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v ended Japan’s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL 'I'HF TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,361 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDA\. AUGUST 29, 1946 ———— PRICE TEN C[;N IS MLMBLR ASSOCIATED PRESb SOVIET SWINGS VENGEFUL VETO AXE DIFFERENT NIPPON IS DISCLOSED MacArthur Reviews Re-! sults of First Full Year of Occupation BY FRANK WITE TOKYO, Friday, Aug 30.—Gener- al MacArthur's headquarters tock a look at the record of its first full| and saw: Japan's military machine dcstroytd:‘i year in Japan today, war making industrial power taken | over; business monopolies braken up and democratic forms of gov- | crnment instituted. hy Since MacArthur landed one year ago today, a headquarters spokese man announced, “the gigantic mili- tary machine of the Japanese Em- pire has been completely destroy- ed.” Its liquidation, he added, re- quired disarming, demobilizing and disposing of approximately 4,000~ 000 armed personnel in the home islands and 2,500,000 abroad. Two million civilians had to be returned home from overseas. “Today, the last remnants are streaming home, and the work of repatriation is drawing to a close. Nine million have been pro-, For mag- | cessed in this single year. nitude, thoroughness, speed and pre- cision, this has constituted a de- mol hes no precedent in history.” Destruction of millions of weap-, ops and thousands of aircraft, and control or destruction of navy forces and industrial facilities “has warmaking power and potential.” The new constitution, the spokes- men comtinued, is- designed piace sovereignty squarely hands ‘of ‘the people, bestows a full measure of human freedom. The masses here are no longer regimented, no longer en- slaved.” HOPES DIM S0R PLANE LOST IN YUKON SECTION FAIRBANKS, Aug. 29.—Sixteen Army and civilian airplanes fruit- lessly searched the vast upper Yu-| kon regions yesterday as hope for the safety of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hendricksen dimmed. The couple vanished on a flight Friday from Eagle, where Hendricksen is a gold miner. Searchers spotted wreckage from three previous airplane crackups. The only hope held for the couple was that continuing weswm weather would permit them to survive in the open if they landed without in- jury. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- son is on a brief vacation, his column will be written by sev- eral distinguished guest col- umnists—today’s by Debs My- ers, former Associate Editor of Yank, the Army weekly, one of the most promising young writ- ers to come out of World War Two.) By DEB MYERS WASHINGTON — The civilian went before the Army doctors, took off his clothes, feeling silly; jigged, stooped, squatted, put some blood in a bottle, became a soldier. He learned how to sleep in the mud, tie a knot, kill a man. He learned the ache of loneliness, the ache of exhaustion, the kinship of misery. From the beginning he wanted to go home. He learned that | men make the same queasy hoises|of being responsible for the murder| Wyat in the morning, feel the same long- ings at night; alike and that each man is dif- ferent. Maybe he was white or black or yellow or red, and if he .was on the line it didn’t make much difference because a soldier on the line was; so dirty you couldn’t tell his coler anyway. Maybe he huddled at night in a hole dug in jagged coral or clammy ( Continued on Pvaafl Four) lization and repatriation which/| “to in the upon whom it that every man is/ Nanking Rape Horror Bared '~ In War Court Japanese Military Charged { “with Tragedy Un- | equalledinHistory | | TOKYO, Aug. 29—Conguering, near-beserk Japanese troops slaugh- | tered 280,000 Chinese in their bes- tial “rape of Nanking” in 1937, the| War Crimes Tribunal was told to- day in a long series of documents from those who lived through the weeks of horror “This was a tragedy | which never has been known in history, id a Chinese report, read to the court which is trying former Premier Hideki Tojo and 26 others for war guilt. Japanese civilian authorities, the the like of report said, were unable to halt the rampaging victorious troops from rape, robbery, looting, mur- der and arson. A report by Nelson T. Johnson, American Ambassador to China at the time, said Japanese officials “were horrified when they saw the orgy of drunkenness, murder, rape and robbery. .but failed to make any impression on the calous mili- commander who deliberately 1ed loose his men.” One Nanking foreigner, J. H. Mc- Callum, testified by affidavit that “there were 1,000 cases of rape a night, and many by day.” His diary notation dated Dec. 19, 1937, read: “This is & hell on earth. It is a story too horrible to relate. People are hysterical. Women are being carried off every hour of the day and night.” i - eee—— t BULLETINS i LONDON — The British news agency Exchange Telegraph quoted | |the Swiss radio tonight as saying | | American Authorities at Passau on the German-Austrian border had arrested the head of the Yugoslav Navigation Agency. The report said no reason was given for the arrest. It identified the Yugoslav as “M. Antonovi LONDON — The Colonial Office announced tonight that the death| sentences against 18 Stern gang‘ members convicted of mob ut!acks‘ on the Haifa railroad yards in| Palestine 'have been commuted to life imprisonment. At the same time, the Colonial Office announced ! that the Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin El Husseini, was unacceptable ‘as a delegate to the forthcoming | Palestine discussions in London with | Arabs and Jews. | | INDIANAPOLIS—John H. Grate, 1101, of Atwater, O., a cavalry pri-| \vate who served under General| Phil Sheridan, today was elected] | commander-in-chief of the Grand| |Army of the Republic. The 80th | |annual encampment—attended by {11 Civil War Union soldier: —(losed‘ |with the election of officers. WASHINGTON —— The Navy today announced development of a[ non-inflammable hydraulic brake! ifluid for airplanes, expecte have “wide application in commer-E cial flying.” ; | | | WASHINGTON — The War De- | | partment today ordered a reduction | of 53,079 in its civilian employees | throughout the country by October | |1, to meet President Truman's and | Congressional economy . orders. Un- |der Budget Bureau instruction, total | personnel will be reduced from 572,- 1579 on the payroll July 31 to 519,- 500 by October. WARSAW — A Nazi 8S comman- 1dam named Amon Goeth has gone fon trial in Warsaw. He is accused |of 8,000 Jews in the ghettos of Lhree| Polish cities. | | MOSCOW—The Russian people {received disappointing news from |the Kremlin today. They were told: that bread rationing in the Soviet Union would be continued into next| year. Up until now, the Russian| | public virtually had been promis- ted that bread rationing would end this fall. But, it was explained of- ficially, dry weather has hurt the’ wheat harvest, ! reta | | tension here !a month by the Russians on ac- |illegally entered the Russian zone, |early (M Announce U. . WILL ASK CURRENT YEAR Huge Nahonal*IRUSTEESHIP MAY HIT NEW Alrpo_[[ Prog. OF NIP ISLESINCOME PEAK Fifty - Fifty, Federa|-Siate;SiaIe Dept. . Denies Mag-1 165 Billion ' Dollar Re(ord Deal Set fo Get Start- | nuson Statement — No | Sighted-May Be Re- ed in Month ' Opposition Expected vised Upward : 29.—The| WASHINGTON Aug. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Sena-| WA ~HI.\'(ITU]\'_ Au: 29.—Figures Civil Aeronautics Administration! ter Magnuson (D-Wash) reported|compiled by government experts (CAA) hopes to get a half-billion- | today he understood the United todey indicate that individual in- dollar, national airport program|States will ask the United Nations | comc will set a record of around formally under way in about a|next month for trusteeship of Jap-| $186.000,000,000 this fiscal 38 month. anese Islands in the Pacific but a'exeécding the bocming war year of said no 1945 © that M by th $5,000,000,000. over, information gathered taxation staff employed by This will not conflict with Presi-| State dential orders to hold construction|such other than housing to a bare mini-| time. Department official action was planned at mum, a CAA official explained to-| “I do not believe there will be a'Con and made available to a day, because no official work cansingle vote against giving us that, repgrter suggests that even this es- be uridertaken before next sprink. | juthority,” Magnuson said. | timéite might be revised upward be. The agency hopes to have rules| He expressed belief the U. S.|fore fiscal year ends next June ind regulations set up by Oct. 1,/ would have to take up with UN or 30. and to be ready for the first appli-| negotiate with Russia the matter| This raised a possibility that ‘the cations then. |of air rights over the Russian- Federal budget, thrown out of kil- CAA regional offices, including | cupied Kurile Islands in the north ter by depression and war, mlg)u Seattle, Anchorage and Santa Mon-| pacific. He said such rights could be brought into balance ica will process the applications. !pe necessary to “protect air routes; All tirese things are based on the Funds will be provided to the|from the United States to the Pa- assumption that the nation will ates and their subdivisions on a | cific.” remain relatively free of any large- matching basis—generally fifty . - - scale strikes for the remainder of fifty—under the seven-year pro- !the fiscal year gram. The new income estimates, con- - e —— ove owar s curred in by the Budget Bureau, compare with official predictions iast year that the 1947 income !weuld be around $130,000,000,000, Interim China =" =2 | T~ » MAGNUSON URGES TOBREAKOFF 6o ‘Hopetul’ "MoRe AuNeRs WITH GREE(E | simo Chiang Kai-shek was reported FOR AlASKA USE Tk e reliably tcday to have approved the o e e | _ ATHENS, (f”e“f" Aug. 20—The o eation of a committee of five, “,‘l":bjflhfi"ls) WA'L‘M e s EOHGIIAmbdb:HdUl. Adm, K. K. Rlo- headed by American Ambassador o ‘-I(.,‘r’u. r;n'n‘ (— ash) ‘m,ei W (!lLHD\. am?uunwd !m?ny that the| ;o1\ (eighton Stuart, to clear the ;'u-\‘- } v‘\7 nnrg .m[;. »‘lm]b;‘”(]‘l Aux’(f Soviet Charge D'Affaires in Greece .. (o g coalition government . ° 2 ar for Air, and Gen. Carl would be First Secretary G. Tcher- taking in all parties A. Spaatz of the Army Air Forces' nossey. Rodionov thus indicated his ¢ wag regarded here today to turn over to commercial departure for Moscow did not mean aiMines enough transport planes to| most hopeful development in 1 S . ovid y a break in Soviet-Greek relations. in recent weeks pr e ample, new service to Alas- Senutol | as the the | Chinese situation Paying a farewell call at thej It i X’;lf"‘:::“l”t‘ lfii’]‘[‘\“‘:f]g “This service has been advocated Greek Foreign Ministry, Rodionoy! increased sharply e 4 by Secretary Krug of the Interior as the Communists announced they Dep: told the Acting Foreign Minister, might set up their own separate . artment and other inter >sted m‘ Stephanos Stephanopoulos, that his increasing air service,” Magnuson rather than departure for the Soviet capital f;ff{“fina; g?\(fll)nrflell_lo ' Jather ahtold a reporter. “The airplanes was “ in execution of a mission.”|AccePt any hew M would in effect be loaned to the which they did not have a voice. companies on a temporary I)asxs‘ The primary objective of Stuayt’s nd the companics would pay all, - committee would be to biing the the expense. The army docs not want to sell these plancs, but per- He conferred for 45 minutes with Stephanopoulos. Immediately after- ward the United States Ambassa-| 1 dor, Lincoln MacVeagh, entered Kuomintang and minor parties to- Stbhatopble! otfiods |gether in a 40-man state: council Mitting commercial lines to use. them MacVeash had called on Leon|Which would serve as an interim would make: possible ® new fast ¢ a|vice to Alaska Magnuson said the Army needs air service to the Territory, Melas, Director General of the For-| coalition governing body - until | eign Office, while the Russian En-;more permanent administration is s closeted with Stephan-|formed at the Nov. 12 National suare voy w and declar 2 Premier T. V. Soong called on ted States Greek Foreign Office soutces said | again leave Alaska without ample had pointed out that Ambassador Stuart today and pre- two Athens newspapers, in repm.{srmed the names of the Govern- ing United States warships were/ ment members—Wu Te-chen, Scc- coming to Greece in a courtesy ! retary-General of the Kuomintang, visit, had attributed to Acting Sec-i““d Chang Li-sheng, Minister of of State Dean Acheson the;the Interior—who are slated to MacVeagh |defenses. It and one we should a to defend.” is a strategic ou ways be ready -~ - PRACTICE MAKES FOR MERRY [IME NORTH BERGEN, N. J., Aug. 29. words “and in case there is any|Serve around the some conference trouble.” MacVeagh was said to| table with Communist Chou En-lai have pointed out that the phrase|and Tung Pi-wu. | was not included in Acheson’s an-| The Government nouncement. | scheduled to leave for Redionov’s note naming a Charge| ¢apital at Kuling tomorrow to re-{ An attractive ~ 18-year-old girl D'Affaires and his 45-minute con- | ceive instructions from the Gener-| swimming nude in the Hudson riv- versation considerably eased the| alissimo. The committee probably | er gave two policemen in a row- i would not begin functigning until'yoat a merry chase for an hour and — | early next week. half today. | The most difficult problem be Lieutenant Arthur J. Foley and fore the group would be to strike pstroiman Frank Robbins of the an acceptable voting balance 10 gydson County police, who finally| satisfy Communist fears of being|ccaxed her into their craft, said| BY RUS“ANS To Gominated by “‘9 Kuomintang. |she laughed at them as she sported | n o in the river. swam under the hulks GET ARMY TRIAL 1yeF TRIAL OF choices the summer are| of sunken scows to elude them, and| then rocked the boat and swished ! water at them as they rowed her7 | to shore. BERLIN, Aug. 29.—Two Ameri- WA( (AP'I'A'N IS ; can officers, who were held almost The policemen + galgl- . 4t 1813 hom they identified as Susan Za-| “ow I“ RE(ESS kar of Fairview, told them she was| practicing to swim the Enghsh Channel. FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 29. The girl, dressed in overalls and| —The prosecution concluded today ! slippers borrowed by, the policemen other occupied zone. its case against Mrs. Kathleen Nash|from boat repair men on shore, was Capt. Harold Cobin .of New yOrk’Durant charged with larceny and|turned over to her mother. No City ana Second Lt. George embezzlement of the Kronberg charge was lodgcd aznhm her. t of Oklahoma City will beuewel collection. The military court STOCK QUOTATIONS | tried by a general court martial ,nygranten the defense a three-week September under Article DfITELESE to line up its witnesses. | War 96, which forbids “a disorder! The court threw out the con- ~NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Closing| and neglect to the prejudice of good'SPJlflcy charge against the WAC quotation of Alaska Juneau mine; order and military discipline,” the, captain, ‘approving a defense con-|stock today is 6'2, American Can Army announced. tention that evidence failed to sup-|99, Anaconda 41%, Curtiss-Wright| Cobin and Wyatt disappearead in- port it. 67«, International Harvester 88, to the Russian zone on July 4. De-! Prosecution attorneys said lhh}Ktnnecott 50', New York Central spite American Army representa-| War Northern Pacific 24'%, U. S. cusations of spying after they had were charged by the U. 8. Army to- day of violating an order prohibit- ing unauthorized travel into an- Department had prepared to|20'%, tions, the Russians disclaimed au‘send witnesses for the defense by|Steel 83%, Pound $4.03'%. | knowledge of their whereabouts. On &lr from the United States next| Sales today were 1,060,000 shares. July 30, however, the Russians week. The defense has asked for at| Dow, Jones averages today are turned them over to American au-|least six witnesses from the United industrials 190.47, rails 57.77, util thorit States, ties 39,08, MIDWEST GE | ;:L";::eg';;;‘ At e USSR BLOCKS Temperafures Dip Below% u N SEA"NG Until Saturday & (RS | OF 3 NATIONS CoolesiAugustMght Following salmon run checks with! oy N . 38Thdy arkdte’ ot vl o Russm Bars Counfries with pilot traps during the last severali g, . ; ! it etaste of autumn spread over ‘dn-‘\“ the Fish and Wildlife Service 'the western area and temperatures today ‘made these announcements jyn three states dipped into the! Whl(h It Does Not n reapenings 30%s or below | Fish and Wildlife Service;" | : ; | i | Land O'Lakes, Wis., reported a' ave Kelations announces that the following dis- yinimum reading of 26 degrees, ac- i U‘hils mln be reopened o COMMEr! ompanied by light frost. Other| BULLETIN — UNITED NA- SRk R A (x]:)‘h w temperatures included 36 at| TIONS L. DQUARTERS, O B ot oragt Din.| St Cloud, Minn, 37 at Wausau,| LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Aug, 29 ¢iot tast of Polok Dethins as dea-| k. 3. atEpesier, In., and 39 ati. “=The KNS DENe SR BN cribed in Section 2239, Western| Madison, Wis cficet in the United Nations Se- [ Disteics, northerg ;sbehicn a0tk of |1 Lo ferechst Job Ohicago, whithi - curl(y UGRERCIIEHARE-cHe TS e e uscribed in| D20 @ low of 53 last night, was for{ cia is violating the Potsdam Section 223.8a, Western district u\n»: a minimum of 45 tonight. The' agicement by its opposition té Weather Bureau said this would| United Nations membersh: rnsections ! ast- southern and wes Section tral as described in rn district as described in Section' represent the coolest night in Aug- | {ust in the Bureau's history in Chi- for Portugal. 8, Southern District as describ- | 830 "The Previous recoid was o NATIONS BLOCKED ed in Section 2208, Sumner Strait B R e | LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. Aug 20 district, Ernest Sound, leruu.\h ,n mn.m 11?4 c ”»“1"‘1‘ "f"\.m Soviet Russia today blocked the Strait and Bradfield Canal as des-| 8 ‘ll ilv & fn;f.wl r‘xl cold air Iluxll\'.mllh.l[lnns of Ireland, Trans-Jor- R R | central *Canada blanketed the na-!dan and Portugal for membershi | tion's ‘mid-seckion, i % et gl v i ST iin the United Nations for the sole ‘1eason that Russia does not have WASHINGTU.N, al Jacob L that training of forces may have ARMY MAY HAVE | countries, ‘ .[0 (UT ALASKA \’ ' | Retusmg to explain his position i further despite sharp challenges IESI pROGRAMS‘ ¢ form a majority of his colleagues, SOVIET vs. -Iv:w L?N1 ;Sm'url()' Council that Rus- j ; sia could not support the applica- Aug. 29.—Gener- Enr 5 of those countries for the ro suid ostrday AUS]’RALIA teasons that they do not have nor- 'my ground | smal diplmatic relations wi to be reduced as’ { : P M diplomatic relations with those | Andrci A, Gromyko, of Russia, told Devers said yesterday Soviet Unicn, ult of President Truman's, e | Eis positicn was ! Dsiticr Vi attacked by economy order to the Army and A s v +| ' Paul Hasluck, Australian dels Navg Foreign Ministers” Council ina vy Herschel v. Johnson, united svers said the War Department has not quoted speeitie reauctions' i Effort o Rescue delegate, and other members l sought an explanation. Grom- 3ko refused to add anything. and that training. may be spared. But he told reporters that If a cut ! Conferen(e Johnson, already mvolved with must b[‘ mfld(» he favors one big | the Russian delegate, In a contro- ywill have to cut short the current the peace conference from its dol- expressed by the Soviet Union and amphibious training of the (Fort Lewis, Wash.) Second Infantry Di- I think it is contrary to the fun- damental law of this organization.” drums and agreed upon a pre dure for handling the 300 proposed vision, now being held in coopera- | as " toh wikhithe A,f,,y Air Fo P amendmer.s which have bogged Hasluck ~charged Russia with 'the Navy on the Pacific coast,” GOWn committees prejudice” in refusing to accept s hts aainiatatl "\ A French informant sald thei |'&ns-Jordans application, T & 50 nétoant Tameest Foreign Ministers of Britain, Rus-| ussia had asked the Council a 30 percent reduction is di- 2 to accept outer M )} rected, the Ground Forces Com j sia, France and the United States, h ; ongolia, which § Oty o as cuirent relations only Sradder sail it would: B8’ wecessay who came from their meeting in an o0 nly with [0 suspend. iHaneyvars'af the Band " SPEAIERHY smisble mood, had te. )i Alrborne Division;, nd. to. canpe) DEWed thelr ‘pledges to support R S g . the portions of the five treaty as well thr- winter Lem. pmgrnm of I I viously agreed. i aring for cpera Ul)llfi ln Alask: zmd ' tp e it They will oppose amendment of | the Aleutians. qu- agreed pertions by any of thel ,other 17 members of the peace con- S [01 w"" | ference. | RESIORED t However, they also agreed, the infermant said, to review all pro-| ety jected amendments and to support SU((eSSful Opefahon FOI- lows Three Previous L r - n committee those that.were mu- FOR "IYRANNIESU tually acceptable. | Shortly before the Ministers U. 8. Prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd ; have bedeviled the peace maklng —_— i {oday for the conviction of|An Australian proposal to establish | CINCINNATI, Aug. five Nazi organizations on war @ sub-committee to collect factual pretty,” said five gathered, the conference had wit- data on the NUERNEERG, Gérmany, Aug. 20, ne: sed ancther of the clashes whic IH 29.—“You're year-old Tony Up- Italian-French frontier ton as he saw his mother for the crimes charges, declaring they we part of the Hitlerian police state;was biaten 13V to 6 In the Italianfirst time after his sight was re- serfected “into the most absclute Commission after a heated Aus-,stored through a delicate operation. | tralian-Russian exchange Tony was born with cataracts on efforts' The four principal powers and cach eye and had never been able to shift blame for war crimes from|nine other nations voted against|to see anything except as shadows. one German group to another. The|the Australian plan. When the bandages were remov- 21 individual defendants in the box{ U. S. Secretary of State James|ed from the child’s eyes yesterda; squirmel uncomfortably as he at-{F. Byrnes, British Foreign Secre- in the presence of his mother, Mrs tacked, before the International|tary Ernest Bevih, Soviet Foreign|Ella Mae Upton, he pointed to her | Military Tribunal, their ull<pmre~s-'Muu§tfl ¥. M. Molotov and dress and asked: “What color. is ed ignorance of -the deeds of the!Georges Bidauit of France met m,um mommie?” organizations which they headed. ‘lhn building containing the famous| “I told him it was green like the Herman Goering once raised half|cloak rcom where the big four of |814ss,” Mrs. Upton said. “and I out of his seat as if wanting to|1919 framed the treaties which they Isaid my purse was brown lik2 choe- clamber over the rail, but relaxed|too hoped would end war. olate.” even before the military pullumun -+ - Doctors, who performed the oper- at his side found it necessary ation on Tony's eyes, say eventuals tyranny of modern tim: Dodd denounced defens2 n |restrain him. ll/z M'l {ly his sight will be normal. Three Dodd said the organizations spec- | N GAlS ipervious operations were unsuccess- ified in this speech were M/n- | ful |oreated” or “Nazi-perverted. lIOUOR BURN IN | >-r e PAST PRESIDENTS OF MARTHAS WILL HONOR MRS. BOYD |LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN } SCIENCE T BE GIVEN A free lecture ou Christian Sci- | tacular fire, ence will be given at 6 o'clock to- |8 half gallons of alcohol and bran- | it night in the Capitol Theater by |dy, worth $16,500,000, last night de-| A luncheon honoring Mrs. Jose- will B. Davis, C. S. of Chicago,|Stroyed a government warehouse|phine Boyd and her guest, Mrs. llinois. !for aging liquors about a mile south | Carrie Dunn will be given by the In an attempt to inform inter-|of here Past Presidents of the Martha So- ested persons correctly regarding' The blaze started on the loading | ciety tomorrow at 1 o'clock in the Christian Science, Davis will pre- Pplatform of the Internal Revenue{Northern Light Presbyterian sent facts about the religion. He is bonded warehouse No. 52, and wind Church parlors. Mrs. Boyd is leav- a member of the Board of Lecture- Whipped the flames to the roof. !ing soon for the south. ship of The Mother Church, The| As the fire burned through the| Members who cannot be present First Church of Christ, Scientist,!rcof and reached the long rowslat the affair are asked to call one in Boston, Massachusetts. | of barrels below, explosions spurted |of the committee which is Mes= The public is cordially invited to flames rapidly over the warehouse dames M. S. Whittier, Ray Peter- \ttend the meeting which is spon-!area of 75,000 square feet. {man, Katherine Hooker, Clarence was undn-tur-'Wu!mm W. R. Boothe and Gun- WAREHOUSE FIRE lif., Aug. 20—A spec- | fed by a million and!' sored by the First Church of Christ, 1 Cause of the fire Scientist, Juneau, mined nar Blomgren, Sr, ! / | o