The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1945, Page 1

GREAT BATTLE 4 b THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — | VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,120 (-OF-C BURNS UP WIRES V. RATE HEARING Top Offi(iKCongress- men, Other Chambers Solicited for Support Pressing the protest program voted by the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce at its moeting last Thursds —against the “rabbit-out-of-a-ha hearing on Alaska shipping rate: set for Seattle November 27—Cham- ber President W. M. Whitehead dis- closed today that he, for the Cham- ber, has dispatched protest wires to more than 50 United States Con- gressmen; to Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace; to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes; to Congress- man Hugh Peterson, Chairman of the House Committee on Territories and Millard Tydings, Chairman of the Senate Territories Committee. In addition, Adm. Emory S. Land, chief of the U. S. Maritime Com- mission, has been wired directly and wires have been sent to all other Alaska chambers of commerce, 50- liciting their support. The wire to Admiral Land reads as follows: “We urge postponement proposed hearing November 27, Seattle, re- garding freight rate increases. Short notice prevents adequate showing of serious effects upon our present wage and price level and upon all prospects for an expanding economy ! and the development of Territory. “If request for postponement de- nied, we ask supplemenetary hear- | ings in Juneau, also adequate oppor- tunity to examine briefs and exhibits of steamship companies, which we shall appreciate yofir forwarding.” The W;;l:;;g ton| Merry - Go - Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Wiien Admiral Dewey returned triumphant from capturing the Philippines in the Spanish-American War, newsmen asked the conquering hero whether he was a Democrat or a Republi- can. The admiral wasn't quite sure which. That ended the Dewey boom for President. Today, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps the greatest all-around commander this country has seen in two decades, has returned and may be put in the same position as Admiral Dewey.” Both parties are considering new blood for 1948. GOP leaders are convinced that,; given a candidate who can win labor votes yet not alienate the ‘Hoover Conservatives, they can win. Obviously, Eisenhower is im- portant Presidential timber. Popular impression is that Eisen- hower is a Republican. He was ap- pointed to West Point from the rock-ribbed Republican state of Kansas by GOP Senator Joseph P. Bristow. And nobody in those days could get anywhere in Kansas unless he was a Republican. However, though it may be news to GOP leaders, Dwight Eisenhower put himself on record early in life as a Democrat. Furthermore, he was an energetic William Jennings Bryan Democrat, and in November, | 1909, made a speech at the annual Democratic banquet held in Abi- lene, Kans. The other speakers were older and seasoned Kansas Democrats; but Dwight Eisenhower, then only 19, was picked to stand up with them and hararzue the crowd. He did. Eisenhower’s speech, hitherto overlooked by politicians and delv- ers into the general's past, is printed in black and white in the files of the Abilene News, the Democratic paper of the town. L IKE'S OLD FRIEND In am indebted for this infor-| mation to J. W. Howe now of Em- poria, Kans. Howe not only pub-| lished the Abilene News, but was a member of the School Board and knew young Dwight better than anyone outside his own family. The Abilene News office was headquarters for a group of high school discuss their problems, talk sports and politics, read the papers and do odd jobs for the paper. J. W. Howe says of Eisenhower: “Dwight liked to read the ex- (Continued on Page Four) JUNE AU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 30,000POWS Kruppto OF JAPS MAY Be Tried BE UNTRACED At Court JapMilitary Ordered Burn- | Tribunal Rules Against Son | | | | i i | ing of All Prisoner- | as Defendant-Hess | | of-WarRecords | Case Peculiar ! } TOKYO, Nu\:.‘l;—'rm Japancsai NUERNBER(;._G;;RIEI\)', Nov. 17} military ordered prisoner of war|—The International War Crimes records burned the day Empemr"rnbunal ruled today against the‘ Hirohito commanded the nation to|indic*uent of Alfried Krupp as a lay down its arms, the mcmvmd‘sumuu:e for his senile father and personnel section of Gen. MacAr-|ordered the trial of other Nazis AT SEA PLANNED BY ATROCITIES TRIAL GETS SMALL UPSET mand of Manila Forces Makes Statement fo Says One Witness Committee MANILA, Nov 17—Attempts to: WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Admiral link Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita |Chester W. Nimitz asserted today the with atrocities in Manila during | “theoretical advantages” of merg- the latter stages of the American |ing the armed forces “are unattain- campaign received a setback mdny‘nblc, whereas the disadvantages are when a Japanese army commander (SO Serious that it is not acceptable.” ADM.NIMITZ | rrom Aiz WAVES TO THE MOVIES IS AGAINST ANY MERGER 1 i 9 Events which led to the Pearl thur's headquarters disclosed today.|to start next Tuesday as scheduled. | asserted naval forces waged most | Under Allled prompting, the| Under another ruling, Martmiol the battle in the capital streets. Japanese have been able to offer|Bormann, missing since he left The prosecution called the wit- only the most vague and incom- Hitler's side during the battle for ness, Lt. Gen. Shizuwo Yokoyama, plete explanations of the action | Berlin, is to be tried in Absentia after informing the commission Japan’s liaison office said the|Wwith court-appointed German at-|trying Yamashita on war criminal destruction occurred when the Nip- torneys to defend him. | charges that it wished to establish ponese were ‘“psychologically in a| The fate of Rudolf Hess, one of links of command between Yama- state of utter confusion, if not|the 24 top Nazis originally indicted, shita as overall commander and panic stricken.” remained in question Two of his Yokoyama as leader of the Manila defenses. The mi ng records may concern| former secretaries were ushered as many as 30,000 persons, many into his presence today by authori- Yokoyama testified, however, that still not traced,.said Lt. N. F. ties studying his story of amnesia, naval forces defended the city de- Churchill, Toledo, Ohio. but Hess professed not to know spite his order they move to the, Charchill and 25 men are trying|them. | outskirts. | |to trace more than 1,500 missing ‘The request of Justice Robert H.| His command included Manila, | American B-29 airmen. Jackson, chief U. S, prosecutor, that | he said, while Yamashita trans-| | — - > 38-year-old Alfried Krupp be tried | ferred to Baguio. i in place of his father, Gustav| The city’s defenders, Yokoyama ! }BlOODY HGH"NG Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, ' testified, were “virtually on their| was disposed of in a session which!own” under Re Admiral Iwa-| Harbor disaster, the Pacific Fleet Commander told the Senate Military Committee, “have shown clearly enough that not only between the War and Navy Departments but be- |tween both of them and the State | Department there should have been fmore coordination of thinking and | action.” But to bring this about in the fu- | ture, Nimitz said, he favors not a single Department of Defense but a | Naticnal Security Council, composed of the Secretaries of State, War and Navy, as proposed by Secretary of |the Navy Forrestal. | Acknowledging that this stand | against merger reverses his opinion of a year ago, he said: “For this change of opinion | make no apology, since it represents 1! CAROL STEWART’S warbling ability. swept her right into the movies. suit in the photo above, sings on but motion picture moguls are interested in a Hollywood caicer for her. plus her photogenic charms, have Carol, who models a 1946 bathing the “Beulah” radio program now, (Internaiio ) SHIPPING RATE AMERICAN JAPS NIPS WERE T0 ATTACK U. §. FLEET Action Plam If Pearl Harbor Raid Failed Is Revealed Now WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Japa- nese Naval leaders planned to seek an immediate, decisive sea battle with the American fleet if the raid on Pear]l Harbor failed, Congressional investigators were told today. Rear Admiral T. B. Inglis present- ed to the Senate-House Pearl Har- bor inquiry committee a Navy re- {port on the Japapese plans which said Tokyo's war lords conceived the Dec. 7, 1941 attack [n the first part of January, 1941, trained for it in the summer, and ordered it into effect Dec. 2. In testimony yesterday, Inglis had saild the United States Pacific fleet |was numerically inferfor to the | Japanese in December, 1041. it might have faced defeat had the Thus Japanese brought it to battle. The report was based on transla- tions of captured ‘documents, ques- tioning of prisoners of war, and ! questionnaires which Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur submitted to former members of the Japanese Naval High lasted exactly 21 seconds. The decision to try Bormann,| Hitler's deputy and closest hench- | man during the final hours of Nazni Germany, was made upon recom- | mendation of Sir David Maxwe]l-: Fyfe, deputy to the British prose-| cutor. The British report said there was doubt whether he was dead. | Gen. I. T. Nikitchenko, the Soviet | judge, appeared on the bench for, the first time after flying here: from Moscow. 'IN JAVA MAY BE ENDED,CONFERENCE BATAVIA, Nov. 17 Cabinet leaders of the unrecognized Indo- {nesian Republic will meet tonight |with Dutch Governor General Hubertus J. van Mook in a session pledged to end the bloody fighting in Java, it was announced officially today. - e i Lt. Gen. Sir Phil C son, 1 ! meeting, which the Dutch charac- i terized as an attempt to stave off | economic disaster on the island. Present will be young Premier Sutan Sjahrir, described as a mod- FLIES AFTER 4 DAYS WEATHER GROUNDED | Weather-bound for-the four pre- erate, and his chief lieutenant,| Amir Sjarifuddin tabiisns | ceding days, Alaska Coastal Airways ! . | its { ‘e AANOIHGHTARL ‘Saras ot itie flew over its usual route yesterday ' }Brmsh reported a lull in the bloody i[lghung at Soerabaja, where the | Indonesians fell back before the . | British Indian advance after put_‘wfldmger. HaselFetiods . NOft, ting the torch to warehouses a:nd‘Hugh Dy, o6 FEEAn 8ud. e i ‘A. McEachran; for Ketchikan—Mil- i 347 | dred Scheim, Mary R. Fea, Oscar 'FROZEN" NAVY PERSONNEL T0 BE DISCHARGE and today. Passengers leaving yesterday for | Sitka were: Bruce Parker, Burt { Cecotti, Mike Haas, Leonard Evans, 'John Maurstad, A. W. Dyer, and Joe Elmyes; for Hoonah — Henrik | Valle, Fred Wolf, and Jerry Mc- | Kinley. Returning from Sitka were: Huriff | |A. Sanders, Orville Paxton, Art | Franklin, Jim Brightman, Ben Mil- |ler, Russ Clithero, Joshwa R. Gil- | WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—The braith, and Joseph E. Bojt; from 1 1A H Ketchikan — Austin Stevens, Ralph 1 Navy has made eligible for discharge A . . !some 3,435 officers and 20375 e -| Tatum, Harris Smith, Orle Van Des | s s on” be. ! Maer, Donald Gamm, and P. F. llcl::z: ?:::1 l’}ro':kt):‘:i si:(:'fg; :istroedllng: from Hoonah—Clarence critical. | G. Campbell, William Johnson, and ‘\ Of these, the Department Saidl‘l"rances Johnson; from Pewrsburg——; 2350 ofticers and 7,392 enlisted men J0S°PR R. Werner and B. Putman. {will have points enough for release! Embarking for Sitka on today’s by January 1. lihght were: Fred Bryant, Charles F. Luck, Ralph Pitoviah, Henry Moy, | : 5 ! sion as to what orders" he had received about Killing Fili- | pino civilians, Yokoyama said he ' BOOST HIT BY 1Y COUNCIL buchi; communications were um'c-‘\m) conviction based on additional ! liable fexperience and further study of the Yokoyama also rocked the prose-|proposal and its current implica- cution’s contention that Yamashita |tions.” was responsible for atrocities in the| As a witness, Nimitz followed by ' prisoner of war camps and uxvllmn‘a day General Eisenhower, the Eu- internee prisons when he said that|ropean theatre commander, who prior to Nov. 17, 1944, Count Tera- |urged strongly that Alr, Sea and| uchi commanded the entire south-|Land Services be placed under a| ern regions including the Philip- single department headed by a civ- pines. ‘ iiiaa by | In B. Reynolds of Council Follows Chamber Lead in Asking Hear- ing Postponement The City ni _"_‘m‘mu. ihrough | Council action last night, has taken its stand in the gathering ranks of response to a question - President Russell the commis: Alaska cities, governmental agencies had received instructions from 'and citizens' organizations crying Yamashita to “be fair with all| FIA Maynarc Barp2s, U. 5. |out again proposed increase’of and handle them! Pc!_ ical Representative in Bulgaria, | shipping rates to the Territory. i delivered a note to the Bulgarian| The Council voted unanimgusly to MR B :uuvrmmenL today stating that clec- | adopt the tactics mapped by the Ju- tions scheduled to be held Sunday |yrsau Chamber of Commerce at its | wera not considered by the American | Thursday meeting; instructing May- | zovernment to confirm to the Yelta or Ernest Parsons to file strongest S ORK | agreement. | possible protests with the U. 8. NEw HIGHWAY Io | ) ~eebis | Maritime Commission and with all | LISBON, Portugal—The French | persons and -bodies that might be { engineer Jean Plerré 'Janne, 31,{able to influence the decision—in- i swimming champion of France, cluding Dclegate to Congress E. L. >dmwnrd whil bathing at Estoril. | Bartlett and Congress itself. SEATTLE, Nov. 17—Howard Cns-! HELSINKI — The Finnosh War tigan says it is “possible that|Crimes Trial was adjourned today actual construction work on the|until December 10 to permit the western route to Alaska may be,eight accused former officials time under way by the spring or summer | to prepare their defenso. of 1946, quoting Senator Warren | i | poned for &t least six months to af G. Magnuson (D-Wash.). | TACOMA, Wash—Yul Oktoyok,|ford Alaska time to prepare its sid Costigan, secretary of Gov. Mon | 20, of Hamlet, Alaska, is dead in a!of the question C. Wallgren’s advisory commission, | hospital here. He leaves his parents, | 2—That, if the first request is de- said he learned in talking with the |Mr. and Mrs. George Oktoyok, a |hied, subsequent hearings be held Filipino people with caution.” | ] Asks Pcstponement The City plans to request: 1—That the rate hearing scheduled ‘to be held i the Olympic Hotel, | E2attle, on November 27, be post- senator at Washington, D. C., that sister and two brothers, all of"“’ Al o that the voice of a meeting probably would be held Hamlet .Ala&k.n may be heard. i | Ccuncilman Harry Lea led soon at Vancouver, B. C., nu,ended] ” - { by representatives of the United; WASHINGTON- Talk of th2 for- | chorus of heated expressio States and Canadian Governments.|mation of a third labor federation, |disregard for Alaska's welfare that Its purpose, he said, would be|embracing unions independent u(’h:’ls long (‘h;ll cterized the dealings for discussion of allocation of high- |the CIO ard AFL, has been heard ot Se;_«tt!r;»m. ling Yinoney prifices way costs and to decide upon the at the Labor-Management Confer- iregarding the Territory. He ventur- route. Senator Magnuson would | €1Ce: John L. Lewis, chief of Lhe‘ed that it might be well for Alajkans plan to attend. | United Mine Workers, was suggest- |t0 go into the shipping businecs Reir & ed as leader of the projected crgani- | themselves—to carry their cwn car- | Enlisted classifications and pomti scores: ‘l Shore Patrol Specialisis 38; Dis- bursing Storekeeper, male 44, fe- male 29; Key Punch Operator Spe- cialist, male 38, female 23; Punch Card Accounting Machine Operator Alvin Faber, George B. Henderson, and Carl M. Buckawon; for Ketchi- kan-——John R. Miller, Joseph E. Bojt, Joshua P. Gailbraith, and D. E. Alex- ander; to Hoonah — Henrik Valle, Fred Wolf, and Jerry McKinley. BARTLETT SEEKS POSTPONEMENT OF zation. HOLLYWOOD—Esther Williams, movie actress, and Sgt. Ben Gage, | former radio announcer on the Bob Hope program, will be marrfed in goes in their own ships. Council- man Ed Nielsen joined with Lea in a suggestion that it would be a good move to by-pass the Seattle toll- collectors and ‘“give Tacoma a chance” as the gateway to Alaska. Councilman Lea voiced the motion Command after the occupation. THREE-PARTY DEADLOCK IN FRENCHGOVT. !Communists” Insistence on (HICAGO, Nov. HTroe miso| Koy Post in Inferim Govt. Creates Crisis | today for its first post-World War | |2 convention, facing such prime| | peace-time problems as universal military training, employment,| By RELMAN MORIN housing and rehabilitation of vet-! PARIS, Nov, 17.~The deadlock in erans |formation of an interim French Hotel rooms for the four-day government continued today with convention opening tomorrow were the Communist party refusing to scarcer than congressional medals join in a three-party appeal to Gen. of honor. The Legion had only some de Gaulle to reconsider his Tesigna- 3,000 rooms reserved for 2,031 dele- |tion as President, |gatts, as many alternates, plus of- De Gaulle, whose ace card, accord- [ing to his associates, is that he does , staffs, distinguished visitors IN& 3 ‘;fi::l:pc::ém. i [not “espectally want to job,” pre- i ‘pared to stdte his case to the country in a radio address tonight at 8 p. |m. (2 p. m., Bastern Standard Time.) | The crisls was precipitated by { Commuists demands for one of the SEATTLE-TACOMA AiR RouTE ( ASE three kep posts in the government I which will rule for the next seven | months while the constituent assem- | WIll BE pRESSED bly drafts a constitution for the As the largest LEGION IN - BIG MEET Many Problems of Peace-| time Face Delegates at Convention > fourth republie, ‘slngle party in the newly elected SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—The Pacific gssembly the Communists insisted rthwest Oriental Airline Commit- | they were entitled to the Foreign Af- o has authorized Gerald P. Hile t0 fajrs, War or Interior portfolio. go to Washington about Dec. 1 andf, De Gaulle, in his resignation, de- press the Eeattle-Tacoma case fOr clared the demands were “incompat- ;’lntcrnalinnal airway recognition be-|gaphle with the conditions of indepen- 'fore the Navy, State, Labor, War and dence, cohesion and the authority” ICommt’rce Departments. essential for the government. The committee authorized the use! The assembly, which unanimously of its oral argument testimony at!elected de Gaulle president on last the Civil Aeronautics Board he“ml"ruesday. will meet Monday to act. for circulation in Alaska. No other candidates have come “We want to clear up the misun- forward for the Presidency and, un- ! derstandings that developed about less weekend negotiations produce a ' out position on Alaska,” said Howard compromise the ascembly faced the ‘Coxugan, Exccutive Secretary of the then, boys who came there to| - {Nati Prison (amp Chief Hammered POWs Like Blacksmith DACHAU, Germany, Nov. 17 — A U. S. military court was told today | that Frederich Ruppert, former | commander of the Dachau concen- | tration camp, “could beat people - - AMERICAN LEGION MEEIS Mo". "IGH'Ewnhnut change of expression—just like a blacksmith hammering iron.” The American Legion is promised| The witness was Rudolf Wolf, a a “real” meeting Monday night by|YOung German engraver who spent with | nearly three years in the prison. | g FROM THE STATES | Specialists, male 44, female 29. Unfrozen officer classifications: Shere Patrol: Specialists on Elec- tric Tabulating Machines, Postal; Graduates or Students of Naval Schools of Oriental Languages; Cost Inspection Service; Physical or Qccupational Therapy Specialists in' Continental or Special Naval Hospit- | als. i | 1 | Commander Joe Thibodeau, | some interesting moving pictures, | (initiation and refreshments on the| 1program, as well as several impor-| . tant current events to be discussed.| Baranof registrants arriving from Wm. Biggs is to show a one-half | the States include: M. J. Klepper, hour movie featuring the lest-ISenttle: James Metcalf and Ggorge Chichagof Mine, showing operations| Nicol, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. Ed-; both above and below ground, and ward A. Hall, Biloxi, Miss.; Mrs. taken during the time he was em-| Florence H. Bason, Lorimer, Ta.:| ployed there. ! Jess Malone, Kirkland, Wash., Mrs. (draw as shipping agent in a few Beverly Hills Sunday, November 25. HEARING ON RATES | BRUSSELS—The late President WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 — Post- | Roosevelt will be honored with a ponement . of the ' Alaska shipping degree from Brussels University to- rate hearing set for Nov. 27 has|day. U. 8. Ambassador Charles been asked by Delegate Bartlett, Sawyer has been delegated to accept who told a reporter he had asked|the award. the Maritime Commission to delay Sl 5 the investigation of shipping rates! MOSCOW—Usually well informed for six months because time was| [0T€lgn sources here said today Gen. too short to permit the Alaska d¢ Gaulle’s clash with the Commun- people and territorial government | 15t Whether justified or not, un- to prepare a case. | questionably had made enemies in He added also the War Bhippmg‘ tljed Soviet Union for the French Administration, which is to with- | ‘¢ader- b LONDON—The U. 8. Navy an- months, was not the proper peti-|pnounced today that 15 men of war, tioner. The hearing, he said|including the famous aircraft car- should be left to private owners rier Enterprise and the battleship who will take over the shipping| waskington, have been converted business when the WSA quits. for the redeployment of troops from Bartlett said he expected an! Europe. Each will make at least early decision. four westward passages before Feb- SRR e A ruary 1, 1946. STEAMER MOVEMENTS e CHUNGKING -- Official Chinese Princess Norah, scheduled to ar-| quarters, while withholding com- rive from Skagway Sunday morning that was quickly adopted with un- Governor's Advisory Commission. 1wonted Council unanimity. “Qur fight before the CAB, as a Unemployment Prcblem matter of fact, was a stronger case An application by §. W. Beitzel, for Alaska's over-all interests than an ex-Marine, for a position as Was the fight presented by some of i Force led to discussion of the in-| e creasing problem being presented wlll Stating that he already had told I the applicant that there is no pres-| |case as being only one of many| By ALEX SINGLETON much alike. g y many| | 1BSON, Nov. 17. — Portugal’s support, no job and no place to B alternative “liv'-, the Mayor stated. Probably strong-arm regime of peasant-born |office estimates. There are not jobs' IP a0 election proclaimed as free ! z pvicusly a bid for the return patrolman on the Juneau Police|the local Alaska counsel.” by unemployed and unsheltered new | poRIuGA arrivals in the City. i \ent vacancy on the Polic Force, VOIE o" SUNDAY | Mayor Parsons pointed to Beitzel's| Sk Here is a war veter-' lan just arrived, with a family to voters go to the polls tomorrow with { ! but to endorse the | more than 175 men are here in simi- | Premier Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Sal- |lar straits, according to employment | 8737 (enough for unskilled workers—even M | though the large proportion of them of Portugal to the good graces of the United Nations, not a single can- want to work. There is no place for them to live. The ' Salvation |didate opposes the 19-year-old dic- | tatorship. Army is overcrowded already and the | problem is being augmented with! The opposition has come chiefly from the thus-far politically impot- Despite Juneau's “unusual” cold fhe expects an exceptionally good turnout G. A. Bieri, Philadelphia, Pa.; M land Mrs. Charles Rhoden and Miss Barrbe Lee Rhoden, Madison, S. D. at 9 o'clock, sails south at 10:30 weather, Commander Thibodeau says| R. Fred Fairly, Portland, Ore.; Mr. | o'clock. Steamer North Sea scheduled to sail north from Seattle today | ment, indicated today that China cach ship arrival. Some are coming | would support the Truman-Attlee herc after being put out of Fair- | proposal to create a United Na- panks and Anchorage. Most are tions Commission to control atomic e research, (Continued on Page Two) 'ent intellectual class, in the form of a campaign to persuade voters to stay away from the polls in silent protest against the administration. possibility of being forced to accept de Gaulle’s resignation and then re-elect him, since he has no equa in French popularity. TWO ARE DEAD, " ONE IS INJURED, KAKE SHOOTING PETERSBURG, Alaska, Nov. 17.— Two men are dead and one injured | following a shooting at 6 o'clock yes- terday morning at Kake. ‘William Wilson, 18, apparently in- tended to shoot his father, Billy Wilson, in the family home. The {shot shattered his father's shoulder land struck Sidney Wilson, also 18, |in-the chest, causing almost instant | death. | Seeing what he had done, the boy turned the gun on himself, shooting off the top of his head. | The shooting is reported by C. L. |Cruther, teacher at Kake. Deputy U. 8. Marshal Chris {Christenson and U. S. Commissioner H. F. Dawes will fly to Kake today for the inquest, | |