Kingston Daily Freeman, The (Newspaper) - December 12, 1945, Kingston, New York CITY OP KINGSTON N EVENING 12 1345 PRICE FIVE CENTS of General Patton Car Marshall Says He Knew in August 1941 U S Was Not Ready for Inevitable War In Pacific Report to Knox Is Cited In General Motors Appoints Board Similar Unit Will Be Named to Take Action on Steel Union Drafts Plans Lipstick Note on Victim's Wall Godfrey Anderson Associated foreign correspondent looks over the wrecked the which Gen George S was riding when he was injured in a crash with Army truck m the Mannheim Germany Picture by radio from Paris to New York Americans Would Raise Stores Will Keep 40 Are Convicted At Dachau Trial M Will Be Sentenced Court Takes 90 Minutes to Better Living Open Every Night Beginning Dec 17 Dachau Germany 12 A U S military government court today convicted Martin Weiss and 39 fellow defendants on I Dachau it the They will row Hanging is the p imbed by U Army I ters for any sentenced to death for the starvation tare and murder at the Nazi ror center overrun The court headed John re- the case at noon It de- liberated only 90 minutes 1 before verdict The defense day trial with pleas for defendants whom although five wo camp doctors and three were pruonors- used in The defendants dict stoically There was no v ible reaction from German and others in of more than 300 the five doctors on trial 7 Dr Klaus Schilling w in charge of medical at the camp and was accused Mling hundreds of inmates in hi experiments on the witness stand to be allow lo to on with the paper work o saying he desk and a Troops of U S 42nd an win Divisions freed 32.000 to lured and emaciated men and 1 omen when they overran Dacha r m the April It has bee that at least 5.000 Jen killed in the sec the camp alone lwen regarded of any of th war criminals death but U S Army Allies Would Provide Funds to Enable Germany to Set Up Imports By GRAHAM Washington Dec 12 Germany if this country will be back on its feet two years hence able to pay its own way and to raise the living ards of Pre-Christmas Hours Are Announced Will Not Be Open Night of Dec 24 Kingston stores will remain open until 9 o'clock nights all next week starting Monday December 17 as Christmas shopping enters the home stretch On Monday De- is the long-range objective cember 24 stores plan closing of American policy toward the Reich as laid down by the State Department It comprises a mid- between hard and soft peace proposals carry jt however the United States other Allies will have to provide of mit Germany to import her next two years The State Department made the U.S policy by releasing he text of a statement prepared at the request of the War ment for guidance of American occupation authorities The statement which also was ent to the governments of Hussia and France constituted he first detailed interpretation by ny power of the general policy or Germany produced at the am Big Three meeting in August American officials were at 5 p m They will not be open Christmas Eve the have been reporting a good business though handicapped eral in some situation which according to re- ports that have been received is being found to exist in stores in the largest cities Several of the stores in planned today to re- main open Friday and Saturday evenings this week although the Saturday evening hours not be in effect among all stores Laboratory Gets Right To Purchase Equipment The Common Council held reinstated hanging a case of common criminals explained German hanging a more igno Cannons death than beheading News Wires Are fy Workmen Service on news between and New York was broken afternoon from and on stock was interrupted for a when workmen en wi wires south of Kingston knocked out a sec c service through a i work of Jhc American Tele- Company ing to predict how other three occupying powers might receive the policy declaration Would Retain Boundaries They said however that the American plan was based on the assumption that Germany would retain its present boundaries in- the industrial Ruhr and The Associated Press President Truman intervened in the General Motors strike today by appointing a fact-finding board to consider the dispute and announced he would name a similar board soon in an effort to head oft a threatened strike in the steel in- dustry The 22 day old General Motors strike has made some sons idle throughout the country and crippled nearly half the industry's production of lew cars The United workers Union has called a strike of its members for ary strike which industry spokesmen estimate would affect more than 40 per cent of the workers through its effect on related industries The President told his news con- ference that the General Motors lact finding board would be headed by Judge Walter P Stacy man of the recent ment conference Other members are Lloyd K Garrison chairman of War Labor Board and Milton president of Kansas State College Mr Truman disagreed with the views of organized labor that finding procedures might result m in settlement of union demands His action the face of direct opposition of leaders striking United Auto Workers involved in the General Motors dispute and of the CIO United Steelworkers The President's proposal for fact-finding procedures received new support today from Labor Secretary who told the Senate Committee that legislation embodying such was critically needed the national interest Detailed Plan's Are Made Pittsburgh Dec 12 spokesman for the of America said de- tailed plans for the scheduled January 14 strike of steel and iron ore workers made at a meeting of Photo shows note left in on wall of the Chicago of Frances Brown former Wave left found fatally and shot presumably written b her slayer AP Rhineland areas This assured opposition from France which has insisted that zones be stripped from Germany In a supplementary statement on the declaration tary of State Byrnes said three be involved in return lo normal In the irst of these lasting until imc spring Byrnes listed four Allied mass starvation in necessary by in- creased imports from the United tales To increase io the greatest special meeting Tuesday evening aluminum at the city hall and granted the of managers of the Kingston Laboratory use pointed and other procedure of of anticipated revenue in the union's proposed walkout in the purchase of needed equipment support of its a day wage de- al the laboratory mand was being worked out the A resolution that the request be spokesman said Byrnes Leaves U.S For Secretary of Slate Goes by Plane Due Saturday Washington Dec 12 tary of State Byrnes left by plane today for Moscow where he plans to tackle half a dozen critical sues oh which Big Three tion has been stalled extent the of German coal to countries formerly overrun by Germany To complete the four-power agreement by ry 2 1946 and start the nery for carrying out To reestablish German agencies in finance trans- communications foreign rade and he second period lasting com the spring of So ary Z a German Is envisaged As plans arc for rons others trill be earmarked or permanent by Jhc German Jn Jhc period Byrnes said mas will ow economy Jo up granted and the appropriation made was offered by Alderman Matthew Jordan seconded by Alderman Thomas Coughlin and unanimously adopted Dr J S Taylor in charge of the laboratory in a communication to the aldermen to the effect that this year the laboratory would receive an estimated in excess of anticipated a press conference Philip Murray president of both the and the United flatly denied assertions of the American Iron and Steel Institute hat there would be no strike the abides by its pledged word given only last spring Murray declared the strike in no way violates the contract which Continued on Pace these issues energy and an eventual European peace conference Byrnes plane roared away from Washington airport at a m General D wight Eisenhower army chief of staff surprised the secretary by showing up unexpectedly to tell him goodbye i I just thought I'd come out to say goodbye lo the secretary and wish him Eisenhower said Byrnes told Eisenhower that he would to Generalissimo Stalin The pilot of the big transport was Capt Keating Jr of Locust Valley Long Island has piloted Byrnes on other The flight schedule calls for setting Byrnes to the Russian capital in time for his meeting Saturday with Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov and British Foreign Secretary first mate were being taken o the tanker in boat it suddenly capsized wher near the ship The watch he vessel saw the three men in the water and an alarm A boat was lowered and the hrce men were hauled from the and taken aboard after being in the water for about 20 minutes Cout Curd Calls City The tanker is equipped with wireless and an alarm was sent ut over it which was picked up the Coast Guard station in New York The Coast Guard telephoned to Kingston Department asking that aid xr sent and that a physician be called The tanker also sounded the signal on its whistle was heard in the lower of the city and the police received several on More Than 4 Million Used As Slave Laborers My WES GALLAGHER Nuernberg Dec 12 More than conquered laborers were forced into virtual slavery in Germany by murder arson and kidnaping American prosecutors disclosed today at the war crimes trial of 21 Nazi war leaders The slave system to provide workers for war plants and farms was described as a wild and ruthless manhunt carried on 1 n a Nad libor mvn as official Nazi philosopher and administrator of the occupied Ukraine and Albert Reich munitions minister One report taken from Rosenberg's files revealed that babies born on slave labor trains were thrown from the windows Speer sat his face in his hands as Prosecutor Dodd declared force and brutality as a method of production found a ready adherent in the Hitler ordered forced labor for 2.000000 and Condition Official Bulletin an additional in March Germany Dec were no of of One i Jhe who not So Germany Jihus be a and nt nor Jhe i whicih launched KW of to a cr cf a before Jhc international military Jhc charges of crimes I Hitter's aides U S Thomas J dis- closed ty the Germans can ords snore men wrom and of 14 had been to like Jhc Nad war machine January 8385 TMt A If Emery Crou bat II 09 and and Jhc a founded iby ibis suddenly aal Ms home torn ihc He Irom Cornell his 11 Jhan an unofficial dratted Nan and Allied fowl records the of at ty January As ttf Wjc Nad slave m system were court won MM ac away from the Jy as and Three Into River When Mecca Boat Upsets Men Spend 20 Minute in Water Before Tanker Crew Comes to Their Aid Three men had a from drowning in the icy waters of the Hudson off Kingston Point Tuesday evening when the motorboat they were They were rescued by members o the crew of Port Char lotte anchored off Kingston Point and spent the night aboard the tanker where they were attended jy Dr Vincent Amatrano of The three men were Charles Alecca of 167 North street owner of the motorboat and the captain and first mate of the tanker names were not the police According to the story as the police the captain Jo on Mardi 18 1953 ordered Ihc of captive lo wp So a day orau Uw in the in and n at has badly t the Iodine Tfic Horn was ol the court Cm George S Jr was broken in an auto- accident Sunday a hut re- an bulletin said An U S Jully and he active reflexes Iiim M tone of taid he in the paralytic condition day of Ihc noon 109 Puke a is Has been by fli Mrs is no in Condition It Jjmc crave -a using ir- word Mrs 30 hie a her at Jhe One she U S A was l and with fare as Sn Uie So Hoc nut ihc ahr SB Kkc it Shwe Hie she me Jo aUral him way Imt 1 Jo te Jo U re- casic Hie unless hp a hi tn the A sign wi door President Asks Price Control on House Properties of Priority System on Building Materials Made Program Washington Dec 12 dent Truman today asked that residential property be placed un- der price control and of the priority system on building materials His actions contemplated special veterans in need of lousing At the same time Mr Truman the of Wilson former mayor of Louisville as special housing under the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion The President's action was in approving a ion by Reconversion Director tohn W Shyder The program calls for ceiling on old and new housing said the Price Administration is now placing ocal ceiling he construction materials them elves and many services The calls Speedy release owned surplus housing units materials for use lousing veterans and their fam lies A regulation now being pre- for release before mit die of the priorities The President said this lion would multiple dwelling housing unit costing or less per H said this would mean about 5 per cent- of all building material yill be channeled into 6 avail ble for industrial dwelling and for thcr construction ate He said he was acting under he Second War Power Act prices on old and new a field he said larp brought a threat which has been the most menacing in our economy We arc using all the powers hat have been granted the ad- to combat he The president adopting er's recommendations as those of 1 ic administration quoted i saying that credit agencies of he government would involve trying ceilings in different parts f the country depending upon cal conditions The President endorsed on now before the House g and Currency Committee ding authority for ceiling prices n the sale of old and new g He said such authority is if we arc to avert further of home Navy Officer Predicted to Secretary Tokyo Message Meant Attack on Pearl Harbor Secret Is Told Kramer Said He Sent Notation to Knox Is Officer's Statement Dec 12 m Gen George C Marshall testified today that he was convinced as early as August 1941 that a Pacific war was inevitable and knew the United States was not ready for it Dog Finds Child's Body Bedford Hills N Y Dec 12 were seeking today to am the identity of a M baby boy whose mutilated body as brought to the am Lawrence on Stamford road y a mongrel hound Police Chief rank said the Lawrence dog brought the body to e house at 3 p m yesterday nd that 17 hours later police hod -en unable to find where the dog und it A search was being made JT any bits of clothing that might as a clue to the child's Dr Amos O Squires counly medical examiner id he believed UK child had been ad about 10 days Demanded Chelsea Mass Dec Ja A an representing himself Jo be re kidnaper of from hfc iwo weeks a ransom in lonc call to the father a avy nun m a rn juna J from the a amc the ti be be never hu re- Jo U H wju caller weB Km tiy g to be the Treasury Receipts Dec J2 W The jon Jhe Ex- littna tic JOT 1 or day Jhe room Ukc OM In- Marshall began his sixth day of testimony after a committee of n Navy purported prediction to Knox December 7 1941 hat an intercepted Tokyo message meant surprise attack on Pearl Harbor today and possibly a mid- night attack on Manila A hitherto top secret report of an Army Inquiry Board said an- naval officer quoted Capt Alwin D Kramer as having said n 1943 that he sent a notation to this effect to Knox It went with the Tokyo message instructing Japanese peace envoys Here to deliver their diplomatic reply at 1 Washington time ber 7 There was no Indication in the report Knox received this notation if received it at all Marshall was questioned by Rep who traced the events of the summer of 1941 that was growing then and Marshall agreed were convinced as early as August that if the current events continued we Would tably be drawn into a war with Japan weren't Keefe ed Marshall replied Tou know at that time we weren't prepared for a war in tha From All Marshall replied that was true adding that he was being pushed roiri all sides for additional men nd equipment but was ing on attempts to build up defenses as a possible to a Japanese move to he south Other points in the previously secret report received by the com- A conclusion by Maj Gen ron e Cramer army judge atc general on September 14 945 that the War Department ever had received any notice that lie Japanese had broadcast a winds message warning their of a break in American aliens General Cramer's further ion that Navy witnesses ing before Rear Adm H Kent denied the receipt of any hentic winds message A declaration by Lt Gen cr C Short that he probably would have ordered n full alert in had he received before the the message Marshall sent o him December 7 Short was the rmy commander at Pearl Harbor n 1941 Before Marshall returned to the tand Rep told a lie plans to ask the r chief of staff to give his opinion to where the major lies for the defeat suffered t Pearl Harbor Four Youths Sentenced Bridgeport Conn Dec 12 col- our New York city youths with participation in the of worth ok urs on the Merrill Parkway last 25 were sentenced croay in Superior Wo lo late prison and two lo Ihc lory at Cheshire Daniel A who wielded a revolver n ihc robbery was lo from four to cisM years 22 who drove Kc car used by Jo jo five T 13 Irom be were ideo John 5S plan the robbery sent Jhe AH four jo cf Workers in Paris 1 Paris Dtt 12 million service France wont wage lo Kits Jwm Jibe or truffle wral ilr for ttwo
