Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1945 — Page 1

XLIII. No. 299.

lUSSI A DEMANDS TURKEY CEDE TERRITORY

■Threatens ■Withdraw Hearings fl-s Panel Not To Prices And ■its In Findings |H| By rnif'i I’ress |M auto worker* ■’ ’ke* today. I* l ** |M , »»£•• dead |M ,y -pr.-o-Ut.lt Ives . I ■' * from he ir MK. ; . > I’. Ti ii flailing panel. m ■ ,iiK<i tii.it mitake i.o part tn • , panel < 'insiders HH' r making sate |M ...-. I \ W argu mH . Im.nil < ould |H . -|> .m th-- union * ||K i-a-e >ll-111.11111 |K- mu General Mo- !■> pay." - with the Font I AW -triu k to its -a >- di-in.iml !•> again F rd - offet of a I.* I pel ua- The I AW asked to K, points in contrai t .mill the wage issue » 1,, movements in two iiia-,i- <-it the number ..m worker- idled by <>r Miuldow iim to 131.000, i:.it,> inn labor relations M waruoi:;■ «-d that CIO elect- >• luted nearly five -a $ day wag.gB" a. H'e , West and the electrical divls G«neral Moton. Ford of Canada workfrom their John for the Mliine«.-;ve day. last night a dominion xpiiiiiso: ed to end a walkout at the . Windsor, Ont., plant IM «to Work Ilian, approved ■ / '-w ni the 10,00# Caltud B* l -trikera. provides for an ■iiaie ir-umptloii of prodtii - >ii»we<| hy negotiations on insin-s for lit days and Bition after that Hine. Iml a second prolong »an terminated when ■''•;M.ye. o’ the jVarner Gear Io ail off a Ihree-mnnfh and accept a 15-poi- ■ »-•«« increase --half their demand. ■ ’ remit of the decision, the Bwerland Co. at Toledo. <>, Bured it would resume prodcivilian jeeps Jan. 2 The D* of jeep- has been halted B veeks because of a lack ot supplied by the Mun H' AW 4,1,1 !hp CIO oil work ■Won argued that company ■ s *ii) allow f< Jr 30 percent ■ ***** without increasing ■Hnduntry officials have con- ■* , * la! the relationship of B* in,!i profits should not con ■ l>l> government or union in ■Jraing wage rates. M tWi ‘ r y of labor Lewis B. Hr" T’T'agr 2." Column t") H ”—O— — Ijned Food Drive Jo Close Saturday, Contributions Urged ’ canned foods drive, spans r flbe Decatur Girl Hcouis, will i’ktatday. Response of the t has been excellent. Scout *’* , sted today, but more con l! «"» are needed. •anned food obtained In the ** JB - which ( a nationwide, * dipped for free dlstribu••arving men. women and la war devastated areas. ** *•»• been placed in ail r,e ‘. also container for per-*-»iiing to make caoh dona *«h which food will be purr” Only food packed In tin '»» be accepted because of “faculties with glar.i con nt. THtRMOMrrSR ‘"Mraturf riadinop B# *’ m - 0 a - m. 6 x> •• ■ ■ • .... _ WIATHtR f «laudy tonight and Frif'urriee near Lake Mi- _,'*** ’“Ito ao cold north central portions tonight.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

I General Marshall Arrives In Shanghai Shanghai, !>ei. 2o il'p) Gen. of Army George ('. Marsh ill arrived from Manila today to begin hi.i work us Pretlden' Truman's special envoy to China. Hr will fly to Nanking tomorrow to meet Chiang Kai-Shek . — —<j._ —— Half Draft Os Fathers; Point I - Scores Slashed 837,000 Army And Navy Personnel Are Eligible For Release ' Washington. Dec 20 fl'Pi — Dcmoblllxatlon took a welcome 1 pre-Chrlstmas leap today as the army and navy cut critical scores to make another 837.000 personnel eligible for discharge within the 1 next two months. 1 The holiday season also brought 1 good news on the draft front as selective service halted induction 1 of ail fathers. The draft now will ■ be limited to single and r-bildless 1 married men aged Ik-25, although fathers with fewer than three cbil- ’ dren will be permitted to volunteer. Christmas this year will find ’ many an American family united . for the first time since Pearl > Harbor Since V-K day last May, «,000.000 men and women have • been released from service. Dis- ' charges are now running around ■ 1.500,000 a month and are being stepped up. The new armynavy discharge - quota will Ire obtained by army i cuts ot three to five iroints for enlisted men and women and most offiters. effective Dec. 31. and by i navy cuts ot one- to eight points for all personnel effective on three I dates -Jan 1. Jan. 15 and Feb. 2. The army has already release.! i an estimated 4.2SO.t»iM> overseas • veterans as well as thousands who i served in this country since V-K I day. The navy last week hander! discharge papers to the millionth ■ sailor released since Japan surrendered in August. Many thoits- ■ amis of veterans eleglble under • present point scores are still a- ■ waiting return to civilian life. Here are the detail* of the new army and navy point scores: i Navy Vice Adm Louis K. Denfeld, • chief of naval personnel, said the i point reductions mean that about I one-half of the 3.000.000 reserv- ' Ist* subject to demobilisation will • have been returned to civilian life by Feb, 1, The percentage will in- - crease to two thirds by april I. ’ The present score of 3k for most enlisted men will be cut to ; 36 on Jan 1. Io 35 on Jan. 15 and • to 34 on Feb. 2. The score for most ! male officers, now 44. will lie cut by one point lit each Instance to i 41 on Feb. 2 (Turn T<> Paa*- 2. Column 5) » w— .—I 1-- -*O-— — - — ——— Oren Nichols Dies Here Last Evening Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Oren B. Nichols, sis. Decatur carpenter. died of a heart attack at his home. 422 Mcßarnes street, at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening He was born in Whitley county ' April 16. IS7S. the son of William and Katherine Whiteman Nichols. His wife, the former Verna Avery, preceded him in death. He was a member of the First Evangelical church. Surviving are one son. Oren : Ue Nichols of Pierceton; three sisters. Mrs. Florence Neeter of Sidney. Mrs. Pina Flntsler of North Manchester and Mrs. Myra Boots of North Judson; two broera. Roy Nichols of North Man cheater and Ed of Muncie, and three grandchildren. One daughter and one son are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Black funeral home, with the . Rev F. H. Willard officiating. Bur- . ial wiU be in the Decatur cemetery, i Friends may call at the funeral , home after 3 p. m. Friday.

Says Russian Troops Not To Occupy Japan State Department Denies Threat By MacArthur To Quit Sau Francisco. Dec. 2<> tl'PI The American Broadcasting Company said today that Itusslau tr<M>pH will not participate in the occupation of Japan as a result of a disagreement lietwcvii General Douxlai Mai-Arthur and the Sovlet* over which of the home inlands the Russians would occupy, lairry Tlxue, ABC correspondent, said in a broadcast from Tie kyo. th- break came after Gen. MacArthur reportedly told the State Deparinieut yesterday that if he was not left alone, and If Ri.asla was allowed any further participation in occupation affairs. In- would resign." "Over a long period of time MacArthur and the Russians have been dickering over the problem of the Russian oi c uput lon of Japan." Tigue said. "First the Russians want'd to bring an army over herr. MacArthur flatly said 'no/ He would permit them to bring only one division "Finally, the ItusHlans agieed. but Insisted that they Im- allowel to occupy Hokkaido, the northernmost of the main Japanese i>landa. "MacArthur again sai-l no. with the implication that if the Russians e.er got into Hokkaido they would never lie dislodged. ' Mai Arthur offered, insleai. to let the Rnsslauw into Kyushu, which would put American troopi lietween the homeland and the oc copying force. Then Ute Russian'* said 'no.* "MacArthur's answer to that amounted to "ail right, dun*: sand an iM-cupatioii force. We don’t ne ■<! it anyway." Tigtte concluded by saying that he was informed that the Russians now have 60 divisions massed on the Russo-Manchurian border where they only had 38 divisions when the war end-d No Communication Washington. Dec. 20 tl’f’t — < I urn Tn I’aa* 2. Column St Temperature Again Drops Down To Zero Motorists Warned Os Road Hazards The snowfall which lasted almost 24 hours in Adams county stopped late Wednesday afternoon and thermometers started to slide down. The temperature at 8 o'clock this morning was exactly saro in Decatur and reports were to the effect that parts of the county had lielow xero temperatures. Most of the roads weir passable, but slippery, and state and county highway officials wanted motorists to travel with caution. The snow had drifted, especially on some of the east and west roads, but the main highways were open through the county. Some school buses were kept idle because of the slippery condition of the secondary roads and highway traffic In general was held to a minimum. Weather forecasts for Indiana were to the effect that the weather would clear and there were no Immediate feigns of more snow, but the general belief was that sub-freexing temperatures would continue. in ' " "f —— 566 'Gifts For Yank' Are Purchased Here Mr*. Adrian Baker, chairman ot the “Gifts for Yanks" campaign in Decatur and Adams county, today expressed the appreciation of the American Legion atixiliaty for donations made by cititena. A tctal of 566 gifts, including those purchased with caah donatiotw. was r-ought by the local committea. Tbeae gifts ara distributed to war veterans in hospitals in the United States and in foreign countries.

ONLY, DAILY, NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTYj

Decatur, Indiana, Thurs day, December 20, 1945.

‘Off By Christmas’ Their Prayer USING THEIR FOLDED HANDS to denote an altitude of prayer, these Pacific veterans tied up at lais Angeles dock, are praying to get off by Christmas." They are p.irt of the 2.550 r< turning vets aboard the Army traniport Sea I’en-h. About 15,00# servicemen are still held aboard ships in the harbor owing lo lack of trains to take them to separation centers.

Liberalized 6.1. Bill Up To Truman Congress Passes Liberalized Bill Washington, Dec. 20 — (UP) — President Truman was expected today to plate his signature promptly on legislation greatly liberalising loan ami education provisions for veterans under the G I. bill of rights. Under the revisions, which got a final congressional okay yesterday, additional hundreds of thousands of veterans may take advantage of the government's offer of loan guarantees and free education. Dr. Francis J Brown of the American council on education predicted that by fall, colleges would be swamped with applications of servicemen who could afford to return to school under the higher living allowances. Besides upping Subsistence payments by >ls a month, congress also knocked out a deterring clause tinder which benefits accepted under the G. I. bill were to be deducted from any future bonus. The lawmakers also removed a major source of complaint to loan provisions. They deleted the word "normal" from the requirement that property sought ho of 'reasonable normal value.” And they raised the maximum guarantees on real estate from *2,00A to j 11,000. At the same time, in answer to i charges that inflation now makes • loans Impractical, the period in which guaranteescan lie made was extended from the present two years to 10 years after the war. The lawmakers approved the change* yesterday after a house senate conference committee patched up a flve-week quarrel over proposals to loosen veterans administration control over loans. A* finally written, the bill lets borrower ami lender make their own agreement, with government (Turn Tn t’aae Decatur Physician Suffers Broken Leg Dr. Il K, Parrish is confined In the Adams county memorial hospital with a broken left leg as the result of an automobile mishap which occurred last night at Van Wert. O. Dr. Parrish was driving his car serosa the railroad track hi (he main part of Van Wert and one of the wherds struck some Ice. The car swerved Into a nearby tree, throwing Dr. Parrish against the front of the car. Dr. Parrish wan brought to Decatur and hU injuries were dressed at the hospital, where he will be confined for several day*. The front and*side of the automobile were damaged.

Donations Listed By Good Fellows Club The Good Fellows Club, spons >r<d by the Delta Theta Tail sorority. today announced receipt of 162 in donation* t-i provide baskets of food for the city's needy at Christmas time Contributions to date are: Delta Theta Tau. 15'*: Hoy Hunyon. <3; Mia. Kenneth Arnold, 13; Mm. Ilarve Baker, »l, K. F. Gas* Store |5. o Clarify Status Os Discharged Vets Two-Year Veterans Not Subject To Call Clarification was given the status of discharged World War II war veterans under 26 years of age. In regards to possible future service in the armed force*, by a clerk of the Imai selective service board, who stated that only air cadets who had not completed two years of training, might possibly lie subject to call. Discharged veterans with more than two years of service are not subject to draft. When Japan surrendered many young men wenin training as air cadets, both in the army, marine and navy programs. With the termination of the shooting war. the training programs i were dropped and the cadet* were ' given the privilege of reenliitlng ■ or taking an honorable discharge > from the service, subject, however, i to draft through selective service boardsThe local board has written state headquarters in respect to several young men who have several months or more than a year of military training, but come under selective service's present ruling that they are still subject to call. Local board members were emphatic in their stand that no man, if he had served his country overseas or had been In training two years or more, would ever he called here. "He ha* served his country and his honorable discharge automatically eliminates him from any draft call.” one member aald. "We would not consider lulling a veteran back, even though he was (Turn To Page I. Column <1 --— ——- Truman Rationing Powers Extended Washington. Dec 20 (t'Pi — Congress han given President Truman authority to continue emergency rationing until June 30. The Senate passed a house-ap-proved bill late yesterday extending bls war-time powers for six month*. They were a- hedulcd to expire Dec. 31. A prr»|»osal to extend the powers for a full year was beaten, 31 to 30-

Soviet Official Press Prominently Display Demand For Territory

Decatur Factories To Close Christmas All Industries To Close For Holiday All Decatur inannracturlng concerns will close completely for Christmas this year, a survey ot local plants reveals. Holiday vacations for employes will run from the one day to an entire week This is the first complete shut down since Pearl Harbor. Tile General Electric plants' off Ices will work from k o'clock Monday morning until 4 o’clock that afternoon, and then the office force will lie off all day December 25, returning at the regular time Wednesday morning Factory employes at both plants will work three 5hour shifts Monday. December 24. and all employes will lie off Christmas day. Regular hours will be resumed in the plants Wednesday. Dc'-ember 26 Office and mill at Klick Tyndall Co will lie dosed nil day Tuesday, but regular hours will he maintainiMl in the mill lioth Monday and Wednesday.. It was announced at that plant today. Central Soya employes in both the office and factory will receive a oneiiay vacation December 25. Hours the rest of the week Will lie maintained as usual. Workmen and clerical personnel at Decatur Casting Co. will receive a two-d.jy vacation. That plant will lie cin-cd both Monday and Tues day and regular hours will lie resumed Wednesday morning. Dee ember 26. Kraft Foods. Im*, will be closed all day Christmas day and l»«»tli office and factory workers will nave the entire day off These employes will report at regular hours Wednesday morning Wayne Novelty will grant its employes a week's vacation starting Monday Work will lie resumed ' «Turn To IMg ». 71 -O Biller Contest Seen On Merger Proposal Congress To Take Up Truman Request i Washington. Dec. 2" fl'Pi , Congressional leaders* agreed today lo consider President Tru , man’s request for a single depart , ment of national defense early next year, but saw u bitter tontest ahead. ■ Chairman Elbert Thomas, ID. Utah!, of the senate military as- ( fair* committee, said he would ( try to amend several merger measures before his committee to con ’ form with Mr. Truman’s recom mendations and get a bill to the floor sirnii after the congressional Christmas recess, > Chairman Carter <D. Ala, • whose house executive expenditures committee ha* several ' similar proposals before it. told reporters hearings would start in January. Hharpest opposition to Mr. Truman's army-navy merger plan * came from senate and house naval 1 affairs committee members. They ' felt that consolidation would mean 1 that the army, many times larger ’ In manpower than its sister service, would swallow the navy, and that the latter would Itrcome I secondary unit. Voicing much the same arguments that navy officials had advanced against a merger, chairman Carl Vinson. (D Ga.f of lhe . house ndval affairs committee said . It would "sink the navy” and added "It fa a frightening manifests . lion of military power politics t and we would view with suspicion , and dismay if it were introduced in any of our sister democracies." In recommending a merger. Mr. (Turn To Page 2, Column 5)

Most Os Nation Is Gripped By Cold Weather Scores Os Eastern Communities Are Reported Snowbound Hcores of eastern communities were snowbound today as winter gripped most of tile nation At least 72 persons were known dead Suffering threatem-d to become acute as the eastern sealmard fought a swirling blixxanl with wornout snow plows and undermanned crews The northeast quarter of the nation was blanketed in snow from the Atlantic coast to the wheat fields of Kansas and from the Canadian border as far south as Virginia Thermometets dung near zero in the midwest ,kt least two men in tin* New York City area dropped dead as they struggled through the knea deep S.tiow The SHOW there was expected to end before tusui after falling .-readily for mote than 24 hours Fresh snow fall wiped out efforts lo dig out the Buffalo. N Y , railroad yards where a shipping Imttleneck threatem-d to stop 1 shipments of fuel and food to imp itlous coastal areas. A stale of emergency had Iteen declared in Buffalo, and an embargo plated on all incoming. rail shipments Planes were grounded in most 1 areas east of Chicago. Trains 1 wen- running late Roads were ’ clogged as far south as tin- Carte 1 Unas larng distant e telephone calls from New York to Floritla 1 and Oregon were delayed .is much ’ as two to four hours by the storm. I The storms delayed troops arrivals on lioth toasts Ships wore halted outside Kan Francisco hnrImr because of the jam o* trtetps waiting for rail transportation tied up cast of the Rot ky Mountains. Transports were unable to • ■liter New Yolk lialltor in i ali'f of tin- blinding hlixxard Near Osceola. Ark. three hunt Ing companions forced weary, youthful William Chiles at gun point lo k"ep walking to keep from freezing to death when he fell into Mississippi river while they were lost in the fog shrouded marshes. Hardest lilt were the heavilypopulated eastern coastal states, where transportation was snarled, communications crippled ami stimc small communities Isolat'd liehlml drift piled highways. The weatherman forecast grad milly moderating temperatures 1 and less snow during the day. hut (Turn To »•.««•- 3. '■•dmnri 8) o I Former Local Youth Dies At Cincinnati I I 1 Harry Ferntheil Is Taken By Death i I Harry Ferntheil. 16. formerly of r Decatur, son of Mrs. Marie Fern i theil. died this morning at Christ r hospital. Cincinnati. <*. Death ie- - aulted from a blood clot on the I brain, according to word received I here by Mr. and Mra. Wilson Lee The young man was a son of the • late Rev. Harry H. Ferntheil. who • served as pastor of the First Pres- • hyterlan cliitn h in Decatur at the ‘ time of his death He had been ill I only a short time. I Beside* the mother, a sister. Mary Ann, cadet nurse at C‘"i»t • hospital and a brother, with lhe 1 navy at Pearl Harltor. survive. 1 Funeral serviced have "not been ar--1 ranged The Ferntheil family had plan- ■ ned to cornu to Decatur to spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Lee. •

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Strategic 5,500 Square Mile Black Sea Coastal Belt Demanded By Reds Moscow, lhe 20— U Pt - Tho problem of Turkey wan Injected into the forefront of big three deliberations today when ’lie Soviet official press prominently published a demand that Turkey turn over to Russia a strategic sJl<»square mile Black Sea coastal belt adjacent to the Soviet oil port of Batumi. The Soviet demand included the Impoitant Turkish port of Trabzon and a slice of coast alwnit ||o miles long and roughly st» miles deep extending south from the Russo-Turkish frontier on Ihrt Black Sea. Simultaneous publication of Ihrt demand in all four of Moscow a major newspapers left no doubt that it had Soviet official blessing. It was submitted »• Generalissimo Stalin, deeply tanned and in excellent health, look a personal hand In the deliberations of the big Hire.- foreign ministers Tin- Black m-a lies just north of the Turkish provinces of Kars ami F.rz'-um The Soviet, press ha* for some mouths Iteen giving proiniti'-tu <• to demands by Armenian nationalists that thes»* two Turkish provinces to- incorporated into Soviet Armenia. ‘Today’s demand for the coastal belt wa* th.- first mention of the area by Russia. There was no comment on th.t new Soviet territorial demand from secretary of state James F. Byrne* or foreign secretary Ernest Bevili. However, the t.-xt of tho Soviet proposal as puhHwhed in tho Moscow press was quickly translated ami placed before them fop their study. Tin- demand was presented oil Itehalf Os the Soviet republic of Georgia Stalin’s birthplace. It was in th.’ form of a detailed fourcolumn letter, written by two Georgian historians. S Dzahana»hla uad N Bersenishvllli. The letter was originally published by lit.- Tiflis newspaper. Communist, and it called for tho return to Georgia of ail territory ceded to Turkey in IS2I. The Black Sea area along with the provime- of Kars and Erxeum wire relinquished by Russia after Ih'-y had b'-'-n occupied for several months by Turkish troops The coastal area lias a population of about HHt.MMt centering around the provincial market town of Artvln Other towns hi the area of the Soviet demand Include Ardagan. Oita, Tortum, Dpir. Bayliurt. Giumliialiane amt Geisun. The whole area together with Kars and Erzeum form a belt roughly l<to miles deep along tlm Cacausian frontier of Russia connecting with Iranian Azerbaijan wh.-rc a semi autonomous government has been established. Soviet relations with Turkey have b.-'-n i-'wd for some time. Russia recently made formal representations to Turkey over antiRussian demonstration* which <m-- • mreil in Istanbul The Soviet has made no secret of Its eagerness to obtain revision of the Montreux convention governing passage through the Dardanelles. I Russia has demanded free passage through the Dardanelles amt 'Turn To I’tge S, <’otumn St Buys Health Bond The R'oean h Club has voted to purchase of a Jin health

bond, officials of the Christmas seal campaign in Adams county announced today. All proceeds from the annual Christmas seal sales are used in the fight on tuberculosis and to provide free clinics and other-

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*l»e carry nn the fight agalnat the “white plague." The aale i* conducted hy the Adame county tnberculoeia aaaoclation.