The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 8, 1945, Page 1

"VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,137 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 5 IRER e | PRICE TEN CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 194 JAPEMPEROR NAMED CRIMINAL SUSPECT BIGTHREE * MINISTERS WILL MEET Ominous Subject of Atomic| Energy to Be Discuss- ed in hiosmw By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER | WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—The Big | Three among world powers will make their first joint approach to the ominous subject of atomic en- | ergy control at a meeting of United | States, British and Russian foreign secretaries in Moscow December 15. An official announcement by the State Department said that “an ex»“ change of views on the subjoct of‘ control of atomic energ: dohniv:‘ly‘ would be held. The secretaries also| WILHELMINA GREETS LIEERATOR BIG CRUSH ISPLANNED BY BRITISH Decisive Move Against In- donesians-New Ac- tion in China (By The Associated Press) The British command in the Far East has decided to send ne y forces Lo crush opposition and | restore Dutch sovereignty in Netherlands East Indies, an thoritative scurce said today | The decision, which would end British efforts to compremise Indo- nesian leaders’ difficulties with the Dutch, was said to have been made at a conference in Singapore be- tween Lord Louis Mountbatten and British, French and Dutch com- | manders. au- The | 1 \ l I | | i | i 'WAR TRIALS WILL START ~ THIS MONTH Over Thousand Nippons to Be Proscuted for : Atrocities TOKYO, Dec. 8.—Beaten Japan learned today--on this fourth anni- versary of her declaration of war on United States—the staggering s of defeat { me of the newly reported “price | tags": 1. Japan is paying over $2,200,000 !xL:H_v to support American occupa- | tion forces. l 2. Seme Japanese war | the | cost leaders |may ke tried in Hawaii for “mur- (der” because of the Pearl Harbor attack 3. A diet member has demanded will take up other matters of “cur-| rent concern” to their govemmems.} Secretary of State Byrnes will have | |that Japan regain China's friend- In Loncen the British Foreign | ship by restoring the loot obtained Cifice refused comment, saying | INES MARCH AGAIN to leave by early next week in order| QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, Holland's Wilhelmina is pictured in The | ype matter is in the hands of the MAR ] —The fitst Mariue division was given a reusing welcome by Ifrom that nation to meet Foreign Minister Bevin or; Hague wi_Lh Supreme All’ied (:omxmndf\r_GcnerulDmght.D.Lxscnhu;yer commanasr in’ Thin the Chinese when the leatheyncvks marched in to occupy the city of Tientsin, i 4. \Lt. Qb MOARKHAS - Honiin. Britain and Foreign Commissar Mo- | and his aide, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, when the two came calling Duveh - Aews sency Aneta re-| who led the Japanese to triumph lotov of Russia on the agreed date, Problems which they may discuss| include the civil strife in Iran, Allied | controls for Japan, the unification of China, and means of getting Eu- ropean peace plans back on the track, although the announcement last night did not specify these as discussion topics. Pending an agreement on when | and how to hold a European peace conference, political reconstruction of the continent has been delayed. A troublesome issue has been wheth- o the Tnitea- States and sricin’ BIaMes Trouble fo “"Rea- evi ually wil recognize vern- ! . r et s o |- H1ORBE:- Eloments’/- Cites Teheran Note which Russia considers acceptable. The meeting will afford the first, opportunity for top Anglo-Ameri-| \,SHINGTON, Dec. 8—Russia g:"fls;g‘;:j‘lg’or'n"b*:fu‘l’l‘"g:‘ss“‘* VIEWS plames the trouble in northern : Iran on “reactionary elements which have opposed the extension of national righ to peopde of >>o that area, the State Department This information came TO TESTIFY ate Ir by Jan. 1 | ready had agreed with Britain to { withdraw the troops by next March 12, and said it W no grounds for ! acting earlier, ‘&TOKYO' Dec. 8—Kyodo News| —po.eion Commissar Molotov also| ency said today that Commander | ,.itorated in 'the reply th the Ike Hashimoto, Captain of the sub-| g, i ynijon “adheres unwavering- marine I. I. 58, left by plane yes-! 7 o RUSSIA MAKES REPLY 10 U. 5. with the i release of the text of Russid’s reply note United States that all an troops e |to a of Nov. 24 urging 1d Amer s terday for Washington to testify in l? ‘ln (hvu Ru(:.\flell:Cl'”ulml— the court martial trial of Capt. Stalin (leylmauon in Teheran in Charles B. McVay, skipper of [he‘1943. .\('hu:h pledged the three cruiser Indianapolis’ Which was sunk | countries to maintain the “inde- Kyodo said, by Ha;himow's i ‘u)end]pn(-v. u(()ver([-mlm_\ ":md terri- i 5 orial integrity of Iran American _authorities requested | 0 FC i the Teheran decla- | ashimoto’c attendance vitness, | L fivodo reported. s Mme“‘. ration did not specify the number e PR of Russian troops in Iran or the ! period of their oceupation. Merry Go Bound of Foreign Ministers in ) no objection had then been raised Iranian situation Nov. 25 did not - McMahon, outlined the Republican EXPANDED S(AI-E | plans at a secret meeting of the DEVELOPMENT A]' | 8-79 Club last week. This is a group of 78th and 79th Congress | Republicans, who meet weekly i HAWK IN!.E'I' SEENI ¢losed-door sessions. 3 Danaher made two major points.| ! First, he advised the Congressmen! Howard D. Stabler, and W. S., to go out and challenge federal| Pekovich, returned here on the| job-holders and the beneficiaries Princess Norah after attending of New Deal spending programs,|conference at Toronto, Canada, with' WASHINGTON—The Republican National Committee isn't overlook- ing any bets for 1946. Ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut, who became GOP Congressional Liaison | Officer after his defeat by Brien - | He said the question of the time ashingion, By DRFW PEARSON ,{"in any quarte: | 25 for removal of Russian and British troops had been decided at the « Council London two months ago and that| , He added that the British Gov- lernment in a note to Russia on the | raise the question of the removal of Soviet troops. | ( by invitation. Eisenhower's elevation Was rumored among dip}omats. who believe the Army & Navy Journal was rigat in predicting his elec~ tion as Secretary General of the UNO. (International) Manville's Eighth Bride fo Wear Slacks at Wedding GREENWICH, Conn,, Dec. 8.— British-born Georgina Campbell, eighth bride-to-be of Tommy Man- ville, aims to set a precedent when she weds the asbzstos fortune heir. As“far-as > kriows, alk seven” of Tcmmy's previsus brides were zowns so she plans to wear slacks when the ceremony is performed Sunday The wedding at 4 p. m. Sunday will be performed by Justice of the Peace Joseph O’Brien who married Menville to four of his previcu wives 1Ar:lal_le,d When Bomber Goes Crash HONLULT, Dec. 8.—8ix bodies were removed today from the wreck-1 ype pogsibility that, vitamins may be | age of an army Liberator bomber on ! | Keehi reef off the island of Oahu.| preserve health and offset some The army newspaper Stars and Stripes, learned a seventh body, wedged under a wheel, cannot be re- moved until low tide Saturday. The plane crashed late last night after taking off for the with five crewmen and three pas- sengers. One man was found alive on the beach today by military policemen. MP'S ROUT JAPS DEMONSTRATING MATSUYAMa, icc. 8.—American | Military Police today dispersed a crowd of about 1,000 Japanese resi- dents of this Shikoku Island city staging a protest in front of the City Hall against “unsqual distri- bution of food, clothing and building materials. The demonstration was directed at Japanese civilian officials but was halte% by the Yanks because the noise interferred with work of 24th Division Headquarters located in the same building. - here | mainland | instead of sitting quietly and be- thoaning the fact that millions of people receive funds from the Pederal Government. | “The thing to do is to go out there and put them on the spot,” Danaher Exhorted his Republican 'iistener& “Ask them, ‘Are you a thinking man or are you a fol- wer?’ Make them squirm. As them, ‘Are you bought or are you a citizen?' " Danaher’s second tip to the Congressmen was that they should stop sounding off about democracy. .. “We all believe in democracy and the democratic form of goyern- ment,” Danaher said, “but the fruth is that too many people tie up the word ‘democracy’ with the (Continued on Page Four) Eugene | GRUENINGS ENTERTAIN AT COCKTAIL Lt. and Mrs. Huntington Gruen- ing, recently returned from the top executives of the St. Mining Company, a subsidiary of the | immense Canadian syndicate, Ven- | tures, In are favorably impressed | | with plans for activity at the Alaska PARTY |Empirc Gold Mining Company’si Statés, enfertained last night with | Hawk Inlet property next summer. | an informal cocktail party at the | Mr, Stabler, President of the: Governor's House. : Alaska Empire and spokesman, to- Ameng those present were: Lt. day stated their view as “very opti | mistic regarding prospects for ‘de-|Tubb, Mr. and Mrs. Joe McLean, |velopment and opepation of the|Jeff Keating, Mary Jo Wade, |Hawk Inlet property on a large John Neal, Betty Tanner, Lou Iscale” next spring or as soon as labor | Levy, Charlotte Howlett, Kay Orcutt, is available. Christine Colt, Ruth Kronkite, Ken ] Exploratory work conducted there| Alexander,” Louise Adams Jessie {by St. Eugene into last sum- Grossnickle, Paul Wilson, Tom mer has blocked out sufficient ore | Stewart, Jim Moscrip, Tom Dooley, Ibediss to justify greatly expanded Doris Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Royal 'development combined with milling| O'Reilly Mr. and Mrs. Alexander operations, Mr. Stabler acknewledg-| Young, and Mr. and Mrs Charles ed. Porter, s | bule ported six RAF planes bombed and i strafed two points in the Semar- ang area after giving the “peace- able population” 13 minutes notice to take cover. Indonesian attacks on Tandjong Priok Harbor and the Kramjat suberb of Batavia were reported yesterday . New action was China Chinese Communist sources said 1100,000 Central Government troops had launched an offensive in Shansi and Honan Provinces and vanguards already had begun to cross the Yellow River. Communists also reported fighting on the | Peiping-Jehol Railroad northeast of Peiping. | In Chungking, the army news- | paper Ho Ping Pao said it had !been informed Central Government forces soon will take over Harbin and Darien as well as the Man- : churian’ capital of Changchun. VITAMINS INLIQUOR 1S LATEST reported in | i { BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. | scientific experiment has opened up ‘added to wines and liquors to help of | the effects of alcoholism. | The experiment, reported today | by Dr. Agnes Fay Morgan, nutrition expert at the University of Cali- fornia, demonstrated that B vita- mins, added to wine four years ago, remained potent. | The aleohol in the wine tended to preserve some of the vitamins !longer than their normal lifetime ! in other forms of food and drink, she added. fined to wine, there “apparently is no reason” why vitamins could nof, be added with equal effectiveness to distilled liquors, like whisky, brandy |and gin, Dr. Morgan said. She emphasized, however, that she was not advocating such a course and is only reporting the facts. Harry A. Caddow, S=cretary of the | Wine Institute, which helped to fin- ance the experiment, said in view of Dr. Mogan's findings the wine industry would determine what gov- ernmental regulations would have to be met to put the idea into use. .- | CANNED FOOD BOX IS PLANNED FOR MISSION AT HAINES BY NLP A Christmas offering of canned foods is being assembled at the Northern Light Presbyterian Church | Edward Nugent, Mr. and Mrs. Fred | for the Haines House Mission of| i the Presbyterian Church, Haines A box will be found in the vest of the church into wh i everyone so desiting may | their contributions h place The 48 Children of Haines House! ;v.'il! be made happier at Christmas time by the box sent from Juneau | Friends are invited to share witr Northern Light parishioners making the box as sumptuous as possible. 5 8—A| Although the experiment was con- | n ARMY PLANE INCRASH; 23 AREABOARD BILLINGS, Mont., Dec. ¢ teen or more persons ¢ have been killed in the crash of an Army transport plane one mile | west of Billings. There were 23 !aboard the plane, wnich was en- route to Seattle, Wash | ..o EAST INDIES SUGARSTOCK DWINDLING | BATAVIA, Java,, Dec. 8.—East In- \dies sugar experts disclosed tods {Java's sugar stocks were dwindling | because of the current Indonesian {unrest, and Netherlands East In- dies authorities said other nations would be lucky to get any Java sugar at all. | Britain, the United States and leven the normally sweets-exporting I Philippines are bidding for a share |of the Java stocks, which the Japa- inese reported had totalled 1,500,000 |Lh,n> at the end of the war. { - > ((OASTAL AIRLINES | FLIES FRIDAY, TODAY | On routine flights yesterday Alas- |ka Coastal Airlines flew the follow- ing passengers From Petersburg Wingard, Lt. Rocco Lator Merle, H. H. Wiestein,«C. Reese, J. E. | Daielson, Arnold Mogseth, Louis | Cote, Mrs. 8. Cote, Mrs. L. B. House- ly and A. C. Johnson. | To Ketchikan— Brooks Mike Haas, B. C. Warot, Gerald An- drews, A. P. Dori and David R. Curtin On this morning’s flight to Ketchi- 'kan were William Bates, Buster James and John Worgrum. To Hoonah—Jerry McKinley, E. B. | Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Douglas, Marlene Douglas, Viola Metz, Albert {Burrell, and Robert E. Smith. | From Hoonah—J. A. Kress, R..E. | Smith, Clarence Campbell, Mrs Pred | Fletcher, Willias Roberts and Peter | L. Nelson. 'REV. HARTMAN LEAVES JUNEAU FOR STATES | The Rev. Calvin C. Hartman an- nounces he is going to the states to take further educational work He came here over two years ago and ‘established the Church of Christ( Christian) at the corner of Tenth and E Streets. Mr. Hartman has turned his work over to Dr. Homer C. Murphy of Long Beach, Calif., who plans to make his home in Juneau in- definitely. He says his wife and son will arrive soon after the New Year., Dorcthy L , Opl. Stowaway Bride o i PRETTY Donesse Nancy Heath Kuhn, 20, of Warwickshire, England, pic- tured above with her GI husband Robert Kuhn of Roebester, N. Y., stowed away under her husband’s bunk on the transport that brought him to the U. S. from Europe. When the troop ship docked in Boston, Mass., immigration guthorities tock Mrs. Kuhn into custody pendir an investigation, of Bber status in this country. (International) STASSEN HAS (URE-ALL ON ECONOMICS NEW YORK, Dec. 8.- The plea of Harcld E. Stagsen, former Governor of Minnesota, for a “real post-war economic conference,” as the open- Hanford, jJng move in a ten-year test of the American system of private enter- prise, brought. cautions approval today from leaders of the National Association of Manufacturers Stassen’s proposal was made at the final meeting of the three-day 50th annual convention of NAM last night. Asked for comment A press conference, NAM President TIra Mosher and President-elect Robert P. Wason united in saying “indus- try will be glad to explore every possibility to bring labor and man- agement into agreement.” The NAM officials, however, re- jected the plea of Chester Bowles, OPA Administrator, that they re- verse their stand for the repeal of all price controls by February 15. Wason asserted “it is production we need to prevent inflation, not price contrcl.” g RODPBERG ON FURLOUGH Eddie Redenburg is in on a 90-day furlough. He arrived yesterday by PAA from Seattle after several months in the Aleutians with the ACS. D Lamps were in general household use in Greece by the fourth cen- tury B.C. { gary and Austria | 'The list included all adult in the Pbilippines, is to be taken soon to Manila for trial as the man responsible for the “Bataan Death March.” 5. 'The Japanese reading public for the first time is being present- “:d an American army prepared out- BE TRANSFERRED line of Japanese plotting which led ilho nation to downfall. RS | 6. The first war criminal trials | will begin at Yokohama Dec. 17, the {army announced officially today On that date, an American military | tribunal will begin hearing the first {of approximately 300 Japanese ac- Movement Reported Underway cused of atrocities against American | prisoners of war, . . WAEHINGTON, Dec. 8-~One Ul] the greatest organized mass move- ments of people in story-—th transfers of at least 6,350,000 Ge: mans back to Germany-is under- way The State Department announced OVER 6 MILLION GERMANS ARETO Great Organized Mass These first trials include none of |the so-called major suspects, whose war-gullt hearings are scheduled |to begin in January { The Japan Communist party and five other Leftist organizations to- that the four major European u]lles;fl:i.",l".l]];::;;fig Eg?m‘:enrzr‘éfi flp!el;sl‘(::: have begun to bring back Germans' _a¢ war eri i & 4 . | —a r criminal suspects, Jiji News from Poland, Czechoslovakia, HUN-| agency said today. mal2 es will continue to move |pyampers of the imperial family ex- runken Reich by f0ot, bY |cant prince Takehiko Yamashina, train and truck convoy until Auguslj_”jl aid, as well as 23 court offi- by when the migration 1is! and 130 army and navy lead- led to be completed Some Germans have lived in their | adcpted countries for many years. Most, however, moved in on the heels of Hitler's aggressions PEPPER GIVES PEP TALK FOR PEACE | cials R U. S. Marines Open Fire On capmaL v, 5. ChinaVillage | TIENTSIN, Dec. B8-~—American Marines fired 24 60-millimeter mor- tar shells into a Chinese village near Anshan on Dec. 4 after one Marine had been killed and others seriously wounded by Chinese gunmen, Marine Maj. Gen Keller Rockey, Third Am- phibious corps commander, said to- day. Firing into the village was order- ed, he said, aftér the two gunmen who shot the WMarines “in cold bleod” had nbt been surrendered to th2 Americans. A Marine corporal and a private first calss had bzen hunting rabbits, Rockey's formal statement said, and Chinese gunmen shot them down “in on the site. Pepper represented| o1q blood”. The private was killec. Miami, and other delegations ap-|ppa corporal, wounded, feigned peared for Hyde Park, N. Y., thelg.ath and survived, altht;uzh the etate of Indiana, and Navy Island Chinese fired another shot whick Yot struck his leg. 5 Siriking Seaifle | Typos Asked fo i { | LONDON, Dec. 8.—Senator Claude Pepper (D-Fla) told a United Na-; ticns sub. mmittea today that the| new international peace capital | should be established in the United | Ctates “becausa it is a country that Lelongs more to the world than to L own people.” Whiiz the sub-committee resum- ed hearings on offers from Ameri- can cities for the United Nations e, a general committee argued the mein issue, whether the world capi- tal shcuid be in the United States 0. Europe ! The United States delegation is taking no official part in the debate - SGT. BOB WALD HERE | Sgt. Bob Wald and family ar- rived on the “Princess Norah from Chilkoot Barracks and will remain in Juneau several days before o a( 'o o s[ transferring to a new post. SEATTLE, Dec. 8.—Striking munh{ HOW LONG ARE YOU GONNA bers of the Typographical Union (AFL) were urged last night by the | publishers of the three strikebound | newspapers to return to work immediately and to “leave the | firal settlement of this dispute in the hands of an impartial arbitra- | tion committee.” | e - ' AFC DISTRIBUTING * ANNUAL XMAS CHEER is made today| consecutive annual| Alaska Pinance | Announcement that the sixth dividend of the Corporation has been mailed to the stockholders. The announce- ment is made by James C. Cooper. STAND THERE ~|'VE ONLY