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Douglas Church
 Services

Notices for tssii;s church columns must be received by The Emptr, 7nt later than 10 o'clock Friday evening to guarantee change O. sermon topics, etc
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JUNEAU CITY MISSION

205 Franklin Street
 Mrs. H. M. Krogh Evangelist and Mrs. John OpSand
 from Seattle
 Sunday Services
 3 D. m. and 8 D. m. p. m on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Everybody welcome.
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WANT ADS
FOR SALE

ONE davenport and chair, in ex- cellent condition; one Hotpoint electric range, with deep well; one Biglow Beauvais rug and hair pad, 9x12; one walnut table and chairs. Phone Red 459. 1884 V-3 Sedan-Good tires. Apt. 2, Erwin Apts. FOR SALE-193S Plymouth Sedan, In top shape throughout. Tires and upholstery good. Call Green 783, after 4 p. m. FOR SALE-Fruit jars, 75c doz. Single, l2-gauge shotgun, single .22 rifle, boys bicycle. Call Maxi Apt, No. 2, after p. m. ONE Arc WelGer, 110 AC, $30. See, J. B. Burford at J. B. Burford Go.
 FOR SALE-Large house at 725 Basin Road Price $3,5O0 See Merle Rhodes, 431 Seward St. BROOM, partly furnished house; 5 acres land. Aux Lake Loop Road. Phone GAP
 1900 Ft. reinforcement steel. George Brothers.
 FOR SALE-Two bedroom house, furnished. For information, see Chris Huber, Glacier Highway. FOR SALE - Trum pc ct, $25. Mans grey suit, size 40, good condition, $25. Mans black over coat, size 40, like new, $40. Ask for Una at Percy's Cafe, or call at 125 Gastineau Ave; before II D. m., or after 2 D. m. TWO BEDROOM beach home on Point Louisa; 110-volt Delco lights, water, basement, furnace; fully furnished. Write P. O. Box 303l.
 FOR SALE-Several good Toggen- burg and Saanen grade milk goats; also some pure blooded stock; also young bucks. P. o. Box 2321, Juneau, Alaska. Zenith radio $100; automatic record changer free. Green 734. B flat Lavella clarinet, ebonite, $60. Green 734.
 LOST AND FOUND LOST-Lady's Bulova wrist watch. Finder please return to cashier, Baranof Coffee Shop Reward.
 FOR RENT APT, one block from Federal Bldg. BROOM furnished apt. Oil range and bath. 513 Willoughby.
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MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Corner West 9th ana E Sts.

Manse. TAO s St. WALTER A. SOBOLEFF, Minister. "A Church with an open door 'Whosoever will may come'". 1000 a. m.-Sunday School. 6:30 p. m.-Young Peoples Fellow ship.
 RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
 OF ST. NICHOLAS
 Fifth Street The REV. EUGENE OLENDy
 RectOr Tonight Saturday, FOO p.m.- Evening service. Sunday service, 1000 a. m.-High mass and Holy Communion. Choir rehearsal every Thursday al 7:30 pm.
 CHURCH OF CHRIST
 tChristian)
 InUiteS You To Worship 10th and E = On Bus Line CALVIN c. HARTMAN, Pastor.
 Phone Blue 659
 SUNDAY SERVICES 10:00 a. m.-Bible School. ll:00 a. m.-Church Service and sermon; subject The Mind To
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CHAPEL-BY-THE-LAKE

Corner Glacier Hignway and Frit3 Cove Road at Aux Lake REV. WILLIS R. BOOTH,
 Minister Mrs. Max Mielke, Sunday School Superintendent. 10:30 a. m.-Sunday School CHURCH OF JESUs CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
 Odd Fellows Hall 1030 am.--Sunday School. 630 p. m.-Priesthood Meeting 7:30 D. m.-Church Services. Telephone, Douglas 355.
 CHURCH OF CHRIST Meets in CIO Union Hall on Gold Street, rear of Baranof Hotel.
 BOYD FIELD, Minister
 Box 671, Juneau
 SUNDAY SERVICES 10:0U a. m.-Bible Study. HOO a. m-Worship Service. 800 p. m-Evening Services. Preaching nightly except Satur- days at p. m.
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zoo D. m.-Sunday School, with Mrs. R. E. Baker, Superintendent.
 Cur Sunday School will be meet ing in the. City Hall at 100 p. m. from now on. We have fine staff of teachers.
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SEAvIEW APT, one block from Federal Bldg

In the early 17th century, it often took two years to make the round trip from Europe to China.
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ATTENTION MASONS! Stated Communication Monday evening at 7:30, with work in the M. M. Degree.
 J. w. LEVERS, (Adv). Secretary.
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WANTED

WANTED-Woman to care for g. year-old child, 9 to p. m. Phone 203.
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WOMAN or girl to do house work 4 hours a day. Good pay. Call sol.
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SAINT ALOYSIUs' CHURCH

No services during summer
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PRESBYTEKIAN CHURCH REV. WALTER A. SOBOLEFF.
 Minister
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TWO highschool girls at Taku
 Lodge. Light duties Call Green
 409, Sun. night-Monday morning.
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1884 V-8 Sedan-Good tires. Apt.
 T, Erwin Apts.
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WANTED-A home for St. Ber-
 nard dog. Good to children. Geo. Bednar, Tee Harbor.
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1900 Ft. reinforcement steel. George Brothers.
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FOR SALE-1938 Plymouth Sedan. In top shape throughout. Tires and upholstery good. Call Green 783, after 4 p. m.
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ONE davenport and chair, in ex- cellent condition; one Hotpoint electric range, with deep well; one Biglow Beauvais rug and hair pad, 9x12; one walnut table and chairs. Phone Red 459.
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!. TO BUY or lease-Five room, full basement home, built within last l 10 years. Box 2127.
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FOR SALE-Fruit jars, 75c doz. Single, l2-gauge shotgun, single .22 rifle, boys bicycle. Call Maxi Apt, No. 2, after 5 p. m.
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WANTED-Women press operators and ironers at Alaska Laundry.
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ONE Arc WelGer, 110 AC, $30. See J. B. Burford at J. B. Burford Co.
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FOR SALE-Large house at 725 Basin Road. Price $3,500 See Merle Rhodes, 431 Seward St.
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BOOKKEEPING AND ACCOUNT ING SERVICE. Phone Black 29O, George Fournier.
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! WANTED-Woman for housework. Phone Blue 40.
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BROOM, partly furnished house; 5 acres land. Aux Lake Loop Road. Phone GAP.
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DOUGLAS GOSPEL MISSION

900 a. m.-Mass.
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MISCELLANEOUS

PIANOS RENTED-1aned. Ander- son Shop.
Evening star., 1945-09-05
Navy to Seek
9 Pacific Bases,
HenseI Reveals
String From Alaska
To Philippines Is
Permanent Plan
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY,


establishment of nine major
fleet bases on islands in the Pa
cific has been recommended in
formally by the Navy to the
House and Senate Naval Affairs
Committee, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy H. Struve Hensel
disclosed today at a news con-
ference.
Mr.. Hensel has just completed a
tour of the Pacific, in which he
studied the base system established
by the Navy as it advanced west
ward. His tour started some time
before the end of the war.
The Assistant Secretary also dis
closed that the Navy proposes per-
manent bases in the Atlantic at
Argentina, Bermuda, Coco Solo, the
eastern entrance to the Panama
Canal, Roosevelt Roads and San
Juan, Puerto Rico
String of Bases Indorsed.
The major bases which the Navy
has recommended for establishment
in the Pacific are at Kodiak, Alaska,
and Adak in the Aleutians, Hawaii,
Balboa, the western entrance to the
Panama Canal; Guam, Saipan and
Tinian, which Mr.. Hansel considered
as one base in the Mariana Islands;
Manus, in the Admiralty Islands,
and base in the Philippines. the
(See BASES. Page A-2J
Evening star., 1945-09-05
(See DIET, Page A-6D
Truman Presents DSM
To Hopkins at White House

Harry L. Hopkins, long time con-
fident of the late President Roose-
welt, received the Distinguished
Service Medal for his services during
the war at a White House ceremony
today.
The decoration was bestowed by
President Truman at the same time
he conferred the DSM also on
Howard Bruce of Baltimore, former
chief Of the Conservation Branch of
the Army Service Forces.
Mr.. Hopkins left the Government
last July because of i'll health and
since has become impartial arbitra-
ton of the garment industry in
New York.
His last assignment in Washing
ton was as Mr.. Trumans special
representative to Moscow where he
arranged for the participation OF
Premier Stain in the Big Three
Conference at PotSdam.
Evening star., 1945-09-05
Stars Overseas Editions Pruiseo
By Services on Anniversary

but, until the end of the war, the
supply was never equal to the de-
mand.
In its year Of publication, the
Overseas Edition has followed serv-
ice men and women from the Dis
trict and nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia to all the farf1ung battlefronts
of the war. 1t was dropped by para
chute on Two Jima while the Ma
rines still fought for possession of
that Japanese island, and it was in
the first mail flown into Okinawa.
On Okinawa, letter to the editor
reported, the Overseas Star was
very interesting to all personnel, -
and on Two, Marine wrote, it was
read to shreds." Other letters
nearly 400 OF them-were In similar
vein.
ITO receive the Overseas Edition, "
said note from. soldier in Ger
many, rs to receive a dozen letters
from@ home all at once"
THAT little paper" commented a
Navy lieutenant in the Pacific,
(See OVERSEAS, Page AID
Evening star., 1945-09-05
1t. Gen. Wainwright Nominated
By Truman for Four-Stur Rank

Whether the general would receive
rousing, formal welcome of parades
and speeches such as was given
Gen. Eisenhower was doubtful be-
cause of his physical condition
after many months in a Jap prison
camp.
According to the War Department
schedule, Gen. Wainwright will
reach San Francisco Sunday or
Monday and will be greeted there
by Mrs. Wainwright.
Whatever arrangements are made
here, Army officials said they were
certain the general would receive a
hearty welcome wherever he goes.
They suggested the most conserva-
tive greeting would call for well
come at the airport by high military
and District officials and possibly a
procession to the White House.
Evening star., 1945-09-05

President Truman today nomi-
mated 1t. Gen. Jonathan M. Vain
wright, the hero of Corregidor, to
be full general.
Gen. Wainwright has been freed
after more than years captivity
after his surrender to the jap
anese. The promotion was recon-
mended by Secretary of War Stim-
son.
The President also nominated
Brig. Gen Frank T. Hines, former
head of the Veterans Administra-
ton, to be Ambassador to Panama.
This appointment was announced
several days ago.
1t. Gen. Wainwright should ar
rive in washington early next week
and the Capital will be ready to re-
ceive him with the warmth it always
accords a champion, the War De-
partment indicated today.
Evening star., 1945-09-05

Letters of congratulation from
leaders of the Army, Navy, Marine
Corps and Coast Guard today
marked the, first anniversary ol
The Stars weekly Overseas Edition
The messages came from Under.
secretary of War Patterson, Admira.
Ernest j. King, commander in CHIEF
of the United States Fleet; Gen
Jacob L. Devers, commander of the
Army Ground Forces; Gen. Omar
N. Bradley, veterans administra-
tor; Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, COM
mandant of the Marine Corps, ano
Admiral Russell r. Waesche, com.
mandant of the Coast Guard.
They agreed that the Overseas
Star has, as Gen. Bradley put it
rendered a real service" in keeping
the Washington areas fighting men
abreast of hometown news.
$4,000 Copies Later.
The first issue of the 8-page illus
trated tabloid, published September
6, 1914. consisted of 1000 copies
Later issues totaled $4,000 copies
each-an increase of 673 per cent
Evening star., 1945-09-05
Complete Exhaustion
Caused Surrender,
Premier Tells Diet
Greet MiIitory Losses
And Impoverishment of
Home Front Are Cited

by tHe ASSOCldleC Press.
TOKYO. Sept. 5.-Premier Ma.
ruhiko Hgashi-Kuni bluntly tolc
the japanese Diet today thai
enormous" military losses anc
"impoverishment" and exhaus-
ton at home had forced Japar
to surrender.
Speaking separately before tht
houses of Peers and Representatives
| the Premier said Japan had beer
cut off from her overseas empire anc
was unable to replenish war losses
while her cities were Systematically
destroyed by bombing.
The Premier said American aeria
attacks burned 100000 homes
killed or wounded Hundreds Of
thousands of persons, and that
l0,000,0 900 were war sufferers" ir
one form or another.
The blockade was so chokingly
drawn by Allied air power, his
speech conceded, that "even com
munications with the China CONT
nent were rendered extremely haz-
ardous."
Cites Loss Of Marianas.
The Premier declared there is
little use of going back to the past
trying to put the blame on one per-
son or another" He pointed instead
to general factors which had
brought signs of "impoverishment
and exhaustion" to Japan.
Especially after the loss of the
Mariana Islands the advance of the
Allied forces became progressively
rapid" the premier said, while all
raids on Japan proper were intensi-
fled, causing disastrous damage that
mounted as the days went by.
production of military supplies
which had been seriously affected
by curtailment of our marine trans
portation facilities, was dealt q
severe blow and almost insuper-
able difficulties began to multiply"
Finally, he reported, ''the coun-
try's production dwindled to such 8
point that any swift restoration
came to be considered beyond hope.
Among other problems, he said, was
the shortage of salt, customarily
imported, which left Japan withou.
sodium for explosives.
by May of this year, our carry
ing capacity by steamships had
dwindled to about one-fourth OF
what we had at the beginning of the
var, owing to ever-increasing loss
of ships and diversion to the South
Seas area.
China Communications Bad.
Moreover, scarcity of liquid fuel
and interference by the enemy
caused marked curtailment in the
efficiency of shipping operations
Especially with the loss of the Oki-
nawa Islands, and the consequent
increase in the striking power of the
enemy's air forces, even communica
tions with the China continent were
rendered extremely hazardous"
The nations war resources by
May and June, this year, had been
"disastrously undermined, he con-
cluded, and ''our losses in both
naval and aerial strength were SC
enormous as to obstruct seriously
the prosecution of the war
On the other hand, he pointed
Evening star., 1945-09-05
Cohen, Ex- 'Brointruster, Named
7oNo. 3 State Department Post
William Benton and Donald Russell
Nominated to Be Assistant Secretaries

President Truman today nom-
mated Benjamin v. Cohen to be
counsellor of the State Depart
ment-a top policy-making po-
sition-and named two new AS
siStant Secretaries of State. The
appointment apparently COM
pleted a shakeup of high officials
under Secretary of State Byrnes
Nominated as Assistant Secretar-
les were:
William Benton, As. assistant to
the chancellor of the University OF
Chicago and former New York ad-
vertising agency executive, to be in
charge of public and cultural rela-
tions of the Department. He sue
ceds Archibald MacLeish, who re-
Gently resigned.
Donald S. Russell, 80, a former
partner in Secretary Byrnes' old
Spartanburg, IS. c. law firm, who
assisted Mr. Byrnes in his wartime
Economic Sterilization and War
Mobilization work.
Evening star., 1945-09-05
Army May Discharge
Soldiers "a and Over
Within Next Year
Men With As Points
Won't Be Sent Abroad
Under New Regulations
BY the Associated Press.

The Army limited. broadly to-
day that it expects to discharge
within a year all enlisted mer
"a and older as well as those who
had As points up to May IL.
1t dropped the hint in an an
nouncement which said men in
those categories no longer will be
sent overseas.
On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, the
House Military Affairs Committee
resumed its study of ways to step UP
at once enlistments in the Regular
Army. The reason: So induct1ons
between now and next May Is can
be held to a minimum. The draft
law expires May Is, and committee
members have all but abandoned
any plans to kill it off before then
Recruiting Drive Under Way.
The Army announced that an in
tenSive worldwide recruiting drive
is under way to raise volunteer
postwar Army Under the direction
of Brig. Gen. Harold NJ Gilbert, the
campaign will be carried out by a
force of 1900 officers and men work
ing from 600 cities and towns. Re-
enliStments also will be sought in
Army installations in this country
and in units overseas.
The drive, the War Department
said, will be more intense than the
rrp. .poorl uo ,,hor coy,,no ioy, NH a r
raised the Regular Army and Ali
Force from 100000 to more than
100000. At present the Army is linn
tied by law to an enlisted force OF
100000, but this ceiling may be
raised by Congress.
Soldiers now in service who re-
enlist, whether overseas or at home
will be given furloughs home on the
basis of 80 days for each year OF
service up to a maximum of 80 days
Discharged soldiers may re-enlist
within 80 days if they are between
the ages of Is and "a. inclusive, and
physically qualified. Civilians 18 tc
rs, inclusive. are required to vol
unteer for induction by selective
service before they are enlisted.
The enlistments will be for a
|three-year period.
The Army's announcement on dis.
charges last night was issued, ii
said, because the occupation OF
Japan is going on as scheduled. Ex-
cept for about 1000 men, it added
there will be no more overseas ship
ments for soldiers who:
l. Have As points or more, based
on the May IL (originaD computa-
ton.
2. Are 81 years old.
3. Are "a, IS or 36 and have year
of honorable service.
665, 900 to Benefit.
1t was estimated there are about
665 900 men in this country covered
by those three points.
The War Department said it had
laid DOWN the new policy in order
to eliminate sending overseas men
who would have less than one year
to serve" before becoming eligible
for discharge.
The exceptions were made in the
(See DRAFT, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1945-09-05
10000 Died in Burma Comps,
Liberated Prisoners Reveal
Starvation, Disease and Fantastic CrueItes
Revealed by Houston Survivors and Texans

I when their guards wanted to get
through early.
Our morale never got low," 1t
StenSland said I'VE griped a lot
but we kept our sense of humor
The JapS gave us no medical sup
plies but there was a Dutch doctor
who saved a lot of our boys with
only the tools of his trade. He had
scalpel, stethoscope and little
mallet to test ref1exes.
Many of the men developed trop-
ical ulcers, especially on the legs
from malnutrition. 1t was necessary
to hold down the patient while the
doctor cut away the infected flesh
sometimes to the bone 1t was
tough, but it saved lives. In the
rainy season the men died like flies
Of malnutrition, dysentery and other
diseases but there were not many
Americans among them.
Our guards were Koreans, ignor-
ant, cruel men, who, if you failed to
saluate them. required us to stand al
attention while they slapped us. l
was kicked by them
Seven Hours of Brutality.
For minor infractions we were
required to stand for hours in the
sun without hat. The most in
human punishment I saw was when
a Dutch soldier was forced to knee
with stick in the bend of his knees,
then squat far back on his heels
If he eased his position he was
beaten until he resumed the posture
When he tainted he was kicked and
water poured on him and he was
compelled to resume the position
This treatment continued for seven
hours
LIT. Julius B. Heinen, jr., of Dallas
Tex. of the l31st Regiment, a
cleaner and dyer in private life,
said he took charge of the sick at
one camp when the only physician
died.
There was no medicine he said,
so we only needed organization
tSee SURVIVORS, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1945-09-05
BY the associated Press.


CALCUTTA, Sept. 4 (DelayedD
Survivors of the sunken U. S. S
Houston and members of the
13lst (Texas National Guard)
Field Artillery Regiment liber-
ated from japanese prison camps
in Burma told horrifying stories
today of the death of 10000 out
of $4,000 Allied prisoners Of
starvation, disease and fantas-
tic cruelties.
More than $500 were declared to
have died on death march" OF
nearly 140 miles in Thailand.
The survivors said the total num-
Der of prisoners included 1873 Amer
leans who were members of their
groups.
1t. Roy E Stensland of Salinas.
Calf. said his outfit was captured
March s, 1912. on Java after the
Dutch commander capitulated He
estimated 400 men were captured
and said 64 died in the prison camp
he was in.
Sinking, Rotten Food.
The prisoners said it had been
fully authenticated that 1000 con-
valescent Allied prisoners in Thai
land were taken by the Japanese
on purported trip to a rest camp,
but in the death march" of almost
l40 miles more than $500 died.
The men were restricated in the
telling of their stories to what they
themselves experienced and saw.
All said they were given Sinking
rotten food most of the time
Some men ate cats, dogs and snakes.
Others told how the diet of sick
prisoners was reduced because food
was for the flt," but the prisoners
secretly fed the sick
The men said they were forced to
perform heavy labor and were
beaten with gun butts, sticks and
fists if their failing strength slowed
their pace or they failed to speed up
Evening star., 1945-09-05
0uisIing Feared Red Plot
On Norway, Witness Says
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OSLO, Sept. 5.-A surprise de-
fense witness testified today that
Vidkun Quisling expressed fears OF
Russia in January, 1910, and told
him at the time that leading mem
bers of the government were con-
spring with Bolshevists to seize
control of Norway.
The witness, School Director Will
helm Ullmann, said under cross
examination, however, that the
charge, directed against Trygve Lie
then Foreign Minister, and Johar
Nygaardsvold, who was Premier
seemed to have been made to cover
Quisling's own motives.
AS Quisling's treason trial was
resumed after an adjournment since
Friday, Ullman testified that he
met Quisling three months before
the invasion by the Germans and
that Quisling "raved about a Rus
sian plot to conquer Norway"
Evening star., 1945-09-05
Senate COMMITTEE
Backs Demand for
Pearl Harbor Probe
Ferguson, Preparing
Resolution Asking
Joint Investigation

The Senate Republican Steer
ing Committee today approved
the proposal of Senator Fergu-
son, Republican, of Michigan to
ask for a joint Senate and
House investigation of the at
tack on Pearl Harbor.
Senator Ferguson revealed yester-
day he was drafting alternative
resolutions, one for Senate in
vestigation and the other for Joint
inquiry. Chairman Taft of the Re-
publican steering group indicated
today the Michigan Senator prob
ably would introduce only the con-
current resolution governing both
houses.
Introduction of resolutions will
not be in order until tomorrow.
Indications were that the consid-
Grafton of practical politics would
determine how far the demands will
get. Any investigation that eventu-
ally might point the finger of blame
at the administration conceivably
would be used by the Republicans as
an issue in the 1916 congressional
elections.
But some Republicans were wary
that an investigation undertaken by
a Democratic-controlled Congress
might clear the administration and
have an adverse reaction on the
minority party which has been most
vocal in the demands for an inquiry
Meanwhile, Secretary of State
Byrnes added his voice to those who
have come to the defense of former
Secretary of State Corden Hull
against criticism leveled at Mr.. Hull
by the Army's Pearl Harbor inquiry
board.
Secretary Byrnes told news con-
ference he thought Mr. Hull had
showed that Interpretation to be in
accurate in a letter the former Sec
retary wrote to Secretary Stimson.
And Mr.. Byrnes added he thought
the Army board had gone beyond its
jurisdiction in criticizing his pre-
decessor