European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday october 5 1945 Marthur reforms Jap Liaison outfit Tokyo oct 4 Douglas Macarthur head quarters without commenting on reports that Russia was de manding fou Power control for Japan took a step today aimed at smoothing the present occupation machinery with the approval of Kenji Kodama As president of the japanese Central Liaison office Headquarters virtually completed reorganization of the key Agency through which general Mac Arthur operates formerly it was considered subservient to the old clique in the foreign United states officials said that an investigation showed that to Damas record was All right for the a report of a radio broadcast seeking a change in administration on the grounds that the military phase of the occupation had passed was received As Advance units of the u s 77th in Fantry division made the first occupational Landing at Hakodate in an interview Iwao Yanazaki whose Home ministry tried to sup press a u s interview on Hirohito Call upon Macarthur told Russell Brines of the associated press that police were still vigilant against japanese advocating elimination of the Imperial he said the action was taken because he expected disorders which did not materialize More than japanese Avail ing themselves of a Freedom of speech order went in a drenching rain to a Public Hall to hear a talk on japans possible place in the peacetime world the audience included Many students and Mem Bers of the japanese Middle class Jap riot reported Tokyo oct 4 news paper Momiu Rihichi reported today that 100 stevedores armed with Iron bars rioted in a Small Northern japanese town yesterday the news paper said there were numerous injuries before the riot was quelled by american troops and japanese police there was no american confirmation of the report asks Hirohito trial Chicago oct 4 ans Brig Gen Carlos Romulo resident com missioner of the Philippines in Washington yesterday demanded that emperor Hirohito of Japan be forced to abdicate and be tried As a War criminal in the interest of Pacific peace in a speech at the veterans of foreign wars 46th National Encampment general Romulo said there Tan be no peace in the Paci fic unless every vestige of militarism in the Jap heart is effaced that can Only be done if Hirohito is made to abdicate and then tried As a War malay tigers trial scheduled in Manila Tokyo oct 4 Tomokuni Yamashita the Tiger of will be tried As a War criminal in Manila general Macarthur head quarters disclosed that general Yamashita is charged with the responsibility for brutal atrocities and other High crimes against the people of the United states their allies and depend he will be arraigned on monday judge ousts Laval in courtroom Row but trial goes on continued from Page 1 he railroaded dictatorial Powers for Petain that he foisted a Proger Man policy on Vichy France and persecuted masons jews communists and resistance fighters of All parties Laval came into the courtroom through heavily guarded corridors in the Palace of Justice this morn ing without his attorneys he wore a Blue suit Black shoes a White shirt with a Collar several sizes too big for his shrunken neck and an inevitable White string tie preceded by a gendarme he took a seat in the same Oak armchair in which marshal Henri Philippe Petain sat a few months ago when he was convicted on treason charges it was believed that Laval would put up a much harder fight against conviction that had his octogenarian former chieftain Laval is 62 a gifted lawyer and a Lover of life As in the Case of Petain the Case was being heard by three judges and a jury of 24 Reich hears Friendly talk by de Gaulle rectal 0 horrors upsets commandant of Belsen butchery Annam Hes prepared to release hostages Saigon oct 4 arrangements have been made to Exchange and return As soon As possible All hostages held by the Ann mites a statement issued Here by Allied Headquarters after a meeting Between French representatives and Annamire nationalist leaders said yesterday after the meeting maj Gen Gracey commanding Allied forces in Southern Indochina announced that he had ordered Allied troops to remain on the defensive Only and had forbidden the searching of houses by the French the French have been instructed that rough handling of Ann mites must Stop arrival of the French Cruiser be triumphant and two ships carrying by death for darn and Paris oct darn and head of the Vichy French militia and the Man who recruited a legion of Vichy Ite volunteers to fight against Russia today was under sentence of death for treason last night when president judge Pierre Mon Gibeaux read the death verdict darn and wept and almost collapsed charges against him included maintaining intelligence with the enemy collusion with the enemy inside French territory and embezzlement when captured in Italy some months ago he was said to have More than francs from the French Treasury in his Possession Saa Brucken oct 4 general Charles de Gaulle made one of the most Friendly speeches Ever Given by any Allied Leader to the germans yesterday at  he arrived on his three Day inspection tour of French occupied Germany speaking at the City Hall to a group of German civil employees and mayors of neighbouring town ships general de Gaulle said the French government is doing everything it can to help you in the hard tasks which lie before you the future depends on Many elements but already a great change has come about we will have to work Long and hard referring to the War the French Leader said despite what has happened Between us we must work together and understand each other the French government understands your diff general de Gaulle also acted Friendly toward the germans shaking hands with nearly 200 of them and speaking to them in German the generals itinerary includes Mainz Freiburg bade Baden Kehl and Strasbourg Luneburg oct 4 the ghastly recital of Barbaric cruelties at the Belsen concentration Camp continued Here today with the Reading of new affidavits against Josef Kramer Camp commandant and 44 co defendants Kramer who had smirked continually throughout the trial and whose 15page affidavit asserted that he had done his Best in an in Welcome assignment squirmed in easily along with his Fellows when the court heard that 1 Young greek girls were used in painful sterilization experiments 2 women Between 40 and 45 undergoing change of life were used in excruciatingly painful tests to discover a cancer cure 3 inmates suspected of taking bread or carrots to prevent starvation beaten and kicked to death with heavy boots 4 others were kilted in Masse in Gas Chambers and even burned to death flaming gasoline be cause the Gas Chambers were too crowded to hold More victims a deposition by Renee Kennann the Saigon control commission americans wounded in Kunming outburst chunking oct 4 a three americans were wounded As sporadic Small arms fighting broke out yesterday in Kunming Between Central government troops and Yunan forces opposing the removal of governor lung Yun while the disturbances continued american troops were reported Iso lated in two hotels in one Section of Kunming they were being supplied by a Liaison plane from an Airport on the other Side of the City martial Law was declared by the Central government the Central government news Agency said that chunking had greek Regent party leaders in Parley Athens oct 4 archbishop Damaskinos Regent of Greece be Gan conversations tuesday with party leaders in an attempt to bring about collaboration recommended by the u great Britain and prance ported a Heuters dispatch re the greek Liberal Leader Themistocles Sofoulis conferred with the Regent tuesday and presented the views of the Republican parties the Regent will meet populist party leaders today japs still operate East indies airline Batavia Java oct 4 ans a japanese airline still operates in yank Trio convicted in japanese killings Tokyo oct 4 ans three american cavalry sergeants were convicted by court martial today of manslaughter in a fatal sept 15 shooting of a japanese shop owner and his son the soldiers sentenced to 10 years in prison at hard labor were sgt mane Huffman 19 Pittsfield sgt Ray l Oroark 25 of los Angeles and sgt John nimits 24 of Wilnore a they were accused of shooting Katsumi Tanaka and his son Osamu 16 with rifles in the Climax to a drinking party in Yanakas shop later it was said Huffman and Oroark commandeered a train at gunpoint cleared out its Passen Gers and forced the Motorman to take them Back to their command Post at Yokohama the trial judge advocate of Allied the Netherlands East indies be cause the dutch fliers were in turned so Long that they Are unfit for service the line uses japanese trans ports japanese pilots and Japan Ese gasoline to carry mail and cargo col Chester Coltharp american Pilot of Newport said that after inspecting the japanese transports he would prefer to Fly any american plane the line however has operated without an Accident Jap restrictions Tokyo oct 4 Al lied command is ordering the Jap anese government to release All political prisoners arrested by the wartime japanese administration abolish All Laws affecting civil liberties and dissolve the nip ponese thought colonel Ken r Dyke chief of civil information and education for the Allied government said letters making these demands would be mailed today to the japanese government the letters also will ask Headquarters will review the test Ifor removal from office of the min 31yearow Paris jewess stated Young greek Girte were sterilized under a powerful xray machine which dried up their sexual organs one doctor experimented on women Between 40 and 45 undergoing change of life to find a cancer Core another doctor experimented with injections in women wombs then he would put an electric hot plate on the stomach they screamed and cried in a defendant Vladislav Ostrow Oski was accused of continually beating a path for himself through the swarms of prisoners by Knock ing them out of his Way with a heavy stick Bald headed Fritz metres was accused of personally having shot at least 30 persons irme Grese mentioned frequently in prosecution affidavits was said to have a favor Ite habit of beating women with a stick until they fed to the ground then kicking them with heavy boots until blood she was described in another deposition As a ferocious Auschwitz inmates were said to have been used for human vivisection and one doctor there was accused of killing a number of Hap less victims by mixing blood groups the prosecution Hopes to com plete its Case by the end of this week Mony and verdicts ister of Home affairs he said ordered lung Yun dismissed replaced by general la Han and future seen for germans Austria asks for return of Southern Tyrol area Vienna oct 4 rally tonight or at a mass Karl Renner austrian Chancellor officially asked Allied Powers to return to Austria the province of Southern Tyrol after world War i Austria lost this province to Italy a Reuters dispatch said All three austrian socialists and the Catholic Peoples Renners request and added that Russia was also expected to support the claim Spanish policy Madrid oct 4 Missimo Francisco Franco was believed preparing to Call an emergency Cabinet meeting today to discuss the South american political policy which has caused London oct marshal sir Bernard l Montgomery giving an authoritative version of life in Germany today painted what he termed a somber picture of the situation according to an International news service dispatch the British military Leader declared that nobody is under the illusion that the germans Are getting off lightly in an address before the news paper society in London Montgom Ery said that the germans have Only a minimum of food and no Coal and Large numbers Are living in cellars and improvised shelters particularly in the Ruhr damage to railroads has been tremendous and it is difficult to move stocks of Coal and unless Coal production is resumed nothing can prevent the economic collapse of Western Ger Many and a famine which would Cost Many the Field marshal said it is not my plan to pamper the germans they have brought this disaster on themselves and must face the consequences however i am not prepared to see widespread famine and disease spread through Europe we must do what we can to prevent marshal Montgomery stated that epidemics Are on the increase in Germany and for this reason a minimum Standard of nutrition must be kept up throughout the since boo vast de country and particularly in the a team to sever relations with Spain i Ruhr where the miners bust be de if Western Europe is to get any Coal this Winter speaking of Berlin the marshal declared conditions Are dreadful and the population is already showing signs of two important problems in the Ruhr Are the shortage of miners and the increase in crime marshal Montgomery further stated that preliminary investigations have shown the average Ger Man boy or girl of today has Al most forgotten to think logically they can Only repeat catchwords and slogans without any idea of what they really mean Many have not been to school for two or three years so far the people of Germany Are apathetic and show Little desire to indulge in widespread political activity at this time their minds Are entirely preoccupied with the struggle for the marshal said he added that it was of the utmost importance to the future of Europe and the world that this Experiment in inter Allied cooperation should succeed hungarian ministers returned for trials Budapest oct 4 Mer hungarian premiers Perenc Szilasi Bela Imredy and Laszlo von Bardossy after being flown Here from Salzburg were housed Here to Day in solitary prison cells in a building where Szilasi once tortured political prisoners they and eight other hungarians accused As the nations top War criminals were arrested by Ameri can authorities in Austria and brought Here to be turned Over to the new provisional government for trial All documents relating to the cases were brought with them according to Gabor Peter chief of the hungarian political police who said the trials would begin soon after preliminary interrogation american authorities said 546 More hungarian War criminals also would be brought in from various Amer Ica occupied areas months double in Algiers Day ruse weat London oct deceive Germany about the invasion Date British intelligence sent a double of Field Marsha sir Bernard l Montgomery to Algiers a few Days before the selected Day where he was received by Field marshal sir Henry m Wilson in a Public ceremony and drove through the streets according to the London daily express the double was it Clifton James of the Royal army pay time actor with a startling likeness to marshal Montgomery after James had been loudly cheered by troops who thought he was the marshal when he walked on to the stage at a sol Diers show in his capacity As entertainment officer he was summoned by High authorities and underwent special training for his double role when he left England for Algiers he was seen off by Lead ing members of the British Gen eral staff James played his role so Well according to the daily express that fascist agents by Way of Spain transmitted the news to Berlin that marshal Montgomery was away from his invasion base evidence since unearthed proved Toai Day took the germans by aug in toe instead of saying that it will be partly Cloudy with intermittent showers today All Over Italy the Weatherman would do Well to say it stinks maximum temperatures forecast for today Bari 62 Naples 65 Rome 63 yesterdays temperatures Max min Bart 61 Foggia 63 Naples 64 Rome 62 Sunset oct 5 1746 Sunrise oct 6 0811 Ifo Curtee oct 6 0607 if Onset oct 5 50 46