T A t 1 i n t o o a an o unc P.d the ir s uppor 0 ov i t r opos 1 that n All i d Control Co mmi io n l u t administe r J an - n teed the ~ili tar · A d mini trati vn run by G ne r al MacArthu . Th Australi an i the y , e r e dis a i f ied with the w y t hings w r e going , and cl aim ed t hat Canad, out A f r ic a and e Z al n d agree d with t h em . on th Th e attitude of he Br it i b Dominions is based act ~h at they ar e not b ei n g given a voice i n t h control of d efeat d Ja an. Te say t hat they shou ld be consulted. So that makes them agr e e ·i th the Soviet dem and that an intern a tional commission should tn k the pla ce of M ~ cArthur. T he r ~ is nor al indication of how th e British ov rnment it sel f stands in the m~tter, - the C abin et in Lon d on. There have been intimations, however, that British For ign 8ecretary Bevi n does not agree ith the Soviet disapproval of General MacArthur . oscow Foreign Commi sar Mo l otov, at th8 Council of the For ign inisters, ha s been c o mpla ining JA A - 2 --- 0 c A rt ur th · · ay t i n 8 ar b i ng handle d in J a . For exam e , h s s t h a J s o ld i rs, u t l n t e n out 0 u ni f o rm, av e ee n ei ~ e~ o n . d d a o lic m n•. o l o ov nt Y ac Ar r' s ce to e taken n int r n ti on 1 i on 1 i h t he oviet woul d hav pl C • P r l nt Truman, how e v r, eta t today th · i 11 b n c an e, n d that G n . ra 1 o la e a c rt ur i l stay on s Su p rem Alli d Comm nd - in-C ief o Affairs in J pan. And the Pr id t ed everal plain spoken decl rations. He aid hat 11 the atione ~ho had an interest in t le matt r d agreed ~n the p resent olicy, and that ad never received any of ici 1 notice that any of th e m w r d is atisfied. If t hey had a complaint, s i d e, they cou d p re se nt it to MacArthur. He ointe ut that the Sovi e ts have a repr e e ntat iv i t ro u s urrou d in th e General out th re, nd o ha n am lex O ortunity to s t t e their case to MacArt ur. Cr it ic i ms of G nera l acArthur have been mad her e in the united States, rote ts in the L eft Wing re iaxgai largely -- a nd now the controver s y takes on an international scope, with official c plaint again t UacArthur made by oviet Ru sia . I, JA P A POJS --- · ----- T e P rently, a e g oi g o dw 11 in h at u s ed t o be the ir ns . To dy G en eral M~cArthur or ere th t the arm me n t of the J p a ne se Military F o rc es e ju n ~ , tu n d int o s cr p met 1 - this to be u se ' civili n reli fin th con u er d country. 0 e of th gr at shorta es in Jap n ri h t o is ou s g , a n t e t o s u on t ns of can n on, mort r , m c ine g un s nd r i l e s i ll p rovi a lot of i ro n or t h s tructi n of dwellin g s. Th a t is - J a arm havoc '- · er enti t w i l be use d to repai a lot o · the u 1 b t by American bombing. A d, at t ' sam P. time, General U cArthur today t l e Ja ane~e Army n d Navy to turn over their st ocks of foo d , clothin g and other supplies to the To yo Home inistry - t o be used for the re l ie f of th e civili a n o p ulation. Supplies heaped up or ar i ll ow feed the hungry. 0 V D 1 1 , IT TLE L ------------- T " brut 1 trut h i out bout execution o Doolittle Fl rs. Thr e wer m ur de r d th J y e a s at i. This t h Japs th m elv es had announced v a uely at t he time. Now, Unit d ta tes Army Of fic ia h v di cover the of icial record Court rtia l that or de r ed the executi ons . T h C o u rt · art i a 1 w a s a f r c e , a p a rad y of nytbing a r cb i g justic e . Te three flyers who took p art i i e first bombing of Tokyo were brought b fo · e a mo ck ,ri bun al , the proceedings o which l ast d bri f half an hour. These consisted of little ore tan a r a d ing of regulations romulgated by the Japs, regulations that decreed the doom o f th ca tu ed flyers. Everything was in the Ja p anese langua e , the hapl ss Ame r i . ans not un de rstandin a or d th at as beibg s id - and the ex c uti ons ere imm diatel carried out. A ll this is formally st ted in the Court a rtial r ~ c or, n ow in American hands , and it gives the name s o f f ur Ja p Of fic er who decree d the O OLITTL __ F LY ___ - 2 e x c uti o . T e a ps ar no h ig h D th e i st of r c ri i a l · and i ll a ce a c o u rt a g r e at deal m o r e? iv i .i z d t l a n t e o ne in hich the y i g ur d - m r le 0 a l , mo JU t, but uall tern. i ht o l it t l e 1 e r s in 11 wer . captu ed, a 11 r 8 ne e to d e th , ut he 8 ntences 0 t her fi v ,e com ut d . On 0 the e died l a r i i n a , a v·cti o aln trit· ri beri - · s e n ry AJ apanese istre tm nt. T - ~ other four er li e r at h n J a p n s u r r n r d , a od a re •• oo in t u t wby some of the o · e e ere carried OU n o uted i s not m ade clear. ATT O - - - ne r al P tto is on t e carp t again. "On ce to f ce · , ith ene ral t c r t" m anin , - 0 E' e n ower . Th tio are old friends, and General Ik e h r .. ate t r ga r d for the m ilitar gifts of ol B l oo and G· ts. t Bu it to ive Geor e do n ' or h it a a f ri n but ' t ha To a Patton to p t to nt · s b e n Ike's d uty more than once r a king over th coals, a dressing ver you want to call it. He does fri nd , a one old al to an other 0 mea ing. eueral Ei enhower ordered General 81' ithin week, D give an account 1 hat has been doing in Bavaria - over which G rman rovince Patton has been administering as Comm n er of the A ericao Uccupation Forces. Thia follow atton's st tement th t, so f r as Nazi - n Anti- azi was concerned, it's the same difference a Democr t a nd Republicans in the United States - the ins an d th outs. atton has been keepin g some azi Officials PATT N --- - -- in minor o t , n t he ground th at t h y th ere e only x . ri ced admini trator h cou d find . And r u ose old Bloo d and G u ts w s anno ye d by complaints of Anti- azis , who wanted to get in . Anyway, he has a ologiz for he un ortu ate c ompa ri Ro n of azis and t ir o o . nt to Democ rats and e p ubli can s , a n has r e ceive stern or de rs from E is nho r to clea r out the azi office hol de rs. To ay , Eise nhow e r's Chief-of-St a rr, Lieutenaat e n e ra l alter 9- S mit h , expl&ined the ne est Patton dilemma in the following or ds : "His mouth•, said ener a l Smith , "Doesn't al ays carry out the function • of his brain. Georg~ acts on th e theory•, he /', continue d , "That it is better to be dammed than say othin g -- and that s om e publicity is bett e r than non e ". That ' s as sha rp ly sai a as Patton's own remarks. General Smith ad ed that he didn't know what w i ll hap n if General Eisenhower sh ould find Patton'e report o n the A ' ministration o f Bav ar i a ~ unsatisfactor. e didn't know, if in his own words - PTT _________ ....., " 1 ha t s t it a v a t t o n i a V e ra l ju g . b cau 0 rv r 1 y - 3 Th l t f . 0 V h " 0 on a , r act i o OU ld b taken". 0 i e nt on to C 0 e r . ill b removed, even lt i n .. m i n f ici Bett n cy. r c i 0 a z i~s. h p oi t e to th roblems th t e i n ru r in Bav ri . The Press 0 r i tica l " An h a ed that, if the 1 N a zi Of ici 1 haul r ult in a i nt e , · ith tarv a tion nd deaths · st on to e blam d ould be ton . woul ac u of bad nt - V n t OU the trou le came bout 0 to i g out t e a z i • G neral Smith th t any ' Su r m Head uarters is not orri d bou t N i i m in Bavaria. The greatest p ar nt an r t ere, he explained, was an incl i i n to rd ultr -conservatism nd that would em t om ke se n ' because Southern Germany is tr iti on l l y c os rv t ive an Catho l ic. ra mith ad e on sprightly etail. He sai t a t e · U . t r . h d _ at r . ort that e1 ic · . ilitar · lie m in Bavaria ere telling the . e man - th t tb · y - re •pa tton 's Gestapo". That a m as .I. Jo , , but the Germa . ns took it riou _ y - he -tE uto io s nse , of humo:r bein . g heavy, T e man r d solemnly th · at, on t}l basi of th . I. is crao . , Am rican General P · atton was r t , a. is in th G · t po! e 0 t : e Fr co G V r , e t 0 ai C o d t Ub · Oat ion o · f a l tt it · e b nt oos V lt l st arch. A t m n r O , r , nit St t A1nb . as · d 1' to ai t ett r o·~ted out t hat t e Franco 0 r i t , t a ist no of Fa di t I a a i n t n he A is nemies s l oo d d r 1 for h. llies . at r ident in is etter pledged t te , mi . ation of N zi and i i . e 1 · " 1 t ~ as m de pu lie tod r y Acting a ch nd f ll.owed t e · icati n f a letter o v r in Lo 1 don - one ritt en b · .iostoi C uro ill . F • co ent t Londo a ro os · f n lli nee o f Western Po · e~s against oviet Ru sie n th·s Churchill turned it down in r OU t · rms. I t i n , t c 1 ear how far t be pr e s ur e a g inst th re i me in Spain i . s 1 i · e ly to g o. SP I -- - - 2 p t t, i bi 1 tt t a : "The 0 0 r m i i n h olici s . ur a ov r m nt r ui r erly th cone rn of t ni h 0 1 " ho eve r, hat . ' n 1 C in th communit o _ nations for a r i foun on F ~ ci t rinci 1 • t t b V e s he r to i ht is that six h ndred and n thou nd or r are on stri al e over co tr T ri cipal 1 bor di utes in are i l n u tr York office bu. ld ing s, and the C a t lum in 10 u tr . T t t o oi l ref·nerie have been closed ou , an n e t n i c rtain - i Onited o th strike appears ates Con~iliation onf no eing hel, f 11s to find a solution. In e York, t e A. F. of L., threatens to s trike of building service employees from anha t n t the hole city. The NP York Police stim t that mi l ion, ive hundred thousand erson ar f cted by idle elevators. 0 the W t Coast, sixty thous lumber orkers are out in our stat , and the strike thr a ten to • pr d to forty thous n more• In a di tion to the e mRjor alkouts, the l i t inclu s a hole ~is o o her in vari us art O th country __ a strike epi d emic that t r ~ at n t incr - ase. PEAL BARBQR --- T Chief Counsel c osen for the Perl Harbor i v s t ig a tin g co mmi tt e is a vete r an of public servwe the seventy one y ar old l il lia m De Witt Mitchell. He V olicitor en ral un er Pr si ent Coolidge, an a Attorney G e neral in the C inPt of President o o v r . H av in ee n thus romi nt in two R p blican A ministrati o ns, hP was selected unanimous l y by th Co n g r ssio n al Com m itt - which co sist o s ix Democrat and four Republicans. N o w, t•• he will act as Chief Coun el for the committee in its inve s tigation 0 th Pearl Barbor _a:;r d isaster ublic hearin 8 a n the ue tionin g of I\ itn es. Com m itt e Chair an a tor B rtley indio ~ 0 d to ay t hat the u l i e henring ill not gin until e a n hi · th · u1·r h ve returned co le g u s 1n e 1n from Pea 1 h 1 ·11 begin their uiz rbor - where t e y o the Perl Harbor scene. Here's a variation on the theme of prisoners liberated from the Jape and sent home - Eskiao prisoners. Today at the Atsugi airfield near Tokyo, one hundred natives of the Far Horth, sons of the Aurora Borealis, were taken aboard transport planes and flown baok to their native villages ~ n- o - 0 ~ - ■ ade capitve ••• when /\ Ai•• .R 0£e. .. t.Q. . in the Aleutians A ,..,., . , Eaki ■o ~ the Jap seized Attu and Iiska. lo• they are on their way back to their bleak northern islands, which are home sweet hoae to the ■ - ho ■e to the Aurora B o r e a l i s ~ ~ ~ l,.o04. c:f.l-- ~ ~ ~~...:tr4",.,-~ • ' PAR CHUTE RECO ~ .....--- nd now let's note that eight ■ ilea is 8 long ay down - especially if you are falling that far. So says Uajor Vasili Romanyuk of the Soviet Aray, who has established a new record for parachute Jumping. The news today tells how away up in the stratosphere, he leaped from a plane, and came down forty-one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four feet - falling like a root nearly all the way. lie didn't open his parachute until he wast enty-five hundred feet from the ground. I don't know how long it took the Russian Major to descend those eight miles, but he might hav had i■ •i leisure enough to figure out some new H oviet dem~~ ~ u n c i l of foreign ministers in London. ~ H~~~~~e 1i) - e4-"t ~ ~ ...t:--ait~ 10 ~ .,... aJ-;,,,-tR..-._ ~ - ~~ ~ - ~ ~-·J-~J -1£ ~ ~ Q.. ~ 1 • Ea e or Hi oh i t o 's vi it t~ ener a l ha r e viv~um o r• th A llacArthur, he is g oing ' ~ t ab d i ca e . T h f s • rum o ~f=:::.tt:=e:=t::Pi1:a:.a:t±~as:a:a:z:z :zsa•••s•■ •• ! r oa t6 conve r a i on s with Ja.pane I Au rd a Ml ~t~ e , ~ One s u g est ion is th e. t the Mikado• a obeis a nce a s a final gesture of concili~tion before giTin up his thr o ne to his son, with his brother as regent. leithe of them have a ny reaponsi~ility for the present plight of Japan. MacArthur bas not disclos e d a word of what passe between him an the Emperor during the thirty-eight minu in• ic h t he t a l k ed. They conversed through a Japanese in t e rp reter. Four h urs later, Premier Prince Higashi-I i • s su e d to the i mpe rial p a lace. Prel,.a.b-l~ 4 ~ Bow wh-5-t y 61 ~r----and tee ..&■perGP nlked - 2 ~ .A's tlUi t'" u e s 1 that the Em pe ror begged acAfthur to be lenient. ha , ever he d id, he unquestionably humiliated himself in the ey es of his subjects and his ancestors. In t o housand years of recorded Japanese history, no called upon a foreigner. Japanesec!h«J feel the I, An eri ca n ew spap ~man ho has recently been re l e a ed from a Ja pa n e s pri on camp just paid a visit to a camp in es ern J a va , where Japanese are imprisoned. And he is f uri ous . Be reports that the sa ■ e men who beat their prisoner s , st a rved them in surroun d in s of filth and disease, are luxu iously quart e red in the cool hill• of Java, inc m s richl y stoc ed with the best of foods, wine and medicines. hey have everything fro ■ American canned ail an modern refrigerators to rice wine. N- eeeue ~~ IIAe..l~.- Japanese rice w i n # • ~ ~ p,eJale• • lt, a· u1 a ~-~r I (tc ts•2' tastes like s::ai ~ tSlt:nta•i ,a=~ boiled inner tube. ,A.. Howe v er, John Bower of the United Presa counted in on e stor eroom two hundred thousand p ou nd8 of rice, th irt -five thousan poun s of su gar , seventeen hun d e poun , o f te a , six bun red bottle s of wi ne, and ~. 8 A~ Ten n·s rackets, baseb all e ui ment, gramophones wi th plenty of r . cords , and Zll Ba st ores of khaki cloth and re a dyma e cloth in , sheets a n d so ft mattresses. A ll th is, r ports Jo hn B o wer, for s even hundred Japs who are to be int erned for on ly six months. They have a neat, well e q ui pp ed surgery a n d hos p ital under a competent ~ . A l ~ . . ~ surge o n. E l se here on the same 1sland!--\at the present ~O'MM,~ moment, Euro p e a ns a n d others a re dying every day, not yet ~~-.J,J,;,tf )\ prisODF" , , . The Allies -m- having a .A. . in adequate medical supplies f o r , ~ fifteen h;;:~~ s~ring from malnutrition and harsh /"- treatment.