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

7 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE = “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LiBKARY o CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR27 1946 o VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,202 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS , FEBRUARY 23, 1946 pr——————— ——— o —— —— JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL STRUNG UP- MUTINY OF INDIAN NAVY BROKEN UP | | | | \ | Over 200 Killed,ThousandE Wounded in Disorders | —Street Mobs Battled { By G. Milton Kelly BOMBAY, Feb. 23.—The British| announced breaking of the Royal‘ Indian Navy mutiny both ashore and afloat at Bombay today amid continuing civil disorders. As strikes developed here and in Caleutta, Mohandas K. Gandhi ap- | pealed to his countrymen to end' *this thoughtless orgy of violence.” Casualties in Bombay since the| beginning of the riots Thursday were estimated from city hospitals | reports to total 210 killed and mm‘c“ than 1,200 inured. Of these 75 civ- lians were killed and 250 injured today up to 4 p.m. (5:30 am. East- ern Standard Time) two constables | were killed and 50 policemen were wounded. | Street Mobs Battled { British troops and Indian police Lattled street mobs. “On the whole,” said a British rommunique issued in Bombay, “the sitnation shows improvement. To- day rioting occurred in some areas of the city and there has been ser- ! jous rioting in the mill area.” General Headquarters in New Delhi announced that the striking | Indian seamen, numbering almost 12,000, both in barricaded barracks | in Bombay and aboard scores of | small war vessels in the harbor had | (Continued on Page Eight) The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON i WASHINGTON—It isn't going to Yo announced, but President Tru- man has suggested that Secretary of State Byrnes take action regard- g a handful of men in the State Department, who, as a result of dis- closures 'in Canada, are suspected of being either in league with or very sympathetic to Soviet Russia. Secretary Byrnes, however, has| decided to move cautiously. There | will be no prosecutions as in Can- ada—at least for some time—but| one or two State Department of- ii6ials may be “dropped.” 1 There are two 1easons for making | no arrests in this country: H 1. American law does not permit| the - dtion. as in Canada,' |Donbass, another 24 were left ¥ W BEER HALL CANTE 0., Joseph P. N. Teague, Fort Worth, Tex., ( Brau. Munich. Germany, 16 ADRIFT IN WRECK OF VESSEL Sea Tragedy Takes Place South of Aleutians— Rescue Craft Qut KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb, 23.— Rescue vessels fought the stormy North Pacific today for the second time this month to save the people aboard a shattered ship — this time the Russian tanker Donbass in distress south of the Aleutians. A second Russian tanker, dentified, removed 23 persons, in cluding five women, from the wal lowing after section of the broken on board to aid in efforts to tow the settion to Adak Island. Sixteen Work on Twelve Alékka Rivers, Harbors Projeds EIimian_ed for 1 /ARGENTIANS | COOLING OFF | " FORELECTION 1 i | i ! | Three MiIIioT\ioters Go to | Polls on Sunday fo . ta""z‘?a | |+ ChoosePresident i‘ BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 23.—Ar- ' gentina's turbulent presidential campaign entered a compulsory 24- hour “cooling off” period today, as a record total of more than 3,000,-; 10600 voters prepared to go to the; i polls tomorrow in the nation’s first ! i general election rince 1937. | Both candicates for president— | Col. Juan D. Peron, former vice-| | president who is supported by the | Lobor Party, and Jose P. Tambor- | ! ini, who has the backing of a four- varty coalition known as the Dem- | acratic Union—expressed confidencei 'in vietory. was nullified by an old law prohi- | | viding for the 24-hour “cooling off" | { period, which forbids all polincnll | uctivity the day before an election. | Meanwhile, soldiers and police | i patrolled downtown streets of the | cupital city, keeping a vigilanti | watch on the movement of crowds. | The presidential campaign, which | No Funds Ihas been marked by frequent dem-; onstrations and bloodshed, moved | | loward a dramatic climax last night | with these deveiopments: ! WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — Be-: 1. Peron warned in a radio ad- cause of “drastic cuts” in request- :dress that if there were any elec- | | ed appropriations, Delegate Bart- ' tion fraud, violence would resuls, ett of Alaska says, work on twelve | which would be “remembered for rivers and harbors projects in thc:temuries." | Territory cannot be undertaken in, 2. Police announced the arrest . the fiscal year starting July 1. lof at least 14 men, some of whom § Both the Budget Bureau and the | were identified as Communists, in rouse appropriations Committee : what the law officers termed a made slashes in the funds recom- ‘terroristic” vlot to make trouble § mended by the Army Engineers for | in the elections. i ‘he program. { 3 Peron, in a reply to a U. 8| The Budget Bureau reduced from |State Department Blue Book $117,000,000 to $28,000,000 the En-[charglng him with having collavl pineers’ request for work in Alaska, ' horated with tne Nazis, accused the | § Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Vir-, United States of spying in Argen- | gin Islands, Bartlett said, and $1,-tina. His answer, a 64-page “Blue | Governor, Oth WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — The | interior Department is charged | with fostering a belief that salmon |traps In Alaska are concentrated |in the hands of a few large can- | neries to the detriment of Terri- torial residents. | W. C. Arnold, representing Alas- ha Salmon Indusfries, Inc., express- c¢d belief at a hearing on a De- | partment propasal to limit Alaskan fishing traps to 20 per firm with | the total reduced to 10 after three | | years, that pohtics had entered into | ers of Int. ~ Dept., Charged with Trap ~ Reduction, | the situation. “The feeling that the canneries | have a monopnly on the traps has | YAMASHITA IS HANGED ON GALLOWS™ Shameful Death Meted Out to Despoiler of Man- t il with Two Others BY JAMES HALSEMA MANILA, Feb. 23.—Lt. Gen. Tom- oyuki Yamashita, one time bemedal- ied conqueror of Singapore, was {hanged on a flood-lighted gallows before dawn today as & Japanese |war criminal, wearing patched and i slouchy American khaki fatigues. His last words a prayer “for the Emperor's long life,” the despoiler of Manila died in disgrace at 3:02 A. m. in a cane field along with two subordinates; his body was sew- ed up in canvas, and he was carted E N_cpl. Edgar Aires, Dayton, J <y v jaway to a nam 5 ) b | e “ - e - . . eless grave among serio, Brooklyn, and Red Cross Girl Patricia A state of siege, which had ban- H h Sanseverio, Bro0 o o) carry a tree into Burger ned the holding of political meet- | RUSSIANS REBUILD DA M — Forms are ready to receive cement as Russians rebuild :;fg,:“ Wiioso o . e beer hall, now a canteen, ings without a permit, was lifted ® large Dnepr river dam, near Dnepreptovsk, destroyed by the retreating Red army in 1941. Del;flunced e - {at midnight. However, the effect! - - e e et e et e e e e = |as Baving * by Mflwkh ““;" jas talled utter] Yol idier's faith,” the stolid, 60~year-old {man had been stripped of his uni- {form and all military appurtenances |before he was executed 30 miles isouthuu of Manila near Los Ban- jos where his soldiers & year ago :butchered 2,000 Filipino civilians, | Shameful Death 1 Two convicted torturers, a lieut- as a alers;enanl coionel who once headed the idreaded Japanese secret police in & : ":che Philippines, and a civilian in- ‘zerprewr, shared with him a death «d, however, that some solution considered the most shameful by should be found which would give |their countrymen. thie canners control over their) Yi J . soldiers needed source of supply. jwild in m and 19%’5“!: e A ;losing the Philippnes after Hom- ,ma’s men had opened the way to F I S H A T jconquest in 1942, walked up the 13 !steps to the scafford in company iwith a Buddihist priest. g “I will pray for the Emperor's DUR'N 19 45 long life and his prosperity for- 'ever,“ were his last words. | But, earlier, when the execution jorders had been read to him, ke {had prepared a statement. Given {out in broken English by an inter- (preter, it was a mixture of ' self- delense, and gratitude: mmmin uni- | 000,000 for the Wrangell narrows'and White” book, project was eliminated before the ! pudget was submitted to Congress. “In view of this and because of | the existence of an economy bloc ia Congress,” he added in a state- (John W. Lang, former U. S. Mili- | ,ment, “it is impossible to predict when funds will finally be appro- ! priated so that all 12 Alaska river: ard harbors projects will be con- fructed. “As passed bv the House, 5900,000] s been made available for the: i Stikine River project and $55,000 | for Nome Harbor.’ 1 He said the orojects for which | funds were not made available} purported to he a facsimile of an Argentine court martial report which sentenced a German Jew to prison for giving secret data to "QUIT MANCHURIA' DEMONSTRATIONS SPREAD IN CHINA contained what | |1een fostered and prolonged by | | people in this Department, he said. | |1t was fostered by Gov. Gruening (of Alaska) and others.” | l‘ i Know-Nots Blamed { Arnold gave an opinion that the | |plan for amendmehts to the Alas- \iza commercial fishing regulations {'vas based on a report of Depart- !inent men unfamiliar with the Ter- +‘tory and said only one of them had ever visited Alaska. He insisted tnat even if the plan was not put i 3 into operation until 1947, iInde- ! wasnamed their “bamboo blonde” pendent operators would not find | by GI's on Pacific Island bases. iy profitable to install traps that | BLONDE — Frances Lang- i ford, singer and movie actress, where suspected officials are belng{more, including the master, were § e e e coSt up to $100,000. { held afloat on the forward portion at incommunicado. Under * the | McNabh <A:§,(u;mswd person jn last reports. \ the United States has to be u.f Two weeks ago a fleet of rescue raigned immediately and any s'.abe—;cran saved 485 persons from the it after had gone ment he makes prior to arraign- ment cannot be used as evidence. 2. The information seized in Can- ada is circumsiantial as far as most American officials are concerned {hough some of it is extremely in- sriminating. For instance, the Russian who surrendered in Ottawa gave the code name of one man in the State De- partment with whom the Soviet rommunicated once every two weeks by courier. The code name, does not give strong enough evi- dence regarding the official's ‘d”‘i\ tity to permit prosecution. But his usefulness to the Government is ended and he will be dropped. In other cases, it is difficult to ascertain whether certain U. S. of- ficlals gave information to Soviet officials because df .an excessive desire to work for' ‘Internatiorral peace or whether they actually’ be- iteved in Communist doctrihes. In |liner Yukon |aground in Johnstone Bay, south of | Seward, Alaska. | How the Donbass came to grief had not yet been learned, but the; | District Coast Guard office here !said it learned the disaster occurr-| ed February 17. The Donbass, |commanded by*a Capt. Goginov,| left Lomg Beach, Calif, Feb. 7,| bound for Vladivostok with a cap- acity load of gasoline. The Russian tanker Belgoror left Los Angeles on! Feb. 10 on the same route. An estimate from Los Angeles! placed the crew total at around 165. The fleet tug Sari and the USS! |Gear were sent by the Navy from| ! Adak to aid in the rescue work. The American tanker Puente Hills sent out the first message yesterday, saying it had answered dis'.ressf {rockets and located the after sec-| Ition of the Donbass at 5 a. m.; { seldovia harbor. I1ng 254 feet along the city’s main 'were Metlakatia harbor, Craig har- , bor, Myers Church harbor, Wran- 2¢ell harbor, Wrangell Narrows, Pe-, ersburg harbor, Port Alexander, | | Sitka harbor, Gastineau Channel, sSkagway harbor, Elfin Cove and! B L i Mangled Mass of | Ruins in Wake of | Fire in Michigan MUSKEGON, Mich.,, Feb. 23— Two-third of a block in the heart of this city's business district lay a mangled mass of ruin today—a! fire loss of $1,500,000. Five business buildings, stvetch-| business street, were wiped out. No one was injured in the blaze, fought by 100 firemen. Fifty city andi state police kept back a throng ofi 30,000 on-lookers. 'Declarations Made Sino- “Installing a single trap,” the Fishermen Paid Millions-. Alaska Herring Pro- | . H duction Increases | T i WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Com<; mercial fishermen received about | $230,000,000 for their 1945 catch the | the Fish & Wildlife Service report- ed today. This topped by $23,000,000 | the previous high in 1944, ! The 1945 production of fish and| skellfish approximated 4,400,000,000 ! pounds, a decline of less than 1] percent from the preceding year. The sharpest decline was in the nation’s largest fishery, tke Pacific THREE LIVES Soviet Treaty Conirary witness said “would be uneconomi- cal and the owner would lose mo- Coast sardine (pilchard) industry— | from 1,136,000,000 pounds in 1945 ey, 'to 832,000,000 pounds in 1945. As a‘ iof Assembly dclegates to Atlantic Charter BY SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING Feb. 23. — Some drlegates to China's National As-! s2mbly denounced the Yalta secret agreement giving Russia rights in Manchuria as new “quit Manchur- ia” demonstrations spread to sev- eral cities todey—Red Army Day. A stdtemen: issued by a number said the agreement, on which the Sino- Soviet treaty was based, “is con- urary to the Atlantic Charter and, all other declarations of the United Nations.” It asserted that the agreement constituted a dark stain on Sino- American and Sino-British rela- tions. It especiclly regretted the involvement of “our American friends, who always have stood for Shiels Testifies | A. W. Shiels of Bellingham, Wash., President of the Pacific American Fisheries, said his firm aould havé to abandon much of its sosiness under the plan. The con- I AN(HORAGE cern operates eight canneries, joint- iy operates five others and has 48 liish traps. It hes a $6,000,000 in- ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 23. vestment in the industry in Al- |—Ralph and Ayleen Rossi and 2ska. |their ' 16-months-old son, Patrick, 1 | \died in a fire which destroyed 'a manly possible for this or any oth- Ifive apartment dwelling in East er Government department to al-| Anchorage. lccate the traps for 1946, Shiels ' A -neighbor, awakened by the tertified. "It would mean a loss oti jbarking of a dog, discovered the viousands of cases of salmon this| |blaze and pulled Mrs. R. A. Nelson vear.” {and her baby, Diane, from & smoke Shiels said his company pur- Ifilled kitchen. Both were uncons- chased fish from seven independ- icious.« A young couple, a mother ent trap owners and that it in- |with four small children and Flor- stalled the traps but charged the (ence Bowen, apartment manager, owners the actual cost. He said the escaped. | ¢ompanies pre-season cost in pre- Rossi, formerly employed by the paring for the year's operation. result, total production in the Pac-; 'ific Coast states and Alaska fell from 2,171,000,000 pounds to 1,829,- 000,000 pounds. Mackerel and sal- mon showed declines, but these were largely offset by gains in tuna and Alaska herring. * The catch of tuna rose from 170,~ 000,000 to 183,000,000 pounds. Alaska herring climbed from 113,- 000,000 to 120,000,000 pounds. Al- “T don't belleve it would be hu-|most all of this catch is used in| the manufacture of oil and meal. Salmon production declined from 31,000,000 to 420,000,000 pounds, while Pacific mackerel fell from 93,000,000 to 60,000,000 pounds. Production on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River totaled 2,546,- 000,000 pounds compared with 2,333,- 000, 000 pounds in 1944. Compared with the average in recent years, more of the fish catch was used in the fresh or frozen | | “I was carrying out my duty as Japanese high commander of the Japanese army in the Philippine Islands . . . I don't shame in front of God for what I have done when I have died . . . I have had a good treatment, kindful attitude from your good-natured officers . . . I don’t blame my executioners. 1 will pray God bless them.” 5 13 dan el AL National Security | Council Advocated By Retired General WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—A re- itired general today advocated crea- Ition of a National Security Coun- jcil in place of the proposéd unifi- |cation of the armed forces. { Brig. Gen. H. C. Holdridge, West |Point graduate and army careerman ‘for 27 years, made the suggestion /in a memorandum to Rep. Holi- {field (D-Cal, a member of the | House military committee. ! The councll, Holdridge said, !should be composed of representa- tives of the House and Senate, the Army, Navy, Alr Forces, State De- partment, and leaders in the flelds {of science, industry, education, la- bor, agriculture and religion. {Russian Told {To Keep Up with | Art of War |Later the unidentified Russian! justice and friendship between the m::tlfa:;:' ci:: believed, the f0r- |, sker told of locating the forward| ———————— United States and China. Aetna Curtain Cleaners, Seattle, ar- would be nearly $3,000,000. {state, with less going Into canred Socretary Byrnes, a former mem- |560tion and removing the 23 people! { Twenay nationally known scholars rived Tuesday to go into business| Under Secretary of the Interior|fish and by-products. LONDON, Feb. 23.—The Red p from the stern portion. yesterday charged that the late here. Mrs. Rossi and the baby Gordner, who conducted the hear- A R Army, celebrating its 28th anniver- per of the Supreme Court, and the - y justice Department agree that civil | AR R, | President Roosevelt, in the Yalta came here three weeks ago from ing, questioned Shiels closely con- sary today, was admonished by el ait e e etills © poe- ! LT. WARREN HERE . | agreement, \ traded Manchuria _to | Seattle. | |cerning details of his arrangement IUR" ABOU | Generalissimo Stalin “to keep up | Pt | HERINGTON, Kansas — Mis.!Russia for her support in the pa- | —————— | with private trap owners. He asked | {With the progress of the art of war™ served, despite the fact that they! have been under considerable pres- | sure, from the Army and Navy to, Lt. Col. H. H. Warren, of An-|warren Ives will be able to use her |cific war. I cherage, is staying at the Baranof inew clothes lines just any day now.; About 4,000 students from Peipei | SEATTLE RESIDENTS HERE Seattle residents registering at lif such a plan could not be fol-| \lowed generally by packers. The' witness said it would depend upon WASHOUGAL, Wash, Feb. 23.— A woman leaned toward Grover ‘A. J. Surbeck with the usual whisper, and “to advance it.” Speaking over the Moscow radio. |Stalin declared that Russia must * lake @& contrary course. dering his visi® here. Or at least as soon as the Rev.|Hot Springs, a resort 50 miles north | 1 8 b As far as u\}l be ascertained, m,l A v e N iIves, her husband, hauls a few more (ot Chungking, staged today’s anti-| the Baranof vesterday were: J. J."he reliability of the owner of v.he"'H?ve you any butter? | “still more stren‘ther? her military American official was guilty of re- | CROKENS RETURN { wheel barrows of dirt.” Russian demonsftation here. Simi- | McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. R. Street- ' trap. ; h\l.l"bwk whispered back his usual|and economic might. vealing any secret of the atom| Lt- Howard Croken and bride re-: The pastor heeded his wife’s in-:lar parades were reported from ct, Lois Thompson, E. H. Harold,! Arnold predicted that if the plun| NO N [ .:lthoual: the Soviet has em.em;«’i s Pusten BHlx eafinot e sald | 1ATDed from. Wefehlkan via Alaskijunction o buld's e Clothes line' Shanghai, Nanchang, capital of Frank L. White and L. E. Ander- iccomes effective and independence Then maybe,” beamed the wo-|a “peaceful period of devslopment”, ) { man, “You'd like to have the two the army must guard the nation’s astal Airlines yesterday after a neymoon trip. ————— g FROM SITKA E. Corbett, cf Sitka, is staying at the Baranof while visiting in this city. of the British. | Meanwhile, those under suspl—i""" hol cion are under careful scrutiny. | Note—One State Department of- jicial whom 'Pat Hurley strongly (Continued on Page §our) |and he built one—strong and high —so high his wife on tiptoes could \not reach it. ' ! That is why he is now getting his daily dozen by moving dirt with a wheel barrow, bringing the level of the ground closer to the line. Kiangsi Province, and elsewhere. |s0m. As the Chungking students marched, the Soviet Embassy held a Red Army Day reception, which was conspicuous by the absence of | Thomas M. Tatum and F John- % normal 1,500 to 2,000 Chinese scn of Sentinel Island Light Sta- gate crashers, ten, are guesis at the Baranof e - FROM SENTINEL ISLAND given the trap site owners will sell the use of the site to canners when conditions become adverse. He said he believed the salmon ;recover from the shock and answer | resources belong to the nation as |a whole and should not be given laway by the government. He insist- | pounds extra I churned this week.” | © Before the grocer was able to 1“Yes” — a storeful of customers borders against enemies, he said. AL RS SR CHARLES T, SMITH HERE |swamped the woman and swept off {with her butter, Charles T..Smith of Rockford, Ill, has registered at the Baranof.