San Antonio Light (Newspaper) - September 16, 1945, San Antonio, Texas 10 15C ELSEWHERE g JB City and Suburbs and Local Army VOL. 240 Published bv Publishing Sim Antonio Texas 3 AN SEPTEMBER 16, REGULAR EDITION VOL. 240 DELAY FORECAST OPENING OF PROBE ON PEARL HARBOR By International News Service Senator has suggested that the new Pearl Harbor investigating tee prepare thoroughly for its forthcoming in- before calling Several members of the 10-man conceded that even with exhaustive preliminary work it be a month before open hearings could be called to hear including General urged selective service to draft older men for occupation duty in Germany and He suggested that draft officials take men up to 60, if to permit younger men to go to school and learn who is the ranking majority member of the senate military affairs committee charged that the nation has been Busing its ure scientists for House Republicans have asked their senate colleagues to join with them in framing a program people can A clash among senate Republicans is virtually certain because some minority members have ready in sponsoring the so-called These include D. and Top American officials are plans at high speed to matfe the Japs realize that they have the These accentuated by the behavior of Jap who feel tney can salvage some militaristic The navy is preparing to return to the thi s It was understood that the with Admiral Nimitz was due in Hew Navy October 27. sentative d that a joint session of congress will be held early in October in honor of navy OF MALAYA CALLS MacARTHUR WONDERFUL tamed of Tomoyuki gave due credit to his calling him a who must take his place in history as one of the Seated In a cellblock in the corridor of the new prison in he spoke of Arthur with apparent declaring ranks among the best of all He is a wonderful strategist and tactician and he de- ploys his forces with uncanny HURRICANE BEARS DOWN ON MIAMI Fla. A hurricane bearing on south Florida was 170 miles south southeast of Miami at a. m. and moving at the rate of about 18 miles an Frequent squalls and high winds were being experienced at the Florida keys and along the southeastern Florida TO THE PUBLIC The publishers are grateful to the readers and of these newspapers for their friendly support and patience during the strike began on August 26. The vice-president of the International graphical acting together with the scale committee of the local has been negotiating with the publishers and their representative since September 10. In the course of these conferences substantial agreement was reached on all of the main items iri with the exception of the rate of wages to be In the publishers the an increase of over and above the existing scale for a of 37% They offered two vacation ning in 1946, and two wages in HTU of ation in 1945. The accepted this offer the strike is still W. M. Publisher Light Publishing Company Frank G. Publisher Express Publishing Company Etta E. 65, only woman captured by in of being kicked and slugged during three years prison She was from japan In army transport led Japs where s he Truman Back But Keeps Busy back in h i's home town a quiet hat plans for two th i ngs see his 92- year-old and do a little dent of the United One of the chief reasons forhis visit back home i s- to see his who 1 ives at Grand miles from It ed that he will spend a good part of a quie Saturday visiting before he allows himself even this mite of Mr. Truman told reporters tha he will go to his presidential in the Federal building at Kansas Unlike Mr. Truman's previous visit to first homecoming after the office of reception casual and Accord ing to Mayor Sermo of no plans had been made tc greet the for is his wish to spend a relaxing two days Mrs. Truman will in Independence wiU her Hary but the will the White House 1 ate Sunday af 17 BILLION CUT URGED FOR Truman has re- commended to congress a of nearly in naval In- the navy reductions is in current appropriations and Another cut will be made in unrequired balances ot prior In proposing the Truman told congress that has been given to the tremendous problem of demobilization and the yet undetermined requirements of a time The president suggested also that appropriate committees review completel y lation authorizing the construction of naval FIRE Fire of unknown origin destroyed a portion o the 1 to the value of th Jones Simon liquor store at West Commerce an Navarro streets OF HELD FOR TRIAL 70 MARCH INTO MACHINE-GUN SAN nurses who survived the sinking of a ship evacuating from Singapore in 1912 were marched into the ocean and by their Jap captors who tried to force some of them into girl The story was related by a New Zealand naval Sub. R. J. Murray in a Melbourne Murray said shortly after fall of pore he met an Australian nurse who was a vivor of a ship sunk by Jap planes as it was en route to The nurse carrying 60 Singapore just before the city About a third of the nurses and many of the crew members she told and those o got ashore were The ship's cers were marched into the jungle and never seen One group of nurses was marched into the water and One of these victims survived and escaped to where the Japs tried to force her to be- come an a German woman doctor made secret arrangements to her removed to a Bandoeng An extensive search is being made for 32 of the nurses who survived and three months ago were reported in urgent need of Murray LABOR CRISIS LOOMS IN AUTO INDUSTRY Motor company production plants throughout the country were idle with a critical labor crisis confronting the key auto Henry Ford I blaming labor said the com- pany could not continue operating without parts supplied by the Wheel company and other General Motors corporation y was threatened by the United Auto Workers with a new strike weapon unless it increases wages 30 per cent In the auto and aircraft UAW vice-president Walter Reuther said if GM does not it will the union halting GM production while guaranteeing competitors full General he sets wage standards for the entire auto BITTER FIGHT EXPECTED ON COMPENSATION The senate finance unemployment compensation modifies the Truman administration is scheduled for debate in the senate A sharp controversy is The finance committee while a potential federal aid for the modifies the original maximum week for 26 weeks plan of the The substitute makes no change in the rates of the unemployment compensation paid by state but provides upon request of the governo of any the federal government con- tribute money to extend the state insurance payments up to a 26 weeks The director of reconversion is given author ity to pay cost of transporting displaced wa workers back to their homes or to a new job with of Senator Kilgore plans a fight tc restore the full administration A bit fight may .to eliminate unemployment compensation grants LESLIE C. GATES .RE INSTATED BEXAR FARM AGENT The county court had ed Leslie C. Gates as assistant county farm effective October I. Gates had granted leave to join the armed His pointment releases Sam who will be transferred to another DISEASES IN HONSHU health of northern Honshu conducted by American medl cal officers showed that Jap soldiers and lians in the area were suffering from many dis the Jap Eighth army the notorious pr i son camp OF DEATH PERPETRATOR TURNED OVER TD YANKEES By International Hews Service The of war criminals and quislings in Japan was in full swing Lieut. Gen. known as the of and the perpetrator of the Bataan was arrested by Jap darmes and turned over to American Also arrested were Jose puppet ident of the his and Benigno S. another accused Filipino puppet 1esder. successor Gen. Shigenori Col. Kingoro Black Dragon intriguer accused of being sible for the bombing of the U. S. gunboat and Vice another on General war criminal were Shortly before this big bag of high ranking Japs and puppet leaders was turned over to the U. marshal the commanders of Shinagawa hospital and the where American prisoners were Captain a Jap doctor accused ducting bizarre and death-dealing medical ex- on war prisoners at also was turned over to the provost marshal at Japan's Domei news agency and Jap newspapers were told in language by a. spokesman for MacArthur that a 19-hour news o nip 100 per cent was padlocked from Friday until noon Saturday for circulating untrue and ful stories which endangered the of the no longer will be ted to use its existing foreign From now on it will be purely a Jap national service operating in the domestic and if it wants foreign news it can buy it from the ican press association services or on of- Col. MacArthur's chief of civil censorship in Japan until the office off takes told leaders of the Jap press that is resuming tions army and navy rescue teams speede their search of the Jap home islands for prisoners in filthy Jap Third fleets headquarters announced that 861 of an 3000 Allied internees had been removed up to midnight Thursday from three camps in the area of northeastern Carrier pilots reported they located another POW camp in the area with an ted 100 and Japs reported another camp at on MacArthur emphasized again in his kid statement that the rescue of Allied is still his first phase of the occupation of far an estimated of the to Allied prisoners in Japan habe been over already have been soners in the Thus evacuated by plane and master navy planes are making as many as evacuation fI from Kisarazu airfield near SOLONS TO HEAR WHY PLANS house military affairs committee will be a preview Tuesday of what the war department has done to reduce its expenditures since Those slated to testify were Undersecretary cf War Lieut. Gen. Brehon chief of the army service and Ira C. deputy commander of army air The committee is expected to be of plans for the continued tial the number of camps to be and what remains to be done in the con- struction especially members were expected to scrutinize alto the program for Industrial plants administered by the war
