The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEW'S S ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNLQDA\W JANUARY 2, 1946 VOL. LXVI., NO. 10,157 [— = "SLAUGHTER' ‘WAS ORDER Legless Flier Weds TE o 6 OF FUEHRER Kill Last Man of Com- * mandos or Parairoopers When Caught, Demand BULLETIN — NUERNBERG, Jan. 2—The International Mili- tary Tribunal heard testimony today that Ernst Kaltenbrun- ner, former head of the Gestapo and Security Police, personally oraered the execution of from 12 to 15 Americans, including War Correspondent Joseph Morton of the Associated Press. Morton and a group of mem- bers of the Office of Strategic Services were captured late in 1944 far behind the German lines in Slovaki. They were put to death without a trial. The elongated Kaltenbrunner was absent from the court as the case against him personall started. He is ill and under treat- ment. , NUERNBERG A secret order i Hitler personally “slaughter to the last Allied Commandos troopers captured after ,1942, was read to the tional Military Tribunal sthe trial of 21 Nazi leaders was re-opened. v+ The Fuehrer's order—of which only 12 copies were made — was » inspired by his fury over Dieppe raid and similar opera- tions, American prosecutors told the court. “From now on,” the order serted, “all enemies on so-called, Commando missions in Europe or Africa challenged by German troops, even if they are appearances soldiers in uniform or demolition troops, whether armed or unarmed, in battle or in flight, *are to be slaughtered man. which decreed ‘the man” of all and Para- Oct. Interna- No Quarter | “It does not make any difference | whether they are landed from air-| planes and ships for their actions | or whether they parachute. Even if these individuals when found, should apparently be (Continued on Page Eight) ‘The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — With the be- ginning of 1946, the Washington Merry-Go-Round takes pleasure in | labored the saluting those who have for their fellow men during turbulent year just closed. G.I. JOE « headlines, who, no matter what his job, whether a front line att: or wiping engines below decks, went in and did it; who took all sorts of punishment, from tropical 18, | the | to all to the last| are dropped b\‘ " | final The hero withoui | Germany, Jan. 2— | Adolf | Col. Graham W. West, 3 in North Africa, was m of Beverly Hills, Calif. With wounds, (AP Wirephoto) today as| . HITLER DECLARED HIS SPIRIT WOULD ARISEFROM GRAVE ‘New Vemon of Fuehrers Final Hours Given-Let- | terNeverDelivered B DANIEL NUERNBERG, ~Adolf Hitler was cited today as going to his death with a defiant | prophesy that his spirit would arise from the grave and that the world {one day would see that he had been right. The new \t‘l\h‘n of the Fuehrer's hours was contained in a ! long-secret letter written by Joa- { chim von Ribbentrop, Nazi Foreign | Minister, to Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden just before he was captured in Hamburg last summer. The war moved so swiftly, how- { ever, that the rambling handwrit- iten letter, which von Ribbentrop i described as Hitler’s “last political will,” was never delivered to the { then British leaders “Never Wanted War” Von Ribbentrop, picturi Fuehrer as a broken and bitter man, said Hitler had never wanted iwar with Great Bpitain or the United States and that he had !'hoped until the last to come to | terms with the Br | declared, in fact, | en task of dElivering an DeLUCE appeal for | mosquitoes to snipers’ bullets; who| did all these things for his coun- try uncomplainingly—but who now | wants to come home. MRS. G.I. JOE — The heroine without headlines who moved her family in to live with the in-laws, went out to work in a war plant, scrimped along on a meagre de- pendency allotment, husband’s morale at the front—but now wants that. husband home. p THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS-Not so much for discovering the atomic bomb, but for emerging from their ivory towers to wage an enlight- « ened campaign on the benefits and evils of atomic science. CHESTER BOWLES — Who has withstood all sorts of brickbats, dead cats, and kicks-in-the-pants but kept his hand in the dike of inflation, and without whom the American people would be suffer- ing the greatest intlation flood in: history. J. EDGAR llOOVEE——WhO. with his FBI, has suppressed enemies | from within, kept foreign sabotage at the zero level, and done it without disturbing the civil liber-| ties of the mation. SENATOR BARKLEY—Who de- spite a very ill wife has kept a steady hand on the Senate throttle, i unflinchingly pushing through the | program of his chief sometimes (Continued on Page Four) kept up her | 'Coulmued on Page Tum 'SITKA TRAPPER IS SITKA, Alaska, Jan Guard and local fishing boats Z.ACnast KSf.m\d for Cliff Hedges, trapper and| | fiskerman who left here at Bay aboard his small craft. « Another trapper found Hedges’ traps full and reported his abscnce. CUTTER CALLED OUT for Coast Guard Cutter McLane were sent the cutter scurrying out of iport at 2 o'clock a.m., Tuesday. | The McLane was called to search | for the 34-foot trolling boat Remy, | of Sitka, C. B. Hedges, master, re- | ported overdue on a trip from Sit- | ka to Kalinin Bay, 14 miles away on the northern tip of Kruzoff Is- land. The Remy left Sitka on De- cember 27. No weport on the MecLane's | search has yet been received at the sh. The letter | that Hitler had sources reported today that Indo- trusted von Ribbentrop with the nesian Nationalist forces were as- New Year's Eve festivities here| members of the crew of the| | interrupted by a distress call that | . of Portland, Ore., army flier who lest both ried in Der in the Normandy invasien, enly to be knocked out of action by flaks e e lndoneSIan Nationalist i MISSING; SEARCH ON | are British searching in the area of Salibury|their ability to meet the situation noon | overnight |Dec. 27 for his traplines on Kalanin| | British warrant officer was Kkilled | sions, exposures, falls on icy streets | —_— TRUMANTO CARRY ON HIS FIGHT § Will Goto People Concern- | . ing Trouble with Con- 1 gress on Plans i E: | WASHINGTON, Jan Presi- | dent Truman returned to Washing- | ton today from a cruise on the| Potomac, ready to carry his fight for his legislative program direct | to the people both by radio mu} 2 A% .1 4, television | The Presidential Yacht Williams- burg docked here The President had breakfast aboard, after she docked at the navy yard, then drove to the White | House Mr. | (EST) this morning. Truman speaks at 10 p. m,| tomorrow on all radio net-| works in his first straight-to-the- nation appeal to knock loose in | 1946 the chucks a balky Congress placed in 1945 under his 21-point | legislative wagon Over-All Report And on Jan. 15 he will go be- fore Congress in person to deliver | the f televised Presidential | | message. This is expected to be an elaboration of his Tuesday night speech which White House aides {have described as an “over-all re- Iport to the nation.” | The Jan date, t Congress T onver nounced st night {by the American ( Telegraph Comy | House had indicated Mr Tnmml. [would deliver ~his message { person, but had not made it deti nite nor had any date been men- Jan. A tioned previously xactl; the note; workmen have been Mildred Johnson tore open, “I! talevision equipment at the e this sort of agreement, or bar-! g0, several days. ain, with God, or fate — or some-! The A T. & said the images 'and sounds of the event, including scenes both at the White House and the Capitol, will be telecast | by three New York television sta- tions and one Washington station The President has spent the last our days and five nights writing 'his speeches and relaxing aboard the Yacht Williamsburg on the cold, rainy Potomac River. Colo., to Phyllis 11 West flew artificial limbs, again in New York Telephone and | ny. The White Nothing Happened In Past Year So Girl Takes lnfe CJ]I!. 2 installing Capitol ‘I agrzed that if something did not jappen in 1945 to make life worth! living, that at the end of the year I'd quit living. That wasn't ask- ing too much, but I did not get it I can't any happiness ahead for | g me, so I'm hoping and praying that' I succeed tonight.” In the garage, Mrs. Johnson found the body of her daughter, Wanda | Williams, 18, a telephone operator, | hanging from a rafter. Police Sgt.| e H. N Cuppmg“ listed the death as | ver | i nortH cwma | AreDead, Holiday JAVA SCENE OF NEW UPRISING Sk Variety of Causes Given for Large Casualty List of Victims (By The Associated Press) A more somber note to the nation’s New Year's holiday cele- bration was recorded today as the number of deaths from viclent causes passed the 500 mark. A survey across the countr: showed that at least 528 persons suffered violent deaths from 6 p. m. last PFriday to midnight Tues- day. The tabulations listed 247 killed in traffic accidénts. The | Forces Mobilizing- British Get Ready 2 British| BATAVIA, Jan. | semibling near Semarang in north central Java and said the concen- tration suggested the possibility ‘that the Indonesians weré prepar-: ing for a large scale attack in that | area within a few days. | Belief that an attack might be intminent was . heightened by re- ports that the Indonesians were | National Safety Council hac esti-| clearing women and children from mated 375 to 400 motor fatilitie villages east of Semarang, but Lhelme. tife holiday period. expressed confidence in! The other 281 violent deaths re-| sulted from a variety of causes— shootings; | explo- | disturbances occurred|plane and train crashes; ab Bandoeng, where a stabbings, fires, drownings, Minor | by’ sniper fire. Indonesian snipers|and accidents in the home Two deaths resulting from alco- ! holism were reported. | ., also were reported to have fired on | Japanese troops in that area. R | STOCK OUOIMIONS STEAMER MOVEMENTS NEW YORK Jan. 2 — Closmg.‘ Baranof, from westward. schedul- quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine ied to arrive sometime tomorrow af-| stock today is 8%, American Cfl"‘tpmoon or evening, southbound. | 100, Anaconda 44, Curliss-Wright Dpénali, scheduled to arrive from' 8, International Harvester 94%,!Sitka early Friday morning, scuth- Kennecott 48%, New York Central |pound. | 33!, Northern Pacifi¢ 34'2, U. S.| North Sea scheduled to sail from Steel 81, Pound $4.03 | Secattle Friday. | Sales today were 1,050,000 shmc& Yukon scheduled to sail from 62.76; utilities, 38.15. Sea[[h: Friaay. Dow, Jones averages today are as Princess Norah scheduled to sail follows: Industrials, 191.66; rails,|from Vancouver January 8. | g Steamer Alaska scheduled to sail Henry Moses has arrived fmm from Seattle January 10; due here | | | |charge has been es |those in the cccupational {0 !those infected with veneral disease, Reap Adm. C d 8. Cole Fleet Admiral Chester W, King (cenler), in ceremonies itz ough (left), Judge Advoe at Navy Department, W di nsra! Nimifz Takes Oath as Naval Chie (right) as Ct ! ashingten, D, C. Birth of Aiem Bomb Tops News of 1945: Defeat of Japan, Germany Nex HIROHITO TALKS OUT T0 NATION: Unprecedented Rescript i Shows Emperor fo Fight fo Stay on Throne By RUSSELL BRINES TOKYO, Jan. 2—Emperor Hiro- hito, in a surprise renunciation of the myth that he is divine, stdrted the new year with a bold gamble to hold his ition kefore anticipated fresh international attacks. His unprecedented New Day rescript also frowned upon radical tendencies” in an evident play for the people’s support against Japanese Communists, who advocate his overthrow. Further, the document stung the government lightly but definitely for dilatoriness in solving problems of livelihood. 1In that, it indicated the Emperor’s continued interest in poli- tical affairs. General MacArthur promptly ap- plauded the streamlined, unusu: Iy straightforward rescript. He s: it propelied Hirohito into “a leading part in the democratization of his pecple.” This timing indicates that occupa- ticn authoritics knew in advance the eneral outline of the r ipt and were ready with unusually swift com- ment. However, it is understood that court officials undertook the renun- Year's | ciation without Allied prompting. > ‘Four Thousand U. §. ‘Airmen Claim They Are Defained Abroad L!VERPOOL Jan A group !claiming to repfesent 4,000 U. S. Aiy Ferce troops stationed at Warring- |ton charged that they are being de- England, for dis- tained 'unnecessarily in even after their eligibility tablished They protested that war brides are being sent to the United States ahead- of soldiers who have been |overseas approximately 30 months. They sent telegrams to ¢ongressmen and newspapers, one of which said: “In spite of the growing belief among the pecple at home that the only troops remaining overseas are and |the sole infectious dis is acute homesickness. e among us - e In lM'l thl: name of Vassar Fe- | Office of the Captain of the Port{Hoonah and is stopping at Hotel 13th or 14th; then goes to Sitka, not male College was changed to Vassar ! here. Juneau. to westward, Colk\ge By CHARLES HONCE AP Newsfeature Writer ‘The dropping of the atomi¢ bomb, ring in the Atomic Age, was the est news story of 1945. ‘That 1s the opinion of Associated Press newspaper editors answering a poll by AP Newsfeatures. Although this represents a ma- jority opinion it likely will be open lu lunkldll able individual dispute. s due to the fact that 1945 was 3 m'ah'd with many tremendous events worthy of consideration p place on the list In addition to the atomic there was the defeat of bringing an end to World War II; the overpowsring of Germany, an omen that the end was in sight; "and the death of President Roosevelt All four ranked high in the voting. Tllustrating the differences of opin- ion, an upstate New York editor, at a recent meeting of New York Asso- ciated Press members, said that his feeling and that of his associates was that first choice would lie be- tween the death of President Roose- velt and the end of the war be- cause in his estimation these had cecasioned more personal comment over a longer period. Howaver, a vote is a vote goes: a to) bomb, Japan, , 50 here 1. THE ATOMIC AGE OPENS— (August 6) “TL2 most terrible de- siructive force ever harnessed by man—atomic energy” was the de- scripticn of the weapon used against ths Japanese islang base of Hiro- shima Presid Truman told the story to a stunned and hardly un- derstanding world sixteen hours lat- cr. By the end of the year the use of atemic energy, either for good or for 2vil, had b 2 the most writ- ten about ne bject probably for all time. As 1946 drew to a close it remained the world’s greatast question mark ! 2. JAPAN SURRENDERS—(Aug- ust 14). The second World War, history's greatest flood of death and destruction, cams to an end on this date with Japan's unconditional sur- render. The only possible surprise element was the rapidity with which Japan folded up after Germany col- lapsed. Nippon's dream of a vast Co-presperity Sphere for East Asia was dissipated and the groundwork was laid for the reduction of the grasping empire of the Rising Sun to a tenth rate agricultural coun- iry. 3. GERMAND COLLAPSES — ay 7) and HITLER DIES (?). For s Germanic tribes have been spilling out of their homeland cn missions of conquest. Modern days and modern civilization brought no change in this spirit of ruthlessness. In the last eighty years the Ger- mans fought five wars, the first three of them successful. Nineteen eighteen prought one stunning defeat, but it was not enough. A new Caesar— bearing the prosaic name of Adolf Hitler—made a final try at world conquest. He and the nation that sheepishly followed him went down to such utter and devastating defeat (Continued on Page Five) Genepal of the Navy ! Onerations relieving Fleet (AP Wirepheto) PEARL HARBOR J for 'WALKOUTTO BESTAGED BY 200,000 "Demand M;E; for Hour Wage Increase-Other Labor Troubles Arise (By The Associated Press) TlLe CIO Packing House Workers of America announced today its 200,- 000 members would strike January 16 in support of the Union's demand for a 25-cents an hour wage in- Lewis Clark, Union Prosident, told a news conference that 147 packing plants across the natlon would be af- (ected, including not only the large | packers, Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy—but also “most smaller, in- dr]wndonL packing plants.” 1 Hdwever, Clark said, the Union would accept a 17'% cents-an-hour increase if granted immediately with an agreement to negotiate the re- !mainder of the 25-cent demand | Present wages in the Industry aver- age 87 cents an hour, he said Meanwhile, President Truman ap- pointed a fact-finding board .to in- administers oath ef office to Admiral Ernest J. f | I t s I ! i” 0 N v ls |vestigate a controversy ‘in the steel ( 0 N F l ( {industry’ which has led to the setting I II I N G | CIO United Steel Workers, seeking a $2 a day wage increase. ipmntm(‘n( of the Board was a pre- ' lude to a White House request that dence Given by Short : . vestigators look into the dispute. PreVlOUSly and Sfal’k U. 8. Steel Corporation, chief steel of January 14 as a strike date by the . {2 H 2 The industry believes that ¥ Commiftee Studies Evi- o the strike be postponed while the in- | manufacturér, has declared that fur- less OPA will permit price increases to offset past boosts in labor and I material costs. The Union estimat- led that 700,000 workers would be af« fected by the strike. | Thursday is the day set for a the Independent Western Electric |empleyeas, whose Union is ‘demand- ing a 30 per cent wag: increase. ! Frank Fitzsimmons, President of {the Independent Western Eeclectric |Employees Assoclation, said the !strik¢ might lead to a sympathy twalkout of 450,000 telephone workers in an affiliated union, Fleet ready for war when the | In Detroit, both General Motors Pearl Harbor blow 1al), Corporation and the striking CIO “Was the fleet ready for war?” | United Auto Workers announced ar- (rangements were under way for re- Stark was asked. { “in my opinion, it was,” replied sumption of negotiations, but said no date had been set. Stark, who by virtue of his office was the No. 1 authority on the fles readiness at the time. He velunteered, however, that he did nct considered it ready for a large scale advance into the western Pacific. Stark testified today it was President Reosevelt who decided lu “sit tight” in the Pacific by eping the fleet based at Pearl | arbor. As Chief of Naval Operations at the time, Stark said it was his belief too, that the fleet should have been based, zs it was, in Hawaiian waters when the Japanese struck. Stark also (old the Senate- House Investigating Committee that he considered the Pacific | PROPOSED SEATTLE STRIKE SEATTLE, Jan. 2—The AFL-af- filiated Seattle Street Car Men’s Un~ {lon will strike January 11 unless a 2 |settlement is reached meantime in ph, |a wage dispute with the City Transit WASHINGTON, Jan. — The ,Commission, C. H#. Paulson, Union arl Hatbor Committes, taking s |tinancial secretary, announced today. year end holiday, yesterday studied A Strike would affect 1,800 employees a contention by Lt. Gen, Walter 0, \D¢luding 1,100 drivers, apd would Short that he would have had two | ShUt down all city bus service, precious hours to prepare for an | R 0 PR attack if Washington had sent him 'l late. Short’s statement, included in n transcript of testimony he L,BVL‘ 17 ARE KIllED previously in three secret hearings, contradicted in some respects in- formation given the Congressional | investigators by Adm. Harold Ri LICHFIELD, England, Jan. 2— Stark. g ! 2 Stark, former chicf of naval np-';fi:e ";":h “’"! "‘“‘"’“’"‘ & coly erations, was in the witniess chair|, f" E t;]:v""_ 0 frilnk DeRy e again today for additional ques- i ast night rose to 17 today as two tioning about his assertion Monday | TOT¢ Pefsons succumbed to in- that Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, the | }u7i¢s suffered in the crash. 1941 Pearl Harbor commander, had | Local hospitals .were crowded plenty * of - warning to put into! With casualties and it was feared effect “all-out securliy mensures.”| that the number of fatalities might When the questioning of Stark is|8T0W even larger, completed, William D. Mitchell,| MOst of the casualties were pas- committee counsel, and Mitchell's | SCP8€rs -aboard a four-coach local staff intend to leave the scene, ‘{’n“:"“"‘f“"a“’l“';n:m‘;: d““:‘:; Conflicting Testimony . Stark’s contention that the Peayl | ScOttish Railway station just out- Harbor commandeys had warnings | [side Lichfield when a fast freight under which he thought they would | POWed into the e o get together and “make the uw\ disposition of the forces they had | R sexiies anger” b FREN(H (RISIS IS conflict in Shorts views aa ex- pressed to the Army inquiry | ENDED (onpkm board Short told the board of nu-\ message which Gen. George cj PARIS, Jan. 2.—A government cri- Marshall, then chief of staff, dis- sis, in which President De Gualle patched by commercial radio and threatened to resign over proposed which did not reach Short until slashes in the army budget, was seven hours after the attack. Had ended late last night when the Con- it been phoned to the Hawaiian Stityent Assembly voted a comprom- commander uncoded and in the ise measure. ‘ clear, Short testified, “I, in all, The measure as finally approved probability, would have had ap- Authorizes expenditures of 39,020 proximately two hours in which to 000,000 francs ($327.900,000) for na- make detailed preparations to meet ticnal defense in the first quarter of an immediate attack.” 11946 on condition that a promised . program of army reorganization be submittaed to the assembly by Feb. 15, (Continued on Page Two) ther wage discussions are fitile Ut .