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Greatest Military
^ Gamble In History
Is Suceess
TOKYO, Sept. 17 — f/PV — His
tory’s greatest military gamble,
the American landing of armed
forces in Japan paid off so hand
somely the occupation forces will
probably be cut to not more than
two hundred thousand within six
months General MacArthur said.
The result of the successful pen
etration of this conquered nation,
he added in a formal statement is
that the troops will be returned
home as rapidly as ships are made
available. The regular army forces
he said, probably will be able to
maintain unaided, the “two hun
dred thousand man force” which
will permit the complete demobil
ization of our citizen Pacific
forces.
There is probably no greater
gamble ever taken in history than
the initial landings, but our stakes
f were worth it, he explained. The
ground forces of Americans were
outnumbered a thousand to one
by the Japs, MacArthur’s state
ment said.
It was an unknown quantity at
the outset of the occupaion, whe
ther a military government would
have to be established. This would
involve several million troops i
he said, but by working with the
existing Jap government on the
purposes of the surrender terms
it can be accomplished with only
a small fraction of the men, time
and money originally projected.
Questions involved in the
strength of the occupation forces,
MacArthur said was entirely in
dependent of the fpture Jap polit- J
ico governmental structure. This
problem he added, was awaiting
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Will Drop Atomic
Bomb On Nagato
In Experiment
NEW YORK, Sept. 17— {£>) —
The Times said a dispatch from
Tokyo said the damaged thirty
five thousand ton Jap battleship
Nagato, taken over by the U. S.
Navy at Yokosuka Naval Base
will be towed five hundred miles
to sea, where an atomic bomb
will be dropped on her in experi
• ment.
It may determine the future
form of the world’s navies. The
Times said the Nagato withstood
an attack by five hundred U. S.
naval planes.
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ONCE OVER FROM CUSTOMS-a customs official
at LaGuardia airport, New York City, looks over Jack Benny’s
luggage as the entertainer returned from an overseas tour. In
CMDtmr te Martha Tilton, vocalist
Grueiiing Favors
Seattle As Air
‘Gateway**
SEATTLE, Sept. 17—(/P)—Gov. j
Gruening, arriving here last night
for a conference with Seattle’s
Pacific Northwest Oriental Air
line Committee said Alaska favors
Seattle as the gateway route to
the Orient, via Alaskan points.
“I favor such a route and it is
only natural that Alaska’s coastal
cities, including Anchorage, feel
the same way. After all we have
community interests.” He added
“Seattle is the gateway preference
if only one line is given a fran
chise. If more than one line enters
the picture, then Alaska will de
sire to get as much* of a varied
service as possible.”
COL. JOHN M. CROSS
IN TOWN ON BUSINESS
Col. John M. Cross, owner of
the Northern Cross Airways, is in
Nome today on business. He flew
in from Deering and will probably
return this afternoon.
MISS ETHEL McNAIR
LEAVES FOR FAIRBANKS
Miss Ethel McNair, who has
been teaching Typing and Short
hand courses in Nome this sum
mer, will leave on the Pan Ameri
can plane tonight for Fairbanks.
Miss McNair plans to attend the
University of Alaska for language
courses.
Unemployment
Bill Scheduled
In Congress
WASHINGTON, Sep. 17—(£>)—
The President urged Congression
al leaders to redouble their ef
forts to expedite the broadest pos
sible unemployment compensa
tion bill. With the Senate sched
uled to take up the legislation to
morrow the President reviewed
the outlook.
His Capitol Hill Big Four chair
man George of the Senate Finance
Committee also discussed labor
troubles with his Congressional
visitors. Senator Barkley said the
conference also dealt with the so
called fill employment bill and
legislation setting up a single
property administration measure
to give the President authority to
reorganize government agencies
for the postwar period.
Gen. Shinotsuka
Commits Suicide.
TOKYO, Sept. 17— (A>) — The
newspaper Asaki reported that
Lt. Gen. Shinotsuka, member of
Japan’s supreme war council,
committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a Samurai sword. He
formerly was president of the
army officers school, the Jap
“West Point.”
Hurricane Sweeps
Southeastern
U. S. Coast
MIAMI, Sept. 17—(/P)—A tropi
cal storm swept southern Florida
with an estimated fifty milllion
dollar damage, and moved across
the coast to South Carolina near
Parris Island. The U. S. Weather
Bureau in Miami reported the
storm appeared to be losing its
fury as it headed north.
The Weather Bureau said hur
ricane warnings would be lowered
at noon south of Cape Hatteras to
Brunswick. Ga. “The storm is
now centered over land about
thirty miles west of Charleston,
S. C., moving almost due north
ward.”
An advisory said at its peak the
hurricane reached a velocity of
one hundred forty-three miles per
hour in roaring across the Florida
Keys at Key Largo. It hit a ninety
nine force in Miami and took a
toll of htree known dead and
wrecked or damaged thousands of
homes, and the great three-hangar
navy blimp Richmond, thirty
miles from Miami, was destroyed
when fire broke out during the
height of the storm.
Explosion Rips
Britain’s Largest
Battleship
CLYDEBANK, Scotland, Sept.
17 —<^P) — A blinding explosion
ripped Britain’s largest battleship,
the forty-thousand ton HMS Van
guard, in the fittingout basin here
tonight, killing two workers and
injuring six others. Officials re
fused to disclose the cause of the
explosion.
Navy Promises
mJ
Many Discharges
• *
By (Christmas
WASHINGTON, Sep. 17—UP)—
The Navy promised Senators it
would put 764,000 enlisted men
and 75,000 officers back in civil
ian clothes by Christmas. The
pledge was made by Vice Adm.
Denfield, chief of personnel, as
the Senate Military Committee re
sumed inquiry on why service dis
charges aren’t going faster.
Previously Under Secretary
Gates told the Senators “the sit
uation in the Pacific is not suffi
ciently stable and secure to justi
fy an early return of all naval
forces and activities which sup
port them.”
Denfield said demobilization is
moving as swiftly as military
needs, transportation, and separa
tion facilities permit.
Nazis Plead
Innocent In Mass
Murder Trial
LUNEBERG, Germany, Sept. 17
—4/P)—Josef Kramer, “beast of
Belsen” concentration camp and
forty-four other SS henchmen
pleaded innocent before a British
military court when they went on
trial for war crimes conspiracy to
commit mass murder.
The court overruled defense
counsel pleas for separate trial for
twenty-seven of the defendants.
Kramer smiled in the glare of
photographers’ bulbs.
Peppermint oil is used for fla
voring chewing gum, candy, tooth
pastes, pharmaceuticals, soaps, lo
tions and other toilet goods, and
as a household flavoring extract.
Strikes And Labor Troubles Settle On
Industry’s Horizon; Many Idle
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UNDATED — Labor troubles
across the nation made more than
two hundred thousand workers
idle. More than seventy-four thou
sand are out in Michigan alone as
industrial storm clouds gathered
over Detroit, the nation’s auto
manufacturing center.
Management and labor girded
for a showdown battle. In Michi
gan some fifty-eight thousand are
idle because of layoffs at the Ford
plant itself, while forty-five hun
dred remained on strike at the
Kelsey Hayes Wheel Company.
The balance of the total are scat
tered between the Hudson Motor
Corp., and the Murray Corp., pat
tern-makers.
Meanwhile a threat of strike
hung over the heads of both the
huge General Motors Corp., and
the Chrysler Corp. The CIO
United Auto Workers prepared
strike votes to enforce their de
mands for a thirty percent wage
increase. UAW also planned a
strike vote among the Ford work
ers, laid off because of strikes at
plants supplying Ford.