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TIMES Fair and cold tonipht. Fair and continued cold Wednesday. Iff HVENIN Grantii to The Evening Times For Outstanding Pertormnneo In th 8alo Serving the Valley (Sayre, Athens, South Waverly, and Waverly, N.Y.) 25,000 Prosperous People of War Savin! Kampa. PRICE FOUR CENTS SAYRE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1945 Troopship Disaster Survivors Arrive in U.S. FDR Ordered Tro Canvass for Pool Fund to Open on Sunday in Sayre vert To Await Jap V'l IWt H5 i4- Act, Marshall' Says Initial Gifts So Far Reported Bring Total in Fund to $35,369 Plan Is Offered By Union to Curb Probe of Hurley Charges Droppe Wildcat Strikes Ford Studying Proposal Sayreites will be called upon Sunday to show their sufnort lor the War Memorial swimr ing pool project, when the housi-to-house campaign to complete the $65,000 fund gets under way.

Plans for' the drive got under way last night as initial gifts brought the total in the fund to $35,369.99, with a large number of initial gifts prospects yet to be reported on. By Senate Group Has Dim 'Recollection of Getting Order Personally from President WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (AP) Gen. George C. Marshall (said today President Roosevelt personally ordered included in prewar warning messages to American commanders instructions to wait for an overt act by Japan.

Marshall told the senate-house Pearl Harbor inquiry committee the President's directions were being followed when Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short was told "the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act." Short was the army commander in Hawaii at the "time of Pearl Harbor. The former army chief of stafl said he had a "dim recollection" that Mr.

Roosevelt personally Tin For 'Company Security Resume GM Talks Another meeting of the initial By The Associated Press The Ford Motor company, only one of automotive's three" under contract with the "big the Monroeton Vet Of 4 Campaigns Is Fatally Shot Tr.n,,,! A r.i-pelv arrived in New York from China with 3.000 troops, she had When the transport General A. V. Kholla, in hiih 1,145 soldiers lost aboard eleven of the survivors of the V' ''william McKee Charles on, S.C.; SSgt. William D. their lives They arc (Iron row I.

r. T5 W.I am Charlie L. Parker, Macon, Ga Mathews, Greenv.l S.C 1C ar (1 to Sgt. Marvln Marx, Washington, Action Today Tantamount To Rejecting Protest Against Career Men WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UP) The senate foreign relations committee today dropped its investigation of charges by ex-Ambassador Patrick J.

Hurley that state department career diplomats undermined U. S. foreign policy throughout the world. gifts committee is scheduled tor Thursday afternoon, at which time it is hoped that practically all of this phase of the campaign will be completed. A final meeting of this committee, which consists of the pool association directors, is scheduled for next Monday afternoon, at which it is hoped to get under way with the final plans Mnnt TS Martin, Lead CIO United Auto Workers, today studied a union plan for curbing unauthorized strikes and prepared to.

discuss wages with the union. The wage negotiations between Ford and the union were arranged for tomorrow after the UAW-CIO Rrutni Pa SSirt. James Sweet, Butte, ssgi. jumu --iT anli Set. Mexico; and Sgt.

Cesare Muraca, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Internatl. S.D.; Sgt. Cnaries L.arge, ruium.j.i-i Norman Coolbaush, 28-year-old gave him those lnsirucuuns. xia said he was worried about how to transmit them without too rigidly estraining defense actions.

Hess Struts. Others Weep as Films veteran of the North African, Italian, French and German fronts, fatally wounded at 11 o'clock For three hours today the com Of Nazi Rise to Power Are Shown Palestine Arabs Reject Plan for Anglo-US. Quiz mittee examined secret state department records. Then Chairman Tom Connally, announced that no further hearings or closed sessions on the matter were proposed its plan for "company security" against wildcat strikes. Earlier the company had rejected discussion of the union's demand for 30 per cent wage rate hikes.

The union's offer, termed by a union spokesman as an unprecedented "company security" plan which he believed will be acceptable to the company, provides that instigators of wildcat work stoppages in Ford plants be discharged and that participants be fined. While the Ford-union negotiations appeared moving along smoothly, there was nothing to in planned. for construction ot me pooi. The house-to-house campaign opening Sunday will be under the direction of Rev. Glen B.

Walter and James Lowe as co-chairmen. With George Mott, in charge of selection of ward chairmen, they are now putting the finishing touches -on an organization of workers who will visit every home in the community. Plans for the poo1 call for an ovoid structure 80 by 120 feet in dimensions, located in the rear of thp Savre high school and adja This was tantamount to reject this morning while hunting two miles south of his home in Monroeton. Coolbaugh, discharged from the Army Oct. 3 after more than three years, in the infantry, was struck in the temple by a ricocheting bullet, and died while being brought to a Towanda physician's office.

The bullet that fatally wounded Coolbaugh first killed a deer. It was fired by Stanley Hettich of Monroeton, who with three others, including Coolbaugh, were hunting in Kent Run. about two miles ing Hurley's complaints. Hurley, Kidnaped Child Taken by Error Secretary of State James i. Senator h'crguson (n-iviieii; opened the fifth day of testimony for the five-star general with questions about an alert Marshall had ordered in Hawaii on June 17.

1940. At that time the Hawaii garrison was ordered on a full alert, with the request that Lt. Gen. C. B.

Herron, then commander there, acknowledged to Washington that the order had been carried out. Ferguson noted that Marshall's Nov. 27, 1941, message to Short, who succeeded Herron, told Short to take measures he deemed necessary and report what those measures were. "Isn't it the procedure thfjt if a commander is told to take measures he deems necessary and Byrnes, Undersecretary ot Mate Dean Acheson and other witnesses testified at the committee 'hearings during the past week. Police Declare Acheson, who was accused oy JERUSALEM, Dec.

11 (UP) The supreme Arab Palestinian council issued a surprise announcement today rejecting the British plan for settlement of the Holy Land controversy by a joint Anglo-American inquiry Speaking for all major Arab factions in Palestine, the council repudiated in advance any decisions which might be taken by the American and British inves- Hurley of dynamiting American NUERNBERG, Dec. 11 (UP) Rudolf Hess threw out his chest and strutted while other Nazi leaders wept today during the showing in the war crimes courtroom of a four-hour film depicting the Nazi rise to power. The film was pieced together from propaganda films which the Nazis themselves took to record the high spots of Adolf Hitler's regime in Germany. The 21 defendants seemed to be stimulated by the scenes of past glory. Hess for the first time regained some of his old swagger.

During a recess in the film he stood with his arms crossed in swaggering manner and arrogantly surveyed the audience. As his picture was shown on the screen he leaned over to Herman Goer- south of Monroeton toward New dicate settlement of the 2i-ad old strike at General Motors involving more than 200,000 employes. The number affected was more than half of the total of about 400,000 idle throughout the country because of labor disputes. policies in Iran, attended part oi today's meeting to answer questions about the documents, which Albany. CHELSEA, Dec.

11 (A P) Lt. John Kirby of the Chelsea "Hurley had designated to substan The hunting party also included Harold Swingle and George Bun- police said today it is "pretty well tiate his charges established" that six monms oiu report back and yon are not sat General Motors announced term Connally said he had refused a Rnnnip Parian "was taken by mis ination of its contract with the un cent to the playground, tennis courts and softball field. It Will be open to every resident of the entire area, "While we hope to complete a large share of the canvass on Sunday," Mr. Walter said today, "workers will be instructed to call back next week in cases where they are unable to find people at home, so that every resident may have an opportunity to subscribe to this fund to provide a fitting memorial to the men and women who served their lakp bv a tall man driving a blue renuest by Hurley that he be per yan, both of Monroeton, and witn Hettich, they rushed the injured man to the office of Dr. Willis R.

Redding in Towanda, but he was ripad nnnn arrival. Deputy Cor ion, but negotiations on a new contract were to be resumed today. GM President C. E. Wilson said mitted to testify at another open session of the committee.

or coupe." There was reason to believe; Spokesmen for the powerful Arab league, representing all seven Arab states in the middle east, eaiiier had indicated willingness PrinciDal documents examined Hip officer added, that another that in any new contract the cor isfied with the measures ne nas taken, that you would advise him differently?" The Michigan Senator asked. "I would assume so," Marshall replied quietly. "That's the correct army procedure?" "Yes, sir, that's right," the general said. today were reports 4rom Jonn s. Service and George A.

Atcheson, child was the object of the kidnaper. irirhv "two women wit poration "will insist on provisions requiring union responsibility and to cooperate with the commission ing and whispered eagerly, appai- ently about nis iormer xriuinpiis. assurance of uninterrupted pro --equallyj saw the man look into the Goering was" almost -equ war" almost rtimniotori nt seeim? himseli on missing baby carriage, this sus nect. Drobablv had a woman ac- rnmntice ho actually took the child oner V. L.

Grenell was called, and he summoned Dr. A. E. Dann of Canton, Bradford County coroner. Trooper McCleary of the Towanda State Police detail began an immediate investigation.

Coolbaugh was a technician fourth grade when he was discharged from the service. He won ribbons in the North African, Italian, Southern France and Rhine-land campaigns. He entered the service in February, 1942. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Calvin Coolbaugh; and three sisters, including Mrs. Richard Rice of Monroeton and Miss Marjorie Coolbaugh of the screen once again be-medalled and gorgeously uniformed. He told a guard: "They should have showed the 1938 Nuernberg rally. That was really a good one." Joachim von Ribbentrop and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel both wept at the pictures of enthusi-nctic Nazi crowds. Short has contended that when he reported lie had placed into effect only an anti-sabotage alert and Washington gave him no fur -ther instructions, he felt the measures he had taken were satisfactory.

Ferguson and' another Republican committee member, Rep. Keefe both have evidenced interest in why the 1940 orders for Kirby added that it might not have been the man now sought but a woman "who actually lifted the child from the carriage because she was not familiar with thp rhilrl the man wanted to foreign, service men' iormeny stationed in China. Hurley accused Service of plotting to overthrow the central Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek and accused Atcheson of recommending that lend-lease arms be given to Chinese Communists for the purpose of upsetting the Chiang government. Hurley made his original charges when he resigned suddenly two weeks ago as ambassador to China. Connally said no action was contemplated on a resolution by Sen.

Kenneth S. Wherry, calling for a special five-man committee to investigate the entire state department. "It is lying calmly on my desk, in its mvesugauuii ui tine question. The Zionist executive committee in Jerusalem, meanwhile, conferred secretly on the overall situation and informed quarters said the group was considering a civil disobedience campaign if Britain refused to permit unrestricted immigration into the Holy Land. The 16 executive committee members met with 40 representatives of the smaller Zionist council and submitted a report on their attitude toward the Anglo-American investigating commission just named to study the Palestine question.

Sources close to the executive committee said its recommendations left the way open for co duction." UAW-CIO President R. J. Thomas termed the cancellation of the contract, which would have expired on April 28, 1946, "another high-handed effort by management to evade the central issue in dispute a 30 per cent wage in- Meanwhile, two CIO unions met to consider strike action, involving thousands of workers. In Pittsburgh, the 175-man wage policy committee of the CIO United Steelworkers planned a meeting to decide what a union spokesman said was "the date of a nationwide steel strike." He said the strike decision will be announced later today and that the walkout probably would be called Hialmar Schacht. Nazi fiscal ctpnl Askprl whv the kidnapers did wizard, who had turned his back the films of Nazi atrocities not return the child when they country in the armed servicfes." Ward chairmen foi the house-to-house canvass will meet Friday evening at 7 o'clock at the Community Center for final instructions for the drive, and will later meet with their workers to complete the plans for the canvass, which will open Sunday afternoon and continue until the work is completed.

Reports from ititial sales workers last night showed gifts of $3,650 received, with many additional reports expected. It also reported that the contributions from the boxes in the schools were as follows: high school, grade schools, $25; school, $21.02. A gift of $20 also was reported from Girl Scout troop 3, Misses Phyllis and Margaret Lowe, a Hawaii alert were, they said, mnrn snecific than the Nov. 27. discovered it was the wrong one, Kirbv said he was not sure, "un less the kidnappers figured it was Overhauling of N.

Y. Civil were shown, watched today's movie and asked: "Do you see anything wrong with that?" Beneath soft fluorescent lighting they sat in the prisoners box and watched scenes from old German newsreels that depicted the rtnvir from thp riavs of Mu too late to do anything about it ai'trr the nolice hunt had begun Phipf Charles M. Finn of the Connally said of -the resolution. "It shows no sign of life, although Chelsea police said "we may get 1941, "war warning" that went from Washington to Honolulu. With Marshall for a fifth day of testimony beiore the Congressional Pearl Harbor investigation, Ferguson told reporters he planned to question the former chief of staff the 1940 message sent Lt.

Gen. Charles B. Herron, then in command in Hawaii. Keefe said he was interested in operation with tne commiuee, that nn definite decision on the 4 the tiiat a break may occur Service Law to Be Sought ALBANY, N. Dec.

11 (AP) A "tnorouyh overhauling" of iuu state civil service law will be promoted at the next session of the legislature by two Republican members from Queens county. State Senator Seymour Halpern and Assemblyman Fred W. Preller said yesterday they would seek a "comprehensive, modernized it.V" Hurley had told the committee the secret documents would prove his charges of duplicity in the foreign service, nich street fighting in the eany twenties until the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944. ThP film. Dossiblv the longest case soon." Kirby said the motive for the snatching of the baby from his carriage across the street from the family home 13 clays ago turned up last night.

"This is the first break in the case." he added, "and we expect (Continued on Page 9 Column 6) Bill of Rights Observance Aske stand to be adopted by Palestine Jews had been taken. Nurses' Counsel Service Planned HARRISBURG, Dec. 11 (UP) The state nurses' association indicated today that a director would be named this week "to study the feasibility of establishing a counseling service and placement bureau for Pennsylvania nurses discharged from the armed forces. Members of the committee, who t111 pot in Philadelphia Satur law." 3 Marines Slain Balkans Report Seen Unfavorable The union members in 27 states have approved a strike in support of demands for a $2 a day wage increase and a walkout would idle about 650,000 steelworkers. In New York, a spokesman for the Independent Western Electric Employes association said a slowdown was underway in 21 Western Electric plants in New York and New Jersey and that the union was to decide today whether to call an immediate strike.

Union officials were to meet at Kearny, N. and decide the strike call, but a union spokesman said they would consider delaying the strike action pending a conference with union officials of the National Federation of Telephone Parts of the present law are nntinnated and useless, they de clared, citing sections dealing with documentary one ever made, was intended to give graphic proof ot prosecution charges that the Nazis had a master plan of world aggression. Two American navy officers who were peacetime Hollywood men, Cmdr. James B. Donovan and Cmdr.

E. fcay Kellott, compiled the film from German news-reel libraries. Only English titles have been added to the original sound track in which German commentators narrated the rise of the Nazis. Possibly for the last time, Joseph Goebbel's frenzied shouting, the belligerent strains of the Horst WpsspI sons, cries of "sieg hcil" civil war veterans. "There isn't a single veteran of the civil war in civil service," the legislators asserted.

it to come to a climax soon. He declined lo disclose the nature of the police's latest information. Meanwhile, the child's mother, Mrs. James J. Carlan was in a state of collapse.

Dr. Maurice Gilbert, attending physician, said she was suffering from "complete nervous exhaustion." Ths doctor said he had ordered her not to see or talk to anyone, except her husband, for about 48 hours. Her condition, he added, was caused by worry and lack of sleep induced by several telephoned ransom demands and one call that the child would be returned "in a box." WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UP) Mark Ethridge, Kentucky publisher who undertook a special state department mission to the Balkans, has reported that the governments of Romania and Bulgaria are not sufficiently democratic to warrant U. S.

recognition now, it was learned today. HARRISBURG, Dec. 11 (UP) Gov. Edward Martin urges Penn-sylvanians to observe "Bill of Rights Das" Dec. 15 by examining the historical first 10 amendments to the federal constitution and resolving rhat they be "bequeathed to our children inviolate." Terming the Bill of Rights a "statement of the fundamental human rights upon which the freedom of every citizen depends," Martin warned in a statement late yestsrday that it must be preserved against encroachment either from within or from without." "This constitutional guarantee, By Japs on Guam GUAM, Dec.

11 (UP) Renegade Japanese troops hiding in the jungle killed three S. marines and wounded one in an ambush on Guam Dec. 8, the navy announced today. The marines were investigating reports of gunfire and disturbances created by Japanese soldiers when attacked. The three bodies were discovered lying in a gully, robbed of weapons and partially stripped of clothing.

Elements oc the 3rd marine division will search the area to clear out the renegade elements. day to select the director, are Ruth Hubbard, Philadelphia, Chairman; Mrs. Anna Barlow, Reading; Harriet Young, Wilkes-Barre; Helen Smith and Theresa Lynch, Both Philadelphia; Mabel Baron and Anna Lease, both Pittsburgh. Killed by Machine TUPPER LAKE, N. Dec.

11 (AP) Three-year-old John Farmer was killed yesterday in a coal conveyor belt. He apparently got on the belt when it was idle and pulled the switch. Franklin County Coroner Earl Camwagner said. (Continued on Page 9 Column 7) Sentence Man for Theft from Vet and the massed chanting of slogans and marching songs rang in the defendants' ears. Hitler's screaming speeches were there to mock them, too.

The film opened with Alfred The association reported uui some of its local units were gathering information for veterans nurses but if the placement bureau were established, the service would be provided on a statewide basis. HARRISBURG, Dec. 11 (UP) Soldier Is Charged with Theft of Hiahwav Funds i Ethridge, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, visited the two countries at the requsst of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. His report has not yet been made pub.ic.

It was learned that Ethridge found that in neither country were there sufficient guarantees of free speech, free press and free voting to make the present regimes acceptable under western standards. Russia recognizes them. Felix J. Jackson, Harrisourg, wno admitted stealing $100 from a discharged serviceman last Nov. 23, was under sentence today to serve from six to 12 years in eastern Crash Injury Fatal BUFFALO, N.

Dec. 11 (A P) Norman Mclntyre, 40, Lancaster, died last night in Emergency hospital of injuries suffered yesterday when the automobile he was driving left a suburban highway and crashed against two trees. given us by our forelathers as a sacred trust, was net given to us alone but was placed in our hands to preserve for the generations to come," he said as we are true to the trust thus reposed can we pass on to ou. sons and daughters those freedoms we have been permitted to enjoy." Track Walker Killed SYRACUSE, N. Dec.

11 (A P) Carmen Cedrone, 50, died last night two hours after a switch engine cut off both his legs. He worked as a track walker in the Solvay -Process company quarries. penitentiary and pay a line oi $125 Jackson told the court he lured the dischargee and a negro girl from a downtown cafe to his home, where the robbery was OSWEGO, N. Dec. 11 (AP) Pvt.

Charles L. Duhamel, 36, was held in 85,000 bail today, awaiting 'grand jury action on a grand larceny charge involving Oswego county highway funds. He waived examination yester-dav in city court. Duhamel was a highway department clerk before he entered the army air forces. The charge against him is based on an alleged shortage of 39,000, District At (Continued on page 9.

column 4) 1940 Ammunition Shortage Is Revealed by Officer BUFFALO, N. Dec. 11 (A P) Col. Henry B. Sheets of Buffalo, army ordnance official, reveals the United States "was virtually without ammunition" for a time during 1940.

"At one time we had less than 1,000,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition," he said yesterday in an interview. Col Sheets is on terminal leave after commanding the Boston ordnance district for Faces Trial for Attacking Girl ASTON, 11 (UP) Mark Peters, 37, was scheduled to go on trial in Northampton county court today for an alleged criminal assault on a 15-year-old girl fugitive from the Allentown state hospital. State police said Peters admitted he attacked Mabel Harris. Philadelphia, before turning her and Mvron Semunchick, 14. Van-dling, over to authorities.

Semunchick, serving a life sentence for the murder of a nine year old Vandiing girl, escaped with the Harris cirl from the stale hospital. He has been brought fr'im the Ecstern penitentiary, Warns British Move to Reinforce Java Troops Will Mean Resistance torney Floyd S. Spangle said last Reds Agree to Let Chiang Troops Take over Strategic Manchu Cities The soldier was arrested week in Miami. Fate of Airmen Remains Mystery MIAMI, Dec. 11 (UP) The navy listed as an unsolved mystery today the fate of 27 navy airmen who disappeared aboard six planes off the Florida coast.

Naval officials called off its greatest peacetime search party yesterday when planes and sur-f ice craft reported they had found no trace of the missing planes. Five of the planes carrying 14, were missing on a routine training flight since last Wednesday. BATAVIA, Dec. 11 (UP) Batavia today on his second visit Sutan Siahrir. premier oi tne in- to Java in recent weens, i ne broadcast, heard by the United! Press in San Francisco, also re SliODPina donesian "republic" warned today that if the British bring reinforcements for a large scale action in Java, the Indonesians will resist.

Siahrir told a press conference the past 15 months. The ammunition shortage developed, he said, after the United States had turned over to England 50 destroyers and much ordnance to help them ward off the blitz in the spring and summer of 1940. "At that time this country was virtually without ammunition," he ported 1,000 more British troops; had arrived in the Batavia area.) Si.ihrir said the Indonesians dtius till CHUNGKING. Dec." 11 (APV-Russia agreed today to permit Chinese government troops to fly into Manchuria and -take over its most strategic cities, Central News Agency reported. After weeks of negotiations rim-ins which Chinese Com to Easton to testuy had been given to understand that Philadelphia, CHiMstmciS tory, and Harbin, most important in northern Manchuria.

Chinese Communists previously had been reported concentrating about both Changchun and Harbin and ready to take over Mukden if central government troops on the outskirts tried to move in. A Chinese dispatch yesterday said Communist headquarters at Yenan had ordered their troops to clear out of Mukden "to conserve the strength of Communist forces. he had not yet received a British statement on results of the nore conference. The sixth plane, a mariner patrol added. are true But it press reports that the British will bring in more the Singapore talks were aimed to in peters' trial, pave the way for peaceful dis- Peters, according to the state po-cusMons between the Dutch and lice, confessed he assaulted the Indonesians.

girl after picking up her and Se- "There can be no peaceful dis- i munchick in Vu.son borough, near cushions if blood is made to flow I Easton, last Oct. 29. throughout Indonesia." he said. Peters pleaded not guilty to the "We have won recognition of charge yesterday and court-ap- forces and are planning a large scale action, the Indonesians will resist them to the best of their he said. Bolt Kills Child HARRISBURG, Dec.

11 (UPl Funeral services will be tomorrow for 4-months-old Paul Salvatore Bucla who died at a hospital shortly after a bolt he bomber, Gisappeared witn li men aboard during the early hours of the search for the other planes. More than 250 search planes and scores of surface craft, including carriers, were used to scour thousands of square miles of the Atlantic ocean. The navy said it was the first time in its history that a whole Uight of planes disappeared munists had sought to take over ports and cities, the agency said the Chungking government had won permission to plant itself firmlv in this territory held vital for the recovery of war-ravaged China. It reported that Central government troops would be permit icd by the to fly into Changchun, the Manchuriaa capit.il. ilukden, largest city in the terri indcpcndcnce and we are; pointed Dcsense AV.onicy uia (Radio Melbourne said that Lt.

cur The reported agreement covering Mukden, Changchun and Harbin embraces the most important cities in all Manchuria with the Gen. Miles Dempsey, commander readv to negotiate a lair ana planned io aiu of statements of the Harris gnl land forces in soutneasi TJ expected lo (Continued oa Page 9 Column 7) land Semunchick. had swallowed lodged stomach. (Continued on page 9, column 4).