The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” IMPIRE VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,158 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRI PRICE TEN CENTS BRUTAL “DEATH MARCH” MacARTHUR'S _ JAPPOLICY " PAYING OFF General Refiar_ts Just What Is Happening Under Democratic Directives WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — Gen. MacArthur contends that his polic of using the Japanese Government to execute his orders is paying off. The Supreme Commander makes the point in his first report on Japanese occupation, covering the initial two months after the land- ing last Aug. 30. The report was released here by the War Depart- ment. MacArthur said bluntly it is his policy “to use, not support, the existing government in Japan, and to permit and favor changes in the form of government initiated by the Japanese people or government in the direction of modifying its feudal and authoritarian tenden- cies.” (On New Year's Day Emperor Hirohito issued a rescript renounc- ing the myth of his personal di- vinity. (“The ties between us and our people have always stood upon mutual trust and affection,” the rescript said. “They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races and fated to rule the world.”) Military control has been imposed upon the government structure, but there has been minimum inter- ference with the existing adminis- tration, the general. .wrote. He added: A “Not only has this policy at- tained the desired ends, but it has avoided the use of hundreds of thousands of personnel which ;1 as JOVCEPAYS ASTRAITOR ~ WITH LIFE Lord Haw Haw, Whom, | Goebbels Paid $60 | Weekly, Hangs LONDON, Jan 3—William Joyce, | notorious “Lord Haw Haw" of the | German air waves, died a traitor's | death this morning on the gallows lof Wandsworth Prison | The 40- r-old American-born | Joyce, who sold his voice to Adolf Hitler as a radio propagandist at | the outset of the war, was exe- cuted shortly after 9 a. m. on high treason charges of which he was | convicted by a British court last Sept. 19. 1 He died on the same scaffold where John Amery, 33-year-old son | of a former British cabinet mem- | | ber, was hanged on Dec. 19 ont treason tharges growing out of similar radio activities. | Only a small group of prison of- | ficials saw Joyce plunge through the trap. Under English law no spectators may witness an execu- { tion. Execution of the death sentence was announced in two typewritten sheets which were posted outside the prison gates shortly after the hanging. z Prison officials said Joyce walked to the gallows from his death cell, his arms pinioned behind him with the broad black strap used in countless executions. The trap was sprung by 1. Pierrepont, nephew of Albert Pierrepont, famed hang-! man who executed Amery. | Joyce's death under leaden skics | in the stone - walled prison court-: yard ended a fantastic career which ! {led him from Fascist street fights | in England to an infamous place Hitler’s number one English language broadcaster. | Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph | to " H i KILL ORDERS .y Soldier” Kills | : | o - WERE GIVEN MANVILLE, N. J, Jan. 3 ar-old boy “playing soldier” | with Ris father's hunting rifle, ac- BY GESIAPO cidentally shot his mother to death at the supper table last night,| Police Chief John J. J. Jasinski, i v ‘Ninety Thousand Persons The mother, Mrs. Margaret! i i i Lukacs, 25, had remonstrated with | quu Id ated Dur'“g her son, Michael, and the father, i Steve, got up from his supper chair FIrSt Year Of War take the rifle away from the child, the chief said By JAMES F. KING In doing so, the gun went off, i the bullet severing the mother's NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan. 3.— Jjuglar vein, Jasinski added A former aide of Gestapo Chief e |Heinrich Himmler told the Inter- Inational Military tribunal today that led to the German army on the East- A'".AN'"( EARI.Y ern front with orders to kill every |Jew and Soviet political commissar in occupied Russian regions. IN FALL OF 1941 oG o pois oo on- |lendorf, testifying in the trial of 22 H H Nazi leaders, declared that the High American Ships on Convoy &:iaie™: 5 Chiman s naa leen OfdefS '0 Fll'e ‘1):(111” knowledge of the commando b Liquidated 90,000 0" German SUbS The 38-year-old witness, who had ST been in the § ice his teens, said WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 Adm. his own group, cperating with the Harold R. Stark testified today German 11th Army in the Ukraine, that American warships sometimes alone had liquidated 90,000 persons served under command of British' in the first year of the war with officers in the fall of 1941 with Russia orders to “shoot any German or| Outlining the inner workings of Italian” submarine encountered the Security Pclice system under The 1941 chief of naval opera-)questioning by Col. John Hurlan tions told of this in testimony to Amen, an a ant U. S. prosecutor, the Senate-House committee in- Ohlendorf testified that Himmler vestigating Pearl Harbor. perscnally gave liquidation orders to Rep. Gearhart (R-Calif) had leaders of the special Einsatzorupps. asked what Stark meant when he| “He told us that men Lad no re- wrote Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, sponsibility for the acts and that Pacific Fleet Commander, on Nov. the ponsibility was his alone, as 7, 1941, that “we are at war” in well as that of the Fuehrer,” the wit- the Atlantic. ness said. Stark said he had in mind the Mass Executions convoys then operated to Iceland.| Ohlendorf, who admitted giving Telling of them, he said, “We orders himself for mass executions, might under certain circumstances testified that he conferred frequent- have command of British vessels or ly with army commanders on the British officers might have com- execution of Himmler’s orders. mand of ours.” He said the victims included men, “Was there an order for Ameri- women and children, and explained can ships to fire on German sub- how they were wiped out en masse TRUMAN ON AIR TONIGHT WITH TALK, Hopes to Dislodge Key‘ Labor, Other Proposals, | from Capitol Hill | WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — Presi- {dent Truman adopted the “fireside chat” technique of his White House predecessor today in the hop dislodging key labor and other legislative proposals from Capitol Hill snags. Mr. Truman takes to the racio at 10 p. m, (EST) tonight with an appeal to the people at a time| when his administration is plagued | with strikes and threatened walk- | outs. One of his most recent proposals | was a recommendation to place the | force of law behind fact-finding boar to permit them to weigh disputes affecting important na- |tion wide indust Both strikes | {and lockouts would be barred while | the fact-finding procedures wer in operation. Mr. Truman's championship of | this and other legislation tonight may well figure prominently in | next summer's Congressional cam- i paigns. One of his associates ex- | presses the view that the 30-] {minute speech will lay the frame-! work for democratic election cam- ' { paigns, especially in industric { states. i A Air Freight ~Servie fo BeStarted of Harold Carbone, of Rochester, N. Alexander Toth, of Detroit, Mich., OIL EXPLORATION, NORTHERNALASKA 10 BE CONTINUED e | i i | Been Let to Three Com- | mercial Firms ‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Contracts to continue exploration in the y's |Alaska oil reserve have been award- Charles Clark, of Houston, Texas, all from London. CHIEF ON TRIAL [ GI-ENGLIS—H BRIDES ARRIVE IN U.S. HOMMA CASE IS STARTED IN MANILA FWiiness Says 300 Die Daily -Widespread Rap- ing Revealed By JAMES HALSEMA MANILA, Jan, 3—Japanese Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma must have seen orders for the brutal “Death March” of Americans and Filipinos | from Bataan in 1942, but had “a P | very thin interest” in his captives, THIS TRIO OF ENGLISH BRIDES of American servicemen obliged the news cameramag with this picture just before they left La Guardia airport in New York for reunion in Chicago with their GI husbands, after crossing the Atlantic by air. They are (1. to r.): Mrs. Jean C arbone, wife of Lt. Y. Mrs. Sylvia Toth, wife of Sgt. and Mrs, Sheila Clark, wife of Sgt. (International} GAMBLING JOINT IN HOLLYWOOD is ROBBED OF $40, Confradts for | Work HaveISix Masked Men, Heavily‘ Armed, Do Not Molest _Bejewelled Players HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3—A double- barreled inquiry was ordered today into the $40,000-plus New Year's Eve robbery of a gambling palace one of his former staff officers testified as Homma's war-crimes | trial opened today. The witness, Maj. Gen. Toshi- | | mitsu Takatsu, sald that Homma's | headquarters on Bataan were less | than 500 yards from the death | march route, and that Homma | traveled 20 miles down the high- way while the prisoners were driven mercilessly along it. Describing the death rate among | captives as 300 daily at the O’Don- !xwll Prison Camp, Takatsu sald medicines were “not sufficient,” tand “I think there was a lack of food, which was mostly rice. Also, i there was not much water.” He said he reported these conditions to Homma’s headquarters but noth- ing was done. “Thin” Interesi His statement that Homma's in- | terest in prisoners was ‘“very thin" was quoted by prosecutors from an earlier, written statement, and Ta- 1 katsu teday declined to elaborate. He explained to prosecution ques- tioner Lt. Benjamin F. Schwartz, Los Angeles, that he was “honor | bound” not to speak badly of Homma . in the latter's presence. | Defense counsel had objected that many of the specifications | filed against Homma in his trial “for violations of the laws of hu- manity” were vague, and the prose- cutors introduced additional details. would have been required had the | ed to three commercial firms which on swank Sunset Strip. ! Widespread Raping . 3 | Goebbels paid Joyce $60 a week | basic structure of the Jflpanesc‘ Biv Yila: SBlN Sobk. NG w““ sisted of four daily broadcasts. i \ S i government been reconstituted and replaced.” MacArthur's report held out no high hope for an immediate trend to democracy in Japan because the people “have had no experi- ence with it in any way” and the government has suggested little toward democratic reform. But if democracy can't be im- posed directly, the American G.I’s of the occupation force are demon- strating it, the general said. e ———— DAISY CONRIGHT GETS NEW JOB AT ANCHORAGE marines?” aSked Gearhart. “There was.” “Who issued the order?” | President’s Orders { | “I did by the direction of the 11 400 wAlKouT ! President,” Stark replied. 1 ! The committee decided today to | TODAY' IHREAT Is | recess until Jan. 15 after finishing | { [ United Air Lines fo Carry Heavy Goods at Less than Air Express CHICAGO, Jan. 3—United Air Lines announced it would inaugu- Reichmarshal Hermann Goering | i " (0 SO W HGEL0 sucked in his lips and shook hisl “ g |carry goods at lower rates than head slightly. Col. Gen. Alfred JOdl‘now prevail on air express ship- and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel| =~ |after keing lined up on the pretext| that they would be relocated. i Standing erect, Ohlendorf spoke| through the microphone without hes- | itation, frequently turning his eyes toward the defendants sitting in the prisoner’s box on the opposite side; of the room. but will be aided by the United States i Geological Survey. | | Delegate Bartlett said the Navy| had informed him it had awarded a iprime contract for continuing the| exploration of Hoover, Curtis and Ruby, general contractors of New York. ! He said the firm had awarded a! {contract for hauling and moving |equipment to Lytle and Green of | Des Moines, Iowa, and a contract for For one thing, Undersheriff A,| In establishing “widespread C. Jewell remarked, efforts would r@ping-and brutal mistreatment of be made to apprehend the half- American .and Filipino women," dozen suave and efficient gunmen, they said, they would offer proofs one of whom nonchalantly called that such actions, for which they “Happy New Year” as they de- blame Homma, included the “in- parted. human” treatment of an unnamed, But he made no secret of his married American woman at the displeasure at a two-day delay in swank Rosario Apartments two reporting the affair and an-,days after the fall of Manila, As ncunced he was determined to find | the result of her treatment, they | said, the woman was sent to an with the, testimony of Adm. Stark | | (By The Azsociated Press) | | this week. | Chairman Barkley (D-Ky) said | the recess would enable the com- A strike affecting 17,400 Western | Electric Company employees in Ncw[ (York City and New Jersey began; |today, bringing a threat of a shut-! |down in national telephone service.! | mittee’s | Richardson, to familiarize himself Showed no emotion. new counsel, Seth W. with the inquiry through consulta- tion with Willlam D. Mitchell, re- tiring chief counsel. When the committee resumed ‘after the recess, Barkley said, the gave the witness steely looks, I i MRS. MANSFELDT C. P. Graddick, United cargo di-‘LhL‘ Geophysical Company of Pasa- rector, id yesterday an air | dena, Calif. The Geological Survey,' freight tariff filed with the CAB he said, will aid in the geophysical listed rates as low as 27 cents a A work. pound of 3,000-pound shipments | Navy To Contlinue Bartlett said he was told the con- tracts were let through negotiations out why. “I was so excited,” exclaimed Actress Betty Grable, know what happened. It was all |over quickly.” She was there with her husband, trumpeter Harry ) James. | As the trial opened, prosecutors Jjust dom’t | |asylum as insane. Homma, the prosecution asserted, was directly in charge of all Japa- nese forces in the Philippines at the time. from coast to coast. Charges are | heavy-volume, long-range shippers,’on a cost, plus fixed fee, basis. He he said. |caid the Navy plans to continue the Jewell said other film notables|told the U. . military commis- Daisy Conright, former=reporter| Joseph A. Beirne, President of the i o= oo oo (F 5 S were among those present, but that | sion hearing the case that Homma on the Empire and now star re- | Independent National Federation of | IAAT iedt Y toninander:” ab said members | has no rights under the American sts porter on the Anchorage Times,| | Telephcne Workers, has been advanced to a new position. She is also Associated Press representative at Anchorage. The Washi;gion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — White House advisers are keeping their lips buttoned and their fingers crossed about a set of highly optimistic forecasts for 1946. They are so good that the experts don't want to talk about them. If the forecasts turn out to be correct, the Truman administra- tion will have an.easier year than any president has had since Cool- idge’'ss time. If no one rocks the boat, we'll have high wages, high | profits, full employment, plenty of production, and few strikes in ‘46. Here’s what the economists pri- vately report: 3 BUSINESS—The year 1946 will| be one of the most prosperous in the nation’s history. There will be a sharp uptrend in industrial production when the reconversion program begins to hit its stride by late spring, with busi- ness profits and consumer demands for post- war goods showing sub- stantial increases. The national income will rocket to one of the highest points in history, rivaling the lush years of the late 20's. {of 48 unions in the Federation had {been asked to authorize a national ; |sympathy strike. He said a work' istoppage by the union’s claimed| membership of 260,000 paying mem- bers would affect scme 450,000 Bell | System employees. Sympathy Walkout | The Western Electric strike and, {threat of a sympathy walkout was the latest of several fast-breaking developments on the labor front dur- ing the last few days which threat- ened to boost the number of idle {to more than a million and a half in the next few weeks. \ The Western Electric strike got| junder way about the time the White House announced that President Truman would discuss the “whole la- I bor situation” in a report to the na—‘ ition tonight. The President's | irecommendations for dealing with| |labor disputes have been bogged down in Congress. 1 The Western Electric strike af- ‘fected 21 plants in New York City |and Northern New Jersey. | The Westeiu Electric employees | association is seeking a 30 per cent wage rate boost. The company said |it would grant 15 per cent. | A government conciliator, mean-| | while, announced there was “a very good chance” a proposed strike of, 50,000 Western Union Telegraph op- | lerators outside New York City,; |scheduled for next Monday, would | !be called off. 1 | At Stamford, Conn., the Stamford | Combined Labor Organizations, held | |a noisy work stoppage demonstra-| ition in support of the nine- H !striks of the AFL International Asso- | | Dec. 7, 1941. 1 vetoed ! which should control outlying 1s-| EMPLOYMENT — Both sovem-]ciatinn of Machinists at the Yale ment and business experts confi- |and Towne Manufacturing Co., plant. | dently predict a sharp uptrend in|A crowd estimated by police at| time the Harbor Pearl Harbor at the Japanese attacked Pearl TRIAL NEARS END SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3—Cry- ing “I can't stand it any longer,” Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt became The inquiry committee also heard today that Adm. Husband E. Kim- mel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short unity of command in Hawaii in 1941 and argued abr»ut;md“y‘ to quiet the 45-year-old mother of three young children, who recently was convicted of manslaughter for shooting Nurse Vada Martin to death in a fit of jealousy. Prosecutor Norman Elkington, | making his closing argument to the | jury, had said Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan stated Dr. John !H. Mansfeldt was demented, yet (had allowed him to attend Mrs. | Hallinan during the birth of four of Hallinan’s five sons. | “Was Mr. Hallinan sincere or was he just kidding us?” Elkington lands. This information came to light in a report of an investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster made by Adm. H. K. Hewitt and was turned over to the committee by the Senate Naval Committee. Iwo-lfiméil Baby Still Clings who had been screamed pierc- . o D To Life; 2nd Day :i.'oes: | Mrs. Mansfeldt, BIRMINGHAM, Eng., Jan. 3—A | Sitting quietly, premature girl child born with two ingly. heads clung to her second day of | life today, neither gaining nor 0 | 15( I " losing strength, | n Y enis how The mother, 31-year-old wife of; . a repatriated ~American soldier, | A"ses Se"lemen' pondered names for what she still| ' z believed to be twin daughters | " S’ k Nurses at the maternity ward of‘ ewspaper rl e Selly Oak Hospital said they under- | stood the young mother’s parents!| SEATTLE, Jan. 3 — A report had notified the father about the compiled by Mayor Devin's fact- child but they said they did “not finding committee disclosed that know what they had told him.” | gseattle newspaper publishers and The strange child, rare in medi- their striking printers are only 15 week | cal history, ate and cried normally | cents apart in their wage dispute. | with both heads. its perfectly - formed| The publishers are offering $12.60 a day and the, printers are asking AT S | $12.75. The report also declares that SEATTLE VISITORS | the union rejected the committee’s hysterical at her sanity trial yes-| i Bailiffs and her attorneys sought United also filed a tariff for the i experimental movement of fruits land vegetables to the east from | the west coast growing areas at 15 cents a ton-mile, Gradd Three Indicied on Conspiracy Charge, In(om_e Tax Case NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 3—The Fed- eral Court Grand Jury here today indicted former Governor James A. Noe and three others, charging con- |income tax trials of wealthy William |. Burton, Lake Charles, La., oil op- |erator. Both trials ended in mis- trials when juries failed to agree. The trials were in July, 1943 and June, 1945. Those indicted were Noe, one-time State Senator and staunch sup- porter of the late Senator Huey P. Long; Burton, himself; former State Senator Joe T. Cawthron, { young Mansfield, La., attorney. - eee STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 3 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine | stock today is 8'2, American Can 99%, Anaconda, 43%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Har- | vester 93, Kennecott 48%, New York Central 32%, Northern Pa- |cific 34%, U. S. Steel 81, Pound, $4.031%. Sales today were 1,390,000 shares. spiracy to obstruct justice in the| 'work on the Arctic reserve with Ifunds alrcady allocated for the re- mainder of this fiscal year and has asked Congress for funds to continue the work n The Navy previously reported that |2 well sunk at Umiat Mountain, to {the depth of 1900 fest, had pene- | trated five separate pil bearing sands. | “I have been told by an ex enc ed oil man who has workzd in all the great reserves of the world,” Bartlett said, “that the prospect for | {the Navy reserve in Alaska surpass- es anything he has ever seen., H2 believes the reserve eventually will develop into a field that would pro- duce 5 to 10 billion barrels of oil.” D 'SEAPLANE PORT IS APPROVED; WILLBE NEAR PETERSBURG |* SEATTLE, Jan. 3—Application of |the City of Petersburg, and fthe | Territory of Alaska to build a sea- | plane port in Wrangell Narrows, {southwest of Petersburg, to serve | Southeast Alaska, has been granted | by the War Department, John | Paget, chief of the permit section |of the Seattle District Army En- \gmeers, announces. It will be known as the Peters- {burg Seaplane Port and will in- | clude a 918-foot approach, a 28- | foot by 40-foot wharf and a 20- 'foot by 60-foot float. Odin Jensen has applied for a permit to build a 30-foot by 60- | foot wharf and an L-shaped float the be-jeweled gue and their escorts were not robbed. Constitution and is “being tried Witnesses said the sextet, masked ; for violations of the laws of hu- with handkerchiefs, operdted with (manity.” dispatch. Four of them, one with a machine gun, the others with! sawed - off shotguns or .45 caliber ! revclvers, covered the players while two looted the cashier's cage and safe. A watchman fired two shots at them as they fled by car, but apparently neither took effect. - - B NUDE, HEADLESS WOMAN'S BODY IS DISCOVERED SAN BERNARDINO, Calif, Ja™. 3—Through brush-covered canyons i below fashionable Lake Arrowhead, scores of officers searched today . . Churchill Coming To U. . This Month o s Is on |for the head of a woman whose S | decapitated body, nude and hand- LONDON, Jan. 3—Former Prime | less, deficd identification a day Minister Winston Churchill and after its discovery. Mrs. Churchill will leave Jan. 9| It had been mutilated and aboard the Queen Elizabeth for|stripped, Coroner R. E. Williams their American vacation, it was | reported, in what was undoubtedly announced today. Their daughter,|an attempt to prevent identifica- Sarah, will join them later. tion. Death, he added, was caused jarm, inflicted at close range by a pervisor Jack “O'Connor from ! for game law violation. The pair, | HASTINGS, Neb. — All.during the ly, “Ten pounds of bacon, please.” and Brumbaugh, $50. The deer and one Then the bust er was forced to rifle were forfeited. D | .38 caliber pistol. osea ber, Wildlife Agent u(l O’ 0. Bigelow and Jsmes Brum ' {war a customer at one Hastings meat deer out of season. The arrest wusi The other day after hd made his :talk his way out of making the $4 T by gunshot wounds, one in the left GAME VIOLATION | breast, the other beneath the left A wireless report received here | e today by Game Management Su-! Petersburg, relates the arrest, on | Dec. 29, 1945, of two Wrangell men | baugh, pleaded guilty to charges of |Market joshed his butcher, walking taking and possession of a into the shop and calling out loud- made at Duncan Canal. ¢ o e | customary request, the butcher pro- Blgioy e finad . 4190 {duced & 10-pound slab of ~bacon. purchase. e employment, despite the fact thm‘w,ooo disrupted traffic in one ofl Mr. and Mrs. C. 8. Cain and]proposal that the raise be made! the stoppage of war contracts and the city’s —principal downtown|Miss Lillian Short, residents of retroactive far enough back to FROM FAIRBANKS Dow, Jones averages today were | 280 feet long in Clcver Passage, 15 | The first elected representative as follows: Industrials, 190.80; rails, | miles northwest of Ketchikan. Ob- A. E Glover of Fairbanks Is body in Philippine history was in- s {squares, while at a nearby site,' Seattle, have arrived in Juneau'make up for the 15 cents' dif- Four) (Continued on Pa: 'negotiators sought to end the strike. and are staying at the Baranof. ference ' 62,16; utilities, 38.22, = ! jections must be filed by Jan. 14. stopping at the Baranof, augurated in 1902,