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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
NIP WOMEN GIVEN RIGHT
 CAST v0TES
DaI|oting Age Is Reduted-- Sweeping Reforms Hif-
 ling Oriental Nation
By RUSSELL BRINES Associated Press Correspondent

TOKYO, Oct. 13-Premier Shl- deharas crisis" cabinet took its first step today toward meeting Gen. MacArthur's distate that the Japanese Government be made the servant rather than the master or the people.
 In the face of rank skepticism of Nipponese liberals, the cabinet in it's second extraordinary session in two days, approved for submls- sion to the Diet measures granting votes to women and lowering the voting age from 25 to 20 years.
 In a move to comply with the Allied commanders order for free- dom of speech and thought, the cabinet dismissed 4,Soo political tThoueht ControD police and abolished, effective Monday the 13-year-old law under which they had arrested some 60,000 political offenders, mostly Left Wing Llb- erals.
 sweeping HeIorHis
 Gen. MacArthur gave ms ol- rective for sweeping social and po- litical reforms changes necessi- tating revision of Japan's constl- tuition for the first time in more than half a century-to Shidehafa only Thursday, but already one draft of revisions was reported to have been finished.
 The newspaper Asahi sald Prince Fumimaro Konoye, royal career statesman and a recent addition to Emperor Hirohito's mnermost circle of advisers, had presented draft of proposed revisions to the emperor.
 Diets Power Strengthened
 Sources close to Konoye said
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
Mrs. Laval Breaks Her Life Long Silence; Tells
 Details Early Happenings

PARIS, Oct. 13-Gray-haired, mctherly Mrs. Pierre Laval broke a lieflong political silence today to plead for the life of the man she loves.
 Distraught with fears for her con- demned husband, she barred intimate memories of married life in an effort to show that Laval had sought to temper collaborationist extremism and would have remained behind to turn power over to the Allies if the Germans had not carried him off forcibly.
 Mrs. Laval repeatedly indicated that her husband turned to paths of opportunism only after the Munch pact shattered his dream of main- taining a chain of steel around Adolf Hitler's Germany.
 Earnestly, the 61-year-old wife of the former Vichy Chief of State told how she had spirited Jewish friends from the Nazi occupation zone and smuggled out money for them by concealing it in her girdle.
 Mrs. Laval was sewing in the li- brary of her daughters apartment when newspapermen arrived. She was wearing simple black house dress.
 Under tremendous personal ten- cio,, clo +rooad l,or 1ifa uritb ovol from the day when she was his childhood sweetheart in an Auvergne village.
 All Europe was with him Gin 1935) when he wanted to encircle Ger many. {. He made one front from Moscow to Paris, Bucharest, Buda- pest, Belgrade and Rome she said.
 But they destroyed it all in less than three years-the same people who got France into war so unpre- pared.
 They pushed Italy toward Ger many, Then they drove Russia away by Munich. My husband was so bitter against Munich. We went to war without Russia, without Italy. without Yugoslayia, with no Aus tria or Czechoslovakia left. And today they want to keep my hus- band from talking I. It should not te matter of defending Pierre La val but of throwing light on these questions.
 Correspondents found in her words an explanation of Laval's visible dis appointment at his trial when all charges involving pre-war activities were withdrawn as he began to pre- sent testimony covering the period.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
Want Ration poinls
 Lifted, Canned Fish

SEATTLE, Oct. 13-The execu- tive board of the O-International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America, representing 22,000 mem bers on the Pacific Coast and in Alaska, proposed today that ration points be eliminated on all canned fish.
 The board said sufficient sup plies of canned seafood products now are available.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
U. S. AIRMAN BEHEADEDBY
 ONE STROKE
Others Bayoneied fo Death by Drunken Nips . Hor-
 ribIe Tale Revealed
By DUANE IIENNESSY Associated Press Correspondent


 TOKYO. Oct. l3-A war criminal trial and probable execution con- front a cold-blooded Japanese naval interpreter who boasted in his diary of beheading an Allied prisoner and also is accused of de- 'capitating an American flier-after which he goaded drunken Nip. ronese soldiers to bayonet three more to death.
 He IS Kenneth Yunone, now held Tn an Australian prison camp after an international search for identi- fication which even involved the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Yunone was captured April 25. l944, at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, the same week Gen. MacArthur's forces invaded that area. But the details were dis closed only today.
 Beheading Told
 On the previous Oct. 24, in New Guinea, he wrote in his diary:
 
 This afternoon. I myself. with my own Japanese sword. beheaded an enemy soldier prisoner fna- tionality not given). This was new experience for me. really believe it was magnificent. Amongst the Japanese onlookers there were many who declared their admira- ton for my skill in making such an excellent stroke"
 One of six repatriated mission aries who definitely identified Yu- none as author Of the diary-they knew him at the time of the be- heading-told the grim story of what happened to the four Ameri- cans the following Nov. IT.
 Airmen Dccapitated
 After their plane was forced down at sea off New Guinea. the Tanks spent three days in a rubber boat before reaching New Guinea village, where natives be- trayed them into Japanese hands. The missionary related:
 After assembling local natives. including school children. Yunone, as he later boasted, served the emperor personally by decapitat- ing one of the crew. He then or dered guards to bayonet the other three who were present. with hands tied behind them and showing signs of abusive treatment.
 Bayonetted To Death
 The soldiers hesitated and Yu- none gave them saki, upon which they became intoxicated, and dis patched the three Americans by repeated bayonet thrusts."
 In the far-flung search to iden- tify ,Yunone, Royal Canadian Mounted Police found his picture in boarding house where he stayed while attending St. Johns College at Winnipeg in 1926.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
The W ashington Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-Unlike the pro- verbal wise-crack about the first hundred days of matrimony, the first hundred days in the life of any President are the easiest.
 On Oct. 12, Harry Truman began the second half of his first year in the White House and already he has begun to feel the pinch of in creasing trouble. Here is the report card on how he has done so far.
 POLITICS. Politically, Harry has outshone the "old master" He has steered a medium course between Southern Reactionaries and Big city liberals, kept his fingers on the pulse of the country, striven hard for national unity, and leaned over so far to please Congress that it's almost become a sin rather than a virtue. You can't please both sides x indefinitely, however, and the time has just about come when Truman will have to choose 
 between the Liberals and the Con- Servatives.
 CABINET-Taken man for man, Truman's cabinet is better than RooSevelt'S. Truman n believes m delegating responsibility and elimi- mating too much centralized con- trol. His cabinet, however, has one administrative weakness. Most of it's members served time in Con- gress; therefore, have drifted into the bad habit of spending more time shaking hands with visitors than running their departments. Important administrative problems are muffed because the cabinet chiefs simply don't have time to talk to people and make decisions.
 WHITE HOUSE EFFICIENCY Truman so far has operated more efficient administration than Roosevelt. He likes to decide things quickly, doesn't let them hang fire. Sometimes this gets him into trouble, as in the case of his state
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
pEA(ETIME
 BUDGET FOR CANADIANS

OTTAWA, Oct. 13--Canada put her first peacetime budget into op- eration today, cutting personal in- come taxes by 16 per cent and low ering taxes on business as means of stimulating initiative and enter prise in the period of reconstruction.
 The reduction was announced in parliament last night by Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley in presenting his budget for the fiscal year beginning April l, l945. The income tax cut was made effective October 1.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
CITY COUNCIL IS CALLED IN
 SPECIAL MEET

Mayor Ernest Parsons today called 8 special meeting of the Juneau Common Council, for next Tuesday evening. October 16. at 8 o'clock.
 The Mayor stated two purposes for the meeting:
 1-Selection of an architect for the proposed Juneau Memorial Li- brary.
 Reconsideration of letter from the Alaska Housing Authority with regard to utility costs for the FPHA, 3O-unit. housing project on Will oughby Avenue here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
Demonstration by Briiain's GI Wives
 Appears Waning

LONDON, Oct. l3.--A fiye-day demonstration by Britains CT wives who want to join their husbands in the United States appeared to be waning today.
 Only l50 of the women appeared this morning outside the United States embassy for scheduled pro test rally, and spokesman for the Married Women's Association" said that the organization was dissclving.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
AR(HBISH0p
 PASSES ON

ARMAGH. Northern Ireland, Oct l3.--His Eminence Joseph Cardin- al MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, died to- day.
 The S9-year-old prelate, who re- recently celebrated his diamond ju- bilee as a Churchman. was native of Ballygawley, County Tyrone, he land. He received his education in church schools of Armagh and May nooth
 Cardinal MacRory entered the priesthood in 1885. Later he became the first President of Dungannon Academy. taught at Olton College, Birmingham, and at Maynooth. He was named Bishop of Down and Connor in 1915 and was translated to Armagh in 1928 He was created a Cardinal in 1929.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
MUSICIAN HERE

Floyd S. Holt, wellknown Alaska musician. arrived yesterday via Woodley Airways from Anchorage and is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
GRIFFIN IIERE

c. R. Griffin, of Seattle, is guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13

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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-16
JAPANESE PRINCE
COMMITS SUICIDE
Former Premier Konoye
Was Facing U. S. Arrest
AS War Criminal

TOKYO, Sunday, Dec. 16.-W.P)-
Prince Fumimaro Konoye, three
time premier of Japan facing ar
rest as a war criminal, committed
suicide last night in mis- Tokyo
residence.
The announcement was madeSby
Gen Douglas MacArthurs he'd
quarters at 9:45 am. Macarthur S
officer said the prince, who was
to have surrendered today at
Sugamo prison on war criminal
charges, took poison.
Headquarters said the informa-
ton came through Allied counter
intelligence, which received word
through. the J; panese Central Liai-
son office which presumably had
a first hand account from Kbnoye's S
home.
Konoye's intimates said the
prince, known as one, of the
youngest of Japan's ''elder states
men, had been agitated, and de-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-16
SEAL
SALES ARE SLOW
tuberculosis Campaign
Chairman Reports Delay
In Receipt. Of Stamps

Recipients of Christmas Seal
stamp letters have been asked to
reply to them by Christmas, DR..
John c., VESSEL, said yesterday,
disclosing that the returns indicate
lag in the 1945 campaign.
''The response to the appeal and
the messages enclosed with contri-
buttons gives evidence OF a wide
spread interest in the tuberculosis
program in. New Hanover county, y
DR.. VESSEL stated.
However, some seals are unac.
counted for,'' he continued. 1--WE
feels some of these may have been
mislaid or forgotten" the Doctor
said. We can, forget Christmas
seals, but we cannot forget tuber.
culosis,' he stressed. ?
The tuberculosis associs ton re.
ports the sale Of Christmas Seals
has tripled the number of cases
which are being treated.
Many Of those cases would have
been neglected if it had been fo1
the sale of seals,'' DR.. VESSEL de-
clared.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-16
BOISE NOT NEAR
JAPANESE FORCE
Investigators Told Cruiser
Could Not Have Seen
Its Approach

WASHINGTON, Dec. -15-lR-
Pearl Harbor investigators re-
ceived a Navy report today that
the U. S. cruiser Boise was never
closer than 1400 miles to the Japa-i
nese task force which struck Ha-
waii Dec. 7, 1941, and thus could
not have seen its approach.
This reply to a question raised
early in the hearings-whether the
Boise sighted the Japanese force
but did not report it because Of
orders for radio silence-came dur
ing session marked by continued
pickering among Republicans and
Democrats.
At its close, Senator Lucas (D-IlD
told reporters the committee should
find out how and where Gov.
Thomas . E. Dewey learned this
country had "broken' Japan's S
codes.
Lucas had drawn from 1t. Gen.
Leonard T. Gerow, the days wit
ness, an expression of opinion
earlier that any military officer
who deliberately disclosed the
secret in wartime would deserve
the death penalty.
From Gen. George c. Marshall,
the committee had heard last week
that he learned during the 1914
presidential campaign that Dewey
apparently had learned of the
code-cracking. Marshall gave the
committee copies of letters in
which he appealed to the Republi-
can nominee not to disclose the
secret.
Marshall testified that Dewey,
in addition to keeping the secret,
offered to help quiet agitation in
Congress for an investigation of
Pearl Harbor. He said some milf
tary men feared the Japanese
might deduce from the Congress
ional talk that their codes were
being read.
Rep. Gearhart (R-Calif) origin
ally raised. the Boise issue. He
said early in the hearings that he
was informed the ships crew had
seen the japanese force. He de-
manded that the Boise's log be
produced.
Gerhard Gesell, chef assistant
counsel, announcing he had the log,
read it into the record. 1t recorded
that in late evening of Nov. o.,
1941, while conveying merchant
ships to the Philippines, the Boise
\
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-16
United States
Is Named Site
Of UN00ffice
Preparator Commission De-
cides To Meet Monday
To Select City
UNANIMOUS VOTE
Vote Follows Bitter Battle
Marked By Arguments
Over Procedure
Nv FLORA LEWIS

LONDON, Dec. Is Up line
United States was chosen today as
the permanent home of the United
Nations organization after long,
hard-fought battle, and the prepara-
tory commission decided to me1t
Monday to select the city in Whlcn
the world peace agency will be
located.
The selection becomes final with
the stamp of approval Of the Gen.
eral Assembly, and Belgian and
French delegates, who with Brit
ish delegates led the fight for
European site, said the choice
would not be challenged again.
The United States won out on
roll call vote of 80 to IA, with six
nations, including the U nit d
States, abstaining. Previously the
delegates voted down motion fav-
oring a European site by tally OF
25 to %.
Unanimous Motion
Canada, which cast its ballot for
Europe, moved successfully to
make the vote for the United States
unanimous. The motion was sey-
onded by British minister of state
Philip J. Noel Baker, who had
fought throughout for a European
site. = <f
Baker said ''his Majesty's gov
ernment will do everything in their
power to make the organization a
great success
Addressing the delegates, .Adlai
Stevenson, U. S. representative,
asked them not to. harbor any feel
ing over the vote. He told them
F'.the United States IS III for keeps
this time.'' sM
Voting for the United States o.
the roll call were Argentina, Aus
tralia, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelo-Rus
sia, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslo.
vakia, the Dominican republic.
Egypt, Ell Salvador, Guatemala
Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran
Mexico, Nicaragua, P an m a
Paraguay, Peru, Philip pines.
Poland, the Soviet Union, Turkey
the Ukrainian Republic, Uruguay
Venezuela and Yugoslavia.
Voting against the United States
were Belg ;um, Canada, Denmark
France, Greece, Iraq, Lebanon
Liberia, Luxembourg, the Neither.
lands, Norway, Saudi Arabia. I'm
MON of South Africa and the United
Kingdom.
| Abstaining were Col lom b a
Ecuador, Ethiopia, New Zealand
Syria and the United States.
The vote was preceded by {
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-16
BEACH ASKS OPA
TO LIFT CEILINGS
WnghtsvilIe Aldermen Say
Conditions Warrant End
OF Rent Controls

The Mayor md board of Alder
man Of the town of Wrightsville
beach yesterday petitioned the rent
alVlslon Of the Office Of Price Ad-
mlhlstration to consider the lifting
Of rent controls at the resort COM
munity.
In a letter written to Maurice
Moore, head of the local rent di-
vision of the OPA, on behalf of the
lie mayor and aldermen and sign
euoy Il, L. Benson, town clerk, the
'O"n officisls said:
AT a meeting of the mayor and
Oeafd Of aldermen of the Town
VI Wrghtsville Beach held Dec.
ID ls45, was directed to advise
sOu mat the board feels, due to the
isaVy na decrease in year-round liv-
s u.s. .nat the situation fully justi-
usS The lifting of all rent controls
"flghtsville Beach, and we re-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-16
Hess PROPOSALS
WERE ULTIMATUM
Nazi Offered British Choice
Between Surrender Or
Destruction

NUERNERG, Dec. Is. -W.D-
The peace proposal which Rudolf
Hess brought to Britain in May 1941
actually was an arrogant ultima
tum offering the British a choice
bet\. cen immediate surrender or
destruction and permanent enslave-
ment to Germany, the United Press
learned today.
An authoritative source disclosed
IN detail for the first time the six
point. peace bargain" offered by
Adolf Hitler's right-hand man in
last. maneuver to clear Germa-
ny's western flank for the war
against Russia. Z
Hess proposals were made oral
ly and in writing to both the Duke
OF Hamilton, on whose estate in
Scotland he landed after a drama
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-16
SNOW, SLEET FALL
THROUGHOUT NC:
White Mantle Covers Most
Of Western Section;
Little Relief Seen
By The Associated Press

North Carolinians yesterday dug
oft from under their second gen
NeraI snowfall in three days, but
the weatherman last night pre-
dicted little likelihood of another
snow today.
Continued cold, however, is fore
cast, along with the prospect OF
clearing skies.
: Like the snow. Of Thursday, yes
terday's mantle of white appeared
general throughout the central and
western portion of the state. Un-
like that of earlier in the week,
however, the Saturday snow was
not accompanied by s1eet.
Little, if any, transportation diff
ficulties were noted in the state
during yesterdays snowfall, which
began early in the morning ana
continued until mid-afternoon,
Asheville reported some highways
in a semi-cold condition after a
day-long coating of snow, but
buses and other public vehicles
were reported operating on sched-
ule-or near schedule.
The same section Of the state
reported the lowest temperatures
of the day, with high Of n re-
ported late in the afternoon, short
ly before the snow stopped fall
ing. 4
Raleigh reported a days high of
40 and a low of 30, with snow
which continued until 6 o'clock last
night. Traffic was not hindered
to any real degree, however.
In Charlotte, more than an inch
of snow added another layer to a
ground still white 11om Thursdays $
snowfall. A low temperature Of
20 degrees was expected before
the night was over. High for the
day, recorded at 1880 p. m, yes
terday, was .35, but the tempera-
ture lowered around 81 during
most of the day. >.
Meanwhile, intensely cold wealth
er pushed down from the North
Pole and threatened last night to
overspread virtually the entire con-
tinent to the Gulf Of Mexico and
eastward from the Rockies to the
Atlantic coast.
Forecasters in Chicago said
there was nothing in sight to
break the cold spell at least un-
til Wednesday. New temperature
records for today through Wednes-
day might be SET.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-16
WEATHER

FORECAsT.Ax
North Carolina - Partly cloudy 41d
colder Sunday; fair and colder Sunday
night. Monday, increasing cloudiness,
slightly higher temperatures.
5 r. eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data, for. the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am 43; 1850 am. Al; l 80 pm. 80;
1880 pm. SO.
Maximum Al Minimum 36; Mean 80;
Normal 40.
Maximum Al; Minimum7shrdlu ct ct
$ {t Humidity
1870 am. -; 7:30 am. 95; 1:ao pm. 90;
1880 pm. 95.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending s7:3Q
0.50 inches.
oTtal since the first of the month
3.87 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by u.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High High
Wilmington - 7:16 am. :49 am.
TAO pm. 2:30 pm.
Inlet sos am. 1880 am.
5:28 pm. 11:41 pm.
Sunrise TIL; Sunset 05; Moonrise 3:17
p.m.; Moonset 4:10 am.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
am. Saturday, Dec. Is, 1872 feet and Fri
day. Dec. IA, 1873 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-16
Ports Board
AsksFWAFor
Survey Funds
Files Application For Ad-
vance of 100000 For
Statewide Study
ENDORSED BY CHERRY
coptract Approved With
Robert Firm To Make
Preliminary Survey

The North Carolina State Ports
,ntbority has made application to
n, Bureau Of Community Facil;-
4.s of the Feueral Works Agency
.,r an advance of 100000 to make
,rrpIiminary survey of the states
an'ential tonnage, port economic
ap,tlook and prepare accurate cost
sstimates for development of its
norts R. B. Page, chairman of the
stbor.ty. announced here yester-
day.
The action was taken under Title
vof fine War Mobilization and Re-
conversion act of 1914. This law
Authorizes the FWA to advance
monies to non-federal public agen-
ces 10 assist in the preparation
If plans for worthy postwar pro-
jects,
Approved By Cherry
Fully endorsed by Governor R.
Gregg Cherry, the filing of the ap-
njcation comes after extensive
work by the commission, includ-
ing approval Of a contract with the
firm of Robert and Company, .Inc.,,
Of Atlanta, Ca, consulting archi-
tects and engineers, to make the
statewide study. The Robert COM
uanv. in turn, has begun negotia-
tions with the Frederick R. Har-
rs company, of New York, to
carry out details of the survey.
In his recommendations of the
Undertaking, Governor Cherry has
written Oliver T. Ray, of the FWA's
Atlanta office, that granting of the
application ''to cover. the cost of
max ng an economic survey. COM
pletng preliminary plans, pre-
paration of accurate cost estimates
and other essential data will per-
nit this authority to take the next
step in the contemplated construc-
ton Of public port facilities at the
ports of North Carolina. The Au-
thority has been authorized and
directed to construct upon a self
liquidating basis such facilities un-
der the Act of the General Assem-
bly, Of North Carolina creating the
Authority
The proposed public work is an
essential and integral part of the
overall plan for the Development
Of ports il North Carolina and its
resources as determined by the
studies Of needs of the State under
my administration.
THE above request for funds
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-16

and the owners of any COM
pany."
The UAW president said he
was "reliably informed that
'as of October, 1915, the British
government was the owner of
$4,000 shares of General Mo-
tors common stocks, $4,000
shares of the common. stock Of
Chrysler corporation and 34,-
500 shares of common stock Of
the Briggs Manufacturing COM
pany."
A General Motors spokesman
said Thomas disclosure was
news to me'' and that any
comment on the reported Brit
ish interest in GIN would ''have
to come from the companys