Daily Huronite and Plainsman, The (Newspaper) - October 11, 1945, Huron, South Dakota PERMANENT THUMBNAIL EDITORIAL GO BACK TO SCHOOL HE AND PLAINSMAN Weather South Fair through day Little temperature change Partly cloudy slight change Above freezing tonight VOLUME LX HURON SOUTH DAKOTA OCTOBER 11 1945 SINGLE COPY HOUSE SET TO OKAY TAX Plenty Of Shotgun Shells For All But South Dakota Hunters Hit COAL STRIKES SPREAD SIOUX FALLS Oct 11 W A group here ised for pheasant conservation considered statewide organization today after hearing Director Peterson of the State Fish Game and Parks Commission laud feel motives but add that von are unduly alarmed C A Hamilton Sioux Falls attorney who leads the hunting group said a committee will con- tact other organizations ed in a state wide meeting at some central point this fall to of the state's hunting resources Commend Commission The group commended the state game and fish commission for work in protecting and propagat ing name fowl I We are in no position now to decide whether the season or limit should be son said at last night's meeting It might be better for all con- cerned of course if we had a shorter season smaller bag limit and maintained the sporting ment in hunting He estimated that the present n amber of pheasants in South kota may be from five to 20 per cent in excess of the 1944 crop despite the killing of pheasants last year as indicated by hunters re- ports You must consider the city of pheasants to he said There should be no worry about this year The pheasant is the only game bird that can be themselves admir- ably to management It is un- fair and misleading to assume 10 that pheasants necessarily disappear in the manner of tain other game birds Deplore Practice A declaration of principles by Roy T Willy another Navy Says Shells To Be Released WASHINGTON Oct 11 those shotguns boys The Navy is releasing of shotgun shells Rep Robertson D- Va was informed today This with the the Army recently told Robertson were being released will be a real start toward a peacetime hunting season the Virginian said Navy said the ammunition was being declared surplus as a result of examination of stock levels on munition used for training purposes There wasn't a single shotgun shell for sale in Huron oday And the outlook for the remainder of the season y is not bright according to the majority of local dealers interviewed in a survey by the Daily One wholesaler however said he had been promised plenty of shells by late November or early December strikes do not halt the flow of fabricating materials Meanwhile out-of-state hunters were lugging in am munition by the case and re porting that dealers in their states even were dis playing shells on sales count ers Black Markets Big city black markets cited as one reason why some vis iting hunters come with shells to fight a Mexican revolu tion One this much to a local hardware man in saying that as long as we sir willing to pay per case yoi probably get many ou Shotgun ammunition i under OPA ceiling and a goo brand of high base shell is quoted at per case One dealer said he had bee informed that approximately 19 000.000 rounds of army shells will be available soon bu that certain interests who hav them for sale won't sell they are slipped a little extr under the table Another re tailer said he had heard the sam report but doubted its veracity The most frequently heard ex- War Vet Admits Minnesota Theft Nimitz Visits Sew York in the hunting group the best interests of the attorney asserted sportsmen are jeopardized by the development within South Dakota of private game preserves game lodges and shooting camps for the benefit of a few in- who acquire either by purchase lease or otherwise ex- shooting rights and on large tracts of land In introducing Director son E J Kahler chairman of the state commission declared that outsiders kept in rules and regulations but we must clean our own skirts first ST PAUL Oct 11 A war veteran was held in jail today and Police Chief Charles Tierney said the suspect who claimed he is a former member of Carlson's marine raiders had admitted ing up a loan company at bault and escaping in a hired airplane identified the suspect as Roscoe M Stam Jr 21 of Faribault who was discharged from the marine carps a year ago Stam was captured last night after Tierney said he had been traced to a St Paul house ney said the suspect had hired a taxi cab to make the trip Paul from nearby White Bear airport where the plane landed Tierney said Stam admitted holding up the woman office manager of the Phoenix Loan Co at Faribault forcing her to turn over in cash to him after she had refused to make him a planation why non-resident ers seem to find it easier to buy ammunition however was that South Dakota was adversely by the War Production loan To Speed Return Of Pacific GIs TOKYO Oct 11 GI's will be returned to the United States from the Pacific at the rate of more than a month for the next six months Allied headquarters announced today By the end March a total of men will have been re- turned to the States leaving proximately men in the occupation forces and units ning army installations in the theater In Japan four divisions proximately 60.000 men of com- bat troops plus air service troops and special occupation units will remain The Pacific forces will include 200.000 in Japan and seven thousand in the Philippines and in Okin- awa and the rest of the Islands The rest of the 400.000 will be and forces in Hawaii the Marianas and er Pacific bases General MacArthur estimated previously men be needed for occupation Japan six months after surren der today's announcement cuts that figure by the two divisions approximately men which will be deployed to Korea from the total of 200.000 for the dual occupation area 1 Before any divisions are sen 1 home the low point men wilt be screened out to remain with the forces replacing higl men from the units in the general headquarters said As of January 1 the divisions tin the Pacific will be located On Japan 11 th tilth Airborne First Cavalry 24th and 40th and 6th The which Will final ly remain as occupation troope tare the Airborne 24th land First Cavalry on Japan tht and flth Division in Korea knd the in the Philippines Stam Tierney said then hired a cab to drive him to an airport at Kenyon Minn where he had paid for the chartered plane to take him to White Bear just outside St Paul Tierney said Stam still had of the money when he was ed without -resistance after 12 police officers had surrounded the house gun shells to states on a tion basis Shell quotas should have been based -on bird population rather than on human a dealer said South Dakota with more pheasants than any other state therefore receives fewer shells than Illinois with only a sprinkling of birds Dribble Of Shells Most local retailers of shells re- ported they have received only dribbles of shotgun tion this season Their supplies were often gone within a hour after unpacking Only a few lucky ones therefore were able to buy at the rate pf one box apiece Local hunters chafing at wha they consider discrimination are expressing their wrath in no un certain terms Current for a few days was the rumor that the Huron Chambe of Commerce was laying in big N W Security Bank Jps Surplus Account SIOUX FALLS Oct 11 in the surplus account of he Northwest Security National ank of Sioux Falls o was today y President Ralph M Watson Addition to that ccount was approved by the of directors The common stock remains at Watson said and un- profits and reserves -are 433.000 making a total capital Admiral Chester W whose warships smashed across the Pacific to of Japan salutes marine ex lor guard at New York's La airport as ha steps from transport to the city's riotous Declaim visit to New York precedes the Third next week for the first of the navy since before the wax NBA Efforts To End Deadlock Fail Operators Balk By The Associated Press The nation's strike lines held at around the mark iay only a small decrease in 24 hours as fresh labor disputes most offset the return of workers to jobs in textile plants As new shutdowns in the state coal strike area forced additional thousands to the ranks of idle bituminous operators and United Mine Workers Union failed to agree on a compromise proposal to end the expanding work pages Secretary of Labor bach again summoned the con- into session today to at- tempt to settle the dispute be- tween the operators and John L Lewis United Mine Workers The he said are not far apart in their controversy er recognition of the UMW Fore- men's Union and he expressed hope that they should be able to agree Report To Truman The secretary reported to ident Truman today on the locked negotiations and said the President sent a message to the conferees Failure to reach a would portend a further spread of stoppages in the coal pits where some miners already have walked out from nearly half of the country's soft coal mines Meanwhile a sidelight to the A coal strike came from Pittsburgh 111 where the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation whose Spending Spree Over Demands Made For Slash In Federal Spending shown in detention homa in Dayton Ohio with dog he bought after tearing in Cincinnati Ohio Boy had in cash on him when found in the Dayton Union station Peron Receives Popular Backing And Nationalists In Ghina Agree To Terms Of Peace duct ion has been cut 20 per cent the coal pickets were dispute reported barring pumpers CHUNGKING Oct 11 W Chinese nationalist and negotiators for a unified China issued a communique day agreeing upon basic ples of political peace in a tion split for decades by bloody fighting for government control The also set fourth negotiators ness to continue the talks which have been underway during a truce in the ing and to submit complex tary and political questions still unsettled to a military and a broadly constituted political consultative council The statement indicated the determination of Nationalist Reelected To Head State supplies of shells for the Leader Chiang to chieve unity of political writy immediately Mao leader of the forces said out ook is optimistic as he boarded plane to return to sive use of non-resident hunters President Carroll Fullerton squelched that one however by explaining that someone actually saw some cases being delivered to the chamber offices and jumped und account of This las been further n the permanent capital ure of the bank The total assets he reported are in excess of to the conclusion that they were being doled out to visiting men The fact was said that the shells were shipped in a jf non-resident hunters in advance of their ar- rival to be picked up later Army Officer Dies On Hunting Trip SIOUX CITY la Oct 11 Sioux City Army Air Base announced early today the death of R Bender 37 ta Monica Calif a former vost marshal at the base who died yesterday while on a ing trip with two other army of- near Yankton Base officers said that Coroner William Donohue of Yankton County attributed the captain's death to a heart attack ers at Yenan Shensi e conceded that some points re to be settled but he this work could be done by he military committee and the council Mao was a guest last night a Generalissimo Chiang Shantung had a 10 minute chat t res dence where Mao had been laying Later they attended diplomatic reception at National headquarters observ ing tenth China's big national holiday Mackenzie's Column Uncle Sam Shows He Is Going To Give MacArthur His Full Backing By MACKENZIE AP Foreign Analyst There are im- portant implications in of State Byrnes announcement that the United States has Called a meeting of the proposed Far Eastern advisory commission lor October 23 in Washington Foremost among these Is the clear indication that Uncle Sain has Ins chin up but not out and is standing on his prerogatives in the ot and rehabilitation with this he is lip Supreme Commander Equally important is America's desire for advice from fyer Allies in work ing out the Japanese problem but not least there are great potentialities in the that India mar be to join the advisory commission Mr Byrnes has liven MacAt thur a mighty fine vote of con MacArthur was assigns one of tile most daz of the postwar tasks 1 anybody could work faster thar he has In disarming close 1 Jap a hand ful of Yanks and gaining con- trol of to mak tog the Mikado watt on Wm hit Restored Here from its mines A company if the mine pumps remained unattended and the mines were flooded they couldn't be operated for several months Although Lewis said he would call off the strikes if the ators would agree to negotiate on the recognition issue the op- rejected the proposal They maintain that foremen and other supervisory employes are part of management As the conferences continued new pits closed and the coal shortage nit harder at steel duction In Hollywood some 400 heed aircraft workers joined proximately 400 movie strikers at the Warner Brothers studio gates but there was no disorder Do Mot Interfere Armed sheriffs deputies and BUENOS AIRES Oct 11 Gen Eduardo Avalos er of the powerful Campp De Mayo Garrison took over the today as officers stood across the street but made no move to break up the marchers although Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz had said the aircraft workers would be sub- ject to immediate arrest if they picketed the studio Movie strike leaders called 000 AFL aircraft workers at Lockheed in the Warner picket lines At mass ing extended to Universal studios when 280 persons flanked the Argentine war the power government but there were indt cations that Col Juan Person though divested of his cabine status remained a strong factor in the confused political situation Only a few hours after the had accepted resignation as vice president war minister and minister of la bor and social welfare he de livered a speech to -an astic crowd in which he pledged the remainder of his life to thi cause of the working man Cries of our president cami from the cheering throng which gathered outside the of labor to hear the iron man's speech which was broadcast speech was interpret ed in some Latin-American quar tcrs as inaugurating his campaign for designation as president in the general elections which have been promised for April Avalos of the actual fighting which put Peron on a WASHINGTON Oct 11 House Democrats and cans joined today in demanding a slashing in federal expenditures as the chamber began tion of a tax re- duction Chairman Doughton D-NC of the ways and means committee told his colleagues the budget must be balanced and ments must be made on the huge national debt To make taxes bearable it is important that all federal spending be he declared The House Republican leader Martin of Massachusetts served notice that his party will fight with unflagging determination to reduce the costs of this ment and by so doing eventually reduce the burden of taxes The House took up the measure on a take it or leave basis as proposed by the ways means committee The measure which also must be approved by the Senate would do this beginning January 1 Guarantee every individual taxpayer a reduction of at east 10 per cent Total cuts for would amount to Reduce Tax Roll 2 Sweep low in- ome persons off income tax rolls Completely When the war ended here Were approximately 00 individual taxpayers 3 Lower corporation tax lens by trimming he effective rate of the excess profits tax from to 60 per cent reducing the combined corporation normal and surtax from 40 per cent to and next July 1 the declared value capital stocks tax The calls for repeal ot the excess fits tax January 1 1947 4 Cut back next July 1 the wartime excise levies on high such things as liquor fun jew- elry and cosmetics at -a saving of to ers in the last half of 1946 in taxes on Both airlines operating through Huron will return to normal schedules tomorrow Airport ager Kenneth reported today with the anticipated com- of repair work and re- sealing oh all ways Daytime flights were resumed and Mid-Continent on and ing after a week's lation ot all to way repair Workmen for the Con- struction Company falls today were putting the touches to repair west half of the The by the spring was because undue breaking from Marco Oct 11 if Oscar Huron was reelected president of the South Dakota Farmers Union at con- vention which will end today Fosheim was named on the first ballot over Roy S Glover of Hecla K A Beck Bee Heights was renamed vice president and Ed Backlund Mitchell secretary Principal speaker at last night's session was James Patton tional president of the Fanners Union and M W Thatcher St Paul general manager of the Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association The elections were not com- Wednesday afternoon and vere continued this forenoon John of Toronto and mer Ayres of Zeona ed delegates to the vention and W C Hermann of position of power in the 1943 rev was designated as war minister last night As the army spokesman in the government he now is the real power behind the military regime of President Farrell The first acts of the Some floor stocks under also would be refunded to business 5 Repeal the automobile use tax next July 1 relieving the burden on automobile owners fay The legislation also freezes the Social Security tax in 1946 at one per cent each on employes and employers Without the freeze this tax would jump January 1 to 2.5 per cent Mo Alterations The came to the House floor under a rule virtually barring any changes At the request of the Ways and Means committee which wrote the measure the rules committee laid out ure prohibiting amendments un- less approved by the Ways and Means group As the House made ready to act the came under vigorous attack from CIO and 14 other organizations including the main gate arid another 100 con- ment under Avalos domination at other entrances the closing of a half- A spokesman for the aircraft newspapers which See STRIKES Two had too freely Rockham and Sam of Church m charge AH las StateCollege Dean Succumbs BROOKINGS Oct 11 ith M dean of the di- vision of home economics at South Dakota State College since 1925 died of coronary thrombosis while addressing a meeting of the sis Club Wednesday night The heart attack came without ing Memorial services will be con- ducted in the college auditorium at Friday afternoon with Lyman E Jackson of e and the Bev R first when Peron stepped down and naming to key government posts two men who been friendly to Peron in the past There were rumors that the state of siege which was posed on the nation Sept 26 ors Union The IS organizations addressed letters to each House member de- claring the legislation would grant huge to the most prosperous corporations but mit only meager relief to low and middle income groups of hi The letters urged outright re- peal of the three per cent normal tax on Individuals and increased exemptions to put much softer burdens on low and middle in- come groups lowing an abortive uprising confirmed alternates Election of directors was ln activities at the college progress late this forenoon with resolutions legislative and other committees to en pierson respect to in ffl in to South at an y received her ment is scheduled She obtained her Master Prairie Fire Burns Grass Near Miller ROLLER Oct 11 A pes University of Ml fire started from burned into and hjUs the farm to in W rods the home of Ifn and the fire Vets Due To Arrive Today By The Associated Press About Pacific and Euro- pean veterans are scheduled to arrive today east west coast ports aboard 11 vessels Ships and units At New York ville Victory from Antwerp troops many for discharge Aboard Joseph Nicholson from Leghorn 742 miscellaneous troops Aboard Thomas 741 miscellaneous troops Aboard from Le Havre 18 Her work at South Dakota State College began In as associate professor of She was soon made head of the de- Two eph Pierson Chicago and Eleanor Pierson Peever S D survive After services hert the body will be taken to Minneapolis 19 to DJ Aboard 13 troops At Boston Aboard Jonathan Worth TO medical and miscellaneous Aboard James Price 13 army personnel At Newport News Va US where brief burial services win be fetid before interment Lifting Of Wage Controls Is Seen Necessary WASHINGTON Oct 11 i Many reconversion officials are pretty well today that the government soon must loosen its wage controls This is reported by of Di- rector John W Snyder's advis- ers although mere is no tion that the conclusion is by Snyder himself or by dent Truman Snyder however is under strong pressure to net forth a re- vised wage-price policy to check the wave of work stoppages that threatens to delay reconversion officials ot Snyder's Of- fice of War Mobilization and Re- of whom asked the At San Francisco Carriers Bar and Teamer Aay advisers in that agency an nearly unanimous in support at a new government policy ation They have that wages be increased perhaps as much as 15 per cent OPA say something nearer -10 per cent is likely without inc the cost Of goods more than 2 or per cent
