nippon's trade { presently in a state of suspension | but added that he lm])ed the U. are ‘mn again become “Japan’s be \Lus(omm %5 Japan asks to import 3,000,000 ‘ti)na of food, 1,000,000 tons of salt, |and smaller amounts of cotton, copra, coal, iron ore and non-fer- |rous metals. [ - B.(. Volcano . Reportto Be | delegation in presenting their brief | {is this: They'll give labor | thing specific to shoot at so that| the conference can get down lactual disc | labor strife. Collective Bargaining . . But perhaps more important ;mdusm 's plan to abandon its so- called onlooker role ‘with respect to! the controversial resolution on col- lective bargaining and wages of-| fered a week ago by CIO President Phil Murray. That proposal calls for the conference to endorse gen- erally collective bargaining within the framework of President Tru- {man’s appeal two weeks ago for | wage boosts. Mr. Truman said at, the time such increases could be granted generally without lifting the ceilings on prices. Although management has taken no official position on the Murray | resolution, several delegates have let it be known that they do not | consider that wages come within | the scope of the present conference. | { Steel's Rejection ! But even as managemnient was 1Cmmnuad on Pwe Five) Are { f | "Neo-FasqsIs | ROME, Nov. 14—A police round- up of so-called “Neo-Fascists” ac- cused of trying to form an under- ground organization was extended | teday to Turin, Milan and Genoa. A number of men, women and |‘youths allegedly implicated in under- ground operations were arrested in the three northern cigjes as addition- al arrests in Rome increased the tetal jailed heres to more than 20 some- | to; sions of remedies for| (of mines at Nelson, B. C., has been Rounded Up in Hfaly | VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 14—H. C. | Hughes, British Columbia inspector | instructed to leave immediately for | Sheep Creek village in the Koote- \nay area to investigate reports of 1an active volcano in the district, r. J. F. Walker, deputy minister of mines, has announced. Sheep Creek is about 30 miles northeast loi Nelson. Dr. Walker said that while the Provincial Department of Mines Ihad not been notified of rumblings iand flowing lava near the village, the reports are “most interesting” and will be investigated. (Residents of the Sheep Creek area reported a rumbling sound like | thunder and a red glow appearing ', | to the | tains). (Ted Baker, Sheep Creek resident, ‘aand lava has been seen flowing | | down the mountain side and cattle | {refused to drink from Sheep Creek ! because of the presence of vol- canic ash). northeast over the mourn- -, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 14 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine :‘st.ock tbday was 8%, American Can 102, Anaconda 40, Curtiss:Wright 8 International Harvester 92, Kenne- cott 45%, New York Central 29 Northern Pacific 31, U. S. Steel 79, Pound $4.03':. Sales today were 1,610,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages were as fol- lows: Industrials, 189.77; rails, 62: utilities, 38.06. r tatives of e prepared to set, Jand the Sailors Union of the Steamship Line Are Tied Up in Seattle SEATTLE, Nn\ l«l*“’llh the ar- rival today of the Steamship De- nali from Southeast and Southwest Alaska, with 34 sengers, in- cluding 80 Army personnel, the en- tire passenger fleet of the Alaska Steamship Company was in port and, with the possible eption of one v 1, facing an indefinite tie- up. Company officials and represen- the Marine Cooks and Stewards Association said that-the dispute, involving a meeting place aboard the ships for crew members during voyages and other demands was hopel y deadlocked. The only vessel expected to sail the Steamship Alaska, which said to have available space for crew meetings. The Alaska’s crew was expected to sign on late today we The vessel is scheduled to sall for Southeast and Southwest Alaska at 10 a. m. Saturday Meanwhile, the Steamships Yukon, Baranof, Columbia and Aleutian are awaiting the outcome of the dispute. The latter js at Todd Shipyards, undergoing repairs. Sailing of the Baranof, posted to depart tomorrow for Southeast and Southwest Alaska, has been can- celled. The Yukon was tied up last Wednesday. Joseph Harris, union business be made before the Yukon sails. The demands have been referred to the Pacific Coast Port Committee in San Francisco, Involved in a dispute between the Northland Transportation Company Pa- cific, the Motorship Northland has been tied up in Seattle since Oct. 22. Demands that the crew quarters aboard the vessel be enlarged have been refused by the company. SEATTLE-1ACOMA AERIAL GATEWAY GETS ENDORSED |San Francisco Bay Area Investigated Aviation Committee Takes Action SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14.—Es- tablishment of a Seattle-Tacoma aerial gateway to the Orient has been endorsed by the San Francisco Bay area aviation committee, the group said yesterday. The commit- tee is composed of representatives of 18 Chambers of Commerce in the Bay area, and of industry and mili- tary services. The committee adopted a resolu-‘ tion urging the Civil Aeronautics Board to approve the Seattle-Tacoma air route. A statement from the group said: | “This point of origination, if ap- proved by the CAB, would supple- ment San Francisco-Los Angeles and Chicago-New York gateways to Alaska, Australia and Orient.” | At the same time the committee reiterated its stand in favor of! western representation on the CAB! asking specifically that the new ap- pointee be selected from the Pacific Coast. | e - STEAMER MOVEMENTS Taku scheduled to arrivg at 8 o'clock-tonight from Seattle \ Princess Norah, from the south,| due Friday. Alaska scheduled Scattle Saturday. North Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Freighter Margaret Shafer sched- | to sail from ing alive of two American airmen was added to the long list of atroc- | itles ‘charged against Japanese sol- diers in the Philippines Bcdies of the fliers, gunners from | was intercepted Archipelago One woman, ers Accused fo Foment- ing Present Trouble whose husband had his tongue cut out by the Japanese before the court-| room and found th a routine search \keep their telephone. to be carrying two rocks in purse. Asked what they were ror\ she said. a twin engined plane that crashed off Cebu, were found by an Ameri- can officer in charge of Graves Registration, who told the U. S. Mili-| “To throw at dogs.” w tary Commission trying Lt. Gen.! This woman and a 16-year-old| Tomoyuki Yamashita on war crimes girl told of being raped at Lnnnuan.‘ rges of the atrocity. Batangas Province, by Japanese, who The ‘prosecution speedily present- killed 500 civilians on or about Feb- | ed a series of new witnesses who ruary 10 of this year. | ATTLEEPOOR "SALESMAN T0 GET LOAK Frankness of British Prem- ier Admitted But Objeci- Christnas On Thanksgiving Day " For Little Boy NILWOOD, Iil, Nov. 14.—Santa | Claus is going to steal away from his busy workshop on Nov. 22 and meke a special trip to deliver toys to an ailing four-year-old farm boy. | It will be Christmas on Thanks- umm, Day for the youngster, lan Leir, who is suffering Irom | .lym;,lmLic leukemia, a rare blood \disease. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. : |Charles L. Lair, said physicians had ives Do Not Help |advised them that Harlan probably would not live until Christmas Day. INGTON, Nov. 14—Several He became ill after an attack of ors said today that if Prime chicken pox last May. Minister Attlee is secking to sell this The parents are getting ready for country on the idea of a loan to Santa's arrival. There will be a Britain he made only a little head- brightly lighted tree and gifts for way by visiting Capitol Hill. | their sick son. i Cthers expressed twlief a loan will be made. Talks on a multi- billion dollar cradit arrangement for England have been underway here for several weeks. Members who heard Attlee address 2 joint meeting of Congress yester- day and commmented to newsmen late med impressed by the Brit- ish leader's frankness. But there was a sharp division of opinion on bis government’s objectives. Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman of the Republican sieering commit- tee, who personally favors a loan to Britain, said he felt Attlee's ox- planation of the objectives of the Waf C”mlnal Irall May lBr'm.\h Ld"‘JOI' government hadn't A'SO Be PoStponed from helped much | Nov. 20 fo Dec 2 | KRUPP 'S SON BE DEFENDANT “He sounded a little too New Deal- ish for some people,” Taft told a reporter. | ! e Senator Wherry (R-Neb) observed! NURENBERG, Nov. 14 — French that Attlee “isn't the salesman that and Soviet prosecutors reversed Churchill was." | themselves today and voted in) favor of a United States pruposal' > to substitute Alfried Krupp for his| father, ailing Gustav Krupp von| | Bohlen und Halbach, as a defend- | ant in the forthcoming war crimes ! trials, At the same time, Alleged Induction 'Evade from Alaska Justice Robert H. Jackson, U. 8. pmbuulmf in Cusiody, Seatfle r-commenci o 12-day “sostoone: | ' ment of the trials until Dec. 2 'The trials are scheduled to open| Nov. 20. The motions were heard | today in the first public session| of the court The French SEATTLE, Nov. 14—Theodore S. Westlund, 33, was in federal cus- tody last night on charges of fail- ing to report for induction to an Everett, Wash., draft board. Boud ang Bovidy dacism came after a unanimous report her |handed over arms to | ments” in Java. was set at $1,000. He was removed from AnchnmL,v Alaska, on order of U. S. District from a medical commission that the aged Krupp had “senile soften- ing of the brain,” and would never | ffl"e:::"oc?,ndm:' . lgmi‘_“:::"“‘m::,’,‘: be able to face trial. He is believed | U. S. Commissioner Harry M. near; dedth P | Westfall. - - - f] | Regulafions of \ Asks Phone Cusfody = pi sks Phone Lusiody Ajrports fo Be MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Mrs. Ruby Barber Gresham filled suit for di-| Taken up, ('lni vorce here from Frank C. Gresham | and then asked an injunction to WA‘%HWGTON Nov 14-Officials of the National Aeronautic Associa- The injunction proceedings Were g, guiq today regulations govern- filed against Gresham and the ;. .quisition of war-built air- Southern Bell Telephone Co, Ye- pon py municipalities will be dis- re- questing the court to prevent trans- ;. ..q 5t the National Aviation fer of her telephone to Gfesham’s ,ynic ;, Oklahoma City Noy. 19 ta | present aboc [ i Wi s The regulations have not yet !been announced, but it is expected | they will be disclosed at the clinic of it. AVY CRAFT HERE uled to arrive from Seattle this! Juneau Harbor today was haven or just in advance weekend. &lu the Navy Tanker YOG-68, which il ’f*' - Cricket in port. May sail out late put in here to await * improved ANNUAL O.E.S. ROLLCALL tomorrow. weather before continuing her oo ————— voyaze to the Westward. Com- Meany aitended the annual roll- The population of Eg)pt is nbout 16,000,000. tanker is call of the Eastern Star held last manding officer of the night in the Scottish Rite Temple, Lt. Donald McCoy, USNR. By LEIF ERICKSON BATAVIA, Nov, 14.--Fighting rag- cd with unabated fury in the Java naval base at Soerabaja today, and in Batavia, British Maj. Gen. D. C. Hawthorn accused the commander |of the Japanese 16th Army and his chief of staff of having deliberately “unruly ele- A dispatch from Assoclated Press Corespondent Vern Haugland in Soerabaja said British Indian troops battling in the heart of the naval base hurled back three suicidal In- donesian attacks during the night, killing more than 100 and sustaining a half dozen casualties of their own in fighting for the Ko's railway sta- tion and marshalling yards. The British threw a 26-pouner barrage against Indonesians entrenchad In pre-war Dutch-built concrete pill- boxes in the area. Move Slowly, Surely Haugland reported that the British were moving slowly in order to keep theif casualties low, and that it | might take the beiler part of this week to clear out the rémaining half of Soerabaja still in nationalist hands. A reliable unofficial estimate plac- (ed the number of Indonesians oppos- ing the British'in Soerabaja at be- tween 15900 and 18,000 men, in- duqu many armed with spears. In the capital, the two Japanese generals accused of the unauthorized surrender of their arms were bundled off by plane to Singapore to face charges. Jap Officers Invclved Hawthorn administered a verbal lashing to the two officers, Lt. Gen. Yiuchiro Nagano and his chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Moichiro Yama- moto, at a formal surrender cere- mony, held a full six weeks after the arrival of the British troops. The Japanese generals surrendered their sword to Hawthorn, who is com- mander of the 23rd IndianDivision. Indonesian Natlonalists at Soer- abaja continued to put up stubborn resistance to steadily advancing In- dian troops even as the new Indone- stan Premier, Sutan Ejahrir, prepar- ed to go there in an attempt to bring nlJouL a cessanon of hostilities. Piano Given To President At Club Meet WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Presi; dent Truman found himself with a ;neu pilano today after a night out with the boys of the Nnuonul Press Club. e ———— It was quite a show, the President agreed, and he even added a gag or two of his own to the jokes pegged on his ability as a piano player. But Mr. Truman's remarks were off the record Cemedian Eddie Cantor, comment- ing on the Club's presentation of & Eteinway piano to the Chief Execu- tive, said: “I1 anybody needs practice, it's the President. He played for Stalin at Potsdam Immediately after- wards rumors started stirring that Stalin was a very sick man.” No matter what he plays, Cantor insisted, “it still sounds like the Missouri Waltz,” Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada and General of the Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower, seemed to get quite a kick out of Comedian Joe . Brown's deseription of a banker as “a man who will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it.” The President was formally ine ducted mto the club as a dues-paying memk?