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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26
UNI0k THANKSGIVING
 SERVICE ON THURSDAY

A Union Thanksgiving service will be held OH Thanksgiving Day, at 11:30 o'clock, in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. This service will te sponsored by the Northern Light Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church. The music will be sung by the Presbyterian Choir. and the ser men. on the subject The Life That Brings Thanks" will be de- liyered by the Rev Robert Treat, pastor of the Methodist Church. A free-will offering will be re- ceived at this service and will be devoted to the great program of the Churches in aiding to restore Christian services and places of worship in the war-torn areas Of the world. It is hoped those at tending this service will give lib- orally to this great cause
 Th2 people Of Juneau are invited and urged 10 attend this service in thankfulness to God for His many mercies. His providence and His salvation. say the Rev. Willis R Booth.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26
VA PUBLICITY MAN E
 BACK FROM INFERIOR

Verne Ayers. Publicity Director for the Veterans Administration here. has returned after a short trip to the Interior on business.
 During his stay in Fairbanks, MT. Ayers said he became truly initiated to Alaskan weather The thermom- eter reading dropped to 26 below zero several days before his arrival in Fairbanks.
 On one day it lifted to five degrees above after being 26 be- low for the previous ten days. we all acted as though a heat wave had arrived. he said.
 He described Fairbanks as being "festooned with icicles.' and said he saw a wealth of beautiful furs and palkas worn by men and wo- men on the streets of the city.
 Housing conditions in Fairbanks continue to be serious, he re- ported.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26

brought back Geneva Jankieweiz, rom Seattle. who faces an alleg- d forgery charge in this city.
 On his trip to the States. the Marshal took three prisoners to McNeils Island in Washington. They were Jeff Paulson. who was convicted of second degree murder at Wrangell, and sentenced to eleven years in the penitentiary'' J. J. Hutchinson, who faces a five year term for assault with a dead lv weapon in Ketchikan. and J. J. Johancen, serving a three year sentence for armed robbery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26
HOSpITAL NOTES

St. Ann's Hospital admitted Os- car Lundstrom and Mrs. Lillian Higgins for medical attention yes terday. and discharged Charles Ru- dy and Mrs. William Dore and ba- by girl
 Government Hospital admitted Beryl Cranston from Haines, made no discharges.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26
JUNEAU TO TAKE
 HOLIDAY THURSDAY

Juneau is going to observe Thanksgiving Day on Thursday Stores. City. Territorial and Federal offices being closed, also drug stores for the entire day.
 Services will be held in many ci the churches beginning at i0:3C OF II o'clock in the forenoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26
STJERNS OFF TO NORWAY

Harold Stje..l. construction su- pervisor for the R. J Sommers Construction Company on the new Simpson Building. left hy plane over the weekend for Seattle, where he will be joined by Mrs. Stjern.
 After a brief stay in Seattle the Stjerns plan to leave on four months trip to Norway.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26
|. $. MARSHAL RETURNS

U. s. Marshal William T. Ma honey returned from a weeks busi- ness trip to Washington. last Fri
 day. He was joined in Seattle by Mrs. Mahoney who had been visit
 ing with relatives in California and the two returned to Juneau together Marshal Mahoney also
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26
FROM THE STATES

Among the arrivals from the States on Monday were Thomas J. Farrell, Jr., and his family of Jop- lin. Mo: James A. Mckay of Seat tie; Mathilde A. Sommer of San Francisco: s. B. Fitzhugh of Wash ington, D C. and MI. and Mrs. John Punpelly of Portland, Ore gon. All are guests at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26

The first American fair of more than local importance was the American Fat-Stcck. show estab- lished in Chicago in 1878.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, l946

Loans to 1l,456 Northwest veter- ans totaling S47,948,715 have hecn guaranteed by the Veterans Admin istration.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26

WASHINGTON President Tru- man moved today to purge the Federal payrolls of any disloyal persons by setting up an interagen- ey group to draft plan of pro- 1edure
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26

SAN PEDRO. Cal. = Both CIO and AFL sardine fishermen went on strike today for $50 ton on their catches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26
BUTTER CRUST

Dinner Rolls for Thanksgiving. Order yours NOW! Sully's Bakery.
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Fuct-Findinq
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legal status, but does not provide
them with power to subpoena wit
nesses or records, as requested by
President Truman. Also, the meas
ure does not ban strikes during the
30-day period of elaboration by the
boards, as asked by the President
May Restore Subpoena Power.
Mr.. Smith said if his move in
the rules group succeeds he prob
ably will try to put the subpoena
power and the cooling off" period
provisions back into the measure,
and in addition will include sections
which would:
/. Make unions and companies
equally responsible for observing
contracts.
2. Protect both workers and COM
panies from violence, threats and
intimidation.
8. Prohibit sympathy strikes. boy
colts and jurisdictional strikes.
4. Ban organization into unions Of
supervisory and managerial en-
ployes.
Republican leaders generally said
they would not 60 as far as Mr.
Smith proposed but would fight for
an enlargement of the Labor Com
mittee bill.
Representative Arends, Republi-
can, of Illinois reported he would
seek to attach to the measure his
bill calling for mutual responsible
ity" of unions and employers and
providing strict penalties for viola
ton of no-strike contracts.
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Accusation by Russians
GroundIessl Hodge Says

SEOUL, Korea, Jan. % CP.-Lt.
Gen. John R. Hodge, American &C.
cupation commander in Korea, re-
plying to criticism by the official
Soviet news agency Tass, declared
today amy accusation against this
command is without basis of fact"
Gen. Hodge pointed out that he
and his advisers in Seoul from the
State Department constantly have
been trying to impress Koreans
with the value of the Moscow deci-
sion for five-year Allied trustee
ship of their country. Statements
have been made repeatedly in per-
son to leaders of various factions
and numerous explanations have
been broadcast to the people.
At the same time, Gen. Hodge said
there has been no attempt to ham
per or stifle Koreans freedom of
speech, press or assembly.
He said he had no comment on
the possible effect, If any, the Tass
dispatch might have on functions
of the joint Soviet-American Com
mission now in session here to plan
Korea's rehabilitation.
Left-wing Koreans staged a big
mass meeting and parades today
ostensibly ''to welcome the joint
commission" Indirectly, however
| the demonstration was reported ar
ranged as show of strength in
reply to antitrusteeship demonstra-
tons staged last week by rightest
elements and sponsored by the Kim
Koo provisional government organi-
cation. Violence f1ared then and at
least two Koreans were killed and
many injured.
The individual target Of condem-
nation in last weeks demonstration
was the local Communist party S
general secretary, PAX Heung Young
PAX, who claims to have been mis-
quoted, was excoriated for allegedly
saying he favored Soviet one-na
ton trusteeship and eventual incor-
poration of Korea into the Soviet
Union.
Maj. Gen. Archer L. Lerch, mill
tary governor, issued a statement
against violence and declared:
THE disgraceful spectacle of two
political parties fighting in the
streets of the national capital is one
that members of the Soviet-Amer-
lean conference cannot ignore.
appeal to the leaders of all parties
to put a stop to such undignified
and understandable performances
now"
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Post Mortem Shows MussoIini
Unusually Healthy When Slain

Ash. director Of the Army Institute
of Pathology, told reporter:
"It's a rare individual whose body,
at autopsy, doesn't show more i'm
pairment than Mussolini had"
The only abnormal thing reported
was the presence of a small ad-
hesion linking part of the small in
testine with the neck of the gall
bladder.
This might possibly indicate gall
bladder trouble" said Col. Ash, but
If such. an ailment existed, it must
have been slight"
Besides bullet wounds in the chest,
the autopsy report also showed sew
eral bullet wounds in the head, in
GLIDING some that showed no evil
dence of hemorrhage.
Absence of what we call a
'hemorrhagic halo around those
openings" Col. Ash said, Shows
that the wounds were inflicted after
DEATH"
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|Streicher Stricken
With Heart Attack
AT Nuremberg Trial
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NUREMBERG, Jan. 23.-Julius
Streicher, one of the defendants in
the Nuremberg trials, suffered a
heart attack during the noon recess
today and was put to bed.
An official statement from Palace
of Justice military authorities said
it was too early to determine whether
the notorious Jew baiter's heart
attack was due Ito an organic con-
dition or to mental strain he had
been under"
The official statement said he had
symptoms suggestive of paroxysmal
tachycardia (convulsive and rapid
heart action which persisted about
Is minutes. replaced by an irregular
heartbeat"
The bull-necked Streicher is the
second of the % defendants to break
in health since the start of the
Nuremberg trials. Ernst Kalten-
Drummer has been hospitalized dur
ing most of the trial because Of two
cranial hemorrhages.
Papen Assailed as Opportunist.
In the trial itself the British
prosecution told the tribunal that
Franz Won Papen sold Germany
into the hands of the Nazis in a
cold FLOODED effort to further his
own diplomatic career"
Outlining the story of the mis-
calculations of Won Papen, who
blundered badly as head of the Ger
man spy and sabotage ring in the
/ United States in the World War
the prosecution described the elderly
diplomat as mot typical Nazi, but
an INSCRIPTIONS political oppor-
tunist."
| He is one of % on trial for war
crimes.
Hans Fritzsche, the Nazi radio
propaganda boss, admitted that
Germany's claim that the Nazi at
tack on Russia in 1941 was pre-
tentative war for defense Of the
fatherland" was false.
Fritzsche, who broadcast weekly
assailing Jews, the Soviet Union and
"plutocrats" of the western democ-
racies, said a brief experience as a
soldier on the eastern front in 1912
convinced him of the complete
| falsehoods he had broadcast at the
behest of Joachim Won Ribbentrop
then foreign minister.
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II i. 5. Transports
Sold 70 Spanish and
Argentine AirIines

Airlines in Spain and Argentina
whose governments have been criti-
cized sharply by American officials
are getting at least II American
transport planes, IA Of them dis
carded by the Army, the State De-
partment disclosed today.
The department said it had ap-
proved sale to the Spanish govern
ment-owned Iberian Airline of three
new Douglas DC-4 passenger planes
In addition to five CAT transport
planes declared surplus by the Army.
Previously, four Army surplus C-53
planes were approved for sale to the
same airline.
More Sales Possible.
A spokesman said the depart
ment also had approved the sale of
five C-54-A transport planes from
Army surplus to Uruguayan ship
ping operator who has obtained a
license to operate an airline in Ar
gentina, but has not yet started
operations.
Government officials said 1t was
mot unlikely that more surplus
Army planes would be sold to the
Spanish airline.
In addition to the planes the
State Department has approved the
sale of nearly 100000 worth of air
port construction equipment to
Spain.
Will Improve Madrid Airport.
This is also surplus Army equip
ment, including bulldozers, scrapers,
shovel units, dump trucks and a
semitrailer.
officials said this will be used to
improve the Madrid airport so that
our-engined transport planes, such
as those used by United States air.
lines for trans-o oceanic operations,
can land and take off safely.
Transcontinental g. Western Air
lines is the United States firm cur
rently authorized to fly regular
route through Madrid.
United States officials explained
the sale of planes to Spain by say
ing it would:
/. Promote the use of American
made planes and thus assist Ameri-
can aircraft manufacturers.
2. Enable the Iberian airline to
operate short-haul flights which will
connect with TWAS major route at
Madrid.
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UNO
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tCOnlllueQ FROM FlTSJ rage
been considerably strengthened by
statements of support yesterday
from the Greek Premier and the
Premier of the unrecognized Indo-
nesian government.
Premier Themistokles Sophoulis
said in Athens that British military
forces are in Greece with the full
consent of the Greek government
and are in earnest collaboration with
1t in maintaining order"
He described Russias demand for
UNO inquiry into British military
operations in Greece as counter
poise to the Persian question"
The Indonesian leader, sultan
Sjahrir, said the Indonesians want
ed British troops to remain in Java
at least until all japanese forces
were diSarmed and removed.
Some officials said the Security
Council might meet tomorrow to de-
eide how to tackle Russia's COM
plants and to consider Trans
charges that the Soviet Union was
interfering in her internal affairs.
Trans Charges Denied.
A news commentator on the Mos
COW radio said yesterday in discuss
ing the UNO meeting that the
Iranian delegation had made fan
tastic and unfounded accusations"
against the Soviet Union to the Sc
curity Council.
The commentator reiterated
claims made several times previous
ly over the Moscow radio that there
are "innumerable voices to be
heard in the foreign press who are
trying to back up small powers
against the great powers and to SOW
distrust in the rows of the United
Nations"
The commentator said further
that 1.-The success of the new inter
national organization will depend on
the unity of the great powers" since
they have the material resources
and the manpower Ito end the &C
tons of any aggressor or groups of
aggressors."
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Steel
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posal.' To go higher, he added,
would endanger 1.-The thousands of
fabricators and professors of steel
whose very existence would be in
jeopardy should We grant the
unions demand for such a large
and unWarranted increase
Later group of fabricatine firms
at a press conference here. spoke
out for separation of their wage ne
gotlations from those of producing
flrrs. asserting their plants were
struck despite the fact" they had
no real opportunity to bargain COL
lectively with the unions" The
USW declined comment on this.
AS the strike continued, with
100000 idle at nearly 1900 plants
IN 20 States, an Associated Press
survey disclosed some $500 at
work in the steel industry. Fewer
than 10000 of these were en-
ployed at mills producing iron and
steel, the remainder at smaller fab
ricating plants.
Token Picket Lines Marching.
Nearly third of those at work
were independent union member:
employed by Wierton Steel Corp. al
plants in Weirton. w. Va, and Steu.
henviile, Ohio. Many of the other,
worked under union-management
agreements providing wage in.
creases ranging from 7 to Is cent.
an hour. Some included provisions
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Arlington Colonel Promoted
To Brigodier General at 81
Byroode Now Youngest
Of Rank Except in
Army Air Forces

Col. Henry A. Byroade, 80, of 1885
S. Buchanan street, Arlington, has
been nominated by President Tru-
man for temporary promotion to
brigadier general-the youngest In
the Army's ground or service forces.
Now military attache at the
American Embassy in China, Col.
Byroade was selected by Gen. Mar
shall to accompany him for the
peace talks between the National
government and Chinese Commu-
nists.
Col. Byroade spent az years in
China during the war as engineer
of Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennaults
14th Air Force. Using 100000 Chi
nese laborers, he literally built by
hand more than 80 airfields for Gen
Chennault and then built the huge
fields used by B-29s at Chengtu.
For his work, he was awarded the
Legion of Merit and two Oak Leaf
Clusters.
Born in 1918 In Indiana, he was
graduated from West Point in June
1887, and was assigned to Hawaii
On his return, he studied engineer.
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Jap Medical Officer
To Be Tried in Death,
|0f British Prisoners
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOKYO, Jan 23-Gen. MacAr-
thurs headquarters announced to-
day it is preparing to try on war
crimes charges Japanese medical
officer accused of contributing to the
deaths OF eight British prisoners Of
war, and a noncommissioned officer
accused of atrocities against IS
Americans.
The medical officer, 1t. Shigeru
Aona, is charged with permitting
members of his medical staff at
Hakodate main prison camp to
commit cruel and brutal atrocities
1t also is charged that "he did him
self unlawfully commit cruel and
brutal atrocities against British
prisoners.
Kitaro (the Bulb Ishida is &C
cused of immersing American pris-
oners in cold water, forcing them te
stand wet and naked in winter winds
forcing water under pressure into
their mouths and nostrils, strikine
and beating them with clubs, belts
fists and ropes, and holding ont
mans head under water until HI
lost consciousness.
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RH the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Post mortem studies of the body Of
Benito Mussolini have disclosed that
he was an unusually healthy" man
at the time of his execution, Army
pathologists reported yesterday.
The same studies also show that
snipers took several pot shots at the
dead body of II Duce either before
or after it was hung by the feet in
a public place In Milan.
Scientists Of the Army Institute
of Pathology drew these conclusions
after examining a formal report of
an autopsy performed on the fallen
dictator's body by Italian doctors.
The autopsy report was made by
Prof. Mario Cattabeni and Prof.
Enea Scolar of the University of
Catenia and by Prof. Emanuel
d'Abundo of the University of Milan.
Declaring the autopsy report dis
closed virtually no evidence of any
organic impairment, Col. James E.
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Wives Who Cornered
Eisenhower Consult
Hershey About Draft

The same group of angry wives of
overseas servicemen. that cornered
Gen. Eisenhower at the Capitol
yesterday, spent an hour and-a half
with Selective Service Director
Lewis B. Hershey today and emerged
determined to carry their demobil-
ization arguments to President Tru-
man later this week.
Mrs. Adeline Reisler of Chicago
said the group found Gen. Hershey
lin agreement" with most of the
five points they placed before the
Chief of Staff. but added that the
selective service director led us to
believe these things are out of his
hands and up to Congress and the
War Department"
1--WE will try to see President Tru-
man this week some time before
most of the wives return to their
homes" Mrs. Reisler said.
Will Organize Here.
Mrs. Reisler said she intends to
remain in Washington for month
to organize a Bring Back Daddy
organization here. Later today the
group planned to visit War Depart
ment officials to present their pro-
gram for release of fathers from the
service. The points presented Gen
Hershey and his reactions, as quoted
by Mrs. Reisler are:
/. Continuance of the draft tc
provide requirements for fathers ov-
erseas; Gen. Hershey agreed, but
said it was cup to Congress"
2. Reinduction of discharged all
cadets; Gen. Hershey said he con-
CURED and will investigate the pos
sibility of instituting action.
Lower Standards Agreeable.
3. Make more inducive offers tc
potential enlistees for regular Army
service with money now being paic
out for dependency allotments
Gen. Hershey declared the plan il
a possible" solution but said hi
was not sure what could be done.
4. Lower physical standards fol
service; Gen. Hershey voiced agree
ment.
5. Raise the draft age for single
men to 80; Gen. Hershey statec
there were not enough men in this
category to make much difference
Women who attended the confer.
ence with the Selective Service
chief were Mrs. Leah Greene o:
Philadelphia, Mrs. Mary McKibber
of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Evelyn Munscf
of Pittsburgh. Mrs. Marion School
craft of Seattle and Mrs. Reisler
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Gen. Middleton to Head
China War Crimes Court

SHANGHAI, Jan. % (P).-Brig
Gen. John w. Middleton, Chevy
Chase, Md, today was appointed tc
head a five-man military commits
sion to try persons accused of wal
crimes against Americans in China
The first case, involving 10 Jap.
anese charged with the Hankov
torture parade and cremation O!
three American B-24 flyers in De.
cember, 1914, will start with ar.
raignment tomorrow.
Defense counsel will be 1t. Col
Edward M. Hudgins, Chase City
Pa, and Capt. Maurice Levin, New
| York,
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Jap Camp Head Admits
Furnishing d Prisoners

YOKOHAMA, Jan. % (P). "A
former japanese prison camp com
mandant admitted at his war crimes
trial today he had punished 4;
Allied prisoners-eight more thar
prosecutors charged - but denied
that he ever had knocked down a
soldier.
The defendant, Kaichi Hirate, Is
accused of responsibility in the
deaths Of British Pvt. Raymond c
Suite and at least three other Alice
prisoners. Hirate admitted that hi
had made prisoners stand at atten.
ton in near-freezing temperatures
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for readjustment to the national
scale whenever it is determined.
For the largest single strike In
the Nations history, only token
picket lines marched before steel
mill gates. The announced Bethle-
hem Steel Co. policy of no attempt
to operate during the strike seemed
TO have been adopted generally.
Gradually the strike was clamp
ing throttling hand on allied in
dustries. Railroad workers were be-
ing furloughed by many lines serv-
ing steel mills. Milk deliveries in
Metropolitan New York were slashed
one-eighth because of shortage Of
containers caused by the walkout
and picketing of USW employees at
American Can Co. plants. A similar
milk shortage was reported at San
Diego, Calf.
Steel shortages caused the layof
of 500 men building cars at the IL
linois Central Railroad terminal in
Memphis, Tenn. Drop Forge Co. "a
Green Bay, Wise, shut down, blam-
ing a steel shortage and the loss
of markets due to other strikes.
Mr.. Murray said he would meet
at 10 am. today with the USW-
CIO executive meeting, and this
afternoon with the 175-member Pol
| icy Committee He described the
meetings as formal reviews of his
prestrike steel negotiations, which he
said have been approved by the
United States Steel Negotiating
Committee.
Base Period Provision.
In connection with his demands
for revision OF corporation tax laws.
Mr.. Murray said the Treasury al
ready has received S3,500,000 in
claims filed under another tax pro-
vision allowing corporations to
change the base period on which
their tax is computed, and another
section of the law allows speeded-
up retirement of wartime plant in
vestments.
He cited Bethlehem Steel as s
most outrageous case" which, By
combining these provisions, turned
the s22,676,000 profit it earned in the
third quarter of 1945 into a tax-free
profit of s57,756,00o, including s34,-
$3.50, 900 from the Treasury.
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ing at Cornell University, where he
was graduated in 1910.
Although he will be the youngest
general in the land forces, two
younger Air Force officers are tenn.
porary brigadier generals.
Mrs. Byroade and their 7-year.
old son live at the Arlington home