The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA S ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1945 VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,130 “ALL THE NEW CMPIRE ME Mam Assocmn D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — ] SPY EXPERT PLOTTED TO KILL HITLER Freight HEARING AT SEATTLE IS ADJOURNED Facts, Figure—swto Be Pres- ented Here by Rivers on January 8 SEATTLE, Nov. 30—The Mari- time Commission’s Alaska steam- ship freight rate hearing adjourned here today to reconvene at Juneau’s Baranof Hotel at 10 a. m,, Jan. 8. | Merchants, shippers and Alaska citizens will present their opposi- tion at that time to the ship lines’ demands for increased rates on freight between here and Alaska. The Office of Price Administra- tion also will submit evidence on the cost of living in the Territory. Territorial Attorney General R. J. Rivers said after today's hearing that at the Juneau hearing, Alas- kans will seek to answer efforts of the carriers to obtain the rate in- creases, and will combat showings of enormous losses. He said the steamship lines’ figures were ex- aggerated. The OPA sought to have the hearing moved to Washington in- stead of Juneau, but was over- ruled. Today's entire half-day session was devoted to questioning of . J. Swanson, manager for the Alaska Tramsportation Co. He testified concerning labor practices in Al- aska ports, which, he asserted, caused increased operating costs. V{as Hugged, Kissed Witnesses Test ify At Murder Trial SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30.—Two witnesses, a graduate nurse and her 13-year-old daughter, stated yester- day they had seen Dr, John H.' Mansfeldt, San Francisco society doctor, hugged and kissed by Mrs. Vada Martin, 36, nurse who was shot to death by Mrs. Annie Irene Mans- feldt. The witnesses testified at Mrs. Marisfeldt’s trial. The physician | killed himself a few hours after Mrs. Martin was slain October 4. The trial has been recessed until Mon-, day. | The Washington Merry - Go- Round\,‘ By DRFW PEARSON | WASHINGTON—Harry Hopkins, now hospitalized in New York, is not improving. Always a living skeleton, Harry kept himself alive because of his love for FDR. Now, that FDR is gone, Harry has no more zest for work. . . . Senator Claude Pepper of Florida is re- turning from a three-month tour of Europe to blister the administra- tion’s handling of foreign policy. Coming on top of Senator Ful- bright's two-fisted attack, perhaps somebody around the State De- partment will wake up to the fact that the seeds of World War III can be planted right now. . . . The Strategic ‘Services unit of the War| Department (it was formerly the’ “Oh-So-Seccret” office of Gen. “Wild Bill” Donovan) has just set up a very interesting project which will not keep the peace. It is working on a “Plan for an Order of Battle for a War with Russia.” The job is under direct supervision of Maj. Raymond Cromwell, former Tokyo correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Postmaster General Bob Hannegan has told intimates that he is genuinely con- cerned about the administration’s handling of domestic and foreign problems. He adds that the Presi- dent is aware of the difficulties and will remedy them. * ¥ * INSIDE THE MANAGEMENT PARLEY Labor isn't the only group split (Continued on Page Four) | today. " States. | SEATTLE GROUP - AGREES ON ROSY ALASKA FUTURE SEATTLE, Nov. 30 — Alaska has| rosy postwar future, speakers agreed at a Chamber of Cnmmerce Members' Council luncheon here! E. N. Patty, chairman of the chamber’s Alaska committee and a mining man, recommended the government turn loose in Alaska | 1,000 experienced prospectors to; search out new mining fields, and he urged that they not overlook the non-metallics. He mentioned, particularly the Territory’s dolo- mite and limestone deposits. Foster L. McGovern said the people of the world had learned| about Alaska during the war and| that there was a tremendous in- terest and a prospect of a terrific tourist traffic into the Territory,| from people who want to see its| scenic and sports riches at first hand. Joe Crosson, famed Alaska flyer,| told of the great boom he foresees in Alaska aviation, and E. W. Allen, secretary of the Interna- tional Fisheries Commission, paid tribute to that sourcc of wealth. GRS YTV 3L i HURLEY DEMANDS PUBLIC HEARINGS | ON RESIGNATION WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—New repercussions from the bombshell resignation of Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley as ambassador to China shook Capitol Hill today. 1. President Truman'’s designation of General George C. Marshall as Hurley's successor was hit by Rep.| Patterson (D-Calif) as a “poor ap-| peintment,” 2. The Senate heard fresh criti-| cism of the State Department and; American policy in the Far East, and | 3. Three Congressional commit- tees vied for an opportunity to ques- | tion Hurley on why he quit his Chungking post. 4. Hurley told reporters he was willing to take on all comers but wanted the hearings public. Patterson asserted the former!| Chief of Staff “doesn’t know any- thing about China.” He also found | fault with Marshall’s appointment “because he is a soldier.” Senator Willis (R-Ind) said that Hurley's resignation statement criti- cizing “career diplomats” in Asiatic affairs “certainly does nothing to d]apel our doubts about the efficien- cy of our Foreign Service.” “It seems to me that our Depart-| ment of State has a lot of explaining and house cleaning to do in thej coming months.” A The inside story of events leading to Hurley's resignation is something {that interests the Senate Foreign Relations committee, the House Committee on Un-American Activ- ities and the House Military Com- mittee. All want to talk to him about it. The resigned ambassador met these bids by expressing his readi- ness to appear “at any public hear- ing that is afforded me by Con- gress,” but emphasized that the hearmgs must be open ones. — No Earlhquake, Just Mud Slide VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 30.—In- vestigation of reports that a volcano was stirring into life in the Sheep Creek region north of Cranbrook, B. C,, have proven the activity was merely a mud slide, the British Col- umbia Mines Department reported | today. H. C. Hughes, department inspec- tor, said he went tq the site where residents of the area thought they had seen lava and found a huge slide of rock and gravel, originating in a dry gulch three miles up Sheep Creek. He said Coyote Creek was blocked | for 150 yards and the water, seep- ing through the gravel, formed a| large mass of oozing mud. e o e In 1943 there were 30,888,134 motor | vehicles of all types in the United February, ASKS RELIEF IN CONGRESS Bill Would Expedlte Mine Reopening at Earliest Time A hearing \‘-;;svl;eld in Washing- ton recently before the House Com- | reversed {and flood control. The House added | navigation and flood control to a | deficiency supply bill. The items had | | been removed from the bill by the mittee on Claims in support of a bill | the relief of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, J. A. Williams, General Manager for the company reports. He has just returned from a trip Outside. The company, he said, seeks this relief for the purpose of reimbul |for an appropriation of $250,000 for | ing it in part for expenditures in-| curred and for certain sacrifices which the company made financial | in connection with supplying mater- | ials for defense projects of the War Department and for other govern-| ment departments at Juneau and vicinity between June, 1942 and 1944. If the appropriation is made, he| said, it is proposed to use the money | for the payment of wages and to apply the balance to the very great expense of reopening the mine. The proposed relief, if granted, | will expedite the reopening of the jmine at the earliest time possible, { Williams said, and it is hoped that soon thereafter the operation will again become normal and the com- pany will be able to continue to op- erate for the benefit of all con- cerned for many years to come. VICTORY LOAN 'WEEK HERE IS DOLEFUL FLOP Less than Third of Goal Accomplished as Cam- paign Closes Juneau's one-week “E” bond Vic- tory Loan drive came to an end last night—but not as a success. Local Chajrman B. D. Stewart this morning reported the accom- i plishment of the week's effort as, sales, figured on| being $55,500 in the maturity value basis which was used in allocating quotas to the basis, the total Juneau-Douglas goal is $175,000. Accomplished was Jjob. Three organizations only attained | their quotas: The Catholic Daughters of Am- erica, with a quota of $3,000, re-|paye gone over to the offensive in ported sales through their repre- sentative, Mrs. Walter G. Hellan, reaching $6,825. Eastern Star, with a $2,500 goal, topped it with $3,200 in sales, ac- cording to their representative, Mrs. | Georgia Arlowe. The American Legion Auxiliar/,: quota $2,500, sold $2,525, according| to a report by its representative,| Mrs. Alfred Zenger. All in all, the ladies showed the way to the men, Reported through yesterday, Gas- tineau Channel's total “E” bond sales as turned in to the War Finance Committee office, shows cash value purchases of $58,650 of the $130,000 (cash value) quo Issued here yesterday were * bonds to the value of $2,526. Though failing in its “nutshell” effort, the Channel area still has| time to reach its goal before the end of the nation-wide campaign, Dec. 8, Chairman Stewart stressed— if citizens will just take bonds. ML) A ANCHORAGE VISITORS Anchorage visitors arriving here! yesterday include: J. Lasek, An- thony Sitka, Melvin P. and Warner M. Garrison, all guests at the Baranof, retroactive | | cheaper than the previous fare Melson, | Hayes Parrish, T. G. Thompson : for a 25-cent an hour wage increase. participating organizations. On thati oell ull- i s oreppE TS s less than 32 per cent of the whole; HNobel, chNack.rings or 28801 | to attend. | Cotton Bowi football game on Janu- jand head football coach — R. S. BULLETINS WASHINGTON -General George C Kenney said today the 11th Air | orce will remain in Alaska and Lh'r Aleutians. He announced the Far Eastern Air Force and the Stra- | tegic Air Forces were being con- solidated into a single Pacific unll | under General MacArthur. WASHINGTON— The House teday its Appropriations Cou)- mittee on the matter of navigation more than 122-million dollars for Appropriations Committee. WASHINGTON — Five different Senators called today for an end to the wartime draft. The demand was voiced on the Senate floor after Congressman Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia asserted that the Army is getting volunteer recruits at the rate of 175,000 a month. NEW YORK — Pan American | World Airways has announced a cut | in its transatlantic schedule—a re- duction from five flights a week to | only two. The company says the reduction was ordered by the Brit- ish government, in retaliation for | | Pan American’s low passenger rates. | The company recently announced a | fare of $275 for flights between New York and London. That's about $300 | PORTLAND—A. F. of L. Jumber strike ranks are shrinking rapidly as one operation after another settles on the basis of a 15-cent an hour wage increase. .Most Everett, Seat- tle, Tacoma, Grays Harbor, Long- view, Vancouver, Portland Willam- ette Valley and Oregon coastal mills | have approved the boost which ls" five cents less than demanded. d | SAN FRANCISCO--Anything can happen in California and frequently does—witness the new developments with the professional thumpers and groaners known as wrestlers. They | are forming a union and will seek ! a charter from the AFL. CHICAGO — More than 100,000 members of the CIO Packing House Workers Union are casting ballots today in a poll conducted by the NLRB deciding whether to strike NEW YORK — The British liner Queszn, Elizabeth now is being used to bring Canadian servicemen home, but because of winter storms it will dock in the future here instead of | Halifax on this side of the Atlantic. The returning Canadian servicemen will be taken from New York to Canada in Canadian trains. | OSLO, Norway—U. S. Ambassador | Lithgow Osborne will represent Cor- 12 at which the former U. S. Secre- tary of State will be presented the the Nobel Committee said today. Hull has advised that he will be unable CHUNGKING—The Communists Inner Mongolia, according to the government and have opened a new attack on the key rail city of Kwecsu, with the support of Japanese artil lery. DALLAS--It was announced to- | day that the University of Missouri has been given permission by the | Big Six Conference to play in the ary 1. Missouri will play the Uni- versity of Texas. SALEM, Oregon—Willamette Uni- versity’s veteran athletic director (Spec) Keene—has resigned to enter the sporting goods business. A few days ago, Keene was discharged from the Navy, where he served more than two years as Lieutenant | Commander in the physical educa- tion program. LUMBERTON, N. C. — At least four persons were killed and 22 were | injured early today in a bus-oil tanker collision on a highway about 10 mites from this eastern North Carolina city. NEW YORK-—The amended by- laws of The Associated Press be- came effective yesterday with their | mine other officers are charged j4unching Japan on | fendants, | recognized rules for treatment of yulge the circumstances leading to B, WO ST was oroerep JAPS TO WAR IS QUESTION Subject Bobs Up in Diet,| then Enamofo Talks | fo News Agency TOKYO, Nov. 30.—The big ques-| He and|tjon of who was responsible for a disastrous | with complicity in the beheadings.|\., bobbed up persistently today as | They will be executed if convicted. the Diet charted an uneasy, uncer- Oishi acknowledged that he is- tain .course for the beaten country. sued the orders which sent three of Representatives of two of Japdns the five to their deaths—but mam-';!mnkc;l post-war parties, the so- tained that his orders came from calleq Progressives and Liberals, met Navy Capt. Masanori Shiga, atoll|ty draft a resolution demanding an Spmander. |investigation of the individuals re-| Oflshi, as had others of the de- gponsible. denied knowledge of | A request that the government di- KWAJALEIN, Marshall Islands, | Nov. 30—A Japanese colonel testi- fied today that Imperial Army| duclpnnr was 50 strict that if his men had disobeyed his orders to | behead American fliers they would have been executed. ‘The prosecution drew that state- ment from small, 54-year-old Col.| Chisato Oishi, senior army officer on Mili Atoll, where five Yank| fliers were executed after their bomber was shot down. prisoners of war. - Sherman Opposes |war was voiced in the House of Peers by Mitsuo Miyata, who said: “The Japanese nation was betray- jed by a small number of leaders |in just the same way as the United States was betrayed by Japanese militarists at Pearl Harbor." Hot-Héaded Clique “It was ahot-headed Nazi-inspired clique within Japan wmch brought about the Pacific war,” Shigerhara | Enamoto, civilian secretary to thel is a definite AlO GUESSED JAPS WOULD FIRST HII INVADE THAILAND WASHINGTON, Nov. | Intelligence Officers guessed on Nov. 27, 194110 days before the Penrl Harbor attack—that Japan's next military move would be an invasion of Thailand This estimate was disclosed in a memorandum by Brig. Gen man Miles, then Chief of Intelligence, 30 which was filed today with the Senate-House| committee investigating the Pearl Harbor disaster. Miles told Gen. shnll, former Army Chief of Staff, thnl it then appeared evident the Japanese had ‘“completed plans for| further aggressive moves in south- | eastern Asia.’ “These plans will probably be puL' into effect soon after the armed forces feel that the Kurusu mission failure,” Miles’' report said. “A task force of about five divisions, reported by appropriate naval air units, has been assembled | for the execution of these plans.” Hawali Presumed Alert Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles tehtl- fied today the possibility of a Japanese attack on Hawail in the | event of war was not mentioned in warning messages to the Army commander there because it was assumed Hawail would be on the alert. — Army Sher-| acting Assistant| George C. Mar-| | commander located in the Penta-| | control of Gen. | upon applicants for membership. Merger Two Events in Spring This Year Brought Change in Feeling WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 — The| Senate Military Committee was told today that two events in the spring of 1945 brought about “a general| change of feeling” among Navy of-| ficers in the Pacific about the| feasibility of a single depnnment‘ of national defense. Rear Admiral Sherman, who was Deputy Chief of Staff to Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, listed the events in his prepared testi- mony as: 1—“The establishment within the War Department structure of the Twentieth Air Force to be based in the Marianas for attacks on Japan, both of which were the Pacific Ocean areas, but with its gon Building 8,600 miles away. 2—“The directive issued by the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the in-| stance of the Chief of Staff of the Army, which transferred to the of the Army Mac- Arthur all the Army resources, ex- cept air, in the Pacific Ocean areas.” Sherman, testifying against pro- posals to merge the services, said “these two events disrupted uni- fied command in the Pacific and disillusioned naval officers who had given support to the theories of a single department.” adoption by the Board of Diretcors as recommended by the member- ship. The bylaws were amended to conform with a Federal Court de- cree which eliminated consideration of competitive factors in voting LONDON—Former Prime Minister | Winston Churchill is 71 today. Hun- dreds of messages of congratula- tions poured in from all parts of the world. The only observance planned is a party at Churchill’s Hyde Park Gate home tonight for his family and intimate friends. | | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 30 — Closing quotation on Alaska Juneau Mine' stock today was 8%, American Can 103%, Anaconda 47%, Curtiss-| | Wright 7%, Imernnuoml Harvester | 100%, Kennecott 49%, New York Central 31%, Northern Pacific 36%,| United States Steel 80%, Pound $4.03%. | Miles, chief of Army Inwlllzencq Navy Ministry, told Kyodo News| gt the time the Japanese struck Agency in an interview. Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, told Enamoto said that the late Fleet|the Senate-House committee that Admiral Isorcku Yamamoto, WhO jate in November and early in boasted during the war he would| pecember, 1941, he considered there| Rate Case To Be Heard In Juneau A-J COMPANY STARTLING EVIDENCE IS GIVEN Surprise Witness Tesfifies at War Crimes Trial at Nuernberg By DANIEL DE LUCE BULLETIN - NURENBERG, Nov. 30—At the German war | crimes trial here, the one-tim» deputy Nazi fuehrer has made | a confessicn. Hitler's right- | hand-man admitted today that he had faked the loss of memory which he thought would enable him to evade prosecution. Hess declared that he wanted to be tried with the other top Nazis—tried as a man who knows what he is doing and who accepted full re:ponsi- bility for his deeds. ) NUERNBERG, Nov. 30 —The Ger- man army's leading spy expert plot- ter for years against Hitler and finally was executed in 1944 after the failure of the bomb plot against the Fuehrer’s life, a surprise witness testified today at the war crimes trial of 20 Nazi leaders. Adm. Walter Wilhelm Canarls, mysterious Greek-blooded chief of the German army's counter-esplon- age section, was named at a leader e of the anti-Hitler military clique by dictate surrender terms in the White House at Washington, actually op- posed the conflict and conceded the Navy couldn't stand up against the United States Navy for more than| a year. \ Miyata, former matropolitian po- lice chief of Tokyo, told the House of Peers that if President Roose- | velt’s personal message to Empernrv Hirohito on Dec. 7, 1941 (Dec. 6, U.| i 8. date) in the Interests of peace had been made public to the Japa- nese nation the war might have been averted NATIONALISTS MAKING DRIVE Russians Co—oaerating Move-Dutch, Indon- esians Clash Again (By The Associaed Press) Russian cooperation today smcothed the path of Chinese Na- tionalists driving into Manchuria,| while in Java British reported fresh outbreaks of fighting between Dutch and Indonesians | The Soviet Tass agency, in a| dispatch from Changchun, Man- churian capital, said today that| Russia has agreed to keep troops in Manchuria for some time—pre-| sumably until Chinese Nationalists| are able to take over the terri- tory. Chinese Communists have sought to consolidate their grip on the/ { industrially-rich area as the Sdviets| prepared to withdraw, but have offered only sporadic resistance to New Jersey and Pennsylvania recov- | | Nationalists moving toward Muk- ered somewhat from a SnOw- storm | den. Communist sources in Chungking today claimed victory over a body was a “strong possibility of a Japanese attack on Hawail and Panama.” Emphasizing that the Hawail establishment had been built solely as a defense against any move by Japan, he said “if war came it m inherent in the situation that! Hawaii and Panama were extremely likely to be attacked.” He said the Hawaii Department had been warned of the war danger| “which was the sole reason for its being.” Expected Surprise Attack Miles told the committee that Army war plans always had taken into account a surprise attack on | Hawaii and that Army Intelligence officers “very much feared” the Japanese might strike somewhere at the time they delivered thel The officers did not know might fall, he 1941, where the blow added. Miles said the Army felt .“there | was no possible way of catching a surprise attack before it fell except, by reconnaissance from Hawail." “In view of that and all these' other factors,” Gerhard Gesell, committee counsel, asked, inquire whether reconnalssance was being conducted properly?’ “I did not,” Miles replied, was not the responsibility of Mili- tary Im.eulgence 2 MANY LIVES LOST ATLANTIC COAST (By The Associated Fress) A two-day-old nor'easter batter- |ing the New England coast sent gi- gantic waves over seaways, plers and highways today while New York, | that cost at least 18 lives and caus- ed considerable property damage. Four deaths were reported in New INTO MANCHURIA |2 i e vy s “did_you| agp ! Maj. Gen. Erwin Lahousen, aris' alde. Lahousen was the first witness called by the prosecution to refute the grim inside story of German scheming and aggression. Hated Hitler Lahousen sald that Canaris, who ran the German spy service disguis- ed as a commercial agency during the days of the German repuhlic, hated Hitler and headed a military clique which plotted against the Nazi leader from the time he rose to power. Canaris was among scores of military leaders executed after Hitler escaped death in the 1944 assassination attempt. Lahousen sald Oanaris unsuccess- ‘fully protested against mass murdar and ill-treatment of Russian prison- ers, who were starved until “canni- balism ens! He said Command orders to assassinate two French Generals, Maxime Weygand and Henri Ger- aud, were thwarted by Canaris. Kill AU Jews The prosecution’s surprise witness | declared former Foreign Minister | Joachim von Ribbentrop once as- serted that “all farms of Poles must be burned to the ground and all Jews killed” In the invasion of Poland. Hitler was responsible for the pol- icy of starvation that led to can- nibalism among Russian prisoners, | Lahousen declared. Polish uniforms were provided by the counter-intelligence section to outfit Germans for a fake attack on a German radio station at Cleiwitz, thus providing an “incident” which Hitler used as one of the excuses for invading Poland, Lahousen declar- ed. Reichmarshal Hermann' Goering ‘glared intently at the witness. i, ot SR BOUND FOR ELFIN COVE Mrs. Roy B. Elliott, recently discharged from St. Ann's Hospital following surgical care, is regis- | tered at the Gastineau Hotel en- of “puppet troops” near the Hopei England, 11 in New York and three| route to her home in Elfin Cove. rail junction Nov. 14, inflicting 2,200 casualties. They also asserted that armed| Japanese were reinforcing Nati- onalists in preparation for a new| | government drive into Johol prov-' ince, North China. H A British press statement re- ported six casualties in street fight-| ing in Bandoeng, Java, from which a British ultimatum had ordered all Indonesians. Indonesians, meanwhile, shelled a civilian refugee camp in Amba- | rawa, to the east, British said, kill- storm. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska, from Seattle, due some- | ’ time tomorrow westbound. Freighter Cricket due Monday morning. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Monday night North Sea scheduled to sail from Sales today were 1,820,000 shares. ing eight persons. The native in- Seattle December 5. Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials, 191.46; ralls, | 63.90; utilities, 38.79. e o o asased | Guam is the largest of the Mari-| ana Islands. surgents reportedly were relnfcrc-‘ ing their assault on Ambarawa. | B \ A. T. Thorandal hus arrived from Nome and s a guest at the' Baranof. Denali scheduled to sail Seattle December 5. Tongass scheduled to sail from Seattle December 6. from of Shihkiachwang,|in New Jersey as a result of me‘ | |SIGNALS 29+40-82-37,AND | | | | | | [ ‘Yukon scheduled southbound about | December 6.