The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,168 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —s. | PRICE TEN CENTS [ —— L JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1946 MEAT PACKERS, ELECTRICAL MEN STRIKE .when and where Japan would prob KIMMEL PRESENTS HIS SIDE Says Navy Denied Him In-| formation Prior fo At- fack, Pearl Harbor WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel today contended Washington naval offi- clals denied him information he said might have made Pearl Harbor an ambush for the Japanese. In a 25000-word statement sub-| mitted to the Senate-House inquiry committee, the retired Commander- | in-Chief of the Fleet called “mis- leading” the “war warning” message | sent to him by Admiral Harold R.| Stark, then Chief of Naval Opera-, tions, 10 days before the attack of | Dec. 7, 1941. Kimmel also contended: H 1. He was not supplied informa- | tion available in Washington from intercepted messages “which told ably strike.” 2. That, withholding this infor-: mation, the Navy should have in-| structed him specifically to “be on the elert against a hostile overseas raid.” | 3. If he had had Washington’s knowledge of intercepted. Japanese! messages, he would have considered ! revising war plans to provide “an| opportunity to ambush the Japanese striking force as it ventured to Hawaii.” | Famous Battle of Komandorskie Isle Given Explanation : Changes Name (By Russell Brines) TOKYO, Jan. 15—An American Navy captain and a Japanese Ad- miral pushed matchsticks to and fro on their table today—fighting again the famous battle of Koman- dorskie Island in which both had participated on March 26, 1943. And both were learning, for the {irst | time, the answers to several puzzles that had baffled them from that day to this. “We were her said Capt. Pey- | ton Harrison, arranging his battle line of matchsticks, “when you cpened fire. Did you know how close you came?” “No,” replied Soji—"“but you Rear hit us Adm, “Akira with your | first salvo.” They met in purely social fashion today,-but in the icy Aleutians in '43, Harrison had been operations SEATTLE IS STRIKE FREE; BUSSES ROLL {Drivers End Walkout After Four Days-Compromise Wage Agreement SEATTLE, Jan. 15.—The bus driv-| er's walkout which put a knot inj LONDON, Jan. 15—Official sour-| the leg muscles of Seattle’s trolley|ces disclosed today that American | riders ended just before sundown|civilian and military officials at the yesterday in a compromise agree- United Nations general assembly !ment, but the first bus did not roll \were split over whether American- until 6 p. m. and the service was re-|conquered Japanese islands should stored slowly through the night|be placed under UNO sovereignty . hours. While the American delegauon‘ Seattle, however, was for the first time in 58 days. SOVEREIGNTY QUESTION 1S UNO PROBLEM Trusteesship Over Ja pan May Be Up Directly to President By JACK SMITH 1 trike-free | sought solution to this question, it! } was disclosed that the newly-elect-| | Union officials said the system’s maintenance crews were rushing to the almost-four-days of idleness. ‘The men asked $1.37 per hour for get equipment back in service after: ed Security Council, confronted with the twin tasks of controlling atomic' energy and preventing another world war, had been summoned to hold tis first meeting Thursday. Heintzleman Lists Four Phases for Development Of Territory of Alaska Role for Jinx - ‘ PORTLAND, Ore, Jan 15.—Al- aska must develop gradually, with careful planning for industrial de- velopment, B. Frank Heintzleman, Regional Forester and Department of Agriculture Commissioner in Al- aska, said yesterday. New “Alaska has no big payrolls,” he, declared, “and right now she can't take care of a big mass of people.” He reported a flood of mail re- quests for information about settling in Alaska, especially from veterans, On good forestry principles, 1,- 250,000,000 board feet a year could be cut “forever” from Alaska's 80,- 000,000,000 board feet of timber, he said. Heintzleman listed four phases of Alaskan development: (1) timber. (2) Extension of mining (gold and other metals). (3) Processing for War Warning 4. Orders he received the day he‘ got the Nov. 27 “war warning” mes- | sage to transport army planes and troops to Midway and Wake, “indi-. cated to me that responsible author-* ities in Washington did not consider ! an air raid on Pearl Harbor either' imminent or probable.” H 5. The War and Navy Depart- ments knew that long range recon- naissance from Ozhu was to be| flown “only when a carrier strike, against the islands was probable; within narrow time limits.” i No Information | 6. He would have ordered the fleet | to sea if he had known what Wash—“ ington knew on successive dates from Nov. 27 to Dec. 7, but without this | information he kept his battleships | | officer for Rear Adm. Charles H. | McMorris, then Commander of the U. 8. Naval Task Force in the Aleutians. Soji, then a captain, commanded the enemy heavy cruis- task force attempting to convoy three transports of reinforcements to Attu Island. First Shell Lands “One shell landed in our chart- house,” said Soji; “I was on the bridge about 15 feet away.” “Well, your first two rounds came close,” Harrison told him. “We BECAUSE she is specializing in screen siren rolls and her name sounded too much like that of a sweet little ingenue, Bettejane Greer may now be officially known 3s Jane Greer. A Los Angeles superior court approved her peti- tion for the legal change. This is the second time Miss Greer has thanged her name. The first time was in 1943, when she becama Mrs. Rudy Vallee Shc divorcea | the famous crooner in July, 1044, | however. (Internationai) same time, someone closed a power (HUR(HILI- COMES valve so we had no power and !couldn't get the guns to proper T0 U. S ON VISIT; - “Another thing that always puz- ;zled us was why the Japanese broke off the engagement when | exactly where we would have been, but the (light cruiser) Richmond { wasn't hit throughout the engage- ment.” Soji- then clarified one phase of the battle which long hxd-mystified ‘the Americans—wHy the Nachi, ,with guns pointing skyward, sud- 1 denly minutes. 1 Another Knockout “Our fire control system was knocked out by your first hit,” he | mitted to our gunners. At about the er Nachi, flagship of a Japanese turned, and the third round landed ; stopped firing for severall | said, “and our orders weren't trans- | drivers and $1.50 for maintenance| Indications were that U. S. Sec- {men. brought an acceptable offer Sun-|British Foreign Secretary Ernest day from the Seattle Transit Com- Bevin and Soviet Vice Commissar of {mission and yesterday at a mass Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky ! meeting the employees voted to ac- | would speak at the opening session, cept $1.26 per hour base pay for whigh would be devoted primarily to drivers with a bonus of five cents crganization. jan hour, and a wage of $250 per| The disagreement over the trustee- $10 per month bonus. |attention of the American officials, - e e e | 'The delegates themselves were |said to favor a trusteeship plan for |the Pacific Islands, while their i | special military advisor, Gen. George [ |C. Kenney, argued that the United |States should retain any island of 3 | military value. Delegates said that if Kenney held 7 0 F F R ll |betwegn the State and War depart- {ments and would have to be referred ! Ito President Truman for settlement. out the disagreement could be con- s I ricket Also Turned Back to| Afomic Bomb | Owners — Northern Test Location Voyager Coming ' Soon Announced SEATTLE, Jan. 15—Two Alaska| WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—The Ar- Steamship Company passenger ships' ™Y and Navy will join shortly in an- —the S. S. Aleutian and the S. S, nhouncing the date, location and other Columbia—have been placed on the details of the forthcoming atomic San PFrancisco-Hawall run, the War Pomb tests at sea. Shipping Administration has an-| Announcing this over the week Almost, constant negounnon‘retary of State James F. Byrnes, . {month for maintenance men with a ship question, meanwhile, held the = sidered as tantamount to an issue § the enormous fish catch off the Alaskan coast. (4) Agricultural ex- pansion to take care of the needs of Alaskans engaged in the other | industries. | L ee- ARGENTINA " BUSINESS 1S CLOSED ’Governmem Arranges for Food Supply During 12-Hour Lockout By LAURENCE STUNTZ | BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 15—~The | GRACEFUL beauty of screen and ten- |S0Vernment took measures today to nis, Jinx Falkenburg is retiring |iNsure an adequate food supply for from the movies to have a baby |the populace as a 72-hour lockout next summer. She is the wife of ‘prncln.\med by Argentine business- Tex McCrary, Army Air Forces men in protest against the labor pol- colonel and formerly a newspaper }icies of the military regime moved man, to whom she was married last |into its second day. June in New York. (International) | pollowing a Ministry of Industry i and Commerce announcement that BIG WALKOUT IS SCHEDULED AT MIDNIGHT Over 260,000 Will Quit Plants-200,000 Elec- frical Workers Out (By The Associaied Press) There seems to. be no immediato way out of the meat packers' dead- lock. Both A F of L and CIO lead- ers are going ahead with plans for their joint strike as federal concil- lators plead with both sides in an effort to avoid a paralyzing walk- out. The CIO strike is scheduled for tomorrow morning, A F of L officials have instructed 500 locals to begin picketing Ar- mour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy at one minute past midnight tonight. The messages to the locals stated that every effort to"avoid a nation- wide strike had been unsuccessful because the offers made by the big four were inadequate, A total of 75,000 A F of L mem- bers will be out, but the CIO will take out 195,000 more. The industry has offered seven and {a half cents an hour more, while the {CIO wants 17% cents, a drop from | its original demand for 25 cents. Spectacular Picketing ' Spectacular picketing is taking iplace in the strike of 200,000 CIO electrical workers of General Motors, General Electric and Westinghouse. | In Bloomfield, New Jersey, the strikers were led to a mass meeting on the village green by pickets an horseback, while the police walked. A bnng gw‘m is on tke GE 3 | | | . Char iwmfldn'tiolmonm because she is “loyal to ! | taking part in this strike, more than one-fourth of the total workers out. The strike covers 16 states from Massachusetts to California. The president of General Electric, {Charles E. Wilson, said today that the strike will be felt most heavily |by the electric utility industry. He jsaid it is bound to have almost end- less ramifications in the entire American business scene. Work Shut Off in harbor where he thought themj safer against air attack than at sea without carrier support. H GOING T0 FLORIDA nounced. Both ships have been in €nd, Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy northern waters for years. |told newsmen that many of the The Columbia sailed from Seattle Same detailed preparations that went for San Francisco last week. The into wartime island-assaulting cam- |they did,” Harrison remarked. ! “We were running short on fuel | land ammupition,” Soji replied. | essary to assure a supply of needed |home and industrial electrical ap- larticles to the people,” government |pliances were shut off by the strike 1 A “the government is taking steps nec- | The nation's major sources of new Committee Favoring “And we thought your planes from direct opposition to much the com- FOmef BfmSh ane MIfl' ‘Adak might attack us soon, and ik . mittee heard from Admiral Stark,| Is'er Expeds Mee"ng |Bigskevive, meri Fiss i) tight A the last witness before it recessed i A s 1 g other engagement.” January 5 until today. Stark said w“h ]'lruman gy i A AR he considered the “war warning” mond, the Americans ‘had the message sufficient to alert the fleet | t0 a war basis. f o | heavy cruiser Salt Lake and four When Kimmel's testimony is com-| NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Winston| ;o000 ™ a0ninee inis slender | | force, the Japanese had two heavy, pleted, possibly late this week, Ma_ichurchul, Britain's colorful war-| jor General Walter C. Short, Hawai- ' time Prime Minister, was enroute twb HEBk. chiiaeie Sitd at s fomr) destroyers. Aleutian went south December 21. |P#igns are involvnq in planning Ior‘ The 8. S: Cricket, operated during '€ historic experiment. the war by the Alaska Transporta- Blgndy. deputy chief of Naval Op- tion Company, will be returned hy‘erauons for special weapons, said the War Shipping Administration the tests cannot be conducted before to Owen-Parks Lumber Company,‘spfi"& He gdded that “quite a prewar owners, in Long Beach, Calif large force” will be needed. The Cricket served in the Ala.skn‘ & 3 ern Voyager, is en route to Puget jan army commander at the time of | bl]’_‘ "3;“ ltoday! to Ttk?ei'grf:: » i im | Where he plans to spen - the attack, is expected to follow him Kiska Evacuated “We hadn't expected to run into | to the stand. |‘er part of a six weeks American PSPPI visit. you,” Soji acknowledged, but the R shipping pool throughout the war. A new 2,800 ton vessel, the North- R EFR I GERATOR | Sound from San Francisco to re-! BARGE Follows | place the Cricket in the Seattle-! | |agents began swearing out warrants against businessmen under a war- time law banning speculation. Statehood for Hawali T None of the warrants were served JWAILUKU, Maui. T. H. Jan. 154—ilmmedlately, however, and the only —Members of the House Territor- police action occurred in the pro- ies Subcommittee have boosted vincial capital of San Luis, where | Hawailan hopes for statehood with the president of the Chamber of strong endorsements of the Islands’ Commerce was arrested a few hours fitness for that responsibility. after members refused a police re- At the end of the Subcommittee’s quest to open stores. He was later first week of hearings Rep. Henry released without being charged. D. Larcade, Jr. (D-La), told Maui Representatives of the business- county officials that Hawaii “is men later issued a statement declar- of 200,000 CIO electrical workers and ‘more than 325,000 meat industry em- ployees completed final details to join the fast-swelling ranks of the strike-idle tomorrow, The AFL meat cutters union, terming its efforts to avoid a nation- wide meat packing strike unsuccess- ful, notified 500 locals represent- ing a claimed membership of 135~ 000 to strike at 12:01 a. m. (CST) Wednesday. Officlals of the CIO United pacl house workers said they were going ahead with a plan- Alaska service. The Alaska Trans-| just as ready for statehood as any ing the clesures did not violate any |ned strike of 200,000 members against portation Company will act as of the states now in the Union.” |law and asserting that the govern- |the big packers at the same hour. agents for the Northern Voyager. ! Larcade said he was far more ment would be overstepping its of-| Nearly Million Idle The ruddy-faced Englishman, his inevitable black cigar clasped be- tween his teeth, and attired in the | results of the battle convinced To- kyo that the Aleutian outposts DEMOBILIZATION PROGRAMTOLDBY ':: " GEN. flsmuowm{ I WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Gen.| uniform of the Royal Yacht Squa- dron, arrived here last night aboard surface c”‘"f Cornisequently e rders i " soon were given for evacuation of giant liner Queen Elizabeth Kiska Island, -he shid and in a news conference told re-| ABAR SRR, K Two cruisers and seven or eight h o E‘;?efr:ome ;fif“::t g% Foady; to: re Kdastroyers took all the Japanese off “I have no intention whatever Ki5k& in less than two hours, he of ceasing to lead the Conservative explained—slipping through the fog undetected. jcouldn't be supplied by ordinary' & b Associated Frozen Food CHINA SITUATIO | Packers Start New Ven- STILL UNSH“.Em fure, Ala_slg Waters By SPENCER MOOSA ! SEATTLE, Jan. 15—The refrig- 'impressed with what he found on'ficlal powers if it attempted to take the Islands than what a similar any action. They asked the govern- | committee of which he was a mem- ment to explain extension of the war- | ber found in Alaske a year ago. |time law which the Ministry of In- p. Homer D. Angell, (R-Ore.), dustry and Commerce said it would he hoped the Islands would invoke. | “soon assume an outstanding place| Housewives of Buenos Aires’ half- lin the Union of States,” and Rep. milllon homes lived on stored food Re) | éaid The meat king strike would boost the natlon's strike idle to al- most the million mark. ! Albert J. Fitzgerald, International {President of the CTO United Elec- trical workers, said that the work | stoppage was “100 per cent effective™ in plants from which reports had |been received up to that time. .. Dwight D. Eisenhower told Congress- | party until I am convinced that men today demobilization of soldiers | they have found someone to take was slowed down to prevent a “col-!my place, and I hope that will oc- Soji added that the fact the battle of Komandorskie Island kept transports from taking reinforce- CHUNGKING, Jan. 15.—Chou En- {erator barge William Taylor will James J. Delaney (D-N. Y.)address- or walked the streets in search of a lai, No. 2 Chinese Communist, today follow the fishing fleet to process sought a meeting with General Mar-|and freeze Alaska halibut and sal-| fapse” of the Army. | Since September, the Chief of Staff | said, the Army had been releasing | approximately 1,200,000 men month- | making progress toward permanent | ly and if that ratehad been con-[‘peace in the world, Churchill said: ! tinued, there would. not have been any Army left July 1. Nevertheless, ne , pledged the’ Army would meet its ‘original goal of reducing to & strength of 1,500,000 by that date. | 4 . 3 To do this, he said, 2,200,000 men will have to be turned loose by Ap- ril 30 and an additional .500,000 by July 1 under a revised point system. From Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, | Chief of Naval Operations, and other naval officers the informal session cur,” he said. Asked whether he believed the United Nations organization was “As to its (UNO's) chances of suc- cess, you are as good a judge as I am. As to the need for such an or- ganization, what else is there in the world to hope for?” The former Prime Minister, ac- companied by his wife, said he hoped to see President Truman on March 5 in Fulton, Mo., where Churchill will speak at Westminster College. .-~ ments to Attu decreased to some! extent the subsequent bitter fight-| ing when Americans landed there.!™*! “They turned away and waiteqd | Strife truce agreement. around Komandorskie Island for a while, then returned to Paramu- shiro. They were lucky, because ‘they were unprotected all that time,” Soji said. g “We'd have liked to have known that!” Harison exclaimed, ' The bespectacled, civilian-suited Soji laughed, “Maybe it was a mu- }mnlly poor battle,” he commented. 'Pan American Sefs | self-defense.” |ist party demanded reorganization of shall. He was reported ready to mon when they're caught, Associat- | {complain against alleged Govern- ed Frozen Food Packers, Inc., re-! ment violations of the recent civiliport. They said the barge was be- |ing equipped for the work. | Chy's move followed a Commun-| The William Taylor was used by! ist charge that on Monday govern- the army in the Aleutians during ment forces “ferociously attacked” the war and has 60,000 cubic feet of Kwangshan, Communist-held high- cold storage space, the company way center in Southeastern Honan said. Tt.is planned to tow the barge |Province. A government spokesman north early in April for operations denied the charge and reported that between Homer and Seldovia. federal forces everywhere had halt-| If the yenture is a success, the ed military operations at the Sun- announcement added, similar “on dhy midnight deadline, “except the spot” handling of Alaska ber- where they were forced to fight in ries and vegetable may be developed. i el 'BUCHANAN FREED A few hours earlier, the Commun- ed a_group as “citizens of the 49th few small stores which were will- state.” |ing to open and supply new custo- mers. Milk deliveries continued, as |did transportation and public ser- |vices, but food, department and reighborhood stores were closed. e —— It - g | Burinesses closed as protest to wnH "0 RB(UE |the government’s demand for in- creased wages and bonuses. ORDERS FOR SUBS NUERNBERG, Jan, 15.—An ex- plicit directive of the Gierman Navy forbidding any attempts to rescue or aid survivors of torpedoed ships was read into the record of the inter- national war crimes tribunal today in the prosecutior of Grand Admir- al Karl Doenitz. e Cueen Eleana Loses Use of Right Eye as Resulf of Shock ROME, Jan. 15.—Queen Elena of ‘The strike, in support of union de- mands for a 30 per cent wage rate boost, was called against General (Continued on Page Eight) |JAP GOVERNORS " 10 BE CHANGED, SAYS MITSUC TOKYO, Jan, 15.—~Chuzo Mitsuchi, newly appointed Home Minister, said today in his first press interview that he intended to change Japan's 147 prefectural governors “as early |as possible.” of Senators and Representatives at the Congressional Library learned that the Navy is demobilizing as 'MoneyforSitka | New Flight Record national and provincial govern- ments and nationalization of the armed forces in a sweeping program | IN DRIVING CASE “No attempt of any kind must be made as rescuing members of ships Italy has lost the use of her right| The status of the governors was eye as a result of shock brought one of several basic problems be- about by the death of her daughter, fore the reshuffled cabinet.as Pre- Drunken diivmg charges against sunk, and this includues picking up scheduled and expects to complete the job September 1. Reaction of the Congressmen was mixed. | To Rep. Rankin (D-Miss) leader of a drive to force a House vote on | NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Pan Ameri- can Airways officials claimed a submitted to, the political consulta- Everett Buchanan were dismissed byfperzons in the water and putting tion conference through Tung Pi-wu, U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray here them in lifeboats, righting capsized Princess Mafalda of Hesse, In a Ger- mier Kijuro Shidehara, recovered man concentration camp, the mon- from his 20-day illness, attended its For ?fller Plant |new commercial record today for one of their Lockheed Constellation planes, which yésterday flew from New York to Bermuda and return WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—The Federal Works Agency has approved a $13,750 planning advance, to be its elder statesman. lat a hearing yesterday afternoon, ————.——— |because the complaining witness, Only 30 six ounce prime steaks can | Willlam Hart, was unable to pre- be cut from a quarter-ton steer; sent evidence in support of the and only four choice cutlets from a charge. archist newspaper Italia Nuova ve- ported today. The 73-year-old queen lives in Naples with King Vittorio Emanuele III. lifeboats and handing over food and | water,” read the order issued to all ’:ubmarlne commanders under Doe- {nn.z' command on September 17, 11942, first meeting today. General MacArthur's Jan. 4 di- rectives ordered a purge from the government of leading officials of flocal branches of Japan's wartime legislation to compel the dmmrteirepaid without interest when con- of men with 18 month service andistruction starts, for Sitka, Alaska, men with dependents, Eisenhower’s explanation of the slowdown “was] unconvincing.” for a hydroelectric power plant and —a distance of 1,340 miles—in five hours and 48 minutes. i The initial flight shaved an hour 65-pound lamb. Hart.was the driver of a taxicab| “Rescue runs counter to the rudi- v iy in collision with a car driven by|mentary demands of werfare for the Princess Mafalda was injured in imperial rule assistance association an Allied air raid on the camp and similiar totalitarian parties. transmission lines. The project’s cstimated cost is $518,698, ord, the officials said, and 44 minutes off the previous rec-! Yank, an Army magazine, had a|Buchanan, The accident occurred ! paid cireulation of nearly 3 million, on the Douglas Highway, January 5. and where she was interned, and died after an arm was amputated, destruction of crews.” enemy ships Prefectural governors sérved as the chiefs of local brariches of the IRAA,