Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 1

JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE m. IT NO. 109. 101st YEAR WEDNESDAY fi.tt* JANESVI Fathers Are Exempted From further Draft Second Death March Is Laid io Gen. Homma Sick War Prisoners Pushed Over Cliffs to Death, Charge Manila A second ''death jnaiicli" in the precipitous mountains of northern Luzon, in which Exhausted and emaciated American prisoners of war were pushed over cliffs, was charged today against Japanese Lt Gen.

Masaharu Horn- ma. More than 100 sick prisoners were made to act as "pack ani- maU" for hauling Japanese arms and supplies into the rugged coun- fight guerrillas, said the formal charges against the former in the Philippines. Frank E. Meek, of -Cald- wdl, Idaho, chief prosecutor in Homma's trial, slated for Jan. 3, announced the additional specifications.

-said he would introduce eWdencc to show that Homma actually witnessed the first "death march" from Bataan, while lolling In' an' automobile. Homma accused of responsibility for atrocities Involving the death of American and Filipino war DEATH CERTIFICATES FAKED. IS CHARGE A Japanese medical officer named Ohara; testifying at the trial of a prison guard charged with the fatal' beating of an" prison of war, said today he signed 20 to 30 prisoners' death certificates but saw only two or three of the bodies. prosecution presented the Witness, Inroyoshi Ohara, in suggesting that the Japanese faked the death certificate of Pfc. Robert Gordon Teas of Streator, HI, sur- the Bataan "death who died at the Mutsushiina pris- camp.

with slaving Teas is Tatsuo Tsuchiya, dubbed by American prisbners as "Little Glass Eye." He is the first of nearly 400 Japanese facing -U. S. military commission on charges of mistreatment ol Allied nations. AT Earlier, the commission struck trotn the record an affidavit detail- tag- frequent beatings of the nil-: ubls soldier. testimony, toy PfcJ Charles B.

Gavord of Deming, N. was out because of the inability of the prosecution to produce the original instead of a Mimeographed copy. Railroad Wreck Laid to Failure of today cleared wreckage from Southern railway tracks near White Sul- phut, where a freight train crashed into the rear of the railroad's passenger train, the Pied- aiont Limited, and killed three persons. -Southern railway headquarters in Washington said a signal light of the passenger train was net I working because an ice-coated control line had dropped and out on telephone and telegraph wires. Piedmont when its engineer -observed no signal light and was proceeding "with caution" the freight train 'drove into officials said.

as dead in the accident which occurred five miles from yesterday were F. B. Means of -Toccoa, Ga, engineer on the freight engine, and two sailors, whose names were withheld pend- ihg. notification of their next of GETS EVEFCU. A huge, lighted Christmas" sign blazed from General MacArthur's headquarters.

Emperor Hirohito Sold see it easily by looking from his palace grounds. Blness Delaying Gazette Delivery unprecedented illness nmong fcoyi of Oaaette carrier or- ganisation, delivery papers in Janecville and in several near-by communities is delayed. In many instances both the VCtular carrier boy and Us rente are ill. Every effort kdnc made to maintain oervice inconvenience to 'jaerlben, and while thta emercen- the cooperation and in- of mbicriben affected appreciated. Jteaders who do not receive 'their copy of the fiaiette at laninal time are to delay tkefr calls for diort time oe- the mnel limits Became de- in eonte cases may be THE WEATHER dntr Frltaj.

U- fjafobetric pressure: 6 30.10; 6 30; 13 noon, 29.95. TJM a. winel. p. m.

Nouti to flee. Hour Hour 9J12 SO; iowci S3. year ago today, bighest Single Men 18 Through 25 to Serve; Most Will Be Youths Washington All fathers are out from under the draft-today, but selective service quieted speculation that this might lead soon to inducting 18 year olds only. The end to the drafting of fathers coincided with a new reduction in army and navy point scores. But a high official of i lective service said veterans are not re-enlisting in sufficient numbers to narrow the draft any further.

This means, said this official who asked anonymity, that temporarily at least single men 18 through 25 must fill replacements needs of the army and navy. Most WIU Be VontiM As has been the case since the end of the war, however, the great majority of those drafted will be youths becoming 18. Out of a total of about 35,000 men inducted in November, selective service reported, only an estimated six to nine thousand were over 18. Fewer than 900 of the 35,000 were fathers. In halting the father draft yesterday, selective service also ruled that men with three or more children will not be permitted to enlist.

These fathers are "not acceptable to the local draft boards were notified, but men with one or two children may volunteer. Result of In practice, the ban on drafting of fathers applies only to men under 26. Older men have not been drafted since Japan surrendered. The new ban, it was understood, came as the direct result of protests in congress that there no longer is any need to draft fathers. Those with three or more children have not been called since Nov.

5. Selective service also disclosed that, because of a halt on all inductions over the holidays, only about 30,000 men will be called up this mwitb, as against a total request for 50,000 for the army and 1,000 for the navy. Senate Extends Pearl Haibor Probe-to Feb. 15 Bfch- mond Kelly Timer nsiertfi today the Badge fleet up at Bkrber, on Dee. 7.

mi, under orders isMedlt days senate agreed today to extend the joint congressional investigation of Pearl Harbor until Feb. 15. Similar action now is up to the house. Senate Majority Leader Berkley (D-Ky). who also is chairman of the investigating group, obtained senate agreement to the extension beyond the original date of Jan.

3. The senate voted the extension while the investigating committee session elsewhere was hearing that a British-American naval by Pacific fleet commanders Dec. 6,1941. envisioned a U. S.

attack on Truk is the Japanese went to war. 50 Hirohito Guards Go Out on Strike new.s agency reported today that 50 members of the Imperial palace guard had struck and the remaining 550 threatened to walk out unless a key official were dismissed and other "democratization" measures were taken. Palace officials, confused, wondered how to "apologize to His Majesty" for the strike. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1945. Railroads Boys Home by PAGES FOUR 1 TRANSPORTATION veterans jam the US.S Leonard Wood at San Francisco.

This is typical of scenes aboard troop ships arriving as "Operation Santa Claus" hits a critical peak with thousands of soldiers apparently not destined to be home for Christinas because of transportation problems. (AP wirephoto). Governor Goodland Urges Progressives to Return to Republican Organization Marshall Lands at Chinese City Communist Leader to Present Cose; Asks Hostilities End UP! George C. Marshall arrived today on his mission to end internal strife in China as he stepped from his plane, Chinese Communists asked the government to agree to an immediate, unconditional cessation of 'hostilities, Lu Ting-hi, Communist peace- parley delegate, told the Associated Press. Marshall Is expected to meet wjtii Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek afNahkIng tomorrow to discuss the situation.

The meeting will be their first since the Cairo conference. Associated Press Correspondent Spencer Moosa, at Chungking, reported-the Communist move toward a cease-fire agreement, and said Lu also informed him that Red leader Cbou En-lal would seek an audience to present the Communist case to Marshall. The American special envoy stepped briskly from a C-54 transport plane from Manila at Shanghai's Kiangwan airfield this afternoon and proceeded to the Cathay hotel for conferences with Lt Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S.

commander, in -China. Marshall and Chiang are expected to fly together to-Chung- king later in the week 'for long conferences. -Chiang, who has ex- pleasure over Marshall's temporary appointementto.succeed Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, arrived in Nanking yesterday to await the U. S.

envoy. Russians to Hang Seven Nazi SS Men Moscow radio said today that seven of the 10 German SS men, tried war crimes by the Russians at Smolensk were sentenced last night to be hanged. The other three defendants were sentenced to prison terms Of 20 years, 15 years and 12 years, respectively. Sixth Company Officer, Lt. Scoville, Reported Dead Long delayed notice of the death of their son, Lt Leroy Scoville, 29, has reached Mr.

and Mrs. A. J. Scoville, 464 S. Madison street, Evansville, informing them that the 192nd Tank battalion officer lost his life Jan.

24, 1945, when the'Japanese prison ship he was aboard was bombed. Earlier, friends had written his parents that he died of Injuries suffered when the ship on which he was being transported was bombed by -the Allies, less than 300 of 1,619 prisoners being saved. The official notification of the death of Lt Scoville brings to 59 the total deaths of men of Company A and Headquarters company, 192nd Tank battalion. Six officers of the two Janesville companies are now listed as dead. One of Evansville's most popular young men, Lt Scoville, joined Company A of the Wisconsin national guard Sept 23, 1940, and was inducted into service two months later.

After training at Fort Knox, for a year, he was sent to the Philippines with the other men Oct 27, 1941, and was promoted to sergeant and commissioned there. He was awarded his commission March 12, 1942, during the fighting on Bataan. During his years of imprisonment, Lt. Scoville wrote several cards to his parents, most of them from Philippine military camp Report Delayed by Japs. The telegram received by Mr.

LT. LEBOV SOOVIIXE and Mrs. Scoviile, Monday, from the government, stated: "The secretary of war has asked me to express 'his deep regret that your son, Second Lt Scoville, LeRoy was killed in action 24 1945, while -a prisoner of war of the Japanese government The long delay in advising you was occasioned solely by failure of the Japanese government to report your son's death. Confirming, letter follows:" Second Lt LeRoy A. Scoville was born Nov.

30, 1915,. in Evans- om Oil. 3) Madison (If) Governor Goodland declared yesterday that Progressives in the Republican organization because there was "no need for a third party." In his first press conference since last January, 'the Republican will be 83 years old on state and national politics, but left unanswered the often-repeated question of whether he would be a candidate for re-election in 1946. The governor said he believed the Republican party needed the differences-of opinion that would be brought into it by the Progressives. "It would help to keep it awake, he said.

"I believe the Republican party ticket should be anyone who wants to run' on it" Favors Primary System The Progressive party will decide at its state convention next spring whether to join either the Republican or Democratic organizations or "to continue as an independent group. The Progressives withdrew from the Republitan party in 1935 to form their own organization. The governor added that he was opposed to the convention endorsement of candidates, a plan which has been advocated by Thomas E. Coleman, chairman of the Wisconsin Republican party. Coleman also has voiced opposition to Progressive office holders shifting to the Republican party.

"I believe it our primary system," the governor said. "It permits anyone to run, with the people deciding' who they want. The only weakness in the primary system is with the voters themselves." Future Coune In Doubt Discussing his future, Governoc Goodland declared that he was not prepared to say at this time whether he would run for re-election. "My doctors tell me that I am in better shape now than when I came here. But there is a question in my mind whether I will be in shape to tackle he said.

"I can't make up my mind whether I want to go through another session of the legislature. The last session was a trying one." The governor and the legislature clashed frequently at the session which ended in June, despite the fact that Republicans had control of both houses. The chief executive said that the state's financial, picture was excellent and that he hoped to keep it' that way. He paid tribute to' Wisconsin industry and labor who, he said, had "done a fine job in making industrial relations in Wisconsin the best of any state in the nation." t. Must EceMratee Discussing national affairs, the governor declared that the country was operating on an inflated basis and must find a way out He said this was "largely" the fault of the Democratic administration, but it was "not entirely" to blame.

'Congress has had a lot to do with our present difficulties," he said. "They vote billions down there like they were millions. Our entire cost of national government 10 'years ago was five and a half billion dollars. Today the annual interest, on our national debt is more than six billion. We have an interest cost that is beyond what our total costs were.

"We must boil things down to a practical basis and let the law of economy rule again if we are to recover from our national headaches," he said. Full Shopping Days CHRISTMAS General Motors Balks at Price, Profit Evidence Will Withdraw from if Figures Are Made Basis General Motors sewed notice on President Truman's fact-finding board today that it would withdraw from hearings on a wage dispute if profits and prices are considered as evidence by the board. The statement was made by Walter G. Merritt, bor lawyer, who New York la- presented the corporation's opposition to consideration of profit-price issues in any wage recommendation which the board may make. Merritt declared that the tion of General Motors prices was a matter that should be left to the office of price administration.

Earlier Walter P. Reuther, vice president of the Auto Workers, told the board General Motors used "jungle law" in dealing with union demands for the 30 per cent wage increase and refused to accept the "economic arithmetic" of the dispute. The board will decide the profits and prices issued before continuing the hearings. CLAIM FORD OFFER IS SIIOBT OF LIVING COSTS C. 1.

O. United Auto Workers, formally rejecting the Ford Motor offer of a 15 cents an hour or 12.4 per cent wage increases, said today the proposal would fail to offset higher living costs. Informing the company that its offer was "totally inadequate," the union asserted that the U. A. O.

objection was based further on the contention the raise would not come in the form of a "blanket" increase. "A great many workers might receive little or nothing at all," the union's reply to Ford said. The union, which has demanded from Ford and other auto manufacturers a 30 per cent wage increase, took issue with a company statement that it faced a loss of $35,000,000 in 1946 even without an OPA car price increase. Meanwhile, the Ford Motor Co. of Canada readied its big Windsor, Ont, plant to resume production following termination of the longest and most widespread strike in the history of the Canadian automobile industry.

Ninety-nine days after the strike of .10,000 Ford workers began, the O. United Automobile Work, en. announced last night that members of its local 200 had voted to accept a- dominion government proposal for negotiation and, if necessary, arbitration of the dispute. Union officials said between 5,000 and 6,000 of the 8,500 eligible workers cast their ballots and 72 per cent voted to accept Major issues are the union's demands for a closed shop and dues checkoff. Here in Ford officials again sat down at the bargaining table with U.

A. O. representatives to discuss wage demands of more than 100,000. Ford workers in this country. Negotiations between the union and Kaiser-Frazer corporation, which is planning to manufacture cars in the war-built Willow Run bomber plant, had been scheduled CM.

Detroit, meanwhile, Never Give Up Becky Ford, Pete Montoya placed the mustering out pay of her Benny, plus some other family cash in cans and hid them in her home. It totaled $1,200. Fire destroyed the residence yesterday, but Mrs. Montoya insisted on digging the embers. She found the $1,200.

Congress Ending Tonight Has Shown Stubborn Front Toward President Truman BY WILLIAM F. ABBOGAST 79th congress, which spanned the transition from war to peace and from President Roosevelt to President Truman, today ends the session it started last Jan. 4. Barring a last-minute upset in plans, it leaves the capital tonight to return for its "election on Jan. 14t It leaves behind a record of stubbornness toward the man who last April moved from the vice president's in the senate to the White House office vacated by the death of Franklin D.

"Roosevelt. It hasn't taken kindly, and certainly not eagerly, to many of the suggestions Harry S. Truman has made in almost' a dozen special messages. Although its tally of "things undone" is a long one, the 79th congress, perhaps than any of its recent predecessors, made its voice heard 'round the world by the things it did. It ratified the United Nations charter; it' overwhelmingly enacted law to give living effect to this country's partfcipa- tion in UNO; It appropriated new money to the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration; It extended the lead-lease program and the reciprocal trade agreements act; and it wrote Into law the Bretton Woods international monetary, agreements.

In doing those.things it followed the both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Truman. On. Domestic Front On the domestic front it: Appropriated approximately while a two-front war was in progress and then, after the last shots had been fired, took back some $52,000..

000,000 of current and past year allotments that hadn't been used. Extended the draft law until next May 15. Bailed the national debt limit to 9300,000,000,000. Extended price controls until the middle of 1946. Rewrote the O.

MB of rights. Cut income taxes and ordered repeal of the excess profits tax Jan. 1, 1946. Approved at governmental reorfnn- iation plan in response to a request from President Truman. Simplified administration of surplus property disposal in accord with another presidential en- Orapromlsei with the president MMtaort OB 9.

CH. Fort Woman, 85, Killed by Gas Monroe Home Is Also Scene of Accidental Asphyxiation Fort Atkinson Mrs. Agnes Zeugner, 85, was found dead in her home at 216 Clarence: street at 9:30 a. Thursday John Monogue, an oil truck driver, and Chief of Police Harry Mueller. Death was due to.

accidental asphyxiation cooking according to the county- coroner. Police- Xound a burner under a frying pan turned on but not lighted. Another burned lighted. Monogue had delivered oil to the Zeugner home Wednesday night and returned Thursday night to get the delivery slip signed. When the woman failed to answer his knock at the door'he looked in a window and saw her sitting in a chair.

He summoned police. Mrs. Zeugner lived alone in the house. MONROE YOUNG WOMAN IS VICTIM OF GAS Miles, 19, a Lawrence college student recuperating at home after a classroom mishap, was killed accidentally by illuminating gas at 5:30 p. m.

yesterday, Coroner Herman Stuessy reported today. Mrs. Charles Niles, the girl's mother, found her body on the kitchen floor after returning from a shopping trip. One burner of the gas stove was on, but not burning. The girl had placed teakettle on the burner and turned on the gas, but the pilot light ap- functioning, that no in- parently was not Stuessy said, adding quest would be held.

Miss Niles returned to the home of her'parents here about a week ago from Appleton, where she had been a hospital patient for several weeks when she became ill from breathing escaping gas in a Lawrence college laboratory. According to information received here she became ill while in the classroom and submitted to several blood transfusions when in the hospital there. In addition to her parents, she leaves a brother, Charles J. Niles, at home. Grant Hitter Is Named Farm Director of Station WGLO Grant Ritter, well known throughout Southern Wisconsin as a practical farmer and business man, will assume his new duties as director of WCLO's farm department effective Jan.

1, 1946. Mr. Ritter operates his own 220-acre dairy farm, is a former AAA township chairman, member of the Rock county board of supervisors, member of the county agricultural committee, chairman of the Rock county soil conservation district and chairman of the Rock county veterans agriculture rehabilitation advisory committee. Under Mr. Hitter's direction WCLO's farm service will be expanded to meet the specific needs, interests and activities of the farmers in Jefferson, Green and Dane counties.

A new farm program will be inaugurated over WCLO starting Wednesday, Jan. 2, at 7 a. m. and will be heard daily thereafter Monday, through Saturday. These programs will include daily interviews by.

Mr- Ritter with farm families in their own homes, and recorded for broadcast by means of WCLO's wire recorder, the preceding day's closing livestock market report; the latest Associated Press national and local news; time; temperature; weather predictions and road conditions. As new services are added requiring GRANT more time, will go on the air earlier. Rural programs now heard' from 11:30 a. m. through the noon hour will be continued.

"It will be our endeavor," said Mr. Ritter, "to create a farm program that will satisfy the particu-' (OnllMHI OB 13. Habitual Hero los King, a mixture of bulldog- and terrier, heroism is old stuff. Several months ago the dog led Russell P. Bomar, 18, to safety from a burning house.

Today Leo Fowler told how King dragged his four-year-old daughter, Jacka, from the Fowler driveway as he was backing the family car from the garage, unaware the child was in danger. Geneva Resort Owner Kidnaped S. C. Anderaon Held Four Hours by Trio of Gunmen Lake Geneva night club owner was kidnaped by two gunmen in Des Plaines, EL, Wednesday evening, was held by them for four hours as they used his car in two tavern holdups north of Chicago 1 and was finally ejected from his car in Chicago loop district after being relieved of 99 in cash in addition to $150 worth of Christmas presents he had in the car. The kidnap victim was Stanley C.

(Jack) Anderson, operator of Club J-Mar, a roadside resort about two miles north of Lake Geneva on highway 12. Information received at the sheriffs office here today indicated that Anderson had recovered his automobile and that at least one arrest had been made. In a dispatch from Chicago, the Associated Press reported that Anderson told Chicago police, he was picked up in Des Plaines and driven to Wauconda, DL, where the gunmen added a third man to their party. He said the captors then drove to a residence nearby they told him. they intended to rob.

A large; number of automobiles parked near the house caused them to change their plans, Anderson related. The club owner said the gunmen then drove him to the loop district, where they ejected him from the car after taking the Christmas gifts and 99 in cash. Anderson was enroute to his Lake Geneva home with the carload of Christmas presents when accosted by the gunmen. The radio message received by the sheriffs department here at 11:20 p. m.

Wednesday asked that a search be made'for three men, one in army uniform, traveling in Anderson's car. It was later; reported that the car had been recovered and that a McHenry county, Hi, youth was being held "by Cook county police on charges of auto theft and armed Anderson was reported to have remained in Chicago over' night to work with Cook county police in an attempt to identify his captors. Several suspects had been apprehended, according to police radio, information received by Sheriff Jack Cusack here. The first radio message contained the information that two taverns north of Chicago had been held up by the three gunmen using Anderson's car. Law May Run for Governor in 1946 R.

Law. former mayor of Madison and chairman of the Wisconsin highway commission since 1943. said yesterday he was giving serious consideration to becoming a candidate for the Republican-nomination for governor in 1946. Law. said he was waiting to learii if-Governor Goodland would be a candidate to succeed himself.

"If Governor Goodland does.not become a candidate, 1 probably will seek-that Law said. He was appointed to highway commission 1 25,000 Per Day Head Eastward; Heavy PUe-up Increased Space for Returning Vets It 'J 'Allotted on San 000 restless Pacific veterans. stranded -at coast ports far lack of sufficient transportatloni are scheduled to begin headtajff eastward by rail today at the rata of 25,000 a day. New arrivals, however, will plenish the backlog and some 000 men will have to spend Christ- was day at the ports; army and navy officials explained. Twelfth naval district headquarters said a new and substantially: increased allotment of railway equipment will give about 40 cent of the travel space to San, Francisco, 35 per cent to the Porte land-Seattle area and 25 per cent to the Los Angeles-San Diego area.

EAST COAST TROOPS WILL. BE BUSHED HOBBK New All soldiers Bv-j ing'on the east coast, or as west as Chicago, who arrive'in! New Tork before Saturday will get home for Christmas tt port; of embarkation efforts Under a speeded up process, tha, men would' be rushed Camp Kilmer, N. and on their, way home in 18 instead of the; normal 24 hours. The army cautioned, that some of the men could not, reach home until the holidajrjtt-j self. Troops arriving after Sat-, urday noon should reach time for part of the holiday the army said.

PLANESTOHEjEFlN GETTING BOYS Dayton, army air-. force is sending- two giant traps-J ports from Wright field west- coast to fly returning-Pacific veterans back to their homes in time for ChrUtmas. Maj. Gen. Benjamin Wl deputy commander of the afar tew-, nical service command, announeid' that the first flight of two air-J craft assigned to the ing venture would take otf 'f turn -tomorrow.

A second flight, to return veter. ans from San Francisco, scheduled to leave CUdbnr said. The planes, C-9Ts, or the trans-; port version of the Superfort, can carry 100 to 125 men each. Tho, planes are expected to non-stop flight to and coast in eight hours, and Ernest regional di- Uniform Master Agreement "j'-' for Papeimakers tm of a uniform master labor ment covering wages and labor relations in the four rag bond paper mills of Wisconsin, said to first of its kind in the history of the state's paper industry, was announced jointly today pany representatives Lambton of Appleton, rector of the ers union. Participating firms, are tha Sox River Paper Corp.

of Appleton, tha GDbert Paper Co. of Menasha, the Neenah Paper Co. of Neenah and the Whiting Plover Paper Stevens Point The announcement said that tba agreement between the companfca and the union provided for waga increases of from five to efght cents per hour, retroactive to 29. 1945. which brought the Data pay to 73 cents per hour for mala employes: and 60 cents per hoar for female workers, based OB tba present 48-hour work of which gives the employea "take home" pay equivalent hours.

AFTOCM BBETTON adhereiKa to the Bretton Woods plan, forra, world bank became law today when royal assent to the measure was announced in the l-n VICTORY LOAN Bonds Oct. 31 490,000 450,000 400,000 350,009 130,000 100,000 50,000.