davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1945-09-10
NovyConstructs
Shortened Air
Route to Tokyo
Y the Associated RIcss.

GUAM, Sept. l0.-The Navy an
nounced today that construction has
been started to provide for a Short
ened air route between the United
States and Japan. 1t will be via
Midway, Wake and Marcus Islands.
First use of this route will be by
the Navy Air Transport Service. 1t
may become a commercial route
later.
Seabees of the 51st Battalion and
the Marine 5th Military Police Bat
talon are on Marcus. using the
labor of nearly $50 Japanese SOL
diers and sailors remaining on that
island after it's surrender.
They are reconstructing runways
blasted by American bombs and
shells.
This new route will save nearly
a days flying time from the present
route, via Hawaii, Johnston Island,
IKwajalein and Guam to Tokyo.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
SchmeIing Is Acquitted
OF Lying 10 Officials
81 the Associated Press.

HAMBURG, Sept. 10. - Max
Schmeling, former world heavy
weight boxing champion, today was
acquitted by an Allied military gov
ernment court of a charge that he
made false statements to a member
OF the Allied forces contrary to mills
tary government regulations.
German civilians applauded en-
Enthusiastically when the president of
the court, 1t. Col. Donald Kaberry,
read the acquittal.
The action followed a four-hour
re-examination of six witnesses in
cluding Vivian Bachelor, British
war correspondent, whose interview
with the former champion on his
plan to re-educate German youth
by publishing books brought forth
the charge against Schmeling.
Two British officers and the Ger
man interpreter who accompanied
Miss Bachelor to Schmeling's home
for the interview, as well as two
members Of the Hammerich and
Lesser publishing Arm also were re-.
examined.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Australia Says Jops Ate Flesh
of Buyoneted u. S. Prisoners

then while they were still alive
sliced off their flesh for food.
Times and places were not dis
closed.
The atrocity report was prepared
for submission to the United Ma
tions War Crimes Commission
From authentic evidence it was
established that the prisoners were
eaten and in some cases, the re-
port said, human flesh was found in
Japanese mess kits or over camp
fires. The report contained con-
fessions from japanese soldiers who
admitted they cut up and ate Allied
prisoners.
Referring to the report, H. v
Evatt, Australian Minister for Ex-
ternal Affairs, said crimes commit
ted by the Japanese forces in the
field were part of a system of ter
rorism in which all Japanese troops
and commanders participated"
The document also told how two
(see PRISONERS Page A-5)
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Shouting Crowds Cheer General
In Parade to Monument Grounds;
Gets Keys to City and Scroll
Says Jops Must Be
Forced to Realize
Folly of Ambitions

Hundreds of thousands OF
Washingtonians sWarmed over
the Monument Grounds and
waved their flags along a 2-mile
parade route to give a hero's
welcome to Gen. Jonathan M
Wainwright today.
At the Monument Grounds alone,
scene of the city's part in the cele-
bration, between 10000 and 100000
persons stood in a sea of flags to
catch glimpse of the tall, gaunt
general.
Still looking worn from his three
years of Jap captivity, the general
appeared visibly moved by his well
come as he waved again and again
to the crowds.
Wife at His Side.
At his side was his wife Kitty, her
eyes bright from the tears she had
struggled against at the airport
when the generals four-engined
transport dipped out of the sky to
land at 1921 pm.
After a first Hello, darling" she
broke through the crowd to greet
him at the airport, she never left
his side. Occasionally Gen. Vain
wright turned from the crowd to
smile at the wife he hadn't seen in
four and half years.
Ahead of him were the honors to
be rendered by Congress and his
Commander in Chief, who awaited
his coming at the White House.
Everywhere he looked, he could
see the smiling-and sometimes
tear-stained-faces of the people
who had come to share in the fam
lily reunion.
These were the people who had
shared his wife's prayers in the dark
days OF Bataan and Corregidor. To-
day they lined the streets and filled
to overflowing the green slopes OF
the Monument Grounds to share
her joy.
U. S. Workers Get Time Off.
The crowds were swelled by Gov
ernment workers who left their
desks at noon to catch a glimpse of
the returning hero. They were
given three hours to take their part
in the celebration.
Shouting themselves hoarse above
the band music, the crowds cheerec
Gen. Wainwright. They continued
to cheer the occupants of the car!
that followed him. In those car'
were the men who fought with hin
and lived through captivity with
him-Brig, Gen. Lewis C. Beebe, 1t
Evening star., 1945-09-10
House Will Take Up
Pearl Harbor Inquiry
Resolution Tomorrow
Martin to Seek EquoI
Representation for COP
On Committees

The House, by unanimous con-
sent, agreed to take up the
resolution for joint congress
sional investigation of Pearl
Harbor tomorrow.
The resolution will be subject to
amendment under the agreement
Minority Leader Martin is expected
to propose an amendment for equal
Republican representation on the in
vestigating committee. AS the reso-
luton passed the Senate, it provides
for a joint committee composed OF
three Democrats and two Repub-
licanS from each chamber Martin s
contention is that the committee
and the investigation should be BIZ
partisan. This will be resisted by the
Democratic leadership.
Majority Leader Mccormack sub
mitted the request for unanimous
consent agreement to take up the
resolution tomorrow. Mr.. Martin
agreed to it since it would be pos
sible to offer amendments. Undes
the agreement there will be an
hours debate on the resolution be-
fore it is considered for amendment
Two Questions Arise.
With the outcome of the resolu-
ton virtually foregone conclusion,
interest in the case was heightened
by two other questions:
l. Whether Rear Admiral Hus-
band E. Kimmel, naval commander
at the Pacific bastion when the
japanese struck, will accept the
Navy's offer of a court-martial.
2. Whether still secret Navy docu-
ments should be made public against
official wishes.
Those two questions were raised
over the week end as the result
of a letter from Secretary of the
Navy Forrestal to Chairman Walsh
of the Senate Naval Affairs Com
mittee. Senator Walsh released
portions of the letter.
Record Handed Committee.
In it Mr.. Forrestal disclosed that
he had offered Admiral Kimmel an
open trial in letter dated August
%, the day before President Tru-
man released the findings of Army
and Navy boards set up to investi-
gate the military disaster.
Admiral Kimmel, who long had
demanded a court-martial, did not
reply Immediately, and second
letter was sent last week. There
has been no announcement of any
response.
1t has not been disclosed whether
the War Department made SINH
lar offer to Maj. Gen. Walter C.
Short, the Army commander at
Pearl Harbor at the time. Gen
Short said after the Army-Navy
findings were released, MY con-
science is clear"
Mr.. Forrestafs letter to Senator
Walsh reported that the full record
of the Navy's Pearl Harbor in
quiry was being sent to Senator
Walsh's committee. 1t added the
Navy would abide by the commit
tees decision whether any unpub-
lished documents should be made
public.
Mr.. Forrestal put 1t this way:
Whether the information - Is
(see PEARL HARBoR, Page A-23
Evening star., 1945-09-10
History to Refute u. S. Verdict
On War Gull, TOTO Declares
Silent on Defense in Exclusive Interview;
Reported Planning to Accuse Roosevelt

things in moods ranging from steely
eyed impassivity to hearty laughter
A little earlier, a formerly highly
placed japanese politician told us
that TOTO expected to be tried as a
war criminal and hoped to accuse
President Roosevelt of being the
worlds top war criminal. then COM
NIT hara-kiri. OF this TOTO himself
sharply refused to speak.
He expressed his whole attitude
in this statement:
Real soldiers fight to the finish
In the field. War ends when peace
is declared. Each respects an enemy
who fights hard and cleanly and SC
Macarthur has respect of myself
as well as the Japanese people"
TOTO said we were the first Ameri-
I-----------------------z-
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Hy the Associated Press.

~ tue AooUCldLtC 'IcoS.
The Australian government in an
official statement declared today
that Japanese soldiers ate the flesh
of American prisoners of war after
they had been used for bayonet
practice.
In other parts of the Far East
stories of other brutal japanese
treatment came to light as hun
dreds of American prisoners reached
safety and told of their existence in
Japanese hell camps.
Thousands of other American
prisoners were aboard ships and
planes on their way home.
In an official document made pub
lie today Australian authorities dis
closed that the Japanese had "re-
sorted to canibalism" against Allied
prisoners.
The atrocity report said that
japanese soldiers tied the hands OF
captured American and Australian
soldiers behind them, used the help
less men for bayonet practice and
Evening star., 1945-09-10

Col. John R. Pugh, 1t. Col. Thomas
Dooley and T/Sergt. Hubert Carroll
If Gen. Wainwright still suffered
from the toothache which was treat
ed while his transport refueled in
Omaha, he didn't show it in the
smiling face he turned to the crowds
waving and calling their greetings
to him.
Sun Comes Out of Hiding.
Even the sun, hidden for an hour
behind a summer shower, came out
to beam its welcome on Gen. VAIN
wright, returning to his adopted
city through an aisle of flags.
A powerful, four -engined Army
transport had brought him to
Washington.
AS the tall, graying general
stepped from the transport the
Army Band sounded four ruff
f1es and four fourishes and then
broke into the Generals March,
Mrs. Wainwright rushed to embrace
her husband as Gen. George C.
Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and
Gen. Jacob L. Devers, commander
OF the Army Ground Forces, moved
forward to greet him.
Fifteen minutes later, the FIVE
car motorcade, led and followed by
arnored cars and fanked by motor
cycle police, sped toward the Penta-
gon where Al veterans of Bataan
and Corregidor had assembled for
a greeting from the man who kept
up their courage in the early months
of 1912.
After short visit with Secretary
Stimson, Gen. Wainwright stepped
into the lead car again to cross the
Memorial Bridge, where the car
Continual On Doc Nnl,,,...a i !
Evening star., 1945-09-10
.Grocers Launch
Drive 10 End
Meat Rationing
National Association
Tells Food Official
Supplies Are Ample
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.


An intensive drive to bring
about an immediate end of all
meat rationing has been opened
by the National Association of
Retail Grocers, representing a
large segment of the Nation S
retail food industry, it was
learned today, as reports per-
sisted that meat rationing would
be ended by October /.
An OPA spokesman pointed out
meanwhile, that no date has been
set by the OPA and the Agriculture
Department for the termination of
meat rationing.
Reports that meat rationing would
end much sooner than anticipated
followed an OPA action Saturday
lifting all its controls over the
amount of livestock that could be
slaughtered and doing away with its
distribution program controlling
meat shipments.
Wire Ple1 to BowIes.
The Gracer' 4.ssocia ton has wirec
Price Administrator Bowles, Secre-
tary of Agriculture Anderson, chair.
man of Senate and House Agricul.
ture and Small Business Committees
and two special food study commit.
tees, urging a prompt termination
of rationing.
The association based its rec
ommendation on a wire survey last
Friday and Saturday of membe,
organizations in As States.
The group claims there are ample
supplies Of meat, particularly In the
light Of better supplies of beef ano
chicken. but that wholesalers In
some cities are finding retailers
turning down shipments for lack OF
red points.
Meat waste likewise Is claimed
by the association which cites in
stances Of spoilage above norma
in Omaha and Chicago.
A check with the retail trade here
showed no instances of spoilage OF
meat wholesalers trucks beine
turned back by retailers for lack O,
ration currency. Beef and veal sup.
plies were described as plentiful
however. the best, in facr since last
year. In this connection, one chair
store began advertising beefsteak.
today for the first time in many
| months.
See Tremendous Marketings.
An Official of the national retailer.
group predicted that by September
IS I'VE will have tremendous mar.
ketings of livestock, particularly o.
utility beef"
"All we want is to give retailer
an opportunity to supply consume
appetites which are limited by rec
point rationing,' the official de
clared.
Secretary Anderson was quote,
several weeks ago to the effect tha
meat supplies would improve suffi
GENTLY to JUSTIFY an end of ration
ing early this fall, perhaps as sool
as September. Mr.. Bowles was op
posed to such action so soon an,
proceeded to establish new and re
duced point values for September.
Agriculture Department officials
in the meantime, report that tn
final decision on lifting of rationin
will be determined by cattle market
ings during the next two weeks
An extra large run of cattle coul,
bring about a decision to hal
rationing, they said.
Movement of cattle to market /
some four weeks behind normal s.
far, according to the department
This situation has been brough
about above normal pasture con
ditions, encouraging longer feed
ing of range cattle.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
China Demands Japs
Hand Over Tokyo's
Puppet President
Order Follows Surrender
| At Nunkine; Report Of
Chen's Suicide Doubted
e, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NANKING, Sept. 10.-Japanese
leaders, who surrendered their
million-man force in China yes
terday, were faced today with a
blunt demand from the victori-
GUS Chinese that they give up
the Tokyo-appointed puppet
president of China and seven OF
his aides.
A few hours after Gen. Yasutsugu
Okamura, commander of all Japa-
nese forces in China, signed the
surrender document which formally
brought to close the Chinese -Japa-
nese war, he was handed an order
directing him to produce Chen
Kung-po and seven other puppet
government officials who, the Chi.
nese said, "are now hiding in ia
pan"
Chinese authorities said a JAP
anese report that Chen committed
suicide on August % was false and
that he and his companions had feo
to Japan.
Jap Laws Nullified.
AS the Chinese celebrated the END
of the bloody conflict, a decree was
issued nullifying all laws and Or
ders issued by the Japanese and
their puppets. Another decree re-
scinded all taxes and other levies
in Marking, prewar Chinese capital
which until few days ago had been
in japanese hands.
The surrender document. signed
for China by Gen. Ho Ying-chin
field forces commander, was on its
way to Generalissimo Chang Kai-
shek in Chungking today.
The tense, dramatic surrender
ceremonies, ending a struggle which
had bled China's economy and man.
power since 1887, required 81 min
(See CHINA, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Hess Plane to Be Shown

LONDON, Sept. 10 tP.-The Ger
man plane in which Rudolf Hess
made his famous 194l flight to Scot
land will be on view for the first
time Saturday as part of nation
wide program commemorating VIC
tory. The ME-l10 Is to be shown at
Sealand Airdrome, near Liverpool.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Firing Squad Ordered
For 0uis|ing After
Treason Conviction
Appeal to Supreme Court
Might Commute Sentence,
But Not Reverse 1t
By the Associated Fress.

By the Associated Fress.
OSLO, Norway, Sept. 10.-Vid-
kun Quisling was condemned to
death today for treason.
A seven man judge and jury
panel convicted the former army
major for his treachery in dealing
with the Germans who established
him as puppet premier during the
long Nazi occupation.
The first announcement was made
over the Morse radio. Reporters COW
ering the trial were locked in the
courtroom and apparently were un-
Evening star., 1945-09-10

FIRST RACE-Purse. $1,000; msider
s-year-olds; 5Ia furlongs.
Marcia P tClaggett) 800 $50 25O
Barbed Wire (scawthorn) $50 3.1G
@ Outlet (WalD 3IO
Time, 1:O74s
Push, -Strato Search, Darten. Proverb
Crazy. Wh1rl, Brasgart, Pharsquest.
Christiana Stables entry.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Boy EIectrocuted by Wire

Roy Chester Miller, II, colored, of
the HOO block of c street NE, was
electrocuted yesterday when, ac-
cording to police, he climbed light
pole in the 200 block of Twelfth
street NE.
Evening star., 1945-09-10

(See TOJO, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Laurel Results

Continued on Page A-4, Column /
Evening star., 1945-09-10

Continued on Page AS. Colun
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Weather Forecast I

Mostly sunny. hot, humid, with evening
thundershowers today and tomorrow;
high near 80.
Temperatures today-High, &c. at 2:28
pm; low, 70, at $40 am. Yesterday
High. 81, at 3:16 pm; low, u, at
GAO am.
Evening star., 1945-09-10

(See CHINA, Page A-3.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-07

If starch shows on dark colors
tint with bluing for blue garment.
md coffee or tea for browns.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
Carolyn Bonner,
Helen Mudgett
Border Speukers

Carolyn Banner of Oklahoma
City, graduate of Langston Uni
versity, Okla, will be the principal
speaker at the women's day service
at Border Methodist church, Mime
apolis, Sunday morning, August IL,
at II a. m. Her subject will be
"Women's Contribution to Civiliza-
ton" Mrs. Banner is working
toward a master of arts degree at
the University of Minnesota. Her
field is education curriculum and
instruction. She is an active work
er with religious youth groups in
Oklahoma.
Elizabeth Moore, St. Paul, a
librarian at the University of Min
nesota, of which she is a graduate,
will be the guest soloist.
Helen Parker Mudgett will speak
at an afternoon meeting. The
morning service will be concluded
by 1890 in order for those attend
ing that service to return in the
afternoon.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
Embittered Negro C. Us Warn Nation

all
of
noonym from
eeun of the
O. dma
%
tt
Of
all ete
m
winter las
dan heof areord.
pill to
o HI
white troops;
blood right
of decorations
etodef suchbn as
We here o
. want
will gett
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03

center OF continuation SCuOy dL Cne
University, Monday.
DR.. Brameld stated that only
full-scale unemployment follow.
ing the war will eliminate the
danger of national race riots that
are bound to come unless federal,
state and city officials throughout
the country take immediate steps
to offset the unemployment that is
bound to follow the close of the
war with Japan.
Riots Will Be Worse
If the riots do come, DR.. Brameld
said, they will be far worse than
those after World War 1, because
of the large southern migration
into northern states.
The intercultural workshop will
extend over a period of five weeks,
and will include a study of the
problems and needs of both racial
and religious minorities. Youth
group leaders, representatives of
three different religious faiths,
social workers, teachers, and
Minneapolis patrolman are included
among the students.
DR.. Brameld explained that un-
less the public is told frankly of the
inter-racial problems it must face
in postwar period, it will not be
prepared to face the crisis, and will
rely on the old adage something
will turn up" to solve the situation.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03

sequent findings of FEPC which
led to the appointment of the
Stacey Committee.
"On December 81, 1943," White
declared, pursuant to Executive
Order 1902 as amended by 9346,
FEPC certified to the President of
the United States ID railroads and
7 rail unions which it had found
Disseminated against Negro work.
ers solely on account of race and
color. Thereupon the President
created the special committee on
railroad employment, popularity
known as the Stacey Committee, to
inquire into the matter and to make
recommendations to him.
"Since the Stacey Committee
was created sometime in January,
1914, it has wholly failed to take
any action or make any recon-
mendations to remove or alleviate
discrimination against Negro rail-
road employees and applicants. We,
therefore, call on you as President
of the United States to abolish the
Stacey Committee forthwith and to
order that the findings and recon-
mendations of the FEPC in regard
to railroad hiring practices be put
into immediate effect"
The NAACP will file brief on
this matter to be presented before
the Mead Committee, formerly the
Truman Committee.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03


Albert Schneider in the Casablanca
night club at 408 Hennepin Avenue,
early last Friday morning.
Schneider, who was ushered into
the neither regions by brother who
calls himself Rubin Shetsky when
he's not going under the more
glamorous-sounding monicker of
Wayne Saunders, was shot follow
ing an argument that was either
over the Humphrey administra-
tion's putting a lid on gambling,
or over straw hats-depending on
whose side you're on.
The grand jury has spent most
of the earlier part of the week
listening to a parade of witnesses,
two of whom were Percy Donison,
3119 18th Ave. So., and Layman
Hilb SO Highland Ave. No., porters
at the night club who were present
when the shooting took place after
closing time. Mr.. Hill, when con-
tacted by a Spokesman-Recorder
reporter earlier in the week, said
he didn't know anything about any
thing. Mr.. Donison hadn't been
reached for comment at press time.
Didn't Wear Toupee
Key witness so far has been
Tommy Banks, who reputedly owns
a-rolling over in the City Hall.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
Battalion Commanded
By Mpls. Colonel
Gets High Award

An Associated Press release re-
vealed Wednesday, that the 969th
Field artillery battalion, composed
of Negro enlisted men and white
officers, and commanded by Colonel
Hubert D. Barnes of Minneapolis,
has been awarded a Presidential
citation for it's nine-day stand at
Bastogne, last December, while at
tached to the 1O1st Airborne Divi-
sion.
Colonel Barnes is now in the
United States.
St. Paul recorder., 1945-08-03
Everybody in the Dark
as Mayor Asks Light
on Local Night Life

In his letter to the grand jury
asking for an investigation Of
liquor traffic and other "under-
at least a dozen Minneapolis tav-
erns and night clubs. The most in
formation the local press has been
able to get out of Brother Banks
so far is that he didn't want to
have his picture taken because he
forgot to wear" his toupee.
On Tuesday, at approximately
the time Banks was supposed to
have walked into police headquart-
ers to give himself up after playing
hide-and-seek for a few days, this
reporter managed to corral a
photographer from one Of the
dailies who had had a sneak-pre-
view Of Mr.. Banks earlier in the
day.
"Does he look tough ?" I asked.
'Naw, clean-cut looking guy"
the lensman muttered.
It is Banks alleged monopoly on
the liquor business that set the ball
world" conditions, Mayor Hum
phrey stated:
"The newspapers of this city are
openly declaring that if current re-
ports are true, almost a score of
night spots serving liquor are con-
trOlled by one man. This cOndi-
ton, if true, is obviously in viola
tiOn of state laws and city Ordin-
ances, which expressly forbid the
issuance of more than one retailers
license, directly or indirectly to
any one person.
''The reported circumstances sur
rounding the murder you are now
investigating lend credence to these
rumOrs. ="
Meanwhile, Alderman Harold
Kauth, chairman of the city council
health and hospital committee
which handles liquor licensing,
couldn't contribute anything more
concrete to the proceedings than:
"the committee grants licenses on
the recommendation of the police
department which makes the in
vestigations." s."-Nell Dodson Rus
sell.