The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 19, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” CMPIRE = . ‘VOL LXIV., NO. 10,146 ]bN AU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1945 ME IRl R. /\SSOCIATI D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TRUMAN ASKS ARMY AND NAVY MERGER MORE POLICE SHAKE-UP IS HANGING FIRE Councilmenfiin}rivaie Ses- sion Tonight for Re- hearing on Action Further Jneau’s City hanging f re-alignments Police force y with Mayor Er- were jest Pargons refusing to comment| beyond stating that the City Council to is meet again this evening at a committee of the whole to con- sider protests from force members invoived in the current shake-up. One of the two men whose resig- nations had been asked for yester-| the | It was| day has taken exception to City Administration’s action ~Tevealed yesterday that resigna- tions were expected from Patrol- tman Solon Dore and Asst. Chief of Police Hube Gilligan The Mayor stated that the Coun- cil committee meeting tonight is to » be a private affair; (neither the citizens of the City tatives of the press being desired to have inkling of the conduct of this portion of the City's affairs.) Meanwhile, today Patrolman Leon- +ard Williamson is performing the duties of Acting Chief of Police, though the Mayor stated that no tesignation has been received from | Police Chief John Monagle. Mayor Parsons indicated a com-; plete airing of the matter will be given nflel Lomgms session. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska in port from the south and ; scheduled to for the westward at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon Margaret Shafer due tomorrow or Friday from Seattle. Baranof schedued to sail from Seattle Saturday. Cricket schedued Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver December 28. Yukon in port last night from the | south and sailed for the westward | at 9 o'clock this morning. Now listen—it looks like the next | southbound regular mail boat woul to sail from be either the Alaska or Yukon and | / that would be the day after Christ- mas, December 26. The Princes Norah was the Christmas steamer for the south. Of course might be a steamer to the west- ward that did not call-at Juneau, but will be going south. - - Only 20 per cent of the 300 islands in the Bahamas are inhabited. The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Few people rea- lize it but President Truman spends | a lot of time these days trying to persuade people to take important federal appointments. An illustration was the tussle he had with astute 40-year-old Wilson Wyatt, Mayor of Louisville, Ky., just appointed Federal Housing Czar. Wyatt was first offered just about every job in the book. Post- master General Hannegan tried to get him to serve on the important Civil Aeronautics Board, also to . accept the Job Jim McGranery wants to resign as Assistant At- torney General, one of spots in the Justice Department. The Civil Aeronautics Board job really tempted Wyatt, and he asked for a few days to think it over. Next day he got a phone call. TRUMAN PLEADS “This is the President calling,” said a voice at the other end of the phone. “Mr. President, I've been think- ing,” Wyatt said, I'm going to have to turn down that Civil Aeronautics job.” “That’s swell,” replied the Presi- dent. “I, have a more important job for you. Please come back here right away Next day, Wyatt appeared at the White House where Truman told him about the tough job of coordi- nating housing. “I consider this housing situation the most important problem con- fronting the country today,” ex- plained the President. “If we don't (Continued on Page Four) in Ju-; nor represen- | there | the key “and I'm afraid | Draffing of Fathers Is Halted WASHI\(:TON Dec service tonight halted the drafting of fathers. It also instructed local draft | boards not to accept_ on a volunteer basis any father with three or more | children. | Men with one or two children 'who volunteer will be accepted by Selective Service. For practical purposes, the stop order on drafting fathers applies {only to men under 26. Older men have not been drafted since the end of the war. 3 Drafting of men with three more children was hnlu-d on Nov. BULLETINS WASHINGTON—The House Ter- ritories Committee has approved a bill by Delegate Bartlett of Alaska to authorize municipalities and pub- lic utility districts of the Territory to issue revenue bonds upon major- | ity vote of the qualified voters. The present law requires permission of Congress before such bonds can be issued or 5. | | WASHINGTON The White House disclosed today that Winston | Churchill, former Rritish Prime Minister, is coming to the United States early next year for a vaca- ‘ tion. | WASHINGTON—The Army an- | nounced today another cutback in ‘rcquucmems for release from s | ice, effective December 31. Tt will | make an additional 600,000 men and women eligible for separation. The | changes include a reduction in the | point score for enlisted men to 50 and for officers to 70. For the first time, length of service will be com- (puted in the case of WAC person- | |n->l Enlisted WACs will be -]lglblc |1I they have had two years and s months of honorable service, WAC | officers will be eligible if they have ‘lmu three years and three months. ‘ HEIDELBERG, Germany Lbl\dl”l}n of Gen. |ton, Jr., recoveing from a broken | neck, was described as excellent by Anm medical officers today. MANILA—General Marshall, vis- | iting Manila en route to China, paid a courtesy call on President Sergio | Osmena today at MacLacanan Pal- ace but returned early to his own quarters. He will leave for Shanghai .xbcmd a C-54 transport plane to- | morrow morning. He made no state- ment to the mes W Abl"\GTON—-Nol th Caorlina’s Representative Robert . Doughton | s no- justification for further ex- S tax cuts until the national budge tis balanced and no predic- jtions are made when the i may be balanced. WASHINGTON -~ Thes Federal ’Work:, Agency is planning the fol- ilowing loans, repayable without in- chorage, Alaska, two 10-clagsroom grade schools, estimated cost $275.- | 1000; Federal loan $90,000. NORFOLK, Va.—Entrance o the United States is denied by im-| migration officials to 16 Estonians i who landed here Saturday after sail- [ could begin anew lives that had been upset by European wars and op- pressions. . LONDON—Great Britain urged Commission small town ed States” today to consider a| “in the east of the Unit- | as the permanent home and a volunteer fireman was in-| | jured seriously when fire destroyed |a half block of business buudlngs‘ {early today. James Barton, 72, a| | bachelor, died in the flames when‘ ran back into his escond floor room | lin one of the burning buildings in | | an attempt to recover his clothing. | MOSCOW—Foreign Commissar V. \ | ish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin | conversations, in which the atomic bemb was reported to be of upper- most importance. D There are 156,000 miles of num- bered U. S. highways & | 19—Selective | The ! George S. Pat- | budget | terest when construction starts: An- | ing their 37-foot sailboat for 129 | days across the seas from Stock- | holm, Sweden, in the hope that they | VIOLENCE, TERROR REIGNS LAID BARE | NAZI TRIAL COURT Thirty-five Synagogue Burned in Two-Day Out- break — New Evidence NUERNBERG, Dec. 19.—One bri- e of Hitler’s brown-shirted Storm troopers alone blew up or burned 35 synagogues in a two-day out-| break anti-Jewish terrorism,’ American prosecutors told the in- ternational military tribunal today. Evidence of violence and frem the Storm troopers’ own rec- ords was presented to the tribunal| in the prosecution’s effort to place| Iwar crimes convictions against lthcusands of lesser Nazis, as well as the score of Hitler's top hench- | ' sitting in the courtroom pn~- oners box. Col. Robert G S. prosecutor, S 8é assistant | brown- Storey, said the hirted Storm troopers, also known | as the SA, Hitler’s rise to and terrorize ents. The SA is the third Nazi organ: izaticn to have its secrets laid be- fore the ccurt. ied by Justice Robert H. Jackson of the S. Supreme Court, con- tends th ix organizations should be convicted as criminal groups and that their members should auto- matically held guilty of war rimes in ng degrees. dence already has been pre- sented against the Nazi leadership corps and the Reich cabinet. Still remaining to have their day in court are the Elite Guard (SS), the Ger- {man high command and the G tapo. ALASKAOVER TOP, VICTORY were organized before power “to beat up all political oppon- Over-Subscription of "E” Bonds Puts Territory in Black Ink Class Alaska is again over the top in support of the Treasury’s savings bond campaign—this time, Alaska |has more than met the Victory Lean Drive quota of $2,500,000 assigned to it, syrpassing the goal during the week ending last Sat- | urday, just cne week after the of- |ficial drive ending. | Over-subscription of Series “E” {bonds by the rank and file of Alas- | kans brought about the salutory re- sult, as corporation purchases and; | individual purchases other than “E” | bonds both fell a bit short. Here's the way Alaska’s Victory Loan returns stack up, as of Sat urday, December 15, with | communities still not completely re- perted to the War Finance Com- mittee headquarters here: Overall subscription—$2,517,156.25; | quota $2,500,000. terror | The prosecution, | " |implication in the murder LOAN EFFORT some | ‘Glll Delivers lce |In Bathing Suif; 'Heat Wave }hls SYDNEY, Dec. 19.—While mosl |of the United States was shivering, | barelegged Australian women today were wearing sleeveless “midriff dresses and men discarded coats to| gain relief from the fierce heat wave which beset the continent Ten of thousands streamed daily | s along Australia’s east Children squealed under the in public gardens. Cne Sydney, girl sought relief by | delivering ice while clad in a bathing suit Temperatures coa: fc } pse to 120 degree: in the shade at some inland points. Eleven deaths have been attri- buted to the heat wave AMERICAN POW INHOSPITAL IS BEATEN BY JAPS YOKOHAMA, Dec. 19.—Japanese guards invaded the sanctuary of a prison camp hospital to admin- |ister a beating to an American prisoner of war, a U military commission trying the first wa criminal case in Japan—that of guard, Tatsuo Tsuchiy was told today. Pfc. Robert S Gordon Teas of Streator, Iil, had been accused by his captors of taking American Red Cross supplies which the Japa- nases had hidden in the Mitsushima camp, said a deposition from Pfc Charles B. Gavord of Deming, New | Mexico. Gavord’s ‘the trial of testimony Tsuchiya, was read at charged with of Teas ‘\»Ln was captured on Bataan April 110, 1942 The “trial dragged along in its | secend day because of the necessity ! (of translating each sentence of| | testimony for Tsuchiya, who sat| |blank-faced through the proceed- | | ings. R UPROAR CAUSED, MURDER TRIAL SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19—Mrs. { Annie Irene Mansfeldt emitted an | eerie, piercing scream at prosecu- [ tion reference to her three ‘teen | |aged childrn last night during an| unusual-hour session of her mur-| | der trial | The court had been called to order as Assistant District At-' torney Norman Elkington attempt-[ ed to speed up the prolonged trial for possible presentation to thc jury today. Elkington, in | | | i i M(r.scuw today | a summation re- | of the defense u)ntenunn that “demons” caused the soc woman to shoot and kill Nurn Vada Martin, made pointed refer- ence to the Mansfeldt children,| | John, 14; Irene, 15; and Terry, 12| | who had testified in their mother’s i defense. i “Certainly everycne in this court- | room sympathizes with the tragedy | the mother has brought on them,” [lhe prosecutor said. “But who was thinking . . .” | Mrs. Mansfeldt raised her head |at this point and let out a shriek | | buttal | portance | ing bigger | of Prime | yesterday | State | means “no.” | expression | recognized ATOMI( PROBLEM 'CONTROL OF JAPAN, TAKEN UP, MOSCOW | Important Dlscussmns at Conference of Three Foreign Ministers By EDDIE GILMORE MOSCOW, Dec. 19 While au- thoritative quarters said the atomic problem still was of uppermost im as the “Big Three” foreign ministers went into their fourth day of their “explorator talks today, the question of con- trol of Japan appeared to be loom- | in the picture. Although the talks were cloaked in the strictest secrecy, observers attached significance to the fact| | that one of the advisors of Soviet | | Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov at yesterday’s conference was Y. A.| Malik, last Russian Ambassador to , Japan They atso pomted ou: inat U. S, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes conferred yesterday morning with John Carter Vincent, head of the Far Eastern section of the State Department, as well as Dr. James B. Conant, tomic pert of the American delegation. Vincent later accompanied Byrnes to the meeting of the foreign mjnisters Another question reporied to be high on the agenda wa an problem. Both British Foreign Secre . Bevin conferred with Xh(‘l Iranian cxpms shortly after publication new statement by Iranian Minister TIbrahim Hal appealing to the United | States, Great Britain and thfim to withdraw their troops from Iran. T WAS no announcement after yesterday’'s meeting. ore ARE GETTING NEXT LONDON, Dec. 19 — Secretary of James F. Byrnes has mas- tered the Russian expression for “T agree” and is using it frequently at the foreign ministers’ confer- ence in Moscow, much to the de- light of his colleagues. Eddie Gilmore, Associated Press | staff writer, reported this phase of | the conference in a broadcast from for NBC. He sald Byrnes also had learned to use the Russian expression “net” which Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo- | tov has mastered the American | “okay,” Gilmore sald > SUMATRA SUPPORT ASSURED IN FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENC UGLAND By \rl'l{\ ¥ SOERAKARTA, Java, Dec. 19— Indonesian Nationalist leaders, opening their “unity tour” of Java,| told 15,000 persons at a mass meet- ing here today .that the oil-rich island would “remain always inde- | pendent.” Soekarno of the un- Indonesian Republic, Vice President Mohammedohatta and Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir | President Individual purchases other than|that startled the jury of six men | were among these who flddrcssed “E"—$487,098; quota $500,000. Ccrporaticn purchas2s—$862,011.- 50; quota $1,000,000. Series “E” purchases—$1,168,046.- quota $1,000,000. Two more cities have been addcd [to the list of those subscribing 10’) \per cent or better of their “E! [15; the United Nations Pr('rmmunymzuulak Seward, quota $35,000; salcs] $46,618.75; Skagway, sales $9,318.75. The Juneau-Douglas area, quota $7,500, \nth of the United Nations Organization. Ithe third highest “E” quota in the | | Eighty-two | Territory, $130,000, at the close of Pacific MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — An last Saturday was still just a shadefjn west coast ports on Christmas' elderly man was burned to death short of the “hundred grand” mark, 'unless a jam of rail facilities with sales standing at $99,375. - LONDON—Nationalization of the | | 250-year-old Bank of England won final approval in Commons tonight | to the House of Lords. .. WALLACE Idaho—A crew of 50 | trained men have been fighting a stubborn 24-hour-old fire in the not yet in sight. The fire is at the mine. PRCRRA U 2 A LIGHTS APPEARING Christmas lights are appearing in windows. Two lights, the first, are to be seen on Star Hill |and six women. Spectators rose to| | their feet as baliffs thundered: : “Sit down! Sit down!” —————— Thousands of Vels {To Be Stranded On Coast for Christmas FRANCISCO, Dec. 19. - thousand homebound soldiers may be stranded | | SAN is! ‘cleared the Army predicts. 1 ‘ Many Navy men due for dis- {charge or leave likewise may have ' lto spend - a forlorn holiday away from home, the Navy said No he broke away from firemen and}aos to 126 and the measure was sent | figures were available, however. While the number of soldiers and 1 sailors awaiting transportation ‘moumed to 100,000, the Office of| Defense Transportation stepped in }and ordered all western railroads to M. Molotov entertained Secretary | Sunshine Mine in the Coeur d | move troop trains or empty cars for of State James F. Byrnes and Brit- | Alenes of Idaho today with control | troop shipments *“just as fast as their regular passenger trains” at lunch today before their formal|3,100-foot level in the famed silver |from now until March 1. | with Christmas only six days l‘away, the situation will become {more critical since the Army an- nounced that it expected 110,700 mcre troops to reach port by Mon- day. | were | proved they were unreliable. | independent Indonesia means bank. | Governor” | the cheering throng. Prince Mong- , koenegara of Soerakarta attended | | the meeting, thus lending his pres- | tige to the Republican movement. | Soerkarno said that the Dutch | “beginning to wobble,” and | that their promises of| in 1918 and 1941 had| asserted freedom fall, | sal “Dutch imperialism must en though the Dutch have ruptey for Holland,” he added. A spokesman for the Republican movement in Sumatra, “Acting Amir, said that “Su-; matra’s 10,000,000 are ready to help | you. Don't think Sumatra is selling | Java out because we are not fight- ing right now. e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 19. Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau :nine stock today is 8%, American Can| 100%, Anaconda 44, Curtiss-Wright | 8, International Harvester 95' Kennecott 48%, New York Central 33%, Northern Pacific 36%, U. S. Steel 81, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 970,000 shares. | Dow, Jones averages today were | as follows: Industrials, 190.62; rails, | 63.24; utilities, 37.50. [ | 1944, | during /Proposal fo Reimburse Gold Mine Shutdown Losses Heard TRUCK, TRAILER EXPLODES; 1,000 LEFT HOMELESS . | Ammunition Blows Up- : ~Flames Destroy Fed- eral Housing Project SAN DIEGO, Dec. 19 — persons were hospitalized, them with serious injuries, and approximately 1,000 others left homeless when a flaming Navy ammunition truck and trailer ex- ploded with a terrific blast on a highway 35 miles rorth of here yesterday afternoon. All of the homeless were resi- dents of the Torrey Pines Federal Housing Project close by John Arvin, Federal Housing Administrator, estimated 85 per cent of the 2l4-unit project was scriously damaged. All window: were broken, glass blown through the buildings, room partitions knocked down and the ends of houses blown out. Throughout the nearby La Jolla area windows were broken. Dormitories and trail- ers are being sought for the home- less AIR ROUTE T0 ORIENT AGAIN BROUGHT UP . WASHINGTON, Dec Judd (R-Minn) has criticized as “most unusual progedure” the ac- tion of 18 Senators in writing the Civil Aeronautics Board regarding recommended air route to the ()nrn(, The Senators, chiefly from the far west, opposed a report of CAB | examiners favoring a route from | Chicago, through Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn, to Alaska and | the Far East. “Their letters came three weeks aitrr the examiners made recom- mendations and represents a most unusual procedure,” Judd told the | House yesterday “It is not right to set up an | agency and tell it to be independ- |ent and then subject it to terrific pressure. The procedure is entirely out of order.” He added that the recommenda- tions “did not preclude another route frcm the Pacific Northwest later, if traffic merits.” Rep. August Audresen (R-Minn) voiced support of Judd’s ment. Seven one of 19 — Rep state- - . o HITLER LIED AS USUAL IN LOSSES SUSTAINED INWAR 19—A shows NUERNBERG, Dec. tured Nazi document cap- that the Germany Army High Command’ admitted just before the Ardennes anter - offensive in December, that Germany had lost 3,- men killed or missing more than five years of 544,284 war. The report, | Hitler's headquarters, did clude wounded. Hitler told the truth about the prepared for Adolf not if- {low number of German casualties !in the Poland campaign, but was an inveterate liar in his account- ings of casualties in subsequent battles, the report indicated. Casualties on the Eastern Front up to Nov. 39, 1944, were listed in the document as 1,410,728 dead and 907,050 missing. Accepting the usual | military ration of four men wound- d for each man Killed, these fig- | German Front would place total on the Eastern ures casualties ’mrough Nov. 30, 1944, at approxi- mately 8,000,000 Soviet estimates placed German casualties in the East at 12,000,000 Owners for \ | 1 | [ i WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—~A pro- [posal to reimburse gold mine own- ers for losses caused by the Govern- | ment’s shutdown of their properties | during the war is before m-n»} g al committee ! Wilbur N n, former mining division of the Board, told a house| he didn't favor the n order. He said he didn’t| was justified “higher ups” said, insisted on the did not identify them Nelson said Gen vell, commander of the Army Ser- vice forces, and then tary of War Patterson, the order on the theol of the rold mines tween 8,000 and 10,000 miners Inta ccpper producuon Instead, said Dr. Nelson, only abdut 300 miners and muckers | went from gold into copper mines| “and they did not stay very long.”| The committee has under consid- eration a bill by Rep. Engle (D- Calif) to reimburse gold miners for heir losses as a result of the shut- down. Dr of the Production chief | War | in WPB action, He y that closing 1A *4 a D CAR STAINS ARE PROVED NOT BLOOD Chiefly negative have come to light here during thel past 24 hours as questioning of new | and re-interrogation of old figures: connected with the mystery shroud- ing the murder of Clarence J. Campbell continues. | Another possible lead fizzled out | yesterday when laboratory analysis returned a verdict of “not blood” on stains discovered inside a car| found abandoned last week in Doug- las. The laboratory here yesterday afternoon excluded the car as a murder link when it reported the! samples of the supposed spatters of | human blood were something else— ! possibly berry juice. The samples were taken from the car last Friday by Deputy U. S. Marshal Walter G. Hellan, for analysis. The car at that time had been reported standing abandoned fcr 48 hours, Cfficials stated that, though their continued questioning of those tkey helieve to have knowledge of the brutal crime has so far brought to light no definitely startling new | disclosure, it has revealed addition- al information that ties in with their main murder theory. WAINWRIGHT 70 BE WITNESS AT TRIAL OF HOMMA MANILA, De than Walnwright, will be one of the principal wit- nesses at the war crimes trial of Lt. Gen. Masa Haru Homma, to whom he was forced to surrender 19—Gen by deposition, Jona- as a captive. Wainwright's deposition will be he| Brehon Snmmu‘ Undersecre- | also favored | | peace,” | the developments | UNIFICATION OF DEFENSES PLEAMADE |President Takes Step in Bitter Struggle-Full Plan Announced WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 — Presi- dent Truman called today for merger of the Army and Navy into la single department of national | defense with the Air Forces fully equal to the land and sea arms. Stepping squarely into the middle of the long and bitter struggle | between the Army and Navy top commands, Mr. Truman followed in virtually every detail the official War Department plan for unifica- lion. And he dashed one prime Navy |hupr by declaring in a special mes- sage to Congress: “Further studies of the general problem would serve no useful pur- pose.” Navy witnesses appearing at Sen- ate Military Committee hearings on the merger proposal have pleaded against hasty action and urged | additional studies of all phases of unification. Under Civilians Declaring that “I urge this as the best means of keeping th2 Mr. Truman proposed that new defense department be headed by a single cabinet member operating with one undersecretary and several assistant secretaries, all civillans. There would be a de- partmental chief of staff, with a commander for- each of the threc i component branches—Army, Navy {and Air, 5 Either the President or the Sec- retary of Defense could take up di- rectly with the separate com- manders matters of basic military strategy and policysand the division of the department’s budget. Officers To Serve Key staff positions in depart- ment, Mr. Truman said, should be filled with officers drawn from all the services “so that the thinking of the department would not be dominated by any one or two of the services." “As an additional precaution,” he added, “it would be wise if the post of chief of staff were rotated among the several services, when- ‘ever practicable and advisable. . .” Taking note of strong oppositicn from Secretary Forrestal and other high-ranking Navy officials, the President said: Policy Of Naiion “However strong the opposition that has been expressed by scme of our outstanding senior officers and civilians, I can assure the Congress that once unification has been determined upon as the policy of this natlon, there is no officer or civilian in any service who will not contribute his utmost to make the unification a success. + In his 5500-word message, Mr. | Truman called again for Congres- gional approval*of universal mili- tary training, asserting it has met ! with the overwhelming approval of | the people of the United States.” Referring repeatedly to the pos- sibility of future inroads upon world peace, the Chief Executive declared that«"“a grave responsi- bility will rest upon the Congress if it continues to delay this urgent »!and most important measure.” but to whem he never bowed r-vrni' He termed unification legislation “another essential step—along with one of the principal documents | submitted to the military commis- | sion which on Jan. 3 will try Homma on charges including re- | sponsibility for the cruel Bataan | death march, Lt. Col. Frank E.| Meek, the chief prosecutor, hmdj today. : A fidgety Homma was returned | in disgrace today to the palatial residence from which in 1942 he had watched Corregidor captives | forced to march in lumulmtluu’ ‘There, where he once lived as a| conqueror, he pleaded innocent at | his arraignment on charges of re- sponsibility for the death march and for 67,000 deaths among Am- erican and Filinpino prisoners of war, internees and civilians | Maj. Gen. Leo B. Donovon, president of the military trial| commission, ordered Homma to re- port for trial Jan. 3 despite his | counsel’s protests that it needed at least a month to prepare his de- fense, universal training—in the develop- ment of a comprehensive and con- tinuous program for our future safety and for the peace and se- cuxuy of the world GETTA BUSY MONK~I'MA 7 7 ONLY GOTTA SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL 7 CHRISTMAS ]