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Evening star., 1945-08-22
Pearl Harbor Report
To Remain Secret
Unti! Final Surrender
Ply the Associated Press.

Ply the Associated Press.
Nothing will be done about the
Navy's reports on Pearl Harbor un-
til the final surrender of Japan, the
department announced Yesterday.
In response to inquiries as to
whether Secretary Forrestal hao
acknowledged request from Chair
man Walsh of the Senate NavaI
Affairs Committee for. it's files or
its Pearl Harbor Investigations, the
Navy said:
Action with respect to the Pear
Harbor report will be delayed unit
negotiations with Japan are an &C.
complished fact
Senator Walsh announced recently
he had asked for the data in antici.
patton of demand from Congress
for complete report on investiga-
tions of the disaster.
The Navy's statement added tt
growing indications that any further
public discussion Of Pearl Harbol
and responsibilities of military anc
naval personnel involved would be
on congressional initiative
Senator Mead, Democrat. of New
York said the cases of Admiral Hus-
band E. Kimmel and Maj Gen. Wal
ter Short, the Pearl Harbor COM
manders, will be reviewed here
shortly
Senator Mead, interviewed at
Syracuse, N. Y, yesterday, said he
did not know whether the two Of
ficers. who were relieved of their
commands after the Japanese at
tack, would be court -martialed
There will be Sc growing public
demand to know more about the
cases, and there will have to be a
review" he declared.
He added he was not sure what
agency would review the cases.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Centenarian Lost in Woods
Located by Bloodhound

From Yesterdays Last Edition.)
By the Associated Press.
RAMAPO, N. Y, Aug. 2l.-So
Mendelson, l01-year-old retired
merchant missing since yesterday
morning, was found in the woods
today by bloodhound after an all
night search by his children, grand
children. great-granchildren, police
and f1remen. He told police he had
gone for walk in the woods yes
terday and lost his way.
About 155 police and firemen
joined the search for Mr.. Mendelson
last night after 35 of his rela tives
who had been searching all day, no.
tilted them he was missing.
At dawn today Police Chief Abe
Stern called into the search Police
Chief Walter Liebert of nearby Fox
town and his two prize bloodhounds
Within Is minutes one of the dogs
found Mr.. Mendelson sitting on a
rock, Chief Stern said. Mr.. Mendel-
son said he was hungry and mos
quito bitten"
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Peanuts Chief Product

Peanuts are the chief agricultural
product of French West Africa. with
last years production totaling $50 900
tons.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
DooIihIe Asks Details
On Rescued Flyers
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
OKINAWA, Aug. 22.-An Asso-
ciated Press message brought the
first word to 1t Gen. James Doo-
little today that four of the flyers
who made the first bombing attack
on Tokyo with him in 1912 were
rescued near Peiping.
Naturally I am delighted" Gen.
Doolittle said. please let me know
the details as soon as possible"
The flying general, who was work
ing at a desk in his tent office, ex-
pressed concern at the use of the
word unidentified" in the message.
He wanted to know that they were
positively identified as members of
Tokyo attack group
Gen. Doolittle was anxious for
some word about the status and
condition of the four or five of his
Tokyo raiders still unaccounted for.
The general, who keeps a personal
record of his famed airmen, said
that after the Tokyo raid 10 of the
flyers, in two planes, were downed
in Japanese-occupied territory. Of
these one was found dead a few
Evening star., 1945-08-22

Braun may be in hiding in the
Argentine.
Last September we in the under
ground learned that the Nazis had
prepared from 410 to 500 hiding
places in Argentina for key Nazi
leaders, Mr. Ross said in an inter-
view here. They had even arranged
to obtain Argentine citizenship for
some of them to forestall Allied at
tempt at eXtradition
Evening star., 1945-08-22

wife arrived in Detroit two days ago.
He said she phoned him and said,
I'VE have only minute to talk"
When she did not speak again
Capt. Then became alarmed and
called the hotel manager who
found Mrs. Then's body near the
telephone in her room.
Police ordered a postmortem ex-
animation.
Evening star., 1945-08-22

.days after the survivors arrived in
China. That left nine to be ac-
counted for, although Gen. Doolittle
said he had a report through the
Chinese underground which indi
Gated that one was bayoneted by
the japanese when he resisted ar
rest.
The general said he had been ad-
vised that the eight survivors had
been in japanese prison in Shang-
hal in June, 1912
Gen. Doolittle asserted IF four
have now been rescued at Peiping
that leaves four-and possibly five
to be found and saved"
Evening star., 1945-08-22
LOST.

oise RswaTd sa9NE Hh 71ss
BROOCH, silver, keepsake from husband,
Friday Isva August cebs * at Pslas Royal Lib
CIGARETJI f1I TI1I,tI LIGHTER I ~ Meycan silver
7. Y. AUGUST q: reward. OR. 1929.
CLIP, platinum apd diamond; Sa5 reward:
h 5st IN ana d sssh ss HS VS. s sny
COCKER, male. black, white on chest,
name Sammy" in Arlington; reward.
COCKER sPANIEL-Male, solid black, lat,
from f 500 18th ave-. Capitol Heights. Md.
early Sunday. Aug. 10Th; reward for dog
or information Leading to recovery; no
er Hillside 066SW after pm.
DOG, sable and white; Shetland sheep dog
answers to Laddie; Fort Meyer rabies tag:
etrayed from kennels vicinity Falls Church,
ARn?nd'le sSga. road Reward by owner eL.
GOLD RING, antique, handmade turquoise
emerald diamond; keepsake: reward. NE.
O900, Room sos, after pm. "a
lost in l.dies' room, Chevy Chase !lub;
reward; finder please return Office, Chevy
Chase Club.
PAPER FOLDER containing music. in cab
Monday night. Finder please phone IA
PIN, A. K. 4. sorority. initiated J. P.
JOYCE L. PoGUE, sos Columbia I'd n W
sCHIPPERKEE, female. named "skippy":
looks like cocker; reward. Call Jackson
TERRIER, gray rough coated, black collar
D. G, license tag tags lost at Hyattsville; re-
TWO DOGS, females, family pets Aug.
18th, vicinity Wheeler rd Sc Boston
bull, screw tail. collar. 8 yrs. old; mixed
gray hound pointer with harness, both
SH.. 3749: reward.
WALLET containing small amount Of
money and valuable papers; Finder please
SS.Rss, or mail to slSs E. G. eps,;, #.
WATCH, Hamden, gold case, with initials
as hsroem on 1ssk rsasra S' Co AUS ysa 18TH yasged
WATCH platinum sd VI With ,ssns small diamonds %
and Columbia I'd: Reward. Ho. 5I1s
WATCH, soldiers gold Kingston, gold band,
9ssrSa ed 5sn vernon lost HasoT anr Singer Se
Union Station: reward. G Can CO. ii5o7.
WRIST WATCH, lady's platinum and dia-
mona. on suns Sunday, August pp1 19 between
aoSs aho Fk0 kor Resh ahs
WRIST WATCH, lady's, -Bulova; lost Mon
DAY between 21st and Mass ave. NV and
PEOPLES Drug Store at Dupont ur @ Circle; or
vi ollEeIGd1. 1leMdI - SaI W.. OOOG.
WRIST WATCH. ladys, Bulova, I7-jewel,
Tuesday August 21, about 8 pm, be-
tween nth st. and Benning rd ne and
Kenilworth or A&P. 1713 Benning I'd
Reward. IL f997.
WRIST WATCH; gold; Longines, mans.
with link band Thursday, Friday or Sat-
urday; very anxious to locate because of
sentimental value. Ample reward. Phone
JEANNE MURPHY. Ma. $3.50
WRIST WATCH, mans, gold Benrus. In
scription on back. From Dad to Bob.
6-20-45." Reward. Call Ii. 232l
WRIST WATCH, lady's gold Hamilton, Mt
Pleasant neishborhood or carline between
Mt, Pleasant and Dupont Circle: reward.
CO. 7155 24s
WRIST WATCH, lady's, small, gold. black
cord with gold; August 1s. Wyo. ave. be-
tween 2l39 and 21st st., to 8 Pm. Lib
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Coptoin's S Wife Found
Dead After Phone Cali

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Aug. 22.-Police today
Investigated the death of Mrs.
Shellie Then, %. of Jefferson City
Mo, who was found dead in a hotel
room here yesterday. a few minutes
after she telephoned her husband.
Capt. John V. Then, an Army
offlcer.
Capt. Then, who is assigned to
nearby Fort Wayne. told police his
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Belief Expressed Hitler
May Be in Argentine
BY the Associated Press.

BY tHt ASsOCIated PTeSk.
CAMP LEE, Va, Aug 22.-Stanley
Ross, who has tracked Nazi spies
into the jungles of Brazil and Vene-
zuela and was the only American
member of Argentina's pro-Allied
underground organization, believes
it quite possible that Hitler and Eva
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

which there were only two exits; one
through the stateroom where his
friends were, the other-into the sea.
There was talk Of suicide; yet he
was happy, cheerful, working on
play that was soon 10 be produced.
He carried So, 600 in his pocket; he
might have been murdered for that.
A jury returned an open murder
which means IL was unable 10 decide
the cause of Vosper's death.
Another unsolved sea mystery sur.
rounds Hisashi Fujimura, million
aire Japanese playboy Of the 1929 era.
SASH" as he was called, was a
high.powered gambler, dropping aS
much as 100000 in a single night
without showing emotion. He had
Japanese wife and three children. He
also had blond friend, Mary Dale,
one-time chlorine in George Whites
Flying High"
While his wife was visiting rela.
tives in Japan SASH took Mary as
governess to one of his children on a
cruise in the Belgenland
When the liner pulled out of New
York SASH told his pretty companion,
who occupied an adjoining cabin, that
he feared some gamblers TO whom
he owed money.
The night before the Belgenland
was due to dock in New York, Mary
attended a party given by Mildred
Harris Chaplin, one of the enter.
tainers. She saw SASH, asleep at
a. m. Then he disappeared.
The liner was searched from stem
to stern but no trace of the diminutive
Japanese was ever discovered.
Some days later a taxi driver,
stated that he had seen SASH with
blonde and a tiny Japanese child. B0|9
he did not identify the woman.
Fujimura was never seen again.
Many people believed that he had
disappeared voluntarily to escape the
revenge of gangsters to whom he
owed vast gambling debts. Others
thought he committed suicide.
Whatever caused his disappearance
has never been explained.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

lAt lAAbA WI VI NJ pun
Ward recalls the strange
disappearance of Frank
Vosper, wealthy English
actor-playwright, who left
champagne party given
by Miss Muriel oxford,
Miss England of 1886,
aboard the French liner
Paris one night in mid
Atlantic.
His naked body was
found Is days later washed
up on the English coast
$50 miles away.
And the body could not
possibly have drifted that
far in IS days.
From the party he had
gone. .to.a deck space from
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

His Goblin AbIeIs. ths ronEer coptoIn
Lay on IFS Deck Suffering From Fright
fol Heed Wounds. oGly q Member Of
fhe Crew Could Have Dose
the Job.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08
LONDON.

n a battered tanker rolling her rails under
in an Atlantic convoy, the crew moved about
their tasks in watchful and jumpy silence.
For weeks they had slept uneasly, ears
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

the steady thump of the
vessels engines. ~
They edged suspiciously RE
from one another, nerves w
ragged under a boding fear VI
that had nothing to do with "
the ordinary perils of the sea "
or attack by U-boats. z
What they feared was
stark, brutal murder!
And even when the tanker,
whose convoy reached Eng
land safely, put out to sea
again, the overshadowing pail
of fear still hung menaCingly
over the crew. The men were
aware that q killer was in
their midst and all felt that terrifyin
sense of impotence which grips or
in the face of unknown peril from a
unknown source.
This ugly pressure began or
black night last January when tn
tanker, in convoy, was steaming cas-
wards across the Atlantic
The mate, standing his lionel
watch, saw smoke billowing frol
Captain John Wards cabin.
Sounding the alarm and turnir
the bridge over to the second mat
he ran to the masters stateroom.
1t was ablaze, and lying on II
deck, suffering from frightful hea
wounds, was the captain.
The disaster gang soon had II
fire under control.
The mate bent over the body.
Hes still alive"
He ordered a blinker signal to &
escorting corvette:
Captain has been attacked ar
gravely injured"
A boat was lowered into the Il
sea and the wounded man was tran
ferred to the corvette.
All that night a Royal Navy Su
geon worked over him. But he die
without regaining consciousness. II
tanker proceeded to west of EnglaT
port under command of a Royal Nav
officer.
Detectives boarded her as soon ;
she docked and guards were poStC
TO prevent anyone from landing.
The officers and crew were inte
rogated, but no one offered a cll
to the brutal crime.
Captain Ward, married five year
had lived in a Thames-side villal
with his wife and baby. He was
popular captain, well liked by of
GERS and crew.
Yet one of the crew had murdert
l8 July q, 1915
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

thrown him against anything win
sufficient force to have smashed his
skull
There was nothing missing; so the
motive was not robbery.
One strange aspect was that his
cabin was set afire. Surely any crew
man aboard a tanker would know
that such a fire might mean death
to all aboard. Including the murderer
The tanker arrived in port on Jan.
%. She was due to leave Feb. ). For,
murder or not, conveys must keep
moving.
For those 13 days detectives, naval
investigators and Scotland Yard men
questioned the crew. But they learned
nothing.
On Feb. 5, she put to sea with her
original crew.
And one of them is killer. That's
why the spectre of murder stalked
the wallowing tanker, decked in this
new mystery of the sea.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-08

1t Was Muriel
Oxford, Mis- S
gland of
1886, + T o. m
Whose arty
A board the
Paris Frank
VOsper Walked
Out, to Disap-
pear Until His
dy w as
Found Is Days
Later $50 Miles
Away.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-17
CARE CENTERS FOR
ALASKA CHILDREN
WIELRE0pEN SOON
Three Localities 10 Have
Institutions with Others
Probably Added

Child Care Caniers IN tne Terri
terry are due to be reopened within
the next week or two in connection
with the Lanham Act program to
assist in providing manpower for
industries engaged in war produc-
ton. In Alaska, the principal in
dustry in this connection are the
salmon canneries.
The three centers operated in
Cordova, Petersburg and KlaWak
last year are due to reopen shortly,
which will assist in making avail
able labor for canneries operating
in these areas.
Mis- Lee Dickson recently employ
ed by the Department of Public Wei
fare. has been delegated with the
esponsibiIity of supervising all
Child Care Centers in the Territory
for the current season. Miss Dick
sen recently returned to Juneau
frcm a special trip to Cordova where
she conferred with community and
industry representatives and reports
that the Center at Cordoya will be
operated this year with two locations
fcr care of children being main
tanned. 1t is expected that between
80 and 10 women with children will
be made available for cannery work.
Conferences have been held with
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-17
VETERANS GUIDE
By MAJOR THOMAS NJ. NAL

| WASHINGTON What is your
Serial or Service Number, ex-service
folks?
If you've Keen out of the service
for as much as six months, I'll bet
you had a tough tine trying to
remember that old number you knew
SC well. You used to have it in
your mind all the time. Cinch to
remember. Bu5 now, maybe, it's
growing rusty and the best way
to keep it clear is to make record
of it to put some place.
While you're doing that you also
ought to make record of your dis
ability claim number, if you have
cne-the number the Veterans Adj
ministration has given to you. Add,
for luck, your Social Security num-
ber. All of these numbers are likely
to be needed one of these days. So
record them. The best place to
keep the record is with your Dis
charge Certificate or Certificate Of
Service.
Your County Clerk or County Re-
ccrder will register your discharge
on the official records of your coun-
ty. There will be no charge in most
states Then you'll get the original
returned to you and you stick 1t in
some safe place, along with a list Of
your serial or service number, dis
ability claim number, and Social
Security number. With these you
also can keep your Report of Sep
aration (Army) or Notice Of Sep
aration Navy Either Of these two
really mean something because, add
ed to a lot of data you may need
sometime, they show the type of
character of your discharge or sep
aration. Enlisted men and officers
get these.
If you ever need copy of your
discharge, you can get a certified
che casually a photostatic copy
from your County Recorder or Coun-
ty Clerk for a small charge. That
copy will be accepted legally.
There are new forms now being
used by the Army which show the
on one side Of the paper
and the Report of Separation on
the other. The things are made up
with seven copies. Over a million
have new been sent out from Wash
ington to Army Depots. Five mil
ion more are in print.
If you don't think that the right
kind CT discharge is important, read
about Frank, an eXNavy man, who
lives just outside of Washington.
Where have you been employed
the last two years?" the personnel
man wanted tc know. Frank was
being interviewed for a job. /
"Been in the Navy" Frank said.
Honorable Discharged"
We'll" Frank evaded, Il never
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-17
JAP STRUGGLE
SPURS VESTS
WARTIME JOB
No Change in Manpower
Controls in Alaska Says
VINO Director

We Day has not marked any sud-
den changes in the West Coast man
power program and all controls are
being maintained as needed to meet
expanded military operations on the
Pacific Coast, it was announced to.
day by A. A. Hedges, War ManpoWer
Commission Territorial Director in
Juneau.
THE national observance of VIC
tory in Europe will only serve to in
tensify the need for thousands OF
workers in certain critical Western
war industries and supply activities
linked to the Pacific battle
fronts"
THE Western states main job on
We Day is to Finish the Job
against Japan. War workers in
the Pacific Coast war plants must
r7aet the challenge of loading over
seas supply lines with planes, NUM-
lions and materials to our armed
forces in the Pacific. We're now on
a one-front war and it's up to Wes-
tern workers to Stay on the job
and deliver the war goods until
Japan surrenders," Mr. Hedges add
cd.
VINO manpower controls, includ-
ing employment ceilings and the
job referral system, will hold fast in
critical, or tight, labor areas in the
Western states to assure war plants
the required high priority, or first
cali on available workers. Workers
cannot leave essential war jobs with
out certificates of availability.
The possible reshuffling of some
war contracts, plant facilities, and
in Pacific Coast indus
trial centers will be met by WING
USES action in listing all available
job openings to effect immediate
transfer of workers to essential war
jobs. Advance notice of war con-
tract adjustments now come to
VINO offices. Immediate steps are
taken by USES representatives to
work out, with the cooperation of
management-labor representatives,
an in-plant program for the trans
fer of the affected workers to other
jobs utilizing their highest skill.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-17

DR.. Nan Parks, Child Care Center
Consultant, attached to the Seattle
Regional Office of the Federal
Works Agency, who arrived here
several days ago. DR.. Parks and
Miss Dickson left Tuesday on an
inspection trip in Southeast Alaska
and expect to return in about one
week.
1t is expected that the Centers at
Petersburg and Klawak will open
within the near future, following
special supervisory visit by Miss
Dickson, and the preparation of
plans for the operation of the Cen
ters there.
With the establishment Of the
three Centers operated last year, it
was announced by the Department
of Public Welfare that Miss Dick
sons services will be devoted to the
development of plans for the OPP
Grafton of Child Care Centers at
Ketchikan, Sitka, Hydaburg, Hoo
nah, Tenakee, and other commun-
itics interested in this type of work.
RUrV WAR EONnS
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-17

braska, charming sister OF Francis
Blackwell, long very well-llked
friend of our club.
And speaking OF well-llked
friends the enjoyment occasloned
last night when, for the first time
in many months, a small group OF
us heard Buddy Rice, from Olive
Hill, Kentucky, accompany him
self at the piano in Worried Mind. >
real treat which we're hoping,
incidentally, Buddy will repeat for
us during Friday nights club pro-
gram.
And (most significant of alb the
presence here not long ago of SO
many Navy men and members OF
the Army Air Corps who in the
South Pacific and in Europe and
over the Kuriles have been engaged
in recent combat with our enemies,
and with whom we consider 1t to
have been a great privilege to spend
even a few hours during this in
terlude before they must again
face the hazardous uncertainties Of
combat.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-17

had any trouble with Navy officials
Got into a little trouble with civil
authorities. That's the reason I'm
out"
Got your Discharge papers with
you?"
NO Frank answered. They're
in my room"
The interviewer asked bluntly
What color is your discharged"
Frank hesitated a second, then
answered yellow"
That was all Frank wasn't hired.
A yellow discharge to many en-
ployers is like a red flag to bull.
In fact, blue Army discharge is
a danger signal.
You'd be surprised how many en-
ployers have learned that the right
kind of discharge is recommen-
dalton to be respected.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-17
JUNEAU'S USo NEWS
Interesting liens for Everybody

that we have OUR OWN MARY
back with us again!
1t still seems too good to be
true. Last october when we said
goodbye to Mary Mccormack and
she left to enter the Signal Corps
service in Anchorage, we really
wondered if we would ever even
see her again. SO remote as to be
hopeless was any possibility that
she ever might be back on our
staff. Yet that is exactly what she
is today, Just seven months after
she left us.
Though her position as hostess
is only temporary presumably for
Just a couple of weeks while she
awaits word as to where her soldier
husband. Keith Reischl, will be
Stationed, it is blessing to all OF
us to have this reunion. Every day
she receives the enthusiastic greet
ings of old CT friends who have
lust discovered that she's back,-at
the same time meeting new fell
lows who had heard so many nice
things about her and who are
quickly learning why.
In the months that lie ahead we
suspect that the Juneau USO will
face an even more challenging job
than at any time in the past. In
trying to meet its responsibilities
the club gratefully welcomes the
helpfulness of Marys gay and
spirit for as long as she
can be with us.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-17

Uncle Sam is still paying one
pension as a result of the War of
1912.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-17
HIGHLIGHTS
OF THE PAST WEEK

: The past week around the USO
has had more than its quota of
highlights, we'd say. But now we
find our quota of space just about
running out on us. At least we can
make these shorthand notes on a
few of them For example, the
presence at the club currently of
genial Sgt. Carl E. C"Buck") David
son, from Duluth, Minnesota,
former editor-in -chief of the famed
Kodiak Bear" and now a reporter
for "Yank," outfit" and other
publications +. and speaking of
publications. the exceedingly fine
job done by Mary Sporting, one of
our ESQ girls, in her dictatorship
of the excellent Juneau High School
1945 Totem"
And speaking Of attractive girls
the arrival in town just yesterday
of Eileen Blackwell, of Omaha, Ne