The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1945, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS : ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVL, NO. 10152 - ———— _MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ PRICE TEN CENTS : JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1945 . SOVIET PROGRAM " ISBEING WORKED . INOCCUPIEDZONE . ‘Eibnomy Pianned for In- ,. dustry, Business, Revis- ion of Land Ownership (Editor’s Note—Five Ameri- can correspondents have com- pleted an eight-day tour of the | Russian-occupied zone of Ger- many. Following is an account | of phases of that tour.) | b e ¢ By RICHARD KASISCHKE | BERLIN, Dec. 27 — A planned economy for industry and business sand widespread revision of land ownership are the basis of the + Soviet program in Russian-occupied Germany. .German Government leaders say the program is progressing satis- factorily despite initia} ‘Bardships. The reaction of the German little man ranges from courageous opti- mism among the new farmers to * helpless doubt in Dresden and com- plaints in the streets of Halle and ¢ Leipzig. i » The program of Sovietization is being carried out with veteran Communists in key posts. Industry, | farming and mining are largely B v 1 ON under control of German provincial | |G NA IGAI' | governments, aided and supported ; 3 | by the Russian Military Govern- | pROJE(I DEPENDS ‘ | | ‘Improvement of Wrangell Narrows Okehed when | Funds Available WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—Army engineers have informed Delegate burg, surrounded by some of her X Soviet Program i " s The Soviet-sponsored program [ was observed at work in an area ! on Page Five) o T (Continued The Washington Merry - Go- Round,| Bartlett (D-Alaska) By DRFW PEARSON lthe proposed $2,731.000 Wrangell ;WASH!NGTON»LRR week this Narrows project in the Territory coblumn revealed that in 1939 can be started next spring if Con- *¢ Bouglas Aircraft had sold the gress approprites funds. DC-4, plus blueprints, to Japan,! Bartlett disclosed the engineers’ 4 &spite previous denials and de- assurance today in a statement in 1~ ite the plea of Cordell Hull for |which he added that the needed moral embargo against Selling appropriation would be included in airplanes to the Japs. a bill now being prepared to pro- | The Douglas official who handled vide funds for civil functions of the is transaction was V. E. Ber- War Department. andias, later promoted to be a| Plans for the project call for a ajor general in the U. S, Army channel 300 feet wide and 24 feet espite representations by deep and an anchorage basin ad- Justice Department pointing to his jacent to the channzl in the vicinity f Mile 14. The basin would be 500 yards long, 200 feet wide and 26 feet deep. Annual maintenance FL record of cooperation with th This column is now able to re- Yeal further evidence regarding the cost is set at $1,000. pre-Pearl Harbor cooperation of The Wrangell Narrows improve- Douglas Aircraft and Gen. Ber- ment is one of twelve Alaskan pro- trandias—a letter from Bertran- jects approved early in 1945 [or dlas to Mitsui & Company, ar- future construction by the Army En- ranging for an inspection trip by gineers. Ten of them require lo- . Terauchi, prominent Jap air cal cooperation and can not be start- mander, to the Douglas plant (ed until the communities have ful- » &t Santa Monica, Calif. |filled the conditions. * This was at a time when Douglas : v w‘g‘rs making important military air- Jject to local conditions, is apt to craft for the U. S. Army. It was | be postponed because the engineers, also two months after-the war in Bartlett said, believe its relative Europe had started and when many | priority is not sufficiently high to U, S. newspapers were reportin | warrant immediate construction. The that Japanese entry into the war |Project calls for expenditure of $38,- was inevitable. The letter follows: |00 for a channel 10 feet deep and “Oct, 23, 1939 |60 feet wide through the outer en- IS i & mpany, Ltd. trance and one eight feet deep and xlxét.h&;\:lgmfe N 40 feet wif> through the inner . ! entrance. 4 Cit; %;n:::: Mr ys Kohno The ten projects subject to local ) Qenuemex'r T n cooperation are Metlagatla Harbor, ist Craig Harbor, Meyers Chuck Har- LB e your ot X -":_e o;mgct l,o"ncl:::‘v:‘l::gng yd e~ | Por, Wrangell Harbor, Skagway Har- znment __ M. Sasaoka, relative | " Petersburg Harbor, Port Alex- t] ander, Gastineau Channel and Sel- he proposed visit of Gen. Tera-» dovia, Harhis: : tichi and party. Your Los Angeleg & S | amee has already contacted us in TN i fegard to: this ‘matter, and we, 1 understand that Gen. Terauchi and 'w o v o u I HS DIE | party will visit our factory on the | et IN FLAMING CRASH ; 1 “Please be assured that we shall y " #i6 everything oossible to make Gen. Terauchi's visit a pleasure to him, 3 STOLEN TRANSPORT, FOUR POW QUEEN OF MARINES_Film actress Jinx Falken- the Marine birthday ball given by the Greater New York detach+ i tment at the Waldorf-Astoria in celebration of the 170th annivere sary of the Marine Corps League. ‘Most Perfect Back’ that work on The Elfin Cove project, not sub- - E 'NOHOPEFOR "MENCAUGHT, ~ MINE BLAST Rescue Crews Toil Persist-“ ently fo Reach 30to | 50 Miners , | PINEVILLE, Ky, Dec. 27—With| virtually no hope of finding anyoné | ! alive, rescug¢ workers toiled per- sistently in an uxplqaien-l)lncktd + imine tunnel today to reach the spot where 30 to 50 coal miners are entombed. | Trained rescue . crews, working lin shifts, inched to within 3,000 feet of the area during the night. | | Fire, gas fumes, smoke and piled debris snarled every effort fort | rescue. Hope of reaching the emombedl rescue team to report announced a penetration of one and one-half | miles from the mine entrance. | None of the workers, miners or families of the trapped miners, ' however, voiced hope any would be found alive. Experienced in such | disasters, they said the possibility for rescue was small in such an| explosion, 1 13 Fires Spotted PINEVILLE, Ky, Dec. 27— At least 13 fires have been spotted and | put out by rescue workers attempt- ing to reach from 30 to 50 men en- tombed by a coal mine explosion | more than 24 hours ago but hopes| that the men would be found alive grew dimmer. ] A. D. Sis 'erations outside the “subjects,” is crowned queen of ~ g director of rescue op- Number One Coal Company, said no more fires had Leen sighted but it was not kncwn whether any were farther| back in the tunnel. The workers had penetrated approximately one and a | half miles back and were about 3,000 feet from the entombed men. The number of trapped men still ‘was not definitely known today. Es- timates of officials ranged as high | i |as 50 but others believed the figure would not exceed 30. | | Last hopes of reaching the men alive grew dimmer as 24 hours pass- | 'cd since the explosion, which al-! ;though not felt or heard above; |ground, turned the mine’s timbers! |and walls into a jungle of wreckage. SUFFOCATED ON CHRISTMAS DAY, FAIRBANKS FIRE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 27,-i Johnson was a teacher in a Jap ‘Jolm Carl, 27, tractor driver, of Des’ Telocation center, (International) |Moines, Ia. was suffocated in a | Christmas Day fire started by an oil stove explosion -in his small cabin. He is believed survived by a widow ) and two childfen at Des Moines. He | 'had worked on construction jobs at' Whitehorse, ¥. T., and was to leave today for Barrow.: . Carl had been a driver for the | Star Cab and also mechanic for the Castillo| Kansas City Bridge and Construc- tion Company. He was identified by a name on a wrist bracelet. | B e gt SELECTED for physiological and aes- thetic perfection, the back of lovely Evelyn Johnson (above), New York model, has been voted “the most perfect back of 1945," according to Director of Research Welant of the National Chiropractic Assn. Miss Filipino Pied Piper Is to Die MANILA, Dec. 27.—Clark was sentenced to death today by a Pecple's Court as the Pied Piper who led almost 1,000 Filipinos to mass execution by the Japanese. He was the first collaborator to ! reczive the sentence in a decision‘HIT(H.HlKER | which established an important pre-| N cedent that membership in the! Japanese-sponsored Makapili army| | IS MURDERER that the Japanese were according| : safe conduct, cajoled the population, LUTCHER, La., Dee. 27 — Two constitutes treason. Last March, Castillo, on pretense, of the village of Lmband, near Li- men have been Killed and an- pa, in Batangas Provinee, to congre- other critically wounded by an gate. The Japanese then killed aJl[ unidentified hitch-hiker. except members of the Makapili or- = Deputy Sheriff J. P. Pollet said ganization. | the shooting took place in an | automobile near here. He identified ! the dead as Cpl. Irvin Pincus of - ->-oe - | men today arose when the latest " 'mine of the Kentucky Straight Creek I Very truly yours, { : ¢ Doilglas Aircraft Co. Inc,| ONTARIO, Calif, Dec. 21—Two (an'l liveonwage [ 3R | { V. E. Bertrandias, }17-year-olds — with 10 hours flying 3 u Vice-President.” experience apiece — died in a C-47, p 'd. 12 0““ j b % * % % | transport’s flaming crash near here! al y o S' OUTFOXING MacARTHUR |Christmas day. ! E b . I. d n the Far Eastern Advisory Commis- |43y during which the victim's names | m assy In on o on is going to Japan boat in- |Yemained unknown, said their par e ; ;‘tgnd cfg hygsirplan‘:. i ents identified them as Jack Stearns| ‘LONDON- Dec. 201—The resigna- , - ‘When the commission cabled | Barrows, Studio City, and anert;hun of 12 U. 8. embassy employees come, he cabled back that he could The big craft, loaned to Aero-Jet London on the salaries paid them the delegates only one or " 5 Q;::dl:t a un',:_g MacArthur said |Was flown from the Army Air Base | ficials today. \ ¢ E‘e" were no accommodations for I here, the coroner said, without per- Among those who resigned were 1 Here is the inside reason why Coroner R. E. Williams, after a| Gen. MacArthur for permission to | Crolius, North Hollywood. {who said they could mot live in diplomats, so he |mission. It dived into a vineyard two vice consuls and seven code- h:nwr's:::,i in pdrible"s_ {four miles from the field and -ex-jroom clerks, who must be replaced V The 10 nations on the commis- |Ploded, moments after its takeoff. [from the United States. The sion figured this was a dodge to e | others were British telephone op- L3 . 3 ——— | Geoffery Chaucer, author of the| erators. Their salaries were about “Canterbury Tales,” died in 1400. *$2,400 a year. e S L . (Continued on Page Four) e r T 4 2 Corporation by the Army for tests, was announced by American of-| |New Orleans, and Walter Smith, | whose address was not known. The wounded man, whose condition is| | described as serious, is Gordon | |Ray, a Navy shipfitter of Electra, ; Texas, | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Dec. 27 — Closing | ‘quomtion of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 874, American Can | 100, Curtiss-Wright 8, International | | Harvester 96, Kennecott 50, New | York Central 34'%, Northern Pa- | cific 35%, U. S. Steel 81%, Pound 1$4.03%. Sales today were 1,260,000 shares. | jas follows: Industrials, 192.31; rails, 62.66; utilities, 38.06. SUPPLIES FOR POLAND_The freighter Virginia unloads UNRRA hay supplies for Foland at Gdynia. In the f TWO AMERICAN ‘SOLDIERS SHOT IN BERLIN SECTION First Iragetfi t;f’vKind Since Necupation of City— Search Made BERLIN, Dec. 27 — American military authorities and German civilian police pressed a house-too- house search in the Tempel-Hof Airdrome district today for the persons responsible for the Christ- mas Eve slaying of two American soldiers. Reports of the shooting were con- ! firmed officially yesterday by U. S Army authorities, who said the two | through the | men had been shot head with a .38 caliber gun. Police said they were unable to discover a motive for the shootings—the first to take the life of an Am- erican soldier since the occupation of Berlin. (Names of the two victims were not divulged pending notification of next of kin.) France Gels Down io Biz PARIS, Dec: 27 — The Btetton Woods monetary stabilization agreement and a $550,000,000 loan by the American Export-Import bly early today. The assembly then approved, in effect, the government’s devalua- tion of the franc by voting 508 to 44 to give the government author ity to revalue the Bank of France's gold stock at the rate of the new paper franc gold content. President de Gaulle told the assembly that devaluation of the franc and ratification of the Bret- ton Woods Pact were necessary. He said every effort would be made to keep prices and salaries on a steady level, keep the budget bal- anced and reduce governmental ex- penses. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Steamer Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow, due in Ju- neau Monday; goes to Sitka, return- ing to Juneau southbound about January 3. Princess Norah scheduled to sai from Vancouver tomorrow night at 9 o'clock. Taku scheduled 1o sail from Seat- tle Saturday. North Sea scheduled to sail frgm Seattle January 4. Steamer Yukon schoduled to sail from Seattle January 4. Steamer Alaska scheduled to sail Dow, Jones averages today were from Seattle January 10, due here morning at 9:08 o'elock in St. 13th or 14th; then goes to Sitka, not to westward. e sreground, Polish workers push a loaded freight car alovg the dock. Powerful Ei{lperor Sysiem ‘Now Wiped Outin Japanas Result of Allied Decrees PRI Bil DUANE HENNESSY ful emperor system that Japan has known in the past is being ‘“des- trcyed—wiped out of existence,’ as the result of Allied reforms, Brig. Gen. Frayne Baker, Genera! Mac- | Arthur’s public relations officer, said today. His written summary of Mac- | Arthur’s democratization decrees did not, however, mention Emperor | Hirohito; neither did it indicate that + Trial at Once for Deeds Committed [(he throne itself would bs abolish- I A ed. The statements referred rather YOKOHAMA, Dec. 21.—A life sen- to reforms which have eliminated tence at hard labor, instead of the the throne's traditional feudal con- death penalty the prosecution de-!trols that shackled the nation. manded, was returned today against 2 the first Japanese to be tried on the| .y, OEI';’; ’:‘\’l’lf“oz:g'z‘: 3";' s soil of his surrendered country as g S & g & war orihsioal | (Emperor) system were pulled out L iamhe se"mm“‘ eligiting an expmq_*nnd destroyed with the abolition of Lo uf. gmllul&c i Lt g e g jus_‘stat:\ 8hinto” (ancestor worship dir- li"" from & Japanese on the defense ected and supported by the govern “L‘“‘“ w“- pu:ssed bya U S w;“.,m;nn. Baker asserted. * Koo At | The step, his statement ex- crimes commissicn against Tatsuo! v kR Tauehivs. . prison ca?np guard ‘&ydnpd. was “when the Japanese i froe it ik e ! War and Navy Departments were Among the crimes of which he blacked out, and all armament GIVEN JAP WHO TORTURED YANK ,Other War Criminals Face was convicted was participation inyo,inereq in by the occupation for-| the torture and killing of Pfc. Gor-| o don Teas, of Streator, 111, a prisnn-‘ ".'l‘lus fifst step was really the Wge e, |main one, becauge that took away The commission, after announc-yy., syorq which was the key con- ing its decision in the morning, re- . . convented this afternoon to try Lt. Ken Yuri, charged with direct-| Prov-essive Pryeiolagy Successive MacArthur steps, the {Bank were approved unanimously ing S{JHI'GS to bfl_yflneb to death an!g . oment added, were studied ones, iby the French Constituent Assem- imprisoned American soldier while American officers watched, helpless ‘m intervene. | progressive psychology applied. | Trial of Lt. Chotora Furshima,!™ . 1 ol Destroying the whip-hand corfttrol charged with beating prisoners and of the empire’s police force and can- ;::tx:);;lx ::‘:;f,d Eé?;::.mno:l“lnr?ger" cellation of thought control was an- "clher far reaching operation,” Baker row morning. , Ideclared. 3 Sword Removed . Removal of the sword, he said, | necessarily accorded free speech, frge religion, free prese, free assembly, 1‘smd frge petition, and these founda- tions for the new government quick- : ‘)_v won favorable reaction. | Progressively, decrees freeing en- - Are al Luncheon .o ety i H PRI | stituting social security, agrarian | CHUNGKING, Dee. 27--General | reform, collective bargaining and which must be considered in se< q to get the full benefit of the 'Marshall, Depuly . Communist Chief, lIFE SEMEN(E TOKYO, (Friday) Dec. 28.— The! traditionally-worshipped, all-power« RULE IS SET FOR JAPAN MINISTERS MAKE PACT ATMOSCOW Handling of Atomic Ques- tion Is Also Decided, . Says Informant LONDON, Dee. 27-—Seereiary of | State Byrnes sald in Mescow today i that the “Big Three" Forelgn Min- isters had agreed on the handling of the atomic quesilon, and a re- liable informant in London said the iroremn ministers also approved | four-power rule for Japan. The London source said the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia_and Great Britain ihad agreed also ta a five-year | trusteeship of Korea, suggesting that independence would: come to ‘that Asiatic Peninsula after 1950. | The informant, who s in a pa- { sition to know what transpired during the 11 days of talks “in , Moscow, said the “Big Three" | agreed that Japan should be con- | trolled by Russia, the United | States, Great Britain and China. | Full detalls of the agreement ; were not immediately known, but | it was understood that the unani- ,mity rule would prevail on thg | four-power council. ¥ Byrnes ‘Leaves Moscow The foreign ministers ended their conference before dawn today, and Secretary of State Byrnes left Moscow for Washington, Moscow dispatches said. The communique on results of the conference is to be issued in Washington, Moscow | and London, at 10 p. m,, (EST) to- day. v e was not cleax whether final author- ity in Japan would rest with the council or if Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur would have the power to override its decisions as the ad- ministering agent of Japan. | It already has been announced that Secretary of State Byrnes, Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov of Russia and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin of Great Britain reached an agreement on procedure for drawing peace treaties with Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Fin- land and Italy. | Atomic Energy | On the question of atomic en- ergy, the “Big Three” were under- | stood to have adopted the Ameri- can-British plan of presenting a resolution to the United Nations general assembly in January, out- 1 lining their suggestions. Russia was said to have agreed !to associate herself with the United States, Britain and Canada tin the presentation of the resoclu- tion. France and China were alsa sald to have been asked to asso- { ciate themselves with the docu« ment. During the discussions, Byrnes was understood to have suggested | that the United Nations Security Council comprise the proposed atomic control commission. The ministers were said to have agreed that the atomic control reports should go to the United Nations Security Council and not [to the peace agency’s general as- sembly. This was the expressed wish of Russia. { e el Six Marines Taxi ‘From Coast-fo-Coast; They Beal_!_raflk Jam | NEW YORK, Dec. 27—The coast- to-coast taxicab trip of six Marines ' determined to beat the west coast The London fnformant said it George C. Marshall, new U. S. en-|the fair distributon of food, took the transportation tangle ended here !voy to China, entertained at lunch | people out from under the vertical today. ltcday Gen. Choy En-lai, deputy control of the military. All hg| Four of the men, tired from vhief of the Chinese Communist $aid, were elements that had given long hours of driving which took party and leader of the Communistpower and control to the emperor them through a blizzard and over delegation to the forthcoming peace fystem | icy mountain roads, arrived in the and unity conference. It is their! . B3 gy Ko | cab they hired in San Diego, Calif. second meeting. | HUNTINGTON GRUENING | A fifth Marine was let off at Chou and his delegates had bee GETS TERRITORIAL JOB his Pittsburgh home yesterday, and | a sixth, said goodby to the others “at some Pennsylvania town” where he could catch a train for his scheduled to meet with government g eeen delegates yesterday to proffer in Huntington Gruening, son of the ting a truce proposal, but *hego- | Governor, has been added to the |tiations were postponed. staff of Robert Sheldon, Unem- home, according to the men reach- | ¥ - ployment Cempensation Commis- ing here. DAUGHTER FOR DAKINS !sion ’ | Harry Arisohn, driver of the cab ! ", : - - .o who accompanied them, had offered | A daughter was born to Mr.| HERE FROM SEATTLE to bring the men to New York for . and Mrs. F. D. Dakin yesterday! Frank Colson and N. E. Impett, the cost of the trip. They left Seattle residents, have arrived in Ann’s Hospital. The infant weighed Juneau and are stopping at the 6 pounds, 2': ounces. Gastineau. the west coast Saturday. Sgt. Sam Stein, one of the Marines, said it amounted to $30-$40 per man, !