Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - August 24, 1945, Miami, Oklahoma German policemen and plain clothes man have terrific struggle in apprehending this black market operator in Berlin Photo photographer Charles NBA Telephoto Johnny Mercers Box Nears Sales Record By BOB THOMAS Mercer took a title from a railroad box car and parlayed it into one the biggest song hits in recent tune is Topeka arid Santa from the railroad of the same and music circles report it is the fastest hit in many I saw the name on a box car f says Mer who wrote the words to Harry Warrens I thought it had a lyrical quality to When Mercer and Warren sign to write the music for the Harvey a story of the Fred Harvey eating the lyricist suggested a song about the Warren knocked out a tune built around the and Mercer went on the It was an easy one to he As I it took me about an That was two years ago and Mercer had forgotten about and But now the Juke and radio disc jockeys wont allow Mercer to forget the it rain It appears destined to pass his previous recora The platter has passed the markana is still Mercer sings the pong in his own unique which has been described by Paul sounds as if he was singing in his In the Harvey the tune is delivered by a more polished Judy She says that this one and last seasons the Trolly her friends are calling her Miss Transportation of IN OKLAHOMA CANT FIND THE SUGAR OKLAHOMA in charge of the federal alcohol tax opined today the sugar shortage has ap worked a hardship on Ok lahoma During July his men confiscated 13 whereas a monthly average before the war was about with the total sometimes soar ing to 70 when a special drive was The chief trouble seems be he Some few are getting sugar on the black market at about a but most of them have been reduced to using Tells Truman About River Project OKLAHOMA Robert Kerr said to that while in Washington last week he had personally asked Pres ident Truman to take a friendly in terest in the development of the Arkansas river Tho governor said he hopes Sen Elmer Thomas Demo Of Congress from get action If the President would give the nod it would be a great the PLANS TULS Regis tration of freshmen and transfer students for the autumn semester 8 at the University President Pontius announced begin Class work will The Weather to partly cloudy tonight and Warmer Saturday and northeast and north central fair to night and Warmer Sat and north and west KANSAS Generally fair to night and Slightly warmer east tonight nd Satur TRADE COURSES PLANNED HERE College To Offer Special Pro gram in Adult Carter Says Adult education has proven very popular during the last few years and will continue to be much in de mand in the President Bruce Carter of the Northeast ern college is planning a number of will be open to the adults in Miami and vicinity One course that has been arous ing a lot of interest and causing a lot of comment ia the special ar to be taught by Miamis A announcement it is assured that Wilson will class in aA at the the firs week in The class wil be held at night and will be open 4to all those genuinely interested in A class for adults will be offered in Pho to be the most interesting and fasci and it is utilized not only for a hobby in order to make a permanent picture record of ones family and loved but also is possessing great com Shorthand and and bookkeeping will be offeree this possibly on Tues day and Thursday These Continued on Page Dont Need To Save Fuel WPB Says Chairman of the War Production board said today war time no longer is justified as a fuel and This revised an earlier position taken after VE day when King told Congress continuance of war time was no longer necessary for the purpose of economizing use o electric power but stil was highly desirable as a fue conservation measure for the re mainder of the 194646 fuel year President Truman said yesterday he recommend to Congress that wars time be OGE Employes Will Get Pay Increases OKLAHOMA Oklahoma Gas and Elec trie companys employes wil receive blanket pay increases o a for those on and 5V4 cents an hour for paid on an hourly George president o the said the increases were effective since Aug A simila increase was sought by the com pany six months ago but it was not approved by War Labor War Heads Work on Pearl Harbor Case The secretaries of war and navy are preparing recommendations to President Truman on the Pear Harbor The President disclosed this a his news conference yesterday adding that until he received thi report he would not say whethe he favored immediate public tria of Army and Navy officers in command when the Japanese land ed their sneak punch December 7 TRUMAN MEETS LABOR Work tfi if inf in President called in govern ment business and labor atives today to discuss a top prob em of tha from war o peace relu Preparatory to a ment conference planned for the Truman summoned to his desk John of war mobilization and reconversion Eric president of the Chamber of Commerce United States Ira head of the National Association of and Presidents Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial organiza tions and William Green of the American Federation of Americans sighted more but cheese and canned Milk to they were jolted by strong on the labor The government seized a railroad as in President ordered gov operation of the Illinois Central in order to prevent a I the sudden action came at a moment when the Presi dent reportedly was preparing to an order paving the way for return properties seized during the Thus the tides of reconversion rolled in both directions at the same But normal living rolled closer several It appeared as Five Communists Plan To See Chiang Soon By SPENCER MOOSA Conflicting claims to of capital of Mon golian of were made by the command and Chinese Official said Communications Disrupted Irf One To Be Extended in Empire By LEONARD War Editor Rains bogged doWn where kir jorne troops will spearhead trier Allied occupation of Ja Tokyo told General thi reported Allied occupa tion would be extended to Japan the ia ay after signing of surrender and reported fair progress in ending Hostilities in Asia although some Al lied forces were Rains swept in by a disrupted communications transportation in the Tokyo and left the Atsugi airfields sodden with Tokyo Only transports can land on the runways of the airdromes the en emy command warned Who has 350 heavy transports lined Up for the A flood of messages to Mac WORLD LEAGUE MEET PLANNED invitation to send a rep to Chungking to seek a peaceful of Chinas in ternal political Communist headquarters at Ye nan in Shensi said Communist forces entered Kwei 260 miles west of on 18 and were forcing Puppet Mongolian nomi nally under Japanese to The was dated The Chinese high command to day said Fu Chung in Sui took Kweisui The Continued on Page Red Flag Waves Over Manchuria Red flag is flying today over al of port 01 Korea and two of the Kurile is marking an end of Russia war with Premier Stalin formally pro claimed complete victory over the Japanese last The capital shook with a salute of 2 salvos of 324 Stalins order of the since the start of the lightning con on disclosed that the two north Kurile of Shu and had been occupied by Russian troops am that the occupation of Manchuria was KILLED BY TRACTOR Arthur of Sedan was killed yesterday when the tractor with which he was mowing the Country club grounds here overturned in a ditch pinnings him under the machine His plight was discovered a shor while later by His wife and two sons Tobacco Raised By Craig County farmer h Sold OKLAHOMA Jang way from but a Craig county farmer has grown a crop sufficient quality this year to net him it was reported Lee field man for the State Department of reported the and a half acres of raised by Inland on his farm near The yield will be about and Mal lotte will cure it before shipping it to for sale ai an expected price of about 60 cents a Scott rnn Tokyo Airfields Japs After Rains Plenary In cation of the United char ter by Great Britain raised the today that the session of the security league would be called by late Members of the executive com of the United Nations preparatory now sit ting in London to prepare for the birth of the new believe enough will have approved the charter that time to permit the calling of I Britain last night became the last of the powers to Neither in the House of nor in the House of to take a blunt statements that the was not enough to maintain peace so long as the atomic bomb remained a There was a general feeling here that virtually all will have approved the 50nation pact by late now that the United Soviet Rus sia and China have The next Arthur also reported with China were interrupt ed Emperor Hirohito has order BULLETIN MacArthur announced today that an advanced occupation party would land in Japan Sun prepare the way for the main forces which will arrive two days A headquarters spokesman declared that MacAr despite the typhoon which disrupted communications around Tokyo would land on schedule next Thi fact that the first forces would reach Japan Sunday had been trumpeted by the Tokyo radio for but this was the first official The process has been retarded in some of the formerly occupied by the Germans because of the necessity of reinstituting legislative Ratification in Belgium and Nor way must await parliamentary on Page Four Preparing for Allied Occupation SAN is taking measures for supplying lodgings and food as well as transportation to American occupation an broadcast by the Domei news agency said and a liaison office has been es cooperation with the Allied The recorded by the federal reiterated previous statements that Japanese troops are being withdrawn from occupation areas and Japanese naval craft have been forbidden movement in territorial Spaniard Tries To Form Exile Regime MEXICO premier of Republican reported at noon today he is continuing efforts to form a gov in He added is unlikely to be any news until Giral conferred with President Diego Martinez Barrio in the mid dle of the then proceeded with his Tulsa ODT Office To Close 22 OKLAHOMA UP Tulsa district of Office of Defense transportation will be closed 22 and the Oklahoma City district office will assume supervision of its 24 Manager Warren said the personnel the Oklahoma City office would be reduced ap proximately 50 percent because of elimination of certain OPT con He said 30day discharge notices had been given 13 Unemployment Pay Is Low in Tulsa 24 Pan area director for the War Manpower estimated today that only one of five or six persons among thousands ed recently by Tulsa vicinity war has needed unemployment Kenan was encouraged by the fact that while the number of job applicants still is high his office is able to refer as many as 200 a day to employment ed cessation of hostilities along all peace is being restored in most sectors the situation is steadily de in Shang hai and Hangchow areas of Tokyo added that men in a peace mission were on Sakhalin island north of on start when airborne troops Continued on Page Four President Denies a Blow at British Economy The White House had nothing to add today to President Trumans statement to reporters yesterday that termination of was in line with administration pledges and congressional He told his news conference tha it had been planned all along the huge Allied war supply aid program was to end when hostili ties ceased and that its cessation was in no way to be interpreted as a slap at British Press Secretary Charles Rosi would not elaborate today when informed that Prime Attlee declared ending of lend lease puts Britain in a very seri ous financial British Air Marshal Visits City Thursday Visiting Miami from his head quarters in Air Mar shal commander of a RAF activities in this country presented wings to 73 British ca dets during exercises at the loca Spartan School of Aeronautic Thursday Air Marshal holder o the Commander of the Bath an Distinguished Flying cross decora was accompanied by Wini Commander Thursdays wings British officer was the las scheduled for Miami since train ing of RAF cadets will end th second Week in Controls on Paper Products Supplies of such scarce papers as cleansing tissues will in crease the War Board predicted All quantity restrictions on th manufacture of a large variety o converted paper and products Were removed These in addition to fa cial paper napkin wax paper and toilet BULLETIN So yiet troops continued their drive in Korea following the conquest of and oc two ports naif way down the Korean Soviet communique Levin chief of Attny Ord is assistant to Chief John Snyder in the nations effort to speed in return to civilian pro General Campbell was assigned by Chief of Staff George Marshall at Snyderi urgent REICHS FUTURE CITED BY IE Germans Should Build Free Eisenhower Tells Irish eral Eisenhower said today that thi military government of Germany could not be purely negative con trol and declared the Germans should be encouraged to build free institutions suitable to thei Speaking at a city hall cere mony in which he accepted the freedom of wartime Allied supreme c o m m an d e r British he they historically have been of their ancient liberty Japan Voices Opposition to FUa Landings to General MacArthur oday that Russia intended to land occupation troops in the home island of Hok kaido as a typhoon threatened to the supreme commanders own scheduled arrival near Tokyo Simultaneously units of Japans home army began dis arming under the emperors com mand to cease hostilities at once Without waiting for the articles of surrender which will be signed aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo bay Tokyo radio also without confirmation here that the southern home island of Kyushu bad been marked for occupation by Allied troops by The message to MacArthur on the purported Russian move sak the announcement had come from what route it did nol Should this report profe it It would be greatly regretted by the Japa nese which is do ing its best in order fulfill all requirements by placing the army and navy forces and civilians under strict Continued Four world peace a similar sense of personal can be acquired by the Ger man The lord mayor of Si Crawford in presenting to Eisenhower a silver casket con taming his certificate of s a of told him No general ever shouldered greater due to the range and vision of your plans and their brilliant execu victory in Europe was se cured much sooner than the most could have An degree of doctor o laws was presented Eisenhower by the Queens THE REAL STUFF patrons raised eyes today when they found smal yellow squares beside their brea and Veteran employes said Its BRITAIN WANTS MORE BUT CHANGES SLIM Churchill Now That Tramm To By HERCHER t Minister Attlee told Commons to day the sudden end of put Britain in a very serious and former Prime Minister Churchill said could not believe that wag the last word of the United Attlee said the British gov had hoped that lease would Hot have ended out prior In now leader of the declared he could not believe the United States Would proceed in such a rough and harsh manner as to hamper a faithful ally who held the fort while their own Ameri can armaments were Attlee cautioned members of the RUSH UNDER WAY FOR WORK 24 End of the war with Japan ha brought no rush of discharged war workers seeking employment in this southwest Oklahoma In fact the Army airfield has called for 30 more mechanics and v P manager of thi United States Employment service said there was no increase either in job seekers or filing o unemployment compensation appli totf eel of ihg in City and Tuls and also job cutbacks on coast but there hasnt been a from any of those said Group Riding To Be out at Tulsa Monday Tulsa taxicab drivers wil pick up additional passengers if the original occupant is willing Group instituted lo re lieve wartime is taxicab inspector Cecil Roger announced along with ban on carrying city TO HONOR MARTHUR Sani Tomas university announced today that it would confer the degree o doctor of laws honoris causa upon General MacArthur tomorrow aft Postwar Tire Casualty by Sparlin Theres plenty of gasoline all but without tires motorists in the same fix as Ralph superintendent of mails at the local wont be able to do much traveling until their old and worn casings can be who lives at 229 J street at a gaping hole caused when one of his precious tires burst after covering miles of ground the distance around the Since it blew out year Berkshire continues to use the tire by patching the gap with a number of one of which rests on the cars The old carcass still has a lot of miles in it if enough boots are the Miami motorist BULLETIN Foreign Economic Administra tor Leo Crowley said today responsible British must have recognized that lease would have to be discon after the Japanese war and be used as a part of her postwar rehabilitation and reconversion Crawley said I had no discre tion under the law and under the promises made to the Congress of the United The late President as and and had repeatedly stated that could for postwar house to exercise utmost re straint within and without the chamber in commenting on the and Churchill that a debate now might be mental to national Churchill state ment The minister disclosed to during the wartime coalition hadji return to Washington to the finan cial suc Attlee Continued on Page Four Quotas Lifted on Car WPB Says No Spares The War Production board today removed all quotas on the produc tion of passenger leaving the industry free to make as many a capacity The new cars now beginning to come off assembly lines cannot be equipped with spare WLB an order prohibited the production of passenger cars except as authorized under a quota Control of spare will be handled by the Office of An early de cision by that agency is In the WPB has con in effect an order prohibit ing the fifth tire this will re main in effect until OPA WPB emphasized that the avail ability of passenger cars for civil ian use depends entirely upon Continued on Page Four Evatt Pleads for Equality to Aussies is denying Australia a footing of equality in peace Herbert minister of ex ternal charged in a pre pared statement This will have to be arrested not only in the interests of Australia but of the British commonwealth as a he There still is a deplorable tend ency now that the fighting is over to relegate Australia to a sub ordinate status and either not con sult it at all or to consult it in a perfunctory way and not on a footing of he Observers here regarded his statement one of the most im portant ever issued in British com Japs in Singapore Havent Quit Yet Allied Southeast Asia command still was awaiting today prelim inary indications of surrender by the Japanese Singapore command Seishiro head of the Seventh area army and a mer minister of war at Elsewhere throughout southeast Japanese forces from tha commander of the southern Field Marshal Count Juichi chi at down to monsoon bound privates have laid down their arms and even are reverting to prewar shows of
