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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
21 NAH LEADERS ARE ExC0RCIATED
 AT CRIMES TRIAL
Briiisher Prosecutor Calls Naked, Unashamed"
 Aggressors
By DANIEL DE LUCE

NUREMBERG, Dec. 4.-The twen- ty once mighty Nazi leaders on trial for their lives before an inter- national tribunal were excoriated in the name of the British Common wealth today as "murderers and robbers" personally and individually accountable for breaking the worlds peace.
 Opening the British case against Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joa- chim von Ribbentrop and their fel- low members of the fallen clique, Sir Hartley Shawcross, Attorney General of the United Kingdom, de- clared that the defendants had pi- loted Germany into aggression, naked and unashamed, and plung- ed the world into an appallingly costly war.
 Built Hitler Up
 These men were no mere willing tools" Shawcross said They are the men whose support had built Hitler up into the position of power he occupied They are the men whose initiation and planning per haps conceived and certainly made possible the acts of aggression made in Hitler's name"
 The Attorney Generals 30,o00- word address introduced the British citation of proof that the accused were guilty of crimes against the peace. The United States has con- cluded it's presentation on the first of three ether counts in the indict- ment = that the Nazis engaged in conspiracy to wage war of aggres- sion. Two remaining. counts, charg- ing war crimes and crimes against humanity, are to be prosecuted jointly by Russia and France.
 PrepGred For Aggression Shawcross first sought to show that the Hitler gang violated firm ly established international law through aggression and preparation for aggression.
 Then step by step, from the long, concealed words of the Nazis them selves, he traced the German course of broken treaties, violated frontiers and ultimate carnage and misery.
 Their lust and sauLsm," he said, their deliberate slaughter and the degradation of so many millions of their fellow creatures that the imag- ination reels ncompresensibly are but one side only of this matter.
 Perhaps their guilt as murderers and robbers is of less importance and of less effect to future generations of mankind than their crime of fraud-the fraud by which they placed themselves in a position to do their murder and their robbery . ;"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
BIG CRAFT HADTWELvE
 ON BOARD
Disappears on Flight from Kodiak-Was Never
 in Contact

SEATTLE. Dec. 4.-From Seattle to Kodiak, Alaska, sea and air ssarchers are looking for Nay. Privateer transport plane missinn since November % with l2 person aboard, the 18th Naval District an nounceS.
 The big plane. Navy version of the B-24 Liberator. was not con- tacted after it left Kodiak, the Navy Public Relations Office said.
 The Western Defense Command of the Royal Canadian Air Force has offered it's assistance in the search.
 All naval craft have been alerted to be on the lookout for indication of the planes location and two small craft are searching Planes from Whidby Island, north of here, Coast Guard planes from Port Angeles. Wash, and Navy planes in Alaska are flying over the 1000 miles of rugged coastline which was the Privateers intended route.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
YAMA5HITA MAKES LAST ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE CONVICTION

MANILA, Dec. Alt. Gen. Tom oyuki Yamashita appealed to the United States Supreme Court today to stop his war crimes trial and let him plead his cause in Washing ton.
 The military commission, before recessing until tomorrow, had an- nounced it expected to decide Fri day whether Yamashita must pay with his life for the atrocities of his Japanese troops.
 For the second time in the month- long trial, the Japanese commander who was trounced by General Mac Arthur in the second battle for the Philippines tried to go over the commissions head
 Yamashita asked the Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition to halt the trial, order him restored to the status of prisoner of war lin conformity with the Geneva con- vention,' and allow him to appear in Washington for special hear ing.
 His petition asserted that There was no authority to appoint the commission and it is without juris- diction" since the islands are neith- CT under martial law nor military yoyernment rule
 The military commission will be- gin hearing the final arguments of defense and prosecution tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
ANTI-vICE DRIVE
 IN BERLIN WHERE
 WOMEN ARE EASY
By RICHARD KASISCHKE

BERLIN, Dec. 1.-The four pow CTS occupying Germany, aided by German civilian police, are push ing a concerted drive against vice and delinquency which is bringing in about 2,5O0 Berlin women and girls weekly.
 Up to last weeS 90 per cent of those examined had venereal dis eases. A campaign of compulsory treatment is now reducing this to approximately 25 per cent.
 In launching the anti-vice cam paign, military government author ities are tackling what one senior medical officer called the great est morals problem in the world. D
 He estimated there are 0,000 wo- men of "easy virtue" in Berlin, among whom at least 60.000 are classified as professional or semi professional prostitutes.
 "These figures shock even the Germans the medical officer said. They reflect more than a moral breakdown more nearly chaos to which many factors contribute. D
 Erptdnatton
 ITO explain it, one must first of all remember that the Nazis en- couraged illegitimacy to promote the birth rate. And now here's a beaten up city of 100000 people occupied by armies of four nations. It's city through which stream many thousands of refugees with many lost children, city in which food and shelter are short, a city in which many thousands of women lost their men through death or imprisonment.
 Above all, it's a cheerless city in which, for most German girls, life has stopped, and the only way to get a cigaret or candy bar or get into dance hall or night club is through an Allied soldier
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
 WASALERT,
 JAP STRIKE
More Testimony IntroduG- ed About Warnings,
 Pearl Harbor Attack

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Con- yreSsional investigators heard today General Macarthur received from Washington what he regarded as ample and complete information and advice" for alerting the Philip pines before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor December ', 1941.
 Furthermore, the Senate House group Investigating the attack was told that MacArthur received some intercepted Japanese messages. Pre- viously the committee had been told of highly-secret policy by which Washington withheld them from overseas commanders, including those in Hawaii.
 Developments
 This development in the inquiry came after earlier disclosures that:
 1-Eleven months before the war began, Great Britain received from the United States the secret method of breaking Japanese codes.
 2-President Roosevelt felt on Nov. 26, 194l II days before Pearl Harbor - that Japan's next aggres- sive move might bring war
 An affidavit, sworn to by Mac
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
U. }. 10 Send Food
 To German People

STUTTGART, Germany, Dec. A. The United States intends to move enough food into Germany to assure an average ration of 1850 calories for everyone, It. Gen. Lucious C. Clay, American Military Governor for Germany, said today.
 Hunger and starvation have nev- CT been the United States objective, '' Clay told meeting of the German officials in the American zone.
 Clay also said that the control of railroads in the American Zone, which has been under the direct command of the Army, would be turned over to the military govern ment at the first of the year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
U. S. REQUEST TURNEDD0WN
 BY RUSSIANS
Soyieis Will Not Submit to Withdrawal of Troops
 from Iran
By JOHN M. HIGHTowER

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-Ameri- can officials studied possible new moves in the Iranian impasse to- day with little evident hope of bringing an early end to big three differences over Red Army activi- ties there.
 Russia's formal rejection of a United States proposal for with drawal of all Allied troops by Jan l left this country in a position of having supported strongly but in vain the Iranian Governments s demand that Soviet forces stop in- terfering with the movement of Iranian troops.
 And there were no ways immedi- ately apparent by which the United States might impress more em- phatically it's views upon Moscow
 Serious Problem
 It was this problem which had State Department diplomats busy today.
 The department disclosed Russia s rejection last night. Michael j. McDermott. department news of- ficer, said American troops still are to be withdrawn by years end They are leaving now as rapidly as possible, he added
 The United States told Russia and Britain that if their forces, which divided the country between them for strategic reasons during the war, would also get out now the danger of further incidents in Iran would be ended.
 Russias Stand
 The British have not replied at all The Russians are understood to have said that since they al- ready have agreed with the British to withdraw by March 2-six months after the end of the Japa- nese war-they see no reason for changing the agreement.
 What most American officials privately express fear about is the possibility that the things which happen from now on in Iran may show up in some measure as the oppression of small nation by a great power.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
VICTORY LOAN E
 FALLING BEHIND :.
 LIN E BOND SALES

WASHINGTON, Dec. The S11 000,000,000 Victory Loan will be over-subscribed but it may fall short of success in one important feature-the sale of "E" bonds to individuals-War Finance Director Ted R. Gamble said today
 The big goal is to sop up $2,- 000,000,00O of individually-held idle money and thus divert it from in- flationary spending.
 The Treasury and it's War Fin ance Division have pattern of daily sales expectancy which, if realized each day, would meet the goal. But in the last t2 days sales met the pattern only once. During that time sales Jagged a total of $77,00O,OOO.
 The drive ends formally Satur- day night but E bond sales will be counted through months end, as has been the practice in previous drives.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
CRUISER ALASKA
 ON WEST COAST
 FOR FIRST TIME

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4-Seven- teen ships. including the new and powerful 27.500-ton Cruisers Alaska and Guam, brought 15,494 service men from the Pacific into San Francisco Harbor yesterday.
 The Alaska and the Guam were commissioned in 1944 and are vet erans of the Okinawa and the Japanese homeland campaign. Both carry the striking power of battle ship armament, being equipped with main batteries of nine 12- inch guns.
 It was the first visit to west coast mainland port for both of the vessels.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
FAMILY SECRETS ARE REVEALED IN
 W0MAN'S TRIAL
Shadow of Insanity Dark ened Life of Soeialite
 Mrs. MansfeIdi

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec Airs Annie Irene Mansfeldt. the society matron charged with murdering the nurse she suspected of pirating her husbands love, testified yesterday the shadow of insanity darkened her life.
 Taking the stand for the first time, Mrs. Mansfeldt in AS emotion packed minutes, told the jury of seven men and five women:
 As a girl she was forced to share bed with her insane grandmother, who once sought to strangle her.
 A physician informed her she should "be in an institution for the insane"
 Her late husband, pr. John H Mansfeldt, who took his life after the Oct. 4 staying of Nurse Vada Martin, was under a psychiatrist's care after World War L
 Her mother flaw became gdadu
 Her mother in . law bee a m c gradually insane and was commit ted to an institution.
 Today Mrs. Mansfeldt was ex- pected to provide her version of the dramatic events preceding the pistol staying of Mrs. Martin.
 In a tense prelude to the society leaders appearance yesterday, her three children-John, IA; Terry, 12, and Irene, 15--testified that their mother fell to the floor screaming the morning of the killing and ap- peared dazed and not fully con- Scious of her actions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
JAPANESE DIET
 H SHAKEN BY
 NEW DIRECTIVE
Designation of 26 as War Criminal Suspects Leaves
 Members Lisfless
(By The Associated Press)

The Japanese Diet was pictured today as a listless body shaken to the roots by General MacArthur's announcement that 26 prominent parliamentaris are war criminal suspects.
 News that heavy tax increases lie ahead produced only half-hearted debate in the Diet yesterday. Mem hers were preoccupied by the new war criminal list breathing sighs of relief if they escaped mention or protesting innocense if accused.
 Interest in financial problems flared in other Japanese circles, however, when Kyodo New Agency quoted Finance Minister Keizo Shi- buzawa as announcing the govern ment had decided to reimburse in- vestors for the loss of $7.o00. 1000. 900 in Japanese assets in Manchuria, China, Korea Formosa, Sakhalin and Southern Pacific areas.
 To Seize Assets
 Presumably these assets will be seized for separations.
 Dispatches from Chinhsien, Man. churia, said Nationalist forces have received airborne supplies and are ready to march into Mukden when Russia grants final approval.
 The Chinese press reported inde- pendent Manchurian forces already have entered the rich industrial city to await Nationalist troops, now 30 miles distant
 Sultan Sjahrir, Prime Minister of the unrecognized Idonesian Republic, told a news conference his govern ment was seeking to control east ern Javanese Extremist groups" who are violently melting the natives. Elsewhere in the embattled island, local skirmishes continued between British and Indonesian elements.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
CI0-UAW WiIICaII C. M. Workers 10
 Conference Dec. 8

DETROIT, Dec 4-CIO United Automobile Workers Union will call a conference of General Motors workers next Saturday to decide whether they will heed request by President Truman to end their wage strike against the corporation, R. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO President, said today.
 Thomas told press conference that the decision for such a confer ence was made by the unions Strike Strategy Committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
The W ashingto Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON - President Tru- mans home town took his recent castigation by the Baptist Gen eral Convention of Texas for poker and bourbon with very little com ment.
 Truman is member of the Baptist Church at Grandview, Mo, home of his mother, and Independ- ence, Mo, probably is more reli- gious-minded than any other town its size. It is world headquarters for the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to which about one-third of the towns population belong. The world convention held annually in h. dependence draws from 5000 to 10000 Saints from all parts of the Western Hemisphere. In addition there are more than 20 other churches inside the city limits of Independence.
 Despite this, Independence citi- zens don't see anything sinful about little poker-playing now and then. They took the criticism of Texas Baptists in their stride.
 In fact, Dr. Walter Pope Binns, President of William Jewell, Baptist college at Liberty. Mo, said the school would confer it's honor ary degree on the President when ever it is convenient for Truman to visit the college; The college is affiliated with both the North and South branches of the Baptist Church.
 (Note-Independence is regarded by the Latter Day Saints as Zion City-where Christ will return to establish His kingdom and govern the world. According to the reor- ganized Saints, the huge temple in Independence is to be the site for His return to earth. If an outsider makes the mistake of referring to the Latter Day Saints as 'Mor- mons," he is set right in a hurry. The split between Brigham Young, who took the Mormons to Utah, and Joseph Smith, who remained in Missouri to organize the reorgan- ized church, occurred in Independ- ence)
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 ARMY NEPOTISM
 Congress is not the only place where nepotism flourishes. It now
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
Work Sfoppage in
 Marine Circles Ends

NEW YORK, Dec. A 24-hour work stoppage which halted load ing and sailing of ships in ports along the nations coastline ended today.
 Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union (CIO) said the strike was in protest against delay in the return of over seas veterans. Claiming broad suc- cess for the stoppage, Curran said the union was protesting use of some ships for commerce when they could be used to transport troops.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
WIDE SEARCH FOR MISSING NAVY PLANE
DISCHARGED ALASKA ARMY FLIER COMING BACK TO NORTH; BRINGING
 WIFE WITH HIM IN HIS OWN PLANE

Billings, Mont. Lethbridge, Edmon- ton and Whitehorse, Canada, and Fairbanks, Alaska, in three days.
 Smith, B-l7 pilot in the Eighth Air Force, bought an Army trainer which he plans to use for charter flying.
 Mrs. Smith, daughter of Denver University professor, said she was thrilled to death" about the trip.
 Its going to be exciting,' she said, but not too exciting, I hope"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
New Government
 Is Formed in IiaIy

ROME, Dec. 4,--Christian Demo- cratic leader Alcide de Gasperi an- nounced today he had succeeded in forming new Italian government, ending a nine-day political crisis.
 The crisis was resolved after a tense six-hour wait for Liberal par ty support. It came when Liberal party secretary Leone Cattani an- nounced his party, which lost it's struggle for the key Ministry of the Interior, decided to enter the gov ernment because of great esteem for de Gasperi.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
[YApHATIC LEUkEiAIA TAXES LIFE OF CURLY-HAIRED BOY; NURSE OF
 FAIRBANKS SENT CHRISTMAS GIFT

NILWOOD, Ill, Dec. 4 -- The curly haired boy whose family ate duck at his Thanksgiving Day Christmas celebration because he didn't want the turkey killed, died yesterday of lymphatic leukemia.
 When physicians advised MT. and Mrs. Charles Lair that their son might not live through December, the couple arranged an early
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
Peggy on Fifth
 Honeymoon Trip

NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-Peggy Hop kins Joyce was honey-mooning to- day with her fifth husband, engin- eer Anthony Easton, whom she mar ried yesterday.
 The bride gave her age as 39, oc- cupation as actress, said she was nervous before the ceremony and told reporters: This is the last mar riage." Easton said he was 38.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04

DENVER, Dec. A discharged Army flier from Alaska and the girl he met and married in Denver made final plans today for a flight to Anchorage in a twin-engined Army plane he bought to use for civilian flying.
 Theron A. Smith said he and his wife, Maran, would leave tomor- row and fly to his home in An chorage by way of Great Falls and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
JITTERsAND WHY

MINNEAPOLIS - Employees at the municipal incenerator have the jitters. Discarded ammunition is being disposed of in garbage cans and Superintendent Carl o. Nygaard has suggested war souvenirs be turned over to police-not to his garbage collectors.
 Recently hidden shell blew out an incinerator door and yesterday a live hand grenade was discovered just in time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
Manila Youths Pull
 Big Bank Robbery

MANILA, Dec. -Four Manila youths armed with a sub-machine gun staged the biggest bank rob- bery in Philippines history today and were captured eight hours later with 399,000 pesos ($199,500) of the 430000 peso haul.
 Police were searching for the 3l,000 pesos ($15,0O0) still missing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04

Christmas for four-year- Harlan.
 Gifts and letters poured in from A states, among them the l6-pound live turkey a milk goat and six rocking horses. A registered nurse from Fairbanks, Alaska, paid one dollar an ounce postage to send him a foot-high doll
 The child became i'll of the disease after an attack of chicken pox last May
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
WhaIers
 To Put Out 10 Sea

TOKYO, Dec. Japanese whalers will put to sea again this winter in waters off Two lima and other islands in the Bonins.
 An Allied Headquarters directive today announced whaling would be permitted under rigid restrictions and regulations in former Japanese areas of control in the Pacific.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
.Uk0 CHARTER E
 RATIFIED BY 49
 WORLD NATIONS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 The State Department announced today that formal notifications of the United Nations Charter have re- gently been received from Panama City, Ethiopia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala and Norway, raising the total of nations which have completely approved the charter to 45.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
LOCAL SEARCHERs

Search planes from Juneau were out again today, after being ground ed yesterday afternoon. looking for the Navy aircraft reported down in the Sitka area. Alaska Coastal Pilot Clarence Rhodes was again winging the AGA Aeronca and Tom White was on the patrol in the Alaska Game Commissions new Stinson. Both were out yesterday forenoon.
 Along with Pilot White is Comdr. O. D. Weed. head of the Coast Guards Air-Sea Rescue division, from Ketchikan. Comdr. Weed came up from District Headquarters in the Game Commission plane to join in the search as spotter.
 At Prince of Wales
 Intercepted reports from Sitka in- dicate that searchers from that locality today are combing the coast of Prince of Wales Island.
 It. George w. DeVore, USCGR, narrowly missed being aboard the lost Navy craft. He was listed as passenger for the flight. but having civilian transportation orders also, gave up his seat at Anchorage to a h-point Navy man to speed the latters service release. It. DeVore arrived here yesterday by commer- cial airline and today flew to Ket- chikan aboard an AGA plane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 - Closing quotation on Alaska Juneau mine stock today was 87s, American Can 104A, Anaconda 46B, International Harvester 9815, Kennecott 501z, New York Central 31, Northern Pacific 3812, U. s. Steel 3lss, Pound $4.0312.
 Sales today were 100000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials, 19306; rails, 64.79; utilities, 38.64..
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04

The order of songbirds, young est in point of evolution, is the dominant group of living birds
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The Nome nugget., 1945-10-31
Peripatetic Museum ROams Palestine

JERUSALEM - (P) - Thirty travelling exhibitions sent out si- multaneously by the Bezalel Mu- scum are acquainting thousands of people in Palestine with all kinds of art from stone-age draw ings to the latest modern paint ings.
 About 6O,OOO classified repro ductions are used in the travelling exhibitions, each framed, with a complete explanation of the work in Hebrew. Some of the originals were donated by Jewish immi- grants from Nazi Germany, who were able to save them from con- fiScatiOn.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-31
Witnesses Testify
 About Jap Rape 'Of Manila

MANILA, Oct. 31-(Pl.Mari- ano del Rosario, Manila city un- dertaker, took the stand against It. Gen. Yamashita, and testified that victims of the erstWhile "Tiger of the Malays" troops dur ing the orgy of blood last Febru- ary mounted to thousands. Other witnesses already had told of incident after incident of how Jap troops, when it was cer- ktain they could no longer hold the city, ran wild, slaughtering men, women and children alike from February third to the end of March.
 Del Rosario testified that he and his burial crews collected and buried more than eight thousand Victims, some of htem badly mu- tilated.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-31
Hope To Transfer German Govt. By Next June

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31-(P)- President Truman set next June first as the goal for transferring German government from mili- tary to civilian hands. The Presi- dent did so in expressing approval of a letter from General Eisen- hover advocating such a course through an agreement with other powers participating in the occu- patton of Germany.