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DUSE PASSES STRIKE-CONTROL MEASURE

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Legion Oratorical Contest February 15 The annual Atlant* county lagion oraloihal contest will Im* held Friday. February IS, Instead of Friday of thU week. It was announced t tday by Edward Jaberjt. conixet chairman. The event Is to lie staged in the Decatur Junior-senior high athool at 8:1& ant with winners of the vurioua Intra-achool contest* taking part. Doubts Message Intercepted By Navy In 1941 Capt. A. D. Kramer Doubts 'Winds Code' Message Received Washington. Feb " — (VPI Capt. A. D. Kramer aaid today he doe* not believe the nary department Intercepted a m saage which revealed Japan** decision for war with the United States prior to Dec. 7. 1911. Kramer told Congress' Pearl Harbor investigating committee he once regarded an intercept which he saw Dec. 5. 1941 a* a genuine "wind* code" tnessag meaning that Japan was going to war. But. he said, he I* convinced now that the paper he saw on that occasion was Just one of urany "false u I aims" The winds code was set up by Japan aa a ewans of notifying her diplomats abroad wh n relations were to be broken with the U. 8. Britain or Russia. Kramer explained to the congressional committee why he testill d before a navy court of Inquiry at Pear! Harbor in 1944 that Ute winds message actually wa« intercepted. He said he appeared before the navy court without any prepara Hott and dep nded solely on his memory of event* nearly three year* earlier He said he ha<| in mind at the time that the so-called "winds" m ssage he remembered seeing Dec. 5 mentioned only one cottntjy. He had in mind that the Jap-anese-U. 8. war started Dec. 7 and he therefore assumed that the on country mentioned was the United States. Kramer also explained that he aaw that message only alwint 15 or 20 seconds. He nald he didn't check it to see Whether th "winds" phrase was In the middle and end of a Japanese broadcast aa provided In the previouslyprepared cod ’. Kramer said one factor in convincing him now that he was wrong In 1941 is the recent report from Oen. Douglas MacArthur's headqumters in Tokyo, based on Interviews with Japanes- officials, that wind* code never was employed.

(Turn Tn P»»r I. Column ?> tt Docket Is Called In Circuit Court Old Cases Ordered Left Off Docket The docket for the February term of the Adam* circuit court wee called today by Judge J Fred Fruchte with a number of attorney* from the city and county In attendance. A large number of old case*, in which enteriea had not been made for extended periods, were ordered left off the docket by Judge Fruchte. When the individual caae cards had reached the office* of Clyde O. Troutner. county clerk, late this afternoon. It was expected that many other case* would have been set for trial and others for further litigation, leading to trial. Attorneys present at the Melton included: John L DeVos*. D. Burdette Custer. 0. Kemy Bierly, Fred I* Lltterer, Nathan C. Nelson. Severin H Schurger. Henry B. Heller and John T Kelly. all of Decatur, and C. H. Muaeiman, of Berne Miss Bernlece DeVow. court rePOitSr. and Fred K. Kolter, court bailiff, were also present.

Hope For Early Announcement In Steel Dispute President Hopes To Moke Announcement Within Short Time Washington. Feb. 7—UP! President Truman <«aid todity he hope* to Im able to aunoume within a day or lw> a Wage-price formula which will lead to a settlement of the steel strike. Mr. Truman told hi* news conference that he hoped to Im- able to make hl* announcement shortly. He said that It was not a materially new economic stabilization formula. but a plan for meeting the (immediate situation. In general terma. he explained that If thfa country achieve* the mas* production of which it Is capable, the situation will adjust Itself. And then, the president said, there would be no need for a government wage-price formula. Stumbling blocks have prevented the achievem>M>i of this production and the President said If these difficulties had not arisen the government's < riginal stabilization formula would have worked out. Shortly after Mr. Truman% conference with reporter* he scheduled a meeting for this aftern<M>n with Philip Murray, head of the CIO steelworker* union and one of the principals in the steel dispute. Murray will see the president at 3:30 pm Asked whether he would liegill his Florida vacation on Monday if the steel strike had not been settled by then, the President said yes; he *h still going to Florida: he could do inw/nes* by telephone. Both government and industry quarters were confident that the new policy, allowing higher price* Io compensate industry for wag? increases, would lead Mee) companica to accept Mr. Truman's proposal for giving the 750.000 striking CIO steel workers an IS'* cent hourly raise. The union ha* accepted the proposal One informed official commented that the strike "is virtually settled or will be by Saturday." ’ . Philip Murray, president of the CIO steel worker* union, anil representative if the I'. 8. Steel Corporation have been meeting privately in a drive to reach a settlement lu-fore next week-end But (Turn Tn Page 5. Column 4)

Question Friends Os Girl Murder Victim 20-Y«ar-Old Girl Raped, Strangled Columbia. Mo.. Feh. 7— (UP)— Police questioned male friends of Rose Maryiou Jenkins today in an effort to find the rape-slayer of the shy, 20-year-oid Stephens Coliege graduate. Maryiou graduated last May front the fashionable girls' school, was raped and strangled with an electric light cord early yesterday In the living room of her modest bungalow home. Her mother, caring for an Invalid neighbor 300 yards away, had not heard the dying girl's st reams because of howling winds. Columbia police proceeded on the theory that Maryiou* slayer was known to her. Chief of pol|ce Nathan It.*Hagan said the killer had been admitted to the home by the front door, and a latch on the outer screen door had Iteen lifted from the Inside. Nathan said early today that officers so far had discovered “no suspects and no clues of any importance." Maryiou. a bespectacled blonde girl who "didn't date much." was found by her mother when she returned yesterday morning after spending the night with a couple across the street. State laboratory technicians at Jefferson City were analyzing scraping from the victim's torn fingernails. Police, chief Hagan and R M Pinson Neal. State University pathologist, said they found signs of disarrangement when they ‘ (Turn To Pago », Column «)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 7,1946.

Presses Roll In Cleveland Again * B ”W ~ -*■£?* ■- ■** ® ? M B J AFTER 32 NEWSPAPERLESS DAYS in Cleveland, the presses are rolling and the city's three dailies are back on the news stands. The papers came back to life as mt-mbeis of the striking AFL pressmen's union returned to work, agreeing to submit for arbitration their dispute over wage* with the Cleveland publishers.

Fort Wayne Police Resume Death Probe Slain Death Probe Resumed Third Time Fort Wayne, Ind.. Feh. 7 (UP) F >rt Wayne police today again termed the death of Mr*, l-oi* Ruth Slain. 26. a suicide caused by strangulation The police com lulled their third search Into the puzzling death of the youthful mother of five children who was found I •*• Monday in her yard with pajama* tied in a doulde knot around her throat Detective Captain Alfred Figei said the coroner probably would sign the suicide report late today. Investigation was re opened dnst night when police chief Jill ■ Stumps announced he was seekitftt "additional information." He said the infirmation has been obtained through the questioning of Victor Slain, the dead woman'a husband, and a woman friend of bis. No new facts have been revealed which made it apparent that the death 'was caused by any reason other than suicide, Figcl said. A plainclothes ptdice officer, T Arntdd Turner, experimented in hl* home last night t<> determine whether a noose could be adjusted abont one's own neck to the point of stiangulation and secured with a double knot Using a dish towel, he tied I' about hi* threat. H.en a second knot. He raid it might have ended “disastrously" unless tile wife had untied the ttoose Allen county coroner Dr. E. N. Mendenhall previously had purported that Mrs. Slain apparently tied the pajamas around her neck in the house and prohably went (Turn To Psge 4, Column S) o Probe Violence In Railroad Dispute ' Four Armed Guards Are Held In Jail Gridley. 111., Feb. 7—(UP)— Assertions of "seif defense" and "cold blooded murder" were made today in the aftermath of strike viojence on the Toledo, i’eoria A Western railroad, in which two pickets were killed and three others injured. Witnesses said that the skirmishing took place yesterday after special agents guarding a TP&W freight train fired Into a group of striker* who had attempted to halt movement of the train. The victims were members of the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Union, which had been on strike against the railroad since Oct. 1. when the line was returned to Its owners after federal operation. Ijocked in the McLean county jail at nearhy Bloomington. 111., were four guards, re polled to have participated in the shooting They were <held on open charges pending additional questioning. In Peoria. 111.. W C. Keiser, international vice president of (Turn To Pegs 4, Column 4)

Truman Gives Full Support To Pauley Washington. Feb. 7 (UPI President Truman today gave his full support to Edwin W Pauley, wheae nominal! hi to !»•• undent r< tary of navy hat caused a heated senate controversy. Asked directly whether he pjan iitd to withdraw Paul-y’s nomination. the President said no; tha' lie was backing Panic) Itecautu* he believed he was an lioutat man and |an excellent administrator. o - ■ " — Breach Os Contract Is Charged To 6. E. Non-Union Employes Seek To Enter Plant ——» At the request of the management, u group of noii-tinlon *in ploye* of the General Electric com jiauy met at the entrance of the local pftnt this morning, t • report for work. After Mme discussion lietween the 15 non-union employes and the memberw of the plcktft line, the f rmer group left without entering. La* enforcement authorities on the scene rep>rt**d that the mov.was made without incident and that there was no violence. Joseph (Jloblg. assistant superintendent of the !<f<ai plant, issued the following etatemen' thin morn ing: “The company asked certain em ployes to report for Work this morning These were employes not represented by the bargaining unit of the union. They did not get int i the plant " A statement by Manley E Sand. Fort Wayne Works manager, rela live to negotiations wi'h thc'union for fret* act ess of certain employes groups, not represented by the uni >n. appears on page seven Henry Stauffer, president of local 924. UKRMWA, In j statement Imlay charged the company with breach' of contract. Mr. Stauffer's statement: "On January 17. 194'1, the union committee met with the official* of the General Electric company and signed an agreement on the people that were t * enter the plant during the strike. At this time the company informed the unlm that these people enumerated were all that were nect.-.oiry to maintain the plant for the duration of the strike. Today the company broke their agreement with the union. The action on the part of the company today is further proof that agreement* mea*i noth'ng to the

(Turn Tn Page 3. Column 5> o Fred Von Gunten Is Trustee Candidate Fred von Gunten. Berne book ktore manager, has ann turned that he will be a candidate for the De mocratic nomination to the office of Monroe township trustee In tb« May primary. He has been araociated with the book store tn that town for 12 years and I* widely known in thl* community. He ha<t never held public office before, is married and the father of two children.

Tough Anti-Strike Bill Overwhelmingly Passed In Lower House Today

MacArthur Orders Yamashifa Executed Affirms Conviction Os Japanese General Tokyo. Feb 7 tl'P Lt. *4lOll. Tomoyuki Yamashitu. th- once haughty “Tiger of Malaya mu-t die on the gallows for his respottslblllty In the atrocity deaths of Ka.(wM) Americans and Filipinos In the I'llilippilics His latest avenue of possible escape from the p nally imposed by a U. S military commission in Manila wax closed Balay when lieu Douglas MacAthur affirmed hi* conviction and sentence MacArthur's finding was Anal. The supreme allied commander directed th commanding general of the western Pacific army fortes to execute the Judgment. Headquarters spokesmen said they slid rot - x|M-ct any further delay in t arrying out the senten e and believed Lt Hen W l» Slyer, western Pacific commander, would *> '< the hanging date shortly. A dispatch from Manila said that western l'a< ifl<- headquarters already had announced that 11 wsmen would be banned from wit-jne-islng the execution. The announcement gave no further <1 tails Yatntishila. first major Japan ese war criminal to be tried, was convicted by the commission last De< 7 for condoning the murder, torture and tept- of Filipinos ami allied civilians. In announcing confirmation of the sentence. MacArthur blasted the stony-faced genera! for “violating the sacred trust of a soldier profaning the military profession ami threatening th very fabric of international society.” The I' H supreme court refused a defense plea for a review of the ca-' . The court held Yamashita had been given a fair and legal trial and that th<* military tribunal was legally established under presidential order

Plans For Proposed Memorial Tentative No Decision Made By Commissioners Plan* tor a proposed World War II memorial remained tentative today after th county Imard of commissioners Inspected a similar memorial at Huntington Wedtit" day. Dale D Mose* and Eli Dnhat h of the board; Frank Kltson. county home superintendent and audit*" Thin man I Drew made the trip to Hunutlngton and a trip to the state school at Fort Wayne later in the day. No definite action has Itecit taken by the tomniis-loners to date, nithough a proposed plan calls for th erection of a concrete and bronze structure at the northwest corner of the courthouse lawn, which would cost approximately 17.001). Returning to their offices here, the commissioners awarded the contract for furnishing a tractor for the county home tv the Hteffen Implement company for 11,050 and an old tractor In exchange Blds were receiv'd on the tko-tor at the regular meeting last Monday. — .... — ... -_0 . . — Von Eichorn Seeks State Senate Post Von A (PsD Ei< hborn. of Uniondale, today authorized announcement that he Will seek the Denio cratic nomination for state senator from Adams-Weli*-BlacMord counties. subject to the primary election May 7. Eichhorn is now completing hl* second four year term in the state legislation.

Violence Flares In Strike At Lebanon Today Ex-Veteran Hurt; Union Seeks Stop Back-Work Move la-bamm Ind.. Felt 7 tl'l’t On*- man was injured today and several fist fights occurred as strifc Ing \FI. union members attempted to stop a ba< kto w<<rk movement at the strlke-lsmnd Hicks Immlv plant. The violence flared u:- idle Work era tried to go back t.i their jobs to end a Ihree-montb walkout of AFL federal union members of Io <al 2221'7 Forty-four employes breached picket lim- ami worked through the morning Between 2t"< and 25" other worfcera remained Idle. The Injured employe was James ('. Winget. Frankfort. Ind., a Veteran of World War 11. Winget, a discharged sailor who was overseas 12 months., was treated by a physician for head lacerations. fie told lit*- do.tor be »aheafen on the head with a rublter inate. “I was over there to make this a free country," Winaet said, 'ami this Mure as hell isn't it." After his injuries were treated. Winget Went bark to Ms job. Th'- trouble occurred a- \FL unionists attempt.><l to Mop a luo-k to-work movement w hi* a began t Week ago Karl Hicks, owner of the Bus Body Manufactu: Ing concern, I - sued a hack-to-work <a<l la<*t w-ek In n-spoti'*- to union < laims of < lockout. plant officials -aid that the num Iter of workers r--turning to their Jolts hud grown dally from a han.l ful th'- first day of th'- movement to more than 125 yesterday Hugh Cormley. Indianapolis, an AFL representative, mil I the union was trying to break up the m <-,••• ment. lie said that union members from other cities had :>*-en brought in to strengthen th** pi< k*-t lines Wh'-n violence occurred. H <k< and Sheriff Frank M< t'ortnick of Boone county appealed for the work'-ra to make n > further effort to return to their jobs. Crowds milled around tin- plant and a nearby case The strife brought Supt Auutin 11. Killian of the Indiana state po lice amt state labor commissioner (Turn hh> page t'ojumn .»> o Warmer Weather Is Latest Prediction Blizzard-Like Storm Here Last Evening Warmer weather was promised today aft r the city experiment! one of its worst, if short-lived storms of the season. For nearly two hours last night traffic was virtually paralyzed daring a storm that rea< h<-d blizzard Ilk*- propo-Holts Snow flurries combined with what was de■cribed as tt 45 mile gale made driving practicaly lm|M>ssibl • for a time. Striking early In the evening, the snowstorm covered the city streets and county highway- with a thin tout Ing of snow nnd i<that rapidly froze. For the balance of the night and until midmorning. str els and highways were slippery and hazardous The advent of sunshine and slowly rising temperatures sew the Ice,and snow cut up by traffic, leaving the streets her covered with slush. The Dully Democrat thermom eter registered !!" degrees ahov» zero at ft a. m. today.

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Put Restrictions On Labor Right To Strike; Measure Is Now Up To Senate Washington. Feb 7 -tl’l’t--A coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats ttMlay overwhelmed weak pro union op|M>*itl<m in the house anl passed uno of the toughest strike-control bills to come before congress in years. I’assag*- was by a roll call vuht of 25ft to 155. <if th*- 25s mi'inbers who voted for th*- bill. 1"9 were Denim-rats ami 149 were Itepublieans. Os the 155 opposed. 12" were Is-nto-erats. -1" were Republicans and two Reps, Merlin Hull, progressive, Wis . ami Vito Mart antonio. Atm-than labor, .V. Y were members of minor parties. The house approved the bill, IntrtMliired by Rep Francis Case, R S l>. after rejecting by volt-o vole an attempt by Rep Joseph Clark Baht win, R . N V.. to send It ba< k to the labor committee. The bill would impose restrictions it|M>n the right of labor to strike in industries which affect the national welfare. It now goes to the senate. Considerable delay is expected before any decision is made <m tho bill 111 that Iwidy Th>- bill would make labor unions liable in the i-oiirts for violation- of contract, and would bun foremen's unions, union cotta, and picket line violence. It also would provide for a 30-day, no st rike, tooling-off perlml for union* in major industries. The house tentatively approved the hill yesterday, but Rep Clare E. Hoffman. R Mich,, delayed passage until today by demand* Inga reading of the official dtM-u---menlary copy <<f the measure By unanimous consent, th** house dispensed with further reading after a few paragraph* of thw bill had b**en read. Tit*' Case bill is a house substitute for the moderate labor committee version of the factfinding bill proposed by President Truman. House approval of th*t substitute < am*' after five full days of floor debate and two months of committee bickering over Mr Truman's measure. Th*- bill contains provision* for Its enforcement. lit most instances, the courts would b*- authorized to issue iniuiotloiis to enforce the bill'* provisions Violator* in soma cases would also lose their bargaining right* under th*- national labor relations act House action today t iimaxed a biller six dav floor battle over the hill S*,me ntiddlesif-lhe road iiemocrats and Republicans, believing if far too drastic, tried again and again to water il down through amendments, but al! their efforts failed. Only in a few instance* did th*v bill's sufi|»orters make any concessions. Before t*-ntativ*ly approving the measure yesterday, the house also voted down two inoderat't substitute measure* proposed by Reps. Sherman Adams, It. N. H., and Jerry Voorhis. D.. Calif. Both the VtMtrhis alt,l Adams substitutes were along the same lines as th** "fact-finding” bill proposed by President Truman In his message to congress last De(Torn T , Page t. Polunin 5) —O ■' 1 - Late Bulletins London. Fob. 7— (UP) —Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin • cried "lie" at Dmitri ManulHky today when the Ukrainian charged before the UNO security council that British troops sttacked the Indonesians in Java. Neurnberg, Feb. 7— (UP) — The leaders of Nazi Germany mocked the United States rearmanent program in 1941 as "the greatest bluff in history" and tried to scare Britain out of the war by warning that America planned to "inherit” ths British Empire, the United Nations war crimes tribunal was told today.