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Husbands Trapped
By Escape
LOS ANGELES AP When
a crowd of pedestrians loomed
ahead of him in a cross-walk,
cab driver W. P. Dearborn made
a quick decision. He swerved
Into a service station and plow
ed through a plate glass window
Into two autos.
His t.vo p.jisengers stepped
out of the wreckage unhurt. But
despite their narrow escape, they
registered a loud complaint.
Cried one:
"We were out doing the town.
Now our wies are liable to find
out about it."
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In The Desert", coming to the
Day Of Infamy, Eight Years Later
By PETER KALISCI1ER
IP Staff t'oi i fSuii;deiit
TOKYO Death, imprisonment
and obscurity have overtaken miuh
of the men who ruled Japan when
the Rising Sun planes bombed
Pearl Harbor eight years ago
With a peate treaty in pro-;vc:.
a survey of the men in pov. er when
Nippon went to iu; with the We-t
rev eal.- that on! ft w are pros
pering today
The har.smar.'s noose a!rea;!
has claimed HicK-lii Tojo and six
other high-ranking Japanese con-i
demned on car aeo bv an inter
national militan tribunal for their,
crimes aizain-t hu:r.anit
Marquis Koi.h: Kii the mousy
former lord keeper of the pnvev
seal and Empenor Hirohito's clos
est adviser, whose diar for Dec ''.
8. 1941. read. I watched the un
come up red over Tokvo and saw
in it an omen of a glorious new
era for Japan, isn't seeing many
sunrises these davs. He is serving
out a life term in Sugamo prison
So are IS other general-, admi
rals and government figures who
were in power on Pearl Harbor
Day. They include Admiral Shige
taro Shim. ida the navy minister,
whose carrier- -truck Pearl Harbor
and Hiro-hi )-him.i and To-hio
Shiratori. amba--ado:'- to Cermanv
and Italy . credited with helping
tie Japan to the Axis
Shiegenori Togo. Tnjo's foreign
minister who convenient! "lost'
President Hoo-cvelt- lllh Nnir
peace cable to Emperor Hirohito
until it wa- too I, i.e. i- doing 20
years in pn-ou
Tojo's u.iio-ttr- of eihnation and
triol. They r uiiiiiuttcrcl im idr a
few davs alter Japan- surrender
Four others in tho Pear! Haitior
cabinet are free but out ot public
life
The ex-commerce niini-ter, Sliin
suke Kishi. the onl one to have
flourished ti.'i.:Mialiv since the
surrender Kishi i- pie-ident of
the Nippon Steel Tradim' Co
In peneial late aiid the uccupa-
i tion have been kinder to Japan's
i war-time business giants.
The heads of the family monop
olies that built Nippon's formid
able commercial empire and will
ingly or not financed her wars,
have all been purged from their
former positions But none of
them is in jail.
Chikuhei Nakajima. whose air
craft plants manufactured the re
doubtable Zero, died peacefully in
bed last October
Tamayuki Mitsui. 55-year-old
; head of the Mitsui clan, has re- '
tired to a farm, but his kinsman is
running a country club near Tokyo
Three other Mitsuis who went to
Switzerland this summer to attend I
a moral rearmament conference '
have not yet returned to Japan. I
Of 19 major war crimes suspects
who were released tor lack of evi
dence, most are in retirement
writing their memoirs.
One of them, however. Aiichiro
Fujiyama, ex-president of the Ja
pan Chamber of Commerce, is now
president of the Japan Sugar Beet
Co. Another. Seihin Ikeda. ex
president of the Bank of Japan is
a behind-the-scenes influence in
conservative political circles.
The foxiest is Shumei Okawa.
the Manchurian war planner who
was declared insane after he
slapped Tojo on the head on the
owning day of their trial Two
months after it was announced
there would be no more Class A
war criminal trials. Okawa regain
ed his sanity. He now is trans
lating the Koran, at home.
By EARNEST H flr RF.CHT
CP .Staff C'orre-.pondent
TOKVO On the anniversary of
the attack on Pearl Haibor, su-uki-ean
was not feeling very agme,
tvc. Actuallv. Mr Average Japa
nese Citizen today is on the de
fensive against the possibihtv of
World War III.
Fear of a new world conflict
hangs heavily over the man m tlx
street Right! or w.unglv. he f.-els
his country would be a battle-
jSay, "I Saw It In The Mountaineer
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WAYNESVILLE
DRIVE-IU THEATRE
PROGRAM
Shows Start at 7:00 P. M.
THURSDAY and FRIDAY. Dec. 15-1G
"TAP ROOTS"
Starring
SUSAN HAYWARD and VAN HFFLIN
Also Selected Short Subjects
II
SATURDAY. Dec. 17
Bad Men Of Tombstone
Starring
BARRY SULLIVAN and MARJORIE REYNOLDS
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SUNDAY, Dm. 18
ground once more, and Susuki-san
doesn't care for additional atomic
bombs.
He feels helpless and sometimes
he tecls hopeless, having decided
that the question of war or peace
is out of his hands and that he and
his country will have to wait a
i long time before they will have
j anything to say about world affairs.
! Susuki-san s only hopes of any
nature on things beyond the shores
: of Japan run something like this:
He hopes that he and his ;oun
trvmen will be permitted to travel
abroad in greater numbers, because
ho thinks that will increase Ja
pan's foreign trade.
He hopes that some Japanese will
be permitted to emigrate, because
unless foreign trade is expanded
far beyond the present level.Japan
will not be able to feed her ex
panding population. It already
totals 82.000,000 and is building up
at the rate of 1.500,000 more each
year.
Deep down inside, Susuki-san
feels that he could romp closer to
licking both the trade and the
population problem if left alone to
work it out In other words, he
would like to see the occupation
ended.
When he is talking to foreign
businessmen or other visitors not
connected with the occupation, he
will admit that the occupation's
"welcome'' is beginning to wear
thin.
He is ready to admit that the
occupation has turned out to be. a
lot more pleasant than he expected.
However, lie will suggest that the
I nited states, if it wants Japan's
frinid hip in the future, might be
Mnart m calling the whole thine
' of as soon as possible.
Siisiiki- an has great respect for
fieri. Douglas Mac-Arthur and re-
i grots that the Russians are hold-
tng up the peace treaty that Mac
j Arthur ua , advocated time and
, aeain
He wants Japan to be indepen
dent but when he thinks about the
J American forces leaving, he asks
1 who is ;oirig to protect Japan now
that her new constitution renounc
es war and Japan has no army or
iiiavy to ward off aggressors.
Ripht after the war the Emperor
' let it be known that he wasn't
divine and that shook Susuki-san
to his root- ow Susuki-san is
I taking more and more to the popu
lar 'democratized'' Hirohito who
j now moves around among his peo
ple with no governing powers but
with increa-ing appeal as the
mbol of the nation."
Immediately after the war, any
thing that was American was won
derful. America was the victor and
Japan really is the place where
nothing succeeds like success.
Today. Susuki-san is a little more
critical.
He still likes American movies
axd finds w estern dancing much 'to
his liking.
Most of the time he tries to treat
occupation personnel as tourist.
His newspaper never has used the
specific Japanese word for "occu
pation'' but always has used a term
meaning "temporary advance
forces."
1 ne nowing. nissing Japanese so
laminar to the first occupation
troops is gone. Susuki-san is learn
ing that there are times and places
when he can stand up to the for
eigners, even to occupation offi
cials. He works a long day, but actu
ally doesn t do a half day's work
by American standards. And by
American standards he is under
paid. Susuki-san is interested in all
the talk about democracyy, but ac
cording to a survev conducted hv
his newspaper, he doesn't know
exactly what it is. So, in most of
his daily activities, he continues
along his old way of doing.
Good Samaritan
Gets A Ticket
EVGLEU'OOD, Colo. lAP)
Patrolman Martin Kinsley saw
a motorist pass a red light and
gave chase in his police car. Both
cars swung out to pass a truck.
Kinsley lost control and his car
swerved into a ditch.
As the officer, cut and bruised,
climbed out, the car he'd been
chasing drove up. The driver
had seen the mishap in his rear
vision mirror and turned back to
give help.
Kinsley asked to be driven to
Englewood police station, thank
ed the driver for the lift and
handed him a summons for
speeding and running a red signal.
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ing appearing in America's greatest modern war hero film, "Ser
geant York" playing today at the Purk Theatre.
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MILWAUKEE. Wis. (UP) A
young man in a convertible swept
up to the pretty woman on the cor
ner and asked if he could drive her
any place. "Have you got enough
gas0" she asked. "Why, sure," he
replied eagerly. "Then step on it,"
she said.
"B. F.'s DAUGHTER'
All Star Cast
MONDAY and TUESDAY, Dec. 19-20
"MEXICAN HAYRIDE
Starring
y ABBOTT and COSTELLO
By WILLARD D. EBERHART
UP Staff Correspondent
PEARL HARBOR Eight years
ago on the Sunday tho Into Prssl.
dent Roosevelt bitterly called the
day of Infamy," Pearl Harbor was
a scene of burning ghipt and dying
men.
It was December 7, 1941, the day
that caused a suddenly unified na
tion to mount the greatest war
effort the world ever had seen.
On the eigftth anniversary of the
devastating Japanese assault, Pearl
Harbor Ilea under the warm Ha
waiian tun, with the bodies of 1,150
mn riill Inside the twitted bulks
of two sunken ships. They are
silent reminders of the nation's
blackest day.
Sent to Pearl's muddv hnttnm
perhaps forever, were the battle
ship Arizona and the target ship
Utah.
The waves of the harbor's blue
water lick their rusted decks as
occasional sightseers and next-of-
kin make pilgrimages to these
only remaining mementoes of the
Japanese attack.
The American graves registra
tion service list 1,092 officers and
men whose remains are still inside
the Arizona. The battleship sank
at her anchorage off the southern
edge of Ford Island in the middle
of the harbor.
Of the Arizona's total comple
ment of 1,543, only 289 survived
the blows of one torpedo and seven
heavy bombs, one of which went
down her stack.
Fifty-eight bodies are still in the
Utah on the onboslfe side nf Fni
Island. The Japanese sank her with
three torpedoes. She lies on her
side, mostly submerged.
The Navy found it impractical to
raise either shin and it w l.
cided to leave the men where they
fell. They comprise more than a
third of the 3,033 soldiers, sailors
and marines who dieu in the attack,
The key officer on "battleship
ruw inai day was Capt. (then
Commanderi William F. Fitzgerald
of Washington, D. C. He was op.
erations officer for the commander
of battleships and, additionally,
was duty officer when the blitz
began.
Now chief of staff to Rear Adm.
C. H. McMorris.
the 14th naval district, Fitzgerald
said:
"Pearl Harbor ad
black day in our history. But I feel
it is something the whole country
snouia remember without mini
mizing in any way the inadequacy
of anyone concerned. It was the
result of the complacency of a
peace-loving nation."
Reading dispatches in his cabin
aboard the flagship Maryland that
morning, Fitzgerald snddeni v woe
startled by a sharp jolt. Within
seconds there was a second blow.
The battleship Oklahoma, moor
ed outboard of the Maryland and
thus protecting her, had taken two
aerial torpedoes in her side. Two
more hit her and she capsized and
sank within 12 minutes.
"I ran on deck and one glance
told me we were at war." Fitzeer-
ald said. "Our machine-gunners
were firing when I reached the
deck, and the five-inch anti-aircraft
batteries were at work within
another minute or two.
"The water was covered with
flaming oil and the smoke was so
intense it was almost impossible to
breathe."
The Maryland herself U7AK Vllt K
' mi uy
two bombs forward. She was not
seriously damaeed and maruaoii in
sail for Bremerton for repairs
within a fortnight.
There are no capital ships In
Pearl Harbor today; only a handful
of submarines, a few destroyer es
corts, and some small service craft.
Navy men ashore and afloat and
civilian workers in the naval ship
yard are fewer than at any time
since 1939. Some 8,400 civilians arc
repairing and maintaining ships
and comnletine the taa
Pacific war roll-up. Small craft
till are being towed from islands
around the Pacific to Pearl Harbor
for mothballing.
But Pearl's war-time develop
ment made it the most complete
navy operating base In thB unrM
Nearly a billion dollars have been
spent here and the base could be
transformed to war status over
night If necessary. '
It remains on nf th wmII.
flnest anchorages with more deep
water (30 sauara mileii than
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South's Voice Best,
Professor Claims
GAINESVILLE, Fla. CUP) A
University of Florida professor
thinks a natural southern voice
sounds better on the radio than n
fiat western tone or northern tone.
xiui me rtrawiea "kalnt," "you
all," and "honey-chile" slangs are
definitely taboo, according to Dr.
Lester Hale, director of the speech
and hearing clinic in the Uni
versity's speech department.
Dr. Hale says the standard
southern speech is the most mus
ical of any regional dialect but you
have to combine good diction with
it.
He cites a Floridian, Red Barber,
network sports announcer, as an
example of the true southern voice.
Dr. Hale believes that radio, in
an attempt to create a standard
American dialect, is developing a
new hybrid speech that is not
"American" at all.
German Canary Sings
To Proper Melody
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UP) Leon
ard Sterne bought his daughter
Trudi a canary that had been flown
from Germany. But the bird
wouldn't sing.
Stern induced Tom Jones, a lin
guist, to coax the bird to sing.
Jones sounded a few bars of "Ach
du lieber Augustine."
Now, says Sterne, he and his
family can hardly sleep for the
bird's Deutschland warbling.
Burglars' Swa
Will Squeal
CHICAGO (AP) Maybe the
burglars who broke into a north
side furniture store won't talk, but
one of the things they carried off
most certainly will. They got away
with one portable bar, one rug,
two lamps and Peggy. Peggy is a
talking parrot
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SATURDAY, Dec. 17
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"MISBEHAVING HUSBANDS'
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latp: show
'REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES'
Starrinc
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SUNDAY, Dec. 18
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