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JAP WAR CRIMINALS BEING RUN DOWN lies Parachuted fo POWs . L . 3 .. » THE DAILY ALASKA EM _“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LXV., NO. 10,064 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1945 _ RESCUES CUT FIGURES FOR - ARMY LOSSES Navy Casmy Totals| Mount as Liberated | Prisoners Counted | WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—The | Army gained but the Navy lost men | in today's latest revision of casual- ty reports from World War Two. The total now stands at 1,070,730 * for all branches of the Armed Ser- | vices. This is 278- more than last| week’s recapitulation, | Liberation of 285 more prisoners| fy of war who previously had been! *¥ listed as missing cut the Army's| casualty total down to 922,302, but the Navy's total rose to 148,428, an | increase of 563 over last week's figure. | " Here are the latest figures for the Army, together with those for last week: killed, 205,045 and 203,379; wounded 571,08 and 571,589; missing ' 25,082 and, 27976; prisoners 120,567 and 119,643. The casualties are those reported through September 7. The Navy figures: killed 53,809 and 53,617, wounded 79,752 and 79,672; missing 11,262 and 10,947; prisoners 3,605 and 3,629. New Style Airliner Is Developed SANTA MONICA, Calif.,, Sept. 13 —Douglas Aircraft is working on a DEVEREUX DENIES Supp 35 Wing at the prisoner of war camp China. At bottom, PWSs run cu new airliner that is powered by twin counter - rotating propeller screws astern of the tail assembly. The new transport, to be called the DC-8, will carry 48 passengers as against 21 by the DC-3, now in use by many airlines. Its top speed " Douiias ensimeers sy he new Marine Commander on craft will have little cabin noise wake Dldn tsay Send Us More Japs’ because of the remote location of the propellers, that there will be By Al Dopking (Associated Press Correspondent) no wing motors to restrict vision, and that the cabin floor level will | TOKYO, Sept. 13.—Lt. Col. James iP. Devereukx denies that he ever be only 60 inches above the ground |sent the famous radio message “Send to facilitate passenger entrance. being over- The Washi g Ty Merry - Go- Round i vt o 2 |w {ber of 1941. b | Devereux was quoted by members {of an air evacuation group who vis lited his prison camp in the moun- WASHINGTON — One of thetains of Northern Hokkaido Island Army’s best boondoggling projects Tuesday. is about to get a new lease on| Now in command of the camp, life. _It is the U. S. Strategic | Devereux told them, “The first thing Bombing Survey, supposed toI'd like to get on the record is that survey the damage done by U. S.|we did not sent out such a radio bombers to Germany. ! message. Under this high - sounding title,] “We had all and more Japs than big-shot business executives have'we could handle right then. There been commuting back and forth were just too many of them for us across the Atlantic by plane at top |to hold off any longer.” priorities, while a thousand officers, enlisted men and civillans have been browsing through Germany}r:‘scue_ party, said Devereux did tell doing relatively little. {them he had to give the ‘“cease The stories collected by the A:'myifil‘e“ order three times before his photographers attached to this|weary and outnumbered Marines bombing survey are almost un- | would quit the hopeless struggle. believable. But many of them come! _Devercux said he still regarded from former news cameramen, one h::tns;lg as fafl Major, since he had formerly with March of Time. They ¢ en officially notified of his state that part of their time was promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. He spent photographing new Ge,-man:insigted on remaining in the camp inventions at thé request of Am- until all the prisoners could be re- erican business executives. These m°"e‘lj-t2g“"iess expected to be business executives also were completed by tomorrow. greatly interested in German pat-| In turn, some of his, staff offi- ents and even had Army camera-|CerS who have been taken out have men take pictures of patent specifications. Some of the Army officers at-| tached to the bombing survey col-| lected German cameras, then after| getting enlisted men to repair them, | sold the cameras in London. Other | officers went in for collecting oili (] paintings and German china (while I l' estimating the damage done v.oi Nazi factories.) One U. S airplane allotted to! ROME, Sept. 13.—Pope Pius XII the bombing survey had so little received Gen. Eisenhower, his son, to do that it was sent on a spe,;jal_ll\:‘t. \‘l(ohn Eisenhower, and Gen. trip from Frankfurt to Paris to|Mark W. Clark, U. S. Commander bring back a case of cognac. ‘:in Austria, in a private audience to- * * % |day. MORE BOONDOGGLING Following the audience, Gen. Eis- The top executives of the bomb-|€nhower visited St. Peter's cathed- ing survey as announced hy the ral. The Allied commander was ex- pected to return to his headquarters (Continued on Page Four) in Germany tomorrow. By DRFW PEARSON |vereux joins them. S RS Eisenhower and bundles of clcthing are dropped by the MESSAGE ON AR German |Yefused to start for home until De- ¢y Parachutes with specially prepared oil drums containing foodstuff 73rd Bombardment near Weihsian, Shantung Provinee, t of house to receive the supplies. (AP Wirephote from 20th Air Force radioed from Guam). PARTOFPEARL " HARBOR FILE S - STRICTLY SECRET ;Navy Asks»BoMIing Up of | How Japanese Code | WasBroken Up | WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 — The avy has renewed its pleas to Senators to keep part of its Pearl Harbor file bottled up. This was learned today in the wake of reports that Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel does not want a court martial during the ap- proaching Congressional inquiry into the military disaster. Kimmel, naval commander at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck, was d to have given that reply to a court martial offer from Secretary of the Navy Forrestal. His letter was interpreted by seme as leaving the way open to a later trial. Kimmel frequently demanded ‘one in the past. The matter of the still-secret portions of the Navy inquiry | board's report came up at a closed Sgt. Al Martin of Roanoke, Va. SeSsion of the Senate Naval Com- | | and Topeka, Kansas, who was in the Mittee. Comdr. W. H. English was ) |said to have told members the | service fears other nations will learn how it broke the Japanese code if the complete record is made |pub]ic, The portion involved reportedly contains messages bearing divectly on the Pearl Harbor attack. Some committee members said privately they think these ought to be made public, 'RUSSIAN AIRLINE .~ ANNOUNCEMENT - PROVES PUZILE WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—A state- jment in the Russian newspaper | Tzvestia that a Soviet-operated air: line had been opened to the United |States by way of Alaska and Yak- |utsk, Siberia, puzzled official to- day. Although official comment indi- cated that openeing move by the Russians would ke | Civil Aeronautics Board said Rus- |sla had not applied for* official air rights in the United States. The State Department said there have been none of the negbtiation which ;normully would precede such an Japplication. welcome, the| | AFTER RUHR, . RHINELAND |Makes Demand for Infer- | nationalization of Areas |, at Big Five Meeting 1 LONDON, Sept. 13.—The Big| Five \.Conference of Foreign Ministers was lin recess today for study of a flood |of proposals, among them reported- a set of detailed plans for inter- cnalization of the Ruhr and the Rhinland, which the French are |said to be pressing urgently. | A French official said flatly France had no desire to annex any part of {the Rhineland, but wanted it and [the Ruhr severed promptly from |Germany in time to prevent effec- tively any resurgence of German | naticnalism there. ‘The French are reported to be proposing control of Rubr indus- tries—particularly coal production |by the major powers and a commis na sicn of representatives of France Pelgium, Holland, Luxembourg and possibly Britain to adminster the Rhineland. The longer the areas remain an intergral part of Germany, the French are said to argue, the more difficult it will be to fix their ad- ministration in a manner guar- anteeing against future German control. This argument is based upon the premise that control of the Ruhr's industry and the Rhone's traffic should be international, be- |cause it affords domination of wes- {tern Europe, a power that no single |state should hold. ‘The Foreign Ministers’ discussions ended last night at 6:30 “owing to the number of documents which have to be translated and studied, a British Foreign Office communi- que said. The recess will last until tomorrow morning. Still the top consideration of the cenference was the Italian peace treaty, however. BULLETINS WASHINGTON — Sale or other disposal of all public lands contain- ing deposits of radioactive mineral substances was banned today by executive order of President Tru- man, WASHI TON — All restrictions on group travel and the activities of travel agencies have been lifted by the Office of Defense Trans portation, effective October 1. Sinc last July 21, an ODT order has pro- | hibited organized group travel and | the sale of railroad accommodations {to travel agenc Today’s order lifts those restrictions. | i AYER, Mass. — Four Army men | were burned to death and 12 others | were injured early today when an | Army bus carrying 29 overseas vet- | erans crashed into a tree on South | Main Street, overturned and caught | | fire. TOKYO — American planes are ying out a total of 1,577 Allied prisoners of war from camps in northernmost Hokkaido at the rate of 400 a day. WASHINGTON — Gen. John J. | Pershing is 85 years old today and {in good condition despite his ad- | vance age. He makes his home at | the Walter Reid Hospital. | diers of the American Labor Corps were killed and six seriously injured {last night when 3,000 four-gallon cans of gasoline caught fire | exploded. | MADRID — A government com- | munique announced today that Gen- eralissimo Francisco Franc cab- inet had legally abolished the Fal- angist salute — a stiff-arm, open- palm combination of Hitler’s Nazi zetsure and Mussolini’s Fascist one. | the ci | WO 1 war. - NDERFUL SEATTLE—Summoned for jury duty, Corp. A. C. Kline, Jr., wrote Sheriff Harlan S. Callahan “It’s the {most wonderful offer I've had for a leng time—please send transporta- tion.” Corp. Kline is stationed on Guam. RUSSIA & DEAL, England-—Five Negro sol- | and | The salute had been adopted during | FRANCE IS |WAINWRIGHT Frisco H 1S WELCOMED IN NEW YORK Regular Paper Blizzard Rages as Four Million | People Cheer ‘ | NEW YORK, pt. 13.—The | greatest paper bl rd in the his- tory of New York's famed financial |district showerad down on smiling, |happy Gen. Jonathan M. Wain- {wright today as the city gave a |roaring welcome to the hero of | Corregidor. | At loast 4,000,000 persons—by po-' lice estim: eered and acclaimed | the jtall, 62-year-old four-star gen- |eral on a triumphal motor ride from |LaGuardia Field, where he greeted with the traditional 17-gun salute, to the City Hall, where he mogdestly accepted honorary citizen- ship of New York. R was AR mo M - GREATDAMAGE DONE BY NALZIS Incomplete Estimate Made as fo Extent of Destruc- tion During War MOSCOW, Sept. 13. — A state | commission roported today that in- | complete data showed German dam- age against the Soviet Union during the war was 697,000,000,000 rubles tigured at 1941 price levels (The Sovict monitor in London 25 25 said rubles in 1841 had the value of a British pound. This would be at the rat» of 16 cents to the ruble. On this basis Russia’s war damage wculd amount to $108,640,000,000.) The report, which 7,000,000 per- {sons aided in compiling, covered | damage to private citizens, state en- terprises, collective farms and pub- lic organizations, but does not in- clude the rzduction in national in- come as a Tesult of the war, the cost of food and similar articles confiscated by the Germans, or loss- es ineurred by the slowing down of 'the natural economic development of the country. Even thz dama figures in the categories covered are 1ot complete. The Germans destroyed or pa destroyed 1,700 towns, upward 170,000 villages, 6,000,000 buildings and deprived 25,000,000 persons of roofs over their heads in a territory inhabited by 85,000,000 persons, ihe report said artly -+ 'PLAYOFF SERIES, P. C. LEAGUE, T0 OPEN ON SEPT. 25 | 'LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13.—Th® an- ‘nual Pacific Coast baseball league | playoff series will open September |25, it was announced today by Clar- (ence Rowland, league president. | | Seattle and Portland will meet for {the first three games of the north- ern semi-finals, with remaining games until one team has won four victories to be played at Portland AH-NEW NAME JACKSON, M ~“Atomic tur- |nips” are being advertised by |seed and feed merchant here “There's nothing explosive about them,” the merchant says. “They are what we used to call Japanese | turnips, and demand for them under the old name has been fall- ing off lately.” STOCK QUOTATIONS a | 2 NEW YORK, Sept. 13 — Closing | quotation of Alaska - JJuneau Minc |stock today was 7, Anaconda 3% | Curtiss-Wright 67, Kennecott 397 New York Central 26'%, Northern ! Pacific 28, U. S. Steel 74%, Pound $4.02%. | Sales today shares. Dow, Jones ave as follows: Industrial utilities, 33.86. totaled 1,170,000 s today were 178.60; rails, A B SN who thron decked ca Deveidpmeri _ MEMBER onors Wainwrighi Jonathan M. Wainwright leads a three-hour parade up Market Strect in San Francisco belore a crowd estimated at h ed to see the returned hero of Corre at bottom of picture. (Assock 9 S ASSOCIATED PRI e g . i j, i3 IR Nl a mulbioa idor. He is in flag- ed Press photo) Board Wire Spurned by Seafile, Buf Mayor Parsons Nofe Read By BOB ATWOOD ( Editor-Publisher Anchorage Times) ATTLE, Sept. 13.—(Special) » businessmen spurned Al rday afternoon when: they fused to so much as read a state- ment of the ‘Alaska Development Board at a two hour discussion pre- ceding adoption of a resolution call- ing upon Western States to launch an all out war against a direct a line ting Alaska with Chic go and New York Christy Thomas, Seattle Chamber of Commerce Vice President held the Alaska Development Board mes- in his hand as he had the nager of the Chamber's Aviation read a telegram from t con i Cepartment Pars , Juneau Mayor, de- Jaring that “Alaska’s future em- phatically requires the route to inate out of Seattle.” The wire from the Alaska Develop- ment Board, signed by Governor Gruening as members of the Board unanimously consider the Chieago route “indis pensable to the future of Alaska.” Meanwhile Thomas passed the De- valopment Board statement to var- ious persons sitting on the stage at the gathering, which attracted only a handful of businessmen instead of more than 300 as announced in the newspapers. Officials of the Seattle Chamber, Pert autherity and various other leaders expressed alarm over the CAB examiners' recomm ation that ‘an inland, direct route fror Alaska to Chicago be established as well as recommending that air carriers serve Alaska communities over the coastal route to Scattle Issue Clearly Drawn two issue was clearly drawn in preceding the meeting and Seattle chose to ignore the Alaska point of view. It was presented that Alaska rate the coastal route as of foremost im- portance because of the community of interest between Alaska and the Inasmuch as the Examin- recommended two carriers, PAA ind Alaska Airlines, it is felt that t route is satisfactorily provided for. It was also presented that the inland route was desirable for Alaska as furnishing the Territory’s first method of tapping the rich tourist and sportsman population of the East—a group which has rare- Iy been found among Alaska visitors past. In addition it imed that the business, trade and mmerce that would be developed chairman, declared the would aid materially in the develop- ment of Alaska, thus benfitting Seattle which supplies the Terri- tor; tive inland route and establishment of a through route to the Orient would lead to the elimination of Alaska from the air-highway to the Orient entir It was pointed out that if there were no connection to be mad in Alaska there would be no reason for the planes to touch Alaska. The Navy for several years has operated four- motored transports direct between Seattle and Adak without touching Elimination ¢f any port on the mainland. Inas- much Alaska would generate virtually no Oriental traffic the planes would soon, if not immediate- ly, eliminate the Territory stop. Spark of Interest The only spark of interest in the Alg ka point of view shown to date was a question put by Thomas in nference, “Would Alaska be sat- istied if Alaska airlines operated from Chicago to Alaska and con- nected thers with through Oriental planes operating from Seattle by way of Alaska?” My answer was that il the heces- sity of a connection could be ex- pected to compel a stop in Alaska by the Oriental planes, Alaska ought to be satisfied, but that Alaskans have not concerned themselves with what carriers should operate any The contention in Anchorage is that Alaska carriers are favored because they add most to the economy of the Territory, but the selection of any carriers, domes- tic or Alaskan, must be left to the CAB. particular route. Beck Drops Bombshell While the Seattle business leaders, orated on the importance of the his- toric traffic patterns which makes Seattle the natural gateway to the Orient, and how the CAB proposed to make the city a “whistle stop” in the global air pattern, Dave Beck, head of the Teamsters Union, drop- ped a bombshall in their laps when he declared that Seattle “has not been the natural gateway to the Jrient Beck to board a ranscontinental train it is n ary to go to Portland, to board a ship the Orient it is ary 1o 5 sco or Vancouver, declarad for nec v Now -it is proposed to compel us o go to San Francisco or Alas to board an airplane for Orient,” (Con inued on Page Two) NIP. GOVT. 10 MAKE " ARRESTS | Speed Indicated in Taking ~ Into Custody Those on | “"Wanted List"” 'T0JO IMPROVING; HAS NO DEFENSE T0 OFFER | Prince Konoye Gives Im- porfant Interview fo A.P. Correspondent TOKYO, Sept. 13—Eighth Army Headquarters empowered the Japa- nese Government today to round up the remaining Japanese on Gen. MacArthur's “wanted” list No time limit was set, but it was indicated that the government would have to show some progr within two days or the privilege would be withdrawn. The government had asked per- on to handle further arrests after Hideki Tojo, deposed wartime dictator, shot himself two days ago while American officers hammered t his door. Now in “satisfactory” idition and able to talk with correspondents today, ‘Tojo had headed MacArthur's list of those sought for questioning about war crimes, Japan today reported formally that its imperial headquarters had been abolished in compliance with MacArthur's orders, and MacAr- thur announced that Gen. Walter Krueger of' the Bixth Army and Vice Admiral Harry Hill of the Fifth Amphibious Force would enter Sasebo, Kyushu, Sept. 20 to pre- for its oceupation two days pare later. No Defense By Tojo Tojo offered no defense of his militarist government which launched the Pearl Harbor attack, while Prince Fumimaro Konoye, present vice premier, blamed mili- tarists like Tojo for his own failure to avert war, Konoye, interviewed by Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines, said he tried vainly to meet Presi- dent Rocsevelt in the summer of 1941 and believed he could have aveided the war by doing so, but the militarists and Japan’s inter. national reputation “as a liar,” blocked the meeting. “The Japanese Government long have had a reputation as liars,” he told Brines, “because they were un- able to control Japanese militarists in_the field, or often didn't know what the militarists were doing. Knew War Lost Prince Konoye called on Gen. MacArthur today, Allied Head- quarters announced without ampli- fication, Japan's busingss leaders empha- sized in an interview today that both the militarists and the in- dustrialists knew before surrender that the war was lost—before the first atomic bomb dropped, but that militarists wouldn't admit it and “we industrialists were too cow- ardly to speak out.” The nation, they said, was industrially para- lyzed and on the verge of starva- tion, As Tojo, r: d to a semi-sitting position, ate his first food since he attempted suicide Tuesday, others who had played major roles with him since the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor either were being rounded up or were doing a more effective job of self-elimination, ‘The navy minister to Tojo's in- famous “Pearl Harbor Cabinet,” Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, sur- rendered quietly at his home to an American officer, saying he had contemplated suicide but changed his mind. Like Tojo, he faces ques- tioning and possible court martial as a war criminal. But the man whom the Japanese war machine had planned to lead the defense of Honshu's vital Kanto Plain against American invasion, Field Marshal Gen. Sugylyama, killed himself with a pistol shot through the head at his office near the emperor's palace. More suicides were believed likely as the hunt progressed for the listed persons, including seven sus- pected key members of the dreaded | “Black Dragon Society,” which has "been ordered disbanded.

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