The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 17, 1945, Page 1

) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” - | VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,144 SIXTEEN PAGES MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1945 ATOMIC BOMB PROTECTION FOR ARCTIC SCIENCE MAY Reenlistment POINT FINGER AT MURDERER Invesiigati(;;f Campbell Slaying Hinges on Lab- oratory Findings Investigation of the murder here | a week ago of Clarence J. Camp- bell continued at slow pace today as law enforcement authorities marked time awaiting laboratory reports of important clues that have come to light from the mass of conflicting leads developed since the discovery of Campbell’s brutally slashed body last Monday Seatter tract Both the local agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Deputy U. S. Marshal Syd Thompson, who has been closely associated with the FBI in efforts to penetrate the mystery surround- ing Campbell’s death, are carrying on with the interrogation of sev eral persons believed to hold pos- sible knowledge concerning the cir- cumstances of Campbell” aying. Several women with whom the murder victim is known to have as- sociated have submitted to volun- tary questioning. No arrest, how- ever, is expected before report on the laboratory findings has been received here. g — "Mixmasier” Record Breaker Goes C(rash WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 — Just eight days after it set a new Long Beach - to - Washington air record, the Army’s “Mixmaster” experi- mental bomber crashed to destruc- tion at nearby Oxon Hill, Md., yes- terday. The three crew members parachuted to safety. Nicknamed for its unique pro- pellor-in-tail design, the XB-42 was on a routine flight from Bolling Field Army air base. The highly streamlined craft averaged 432 miles an hour in the five-hour, 17-minute flight from Long Beach, Calif,, Dec. 8. - JUNEAU PORT VISITORS Three Navy patrol craft and one U. S. Navy minesweeper were weekend visitors in port here. The to vessels are enroute Kodiak Naval Base. & - The Washington Merry'- Go-Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Just one year ago this morning the American public got the news at first heavily censored—that the German Army had launched a violent and successful counter-attack. In the Battle of the Bulge which followed. 60,000 casualties resulted and the tremendous surpluses now piled up in Army storehouses throughout the U.S.A. were largely acquired by frantic Army orders during those next fateful weeks. That desperate Nazi last-gasp came within a hair’s breadth of succeeding. Jt did not stop until 20,000 fresh American troops were flown across the Atlantic—an un- heard of operation—and landed al- most in the thick of battle. While mistakes happen in war- time, it is incumbent on the Army to clean up the source of those mistakes, especially before saddling the nation with new peacetime militarism. The War Department is now waging a fierce campaign not only to swallow the Navy but to adopt peacctime conscription for the first time in, history. Before this is done, the same healthy spot - light now focused on Pearl] Harbor bungling ought to delve into other errors costly in Ameri- can lives. Unfortunately, the Army has long | followed a policy of' covering up military mistakes, apparently to preserve the reputations of high- ranking generals. Not only the mistakes of World War I, but even ' some blunders of the Civil War| still are under lock and key. Fur- thermore, the Army seems to follow an inexplicable policy of promot- (Continued on Page Four) in thelg | | Stafion Opens ~ This Morning ;Sgt. John fl)»svney Infer- i views Juneau Men for - Army-Qualifications Juneau's new recruiting station cpened this morning in Room 326 of the Federal Building with Master | sergeant John Tosney, local recruit- ing officer, interviewing and dis- ipensing information to a number of | first-day callers interested in obtain- ling full advic concerning the | Army’s peacetime enlistment pro- am |~ sgt. Tosney, who has been in the lArmy ten years and wears a Mer ;m'lous Service Wreach, almost quali- |fies for Alaska's esteemed *“sour- | dough” rating. Besides serving at Fort Richardson for the past 16 months, the native Californian was a member of the 7th Infantry at An- shorage from 1920 to 1923 Stating that since the Regular | Army Enlistment drive opened Sept. 30, more than 2,000 men have enlist- ed from the Territory, Sgt sney |said this morning that local interest in the newly-established station in- dicates that Juneau will be well rep- resented in the standing army of the future. Strong Army Needed essor nations which plunged the world into the frightful !war we have just brought to a vic- | torious end, must never again be- come a menace to the U. S, or to the peace and security of the world,” Sgt. Tosney said. “To neutral {and rehabilitate these nations at the present and to restore them to their |proper places in a peaceful world of the future, the U. S. must have {a strong and permanent Army.” The man who enlists in the Reg- ular Army to help safeguard peace {of the world is assuring his own fu- | ture, Sgt. Tosney pointed out. “He has a secure and interesting job that will not only provide him with a good living and steady income during his earning days, but will also provide a comfortable income |for life after his retirement from jactive duty.” Eligible jor Enlistment | Men who are now cerving, or who ihave recently served honorably in |the U. S. Army, and other qualified male citizens without military ex- perience, are eligible for enlistment for re-enlistment in the Regular Army. Enlistment may be for three ‘_vcars. two years, eighteen months, lor, in specified cases, for a lesser od. Men enlisting for three ars may choose the branch of ser- vice and the overseas theatre in which they wish to serve. Members of the Regular Army or! {members of the Army of the United States not having a Regular Army status may apply for discharge for the purpose of re-enlisting in the| Regular Army. They will be enlist- ed in the highest grades held at the time of discharge and will retain all authorized benefits and privi- leges. No physical examination will be required as performance of full military duty will be accepted as jconclusive evidence of their physical | qualifications. Other Qualifications | Honorably discharged men, re-; gardless of their age, may enlist in the regular Army within 90 days after discharge. They will be enlist- led in the grades held at the time of discharge if they enlist within 20 days after discharge, provided such enlistment is effected prior to| February 1, 1946. Men 35 years of age and over who apply later than 90 days after discharge are eligible| for enlistment according to their| age and length of previous military service. Furloughs up to 90 days will be granted to men with six months or | more of service, provided they en- 1list or re-enlist within 20 days after discharge. A furlough travel al- lowance to his home and back to the place where he is ordered to report to duty, except for distance traveled by sea, will be paid at the| rate of five cents a mile, and in/ {advance, if desired, to a soldier| granted a re-enlistment furlough. Qualified men between the ages of 17 and 34, inclusive, are eligible | for re-enlistment in the Regular !Army. The applicants for enlist- |ment who are less than 18 years of {age must have written consent of | | parents or guardians. | e | de Champlain in 1605, FIRST JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS ON TRIALTODAY By MORRIE LANDSBERG YOKOHAMA, Dec. 17—In the cold and gloom of Yokohama court- house, eight American military commissicn members today set the stage of the first war crimes trials to be held in Japan. Five Japanese ac d of commit- ting or condoning atrocities against Allied prisoners of war will be heard first, among them Tatsuto Tsuchiya, whom prisoners called “Little Glass Eye Tsuchiya will be tomorrow on charges that he helped | home beat an American to death last March. In all, nearly 400 Japanese will be tried on atrocity complaints Commission members emphasized that the accused will be given fair trials although it was decided not |to translate the court records from glish to Japanese. The chief de- se counsel, Lt, Col. John Dickin- son, St. Petersburg, Fla., said tuch translation might prolong the trials one year Defendants and witnesses will be sworn by oaths binding in their in- dividual religion, the commission decided, after the question arose as to inclusion of the phrase, “So help you God” in view of non- beliefs of the Japanese. Two large American flags draped the sides of the trial commission jng the government $10,000 a week box, which is in a comparaiively to pay travel time to the civilian small room lighted only through a!work grilled skylight. - - Oil Industry Wage Scale Taken Up by Govl.EgI Finders WASHINGTON, Dec. 17-Govern- ment fact-finding temporarily shelved by Congress, bitterly op- posed by labor, and coolly regarded by management—gets under way today in the oil industry’s wage dispute. The General Motors strike is next in line. The oil case, although actually engineered by the Labor Depart- ment, will provide the first prac- tical test of President Truman's plan to use the pressure of public opinion to settle industrial strife. Involved as a demand by the CIO oilworkers union for a 30 per cent wage increase—an issue which provoked a strike and Navy seizure of 35 refineries and other facilities last October. Eleven properties of the Sinclair 0Oil Corp. are due to be released at midnight tonight as the result of a wage settlement which the com- pany said provides for an 18 per cent increase for a basic 40-hour week. Return of the Sinclair fa-: cilities will bring to 15 the number thus far freed of Navy operation. Argehfin;,’;paih May Get Attention of U[lil_ed States WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 — The United States appears today to have embraced the belief that under certain conditions any na- tion’s internal affairs become the business of all nations. President Truman applied that principle to strife-torn China in his policy declaration Saturday, and government officials said this country soon might join others in applying it to Spain and Argen- tina. D ALASKANS IN TOWN Among Baranof guests registered at the Baranof Hotel from other parts of Alaska are the following: Ernest Andrews and A. Osberg, Ketchikan; Carl W. S. Pojomer, Kodiak; Ensign E. C. Hunter, For- | Jack P. Sexton and | tuna Ledge; Robert L. Collins, Anchorage; Mrs. Betty Cunningham and children, Fairbanks; Mrs. Llpoyd Moody, Palmer; and Ed Smither, Fair- banks. ,———— BACK TO GUSTAVUS Mrs. Nora B. Chase, who has been visiting in Juneau, returned to her Gustavus home Sunday via Alaska Airlines. RETURNS TO HAINES N who has been a M. V. Raney, guest at the Baranof, returned to for moving the traffic and he be- Quebec was founded by Samuel Haines on the Steamer Princess lieves “this premise is still ap- Ia. Norah, | | | | | | | arraigned men who were told they would be hristian | | | | | | i | |lands, which have been both a boon | considered early next month. ireceive attention of the House Pub- Imitted by various organizations and | | he observed. 'Extension of tJones Act Asked iBy Deleagfe ENLI COALTION WITH | ENLISTED COMMUNISTS 1S MENJUMP | Given appRovAL SHIP HERE Soldiers(lafirmy Prom- ised fo Get Them Home by Christmas Eighty-five U. S. Army enlisted Chinese Government Now| Ready to Act-Marshall's | Arrival Is Awaited | By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Dec. 17—Minister of Information K. C. Wu declared | as his “personal opinion” today,| that the Chinese Government would agree to a coalition with the { by CY mas have “Jumped}Cmmuunm(.x providing there were| ship” in Juneau in what probably|no independent armies or terri-| will be a futile attempt to get to|tories in China tle L re December 25, it was| Wu asserted the Communists,| learned today One hundred and|however, wanted to retain their| seventeen civilians aboard the 8. 8./armies and obtain independent | Toloa, now in Juneau enroute to|control over northern provinces. Seattle from the Aleutians, also have; The minister declired that of- left the vessel ficial quarters here did not con-| Most of the enlisted men, an Army | sider President Truman's state- | ment on America’s China policy in the light of a warning because the aims were identical with those of | the National Government. Awaiting the arrival of Gen George C. Marshall as they gather! here to talk of peace, both factions officer on the boat said, are ‘“re- enlistments” who signed up for long- er hitches in the Army because they were told they would be home for| Christmas, but because of commer- | cial stops at Juneau, Ketchikan and Prince Rupert to load and unload | fish the vessel probably won't get to'looked to the new U. S. Ambassa- tle until December 26 at the|dor to China to complement the t | President’s hopes that China’s dif- A civilian worker said it is cost-| ficulties can be solved without re- { course to full-blown civil war. -eo Crack Train Hils | Another;8 Persons Killet!;_fifl Injured | i [ arli rs aboard the ship, most of whom have been in the Aleutians frem two to three years, One of the officers on the boat, none of whom has left the ship, hasn't had Christmas at home for five years Men aboard the ship say | that if ' the ve had t to! Seattle » the last m stop it would have been in Seattle today.| KOLLOCK, S. C, Dec. 17.—Eight Many of the men on their way|Persons are reported killed and more home still have to travel to the East{than 60 are known to have been Coast hurt when the crack diesel-powered etiticns have been telegrapt.ed to | Floride-bound “Silver Meteor” of various offices in an attempt to the Seaboard Line ploughed into the clear the boat directly from Juneau Northbound “Sun Queen” near here to Seattle. A petition sent to mv;)«sfl‘rday- Alaskan Department of the Army Both trains were loaded to cap- has been turned down acity and carried about 400 passen- The Tolea, a United Fruit boat op- | gers each. erated by the Alaska Steamship! The locomotive, one coach, and Company for the War Shipping Ad- | four sleepers of the Silver Meteor ministration, left Adak Island in the | Were hurled from the tracks when it Aleutians December 1, and the men crashed into the Sun Queen near this claim it should have been in Seattle 'village in northeast South Carolina. December 9. Military stops included The accident occurred in cold-pre- Dutch Harbor, Kodiak and Whit-|dawn darkness as the northbound tier, where the men said there were |train was pulling into a siding. The delays in loading and unloading the |dining car and four coaches of the cargo. At Whittier, they claim, the |Sun Queen were derailed. enlisted men doing the longshoring % i cion 3 worked only six hours a day on the | sob. 0 ik 'UNO Headquarlers The ship is loading fish here and | . {Are to Be in : ;Umled States will also load fish at Ketchikan and unload fish at Prince Rupert before LONDON, De 17—The United |States has been selected as the site heading for Seattle, according to the for the United Nations crganization. present schedule. S ee | " After a roll call vote of 30 to 14, | with six abstensions in the commit- e Legislation Qver § pubh( lands is tee of the preparatory commission, 2 | Canada moved to make the decision To Ge' A"en"onvunummou,\ This motion was sec- ionded by Philip Noel-Baker for Brit- WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Public ‘ain and the Norwegian delegate. Selection of the United States as [thc permanent honie followed one and a burden to the West, may con- [0f the hardest-fought battles of the tribute more to the support of I preparatory conference communities under legislation to be, The deciding vote came after dele- |gates had voted down a motion to Development, of such a policy will |locate the site in Europe, 25 to 23. —————— JAP PRINCE TAKES LIFE BY POISON Dramatic Suicide Starts Re-| percussions About Im- perial Household TOKYO, Dec. 17—Prince maro Konoye's dramatic suicide yesterday—a new and powerful blow to the prestige and position of Emperor Hirohito — may have profound repercussions in the im- perial household as well as in po- litical circles. The Fumi- prince himself, in his final hours, expressed concern for the future of the imperial house as discussions of possible abdication were revived. Some Japanese said the suicide might be the final factor in precipitating the em- peror’s resignation. Doubtl Hirohito personally felt the blow deeply. Konoye long was his close confidante and it gen- erally was believed the Mikado placed great authority in “The Dangerous Prince.” @ Konoye, 54, took his own life with poison btefore dawn Sunday after entertaining friends and relatives at a farewell dinner in his luxur- ious suburban home. He had been scheduled to surrender to American authorities by midnight Sunday. The Prince, three-time Premier, left a suicide note with his second son, explaining that he could not bear the humiliation of American trial as a war criminal. Jeseph B, Keenan, | American special prosecutor, issued’ a state- ment declaring to the Japanese peo- ple that anyone with a clear con- science had nothing to fear from Amecrican justice, Suicide of the prince, highest- ranking Japanese yet to take that way out, was a Japanese sensation, particularly sinee many here dis- approve of poison as providing too “easy” a death. Konoye's death was a swift par- allel blow to Gen. MacArthur's recent directive against Shinto. That directive struck deeply at Hirohito. Before that, the wide- spread network of MacArthur’s war criminal lists had stripped from around the throne all but two of the principal and still aetive court actors in the tragedy of the past 15 years. The imperial household had been invaded by the arrest of Prince Morimasa Nashimoto. Yesterday, a few hours after Konoye's pre-dawn suicide, Mar- quis Koichi Kido, until recently Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and another close adviser of the em- peror, surrendered as a war crimi- | Blizzard IsRaging (By The Associated Press) A blffzard from Lake Erie de- posited up to 48 inches of snow on | Buffalo, N. Y., causing a state of éemergex\c}' to be proclaimed there, a large part of the country o i as lic Lands committee. fiGREYHouND BUS !shivered today in frigid weather. Chalrman Peterson (D-Fla) has| | Major Joseph J. Kelly of Buffalo had printed for use of the commit-| tee several bills and suggestions sub- STRIKE ENDS IN SOUTHWEST DIV. individuals interested in the problem. | “We plan to get started on our own bill right after the Chiis‘mas recess,” he says. Including the Territories, 36 per cent of the land area of the United | States, is owned by the government, In Alaska only one per cent of the total area is privately owned. The first Greyhound buses rolled out of terminals at 12:15 a. m. to- day, ending a strike in the Grey-| hound southwestern division that ! had tied up transportation in eight | states since Nov. 4 and made 2,000 [idle. ~ { | Terminal werkers returned to their jobs Sunday morning after a | new contract between the company | and the Amalgamated Association 1 of Street Railway and Motor Coach i Employes (AFL) was signed Satur- WASHINGTON, Dec. 17-Delegate | day. [ Bartlett of Alaska has asked the| Under the new contract, drivers| War Shipping Administration to | will receive pay increases of from | e extend beyond Dec. 31 regulations|.0384 cents per mile from employes | realtor ran an ad in a Portland stock today is 8%, American Can| allowing carriage of passengers be- of one to six months to five cents tween Southeast Alaskan ports on per mile for drivers with three or| Canadian vessels. | more years of service Bartlett said at the time the - waiver was allowed American ves- | VISITOR FROM I0WA sels could not furnish facilities | Alex F. Heniksen of Audubon,| plicable” after Dec. 31, Hotel, | ordered schools and most city of- | fices closed, limited telephone use |to keep lines open for emergency calls, and asked citizens to stay |home and guard against fires. Within a 51-hour period, 48 inches | FORT WORTH, Texgs, Dec. 17— of snow fell in South Buffalo and |, "progigent Franklin D. Rooseve 30 inches in the downtown district Temperatures generally were be- low normal.in a wide area east of the Rockies. The mercury fell be- low zero in east Montana and the Dakotas eastward through central Illinois and Indiana. The caldest spot in the country last midnight was Glasgow, Mont.,, where it was 20 below. SUPER SALESMAN PORTLAND, Ore. — A suburban paper urging residents to “get out of town” to a property where they would have “atomic bomb protec- | tion.” AL L Bl BROWN HERE Walter H. Brown of the Surplus is registered at the Gastineau Property Commission at Anchorage as follows: Industrials, 193.39; rails, is a guest at the Baranof. MASS STARVATION EXPEDITION SCHEMES OF NAZIS ueowoep aTTRIAL ORGANIZING Germans Were fo Take, Food Away from Mis- | FORSTUDY sions of Russians | nited States and Canada | Work in Far North man plans for systematic mass starvation in Russia would have ! virtually wiped out the cities of | By yoHN M. HIGHTOWER Moscow and Stalingrad had they | been captured,' Amerlcan prose-| i meiioiromaue Beporter) e hepured, an prose- | wASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Mindful cutors charged today at the war| i Himos trial ot 21 e e doer|of atomic age possiblities, the . 21 top Nazl leaders. | ynjteq States and Canada are | Reading from captured German . ¥ beginnin, plans for the conquest of uu,\xm.§ " B 1o WeEk auy.,olay; pIES Goering, sitting uncomfortably m‘:::.‘:m: l:::‘ N":,?:‘ P:;:: ;‘;mi;mpc the prisoners’ box, as the instigator & g of a calculated starvation plan that | ]"g:f:it“";}%i:‘};:: "“‘E" A“‘Ed( d:,’:' | would have caused the deaths of | st snecific st‘ep':" mk‘;:" b‘; thfi s::::];“ tens of millions of “"""iL_oun(hry w“tme asslgnmentc of | The plan, drafted by Goering's | hatan vy Als Foren o o o Economic Ministry in 1941, rull‘:\d adian ACHy - ARG BRENN | SERe i | ounce of food in the Ukraine and| g i Other areas. In the Tood-defisient fra i oo o AR SE SREHAES nerth, the army was to seize all Blisry. RHG, Sshb e TS RORIS S g e (hl._s expedition has been designated | Resigned To Death ?:‘“dg“y d'l'ExerCclse Mu“‘t'o:; ';.’; | e anadian Government. Wil | As the fifth week of the historic | cover 3100 miles through territory e T sidered an impenetrable barrier [10 death as punishment for Sesti el SRIEASH SRS WIS REE (pt area is regarded as one of the | The mounting pile of evidence—| hoveninl APDGREHES 10 SOe o taken from the Germans' own rec- p ords-that the ‘Hitler. reginta’ win [ 0 ie: SR RS & SRS uled to start from Churchill, Mani- responsible for the enslavement of toba, in mid-February, and from nearly 7,000,000 foreigners and the | pqnoneon Alberta m'early May. extermination of 6,000,000 Jews; "y qqition to sending Sheervets has virtually unnerved many d“_‘thc United States has given th: ;(‘::::l:h according to their prison Snl'lmdian Govern:‘nerl\it ISIH\II;IDGC o:l 5 . . full cooperation in developing an | Jail attendants said only H’Bl'\carrylng out the expedition. pmar Schacht, former Rejghsmin- Supplied By Alr ister of Economy, holds grimly to! During the 81 days the scores of the hope of acquittal. Schacht has men on the trip will be supplied maintained he had little connection by air. The air forces will obtain with Hitler’s machinations, despite | ). oeficials expect will be vital his letters introduced in evidence information on Arctic operations declaring he was rebuilding Ger- | .4 the ground troops and salasie vmanreconmny s0 it w_ould support tists will gather essential facts on a large military machine. the clothing, food and equipment i 3 needed for ground operations in extreme cold. | Inquiries about what is going on | were prompted by recent assertions |by Gen. H. H. Aronld, Army Air ! Forces Chief, that the next war might bring fantastic trans-Polar i assaults with atomic weapons. | Military and diplomatic officials | say Canada is on the strategic OLYMPIA, Wash,, Dec. 17—A jury | routes of attack over the Pole, the [of ten men and two women, after | North Pacific or the North At- five hours of deliberation and five | lantic. } ballots, acquitted State Treasurer Thus the same basic pattern of |Russell H. Fluent of charges of mal- | cooperation used successfully by fesance and misapproprigtion of !the United States and Canada in ipublic funds. | World War II now is being de- Fluent had been on trial four days | yeloped further against the possi- jon charges preferred by the State|pility of another and more terrible fter the sale of $7,351,09646 in | conflict. tate securities and the payment of | 1 $1,107.97 broker's commission {Vern Cole, Seattle. - | The State had contended Fluent ‘State Treasurer of - Washington Stale ~ Acquitted, Charge | Work Intense tol The heart of this pattern is the B !L‘u‘nii‘r;fleci on Page Two) had acted without authority on Lhc: S e sale. state Attorney General smith| Yamashifa Gefs Troy remarked after the verdict that Stay of |the jury apparently was convinced § Execufion |that Fluent had no intent to de- | - WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The St = fraud the State. lBr“h Sholom 1945 preme Court today granted a stay -ee { of execution to Japanese General 0 . ! Tos sen- Human“a"an Award? Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was sen tenced to death by an American ;p h military commission in Manila. : ! The tribunal acted at a confer- T |as the completion of its regular The |cession for the day. The action |was taken a few minutes after ar- was “A friend of all peoples and|rival of an airmailed petition from [never thought of anyone as having | Yamashita asking review of a decis- (@ label,” says the widow of the man|jon by the Philippines Supreme | who was honore@ posthumously with | Court in his case. | Brith Sholom’s 1945 Humanitarian | laward. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt ac- | cepted the award yesterday. It paid {tribute to Roosevelt'’s “untiring ef-! forts in behalf of the stricken and | oppressed peoples of the world.” | | - .o | ~ STOCK GUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 17 — Closing | | quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine ' PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17 WE CANT GET A CONFESSION, CHIEF ~ ALL HE KEEPS SAYING 1S " THERE'S ONLY MORE SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS ! e 1101%, Anaconda 44%, Curtiss-| ( Wright 7%, International Harvester | 4'4, Kennecott 48, New York Cen- | | tral 31%, Northern Pacific 35, U.| 5. Steel 79%, Pound $4.03%%. | | Sales today were 1,990,000 shares.l Dow, Jones averages today were | 62.62; utilities, 38.14.