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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-11
Permanent Rank for Wearers of Five Stars
 Geis Committee Nod

WASHINPTON, Sept. 11.-A bill granting permanent rank to the na- tion's wartime Generals of the Army and Fleet Admirals won unanimous approval today of the Senate Milf tary Committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-11
BETTY KELLY HERE

Betty Kelly, of Bremerton, Wash, arrived yesterday on an Alaska Airlines plane from Anchorage and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Sept. Il = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today was T, American Can l04as, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss- Wright 67s, International Har- vester 92, Kennecott 3912, New York Central 26as, Northern Pacific 275s U. s. Steel 74as, Pound $4.02ss.
 Sales today totaled 1,l20,0OO shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials, 177.77; rails, 56.16; utilities, 3374.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-11
PEARL IN JUNEAU

Charles Pearl, Sitka. is a guest at the Baranof Hotel
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Shot, Critically Wounded Himself as Tanks
 Sought His Arrest
UM0FFI(IALLY KNOWN
 AS WAR CRIMINAL NO. 1
More War Prisoners Re- ported Found Koreans
 Still Resent Japs
(By The Associated Press)

Former Premier Hideki Tojo--the man who plunged Japan into war with America via Pearl Harbor-shot and critically wounded himself today just as American Counter intelli- gence officers reached his home 60 arrest him. Nearly six hours after ward, however, his heart still was beating bplstared by transfused American blood plasma, ,--and doc tors gave him 50-50 chance for life.
 A Japanese doctor who pandaged the wound but refused to treat Tojo further, said the little general was dying and nothing could save him Tojo himself insisted, T want to die"
 After he earlier had placed Tojo on his wanted" list, Macarthur to- night added 39 other names. in cluding lC members of Japan's Pearl Ifaibor cabinet and It. Gen. Masa- haru Homa of Philippines infamy- the man who ordered the Death March from Bataan One American was named among the 39 a man listed only as "Streeter,' former Wake Island employee accused of preparing manuscript for the Tokyo radio.
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P. J. McEOIN HERE

Patrick J McEoin, Lowell, Wash. is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
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More POWs Found

American naval fliers meanwhile discovered 1856 more Allied prison CTS Of war in four remote camps in mountainous Hokkaido, and dropped supplies; while in China, Chinese forces under General Luhan entered Hanoi. French Indo-China. Chinese also reported arrival of their troops fin force" at Hankow yesterday.
 Toio only yesterday had told As- scciated Press correspondents Rus sell Brines and Murlin Spencer. you won't see me again"
 Before the shooting, Tojo twice opened one of the big sliding win dows of his home, smiled his hard, chill smile at the officers. then slammed the window shut.
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MRS. ROLEY HERE Mrs. E. C. Roley, Bellevue, Wash, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
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sell Brines and Murlm Spencer. you won't see me again
 ] Before the shooting, Tojo twice opened one of the big sliding win dows of his home, smiled his hard, chill smile at the officers. then slammed the window shut.
 Shot Fired
 As the officers moved toward the i door, they heard a shot fired. They 1 broke in. smashed the lock on a second door inside, and found the wounded one-time Terror of Asia. General MacArthurs order for Tojo's arrest went to Japanese as well as Americans yesterday but al- though Tojo's home was encircled by Japanese guards there had been no immediate arrest.
 MacArthur did not say why Tojo was wanted, but he was listed un- officially as Japan's No. war crim- inal
 The Supreme Allied Commander earlier sought to quiet Korean dem enstrations against continuance of Japanese administration under American control--by assuring Kor- cans that their rights would be re- spected. The Japanese kept in of- flee, he said, were "only working for the Americans
 lrcn Hand on Japan ] MacArthur's headquarters yester- day abolished Japanese Imperial Military Headquarters. effected censorship of Japanese radio and press, and directed occupation troops 1 to spread their control of Japan to inland-sea naval bases and Osaka next month.
 Formal surrender of Japanese forces at Hong Kong was scheduled today near Victoria Jail-in which half dozen Japanese already were held for war-criminal trials. On Mindanao in the Philippines. $500 Nipponese surrendered Saturday, and others at Wewak, New Guinea, will surrender Thursday.
 In Kobe, rescuers seeking 400 AL lied prisoners found 4.000-and It. Col. Walter F. Karfgin of the lib- eration force said they were in good condition, that the Japanese cheered their departure, and that the pris- oners shook hands with their former guards before leaving.
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Those who travelled with Presi- dent Truman on his various trips to Washington State and Potsdam found him delightful and enter
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-04
30 Local Gas Stations
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 Although the CIO leader reported workers of Tidewater. Grown, Val ley and American Hygrade, Good rich, and Newgate would be affected by the strike, Gulf employees are the only workers on strike, as far as could be ascertained
 No Dire Effect
 A. Lincoln German, president of the Waterbury Gasoline Dealers as- sociation, said this morning 1t was not anticipated that Waterbury would be greatly affected by the strike since deliverymen of many local distributors were not organ- ized If striking workers picket gasoline stations, as in Detroit, gas- oline will be rationed to essential companies. such as milk and food dealers, MT. German said.
 Workers on strike are reported to have gone to Hartford to man picket lines at the following com- panies: Shell, Standard, Texas and Atlantic Oil.
 The Connecticut oil workers are demanding the same wages sought in the mid-west--Mr. Lawler said. During the war. workers put in 4B hours a week, of which eight hours was at time and one-half rates--or 52 hours pay at the basic hourly rate. Most oil companies on sep- tember 1 reduced the working week to 70 hours, and strikers are re- qucsting the same wage which was paid during the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-04

New York, October 4-Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes flying home almost from op- posite ends of the earth will join sixty distinguished guests on the speakers dais at the dinner of 1700 at the Waldorf Astoria hotel to- night marking the opening of $3,- 100000 national appeal to finance a 16-story Alfred E. Smith Memorial wing at St. Vincent's hospital here. Archbishop Spellman, who Is sporl- soring the campaign as honorary chairman of the national commit tee, terminated his tour of the Pa- cifC and Asiatic war fronts as Roman Catholic vicar general of the armed forces in time to cele- hrate a solemn pontitical Mass of requiem at St. Patrick's cathedral here this morning marking the first anniversary of MT. Smiths death. Secretary Byrnes ended his labors with the Big Five" Council of For eign Ministers in London barely in time to keep his engagement as one of the speakers at the dinner to- night. Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Bernard M. Bar uch will be the other speakers.
 Acceptances for the dinner in ex- cess of 1700 include leaders from all sectors of American life of all races and creeds, representative of the broad humanitarianism of MT. Smith and of the wide field of serv- ice which has marked the work of St. Vincent's hospital throughout the ninety-six years of its existence
 Former Postmaster Gen. James A. Farley, general chairman, who will preside at tonight's dinner, an- nounced today the names of chair men for the national campaign in g states and of number of county cnairmen for New York of which MT. Farley himself is also state chairman. Many other state or- ganizations are being set up and will continue the appeal for the next two months. The state chair men so far announced include:
 Oscar Malo for Colorado; John J, RaSkob for Delaware; Mrs. Theresa M. Graham for Idaho; Col. Frank E. Mckinney for Indiana; Louis Levand for Kansas; F. Harold Du- bord of Waterville for Maine, as- sisted by Thomas N. Curran ot
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Makes More .Jop Demands
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home and justice ministries.
 He ordered the removal of all re- strictions on political, civil and re- ligious liberties and an end to all discrimination on grounds of race, nationality, creed or political opin- ion.
 All persons jailed under those laws or held on technical minor charges because of their thoughts or religious and political beliefs must be released by next Wednes- day, MacArthur said.
 Among those ordered freed were three Communist leaders who told the United Press in an interview that Emperor Hirohito must go "by execution, exile or retirement" before Japan car fulfill the Allied peace terms.
 Earlier they had told a Chinese correspondent that they wished to get out of jail to lead revolution against Emperor Hirohito and Jap ans feudal system. President True man already has directed MacAr- thur to remain aloff, If possible, from any Japanese civil war.
 Physical Punishment
 MacArthur's directive also banned physical punishment of all prisoners and ordered that ample food be pro- vided for them. All prison records must be preserved and a full re- port on the governments progress toward complying with the directive must be furnished by next Wednes- day, MacArthur said.
 The order for removel of home minister Iwao Yamazaki and lifting of all restrictions on political dis cussions were expected to speed the fall of the Higashi-Kuni govern ment.
 Macarthur specifically directed that all laws forbidding free thought and discussion" of Emperor Hirohito and the govsrnment must be wiped from the books.
 The order for the abolition ot thought police" and other secret police organizations completed the end of an era. Through these or- ganizations, Japan's ruling clique had guided even the thoughts of her masses throughout the war and in the years of preparation before.
 Gen. Thorpe
 Brig. Gen. Merle Thorpe, chief Of MacArthur'S counte r-intelligence c0rps, said the SupT5He coinTnsiid acted only after 1t had given the government plenty of time to do this themselves"
 "They couldn't possibly have mis- understood our wishes," they said.
 The directive marked the first time that MacArthur has ordered the removal of Q specific member of the Japanese cabinet.
 One other member, information minister Taketora Ogata. was oust- ed by the cabinet on it's own initia- tive after he was named by Mac
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-04

(COnGnueQ from IaRe U page tomorrow to consider strike action.
 Tension mounted in the explosive automotive situation today follow ing General Motors Corporations blunt refusal to accede to union wage demand.
 Tn a letter to CIO United Auto Workers Vice President Walter P. Reuther, the nations richest pro- ducers of automobiles announced flatly that i've shall resist the mor- opolistic power of your union to force this increase in basic wages"
 General Motors President 0. E. Wilson charged that the JAWS de- nand for excess wages" on the as- sumption that they could be paid from past profits or from assumed future excess profits was not sound.
 General Motors can not and will not use money saved up for years for the purpose of undermining and expanding its plants, and for provid- ing more good jobs, to pay excess wages for work not performed" Wil- son said.
 The sternly-worded pronounce ment came during the first day of negotiations on the unions demand for a 30 per cent blanket wage in- crease, the equivalent of a sixth days work at time and a half.
 Texas Strike
 Three hundred Humble oil Go workers left their jobs yesterday at the 1ngleside Refinery at Corpus Christi. Tex, in support of C1O wage demands. The Sinclair Corp. refinery at Fort Worth, and the Texas Pipeline co. also were closed, bringing to 25 the number of Texas refineries shut down.
 On the west coast, workers at four Shell oil Go. refineries were expec- ted to strike inomentarily, and 76 Washington, D. O.. oil workers joined the nationwide walkout last night.
 New York port operations were paralyzed again today as Q strike of longshoremen spread to 60.0O0
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The strike meetings were expected to tle up long distance calls and local service whenever tae automatic dial systm Is unavailable.
 The NETW is protesting a Na- tional Labor Relations board exam- iner's recommendatlon for dissolu- ton of the western Electric em- ployes association, federation af- filiate which is aIlegedly -coS1- pany-d dominated.
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waterfront workers, and union offi- cials reported shipping was tied up tighter than a drum"
 The situation was described as critical by Capt. Hewlett B. Bishop, Atlantic coast director of the war shipping administration. who said that 100 vessels had been delayed in their sailinRs. Strike leaders de- nied troopship movements had been held up.
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Telephone workers throughout the nation prepared to gather for four- hour meetings tomorrow to vote on possible strike action. In New York, Joseph Bierne, president of the Na- tlonal Federation of Telephone Workers, said his members had been aggravated by the telephone companies to a point where 1t might be difficult to avert a full scale strike.
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Elsewhere, Great Lakes shipping was threatened by a posglple ggsns eral protest strike" as union ana management filed t0 settle Q ais- pute Of Buffalo N. r. tugmen.
 An elght-city waIkout Of haiLway Express Drivers and Helpers, ALLll-. lated with the AFL Teamsesz union, was scheduled for Monday VI press demands for a 90 per cent pay boost.
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NOTICE

Advertising hearing on the appli- cation of the Midtown Garage, 24 Harrison Avenue, Waterbury, Conn. (by Louis Schmidt, Proprietor) to install one gasoline pump.
 Hearing to De held on Monday, October 18th, ielB at HAS A. M. in the office of the Mayer, City Hall, Grand Street, Waterbury. Conn.
 JOHN 6. MONA GAN ffz .aA AaaVNql
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-04

Arthur as a war criminal for alleged leadership of the terroristic Black Dragon Society. Charges against Ogata later were dropped without explanation. but he did not return to the cabinet.
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to our campus-and it's SO different now from having to look at girls all day.v
 in Meredith's arrival, the under graduate newspaper Scan detected i hopeful sign for the post-war era. Prophesied the paper:
 ssNo mans land Is disappearing!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-04

Portland as co-chairman; Howard w. Jackson for Maryland; former Gov. Joseph B. Ely for Massachu- sets; Robert Butler for Minnesota and John Brunini for Miss ssippi.
 John s. Leahy for Missouri; O. s. Warden for Montana Francis P. Matthews for Nebraska; Francis P. Murphy for New Hampshire; John Milton of Jersey City for Northern New Jersey and Justice Henry Heher of Trenton for south- ern New Jersey; James A. Farley for New York; Gov. J. Howard Me- Grath for Rhode Island; George W. Strake for Texas; Joseph A. Me- Namara for Vermont; E. B. Me- Govern for Washington and Mrs. P. J. Quealey for Wyoming.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-04

Big Idea was to get the game end ed, relying on the umpire not see- ing the ball because it was so dark. ;. The pitcher went thruogh all the motions but never threw 1t. The catcher thumped his glove hard, making the ump believe he caught 1t.
 "Youre outttt!" shouted the ump, ending the game.
 You so-and-sol" screamed Me- Graw. You know danb well It was three feet widel"
 Most of you, perhaps, have for- gotten that incident before Italy de- clared war on the U. s. when Frank lin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and his baby brother John were accused of squirt ing seltzer in the Mayor of Nice's kisser His Honor, 1t appears, had come to pay his respects to the American Presidents sons only to be humiliated by them :. FDR sent for his katzenjammers and said: Did you do 1t or didn't you?" They insisted 1t was a case ot mistaken identity, and FDR hoped their denial would stand up".
 Later the Mayor of Nice received White House apology and was urged to go to Paris to make sure the Roosevelt lads were the culprtts. "as many believe you are mistaken" The Mayor went to Paris and confronted Prank and John, who stood like pious little boys {. T am afraid" the Mayor said un- happily, they are the ones!"
 Months later Frank and John con- fessed all to Pop. Why did you do itP" asked Papa '"The big ga- loot" explained Frank, came up to johnny and me with bouquet of flowers and we thought he was a pansy!"
 Hollywood is being regaled with this one A famed producer was llurrying through an early supper at Romanoff's when he noticed a pretty girl at the bar Who is she?" he inquired of the prop .. T never saw her before" said Ro- manoff Well said the pro- ducer, take this to her, please" and he scribbled on his card: I'd like you to see me at my office to- night at o'clock for test"
 The doll was thrilled. She went right to the producers table and said: What luckI just got off the Chief this morning and here l anl-- with an offer for a test before sun down, hot diggity!
 But can't I see you tomorrow MORN. ING at nine?" No" he said stiffly, I'm busy-see you at my office on the lot at nine tonight
 Cant I see you at five in the afternoon?" she persisted.
 NO" he almost parked, I'm very busy. See you at o.
 twill your wife be thereP" she de- handed
 Now why did you say that?" said the irked fellow.
 Because" was the sarcastic reply. I'm waiting now for my kid broth- eh. He's been in the Pacific for nearly three years-and HE might like a TEST, tool"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26

pute with the Selmans-Young John,
a city policeman, and Old John, a
constable who had a record as
killer himself. The result was that
on the night Of August 10, 1895, Har-
din went down before the blazing
six-shooters of Old John Selman--
shot from behind, SO his friends said,
as he stood drinking at the bar OF
the Acme saloon.
Selman, when tried for the killing,
denied that he had shot Hardin in
the back. He insisted that Hardin
was looking him straight in the eye
and apparently about to draw his
gun when the constable fired. A
young attorney, named Fall, who
had just come to Ell Paso, agreed
to assist in Selman's defense. Years
later, Ex-senator Fall, recalling the
case, told Eugene Cunningham, au-
thor of "Triggernometry: A Gallery
of Gunfighters":
II couldn't help being impressed
by Selman's appearance when he
assured me that he had been looking
Hardin in the eye. knew Selman
well and felt that he wouldn't lie
to me and he had all the appearance
of a man telling what he firmly be-
lieved. 1t puzzled me, so l went
down to look over the scene of the
killing. / stopped at the Acme's
door and looked inside. There was
a man standing at the bar and he
lifted his head Then l had the ex-
PLANTATION of Selman's statement. For
as that man stared into the mir
ror, l had the illusion for an instant
of looking him straight in the eye"
Apparently Falls explanation was
convincing to the jury, for Selman
was freed.
"Few of the gunner of that era
lived past the turn of the century,"
says an editorial on the passing Of
Albert B. Fall which appeared in
the Chicago Daily News recently. An
exception to that statement is Pat
Garrett, slayer of Billy the Kid, the
21-year-old gunman with the 81
notches. That killing made Garrett
a national figure. Three times he
was elected sheriff of Donna Ana
county in New Mexico. In 1901
President Theodore Roosevelt ap-
pointed him collector of customs in
Ell Paso, Texas. Then he retired
from public life and took up ranch
ing in New Mexico. He had a dis
pute over some trifing matter with
a comparatively unknown young
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26

RADIO: Bringing the Law to the Mes
quite" published by the Houghton
Mif1in company in 1928, BILLY"
Breckenridge writes of "The Fear
less Preacher" thus:
ellis name was Endicott Peabody.
He was about twenty-four years of
age, and full of vim and energy.
He Immediately got busy building up
a membership for his congregation
and getting funds together to build
a church. He was a good mixer and
soon got acquainted, not only with
the very best element of society in
Tombstone-and there were some
educated people there-but he I'M
dertook to get acquainted with ev-
erybody, with the mining magnates
and managers, the federal, county
and city officials, the professional
and business managers, the miners
and muckers, the ore-haulers or
teamsters, and the saloonkeepers
and gamblers. He soon had a large
congregation and had the money do
mated to build his church. When it
was completed, he had the money
to pay for it, and the church has
never been in debt since"
How the Money Was Raised.
An incident which Breckenridge
relates sheds light on the young
preachers money raising ability.
One day a group of mining men,
including E. B. Gage, general man.
ager of the Grand Central and Con-
tention mines, was sitting in back
room of the Prospector hotel enjoy
ing stiff poker game in which fire.
quently as much as thousand dol
lars was in the pot.
"Gage was an Episcopahan,"
writes Breckenridge. "Mr. Pea
body came back where they were
playing and introduced himself and
asked them for donation to help
build church. He explained that
it was something needed badly, and
the only way it could be built was
to get everybody he possibly could
to subscribe toward building it.
Gage counted out about a hundred
and fifty dollars from his pile in
front of him, and everyone else in
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-26

man named Wayne Brazel and on
February 20, 1908, shot from Bra
zePs six-shooter ended the career Of
the great Pat Garrett.
Brazel was tried for the killing
and acquitted. His attorney was AL
bert Bacon Fall. Few of the men
who knew these gunner or who saw
them alive remain alive today" con-
tinues the Daily News editorial. cal
bert Fall knew a lot about many of
them. It was popularity believed in
the Southwest that he might, if he
chose, shed light on mysterious cir
cumstances surrounding the sudden
demise of a number of them. But,
if he could, he didn't. And, with
his death, another colorful segment
of frontier history grows fainter
and recedes farther and farther
into the fabulous past"