Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 15 October 1945 — Page 1

XLIH. No. 243.

IERRE LAVAL DIES BEFORE FIRING SQUAD

lek Workers tike Ended ■New York Lusonds Os Dock lorkcrs Bock; Coal lortagc Increases I By I'nlted Pr<t»« L aM ads of <lo<* wnrker * ,M> ' Killing cargo alon* X,w ■ w.it.rfn«nt today. breaking a ■ whl.h had tied up shipping K. nation* larsewt • w, ’ wr ’ f,,r | union ouirlal *“><’ L strikers had returned to Kx'k* by noon, and the backEk movement reduced the E r of strike-idle American E r « to 444.500. ■ th,, xteve.’torer. trooped hack E piers, striking employes of Eastern Massac huse'ts Street Lay company met to decide jh<r to go back to work. The Kutiy was seized by the state | night In an effort to end the Lpor'ation tieup affecting pm person*. I New Yorx. activity was reel along the Hudson rivet trtront where ships had lain at the piers during the strike ■embers of the International Shoremen's Association n t 30.000 workers had walked I'anwhile. additional Pitts;h Steel mills were closed by hartage of fuel, caused by a ... in eastern soft coal fields. >1 pnaluction at Pittsburgh e.l to 47 percent of capacity, lowest operating rale since depression of more than a dee azo. Before the strike startin the coal fields, production iat 71 percent of capacity. r<- than 10,000 steel workers re idled by the shutdowns.

h order ot Gov. Maurice J. bin. Massachusetts seised the .twiing HoMonarea bus and inurban streetcar system last dnicht iEST) after daylong i cor/iliation effort* failed I 1.«7."> AFL striker* Ignored a tto-work ultimatum. Jthr-r late labor development*: --President Truman summoned Lit member* to a conference for noon today at the White u«* a* congressional demands n*tr anri-strike law* grew loudIt was believed he would ask WLIt to take over In setting re price policy. !—Reliable Wall street and M’tlns on source* forecast gov-m-nt authorization of a general percent wage hike a* a mean* quelling the na'lon's labor if*. ’ -Mr. Truman also was schefld to meet with labor secretary *is it. Schwellenhach, who for* r « weeks ]| as (r j P( | va j n |y to " le strikes in the oil and soft tol Industries. Sehwellenbach S“ poned an eighth conference i tt coal operators and president ' i,n L Lewis ot the United Mine “rtter* until 7 p. m . (EST). The <«»al strike is costing a loss tTura To Pass I. Column it

husband Bought One Dress In Six Years, W&nan Asks Divorce ' woman plaintiff in ■ divorce " filed today in the Adams dri,! coart a *er» that her husband *’ bought her only one dress. ■'■h cost 9? cent®, during their ,rrt ** life, which dates hack to «M« 12, 1939. Jh* cnmplafet was filed by El- ’ "j" simmoha, seeking a di"om Emery Simmons. They m the Homewood addition in north part of town. She also rges cruel and Inhuman treatand alleges that her husband m »* 10 ***••• an<l ‘l'’* l * not Pro- * for her, although he earn* »33 . ** Fk, r- A restraining order issued against the defendant. Yru° B CRAT THXRMOMtTER »ne MRERATURE FADING* ’ °0 a. m. « *OO .. m . ~ J! *-•..... -~z £ p ' w M WEATHER niahi >Bd cool to»rJL W1 ? M ‘ Vy trM ‘ or aliw r t,wp,ra * ur oo gonor'y.’ T “’»day fair .nd warm--1 north and west portions.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY,

Fund Solicitors To Meet This Eveninq The kick off for the national war fund and Decatur Community fund drives will lie made at 7 o'clock this evening when volunteer workers will meet with James Fiberson, team captain, at the First State Hank and plan strategy for the goal. Decatur's quota in the combined drive Is *16,9*3, of which 17,919 be for th* national war .'mid drive. The campaign is planned to be completed within two weeks. Peron's Laws Are Revoked By New Government New Argentinian Government Rules Out Peron Orders Buena* Aires. Oct. IS (TP) — Argentina's new ruling triumvirate bid for public support today with a series of swift moves to erase repressive measures clamped on •he country l»y former "strong man" Col. Juan I). Peron. The three-man temporary gov-ernment-president Gen. Edelmlro Farrell, war minister Ger. Eduardo Avalos and navy minister Vice Admiral Vernengo Lima In rapid succession: 1. Reopened Buenos Aires, La Plata and Lltora! universities and reinstated prof.wsors and other officials discharged by the Peron government for participating in demonstration* against the government. 3. Purged the army and government of Peron's key sunporters, including foreign undersecretary Lucio Morelia Quintana. 3. Reinstated and released from Jail federal judge Rodolfo Barraco Marino of Cordoba, an outspoken critic of the Peron government, on orders from the supreme court. 4. Announced that complete freedom of the press has been restored. A reliable government source •aid the government also contemplates lifting of the slate of siege at an "early date." It was under emergency powers of the stale of siege that Peron ruled Argentina with an Iron hand. The state of Siege was proclaimed at the outbreak of the Pacific war. The temporary government's troubles were far from over, however. The council of recto, s or Argentine universities announced that student*! would resume their classes on Thursday, “but at the same time will continue to fight to have the government turned over to the ' (Turn To Page 2 Column S) —o — Mrs. Glennys Baker Is Taken By Death Native Os Decatur Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Glennys E. Baker. 37. wife of Edgar Baker, died Saturday afternoon at the Lutheran hospital of Fort Wayne after a nlne-days illness of cerebral hemorrhage. .She was born In Decatur Decenter 10. 19«7, the daughter of John and Dora Merica. but hud lived in Fort Wayne for the past 23 years. She was a member of the West Creigh'on Avenue Christian church in Fort Wayne. Surviving in addition to the husband are four children. Marcia, Patricia. Paul and Richard, ail at home; two sisters. Mrs. Doyle Bohner of Fort Wayne and MptDolly McKinnon of Columbus. 0.. and two half-brothers. Curtis Wolfe and Harvey Lewis, both of Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the church in Fort Wayne, with the Rev. E L. Harrold officiating. Burial will lie in tty‘ Decatur cemetery. The body was removed from the Oiltig 6 Doan funeral home this afternoon to the residence, 1516 East Fisher street, Fort Wayne, where friends may call until 10 a. m. Tuesday, after which the hody will !!• in state at the church nntil time of the services.

Truman (wave Each One Congressional Medal ft: ftft- J PRESIDENT TRUMAN himself presented these war heroes with the Congressional Medal of Honor In Impressive ceremonies on the south lawn of the While House. In the front row. left to right, are: Sgt. ( hilstos Karateri* of Manchester, N. H., S Sgt. Freeman Horner of Shamokin. Pa., Corp. Desmond T. Lynchburg. Va . Corp. Clarence B. Craft of Santa Ana, Cal., ('apt. James M Hurt of South Mass., (orp. .Melvin E. Biddle of Anderson. Ind . Corp. Edward A. Bennett of Middleport. <>.. and Corp rhomas E Atkins of Campoitelio. S C.

Hint Surprises In Pearl Harbor Probe Committee Member Hints New Angles Sen. Owen Brewster. R . Me., hinted today that the public is due for some surprises when the special congressional committee completes its Pearl Harbor Investigation. Brewster, a mem tier of the committee. return'd to elaborate, but added: "We’ve seen enough already to Indicate that we'r going to give a very different complexion of Pearl Harbor than the picture the public now has." The end result, he said in an intervLsv, will be to widen the ar-a of responsibility for the naval disaster of Dec. 7, 1941. The committee Is now engaged in preliminary studies of document* from the state, war and navy cl pertinents and may make a trip to the Pacific before winding up it* work, A report is due short ly after the first of the year. Brewster said the four republican members of the !•»man committee were "very encouraged and satisfied" by the lack of partisan ship in the committee's approach to the Invs stigation "I am very much eneouraged," lie said "We're really retting to the Ifottom of it." lie said the committee still was undecided on procedural matters but predicted It would agree to give individual member* the* right to call witnesses and introduce evidence, Some member* have argued that any member should have (he right, while other* have- maintained such questions should he decided by majority vote. Brewster said It would probably be resolved to give members the widest possible freedom. "That's how the old Truman (war investigating committee) worked," he said, "and that's why we were always unanimous in our reports.” He said he hoped the Pearl Hurter committee could Issue a unanimous report at the conclusion of Its Investigation. "Our work won’t mean much If we can't," he said. “I know we are all going to work toward that end." Brewster said that the second major purpose of the investigation, in addition to "writing the record," Is to recommend legislation which would prevent a repetition of another disaster. o Truckloads Os Beans Are Delivered Here Many truck load* of soybeans passed through town today enroute to the Central Soya company. Dry weather last week permitted the farmers to ha>-VMt the beans. The market pjlce on soybeans range from 32.04 to 12 10 a hushel depending on moisture content. Work on building the huge soybean storage silos at the local plant Is well underway. A crew of men Is busy on the slip-form type of construction and the company is advertising for more carpenter*.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 15, 1945

BULLETIN Aboard U. S. S. South Dakota Off San Francisco, Oct. 15—(UP) —Adm. William F. Halsey's flag battleship, the U. 8. 8. South Dakota today led a column of victorious third fleet warships tow*rd San Francisco and a gigantic homecoming celebration. Under leaden skies Halsey's armada met an escorting force of destroyers and submarines 100 miles southwest of San Francisco and steamed toward the golden gate. St. Mary’s Mission Opened Here Sunday Mission To Close With Forty Hours . Services will be held each evening at 7:30 o'clock and two mission rna**e* will be said each morning at St. Mary'* Catholic church during the mission which opened yesterday. Missionaries of tlie Most I’nc ious Blood Order are conducting tlie mission. They will give a sermon in the evening and following the 5-15 ami 7:3» o'clock morning masse*. A mass will be *aid in between al 6:45 o'clock, but no sermon will b* delivered. It was announced that a mission store had been opened in the dining room ot the Ca'holic school building, where prayer book* and holy articles will be sold during the next (Wo Weeks. A feature of the opening day of the mission was the attendance of the' fathers and sons of the parish, who attended lhe 7:30 o'clock Sunday mass and received Holy Communion in a body. This week’s mission is for the married member* of the parish. Next week the unmarried member* will attend, the services closing with Forty Hours devotion on October 26, 27 and 2*. a 71 Veterans File Discharge Papers A rush has developed at the county recorders office in filing discharge papers by returned veterans. Miss Ross Neeswald, county recorder, stated. Fp to noon today 71 paper* had been filed at the office for recording. In the whole month of September there were 66. The discharges are recorded in a special record and are quickly handled by the county recorder. In most cases 'the veteran calls for his offitial copy, or the recorder mate it to him. Autos Damaged In Collision Sunday Autos driven by Robert I'hrick and Ramon Hunt, of Geneva, were damaged to the extent of |3OO in a collision at 4 p m. Sunday on old highway 27. just south of the city limits. t’hrlck started to turn into the drive at the Willis Magner home Just a* Hunt started to go around the Uhrick auto. A quantity of fence was torn down but no on* was Injured.

Urges U. S. Share Atom Bomb Secret Educator Declares Secrecy Is Unwise Chicago. Oct. 15 tl'l’l The I'nlted Blates has "made itself volI nerable from every quarter of the i globe" by producing the atomic I laimb and must share its *»•< reds with the world. Chancellor Robert M Hutchins of the I'niveiwhy of Chicago believe*. "Secrecy at this stage I* against our interests." Hutchins said al the university’* Rockefeller Memorial . Chapel services yoterday. The atom bomb seen t must be {(teelosed. he said, to dispel mistrust and to prove “we have no intention of using it.” Iwfore work can start to organize* a world state. “If there was a •ecreL It was , abolished when the first bomb was dropped." Hutchins said "Our secrets do not amount to much. We need access to the work of scleni (Ist* everywhere Io make fll’-ther progreM hi the development of ! atomic energy." "Th* re I* no defense agaiii't the ! tenth," he said In future wars, j foreign agents could plant the weapons in advance- in strategic locall■ties for detonation when hostillI flew begin, he said. "There is no method of detect- > Ing storehouse'* «f bombs or fac- | lories which are making them. : There is a defense against the car--1 rier. if it is an airplane; hut a carrier, in the ordinary sense, is not needed for atomic' bomh. "Misrciles can now b" guided to i their target* by radio, and rockets i can be fired from airplanes which are beyond the* range of modern defensive instrument*. "The war will te won by atomic (Turn Tn Faa* 3. Column 1) Commissioners Name Election Workers The county commi-arfotiers were xchedtllecl to meet this afternoon to appoint two memterr foe each one of the 31 precinct* to serve in the '•pc-c lai hospital election <ll Saturday. November 10. t'nder the law. an Jnspccto,- and one clerk shall be named for each precinct. This will make a total of sis persons to te named. The commissioner* have fixed the salaries at *l2 to Inspector* and *9 for clerks. They will serve from 6 a.m. until the ballots are counted and tabulations are made. The polls close at 6 p.m. Million Dollar Gift Made To Notre Dame South Bend. Ind., Oct. 15 (l.’P) The Rev J. Hugh McConnell, president of the f’niversity of Notre Dame, today announced the school's receipt of a li.fiflO.OOfi endowment from Peter C. Reilly. Indianapolis. | The Rev O’Donnell said the gXt, largest in the university's history, was te be used specifically in the field of chemistry and .hetnical engineering.

Arch Nazi Collaborator Executed This Morning; Suicide Attempt Fails

New Blows Foreseen In CIO-AFL Rivalry Factor In Strike Os Longshoremen Washington. Oct 15 (l'P> There are signs today or more to ,ome in the slugfest between the American Federation of i-abor and the Congress of Industrial Organ! zalione Their rivalry !• a factor in the Longshoremen’s strike which tied up New York’s waterfront. CIO purposes would be served if Joseph P. Ryan, president of the Interna t lona I Longshoremen’s Association, lost control of that union Ryan'e union ie strictly AFL. I'nder new management the east coast longshoremen might throw in With west coast Stevedores, whose leader is Hurry Bridges and whose allegiance is to the CIO. Ilyttn has been trying to end the rtrike. Bridges and the CIO national maritime union •merchant marine crews have been trying to prolong it. It haw teen kept going under a "rank and file" leadership which repudiates Ryan There are left wing hints that “rank ami file" retellion* will lie attempted, if the strike pattern develops suitably, against other old line AFL union leaders. Suggested for "rank and file" treatment are William Hut< hinson. leader of the carpenters, David Duhineky of the ladies garment workers. Chain* J. McGowan of the ludlermukeis, and Joseph Moreschini. pre-ident of a union of common latererx. Illidges arrived in New York over the weekend He mid Ryan have fought before Bridges established himself as bi es of w,*t coast longshoremen in 1934 after a rank and file strike which repudiated Ryan's leadership Jus' as it is proposed now to repudiate it on the east coast Tile New York strike, in which the conflicting infer.*!* of the AFL and CH) are . vid.nt. recall* Senate debate last week <m President Truman's nomination of Raymond H. MeKeOUgh to be a member of th.- maritime commission. His ability was unchallenged But opponents of confirmation cited his former activities as a political agent of the C|o. They said that CIO (Turn To Pace 2. Column 2) George McGill Dies Saturday Afternoon Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon George G McGill, 75, well-known locksmith of this city, died nt 3 17. o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital He had been in ill health for the pit st year and critical for 'wo week* following a stroke He was born tn Van Wert county. <>. August 26. IH7«, tlie son of Charles ;n4l Kathryn Gale* Mi GDI. but lived mo. of his lifetime in this ci?y. He was a member of the Masonic lodge. Hi* wife, the former Eliza Brown, preceded him in death. Surviving are two sons. H. I*. McGill of Decatur and Charles of Detroit: two daughters, Mrs Pearl Archer of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Isabelle Arnett of Chicago, two sisters, Mrs. Ada Sheets Pitser of Decatur and Mrs. Anna McClure of Wren. O : one brother. Harry McGill of Lansing. Mich : 12 grandchildren ami seven • greatgrandchildren. Five children, three brothers and one slater preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Black funeral home, with the Rev. Carey It. Moser officiating. Burial will he In the Antioch crmelery The body may be viewed at the funeral home until time of ih»- services.

Japanese Army General Staff Is Dissolved Allied Campaign To End Totalitarianism In Japan Speeding Tokyo. Oct. 15 tl’P) The Jap anese general staff was dissolved formally today ami the Allied dominated war office took over the remaining detail* of detnobll.zlng what was left of the Imperial ermy. Gen Dougla* Ma< Arthur's headquarter* announced tlia' the Allied campaign to break up all totalitarianism form* of Japanese economy had progressed luster than expected in the last month, but many problem* remained to I*' settled. MacArthur prepared to take hl* policy in Japan direct to the people of America in one of h.s rare radio e| hex ,t s.i m. Tuesday (6 p in. today EST* A spokesman at MacArthur's headquarter* Indicated the supreme commander considered that tlie Initial phase of the occupation had teetl eminently *uc'*««lul Wliile aware <<f criticism of hi* policy, he was represented .* not worrying about detail* and infere«ted only in principles. MacArthur wan understood so feel that tin- policy of dealing through the Emperor ..nd the Jap,iii>-«>- government ha* been entire ly Justified in the deinobtlizat <>n of the Imperial armed force* and -nv . Ing of American lives Col II B. Wheeler, spokarinan for Lt. Gen. Richard Sutherland, said tlie original jilan for joint < tipa!ion of Japan was proceeding on schedule, with task and are is Io lie assigned soon Io the Chinese, British and Russian* He said he assumed the joint occupation wi« routine. »ime It was on the book* all along. It was believed here tllal tin- Chinese, llm*ian and British i> •< upat.on would !>•■ of'a token nature only. In tin- dissolution of lhe gofteiai staff. Gen Yoshljtro Cnezit. chief of the army genera! s'.iff, was relieved. Gen Sadamtl Sitiiuoura. the war minister, was relieved of tho concurrent duth* of inspector general of military education The headquarters of lhe first and >-.eeond armies was changed to Japanese troop dcinoblllzallon h“ad (Turn To i’ag* S. Column •) Predicts Butter Off Rationing Dec. 1 Prediction Made By Dairy Association Chicago, (hl. 15 fl'l’i \n In crease In butter production and relea *• of sn (mo.“(to |MMindw by the army will combine to lake butter off the ration list by Dec. I. the American Dairy Assoc ation predicted today Owen M Richard*, association manager, said the army's release was equal Io a month’s production! and that first carload* of the butter set aeide for tlie* army would move to civilian market* "in a few days." "This action by the army was •he needed windfall for butter-hun-gry American*." he sai l. "It speed* the end of butter rationing by many weeks and means that all restrictions probably will be lifted by Dec. 1. "Full impact of thi* release will be felt hy November," Richards said "By that lime army released supplies together with increased current production will he sufficient to bring about the end of huttor fattening."

Price Four Cents.

French Traitor Is Killed After Last Minute Suicide By Poison Is Failure Paris. Oct. 15 (l?P) Arch tr»!« tor Pierre Laval, so weak from a last-moment suicide attempt that he had to lie half-carried to the death stake, was executed by a Bring *c|uad in the courtyard Os Frew-nc-s prison at 12:32 pm. (<8:32 a.tn. EST) today. Not a word passed the lips of the* former Vichy premier as ha was strapped to the stake, received a farewell kiss on eac h cheek from his lawyer and finally was cut down hy bullets from 11 riflfS lhe rifle of the 12th man of tbo firing »quad eontalned blanks. At 12:50 pin. a motor heareo passed through the prison gated and headed for Titials cemetery with a plain black coffin containing the body of the- former butcher boy who sold out France to Adolf Hitler Four hour* earlier at 8:30 a.m. Laval had gulped down a vial of po.-on in a bizarre 11th hour attempt to c heat Justice. He staged hi* abortive death try Just a* high court justices. |»o---li- official* and attorney* enter, ed hi. death cell at Fr* «ne* to take him to the firing squad. laival was in lied. When the- cell door swung open, he hastily pulled Iho cover- over his head and In one convulsive movement so fast no one could stop him, - mptled a vial of poison into hl* mouth. He lapxed into a coma. Doctors were summoned from the prison hospital ami immediately admin!*-tc-rc-d strong emetic*, then spent several hcMiiw giving strong stimulant* to enable Lava! to go teforfl tile firing *c|iiad It w.c* leached later that Lava! had swallowed a weak <!<*•• of cyanide. By II am . Laval was pronounced re. civc-recl Originally, It had been planned to take him to Fort • 'hatHlot a mile away to lie executed. hut authorities decided to taker no furfitc-:- <hancc-« witn their wily prisoner. The firing squad, official witnesses and the heaie.* were summoned to Frestiex Prison officials transferred va! from th>- tel! block to the inHer courtyard in a car belonging to tile prefect of police. A guard took either arm and supported him tho few feet remaining to the execution stake. IL- obviously was weak, hut fully conscious, as he was strapped to the post. Albert Naud, chief defense lawyer, stepped up to tho post and gave him a fare-well kiss on either cheek. Laval was sagging at the knee*. t* N.nid stepped away, a salvo of shots rang out from the squad of 12 soldiers standing 3# feet away. Six aimed for his head and isix for hl* heart. One rifle nono in the squad knew which one contained blanks. Then tin- commanding officer administered the- coup de grace a point blank shot through the ternpie with hi* revolver, and Laval was pronounced dead by the offtc ial physician. Laval was buried shortly after (Turn To 2 Column 3)

It’s On.. NATIONAL WAR DRIVE to aid the man overseas and returning veteran. Ik'calur Community Fund drive for Local Youth Decatur’s Quota $16,983 Give and make your heart glad!