Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1946 — Page 1

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One Woman Is Burned In Street Car Fire Indianapolis, Felt. 21 fl'Pt A city street car burnt into flames last night, burning a woman seriously and routing 10 other passengers. The victim was Miss Betty Edwards, 21, Indian,ipolia. She wa>« in city hospital with flMt and second degree burns on her legs The fire was blamed on an electrical short circuit. — - _o —— Japanese War Criminal Is I Put To Death I General Yamashita Pays Penalty For Brutal Atrocities I -■" Manila, Feb. 23- (UPi - Lieut. i Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, once the tiger of Malaya, died on a floodlit Kullowa before dawn today with a prayer for Emperor Hirohito on hia Ups. Stripped of his unlfftrm and rank, the stocky general who bullied his way into Slngapor > was banged in disgrace by his conquerors for atrocities his armies committed while luting the Philippines to the Americans in the final months of the war. Yamashita walked up the 13 steps to the gallows hidden by a canvas-walled stockade at 3 am. Only a handful of official I'. 8. army witness** watched him swing at the end of a rope two minutes later. A moment before he died, Yhtnu shita said blessings for his emperor and expressed hope that Japan will have peace. “I will pray for the Emperor's lon-f life and hia prosperity forever," the general muttered. His round face wao stoical Yamashita died in American khaki trousers and shirt. He wore a gre*n fatigue cap Lieut. Col. Seiicbi Oiita, former commander of the Kempel-Tal (military police) in the Philippines, I and Tagtima Higashlji, a civilian! interpreter convicted of atrocities I tTurn To Ps«r f>. Column 1) Heavy Loads Delay Delivery Os Mail Carriers Delayed By Heavy Mail Load An almost unprecedented mail load at the Decatur post office resulted In belated deliveries in the city and on the rural routes today. Pcdtmaster Kirsch stated this morning tha' the load this morning was the heaviest of any holiday on racord. No deliveries, except specials, were made Friday In-cause of the observance of the legal holiday of Washington's birthday. A deluge of magazines handled by the morning furth ered hampered the efforts of postal attaches to make early deliveries despite the heavy two-day load. City carriers in some instanzes were about an hour In-hlnd ached- ( ule this morning. arJ rural car- , riers expected to complete their . routes with about the same tardiness became of the late start. French Interpreter ' r 1 Is Needed By Clerk |i County clerk Clyde O. Trout- ( ner has issued an appeal for a < French interpreter. Ik this morn | Ing's mail he received a letter ( from Belgium, addressed to the . county clerk at Decatur. Indiana. , and written in French. ( The writer's name Is McVerune ( Betty Colpaert of Menin. Belgium. The entire letter is written in ( French. At a iatb hour, the clerk , had found no one able to trans- . ( late beyond the salutation "Monsieur."

U. S. Tightens A-Bomb Secret Guardianship b MCHAIRMAN BRIEN M'MAHON of Connecticut called his Senate Atomic Energy committee into secret session to study the effectiveness of the 1917 espionage act as It would apply to protection of America's "know how" of atomic bonh production Shown left to right are McMahon. Sen. Arthur VandenberK of Michigan, committee member; James Mclnerney, chief of justice department tapionage section, and Maj. Gen. Leslie T. Groves, who erected the atomic bomb project. The latter two were called before the committee to testify. '

Continue Hearings On GE Injunctions Restraining Order Sought Against CIO Hammond. Ind. Feb. 23—(UP) —Hearings on two injunction actions against CIO union officials by the General Electric Co. opened in U. 8. district court here yesterday. General Electric Is seeking a temporary restraining order on behalf of the GE plants at Fort Wayne and Decatur, Ind., to prevent the union from barring the entry of officials into the struck plants, and to limit the number of pickets. Counsel for GE contended that its supervisory employes were not represented by the CIO Electrie al Workers union and should be permitttd to enter the plant. The company charged that union pickets prevented 55 non union' workers from entering plants to • assist in maintenance work duri ing the strike. Employes at the Fort Wayne and Iterator plants went on strike Jan. 15 In connection with the nationwide electrical strike to seek a f2aday wage Increase. In yesterday’s testimony. CIO counsel Oliver Switzer said that the company had bargained In "bad faith" before the plants were dosed by the strike. The injunction against the Fort Wayne plant, where more, than 5,000 workers are affected, named John T Gojack, general vice-president of the union's ninth district council and officials of the local union. .More than 800 persons are striking at the Decatur plant. — o Von Ribbentrop Asks Churchill Be Called Wanted As Defense Witness At Trial Nuernberg. Feh. 23— (UP) Joachim Von Ribbentrop, former German foreign minister, sought today to call Winston Churchill as a witness In hU defense at the war crimes trial. Churchill's name was one of 38 submitted to the tribunal by Martin Horn, counsel for Ribbentrop, with a request that they be summoned to Nuernberg to testify. Court adjourned befoie Horn had a chance to explain why he wanted to call Churchill. In preparing a list of prospective wit nausea, Horn said earlier that Churchill could testify he told Rihbentsop before > the war that Britain would destroy Germany It the Reich became too strong. Relchsmarshal Herman Goering’s counsel sought to introduce pur- ( ported evidence that the Allies thenmelves committed war crimen (Turn To Pag* I. Column 1)

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 23, 1946.

Harvester Company Strike Continues Chicago. Feb. 23— (UP) —The strike of 30.000 workers in 10 plants of the International llar-j venter Co. continued today after I company officials' told the union that it would accept a proponed pay boost only if it serves as a basin for price increase. A government fact finding panel had recommended an 18-cent-an-hour wage increase, effective the day work is resumed, with a 10 percent Increase retroactive to Oct. 1, 1915' To Reconsider Bill To Release Fathers Bill Would Release All Draftee Dads ’ Washington. Feb. 23 — (UP) -! Congressional sources said today that the Snato military affairs committee has agreed to reconsider a bill which would release all draftee dads immediately. Th committee, it was learned. I plans to debate the bill and per-! halts vote on it Tuesday despite the frantic opposition of the war i department. The meanur* was sponsored by Sen. Chapman Revercomb. R . W Va. It was believed that the bill' I would have a good chance ot win-i ning committ e approval and slip-' ping through the Senate despite the army’s official frown. The committee Itself rejected | the same bill last winter. Rever-1 comb tried in vain to get the Senate to discharge the committee and bring the bill to the floor ! for debate. lair, however, a military ass-j ' airs subcommittee under Sen. Ed-1 ! win (’. Johnson, D., Colo., held ! public b- aringa on demobiliza- | tion and recommended rhe rel me I of drafted fathers by July 1. This i recommendation forced the full committee to rpcon shier its earlier vote against the bill. Secretary of war Robert P. Patterson has advised the committee that it would not be advisable to release draftee fathers unless tharmy gets more recruits than it expects. He estimated that 120.040 dratted fathers still wnuld be in uniform on July 1. ■ o ■ Ball State College Is Guidance Center — Washington. Feb. 23 —(UP)—The Veterans Administration said today that it had approved contracts for new veterans’ guidance centers in eight states. The centers will provide free counselling service to veterans planing to enter school or take on-the-job training under the disabled veterans* program or the G I. Rill They Include Ball State Teachers* college at Muncie. Ind.

I ! Stalin Orders Army To Increase Power 28th Anniversary Os Army Observed London. Feb. 23 (UP) Generalissimo Stalin ordered the Red ■ army on its 28th anniversary today to grow • ven stronger and I guard the Russian people while they Increase lheir economic , might. A Stalin order of the day was broadcast from Moscow after mid- ' night hailing the victorious Soviet troops on th'ir first peacetime atinivenuwy. He told them they hatl greater tasks than resting on laurels won against Germany and | Japan. "We must overcome the pr--I war standard of production and . heighten the military and economic might of the Soviet I'nlon,” I Stalin said. "In peaceful conditions the Red army must watch ov* r the safety I of the working Soviet people." Stalin said that Russia has entered a new peaceful period ot lievelopenr nt. It must be exploited, he said, by hard work and i intelligent use of the tools availi aide. The order of the day was signet! by Stalin as commissar of d fenae. . It made no mention of Russia's all- ! les, atomic energy or the current . Russian campaign against the I Canadian government Resume VA Battle At Confab Tuesday Stelle Asks Hearing Be Open To Public Washington. Feh. 23 — (UP) — The fight over whether the government Is meeting its veterans obligations resum « next Tuesday and as far as American Legion commander John Stelle is concern cd it will be an open brawl. Veterans administrator Gen. Omar N. Bradley, in who<» office the conference is scheduled, had no comment on whether he wanted tbi meeting to be closed to the public. k will be their first face-to-face meeting since Stelle, three weeks ago, demand d a congressional investigation of the veterans admln- ' isi rat ion and said Bradley's Job caller! for a business man not a soldier. Stelle said at a news conf'-rencc that he and eix legion committeemen picked by the national executive committee to discusc the attack with Bradley, would call at VA “in a spirit of cooperation.’* No peace will be made, he said, however, until corrective action Is tafcen. In his complaint to con- ! gr*M Stelle cited a “tragic break-I (Turn To I’ags 2. Column ?)

Appeals To Wild Mobs To Halt Rioting; End Navy Sailors' Mutiny

Eisenhower Delays Army Recommendation lamg Bcar-h. Calif, Feb. 23 - (I’P) Gen. Dwight D. ElsenhowJ era recommendations for the size I of America's peacetime army will be based on his own olmervat lone' of atomic bomb tests in M.ty, he| said today. The army chief of staff is here, on a tour of southern California military |rost« ami will inspect Ft. MacArthur today. New Walkouts Loom In Nation Labor Picture Strike At Houston Delayed; Affected All Vital Services By United Press A strike which would shut off all vital services In the port city ot Houston, Tex . was temporarily averted today, but other walkouts loomed In the transit, telephone and utUlties industries. AFL Houston budding trades council officers agreed to delay a scheduled X a. m. (CST) strike call and resume negotiations with members of the city council. The walkout had been ordered in sympathy with a four-day old work stoppage by members of the city-county employes union, a member of the AFL council A disagreement over which union representatives would participate in peace negotiations, kept open the threat of a strike, however, and state Kuardsmen remained on hand to Intervene, If necessary. In the major reconversion la-bor-management disputes, accounting for approximately LOW.*OO idle workers: 1. A government mediator sought federal intervention after striking Detroit dairy workers turned down a company pro|M>sal to end a walkout which has curtailed milk supplies for Z.ono.noo persons. (Turn Tn Paas S, Column <) Treasurer’s Office Open This Afternoon Aid Taxpayers For Auto Plates Rush The offices of the county treasurer will remain open this afternoon to accomodate taxpayers, wishing to call at the office before securing auto tags and operator's licenses. Treasurer Hoy Price said that the office will remain open throughout the afternoon since this is the final Saturday for paying taxes before the auto tag deadline. Meanwhile the auto license bureau was experiencing a fairly concerted rush as last minute purchasers of the new tags and permits complied with the state law. The deadline for operating with the old tags and permits is midnight Thursday, the last day of this month. The usual rush Is expected at the bureau during the first four days of next week. -■«- -——o- — Former Huntington Congressman Dies Huntington, Ind. Feb. 23—ll’P) - Bites were arranged today for former Rep. Samuel Ellis Cook. D., Ind, who died yesterday at the age of 85 in bis home. Cook was judge of the Huntington circuit court for 12 years to 1918. He wm a member of congress from the old llth district in ‘1923.

Navy Upholds Conviction Os Capt. McVay Remit Sentence Os Skipper Os Sunken Cruiser —To Duty Washington. Feb. 23 (Fl*) The navy announced t>*day that it has found (’apt. Charlwi B McVay. HI, skipper of the cruiser Indianapolis. guilty of falling to direct his ship to follow a zig zag course prior to the time she was destroyed last July 30 in the Philippine* ■tea. However, the sentence recommended by the naval court which tried him has been remitted "in its entirety." The navy released him from arreet and restored him to duty. The court had recommended that McVay be moved back I*o numbers in his temporary wartime grade of captain and also 100 numbers in bls permanent grade of commander "In view of his outstanding previous record." the navy added, "the court unanimously recommended clemency." The navy statement raid that the proceedings, findings and sentence of the court were found legal by the judge advocate general and were approved by the chief of naval personnel. "This approval, however, was accompanied by the .ecomtnenda tion that in view of ('apt. McVay's excellent record and the unanimoue recommendation for clemency by th'- court, the sentence should be remitted and he should be restored to duty." Hie navy said. "Secretary of the navy James Forreetal has approve I these recommendations and has remitted the sentence in it<« entirety, releasing him from arrest and restoring to duty." At the same time, the navy up held the court's finding that McVay was innocent on a second charge of failing to iwmn "timely" orders to abandon ship. At a special pnws conference. Adm. Chester W. NlmltZ, chief of naval operations, revealed that disciplinary action has be<-n taken by the navy against four other officers who failed to Initiate a search for the cruiser although she was long overdue at Leyte, Philippines Vice Adm. Louin E. Denfeld, chief of naval personnel, was asked what McVay's future assignment would be. "I question that he or the other officers involved will ever get a (Turn To Fax* i. Column 7) 0 ■■ Election Calendar Released By Clerk March 8 First Day To File Candidacies County clerk Clyde 0. Troutner today released a number of dates, which form a part ot the election calendar for the approaching May primary. Mnrch 8 is the first day for candidates to file their declaration of cnadidacy, the calendar shows March 23 is the laat day for the clerk to estimate the number of absent voters' ballots that will be required for the primary April f. Is the final day for a candidate to file his declaration or to withdraw his name. It Is also the first day to apply for an absent voter's ballot. Mr. Troutner also issued a statement urging early registration of voters, calling attention to the fact that a usual last minute rush is experienced In his offices. The election will be held Tuesday, Mas 7.

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I M Repeated Volleys Os British Gunfire Fail To Halt Wave Os Bombay Violence Bombay, Feb. 23 —(UP) Mohandas K. Gandhi appealed to the wild mobs of Bombay today to hult the rioting which still swept tho city despite the unconditional surrender of mutineerlng Indian navy seamen. Repeated volleys of gunfire by British troops failed to halt the wave of burning, looting, stoning and attacks on British civilians which occurred all day. Gandhi broke his silence and threw the weight of the powerful congress party behind the British authorities In late afternoon in an effort to halt wbat he called "a thoughtless orgy of violence" A British communique said •? persons were killed and 733 injured Dead were 63 civilians, two constables, one Indian navy officer, and ono royal air force civilian employe. Injured were .550 civilians, 37 police. M constables, one sailor. 17 other navy personnel, 30 army personnel, two RAF personnel and six RAF civilian employes The communique said the situation in the Bombay area showed improvement on the whole Unofficial estimates of casualties In three days of rioting were 200 klllml and 1.000 injured At lc;sa! ...x person" ■■.!:::■ by British military patrols Imlay when rioting resumed for the third consecutive day. The naval mutiny ended shortly after dawn Formal surrender of the hungry, thirsty sailors began at 6 30 a. tn. (8:30 p. m ENT Friday) after a night of negotiations. Vallabhai Patel, Bombay aide of Mohandas K Ghandl in the powerful congress party served as go between In the peac* talks Demand Evacuation Cairo. Feb 23 —(UP) —Speakers told a mass meeting of 10,00 ii students today that a national commit tee of students and workers will organize a force to fight the British unless British troops are evacuated from the largest Egyptian cities within two weeks A speaker said the committee would give the British two weeks to evacuate their troops from the main Egyptian cities an I to declare their intention of evacuat ing all Egypt except the AngloEgyptian Sudan British troops are in Egypt under a treaty with the kingdom of Egypt. Egypt Is seeking to revise the treaty and obtain the complete withdrawal of British troops. The British have agreed to discuss a new treaty. — O-'- — - — Resume Rescue Work In Ruhr Coal Mine Resume Work After One Miner Escapes Herford. Germany, Feb 23 — (UP) Rescue work at tht Monopole coal mine in the Ruhr was resumed today after the escape of one minor revived some slim hope for the lives of 425 men still missing. The missing miners were counted as dead yesterday, and workmen began sealing the openings of the sprawling mlns at Unna. their concrete emplacement forming a vast tomb for the men trapped by a series of explosions. But late yesterday a 32-yoar-old pit alectrlcian. Enio Gronar, was found haggard and half dead in a tunnel that would have been sealed within a short time. Officials who had worked for 60 hours without rest decided to renew the Teacue effort. The pouring of concrete into the Monopole ceased. Workers again were trying to push through an offshoot abaft which had deep underground tunnels connecting with the main mine Admittedly hope was slim Twice a series of rambling explosions had shaken the mine. Fire (Turn To Page 3, Column 3)