The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 26, 1945, Page 1

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LXVL, NO. 10,126 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 1945 PLOTS REVEALED AT WAR CRIMES TRIAL HULL TELLS/NEWDEALFOR ALY LOOKS T0 O'CONNOR TO*APANESEDIET JapanTold "WarDoes ~ MURDER PLAN CHINA STARTED; 'FORMER PREMIER 2" "¢ r OFHITLER IS WHY FLEET “ppooshismade ORLANDOFOR D piromphogaim ot Pay”; Stern Order | KEPT, HAWAII ching Greates supreme siatesnan of World er | RATE HEARING is Issued by MacArthur EVIDENCENOW ‘Would Kill Own German Much Legislation Planned! | Economic Council fo | Days Acceptable o il o ApprovalofOen, 1o . e Bring Back Order Most Parties Has Substantiated Dafa fo; Douglas MacArthur SERIOUS VIEW IS v,\OK_“:'(,’_V"S{‘,,';"},“'Nm.” 5 e | By SPENCER M0OSA sy oroncrsmay | ShOW Increase Would | soxvo TAKEN OF RUSSIAN oty aneetve s orderea e, Ambassador fo Create e ek propene & el ortao. 35 vear-oa. suwtesman) B€ RUinous o Alaska | 1 o of i sivooneee| Incident” for Invasion )i { v WES GALLAGHER . . opened its second peradoes n HIS'OI’Y | issimo Chiank Kai-shek proposed a | and member of the Big Four of cent on corporate and private for U S Dealifi; with Worst of International Des- | i The diet extraordinary today Nov. 26 | not pay’ directive has ordered the! Japanese | ar government to tax away | session of the occupation with an agenda of seve reform| i, new deal for China today, created a measures, but there were immedi- WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Former , Supreme Economic Council to tackle | Territorial Price Executive Donald World War I, today was reported at-| Secretary Cordell Hull testified to- | day he believed the State Depart- ment was “thoroughly justified in wanting the fleet kept at Pearl!| Harbor in the critical days of late | 1941.” The former Cabinet officer took | the stand before a Senate-House committee investigating the Pearl: Harbor dispute for an hour's ques- tioning. ! In response to a question from | Gerhard Gesell, committee counsel, | about the State Department’s at- titude on keeping the fleet in Ha- waiian waters, Hull said: “We felt that it would be more or less useful, especially after the fleet was based at Pearl Harbor, that it remain there during the critical state of relations with certain other nations—Japan especially.” | “We were dealing with one of the | worst international desperadoes ! within the memory of man. He was | at large, on a 'rampage, dangerou: treacherous and undependable in every way. “It was a little more wholesome in! the many matters under discussion for our Navy to be standing there ™ Hull said that “from all tangible : and intangible reactions” he had re- | ceived he was convinced the State | Department was “thoroughly justi- fied” in that viewpoint. { Gray-haired Cordell Hull dispell-/ . ed much of the mystery surrounding ' our pre-war dealings with Japan in | his testimony today before the Pearl | Harbor committee. The former Sec- retary of State said the Japs already | were, in his words, hell-bent for! war before they attacked Pearl Har- | bor. He said that just a few days| fore the assault, they turned downj an American proposal which any sane, peace-loving nation would have | been glad to accept. | to Hull's note as an ultimatum, andI (Continued on Page Two) ash glon! The Washin Merry - Go- Round By DRFW PEARSON { WASHINGTON-Carefully guard- ed in secret Navy files is a Gallup| poll of naval men which top An-| napolis officers aren't going to sayi a word about—unless a Congres- | sional committee blasts it out. The! report spells out the reason why! peacetime conscription is considered; necessary if we are to keep large! armed forces after the war. { To read some of the answers it| would almost seem that mutiny was, imminent. What enlisted men said about their officers frequently was unprintable. The overwhelming pro-| portion ‘of the men did not want to stay in the Navy, are fed up with the caste system, and consider they have little chance to become commissioned officers. Most significant was the fact that only 10 per cent of the regular Navy men—in other words, those who hitherto had made a career of the Navy—wanted to stay in after the war. i The Navy's poll was taken after| careful consultation with the Gal-| lup experts and with the Elmo Roper experts, who take the For- tune poll. It was a sound, profes- sional job. Experts were even flowni‘ to Okinawa and various parts of| the Pacific in order to make sure| that a cross-section of Navy men were interviewed. Furthermore, the poll was taken| during the last week in July and| the first week in August before the | atom bomb was dropped and when the Navy was at the peak of its| fighting. If the poll had been taken | it and promised to “spare no effort ! to bring internal order and secur- ity.” “We must not allow internal dis- turbances to make us lose sight of the basic need of the Chinese people for a far higher standard of living” he said in a statement announcing appointment of the council. While his troops drove more than | 100 miles into Manchuria- about | half way to the great city of Mukden | where Chinese Communists were re- | ported massing — he asserted that his government was “acting to cor- rect” those disturbances. | Soong Chairman Premier T. V. Soong was made Chairman of the new council, which | was told to seek at once economic projects considered of prime im-| portance to be carried out in the next five years. i Chiang said farmers would be! mong the first beneficiaries of a “New Deal” program that would| improve their livelihood but did not go into detail ist pre. reports, mean- | said Chiang’s troops had | captured without resistance the rail- | way city of Chinhsien, 100 miles inside Manchuria beyond their jumping off point November 23. ‘ Soviet Demands | Another unconfirmed report As-' serted that the Nationalists have | agreed in principle to certain con- | cessions demanded by the Russians | in Manchuria which go far beyond | the scope of the Sino-Soviet treaty. These included a China Times | story that Soviet demands called fnr: Chinese-Russian development of the i Anshan iron and coal mines of Manchuria, Russian navigation rights on the Sungari River inj northern Manchuria, and joint Chi- nese-Russian ownership and opera- tion of Manchurian arsenals, the Kirin-Heilungkiang gold mine and former Japanese electrical installa- tions. — e POISON GAS OF JAPS FOUND; IS BEING DESTROYED KYOTO, Nov. 26. — Sixth Army | troops racing against cold wea!herl‘ are destroying more than 3,500 tons| of poison gas—enough to drench | New York City—discovered on the small island of Okuna, 35 miles| from Kure Naval Base. Lt. Col. Ulian Newlander Wash- | ington, D. C., Chemical Officer of | the 41st Division, estimated the task | would require at least two months. | The lethal chemicals are. being dumped in the ocean five miles from the nearest land. Troops are trying to finish the job by Deecmber when cold weather will freeze some of the gasses— similar to mustard gas of World War I—making it impossible to clean up the two-square mile island before next summer. The Japanese did not use any o!i the gas against Americans in the Pacific war. > ! Servicemen's Sons, Given Honor Medal, To Get Appoiniments| WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 — Presi- dent Truman has signed legislation authorizing military or navali academy appointments for sons of| servicemen who were awarded the| Congressional Medal of Honor. !to iron out the d {of their tempting to resolve Italy's govern- ment crisis, amid widespread reports he might be offered the premier- ship. Orlando, former Premier and still vigorous despite his age, is known to be acceptable to the pow- erful Christian Democratic party as well as to the Right Wing Liberals and the Labor Democrats. Should the Communist party agree to enter | a government headed by him, ob- ser believed a cabinet could be formed quickly. Orlando, colleague of Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and George Clemenceau in the writing of the peace after World War I, con- ferred for 456 minutes yesterday with Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm. Associates said he would continue his attempts isagreements which resulted Saturday in the resignation of Premier Ferruccio Parri Communist Leader Palmiro To- gliatti also conferred with Umberto. On the basis of past performance the Communists probably will be willing to participate in any gov- ernment pending the holding of na- tional elections TRUMAN ONLONG TRIP: NO' NOTICE GIVEN NEWSMEN WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 — Presi- dent Truman and his family have staked out a claim to a little privacy sometimes when they go a-visiting. Mr. Truman himself was back in the White House after what began as a secret flight to Grandview, a | Mo., and ended with a night land- {ing at National Airport here. He made the unheralded trip to visit his mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, on her ninety-third birthday an- | niversary. Mrs. Truman and their daughter, Margaret,. meanwhile, were visiting friends in New York, the identities hosts a closely-guarded secret. The President, up early yesterday and noting, he said, that it was a pretty day, decided suddenly on the Grandview jaunt. Returning at 8:14 (EST), he told four reporters awaiting him at the airport: “I just took a notion to visit Grandview and see my mother on her birthday, and I did, just as 1 used to do.” A reporter suggested that news-| papers might be upset “that the; President flies half way across the' country and back again without any coverage,” and asked if the President had “any explanation.” | “I don't need to give an explana- tion,” Mr. Truman replied. “I don't| intend to.” | Does this mean that the papers! won't be represented on your future | trips?” he was asked. | “No,” he said, it didn't mean‘ that. “It meant,” he said “I wanted 1 velopment O'Connor left Juneau over the past week-end for Seattle to attend the hastily scheduled freight rate hear- ing there. He is prepared to pre- sent substantiated data to show the inevitable and disastrous effect the| threatened 80 to 100 per cent in- crease would have upon the present internal economy and future de- of the entire territory. Alaska OPA officials are greatly| concerned over the possibility that| three years work with merchants| and consumers to stabilize and protect Alaska’s cost of living might be wiped out by this impending! threat of increase to freight rates; already excessive and higher than| for any other equivalent service. Estimated price increases of 80 per cent on groceries and meats, | 85 per cent on construction, ;\ndi 30 per cent on furniture are only a few of the potentials O’Connor plans to point out in protest to this proposed action which is ex-| pected to be bitterly contested by | other territorial, civic and business representatives at ing. -+ SCHOOL BUS IN PLUNGE; Tuesday’'s hear-y ate indications that some proposed legislation would be attacked Tomorrow's plenary session will be highlighted by Emperor Hiro- hito’s. reading of an imperial re- eript outlining the scope of the session and ordering the diet to abolish repressive laws. Today’s meeting was limited to selection of working committees by the houses of peers and representafive: Premier Kijuro Shidel a is ex- pected to emphasize “cl relation- ship between the Emperor and the people” as a plea for unity o important domestic measures whe he addresses the diet Wednesday. The Japanese government, on an order by Gen. MacArthur, furnished him a list of all legislation to be submitted The list included measures to “liberalize” the government, to aid occupation forces, to repeal | time restrictive measures, and dissolve Jingoistic as ready forbidden by orders. to ociations al- MacArthur’s - POLICE CHARGE ARMED JEWS IN * ONE SETTLEMENT BULLETIN — JERUSALEM, Nov. 26. — British troops armed mortars and ma- | 2 | i with tanks, i chineguns penetrated six Jewish CHELAN, Wash., Nov. 26—5\)(-1 | viliages today in search for per- sons responsible for attacks on Coast Guard stations and un- teen were drowned and five were saved when the 25-Mile Creek: school bus hit a into Lake Chelan during a blind-! ing snow storm about nine north of here early today Ted Brown said his wife, Glenna, 317, and four children saved them-| window Jack selves after she broke a and they scrambled ashore. Rand children were lost. Deepsea divers were dispatched from Seattle and Coulee City to aid men dragging in about 60 feet of water for the bus and its victims. Brown said his wife, who caught a ride on the bus to keep a dentist’s engagement here, was being treated for shock at a friend’s home after the ordeal. She| told him no blame attached to Randle; that the bus was moving slowly when it hit the rock and slid out of control. The accident happened near an emergency highway - phone installed | at the site of a rock slide. Bundled into blankets with hot water bottles, and lying in Mrs. Brown related that the last she could remember between the time the bus slid into the lake and | she recovered consciousness on the snowy shore, was breaking through one of the submerging bus’ win- WS. She could not recall how she and her four small companions got rock and dived | miles | , 38, the bus driver, and 15/ bed, | official reports said four Jews were killed and about 50 wound- ed. Hand-to-hand fighting erupt- ed fequently. Considerable property age was reported. About 250 persons were de- tained for questioning. Troops of the famous Sixth Airborne Division and settlers fought for two hours at the vil- lage of Shefayim near Tel Aviv and dispatches said “thousands” of Jews, shouting “All Jews to the Rescue,” were streaming to- , ward Shefayim from nearby set- tlements. dam- JERSALEM, Nov. 26.—Police bat- tered with batons and tear gas today into the surrounded Jewish settle- ment of Shefayim, one of thre: | 1ocalities surrounded yesterday «fter {armed Jews wounded 14 officers mn | attacks on Coast Guard stations. Curfew prevailed along a large sec- | tion of the Palestine coast, wheve | the British were ng to ston u- { legal immigratio.. he British Sixth Airborne Division had cordoned off Shefayim, Givath Haim and Risht- bon. Large crowds manned the barri- cades at Shefayim. Police advised them to disperse and attacked when | they refused. A usually well-informed Jewish informant said 15 settlers of She- to go out to Grandview and see myyas}“""e nor did she know who i"myim were wounded when troops mother. I just took a notion I'd| Was who was helping her to he"!pcneu‘ateg the village, wielding go and see her, and I did.” | The President said he hed “n’ good time” and that his mother “enjoyed herself immensely.” | The trip marked the first time cOmmunity in the 25-Mile Creek| gritjsh Military Commander of the | in the memory of White- House correspondents that a Chief Ex-| ecutive had traveled so far from|Picked up virtually his entire pas-:ings of illega Washington without some sort of Senger list when the accident oc-| advance press arrangements. | Patch Laid to Rest af {or 50 children might have perished wandering i lin the bus tragedy, but Chelan Ace Gunderson says a goldfish, bowl quired since leaving. feet when she did her senses. Brown said all the bus occu- pants come from the same farm recover 10 and above had 20 miles Randle to that district, Chelan, curred, near the rock slide area. “It's full of danger spots,” he as- decent road.” uhe butt ends of their rifles. The report | was not officially confirmed immed- iately. Presumably Maj. Gen. A. L. Bols, | civil district of Lydda, ordered the | restrictions to prevent further land- 1 Jewish immigrants. — eee - | - RUNAWAY FisH | serted. “We've been trying to get a' war- | By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (AP Diplomatic News Editor) | WASHINGTON, Nov, 26.—Allied |diplomates here are taking an in- creasingly serious view of the sit- uaticn developing between Russia and Iran over an uprising in the re- mote province of Azerbaijan Some fear it may present the United Nations with a critical test at the very ocutset of organized ef- forts to protect the peace and se- |curity of all nations. The United States has moved cautiously into the situation by ask- 7 Russia for information about the activities of its armed forces in Arerbaijan Leading Question Essentially the question is whether the Red Army hag prevented Iranian troops from acting effectively ainst the rebel bands and whether this involved violations of Iran’s sovereignty. A Moscow dispatch s night quoted diplomatic quarters as say- ing that Sov! Foreign Commissar Meclotov, during discussion with Iran's ambassador, Madjid Ahy, had given urances that Russia would respect Iranian sovereignty. The dispatch added that Molotov |was said to have expressed surprise at TIranian contentions that Red Army troops had.vefused free pas- sage to Iranfan forces in Azerbai- ) t Exaggerations Reporting that stories of Red Ar- v interference had been described | ially in Moscow as exaggeration, the dispatch went on to say it we understood that such progress had been made in the Molotov-Ahy con- versations that a projected Iranian mission to Moscow had been can- celled. One fact remained, howeve~, that the Iranians already have complain- led of restrictions on their freedom 'and independence and presumably may continue their complaints un- til the United Nations organization meets formally in London in Jan- uary. At that time Iran would have an opportunity, if she still were of the same mind, to bring formal charges against Russia, Red Army forces occupy the northern section of the little midd! |eastern country, and British troops | the southern section. American for- | ces operated railroad and truck lines in Iran during the war for lend- |leas> deliveries from the Persian Gulf to Russia, but most of the Americans have been pulled out. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, from the south, scheduled to arrive ot 8 o'clock tonight Yuken, frem the south, due some- | time _tomorrow. ! Cricket scheduled (o attle tomorrow. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle Wednesday. Baranof scheduled | Seattle Saturday. vl from Se- to sail from | Denali scheduled to sail from Se- ber 5. i BACK IN FOREST SERVICE | Anthony Thomas, on t |of the drafting department of the | Forest Service office here before { Joining the Coast Guard, has re- ceived his discharge and returned to the Forest Service, the local office disclosed today. At present, | Thomas is on a three months' | detail to Gettysburg, Penn., where he {s recelving training in the ‘])ruparutiml of maps from aerial photographs. He expects to return |to Juneau as an engineering draftsman for the Forest Service on attle, Deceml] First reports indicated some 40, BOISE, Idaho — Ever hear of a| completion of the course and will goldfish? Patrolmin | bring with him a wife he has ac- D tunes—including that of the perial household A statement im- accompanying the directive said it would “result in a more suitable distribution of wealth than Japan has ever had.” In the most strongly worded order of the occupation to the Supreme commander prohibited all government credit or subsidy activities pending sweeping ganization of government finances and directed the Japanese to submit a compiete war-profits tax program to the first session of the diet in 1946 Reaching down to the very soldiers and sailors who fought the war as well as the generals and admirals who directed it and the Zaibatsu (big f ly concerns) who supplied it, MacArthur also ordered the government to terminate by Feb. 1 the payment of any dis- charge allowances or service pen- sions to Japanese veterans “except compensation for phy 1 disa- bility limiting the reciplent’s ability to work.” - JAP "HELL-HOLE" COMFORTABLY, EQUIPPED, CLAI MANILA, Nov. 26.—A Japanese defense witness for Lt. Gen. Tomo- yuki Yamashita ted today that “Oroyku Maru"—prison ship “hell- hole” on which many of 1,300 cap- tured Americans went mad—was well and comfortably equipped. The witne Gen. Shiyoku Xoh, was asked if most of the prisoners were forced to walk to the ship last December 13 when it was loaded with Americans bound for, Japan. “Yes, most of them were marched | to the ship but some weaker ones were taken in trucks,” Koh answer- | He testified he sent along 40 ed guards and a Japanese lieutenant. Survivors have described horribly jammed conditions in the holds which drove many to madness before 1e vessel was bombed and sunk by American planes. The U. 8. Military Commission trying Yamashita on war crimes charges ordered an investigation of Koh's administration of prisoner of ar and internees camps after hear- ing his testimony that Cabanatuan Camp inmates were “getting meat, eges, fruits and vegetables.” American military investigators have reported they had established that prisoners were slowly starving to death. FIGHTING FLARES " ANEW, BATAVIA: BRITISH ADVANCE By VERN HAUGLAND Nov. 26.—Long | | ! BATAVIA, Java retreating southward out of batter- ed Soerabaja today, the British said, as fighting flared anew in Batavia. A British press release stated the movement of the Indonesians toward Malang, 56 miles away, indicated that the native Nationalists were abandoning their las: stronghold in the southern section of Soerabaja Inside the Big Java Naval Base city itself, however, an Indonesian foree backed by a tank, a 47-milli- meter gun and armored cars was dispersed yesterday after it attack- ed a British Indian unit. Two In- \dians’ were killed and one was wounded. Five Indonesians were date,! reor- | BULLETIN — NUERNBERG, Noy. 26.—~Evidence designed to show that German leaders in- cited Japan to make the atlack | on Pearl Harbor was piaced be- | fere the Internationsl War | Crimes Tribunal today by Awer- | ican prosecutors. § The decuments were added by | the tribunal to the mounting pile of Hitler's war plans which included cold-blocded schemes to assassinate the German envoy in Prague as a pretext for in- vasion of Czechoslovakia, to overrun Poland, seize the Low Countries and, ultimately, to attack Russia, 1 American presccutors in the trial of 20 leading Nazis pro- duced stenographic notes of talks between Hitler and Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Mat- | suoka several months before the | Pearl Harbor attack and asserted | that “our cvidence will show | these Nazi censpirators ineited and kept up a force that could reasonably be expected to resuit in with with the Uniled States.” . NUERNBERG, Nov. 26,—American prosecutors disclosed at the war crimes trial of 20 top Nazis today that Adolf Hitler and Field Marshal | Wilkelm Kentel plotted in 1938 to |assassinate thejr own German am- | bassador in Prague to create an “in- lcident” leading to the invasion of { tiny ‘Czechoslovakia, | The plot was just one step in | Hitle: lawless plans to subjugate | Germany’s nelghbors that were out- lined in details before the interna- | tional military tribunal, { Invasion Plans Reading from captured German Idocuments, American prosecutors | charged that detailed plans for the {invasion of Ogechoslovakia were made on April 21, 1938 — just one month after Hitler overran Austria and assured the world he had no further plans for territorfal expan- sion. Plans for the proposed assassina- tion of a German displomat and a | subsequent blitz invesion of the |little country were known under the |code name “case green” and were re- vealad in a file carefully kept by { Hitler's adjutant who was captured by American airborne troops, Assis- tant Prosecutor Sidney S. Alderman told the court, American prusecutors proceeded to {pile up evidence of Hitler's plans for aggressive war, end defense counsel filed lists of prospective wit- Inesses and desired documents, which included an indication that Rudolf |Hess, No. 2 Nazi, will carry his in- sanity plea to the eourt | Council for Hjalmar Schacht dis- closed that the former Reichsbank president will seek to prove that he | participated in the bomb plot to kil Hitler on July 20, 1944, and tried to overthrow the Nazi government [in 1938. | In a docament described by the American prosecutors as “Hitler’s {last will and testament,” the Fueh- rer predicted he would “solve the German space problem no later |than 1943-45." he staff jines of Indonesians were observed| As the trial entered its second another case of shattered | nerves developed among the onmce- fpuwm'(ul upermen” who stood ke- hind Hitler. Foreign Minister Joach- im von Ribbentrop’s “Memory has | suffered,” his defense counsel de- clared. | | week DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS, ‘West Point Cemefery | school authorities said some chil-|and all “wandered” downtown and| ‘ldron who normally ride the bus, parked near a public drinking foun- of servicemen who died in action/ WEST POINT, N. Y., Nov. 26— were brought to school in private tain in front of the police station. regardless of whether their fathers| Funeral services for Lt. Gen. Alpx-\ cars today or stayed home because; The owner can have the gold- ander M. Patch, Jr., Fourth Army!of the snow and.highway condi- fish, says Gunderson—if he can ‘COmmnnder, were held yesterday at | tions. describe it and explain how it got ¥ the Old Cadet Chapel at the United | to the police station. enroute to his home from An- {Stabes Military Academy. Chaplain FAIRBAN £ | John B. Walthour conducted me\ Paul L. Schultz, Mr. and Mis SITKA R | FROM D chorage. Mr. Gross is stopping at DENTS HE the Gastineau Hotel during his ' r 5 visi ates 3 S ri s P Among Sitka seriously wrong at the Navy's core,| Among visitors from the States|services. Burial was in the West| James Hulbut, Joseph Shank and g Gk Sovd i registering at the Gastineau thiSlPoim cemetery with a firing squad|Leo E. Osterman, all residents of ing at the Baranof during the past| SR 17, ol British authorities sent rocket- residents register- | brief pause here. they believe, may be . - : : 3:; :ll"g‘:::ll:'are grained in strn{egy | weekend were: C. C. Kimes, Bloom-! and a color guard from the i"_Jpah-bfinks‘ arrived in Juneau over weekend were: Henry G. Brown “ Belvia's pwesident is not eligible «firing M“,:,qmlo bo_mbcra into action L 719V | ington, TL; Olaf Orgren, Renton,| fantry detachment at the Academy'the weekend. They are stopping at Mrs. H. W. Hegdahl and son, Mel| for immediats re-election after his for the first time in the Java fight- Wash,, and C. G. Casler, Seattle. participating. the Baranof. Race and 8. A. Houzen. | term of four years. ing yesterday. He also approved a bill providing/ during the post-war slack, when, for similar appointments for sons| men are idle and restless, ob-| viously it would have shown more; anxiety to get back to peacetime life. [won the medal. | B D. J. GROSS HE |killed and one was wounded. Five| | Indonesians were killed and several | were wounded in a second engage- | ment near a Scerabaja hospital. 1 In Batavia, the Capital of troub- | led Java, the British said one of | their Punjab companies killed at| least half a force of approximately | 100 attacking Indonesians. Daniel J. Gross of Wrangell, re- cently discharged from the U. S. F * Army, arrived in Juneau yesterday OFFICER TRAINING DIRECTIVE! Those who have studied this poll! admit privately that something is| Rt AT THE GASTINEAU Pl AR R (Continued on Page Four)