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Tee muncie WEATHER FORECAST FOR TODAY Showers, Cooler tar C. B. DRISCOIX'S New York Column in The Star Every Day Dial 6631 First in News, Circulation and Advertising Dial 6631 VOL 69NO. 174 FIVE CENTS MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1945 Entered as Second-Class Matter at Post Office, Muncie. Ind Issued Daily and Sunday.

IMJ JVJ TO The Day in Indiana Tax Revolution Initiations Off Reassessing Fought Homes for Vets Sales Priority? By MAURICE EARLY Rush Six Million Units of Life-Saving rug to Child Butler Price Goes Up November 8lh Another 1,000,000 Found by in Washington Will Be Flown The Star Here Today Argentina Paralyzed by Strike Workers Celebrate Return to Power of Colonel Peron Buenos Aires, Oct. 18 Argentina's economic and industrial fix ms A Scientists See Bid for World Race Two Who Helped Develop Weapon Express Views Washington, Oct. 18 CP) Two scientists who helped harness atomic energy denounced administration bills for its control today as an invitation to the world to get into an atomic bomb race. This description came from Dr. Harold Urey of Chicago and Dr.

II. J. Curtis of Oak Ridge, who objected at a news conference to secrecy regulations proposed for an atomic energy commission. Sees Winged A-Bombs The two scientists got backing from others who worked with them, but their position varied widely from that of Dr. J.

Robert Oppenheimer, former California physicist who also worked on tht bomb. Oppenheimer told the Hous military committee he favored the general provisions of the administration bill to set up a government commission which would direct both development and control of nuclear energy. He asked for confidence "in the government of this country." Hearings by that life: WXitkj'- mHH Henchmen of Feuhrer Are Indicted Name of Goering Heads Enemy List of Twenty-Four Washington, Oct. 18 The Allies indicted Hitler's henchmen today for a quarter century of conspiracy culminating in the world's worst war and the mass murder of ten million people. Specifically accused before the war crimes court are J.i individ uals (Herman Goering's name led all the rest) and six organizations.

The indictment said the Nazi party, with Adolf Hitler assuming leadership in 1921, was the instru ment of cohesion for the conspira tors. It traced the evolution of the plot against mankind all the way back to that time. Arraigns on Four Counts The accusers who will prosecute their case before the international military tribunal sitting in the ancient city of Nuernberg were the prosecutors for the four major powers the United States, Great Britain, Russia and France. The text of the indictment was issued simultaneously in the four capitals. It arraigns the Nazis on four counts and documents the charges in this manner: Count One: The common plan or conspiracy to overthrow the Treaty of Versailles, rearm Ger many, acquire "lebensraum" for the Reich at the expense of her neighbors and do this by any means including "force and aggressive war." Count Two: Crimes against peace, in which "all the defendants with divers other persons" participated in planning and then waging wars against Poland, Britain, France, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg, Yugoslavia, Greece, Russia and the United States.

Count Three: War crimes, em braced in the doctrine of total war which included violations of the laws and customs of war such as 'deliberate and systematic genocide" (the extermination of racial and national groups). The indict ment alleged mass murder by cities and districts in Russia, Po land and the Balkans which totaled 9,465,000 and mentioned numerous other cases wherein "thousands" died by gunfire and torture. Heavy stress is laid on the system of hostage murder employed by keep populations in check. Count Four: Crimes against humanity in which all the defendants are accused of participating in Germany, in those countries occupied by the German armed forces after the beginning of the Euprppean war on Sept. 1, 1939, in Austria and Czechoslovakia and Italy and on the high seas.

The crimes involved, amone other things, the murder and persecu tion of any person even suspected of being hostile to the Nazi party or its plan of European expansion. Thread of Premeditation Through the whole huge document runs the thread of premeditation of long plotting to inflict on man the inhumanities and on peoples the war miseries that ultimate ly were used as means to achieve Nazi ends. It is exemplified in-the indictment's story of the development of the war itself. That story starts with the decision of the Nazi leadership to overthrow the Versailles treaty, with its armament and other restrictions on Germany, reached by the conspirators soon after Hitler attained control in 1933. The program was pushed along until in 1937 the Rhineland was reoccupied and fortified, in violation of the treaty and the Locarno pact, whereupon the conspirators 'false- Turn to Page 6, Column Gayle Eleanor Harvey.

Court Frees Imogene Stevens in Sailor Shooting Case Washington, Oct. 18 LT) The retail ceiling price on butter will be boosted 5 to 6 cents a pound Nov. 8. Stabilization Director John Collet announced this today in withdrawine. effective Oct.

31, a wartime subsidy of 5 cents a pound paid to butter processors. Price Administrator Chester Bowles, in a concurrent statement, expressed the opinion that the effect of the butter price increase on the cost of living will be offset by a decline in other items. Bowles said the over-all cost at living had dropped two-tenths of 1 per cent between July 15 and August 15. He said also that there ws a subsequent drop in the cost of potatoes "and other cost of living items." OPA said new butter ceilings for specific areas probably will not be known until the effective date, Nov. 8, or a few days before.

Army Ends Ward Rule Properties Turned Back Last Midnight Chicago, Oct. 18 CP) Montgomery Ward and Company announced tonight it would terminate the maintenance of membership and dues checkoffs installed by the army during the period of government control. These provisions, a major point during the mail order firm's long dispute with its employes and the War Labor Board, will be terminated the moment the army relinquishes control at 11:59 p. m. (EST) tonight, a company statement said.

Seizure Still in Dispute The statement, addressed to stores which were under government operation, was issued only a few hours after the army announced it, would end its nine-month operation of Ward properties in seveai cities, with the legality of the' seizure still in dispute before the Supreme Court. The company, declaring no employe's wagss would be reduced as a result of the policy, offered a 7'i cent hourly increas to employes in the Chicago mail order house, re tail store, fashion house, Schwinn wareliouse, photo department, ad ministrative and maintenance units, and the printing and display plant contingent upon union agree ment. To the Portland (Ore.) mail or der house, the statement said, a new schedule of higher wages for "employes not represented by the union" would be placed In effect immediately. Unionists also would get a new scale, the amounts of which were unstated, awaiting ne gotiation. Maj.

Gen. David McCoach, War Department representative, who made the announcement that the army would return control to Sewell L. Avery, Ward's board chairman, and his associates, said he was acting "pursuant to instructions from the Secretary of War as directed by the President." Pay and Price Policy Before Cabinet Today Washington, Oct. 18 LP) President Truman will take up with his Cabinet tomorrow the problem of setting the nation's course on wage and price policy. The President told his news conference today he might make a public statement on the issue after the Cabinet discussion.

Policy Reflected in Speeches The present policy of the administration, he stated, was reflected in speeches by Reconversion Director John W. Snyder In the past two days. Snyder urged increasing wages but holding the line on prices. While Mr. Truman spoke, Dr.

Frank Graham, a former member of the War Labor Board, was telling a Senate group that the country's "biggest need" was to work out a wage-price policy to replace wartime of the expiring WLB. Since the question of wage-price policy was brought to fever-heat by labor's widespread demand for a 30 per cent increase to offset loss of overtime, government opinion has split three ways. One group of which Secretary of Commerce Wallace is a member Turn to Page 6, Column 2. Newsreel waterfront there. Bridgeport, Oct.

18 CP) Pretty Imogene Stevens, central figure in a sensational New Canaan shooting, went free today when Prosecutor Lorin W. Willis told the Superior Court he could not prove that her killing of Albert Kovacs, 19-year-old Norwalk sailor, made her guilty of manslaughter. "All the evidence," said Willis, tended to support the contention of the 24-year-old wife of Maj. G. Ralsey Stevens III that she shot the youth in self defense.

JNDIANA TEACHERS know their welfare and that of the schools depends to a large extent on the functioning of an equitable tax system. When the 23,000 teachers hold their annual meeting next Thursday and Friday they will be told that a dynamic and chang ing society has caused a revolution In taxing problems. ILLUSTRATING the breakdown of the property tax system, Robert II. Wyatt, executive secretary of the Indiana State Teachers Association, in his annual report, shows that property assessments in cities in this boom year are less than they were fifteen years ago. "WE ARE TODAY at the height of living costs and property values in many decades," Mr.

Wyatt says, "yet we have before us the striking fact that the valuations of property in Indiana in the last fifteen years have dropped so drastically f-s to require greatly increased rates of taxation to produce equal amounts of revenue." HE CITES several examples. Property in Indianapolis in 1930 was assessed for $691,336,210 and today, with the city greatly expanded during the war years, there is only $551,536,130 of taxable wealth on the honks. During this same year the valuation at Muncie dropped from $66,089,455 to taxable wealth at South Bend slid from $204,792,560 to $151,920,880, and the Kokomo base for taxation during fifteen years of rising values dropped from $38,055,000 to $32,860,515. "THESE FIGURES are so striking in their significance that one can scarcely believe that powerful and intelligent forces in Indiana have consistently and successfully fought any reassessment of property since 1932," Mr. Wyatt says.

"These same forces, it must be pointed out, are the same ones which, for the most part, are crying for tax reductions and are pointing out the heavy burdens that allegedly rest upon us for school support," he says in calling upon the next assembly "to equalize the privilege of taxation." AMONG the unfavorable things that exists in the schools, the secretary says, is the number of teachers in the schools who are not regularly licensed to teach. About one classroom in ten has a teacher who preparation was inadequate in the eyes of the General Assembly and the state board of education, he said. This resulted from the war manpower shortage and was "aggravated by the inadequate salaries that we have inherited from the past and which we find great difficulty in overcoming in this period of rising prices." SOME INDIANAPOLIS realtors are becoming concerned about the shabby treatment given veterans who are seeking a place to live. Some agencies are giving preference to veterans when there is a house for rent. BUT THE GREATEST injustice, as the realtors see it.

Is the OPA rule which requires an owner of a house purchased since June 1942) to give the renter three months' notice to move. Veterans are now returning who were forced to rent their homes and they believe it is an injustice to require them to wait for months to get occupancy of their own houses. It is believed the OPA three-months notice rule should be abolished in the case of veterans. MEANWHILE, it is believed that government will step in and do something about the inflated values of homes. Washington may establish a high tax on speculative sales; it may require large down payments, and a priority system may be established to channel new houses to veterans.

All of this is on the tire and may serve to make persons more cautious about paying inflated prices. IIOOSIER communities nearby the large wartime army and navy facilities will have a voice in determining the future use of the land when it is declared surplus. Most of the land is to be disposed of by the government. Relief for Allies When you're giving thanks for victory, don't forget the Filipinos and the Chinese. They helped us defeat the Japs! Millions of them are homeless hungry miserably clad! But aid is reaching them and our Allies in Europe.

Yes, the National War Fund agencies provide relief shipments. They also serve our men and women who are still in uniform. So give because you're grateful! Give generously! Give today! Give through your United War and Community Fund of Delaware County, Inc. life was paralyzed today by a 24 hour nation-wide strike of workers celebrating the return to power of Col. Juan Peron.

The work stoppage appeared to be 95 per cent effective all over the country. Thousands of workers marched through Buenos Aires' streets, crying "Viva Street car, subway, bus and taxi service was stopped, and all "but the smallest commercial shops were closed. The railroad union claimed train traffic was halted througl out the country. Day of Glory for Workers The government ministry of posts and telegraphs transported its workers in trucks. Light, water and telephone services were not affected, but there were no de liveries of milk or meat in the city.

In the center of Buenos Aires posters hailing Peron as "the next president" appealed on shop win dows and subway entrances. 'At nearby La Plata police did not in terfere with roving bands which stoned and raided shops and factories. Peron called the strike "a day of glory for the workers." The government, meanwhile, an nounced the membership of the new cabinet promised by President Edelmiro Farrell after he had conferred with Peron following the latter's release from custody last night. The list included: Juan I. Cook, foreign minister; Col.

Amaro Avalos, agriculture minister and acting finance minister; Gen. Juan Pistanni, public works and acting minister of the interior; Estanislao Berrolaran, justice and education; Gen. Ilumberto Sosa Molina, war; near Adm. Abelarodo Pantins, navy, and Lt. Col.

Domingo Mer- cante, secretary of labor and social welfare. Whereabouts of Lima Not Clear All except Berrotaran served previously with Peron. The present whereabouts of former Navy Minister Hector Ver-nengo Lima and Gen. Eduardo Avalos, engineers of the October 9 overthrow of Peron, was not clear. Vernengo Lima was reported to have obeyed an order by President Farrell to return from a warship on which he was said to have been traveling to meet the bulk of the Argentine fleet at Mar Del Plata, 250 miles south.

FarreU's message threatened "energetic measures" if the admiral did not return. A later rumor said Vernengo Lima was at his home. McGill in Washington Ready to Take Up Post Washington, Oct. 18 CP) Ralph E. McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, arrived in Washington today to take up his duties as a special adviser and consultant to the State Department.

McGill will advise Assistant Secretary of State William Benton on matters concerning news services and the press in connection with the international information service undertaken recently by the State Department. The Atlanta editor said his primary concern would be to see to it that American news was disseminated all over the world. Gen. Stillwell Home From Pacific Theater Monterey, Oct. 18 LP) Gen.

Joseph W. Stilwell arrived home today from the Pacific on his 35th wedding anniversary and joined Mrs. Stilwell at their nearby Car-mel home. He said that all he had on his mind was to join his family. Stilwell was accompanied by Maj.

Gen. Frank Dow Merrill, of "Merrill's Marauders," former deputy commander in the China-Burma theater, and Brig. Gen. William G. Bergin, formerly of Pueblo, his chief of staff.

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Minimum, 36. The Real News Reporter Delivers Streptomycin to Baby's Mother The delivery of six million units of streptomycin at Ball Memorial Hospital at 10:30 o'clock last night by representatives of the Indianapolis Star and The Muncie Star lengthened the life expectancy of 17-months-old Gayle Eleanor Harvey, who is critically ill of tubercular meningitis. One million more units of the rare drug will be delivered to the hospital today from Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington through efforts of The Star's Washington correspondent. It Is being flown to the Weir Cook Municipal Airport in Indianapolis on orders of President Truman and it will be brought to the hospital by representatives of The Star. Use 300,000 Units Daily Dr.

Harry Mock, eminent Chicago surgeon and Muncie native, arranged for the delivery here early yesterday morning of 280,000 units of the drug from St. Luke's Hos pital in Chicago, of which he is the dean. The physician attending the child said last night that he would use approximately 300,000 units daily in his treatments and that the supply of streptomycin now on hand would be sufficient for several days. "All that you have done for this child is certainly appreciated," the physician said. Mayor John C.

Hampton, who started the laymen's search for the rare drug Sunday morning, was present "at the hospital last night when Charles Griffo, a reporter for the Indianapolis Star, arrived with his precious cargo from the Terre Haute laboratories of the Commercial Solvents Company. Miss Nellie Brown, hospital su perintendent, and the baby's mother, Mrs. Jean Harvey, 721 North Elm street, accepted the generous gift, the mother sobbing her words of appreciation of the herculean efforts that are being made to save the life of her baby. The child's father, Sgt. Thomas D.

Harvey, was killed while fighting as a paratrooper in the European theater of war last March. Since then, Mrs. Harvey, a former member of the WAC, has been making her home with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. George F.

Cos-grove, owners of the Home Cafe Turn to Page 6, Column 5. Urges Wide Spy System Marshall Also Backs Merger of Services Washington, Oct. 18 CD Gen. George C. Marshall urged Congress today to merge the army and navy into a single, potent military force that will "command the respect of the world." He said it must be backed by a single, "businesslike intelligence service to keep us abreast of what other countries are doing and plan ning.

Indorses Hill Measure The only safe road to peace, the army chief of staff told the Senate military affairs committee, is to be so strong that nobody can "get a running start and overwhelm us." As steps in that direction he proposed 1. Consolidation of air, land and sea branches under a single Cabinet officer. 2. Passage of a law requiring the joint chiefs of staff to draft an over-all military program yearly for submission to the President and Turn to Page 6. Column 6.

But In later years, in the game of life, I've played with and for the handicapped. It has been an exciting and very self-satisfying game," Dr. Mock mused. The surgeon remarked, "And now to have a school for the handicapped named after me surpasses any dream I've ever had. It thrills me more than words can express.

To have this honor come to me in my old home town from my home folks is a thousand times more thrilling than if the school were located in Chicago, New York or any other place you could mention." Dr. Mock expressed his deep gratitude to the Muncie School Board, the Delaware County So- Turn Page 6, Column group were closed alter uppen- heimer's appearance. The scientists' statements were made while Gen. H. H.

Arnold wm telling another committee that the next time an atomic bomb Is used it probably will be in a winged. guided missile launched from aircraft far out of the reach of defenses. Those were highlights of a day of discussion which stirred atomic energy talk at the White House, on the floor of the Senate, and in committee rooms all over the Capitol. Urey protested strenuously at what he called attempts by the military committee to "rush this thing through." He said the committee originally devoted only five hours to testimony before holding one more day of hearings today. Curtis said that "the tone of this bill" is such that if he were a for eign scientist he would feel "those fellows in the States are getting ready to bomb us." Sums Tp Objections Urey worked on the atomic bomb at Columbia University.

He is well known in science as the discoverer of heavy hydrogen, from whicli "heavy water" is derived. Urey said that during the war military secrecy restrictions were so tight that he had men under him who were forbidden to tell him vWhat they were doing. He said the bills offered by Chairman May Ky.) and Acting Chairman Edwin C. Johnson Colo.) of the House and Senate military committees would carry over such restrictions into peacetime. Urey summed up three objections to the pending legislation: l.

The administrator of the proposed atomic energy commission would be a "potential dictator not subject to any elected official." 2. The bill provides "no Incentive to science or Industry work in this field." 3. It "would serve notice on all foreign governments that we Intend to indulge in an armament race." Recalling America's traditional opposition to the use of poison gas, Urey said "when we used the bomb Turn to Page 6, Column 2. Independence Demanded hy Indonesians Batavia, Oct. 18 The Indonesian nationalists today demanded absolute Independence from the Dutch, asserting the alternative was "war or revolution.

Rejecting a Dutch proposal for partnership In the Netherlands empire, Dr. Mohammend Hatta, nationalist vice-president, declared that "not for a moment will Indonesia countenance any form of colonial status, whatever new grab it assumes or whatever fancy name is given it. "War or revolution raging fiercely for years and years will be the only result. This may be the Dutch idea of bringing peace and order to the country, but certainly lt will never end in Indonesia being brought under Dutch controL" Hatta declared at a press conference. British troops meanwhile were spreading quickly over Java-richest of the Dutch East Indies islands to prevent new uprisings.

Fifteen Netherlands or Indonesian Christins were killed in riota blamed on Indonesian extremists. Bandoeng, summer capital, was occupied by the British without incident, and a British convoy stood off Semarang to land Gurkas for the rescue of Rapwi (relTef forces fr Allied prisoners) and Red pi xxnnel held by the Indo Drop Manslaughter Charge Judge Ernest A. Inglis, com mending Willis for "performing his duty," dismissed the manslaughter change on which Mrs. Stevens had been held since June 23. The attractive defendant was at liberty in $15,000 bail and far from the scene when the case was thus quickly disposed of.

Her lawyer said he telegraphed the news to her at Columbus, where her husband, a paratrooper, is stationed. Willis informed the court that of the "conflicting statements" made about the case the state would have to accept that of Mrs. Stevens. She said she encountered Kovacs and his brother, James, in the neighboring home of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Milton late at night, thought they were intruders, ordered them to leave and shot the sailor when he resisted her. She didn't know that the brothers were calling on Faith Coombs, a girl engaged by the Miltons to stay with their children during their absence. The coroner, after an inquest at which no defense testimony was presented, said in his rinding that Mrs. Milton and Mrs. Stevens had had an "altercation" at the Stevens home before the shooting which occurred in "an aura of sex recrimination, beer and window smashing." Some time before that, the coroner said, Mr.

and Mrs. Milton had become reconciled "on the surface at least" following an "illicit love affair" between Mrs. Stevens and Milton. Establish 11 Pacific Troop Assembly Areas Washington, Oct. 18 CP) The army has established 11 troop assembly areas in the Pacific to speed return of soldiers bound for home.

The soldiers will be taken to the assembly areas to board U. vessels, the army announced today. The plan is aimed at reducing the turn-around time of troop ships and enabling the vessels to take on capacity loads at a single port instead of traveling to many minor bases to pick up small detachments. The assembly areas are Manila and Tacloban, Philippines; Yokaho and Hogoya, Japan; Jinse, Korea, Noumean, New Caledonia, Brisbane, Australia, Holandia, New Guinea; Honolulu, Saipan and Okinawa. Seek More Nip Plunder Yanks Continue to Search Hinterland Tokyo, Oct.

18 American occupation troops continued to search the Japanese hinterland today for the remains of Nipponese war fortunes after uncovering nearly $300,000,000 worth of hidden diamonds, gold, silver and platinum. In a house-to-house raid In Tokyo other American soldiers, working with Japanese police, collected 20 truck loads of hidden arms and ammunition. Cut. Off Drug Supply An estimated 90 per cent of the world's illegal narcotic supply was cut off abruptly by a sweeping American headquarters order which called for the destruction of many acres of opium, hashish, morphine and cocaine. An Ameriaan counter intelligence agency patrol led by Brig.

Gen. Elliot R. Thorpe in an investigation of the emperor's palace grounds had been virtually destroyed during the war. The imperial building was razed by fire blown over the compound walls from burning buildings outside. The latest and most dazzling dis covery made by the occupation troops in their "Japanese treasury hunt" was the finding of $30,000 000 worth of diamonds in cheap Thermos bottles in a Mutsui trust company safety deposit box.

The fabulous cache of 131,000 karats of diamonds was largely government owned. Many of the stones had been obtained through deceit of the Japanese people. They were deposited in the bank vault in the name of a government import and export control agency. Meanwhile millions of dollars worth of gold and silver was transferred from Japan's bomb-battered mint to the Bank of Japan where it will be held for distribution on direction from Washington. Previously $2,000,000 worth of silver bars were found hidden in a farmer's barn near Kasugai, 85 miles from Tokyo, and $1,000,000 worth of silver was uncovered near a machine shop at Haratucka, about 100 miles from the Japanese capital.

i Eminent Chicago Surgeon Cherishes School Brick By BETTY BOTKIN One, weathered, red brick marked and torn from the basement of the Jefferson School Building, will be Dr. Harry E. Mock's cherished souvenir of Muncie, in addition "to the appreciation and hospitality" shown by the city's people to him in whose honor the Harry Mock School for Handicapped Children was named. Dr. and Mrs.

Mock were honored guests yesterday afternoon at a reception at the Jefferson School, where the special school is housed and it was during this occasion that your reporter discovered the story By DAVE BOONE I was kind of surprised that the aircraft carrier Lexington was permitted to get into New York Harbor without any trouble, in view of the shape things are in along the of the M. and brick. Dr. Mock became nostalgic as he whispered, "That M. and S.

stands for Mock and Son," he said. "That brick was made by my Daddy, John D. Mock. I will treasure it always." The eminent Chicago surgeon, modest about his humanitarian work for the school chuckled as he related his conversation with Chic Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ray W. Clark, 641 Wheeling avenue. Plays for Handicapped "Chic said to me last night, 'Gee, Uncle Harry, aren't you proud to have a school named for you I wish I could have a school named for me. BUT I'd want it to be a football "When I was Chic's agaf I probably did dream more of football She's a great ship with a combat record to tear your heart out, but, after all, she never had to fight Ryan or Bridges or any of those boys, or get tangled up with picket lines, arbiters and labor rows. She sent in her warplanes first.

They looked the docks over and reported back that it was okay to proceed, but that the peace talk had all been rumor. I see where a House committee investigating alleged un-American activities has asked for the radio scripts of a lot of big radio commentators. It just can't remember offhand the names of those tooth pastes, hair oils and laxatives..