The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIREK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,134 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5, 1945 — o PRICE TEN CENTS R ASSOCIATED PRESS FOUR LIVES ARE LOST IN COAST GALE f{ WESTERN MAN_ SCHOOL HEADS U. . Pilofs Turned Back 'MURRAY SPLITS WITH TRUMAN ON LABOR DISPUTES DEATH FOR YAMASHITA IS ASKED ~Commission’s Ver MANILA, Dec. 5—A five-general U. S. Military Commission refused to ponder the fate of Lt. Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita today after hearing final summation in \a.'hich\pmlg that workers end strikes and the prosecution ~demanded the|,orain from calling further strikes, death penalty and the dormso‘“m.rw declared "le,“d"ld” for “American justice—ac-|"".oup objective is to restore the "“I‘[““ gt SRy huge cut in the national pay en- ”"‘f’“spd a verdiet Friday velope. Unless we do, clearly Am: Major Robert M. Kerr, Portland,| o, fo0e5 pad times. If the work- ?ne.. chief prosecutor, d'eclmcd |hrft‘“.S do not have the purchasing pow- in view fu the aggravated nature o ¢4 hyy the goods, the wheels of of the crimes and in view of the i, uctry cannot keep turning.” measures of the crimes, We recom-| nurray asserted’ large companies mended that the sentence, of death,!_ citing the U. S. Steel Corp. and be carried out by hanging.” ! General Motors Corp — had flatly Kerr charged that “every reason-|yefysed pay increases and had re- able doubt has been shattered by PITTSBURGH, Dec 5.~Philip ay, one of the strongest back- Harry S. Truman in the poli- t campaign of 1944, has broken s with him over legislation t t proposes to end labor strife in the United States. In softly spoken, but | phrased radio address, CIO dent I ast night accused Admin tion of “abject coward- tice” and declared “the design” of |laws proposed by Truman “is to weaken and ultimately destroy labor union organizations.” Answering President Truman’s h h bitterly Presi- a fused government requests to re- devastating witnesses” against the | ,me negotiations with the unions Japanese Army commander, whol “Confronted with this situation, is accused of condoning innumer-!american labor, in self-protection able atrocities by his troops in the|gnq in the interest of the entire Philippines | nation, have turned to their r “There is no doubt of his re-|to strike” said Murray sponsibility and negligence,” Kerr! I said in asking a verdict of guilty! GRE OPPOSES MURRAY and the death sentence. WASHINGTON. Dec. 5 Presi- Col. Ha Clarke, concluding| dent William Green of the Amer Yamashita’s defense arguments,|can Federatfon of Labor, today dis- asked the commission to “exemplify| agreed with CIO Chief F 1lip the concepts and standards of Am-| Murray's conclusion that the design erican justice, the keystone of Am-|of Jaws proposed by President Tru- erican democracy, by returning alman is to “ultimately destroy” labor finding of not guilty [ unions. The commission, which has henrdi Emerging from a conference more than 200 witnesses and re-|with Mr. Truman, Green told White ceived more than 100 documents| House reporters that while the from both sides in the 32-day hear-: president’s latest proposal for end- ing, recessed until Friday, when its| jng strikes “not acceptable or decisions will be announced satisfactor: the AFL, he T i thought the President was “sincere” No! {said his principal opposition was to the 30-day ‘“cooling off” period CHICAGO, Dec. 5—Two gunmm! suggested in Mr. Truman’s Monday walked up to the ticket window at;message to Congress recommending the Beftha Theatre and one pointed | fact-finding procedures in wage dis- a pistol at Cashier Helen Tirtdle, 38. Putes “Give me the money,” the bandit| Green said. cause ‘‘much “No,” said Miss Tindle. | ‘unrest.” The robbers, non-pulsed, looked | ¥ at each other and walked rapidly!' TS TR SALE HERE ' TOMORROW PM, Merry - Go-Round' i ht ay Answering a = question, Green asserted the plan would delay” and result in - The Washington | Seized Alaska furs valued ai ap- | proximately $15,000 will be put up to public auction here tomorrow by the Alaska Game Commission. The iI’J4 lots of pelts to be sold are head- lined by a large number of beaver land several choice marten, both of which furs are now in great demand |and are bringing highest prices, Jack O’Connor, Fish and Wildlife Game By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON In 1925 this writer was making a laborious trip over the Gobi Desert to Urga, capital of Mongolia. Across the horizon, heading down from the Stherian border, came a long cara- | yanagement Supervisor, states. cars—Fords, Buicks, "y, aqdition to local fur dealers Chevrolets of uncertain vintage—| ’ § S alF driven by Chinets -shantfeirs. Charles Goldstein and H. J. Yur- Puffing across the plain, they pulled up at the water hole where I was encamped. On the running hoard of each car was strapped a long wooden box packed with rifles. Inside each car were smaller boxes of cart- ridges. They were being shipped by Soviet Russia to stir up civil war in China. But their recipient was none ers will flash their “up signs” in other than Chiang Kai-shek, more|their own cabalistic ways; all form- recently the ardent opponent ofing a colorful episode. Russia. | The several lots of furs are open to Later, this writer visited Ch‘““¢-'»‘£inspection today in the A. B. Hall. stronghold in South China. He was - in command of the Whampao| Cadets, a Red Chinese Army,| trained by Soviet officers including| SAYS STAIEHOOD the famous Comrade Borodin. | To Britons and Americans at| that time, Chiang Kai-shek and! Communism were munists had clamped down a boy-| HONOLULL, * cott against Americans, Britons,|Se. Alice Kamokila Campbell, and all foreigners that was no joke. | Democrétic National Committee- Grass grew in the streets of the| WOmal, believes that ready have been attracted here to the sale and others are expected to arrive today. Now here are C. H. Cohen of Seattle and M. Hamberg, who rey nts eastern dealers. Ear scratching and pencil flicking |is due to start at 1:30 o'clock to- | morrow afternoon when the Game Commission’s auctioneer open the bidding in the A. B. Hall and buy- one and the same thing. Both were equally hated—and for good reason. In Canton, he and his so-called Com-| Dec. 5—Territorial the| man, two out-of-town buyers al-| Survivors o Six Missing Planes Hunted Ground, Air Pé!rols Make Search in Pacific North- west, Also in Alaska PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 5-Ground and air patrols searched the storm- battered Pacific Northwest today for survivors of six airplanes mi 'ing in the past 10 days Fate of 20 fliers, one civilian mail pilot and 19 servicemen, was still cloaked in the snowbound Cascades and the rugged coastal ranges be- tween northern California and Nome. Two other planes that disap- peared Nov. 1 boosted the total air mishaps to eight. Forty one men were involved in all of the plane ents. Ten have survived, si are known dead and authorities directing the search expressed doubts today many of the others still unaccounted for would be found alive. ace Wreckage Reached Rescue crews Iate yesterday reached wreckage of a Navy Ven- tura plane that crashed a week ago near Mount St. Helens. Four Navy airmen are missing. One Army passenger the only known sur- vivor, About the same time yesterd: bodies of four Army airmen were removed from one B-24 that dis. appeas Nov. 1. It was doubted the second B-24 with five aboard would be spotted until after the spring thaw is Latest Disappearances Latest of planes reported missing was a small Army training plane being flown by F. O. John Lanzette, McChord Field, Wash. It disap- peared after leaving Red Bluff, if., for Hamilton Field, Calif A Navy Privateer transport with 12 men aboard is missing after leaving Kodiak, Alaska, Nov. 29 Air patr are searching a 1,000- mile stretch of Alaskan coastal regions along the route. Near Nome, Alaska, réscuers were attempting to reach a mail plane piloted by Don George which crashed a week ago. East of Coos Bay, Ore. ground units continued looking for trace of a twelfth man unaccounted for in the crash of an Army C-46 on Nov. 26. Nine survived and bodies of two others were in the wreckage. TSH! TSHI ELEANOR FORT DEVENS, Mass.; Dec. 5— Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt says that Madame Chiang, wife of the | Generalissimo, was typical of the | Chinese in that “she can talk beautifully about democracy, but she does not know how to live de- mocracy.” The former First Lady referred | to Madame Chiang during a ques- | tion period after speaking: to sol- | dier patients at the post’s Lovell General Hospital. | *The inability to “live democracy,” she said, was typical of the Chi- nese “not because of any facetious- | ness, but because they never had |an opportunity to see or practice | democracy in action.” ‘Great Authority On Heredify Dies | PASADENA, Calif,, Dec. 5—Death | has claimed Dr. Thomas Hunt ! Morgan, regarded by many men of science as the world’'s foremost authority on heredity. | The 79-year-old winner of the| | 1933 Nobel prize for medicine suc- |cumbed at Huntington Memorial Hospital after a short illness. | Professor Emeritus of Biology at | California Institute of Technolo; IS BOOSTED FOR NAVY SECRETARY WASHINGTON, Dec. 5-—A group [ westerners is backing Rep. Harry R. Sheppard (D-Calif.) for Secre- tary of the Navy in event Secretary | James Forrestal resigns, Rep. John M. Cofiee (D-Wash aid today. Coffee told a reporter that the| up expects Forrestal to leave the abinet before and believes {Sheppard is the logical man to suc- |cead him because of the Califor- |nian’s experience as chairman of the {House Appropriations sub-committee n Nayal Affairs Sheppard is well known along the ientire cc from Southern ifor- nia to Alaska, re he was once {engaged in the pper business,” Coffee said. “Hé would receive the |united support of the Pacific s as well as all the western states an it is not too much to I that I President Truman will see fit to select another westerner as a mem- ber of his cabinet. He is thoroughly | familiar with the Navy and has been ! ardent t of its pro- ms." « | 8! |& THREAT OF GOERING IS SHOWN UP Would Unleash Luftwaffe Unless Czechoslovakia | Surrendered By DAN NUERNBER Dec Hermann Geerir wattered Czechoslovakia's last will to resist Hitler's war ma chine with the ultimatum that “half of Prague would lie in ruins from aerial bombardment within two hours,” the International Mili- tary Tribunal was told today. | American prosecutors at the trial of Goering and 19 other Nazi lead- lers accused of war crimes laid be- | fore the court official German {records and French and British | diplomatic reports disclosing the Hitler pattern of threats, treachery | and broken promises that crushed the Czechs only five months after | the Munich Pact led British Prime { Minister Neville Chamberlain to proclaim “Peace in Our Time.” Cold Details In cold detail, the prosecution disclosed the ordeal of Czechoslo- vakian President Emil Hacha when he was imperiously summoned to Berlin the day before German troops marched across the border on March 14, 1939, and was told that Prague would be bombed if the Czechs fired on the Nazi in- vaders. Goering bullied Hacha with the bombing threat if he did not imme- diately “invite” German troops into his country, according to the re- port of French Ambassador Robert Coulondre, read into the evidence. Goering’s Alibi The prosecution then read British Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson's report that Goering in an inter- view later did not deny the threat but gave as his alibi that he in- tended only to unleash the luft- waffe “if German lives were lost.” Under this pressure, German records showed, President Hacha { finally gave in and the next morn- ling the Germans poured over the ibm'd(ar without opposition. _Byrbnfiice | ~ OnNew Job | DE LUCE 5 i | WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — Byron | Price, veteran newsman and former | censor: hip director, has accepted i‘he vice presidency of the Motion | Picture Producers and Distributors of America. | He will be in charge of the | v,! Hollywood branch of what used to tatehood for, Dr. Morgan was an admitted leader| be called “the Hayes office” until foreign settlement. The American| Hawail at this time would be sui-fx‘n at least five fields of scientific, Eric Johnston succeeded Will Hays Consul General, Douglas Jenkins, | ¢4al.” i ¢ could be seen each morning sweep-; Mrs. Campbell said in an inter- ing out his office. Every foreign!view that by bloc voting Hawaii's official in Canton cooked his own| JaPanese-Americans can swing an meals — and considered himself| election.” She warned that the lucky to get food. Only humorous “ties of these citizens are still too aspect was watching the tall and|close to Japan.” ! (Hawaii's 1940 population cluded 135,000 Japanese.) ———— — in- (Continued on Page Four) | research, but his contributions to shadowed all else. D FROM POINT RETREAT epoch-making genetics over- John C. Barry, Point Retreat, jarrived in Juneau yesterday. He is stopping at the Baranof. | as president of the organization ( In announcing the appointment, Johnston said Price will supervise research to improve techniques and “toward wider use of the film; ex- | tension of the use of motion pic- | tures in education and in training:| and development of enlightened labor-management relations.” NORTHWEST TO FIND TIME Powerful Jap Fleel thaf |5 SWEPT Wrecked Plans of Nippons By STORM FULLY FILLED Administrators'(onferen(e5 fo Open Here Tomorrow | Has Heavy Schedule Crowded hours mark the program for the first annual Southeast Alas- | ka School Administrator confer- | ence opening hers Thursday. Releas- | ed today by the office of Territor-| ial Commissioner of Education is a| list showing the following topits up for discussion by thc school heads, with discussion leaders assigned to each topic f Required Subjects for H. 8. Grad- | uation A. B. Phillips. Uniform Records and Reports for Alask George J. Fabricius. Physical Education vs. Physical| Fitn Lester L. Wingard. Alaska Athletic Association ter L. Wingard Alaska Teachers’ ‘heron J. Cole Tt —Les- Association Junior H Organization in J. E. Danielson sed from School for Instruction J. E. Dan- Pup Religious ielson. School Lunches — T. F. Dryden. Supervision in Elementary School T. F. Dryden Supervision in - High William H. Seaman. Voeational. Education in Alaska Henry Harmon Retardation in Public William H. Seaman. Teachers’ Retirement Law —A Phillips Visnal Aids in Alaska Schools Theron J. Cole School Health jam L. Jahn Elementary and High School At- tendance Uniform Marking System for the| Territory — Gilmore S. Reese. | Teachers' Salaries Wwilliam L. | Jahn. Administrators’ Salaries — George ! Fabricius. | Utilizing Military Walter A. Savikko. School Construction Prospects o Henry Harmon Tenure for Alaska Teache more S. Reese. Program The program for the two - day administrators’ meeting here Thurs- | day and Friday scheduled six gen- eral conferences. Most of these are to be held in the City Council! Chamber at the City Hall and will te open to the public. In addition the administrators expect to carry their problems along to the table when they take time out for break- fast, luncheon and dinner. Thursday's schedule is: Eight o'clock a, m., breakfast and organi- zation, Baranof Hotel; 9:30 o'clock a. m., general conference, Council Chamber; noon, Chamtar of Com- merce luncheon, Baranof Hotel; 1:30 c'clock p. m., general conference,| Council Chamber; 4:30 to 7 o'clock | p. m,, free time; 7 to 10:30 o'clock | p. m., general conference at the home of Commissioner of Education | James Ryan. I Program for Friday: Nine c'clock a. m., general conference, Council Chamber; noon, luncheon, Baranof Hotel; 1:30 o'clock p. m., generalj conference, Council Chamber; 3 o'clock p. m., tea as guests at the Juneau Public Schools; 6:30 o'clock p. m., dinner, Baranof Hotel; 9 c'clock p. m., general conference, Dr. Ryan’s home. Ameng the out-of-towners com- ing here to attend the conference Theron J. Cole and William L. Jahn, school superintendents at Sitka and Haines, respectively, already have | arrived in Juneau, and with good flying weather prevailing, all thvi others were expeeted to land here to- | day to be on hand for the organiza- | ticnal meeting tomorrow morning. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Dec. 5 — Closing quotation on Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 9, American Can| 164%, Anaconda 46%, Curtiss-| Wright 8%, International Harvester 99, Kennecott 50%, New York Cen-| tral 31%, Northern Pacific 38, U.{ S. Steel 82%, Pound $4.03'% Sales today were 1,860,000 share Dow, Jones averages today we as follows: Industrials, 192.08; rai €4.47; utilities, 28.67. - P. R. EAMSES HERE P. R. Eamses, Ketchikan resident, School Schools program — Will- J Surpluses fs— ail- is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel Walter A. Savikko. |8 | ! ber, ABDICATION OF HIROHITO IS QUESTION Emperor’s Efforts fo Start War Is Brought Right Out Into Open TOKYO, Dec 1WO0 undgercur- rent questions whose answers may shape the future of Japan—did Emperor Hirohito help push Japan into the war and should he abdi- cate? were out in the open today. Isanji Tanaka, independent diet member, asked Minister of State Joji Matsumoto what the govern- ment thought about abdication of the emperor, Kyodo news agency said. Tanaka indicated some circles thought abdication possible after Prince Konoye's discussion on the subject with foreign corresponden Kyodo quoted Matsumoto as re- plying that “even to express in public such a thing as abdication is too awesome.” The minister ;added that those who contemplate | such a “mistaken” idea were the exception Discussion of helped push Japan caused an equal stir. Unprecedented Question The unprecedented question sked late yesterday at a plenary jon of the House of Represent es budget committee. In reply, Premier Kijuro Shidehara told the House he personally believed Hiro- hito had no war responsibility and added that the occupation zuthori- ties have not raised the question with the government. Today a retired Japanese gen- eral, Toshizo Nishio, told the As- sociated Pr that Hirohito at- tended a highly secretive confer- ence held at the Imperial Palace in late November or early Decem- 1941, just prior to the war’s outbreak. Nishio said the Mikado informed the Supreme War Council “Japan might have to fight if things didn't improve.” Nishio added, however, what other Japanese have_said—the Em- peror wasn't told a neak attack on Pearl Harbor would open the con- flict. Hirohito the war whether into - > (OL. JOHNSON (OMES NORTH ) 5 Col. John Joht 0 toured Alaska last -year as an Army officer, is return- ing to the territory as new chief lof the Alaska Railway, succeeding Col. Otto Ohlson. He said he would fly north today. The colonel said he came from the national capital, where he had been in conference with officials of the Department of the Interior and others interested in Alaska. He will take charge of the rail- way Jan. 1; with headquarters at Anchorage. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Margaret Shafer, from Seattle, arrived at Northland Dock early this afternoon. North Sea sailed from Seattle this morning for Juneau. Denali scheduled Seattle today. Tongas heduled cattle tomorrow. Princess Norah, from the south, scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- noen or evening Yukon may evening, scheduled southbound Sat- here to sail from to sail from arrive southbound Baranof schedtiled southbound about December 12. ~ HERE FROM WRANGELL Mr. and Mis. E. M. McPhee of Wrangell have arrived in Juneau and are stoppingyat Hotel Juneau. BULLETIN—WASHINGTON 4 . Short additional warnings to put Ha- | waii on a final alert before thie Japanese attacked Pearl Ha LL BRINES American pilots | who turned back the powerfull Japanese fleet in the “David and! Goliath” victory at Midway in June. | 1942, wrecked Tokyo's plans to win compromise peace by holding the Pacific in a stranglehold of outly-| ing bases. | That was disclosed today by Capt. Toshikazu Chmae, former chief of the naval cperations section of the navy ministry, in revealing details of what Japan considers one of the two decisive naval battles of the war. Japan sent 11 battleships and 76 other combat vessels against the tiny sandspit island, which was de- fended by a relative handful of American planes and 23 warships. The heaviest U. S. fleet element were five cruisers under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance 5 To Occupy Midway The objective was to occupy Midway with 3,500 marines and army infantrymen, who were car- ried aboard 16 transports. The fleet Chmae said, had no intention of attempting a Hawailan landing. | Midway was considered the key to a vast coordinated naval offensive designed to secure advanced aerial observation ses from the Aleu- tians fo the New Hebrides. It wj timed to coincide with the capture of Kiska But dive-bombers and fighter planes smashed the Midway thrust in the first fiery day—June 4, 1042 Key Outpost Chmae said Midway was to be- come an airbase and key outpost. Its seizure was the foundation of the plan, which included the oc- cupation of the Solomons. The ad- mirals believed this tightened de- fense would prolong the war and lead America to accept a com- promise peace. Chmae said the bombardment of Dutch Harbor on June 3-4 and the occupation of Kiska and Attu were conducted by relatively small Fifth| Fleet units. The Coral Sea battle,, ‘May 3-8, “only pestponed” a cor- related plan to occupy Port Moresby. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — Con- gressional investigators learned to-| day that the late President Roose- velt declined te approve on June 7, 1941, a British-American plan for joint military operations in the event the United States became in- volved in war. This was brought out in records| submitted to the Senate-House committee investigating the Japa-| nese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec.| 7, 1941, They showed, however, that Mr. Roosevelt's military aide, Maj. Gen. E. M. Watson, told War Department officials thap “in case! of war, the papers would be re-| turned to the President for m.s\‘ approval.” ! They also showed that on Aug.! 29, 1941, Mr. Roosevelt approved a joint Canadian-United States basic’ defense plan - -+ SHIRLEY RUSHES WEST T0 GREET HER KID HUBBY KEARNS, Utah, Dec. 57’11’\1\!1}(5‘ to the Army’s readjustment of its, point discharge systam, the next re- | union of Shirley Temple, grown-up child act with her handsome soldier-husband, is only hours in-| stead of months away. ! John Agar, the 17-year-old| husband of thrée months, few weeks ago for ser- is' back at the depot earmarked a vice in the Pacific, AAF overseas replacement h for a new assignment, and is speeding westward to greet him | Agar was ready to embark on his Pacific duties when, just in the nick of time, the Army reduced its discharge point requirement and im- munized him to overseas duty. | men Three Are R;Srted Dead- Trees, Power Poles Top- pled-Ships in CoHision BULLETIN — SEATTLE, Dec —Four are kncwn to have died in % storm which swept the Pacific Norlhwest. At Shelton, George L. Cunningham, a Public FPower District lineman working atep a pole on a bank, was killed when the bank gave way and the pole fell. Another workman on the pole was uninjured. SEATTLE, Dec. 5—A wild gale raged on into the north today after leaving at least three dead in the Pacific Northwest last night, toppl- ing trees and power poles and un- roofing buildings in Oregon and Washington and menacing the ships crowding down Puget Sound with returning servicemen and freight. Two men . were killed by faliing trees in somewhat similar accidents. At Eugene, Ore, a tree crushed Clifford Mather in the eab of a logging truck and Theodore Dukes, | 40, was killed at Vancouver, Wash., Barracks when @ tree fell on the cab of a bulldozer. John Muzzy, 89, was killed in "Seattle when he touched fallen wires which had set fire to his house. The 13th Naval District sald a number of ships in Puget Sound were damaged in collisions with each other and the shore, but damage was not extensive and there were not reports of casualtles. Idghts were out temporarily in sections of Portland, Seattle and Tacoma, and in many towns in the path of the storm. The gale rushed at 50 miles per hour over much of the region and gusts reached 84 miles an hour. 10,000 BARRELS PLANE GAS LOST ALASKA WATERS PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Dec. 5 —Ten thousand barrels of high oc- tane aviation gascline poured into the sea off the Alaska coast after the Shell Oil Company's tank-r - g N eghale S g Morris Reef on Chatham Sound, it was disclosed today when the 3. 980-ton tanker was brought to Prince Ruper in tow. Carrying aviation gasoline for the United States Army Air Force field at Whitehorse, the Illinols was head- ing for Skagway when she struck Morris Reef three weeks ago, ripping her bottom from fore peak to bridge. ‘With her cargo dissipated, the dam- aged tanker hung on the reef untfl removed by American salvage work- ers. The Illinois carried a crew of 38 and is under command of Captain Ralph L. Kuhn. She is registered at Wilmington, Del. Ex- t-ut of her damage is being surveyed at dry dock. .o MRS. COLLIER HERE Mrs. W. H. Collier arrived on the Steamer Baranof after her trip from Seattle had been interrupted by an attack of influenza while enroute here. She was a passenger on the Alaska from Seattle, but left the ship at Ketchikan last week to ‘enter a hospital. She is joining her’ husband, a recent arrival from the States, who is at present employed by the Lemon Creek Sand @ & Gravel Company HEY ! WAKE UP! CHARLIE! YOU'VE ONLY GOT SHOPPING DAYS LEFT UNTIL CHRISTMAS !