Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - August 23, 1945, Miami, Oklahoma TS 1945 W 41 Biffin 9 J RACKET AMONG In of federal of Investigation announced today 118 men through out the country had been arrested in connection with ft dining ear ticket coat two railroads more thaw over a period All Of the men special agent in charge of the New York FBI ers or cooks employed by the 1 New York Central and Erie rail roads on several Of their best The based on manipula tion of food and liquor cost railroads as much as on single Conroy adding that victims were elderly Women and persons miliar with dining car said these three methods manipulation food checks were aed Baiters take a food or der orally and then fail to sub mit a written This meth od was used principally on el persons and inexperienced M RELAXED ON INDUSTRIES War Surplus fieri Prank McCarthy of Rich who has ap pointed by President Truman be assistant secretary of succeeding Julius re is shown in an informal pose ins he assumed his new duties at the state NBA Telephoto Baiters would leave Wank food order checks on or under a water pitcher and not sUpply a This would dis a diner from Writing out an When the meal was end the waiter would make a pre tense at writing out and Continued Engager in Last Phase of Work Designation of Ok lahoma ordnance works as sur will have absolutely no ef feet on the program now being fol the plants commanding as Klemka said the powder plant operated by DuPont lready was beginning to close own when announcement came it would turned over to the Recon DOOR IS TO HUNGRY War Hero ond Family To Obtain Meal in Wash ington Hotel Four of an Arkansas farm family who obtain dinner service in one of Washing tons were welcome at the White House They were Staff James his father and and his Andrew all of They were bid to the White House so that the along with 27 other Army could receive the Congressional Medal of President The War department said in a statement last night it had learned that the Hendrix party was re fused dining room service in the hotel al though quartered suite there We will finish processing the materials on which We are work the officer and that should take up until about At the tame we have started our decontamination work some It will take several to complete that Klemka said 200 to 400 workers Would be needed for about three to complete the Congress Will Be Asked To Repeal War Time Soon were signs of Capitol Hill today that Congress may be asked to act promptly upon reconvening to repeal war time turn the nations clocks back one hour to fly STERLING GREEN The offered 262 war plants to industry Those plants could make alot of civilian goods and plenty of civilian By declaring the government plants surplus longer for airplane engines and Army thus provided a contribu toward the governments goal of full Under White House pressure for speedy the Recon struction corporation prepared to go all out lit pushing their sale or lease to private 000 figure is what the plants cost to undoubted ly go much ft was the biggest offering to date of potential Capacity to fill the demand for But for the average man and the reconversion spotlight was on More con were coming 1 On it was laundries and other businesses may make as many deliveries as their trucks can handle with unlimited Thus will end one of the house wives prime annoyances of the deliveries all bat the most p e r i s h a b I e milk other Continued on Page Four Highest Award To 28 Heroes Today At White House Truman bestowed the Congressional Medal of Honor on 28 Army heroes today the larg est mass ceremony of its Before a large audience of high ranking military and civilians and members of the families of those the President tied the highest award of the on each of the officers and men after citations for their of heroism were read Japs Mush Preparations for Allied Select Warlord in Highest Office Russia has announced the cap ture of Emperor Rang Ja pans of The onetime Boy formerly known as Henry Pu is being held as an in according to Marshal Alexander Soviet Far Eastern NBA Telephoto Shimomura Is Named War To Meet After Surrender By LEONARD MILLIMAN prepared for Allied occupation today by naming AH undefeated warlord as war calling an extra ordinary session of parliament to two days after formal and displaying a sudden outpouring oi mercy The diet was called into emergency session 2 to drive the nation the stark reality that Japan has been completely defeated and begin the Herculean task of rebuilding supreme war council was enlarged and recon as a conference on termination of the Prince up the war portfolio Nipponese preme commander in currently the most spot iri department offered to escorting officer for the rest of the but the James told a re porter the dining room had empty tables and he guessed his group was not served just be cause we didnt have on fine enough He was in but he said no one mentioned The who alone wiped out two Nazi artillery positions and saved three wounded comrades in was in his Hotel officials made no com The Hendrix party was still reg at the last prewar standard Under present written early in the nations defense war time would run for six months after termination of the Howell member of Athe House interstate commerce said he would call for immediate committee action on one of several pending repealer bills as soon as Congress reconvenes President Truman cannot turn clocks back by An act of Congress is Britain May Keep Wartime tains new Labor government in legislation today seeking broad authority to retain for at least five years many of its war time emergency including the right to peg prices and regular services and leader Herbert Morri chancellor of the exchequer Hugh Dalton and Sir Stafford president of board of measure to Highway in Need of Equipment OKLAHOMA 23 Highway Engineer Bailey said today lack of equip ment will delay improvements to utate highway departments equipment is practically worn paid We have had no new equipment in the last four or five OIL MEETING SOT Andrew Schoeppel chairman of the Interstate Oil Compact said he would confer 81 through 1 and 2 in Oklahoma City with the Interstate Oil Compact executive The cloudy to night and little change in temperature Warmer Fn MISSOURI to partly cloudy tonight Little change in temperature Warmer cloudy tonight Little change in tem Warmer presented the All are top ranging of Prime Minister NO PLAN FOR DOUGLAS AugY The War department said today no disposal was at pres of the Douglas aircraft plants Oklahoma City They will be placed on a standby which equipment will be left in place for resumption work if Jap General Had Idea ABomb Was Nippons Weapon WITH 38TH Northern 23 you heard about the atomic bombs being used in the war American officers asked Japanese ume at a mountain sur render Where did we use it against you the enemy officer asked You must have your signals one American told We were the ones who used The Japanese colonel seemed Richard Jef Terra and told the Americans he un Japan had such a weap on nearly perfected when he left the by Edward acting from the Army played before the ceremony in a lobby outside historic east which is reserved for memo rable Two Heroes were in wheel Another was totally Applause each medal The awards brought to 196 the number of medals of Honor given to Army personnel in World war The heroes came from 19 with one from In the group were one lieutenant four 16 sergeants and four The ceremony was to have been held in the rose but rain forced it The medals were bestowed on the men in alphabetical Of the 28 24 are veterans of the European thea ter of operations and four earned their awards in the The large number decorated in a sin gle ceremony was said by the War department to have been due to the fact that many of the men were badly wounded it was impossible to have earlier Such men as Herrera of who kept on fighting after his feet were blown off by a were in the In addition to the men include Herbert Kansas City James Le and Jack L Kicked By a Dies KANSAS Injuries received when kicked by a horse proved to Charles Oklahoma who died yesterday in a Kansas City hos The accident occurred on the farm of the Thomas Surviving are the boys father Charles Lee City bis Ok lahoma City a Pale Rice Grain and a sister Miss Alice EXCEED MILLION Army Deod Total Navy fatalities Ara Figured at With to come com bat casualties in World II an by the armed forces have now reached The Army today reported its as here through August as The latest Navy report of casual ties The aggregate represented an in crease of 681 since Fridays The Navy casualties ac declined by 43 as a result of and shifts in the wound missing and prisoner of war The services will continue to an lounce casualty figures until the inal reports have A on Army ind corresponding figurek last Friday and and and prison 119103 and The decline in the number of missing resulted from transfers to other The War department said that of the wounded have returned to duty and of the prisoners have been exchanged or returned to military Similar figures for the Navy and ound and 426 and PLENTY OF FAGS IN STORES FOR SMOKERS TODAY The cigaret tioli of smokers here for several well on its way tq the peace casualty when a wide variety of the popular brands sud denly hopped from behind local store counters Merchants who had been doling out the stoops from hidden caches in an effort to more widely distribute their supplies since the hit smilingly returned to the what kind phrase in answer to customers inquiries this One place proprietor opined that the shortage would dead duck if merchants would put all cigarets on the counters and if consumers would smoke their hoarded supplies before purchasing additional cig arets as they run Popular brand cigars were still scarce here Temperature Sags To 61 Here Today As the mercury sagged to Miamis lowest temperature thi sleepers for more bed covers shortly befor dawn With the end of the summer sea son still about a month rea Indian summer weather prevaile here with yesterdays highest tern recorded at At noon today it was the forces presumably were among 000 Japanese whose surrender is called for in preliminary negotia tions with the Chinese field com went out to purported victims of American explosive atom The govern merit asked permission lo send relief to sick and dying garrisons on bypassed In return it promised aid to Allied prisoners in Nippon and said they would be started toward embarkation ports Tokyo Nipponese in Korea and Formosa stay where they are and earnestly work for Japanese also expressed concern about possible civil warin turbulent scene of the greatest in render Communists bucking Chiang in North China were reported on the war clos oh Page Four EXPLOSION JARS OREGON PLANT Two Men Reported Killed in Uatt ot lot ing Factory explosion rocked Iron Fire man Manufacturing company plant and first reports from a BULLETIN explosion that knocked housewives from their chairs 50 blocks away Iron Fireman Manufacturing company killing one and injuring an un determined number of Police reported a Mi chael A nearby hospital admitted five men shortly after the and a more distant hospital said it was expecting 17 Initial of Japan Second To Successful Onte OKLAHOMA 23 Oklahoma highway pa which two days ago that discourteous automobile driv ers may have cost a baby its made a second race death over the same route last night and drivers were prompt to observe the courtesies of the The infant daughter of and Forrest James reached Oklahoma City hospital in good condition when trooper Leonard Kelsoe was able to make from the Seminole where she was born last Kelsoe quickly dimmed their lights and pulled to ward the side of the road to give the mercy car a clear His route was the same trooper Pendleton followed Mon day night when he sought to rush the newborn child of Guy to Ok lahoma But that night the baby Pendleton said he believed drivers who ignored his sirens and warning lights had slowed the car so much the baby lost its The Burkhart baby was given oxygen on the trip by Owens and John Seminole fire Her father is a lineman for the Deep Rock Production at correspondent on the scene said two men Were killed fifteen girl employe at ihe that there were no and only four in Police and said they been able to determine the of the believed caused by an ng electric explosion started a brief but it was extinguished short y after the fire department called a second Day shift employes were told to come to work as The which in peacetime manufactures has been making parts of engines for Boe ng Commerce Citizens Have Little Water The citizens of Commerce found themselves short of water this morning after one of their two deep well pumps went out of order last night while the other is sup plying only drinking Police Chief Aubert Sidwell said Sidwell warned Commerce resi dents to be f extremely careful against fires and asked them to limit their use of water to drink ing JAP CURRENCY of Japanese message to General MacArthur regarding currency The Japanese government to be informed of the cur rency to be used in Japan by the forces of We hope that they will use bank of Japan notes for this purpose and are ready to deliver currency at Yoko hama and Cool Weather To Remain in State BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Moderate temperatures in Okla homa for the next two days were forecast by the weather observer There will be some clouds and little the mercury wil than yesterdays 84 at The overnight 57 at Traces of rain were reported at Waynoka and the Oklahoma City Eight from This Area Discharged According to the public relations department of the personnel center at Camp the following Ok have received discharges recently from tha point Joseph Andrews Grove Tyrrell OBrien 120 I street Miami Sgt Robert 107 North Wai Commerce William S Fairland Everett E Bluejacket Charles F Grove Norman Vinita and TSgt Martin Thomas To Press For Project Funds Elmer Thomas said today he planned to insert an item for re sumption construction of the fort Gibson oam in the first ency to come before Congress next It is only common the veteran Oklahoma senator to resume work on a project on a million dollars already Has been The War Production board blocked its construction in the early days of the claiming the ma terials were not The major reason for its was that Donald Nelson didnt want the public to have He argued that there was no market for the energy in this We are proving him wrong every Physical Exams at School Tomorrow Preschool physical examinations will be given children at the Miam high school Friday afternoon be tween the hours of 1 and 4 oclock director of th Ottawa County Health department Examinations being held unde the sponsorship of the Parent Teacher association will also bi conducted next Monday and Wed afternoons at the sam the physician BULLETIN Stalin announced to night he Red army had occupied the whole of Red troops have occupied a second is land in the just south of which wau taken by airborne troops the broadcast order of the day and the Jap anese Kwantung army in Man has ceased resistance and laid down its arms ro at AT M TOKYO United States troops will begin occupation of Japan on Sunday Sat United States time with landing of airborne troops at according to Tokyo Map shows approximate area sea ward of broken line of initial NBA Telephoto Police Chief at Prague Wounded Two Are Jailed Chief Marvin Roberts Was i a critical condition ng a battle in which Night Marshal John wid an ther man were wounded lie two man and his son on d r u n The the asT 46year Id Cromwell oil field worker and his 24yearold The patrol said that as the of and arrived at city iall last night following arrests or public the young ir man seized pistol and stalled The marshal was hit in the while Roberts suffered shoulder and hand Then as Roberts fell the patrol he fired his own hitting the elder Cromwell man in the thigh arid Roberts was rushed to an Okla ioma City while Wamo stek and the elder man were hos The laters injuries were reported but not while wounds were believed not The young man at first was placed in jail here but fearing the wrath of aroused later removed him to an undisclosed place of confine TOKYO RAIDERS FOLKS RELIE Rescue of Four Fliers Doolittle Ends 3 Years Off Suspense The agonized uncertainty of more than three years was ended today for the families of four Tokyo The War department told them yesterday that the who fell nto enemy handa the mission led by Jimmy had A rescue team which para chuted to found hem in a prison They are Chase Niel Hy Utah George formerly of Jacob formerly of and Rob Still unaccounted for are four other fliers captured on the same They are William Robert Ohio Dean and Harold President Roosevelt announced in that the Japanese had executed some of the eight and DUPONT TO PUT OUT NYLONS ON A HUGE SCALE DuPont De Nemours company into largescale peacetime promises American women 11 pairs a It wont be DuPont until we have what amounts to a nylon Through years of ex in putting the strong yarn to military the textile indus try has learned many new ways of handling the Sheer which proved an invaluable aid against in the soon will in window veilings and even underwear made of nylon will hold their shape and smoothness through countless the Hirohito Order Has Reached All Isles peror cease fire order now has reached all the Tokyo radio said NEEDS TEACHERS OKLAHOMA City schools open in less than two weeks and there still are 76 teaching positions un There were more vacancies today than a week coordinator of per said some of the workers released at the Douglas aircraft plant here had applied bui none had yet been sentences for never commuted death The Japanese which ones Continued on Page Four Crowd Cheers De Gaulle in Capital A crowd of spectators ignored mild summer shower today to ap plaud Charles De Gaulle as he moved his headquarters from the White house to nearby official guest quarters in Blair The President of provisional French who arrived waved to the crowd as he mounted the steps to his new headquarters shortly after 9 He was expected to return to the executive mansion during the day to resume talks with President Accompanying the French gen eral were George State department protocol and Sumner Waite of the INJURIES PROVE FATAL 23 died last rright in a local hospital as a result of injuries suffered oh the night of May 20 when struck by a car while crossing a Both of his legs were broken in the Enos was a night watchman for the Page Milk com pany BULLETIN Hugh internation ally known surgeon and urologist who was among several famous medical connected with the growth and development of the John Hopkins died to f
