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SEW TOW OHIO TO COi- fSfflttW AND MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT VOLUME 27 AMOC1AYED PRESS AND WIDE WWB-LD LEASED WIXJZ KKRV1OB MOBERLY. MISSOURI MONDAY, NOV, 12.. 1945 MOBKRLt UTDEX, EST. 181S DEMOCRAT, KOBKRLY MONITOR, ESTABLISHED NUMBEE 110 British Forces Gain Control in Soerabaja Tank Crews Turn Back Fanatical Charges by Nationalists; Leader Pleads For Soviet Intervention in Behalf of Indonesian Republic BATAVIA; Java, Nov. 12.

(JP)--British Indian forces gained control of virtually all of Soerabaja today, the Netherlands News Agency Aneta said, as British tank crews turned back fanatical charges by Indonesian Nationalists. Many Indonesians were killed in the charges, the Dutch dispatch There still was no indication, however, that the natives were preparing to give up the Speaker Cites Five Ways For Winning Peace fight. British headquarters ordered a curfew at the big Java Naval Base from 10 p. m. to 4:30 a.

m. The British said their artillery had silenced Indonesian-manned Japanese tanks in the fighting in the city. Fighting also broke out last night in Tandjoengpriok, the port-of Batavia, when Indonesian bands attempted to attack warehouses, the British said. Urge Soviet Intervention While British Indian forces pressed their house-to-house assault in Soerabaja, Foreign Min- ister Soerbardjo pleaded for So- front was sug este to an Arviet intervention on behalf of his mi tice Dav audience partic- -unrecognized Indonesian Repub lie. "It is apparent now that Bri- "It is apparent now that Bri- the Rev Glen Ren i Cj pas tor tain is paving the way for the Qf the Assembly of God church, reimposition of Dutch rule in Hannibal and past chaplain of Soebardjo said in a Ule Missouri American Legion.

radio appeal addressed to Soviet frc Foreign Commissar V. M. Mol otov. asked Renick asserted. "First, we must world the SSrffirS? rsarmSr i and tlzne he said, evacuating Java-based Japanese Second, we must dedicate orces ourselves to continuing the the very'principle of in- mocracy as we know it." He dependence we do not like for- gave his definition of democracy eign troops on Indonesian soil," as "doing as much as we please Soebardjo told the Soviet For- as long as we do not violate eign Commissar.

He added, how- someone else's liberty, ever, that "the presence of Brit- "Must Have Vigilance" ish troops is tolerable for a certain time." Heavy Casualties CtlVJ uu L11C HUIIIC J.J. emu. tJUC J.i.1" Meanwhile, the battle for ternational fr.ont, in the third Soerabaja raged with unaoated iury after a week-end of fighting in which the British renewed their air attacks upon Indonesian -forces. Indonesian-manned Japanese tanks reportedly fired 30 shells into the Indian division ranks. Botb Indonesian British sources indicate-l that Indonesian casualties wii-3 ncavy.

President declared that civilians had oeen ki. Jed in a "vast massacre." An official British report said that 'many of the "enemy" were slain in "fanatical charges against British tanks" and that "many Indonesian bodies were removed by women" after Saturday's fight- Ing. The British announced that hits. Three their fighter-bombers had blasted the main Indonesian Army headquarters and three other staff headquarters with direct top-ranking Japanese generals were placed under arrest by British authorities on charges of violating Allied surrender orders by turning tanks, armored cars, guns and ammunition over to the Indonesians. The three identified as Lt.

Gen. Nagano, commander of the Japanese 16th Army; Maj. Gen. Yamamoto, his chief of staff; and Maj. Gen.

Nakimura, commander of Japanese forces in Central Java will be removed to Singapore Wednesday for trial as war criminals. Large quantities of arms were captured by the Indians as they pressed slowly forward in Soe- rabaja under what an eye-witness described as cover from naval guns, artillery mortars and fighter-bombers. An official announcement said that yesterday alone the British forces seized 80 three-ton Japanese trucks, eight, machine guns mounted for anti-aircraft use. a 7Q mm. field gun.

a Bofors gun, machinegun carriers and large quantities of small arms ammunition. Morris Anderson, Prominent Hannibal Civic Leader, Dies HANNIBAL, Nov, 12. (JP) JV11UCA OVJ-i, and civic leader, who died here make a champion. Satarday" night" of a'heart attack! Mrs. Gordon Fletcher, Mai- will-be, tomorrow afternoon from vern, was the purchaser.

the First Presbyterian church He was 65 years old. Anderson, who was serving his third term as prosecuting attorney, was mayor of Hannibal for three and in '1935 was chairman of the Mark Twain Centennial Celebration committee. was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1902 where he was a member of the spent spare afternoons the Hannibal high school football team for 15 years after graduation until the school hired a full-time coach. Anderson, a Democrat, was a trustee of the State Historical Society of Missouri. He is surviv- Anderson of Hannibal, and one Anderson 01 nannioai, auu daughter, Sargent of deployment situation Fleet head--.

ser-Cleveland, O. No Armistice on Home Front, Former Legion Chaplain Says --Five constructive ways of winning the peace on the home mistice Day audience participating in observance in the Municipal Auditorium this morning. 'The battle of the home front has no Armistice," the Rev. Mr. wg devoted ourselves "We must have vigilance against the forces of aggression on the home front and the in- place." he said.

"If you were to do away with the police in Moberly. as peaceful as you are, you soon would have trouble in Moberly." That is equally true on the world front, he added. "We need a strong Army and Navy," he stated. "We must fulfill our wartime promises to make America a place to' be free from want and fear," the Rev, Mr. Renick asserted, "and we must pledge our work to build a strong America for the coming generation of children." "We pause today to pay tribute to the fine, young Jos- iahs who gave their Itves'in this war.

We are enjoying a feast of good things because someone held back the flood tide." Legion Dance Tonig-ht Also on the program was Edward Keating, Moberly Legionnaire, who sang "Roger 1 accompanied by Irene Monre on the piano. Music was furnished by the Moberly Junior College and Junior High School choruses as well as the Junior College band. Preceding the morning program was an abbreviated parade through the downtown district by Legionnaires, Veterans- rrt 'lCTCOj-I Trt I Park honoring Moberly's 75 war Anting nP'Sn A i Tonight at 8 o'clock in the Municipal Auditorium, about 50 initiated into the American Legion. following which a Legion dance will be held from 9 o'clock until 1 a.m. County bred colt, Mr.

"Steph'ens bought the mare wa r- last summer from "Spec" Stock- HANNIBAL, I-- (ft- si- ms nome diiu uu iv UA --Funeral services for Morris south of town during the past was a surprise: Sunday three- Anderson, prosecuting attorney year He thinks the mare party talk had reache.d no -i VIQT-Q i ment on trie ne China Council Will Attempt to End Civil War Chinese Reds Claim Final Decision Rests With Chiang Kai-Shek CHUNGKING-Nov. 12. --(3?) --Chinese said to; him and hi? dav" tliat 'they, arid 'Chiang Shek's Central Government The youth, an orphan, former- have agreed to allow the pro- iy lived at the Stockton home, Officers Investigate Fatal Shooting of Youth Near Joplin JOPLIN, Nov. 12 (iP) -Investigation continued today in the 'fatal shooting of Robert Stockton, 17, south of here yesterday. Sheriff H.

G. Cline of Newton County said Oscar Forrest, 68, admitted the shooting, saying he killed Stockton when the posed Political Consultative he left April, 1943, after a posed Jb'omicaj uoiisunauve jj i ft April, iyts, aner a Council to settle "all outstand- quarrel. Cline quoted Forrest as ing issues" of China's undeclar- say returned a few days ed civil war--and that ed civil war ana uiai UIC I ago. Council will be called into ses- orres -told him, Cline said, sion about- Nov. 20.

Te final issue of peace or the house today, but that he re all-out war, however, rests with entered by another door and the Generalissimo, a Communist fired at Stockton through a bed- saokesman asserted, adding: roonr door when the latter "If Chiang cancels his orders threatened to strike Mrs. Forrest. ci-mrvrpsidon' t.hprp charges have been filed for 'bandit suppression' there can be The -decision to entrust disputed issues to the new council was reached at a Sunday peace talk" arranged by the increasingly influential Liberal Chinese 'Democratic Leaue-- whije war clouds thickened as the result of two other developments: The government called China's National Assembly to meet May 5 with no word of whether Communists' would be given representation they demanded: ies, led by the College band. 0 1SSJZJSSS II massed to block it. A Communist spokesman said "serious fighting" already is "under way, and he asserted that ivj.uiiiuiudi er wav anc ne asseriea tnac War veterans will be Chinese" command troops trained vi iti safari irrf TjRff- TT C-H-i-farfirt Sells Mare for $10,000 Templu.

Stephens sold his 4- wlln Ar my ui year-old mare, Sue Stephens, last be left to military subcpmmit- Friday during the Chicago horse tee he- said; -but- the siibcom- show, for 510,000, the highest ittee would not meet until the price' ever paid for a Randolph council had reached some sort agreement a halted by the U. S. Office of Strategic Services we're being against Cojnmunists. The spokesman said that the pblitical council would discuss "all issues," indicating that administration of liberated areas and reorganization of the Na- tiohlist Chinese Army both formerly excluded from the council's be included. Technical questions connected with Army organization would He added that the government laSt SUlIlJIiCi.

J--L A OWUtM. I A A --ton Clark and has traintd her announcement of a May 5 meet- si ius home and on the roads ing of the National Assembly ment on the date, he said. He disclosed that wires have (Continued on Page 7) Over One -Third of Yanks in Pacific Have Returned Home PEARL HARBOR, 12 (JP) --More than one-third of the 2500.000 servicemen deployed the Pacific last August al- wnere ne a y.j jj a cuic last AUSUSI "football team for two years He rea( been returned to the roacnim? TTniforl Pacific Fleet headquarters an- TMJ have with 249.856 separatees Teaching the United September. turned personnel Thousands the main- iboardVrnv trans- In a review of the Pacific re- Quarters 440,715 -sex- vicemen were returned on Naw ships alone in Otto- ber "and another 145,325 reached the mainland in the first ten davs of November. This compar- The Navy reported vessels with a caplcitv of 200,000 municipal official sau either en route or Commodore Kieier passengers either en route loading as of Nov.

10. 39 Ol lu. lieu Of tttose 63 with a'capacity other mark of identification, he of 88000 are scheduled to-ar- said, was the cast his arnx rive at west coast ports between which he had worn smce his arm Nov 11 and 17. An additional was broken when Japanese with a capacity of 57,000 are cide planes struck the Aircraft tnf youth chased him out of against Forrest. Dixie Kiefer Pacific Hero, Crash Victim Kansas City Man is Among Six Aviators Killed in New York BEACON, N.

Nov 12 (ff) --Commodore Dixie- Kiefer, Pacific war. hero who lived through ten major ounds in two World U. S. Pauses To Honor Vets Of Last War American Troops Ail Over World Join In Celebrations By The Associated Press Americans still sobered by a ivorld War just won paused again today to pay tribute to those who fell in the conflict a generation ago. The Sunday aniversary led to a observance.

In Washington yesterday Prime Ministers Attlee of Great Britain and MacKenzie King of Canada joined President Truman in placing wreaths at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in" Arlington Cemetery. The three leaders are talking over the future of the atomic bomb, Today General of the Army wight D. Eisenhower was due in Boston from Europe to take part in a parade. And Admiral William F. Halsey was the central -figure, in another big city celebration at Chicago.

Elsewhere there were Armistice programs yesterday in London. Paris, Algiers, Tokyo and Saigon, Indo-China. In Tokyo, a crowd of 70,000 occupation troops watched a rodeo in a Nippon baseball park. Saigon celebrated with a parade arid a memorial mass, but under.the close guard of British and French troops because of nearby warring Gen. Charles DeGaulle of France and Former Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain led the celebration in Paris before the tomb France's Unknown Soldier, at the Arc de Triomphe.

In London; King George VI placed a wreath of Flanders poppies at England's Truman Silent on Proposed fool' For Atomic Secrets Arnold Visions Atomic Bomb War Waged by'Space Ships 7 Chief of Army Air Forces Paints Eerie Picture Of Possible Future Warfare by Interstellar Craft For Which 'U. S. Should be Prepared' WASHINGTON. Nov. 12.

(JP)--General Hap Arnold advises that atomic bomb warfare waged from interstellar space ships is "within the foreseeable future." The white-haired chief of Army Air Forces gave in his third annual report today an eerie picture of conflict for which the United States should be prepared. Said he: "War may descend upon us by thousands of robots passing unannounced across our shorelines -unless we act prevent hem." And the way to do that is to be ready to strike at the source of attack with a strategic air force delivering "one of two atomic bombs," which should suffice for the job. Method for Tomorrow That method of bomb delivery is for today's style Tomorrow's, he said, will, be like this: "We should be ready with a weapon of the German V-2 rocket, having greatly improved range and precision, and launch-' ed from great distances. V-2 is ideally suited to deliver atomic explosives, because effective defense against it would prove extremely difficult. "If defenses which can cope even with such a hour projectile are developed, we must be "ready to launch such projectiles nearer the target, to give them a shorter time of flight and make them harder to detect and destroy.

We must be ready to launch them from unexpected directions. "This can be done from true space ships, capable of operating outside the earth's atmosphere. The design of such a ship is all but practicable today; research will unquestionably bring it into GERMAN "VIPER" IN FLIGHT --The German "Viper," a pilot- WJ.XJ. JL.HJli«~-"., a being within the foreseeable future." Three Possible Resistances Arnold said three types of re- against the atomic ca ptured picture which is -in-' Afflee Reported Urging United Nations Control President Withholds Statements Until Conference Adjourns WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 --A report that Prime Minister Attlee of Britain had proposed the creation of a "United Nations pool for the atomic bomb and other scientific secrets brought no comment today at the White House Presidential Secretary Wil- Ham Hassett told reporters that President Truman will have nothing to say on the progress of his current discussions with Attlee and Premier W.

L. MacKenzie King of Canada until they are ended. Plan Joint Statement Then, he said, there will be "a joint statement by the three." A reporter, referring to the polling report, said the British "already have announced some tilings" and asked if there would be any companion suggestions from Mr. Truman. Hassett, substituting news conference for two ailing press secretaries, replied that he couldn't say a word.

There was no indication at to when the conversations will end, or when Attlee will leave for Canada on his return trip to London. Until then, Hassett said, the three government leaders will be "in continuous conversation, more or less." Attlee saw the President after breakfast this morning before moving from the House, he has been a guest since ed, rocket-propelled missle, leaves launching ramp in JU-L VV wars, was killed yesterday the crash of a navy plane on Mount Beacon. three miles nortneast of here- The wreckage was found today. 'Five-other persons also died in the crash. National Memorial Commodore Kiefer 4 9 a widely known as of the documentary film ihe oi me QULady He was corn- officer of the first nav- jl District Air Bases and was Rationed at the Quonset, R.

these far-away places American troops paraded. They took a holiday from chores in France today. In this country banks were closed as were many schools. In Washington government offices had a day off. Several hours earlier a municipal official who declined use of nis name had reported the commodore was among the dead The plane, a twin-engined craft was enroute from to Quonset and was last heard from yesterday afternoon 'as it flew over Stewart Field, West Point, Y.

It crashed 15 minutes later. The wreckage was found at 3 a. m. The wreckage, spread over a large area of the mountainside, was first reached by Joseph Brown and his son. Joseph, Jr employees of the Texas Company's oil refinery at Glenham Y.

who summoned Police Sgts Samuel Rogers and Ralph Carter of the Beacon po- The four reported the bodies badly burned and ss 'states, in planes fuselage had stroyed by a fire. the Resident "of Kansas City The municipal official fied by items in his pocket. due after Nov, 17. from faa 3J. 'Heaviest Bombers' Will Be Used For Policing Europe WASHINGTON.

Nov. 12 (JP) --Official announcement that heavy bombers" will be used to police Europe was contained today in the third annual report of Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of Army Air Forces.

The only "very heavy, bomber" type now in operation is the B-29. In a chapter on the occupation Air Force. Arnold writes: "Remaining in Europe to guard the peace-, under present plans, will-, be light bombers, fighters, troop carriers, reconnaisance, night fighters, liaison squadrons, and very heavy bombers. The Army Air Forces does not plan to retain in Europe such bomber'- as lihe Fortress and which helped so much to defeat Germany." It was explained informally, however that this did not mean all B-17S and B-24s would be withdrawn, but only that they would- not be used for combat patrol purposes. They will continue to be utilized in converted form, as personnel and cargo carriers on the i.ci iiv-t 1 bomb are possible: Make certain that nowhere in the world are atomic bombs being made secretly: devise every possible method defense against them; disperse cities and move vital underground, which would be "overwhelmingly expensive.

Unceasing patrol of the world, possibly under guidance of the United Nations Organization, "would do much to prevent the illegal manufacture of atomic bombs in their present form, Arnold-said. Among the requirements for the immediate future of the Air Force, Arnold included the maintenance of "well equipped overseas bases;" because bombers can now range the world. The general placed emphasis on the need for''research and an intelligence system. Have Paid for Error Of research, he said: "In the past the United States has shown a dangerous willingness to be caught in a position of having to start a war with equipment anft doctrines used at the end of a preceding war. We have paid heavily for this error.

A repetition of this error in the future could mean annihilation. Of intelligence (which procuring information by espionage): "In the future it will be suicidally dangerous to de- nend upon reports of military attacks and routine of casual sources of information regarding foreign states." Strategic air war demands a continuous flow of information on all aspects of Civilian and military activity within the territory of an enemy or potential enemy. eluded in Gen. Arnold report. Three Dead After Fire Destroys Shack KANSAS CITY.

Nov 12 WP)Two persons overcome by smoke in a fire in a one-room shack vesterday died today, bringing the death toll to.three. Micheal Phelan, 55. and Mrs. Margaret O'Reilly Cunneen, 49, died in a hospital today. The occupant of the shack.

Joseph Hook. 65. died from suffocation in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. The three were found unconscious after firemen broke down the door. After reviving them w'th artificial respiration, they were taken to the hospital.

District Fire Chief John Ryan attributed the lire to the explosion of a coal-oil stove. Weather MISSOURI Light rain this afternoon and east and south clearing central and west tonight: colder tonight except is remainder of state except oO ex- after anotner raoi treme southeast: fair central and west- clearing extreme east lues- day; rain extreme southeast in morning. Leo J. Meyer Dies Suddenly at Home Here Leo Meyer, 57, salesman for the Irwin Paper Company of Quincy died suddenly at 10:30, LUiV i o'clock Saturday night at his whenever the Prime Minister home, 602 Burkholder street. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Miss Birdena Meyer, Chicago: two brothers, John Meyer, Quincy, and Lawrence Meyer, Hammond, sister, Mrs.

James Hogan, Decorah. Iowa. Mr- Meyer, born in Quincy. had lived here since 1924 He was a member of St. Johns Catholic church.

Funeral services were held at 9 o'clock morning in St. John's church by its pastor, the Rev Fr. Augustine McNeil. The body was then taken to the Duker Funeral Home in Quincy where burial services will be held tomorrow. Saturday, to the British embassy.

Hassett said fhrvi Mr. Truman thought the-atomic energy talks would be resumed this afternoon. But a British embassy official later told reporters that Attlee- would not return to the White House today. Attlee Works on Address Instead, this official said, Attlee will devote most of the afternoon to preparation of an address he will deliver tomorrow to a joint session of Congress. When Attlee left the White House.

Hassett said Mr. Truman told him he would be available was ready to resume their conversations. Hassett said Mr. Truman.was not seeing any callers today, in order to devote all of his time to the atomic, world-unity discussions. An official in a position to but who declined to be Nobel Peace Prize For 1945 Awarded To Cordell Hull LONDON.

Nov. 12 --The the three countries Nobel Peace Prize for 1945 has old jng the secret of the been awarded to former U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the Norwegian government information office in London announced today. As secretary of state, Hull laid the foundation for the San Francisco conference which drafted the United Nations charter.

He was succeeded as secretary of state on Nov. 27, 1944, by Edward Stettinius, Jr. An Oslo dispatch said former Secretary Hull had been given the award for 194o. while the 1944 award made simultaneous- identified as to position or nationality--told reporters the British Prime Minister had sug- to President Truman and Premier MacKenzie King of Canada that: 1. Unless atomic and other discoveries are- channeled into controlled -uses for peace they will be given over to war-making purposes.

2. The best way to channel these discoveries into proper uses is to share them with other nations--once safeguards for the future are set up. Would Require Coooperation The official added that any Cooling by the three countries now holding the secret of the atomic bomb, would require co- iv Russia, France and Nations. The would be ly went to the International day. asked to make their own developments available to the same pool.

There was no comment from the White House or other official circles'on this report after Mr Truman, Attlee and Mackenzie King returned last night from a nine-hour cruise on Potomac river where they continued discussions begun Satur- Committee of the Red Cross at Geneva for its work among war prisoners. Both awards were made by the Nobel committee of the Norwegian parliament. 21 Day Quarantine on Dogs Expires Moberly dogs again are free to go their way without molestation by the dogcatcher or police as the 21-day rabies quar- dog was found threg days CENTRA. MISSOURI: Cloudy mad, there is a time lapse of at and this afternoon, dear- least 21 days the city roanager ined at the toe he asd and wmdv aternoon, fng wd cooler tonight with a explained at the toe he asd temperature of 45. Tuesday all dog owners to their andW 'pets tien 19 or made.

Eben Ayers, acting White House press secretary, conferred briefly with Mr. Truman upon the party's return, tfcen told-re- porters there would be no statement of any kind. Round Table Discussion The three talked before sitting down to a steak luncheoa aboard Secretary of the Navy Forrestal's yacht, the "Sequoia," then resumed their discussions at 2:30 p. m. After a 6:30 p.

m. pheasant dinner. Avers said, the group talked again until the vessel docked at 8:35 p. m. The discussions were described as of the round table variety.

Those sitting in were Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, the Earl of Halifax. British John chairman of the British atomic energy advisory commission; Fleet Admiral William- D. Leahy, Mr. Truman's chief staff, and Lester Pearson, the Canadian' amhassador.