The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 30, 1945, Page 1

T UsRAaY OF CONRESS SEP 111945 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE==— “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” o VOL. LXV., NO. 10,053 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDA Y, AUGUST 30, 1945 PRICE TEN CENTS — PAYOFF COMES; MACARTHUR IN JAPA ® 4 4 4 4 Paratroopers, First Prisoners of War On JapanReleased; “Hell Hole" Hospifal Described TOKYO BAY, Aug. 30 — Major worst malnutrition imaginable,” | Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, U. S. Simpson said. | Marine flying ace missing more| Tears streamed down the fucvsl than 16 months, was among 500 of the prisoners and, although most | prisoners of war—the first liberated of them were in a weakened condi- | on Japan—evacuated today from a tion, they managed a cheer as N';\-‘ hospital described as a “hell hole” cuation officers and men appeared by Navy rescuers. from the task force—the Cruiser Many of the prisoners found at San Juan, the fast transports Aomori, near Yokohama, were in a Reeves and Gosselin and the Bene- pitiful condition and wept un- volence. . % v 4 and clean beds, which were made Bopirgton, offigally credited With | ;) giately available to them. shooting down 26 Japanese planes The Sa}q Juan relayed testi- ;f:r;::fflfi:“fl p:a?d“;;‘;"s:ibi:l(' monials from the prisoners tha& & S i “pestial beatings were common word.he wpe hal_wy and messaged and their months of imprisonment Weeiings lo(Admlrn‘l !~_Ialsey. included enforced tenures in “in- mg‘\‘;‘:}‘;"‘:z‘: Szggle;l S!;’:J’ys":"“::::; quisitorial dens of bruitism.” evacuation task force, received re-| A request was sent out by the ports that “there never has been a evacuation task force for 300 units blacker hell hole than the prisoner Of clothing. | years in enemy prison camps | Jaapn’s surrender. He 4 (4 4 Mari nes, & Sailo S rsS N s r Take QOve TO WITNESS = SURRENDER Arrives in Manila from Chungking on HisWayto | Tokyo for Big Event ! »~ By DEAN SCHEDLER (Associated Press Correspondent) MANILA, Aug. 30.—Lt. Gen. Jon- | athan M. Wainwright, pale from his step- ped from his plane today enroute | from Chungking to Tokyo to witness aw a Manila | he “wouldn't recognize, S overflowing with Allied military power. Wearing three large old-style on his shirt, Wainwright was vi shaken by his return to the city he saw fall, acress Manila Bay from his last Philippines battleground. Wainwright saluted the Military Police as he stepped from the plane. of war hospital we are now eva- cuating. He said many of the prisoners suffered from fractures, open wounds, concussions and burns. “They were suffering from the BATTORTURE ISGIVENTO. BOYINGTON Picture of J—ap_ Prison Life, Is Revealed by Ace Flying Man Yokohoma, Aug. 30.—A picture of Japanese prison life highlighted by | torture with a baseball bat was given by Marine Maj. Gregory Boyington, the Southwest Pacific flying ace. Pappy Boyington is safe aboard the | mercy ship Reeves in Tokyo Bay| after twenty months of secret im-i prisonment. 1t all began when the hero with 26 Japanese planes to his credit was| shot down over Rabaul, New Britain, | on January 3, 1944. He had wounds in his head, neck, arms and an ear and 2 broken ankle. A Jap sub- marine picked the Major out of the ocean and took him to Rabaul. There he was blindfolded and hand cuffed. His medical kit was taken away, and it was ten days be- ! fore the Japs did anything about| Boyington's festering wounds. Mean- | time the Japs were grilling the flier| with questions. | In March, 1944, the flying ace was; transferred to a secret naval camp in the country village of Una, Japan. There he got the baseball bat treat- mient. As Boynton rexplained it “It consisted of standing with my hands tied while the guard sluggedl my back and legs with the bat as| hard as he could. Then I got slug-| geéd in the jaw about three hundred | times. Similar beatings killed other prisoners in the camp.” Last April, Boyington was trans- ferred to Omori prison camp, where. ! he says, politeness was the order of | the day. Prisoners had to scrape! ‘and bow wherever they went. And| those unable to do it got beatings| and other punishments. "The Major said his normal weight of 175 pounds fell off to one hun-| dred and ten until he wangled a Job in the kitchen. e N Rl ol | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Aug. 30 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 7, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 89%, Kennecott 37%, New York Central 25%, Northern| Pacific 27%, U. S. Steel 71, Pound $4.027%. | The group of 500, believed to be Despite their efforts to hold back mostly Americans, constituted the the crowd, which had waited hours first to be liberated in Japan,|for his return, lines broke and he where there are an estimated 36,000 and his staff were engulfed by wel- | — n an aerial view of fcllowing surrender of the Japancse Vice Admiral. Allied prisoners of war, including more than 8,000 Americans. BRUTALITY OF JAPS iS SHOWN UP Captured UTAirmen Are Beaten, then Strung Up by Their Thumbs SHANGHAI, Aug. 30—Stories of brutal Japanese captors who beat them with bambo sticks and metal | rods until they were black and blue from knee to hip and could hardly walk, were related here by eight American fliers. One airman said he had his wrists tied behind him and had been hung by his thumbs in ef- forts by the Japanese to force him to reveal American plans to invade coming officers and soldiers. “This is wonderful, to be here standing on the same | again and see so many friend: ! said, leaning slightly on a cane as | he talked with the group elustered laround him. back field e WRITE OFF | e et BIFLIONS IN The Washington | END-LEASE Merry - Go-Round e Truman Asks Congress fo By DRFW PEARSON ‘ (NOTE — In Drew Pearson's : Forge' Alhed Ald for Three Reasons absence, Herbert Bayard Swope, ‘ long a student of British po- | litical affairs, contributes a | guest column on the new Labor Government.) | WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Presi- (dent Truman notified Congress to- { day that the more than $42,000,000,- | e 000 this country spent on Lend- By (Former Editor, New York World, 155, pe written off the books. | Public Relations Adviser to the | it reason — made clear in @ | Secretary of War.) lengthy report Mr. Truman sent to Capitol Hill—is that the adminis- NEW YORK—The Conservative tration believes the United States defeat in England is not so striking ' received three things more import- |a blow as some portray it. Unques- ant than a dollar basis settlement tionably, there will be a trend to- They are: ward socialization, but I think this| 1. Victory {will be confined, at least for the japan. .next few years, to the natural| 2. More over Germany and than 1d- HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE .. qid to its Allies should in the | $5,600,000,000 ¢ BULLETINS | "RADNEY, Australia — A strong British naval force commanded by Rear Adm. C. H. J. Harcourt en- | tered the port of Hong Kong today to reoccupy the Crown Colony, Brit- ish Pacific Fleet Headquarters an- nounced here. BERLIN--Gen. Eisennower today that the 500,000 Amel troops new in Germany would be reduced to a fixed occupation force of about 400,000 well before the end of the winter. WASHINGTON-The State De- partment today announceéd resump- j tion of relations with | fective at midnight tomororw night man threw his support today to a renewed drive for merger of the armed forces. TOKYO-—The people of this bat- tered Japanese capital went about their daily tasks on this momentous day with shocked impassiveness but I no outward sign of hostility toward Finland, ef- | WASHINGTON — President Tru- | the few Americans who reached the {L. Martin Company has announced | mass production, is a 30-passenger | Nippon. | monopolies — power, light, heat, through last March in reverse Ls All are in good condition, and transportation, communication (al- Lease. their wounds are healing. They ready in the state’s hands except | threatened, correspondents with| 3. ul A commitment from . |steel and the Bank of England. in organizing postwar international hayonets when they first tried to gyt much of this has been on | trade on the basis of lowering bar- interview them in the YMCA here. ipoir program for the last 25 years. riers. Entrance was gained after a 15 1, fact, even the Lloyd George minute delay. The city of Shanghai| government gave support to the | still awaits its official release. | basic plan. There will be a trend on the part of the radical movement in this | country to affiliate itself with the | British program. And I think there | ‘!wm be efforts to gain a wider and | | deeper association politically wiLh{ Britain and Russia. But I do not!| discern any trend toward Com-| munism. Whatever Britain does " will be | Airplane Fare fo Be Lower than R. R. Fare; New Plane BALTIMORE, Aug. 30-The Glenn plans for a commercial plane which |coming a repetition of Stalinism.! first-class rail costs. i s The new plane is a far cry from|After all, only two Communis Martin the war, a company official ex- the plained. The new plane, slated (for| | (Continucd on Page Four) > —— STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, scheduled to ar-| twin-engine commercial ship. Large | scale production will begin immedi- ately after the initial demonstra-| plane. from Skagway, sails south three ® R | hours later. |o SEATTLE GIRLS HERE | Steamer Alaska, scheduled to ar- e Ann Keenan, Kay Cameron and rive from the south at 7 o'clock Trudy Haaley, of Seattle, flew to tomorrow morning. I Juneau on a Pan American Clipper| Steamer North Sea scheduled o from Fairbanks and are guests at to arrive, southbound, Saturday. “0 the Baranof Hotel. | - e —— ‘e e NYMAN IN TOWN i® SKAGWAY WOMEN HERE Frank Nyman, of Seattle, has ® Mrs. M. A. Moe, Mrs. Ray King, arrived here and is registered at ® Shirley Moe and Maureen Marinoff the Gastineau. . ! $2: v e FIRERAGES INPORTLAND i PORTLAND, Ore., Aug, 30.—Hun- | i dreds of tinhatters leaped and swam to safety today as the most costly done not by dictatorship, but under ! fire in Portland’: the company says, promises Das-|the rule of a true democracy. That| through the outfi senger airplane fare lower than|characteristic saves it from be- Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding Cor- poration. The blaze destroyed the outfitting the larger type war planes which were elected out of 27 who rfl"-!duek and adjoining buildings, and has, been turning out during | That's not dangerous, ever though|seriously damaged several of the propagandists can—and do— ' seven completed ships — valued at 5,500,000—lying in the basin. history ing basin 5, some still smoking, - [tion flight of the first completed rive at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning'® ¢ e ¢ © ¢ o o o o o . WEATHER REPORT (U. 5. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 0’Clock This Morning e o o In Juneau—Maximum, 59; minimum, 45, At Airport—Maximum, 63; Minimum, 40. L FORECAST o o i a- | still are held by the Japanese Who ¢, caples) and, of course, mining, tions receiving Lend-Lease to join roared of { The were | being towed to safety in the Wil- | lamette River. city. WASHINGTON Senator Bankhead, cf Alabama, has propos- ed that Emperor Hirohilo be tried and convicted as an out-and-out war criminal. ‘The Senator told a gathering at Birmingham that there can be no enduring peace with ! Japan until all of what e called “the humbuggery surrounding Hiro- ! hito and his ancestors is completely eliminated.” GUAM-—One hundred thirty-four i Superforts carried more than cne millien pounds of supplies to pri oners of war today, Guam Each plane carried four tons of sup- i plies, and the mercy missions were made over Japan, the Asiatic main- land and Formosa. - RADAR LANDING CONTROL READY FOR AR LINES LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30—Rarar landing control to penetrate fog and storm is ready for use by civilian air lines s 8. W. Gil- fillan, president oi radio manu- facturing concern. The device enables planes to avoid mountainsy buildings and power lines antl has been used by the Army for a ar and a half under extremely unfavorable wea- | ther conditions, he e developed for the Arm . o3 ol ol . | | the great naval base in Japan whore mishty units of (he cecupying forces land:d RADIOTOKYO "IN HANDS OF - AMER. STAFF (By Assoclated Press) Radio Tokyo, most listened Japanese station for the last four ars, was taken over today by Cien- eral MacArthur's public relations | staff. 1t marked the end of one Japan’s most powerful and busiest propaganda weapons, and source of most wartime reports for the rest of the world of what was happen- (ing inside of Japan. It will not be American news and the United States. - - Byren Price To Germany WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Presi- dent Truman announced today that Byrcn Price is being sent to Ger- many as public relations adviser to American Occupation Forces there, The President said that now winding up his work ector of censorship, will go personal representative to adv i with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. Lucius V. Clary on all .matters concerned with public rela- ! tionship. of bring Lo use to broadeasts John - time. | COLNKELLY WAS SHOTDOWN AFTER RUN OVER HARUNA ABOARD MERCY SHIP REEVES OFF OMORI PRISON CAMP, Tokyo Bay, Aug. 30.—Capt. Colin Kelly did not the Japanese battleship Haruna by piling his bomber agains its stack, one of his crewmen disclos- ed today, but Kelly died a great hero just the sume. The story of how Kelly died was revealed by Pfc. Rok man of Sanford, Fla., just evacuated {from the vile Omori camp in the su- burban area Altman said Captain Kelly made a skillful run over the battleship and the plane dropped three bombs, one making a direct hit, the other in- direct. Enroute back to Clark Field near Manila, two Japanese fighter planes WAINWRIGHT Yokosuka Where Yank Troops Landed Today NAVALBASE (. SFLAGIS ~ BYMARINES NIP LAND Occupying Forces Wade Afsugi Airfield, Yokosuka Ashore Past Wreckage | Naval Base Taken TAKENOVER UNFURLED, | 1 | A | | of Japanese Ships | Over by Yanks By Murlin Spencer ! oy " v e of e v regment, WITHOUT BLOODSHED occupying this - deserted Apitt base this morning, waded war ships that symbolized a fallen | : H . | mpire . Acting in Good Faith, | Cpl. Charles Thomas Dunn, De- troit, Mich, leaped ashore from Says MacArthur American flag on the beach, and| ATSUGI ATRMIELD, Near Tokyo, the green-clad assault forces to in Japan and set up headquarters begin their bloodless occupation of in Yokohama as Nippon's Military Japan., |Ruler today amidst the first alien | YOKOSUKA, A U. Lithore st wieekae ot Japunee Japanese Appear fo Be | 8 landing boat to plant the first |after him came hundreds more of | Ayg, 30--Gen. MacArthur arrived In the center of this once-great!armed forces to occupy the {naval base, 15 Japanese officers and 15 interpreters stood in two lines at stiff attention, to turn over ever Sacred Islands Paratroopers rines and seaborne ma- and sailors, hand-picked to to the base and its ruined warships o i to the Americans. Behind them m‘:]‘;’:“;::":“r‘:!:g“ flf '.VIIL‘dmvuslon of |a single line were three battered ski;‘g ‘m:p‘ % .awalmc. (.ml. Pl skies n from the sea in an ilml!»trucks and a single baby iank. unbroken stream. | Like the shabby g They took over Atsugi Alrfield, {the naval officers, they gave mute jg miles from Tokyo; ‘ran up mé evidence of how far Japan had American Flag over Yokohama | fallen since the first da of the Naval Base, Japan's second largest; war when the Nipponese swept rode by Japanese truck mto Yoko- rwr_y‘lhmu b(-(org them. hama, port of Tokyo where the | Brig. Gen. William T. Clement, occupation force will establish gen- |Riehmend, Va., commanding the ergl headquarters; and began eva- | Marine regimental combat team, cuating prisoners of war from :~,. arrived at Yokosuka shortly after-'plack hell hole” wherg “bestial ward to acknowledge capitulation peatings were common " of the base by Japanese Navy Capt. Kiyoshi Masuda. i Major Wilson Fu h., commanded the f to hit the beach. Japanese officers, civilian® in- terpreters and Japanese news cor- respondents and newsreel men all were ill at e although anxious to please. They were tight-lipped, | however, when questioned The occupation 1s “going spien- didly,” Gen, MacArthur said. Yanks were moving in an orderly fashion “without bloodshed” and he said the Japanese appeared to be acting in good faith, Seattle troops Real Pay-0Off As MacArthur himself put it, From Melbourne to Tokyo, it has about been a long, hard road, but this looks like the pay-off.” The men | s of the Eleventh Airborne Division cheered and waved as they sighted i the general. And MacArthur turned to the leader of the division band [ YOKOHAMA to declare: “That's the sweetest | music I ever heard.” (Conitnued on Page Two) i A few minutes later, he stepped | into an automobile to go to his ,new headquarters in the undam- Nothing Sbe‘cia(ular in Move-11. §. Consulate * Still Standing | YOKOHAMA, Aug. 30 — While (Japanese troops guarded the high- ,way a battalion of 750 men of the Eleventh Airborne Division moved into and occupied this sixth city of Japan this afternoon. | The move was accomplished so unspectacularly that even the Nip- ponese citizens exhibited little in- teres the convoy of 40 trucks rumbled the 15 miles from the At- sugi Adrstrip to their posts along the seaside road, Yokohama's main drive which borders the big port serving Tokyo. There they found the white stone American Consulate building un- damaged by air raids. It was in charge of the Swiss caretaker, Jacob Kern, and his wife Annie. Kern greeted the troops warmly. He told newsmen that damage and casualties inflicted by the B-29's was equal to that of the 19 earthquake although the govern- ment had not released the casualty figures. Japanese dazed, were reaction to the little smaller the smile, The citizens, perhaps inscrutable in the Americans children smiled, child the bigger still their Only the the went about their aged Grand Hotel in Yokohama, ‘The afborne forces who preceded him found the port city of Tokyo cast of Atsugi reduced to a “shanty- town” by Allied bombings, Japanese were living in caves and”'shacks made of scrap, and cooking over cpen fires, The hotel which becams MacArthur's new headquarters and the few modern buildings still in. tact had been cleaned up for use by the Americans. Troops Beat MacArthur The occupation by troops in full battle dress and ready for any contingency, was eight hours old when MacArthur stepped onto At- sugi’ Airdrome from his shining silver C-54 transport, “Bataan,” at 2 p. m, (1 a. m, Eastern War Time). ‘The Supreme Allied Commander landed amidst cheering paratroops ers of the Eleventh Airborne Diyi- sion who began pouring from an unending stream of transports at 6 a. m, (5 p. m. Wednesday, East- crn War Time) simultaneous with landings at Yokosuka, led by the Fourth Marine Regiment, Heroie Outfit There The Fourth Marines, rushed to the Philippines from China, were one of_ the heroic outfits in the fight for Manila Bay and stood to the last on Corregidor. Today's landing was made by a reactivated regiment. The Eleventh Airbotne Division helped MacArthur clear 300,000 Japanese out of the Philippines and were victors at Nichols Field, where Japan struck its first blow at the Islands. Paratroop units drove in Japa- nese trucks, duly saluted by enemy o’hy the Gilfillan Compiny in co- attacked Kelly's ship and it blew up. Japanese -w;u-rauon with the Radiation Lab- 8ix crewmen bailed e oratory of Massachusetts Institute said, but Kelly never e | of Technology. plane. Juneau and vicinity. Cooler tonight. Sunny and warm Friday. e o 00 000 0 00 —— ———— % DAVIS HERE C. W. Davis, of Seattle, guest at the Baranof Hotel. officers, ¢ hama, * out, Altman business unconcernedly, casting no e Zm{;‘:ro:,m‘;*yokvao . ‘five cleared the more than a casual glance at their| Y yo than Yoko- congquerors, | Sales today totaled 890,000 shares. arrived yesterday on an Alaska Dow, Jones averages today are ns{Cua.stnl Airlines plane from Skag- follows: Industrials, 172.37; rails, way and are guests at the Baranof 54:99; utilities, 32.65. Hotel. is . . ale . (Conllnfi«‘a 7on Puptfii'hna» 1 \ J