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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
The W Washington Merry -Go- Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-Ernie Pyle and Haywood Broun were two great reporters who championed the cause of the under-dog. After they died two ships were named for them. But those ships have not been permitted to live up to the tradition of their sponsors.
 Last month, troop-carrier Ernie Pyle lay in San Francisco Harbor absolutely idle for three weeks before sailing out for new load of returning GI's. The lay-over was not made necessary by re- pairs or any other unavoidable factor
 The case of the s. s. Haywood Broun was worse. Arriving in Naples in September, Army repre- sentative came aboard to ask how many men the ship could carry home. The steward, who is the chief man to decide because he has to feed them, estimated that he could carry 200 men by using only his present dining room facilities. But by putting field kitchens in the hold and letting men sleep any, where, he estimated, he could carry between 700 and 800.
 After receiving this report, how ever, the Army gave the s. s. Hey wood Broun exactly 38 soldiers to carry home.
 (Note-During the war, troops were necessarily crammed and damned aboard vessels. They were even loaded aboard above live am- munition. In at least two cases, ships carrying live ammunition ex- ploded, with about 2,000 killed Now, with no ammunition, the War Department suddenly has be- come solicitous about crowding men, even into empty ships).
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 BOWLES HOLDS
 INITIATION FLOOD
 OPAdministrator Chester Bowles
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7 2Amerieans Are Burned Alive by Japs;; |nhuman
 Bayoneiings Revealed

told of other bayonet killings and burning of civilians thoughout the Archipelago
 One woman, whose husband had his tongue cut out by the Japanese was intercepted before the court room and found ih routine search to be carrying two rocks in her purse, Asked what they were for, she said.
 ITO throw at dogs"
 This woman and 16-year- old girl told of being raped at Lanauan, Batangas Province, by Japanese, who killed 800 civilians on or about Feb ruary 10 of this year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
Asks Phone Custody

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Mrs. Ruby Barber Gresham filled suit for di- vorce here from Frank c. Gresham and then asked an injunction to keep their telephone.
 The injunction proceedings were filed against Gresham and the Southern Bell Telephone Co.,, re- questing the court to prevent trans fer of her telephone to Gfesham's present abode.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Nov. IA Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today was 85s, American Can l02. Anaconda 40 Curtiss.Wright 8, International Harvester 92, Kenne- colt 45ss, New York Central 29h Northern Pacific 31, U. s. Steel 70. Pound S403i2.
 Sales today were 1,610.OOO shares.
 Dow. Jones averages were as fol- lows: Industrials, 18977; rails, 62; utilities, 33.06.
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It was quite show. the President agreed, and he even added gag or two of his own to the jokes begged on his ability as a piano player. But MT. Trumans remarks were off the record.
 Comedian Eddie Cantor. comment ing on the Clubs presentation of Steinway piano to the Chief Execu- tive said.
 IT anybody needs practice, it's the President He played for Stalm at Potsdam. Immediately after wards rumors started stirring that Stalin was a very sick man"
 No matter what he plays, Cantor insisted, it still sounds like the Missouri Waltz
 Prime Minister Mackenzie King Of Canada and General of the Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower, seemed to get quite a kick out of Comedian Joe E. Browns description of a banker as "a man who will lend you money if you can prove you don't need 1t"
 The President was formally in- ducted into the club as dues-paying member.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
Neo-Faseists" Are
 Rounded Up in Italy

ROME, Nov. l4-A police round- up of so-called 'Neo-FaScistS" ac- cused of trying to form an under ground organization was extended today to Turin, Milan and Genoa
 A number of men, women and youths allegedly implicated in under ground operations were arrested in the three northern cities as addition al arrests in Rome increased the tctal jailed here to more than 20.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
Il,dusiiorl Eyade from Alaska
 In Custody, Seattle

SEATTLE, Nov. l4-Theodore s. Westlund, 8, was in federal cus- tody last night on charges of fail- ing to report for induction to an Everett. Wash, draft board. Bond was set at $1,000.
 He was removed from Anchorage, Alaska, on order of U. s. District Court, and was to appear this afternoon for hearing before U. s. Commissioner Harry M. WeStfall
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
BUILDING PERMIT

A single building permit was is- sued here during the past week by City Engineer J. L. McNamara, to Kenneth Traitor, for remodeling a garage into a house, estimated cost $1,O00. The property is located on Seventh Street, between Main and Seward
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
Regulations of
 Airporis 10 Be
 Taken Up, Clinic

WASHINGTON, Nov. l4-Officials of the National Aeronautic Associa- ton said today regulations govern ing acquisition of war-built air. ports by municipalities will be dis cussed at the National Aviation clinic in Oklahoma City Nov. l9 to 2l.
 The regulations have not yet been announced. but 1t is expected they will be disclosed at the clinic or just in advance of it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14

JERUSALEM, Nov. l4.-A l2-hour general Jewish strike in protest to new British proposals for settling the Palestine problem started at noon today without incident
 All Jewish shops, restaurants, work shops and factories were closed and
 Jewish operated buses and taxis stopped.
 Jewish workers in essential ser- vices were requested to continue work in military camps, hospitals, postoffices, telegraph and broadcast ing stations as well as at the Fl .Aviv Harbor, where the first cargo ship to arrive since l940 began dis charging merchandise
 The people of Palestine eagerly were studying British Foreign Secre- tary Ernest Bevin's statement. A number of mass meeting demonstra- tions were planned in Palestine towns during the afternoon.
 There was widespread objection throughout Palestine to the state ment of British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin that Britain and the United States jointly would attempt to solve the problem, and to his in- timation that eventually Palestine would be placed under a trusteeship Britain at present governs Palestine under a League of Nations mandate
 The lowest elected assembly, made up of representatives of all Pales- tine political parties, will meet Nov 19 in Jerusalem to discuss the Brit ish statement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
NAVY CRAFT HERE

Juneau Harbor today was haven to the Navy Tanker YOG-68, which put in here to await improved weather before continuing her voyage to the Westward. Com manding officer of the tanker is It. Donald Mccoy, USNR.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
B BRITISH IN R0uND-UpOF
 IND0NESlANS
Two Japanese Command CTS Attused 10 Foment-
 ing Present Trouble
By LElF ERICKSON

BATAVIA, Nov. 14.--Fighting rag ed with unabated fury in the Java naval base at Soerabaja today, and in Batavia, British Maj. Gen. D. c. Hawthorn accused the commander of the Japanese 18th Army and his chief of staff of having deliberately handed over arms to "unruly ele- ments" in Java.
 A dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent Vern Haugland in Soerabaja said British Indian troops battling in the heart of the naval base hurled back three suicidal In- donesian attacks during the night, killing more than 100 and sustaining "a half dozen casualties of their own In fighting for the Ko'H railway sta- ton and marshalling yards. The British threw a 25-pouner barrage against Indonesians entrenchsd in pre-war Dutch-built concrete pill boxes in the area.
 Mopc Sloiuiy, Surely
 Haugland reported that the British were moving slowly in order to keep their casualties low, and that t might take the better part of this week to clear out the remaining half of Soerabaja still in nationalist hands.
 A reliable unofficial estimate plac- ed the number of Indonesians oppos- ing the British in Soerabaja at be- tween l5.000 and l8,000 men, in cluding many armed with spears.
 In the capital. the two Japanese generals accused of the unauthorized surrender of their arms were bundled off by plane to Singapore to face charges
 Jap officers TnDolped
 Hawthorn administered verbal flashing to the two officers. It. Gen. Yiuchiro Nagano and his chief of staff, Maj Gen. Moichiro Yama- moto, at a formal surrender cere- mony, held full six weeks after the arrival of the British troops. The Japanese generals surrendered their sword to Hawthorn. who is com mander of the 23rd Indian Division.
 Indonesian Nationalists at Soer- abaja continued to put up stubborn resistance to steadily advancing 1n- dian troops even as the new Indone- sian Premier, Sutan Ejahrir. prepar- ed to go there in an attempt to bring about cessation of hostilities
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
JEWISH
 STRIKE SPARED
Twelve Hour Demonsird. lion Against Britain's
 Proposals Underway

BULLETIN - JERUSALEM, Nov. 14.-Several hundred Jew ish youths stoned bus drivers today in protest against con- tinued operations of their ve- hicles during a 12-hOur general strike called by Jews at noon.
 The strike is a protest to new British proposals for settling the Palestine problem.
 The stone throwing was the only incident immediately re- ported.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Taku Scheduled to arrive at 8 o'clock tonight from Seattle.
 Princess Norah, from the south, due Friday
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.
 North Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.
 Freighter Margaret Shafer sched- uled to arrive from Seattle this weekend.
 Cricket in port. May sail out late tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
ANNUAL O.E.s. ROLLCALL

Many attended the annual roll call of the Eastern Star held last night in the Scottish Rite Temple.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14
Piano Given
 To President
 AtCIub Meei

WASHINGTON, Nov. l4.-Presi. dent Truman found himself with new piano today after a night out with the boys of the National Press Club.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-14

The population of Egypt is about l6,0O0,0 ,00O.
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Evening star., 1945-04-21
Western Front
Continued From First Page

today. Sixth Army group head
quarters announced the 7th Army
had killed or wounded 5000 Ger
mans and captured 5000 more In
the bitter four-day battle for the
city.
Withdraw From Neumarkt.
Eighteen miles southeast of Neurn-
berg, the American 14th Armored
Division was forced to Withdraw
from Neumarkt, 10 miles from Mu-
nick, after two days of heavy fight
ing. The withdrawal was strategic
maneuver to allow artillery to pound
SIS troops which had counter-at-
tackled.
Five divisions released from the
Nuremberg fighting speared on
southwark. Third Army units hit
southwark farther to the east, while
the French lst Army surged % miles
in push toward Lake Constance
at the western end of the Alpine
redoubt.
French troops closed a tight ring
on Stuttgart. and the French and
Americans southwest of Stuttgart
were within 10 miles of joining
hands.
Russians and Americans striking
toward the Elbe moved cautiously
to avoid overrunning each others
positions. The Elbe was regarded
as a likely juncture point since 1t is
a natural barrier that could pre-
vent an accidental overshooting Of
position.
Correspondents here have received
no specific information on what the
inter-Allied command correlation
will be after juncture, which will
split the Germans into nqSthern and
southern pockets.
Close Coordination.
But it was clear from the care
fully-plotted moves through the
heart of the Reich that there al
ready is the closest coordination.
Gen. Eisenhower declared in an
order of the day yesterday that the
German armies in the west "are now
tottering on the Threshold of de-
feat"
Far behind the front the French
Tri-Color fluttered from a light
house on the tip OF captured Pointe
de Grave. It signalized the reopen
ing of the long-blockaded French
port of Bordeaux.
Evening star., 1945-04-21


Ing them as two of the trio who
robbed two bank messengers of
s24,600 in daylight holdup March
80. The brief FBI announcement
said that McCann, an ex-conyict
with a long criminal record, when
called upon by the arresting officers
TO surrender, "motioned as if tn
draw a weapon" and was shot
dead.
The FBI and New York police
were conducting an intensive search
To-Day for Quinn. The third man of
the trio charged with the robbery
OF Arthur L. Phillips, At, and r
Gray Goode, AZ, tellers of the Ma
ional Bank Of Washington, Seventh
and c streets NV, as they left the
bank to take the money across the
street to Kann's department store,
Is Joseph Skiskowski. He is still at
large.
follce Inspector Robert ]. Barrett
said he had not yet received word
from the FBI of the New York
shooting, which occurred at the
Queens entrance to the midtown
tunnel in New York, but that both
McCann and Quinn had been def
nltely connected with the Shaving
OF Mr.. Baker and Mr.. Casbarian
Both were found bound and shot
twice through the head in the
trailer Mr.. Barker used for an office
at the car lot at 1902 Fourteenth
street NV. Valuable jewelry and
about $4,000 in cash were taken
from Mr.. Barker. The detective
chief refused to elaborate on the
connection.
McCann's criminal record goes
back to 1916 and includes convic-
ton for mail robbery here in 1881,
for which he served lO-year SEN
tence in Atlanta Penitentiary. Ac-
cording to police, McCann, Quinn
and Skiskowski, after slugging MIR.
Phillips with blackjack and hold
ing off Mr.. Goode with a gun,
escaped in car later found aban-
doned only a few blocks away.
About $4,000 of the stolen money
was recovered in another car said
to belong to Skhkowski and parked
in front of his mothers home in
Newark, N. j.
Evening star., 1945-04-21

was the hoarse shouts of British
soldiers, sick with disgust and fury,
ordering these marked members of
Hltler's chosen legions about their
horrible task.
A saw Belsen-its piles of lifeless
dead and its aimless sWarms of liv-
ing dead. Their great eyes were Just
animal lights in skin-covered skulls
of famine.
Some were dying of typhus, some
OF typhoid, some of tuberculosis, but
most were just dying of starvation.
Starvation-the flesh on their bodies
had fed on itself until there was NO
flesh left, just skin covering bones
and the end of all hope, and nothing
left to feed on.
Beyond Hope of Survival.
Tragically, there is still hope
inside these still-breathing cadavers.
AS long as eyes can stare from the
bodies scattered everywhere on the
floors and on the ground there is
hope. Hope in these for whom there
is no hope. They are living, but
they cannot live. No food, no care
can save them. Ahead of them is
nothing-nothing but that pit with
the bulldozer waiting to cover them
with earth.
Nothing-well, there is one thing,
the knowledge that after months of
bestiality there is suddenly, unbe-
lievably, friendliness and good will
among men. At least they will die
aware of that.
Countless thousands-some say
10000 some say more-died with
out even that comfort, died horrible
deaths before the British I'd Army
reached this camp on the Aller
River southeast of Bremen Sunday.
I saw these dead-hundreds and
thousands-lying in bitches and
against walls of drab huts and piled
IN heaps, each one in a grotesoue
attitude in a grotesque mound.
Some were clothed, but most were
naked. Their nakedness was of no
account because there had long
Evening star., 1945-04-21
Vatican Reports Bombing
Of Tokyo Church Property
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, April 21.-The
Vatican press service reported to-
day that the air bombing of Tokyo
ana Japanese-occupied areas OF
China has caused grave damage"
to church properties.
AT Tokyo the school of the Sis
tiers OF San Mauro was destroyed
and the theological seminary and
university of the Jesuit fathers par
TALLY destroyed by fire." the service
said, adding that nearly all relig-
ious communities had left the cap
ital."
"At Hong Kong the report con.
tinued, "the monastery of the Sis
tiers OF Sc. Paul was destroyed. Fifty
persons were killed, among whom
were some Chinese sisters and a
French sister"
Evening star., 1945-04-21

Canadian and British and 1000
American prisoners were made to
run 2 miles from a train to a new
camp.
Their route was lined with Ger
man Marines who cut and jabbed
them with bayonets and pounded
them with rifle butts, all the while
yelling to them to escape-while
other Germans waited to shoot them
down with tommyguns if they tried.
Evening star., 1945-04-21

where children were taken from
their mothers and burned alive
where gas chamber killed thou
sands, where Kramer kept his own
orchestra to entertain him with
Strauss waltzes while denominations
were practised under his command
outside his windows
Cannibalism Reported.
At Belsen Kramer's predecessor
also Of the SIS, was kind and con-
siderate-prisoners had enough to
eat and proper medical care, and
were treated as human beings. The
vileness began with Kramer's ar
rival five months ago.
He instituted starvation as pun
ishment, kept it up as a habit. He
enjoyed the shuddering filthiness
with a lascivious lust for degrada-
tion and death, that Belsen became
heard that occasionally men
starving in Belsen watched the
dying with hunger, and as soon as
they were dead, cut out their hearts,
livers and kidneys and devoured
them to sustain their own vanish
ing lives.
heard from madame's lips that
one man seized in cannibalism by
the SIS was forced to kneel publicly,
holding in his teeth the ear of a
corpse, the entire day.
I heard that SIS women tied one
living and one dead together, and
burned both on smouldering heap
Of scrap leather and worn out shoes
and boots, while linking hands in
a hideous bestial dance macabre
around this incredible pyre.
Sadistic Joy at Suffering.
I heard that their sadistic JOY In
watching the slow disintegration of
humans into something less than
beasts was not always enough to
satisfy Kramer's devils and witches
|-beatings, chopping of fingers and
other glittering savageries gave oc-
casional zest to their jaded ap-
petites.
heard more-but I cannot go on.
Once the woman faltered in her
conversation I asked how she
learned English and she replied that
there had been an English governess
for two years for her little boy.
But there are times when even a
reporter may not ask questions-I
not only do not know what became
Of the boy-I still do not know even
madame'S name,
Incomprehensible Beastiality.
She broke entirely. Tears
streamed down her face. That was
when We left. She clung to Maj.
Fpx's hand for moment, said: 1--WE
will never forget. We still cannot
believe people can be so kind as you
have been to U.s."
What saw and heard at Belsen
is something never seen or heard of
in the world before the Nazis cre-
ated concentration camps of their
own bestial, incomprehensible kind.
Robbery, murder, rape-these
twisted, warped, unhappy instincts
any man who pauses to examine
himself can find buried in his own
nature. Normally there is a balance
and the explosion never occurs. But
here in Belsen there was deliber-
ate, calculated effort, in most cases
successful, to force mankind down
the ladder up which he climbed
painfully through milleniums. That
is the frightful thing beyond normal
understanding.
Evening star., 1945-04-21
Congress Expected
10 Name Group Soon
To Probe Atrocities
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Congress soon may send . group
of Senate and House members to
Europe to gather data for . report
on Nazi atrocities.
A British Parliament delegation
already Is headed for the horror
sites at the invitation Of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower. The supreme
commander cabled Gen. George G.
Marshall, Army chief OF staff, an
invitation for IL members Of Con-
gress and IL American editors also
to make personal inspections.
Representative Flood, Democrat,
Of Pennsylvania announced he
would offer a'resolution In Congress
Monday to authorize a joint COM
mite to leave at once for Germany
to visit the death houses and prison
camps and get first-hand informa-
ton"
Urges Detailed Report.
A member OF the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, Mr.. Flood said
he wants the members Of Congress
to make a thorough investigation,
with a report so detailed it will
take a week, If necessary, to read
1t all at joint session of Congress"
After that he would have the probers
speak out further in articles and
radio speeches.
People don't seem to realize the
horrible crimes Germans have COM
mitted over there" Mr.. Flood told
reporter.
They ought to hear what has
happened from civilian investigators
SO 1t will be certain the war GRIM
inals are punished.
Il think Congress should see to
1t that all the facts are brought out.
Some are SO fantastic they're hard
for the human mind to believe. But
the people should be made to realize
what has gone on"
Mr.. Flood said there should be no
Army censorship on German atrocity
stories, so long as they are true.
Support for Unity.
1t appeared possible that British
and American reports might be
presented directly to the San Fran
cisco Conference to emphasize the
need for a strong peace.
Diplomatic quarters in London,
noting the wave of revulsion which
followed the publication of details
OF the concentration camps, main
tanned that joint report to the
conference would provide powerful
argument for the need for unity
to prevent occurrences.
Such a report, it was argued.
would outweigh technical differences
of opinion among the assembled
delegates and stiffen the new
leagues determination to maintain
guarantees against future German
aggression.
Evening star., 1945-04-21
British Push 70 Miles
In Southern Burmu
BY the Associated Pres,

BY the Associated Press.
CALCUTTA, April 21.-The Brit
ish have opened a strong new cam
paign to drive the Japanese from
Southern Burma. A 70-mile thrust
south from Meiktila has carried to
within 214 miles Of the capital sea-
port OF Rangoon, it was announced
last night. '+..
A 18th Army spearhead lunged
down the main Burma railway line
to few miles north of Pyinmana.
The advancing British killed $500
japanese in engagements In Pyawbe,
26 miles south Of Meiktila; at va
methin IA miles farther. south and
at Tatkon, beyond Yamethin.