The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 24, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ——r—— == VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,125 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1945 MEMBLR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA RATE HEARING STARTS TUESDAY NAZI LEADERS WILL TESTIFY Etforls Will Be Made to e ASE IS OUTLINED ' BY PROSECUTION, | . Heard by Leaders Now on Trial WAR CRIMES TRIAl | OWN BEHAlfnSarcash( Luncheon Talk Gen. MacArthur Grants| FOREIGN TRADE BY JAPAN GETS APPROVALNOW Government Permis- sion to Import Food McNutt Talks About Doings InPhilippines MANILA, Nov. 24—The seven- months chore of getting the thp-“ STOPS JAPAN IN RESEARCH ATOMIC PLANS iFive Cyclotron.§ Demolish-| Wanted Japang To Be Warned By Roosevelt Winston Churchill Asked| NEW STRIFE BREAKS OUTIN JAVA SECTION British, Indonesian Troopz 2EXAMINERS APPOINTED TO TAKEEVIDENCE Facts Submitted May Re- sult in Investigation in Alaska pines on their economic feet and resolving internal difference before| their scheduled independence next| July cannot be overemphasized either Clash - Sensational Charges Made | | | prosecution’s Move Be Taken Previous to Pearl Harbor Atfack ed by U. S. Soldiers NUERNBERG, Nov. 24 — The, TOKYO, Nov. 24—General Mac- outline of the Nazi‘Arthur today granted the Japanese | arty organization before the In- government permission to import, Summon Witnesses ‘lunanonal War Crimes ’l‘nbundl food, cotton, petroleum and salt—, from Brifain, U. S. yesterday produced sarcastic lunch-! |clearing the way for revival of | NUERNBERG, Nov. 24—Defense|qon taple comment by the Nazi lead- | fereign trade. counsel announced today that a orgon trial. | ‘ An Allied headquarters press re- majority of the 20 Nazi leaders 0“[ “It looks like a wonderful organ-|lease said neither extent nor sources| trial before the International Mili-|jzation on the chart,” said Hjalmar|of the imports in 1946 has been | tary Tribunal would testify in their gchacht, former president of the | determined. Amounts will depend own behalf and that witnesses| Reichsbank. “The only trouble is|upon availability of shipping and| would be sought from Britain and‘“ never functioned.” | world supplies, as well as Japan's the United States. “You're not kidding,” chimed in abilitay to pay in commensurate ex- The outline of plans to combat Albert Speer, former Reichsminister ! ports. the war crimes charges developed‘or Production. | The order, headquarters said, was | at a press conference of the de-| “I don't envy the prosecution thein furtherance of MacArthur’s pol- fense attorneys. The trial was T?-'msk of figuring out the party or-,zcy of “aiding Japan to restore her cessed over the weekend after B'ganizamun since we Germans never |essential economy and thus make presentation by the prosecution of|could figure it out,” said Hans it possible for her to carry her documentary evidence topped hy Fritzsche, a leading German radio share of producing the goods and +the words of Hitler ordering a war| propagandist. | services for her own civilian popula- of extermination against the Poles.| “I see they've just promoted von|tion and other countries as well.” Attorneys for Field Marshal Wil-;smnach (Baron von Schirach, the| helm Keitel, who was chief of the!leader of the Hitler Youth) to cab-| neeced exports to Far East points, in importance or difficulty, U. S. Commissioner Paul V. McNutt said today. | Newly arrived, McNutt said in a} three-hour press conference the ma- jor problems were: 1. Economic rehabilitation and| restoration of staby> commerce, with the emphasis on industraliza- tion of the islands. 2. Physical reconstruction of the war-battered areas. 3. Solution of Aggagian unrest, stemming largely from nbsem"el landlordism. i 4. Restoration of a stable cur-; rency, “an honest one”, elimina-| tion of inflation. 5. Punishment lof collaborators Japan already is sending vnallyl,nnd unification of dissident ele- physicist, an ments. with Sledges By ‘\l(lltlt". lu\\l)\BERG TOKYO, Nov. 24. — Japan was stricken from the field of atomic research today as American soldiers armed with sledge hammers and blow torches suddenly started the destruction of five cyclotrons—one of them a 200-ton giant made in the United Statos, ‘The cyclotrons, ordered destroyed by General MacArthur, is another blow at Japan's war-making poten- tial, will be broken up and the| pieces dumped into the sea. Two of them—the 200-ton appar- atus bought in America through the assistance of Prof. Ernest O. Lawr- ence, famed University of California d a smaller one—were | laboratory of Dr. in the WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-Congres- sional investigators were told to- day that Winston Churchill urged | President Roosevelt a week before Pearl Harbor to send a “secret or public” warning to Japan against further aggression. A message from the then British prime minister to Mr. was read to the Senate-House com- mittee investigating the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. Dated Nov. 30, 1941, and labeled “personal and secret for the Presi- dent from former naval person,” n‘ said: “It seems to me that one im- portant method remains unused in Roosevelt | By RALPH MORTON BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 24—Heavy fighting between British and In- donesian troops erupted today in Semarang and Ambarawa. The | British said Indonesian extremists {in Ambarawa had stormed the civ-' |ilian internee camp and “butchered women and children.” A statement, by Lt. Col. H. C. G.! Harding, British provost marshal,| {also said that Dutch and Amboinese | trcops of the 10th Dutch Battal- ion shot down 60 Indonesian police “in cold blood” in the Indonesian | few days ago. The British used Naval and artil- lery fire in repulsing 1,000 armed Indonesians in Semarang yesterday. 4 central police station in Batavia u‘l WASHINGTON. Nov. 24—Thomas M. Woodward, former member of the Maritime Commission, has be appomnted a special examiner tn hear testimony on Alaska chipipn rates. The commission announced his selection today and sald Examiner Francis J. Horan would be associ- ated with him at the Seattle hear- ing on Nov. 27. The Price Administration also informed Delegate Bartlett (D-Al- aska), that Malcolm Miller, an at- torney, and Daniel O'Connor, chief economist, would attend the hear- ngs. The Maritime Commission said that if facts disclosed at the Seattle hearing are sufficlent to Toshio | averting war between Japan and McNutt said The official communique said the Warrant a further investigation, German high command, said a said fat Hermann nephew of Winston Churchill and a cousin of British Field Marshal|they wanted to have me as Hitler's and Imagine the | Sir Harold Alexander who were once prisoners of the Germans | would be asked to testify in behalf. Former Prisoners Identified Churchill’s nephew was identified as Giles Romilly, a correspondent of the London Daily Express who was captured at Narvik. Field Mar- shal Alexander's cousin was identi-' his, inet minister,” Goering, astically. “And then ?succo&sor after Hess. crus When asked what he remembered |about the trial, Rudolf Hess, one- | time Deputy Fuehrer who claims he | |is suffering from amnesia, said there was just a lot of talk, and professed {not even to know what had gone on the day before. “The one pleasant mpect of my headquarters disclosed. Coal is go- ing to Korea and to Hong Kong, timber is being shipped to China. ROTARIANS PROVE ' STELLAR SELLERS - IN VICTORY LOAN| would keep its promise to grant the Philippines independence on sche-| mand for deferment on the part of huge cyclotron was to be demolish- lead the Filipino people. e 'URUGUAY MAKES ? pRopoSAl AIMED lund studied records of Nlppmwsel the United States|Nishina at Tokyo. Nishina, 55, dean of Japan’s nu- | | clear physicists, was “heart-broken” (dule unless there was a clear de- \when American cfficers told him hi | ed, the scientist’s secretary said. The secretary Miss Sumiko Yoka- yamo, cried when she told of Nish- ina's dismay. American officials already had taken ovar the Japanese laboratorie: research into atomic power. While occupation troops immed- | {our two countries, namely a plain declara!lon secret or public as may be thought best, that any further| ct of aggression by Japan will| immediately to the gravest | consequences. “I realize your constitutional dif-! | ficulties but it would be tragic if| Japan drifted into war by en- | croachment without having before her fairly and squarely the dire character of a further aggressive slt-p I beg you to consider whether, town had suffered “Considerably”| (from the fighting in the past three | days. | Batavia has been cumpurnuvely quiet during the past 48 hours, with |only a few cases of sniping and Ilooting reported. The British report on Ambarawa said that when the Gurkhas lifted; 20 wounded, including children | ranging in age from three to nine. The raid, said the report, was carried out by groups of 10 Indonesians, hearings will be continued at Wash- ington and possibly in Alaska. The War Shipping Board asked | the investigation prior to turning | back shipping facilities to private operators. It has operated all Al- askan shipping during the war. ————————— ‘Elliott Roosevelt Is Not Wanfed as fied as Capt. Michael Alexander,! , memory loss,” he said, “is that I who was made a prisoner in Italy.|don't have to answer a lot of silly It was indicated that Keitel guestions about past events that con- | at the moment which you judge right which may be very near, you | should not,_say that any further each armed with rifles, pistols, swords and hand grenades. AT REAL PEACE Procedure foTBond Ped- | iately proceeded with their work of | destruction, American scientists said | wished the two to swear to his in-|cern men only as a German and are terest in the welfare of Allied, prisoners. Both Romilly and the| captain were liberated by the Al- { lies. Romilly broke out of Dachau| a few days before American troops, reached that horror camp. Hess' Attorney Busy Rudolf Hess' attorney is seeking “on his own responsibility” to sub- poena the Duke of Hamilton, whose estate the No. 2 deputy fuehrer| said he was seeking when he bailed | out of his Messerschmitt on a mysterious flight to Scotland Ms' 10, 1941. The attorney added that| Hess, who claims amnesia, “doesn’t| know anything aboub the Duke ol‘ " (Continued on Page “Page Four) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DRFW P}:.AHSON WASHINGTON Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, who jumped down the Navy’s throat recently, sometimes has had his own Army brass hats jump down his throat. At such times this column has always de-| fended him. However, Jimmy, de- spite his accomplishments, has some | sore spots in his career that his publicity experts have hushed up. One hitherto concealed incident occurred last Jan. 2, when Gen. Doolittle ordered his Eighth Air| Force to bombard the town of Bad| Kreuznach, Germany. Gist of the order was: “Target is the town of Bar Kreuznach. Main point of impact; shall be ajviaduct crossing the rail- road in theé approximate center of town. The object of the mission is to bury the railroad with debris from the buildings of the town, 50 as to prohibit the railroad’s use.” Before the planes took off, pic- tures of the town were given the pilots. The pictures clearly showed a large and plainly marked hospital to the west and south of the main point of impact. The pilots knew that given such an objectite, it would be almost impossible to avoid hitting the hospital. However, they were under orders. The raid was led by the 490th Bomb Group, Heavy Lead bombardier was Flight Officer P. K. O'Donnell, now a lieutenant. An instant after he released his bombs, marked over the inter-phone com- munications system: “There go.the high’s bombs. They'll get the hos- pital.” Simultaneously, the 12 ships of the squadron released their bombs. The “high” squadron was flying slightly to the rear right and above the lead squadron. Subsequent photographs taken of the bombing raid showed that the high squad- (Continued on Page Four) carefully | O'Donnell re-! nobody else’s business.” Julius Streicher, anti-Semitic pro- | pagandist said he has decided three lof the Judve.. were Jews U. 5. SOLDIERS HURT IN RIOT INCALCUTTA | NEW DELHI, Indh\. Nov. 24 — i United States Army headquarters announced today that 30 American soldiers had been hurt, five seri- jously, in Indian anti-British dem- onstrations in Calcutta. One man | was missing. They said no Americans had been reported killed up to this morning. Those seriously injured suffered principally from head wounds in-| curred when Indiaff demonstrators hurled stones at them. The demon- | | strators were protesting the trial of Indian National Army personnel “who sided with the Japanese during the war. i From 15 to 20 American vehicles |have been burned and a much larger number have been damaged by flying rocks, the Army said. | In Calcutta, meanwhile, British | military police were patrolling the | streets and steel helmets and sub- Imnchine guns were issued to 1 American military police on duty at the base headquarters there. Adm. Nimitz Goes To Hawaii;Opposes ' Any Unification OAKLAND, Calif, Nov. 24 Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, en route by plane to Honolulu this | morning to relinquish his command of the Pacific Fleet either today or tomorrow,” said he would re- turn to San Francisco Monday to "further affirm his stand against | | forces. - —— | 'Mother of Bette ~ Davis Weds Today, The mother of actress Bette Davis, Mrs. Ruth Favor Davis and a Boston business man, Robert Woodbury Palmer, are to be married at Smoke Tree Ranch today. Miss Davis will attend her mother, unification of the nation’s armed| PALM SPRINGS Cauf Nov. 24.—| dling, Reporting Re- stated hy Stewart | Local Victory Loan Chairman, B.| wD Stewart, today stated that so far only, one of the organizations en- listed to put Gastineau Channel’s: Colledlve Infervenhon Put Up to Hemisphere Am- erican Republics WA’SHINGTON,. Nov. 24— Top |one-week drive over the top has re-:State Department officials studied ! * | ported results to him—but the re- teday a proposal by Uruguay for cel- | | port from that group ls outstand- lective intervention by the Ameri-| |ingly promising. O. F. Benecke, Rntary Club Bond 'by the club amounting to nearly $17,000 of the organization's $25,000 “E” bond quota. report covers the selling activities of | Loan Week. the procedure to headquarters. { Each seller, he said, upon receiving | to one of the four issuing agencies— ‘1hc Post Office, First National Bank, where he will buy a bond in the pur- {delivery to his customer. Also, each on bonds sold, to the bond represen- | tion. Representatives, in turn, are to re- to the Local Chairman as returns Justify. Chairman Stewart again called the attention of Juneauites and Douglas- ites to the series of bond messages being broadcast evenings, at 6:15 o'clock, over station KINY. Speaker for this evening is the Rev. Robert | Treat, on behalf of the Lion's Club. Monday evening, Frank Marshall will speak for the Central Labor Council. —————————— Presidency Is Great Job; Oh, Yes! NEW YORK, Nov. 24—The Presi- | dency of the United States is “the | greatest job on earth” but as for the pay—well, ‘here’s what Jona- than Daniels, former Presidential Press Secretary, says in the cur- | rent issue of Collier's Magazine: The $75,000 yearly salary re. received by President Truman 1 he pays $46,000 in federal taxes, ! 181,000 in state taxes, and 525.000 | for White House expenses over snd above what is met by the govern-| | ment. lof day with a heavy personal debt, Daniels said. - - TWILA PORTERFIELD HERE Twila Porterfield of the Sheldon at Hotel Juneau, | Representative, has reported sales| |only the first two days of Victory| actually nets him only $3,000 after| Mr. Truman faces the prospect| leaving the Presidency some| i 'SLAYER OF TOT can republics in the domestic af-| fairs of another American nation if necessary to protect, peace. The suggestion was contained in a note handed to William Dawson, U. What's more, his|S. Ambassador to Montevideo, by | Uruguayan Foreign Minister Albert Rodriguez Lareta. The State De- partment made it available to corres- i Chairman Stewart again outlined | pondents here last night. set up for gemng' There was a possibility of an early! bonds into the hands of purchasers|statement of American reaction to and getting reports on sales back | the proposal because of its immed- iate bearing on Argentina where the | | State Department says Fascism ex-| the purchaser’s cash should take it ists. The Uruguayan proposal was lim- ited strictly to the nations of this| 1B. M. Behrends Banks, Alaska Fed- .hcmuphme and specified that joint eral Savings and Loan Association— ;intervention should be limited to: The “mere re-establishment of Newspaper Nasim I Saba said today | Peiping-Mukden railroad 100 miles 1. ichaser's name and arrange for its|essential rights.” 2. Fulfillment of freely contract- {individual seller should report daily |ed international relations. The Uruguayan note said the prin- Russia wished to conceal the fact scene of their first big-scale fighting itative of his particular organiza-!ciple of none-intervention, a car- that she had built oil installations against the Nationalists’ drive, but |dinal policy in inter-American af- near Shahi and Tabriz. 1 Ttbriz and Shahi are in Azehbai- {port overall progress of their groups right to invoke one principle in order | |jan, northwestern Iran, scene of cur- to be able to violate all other prin- Tent disorders which the Iran gov- Daily alleged that Chinese Reds fairs, cannot be “converted into a| ciples with 1mmunll,y Jurisdicfional Row Breaks Ouf AFL Ranks WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—A jur- isdictional row in the American Fed- | eration of Labor has culminated in suspension of the organization's' biggest affiliate, the International ! Association of Machinists. The action was taken under an AFL constitutional provision for au- tomatic suspension for delinquency in per capita tax payments. An aide of AFL President William Greep said he had sent notices of the suspension to all AFL affiliates. PAYS WITH LIFE CANON CITY, Colo.,, Nov. 24.— Frank H. Martz, 35-year-old child slayer. died in the gas chamber at the Colorado State Penitentiary last night a few minutes after learning his appeal for a sanity hearing had been refused. Martz, a former soldier who killed and raped three-year-old Kathleen Ann Geist, did not know he was o die until Warden Roy Best entered his cell to read the death warrant.| reading. | were Japan's progress toward developing ths atomic bomb had been of no Amportance - Eisenhower Spends -An Excellenf Night In Army Hospllal WHITE SLPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., Nov. 24—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, suffering from a severe | cold and under treatment at the Armys Ashford General Hospital here, “spent an excellent night,” it 'was announceed etoday. Cil Concessions May Be Involved, Iran Govi. Trouble Iran, TEHRAN, Nov. 24.—The/ that if the Iranian government were | unable to send representatives w the north, the reason might be thnt ernment has attributed to Separtists. Last year Moscow put heavy pres- sure on the Iran government to grant oil concessions in zhe area. > New Auto on Market Somelime in January OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 24—The Kaiser-Frazer Corp. announced to-! day it would give the public the first look at its automobiles in January. Unveilings will be held in major cities across the country. Henry Kaiser's office here an-| nounced the two cars, the Kaiser and Frazer, first new names in| the automobile world since the war —and for more than a decade— “several months ahead of schedule.” ANCHORAGE VISITORS Among Anchorage residents regis- tering at the Baranof are Mrs.| Oscar - Nielson, Frank Lewis, Mr.| and Mrs. R. R. Solless and daugh- ter. e TO\Y MARTINELLI HERE Tony Martinelli a arrived in Ju-| neau from Seward yesterday. He is registered at the Baranof. - SITKA RESIDENT HERE Mary K. Hankiss, a resident of during a visit to Juneau, | similar declaration or Japanese aggression would compel; you to place the gravest issues | before Congreu or words to that, | effect. “We would, of course, make a share in a | joint declaration, and in any case, arrangements are being made to| ! synchronize our action with yours.: Forgive me, my dear friend, for presuming that it might make all he difference and prevent a mel-! nncholly extension of the war. (Slgnedb D s NATIONALISTS - IN BIG GAINS - ATGREATWALL By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Nov. 24. — The | newspaper World Daily News saldl | today that mechanized units of the | | Nationalist 12th Army have sur- rounded strategic Chinhsien on the north of the Great Wall. Ccmmunists repeatedly have fore- | cast that the city would be the the newspaper reported only “un- organized” Red resistance. The Communistic New | 3zechwan wm'-anwl\iln have poured into Mukden |in strength, and asserted that Gen. Chu Ted, Commander-in-Chizf of the Chinese Communist forces, al- ready has 200,000 men massed in Manchuria, including the Reds’ “Penple's Militia.” The report made no reference to the Russian forces —s0 far as is known here—still are oncupymg Mukden. e DE GAULLE WANTS * NEW SETUP, ARMY FORCES IN FRANCE, | PARIS, Nov. 24—President de | Gaulle has asked the Constituent Assembly for a complete reorganiza- | | tion of France's armed forces—a | ns!cp he repeatedly urged on his| | superiors without success in his| ‘yenrs of service as a French Army officer. | French newspapers said today the | general's program would permit a \thurough shake-up of the countrys | tradition-ridden army and the intro- | duction of new ideas and methods | made necessary by the advent of the | atomic bomb. | Prior to France’s collapse in 1940, | de Gaulle urged greater mechaniza- | tion of the army. His ideas largely were ignored by his own country 1 Jackson School, Sitka, is registered ' His face fell as the warden started | Sitka, is stopping at the Baranof but were studied closely by the Ger- ' in trucks all or part of the way from mans WINANT. "l The report added that the Indone- {slans made no attacks on the Dutch fm who were unarmed, but at-| |tacked the women and children. e ‘Mayor La Guardia Seeking Release of Former Policemen NEW YORK, Nov 24—Mayor F.| H. La Guardia plans to go to Wash- {ingten, possibly today, to seek re-| |lease of 750 New York policcmen from the armed forces as an aid to| halt a swelling tide of lawlessness. LaGuardia has attributed the rise in ecrime to a steadily dwindling police force and figures have shown that the department is 4,776 short of its normal quota of 18,791, The New York crime wave has caused a death toll of 67 within 75 days. > —— Koreans Rob U. §. Barracks; 3 Killed, 53 Are Arrested TOKYO, Nov. 24—The newspaper Asahi reported today that American military police and Japanese police shot and killed three Koreans and arrested 53 others when nearly 200 broke into an American barracks | at Ogawara Nov. 21 and stole U.S. Army alcohol stored there. Ogawara is near Sendal, the scene of food rioting in which an| American warehouse was reported entered forcibly yesterday. - eee Damaskinos Wil Remain as Regent ATHENS, Nov. 24 —Greek govern- ment quarters said today that Arch- ! bishop Damaskinos had withdrawn | his resignation as Regent. | It was believed that Damaskinos might have bargained with the gov- ernment for more authority in nam- ing ministers il return for remain- ing as Regent. Damaskinos had been asked yes- terday by the new Greek Premier, 85-ysarold Themistokles Sophoulis, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and the British Emissary to Greece, Hector McNeil, to remain as Regent The archbishop stead- fastly refused then and also refused | | to sign any laws or decrees R About 90 per cent of the pulpwood cut in the United States is carried the woods to mills, | boudy came gut second best in Church Vesiryman NEW YORK, Nov, 24.—Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt’s appointment as a vestryman in the family church at Hyde Park, N. Y., has been voided . by Bishop Willlam T. Manning, who sald the second son of the late President is “nat in good standing” {in the Episcopal church. The Episcopal Bishop of New York decreed that the twice-divorced Roosevelt was ineligible to serve as a vestryman. Roosevelt was named Nov. 13 to 'the Board of the Church, of which his father was a senior ‘warden for many years, R/ SN 2 KR Retired Preacher Found Guilty Love Affair with Woman KANSAS CITY, Nov. 24—After a 15-minute deliberation a Wyan- dotte county district court jury yes- terday found a 66-year-old retired preacher, Lawrence I. Goodrich, to te the father of the eight-month old daughter of Miss Gladys Beard. Defense attorneys said a motion for a new trial would be filed with- in the next three days. Earlier Miss Beard, former mis- sionary worker, testified that Good- rich was “the only man I ever loved”, that he had sent her many love letters and had been intimate with her on several eccasions. Goodrich, who is married, was re- quired to post a $200 bond Insuring ccmpliance with the court’s tempor- ary order that he pay $10 weekly toward the Auppon of the child. TOUGH fAIRI( Max La- a wrestling match with his shirt. He told+ doctors his shoulder. was dis- located while donning the garment. SOUTHBURY. Conn. — <oy LET'S GET A MOVE ON-WEVE X SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS !