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VOL. XLVII. No.' 109. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER- 10, 1945 PER COPY_15^
Koreans Object
To Continuance of
Jap Government
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TOKYO, Sept. 10— <#*') —Gen
eral MacArthur’s firm control
softly spread through the length
of Japan and southern Korea, but
his policy of retaining and using
the existing Jap government set
sparks flying in Korea. Koreans
demonstrated in Seoul and termed
it a “slap in the face,” when Lt.
♦ Gen. Hodge, whose twenty-Fourth
Army Corps landed at Jinsen Sat
urday and proclaimed the Jap ad
ministrative official will continue
in office.
They expected a quick freedom
from the Nipponese. Hodge, after
accepting surrender of the south
ern half of Korea, Russians con
trol the northern half, quickly ex
plained the Jap Governor General
and his staff will remain in office
only to carry out Amercian orders
and will be allowed no independ
ent action.
Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletch
and his North Pacific Naval forces
accepted Japan’s surrender of all
* of northern Honshu, and the
northernmost home island of Hok
kaido at Ominato naval base Sun
day. The Japs were ordered to
disarm and continue the civil ad
ministration. Patrol boats and car
rier planes circled alertly pending
the arrival of occupation troops.
General MacArthur simultane
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Arizona-Born
Siamese Twins
Succumb
PHOENX, Ariz., Sept. 10 — </P)
—The Miranda Siameze twins,
* born in an humble home August
twenty-sixth died at 5:20 p.m. to
night in St. Monica’s hosptial. The
bodies will be preserved for med
ical study.
CORRECTION I
♦ In the past two issues of the
Nugget, we carried items relating
to an accident in which Betty Lou
Cavota was injured. The state
ment hat John Dusenberg was the
driver and was found guilty on
the three counts was in error.
Mr. Dusenberg was a passenger
in the car and a close friend of
the driver, Harvie Yancy, also
working for the U.S.E.D., who
was later placed under arrest for
*« the three charges, fined $100.00 on
each count, and forbidden to dpive
for the next six months.
•c—still showing evidence or
damage dealt during Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, is the scarred
atructure of the water tower*at Hickam Field, a familiar land
mark to allied Ulan of the Pacific area.
Board Of Health
Passes Resolution
Asking For Action
JUNEAU, Sept. 10— (&)—'The
Territorial Board of Health con
cluding a week’s sessions passed
a resolution that in view of the
deplorable prevalence and steady
increase of tuberculosis among the
people that immediate direct ac
tion should be taken for adequate
funds to be made available; That
it would be an advtantage to have
an extraordinary session of the
Territorial Legislature. The next
regular session will not convene
until January, 1947, and that will
be too late to take advantage of
federal help in the way of build
ings and funds which are now
available with the end of the war.
The resolution is signed by Dr.
Dwight Cramer, First Division;
Katherine Kehoe, Second Divi
sion; R. R. Armstrong, Third Di
vision; George Preston, Fourth
Division. There is no signature by
Governor Gruening, who was
chairman.
MRS. CARL LOMEH
LEAVES FOR STATES
Mrs. Carl Lomen left for Seat
tle with the P.A.A. last Friday
evening after spending the sum
mer here. She will visit in Seattle
with relatives until her husband
Carl Lomen, departs at the end of
the shipping season.
Magnuson, T ruman
Discuss Alaska
Highway
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 — <£>)
—Senator Magnuson talked brief
ly with President Truman about
the proposed completion of the
Alaska Highway. The proposal
calls for a six hundred mile con
nection between the Alaska High
way and the present military
highway, to run to Prince George
and the Whitehorse area.
Magnuson said he talked later
with Secretary Byrnes about the
completion of the road as an im
porant project involving United
| States and Canada.
Navy Liberalizes
Point System
For Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 — <JP)
—The Navy liberalized the point
system, effective September 15, to
grant one-quarter of a point for
every month’s service outside con
tinental United States. The change
will make additional four hundred
twenty-three thousand naval per
sonnel eligible fof discharge.
Navy Secretary Forrestal added
“with in six months one out of ev
ery two men now in the Navy will
be home,”
Alaska, Hawaii ;
Bid For Statehood
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10 —
—Maybe some of the glamour has
been knocked off of war by its
»safety, but people of “the main
land” know more about two out- |
lying territories now than ever be
fore. Congress knows more about l
them also, which perhaps is more
to the point, for both Alaska and
Hawaii are bidding anxiously for
statehood.
These two cornerstones of west
ern defense found their way into
nearly every discussion of Pacific
War representatives. Three com
mittees visited Alaska this sum-,
mer with the statehood proposal
in their mind. “Sure Alaska is en
titled to statehood if they want
it,” observed Rep. Angell, Repub
lican of Orgeon upon his return of
a tour with members of the Terri
tories committee which pass an
I the enabling act.
I “Certainly it’s large enough, it’s
. more than twice as big as Texas
and has almost unlimited re
j sources. Airways and a new high
I way will make it more accessible
to the mainland. Its population
! will grow. Even now it has as
much to commend it as some
states when they were taken into
the Union.”
Rep. Jed Johnson, Democrat of
Oklahoma thinks Alaskans are
not doing enough for themselves.
He declared her people let the
fishing industry take out sixty
million a year and return only one
million in taxes.
Gen Togo Gives
Interview To
Correspondents
By MURLIN SPENCER and
RUSSELL BRINES
Copyright 1945 by
TOKYO, Sept. 10—..UP) — Gen.
Togo, who as Japan’s warmaking
premier launched the attack on
Pearl Harbor, declared in an ex
clusive interview that the Ameri
can victors now could fix the re
sponsibiliy for starting the war,
but history might disagree.
The shaven-headed one-time
terror of Asia, who is now living
quietly in his comfortable farm
outside of Tokyo, refused flatly to
discuss such questions as to whe
ther he expected to be tried as a
war criminal, and what defense
he was preparing. But he was
willing to talk about many things
with moods ranging from steely- 1
eyed impassivity to hearty laugh
ter.
A little earlier a former highly
placed Jap politician told us Tojo
expected to be tried as a war
criminal and hoped to accuse
Roosevelt of being the world’s
top war criminal and then com
mit suicide in traditional hara
kiri fashion. Of this Tojo himself
sharply refused to speak.
His whole attitude was express
ed in this statement: “real soldiers
fight to the finish in the field. War
ends when peace is declared. Each
respect an enemy who fights hard
and cleanly, so General MacAr
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ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO WAS SHOT
DOWN FROM YANK AIR TRAP
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 — (JP)
—Admiral Yamamoto, who boast
ed he would dictate paece in the
White House met a flaming death
in April, nineteen forty-three, be
cause United States broke the Jap
code. The commander in chief of
the Jap navy was shot down by
American airmen who knew in
advance the course his aerial con
voy would follow and set an elab
orate trap and then sprung it
from high above the admiral’s
tightly guarded bomber.
The Japs themselves told of
Yamamoto’s death, but didn’t tell
the part American Intelligence
played in reading the coded or
ders.
J. Norman Lodge, veteran </P)
writer learned of the incident
'while war correspondent in the
South Pacific. His long unrevealed
account related the enemy code
had been cracked in March or
April 1943, and as a result it was
known what time Yamamoto
would leave Truk, when he would
arrive at Buka, when he would
leave Buka for Kahilli or Ballale.
Six Lightnings and some decoys
were sent to a rendezvous with
the Yamamoto convoy, which ar
rived escorted by twenty Zeros.
The decoys flying at eighteen
thousand feet tried to lure the
Zeros away, but the enemy fight
ers subbomly refused to be drawn
away from their precious cargo.
When this strategy failed, two
Lightnings peeled off from twen
ty-four thousand feet and headed
in a vertical dive at two Jap
bombers, not knowing which
would yield Yamamoto. They ex
ploded both bombers despite the
frantic defense of the Zeros and
added two Zeros to their bag. The
American ships reached home
safely although badly shot up.