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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
TWO TOP LAPS ARE ORDERED UNDER RARREST
Prince, Also Marquis 10 Be Taken Into Cusfody-
 New Shock Reported
By MURLTN SPENCER

TOKYO. Dec. 6.-Two powerful political figures whom many of the Japanese themselves consider among their top war criminals-Prince Flu mimaro Konoye and Marquis Koichi Kido were ordered arrested as war crimes suspects by General Mac Arthur today.
 Seven other men whose activities date back to the Imperialistic pre- ludes of the Pacific War also were listed as wanted.
 Konoye, the dashing Prince who served as one of Japan's most priz- ed front men," had been Premier three times. Kido, small, shrewd wirepuller, served as Emperor Hiro- hito's right hand man throughout the war.
 Another Shock
 Jittery Tokyo received another shock before it had recovered from MacArthur's announcement Japa- nese Communists announced they WOulQ 4CiCdOt Oll llol Ol 1000 asserted Japanese war crim- inals, including the Emperor and Empress.
 In the Diet, Premier Kijuro Shi- dehara declared that his government was in no position to criticize the Allied lists. He said he had no in- formation of how many persons the occupation authorities intended to indict or try.
 Gets Serious Bloio
 Kyodo News Agency said that Shi- dehara's cabinet had received a serious blow when it failed to ob- tain an Allied reprive for Prince Morisama Nashimoto, who was nam ed as a war crimes suspect several days ago. Rumors are circulating that the cabinet will be forced to resign at the end of the Diet ses- sion, Kyodo reported.
 Konoye, who was Premier at the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
BIG CREDIT BY BRITAIN
 FROM us.
Four Billion Dollars 10 Be Advanced 10 War;
 shaken Nation

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - The United States agreed today to give war-shaken Britain credit of $4,4o0. 100000, provided Congress is willing.
 At the same time, the two gov ernments pledged to work together in an effort to achieve worldwide expansion of trade and job oppor- tunities by reducing tariffs, cartels and other trade barriers.
 In addition, they made a final settlement of lend-lease and other wartime financial dealings between this country and the United King dom.
 Loan Agreement
 Under terms of the loan agree ment-announced simultaneously in Washington and London-Britain would have years to repay.
 For the first five years she would pay nothing. Tn 1851 she would make the first of 50 miscellaneous, including interest of two per cent computed each year on the amount still owed.
 Under certain adverse conditions If British trade fell off badly and her money reserves dropped = the interest payment could be skipped in those years.
 Assuming 50 iuil payments, the grand total repaid would be about 000,000,0O0. The last installment would fall due in the year POOL
 Of the total 400.000,000 credit, Britain would receive only $3,750.- 100000 in cash-the amount of a loan which Congress must ap- prove.
 The remainder estimated at S650, ,00O 000-is the amount the two governments agreed that Britain will owe this country after CD lend lease and reverse lend-1ease ac- counts have been balanced, @ U. S.-owned surplus property in Brit ain has been transferred to British title and (3) certain claims be- tween the two governments have been settled.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Princess Norah from the south scheduled to arrive at 8 tonight.
 Denali from Seattle, scheduled to arrive Sunday.
 North Sea from Seattle scheduled to arrive Monday
 Tongass scheduled to sail from Seattle today.
 Yukon from the west bound for Seattle. scheduled to arrive at 10 o'clock Friday night.
 Alaska scheduled Southbound sometime Saturday.
 Baranof scheduled southbound about December l2.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
Settlement of GM And Cl0 Trouble
 Is Believed Near

DETROIT, Dec. 6.-Officials of General Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers are resuming their negotiations this afternoon, and the outlook generally is optimistic. CIO President Philip Murray says that all points in dispute will be covered A citizens committee that was invited by the Union to look into the dis pute issued 8 report today, saying that the full possibilities of collec- tive bargaining had not been ex- hausted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
NATI0NALI5T5 NEAR MUkDEN

Chungking ETAOIN l ETAOIN
 CHUNGKING, Dec. 6 - Chinese Nationalist forces are within 25 miles of Mukden but will delay their entry until Russia approves, a Manchurian dispatch reported today.
 Soviet troops are garrisoning Mukden; there are no Chinese Communists in the city, the report said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
Japanese Bomb for
 His Christmas Gift

KALISPELL, Mont, Dec. = Sheriff Duncan Mccarthy has re- ceived his first Christmas present. But he's not quite sure he wants it. Seems a lumberman cutting Christmas trees in the hills near here found strange, oblong gadget which he presented to the sheriff. Mccarthy telephoned Army officials at Helena and described the find. Said the voice at the other end:
 You'd better find someone who knows about detonating explosives. What you've got is Japanese bomb"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
AGREES WEDS

NEW YORK, Dec. 6 = Maria Margharita Bolada, whose stage and screen name is Margo. was honeymooning today with It. Eddie Albert, USN, former motion picture actor The couple was married yes- terday.
 Margo's first marriage to Francis Lederer ended in divorce in l940.
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25 LOSE LIVES ON ALASKA NAVY PLANE
MARSHALL GIVES TESTIMONY, PEARL
 HARB0R INQUIRY

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 = Gen. George c. Marshall testified today there was nothing in Allied staff conferences before Pearl Harbor that committed this nation to go to war unless attacked in the Pacific.
 The wartime chief of staff told the joint congressional Pearl Har- Dor Investigating committee that he participated in these confer ences of American, British, Cana dian and Dutch officers.
 His testimony was elicited to clear up contentious that the United States was committed to war before Dec. T, l941, the day the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor.
 Chief Counsel William Mitchell took over questioning of Marshall, one of the most important wit nesses of the inquiry, and dwelt at length on the prewar military talks.
 A report of some of the con- ferences was inserted in the record and Mitchell asked:
 Did you ever know of any com mitment by the President or any one else by which the United States was committed to engage in war without being attacked?"
 No sir, did not" Marshall re- piled.
 Did these conferences contain any commitment for the United States to go to war?"
 No sir" Mars:lan answered en- phatically. T didn't interpret them as such. They were intended to deal only with possible eventuali- ties"
 Gen. Marshall also declared that the Japs were making a supreme gamble when they attacked Pearl Harbor. He says the enemy's whole campaign of aggression could have been smashed if we had made a viligant defense"
 The wartime chief of staff told Senate investigators that surprise attack is either a triumph or a catastrophe-and that is just what the Japs were risking.
 Marshall also declared that the Army and Navy had enough strength at Pearl Harbor on Dec. T, 1941, to break up the Jap at tack and greatly lessen" the damage.
 If the Japs had been detected and hit at Pearl Harbor, Marshall saids this would have been the re- sult-the Jap advance into Malaya would have been halted Their drive into o-China would have had to stop The Burma Road would not have been cut, and would not have fallen.
 Earlier in his testimony, Marshall told of his efforts to strengthen the weak defenses of Hawaii and of his warnings to prepare for a surprise attack. He said he robbed combat pursuit squadrons in the United States of 31 P-36 planes to send to Hawaii. Planes available in Honolulu, he said, were out of date, submarine defense was poor, and radar installations inadequate.
 At a War Department council in 1941, Marshall said, he warned that the fleet must be prepared for surprise raid, al- though he did not think one was probable. He also declared that so far IS he knew neither President nor anyone else had committed us to go to war unless attacked.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
LAST HOURS
 OF HITLER
 REVEALED
Blonde German Ayiafrix Tells of Death Palf,
 Final Meeting

OBERURSEL, Germany, Dec. G. Capt. Hanna Reitsch, German avia- trix who flew the last Nazi plane out of Berlin, has told U. s. Counter Intelligence investigators that the missing Martin Bormann joined in death pact with Hitler a few hours before the German capital fell.
 The blonde, 33-year-old pilot gave a graphic description of the final hours of Hitler and his companions in Reichschancellery bunker. but said she left upon the Fuehrer's of- ders before suicides were carried out.
 The army took her story off the secret list yesterday with the com- ment that it's was probably as ac- curate a description as will be ob- tained of those last days"
 Bormann, aide to Hitler, Chief of the Nazi s. A. (Storm Troops) !, and head of the Volkssturm, the peoples militia called to action in the final weeks of the war, is being tried in absentia by the Internation- al Military Tribunal at Nuremberg for war crimes.
 Drama of End
 The drama of the, end bordered on comic opera as Russian shells burst overhead. according to Capt. Reitsch. She said Hitler berated Goering, Himmler and others as traitors while going through the motions of directing a phantom res cue army that had been wiped out days before.
 Finish of NasiSm
 She reported further:
 Goebbels, surrounded by his wife and six children, launched into bursts of oratory with all the thea tries of a ham actor. Eva Braun became disgustingly dramatic. Blank faced Borman kept at his desk, writ ing a historical record of the finish of Nazism.
 As the intensity of the Russian barrage increased, the shaking Fueh- Ter, in the verge of collapse, called for repeated suicide rehearsals. S. s. guards. charged with seeing that the bodies were destroyed, stood by.
 Eva Changes Clothes
 Hitler told her how he was count ing on the army of a General Wenck, moving up from the south, to drive the Russians back Later she learned that Wenck's forces had been wiped out days before.
 Goebbels was "insanely incensed over Goering's treachery. He strode about his small luxurious quarters like an animal"
 Evan Braun spent most of her time polishing her fingernails and changing her clothes,' remarking over and over again: Poor, poor Adolf, deserted by everyone, betray- ed by all"
 Like Boy Ptdying
 Hitler's manner and physical con- dition had sunk to the lower depths. He would stride about the shelter waving road map that was fast disintegrating from the sweat of his hands, planning Wencks campaign He was like young boy play ing at war"
 Suicide Council
 On the night of April 27, as the Russian bombardment reached it's highest peak, another suicide coun- cil was called by the Fuehrer The last instructions were given <. The group was hypnotized. Then everyone made little speeches, swear ing allegiance to the Fuehrer and Germany"
 Hitler then ordered Greim and Capt. Reitsch to make a getaway. A small armored vehicle took them to a plane and they took off on broad street leading from Branden- burger.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
BOND SALES HERE
 SpURT YESTERDAY

Wkh Series "E" bonds totaling 800 passed over the countr by To- cal issuing agencies yesterday, the Channel areas Victory Loan cam paign took a seven-league step to- ward quota completion. Juneau Douglas "E" bond sales now stand at $79,687 50, with three days issu- ings still to count toward the $l30,00O goal,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON


 WASHINGTON - If there were more men in the Army like Gen. Eisenhower, this newsman would not be so swamped with soldier mail
 The other day Sgt. Samuel Cohen of Philadelphia, stationed in Berlin, received cable telling of a serious emergency at home. Physi- clans advised his return immedi- ately. Two weeks passed and all Cohen got was the usual run around. He couldn't get furlough. Finally, a friend suggested that Cohen call Gen. Ike directly.
 What can I lose?" Cohen asked, going to a telephone.
 When he asked the GI. oper- ator for Gen. Eisenhower, the op- orator asked with no surprise in his voice whether he should ring the general at his home or his office. Since it was then about 10 o'clock in the evening, Cohen said to try the generals home.
 An aide to Eisenhower answered and listened to Cohen's story, eX- cused himself for few minutes, came back to the telephone and said, Sergeant, if you will call the office of Gen. Clay, perhaps some thing can be arranged for you.
 You had better wait about 10 minutes before calling Gen. Clay he added ito give Gen. Eisenhower chance to talk with him first"
 Ten minutes later, Cohen called Gen. Clay, where an aide said, "Oh, yes, Sergeant, we've been expecting your call. Now can you come in at o'clock tomorrow morning? We'll see about transportation then.
 Cohen took off by air the next day before noon.
 TRUMAN TURNS REPORTER
 Congressional leaders who met with President Truman last week to discuss serious legislative prob lems got a chuckle over Truman's story about his surprise flight to see his mother on her 93rd birth day.
 Newspapers have already told how Truman called the Kansas S City Star to announce his arrival at Grandview, Mo. But in addi-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
-- STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Dec 6. Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is SIS, Anaconda 46Ts, Curtiss- Wright 87s, International Harvester 98, Kenecott 50as, New York Central 3114, Northern Pacific 37A, U. s. Steel 83%, Pound $4.031a
 Sales today were 2,290,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows; Industrials, 1884; rails, 64.22; utilities, 37.71.
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Canada was French Colony until l763 when it was-ceded to the Brit ish by the treaty of Paris.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-14

| :" . :. to me mostly hitting the citizens who have built homes here and are the mainstays for developing the ctiy
 T am plumb dsgusted with the whole municipal set-up.
 There is also evidence of discriminatory nequali- ties in the new taxation system Why should anyone be penalized for building nice home and then see all about him shacks and rundown places and fire traps which produce rental revenues but pay scarcely any taxes?
 High taxes will drive people away instead of building up place."
 You can see that Corporal Tomlinson's ideas on taxes differ sharply from the modern theories on taxes. He's worrying about paying his municipal taxes We wonder how he would feel if he came home and found that in addition he would have to pay Terri torial income and Territorial property tax Two such taxes proposed during the last session of the Legislature and defeated by margins and no one was very excited about it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-14
20 YEARS AGO {yfrs fMr EMPIRE x.,.l,sE
JUNE IA, 1925


 The scheduled meet the Alaska Juneau in the city baseball series
 Joe the City of Rome with party of Dougases snend Gertrude Madeline and Josephine Reidi and Gordon Gray.
 sante Degan Stka remain week
 of freight and many tourists aboard the Jeers was in port night from the south
 Roy Thomas the hospital with severe injuries as of automobile locking sending up the the plank roadway the Thane road overtnning twice.
 Frank Lisansi and registered Gastneau Hotel
 The American sponsoring dance July
 Julia Stragier Esebeth from Kilsnoo.
 from Hoonah.
 Weather report: High, 4s; low 43 drizzing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-14
A SOLDIER ON TAXES

According to Editor Sd Charles of the Ketchikan Fishing News the Ketchikan City Council is due to get not few complaints concerning assessment revalua- tons of property. This may may not be an indica- ton of what is to come in Juneau Every city should have it's property revalued from time to time and every attempt should be made to the inequalities which crop in However it seems that the result in Ketchkan has been general increase in taxes.
 The viewpoint of the the armed forces was expressed in Ketchikan recently by corporal home on furough We feel that this mans statement is worth reprinting here:
 Corporal Robert J. Tomnson, home on furlough, is burned up and says when the boys finally return from the fighting fronts there's likely to be few changes made.
 T am speaking of the increase in assessment valuations" he said another way of raising taxes above the legal limit My father and I worked hard to build us home here and find that the assessor has doubled the assessment on it this year. On such incidents
 All of willing to pay for the proper upkeep of the city but cannot help wondering about the big in salaries and extra help hired. It looks like the councilmen trying to take it out of the hides of the average citizen for municipal spree It is little incentive to remain and live in Ketchikan if home owners are to be penalized with extra taxes in the form of artificial values In this way the legal limit of 20 mills could be doubled
 Citizens were told that the revaluation of city property for which the city paid out $9250 a contract and S750 for extra labor lump directly was to reach ransients and property who had not been paying their share Of Instead it seems
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-14
DILETTANTE DETECTIVE

Tn accordance with our tele- phone conversation yesterday, am asking Col. Connely as our west coast representative who made all arrangements with MT and Mrs. William P. Roth, 1916 Jackson Street, for your possible occupancy of their home, to call on them this morning He will express your deep regret and fullest appreciation stating that emergencies have in- terfered with your plans that you are not now contemplating coming here and must leave the country shortly.
 We think 1t would be most appropriate, in addition if you wrote q personal letter to the same effect to MT. and Mrs. Roth at the above address.
 Hanger William L. Langer, head of reasearch and analysis diyision) and Robinson have been asked by General Embiek to see
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-14
We Must Beware of Jap Trickery
(Bremerton Sum

tBTemertOn sum
 Diplomatic circles are excited by the report that Tokyo taught grim lesson in the utter destruction of Germany has offered conditional peace terms
 According to insiders, the Suzuki cabinet with the backing of the financial lords has promised to with draw from China Manchuria Malaya and the East Indies provided that the Allies agreed not to occupy the Nipponese mainland
 If there is any truth in the report, it is artfuy timed The willy Japs think that parents of veterans in the European theatre scheduled for transportation Ito the Pacific would be willing to call quits to bring home their sons They that American capital and labor would settle for half loaf in the far east in order to resume business usual"
 What are the probable consequences of swallowing the bait?
 We would for other nations their lost colonies; already have won our own Philippines. But did not go to merely to regain plantations for the Dutch rubber cartel Chinese custom houses for the Kuomingtang
 We fight because were treacherously attacked at Pearl Harbor and Pacific seaboard will always be danger of sneak invasion so long as Japan is power in the Pacific. Our sword is drawn to avenge martyred dead and tortured living. Our debt to them cannot be paid by claspng bloody Japanese hands in negotiated friendship.
 Should we allow the scotched snake to crawl back into it's nest, it would strike again if it's poisonous fangs were not drawn. More than million fresh troops are in Japan. Two million five hundred thousand conscrpts ready for mobilization Sixty additional divisions be mustered short notice.
 If this enormous army were left on the loose, we should be obliged for years to keep American boys in jungle bases watching it. We would not dare to bring home our lest the Japs bounce on Alaska at the first favorable moment We would never know what went on behind the veil of secrecy in Nippon what warships and giant planes were under con- struction for a second try-what ocean-crossng " bombs were being made for raids Bremerton, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles
 Unconditional surrender has made us safe from the Naz menace for a generation. President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill have declared that it alone can guarantee peace in the Pacific
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him this noon. Will report any development from such meeting.
 Meanwhile I have inspected all of our installations in this vicinity and have had a talk with Mrs. Simon Buckner wife of the U. s. Army Commander on Okinawa) who tells me that Vanderblue pre- sented my letter of introduction to her and departed for his objective with a personal letter from her to her husband She and General and Mrs. Frank Mccoy are dining with us tomorrow night. She hears frequently from her husband the last letter being April 18th, and will be glad to write him anything which you might like to communi- cate to him
 Am satisfied that I will have completed any possible usefulness here by next Sunday, May 6, when will leave by plane for Los An geles and Catalina. I expect to be
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question: When is a document secret?"
 The Commerce Department and Foreign Economic Administration long have disliked the State De- partment's policy of marking every thing secret Even enemy radio broadcasts, which can be picked up by any radio station, are stamped secret" Common wisecrack is that one diplomat even stamped his ter-office telephone directory confidential
 Just as bad as the State Depart ment is the office of Strategic Services, nicknamed the "Oh So Secret" The young military men working in Europe and Asia for the OSS have done one of the truly great jobs of the war, and some day their whole story can be writ ten. No praise is too great for them.
 But seated in washington swivel chairs or balancing teacups in cap ital drawing are a group of ex-diplomats and Wall Street brokers who get great kick out of playing amateur detective. The efficient FBI could have done their job with half their operators.
 These Hairbreadth Harrys delight
 These Hairbreadth Harry's delight payers expense frequently about nothing more important than hotel reservations and dinner parties all marked secret" For instance here is telegram, from one of the OSS amateur dicks at the San Francisco conference, relating who he dined with, what his travel res ervations were, and how he hoped to get the files of a retired Span ish-American War veteran, Gen Ralph Van Deeman; yet the tele- gram, sent to a member of the OSS here, has secret" stamped all over it.
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in Washington by the next week end.
 Before I left Washington, Mrs. Fox talked to me about General Van Deeman's library under the impression that it might be of much interest to us to acquire it if he were willing to sell it or part with 1t. She could not tell me where she got the impression ex- cept in a previous casual conversa- tion with Whitney Shepardson. When I was here in December l94l, understood from Gen. Dec man that his activities were en- tirely confined to domestic issues. This, in my opinion, would not benefit us as much as agencies more directly affected I know he was giving his material as he re- ceived it to the FBI. Unless you think it important for me to go to San Diego on this errand I doubt If anything would come of such a trip. Will, however, be glad to run down some day this week if you want me to do so."
 All of this was telegraphed not mailed to Washington at the tax payers expense, at priority rates and marked in large letters and in several places secret"
 tCop,riEht. 1915. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)