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3-Mile American
“Military Might”
Parade In Tokyo
YOKOHAMA, Sept. 7—4tf>)-^A
three-mile parade of American
military might through the heart
of Tokyo, beginning within sight
of the Emperor’s palace marked
the triumphal entry of General
BfacArthur today. Domei broad
cast said he arrived at 4 p.m.,
Thursday, Nome time, with the
battle equipped Seventh and
Eighth regiments of the First
Cavalry Division to march through
the bomb shattered capital city.
g, This is the first such march a
conqueror has made there in Jap
an’s long history. An Honor Guard
from the Seventh Regiment, which
fought under Custer on the Little
Big Horn will escort General Mac
Arthur from the Tokyo railroad
station in Marunouchi business
quarters east of the palace
grounds to the American Embas
sy, about three miles east of the
lvfarunouchi district.
The white-legginged First Cav
alry band will blare martial mu
sic as the Supreme Commander of
the Allied forces motors past
downtown buildings to the Em
bassy; there to raise the same
American flag that flew over the
Whitehouse on December Seventh,
nineteen hundred forty-one.
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Missing Air Liner
I Believed To Have
Been Found
I1IMTER, S. C., SHAA Field,
>t. 7—</P)—The Army Air Base
orted the wreckage of a plane,
ieved to be the missing Eastern
liner with twenty-two aboard
i been sighted ten miles east
Florence, near the Pee Dee
er.
'he report said the plane ap
ired to be “a complete wreck.”
? plane was carrying ten civil
s, nine military personnel and
xew of three in a flight from
imi to New York.
RL TOWNERS PURCHASE
LLIVAN HOME
At. and Mrs. Earl Towner have
*chased the Sullivan home
oss from the Territorial School
1 moved in last week. Mr. and
s. Grill of the Postoffice De
cent have taken the former
uvner residence.
g*e automotive industry is pro
sing war goods at the rate of
billion dollars a year.
FLYING 60XCA R—-With a level floor and vertical sides
like a railroad car, the C-82 Packet lives up to its nickname of
"flying boxcar." Fuselage, loaded at rear, has 93 per cent cubic
capacity of its rail counterpart.
President Sends
Lengthy Message
To Congress
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—</P)—
President Truman in a sixteen
thousand word message asked
Congress for power to deal with
the emergency and suggested a
long list of laws. The President
asked Congress not to declare
peace. He said the declaration
would end many needed powers
and would create confusion and
chaos.
He recommended immediate tax
bills cutting some unspecified
1 taxes in a limited way for next
year. He asked Congress to raise
I their own salaries to twenty thou
' sand dollars annually and to in
crease federal workers’ pay and
lift the “obsolete” forty cents per
hour minimum wage for workers
in general.
He also recommended increased
unemployment payments, the pas
sage of a full employment bill,
creation of fair employment prac
tices permanent committee, con
tinuance of the military draft and
increase in veterans’ benefits. He
asked for a single administrator
for all surplus property and a
federal agency to do scientific re
search.
He asked for authority for the
White House to reorganize the en
tire executive branch of the gov
ernment, and the retention of pub
lic employment services at least to
Army Established
New North Pacific
Supply Route
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—(/P)—
A new rail and water supply route
to the North Pacific was estab
lished by the Army early in the
war to defend Alaska and the
Aleutians, the War Department
disclosed. The route keyed to
Prince Rupert, forty miles from
the southern tip of Alaska.
Men and material went by rail
from United States through west
ern Canada to Prince Rupert,
then by ship through the Alaska
Inland Passageway to Skagway,
Valdez, Seward, Anchorage and
the Aleutians. At one time thirty
five hundred soldiers and civilians
manned the port.
Pearl divers have been known
to stay under water as long as six
minutes withoout breathing, ac
cording to Encyclopaedia Britan
nica. Their average endurance is
from fifty to eighty seconds.
June, 1947. He asked for a big
public works program, for the
support of farm prices, for a
strengthened labor department,
help for small businesses, and
housing stimulation.
He asked for more money for
foreign relief and repeal of the
Johnson Act forbidding private
loans to countries that have not
paid their debts.
Northwest Airlines!
Wants To Fly !
Coast Route
SEATTLE, Sept. 7—Croil Hun
: ter, prseident of Northwest Air
lines, said his company planned to
i operate daily round trips from
j
Seattle to Anchorage and three
trips per week between Anchor
! age and Minneapolis and St. Paul,
! if granted permission by the Civil
Aeronautics Board to operate both
routes.
He told the Pacific Northwest
| Committee who are attempting to
i have Seattle recognized as the
American gateway to Alaskan and
the Orient, that his company’s ap
plication for the Anchorage and
Twin Cities route was made in
1941, when it was believed the
I Pacific coast route could be oper
j ated only twenty or thirty per
I cent of the year. “During the war
however we took over the Alaska
service for the Army and found
we could fly the coastal route
anytime.”
Hunter said the adverse report
by the C.A.B. examiner on the
company’s application for the
Seattle Anchorage line was only
the “first strike.” The report is
being protested. “The government
established the finest airways in
the world in Alaska. There are
great airports at Annette, Juneau,
Cordova, Yakutat and Anchorage.
What’s more there are two sets of
facilities, one Army and one
Navy.” i
Congress Gets Busy
After President's
Message
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—<-p(—
Congress got hotter today as pol
itics rushed back and predictions
of tax cuts buzzed around. The
President’s message caused a lot
of heat, so did the investigation
of Pearl Harbor. The investigation
is now certain to be held as the
President swung behind it. Yes
terday the Senate unanimously
voted for it. The House will vote
for it too, but House Republicans
are demanding equal membership
with the Democrats on the inves
tigating committee, and charges
of “playing politics” shot back and
forth over the question.
At the same time some Repub
licans were saying that Truman’s
message looked like a campaign
document for next year’s election
and called it “same old New Deal”
Tax talk got a shot in the arm
from the President’s suggestion
of “limited” reductions in forty
six. Senator George, the most in
fluential tax man in the Senate
said he believes the Presidnt was
talking about tax cuts for indi
viduals as well as corporaions. He
predicted five billion dollars
would be whacked off federal
taxes next year from both busi
ness and personal taxes.
WHAT ABOUT OTHER DAYS?
SAN JOSE—ii-P)—To help meet
the cigaret shortage, San Jose
state college students have voted
“smokeless Thursdays.”
JAP OFFICERS KILL COMMANDING
GENERAL; TRY TO STOP WAR’S END
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TOKYO, Sept. 7—(/P)—'Well in
formed Jap sources said that fan
atical young Jap officers on Aug
ust fourteenth, killed the com
manding general of Hirohito’s
personal guard division; then
forging his name, sent the troops
to surround the palace in a vain
effort to prevent the Imperial sur
render announcement from reach
ing the people.
The killing climaxed the fantas
tic attempt to keep Japan geared
to wear. These sources related
about the battle over the surren
der between the Emperor and cer
tain militarisic elements. It in
volved a hot chase after the vital
radio recording containing the
Emperor's historic capitulation re
script.
They said numerous suicide
pilots dived to death in Tokyo
Bay as a result of the surrender,
and some threatened to kill Jap
an’s surrender envoys to Manila,
but there were no further major
disorders.
Tokyo tensely anticipated pos
sible army revolts and insubor
dination.
These sources gave this infor
mation: they said that the first
surrender discussions among the
militarists began in February at
the time of the great American
carrier raids on Tokyo. The Em
peror, in March, began a fruitless
effort to obtain advice on capitu
lation.
Before the surrender actually
came Japan hinted officially to
Russia that she was willing to
yield Manchuria and North China
in return for continued Soviet
neutrality, these sources added,
but this failed.