The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA. EM}PIRE “AL[, TIIF NEWS ALL ’IIIF TINIP“' 3 » Press phnlnzrapher with the war WOMAN VICTIM OF JAPS ON ATTU | . GIVESHER STORY . «Mrs. Etta Jones Arrives in U. S.-Experiénces as Prisoner Related FAIRFIELD, Calif, Sept. 12— A gallant, grayhaired school teacher, the only American woman captured by the Japanese in the Aleutian campaign, stepped from an Army transport plane today after a mght from Japan. She was 65-year-old Mrs. Etta E ®Jones, whose husband, Charles, was killed by the Japanese at Attu where both were captured, early in 1942, Very frail, she told with calmness Led by Maj. Gen. William C. Chnse‘ Cnmmxndmn G- ivision parade into Tokyo as occupation of the Ja ) capital b picture pool. (AP Wirephoto v and dignity of having been kicked | 5 gnd slugged by the Japanese, spending three years hidden from the world in a Nippon prison. She | could still speak with kindness of | the children of Japan and of “thet poor people.” | & Her husband, 62, had gone to work | - at Attu as a weather observer and: radicman, and she was attached to Fthe Indian Service there to teach | the native children. They were Lh(‘ anly white people on the island. ‘ The Japanese came, 2,000 strong, on June 7, 1942, Mrs. Jones recalled today. | Beaten and Kicked ! “I was beaten with the butt ~nd yof arifle, and struck across the back by a Jap soldier who had been act- | « ing as an interpreter,” she said. “He knocked me down, stepped on me ,.nnd kicked me in the stomach. Then | " (Continued on Pdae Siz) The Washington Merry- EE -Round | By DRFW PEARSON | WASHINGTON — The admirals| ® &nd generals couldn’t say so pub-| licly, but they were boiling mad at Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes over giving Russia the Kurile Islands—the strip of island . stepping - stones extending fro m, Japan north toward Siberia. Of , course, the brass hats boil easily, | but they say the Kuriles are the; l} ybest Pacific site for launching rocket bombs against the United , aitates. Here is the inside story of what happened. It goes back to some of the super-secret conversations at Yalta and Potsdam. Jimmy Byrnes was absolutely ¢right when he said that at Yalta,| Russia had been promised the » Kurile Islands. As a matter of fact,| ,she had been promised much more Athan that. Roosevelt, straining at the leash to get Stalin into the #4Ayar against Japan, went the whole hog in dangling Asiatic bait before Uncle Joe’s eyes. Here is what he promised : Russia would get (1) all che Sakmlin (2) the Kurile Islands; ® (3) a puppet Chinese Government in Manchuria which would be under the Russian thumb; uppet Government in Korea also #*under Moscow’s thumb; (5) a * ” {—Secret details of Japanese scien- | tific investigations released here to-' ! without risk. of | First Cavalry Di (ONE FEATURE OF | ATOMICBOMBING | GETS REFUTATION |nounced today that iScientific Inveshgahons Say Area Nof Unfit for Humans i By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE (AP Science Editor) ALAMOGORDO, N. M, Sept. 12 | day refute enemy radio reports that the atomic bomb area of Hiro- shima had become unfit for human habitation. Disclosed by Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, head of the atomic bomb | project, these reports declared that | 11 days after the bomb fell Hiro-| shima apparently was safe from dangerous rays. The reports said! that at ’XHV point beneath the| impact of the explosion there was less than a tolerance dose of| X-rays coming from ground or air.| This amount means, Gen. Groves said, that it is safe for anyone| to live in that area permanently The general issued the Japanese reports in connection with a visit to the site of the first atomic bomb explosion, about 60 miles north of here. He led a party of| 31 writers and photographers, five | scientists and a dozen Army of- ficers into the bomb crater last| Sunday afternoon. This was the first public revela- tion of the amazing details of the | atomic damage to the ground it- self. The things seen there and the story of X-rays told by m-i strument¢ carried into the crater shuwed definitely why Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not ruined for human habitation. They showed! 4" a!too why it is improbable that more Bank, publishing unclaimed ac than a comparatively few persons | were injured by atomic rays of any | g | +» (Continued on Page Four) I (Continuea on P.’;.:e Five) , veral, and his staff, trecps {Indications of \Pefroleum ‘ | Japs the Fiist Cavaley 'k Filan, Associated of Photo by F Signal Corps | Yank Tank Deslroyers infokyo | maste: n tank destroyers rumble along a street in Tokyo, during the parade of Americans into the conquered Jap capital. Photo by Frank Filan, Associated Press photographer with the war picture pool. (AP Wirephcto via Signal Corps radio from Manila). 'New Russian Airline fo U. 5. Over Alaska MOSCOW, Sept. 12—Izestia an- a Soviet-oper- jated international air line had been cpened between the United States d Russia via Alaska and Yakutsk, iberif. !told sofne | strategy against the Japs in China. West Alaska % | ‘WASHINGTON, Stpt 12.—There are indications that a petroleum reservoir may lie in the wide bay| 'anticline on the Pacific side of the, Alaska Peninsula, Director William| E. Wrather of the Geological Survey‘ reported today. The anticline is about 150 mfles, west of Kodiak Island. Gedlogists this summer studied 60‘ square miles near the southwest end. | The anticline comprises 300 squnre[ miles. e STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 NEW YORK Sept 12 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine steck today was 7, American Can 1042, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss- Wright 67, International Harvester 93, Kennecott 39%, /New York Central 26%, Northern Pacific 27':, U. S. Steel 74%, Pound $4.02% | Sales: today totaled 1,240,000 | shares. Dow, Jones averages today were, as follows: Industrials, 178.99; rails, | 56.41; utilities, 33.83. | ——o—— Buffalo Bill's Dough NEW YORK — Chase ‘\lauo'ml counts, noted formally in a list of !names that it was safeguarding, W. F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, l ROBINSON ARRIVES 85,000 JAPS INS.E. ASIA SURRENDER ;SIern Measures fo Be Tak-| en If Nips Get Obstin- | ate, Impudent SINGAPORE, Sept. 12 I\dnur:\l: | Lord Louis Mounjbatten received | the surrender of all Japanese forces |in Southeast Asia and the East Indies .today from Gen. Seishiro| | Itagaki, representing the ailing | commander of the Japanese South-| | ern Armies, Marshal Count Juichi | Terauchi | Promptly after the ceremony, | the Allied Southeast Asia Com- mander announced he would toler- | |ate mo arrogance from the Japs inese, and told his troops in an| lorder of the day that they would | have his support “in taking the| sternest measures against any nese attempt at obstinac pudvn(o of non-cocperation.” ‘We are going to treat our ene- with justice and humanity, we are going to be their ,” said the order of the day i The surrender involved about Japanese troops in the Singa- | a and some 500,000 soldiers in “the southern re- — Southeast- Asia and the Indies. By the instrument, gave up the richest and most pansive conquests of their campaign of aggression—an | stretching 4,500 miles from the Arabian Sea to Hollandia, em- | bracing 1,500,000 square miles and populated 128,000,000 people. - GEN. CHENNAULT GIVEN WELCOME IN HOME TOWN mies but the Japanese long area | Says Japs Never Caught His‘ Forces with Their Pants Down MONROE, La., Sept. 12—Mdjor Gen. Claire Lee Chennault, com- | mander of the famed Flying Tigers in China and Louisiana’s No. 1] war hero, officially returned to his home district and received the ac- claim of thousands who lined the streets of Monroe to cheer him and his party. In an interview, of the Chennault of his Gen. secrets “Not once were we caught with our pants down,” he said. “The invariably came over our bases on holidays, apparently fig- | uring that our boys would be off the posts, celebrating. Instead, I gave them days off either before or after the holidays, such as the Fourth of July, Christmas, etc., and we always were ready for them when they came over.” Adm. Shimada |Is Under Arrest YOKOHAMA, Sept. ! Shigetaro Shimada, the man who directed the sneak attack on Pearl | Harbor, was arrested by U. S. Army officials tonight. The Admiral made no effort to avoid arrest. He was found in his home near Yckohama on the road to Tokyo. He agreed readily to go with the' officers, who were conducting wide sweeps to pick up war criminals. Obviously recalling former Pre- mier Hideki Tojo's attempted suicide, he replied to a request that he hurry along: “Be quiet no suicide, no suicide.” , 12.—Adm. g F. H. STORY HERF Fred H. Story, of Skagway, is n. |guest at the Gastineau Hotel. i - e | M. E. Robinson, Wash., of Orchards, has arrived in town, via .between $25 and $50 deposited by}PAA from Seattle, and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel, 'WOODLEY AIRWAYS | the Penguin, arrived here last night $50C IATI D PRl SS PRICE TEN CENTS MacArthur al Toky@ Flag Gen. Douglas hind was raiscd ¢n Eugene Pafrick Robert L. Eic Stafi: Corms ¢ 1. Fiagfiver%bassyu ]’akyo MacArthur second from left), r he Lyer ae reof of mbassy in Toky Walsh, of Va. er, Eighth Army Commar n. Bonner Fellers, MacArthur adio from Manila). Suprem him bow the ads during followin ic cerc he ¥ Richmond, a pra 8. Ei pl ndin Lt A K. iotant of 1ne American ilag is raised over the ( . Embassy in Tokye in a ceremony attended by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and high-ranking The flag is the same one which flew over the Capitol in Washingten on Pearl Harbor Day, Dccember 7, 14 At the Tokyo ceremony, the Seventh Regiment of the First Cavalry Division served as honor guard. (AP Wirephoto via Signal Corps radio from Manila). BELLINGHAM MAN DIES HERE TODAY Knutson ®f Bellingham, IN FROM ANCHORAGE A Woodley Airways transport Bud plane brought the following ten Wash, engineer on the P. A. F passengers to Juneau from Anhu. Express, became seriously iil age early this merning: H. J , on the boat while enroute to attle Olga Jonsson, Wm. Nelson, and war brought back to Junecau to Nelson, Wm. Huliaz, M. Cof: Ann’s Hospital, where he died Jenkins, A. A. 3 e 4 y this morning, a very short and P. A. Gutzwiller time after being brought in. Outgoing passengers to Anchorag T'he deceased, who was 36 years T. A. Morgan, Dan Moller, A, Bock- old, is survived by a wife and two oven and E. P. McCarron hildren, residing in Bellingham. To Cordova: Ernest Nelson The remains are the Charles W .Luk Marsch. rter Mortuary To Kodiak: Mrs. G. Sty and Mrs, Benkraft. DUFFY HERE D . Lc Duffy, oi Pri F d in Juneau on and Is a gues Hotel, and C LOU Jr., RE pule anof BEN BURFORD Ben Burford, Chief Engineer on Dr. George ducation for left just in time for the wedding of his brother, J. B. Burford. His wife is ith him, making a round-trip on ng on the rd nde | ere . that the s section of the Raising | : | | | | 47 LEADERS OF NIPPONS ARE ON LIST Badly Wanted General Who Sanctioned Death March of Bataan, Flees BLOOD TRANSFUSION , and hi mony at which the American flag plain (Igff) who cffers prayer is Lt. Col. Mac Arthur (left to right) are: Lt. Gen. Sutherland, MacArthut's Chief of Staff. (AP Wirephoto via Signal Alaska Sphl Over Interior ~ Orient Airway Atwood Has Development Bd. Backing-Mayor ! " Parsons Opposed Contlicting opinion became ap- parent today as to just what stand Alaska should take on the current campaign of Pacific Northwest lead- | ers to secure for Seattle the role of air gateway to the Orient, C Ernest Gruening revealed today that Bob Atwood, An-| chorage Times editor, now attend'ng | the meetings in Seattle, has be"n‘ authorized by the Alaska Devvlup-‘ ment Board to speak for it on be-| half of the New York-Chicago through Canada to Anchorage route | recommended by CAB examiners in the North Pacific case. | Almost simultaneously a group ol Junzau business men was putting cpposing thoughts on the matter in- to a wire to Christy Thomas, Execu- \%2 President of the Seattle ¢ of Commerce. That wire, by Juneau's Mayor Ernest| and already dispatched, or Parsons “We challenge the contention that BHlagka’s best interest would be serv- e¢d by airplane rout2 Chicago through Canada to Anchorage and Orient, apparently contended by Alwood, and urge Alaska’s future emphatically requires route to Crient to originate out of Seattle and that such route will benefit alll of Alaska from Ketchikan to Gov. Giruening has previously in- dicated his belief that the Territory would profit from the interior route proposed by the CAB examiners to be flown by Northwest Al:lines. The stand or A or Parsons and the Juneau business group, however, was today strongly seconded by the Executive Board of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce. The Execu tive Board authorized that the fol- lowing message be sent to Mr. Themas of the Seattle Chamber of Cemmerce: “The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce can find no basis for a belief premier place long oceupied by the Pacific Northwest in trade with the Asiatic countries bordering the Nerth Pacific will henceforth e teken Chicago apd the Midwest United Sts R On we think this Asiatic war era will be a ng actlvity as the nations improve their econ- conditions “In view of the the other hand trade of the post constantly incre Aslatic m above, it appears (Continued on Page Two) fef | Henrich Georg Stahmer, SAVES LIFE OF 100 Notonous Blatk Dragon Society Ordered Dis- banded by MacArthur kX 5 2 TCKYO, Thursday, Sept. 13. —~The American hunt for Japa- nese sword-rattlers sent the Nip- penese Cabinet into a special _cossion today, possibly to cull from its ranks men who may face charges as war criminals. (A Tokyo radio broadcast leard in San Francisco said Ficld Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, Cemmander in Chief of Japan's military forces in the home islands, commitied suicide yes- terday. Sugiyama, former Chief of the Army General Staff, was Minister of War in the cabinet of Premier Koiso, which suc- cecded General Tojo's govern- mont last fail.) A'meriean officers pressed the search for 47 war lead- ers and ocoldentals who may have aided Nippon's military purposes. Before calling his cabinet into «-ssion today, Premier Higashi- kuni reported Genersd Mac- Arthur's war criminal list to Emperor Hirohito. Informed sources said the cabinct mfy purge itself of members whe are speculative candidates for trials on war guilt charges. TOKYO, Sept. 12.—-American oc- | cupation authorities tonight pressed the roundup of 47 Japanese war leaders and renegade occidentals s a gift of blood from a Penn- sylvania sergeant probably saved the life of Hideki Tojo, principal archl- | tect of the Pear] Harbor asasult. General MacArthur, extending his list of “wanted” men to include seven of the notorious Black Dragon Soclety's top terrorists, ordered dis- soluticn of that jingoistic secret or- ganization, which the Japanese claimed had disbanded more than a month ago. While the roundup bag increased, one of the most badly wanted, Lt Gen. Masaharu Homma, who sar.Z- tioned the murderous Dzath March Bataan, fled to his islet home off the northweést coast. One of those caught, however, was German Ambassador held chiefly responsible for bringing Japan into the Rome- Berlin Axis. Stahmey came to Tokyo in 1940 as a special envoy on the Axis deal, was rewarded by being named Hitler’s envoy to the Nanking Puppet Gov- ernment, and then became Ambas- sador to Tokyo. He was a personal tant to Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Tojo Rallies* Tojo, who attempted suicide yes- terday, adnfit!edly to escape trial as the main Japanese war criminal, but who missed his heart with a bullet from a pistol taken from a downed American flier, rallied strongly to- night after the transfusion of B-type whole blood and injections of peni- cillin Doctors, who had said he had a better-than-even chance to live, de- clared his condition now was “very satisfactory.” Tojo himself wvias strong enough to thank them.and to tell a Japan~se government rep- resentative, T. Suguki, who visited nim at the American Evacuation Hospital in Yokohama, that he ap- preciated the care he was getting. General MacArthur's personal physician, Cal. Roger Egeberg, South Euclid, Ohio, rushed to Tojo's bed- side to join in the fight for his life. Lt. Gen. Reobert L. Eichelberger, Cemmander of Eighth Army occupa- tien forces, said that the best pos- sible nursing care had been ordered, adding, “We want the Japanese gov= ernment to know that.” (Continued on Page Five)