The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,154 * JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TRUMAN TO TALK TO NATION THURSDAY CRASH LANDING IS SAFELY MADE, DETROIT STREET Pilot on 43 Bomber Mis- sions Comes Down at | Home-Whatalife | ATOMIC ENERGY Terrorists Rounded Up Fol- lowing Explosions, alh o T e e | SECRETS TO BE KEPT GUARDED | luck—enabled' an Army pilot to JERUSALEM, Dec. 29—Terrorists ! make a successful emergency lnnd—‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 — Presi- Like the proverbial postman on)dent Truman was reported today to THOUSANDS OF ARRESTS, JERUSALEM i | | i i | | | | | | responsible for explosions andging on a much-traveled Detroit | shootings which resulted in 10 |street late Friday. | deaths in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv| Thursday night were sought by|his day off, Lt. Kenneth E. Parks,!be backing an even more cautious, | police today among nearly 2,000 21, and his passenger, Marine Sgt.|step-by-step disclosure of atomic persons arrested in the biggest| Robert N. Clark, 20, both of De-|energy secrets than first impres- roundup in Palestine’s history. troit, were taking a shert air trip |sions of the Moscow “Big Three” The suspects, lodged in detention around the city when the engine!communique had indicated. barracks were picked up through-|in their small rented monoplane | This interpretation of plans to out the day yesterday. Every male stalled at 1,000 feet. form an international atomic con- under 60 years of age, including “I looked around for some place | trol commission came from persons the entire guest list of the Eden to land and I could see a broad | who talked with Mr. Truman after Hotel, was arrested in the Bezalel street with an open space in the | his return from a Christmas holi- section of Jerusalem. | traffic not for away,” Parks re-|day in Missouri, The curfew was lifted in the lated. “I brought it down, headmg\ They declared it is Mr. Truman’s all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv today |south.” ! view that the United States should until further notice. But reports| Although a traffic light had Justlalways be sure there will be no from the neighboring town of halted most automobiles a block | misuse of a small secret before Ramith Gan told of a large-scale | away, one motorist gulped as he divulging a more important one. search by British troops there for'saw the craft coming in for a land-; They said conversations both at persons suspected of participfltingjing and speeded his car over the the White House and the State in the disorders. curb. Then he leaped out and lay | Department indicated it will be Security Precautions on the ground, waiting for the! American policy to test out pro- In Jerusalem the curfew was to ' worst. | posed inspection methods before remain in effect tonight. Private! The plane’s wing clipped lhej telling any nation except Britain telephones still were not operating | radio antenna off the car and an-|and Canada all of the know-how in large parts of the city. Authori- other motorist reported the craft of the atomic bomb. ties said this was a security pre-|scratched paint off one fender. | Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, caution. ! “I went all through the war Chairman of the Republican Sen- British Tommies in full battle without a scratch,” Lt. Parks told | atorial Conference, gave some in- dress patrolled streets in Jeru-"spectamrs who helped the two dication how the salem and Tel Aviv. | servicemen pull the plane to the after a conference with Mr. Tru- Squads of workmen dug through roadside, “and then come in for a ,man at the White House yester- wreckage at the police headquarters ' crash landing in my own hone day. building in Jerusalem, where des- town., What a life!” Vandenberg said in a statement (Continued on Page Two) i dealings with atomic energy. By LOVECASE E= KILLED; ashington e i s Merry - Go- Round SHOO"NG SIX FATALONE ~sypeey CAR | NEW YORK, Dec. 29 — Capt.| ugene Dale, 27-year-old survivor | of the Bataan Death March, died <o today at Roosevelt Hospital as a| contrary. They also are wincing i 1 iscl that Douglas { result of bullet wounds in the head, ——— ayer oy discloisy £9° chest and abdomen received in a| PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20 — At facilitated the visit of Japanese Gen. Terauchi and a party Zf Jap\melee over the love of an at-|least six persons were killed and = tractive model. the lant at | ;:nf:p;?n;:l éngfé?lg?: gct. 30, ! Another war veteran, Cap_fi 1939, two months after the Euro-| Archie B. Miller, 25, who served in pean war started and despite the“he European theater and who is fact that U. S. Army planes were | the estranged husband of the being manufactured in the Douglas | model, had been held without bail plant. | This whole matter is most im- | porfant. It goes to the root of a problem jn which the American | people are vitally interested—how wars are fomented and how they | can be prevented. The question is! not merely an argument between this colymn and Douglas @;crnlj. If airplane companies ‘of any others are permitted to sell .war supplies to a potential- enemy against thé xepeated request of the Secretary of State without feeling the lash of public opinion, then wars are more easily fomented. In By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — The Douglas | Aircraft people have been gnashing | their teeth and issuing denials over | this column’s disclosure that they E had sold the giant DC-4 to Japan despite Cordell Hull's plea to the| a Philadelphia transportation com- pany trolley car after it was in a collision with an oil-truck in near- by Essington, Pa. Elmer McCausland, deputy yesterday. He said police had removed four Assistant District Attorney Ed-|charred bodies from the wreckage ward Murphy termed the shooting {of the trolley and a body they be- The model, Mrs. Fay Hancock|been removed from the cab of the| Miller, told police she fell in love! truck. with Dale and planned a divorce | while her husband wafl%erseas Robe"a Dooley Is Engaged fo e, — — TOWNSEND (LUB HAVE OPEN HOUSE MONDAY EVENING (harge Made German ~ Industrials Are Being Pampered; Not Arrested wind Is blowing | | proposed international commission’s | | - HITS TRUCK | seven injured in a fire that swept| cor- | on a’' charge of felonious assault!oner of Delaware County, sald none | as a result of the shooting early!of the dead had been identified. | “one of the usual triangle affairs.”lieved to be the truck driver’s had | this case, Mr. Hull had no legal; authority to impose an embargo, only a moral right. The lash of public opinion was his only weapon and the greatest moulder of public opinion was the press. * Kk % DONALD DOUGLAS "QUERIED In July, 1938, I, personally, asked Donald Douglas point-blank if he| was selling or intended to sell the | l} I I followed by square and modern danc- The Juneau Townsend Club will| have an open house New Year's Eve, Monday evening, in CIO Hall. There will be a short business meeting ing to musi¢ furnished by E. M. Mc- | Intyre, violinist, and Mrs. Carl G.|Pacific, is announced. Collen and Mrs. David Milner nl-i ternating on the piano. A} B. Cain will call the square dances. Coffee and sandwiches will be served. L. Jo_hn Dimond| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 28— The engagement of Miss Roberta Dooley, formerly of Cordova and Juneau, to Lt. John Dimond, re- cently returned from the South | The wedding will take place some | time next month and will uhite two pioneer Alaska families. The bride-to-be is the daughter | DC-4 to Japsn. His denial was of Mrs. Minnie Dooley of Seattle, By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN BERLIN, Dec. 29. — Russell A. | Nixen, Deputy Director of the Divi- sicn of Investigation of Cartels and External Assets of the American Military Governmant, asserted today that military authorities in the Am-~ erican zone were “pampering” Ger- man industrialists. Nixcn, former instructor in the economics department at Harvard University and later CIO Washing- | ton representative for the United | Electrical Workers, declared in an interview that German industries were not being destroyed and that industrialists were not being arrest- ed as he believed they should under a directive of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | Released from JSails | He also declared that “pressure” forced his division to release from jail a numbay of leaders of the I. G. | Farben Industrie, gigantic German chemical trust, after they had been ingerrogated. Lt. Gen. Luclan D. Clay, Deputy ! Military Governor of Germany, said, | “I found out about the release of these Farben leaders only the other | day. If any prassure was brought | for their release, it certainly did not come from this office. We still have ‘ | ten in custody, however.” ) Soft Pedal Talk Col. E. S. Pillsbury, Control Of- ficer for the Farben Industrie, in- formed Nixen that “If and when this office cbtains information which providzs a basis for substantive charges against these officials or | any of them, such charges will be | presented promptly to the War| Crimes Authority or to the Counter- | Intelligence Department, according to the nature of th2 accusation.” Nixon, who is awaiting return heme after his division (the ICEA) was split up between the finance ! and economic divisions of the mili~ tary government, replied that “There is a duty to place undor arrest the key men in industry and finance un- | til such time as a determination of their culpability and punishment is i made by the appropriate authority.” | — e, - H 5 CHILDREN SUFFOCATED, | HOUSE FIRE BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. 29— Five children, ranging in ar~ from; one to nine years, died o ufo- cation today in a fire which swept ! the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Carcare. Fire offi- cials expressed the belief that the blaze was caused by Christmas tree | lights. i The children were alone in the house, officials said, their parents having gone to open a gasoline station operated by their father. The victims were. Samuel; one; Salvatore, three; Ralph, four; Mat- thew, eight, and Rose Marie, nine. The fire was the third in Con- necticut within a weék to take a heavy loss of life. Nineteen persons died as a result of a Christmas Eve fire in a convalescent hospital at Hartford, while a fire in Meriden earlier the same day took the lives of four children and their parents. S eee { (New Signs?fiimes in {¢hange over Japan: jtion, admittedly was small. JAP WOMEN | Tournamento 'ORGANIZING OWN PARTY in Nippon Area-War Profiteers Are Hit TOKYO, Dec. 29.—These were the newest signs of the time in Lhe’ ‘Women, for centuries in the back- ground, came out today with a poli- tical party of their own. The government completed the draft of a measure aimed at lifting one hundred billion yen (more than $6,500,000,000) from those who pro- fited by the war. Men who fought that losing war for Japan were among more than 300 persons arrested during the past | 24 hours for petty crimes in Takyo,; They complained they robbed sbe- cause they were homeless and des- perate. The Welfare Ministry readied in- structions that nationality, religion and social status henceforth will not affect employment, wages or working conditions of workers. A fresh insight into justice—first manifest at Yoko- hama's opening war crimes trial when the defendant was given life imprisonment rather than the death penalty for his atrocities—was pro-| vided there today by the war crimes commission. It ordered the Ameri- can prosecutors to cable key witness- es in the United States for complete affidavits and to quit introducing American scphomore at the Pasadena Junior Patricia Auman (above), 17, brunctte and green-eyed was named in Pasadena as Queen of the Tournament of Roses on January b is 5 feet 2% in, tall She is a devotee of ballet dancing, tennis, swim- ming and herseback riding. (AP Wirephoto) f Roses Queen | A College, she weighs 108 pounds and incomplete evidence. | The formally organized “New Japan Women’s Party,” which in- tends to have some members run for office at the forthcoming elec-| But it was a start. And the Social Demo- crats have come out for equal rights for women. PIONEERS, AUXILIARY ELECTION & | BATAVIA, Dec. 2. British Members of Pioneers of Alaska,' troops tock over telephone exchanges Igloo No. 6, elected the Iollowmg‘and police stations in Buitenzerg officers last night: jand Batavia today, and launched a BRITISH LAUNCH i i i DRIVE Plan fo Wi;;0ue Resist- | ance in Java Nafive Settlements President, A. H. Goddard; First Vice President, Ted Laughlin; Sec- ond Vice President, Lewis McDon-| ald; Chaplain, C. O. Taylor; Secre- tary, Alfred Zenger; Treasurer, John Reck; Historian, Curtis Shattuck; Sergeant - ‘at - Arms, Willlam H. Biggs; Trustee, W. O. Carlson. The Auxiliary elected the follow- ing officers at a meeting last night: President, Pearl Burford; Vice President, Daisy Fagerson; Secre- tary, Irene McKinley; Treasurer, Nell Biggs; Chaplain, Helen Rice; Sergeant-at-Arms, Anita Garnick;| Historian, Crystal Jenne; Trustee, Johanna Jensen. A joint installation will be held Friday, January 25, preceded by a' drive through western Java to wipe out resistance in native settlements. Sniper fire was met by troops who occupied a power station at Buiten- zorg. No resistance was encountered, however, by the paratroopers who marched into the telephone and police buildings in Batavia. *Ancta, Dutch news agency, said the British also tock over the electric power station and water supply sys- tem in Batavia, and the only utility not placed under supervision was the railways. | The British reported minor oppos- ition in the Semarang area during a search of native settlement for Weapons, After occupying Batavian police dinner. |stations, the British disbanded the |Indonesian police force and replaced it by a composite force of British, SPAIN GOES | 'HIGH HAT; | TAKE THAT i i | Not Going fo Have Any In- terference from Any Foreigner, So Now MADRID, Dec. 29.—The Spanish/ government asserted today that Spain would not tolerate “interfer- ence of the foreigner in its internal affairs.” The statement, issued by Francis- co Franco’s Council of Ministers, ap- parently was in answer to a project- | ed meeting of the United States, France and Britain to review their relations with Spain. The communique said that Spain stood “ready to isolate itself” from countries which have used her as a “lightning rod to draw off internal storms,” and accused Communists of waging a “campaign of defamation” to smear the Franco government. Both the Allies and the Axis had planned during the war to violate Spain’s neutrality, the statement said, but these “machinations” were defeated by 'her “firm, gentlemanly” foreign policy. el STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali, from Seattle, due some-! time Monday. Goes to Sitka, re- turning to Juneau Southbound next| Thursday or Friday. Princess Norah, from the south,! due Monday afternoon or evening| enroute to Skagwdy. Returns to Ju-| neau southbound Wednesday morn- Dreiser Is Dead | | { | HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29.—Theodore b ra el | Dreiser, one of America’s leading | |modern novelists, is dead. SEATTLE, Dec. 29—Dismantling | s peqry attack last night claim- Indonesian and Dutch personnel. EXCURSION INL & PRESIDENT IS AT WORK ON MESSAGE | Straight - jfl\e - People Speech Being Prepared . on Yach!ing Trip WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Presi- dent Truman secluded himself and a small staff of aldes aboard the yacht Willlamsburg today to write a straight-to-the-people speech he will broadcast next Thursday. Secretary of State Byrnes planned to join him late tcday to report on the Big Three foreign ministers con- ference at Moscow. The President started his four day trip down the Potomac River to Chesapeake Bay after a crammed two hours of desk work at the White House in which he signed 64 bills and resolutions. He accompanied his approval of a bill extending the Second War Powers Act six months with the as- sertion that there must be a furth- \er extension. It is from this act that the Chief Executive derives his ra- tioning and priorities powers. "We know that our economy will be plagued with major war-born !shortages six months from now, and that the government must have the means of dealing with these short- ages,” Mr. Truman's statement sald. “There must, therefore, be further legislation to cover the period after |June 30, 1946." Among other measures the Presi- dent sign X he arrived by plane yi A , bis Christ- mas visit home in wers Ithose: 1—Liberalizing the loan and edu- cational benefits in the GI Bill of rights. 2—Appropriating $2,400,000,000 in deficiency funds for various govern- ment ageneies, including $750,000,- 000 for UNRRA, $191,000,000 for vet- erans housing, $125,000,000 for navi- gation and flood control projects, 'and $1,000000,000 for the Nlupnn.l Service Life Insurance fund. 3—Relaxing immigration laws to {admit forelgn born wives, husbands or children of memters of the arm- ed forces. 4—Authorizing an investigation of means of increasing the capacity and security of the Panama Canal. - During the cruise on which he em- barked last night, Mr. Truman will . work with aides on both the half- bour radio speech set for 10 p. m. (EST) Thursday and his State of the Union message to Congress in mid-January. He expects to retura to the White House Wednesdey morning. B i Reconversion Hampered by Labor Strife WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-—John D. Small, while reporting significant reconversion progress, says there can’'t be “full speed ahead until current industrial ~disputes are ironed out. * The chief of the Civilian Produc- tion Administration asserts that when these ‘“widespread” labor- management differences have been settled “all-out production can be g |of the Alaska barge terminal at unequivocal, emphatic and an-] embracing. As a newspaperman I am accustomed to quizzing all sorts | of people and usually can tell when they are lying. Douglas, how- ever, put on such a show of righteousness that I believed him. He said he had no intention what-| soever of selling the DC-4 tol Japan. He was not even Jconsider- | ing it. | Yet, as later admitted, he had already arranged to sell the DC-4 at the very time he so emphatically denied it. When any official lies to a news- | paper once, he automatically for-] feits the right to be believed or the| courtesy of being queried in the future. ‘When Donald Douglas swore that the DC-4 was not being sold to Japan, he obviously did not want —_— (Continued on Page Four) |not told mother. Oldtimers and newcomers are cor- dially invited to attend and wel- come in the New Year as guests of the Juneau Townsend Club. .- Little Heroine Proves io Be Modest Miss BOSTON, Dec. 29.—Eleven-year-| old Phyllis Regan didn't think sheiship Henry D. Thoreau reports that|for the south to enlist more than did much when she slid on her stomach over dangerously thin ice to reach another little girl who had crashed into the cold water off Mal- ibou Beach. And she had another reason for | slipping quietly away, keeping her identity secret. When newsmen traced her to home, Phyllis said: “I wish you had won't let me go skating again.” ! { Anthony J. Dimond. {right.” her' Italy, bound for Cape May, N. J. and the prospective groom is Lhc‘ son of District Judge and Mrs. BOB PASQUAN HERE ON | FIFTEEN-DAY FURLOUGH Robert Pasquan, young Juneau: man, is in town on-.a 15-dayl BOMBS STOP GOING OFF; SHIP IS SAFE fi.ch. i "barenss ana { former schoolmates. He was a high | NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—The Liberty school student here until he left| i the danger of 5000 tons of bombs & year ago, in company with Ken- | breaking loose in her hoid has been' neth Kearney. He is in the Trans- averted, and “unless we hit unus- port Service, and while his ship, ually bad weather we will be all the H. B. Freeman, is being over- |hauled at the Bremerton Navy! The 7,176-ton Thoreau, operated Yard, he was allowed leave to visit | by the Luckenbach Steamship Com- | his home. i Seattle January 4. !from Eeattle January 4. Taku scheduled to sail from Seattle today. North Sea scheduled to sail from| Steamer Yukon scheduled to eail| Steamer Alaska scheduled to sail| from Seattle January 10; due here; 13th or 14th; then goes to Sitka, not| to westward. Baranof from the westward due southbound Wednesday. | ——————— | AMMUNITION DUMP, EXPLODES; 23 DEAD ROME, Dec. 28-ine Italian news Excurion Inlet, Alaska, has been completed one month ahead of schedule and the last 100 of 715 | German prisoners of war used as labor and 25 supervisory civilians have returned, Col. Conrad P. Hardy, Seattle District Engineer, announced today. Completed Dec. 15, the salvage included more than 13,000,000 board feet of lumber and approximately 10,000 tons of miscellaneous build- ing materials such as electrical ma- terial, heating equipment and phiunbing supplies. Salvaged medi- " cal corps, quartermaster corps and signal corps equipment was re turned to the Seattle Port of Em- barkation for disposition. expected rapidly.” ‘cd the 74-year-old writer, an out- standing realist who came in with| the present century and rose to lit-l’ erary eminence through critical de-, rision after abandoning a new-p-per; career, which he claimed was “toc /brutal.” Physicians said the writer, whose ncvel, “An American Tragedy,” pub- lished 20 years ago, was one of his, greatest literary works, appeaged to rally after the first attack early yes- terday, but succumbed to the second, 15 hours later. At his bedside was his second wife, Helen. He was born at Terre Haute, . Ind, in 1871, the son of a German couple, Jolin and Sarah Dreiser. e pany, .is on its way from Naples.| During the year he has served.|mncy ANSA said 23 persons were Pasquan has made one trip to killed and 30 injured in an ex- Yesterday the ship reported bombs India and two voyages to Japan. plosion of an ammunition dump T'm afraid she were shifting and it looked as if the He will rejoin his ship at thenear Cordreipa, 12 miles southwest Lumber shipments have | FAIRBANKS FOLK made to Okinawa for reconstruc-| Mr. and Mrs. James P. Curran tion following the recent typhoons of Fairbanks are among new visit- and to Hawali, with the remainder ors to Juneal, registered at thej been | Small made these statements in reporting that even though indus- trial output has turned upward for the first time since victory in Europe, “the heavy demands of bgth consumers and producers are not being met in all cases.” In addition to work stoppages, continuing scarcity of some ma- terials is holding up the full flow of many consumer products to market, Small said in a monthly review of production last night. - AT THE GASTINEAU Louis O. Minard of Sitka is a guest registered at the Gastineau Hotel. . Between 1941 and 1861, American ship might be blown up. completion of his furlough, of Udine, stockpiled at Juneau, Baranof, in foreign trade rose from 73,& to 2,496,899 tons.