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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
FAR EASTERN
COMMISSION
STALEMATED
Russian American Differ
enees Over Japan Con-
troll Policy Unsettled
BY JOHN NJ. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6-RuSSian-
American differences over how to
run Japan threatened again today
to hobble the work Of the Far
Eastern Advisory Commission.
which has the job of planning long
range japanese control policy.
The Russians are said by diplo-
matte officials to be insisting on
the immediate creation of four
power control council at Tokyo, in
which the American representative,
presumably Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thur, would have the decisive voice.
The four powers would be Russia,
the United States, Britain and
China.
The United States is insisting,
according to the same officials, on
creating some sort of less direct
control machinery within the Far
Eastern Advisory Commission. This
body now has 10 members. With
Russia it would have II.
Pending settlement between
the United States and the Soviet
Union, Moscow. has given no indi-
cation of sending a representative
to the advisory commission. This
means that so far as Russia is
concerned none of the commissions
work ran he final
Moreover since the United States
wants to change the powers of the
commission in order to handle the
control council problem, the mem
bers now assembled here do not
even know what authority they
may or may not have.
Nonetheless, they scheduled their
second meeting today, and United
States informants said they would
try to get down to work by be-
ginning studies on the various eco
nomic and political problems with
which they are supposed to deal.
They are forbidden to take up
military matters.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
THOUSANDS WALK
OR HITCH HIKE
IN WASHINGTON
Capital Transit Company
Drivers Leave Jobs
Early Today

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. - Thou
sands of Washingtonians hitch-hik-
ed or walked to work today after
Capital Transit Company drivers
left their jobs early this morning
Many office bound workers beg
ged for spots in Washington's ever
crowded cabs. Others were just
stranded
A company official, who said the
buses and street cars carry 100000
fares day, declared the tieup was
complete.
The tieup developed suddenly
and most of the citizenry had no
inkling of the impending stoppage
when they went to bed last night.
Members of the AFL Union met
in burlesque house at midnight to
discuss demands for increased wag-
es. They decided to continue the
all night meeting on into the day,
thus leaving the public service We
hicles unnamed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
8 SURVIVORS
ARMY PLANE
WRECK SAFE


HONOLULU, Nov, eight sur
vivors OF an Army transport COM
mand planes forced landing at sea
were in an Army hospital here to-
day under treatment for injuries.
One of the survivors said that the
body of an unidentified WAC was
among seven corpses brought here
from the wreckage.
Search continued for II persons
still missing. Planes and Navy sur
face vessels secuted the area 46O
miles northeast Of Oahu, where the
Liherator- type transport and its 81
passengers and five crewmen met
disaster Saturday erroute to the
Mainland from Honolulu.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
Lewis Wins
Seat on Key
Committee
Labor Heads Wrangle BIZ
fer|y in Morning Ses-
sion of m Confab

WASHINGTON, Nov. g. = Mine
Union leader John L. Lewis today
won fight for seat on the key
executive committee of the National
Labor Management Conference.
Originally the committee was to
be of eight members, four each for
labor and management. Labor's votes
were to be divided between the CIO
and AFL.
Lewis demanded place for his
United Mine Workers and prodded
the conference into enlarging the
executive committee membership TO
16.
Eight seats each, went to manage
ment and labor but labor's votes
were split to give Lewis Mine Work.
ers committee post.
Under the revised plan, approved
unanimously by the conference,
labor's eight votes on the commit
tee are divided this way:
Three each for AFL and CLIO and
one each for the Mine Workers and
the Railroad Brotherhoods.
Lewis and CLIO President Philip
Murray, as we'll as AFL President
William Green, Wrangled bitterly at
the conferences morning session
over the executive committee make
up.
The matter was important be-
cause the executive committee will
sift all conference business and have
the responsibility for placing sub
ject matter before the conference.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
WHITE HOUSE.
COURSE STlRS
SHARP DEBATE
Presidents Program Lik-
ened 10 Clio HANDFUL
Critic Called Partisan

WASHINGTON, Nov 6 - A dis
closure that President Truman has
advised Sen. Wiley CR-Wis9 that
Congress should take responsibility
in drafting a national defense pro-
gram plunged the Senate into de-
bate over Mr.. Humans policies
today.
Wiley read the letter to the
Senate and asserted that he
thought a conference, similar tc
the Encouragement meeting now
underway, should be called on the
question of peacetime CONSUMPTION
Wiley criticized the labor man.
agemcnt conference, however, as
unrepresentative He said it lack:
any representation Of the public
independent organized labor anc
unorganized labor
He said he and many of hi!
colleagues like President Truman
find increasing dissatisfaction
yelling up in our minds on thu
actions of Harry Truman tht
statesman"
1.-THE President makes wage
speech which goes up the hill anc
back down again and leaves the
situation as badly muddled as be-
fore" Wiley declared.
THE President pleads for a pro-
gram which out-New Deals the
New Deal, which item for item
sounds like a CLIO handout. Spend
spend, spend with never heed a.
to where and how the money i!
coming from"
Senator Hatch (D-N.M), de-
scribed Wiley's criticism of tht
President as a partisan attack.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
THOUSAND
MASSk(RED
BY NIpp0NS
More Starvation, Torture
Evidence Is Given in
Yamashita Trial
BY JAMES HALSELMA

MANILA, Nov GA Spanish
priest and a Filipino laborer, testi-
Tying at the war criminal trial of 1t.
Gen. Tcmoyuki Yamashita, recount
ed today the starvation, torture and
massacre of 5000 Filipino and Chi
nese civilians by japanese troops
before the fall of Manila last spring.
Father Belarmino Decelis of the
Spanish Augustinian Order, said
that last February the Japanese
damned the 5000 civilians into the
ancient church of st. Augustine, old
est building in Manila
The men were thrown into the old
dungeons which served the Spanish
100 years ago. Women and children,
he said, were kept without food in
the church compound until they
were so hungry they ate the grass
and roots of the patio gardens.
On February 9, the men were TAX
en- cut and forced to stand in the
open streets under heavy artillery
fire and then marched to Fort San
tiago, where the burning and Staying
took place.
Juan Palcda, the Filipino, testified
he was one of 100 packed into a
stone dungeon 20 feet square. He
was stabbed later and left for dead
in a pit with 500 other bodies.
/, Defense attorneys sought to show
that the civilians in the historic ole
area might have died in the all-out
American attack with tanks, point
blank artillery fire, grenades ano
flamethrowers.
Earlier, an 11-year-old girl, Rosa
linda Andoy, showed the military
commission conducting the trial the
scars OF 80 bayonet wounds. She
sobbed softly as she told of her mis-
treatment and the death of her fam
lily at the hands of the Japanese in
vaders.
Her father was taken away to be
murdered, and her mother and hel
aunts were bayoneted before hel
eyes. Even while her mother tolc
her to "be good girl, dearest q
Japanese used the woman for live
bayonet target, the frail girl testi-
fled.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
UNDERGROUND FIGHTERS PREVENTED
SURRENDER OF kfUSS0LINl TO ALLIES
ASPLEDGED BY ITALIAN GOVERNMENT

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. - Ven
teance- seeking italian underground
fighters in Milan last spring pre-
vented their government from full
filling at least one of its l943 sur
render pledges to the Allies.
Publication of the 26-month-old
armistice terms today disclosed that
the italian government pledged IT.
self to apprehend and surrender lin
to the hands of the United Nations
che Benito Mussolini, among others.
But in tie final days of the Axis
military collapse, the northern ltal-
ian partisans got to II Duce ahead
Of the surging Allied troops. They
quickly tried and shot him, along
with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and
left their bodies to be kicked and
battered by an angry crowd in q
Milan square.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
The W ashington
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-The Joint Con-
gressional Committee investigating
Pearl Harbor has a hushed-up
War Department report on the dis
aster, which is going to be very hot
to handle 1t shows woeful, un-
explainable or deliberate neglect
inside the Army Navy in Wash
ington.
The report, prepared but never
released by the Army's Pearl
Harbor Investigating Board, di-
rected by 1t. Gen. George Grunert,
is marked Top Secret" 1t unfolds
a fantastic chain of developments,
beginning Nov 20, 1871, more than
two weeks before the Japs struck.
On Nov 20, the japanese Gov
eminent sent a coded message to
its embassies in Washington and
London, warning them to be on the
lockout for an important announce
ment dealing with the Winds, ="
which would be broadcast on a
news program from Tokyo.
This was to be the tip-off to
Jap diplomats as to whether Japan
would go to war against the United
States, Great Britain, Russia-or
all three 1t was also to reveal
whether war would be made against
the Dutch. In addition, the APP
proximate time of the breaking of
relations with these nations was to
be given.
This communication was known
as the winds alert" message.
1t was intercepted and decided
two days later by U. S. experts,
according to the secret Pearl
Harbor report. Thus Washington
higher-ups knew on Nov %, about
two weeks before the Pearl Harbor
attack, that the Japs were def
nitely preparing for early war.
That same day-Nov. 20-another
message was sent by Tokyo to
japanese Ambassador Nomura in
washington stating that Nov. 20
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
Here's Latest
And Il Includes
Alaska, loo!

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 6.-The w.
j. Dillner Transfer Co, announced
today that Nov. Is it will begin OPP
Grating the nations first aerial
moving van service"
Household goods, two or three tons
at a time will be flown between
Pittsburgh and any other point in
the U. S. and Alaska. at rates about
10 per cent higher than truck costs,
the company stated.
Dillner now operates a fleet of 40
trucks and special service cars into
n states.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
INTERNATIONAL HEADACHE

TOKYO, Nov. 6-The breaking up
of Japan's fabulous houses Of in
dustry was expected today to create
an international financial head
ache in the question of how to dis
pose OF thousands of shares Of
stock held by American and other
foreign firms.
Supreme Allied Headquarters is
sued a survey revealing widespread
qualifications in the pre-war tieup
between Japans big Four" In
dustrial empires and firms through
out the world.
The survey said that American
corporate big names such as West
inghouse, Tidewater Associated Oil
Co, International Telephone and
Telegraph, Aluminium Co. Of Am
erica and Libby-O Owens Ford had
business links with such houses as
Mitsibushi and Mitsui All Of their
stock holdings and unsettled debts
pose huge problem.
There also was a close relation
ship between the powerful big
Five" banks and American banking
institutions from coast to coast.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
Drastic Move Is Made 10
Terminate Private and In
ierndiiondI Agreements
RAMIFI(ATI0NJ OVER
WORLD ARE AFFECTED
Complete Retirement Of
Four Big Jap FAMILIES
Is Far Reaching
BY MURLIN SPENCER

TOKYO, Nov. 6-Gen. Macarthur
today smashed Japan's four great
est financial and industrial families
and gave notice OF his intentions
to break up all such combines to
laid Japanese economic develop
ment along peaceful, democratic
lines"
The Japanese Government was
ordered Immediately to prepare to
dissolve Mitsui. Mitsubishi. Sunni
tolno and Yasuda zaibatsu and
their holding companies and to
eliminate their controls Of Japanese
finances and industries.
Macarthur further told the gov
eminent to set up holding COM
pany liquidation association to d.
rect the dissolution under indirect
Allied control and warned that all
policies and personnel must have
his approval, H
To Smash Combines
Along with the directive aimed
at the great zaibatsu interests with
their ramifications. which spread
throughout the world before the
war, the Supreme Allied Com
mander said he intended to smash
all such combines so as to permit
wider distribution of income and
ownership OF the means of pro-
duction and trade In Japan and to
aid the Japanese economic develop
ment along peaceful, democratic
lines"
The government also was directed
to take immediate steps to ter
inmate and prohibit japanese par
ticipation in private international
cartels or other restrictive private
international contracts .r arrange
ments."
Sweeping Order
This sweeping order--the most
drastic Of all against individuals
or corporations yet issued by Mac
Arthur-means the complete re-
tirement from Japan's business life
of four big families Mitsui
and Sumitomojm, whose companies
bear their names, and Iwasaki.
which controls the Mitsubishi In
terests
THE way has now been cleared
for the first time in Japanese his
tory for the Japanese people to
achieve economic freedom" Mac
Arthur said.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
GREECE ASKS HEAVY
OPERATIONS PAYMENTS

ATHENS, Nov 6-Finance Min
lister Gregory Kassimatis announced
today that Greece would ask $1,000
100000 in reparations from Ger
many, s3Oo,OOO,o0o from Italy and
$500 100000 from Bulgaria. The fig
ures were released after a session
of the advisory financial council
presided over by Premier Cancel
lopoulos.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
YUM. YUM! TURnEY.

OLYMPIA. Wash, Nov. 6.-Agri-
culture Director Fred J. Martin says
that Washington's turkey crop will
be so large there will be three
fourths of turkey for every man.
woman and child in the state.
The crop is estimated at more
than a million and a half birds and
Martin says it should bring re-
turn Of l0-million dollars.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
SEARCH FOR
MISSING BOY
ON. 9Th DAY

BONNEVILLE, Calf, Nov. g.
A cold rain was falling in the High
Sierras early today as weary search
ing parties prepared for the sixth
day to climb the steep. rocky slopes
in search Of three-year -old Dickie
tum SUDDEN.
The grief stricken parents remain
ed secluded. Friends said the mother,
Mrs. Sally tum SUDDEN, is under a
doctors care.
Officials continued TO doubt the
possibility of kidnapping.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
v0TER5(A5T
BALLOTS IN
MANY CITIES
Several Important Issues,
Municipality, Nation
ally May Be Settled
lBy The Associated Pressl

Inc f1rSt IueSuay aIter Jne llfSt
Monday in November is traditional
ly election day in these United
States. And today is the day. It's
first postwar election day and in
scores of communities across the
country mayors, judges and other
elective officials are to be chosen
by the voters. One special con-
gressional election also Is attract
ing the attention of political an
alysts.
The analysts will be watching for
possible trends" or indicators" In
these off-year elections for the
bearing they may have on the
1916 congressional races and the
1943 presidential campaign.
Many Cities Voting
Mayoral elections in New York,
Detroit, Pittsburgh, Boston, Cleve-
land, Louisville, Albany, Syracuse
and Buffalo hold the center OF
the spotlight on the political stage
In New York, observers say ma
tional interests have crowded out
the local issues in the three-way
race for office.
The candidates for the office OF
mayor to succeed Fiorello La
Guardia are William O'Dwyer
backed by the Democrats, and the
American Labor Party; Judge
Jonah Goldstein, the Republican
Liberal Fusion candidate, and City
Council President Newbold Morris
a Republican Independent.
BACKED BY Truman
Z O'Dwyer has the open backing OF
National Democratic figures and
the implied backing of Presiden,
/ Truman. His supporters say ar
/ O'Dwyer victory will be setback
fer New Yorks COP Governor
Thomas Dewey. when he seeks re-
election next year Dewey has sup
ported Goldstein's candidacy anc
his hackers disagree with predic.
items that the outcome OF the
municipal election will affect Mex
years gubernatorial race.
In Motor City
Ranking next to New York In
interest is Detroit's mayoralty con-
test. Voters today will settle the
bitterest political campaign the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
Stain RETURNS
FROM VACATION

MOSCOW, Nov. 6.-Generalissimo
Stain was back in the Soviet CAPT
tai today after his month-long va
cation in the south, and repeatedly
was preparing an address to the
Russian people on the eve of the %
anniversary of the october Reyolu-
ton"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06

BERLIN, Nov. 6-Frau Josephine
Won Losch, mother of Actress Mar
lene Dietrich, died of heart at
tack in her sleep early Saturday
in her apartment in the Friedman
district, which is in the American
sector. She was 60
Miss Dietrich, in Paris, was ex-
pected to arrive tonight or to-
morrow to arrange for the funeral.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
B ULLE | N 5

SEAT1LE-A general fall of snow
is reported over the States of Wash
ington and Oregon today. Continued
cold weather is forecast.
PEIPING = 1t. Gen. Albert C.
.Wedemeyer, Commanding U. S.
forces in China, arrived in Peiping
today from the United States, and
was scheduled to confer Immediately
with top-ranking American Marine,
Navy and Army officers in this
North China trouble spot.
SITKA, Alaska-Fire swept the
Pioneer Bakery last midnight, caus-
ing damage Andy Lorentzen, owner,
estimated at $4,000.
NEW YORK-This is city election
day and the New York Stock Ex-
change is closed, no stock report.
WASHINGTON - President Tru-
man today proclaimed November ii
as Armistice Day and called upon
the people to observe it by dedicating
themselves to the cause of enduring
peace.
HELSINKI Former Finnish
President Risto Ryti and seven other
wartime leaders were arrested to-
day and charged with responsibility
fer Finland's l941-44 war with Rus
STA at the side of Germany.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
FROM EXCURSION INLET

Howard J. Bailey, from Excursion
Inlet, has arrived in Juneau and
is registered at the 2araaof.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
FAIRBANKS MAN HERE

Andy. Retusan, Fairbanks resi-
dent, has arrived in Juneau. He is
stopping at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06

PARIS, Nov. 6.-The first elected
French legislature in five years con-
vepes today, charged by the elector-
ate with the task of replacing the
1875 constitution with foundation
of constitutional law upon which
the Fourth Republic of France will
be constructed.
The first official act of the AS
sembly will be the formal accept
ance of Gen. Charles de Gaulle's
wartime government.
Under the procedure previously
laid down, the Assembly will request
de Gaulle to continue caretaker
government until later in the week
when the delegates select presi-
dent of the provisional government
There seemed little doubt that de
Gaulle would serve during the per-
iod allotted the Assembly for crea-
ton of a constitution to be submit
ted to a peoples referendum.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
LEGISLATURE OF
FRANCE MEETING
IN FIRST SESSION

BULLETIN-PARIS, Nov. g.
Gen. de GaulIe submitted his
resignation as Provisional Presi-
dent today to the Constituent
Assembly, returning the reigns
of government to Frances first
elected legislative body in five
years.
The Assembly, charged by the
electorate with writing a new
constitution for a Fourth Re-
public, was expected to ask de
Gaulle to continue caretaker
government until later in the
week. Then the delegates will
name a new Provisional Presi-
dent to serve during the seven
months assigned the Assembly
for its task.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-06
FROM sKAGWAY

Donald E. Boitinger. Skagway is
4 guest at the Baranof
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NEW YORK-This is city election
day and the New York Stock Ex-
change is closed, no stock report.
Evening star., 1945-11-29
Papertrooper Insignia
Expected Here Soon

New shoulder insignia for paper
troopers is expected to reach Wash.
ington about December 10. The in
sigma covers rank from lieutenant
to general, the first bars going to
papertroopers who have collected
l 900 pounds of wastepaper since the
start Of the bridgade in October Of
last year and the stars of a general
to those who have collected 5000
pounds.
The new insignia is expected to
stimulate paper salvage collections
which have dropped of seriously
this week. Yesterdays collection
totaled 20,960 pounds, making the
grand total 2l,206,2 6,240 pounds.
Collections tomorrow in the nth
district together with the leaders
will be as follows:
Evening star., 1945-11-29
a Newspapers Voted
Membership in ZAP
After Bylaw Change
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Four
newspapers were elected to mem
bership in the Associated Press yes
terday at a special meeting at which
members also amended the asso-
cations bylaws. "
The bylaws, one Of which elm
mated consideration OF competitive
factors in voting on applicants for
membership, were amended to con-
form with q Federal Court decree
respecting admission of members
and with the current operations OF
the corporation.
The Chicago Sun, morning
newspaper, was elected to associate
membership by vote OF 949 to "a.
Elected to regular memberships
were:
Hearst Publications, Inc, Oakland
(Calif.) Post-Inquirer, day report,
by vote Of 965 to 81; Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson, Washington Times Her
aid, day and night reports, by a
vote of 962 to q, and the Times Pub
fishing Co., Detroit Times, day re-
port, by vote of 965 to 2l.
Marshall Field Of the Chicago Sun
had asked originally for a regular
membership, but later requested an
associate membership. He said he
could not conform to the bylaws
required for regular membership be-
cause of contractual relations by
which the Chicago Sun had agreed
to furnish news of Chicago origin
to the United Press.
AS under present bylaws asso-
ciate members may not vote, nor
share In the assets of the corpora
ton, nor may their representatives
hold Office.
The amended bylaws include this
provision concerning election Of
members:
I'm voting upon an application
for membership, whether such vot-
ing be by the members or by the
Board of Directors, no member or
director shall take into considera-
tion in passing upon such applica-
tion the effect of his or its admission
upon the ability of such applicant
to compete with members In the
same city and field" CMorning,
evening or Sunday
Evening star., 1945-11-29

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