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“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE — - VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,424 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 1946 : MEMBER AS SOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_— ] ARMY TO TAK Deg SavesLife of Master SENSATIONAL STATEMENTS FROM GREW jFormer Ambassador As- serts 3 of 27 Up for War Crimes Are Innocent TOKYO statements Nov that Japan ational rehearsed | its mtarl Harbor attack five months n advance and that former Am- dor Joseph C. Grew believes Mhree ‘of the 27 top Japanese de- fendants are innocent were made to the International War Crimes Court today. | An atfidavit from Grew, who was Intérned at the start of the war. laid the three “in my opinion were vholly cpposed to war and exerted Vheir efforts to avoid wa < igartled the courtroom but Sir Wil- } m Webb, Tribunal President, (fuled that it could not be in duced by the deiense until its ope: its case, prohably in December. Defense Attorney David F. Smith, New York, tcld the court “this seems to eliminate three defend- ants from this case.” They are Kiichiro Hiranuma, former Prime Minister, and Koko Hirota and Mamoru Shigemitsu, former For- eign Ministers. Meanwhile, the prosecution pur- sued its case with documents detail- ing to the court for the first time the so-called “Yamamoto Plan” for Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Har- bor. The testims , based on a corded prison-cell interrogation of Adm. Osami Nagano, a defendant, re- PRICE OF SOAPSTO SHOOT UP Producs Used in Manu-. facture Have Advanced ~Also Wages for Labor i | \ cne of the major reity items, be- gan to appear today in the wake of the abelition of OPA price ceilings. | In Walter McKee, v president of Zever Brothers, one of Beston, the major soap manufacture re- ported his company's products were seing increased immediately by approximately 50+ percent.” He raw materials—tats and oils- increased from nine cents a 1 under OPA to 21 or 22 cents a pound Ofher trade sources said price in- said i creases were inevitable In Cincinnati, spokesmen for the Prcetor and Gamble Co., and the M. Werk Co., who asked that their names be withheld, declared ingred- ’ ; . ient prices had risen as much a All the love and devotion of a bey and his dog are depicted in this percent since the removal of picture from Seattle of Patrick Lynch and his dog “Mike,” who saved pjce ceilings and labor costs had Pat frcm o vicious atfack by a crazed man with a knife who chasel risen 50 percent since soap prices the bey as he 5 retwrning home at night. But “Mik tast increased f{ive years ago. Both officials said the new high- °r price. may attract some small additional amount of soap into con- cumer channels but the current scap shortage will not some to quick end.” The Proctor & Gamble repres Pat and that was that. Broad Changes Propbsed & tative said his company’s small size| . . -— dealers for three cents.more and that the retail prics, will show NEW YORK, Nov. 12—A sharp rise in the prices of many soapsi- the was killed by a truck October 14, shown here weeping and huggi But that's little consolation for B Oth “Mag SHIPSTRIKEIS Here Is Why Price Control s Kept on Sugar, Also Rice Conferences Are Being L. A. Truck Kills Canine 2al of "City Boy” | hei people were, tco. heavy and there's litt rms and the ranches and the open field: 13, ¢f Los Angeles, who lives just off a busy street. gie” has gone. if h> lives in the ¢ a boy Billy ran out to he: a faggie” afier the tr ged, The 2 his pal * But, that eannot always be. He owned a pal shepherd named d carried the limp body The truckdriver was sorry about it. s | | | | | | Especially if it's where traffic is his dog are meant for the country, Not so for Billy Walker, ggie. Mis doy to the curb. Billy is world’s different for him now that - TAKEN UP ¥ - WASHINGTON Held with Officials of _Interior Dept. YOUNGEST i | 2 | & WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—Maybe you've wondered why price controls are staying on sugar and rice. Here is the y the government explains it. It's partly a story of world shortages .and partly a story of living up to premises. “The United States has been set- ting aside 40 percent of its rice produciion for export tq the Philip- pines, Puerto Rico and other areas. | the OVER SHIP FOR ALASKA S ARMY TO OPERATE ' PALISANA ON TRIP T0 ALASKA, REPORT SEATTLE, Nov. 12--A telephone message frcm the Chief of Trans- portation of the War Department at Vv hington gave notice this af- | terncon that the Maritime Com- I mission s transferred operation sel Palisana, tied up here lin an operators-union dispute, to Army for operation, the Port Embarkation announced. The Alaska Transportation Com- i pany and the Masters, Mates & | Pilots Association have been unable |to come to an agreement on the Chiei and Third Mates for the ‘ship, a spokesman said. , It has been loaded since Satur- | day with a 3,223 measurement tons :uuun. half food, for a voyage to | Whittier, Alaska, with supplies for P Army posts. A crew will be assembled as rap- | idiy possible in efforts to get I the "vessel und way, the Port of Embarkation spokesman announced. - STALEMATE CONTINUES SHIP CASE Seame Chamber of Com- merce Makes Direct Plea fo Truman of the ve of as SEATTLE, Nov. 12 — Declaring that & stalemate exisis in the cur- 138t "March 21, picturad @mperor ~— %+ "3 T oE . b BN e i 3 rise. The price of ; i Y Hirohito as figuratively chew his WASHINGTON, Noév. T2--Two Re- 2 o ¢ {‘_m rise, WASHINGTON, Nov. 12— These countries. in turn, send 52 o gigpute over hiring of licensed tingernails in anguish over the . publican Senators called today for 1 8 P oents for the 21. ernment officlals continued c United States sugar and 182l perconnel to man an Alaska relief prospects of waging a war which > broad changes in the National La- fom 12 to 1% cents ~ the retail €nces today to work out a plan for 1ubber. : ship, the Seattle Chamber of Com- might be lost while militarists at bor Relations Act, and one' of them, OUnce package, ralsing he TEWil g0 0,0 cmergency food and medi- The government’s keeping price perce Alaska Committee has urged the same time held rehearsals for Benator - Hall S (Min ., idlbdded: @ Drice rom 2. to 8. Lents cal supplies to Hawaif and Alaska controls on rice for fear the price proi SR Ho e iz he the sneak attack. fight to outlaw the closed shop. TR Director Edwin G. Arnold -. the might scar so high otherwise that nuyy or Government-owned Alaska Nagano said the plan was re- Ball, 2 member of the Senate Interior Department’s ‘Tervitories it couldn't fulfill these export agree= painoad “to load, man and sail Y hearsed at Kagoshima Bay in July, Labor Committee, told a news con- RUSSIA COMENG Divisicn. and the Governor of TREMAE vessels for immediate and subse- 1v41 with torpedo and dive bomb- F ference that when the new Re- o |Alaska told a reporter ,“were It's pretty mueh the same thing, gyent paiier» ers using aerial torpedoes specially putlican-controlled Congress meets AROUND To ONE working very hard” bk said they with sugar. Normally we nul\" Bro- o Ol GRSt i e designed for the shallow Pearl Har- he will seek an amendment to had no conclusive Tesult to report. duce about a third or a fourth of o ..\ o) "ehe pregident that the bor waters. prohibit making union membership The Governor said participants the suger we need In" this countiy. gro yngyitime strike s, in- effect, cution from the diary of Koichi . . I think the closed shop is the tative of all the government Ay sugsr 8 U8 phecause the Maritime Commission Kido, Hirohito’s closest advisor, Opens Parliament Tellmg most reactionary and illiberal thing i ‘agencies that could I on- areas has created a huge worldwide w4y Control of shipping. showed the Emperor at first op- we've got in our industrial picture,” NEW YORK, Nov. 12—Fresh evi- necticn with the me tieug AR SHuringe, The Committee's mes: s timistic and (hl!)n isturbea atter. What Labor GOVErN- he said. “There is no real justiti- dence that Russia may eventually| He Y whether the ehe f’“‘]“““ "‘I{A'S“ ulture De~ | Liitey tres ;‘.,;3"‘,’;*:‘;3"“,0“5 Nagano told him it was “doubtful cation any more. agree to pe form of interna- Army and Nav been called ifeament phink . the ‘““l']" Biates o ween the MSrifimé: Commmissin , whether or not we should ever ment ShOUld DO ed outrig junking of tional inspection to enforce dis- into consultation. “’“m)!"“ BOrR .‘h_‘”‘; "”"fi'““”““ and agents of Alaska steamship " win” a war against Ame i . National Labor Relations Board | armament, including elimination of . Arnold said the assistance of the ‘("‘n:”“;;";"fl;”-.‘l“‘;"md‘“fl “h:‘nt’ ;;‘] lnes and bt warons {14 | ik G v g .and said the sconer Congress atomic weapons, was seen today Aimy and Navy “has been suggest- ab @ alf mil- : ; “ I i £ e LONDONS Ny 13 Bink G‘:"T; writes statute to permit any-|in an .~rllmn by Soviet Foreign|ed,” but added that the handling jién tons. :Bacslise ol the ShOxiXeR :::. r:?‘:fll):lxilr::u:nat:;fl::":;;c:T MIDAS ARRWES IN W b baslien CpeRiuE PCh nie whose rights ave alfected toMinister Molotoy that Russian andof the relisf supplies for Hawaii and | ¥ ;:",.N-..,i;m,:i:.l-'\«ulx]:r‘:’ull :;:“:u ::'u:'xx‘l-l 15 Reeded. Folkr AT | for leg- 80 into court directly, the better American arm reduction propos-'Alaska by normal channels is con- Rebert Lero: l'-:"\\ ||I it g 8 . Impractical Operations | PORT WITH FREIGHT jslation continuing conscription for S Wedl be als! ‘can b harmaniac jsidered more desirable. | Staffcra © ol e LA | “Alaska is almost entirely de- the British armed forces and for! On a similar note Senator Fer-! At the same time he declared: Another Interlor Department of-| ‘o .0 iy of Kansas Sophe- pendent on waterborne transpor- FOR lO(M. (ON(ERNS nationalization of island transport n (Mich.), advecated a broad that an armaments race has al- ficial, who asked not to be identi-| 3 tation for the necessities of life. / il i and. electric utilities. : evision of the National Labor Re- | rcady started, and he urged prompt }1;;: n.r'l’l\fil“(;”lll('ll';!(1.(‘1\]:)':',3“5l‘:'“”}rny moke, jras Slested (.46 BA A’res’ Made Trucking on the Alaska Military Eiehtcen longetoremen. were en. | 'The Monarch presented his mes- i‘;”(n) 2 t ‘J“lnd‘ mv-(';:\t:;:,:;.::xn«-.;‘tl a‘c:;)nnn by the United Nations to Y R b ght cnly as! poyee of Representatives in 4he ‘:.-‘i’i::,w?{s::::lumxl .‘ll;lrpu:u .sz iy * gaged this afterncon in unloading ’(“":“ll‘x’rf“"l]“l"":l‘vi;"!I:‘Il'lll')ll.f Jradl- ey industries o, Sedrataty ot Blats. Bybnes id there is some possitility! complete mnofficial returns, = o L e e Y tons, of goneral cargo romig L U ovion T ha. was, guarded S SR came a promise that the Ameri- West ‘Cosge marlime st Bock, not old encugh to vote in I“Do e Rln way and high cost of air freight Jim Cole's power barge Midas. [Tl b, W0 T btack. by can Government, which is insisting | ues that the Maritime COm-' (ne August primaries, becams 21 I general use impractical The Midas arrived from Seattle| 268t 20V Postbe Trach D- X bl d (- -I' on an inspection system, wowld; mission will be asked to furnish a} oo el oL ol eteran 1 “Many ports have been without this morning, with a general cargo ' 9V emisie By seyer e iSanie fyhians Dve mote 1o say on_ dissmarient|Ship and operate it to transport @ 9% Sepb ettt ol o e for the foilowing local establish- Man Scotla n:l Ya‘l.(yi could spare— ‘at the propet time”, and British fourth relief cargo to Hawaii and beeoras the ycungest mom- VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. 12 — “while the operators are still f monis: Alaska Merchandisers, MO e SO AL C e TO Ge' FIIIIdS 'I'Om Foreign Secretary Bevin declared| The CIO Committee for Mar:, pe (f the Kansis iesiciure, |TWO men and a woman have been’the targets of the unions, the Mari- Pigely Wiggly, H & M Grocery, R R ke i e goar bt sorld- | time Unity has announced it v 2 arrestcd here on charges of Pos- time C : S it BT ey "V opening of the second Parliament, i in the effort to cbtain wor i i i (AP Wireplicto Mtk S 5~ time Commission still is in control Behrend’s Grocery, Juneau DIUgi o .y, took over the reins 'I' w |wide arms reduction “my govern-|hot clear the 8§ Ove St ien of narcotics, and Rovaliof ghipping and, i effect, the Gompany, Race Drug Store, Butler. fince Lavor tock over the reins, Jygq) estern States o o e renima » which was scheduled to cail from anadian Mounted® Police officers | sivike s against the Government. Mslito Drug Company and Sully'si O 5 Td ceremony of s i The three spoke last night at aiSan Francisco tomorrow with —a F ud the trio is being questioned) «pq o Jast resort for the release Bakery. | centuries-old tradition — and the ! ! dinner of the Foreign Press A (.fl]“'Lf\"'rl ,“”’3’:"85.,},1:{ m‘h;l b u S I I EN L5 connection with a drug ring|o; yelief ships, we strongly urge e > > — R v(‘r B e B WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—Oregon | sociation after completing mein““l‘*“" ed by the Governor of Haw- " '] :1:‘“‘;(uh operating in three COUN-Iypat either the Navy or Alaske 3 | stringent procautions _ sihce the|7nd Washington Tegiuatures Wi first review here of five projecied| Try,; yeyjer ships previously had | e 1o Inclides e, Romlcly RGBS At 1 e e as lng OI) ! 1039 and 1940 bombings attributea be asked to appropriate $1:0.000( Axis satellite peace treaties. Re- o wCT PR Y e neild e poossh fan and sail vessels for immedi- ! # to the Irish Republican Army. | ADd $180.000 respectively as their|ports on their work to date showed ¢ 10 BEWEL L 3 rman E. Elllot, 44, Vancouver {ie and subsequent reliet.” | s e 3 2 _ State’s share in financing rehabili- | still stalled all ma-! @ ridges. a co-c hairman o Breker, and Connie Elliot, 33. Rossi Si i o - # Oun The royal message, prepared by them to be still stal on the Committee for Maritime Unity,| 2 3 gt i ituation at College 9 errY- 0 Ithe Labor Government, set fortn ‘ation of disabled civilians during’ jor issues ranging from el o R R e will o ‘"'Th”" ":‘“‘\;\“"X:]“‘:h"""H‘x“f-)‘:“"wb“:1 Food supplies at the University B | government views on both foreign J];)l("l(‘l\':‘q\::‘:idl\v ! ;;nflde R of Trieste u.) 1.xr:e navigation on Lhm“mw to load rellef cargo for Hawatl| ' WARSAW, Nov. A Millary ] ind: wave AsiBeed tBWARE wm_d;nl /\Xu\kn,. which is furnishing The King urged negotiation of a o ~o ' "og o R e P AROMICE. Ok 4B was a Matson Line “demand for al Mcochowska, United States Roy D, Linvilla, 45 Rioyoes, P <exXhausted W “ WASHINGTON-The President’s peace with Germany under “con- ;;::‘m‘xun\::‘:7(::“(!13.b:‘)\/ll:]uapxp]:]r;&;al:tf‘between the Umtle-fi Statesl and thc‘m“ and profitable cargoes for the citizen, to five vears' imprisonment 4 SR ,.’.(J days P)t'(';nlsv supplies have been fofmer Naval Aide, Commodore ditions which will foster true de- & URE HWOUL O FIEE K Sh AT Blav Biates apncatd “’]h““ i & My o & dhsrke Of conapiracy jeat down due to the maritime *"Jake Vardaman of Missouri, is up|mocracy and will guarantee the SSHATTCT EPRRORTIC ORS WO removed however DDA’ | e Alaska Governor gaid he is against the Polish government. She HAND GRENAD 18ven, Fresidan Tiwaipe ) S to his old tricks. Though elevated world against further attempts, at ‘ot Bram ported Bymes had informed the ...y concerned about ob- formerly was a translator for the {nell of the University of Alaska to a 14-year job at $15,000 a year|world domination and will also re- =" i LR | Foreign Ministers Council yester- ..., reljef ship for “Westward American embassy jmessaged here. on the Federal Reserve Board, move the financial burden which |day that the United States had ., .., He told a reporter, “we SRl | USED IN STRIKE The last shipment of tood to Highest fiscal agency in Govern- occupation has laid on my ‘people.” s i ordered occupation authorities iy " oncerned with (A) getting @ S N “Preft | reach the University was 280 ment, Vardaman has been put back ~.ndicating the Government’s in- Naval Sh'pyards In ‘Ge_lmany to release se\telul ?undxed lief ship for Alaska and (B) the ays eme re y A' HollvwooD pounds on September 10, his wire on active Navy duty and is try- tent work for eradicafion of inter- seized Danube River _Vefi&e}fi Of | cettlement of the maritime tieup.” w "-l k ( '" | ! | said. ing to get disability retirement.|national trade barriers, the King| (h- A Gon I { Hungary and other Eastern Euro-| i S | Well Iaken (are 0 i 7L i { The situation created by the This means that he may get a nice spoke of his “earnest hope” for ' ina Are Ing Q !pean countries — something those | For Winter Food HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 12— An ex. Maritime strike is “unfair, un- pension for life. the success of negotiations now un- i countries, with Russian support, | (rew Res(ued hom or winler roo plosion which police said apparent- 'eAsonable and unwarranted,” he Vardaman has now gone out to der way in London for expansion Be Rehab"“a'edmvc been demanding for months. ly was caused by a hand grenade, declared, describing attempts to Bethesda Naval Hospital for treat- of world commerce and employ- R R St F 2 h | SEATTLE, Nov. 12-—-Nome and blew in a window and severely SUPPly Interior Alaska by airplane ment and for appearance before alment. o i STO(K ouo"‘“ous (onc’e'e ’elg |ef, communities in that vicinity “are damaged the home of a non-strik- 8nd truek as “offering a pound medical board, which apparently iy | (SHANGHAI, Noy. 12—The United ! P ugs | Dretty well taken care of as far ing film technician today, in an- @5 @ substitute for a ton.” was why he was put back on ac- D d States is providing $15,000,000 in NEW YORK, Noy. 12—Closing D'fib'ed on pa(l'i( a4 M supplies concerned other violent outbreak attributed to He urged University of Wash- tive duty again. While on active Town Is es'roye equipment to rehabilitate Chinese quotation of Alaska Juneau mine since the recent discharge of the the movie strike. ington students to use their influ- duty he continues as a member | " Naval * shipyards, Adm. Charles stock today is 6'2, American Can — !Victoria and Cordova, last ships of Other developments in the nearly ¢nce (owards ending the strike. of the Federal Reserve Board,| By ouake- 30 KI"e Moore, Commander-of the U. S. 87'2, Anaconda 39, Curti :Wrigh!‘ YOKOHAMA, Nov. 12-The Ar-'the season, Thomas J. Keating, two-months-old jurisdictional strike The appeal came as officials of the B though just how he manages this, (] Seventh Fleet, told a press con- 7, International Harvester 71, Ken-'my's disabled concrete freighter Ed- ' Nome agent for Alaska Steamship included the first production shut- Alaska Steamship Company and no one seems to know. | LIMA, Pery, Nov. 12—At least'ference tor |necott 47%, New York Central|win Eckel, today was being towed Company, said bere yesterday up- down and resumption of mass pick- striking maritime unions still failed 4 If an officer on active duty is| 30 Persons were killed in an earth- He said $5000,000 would be used 16!z, Northern Pacific 20':, U. 8.'py an Army tug to Yokohama af- on his arrival from Nome eting and wholesale arrests. Lo reach an agreement on manning retired for disability, he then dmwsi‘l"‘“‘" wln_ch destroyed the town of at Shanghai, but emphasized lhaL‘SlE(‘l 1%, Pound $4.03 5,16, ter 43 crew members were trans-| Keating returned aboard a North-' Meanwh discussion of an ar- the Grommet Reefer, a rel_wl ship, a pension equal to three-quarters of Sihuas, 23}0 miles north of Lima,'Shanghai is not a U.S. Navy base,| Sales today were 1,360,000 shaves.| ferred, 287 miles at sea, to the Pa- | west Airlines plane from Anchorage, bitration formula brought an an- to take supplies to Kodiak and his base pay —for life. Further-|shortly after noon yesterday, an but merely a place providing a| Dow, Jones averages today are!cific Far East Steamship Line’s and will work in the Seattle offices nouncement from conferring strike other Alaska ports. The Maritime JInterior Ministry announcement ' Navy Postcifice, medical care and as follows: industrials 17087, rails|Trade Wind. The Trade Wind pmv‘mm] resumption of shipping next leaders that “additional details were Commission designated the ship for (Continucd on Page Four) said today. I recreation. 50.12, utilities 35.60, ceeded toward San Francisco, spring agreed upon.” such a trip nearly two weeks ago,