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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ' VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,273 'B.C.MILLMEN MURDER LAID | URGE STRIKE UPON PANZER REFERENDUM S5 REGIMENT | Operators Declare Worker American Prisoners by View Not Known On Hundreds Slain on Hit- Latest Offer ler's Direct Orders s O VANCOUVER, B. C, May 17— | 1 17— y that acting DACHAU, Germany, May As the strike of 37,000 loggers and | The prosecution charged tos mill wcrkers in British Columbia | the lst SS Panzer Regiment, went on its third day, the opera-|on direct orders from Adolf Hitle: tors challenged the union to hold | to “show no humane inhibitions, an impartial referendum among | murdered between 538 and 749 Am- employees on the management’s | erican prisoners during the battle latest offer. | of the bulge in December, 1944. R. V. Stuart, operators’ repre-| Lt. Ccl. Burton Ellis of New York sentative, issued a prepared state- City, trial Judge Advocate, pre- ment contending that by the un- sented these figures in his opening jew’s own ficures only 12,700 of the | statement to the war crimes court | 37,000 workers voted for the walk- ' trying 74 officers and men of the out and this vote was taken 14 6th SS Panzar Army. weeks ago. | “These figures do not represent Meanwhile a spokesman for the | the historical truth as to the total International Woodworkers of Am-|number of victims murdered by the erica said there were no new de- 1st S8 Panzer regiment during this velopments to report on the work ' offensive, but only the number the stoppage called by the union in' prosecution expects to show,” Ellis protest against failure to obtain a ! declared. satisfactory agreement. He said he would prove that Hit- The Stuart statement, declaring ler held a meeting of his army employees have had no chance to commanders shortly before the express an opinion on the opera-| German drive started and as a re- tors’ offer of a $1 a day pay bgost, | sult, Gen. Sepp Dietrich, one cf the said Provincial Labor Minister accused, ordered his troops to Pearson had been asked to con- avenge “terror bombing” and shoob duct an impartial, supervised re- | prisoners when combat conditions ferendum. | required. Mr. Stuart argued that the un-; Following this, Ellis continued, fon’s objection to the demand for the bodies of 71 Americans we: the referendum as confusing the found at Malmedy, where 43 es- strike issues is not a valid conten- caped death and others still are tion. He said the issue today is| missing. At La Greize, also in Bel- whether 12700 workers in the in-|gium, he said, between 175 and 311 ‘dustry are justified in keeping 37~ prisoners were slain by the Ger- 000 persons idle. mans. . NEWSPAPERS TiGHZIEN BELTS/ SEATTLE, May 17.—Newspapers | as far east as Oklahoma started tightening their newsprint belts today in preparation for the pos«‘ sible spread of the CIO-loggers strike from British Columbia into five pine and fir producing states| wheve they control virtually the en- tire wood pulp industry. Thirty-seven thousand Canadian affiliates of the International Woodworkers of America were in the third day of their wage-dispute strike as IWA officials at Portland, Ore., started counting results of a strike vote conducted the past three weeks among the 50,000 members of the union in Washington, Oregon, Montana, north Idaho and north- ern. California. The British Columbia strike al-' ready has cut off an estimated daily production of 8,000,000 feet of lumber. Tugboat men who tow booms to British Columbia mills said their 1,200 employees would be idle by next Tuesday. British Col- umbia pulp mills reported they had about three weeks log supplies on hand when the B. C. strike started. B SR il Fifth Clipper 0fPAAMakes ~ Circle Route SEATTLE, May 17—The fifth Pan American World Airways Con- stellation Clipper to fly the Great Circle route from the Orient arriv- ed at Boeing Field at 12:26 p. m. | yesterday. At the controls was Capt. S. E. Robbins. Flying time from Shang- hai to Seattle via Tokyo and Adak, was 23 hours and 10 minutes. Five Seattle men from the com- pany station at Adak were aboard. 1 | JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS YOSHIDA FORMING | JAPANESE CABINET; | DIET IS INACTIVE New Premier Expecis Com-‘; SECRET PLAN REVEALED IN . SOVIETNEWS plete Lineup by Tomor- | s . g . . i row - Some Friction lzvestia Claims Franco Re- | | roxvo, way 1i—premer”sni- ime Took Active Part |geru Yoshida, faced with demands in War on Nazi Side ‘oi two supporting parties for more | representation, tonight, revamped 'his prospective cabinet,lineup. He MOSCOW, May 17 ~The govern- | hoped to complete the job by to- ment newspaper Izvestia devoted | morrow with a minimum of friction. two pages today to a 10,000-word ! | Both the Liberal and Progres- statement attributed to two Ger-| |sive parties openly criticized the man officers who served in Spanish | | politically-inexperienced Yoshida for cities as military attaches, which | {ignoring them in his preliminary|charged that the Franco regime, | icabmm draft. They said his ori- “ynder a mask of neutrality, ac- (ginal list was “too burzaucratic” tyally participated in the war on| 'and included too few regular party {he side of Germany.” men. ‘The officers, now prisoners in Pending completion of the cabinet the soviet Union, were described |the diet remained inactive, names 55 Lt. Gen. Gunther Krappe, for-| {of Speaker Takekichi Mika and Vicé mer military attache in Madrid, |Speaker Kimura of the House of ,ng Col. Hans Remer, attache in| Representatives had not been pre- mgpgjer, sented to the throne for formal —qyo statement said Field Mar- appointment. shal Wilhelm Keitel and Col. Gen. Some Diet members charged the' gygiqy jodl—both now on trial in | 1eason was the possibility that v oipery on war crimes charges— | {Miki—once known as & militant | o, ive in arranging Spanish politician—might be purged bY. . hoporation | General MacArthur. The govern- o : g R The officers were quoted as say- | ment wouldn't want to embarrass ing that after the Spanish civil the throne thus. i e 55 war the German and Spanish gen- | eral staffs, under the direction of BAR'I'lEIT Keitel and Jodl, collaborated in drawing up a secret “Isabella Fe- lix” plan for seizing Gibraltar and | widening Spanish possessions in Af- rica. During the war, the German of- ficers declared, Spain served Ger-| many as an econcmic base and ner ! military attache in London sup-| plied Germany with military in-| formaticn. \ WASHINGTON, May 17.—Dele- gate Bartlett's effort to have the House eliminate, from the 1947 In- terior Department Appropriations AlTlTUDE RE(ORD | bill, a requirement that Alaska put ‘up $1 for every $3 the Federal gov- | ernment spends on new road con-' TOKYO, May 17—A' B-29 of the struction and surveys in the Ter- Army's Pacific Air Command (PAC-! ! ritory, was defeated yesterday on USA) shattered a fifth world rec- a voice vote. ord of load-to-altitude Wednesday The requirement was written in- when it carried 15,000 Kkilograms to the bill by the House Appropria- (about 33,000 pounds) to a height tions Committee. It contended the of 37,400 feet. Territory did not put up a fair Lt. Gen. Ennis E. Whitehcad, share of road costs. PACUSA commander who announc- 1 | | | ARMY B-29 SETS Members of the Senior Girl Scout because it would be necessary for 'marks for carrying payloads to the Territory to call a special ses- |great altitudes. All five records ——————— |Guam. SEN|0R G|R|' S(oulls {Texas. The only similar previous iflight, said Logsden, was a 1939 — e - PNA BRINGS IN 8; " | Miss Mildred Fluck, will appear in| a 15-minute radio program over, ment made by Mrs. Washington. |flight between Juneau and An- Taking part in the program will|chorage yesterday with ' Captain 1Jennnen.e Caspe_rson, Jeannetteiweu: from Anchorage, Alma Gra- | Doucette and Arline Godkin. | ber, Roy O. Smith, Harry Rust, the | i i L. 6. BACH FUNERA Duke. | | WAS HH.D YB‘ERD AY‘ To Anchorage: Maude Cearley, ;D. Duvall, Roy Harris, M. Todd, C. Tom Kierman, J. {afternoon at 2 oclock from the! | Chapel of the Charles Carter Mor- | | |Douglas Cemetery. | Roscoe Laughlin, Earl Miller | i Mr. Bach was an old time Alas- lident Truman was asked at his | The Territorial Delegate said the 'ed the record today, said it gave clause would slow road construction the Superfortresses all international sion of its legislature to appropriate were set between May 8 and 15 by the money. |B-29s flying from Harmon Field, | Wednesday's record was set by | Col. Beverly H. Warren, Plainview, GIVE RADIO PROGRAM {Army airlift of 14165 kilgrams to 2.000 meters. AT 7, TOMORROW EVE | Troop under the leadership of Mrs. | George Washington, assisted by ! H_IESOU‘I’ WITH1 | KINY tomorrow evening at 7| ‘ o'cleck, according to an announce- On the Pacitic Northern Alriines |be Alice Jean Davis, President; Maury Keating, First Officer Cae- | Patricia Oakes, Harriet Maurstad,|ley and Stewardess Alicia Lane | e {Rev Snead, Mrs. R. Rober and !child, R. H. Stock and Donald {Ray Martin, W. R. Wayman, Mrs. | M. J. Duvall, Mrs. S. Salley, Mrs. Funeral services for Leonhardt 5 |W. Wright, rge Bach were held yeste: % George y rday | Campbell. ;tusry with Dr. H. C. Murphy om-‘ 7 | ciating. Interment was in the p id l D ' g Presideni Doesn The pallbearers were A. J. Buck-! .1 \ingham, A. J. Balog, Marcus Jen- | now‘ ou' Ivlng i sen, . Magnuson New Job. kan, having come to the Territory | Mot ebion. |54 years ago. WASHINGTON, May 16—Pres- NATION'S RAIL LINES SEIZED BY GOVI. AretheO'Neills TRUMAN ASKS TRAINMEN TO STAY ON JOB Heads of Brofiethood Un- jons Say Strike Will 6o On as Slafed (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) President Truman today ordered the nation’s railroads seized to keep them running after the 4 p. m. (EST) Saturday strike deadline, but union leaders said they would not ask their men to stay on the job. The chief executive signed the executive seizure order at 2:50 p. m. {(EST). In a statement, he called on the railroad workers to cooper- ate and stay on the job. ' Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross said the Office of Defense | Transportation would operate the | carriers. Iy 44 Big Happy Fami Say Strike Goes On G. F. Whitney, head of the Broth- erhood of Raflroad Trainmen, and | Alvanley Johnston, head of the Lo- comotive Engineers, said just min- utes, before the order was signed |that the strike would go on as !scheduled. They sald they would not ask their 250,000 members to stay of the job. They made their statements to - reporters after a ishort conference with President ! Truman.’ 1 The President had scheduled to- |day's conferences withi the railroad management and Labor Representa~ itives In a last.ditch effort to get y i {operators and John L. Lewis were 1 “standing by” in Washington, dwait- {ing a possible new move by Presi- 1dent Truman, White House Press fSecreury Charles G. Ross told 2 THESE ARE NOT THE CHILDREN OF ROXBURY, M/ S5., holding a community sing, but the eight davghters of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O'Neill of Roxbury. They live in a comfortable home at 25 Horon Way. The youthful mother enjoys nothing more than leading a community sing. The lovely daughters are: (left to rizht) Jane, 13, holding Julie, 15 months; Mary, 2's; Diane, 10; Maureen, 8; Mrs. O'Neill at the piano; Virginia, 3'2; Evelyn, 6; Barbara, 12. There's very little “news” in this picture, but it will delight the JAPS MUST OPARNoUKSOUT DEADLOC FACETRIAL “onpsmosity PEACE MEEI IS RECESSED IS RULING i rish that count Are stit Held Under Rigid Mar- | _ Ty Diplomats Leave Paris Still {2y in the deadlocked coal nego- Holding fo Opfimistic ! keting Control %2 Negotiations seeking to avert the \ o rail walkout collapsed yesterday WASHINGTON, May 17—OPA View oims |when the carriers turned down & p {modified union wage increase offer IZ, May 1 has formally annourfid suspension Y rh U, 8. Secretary from the Engincers and Trainmen. of State James F. Byrnes and a|The unions asked wage boosts of party of 15 other persons, includ- 18 percent with a minimum of §1.44 ing Senators Tom Connally (D- daily compared with 25 percent and Tex.) and Arthur Vandenberg (R- & floor of $250 dally originally de- Mich,), left Orly Field today for manded. The carriers offerced the Washington after the deadlocked 16 cents hourly or $1.28 daily hike Foreign Ministers Conference had Fecommended by a. - Presidential adjourned until June 15. {fact-finding board. They flew in the “Caravan Cres- | Mine Seizure Maybe cent,” which took off at 11:12 ..m.|w$m;m‘m;t the ":lm dh::l’:dzld (2,12 am. PST time.) itop, priorily , oR it's Before departing, Byrnes express- :'c""d""’ today, there was specula- ¢d the conviction that, despite the |tion he might order selzure of the failute of the current conference to ' C0& mines at expiration of the cur- draft any major treaties, the ou-'[eNt tWO weeks truce period May standing differences between Rus- sia and the Western powers would ' be settled at the next meeting. Similar views had been expressed by British Foreign Secretary Ern- est Bevin, | f Imemalionflilitary Tri- bunal Makes Decision, Mass Murder Case of price ceilings on t fresh and frozen fish for a 90-day period be- TOKYO, May 17.—Laying down a ginning next Monday. rew concept of international law, Ceilings will be suspended at the the 1l-nation International Mili- same time and for the same period tary Tribunal ruled today that Hi- on most foods processed from fish, deki Tojo and 27 other Japanese excepting canned fish. must face trial as accused war OPA said this action is possible criminals, because “present production levels, Epecifically, the court dismissed PIUS anticipated high future pro- all defense motions, which asked duction and fmparts make the sup- that the indictment against them PIy outlook during the * ensuing be quashed and argued that the SPring'and summer months as fav- spri tribunal had no authority to try orakle as in the record production Japan’s war-fistering former lead- year of '41.” ers. The Acgency sald ihat fish by- Chief Justice Sir William Webb Products, including ofls and meals, gave no reasons for the dismissal Wil main under price control be- in o briet court ssssion. He said cause there is a: cufremt world they would be discussed in court shortage of these items. later but specified no date, The Tbese species will remain. under trial is scheduled June 3. pricc ceilinzs: By the ruling, the Tribunal up- A.” canned fish except canned shrimp; all varieties of fresh and held its right to try the 28 on . A hi b charges of mass murder and of frczen Pacific salmon, halibut, tuna inciting war. It also denied de- e»and tuna-like fish; pilchards, ale- " wives and sea berring. fense nsser_uons that the accused Salt Cod, hake, pollock, haddock, were not liable to prosecution for et activities pre-dating the outbreak = ‘f of war or for any violations of in- ternational law other than con- SIEELWORKERS The sessions by John L. Lewis, President of the AFL United Mine . Workers with the bituminous oper- jators ended abrouptly on Lewis’ de- mand for a séven percent payroll ® levy to finante a miners’ health Bevin left for Britain shortl, - | bt noan, shortly be :rl:d welfare fund. Later Lewis and V. M. Molotov, Russian Foreign pr;p‘;z:;n:::: r';,;:c Jost M ISR Minister, left Le Bourget Field for puie o p MO dhals ip- v :pu e wN inding arbitration. James Dunn, Assistant U. 8.1 while ?:: Tmhem“r:’ s"g:’“ stary of State, remained In were the chief ll-b:r & g Paris to work with deputies of the new strike was reported :,“ u;fm.. other three powers in prepartuonidemml About 370 AFL t kgm- for the June 15 conference. \ers left their jobs in a 3 d‘l: American sources said that pute, halting. distribution :: the Byines' attitude was based on pro- city’s three largest: newspapers, with ventional war crimes. . DEMAND QUSTER 2mes avtude was based on ore-, Tremendous Blast of | (DA JOHN SMALL Fmima” S5 S e | Balkan frontiers. i A‘omi‘ Bomb May | ’rhzy salrc]\ elr’:xm these advancuizgmp:‘:flndmm;n' Bull- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 17. Crumple Targel Ship e G0 eeworen e Gl should assure the calling of a 21-etin, said in a joint statement that |ed on President Truman in a con- PEARL HARBOR, May 17.—RCAr jppediate resignation of Civilian nation peace conference, even if publishing will continue but papers the next meeting of Foreign Min-|will be sold only “over the counter vention resolution to demand the Adm. Thorvald Solberg, ship de- progyction Administrator John D. sign expert, foresees a possibility ! guaq pecause of his suggestion to isters should adjourn without tataliat their respective plants. that tremendous atomic-bomb blast legislate a six-month ban on agreement on peace treaties. ————— STOCK QUOTATIONS pressure ‘may crumple the target g jpec American gfficials said that the | city of Trieste, key to the Italian, peace treaty, had become a symbol'! NEW YORK, May 17.—Closing of whether the next conference quotation of Alaska Juneau mine battleship Nevada like @ tin €an gmall in a statement yesterday would succeed or fail. ]Btock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor- and thrust her down into the la- coi4 cuch a ban would be “sensible” At the conference just termmu-lpornliou 6%, American Can 96, An- goon at Bikini in the Mnr;haus, Iin the Interest of reconversion be- frd: the United States ymmd lhlbi;‘:‘ngl 46‘:’:: Cemmonwealth and Solberg, Director of Ship Pre-| .;uce there was no sign labor wili rieste remain Italian; the Rus-|Southern 4'z, Curtiss-Wright 7%, parations in the test, told TeDOIeIS aove voluntarily to a holiday from SI2RS Wwere Just as insistent that International Harvester 95%, Ken- today that so many factors Were g.vec or that management will the important Adriatic port be ced- 'necott 57, New York Central 25', involved it was difficult to make .00 to voluntary arbitration of predictions. For one thing, he not- ' gicnutes. > ed to Yugoslavia. Britain and Northern Pacific 30, United Cor- France, which originally supported Poration 5%, U. 8. Steel 85, Pound 'ed, the atomic blast high above is xpected to thrust equally against parts of the ship’s structure, spot like a ATTORNEY J0 KETCHIKAN American League New York 4; Chicago 2. Washington 0; Cleveland 3. Boston-St. Louis postponed. ational League St. Louis 1; Boston 4, They were: John Frost, Edward Payette, William Stedman, Carl ‘Berb, and Bob West. Flight Radio | Officer Joe Foulkes, Issaquah, ar- rived with the crew. No passengers |other than company personnel were —_————————— aboard. WASHINGTON, May 17— The! The big plane brought Chines? House voted 240 to 81 today to give newspapers dated May 16 (May 15, the committee on Un-American Ac-!Seattle time) which were less than tivities $75,000 to carry on its work. 24 hours off the presses when they Approval of the additional funds arrived in the -U. 8. came on roll call tally after an v, hour of stormy debate. 1 4 Committee supporters declared the FRESH pRBSuRE meney is needed to expose subver-| sive elements they contend are ati work in the nation. | BE'"G MADE FoR The Washington ~ NEWDRAFT MOVE g nhiagen \ -Go-Round ; ' erry _E l:Clalm Made Truman's Age | . s [3 By DREW PEARSON | Limif Can't Meet Army WASHINGTON—During the coal | strike, friends of Alice Roosevelt| and NavY Needs Longworth have been trying to fi-| Bure out whether she has more in-| WASHINGTON, May 17.—Senate fluence over her good friend John leaders applied fresh pressure today L. Lewis or whether he dominates|[OF Speedy enactment of a new her. Some had hoped that she | draft extension law, saying Presi- might help persuade him to call‘dem Truman’s age limit boost can- off the strike. inot meet army and navy needs. However, Mrs. Longworth seems| Acting to “save what we can to have leaned toward a bmerff"’m the near wreckage of the e R and almost fascistic form of think- | Selective Service System,” the Chief / 'news conferénce yesterday about a ing recently, and some of the labor Executive Alate yesterday ordered GAMES ToDAY iveport that Senator Warren Mag- people once close to John L. Lewis | the induction of men through 2| |nuson (D-Wash) was a possible € say his bitterness is partly m_,_mmd,years of age. Army estimates place‘\ |choice for appointment as under- all by Mrs. Longworth. So her influ- 15,000 eligible men in that group,| Following are scores of gnmesf,ec"m,y of the Navy. The Pres- rather than in a single A 5 ence in settling the strike is doubt- | Put the possibility arose that few|played in the two Major Leagues jdent said that was the first he standard explosion. Assistant U. S. Attorriey Robert ful. |would be drafted before the new!this afternocn as received at Pl'es!jhad heard of it. Discussing the airdrop atomic Boochever, in charge of the District Today Mrs. Longworth’s circle js|July 1 expiration date. | time: el bomb, the Admiral pointed out that Attorney's office here during the largely confined to isolationists, in-| Previously 25 was the top limit, | FROM BELLINGHAM |the downward blast, striking the absence of Patrick J. Gilmore Jr, cluding some friends bordering on but that was before the House |inert old battleship, might produce who was to leave for Washington the fascist fringe, The Spanish Em- |forced the Senate to agree to ex- Jack M. Christensen and Andrew | “a sortiof folding-up effect, like D. C. today, plans to fly tomorrow bassy, hot-bed of Francoism, always |€mpt 18 and 19 year olds in order Hielmeland, of Bellingham, Wash.,|putting & tin can in a pressure to Wrangell and Ketchikan on of- - """ |to keep the entire draft act from! are registered at the, Gastineau chamber and building up the pres- fictal busincss. He will return the (Continued on Page Four) dying last Tuesday. Hotel, 'sure until it suddenly collapses.” !last part of next week. | the United States, were xrpartedkum‘i. | willing to compromise by declaring! Sales today were 980,000 shares. i Trieste an international city. i Dow, Jones averages today are | - — 1as follows: industrials 206.56, raiis RETURNING HOME ' 63.60, utilities 42.67. Miss Ruth Marshall, who has' - been a resident of Juneau for the ESTABROOK RETURNS past year, employed as a Clerk in' Barnard Estabrook, Contact Of- the U. S. Forest Service office, de- ficer in the Veteran’s Administra- parted this morning aboard the tion Regional Office here, has re- Princess Louise to return to her turmed from Anchorage where he home in Salt Lake City. She is has been working as Contact Offi- leaving the Forest Service. cer in the local office there.

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