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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
zia Eddin Is Not
 Quitting PoIiiits
 In Troubled Iran

Tehran, Dec. 11-Former Premier Said Zia Eddin disclaimed today any intention of withdrawing from Iranian politics, saying his retire ment from parliament would en- able the Russians to realize their anti-Persian aims quicker
 Expulsion of Zia Eddin from par liament was demanded by pro- Russian elements of the Iranian press last week They charged that he was the agent of foreign power" which they did not name.
 The former premier declared in an interview that the charge was "calumny and lies" He said there had been a determined campaign to oust him since the Iranian gov- ernment's refusal to grant oil con- sessions to the Soviet Union.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
War Veterans For Alaska Is
 Put Forwa ard

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11-Alaskan officials asked President Truman today to have the government pre- pare plans to aid war veterans to settle in the Territory.
 Gov. Ernest Gruening and Dele gate Bartlett carried the plea to the President Bartlett said after their White House visit they found the President interested and sym pathetic with the Territory's prob lens.
 Bartlett said they laid before the executive the need for definite plan to aid veterans to settle in the Territory and explained Alaska was ready to absorb a great many of them if they did not come too fast" and had sufficient funds to take care of themselves until they get settled. He added the veterans should have "carfare home" n case they do not find the Territory ac- ceptable as a home.
 The Delegate said he and the Governor also asked the President to intensity agriculture research in the Territory to determine just what are the agriculture possibili- ties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
300 WAR CRIMINALS, ALL SMALL TIMERS, SOON GO TO TRIAL

TOKYO, Dec. 1.-The 1irst of 300 small-time Japanese charged with atrocities against Allied war prison CTS will go on trial December Is, under a speeded up schedule, it was announced today.
 The announcement left undeter- mined, however, the date when war time Premier Hideki Tojo-No on the Allied list of suspected war crim- inals-will face the Allied tribunal.
 It. Gen. C. P. Hall, acting U. S. Eighth Army Commander, said the trials Of Japanese accused of mal- treating Allied war prisoners might be held concurrently after the first begins next Tuesday in Yokohama, three courtroon1s are available there and two more will De after Jan. l.
 Defendants will be tried by mili- tary commissions of five to eight members, drawn from Army and Navy officers and civilians Each of which will include one law mem bef
 The suspects will be defended by 12 counsels, headed by It. Col. James Dickinson, Jacksonville. Fla, and Maj, Harold H Emmons, Jr, De- troit
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Chinese Govt. Forces 10 Fly
 To ManeIauFiia
Occupation of Strategic Cities Is Permitted by
 Russian Orders
By SPENCER MOOSA

CHUNGKING, Dec. II Russia agreed today to permit Chinese Government troops to fly into Manchuria and take over it's most strategic cities. Central News agency reported
 After weeks of tense negotiations, during which Chinese Communists had sought to take over ports and cities. the agency said the Chung king government had won permis- sion to plant itself firmly in this territory held vital for the recovery of war-rayaged China.
 It reported that Central Gov ernment troops would be permitted by the Russians to fly into Chang chun, the Manchurian capital; Mukden, the largest city in the territory; and Harbin, most import ant in Northern Manchuria.
 Chinese Communists previously had been reported concentrating about both Changchun and Harbin and ready to take over Mukden if Central Government troops on the outskirts tried to move in.
 A Chinese dispatch yesterday said Communist headquarters at Yenan had ordered their troops to clear out of Mukden ito conserve the strength of Communist forces. !"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Brutal
 Murder
Maniac Kills Tiny Former WAVE = Leaves Note
 Written by LipsfiCk

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The brutal murder of tiny, comedy Frances Brown, B year old stenographer and former Wave, by man police described as a maniac, was under investigation by Chicago's top de- tectives today.
 whoever the killer was, he's a maniac and we must get nlm, eaid Capt. Frank Reynolds as police intensified their search to solve the latest in a series of staying in Chicago in the last week. Police reports disclose nine persons were slain in the past week. Three of the deaths have not been solved.
 Miss Brown, discharged from the Waves last September after three years of service, was killed sometime Monday moring in her apartment at the Pine Crest Hotel in the North Side Lakeview district. The slayer twice shot and twice plunged an
 eight inch bread knife into the throat of the 95-pound, five foot, enc inch Miss Brown and then left her nude body hanging over bath tub in her blood-spattered apart ment. A hotel maid found her body
 The killer, before leaving, wrote a message on the wall in lipstick in large, uneven letters. It read: For heavens sake catch me before I kill more-I cannot control myself"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Do You Know You Own 72 Cents Worth of Seal!
By ARTHUR EDISON

WASHINGTON, Dec, ll--Greet- ings, fellow seal ownersl
 You may not know it, but each and every one of you owns 72 cents worth of seal
 This statistic is Supplied by Col P. B. Fouke, whose St. Louis plant processes more than 90 per cent of the worlds seal furs.
 Fouke points out that the U. s. owns the entire herd of 3,000,000 seals which hang around the Pribilof Islands. up in the Boring Sea.
 These seals are valued at $l00,- 100000, so each of us l38,000,000 Americans has a 72-cent stake in the business,
 Furthermore, business is boom ing. Last year the U s. Treasury stuffed $1,750,000 in it's sock-its cut from the seal industry.
 Things haven't always been so rosy, Fouke told reporter today. Back in 1911 the seal was in fair way of becoming extinct.
 The seal population sagged to l24,0O0, but the Department of Interior pitched in with a con- servation program. The 300O,000 seals today probably are only a million below the record high.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
NC COMPANY HAS MARINE
 WAY PERMIT
Firm Expects fo Call for Bids on Installation Here
 Next Month

Ernie Whiteside, local Northern Commercial Company manager, re- turned yesterday from the Seattle headquarters of his company, re- vealed here today that the NC com pany last Friday was notified by the U. s. District Engineer of final ap- proyal of the company's permit ap- plication for construction of marine ways here.
 With the permit at last definitely secured, Mir Whiteside declared his firm intends immediately to proceed with design of one 300-ton marine railway together with extensive ma- chine shop, chandlery basin and yard facilities.
 It is anticipated that all engineer ing design will be completed early next month and that the NC Com pany will be in position to call for bids on the general construction contract sometime in January-with the hope the entire development ad- jacent to the Small Boat Harbor here will be installed by next fall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Gen. Marshall
 Tells About
 Atis of W ar
Former Army Chief of Staff Testifies 5th Day, Pearl
 Harbor Inquiry
Bn JACK BELL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-General George C. Marshall declared today that if Japanese planes had flown over Hawaii during the complete army alert ordered there in l940, they woud have been fired upon.
 Would that have been an act of war?" asked Rep. Keefe (R-WiSc) of the Senate House Pearl Harbor in- vestigating committee.
 Yes, sir" the former army Chief of Staff replied quietly, on his fifth day as witness.
 Keefe asked if it also would have been an act of war if American forces had sunk a submarine in or near Pearl Harbor A submarine was sunk by an American destroyer a few hours before the Japanese at tack on Dec. 2, 1941.
 Yes, sir" Marshall said Ger tainty to the submarine crew it would have been an act of war"
 That AH-Out Alert
 hte1c ulSlSleu IlldI JilS COlllIlilC- tee be given the full information on which Marshall based an order to It. Gen. Charles D. Heron, then in command of Hawaii, for an all-out alert on June IT, 1940.
 Marshall said he would attempt to obtain the intercepted Japanese messages which formed the basis for conjecture that a transpacific air attack might be made on the island bastion.
 General Marshall testified that one of his subordinates, without his knowledge, ordered Japanese code cracking secrets withheld from the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Poison War
 Now Threai
Indonesian Leaders to Kill by New Method in
 Strife torn Java
By VERNE HAUGLAND

BATAVIA, Java, Dec. ll-Indo- nesian leaders threatened today to use both poison and arms to re- sist military restoration of Dutch sovereignty in strift-torn Java.
 Premier Sutan Sjahrir of the unrecognized Indonesian Republic said Indonesian forces would fight if the British attempted to land more troops to back up the rule of The Netherlands.
 From a radio station near Soera- baja, the native leader Soetomo spoke of campaign of poisoning against the Dutch, saying
 The Dutch are boasting that they soon will bring in thousands of soldiers What of it? We are determined to annihilate them, even if we have to poison them to death.
 We have 7o,oo0,OO0 behind us. It is an easy task for us to get rid of 100000 or 100000 enemies by poison"
 Simultaneously, The Netherlands East Indies overnmen n t an- nounced that Acting Governor General H. J. Van Nook would leave by plane Thursday for The Hague.
 The Dutch news agency Aneta said that British It. Gen. Sir Miles c. Dempsey commander of ground forces under the Southeast Asia Command, arrived here today.
 Premier Sjahrir again asked world recognition of his regime.
 His statement came as the British command clamped wartime secrecy on troop movements and communications as prelude .ot full scale operations against armed h. donesians who were reported plan ming major uprising by the week end
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Communists in
 China Pleased
 Al Byfnes Views
By JOHN RODERICK

YENAN, China, Dec DelayedD Official Communist circles re- ceiyed with satisfaction today Sec retary of State Byrnes statement of American policy supporting a broadening of the Chinese govern ment to include groups not now represented.
 These sources also voiced pleas ure over the Byrnes' expression of an American desire for free, in- dependent, democratic and pros porous China.
 Some quarters asserted that the job of Gen. George c. Marshall, newly appointed Ambassador to China, had been made easier by this clear-cut expression.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
CLARENCE CAMPBELL ROBBED, SLAIN
SlIGGESTS THAT AlASKA BE MADE
 INDEpENDENT, SELF- -G0vERNING;-
 VITAL FOR FUTURE, SAYS BUTLER

Rico-should be set up by our gov ernment as independent, self-gov- erning democracies under the pro- lection but not the control of the Government of the United States. There should be two limitations up- on their independence-first their relations to foreign powers should be subject to the approval of the President of the United States, and second litigants in these commun- ities should have the right, if they so desire, of final appeal to the Su- preme Court of the United States. :"
 By adopting this plan, Butler said, the American people would ex- ert a very subsantial influence over these outlying islands and territories" but they would not be- come part of the United States it. self
 Tn my judgment" he continued, this is vital for our future
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
By CHARLES D. WATKINS

WASHINGTON, Dec. H. Dr Nicholas Murray Butler, president emeritus of Columbia University, suggests that Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands and Puerto Rico be made in- dependent, self-governing democra- cies under U. s. Protection.
 He made the suggestion in a let ter to Rep. Peterson D-Fla), mem Der of the House Territories com- mittee.
 Peterson inserted the latter in the Congressional Record, saying it was most important the United States formulate definite policies on the subject.
 Tn my judgment" wrote Butler, "other territories which are or may become subject to the jurisdiction of the United States-such as Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands and Puerto
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Underground Is Now Revealed
Thousands of Fallen Allied Airmen Reported Car
 ried 10 Freedom
By CYNTHIA LOWRY

PARIS, Dec. 11.-Aetivities of the underground railway which dur ing the war carried some 5000 fallen Allied airmen to freedom, many to fly and fight again were revealed today for the first time by the U & Army.
 Although much concerning this secret war organization was not dis closed, the doors were opened suffi- ciently for the two chief beneficiar- ies, the United States and Britain. The U. S. will present thousands of medals and the British will give sim liar awards.
 The underground" route was op- erated by Europeans across various n-occupied countries.
 A spokesman for the Army's Bur eau of Research in bringing back Allied aviators" estimated that in France alone an underground army of princes and paupers, peasants and landowners totaling 10000 yoluntar- fly collaborated in the dangerous job. American and British soldiers were spirited along two main routes to the Spanish Pyrenees and freedom.
 We figure that about 5000 Americans escaped" bureau spokesman said, and that another 2 000 to 000 mnrn aided hv the French but fell into German hands.
 One thing is certain That for every aviator that reached England safely, at least one Frenchman, Belgian, Dutchman or Czech was shot somewhere along the line by the Germans for helping him
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11-Sena- tors heard from a military govern ment official today that Germany developed the deadliest poison gas in the world" by testing it on con- centration camp inmates
 The testimony came from Col. Bernard Bernstein, director of the division of cartels and external assets, U. s. military government in Germany He submitted a state ment to a Senate military commit tee headed by Senator Kilgore D- w. Va).
 Bernstein said that many plants
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
The W ashingto Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON = If the Pearl Harbor Committee forces exam bassador Joe Grew to make public his 13-volume diary, the Senate will get some juicy gossip, especi- ally in regard to certain ladies of the diplomatic corps in Tokyo. The diary will not change the overall picture regarding Pearl Harbor.
 Some aportions of the diary would be highly embarrassing to Grew, however, were they pub lished. On Dec. 8, 1941, for in stance, the day after Pearl Harbor, when the ambassador and his staff were confined by the Japs to the embassy grounds, Grew wrote a bitter denunciation of Roosevelt. He kept up this line of criticism until he returned to Washington, follow ing which he changed his tune.
 Back in Washington, Grew seem- ed to think that Japanese-Ameri- can relations had been handled about as well as possible before Pearl Harbor and he became an ardent Roosevelt rooter, so much so that FDR appointed him Under Secretary of State
 The Grew diary would also show that he had considered Emperor Hirohito a harmless and innocent little man whom it did not hurt to appease. Some people would get the idea from reading Crews diary that he himself was an emperor worshipper, though actual ly he believed that the institution of emperor should be preserved to win over the Japanese people. This was why he went to the unusual length of writing a directive sup pressing EGG intercepts of Jap broadcasts regarding the emperor
 During most of Crews term in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
NkzI DEFENDANTS
 SEE FILM RECORD
 OF pARTY'S PAST
German Prisoners View Documentary Pictures
 Mingled Emotions
By DANIEL DE LUCE

BULLETIN - NUREMBERG,
 Dec. -ycar-old Russian
 children were kidnapped for slav-
 cry in German war factories as
 part of the Nazi campaign of
 "cxtcrmination through work"
 according to evidence submit
 ted today at the War Crimes
 Trial of 2l of Hitler's top lead
 CTS.
 Producing the Germans own
 records of mass enSlavement of
 conquered peoples to keep the
 Nazi war machine running, T. $.
 Assistant Prosecutor Thomas ].
 Dodd said the kidnapping policy
 was approved by Alfred Rosen-
 berg, the party's official philoso-
 pher and fifth column expert.
 Net cnly were children kid
 naped for slave labor but the
 abduction also of children of
 good blood" was favored by the
 GestapO to build up Germany's
 war-depleted population, other
 Nazi records disclosed.
 NUREMBERG, Dec. 11-Twenty. one German leaders on trial fol war crimes gazed with mixed emo. tions today at motion picture re. their strutting years a. self-proclaimed supermen on tho march which led to their ruin.
 The powerful Nazi chief. tains watched the old familiar scenes from German films flast across the movie screen-Hitlel ranting to enthralled brown-shirtec followers, the bonfires of forbidden books, the army goose stepping down the streets of conquered 
 The documentary film of Nag assembled in Berlin by TWO naval officers from confiscated German movies, was shown as evi- fence before the International Tribunal.
 Sometimes discomfitted and self as their faces flashed on he screen, the defendants watched 
 Once or twice they laughed at a short of Hermann Goering-looking far younger and harder than he does in the pris- )ners' box-rubbing his hands glee- 'ully at the humiliation of Britain's Neville Chamberlain and Frances Edouard Daladier at Munich, when ,hey signed away the Czech Su- to Hitler.
 Rudolf Hess stared as if hypno- tized at the image of himself swearing 52,000 young Nazis tc loyalty to Hitler A picture of the fuehrer fatuousiy smiling at his devotees stirred the allied spectators to laughter.
 Titled "the Nazi plan the film portrayed the rise of National from political street fighters, led by frenzied ex- to a terror that swept over Europe. Its closing scenes showed the trial of Germans who attempted to kill Hitler with a bomb July 20, 1944.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Disrohing Ati Al Party Causes Divorce Action

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 11.-Permit- ting nightclub singer to disrobe be- fore guests constitutes cruelty, says Slapsy MaXie Rosenbloom's wife.
 The incident occurred at a swim ming party, Mrs Muriel Faeder Rcsenbloom testified yesterday, as she won a divorce from the former light heavyweight boxing champion. She was embarrassed, the 26-year- old one-time school teacher added.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Picket Boat Blows
 Up; One Man Killed

MANCHESTER, Wash, Dec. H. At least one man, a naval officer, was killed and another was pre- sumed lost. yesterday when 33- foot picket boat exploded and sank in 20 feet of water. Two. other boats of the eight nested together in Clam Bay were heavily damaged, the Navy said.
 Names were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The Navy said the cause of the blast has not been determined.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Extensive Seafth For $ Navy Planes
 On Atlantic Is Off

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 1.-The mys- terious disappearance of six Navy planes and 27 crewmen remained un- solved today as the Navy called off one of the most intensive searches of it's kind ever conducted along the Atlantic seaboard.
 As dusk settled last night, the Navy announced that it's great hunt which had sent hundreds of planes and vessels over thousands of square
 miles of land and sea was ended.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
DeadIiesi Poison Gas in
 World Was Developed by
 Germans; Repori Made

and all stocks of poison gas were de- stroyed by order of the German government before occupation by the Russians He continued:
 But at least one of the terrible secrets which the Germans hoped to save for the next war was un- covered.
 Our investigation has disclosed that an |. G. Farben official at Wuppertal- -Elberfeld developed the Ceadlicst poison gas in the world. This gas, unknown to the military authorities of the Allied nations, could have penetrated any gas mask in existence.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Longtime Agent of
 Sailors Union of
 Pacific, Passes On

SEATTLE, Dec. 11-Peter Blk Gill, 82. an agent for the Sailors Union of the Pacific for 43 years until his retirement in 1889, died
 yesterday after long illness. Des- tined to become known among sailors as the Patriarch of the Pa
 cific," he came to the northwest from Melbourne, Australia, in 1886
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Cory Tragedy Is Sheafhed
 With Mystery
Body of Slashed Victim Identified = Officers
 Run Down Clues

Identification. of the body found in the Scatter Tract here yesterday as that of Clarence Campbell Seattle man, who had been employed at Hoonah for the Alaska Construc- ton Company, today set local inves- tigators following multiple leads into the snarl of mystery cloaking what has now been almost definitely de- termined as murder
 A robbery motive has been accept cd as the most promising link with the savage slashing uncovered here with yesterdays ghastly find
 Campbell Is known to have with drawn $500 in $l00 bills from his account in a local bank on the day following Thanksgiving None of that money was found on his per- son, nor was any part of more than $700 additional more he recently re- ceived as wages before leaving Hoo- nah to come to Juneau last Friday afternoon.
 Last Seen Alive
 Campbell who was temporarily residing at Hannah's Boarding House at Third and Main streets here, be- fore boarding southbound ship to spend Christmas with Seattle re- latives, was last seen alive at about l:30 o'clock Monday morning. Up to that time he is reported to have been drinking heavily and had run up an account of nearly $60 at To- cal liquor store.
 Identification
 Positive Identification Of the body was made early last evening by Harold Stjern, superintendent fcv the Alaska Construction Company on the Goldstein building here. Stjern had previously worked on the Hoonah project and had known Campbell there, where the deceased worked as a shingler on 8 contract basis Until Stjern recogni .ea the body, identity of the victim had been an added mystery, as all clues that might have led to recognition and all personal effects had been removed from the clothing and per- son of Campbell before he was left in the little frequented spot where he was found Most clothing in which the body was found is new. Underwear bore no laundry marks and labels had been stripped from other garments. The purple-striped grey herringbone suit in which the corpse was garbed is believed to have been recently purchased from E. M. Behrends Company here. but store personnel were unable to establish Identity
 Phantom Car"
 City Police and Federal authorities including an FBI investigator, were busy through last night endeavoring to run down the phantom car or truck in which the body of the slain man had been transported to its out f the wav rostino place --- .ea k'"ar. It is thought most unlikely that death occurred at tI.4 .--e Campbells body was found, as the ground was little disturbed and blood traces were not sufficient to account for all blood lost.
 Robbery Motive
 The robbery motive is more firmly established by accounts of how the deceased had flashed" his roll of wealth before several persons. Any suicide possibility is discounted, not only because of total lack of weapon at the scene, but also from evidence of struggle on the victims body Deep gashes across the palm of Campbell's left hand indicate that he had clutched the blade of the murder weapon in a fruitless effort to wrest it from
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Gives Birth 10 Twelfth Child;
 19-Pound Boy

ASHLAND. Ky. Dec. ll.-Mrs. John Castle, 40, of Westwood, an Ashland suburb. gave birth to her l2th child-a i9-pound boy. The father, a laborer. is 64 years old.
 pr. U. V. Frailey. the attending physician, said the condition of both mother and child was satisfactory.