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I BUY AT HOME PEARL HARBOR PROBERS LOOK FOR BRITISHUS AGREEMENT Marshall Says Japs Move Into Thailand Meant Certain Warfare By J. W. DAVIS WASHINGTON. Dec. -Gen.

George C. Marshall testilied today it was his personal opinion a month before Pearl Harbor that whenever the ancse moved into Thailand, United States and Britain would be forced into war. The fivestarred former Chief of Staff, appearing belore Senate-Ipuse Pearl Harbor vestigating Commitee for fourth day. answered questions by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich). Ferguson noted that, Marshall Adm.

Harold R. Stark. then Chief of Naval Operations, sent a memorandum to the late President Roosevelt on Nov. 1941, saying that further Japanese aggressive moves should bring taliation of the Japs moved west of 100 degrees East. or south 10 degrees North in Thailand.

The Michigan Senator brought out that on Nov. 6 Ambassador John G. Winant had Washington from London that the Japanese were on the move. "That message that they were the move meant war, didn't Ferguson asked. was of the opinion at that time the governments would forced to accept a condition hostilities," the witness replied.

He said that to permit the Jap-. abese to enter the Gulf of Siam would put them on the "back door of Singapore." War chronologies show that the Jap move into Thailand came on Dec. 7, 1941, synchronized with their other aggressive thrusts. Marshall made the point. how.

ever, that it was his personal opinion that the move into Thailand would mean the involvement of this country and Great Britain in the war. He said the governments of the two countries held the final decision, not the military men such as he and Stark. Ferguson replied that he was sceking the views of the Chief of Staff, particuiarly SO that he might find out what alerts had been given to the armed forces. Ferguson told reporters in advance of today's session that he was interested in some secret wartime documents of Great Britain, specifically, he said. he wants' to know: 1.

Whether there was a jcint plan in 1941 committing the United. States and Britain to war against Japan if certain things came to pass--and if so, what were those things. 2. Whether the British Intelli.ly gence intercepted Service Japanese secrets than made better use of did the United States in guessing when, where and whether the Japanese might strike. Funeral Services For Mrs.

Ruby Osmon At Makanda Tuesday The death of Mrs. Ruby Marie Osmon, 32, of near Makanda occurred at Holden Hospital here at 7:30 p. m. yesterday. Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist Church in Makanda at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with the Rev.

Gulley of Makanda in charge. Burial will' be in the Everbody green will be Cemctery at the at Parker Makanda. Funeral Home here until funeral time. Survivors. her husband, Sherman R.

Osmon; four Edith, Florence, Nellie and ters, Caroline at home; two sons, Levell and Dewey at home; a father, Charles Shelton of Makanda, and; a brother, Nelson Shelton at Tuckerman, Arkansas. WEATHER Generally fair this afternoon WARMER BONDS and tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy. Con-, tinued cold today and tonight. Lowest ture Tuesday morning about 12.

TEMPERATURE 6:00 AL. M. 14 12 Noon 22 24-Hour High 22 24-Hour Low 144 CARBONDALE MEMBER JAP FARMERS WARN OF RICE RIOT DANGERS Say Gov't Policy All Muddled On Agrarian Matters By RUSSELL BRINES TOKYO, Dec. 10 -(AP) A warning from farmers that rice riots are inevitable with-! out stronger government agrarian policies coincided today with General MacArthur's second blunt demand that Japan's feudal land sys-. tem be altered immediately.

Fifteen farmer representatives from Akita province in northeastcrn Japan declared muddled govcrnment policies have produced such lack of confidence that the rich Tohoku district may sell only 60 per cent of its rice crop to the government. Meanwhile, continuing his roundup of war criminal suspects. MacArthur directed the arrest of 57 Japanese accused of committing atrocities against United Nations Nationals held in the ill-famed 1 Cabanatuan in prison camp camps in and the Philippines, prisons, hospitals in Japan proper, and on the prisoner of war ship Oryoku Maru during the vessel's night-' marish voyage from the Philippines to Japan. Also ordered arrested were three Japanese naval officers, cluding a repatriate from Wake Island. Two of the trio are being court martialed by the Japanese.

The newest war criminal pects were considered "small fry" in comparison with some of the Japanese arrested recently, prisoners but to American and Allied of war they ranked highest. Three Japanese named on previous war criminal suspect lists surrendered today at Sugamo on. They were Gen. Jinzaburo Mazaki, once inspector general in military education; Nagakage Okabc, who was education minister in the cabinet of ex-Premier Hideki Tojo and Koichiro: Ishigara, bust nessman. MacArthur's newest land directive abolishes absentee land ownership and provides that millions of farmers may buy land on long term at low rates.

a The measure threatens a new crisis for Premier Kiujuro hara's cabinet, which is on the verge of collapse, MacArthur's first demand last month for Agrar. ian reform resulted in a likewarm government measure now before a hesitant diet. Today's directive cracks the whip for prompt action on a reform which the ers as opposing strongly. Charles E. Hartman Died At Home Here This Morning Charles Edgar Hartman, 61, of 511 West College.

Street, died at 8:20 o'clock this morning at his home here. Mr. Hartman was a (retired Illinois Central carpenter with 30 years of railroading experience. Twenty-four years of that was with the Illinois Central, following an initial six years with the C. E.

I. railroad. Complete details. on survivors and -funeral arrangements were not available this morning, Funeral services, however, will be held at the Methodist Church in Cypress at 2 p. m.

Wednesday, and burial: will be in the Cypress, Illinois Ma-1 sonic Cemetery. The body is 10- cated at the Parker Funeral Home here. His wife survives at home here. He was an uncle of Mrs. Fred George and of George Wayne Laughlin of Carbondale.

Further details will be published tomorrow. Five Carbondale Men Discharged From Service Reports from various seperation centers throughout the country list five more Carbondale men that have been discharged from service in the armed forces and are now returned to civilian life. Those listed are: Pfc. Lloyd G. McCaughan, 504 South Logan; T-5 Joe Comstock, 407 West Pecan; Pfc.

Leon M. all Johnson, 426 East from the Willow" Street, -discharged army CK3c Alex Mays, 311: East. Chestnut discharged. from Naval duty, -and A. Deason, RFD 4.

Two De Soto Sgt. Robert L. Ross and MOMM2c William E. Bell are reported discharged. Murphysboro men listed on discharge lists are: Cpl.

Eugene A. Comte; Corporal Walter I. Penrod; Pic. Delmar Schuster and SF1c F. P.j Crews, Jr.

FREE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1945 Orvan, Peters, Momence, Kankakee County; Mary Barbara Bland, Bethany, Moultrie County; Gilbert Blankenship, Yorkville, Kendall County; Nina Crawford, Litchfield, Montgomery County; Wilma Moser, Tremont, Tazwell County; (second. row) Robert E. Lawrence, Gibson City, Ford County; Doris Kline Colter, Morrisonville, Christian County; Raymond E. Johnson, Osco, Henry County; Helen F. Pleasant Plains, Sangamon County; J.

Glyndon Stuff, Dixon, Ogle County; Irene Downey, Putnam, Marshall-Putnam County; Rosemary. Raben, Ridgway, Gallatin Loren E. Nelson, Varna, MashallPutnam County: (third row) Mary Hubbard, 4-H Club leader of Urbana; Dorothy Deason, Jackson County: Betty Reynolds, White Hall, Green County; Kenneth Ladage, Auburn Sanganon County; June Anderson, Normal, McLean County; William M. Abbott, Morrison, Whiteside County; LaSalle County; J. B.

Barnard, Towanda, McLean County; and F. H. Meta Marie Keller, Streator, Mynard, assistant professor, boys'. 4-H club work, Urbana, were the guests of Prairie Farme at Breakfast Jamboree, in the South Ballroom of Stevens Hotel, on Wednesday, during the National a 4-HI Club Congress held in Chicago last week. ILLINOIS 4-H CLUB WINNERS (Left to right, front row) Miriam Wrigley, Trivoli, Peoria County; Jane Groves, DeKalb County; U.

S. Marine Shot By Three Chinese While Riding Sat. TIENTSIN, Dec. unarmed. Delayed.

rine sergeant was. shot from a horse on the outskirts of Tientsin late yesterday and wounded painfully in the face, Marine headquarters said today. The announceinent said the Marine encountered three Chinese, civilians at a narrow bridge spanning an irrigation ditch. The marine smiled and greeted and; the Chinese, who also smiled at the same time drew pistols and began firing, headquarters said. One bullet struck the marine in the face and he jumped into the icy ported waters of two the of canal.

He Chinese rel followed that, him the the along bank, firing at point blank range, while the third held his horse. The marine said the two Chinese emptied their pistols; reloaded, began firing again until at last he made his way out of the canal to a village of mud Here, the marine villagers told him they were afraid to help him, but he obtained, bicycle from one of them and started back to Tientsin. Finally he met a Russian woman who took him to her' home, where her husband removed his wet and frozen clothing and called the Marines. The Marines brought a truck and took him to a hospital. The sergeant, whose name was! not announced, had spent 32 months overseas and joined the First Marine Division in North China last Nov.

12. The incident followed by four days the slaying of one marine and the wounding of a second by Chinese gunmen near a village northeast of here. After the vious shooting the Marines fired mortar shells into a village where the gunman took refuge. There was no indication here that the two shootings were connected. Funeral Services For Orpha Kerley Held This Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs.

J. Kerley, 64, were held at the Huffman Funeral Home here at 3 o'clock this afternoon and burial was made in Oakland Cemetery. The services were conducted by the Rev. C. M.

Weaver, minister of the Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church at Johnston City. Mrs. Kerley died at Holden Hos: ptal here at 1:40 m. Sunday. She became a resident of Carbondale in 1923, coming here.

from Ozark, Illinois. She has been making her home with her brother, H. A. Cox, 419 West Grand Avenue, since the death of her husband a number of ago. years Surviving are two daughters: Mrs.

Cleta Worley of Miami, Flor ida, and Miss Ruby Kerley of Newark, New Jersey; and three brothers, F. A. Cox of Carbondale, Charles Cox of Galatia, nois, and H. L. Cox of Miami, Florida.

Father Of Mrs. Julia Neely Buried In St. Louis Today Funeral Services were. held at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon for Col. Frank Jonah, father: of Mrs.

Julia Neely, at. the" Lupton Chapel in St. Louis, Mrs. is- a member. of faculty at Southern Illinois Normal Univer: sity Her father died at St.

Louis at 11:30 last Friday night. XMAS SHOP EARLY SCHOOLS OPEN AGAIN THIS MORNING; WILL CONTINUE OPERATION Schools resumed classes here this morning after being closed for more than a week because of influenza and colds. Considerable absenteeism still was evident, but school officials be. lieve that attendance will be much better in a day or two and they will continue to oper. ate the schools, they said.

The grade school system reported 337 absent for approximately 29 per cent of the' enrollment. Only three teachers, however, were out in the entircy system, J. R. Hoffner's office said. Raymond H.

Dey, principal at Community High, reported only 51 absent today and expected fairly good attendance after today. Only one teacher remained ill at Community High School. CIO-UAW EXPECT CONFERENCE WITH SCHWELLENBACH By The Associated Press. CIO United Auto Worker's officials planned conversations with Secretary of Labor Schwellonbach today as the Union's negotiations with the Ford Motor Company entered a new phase and General Motors dispute remained deadlocked. Secretary Schwellenbach's visit to Detroit to make a specch night was arranged before the day old GM strike started, union leaders planned to confer with him informally.

Union negotiators with Ford hoped to crack a problem that developed over the Company's mand for protection against authorized work stoppages and slow downs. The UAW-CIO says it has the answer in a plan for penalizing "wild cat" strikes. It expressed confidence the Company will accept the Union's Company Security guarantee to be presented later today. No details of the plan were made public. Having rejected Gm's offer of 10 per cent wage rate increase, UAW vice president Walter P.

Reuthers still insisted up on "30 per cent uniess the arithmetic proves us wrong" as negotiations were resumed. Rank and file approval of the union leadership's rejection of President Truman's recent. back to work plea is sided certain. Across the nation labor troubles affected approximately 400,000 workers, with the General Motors strike alone idling 213,000. Other continuing strikes involved 30,000 ALF lumber and sawmill workers in the Pacific northwest; 10,000 to 50,000 over-the-road OFL truckers in the midwest; 10,200 CIO Glass Workers in seven States; and 6,000 OLE emjloyes of the Greyhound Bus Lines, besides smaller disputes.

Other work stappages may possibe in the making. A walkout was voted recently by the CIO Steclworker seeking a $2 daily pay raise and today in Pittsburgh the Union's wage policy committee met to discuss the situation. A strike poll will be taken Thursday among 270,000 CIO Electrical Workers, employes of GM'5 Electric Electrical Division, Westinghouse. General At Electrical and Weting. house 17,000 salaried employes have decided to join the rate worker in the poll.

The salaried employes ask a $10 weekly wage increase; the other workers want $2 a day more. Capt. Robert Bray To Arrive In States Today From ETO A report from the Associated Press in New York says that Captain Robert Bray, husband of Mary Ellen Maguire Bray will ar rive in New York sometime today aboard the SS John Ericsson, returning from two years overseas! service in the European Theater. Captain Bray has been in service for the past four years and served as a Medical Administra-; tive officer with the 64th Medical Group. He has been awarded the American Defense Ribbon, the European Theater of Operations Ribbon with 5 battle stars and the Victory He is returning to the states for discharge under the army point system having accumulated 92 leave points.

He will be on terminal for 2 months fore he is officially 'released from service. His wife has made her home with her mother, Mrs. L. L. Maguire, 404 Cherry Court during the time he has been in service and has been employed at the Western Adjustment Company office.

GENERAL PATTON PARTIALLY PARALYZED BY SPINAL INJURY SUFFERED IN WRECK SUNDAY Passed Satisfactory Night As Specialists From Britain And U. S. Reach Heidelberg Hospital BROWELL URGES FULL SUPPORT OF GOP CANDIDATES AP Political. News Editor BY JACK BELL CHICAGO, Dec. 10-- (AP)Anti- administration Democrats had notice today from GOP Nat-! ional Chairman Herbert Brownell: that they can't.

expect any help Republicans in the 1946 Brownell told his colleagues of the GOP National Committee in a conference that ended here Saturday night the time had come for them to put all of their weight behind their. own party candidates instead of supporting Democrats in doubtful areas. In the past, he said there had been a tendency to back' Democrats who voted with the licans in Congress on major issues: But he left no doubt that the publicans are out to win party control of at least the House, and he noted that the anti-administration Democrats never vote with the GOP on any such test of strength. Some party leaders denied, however, that this new line means the Republicans won't go along with 'the anti-administration Democrats in the informal, working coalition that has been effective in both Houses at times. A Brownell adviser who- didn't want to be, quoted by summed it this way: "We're glad to have the votes.

of the Democrats in Congress any time they want to go along with us, but our job is to elect Republicans so that we can have control: of Congress." Brownell is expected to name this week a subcommittee of seven members of the group who will work with GOP members of Congress toward a "developing" platform for the 1946 elections. Cpl. Walter S. Jones Is Discharged From Army In France Corporal Walter S. Jones, of Mrs.

Charles Clark, 215 East Oak Street has been discharged from military service stationed in France under the army point system and will remain in France as a civilian employed in the U.S. Civil Service. He is now. assigned to District Headquarters, S. Civil Government at Versailles, France, as a message, center chief.

Corporal Jones entered the in France since June 1944 vice in March 1943. and has been, the 3138th Signal Motor Service! Company. He' a graduate of C. C. I.

S. and was a student at S. I. N. U.

at the time he entered the service. Frank Leek, Died At Elkville; Funeral Tomorrow Frank Leek, 88, of Elkville, retired coal miner, died at 1 a. m. this morning at his home there after an illness about three The body is at the berg. Euneral Parlor.

in' Du Quoin' until funeral services there at 2 p.m. tomorrow with the Rev. H. of Elkville in, charge, Burial will be made at De Soto. Survivors are a' daughter, Mrs, Laura Hurst of' a Frank Leek, Elkville, boss at the Dowell mine; a brother, William Leek of Kalamazoo, Michigan; half-brother, Leek of Hallidayboro; two grandchildren: and one great grandchild.

His wife died June. 17, 1942.. He was born September 8, BULLETIN Chandler Speaking At Horticultural Meeting Today Stewart Chandler of Carbondale, field entomologist for the State Natural History Survey, appears on the program at the Ninetieth Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Horticultural Society in Springfield this afternoon. He is discussing the insect situation and the spray recommendations for their control in the. fruit industry of the state.

In addition to several orchardists from this end of the state the following from here are attending the three-day meeting of the Society: L. L. Colvis, manager the Illinois Fruit Growers Harvey Hartline and C. J. Thomas, growers.

Sessions of the meeting are being held in the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Springfield. Speakers on the program today include D. B.I Perrine, Centralia fruit grower; L. McMunn of the University of Illinois; Prof. E.

J. Rasmussen of the Michigan State College; Car: rol W. Wade, president of the Western Colorado Horticultural Society, and Dr. J. A.

Evans of; Wilmington, Delaware. A program of interest to growers continues throughout Tuesday and Wednesday Plans will be' formulated at the meeting for the 72nd annual meeting.of the Southern Illinois Horticultural Society to be held in Carbondale January 1946. T-4 Clarence Palmier To Arrive In Boston From ETO Tomorrow Associated Press in New York reports that Technical Sergeant' Clarence L. Palmier, 421 West Monroe Street, will arrive aboard the SS Kingston Victory at Boston tomorrow returning from 17 months 'overseas service in the European Theater. Sgt.

Palmier has been in the service since July 1944 and was shipped overseas within a short; time after entering the service. He has served throughout his service with a Railway Operating Battalion. In civlian life he owns and operates Leo's Place just south of the Illinois Central Station. His wife, Viola, and two young sons have made their home here on West Monroe Street during the time Sgt. Palmier has been in the service.

John L. Lewis Out Triple Blast On Disputes WASHINGTON, Dec. -John L. Lewis delivered triple blast today. against government, the General Motors Company and the CIO United Automobile Workers in connection with the current Automobile strike.

The' United Mine chief told the House Labor Com.mittee that the government could settle the strike in 10. days it would allow, the manufacturers a price which would permit a fair profit. He termed: the Company's position in the dispute "dishonest" and characterized the UAW's explanation of its strike as "stupid." Lewis voiced his criticism while testifying against legislation proposed by President Truman to set up: fact boards to recommend solution. of major industrial disputes. He: referred to.

the President's proposal as an "evil, vile smelling mess, full of dozens of loopholes that woud make a unworkable," and said it was designed only: to "appease and protect a few who find themselves frightened by the growing strength of labor." MANNHEIM, GERMANY, Dec. 10-(AP)-The condition of Gen. George S. Patton, partly paralyzed from.a fractured vertebra in the neck, was officially described as critical today by Army medical officers. An officiai bulletin released at Frankfurt, recording Patton's condition as of 3:30 p.m.

(8:30 a.m. Central Standard Time), used the word "critical" for the first time. The General's condition previously had been termed serious. A previous bulletin said Patton was completely paralyzed: below the fractured third cervical vertebra in the neck and was suffering from a dislocation of the fourth cervical. The latest bulletin said: "dislocation of vertebra is responding satisfactorily to extension.

Neurological signs are unchanged. His condition remains critical." The official announcement also indicated that Patton still was conscious. Gen. Hurley Says Dean Acheson Wrecked Policy WASHINGTON, Dec, 10-(AP) Gen. Patrick J.

Hurley today charged Under Secretary of State Acheson: with wrecking a policy approved "by" the late President Roosevelt for foreign monopolies, particularly British, in Iran and the Middle East. Hurley, former ambassador to China, returned to the witness stand of the Senate Foreign Relations. Committee immediately af'ter Acheson had told a meeting in his office in which participants! almost came to blows over a charge made by Hurley that a young assistant or Acheson had not had military service and should be in the army. When Hurley returned to the witness stand today he said that was time that the meeting was heid but that the Acheson version of it was incorrect. He then read into the record two letters from former Secretary of State Stettinius and one from the late President Roosevelt to prove, he said, that his proposals had been approved and were in fact American policy for Iran and the Middle East.

For this, he argued that Acheson had wrecked the policy. Germans Urged Japan To Attack British Singapore By WES GALLAGHER NUERNBERG, Dec. 10-(AP)German military leaders were urging Japan to get into the war in the spring of 1941 but had no idea the Japanese strike an opening blow at Pearl Harbor, according to a hitherto secret German order disclosed today at the Nuernberg War Crimes trial. American prosecutors laid before the four-power tribunal a directive signed March 5, 1941, by Field Marshal. Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command, proposing a Japanese attack- on Singa-! phore as a means of "forcing land to ground quickly thereby keeping the United States out of the war." That Keitel was reluctant at that time to fight America was "seen in his warning that Japanese attacks be extended to- bases "of American 'naval power only if entry of the States into the war cannot be prevented." In a court session marked by the plea of innocence by Ernest Kaltenbrunner, once-dreaded.

No. 2 man in the Gestapo, American prosecutors turned to evidence of collaboration Japan and Germany in spreading aggression throughout the world. Kaltenbrunner, recovering from a cranial bemorrhage which sent him to the hospital just before the bistoric trial opened three weeks age, was brought before the fourpower tribunal and declared: "I do not believe that I have made myself guilty." By JAMES F. KING MANNHEIM, Dec. 10-(AP)Gen.

George S. Patton lay partially paralyzed today in Heidelberg Hospital as prominent nerve special-' ists were summoned from England and the United States to treat spinal injuries which he received in an automobile accident yesterday. An Army medical bulletin said that Patton's general condition was satisfactory, that he was complete(ly rational and had spent a comfortable night but declined to forecast the probable course cf. a paraysis of the lower limb's resulting from a simple fracture of the third cervical vertebrae. Hurrying to his side by trans-' Atlantic planc were his wife and a neuro-surgery specialist, Col.

R. G. Spurling of Louisville, Already at the hospital are Maj. Gen. A.

W. Kenner, theater surgeon. and Prof. Hugh Carnes, a British specialist who had been flown. from Oxford at the request of Mrs.

Patton. Mrs. Patton was expected to arrive in Paris tomorrow morning and go from there to Heidelberg either by rail or air. An official Army bulletin issued lat the hospital said the fiery general had passed a restful night, sleeping five hours. The accident occured when an Army truck reportedly turned off a side road into the autobahn (super highway) and crashed into Patton's.

sedan. Patton and his chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay, had left U.

S. 15th Army headquarters at Bad Nauheim yesterday morning to go pheasant hunting near Mannheim. Gay and the driver. Pic. Horace Woodring, were unhurt.

Patton was being treated by Lt. Col. 0. S. Hill, an Army surgeon.

Maj. Gen. A. W. Kenner, theater surgeon, aiso was at the hospital, An Army statement, issued yesterday, said; A diagnosis of his injuries, which are serious, cannot be completed until tomorrow." A combat engineering unit manded by Maj.

Charles Tucker of New Hamburg. N. was summoned by an unidentified Red Cross girl and found Patton slumped in the rear seat of sedan. An eye-witness said Patton's face was covered. with blood from cuts suffered when he was thrown forward by the impact of the crash, Patton was reported to have said that, though his neck hurt, he felt no other injury.

Capt. Ned Snyder of Texas treated Patton at the scene of the accident, after which the engineering unit's ambulance rushed him 20 miles to the hospital in 25 minutes. The fiery Patton, who reached his 60th birthday last month, has been commanding the 15th Army since Oct. 2, when he was relieved of his command of the famous 3rd Army, which he led from Normandy to Crechoslovakia. He previously had WoR fame in North Africa and Sicily.

The 15th has been a "paper" army, primarily concerned with preparing reports on lessons of the war. PRODUCERS CREAMERY WILL HAVE ANNUAL MEETING HERE TOMORROW The annual meeting of the 'Producers Creamery of Carbondale will be held tomorrow all day in the Little Theater on the Southern Illinois Normal University, accord; ing to a report from H. C. Brackett, manager. Approximately 300 and dairy farmers of Southern Illinois will be here for the meeting: Besides reports from officers of: the the visitors' will hear Jack Countiss, general sales man-.

ager of the filinois Producers Creameries, who is the principal speaker of the meeting. Shopping days till' Christmas.