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Reds Accept
Australian
Compromise
TRUMAN TO SPEAK
World Charter Probably
Will Be Signed By
Delegates Monday
BY DOUGLAS b. CORNELL

SAN FRANCISCO, June s20.-(P
Russian acceptance of an Aus.
tralian compromise on what a SO.
nation General assembly can talk
about enabled the United Nations
conference tonight finally anc
formally to set next Tuesday to4
completion of world charter t.
maintain peace.
Secretary Of State Stettinius an.
nounced after steering commit
tee meeting that a speech by Presl.
dent Truman late Tuesday after.
noon will end this historic gather,
ing, two months and day aftel
it began its deliberations.
The charter of a new world Or
ganization dedicated to peace
probably will be signed by all dele
gates Of so United Nations Monday
afternoon and night. 1t will bring
into being, when enough govern.
ments ratify it, an international
league empowered to settle dis.
putes peacefully or to use armed
might to prevnt war or aggression.
It will set up a new information.
al court of justice, and council for
cooperation in removing social
and economic stresses which have
fomented war in the past.
To a compact security council
of II members-all the tive big
world powers and six others-wi,l
be entrusted the primary repson-
sibility for maintaining peace. 4
conference commission considering
the councils structure and duties
completed its task today.
All that remained was to put in
TO charter language sections deal
ing with general assembly to
serve as the town meeting of the
Continued on Page Nine; Col. s.
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AS he was about to die Count
Galeazzo Ciano wrote a bitter
charge that Germany deliberately
provoked war in Europe in 1888
and dragged Italy to disaster.
Nineteen days before Ciano was
shot to death for high treason, he
wrote a final l0-page entry in his
diary. 1t is an amazing document
Italy's fateful alliance with Ger.
many was born in moment of
rage on Mussolini's part, Ciano
wrote. He recollnted Nazi Foreign
Minister Won R,bbentrop's casual
assertion that the Germans wanted
war. and told d a cynical bet OF
an Italian painting against col
lection of antique ArLls that Grea'
Britain and France would remai ,
neutral.
The Germans treated the Italians
as slaves, not partners, Ciano
wrote, who were informed only of
the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union
half an hour afte- the borders had
been crossed.
Ciano was waiting from Cell u OF
the Verona Jail on December %,
1915. The special tribunal before
which he was tried did net meet
until January 8, 1914, but Ciano
said that judgement already had
been passed by his father-in-law.
Mussolini, whom he accused of
shameful cowardice." in his re-
llations with the Germans. Ciano
and four others were executed jan
uary II.
The revealing closing entry in
Ciano's own handwriting ard bear
ing his signature follows:
'Tf these no es of mine see light
one day, it will be because took
the precaution of putting them in
safety before the Germans by base
treachery had made me prisoner.
1T was not my intention, while
l was composing these hasty notes
to release them to1 publication as
they are. Rather il was my aim
to fix events, details, facts which
could have been useful to me in
the future.
IF the Lord had granted me a
quiet old age, what excellent ma
terial for an autobiography! The
notes are not, therefore, part OF
book. but the raw material from
which book could have been COM
posed.
"Perhaps the zeal merit of these
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Hoover offers l2-Point
Plan On Meat SHORTAGE

World War were made in letter
read to the House by Rep. ,nk-
ms (R-Ohio.
Hoover referred to local ia.
Mines of animal products in the
cities, and had this to say of black
markets: ,. .
"The existence of black mar
kets in meats and fats Except
milk in every city OF the country
is sufficient evidence Of break
down in control of both distribu-
ton and price,"
AS a remedy he proposed "to
reconstruct the whole method of
organization and administration, :"
as follows:
l. The Secretary of Agriculture
Continued ON. Page Three; Col. s.
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CHERRY SOUGHT
TO HONOR HERO
City Council Acts On
Homecoming Plans For
Capt. Murray

First definite steps toward a real
homecoming celebration for Capt.
Charles P. Murray, Jr., Whining
tons No. l war hero were taken
by the city council yesterday morn
ing when tentative arrangements
were discussed and will probably
be enlarged upon at special meet
ing of a Council group at 10 a. m.
today.
Included in the suggested large
scale activities in connection with
the celebration would be an invita-
ton to Governor R. Gregg Cherry
to be present for the occasion.
Upon the suggestion of Mayo, W.
Ronald Lane. the city board. acting
as a committee of the whole, react
ed favorably to Councilman J.E.L.
Wade's suggestion that stores be
asked to close in honor of the city S
first Congressional Medal of Honor
Winner, and Councilman Garland
S. Currin's proposal that the Gov
ernor should be invited.
It was the opinion of the council
that I'VE ought not to undertake to
put on this celebration unless we
can do a man-sized job"
The city manager revealed that
the commanding officer at Blue
.henthal Air BAse had offered his
cooperation and the services of a
special aerial group of 36 planes
to fly overhead during the cele-
bration. IL r....-. ~. -..---
Following the regular Council
session, the group met to formulate
<r.1: MI ~
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diaries is to be found in this skel-
eton form and in the absolute lack
OF the Superfluous. Events are pho.
tographed without retouching, and
the impressions reported are the
first ones. the most genuine, with
out influence OF criticism or the
wisdom of future years. 1 was &C.
customed to lot down the salient
happenings day by day. hour by
nour. Perhaps at time repetitions
or contradictions may be found,
just as very often life repeats and
contradicts itself.
If the opportunity for expanding
these notes mad not been taken
away suddenly, l should have
wished from other documents and
personal recollectlons to ampIify
the chronicle Of certain days which,
have had unique ard dramatic III
fluence on the history OF the world
with greater detail, l should
have liked to have fixed respon.
sibility, both Of men and govern.
ments, but this unfortunately was
impossible. even though there
come to mind IN these last hours
so many details I should not want
ignored by those who tomorrow
will analyze and assess the events
that have occurred
The Italian tragedy had its be-
ginning in August 1853 Or my own
initiative I went then to Salzbura
(Hitler's headquartei 81 and foun
myself suddenly face 10 face with
the cold, cynical German dcte:-
mination to provoke conflict.
''The alliance with the Ger
mans had been signed in May. l
had always opposed it, and had
contrived that persistent German
offers would be Ions delayed ard
thus ineffective. There was no res-
son whatsoever. in my opinion, 10
be bound life ana death to the
destiny of Nazi Germany.
Instead, l had favored policy
of collaboration, for in Our geo.
graphical situation we can and
must detest, but cannot ignore, 80.
600, 900 Germans brutally brought
together in the heart OF Europe
"The decision to cement the at
lance was taken suddenly by Mus
solini while I was in Milan with
Won Ribbentrop. Some American
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87,343 Japs Killed In Okinawa Fighting
Aussies Make ew Landing On North Borneo
World Security Conference To End Tuesday
NAZI-DAMNING
NAZI-DAMNING
Ciano Diary Struggled
From Italy By Forlorn
wife, Aided By Priest

BERNE-It be disclosed how hi. diary Count
Cano with its sensational revelations Axis diplomacy
saved by Cianos wife from falling into Nazi hands.
For six months her lips have been sealed sealed
creon Tor this little neutral country encrced by powerful
Naz armies Sealed too because of Gestapo agents
in Switzerland.
The Gestapo tried at all costs Ciano
Its compromising revelations The offered
gold lire payable in Switzerland, They
barter the life of Cano against his precious documents
the diary escaped them.
Everyone In Italy the Ciano diary was
tortured killed had to flee Edda Ciano ked life
put the final touch to her already bad reputation
dawn of JAM IL, 1914 Ciano himself fell victim
twenty hours before his DEATH strange
at the Swiss frontier village Novazzano
by priest stability black-veed woman with
immense haggard had entered Switzerland stating
life had been threatened by the readily
mitted her identity-Edda Ciano-a "moher" Axis
and the most noted woman of modern Italian history.
On hearing her identity the gay gogged. For
the famous countess old disheveled preg
nant.
Edda Ciano not Strapped dress
were five commonplace noebooks-The Ciano dary-once
held in the right drawer the the foreign
minister in Rome's Chigi palace.
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Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beigntler's
Buckeyes seized the Ilagan air.
strip, a small secondary field ov-
ergrown with brush and rank
grass as they crossed the 440-foot
wide Gagayan river aboard assault
boats and pressed forward seven
miles for a total gain of 10 miles
during the day They killed SO
japanese and captured 1903, most
'ly Formosans, as the advance con-
'tinued unimpeded.
Three other Yank divisions mop
ped up in the lower Cagayan val
ley where Japanese troops, re-
treating westward, have taken
cover in the Casaballo mountains.
The American 9Th Division, driv-
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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GENERAL WAGE BOOST
IS SOUGHT BY DAVIS

WASHINGTON, June 20 R) -
William H. Davis today proposed
a general wage minimum of so
cents hourly, with the pay floor
ranging up to IS cents in textiles
and other industries needing pro-
ductior incentives.
Davis, director of the Office Of
Economic Sterilization, suggested
that the Federal Fair Labor STAN
daros Act, which now provides a
Accent hourly minimum wage, be
amended to bring workers back
into industries having manpower
problems and to provide a found
dation for reconversion stabili-
cation program.
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Brunei Bay
Entrance In
Allied Grip
GUNS COVER LANDING
New Beachhead Establish.
ed After Quick Shore
To-Shore Operations

MANILA, Thursday, June 21.-
PIN a shore to shore operation,
nnits of the Australian Ninth Divi-
sion have landed at the northern
head of Brunei Bay, northwest Bor'
npo giving them control of both
sides Of the entrance to the water
wsy General Macarthur announc-
ed today.
The landing was preceded by an
artillery bornbardment from La
buan Island, seized by the Aussies
early in their invas sion of Borneo.
The island is five miles west OF
the new beachhead.
Our ground forces now control
the shores bordering both entranc-
es into the bay" the communique
said.
Medium bombers supported the
ground operations.
Heavy bombers and fighters
made another of their daily strikes
in the Balikpapan area, where the
Tokyo radio says, without Allied
confirmation, that an Allied naval
force has been operating for sew
eral days.
The heavies dropped Is tons OF
explosives on Balikpapan, Mang-
gar and nearby airfields.
There was no mention in the
communique of Allied ships she'll
ing Balikpapan nor of mine sweep
ers operating in the bay, as To-
kyo reported yesterday.
The Aussies who landed at Wes-
ton on the eastern side of the bay
several days ago drove inland two
and half miles without meeting
more than minor patrol contacts.
While they pushed inland, other
units of the veterans of African
desert warfare crossed the five.
mile strait from Labuan to the
mainland and occupied Mempakul
village. This secured the north
entrance to Brunei Bay from any
possible Japanese attack mounted
from Jesselton, so miles to the
north.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur Wed
nesday communique said the Aus.
sizes gained ground on both the
northern and southern fronts OF
Continued on Page Nine; Col. g.
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Ninlitz Says
Campaign In
Final Stage
SMALL ARMS USED
Few Thousand Survivors
Reduced To Three Tight
Pockets

GUAM, Thursday, June 21.-P)-
American Tenth Army troops,
eliminating /, fanatically fighting
Japanese at the rate of 1850 a
day, compressed the few thousand
survivors into three tight little
pockets on Okinawa yesterday.
Fleet Adm. Chester w. oNimitz
announced today that 1884 Japa-
nese troops were killed and 1856
captured on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday-a total of 1853 in only
three days fighting.
This was probably the highest
rate of Japanese slaughter for any
similar period in the central or
far western Pacific campaigns 1t
increased Japanese casualties fo-
81 days of Okinawa fighting to 3d..
343 killed and 2,565 prisoners.
Although still withholding any
announcement that bloody OkinaWa
has been secured, Nimitz said
remnants of the enemy were
broken into three pockets, the
largest of which was about 1900
yards in diameter. 3.
The closing phase of the battle
was weirdly quiet. Fighting was
at such close quarters that all
heavy artillery had been ordered
to cease fire because OF the danger
to American troops. But there still
was much stubborn small arms
and machine gun battling.
The largest remaining pocket of
enemy resistance surrounds Hill
81 north of Makabe.
The Seventh Infantry Divisions
18th Regiment, driving 1000 yards
westward from the southeast coast,
joined elements of the First Marine
Division north of Komesu to close
off this central pocket from another
small pocket in the southeast
coastal sector around Hill 1872
The third Japanese pocket, an
area about 1000 yards square, was
in the Mabuni- Mura hills north of
Cape ARA, which is the southern
most point of Okinawa.
The First Marine Divisions Fifth
Regiment drove into Makabe town,
about 300 yards south of Hill 88l,
where the Japanese were making
their stiffest stand.
Troops of the 96th Infantry Dr.
vision were closing on the central
pocket from the northeast. They
encountered stubborn resistance
from a series of steel-cored con-
crete pillboxes.
On the south and southeast sides
of the central pocket, the Seventh
Divisions 184th Regiment closed
Continued on Page Nine; Col. 81
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TRADE LEGISLATION
PASSED BY SENATE

WASHINGTON, June 20 tP) -
Smashing down a series of restric.
tive amendments. the Senate today
passed and sent to the White
House legislation extending the re-
ciDrocal trade agreements law
three more years with added pow
er for the President to cut tariff
rates -.
Already authorized under the old
law to cut import duties in half,
the President will be empowered
under the new legislation to reduce
them another so per cent below
the ates prevailing on January /,
JG4S
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WEATHER

chronological data for the "a hours
wig 1880 p M, yesterday.
TEMPERATURE
n, '' ~ a m. 1870; 80 a. M. Is; 1880 p.
Ill., II; 80 p. m. rs.
HUMIDITY
1oo o.'v m. 81; 7:30 am 80; 1880 p. m.
4'V' 1880 p. m. SO.
PRECIPITATION
ooO inches. ~ ~
ao rola since the first of the month
TiTDES FOR TODAY
T. rom the Tide Tables published by
w.. Coast and Geodedtc Survey)O
INNING ton $500 6:32 am. 1880 am.
M. 1912. pm. LAS pm
SohnoYo Inlet - 4:19 am. 1888
500 pm. 1920 pm.
sunrise SOL; Sunset 1926, Moonrise
'''Sp' Noonset cara.
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CHINESE NEARING
LIUCHOW AIRFIELD

CHUNGKING, June 20-(Fe
The Chinese high command
claimed tonight that Chinese
troops had plowed within three
miles of Liuchow airfield, big
former American bomber base
in South China which was aban-
doned to the Japanese by the
U. S. 14th Air Force seven
months ago.
Chinese headquarters &C
counts of the fighting made It
appear that Chinese reoccupa-
ton of the airfield was imni-
nent.
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MOSCOW, June 90 R The
Soviet prosecutor asked for pris.
on terms but not the death penalty
today in the fifth column" trial
of 16 Polish underground leaders,
and asserted the Polish govern.
ment in London bore "the main
guilt for trying 'to create, a Pol.
and in opposition to the Soviet
Union.'
Summing up Russia's case, Maj,
Gen. Nikolai Afanaseev declared
despite all their crimes, / think
the punishment should be limited
to Imprisonment, especially in
these days of Soviet victory when
together with our Allies we gained
our great triumph"
The chief defendant. Maj.-Gen.
L. Bronislaw Okulicki, Polish home
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LONDON, Thursday, June Fl
-P)-Twelve Of the 16 Polish
underground leaders accused of
subversive activities behind
Red army lines in Poland were
found guilty in Moscow early
today and sentenced to prison
terms ranging from ten years
to six months, the Moscow ra-
do said.
Three were acquitted and the
trial of another, Anton Paidak,
was postponed because he was
ill. gY..
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FORECAST

Partly cloudy and mild TODAY.
Temperatures yesterday:
High 81, Low 70.5
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-23
ANDERSON ARRIVES

H. j. Anderson, of Anchorage, is
a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
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ships with Canadian bottoms. The
three companies claim they are able
adequately to serve Alaska and that
their ships going south are untitled,
that they cannot get sufficient ton
mage to fill them The position of
the American firms is put forth in a
communication addressed to Gov.
Ernest Gruening, received here by
Secretary of Alaska Lew M. Will
liams.
Meantime, Southeast Alaska COM
munities, particularly the smaller
fishing ports, plead that their
freight demands are not being cared
for, either northbound or south
bound; that fish houses will soon
be overfilled, forcing shutdowns, If
relief from Canadian or additional
American ships is not supplied.
Also meantime, the Secretary of
the Treasury has not yet acted upon
any recommendations made by the
War Shipping Administration and
Maritime Commission-and, unless
he acts before the end of this month
the suspension of the Jones Act will
expire on May 81.
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PELAGALLI IN TOWN

Fred A. Pelagalli, of Ketchikan,
is guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
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; SHIP FIRMS
CLAIM ALASKA
BEING SERVED
Joint Protest Made 10
Further Waiver OF Jones
ACtto Southeast Ports

There is sufficient tonnage either
owned or under charter" to the War
Shipping Administration and oper-
ated by American companies ito
handle all commercial Alaska trade,
is the claim advanced jointly by
the Alaska Steamship Company, the
Northland Transportation Company
and the Alaskan Transportation
Company in protest to shipping au-
thorities in Washington, d. C.,
against any extension OF the waiver
of the Jones Act as it applies to
Alaska shipping.
The lengthy protest was formu-
lated in Seattle this week by the
three shipping firms following an
nouncement that the War Shipping
Administration and the Maritime
Commission had agreed to recon-
mend a two-months extension of the
waiver of the Jones Act pertaining
to passenger traffic and freight to
Skagway The protest by the ship
ping firms is designed to answer
any action taken by either civic or
commercial groups in all Southeast
Alaska cities, asking that the waiver
be kept in effect.
The three firms maintain that the
suspension of the Jones Act was or
dered as a war measure to supply
Army forces in Alaska, that Army
demands are no longer extensive and
there is no longer need to supple
ment service offered by American
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mountains to Florida and fence them

mountains to Florida and fence them
in.
Several additions to Alaska Air
lines maintenance personnel, made
necessary by the acquisition of the
DC-3s, are among the passengers
aboard the plane. Miss Anderson
who is to be Chief Stewardess fol-
the line, comes from Kansas City
and was formerly with Mid ontin-
ent Airlines.
Also among the passengers are
F. K. Watts, of New Yorw City
and Ray Morris. Mr.. Watts is tc
purchase the Lockheeds that have
been operated by Alaska Airlines
and which are being supplanted by
the new, larger Douglas ships. Mr.
Morris is pilot for Mr.. Watts.
Completing the list of passengers
aboard the plane are: H. l.. Pyle
Atlanta; Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Whit
meyer, Atlanta; j. McMurtry
Denver; Mrs. George Perry and
their three children; ]. D. Thomp-
son, Seattle, and Laura holland,
Amarillo, Texas.
Mr.. Playford is one of aviation S
pioneers and a moving spirit in
many aviation activities. In addi-
ton to his airport ownership and
connection with Alaska Airlines,
he owns large airplane reconver-
sion plant at Knoxville, Tenn. A
pilot in France during World War
1, he is a member of the National
Aviation Committee. He and his
party expect to fly south in ap-
proximately a week, but he will be
back, probably in July, aboard his
own private plane, Lockheed Lode
star, for a fishing and vacation
trip. They will likely go on to
Fairbanks on their present journey.
Starliner Juneau
The Starliner Juneau-that's her
name, though she has not yet been
officially christened-will likely be
on active service by next week. All
that is needed before she is put
to work is last check-up and a
shakedown with her new pilots.
She is fitted with the very latest
equipment, including the most
modern radio facilities, new-type
Douglas hydraulic seats and many
other deluxe features, such as spun
glass sound-proofing.
The plane left Atlanta last Sat
urday, flying daylight only. She
stopped over at Denver and again
at Seattle Her performance was
all that could be asked for, all the
way, both pilots declared.
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CARRIGAN IN TOWN III
r. D. Carrigan, of Seattle, has
arrived in Juneau and is guest
at the Gastineau Hotel. FL