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WAINWRIGHT RETURNS TO THE U. S.
Stepping from an Army piane which brought him to heme soil,
Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright gives a snappy szlute to crowds
waiting for his arrival at Hamilton Field, Calif. Behind him is
his chief of staff, Brig. Gen. Lewis C. Beebe.
BiG 5 MEETING
ILL DIAGNOSE
FUROPE'S ILLS
By DEWITT MACKINZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyist
JPAGE ONE . :iac "Gdi s vcics
The Big Five Council of Foreign
inisters, meeting in London to
orrow, will in effeet, constitute
o clinic which will give Europe a
drastic overhauling and determ
ine the real state of peace’s
ealth. ;
This caundl.qu_igaqug
he Potsdam meeting the big
hree. The nucleus, of course, is
merica, Russia and Britain to
vhica France and China were ad
ded. The task assigned the coun
cil was “to continue the necessary
work for peace settlement.” It
was specified the treaty with
Italy would be. the first on the
Jist.
Now the very nature of this as
signment means the, Foreign
Ministers are bound to wuncover
any weaknesses in relations of
the Big Five. Of special moment
will be the status of the relation
ship among the' Big Three, upon
whom so largely depends main
tenance of world peace, We shall
learn whether, divergence of
views—which certainly exists in
some particulars among this
mighty trio—is serious.
This is to say, the affairs of
ltaly are so complicated that
other problems will have to be
solved before a treaty can be
drawn up. The way things look
now, the badly tangled skein of
Balkan politics will have to be
straightened out, and that is one
)flf the hot-spots where Russia, on
the one hand, and the Anglo-
American Allies, on the other,
don't see eye to eye.
The highly delicate question of
spheres of influence arises. Be
fore the war British influence
was dominant in Greece and was
strong in Turkey. In the rest of
the Balkans and Hungary, Hitler
was in control, although both
Romania and Yugoslavia at heart
were pro-British. Now' with Ger
many out of the picturé, the en
tire situation has changed.
Russian influence has Sup
planted that of Germany. Britain
still is big brother to Greece, but
the latter is torn with a bitter
struggle between the extremeé
right and the Greek Communists,
the latter claiming they are dept
from power by British interven
tion. This situation naturally
brings no applause from Moscow.
On the other hand ' Britain and
America don’t feel that the pres
ent governments of Bulgaria, Ro
mania and Hungary are rt;p!‘e"
sentative democratic - regimes,
whereas they are satisfactory to
(Continuea on Page Five)
ATHENS AND VICINITY
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continued hot tomight. Tues
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tonight. Net so warm north
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WHERE U. S. TROOPS OCCUPY TOKYO
This map shows central Tokyo with the location of the Imperial Palace, the Diet, and the Ameri
can Embassy, where Americans are now engaged in occupation operations,
Brifish To Receive
Stiff-necked Jap's
Southern Surrender
SINGAPORE, Sept. 10—(&)—
Lt. Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, the
obdurate commander of Singapore
and one of Japan’s top ranking
militarists, was nominated today
to go through the humiliations
of formally surrendering Nippon’s
southern armies to, Admiral Lord
Louis Mountbatten here Wednes
day. ‘
Itasaki was accepted by the
Allies for the task when it was
found that Field Marshal Count
Juichi Terauchi, supreme com
mander of the southern armies,
was suffering from residual pa
ralysis.and will be unable to be
present for the formalities.
Mountbatten . sent his personal
physician to Saigon to determine
for himself whether 66-year-old
Terauchi was really sick or merely
trying to dodge the responsibility
of signing Japan’s surrender.
The physician and his fellow
British officers reported back that
Terauchi was a “very sick old
man” as the result of a paralytic
stroke last April.
Itagaki will be required to seal
the surrender document with
Terauchi’'s own personal chop
(signature). The single page in
strument will be read by Mount
batten and plunked down before
Itagaki for signature.
A sword surrender ceremony in
which Mountbatten is expected
to touch Terauchi’s proffered su
marai sidearm and then let him
keep it out of military courtesy
will be deferred until Allied oc
cupation of the southern areas is
completed.
ALLIES ACQUIT
MAX SCHMELING
HAMBERG, Sept. 10—(#)—Max
Schmeling, former world heayy
weight boxing champion, today
was acquitted by an Allied mili
tary government court of a charge
that he made a false statement to
a member of the Allied forces
contrary to military government
regulations, ; e
Full Associated Press Service. Athens, Ga., Monday, September 10, 1945
Congress Plans Harhor Probe
Jap General Staff Abolished,
Censorship Ordered By Allies
Ahead Of Schedule,
Says Ga. Soldier
Of His Liberation
MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept.
10—(P)—*“Ahead of schedule” was
what Lt. James A. McMurria of
Columbus, Ga., called his libera
tion from Jap imprisonment at
Rabaul when he was interviewed
by an Australian war correspon
dent.
McMurria said in order to bol
ster the spirits of the prisoners
on the island he and seven other
American airmen adopted the
motto “The Golden Gate by 48.,”
never suspecting how close victory
actually was. | &
McMurris, a Liberator pilot,
‘was shot down by seven Japanese
Zeros near,Wewak, New Guinea,
(Continued on Page Two.)
QUISLING CONDEMNED TO DEATH
BY UNANIMOUS VOTE OF JURY
OSLO, Norway, Sept. 10. — (AP) — Vidkun Quisling was con
demned to death today for treason. . 5 5
A seven man judge and jury panel convicted the former army
major for his treachery in dealing with the Germans who estab
lished him as pupet premier during the long Nazi occupation.
The first announcement was made over the Norse radio. Repor
ters covering the trial were locked in the courtroom and apparently
were unable to leave until the end of the session. e
The Oslo radio said the verdict was unanimous.
The pronouncing of the sentence
by the court that tried Quisling
for cooperation with the Germans
during the occupation of Norway
was .broadcast direct from the
courtroom. -
Under the new law legalizing
the death penalty in Norway, the
sentence will be executed by a
military firing squad composed of
10 soldiers firing 10 bullets.
Under the law Quisling can ap
peal to the Supreme Court which
can commute the sentence but
cannot reverse it.
The presiding judge at Quis
ling’s trial, however, was Erik
Solem who also is a Supreme
Court justice and thus one of the
group which would pass on any
appeal.
Unless Quisling ig held for pur+
poses of giving evidence in other
war crimes cases, it is likely the
execution will be carried out with
in three weeks.
' Quisling, 58, was a major in
Norway’s pre-war Army and a
former defense minister. The
prosecution during the three
lweeks trial accused him of meet
ing Hitler, Grand Admiral Erich
Raeder and other high German
;officials in December, 1939, and
urging them to invade Norway.
He was charged with turning
over Norwegian defense data to
the Germans, and on the day of
the.invasion, April 9, 1940, it was
charged he went to the govern
ment offices and persondlly tele
phoned certain garrisons and gave
instruetions not to resist the Nazis.
It was through his agency that
German troops were introduced
into Norway’s harbors in the holds
of coal and freight ships, the
prosecution - asserted.
Thus undermined, Norway’s de
fense quickly collapsed,
Policy Of Keeping Present Goveratrent
In Korea. Termed "A Slap In The Face’
TOKYO, Sept. 10— (AP) —General MacArthur struck Japanese
militarism a death blow today by ordering the Imperial General
Headquarters abolished and simultaneously clamped a press and
radio censorship on the beaten empire.
As Supreme Commander he is
sued a directive that the head
quarters must dissolve by Sep
tember 13. General Hedaquarters
was set up in 1940 a few months
before Pearl Harbor 4o coordinate
army and navy activity.
While the occupation of Japan
moved smoothly, sparks flew in
Korea over MacArthur's policy of
retaining Japanese officials in
office.
In a proclamation, MacArthur
told the Koreans the purpose of
the occupation by Seventh Infan
try Division units was “to en
After Germany had taken pos
session, Quisling cooperated with
the Germans in a policy of de
portation and oppression that re
sulted in the deaths of hundreds
of Jews and patriots, it was also
chargedy . :
- Throughout, Quisling contended
he cooperated with the Germans
to avoid a .worse fate for his
country.
In his final plea, he declared
he stood before the court as “Quis
ling the patriot.”
During the trial ekperts who
examined Quisling declared him
gane. though they said there were
unusual elements in his mental
makeup. e 5
Neither public Prosecutor An
dreas Schjoedt nor Quisling’s
counsellor, Henrik Berg, was pres
e%t when -the verdict was an
nounced, the Olso broadcast said.
Both were represented by depu
ties. -
Playland Shows To
Open Tonight
At Legion Park
Playland Shows, operated by
Fred Wilcox, opens its fall show
ing tonight at the American Le
gion Park on Lumpkin street un
der sponsorship of the Legion.
Funds derived by the Legion
from the shows, which will be
open through next Saturday night,
will be added to the Legion’s
Victory Memorial Auditorium
fund. €
The Legion has recently ac
quired ,more property adjoining
the present Legion park, on which
the auditorium is 12 be erected.
""!orce the instrument of surren
der” and protect them in their
personal and religious rights.
Until further orders, all public
officers and persons engaged in
eksential services in Korea were
directed to perform their duties
as usual, and to this country long
dominated by the Japanese the
general called for “active compli
ance.” i
"The blow at the Japanese gen
eral staff will erase the last sym
bol of Japanese aggressiveness, It
was the tactical organization of
the _entire military setup.
Even as this order was issued
by MacArthur, Japanese demobil
ization was already well under
way and trains loagled with hun
dreds of unarmed soldiers and
naval personnel in the home is
lands were on their way home.
The Korean proclamation pled
ged “your property rights wlli be
respected.” It was dated Friday
and signed 'by MacArthur as
commander in chief of United
States Army forces in the Pacific,
not as the Allied Supreme Com
mander,
MacArthur’s time table for the
ocgupation of Japan disclosed
that additional elements of one
Marine and nine Army divisions
would be in place by October 23.
The censorship for Japanese
press and radio pledged there
would be a minimum of restric
tions on freedom of speech. It
.wag contained in a directive is
sued to the Japanesé government.
As a result overseas broadcasts
from Tokyo radio stations were
reported by American public re
lations officers to be off the air.
Koreans demonstrated in Seoul
(Keijo) and termed it “a slap in
the .face” when Lt. Gen. John R.
Hodge, whose 24th Army Corps
landed at Jinsen Saturday, pro
claimed that Japanese adminis
trative officigls would continue in
office. They had expected quick
freedom from the Nipponese.
Hodge, after accepting surren
der of southern Korea (the Rus
sians control the northern half),
quickly explained that the Japan
ese governor-general and his staff
would remain in_ office only to
carry out American orders and
would be allowed no independent
action.
Vice Admiral /sank Jack
Fletcher and his North Pacific
Naval forces accepted Japan's
surrender of all northern Honshu
and the northernmost home island
of Hokkaido at Ominato naval
base Sunday: Japanese were or
dered to disarm and té continue
their civil administration. Patrol
boats and carrier planes circled
alertly, pending the arrival of
occupation troops.
Issues Statements
MecArthur simultaneously * is
sued two statements from his
new headquarters in the U. S.
Embassy in Tokyo. One pledged
that Japanese militarism would
be eliminated. The other assured
his troops they would go home
as soon as peace could be made
(Continued On Page Ffour) i
Services For Mrs.
Simon Michael
Are Held Sunday
Services for Mrs. Simon Mich
ael, prominent Athenian, were
conducted from the residence on
Mildedge avenue Sunday after
noon at 5:30 o’clock by Rabbi
Sanford Sapperstein, pastor of the
Congregational Children of Isreal
Interment followed in Oconee
Hill cemetery, Bernstein Funeral
Home in charge of arrgngements.
Pall-bearers were Milwon Lesser.
Dr. Sigmund Ccan, Henry Rosen
thal, ,Harry Loef, Herman Kul
man. Charles Joel, Jake Bernstein,
Lee Morris, David Michael and
Leroy Michael. Serving as hon
orary .pall-bearers Wwere Aaron
Cohen, Joe Myers and Sidney
Boley. .
Surviving Mrs. Michael is one
son, Max Michael, president of
The National Bank of 'Ataens;
daughters-in-law, Mrs. Morris
Michael, sr., Macon, and Mrs. Er
nest Michael, Bastrop La.; grand
daughters, Miss Cecil Michael,
Athens and Mrs. Sol Snyder, Bas
trop, La.; grandsons, Captain Max
Michael, U. S. Army, Morris Mica
ael, jr., Macon, Lt. Bert Michael,
U. S. Army and Lt. Emile Mich
ael, U. S. Army. Mrs. Michael was
sthe mother of the late Morris
~ (Contmvwed on Fage ‘nno)‘
MEAT RATION
MAY END
ONOCTOBER 1
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—(P)—
Th end of all meat rationing by
October 1 was seen as a possibility
by some rationing officials today,
although no date has been set.
Office of Price Administration
officials said the decision would
‘be made by agreement with the
Agriculture Department but one
government spokesman said: ;
Depends On Supplies
“If supplies look good by the
end of the month, rationing will
go.n
OPA’s action Saturday night
removing all limits on the slaugh
ter of livestock was taken in ex
pectation of heavy runs of cattle
to packing houses. It was accepted
generally as indicating a possible
early end of rationing. :
Price Administrator Chester Bow
There is no dispute between
Price Administrator Bowles and
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son on the desirability of drop
ping ration controls as soon as
possible. An OPA spokesman de
clared that Bowles is “strong for
ldescumtilE . o e
\ Shoes May Be Freed
' Shoes may go off rationing be
fore November, if OPA and the
War Production Board see fit to
follow recommendations of the
shoe trade. Sellers have been ad
vocating action this fall. .
Bowles has assured Congress
that most rationing will end this
year. Sugar and fats and oils,
however, remained dubious. Con
tinued scarcity of their supply,
Bowles said, made their release
“impossible to predict” with ac
curacy.
Amall To Remain
Governor "So Far
As | Know,” Says
" “ ATLANTA, ~ Sept. 10—(AP)—
Governor Ellis Arnall, previously
represented as being ready to ac
cept a reported otfer to become
U. S. Solicitor General, told news
men at his press conference to
day: ’
“I am still governor of Georgia
and so far as I know, I will con
tinue to be governor.”
The governor, who has never
confirmed a report from various
sources that he had been tender
ed the job, declined to amplify
the statement. He indicated, how
ever, he might have a statement
later in the day. -
Prior to seeing the press, the
governor conferred with Senate
President Frank Gross of Toccoa,
who would become chief execu
tive should {\the governor resign.
Asked by newsmen about the
result of the conference, Gross
said:
“I don’t know what the gover
nor is going to do, but I hope he
stays on and serves out his term.”
“Are you still president of the
senate?” he was asked. |
_“I don’t know,” Gross laughed.
The question and answer re—}
‘ferred to speculation in capitali
circles over the issue of whether
the new Constitution, in creating
the office of lieutenant governor,
abolished the post of president of
the senate, which Gross holds.
The lieutenant governor, under
the new Constitution, is the pre
siding officer of the senate.
STORM RECEDES
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 10.—(AP)—
A tropical disturbance centered
about 250 miles northeast of
Puerto Rico showed indications
today of recurving to the north,
away from the United States.
Situation Well In Hand:
MARINES TAKE OCCUPATION TASK
WITH PINCH OF AMERICAN HUMOR
.BY HAL BOYLE -
WITH AMERICAN MARINES ON JAPAN, Sept. 10.—(AP)—
Japanese tee hee:
The best wisecrack -of the occupation of Japan was made by a
‘hard-facec Leatherneck the day
Marines had waded ashore on
Futtsu peninsula in Tokyo Bay
still uncertain whether all would
be as peaceful as portended.
Their rifles were loaded and they
carried the usual supply of gre
nades, mortars and other “Jap
convincers.”
After a long, hot, weary walk
we came to the enemy’s army
training camp in the central one
of thrse forts on the peninsula.
It had been evacuated and only
two officers and an interpreter
were waiting to turn the fort over
to the Marines, who were hot and
disgruntled and half wishing
someone wuold start a fight any
way. i 5 3 2
A.B.C. Paper — Single Copy, 3¢ — 5¢ Sunday .
Q. T R e
olons Open Session,
Recei Wainwrigh
eceive Gen. Wainwright
WASHINGTON, -Sept. 10. — (AP) — Congress
concerned itself tdoay with the hero of Bataan and
the culprit—if any—of Pearl Harbor.
It starts the first full week of its ‘‘reconversion’
session by formally receiving General Jonathan M.
Wainwright and acting on a resolution for a congres
sional investigation in the military disaster of Dec
ember 7. 1941,
7o Philippines .
B,
‘:{”; by e ‘_, ~ ; E
Paul V. McNutt, above, War
Manpower ‘ommissioner, . has
been named to serve again as
U. S. High Commissioner to the
Philippines. He served in that
post from 1937 to 1938, {
Gen. Wainwright
Wins Acclaim
In Gapital Return
. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—Gen.
Jonathan M. Wainwright, tired
but triumphant, returned to a
hero’s acclaim today from the
trials of Bataan and the horrors
of Japanese ‘prisons. d
The hero of Corregidor arrived
at the capital’s national airport at
12:26 p. m. (EWT). His wife,
“Kitty” was waiting to greet him
as he stepped from an Army
Transport Command plane at the
National Airport. >
General George C. Marshall,
Army chief of staff, accompanied
Mrs. Wainwright. ’
Other high ranking Army of
ficers stood in line to meet: the
returning hero. ; ¢
It was their first reunion in
over four years. -
. More than 2,000 people and twao
bands, greeted him at the airport.
They had only a few moments
together, “Skinny” Wainwright
had to answer the acclaim of a
crowded, cheering capital. To
gether the couple began an ap
plause-packed day of parading
through flag bedecked streets, ap
pearances before Congress and a
White House meeting with Presi
dent Truman.
The Army commander who
fought the Japanese on Bataan
against overwhelming odds until
his small force ran out of ammu
nition was accompanied here by
four comrades who shared that
ordeal with him. |
They were Brig. Gen. Lewis C.
Beebe, Wainwright’s chief of staff;
Lt. Col. John R. Pugh and Lt.
Col. Thomas Dooley, aides de
camps and Tech. Sgt. Hubert Car
roll, Wainwright’s orderly. ‘
The giant four-engined C-54
took several minutes to make its
taxiing run from the far end ofl
(Continued on Page Five)
of the original landing. wa
The interpreter was a retired
'iJapanese chauffeur from Long
ilsland. He was a grotesque figure
with big ears soaring past’his
Jclose cropped head and oversized
| bifocal glasses. He wore a faded
| and wrinkled gray uniform sev
eral sizas too small for him. He
had wrap-around leggings on his
bandy calves and big floppy shoes
| that made him walk like a duck.
i Vaudeville Not Dead
| After inspecting the odd cari
| cature. for several minutes and
| listening to his singsong English
that sounded like a burlesque
| comedian imitating a Japanese
| butler, a perspiring Leatherneck
| (Continued on page five.)
HOM
" The House today took up the
formality of ordering a full-scale
‘Congressional investigation of
Pearl Harbor. ‘ i
. With the outcome virtually a
foregone conclusion, interest in
the case was heightened by two
other questions:
1. Whether Rear Adm. Husband
E. Kimmel, naval commander at
the Pacific bastion when the Jap-~
anese struck, will request the
court martial the Navy has offered
him.
2. Whether still secret Navy
documents should be made public
against -official wishes. ,
Those two questions were raised
over the weekend as the result of
a letter from Secretary of the
Navy Forrestal to Chairman
Walsh (D-Mass): of the Senate
Naval Committee. Walsh released
portions of the letter.
In it Forrestal disclosed that he
had offered Kimmel an open trial
in letter dated August 28, the
day% before President Truman re
leased the findings of Army and
'Navy boards set up to investigate
the military disaster.
o
' Kimmel, who long had demand
ed a court martial, did not reply
immediately, and a second letter
was sent last week. There has
been no announcement of any re
sponse.
~ Nor has it been disclosed wheth~
er the War Department made a
similar offer to Maj. Gen. Walter
C. Short, the Army commander at
Pearl Harbor at the time. Short
said after the Army-Navy find
ings were released, “my conscience
is clear.”
Forrestal’s letter to Walsh re
ported that the full record of the
Navy’s Pearl Harbor inquiry was
being sent to Walsh’s committee.
llt added the Navy would abide
by the committee’s decision wheth
er any unpublished documents
should be made public.
Forrestal put it this way:
“Whether the information is of
sufficient public importance to
warrant compromising sources of
information which have been and
continue to be of great value to
our national security,”
More Study Seen
__Walsh, who had requested the
Navy file, said his committee
would have to study the docu=~
. (Continued On Pate Four)
'Dishonorable Foe'
Rebuftfed By Aussie
At Surrender Rises
By The Associated Press
| Austrialia’s press gnd public to
day scored what it called the “kid
glove” peace policy, stressed new
atrocity stories, and cheered the
blunt statement of their com
|mander-in-chief, Gen., .Sir "{nomas
Blamey, who told capitulating
Japanese at Morotai:
Japs Unrecognized "
“I don’t recognize as an Jone
orable, gallant foe, but you’ll be
treated with due courtesy in all
' matters.”
[ Unofficially No. 1 on the list
of Japan's war criminals, wartime
Premier Hideki Tojo was found
living comfortably on his guard
‘encircled farm on the edge of
Tokyo. One source said he was
clinging to life until he could
prepare his own defense and ac
cuse the late President Rocsevelt
of being tae real No. 1 war cri- i
minal—and that he would there
upon commit Hara Kari.
In Chunking, a recent arrival
from Honoi, Indochina, said Jap
anese outposts at Langson, nort.a
ern Indochina, had reacted to sur
render news by slaying the entire
French civilian population of 100
including women and children and
500 to 600 French prisorers of
war. . :
Ate Live Americans
Charges that Japanese nad eat-"
en the flesh of American prison
ers—after they had been used for.
‘bayonet practice, but before they
died—were made in an official
sttement by the Australian govern
ment. Time and places were not
specified. Tais report, like many
others given by the 11,322 allied
prisoners already freed fr«m Ja
pan, was to be submitted to the
United Nations war crimes com=
mission. -
. Of those rescued from Honshu
camps, 6,096 already are on their
way to America, eighth army
headquarters reported. Mome than
500 others, self-liberated, are
roaming northern Kyushu; 1,159
freed from Formosa arrived in
Manila. T