The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIREK “ALL THE NEWS . ALL THE TIME” mm—— VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,136 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1945 YAMASHITA SINKING OF SEARCH FOR PLANE NEAR SITKA OFF Parfies Are Stalled by Five fo Six Feet of Snow- | Await Aerial Evidence | < g ' JAPANESEWAR - CRIMES TRIALS | START, JANUARY| iTojo, Pearl Harbor Cabinet Members Will Be First | Defendants Tried | By MERLIN SPENCER TOKYO, Dec. 7—Chief Prosecutor | Joseph B. Keenan announced to-| day that the first war crimes trials| in Japan tentatively were scheduled | INVASION PLANS ' OF GERMANY WERE U.S. CRUISER ' piavep, weATHER 15 DETAILED s Witnesses at Courl Marliali Tell of Explosion on Indianapolis . WASHINGTON, Other Moves Told at Nuernberg Trial By DANIEL DE LUCE NUERNBERG, Dec. 7 — Hitler's armies were poised for the inva- sion of the Low Countries and France Nov. 7, 1939, but the at- Dec. 7.—The FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMES Navy Opposed Pearl Harbor ‘Day Warnings By DON WHITEHEAD PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 7 — Four years ago the watery, chaotic | graveyard of Ame‘rlca's battle fleet; today the home base of the mightiest sea power in the world. That is the story of Pearl Harbor on this fourth anniversary \Gen. Marshall Reveals Events Just Prior to Japanese Aftack WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — The Sneak Raid of Japs OnPearl Harbor Was Tragedy 4 Years Ago SITKA, Alaska, Dec. 7.—Search-! ing partics, stalled by five to six| feet of snow in the Baranof Island| hills, returned to Sitka late yester- day and abandoned the land search for a Navy Privateer plane missing | with 25 aboard. Leaders of the parties said they| would wait until aerial search turn- ed up evidence which could be in- vestigated. Smoke was reported seen over the island wilderness on Nov. . 30, after the plane left Kodiak en- route for Seattle | The aerial search has been car-| ried on throughout the 1,000 miles! between Seattle and Kodiak and all | ships at sea have been cooperating. e Woma; (aptured By Japs at Attu Gels Back Pay ‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Mrs. Etta | Jones, described by the Interior De-' partment as the only white woman known to have been captured by| the enemy on American soil in! World War 1T, has collected her back | pay. ! The check for $7,374.21 was given! by Secretary Ickes to the 62-year-| old Indian Office teacher who was| serving on the islands of Attu when | the Japanese landed there. Mrs. Jones and her husband, C.| Foster Jones, who radioed weather | reports to Dutch Harbor from Attu, both were captured. Mr. Jones has| not been seen since. \ Mrs. Jones spent more than 15, years in Alaska as an Indian teach- ! er. She will be retired at the end/ of the year, and plans to make her | | rations Commissioner, recommended | for January—with Warlord Hideki|court martial of Navy Capt. Charles Tojo and his Pearl Harbor cabinm"fl. McVay III, marked time today, leading the parade of defendants.| awaiting the arrival of additional “The accused will be presumed|witnesses to tell how his ship, the innocent until proved guilty,”, cruiser Indianapolis, sank in Philip- Keenan, Gen. MacArthur's spl‘ciallpll\f‘ waters last July 30. staff counsel, told a news con-i The 7-man trial board schedul- ference. But he added that: led a session today, but Rear Admir- “Japanese war criminals must al Wilder D. Baker, court president, be punished and humiliated so|said no testimony would be heard. that they will go down in histor_\vi' A dozen of the 316 survivors of as ordinary felons of the lowest|the sinking—out of a complement of type.” 11,196—gave their accounts yesterday He declined of the two explosions which rocked Allied attitude |the vessel and the sinking 10 to Hirohito. (15 minutes later. The death penalty will be asked; at the trials, he indicated. comment on the toward Emperor One — Chief Gunner Cecil M | Harrison of Long Beach, Calif, — testified that for five or six minutes after the explosions “the ship settled down and the thought of it sinking didn’t enter my mind.” Tried In Groups He said he found President Tru-| man and Gen. MacArthur to be| in accord on questions affecting trial procedure and on the re-| quirement that trials be concluded as rapidly as possible. # Like their German Japanese war crimes be tried in .groups. Even before Nippon could re-| cover from the shock of the Mac-| Arthur order for the arrest of, was going to sink until it took that Marquis Koichi Kido, who was)last list and started to roll,” he Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and|volunteered Hirohito’s closest adviser, Prince| e o Fuimaro Konlye and seven others there came two more explosive de- s ™ 7 = | German Defendant - recoms In Camp Trial Is Caught Telling Lie DACHAU, Germany, Dec. 7 — A Then it listed a little, Harrison said, but there still appeared to be no great danger. After three or four minutes more, he declared, there was a sudden heavier list and the 2l began to roll over. “I do not think it was possible for anyone to know that the ship counterparts, suspects will | confiscation of all Japanese assets| abroad, including those of the| Emperor; removal from the coun-| try of the industrial potentials of| the, Zaibatsu (family monopoly);| * (it was disclosed. tack was posgponed week by week! Pearl Harbor Investigating Com- for six months because of bad|mittee has heard from Gen. George weather, official German records| C. Marshall more details of events disclosed at the war crimes trial| preceding the Japanese attack four here today. years ago today. While the yest of the world spoke sarcastically of a “phony war,” the German military machine was ready and “waiting only for favor- able weather,” according to records| introduced before the international{ Marshall said that at first Ad- Military Tribunal. miral Stark, then chief.of naval British prosecutors turned mostjOPerations, thought warnings to Pa- of their evidence against the Ger-|Cific commanders that day would man military and naval leaders confuse them. | among the 20 top-ranking Hitler-! Gen, Marshall said that inter- ites accused of war crimes, point-'cepted Japanese messages con- ing Qut their part in plans for the|vinced him that something was crushing invasion while Hitler de- brewing, that the Japanese might ceitfully told Holland, Belgium and strike that very day. He said he Luxembourg that he had no plans insisted that he was going to send to attack them. { warning messages to Army com- The Fifth Column conquest of manders in the Pacific. Then, said Norway and Denmark was only a Marshall, Admiral Stark consented prelude to the invasion a month and asked that the Army warnings later of the Low Countries, the be amended so that naval officers evidence showed. (at Pacific bases would be advised. Carried British Flags | Earlier testimony showed that the Prosecutors intrpduced German| warnings were sent by commercial naval orders revealing that Ger-|cable and did not reach the com- man war ships and camouflaged! manders at Pearl troop transports carried British|after the attack. flags and signals to screen the u'-( Appeal To Dewey tack on Norway and Denmark. } Gen. Marshall also related today Hitler signed his directive forja su ssful appeal to Thomas E. , attack “as soon as possible” on the Dewey to head off Pearl Harbor talk ( Low Countries on Oct. 9, 1939—five/in his 1944 presidential campaign ! weeks after the invasion of Poland,:lest the Axis learn the Army had H broken Japan's secret codes. . Ancther surprise was the dis-! Two letters from the wartime iclosure by the prosecution that a:Chief of Staff to the New York ‘large portion of the German air,governor went into the record of the force’s plans for parachute troop/Pearl Harbor investigating commit- | operations during the lowlands in- tee after a secret committee session. vasion fell into Allied hands on Marshall had opposed publication on 10, 1940—just four months|the ground of military security. | versations with Admiral Harold L. struck, | Harbor until of the Japanese bid to sweep the United States from the Pacific. And soldiers, sailors, marines and civili- ans joined today in solemn tribute to those who died beneath the Gen. Marshall told of his con- Japanese warlords’ first blow. Four years ago, Japan's sneak | Stark on the morning of Dec. 7, raiders knifed in from the sea and a few hours before the Japanese across Oahu Island’s towering Koolau Mountains to smash the ONE TOP JAP CRIMINAL T0 DIE, GALLOWS Permitted Series of Atroci- ties, High Crimes- Verdict Read u. warships lying at anchor in'! the peace of a balmy Sunday morning, and to spread death and destruction ‘ Out of that wreckage grew the| power which drove the Japanese| into defeat, and today the people of Hawall gave thanks and honored | those whose deaths have been| By DEAN SCHEDLER avenged. | MANILA, Dec. T—Lt. Gen. Tom)- Virtually the only reminders to-'yuki Yamashita has a date with day of the disaster that struck the hangman. Dec. 7, 1941, were the rusting, bar-| A five-general military commis nacled sections of unsalvaged ships sion today convicted the form in the harbor, and the rows “of Japanese ccmmander of the Philip- crosses gleaming white against the Pines of having permitted “a series green hillside rising above the Of atrocities and high crimes by placid waters of the harbor. Japanese armed forces under your command” and passed the dialh S. Vanguards of Nationalists Reach Mukden CHUNGKING, Dec. 7-Nationalist tration vanguards have reached the out- humiliating defeat in history” by ex-| losing “every skirmish” on the in- skirts of Mukden, and are pected to enter that vital Man- churian industrial city before Dec. 10, Chinese dispatches reported to-| possibly day. 100 men to the light Communist resistance on their 200-mile sweep northward along the Peiping- Mukden Railroad, stated. In China proper, Nationalists and Communists were reported fighting south of Kupehkow, one of the main passes leading to Jehol Prov- ince. The Chinese press predicted that the civil administration of Man- churia would be taken over from | the Russians next week. The Nationalists lost less than in 1948, the Illincis governor as- the dispatches| British and Dutch for fear of of- sentence. Those brutalities “‘wer. radic incidents, but methodically supervised b nese officers and non-commi officers,” Maj. Gen. Russell B. Rey- nolds, president of the commission stated as he read the verdict Yamashita thus becam: th top war‘crtwnul.«m the T to be convicted and scnton Had Fair Trial Before hearing the verdict, the stocky defendant stood, visibly nervous, while an interpreter reud this statement to the court: “I wish to stand here today with a clear conselence and swear to God I am t of these charges. I wish to take this oppor- tunity to0 express gratitude to the United States officers of the de- fense, brilliant @nd upright officers. I want < n for a fair tri@hs T o | fending some voters.” As the Interpreter spoke, Yama- “We have been told,” he said, Shita nervously removed his wrist “we must not even protest against watch, wound it fumblingly. the shameful betrayal of Poland| When the commission was ready for fear of offending Russia’s to pronounce sentence, the three- following over here.” | star general was led before the The Republicans must make up bench with his chief councel, Col. their minds in the first peacetime Harry E. Clarke. meeting of the National Committee Verdict Is Read in four years, he declared, whether| Reynolds intoned: 'FiSH OR CUT BAIT 1S DEMAND MADE ~ ON REPUBLICANS CHICAGO, Dec. 7—Gov. Dwight H. Green of Illinois charged before the Republican National Committee | today that the Truman adminis- had “suffered the most W | ternational diplomatic front. 1 In a vigorvus prepared address presaging his candidacy (for GOP Presidential nomination serted that “we have been told }that we should not ralse our volce against the rape of Java by the “This commission finds that a iand huge slashes in shipbuilding,. | steel production and generation of they are going to fish or cut bait.| The Illinols governor’s aggres- Series of atrocities and high crimes sive speech came as a surprise to were committed by Japanese armed most of the Republican Commit- forces under your command against tee members, who had gathered nationals of the United States and seventy-year-old physician who is a| Jan. ! 1 defendant at the Dachau concen-| before the Nazis actually jumpe: electric power. ! tration camp trial has pleaded with'Off. The plans were found in | 2—MacArthur ordered the Te-|the court to permit him to finish German plane which crashed Gastineau reglstrants arriving| MOVal from Japan of every mineral|the malaria studies he carried on| Belgium. d| Not only did Dewey accede to his| JRRSL, AEL airequest during the political cam- T r a n s ' e r Io r home at Atlantic City, N. J. e e——— HERE FROM THE STATES in|peign, Marshall said, but after the 1campaign he offered to use his in- A Ea that > from the States yesterday include:| Tésource which might permit de-| Dot L. Stevens, Humbird, Wis.;| velopment of the atomic bomb. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Husted, Great| — oo Falls, Mont.; D. L. Trackwell,| 3 Longview, Wash., and Mrs. Sherry| A BD u Tlo NS | W6bd, Los Angeles, Calif. BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 7—British | authorities said today 140 Euro- The Washington| Merry - Go-Round, peans}; D\;t,c: anfi EE:rT;ians ltir:'lng By DRFW PEARSON ! section of Bandoeng had been ab- ducted in the last few days, while, 500 other refugees were escorted out to safety by Indian troops. RAF Thunderboits planted 6,000, pounds of bombs on lakeside gun: positions of Indonesian troops near Ambarawa which had been inter- fering with the evacuation of Al-| lied prisoners of war and in-, ternees at that city in centrall Java 20 miles south of Semarang. S e Psychological | Angle Is Sprung In @Erder Trial SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7.—One-! half of Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt's munist. psychelogically “split” personality Finally, Symington proposed|“wanted to kill — in fact did kill” profit-sharing. At first labor was|Nurse Vada Martin last Oct. 4, in suspicious. So were the stock-| the opinion of a defense alienist. holders and directors, But Syming-| This belief was expressed in the ton persevered. Finally they agreed | society matron’s murder trial—now | to a plan whereby profits at the,in its ninth day—by Dr. Joseph Cat- end of the year were divided,|ton, San Francisco psychiatrist and partly on the basis of seniority, a major witness for the defendant. partly on the basis of skill and| FElaborati tha importance of work. i First year the profits were only $13,000, but last year they totalled $2,000,000, a lush melon to divide| up among employees. The latter are| now 100 per cent sold on the idea|“a portion of t and so are the stockholders. The|feldt split off and took possession. workers worked harder, profits are| { WASHINGTON — New, Senaor William Knowland of California' is a staunch Republican. Stuart Symington, Surplus War Property Administrator, is a Democrat. But they seem to have something in common when it comes to helping solve the tangled labor situation. At any rate, Symington tele- phoned Senator Knowland the| other ddy to congratulate him on his recently announced plan for labor to share in company profits.| “It's a great idea,” the Surplus Property Administrator told the Senator from California. “I know. I tried it in St. Louis. “I know. worked.” What Symington put across in St. Louis was an experiment which the Labor-Management Conference could well have studied. He had al bad strike in his Emerson Electric| plant, led by a union leader who frankly admitted he was a Com- | 1 i 1 pretty former or somnolent state, Dr. Catton said in the camp. The aged physician, Dr. Klaus | Schilling, admitted that he had in-| (fluence to still agitation in con- igress for a wartime investigation of |the Japanese attack. ‘I told Bissell (Maj. Gen. Clayton | MARINE GENERAL here to approve what most of them regarded as a generalized state- ment of policies issued by their colleagues of the House and Sen- ‘Adm. Spruance its Allles and dependencies, these were not sporadic incidents, but were often methodically super- vised by Japanese officers and non- ‘to be a great boon to humanity. fected more than 1,000 camp pris- oners with malaria during !hc} course of his experiments. H His assertion that none of them died, however, broke down when he was confronted with his own rec-| ords. These showed that 100 of his| patients had been killed by the| WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Lt. Gen. disease. i Roy S. Geiger appeared today be- Schilling expressed surprise when!fore the Senate Military Affairs he was shown the records, andfCDmmmee in opposition to the said: “I thought those cards had|plan to merge the armed forces. been burned.” ;Geiger is a veteran of Guadal- He told the court that the ex-' canal, Bougainville, and Okinawa, periments succeeded in finding a,‘and now commander of the Fleet cure for malaria that would prove Marine Force. ! Geiger told the committee that the proposal for a merger was based on lessons learned in the | Pirst World War. “Surely,” he de- | clared, “some lessons must have been learned from the present AGAINST MERGING - e SOME HOPE SEEN MILITARY FORCES (Bissell, Chief of Army Intelligence) | to tell him that I had already em-| —_— Ibarrassed him enough and would WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—The Navy {make no further request of him,” revealed today that Admiral Ray- Marshall told the investigators. |mond A. Spruance, now Com- The five-star general said he sent mander-in-Chief of the Fleet, would {an officer to Dewey to explain the be transferred soon to command of |situation relating to Pearl Harbor the Naval War College at Newport, ‘tand the codes without the know-| Rhode Island. |ledge of President Roosevelt. | Secy. Forrestal recently disclos- “I think he died without knowing'ed plans to name Admiral John H. it,” he said. ; | Towers, now commander of the Fif- Asked how he happened to appeal th Fleet, to succeed Admiral Spru- to Dewey, Marshall related: |ance “eventually" as Pacific Fleet “It was reported to me by the ccmmander. | Chief of Army Intelligence that ref-| Navy officlals sald no specific |erences to Pearl Harbor in Con- date had been set for the change. |gress and in the campaign were in-/ i |evitably leading to where other' Camp Cond ] |governments would conclude that we “ io n s {had means they did not know to break their codes.” FOR SETTLEMENT OF G. M. STRIKE (By The Associated Press) Efforts to settle the nation's major labor dispute, the walkout of some 200,000 employees at Gen- eral Motors plants, high-lighted the country’s strike picture today. An offer of a 10 per cent wage increase to the strikers came at yesterday’s initial conference since the start of the walkout last Nov. 21 between company and CIO United Auto Workers leaders. It was' promptly rejected by the union but! | another meeting was arranged to continue wage negotiations at 2 p. m., (EST). Despite the Union's rejection of the 13% cents an hour increase as against the union’s demand for a t Mrs. Mansfeldt, 45, shot the an air of optimism in Detroit maflhnd we had an adequate air force Rotary Baltimore woman some avenue of approach to settle-; while in only a partially conscious ment of the wage dipute might be|with the Navy and Ground Force department in making the pur- found. war.” He said he had found the War Department’s ynification plan far short of the “progressive and | streamlined” plan he had at first expected. In a prepared statement he also opposed establishing a sep- arate air force, since he believes | development of atomic. energy and For open House electronics may make piloted bom-, At its regular Lecember meeting | bardment unnecessary and even-' last night, the Juneau Volunteer ! tually obsolete. Fire Department completed all pre- f v liminary arrangements for the staging of its big annual event— |GAFFNEY BOOSTS FOR AIR FOR(E‘ Frank Hermann was named | chairman in charge of the Open | House and the' hours of 2 to 5 Transport Command’s Alaska Divis- tees were named to carry through |ion, told the Chamber of Commerce' On the party. member’s council this Pear] Harbor The department voted to pur- the Christmas Day Open House i SEATTLE, Dec. 7T—Brig. Gen. Dale o'clock on the afternoon of Christ- | enniversary day that “There need chase oxygen equipment, which re- | (hrisimai; fians ' Set by Firemen | to the public. |V. Gaffney, commanding the Air mas Day were sei. Also, commit- ng on the defense theme'30 per cent boost, there remained never have been a Pearl Harbor, ceived considerable discussion. The and Lions Clubs have . 1 mean an air force co-equal agreed to come to the aid of the | combined under a unified command.” | chase, each paying one-third of the that on the morning of the slaying[ At the same time, General Motors| The general asserted he thought cost. he whole Mrs. Mans- | offered a 13'. cents an hour hike it “particularly significant that in-j " to 25,000 CIO United Electrical| dividuals who, during the active part: a first aid meeting for the members astrous epidemic.” Instructor Howard Dilg scheduled Mrs. Mansfeldt has pleaded inno-| Workers who are demanding a $2 of the past war, wholeheartedly sup-|on Dec. 13, | Are Found Due to Inmates Themselves | By DON DOAN LANDSBERG, Germany, Dec. 7— Blame for unsanitary conditions found at the displaced persons camp here has been laid almost equally to the immates themselves and UNRRA authorities by an in- spection group of four high Ameri- can officfals. ‘The group, headed by Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell S8mith, U. S. Army Chief of Staff in the European theater, found 6,200 homeless Jews living in quarters designed for 4,200, with sanitary conditions so bad that Smith told A. A. Glass- gold, the UNRRA camp director, “I would be ashamed.” Smith had just inspected bar- racks where human excrement littered some of the rooms. The investigation grew out of charges by Lee Sorle, the camp’s welfare officer, that the inmates were underfed, ill-clothed, over- crowded in unfit quarters and menaced by the threat ‘01 a “dis- Smith told the inmates that the ate and to hear a report by Her- commissioned officers. bert Brownell, National Committee| “During the period in question Chairman, | you falled to provide effective con- LAV S trol of your troops as required by the circumstances. Accordingly, on More : Arb"ra“on !n secret ballot, two-thirds or more of this commission concurring, this So" h| in Sea"le commission finds you guilty as g - "ews a er s'"ke Yamashita's shoulders sagged as p p he heard the sentence, but he —_— | straightened quickly and made a SEATTLE, Dec. T—Publishers of curt bow to the commission. He Seattle’s three major dally news- quickly was led by military police withdrawn their wage offers Wed- Yamashita, who already has lost nesday ~after rejection by the an appeal to the Philippines su- printers. The publishers' letter to preme court to take jurisdiction of the Typographical Union renewed his case and free him from the | charged and sentences you to death i y hanging.” papers, closed by composing room from the courtroom back to his cell strikes, were revealed today to have in old Bilibid Prison. the publishers’ willingness to arbi- military trial, still has an appeal trate differences and -said that to the United States Supreme their representatives were ready to Court pending and at least three meet union repreéentatives to con- additional appeals to make. tinue negotiations for a new con- Defense counsel has indicated it tract. | will take full advantage of every - oL | possibility because the ‘Yamashita Equalizafion of mens i’ ° Freight Rates Is Favored by Truma STORY HOUR AT LIBRARY WASHINGZON, Dec. 7~—Presi- dent Truman said today he favored an equalization of the freight rate structure. He told his press conference that e had spent much of his time as a renator fighting for a rate structure on freight movement fair to all sec- tions and that he still felt the same way abont it He made this comment when ask- ed about pendinz litigation growing out of the Interstate Commerce Commission decree of early this year calling for rate adjustments. - - DIVORCE FILED Ingvald Andersen, Douglas, has filed an action with the Clerk of the U. 8. District Court here, ’ The regular weekly Story Hour for children will be held at the Juneau Public Library tomorrow morning, starting at the usual hour of 10:15 o'clock, and all children from kindergarten age through the sixth grade are invited to attend | THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE a day boost. The electrical workers,| ported unity of command and who' The fire report for the month of Army would seek additional hous- larger, and stockholders got a| cent by reason of insanity to charges bigger dividend check. ishe killed Mrs, Martin because she “Labor got 30 per cent of every;b'“e"ed the nurse had stolen the nickel we made in 1944, says sym_,love of her physician-husband, Dr. ington, “and a system like that is JOhn H. Mansfeldt, 48. Dr. Mans- SR AR e 2 TS feldt ended his life shortly after (Continued on Page Four) learning of the shooting. who are planning a strike vote|recognized the value of the air arm, Dec. 13 with about 245,000 em- are today opposing such measures. 1 ployees in General Electric and | cannot attempt to tell you why there Westinghouse plants, voted on the has been a change of mind. The offer but results were not immedi-'record speaks for itself and cannot ately announced. be changed W | November showed nine fire calls ing to easp the over-crowding. answered. ——ol——— —_————— R. HEDLAND HERE Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Husted of| R. Hedland of Ketchikan has ar- Wrangell are guests at the Gasti- rived in Juneau. He is registered neau Hotel, . .is ANEN ot the Baranof, seeking a divorce from Anna May Andersen. He alleges cruelty, per-l sonal indignities and lncompali-l bility as causes of action. There is neither children nor property in- + volved,