The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 11, 1946, Page 2

Sy PAGL TWO ———————————————————————— leducated in the western style, and BRIDGES SAYS WSA OPPOSING Majol ow the children love you, the women are curious, and the men dan't like you at all” It was al- ’\\'\w pos:lblo to pick out a former " " \. aid the Major, by the look on his huv 5 4 Slowly what might be called a “’AQHI“IGTON Jun(‘ —Harry Tells of Desiroyed CitieS | ociai revotution is taking place in Bridges testitied today that “in ef- fect” the government has ordered any labor |Japan, the speaker continued. How imuch of it is due to contact with | Western civilization, and how much ‘m the actual war cannot be ascer- | tained. Major Schmidt visited Japan several years before the war. Reaction of Japanese Peopleto Conquerors Scomidt, operators “not to make essions” in the maritime se. Appearing before a House Labor Subcommittee, Bridges said the op- erators, who acted as agents of the ship Major J. Lewis son of Rotarian George Schmidt, and a re-|He said at that time it was an cent member of the nrcupzmnnal;nlmu«l unbelievable sight to see a government's War Shipping Admin- treops of Japan, held the rapt at-jwoman out walking with a man istration which owns most of the tention of Juneau Rotary Club unless she were married or betroth- merchant fleet, have “received no members this noon as he unfolded'ed to him, and even then only on direct orders — but it's the same a candid and Cotailed observation rare occasions. A woman who walk- thing.” of occupied Japan ed dewn the street was a Japanes> Bridges said the operators con- The long rangs strategical bomb-|man was jeopardizing her reputa- strue: the attitude of government ing by the Army Air Force was| tion for life, Only the lowest of shipping officials and the action of aimed ditectly at the destruction of | “lost-face” individuals ever appear- Congress in refusing to include a Japanese cities, Schmidt said. ed with a Western man. Tradition- shorter work week and higher pay for seamen in the minimum wage bill as a mandate to stand by the present 56-hour week for men at sea. Eastern ship operators reportedly are offering a maritime strike-pre- vention proposal based on pay for time of% ashore. This would be in place of the shorter work week de- manded by their seagoing workers. This report, without details, came today from a person close to the operatcrs’ negotiating committee as federal conciliators resumed a full- m drive for agreement before the deadline at midnight Friday. al dress and old-time customs were a point of pride to every Japanes2, All that is cianged now: Women in the better classes actually mingle often with American servicemen, they accompany their husbands u‘ social functions—a thing they neve: did in the past. Kimonas are becoming an obso- letz fashion in most big citles. Many cultural aspects are being dropped. Women now frequently admit having opinions of political and econonfical -import, and ex- press them in mixed company. Per- sonal and national pride has been Bombers were told to operate tow- indiscriminate destruction of cities — to virtually wipe them off the fact of the rth. This was dcne for several reasons; mainly Lecause the Army wished to sell to mericans the idea that Japan's paramount network of industrial ac- tivity w being conductzd in pri- vate homes. Unless these SC production were destroyzd Jap! industry could not be rendersd im- mobile. The revengeful motive was also present, said the Major. Incendiary Bombing Strategic bombing of industrial and i damaged. Begging—a thing rare- — - et —— military targets were secondary. In- o cooh pefore in Japan—is ram- cendiary bombs were used in the o4 RESIGNA‘I'ON OF cities because it was this type of " 1 io ¢y position of the women m‘x»)lr that caused tke most h&VOC 41t mirrors the greatest change in with the pre-war type ol Japanese .., gince 1938, said the speaker. homes. Demolition Lombs WEIE 1 js to ¢his source and that of directed toward industrial plants g wounger generation that Ameri- T0 BE DEMANDED SEATTLE, June when they were bombed, which was rot too often. At the close of th of industrial damage ideals of democracy must be The women and children can aimed war a survey have less to unlearn about Japan's 11— in Japan showed that only 20 tr{ policy. They have never known the Willlam (Bill) Skiff of the Seattle 35 percent of the large industrial (.. giaius of Japan's national life. Rainiers, whose Pacific Coast league concentrations had been touchod, while scores of cities had been cc Pletely reduced to rubble and ashe team has just wound up a disas- trous California trip, losing nine of 11 games and dropping to last The major said he hoped to see the American Army stay in Japan 15 or so years.During that time the In cities that had been wipad out, Japanese may be converted into a place, will be asked to resign on the railway terminals and immed- yenq) gilied nation. Regardless his arrival from the south = this iate areas around railway accom- ;o n.' way Japan actually likes aftérnoon, club officlals said today. 2,((1;“._(,,\5 were um?u,i Avllw_"v America better than any other SKiff was with the New York Schmidt said_the Army Alr Force yolon nlione She hates Russia Yankees in a business offics cap- s to be highly commended 108 )4 gigikes Britain because of the acity when hired to succeed the the skillful job done in following late Juok - Lelivelt aftst - the I8t colonial cecupational troops sent by to bomb transportation G PE. tots abath in late 1040 The Rainiers, who finished in sec- orders not arteries. 5 s Other visitors besides Major Buildings Gutted FELip 3 In Yokename. the retidsniial Sehmidt at today’s luncheon-meet- ond place last season, have worl sbbbions tian bser drdstioally: Bonibs) (08 . were: JJack .Dewls, ABverelt, O o hile on the left side of the| Wash: Allen Chapman, Anchor- Y last ‘place, city, the industrial section was un-|Aage; Frank Wright, Sitka. 20 gatiss beniud e AR T fouched in many instances. The| T B A lagd e o y instanc | city of Tokyo was in a similar con-| BOY iOR PEARSONS dition. In thesa larger cities the Mr. and Mrs. Erland Pearson be- '3 E buldings &nd ' homes | were: more came the parents of a bay, weigh- t pounds, born at 7:35 pm. medern than in outlying cittes and! M8 €l Aun’s Hospital t« yesterday in St RECOVERED FROM villages. . As«a result they were nol completely demolished. Most of Voot s S the concrete structures were merely | 0. gutted on the interior by incen-| O. L. EIgin, representative of DUBUQUE IRAGEDY diary bombs. Libby, McNeill and Libby, has ar- The Japanese people’s reaction to|rived from Seattle. He is staying DUBUQU&, Ia., Jgune 11.—The| all this is rather a curious mix-|at the Baranof. discovery of the badly burned body| ture. When the Army first moved - >so - of & man identified as Fred ,7' into Japan it found the psopie ex-| ATLANTA,—Mike and Ike, white Clayden, 33, Dubuque electrician, ercising traditional dn‘ugencc in | rabbits, have disappeared and re- raised t}w 1‘7‘ today the number of salvaging every brick, every appeared many times at the will persons who perished in the fire string wire, bit of voofing, etc.,|of magician Edward F. Turner. that swept the 200-room Canfield ::;Tltd):;mldhe?:ixll:gs be ‘;jlgd in sl:l- Tumcr had them in a ca Hotel early Sunday morning. A [lot, and his mother Mrs. Hazel iea Bk weud 66 AN menty T case which he placed on the si charred prayerbook was in his,Shafsky’ have afrived here from e ok f fRa Yk YAk WL 1o botghy & Bpwmpdper. hasile 1 Anchorage. They plan to spend the. stidbla of ArbiAner LS, When he turned around, the rab- The Red Cross reported, mean-|several days in Jimeau and are re-; g"“ ‘:’_""“ g}‘"“’» r;‘«‘“h"r he nor city while, the number of persons unac- etectives have bee o victory gardens, sprang up among them materialize en able to make counted for had been reduced to theashes and rubble ARRE Of} il icowitaii eleven. them were no larger than five feet) WG square. 1 Tiny gardens, similar to American Relief At War End After the far the first reaction among the great masses of Japanese pecple was that of immense reliof.| ‘IThey were “glad that the thing| wos over” said Major Schmidt. They had worked 10, 12, 14 and 16 huuxs a day, experienced lm<4 proper housing and clothing for | three or four years. They were worn| out. Thre next reaction was apathy. The | majority of the peocple no longer| cared about the next day's happen- ings. Japan's capitulation came as a great blow to most of them. Only those who had traveled realized what was happening. The average | man in the street was in complete | ignorance of anything except the propaganda of “great Japanese vie- tories” that the Military had con- sistently fed out since “the first The Arrival of the | NO OTHER SINGLE IMPROVEMENT CA MUCH BEAUTY AS THIS LOVELY of the war. National Pride Hurt The Japanese national pride could neither feat accept nor understand de- “I was as though a mass sis suddenly descended on the the speaker declared. This through the first three McSpadden relieved Henning of the occupation "lne Japanese people’s traditional! fatalism seemed serio impaired. Always before in man-made or na- tural disaster they had been able . off adversity with age-old and pitch in to start they showed no inte WAITING FOR COME TIFUL and MODERN . . . wrug resignation w. Now Houskeeping, American Home starving. y had heard of the brutalities department stores in the States. ributed by their propaganda & s to the Americans. They ex- ed borrible things to happen to their women and children. Major Schmidt said that during the first few weeks all he had to do was to walk down the strest to send a fly- ing scurry of women and children| into every available hole or shelter. | “You couldn't get within a block of Just Phone or Call at the Bl a Japanese woman or child,” he| said Later this attitude was replaced| P. 0. BOX 1201 by curiosity. Fifty or a hundred| Japanese followed groups of soldiers cn shopping tours, or just gathered to watch them on the streets. As one Japanese woman, well Manager ANNOUNCING Wallpaper “WARDROBE” For Your Home IMPERIAL WASHABLE WALLPAPER THIS WALLPAPER IS JUST WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN ) IN AND SEE this beautiful selection that will make your home LOOK FRESH, BEAU- IMPERIAL WASHABLE WALLPAPER has been advertised in the Ladies’ Home Journal, Good and featured by the leading JUNEAU PAINT AND SUPPLY COMPANY (Mai! Orders Given Prompt Attention) THE DAILY ALASKA E’VIPIRE JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1946 * ALASKASHIPPERS FALSE ARREST SEEKING VESSELS SUIT BROUGHT TOBRING CARGOES AGAINST SITKA Mass Meetmg of Maritime Henry Moy / Asks $10,000 Unions Called for Damages in Acfion Fil- Thursday Night ed Here Today SEATTLE, June 11—With ship-, The incorporated City of Sitka, ping cn the Seattle waterfront idle its Mayor, Councilmen and Police from lack of cargo offers, shippers offic both personally and offi- said last night Alaska shippers | cially, are named co-defendants in have been swamping operators in a personal damage suit for $10,000 efforts to clear their freight from!filed here this morning by attor- the port before the pending mari- ney Willlam L. Paul, Jr. in the time strike deadline set for June name of Henry Moy, plaintiff. 15. In addition to Mayor Charley A mass meeting. of all maritime Petersen, defendants nemed are Councilmen Clarence Rands, Frank Price, W. C. Charteris, Jim Bright- unicns scheduled to strike was set for Thursday evening and the pub- lic was invited to attend. Burt man, Kenneth Norby and William Nelson, chairnfin of the Joint Sarvela and Policemen Rhedes H. Strike Strategy Committee, said Cameron and Ernest Dennis. The two causes of action listed in the complaint are: Unlawful arrest and failure to admit to bail. Specifically, Moy, a Sitka fish buyer, 1lleges that he was arrested jat 1:30 am., May 26, 1946 and de- tained in jail for six hours before he was released and ordered to re- port to the City Magistrate the fol- lowing day, which he did and was thereupon discharged by the Ma- , gistrate from accusations of drunk and disorderly conduct. that atrthe time of arrest he had committed no breach of the peace the meeting was called to “explain the position of the striking unions to the general public.” Previous strikes have greatly de- iayed the normal spring movement of freight to Alaska. Py v S COLUMBIA RIVER FISHERMEN ARE OUT ON STRIKE his person sufficient funds to post any reasonable amount of bail and that the arresting officers refused and failed to notify the Magistrate of his demand that bail be set. ASTORIA, June 11.—The Coium- bia River Fishermen’s Protective Union (CIO) was on strike today, tying up the principal U. S. source of chinook salmon. i | The 1000 union fishermen refus- ed to go to work promptly at noon yesterday—official start of the sal- mon season—demanding about a 25 percent price increase on all fish sation for damage to his good rame and reputation, Moy asks his legal costs and attorney fees. The action was filed here with the of- fice of the lClcl'k of the Distrigf caught. 'The fishermen own or lease their own beats and have been Court. getting a top price of 17 cents a e 17 ifound for Chifiook A D, HOME FROM MARINES JENSE 8 NDED on [f\l(ci:?;; ;Ufel::ilegsmdriviug Ex-Corp. Roland (Bud) Edwards, of a motor vehicle within the City " of i e il e limits of Juneati, Frank E. Olseh, ....° ps nome with his parents, | Jr;, was yesterday fined $25 here by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray. In addition, Olsen's driver’s license was suspended for a perfod of one | year. Olsen, who was amested by | Highway Patrolman Hubert J. Gil- ilxgqn with the agsistance of City Poliee, pleaded guilty to the charge.| - ,—e- 5 LONG WAY FROM HOME after nearly two years service with the Marine Corps. Young Edwards saw action through the Gilbert, Marshall and Mariannas Islands campaigns, and rather gives the impression he much prefers Alas- ka He is not a compiete stranger to the Territory he worked on the Alcan 1Zigh ¢ prior to joining the Marines, and was in Juneau last Ncvember visiting while on fur- lough. Miss Mae Suhrbier, a recent ar- riva] in Juneau from Squth Hill, Va,, (and known to her friends as He asserts' |or other offense, that he had upon | In addition to $10,000 in compen- | ALLAN CHAPMAN, JR., OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU JUNEAU, ALASKA WEATHER BULLETIN DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 1:30 A. 1T, 120TH MERIDIAN TIME .U. 8. DEPARTM ADVERTISING AGENCY OFrCIAL, IN JUNEAU Max. terap, | TODAY last | Lowest 4:30am. 241 Weather at | Allan Chapman discharged Station 24 hrs* | temp. temp. Precip. 4:30am. § from the AAF six weeks ago, '\nd'AnLhorwe 46 47 23 Cloudy who is vice-president of the Alas- |Barrow 33 33 0 Cloudy ka Advertising Agency with main Bethel 30 42 02 Drizzle citices in Anchorage, is in Juneau | Cordova | 48 47 10 Drizzle to set up an office. | Dawson 57 57 Cloudy The, Alaska Advertising Agency | Edmonton 45 49 Clear is designed to give the adverti "F""ba"ks 47 41 Rain poth here and in the States a_com- | Haines 51 51 Cloudy plete advertising service. The firm: |Juneas . .. [, 4 50 Rain has a complete agency including ar- | Juneu Airpert e 47 Drizzle tist, lay-out, radio director and witl | Ketchikan, 50 Rain have a total staff of elght to assist | <ot7zbuc 33 28 Cloudy the advertiser in a professional ser- | MCG 4 i3 3 Rain vice. Nome 40 34 38 Drizzle kg Northway % a 47 Cloudy Pelersburg 59 50 Cloudy METHODIST LADIES Portiand w a7 50 P, Cloudy Prince George 69 36 45 Cloudy AFTERNOON CIRCLE ' mrince rupent 5 50 : | San Francis 61 . 0 MEETING TOMORROW catic 72 S0 CERA B SEEGIS | sitka 47 47 Cloudy J The Afternoon Circle of the W. 8. v tehorse £ o Ry v Clear at 49 48 49 Cloudy C. 8. of the Mathodist Church will meet tomorrow afterncon with Mrs (4:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 a. m-todny‘ R. L. Emil, 610 Eleventh Street,! WEATHER northern i as hostess. Devotions will be led' Canada was moving s pressure |} by Mrs. Jane McMullin. Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of Ald&kA sout d ll.\s r:\:. ! over the 3 he past 24 hours causing a stronger flow of me maritime air hie coastal area of Southeast Alecka attended by rain and drizzle. fallen during the past 24 heurs at scattered stations over north- United States, Canada and Alaska. MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Anyone dsiring transportation is < requested to call Mrs. Robert Treat, it was announced. The an- nouncement has also been made that a bake sale to ke held June 21 at Berts Cash Grocery was p! ned at the last regular busi Reports from Marine Stations at 12:30 P. M. Today meeting, with Mrs. Treat in charge. WIND Height of Waves All members are asked to contact Station Weather Temp. Dir.and Vel (Scncuv\ditiofir. | Mrs. Treat in regard to donations.! Cape Decision Cloudy 51 w 9 1 foot { — e Cape Spencer Cloudy 49 WSW ] 1 foot i DOUGLAS WEDDING | Eldred Rock Clou 54 S 18 3 feet i A Juneau couple, Serena LaFlora Five Fihger Lizht Fog swW 10 C ;Im Grigegs and Ray Colin McKinzie, ' Guard Island Cloudy s 2 Zero were united in marriage last eve- Linéoln Rock Cloudy Nw 4 Zero I ni; by U. S. Commissioner Felix Point Retreat -Cloudy SW. 7 1 foot ‘ The ding service was - performed at the Gray home, in I\.{\RINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD ENDING WEDNESDAY EV! J Detglaé with: the couple being at- Ttlfl‘-I’GA Lyl!:\ Canal—southerly winds 15 to 20 miles per hour becoming § tended by Henry Olive and Helen »an‘dble under 15 miles per hour tonight. Protected waters of Southeast Gosdrich Alaska couth of Lyhn Canal—variable winds under miles per hour. o T ()_utsidar wn_ttv“s. Dixcn Entrance to Yakutat—westerly to southwesterly winds 15 miles per hour. Cloudy with local rain becoming variable cloudi- | e o o 8 0 o » o r - e w» = nessbyWednesday. 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