The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1945, Page 1

ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1945 THE DAILY SOCIATED PRESS ~ MEMBER A == ENTS PRICE TEN C VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,155 4 CONFERENCE OF BIG THREE EXPLAINED NEW PLAN . FORPEACE IN CHINA Central Go@;ment Wants to Bring Gen. Marshall Info Picture By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Dec. 31 The Chinese Central Government coun- tered a Communist plan for a truce today by proposing to bring Gen. George C. Marshall into the dis- cussions for % cessation of hos- tilities. The move to bring the Presiden special envoy into the peace pi ture came as Generalissimo Chiang | Kai-shek made an outright bid to the Communists to join a govern- ment that would unify China. Proposal The government proposed that it and the Communists appoint repre- sentatives to confer with Marshall on procedure for halting hostilit and restoring railroad communics tions. If accepted, the government's counter proposals would give Mar- shall a direct part in attempts to avert all-out civil war. Shortly before the an that a plan had been s the Communists in writing, Generalissimo went on the air New Year's essage In a New Year's message to the uncement the Chinese people, he announced that | the government was ready to invite leaders of other political partit ‘to take part in the government, either in the policy-making councils the executive branches They would be weleomed into the government, he said, before the National Assembly meets next May 5 to consider a new constitution for China One Major Point The only condition set on this arrangement by the Generalissimo was ' that those other or (Continued on Page - The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DRFW PEARSON Siz) WASHINGTON—The problem of snow removal from the sidewalks around the “Summer White House” created something of a problem just before President Truman paid his Christmas visit to Independ- ence, Mo. At first nothing was done about the snow around the Truman mansion. Secret Service agents guarding the house said it was their job to guard not to shovel. Finally James T. Hopkins, aged 59, got out his horse, Dick, aged 5, and with a home-made snow plow, cleared the snow from the North Delaware Street side of the Tru- man home. But he didn’t have time to clear the West Van Horn side because he had to clear the walks used by children. One day before Mrs, Truman ar- rived, however, George Dodsworth, President of the Independence Chamber of Commerce, called out the chamber’s six new directors. He told them that the snow around the “Summer White House” would have to be cleared and their in- itiation into the chamber would be to do the job. Armed with shovels, the six new directors went to work. Dodsworth and Harold V. Starr, manager the Chamber, helped them. The group included: George C. Carson, funeral director; Don M. Slusher, dry goods merchant; Kenneth B. Smith, manager of a sporting goods store; Elvin K. Luff, Vice President of the Independence Stove and Furnace Co.: Edward C. Wright, Jr., insurance agent; and Elmer H. Ahmann, lawyer. They did a good job. The walks around the Truman home were thoroughly shoveled. They did not, however, tackle the drive in the rear of the house. 8o next morning, two employees from the Highway Department ar- rived to clear the driveway. They had shoveled for about 20 minutes when the First Lady appeared on the back porch “you are shoveling gravel on the grass,” admonished Mrs. Truman, (Continued on Paye—rour) bmitted to | representa- | ' TWO BIGGEST LIES OF 1945 ARE MADE PUBLIC; CHAMPION LIAR TITLE GOES T0 KENTUCKIAN; PHILLIE MAN IS NEXT I BURLINGTON, Wis., Dec. 31—The | %REYHOUND “world champion liar” of 1945, a% | Liar's club, is M. E. Linehan of Louisville, Ky for his tall tale of how he saved ie Kentucky metrop- from a flood N E A R S END, The Kentuckian's S entry in the contest: F | “Very few people know it but Western Union Walkout Is|was throueh my ettorts that e R} Ohio River flood was stopped AVe”ed"G|00my Ouf- before it spread out of control. | “On the day the water reached I look, Auto Industry |its peak and was expected to flood half of Louisville, I made a hurried (By The Associated Press) Resumption of bus service by {two Greyhound lines serving com- munities in 18 eastern and mid- ; wistara states, allevialifig: thb|., Tnab. n BeBEUERY burbon Toule crowded transportation system, was | Ville, was no mean feat and rated near today as 4,000 employés yotea | Shade betigpihan Hie yarn of to e thetribws months’ ola sk, (I O Folks-ap BEscRubE, who The strikers, who left thelr jobs|%ent in this rutbeateguenier. plasma - isn't so new—it on Nov. 1 in a dispute over wages| I”"’_“i‘:‘ AR LTS I Gt with the Greyhound . companies,|V2S Used extensively By [arb. 40 bagle retimit to work|ares during (he.OliliWepy Hrealk R :“_ it thward . ing up on wounded Union soldiers, RO \‘l;\"“\’(' dirastar ot T the Confederates would sound the U. S '(,U‘mu‘m“m“ ite famed rekbel yeil, curdling the blood s it of their vietims He announced the end the { walkout after two-day con- Later, in a Confederate hospital, ference with company officials and 80 _crchestra playing ‘hearts and representatives of the AFL Amal-|Flowers' melted the blood to it ori- gamated Association of Street, € inal form and many lives were sav- | Electric Railway and Motor Coach °d bY this method. 5% employes of America. e | A delay or cancellation of a | scheduled strike Thursday of 50.000 | Western Union emplo; appeared a possibility today the War olis sent into the club in competition for its annual award prize winning it | arrange a special local option elec- |tion and we voted the town dry in a half an hour.” of a Labor Board prepared a recom- mendation for a 12 cent average hourly wage boost for the worker | W. L. Allen, President’ of the {AFL Commercial Telegraphers | Union, said the reported WLB decision, although not officially announced. was “very encouraging.” | While continuing iapor disputes kept idle about 382,000 workers, the New Year holiday brought an in- crease in the number of automobile industry workers in the Detroit area off the job. While some 200,- 000 employes in General Motors plants continued their strike, which started Nov. 21, another 200,000 | employes of motor companies were | idle today as Ford, Chrysler, Pack- ard and other car firms closed their plants because of shortages of parts. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 31.— The News-Miner says a one-year contract involving all phases of the development of the Navy's Point Barrow oil reserve will be started January 15 by Lytle and Green Con- struction company, according to lo- cal officials of the firm Although the Navy Department has so far refused to confirm or deny the letting of the contract, plans already are underway local- ly to fly men north to start mov- ing about 1300 tons of equipment and materials from Point Barrow to Umiat, where Lytle and Green are to continue test drilling started by the Navy. ] L L] Later other freight will be moved i pesslmls'l( to Cape Simpson where a second exploratory well is to be drilled. i Geological survey work is to be con- } tinued and it is considered probable LONDON, Dec. 31 Winston that other well locations will be Churchill told the British people selected. 8 tin a New Year's message today| — - Churchill Is adjudged by the famed Burlington | Linehan's story topped 5872 other! atrocious exaggerations which were| call to the election board, had them Applications for employment on/| SHORT CLAIMS KIMMEL TOLD T0 BE ALERT Congressional Investigal- ors Into Pearl Harbor Attack Get New Dope WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 Con- gressional investigators learned to- day that Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short | told an Army inquiry board in| {1944 that Admiral Husband E.| Kimmel's staff thought 10 days be- fore the Pearl Harbor strike there | was no chance of a surprise air| attack on Hawaii | Short and Kimmel were lhc“ Army and Navy commanders, re- ! spectively, at Pearl Harbor whpn‘ the Japanese struck the naval base | | Dec. 7, 1941. | { The Senate-House committee in- vestigating the attack received a| | thick, bound volume of Short’s | testimony before the board as Ad- | miral Harold R. Stark, former chief tof naval operations, testified at | length about pre-war events { | Stark told the committee that! | Kimmel was amply warned to bei "on guard before the Japanese at- | 1 tacked \ | In the Army board testimony, taken here Aug. 11, 1944, Short contended that largely because of | | information he had received from ( | Navy sources, he felt late in 1941 [that the chances of an air attack ion Pearl Harhor were “very | stight.” Along with a 25.000-word Imcm from Stark, the committee { received voluminous correspondence | { which he wrote to Naval officers | { during the months before the Pearl | § Harbor attack plunged the United | States into. war. . From Star and { the investigutors learned | 1—Stark felt that neither Con-| | gress nor President Rooseveit fully | state- records, that these x supported his efforts to bolster the | {strength of the fleet before the war. 2-—At the time Germany at<. tacked Russia, Stark urged Ameri- can entry into the war and at the same time expressed hope that' Russia and Germany would “ex-; haust themselves”, in conflict. A | Communist-dominated Europe, he wrote then, was “no more an at- tractive picture” than a Europe ruled by Nazis 3—President Roosevelt issued in-: structions on May 22, 1941, to get | an expedition of 25,000 men ready | to sail in 30 days to seize Portu- guese-owned Azores in the Atlantic DEATH TOLL OVER | WEEKEND OVER 200; | BIG DAY T0 COME: HITLER'S MARRIAGE CONTRACT ALSO LAST WILL FOUND; EVIDENCE STARTS BIG MANHUNT THROUGHOUT EUROPE TAX LAW RELAXES; 3 CHEERS Millions of Individuals Will Benefit, Corpora- tions Also WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 — The government tomorrow hands the country a $6,000,000,000 incentive to expanded business activity The 19% tax law, providing the first general cut in taxes since 1929, written deliberately to encou spending for reconver sion high peacetime prociuc tion Federal officials fidence today that that effect Corporations will get a total tax cut of $3,136,000,000—a sizeable kitty which the government hopes will be plowed back into the making of more goods and more Jjobs. Individuals will benefit a total of $2,800,000,000, through cuts rang- ing from 100 per cent for some 12,000,000 low income persons to and expressed it would con- have {10 per cent or more for the average will bolster pur- a time when pay salary checks are taxpayer. This chasing power envelopes and geting thinner (U . SOLDIERS ARE ISTONED BY KOREAN HOTHEADS AT SEQUL Rightist Profest fo 5-Year Trusteeship Plan for Country By ROBERT MYE SEOUL, Korea, Dec ed) —Korean hotheads fought in the streets of Seoul and threw rocks at American soldiers today in violent protest against the Big Three’s five- year trusteeship plan for their coun- try. Rightist speakers addressed a mass meeting which demanded immediate recognition of a Korena provisional government, called for a strike of Koreans employed by the American military government, and branded opponents to independence-now as traitors. In an attempt to forestall more demonstrations against the trustee- 29— (Delay- that “in their moment of triumph they were beguiled by false prom- {ises and now stand in danger of the project have been accepted !nri to the past week or so, according John Wood, Lytle and Green countant who said ac- | ship program, announced after the Riissian-British-American conferen- last weck, American (By The Associated Press) The deati toll from violent causes,|ce at Moscow of | {losing some fruits of the victory.” | The message of the former Prime | Minister referred to the Labor company’s mining and dirt moving Party's election victory last sum- ' operations, would have charge of the | mer. It was issued by Churchill as Barrow job. Reichmann returned to Grand Master of the Primrose Fairbanks from the Outside Wed- League, a Conservative Party or- nesday night. | ganization. | Lytle and Green, cohming to Alaska - e —— as management contractor for the | Alaska section of the Alaska mili- i |tary highway during the war, in | ew ane |addition to handling several war- i ime airport construction jobs, has Developed]company recenty suspended work on |the Alaska railroad housing develop- FARMINGDALE, N. Y., Dec. 31— ment at Healy due to winter weather. A new reconnaissance plane de- One of the largest construction firms ! signed to surpass the largest bomb- now operating in the States, Lytle ers of the war in speed and range and Green has had previous oil ex- ]‘ has been disclosed by Republic perience in Texas and Qklahoma (Avlalinn Corporation. | - B e | Known as the XF-12, the new "Man | plane is designed for three camera FDR “amed stations and a fully equipped dark yoin 0f Year"” in | room so cameras may be loaded Poll Overseas construction fields as a peacetime | contracting company in Alaska. The |and pictures developed in flight. It will be able to carry complete radio, radar, flash bombs and pro | tective armor. | Tne War Department has per-| MANILA, Dec. 31.—The late Pres- | mitted the firm to publish pic- jdent Roosevelt was named “man of tures and a description of the the year” today in a poll conducted | plane, but withheld performance famong Soldiers in the Western Pac- (data ific by the Army daily, The Pacific- len. Lt. Col. €. H. Davidson, dir- (ector of operations, Port of Manila, b tw second. He contributed to Mrs. Thomas George, who has bre | been suffering from the flu, has and expedited move ! recovered. |the States. e | MRS. GEORGE RECOVERS that Herman Reichmann, superintendent of thej 'branched out into mining and other, with traffic fatalities in the front,| is over the 200 mark over the week- end as the nation today prepared | for the New Year's celebrations. | Traffic deaths throughout the country totalled 107 from Friday| inight to early today, below the es-| timate of the National Safety Coun-| cil for the perioll The Council’s | estimate for the four-day holiday period was from between 375 to 400! itraffic deaths, with the heaviest toll predicted for last Saturday and to- j morrow. Violent deaths of miscellaneous causes numbered 92 and included| shootings, fires, explosions, drown-| ings and falls . i y | | STOCK QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, Dec. 31 — Closing ! quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine | stock today is 8':, American Can 100, Anaconda 44'z, Curtiss-Wright | | 7%, International Harvester 95 Kennecott 48%, New York Centr: |33%, Northern Pacific 35'%, U. S | Steel 81, Pound $4.03%. i | Sales today were 1,010,000 shares. | Dow, Jones averages today are as | ‘folln\t Industrials, 19291; rails,) 1 62.80; utilities, 38.10. | | . - - | | Among arrivals from the States| | registering at the Barapof are:| R. S. McCumber, Knut Knudsen, Gng a jam in shipping here| and Capt. William J. Harvey, all | Dec. 18 from a Hollywood ment of men to of Seattle, and Roger N. Christ- shop, and started a search for the th: pational man, Erie, Colo. military authoritics who control uthern Korea ordered an 8 p. m curfew. (There was no report of the Kor- ean reaction to the program in the northern part of Korea, where the Russians are in control.) Huge posters on Seoul buudmgs‘ charged the Communist party with responsibility for the trusteeship plan. Hundreds of Korenas employed by the American military government walked off the job; a mob attacked the office of a newspaper which the htists declared had Communist leanings; banks closed and police- men left their posts. Violinisf Gets Rare Instruments for $350; Finds They're Stolen LOS ANGELLS, Dec. 31—Violin- ist Hrach Yacoubian wasn't sure he had a bargain in the three viclins three men sold him for $350. 80 he took them to an ap- praiser. ‘Yacoubian gasped when he them valued at $15,000. One $10,000 Stradavarius, one a Storioni and the other a Panaramo. Bows and caces another $700 to the total Police reported they were heard was a $3,000 $2,000 added music sellers. i NUERNBERG, Germany, Dec. | —U. 8. Third Army | announced the seizure of the ;nrlxiuwl marriage contract between Hitler and Eva Braun The marriage contract and a po- [litical and private testimony of Hitler were reported seized coinci- | dentally with the arrest by British | counter iltelligence agents ‘of | Friedrich Wilhelm Paustin, *adjut- lant to the missing Martin Bor- mann, at Vilfhogen The documents were dated April 29, 1045. British intelligence of- ficers announced recently they had concluded that Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in Berlin April 30, one day after they were married Hitler’s Will Allied authorities have also re- leased the text of Hitler's will The document was also dated April 29, 1945, when Hitler crouched in his hideout underneath the Reichs Chancellery. It was just three days before the fall of Berlin. It is apparent.from Hitler's own words that he knew the end had come for him, and was close at hand for his Nazi Party and his super-state. He left his possessions to the Nazi Party with these words —“My possessions insofar as they are worth,” and with the foresight of the doomed, he stated that if the party lost its existence his belongings were to go to the st Further evidence of his despair can be found in this statement— “If the state too is destroyed, there is no need for further instructions on my part.” Marriage Contract The Fuehrer’s last testament was uncovered by American intelligence officers, and at the same time they found ‘Hitler's marriage confract with Eva Braun. The exact words in the will regarding Eva are worth repeating., Hitler stated efore the end of my life I have decided to take as my wife the woman who, afte rmany years of true friendship came to this city already almost besieged, of - her own free will, in order to share my fate. She will go tv her death with me, at her own wish as my wife. This will compensate us for what we have both lost’ through my work in the ‘service of my people.” Manhunt Starts As a result of the discovery of the documents, there's a great manhunt under way in Europe. United States Army Intellizence officers described the Fuehrer’s testament as loaded with politic: dynamite. These officers also said that a search is being made throughout Europe for persons named by the fallen Nazi leader. Many of those hunted are be- lieved to be outside Germany and as a result the gearch is expecte to take we American gence officers in Austria, Italy and other parts of Europe have been asked to help spread the dragnet They will work in cooperation with the British Secret Service. Propaganda Masterpiece Hitler's testament was a master- pieca of propaganda in which he bailt himself up as a martyr and be- queathed to the German people the Nazi creed of fierce loyalty to the State and hatred of the Jews. His final admonition was: ¢ “Above all, I enjoin the govern- ment of the nation and the people to uphold the racial laws to the limit and resist mercilessly the pofs- oner of all nations, international Jewry.” The testament also disclosed that Hitler expelled Reichmarshal Her- mann Goering and Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler from the Nazi ranks for attempting to seize con- trol of the state, and ‘“negotiating with the enemy without my know- ledge.” Hitle: he preferred suicide chancellery bunker to trial an Allied court. “I shall not fall into the hands of an enemy who requires a new spectacle” presented by the Jews to divert their hysterical masses,” he said. s testament indicated that before Urging Germans to keep alive the £00,000 more Army men and women | Nazi doctrine, Hitler said the “Es- eligible for discharge today under | tablishment of a national socialist state represents the work of cen- turies to come and obliges each in- dividual perscn glways to serve the common interest before his own ad- vantage.” “The that ed has been sown stolen will grow one day in the history of! Germany to the glorious rebirth of socialist movement,” the document added. 31| headquarters | Intelli- | in a Reich- MacARTHUR STUMPEDBY NEW ORDER Causing Confusion for Rule of Japan 1} TOKYO, Dec. 31—Sources |to Gen. MacArthur 1 |that the “Big Three's” new con- |trol plan for Japan already caused confusion among the Japa- | nese and may cause the general to lose face in a country where face is | all-important | The control plan, which MacAr- “close ported today thur bluntly stated yesterday |been made over his protest and lbvhmd his back, may result in a |slackening of Japanese efforts to Iput into effect directives already |issued—and which they had ac- | cepted only slowly and grudgingly the sources said | MacArthur's 150-word statement |said “the statement attributed to the Far Eastern Commission (press) officer (Thomas Blake in Washington) that I ‘did not object to the new Japan control plan before it was approved at Moscow’ is incorrect. On Oect. 31 my final disagreement was contained in my radio to the chief of staff for the Secretary of State, advising that the terms ‘in my opinion are not acceptable. Since that time my views have not been sought.” Will “See It Through" The general also denied that he had been consulted during the Moscow conference. However, he concluded that “whatever the merits or demerits of the plan . the issues involved are too vital for the future of the world to ‘have them bog down. It is my fervent hope that there will be no insuperable obstacles It is my full purpose to see it through.” A headquarters spokesman said MacArthur “did not even know Japan. was being discussed at Moscow until he saw it announced in the daily pre MacArthur recelved his first word of the Moscow decisions from the Associated Press, which de- livered its report of the communi- que to him plete text came through. The Moscow plan created a four-power council of the United States, Britain, China and Russia to advise MacArthur and review his actions and set up an 11- nation commission to fix policies concerning Japan. The council has power to veto his policies. Al- though the general did not so state, it was believed here that his objection principally was to the veto power B nFloo Orego Is Subsiding PORTLAND, Dec. 31.—The toll of dead and missing as the flood crest of swollen Willamette River neared | Portland and the lower valley today |reached seven with the recovery of the body cf Raymond H. Hill, 26, of Drain. | His body was taken from his cm" in flooded Elk Creek. | More than 1,000 families were pre- !paring to return to homes in the |75-mile Lone area between Eugene and Sale, where water levels surged as high as eight anc ten feet above flood stage and overflowed thousands of acres of the valley's rich flood- lands. - Scores Again Lowered for | ‘Army Men WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 The lowering of point scores from 55 to 50 for enlisted men and from 173 to 70 for officers will make changes in discharge ‘nn\uu'l‘d Dec. 19. rules, an- COMING HOME S-Sgt. Charles B. White, recently | discharged from the Army at Fort Lewis, Wash., separation center, is to arrive back home in Juneau to- morrow morning on the Steamer Denali from the States. He will re- main here, with his two sisters Moscow Decision Already| 5 | sion that .| that Hours later, the com- BYRNES TELLS ABOUTTOPICS, MOSCOW TALK Believes W;y- Paved for | lasting Peace-Going | Abroad Again | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—Secre- tary of State Byrnes said today he went to Moscow with the impres- en. Douglas MacArthu believed the United States plan for Allied control machinery in Japan was workable, but said he had not kept MacArthur advised of develop- 1mnnm on the subject during his conference. Byrnes described as unauthorized Iby the State Department a state- "m(‘nl, made by Thomas D. Blake, | press officer of the Far Eastern | Commission, in response to inquiries Saturday, to the effect that Mac- Arthur had not objected to the plan Blake, who is a State Department press officer as well as press offi- cial for the Far Eastern Commission, also sald MacArthur had been Rept informed of Moscow developments Irelnllng to Japan. | MacArthur said yesterday in Tokyo ithat Blake was wrong on both | counts. i WASHINGTON, Dec, 31.—Secre- Iun-y of State Byrnes prepared today tfor his fourth trip abroad in six {months after telling Americans why he belives his third contributed tow- ard a lasting peace. Also in his radio report last night on the Moscow conference of foreign ministers, Byrnes assured the nation new international machinery iset up for control of Japan will not {obstruct “ihe Outstariding wud -effi-.« |cient administration” of Gen. Doug- {1as MacArthur. It will, he indisted, [leave the United States in a top i policy-making role. The cabinet officer ignored a tartly-worded statement MacArthur :lSS‘IlPd in Tokyo earlier in the day {in which the Supreme Commander isaid he had not been consulted dur- |ing the Moscow talks and declared: I“I have mno iota of responsibility |for the decisions which were made | there.” Agreements Reached Speaking from the conference {room of the State Department, Mr. | Byrnes described how this country, Russia and Britain reached agree- ment on issues involving Japan, | atomic energy, paace treaties, China, Kor Rumania and Bulgaria, | He said, too, he and Foreign Min- |isters Bevin of Britain and Molotov of Russia almost agreed on a three- power commission to study problems of troubled Iran. He added he was “not discouraged” by the near-miss. He might have said they will have {ancther opportunity to agree on aL. Iranian policy in London at the first meeting of the United Nations assembly next menth. That will be conference No. 4 for Byrnes in the ihalf-year he has held the top cab- inet position. Iranian Issues The Iranian government has said it will lay before the assembly its charges that the Azerbaijan revolt Iwas assisted by Russian occupaion lfm'( 8. Byrnes will fly to London for the opening assembly session January 10. Aides said last night he has not yet decided on a departure date. The radio address topped off a | weckend in which Byrnes returned by plane from Moscow Saturday | noon, took off again four hours later |for Quantico, Va, for a talk and dinner with President Truman on board the Presidential yacht, Wil- liamsburg, and then returned to Washington to kegin work on his 3500-word radio text 'DIE ON GALLOWS " FOR ATROCITIES LONDON, De¢. 31—Two German generals and a corporal have been hanged for committing atrocities during the occupation of Bryansk in Russia. | The Moseow radio says the exe- cutions took place only four hours after the defendants had been con- vieted Lt. Gens. Friedrich Barnhardt and Adolf Hamaan and Cpl Martin Lemler digd on the gallows near the scene of their crimes. Another criminal of the Bryansk cccupation, Cpl. Karl Stein, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.