San Antonio Light (Newspaper) - December 23, 1945, San Antonio, Texas 10 In City and Suburbs and Local Army 15c ELSEWHERE VOL 338. by The Light Publishing SAN DECEMBER 23, 1945. BEAR EDITION SIXTY-SIX PAGES VOL. Returnees To Get Good Yule Dinner By International Even if your boy doesn't get home for he'll have real Yuletide with lighted gifts and a key complete with Special arrangements are being made for GIs on the high in redeployment centers In this and for those stranded In large because of transportation Numerous parties also ore planned for the soldiers In training American sons and fathers caught on the high seas December 25 will have menus rival ing those at Because many of the returning GIs will find difficulty getting home also because of the housing shortage a number of in leading cities will provide special accommodations throughout the PUT UP EXTRA COTS Extra cots are being put up in dormitories and appeals have gone out for rooms in private Meanwhile army and estimated that Pacific veterans will Christmas day in San Francisco staging areas and In the next five erans are scheduled to arrive in San Francisco bay aboard 31 Arrival of 4300 soldiers aboard the troopship Monterey swelled the army backlog of veterans now In port to Opening of emergency staging areas at Camps Kohler and Knight permitted the unloading of five which had served for returning 2891 troops left for the with 3325 scheduled to leave San Francisco PLANE USE URGED In a telegram to the magazine urged that private planes be used to break the neck speed the homecomings of thousands of Y 1-v'- Max managing editor of the country has an estimated private Two thousand Pacific veterans Idly watched a boat take ashore the smallpox victim who caused their Christmas quarantine aboard the navy transport U. S. M. anchored In the middle of the Willamette river at The men were being processed for discharge aboard ship and all were expected to be homeward bound three days after lifting of the quarantine Christmas Boatloads of newspapers and gifts of fruit and vegetables poured aboard the quarantined Professor Now Polish Envoy bespectacled Oscar former economics professor at cago took over today as Poland's ambassador to the United States with bright visions of his country's growth as a major who acquired American citizenship during the re- it to become the first envoy of a freed Army Lifts Ban On Sale of Silk Dec. army exchange purchasing in a memorandum handed to the Jap today released almost half a million yards of silk for Nine thousand bolts of silk a full yard wide will be required meet purchase requests of occupation Zorina Takes Up Reno Residence Dec. Vera renowned ballet established legal residence In Reno presumably to divorce George 5 Children Die in Fire Dec. whose father 1s In the army in died early today when a fire swept their The children of Pvt. and Mrs. Otto were 7; Shelba Jean 4; 3, and 18 The fire was blamed on an over- heated oil The 26, arid a hired Miss Louise 18, were New Norther To Be Mild Moving down from the Panhandle at ft. retarded moderate norther will lower tures the weather bureau said A of 5 to 10 degrees ta temperatures expected to carry through partly cloudy weather to accompany the cool Sunday's minimum was set at 48 down 6 from Saturday's low of 63. Sunday's maximum was figured at 52. Hawaii Asks Dec. Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes today recommended the Immediate admission of Hawaii into the union as the 49th state of the United Ickes approved the granting of statehood to as part of the territorial policy of the Department of the the same time he declared that the people of Hawaii are ready to assume the re- implicit In the Cline Arraigned In Coast Court SAN Leonard 56, suspect In sudden was to be arraigned in San Francisco pal court today on a fugitive He has been charged with der In connection with the death of a woman police believe was Mrs. Eva Delora Krebs Cline of is under in connection with the deaths and cremations of at least eight persons who died in his com- He was beneficiary to ous Mine Roundup on In English Channel minesweepers scoured lish channel clear mines threatening passage more Scores of craft oi mines loosed Minesweeper escorts accompanied troop carriers Le Jeune and ville through tlie Straits of Dover to Both vessels will return through the straits Christmas with 10pO The situation Is hoped to be under control by Slayer of Nurse Denied Yule Bail SAN Dec. Irene con- of manslaughter for the death of Nurse Vada faced a bleak Yuletide In San cisco's county Efforts to obtain ball for the 45- year-old mother of three with whom she sought to spend failed in both the and appellate courts Finance Office Move Under Way Dec. were underway today to move Tulsa and Fort Worth army finance of- fices to Dallas after January 1. The offices will occupy space at Eighth Service command quarters for according to Gen. Walton K. Eighth Service The duties will be assumed in Dallas and at Camp Joseph T. Cheating Out On Tags Dec. ans cheating a little to take tage of Louisiana's low auto license rates were given a hint today they'd better do their post-Christmas shopping at Louisiana authorities notified the Texas state highway department will sell 1946 tags only to Texas were warned about illegal New Texas tags are due not later ihan March 31, 1M8. Pickets at For Yule By The Yule spirit extended the strike picture Saturday and activity on the country's troubled labor-management front slackened Pickets from the I. O. from G. plants while fact-finding in the oil industry tnd the M. wage dis- putes PICKETS Most of the pickets will not re establish lines until January i. Holiday recesses for the boards came after a warning industry must choose between a negotiated ment with labor or face a probe into its financial Both President Truman and of Labor Schwellenbach over- ruled company objections opening their books for an investigation into profits and production Truman and the secretary ed to germane to the C. wage demands of a 30 per cent pay ANOTHER TRY Before the G. board bles on December 28, G. M. and U. A. W. representatives to meet In another attempt at collective Harry W. G. M. vice president and chief has emphasized discussions will not Involve locals whose pickets bar office workers from G. M. Anderson also revealed the firm has not decided whether it will open Its The It was would break the lock in collective Oil Tlie oil wage panel will resume January 1.. It also hoped ay then its services would not be One bright spot was that the Oil Workers I O. settled with Sinclair for an 18 cent wage increase after de- manding 30 per Representatives of Atlantic Standard of Upon the Kton involving Inspection of ledgers as deterring ress lull president of the NAM said the ruling would ress prevent full Electric The General offer of a 10 per cent wage Increase stood re- by the Joseph union termed the offer The has voted to strike January 1 for a GE has found it im- to pny that Printers Printers of three bound newspapers to meet with publishers after ing two arbitration proposals The strikers refused to accept committees named by Mayor liam and the publishers as mediators in the 36-day wage dis- They to have a committee lay the en- tire situation before the Bakers The 42-day old bakery which has curtailed bread production in San Sacramento and San was settled Terms of the settlement were not Railroad Strike Cripples Shipping SAN Costa Dec. 32. A strike by employes of the Northern Railroad paralyzed ping in Costa Rica ports today and snarled traffic from the Coast to San Men on strike against the Brit- railroad included dock workers as well as rolling stock They are seeking higher Forecast San Antonio and Partly cloudy and colder Mini- mum Sunday 48, maximum 52. weather Page 2) Priesthood Vanishes in Death of Famed Scalper ft T N. Dec. The Indian priesthood If It died with Joe 90-year-old warrior famed for scalping There are no more for the Indian only those who took the scalp of could wai burled yesterday after tribal funeral He vis noted the unofficial clown of the Indian because of his antics at each for the past 24 Sales Out office of price administration today declared war on Dallas liquor ers who sell whiskey on a Milton G. district OPA en- forcement explained that purchasers are often forced to buy lesser known and liquor in order to get prized brands of He said such sales were a lion of regulation ding tie-in Tremor Does Great Damage Dec. heard reports today a violent cyclone followed by an earth tremor which destroyed scores of houses and valuable canned fish factories in the city of In southern Damage was termed Four persons are said to have been hundreds injured and thousands left Other reports told of cyclonic winds causing throughout One British ship Is said to be and an unidentified American vessel aged and in Meal Cheeks No Loss Dec. Houston cafe operator bragged day that he has the best customers in the he had ample while approximately 120 customers were eating lunch at the John Markou a small broke out and the customers ran In every George figured the about their checks ed to was additional loss In con- with the But today every one of the tomers had returned and paid for his Defender Dec. W. Calvert of. jarred the Season of peace on earth and good will toward men today in a statement released by Hermann Austin He struck at a recently ed utterance by Lieut. Governor In which Smith Calvert's candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination as nation as coming a minor faction of Calvert termed Smith the anointed defender of reaction in and aimed some barbs at the newspaper advertisements which ran over Smith's decrying strikes and attacking the Sergeant Arrested As Germany Spy HAMILTON Calif. Dec. 30-year-old can army air corps sergeant was n custody at Hamilton field today on a charge of being a German The suspect Is Staff Sgt. Frank whose home address Is listed In army records as Calif. In a copyrighted story the San Francisco said jeant Hirt admitted to army that he belonged to the Nazi party in Germany and that ic was a corporal in the S. Adolf Hitler's storm and that Hirt is accused of sending cations of U. S. army warplanes to enemy Negro Must Die For Killing Girl ST. Dec. te 35-year-old a former today faced a death sentence for the fatal stabbing of Miss Lena Alfton 19-year- old last May 1. Circuit Judge William B. Flynn set the date of execution for January 25 in Missouri penitentiary gas ber at Jefferson Holidayers Stream Out Of Capital By Washington looked like the hub of a wagon wheel Saturday as ple continued to stream out of the capital in every direction on their way home for the Christmas were ment employes and officials who were given a four-day holiday members of the congress which ad- until January 14, and many An estimated persons had left Washington Saturday COMMITTEE IN The Pearl Harbor committee went into a nine-day leaving un- decided the question of an early hearing for Admiral Husband E Kimmel and Gen. Walter C. Members Indicated a strong that the two 1941 Hawaiian commanders would be called as witnesses soon after the 10-man committee reconvenes De- cember 31. UNFINISHED The homeward bound members of the house and senate left ished or more than 50 per cent of President Truman's legislative When the second session of the Seventy-ninth congress is convened congress will itself faced with at least 20 important subjects on which the president requested that action be And Washington will have a white More snow will hit the city Saturday night and continue on through Crews Hunt Lost Plane AMERICAN Dec. crews set out again today for the snow-covered five miles north of here where the wreckage of an army plane was The plane Is believed to be the missing from Salt Lake City air base since It was sighted on a mountain slope 1000 feet above the floor of the Two army officers are listed as aboard the They were ond Lieut. Smith C. coffelt Jr. of and Second Jack Dk Lester of corpus Bus Company Gives Bonus Christmas gift checks totaling proximately ara being pre- sented by the Continental ways Bus system to its 100 em- ployes in Amount of the checks was by length of service with the Assassination Fear Haunts DeGaulle Dec. still fears General its may be When the president attended a play at the Athene theater near the opera last more than 300 50 guardsmen and scores of plain patrolled the entire blocking off traffic and Solon Hits State Department Policy Dec. Senator the state department of re- defining the Potsdam agreement to permit rebirth of Germany's in- war Kilgore declared he believed the slate department was doing this concurrence by the Execution Date For Haw Haw Set Dec. cution of William Joyce Haw today was set for January 3. Joyce was convicted of Crowds Rush Train Gates ST. Dec. pre-Christmas rush of travelers took on a serious tinge in St. Louis Women screamed and several persons fainted In Union station when a crowd of 1000 un- able to obtain seats on a vania train loading for New attempted to crash the Station augmented by four husky military standing held back the The holiday travel created the greatest Jam in history at St. Louis rail and bus Patton to Rest Soldier He Slapped Sad World Mourning Patton Regrets Many SOUTH Dec. former dier whose face General Patton ped during the Sicily was of the opinion today that the ful military leader had the fare at heart during the Kuhl said he had a real feeling of regret at Patton's death and was a very good leader for his The slapping incident created congressional and resulted in General Eisenhower's directing ton to apologize to a whole Condolences Dec. Marshal who com- manded the 2lst Army Group in the battle of sent con- today on behalf of all British forces to the American army on the death of General In telegram to General Joseph T. Montgomery would like to be represented at the funeral and will send a de- of Tommies to represent guards battalion Is standing To General Eisenhower in Montgomery behalf of all British soldiers who served In I send to United States army my sympathy over the death of eral was a great soldier and a generous His name always will fce remembered by the British I am be- over hii sudden Shock MacArthur Dec. eral expressing his said today that all army forces In the Pacific will mourn the death of General George MacArthur death of General Patton under such poignant circum- stances fills me with the deepest He was a gallant and ro- mantic soldier of unquestioned Memorials Dec. the wishes of Blood and are there will be no George S. Patton Jr. The brilliant warrior believed that memorials after World War II should be erected In ol en- men In Denver last June 8 he gets enough ana fame by juat being The men do the work H little else out of war but lousy and the should be named after ABOARD THE V. 8 8 INGTON IN THE ofo news or death as a terrific shock tr the i soldiers returning home aboard this storm-tossed Many of them were former bers of the Third Army and served vnder Blood and from the Cherbourg across Germany and Into It on the Washington that Patton expected to travel back to Dec. eral Patton was known as millionaire before World War His the former Beatrice him a fortune she Inherited from her Frederick She is the main stockholder in a cosmetic Patton also Inherited a fortune from his a real estate ex- 6 Killed in Colon Revolt Canal Dec. men were killed at the colon police station today when an armed group staged an abortive attempt to seize the station and a telephone Five of the attackers and one Panama policeman were The armed group allegedly was composed of supporters of Former President Arnulfo stray shots were exchanged In the streets but there were no further casualties and the situation was described as being under con- Toreador Rallies With Penicillin Dec. Spain's famed Mario rallied with the aid of cillin today from wounds suffered In Seville when he was gored by a according to a London Dally Express Score Hurt in Fire At Show Quarters S. Dec. A score of persons were injured day fire swept the winter quarters at of the Strotts For MacArthur's Son Jap Finds USA Scooter Dec. a Clam but Arthur young son ot the preme going to get a real stateside scooter for as. Tokyo was subjected to the combing when word was passed down that a no what the boy Credit for the find goes to George Togo Sakl of San now managing editor of the Nippon Willing GIs quickly made sary repairs to a battered but In U. S. the United This ship Is expected in New York Feeling Dec. Persons close to General Patton dis- closed the general had a. premonition of death from the time he first landed In It was recalled Patton had re- soon after he went ashore In have a. feeling I'll never leave this Wealth UNO Site to Be in East Dec. permanent headquarters of the United Nations organizations will be located In the eastern part of the United Tills much was decided today when the general questions tee of the UNO preparatory com- mission cast 25 votes for the East and only five for the Ten delegates did not All UNO committees have com- their work ana the final session of the preparatory sion will be held tomorrow to vote approval of recommendations to be submitted to the general assembly on January 10. Final choice will be made by the general assembly after exhaustive study of six sites to be selected by the Interim Decision of what line properly divides East and West was left at the discretion of the interim Mayor Ired Dec. 22. Mayor Roger Lapham of San cisco charged today the vote to establish the permanent UNO quarters In eastern United States was cheap dirty trick savoring more of ward politics than a great International Mayor Lapham heard of the de- cision at Hurn airport while ing to fly back to San He had been in London Ing San Francisco's bid as UNO's permanent headquarters Egypt Wants British Out Dec. matic circles reported today Britain had received a formal Egyptian note proposing the evacuation of British troops from Egypt because they were no longer necessary from a military Elaborate Rites Set By Army Dec. The little town of Hamm near close the Ardennes forest where he made history only a year chosen today as the burial place of General The famous four-star victim of a disorder which set In after serious injuries in an automobile two weeks will be interred on services will be held In the university town of Heidelberg Hamm lies on the eastern out- skirts of capital ol the and is on the route of ton's drive the Cherbourg to the Saar during the Battle of Army headquarters extended an unusual courtesy to German ians by announcing they would be permitted to view the general's body while It remains in HONOR GUARD An honor an Infantry com- pany from Patton's beloved Third will accompany the body from Heidelberg to Luxembourg aboard Lieut. Gen. Joseph T. special The site of burial has not been although Mrs. Patton announced yesterday it would be northwest It was believed Patton would be burled at one of the scenes of his great at Metz or her Frederick of will accompany the body to BITES IN CHURCH Services will be held at the Christ church in The body will lie In state at Troops of the 15th cavalry will escort the body to Heidelberg and An Infantry company and a battery of the 1st Armored division will fire a last 84th Infantry division will provide martial music as the funeral train SUFFERS RELAPSE The colors and standards of three Patton commands the Third and Fifteenth will be used in the Col. R. war de- medical dis- closed Patton first suffered a re- lapse two days ago when had an acute attack of Soon he was able to cough un the mucous began forming on his chest and the heart became ened as a who declared SLul hls nevertheless was at the went for him at WIFE FLIES TO SIDE Patton explained that he was happy that his wife had flown to his side for Christmas Patton's fractured which hart toe Khen the had been perfectly Honorary 22 Most of the American ta Europe will be amMe the bat th A Gen. Walter s. Brig Gen. Halley G. Brig Gen John M. Col. P. D. Allen Czechoslovakia and Italy have named tives to attend the Dec. from fires which swept four buildings in Dallas yesterday was estimated at Index Sport 3D, 3D C 4 to 8, D Radio Amusements 110 Oil 8D,
