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@ o HE DAILY ALASKA EMPER “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,062 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDA\ 5H’TLMBPR H, 1‘)45 PRICE TEN CENTS T0JO ATTEMPTS TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE Surrender Document Given fo Pres. Truman BIG SECRET OF PACIFIC | WAR TOLD Aleutian Based Task Force Was Small But Tied Up Japanese | | | { | | FLEVENTH AIR FORCE, Aleu-| tians, Sept. 11—Its strength highly secret throughout the war, the Aleutian-based aerial task force— first to strike regularly at the Japanese homeland—today was re- vealed to have been composed of | but two Army bombing squadrons and a force of Navy wing planes. But, because of the secrecy main- tained, the two groups tied up ap- proximately one tenth of the Japa- | nese air force, badly needed else-| where by the enemy. It is now revealed that the units which crossed the North Pacific Ocean to be the first Allied airmen to bomb the Japanese (in the Kuriles) after Doolittle’s Tokyo raid—and continued this to the end of the war—were the 404th Heavy Bombardment Squadron, the homeland | Seventy-Seventh Medium Bombard- ment Squadron and Naval bombers of Fleet Air Wing Four. Other bombing squadrons of the Eleventh Air Force departed for home immediately after the Kiska and Attu campaigns, leaving only the two Army and one Navy bomb- | ing units, and all forces of fighters and patrol planes which patrolled and protected the North Pacific and Bering Sea from Annette | Island, 500 miles north of Seattle, to Shimushiru Island, north of Tokyo in Islands. First to cross the 850 miles of North Pacific to bomb Paramu- shiru and Shimushu Islands in the Kuriles was Bombardment squadron, -800 miles the Kurile 10, 1943. It was then, and four months later, the longest over-water bomb- ing mission of the war: The Seventy-Seventh and 404th Squadrons, on two subsequent oc- casions, were caught over the Kuriles by 40 to 50 Japanese fighter planes. In spite of the odds, they carried out their missions and the Seventy-Seventh | which | carried out that mission on July f sometimes fought off the enemy| of the si for almost one hour (Continued on Page Trw} The Washingion Merry - Go-Round FIRSTAMERICAN By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — The Army war veterans shall no longer appeal to Congress or newspapermen to| hasten their discharge from the Army or to protest redeployment | to Japan for police duty. Severe secret orders have just| been issued to this effect over the signature of Brig. Gen. A. M. Gurney, Chief of Staff for Lt. Gen. Lloyd R. Fredendall, Com- mander of the Second Army. The order, which has been secretly cir- culated, reads:. “Recently members of a division in the United States scheduled for | h redeployment to the Pacific “eaibefore e, war, appealed to the press and radio protesting against transfer of the division to the Pacific theatre.| . Action of this nature, if con- certed, may subject participants to disciplinary action. . . . “Incidents such as noted in| Paragraph 3 above (the para- graph just quoted),” continued the!cpew, secret order, “will be dealt with drastically by this headquarters and | the commander concerned will be summarily relieved.” ‘The division referred to probably was the Ninety-Fifth, stationed at | quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine Camp Shelby, Miss, which sent| | stock today was 7, American Can all sorts of appeals to newspaper- 104%, commentators| Wright from ! vester 92, Kennecott 39'z, New York and radio being men against transferred Europe to Japan. Apparently the!Central 26%, protests worked, for the order to U. S. Steel 74%, Pound $4.02%. send the Ninety-Fifth was cinded. PRESIDENTIAL POKER ‘Those who traveled with Presi- res- dent Truman on his various trips 56.16; ulllmeS. 33. 74 to Washington State and Potsdam found him a delightful and enter- (Continued on Page Fcur) is! determined that returned European | 1 | | | | d 1 | shares. Flown to the White House from Japan in care of Colencl Bernard T render document, signing of which brought World War II to an end on being handed to President Harry S. Truman by Colsncl Thielen. rcpresentatives aboard the s later. Left to right: Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal; son; General of the Army George C. Marshall; President Truman: Acheson, Acting Secretary of State; General Alexander Vandergrift, Ma William D. Leahy and Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker. Wainwrighf Full General Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright is greeted upen his arrival in Hawaii by Majer General Clark L. Ruffner (right), chief of staff, Air Forces Mid-Pacific, while Licutenant General Robert C. Richardson, Jr. (center) looks on. General Wainwright was pro- moted to the rank of full General by President Truman while he was enroute to San Francisco from the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay. Monday in Washington Gen. Wainwright received the Congressional Medal of Honor. i | administrative (sccond from left). The sur- Septemb is shown here Thus the decument, signed by Allied ssouri on Septcmber 2, was presented to President Truman just five Colonel Thieien; Fl Secretary of War Henry Ernest J. King; Dean Fleet Admiral leet Admi rine Corps chief; 'FEDERAL FUNDS ARE APPROPRIATED FOR WILDLIFE PURPOSES ' Alaska Gets Additional | Twelve Thousand Dol- lars, Ickes Declares ASHINGTON, sept. 11.—Appor- tionment of $680,000 among 47 States for restoration and development of| wildlife resources for the 12 months ending next June 30 was announ- ced today by Secretary of Interior Ickes. The Federal funds a: allotted on the basis of area and the number of hunting licenses sold by the States. The money comes from the 11 per cent tax on sporting arms and ammunition imposed under the Pittman-Robertson act Territories participating in the pro- gram are required to contribute 25 per cent of the cost of wildlife de- velopment work. The Federal allotments this year are $73,000 above last year's ap= portionment. The 25 per cent addi- ticnal state contribution will make $1,180,000 available for the program this year. Alaska gets an addition- al $12,000, Hawaii $5,000 and Puerto Rico $9,000. The appropriation for expenses was $100,- 000. Nevada is the only state which 'has not passed assent legislation and ALASKA CAPTIVE | SHIP TIES UP AT | LAND BILL GETS TOKYO WHARF COMMITTEE NOD One Jap Clvman Bows' Walker's Registration Adt Himself Info Briny- |~ Moves Up Congress PresenfsforCrew | - Approval Ladder | WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 TQKYO, Sept. 11—An effusive Japanese civilian bowed himself right off. a dock into the water today, as crowds of Japanese turned out to greet the first American ship te tie up at a Tokyo dock since| Alaska’s . request for help in lo- cating its land owners. Up to the present, there has been no method of registering land | transfers in the Territory. The last legislature adopted a plan requir-| ing each private landowner to reg- ister his property. It asked the| Federal Land Office to act as‘ registrar until the Territory can! set up its own machinery. The House Public Lands Com- ittee approved Delegate Bartlett's bill authorizing the Land Office to| act in this capacity. The crew of the vessel, a small Signal Corps communications craft | —the PCE 849—fished the dunked welcomer from, the bay, while of- ficers were greeted by Port of Tokyo officials. Many of the civilians, attracted by the Stars and Stripes flying from the mast, carried presents for the ———————— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 11 — Closing Premanent Rank for: Wearers of Five Sars Curtiss- Har- Anaconda 34%, 67, International Gels Committee Nod Northern Pacific 27%, ——— WASHINPTON, Sept. 11.—A bill granting permanent rank to the na- | i tion’s wartime Generals of the Army | Sales today totaled 1,120,000 Dow, as follows: Jones averages today were Industrials, 177.77; rails, | 2pproval today of the Senate Mili- tary Committee. - P. J. McEOIN HERE Patrick J. McEoin, Lowell, W:mh.‘| a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.\ MRS. ROLEY HERE Mrs. E. C. Roley, Bellevue, Wash,, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. is is ineligible for a federal allotment D (CAPT. MacKINNON IS COMMENDED BY ADMIRAL NIMITZ U. S. PACIFIC FLEET, Flagship lof the Commander-in-Chief—Capt. James Simpson MacKinnon, Juneau, ! Alaska, USNR, has been Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz vices.” Capt. MacKinnon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lockie M: innon, is an Annapolis graduate. He was called | to active duty on the United States entry into hostilities and recently | as served as Chief of Staff to the| !Aleutian area Navy chief. The | citation, authorizing a Commenda- tion Ribbon to Capt. MacKinnon, | reads: "or unusual and outstanding ser- stant Chief of Staff to the nmander Alaskan Sector from June, 1942, through October, |19043. By his energy, ability and L()mp‘"l(' knowledge of the area of | operall(m he made a noteworthy contribution to the effectiveness and s’nbsfqul‘nt success of the Com- mand. His conduct throughout was in keeping with ‘the highest tradi- |tions of the naval service.” GROSb ey RETURNS HERE Dave 'Gross, owner of the Coli- seum and 20th Century chain of movie houses in Southeast Alaska, to Skagway. e ——— PEARL IN JUNEAU Charles Pearl, Sitka, is at the Baranof Hotel. a guest States and | cited by | FOR PEACE London-Territories to Be Ascribed LONDON, State James conference today Byrnes told a press that TItaly would be the first topic for the conference jef Foreign Ministers of five Allied sting this afternoon and | that the | agenda. The Foreign Secretaries of Ru | Great Britain, France and China ar |here with By starting peace | machinery provided by the Potsdam | conference. Byrnes himself did not stay so, but {it was understood that the United |States would ask that the bulk of Italy’s colonies be left under Italian | centrol as trusteeships, with United | Mations supervision. | Tt is expected t | Islands, off Tur west coast, will }go to Greece. At the narrows of the editerranean Pantelleria — the \Iust island conquered by air power | alone — probably will become either a British or international base. A :~Lr|p of Ttalian Eritrea will be claim- ed by Ethiopia he British are e |that a strip of eastern Cyrenaica, ya, be taken from Italy and | placed either under international or | Egyptian rule. The territory is in- |Fabited by the Senussi tribe of Arabs, whom the British have prom- ed freedom from Italian rule. Byrnes said hé expected to re- ymain in London two weeks and then s, the Dodecanese GETS START Big Council .Meeling in Financial Help Tofalling! wpected to ask MACHINERY BRITISHTO t. 11.—Secretary of tom bomb was not on the FORMER JAP PREMIER IN SUICIDE TRY SEEKGREAT AIDOFU.S. | Shot, Crmcally Wounded - Himself as Yanks Soughi_ His Arrest 'i EUNOFFI(IA[[Y KNOWN - ASWAR (RIMINALNO. 1 3 Billion for Next 3 Years Is Goal By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER | WASHIN ON, Sept. 11-—-Finan- (Lnl hel l|) of at le 000,000,000 | be the British ",()A] in an An-'lu-' American Economic Conference | | - opening here tod: | | . Both sides se’ PaplSbanElto. talk| {More War Prisoners Re- about actual dollar aid although Piat i th Dars. GEITAE W hiola batle) | ported Found-Koreans ference | | Still Resent Japs The British would like the United | States to say what assistance it SR can offer | (By The Associated Press) The Americans would prefer for Former Premier Higeki Tojo—the the British to tell what they want | man who plunged Japan into war ind then negotiate on that basis. | | with America via Pearl Harbor-—shot American officials are reported | and critically wounded himself today to favor trading financial aid for ‘En.u! as American Counter intelli- a loosening of Empire trade re- | sence officers reached his home o strictions. |8 L him. Nearly six hours after- The conference, which will help | ward, however, his hcart still was determine the pattern of post-war | beating bolstared by transfused trade and therefore of peace for SPLIT 0 N American blood plasma,-and doc- years to come, will be organized tors gave him a 560-50 chance for at a meeting called for 4 p. m, life. (EWD). A Japancse doctor who bandaged STATEHOOD It will bring together Lord Hali- the wound byt refused to treat Tojo fax, the British Ambassador, and further, said the little general was Assistant Secretary of State Wil- dying and nothing could save him. liam L. Clayton, who head their R fati H Dif t;l}gj himself insisted, “I want to delegations. Also present will be' K@presentaty ave Dii- oy top economic officials from both pf ing O _e§ | "A!“‘x:{‘:‘;nfl':g.‘}‘fisrfl;‘l“l?::: Tt:it: governments. 4 % A | e”ng DlnlonS 0" |night added 39 other names, in- | cluding 1€ miembers of JApan's Pearl |Harbor cabinet and Lt. Gen. Masa- | haru Homa of Philippinos infamy-—— Maska BETTY KELLY HERE Betty Kelly, of Bremerton, Wash,, | commute between here and Wash- ? | 5 v JOWELL the man who ordered the Death ington. He talked with the British arrived yesterday on an A “‘. LOYYS Marc * Y x WASHINC »t. 11—-Maybe | March from Bataan, One American Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, Airlines plane from Anchorage and ; b Vo - h e some of the has been (was named among the 39 -a man early tod is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. Misgstd hed b . By { e hie o bire Ger. i knocked off by the war but it's a listed only as “Streeter,’ 4 former ApEnGs: Baid ' the ' fulure of Gers = i : safe bet that the people of “The Waks Island employee accused of many was not on the agenda for FELDONS ON NORAH safe bol phal tho RO | Roparing 'va O Nlecs oMY for - il the meeting of Foreign Ministers, as Mr. and Mrs, Sam Feldon are ‘“‘1" HOW. Mgre. ADOWX. THEM HNE 0Ky 0. radid dra b at Potadiin passargary Aonilhh. ob Lkt BENe ;u; ying territories now than ever - The American said the main task Norah for Victoria, and do not ex- "A"“l' PR G \ More POWs Found jof the Foreign Ministers is to re- pect to return to Juneau for three pi e ':"" knows more about | smerican nayal fliers meanwhile concile various points of view. or four months, them too, w m'h. perhaps s more | gisonvered 1,556 move Allied prison- to the point. For both A and ! ors ot war in folr veriote camps in Hawali are bidding anxiously for | yeyntaineus Hokkaido, and dropped statehood, n.‘xd l.hr e two COMNEr- guonlies: while in China, Chinese ea e am er urns tories of western defense found | foces under General Luban entered their way into nearly every discus- | Hanof, French Indo-China. Chinese sion of the Pacific War. also reported arrival of their troops . Travel to Hawail thus far has iy force” at Hankow yesterday. ea a r 0 Iews o been limited to military and naval| Tojo only yesterday had told As- groups, but representatives of three scoiated Press correspondents Rus- other committ visited Alaska gell Brines and Murlin Spencer, “you I this summer, with the statehood won't see me again.” nchorage Newspaperman -7 - “Sure, Alaska is entitled to state- | gpened one of the big sliding win- % hood it they want it.” observed dows of his home, smiled his hard, : Rep. Angell (R-Ore) on his re-| chill smile at the officers, th w::‘mn:n \4.19‘ Th-:‘ Lm;l'"re first joined the staff Seattle used tury from @ tour by members of |siammed the window shut, s o information supporting | ¢, gecide what was best for Alaska | ¢nd erritories Committee which Mr. Atwocd’s contention that his | viewpoint expressed in the fol- lowing article represents the Al- | aska viewpeint. As far as this newspaper is concerned the cpinions expressed by the writer represent only those of the writer.) By BOB ATWOOD (Anchorage Times Editer) SEATTLE, Sept. 11. Christy | Thomas, Executive Vice-Persident ' of the Seattle Chamber of Com- merce, disclosed this morning that House Committee today approved!for “unusual and outstanding ser- the Pacific Northwest Oriental Air- | lines Commitiee will turn a deaf-ear toward Alaska at a mass meeting | tomorrow afternoon. | Thomas said the steering com- mittee yesterday decided there is no p)ace on the program to hear the Alaska story in connection with Se- attle’s fight to knock out the pro- | posed direct airline from New York |and Chicago to Alaska and | Orient. The committee is conducting a concerted effort to have the Civil Aeronautics Board make Seattle the Pacific route. “The steering committee decided | that the Alaska point of view, being | in favor of the inland route, is con- trary to what his group wants and the meeting tomorrow is not for dis- cussion,” Thomas said. ‘It is not a public mesting and there is no room | on the program to hear your story.’ | This was in response to a request that I be allowed to speak as re resentative of Seattle’s best cu tomer, that Alaskans, particularly in the | southwest trading area, are stroi and Fleet Admirals won unanimous | has returned from a business trip for a direct airline to the east and resent Seattle’s activity which, | successful, would eliminate it. | Thomas, who has been active on ithe Seattle Chamber staff 25 years, claimed Seattle has Alaska’s best in- ter=sts at heart. He said when he the | gateway to the Orient on the North | It was presented to Thomas | Alas and “stuff it down n5'| will pass an enabling act. ‘ Shot Fired throat but, he said, those 8 . nly it's large enoush (it's! As the officers movad toward the are over and they don't do that any | ove than twice as big as ‘Tex door, they beard a shot fired. They g it has almost unlimited resources, | Proke in, smashed the lock on a He spoke at®length againsi the Ax'vu\, and a new highway will second door inside, and found the proposed interior route, claiming it make it grow. Even now it has as Wounded one-time Terror of Asia. wculd give the eastern part of the | much to commend it as some of ieneral MacArthur's order for Fnation a direct line to the Orient!ihe states when they were taken | 10J0's arrest went to Japanese as which would deprive Seattie of traf-|into the Union.” well Americans yesterday but al- fic which is “historically and right- | Rep. Jed Johnson (D-Okla., |though Tojo's home was encircled fully ours.” | doesn't agree, He thinks the Al- DY Japanese guards there had been Thomas claimed Seattle b “fight- | 4 aren't doinz enough for DO immediate arrest. i /ing for what belongs to us. | themselves. Her people, he declared | MacArthur did not say why Tojo was wanted, but he was listed un- officially as Japan’'s No. 1 war crim- inal Asked for the rzasons why Seattle | on his return from a trip with the opposes a direct line between 'h"’t\pnlnll fons Committee, let tk east and Alaska, Thomas expressed | fishing industry take out $60,000,000 oppesition ‘to policy of “spending], year and return only $1,000,000 in The Supreme Allled Commander American money to develop an air-| taxes They could do more, he as- | AT sousht to quiet Korean dem- line through Canada.” He cited thel . oq 1o deve lop roads and schools cnstrations ug:_unxt (‘x‘)n(mu:mrl' of necessity of building airport instal- | B’ wio knows how much gold | JAPanese admin lon — under lations and emergency ucv(-mn\ud.’l»1 il 6 tham ORI Bot American contrel—by assuring Kor- tions for passengers all along the . o cans that their rights would be re- | much silver from Nevada, how il ¥ route, {much copper from Arizona, and speoted; Fha'JABRHNE keph iy ot Asked how Seattle can take this| fice, he said, were “only working for how much in furs and metals from the Americans.” ;',‘]‘"f‘v‘gl;:]dw’:]‘i:lh%fi'“d“ 5“‘”“" ”(’“"1“ Idaho and Washington before they C o4 ates doi lars for construction of 600 miles|PCChmE SAtes. i | Iren Hand on Japan of Righwa¥" St BINE " Colpmbia;|, S 0ka Tias 31000009 ‘scree of, MagSsitucy Beesgiariers Jessiey Thomas spoke agajnst the present| o t reserves, its wild life re-|day abolished Japanese Imperial Alaska Highway ahd countered with | ources suggesting fur farming, | (Military) Headquarte: --‘mrcu-d the guestion: {trapping and hunting--are enor- sorship of Japanese radin and “Why shouldn’t Alaska be content | meus., Its fi ,hv»n‘ probably still | pr nd directed occupation troops with Alaska Airlines operating Iw-)h‘“ not reached a peak and its)to spread their control of Japan to tween Anchorage and Chicago while | possibilities in gold, coal and pe- lmland-wu naval bases and Osaka Northwest operates through Seattle troleun are still relatively un- next month land to the Orlent?” tapped Formal surrender of Japanese To which 1 lied that our con- Before it was isolated by the |forces at Hong Kong was M-uedu!ed cern was entirely with routes and | % Hawalli exported to this today near Victoria Jail—in which not with carriers; that the exam-|°Ounty su pineapple, fish, in- |8 half-dozen Japanese alrendy were iners' report to the CAB was em- | ‘Wiating board, cattle hides, pota- |held for war-criminal trials. On inently satisfactory to Alaska and | ‘¢S, bananas. coffee, nuts and pa- Mindanao in the Philippines, 9,500 any upset could result in something | 28ya julce—seemingly a pretty fair Nippongse = surrendered Saturday, favorable but not more favorable {o | ‘ales list and others at Wewak, New Guinea, he Territory. Only four other territories have |Will surrender Thursday. The conference lasted more than ed for statehood long . In Kobe, Teacuery secking 400 Al- a0 hour but Thomas remained ka. Thesc are New Mexico, lied prisoners found 4,000—and Lt. if | adamant in the stand that Seattle 1, hington State and Ari-| Ccl. Walter E. Karfgin of the lib- |must fight. All suggestions that|Zona. Alaska was given territorial eration force said they were in good Alaska would be developed by an |tatus in 1912 condition, that the Japanese cheered inland route and Seattle Nevada, admitted in 1864, had g | their departure, and that the pris- Mo enn | oners shook hands with their former guards before leaving. (Continued on Page Two) (Conltnued on Page Two)