The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 17, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT UNIFICATION OF CHINA RIGHT NOW URGED BY TRUMAN By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 — Presi- dent Truman has called urgently for quick political wunification of China beginning with a truce be- tween the Communists and the Nationalists. He backed his plan with ou American economic pressure. He justified American interven- tion in the interest of Chinese unity on the ground that such unity is vital to a United Nations peace The Chief Executive thus nished Gen. George C. Marshall with a specific program for put- ting an end to factionalism in China. Marshall, special Presiden- tial representative with the rank of Ambassador, left for Chungking by plane carrying a secret letter of instructions from the President on which the White House state- ment was based In his public statement released at the White House the President set forth these two “essential actions 1—That a cessation of hostilities be' arranged between the Armies of the National Government and the Chinese Communis and other dissident Chinese armed forces for the purpose of completing the re- turn of all China to effective Chi- nese control, including the immedi- ate evacuation of the Japanese forces. “2—That a national conference of ' representatives of major poli- tical elements be arranged to de- velop an early solution to present internal strife—a solution which will bring about the unifica- tion of China,” In connection with evacuation of the Japanese troops, of whom about 325,000 are in Communist- contested North China and up- wards of a million in the rest of China, - the President reiterated that American Marines are in China to help get those troops out. He said emphatically that United States support for the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek “will not extend to United States military intervention to influence the course of any Chinese internal strife.” e CITY COURT Mayor Ernest Parsons today took over the duties of City Magistrate during the absence from the city of William A. Holzheimer. Cases disposed of were: James Steer, arrested for drunk- eneéss and investigation, sentenced to, 5 days in jail; Geral Dallas, dronk and disorderly, $25 fine; George Wolf, drunk and disorderly, $25; Ann Tally, drunk, disorderly and fighting, $50; Helen Gamble, drunk, disorderly and fighting, $25; Joe Joseph, drunk, $25; Felix Bello, drunk and disorderly, $50; Charlie Johnson, drunk and disorderly, $25 fine and sentenced to pay for broken glasses. e TICKLED THE PALATE ROCHESTER, Minn. — What it was she was looking for the woman didn't want to say. So she timidly offered the movie theater doorman 50 cents for use of his flashlight. iFnally the doorman persuaded ' her to let him help her. During a' hilarious comedy, the woman had lost her six-tooth gold plate. ! R IN | GRANTS PASS, Ore—A faint crackling noise caused agile, 85-| year-old H. D. Tatman to leap| from his chair. i Seconds later in diameter crashed roof of his house. 1 through the | S ORDER TODAY for DOUGL MINIMUM DEL PHONE OO OO | i the F ,in the ACS, all but the last two of Knew JapsPlanned War 4 Hours Before " Pearl Harbor Attack WASHINGTON, Dec 17.—Vice Admiral T. S. Wilkinson testified today that top naval officials learn- ed from an intercepted diplomatic message almost four hours before the ack on Pearl Harbor, that Japan apparently intended to go to war The gence House Deéec. 7, The son termed them, were in the final 1941 Chief of Naval Intelli- appeared before the Senate- 1941 attack part of a 14-part message Tckyo sent here to its “peac voys with instructions to d at 1 p. m. (EST) wilkinson said he read the 14th part about 9 or 9:15 a day when it came to his office. He said he immediately showed it to Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of Naval Operations, and “I pointed cut to him the seriousness” of the wording. Wilkinson said he believed he ad- vised Stark to notify the Pacific Fieet. He added that he did not mean to say that he suggested the danger of immediate attack on Hawaii specifically, but the immin- ence of hostilities in thé South China. seas. Wilkinson said his recollection was that Stark attempted to get General George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, on the phone. rhard« Gesell noted that the record of the White House switch- board, which top military men used, did not show such a call until 12:10 m m. that Sun- - SMALL SKI TOW MOVED UP TRAIL T0 2ND MEADOW With visions of a bigger and bet- ter ski tow still hazy, a Juneau Ski Club working party Sunday took steps to assure at least some “up- <kiing” for local enthusiasts. Under the direction of Club Pres- ident Tom Stewart, the Club‘s small tow was moved up the Douglas Ski Trail to the Second Meadow and is expected to be ready to give sliders a lift by next wekeend Few skiers were out yesterday, a party of school teachers comprising the main group engaged in slat rid- ing Last week's changing weather left a firm crust over the meadows, but the rough surface made control difficult to achieve - DEAN WILLIAMS OUT OF ARMY; RETURNS HERE ON WEEKEND Returning to Juneau to make their home, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Wil- liams were passengers arriving here aboard the Princess Norah. Mr. Williams, son of Lt. Col. J. P. Wil- liams, Adjutant General of the Alas. ka Territorial Guard, was very re- cently discharged from the Army lat Fort Lewis, Washington, separa- tion center. He held the rank of Staff Sergeant in the Alaska Com- munications System. Sgt. Williams served for nine years! which were spent in Juneau. He| served one year at Nome and his last | year in the Army at Attu, from| where he went directly south for! discharge. | Mrs. Williams, the former Edna’ Almquist, and Sgt. Williams were| married here two years ago. Dean i the younger son of Col. and Mrs. Williams. His older brother, Don-| |ald G. Williams, is now studying art| Rev. Walter A. Soboleff will con- a tree 18 inchesiand photography in Los Angeles, af-| duct the services. ter being discharged at San Diego last June from the U. S. Marine MARSHMALLOWS HERSHEY BARS GUM and Other Holiday Items!? New Delivery Schedule: MORNING DEL S DEL AFTERNOON DELIVERY IVERY IVERY IVERY CASH GROCERY committee investigating that “fighting words” as Wilkin-| | follow. Charges i ordered shot this noon. CLO CLOSES 10 A. M. CLOSES THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1945 ed for three corps in which he years. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Williams have a residence on Martin Road in the Seatter Tract here where they in- tend to make their home and were busy moving in today. His business plans were stated as uncertain, but Mr. Williams is an ardent and en- thusiastic skier and is expected to take a large part in the activities of the Juneau Ski Club this season. C10°S UAW MAKES " APPEAL TOBRITISH IN PRESENT STRIKE DETROIT, Dec. 17—The CIO's | United Auto Workers Union an- nounces it was proposing that the | British Labor Government inter- | cede as a stockholder in the union's wage battle with General Motors Corporation. | President R. J. Thomas of the UAW-CIO made public a letter to Laborite Prime Minister Clement Attlee suggesting that the British Government “make known to General Motors that “profits are indeed the concern of the worker and the owners of any company Thomas said in the letter he was | “reliably informed” that the British | Government as of *October, 1945, owned 434,000 shares of common stock in General Motors. The union chief pointed out that | General Motors, whose plants have been idle 27 days in the UAW- CIO strike, had refused to discuss profits in bargaining with the | union Thomas said he was confident the “present management” of Gen- eral Motors “does not reflect the thinking of the vast majority of | the owners of the corporation,” | and added: | “And above all we are certain | that it by no means reflects the | K 'attitude and opinion of the British | Labor Government, a substantial cowner of General Motors shares.” .- NEW DOG CATCHER TAKES OVER CITY DUTIES THIS A. M. Mayor Ernest Parsons today an- nounced the appointment of Franklin T. Allen, ex-Navy man, as City Dog Catcher for Juneau. Dog Catcher Allen went to work —ve; actively—this morning A half-hour after assuming his new duties, Allen had three addi- tional tenants in the City Pound: One small black and white dog with collar; one small black and white dog, without collar, and one large pointer, white with black | spots. | It was emphasized that im-| pounded dogs must be claimed by | the owner within three days or extermination of the animals will to redeem im- pounded pooches are: One dollar, plus 50 cents per day, plus license fee. If a dog is not claimed by the | owner within the allotted time, it | may be rescued by any other} person willing to pay the chargesw A list of impounded dogs is to be posted daily on the bulletin | board in the City Hall—no other notice will be given. A reddish-brown female setter- | type dog, whose impounding had | been advertised last week, still had not been redeemed today and was The city | means business! > FUNERAL TOMORROW Funeral services for Mrs. Jessie Kayoukluk, who died recently at thé Government Hospital, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. The Interment will Cemetery. be in Evergreen [13 S 10 A, M. 3 P. M. $2.00 i | | HEIDELBERG, Germany — Gen | George S. Patton, Jr., passed a com- | fortable night in a U. S. Army hos | pital here and * being made to substitute cast-im- | mobilization traction,” Army doctors }said today. The Commander of the U. S. 15th Army is recovering ‘from | a broken neck suffered in an auto- | mobile accident eight days ago. | | STAMFORD, Conn.—Gene Tun- | ney, the former heavyweight cham- |plon, is listed as President of the Stamford Building Company in in- | corporation papers filed over the weekend at the town clerk’s office. | BULLETINS ‘preparations are SHINTOISM T0 BE ABOLISHED, JAPAN; By MORRIE LANDSBERG TOKYO, Dec. 17—Gen. MacAr- thur today ordered state Shintoism abolished in Japan to destroy the compulsory religious ideclogy which his staff asserted led the nation into war—and defeat. With the expressed aim of free- {ing the people from “direct or in- direct compulsion” to believe in “manufactured” religion, the Al- lied directive laid down a program of broad revision, calling for: |SELECTIVE SERVICE ‘ i ' DRAWING mmmw{McVay e o ‘ e . Stand Tomorrow at presentation ceremony in the White ! House on January 21, a memkber of ’ Navy offi Captains Oliver E. in the U. S. District Court Room i oy | * I Na a A red, M Ira , tes- |fifth floor, Federal Building, here. |\ 2duin and Alfred, M. Granum, tes Wasnington, with full transporta-| japanese submarine activity in the L BN DUPER S 0 recelve pyijippine S prior to the sinking and presented by President Truman. | The medal will typify an award to | As representatice of the Alaskan | 4 & 4 : His Court Martial {an Alaskan local board will be select- BTHS0 | tified today at the court martial trial |the award, a medal signifying vol- _ be made to all volunteer Selective Selective Service, at a special award- ed tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock bl A o B S R (el The representative will go to of Capt. Char B. Mc that |untary, patriotic and faithful service, | Service workers having served four 1—Withdrawal of all government | year: The firm, he said, will concentrate on small, moderately priced dwell- ings. —“the way of the gods.” | 2 Purging of militaristic ultra - nationalistic ideology and from will be ringing early in the New|ancestor worship and deifies the s control and support of state Shinto | coi John L. McCormick, g Director of Selective Service, HOLLYWOOD — Wedding bells | goctrine of the cult which preaches | viously released the name of 26 per- 18 s or more in centinuous and un- sated service, and still active- ged in this work Territorial pre- eligible to have their names in- GEORGE BROTHERS | says he “hopes to drop dead” ‘rather | President Truman’s | himself to the building of a united, | ted as “the brain, backbone and di- WJune 30. |a serious technical correction. Year, says Actress Marshan Hunt for her and Robert Presnell, Jr. author and movie writer. It will be the second marriage for each. CLEVELAND President of the International CIO- United Automobile Workers’ Union than advise fellow unionists to heed back-to-work proposal to end the nationwide strike at General Motors Corp plants. STOCKHOLM—The Swedish de- stroyer Oeland was launched today at Maimo=. Naval experts in Swed- en say that the Oesland has stronger anti-aircraft equipment than any other destroyer in the world. NEW YORK-—The first shipment of crude natural rubber to reach the | United States since early in 1942, ar- | rived today, 8,000 tons. The ship- | ment is from the Straits Settlement PINOLE, Calif—Four small chil- dren burned to death here last night | in a fire which razed a chicken | house that had been converted into apartments. Two cthce persons are | in critical conditions at nearby ho.s-i pitals. Cause of the blaze has not been determined. WASHINGTON—$124,775,000 ap- propriation for navigation and flood control has won Senate approval. The sum, requested by President | Truman and the Army Engineers to | put water projects back on a pcacc-i time basis, is contained in a de-| ficiency supply bill already passed by the House — | WASHINGTON- Persons close to | the administration say that Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt is being consid- ered for appointment to an im- | portant place in the United Nations | Organization. She may be named | as one of our delegates to the UND. ‘G PEIPING—Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, in a orief address to lead- ing Chinese and representatives of | Peiping’s foreign colony, pledged free and equal China. NUERNBERG—American prose- cutors today called on the Interna- tional Military Tribunal to convict as war criminals 600,000 members of the Nazi Leadership Corps—describ- recting arm of the Nazi Party.”| Jails of the Allied powers in occu- | pied Germany are filled with thou- sands of such minor Nazis, MOSCOW — Secretary of State | James F. Byrnes and British For- eign Secretary Ernest Bevin were assured today by high Russian authorities that Generalissimo Stalin s in good health. Both visitors | made official inquiries. They did | not ask and were not told when Stalin would return. WASHINGTON — House passage | sent to the White House today leg- | islation permitting the Navy to con- tinue its V-12 training program until WASHINGTON — President Tru- man asserted today he believed that the question of postwar rank and promotion in all branches of the armed services should be tabled un- til Congress decides the kind of a national defense establishment the country will have in the future. Mr. Truman expressed himself in vetoing R. J. Thomas, | 5 | emperor. | 3—Removal of Shinto | from school. Allied officers emphasized that | today's action, carrying out the pol. announced recently by the U. S. State Department, involves state Shintoism but does not af- I[m'[ the sect of Shinto which, in {1941, had an estimated 17,000,000 adherents. Nor is it an attempt, they said, to dictate religious be- ‘liers of any kind to the Japanese. However, the entire population of 70,000,000 is considered members of state Shinto, including 45,000,000 Buddhists and 315,000 Christians. - - LIONS ENTERTAIN HOME YOUNGSTERS AT LUNCHEON TODAY Twenty children of the Johnson Home were guests of the Lions today | as the club gave its annual Christ-| mas party. The Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel was festive with the laughter of the children mixed with the glee of the club members as they ched Licn Ed Lewis perform mysterious tricks and goodwill rad- iated all over the place. Santa | Claus came in near the end with a full load of candy, fruit and cheer, saying that he had jusi\ recently left Barrow, where he had last seen Lion Beaver Geeslin. Mrs. Lyle Johnson came with the youngsters and spoke a word of ap- preciation to the club. After the turkey, trimmings and ice cream had been disposed of, Lion President Barney Anderson turned the whole meeting over to Lion Doc Rude and his committee, Lions Walt Soboleff, Del Hanks and d Lewis. The Douglas trio, Pat Balog, Pat Andrews and Shirley Edwards, pro- teachings fessionally called the “Gingham irls”, with Wm. H. Seaman, their accompanist, sang three numbers, “Missour Star of the East” and “A Tisket, A Tasket,” getting a lot of enthusiastic applause. Later in the program, they sang two carols, Silent Night,” in German and “O Come All Ye Faithful,” in Latin with the Lions and their guests joining in on the English versions. Ann Maver of Juneau played two numbers on the accordion. Not to be outdone by all the Par- ent Teachers show talent, the chil- dren of the Home sang, two carols themselves, accompanied by Lion Henry Lorenzen. Other guests of the club were Lion Al Morgan, Nazarine minister of Fairbanks; A. J. Balog of Douglas, and Peter Moose Wood, Fairbanks, The Lions asked their good-natur- ed wailress, “Texas” to receive their complaints, and after saying the only complaint they could think of was that she didn't always stick around to listen to their “business sessions,” gave her instead a box of candy with their “lov The next meeting of the Club will Le Dzcember 31, when the Liohs en- tertain the Rotarians at their joint “end of the year meeting.” There will be no meeting next Monday. S e PLEADS GUILTY William Doherty, arrested by city police, was turned over late Friday to federal authorities to face a federal charge of drunk and disorderly conduct. On arraignment before U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray, Doherty pleaded guilty as charged. Sentence was deferred pending further investigation. AL a bill to give Chiefs of the Naval Bureaus the rank of Vice Admiral ana Assistant Chiefs that of Rear Admiral. NEW YORK—The Stock Market suffered its worst tumble in nearly two years today as speculators simultaneously unloaded and found firms bids lacking. Dealings slowed after a fast forenoon but closing losses generally ranged from $1 to $7 a share. Brokers blamed s2lling partly on “tipsters’ and the belief of many customers that the climb to 25-year average highs called for WASHINGTON — President Tru- man will make a flying trip to his | home in Missouri on Christmas Day for a holiday reunion with his fam- ily. He will leave Washington by plane early Christmas morning, and he’ll be back on the following fri- day. Servicemen will be travelling too during the holiday season. The nation’s railways expect to move nearly 700,000 returning veterans from separation centers on the West Coast. >-ee — Empire Want-aas bring results! . YOUR HOME . . cluded in the “drawing-bowl.” A copy of the medal and certifi- cate to be presented by President {Truman to the winning representa- |tive and later to be presented each of the other volunteer Selective Ser- vice men by Alaskan authorities, is now on display in a showcasc the Alaska Light and Power Buil ing. BE - KENNETH LEA HOME T-4 Sgt. Kenneth Lea is home again in Juneau, a civilian once more, after more than four yea of service in the Army, all of which was spent at various post [ | |in Alaska. Serving with the 143rd Port Company, he' was most re- cently stationed at Fort Richard- son, where he received his dis- charge His plans right now are rather indefinite, except that he does in- tend to stay in Juneau. - - TAYLORS RETURN Mr. and Mrs. Ike Taylor turned by plane yesterday from short vis spent in Seattle with their daughter, Mrs. Victor Lein, and their son, Lewis, who is now stationed at Sand Point, We They report a very enjoyable trip, but say it's good to be home again, too. Seattle is still over- crowded, and everyone lines up for practically everything, including meals. =N trading with us. aASt PHONE 704 Juneau Deiiveries 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. Douglas Delivery 10 a.m. Thane Deliveries 2 p.m. Tuesday and Friday Boat Orders Delivered Any Time! 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