Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1945 — Page 1

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>. Wherry I Brush Off ®lale Probe — — Kfiotc Committee fIL Wednesday As Krt Os Inquiry MBy ——■ — Bi bulletin -gtor*. Nov- -J—(LIP) — U- A”-"ic.i n Activiformer t, Ch ma Patrick J |K,' to tell it * h -” h * knOWI KH . pro commuhi*t» m the Droartment 1,.,,,!,. V'V. 30 —(IP—- ■ K s Whi rry. Il . Neb., •li.it the s nate for...inmßteo was g|v- , Io . ■ -• ~f <1 thi? comflH i;..v Wednesday far gßi'-it "I >'■ iti'iairy into ' * ' Hurley's ■, I’artini-nt Tin- hearings w.'h Hurh-y as the {HK .•-.■■■■ r«-';»iy of state ■-■ Bvii ..so was request|He appear. 18. ; i.' Ti I’ti.in. tin-.iiiw hilf. ....%- hi- at i-nthm to the ■K. m;--I by Hu ley He scht-d otlt.-!ell< <-M U it.'l -I. Cans Huih-y's pi< <1 1» r S ambassador to and On .Joseph W Stillformer < <>ti>:i-undei of I in eWna High In-la. y. D. Wash. n a " bouse •l | ee< li H«ri.l ||.> I to'i.-ii the retire-<-.i : Hi lary's speech. iflßtHh Jo- <j Hurley of <l«flßm 'r.ti, hi-.m-.-i : title- I S pul<'h:na -o angered Hurley il<-< Me 1 not to return B*' .ailed from China of diff rentes between ■ M’l G"t i-iali-slmo Chiang complained that the it.-.t-tigation would romp’ehenslv- enough. ■Br »«■(•« is n<>- going to i>e sat ‘ h r. < 10-.-ii door question or two witnesses just ring off iny resolution I II Wherry said BB'" "*i" , Hant that thhear Hurley and hut my resolution calls B ; aivt-stiL-ation on all fronts. Bk’““ will not be satis|Hr »i'h closed sessions and a Hr *■’*'” hum the distinguished j^T 910 There's already too Mt' " :| * h -c*i It about this affair. d-aw har-k the iron affairs chairman Tom ! ! T<X reporters "isn’t much future" for resolution It would set "'■'-member senate commitsK"’ ""''l f’l» n hearings on state B'-' troubles, with partit‘•niphavs < >n whether there ; hy ‘"rnmniiistleally inclined officers with undue IM iln submitting his reslg3M. a to China. Hut his efforts to unify IBnu-V? 1 "'**■ fa ' , ’ l «ns was ntt- ' u> " diplomats who O'mmunist influences , ' l »I’imn "it jur y Session •fessed To Monday *" 1 ** ‘ a . n ' l J° ry t,a " "oc'fsed to |Bta u ,l " ny - Prosecut■l ~at «*d today. It is Lh i 4l l,H * Uror * w| H < O”t---■L. , r investigation by the ®f nen week. »L <mn,y j® ll an<l county home K'-k k-t, *“**'" of Mr - and Mr " ■wtat-A at 41lnt “*r at the later guests included ■Th, Pr «<’hte. Miss Her ■k, rs . “ M - ,n «rt report e<|. Sam ■L ?a ’ Jr xhc-riff. and Mr. Bierfl ■Ho. Rature readings ■hl a. ; 32 IHK ‘ 33 I " — ■ 33 Ithss WEat HER iittie ch.n o . in ternM wnight and Saturday.

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Ask Proclamation Os 'Victory Week' Indianapolis. Nov. 30 tl’Pt Mayors of Indiana towtu and t-i i*s wete asked today to proclaim next week—final week of the victory loan drive as "victory week," In the hope tuat the state’s 192.000,000 qu .ta for individual tern I buying would lie reached by |l.• -. S. Lott-t tabu'a ions showed tint Hoosiers have invested |SO.3<>o. (to in victory bond: till p of 1 lie sta'e goal, UAW Asks For ; Public Aid In Ending Strike Union Seeks Aid Os 'impartial' Group From Public Life By I’nited Press The I’nited Automobile Workers Union (ClOt today sought the aid of an '‘impartial" group of persons from public life in settling the 10-day strike that has halted car production in General Motors Corporation plants. The announcement came as the number of American workers idle because of strikes and shutdowns rose to more than <39,090, highest figure in several weeks UAW officials Invited the persons to meet in Detroit next Tuesday and Wednesday to examine transcripts of union negotiations with G.M and recommend a settlement of the strike. Vnion vice president Walter P. Reuther said Bernard Baruch, New York financier ami adviser to presidents, was suggested as head of the committee. He did not say whether Baruch had accepted. Reuther announced me new union move to break the industrial deadlock over the union's demand for a 30 percent wage increase shortly after he had branded GM president C. K. Wilson as “unbelievably arrogant' for allegedly refusing to meet with any officials In Washington unless asked to do so by President Truman. A break in the hitter UAW strike against I’ord Motor Company of Canada, at Windsor. Ont., was expected as 8,000 sympathy strikers prepared to return to work in 28 plants Their return would leave 2.0 M other sympathizers ami 10.000 Ford workers on strike. At Buffalo, N- V • ’"O'’ °P' erators who had tied up shipping with a seven-week strike returned to their jobs after President Truman ordered the office of detente transportation to seize and operate the tugs, operated by the Great latkes Towing Co, Cleveland. O. Meanwhile, negotiations in the nationwide General Motors strike were renewed in Detroit. For the first time sipce the coast to-coast walkout was called 10 days ago, the United Automobile Workers (CIO) resumeii collective bargaining with General (Turn To Page 2, Column 2) Final Labor Parley Session Is Delayed Seek Agreement On Deadlocked Issues Washington, Nov. 30 — (UP) — The labor management conterence's closipg session was delayed today until attar noon to give the executive committee more time to try to salvage some agreement on deadlocked Issues. The session originally was scheduled for 11 a m. At that hour Judge Walter P. Stacy, conference chairman, emerged from a meeting of the executive committee to announce that the session has been deferred until 3 p. m. He said the executive committee wanted to meet with these members in an effort to find some areas of agreement. Unless the working committees can submit reports to the executive committee by a three-fourths majority, the latter cannot consider them as reports to be submitted to the full conference.

Nazi War Ix)rdN In Prisoner Dock At Nuernberg iZ' ir 7 AN EXCELLENT VIEW of the prisoners' lx>x at th.- Palace of Justice in Nu. inhcig, G-rmany. is the photo al>ove showing the high ranking Nazis ax they listen to proceedings in their trial before an 7 ,,, ‘‘0 military tribunal. Left id right, front row, are Hermann Goering. Rudolf Hees. Joachim Xon RHib»-n trop. Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Rosenberg Back row Karl Doenltz. Erich Harder, Baldur \on S< litra< h and Fritz Rauckel.

6. E. Strike Ballot Scheduled Dec. 13 Decatur Workers To Take Part In Vote A strike vote In General Eb ctrlc J company plants will be held Thursday, December 13 Representatives from local unions In the Fort Wayn • works of the company discussed plans with the company and the national labor relations lioard in a meeting Thursday at Fort Wayne. The strike vote will be held under the! Smith-Connally act and will be conducted by the NLRB G. E. plants Included In the Fort Wayne works are Decatur, Wabash and Kokomo, in addition to Fort Wayne. Henry Stauffer, president of Local 924. Decatur, represented the Decatur branch of the United Electrical. Radio and Machine Workers of America (CIO) at yesterday’s meeting. Representatives of the union stated that the company has refused to allow the employes to vote on company property and that the voting will take place outside the plants. Union officials said that In the past it has always been the policy of the company to permit NLRR and other .lections on the property Company officials had no comment to make on the election matter. The strike vote was nought by the anion following the company's rej ction of the union's demands for a $2 a day wage Inc rease. 240 Veterans File Discharges In Month More Than 700 Now Filed With Recorder An average of ]o honorable discharges of World War 11 veterans were copied daily at the county recorder's office during November, records in the office disclosed today. November saw the largest number of discharges filed of any montli since hostilltieFTelse'tT; RP* taling 240 for the 21 working days. It brings the total to 707, which it is estimated is nearing one-third of the total numl>er of men from (his county who served their country in uniform during the past five years. in October, Miss Rose Nesswald,' county recorder, spread of record 204 service records, bringing the number up to 487 of World War II veterans. It Is expected that December will l>e another busy month in the filing of honorable discharge papers. as the army has announced that half of its 8,300,000 men will have been released by Christmas. The navy has lowered Its points for enlisted men and will release many thousands during the holiday month. Os the more than 700 discharges recorded, all with the exception oi shout 15 papers have been called for by the veterans. .Miss Nesswald stated. The men are anxious to have their service records recorded and are prompt in (Turn To Pace J, Column 4)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 30, 1945.

New Haven Cyclist Is Killed By Truck New Haven. Ind.. Nov 30 (UP) j Rl..hard Allen l,ocke. 13-year-old gon of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D i Lo<-ke. was kllbsl Instantly late I yesterday when he was ‘hit l»y a i truck while h" was riding his bl-1 cycle near New Haven Tie driver of the truck. Wil . |Ham Velgwl. 21. of Uosho.-l‘ti. ()., ' is being held on a charge of reck- | leu driving. Allen county sheriff Walter U. Adams -tail hond was set at ll.o" - Veigel said he did« not nee the yonth riding on the j|*h way. o Enoch Eady Rites Sunday Afternoon Aged Decatur Man Dies Os Exposure Funeral services for Enoch Early, 79-year-old Decatur real, dent, will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Black funeral home, with Dr M. O. lister officiating. Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after; 7 o'clock this evening. Mr. Eady's lifeless body was found on the Trout farm, south of Decatur, at 2:30 o'clock Thursday ■ afternoon, after an Intensive search hail been conduiteil by city, county and state authorities, and Decatur Boy Scouts. The i»ody was found by William Harrod, ot 809 Schirineyer street, who was on a hunting expedition. The aged man's death was attributed to exposure, Robert Zwlck. Adams county coroner, staled following investigation Mr. Eady, clad only In a night shirt ami bed room slippers, had wandered away from his home, lit North Seventh street, early yesterday morning, presumably altout 1:30 o'clock. His disappearance was noticed by his wife shortly after 3 a m. Four Decatur youths reported to police that they had seen a man answering Eady's description walking south on Line street about 2 o s "iock. No further trace wan fount! of him until discovery of laelj Uoronei Z«i<k |>la< .-d ' n!e time of death at shortly bo fore noon. The deceased was Isirn in Ohio January 2. 1888, the son of John and Catherine Hlnbarger-Eady, but had lived in Deratur for many yeats. He was a retired laborer and a member of the First Metho(Turn To Page 2. Column 3) o —— Harvester Workers Strike Vote Dec. 14 Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 30 (UP) —Employes at International Harvester company—tncmlrers of local 57, United Autom »blle workers (CIO)—will have a strike vote Doc. 14. it was announced today The National Labor Relations Itoard set the date after hie union filed a petition for the strike vote Nov. 14. Early this month, approximately a dozen employes walked ut following a dispute concerning piwee work rates. The walkout ne cewltated the closing of the plant for several days, affecting 5,508 Harvester workers.

Yamashifa Denies Knowing Os Murders Denies Knowledge Os 60,000 Deaths Manila. Nov. 30 -(UP) Gen Toinoyuki Yamashita looked today at a prosecution map marking the sites where 60.000 Filipinos were slaughtered and denied doggedly i that he ever heard of any of the killings. Chb f prosecutor Maj Robert M . Kerr of Portland, Ore., hammering at the war crimes defendant In a second day of cross examination, asked Yamashlta to examine wall maps with many dots showing where atroclti- s occurred. "Do you deny Itefore the commission that you knew of none of these 60.000 killings of Filipino and other men, women and children?” K'rr demanded. The poker-faced Yamashlta looked at Kerr squarely and answered: "I did not know and <li<l not he* of these events.” "Explain to the commission.” Kerr directed “how 60.000 murders in a period of seven months occurred without your knowledge” "I absolutely did not know." Ya- ; mashita insisted. Kerr then told Yamashlta this was his final opportunity to .x---plain to the commission how he failed to know. Yamashlta responded with what apparently was his final plea. "The facts are," he said "I was constantly under attack by American forces and I was under pressure day and night. Under these circumstances I had to study plans to combat the superior American forces which took all my time and efforts. “Seven days after my arrival 1 faced American landing forces. I was unable to inspect units as a result of the inefflc ie# y of the Jap aneae system In unifying the command. The situation was highly complicated. Troops were greatly scattered and communication was the poorest. "1 was forced to face the Americans with sulmrdinates I did not know. I put all my efforts to betterlnK th*- Iroops discipline even .in ccnnbctt-biit the .lapane-e troops wet- untrained and most inferior and there wasn't time to bring them up to my expectations "I tried airplanes for communication but It was useless. I tried guerrillas. It was impossible for me to know the true pictures. "Under these conditions I was (Turn To I’aae 2. Column 3) Continue Attempts To Recover Bodies First Creek. Waeh., Nov. 30 (UP)-Navy and civilian divers continued efforts today to recover the ImdiPH cf 13 children and a school bus driver from the unmeasured dept ba of latke Chelan but admitted "tue odd* are pretty heavy against us." A steel net was dragged through the deep glacial lake yesterday In an attempt to snag the big bug in which 15 young students and their driver plunged to death from a mountain road last Monday The divers expressed belief tdiat the vehicle and ILt grhn cargo might never be retrieved.

Tells War Crimes Court Loss Os Memory Faked; Murder Plot Unfolded

Says Army Tipped Oil Russia On Atom Bomb Scientist Predicts Soviet Production Washington. X >v. 30 <t I’t A prominent scientist. predicting that Russia <an start atom Isnnh production in a I tout three yeans, told congress today that over-zeal-ot-,* army security relation* tipped !■.(. Soviets ia** June to out secret manufacture of at •ml< - weapon*. hr Irving l.anginuir, associate director of research for General Electric <‘o.. said last minute cancellation of passports of a group of AmAican and British phy-hi-'ts headed for a scientifi gathering in Moscow "resulted in giving to the Rus-ian* tile very information which the army moat wish'd to keep from them." He said the RuxxUn embassy here "of course" knew I rat the American phy*iri«ts had not Ix-e-t permitted to attend and that can collation of the British passport* was given wide publi< Ify in the British press "Any sensible Kus*.ml scientist knowing of these fact* would have believed that we were developing an at rtnic bomb and were keeping ' It secret from the Russians." he ' said. Once Russia ■‘tarts making uto ' mic bom la. a distinct possibility in about three yearn. sli« may very likely In- able to turn t tetn out ’ faster than tile I’niled States be cause of tier tremendous le-oitr ■-s. Langmuir told the Senate’s r|Mcial committee on atoml' energy. He said he had never heard an official explanation fur camelling the pisspots of the Moscow bound mienti*te But he said he had , heard "the opinion expressed ilia' ti'.H* action must have Iteen taken at tile request of the American government Imcause no on-- outside the American arm/ could le*n stupid," Langmuir said posse*..f m of the atom Ironib formula gav— this coun try a feeling < f amurity, but was giving Russia and other have-not nation* a feel.ng of insecurity that threatened to start a world rar I (Turn To l'ag>- 2, c'.dumn 3) Boy Scouts Honored II At Rotary Meeting Court Os Honor Is Held Lost Evening ' itoy Scouts of Rotary troop Cl ’ were honored at a court of honor, i held at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary dull Thursday ■ evening t W Guy Brown, as chairman of the court of honor, presided, and I was assisted in presenting medals i and awards to the Scouts by the Rev. Robert Hoevel. Harold Mum- ; ma. Dr. Fred Patterson and the Rev. William C Feller. Bryce Thomaif presented the I Scouts, acting as scribe in the . place of Sylvester Everhart. Adams county Boy Scout commix- , sioner, who wax unable to attend because of illness. Scouts who were honored, including Richard Ralhman. Scoutmaster. are as follows: Second class — Ralph Bollinger and Herbert Kilson. Life scout —Gerald Schultz. Dave Mac Lean, Dan Freehy and i Richard Rathman ■ Eagle scout—Norman Stingely. i Merit badges—Dick Mies, swimming; Sheldon Daniels, swim I ming; Norman Stingely, swimming. reading, machinery, textiles: Dan Freeby, public health. i personal health, scholarship, safei ty. music, athletics: Don Mac- , Lean, carpentry, reading, swim ming. scholarship: Dave Mac Lean, , reading, machinery: Richard Rath- , man. athletics, machinery: Gerald ( Schults, woodturning, public health, athletics: Dave Mac Lean, (Turn To Page 6, Column I)

Army Ignored Early Tip On Hawaii Attack Warning In January Os 1941 Considered As Not Reliable Washington. Nov 3" tl f’t r S. military intelligence always considered the feasibility of Japanese sneak attack on llawul:. but discounted a -vpecifi warning t • thnt effect in January. It'll. Im<auxe It wa* i.ot impressed by its source. Maj Gen. Siiertmin Mlles, foi user chief of army Intelligence, made till* disclosure today to the c ingrexsional committee investigating t ie Pearl Harbor di«a»<ter of Dec. 7. It'll The warning, relayed to th< Stale Department from Tokyo by (' S amliaHsad r Joseph C. Gr- w. came from th- Peruvian minister to Japan The mini*te. told Grew he .had heard rumor* of si possible surprise blow agaiiwt Pearl llarbor Miles, whose testimony dealt with Japantro- me-xages intercepted by the army and mvy Ie fore pearl Harltor. told tin- committee that "A surprise attu> k on Hawaii with little or no warning wa* at ways under c mslderal ion." But intelligence officers dkscount'd the Peruvian mini-tor’s tip, Miles said, because lucy doulP ed that any Japanese *<>ur«- that knew what It wa* talking about would K t euch information !-ak to a South American diplomat Miles' testimony ye*t<-rday and today revealed that tie I’. S military high command did not ' relay texts or even para pit r.is-v* of intei.-» pied Japanese m»**age* ' t • such field commanders a* Maj. (Jen Walter ('. Short, chief of t ie army * Hawaiian department, and Dmigla.t MacArthur, commander in the Philippine*. Quest iotted a , to ho v infoi ma lion ,<o obtained wax sent to the army commander, Mil-s said that wax the sole responsibility of the army chief of staff, then Gen Ge >rge ('. M.ir*h.ill Mibo said that prior to Pearl ilarlMir the army and navy was not only intercepting Japanese (Turn To Page (. Column 5) AAA Committeemen Elections Are Set Farmers Os County To Vote Next Week The schedule for AAA committe men election* In Adams county wax announced today by Winfred L. Gerke. chairman of the county AAA committee. Mr Gerke listed the (ownships Hie polling places, and th- dates and hours ax follow*: Blue CreekKimxey school. Wednesday. December 5; French-Election school. Monday. December 3: HartfordHartford high school, Tuesday. December 4; Jefferson • Jefferson high school, Monday. December 3: Kirkland • Kirkland high school, Thursday. December fi. Monroe Election school. Tuesday, December 4: Preble • Prehle school. Wednesday. Dec- mber 5: Root • Monmouth high school. Tuesday. December 4: St. Marys - Pleasant Mills high school. Wednesday, December 5; Vnion * Emanuel Lutheran school. Monday. D < ember 3: Wabash • Geneva high school. Thursday. December fi; Washington • county AAA office, Thursday, December « All meetings will begin at 7:30 p. nt. In each community, farmers will , elect three regular committeemen (Turn To Page 4, Column 5)

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German Espionage Chief Testifies To Plot On Murdering Os French Leaders Nuernberg. Nov 3" tl P)— The war crimes trial flared up dramatically today when Rudolph Hex* told the court lie had l»een faking a loss of m- mory and a Nazi espionage chief testified that the German* plotted to murder Gens. Maxime Weygattd ami Henri Giraud. Toward the eml of th- session Hess himself strode to the stand to declare defiantly that he was mentally fit and ready for trial. Hix counsel, who had pleaded passionately that the charges against Hess be quashed, said "that proven he's crazy." The court did not rulo Immediately Th Hess hearing followed th« first direct testimony of the trial, the witness wa* the No. 2 man <>t the German counter-intelligence, who testified that th- .Nazis gavo orders t<» kill all Russian commixsarx and communists, and faked the incident« used as a pretext for the war on Poland by dressing up concentration camp prisoners in Polish uniforms. The insld picture of the Nazi world wax told for the first timo by Maj Gen. Erwin laihousen. chief assistant to admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the German coun-ter-intelligence service. laihonxenx testimony sent the 2" war crime defendants into panic and rage. At the luncheon re* cess Hermann Goering -norted that lailiouxcn ought to be “lynched" and Joachim Von Ribbentrop nervously muttered, "what shall I do? What shall I do?" Lahouxen dexcrib-d Canaris as an implacable foe of the Nazis and a man who hated war and did ail in hi* power to obstruct Adolt Hitler’s schemes Canaris is be-Ih-Ved to have been shot by th Gestapo last April when Hitler suspected him accurately, it ajvpcared of plotting against him. H>- d glared that Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel tried to get the intelligence corps to "eliminate" both Weygattd. at thnt time in North Africa, and Giraud. th n a prisoner in Germ.in hand* Canaris blocked botli plans, he xaid. taking the position that "we won't fipminit murder. ’’ He quoted an order General Hermann Reinecke that the SovietGerman war wa* a showdown of two political philosophies. The Red army wa* consid-rcd an ideological enemy and should be treated ax such. ix»hmisen. first witnes* to be called by the prosecution, also revealed that a small inn- r group of th« intelligence service plotted to kill Adolf Hitler as far back ax 1938. H- sail? that many of the men around Canaris were ex-cuted or committed suicide after the failure of the July, 1944. plot against Hitler Canaris, who Jaihouxen held in great est- em, was believed exectited by the Gestapo early this year for plotting against Hitler The witnes* xriid the group within the counter-intellig-nce service that wanted to eliminate Hitler by force wa* not highly organiami lint shared the same idea. He said th y repudiated Hitler's use of force to achieve his aims. Lahouxen was allowed to testify after a dispute between prose(Turn To l'.(g<- l. Column 3) o — Wm, Spannuth Dies At County Hospital William Spannuth. 78. of Decatur route .*>, (He<| Thursday afternoon at the Adam* county memorial hospital af’er a two months illness <>( complications. He wax horn in Ohio February 28. IM7, the son of Henry and Margaret Spannuth He had never married and was the last surviving memtier of his family. Funeral service will he held at 2 p tn. Saturday at the Giliig a Doan funeral h> tne. with the Rev. K J HnkM --tli< i.icnv Bui i.d w II he in the Honduran cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this eveninc.