The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA_ 1* l\fi PIB “ALL THE NEWS AH THE TIME” VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,061 Congressional Medal Given Gen. Wainwright BATAAN HERO‘ HALSEv oeTs Barmis bEcoEAERs iR 51 ING IS/ InHonor of 38 Dead War Correspondents | MacARTHUR SURPRISED AT GREAT HONOR Tells Cheé?ing Crowds' What America Should Learn-Talks, Congress WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Presi-| dent Truman presented the Con- gressional Medal of Honor to Gen- eral Jonathan Wainwright today. The presentation was a complete surprise to the hero of Bataan and Corregidor. The presentation was the high- light of a day in which the nation’s capital acclaimed the hero of Corre- gidor. “It gives me more pleasure than almost anything I have ever done to present Gen. Wainwright with the Congressional Medal of Honor,” the President said. Tired, gaunt Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, back for a hero’s ac- claim, hold his cheering welcomers today that American should learn two lessons from the tragedy of' Bataan. In the future, he said, the U. S. should: 1. Be firm with those “truculent men,” the Japanese. 2. Be prepared, so that never again will American ‘soldiers be “for- ced senselessly to suffer . torment and starvation.” It was Wainwright Day in Wash- ington. His airplane settled down at Na- Allied Prisoners Baycnet by Japs, tional Airport an dthere, after more than four years of wait and worry, he met his wife Kitty. As the plane rolled in, Mrs. ‘Wain- | wright ran forward, hands out- stretched. The General gave her a genuine smack, one he hdd saved up for four years. Mrs. Wainwright wept with joy. | E | REPIESENTING KING SEORGE VI, Adm. Sir Bruce Frazer (left) mander of the British Pacific Fleet, decorates Adm. Willidm S, Jr., commander of the mighty Third Fleet, with the Knighthood of the Ordcr of the Bath, aboard one of the units of the Fleet in Pacific waters, off Japan, U. S. Navy Radiophoto. (Internationel Soundphoto) CONVICTED OF HIGH TREASON Nazi Chieftain in Norway During War Is Con- demned fo Death | LONDON, Sept. 10 — The Oslo| radio announced today that Vidkun Quisling had been convicted of | | charges of high treason and con- | | demned to death { | The pronouncing of the sentence by the court that tried Quisling | ifor cooperation with the Germans | | during the occupation of Norway | | was broadcast direct from the | courtroom | Under the new law legalizing the | death penalty in Norway, the sen- {tence will be executed by a mili- |tary firing squad composed of 10! | soldiers firing 10 bullets | Under the law, Quisling can ap- peal to the Supreme Court which can commute the sentence but can- not reverse It | The presiding judge at Quisling’s trial, however, was Erik Solem who also is Supreme Court Justice land thus one of the group which would pass on any appeal Unless Quisling is held for pur- poses of giving evidence in other ,4;5‘;2;'_ war.erimes - cases, it 15 likely the! execution will be carried out within | three weeks. - GANGPLANK LOWERED BY E “ “THE FOURTH E \ll " was christened re; 38 war cerrespondents who have lost their lives or b Mrs, Catherine Gunn, whose hush Telegram was killed a year age itly al Hammer n declared missing in action during World War 11 war correspondent for the Fort Worth, Tex., Star- e in the Philispines, stands beside the newest Northrup P-61 “Black o P , near Widow” night fighter. She assisted in christening the plane by Mo mznding General, Feurth Air Force. HealthBoard PART OF JAPANESE SURRENDER Asks Call of TO CHINESE Legislature NAGASAKI INRUINS ISSUES TWO STATEMENTS Sparks Fly in Korea on Oc- ' cupation-Northern Hon- shu Is Taken Over LETIN — TOKYO, Sept. neral MacArthur struck nese militarism a death today by ‘ordering the Jm- perial Headquarters abolished and simultaneously clamped a and radio censorship on ¢ beaten Empire, Supreme Commander he issucd a directive that the head- quarters must disselve by Sep- tember 13, General Headguart- ers was set upin 1941 a few months before Pearl Harbor to coordinate Aimy and Navy ac- tivity. TOKYO, Sept. 10—Gen. MacAr- thur's softly firm control spread threugh the length of Japan and southern Korea today — but his policy of retaining and using the exisiing Japanese Government set sparks flying in Kovea. Koreans demonstrated in - Seoul (Keijo) and termed it “a slap in the face” when Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, whose Twenty-Folirth Army Corps landed at Jinsen Saturday, preclaimed that Japanese.adminds- trative officials would continue in otfice. They had expected quick frecdom from the Nipponese. Hodge, after accepting surrender of southern Korea (the Russians centrol the nerthern half), quickly explained that the Japanese Gov. Gen, and his staff would remain in office only to ecarry out Ameri- can orders and would be. allowed no independent action. Before the cheering multitude in the capital today stcod a living o e s o ybsion et ‘Army Also Discloses Re- Place in 21 Minufes— | Need for Tuberculosis | Dropped Does Grealer i wortiern tonshu and e nor- who bore the mental and physical Thy e Saei o Fiede). thernmost home island of Hokkaido sears of cruel treatment in Jap FOUR DIE The ustratin Goversmen, | 1UFM 0F Troops in Europe Blunt Demand Fight funds Urged ~ Damage MaRHirst - (ot Dulsic St prison camps. this fact more apparent than when/ an official statement, dec] i and to continue their civil admini- General Wainwright told the crowd day that Japanese soldiers Be Over bY FeerBTY | NANKING, S(‘pt 10.—Japanese Confronted with a_health prob- NAGASAKI, Japan, Sep. 10-—The | ' stration. Patrol boats and carrier find second and last atomic bomb of hero-worshippers before the flesh of American prisoner var e leaders, who surrendered their lem for which they could not Washington Monument—quote—“No IN BI.AZE after they had been used for bayo-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 — The million-man force in China yester- sufficient funds available, members dropped by the Americans turned planes circled wlertly, pending fie human person could desire that the net practice. Navy Is lowering the gangplank for |day, were faced today with a blunt of the newly organized Board of half of this city of 250,000 popula- arvival of; SABNRRIN, WoaiN Japs should be forced to endure | In other parts of the Far East, 423,000 more prospective civilians.'demand from the victorious Chinese Health at its session in Juneau last tion into a desert of rubble. - Wivo Hikbkt i Tnned T (Continued on Page Five) | stories of other brutal Japanese Effective Saturday, it is adding |that they give up the Toky(‘)-‘.lp- week adopted a {tvwlu'inn Urging Thig i5 the report of one of a MacArthur simultancously issued | 5 servic 3 ; -t president of China that a special session of the Terri- a4y o Americans on a first visit two statements from his new head- AMER. NAYY _ HeSh Then Ea|en ptss Dramatic Ceremonies Take Special Session fo Meet Second, Last Atoric Bomb chir and s, North Fuctic Nava force accepted Japan’s surrender of treatment came to light as hun-|credit for overs service to its pcinted puppet dreds of American prisor of war point discharge tem: One quar- and seven of his aides. |torial Legislature be called in order ;= "0 former manufacturing quarters in the U. S. Embassy in reached safety and told of their! ter.of a point {m every month of| A few hours after Gen. Yasutsugu to make further appropriations 10 ... Of this city, comparable in ~S% The Washlngton‘camoh( Bishop Demands existence in Japanese hell camps. |service outside the Continental Ckamura, commander of all Japa- handle the steadily Increasing tuber= ;040 gan Antonio, Texas, nothing l((mlmvud on l‘uqe Theee) | Thousands of other American|United States, since Sept. 1, 1939, |nese forces in China, signed the culosis spread in Alaska. The Board \ o506 iy the three-mile-long and surrender document which formally said its studies revealed there were \o oo oiae” pucinoss district ex- iaati imi | prisoners were aboard ships and| No change was made in the point ¢ i . Eioas” dlubelol Merry Go Round; 'flVESiIga'IOfl, Clalmmg e o i whs, Bk R tai Tecematy” i ciaiity brought to a close the eight-year un cstimated 4,000 cases of tuber- (T L Work of Arsonist T ol otficial Socument made| With the 327,000 made eligible Chinese-Japancse war, he was culosis in the Territory with but “po'yiyoe caused by the atomic public today Australian authorities | for release when the point system handed an order directing him to 2£9 beds to care for them. It point- \ " 4o ined on Nagasaki Aug. 9, produce Chen Kung-Po and s2ven cd out amy and navy hospitals disclosed that the Japanese had first was announced Aug. 15, the Kok o oy : - was much greater than the first SEATTLE, Sept. 10 — Catholic “resorted to cannibalism” agaxnst‘nbw action swells to 750,000 the Other puppet government officials can ne "'“‘ > end of ¢ » e rpped on Hiroshima three days Bishop Gerald M. Shaughnessy says Allied prisoners. | number .o be ready for discharge, Who. the Chinese said, “are now hid- cbtained for civilian use in the o o “ong i 45 now clear what he is convinced a blaze which Times and places were not dise Overseas credit is given not onl ing in Japan. Territcry, but money must be made a ar 0 yed > ag o I { 8 y As the Chinese celebraied the end available if the cpportunity is to k the War Department meant when [ By DRFW PEARSON | WASHINGTON — Release of the| Pearl Harbor reports now makes it possible to tell the long-withheld! used the death of four persons closed. for any dut, utside this countr: i — g dab o story of the Battle of Midway and | % A closed. y duty outside this v e Ktk MBS CLe e by Alasl The Boara it anncunced that the first atomic land razed an estimated $30,000 s atr s report was ssi s lof the bloody conflict, longest phase accepted by Alaska The Jarc iy P the reason - why the Chicago| The atrocity report was prepared {but for assignment to any ship i % (g "W Pre "o decree was urged that immediate action be tak- P0mb was aiready obsolete. worth of building equipment and for submission to the United Na-|commission. A i L contents at the St. Vincent De- ”D“s" War ’Cmms Gtk {2 Simultancously with the Navy's|issued nullifying all laws and orders en before the military facilities "‘l'.'.L”" n lhf, lxmgmlh and lul?s Paul Mission and Salvage Depot From Authentic evidence it lwa.s“announcement‘ ‘the Army disclosed | 155ued by the Japanese and thelr{moved from the Terrl(ory or dl P’I‘T.thh‘ N‘“;(‘“'{ln ,"“,S .MU }wxl.» SRS ] . puppets. Another decree rescinded mantled as surplus property. '1‘“ :’I N"I‘ ])\“ d ml-)\l and people rom he desolating blast early Sunday, was set;by an ar-'established that the prisoners |that it ha t February s | battle. . 1 by established that the pr were | that it has set nex ebruary as ., "ol and other levies in Nan i S 7 sonist. i > O e S s the return '’ g - - Complete text he Resolution = It has now been made clear SOUISt eaten and in some cases, the report |the date for completing the return o "o o chinese capital, which mes’? e text of the olutiol The smell of death still is heavy Aus"’ahan Press' Publl( g .| Bishop Shaughnessy ordered an said, humi flesh was found i f s 2,000,000 eeded troops r by g s through the Pearl Harbor reports, . g h aid, human fles) as found in of some 2,000, unneede TOODS |\ htil a few days ago had been in S over the city and smoke rises from . . v investigation after he learned fire kits or r | Boeiity . a e ~ W days ag ad b WHEREAS the war has ended sud- G TR SR g < that the U. S. Navy was in po: Japanese mess kits or over camp|from Europe. It added that more y ....c. nang denidand thats ate. svallable army fives started a month ago by the Dlsappomied Ma(AI’“’quS sion of the Japanese secret code | Dad broken out “simultancously” in fires /The report contained confes-|than 1,750,000 men would be back “pp . gy, AR i e single bomb s " " O O e ieak cown |four places. Fire Chief William sions from Japanese soldiers who!from the Pacific by June. e il ,‘1‘“22:,““,',‘-,‘,3;;‘;;;;‘ and navy hospitals which may bé 4 uthorities in Nagasagi now esti- Kid Glove Pou(y messages sent between Tokyo ana | Fitzgerald said a man found at admitted they cut up and ate Al-; Promising the N Present puo1q Purces dommander. ‘Was on its p ‘no w;r Im‘f “e‘m‘wl'y' :(l_‘ lmd mate that 26,000 persons have died, fuex it W ton sind between _ various | the scene with a mackinaw stuffed lied prisoners. feritical scores will be lowered as |y Soq € o issimo Chiang {uberculosis patients: apatment 9% 40000 were wounded and that 10 SYDNEY, Sept. 10 — Australian units of the Jap fleet. :llh paper and matches was being| Referring to the report, H. V.lrapidly as possible, Secretary For- | gai_shek. WIH-:REASD tu:vx.r;xll::': has de- 10 20 victims are dying daily. The press and public today showed That was how Cordell Hull knew (ilrdh:o(x.h:]x.;;;uii:l);:. b tEvzml :u[s;ru‘l‘xun- %}nistgr for Ex-‘,»eslfxl ;1dd(‘d) that xf\n.l‘lm sl;( 'mon 1]; The tense, dramatic surrender veloped into the ‘mlm critical health J2Panese officials said they ex- mounting dissatisfaction over what at 10 p. m. on Dec. 6, the da)':‘.immb o degr “_;)m el e, U"‘“d valllh, sail crlmcs com- ' half the fn(x\ now Jh ||an n‘.m » :‘ ceremonies, ending a struggle which problem facing the people of Alaska pected the total to climb as high many decried as Gen. MacArthur's before Pearl Harbor, that the Japs‘oi b Ad( il e lhA' ml(tx‘ b_\' Ln :Y.melew forces in \::- out. v\MLhm a year, he said, the ;4 pled China’s economy and man- at this time, estima showing 45 40,000 dead. “kid glove” peace policy for Japan. were going to hand him an abrupt = T o uwd’und f{'(l ;18:‘1 e the field ‘were “part of a system Navy will be down to its estimated power since 1937, required but 21 that there are approximately 4000 The spot where the bomb ex- ‘This reaction included bitter note flatly refusing his peace pl.o_‘m(:. HUS omeless m. Lex‘musm in which all Ja . peace-time strength u}(‘.,ou,mm. Thut minutes in the Chinese Military active cases with but 289 beds avail- Ploded, an area a half mile square, criticism of MacArthur and pralse posals. That was why Gen. Mar- n. & Mrs . uoopsfl and commanders partici- compares with a current total <f| Academy auditorium Sunday. able for their care, including those Was swept almc clean. A mile for Sir. Thomas Blamey, comm- shall was censured in the Pearl G ““) A pated. ! more than 3,300,000 | - - in hospitals in the States made #cross the valley from the bomb ander in chief of the Australian Harbor report for being out horse-| ¢ s s I 5 & L 2 In other parts of Japan, China, - i s ; available to Alaskans; and center houses were pushed out of Army. pack riding on the morning of Dec. TAKE HOLDEN FAMILY Manchuria and Korea, American, CALIFORNIA MEN HERE s'I'O(K QUOTMIONS line and lean drunkenly along the MacArthur announced yesterday 7, 8o that ‘word of' this| pending SOUTH ABOARD NORAH guthorities continued to evacuate| Jack Jordan and M. McDaniel WHEREAS the Federal Govern- sreet, that the Japanese would be per- preak in U. S.-Jap relations was P American prisoners from Japanese arrived in town this morning from NEW YORI, €ept. 10 — Closing ment has shown a willingness to There was no crater, and, con- mitted to work out their own demo- not flashed to Gen. Short at Pearl| Mr. and Mrs. Alex B. Holden camps and rush them to medical Long Beach, Calif., and are guests stock quotations today were as fol- #id Alaska in its health problems, trayy to previous reports, Japanese cratic destiny but warned that he Harbor umtil such a ftime and and son, Sandy, will be south-bound centers. lat the Gastineau Hotel. lows: American Can, 103 Curtiss- and has been and is prepared now i, Nagasaki said the bomb exploded would call upon his growing occu- through such a slow channel that, Passengers on the Princess Norah, - .- | - > Wricht, 6%, Anaconda 34's, Tnter- L0 match dollar for dollar territorial apout 1500 feet above the ground. | pation foree if necessary to keep he received 1t pnly after six Am- | tOMOITOW. HOME ON LEAVE | De CHAMPLAIN HERE | national Harvester 9114, Kennecott 1unds for the care of tuberculosis ->e order erican battleships were at the| Sandy will enter Brentwood Col- sl | J. W. De Champlain, Superin- 38%, New York Central 26, Nor- Patients; and i TREVOR DAvis BACK | Blamey, in accepting surrender bottom of the harbor. lege. near Victoria, and Mr. and Claude Helgesen, wellknown local| tendent of the Icy Straits can-|thern Pacific 27%, U. S, Steel 71%, WHEREAS the last Legislature myeyor Davis, owner of the Snap of the Japanese on Morotal, said Ptk i | Mrs. Holden will contnue south to boy and Juneau High School|nery, arrived here Saturday from Pound $4.02) appropriated only 860000 to the Spop returned to Juncau on the “In recelving your surrender I don't ADVANCE {California for a two or three graduate, now a Second Mate in Hoonah via Alaska Coastal Airlines| Dow, Jones averages today were Health Department for the bieh- alagkq after a month spent in the recognize you as an honorable, gal- MIDWAY PREPARATIONS months’ vacation. the Merchant Marine, is home on and is a guest at the Gastineau as follows: Industri um, n'x" siza.mm per unnum for /n-«:‘ Prince William Sound area, taking lant foe, but you'll be treated with That ,was also why, two weeks With their home in the Seatter a 10-day leave, visiting his relatives | Hotel. 55.80; utilities, 33.70. m.:.:‘unv):u n:,; this 4ll.n-ml"‘V AISEASE, movies of salmon wwning, and due courtesy in all matters.” pefore the Battle of Midway, the|Tract sold to O. F. Benecke, the here. For most of the past two) - - : | 3 A rich is making such terrific in- the spawning streams, for the New | Newspapers used editorials and Navy knew that Japan was pre-|Holdens have leased an apartment years he has been on one of the | OLSON IN TOWN MR, MRS. GROSS HERE ‘/‘ “";f”":i:‘: all classes of people in and Pish Company and the huge headlines to describe Japa- ASKS, 8 \m Juan Fish packers. He reported nese atrocities and to express dis- paring a mighty attack on our key {in the Baranof, which should be larger Army Transports operating| Richard Olson arrived in town| Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Gross, of San REAS m ik ready for occupancy by the time to the Aleutians and down the |yesterday from Adak and is a guest San Diégo, Calif, are guests at the 1 rAS the Board of Health of o gre “lots of fish” in that pleasure with any easy peace for (Cnmmued on Page i‘oun they return to Junecau. “Chain.” at the Gastineau Hotel. » Gastineau Hotel, (Continued on Page Eight) red Nippon. ) Tribune was never successfully| prosecuted for revealing certain war secrets at the time of that