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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,166 JUNEAU, ALASKA SATURDAY, JANUARY | IAY, | 2, 1946 ~ MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DEMOBILIZATION DELAYS PROTESTED SECURITY COUNCIL UNO General Assembly| Meets Obstacle in Per- | fecting Organization By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER LONDON, Jan. 12—The United Nations general assembly filled | five of the six non-permanent| places on the vital security council | today after Russian efforts to postpone the voting were defeated | in a sharp floor dispute with the) United States and Britain. The five countries elected on the | first ballot were Brazil (47 votes),| Egypt (45), Mexico (45), Poland (39) and Netherlands (37). Five| elected states and Canada were on | a slate which had been circulated by the United States delegation. A Russian motion to delay for- | mation of the security council,| which eventually will control the | proposed world police force was! opposed on the floor by U. S. Secretary of State James Byrnes | and British Foreign Secretary (Continued on Page Eight) The —Washir;gion Merry - Go-Round| By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON—If the General| Staff in Washington read the! thousands of letters which pour in | on congressmen and this columnist | from G. I. Joes everywhere, un-; doubtedly a broad-gauged man like Gen. Eisenhower would move to; rectify some of the things which . are destroying morale in the Army. | The G.I. of course doesn’t write | to Gen. Eisenhower or the War| Department, first because he fig- ures his letter wouldn't be read,: and second, if it was read, hej would get into trouble. However, ! here is some recommended reading | for the General Staff in the Pen-| tagon Building—a cross-section of | letters recently received by this| columnist. The note of discourage- | ment, frustration and bitterness is| not unusual. Unfortunately, it runs: KIMMELWAS Scene of Chicago Kidnaping North DEVON AV, — T—— < O EAVD HOQD AV,:l I | £3 ELMDALE AV.— THORNDALE AV. bw—l Y/ | % W 2¥°17 T KENMORE AV.] [: I ¥ W ® 4 < GRANVILLI £ N. PAULINA ST W'AY’ L WiNTHROP AV.— SHERIDAN RD. uob1y 7 BROAD B ARDMORE AV, <] Z ) %, Q O, i 7 BRY N MAWR AV. N N N V = b -1 Map lccates (1) north side Chicago home frem which six-year-old Suzanne Degnan was kidnared, (2) catch basin in areaway of apart- ment building where child’s head was reccvered, (3) another catch basin where left leg was found, (4) third catch basin where right ieg was found in brown shopping bag and (5) sewer iwhere i0rso, ‘ninus arms and legs was recovered. (AP Wirephoto) 4P Leaving Orson? BLOCKED ON FLEETMOVES WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. — Pre- Pearl Harbor plans of the Pacific Fleet for scouting an island chain where the Marines later had heavy losses were vetoed by the Navy De- partment, Congressional investigat- | ors were informed today. Admiral Husband E. Kimmel said he wanted to survey the Gilbert group which includes Tarawa, but! Washington instructed him not to take fleet units “anywhere near”| those islands in pre-war days. v Tarawa and other islands in the Gilberts were taken by U. S. amphi- | | CHINA PEACE ARE T0 MEET CHUNGKING, Jan. 12—A three- member commission created to im- plement the truce in China’s civil strife plans to fly to Peiping. té- morrow to establish executice head- | quarters. | Gen. Chang Chun, Central Gov- ernment representative who nego- | tiated the truce with the Chinese Communists’ Gen. Chou En-lai in the presence of Gen. Marshall, an- | nounced the commission’s plans at | today's session of the political con- | sultation conference. Truce com- missioners are Gen. Chien-Min of | the National Government, - Gen. Yeh Chien-ying of the Com-| munists, and Walter Robertson, U. 8. charge d'Affairs in Chungking. Chang told the conference that Col. Henry A. Byroade, new Am- | erican military attache, would be chief of staff at the headquarters in Peiping with authority to exe- cute various orders and assign in- | spection groups at different ‘points. | He said Generalissimo Chiang | Kai-shek had ordered all govem-{ ment military units to cease fire! before midnight Sunday. This much | leeway was given to enable thel order to reach remote points. Chou | said similar orders had been issued | by the Communist high command. [ONFESSES TOKILLING SEATTLE, Jan. 12—Garland H. Wilson, 26, discharged meat cutter, fsigned a written confession today [ he slashed and beat his former em- ployer, J. N. Raybould, 69, to death i here the night of Dec. 29 = Detective Capt. Richard F. Mahoney announc- 2d. Wilson, fired a week before the laying, was questioned by police im- mediately afterwards but was re- leased, the detective said. He was arrested again yesterday on an open charge on his return from his moth- er’s home at Hayden Lake, Ida. where he went after sending his wife and baby to her parents’ home | ;at Fosston, Minn, | | SAvoS WG bt UNked NALIOUS uen ;ht) "‘Sen. Tom Connally of Texas; S Ay Lo en. Arthur Elizabeth: (left to ri T XOrK 04 Wie Queen H. Vandenberg of Michigan; Ed- % ward R. Stettinius, Jr., permanent member of the Security Council with the rank of ambassador, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Other delegate is Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. (AP Wirephcto) fiil!ibnr%flar (onirad Lef by Navyto Continue Al_aska OiIExp!gralions WASHINGTON, Jan, 12 — The Navy announced today award of a $1,000,000 contract for continuing | exploration of the Naval Petroleum ! Reserve in Alaska for this year. The contract was awarded jointly to Hoover, Curtice and Ruby, Inc, | New York, as mining and pet- | roleum engineering construction § !managers, and C. F. Lytle Co. and | the Green Construction Co., Des Moines, Towa, general contractors. Work on the Alaska reserve was started by Navy Seabees in the | spring of 1944. The end of the war and the demobilization pro- | gram, the Navy said, make neces- | sary substitution of a civilian con- tract. | Navy explorations have covered COASTGUARD 'SCOREPOINTS " AREREDUCED WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—A two- point drop in Ooast Guard dis- charge scores, effective Feb. 2, is | announced. in the next two months. As of Feb, 2, the discharge scores will be: | Male officers, 41;. Spar officers, 30; male enlisted, 38; Spar en- listed, 24. The present discharge score male enlisted, 40, and Spar en- listed, 26. On Feb. 15, the discharge score for both male enlisted and Spar enlisted personnel will drop to 37 and 23, respectively. On March 2, the score will be Other deductions will be effective | is | male officers, 43; Spar officers, 32; | 615 MAKING COMPLAINTS T0 CONGRESS Questions for Answering Filed from All Sections of Fighting Forces (By The Associated Press) Protests of homesick G. I's against demobilization delays piled up today on congressmen'’s desks in Washington. And abroad, they laid their gripes before visiting lawmakers, readied fresh ammunition to fire at Con- gress and kept on voicing their views at demonstration meetings. Top authorities in the armed forces will have the opportunity to present the official Army and Navy Department position on Tuesday. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Army and Navy chiefs of staff, go before an informal joint session of Congress then to say what's what, from the standpoint of the high command. ‘The legislators will have a chance to ask questions—and the G. L's have been feeding them ideas. For example, a_soldier cabled a Senator: “When the blazes is a tuba player considered essential for a fighting Army?"” More of the same is on the way. In Manila, two privates said they had 113,341 signatures on a petition to Congress. In London and Shanghai, dis- | eruntled soldiers enlisted the ald of touring congressmen. _Senators - Knowland (R - Calif) and Tunnell (D-Md), , inspecting supply surpluses in the Pacific, | promised GI's in China to relay their complaints to Congress. Senators Connally (D-Tex) and Vandenberg (R-Mich), delegates to the United Nations meeting, gave the same assurance to troops in London. A similar pledge had been | given there earlier by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, another UNO delegate. | In China, Lt. Gen. Albert C. | Wedemeyer had previously bragged jon the behavior of China theater troops, saying he was proud that | they had refrained from demon- | strations. But a short time later, {600 enlisted men and officers held | a protest meeting in the Shanghai cut to: Male officers, 40; Spar|@area. ! serve. A test well being drilled at officers, 28; male enlisted, 36; Spar UG 5 Ao SRS | Umiat Mountain has passed enlisted, 22. 3 FIlE FoR through practically all the Iettel's.4§°u5 fgrcs:s li;\“hard fighting during | | the eastern one - third of the re- | and indicates that something vi-| \oVember. g | as the weslward“ - o I tally wrong at the bottom must | offensive across the Central Pacific | i ‘ be cleaned up before building a | was launched. A British possession, | large new peacetime military strucs | he Gllberts were selsed - by _thiey ture. Japanese after the outbreak of the‘ An - Air Force officer in the war and strongly fortified. | Pacific sent this columnist an Air Kimmel said the reason given by Medal ribbon with one Oak Leaf""he Navy Department for vetoing | Cluster. With it he enclosed a I e “‘p"su“'“e“ : " 4 2 ' ! through five oil bearing sands,none| March 15, the male enlisted, 4 14 ial value. i ill drop to 35, and on A For japanese B".“e ; 1{ (A ;0 iy riathinabyes gy m_ i o il The Nayy estimates the survey 2, to 34 ! will be completed in 1950 at a The Feb. 2 cut, the Coast Ghard | YOKOHAMA, Jan. 12—Lt. Cho- total cost of $11,500,000. sald, will apply to all ranks, but) [ taro Purushima, third Japanese pris- R e - the subsequent changes will not | fon camp commandant to be con victed of the brutal mistreatment of | apply to women, storekeepers and pharmacists’ mate: | the projected survey was “that we | newspaper clipping telling how,’ShDuld not evinee any interest in| Gen. Barney Giles had awarded ' Air Medals to Lt. Gen. Robert C.} Richardson, Jr., and Maj. Gen.| Clark L. Ruffner for “numerous long-distance flights over water; under extremely hazardous weathe: conditions.” The officer’s letter read: “Here| is an article about the awarding of an air medal to one ‘old school | tie’ by another. Just another case of the W.P.P.A. taking care of its own. W.P.PA. means West Point Protective Association.” “Enclosed you will also find a couple of Air Medals I won while playing tag with some Jap flak over the fleet some time back. You should see the back end of Gen. Richardson's plane! Ice box, bunks, plush seats and all the rest! of the best. Tough life he had sleeping over those long dangerous hours of ‘over-water flying’.” A Lieutenant Colonel who for-| warded the above letter wrote: “1 was associated with this officer for a year, two thirds of that| being spent on Iwo Jima. His feel- ings represent the general opinion of practically. all Reserve Officers who were in battle. Any more- than-ordinary action of a West Point graduate called for unusual attention and awards. My pride in being a Reserve officer on active! duty prior to Pearl Harbor took a! number of eye-opening jolts on Iwo and I expect to resign mv commission as a lieutenant colonel six months after my terminal leave expires.” i * % % “PUNY PETTINESS OF MANKIND” A Captain of Infantry: “What makes me write this note is an insignificant paragraph in your column which read—'And the other e (Continued on Page Four) tand forced him to witness the exe-| the Gilberts because the Japs might find out that we were interested.” | The former Pacific Flest Com- | mander’s recital came to light as Senate-House committee members 3 7 examined testimony Kimmel gave in | B three previous inquiries as a prelude | HOLLYWOOD ceports that glamor- to his personal appearance before K ous Rita Hayworth has tearfully the Congressional group next Tues-| admitted to friends that her mar- day. riage to Orson Welles has gone on the rocks. They were married two years ago and have a baby daugh- "All IORTURED | ter, Rebecca. (International) AMERICANS T0 i | | NAPLES, Jan. 12—The German' Gestapo tried. to find out secrets of Arthur H. McCullough, victim of the American radar by torturing U. 8. tragedy at Iliamna, died in a hos- BADLY FROZEN MAN DIES AT ANCHORAGE ! fliers, captured in North Italy, the pital here during the night. The; prosecution charged today at the remains of Mrs. McCullough will be war crimes thial of four Nazi officers brought here for burial. accused of murdering seven Allied’ The McCulloughs, both teachers soldiers. in the Alaska Native Service school Major Samuel Lewis of Dallas, at Iliamna, were found in a cabin, Texas, trial judge advocate, sub- the woman dead angl the man badly mitted an affidavit of Sgt. Melvin frozen, by ~ carol singing on Ernest Kelly of Framington, Ill., Russian Christmas Eve. who was shot down over Bologna.! Cause for the tragedy is not re- Kelly said the Gestapo beat him vealed. cution of an Allied soldier in a vain| JOHN OBERG I8 BACK attempt to make him tell radar sec-| Among the many Juneauites re- rets. | turning from holiday vacation trips ——evo——— in the States was John Oberg, KRISTEN, BRIDE ARRIVE owner of a shoe repair shop here. Mr. Marvin Kristen, son of Jack He arrived on the Steamer Princess Kristen, arrived last night on the Norah. Princess Norah, accompanied by his bride of a few weeks. e TO VISIT IN SEATTLE Mrs. H. I Lucas, Jr., and little daughter, Donna, left on the Steamer North Sea for Seattl> where they will visit with her par- ents and other relatives, MM R PULLENS RETURN | Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Pullen are ! home again after spending the past two months oh & most en- ' joyable vacation trip which took them east to Brunswick, Me., and ,included a stop in Washington, D. C. 4 ’ ANCHORAGE, Alaska, 'Jan. 12— ! Americans nearly wept today as his sentence — life imprisonment — was read. His wife, in the rear of the -curtroom, remained impassive. Furushima, former school teacher and vice mayor of Funatsu, was ac- quitted by the trial commission of two specifications alleging that he deprived internees of adequate food, clothing and medical facilities, but| was convicted of brutalities for which the prosecution had sought the death penalty. “The trial was satisfactory,” said Furushima's at- torney. In earlier cases, one camp com- mandant had been sentenced to death and another to life imprison-| ment at hard labor. 1 Bl Lo L | DIES ON GALLOWS VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. 12 — Bryan Bruece Potter, of Dawson Creek, B. C., went to death on the gallows at Okalla Prison here yes- | terday for the knife slaying of Mrs. Edna Ina Rogers at Dawson Creek last year. Potter, formerly a resident of the United States, was in Dawson Creek employed in connection with | Alaska Highway construction work. e | BOB THIBODEAU RETURNS { Robert Thibodeau, son of Mr. | {and Mrs. Joe Thibodeau, was a returning passenger on the Steamer Princess Norah after spending sev- | eral weeks in the south. He visited his sisters, who are attending | Marylhurst Academy, Portland, and with other relatives in Tacoma,| | Yakima and Seattle. | LTG5 e YRS | FROM WYOMING | Mr. and Mrs. George Cook, resi- { dents of Casper, Wyo. are regis-| tered at the Baranof, i 4 (G Plane On ‘ Mercy Flight Down af Sea SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12 — A ‘crcw of nine on a mercy flight BY AIOM' were rescued unharmed late yes- | terday when their plane,,a Coast | Guard two-motored PBM, crashed in an attempted landing 300 miles at sea. - The seaplane had been dis- patthed to aid in removal of a sick woman passenger on the 8. 8. Aleutian, bound for Alaska, to ans other vessel. ¢ The seaplane was heavily dam- aged and sank, the Coast Guard said. The crewmen were taken 15 Ausiralian Girl Officially Scolded For Passporf Breach COWCIKL- eite Benncll, bSua ¢ dons a cowioy costuine visit to New York Ciye RIPPLE ROCK NO SEATTLE, Jan. 12—The Pacific Northwest Trade Association, meet- ing here yesterday, rejected the proposal that the government use an atomic bomb to blast Ripple Rock, navigation menace on the inside passage to Alaska off Van- couver Island. The delegates dropped the idea, originally advanced at their meet- ing three months ago, after they concluded it would prove too much of a menace to surrounding coun- try and because it appeared likely that the government would provids a bomb for this purpose. Harry Mitchell, manager of the foreign trade department of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, sald congractors also haye been attempt- ing to remove the treacherous rock. - MRS. NAGHEL HOME AGAIN Fifteen Australian girls who flew %Yo Manila without passports to work After spending the past several 45 gacretaries for American officers weeks in the States, during which ame home - today to an official time she enjoyed a visit With 8 gooiding. sister in California, Mrs. Charles | They were severely reprimanded by Naghel returned to Juneau on the the collector of customs for leaving Steamer Princess Norah. | Australia without proper travel doc- TR AR 'uments and tax clearances. It was HERE FROM HAINES |understood that no further action Mr. and Mrs. C. Fandrew of was contemplated in the case, which Haines are in town, guests at the had drawn considerable criticism in Baranof. Australian newspapers. BRISBANE, Australia, Jan. 12— > Yukon Preshyfery - Wanis College in Matanuska Valley CORDOVA, Alaska, Jan. 12—The Yukon Presbytery, representing Al- aska Presbyterian Churches as far north as Wainwright and Barrow, seeks establishment of a fouryear fully accredited college in the Matanuska Valley Delerates at sessions here the past three days asserted the valley was particularly sulted as a site and called on church authorities to set up the institution. Students should also be given work oppor- tunities, spokesmen said. -ee Forty-Ninth Star, - Weekly Newspaper, " Is Publishing Again ANCHORAGE; Alaska, Jan. 12— The Forty Ninth Star, wéekly newspaper formerly known as the Anchorage Weekly Times, wiil make its appearance this month after a lapse of almost three years, having suspended in May, 1942, following 24 years’ continuous pub- lication. ‘The weekly will be tabloid in size, with colored comics. Edward J. Fortier will be editor. He has spent three years in the Territory on military duty. Cash Cole Going fo Be Can- didate for Terriforial Treasurer, Repqrt | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 12— |ngnar Hansen has filed for the iflo 5 | use on the Democratic ticket. Harry McCain and Dr. Dwight |Cramer have filed for the House on |the Republican ticket. | willlam L. Paul has been advised |by wire that Cash Cole, former | Territorial Auditor and former resi- !dent of Juneau, will enter the Spring Primary as a candidate for Terri- torial Treasurer on the Republican ticket, He is now'in Seattle. Seatile Has ; Aching Arches; { Strike Cause SEATTLE, Jan. 12—Seattle to- day is a city of aching aches, no newspapers and curtailed telephone service as a strike of bus drivers set many afoot. ¥ A strike of printers went into its 56th day and picketing by Western Union installers kept many telephone company workers off the Job. - It was one immense traffic through most of the daytime work- |ing hours yesterday and a strangely silent place at night as every avail- able automobile was called into _service to haul folks to stores and offices and left at home in the evening. - —————— DON STATTEN HERE Don W. Statten of Haines is registered at the Baranof. |