The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 19, 1945, Page 1

LY ALASKA EMPIREK “ALL THE NEW(! ALL THE TIME” —--i.] VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,121 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1945 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— — _} BATTLE FOR MANCHURIA NOW NEARING 11 Jap War Leaders Are Ordered Arrested - DIRECTIVE ISSUED BY MacARTHUR Those ResansibIe for Many Crimes to Be Taken Into Custody By RUSSELL BRINES TOKYO, Nov. 19.—Eleven Japa- nese war leaders, including Generals accused of responsibility for the rape of Nanking, the Mukden incident and the bombing of the U. S. gun- boat Panay, were ordered arrested today. Simultaneously, headquarters an- nounced that 57 more accused Japa- nese war criminals—mostly minor characters charged with brutalities, against war prisoners—were in cus- tody. General MacArthur..directed that the 11 be delivered to Sugamo pris- on camp, Tokyo. While the men were not specifi- cally named as war criminals, all were associated prominently with the militarist decade and include some key men previously ignor- ed in American lists of “wanted” Japanese. Two of the Japanese—Yosuke Mat- suoka, former Foreign Minister, and Toshic Shiratori, former Ambassa- “(Continued on Page Five) The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Before Congress debates peacetime conscription fur- ther, and before Generals Marshall and Eisenhower testify further, it 'FDR'S NAME MAY BE ENTERED INTO ~ DISASTER INQUIRY WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 — It is probable that for the first time, the name of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt will be intro- duced into the inquiry of the Pearl ;H;\rbor disaster. This is expected when the com- mittee calls for testimony from | the former Commander-in-Chief of | the Pacific Fleet, Admiral J. A. | Richardson. He may be called to- morrow. Richardson was relieved as Pacific Fleet Commander by Mr. Roosevelt several months prior to from objects is picked up by two the pear! Harbor attack after al- leged disagreements with the late Chief Executive. evidence taken in Tokyo by Gen. MacArthur’s staff additional de- tails on the events leading up to the December 7 attack. This testi- mony quotes a former chief of Japanese naval general staff—Ad- | miral Osami Nagano—as saying | that he alone decided to attack Pearl Harbor. Nagano is quoted as ;‘raymg he reached his decision to !attack the Hawaiian bastion on Nov. 3, 1941—more ‘than a month in advance of the actual assault. Today's Pearl Harbor committee hearing turned into a series of political wrangles. Among other things, Democrats and Re- publicans clashed over the refusal by Republican Representative Ber- {trand Gearhart of California to | disclose a source of information. Gearhart was asked by Demo- cratic Representative John Murphy of Pennsylvania to give the name of a naval officer the Californian said told him the Cruiser Boise | sighted Japanese warships before | the attack on the naval base. | Gearhart retorted angrily that he !was not on the stand as a witness and was not subject to cro: | examination. More heated words followed from both sides. Admiral J. O. Richa inquiry on told b The committee has learned from 'CEILINGS ON AUTOMOBILES ‘GIVENBY OPA WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—New General Motors cars will cost the/ little while than pre-war for Fords, less prices public a models, T ~ WAR CRIMINALS STARTS TUESDAY ormer Chiéf, ie(urity Po- lice, Suffers Brain Hem- orrhage Last Night By GEORGE TUCKER NUERNBERG, Germany, Nov. 19 F EXTREMISTS - YIPFORWAR By RALPH MORTON BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 19 An extremist Indonesian radio station | called today for “war on the British” and asked Indonesian Studebakers and Chrysler-made au-|__ prng Kaltenbrunner, former chief | youths to reinforce the ranks of the will be somewhat higher.| e tno Nazi Security Police, suf-|hard s the way OPA Administrator er Bowles sums it up in the first of his long-awaited announce- ments on price ceilings for the cars now trickling into showrooms. | The big surprise of Bowles’ an- nouncement is that GM-built Chev- g Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks nd lillacs will sell at retail for an average of 2.5 percent less than in January, 1942 The retail boosts are one percent | fered a brain hemorrhage in his |cell fast night, but a spokesman | for the U. S. prosecutor’s office | said today he would have to answer charges before the International | War Crimes Tribunal. | An indication that Kaltenbrun- i ner would not be present at the | scheduled opening tomorrow of the | trial of top-flight Nazis came from physicians at the 116th U. S, Army | station in the interior came after impending battle against the freight v | Hospital where he doctors said he for Chryslers and that company's| ¢.atment. The other makes—Plymouth, Dodge and | “y finished” DeSoto; two percent for Fords; and least temporarily nin2 ‘L‘"""_““‘ for Fs‘f“"‘}’“k“". lo.| _ The spokesman in the office of In the case of Ford, for example, |y 00 Robert H. Jackson, chief tha retail ceiling for a new deluxe U. S. prosecutor, said the court “H“‘I',‘?\ll‘:‘d‘_‘ ',;,‘g:‘lé:‘ff'“:fi]l‘l‘; s\fi itself would decide whether Kal- o it 2 celling Was | onbrunner would be tried at a s with the trial, at $850 pressed native Nationalists at Semarang, scene of the latest out- | break on troubled Java. | A dispatch from embattled Socra- baja said the British had reported ievidmw that the Indonesians were endeavoring to manufacture bombs and weapons on a small scale there. | 8poradic fighting continued in Ba- tavia Developm SEN. COFFEY GIVES SAY, RATE CASE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 18.— vard D. Coffey, President of the orial Senate, urges the Alaska RIALOF NAZI INDONESIAN Member Would Junk eni Board Jack Talbot of Ketchikan, First | Division member of the Alaska De- velcpment Board, in a special dig pateh to The Empire charges that |it weuld be a “waste of the tax- | payers’ money to continue having mectings of the Alaska Development Board.” There is little the Board can do, Talbot said, until Alaska has more control over its natural and until reserves of all sor Y Indian, O, Coal—and other re- ctrietions and bureaucratic red tape are largely eliminated 'Certainly, if freight rates are increased,” said The Extremist broadcast by a|Development Board to take over the Talbot, “nothing can be done to de- was rushed for |Premier Sutan Sjahrir of the uy.|rate increa recognized Indonesian Republic rushed a three-man committee to Soerabaja to investigate the fight- ing in the hope that a solution could be found - ses on ships operating |from Seattls to Alaska elop Alaska.” Commenting further on the pro- posed freight rate Increases, Talbot fe declared if the proposal to said that for years Alaskans have conduct hearings starting Nov. 27 heard the old refrain: “The Gug- goes through as scheduled, he will genheims are throttling Alaska with become an active worker in favor high freight rates.” hood TWO FORCES LINING UP Talboi Spe_aks Out FOR FIGHT ; Communists Make Threats as Nationalists” Army Plunges On | CHUNGKING, Nov. 19—Chinese | Communists declared today their sympathizers were ready to seize Manchuria’s capital Dec. 1 to fore- stall a Natfonallst Army that had plunged 12 miles into the vast in- dustrial region from the south. A Communist spokesman sald crack, U. 8. equipped Nationalist troops were pouring into Man- | churia through a gap ripped In the Communist line with the fall of the frontier fortress of Shanhaikwan. | Other Nationalist forces had | fanned out 30 miles west of Shan- | haikwan, he asserted, but dospite ! the reverses Communist troops were of sta “I am sure this rate matter would handled in this manner if ad two Senators representing Seattle Newspapers not. b we The Guggenheims are gone, he|determined to fight it out all the continued, and the men who now| Way to the capital of Changchun, tentrol the transportation companies 440 miles northeast of Shanhaik- OPA said that because of appar- ent model changes it had no. basis at this time for comparison of any ept Ford prices. The increases announced are ex clusive of any which may be allo ed for appreciable design of specifi- | cation changes, In the way of actual price ceil ings there was little news in Bowles’ anncuncement 1 DETROIT, Nov. 19.—The Presi dent of the Ford Motor Company, | from softening of the brain and has . one Henry Ferd, II, has declared that the new car prices announced by the OPA will mean that Ford will have to sell its autos at a loss. The company President says that in his opinion the OPA ceilings do not re- flect the changed economic circum- stanees of the day. The price agency | later date when his condition im | proved cr be brought into the trial | The prosecution regards Kalten- ;)n‘mmrr as the No. 4 defendant among the list of indicted Nazis Postpenement Wanled France and the Soviet Union are pressing for a postponement of | the trial. If it opens on schedule | there may be anly 19 of the 24 Nazis tried in the ol |ment on hand | Gustav Krupp von { Halbach, industrialist, Behlen und is suffering been excused. Robert Ley, labor | front boss, committed suicide sev- eral weeks ago in his cell. Martin | | Bormann, No. 2 Nazi and Adolf { Hitler’s deputy, is officially listed as missing and will be tried in| absentia. Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Naazi, 'is reported mentally incapable, and 'Picketed Today by [Typographical Union SEATTLE, Nov. 19—Pickets were | thrown around the plants of three | Seattle newspapers today by the Typographical Union (AFL) Local 202 Which last night voted to strike 2 ot- | after turning down a management nal' indict- | & B | treight ra vage increase proposal. ! The Post-Intelligencer, a paper, was shut down after edition. The other two, the Times and Star, are afternoon papers. ing morn- Al a in Congress, If they won't allow pcstponement so Alaska can prepare s case, it is enough to convince me we must have state- | hood.” | Coffey . urged the Development Board to request the postponement (and hire “the nation’s leading rste ’zxw*rt' to come here with a statf to prepare the case against further te increases. “I would be glad to defend the |Board from possible criticism, re- :g;\rdlvim of the cost,” Coffey said. Meanwhile clvic and business or- |ganizations continued a barrage of | protests requesting postponement of The Times and’Star—were unable to publish early editions today. And the morning paper — the | press after putting out one edition | | the rate hearings. carlier, might be profitable if all concerned | spent two or three hours ,-mding‘tho Congressional Pearl Harbor In- soldiers’ and sailors’ mail. | quiry Committee that he questioned Unfortunately, many Congress-|in 1940 the policy of keeping the men have turned their mail over:fleet based at Pearl Harbor. He to the War Department to be m‘s..‘said that Admiral Harold E. Stark wered by WAC's, while top Army | explained the fleet was kept there generals are too busy with high- | because of “the deterrent. effect” level problems to worry over what|it might have against the Japs the G.I. is thinking. jmoving into the West Indies But if the backbone of the Am-; Former Secretary of State Hull erican Army and Navy is their en-|has been asked to testify in the listed men—as this columnist be-|Pearl Harbor disaster investigation. lieves—then the policy-formers in!' Assistant Counsel July M. Hanna- ‘Washington should put their ears to the ground and catch the rumblings. They are dangerous, bitter rumblings. And they come from officers as well as men—men who were willing to give all for their country when it was in danger, but hate loafing at the ex- | ford of the Congressional Commit- tee investigating the attack said today that Mr. Hull has been ed to follow Admiral J. O. Richardson ito the stand. ! Admiral Richardson testified to- |day the late President Roosevelt told him Oct. 8, 1940, that “sooner or later the Japanese probably will make a mistake and we will enter the war.” pense of the taxpayer in times of peace. These rumblings spell out; the same lesson the French learned | too late when they conscripted al Recounting a conversation with huge peacetime army and Kkept it the President at the White House, idling, rotting from the inside. {the former commander-in-chief of Today, U. S. servicemen have be- | the Pacific fleet said he asked come an Army and Navy of letter- | Whether we were going to get into writers. They are writing to every-| the_war. body—to their own service joui- Richardson said the President re- nals, to newspapers, to the White|plied that “if the Japanese attack House, to commentators. Theirs are| Thailand, the Kraw Peninsula, or bitter, disillusioned, tragic letters— the Dutch East Indies, we will not from men who write almost as if enter the war.” they felt their uniform bore the| He added that the President said cross-stripes of prison garb instead | that “even if they attack the of being the blue and khaki they | Philippines, we probably will not allowed Ford a two per cent increase in retail prices. | a ruling on whether he will stand trial is awaited. Kaltenbrunner “Bully” Type Col. B. C. Andrus, prison com- | mandant, said Kaltenbrunner was a “bully type” whose nerves caught up with him and reduced him to spells of weeping. Andrus added ‘that Kaltenbrunner had been sub- i ject to spells of hysteria for sey- | eral weeks - | Kaltenbrunner ordered the execu tion of Associated Press Corre- | spendent Joseph Morton in defi- ORDERED To G'v[ |ance of all rules of war. Morton —_— i i was captured by the Germans after 19—Gen. MacAr- the Ford President adds, | regulations do not alter the compan; policy in the slighest. That policy, he says, calls for plac- ing the greatest number of cars and | trucks with the greatest number of people in the shortest possible time. he fiew into Slovakia during Czechoslovak uprising and was ex- ecuted in the Mauthausen Concen- tration Camp last Jan. 24. e TOKYO, Nov. thur has ordered the government of Japan to give back to the Japa-| nese people some 4,000,000 radios which were taken from them dur- ing the war. These are the receiv- ing sets which the Tokyo war lords confiscated because they feared the effects of Allied broad- casts on their people. MacArthur's directive gives the present Jap government until Dec. 1 to figure out some way of restoring the con- fiscated radios to private owner-| ship. The headquarters directive was explained by MacArthur’s chief of communications for the occupation (OF BELSEN,” OTHERS 'WILL APPEAL CASES LUENEBURG, Nov. 19.—Josef Kramer, “The Beast of Belsen, stony-visaged, 22 - year old Irma Grese, Queen of the Belsen gang, and six others facing the gallows for tortures inflicted on concentration victions. to Alaska are anxious to see Alaska develop. “Some of them have and are willing to invest more money in en- terprises outside of the steamship busginess to aid in the development of Alaska,” he said, but “if I were in the position of these man I would feel like investing my meney in some ath ea where capital was want- ed and encouraged. They are now being blamed for conditions in water transportation. The Governor of Alaska comes oul with a blast against these men, laying all the blame on them Talbot charged that the Maritime and Longshore unions are “90 per- cent responsible fer higher costs” in shipping. “Companies, operating as agents for the War Shipping Administra- ticn in Alagka, have had to submit to almost anything that the mari- wan, | (Associated Press Correspondent {Olen Clements, In a dispatch from i’nenuln. said the green-clad Na- | tionalist columns were mushroom- |ing out in three directions against "only sporadic fire after smashing |the main Communist defense line along the great well, . . { (He reported that 5,000 Commui:- ist troops were in retreat to the northeast in the bitter cold of { Manchuria to avoid being out- | flanked by the swift-moving ‘ columns. { “First Big Battle” | The Communist spokesman pre- dicted that the “first big battle” ! for Manchuria would be fought at | the railway city of Chinhsien, 100 I'miles northeast of Shanhalkwan | on the Peiping-Mukden Railway. He admitted that while the Com- before the strike started. Employ«es | ing the CIO Newspaper Guild are | refusi to p picket lines and | ON RATE IN(REAS »s 50 a da) hich ?vould rep\:use-n‘ WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 — Pro- a boost, of The publishers | poceq increased marine rates from (offered $1.65 daily increase. X to and within Alaska would be (llppER ’B‘R‘I"GS y “disastrous” to the territory’s econ- The printers want an increase o | {omy, Rep. Bennett (R-Mo.) wrofe Chairman Emory 8. Land of the U. 8. Maritime Commission today The economy of Alaska, the Mis- time \:Ylil{lls ln‘lvv rz-ruh's(fl‘i in order | munist troops had been thrown has been detrentd at the sasne tiznn. | ToC SOMNIIEARE Rl £ illvn down met.hod; h‘(u;e ‘bcen an((i sdvanos QRN PIELS Ao Aoy ¢ the orders of the day, and me‘through Sg was) (esfiicry. many. good’ union men e AlAdee] The spokesman said this resist- Smp; and I know many of them, | ance would persist as long as the ¢ Chungking Government “fails to are helpl ns to do anything .flboub it. consult the people” on the form of Companies have nothing to say about | vernmatit to be' ado the men they employ and are com- | 8 o 3 pelled to take the men the unions send them, and the unions make no attempt to discipline the drunks, a CONVICTED "BEAST, camp inmates, will appeal their con- | | - TRIMMINGS TODAY Loaded with a ton anua a half of 1 holiday perishables and flowers, Pan | American's “holiday special” cargo Clipper arrived this noon at Juneau | airpert. i So that d>spite the tie-up in boat | sc | with cut flowers and | fresh from Seattle farms and florists | this Thenksgiving. The clipper | brought 231 pounds of holiday ex- {press to Juneau, 500 pounds for | Anchorage, and 1,117 pounds for | Fairbanks. Forty pounds of perish- ables and flowers were unloaded this morning in Ketchikan, Nine hundred and forty pounds of the Fairbanks-bound express is sent by Pan American Airways itself to its company employees there. The flight today marks the first | time a Pan American Alaska Clipper has been devoted entirely to com- sourian sald, is vital to the security ypieves, and inefficient that are on. of the United States, their membership rolls. He said he was “alarmed” at an aanouncement that a hearing will ghips in Seattle and on Alaska ships proposal to increase the rates which claims which have to be paid by the he declared already are excessive. War Shipping Administration or, in Bennett recently visited Alaska cthqr words, the U. 8. taxpayers. “Pilfering of cargo while loading | be held in Seattle, Nov. 27 on & has been terrific, resulting in large | hedules, Alaskas tables will sparkle : vegetables | once were proud to wear. Some of this is the inevitable disillusionment which follows war. enter the war—but that they (the Japanese) could not always aveid making mistakes and that sooner forces, Maj. Gen. Spencer AKin. Gen. Akin pointed out that with newspaper distribution seriously A British announcement said yes- . terday that 26 of the 30 defendants | mercial cargo. The flight was plan- sentenced to imprisonment or death ned several months ago to handle { But it is so deep and so prevalentor later they would probably make | curtailed, the Japs now depend|in the trial which ended Saturday that something must be wrong at the core. The following cross-section of soldier mail is published in the hope that the top men of the Army and Navy—who otherwise would! not see these letters—will now find out what the backbone of the Army and Navy is thinking, and perhaps rectify whatever is. wrong. G.I. MAIL a misiake and we would enter the | war. | STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Steamer North Sea sailed from Seattle at 10 a. m. Saturday and | may arrive here Wednesday night or Thursday morning. Steamer Tongass, from Seattle, with 130 tons of freight for Juneau, | due Friday morning. Goes to Haines on new schedule from Juneau. :largely on the radio for news and | recreation, and he said that with ! more radios back in private homes, {the Japanese will have a much better opportunity to hear free | speech. | Another MacArthur directive is laimed squarely at preventing the defeated empire from ever again becoming a menace in the skies. The order called for the liquidation of Japan’s once extensive civil would appeal, and the appeals would | be lodged with British Field Marshal | Sir Bernard L. Montgomery > 'Two Brothers Are |Killed After Attending Funeral LINCOLN, Ill, Nov. 19 — Two the heavy demand for ishables. holiday per- | as a member of the House Terri- tories Committee. “I know this is not giving Alas- kans sufficient time to prepare their case on the complex subject involved,” he wrote Land. “I am alarmed because no plans have apparently been made to hold hearings in Alaska as well as with- in the United States.” Bennett expressed hope tie hear- ing will be postponed to permit more time for Alaskans to prepare their case. Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) also has asked that the hearings be ferred. de- LTS oS Naions STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Nov. 19. — Closing “Until shipping companies can select their employees from union | rolls these unhealthy, obnoxious and un-American practices will continue end freight rates will go up, instead of down, unless the Government is to continue to operate the vessels at the expense of the taxpayers or| grant subsidies to private companies also at the expense of the taxpayer.” - - New Governor for ~ ldaho, Also Senator 19 — Governor sett, Democrat, has resigned and was immediately ap- pointed junior United States Sen- Another “holiday special” flight | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine &OF, succeeding John Thomas, Re- is being planned for pre-Christmas | stock today is 9%, American Can Publican, who died in Washington.| peing an accomplished swimmer trade, Pan American officials said today .- Doggone!!! SPAR.... Gone! 1106, Anaconda 42's, Curtiss-Wright Gossett’s resignation elevated Lt. Disarming Japanese Meanwhile, American Marines in the North China port of Tsingtao began loading 3,000 disormed Japa- Inese naval alr force versonpel on Japanese merchant ships for return | home. (Continued on Page Two) SRt oo o creeamme LLOYDY. WINTER, JUNEAU PIONEER, ON LAST TRAIL Again Juneau is called upon to | armounce the death of one of her i oldest pioneers in the passing of Lloyd Valentine Winter at St. Ann’s | Hespital last night at 9 o'clock, after an illness extending over the past two years. He is survived by a | brother, Harry R. Winter, now | living in San Prancisco. | He was born at San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 14, 1866. During early {life he was trained as an artist, his work running mostly to pen and pencil gketching. As a young man he was active in athletics, |and an instructor of swimming for [8%, International Harvester 92, Ken- G0V Arnold Williams, Rexburg|the Y.MCA. at San Francisco, i necott 48, New York Central 30':, | Northern Pacific 33, Pound $4.03':. Sales teday were 2,020,00 shares. | Do | follows: Industrials, | 64.04; utilities, 38.26. -eo NATAL CLINIC 191.50; ra Democrat, to the governorship. Wil- liams ‘hen appointed Gossett, giv- ing Idaho two Democratic Senators Jones averages today are as [OT the [irst time since 1903. Idaho's | other senator is Glen Taylor of " Pocatello Gossett, 57-year-old Nampa where he became acquainted with Percy Pond, his partner of years standing. Lure Of North | ‘The lure of the north called him 1in 1893 and he came to Juneau i where he purchased a partnership | Steamer Norah scheduled to sail frem Vancouver Friday night at 9 | o'clock and due in Juneau next A Corporal in Manila writes— “Sometimes I'm ashamed of my- self for sounding off so much about | the Army. And then I'm not. You!Monday. and the USA. should be shown| NO developments in Seattle re- how dictatorial the Army is. In | garding Alaska Steamship Company wartime it must be so. No soldier| Steamers. says no. But when the military Soipt W A sl EREREA start trying to run the lives of SKAGWAY VISITORS millions of civilian - soldiers in| William Thompson and Eugene Smith of Skagway are guests at | the Gastineau Hotel, (Continued on Page Four) aviation industry by the end of the brothers, returning from their year. This means no more private | fathei funeral, were killed when flying, no pilot training of ;my‘lhe locomotive and 11 cars of an "sort and no further research in|Alton Railroad passenger train left | aeronautics. the rails after the train and their H light truck collided near Lincoln | Japan Airways, Limited, once one|. The dead were Alvin T. Byrne lof the biggest commercial airlines'Jr, 46, Mt. Vernon, Ill, and Myler in the Far East, will have to go|Byrne, 47, Decatur, Il . out of business. Even private own-| Forty-five passengers were shaken ership of balloons is forbidden up and a baggageman on the train under the new directive. was injured severely. | Juneau once again is SPAR-less! PRE- The lccal SPAR detachment mov- ed out—100 percent—yesterday. Agnes Scheider, Yeoman 1-c, who has been on duty in the Marine In- specticn Office, USCG, here for the past four months, as the sole member of the Coast Guard’s women'’s auxil- iary ever to be assigned here, left | Sunday aboard the steamer Princess Ncrah—bound for Ketchikan and discharge, A pre-natal clinic will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Government Hospital. Dr. M. M. Van Sandt will be in charge and Alice Connelly, field nurse, wifl assist. R g - The common name in North America for the spoonbill sturgecn is paddlefish. farmer and stockgrower, was elected ; in a photographic business operated governor in 1944 { by a man named Landiken and the His appointment increased the!firm became known as Landiken Democrats’ Senate seats to 56, with | and Winter. This was on the loca- 38 Republicans and one Progres-| tion where the Triangle Inn is now e, {located. A year later, he had E. P, Pond, a boyhood companion, come north, and Pond bought out the in- terest of Landiken in 1894 and thereupon the wellknown local firm (Continued on Page Twa) - FROM KETCHIKAN G. 8. Humphrey of Ketchikan arrived in Juneau recently and is a, guest at the Gastineau Hotel