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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04

represent Negroes imagine though
surprised
We hope that enough judgment being exercised San
cisco bury such petty differences and claims excuvness Other
would have been better they all had stayed home except Mrs
Bethune.-Washington Tribune.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-05-04
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me wherever I've been and I would
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writing this note. First of all it
has been great help to my morale,
as you print the truth about things
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Sincerely,
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81 April 1915
Headquarters, Company &c"
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Evening star., 1945-03-04

the picture. Or it may be the hand of
doctor or chaplain or Red Cross worker.
But it is really your hand, and mine.
For no hand stretches out to the fighting
man except as you and make it possible
with Bonds and taxes and Red Cross con-
tributions. 1t is your hand this month writ
ing a generous check for the Red Cross,
digging down for few more coins for the
collection box.
And your hand can help keep the smile
on the face of some fighting man. It's
worth it, isn't it? ARTHUR BARTLETT
Evening star., 1945-03-04
The Hell ping Hand

1t is the hand of friendly help, whether
man needs treatment of his wounds, loan
to tide him over family emergency, or
coffee and doughnuts to keep up his morale.
1T IS hand reaching from ship. But it
is also hand reaching from an ambulance,
a hospital, canteen, clubmobile 1t is a
hand stretching all the way from home. For
home is the grand objective oftevery fighter,
and whatever helps him survive wars ruth
lessness helps him nearer his goal.
1t may be the hand of comrade. as in
Evening star., 1945-03-04

A HAND, stretching from a ship to help
IA man on litter. That's what you see.
Yet it is more. 1t is the helping hand,
bringing the light back into fighting mans
eyes, smile to his lips.
1t happens the way you see it in the pic
ture, and it happens in thousands of other
ways. 1t happens every day, every hour,
every minute. 1t happens at sea, on land
and in the air - wherever the war wreaks
its cruelty on our American fighting men,
whether with guns or bombs or exhaustion
or just sheer lonesomeness.
Evening star., 1945-03-04
DNnEMM;xr

PUZZLE. Surrounding the fabulous
Pentagon Building in Washington isa
maze of highways. A bus loaded with
War Department employees was
circling around and around the build.
ing, in a vain attempt to find the
road leading to it.
The driver kept getting farther and
farther away Finally he stopped the
bus, flung open the door, stood up,
said:
Folks, you better get out while
we're still in sight of the place."
MILITANT. Barbara Woollcott is
the pretty young blonde who wrote
I'VE Want Our Jobs" on Page g.
She is also her uncle's own niece:
the late Alexander Woollcott wrote
what he thought - with vengeance.
So does Barbara.
Barbara, as you can tell from her
article, also inherited her uncle's stub
bornness. He would have enjoyed the
title of her best-selling book None
But a Mule
QUICK CHANCE: A Naval Aviation
officer we know brings up startling
fact. He has blue. gray. khaki, white
and green uniforms. also black rain
coat, heavy bridge coat, tan RAIN
coat, black shoes, tan shoes, white
shoes, and varied assortment of
caps.
By shifting the caps and shoes, he's
found So combinations of uniform,
all regulation He thinks there are
more, but got confused at the fifty
eighth combination and figures that
he has enough now to last him for the
duration.
QUERY: sis the Army breeding
criminals"
That is u question which has
bothered many of us recently. In
next weeks issue We shall bring
you an authoritative and chal-
lenging answer by J. Edgar
Hoover, Director of the FBI.
This Week Msgasin.
FOR A BETTER AMERICA
THE WAGONS LAST FLIGHT ..... 4
BY WoiIy Ressa
OVERSEAS WIFE. ]
BY Doris HSms
Ek4iLY Posi- SAYS. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .
I'VE WANT OUR JOBsr. ............ .
Evening star., 1945-03-04

Names and descriptions Of all characters In
fiction stories and semi-6ction articles In this
which happens to be the same a. that q any
person, living or dead. is entirely coincsdentai
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
LIFE SENTENCE
 GIVEN JAP WHO
 TORTURED YANK
Other War Criminals Face Trial al Once for Deeds
 Committed

YOKOHAMA, Dec. 27--A life sen tence at hard labor, instead of the death penalty the prosecution de- manded, was returned today against the first Japanese to be tried on the soil of his surrendered country as a war criminal.
 The sentence, eliciting an expres- s:cn of gratitude for American jus tice from a Japanese on the defense staff, was passed by a U. s. wal crimes commission against Tatsuc Tsuchiya, prison camp guard.
 Among the crimes of which he was convicted was participation in the torture and killing of Pfc. Cor don Teas. of Streator, IL. a prison CT of war.
 The commission, after announce ing it's decision in the morning, re- ccnyented this afternoon to try It. Ken Yuri, charged with direct ing guards to bayonet to death an imprisoned American soldier while American officers watched, helpless to intervene.
 Trial of It. Chotora Furshima charged with beating prisoners and denying them clothing, will oper before second commission tomor- row morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
BIG NAVIGATION
 PROJECT DEPENDS
 ONAppR0pRIATI0N
Improvement of WrangelI Ndrrows 0kehed when
 Funds Available

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Army engineers have informed Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) that work on the proposed $2,731 ,000 Wrangell Narrows project in the Territory can be started next spring if Con- gress approprites funds.
 Bartlett disclosed the engineers assurance today in statement in which he added that the needed appropriation would be included in bill now being prepared to pro- vide funds for civil functions of the War Department.
 Plans for the project call for a channel 300 feet wide and "A feet deep and an anchorage basin ad- jacent to the channel in the vicinity of Mile IA The basin would be 800 yards long, 200 feet wide and 26 feet deep. Annual maintenance cost is set at $1000.
 The Wrangell Narrows improve ment is one of twelve Alaskan pro- jects approved early in l945 for future construction by the Army En- gineers. Ten of them require To- cal cooperation and can not be start ed until the communities have full filled the conditions.
 The Elfin Cove project, not sub ject to local conditions, is apt to be postponed because the engineers, Bartlett said, believe it's relative priority is not sufficiently high to warrant immediate construction. The project calls for expenditure of $38,- 900 for a channel 10 feet deep and 60 feet wide through the outer en- trance and one eight feet deep and 40 feet wide through the inner entrance.
 The ten projects subject to local cooperation are Metlagatla Harbor, Craig Harbor, Meyers Chuck liar bor, Wrangell Harbor, Skagway Har- bor, Petersburg Harbor, Port Alex ander, Gastineau Channel and Sel- dovia Harbor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
France Gets
 Down 10 Biz

PARIS, Dec. 27 - The Breton Woods mono etary stabilization agreement and a $550.000,000 loan by the American Export-Import Bank were approved unanimously by the French Constituent Assem- ply early today.
 The assembly then approved, in effect. the governments devalua- ton of the franc by voting 506 to A to give the government author ity to revalue the Bank of Frances gold stock at the rate of the new paper franc gold content.
 President de Gaulle told the assembly that devaluation of the franc and ratification of the Bret ton Woods Pact were necessary. He said every effort would be made to keep prices and salaries on a steady level, keep the budget ball anced and reduce governmental ex- penSes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
TWO AMERICAN SOLDIERS SHOT IM
 BERLIN SECTION
First Tragedy of Kind Since Occupation of City-
 Search Made

BERLIN, Dec. 27 American military authorities and German civilian police pressed a house-too- house search in the Tempel-Hoi Airdrome district today for the persons responsible for the Christ mas Eve staying of two American soldiers.
 Reports of the shooting were con- firmed officially yesterday by U. s Army authorities, who said the two men had been shot through the head with a 38 caliber gun. Police said they were unable to discover motive for the shootings-the first to take the life of an Am erican soldier since the occupation of Berlin.
 (Names of the two victims were not divulged pending notification of next of kim
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
STEAMER MOVEMENTS


 Steamer Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. due in Ju- neau Monday; goes to Sitka. return ing to Juneau southbound about January 3.
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver tomorrow night at 9 o'clock.
 Taku scheduled to sail from Seat tie Saturday.
 North Sea scheduled to sail frgn Seattle January 4.
 Steamer Yukon scheduled to sail from Seattle January I.
 Steamer Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle January 10, due here 18th or l4th; then goes to Sitka, not to westward
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
Filipino Pied Piper Is 10 Die

MANILA, Dec. G1.--Clark Castillo was sentenced to death today by a Peoples Court as the Pied Piper who led almost 1000 Filipinos to mass execution by the Japanese.
 He was the first collaborator to receive the sentence in decision which established an important pre- cedent that membership in the Japanese sponsored Makapili army constitutes treason.
 Last March, Castillo, on pretense that the Japanese were according safe conduct, cajoled the population of the village of LlAnband, near Li- pa, in Batangas Province. to congre- gate. The Japanese then killed all except members of the Makapili or ganization.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
NO HOPE FOR MENCAUGHT,
 MINE BLAST
Rescue Crews Foil Persist emily 10 Reach 30 to
 50 Miners

PINEVILLE, Ky, Dec. 27-With
 virtually no hope of finding anyone
 alive, rescue workers toiled per-
 sistently in an explosion blocked | mine tunnel today to reach the
 spot where 30 to 50 coal miners
 are entombed.
 Trained rescue crews, working in shifts, inched to within 5000
 feet of the area during the night. Fire, gas fumes, smoke and piled debris snarled every effort for rescue.
 Hope of reaching the entombed
 men today arose when the latest rescue team to report announced a penetration of one and one-half miles from the mine entrance.
 None of the workers, miners or families of the trapped miners, however, voiced hope any would be found alive. Experienced in such disasters, they said the possibility for rescue was small in such an explosion.
 Is Fires Spotted
 PINEVILLE, Ky, Dec. 27.- At least 13 fires have been spotted and put out by rescue workers attempt ing to reach from 30 to 50 men en- tombed by coal mine explosion more than 24 hours ago but hopes that the men would be found alive grew dinner.
 A. D. Sisk, director of rescue op- erations outside the Number One mine of the Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company. said no more fires had Eeen sighted but it was not known whether any were farther back in the tunnel. The workers had penetrated approximately one and a half miles back and were about 3.o00 feet from the entombed men. The number of trapped men still Twas not definitely known today. Es- inmates of officials ranged as high as 50 but others believed the figure would not exceed 30.
 Last hopes of reaching the men alive grew dinner as A hours pass cd since the explosion, which all though not felt or heard above ground, turned the mines timbers and walls into jungle of wreckage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
Powerful Emperor System Now Wiped ()ufin Japanas
 Result of Allied DeUees
Rn DUANE HENNESSY


 TOKYO, fFriday)y Dec. 28.-- The traditionally-worshipped, all-power- ful emperor system that Japan has known in the past is being ''des- trcyed-wired out of existence. as the result of Allied reforms. Brig. Gen. Frayne Baker, General Mac Arthur's public relations officer, said today.
 His written summary of Mac Arthuf's democratization decrees did not, however. mention Emperor IIirohito; neither did 1t indicate that the throne itself would be abolish- ed. The statements referred rather to reforms which have eliminated the thrones traditional feudal con- trols that shackled the nation.
 EpH Roots Pulled Out
 The last evil roots of the Tenno Emperor system were pulled out and destroyed with the abolition of State Shinto' (ancestor worship dir ected and supported by the govern ment), Baker asserted.
 The first step. his statement ex- plained. was when the Japanese War and Navy Departments were blaoked out, and all armament gathered in by the occupation for- oes.
 This first step was really the main one, because that took away the sword which was the key con- trol."
 PrCyressiDe Psychology
 Successive Macarthur steps, the statement added, were studied ones, which must be considered in se- quence to get the full benefit of the progressive psychology applied.
 Destroying the whip-hand control of the empires police force and can- cellation of thought control was an- other far reaching operation Baker declared
 SiDord RemoUed
 Removal of the sword, he said, necessarily accorded free speech. free religion. free press. free assembly, and free petition. and these founda- tions for the new government quick ly won favorable reaction.
 Progressively. decrees freeing en- terprise. controlling currency and in- stituting social security, agrarian reform. collective bargaining and the fair distributor of food, took the people out from under the vertical control of the military. All, he said, were elements that had given power and control to the emperor system,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
MATCHMAKER
 .I5MURDERER

BUTCHER, La. Dec. 27 - Two men have been killed and an- other critically wounded by an unidentified hitch-hiker
 Deputy Sheriff J. P. Pollet said the shooting took place in an automobile near here. He identified the dead as Cpl. Irwin Pincus of New Orleans, and Walter Smith, whose address was not known. The wounded man, whose condition is described as serious, is Gordon Ray, Navy shipfitter of Electra, Texas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
Six Marines Taxi From Coasi-io-(o
 They Beat Traffic Jam

NEW YORK. Dec. 27--The coast to-coast taxicab trip of six Marines determined to beat the west coast transportation tangle ended here today.
 Four of the men, tired from long hours of driving which took them through blizzard and over icy mountain roads. arrived in the cab they hired in San Diego, Calf.
 A fifth Marine was let off at his Pittsburgh home yesterday, and sixth. said goodby to the others "at some Pennsylvania town" where he could catch train for his home. according to the men reach ing here.
 Harry Arisohn. driver of the cab who accompanied them. had offered to bring the men to New York for the cost of the trip. They left the west coast Saturday. Sgt. Sam Stein. one of the Marines. said it amounted to $a0-$40 per man.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
Can'i Live on Wage Paid; F Cuff Jobs,
 Embassy in london

LONDON, Dec. 27-The resigna- tion of F U. S. embassy employees who said they could not live in London on the salaries paid them was announced by American of ficials today.
 Among those who resigned were two vice consuls and seven code room clerks, who must be replaced from the United States. The others were British telephone op- orators. Their salaries were about $2,400 a year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
Marshall, Deputy
 Communist Chief,
 Are al LuntI,eon

CHUNGKING, Dec. 27.2General George c. Marshall, new U. s. en- voy to China, entertained at lunch today Gen. Chou En-lai, deputy vhief of the Chinese Communist party and leader of the Communist delegation to the forthcoming peace and unity conference. It is their second meeting.
 Chou and his delegates had been scheduled to meet with government delegates yesterday to proffer in writing truce proposal. but hego- tiations were postponed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
MINISTERS MAKE PACT
 ATM0S(0W
Handling of Atomic 0ues- lion Is Also Decided,
 Says informant

LONDON, Dec, 27-- Secretary Of State Byrnes said in Moscow today that the Big Three" Foreign Min isters had agreed on the handling of the atomic question. and re- liable informant in London said the foreign ministers also approved four-power rule for Japan.
 The London source said the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia and Great Britain had agreed also to five-year trusteeship of Korea, suggesting that independence would come to that Asiatic Peninsula after 1850.
 The informant. who Is in a po- sition to know what transpired during the II days of talks in Moscow, said the Big Three" agreed that Japan should be con- trolled by Russia, the United States, Great Britain and China.
 Full details of the agreement were not immediately known. but it was understood that the unani- mity rule would prevail on thf four-power council
 Byrnes Leaves Moscow
 The foreign ministers ended their conference before dawn today. and Secretary of State Byrnes left Moscow for Washington, Moscow dispatches said. The ccmmunique on results of the conference is to be issued in Washington, Moscow and London at 10 P. m, fEsTl to- day.
 The London Informant said il was not clear whether final author ity in Japan would rest with the council or if Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur would have the power to override it's decisions as the ad- ministering agent of Japan.
 It already has been announced that Secretary of State Byrnes. Foreign Commissar V. M Molotoy of Russia and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin of Great Britain reached an agreement on procedure for drawing peace treaties with Romania. Hungary. Bulgaria. Fin land and Italy
 Atomic Energy
 On the question of atomic en- ergy, the Big Three were under stood to have adopted the Ameri- can British plan of presenting resolution to the United Nations general assembly in January, out lining their suggestions.
 Russia was said to have agreed to associate herself with the United States, Britain and Canada in the presentation of the resolu- tion. France and China were also said to have been asked to asso- ciate themselves with the dccu- ment.
 During the discussions. Byrnes was understood to have suggested that the United Nations Security Council comprise the proposed atomic control commission.
 The ministers were said to have agreed that the atomic control reports should go to the United Nations Security Council and not to the peace agency's general as- sembly. This was the expressed wish of Russia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
5UFF0CATED ON
 CHRISTMAS DAY,
 FAIRBANKS FIRE

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 27.- John Carl, 27, tractor driver, of Des Moines, Ia. was suffocated in a Christmas Day fire started by an oil stove explosion in his small cabin, He is believed survived by a widow and two children at Des Moines. He had worked on construction jobs at Whitehorse, Y. T, and was to leave today for Barrow
 Carl had been a driver for the Star Cab and also mechanic for the Kansas City Bridge and Construc- ton Company.
 He was identified by a name on a wrist bracelet
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
TWO YOUTHS DIE IN FLAMING CRASH,
 STOLEN TRAN5p0R1

ONTARIO, Calf, Dec. 27.-Two 17-year-olds = with 10 hours flying experience apiece died in CAT transports flaming crash near here Christmas day.
 Coroner R. E. Williams, after a day during which the victims names remained unknown. said their par ents identified them as Jack Stearns Barrows, Studio City, and Gilbert Crolius, North Hollywood
 The big craft, loaned to Aero-Jet Corporation by the Army for tests, was flown from the Army Air Base here, the coroner said, without per- mission. It dived into a vineyard four miles from the field and ex- ploded, moments after it's taksoff.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
By RICHARD KAsIsCHKE

BERLIN, Dec. p = A planned economy for industry and business and widespread revision of land ownership. are the basis of the Soviet program in ian-occupied Germany.
 German Government leaders say the program is progressing satis- factorily despite initial hardships. The reaction of the German little man ranges from courageous opti- mism among the new farmers to helpless doubt in Dresden and com- plaints in the streets of Halle and Leipzig.
 The program of Sovietization is being carried out with veteran Communists in key posts. Industry, farming and mining are largely under control of German provincial governments, aided and supported by the Russian Military Govern ment.
 Soviet Program
 The oviet-sponsored program was observed at work in an area
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 87s, American Can 100, Curtiss-W Wright 8, International Harvester 96. Kennecott 50, New York Central 34h, Northern Pa cific 35A, U. s. Steel 8las, Pound $403l@.
 Sales today were 1,260.000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials. 192.3l; rails, 6266; utilities, 38.06.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
DAUGHTER FOR DAKINs

A daughter was born to MT. and Mrs. F. D. Dakin yesterday morning at 9:08 o'clock in St. Ann's Hospital. The infant weighed 6 pounds, 2is ounces.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
HERE FROM SEATTLE

Frank Colson and N. E. Impett. Seattle residents, have arrived in Juneau and are stopping at the Gastineau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-27
HUNTINGTON GRUENING
 GETS TERRITORIAL JOB

Huntington Gruening, son of the Governor, has been added to the staff of Robert Sheldon. Unem- ployment Compensation Commis- sion