The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 3, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,132 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLANE REPO SHORT REPLY WILL BACK UP Truman Sefs "INADEQUATE’ FOR WARNING Pearl Harbor Inquiry Re- veals Unresponsive Answer fo Alert - WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-—Major Gen. Sherman A. Miles said today that the reply Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short made from Hawaii on Novem. ber 28, 1941, to a war warning mes- sage from Washington was “totally inadequate. Miles testified before the Senate- House group investigating Pearl Harbor. Thursday the committee is to hear General of the Army George C. Marshall, who sent the warning message. Evidence was:cited by Rep. Clark (D-NC) that on November 27, Mar- shall warned Short that “Hostile action is possible at any moment” | | ! | 1 U.S.STANDIN Up Special BALKAN ISSUE LaborBoards | ; pvh: v i 2 \ | Newspaperman Will Re-|Asks Congress for Perma- | | porttoByrnesinRuman- | nent Machinery tfo . ian, Bulgarian Cases Handle Disputes | WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, — Presi-| | dent Truman today set up fact- WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Secre-| finding boards to deal with the tary of State Byrnes is slated to General Motors strike and threat- | receive a first-hand report this week ened steel walkout, and asked Con- {on political conditions in the Soviet-| gress for permanent machinery to !'controlled Balkan countries of Bul-| handle labor disputes in “important | garia and Rumania | nationwide industries.” < There is no prospect, accordingi The President appealed publicly| to diplomatic information here, that for 225,000 CIO-United Automobile |the information he gets will bring| Workers to return to their jobs in |any quick improvement in Ameri-|the big General Motors Corporation | can-Russian relations. |and urged the approximate 700,000 The report will come from Mark| who might be involved in a steel | Ethridge, Louisville, Ky., publisher|strike to remain at week. whom. Byrnes sent to the Balkans| Mr. Truman acted in a special| | about six weeks ago to gather facts message, fast on the heels of the| | | | | By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER | (AP Diplomatic News Editor) BLITZ BY UNREST IS INCREASING | HITLER NO INGERMANY BLUFFING Secret German Plans Well | Laid When Signing of Munich Pact Forced Resentment Against Am- erican Occupation Methods Developing (By JAMES F. KING) 1 By WES GALLAGHER FRANKFURT, Dec. 3—German, NUERNBERG, Dec. 3.—Hitler was resentment against American oc- not bluffing when his threats of cupation methods is developing war in 1938 led England and France gradually into bitter hatred which is giving rise to increasing talk of resistance, according to a survey by U. S. Intelligence officers. to sign the Munich pact, secret German war plans introduced at the |int>rnational ‘war crimes trial of 20| leading Nazis disclosed today. An outstanding source of resent- Documents laid before the inter- ment, the survey found, is the con- national military tribunal showed viction that the American military'that the Munich pact—by which the administration is suffering from a Czech Sudentenland was handed over lack of policy which the Germnus‘to the Nazis—was signed only two hold responsible for much injustice|days before the date set by the Ger- | man High Command for four armies and confusion. This conviction, it was said, is and the air forces to be prepared for shared by many of the clergy who a blitz invasion of Czechoslovakia. { itari and to take reconnaissance and such ! foi review of American policy of other measures “as you deem neces-‘renwina to recognize the Rumanian sary.” jand Bulgarian governments. “Alerted” | Ethridge is returning by way of Filed as a reply was word from|Rome, but in his preliminary dis- Short to Marshall the next day that | patches to the State Department he the Hawaiian department was | h indicated clearly that his full “alerted to prevent sabotage.” report will support the non-recog- “Was that in any way respon- nition poli -based on the conten- sive?” asked Clark. | tion that th2 governments of Buch- Miles, who was head of Army In- arest and Sofia are not truly repre- telligence at the time of Pearl Har- | sentative of the people. bor, demurred. e said he would Diplomatic Spotlight like that question to be directed to; The Balkan situation thus moves Labor-Management conference which could not agree upon a fact-| finding recommendation. He proposed: A law for setting up machinery’ for naming fact-finding boards to prevent work stoppages in import- ant, nationwide labor disputes. | A ban on strikes or lockouts for at least 30 days—five after certifi- cation of a dispute by the Secretary | of Labor, 20 for the fact-finding| | board to deliberate and five more.| The President cited such wide-| profess pro-Allied sympathies. Plans Complete Results of the survey, undertaken in an effort to obtain some light |on “the German view,” were em- bodied in a 20,000-word report made public, In general, the investigators | found that the Germans seem to feel that they have suffered enough, whatever their crimes. “Whatever material losses were inflicted on other countries, Ger- many has lost more,” is the way the average German seems to feel, officers who saw the reply. He nam- back into the Diplomatic spotlight spread industries as steel, automo- the report said. ed these as Secretary of War Stim- at a time when events in Iran, an- son, General Marshall and the Chief other point of friction between Rus-" ;5,4 commynications, as those to of groaners of the War Plans Division, Gen.|sia and the Western Allies, also ap- Leonard T. Gerow. | pear to be getting more instead of But Clark persisted, saying that less complicated. he wanted Miles' opinion as a mili- | tary man of long experience. {Russia has turned down the United “Very well, sir,” replied Miles. “My ' States proposal of a week ago that opinion is that that message was a Russia and Britain as well as this totally inadequate reply to the mes- sage it purported to reply to.” INFORMED OF ATTACK country withdraw all troops from Ithe little middle eastern country by {January 1 While dispatches from Tehran said . bile, aviation, mining, oil, utilities which the act should apply. i | This list, however, was not con-| clusive, although Mr. Truman said small and local labor troubles. It pictured Germany as a land and quoted one civil servant as saying “the only thing Germans would be able really to agree on would be some form of A Moscow report last night said the Jegislation should not cover assistance.” The report disclosed that the Not ony were the plans complete | for the invasion of Czechoslovakia— with the help of Hungary—but the German air force expected France to join the fight and prepared de- tailed plans for attack in the west, ths evidence introduced by Ameri- can prosecutors made plain. Relaying Hitler’s “unalterable de- cision to smash Czechoslovakia by military action” to commanders of the Germany army, navy and air forces, Field Marshal Wilhelm Kei- tel, Chief of the High Command, was quoted in an official directive es ordering that “its execution must be assured as from Oct. 1, 1938, at the latest.” Ctld-Blooded-Invasion Detailed plans for the blitz in- vasion and an agreement that Hun-| gary would join in the attack left | i | | council of the Evangelical Church p in Germany had made a formal little doubt at the trial that c):cl i protest to the Inter-Allied Control cold-blooded invasion would have| WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—Congress-‘2-°°0 American troops had arriv- ional investigators heard today that ed as replacements for men going Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short's staff was home for discharge, State Depart- informed before the Pearl Harbor ment officials said it still is the attack that the Japanese consul in intention of this country to get all - |its troops out of Iran by the first lof the year. | Final refusal of the Russians to accede to the American suggestion would not bar other moves at find- ing a solution for the Iranian diffi- jculties, but it would increase the generally expressed suspicions of diplomatic authorities here that the Russians want conditions in Iran iwhich they have the best chance |to get by keeping their troops on WASHINGTON—Invigatoring Re-|hand. publican Senator Bill Knowland of| One prevalent theory among the California came up recently with a|American officials is that the Rus- labor - management plan whichjsians would like to get a govern- (Continued on 7Pagek7'wo) - e The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DRFW PEARSON Bus Found; 5 BodiesIn It | Further DivflOperations . Abandoned - Mass | Funeral Services CHELAN, Wash, Dec. 3.—Grief- istricken parents of nine children | whose bodies still ‘ie in spow-rim- med Lake Cnelan, victims of a school bus disaster which last week claimed | England and! been carried out if France had not signed the Munich pact on Sept. 20, 1938—two days befcre the deadline set by the Ger- |ing when 6,000 men left their jobs jon the New York waterfront, tying nearly took the breath away from his conservative, hand-sitting GOP colleagues. Young Knowland, who succeeded to the moss-grown Senate seat long occupied by Hiram Johnson, pro- posed that wages be adjusted once a year by collective bargaining in accordance with the earning power of business. He also proposed an immediate wage increase of 10 percent in or- der to sustain buying power through the Nation. Finally the young California Sen-| ator proposed that labor and man- agement get together and festimate each year what the coming year’s business would be, together with the most equitable division of pro- fits for the workers (through wag- es), for the stockholders (through dividends) and for the consumers| (through lower prices). | Such a plan, of course, would mean the new and—to some busi-| ness moguls—revolutionary step of opening the books of a company to the public. - RECONVERSION STYMIED Progressive as this is, Senator Knowland's idea already has re- ceived support in many Congres-| sional quarters. It is argued that if the books of the big auto compan- ies or U. S. Steel were available for| examination, it could be accurately ascertained just how much wage| increase was justified. It is also sr-} gued that companies as big as U. S.| Steel and General Motors are vir-; tual public utilities. When they stop| operation it affects business throughout the Nation. Reconver- sion is absolutely stymied. This is also why it is being pro- posed that President Truman re- vive the old TNEC, or something similar to it. The TNEC was a joint | George W. Ruotsala, Willlam A.11. | Sster, Viola M. Rankin, | ment in Iran which was either Com-|a total of 16 lives, today agreed munist dominated or well within the|that further dragging and diving| forbit of Moscow's direct influence.|operations be abandoned. 5, S = Mass funeral services will be con- DE GAU ducted for the dead ghildren from the Chelan Mascnic Temple at 2| {p. m. Wednesday. Services for the| +bus driver, Royal Jack Randle, 26, will be on Tuesday. ! ‘There will be a mass memorial at the scene of the disaster on the IN FRE“(H MOVES ! edg? of Lake Chelan following Wed- nesday's services PARIS, Dec. 3—Nationalization of | Lt. Chep Spenser, director of ve- France’s electrical industry was fore- | hicle safety inspection for Wash- cast today as the next goal of the|ington State Patrol, reported mean Constituent Assembly, which passed |While that the school bus, recover: a sweeping financial reform pro-;ed from the lake yesterday and tak- gram at a special session yesterday.|en to a garage for examination, | The Assembly voted 521 to 35 to|showed “no mechanical defects that take over the share and manage-|might have caused the accident.” | ment of the Banque de France and| The bus was found Saturday by four major deposit banks. It was a|New York diver C. E. Meyers, in 210! marked victory for Gen. De Gaulle,|feet of water, 250 feet off shore,| interim President, who appeared|resting upside down, facing shore- personally in the Chamber of(Wward. It contained only five bodies, Deputies to appeal to the legisla- |including the driver. ture to press for the national-| AR QATE Db Gy Lzfil::ln a[Hbusn‘ress or investment‘i y i h 5. e id incltwie f these | ; To Do This; Next H H Time, 100 Years chances for reviving her export| trade. ‘ The Banque de France will be na-| tionalized before January 1, 1946, and shareholders will be reimbursedf with dividends not higher than those ol 1944. i NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Don’t wait| & T up for the next time: it won’t hap-| ANCHORAGE GUESTS |pen again for one hundred years. | Among Anchorage residents re-\ write out the date today and| gistering at the Baranof this week-|ijt reads' 12-3-45—a straight numeri- | end were: Charlotte Lindsey, Arelical progression. | Walters, Mildred Reade Adams,| It happened once before this year: |, 23-45. and . Mrs, ! The next time will he January 23, ‘i2045, which will be 1-23-45. | ——————— | { | CAPT. JOESTING, WIFE HERE | FROM PALMER Capt. and Mrs. P. H. Joesting of ~ Mrs. L. A. Stark and son, resi- Bill Lofholm and so: (Continued on Page Four) Fairbanks are in town. They are re- dents of Palmer, are registered at gistered at the Baranof, the Baranof, Orders Arrest, 59 Japs | | New Directive by Mac- . Many Reforms-Includ- ! Arthur Hits Into Every Strata of Nip Life (By RUSSELL BRINES) TOKYO, Dec. 3.-—General Mac- Arthur’s newest directive ordering the arrest of 59 prominent Japan- ese as War Crimes suspects reach- es into every strata of Nipponese society but leaves unanswered the question: what is a war criminal? Neither rank nor position will protect suspected war criminals, MacArthur’s directive demonstrates. The new “Rogues Gallery” in- cludes one Imperial Prince, an ex- president of the Privy Council, two former Premiers and nine erst- while Cabinet Ministers, five prom- inent Zaibatsu (industrialists), mil- bankers and newspaper ex- ecutives. These men are sandwiched into the latest war criminal list among some of Japan's most influential leaders—and some whose presence py in this company is puzzling. The aewest group reached deeply into domestic totalitarianism. Sev- en of the militarists once were top men in the dreaded Kempeitai, or Thought Police, Several were prom- inent in the Imperial Rule Assist- ance Association, Japan’s first single party, and jts successors. NO MERGER OF ARMED FORCES SAYS ADMIRAL Nimitz Again Protests Pro- posed Move-Gives ORGANICACT FOR ALASKA WORKED OVER Redrafting Taking Place- ing Elected Governor WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Alaska's! Organic Act is being redrafted to! provide many reforms in the Terri- tory, including an elected governor. | The new draft, however, probably will not be sent to Congress until after Alaska votes next fall on the question of Statehood. Edwin C. Arnold, Director of the Interior Department’s Division of Territories and Island Possessions, told a reporter today that the ques- tion of when the new draft will be submitted has not been decided. | If Alaska votes for Statehood, the inew draft probably will be sent to | Congress shortly thereafter in order |to give the Territory greater self- |government pending statehood. Con- gress, of course, would decide the Statehood issue Among other things, the next act! weuld give additional taxing power the Territorial Legislature, along with a complete judicial system. The | present act hds not been revised since 1912 | NAVY BLAMES CAPTAIN FOR RTED DOWN NEAR SITKA SEARCH I UNDERWAY FOR CRAFT Interior of E;?afiof Island Believed fo Be Scene of Accident SITKA, Alaska, Pec. 3.—~Army, Navy and elvillan searching par- ties combed the rugged fnterior of Baranof a Navy i down on a routine It between Kodiak and Annette The plane Wa§ reported lost Friday mq but high winds in the aréa havé made a thor- ough search wirtually impossible until yesterday. . iy B. C. TO AID VANCOUVER, British Colum- bia, Dec. 3.—~The Royal Canad- ian Air Force's Western Air Command has offered full as- sistance in for the American plu“\‘. g on a flight between k, Alaska, and Seattle. The Plane is be- lieved down on | of Island and has been sinve Fri- day. It's not known how many persons were aboard. UNCONFIRMED REPORTS Unconfirmed reports received in Juneau stated that 22 per- sons were belleved to be aboard the missing plane, Another uncenfirmed report this afterncon stated the plane had been located but no par- ticulars were given. SITKA REPORT SITKA, Alaska, Deec. 3.—Sev- SHIP'S L0SS WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. — The! Navy formally acused Capt. Charles B. McVay III today of negligence and culpable inefficiency in the |loss of the 10,000-ton cruiser In- dianapolis in the closing days of weakened us before Pearl Harbor, with the idea of reducing the Navy g, yegee] of the Navy to be hazard-, | the war. His Reasons ! The charges were revealed at a WASHINGTON, Dec, 3—Admiral court martial convened at the Chester Nimitz, newly appointed 85 washington Navy Yard to try the Chief of Naval Operations, has 47.year-old son of a retired Ad- spoken out again against the pro- mirq) posed merger of the armed forces Eyery man aboard the Indianapo-' into a single department. In & Jis was a casualty when enemy ac- . radio forum (broadcast over station tion sent her to the bottom of the WINX) Nimitz said the development Philippine Sea last July 30. Dead of Naval striking power should not o, missing totaled 880, the wound- be interrupted for the sake of what oq 316 | he called an administrative amal- gigned by s'ecremy of the Navy! gamation. ¥ Forrestal, the charges made public The Pacific war commander de- for the first time as the seven- clared that the American people are pqn miljtary tribunal convened, ac- | toying with the same notions that ,,ceq McVay of: ! 1. “Through negligence suffering to a mere semblance of a protective force. of atomic energy and robot bombs are not yet known. He\ssid it would be only common sense to keep the naval advantage we already have until a better substitute is found. > Says Americans Are Forgetfing Pronllggs fo Vels KANSAS CITY, Dec. 3.—Joseph M. Stack, Pittsburgh, National Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans | of Foreign Wars, charged last night that “signs are already apparent that many American are forgetting the promises they made to the men in the Armed forces.” Stack, arriving here on the eve of a 5-day meeting of National and State officers of the V.F.W., declar- ed in an interview that a growing public apathy on veteran welfare matters was a challenge to the ser- vicemen’s organization. “Already,” he said, were not called upon to make per- sonal sacrifices in the war are be- ginning to question the right of the veteran to expect certain preferen- tial treatment needed to speed his adjustment to civilian life.” e SON BORN TO EIDES Mr. and Mrs. Albert N. Eide are the happy parents of a baby boy, born last evening at St. Ann's Hos- pital. The young man, who weighed eight pounds, four ounces, is the { first child for the Eides. The proud father is an instructor (helan s(hool i Council charging injustices in the i | de-Nazification program. ot | 2 | “This campaign as we see it in the American zone will not exter- minate Hitlerism,” the protest said. Mans. “Indeed danger exists that Hitler-| Plans for the bombing of Prague| ism will win new adherents.” without warning were made by Col.{ - |Gen. Alfred Jodl, German Army Chief of Staff, while Sudeten Ger-( 24 H w k |mans were ordered to stir up unrest | il 0llf 0[ and Hungary had promised to be| s |ready to “take part in the conflict |0ppage |by October first,” official German 4 | documents disclosed. Taking Place |““The four-power tribunal took great e linterest in a detailed German study NEW YORK, Dec. 3—A 24-hour oD how to deal with all possible vlo-l work stoppage which the National lations of xmemauqnal law involved Maritime Union (CIO) said would in the Czech invasion. involve 90,000 workers throughout| TR the nation got under way this morn-| IHREE (HILDRE“ up 120 ships. | The Union said the stoppage was To IESIIFY AT a protest that overseas veterans % were not being returned to the MURDER 'I‘RIAll United States as rapidly as possible. The Union had contended that ships —_— ! it claims should be used to trans-| SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3.—A port troops are being used for other|mcther accused of murder will see purposes. |her three children for the first time !in two months today when they are| STOPPAGE HERE called upon to testify in what may | The freighter Cricket arrived in prove to be ene of the most dramatic port last night at 11 o'clock from and poignant episodes of Mrs. Annie Seattle but the slings are noiseless,|Irene Mansfeldt's trial no freight is being discharged as| Attorneys for the 45-year-old San the work stoppage hits this section Francisco socialite persuaded her last 830 U i g AR iweok to allow the children to take "Caciali the witness stand. Socialized Trene, 15, John, 14, and Terry Meditine" | Mansfeldt, 12, have had no oppor- ltunity to see their mother since she (ondemned |was placed in jail October 4 after (admittedly shooting Mrs. Vada Mar- | — |tin, 36. CHICAGO, Dec. 3. — Immediate| Chief Defense Council Vincent formation of voluntary non-profit Hatlinan fears the emotional im- health care systems in every state— pact of their reunion may interfere on a state-wide basis—had the en-!with the children’s testimony, but dorsement today of State Medical through them he hopes to bolster Society Officers at a conference his contention Mrs. Mansfeldt was where President Truman's health|in a state of “somnolentia” and un- program was condemned as ‘“so- conscious of her acts in the hours cialized medicine.” | before Mrs. Martin was slain. A resolution urging that the| S i et H statewide health plans be estab-| H H | lished at once, with “free choice of| (harlle (hapllns Io ! purveyors of health care,” was a-| dopted at the first annual confer-| H A 'h Bab ence of presidents and other offi-| ave no er y cers of state medical societies, at-| tended by delegates from 37 states.| HOLLYWOD, Dec. 3—TOke Char- e v o o {lie Chaplins expect their second SIO(K 0“0"‘"0"5 |child sometime next March, the ’comedian announced last night. A NEW YORK, Dec. 3. — Closmg‘daughter was born in August 1944 to, quotation of Alaska Juneau mineithe couple. Chaplin’s wife is the stock is 8%, American Can 105'z,|former Oona O'Neill, daughter of Anaconda 47%, International Har-|playwright Eugene O'Neill. vester 99'%, Kennecott 50%, New | B i York Central 31%, Northern Pacific] COMMANDER WEED HERE 37%, U. S. Steel 82, Pound $4.03'2,)] Commander O. D. Weed, of the. Curtiss-Wright 8%4. Coast Guard at Ketchikan is re- Sales today were 2,610,000 shares. gistered at the Baranof, , in the Juneau Public Schools. Both mother and baby are reported dqr ing well, He pointed out that the potentials “many who‘ ed,” and “Culpable inefficiency in the per- formance of duty.” NATIONALISTS " SPEARHEADS IN ~ GOOD ADVANCES, 'United Reported Only 30 | Miles from Rich City 1 of Mukden | | | | | 1 | | CHUNGKING, Dec. 3.—The rlch; industrial city of Mukden in Man- churia lies only 30 miles ahead of advancing Nationalist spearheads, | Chinese Central News Agency re-| ported today. As Chiang Kai-shek’s forces roll- ed northward without reported op- position, Central News said the first| Government troops to be flown in-| to Manchuria would be taken in by | I plane next week |‘ Today's report indicates an ad-| vance of 35 miles. The Nationalists yesterday reached Tahushan, 65 miles from Mukden. Central News did not, specify if Tahushan had been by-passed or the Communists had withdrawn. | Press dispatches stated negotia- tions are “proceeding satisfactorily”| on a new Chinese-Russian agree- ment on Manchuria. { The Russians recently agreed to defer for a month withdrawal of Red troops from Manchuria, thus| enabling Nationalist forces to take| over. l | | | S eee HERE FROM HOONAH J. A. Ronning 'of Hoonah is aj guest at the Gastineau. eral reports of dark smoke ob- served in the area of Harbor Mountain about 11 o'clock Fri- day morning caused the local fire department to investigate all road areas with ne result. Saturday noon a report was re- ceived that 3 Nayy plane was missing, last heard of in the Sitka area. A party of immedi- ately organized 'd/¥earch in the Harbor Mountain area and ob- served a spot ad/dark in the snow on Kal . Mountain which appeared /disturbed for an area of 500 yards. Unable to reach the area be- fore dark, continued search in daylight was made Sunday morning in conjunction with the crew of the Hemlock and two Alaska Coasta) alrplanes in the afternoon. \AE The dist area was found { with no indi- lock and volunteers to investi- gate should thé plane search require land A report of the last of the plane was very indefinite and it could be in a 50-mil¢ radius from Sitka. Fire Sunday from an unknown cause gutted the doned Of- ficers’ Barracks' AV, Camp Riley, two miles from fown. DOUGLAS 'WEDDING Tony B. Florendo and Nora Marks, both of Juneau, were mar- ried Sunday in Douglas by U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray. Attend- ants were Sam Constantino and Mrs. Elizabeth Constantino. | LET'S TAKE A CHANCE, WE ONLY HAVE SHOPPING DAYS LEFT UNTIL