The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1945, Page 1

' the soldiers themselves, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,150 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GOOD NEWS SANTA'S PACK The Washington VERY THIN IN OTHER LANDS Gls Help Out in Many Places by Dividing Canned Rations By ED CREAGH LONDON, Dec. 24—A lean Santa totes a thin pack for most of the world on this first peacetime Christmas in six years. In conquered and liberated coun- tries, as well as in the shattered remnants of the Third Reich, there is not food enough for a hearty Yuletide feast, and the children's Christmas stockings literally gape at toes and heels. American servicemen, separated from their families on another Christmas, are filling their now familiar role of foster Santa wherever they can—for instance, they are entertaining 20,000 young- sters in Vienna tomorrow with focd deducted from their own rations.| War orphans . jn . Belgrade. and | aren't going to be enough for both.| Cairo and the children of released internees in Singapore also - will share the Yanks! bounty—turkey and sweets, movies and laughter. Treats For Soldiers Some sort of treat is in store for such as canned turkey in Chungking or beer (weak beer) on the edge of New Guinea’s steaming jungles. Hundreds of English families will share their meager Christmas fare | with G.I's “sweating out” the long walt for passage home. German housewives have begged a few luxuries from Allied soldiers Merry - Go-Round | By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON—President Harr Truman isn’t sticking his neck out | on the 1948 political race—yet. Democratic Representative Ed- ward Herbert of Louisiana and Mayor Robert Maestri of New Or- | | leans discovered this when they | called at the White House the | other day. Maestri reminded Truman that the Louisiana delegation was | among the first to support him for | Vice President at the 1944 Demo- | cratic Convention in Chicago. Then | he added: | “We hope to cast our votes for | you for President at the next Con- | vention.” Truman chuckled good-naturedly but that was all. | “All T can say to that,” he Te- plied, “is that I'm just doing a job | here from day to day and letting the future take care of itself.” L | CLOTHING FOR VETERANS i Chief dilemma faced by the re- | turning war veteran when it comes |to new clothing is that either he | will ‘get clothes or his wife and sweetheart will get them. There i In this choice between man and wife there is no question as to | where the U. 8. Government stands, |at least in theory—on the side of the man. He has been away fight- | ing, his old clothes are moth-eaten, |and he deserves something to wear. ! Getting them for him, however, | may be another matter. Bottleneck of the entire problem | boils down to linings. Wool cloth- |ing for men must have linings. 1 This means rayon and cotton. At | present the. wool and worsted | es s 0 es e e TO MY FRIENDS IN | JUNEAU 1 wish for you all the warming joys of the Christ- mas Season and may the New Year bend itself easily and readily to your every desire and venture. I trust that “White Christmas” will cover all the mountains and trails so familiar to me. Col. Roy W. Riegle, Emporia, Kansas. . 3 L3 . . . . . . . . . . . 3 | 3 | ° 3 e e s 000000 00 Col. Reigle, who was Commander at Duck Creek until the camp was abandoned, went to headquarte: at Anchorage, then to Virginia, where he learned Japanese for a new mission he was to undertake. Col. Riegle, writing from Yoko- | hama on Dec. 5, said he was wait- ing at the Kisurayn Airfield for & plane to take him to Guam, where for five days he was to visit his i son, a Corporal in the Marine Corps, stationed on Saipan. Then he was to start the long journey by air back to Fort Logan, Cclo., where he was to be released from the Army. He said he expected to reach Emporia, Kan, in time to eat Christmas dinner at home, the first time since 1940. Ccl. Riegle writes: "I have had an interesting 15 months in the Pacific. First as Civil Affairs of- ficer in Dutch Guinea and in the Philippines at Leyte, Cebu and the movies’ “cherry blonde” of Manila; then as Military Govern- Newark, N. J, strikes an attrac- ment officer in Yokohama. Re- | #ve pose for & Pir-up pictuic. cejyed my promotion to Colonel, the Bronze Star medal for work on Leyte, and was awarded the Mili- tary Medal of Merit by the Philip- pine Government. I am coming back to Juneau one of these days, for that 8 home to me, the same. as Emporia.” 1 | | | | | 4 | BLONDE — vivian Blaine, S - CIVILWAR IN CHINA PATTON LAID 16 REST MID. HEROTROOPS ;| ¢ TINS pilot crashed and was killed as he came in for a routine landing at the | Army airport Friday. His name was | withheld pending notification of |next of kin. Carried to Grave Through Rainy Pre-Xmas Morn By RELMAN MORIN LUXEMBOURGUG, Dec. 24 — Gen. ANCHORAGE—The Union Bank, | founded with $60,000 of local capital, George S. Patton, Jr., was buried | Will be opened here soon after Jan. this rainy morning-before-Christ- | 1. Andrew Hassman, former credit mas amid the graves of many of |3€€Ncy manager, and Attorney S. J. his Third Army herces, in the | McCutcheon, Territorial Represen- United States Cemetery at Hamm, |tative, have announced. five miles east of Luxembourg. | NG Representatives of eight nations| PARIS—Foreigners in France wore whese victory Gen. Patton hnd‘besh’,gt‘d with black market money helped win or whose freedom he |exchange offers today as word spread had helped regain were in the | that the Cabinet had voted last night cortege which wound through the | to devaluate the Jranc. crowded streets of this little capital on the way to the cemetery. | Revered Leade['s BOdy' ANCHORAGE — A P-38 fighter| “There are just as many liars a: 2 er FROM MOSCOW EXPECTED Liars Are Numerous and Lies Are Geffing Betler ;Blo ISSUES SETTLED AT | s | BURLINGTON, Wis, Dec. 24.—| (ONFEREN(E and the lies are getting bette: That’s O. C. Hulett talking and no lie, he says. Hulett, President of the noted Burlington Liar’s Club, is winnow- ing some 6,000 letters to selact 1945's lhlggtst fibber for a new year'’s an- | nouncement. “Lies?” said Hulett, thousands of them. can tell the truth.” California apparently has raised the Lest crop of liars this year, Hu- lett saids, listing Pennsylvania as a close second, followed by Illinois and New York. Hulett dished out a few sample from the 1945 crop: Writing from the “Only Pacific Island completely covered with Seems no one water,” a Sgt. Floyd Hobbs said that it rained so much that the Japs “We've got }IalkfestsAr;TearEn(.i with Harmony, Goodwill Pre- vailing,_ Is Report By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Dec. 24—The end of the Big Three foreign ministers con- ference is in sight, informed sources sald todav, and #n4 vews may be expected to be announced. " The informants stated that accom- plishments had been achieved and probably would be announced simul- tanecusly in Moscow, London and ‘Washington. Although the conference has {bombed their tents, thinking they reached its final stages, both U. 8. were cargo ships. Jake Taylor of Herminie, Pa,. Patton’s body was guarded by | tracps of the Mighty Third Army, | ! which h2 had led in smashm;:‘llgxon and the state on the an-|freezing. down Germany’s fierce counter- niversary of the death of the.Em= drive.out of the Ardennes across upper Luxembourg just a year ago. | Mrs. Patton accompanied the | L procession and stood beside her| WASHINGTON The United husband’s grave during the military States held out a promise today of ceremony. !merrier Christmases to come for The General's body arrived at| thousands of Europe's homeless war the Luxembourg station before |Téfugees. In a weekend directive, dawn from Heidelberg by special |President Truman cleared the way train which passed through Mainz ! for 39.000 of them g year to be ad- and Saarbrucken and across the|Mitted to this country. scarred battlefields of Metz and | Tionville, scenes of Patton’s | WINDSOR, Ont.—A $1,000,000 fire vic- | tories. | today gutted a business block in the Crowds peror’s father. of Luxembourgers ¥ The $6th. Fightes. Qentrol Squad- ren was short of gas in Burma, wrote Cpl. August Nisterowelz, so skis. The Burma fog was so heavy that, to save gas, the pllots skifed and coasted on the fog. i i | \COMMUNITY TREE DRAWS OUT MAN There was a'good turnout at the - | situation is improving and there | | probably will be almost enougn for had | heart of downtown Windsor as fire- |gathered around the station and|Men covered with freezing spraw community Sing yesterday at | lined the streets leading east from battled icy winds to halt spread of o'clock but a raw wind and swirling oon, 6. Marsall s MILLION GIS furt railroad station, one large ferent. In the first place, most of | g i Communists’ Demands | NO'I‘ A'l' HOME torches will flare tonight over the| In other words, women are get- ing $175 each and expensive dolls.!asking for, and getting, a lot of | withdrawal of American forces. world center for the industry, has which has been speaking authorita- tree, devoid of ornament, stands as|their production was allocated to, a symbol of the drabness of Christ- | war uses and it takes some time to| mas in Germany. | get. mills reconverted. Second, and By contrast, liberated Brussels here is where the sex problem | turned a public square into a forest | comes in, most of the rayon and' Agaravate Situation graves of patriots killed by theting the rayon blouses, the slips,; % Germans. the undies and other things Lhey] By SPENCER MOOSA Can’t Buy—So “Shop Around” |like to wear, Meanwhile, the much | CHUNGKING, Dec. 24. — The In Paris, children whose parents|more prosaic but absolutely neces- | Communist New China Daily News still can't buy new shoes for them,|sary lining for men's suits is lety today urged General Marshall to set Rome stores, blacked out by rayon poundage for stockings de- The newspaper assarud_thaz any | power shortage, still displayed an!spite the fact that nylon is coming Amencan_ l_mlp to_ Chungking—mili- abundance of cheeses, nuts and|back. S tary, political, finaneial or tech- confections, at which the average nical—before a coalition govern= working man making $2 a day ment was established “would aggra- i tively for the Communist side, aggra- Mate. But they added that, even :::;::k s e i vated American efforts to settle ;z- th‘shs‘h‘:“ld ;)e ;x Ptr;“::l::)_’ But somehow, people who had {China’s troubled affairs. { 1erryb: byl B ) ) been through u;e war were getting After conferring with Chiang ‘”;95 Asmusv- 'Kai-shek, Premier T. V. Soong and - you may have heard, the "Soldiers, Sailors, Marines Spend Christmas at Sea or Abroad WASHINGTON, Lec. 24.—About 3,200,000 coldiers, sailors and Ma- rines will spent this first peacctime Christmas either at sea or in foreign lands. The Army and Navy counted noses today and came up with this esti- ® ¥k % WHY WOMEN GET BREAK Chief reason for this channelling {of clothes to women, despite the | needs of veterans, are: | 1—Higher prices and more profits ;in women'’s apparel. Men’s clothing | manufacturers blame this on the | OPA. of Christmas trees with bright|cotton now available for civilian: flowers, while in Copenhagen great|use has been going to women. pressed their noses against show{out in the cold. In addition, the & time limit on the disarmament of windows displaying toy jeeps cost- | hosiery manufacturers are even |Japanese trcops in China and lhe‘ could only look. |vate “the current civil war.” Nuembeyrg's toy market, once the The statement of the newspaper,’ along—thankful the soldiers were | home and the bombers grounded this Christmas Eve. UNRRA distributed 100,000 Christmas packages in cold, dis- ease-ridden Poland. ' Socks came from the United States for nearly every Hollander, and British chil- dren donated 57 cases of toys for Danish Youngsters. MANY T0 WORSHIP, | MIDNIGHT MASSES Celebrations oi religious devotion, Christmas Day or early Wednesday | masses or special music, will be ob- | served tonight in three Juneau; churches, Cathaolic Church of the| Christmas Day or early Wednesday. ‘mgde that clear. Nativity, the Church of the Holy| Trinity and the Resurrection Luth-; eran Church. As usual it is indi- cated the churches will have stand-| ing room cnly. The service at Holy| Trinity will begin at 11:30 o'clock | and in the other churches at mid-' nighe. | The three above churches will alsol have Christmas services in the fore- | noon tcmorrow, Christmas Day. 2—The War Production Board last fall issued priorities on. cotton land rayon in order to spur pro- duction of medium-priced clothing, but for some strange reason en- { tirely omitted the -bottleneck of | men’s suits—linings. Since then the WPB has been abolished, but its successor, the lcivillan Production Administration, (Continued on Pa;n‘ Four) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof, from Seattle, due late morning. Alaska, from west, due maybe late Cricket, from Seattle, due Wednes- day. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver December 28. Taku scheduled to sail irom Seat- ' tle December 29. North Sea schoduled to sail from Seattle January 4. 3 oo Indians form 54 per cent of the population of Bolivia i three Communist leaders of the WAar's over. _ | pe:fci- delegation assigned here, 2. Celebrations can be carried on| Marshall admitted “ff will be some®Without worrying what the enemy is time before I can hope to get a pic- UP to. ture of China.” Pe Lo Bet & DIt oy Even though 3200000 are far| This statement by President Tru-, 8Wway, that’s a numerical xmprove-i man’s special envoy to China, ment over last year. |coupled with government suspicion of a Communist truct proposal, ggy soigjers overseas compared with |strengthened doubt that the civil ;) ;100.000 who are zherza:mw. A | Do bt WS et o, W0 FN phere e M- " rines were at sea or overseas. iate cessation of hostilities and the fi0;r6 has been cut to 1,100,000, | “freezing” of troops in present posi-l 7 itions. This would mean government | |forces would halt their movement| [] into Manchuria. Marshall said it was unnecessary to| irestate America’s policy toward; China, as President Truman had| | Are Hosls i | | — | | Dr. M. Judson Whittier arrived by [ Members of the Juneau Volun- plane’ from Seattle yesterday to|teer Fire Department will be hosts spend Christmas with his oarents, |to friends tomorrow from 2 to 5 Mr .and Mrs. M. S. Whittier ,and his | o'clock at the usual open house on ! sister, Mrs. Robert Cowling. Now | Christmas Day. The affair will be fon terminal leave from the Army,|held in the lounge’ at the Fire he plans to visit here for about| Department quarters, City Hall | tWo. weeks ! Buiiding — e DR. WHITTIER HERE | the ecity by the murky, rain- the flames for seven hours. spattered daybreak, to pay last 2 " | tribute to the commander they had SIXTH ARMY SEADQUARTERS, | made an honorary citizen. | TOKYO — An investigation was | In the funeral cortege were rep- under way today to determine origin | resentatives of France, Russia,|Of & fire which swept through a | Britain, The Netherlands, Yugo- |P2rracks killing 12 American officers slavia, Belgium and Italy. YE%" land men of a madical battalion. | ‘Twmty-two others were in hospitals WAS WEALTHY MAN with burns and lacerations and WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 — Gen, | 5COT€s were received for treatmen George S. Patton, Jr,, was general-"ur minor injuries after the fire |1y regarded as the wealthiest career | POk out yesterday. . | officer’ in the United States Army. | % ! He inherited a fortune from his | ! father, a Virginian who became a California real estate operator, i The General owned a ranch st;b the St | san Marino, Calif, and a large: > 'h¢ San P | estate, “Green Meadows,” at Ham- | and embodying the world’s hopes for ilten, Mass. He possessed one Ox?Prepa"'lmry Conpilsaion the world's finest military libraries, | o He and his wife had a 47-foot | | schoorer, the “When and If,” in| | which they hoped some day to sail {around the world. LONDON—AIl preparations had been completed today for the formal ’cpeni resterday, | 8 skt WASHINGTON—House and Sen- | ate members are on a vacation to | rest for the st |OUTDOOR DECORATIONS [1-"cnecion nesinning Jamuary 14 MISSING THIS YEAR| reart narmor_he Navy has i SRt warned all ships in the Pacific Motoring over the snow-covered against the danger of thousands of streets last night and getting their floating mines. The ~mines were sights through whirling snow. Em-| dumped into the sea by the Japanese pire staffmen found that outdoor| lighting is not as elaborate as in| | | | | 1 during the closing days of the war. of In time the mines can be expected trieve his hat which had blown off snow prevented the sing right at the tree and the choralists dropped over under the protecting shelter and well lighted front of Parcy's Cafe. The singing was led by Mrs. Rob- ert Treat, accompanisd by Mrs. Ray Nevin at the organ. S e Three Are Initiafed By Wompfl of Moose Three Jew members were initiat- 3 early next year of the Unit- ed by the Women of the Moose at ~d Nations Organization, blueprinted their last regular business and social Francisco conference meeting in the Moose Lodge Rooms. They were Mrs. Jessie Lynn, Berna peace. With adjournment of the /' West and Marian E. Meier. Following the initiation ceremonies the path was cleard for official an enjoyable evening was spent in cpening of UNO when its first gen- playing pinochle, after which re- eral assembly convenes here Jan. 10. freshments were served. PHSIRR LA P 10 R, STOP, HAT! CHICAGO — Residents along South Halsted Street near 55th watched excitedly as Policeman Jo- seph Morrison chased a speeding automobile. But the officer wasn't in pursuit bandits. He was trying to re- Last Christmas there were 4,933,-| ¢ fore Thanksgiving.” rear bumper of |former years but indoor lighting is't0 sp¥ing leaks and disappear. But and landed on the better. One outdoor tree appears the Navy states they may remain a the car. |at the home of Mrs. Olav Lillegraven, | Menace for many months. ‘ Morrison found his hat a couple 1328 West Eighth, two on the BSixth| of blocks away. | Street porch of Dr. W. M. Whitehead| WASHINGTON Ambassador | Waiiolithe i B0 L LRI |and one on the marquee of the Norman Armour, just back from | Baranof Hotel, Spain, says Generalissimo Franco All ABOARDl As usual, Hugh Wade had a string | Still maintains an army of 600,00 . |of colored lights strung along the|t0 700,000 and that one-third of; LOS ANGLLES, Dec. 14—Miss Basin highway at his home. |that nation's budget goes to the Ilene Richter, Zb, has been sitting in Windows give the Christmas cheer | armed forces and police. |the Union depot four days and with lighted wreaths, candles, stars,| |nights trying unsuccessfully to get trees, etc. | . DETROIT—The CIO United Auto |on @ train to go to Manchester, Ia. By tonight many other decorations Workers took advantage of a Christ-| She almost made it once. “I got may appear, both outdoors and 1n.}mns holiday “truce” to prepare new |21 the way out to the train and dooro. | data today for a renewal later this'Put my foot on the platform before week of its 30 per cent wage increase (the conductor ‘came out and said, s | demands on auto manufacturers, | ‘That's all this time',” she related as PHILADELPHIA — Four turkeys,| PREGTESRERS: Soe o . 4 she settled down for more waiting. discovered jay-walking in South| -— Al Philadelphia, are in a police cell] A chemical battalion set out 110, Chemical warfare as a military today Police. Officer Joseph Ci- tens of smoke pots along a key art fell into disuse with invention colese, who found the birds dodging Italian highway below Cassino, and‘,cl guncotton, and did not come back traffic, said they will remain in jail| produced a smoke screen six miles until Germany initiated the use of until claimed, “which should be be-|long and two miles wide which was toxic gas, flame-throwers and aerial maintained for three days. !incendiaries in World War I. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and British Foreign Secretary TOKYO—Emperor Hirohito will said it was so cold last winter his Bevin will.be in Moscow until put into effect tomorrow General |wife had to build a fire alongside Christmas morning at least, it w4s MacArthur's directive separating re- | the stove to keep the stove fire from s5aid. Meanwhile, it was reliably report- ed that Russia had not-been let in on any secrets about the atomic bomb, although the foréigh ministers Ithe mechanics rigged the planes with Were said to have discussed the United States-British-Canadian pol- . icy on world control of atomic en- ergy. An atmosphere of optimism con- tinued to prevail today as the con- ference went into its ninth day. The three ministers twice displayed their cordially publicly last night, at the Bolshoi theatre by arising and clasping hapds above their heads. ALASKA AIRLINES ON SUNDAY FLIGHT Alaska Airlines Starliner Fair- banks, Capt. Flahart, First Officer ,Hola and Hostess Sharp arrived ! from Anchorage yestsrday with the following passengers: | Glena Pipes, Alma Kemper, Flor- ence Devenny, Cathrine Devenney, | Carrie Swank, Russell Swank, Gor- don Mills, F. E. Smith, R. I. Brad- burn, Florence Wicklind, B. E. Mar- shall, H. L. Lee, F. Jacobs, 8. E. Foster, Harley Turner, J. A. Kend- ler. The following departed for An- chorage: Mrs. Eleanor Wilson, Wil- liam Wilson, Nedra Hemminhway, Vera Plerce, Lt. Carl Horrell, Harry McCluskey. To Cardova: Bernard Leff. e (OASTAL AIRWAYS | ON WEEKEND TRIPS Thelma Leff and | ? Alaska Coastal Airways yesterday flew the following passengers on trips to and from Juneau: | To Ketchikan — F. 8. Pletcher, 'James T. Newhauer; to Wrangell— Brooks Hanford, Robert L. Brad- burn; to Petersburg—Norman Lan- do, Karl Omdahl, and James T. Thomas. To Sitka — Jack Dennard, Neil . Bredvick, George Hellerich. | Prom Sitka—Ralph Thomas; to Ketchikan—Charles E. Mahi, T. B. Whiteside. On Saturday’s trip to Ketchikan were—Czcil Jones, W. B. Sutherland, Jean McLaughlin, Paul G. Vollam, Dera Garrison, Randolph Polk, and Sigurd O. Olsen. g 5 S SWEATING IT OUT TACOMA, Wash, Dec. 2 —Lt. Marvin Morefield is back from the Pacific with a Bronze Star, lots of souvenirs and a worried look. His son, Michael, three, wailting for him at his home in Seattle, wanted a coconut. That was the one thing Morefield ididn’t have,