Moberly Monitor-Index (Newspaper) - November 14, 1945, Moberly, Missouri WHS LOAN W MOBERLY AND MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT VOLUME 27 AJTD W LEASED MOBERLY MISSOURI Fear Soviet Reaction To Atom Bomb fool Strong Feeling Evident That This May Be One Of Climatic Weeks of History Decisions Influence Vitally Relations WASHINGTON Nov 14 officials in the atomic bomb talks here indicated today they are largely ed now about Russia's reaction to the proposal for controlling force There is a strong feeling evident on the part of that this is one of the climactic weeks of history Decisions now being ped into shape will influence the future of erican relations with Russia These relations are the core of United Nations plans for policing world peace Evidence recently available from British authorities is tha President Truman Prime Minis ter Attlee and Prime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada wil seek particularly in their com i on plans for interna tional atomic controls to reassure Russia This may be done by of- fering to share scientific edge of atomic power fully with the Soviet Union and other countries Indications are that at the same time Russia will be invited to reassure the Western Allies about her policies and intentions by agreeing to toss her scientific information in the contemplated pool and possibly by giving some of her long-range territorial and political aims Question Worrying Insiders The questions which has ial insiders worried is what pens if Russia doesn't want to cept the Anglo-American Would a negative tion from Moscow they ask tend to split the world into two Would it take all the wraps off an atomic armament Because of the dangers fore- seen by Allied diplomats in any real disagreement among the Big Three over the handling of there is some chance that the proposals put forward by Attlee Truman and zie King will be general in proach to the problem rather fast specifications for a solution This would leave the way open for Russian tions and and lined Chinese Land Pour a Without Opposition at Port Occupied by Marines TSINGTAO Nov 14 Thousands of and equipped Chinese ist troops are landing unopposed today from U S transports at this north China city occupied October 11 by American Marines who since have ben cooped by the presence of Chinese Com- nearby Whether the Marines will be pulled out of their lone foothold on Shantung Peninsula edly dominated by the Reds wa not made known The necks of Maj Gen Lemuel C Shepherd Sixth Division have been limited to garrison duty since accepting surrender of more than Japanese Some of those Japanese lowed to retain guard over Tsingtao industries which include nine large cotton mills Japanese civilians are keeping the factories open Chinese Reds King Port Chinese Red troops ring the WED NOV 14 1945 EST MONITOR IMS Tied Krupp left for his father Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and as a defendant in the war crimes trials at jerg Germany was approved by the International Military tri- bunal on request by Justice Robert H Jackson U S Prosecutor when the French and Soviet prosecutors reversed their previous stand A postponement in the trial is probable British Blame Jap General for Uprising in Java Charge Nippon Arms Deliberately Handed BATAVIA Nov 14 JP Fighting waged with unabated fury in Soerabaja and in Gen D C thorn accused the commander of the Japanese Army and his chief of staff of haying ately handed over arms to un- ruly elements in Java A dispatch from Associated P s s Correspondent V e r n Haugland in Soerabaja said Brit- ish Indian troops battling in the of the naval base hurled back three suicidal Indonesian attacks during the night killing ig a their port by land On the peninsula's ip the strategic ports of f oo and Weihaiwei are in Com- munist hands American ships were anchored off two ports for several weeks but 1 L W U MwJ V tA M v avoid the appearance of Nationalists down a demand for U.S and On Allied Control For Japan Secretary Byrnes Reports Moscow Insists on Unanimity Rule in Proposed Control Council U.S Wants MacArthur to Have Deciding Voice WASHINGTON Nov 14 of State Byrnes dis- closed today that the United States and Russia are still deadlocked over Soviet demands for the establishment of an Allied control council for Japan Russia he said is insisting upon a unanimity rule in the cil similar to the one under which the control council in Berlin functions Byrnes contended that the rule is responsible for failure of the Berlin group to accomplish many things that should have been done in Germany under the Potsdam agreement In the proposed Japanese cil all members under sian would have an equal voice and all would have to agree before anything could be done This means that an ob- by any one could block Soviet Discoveries MOSCOW 14 Highly important discoveries which may well have a direct bearing on Russian explorations in the field of atomic energy were reported today from Mt Alagos on the shores of Lake Karagel in the Armenian ist republic The government newspaper Izvestia said that an engaged in cosmic rays had discovered that cosmic rays knocked protons out of lead The report said this discovery is of outstanding interest It did not explain why tons are heavy positively ed bits of electricity and one of the three kinds of primary ticles which form all chemical elements Lead is among the heavy chemical elements whose splitting if it could be done probably would yield enough atomic energy for either bombs or power Allied experiments have shown no means of split ting lead atoms The appearance of protons when lead atoms are hit by cosmic rays is not sarily a sign of splitting Izvestia said the Russian tist Peter Kapitza the Soviet Union's foremost expert in mic research had played a ing role in the building of a er magnet for the expedition Swift Action Urged On UNRRA Fund A landing was considered ly last month at Chef oo but Vice Admiral Daniel E Barbey re- ported no Japanese were in the area hence there was no reason for the landing American in denying repeated charges of the Com- that the United States is intervening in China's un- declared civil war have sized the primary mission was to repatriate the Shift in Soviet Position The United holding for a council in which Gen Douglas MacArthur Allied com- mander in Japan have a decisive voice in case of dis- agreement Byrnes had said several weeks ago that the American idea was acceptable to Russia but today disclosed the shift in Moscow's position Discussing other aspects of Far Tenth of Rails Destroyed CHUNGKING Nov 14 Chinese Communists have de- WASHINGTON Nov 14 Assistant Secretary of State liam L Clayton urged Congress today to take the promptest possible action on President man's request for an additional for UNRRA Clayton the United States member of the UNRRA council was the first witness to appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in suport of a authorizing the additional funds to be followed by Un- of State Dean son and Herbert H Lehman UNRRA director-general The assistant secretary said he believes UNRRA represents the proper method of furnishing re- lief and rehabilitation and defended the against complaints that it has been cumbersome and in- effective of all China's railways approximately 875 miles of trackage causing widespread of the country's transportation work Cabinet Spokesman P H Chang asserted today He said however that trains still were running on the railroad between Peiping and the seaport of loading point guarded by U S Marines railroads linking China with Inner Mongolia are most entirely he reported So is the kow line in South China be- tween in Kwangtung Province and in Hunan Eastern policy at a news ence Byrnes said that Chinese troops to be flown into ria would be transported in planes to China and manned by Chinese crews He recalled that President man's order lease on day provided for post-war assignment of military ment to China to aid in the render of Japanese forces there added Breaks also were acknowledged on the railroad in il China near Chengchow and Traffic was restored on the Nanking and railroads Chang reported and trains are running between kow and on the line in northeast Province Trains also are moving again on the Hankow railroad between kow and Chengchow near the Yellow River he said Quits as Assistant Secretary of War WASHINGTON Nov President Truman today ed the resignation of John J Cloy assistant Secretary of War effective Nov 24 The White House made public an exchange of letters in which the expressed his very great regret on having to let McCloy go McCloy offered his resignation Sept 6 with the retirement of Henry L Stimson as Secretary of War but the President refused to accept it at that time The of Robert Lovett another assistant tary of War offered at the same time has not been acted upon McCloy recently returned from a mission to the European and Pacific theaters undertaken in connection with occupation Cairo Meets Its Quota for Victory Bonds Cairo and vicinity exceeded its Victory Bond quota day when sales of brought the community's total to on a quota of 255 drive in Cairo was under the direction of Herman Wright cashier of the Bank Cairo is the sixth community to exceed its quota in the county the others being oke Clark Clifton Hill Renick and Huntsville Sales yesterday outside of Moberly reached cording to Henry A Taylor county chairman Other com- reported the Urbandale sales total Jacksonville community sales total Salt River Township sales total The total sales for the county outside of Moberly are 815 Chairman Taylor reports bond sales are still lagging own in fighting for the Kota railway station and marshalling British threw a pounder barrage against entrenched in concrete the area British Moving Slowly Haughland reported that the British were moving slowly in order to keep their casualties low and that it might take the of this week to clear out the remaining half of still Nationalist hands A- reliable unofficial estimate placed the number of ians opposing the British in Soerabaja at between and men including many armed with spears In the capital the two ese generals accused of the un- surrender of their arms were bundled off to Singapore to face charges Hawthorn administered a bal lashing to the two officers Lt Gen Nagano and his chief of staff Maj Gen Yamamoto at a for- mal surrender ceremony held a full six weeks after the arrival of British troops The Japanese generals surrendered their swords to Hawthorn who is commander of the 23rd Indian Division Resistance Indonesian Nationalists at SURVIVES NAZI EXECUTION James Cockriel Platte City Mo left for dead with eight wounds guns of a firing squad in Belgium last year expects to discharged from the Army this week at Kans He vived a firing squad's volleys lowing his capture with under- ground patriot forces ed Press Photo from U S Air Public Invited To Veterans District Official Will Speak at Session Tomorrow Percy M Louis Eastern Missouri contact officer continued to put up I for the Veterans Administration born resistance to steadily will speak at a mass Indian even as the new Indonesian premier tan prepared to go there in an attempt to bring about a cessation of hostilities The Nationalists fought from the pillboxes and air raid shelters in the heart of the city against advancing Fifth Indian Division troops last re- ported driving on government buildings still in native hands RAF planes made several strikes against the buildings Congressmen Until Action WASHINGTON Nov 14 ing deficiency T J Cross New Superintendent at Algoa Boys School JEFFERSON CITY Nov 14 Don Hudson resigned day as superintendent of the Intermediate Reformatory for Boys at Algoa and Gov Phil M Donnelly appointed Thomas J Cross of Jefferson City to place him Hudson addressed the State Penal Board in resigning ive Dec 1 He had served since March v 1 and formerly taught political science at Kirksville State Teachers College Both Hudson and Cross are Democrats The new superintendent 39 returned only recently from three and one-half years Army service including 19 months in the Pacific A native of Independence he attended Jefferson City Junior College obtained his and degrees from Kirksville State Teachers College and his masters decree from the Majority Leader j Both Barkley and urn said there ley said after a White House call today that Congress will not adjourn until it completes action on what he called must legislation Leaving a conference with President Truman in which Senator McKellar president pro tempore Speaker Rayburn and House Majority Leader mack also participated Barkley We talked about the tive program as it related to a possible adjournment We are not going to until we are through if it takes up to Christmas Barkley described as must bills Full employment government reorganization UNRRA funds Rushed to St Louis Hospital in Effort to Avoid Strangulation Okla Nov A boy physicians said was slowly being strangled by a tumor on the trachea was flown to St Louis in a private plane today for an extremely delicate operation The child John Robert Wells Jr son of a recently ed war veteran was taken to a mended he be rushed appropriations cutbacks the ment compensation dren's Hospital at St lend war powers act and I jurisdiction j Speaker Rayburn said there was no prospect of action before ad- on a proposal to uni- fy the armed forces and dent Truman's universal ing request Neither of these measures has left the committee stage yet they pointed out Asked what the chances were for President Truman's al to increase unemployment compensation payments up to a maximum of weekly er Rayburn shook his head When you've got 10 votes for and 14 against you've got a pretty tough case He referred to votes in the House ways and means com- sity of Iowa He was director of athletics at and at Simonsen high school in Jefferson City be- fore entering the Army For a number of years he was a mer director of a boys camp at Estes Park Colo which has un under its Byron Price Submits Report to Truman on Relations in Germany WASHINGTON Nov JP Price has made a thy to President Truman on his survey of relations be- tween the military control and civilians in many The former chief censor un- the study at the re- quest of Mr Truman House said today that the ident is still studying the re- port arid for that reason it made public Truman Presented Needs It Cantor Cracks WASHINGTON Nov 14 President Truman found himself with a new piano today after a night out with the boys of the National Press Club It was quite a show the ident agreed and he even added a gag or two of his own to the jokes pegged on his ability as a piano player But Mr Truman's remarks were off-the-record Comedian Eddie Cantor com- mending on the club's a Steinway piano to the chief executive If anybody needs the President He played for lin at Potsdam Immediately terwards rumors started stirring that Stalin was a very sick man No matter what he plays tor insisted it still sounds like the Missouri Waltz Prime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada and General of the Army D wight D Eisenhower seemed to get quite a of Comedian Joe E Lewis de- scription of a banker as a man who will lend you money if you can prove you The President was formally in- ducted into the club as a paying member Edward son the club credited the organization with making ing of veterans and veterans civic leaders and the general public from a ty area tomorrow night in the Municipal Auditorium is ex- to reveal information con- the sub-regional office to be opened in Moberly soon Among the information Mr Gash may give will be the proximate date of opening the sub-regional office which will serve about 20 Northeast souri counties the size of the staff the man who has been named director The Moberly Chamber of Commerce sponsor of the ing today stated that its vice- president Lawrence Holman will preside in the place of President Paul Stevenson who will be out of town Mr Holman will welcome the Veterans Ad- ministration to Moberly The program will begin at p.m Richard S Maness in charge of the Moberly contact v off ice will introduce the speaker Mr Maness today announced that he inspected space for a contact office in Kirksville Kirksville is one- of five towns in the Moberly region which will have contact offices Already established are offices in the other four ly Columbia Hannibal and Mexico These offices will feed the Moberly sub-regional office when it is set up Only two buildings are able in Kirksville with the space necessary Mr Maness reported to the St Louis district office of the Administration Industry Will Outline Labor Parley Issues Management Delegation Drafting Statement in Effort to Speed Up Conference U S Steel Rejects New Appeal to Resume Pay WASHINGTON Nov 14 plans to the today or tomorrow its stand on every big issue before President Truman's conference As the industrial peace parley entered its tenth day the agement delegation decided in the words Ira Mosher of the National Association of Manufacturers that the time liat come to shove things along a little Almost the entire delegation started night on a statement of position on collective ing observance of jurisdictional quarrels and subjects on the conference As they worked one of the nation's most tant wage CIO demand for a daily wage in- crease from Japs Officially Request Allied Food and Fuel Nipponese Minister Soys Alternatives Are Barter or Die TOKYO Nov 14 Japan appealed officially today for Allied food and fuel promising to in shipments of gold diamonds silks and other goods General MacArthur's quarters reported that it was not ready to indicate what the Allied might be anese Minister of Commerce Ogasawara announced the formal application for the from America stave off threatening ine He made it clear that pan's alternatives are Barter or Lt Robert L ger meanwhile reported that forces in Japan and Korea are near their peak and soon decline from their present He did not say how soon the U 3 forces might reach the which MacArthur has indicated will by next spring be adequate While American reparations representatives deliberated the price Japan must pay for her war of aggression Japanese prepared to set up their own reparations commission to study the problem Kyodo news ency said in announcing pan's application for U S im- acknowledged trade is presently in a state of suspension but added that he hoped the U S may again become Japan's best State Sen ate Votes To Retain Service Officer System JEFFERSON CITY Nov 14 to continue the ent officer set up for seeing that Missouri veterans of World War Two get all the benefits they are entitled to was passed by the State Senate today Sen E R Caldwell D of Buick Production Halted FLINT Mich Nov 14 General Motors Corp reported today that its production automobiles had been halted by a parts shortage and its Jerry who did not oppose the on the floor registered the only negative vote The measure sponsored by Sen H B Hart H of Versailles increases the salary of the vice officer from annually to and permits him to hire a staff of attorneys who must be discharged veterans The also provides that the office staff must be hired on a basis There was no argument over the which supersedes a House designed tc put aid to veterans under a Veterans Service Commission with in ad- counciL to a new impasse Second Appeal Rejected f The corporation of Labor second appeal that it enter wage discussions starting in Washington with the United Steel Workers of America U S Steel's president Ben jamin F Fairless telegraphed Schwellenbach last night thai further discussions would bf fruitless until OP A acts on pending requests for steel price increases The union had to resume talks Fairless told that we believe in and ly support collective ing but we feel no useful pose could be served by the proposed meetings Schwellenbach had arranged the meeting for today under a special conciliator Arthur Meyer of the New York State Mediation Board after U S Steel had declined a similar re- quest for negotiations on same ground President Eric S Chamber of Com- merce said the proposed ment of industry approaches to labor peace be described -as the -i declaration by a major portion of industry on employe relations Johnston arid Mosher reporters jointly last night in a recess from their efforts to put the statement gether Although none of the several committee has reported on single question before it her said he was far from dis- appointed as to the to date But he went There comes a time in all of this kind when some one has to shove things along a The industry group hopes by giving the group something to shoot at bring the discussion specific remedies for labor strife Weather Generally fair night and Thursday Continued cold tonight with heavy frost and Lowest 20 32 in most of south Somewhat warmer in West Thursday afternoon CENTRAL Fair and cold tonight and Thursday colder in southeast to 26 in north 28 Fisher body assembly line also Low temperature tonight 25 de- had stopped grees the President nationally known as a piano referring to occasions Mr Truman as a senator arid as vice president played at club functions Eisenhower got so much plause when he was introduced that President Truman insisted he make a speech Eisenhower complied with a Hello howdy and good luck Greek General to Die As Collaborationist ATHENS Nov 13 Delayed people's tribunal sentenced to death Gen Alexander who was in Command of special security lice during the German tion and was accused of borating closely with the en- emy His aide-de-camp uel also was sentenced death Santa Claus Will Make Two Pre-Christmas Visits Here Advance agents of Santa Claus have informed the Chamber of Commerce Moberly that Old Saint Nick will make two pre- Christmas appearances in berly to check up on children of the area and to spread good will Santa Claus will be in town on Dec 8 arid 15 the only times before making a lightning call to Moberly homes late Christmas Eve or early Christmas ing The Chamber of Commerce announced that a Miss Merry Christmas will be chosen from among girls of and senior high schools of the county to accompany Santa Claus in his first two visits In preparation for the mas season spruce trees will de- corate Coates street from son to Morley streets street across streets downtown and the major portion of Rollins street Lines of Christmas lights will be placed on Reed from Sturgeon to Johnson streets joining with a large Christmas tree in Tannehill Park Two morning picture shows have been arranged for the dren of the county More details will be announced by the ber of Commerce later Seven new members the Chamber of Commerce were an- today They include R E Wisdom and H B operators of the Moberly City Lines bus com- pany Waldo Littrell Route 1 with the Quinn uting Company H K Farrell Moberly with the Quinn Chief Joe Parrish Richard S Maness Veterans tion contact representative and Dr C C Smith Two Officers Will Testify Tomorrow On Pearl Harbor WASHINGTON Nov 14 first witnesses at the session of- the Congressional inquiry into the Pearl Harbor morrow will be Rear Admiral T B Inglis and Col- Bernard Thielen Chairman Barkley told newsmen in making the announce nent today the two will an account of the Pearl Harbor attack Their appearance is expected to lay groundwork for er testimony from such as Gen George C Governor Thomas E Dewey and Secretary of War ry L Stimson Admiral ordered to duty here as chief Naval has serving as deputy chief last Col Thielen is a member the Army general staff Neither officer was present al Pearl Harbor during the anese attack committee at- taches said Republican members of Pearl com- looked to the State and the FBI as sible sources of 1 Randolph County Grand Jury Not Yet The Randolph County grand jury has yet been dismissed according to Prosecuting ney Raymond L Though the jury is not it is subject to the call of foreman he Falzone wished to the jury in session in der to give citizens of the an opportunity to bring to its attention if they wish The group has not Oct 18 when it returned against Gus for contributing to of a minor It convened by Judge A 1C mett on Ocfc 8
