The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1946 VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,170 ?B,ESS 800,000 SIE MUKDEN INHANDS Kurile Islands Taken OF GOVT. TROOPS : eesurorruce OverbyRussianForce; Future Status Unsetiled ASKS DEATH [EDCOFFEY (Barfleitfo QuizArmy, [LABORMEN FORLEADERS ~ NavyonRNeglecingof MEET WITH | . TOCONFER 7 iFrNeu":a;:bePrcix?rsiael(!:akl)(:esm: for Democratic Nation- 'pROSE(u“ON Bhstioi ot 'w“‘:"‘l‘l‘l‘“%"'“"":“”“("‘—':Eflo&?efl%firgik’:ao? . i JAP (RIMES & &= 5 Lo Violations of Cease Fire| Order Charged Now by Both Sides in China (By The Associated Press) Chinese Government troops were reported peaceably occupying the strategic Manchurian city of Muk- den today gvhile Communist and government leaders engaged in a| Demobilization { SEATTLE, Intelligencer's (By Alex H. Ingleton) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Rus was reported tod: to be establish- ing herself firmly in the strategic | Kurile Island chain flanking (hu} ' Demonsirators Fa(ing Tfials lzspprm\(-hc‘s to Siberia i It was from a rendezvous in HONOLULU, Jan. 17.—Lt. Gen. these foggy Japanese Islands that Robert C. Richardson, Jr., | Admiral Yamamoto's fleet set out sharp verbal exchange over alleged | ;.jered court-martial for any sol-|in late November, 1941, for its at- violations of Sunday’s truce order.|gie. o officer in -his Mld-!’ucl!ir‘ka at Pearl Harbor. - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-sheX | .ommang who continues agitation | Whether a peace settlement will was charged by Yenan Communists | ). the demobilization program |decree the permanent amputation with personally and secretly order- | |of the Kuriles from the Japanese i | Three enlisted men were confined | ” . ing the commander of the Eleventn | quarters pending investigatmn.‘Em"”" still remains to be decid- ‘War Zone to seize strategic Com- INJUNEAU NAZI REGIME Defenses in Terrifory PRESIDENT Is Alaska Financial Direclor| Jan e pos Impassioned Plea :"’ d;. e H.”‘ Next Monday (By The Associated Press) A fact-finding board was named today to consider the nationwide u 4 | meat strike as the House labor com- He sald he had found that the |mitiee cleared the way for prompt ! United States is conducting no e~ action on President Truman's pro- fensive construction or planning in | pocal that suc Boieiider | p at such boards be granted the lesson taught agislative authority. by the Japanese selzure of Aleu-| o bepsinn ! Ser al Commitiee (By James F. King) ard D. cho! tor Edward D. Coffey of An- NUERNBERG, Jan. 17.—France , Financial Director for the asked death today for the 22 ring |Territory of Alaska for the Demo-: leaders of the Nazi regime and for |eratic National Committee, arrived in punishment of hundreds of thon-|Juncau by plane yesterday to con-| sands of members of German ter- |fer with John Walmer, Territorial| ror organizations 4 Chairman for the Democratic or-| Francois De Menthon, wounded |ganization and also chairman Em"} war veteran who is the French jthe First Division. | | holds the world's biggest and rich- | est oil field and the most strateglc | air base sites on the planet,” | | The story continued: Must Pro{le“ Defendants to " Col. Wilson Gaddis, Public Re- ¢ munist strongpoints before the| cease fire order took effect at Sun- day midnight. | The National military council | countered with the assertion that| 5,000 Communists seized control of | the Manchurian port of Yingkow | on Monday after a seven hour fight with the Government garri and 40,000 others attacked Taian | and Shantung on the Tientsin-! Pukow Railroad. | Mukden’s once mammoth arsen-| al was described by a Chinese cen- tral news agency correspondent as “an empty shell,” devoid of ma-. chinery or ordnance. He did not | lations officer, said no charges have been placed against the trio but their actions since General Eisenhower explained demobiliza- tion policy Tuesday are under in-| vestigation. Two had been active in demonstrations against a demo- bilization slowdown. JUDGE HOLZHEIMER BACK FROM SOUTH; IS HIT BY AUTO Judge William A. Holzheimer, who prosecutor, dencunced Hitlerism {and all it stands for with a fervor that brought fear to the faces of Hermann Goering and other pri- soners before the International Military Tribunal “Civilization requires from you after this unleashing of barbarism a verdict which will be warning,” De | Occupation Complete } Meanwhile, Government officials here in a position to know, said that Russia already has sent in| troops with "bag and baggage” and | their families—apparently for & long stay. These officials cannot be identified by name. Agreement | upon Russian occupation of these islands, stretching like a giant|s scimitar across the entrance to the A sea of Okhotsk, was reached at the | Justice must strike those guilty | Potsdam conference. i of the enterprise of barbarism from Back in the last century there|which we have just escaped. The was some dispute between Russia|reign of justice is the most exact and Japan as to the ownership of | expression of great human hope. these barren islands, but in 1875 Your decision can mark a decisive Moscow officially recognized Jap- |state in its difficult pursuit,” a sort of | Menthon | Guilty of Some Ex- plicit Criminal Act TOKYO, Jan. 17.—General Mac- Arthur’s charter for the war crimes trials of Hideki Tojo, Japan's Pearl Harbor Premier, and other top sus pects will require the prosecution to prove each defendant guilty of & criminal act, headquarters reported today. A spokesman said it would not be sufficient to prove that a defend- ant was a member of some malevo- lent organization or war-making cabinet. Neither will the topflight Japan- | Coffey, who received appointment to the new post only recently from| | Robert Hannegan, head of the Dem- | ‘ocratic National Committee, and!| Georg> Killion, national treasurer,| also is conferring with other of the First Division's leading Demos. Coffey, Anchorage insurance man, was President of the Territorial Senate at the last session - D 'MAKE PLEA TO UNO T TAKE CONTROL OF say where the material Was Dre- | eyurned from a three-weeks trip to sumed ltoj have -gone. the States yesterday afternoon was American and Russian conferees |yicx by an automobile around 8 meanwhile discussed Korea's bid lock Jast night when he was cross- for independence behind closed |ing q¢ ‘Seward and Franklin streets. doors at Seoul but failed to pro-: jygge Holzheimer was in a dazed duce an anticipated communique |45 pruised condition when helped covering results of the meeting. fyom the scene of the accident, but At Manila, a mass meetng [sustained no serious injuries. scheduled as a protest of General| Agter spending the night in his Eisenhower's. announced demobili- ‘spartment in the Kraftt Building ,the zation policy was postponed at Te- | juqge entered St. Ann’s Hospital this quest of Lt Gen. Wilhelm D.imorning for a check up on painful Styer, Commander of Army forces pryises and stiffness. in the Western Pacific. Secretary He is being attended by Dr. C. C. of War Patterson threw cold wa-|cCarter, who gave his patient’s con- an's title to the Kuriles. It appeared likely that President Truman had the Kuriles in mind | Tuesday when he told his news conference it was not necessarily true that the United States would be alone in seeking independent control of former enenfy-held is-| lands. | Possession of Kuriles But it remains at least tempor-; arily uncertain whether Russia wiil | lay its claim to the Kuriles form- | ally before the United Natlons, as are | - ol 1. Settlement by a separate Rus-| so-Japanese treaty. 2. Action at a peace parley in! which all the Allies against Japan | would participate. | 3. Inclusion in a United Nations | general settlement on the futurs| status of Pacific Islands formerly | held by Japan. | In all three cases, it seemed cer- tain that Russia will argue as| great a justification for sole ten-| ancy of the Kuriles as that of the | United States for other Pacific Is-‘ land bases. Navy's Viewpoint i This country, at least publicly, | has not listed the Kuriles as among | the islands regarded as necessary | to its defense. Naval quarters, how- | ever, have expressed belief that !some of the Japanese operations against the Aleutians originated | from this chain of islands. Japan- ese installations on the Kuriles! were bombed by air and pounded | by sea heavily ,during the latter | part of the war. { ForméiAE;h;ré_gle : Resident Passes | Away in Seattle| SEATTLE, san. 17.—Funeral ser- By DREW PEARSON | A b el vices for Roy E. Bunce, 61 of Se-’ attle. and Anchorage, will be held | L S | | WASHINGTON — When Ph“{B l l E T I N s | Murray and U. S. Seel President | | here tomorrow. Mr. Bunce, a re-| Ben Fairless sat down at the! | tired mechanic, died Tuesday at White House yesterday in another | his home following a brief illness. effort to head off a steel strike, He was a Past Exalted Ruler of | they at least had one thing in the Elks lodge at Anchorage. Born | common—a very poor opinion of in Fargo, N. Dak., he had first come to Seattle in*1922. He moved to Harry Truman's three “S$" men— f E Snyder, Schwellenbach and Steel Alaska in 1931,-returning to Seattle man. three years ago. | Surviving are his widow, Clnrn! ‘When Fairless and Murray left & the White House after their long Marjory, ‘and two daughters, Mrs, Elmer’ Waugh and Mrs. Clark wage battle last Saturday, the steel executive invited the labor chief to Bassett, Seattle. get into his limousine. Then the two men rode around the block BES couple of times chuckling over the v 2 \ay Secretary of Labor Schwellen-| WARSAW — More than 80000, bach seemed jealous of John Steel- | American, Greek, British, Russian, E"'ER'A'"S BUN(H man, Truman's personal labor ad- | Polish, French and New Zealand| R. J. Morrison, a staunch Crim- visor, and how both joggled elbows | Prisoners of war were killed or died son Bears' fan, entertained first| with John Snyder, the St. Louis|Of starvation in a Nazi concentra- and second string members of Ju-| panker, who is supposed to be the!tion camp at Lambinowice lli‘ill'ln(‘au High's basketball team last! war reconverter. ;ngmmodliu in lower Silesia, an of-'night with a stag party at his home. At that particular moment, the ficial commission reported today. | In ketween “shop talk” sessions' two men who had been at the op- R {and table g2mes, refreshments of posite ends of the argument for; HONOLULU—Workmen have be- cider and doughnuts were served. weeks seemed closer together per-|8uUn stripping down a small “atom Among those ‘attending were: sonally than the three Truman ne- the U. S. plans to do with key Pa- | ter on GI hopes of speedier de- gition as nful, but apparently not ; A s Three courses apparently iied {0 be dlowed down, g tha open for ultimate disposition United States would have no army,, the furtios: Patterson told a GI committee at Manila American forces were ! needed in the Philippines as sup- GUEST SpE AKER A'l port for occupation troops in Ja- pan and Korea and to service vast stores of supplies in the Islands. (HAMBER MEETI"G — e - e i Dr. Lars E. Lundgoot, on terminal Homer Appliesfor [ru o« manc sumeon wien e ‘rank of Commander, U. S. Navy, s__ {spoke today on his experiences dur- Sma" Bflal Bas'n ing three years of Navy duty be- fore members of the Juneau Cham- iber of Commerce at their regular SEATTLE, Jan. 17.—The Civic|jyncheon meeting in the Baranof League of Homer, Alaska, has ap-!Gold Room. plied for a War Department con-| As his reason for being in Alas- struction permit to build a small ks, Dr. Lundgoot said that he and boat basin at Homer Spit, the|pjs wife had been promising them- Seattle District U. S. Army En- gineers said and announced that |jong time, any objections must be submitted | «we wanted to see for ourselves to the District Office here. {if it were really as beautiful as we 500 feet, with a mooring float, ai Now that they are here, Dr. Lund- marine railway and barge grid. It|goot said he couldn’t make up his would provide needed moorage fa-|mind whether to stay ‘or “go back craft, the engineers said. | At the business session preceding - e the guest speaker’s talk, plans of the The Wash z n ton Chamkber to compile information re- 1 g announced, and a letter from the M G B d Seattle Chamber of Commerce add-| EII'Y- 0- Oun ing its support in protest of in- cific bases won in the war mobilization when he said the rate | too sericus. at all by June 1. JDR lUNDGOOI IS . iselves a trip to the Territory for a Plans call for a basin 300 feet by [heard,” he said. cilities on Cook Inlet for small;to Chicago and settle down.” | lative to the statehood question were| creased freight rates was read. | SEATTLE — Canadian members of the Pacific Northwest Trade As- sociation have gone on record as favoring the Seattle-Tacoma gate- way for the North Pacific.air route | to the Orient. SEATTLE—Shipping from Puget| Sound is being hampered by a ser- {ious shortage of qualified seamen. | At least six vessels have been de- layed here, and several others are | said to have sailed shorthanded. ! death sentences for the leaders { German crimes. He said of 250,000 - o {assembly as it began the second p i week of its existence with a sobering | speach by Foreign Minister Ernest Soviet Economis (RIMSONBEARFAN | ion for tests to determine what Les Hegins, Bill Sehmitz, Jack tomic bombs will do to ships at O'Connor, Denny Merritt, Ray Gray ! sea, it was learned here today. and Jim Klein, | fleet” in Pearl Harbor in prepara- Harry Aase, G. Foster, Herb Mead, gotiators—though actually the day” e (Continued on Page Four) De Menthon told the court that ese be tried on charges of negl gence—that as officers they failed to take certain steps that would have helped prevent the Pacific conflict. Instead, the trials will seek to bring home to the Japanese people the personal guilt of each man fac- ing the tribunal—personal affirma- tion of acts which constitute a crime against humanity committed by him as an individual. The trials are expected to start early in March, (anne;;Areas Excluded from Nafive Claims Ickes Mofiies Tribal Rights Order to Omit Areas Usedr by Packers WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Secre tary of Interior Ickes issued an or- der today excluding areas used for canneries from a previous order recognizing possessory rights to 273,- 000 acres of land in Southeast Alas- ka. In excluding areas used for can- neries, he said it had been shown that the natives welcomed their construction to provide a ready mar- ket for their fish, Natives of Hydaburg, Klawock, and Kak2 are involved in the order. They v ARMAMENT QUTPUT verdicts of guilty for the organiza- : tions n serve as a foundation | for the moral uplift of the German | people and the first stage in their | integration into a community of free countries.” His accusation ran the gamut of with Many Problems at | Second Week Session by JOHN M. HIGHTOWER k LONDON, Jan. 17.—United Na- itions control of the entire world {armament industry, including the atomic bomb factories, was proposed to the UNO general assembly to- day by Foreign Minister Jan G. A ST}M ryk, of Czechoslovakia, | Jobs and problems pilsd up for the persons deported from France only 35,000 returned. !Bevin of Great Britain. | Bevin said Britain was already| | negotiating to place three of her itive old mandates from the League |of Nations under the projected new United Nations trusteeship system | Belgian officials said they would iannounce similar intentions for their ltwo mandates, Ruanda and Urandi, 'in East Africa Belgium's position is expected to | be stated in a declaration to be read |Friday or Saturday by M. F. Van | Langenhove. Ruanda and Urandi | were assigned to Belgium from Ger- man East Africa after the first World War. ! Masaryk told the assembly that, |in order to safeguard humanity | against the “latest scientific inven- jtions,” the world arms industry “to gather with the latest devastating in- Shere wees 0 eaglyles. ventions, should be put under the O S Bel B 8. ot 74- {control of the United Nations.” cationers refused to play rouletts| pne gelegates applauded Masaryk at government-operated tables. Po- ‘Vloudly several times, especially when lice fired tear gas into the L'rnwd[he said he hoped that “not cne par- he' 1t Jert for -Casion, {ticle of uranium produced in g T iczechoslovakiu will ever be used £0r oy i coctenl ‘possessory. rights :\-&jl:olesale destruction and annihila- to 8,329,000 acres, !lmn i Uranium_ is a source of ma-| While eliminating cannery areas, . jterial for atomic enefgy and the ypo .. oo dad his order to' add Maklng (ommeni’ |atomig bomb. |about 800 acres of other lands which l A [the native claimed had Leen im- A | properly omitted in the original or- u' s- Employmen':(mns (ASE 'S Eder. Included are cemeteries, home i a souer| ON PETITION TO sites, gardens and smokehouses. MOSCOW, Jan. ! | Y | >oo economist, I. Lemin, commented m‘ DISTRI(I (ouRl‘ ORK FUNERAL TOMORROW Pravda today that contradictions Creating a proceeding to crack a between the economic interests of Britain and the United States “have sharpened and the sphere of |stalemate in the Commissioner’s these contradictions is expanding” | court here, Attorney William L. despite efforts on the part of both|paul, Jr, today petitioned the Dis- to avoid a sharp collision. | trict Court for a Writ of Review| The United States is facng the of a Justice Court civil action| Capt. John Hoogstad of the Sal- possibility of having 19,500,000 un-, brought by his client, Alaska Credit! vation Army will conduct the se employed, he said, and this pros-}gureau' against H. C. Scudder. | vices. Interment will be in Ever- pect is causing “an exceptional| The plaintiff corporation, as 8reen Cemetery. running after foreign markets.” ; ignee of a claim for $181.24, had| i B R sought to recover in the lower court| BIIR;)ICK LEAVES STOCK QuOTATIONS | but found itself halted by refusal, Charles Burdick, Assistant Re- S | to admit evidence. of U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray gional Forester, left aboard the In addition, the steamer Yukon for Ketchikan, NEW YORK, Jan. 17—Closing | petitioning plaintiff contends that Where he expects to spend about quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |the defendant has failed to prose- & week on official business at the stoek today is 9, American Can|cuté his motion for dismissal and Southern Division headquarters of 105!, American Power and Light'the Commissioner has twice denied the Forest Service. 16 Anaconda 48'., Curtiss- | plaintiff's motion for judgment be-; s Wright 8%, International Harvester | cause of that failure. | MRES. KIRCHHOFER RETURNS 97%, Jones-Laughlin Steel 47 %, | Attorney Paul now secks to have| Mrs. Chariotte Kirchhofer re- Kennecott 54%i, New York Central|the District Court review the case turned to Juneau on the steamer 34%, Northern Pacific 34%, U. S. and correct what plaintiff alleges Baranof last night, after spending Steel 89%, Pound $4.03's. are errors by the Justice Court. | several weeks visiting relatives and Sales today were 2,200,000 shares. - jfriends in the States, including a Dow, Jones averages today are| A. J. ENGSTROM HERE visit with her son and daughter-in- as follows: industrials 20352, rails A. J. Engstrom from Pelican is law, Mr. and Mrs, Curtls Kirch- 66.69, utilities 40.30. o guest at the Gastineau. hofer in Oregon. BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 17. — A bomb blast which shattered win- dows in an entire block of the central business district marked the end today of industry's three-day lockout, staged as a protest against government decrees granting year end bonuses and wage increases to workers. Just as bars and night clubs gan to reopen after the midnight end of the closure, the bomb-its origin unknown as yet— exploded in a doorway of the five-story commodity exchange, which was guarded by two armed policemen be- The funeral service of James York, oldtime resident of Juneau who died Saturday, Jan. 12, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Chapel of the Charles W, Carter Mortuary. |tian Islands in 1942. | Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, “The demobilization of armed|who appointed the meat panel, said forces has withdrawn all Naval it would meet later today with rep- Seabee prospecting and test-drill- |resentatives of the 263,000 CIO and ing parties from Naval Reserve No. AFL meat workers on strike and the 4, northeast of Nome, Bartlett said.|packing companies involved. The The work is now being performed |Labor Secretary will also participate under negotiated Naval contract by |in the meeting. a private firm, the Hoover, Cur s| Earller today the House Labor and Ruby Company of New York Committee agreed (o act before next City. Tuesday on the fact-finding bill “The company, erecting quarters|which would prohibit strikes during for its crews, is doing the only 'a 30-day period and give investiga- drilling in the vast Point Barrow tcrs access to company records. area comprising the reserve of 35, 000 square miles and a quality of | Idle Boosted oil which, even when it oozes in| The agreement was announced as lakes from the ground, tests high- 8overnment officials strove to head er than that from any other field 01 @ threatened strike of 800,000 in the world, Bartlett said |next Monday: and find & voad to “The Delegate announced he is ar- | Settiement of a strike of 263,000 in ranging a serfes of meetings with |t1€ meat packing industry —a walk- War and Navy Department officers | %" that /boosted the number of to determine why the prewar policy ; $**ike-idle in the nation to 886,000. of inaction has been resumed. | The House committee decision “Just as parties of Japanese offi- came after it refused by a 7 to 7 | cials were condugted all over Alas- |Ule vets to approve a moditied ver- ka and to the oil field in particu. Sion of suchide ARt et lar before the war, so have Russian| In the Senate, Eastland officers and airplane ground crews | (D-Miss) presented a motion for bad the run of Alaska since thy Speedy floor action on the faet- war started, Bartlett said. (finding bill, but no action can be “But no American has inspected t2k2n on it until the next Senate the military construction work un- Scssion. The Senate Labor Commit~ doubtedly going on in Siberia, just |tce is conducting hearings now. across the Bering Strait. { Wage Arbitre | “The Delegate said that when he| Mennwhfl:”fl:ex a;lannwr‘” takes his complaint to the War and ;a4 of the CIO llitm:lml vortm' Navy Departments he will ‘“bm"’whose 200,000 memkers struck "m_' general recommendations for M”"'is( General Electric, Westinghouse west, (kan fortification, naval base, air- a v and General Motors *Tuesday, of- field and road development part.l-:;f.;,cd ?0 aut‘:llnft the wage d:;{lteow Barrow oil field, bigger than most: g, made the offer before the Sen- | European countries in its pmz‘mlnl“,,ul Labor Committee, where he ap- | produging expanse.” |peared as a witness on President | rof fact-finding boards in labor dis- HOSPITAL STE =< { ‘The CIO United Auto Workers and i BEFORE (ou“(ll 'hour apart on thelr wage dispute, | failed to agree at another bargaining IoMoRRow EVE session today and will meet again | e | Seizure Urged City Council meeting coming up to-/ i Truman toda order morrow evening, Mayor Ernest Par- :?sz';‘xffie;iikeboun: mklfle':. truck sons today stated that he expects the‘ilnes’as conferences were called of the Juneau area as a location . head for the proposed new Native Servicc-g[“‘" :"t:’:;:::::"::mml:; :nh: steel Tuberculosis sanatorium, | » a communication has been recelved'wgnb:r:l u;,r::kt:n"ed :;:tk Bm; from Delegate E. L. Bartlett regard- | promised to sibmit bis ows propasal ing dredging of Gastineau @hannel; | that, however, will require no Coun- | ol aation |ed to reach agreement over the and Malcolm, architects, are expect-‘le:'cem'mmnmiefflm Char- ed to submit preliminary plams of | . x . inquire into the steel dispute would Council approval. | A miscellany of other matters is call on My, I IeSEE ooy ks it | Meat supplies on hand, already S"HMER MOVEME“'S | deploted by lower receipts the past |strike of 263,000 packing house em- { ! ployees entered its second day. A Seattle, due sometime tomorrow. | AlaSka, southbound from Sitka, due, WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—Steel | wage negotiations between CIO Pres- Taku scheduled to sail from Seattle jdent Murray and Benjamin F. Pair- today. less, President of U. 8. Steel Corp., |from Seattle Saturday. - | President Truman promutly of- Princess Norah scheduled to sail fered a compromise proposal which Tongass scheduled to sall from!visement for a deciston by tomorrow Seattle January 25. noon. bound, due January 23. |his office at 4 p. m. (EST), Press PR | Sccretary Charles G. Ross told re- terson said today it was newunry}porced they were “still in disagree- to slow down the October-Decem- mont.” States would have had no Army at . to reporters: al by June 1. Patterson at a press. “Mr. Murray and Mr. Fairless conference stated that nearly 3,-|came back at 2 p. m. to renew the the last three months of 1945 and, asked to come into the President's had the rate been maintained, theoffice and did.” ¢ American Army would have been' “They reported they were still in cularly in relation to the Point , pirration. . Truman's proposal for establishment |Ford Motor Company, two cents an LOMOITOW. With the second regular January Thirteen midwestern Senators urg- Council men to delve into mm"‘wnmnswn in an affort to settle In addition, the Mayor said that| MUstry: |if principals in the controversy fail- As & third item of business, Foss|15U°: : the projected new Fire Hall, for membery nA] 1 S hos also on the Council docket. fto discuas tha Aigen MR, |several days, dropped lower as the Freighter Margaret Shafer, from Negotiations Coilapsed Saturday afternoon or evening. North Sea scheduled to sail collapsed today at the White House. from Vancouver January 22. | Murray and Fairless took under ad- Baranof, from the south- The President called the two into MANILA—Secretary of War Pat- porters, and Murray and Fairless re- ber rate of discharge or the United| Ross gave the following statement 500,000 men had been demobilized negotiations” At 4 p. m. they were only a memory. disagreemont.”