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THE WEATHFRFair today and partly cloudy tonight and Saturday and somewhat warmer. Slight em»nlt;*e r* s»» Saturday* Cooler Saturday afternoon.— ■ ■■■——■ II......... Ml,,, I,StT. MARK’S 1 IDEMIOH LOW1:18 a. 7:31 a. in.1:58 p. n*. 1:52 p. m.lt; w*VOL. LVIk NO. 144.THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA,FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 19, 1945.DJJX.T BDCCKPT8TTNDAT,5c PER COPYmmFEDERAL AND STATE OFFICIALS TRYING TO END WALKOUT WITH EMERGENCY CREWS AT POSTS‘I.-.HEAD OF BUTCHERE1 BOY FOUND HEREBy The Associated Press .As a CIO strik? began cutting off heat in two Michigan cities today the governor warnfed union leaders the state would maintain utility service if they did not.Some 2,000,000 persons reside in the region affected by the strike. The area includes big industrial centers of lower Michigan butnot Detroit.In Battle Creek, strikers closed the Central Steam Heating plant cutting off heat to some 70 business places in the city of 50,000. The weather was mild, A similar cutoff in Jackson'left the strikebound utility headquarters building and the adjacent Hotel Hayes without heat.The governor met with leaders of the CIO state utility worker:.! council to work out mfyna of maintaining electric and gas service for the utility's custonters.of other sections of the laws, enacted several yearns ago over a presidential veto. He declared the notice section “is not workable and “we are not getting re- f suits that justify the amount of time and money we are putting into the job. ♦Rep. Arends of Illinois, the house republican whip, said if possible new anti-strike legislation would -toe attached to the repeal measure. If impossible, he said, it will be submitted soon as new legislation.Arends and Rep. Robertson (D-Va) are leaders of a bi-partisanmove for some type of bill to curb strikes and unrest along the labor front.IA special assistant to Secretary j of Labor Schwellenbach, John W.' Gibson, was arsigned to the utility strike meeting in Lansing, Mich-capital of the state and one of• l ai1! nol.]?oinf t0 cosider “e‘ the major cities in are area af.rits of the dispute or attempt to settle the strike, Gov. Harry F. Kelly told newsmen before the conference. I am going to ask the union to maintain service and warn them that if they do not we will.The governor said, the /Consumers Power company, where 2,000 maintenance men struck for higher pay yesterday, had not asked for state aid and that service was being maintained.In Washington, President Truman discussed wage-price policies ;with his cabinet but made no immediate* announncejnent on the results. His press secretary said u statement, on policy and new machinery to deal with labor di»-feeted by the walkout.Foremen of the struck consumers power company, which services scores of communities in heavily industrialized lower Michigan, joined with non-strikers in staying in plants and sub-stationg. The situation was described as normal by company spokesmen but union leaders said it appeared unlikely emergency crews could continue to maintain regular service. Detroit was not affected by the walkout, which started Thursday after breakdown of negotiations for wage increases.Gov. Kelly, who Thursday ordered 6,000 state troops^ and 400 state police to be ready for em-Liberated AmericansFromJapani * ,NowPatients A t FGHJAP COMMUNIST I ONLY THE WILL TO LIVE KEPTTRIAL OF 24LEADERS SEEK* r'NEW REGIMETokyo, Oct. 19-(AP)—Japanese Communist leaders asked t^e Socialist party today to join in' a united front against the Shide-hara Government, which they said has no ability to cope with the present situation.Socialist did not reply immediately. Further talks between the groups were set for tomorrow, * but the National Federation of Toilers, a workers' organization, strongly denounced the communist suggestion at the first toilers’Ameeting since the surrender. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister!where they dug up the head of 17-year-old George Luther Aids, Shigeru Yoshida told his firsta shipyard Worker, after Ids co.npanion, Jesse McKethan, 21* was -said by police to have confessed he killed Ades, dismembered the body and burled the pieces in different places. Left to right:Chief of Detectives John C. McCarthy (foreground), Detective W. J. Perkins (top), and Detective Sgt. E. A. Fitzgerald. (AP Photo).MEN AUVE IN JAP PRISONS SAY SIX FLORIDA- ALABAMA MENFinney, General Hospital’s first I can prisoners to arrive in Japan, patients from prisoner of war This trio worked and waitedr •»NAZI LEADERSSTARTS NOV. 20camps ip tl*e Jap home islands have arrived with stories of life inside Japan during the war years.The liberated prisoners evacuated from the Japanese homeland are:Cpl. Daniel Hail, Chip ley, Fla.Sgt. Keller Denmark, Jr., Lutz, Fla.in Japan from late 1942 until the liberation.By GEORGE TUCKERon 0 Nuernberg, Oct. 19 (AP) — The- They saw B-29 raids grow fronr v,orld.g fiirst great war criminalsrare events to everyday occur- trial of 24 Wgh Nazis and Germanances, and watched the Jap civ- militarists and industrialists will Ilian's confidence drop from sure begin ^ Nuernberg on Nov. 20. victory to a hundred-vear war”. TntomaHnnoi mm'itnrv Tribunalyearand finally it cant last mucl longer. Toward the end, the Jap civilian wouldn’t talk aboutDetectives Inspect the spot In Daffln park at Savannah, Ga.,Cpl. Woodrow Stanland, Crystal j the war, Denmark said. River, Fla. j Incidentally, all of tinthe International Military Tribunal announced today.The date for the beginning of rtie proceedings to establish re-sensibility for the second world six I v/ar and its cruelties was set bySgt. Robert Simmons, Birmingham, Ala.Sgt. Albert Ennis, Mobile, Ala.press conference the chief task of Premier Kijurc) Shidehara’s cabinet was to carry out terms of the Potsdam conference smoothly and as rapidly as possible to ^ demonstrate our good faith thru deeds learned enough Japanese to read j the tribunal shortly after the mas-a little, and to talk quite a bit. I dye indictments presented to the In fact, each of the men admit- j court yesterday at its first setting Sgt Glenn D .Frazier, Ft. De- ted that he frequently talked with in Berlin had been served on 23 of posit, Ala. j Jap workers who were assigned j the defendants here in the Nuern-Ail are gaining weight rapidly, to work projects with them. Most jof there working Japs talked free-PERON WILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINAappear to be in good physical condition, and—in the words of their war dofficer, Lt. Erwin Rice, of New Orleans are gettingalong splendidly.With the exception of Hall and_ . ^ ^ _ . \ Ennis, all of the ex-prisoners wereDome! reported that the cabihet 'nr Hm« nf Rntnon^today discussed a portion of thedemocratization instructions Gen-eral MacArthur gave Shidehara 1 when he assumed the Premiership,pv Wtt MO.,to continue companyday.. Th Labor • J^epartTnenfc, meanwhile, urged repeal of the'strike* notice section of the War Labor disputes act which it said was “hurting rather than- helping the cause of industrial peace.Daniel W. Tracy, assistant Sec-retary - af -Labors-fiiade- the ±\ essaryfacilitiesBuenos Aires, Oct. 19 .(AP) — Col. Juan Domingo Peron will be operations. Workers, members of (permitted fite army to run the CIO’Michigan utility workers \ for President next April 7, aSCIENTISTS ASK SOLONS TO SLOWBOMB DECISIONWashington, Oct. 19. (AP) an** wou,Presidential hopes for. prompt jWere being investigated on--bus-[taken at the time of Bataan’s fail. Hall and Ennis, however, were among the handful of mer^ who held out on Corregidor, the rock, until the total end of re-The 24th defendant, Martin Bor-ly, unless he was being watched by I maun, apparently still is at largeand probably will be tried in absentia.Indictments wem» served on thea supervisor.Opinion among the six liberated soldiers was varied as to thecouncil, are seeking a 30 cents an hour wage increase.Meanwhile, across the country new and continuing labor disputes kept about 457,000 workers idle,_ . ., . ..... TIncluding 210,WO sortcoai“minersiquest to the house millltary com- I._ ,-----jniftee at hearings on a bill to repeal the Smith-Connally act. The measure binds the government to conduct strike votes if unions give 30 days notice.Tracy did not' advocate repealin six states who have until Monday to obey baek-to-work ordersfrom John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president. Some miners, however, went back to the pits(Continued on Page 8. Column 1reliable source reported today as a stunned popldace dazedly * accepted his swift teturq to power.But the army, patently the power behind Peron and President Ed el mir 67 Farrell-, - wa^-report tohave stipluated. further the government must remain impartial in the elections, giving no direct air to' Peron.,This source said the army, rep-and decided to call a Bpecial j sistanee in the defense of the j war. It was at its worst aftei meeting of the ministers concern* Philippines.ec*‘ ! Ennis,' DenmarkElsewhere on the hoinefront* j were among* the earliest Ameri-Domei said, more than 2,600 Nip-1 ponese Navy officers and men1severity of treatment in the Phi-1 defendants—politicians, militarists,lipphteB compared-with that in theJap home land. Some said it w*u. tougher in Japan than the Philippines, but the majority agreed that the treatment progressively improved with changing tide of thecongressional- decision on atomicenergy ran today into protests from a group of atom bomb scientists that congress is over-doing the rush job.The house military committee already has announced its hearings closed. It -ie considering a bill to place in the hands of a commission powerful domestic controls over sources and deve-i lopment of atomic energy. .Dr. Harold Urey of Chicago ex-(Continued on Page 8, Column of vContinued on Page 4. Column 6*WAGE-PRICE POLICIES AREi ^ •CABINET TOPICIDLE TALK ABOUT BLASTING THE HELL OUT OF RUSSIA CANNOT DO ANY GOOD FOR OUR PEACE MOVESWashingt:ii, Oct. 19 (AP)—President Truman discussed wage-price policies with his. cabinet today^bufc there was no immediate announcement on the results.press ^B^retarv Charles G. Rosseeid a statement on r.ew machinery to deal with labor disputes probably will be deferred until Monday.President Truman told his newsBy J. M. ROBERTS, JR.(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst) The house committee studying the control of atomic energy was told yesterday that there are two schools of thought on the subject, one favoring production for peaceful ends and the other wanting more bombs so we can blast the and i hen out of Russia’before Russia*blasts the hell out of us. •First it must be said that the witness, Dr. Leo Szilard of theou £q sbm ‘oSnoiqo jo AjisaoAiun conference yesterday he would have I means advocating such a policymulgate their own ideas abroad. But the world became much afraid. ^Then Russia, with a great war bn her outskirts, got the idea that the neighbors who weren’t with her were against her, and began occupying strategic territory in Finland, along the Baltic, in theANTI-STRIKE LEGISLATION BEING STUDIEDpicion of misappropriating war materials, and the number of Japanese repatriated since the end of the war rose to nearly 35,000 with arrival of the Destroyer Hlbiki at Uraga port from Yap with 285 army and navy personnel and 471 civilians^- .........-Yoshida, veteran Japanese statesman who once was mentioned prominently as a possible successor to resigned Premier Prince i* Waal,lt;„«.#.,***• io ,y/p«Higashi-kuni, told his first r-1’Washington, Oct. 19 lt;/PREVOLUTIONrtBREAKS OUT IN VENEZUELAthe fail of Bataan. in the “death and Frazier J march day.?, most agreed.The first winter in Japan wasvery bad, Frazier said • The Japs had enough that they could have kept us thoge days,and they could have fed ua better, t , but they didn’t. They were at ** * their high tide, and the wormhadn't turned yet. We had no stoves in our barracks, and not en-j ough clothes on our backs. And wo didn't have nearly enough food.I Later on, it. was_eaaier _tn _u.nder,istand not being properly fed, be-industrialists and other functionaries in Hitler’s Nazi regime—at 2:15 p. m. (8:15 a. m. EST). Maj. Anthony Neave, a British lawyer, gave copies of the 24 word accusation to the men in their carefully guarded cells. He explained to all exactly what their rights were. , ...»Lt. Col. Richard Owens of NewHaven, Connr, and two attorneys attached to United States forces in the European theater accompanied Neaver ‘ ' •Neave, in his military 'was captured by the Germans in. the British retreat from Dunker-. que. He escaped from a Germanprison camp in 1944. tThe indictments were served on r Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hes£;Jnaqhim. A!on_ JEUhbentrop^Robert -Ley, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernest Kak p* tWashington, Oct. 19 (AP)—The I abor Department today urged repeal of the strik e-no tine section of the War Labor Disputes Act.The Department said this section is hurting rather than help-BaTKaYfl8 aird^Polandr it was ay ear f cause, JDf...indu st?:iaL ^ac e, ::nr t.wn hf*fnrp PnrrtAii Muirs warn. I The request was made to theHouse Military Committee by Daniel W. Tracy, assistant Secretary ofa statement after the cabinet meeting. He did not specifically say it would be made today.against Russia, but was bringing into the open what he considered a dangerous attitude. Also, thereRoss said the scope of the Pres- j seems to be as many schools ofioent’s Statement would depend upon the cabinet’s discussion. Present administration policy isthought about atomic control as there are thinkers. But the point is that the scientist considered itto allow wage increases only to i worthwhile to bring up the Rus-correet inequalities and where no | sian angle.price increases result. Administration spokesmen, however, have leaned recently toward more lib-As a matter of fact, it is extremely doubtful if you could find anyone who would advocate use oferal wage policy while hblding the | atomic bomb against Russia,line against price spirals.Ross also told reporters the President is not ready yet to announce his selection for chairmanor anyone else, today or any givenor two before Cordell Hull's warning to Argentina, Spain and other neutrals that those who did not stand with the United Nations were considered as against them.During and since the war Russia has taken the attitude that, regardless of worldwide peace ef forts, she had t6 first look after spots which might directly trouble her. Whether a charge of imperialism can be made to-stick in this question is at least debatable, just as there have been many dbates over America’s war with Mexico, and such incidents as the occupations of Nicaragua and Haiti.To talk about going to war with Russia now, because of certainday. But it must be admitted that j acts which violate the westernDr. Sizlard was describing a vague current attitude of fear and dis-of the Labor-Industry Conference ^rus^ 0f Russia which is comph-eating relations with our wartime j about things that irk us today itconvening here Nov. 5Both laboi and management want J any.. lt is an attitude which may the answers to these key question*: as welj pe looked4 dt for what it 1. Will wages go up? if so,,howmuch?conscience, it to condemn the long view without giving it a chance. When we are inclined to pop offi^ Just as well to remember that the Russian attack bn Finland iniis worth. There is some indication | 1939^ no matter how regrettable, oCI\*r n t that reluctance to discuss it open-1100^ on an entirely different hue appr2. WM prices inemiae. .again, ly in the past has heightened its | in 194! when Russia was holding^part,much- ’ appeal to some people. the Germans back from world con-Some years ago Russian leaders quest. .have a statement afterward. Re- werg talking about the necessity This is not an apoligy for Rus- Possible” new anti-strike legislationfor cramming their ideas down the j sia lt is jUst to point out that Y;.m be attached to the repealer., _ , . i? i 1 lit r T 1rt i-vf Vi r\ a rl /I a/4 IV 11 Cii Vi _throat of the rest of the world, j few nations, like few people, ever Except that they established j are jn position to pass absoluteporters got the Impression he meant some time during the day after the cabinet session adjourns. But he may have meant in a day or so.There was no indication prior to the meeting that Mr. Truman isLabor, during hearings on a bill to repeal the law known as the Smith-Connally Act. *The measure binds the government to conduct strike votes if unions give 30 days notice.Tracy did net advocate repeal of other sections of the law, enacted several years ago over a Presidential veto.Tracy said he believed the strike-notice section serves to increase friction between management and labor because the advantages oi' a strike vote conducted by the government have not been overlooked.The 30-day cooling-off period provided by the section, he told the committee, frequently becomes the white heat point of the dispute.^Chairman Ma^lD-Ky) told a reporter his committee probably will approve the repeal bill; at least insome time today. .....Rep. Arends (111), House Republican whip, told a reporter that ifeigh press conference he had no plans for the foreign ministry.Yoshida asserted be believed the present constitution was democratic, but revision is regarded as necessary because the instrument had been misused by militarists and action was necessaryto prevent its possible misuse by other elements in the future,He defended the Zaibatsu, wealth-controlling industrial families of Japan whose holding companies recently announced plans to offer shares of stock for sale to the public, as the people who brought prosperity to Japan in peace time.Allied headquarters, which has been recovering hidden wealth in gold, silver and precious gems from Japanese chicken coops, barns and thermos jugs, froze jewelry, precious metals and securities of Japanese nationals being repatriated. As they come back home, headquarters said, civilians may bring with them only 1000 yen, officers 500 and enlisted men 200. Any currency, gold, silver, precious metals, jewelry, securities and financial Instruments they may have above iScPSmeS»t - aflowed 16 tftejhXwilL be taken up by occupation authorities.Also frozen by order of General MacArthur were the bank accounts of Ando Moku, chief of the personnel section of the imperialbank of Tokyo, and Irnoi Melji, president of the chosen bank at } Seoul, Korea.MacArthur’s economic investi* gators alleged 3,000,000 yen hadbeen transferred illegally from the Seoul branch of the ImperialBank of Tokyo to Moku's personal account.At Yokohama, eighth aruiy officials said about 7,000 U. S.troops would soon leave the Fourth Replacement Depot for home aboard the U. S. S. Hayes,U. S. Sj. General Weigle, U. S. S.Pennant and U. S. S. Freeman.'Pen thousand other troops have reported to the Seventh Replacement Depot at Kyoto for transportation home, but sixth armyauthorities said bad weather had i on the issues involved.cause as her lines of communica-1 tenbrunner, Alfred Rosehberg1 1 AM T I f O /tl 1 4* TKiTn A ■« ^ I T_T V*Yma v .1 lull.. _United States embassy officer at Caracas was fired on last night in the course of spreading revolution in Venezuela.The conflict is between rebel military and government forces.The incident involving the embassy official was disclosed by the state department today in making public dispatches from Ambassador Frank P. Corrigan on the revolt.The upheaval, according to these official reports, began at 4 p. m., yesterday at San Carlos barracks near Caracas and by 9 p. m„ last night the rebels had control of the president’s residence at Miraflores and the nearby military academy.They had set up headquarters in the academy.Meanwhile, government forces under leadership of President General Isiah Medina Y. Angarita, who has taken personal command, have captured the San Carlos barracks.Heavy firing was reported this morning shortly after midnight, according to a dispatch which indicated that the shooting took place at Caracas.At the town of Maracay, about jtion were cut by MacArthur, the Jap home islands’ food supply suffered. But in those early days, they could have; treated us right and they just wouldn't do it. Later on, we couldn’t expect much in the way of food, but they at least improved in other respects, for we got stoves in our barrackr the next two winters, and with the coal which was issued us plus that which we stole, we were able to keep warm all right.All of the prisoners experience? followed this line. After the fall of the Philippines, they were assembled, then assigned to camps. Most of the men were at Cabana-tuan, then old Billibid prison before finally being shipped to Japan proper for work in the home islands. In Japan, they were kept at work in the sugar mills, on the farms, on dry docks, etc. Most of the men worked at about three different locations1 in Japan dur-(Continued on page 7—column 5)Hans Frank; Wilhelm Frick, Julius' Streiched, Walther Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Gustav Krupp Von Boh-len Und Halbach, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur Von Sehi-rach, Fritz Sauchel, Alfred Jodi, Frank Von Papen, Arthur Seyess-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin Von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche. The formal indictment was pre-(Continued on Pace 8. Coiumu 3?* WEATHER FORECASTS ** Georgia: iFair and continued ** warm today, considerable clou- ** diness with scattered light * showers north portion tonight ** and south portion Saturday; ** cooler Saturday, clearing in ** north portion. ** Extreme Northwest Florida: ?t* Fair this afternoon an J to- ** night, Saturday partly cloudv; ** not quite so warm. Gentle io ** moderate southeast winds. *POUCEMAN EJE :fS A HECKLER.39: of - the - capital,. . itT.....rather tenuous liaison with Communist parties in other countries,judgments on others; that the Russians are sensitive, still re-If not, he added, it will be submitted soon in the Jorm of new legislation.was reported that there was heavy fighting and that the rebels ^id some motorized equipment at ; disposal.Government forces claimed to/ control Maracay air field.The state department’s cablej j from Ambassador Corrigan were,! at least in some instances, timed at 9 p. m. yesterday, Venezulan time, but were not filed until day-}break today.Inquiry disclosed that cable j communication between the em- ■ bassy at Baracas and the state j department was interrupted during j the night. 1The state department said that; an American officer of the em- j bassy was on his way from the! embassy to the cable office when he was fired upon near the Plaza Bolivar.He,was forced to turn back and that resulted in the delay in Corrigan's dispatches to Washington. There was no authoritative wordt-Idelayed scheduled transport departures.The army newspaper Daily Pa-cificari in Manila printed lettersVenezuelan sources here speculated that lower rank army officers perhaps were displeased with the two presidential candidates forfrom Yanks in the Philippines 1 the presidency and may have re-which accused army authorities j volted to take over the govern-jj'Cootimied on Page 4/ Columnthey did little-if any-more about.it.1 Senfcful of past ideological encircle-thah the capitalist democracies mentv and that talk of blastinghave done and are doing to pro-hell out of them can only handi-of inefficiency and stalling in the matter of sending veterans home.Soldiers contended the armycay sincere people everywhere in l»should send home in cargo ves-ment.- otheir search for international solutions,sels which they said are sailingempty for the United States rather than wait for transports - and other fleet units for transportation. The cargo ships could carry about 75 m'ea1 eaeh, ^A unidentified heckler Is ejected by a policeman from a meeting in Polytechnic high school in Los Angeles at which Gerald L. K. Smith, one-time lieutenant of Louisiana’s late Huey P. Long* spoke In behalf 6f the “ham *n eggs pension plan. More than 8,000 high school students andi labor union pickets paradedaround the school in protest against it being used for the meeting— (AP Wlrephotojf.1/*■
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