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2 Port I FRIDAY; NOV. 1 6, 1 945 OS 3t1 gClCS Cf IttCS Union Rejects G.M.C. Offer of fudenf efies Cominiffee Prison Ship Struggle for Survival Pictured Suffocation, Murder and Insanity Described; Yank Air Attack on Jap Convoy Adds to Horror This is the third installment oi an account of 49 days savagery and tragedy unequaled in the war in Pacific, of a Jap-made hell from which approximately 300 Americans from more than 1600 emerged alive. It was prepared from the stories of the survivors. BY GEORGE WELLER, Chicago Daily News Foreign Service 10 Pet.

Pay Rise DETROIT. Nov. 15. (U.R) The Youths Ousted From Strike Inquiry Room After Applauding Too Loudly C.I.O. United Auto Workers to night spurned a new 10 per cent pay increase offered by General ques- once broke Into Beirne's tioning of Miss Dolinsky.

Motors Corp. and announced "a costlv and terrible strike" is be se "Certainly, I realize the riousness of perjury," she plied. 1 re- ing forced upon it. Jammed into the airless, filthy pits of hell, that were the three holds of the Jap prison In a storm of developments in '-Jerry Pacht, 23-year-old law clerk just out of the university, ship Oroyku Maru, approxi the union's critical 30 per pay increase dispute, U.A.W. President R.

J. Thomas bitterly Continued from First Page handling students engaged in what was termed subversive activities and. Field said, they will go more fully into thi3 particular inquiry at a later session with the two campus administrative officers. Not Representing U.CX.A "It was wrong for the students to parade, (their participation in the Warner Bros, demonstra was another principal witness i Witness' Testimony Persistent an sometimes denounced the automobile industry's "managerial clique" as responsible for an Imminent walk mately 1600 American prisoners fought for life. The heroes of Bataan, Coriegidor and the March of Death to Camp O'Don-nell were face to face with death again.

pi pointed questioning by Beirne drew from the witness the story that Daley met him on the campus and there discussed the Some already had failed. They proposal to nave students join out. No strike call has been issued and no date has been set, but Thomas clearly indicated such action was in preparation. Against Big Three had suffocated, been slain by strike demonstration. Pacht said he had discussed tions) as representatives of the university," Dykstra told the committee.

He said that at the next student meeting after the trouble he had admonished the the. strike with "practically all my friend3 on the campus I their fellows or simply had died of weakness, from almost three years in prison camps. Some were insane, all were naked or nearly so, and hungry, thirsty, sick. It was December, 1944, and they were on their way from could name 30 or 40." He named first William Job Stout, editor of the Daily Bruin, students against doing things- a U.C.L.A. representatives when official organ of Associated Stu they were not in any way autfr Manila to Japan.

orized to represent the school. Alreadj' thev had spent one dents. He said that Daley, Stout and he discussed the student demonstration proposal and were jors and lieutenant colonels have already died doAvn where I came from," he added. Though neither of them knew it, Barr himself was to die of this wound, disease and neglect before he reached v. Out of bombs but not out of gas or bullets, the planes returned and began to strafe the ships.

These attacks could not sink the ship, but they raised havoc with its gun crews. Courage of Japanese An artillery officer says: "They were magnificent. As soon as a crew would be wiped out, another would take its place." The half darkness that still reigned below decks gave a strange phenomenon. Bridget would announce a dive bomber, "Here comes one now!" And the prisoners would hear the scream of wings. Then, lying flat but with faces turned sideways, they would hear the crunch of the striking bomb.

And suddenly the whole side of the bulkheads would be alive with bluish sparks. Though the "American' flyers brought terror to the prisoners, they also brought two gifts-light and air. In the shock and disorder the hatch planks had become disarrayed. A food detail that was allowed to go up the ladder and forward to the galley reported that a big ship in the convoy was burning and that the course was turning back toward Subic Bay. Through Lt.

Col. E. Carl En- His statement brought the shadow of climax to the union's strike threat against the big three of the industry General Motors, Chrysler and Ford, In rejecting the General Motors' proposal within three hours after' it was presented, U.A.W. Vice-President Walter P. Reuther declared that "realistic preparations" are being made for a strike against General Motors.

Work Week Assurance night in the black, horror-filled I "hfifl iriiir mr iTiirnrn' 11111111111 iiifcMiM The 'committeemen expressed eome anxiety because Warner Bros, had sent advance notice of holds. joined also by John Peterson. Pacht said Daley was not in any way connected with the university, but that, "I ran into the students' plan to the univer Dark and Tragic Dawn Dawn came slowly and at first sity, and that their plan was not almost no light filtered back stopped, and that the State, as him on the campus." into the rear bays, or shelves, some of them put It, incurred Among other things discussed liability "because of what the about the proposed student dem i V. students did. In operation, the proposed increase would boost "take home" where most of the dead lay.

Chief Warrant Officer Walter C. Smith of San Diego had found himself a tiny shelf beyond the onstration, Pacht testified, was "the making of signs" for stu Dykstra took the position that ohoto Times the students were acting on pay for General Motors workers by 6 per cent over wartime checks, even though the work dents to carry during their, demonstration at the their own, that if they did wrong there were police and other law IDENTIFIES STUDENTS Jerry Pacht, seated, Identifies some of U.C.LA. students in picture of film studio rioting for William B. Beirne, counsel for the Legislature's committee which carried strike disorder investigation to the Wesrwood campus yesterday. Beirne asked Pacht, son of Isaac Pacht, former Superior enforcement officers to handle them as well as- any other violators and that thi3 was not Court judge, whether he knew of the Superior Court order against mass picketing.

Pacht properly an affair of the univer week is reduced from 48 to 45 hours. However, the corporation said a 4S-hour work week was likely in many of its divisions "where plans for production will require our utmost efforts." The 45-hour work week assur sity officials if they did not rep said: last of the suffocated. "I was jammed all the way up against the rudder," he said. "I could hardly see daj'light at The gray-haired, Indefatigable Comdr. Frank Bridget took charge.

To the few who were not naked some had kept on their clothes even in the dripping heat as protection against being pawed by the wandering insane men he said: "Take off all the clothes you can. Don't move around. You, use up extra "I had heard of some such In resent the university. Views Criticized junction. Pacht said he did not Join the student group at the studio.

He Ford Asks Union Make Security Guarantees ance was contained in this state His views drew heavy' fire from some of the committee and r- said he was out of town, its counsel. He said the uni ment: "It will be necessary that all of our plants be scheduled between 45 and 48 hours of work per shift per week." Marching Admitted gelhart, the American interpreter, the Japanese sent down this warning: "If anyone other than an officer in charce so versity had not followed up the studio incident with any invest! Stout, who said he is 18 years gation, Committeeman Thomas H. old, admitted being at the studio, marching in the demonstration for about an hour, and carrying a banner. Werdel and Field told him the student participation was hatched "right on this campus and in this very building" and they variously, expressed the heated opinion that university Beirne asked Stout whether he is a member of American Youth for Democracy. Stout said oxygen that, way and you sweat more.

Use your shorts to fan each other." Some Revived He showed them how the little air that came down the hatch could be fanned with easy motions back into the rear bays. Some of the officers in the rear bays, lying in a stupor between suffocation and life, came slowly Star's Mother to Be Married Tomorrow. BY HEDDA HOPPER DETROIT, Nov. 13. 'VP) The Ford Motor Co.

today demanded that the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers give "effective guarantees against work stoppages and for increased productivity" by union workers. Asserting that four years of a union shop and due3 check he i3 not. The committee counsel per officials should do something about it. sisted in questioning him about the organization and finally he admitted he was "connected Before Peterson was the witness stand, the committee Mrs.

Ruth F. Davis, mother of much as touches the hatch ladder he will be instantly shot," Terror and Confusion Among the 2000 Japanese civilians there was terror and confusion. From the forward hold, where Lt. Col. Curtis Beecher of Chicago was in charge, the Army physicians, Lt CoL William North and Lt.

Col. Jack W. Schwartz, along with several doctors and corpsmen, were summoned on deck to take care of the Japanese wounded. Especially in the afthold blood seeped down through the hatch planks and gave the naked, panting men a spotted appearance. In the middle hold, where approximately 250 men were under Comdr.

Maurice -Joses of Santa Monica, there was enough air to maintain discipline and plenty heard Annette Rosette Dolinsky Actress Bette Davis, will be mar off contract had not brought with it, late in 1944, about three months." 18-year-old student ried at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 peaceful relations, the manage Stout said the Associated Stu Her story was, in substance to Robert Woodbury Palmer, re ment informed the union that dents pays him $40 a month as that she came here not long ago tired Boston, businessman, she said j'esterday. from a Chicago junior college, is unless it recognizes and fulfills "a responsibility of its own, the very future of the Ford Motor editor; of its official publication, the alive. Others did not stir.

The Japanese lowered a little rice, and it was distributed by Warrant Officer Clifford S. Sweet of the U.S.S. Tanager. Water there was none. In the growing.Iight;;with the unbalanced men out of the way and the dead taking their, share of air, and with ev-eryone sitting down and none majoring in sociology, is a mem The wedding will take place at Smoke Tree Ranch in -Palm Concerning of his ber of the International House Co.

is at stake. friends, he said: Springs. About a dozen lunch The company position was outlined in a letter addressed "I've eaten breakfast with Jer eon guests have been invited for Council and of the student ex ecutive council Told By Telephone 1 p.m. and after the wedding a to Richard T. Leonard, U.A.W, ry (Pacht) every day for over a year." 1 i 1 I I 1 I I I CYt 1 V- A i v-rli v) 1 1 1 JM? J- i up rrjt: reception will be held at the C.I.O.

Ford director. The letter Stout also told of the meet ranch for 100 friends. The cou She testified that Jack Daley, identified a3 a Hollywood press proposed 31 modifications in the pie met here last year. union contract to be considered wandering around, it was possible for the officers to take cognizance of where they were. "The whole space in the aft- ing with Daley and about ar ranging for the student demon agent and member of the strik stration with the film pickets.

ing Screen Publicists Guild, telephoned her In her room and of room. Between 3 and 4 o'clock In the afternoon the Oroyku Maru, edged close to shore. (Continued tomorrow) Copyright. 1943. CJiIcmo Daily New.

Ina. He admitted putting up a sign in the. Daily Bruin office pro told about the plan to have stu Houser Grants Stay to Slayer hold," according to Maj. John Fowler of 140014 Menlo Los Angeles, "looked to me about 100 feet long by about 40 feet wide. There were about dents join in the striker dem moting the demonstration.

Among others with whom he onstrations. She said Daley was "a perfect stranger" to her. She discussed the project, he testi got up a party of three, includ 13 bays or little compartments SACRAMENTO, Nov. 15. (fF) fied, were Anne Stern and Anne Union in Concession at Ford's Canada Plant WINDSOR (Ont.) Nov.

15. U.R) Striking C.I.O. United Auto Workers voted at a mass meeting late today to permit reopening of the Ford Motor Co. powerhouse, thus giving rise to hope that the 63-day-old strike may be ended soon. ing Gloria Roman end Patricia on each side, and two across Acting Gov.

Frederick F. Houser Hebert. respectively managing editor and assistant managing Each bay was double, above and below, and the average was adsworth, the latter not a student, and they joined the demonstration. editor of The Brum: also, his tonight granted a reprieve to William M. Lindlejv 50, who was under sentence to die in the father and mother.

about 8 feet by 11 feet." Air Attack Begun gas chamber In San Qucntin at Witness Nervous "Are you a member of the American Youth for Democracy?" Beirne asked Miss Dolin 10 a.m. tomorrow. On one occasion Beirne had The Oroyku Maru coasted Lindley was convicted of mur to admonish the nervous wit Pope Opposes Death Penalty ROME, Nov; 15. VP) A Foreign Ministry official today said Pope Pius had appealed to the Italian government not to execute death sentences imposed for political crimes. The official, who asked i a name not be used, added thati the Council of Ministers had "received the appeal with understanding." Official Vatican circles neithert dering 12-year-old Jackie Hamil sky.

"No, I am not," she replied. ness to stick strictly to answer slowly and uncertainly along the edge of Luzon. In the morning, summoned perhaps by the sub at negotiations on the union's demand for a 30 per cent wage ton near i uba City in a criminal ing questions. Stout at various times had begun volunteering assault in September, 1943., increase opening next Tuesday. marines which, had attacked the Beirne eventually brought out that she had been a member and in recent months had attended Of the wage demands the let statements.

Lt. Gov. Houser, who is act convoy during the night, the ter said: Stout said both he and Pacht ing as Chief Executive in the a convention of the organization American planes were overhead. Soon they began their attacks. "We do not believe that this told Dalev that because of uni absence from the State of Gov, Warren, said he issued the re Times Dhoto WITNESS William J.

Stout, editor of the Daily Bruin, organ of the Associated Students at U.C.LA., pictured on witness stand in film strike inquiry. which committeemen described as an outgrowth of the Young versity examinations there prob Bridget, completely cool, sat is the time to attempt to settle on general wage Increases. They would have to be based on prieve which the Governor had ably would be "very few out there" at the strike demonstra at the top of the ladder. Like an announcer in a press box. he refused to issue, because of two Communist League.

Meets in Y.W.OA. confirmed nor denied that the) guesses of what our volume of tion. called the plays. affidavits given to him, casting doubt that the identity of Lind Pope had sent such an apneaL production and our costs are When Beirne asked him about I can see two planes coins Miss Dolinsky s-Id she knew nothing about the background of ley as the slayer had been estab going to be. We feel a general increase such as you propose a court order against mass picketing, Stout said: BYRON PRICE ACCUSES FRENCH IN REICH CRISIS lished.

the organization. She said it has but well-informed quarters saicj the lack of comment was be cause it was up to the Italian government to make the notd for a freighter off on our starboard side," he would say. "Now two more are detached from the formation. I think they mav be "I knew there were several in would amount to a very heavy mortgage on the future of all a U.C.L.A. chapter, some of whose meetings in the -Young unctions around." Bandsman Cooley public.

of us the Ford Motor Co. and Shown pictures of some of Women's Christian Association coming for us. They are! They're WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. (JF) the White House today to go its employees alike." were attended by "about 50 per- diving: duck, everybody!" Accused by Girl over it with Mr.

Truman. The Byron Price. President Tru the demonstrators at the scene, Stout identified some of his student sons." She said the campus or The Japanese gun crews 'Company Security' President is withholding it from Donell Clyde (Spade) Cooley, Besides the proposal for what man's special investigator, today said that French policies are Stasscn Returns to Civilian Life- CHICAGO, Nov. 15. Navw Today's committee session ganization is known as the Four Freedoms Club.

Repeated questioning by publication until he finishes a 34, western dance band leader of opened fire, and a wild cacophony of gun dialogue went back and forth. Thump, went the chock as the bombs hit the wa it termed "company security, the Ford letter also proposed i 8623 Franklin was free on leading to the "economic dis will begin at 10 a.m. in the State Building. study of it. Price gave his Informal sum Beirne brought out that the or $1000 bail yesterday awaiting pre provision requiring the union memberment" of Germany, con Capt.

Harold Stassen re ter. The bulkheads shook. The liminary hearing next Wednes "to reimburse the company for Meeting to Protest The Council of Guilds and lin -trary to the aims of the Potsdam turned to civilian life todav mary to reporters as it became known that the United States day at 10 a.m. on a charge naked men lay flat on the filth-smeared planks. tremblinff any damage it may suffer by agreement.

with the announcement hrt ens yesterday announced that reason of violations of the pro of assault with intent to com mit criminal attack on 18-year Price told White House news would actively participate in and France have begun conversations here on France's pro a mass meeting against the Leg- vision prohibiting strikes and men, after a call on the Presi Captives Killed Lt. Col. Elvin Barr, executive slature committee investigat old Ruthie Jayne Reece, novelty other interferences with produc posal to strip Germany of con dent, that France had refused public and political affairs and would "endeavor to the liberal and progressive view ing the breakdown of law and singer in his organization, of tion." trol over her industrially rich of the 60th Coast Artillery on to agree to any plans of the con 946 S. Magnolia Ave. "The company agreed in 1941 Ruhr and Rhineland.

order during the film strike riots is to be held in the Hollywood trol council to keep Germany ganization issued a publication "Campus Currents," that she wrote for it and that her name appeared on one of the Issues as one of the editors. Miss Dolinsky declared that she did not know her name had been so usecL She later admitted she has a copy of the issue but said she had not looked at it. She admitted also that she had addressed one of the club meetings and that Averill Berman was another speaker. Berman is a radio commentator. Corregidor, stumbled up to Fowler from the well-deck.

The asserted offense was said to the union shop and checkoff "I think the Army has done a Legion Stadium Sunday at 8 as an economic um t. As a result, he said, critical conditions can to have taken place Monday provisions," said the Ford letter 'There's a hole knocked in good job under all the difficul point in the Republican party The former Governor of Min-i nesota, who has been mentioned as a possible Republican Presidential candidate, said he would1 p.m. night in Glendale, but Miss us purpose in so doing was the bulkheads down there." Barr be expected this winter with Rollin McNitt of the County ties. This isn't the fault of the Army at alL It's the fault of the Reece did not sign the complaint not only to give the union the starvation riots and disease a until Wednesday night. benefit of membership and finan said.

He had a wound in his side that ran from armpit to hip. "Between 30 and 40 ma-l distinct possibility. French." Central Democratic Committee was announced as chairman of the meeting with Municipal participate in the 1946 Congressional election cial security, but to eliminate a The wartime chief censor Commercial Air Service spent two months in the Ameri great deal of friction, dispute and downright industrial strife. Judge Stanley Moffatt and As can, French and Russian zones iou reanze me seriousness semblyman Albert Dekker to Hawaii Starts Today MOVE STARTED TO STOP of occupation surveying rela of perjury, don't you?" Field speakers. Experience Unhappy "The peaceful relations have SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

15 tions between the military gov VP) Pan American World Air ernment officials and the Ger RENTING OF DWELLINGS ways announced tonight that man population. not materialized. The experiment has been an unhappy one. The records show, for example, He made his formal report MAN-MADE 'BRAIN' BEING BUILT FOR UNIVERSITY Continued from First Tage several days ago and called at commercial air transport service to Hawaii, cut off when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, would be resumed tomorrow. 1 13 work stoppages since the by local experience to compe signing of that contract in 1941.

'During this period the cost tently administer the law." to the company of. maintaining the checkoff sj'stem has been Many Sign Telegram At the reading of the telegram Don't look now, but there's a mechanical brain on thef way. It cost $150,000. It will add, divide, subtract and' multiply, NYLON PRICES CUT, EFFECTIVE NOV. 20 huge.

Last year, for example, the company spent $2,814,078.36 several landlords In the audi LARGER PACKAGES MAY BE MAILED TO SOLDIERS ABROAD WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. () Larger and heavier packages now may be mailed to American troops outside the United States. The War Department said that beginning today packages up to 42 inches long or 72 inches in length and girth combined and weigh-' ing up to 11 pounds may be sent. Previous regulations set a limitation of 15 inches in length, 36 inches in length and girth combined and a maximum weight of five pounds.

It still will be necessary to have a specific request from a soldier overseas in order to send any package weighing more than eight ounces. Accused Murderer Held Without Bail John Thomas Honeycutt, 32-year-old mechanic accused by police of the slaying of his estranged wife, Florence, 37, in the Van Nuys home of her parents last Monday night, was arraigned on a murder charge the Dearborn (parent plant) ence rose with their own with drawals, some numbering more than 100 housing units each. of course, but scientists shudder at the thought of using it for meTely lengthy problems of of California, told about this dream wonder yesterday. It's being custom-built by the General Electric Co. and will be delivered and installed here late next year.

It's a little bulky In comparison to a portable typewriter or adding machine. In fact, it's nine feet wide and more than 300 feet long, with thousands of gears, shafts and electric gadgets. The tension was broken when area alone to collect these dues and fees and to pay more than 1000 union men in the company's plants who spent all or part of their time handling union They swarmed to the speaker's present a unified campaign td rectify rent, controls and restrictions. ,4 Group Votes to Form League' Approval of a plan to found local chapter of an organization! to be known as the League" was voted last night byj a majority of about 700 members of the Apartment. Hotel Motel Association of California, meeting at 2200 Seventh St.

The majority also approved a plan' to bombard Southern California Congressmen with let ters end radio speeches urging modification of Office of Prica Administration rent control rules. platform to sign the telegram. despite urging of Chairman Cul ler to keep order. 3'esterday before Municipal Judge Robert Clifton. He was WASHINGTON, Nov.

15. ()The O.P.A. today unveiled good news for the ladies a cut of at least 25 per cent in ceiling prices for n3'lon stockings, effective Nov. 20, in retail stores. Price Administrator Bowles said that by next year, when nylons are produced in volume, the new ceilings "will mean savings of millions of dollars to American women." 'From August, 1941, through E.

P. Conser, secretary-man ager of the apartment associa ordered held without bail pending a preliminary hearing next October, 1945, the company collected for the union in dues. arithmetic and algebra. Instead, in eight hours, it jam3 through the work which would take a mathematician 3000 hours to complete. It talks a language of differential equations and variables falling over variables.

Dean L. M. K. Boelter of the College of Engineering, Lo3 Angeles campus of the University tion, said that rental withdrawals would beein this morninz. a woman asked timidly, "Can it Wednesday.

initiation fees and special as be used to make out an income Kept. Dist. Atty. Don Avery sessments, a total of tax report?" 924.65. Last year, the union's filed the murder complaint against Honeycutt, who, police All petitions to the O.P.A.

offices for withdrawals, he said should be handled through the association's office in order to Dr. Boelter answered frankly. ncome through the checkoff "I'm afraid not" assert, has admitted the crime. system was $2,050,563.71.".