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U. S. First Cavalry
First To Occupy
Tokyo Area
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YOKOHAMA, Sept. 5— (APi —
The occupation of Tokyo began
Saturday, (Friday in United
States). The U. S. First Dismount
ed Cavalry division was the first
into Manila, where it liberated the
Santo Tomas internment camp in
February, to enter the bomb-shat
tered capital.
Then General MacArthur is ex
pected to move his headquarters
from Yokohama to the U. S. Em
bassy building in Tokyo. About
the same time that the Supreme
Commander of the Allied Powers
announced his plans, the First
Cavalry shortly after issued far
reaching directives that drove
home the full impact of the defeat
to Japan.
The directive demanded forth
with all information included in
codes, necessary to swiftly dis
arming Japan’s war machine. It
ordered the beaten nation to place
vast facilities at the call of the
steadily enlarging occupat i o n
forces.
Lt. Gen. Eichelberger. whose
Eighth Army will occupy Honshu
north of Yokohama and all of
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Hakkaido island, said all Jap
troops will be disarmed by Oc
tober tenth. In his area, which
embraces Tokyo, Gen Eichelber-1
ger expects to have eight and two I
thirds combat divisions, more than
one hundred thirty thousand
troops by that date. He estimated
the initial occupation of Japan’s
four islands will require between
three and four hundred thousand
troops.
Prisoners Of War
Information To Be
Used In Jap Trials
YOKOHAMA, Sept. 5— <JP)—
Information received from prison
ers of war which may be used in
war crime trials against the Japs
will be delivered to General Mac
Arthur’s headquarters for the
courts martial.
Gen. Eichelberger said he dis
closed the Eighth Army has been
assigned to liberate all prisoners
in its area on northern Honshu
and southern areas which cover
all the Jap home islands and for
mosa, although the Chinese occu
py Formosa.
In 1940, the 97 Illinois automo
tive plants had an annual output
valued at $88,849,000.
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GEISHA ON O K I N A W A—-At a native dance festival
held at Taira, Okinawa, and attended by U. S. Army, Navy and
Marine personnel, a reisha girl performs a dance dedicated to
"travelers from Okinawa to the mainland of Japan.**
Japan Makes Bid
For Tourist Trade
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5-<(/P)
—Japan made a bid for tourist
trade when Domei News Agency
beamed to America that Japan
was “endowed with natural con
ditions for the tourist industry,”
and added that everything would
be done to give international tour
ists first rate hotels, meals and
souvenirs.
Cruiser Alaska
Downed Jap Plane
In First Encounter
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5-«;P)—
In its first encounter with enemy
opposition the thirty-thousand ton
battle cruiser Alaska shot out of
the air a Jap suicide plane diving
on the large American carrier. She
was one of the several heavy units
protecting carriers during task
force strikes preceding the Okin
awa campaign.
Premier Higashi
Tells Diet Why
Japan Surrendered
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TOKYO, Sept. 5—(/P)—Premier
Higashi Kune bluntly told the Jap
Diet “enormous” military losses,
“impoverishment” and exhaus
tion at home forced Japan to sur
render. Speaking separately be
fore the Houses of Peers and
Representatives the Premier said
Japan had ben cut off from her
overseas empire and was unable
to replenish her war losses, while
her cities were systematically be
ing destroyed by bombing.
The Premier said American
air attacks burned two million
two hundred thousand houses and
killed or wounded ‘‘hundreds of
thousands” of persons. There are
ten million “war sufferers in one
form or another from the block,
ade so chokingly drawn by Allied
air power.” He conceded ‘‘even
communications with the China
continent were rendered extreme
ly hazardous.”
Japs Will Stand
Trial For Butchery
To Prisoners
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WASHINGTON. Sept. 5—(/P)— |
Jap troops captured an American
flier forced to parachute into the i
sea off New Guinea, and beat him j
with sticks virtually all that day*
and throughout the night and un- j
til three o’clock the next after
noon. Then while troops screamed
wildly a Jap civilian named Ino
uye, hacked off the American’s
head with six slashes of a sword.
The State Department told
about the incident and others like
it in a report it wouldn’t issue
during the war for fear the Japs
would increase their butchery and
shut off all shipments of relief
supplies to Allied prisoners.
Secretary Byrnes observed with
restraint at his news conference
yesterday that the report was not
a pretty story. The guily will be
punished of war crimes and will
be prosecuted in Japan just as
they are in Europe Byrnes pledg
ed. He told of two hundred forty
protests against mistreatment of
prisoners being sent to the Jap,
government. They were sent
through Swiss intermediaries by
Secretaries Hull and Stettinius.
MRS. BRUNNELL ENDS VISIT
WITH DAUGHTERS
Mrs. A. Brunnell who has been
visiting with her daughters, Mrs.
Nels Swanberg and Mrs. William
Kelsey in Seattle, returned home
Monday evening with the Pan
American after a two months’ va
cation.
About 400,000 fires occurred in
U. S. homes in 1943.
Army Search Plane
Finds Plane Lost
Near Circle
FAIRBANKS. Sept. 5— —
Pilot Bill English and passengers
Swen Gustafson and Miss Adele
Johnson are safe at home after
being stranded seven days from
a forced landing fifty miles west
of Circle. The plane was located
at Preacher Creek by Army Search
and Rescue Squadron Saturday
after two men left to hike to the
Steese highway.
Food was dropped to M'ss
Johnson at the plane and a flight
surgeon and assistant parachuted
to aid in getting her down stream
two miles to a float plane.
Meanwhile other planes made
unsuccessful efforts in locating
the hikers who appeared at Cen
tral roadhouse Tuesday. The party
left Fairbanks August, twenty
fifth for Circle Hot Springs and
were caught in bad weather
which also grounded the search
ers all but two days. The trio
were all well but had only a cou
ple of sandwiches each, which
they made last four days.
CIO Campaign For
Cannery Workers
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 5—</P\
—CIO announced it had started
an intensive recruiting campaign
among cannery workers and urged
NLRB to authorize plant elections
in October. CIO is contesting AFX*
jurisdiction of the representation
of fifty thousand cannery work
ers in northern California.
Army Hints All Over Thirty Four Will
Be Discharged Within Twelve Months
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—(A3)—
The Army hinted broadly it ex
pected to discharge within a year
all enlisted men thirty-four or
older, as well as those who had
forty-five points up to May 12. It
dropped the hint in an announce
ment and said that men in those
categories would no longer be
senj overseas.
On Capitol Hill the House Mili
tary Committee resumed a study
of ways to step up at once enlist
ments in the regular army so that
inductions between now and next
May fifteenth can be held to a
minimum.
Th draft law expires may fif
teenth and committee members
have all but abandoned any plan
to kill it off before then. The army
announced that intensive world
wide recruiting is underway to
raise the volunteer postwar army.
Under the direction of Brig.
Gen. Harold Gilbert the campaign
will be carried out with a force
of seventy-eight hundred officers
and men working from six hun
dred cities and towns in United
States. Reenlistments will also be
sought in army installations in
this country and units overseas.
Soldiers now in service who re
enlist, whether overseas or at
home will be given furloughs
l home on the basis of thirty days
for each year of service.