Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1945 — Page 1

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’pion Filed ■H Against Kn Pickets ** *** Charge I Os Stalling negotiations t'sited Prate mgtasentetlve* accused ol stalling wage »'•»»• i». »n<l General Motors to court to tight "lllegC i,y striking CIO > Workers. n lor the nation's road* Mid they would a .nt mediation in wage with 20 AFL unions j brotherhoods, representatives chargbrotherhood at locoseers and the brotherIroad trainmen had negotiations by dealt a hundred rule a have asked for wage iging up to 30 percent, inagement said the i plus the pay Innauded would cost OOO.OM annually, otors filed a petition pica# court at Cleve- ; to enjoin Local 46 from Interfering with any person to enter > first court more itrikers, whose picket rpt nearly 50,000 none workers from enterla. >OO members of the rical Hadio and Ma rs Union (CIO) were strike vote in 16 BB i officials said, how |H -c stub., would be call . *ll.l'. cer the results .... son A strike would ■ Greers) Electric, Westing lud the electrical division uni Motors. in and shutdowns kept CO,boo American workers fete their jobs. Fsrd Motor Co., most Indeof big auto tnanufac |Bi><i'<i with the rest of the yesterday when it re- ■ ‘UH Automobile Wotk demand ?cr s 30 per »psio sico n told the union ■era without an increase in company stood to lose ■Mli next year. ■iFord argument was in line »Uml taken i>y others of ■mtomotive industry's big ■ ~ Chrysler and the strike ■I General Motors Corp. Motors and CAW off! ■ ‘'•I! had nearly a week to negotiations before a MWIs? board appointed by ■ Ta Pag* 2, Column 4) ■ 0 late Bulletins P'SMpolis. Dee. 13— (UP)— ■ , ' 1 state police said today ■ persons were killed in collisions near fn--1 4t about the same ■* this afternoon. ffF"’ vkerwvn Ot the StiU K* Public reiations division a* eno accident at Pitts!s«. was fatal to one perthat two were killed in wreck near Pendleton. t’hau. Germany, Dec. 13— r*- ThH y»l« officials and F** »f the Dachau concentreI" t *mp today were sentenced l* ,h by hanging. Fj J "ited States military court the sentences a day C r «« r "ing convict! one L K 40 P* r »ons. One defenr,. w ** wutencod to life ImL," ment ,n d three to 10 years p'Vßmnent each, fc** T THERMOMETER L ytRATURE READINGS i L • 22 i k*• *• 23 I £»/**** 23 1 i l» H, 9? 1 —f- I L , WtATHER I h *viati2 y . 10 about four Inches ifrse ** tta4 * b * moru- ' *** 8* * ,iR w,th •'”* 1 le taday and tonight, i "writs and colder Friday, i

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Troop Train Rammed By Passenger Train Nearly 100 Naval Personnel Injured Chicago, Dec. 13 (UP) Kall road and navy official* sought to-i day to determine 'he < ~use of an' accident in which a Pore Marqu ette passenger train rammed the tear of a troop train, injuring nearly 10b naval person.tel. The Injured, rmwtly Negro sailors en route from the BalllbiIdg" ; Md. bsee to the naval depot at Shoemakei, Calif , were taken to south side hospital for first aid treatment. Many later were removed to the navy floor at Wesley memorial hospital Not more than a dozen were Injured seriously, hospital attendants said. The 11-ear Alton railroad troop train was switching over from Baltimore & Ohio to the Alton track<> In the freight yards alsiut three' mile.l south from Chicago's loop i when the wrack occurred. One car was overturned and, four troop <-oa< hex and a sleeper derailed. disrupfTng traffic at the busy intersection Eastbound train* . were held up for five hours before the wreckage was cleared. PaMengers on the Pere Marquette train, headed for Grand Ka pids. Mich., were shaken up but not hurt. The troop train, ca rying 253 oailors and escorts, h.id left the downlown depot on the B. A O tracks at 5:05 p.m. and was moving slowly to facilitate serving in the diner The Pere Marquette train was able to Mow down to approximately 15 .miles an hour liefore the train* hit. Juttine bibacli. engine r aboard the, second train, said h< ."aw the tail end of troop train 300 feet In front of him as the last few cars were trunuferring Io the Altm tracks, Ehach said he had green light* ail the way. giving rise to the be(Turn !'•> t'.xas J. Column 4> Little Credence In Murder Confession Incoherent Story Os Suspect Is Doubted Chicago. Dec. 13—(t’P) —Investigator* in the brutal slaying of ex-Wave Frances Brown. 33. placed little credence today in a story given by a man who said he might as well confess "and save the state trouble." The suspect, committed by bfa wife to the psychopathic hospital, created a short lived period of excitement last night when he babbl*d incoherently about the killing and told police his sister-in-law lived in apartment 610 of the Pinecrest hotel, next to the apartment wher* Miss Brown wav found shot and stabbed to death early Monday. Police expressed doubt of the story, however, after the man a wife said he had not b. en out of their home for the past two weeks. Meanwhile. Investigators pressed their Inquiry into a mysterious tel phone call to Mias Brown s apartment Sunday night and continued questioning ol a stocky butch er with a self-confer.sed sex offense record. The butcher, identlfi d as George Catrabonl. 40. told police he once had served a jail term for rape in Buffalo, N. Y . and had been questioned in the Cleveland torso murders of 1637-42 The suspect, arrested at his lodg(Turn To Page 3. Column 3) — O Good Fellows Club Accepts Donations Any persons wishing to make donation* to the Good Fellows club are asked to send their contributions to the chairman. Mrs. Al Schneider The club, sponsored for many years by the Delta Theta ; Tau sorority, will distribute lias- ; kets of groceries to needy families for Christmas. The Good Ftilow-i. which. In pre- I war yoar* distributed toys and i clothing for the neody. is <Mstrl- I buting only food this year as the need tar othar artielas Is not so groat as In previous years.

Gen. Ration Is Reported As Improved Army Bulletin Says Injured American General Improved Heidelberg. Dec. 13- H’Pi — | Gen. George S. Patton nad u comfortable day today, and his condition was reported officially tn lie "progressing satisfactorily." indicating new gains In hi* battle against a broken neck and partial paralysis. A bulletin from the nllltary hospital In Heidelberg a* of 4 p.m. said. "General Patton had a comfortable day, condition progrewing , satisfactorily " The late announcement lent new weight to earlier assurance* that Patton liad fought off all complications threatening him since he was In an automobile-truck crash ■Sunday. Doctors eaid Patton might be flown to the I‘nlted States for treatment if he continue* to improve. The morning bulletin said: "A«i of !• a in. <3 a m. EST) the neurological condition remains alaiut the same. Patton spent a good night and is alert and cheerful There are no complications The condition remain* satisfactory. Temperature 100. Pulse 62. Respiration 20." The latent report was considerably more optimistic In tone than the one 24 hours earlier Wht’h called hh condition "grave” and that of 38 hours ago which Jermed it "critical." Medical authorities (minted out that the general’s temperature remained steady, while both bls pulse and respiration were satisfactory. Doctors were hopeful that Patton had won his battl* to survive the effect* of an automobile collision near Mannheim four days ago. They eald every possible medical aid was being given Patton by the international team of celebrated doctors in attendance, and that the rest depended upon hts constitution and will to live. Patton may be flown to the United States with a plaster cast on his neck and back if he program e* satisfactorily, doctors eald The General's room on the first floor of the 13«th general hospital was still heavily guarded to keep away everyone except the medical staff and a handful of special visitarn. Mrs. Patton was the only regular visitor. Encouraging messages from President Truman and Gen. of afmy (Turn To Page 5, Column 1) o —- - Central Soya Plans For Christinas Party Annual Party For Employes Dec. 22 The second annual Christmas party for all employes or Central Soya company, and their families will be held at Lincoln school gymnasium Saturday evening. December 22. at 7:30 o’clock. It was announced today by official* of that company. Gifts will be provided for all children up to 12 years of age and favors will be given to the adulti. Included In the program will be a concert by the General Electric chorus under the direction of Divid Embler. Special Christmas music will be given. Eiffel G. Plasterer, noted physicist. will gTVe his fainout entertainment "Bubbles Concerto." which h a combination scientific snd entertaining display of soap bubbles, through the nse of various types of equipment. Mr. Plasterer la science teacher at Huntington high school and has gained fame through hl* soap bubble experiments. It is a hobby with him but also during the course of hi* entertainment be describes the scientific sngles of his operation* In such a manner that the explanation Is both entertaining and educational. All employes e< Central Soya are invited to the party-

ONLY. DAILY, NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 13,1945.

Gestapo Offered To 'Sell' Million Jews Offer Is Related To War Crimes Tribunal Nuernberg, Dec. 13 — (t’P) — The Nazi grstapo in 1944 offered to "sell" 1,000,000 Hungarian Jews for 62 each and said the alternative was their extermination in concentration camps, the war crimes tribunal was told today. The Nasi offer was made by Adolf Achmann. gentapo officer sent to Hungary as head of a aptiiai "team” charged with deporting al) Jews in Hungary to Germany. An affidavit by Dr. Rrzso Kastner, Hungarian Zionist leader now In London, revealed the Nazi offer. "We have accepted an obligation toward the Hungarians that not a single deported Jew will return alive." Aichniunn was quoted as saying. But he added that for 62,000,000 he would not carry out the deportation. tater, however, Alchmann said he would have to send the Jew* to Germany In-fore freeing them "I can only sell the Hungarian Jews as from Germany," he said. Kastner said Alchman told him to send a colleague, Eugen Brand, to Istanbul at <ytce "and inform the Jews there that I am prepared to sell 1.000,000 Hungsrian Jews for good primary vehicles. I would transport them to Auchwitz (concentration campi and put them on Ice. If my generous offer Is sccepted I will relesse them all. If not they will all be gassed.” The negotiations apparently broke down because Kastner reported that by June 27, 1944, 475.000 Jews had been deported to Nazi concentration tsmps from Hungary. Other documents disclosed that at one typical concentration camp, that at Flossenburg, 29.000 persons died including 13 American or British parachutists captured trying to demolish bridge* Chiang Arrives In Freed China Areas Direct Occupation Os Manchuria Area I’ejpjng, China, Dec 12 (Delayed by Shanghai Chinese censors) (I’P)—Generalissimo (’hlanx Kai Shek arrived by plane from Chungking today to aupervlse the reorganisation of Manchuria, which hwill seek to occupy with seven nattonalist armies. Chiang's trip was hi* first Into the newly liberated area.] of China since the Japanese surrender. He wa« reported accompanied by Madame Chiang KaiShek and her brother. Chinese Premier T. V. Soong, , The Generalissimo will confer with ’General Tu Lf-Mlng, Chinese commander In the northeast, and probably with American commanding officers in the Peiping area. General Tu disclosed that tlic na t ionalist reinforcement* left Shanghai and llaiphrmg on Dee. IO aboard American transport*, bound for Hulutao, Manchurian port recently captured by the na ttonalista. He expected them to land Dec. 16. Arrival of the Generalissimo wa* regarded as confirmation that the nationalist occupation of Harbin, as well as Mukden and Changchun. will be carried out without incident Chinese ground crewmen already were established st Changchun (In Chungking the newspaper Ta Kung Pao said that Chinese administrators have gone to liar(Turn To Page Z, Column 4> 144 Now Enrolled . In Auction School Enrollment In the Reppert school of auctioneering has increased to 14t students, It wa* announced today. Several G. I. students sre mem hers of the present class. A number are from Canada and from about every state Io the union. The term will close next week and the graduation exercise* are being planned by Col. Fred Reppert, founder of the school, and hl* staff of instructors.

Says Three Jap Torpedoes Hit Indianapolis Jap Sub Commander Testifies His Sub Sank Indianapolis Washington, Dec. 13 — (DP) — Comdr. Iko Hashimoto told a navy court today that his Japanese submarine scored at least three direct torpedo hits on the cruiser Indianapolis last July 30. Hashimoto told the court-martial trial of Capt. Charles McVay HI. skipper of the lndiana|Milis. that he first sighted the cruiser 10,080 meters away an hour before »he finally sank shortly after midnight Hashimoto testified that- a bright moon was shining and that he could see the cruiser plainly. The navy has blamed McVay for not pursuing a zig-zag cori-m to make the ship a more difficult target. Previous testimony, however, has been conflicting as to visibility at the time of attack Through navy interpreters. Hashimoto recounted how his submarine, the I-5R surfaced directly ahead of the Indianapolis. He said he had no advance knowledg- of the ship's course. Hashimoto said that after he saw "a dark object" on the horizon. he ordered the submarine to crash-dive immediately. He then headed for the <-rui*er at a speed of 3 knots. The torpedoes Were Bred, h-- said, when the target was only 1.500 meters away Counsel for McVay objected to allowing Hashimoto to testify. He said It wa* a "grotesque pro*-e--d-Ing." After he had ordered the torpedoes fired. Hashimoto said, he put up the submarine’s periscope and observed three torpedo hits on the cruiser's bow. Immediately following the three hits, h- said he heard at least 10 additional explosions. Hashimolto said the three torpedoes, with both the magnetic and Inertia warheads, were tired at three-second intervals on a three degree spread. Hashimoto was brought before the court dressed in a dark blue civilian suit. I|e stood at attention, and bowed to the court j»ef<»re he sat down His answer* in Japanese were not audible to th<- packed courtroom, hut two interpreters read them to the court. The submarine commander assured the court that he wa.* well aware of the penalties which might be invoked if he gave false testimony. (Torn T<» I’altf Z. Column 4) Two Young Children Are Burned To Death Fire Death Toll In State Is Increased By United Press Two young children were burned fatally yesterday In a Crawford county, ind., fire, and -a |40,000 blaze at Mi. Vernon. Ind . drove 2’’ families from a burning apartment into the winter's (oldest weather. The deaths of Betty and Billy Roby, four and three year old children of Mr and Mrs. William Reb/ of Marengo, Increased the fire death toll in Indiana the last three days to five. The Rohy children were trapped in flames which destroyed their home while their parents chopped wood on a hill nearby. The parents failed in a attempt, then collapsed. At Mt. Vernon, the St. Nicholas business-apartment building was dent rayed Mrs. Ella Howard, con fined to her bod with Illness, was lowered from a second story win dow to ul'ety. The winter's first cold spell wan blamed far 'he fire- Temperatures have hevered near zero in some section nf Indiana since Tuesday. Jerry Ray Fimpkitn. 10, and hie sister. Rebecca, four, were hurnel to death in an Evansville residence (Turn To Fags 4, Column 7)

■ I ■ mw Completes Testimony In Probe—Bluntly Declares His War Warning Ignored

County Tax Bill To Be $50,000 Higher Auditor's Abstract Reveals Increases Real estate and personal property taxes in Adams county payable In 1946 Will be 650.000 higher than the current bill, climbing to 6565.5G9 30, the abstract of taxabh-s prepared 111 th- county auditors office reveals This year's tux bill wa* 6515.<95.76, which wa* an Increase of more than 625.000 over 1944. The valuation of taxaole property in the county Is 626.749,068. from which is deduct'd 6L061.6M7 in mortgage exemptions, leaving a net of 626.667.401. on which taxes must he paid The abstract sheet, prepared by Mrs. Thurman I. Drew, deputy auditor and Miss Jeanette Brown, assistant. shows that the amount of mortgage exemptions dedined during the year At the beginning year the exemption* totaled 61.171.106. Delinquent tax In the county was negligible, amounting to 612.639 02 at the close of the Novem bet- tax paying season. A year ago unpaid taxes in the county totaled 312.421 49 Real estate and Improvements comprise two-third* of the county's taxable property, it I* listed at 816.473.246. while personal property is a-sessed at 611,275.640. Indiidlng the delinquent tax. the total to be collected next year amounts to 8576.(0* 32. the abstrnci shows. Higher In state In the state real estate and personal property taxes will climb to 8122.271.466 In 1946. an incr ase of 11.074.350 over the current bill and the highest (mint local taxes have reached since 1929. a stale survey reveal* Continuing Probe Os Missing Women Ex-Convict Is Held In San Francisco San Francisco. Dec 13 (IT'i San Francisco and Portland, Or*., authorities conferred today or. the stiamje circumstances surrounding the disappearance of two elderly widows associated with Alfred L. Clint. One of th<* women police aren’t sure which died and was cremat ed last month In Portland. An Investigation of the ashe* supported police contention* that the dead woman was Mrs. Isabelle Van Natta, 73, of San Francisco, although Cline steadfastly has maintained from his prison cell that she wa* his wife. Mrs Delora Krebs Cline, widow of a we.'KKy Chicago manufacturer Cllne.F allvery-halred ex-convict is under investigation In half a doz-n cities across the nation in connection with the deaths and disappearance of eight different person*, six of them widows with sizeable Incomes. Cline technically Is h- Id on a suspicion of forgery charge in connection with the manipulation of the fortune of the former Mrs. Krehs, whose husband left her an estate totaling upwards of 8250.000, but authorities said new charges probably would be filed In Portland, where the woman's death occurred. “It’s time to take the glove* off this fellow snd call him what he Is" district attorney Edmund Brown declared. Brown termed Cline a "leapfrog" operator, who fell one name behind In giving identities to women he dis|)osed of. Mrs. Krehbs-Cline. authorities believe, actually died in Dallas. Tex., in October, 1644, and was (Turn To Page 3, Column t)

Truman To Ask Unification Os Armed Forces Plans Message To Congress Next Week To Unify Services Washington, l>ec. 13 il'Pt President Truman is about to «tet» squarely into the battle over unification of the united .I'-rvlees According to present plane, be will send a pro-unification message to congress sometime next week The public Wil! Ulen b arn exact |y what the Piesid'nt meant when he said re.eiitly that army and navy leader* would find them selves In the same boat by the Um*' his meeeage was delivered Navy leadership ha* onslstently and vociferously opposed unification. The army has been equally vocal in f.ivor of it. White House strategy seemed to b< this: Once the President come* ou’ for unification, it will not be proper or adv euble for any member of the armed forcia to e|i(M>»e publicly the recommendations of Hie commander in t hies Mr. Truman conferred thl* week with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, tho new army chief of staff and an advocate of unification. Eisenhow er would not ».<y what he and th" President discussed. But he did say he had assured the Pr.ei dent that the army was "lib*" and ready to do III* biddln-t a* commantler in-chief. Sour*-"* close to th" Preaidt nt suggested that the navy would tome around to the same position and not opppse itnifhalien <»n<--the pr.eldetit ha* formally ordered it. Mr Truman I* a lona time advocate of unification and favored It repeatedly and publicly when, as a Senator, he headed the war Investigating committee. Tin- President was repre*entel a* understanding that while th<army and the navy might present a quiet, united (rout for unlficatl >n after hi* message, then* might still lie forceful, titidercover opposition (Tarn To Page 4. Column ID Farm Organization Urged By Brandon Meeting Is Held By County Farm Bureau "The farmer must organize and stay organized to h* Ip keep an economic balance. *o there will not be another crash like 1929," This was the them" of an addre.* given by latrry Brandon. Dekalb county farmer and set rotary of the Indiana Farm Bureau at a farm meeting held at Geneva high school auditorium last night under the auspices of the Adam* county Farm Bureau. Mr. Brandon gave some int« restlng figure* on farm crop and Improvement values in the middlewest and described the part that agriculture plays in the nation's economic structure. TTie speaker pointed out the necessity for the fight against inflation; holding the farmers' dollar at parity; the need for a 165 billion dollar annual Income and told why the fann-r must organize to take his place with Industry and labor. He held the attention of the large audience with his interesting theories on th" part the farmer must take in the post-war iieriod if the nation Is to continue to progress. Mr. Brandon was Introdmed hy T- W. R. Schwartz, president of (Turn To Page S, Column •)

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Says Command Not Properly Alerted By General Short To Meet Onslaught Washington. Dec. 13 — (1 P) —• Gen George <’. Marshall com luded his testimony before the Pearl Harbor Investigating committee today with the declaration that the Hawaiian at my command should have Ihm-ii ready for tho Japanese onslaught llef>-rring to a war warning scat out over his signature on Nov. 2<, 1941. thd former chief of staff *ai'l bluntly: "I am »UII In 'he (sisitlon of thinking that when you give a command to a high officer you expect It to be executed." History and the Investigating committee's records show that the Hawaiian command, h««»d»-d hy Lt. Gen Walter ('. .Short, was not properly alerted when the Japanes** struck on l>ec. 7. 1941. In nearly seven days of testimony. during which he was questioned in rapid fire manner by nearly every memlnr of the lonian committee. Marshall said that: 1. As chief of staff he carried overall responsibility for the high command's failure to realise that Short's repiy to the Nov. 27 warni Ing less an Inference that his command wa* not completely alerted against possible attack 2 Although Hawaii's air for-i-e* admittedly were outnumln-red by the attacking Japanese planes. If the command had bei-n properly alerted by Short, it should have been able to repel. If not stop, the assault with litth- damage to the fleet anil fortress. 3. He knew of no advance information available to anyone in Washington pointing definitely to a .lapai>.<-*<- attack on Pearl liariM>r. 4. He wa* not informed until the forenoon of D«- 7 of a s-ru- < lai. final Japanese message. Intercepted hy the I'lilted States, In which Tokyo's emissaries warn instructed to break off diplomatic negotiations here at I p in 5 He did not consider that ho had within id any "vital" information from the Hawaiian command before pearl llariior. Marshall's testimony before tho committee wa* advanced out of the order originally planned to permit liini to leave for china on a special diplomatic mission for President Truman. Mr Truman assigned Marshall to Chungking after Maj. Gen. Patrick .1 Hurley reigned as 1' 8. ambassador to China. At the conclusion of tiie former staff chiefit testimony, committee < hairman Allien W Barkley. D. Ky., (banked him for hi* "patieme and ere opera Hon.” Barkley also wished him "am blah a degree of success" in hit* mission to China "as you have had in your other fields." For the most part. Marshall'* testimony wa* calmly present'd. Yesterday, however, lie flared i!!bh*r Hep. Frank B. Keefe, It.. Wk., who wanted to know why he did not detect the Inadequm y of Short's reply. .'I am not a liookkeeping machine," Marahall snapped at onn point. Once today under questioninif by Bep. Bertrand W. Gearhart, R., Calif.. Marshall blazed briefly (Turn To Pag® 2, Column 3) Buys Health Bond The psi lota Ki sorority ha* voted purchase of a 810 health

bond, officials of i the Christmas seal Icampa I g n In ' Adams county an- ; nonneed today. All ; proceeds from tho : annual Chris;ma* ; seal sales are used |in the fight on | tuberculosis and to provide fr a • clinics and other-

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wise carry on the fight against th* "whlta plague." The sal* la conducted by th* Adam* county tnbcrculoala association.