Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1945 — Page 1

HI, No. 278.

IHOOL BUS PLUNGES iN LAKE, 20 DROWN

M)f Final H In Tokyo Mai' s Eve gfljjff estif ics At |9K Session Os Probe IfjKn. X<» — (UP) - * ' ... I • "!.,v It,at alipi.mialla- fa-la l‘> .it I llaiiim ' 11-’ *•'-* Hying Io ' BmM® ! " .||||»'.ll for flu- lata* President i.ti.pitoi Hirohito MlS®, .I in 'I- -ail for ilv in.-tot.iting <oiiiBShB ’ hours ill Tokyo IKfeZ|S> talk atta.k on Dec i’o ifi< | ;1 - to iq. j.r.--lai.-nt** ' ' l,,y l, ‘' f ‘”'' •'♦•arl »®m® • * •oj.i . JWgs® .tint:. •.■..H .'tlJ J®®®' ">*"11-1 four HiHr, » I'H'i a-ded b.-foro th*V «.•< r. tary of «i>o testified that: KHlu: 'ha* I' S. fleet at SHMS' ’ l'H« anil 1911 was '! ufi-l” iTha- fl--t had opposed it 1 KBy rati, when this .BSk|....- I Io Japanese deon *HB» ' 1 '" M<,, ‘ a Ja !’“ n Bnßs-iVa' policy.” r'h. 1.-. m, the ihpoint B, v ion aine.l at least the Japs would BrnKili! to their benefit” if Bm® < liohi-u peace instead of IRFtilP' they could not have that military policy ■M'ip. ' when they had their BgROB*:. and their fleets afloat Bbr hb ! Harbor waters.” ®l# J,.l.,ines.. note of XoV S':.i>*» they wanted us ail the oil they needed ®li®j ii“" and tills govern Hmß’>-;"' t"4 it ' with some H ®BI ’h" Japanese ' savages" do to avoid war was to W Wl that they were through ■-« and aggression " mbH* 1 ” ' f ' ,i! " Mr - BH th. nuperor. never iteliv■H® ’■*!• delays, w.<s an ■BH'" - 'ft '.I.- ’tragic possi SB®’ -• t. n— situation. 'ire* B|B was questioned about a jPjB I '■> tlie state department ®HBj*;. I ' ll 1,1 *hl<’l: he said ®g® r ">-II minister In Tokyo BRy' l ~f many rumors' hipatiese planned to at Be9* ’‘•‘-'•I that was the last tmior he heard that the tni « !il H| rike at Hawaii ®PB r »4» plenty of evidence. T" t’age 2. Column J) — | E’f’ n g Is Named | IM Jury Foreman fit jury convened in the ®J® mr-t rami ths morning ■B®*'' 1 ' ,!> ’»t g B-:t citing, fore lE® adjourned until 9 o'.-hx k morning. ■U® 1, * ' !r the members ■g®!;’ Junes Kotiher. Sr., Mis g^^y 11 '' 4 18 Msrt - Ed Warren and ■t.ZLjW Bother of thia city, Law lUJ '/'‘h '•under of Preble town Kj. |,r:inl( I’arriah was named ba!ll,r utor fl H. my Bierly met MSL * xra!, d JuroiH. No witness'lulled at the morning ses- ■ ,M ““ " !F7 »>her« wit! visit Whe 1 c unty Infirmary before |K® Bm *‘ nt ' >* expected Che " f ,hp weeh ' Mr » M ’ ! '’ Wr an ' l ? *' oah bhrock were y iIl f >m the ° ri,ina! s ,an ® l | E j o i S rat thermometer g®" FE «ATUR 6 READiHGt K ■•• m. ~ n< ® ®fr. -■ <.o K®, *■ m> ■—. .... 31 I S„ -- 36 ' • 40 p® WBATHER i ®b'?' n 8 e ' 9u,,!ne# « » nd R®Ti- by occasional light | and Tuesday.

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Schools Open After Thanksgiving Holiday MA- A« The city and rural schooU re. opened today following the ThanksHiving va. jtlon, started last Wednesday. Aside from a number of pupils l*elng absent on account of illness, clashes and * bedules were being carried on: usual ■■" 11 ■ o Aulo Workers Ask Government To Intervene Seek Federal Aid In Coast To Coast Strike Against GM Detroit, Nov. 26 (UP)- The United Automobile Workers Union (CIO) sought government intervention today in the wage dispute which has caused a coast to-coast strike against General Motors Corporation and Idled nearly a quart-er-million workers. Walter p. Reuther. UAW vice president, made the bid for federal aid In settling the battle over the union's demand for a 30 percent wage increase In a telegram to two of GM’s top executives. As the system wide strike of 175,000 GM workers went Into the sixth day. there also were th-se Important developments 1. C. E. Wilson, president of General Motors, said the corporation's wage offers had b.en in keeping with the spirit of president Truman's wage speech on Oct 30th. 2. Pickets at 93 General Motors plants barred office employ, s from going to work, adding another 73.000 to the number idle In the work stoppage The UAW executive board opened a two-day meeting which will Include discussion of strike strate«y. 4. The union set up soup kitchens for pickets and laid plans generally for a long siege. In a telegram sent late yesterday to Wilson and to H. W Anderson. GM vice president and director of personnel Reuther said: "In the interests of promoting the earliest possible fair settlement of the current wage disputes between the UAW and General Motors Corporation, may I suggest that representatives of the union, the corporation and the U. I S. conciliation service meet at the| earliest possible date We again propose that the U. 8. conciliators be allowed full participation.” Reuther's proposal for reopening the wage negotiations was made at the conclusion of a me iing of the (Turn T<< Page 2. Column .’>) 0 Severin Schurger To Reopen Office Here To Resume Practice Os Law Next Week Severin H. Schurger. recently released from the army and placed on the officer's inactive list with rank of captain, will resume his law practice in this city nest Monday, he announced today Mr. Schurger was one of the first . <-* (killlf. men From inw my ary service, being called in March, 1941 for the selective service program. Ke remained In training at Camp bee. Va. until November of that year and then was released. In April. 1942. he was recalled and served with the quartermaster section at Fort Knox. Ky.. until he was ordered to the provost marshal general school at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., where he was commissioned a second lieutenant In October. 1942. He went overseas with the 735th military police battalion In December, 1943 and served as assistant provost marshal In Southern England prior to D-Day and for three months thereafter He was then ordered to Ixindon where he served as adjutant and operations officer for U. 8. military police jtntil last April In January he had been promoted to captain and served as executive officer of bls battalion until he returned home last October. (Turn To Pago 1, Column 2)

I Collecting Last Pay Until (»M Strike Ends ______ «■ ' - T uißiiaHsaus i ' k, BENEATH A DREARY, OVERCAST SKY. strikers line up outside the Gear and Axle plant of the General Motors Corporation In Detroit while waiting to receive their last |iay< hecks until the dispute between their union and the company 1s settled Snow and temperatures In the 20’s, according to leaders of the CIO-I'AW, cut down the number of workers on picket lines at Michigan plants.

I — — Jap General Denies Prisoners llltreated Tells Os Personal Camp Visitations Manila. Nov. 26— (l’P) — Lt. Gen. Shlyoku Kou, who had charge nt prisoner of war and Internment camp* on Luzon, test! find today that ho personally visited all camps and "found everything good." He said the inmates had better food than the Japanese soldiers in Manila. Kou had Imen ordered by the five man military commission trying (Jen Tomoyuki Vamashita for war crimes to appear for questioning. Asked about conditions at San t> Tomas and Cabanatuan whore American liberators found prisoners starved to skeletons, Kou said the daily ration there in October, 1944 was 900 grams of rice with meat, vegetables and fruit. He admitted that wtien he went back in December some of the Inmates were "thinner" because rations hail been reduced for everyone but he denied any prisoners died from malnutrition. Kou admitted 1,396 American prisoners of war had been packed into the Oiiroku .Mani for transfer from Luzoft and that the vessel was not marked for protection against air attack (The Oryoku .Mani was I and sunk in Subic Bay with a loss of 2<W lives.) He said he personally inspected the ship before it sailed and found conditions sanitary. John Ohashi, a Japanese civilian employed at Santo Tomas, testified that Japanese military police from outside beat up several In ternees and took them away. He claimed, however, that regular Japanese guards who attempted to mistreat the Internees were slapped by their superiors. Ohashi said the internees were given movies up to the time the Americans began bombing and that children were given milk and eggs weekly. o Communists Defeated I In Austria Election riMMis, Nov 28 HTM - Partial returns from Austria's first free election in 14 years showed today that the <Mmimiinist.« had suffered a defeat so severe they may not win a cingh- seat in the new parHa ment. The conservative people's parly appeared to have won t small plurality over the Kciallst party, but reports were larking from many rural districts. There was no question t-bat the votens. who luintd out In exceptions! st-enath. had dealt the communists a stunning blow. 292,000 Soldiers Released Last Week Washington. Nov. 26— (UP) — The War Depxrtment annott teed today that 292.M0 soldiers returned -to civilian Ilfs during the week ended Nov. 23. bringing «he total releuaed since May 12 io 3,366.000. f

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BULLETIN Detroit, Nov. 26—1 UP)—Ford ; Motor Company announced today that strikes at 15 firm making automotive supplies would | force it to close its Huge River plant and some subsidiary plants tomorrow night. Urges Allies Pull Troops From Iran Proposal Is Made By United States Washington. Nov. 2d— (CP) The United Stales has proponed to Russia and Great Britain that all tr <«p» of the three nations be withdrawn from Iran by Jin. 1. t<he State Department announced today. The proposal was made by meatM of notes sent to Ixmdon and Moscow, The I'nited States notes rivalled the Tiltran agreement of la-c. 1, 194.1 between Premier Josef Stalin, Prime .Minister Winston (Tun* thill ami the late President Rojsevelt. on the maintenance of Independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran The note said tha-t "the fulfillment of these assurances requires that the government of Iran •ihotild have full freedom, without interference from Soviet, British or American military o,- civil authorities, to m ;ve i’s armed forces through Iran in sm-li a manner as It may consider necessary in order to preserve its autlmrity and to maintain internal security." Thia country suggested t.iui: Soviet ccuninandeiH in northern Iran may have been acting without Ute sanction of the Soviet government in preventing the fre- m >vem-*nt of lianian forces. If -that is the explanation of Ira<T«rn To Pag* 2, C--lu>ioi !) Increased Fighting Reported From Java British Warplanes To Ambarawa Area Batavia, Nov. 2g-t-(UP>- British warplanes were sent to the Ambarawa ara today where Indonesian extremists have been besieging 8,000 to 10.000 civilians In refugee camps and attac king British troops Increased fighting was reported at oth-r points across Java after British rocket-firing planes Sunday smashed the Jogjakarta and Boera karta radio stations, main outlets for extremist propaganda. The Indonesians were reported to have suffered heavy losses in an attack on the Ambarawa Jail Saturday night but fighting continued. Extremists attacked the summer capital of Bandoeng. 75 miles southeast of Batavia Saturday night and skirmishes continued Sunday. The newly appointed Indonesian mayor said 30 to 40 Indonesians had been killed. Coincident with the fighting, the TJidpundung river overflowed driving 4.<WMI Indonesians from their homes. Twelve persons were re- | (Turn To Fags 2, Column 4)

House Committee Bans Strike Vote Rider Attached To Appropriation Bill Washington, Nov. 26 (I’P) A coftresaiona! committee voted today to end the right of labor unions to hold strlk-- elections under the Smith-Connally Act. The action was taken by the house appropriations committee in recommending a 31.131.552.312 (B) deficiency appropriation for federal agencies during the fiscal year ending next June 30 a slash of 3576.142.136 from ths original budget bureau request. The committee attached to the appropriation bglslatlon a rider prohibiting the national labor relations board from using any of Its funds to conduct the strike elections authorized by the SmithConnVly Act. The rider, offered by Rep. Ever- tt M. Dirksen. it. 111., reportedly had (he unanimous approval of a deficiency subcommittee The full committee noted that the Smith-Connally act was a war measure, arid said the regular work of the NLRB was suffering because of the huge numb-r of strike elections it had been asked to conduct. Ix-gislation for outright repeal of the Smith-Connally act has been approved by the* house rules committee and Is now awaiting house action. In voting the 1576.142.136 (Mi slash in the administration's 31,707.694,448 (B) deficiency appropriation requests, the committee called for a "close watch upon executive agencies to cheek extravagances." "A spending psychology has grown up in government which must be dissipated," the report ■aid “As secr-tary of the navy Forrestal recently tersely expressed it. we must 'recapture economy.’ " The committee rejected the entire budget bureau requests of $158,320,000 (M) for expansion of veterans’ hospital facilities. 3125.475.000 tMt for flood control and rivers and harbors in projects and 324.600,000 (M> for temporary vet < tans' housing. All of these requests should have further study, the committee reported. To take rare of the hospital situation, it ins rted a provision authorizing the veterans' administration to take over army and navy hospitals not needed by those services. In knocking out the flood control and rivers and harbors projects previously recommended by army engineers, the committee (Turn To Page 2. Column 4) >— -— Eisenhower Condition Steadily Improving White Su’phur Springs, W Va..* Nov 26 (UP) -Officials at Ash lord General hospital t<xLiy described General Dwight D Eisenhower's condition as "good.” "Because of his continued improvement,'' Brig Gerf Clyde M. Beck announced, "there will be no further bulletins on his condition.’* General Eisenhower entered the -hospital Friday suf feting from an acute respiratory Injection.

Bus Skids On Slippery Pavement, Plunges Into Lake Chelan, Washington

Ward Co. Employes Open Week's Strike Unfair Labor Policy Os Company Lashed Chicago. Nov. -’•» (I'l’t--The United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes (CIO) today Iregan a week long "demonstrstlon" strike against Montgomery Ward ami company. Union officials said "several hundred" pickets were parading about the company's general offi- < es, mail order house and retail Store here. They said ”*0 to 9u percent" of the Chicago branch's B.MW em ployes were observing picket lilies and descrllred the plant as ' well crippled." Sewell Avery, chairman of Wards* board of directors, was In conference with company officers. Two thousand workers quit al Wards' Alluiny. N. V., unit. A picket line was established and the union said 90 percent of the employes had joined Hie walkout Wards workers at Fort Dodge, la., had not joined the walkout this morning and had filed no notice of intent to strike Twelve of the 24 Ward employes at Barre, Vt., struck. A picket line was established. M'onard Ijevy. executive vice president of the union, said the strike was called after Avery’s ipilure to agree to arbitration of a disputed contract. Levy sitiil the stoppage was the first of a series "to point out Io the public the unfair labor policy which Wards has pursued.” . Other properties scheduled to be affected today include Wards units at Denver, Amsterdam and Jamaica. N. Y. Trenton, N. J., and Kansas City, Mo Union leaders in Detroit. Dearborn and Royal Oak. Mich, said workers in those titles would Join tl.e walkout tomorrow To avert the strike. Namm-1 Wol- < hok, president of the Clo union, (Turn Tr« l’a«<- (, Culutiin _ .j, Telephone Workers Strike Is Settled Telephone Service Restored In Chicago Chicago, Nov 26—(UPl Telephone service whs normal Imlay after settlement of a six day strike of X,7<Wi long distance and toll operators in Illinois aiul northern Indiana. The strike ended at 6:10 p in.. ('NT. Satunlay when company and the Illinois Telephone Traffic union announced that an agreement had been reached, thus averting a threat of a nation wide telephone strike by the National Federation of Telephone Workers with which the I T. T U is affiliated. Under the agreement operators got a >6 weekly wage increase. The union compromised by ac <•» ptlng $2 of the >6 no later than Felt I, rather Ihun retroactive to last May 9 as had been demanded. The other <1 is retroactive to May 9. • Raises of 41 per week were granted to clerical employes, of which (2 Is retroactive to May 9. "Settlement of this strike has unquestionably averted a nationwide walkout of 25,R0n members of the union." Joseph A. Heirne. president of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, said. o BULLETIN Kendallville, Ind., Nov. 21 — (UP) —Fire totally destroyed the George A. Kaiser A Son grocery •tore during the noon hour today. Damage was estimated at between >45.000 to 150.000. The firm wai one of the oldest businesses in Kendalville. It was established spproxiwately 15 years ago.

Charges Nazis Responsible For Pearl Harbor U. S. Prosecutor In Charge Nazi Pledge Given To Japanese Nuernberg. Nov. 26 -(UP) Sidney Aiderman. assistant U. N prosecutor, chargeil Imlay before the war crimes tribunal that Germany and h r leaders were responsible for Pearl llarluir. He based his charge on the minutes of Adolph Hitler's conference with Japanese foreign minister Vosuk- Matsuoka in April, 1940 at which Hitler promised Japan full German support In event of a Jap-anese-U. H. war Alderman said that Hitler's promise to declare war on the Uni ted Ntat’S the moment hostilities Opened lit the Pacific had encouraged Japan Io make the Pearl Harbor attack. Alderman's charge was made tifta-r the tribunal hail grant-d the defendants permission to a-all various witnesses, including witnesses ilesira-d by Di. Hjaltnar Hchacht in an attempt Io prove that ha-tyi--d to overthrow Hitler In 193 X anal particiiMlted in the abortive plot on Hiller's Ufa- in July, 1941 Ni haa Ill's request for the wit nesses for the Hist tinu- indiaateal the lin- of defense ha* would taka* against prosva ution cltarga*-* that Ills financial manipulations provided the money with which Hitl r rearmed Germany In preparation for aggressive war. Clues as ta> tin* typos defetisr* which will ba* offered by most of the 20 war a-rintes defendants wera* given when the court giant ala whaila* sa*ria*s aaf requests fair witnesses anal daH-iiments ta> ba* produced in llielr b- half. Joa< him Von Ribbentrop was given permission to summon foreign offil a* assaia iata*s to ta*s!jfy ,ts tai his relations wllli llilh-r in an effort to refuta* charg* s that Ribbentrop Joina-ai in planning the war. Tha* caiurt aHiam came as tlia* American prosecution presented to th- court minutes of a confa-r once hadal by Hitler Naav. !<•. 1917 at which Hitler laid alown what h>* called "My last will ami testament" which call a| for tha* use of! force by Germany to saalva* her problems. • (Torn T«a I'aira* 2. t'.iliiiina <1 a> Mrs. Merlin Dunbar Killed In Accident Indianapolis Woman Is Accident Victim Mrs Flora M Dunbar. 16, wffar of Ma-rlfn M. Dunlmi of 2t<s Bark ley Road, Indianapolis was ni-rno-t itutintly kllla-al at II 30 u'llu k Nunalay mairtiing, <wo mil** east of lleiffaburg on stale road ilk when their auto w.i* hit by mte driven by Fred Na*ff of Walls county. Mr. Dunbar was painful’y in jtiieal and i* in the (”inb* hiMjiltil at Bluffton with a bra>k*-n arm, bruised should«*r and lacerated h*x T-ltey wen* on their way to visit at tha* hoata* of Fred Steiner at Linn Grave wdten tha* u'-cident awearn'd. Mrs Hleiuer anal Mrs. George Na'hlag<*n>l>aiif. of that place, being sisters of .Mr. Dunbar. Mr. Neff said tha* Dunbar car left tha* road anal turned over three tino* Mrs Dunbar was thrown from the csr. her a heat a-ruabxj' and eh** liv<*d hut a few moment*. Mr Dun liar was foi-ve-i into th<- back soaU but was able to crawl from tha* wrea k. Mrs. Dunbar was the daughter of John and Anna Jones of BcoUs(Turn To Page 2, Column 1)

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School Bus Driver, Children Drown In Tragedy; Few Are Reported Rescued Chelan. Wash.. Nov. 26- (UP) \ n ’laxal bu« skldda-d on a »Hppery road 'today and plunged into Lika* Chelan aarrylng its driver and an uiiala*t*-rmlnas| number of a-hildiell to their deaHw< Tha* Wasliingtaiti state highway patrol amiaauha eal that between "15 and 2ii" children drowned when tha* bus. which was carrying students from ram h homes io that Chelan high sa-hoad, plunged into tha* lake. First reports said that as many as ‘ l<» or 56" may havav been ulu»a ral. Ruth (>’Ka*a*fa. secretary of tho sa'liaMil. s.ald the bu* usually carried "a h'-'.ivy load a»f studaui'a.” It was lt<>|ia*al that the bus was not fully loaded. The bus traveled In a «in ult In picking up wtttdants. 'lhe numlier aboard would d»*|u*nd <at the port -if tha* run t l>u< was on at th*> Hina* it la-ft Hie highway urn) pluiMt* a*<U over an emiuiukment Intar t-hai l.ak>* State highway p.it olman William 14ugd<*n r< jHii led Hie aca ialent by radiar ami lin-11 W(M»t to the lake shore where ha* set up an cm-•■rga-i|i y ta*!*-pholla* Ulla* Sugden exp a***>a*al the f«ur that ItetWecn 40 air 5u »tuda*nls may have been ala-aai d Six aliildran ew.im tn shore as-h-r iieing thrown ftea- of tha- vehicle laefora* It hit th** water. Hue* detl s?iaa They were bioisertv* to a hospital here for treatment. Tha- wala*r U al least 54) feet ala-a*p at lie* point Where th'* bus sank. Ntigda-n said \ diver war inal**ra-d -a nt from Gland Couleaa Io t ha* r.l a*Ua* lai x'art lea arvei in< tha* laodles. It W«l« imli ata*.l that It W u|a| In* -laqii- till! • laefora* the exact number of aasiialtiio aottal lr»* de* fa-rmina d FratiH:; pa.ents were checking up on win her their a hil-i|la-li haai laoaialeal tha* bus. Tin numlrer ami iiauie* of tha«so ahaiurd was le-ing a arlla*. t<*<| try tho patrol station at iia-arny Wettat- < lia-*- !(<•>*< ita* crews wa*r<* • -Ilf from \V< and Chelan Th<- first ata- Lin.; aar r--.a lied Hm secna shortly In fill <• n on pas-t. T< ti iMtiolina.i were* sen: from n**iirby <-iti«a* to join Kugden in di(Ttarn Ta> Page 4, CeIMM 3> --*•-— —O — — Violence Breaks Out Again In Palestine Virtually Entire Coast Under Curfew Ja*rur tlein. Nov 26 (UP) British airborm* »a»ldla*rs *i:,i luiyom-ts for<-»-<i their way inn» a J. a feh villaga* ay iin*< ra'sHtanco toduy uiiiia- thousands of angered ,l>-»» milled and shouted in the <hi*ty streets. A number of villagers wa*re injured in a tussla* with saddlers in tha- communal dining na«m of tho villaga* named Nha*fay4m. With v tnal’y tin* emire Pales, tin** a-aiasl under <urf**w. tha* Bri-li.-aii were trying to -una«di a new out ial< th of violence started by the iMimbing aaf two poiica* stations tta-ai Televh yesterday by Jewish extremists. They also sought li birak tho iliegal immigration aaf Jews w*ho wera* aauning asho-e from smalt blot kiide-ritnithig boats Yesterdays attack was believed to ha* in revenge fair British seixure of a boat. Trtsrps of the Sixth Airha me division, heroes aif the Nprmaudr ba-m hha*.id hail kept an all-night eordrm around the two villages atf Rashpon and Shefaylm. Tanks and armored cars wera drawn up In support. In th« Held* thousands of Jews attracted from surrounding town at waiting. At alawn Uhe village < hlel of Shefaykn rofuaed to give the British a guarantee that the inhabitants (Turn To Page 2, Column 4)