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Responsi hi I i ty For
, 1-Year ()hl Tragedy
Still Uncertain
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—<*/?)—
Disclosure that President Roose
velt took a personal hand in get
ting war warnings to the Philip
pines in nineteen forty-one
brought a Republican demand that
General MacArthur be called as
a wintess in the Pearl Harbor in
quiry.
The demand came from Senator
f Homer Ferguson, Republican of
Michigan, who said it was evident
that General MacArthur, then
commander of the Army Forces
in the Philippines, received a
great deal more information on
the threat of hostilities than did
Army and Navy commanders in
Hawaii.
^ Roosevelt’s role in war warn
ings was developed during the
questioning of Maj. Gen. Sherman
Miles, pre-Pearl Harbor head of
Army Intelligence. The message
which Roosevelt sent on Novem
ber 26, 1941, to the United States
Commissioner in the Philippines,
was read into the record. It said
in part: “I consider it possible
this next Japanese aggression
might cause an outbreak of hos
f tilities between United States and
Japan.*’ Japan, Roosevelt said, ap
parently was preparing her forces
for an aggressive move some
where.
General Marshall told Pearl Har
bor investigators that * Admiral
Stark thought that warnings to
the Pacific commanders on De
cember 7, 1941, would “only con
fuse them,” so Adm. Stark, then
1* Chief of Naval Operations, at first
opposed the sending of such warn
ings, after it became clear that
trouble was brewing for United
States on that day.
Marshall told the Senate and
I House committee investigating the
attack that he called Stark back
on the White Housp telephone
however, and insisted on sending
ihe messages. Then the Admiral
acceded, Marshall said, and asked
that the Army warnings be
amended so naval officers in Pa
cific outposts would be advised.
Investigation
“Asinine” Says
Private Lockhard
% NEW YORK, Dec. 7—The Her
ald Tribune said today that Joseph
•Lockard, who as a private, de
*OH, Say Can you See ? "
PEC - 7- 1945
To Fry Tojo And
J «r
Cabinet In January
TOKYO, Dec. 7— (/P) —Chief
prosecutor Keenan announced the
first war crimes trials in Japan
are tentatively scheduled for Jan
uary, with War Lord Tojo and
his Pearl Harbor Cabinet leading
the parade of the defendants. He
declined to comment on the All;ed
attitude toward the Emperor. The
death penalty will be asked in the
trials, he indicated..
Since the Coast Guard was en
trusted with the International Ice
Patrol in 1914, not a single life
has been lost as. a result of a ship’s
collision with an iceberg.
tected and vainly warned that the
Japanese planes were approaching
Pearl Harbor on December 7,
1941, has termed the Congression-j
al investigation of the Pearl Har
bor attack as “asinine.”
“I’ve been wanting to say this
for years,” Lockard told the Trib
une over the phone from his home
in Williamsport, Pa., “the respon
sibility can’t be pinned on any
American. We have lost sight of
the fact that the Japanese were
responsible for Pearl Harbor. I
don’t think the investigation is do
ing our counrty any good.”
\ amasilita Given
Healh Sentence
MANILA, Dec. 7—(/P)—The five
general military commission con
victed the former Jap commander
of the Philippines, Yamashita, of
having permitted a “series* of
atrocities and high crimes by the
Japanese armed forces under your
command,” and passed the death
sentence.
Yamashita thus became the first
top war criminal of the Pacific to
be convicted and sentenced. Be
fore hearing the verdict, the
stocky defendant stood visibly
nervous, while the interpreter
read this statement to the court:
‘‘I wish to stand here today with
a clear conscience and swear to
God I am innocent of these
charges. 1 wish to take this op
portunity to express my gratitude
to the U. S. officers of defense for
their brilliant upright defense,
and I want to thank the commis
sion for a fair trial.”
When the United States Coast
Guard destroyer escort Leopold
was hit by a torpedo from a Nazi
U-boat while firing on another
U-boat of the same wolf pack,
only 28 of a complement of 205
survived.
Mac Arthur Orders
Arrest Of Konoye
TOKYO, Dec. 7—(/P)—General
MacArthur today ordered the ar
rest of Prince Fuminaro Konoye.
three times Premier of Japan, and
Marquis Koichi Kido, who was
Hirohito’s righthand man through
out the war, and seven others as
war criminal suspects.
Reaching into the highest cir
cles the Supreme Allied Com
mander named a cabinet member,
•a political economist, a newspaper
vice president, a journalist, an in
dustrialist, an ambassador, a mem
ber of the House of Peers, and a
member of the Jap Embassy as
being on his list of suspects.
Konoye, w’ho was premier at
one time, and incidentally held
the post the last time just before
Pearl Harbor, when he was suc
ceeded by Hideki Tojo, is a mem
ber of the Japanese Royal family.
HARTFORD GOES
TO STATES FOR XMAS
Art M. Hartford, manager of the
U. S. S. R. and Mining Company
here, left for the States Wednes
day evening by Pan American
Airways, to be with his family for
the Christmas holidays.
Roosevelt Tried To
Keep I Yare lip To
Last Minute
NEW YORK. Dec. 7—UP)—Dr.
E. Stanley Jones, Methodist mis
sionary, who described himself as
a go-between for .Japanese envoys
and the United States government
in the days before Pearl Harbor,
said today that the envoys made
“desperate attempts” to avert the
war. .
The missionary who has spent
, many years in the Orient said it
was at the suggestion of Jap rep
resentatives transmitted to Presi
dent Roosevelt, by him, that the
late President sent a last minute
personal message to Emperor Hi
rohito.
In an article written for the
December issue of the magazine
in Asia and the Americas Doctor
Jones said the envoys asked him
to “urge the President to send a
cable to the Emperor as a final
attempt to preserve the peace.”
Mrs, Rita Jones
Receives Back Pay
_
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—CP)—
Mrs. Etta Jones, described by the
Interior Department, as the only
i white woman known to have been
captured by the enemy on Amer
ican soil in World War II, collect
ed her back pay check for seven
thousand, three hundred seventy
four dollars. It was given to her
by Secretary Tckes.
The sixty-two year old Tndhan
Office teacher was serving on the
island of Attu when the Japanese
landed there. Mrs. Jones and her
husband, C. Foster Jones, who ra
dioed weather reports to Dutch
Harbor from Attu. were both cap
, lured. Mr. Jones was never found.
Mrs. Jones has spent more than
| fifteen years in Alaska as an In
dian teacher. She will be retired
at the end of the year and plans
to make her home in Atlantic
City, N. J.
—
WASHINGTON. Dec. l—(/P)—
Legislation designed to minimize
unemployment was approved by
the House expenditures committee
after a long consideraiton and
much revamping. The measure,
declaring it is the federal policy
to “maintain a high level of em
ployment” throughou tthe coun
try, is considerably changed by
the version of the full employment
bill asked by the President and
approved in modified form by the!
Senate two months ago.