The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1946, Page 1

i» o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. LXVI., NO. 10,160 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 20 ARE KILLED IN TORNADOES IN TEXAS | TRUCE IS PLANNED INCHINA Represenial—iv;s of Two, Factions fo Confer in j Cease-firing Order | By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Jan. 5 — Chinese Communists and government lead- ers tonight reached an agreement| on precedures for ending hostili- ties and restoring communications in strife-split China, an official announcement said. Individual representatives of the two factions have been appointed to confer on steps to carry out the cease-fire procedures. Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. Envoy, had conferred in swift suc-) cession earlier today with leaders of both delegations. | Albert WAY DOWN SOUTH_“Come on out, the weather_ JAP PURGE ~ OFCABINET IS STARTED Several Minisier Will Be! Removed on Gen. Mac- | Arthur's Directive | By MORRIE LANDSBERG TOKYO, Jan. 5—Premier Kijuro; | Shidehara’s storm-tossed cabinet, weathering the first shock of Gen. | MacArthur’s political purge, today postponed until Sunday a scheduled emergency session to discuss Ways of compliance. The cabinet’s chief secretary in- dicated that the government might attempt to remain in power by reorgarfization rather than resign- ing en masse. Tokyo newspapers speculated that the new Allied di- rectives would leave untouched | cnly -the premier himself and| Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshida. | The secretary, Diazaburo Tsugita, | u W | From Shanghsi, Lt Gen. is fine!” says Miss Aubrey Crutcher, in an inappropriate costumey’ i ita, | C. Wedemeyer, commander of the as she molds snow man after a three-inch snow at Nashville. Tenn. who may himself be out of a job U. S. military forces in China, # as the result of the drastic Allied meanwhile announced that Ameri- orders to eliminate all who led can ships would begin moving' 26,000 Chinese government troops into Manchuria within 10 days. Airborne Movement Airborne movement of forces was scheduled for weather permitting. The momentous agreement to bring at least temporary peace to China was reached at a 75-minute conference between senior govern- ment and Communist delegates to the forthcoming unity conference here. It was announced in. a mu- tually approved press release which Minister of Information K. C. Wu said implied that™the two"factions® ‘qummu“‘ The Washington Merry - Go-Round other today, I.ook; Like Winner | Japan into war, said that drafting of emergency imperial ordinances! to carry out the directives had de- layed the session scheduled today.| Discussing the prospective purge | with Japanese newsmen, Tsugita, gave the impression, they x‘cpm’ted,i that the cabinet would try to carry on after removal of several ! ministers. | The Tokyo press, hailing the; Eibal orders as heralding a new day for| Japan, said they would hit such| men as Baron Kantaro Suzuki, who! was premier when Japan surren- Commander of Philippine dered, and Prince Higashi-Kuni,| Torture Mill Convict- | j : ithe first premier under the oocu-] ed of Crimes - pation. MANTLA, Jan. b.—Lt. Col. Seeiichi Ohta, known as “the bloody butcher of Fort Santiago,” has been con- demned to hang for his war crimes. The U. S. Military Commission which convicted and sentenced Ohta BLOODY BUTCHER TOHANG > —— DEMOBILIZING ARMY FORCES | { By DRFW PEARSON ‘WASHINGTON-—Housewives may be in for another meat shortage as a result of a red tape snarl between the small meat packe and the Office of Economic Sta- bilization. Several weeks ago, the small meat packers went to Economic Stabilizer Judge John C. Collett of Kansas City, whose Washington nickname is “Snuffy Smith” be- cause he looks like the Barney Google character. They told him they wanted to give a two-dollar-| a-day increase to their employees, and needed a small increase im the price of meat in order to do so. Cillett told them to go ahead. | “You lay your egg,” were his exact words, “and I'll hatch it.” So the meat packers went home, gave employees their wage in- crease, but now “Snuffy Smith” Fairbanks, with Captein Flahart, seems to have forgot all about the Flight Officer Currie, and Steward- matter. The meat packers have been reminding him of it, they don't get action from him today said: { “me is not being held guilty of one crime but for a systematic series of crimes, committed over a WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 — The period, which became a definite Army slapped the brakes on de- put if Airport with the following passen- pattern.” LEADING contender for the title Onta was comm: “Queen of the Press Photographers Ball” is pretty Eleanor Cahill, who ‘was chosen “Miss Stardust” of 1945 in a national contest this year. The winner will reign over the ball which is to be held in New York B ) City in February. Eleanor, who comes from Coronado, C>1., is now a model, “Tnternatianal) DUT(H MARINES : WEAR UNIFORMS ALASKA AIRLINES MARKED "U. 5." FLIES IN WITH 14 - r of the Japa- operated a torture mill at Fort Santiago during the occupation No date was set for the hearing. BATAVIA, Java, Jan. 5 — The Indonesian newspaper Merdeka said teday that American-trained Dutch Marines who arrived here this weck were wearing U. S. Marine uniforms and had pistol holsters, | The Alaska Airlines Starliner, Branham arrived at the Juneau s from Anchorage—Cal Bucht- mobilization today with a declara- tion that replacements would be forces abroad at the present rate. By full use of available shipping, all of about 1,553,000 overseas troops who are or will become eli- gible could be returned to the United States in three months, a War Department official said at a news conference. | Instead, the Army plans to spread the returns over six months This slower rate combined with replacements will reduce total overseas strength to a planned minimum of 797,000 by July 1, Lt Gen. J. Lawton Collins told re- porters. He declared, however, that no man should be held in a foreign Winning Floaf in Tournament of Roses Parade The flcat of the City of Long Beach, Calif., depicting in flowers its harbor with the aircraft carrier Shangri-La at anchcr passes between thousands of spectators in the 57th annual Teurnament of Roses The float was declared sweepstakes winner, (AP Wirephoto) NEW CURFEW MRS, MANSFEDT MEETING ON de in Pasadena, O IS PASSED BY CITY COUNCIL .ParentsSqu-eFed foHeavy Penalties for Wander- . ing Children Despite pre- ting assurances from City spckesman Mayor Ernest Parscns that no matters of unusual civic importance — merely routine tusinéss — were to come before the City Council at its first meeting of the year, last night, the municipal chiefs pulled a new City Ordinance out of City Attorney Howard D. Stabler's hat and now present it to nese Secret Police in Manila, which insufficient to maintain necessary ... residents at a fait accompli -kicked r0ss under em ency procedure. The new Ordinance, Number 301, is a revision of the City's juvenile code — pinning responsibility di- rectly on parents for curfsw viola- tions, Number 201 provides that children under 16 years of age be off the streets and out of public places each evening after 10:05 o'clock until 5 o'clock the following morning. EX- ceptions are Friday and Saturday evenings and the evenings of those days defined as legal holids laws of Alaska when the curfew deadline is at 11:55 o'clock p. m., ex- tending until 5 o'clock a. m. the next theater more than three months gay after he becomes eligible for dis-, soon, a lot of small packin plants | ing Robert, Atwater, Charles Baker, will have to close du‘:vn, ¥ Ed Carlson, Ruth Shuman, Eugenc PR Crocker, Mr. Gruman, Lt. Margaret v Higgins, Marge Lund, Bill Lund, ENDING WAR SOONER? i At least one high Army official Bert McCay and George E. Williams. is still convinced that France could | 1;"%"" é’“éd“;'_a*Mrs' C. C. Carlsen successfully have been invaded in “P¢ ©- arisen s i 1942 just as well as two years later. | On the return flight, the follow- Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, right ing left for the Westward city— hand maRe Gén. B hower. told | CaPt: O- R. Dinsmore, H. B. LeLand, Senator Claude Pepper in London Bell‘}: Sump.le, O. T. Smith, Marfe how_the geneyal staff had worked | LEWis: de:ardH F;:ruer, Barbara out a complete invasion plan for 5[{;‘;}1?.;m ug g%h}::n Bl;flfi:: 1942 only to shelve it i) the face| " 3 mfiv \Md, 'l;]nsh a\l:d‘ ot h[t]: rs }Fems: charge. ! Batked e e e‘le‘rs Amoricans | He estimated 400,000 men had The newspaper, urging Americans ... recruited for the Regular in Java to protest to Washington Army since the war's end, but re- said, “Americans should insist that marked there was no guarantee the Dutch uniforms be lettered | o isyment would continue at that with The Netherlands insignia or| ote that they should use the Dutch| “ggooije gervice, he added, has Tri-Color to convince the Indo- Y i furnished an average of only 37,000 nesians that the soldiers are Dutch | o720 in cince V-J Day. The and that Americans remain nNeU- aymo” expected 50,000 a month. " ney, outbreak of fighting wafij “Ew Bi{(“mkéf ‘ POINTS FOR NAVY reported meanwhile near Soera- baja, where British artillery re- pulsed about 100 Indonesians who losses at Dunkirk, were holding out | through . Weeda, Mrs. Lance Weeda, Lance attacked with three-inch mortars :éfmggyieldmg opposition by the o lo" 5 " Edward Kubullist, J. and machine-guns. Four British Tk Owen, Agnes Williams, P. Hutchins soldiers were wounded. A""ou“(ED IODAY The British, still suffering from and Claire Brooks. 5 172 invasion To Yakutat—Dick Henry. What May Take Place During the banned hours under- e ay be about in company with a near relative or other adult person responsible for them or with written permission from parents, employers or guardians. With such written permit, children engaged up- on express errands are to be free from the police-womanly arm of the law. Both children and parents are liable to be charged as in violation of the new Ordinance and may be subjected to a sliding scale of pen- alties for first, second and third of- fenses, as follows: First offense—One fine. Second offense—Two to ten dol- lars fine. Third or subsequent offence—Fine to five dollars been named president. Mrs. Hassman and McCutcheen laie on the temporary board of directors. | for an the | 5 ki Balkans. ‘ e { “In view of the difficulties we NEw UNION BANK | had in France last year,” Pepper' | asked Gen. Smith, “what about our | chances i 180" ' OPENS, ANCHORAGE without hesitation, Smith replied | 7 that “we could have done the job| ¥ every bit as well in 1942 and| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 5 brought the war to an end much|The new Union Bank of Anchorage sooner.” ihns opened here. by ‘ Stanley McCutcheon, Paul I S 2 | man, anl A % M‘:s:s rf:;:‘nnl:f:: 0;3\11;;&@_ Reed, Jobn Balious, Emil Pfeil, claim any political motivation in|Edward Craig, John Ryan and the Pearl Harbor inquiry, but not so, frank, able Senator Owen Brew- ster of Maine. During a secret session of the committee he put his cards face down on the table. “One of my primary purposes in| SR S 8 | this investigation,” said Brewster, FROM FAIRBANKS George Hellerick, Fairbanks, registered at the Gastineau. — is (Continued on Page Four) .~ ARMAL |of not more than $100, or jail sen- — a big black crow take letters and cut to 40 on Feb. 15 and 39 on|per 275 as “obsolete and ineffective Christmas cards from two home mail March 2. | boxes. The bird deftly reached into| The total for most enlisted men, ed out the letters. | by Feb. 2 will drop to 33 on Feb. 15 When the women sought to stop and 32 on March 2. { the thefts, the bird flew away,| WAVE officers, now eligible with| | 2. The enlisted WAVE score will be > - | cut from 23 to 22 and 21 on the same | Edible birds’ nests are made by dates. There will be no Feb. 15 various pygmy members of the; reduction for WAVES. swift family, from a sticky, whitish | s i <8 x secretion of large glands in lhe: Eighty-five per cent of the world’s mouth of the bird, ‘kirds live in the tropics. 4 ley. lday and Saturday nights and nights WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. — The Navy Department announced today |tence of not more than 30 days or | two more discharge point reductiops FORT DODGE, Ta. — Fort Dodge | effective on Feb. 15 and March 2. police were looking for a flying maili Scores for most commissioned and | thief today. warrant officers, already scheduled | Several women reported they saw | to drop from 43 to 41 by Feb 2, were both. Old Law “Obsolete” In presenting hi the City Attorney described the former curfew law, Ordinance Num Under it, he said, the policewoman is butting her head against a stone Stockholders are Frances Hass- the boxes with his beak and pick-| which will be down from 36 to 34 wa)) when she tries to clear children |off the streets after hours. Diserepencies he pointed out in the old ordinance were: Ten o'clock Andrew Hassman. The latter has carrying four letters in his claws 29 points, may be discharged with ' cyrfew but no time set for children |and teak, disappeared down an al-| 28 points Feb. 2 and 27 points March | t5 return to the streets which most likely could ke interpreted as putting the prohibition only the two hours after 10 o'clock p. m. until midnight, and with no hours banned on Fri- (Cmtlnued'on Page Five) | new ordinance, SANE; SENTENCED IN MURDER CASE SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 5.—Mrs Irene Mansfeldt has been sentenced to serve a one to ten year prison sentence for killing Mrs. Vada Mar- tin, a nurse she suspected of having a lové affair with her physician husband. A jury yesterday decided the 45- | year-old society matron was sane when she shot Mrs. Martin. Prev- iously, the same jury had convicted her of manslaughter. Prosecutor Norman Elkington ex- plained that if Mrs. Mansfeldt re- ceives full eredits for good behavior, she would be eligible for parole after a year and a half in prison. Her husband, Dr. John Mansfeldt, committed suicide soon after the shooting of the nurse. The defense contended Mrs. Mans- feldt was innocent because she was insane at the timie she shot Mrs. | Martin. { | The verdict yesterday, ending a|Commissioner of Health, who has| week-long case, came after eight | hours of deliberation. CHRISTINE COLT BECOMESBRIDE OF .6, KEATING Christine Colt, daughter of Mrs J. D. Helps, now of California, be- came the bride of John Geoffrey Keating, son of Mrs. John Keating of Seattle, at a double-ring ceremony 137 INJURED BY TWISTERS DURING NIGHT Rescue Teams Toil Through Mud, Rain-Property Damage Large PALESTINE, Texas, Jan, 5.—The toll of East Texas tornadocs rose to 20 dead, 137 injured and one missing today as rescue teams toiled through mud and heavy rains in search of additional vietims, Twisters left trails of wreckage last night through at least four East Texas counties. Scores were home- less and many communities were | without power. One was isolated from outside communication. In the lashing rains that accom- panied and followed the twisters, damage was impossible to estimate. Fourteen persons were dead here, 32 injured, and one missing. Eastward, at Nacogdoches, four were dead and at least 85 hurt, Police there said ithe toll of injured probably would (reach 100 and that the condition of |ceveral was critical. Near Lufkin, south of Nacogdoches, two were kill- ed and 20 injured. v George W. Hawkes, Nacogdoches | newspaperman, said there were re- Iports that a tornado had caused | i casualties at Appelby, Texas, 10 miles | HE AlTH I s SET northeast of Nacogdoches, but all | | Jmunlly were down. Northward, in Hunt county, a score communication lines with that com- | | ‘of business and residential buildings | {were destroyed at Peniel, near Green | ! (were destroyed at Peniel, near pLRot dony *o;e;:v:%;w c:lt a 100-yard swath ‘Chance for Southeast toros1s ailes ot Anderior county. . passing cof this city. State police aided |local authorities and the Palestine 'unit of the Texas State Guard in Alaska fo Get T. B. |relief work, The dead and injured Sanatorium |were still eing rought in at an An open meeting—to explain nnd'wly hour today. The injured were rally support for a plan to secure in three local hospitals and two- a permanent sanatorium for care!thirds of them were reported ser- of tuberculosis cases in-Southeast | Alaska—has been called for Mon- day evening by Mrs. M. O John- son of the Gastineau Channel Health Council. The meeting will start at 8 o'clock in the council | chambers of the City Hall and Mrs. lJuhnmn will be chairman. | Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Territorial | just returned from Washington, D. C, will be preseht to tell all | interested persons how they may Ihelp in securing the hospiial. The plan to be presented calls i for the construction of a 200 to | 300-bed hospital to be built and ‘upex'alcd by funds allocated to the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs runder the July 1, 1946 to June 30, | 1947, fiscal year budget. | The Office of Indian Affairs, {under Commissioner Willlam | Brophy, has agreed that such a | hospital is necessary if tuberculosis |in Alaska is to be successfully fought and has asked for aid in iously hurt. Homes, filling stations and small stores suffered heavily. Southview, suburb of Palestine, was hard hit. Telephone and power lines were down outside this city. Trees were uprooted. Cars were blown frcm highways in this area and some of ‘their occupants were injured. 'TWO MEN BURNED, ANCHORAGE BLAZE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. §5.— 1wulinm Clements and John Farm- er were critically burned early yes- {terday in a fire that gutted the rear portion of the East Side Service Sta- tion. | The men were working in the gar- ;agz at the time. The fire is of un- known origin. The blaze was discovered by a patrol car. Police officers found | Clements and Farmer on the outside at the Methoiist Church 1ast night, | o2 i1ering facts and figures to pre-(0f the building in burning clothes. five minutes after midnight. Mrs. Alexis McMorran was the ide’s cnly attendant and Don Me- Morran was best man. The Rev. Robert Treat read the vows. The bride wore a tailored dress- maker suit of steel gray zabardine with a pink blouse, and pink faille hat trimmed in all-lover black lace. She carried black accessories and wore a corsage of white gardenias and pink carnations. iier attendant wore a dressmaker suit dress of cocoa-brown with an off-the-face hat of pink straw, trim- med with brown veiling. Mrs, Mc- Morran's corsage was of American Beauty roses and white carnations. The bride has been on the staff of the First National Bank for the past year and the groom is Traffic Representative at the Juneau office of Pan American Airways. Mr. and Mrs. Keating will be at home to their friends early next week in the Victor Apartments. el s KIRCHHOFER OUT OF ARMY With more than four years ser- vice in the army to his credit, Everett Kirchhofer arrived on the Steamer Baranof from Seward, where he recently received his dis- charge. His future plans are as yet somewhat indefinite, but they include a visit with old friendd around the home town and a trip to the States later. Boaarce: o, o cosmmen Ecuader can claim ore bird out of every 13 on earth. Isent to Congress along with the,They were given quick aid. The Fire | request for funds, Dr. Albrecht se- Department was called and the gar- vealed. age flames were soon extinguished. Federal Funds The damage to the building is not | The Territory of Alaska, he °Stimated but is covered by insur- !pomted out, will not be expected Ance: to contribute financially to the| The garage was only taken over | project or to the expenses involved Y the new owners on January 1. | in hospitalizing the Indians, among whom the greatest proportion 01\23 d tuberculosis is seen. But at the: r same time, the Indian Office hos-| Is ud" (I I fering from tuberculosis and the| s Territorial Department of Health TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 5 — The and the Welfare Department will 23rd Fighter Group, formed from pital will be available for the care of indigent and other whites suf-| be expected to pay for the care of whites under contractual agree- ment. This, in itself, Albrecht be- lieves, is a major triumph toward the original flying group in China, arrived in Tacoma last night on the | troopship Aldermin from Shanghal. With it came an eight-year-old the goal of bettering health condi-|Chinese boy, the group’s mascot, tions in Alaska, since in the past|Who mysteriously appeared aboard the OIA services have not been Ship cight days out from Shanghai. available fors whites under any| The 23rd Fighter Group was form- agreement, and in such a large ©d from the Flying Tigers when the territory this has been a serious Tigers disbanded on July 4, 1942. 1t handicap, since duplication of ser- Served first as part of Brig. Gen. vices is far too costly. C. L. Chennault’s AAF China Task : First Step - |FPoree. 3 Dr. Albrecht stressed that if the! m— C! D OUT proposed program goes through it will be the first step in an overall| R permanent sanatorium program on W. A. Chippertield, Petersburg the part of the OIA. The plan Division Supefvisor for the U. 8. calls for the establishment of two FOvest Service, has left his station more permanent sanatoriums when 3¢ Petersburg ‘to receive medical funds are available—one in An- Aattention in the States. | chorage and one for the Arctic’ SN 0 SR area, perhaps af Fairbanks. During 1944, the OPA nad 17.- it i 475.000 new passenger car tires to ration. J (Contmuet; on Page Two) bt