Daily Huronite and Plainsman, The (Newspaper) - December 13, 1945, Huron, South Dakota 59 YEARS of Service to CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND PLAINSMAN Weather South Snow flurries much colder Friday night Snow flurries much colder Friday night Low tonight zero to 10 above VOLUME LX HURON SOUTH DAKOTA THURSDAY DECEMBER 13 1945 SINGLE COPY Smaller SEE NEW HOPE FOR ENDING GM STRIKE Fit For A King Intervention Of President May Break Deadlock By the Associated Press The long and bitter wage dis- pute between the CIO Auto Workers and the industry's big three continued today without and in- dication of immediate settlement There was sqm hope however that intervention of Presiden Truman in the old strike at General Motors might hasten efforts of the union and the company to reach an Union officials have expressed the belief a settlement with er General Motors Ford Motor Company or Chrysler tion would set a pattern which would aid in solving disputes with the others Ford Rejects Demands Today's negotiations by the union were with General Motors Other union officials their de- mand for a 30 percent wage rate increase rejected by Ford day mapped further plans for discussions at tomorrow's ference Today's session was to be confined largely to sion of the company's charge of illegal picketing at some of the more than 70 plants where workers have been idle since Nov 21 In the midst of negotiations I GM sought an injunction against a striking Cleveland local of the union which it accused of il- legal picketing at the Fisher Body plant in that city The cor- charged GOO employes were prevented from entering the Freight Train Halves Auto Their auto completely demolished and strewn along a railroad right-of-way in St Joseph Mo Mr and Mrs James Bagby St Joseph miraculously escaped death After striking a freight train their car was carried along the track 100 feet and cut in half between the freight and stationary box cars on adjoining Ornaments Of Human Heads Are Shown As Proof Of Nazi Horror plant Tuesday Truman's ment of a fact-finding board in the General Motors dispute brought a prompt of operation from union leaders though the union earlier had op- posed government intervention in the strike Comment was held by General Motors The Ford Company in ing the union's wage demands said that on the basis of OPA price ceilings and with no in- creases in wages it would lose about next year Meanwhile in Washington the House passed and sent to the Senate legislation applying the 934 act to labor unions The measure bitterly op- posed by organized labor was sent to the Senate which once previously refused to pass a ilar New Strike Vote As continuing labor disputes throughout the country kept idle some workers a wide strike vote was takei Aberdeen Man Slays Young ABERDEEN Dec 13 ff distraught by liquor and a supposed marital grievance a Aberdeen father ning amuck with a tol Wednesday night shot and killed his son when he fired four shots through the door of his former wife's home Today Vernon Miklebost a cal power company employe was charged with murdering Loran one of his three children and is being held in the city jail ing arraignment Friday morning as he was called was killed instantly by a shot through the heart Coroner Leo Kreuger reported when officers said hc rushed to the door in time tc day among a the boy CIO Electrical Workers receive one of four bullets hi father blasted through it H gasped his last breath as hi mother caught him in her arms What designs wer in visiting the home of his thre children and the woman he twic divorced was not matter of com plete official agreement but th murder complaint drawn b State's Attorney Vernon William charged that Miklebost with pre meditated design to effect th death of a human being shot an They are employes of plants of General Electric General Motors and who are loting to decide whether to go out on strike sometime after Jan 1 in support of demands for er wages The union United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America the largest CIO affiliate has asked a a day wage hike ly 30 percent An offer of a cents ar hour pay boost from General Motors was rejected Today's ballot conducted by the National Labor Relations Board was among employes in 75 in 16 states from California to Massachusetts The union said unionists ed in General Electric plants at Westinghouse and in the electrical sion of General Motors Expect Decline In Meat Supplies WASHINGTON Dec 13 JP agriculture department said today civilian supplies of meats will decline about nine per cent from present levels of tion during the first quarter of 1946 These supplies will be cient to allow per capita con- sumption at an average annual rate of 150 pounds The ment said civilians have been consuming meat in recent weeks at a rate of 165 pounds It is expected that civilians will more pork than during the amount of lamb and mutton but less By NOLAND NORGAARD NUERNBERG Dec- A reserved human head and lamp iade made of human skin were resented of ies in Nazi concentration camps t the war crimes trial top erman war leaders today The grisly exhibits were added o the Germans own records of murder and brutality placed be- ore the four-power international military tribunal by Allied charging the Nazi warlords with crimes gainst humanity Relating the of the notorious ration camps at and Buchenwald U C Assistant Thomas J Dodd declared that we feel no argument is necessary to support our ment that the Nazi conspirators used these concentration camps as places of terror Shrunk Head The preserved human head Jap Commander On Indiana Mrs Miklebost the former Lol said I was afrai tie was going to wipe but th whole family interviewed in h cell Miklebost I sup pose I meant to shoot bu I didn't want to shoot Lornie boy Mrs Miklebost was home alone with Loran at the time a ter Marjorie and another son Vernon Jr 16 being out of the house at the time Shoe Prices Will Not Be Increased WASHINGTON Dec 13 IP OPA said today there will be no increase in prices the public pays for shoes despite a price hike granted to manufacturers The agency ruled that a per cent increase to go into effect soon must be absorbed by retailers and wholesalers shrunk to the size of and resembling the war trophy of an aboriginal head hunter was that of who had been fraternizing with a Ger man girl The three pieces of human skin tanned into parchment for shades wife of Koch came from tims at Buchenwald because of their artistic tattooing ing to an affidavit by a in- mate of the concentration camp In: 1939 with on there were ordered to report to the the affidavit said one knew what the purpose was But after the tattooed were ed the ones with the best most artistic specimens were kept in and then were killed by injections Hung Poles Telling of the shrunken heads the former was quoted in the as I also saw the shrunken heads of two young had been hanged for having had relations with Jewish girls The heads were the size of a fist and the hair and marks of the rope were still Jew-baiter Julius Streicher alone of all the defendants rer unmoved The others See TRIALS Page Two I WASHINGTON Dec 13 Iko Hashimoto a Japanese sub- marine commander told a navy court martial today his ship fired three torpedoes into a dark ob- ject which it sighted 290 miles from Palau on the night of July His submarine had been ing its target for 27 minutes the witness related He said he fired torpedoes in salvos of three second in- and three hits through his periscope Hashimoto was admitted as a witness despite vigorous tion by defense counsel for Capt Charles B McVay III being tried on charges of negligence and in- efficiency in the loss his heavy the Indianapolis that night en route from Guam to Marshall Ends Testimony Says Short Alerted WASHINGTON Dec 13 Gen George C Marshall wound up his testimony before investigators a-j statement that he had to do with the decision to retire Lt Gen Walter C Short army commander at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked Dec 7 1941 This decision Marshall told the group was ed by Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Knox who took similar action in the case of Admiral Husband E mel the naval chief in Hawaii Marshall's appearance on the witness stand lasted 26 hours over a seven-day period As he ished p.m EST a plane was waiting to fly him ly to China as President Truman's envoy In concluding his testimony Marshall asserted angrily that Short was given a definite alert order before the Japanese Pearl Harbor and he felt he had a right to expect it would bo carried out Earlier it had been brought out that Short had set up only an alert in response to a Nov 2.7 1941 warning from Marshall that hostile action was possible former army chief of staff flared up under persistent about information to overseas commanders last few the Pearl Harbor plunged this nation into war Given Alert Order General Short was given defi nite Marshall said H Uniform to one side as discharged Richard A Bone Mo models suit made for nun by King Victor personal tailor while he was a Pfe in Italy wed Baroness Elena Colisanti LaLonia in the king's church Naples Telephoto Leyte was given an alert order I stil feel that when you give a to a high officer you expect it to out This assertion followed up statement yesterday that he responsible for actions of the general staff and that he had full responsibility for any failure in Washington to see that Short went on a full war alert His testimony at that time came in response to a question from Rep Keefe whether shall as chief of staff should hot have investigated upon re- Short's reply about the sabotage alert Marshall observed that it was opportunity to inter- vene It was your re- sponsibility was it Keefe 1946 Legion Rodeo To Be July 13 14 And 15 Takes Mackenzie's Column Eire Making Remarkable Revival Fuel Shortage Biggest Handicap The court admitted the nese officer after he was given both the standard oath prescribed by U S naval procedure as that used in Japanese court martial Hashimoto flown here from Tokyo testified five of the torpedoes equipped V Before Hashimoto was sworn he was to a preliminary examination defense council to test credibility He said he was a aware of truth hood and that his religion taught he would punished for ing Counsel Protests Capi counsel Hashimoto's on the witness as a grotesque When the judge advocate an call the Japanese officer Deo Hashimoto chief defense 7 Capt John P Cady entered formal ob- of- calling ah officer of notet for despicable treachery testi fy against an American naval of ficer McVay is being tried on charges of inefficiency iand in the loss of his ship heavy cruiser r Indian apolis en route from Leyte last July asked You can put it that Marshall replied then he added immense number of pers came over my desk am hot passing the responsibility to the secretary war I was re for the actions of the eneral staff throughout I was By MACKENZIE AP DUBLIN Dec 13 This is a tough article to control because my whole is to start right out with the glorification of two beef steaks which your col- umnist team has just eaten lit our first meal in the capital They were steaks such as we've present quarter about the dreamed of but haven't even seen up to now since ly bit stride in food rationing After all who starts serious col- with dissertations about beef steaks no matter how un- Well the answer ently is I given to following impulse The reason in this instance for the rather whimsical approach is that these beef steaks are bolic of a great change for the better which Southern Ireland has undergone in recent years MACKENZIE Chief Of Chaplains Advanced In Rank WASHINGTON pec is President Truman today nom Brig Gen Luther Deck Miller chief of army chaplains to the rank off major general General Miller a regular man since 1918 it native Leechburg for this A very 1946 Peak May Be Officials Say WASHINGTON Dec 13 The impact of peace on joblessness s 30 to 40 per cent lighter than reconversion officials anticipated Fewer in industry and an unexpected high and sustained rate of buying are among factors that have prompted key federal economists to offer this improved employment By year's end the total of actual and potential will be at the most one- hird less than had been predicted for that date when hostilities ceased 1946 Peak By next March the jobless will number not more than This may be the peak for 1946 After hovering around that mark until about June the total may begin tc decline as civilian manufacturing hits full stride But officials are wary of guess- ing beyond The totals fall far short of Re- conversion Director John W der's estimate on Oct 1 that un- employment would hit by spring However it is known that the forecasters are concurred in by experts in Snyder's office in the bureau of census and some other agencies concerned with the em- ployment problem Inflation Rampant The happier outlook may bring a different sort of problem Price Administrator Chester Bowies has He said Monday that the continued high rate of em- ployment was adding to iry pressure making it harder to end price controls Bowles mentioned the new sus figures which put ment at in November However the census estimate does not include the outpouring of dis- charged veterans who are ing or vacationing before they look for work Nor does it list civilian workers who are taking a rest after arduous wartime forts July 13 14 and 15 have been et as the Delates for the second American Legion Rodeo lext summer it was announced oday by A N Berg who served as general chairman of the in- augural rodeo presentation last summer Dates for the second annual rodeo were set this week at a meeting of the rodeo directors at which time preliminary ments were shaped for the event The rodeo next summer will be on Friday Saturday and Sunday Although planning so far is in a preliminary stage Chairman Berg said that discussions at this week's meeting called for an even more elaborate rodeo than was presented last year Dates for the 1948 rodeo Berg said will offer a better tie-up thing occurred I am no to evade them at alL Ho Advance Knowledge Replying to a series of ques ions from Senator Lucas Marshall also told the committee As chief of staff he had n of any information 7 definitely ing to an attack on Pearl That President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Stimson knew all he knew about important ers during the critical period preceding the outbreak of war Earlier Marshall said that American bombers would have jeen justified in sinking any Japanese war ships that in Hawaiian waters the war Marshall said the appearance of such vessels would have been an overt act As Marshall returned to the stand for the seventh day the committee learned that former Secretary of State Hull may have gone to conference with Japanese peace envoys Dec 7 1341 without knowing of their diplomatic reply had been intercepted and decoded V submitted to the committee showed the Day's Report On Gen Patton Is Optimistic HEIDELBERG Germany Dec commanding cer of the U S army hospital where Gen George S Patton Jr is under treatment for paralysis said tonight there was a good chance that the American com- mander might be on his feet again The fracture of the vertebra in Patton's neck was reduced he said but still impossible to determine how much damage was done to the spinal cord Doctors in attendance said the with other top ranking rodeos in the country and will permit the Huron Legion Rodeo to sign up an array of America's outstand standing performers Attractions that were sible to arrange last year due to wartime restrictions will 1946 rodeo according to tentative plans as outlined by Berg One of these he said will be an outstanding midway at- traction Japanese message described by some witnesses as a tipoff thai war was was delivered to the state department by an army officer just as Hull met Kurusu and Kichisaburo Nomura Questioning Oil Marshall abou when he received the message has been exten See Chinese Troops Push On Harbin TIENTSIN China Dec 13 JP Chiang appeared in Peiping today for the irst time in many years while lis troops last reported 40 miles Mukden were reported rolling swiftly a eading Manchurian industrial center Other national government moving to Manchurian capital by air Observers here viewed these rapid-fire developments as a strong indication that all rich in industry will be in the hands of Chiang's forces within a few probably with a of bloodshed The almost total absence of any Chinese Communist opposition to government drive to plus Russia's friendly attitude and cooperation with Chiang's the Chinese fight at do so in the rugged ern mountains they are strongest They have reportedly Two substantial forces at general had spent a good night and that his general condition remained satisfactory with no complications The hospital commandant Col Lawrence C Ball of Harlan Ky said there was general confidence among the doctors that the in- jured commander of the U S 15th Army would pull through although it might take a few days a few weeks or several months He said there was also always the possibility that Patton might never be able to walk again The medical bulletin indicated however that there had been no marked change in the paralysis from which Patton is suffering as the result of a broken neck in an automobile accident last Sunday near Mannheim The text of the noon Temperature 100 pulse 62 respiration 20 The general had good night and is cheerful anc alert His general condition re mains satisfactory with no com Neurological status re mains about the same Parley Fails To Break Northwest Truckers Strike WASHINGTON Dec 13 Truck operators and of the AFL Teamsters Un- ion Wednesday night adjourned joint conferences without ing the midwest n trucking strike Representatives of both groups said some progress made during two of meetings with federal conciliators but that things still are n the discussion stage R J May of Sioux Falls S counsel for the midwest truck operators association said there as some possibility of further oint meetings in Chicago next eek The strike which has tied up reight truck transportation in raska Minnesota Kansas North nd South Dakota Iowa Missouri began Nov 15 and British And French Troops To Leave Syria And Lebanon LONDON Dec 13 eign Minister Ernest Bevin Commons today that Britain an France have agreed to joint with of their troops from Syria and Lebanon Signed hi London today the agreement vides for close alignment of icy in the Near East with the object of settling unrest marked seven months ago by armed clashes in a Syrian demand for independence from France Trees To Be Plentiful NEWARK N J Dec 13 There'll be Christmas trees aplenty this Yuletide says Alvin Hofert The Christmas tree president of J Hofert of Newark The Hofert concern perhaps the largest single dis- of Christmas trees in the country supplies about 70 per cent of the nation's annual tree shipment serving every state ex- cept Maine New Hampshire and Vermont This year Hofert buyers have purchased trees Prices will range no higher than last year when you could pick up a squatty one for as little as 25 cents and a shapely tree for less than BUY SEALS
