Most Of Japanese
Navy Scrapped
For Steel
TOKYO, MV-'The U. S. navy
has just about demilitarized what
was left of the Japanese fleet but
it still has work to do in these
waters. f
Vice admiral Robert M. Griffin,
who commands United States
naval forces in the Far East, said
today there still will be Japanese
shipping to watch, and anti-smug
gling patrols will have to be main
tained along with a hydrographic
office and air-sea rescue work.
The show of force in the pres
ence of U. S. warships is not dis
counted, either.
Griffin intends to call a halt to
minesweeping operations. The
naval commander believes most of
the mines not destroyed are now
ineffective.
The U. S. navy bombed and tor
pedoed the bulk of the Japanese
fleet in war operations. When oc
cupation forces arrived, however,
they found enough combat ships
to form a sizable flotilla. Many
were damaged but could have
^been repaired.
Japanese working under Ameri
can direction have scrapped seven
aircraft carriers or escort carri
ers, four cruisers and three aux
iliaries which were operable, or at j
least towable at the war’s end.
Another carrier and cruiser
were refloated—and scrapped.
One old battleship was raised, and
nearly scrapped. Still another car- j
rier is being resurfaced for scrap-1
ping. The Japanese need the steel.;
Three other damaged battle-;
ships and eight cruisers have been i
trimmed by acetylene torches of
Nelson Gets Stay
Of Execution
KETCHIKAN <£>)—Less than 24
hours before he was to have been
hanged for the slaying of Jim El
len, Juneau grocery and liquor
store proprietor, Austin Nelson
has been granted a 30-day stay-of
execution.
The reprieve was ordered Mon
day by federal judge George Folta
at the request of the prosecuting
attorney, who said a week end
confession by Nelson had impli
cated Eugene La Moore, now be
ing held on perjury charges in
connection with testimony given
at Nelsons trial.
The prosecutor said Nelson is
an indispensable witness in the
case against La Moore.
Nelson’s confession led authori
ties to $1,100 which had been
taken from Ellen.
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everything above waterline, re
ducing them in effect to 11 float-!
ing piles of steel. Every operable |
submarine found after the surren
der was towed to sea and sent to,
the bottom; inoperable undersea
craft have been scrapped.
More, than 110,000 tons of steel;
have been realized from the scrap- j
ping program, lal of which have
been handed over to the Japanese
for industrial use.
Disposition of most of remaining'
Japanese combat ships will be
carried out this summer with
transfer of 92 destroyers, and de
stroyer escorts among the United
States, Soviet Russia, Britain and
China.
Griffin did not say what the
United States intends to do with '
the vessels it draws. Some will be
used for target practice.
Find Tot After 48
Hours In Cold
Lassen National Park, Calif. (JP)
Shivering in the 25-degree moun
tain cold, but otherwise unharm
ed, two and a half year old Greta
Mary Gale was found early Tues
day on the boulder-strewn sides
of Mt. Harkness after a 48-hour
search.
She was found just 12 hours af
ter her grandfather, former Con
gressmen John H. Tolan of Oak
land, died of a heart attack in
duced by the shock of her disap
pearance Sunday from the Tolan
summer home in this Plumas
county mountain area.
Greta was found by Francis W.
Keeler, 42, a state lion hunter of
French Gulch, about 8 a.m. less
than a mile from the cabin.
She was rushed to Westwood
hospital by her tearful parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William Gale, Jr.,
for examination and treatment for i
hunger and exposure after two]
nights and a day in the mountain
wilderness.
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Alaska SS. Promise
Improved Service
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SEATTLE, (/P)—Improved ship
ping service to Juneau and Ketch
ikan was assured Monday by the
Alaska Steamship company when
officials announced that all north!
bound Prince William Sound J
freighters will soon call at these
two ports in Addition to £ordova,
Valdez and Seward.
The service will start with the
sailing of the motor vessel Jump
er Hitch about July 10, according,
to the announcement.
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May Try For New
Tax Bill In Closing
Days Of Congress
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of “subversive” activities. Wherry
said that if Mr. Truman has no
concrete evidence to back up his
charges “he ought to apoligize to
Congress.”
In his message to Congress
when he signed the rent control
bill Monday, Mr. Truman said the
“real estate lobby” had “displayed1
a ruthless disregard of the public
welfare” by attempting to “weak
en rent control and do away with
necessary aid to housing.”
The President asked for a Con
gressional investigation of what
he called the “brazen operations”
of lobbyists. He said “nothing
could be more clearly subversive
of representative government”
than efforts to “block programs so
essential to the needs of our citi-1
zens.”
Information—Secretary of State'
Marshall went to Capitol Hill i
again to urge that the state de- j
partment’s foreign information j
program be made permanent. He:
was scheduled to testify before a'
Senate foreign relations sub-corn-!
mittee on a House-approved bill I
i
by Rep. Mundt fR.-S.D.) to au-1
thorize a full blown cultural and
information program.
| Gen. Craig States
Alaska NeedsRoa<Jjs
i And Housing
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I owe to the 50th State.”
General Craig’s subject was
“Alaska roads in the atomic age.”
1 He said his travels from An
| chorage to Valdez and Fairbanks,
to inspect roads convinced him
that the defense program Is held
up by lack of a suitable port as
well as by lack of adequate over
land transportation to the Inter4
ior.
The Legion said in resolution
that the army is losing needed
technicians because they con not
find housing and urged develop
ment of Alaska as a vacation at
traction similar to Jasper Nation
al park, through improved roads
and hotel accommodations. It de
scribed as undesirable the neces
sity of importing materials and
manpower in an air age and said
the army and navy should view
Alaskan self-sufficiency as a mili
tary asset.
John Baltos of Anchorgae suc
ceeded Ed Jewett of Juneau as
grande chef de gare of the 40 and
8, the Legion’s fun organization.
Other convention speakers in
cluded Harry Levy, Ketchikan,
department commander, and R. H.
Stock, Anchorage, member of the
national executive committee.
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