The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1946, Page 1

v . alship, YHE LIBRARY of CONGP phod L RE( HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIJIIJ" VOL. LXVI., NO. 10,175 JU\EAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JA'\TU/\R\ 23, ]946 ME Mm R ASSOCIATED PRESS =1 PRICE TEN CENTS WILL SEIZE MEAT PLANTY ON SATURDAY SHORT GIVES NEW LIGHT ON PREWAR DOPE Army Intelligence Heads' Lacked Information on Jap Sirength WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Maj | Gen. Walter C. Short today gave Congressional investigators evidence which he said showed that two days: before Pearl Harbor the Chief of Army Intelligence did not believe an open split with Japan was near. | The 1941 Chief of Intelligence was | Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles. Short, Army commander at Pearl| Harbor when the Japanese struck; Dec. 7, 1941, read into the record of the Senate-House inquiry this message which he said Miles sent to | Panama cn Dec. 5, 1941: “United States-Japanese relations strained. Will inform you if and; when severance of diplomatic rela- SUMNER WELLES’ SON MARRIES | ) i i | ! minute meeting | ers MAJ. BENJAMIN WELLES, son of Sumner Welles, former U. S. under~ ry of state, puts the wedding ring on ge ceremony in London. Cynthia Aitken, during mar; cently divorced from Max Aitker tions are imminent.” The message caused a stir among members of the Senate-House ime%— tigating committee. Senator Lucas (D-I11.) told reporters he thought it | was “one of 1hc most important de-| velcpments yet.” i Message Issue 1 Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) said it was important in the inquiry to| have messages Washington sent to| other places than Hawaii. He said| the message in question would have| been most important in the cross- examination of Miles, who has been a witness Short also handed another new- until-now document to the commll- tee. It was an extract from Lesumnny by Maj. Gen. Hayes A. Kroner, 1941 Chief of Inlelhgeme branch un- 4 /Crmmzwd on Page Two) { > MORE JAP §USPECTS ARRESTED is bride, the former She S re- on of Lord Beaverbrook, the pub- | (International) Poisoned Hushand To Make Him Think She Still Loved Him LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23. — A voung housewife and her mother collapsed after they had heard read into the record at an inquest y terday the wife's alleged confession that she had placed ant poison in Gen MacArthur Renews er nusvana's cottee, intending to Drive on War Criminals | —Orders Are Issued TOKYO, Jan. 23—General Mac- ! Arthur today ordered the arrest of 48 STEAMER MOVEMENTS North Sea, from Semtle. sched- uled to arrive at 3 o'clock tomorrow | morning enroute to Sitka. May re- main in port until late p.m. tomor- | row. Princess Norah, from Vancouver, | scheduled to arrive Friday evening.| Tongass scheduled to sail from: Seattle Friday. i Alaska scheduled to sail Irom» Seattle Jan. 29, calling at Kelchx-v kan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, ! Sitka, Woman’s Bay, then to Port Williams, Sitkd and Juneau south- bound. Northern Voyager scheduled to sail from Seattle, Jan. 31. Baranof, from the west, south-i bound, scheduled to arrive Satur-} day. - The Washington! Merry - Go-Round By DRFW PhA.HSON WASHINGTON—A very peculiar thing has happened to Bob Hanne- gan, the man who more than any | other single person is responsible for putting Truman where he is today. The longer Hannegan stays in Washington, the more prestige and respect he commands—every- where except around the White House. A lot of people who thought Hannegan was just a hack St.! Louis politician have now changed' their minds. He has grown on them. They have watched him fight vigorous back-stage battles and he has always been on the right side. He is honest, fearless,! and usually right. | But while everyone expected | Hannegan to become the No. 1 strong man of the Truman Ad-| ministration, inside fact right now | is that he is havipg a hard time trying to retain any real voice in White House policy decisions. | There are two reasons for this. 1. Hannegan made the mistake | of accepting the Postmaster Gener-! which means long, hard | hours and a mass of detailed work, | which, coupled with his chairman- | ship of the Democratic National | Committee, makes him about the pusiest man in Washington. 2. Hannegan has become Tru- man’s No. 1 “No-man,” and a “No- | man” is never popular. Every Pres-! jdent is inclined to get surrounded _— - (Continued on Page Four) {the Nipponese 3 |three Lieutenant Generals. more Japanese war criminal sus- pects and, in a renewed drive against milit included Ordered to report at Sugamo pris- on “at the earliest practicable date” were Lt. Gen. Yuichiro Nagano, commander of the Osamu hrmy groups in Batavia in June and July, 1945; Lt. Gen. Fusatra Teshima, who commanded the second army, and Lt. Gen. Seichi Yamada, commander of the fifth division. The remainder of the suspects were military of lesser rank and civ- ilians, including & number of guards at prisoner of war camps S eee DISCARDED ARMY PLANES ARE SOLD, SPAIN, ARGENTINA WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. — At least 13 planes discarded by United States Army have been i allocated to airlines of Spain and the | Argentina, whose governments. have | been criticised sharply in official | American pronouncements. | men Eight twin-engined C-47 trans-! port planes have been delivered or| carmarked for Spain. | charge, Five four-engined C-54 transports April 2. went to a commercial airline of | Argentina. Government officials who disclos- ' for led those facts added it was unllkel\' for Iberian defunct future to Spain ment— inated This airline virtually at | present because of a lack of plmm% i pected to make an additional 14,- and aircraft parts. In ‘addition to the the State Department also has ap-| proved other sales of nearly $300,- 000 worth of airport equipment to | Spain. % ey T e e NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, American Can 89%, American Power and Light 19%, Anaconda 477%, Common- wealth and Southern 37%, Inter- national Harvester 94%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, Jones-Laughlin Steel 47z, Kennecott 53%, New York Central 34, Northern Pacific 34%;, U. S. Steel 89 Pound $4.03 | United Corporation 6. Sales today were 2,040,000 shares.| past week: From Harold Brown to “not | tors. Point scores for WAVES and | that more surplus Ax,my nu ‘plaues would be sold in the near pxe\mual) announced March 2 lev- | its govern-'els until April 2, when they will Airline. | eight planes, | (make him il so" she’ might “prove {her love by nursing him back to ealth Mr.‘» Virginia McIlhinney, 28, held without bail teday on charge of murdeying her husband, Everett, 28, recently returned war veteran who died Dec. 30 at the Sawtelle Veterans' Hospital She collapsed when her confession was made part inquest record, as did her Mrs. Estella Brisco. wanted to prove to him I did him while he was said | e reputed confession. . It was 1t poison in-a bottle. . . . I know it wasn’t much niore than a, poonful each time, if that much. I thought he was going to leave me.” alleged of the mother, NAVY POINTS | AREREDUCED i | i ‘Nearly 200,000 Men and, " Women Eligible for Re- | | lease, 710 10 Weeks | : l WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—An ad- | ditional 191,100 Navy men and wo- will be eligible for release seven to ten weeks hence through further cuts in point scores for dis- effective March 15 z\udi In general, the reductions will be |at the rate of one point each date male personnel, including doce- : es generally will continue at. irop one point. The new minimum scores—ex- 1700 officers and 176,400 enlisted men and women eligible for dis- ' charge—for the major classes af- | | fected : Enlisted men—March 2, 32 points; | March 15, 317 April 2, 30. Male officers — March 2, March 15, 38; April 2, 37. Enlisted Women—March 2, March 15, 21; April 2, 20. Women officers — Maich 2, March 15, 27; Aptil 2, 26. Male doctors—March March 15, 48; April 2, 47. Nurses—March 2, 27; March 217; April 2, 26. PROPERTY DEAL 2, x ® 7 One recent lr;ns(er of property iias been recorded here during the FIVE POWERS | vided | the IN DEADLOCK LONDONMEET Can't Agree on Selection of $20,000-a-Year Sec- tary General (BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER) LONDON, Jan. 23.—The top men of the five principal powers in the United Nations met secretly in the office of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes tod and were reported {o have failed again to agree on a candidate for Secretary General of {the new Security Organization | The negative resulc of the 90-1 led some officials to express fear that the five pow= were drifting toward a dead-| lock on the question, made mo: wcute by charges of political inter- | ference made by Iran against Rus= sia and by Russia against the Bri- | ush in Greece and Indonesia ! American officials had hoped to | make swift progress on the situa-| tion today, both at the five-power | meeting and a later informal ses-!| sion of representatives of all 11 Security Council members, so the| new peace organization could be-; gin building its permanent staff. | The five powers have to agree in | crder for the full council to noms= inate a man whom the 51-member issembly may accept or re- Two Candidates The United Stats is reported | backing Lester Pearson, Canadian Ambassador to Washington, for the $20,000 year post. Russia has | Been advoeating the candidacy of Trygve Lie, Foreign Minister 011 Norway The meeling, at ’Vhyf’lu Hotx was the first such session that hn.\ "been attended by Adrei Vishinsky, Vice Commissar of Foreign and Chief Russian Dele-| gate, since the beginning of th(‘ UNO conference. Vishinsky arriv-i ed in London yesterday. | Others at the meeting in addi-, o iy i ((‘unlmued on Pat/e | Soviet Affairs ONCEPOWERFUL |, GERMAN FLEET IS DIVIDED UP: United States, Britain and | Russia Get Fighting | Craft of Nazis LONDON, Jan. 23. — Remnants of the German fleet, once a power- ful factor in world affairs, have ! been divided among the victorious big three—Britain, Russia and the United States. “Operable surface units" of thz Nazi Navy, amountin, .o 1,759 ves- | sels, together with 30 submarines, | are being split up on a share and | share alike basis, a tri-power com- | munique says, | ‘The action leaves Germany v.n,h-: out the vestige of a combat fleet | A British source said the German merchant fleet also would be di-| up later, although fishing vessels will not be taken. Involved in the split-up were two cruisers, 30 destroyers and tor- | pedo boats, 48 torpedo ships and | 1,679 other units, including mine sweepers and harbor patrol hoats. \ All of Germany’s battleships were | | sunk during the war and the Bri- tish disclosed last night that 100 surrendered German U-boats were | scuttled last November. i Each nation, in addition to 10 submarines will receive: | United States — The 10,000-ton | cruiser Prinz Eugen, seven destroy- | ers and torpedo boats, 12 depot | i ships and 560 other units. i — The 6,000-ton cruis 10 destroyers and tor-| , 15 depot ships, and 507 Russia Nuernber pedo boa other umts. Britain—Thirteen destroyers and torpedo boats, 21 depot ships and 612 other units. Negotiations are under way on United Kingdom’s offer. to transfer to the French some of the units allotted to Britain, the Bri- tish announced. The decision to split up the Ger- Dow, Jones averages today are Donald J. House. Transferred is a|man Navy was reached at the; as follows: 65. 97, utilities 40.40. industrials 198.84, rails'portion of the Brown Homestead | | Potsdam at Auk Bay. conference, the com- mumque said. | culations of von Papan, COMMITTEE WELCOMED IN SEARCH FOR UNO SITE JUST OFF THEIR TRANSATLANTIC PLANE at New York, members of the inspection committee seeking a per- manent home for the United Nations Organization are welcomed by Grover Whalen in behalf of New York's Pictured are (1. to r.) Shuhsi Hsu of China, Georgii Saksin of U. 8. 8. R., Major Kenneth Mayor O'Dwyer onin 50VERNMENT TAKES STEP IN BIG STRIKE {AFL WorkerT State They [ Will Return-CI0 Ac- tion Is Not Known STRIKE OF RAILROAD WORKERS THREATENED Organizatic;; May Walk- out in Support of High- er Wage Demands (BY TIIE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The White House announced today the nation’s strike-bound meat pack- ing industry would be seized Satur- Younger, Great Britain; Mr. Whalen, Mrs. Gavrilovie and Stoyan Gavrilovic of Yugoslavia. (International) | Joe Flakne Given Good Job; Chief Alaska Branch Of ln!enor Deparlmeni UP TROL 'Boy Guides Planes To Safe Landing by {Using Flashlight UTICA, N. Y., Jan year-old boy with 23 a flagged five Royal Canadian Air-| safe emergenc snowstorm last force planes to a landing during a night, Russell Price, Jr., flying low and ran to & nearby field. There he used his three-cell flashlight large tree, main obstac ing, and successfully hips in. The pilots said they were part of v group of 10, flying Pt- Picten, Ont., to Miami, , and that darkness and snow forced hem to sgek land. Unable to con- tact Rome Army Airfield, 15 miles way, the planes were circling for heard planes to a land- guided jan emergency landing when Price lighted his tiny beacon e SELFISH ENDS OF VON PAPEN TOLD IN TRIAL Prosecution Claims Former Diplomat Was Polit- ical Opportunist NUERNBERG, Jan ~The Brit- ish prosecution told the internation- al military tribunal today Franz von' Papan sold Germany into the hands of the Nazis in a cold blooded effort to “futher his own diplomatic ca- reer. Outlining the story of the miscal- who blund- ered badly as head of the Ger- man spy and sabotage ring in the United States in the first World War, the prosecution described the elderly | diplomat as “not a typical Nazi, but tn unserupulous political oppm'um ist.” He is one of 22 on trial for crimes. Von Papan’s case was brought’ he- fore the tribunal in a last minute switch when presentation of evidence against Rudolf Hess was postponed because the attorney for the form- war lery No. 2 deputy fuehrer was unable to attend today’s session. B In the 14th Century, there were ~peclnl cramps rings supposed to ward off stomach cramps. rom his home | to spotiight a | the | s from WASHU\(.TON. Jan, 23—A long- time resident of Alaska has been appointed Chief of the Al Branch of the Interior De ment’s Division of Territories and Island Possesgions. He is Joseph T. Flakne, graduate of the University aska who has been in Territorial and Federal work relating to Al- aska since 1934. He recently w discharged from the Army after serving for more than a year in the | Headquarters of the Alaska partment. His jobs have inciuded: Alaskan Director of the U. 8. Employment service with headquarters in Ju- neau, and Alaskan Specialist of the {USES and the War Manpower Commission with headquarters in Seattle. " In announcing the appointment teday, Secretary Ickes said Flakne had traveled throughout the Terri- tor and had extensive know! of its fishing, mining, for transportation, labor and agricul- tufe problems. M. W. Goding, % has been Acting Chief of the Alaska Branch, will remain as Assistant Chief. 4 D 45, a 'Mining Convenfion To Cpen in Denver DENVER, Jan. 23.—United States Senators and metal mining experts | will discuss America's ore reserves, and the related questions of tar- iffs and intermational trade at the | Colorado Mining Association Con- vention opening tomorrow. Governors of 18 states have been vited to send representatives to participate in conferences, said Ro- bert B. Palmer, Association Secre- tary. Senators McCarran (D-Nev.) and O'Mahonty. (D-Wyo.) are on program, along with for tor D. Worth Clark of Rep. Engle (D-Calif.), daho and author of a bill to pay gold mine owners dam- ages fof losses arising from thc| NEW AIR SERVICE = wartime shutdown of -the mines. (cal Mines (Iosing Account Sleel Strike PIT’I‘SBURGH Jxm 23~ The three-day-old steel strike throughout the nation has caused the shutdown today of more than 45 coal mines in Pennsylvania and "Nest Virginia —the two leading coal ~states. of Al-| De- |« the' ner Sena- | producing SOVIET NEWS AGENCY STIRS ! White | Charles G. Ross announced the De- | partment of Agriculture “with the day but at the same time the threat of a possible national railroad tie- | up was dumped on the troubled labor seens. House Press aid of the War Department, if nec- <sery,” would seize the meat pack- ing plants apd operate them, Effect of the seizure is not known, mmcdlatcly A government official who declinzd to be quoted, said the seizure was being delayed three days in an effort to persuade 193,000 striking CIO meat workers to work for a Federal boss. Labor Depart- jment sources said the 70,000 striking AFL meat workers had agreed to ‘back to.wark under the. plan, Some ment packers in Chicago ex- |prl's§ed the belief new supplies would Crificism of | Mlllfary Com- mand in South Korea | Wrong Slant TOKYO, Jan. 23 spokesinan | at General MacArthur Head- quarters said today en rtion by | I'ass, official Soviet News Agency that the U. m Seuthern A 8. Military Command | Korea was inspiring | reactionary” protests against thel Moscow conference is part of “al definite program to discredit Gen- | cral MacArthur and force further changes in the pres occupation policies and command.” While Eouthern Korea is under direct command of Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, it is included in Mac- Arthur's command. The Russians, control Korea north of the 38th| parallel, i T assailed “the reactionary | press” of southern Ko for al- ledgedly carrying on an anti-S8o-! viet propaganda campaign and for ablacking the -decision reached at ! scow recently by the United | Britain and Russia to set five year trusteeship [m is known that orders have gone cut to all opposition Inrcos,. including the so-called party mem- | bers in Japan to do their utmos‘, to discredit MacArthur,” his spokes- | man said. ; “It is a deplorable condition | when some dissident press of Lhc‘ werld continues to incite and fo-| ment international mistrust. Now | more than ever every effort should ' ke bent toward understanding uud' agreement “It can be expected that continu- ing, critical attacks will flow from the left wing press of the United | States as well as from others out-) side the United States.” | | WITHOU T I'A( TS SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 23.—Lt. Gen. | (Cunllnud on Paae Eight) AN 20 PLANNED, PACIFIC \ SYDNEY, Jan. 23.—Harold Gatty jof Pan American World Airways said today weekly air service between San Francisco and Sydney should be operating within a few months. GM,W is in a party of 26 Pan American and civil aviation officials’ on a survey flight. He said the com-! pany plans ultin ithrice weekly service to Australia be moving on normal schedule with- in five days after operations are re- | sumed, if the CIO workers return, New Labor Threat The threat of a national railroad strike—unless settlement is reached ~came from the Brotherhoods of Railroad Trainmen and of Locomo- tive Engineers, in support of de- (mands for higher wages and better working conditions. The Trainmen |announced & strike vote would be taken at once. An order for seizure of the meat industry had besn hinted at by Washington sources for several days. In Washington, Ross said the ad- ministration still had no immediate !plans for further action in the steel strike. When asked whether there were any plans for Henry Kaiser to | be brought into the picture in an effort to settle the steel strike, he replied, “I know of no such plans.” Kaiser last week signed a contract with the steelworkers for his Cali- ferrila steel plant. The meat strike has made thous- ands of packing house workers idle | for eight days, Total idle throughout the country because of work stoppages remained {at approximately 1,622,000, near an all-time hlgh Aunol Gouln Are French Nominees For Presidency BULLETIN—Paris, Jan. 23.— The French Constituent As- sembly has elected 61 year-old Secialist Attorney Felix Geouin to succeed Gen. Charles De Gaulle as interim President of France. The three major part- ies agreed upon Gouin to head the ccalition French Govern- ment. PARIS, Jan. 23.—The Socialist | party proposed Vincent Auriol, min- ster of state in the De Gualle gov- nment, as its candidate for Presi- dent of the Constituent Assembly to- a few hours before the Assembly met to name a new interim presi- dent of France — probably Socialist Felix Gouin. The Socialists and Communists, (onv,rumng a substantial majority of the Assembly votes, already have in- dicated their approval of Gouin, President of the legislative body, as a candidate to succeed Gen. Charles De Gualle, who resigned as interim | president Sunday. D — RETURN TO PETERSBURG Mrs. L. R. McDonald and Mrs. been visiting in Juneau the past | Other mines are closed in Alabama.|via Honolulu, Canton Island, F‘Ul.\““’ days, coming here for the in- The total number of miners affect® ‘and Nel Caledonia with Lockheed, stallation ceremonies of the Em- ed by the work stoppage is estimat- Constellations spanning the Pacific "blem Club, returned to their homes ed at more than 14,000 {in 30 hours. by plane this morning. ely to operate Justin Lind of Petersburg who have”