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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
SEN. C0FFEY GIVES SAY,
 RATE CASE

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov 19.-- Edward D. Coffey, President of the Territorial Senate, urges the Alaska Development Board to take over the impending battle against the freight rate increases on ships operating from Seattle to Alaska.
 He declared If the proposal to conduct hearings starting Nov. 27 goes through as scheduled, he will become an active worker in favor of statehood
 T am sure this rate matter would not be handled in this manner if we had two Senators representing Alaska in Congress. If they won't allow postponement so Alaska can prepare its case, it is enough to convince me we must have state hood
 Coffey urged the Development Board to request the postponement and hire the nations leading rate expert to come here with a staff to prepare the case against further freight rate increases.
 T would be glad to defend the Beard from possible criticism. re- gardless of the cost" Coffey said
 Meanwhile civic and business or ganizations continued a barrage of protests requesting postponement of the rate hearings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
TRIAL OF NAH WAR CRIMINALS
 STARTS TUESDAY
Former Chief, Security Po- lice, Suffers Brain Hem
 orrhdge Last Night
By GEORGE TUCKER

NUREMBERG, Germany, Nov 19 Ernst Kaltenbrunner, former chief of the Nazi Security Police, suf- fered a brain hemorrhage in his cell last night, but a spokesman for the U. s. prosecutors office said today he would have to answer charges before the International War Crimes Tribunal
 An indication that Kaltenbrun- ner would not be present at the scheduled opening tomorrow of the trial of top-flight Nazis came from physicians at the 116th U. S. Army Hospital where he was rushed for treatment The doctors said he was finished" with the trial, at least temporarily.
 The spokesman in the office of Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief U. s. prosecutor, said the court itself would decide whether Kal- tenbrunner would be tried at a later date when his condition im- proved or be brought into the trial The prosecution regards Kalten- brunner as the No defendant among the list of indicted Nazis
 Postponement Wanted
 France and the Soviet Union are pressing for a postponement of the trial. r it opens on schedule there may be anly 19 of the 24 Nazis tried in the original indict- ment on hand
 Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, industrialist, is suffering from softening of the brain and has been excused. Robert Ley. labor front boss, committed suicide sev- eral weeks ago in his cell. Martin Bormann, No. 2 Nazi and Adolf Hitler's deputy. is officially listed as missing and will be tried in absentia. Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi. is reported mentally incapable, and ruling on whether he will stand trial is awaited.
 Kaltenbrunner Bully" Type
 Col. B. c. Andrus, prison com mandant, said Kaltenbrunner was a bully type" whose nerves caught up with him and reduced him to spells of weeping. Andrus added that Kaltenbrunner had been sub ject to spells of hysteria for sev- eral weeks.
 Kaltenbrunner ordered the execu- tion of Associated Press Core spondent Joseph Morton in defi- ance of all rules of war. Morton was captured by the Germans after he flew into Slovakia during a Czechoslovak uprising and was ex- ecuted in the Mauthausen Concen- tration Camp last Jan. 24.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
CLIPPER BRINC5
 IN THANKSGIVING
 TRIMMINGS TODAY

Loaded with a ton ana a half of holiday perishables and flowers, Pan Americans holiday special cargo Clipper arrived this noon at Juneau airport.
 So that despite the tie-up in boat schedules, Alaskas tables will sparkle with cut flowers and vegetables fresh from Seattle farms and florists this Thanksgiving. The clipper brought 231 pounds of holiday ex- press to Juneau, 500 pounds for Anchorage, and l,ll7 pounds for Fairbanks. Forty pounds of perish ablss and flowers were unloaded this morning in Ketchikan,
 Nine hundred and forty pounds of the Fairbanks bound express is sent by Pan American Airways itself to it's company employees there.
 The flight today marks the first time Pan American Alaska Clipper has been devoted entirely to com- mercial cargo. The flight was plan ned several months ago to handle the heavy demand for holiday per- ishables.
 Another holiday special" flight is being planned for pre-Christmas trade, Pan American officials said today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
NIP GOVERNMENT
 ORDERED TO GIVE
 BACK ALL RADIOS

TOKYO, Nov 19-Gen. MacAr- thur has ordered the government of Japan to give back to the Japa- nese people some 100000 radios which were taken from them dur ing the war. These are the receiv- ing sets which the Tokyo war lords confiscated because they feared the effects of Allied broad casts on their people. MacArthur's directive gives the present Jap government until Dec. l to figure out some way of restoring the con- fiscated radios to private owner ship.
 The headquarters directive was explained by MacArthur's chief of communications for the occupation forces, Maj. Gen. Spencer Akin. Gen. Akin pointed out that with newspaper distribution seriously curtailed, the Japs now depend largely on the radio for news and recreation, and he said that with more radios back in private homes, the Japanese will have much better opportunity to hear free speech.
 Another Macarthur directive is aimed squarely at preventing the defeated empire from ever again becoming a menace in the skies. The order called for the liquidation of Japan's once extensive civil aviation industry by the end of the year. This means no more private flying, no pilot training of any sort and no further research in aeronautics.
 Japan Airways, Limited, once one Of the biggest commercial airlines in the Far East, will have to go out of business. Even private own ership of balloons is forbidden under the new directive.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
Seattle Newspapers pitkeied Today by 1ypographiea! Union

SEATTLE, Nov. l9-Pickets were thrown around the plants of three Seattle newspapers today by the Typographical Union (AFL) Local 202 which last night voted to strike after turning down a management wage increase proposal.
 The Post-Intelligencer, a morn- ing paper. was shut down after one edition The other two. the Times and Star, are afternoon papers.
 The Times and Star--were unable to publish early editions today. And earlier, the morning paper = the Post st-Intelligencer-failed to go to press after putting out one edition before the strike started. Employees associated with other unions includ- ing the CIO Newspaper Guild are refusing to pass picket lines and remain away from wofk.
 The printers want an increase % $l350 a day-waich would represent boost of $295. The publishers offered S1.e5 daily increase.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
SEN. BENNETT GOES TOBAT FOR NORTH
 ON RATE INCREASE

WASHINGTON, Nov. l9 - Pro- posed increased marine rates from, to and within Alaska would be disastrous to the territory's econ omy, Rep. Bennett CR-Mo) wrote Chairman Emory s. Land of the U. s. Maritime Commission today.
 The economy of Alaska. the Mis- sourian said, is vital to the security of the United States.
 He said he was alarmed" at an announcement that a hearing will be held in Seattle, Nov 27 on a proposal to increase the rates which he declared already are excessive.
 Bennett recently visited Alaska as a member of the House Terri tories Committee.
 T know this is not giving Alas kans sufficient time to prepare their case on the complex subject involved" he wrote Land.
 T am alarmed because no plans have apparently been made to holc hearings in Alaska as we'll as with in the United States"
 Bennett expressed hope tie hear. ing will be postponed to permit more time for Alaskans to prepare their case.
 Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) alsC has asked that the hearings be de: ferred
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
CONVICTED BEAST. OF BELSEN," !" OTHERS
 WILL APPEAL CASES

LUENEBURG, Nov. l9.-Josef Kramer, "The Beast of Belsen, 2 stony -visaged, g year old Irma Grese, Queen of the Belsen gang, and six others facing the gallows for tortures inflicted on concentration camp inmates, will appeal their con- victions.
 A British announcement said yes terday that 26 of the 30 defendants sentenced to imprisonment or death in the trial which ended Saturday would appeal, and the appeals would be lodged with British Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
TWO FORCES LINING Up
 FOR FIGHT
Communists Make Threats as NationaIisfs' Army
 PIunges On

CHUNGKING. Nov 19-Chinese Communists declared today their sympathizers were ready to seize Manchurias capital Dec. l to fore stall a Nationalist Army that had plunged l2 miles into the vast in- dustrial region from the south.
 A Communist spokesman said crack. U. s. equipped Nationalist troops were pouring into Man. churia through gap ripped in the Communist line with the fall Of the frontier fortress of Shanhaikwan.
 Other Nationalist forces had famed out 30 miles west of Shan- haikwan, he asserted, but despite the reverses Communist troops were determined to fight 1t out all the way to the capital of Changchun, 440 miles northeast of Shanhaik- wan.
 Associated Press Correspondent Olen Clements, in q dispatch from Tientsin, said the green-clad Ma tionalist columns were mushroom ing out in three directions against only sporadic fire after smashing the main Communist defense line along the great wall g
 Gle reported that 5000 Commliil- ist troops were in retreat to the northeast in the bitter cold of Manchuria to avoid being out flanked by the swift m ving columns
 First Big Battle"
 The Communist spokesman pre- dicted that the first big battle" for Manchuria would be fought at the railway city of Chinhsien, 100 miles northeast of Shanhaikwan on the Peiping -Mukden Railway.
 He admitted that while the Com munist troops had been thrown back at Manchuria's border. they would keep right on resisting the advance of the Nationalist Armies through the vast territory.
 The spokesman said this resist ance would persist as long as the Chungking Government fails to consult the people, on the form of government to be adopted.
 Disarming Japanese
 Meanwhile. American Marines i'll the North China port of Tsingtao began loading 5000 disormed Japa- nese naval air force personnel on Japanese merchant ships for return home
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
New Governor for
 Idaho, Also Senator

BOISE, Ida, Nov. l9 Governor Charles c. Gossett, Democrat, has resigned and was immediately ap- pointed junior United States Sen- ator, succeeding John Thomas. Re- publican, who died in Washington.
 Gossett's resignation elevated It. Gov. Arnold Williams, Rexburg Democrat, to the governorship. Will Hams then appointed Gossett, giv- ing Idaho two Democratic Senators for the first time since 1903. Idaho's other senator is Glen Taylor of Pocatello.
 Gossett, 57 = year - old Nam D a farmer and stockgrower, was elected governor in l944.
 His appointment increased the Democrats Senate seats to 56, with 38 Republicans and one Progress sive.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
DIRECTIVE
 ISSUED BY
 MaeARTHUR
Those Responsible e for Many Crimes to Be
 Taken Into Custody
By RUSSELL BRINES

TOKYO, Nov. 19.-Eleven Japa- nese war leaders, including Generals accused Of responsibility for the rape of Ranking, the Mukden incident and the bombing of the U. s. gum boat Panay, were ordered arrested today.
 Simultaneously, headquarters an- nounced that 57 more accused Japa- nese war criminals-mostly minor characters charged with brutalities against war prisoners-were in GUS tody.
 General MacArthur-- directed that the II be delivered to Sugamo pris- on camp, Tokyo.
 While the men were not Specifi- cally named as war criminals, all were associated prominently with the militarist decade and include some key men previously ignor- cd in American lists of wanted Japanese.
 Two of the Japanese-Yosuke Mat suoka, former Foreign Minister, and Toshio Shiratori, former Ambassa-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
IND0NESIAN EXTREMISTS
 YIpF0R WAR
By RALPH MORTON

BATAVIA, Java, Nov. l9 An extremist Indonesian radio station called today for war on the British" and asked Indonesian youths to reinforce the ranks of the hard d-pressed native Nationalists at Semarang, scene of the latest out break on troubled Java.
 A dispatch from embattled Soera- baj ja said the British had reported evidence that the Indonesians were endeavoring to manufacture bombs and weapons on small scale there. Sporadic fighting continued in Ba- tavia.
 The Extremist broadcast by a station in the interior came after Premier Sutan Sjahrir of the up recognized Tn d on i a II Republic rushed a three-man committee to Soerabaja to investigate the fight ing in the hope that a solution could be found.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
Doggone!!! SPAR Gone!

Juneau once again is SPAR-less!
 The lccal SPAR detachment nov ed out-100 percent-yesterday.
 Agnes Schneider, Yeoman 1-c. who has been on duty in the Marine In- specticn Office, USCG. here for the past four months. as the sole member of the Coast Guards women's auxil- iary ever to be assigned here. left Sunday aboard the steamer Princess Ncrah-bound for Ketchikan and discharge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
Two Brothers Are Killed After
 Attending Funeral

LINCOLN, H., Nov. 19 Two brothers. returning from their fathers funeral. were killed when the locomotive and Il cars of an Alton Railroad passenger train left the rails after the train and their light truck collided near Lincoln. The dead were Alvin T. Byrne. Jr, 46, Mt. Vernon, H., and Myler Byrne, AT, Decatur, III
 Forty-five passengers were shaken up and a baggageman on the train was injured severely.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
Member Would Junk
 Development Board,
 Talbot Speaks Out

Jack Talbot of Ketchikan, First Division member of the Alaska De- velcpment Board, in special dis patch to The Empire charges that 1t would be a waste of the tax payers money to continue having meetings of the Alaska Development Board"
 There is little the Board can do Talbot said, until Alaska has more control over its natural resources and until reserves of all sorts-For- est, Indian, Ol, Coal-apd other re- strictions and bureaucratic red tape are largely eliminated. Certainly if freight rates are increased" said Talbot, nothing can be done to de- velop Alaska"
 Commenting further on the pro- posed freight rate increases, Talbot said that for years Alaskans have heard the old refrain: The Gug- genheims are throttling Alaska with high freight rates"
 The Guggenheims are gone, he continued, and the men who now tontrol the transportation companies to Alaska are anxious to see Alaska develop Some of them have and are willing to invest more money in en- teiprises outside of the steamship business to aid in the development of Alaska" he said. but If I were in the position of these man I would feel like investing my money in some other area where capital was want ed and encouraged They are now being blamed for conditions in water transportation. The Governor of Alaska comes out with blast against these men, laying all the blame on them"
 Talbot charged that the Maritime and Longshore unions are 20 per- cent responsible for higher costs in shipping,
 Companies. operating as agents for the War Shipping Administra- tlcn in Alaska, have had to submit to almost anything that the mari time unions have requested in order to keep vessels moving. Costs have risen tremendously and efficiency has been decreased at the same time. Slow-doWn methods have been and are the orders of the day, and the many good union men on Alaska ships, and know many of them. are helpless to do anything about it. Companies have nothing to say about the men they employ and are com pelled to take the men the unions send them, and the unions make no attempt to discipline the drunks, thieves, and inefficient that are on their membership rolls.
 "Pilfering of cargo while loading ships in Seattle and on Alaska ships has been terrific, resulting in large claims which have to be paid by the War Shipping Administration or. in ether words, the U s. taxpayers.
 Until shipping companies can select their employees from union rolls these unhealthy, obnoxious and un-American practices will continue and freight rates will go up, instead of down, unless the Government is to continue to operate the vessels at the expense of the taxpayers or grant subsidies to private companies also at the expense of the taxpayer
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Nov. l9. Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9M, American Can 106, Anaconda 42la, Curtiss- Wright 87s, International Harvester 92, Ken necott 43, New York Central 30la, Northern Pacific B, Pound $4.0314.
 Sales today were 100000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, l9l50 rails, 6404; utilities, 3826.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Steamer North Sea sailed from Seattle at 10 a. m. Saturday and may arrive here Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
 Steamer Tongass, from Seattle, with 130 tons of freight for Juneau, due Friday morning. Goes to Haines on new schedule from Juneau.
 Steamer Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Friday night at g o'clock and due in Juneau next Monday.
 No developments in Seattle re- garding Alaska Steamship Company steamers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
LLOYD Y. WINTER,
 JUNEAU PIONEER,
 ON LAST TRAIL

Again Juneau is called upon tc announce the death of one of her oldest pioneers in the passing Of Lloyd Valentine Winter at St. Ann's Hospital last night at 9 o'clock. after an illness extending over the past two years. He is survived by a brother, Harry R. Winter, now living in San Francisco.
 He was born at San Francisco, Calf, Feb. IA. 1866. During early life he was trained as an artist, his work running mostly to pen and pencil sketching. As a young man he was active in athletics. being an accomplished swimmer and an instructor of swimming for the Y.MC.A. at San Francisco. where he became acquainted with Percy Pond, his partner of years standing.
 Lure Of North
 The lure of the north called him in 1893 and he came to Juneau where he purchased a partnership in a photographic business operated by man named Landiken and the firm became known as Landiken and Winter. This was on the loca- tion where the Triangle inn is now located A year later. he had E. P. Pond. a boyhood companion. come north, and Pond bought out the in- terest of Landiken in 1894 and thereupon the wellknown local firm
 ICnntinaled on pnne Tirol
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
PRENATAL CLINIC

A prenatal clinic will be held tomorrow afternoon at l o'clock at the Government Hospital.
 Dr. M. M. Van Sandt will be in charge and Alice Connolly, field nurse, win assist.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
Y Jap War Leaders Are Ordered Arrested
FDR'S NAME MAY BE ENTERED INTO
 DISASTER INQUIRY

probable that for the first time, the name of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt will be intro duced into the inquiry of the Pearl Harbor disaster.
 This is expected when the com- mittee calls for testimony from the former Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral J. A. Richardson. He may be called to- morrow. Richardson was relieved as Pacific Fleet Commander by Mir Roosevelt several months prior to from objects is picked up by two the pearl Harbor attack after al legged disagreements with the late Chief Executive.
 The committee has learned from evidence taken in Tokyo by Gen. MacArthur's staff additional de- tails on the events leading up to the December T attack. This testi- mony quotes a former chief of Japanese naval general staff-Ad- miral Osami Nagano-as saying that he alone decided to attack Pearl Harbor. Nagano is quoted as saying he reached his decision to attack the Hawaiian bastion on Nov. 3, 1941-more than month in advance of the actual assault.
 Today's Pearl Harbor inquiry committee hearing turned into a series of political wrangles. Among other things, Democrats and Re- publicans clashed over the refusal by Republican Representative Der trand Gearhart of California to disclose a source of information
 Gearhart was asked by Demo- cratic Representative John Murphy of Pennsylvania to give the name of a naval officer the Californian said told him the Cruiser Boise sighted Japanese warships before the attack on the naval base.
 Gearhart retorted angrily that he was not on the stand as witness and was not subject to cross examination. More heated words followed from both sides.
 Admiral J. O. Richardson told the Congressional Pearl Harbor h. uuiry Committee that he questioned in I940 the policy of keeping the fleet based at Pearl Harbor. He said that Admiral Harold E. Stark explained the fleet was kept there because of the deterrent effect it might have against the Japs moving into the West Indies.
 Former Secretary of State Hull has been asked to testify in the Pearl Harbor disaster investigation. Assistant Counsel July M Hanna ford of the Congressional Commit tee Investigating the attack said today that MT Hull has been asked to follow Admiral J. O. Richardson to the stand.
 Admiral Richardson testified to- day the late President Roosevelt told him Oct. 8, 1940, that sooner or later the Japanese probably will make mistake and we will enter the war"
 Accounting a conversation with the President at the White House, the former comrander-in -in-chief of the Pacific fleet said he asked whether we were going to get into the war.
 Richardson said the President re- piled that If the Japanese attack Thailand, the Kraw Peninsula, or the Dutch East Indies, we will not enter the war
 He added that the President said that even if they attack the Philippines, we probably will not enter the war--but that they tthe Japanese) could not always avoid making mistakes and that sooner or later they would probably make mistake and we would enter the war"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
SKAGWAY VISITORS

William Thompson and Eugene Smith of Skagway are guests at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
CEILINGS ON
 AUTOMOBILES GIVEN BY 0pA

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-New General Motors cars will cost the public little less than pre-war models, while prices for Fords, Studebakers and Chrysler made au- tcmobiles will be somewhat higher.
 That's the way OPA Administrator Chester Bowles sums it up in the first of his long g-awaited announce ments on price ceilings for the cars now trickling into showrooms.
 The big surprise of Bowles an- nouncement is that GM-built Chev- rolets, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs will sell at retail for an average of 2,5 percent less than in January, 1922
 The retail boosts are one percent for Chryslers and that company's other makes-Plymouth, Dodge and DeSoto; two percent for Fords; and nine percent for Stakeholder.
 In the case of Ford, for example, the retail ceiling for new deluxe eight cylinder tudor sedan is $882 at the factory The 1922 ceiling was s85O.
 OPA said that because of appar- ent model changes it had no basis at this time for comparison of any except Ford prices.
 The increases announced are ex- elusive of any which may be allow ed for appreciable design of specifi- cation changes.
 In the way of actual price ceil- ings there was little news in Bowles' announcement last night
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19
FROM KETCHIKAN

G. s. Humphrey of Ketchikan arrived in Juneau recently and is a. guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-19

The common name i'll North America for the spoonbill sturgeon is paddlefish.