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commander of arine barracks, vere needed to surplus prop-

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JONFESSES 11 (U.P). —° year-old chorus lice today that in jewels from lalite Mrs. Ruth

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| ORDERED

JAPS BEFORE DEC. 7

Tasi Force in Pacific Told Any Nip Ships Foun

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11°

went toward Wake island und

several days before Pearl Harbor had orders from Halsey to “sink every Japanese ship they found,” the congressional Pearl Harbor committee learned today. The disclosure was contained in a bulky document, con-

taining testimony of Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, before the three previous investigations of the Dec. 7, 1941 disaster. The deposed navy Pearl Harbor commander told the navy's investigating .board that the task force,

* which was ferrying planes from

Hawall to Wake, consisted of the aircraft =~ carrier Enterprise,- three heavy cruisers, and a squadron of destroyers, War Conditions “Under your orders, were they proceeding under war conditions?” he was asked.

“Oh, yes,” Adm. Kimmel responded. “In all respects?” “Yes, sir. I think when Adm.

Halsey went back to the ship—he has told me since — he armed everything and told them to sink every Japanese

. found.”

It was not clear exactly what orders Kimmel had given Halsey, except that the task force was to proceed under “war conditions” in carrying out its mission to. deliver planes to Wake island. The planes were delivered without incident, and Halsey's force was en route pack to Hawaii when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Kimmel will be the first witness

when the commitiee resumes public |

hearings next Tuesday. Exceeded Authority

The navy'’s Pearl Harbor report|

disclosed that Kimmel on his own authority some time previously had ordered the sinking of any submarines found in Hawaiian waters. “In so doing,” said the navy board in its report, “he exceeded his orders from higher authority and ran the risk of committing an overt act against Japan, but did so feeling that it is best to follow the rule ‘shoot first and explain afterward’.” ‘Kimmel told the navy board, according to .the documents made available today, that even if patrol planes from Pearl sighted the attacking Japanese tas! force he “could hot have done fat thing” under the orders he had from Washington. Feared Fleet Attack

A questioner asked him: you sighted that force at the outer rim of a different patrol and,

them make the first war move,

could you have done anything other |

than to alert your command?” “Admiral,” Kimmel responded, *

could not have done anything under | Cte

the orders which I had at the time,

and had I attacked the Japanese | Byanavitle naval force 700 miles from Oahu, I | Pt. Worth would have violated my orders, just as I violated them when I gave the | Los Angeles order to bomb the submarines ej Mam Paul

the - Hawaiian area.’ Kimmel's previous

\n enemy air raid on the Hawaiian | | aon, D. C

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ship that thep

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“Had |

in accordance with your directive, let | | Deficiency since Jan

testimony | showed that he feared a “massed | Om submarine, attack” on his Pacific |g i fleet at sea but that he never rated | Be Antonio

0 SINK

by Adm. Halsey to Fire on d, Committee Hears.

(U. P.).—A task force that er Adm. William F. Halsey Jr.

base as more than a “remote possibility.” “I did not think it was a probability at any time,” he testified. “I want to make that clear now.” His fears of a submarine raid on the fleet were described to the Roberts commission in a session at Pearl Harbor held 20 days after the Dec. 7, 1941, disaster, Kimmel said he “expected” a surprise mass submarine attack on the fleet at sea. - “There have been several such suspected attacks in the past,” he added, “but no real evidence that they were genuine. We have for 10 months been fully prepared for submarine attack.”

the commission that: ONE: He well realized the fleet's “vulnerability” at Pearl’ Harbor— but had the choice“ of either. ac-

At the same time Kimmel told |

PLENTIFUL FOOD SUPPLIES SEEN

But Some or Will Remain Short of Demand.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (U. P.). —Near- record supplies of food will

few months but some items still will fall short of unparalleled demand, the agriculture department reported today. Housewives will find no more butter in grocery stores than they did a year ago, when buttér stocks were. the lowest of 50 years. Production is expected to continue 10 or 15 per cent less than last year. Less meat also is in prospect. The rather liberal supplies of recent months will drop off with a seasonal dip in production.

Plenty of Chicken

However, the department reported that cereal products, citrus fruit, milk, fish, eggs and potatoes

at ceiling prices or lower. Near record supplies of chicken meat will continue on the market. Turkey consumption over the holiday season set a new national record. And hotels and restaurants may continue to offer more of this festive bird through the spring months. No more sugar, will be avallable— |either to housewives, bakers or candy makers — than in recent months. The department commented that the ‘acute world sugar

cepting Washington's decision to leave it there or resigning as commander in chief.

well as the flEdt, had been “some-| what prepared for a treacherous! initiation -of war” if Japan .decided to act. But he thought it was! evident that the navy department, right up to Dec. 7, did not believe | that ‘Japan would strike Pearl Har-! bor or that hostilities were duly imminent.” VERMILLION COURT JUDGE APPOINTED Governor Gates today named | John W. Caruthérs of Newport as| judge of Vermillion circuit court. Mr, Caruthers succeeds Judge! Everett E. Davisson of Clinton, who| died recently. His term . expires Jan, 1, 1947,

WASHINGTON. Jan. 11 (U, PJ. --Seaman lc Robert Lee McClunny, son of Mrs, Clara McClunny, 3728 8S. Barr st, Ft. Wayne, has been officially reported dead, the navy announced today. McClunny was previpsly listed as sing.

_ OFFICIAL WEATHER

| | { eee], 8, Weather Burean— | All Data in Central Standard Time { —Jan. 11, 1946— . 706 | Sunset

| Precipitation 24 | 24 hrs. ending 7:30 a. m. | Total precipitation since Jan. 1.......

TWO: He felt ‘Washington, as!

“un- |

{shortage will ease ‘only slightly” {during 1946. More shortening, cooking fats and salad- oils-are likely but. less: Mars |garine will be available. More lard {is now being produced, but expori rdemands-are-rather-large. Surplus Eggs | Pruits supplies’ will continue | large, particularly citrus. However, with the shortest crop on record, | few apples will be found in stores. The outlook for banana imports is | the best since the war began. Most canned fruit juices will be plentiful.

feach civilian tables in the next|

should be available in most areas|

“The

THOMAS HART BENTON'S “The Music Lesson” 4s included in the current 58th exhibition of contemporary American paintings at the John Herron Art museum.

The exhibition closes January 27. The painting won a $200 prize *

es THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ re eget Prize Thomas Hart Benton ak Exhibited Here i

Music Lesson”

in the recent Carnegie Institute exhibition of last year's paintings in the U, 8, Mr. Benton, who was born. at

Neosho, Mo., in 1889, painted the Indiana murals displayed at Chicago’s. world's fair. These works

+» «+ A Benlon masterpiece

To Cover Crime; Natives Must Surender

NUERNBERG, Jan. 11 (U. P.).—The army ne Stars and Stripes reported today that the blackened: of three military government officers were found in. burned house at Passau, near Regensburg, on ay. The dispatch said there were indications t that men had been beaten to death, their house soaked gasoline and set ablaze. All three, a major, a cap-

tain and a lieutenant, apparently had been murdered by re peated axe blows while they slept in separate rooms on the second and third floors of the house. The bodies were removed to the 250th general hospital at Regensburg for autopsies. A major, who was sleeping in a | ground floor bedroom when the murders occurred, managed to escape, but Stars and Stripes said military investigators swore him to secrecy and refused to make his story public. Off-limit signs were posted in the vicinity of the” murder house to ward off unofficial investigators,

Order Germans to

Surrender All Arms BERLIN, Jan. 11 (U. P.).—"The

were Inlet EREAURAY installed in the Indiana university auditorium. This year's exhibition at Herron includes a cross of contemporary American art. Sixty-

PHONE SERVICE TIEUP BEGINS

‘Picket Lines Are Formed in

Cities of 44 States.

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Cheese will be more freely available than during the war but the

{effort to irrform his locals across

18 operators normally work, there were only a chief’ operator, an assistant chief, and a district superintendent left. The “hello girls” stood and gossiped near the pickets, “I'm not in favor of the strike, but I have to respect the picket lineg,” one said. At two -Atlantie exchanges’ none of an estimated 1000 day shift employees reported for work. In | Philadelphia, early-arriving em-

{full civilian: demand probably will | the nation of the new development, |ployees of affiliated unions refused

not be met until early spring. Supplies of fresh and frozen fish | {will be abundant: but supplies of | canned fish still will be smaller Ro in pre-war years.

T0 ATTEND LUNCHEON

leaders will meet Monday for luncheon and the organization of} an Indianapolis chapter of the American Christian Palestine com- | mittee. The charter members of the new loeal chapter will be addressed by Dr. Carl Herman Voss of New York City, director of the committee, at the luncheoft in the Hofel Lincoln. Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel, execu-

‘35 tive secretary of the Indianapolis , 8 | church federation,

and Dr. Clar-

| The following table shows the tempera- ence E. Efroymson of Butler uni-

J a other cities:

ati land | Denver i orn wae

Wayne

Indianapolis (eity) . Kansas City ... “a

New Orleans New York ra J Gkishoma CIty iosavsensianraesy Op ai ; : Louis Prancisco

High Low versity are in charge of arrange58

| ments.. Nationally, the committee is com-

| posed of Christian leaders who sup- |

| port the claim of the Jewish people | to Palestine.

NEW MARITIME HEAD WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (U. P.).—

nominated to replace Vice Adm. {Emory 8. Land as chairman of the | United, States maritime commission, {the White House announced today.

Mr. Land has resigned effective the |

'end of January.

Tie in on it Sirs—This is the

It. includes something

600 or 700 ties

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Some $5 ties at 2.50 Some 3.50 ties at 1.75 ‘Some 2.50 ties at 1.25 Some 1.50 ties at 75¢ Some 1.00 ties at 50e

No Mail, Phone or C.0.D. orders No exchanges or refunds—all Sales must be final!

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HALF PRIC TIE SALE

MAN'S STORE.

{Rear Adm, Earle W. Mills will be

| and halt the picketing. | After telephonic conferences with | leaders of most of the locals, however, Mr. Weaver announced that {it had been too late to call off the pleketing.. and directed that the!

i hoop. a statement Issued at 4:30]

{had been impossible to contact all | points involved, and the union had | been left with no alternative but |“to go through with the original {plan of establishing picket lines | Friday morning (today).” * Reports Picketing In Philadelphia, P. M. Williams,

national strike director of A. C.| locals |

. W, reported that all throughout the nation had established picket lines this morning. He had gone from New York to

{the ‘picketing became effective, | Western Union employees in the New York metropolitan area styuck Tuesday. The ‘union had predicted that the strike move would disrupt 85 per cent of the nation’s long-distance service and much of the manually operated local - service. About 8000 A. C: E. W. members are —on strike. — Unions affiliated with the N. P. T. W. which were pledged to honor A. C. E. W. picket lines have about 263,000 members. All but four states—Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Montana —were affected in. some degree. Operators in those states belong to unions not affiliated with N, -F. T. W. Not 100 Pet. Effective In Connecticut and the Rocky Mountain area, however, the picketing was not effective. Operators in Connecticut had voted to ignore picket lines, and members of the Mountain States Federation Telephone Workers; #though their union is affiliated with N. F. T. W,, also passed picket lines. At the New York office of the long lines division of the American Tele- | phone and Telegraph Co.—nucleus fof the nation’s: intricate long-dis- |

{tance service—pickets formed their | Cummins Co, and Chapman-Price

lines at 6:30 a. m. Virtually the entire 7 a. m. shift of 300 long-

| the line.

of |

[to cross lines at the main Bell telephone exchange, It was the same story at Chicago, [where operalors were turned away {by an estimated 500 pickets in front of the main exchanges: Out Early in Detroit

In Detroit, where picketing be{gan at midinght in a union move

Businessmen, ministers and lay ® TM the A. C. E. W. chief said it t;, forestall a reported company

plan to bring in outside operators, the Telephone Traffic Employees association announced 3000 of its | members had been ordered to stay {away from the main exchange of the Michigan Bell company. Picketing was planned at Saginaw, Flint, Kalamazoo, and Grand Rapids. No operators of the first day shift crossed the lines in Birmingham. In Washington, where an inde{pendent strike paralyzed long-dis-tance and non-dial lines for the

the Pennsylvania city to establishisecond straight day, a handful of strike headquarters there in order | pickets marched at the main exto be able to communicate with’ change. © {other cities by Western Union after)

Steel Unionists Give City Assurance

| City officials have been assured by representatives of the United Steelworkers of America (C. I. O) that “everything will be orderly and peaceful,” in the event of a strike here. If a scheduled nation-wide walkout of steel” workers takes place Monday about 10,000 employees of nine Indianapolis firms would be affected, it was indicated. A delegation of union officials called at city hall yesterday to give assurance of an orderly policy. Chief spokesman was Walter Reid, representing the union's district 30, Police attention would be welcomed, he told the mayor and Police Chief Jesse McMurtry,

hours a day, allowed to enter and leave at will

wdrk, wherever: agreements- provide for it. The firms likely to be involved are Holcomb & Hoke Mfg. Co: Ins ley Mfg. Corp, Thomas L. Green Co., Indianapolis Drop Forging Co., } Link- -Belt Co., J. D. Adams Mig. | Co.,, E. C. Atkins Co. Schwitzer-

| Steel Co.

Union officials also pointed out

distance operators Yefused to cross| that union placards will emphasize only the strike issue—a $2-a-day in-

One operator coming oft an early | crease in wages,

EVENTS TODAY

Veteran Service Mt sunisation, luncheon, 5 pm, Washin

12:1 Indianapolis oh ad Visitors bu-

Natianal Federation of Federal Employees, meeting, 8 p. m.,' Washington. Girl Scouts, , meeting, 9:30 a. luncheon, 12:30 p, m., Lincoln

eon, 12:05 p. m., Lincoln,

luncheon, 12:30 m., Lincoln

Lincoln,

EVENTS TOMORROW

Severin

John L H. Weiss, Cincinnati, O. Charles Marshall Dearing,

820 8.

Patricia Louise Albin, 1501 Spruce, Clarence Wesiay Shirley, 1222 Muskingum; Louella Inez Bills, 2746 James Court. Paul Yeoman, U. Huff, 1938 N. Parker. Craig Jones, Cayuga; 219 RB. 11th. Kent Charles Dawson, Seville Apts; Phyl lin Hostettler 1813 N. Capitol Ralph R. Barnhart. 2822 8 Lyons; gene Kathryn Chitwood, R. R. 1,

Imo Pars.

r Blacktord,

‘a

m.; Indiana Association of Credit Men, lunchMarion County Tuberculosis association,

p. Lincoln Bridge club, meeting, 8 p. m,

Phillips Peiroleum Co., meeting, § a, m,,

Indiana Schoolman’s club, executive com-

Aegeter, Cincinnati, O.; Marcella

Penn- | N]vuuiai Inez Vivian Heath, 1324 Ring- |

old, Russi Maurice Dierdorf, 2004 Prospect;

8. ariny; Alberta May Beverly 8B. Curtis,

Leon Reed, Kokomo, Goldie Cooke, | Flovd Jones Syemeer ResalynaM: Youhs, _ Indianspolis. | sont

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Beatrice Martin, 4073 Cornelius

reau, board at Sirectarn, luncheon, 12:15 1138 Harlan p p.m, Washin . y Optimist club, to ncheon, 13 (noon), | Mack German, 601 Mickley; Virginia Ruth Columbia » Parris, 2362 Central Women of the Moose, dinner, 6:30 p.m, Ben Foster Patterson, 2561 N. Holmes; Opal Washington Cline Whisenand, 48 8. Tremont American Sisiuiy of i i Engineers, | John F. Dalton, 2708 W., 10th; Rose .J meeting, Blackwell, 55, N. Warman. American Chemical ety, Indians see-| Max Earl Timmons, Frankfort; Nsom tion, meeting, 8 .p. m., Athenaeum. Bernice Hoyt, 6323 Guilford.

Maxine Clemons, 2017 E. Riverside. Clyde M. Wells, 2857 Kenwood; Foster, 2105 Boulevard Place, Apt, 24: Harold Vernon MeCormick, Dorothy Jane Johnson, 412 N. New Jer

sey. Frederick William Rehfeldt, 5547 8. Sum mit; Belty Lou Brown, 4160 Otterbein. Everett J. Tackitt, 334 N, Katherine Agnew, 1422 N, Tremont.

BIRTHS Girls

mittee, meeting, 10 a. m., Claypoo). At Coleman Mitchell. Betty Johnson Woman's Apparel Style show, meeting, 10] Ay Methodist Wendell, Louise Pace, i ww wn dinner, 7 m., Claypool. Rove i est Disinfecting Co., meeting, 10 a. m,, . | d t % Severin , | At St. Franeis—Robert, Myrtle Stuck; C earance-a van a e. Heather Belles, luncheon, 13:30 p. m, Martin, Cora Reveal » Washington, | At Ofty—Marion, Jesse Mason; Francis, Veterans of Foreign Wars, dinner, 6:30 | "ni th” Wratten p. m,, Claypool. At Coleman—Louis, Opal Culbertson , At Methodist Karl = Alt} Julie, A d h d h Lowes Davis; Myron, Bliza us - t MARRIAGE LICENSES Daniel, Mary Jessop; Robert, Dorothy n ere an ere are

Parker,

Temple; Taft

DEATHS 55, at City,

{Vo Murray, pulmonar

tuberculosis:

monary hemorrhage. Amos Brewer, acute cardiac dilatation. Laura Wilke, 63, at 403°'W, cinoma

13th,

chronic myocarditis

rphie M. Masterson, 70, at City, cerebral at Otty, eardio | , Kxiser, 19, st Methodist, uremia,

hemorrhage eorge Wm Bausley, 68, vaseulinr renal,

| =} shit -said that -on-hner Noor, where »

Picket lines Will be operated 24 3 - ib the officials said, but ; management representatives will be

Plant guards also will be allowed to

Donald E. Ashley, 38 W. 2st; Wanela Marie Wood, 2420 Hillside Clarence Davis, 4063 Cornelius; Thora

Robert Johnson, 920 E. 15th; Dora Pinner,

Clifford 8. Maynard, New Point; Roberta Ethel F, 1337 Hoyt;

Sheffield: Helen

At Home George, Grace Howard, 2843 N, Howard, Dorothy Miles, 620 8.

Mary Etta Washington, a at City, pul 73, at 325 Wy New York, oar

Oliver Morton Snell, 83, at 1634 Fletcher,

five paintings from all parts of . fri the country .are displayed. allied <onirel sounicl adap ordered! The poll, conducted by Dr. George :: ATO-VANDALS TAKE |Lomin wina te ‘st ai Chi meta APA bs ES The order was drawn by’ the Picture “Anchors

JEWELRY WORTH $800

council's co-ordinating committee on

Thieves last night ransacked a Monday and published today, It Bs dat car owned by Grant Tierney, 31- prohibits Germans from carrying, The five most popular’ : : possessing or owning arms and am-| were, listed al

year-old ex-soldier of Harrison, N. Y., and stole $800 worth of jewelry. - Tierney and his wife had parked their car near the corner of Meridian and St. Clair sts. and had gone to the Michigan hotel to stay overnight.

munition. Violators, face. criminal

prosecution and may be sentenced to death. German civilian police, who will be issued weapons soon, were exempted in the order. U. 8. officials said the bulk of

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and other spots of

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