The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 16, 1945, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —_— | VOL. LXV., NO. 10,041 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPS REPLY TO GENERAL MACART The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DRFW PCARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) | Unfinished Portrait e | i WASHINGTON ‘Whether we like it or not, the American people are going to hear a lot more about the Emperor of Japan. In fact during the next several years that we govern Japan we ought to make it our job to know almost as much about Tokyo's governmental system as we know about our own—if we are to build a Japanese democracy which we won't have to fight again. | This writer happens to oppose the views of certain emperor- appeasers in the U. S. State De- partment. Nevertheless, it is only fair to examine the facts on their | side carefully. About 20 years ago, when Hiro- hito was only Prince Regent, this! columnist made several trips to Japan, got acquainted with one of Hirohito's intimate aides, and heard | many complimentary things about the young man who was to be- come “the Son of Heaven.” Actually, the recent history of the Japanese Emperor is closely | interwoven with the histopy of Am- | erican troops in Japan. We helped give the emperor a new start m] life when Commodore Perry first | opened the doors of Japan in 1852, | and if it had not been for the landing of Perry, there might be | no Royal Family of any potency in ! Japan wdxay- ¥ P Mrs. Marjoric Bong stands beside the unfinished oil portrait of her- ugj"": '-‘Dncg"“?gai:ml-md:‘f’ “n| self which Maj. Richard I Beng had been working on for the past | Jap:n. e P o:cme‘ few weeks. He was killed August 6 in a crash of a planc he was testing. All of Amcrica remembers when the bashful hero who shot through the emperor—perhaps also | down 40 Jap planes came home to get married. giving him a new lease on life. Jans et o5 - e It was not an atomic bomb, but an. invention almost ‘as-revoluticn- | : ; ary, the steamship, wptch opened ! as a r my I o o up Japan to U. S. troops the first' time. When Commodore Perry and{ . M the U. S. S. Mississippi, first steam- | s e oo (rashed in Bering Sea ls navigate. the globe, arrived off Japanese waters, the Government . of Japan was split between Em- peror Osahito, then the weakest Rescued by Navy pllol of weak figureheads, and the Shogun, or Premier, then the real e — By Olen Clements ruler of Japan. Perry, knowing who | the real ruler was, signed a r.resn,yjl with the Shogun, no! the Emperor.‘ whereby the hated foreigners wer91 permitted to come ashore and en-! joy commercial privileges. i puSH oN IN | MANCHURIA | The Army fighter's engine sput- tered and quit far out cver the cold Bering Sea. The pilot, Lt. Frank A. Blase of Easton, Pa., put her down in the water—frigid even in July—know- {ing that death was but a few minutes away unless help arrived quickly. The Thus started a wave of resent-| ment against the Shogunate. The, merchant princes and feudal lead- | ers, already down on the Shogun because of high taxes; rallied round first shock of the water j | of the Yellow River when the Japa- 4 | the Japancse, saying the order was | cf the Chinese nation.” Bl | awaited a reply to an invitation to| DUTCH HARBOR, Aleutians — the Emperor as he led a verbal | attack against Perry. A virtual prisoner in Kyoto, the | took his breath. He thrashed about, ; Bu‘ SfimSOfl wal'l'S '0 Make 'NEW REPORT "ON CHINESE COMMUNISTS | Second Faction in China | Operates Independent of Chiang Kai-Shek CHUNGKING, Aug. 16.—Unoffis} ial roports today said Chinese Com- munist troops, apparently bent upon I seizing contro! of all key cities north | nese lay down their arms, has clash- |ed with Central Government guer- inmn: at several points near Typng- tao and Tientsin. Previous unconfirmed reports had | said the Communists were moving to <cize both those cities as well as Peiping, Hsuchow and other strate-| gic centers in direct defiance of crders from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Chi) Communists leaders form- {&1ly rejected today Chiang's order | to remain at their present posts and teke no independent action against “definitely contrary to the interests The rejection came as Chaing | Gen. Mao Tze-Tung, a Communist | leader, to confer with him in Chung- king. | Meanwhile, Gen. Chu Teh, com- | mander of the Chinese Communist | Armies, has sent memorandums to {/American, British and Russian am-| |bassaders in Chungking, insisting jupon Communist representation in { the, Japanese surrender. lchu's memorandum challenged Gen- | | eralizsimo Chiang Kai-shek's right.to be China’s sole representative in thé | Allid acceptance of the Japanese surrender and reserved the right of the Yenan regime to dispute any arrangements or pacts and AR LA O, BOTHARMY, - NAVY PLAN RELEASES J " | & broadeast from Yeénan said-Gen. | treatieg, , Here's Halsey's Saddle HIROHITO TELLS JAPS CEASE FIRE Order Issued After Mac- Arthur Sharply Crifi- | cizes Delay 1 (By Assoointed Press) Emperor Hirohito ordered his de-| feated forces to stop fighting today, | Japanese broadcasts reported, and simultaneously named a royal-; blooded general to head Japan’s| peace-time government. | The Mikado’s belated “cease fire", order was issued only after Gen. MacArthur, Supreme Allied Com- ! mander from whom the new Pre- mier will take his orders, sharply criticized Tokyo for unnecessary delay in replying to his surn-nder‘ instructions. | The government-controlled Domel News Agency sald it will still take “several days” for the Emperor's order to reach all of his wlduly-‘ scattered 5,000,000 soldiers, many of whom are still fighting. | Names Cousin | Hirohito named one of his cousins, Gen. Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, to form Nippon's new governmént. It was an un- precedented move. Never before, Domei said, has a member of the royal family headed the Govern- ment of Japan. Higashi-Kuni was on¢ of Japan's | directing wartime generals and | onee was reported to have threat- ened trial and possible death to captured Allied airmen. He ‘bégah forming his peico-time’ cabinet by calling ‘in kéy members of Premier Baron Kantaro Suzu- ki's cabinet which resigned yester- day. | Domei sald because of “the gravity of the situation” formation of the cabinet will be rushed and { v \ Mere's the saddle which is on its way air express to Admiral William li Halsey fer the Admiral's use if he rides Emperor Hirohito’s white Borse thrcugh the streets of Tokyo. It's a gift of Reno, Nevada's Chamber of Commerce and would cost $2,000 to duplicate with its fancy silver mountings. - [ FORNIA |Nimitz Tells (ITY RIOTS Sirength of OVERPEACE Third Fleef 52 %2 H GUAM, Aug. 16—The mighty Al- Propaganda began an “about face,” P0|I(e ca“ed '0 Bfeflk Up“,m Pacific Fleet, which smashed! with tze :)nv‘lel;llul h"l‘akyoll newa; H | Japan in the final days of the war|paper Yomiur! lochi coming ou Destructive Sflfl Fran- }mcr:uded 133 American and British'flatly in praise of the sclentific H M b |ships of the lirie, plus many scores genius which created the atomic (IS(O o s lof supplementary craft, Admiral bomb for the Allles, and suggest- SAN FLANCISCO, Aug. wild nigth of uncontrolled rioting, detail for the first /time. Nimitz disclosed today in a com-'ing that it is time for the Japa- 16.—A munique listing the fleet force In'nese to face the facts. | No “Discontent” | lcoting and assaults subsided here The fighting fleet was composed carly this morning after 1,000 police of eight American battleships, 16 and Navy shore patrolmen dispersed ajrcraft carriers, 19 American cruis- j ‘Earlier, Domei broadcast that t,he Japanese people, although over- come with sorrow at their defeat, HUR ANSWER IS RECEIVED T0 ORDER Okinawa Report Says En- voys fo Reach le Shima Tomorrow BULLETIN — MANILA — The Assoclated Press' has confirmed that Gen. Douglas MacArthur has recelved a Japanese reply to his instructions concerning the proceduro for surrender. The Japs replied that they would not be able to send a peace envoy to Manila by Fri- ° day. Gen. MacArthur has granted the Japanese an extemtion of time in sending their surrender party to Manila. He has also prnmlled' safe oonduct for rep- resentatives of the Japanese royal family who will travel to the battlefronts and see that Hirohito’s surrender orders are obeyed. MacArthur yesterday demanded that Tokyo order all Japahese troops to cease hostilities ‘and gave instructions for ‘sending. a repre- sentative of Emperor Hirohito to Manila to receive surrender terms. The Japanese Donm,fl"l Agency reported earller Emperor Hirohito had ‘with _the Allled Supreme Commander's in- structions that imperial troops’ be imstructed to- cease. fire. k- at’0 pi m, (8 a. m, n Tithe). however, that no word yet been recetved. . Causes Much Talk » The mystery of the prolonged silence caused much tdlk here a8 a detalled statement on ' Japan's acceptance of plans for sending a representative to headquarters was expected much earlier. MacArthur, obviously Impatient as fighting continued in scattered peckets in the northern Lugon mountains, asserted the Japanese had held up their reply for hours. (An Okinawa report sald the Japanese envoys would reach Ie Shima tomorrow in compliarze with instructions, but no word was recelved in Manila of such plans.) The Tokyo announcement said * mobs jamming downtown San Fran- ers and 6 British; 63 American des- cisco’s streets. troyers and 17 British destroyers. the sea, swallowing nauseating | aze: Pirr;lperor bme forth :: b Japanese Still Resist So “Perish m; 'neat e | . . . F et it | Fighting Is Still Ibrine all the while. Somehow he | managed to inflate his life raft cold clear wave of some dark land drag himself aboard. He lay well, 4t ' ' shivering and exhausted. But let no foreign foot Conilnlllng | e Poiliite ithe wabesr Sith " its « | A i Blase felt the approach of that | numbness and MOSCOW, Aug. 16.—Russian for- gverwhelms men ces continued today to drive deeper of the cold. He ,into Manchuria where, a Soviet to keep fighting {communique. said last night, the and go to sleep. |Japanere troops still are offering; Suddenly above him an Eleventh resistance. Wi R dmir Force patrol plane droned. Its Front dispatcbes indicate ed occupants sighted the pitching raft gl (F bkt S SRR Army mobile units were spreading on the murky sea. The pilot fought This was the cue for the feudal|oyt rapdily over hundreds of square off Tie sleepiness and waited. The lords to build up the Emperor at|miles of territory, with three main plane above circled constantly. the expense of the Shogun, and a|columns driving steadily toward the The radio message reached Navy few years after the Shogun signed munitions and communications cen-' Headdquarters at Dutch Harbor. his treaty with Commodore Perry,|ter of Harbin. {Within minutes Lt. Charles F. the war lords assassinated him.| The nearest of the three columhs pginel of Paducah, Ky. mustered Tokyo at that time was so crowded |was the one advancing from the s payy crew and was R with “Jo-I” or “alien-haters” that|East, which had taken the rail hub g, they found the eircling army no insurance companies would take|of Mutankiang, 165 miles from Har- plane. Far below. they saw the raft the risk of underwriting policies bin, and was pushing on the West. | o1 its lone ‘occupant, tossed by on the lives of Americans in Japan. —————— T s 3 This wave of alien-hating, plus | Twice Darnell made test runs with the stiategy of the feudal barons ]'RUMA" "AMES | his amphiblous PBY to size up the in strengthening a rival to the un- direction and size of the waves. sleepiness ~ that before they die debated whether or to turn over presence here.” And with a child’s misconcep- tion of the tremendous power of Perry’s “big, black fireships,” the Emperor issued an order that no foreigner could set foot on Japa- nese soill wearing hats or any popular Shogunate, took the Japa- | A landing out there was extremely nese Royal Family out of virtual | dangerous. imprisonment and started them on | “It’s going to be tough,” Darnell | beating his arms and legs agalnst{ Sure Jap Slll'l'endef ; i Is Real Thing 5 | WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—If the |Japanese behave, if transportation permits and if the draft act remains in effect, the Army plans to let 5,000,000 soldiers become civilians in the next year. | The Navy, with a newly-announ- |ced point system, will free 1,500,000 |to 2,500,000 in the next 12 or 18 | months. | The Marine Corps has adopted the !Army point system for discharges |but makes no estimate of the num- |ber affected. | “Our first responsibility before | we make additional men eligible for | |release from the Army will be to | make certain that the Japanese have| |accepted the surrender terms in good | | faith,” Secretary of War Stimson |said yesterday in a statement. |“There are 2,500,000 trained Japa-| |vese soldiers in the home islands| alone.” : Th> Army probably will not cut {the number of points required for! | discharge below the pregent 85 for| Ktwo months or more. The city’s third nigkt of celebration The Third Fleet, under Admiral ‘showed no “discontent” with Hiro- Emperor Hirohito's order ending hito’s rescript of surrender y““’"'hoculmu would be transmitted to day. MacArthur, whose last word from |city and Navy police got the situa- |three nights of celebrating. found crowds in a destructive mood. Halsey, started operations against Nearly every plate glass window on Japan on July 10, and the period lower Market street was shattercd, covered by the communique was display shelves were cleaned out, the from then until the close of the war. few automobiles parked at the curbs - e ee were badly battered, women were B u l l E ] l N S seized and roughtly handled in many caces. Property damage mounted into many thousands of dollars. Sailers, who comprised the bulk of the mob, were ordered back to h a ight as their stations around midnig fired on a ‘British plane carrying surrender laflets. Burma Japs evi- dently mean to keeb on fighting. CHUNGKING - Reliable rources !indicate Jap troops in China now have offered to surrender to Gen- iera]lsslmo Chiang Kai-shek. UNRRA (on'ab< LONDON—A Soviet communique | says Japanes: troops have launched !a counter-attack in Manchuria Ag rees Abou', which was “unsuccessful.” Refugee Aid ticn under control. Six persons met death in accidents and 62¢ were injured during the - G. Ar- ncld took over today as Director of the Interior Department's Di- vision of Territories and Island | Pessessions. He was formerly Far In Australia, meanwhile, Em- yperor Hirohito's radio address to' the Japanese people yesterday was called the “first threat to peace” |by the Australlan Department of Information in a short-wave broad- |cast today to the United States. “It 1s not the speech of a de- feated man leading a defeated na- tion,” the broadcast said. “It is | ling a defiant nation, conscious that |he and the militarists he repre-| }scnt.s retain intact their whole ap- | paratus.” | “The speech was diabolically | clever,” the radio continued. “It is the beginning of a flood of open and secret propaganda whereby the imperial household, generals, ad- mirals and the rest will try to| convince the Japanese people the war was never really lost, but merely an unfortunate episode in carrying out the eternal policy of | Japanese aggrandisement, which will be resumed very soon.” | President Truman, however, said | | today he does not think the Japa- nese people will ever have a chance Eastern Division chief for UNRRA.|to obtain revenge for thelr defeat the Japanese was acknowledge- ment of his second message at 11 p. m., last night. Domel added the caution it might take “even several days” for the order to be relayed to all remote units. American commanders on Luzon attempted to inform all Japanese of the surrender and watched the situation closely as iIndicative of RANGOON-Japfcrces in Burma | the speech of a defiant man lead- | whether Japanese field forces gen- erally would accept the imperial decision to quit. 3 May Be At Sea Fleet Admiral Nimitz has sen! messages to Gen. Spaatz and Lt. Gen. Roy Geiger inyiting them and their aides to be his guests on his flagship at Japanese surrender ceremonies. The invitation implied that Ad- miral Nimitz will be pregent at the ceremonies for the United States and that the ceremony will take place aboard a warship, apparently a battleship, However, the latest word from President Truman is that Gen. MacArthur will announce the signing of the surrender at a point which the Allled Supreme Commander of Japan will desig- the road to their present powerful hold on the Japanese people. Much of this build-up was synthetic. It! would have made even Ivy Lee,| WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Next publicity genius who sold the Am- Sunday, August 19, has been set aside informed his crew, “how about it?" YER DAY of pRA | The response was unanimous—Put ! her down.” The PBY smacked the waves. Water flooded the cockpit. Darnell WASHINGTON—Edwin postiis 2 SR | | LONDON, Aug, 16.—Delegates to jApS Dlssolv[ |the third UNRRA ccnference ac- |cepted today the British-sponsored | principle of - helping refugees who |refuse to return to their homelands. - NOISY END erican. public on John D. Rocke- feller, green with envy. It was under the Emperor Meiji, grandfather of Hirohito, that the by President’ Truman as a day of switched off the motors and Soviet Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia prayer to God to “support and guide us into the paths of peace.” ;snapped them back on in coordi-| | NS .- In a prcclamation, issued today, (Continuee vi Mage Two) | - NANKING PUPPET . GOVERNMENT (By The Associated Press) and Czechoslovakia had opposed it. After several days of debate on BOISE, Idaho—1It was “Hip, Hlp”‘y’ and 10,000 bang-bangs when the| |in this war. PAAKETCHIKAN | ROUTE HEARING nate. 4 President Truman said there is no apparen: necessity for dividing Japan into oecupation zones al- though troops from all the Allies will be under MacArthur’s com- mand. Mr. Truman said the sur- render will not be complete until the politically significant problem ,000,000 Japanese lay down their UERRARES AL A4 ANOTHER NIPPON TAKES HIS LIFE BERN, Aug. 16.—The Swiss tele- the chief executive said: 1 portant reign. Meiji came into| “I call upon the people of the power 16 years after the arrival of |United States, of all faiths, to unite Commodore Perry, and put an end |in offering their thanks to God for to alien-hating. By so doing, he the victory we have won, and in' consolidated his own people m;praying that He will support and handle Japanese foreign relations. guide us into the paths of peace. | It happened that some foreigners| “I also call upon my countrymen Royal Family enjoyed its most im- had failed to fall on their knees|to dedicate this day of prayer to graph agency announced today that' the memory of these who have given Lt, Gen. Suemasa Okamoto, who when the Daimio of Bizen passed (i o their lives to make possible our vic- was named Japanese military at- on the streets of Kobe, and the Daimio’s troops, armed with new|%ry.” American ‘rifles, fired on the dis- / M T B, e LTI R ) committed suicide in Zurich where Five species of sturgeon are he was placed under medical care " (Continued on Page Four) !found in Canadian waters. |in January. Tokyo broadcast a Domei agency |dispatch today saying that the Japa- | nese-dominated “National Govern- |ment of China” at Nanking had de- |cided to dissalve. The dispatch, purported to ori- ginate in Nanking, capital of the . puppet Chinese regime, said the government was dissolved ‘“because their mission has ended.” Domei said “A special committee| jtacke in Switzerland in 1943, had will carry on the administration in draft. the interim period to maintain peace and order until the new government takes over the administration.” The Chinese organization, led by! 74-year-old Louie Bing You, applied| Due to the “peace holiday,” Ray-| stand in a secret session. the torch to 10,000 firecrackers "’W:mond B. Stough, Alaska CAA head, The British resolution was voted members had saved since their na-|has ordered postponement of the cnly in principle, however, and was tive country went to war with the hearing set here for Saturday, August | referred to a subcommittee headed ‘NiPs in 1937. |18, on case number 1972, until Mon- by the Czechoslovak foreign minister, ~Gov: Charles C. Gosfett lent the day, August 20. Jan Masaryk, for redrafting. The celebrationists the steps of the Advice of the postponement was United States and Norway presented state capitol building for the oc-| received here today by Alaska| suggestions to be included in the re-, casion. | Coastal Airlines, from Mr. Stough. BT s YRS | The hearing involves local plane - >> Drowning was responsible for service between Juneau and Ketch- Canada’s list of food fishes in- more than one-fourth of the 14,500 ikan by Pan American World Alr- cludes almost 60 different kinds. }public accidents in 1944 . ways. of displaced persons, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Committee took its Hip Sing Tong of Boise celebrated | HERE p I VER the Jap surrender, ! 2 arms. B g— SHE JUST WATCHED CHICAGO—Burglars who looted Peter Jakosz's liquor store of 12 cases of whiskey. valued at $900 salted Jakosz's’ wounds by taking along his watehdog, a big German shepherd named “Queenie.” Several hours latey Queenie came back. The liquor didn't.