The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1946 VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,305 NORTHWEST EISENHOWER | WASINDARK ONREDPLAN Stalin Refused to Reveal Strategy Until 4 Months Before V-E Day WASHINGTON, June 24. — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower recorded in| his final report today as Supreme Commander in Europe that he was kept in the dark about Russia’s grand strategy until four months before V-E day. i Then, however, Marshall Stalin| came through with full plans for| the Red Army’s final offensive, which became one jaw of a vi that crushed the German war ma-| chine “to a degree never. before experienced in the history of mo-| dern armies.” | Detailed Report Eisenhower's belatedly published 123-page detailed report to the combined Chiefs of Staff covered the fateful months from D-Day in| Normandy to the German surren- der. It was released by the War| Department, which said only minor details were deleted for security reasons. In it, the present Army Chief of | Staff recorded briefly his difficul-| ties of coordination with the Red| Army while lauding the teamwork of the Western Allies. The United States and Great Britain, he said, | fought as “one nation.” { { | { | i { Aside from teamwork, Eisenhower | to Allied might and “ invincibility i of spirit” and to miscalculations by ' | Rundstedt, the Nazi Commander in WITH FRANCO In Eisenhower’s judgment, three battles were decisive in liberating | . . 1. The battle of the Normandy Se( ur ”y COlln(ll TU s beaches, where the foe was revealed | . Down Resolution by difficulties of supply and commun- | jeations réulting largely from the| “Completely misled” by Allied di-| Npw YORK, June 24—Poland versionary operations, . von Rund-iicqay jost a hard-fought battle for the Pas-de-Calals opposite Eng-|nNations bieak with Franco Spain. land, waiting for a second assaultl‘ The vote was 7 to 4 against Po- 2. The battle of the Falaise pock-| Only Poland, Russia and Mexico et, where the enemy “showed that supported the resolutiom calling for when all the logic of war demanded |taken shortly after the Security & strategic withdrawal.” Council met. The seven other ing February and March, 1945, move. where “the armies which had been| Poland's charges against Genor- shattered beyond recovery.” {ace to peace were made in April, |and France, Russia and Mexico then i w h' t | with Madrid. e as lng On\ The charges were turned over to G R d‘a sub-committee and the work of i {promisce resolution. | Security Council to reconsider Po- WASHINGTON—If Justice Jack-|land’s proposal for an immediate determination to press for an in—} vestigation' of Supreme Court Jus-! ! | should open up some extremely in- FRE'GHIER ODUNA | teresting facts which the public POLAND LOSES A 1946 Style for Japanese Three dancing girls at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo mcdel new 1946 style Japanese bathing suits, known as the “Demccratic suits.” Left to right: Mitsuko Kitajima, Akike Yokogi and Yoshito Kubomura. NCHORAGE AIR BOOSTERS HAVE TRUMAN INVITE GroupWill&;ranIee King Salmon on Alaska Summer Visit BY MORRIS J. HARRIS (AP NEWS ANALYST) Dangling the attraction of catch- ing king salmon, “finest in the world,” a group of Alaska boosters today or tomorrow pian to invite President Truman to visit their {rontier Territory this summer, to “sce what goes on” up there. The visitors to Washington say the President fished in Puget Sound last summer “and didn't get a bite” and “guarantee” that if he will go to Alaska he will find the fishing election returns, listing 1381 Demo- cecurity Couneil good. Twenty-twe Alaska and ons woman have flown from the great peninsula to urge an American air line to the Far East via Alaska. The visit of this flying Alaskan delegation to the U. 8. is a climax of a campaign to get the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington to authorize a Far East route via Alaska. One delegate said political pres- sure from Seattle, San Francisco and other West Coast areas “with the vote: trans-Pacific flights gb and come through those areas. businessmen The expedition came down over route of the Alcan Highway,| BIKINI TEST REHEARSAL = "ON TARGET" Practice Bomb Is Dropped | Through Cloud Cover | -""Good"" Results ABOARD A B-29 CIRCLING BI-| KINI, June 24—Thke B-29 crew scheduled to drep the atomic bomb | in a few days outguessed the: weatber today and scored “good™| results with a practice bomb ) after their plane’s propeller killed ! an Army Air Forces captain just| before the take-off. A Maj. Gen dropped bemb todey, said: “The Queen's Day mission fromw) an air operations point of view, was apparently satisfactory. Final judgment depends on photographs and reports.” (From the the practice U.S.8. Mc McKinley, Associated Press Correspondent El-' & ton C. Fay quoted the atomic bomb | task force commander, Vice Adm. W. H. R. Blandy, as saying that the experiment was “swell, T hope the real show is as good as the rehearsal.” | Clouds obliterated the target! ships in Bikini Lagoon when the B-29 piloted by Maj. Wcodrow _ ' Swancutt of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., 'made its first run. But by the time ithe big plane came around again, the bombardier, Harold H. Wood, ¢ Bord-ntown, N. J., was able to tak; agdyaniage.of shifting clouds to drop Ihis. practice tomb within thirtesn seccnds of the scheduled time (Fay, aboard the Mt. McKinley, said the kFomb went off “like a ball or orange flame bursting close to the target ships” in the Bikini fleet that is to be used on or about fourth The July 1 when the world’s atomic bomb is drepped {Mt. McKinley was 10 mil but Fay said the bomb apparently went off at an altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 feet betWween the old battle- ships USS Nevada and the light | carrier, .Independence.) CLOSE PRIMARY " RACES SETTLED ~ INFOURTH DIV Final Fourth Division primary crat and 826 Republican votes cast in the April 30 election, have now been certified by Clerk of Court John B. Hall and received here by ithe Auditor of Alaska. The offi- cial count settles close races for Territorial House nominations in both parties. . In doubt until the last precincts iwere in, the line-ups for the fall election for the Fourth Divisions ifive seats in the House of Repre- |sentatives are as follows, with total ivotes after each name: Democrats—Victor Johnson 803, are seeking to have the pegie R. Dale 789, Rokert Hoopes Grcmyko calling for “prohik 1751, Robert McCombe 740, Moore 701. { Republicans—L. F. Joy 474, A. F. | (Joe) Coble 446, Maurice T. John- George Roger Ramey of Done=i’ tcn, Tex., who rode the B-20 lhlbi. ~ MEMBI PRICE TEN CENTS ‘R ASSOCIATED PRESS Milifa o g s n i £ ry_PBIicem en Guard Recovered Jewels Milif iy pelicemen guard a display of jewels in Washingfon which are part of the $1,500,000 loot taken Li. Col. Ralph W. Pierce, Chief of the Provest Marshal's Criminal Investigation Branch is third fiom right and Majo: John D. Salb, his assistant, is second from right. from Kronberg castle in Germany. (AT Pheto) 1.5.PROPOSAL GIVEN KNOCK BY RUSSIANS Soviet Wifie ver Sur- render Vefo Power in Afomic Confrol Plan MOSCOW, June 24.—Pravda’ de- clared today that Soviet Russia nev- cr will surrender the veto power in an atomic control plan, and said the United States proposal for con- trol of the weapon ‘“reflects evident | striving for world rule.” | In our times, such striving can- not succeed,” Pravda said in Its lengthy international review de-| nouncing the proposal of Bernard' M. Baruch to the United Nations, as the ‘pro-; duct of gtomic diplomacy.” The official Communist news-; paper said that “there is not and| cennot be a surrender of this right” of veto in atomic matters,; such as the Barauch plan envisages | if the United States is to share its| secret of atomic fission in an ef-: fort to outlaw and control $2,000,000,000 weapon. | Soviet Proposal i Th2 newspaper praised the Rus- sian counter prcposal placed before | the Security Council by And el | ion’f of preduction and usz ol atomic) bombs — that in a few words is the essence of the Soviet proposal “The Soviet plan reflects un-» and defense and universal security,” this! the 2 | flying an Alaska Airlines plane, and | 500 443, Patrick Savage 367, Lawr- changing Soviet politics of peace | 4 J |ence W. Meath 346, | pulled up, via Edmonton, Canada,| ¥ AME RICA'S NEW CHIEF JUSTICE Secretary of the Tebasury Fred M. Vinson, ersiwhile jurist, who has been selected by Président Truman to be the ncw Chief Justice of the | United States Supreme Court. He is pictured in his robes as Asso- ciate Justice of the Didtrict Court of Appeals, Vinson served Presi- dent Tocsevelt as war mobilizer. | } { | ceremony on the south portico of | Befere geing on the Federal beneh, | Vinson scrved 14 years as a leader in the House of Representatives. JURY FOR REDIN ESPIONAGE TRIAL EMPANELED TODAY Russian Consul - General from San Francisco in VINSON IS NOW CHIEF, HIGH COURT Takes Two Oaths on Lawn at White House-Cere- mony Is Unusual WASHINGTON, June -24.—Fred M. Vinson became the nation’s 13th Chief Justice today at a colorful the White House. Thousands watched the ceremony ! from: the sun-bathed lawn to the rear of the mansion. In solemn tones, Vinson declared ] 1“I do, so help me God,"” in taking | each of the customary two oaths. President Truman declared that Vinson's appointment as the 13th Chief Justice was “lucky for the United States and-lucky for Mr. Vinson,” and added, “I hope it is.” 9 Minute Ceremony The entire ceremony lasted nine minutes. Before Vinson, attired in a dark blue suit, stepped out onto the portico to be sworn in, a Navy band played “Pomp and Circum- stance.” s set the pattern for the usu- mony, which was planned Truman to rival in color a Presidential inauguration. The Chief Justice took one oath to support and defend the Consti- tution and another to provide equal Jjustice to rich and poor. President told the he had “labored long and that crowd | concluded that the victory was due it Hitler and Field Marshal von Three Decisive Battles Europe: T as a stubborn fighter but beset by ! Vote, Seven-Four Allied hammering from the air.| stedt held the bulk of his forces i gy jmmediate and complete United which never came. land’s resolution. fatal tendency to stand and fight s diplomatic break when a vote was 3. Battles west of the Rhine dur- held up their hands against the intended to defend Germany were alissimo Francisco Franco asa mem- lined up with Poland for a break |that group was washed out last By DREV;-PEARSON | Dr. Lange today calied upon the son really goes through with his; break. H tices' previous law connections, it Yfll._b;no has never heard about. "If Justice Jackson or someone| ¢lse had opened this up 15 years before, it would have saved the taxpayers a lot of money. For there are some glaring examples where Supreme Court Justices did not disqualify themselves when old law connections . appeared before th Supreme Court. Why Jackson pick- ed on Hugo Black—aside from per- sonal pique—is a mystery. Here are HAS HEFTY CARGO . FOR ALASKA ROAD | SEATTLE, June 24—Carrying a |hefty deckload, including a 30-ton caboose and a 57-ton roadbed spreader” for the Alaska Railroad, the Alaska Steamship Company freighter has sailed for Seward. { Other cargo items were a 40-ton | i some of the other cases he could|power shovel, for the United States| also have cited. jArmy Engineers; a nine-ton fire| Cose No. 1—Justice Owen Roberts |truck, and 16 tons of railroad track, | was formerly a director’of the Bel];also for the Alaska Railroad. | Telephone Company, also of Ameri-1 Too heavy to be loaded by thef can Telephone and Telegraph, and |ship’s gear, the caboose and bandled legal work for those com- | spreader were taken aboard by al panies. Yet when the Chesapeake giant floating crane owned by the and Potcmac Telephone Company, a subsidiary of these two companies which Roberts once represented, came before the Supreme Court, he did he wrote the majority opinion. That opinion over-ruled - the Maryland Public Service Commis- sion which wanted to reduce tele- hone rates. However, the former Girector and attorney for the par- (Continued on Page Four) \army. The crane, capable of lifting ;mcre than 100 tons, easily plucksd ithe railroad equipment from |pier to the Oduna’s deck. a full load of general cargo for Seward and Alaska interior points. i ANDERSON HERE ALVIN Alvin Anderson, of Anchorage, arrived here this weekend. He is staying at the Baranof, i i | £3 l in the U. S. middle west. ‘They found the going good and enthu- siasm high in. the Twin Cities, Chicago and thereabouts, and de- leided to take their case personally to Washington. ——e—— - 'BUILDINGS AND BARS BEFORE (Y COUNCI At this evening's special meet- on hand when last Friday's regu- lar session went by the boards for want of a quorum, the Juneau City the ! Council will come face to face with the '80-page new building code not step aside. On the contrary, | In her hold’s, the Oduna carried | which is up for first reading. The other matter before the Council will be final action on the ordinance extending liquor store and bar hours, which becomes ef- fective July 1 if finally passed to- | night. cdlled at o'clock, This evening’s meeting is the City Hall for 8 The “also rans” were: Demo- pravda said, terming Gromyka's |crats, Frank Angerman 695, Everett suggestion “humane, Cclear . and | W. Patton 678. Republicans, Albert workable.” ! |F. Dorsh 331, Walter S. Calhoun The Russian proposal has keen| 1313, Sylvia Ringstad 285, Irving published conspicuously and textu- {Reed 265, George E. King 240, Henry ally in Russia. Baruch’s Ameri- |P. Karstens 212. can plan never has been publish- | Other final totals on the Fourth ed as fillers or in its complete text |Division Democrat ballot were: E. in the Soviet press. |L. Bartlett for delegate 1269; Oscar Raps U. S G. Olson for treasurer 1067; K. C.| Pravda said the United States| Johnsen 652, and Walter Sharpe government counted on naming the 499 for labor commissioner; Jesse period, under its own judgment, iD. Lander 944, Warren A. Taylor during which it will permit an in- 1785, and Alaska S. Linck 595 for ternational agency “hy successive {the two senate nominations. stages to peep into the secrets of On the Republican ballot were its ‘atomic kitchen'” | George G. Grigsby 402, and Almer The American plan amounts, as the,ing, called. by'Mayor Waino Hen-|J Peterson 273 for delegate; Cash a matter of fact, to clinching the | drickson to dispose of matters left Cole 507 and Leonard Soholt 171 mcnopoly position of the United’ i 'ihe Russian Navy loaned Red- | faithfully” in choosing a successor ROCKED BY EARTH SHOCKS WIDE SECTION ALONG COAST GIVEN SHAKE _Building's—S—way, Roads Damage-Extensive Prop- | erly Damage-One Death | SEATTLE, June 24.—Walls fell and a hillside walked yesterday morning in the Pacific northwest when a strong earth shock jarred a wedge-shaped piece of the coastal area from Vancouver Island to +bia and south to Olympia, Wash. One man died, Jacon L. King- ure when Seattle’s downtown build- ings swayed above him as he walk- other reports of deaths or injuries. The quake knocked the needle 1of Washington’s seismograph at 19:1430 am. (PST) and was record- physical Observatory i Victoria, B. C. It was noticeable for a full | versity reported iis equipment con- tinued to record vibrations for an "It was the most severe in sev- eral years,” said Dr. J. A. Pearce, | cstimating its. epicenter as near |Vlcmrh. probably 25 miles distant. From the villages along the east coast of Vancouver. Island,. nerth jof Victoria, came reports of exten- sive damage to buildings and roads. feet closer to the sea at Campbell { River and a house moved five feet { | . At Port Alberni the top of a the street. At Courtenay a collap- ‘slng chimney smashed through two 1a classroom which, on a weekday, ! would have been occupied by 60 | the Courtenay postoffice and plate | glass show windows were shattered. 1 Across the Strait of Georgia at | Vancouver, B. C, "tall buildings sonry crashed to the pavement from the Canadian National Rail- group of people, a low-pressure gas line snapped and there were sev- There were several chimney fires {and a swing-span bridge was push- idred families of war veterans fled from the old Hotel Vancouver. George Pinley, Canadian Press staff writer, sald the Lions Gate couver harbor, largest suspension \span in the Empire, “swayed like jcompanied by *“a low rumbling sound, like a deep growl.” into Seattle was cracked but traf- tic continued to cross, with high- to keep it moving slowly. North of the city, in Everett, two Kelowna in central British Colum- ston, 69, succumbing to heart .fail- ed teward church. There were no from the recorder at the University ed at 9:14 by the Dominion Astro- !'minute to Seattleites, but the Uni- hour. ( Director of the Dominion station, Extensive Damage - i A 300-foot high hill “walked” 35 1 off its foundation. !bnck-rrnnted building crashed to ! floors of an elementary school into children. One wall collapsed from At Vancouver swayed crazily and a plece of ma- way station, narrowly missing a eral power interruptions. Jed upon by the quake. Five hun- Bridge Sways bridge across the entrance to Van- a leal.” He said the tremor was ac- One bridge on a highway leading way department employees on hand power lines crossed and shorted ut, interrupting service for 30 min- utes. | Vavilov, \for treasurer; Henry A. Benson 50 states im the production of a'.uxmrl {for labor commissioner; Andrew weapons for an indefinite period,” Nerland 694 and E. B. Collins 616 pPravda continued. “During this per- for the two senate nominations. iod, which will be conditioned by —_—————— development IN FROM ANCHORAGE internaticnal control organ, thej Mrs. J. B. McSorley and Mrs. United States intends to produce | | Jim Norton, residents of Anchorage, and store atomic Lombs.” |are guests at the Baranof. i = FROM KETCHIKAN 2 \ Ketchikan residents reghstering ~Mis. L. E. McKibben arrived at the Baranof are Norman Walk- here this weekend from Wrangell. | er, Zada L, Barbour, R. N. Haster. She is staying at the Baramof. e f MRS. M’KIBBEN HERE I Seattle for Case SEATTLE, June Russian 24.—Michael S. Consul-General, to the late Chief Justice Harlan F, Stone. Pertinent Remark There was one remark by Pres- was here today from San F1ancisco jdent Truman which many consid- Redin, 38, for whom a jury paneliipree pranches of the Government| United States is the branch was to be drawn in Federal Dis- trict Court today. Vavilév conferred with Redin and Defense Attorneys Tracy E. Grif- fin, Seattle, and Irvin ~Goodfan, Portland. The Soviet Purchasing Commission posted the lisutenant's bail and continuing his pay, and is feoting trial costs. The consul in to the Purchasing Commission, The U. 8. Government charges that Redin, while on duty here, in- duced and attempted to induce er, named as principal government or work Of an,geypert Kennedy, a shipyard work-| ito report to the Russian govern-|ered a cue to the unusual cere- iment on the espionage trial of mony Russian Navy Lieutenant Nicolai G. “We all know that one of the! of the of the Judiciary-—the Judicial branch. The Supreme Court is at Scores of chimneys fell in the Vancouver Island coastal area and the Island highway was cracked at many places, Ope of the most dramatic re- sults was a huge crack, opened in Big-Four Glacier on the Cascade Mountain of the same name north- east of ere. William O. Petraberg, owner of a nearby resort reported | téday that “the glacier shifted with !a great rumble. I looked across the |actively on the bench.” the top of the Judicial branch. All} of Us have the utmost respect for | the courts of the country, and we! know that that respect will be en-| hanced when Mr. Vinson becomes Chief Justice of the United States, | (Continued on Page Eight) PSRV S A A5y STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 24-Closing quotation A recent blast by Justice Robert H. Jackson from Germany against Justice Hugo Black brought versy into the open a long-smoldering contro- | within the ranks of the Na- of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor- poration 6%, American Can 104, Anaconda 46%, Commonwealth and Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 95, Kenne- witness in Redin's indictment, to WON'S bighest :T:”‘ \cott 56'%, New York Central 26, chtain the plans of the destroyer S g { Northern Pacific 31%, United Cor- tender, the U.S.S. Yellowstone NICE . BEX. HERE poration 5%, U. S. Steel 86%, > IN FROM SITKA Milan J. H;mun, a resident Sitka, is staying at the Baranof. | Nick Bez, cannery operator, ar-| rived here from Todd over the| of weekend. He registered at the Bar- follows: anof., (Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 980,000 shares, Dow, Jones averages today are as industrials 203.56, rails 66.33, utilitiés 41.82.