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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
NAzI SLAVE LABOR
 UNF0LDED
Over Four Million Men, Women, Children Kid-
 ndped-To Germany
By YVES GALLAGHER

NUREMBERG, Dec. l2 - More than 100000 conquered laborers were forced into virtual slavery in Germany by murder, starvation arson and Kidnapping, American prosecutors disclosed today at the war crimes trial of 2l Nazi war leaders.
 The carefully planned slave sys- tenn to provide workers for German war plants and farms was described as a wild and ruthless manhunt carried on everywhere" in a Nazi labor commissioners own words presented as evidence before the International Military Tribunal.
 Shipped Like Cattle
 Pressing the charges of crimes against humanity" against Adolf Hitler's top aides, Assistant U. s. Prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd dis closed by the Germans own rec ords that more than 4,000,000 men women and children of IA different nationalities had been shipped to the Reich like cattle to bolster the Nazi war machine by January 1945.
 AS details of the Nazi slave labor system were unfolded before the court, even the accused Hit lerites stirred uneasily and some pulled away in their seats from the trio named by Dodd as chiefly responsible bull necked Fritz Sauckel, SS general and Reich labor commissioner suave Alfred Rosenberg, official Nazi philosopher and administrator of the occupied Ukraine; and Albert Speer, Reich munitions minister
 Babies Tossed To Death
 One report taken from Rosen- bergs files revealed that babies born on slave labor trains were thrown from the windows.
 Speer sat with his face in his hands as Prosecutor Dodd declared that force and brutality as a method of production found a ready adherent in the defendant .Speer'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
ALASKA ALLOTMENT

WASHINGTON, Dec. l2.-The Pacific coast states and Alaska have nearly $S,5Oo,0O0 annually for five years for construction of hospitals and health centers if CD the Sen ate-approved Federal Hospital bill becomes law and C2) they match the Federal funds which it provides.
 The bill provides $5,000,000 for surveys and planning and $75,0o0,- GOO year for construction for the five years starting in l947. The Federal funds must be matched by the states according to table worked out by the Federal Security Administration.
 This percentage plan provides that the Federal contribution shall be such that the remaining non-Feder- al or state contribution bears the same relation to 50 per cent as the states per capita income bears to national per capita income. The percentages of Alaska and Hawai- are fixed at 50 per cent.
 TIawaii's Federal allotment would be $217,000 and it's local contribu- tion the same, while the Alaska Fed eral allotment would be $37 900 and it's contribution the same.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
By CHARLES D. WATKINS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12-Eleven western Senators launched a move ment today to persuade the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize a direct air line from the Pacific Northwest to the Orient in place of tentatively approved route through the midwest, Canada and Alaska
 In a joint letter to the CAB they said they believed 1t is vital to the most effective development of commerce between the United States and the Orient that our western and Pacific states be af- forded the most convenient access to all the Pacific air routes.
 North Pacific Route
 We believe that the establish ment of a North Pacific air route from the Continental United States to the Orient is clearly required in national interest. We are firmly convinced that to adopt the ex- aminers proposal for single North Pacific air route over Canada via the Twin Cities would seri- ously retard development of the west"
 The Senators said they under stood a tentative recommendation would route the Orient air line
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
NARY JUNEAUITES NOW SERVING AT
 FORT RICHARDSON

Pfc. Donald Pegues, in Juneau on detached duty with the Military Police, brought news of many local boys now in the Army, and sta toned at Fort Richardson. Among the many he mentioned as having seen recently are Minard Mill, Jr., Melvin Daroff, Glen Trueblood and George Tonsgaard, all of whom are in basic training
 Sgt. John Cass, who has been in the Aleutians, is now at Fort Rich ardson, as are Joe Kendler, Ber- nard Hansen and Thomas Williams. Dave Brown has been transferred to Adak, and is with the Air Corps and Johnny Lowell is at Shemya.
 Major Earl Beistline is back again in Juneau on terminal leave, and Dave Mielke arrived yesterday by plane on a 30-day re-enlistment furlough.
 Pvt. Perry Hilary and Pfc. Jim Kelly, both of whom were former managers of KINY, are at the post Radio Station, WVUG. at Fort Richardson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
Hir0hito's Horse To Be Brought
 To United Siates
By DUANE HENNESSY

TOKYO, Dec. 12.-The most con- treversial horse in apan-White Frost; described by the Army as Hirohito's own mounts going to the United States as the property of an American Lieutenant.
 The Japanese Racing Association today tremendously turned over the much publicized white Arabian to Lieut.. Dick Ryan, who discovered him five weeks ago in an isolated but elaborate stable
 A change in Army regulations an- nounced today will make it possible for the Lieutenant to take White Frost to the states, where he plans to exhibit the horse at veterans hos pitals. civic and charitable events
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
Clues to Campbell Murder Fade Out Under Test
 of Investigation

More heavily cloaked in mystery than eyer here today is the knife slaying of Clarence Campbell, whose hacked body was found Monday in the Scatter Tract residential dis Irict
 Beyond establishing the identity of the murder victim, strenuous offlclal activities have led only to clearing away the mass of rumor and supposl- ton that the gruesome discovery ot Campbell's body brought to light. So far, however, law enforcement of ficials report that all trails have led up blind alleys.
 It is definitely established that Campbell was still alive at about one o'clock, or shortly later, Monday morning. At that time he was seen by several persons to enter a local eating place, pause a few moments just inside the doorway then turn and leave. Witnesses are agreed that he was then alone and he is described as having been intoxicated.
 Seach tor Vehicle
 Search for vehicle that may have been used to carry the murder vic- .tim's body from an actual death spot to where it was presumably dumped out to he found later has been fruit less, but constantly developing new leads are being conscientiously pur- sued in the hope that one may pay out.
 Today a report was current that a car had been found abandoned in Douglas. Rumor immediately had it that the phantom death car had been uncovered U. s. Marshal's Deputy Walter G. Hellan, however, denied unequivocably that there is any truth to the report.
 Nothing, too, has yet developed from the Seattle end of the case. Notification of his sons untimely end has been wired to Campbell's father in Seattle by U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray. But no reply has been received from the victims family. In his capacity as coroner, Gray is still holding up inquest on the remains pending further disclosures.
 No Trace of Money
 Officials also report having un-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
SURPRISE ATTACK
 ON PEARL KARBOR
 PREDICTED 10 KNOX
Top Secret Information Re- vedled in Unpublished
 Army Report

WASHINGTON, Dec. l2.-Con- gressional investigators learned to- day of a Navy officers purported prediction to Secretary Knox on December ', l941, that an intercept ed Tokyo message mean "a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor today and possibly a midnight attack on Ma nila"
 The officer was Capt. Alvin D. Kramer, who was quoted by another Navy officer as having said in 1943 that he sent the note to Knox along with the Tokyo message instructing Japanese peace" envoys here to deliver their diplomatic reply at l 'P. M, Washington time.
 This and other top secret infor- nation on the Pearl Harbor disas- ter was contained in hitherto un- published portion of the Army Inquiry Boards report which Chair man Barkley D-Ky) said will be placed in the record of the Senate House committee investigation today.
 Stepped Tapping Wires
 Congressional investigators learn ed today the Navy stopped tapping Japanese consulate telephone wires in Honolulu five days before the war began, partly because an officer was "incensed" with FBI activities.
 This disclosure was made in a re- port by It. Col Henry c. Clausen, special investigator for former Sec retary of War Stimson. It was given to members of Senate-H House committee investigating the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 2, 1941.
 Clausen was shown to have ob- tained on April g, 1945. an affidavit from It. Donald Woodrum, who served in the Naval intelligence di- vision at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack.
 Woodrum said in his statement that Rear Admiral (then Captain) Mayfield, Naval district intelligence officer, had ordered surveillance of the Japanese consul's telephones stopped on Dec. ?, l941, and that this order was effective until after the attack.
 Marshall Again TestifeS
 Gen. George c. Marshall testi- fled today that he was convinced as early as August, 1941, that a Pacific war was inevitable and knew the United States was not ready for it.
 Marshall was questioned by Rep. Keefe fR-Wis) who traced the events of the summer of 1941.
 Keefe said that war tension was growing then and Marshall agreed.
 You were convinced as early as August that of the current events continued we would inevitably be drawn into war with Japan, were you not?" Keefe asked.
 Yes, sir Marshall replied
 You knew at that time that we weren't prepared for war in the Pacific?"
 Marshall replied that was true, adding that he was being pushed from all sides for additional men and equipment, but was concentrat- ing on attempts to build up the Philippine defenses as a possible de- terrent to a Japanese move to the south.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
The W aShinqto Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-Last month. Jap Ambassador Kurusu, special envoy in Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, stated that, two high up Americans were working closely with Japanese diplomats in order to head off war. He said that one of these was a member of the cabinet, another was an influential but unofficial American.
 Since then, ex-Postmaster Gen. eral Frank Walker has disclosed that he was the member of the cabinet, and this column can now reveal that the influential but un- official American was Bernard Baruch
 MT. Baruch, when questioned re- garding his Japanese contacts, said that he was chiefly trying to get information from the Japanese in order to know what they were up to.
 One of Baruch's contacts was through Raoul Eugene Desvernine, former head of Crucible Steel, an organizer of the Liberty League, and former attorney for the Mexl- can and Cuban Governments. Des- vernine was in touch with KaZuo Nishi, New York manager of the Yokohama Specie Company con- trolled by the Japanese Govern ment, and had been angling to sell cotton to the Japs. On Dec. 5, 1941-two days before Pearl Harbor he gave a cocktail party for MT. Nishi. The next day he wrote the Japanese banker the following letter:
 Dear MT Nishi.
 T am deeply indebted to you for the honor you paid me at the cock tail party yesterday afternoon. Please accept my sincere gratitude, also extend to your colleagues my thanks to them I also wish you a safe journey home; but, more important, a prompt return. Please assure each one of them that If l
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
FORTY ARE
 GUILTY OF
 CRUELTIES
Military Court Brings in Quick Verdict in
 Case

DACHAU. Germany. Dec. l2 All 40 defendants in the Da- chau atrocity trial were com victed by a Il. s. Military Government court today of participation in the cruelties which made this one of the Nazis' most notorious concen- tration camps.
 Brig. Gen. John M. Lentz. President of the eight-officer court, said the convicted men would be sentenced later The court deliberated for 90 min utes after a 24-day trial
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
Philippine Sugar
 Nos Available Tor
 AtLeasi Two Years

MANILA, Dec. l2.-Philippine sugar will not be available for ex-' port for at least two years, Interior Secretary Alfredo Montelibano told the Philippine sugar rehabilitation committee, composed of the islands biggest planters, today
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
Duith Nazi Party
 Leader Convieied;;
 Death Is Sentence

THE HAGUE, Dec. l2-Anton Mussert, leader of the Dutch Nazi party, was sentenced to death by a special court today following his conviction on charges of collabor- ating with the Germans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
WINDSOR, ont.-The Ford Mot

WINDSOR, Ont.-The Ford Mot or Company of Canada, Ltd, an- nounced today it had rejected a proposal of the United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) to nego- tiate and arbitrate all differences in the union security strike that shut down the huge plant Septem- Der 12. Tine company called the union proposal impracticable and added that it preferred to have the strike end while points in dispute were negotiated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 91s, American Can l04, Anaconda 45, Curtiss- Wright 8ss, International Harvester 98& Kennecott 50, New York Central 313s, Northern Pacific 362, U. S. Steel 8214, Pound $4031a
 Sales today were 1,680,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials, 193 96; rails 6325; utilities, 33.18.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
SON FOR MEMS

A son was born to MT. and Mrs. Tauno Niemi of Douglas yesterday afternoon at 4:50 in St. Ann's Hospital. The infant weighed 2 pounds, one-half ounce.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON = Legislation to provide an annual pension of S5,0O0 to Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late President, was approved today by the House Pen sions Committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
FROM CHATHAM

Elizabeth Hansen arrived here from Chatham yesterday She is registered at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
A. B. MORGAN HERE

A. B. Morgan, resident of Fair banks, is registered at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
FRANK KICKER HERE

Frank Kicker, Seattle resident, arrived in Juneau yesterday and is registered at the Gastineau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON - President Tru- man touched on foreign affairs at his news conference today, He said that United States Marines will stay in China until surrender terms with the Japanese have been carried out.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
TIENTsIN

TIENTSIN Chinese military sources said Central Government troops entered the great city of Mukden today while other forces began landing by plane at the in- ternational capital of Changchun.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
B JULIE N }

DETROIT-General Motors pro- duction workers have lost wages totaling $26, 1922 900 by company ac- counting and $23, ,730,000 by union figures as the nation wide strike ended it's third week today. The weekly loss of wages resulting from the strike is $8.9740O0 according to General Motors and $7,9l0,000 ac- cording to the CIO United Auto Workers Union. which called the strike November 2i.
 WASHINGTON - President Tru- man has called on police depart ments throughout the nation to or ganize a program of crime preven- ton to combat the rise In juvenile delinquency.
 NEW YORK-The Conference of Mayors has asked Congress to formulate a policy of postwar pub lie works projects. The mayors asked for a definite statement concerning the Federal Governments responsi- bility for financing such projects.
 Premier Ibrahim Ha- kimi told Parliament today that he intended to visit Moscow fin order to have direct conversations with the U. s. s. R." on problems in northern Iran.
 WASHINGTON -- President Tru- man has appointed Wilson w. Wyatt as Special Housing Expeditor under the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. Wyatt is a former Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
 CHUNGKLNG--The Chinese Gen. tral Daily News reported from Peip ing today that Russians have agreed to assume responsibility for clearing unconditional troops out of Man. churia. The report was received here with some skepticism, however
 SEATTLE-TheC Chamber of Com merce trustees have endorsed the House resolution in Congress for an additional suspension of annual as- sessment work on mining claims in the United States and Alaska.
 WASHINGTON - President Tru- man touched on foreign affairs at his news conference today He said that United States Marines will stay in China until surrender terms with the Japanese have been carried out.
 TIENTSIN Chinese military sources said Central Government troops entered the great city of Mukden today while other forces began landing by plane at the in- ternational capital of Changchun
 IDADDYAND k1Ck1f1lE HAVEN'T
 BOUGHT ANY PRESENTS TO
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12
Present Time Moi For Wage Increase
 Talks, Says Ford

DETROIT, Dec. 12.-The Ford Motor Company has informed the CIO United Auto Workers that it does not believe this is an appro- priate time for settling their general wage increase problem.
 Said the Ford Company in a statement: We feel that general increase such as you propose would amount to a very heavy mortgage on the future for all of us
 There was no immediate com- ment from the union.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12

CLEVELAND-"T Trailer camps of B-29 and Libertor bomber fuselages to solve the acute housing shortage in crowded cities was urged today by Federal Auditor Alfred K. Rob- inson
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12

SEATTLE-TheC Chamber of Com merce trustees have endorsed the House resolution in Congress for an additional suspension of annual as- work on mining claims in the United States and Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12

WASHINGTON President Tru- man has appointed Wilson W. Wyatt as Special Housing Expeditor under the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion Wyatt is a former Mayor of Louisville. Kentucky.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12

CHUNGKING-- --The Chinese Gen. tral Daily News reported from Peip- ing today that Russians have agreed to assume responsibility for clearing non-national troops out of Man churia. The report was received here with some skepticism, however
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12

TEHRAN--Premier Ibrahim Ha- kimi told Parliament today that he intended to visit Moscow lin order to have direct conversations with the U. s. s. R.' on problems in northern Iran.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12

NEW YORK-The Conference of Mayors has asked Congress to formulate a policy of postwar pub lie works projects. The mayors asked for definite statement concerning the Federal Governments responsi- bility for financing such projects.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-12

WASHINGTON President Tru- man has called on police depart ments throughout the nation to or ganize a program of crime preven- tion to combat the rise In juvenile delinquency.
Evening star., 1945-02-10
Gasoline SoIvoqed

DORA, N. Mex. P.-When .
gasoline truck overturned here,
spilling 1,1oo gallons of gasoline into
the street, residents appeared with
pans and tubs to save the rationed
fuel. One ingenious individual
came up with a small hand pump
which he put into immediate and
effective use.
Evening star., 1945-02-10

chance to pass. Most of the other
amendments were minor.
Senator Joseph r. Byrnes, DEM
ocrat, of Baltimore said the mu-
nicipal home rule measure would be
in the nature of trial horse" in
the Senate, intimating that the
committee consideration of the
other two home rule measures would
be influenced by what happened to
it on the floor The two still un-
acted on are those to extend DOW
ers to county commissioners and to
remove them, by constitutional
amendment, from the General As
sembly.
House Votes -Four Bills.
The Senate passed no bills for the
second straight day. but received sig
new ones. The House passed four
bills besides the accident commits
sion proposal, among them a meas
ure to include members of the mer-
chant marine under a law exempt
ing servicemen receiving $500 or
less from paying State income
taxes.
Ten new measures entered the
House files, all but three locals
The three Of general application
would:
Abolish the State merit system
for employees; institute in all high
schools courses in personal hygiene;
require reinstatement fee by under
takers after failure to renew an
nual license.
The House adopted resolution to
adjourn until Monday night out OF
respect to Abraham Lincoln, whose
birthday anniversary Is Monday.
Evening star., 1945-02-10
Professor to Speok

Prof. H. Naylor Fitzhugh of the
Howard University Commerce and
Finance Schools, will speak on
"Kagawa, Japanese Christian" at
an interracial meeting to be held
tomorrow evening at the Pershing
Drive Christian Church, Arlington.
Evening star., 1945-02-10
Accident Commission
Measure Passed by
Maryland Assembly

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 10.-A bill
which would remove the ceiling
from the amount of money the In
dustrial Accident Commission may
take annually from the State acci-
dent fund to cover expenses was
passed by the Maryland House of
Delegates yesterday and sent to the
Governor for signature.
It's adoption was unanimous and
without floor debate, sharp con-
trast to its stormy career in the
Senate. Senate opponents had
claimed that removal of the ceiling
would result in increased expenses
in the commission and encourage a
general upswing OF State depart
mental monetary demands.
Home Rule Bills Approved.
The Senate Judicial Proceedings
Committee unanimously adopted a
favorable report on the first of
three related home rule" bills and
paved the way for a showdown on
the whole issue in the Senate next
week.
The measure, which would ex-
tend considerable legislative pow
ers now held by the General As
sembly to officials of incorporated
towns and cities, would have come
to the floor yesterday but for q
request from the attorney generals
ONCE to be allowed to examine more
than dozen amendments added by
the committee.
The most important OF these
amendments would retain any ex-
isting local laws and by implication
give them precedence over those
contained in the present bill. Under
the original bill all local laws con-
flicting with provisions OF the bill
would have been repealed.
Change May increase Support.
The change was expected to bring
several opponents in the Senate into
line and give the measure a better