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Hirohito To Make
Unprecedented
Call On MacArthur
TOKYO, Sept. 24 — (/P) — Well
informed sources said that Hiro
• hito would arrange to pay a pre
cedent-shattering call on General
MacArthur at the latter’s resi
dence in the American Embassy.
No date has been specified for the
meeting to take place between
conqueror and conquered.
• These sources told f/P) corres
pondent Russell Brines that at a
recent conference between Gen
eral MacArthur and Admiral Fut
jita, grand chamberlain, that of
ficial confirmation was lacking,
# although a meeting between Mac
Arthur and Hirohito has long been
expected.
The Allied Command blocked
• any atomic bomb research in Ja
pan and directed rigid control over
Jap economic life, including
wages, prices, all traffic, curren
cies, negotiable assets, and moved
toward a free Jap press.
The new order directed the Im
0 perial government to rmove it
self from direct or indirect control
of newspapers and news agencies.
Heretofore the ruling Jap clique
almost completely controlled and
directed the news policies. Strip
ping the present Domei agency of
its special privileges paves the
way for the establishment of a
new and truly free competition of
news agencies.
• One of the Emperor’s closest
advisers meanwhile disclosed, in
his opinion Emperor Hirohito did
receive the late President Roose
velt’s peace plea and United States
. Department’s November 26 peace
memorandum, but ignored both of
them when Warlord Tojo and
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Strike Closes Forty
Percent Northwest
Lumbering Camps
PORTLAND, Sept. 24 — (JP)—
Oregon estimated that forty per
cent of the northwest lumbering
camps, sawmills and plans were
shut down as AFL workers
launched a strike to force negati
ations on wage demands in the
industry on a wide scale.
Production at three hundred
forty-eight logging camps, saw
mills, and woodworking plants
was stilled, effective at 12:01 a m.
today.
In Washington, Orgeon, Idaho
and Montana pickets appeared
this morning at some mills and
in woods operations, but Union of
ficials expected no violence. Fire
men and watchmen passed through
the lines unmolested. The strike
was called after conciliations and
efforts of the Labor Department
^ and the special lumber commis
sion broke down over the indus
try-wide demands for a dollar ten
_ cents hourly minimum wage.
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TOKYO ST AT I 0 N—Japanese residents of Tokyo, look*
tag none too happy over the situation, wait for trains at the city’s
severely damaged main railroad station. Saturation fire bombings
by superforts created the ruin.
Hessler To Blame
For Christmas
Death Party
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LUNEBERG, Sept. 24— {&)—
A Polish Jewess told how three
thousand women at Oswiecim con
centration camp were lined up
naked by the camp commandant
and selected for the Christmas
Day parade to the gas chamber.
Testifying in the trial of forty
five Nazis charged with prison
camp atrocities, Mrs. Sophia Lit
winska, 28, said she lived through
the horrors of the lethal chamber
because she was mysteriously
pulled out at the last moment.
On Christmas, 1941, “who was
in charge of that parade,” the
prosecutor asked. “Commandant
Hessler, he was the murderer and
responsible for the death of thou
sands,” the witness shouted, point
ing to one of the defendant’s,
While Hessler lowered his head,
the witness continued “We were
lined up quite naked while Hess
ler and two doctors made selec
tions of gas chamber victims, who
were loaded into trucks and haul
ed to the crematorium where they
were dumped out like potatoes.”
THREE HUNDRED ALASKANS
ATTEND PICNIC
Over three hundred Alaskans
got together in a Discovery Day
picnic in San Francisco la$t month
and had so much fun that they
made the headlines in San Fran
cisco and Oakland papers. Among
the Nomeites were Pearl Van
Sickle, William Maloney, Jr., Hi
Dill, H. Butler, and Jack Berger.
The next meeting of this lively
group is planned for August 17,
1946.
Truman To Be
Responsible For
Atomic Future
WASHINGTON, Sep. 24—(/Pi
President Truman last night took
full responsibility for the future
development and use of the atom
ic bomb and said he would make
a decision as to the Administra
tion’s policy with reference to the
aomic bomb and atomic energy
when the time comes. He added
he would make it in the interest
and welfare of the country and
in the interest of its foreign and
domestic policy.
A radio broadcast this morning
said the President had stated he
will dump the responsibility for
the future of the atomic bomb into
the lap of Congress.
French Election
Swings To Left
PARIS, Sept. 24—</P)—111 clad
and impoverished people of
France appear to have swung
overwhelmingly to the left as So
cialists and Communists piled up
gains in local government elec
tions. Returns in yesterday’s vot
ing are incomplete, but with one
third of the ballots tabulated in
ninety councils, the general equiv
alent to American state legisla
tures the Communists had gained
twenty-three seats and the Social
ists one hundred two.
The center, represented by rad
ical Socialists and minor parties,
lost fifty-three seats, while the
right wing, represented by Paul
Reynaud’s followers and other
groupings, dropped one hundred
twenty-one.
Liner Prince
George Burns;
Complete Loss
KETCHIKAN, Sept. 22—</P>—
The Canadian passenger liner
Prince George, which caught fire
from an undetermined origin
early Saturday still was burning
late Saturday afternoon. It is ap
parently a complete loss.
Coastguardsmen towed the
flaming hulk around Pennock is
land away from shipping. Luigi
Villanaua, bellman, was overcome
by smoke and taken to the Coast
Guard base hospital. Because of
lack of hotel accommodations the
base also extended hospitality to
the ship’s ninety-five crew mem
bers and a dozen round-trip pas
sengers.
Dockside witnesses said the fire
broke out between number one
and two stacks and spread swiftly.
The vessel is three hundred sev
enty-five feet long and formerly
operated between Seattle, Van
couver, and Prince Rupert.
The liner now lies beached on
;
Gravina Island. One member of
her crew is still unaccounted for
and is believed to have died in
the blaze.
Veterans Need
Not Join Unions
For Old Jobs
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WASHINGTON, Sep. 24—f/P>—
No veteran of World War II is re
quired ot join a labor union to
j obtain his former job, according
i to Selective Service. This policy
; has been followed by the agency
for months and is laid down spe
cifically in the new Selective
Service handbook prepared for the
guidance of draft boards aiding
veterans.
The handbook also reiterates se
lective service position that all
| veterans have the absolute right
[ to reinstatement in the jobs they
! left to enter the service.
BURGLARY ATTEMPT MADE
ON POLET'S STORE
Shortly before midnight, last
night, Eric Nelson heard glass
breaking near Polet’s store while
driving down Second Ave. Upon
investigation he discovered that
the plate glass window in front of
the store and also a window to the
rear of the store had been broken.
He saw the person running away
from the building and reported
the incident to the police station.
Both federal and city police are
working on the case. Chief W. W.
Laws investigated the attempted
break-in and picked up the two
large rocks which were used to
break the windows.
A century ago, more than 60,
000,000 bison roamed the North
American plains; by 1895 their
number had been reduced to 800.
State Department
In Charge Of
\\ ar Surpluses
WASHINGTON, Sep. 24—<yp)—
President Truman has decided to
place the State Department in
control of the gigantic problem of
disposing of the billions of dollars
worth of wartime surpluses
throughout the world. Senators
learned this today from John Sny
der, director of war mobilization
and reconversion, as he outlined
the Administration plans for dis
posal.
In Europe alone, Snyder told a
I special Senate war investigating
committee some six million tons
of surplus materials, worth about
a thousand dollars a ton, had to
be disposed of. He was unable ta
guess the quantity or cost of sur
plus war goods in the Pacific.
Russians Discover
i Atomic Secret
In March
LONDON, Sept. 24— (JP) —The
| Sunday Pictorial said yesterday
j that Soviet scientists discovered
the secret of the atom bomb six
1 monhs ago and that the Russians
“should not take longer than an
other year to produce an atom
bomb.”
"News of the discovery was
published in a Russian scientific
paper for private distribution in
March of this year.”
U. S. Lost Eleven
Aircraft Carriers
WASHINGTON, Sep. 24—(/P)
The war cost the United States
eleven aircraft carriers sunk, and
thirty others damaged for a total
of fifty-two times by enemy ac
tion. The Navy recapitulation
showed all but one of the eleven
aircraft carriers, the carrier Block
Island were sunk or damaged by
Jap air, surface or sub attacks.
The Block Island fell victim to
German sub torpedoes in the
western Atlantic.
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Fisheries Terminal
To Accommodate
Thousand Vessels
SEATTLE, Sept. 24—UP)—Sal
mon Bay Fisheries terminal here
will be expanded next spring to
accommodate one thousand vessels'
of Puget Sound and North Pacific
salmon and halibut fleets.
Post Commission President Ed
ward H. Savage said today the
terminal can now handle only
three hundred fifty vessels.
Scientists say the activity re
quired in ‘‘couning sheep” deters
rather than induces sleep.