Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1945 — Page 1

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Ls County Killed » day Night jy,, en cc Case Dies Struck By Auto K Home Saturday i ... ■' y<-ar obi Blue f .::n» i. * ;l ** •" a! . „<lo<d. Satin XaKr- " ‘ k ' wa * ,ro * *’ Bl front ~f SHR w . ;ni , a n.-itivo and lifeVl.iiih county. kHM^.. ’<’ !If home geighb-r '.. make arrange |i|K< or .hr>d'liiiL' corn. ‘‘o’hway. he from the path of a HKd.rwtiy into the path of an by Ena. Robert E. e ~( Kenosha. Win. The jflcr was absolved of i sheriff L«o Glllig ami t^K,- 'ip.le-r- Zu i<k. who inThe < listen had been j^K-- .n Went Virginia . to Evanston. 11l , h, stationed. s.jjy.-re<l a crushed skull, and compound of both legs. ail!i h-nt vifim was born JM.. t--k e.wnship February th. son of John Lewis T-. picCase. His ||M i Emm.i Creulem h. prehim in death and he was .turrie.l to Jessie August. writes. mrvirors include one ■ ■r..r H . . f Lima. O', three Eat I Moser of Wren. ■MV". Waiter Leeth of Lima Opal Sargent of San < aiif, ami four brothaHf W ( a .■ of Lima and John. |K ' Wayrn -ti. Id. O. and Isaac |Kt <i On.- sister preceded death. .. ni nio. i of the United church. * M Funeral Tuesday rm .-s will be held at SMc.. ifST. Tuesday at the fun* ra! iiome in this city. th*- lb v I. A. Middaugh ■M -an- Buna! will be in the ,.m.t. ry Erlends may fiin'T;.) home after 5 hi« evening. SB Fifth Traffic Victim death Saturday night tar fifth traffic fatality in inunty during 1945, three the county. first victims were p (pels. 21, of Decatur 1. and Jack Byron Friedt. nM’f Ifc.atur, killed June 7 when ■■B’ltwy.de on which they tig collided with a truck of federal high Monroe street. Corral. 15, of Hoot was kilh-d July 7 when B*" he w ax driving left the 3 — plunged over a ditch in■B*8 ‘ ll! one and one-half miles « Preble. H l-ongenherger. MBM Root township farmer. August £5 when stru< k MBJ *ttto at the intersection of Wk and Jackson streets in B*l ® Os Contingent For Service ti»mtiers of the contingent here November 27 Air physical eximina |B*/ n ' , *‘ r selective service were for the nation’s armed l! ’“ Adams county hoard today. |BL"' are f)ona, d Clair sff. John Jerome Brun■L , v Lm Sf hind'.er, Harold Yo “og. Kenneth Leroy K,\, X and WHEatn Troxel. Jr. IBlc * r ’’ tii;nf 'd home to await U' a ««»• service. Bit?/? 1 T HeRMOMITER jßk a IRAT 'JRE READINGS K, *■ *• 36 ■% _ -- 37 ®' | R» -~... „ 30 wunTiß Mtt ,Z t ®"'«ht and Tuesday exQ, B,Ft h portion Tuesr,i" n ««r Ohio A** nU.* “" d TuesdeyW rth partly

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

40 Patients Now At Adams County Home —- Tlte number of inmate at tho Adams county farm has climbed to 40, Frank Kitson, superintendent, reported to the county otnuiissloneis today. This is an increase >f in In the last five years. Twenty-eight of the inmate,; are men and 12 women. Two of the inmates are paid patients, the county receiving (4 a week for their Imard and care. Mr. Kitaon stated Uuit the highest number of inmates in the hi'tory of the instltu tion was 43. ■- - — o-— — 59 More Japan War Criminals Ordered Held MacArthur Orders Arrests; Prince Included In List Tokyo. Dec. 3—(UP)— Gen- Douglas MacArthur ordered the Japanese government today to arrest 59 more war criminal suspects. Including for the first time a prince of Imperial blood, two former premiers and many top flight militarists, industrialists and propagandists. The imperial suspect was field marshal Prince Morimasa NasbItnoto, 71, who was a supreme war councillor and lord cutodian of national shrines. (After a eerier of conferences with imperial household minister Botaro Ishiwata, the Japan se governwent reportedly asked MacArJhdr to rescind the order for NashImoto'a arrest. The request was present'd supreme allied headquarters by foreign minister Yoshida, acting for the government. No reason was given for the request.) The former pr miers were Baron Kitchiro Hiranuma, who served in 1939 when Japan was paving the way for Axis alliance, and Koki Hlrota. who served as premier In 1936 and was a member of the advisory council In 1940. Arrests of four of th- country's leading publishers were ordered They Were Yoshio Kodatna, former publisher of the Yamato Shimbu; Hiroshi Shimoinura. former vice pr-sident of Ashi; Invuke Funino. former head of the now defunct Dome! News Agency; and Matsiitaro Shorlkl, president of Yomlttri Hochi. Others in the list included: Admiral Soemu Toyoda. former chief of th- Japanese naval staff; Cinjlro Jujiwara. former cabinet member and head of many large firms; Seisin Ikeda, former governor of the bank of Japan; Chlkuaei Nakajima. founder and form(Turn Tn Pass I. Column 3) ■ ——-O" i■' ' — Christmas Is Only Three Weeks Away Decatur Merchants Prepare For Holiday Christmas, 1945. will be here three weeks from tomorrow. Decatur merchants are busy dressing up their counters and show windows with Yuietide decorations and are displaying new merchandise. White many items still are unavailable, the shelves of local stores are far from bare, and ..'.any gifts and staple items are appearing for the-ftr.d -time since, before the war. C. C. Pumphrey, chairman of the retail committee of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, said today that his committee would meet Tuesday morning to determine a suggested pre-holiday store schedule. It is highly probable that retail stores will remain open at nights for a few nights before Christmas and the exact dates will be determined tomorrow. Many of the Decatur merchants say that while their stocks are far from complete, they have much more merchandise for the Christmas season than anticipated earlier and they have many items which have been scarce for a long time.

Gen. Marshall To Testify At Probe Thursday Says Officers In Hawaii Knew Japs Destroying Codes Washington, Dec. 3— (UP)—The Pearl Harbor investigating committee was told today that army officers tn Hawaii knew before the *n«*ak attack <rf Dec, 7. 1941. that Japan se diplomats were destroying codes. “Indicating that something seilous was about to hap--pen ” Maj. Gen. Sherman Mlles, former head of military intelligence, said the information was in the hands of the. intelligence officer of the Hawaiian -defense command about Dec. 3. 1941, and was called ft> the attention of a staff council on Dec. 6. the morning before the attack. Mlles ssld th- Hawaiian Intelligence officer, a colonel Bicknell, learned of the code-burning through the navy amhßobert Shivers, chief of the f'deral bureau of Investigation at Honolulu. Miles continued testimony started last week about Japanese code messages that were intercepted before Pearl Harbor. the committee announced, meanwhile. that Gen G-orge C. Marshall. former army chief of staff, will appear before it at 10 a. m.. Thursday. Marshall, who was sharply criticized by an army board that investigated the Pearl Harbor defeat. will he given a chance to tell his side of the story before he leaves for Chungking as diplomatic successor to Patrick J. Hurley, resigned The army board report- d last August that Marshall did not keep the Hawaiian army command sufficiently informed of tho danger rotary of war Henry L. Stimpson of hostilities with Japan. Both president Truman and former sechave defended the former staff chief Miles told of Bicknell's knowledge of the Japanese cod-burn-ing to correct an impression he gave last week that nrtny officers In Hawaii were not kept inform -d about Japanese developments. He testified last week that the (Turn To Page 3, Column 3) o — — Miss Thekla Thieme Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Miss Thekla Thieme, 15. died at 10:25 o'clock Saturday night at her home seven miles northeast of D-catur after a two days illness of pneumonia. She was born in Union township June 9.1930. the daughter of Max and Louise Boenker-Thieme, and was a lifelong resident of the township. She was a member of the Immanuel lattheran church. Surviving in addition to the parents are the following brothers and sisters: Pvt. Lester Thieme, stationed at Camp McClellan. Ala, Hilljert. Edmund, Ileuben. Gretchen. Maxine and Merlin, all at home, and one grandmother. Mrs. Wilhelmina Thieme of Union township. Two brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at afternoon at the home and at 2 p. m. al the InT manuel Lutheran church, with the Rev. E W. Allwadt officiating. Burial will be in the church c»metery. The body was removed from the Zwick funeral home to the residence Sunday evening. O — Julius Lengerich Slightly Injured Juliiw Lengerich of Decatur route 4. suffered a elight injury to this back in an auto accident north of Decatur, enroute to hlv work at the Central Soya company M» was taken to the hospital, hut w-ts dismissed after preliminary examination.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

r — Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 3, 1945.

After GM And UAW Conference ihji fin EnMM _ fB. Illite I ’ I Ait / is* TALKING TO REPORTERS IN DETROIT, 11. D. Anderson, vice president of General Motors, ami Harry B. Coen, director of lalmr. give an account of the conference between union and company officials. No progress was reported on the issue of permitting 74,000 office workers to cross the UAW picket lines in front of GM plants.

Ask Special Judge In Mandamus Suit Petition Filed In Wabash Bond Case Attorney John L. DeVoss, representing Elmer Gibson and other petitioners tn the William Fenuig drain, (Wabash river dredge case) has filed a petition with the clerk of the circuit court asking that Gov. Ralph F. Gates appoint a special Judge in the complaint of mandate filed against the county commissioners, county auditor and treasurer, to issue bonds for the payment of assessments *ln the dredge case. The petition sets out that Byron Hayes of Fort Wayne was appointed special Judge in the case, but that he has not been present in the Adams circuit court since Nov. 20. 1944. and that he has not attended at any subsequent term of said court. The petition also states that Special Judge Hayes has consequent ly vacated his Jurisdiction in the case. The clerk will certify a copy of the petition to Gov. Gates for further action. Judge Henry Kister of Evansville is special Judge in the case, dealing with the construction of the proposed dredge project. He still retains his jurisdiction in that respect. The appointment of a special Judge, as petitioned for today, is to have a court hear the mandamus suit on the issuing of bonds. Judge Kister received l>ids for the dredging of tho river and ordered a contract let to an lowa firm. A number of land owners paid their assessment. I>ut work on the propect has been withheld in view of the refusal of the conn ty commissioners to order the l«»nds Issued for the proposed Improvement. —— — o To Add Employes To Handle Mail Rush Christmas Mailing Already Increased With a view toward rendering the usual fast holiday service, several temporary employes will be added to the staff of 19 regular ’empioyl -the po*.* off-, ice. Leo Kirsch, postmaster stated today. As holiday mail becomes heavier, more personnel will be added. Mr. Kirsch stated that already traffic in packages had increased and the number of pieces at this type of mail was growing daily. He stated that the rush on greeting cards was not expected for about 10 days. The post office department has Issued the annual warning of "mail early" and "wrap packages properly." and these rules are being followed by Decatur patrons pretty generally, It was stated. Within the next few days it (Turn To I’sgs I, Column &)

Bids Are Received By Commissioners Bids f.»r the furnishing of record books and printing supplies, including those for the primary and general elect! >r<» next year, were received by the county commissioners this afternoon. The contract is divided into five classes and two proposals had l»een flted at noon today. The contract total about |s.f»ofi. county officials estimated. The commissioners < liecked and allowed claim* tftis morning and their desks for the printing Mdu this afternoon. On Tuesday t.be commissioners will receive blds on 375.000 of highway supplies and materials to lie furnished during 1946. o —— Grade School Illness Sharply Increased Over 320 Students Absent In Decatur Alku-nteei'in in the Decatur public and Catholic tu-h mis. o i th" increase in the past two weeks because or colds and a form of influenza. mounted sharply today, with reports of more than 320 student* from classes. The largest increase in pupil absentees wax reported from the Lincoln grade school, where I’ Bryce Th mas. principal, stated there were Hl out of siimo! today. as compared to approximately 100 at the end of last week. The school has 612 pupils enrolled. A large percentage of the ale seiiteui io In tile lower grades. Mr. T-hi mas reported, whereas last week's illness was more am >ng those of the higier grades. A similar trend was noted In the Catholic schools, where more than 64 wire reported absent by Sr. M. Fidelf,-, print ipal, an increase of 20 over last week's high. Os thin total, only 15 grades wore hardest hit liy today's absent e reports. , Conditions were reported improved In the Decatur junior-se-nior Jtlyh school, as W. Guy Brown, principal, reported only about xti •ftudenU aioitif today. The high figure at Hits school was 140 last Tuesday. The < pidemic of colds apparently has n it affected the rural schools of Adams county as severely as in Decatur. P-leanant Mill) reported 75 students absent today, but Lyman L stij" iiii<-..tli-nt. stated that no n-poii.s es uniisiiti! absence had been received from other schools. o William Bromer Is Named Class Officer William Bromer. non of Mr. and Mrs. Hrnry Bromer of North Fifth street, has lieen elected vice-presi-dent of the freshman class at De Pauw University. Mr. Bromer wax also elected to teptesent the freshman claox on the student faculty ouncil A graduate of Decatur high Ge hr. I. Mr. Bre ner lx a Rector scholarship student at the university.

Seeks Authority To Set Up System For Disputes; Asks Workers ITO Return

Auto Workers Union Asks Government To Investigate GM On Anti-Monopoly Law By United Prwx The CIO United Auto workers asked the government today to Investigate General Motors Corporation for violation of antl-tnon-oply laws an president Truman sent a special message to congress, recommending specific steps to cope with the labor crisis. The new developments came as a one-day maritime union strike to force the use of more ships for returning service men sent the total number of American strike-idle workers to nearly "45.000. R. J. Thomas. UAW president, asked attorney general Tom Clark to •'lnitiate an investigation Immediately with a view to prosecution of Gen', ral Motors Corporation under the antitrust laws of the United States " Thomas charged that General .Motors own claim that It must resume partial production to supply critical items to other car manufacturers provides “strong corrohatory -rfflence for our belief that this corporation hold* a monoply position In the automotive business." About 90.000 merchant seamen and longshoremen were called upon to participate in the demonstration work stoppage In th- nation's ports. Members of the national wartime union (CIO* started walking off an estimated 125 ships in New York harbor at H a. m. Meanwhile. •!:“ Westinghouse Electric Corp. countered a union demand for a 12-a-day wage increase with a proposal that all plants. wbei'e practicable, increase their work week from five to 5>4 days with Hm- and one-half paid for all work more than to hours. The tentative decision to reopen some General Motors plants for the production of parts essential to other auto manufacturers brought rumblings of disagreement among I'AW officers. Thomas and G-.M president C E. Wilson had tentatively agreed to allow reopening of certain plants making parts for other automobile manufacturers. But vehement protest < ame from Robert Carter, head of the UAW local at the (j-.M AC spark plug plant at Flint. Mich. Carter, unsuccessful 'opponent of Thomas for the UAW presidency, said he was backed by the fitm mm members of the greater Flint industrial council. Thomas, however, issued a state (Turn To Page t. Column -l ■ <i Former Post Office Employes To Return Frisinger, Chase To Return To Jobs Two former employes of the D- ■ catur post office will return to their jobs soon, but It will not necessitate the dismissal of any present employes, postmaster lx-o Kirsch said today. Robert Frisinger. already returned to this city, and Earl Chase, enroute home from the west coast, are the two local employes on leave to serve in the armed forces, and bedh.wi.il be th.-ir obi jobs back any time th< y* u’-o<-within 90 days from date of their discharge. With the addition of the two men on leave the personnel at the Decatur post offlc- will total 21. However. Mr. Kirsch pointed out that because of the recent 40-hour ruling the two additional men will be necessary to properly staff the organization Mr. Frlsing-r has not yet resumed his duties, but has indicated that hd would do so soon. Mr Chase is enroute home, and while he Jpis said that he wants to return to his former joh. he will not complet ■ any arrangements to do so until he arrives here.

Indianapolis' Skipper Accused Os Negligence Open Court Martial For Commander Os Destroyed Cruiser Washington. Dee. "■ (I I’t The navy today accused Cap! Charles M McVay. 111. of being directly responsible, through "negligence" and “ineffh iemy" for the loss of many men in the sinking f Hie cruiser Indianapolis. Alsait SHO person* were 1 »st when the ship, skippered by McVay. exploded and sank off t.hPhil'ppines July T ie charge* against McVay were read at the opening of his court martial at the Washington navy yard iiefore an eight-man court. He was accused of falling to order prompt abandonment »( the Dl.mm i>n warship after it was "lia.lly damaged and in sinking condition. ' As noult of his culpable inefficiency.'' it was alleged, "many persons on Iwiard periehed with the sinking chip' Tite charges held Ut.it M-Vay'« “negligence" i i directing tite Indianapolis just before the disaster resulted In ' suffering a veosel of the navy to be hazarded." The captain. naval officer for 26 years, was alleged to have "neglected ami failed" to order the < ruiser to pursue a zig-zag comae in wafers Where < tieiny Übma l ines might have been riir-uintere.i. Tile defense objected to tile Speification that » Hie Indian ipolat tailed to pursue a zlg-ag course The defense said this was "a mere < on< luelon " The court refused to sustain the objection After the charges were presented. McVay ask'-d for a postpone ment until !<■• a m t morrow to prepare additional defense det ills. It was granted Only 1" of the Hm -eats p ovhl ed for spectators were occup.ed a the opening serolon. McVay was not asked to plead guilty or not guilty His plea l« expected IO be entered t< morrow. Os the 1.196 officers and men (Turn T-- Page .. Column St o Auction School Is Opened Here Today Over 80 Students Enrolled To Date More than SO students attended the opening of the Reppert school of auctioneering this morning and additional enrollments today and tomorrow were expected to in < reuse the total to Hear the I»»«» mark, Uol Fred Reppert. founder and president of the salesmanship and auction school estimated. All classes are being held in the class rooms of tin- school in Bellmont park, east of Decatur. A new building, recently constructed, was opened for today's session. which marks the 25th anniversary year ami 50th semester of the famous school. ' “*i ne im-triu-toi - in th. I. in addition to Uol. Reppert. are: Ear) Gurtin of Greensburg and G. L. I’ettit of Bloomfield. lowa, who have been associated with CoC Reppen since the school was started A. W. Thompson. Lincoln. Neb.. Roy S. Johnson of this city, ('. B. Drake, Joliet, Hi., Itoy Hiatt. P<vtland; Melvin E. Liechty. Berne; II W. Sigrist, Fort Wayne: S (’. Sprunger. Kidron. Ohio; Roy G Johnston. Belton. Mo.; Walter Carlson. Triumph. Minn : (J. R. Chaffee, Towanda, Pa.; I. F. Rochelle. Roanoke Rapids. N. C . H. R Sager, Bozeman. Mont , Charles iTurn To Page 2, Column S>

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Disappointed Over Labor-Management Parley, President Asks Congress Act Washington. Dec 3 tUPi — President Truman today asked congress for authority to estate lish a system of fa< t-flndimj boards to cope with laltor disputes. Expressing his disappointment that the labor-management conference had not produced an agreement on machinery to settle existing strikes, the president said It was now the duty of the government "to act on its own." The president recommended establishment of a fact-finding system with boards to operate along the general lines of tho emergency board provided fop under the railway laltor act. The president, without waiting for congress to act. said ho would set up immediately a fact-finding board in the dispute between the United Automobile Workers and General Motors < .up “While this Itoard will not havn the statutory powers which I hope the congress will soon authorize.'* the president said in a special message. "I am sure that the American people will expect the employer and the employes to cooperate with the Itoard as fully as If appropriate legislation had already Itcen passed " Then tho president appealed to the patriotism of laith parties in the General Motors dispute ami asked "all the workers to return to work Immediately." He also requested General Motors "to proceed etiet getically with full production " After des< ribing the General Motors strike as the "major obstai |e holding tip ottr reconversion program." the president said he was appointing a similar board to deal with the threatened strike Involving the United States steel Corp and the United Steel Worker- lUIOI. He asked the ••tnployes to remain at work pending the report of the lutard findings atid recommendations. Here is the way the president'* fact finding plan would work: In a dispute It. a nationwide industry. where collective bargaining has broken down and ail other government efforts fall to induco an agreement, the dispute would be certified by the secretary of lalsir The president would then ho empowered to appoint within five days a fact finding Itoard similar to the emergency boards provided for under the railway labor act. During this five-day period and while the Itoard is deliberating it would be unlawful to call a striko or lo< kout, or to make any changes in rates of pay. hours, or working conditions. The Itoard would be composed of three or more "outstanding citizens" and would be directed to investigate all facts relating to the dispute. The board, which would havo the full power of subpena for Individuals ami records, would report to ths- president within 20 days, unless an extension wero agrees! to by Itoth parties with presidential approval. Under the proposed new law, the disputant* would not be legally bound to accept the findings or follow the recommendations of the Imard. but the president said 1 "the general public would know all the facts'* "The r-sulf. I am -tire, would be that in most cases, both sides would accept the recommendations. as they have in most of tho railway labor disputes." The president urged congress to act "as quickly as possible — and certainly before Its congressional recess" o Woman Arrested In Husband's Slaying New Albany. Ind.. D»c. 3—(l'Pt - Mrs. Goldie Rutton. 42. wax held In Fl tyd county jail today In connection with the fatal shooting of her husband. Guy Rutton. 46, in their home Saturday nignt.