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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-04
SHORTAGES DISAPPEAR

Danville, Ill.-A stampede like
a gold rush resulted when a
wholesale grocer's truck caught
fire in an alley. Five hundred
spectators massed as firemen
tossed out singed merchandise,
Opportunists grabbed it while il
was hot-packaged foods, jars of
coffee, and so cartons of cigar
cites.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
.SARAT0GA REACHES SAN FRANCISCO AT
 END OF FAST VOYAGE
Grand Old Lady of FIaftops Brings 3,71O to Main
 land from Front

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14-The U. s. Saratoga, grand old lady of the flattops, rested her mighty engines today after bringing home 3,710 Navy officers and men on a speedy run from Honolulu to the Mainland.
 The big, grey carrier, her many war wounds patched, was the first of the Navy's fighting craft to reach this country as peace-time temporary troop transport.
 The Bluejackets who jammed the hangar deck and storerooms com- prised the largest group of service men to arrive on the West Coast since the war ended. Most were Seabees, and more than half of the men are eligible for discharge
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
Alaska indian Land Case Reopened;; |tkes
 Now Enrou!e 10 Europe

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.-Under- Secretary of the Interior Abe For tas today reopened a case in which 273,O00 acres of hunting and fish ing lands were awarded to three Indian villages in Southeast Alaska.
 Indians and the white man own CTS of salmon canneries, fisheries and logging concerns in the area had protested against the original rul- ing by Secretary Harold L. Ickes, who is enroute to Europe.
 Fortas invited new evidence in writing within Is days.
 Natives of the villageS-Hydraburg, Klawock and Kake-wanted the government to declare their full ownership of 5,350,000 acres of land, tidewaters and ocean areas in the Alexander Archipelago.
 Ickes divided 273,000 acres among the villages. He denied their claims to 3,O00,OOO acres. He reserved de- cision on 100000 additional acres in dispute among the natives them selves.
 The Alaska Canned Salmon indus try protested that site of their fish trap lead lines and canneries were jeopardized by the decision and subject to "confiscation Fisheries contended their occupation of sites over many decades established a priority over any rights of Natives.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
IU. 5. TROOPS IN CHINA GIVING AID
 IN RE0CCUpATI0N
Speed in Duties Will De- fermine Homecoming
 of American Forces

CHUNGKING, Sept. 14.-U. $. troops now remaining in the China theatre have been assigned the mission of facilitating Chinese re- occupation of areas formerly held by Japanese and of securing the Chinese hold in those regions.
 It. Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer, U. s. China Commander, outlining this mission in general terms to a press conference, said the speed with which it is completed will govern the re- turn of the troops to the United States. He added that goodly proportion of the troops would be home for the Christmas holidays.
 He said the transfer of authority from the Japanese to the Chinese was proceeding smoothly and he foresaw no difficulties on any large scale.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
ALEUTIAN FLEET
 OFFICERS GIVEN
 LEGION OF MERIT
Vice Adm. Fletcher Retog. nizes Those Who Pldst-
 cred KuriIe Islands

OMINATO, Japan, Sept. 14.-Vlce Adm. Frank Jack Fletcher today awarded the Legion of Merit to three high-ranking Naval officers who fought in the Aleutians and plaster ed the Kuriles repeatedly with shell fire from their force of three old cruisers.
 In a ceremony in his quarters on board his flagship Fletcher gave Rear Arm. John H. Brown, Jr., of Middletown, Dela., gold star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit; and pinned medals on Capts. Cyril A. Rumble, Washington, D. C., and Leonard s. Mewhinney, Cameron, Texas.
 Brown commanded the cruiser task force that included the 23-year-o four -stackerS Richmond, Concord and Trenton, and one squadron of destroyers. Month after month this small force battered the Kuriles north of Japan, and swept the Sea of Okhotsk for Japanese shipping, inflicting heavy damage and losing not single bluejacket to enemy &C., tion in the last year.
 Mewhinney is Browns Chief of Staff, and Rumble is Captain of the Concord.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
TO GIVE FACTS OF ATROCITIES
 TO JAPANESE
Nippon Newspapers Agree 10 Publish Cruelty
 Stories, Evidence

YOKOHAMA, Sept. IA Gen Macarthur directed today that the stark facts of Japanese atrocities committed all the way from the Philippines to New Guinea - and back again - be told in full to the Japanese people.
 Representatives of Japanese news papers agreed, at the suggestion of the Supreme Allied Commander to publish a summary of the at rocity reports as the start of a program to educate the Japanese people in the acts of their mill- .ary."
 The beheadings of American fliers. the death march from Ba- taan, cannibalism in New Guinea, beatings and mistreatment of pris- oners of war-all will be included in evidence to be presented to the Japanese people.
 Its purely educational" said Brig. Gen. Bonner F. Fellers of
 
 MacArthur's staff. The initial survey in the Japanese press will be followed by detailed document ary evidence, he said.
 The Japanese people didn't know about these atrocities, and we want to tell them,' Fellers added. He said that MacArthur had not issued any formal order foI such publication, but that Japa- nese newspapers had agreed to pub fish the evidence as he directed
 Jap civilians have approached Associated Press correspondents in- uuiring about reports of Japanese cruelty. They said they were al armed because in the Japanese Russian War, Japanese treatment of prisoners had been good, and they were now much disturbed by the stories.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
FIRE MYSTERY

FORT SMITH, Ark. Sept. l4.-Of- ficials still are without an explain ation of series of about 30 myster- iouS fires on a Sebastian county farm this week, but Fire Chief Mau- rice Brun is certain it's the work of a firebug.'
 State, county and city authorities have been unable to determine the cause of the intermittent blazes which have occurred only at the home of Mrs. Annie Bryan, near Midland.
 Curtains, wallpaper, clothing and other items have burst into flames apparently without cause. Baffled neighbors have begun keeping watch for more.
 A barn was destroyed Wednesday. Nine strange blazes were found yes- terday afternoon. The first fire broke out in a table drawer Sunday night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
'KIDGL0vE'
 POLICY I5
 CRITICISED
Liberees, Civilians Indig- nant with Liberal Treat
 ment of Japanese
By FRED HAMPSON GAP Corresp0ndent)

MANILA, Sept. 14-Allied liberees funneling through Manila enroute home are variously baffled, dis appointed and indignant over what they describe as kid glove" treat ment of the Japanese.
 In 10 days 1 have visited 2,300 of them on ships, docks, replace ment centers, hospitals and officers quarters. Some openly are critical of early occupation policies, par ticularly the enlisted men and civilians. Officers are more cau- tious. But all warn that many Japanese do not realize that they are defeated and view the peace as a temporary recess ordered by the Emperor.
 It is understandable that these, of all people, should resent soft treatment of the suddenly pacific Japanese. They were sick, starved and beaten. Negligence. brutality, torture, humiliation and hunger have been their lot. They saw friends killed or die by inches. They don't think the Japanese are getting what's coming to them.
 One enlisted man at a replace ment depot grudgingly read a Domei dispatch and growled What the hell's going on up in Tokyo? Who won this war, anyway"
 Liberees of camps from Singa- pore to Mukden were worried about hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers who never personally felt the might of the Allied war ma- chine. They had three years of victory capped by 2 surrender order stating that the emperor had gra- ciously decided to end the war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
MANY IMPORTANT
 ISSUES CONFRONT
 BIG , CONFERENCE
Better Atmosphere Is Cre- dted as Result of Rus
 so-Rumanian PdCf

LONDON, Sept. 14-Foreign Min isters of the five leading Allied Nations resumed drafting of a peace treaty for Italy today as Egypt dispatched notes asking control of the greater part of the adjoining Italian Colony of Cire- naica.
 The Balkans continued as the main point of tension.
 A slightly better atmosphere was created with the disclosure that the Russian -Rumanian agreement pairing down Eomanian separations was negotiated with knowledge of the Allied Control Commission in Bucharest. Concern had been ex- pressed that Russia had acted alone.
 King Peter of Yugoslavia was reported encouraged by his talk with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, in which he urged the United States to help broaden the Yugoslav Government and assure democratic elections.
 Another Balkan monarch ln Exile, George II of Greece, hustled back from vacation in Scotland to confer with the Greek Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos. The re- gent talked to Byrnes yesterday.
 A heavy working day was before the ministers of the United States, Russia, Great Britain, France and China. A heavy volume of diplo- matic communications flowed to and from them in their labors to conclude peace treaties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
Wainwright Lays Bare True (haraeier of Japs;;
 Stars as Mute Evidence

NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-Japanesa Character today lay stripped bare by a man who knows it well-Gen Jonathan M. Wainwright.
 He demanded neither "A soft oc- cupation nor a soft peace"
 "The Japanese can be subservient they can be pleasant and cooperative if it suits their purpose he said last nigt at dinner given in his honor after a wild reception in New York streets.
 "Rut the men who were captured on Bataan and Corregidor," he said have seen the Japanese character in the raw.
 ""They have seen what Japanese soldiers do when they are on top and I think all of us who lived through tortured days are deter mined they shall never be on top again"
 Tt is unimportant now what hap pered to me :" said the drawn, tired General, who spent 39 months in Japanese prison camp after the hopeless days of Bataan and Corre- gidor.
 But I think it is very important that the American people understand the nature of this people we have beaten back to their poor earth.
 T have seen the Japanese as they are-with the veneer stripped eff. I shall bear the scars of those years all my life, and I could not forget them if I would.
 q have come to know the cunning with which they conceal their true nature, and how quickly it leaps forth when there is no immediate chance of retaliation Il.
 The Japanese are not sorry for what they have done to countless thousands in the populations of countries they have overrun. !
 They are not sorry for the tor- ture they have inflicted on American soldiers. It simply would not occur to them to be sorry, because they have done nothing which is at var lance with their accepted philosophy.
 Before Japan is allowed to. take Ter place among other respected na- tions, she must be made to realize that her medieval ways have no place in our modern world"
 The acclaim of New York's millions was showered on Gen. Wainwright yeterday in heart-warming well come which the hero of Corregidor said he found hard to take
 The General, resting today at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, has not an- nouneed when he will leave New York.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
PEARL HARB0R
 INVESTIGATION
 GROUP CHOSEN BarkIey Heads Senate Quintet Picked to
 Probe Disaster

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-Senate Majority Leader Barkley D-Ky9, today headed group of five Sen ators named to joint Congress sional Committee which will in- vestigate the Pearl Harbor disaster
 In addition to Barkley, Presiding Officer McKellar D-Tenn), named Senators George (D-Ga), Lucas tD-Ill), Brewster R-Maine), and Ferguson, R-MichD
 Speaker Rayburl, appointed the following House members
 Representative cooper D- Tenn), Clark (D-N. O., Murphy D-LaD, Keefe tR-Wis), and Gear hart (R-Calif.). All are lawyers.
 Barkley was author of the reso- lution creating the investigation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
SALMON FISHING
 SOUTHEAST AREA
 ENDS TOMORROW

All commercial salmon fishing in Southeast Alaska, excepting only the Yakutat district, will close at 6 o'clock tomorrow evening, Sept. 15, it was emphasized here today by Frank w. Hynes, Fish and Wildlife Regional Director for Alaska.
 In the Yakutat district, commer- cial salmon fishing, except trolling, will be prohibited east of Dan gerous River after Sept. IS; the entire district will be closed after Sept. 30.
 The general regulation closing Alaska applies to all types of gear, MT. Hynes stressed. Trollers will be permitted to resume Oct. 20.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
PRESIDENT OFF,
 WEEKEND VISIT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-Presi- dent Truman took off from the National Airport at 1:37 p. m., EWT, today on a flight to Missouri for a weekend with his home folks
 The President and Mrs. Truman boarded the big Presidential C-54, the Sacred Cow" with Senate Ma jority Leader Barkley, who planned to ride with them as far as Pa- ducah, Ky, where he will disem- bark for a home state speech.
 Upon arrival at Kansas City about 6:25 p. m, CWT, the Presi- dent and Mrs. Truman will drive to their old white frame residence, a dozen miles away
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
Film Attor Denny
 IS Plane Inventor

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. IA = Regi- nald Denny. film actor, is the ln- ventor of pilotless, radio-con- trolled plane used to train aerial and anti-aircraft gunners, he says.
 His plant at Van Nuys, he sald, was turning out 40 of the craft a day at the end of the war. He said he and associates made the first test for the Army in 1885.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
Youthful Iniernees peppered Jap Guards With She'll Fragments

Ira-
 INGLEWOOD, Calf, Sept. IA If they're old enough to hold slingshot, they're old enough to fight, reports Mrs Mildred Sherk, recently returned to the U. s. after liberation from the Japanese prison camp at Santo Tomas in the 
 Youthful American internees at the camp used slingshots to pepper their captors with anti-aircraft shell fragments during air raids, she said, and the Japs were too busy or terrified to notice that the course of the jagged bits of metal was horizontal rather than vertical.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
Seattle May Sell
 Radio Station kPE

SEATTLE, Sept. 14.-Fire Chief William Fitzgerald said the city of Seattle was undecided whether to reopen it's ship-to-shore radio sta- tion, KPE, or sell it to a privately owned company. Before the war KPE handled commercial messages between local shippers and vessels at sea, mainly in Alaskan waters. The chief said the station had in cured an annual loss approximating $6000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
Senator Makes His
 Policing Proposal

CINCINNATI, Sept. 14.-Senator Edwin c. Johnson (D-Colo), propos- ed that the job of policing Germany and Japan be left to Europeans, Chi nese and Russians.
 He said in a radio talk that he would like to see 10000 American observers stationed in the Axis coun- tries ito keep us fully posted on what goes on" but "other than that we ought to keep out of Germany and Japan"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
The W ashington Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-Th column has not always agreed with good old Senator Tom Connally of Texas, but here's something on the other side of the ledger.
 More than year ago the Navy decided to erect Naval Hospital in Connally's home town of Marlin, Texas, noted for it's curative springs. Residents of Marlin were ready to purchase whatever site the Navy thought best for the hos pital, and give it to the Navy.
 Best site in town is a 160-acre plot belonging to Ben Connally, the Senator's son who gave up his Houston law practice to enter the Army, where he still is. Marlin residents were certain this site was what the Navy would want, since it was the only high land over looking the town, yet near the town. Another site, less desirable
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
ketfhikan Enters
 Air Route Fighl

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 14.- The city of Ketchikan was drafting telegram today to the chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, ask ing the right to intervene in special CAB hearing October 4 in connection with the air route to the Orient.
 Chamber of Commerce President W. c. Stump told the meeting the Chamber felt a route from Seattle would benefit Southeast Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14

 For India Within
 Six Months, Claim

POONA, InuIa, Sept. IA - Asaf Ali. member of the All-India Con- gress Party Working Committee, said today he expected the next six months would find India well along the road toward self-govern- ment
 Any British offer which falls short of Sir Stafford Cripps' 1922 proposal that the Indian people be given an opportunity to attain self government after the war, Ali said, would fall like an atom bomb.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
Oxford University To Confer Degrees
 On Many Celebrities

LONDON, Sept. 14.-Oxford Uni- versity will confer honorary Doctor of Law degrees October 25 on Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Mark w. Clark, U. s. Ambassador John G. Winant, Harry Hopkins, British Field Mar sahls Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and Sir Alan Brooke, and Air Mar shal Sir Arthur Tedder, it is an- nounced today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
Native Woman
 Fatally Burned,
 Kefthikan Blaze

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. IA Native woman was burned fatally and her husband hospitalized with burns after fire gutted their small home Thursday night. Authorities were holding another Native couple for questioning, saying there had been a party at the house.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14

DETROIT-The Ford Motor Con- pany said today that because of strikes against many of our sup pliers" it is laying off 50,000 men indefinitely.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
COLD CASH

CHARLOTTE, N. c. A cafe owner discovered his place had been broken into and $40.50 stolen. The thief found the money in an ice cream freezer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Sept. IA = Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today was 67s, American Can 104h, Anaconda 34as, Curtiss- Wright 6la, International Harvester 90. Kennecott 391s, New York Gen. tral 26ss, Northern Pacific 281s, U. s. Steel 73%, Pound $4.02ss.
 Total sales today were 100000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials, 177.74; rails, SILT; utilities, 33.78.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
ANCHORAGE MEN HERE

Abner Anderson and Oscar H. Eberhard, of Anchorage, are guests at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14

WASHINGTON = Priorities for travel by ship from the United States to all foreign ports will end tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14

Mrs. Lisle Hebert and daughter. Yvonne, left yesterday via PAA plane for Fairbanks to join MT. Hebert. The three will motor back to the coast. visiting Anchorage and other points on the highway enroute, and returning to Juneau in about two weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14

HEIDE HERE H. E. Heide, of Nome, is guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
SHORT OCCUPATION OF JAPAN PREDICTED
B JULIE ' ! N S'

PHILADELPHIA - Fritz Kuhn, one-time head of the German-Am- erican Bund, is being deported to- morrow, the Immigration and Nat uralization Service reported today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14

WILLITS, Calif.-A raging forest fire that has destroyed the 10-build- ing Riverdale resort, lumber mill, five homes, five automobiles and burned over 10000 acres was out of control early this morning along a 10-mile front 50 miles north of Will its, State Forester Charles Camp )ell reported.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14

LONDON-TheU United States Elm bassy in London says that Secretary of the Interior Ickes was due to arrive in London today, but owing to weather conditions. his plane has been delayed over the North At lantic. Ickes and his staff of experts will talk with the British concerning oil!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14

WASHINGTON-The Army plans to release at least 30,000 doctors, 10 O,0OO dentists and 10000 nurses by next July l. This is announced by the War Department. As a result, about seventy percent of the peak strength of the Medical Corps will return to civilian life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14

LOS ANGELES - The northern semi finals in the Pacific Coast Baseball League playoffs will begin in Portland instead of Seattle, as previolsly announced. League Presi- dent Clarence Rowland says the Portland games are scheduled for September 25, 26 and 27. Remain ing games of the northern semi finals will be played in Seattle.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
Soviet Delay
Sndgs Farley
Big Five Called TO Act
on Compromise Plan

SAN FRANCISCO, May Il
CUP)-Secretary Of State SteC
tinius Jr. called another meeting
Of the Big Five today 10 decide
whether the United Nations con-
ference should act on the pro-
posed regional arrangements com
promise without advance Russian
approval.
If Russian instructions on that
issue are not here when the Big
Five convenes late today Stet,
tinius is expected to serve notice
that the United States viii spon.
sor the regional formula alone.
Several members Of the u S.
delegation are known 70 be eX.
tremely irritated by the 4s-hour
delay caused by the Russians.
On the major unsolved issue
trusteeships full conference
trusteeship committee began dis
cussing the working paper
drafted by Cmdr. Harold z. StaS-
sen. The Russians also were un'
derstood 10 be awaiting lnStruc-
tions from Moscow on this issue.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
JAP LOSSES 20 TO

A recapitulalion of Mondays
japanese COunterattack against
the First Marine Division north
of Takamotoii showed 5S5 enemy
dead and an estimated 446 addi-
tional dead-a ratio of 20 to /
to u. S losses. One flamethrow-
ing tank crew claimed ii burned
to death IS enemy soldiers in less
than A minute.
A Pacific fleet communique re-
ported that 46,505 japanese had
been killed and 1,038 taken pris-
oner through Tuesday.
In the last five days, the Ameri-
cans have been killing Japanese
at the rate of 1,400 every "a
hours.
American soldiers and marines
have been dying at the rate of Sc
a day in the last week. Casualties
for the first "A days of the cam
paign through Monday totaled
3.781 dead. 17,004 wounded and
165 missing-a total Of 20,950
Total American casualties al
ready had exceeded those on Two
-19,93S-though the number of
dead to date was 408 fewer.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
YaIlkS
Mop Up
Island

MANILA, May II dNSt-
American seizure of the once.
powerful Japanese airbase at
Valencia in the steaming interior
of MIndanao appeared imminent
today as veterans of the 3lst Di-
vision rolled northward another
five miles along the central
Mindanae highway.
Twenty-fourth Division Yanks
in the DaVao sector 10 the east
were continuing 10 battle isolated
Jap garrison forces IN savage close
range fighting.
With 80 per cent OF Mindanao.
second largest of the Philippine
islands, now in American hands,
u. S. naval patrol vessels steamed
up the wide Davao Gulf and
blasted a hidden Jap naval base
on the eastern shore Several
torpedo boats and other small
craft were demolished and fuel
and ammunition dumps blown up.