The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1945, Page 1

> HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE = “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD NOV 231945 VOL. XLV, NO. 10,091 JUNEAU, ALASKAMONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ——==1 MILITARISM IN JAPAN IS NOW SIRIPPED French Traitor Dies From Bullet In LAVALPAYS WITH LIFE FOR CRIME Fire of Execufioners Fail- Officer Completes Deed —Poison Attempt Fails By MEL MOST (Associated Press Correspondent) | PARIS, Oct. 15—Pierre Laval was executed as a traitor to France to- day after failing to cheat the firing squad by swallowing poison. | The man who collaborated with the Germans as chief of Gover ment in old Marshal's Petain's Vichy regime died from a coup de grace, fired through his ear when a volley from the firing squad did not kill him. Doctors restored the swarthy traitor from effects of poison taken four hours earlier. He was led to the courtyard of the bleak old Fresnes Prison and died with a cry of “Vive la France” on his lips. He was refused a final request to give the order for his own death to the execution squad. Faces Executioners Laval refused a proferred blind- fold and faced his executioners. These were his last words: “It is not the soldiers’ They know not what they Vive la France.” The 12 riflemen fired. Laval fell only to his knees. An officer rushed up immediately, aimed his revolver into Laval's ear and fired the coup de grace dis- patched Laval at 12:32 p. m.,, and he fell dead into the dirt of the courtyard. | Condemned By Court | The man who, before the war, had thrice been premier of France and a dozen times a member of | her cabinet was condemned by the high court of j ce last week—the | same court which condemned former Marshal Petain and Joseph | Darnand, the head of the Vichy | fault. do. | Brain " Dafton Leaves Third Army UPRISINGIN Gen, George 8. Patton (left) hands the Third Army banner to Licut. Gen. Lucian Truscott as he 1clinquishes command of the army to Trus- cott. The ceremany w Paris). at Bad Toelz C. Allen, Associated Press phclegrapher. Photo by William photo via Germany. (AP W radio, Live Allied POWS Used as Bayonel Practice Targels By Japs; Airocily Tells of Horrors Militia. | Petain’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and disgrace; Darnand stood before a firing squad only a few days Laval. (Continued on Page Five) > The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — The War and Navy Departments are trying to hush it up, but the whole question of U, S. naval bases on Jap-seized Pacific islands, has developed into a violent hair-pulling contest. among different government bu- reaus. If we administrate Okinawa, Saipan, Guam, etc., the same hap- hazard way government agencies are fighting over them, we'll be in | for real trouble. Already there have been repercussions in London and Moscow. g Here is the inside story of the| backstage feud. It began last August when the Navy quietly moved in to get con-| trol of the Pacific Islands. What it wanted was permanent naval| governments on the islands, rather than civilian governments under the Interior Department such as| now exist in the Philippines,| Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. To this end, Vice Admiral R. S.| Edwards, one of the Navy's top commander of the cautious | Strategic Airforce in the Pacific has island | revealed that there are now more drafted a the major imperialists, memo listing bases the Navy proposed operating | than 1,000 B-29s in the Pacific. The disclosure was made in a broadcast out telling the Army, which also| (by N-B-C's Guthrie Janssen) from after the war. This was done wibh-! before | Revealed By DUANNE HENNESY | (Associated Press Correspondent) | TOKYO, Oct. 15—The " use of live Allied . prisoners of war as yonet targets, while Allied offi- Arthur’s today. The new record of atrocity- was developed by the secret Allied Headquarters announced tion of the Allied Headquarters which worked through the war in- terviewing Japanese prisoners and | translation and interrogation sec- | ~ DUTCH EAST ~ INDIESNOW Lieutenant Governor ls% Attempting fo Quell | Growing Disorders | | BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 15—Dr. Hu- | .| bertus van Mook, Lieutenant Gov- ernor of the Dutch East Indies, | acted today to quell uprisings | which imperilled one of the ‘ richest colonial empires in the world and offered to negotiate a | | truce with Indonesian rebel leaders. | | Antae, official Dutch news agency, | quoted Dr. van Mook as stating| that he. was willing to meet with| leaders of all groups in Indonesia, | including Soekarno, self - styled | President of the “Indonesian Re- | | public.” | (In a dispatch from The Hague,| Aneta said that A. W. L. Tjarda ‘\un Sarkenborgh Stachouwer had resigned as Governor General be- | cause he was “unable to be the | bearer of the government policy” | in the Indies. He arrived in The | Hague early last month, after being [1iberated from a Japanese prison | camp. (Previcusly, the government had Trofused to negotiate with Soekarno, who was accused of being an | “opportunistic Japanese puppet.” | Wemen, Children Surrounded | (A Reuters dispatch quoting Ba- | tavia reports said 50,010 Dutch | women and children had been | “surrounded by wildly excited Indo- | nesians in the area of Batavia and | were completely cut off from Allied forces.” The dispatch added that | the women and children “are being held virtually as hostages” and | that the natives “are said to be }mspirod by the Japanese.” | (An authoritative source in London said the British Govern- | ment agreed to “make ships avail- | able” to rush Dutch troops from ‘Eurn]w to Java. New Outbreaks New outbreaks were reported | from the interior of Java, as cers were forced to look on, has|armed rebel bands closed upon this | YMS | been fully established, Gen. Mac-|city. Acting to maintain order, | beached 30 and damaged three. | British Maj. Gen. D. C. Hawthorn, | Allied Commander, invoked a death | penalty at Batavia for looting, | sabotage, the bearing of arms, or | refusal to surrender arms. | Indonesian Nationalists ordered |a general work stoppage in Ba- | tavia. van Mook told a Pacific Fleet Unifs Cruising for Atlantic D Enreute to East Coast ports for Navy Day ('elebr:llhln,'u portion of the Pacific Fleet is pictured here steaming in cruising formation toward the Panama Canal. Picture was taken October 8, when the formation was, about 300 miles west f the Panama Canal. Carrier in the foreground is the famed U. S. S. Enter- prise, while dircetly astern of her is a light carrier of the Independence class. Next in line are battleships of the North Carolina and New Me: class. To the right are two four-stacker cruisers ¢f the Omaha cliss, and astern of these is a heavy cruiser of the Portland class. Portion of the wing of a Navy scouting plane TYPHOON DEATH | ASKS NO MEIE(Ym ;TENSION IN T0LL ON PACIFC | BE EXTENDED 10 spaceoaT29 - seventorturees ARGENTINE 1S EASING Navy Suffered Most Cas- Prose(uiorili‘vi;(es Plea in Nafion's "Two-Man Cab- The death toll from the typhoon erican military commission trying U. 8. Navy personnel and seven was asked by Prosecutor Col. Leon sicn appeared to be easing in Ar- ‘ualties-Many Persons | Case of Germans Charg- Reporfed Missing ed with Killings : 3 T inet” Trying to Restore which whipped across the West seven Germans on charges of kill-': PUbh( conf‘den(e % ing hundreds of Poles and Russians Japanese prisoners of war on OKin- awa, and 184 persons in western Jawrski today to show the de- gentina today as a result of measures fendants no more mercy than they taken by the nation’s new “two-man The Associated Press) | WIESBADEN, Oct. 15—An Am-| Pacilic last week stood today at 28 at the Hadamar murder factory| BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 15.—Ten- Japan Meanwhile, fleet headquarters at showed their victims. |cabinet” in an effort to restore pub- Pearl Harbor said six enlisted men| w1, this land where sin and lic ‘conllden(:v and end the dmordervs were killed and 23 injured in an un- | yo0r were rampant, there were which preceded Col. Juan Peron’s i resignation frcm the government. | ©One of the first moves made by Gen. Eduardo Avalos and Vice Ad- miral Vernengo Lima after assum- ing six of the 11 cabinet posts was 3 to issue a decree yesterday reopen- BAve 16 SSpi. lhon"!wvs wilipe ing the National Universities of La spared when they did not spare Plata, Buenos Aires and Litoral, the life of one of several hundred o, weve ordered closed by Peron explained explosion at a Navy re- ceiving station on Okinawa Friday. A court of inquiry began investiga- tion. The Navy also reported 70 missing and 423 injured during the storm The U. S. Army listed no deaths but a “considerable number of minor in- men who thrived on death, Jawrsk told the seven-man tribunal. “In their eyes human life was cheap. Their consul will plead for their lives. What right do these people 2 1 e Poles and Russlans brought 1o jut month following demonstrations jured. them? |against his regime by students Navy authorities in Washington| Jawrski added that the defend-' At the same time all professors said the Typhoon sank three naval ants—six men and one woman— and teachers who had been dismiss- vessels—the yacht Southern Seas, had received rights during their ed for supporting the students were had under ordered reinstated. Other measurds taken simultane- ously by the two new strong men of - >oe |the cabinet included the following: ‘ElEVE“ SIA ES i “1. Reinstated Federal Judge Ro- LSM (Landing Ship Medium) 15 and | trial “which they never (motor miresweaper) 383— their own government.” | - VISITING HERE | Dr. and Mrs. Willlam Blanton | ARG“MEN‘IS 'afiinwf:;:fl““::rgzt ozfs ?;n:::: hla(w u.s]l l‘hc;x/'l‘ ho;l;e. z;vslm his IN i;ug'habons corpus writs to several sister-in- d'W:._ Ts. ary an-~ |poliffcal ‘prisoners arrested on Per- ton, who arrived from Seattle on 0“ AIR Rou'[mn‘s orders. Princess Louise. 2. Lifted censorship restrictions the Steamer 2 Irecently imposed on the Argentine >ee sorting documents seized in battle, Aneta said Dr. DON HAMMOND HERE | zones. One secret unit, the exist- | press conference that Holland | pen L, Hammond, former staff | ence of which was undisclosed until | would keep a 1942 pledgé to give member of the Baranof Hotel now B | last week, included many Japanese- | the Indies freedom in internal af-|manager of the Chena Club in Americans and worked often while | fairs within the Duteh common- | pairbanks, has arrived in Juneau shells were still blasting across con- | wealth. for a hunting trip. Mr. Hammond tested positions. | | is registered at the Baranof Hotel, Declare Proa);ed All-Am- erica Route Should Be Via Pacific Northwest WASHINGTON, Oct, 15—Eleven pr Displayed their power over the ination’s armed forces by a drastic shakeup of the Army Command. | 4. Ordered police, who have been |concentrated in the center of Bue-| ines Aires, dispresed to other pnrts} of the city. NIP FORCES, AL KINDS, ~ WIPED OUT New Gover;\—h{en! fo Tane Over on New Reforms | Ordered by MacArthur |IMPERIAL STAFF I~ DISSOLVED FORMALLY Commander fo Go on Air Tonight on Phases of Otc_up_alion By RUSSBELL BRINES (Associated Press Correspondent) TOKYO, Oct. 15—Japan slipped quietly and with mingled feelings into military oblivion today as its demobilization of all armed forces was completed on schedule, and for the first time in history these islands held no combat military force, either in fact or in name. With the exit of the defeated, discredited warlords, Japanese po- litical leaders stepped onto the national stage to put into effect a list of demderatic prineiples pre- scribed by Allled Headquarters. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, one of Emperor Hirohito’s close advisors, said in an interview that “His Majesty is anxious that revisions be made” in the constitution (o bring about the reforms decreed by headquarters. Konoye May Be Chief Konoye, who was boomed as the head of a new political party, added that constitutional revisions under consideration woutld curb Hirohito’s almost unlimited power over his 77,000,000 subjects and give the Diet some supervision over expenditures of the imperial house- hold. Another being mentioned prominently as a prospective party head was Gen. Kuzushige Ugaki, 17-year-old militarist-politician, Japan’s incubator of imperialistic schemes since 1878, the Iniperial General Staff Headquarters, was dissolved formally yesterday and the General Staff went out of of- MacARTHUR ANNOUNCES BIG EVENY 2o 1) ficer: ADDING to the eye-witness accounts of fiendish tortures practiced by the Japs upon American war prisoners is the report of a Ney York physi- | cian, Dr. Harold Keschner (above), who was captured in Bataan. He told of men who were cremated on spits and of horribly sadistic “medi- cal experiments. (International) 1,000 B-295 Are Now In Pacific YORK, Oct. NEW 15—~The has a definite stake in the islands, | Tokyo. or the Interior Department, which | is charged with . running island|eral Barney Giles, said that one| | wing will be moved to Japan, governments. 5 ¥ % TRUMAN ACTS FAST (Continued on Page Four) | be | while other units The memo was sent to the White | awa and the Philippines. House, and much to Admiral Ed-|Words—all the Far - | Eiberia, will soon bours flying time for U. S, B-29s, The Commander, Lieutenant Gen- | licns kept in operational rew | United States| and | condition, in this central Pennsylvania town he from the Second Division, Terri-|for mailing the packages, which are will go to Okin-|fouhded in a corpfield in 1903. He | torial Legislature, arrived in town limited to five pounds. In other was 88. East, including be within eight ! land one Eurasian were used a: practice were forced to stand in |line and watch for six and a half I hours while the three were hor-| | ribly mutilated and tortured by the | stabbing Nipponese, the announce- ment said. Enlisted prisoners peri- | odically were paraded past the scene so they could see the death | agonies of the three. | Records of the ATIS disclosed 'that one of the.bayoneted pris- {oners had been recently married, | another left a wife and two chil- | dren, while the third had a wife ‘und one child. | The translated diary of+a Japa- { nese officer gave full details of tre | horrible scene. | e Chocolate Maker Hershe_y Basses On | | Herskey who made a fortune of mil- in chocolate and cocoa and /2 it away to orphan boys, died aturday in the Hershey hospital — -, Three of every four Mexicans | work on the land. e R B S S = | One of the worst of the bayonet i 1 ;pracnce atrocities occurred on}l"l[k““loAl | Guadalcanal where two Europeans: targets . while Allied of- | TRIBUNAL, WAR | (RIMES DELAYED BERLIY, Oct. 15.—The first for- mal session of the International War | Crimes tribunal, which has to have | received indictments against 24 top- |rank Nazis today, has been postpon- {ed for three days at the request of | Russian representatives. R. A. Rudenko, chief prosecutor | for the Soviet Union, notified the court yesterday that it had been im- possible to complete translation of |the 35,000-word document in time| | and asked for a delay. | | After the indictments are handed up, the court is expected to adjourn | to Nuernkerg for the opening of the | trials, the date for which will be set later. The defendants will be given 30| | days in which to prepare their cases, | and it is anticipated that the trials| | will start shortly after the lapse of ‘ HERSHEY, Pa., Oct. 15.—Milton S.|that time—probably before the end|New York and San Francisco be- | of November. | 5 A8 L S “ MRS. BESS CROSS HERE | | Mrs. Bess Cross, Representative | this weekend and registered at the | | Baranof. She plans to leave for| !the south on the Princess Louise | | Wednesday. western states told the civil Aero- { nautics Board today that the pro- SIO(K OI,IEIAHONS | posed all-America route to the WA( sma(;!";efl. NEW YORK, Oct. 15 — Closing | Pacific should be routed via um?iisenhowe’ 0" quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | Pacific Northwest. stock today is 7, American Can 110,, A board examiner has recom- ggs . o new| His Birthday and Al-| s Anaconda 38%, Curtiss Wright 71;, mended a route by way International Harvester 91, Kenne- York, Chicago, Canada cott 45, New York Central 28, aska. Northern Pacific 20%, U. S. Stm-l; The Commission on 9%, Pound $4,03'% Cooperation of the 11 states said Conn., acting on a dare, gave Gen- Sales today totaled in a brief that the Trans-Canadian eral Eisenhower a birthday kiss be- shares. |route represented a move by the fote more than 20,000 gaping GI's Dow, Jones averages today were €ast to “further retard the expected yesterday. FRANKFURT, Oct. 15—~WAC Pri- 1,630,000 | Later he climbed out in front of LONDON, Oct. 15.—~A high-rank- :ll‘v stands to pose for hundreds of ing union official said today that sSoldier camera fans, and even raced Britain’s thousands of striking dock | General Patton across the gridiron workers probably would return to! Patton, minus his helmet and their jobs Thursday and end a Wearing the insignia of the three-week walkout that paralyzed |Army which he now commands, re- shipping and threatened a cut jn |ceived a big ovation from the stands. meager British rations. ot 2 All but a few strikers in London | REV. BOOTH RETURNS voted to resyme work pending nege-| The Rev. Willis R. Booth, pastor tiations of their wage demands The strikers have been demending | Church in Juneau, returned from a day wage, compared with the Sitka Sunday, a passenger on an present daily wage of $3.90. jAlaska Coastal Airlines plane. as follows: Industrials, 181.54; rails, | development of the west” and to! The General laughed heartily as 60.10; utilities, 35.18. move the markets of the Far East!tbe cute brunette climbed into his gt AR A a solid kiss ‘ In other ways, too, the game turn- For Servicemen Now iy o A M % i He was visibly moved when the ticnal Federation of American Ship- ping said today that scores of Amer- . - closer to eastern industry |box at a football game and planted Christmas Packages risimas Packages e ouk t e o eueprids sy fo s NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—The Na- ican merchant ships would leave ginning today with a total of more than 7,000,000 Christmas packages for Servicemen overseas. Midnight today is the deadline - D - J. W. IRISH HERE J. W. Irish of Sitka is registered at the Hotel Juneau, Interstate vate Betty Rising of Middletown, | |¢pectators arose during the half and | 'I'o E"D WM.KOU"”"“ “Happy Birthday, Dear Gen-| eral.” 15th | of the Northern Light Presbyterian | Demobi Ifion of Nips Once Great Army, Navy Triumphantly Stated | By MURLIN SPENCER (Associated Press Correspondent) | TOKYO, Tuesday, Oct. 16.—Gener- | @ MacArthur triumphantly announ- ced today the demobilization of |Japan’s once great army and navy had been completed, praised “the magnificant conduct” of American | troops and spoke strongly for a uni- fied military command. Th: Supreme Allied Commander, \m a speech prepared for worldwide | broadcast, added that defeated and |devastated Japan would need much time and great patience from the en- tire world to “restore, the dignity and freedom of the common man” in the island empire. time American soldiers of the occu- pation forces had given the Japa- nese people an insight into “a free man’s way of life in actual action and it stunned them into new thoughts and new ideas.” “Revolution, or more properly | speaking, the evolution, which will restore the dignity and freedom of the commén man has begun,” he said. “It will take much time and require great patience, but if world (Continyed qu Puy; ;wo/ 3 | MacArthur said that for the first