Evening star., 1945-09-12
Tojo Gains With Yank
Blood; j; Seven Added
To Wanted List
Continued From First Page.)

claimed had disbanded more than
a. month ago. The seven included
Koki Hirota, former foreign min
lSter
While the roundup bag increased,
one of the most badly wanted, 1t.
Gen. MaSaharu Homma. who sane
toned the murderous death march
of Bataan. fled to his islet home
off the northwest coast.
One of those caught, however, was
Heinrich Georg Stahmer, German
Ambassador held chiefly responsible
for bringing Japan into the Rome
Berlin axis. Stahmer's confinement
in the Fujiya Hotel at Miyarishita
was described as protective Gus
tody."
Stahmer came to Tokyo in 1910
as a special envoy on the Axis deal,
was rewarded by being named Hit
ler's envoy to the Marking puppet
government, and then became AM
bassador to Tokyo. He was a per-
sonal assistant to Nazi Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribbentrop.
Also on the wanted list. Admiral
Shigetaro Shimada, Tojo's navy
minister, was quoted by Domei as
explaining he had decided against
suicide and had nothing to say
while awaiting the war crimes trial
he expects.
TOTO, who attempted suicide yes
terdaY, admittedly to escape trial as
the main japanese war criminal, but
who missed his heart with a bullet
from a pistol taken from a downed
American flyer, rallied strongly to-
night after the TRANSMISSION of B.
type whole blood and injections of
penicillin.
Doctors, who had said he had a
better-than-even chance to live, de-
clared his condition now was very
satisfactory" TOTO himself was
strong enough to thank them and to
tell a japanese government repre-
sentative. T. Suguki, who visited him
at the American evacuation hospital
in Yokohama, that he appreciated
the care he was getting
The blood donation came from
Sergt. John A. Archinal. a veteran
of New Guinea and the Philippines,
who said, I'm doing this so he can
get his just dues and suffer for the
II months he made me spend in
New Guinea"
Gen. Macarthur personal ply
sician. Col Roger Egeberg, South
Euclid, Ohio, rushed to Tojo's bed
side to join in the fight for his life
1t. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger,
commander of 9th Army occupa-
ton forces, said that the best pos
sible nursing care had been or
oered, adding, I'VE want the jap
snese government to know that"
Pistol From Downed Flyer.
Gen. Eichelberger said Toto shot
himself with a United States Army
Air Forces pilots pistol The num-
ber of the Colt automatic, 535330,
was too high for prewar issue, the
general said He reported that Tojo,
asked where he obtained the gun,
had replied, From the japanese
War Department"
L believe the pistol was taken
from an American aviator shot down
during the war Gen. Eichelberger
concluded. He has the pistol, to-
gether with the hara-kiri knife and
unsheathed ceremonial sword found
near TOTO.
Four nurses arrived from the AID
General Hospital, University of
Maryland unit; 1t Elizabeth Gunby,
Salisbury, Md; 1t. Birdie Gorsuch,
Baltimore; 1t. Elizabeth Nunelee,
Washington, n c., and 1t. Rebecca
Schmidt, Long Green, Nd, who re-
marked: Il didn't think we would
come to this, after 40 months over
seas!"
Trial Appears Certain.
TOTO said he fired his hasty pistol
shot yesterday as American war
crimes investigators pounded at his
door because he did not want to
stand before the victor to be tried :
/ Yet trial seemed certainly in store
for him and many of his henchmen,
including the Pearl Harbor cabinet.
In addition to Stahmer, others of