Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - September 5, 1945, Zanesville, Ohio t THE ZANESVILLE SIGNAL if Prtn International Hews NEA WEDNESDAY SEPT 1945 FIVE CENTS PRINTS THE NEWS TELLS THE TRUTH BRITISH OCCUPY SINGAPORE re Jap chery Protests I to art Reveals HINGTON se troops captured an an flier forced to ate into the sea off beat him with sticks day and until three the next afternoon L Japanese civilian hacked miex lean's head ite department told about ident and others like it a report it would not ag the war for fear the ould increase their and shut off all to Allied u y of State Byrnes at his news conference thai the guilty will be report told of 240 gainst mistreatment of rs sent to the Japa- through intermediaries by for- of State Hull t and former Un- Grew iy Grew asked the the Japanese the United States was over on December 150 American in the Philippines se guards forced the 150 s into tunnels The guards buckets of gasoline tunnel entrances and torches into ing who rushed shelters were bayoneted The guards into the tunnels care of the Americans 40 got out and hurled over a cliff on ich Gunners shot some nese captured others and iem captured after he had out to sea They nm with poured on both his feet and set cm They bayoneted him collapsed Then they over his and flames devour it Gr that the Japanese do it ote March Grew of 750 American crowded into a Japanese was torpedoed and the Philippines on Sept for nearly three the was hey were esc acting on Lt as they d in the sea guards threw grenades Americans trapped in IdN of the The sr recaptured 29 rom the took them her shot and their bodies back into an messages protested lack medical sup clothing said the United id intercepted orders of military authorities e outright murder of in- surrendering or captured f the messages reminded ncse they had agreed to the Geneva convention many had de hat officials or il Red workers be to visit prison camp ich no information had Airport May Be Closed Unless City Maintains It Zanesville's new municipal airport may be closed soon un- less the city takes to maintain it This was indicated today as Earl chief tions officer at the airport and Gale airport fae will recommend that the army discontinue use of the field unless the city shows immediate interest in its keep Weeds have grown up along the runaways to such a height that landing lights are no longer visible at certain they making night landing although a spn paid for the drilling of a water well at the the city has not provided means of pumping the water to the surface It was also slated that a taty is urgently needed to sweep the long runaways which have become Uttered with stones and dirt They said they had talked some time ago with Charles chairman of the about the situation Mayor William Watson and members of city council have also paid visits to the field and have of the needs at first-hand City officials have blamed lack of funds for their failure to maintain the field Casner and Elhs today took occasion to criticize county commissioners for their ure to turn over to the with me result that op- ening of bids for the ed access road to the airport has been postponed Arrogant Tiger of Malaya Hates Prison Surroundings Gen Yamashita Professes Disbelief In Stories of Jap Prison Atrocities M By FAT ROBINSON i the of today griped about his in and sub- bornly professed disbelief of of Jap prison camp atrocities In an exclusive interview his staff Lt Gen Muto and other jailed enemy ad- and all told me flatly that they never had heard of such as I re- counted The once Arrogant uho surrendered forces perpetrated a ear reign of terror in Philippines complained about the site of his cell and he his surroundings Yamashita protested that he is ordinary civilian Filipino murderers and thieves Maj Alex White N assured him that he was ing treated in strict accord with the Geneva convention Major Mm a tent but Yamashita refused The surrendered who faces probable trial as a war slept well in a 10 by cell His cot was provided with a and a pillow He is confined along death with Filipino murderers for When I questioned he had just come fiom a shower common to the civilian criminals and was ready to eat a lunch consisting of GI filled with mixed Turn to Twelve Wield Clubs Pickets LAND charged into a 500 pickets at the 11 ker Appliance Co about a of 1 the occupants trying to enter out when office pr permitted to tried to return lodny tiro of n scono Ihr pickets n nn Who tO pickets milled around off its the mounted police crowd nnd when to disperse tpr Inspector Frank reported a of patrolmen ront for lo he held for the policemen Troops Won't Go Abroad The army hinted broadly today that it ex- to discharge within a year all enlisted 34 and older as well as those who had 45 points up to May 12 It dropped the hint in an an- w hich said men in those categories no longer will be sent overseas The army announced an sive world-wide recruiting drive is underway to raise a volunteer postwar army Under the tion of Gen Harold the campaign will be earned out by a force of officers and men working from 600 cities and in tho United States also will be sought m army installations in this country and in units overseas The tho department will be more intense than the pi Harbor campaign which raised the regular army and airforce from to mere than At the aimy is limited by law to an enlisted force of but this ceiling may be by Congress The enlistments will be for a three-year period The announcement last night was it because the occupation of Japan is going on scheduled Except for about it will be no more overseas shipments for soldiers 1 o 45 points or based on the May 12 computation 2 Are 37 years old 3 Are 34 35 or 36 and have a year of honorable service It was estimated there are about Turn to Spain to Withdraw Troops From Tangier draw her troops from the ml final tonal nt across the strait from as by Britain and a good authority said day Generalissimo Franco's may to the British find Fianch note with a defense of Spain's unilateral tion tn occupying Tangier in According lo Tangier M a malonly of the Spanish troops in the Zone already have been Jap Lt Oert Tomoyuki known the of is non- held in New probable trial m criminal Truman Urges New Cutbacks WASHINGTON Truman today recommended to congress cutbacks totalling in appropriations for ian war agencies He suggested a revision of in for the fiscal year affecting 28 agencies and in cutbacks of portions of several contract Emphasizing thai today's wore just the the president pointed out that they do not include any for the military activities of the and navy departments The president said he would make tions regarding those departments within a few The the White House was in accord with the request from Chairman Cannon of the tions committee that federal agencies be prepared for ate before a deficiency subcommittee which began work this morning The president's letter was based on data the agencies prepared during the week in sponge to Cannons request Navy Seeks Nine Major Pacific Bases WASHINGTON The navy is recommending to congress and maintenance of nine major naval bases In tho Assistant Secretary H Struve Hensel told a news conference day the bases include only those need for our own use and are limited to those wo should intend to maintain and arr susceptible to He named in this Kodiak in the in the and Iwo Jima m the Bonins and Volcano in the in the Ad- and the Philippines Ho said other Pacific islands should ho kept solely to prevent t holr uso by Honsel named as examples Wake and and Truk Yanks Take the Bows Now No So Two Cruisers Out of Service Curtailment Hits Finances Discussed Tonight Two of the city's three police cruisers weer retired from service today due to a lack of funds for their tion It was the first tangible result of the city's growing financial crisis which was forecast early this year the public was ed to attend another of Mayor William G Watson's round-table discussions tonight at the YWCA The which starts at is designed to help find a solution to the fin problem It generally agreed that m tax levy offers the only Citizens attending the meeting will be to take hand in deciding the size of the levy which will be put be- fore the voters at the ber election Several proposals have been heard on the and one which is said to be receiving sideration at city hall may be pre- sented at meeting as a basis for discussion Under which calls for levies totaling 2.5 a mill yielding would be sought for garbage col- or for street two tenth airport tenth police city five tenth city 1846 operating tenth for payment of current debt The Chamber of Commerce had previously advocated a 3.2 m which of a or would be assigned to garbage for street tenths airport de- city police tenths 1946 operating payment of current debt The of C proposal calls for larger garbage street lighting and airport increasing the police ment revenue by only half that provided in the other program Guards who were once their brutal masters bow low prisoners of Petty Officer Luther P Johnson of and Ensign John Chapman of Los leave Prison Camp near Yokohama The camp was termed one of the worst in which Allied Prisoners were confined The picture was made by Dave NEA pictures photographer Treasury Watchdog Hits Federal Setup WASHINGTON troller General Lindsay C Warner today described the present setup as hodge-podge of and inconsistencies The official often referred to as watchdog of the asked that President be given broad powers to clean house Testifying before the house ex- which is considering proposals to the Warren gave this picture of the federal The transportation field is di- vided up among 75 sions and agencies The ment's travel and freight last year was as much as it cost to run the federal establishment 30 years ago Public homing is financed by 13 agencies Labor relations are spread over eight departments and A dozen bureaus and ments agencies A dozen bureaus and ments are involved in tion of government land There is obvious be- tween the of various agencies concerning aid to the in care of dependent dren Lausche Wants Jobless Pay Benefits Made Retroactive Legislature Reconvenes Today To Act On Compensation Measure Frank J Lausche asked the legislature today to make the a week increase in un- employment insurance benefits retroactive to Aug 14 surrender but his move failed to satisfy labor The state's principal labor Congress to Get Lengthy Message WASHINGTON dent Truman will send a message to congress senate ers said and it will be so comprehensive that it may take a couple of hours to read it Talking with newsmen after ci White House conference with the Democratic Leader Barkley Mr Truman w ill not deliver the message in person The message will be ied by separate documents ing to subjects discussed in the message Conferring with the president besides Barkley were Senator Kellar president pro tern of the and Speaker Rayburn The conference was held as congress reassembled for its first peacetime session since 1941 A dozen con issues confronted the but neither house scheduled any work this week Speaker Rayburn said after the conference that there probably will be a congressional investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster Outlining the first order of business in the he said it would take up next week President Truman's recommendation for a single administration of surplus property disposal now handled by a board of and a for the auditing of the accounts of corporations Following he the committee probably report next a measure to aimy enlistments Rayburn government legislation would finally pass but with ex- He referred to ments already proposed to exempt a long list of government agencies from reorganization The senate planned to recess day m respect to the memory of the late Senator Hiram Johnson who died during ad- called upon the convening in special to raise the benefits still to reduce from two weeks to one the period which a less person must wait before he can obtain insurance and to eliminate what they ed for The assembly earlier increased the benefits from a week for 18 weeks to for 22 bor wants for 26 weeks A letter setting forth bor's requests was signed by leaders of the Ohio State of the Ohio Con- few of Industrial the Railway the United Mine era and other Although the governor called for retroactive benefits to be made available he ed the belief the new law wise was just and He advised against any other changes Baruch Favors CINCINNATI containing 15 left here at 10 a m today for that showed a CIO spokesman for a widely ad- projected to dramatize the demand for an immediate a week increase in unemployment insurance fits Jerry secretary of cal United Automobile said the workers case before the Ohio convening ter would include a demand that the increase from weekly for 18 weeks to a week for 22 weeks be made retroactive to the end of hostilities with WASHINGTON M Baruch said today the side of demobilization is being neglected The veteran adviser to dents asserted returning soldiers and sailors must be reintegrated into their communities economically and terrible danger of Baruch said in a report to Gen Omar N new be to set th veteran off from the rest of th cherishing the of having been his feel ings an explosive fuel ready to b ignited by some future dema a work immediately vitalize the post of retraining an reemployment administrator t accomplish its original purpose 0 seeing that the human side of de mobilization is not clean-cut division within th Veterans agency between med ical and increases in sala ries of nurses and tech in the new medical serv ice a committee of impartial experts t review all the aspects of the Veterans administration modernizing and de centralizing its procedures the so-called G of particularly in re gard to whose provision should be made effective over 1 years instead of the guarant percentage raised and workin capital provided incentive tax of 25 pe cent less the normal rate be give veterans opening new businesses Forty Seek Of ATLANTIC N lovelies from 33 states and British Columbia will begin com- tonight for the title of America of will begin as known talent and beauty experts judge 12 girls in evening 14 in bathing suits and 14 in entertainment ability The nor will be chosen Saturday night Expected for Playoff Opener at Stadium Tonight Upwards to fans are ex- to file into the stadium night for the ball game u inch will open the Ohio State league playoffs Game time is the gates to be opened an hour earlier mild is expected to prevail In an effort to get the the rival Bryant and Cap lead with their pitching Red of the Dodgers and Joe of the Reds won 23 games during the regular season and licked the Reds five times whilt the sensational 10 in- two decisions the although he did not join the Reds until and Lima broke even during the regular each winning 14 games The second game of the series will be played here tomorrow night and then the clubs will move to Lima for games and Sunday night All games at Lima will start at Zanesville time Springfield and Middletown will open their semi-final series at Middletown tonight Both series will be four out of seven games with the winners meeting in a similar aeries for playoff championship Middletown won the league pennant by a margin of 15 v o v f r Schooler Named To Ration Post Lowell Schooler of 93 Maple a veteran of Worl War has been named of the county wa price rationing board to George who resigned re cently Schooler is associated with th New York Life Insurance compan with offices m the Masonic tern it was announce that Mrs Marian Straub of Aden South Americans Start Home First Cavalry Assigned to Occupy Tokyo The Associated The First division was assigned oday to inarch into Tokyo Saturday U S as Admiral disclosed the irst demobilized Americans rom Japan already were homeward bound aboard ome vessels of the Third leet The First Cavalry and other Eighth army forces have been in- to liberate all remaining of war throughout Japan nd and Lt Gen Robert Eighth army said prisoners stories of brutality would be given o General MacArthur for court martial action against the guilty supreme Allied com- is expected to move hu occupation headquarters from Yo- to the U S embassy in Tokyo shortly after the entry of he veteran cavalrymen who won race into Manila last ary British forces entered the city of Singapore out incident ft Singa- pore broadcast aa the surrender of Japan's empire The cruiser San nto Tokyo enroute to the United States with demobilised of- and accompanied by several other Admiral spokesman reported from Guam The ward parade will gain momentum as rapidly as ships become he said Discussing the Japanese who killed and tortured General Eichelberger said they would be delivered to General headquarters for courts martial He added many of the guilty persons may have killed themselves rather than await trial He said he did not know where wartime Premier Hideki Tojo was Japan's new Prince told the two houses of the diet that the nation had surrendered only after seemed almost to carry on the war He used the word according to the first time the word has been noted in any Japanese broadcast The premier's speech pictured Japan prostrated by Allied aerial attacks and with and without re- sources for further fighting In Gen Lang com- mander of Chinese troops in said surrender of all Japa- nese troops in that country would occur within a and other sources expected the ceremony by Sunday Mass air movement of Chinese Sixth army forces to king was to begin today Yenan Communists and Chungking government continued conferences seeking peaceful of their differences On Wake a handful of raised the American flair Tuesday afternoon U S The nese rear admiral who cap- tured Wake Dec luted an the colors Occupation of Japan's home lands will be divided between Eighth and Sixth Army General MacArthur Eighth will occupy Northern Honshu and bringing in more than troops by the time Japanese are disarmed Oct 10 Gen Walter C Krueger's Sixth army will take over Southern Kyushu and Shikoku The 24th corps will occupy Southern Korea been named Fourth ha to succeed Edwi Stottsberry as chief clerk of th rationing office Mrs Straub's appointment wa forecast by The Signal last week Stottsberry submitted resig effective Oct 1 Train Crash Kills Four Calif tw locomotives and seven cars Santa Fe passenger of trai were derailed in a spectacula smashup last and a spoke for the railroad said four pe sons were killed and 35 to 40 in Jured The second section of the cas bound California Limited hit siding switch about a mile from th Santa Anita race track The loco motives crashed over on their le sides City to Profit From Sam Carrick Estate Through the efforts of Ray deputy county the city will by about next year from the estate of Sam prominent coal operator who died lost June Proceedings to administer estate had been filed in Franklin county probate but through the local filed suit asking that ment of the estate be handled in probate court here Following a hearing at bus the court permitted the and the city will re- reive about in inheritance taxes from estate which is estimated to amount to about The county will about Pinnick said Worm baggage cars and tw passenger coaches jammed gether nnd other can left the and continued warm tonight Thursday considerable cloudiness with occasional rain liKely in r f fl J jr
