The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 13, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 'VOL. LXV., NO. 10,090 AU, ALASKA 13, COLD BLOODED JAP MURDERER CAUGHT , SATURDAY, OCTOBER i 1D THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD NOV 2 31945 [%V FRSRS— PRICE TEN CENTS Political Police Of Japanese Are Abolished NIP WOMEN GIVENRIGHT (AST VOTES Balloting A;]s Reduced- Sweeping Reforms Hit- ting Oriental Nation By RUSSELL BRINES (Associated Press Correspondent) TOKYO, Oct. 13—Premier Shi- dehara’s “crisis” cabinet took its first step today toward meeting Gen. MacArthur's distate that the Japanese Government be made the servant rather than the master of the people { In the face of rank skepticism of Nipponese liberals, the cabinet in its second extraordina: sion in two days, approved for submis- § to the Diet measures granting votes to women and lowering the voting age from 25 to 20 years In a move to comply with Allied commander’s order for free- dom of speech and thought, the cabinet dismissed 4,800 political (Thought Controly police and abolished, effective Monday, the 13-year-old law under which they had arrested some 60,000 political offenders, mostly Left Wing Lib- erals. the Sweeping Reforms Gen. MacArthur gave his rective for sweeping social and po- | litical reforms — changes nece: | tating revision of Japan's con | tution for the first time in more | than half a century—to Shidehara only Thursday, but already one draft of revisions was reported to have been finished. ‘ The newspaper Asahi said Prince Fumimaro Konoye, royal career| statesman and a recent flddumn: to Emperor Hirohito’s innermost | circle of advisers, had presented a draft of proposed revisions to the| di- emperor. | Diet's Power Strengthened | Sources close to Konoye said | (Continued on Page Five) The Wa?l? ing gton | Merry - Go - Round By DRFW PEARSON | WASHINGTON—Unlike the pro- verbial wise-crack about the first hundred days of matrimony, the| first hundred days in the life of | any President are the easiest. On Oct. 12, Harry Truman began | the second half of his first year in | the White House and already he has begun to feel the pinch of in- creasing trouble. Here is the report card on how he has done so far. POLITICS—Politically, Harry has | outshone the “old master.” He has | steered a medium course between Southern Reactionaries and Big city liberals, kept his fingers on the pufse of the country, striven hard for national unity, and leaned over so far to please Congress that it’s almost become¢ a 8in rather than a virtue. You can't please both sides , indefinitely, however, and the time'has just ahout come when Truman will ‘have to choose between the Liberals and the Con- servatives. | CABINET—Taken man for man,| Truman’'s cabinet is better than| Roosevelt's. Truman believes in| delegating . responsibility and elimi- nating too much centralized con-| trol. His cabinet, however, has one administrative weakness. Most of | its members served time in Con- | gress; therefore, have drifted into | the bad habit of spending more time shaking hands with visitors than running their departments.| Important administrative problems | Jap Piclure Believed to be the first bomb dropped on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, falls alo shig in this picture found tom (o graphers mate 2/c, cf Plymouth, Vt. with Jap phetographic plates. He took the reswlt bacle to the-nireraft earrier Shangii to nava! intelligence and this pietire flown te San Francisco by iginal was.turned o Jap plane is shown right (circle). Mrs. Laval Breaks Her . Life Long Si Defails Early Happening SECRETWEAPONS AREREVEALED AT WEEKEND EXHIBI | What Was in Store for Axis Had War Continued Info "46 Shown DAYTON, O. Oct. 13.—The Air Technical Service Command opened the eyes of Congress and the world today to what was in store for the Axis, had continued 1946. Amazed interest and pledges of the war help toward obtaining adequate ro-“ search funds came from members of both houses of Congress as the ATSC opened Wright Field to the public for a weekend “AAF Fair’"—a $150,- 000,000 display of all the paraphe nalia whigh made warfare America tough in the war. Lined up on a program which to- day and tomorrow includes the first public demonstrations of the jet- propelled P-80 fighter, here are some of the secret weapons on displa: A 5,000-horsepower engine for air- planes. Bombs that can be aimed at, and radio-controlled te hit the mouth of a Japanese cave. Bombs that found their way to targets by their sensitivity te light, heat, exhaust gas or even television. The prototype of jet-fighter which, by the very fact that it is controlled by a pilot lying face-down, his head held firm by a chin-rest, indicat ulling cut of a dive near bomb burst (AP Wirephoto from U. S. Navy) Into | fyom the Nazi occupation zone and Tells of Pear! Harbor Atlack | side an American war- pieces at the Yokosuka Naval Base by Martin J. Shemanski, photo- He pieced the picturc tcgether and then copied it with a Jap camera , whiere the or- army ceurier. One and another is in the air at upper CANNIBALISM AMONG NIPPONS WAS APPROVED § Documentary Evidence Re- ‘ veals Army Orders on Eating Human Flesh By DUANE HENNESY (eenter) lence: Tells | PARIS, Oct. 13.—Gray-haired, | mctherly Mrs. Pierre Laval broke a liefleng political silence today to plead for the life of the man she lo (Associated Press Correspondent) | Distraught with fears for her con-' TOKYO, Oct. 13—Japanese Army | demned husband, she bared intimate orders approved cannibalism among | memories of married life in an effort Nipponese troops, if they ate the| to show that Laval had sought t0 flesh of Allied dead—but they were | temper collaborationist extremism put (o death if they feasted and would have remained behind 0 their fallen comrades. | | turn power over to the Allies if the This was announced, with docu- | Germans had not carried him off yentary evidence, today by the| forcibly. A same hitHerto secret Allied head- | 5. Laval repeatedly indicated quarters section which disclosed the | that her husband turned to paths of gtorv. of an American flier's be- | opportunism only after the Munch pegging by a Japanese naval in- t shattered his dream of main- op;reter and announced the iden- | | taining a chain of steel around Adolf tity of the Japanese soldier who Hitler's Germany. # G i ) A chopped off the head of a| Earnestly, the 61-year-old wife of o, cijeq Australian aviator. | the former Vichy Chief of State told ™ Guptureq papers of the Japa-| how she had spirited Jewish friends nese Army showed some of its troops were convicteti of eating their own dead and were executed The papers called this “the worst | possible crime against humanity This was the first official con- | firmation of cannibalism among| e 2 Japanese troops, which had been | smuggled out money for them by | concealing it in her girdle. Mrs. Laval was sewing in the li- brary of her daughter’s apartment ! wi newspapermen arrived. She | was wearing a simple black house |a peaceful NEW WAR - 1S BELIEF * OF PATTO Formal Slateméhl Issue at New Headquarters of General BAD NAUHEIM, Germany, | 13.—Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., for- | mer commander of the U. S. Third and now head of the U. S. 15th| Army, believes there will be a new | war, and advocates universal mili- | tary training for the United States. In a formal statement issued at| his new headquarters, he said that | ‘unless we are armed and prepared, | the next war will probably destroy us.” He added: “The one hope for world is a powerful America, and the only means of pro- dueing a powerful America is to ini- | tiate and maintain adequate means instantly to check aggressors.” SAVSUS. WILLING “TOFIGHT Turkey, Makes State- ment to Newsmen ANKARA, Oct. 13.— Pepper (D-Fla) told a news confer- ence here that the United States is ‘willing to fight, with the backing of the United Nations, anybody who starts a war of aggression.” He made the statement in empha- izing the “changed policy” of the U. S. in the last few ArsS. | * The United States intends “to help otker nations on their feet” and “i spending billions of dollars for th lief in Europe,” the Florida Senator declared. Asked by Turkish newsmen what he believed caused the present dif- on | ferences among the Allies, Pepper re- | plied: “First, the new spirit which should make people think in terms of the security and welfare of the peo- | ple of the world instead of the gain or profit of individual nations. “Second, the fact we have not got | the United Nations machinery work- | ing smoothly yet.” | SMEATPLANTS INCANADA ARE TAKENBY 6OV, OTTAWA, Oct. 13.—The Govern- NEW TOUGH R a EC O R D—Mary Farley, employe at the RCA-Victor plant at Camden, N. J., tests the first of a new type flexible phonograph record, made of plastic, for which the claim is made that it is unbreakable. Claude | = | purpose, especially for UNRRA re- | FIVE-YEAR-OLD Audrey Funk pinch es the cheek of her cougin, Sgt Leonard A. Funk, Jr., as she wel comes her hero kin shortly after hi arrival in Pittsburgh, Pa.. fron | Washington, D. C. Funk was one o the twenty-eight soldiers who wes decorated with the Congressiona Medal of Honor by President Tru man recently. (International) PEACETIM BUDGETFOR .~ CANADIANS OTTAWA, Oct. 13—Canada put her first peacetime budget into op- Under tremendous personal ten- reported {s’kntchily from -*N'fl‘fll]menz took control of five strike- | sion, she traced her life with Layal fonts during the war. | threatened meat packing, plants in | from the day when she was his _1he evidence was found among| Western Canada yesterday in order childhood sweetheart in an Auvergne thousands of documents about|to assuré a steady flow of meat to }nage, Japanese military operations, per-|hungry Europe. { “All Europe was with him (in 1935) onnel and atrocities, seized by a| Workers of the five plants, located |when he wanted to encircle Ger- S. Army unit whose existance at Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, |many. . . . He made one front from Was undisciosed until yesterday. | Prince Albert and Winnipeg, were | Moscow to Paris, Bucharest, Buda- e | preparing to strike Monday after pest, Belgrade and Rome,” she said. |an impasse in negotiations for a 30 | “But they destroyed i all in less ("Y (ouN(ll [ per cent wage increase. than - three years—the same people | The plants, all operated by Burns | who got France into war so unpre- 'S (AllED IN |and Company, employ about 12,000 . D SPECI | ion Poi CIAL MEET Want Ration Points | pared. i workers. | “They pushed Italy toward Ger- | many, Then they drove Russia : by Munic] My husband was so bitter against Munich. We went to | | war without Russia, without Italy,' Mayor Ernest Parsons today called ;without Yugoslavia, with no Aus- 5 special meeting of the Juneau tria or Czechoslovakia left. Lifted, ga_nned Fish are muffed because the cabinet | chiefs simply don’t have time to talk to people and make decisions. |excess of conventional-type planes. WHITE HOUSE EFFICIENCY—| The 1,000-pound television bomb Truman so far has operated a more 1 used successfully against German efficient administration It is controlled b; a speed and maneuverability far in than | submarine pens. Roosevelt. He likes to decide things | the bombardier of its “mother ship” quickly, doesn’t let them hang fire. | who, through tzlevision is able to Sometimes this gets him into|guide it with split-hair accuracy trouble, as in the case of his state-‘ —_— . |images transmitted back to a four- " (Continued on Page Four) by-six-inch screen. into the target, so detailed are the | And common Council, for next Tuesday | today they want to keep my hus- evening, October 16, at 8 o'clock. {band from talking ... It should not The Mayor stated two purposes ke a matter of defending Pierre La- for the meeting : val but of throwing light on these . 1_Selection of an architect for questions.” the proposed Juneau Memorial Li- Correspondents found in her words prary. | an explanation of Laval’s visible d| 2—Consideration of a letter from |@ppointment at his trial when all the Alaska Housing Authority with charges involving pre-war activities regard to utility costs for the FPHA, Were withdrawn as he began to pre- 39-unit, housing project on Will- | sent leslimony covering the period. oughby Avenue here. . ) SEATTLE, Oct. 13—The execu- tive board of the CIO-International Fishermen and Allied Workcrs of America, representing 22,000 mem- bers on the Pacific Coast and in Alaska, proposed today that ration points be eliminated on all canned fish. The board said sufficient sup- plies of canned seafood products now are available, eration today, cutting personal in- come taxes by 16 per cent and low- ering taxes on business A means of stimulating initiative and enter- prise in the period of reconstruction The reduction was announced in parliament last night by Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley in presenting his budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 1945. The income tax cut was made effective October 1. - _Demonsl;alion by ~ Brifain's Gl Wives Appegrs Waning LONDON, Oct. 13—A five-day demonstration by Britain's GI wives who want to join their husbands in the United Statés appeared to be waning today. Only 150 of the women appeared this morning outside the United States embassy for a scheduled pro- test rally, and a spokesman for the Woodley Airways from Anchorage Married Women's Association” said and | that the organization was dissclving. Hotel, Grre;h M;adal V'Hero D I s p U-I- E S "i About 450,000 Workers IdleCritical Situation in Many Industries (By The Associated Press) The nation’ trike lines, jammed with around 450,000 workers most of the week, showed no indications of shrinking today but the govern- ment still had hopes of ending scme of the major labor disputes. The immediate concern of top- ranking federal officials in Wash- ington was to settle the' critical walkouts in the soft coal fields in six states and the stoppage of New Yerk longshoremen. These labor disputes accounted for more than one half of the number of workers away from their jobs, including more than 200,000 miners. Major strike developments were: COAL AND STEEL-Bituminous operators and United Mine Work- ers continue conferences with no indications of immediate settle- ment in soft coal strike as opera- ticns curtailed” in steel mills; more than 200,000 mine: idle in 900 mines in Six states. TRUCKING — Threatened strike of thousands of truckers as AFL drivers for 3,190 concerns in 12 Midwest states petition NLRB for strike vote. TRANSPORTATION — 1,800 AFL bus drivers and other employees leave jobs over wage dispute, cut- ting off service in 71 New England | communities for about 600,000 | daily bus riders; no settlement in week-old strike of 2700 drivers in seven Northwest states. | SHIPPING Secretary of War Patterson, Vice Admiral Land, War | Shipping Administrator, and Mayor LaGuardia urge striking longshore- men to end strike which is crippl- | ing New York Harbor; insurgents expected to service troopships. MOTION PICTURES Picket lines shrink at two major studios; | federal conciliators ordered into AFL jurisdictional dispute after| NLRB election fails to end long strike U.S. AIRMAN BEHEADED BY ONE STROKE | Others Bayonéfed toDeath by Drunken Nips - Hor- rible Tale Revealed By DUANE HENNESSY | (Associated Press Correspondent) | TOKYO, Oct. 13—A war criminal | trial and probable execution con- (frent a cold-blooded Japanese | paval interpreter who boasted in ‘hb« diary of beheading an Allied | brisoner and also is accused of de- peapitating an American flier— after which he goaded drunken Nip- | ponese soldiers to bayonet three | more to death, | He is Kenneth Yunone, now held | In an Australian prison camp afier |an international seareh for identi- [ fication which even involved the }R(;_\.\i Canadian Mounted Police | Yunone ‘was captured April 25, | 1944, at Hollandia, Dutch New | Guinea, the same week Gen, | MacArthur's forces invaded that area. But the details were dis- closed only today. Beheading Told On the previous Oct. 24, in New Guinea, he wrote in his diary: “This afternoon, I myself, with my own Japanese sword, beheaded | an enemy soldier prisoner (na- tionality not given). Th was a new experience for me. , ., . 1 really believe it was magnificent Amongst the Japanese onlookers there were many who declared their admira- lion for my skill in making such - excellent stroke.” One of six repatriated mission- aries who definitely “identified Yu- one as author of the diary—they tnew him at the time of the be- heading—told the grim story of what happened to the four Ameri- cans the following Nov. 17. Airmen Decapitated After their plane was forced down at sea off New Guinea, the Yanks spent three days in a rubber boat before reaching a New Guinea village, where natives be trayed them into Japanese hands. The missionary related: “After assembling local including school. childre as he later boasted, served the emperor personally by decapitat- ing one of the crew. He then or- dered guards to bayonet the other three who were present, with hands tied behind them and showing | signs of abusive treatment. ! Bayonetted To Death | “The soldiers hesitated and Yu- none gave them saki, upon which they became intoxicated, and dis- patched the three Americans by repeated bayonet thrusts.” In the far-flung search to iden- tify Yunone, Royal Canadian Mounted Police found his pictwe in a boarding house where he stayed while attending St. John's | College at Winnipeg in 1926. | > natives, Yunone, ARCHBISHOP PASSES ON ARMAGH, Northern Ireland, Oct. 13.—His Eminence Joseph Cardin- al MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, died to- day. The 89-year-old prelate, who re- recently celebrated his diamond ju- bilee as a Churchman, was a native of Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Ire- land. ' He received his education in church schools of Armagh and May- nooth. ‘4 Cardinal MacRory entered the LUMBER—No change in situa- | priesthood in 1885. Later he became tion as 60,000 AFL lumber wurkemiuw first President of Dungannon end third week of strike for higher | Academy, taught at Olton College, wages in wage dispute | Birmingham, and at Maynooth. He -e iw:\s named Bishop of Down and MUSICIAN HERE :COlmDr in 1915 and was translated o |to Armagh in 1928. He was created Floyd S. Holt, wellknown Alaska|a Cardinal in 1929, musician, arrived yesterday via| e e s > } GRIFFIN HERE Baranof| C. R. Griffin, of Seattle, is a |guest at the Baranof Hotel. is registered at the