The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” YHE Urpapy 5 = VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,179 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1946 PRICE TEN CENTS MEAT PACKIN Old Pioneering Days in Alaska No More;Wouldbe | Pioneers Are Given Facls THOUSANDS OF | WILD FOWL “ " MANY LOSE LIVES . LOST BY WAR Unknown Quanfities of Whales Also Report- “ ed Perished WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The In- terior Department reported today that “thousands of . auks, murres, puffins, sea gulls and cusk” perished during the war along with “unknown quantities of whales.” The auks, murres, etc, were vic- tims of oil on the sea “which pene- trates the feathers and ruins them as waterproof coverings.” means they sank.) The whales were said to “have been killed in the course of subma- rine warfare.” And t':2 whale is, the Department reminded, “the most valuable animal in existence.” The report on wildlife casualties was published in the annual ac- counting of the work done by var- ious agencies in the Department headed by Harold L. Ickes. IN SUNDAY FIRES (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Twenty-four persons lost their lives in weekend fires throughout vhe nativn. Kans: City had the most ser- /pus, witih 10 persons killed and at least four* hurt in an apartment ! house fire. Six of the dead were! cimldren. Four died and 14 were injured a hote! fire at St. Louis. T In New York, three lives wers 105t and one person was injured . when a lower east side tencment hurned. A residential fire in Har- | lem also took the life of a four- | montias-vid ‘Negro baby. Three men died of suffocation at | owhegan, Me, when fire con-| »@med the oxygen in a cabin in which they were sleeping. The | blaze, believed started by a Cigm'_i te, haC burned itself out when firemen teached the scene. | ‘Two other sutiocation deaths re- | s@lced in a Chicago apartment! otel fire and one person was in- Jured. The victims were women. At Monroe, La., flames sweepmg! tproigh part of a small hotel kill- efl cne and injured six. { §Biazes at three other places left heavy property damage with sever- ¥ reported hurt. | mn e ‘During early coast to coast air flights farmers along the route were listed to build bonfires to guide; lots in their first night flights. ' _'i'he W;?m;g fon, Merry - Go- Round! [} By DRFW PEARSON | WASHINGTON — Worst hell-hole in the Pacific is Okinawa. Key stepping stone in the conquest of Japan, Okinawa was bad during the war. G.L's who have served! there five months since say that| today it isn’t much better. One; thousand troéps jampacked on thel island get in‘each other’s way, have little recreation, poor food, are terribly home-sick. Il As long as Tokyo is occupied by the Ameriean Army, Okinawa lacKs militaly value. Peghaps recognizing this. perhaps also realizing crowd- | ed conditions on the Pacific's chief hell-hole Gen. W. D. Styer, over- all commander of AFWESPAC | (Armed Forces West Pacific) in Manila, sent a radiogram to OBA- §COM (Okinawa Base Command), Briy. Gen. Lawrence A.'Lawson‘[ commander, stating that shippingi as available to speed up Okinawa emnobilization and might “effect | reduction to 1 July troop strength pv end of February.” In other words, home-sici men scheuvleC to remain at Okinawa ! until July 1 would get the welcome | ponanza of leaving by March 1.{ ‘Twelve ships were available to move trcops out of Okinawa. 1he radiogram reached General Lawson on Christmas Day, at a ‘pne when G.I's’ were thinking| et about home. General Lawson, Jowcver, radioed General Styer mail | (That | § | iself wrote to his sweetheart { United States. \nat he did not need the ships ————t— (Continued on Page Four) ¥ JAP-KILLING YANK T0 DIE - Pivate First Class Joseph F. Hicswa killed o couple of Japs after war’s end and has been sen- tenced to death by court martial in Tokyo, J. Army authorities mude the identification of this picture, but failed to say whether the sentence had been passed upon by review- ing agencies. Hicswa’s parents live in Wallingten, N. J. He was con- victed of the unprovoked fatal 1 stabbing of two Japs in a park in the town of Nara on the eve of his return to the United States. It was_the first such penalty im- posed upon an American soldier of the Army of Occupatien for committing a crime against Japs. Protests from all over the country have poured into the War Depart- ment following the death sentence by the court martial. Buddies of ithe condemned private have come been for years — MacKinnon Apart- | lout boldly protesting that he is ments. the lad him- that innocent, and even he did not stab the Japs. General Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters in Tokyo has announ- ced that Major General Arthur Har- per, commanding the 98th Infantry Division, has the power to approve or commute the death sentence of the New Jersey GI. Gen. Harper now is reviewing the trial record of Hiecswa, who is a member of the 98th Division headquartesr com- SEVEN- YEAR-OLD GIRL IS SLASHED; SUSPECT ARRESTED DETROIT, Jan. 28.—Seven-year- old Rosalie Giganti was found in a ditch last night, her throat slash- ed from ear to ear, and police a short time later took into custody the part owner of a nearby grocery. Dr. Paul Finer of Receiving Hos- pital said the child had “probably” been raped, and that her condition is “critical.” The man held for questioning was described by Police Inspector Char- les Searle as a 29-year-old Army physical rejectee whose grocery store is in a two-story building a few feet from where the girl was found. Hi,Daddyl Here We (ome [ LONDON, Jan. 28—Six hundred and thirty-nine GI wives and 306 children jammed Waterloo station Sunday as they prepared to embark for hubbies and daddies in the Not sifice the days of the evacuation of children dur- ing the early stages of the war had there been so many children in the station which had beern turn- ed into a mammoth nursery. On Saturday 453 GI wives and 173 on the Argentina. i |ters then were content to eke out a: according to advices | received by his family in Lodi, N. | BY ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Every month some 1,000 people who yearn |to pioneer write Harold Ickes' De- | partment of the Interior to say they | woud like to move to Alaska And in case you, too, have dream- {ed of turning a wilderness into | tidy little farm, here’s a quick tip |from M. W. Goding, who looks af- ter Ickes' Alaska mail. | “Look before you leap. If you must leap, leap with at least $3,000 |in cash.” | Not that Goding isn't enthusias- tic about Alaska. He's an old Skag- | way boy himself “Great country, wonderful oppor- | tunities,” he avers. | But Goding says people don't un- derstand that pioneering has chang- ed. There was a time when a sharp |axe and a strong back were the chief requirements. Sturdy charac- | subsistence living. [ But now — well, eking isn’t fash- ionable any more. “They figure they need a radio,” Goding told a reporter. “And of course they can use a car. A car; means roads will have to be built.; See how it goes?” Free land, Goding said, is the bait. But he warns that much of the land must be cleared. Modern |‘Whether This s True or Not a i | | iYalta for permanent po: KURILES GO, T0 RUSSIANS SAYS MOSCOW Soviets There “"Bag : and Baggage” LONDON, Jan. 28.—The Moscow radio said Saturday night that the { United States and Great Britain promised Russia the Kurile Islands of Northern Japan under the terms of the Yalta agrcement. OFFICIAL REPORT K WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Acting | Secretary of State Dean Acheson ! said at his news conference last reached at the Yalta meeting of | the big three for Soviet uc(,upuuun\ of the Kurile Islands. Even earlier Gov nment offi- | and their families “bag and bag- gage” apparently for a long stay, in the islands which streich fan- wise across the Okhotsk Sea There has, however, been on in- | dication from American officials | that agreement was reached at; ssion by : pioneering calls for a bulldozer to do the job — at $90 to $120 an| acre. i Some of the land is plain no ac-| count, he added. And much of it is miles from any form of transpor- | tation i Of course, there are business op-: portunities, even though Alaska, for | all its vastness, still has less than| 1€0,000 population. * | But Goding advises caution here, too. For example, the map may! show a promising cluster of com-| munities. Actually they may con- tain only a smattering of people. An an illustration, he pointed to Parks, Alaska. hat’s where (seorge Parks’ lives — by himself.” i 2 Residence - Juneau | Just for instance that Goding reads this — George A. Parks is: still a resident of Juneau, as he h: > HOMMA TWISTS - HANDS AT TRIAL! Surrender Negotiations of | Wainwright Coldly | . Received ! ! MANILA, Jan. 28—A defense| withness for Lt. Gen. Masaharu} Homma testified today that Gen.! Jonathan Wainwright's surrender negotiations in 1942 were received coldly by the Japanese because “the | American commander tried to deny | he could order troops in the south- | ‘ern Philippines to capitulate.” Lt. Gen. 8akeji Wachi, Homma's | chief of staff during the battles for Bataan and Corregidor, told the U. S. military commission . trying Homma that he advised the Japa- | nes2 commander to “postpone” the surrender negotiations “until Wain- wright made up his mind.” The witness testified that high’; ranking officers from Imperial head- | quarters were frequent visitors to Hoemma's headquarters and advised | Homma to “take stern measures| against anti-Japanese elements in the Philippines. Homma is charg- ed with responsibility for atrocities in the Philippines. | Durng Wachi's testimony, Homma | twisted his hands incessantly. { -oe - | ;Ador, Sodialife Wedded in Fast! NYACK, Aherne and Mrs. Eleanor De Liagre Labrot, New York socialite, were married here yesterday at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred De Liagre, Sr. Aherne was divorced from actress Joan Fontaine in 1944 after five Catholic Archbishop | ;imo Franco of Spain)." | the Jan. 28.—Actor Brian | Russia of the Kuriles, which the! Japanese used as a springboard T early in the war for their assault upon the Aleutians. | But the agreement for Russian cccupation, in itself, would give the ! 6,000 RAF Soviet Government a powerful | irst stake” claim for their re- pERSONNEL tentio; regardless of whether a definite commitment was, made at Yalta. : - i + ON STRIKE NEW DELHI, Jan. 28.—Approxi- i mately 6,000 RAF personnel, in- | cluding about 1,000 Indians, we Speliman Atfacked {reported today ve halted work By Soviet Paper v’ i Siins i G | biggest RAF maintenance center 'in India, to emphasize “we want MOSCOW. Jal_m 26.—Isvestia, m'-‘ to go home” demands. gan of the Soviet government, de-' Tne strike began Saturd: clared in an article published Ves- | representatives of the strik terday that Archbishop Francis ‘J"yvm*rdny and offered to Spellman, cardinal-designate, Wwas' wone for 10 days if they were sat- waging active Vatican politics 1N jsrieq that full publicity had been America | given in the United Kingdom to The article, written by D. Petrov, demands formulated ecarlier at scussing the appointment of 32 Mauripur, near Karachi cardinals by Pope Pius XIL ! -These demands included a speed- id the Vatican’s naming of four up in demobilization, trebling of new cardinals for the United States, shipping allocations for repatria- and one each for England, Oanada|tion, more information on sailing and Australia, indicated the Catho-|dates and greater use of Naval lic church was trying to erength(‘n’s)“pmn& its influence in “the Anglo-Saxon| Twelve hundred RAF men were countries.” | reported earlier to have gone on Singling out Archbishop Spellmangirike at Calcutta’s dumdum air- and Bernard Griffin, Archbishops or‘t field. Westminister, England, the article} said Spellman “by all means de-! fended the Vatican when the! pRl(ES IN jApAN ARE Vatican, one year after the treach-| erous attack of Japan on Pearl Har-l bor and despite the many criminal ! S Kvno ( K EIING AS | "SALARIES" BOOSTED i | able received the Japanese ambassa- dor.” Spellman, the article added, was {rying to “arouse the Amencang TOKYO, Jan. 28—Prices of inod, people o Acoue WERIEQ. Lenatalss | clothing and virtually everything |else are spiraling upward in Ja- i g L 1 ‘pan—both on legitimate and black zo M AR“" SK'"S ;,mm-keu—nnd, to keep pace, v{ork- {ers are demanding and receiving ARE (o"f“uliin | boosts in living allowances. Latest wage settlement in Tokyo l“ 'I'RAPP'“G (ASE‘flnd the vicinity is the five-fold {the Kanto Electric Supply Com- A fine of $100 and confiscation | pany aftef an 11-day strike. of 20 marten pelts illegally taken|! Under the Japanesc system total within the boundaries of Glacier | income, not basic salary, is the Bay National Monument made up|important factor. That is so be- severe dose handed trapper |cause workers get family allowanc- Mike Hammer, of Yakutat, in U. S.ics for wives and children, depend- Commissioner’s Court here this|ents’ allowances for pavents, sisters morning. Hammer was accused, by | and brothers, price allowances to wildlife Agent J. H. Likins, of | cope with inflated retail charges, trapping within the refuge over a|an allowance for non-absence from month’s period, from December 16, work, and finally an annual bonus. 1945 to January 15, 1946, Hammer | pleaded guilty to the charge before R e Commissioner Felix Gray. Prefldem Going 28.—Presi- SYRACUSE, Kans., Jan. 28.—Auc- | de1.t Truman will leave Washing- tioneer W. H. Straney has a hoarse|ton Feb. 11 by plane to spend a throat today. ! ‘The reason: | At 1 p. m. Friday he started a acts of Japanese imperialism, favor- White House announces. e President will take off in the the years of marriage. The bride and | babies sailed for the United States her first husband, William Henry |which lasted until 7:30 a. m. Sun- Labrot, were divorced in 1940, will receive an honorary degree of day. doctor of humanities the same day. l ATROCITY TRIALS OPEN IN | increase granted to employees of | livestock sale at Elkhart, finishing roining and go first to Orlando, at 2:30 a. m. Saturday. At 1 p. m,‘Fla, then drive to Winter Park, the Tribune, he found a full page saturday he opened another sale scat of Rollins College, where he ad, paid for by Brewster residents,’ Elwood McClain, of the First Na- derson as the perfect customer. He is a passenger for took out a book a week for 50 years | GERMAN ATROCITY TRIALS have opened in Leningrad, Russia, where the prisoner | week that agreement had been | STEMes committed in the Leningrad region. The courtroom is in the Vyborg House of Culture. Judges are scated in front of the slatue of Lenin. Prisoners' dock is at right Sowict lawyers who are defending the prisoner By Noland Norgaard NUERNBERG, Jan. 28. — Jews marked for extermination at the Oswiceim (Auschwitz) concentra- tion camp arrived in such numbers that German guards did not even trouble to count the thousands whom they sorted out on the rail- voad platforms and marched direct. ly to the.gas.chambers; the Inter- national Military Tribunal was told today. Mme. Marie Claude Vaillant- Couturier, slender 33-year-old French widow, Communist member of France's Constituent Assembly, told the war crimes court in graph- ic detail of her two and a half years in Nazi concentration camps, an account which held even the defendants spellbound. “One night,” she testified, “we were awakened by horrible cries. The next morning we learned from men working in the gas chamber that they had run out of gas and had hurled children alive into the furnaces.” From the cell block where she was housed, she said, she could atch the trains arriving at Ausch- 2 station. When a convoy of Jewish wo- men arrived, older women, mothers and those who were weak or sick were sorted out and taken immed- lately to bg gassed,” she testified “Women 20 to 30 years old were sent to experimental blocks,” she continued, explaining that in those buildings Nazi dcetors toyed with experiments intended to devise a swift, sure means of sterilization. On some occasions a neatly at- tired women's orchestra would play gay selections from “The Merry Widow"” or “The Barcarole” on the railway platform as the trains ar rived, the witness said. IRANPROTESTS TO " UNO AREIN DOUBT ! (BY JOMN M. HIGHTOWER) LONDON, Jan. 28-~The status of Iran's protests against the So- {viet Union remained in doubt to- day as the United Nations Security Council prepared to go into session at 3 pm. to considér charges of Russian interference in Iranian af- fairs. Although speculation increased that the Iranian delegation might ask the council to shelve or drop the accusations, the delegates still has received no instruetions to that |effect from Iran's new premier, Ahmed Qavax Es Saltanch, who is known to be friendly to the Rus- sians. EDITOR'S DREAM ! BREWSTER, Minn., Jan. 28—Clin- LENINGRAD, RUSSIA face charges of To the left of the dock are the (International Radiophoto) whpdt ot Horrible Torfure Defails 9 BURNED . Of Jewish Pecple Related; TO DEATH Men Gassed;Women foyed INHANGAR Thiriy-eighf»(itfiers Injured When Flames Sweep Tinker Field OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. Nine persons were burned to death and 38 ethers were injured today when flames swept the main hangar |of Tinker Field. The bodies of the eight persons { | i { G WORKERS BACK ON JOBS LIVESTOCK RECEIPTS REPORTED | Supplies A;fidoving To- ward Chief Cenfers as Men Back at Work (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Sharply Increased livestocik re- ceipts at most principal markets and a return to work of “apparent- ly all” 248,000 striking meat workers gave promise today that normal meat supplies woud be quickly re- stored. A Government gpokesman at Chi- cago sald production was under way in the government seized meat plants, with the striking CIO and AFL meat workers back on the job. Farmers, who had held back much of their livestock during the strike, began shipping in quantity again. Receipts of cattle at principal mar- kets today totaled 92,100 compared with 43,100 a week ago; sheep, 42,400 against 8200 and hogs, 136,000 com- pared with 3,045. Truck Strike Meanwhile, efforts were resumed in Washington to end a truck strike which has tied up shipments in the midwest since Nov. 15. Senator Young, (R-N) arranged a meeting of Senators with representatives of the AFL - Central = States Drivers Council and the Midwest Truck Op- erators Association. The drivers are seeking higher mileage rates. In Washington, Harold C. Havig- hurst, * professor of labor law at Northwestern University, told the 28— senate labor committee that enact- ment of any “I jtion” at this time would “bring us to the verge of a civil war."” Steel Strike A high government offirial pre- were removed from the smoldering | o, b i s gafoingit work%'dms the steel sl.lrlke will end “with- d ' i 1in a week or so0." men had cleared away some of the debris. ' Identification was not possible im- This official said a “settlement bloc” within the steel industry has gained the ascendance over those mediately. Al eight of the bodies|who prefer to “fight it out” with were burned beyond recognition, Firemen continued to dig into the! wreckage, loss of life. Intense heat generated by the “flash” fire which swept the hangar kept firemen from searching for rocsible fatalities until several hours after the blaze ended. The flames were fed by gasoline, A B GRIGSBY FILES FOR DELEGATE; COLE WILL RUN Auditor of Alaska Frank Boyle to- day received the filings of two more Ripublican candidates entering the lists of the April Territorial Primar- George B. Grigsby, Anchorage, and formerly Juneau attorney, for Lelegate to Congress, and Cash Cole, of Juneau, former Territorial Treas- urer, whose new candidacy for that office was handed in by Jack Wil- son. Albert White, GOP chief, com- mented on the candidacy of Mr. | Grigsby by welcoming back into Re- publican ranks all one-time Demo- crats and Independents. Making Inspecion ~ For UN_O:US Office NEW YORK, Jan. 26—Members of the United Nations site inspec- tion committee planned another look today at Hyde Park and Kingston, N. Y., as possibllities for “The Cap- ital of the World.” The re-examination of these areas was prompted by what Dr. Stoyan Gavrilovic, the committee chairman, said was a new offer of 15 acres on the Kingston side of the Hudson River and 25 on the Hyde Park side fearing greater I | i i 750,000 striking CIO steelworkers. ‘Thus another flip was given to- day to a wave of optimism engen- dered by Ford and Chrysler wage settlements, resumption of meat packing under government control and railroad arbitration agree- ments. 1,400,000 Idle However, around 1,400,000 workers continued idle in labor, disputes, not counting returning meat industry workers, ‘The Washington official, who is closely concerned with administra- tion labor policy but cannot be identified, said his forecast of a quick end to the steel strike was based only in part on the trend {shown in the automotive agree- ments. He added there are signs within the steel industry itself that settlement advocates are gaining the upper hand. LAY LN STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 28-—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 100':, American Power and Light 19%, Anaconda 49; Commonwealth and Southern 4%, Curtiss-Wright 10%, International Harvester 96%, Jones-Laughlin Steel 49%, Kenne- cott 55%, New York Central 34%, Northern Pacific 35%, U. 8. Steel 192, Pound $4.03'% Sales today were 3,480,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Jndustrials 204.62, rails 67.83, utilities 40.59. PRICES SATURDAY Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock last Saturday was 9%, American Can 99's, American Power and Light 19%, Anaconda 48, Commonwealth and Southern 4, Curtiss Wright 9%, International Harvester 94, Jones-Laughlin Steel 47%, Kennecott 54'%, New York Central 33%, Northern Pacific 33%, to supplement the late President|United Corporation 6%, U. 8. Stee! {88%, Pound $4.03%. Roosevelt's estate. Th: committee expects to return to London next Sunday. R GOES SOUTH GROSS | W. D. Gross and son Daniel are ly Brewster 'rrlbuge, was ill for Norah enroute to Los Angeles. several days. (with this message: “Get well quick, Mr, Editor.” . When he read the latest issue of - - MecCLAIN GOES SOUTH tional Bank, | { | | 1 “orif” vacation in Florida waters, 'ton Wilcox, publisher of the week- Passengers south on the Princess | i | Sales Saturday were 920,000 shares, ™ Dow, Jones averages Saturday were as follows: industrials 199.85, rails 6741, utilities 40.99. PERFECT RECORD CHICAGO — The Chicago Public Library nominates George F. An- " Seattle abdaxd the Princess Norah. and never had cne overdue.