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“Tokyo Rose” Not
Available To
Correspondents
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3-^)
—Allied war correspondents are
“invading” Japanese Domei agen
cy office and demanding to see
“Tokyo Rose” a Tokyo broadcast
said, but visiting journalists are
disappointed when they are told
the identity of “Tokyo ’Rose,’
Japanese radio’s best known wo
man propagandist throughout the
war, must “remain a mystery.”
In a broadcast heard by FFC
overseas department it said Domei
was the office most visited by Al
lied newsmen. “If the avalanche
keeps up,” at Domei “it may be
necessary to put up a sign ‘Allied
Correspondents Reception Bur
eau’.”
Fisheries Control
On Way Out
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—</P)—
The office of coordinator of fish
eries is on the way out Mister
Harold Ickes, who served as co
rodinator during the war, said.
The eastern offices will be dis
continued September 30, the of
fices in San Francisco and Seattle
will remain open temporarily on
account of the continuing need for
a maximum production of canned
fish and the orderly distribution
of halibut, Mister Harold Ickes
said. 9
COLONEL RATHJENS HERE
TO INSPECT DREDGES
Colonel George Rathjens, chief
consulting engineer for the U. S.
Smelting, Refining and Mining
Company, is here from the com
pany’s Boston office, having ar
rived Wednesday evening with
Art Hartford, manager of the
company’s operations in this dis
trict. Col. Rathjens is on a tour of
the company dredges and other
equipment, which has more or less
suffered through disuse during the
war years.
BOATS FINALLY LOAD
AND DEPART
The strong westerly winds dur
ing last week filled in the mouth
of the river and made it impos
sible to load the six boats which
were at anchorage. After several
days delay, the Meteor was able
to depart for Unalakleet, the North
Star for Barrow and way points.
The Nanuk waited for the U. S.
Engineers to deepen the channel
so that it could depart for Unala
kleet with freight.
USS MISSOURI, Tokyo Bay, Sept. 2—(AP)—
Japan surrendered formally and unconditionally
to the Allies at 9:05 a.m. today, restoring peace to
the war-ravaged world, in a solemn ceremony
marking the first defeat in Japan’s twenty-six hun
dred years of semi-legendary history.
The signing took place aboard this battleship and
the twelve signatures required only a few minutes
to affix to the articles of surrender.
Thus ended the bloody Pacific War, which had
entered its eighth year for China and had raged
three years and nine months for the United States
and Great Britain.
Eight Allied Nations were represented at the
surrender: United States, United Kingdom, Russia,
Australia, Canada, France, Netherlands, and New
Zealand.
General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied
Commander, signed for the United States, declar
ing: “It is my earnest hope and indeed the hope of
all mankind that from this solemn occasion a bet
ter world shall emerge out of the blood and car
nage of the past.”
Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signed for
Japan. If the moment was bitter for the sixty-three
old conqueror of Manchukuo and leader of the ex
peditionary forces in North China, his unscrutable
face and correct manners did not betray it.
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35 Years Old,
2 Years Service;
Entitles Discharge
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—(IP)—
In an Army effective today all en
listed personnel thirty-five years
or over with a minimum of two
years’ honorable military service
will be released from the Army
upon application.
Surplus Sales
Offices Opened
In Anchorage
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1—
Sales offices will be opened in
Anchorage for the disposal of gov
ernment surplus properties,
Mister Harold Ickes said, and will
handle all surpluses except air
planes and parts, boats, maritime
equipment and foods.
Normal temperature for some
birds is 110 degrees, Fahrenheit.
Reparations Is
Matter Of
Serious Dehate
BERLIN, Sept. 3 — (JP) — Ger
many’s capacity to pay her victors
is still a question of serious argu
ment among the four occupying
powers high Allied sources assert
ed. Responsible officials who de
clined to be quoted by name de
clared there was a sharp division
of opinion on the reparations poli
cies between the Soviet Union and
the western Allies as well as
among the Allies individual dele
gations.
C.A.B. HEARING ENDED
SATURDAY MORNING
The hearing of the requests by
C.A.B. examiner Roy Stough, of
the several airlines operating out
of Nome for approval of mail
routes throughout the northern
area and to Gambel on St. Law
rence Island was completed at
11:15 a.m. Saturday. Final dispo
sition of the matter is expected
in October.
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Gruening Works
For Overseas
Credit On Alcan
KETCHIKAN, Sept. 3—</P» —
Governor Gruening said here yes
terday he was continuing his ef
forts to secure overseas credits for
Alaskans who worked on the Al
can highway in Alaska. Those
who worked on the road in Can
ada already have received such
credit.
The Governor was advised that
Alaskans now serving in the army
in Alaska will be allowed over
seas credit if they served on the
Alaskan peninsula, the Aleutians,
the Pribilofs west of one fifty-four
degrees longitude.
Prince Philip And
Princess Elizabeth
May Be Engaged
ATHENS, Sept. Court
circles are again discussing the
possible engagement between the
Crown Princss Elizabeth of Eng
land and Prince Philip of Greece.
Philip is now serving as aide to j
Admiral Lord Mountbatten, Al
lied commander in southeast Asia. I
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MRS. FLORENCE WASSMAN
ARRIVES IN NOME
Mrs. Florence Wassman and son
John arrived Friday evening from
Fairbanks. Mrs. Wassman taught
school here several years ago and
will be welcomed by her many
friends, to whom she was known
as Florence Kinney. She will teach
the third and fourth grades of the
Territorial School.
Only Woman
Captured On
Aleut ians Is Safe
By RICHARD CUSHING
YOKOHAMA. Sept. 1—</p) —
The only American woman cap
tured by the Japs on the Ameri
can continent has been evacuated.
She had been twenty years in
Alaska when the Japs who landed
on Attu May 7th, 1942, killed her
husband and took her to Japan,
where she has been interned out
side of Totsuka, twelve miles
southwest of Yokohama.
Eighteen Australian nurses
were also freed yesterday. They
had an average loss of weight
among them of thirty-five pounds.
Mrs. Jones was held incommunca
do for three and a half years.
Jap Held Islands
Surrender To
U.S. Naval Officers
GUAM, Sept. 3—><yP)—Jap held
islands in the Palau group of the
western Carolines, including Truk,
once a mighty Jap fleet base, and
Pagan and Rota in the Mariannas,
formally surrendered to American
naval officers.
The surrenders involved more
than one hundred thousand Jap
anese.
CAPT. PAULSON AND HIS
"TRADER" LEAVE FOR HOME
Capt. Peter Paulson and his gas
schooner the Trader left on its
last trip of the season for the
home port on the Yukon where
Capt. Paulson maintains a trading
post at Pilot Point, near Hamilton,
Alaska.
Man Made Power In Two Atomic Bombs
More Disastrous Than 1923 ’Quake
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TOKYO, Sept. 3— (JP) —The
August 28 edition of Nippon Times
received aboard American ships
says that the atomic bombing was
more terrible than the great nine
teen hundred twenty-three earth
quake and urged all nations to
strive for a world “in which wars
will be impossible.
America’s two atomic bomb at
tacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
killed ninety thousand people and
wounded one hundred eighty
thousand. The editorial asserted
“The great earthquake disaster in
nineteen twenty-three which
caused the world to shudder with
horror—but in comparison with
the present holocaust caused by
the hands of man, nature’s de
structiveness seems but a gentle
triviality.”
The editorial added that Amer
ican bombing raids throughout
Japan had killed two hundred
sixty thousand; wounded four
hundred twenty thuosand and left
nine million two hundred thou
sand homeless. The ‘‘suffering of
the people under the merciless
blows of the enemy’s irresistible
might show how inescapable was
the manner with which the war
was brought to a close.”