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RIGHTS a. a- i I PART I -GENERAL NEWS ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME LIBERTY UNDER THE LAW TRUE INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM DAILY, FIVE CENTS VOL. LXIV CC MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1945 Auto Crashes Secrets of '42 LA. Torture Filipino Beaufy Tells Fatal for 13 Here in Day Fourth Man Drops Dead After Three Killed in One Car Raid' Related One Official Report Says Planes Over City Never Were Identified Illustrated 'on Fog 3, Part I At last the veil of mystery surrounding events of the night of Feb. 25, 1942, in Los Angeles has been lifted.

It was on this night that anti-aircraft batteries opened fire, searchlights probed the sky and the populace believed it was witnessing the first Japanese air raid of the war on the Pacific Coast." Criminal No. 1 in Philippines Watches Lawyers Battle; Mother Describes Bayoneting MANILA, Oct. 29. OP Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, on Thirteen persons, including three women, died yesterday of injuries received in auto Now, nearly four years later, the, story is told in the official 4th Air Force history nearing completion at San mobile accidents, according trial for his life on w-ar criminal charges, sat grim faced and attentive today while a pretty Filipino woman testified that Japanese in his Philippines command shot her, bayo-, neted her infant daughter, and stabbed her nine times in bloody orgy in Manila last February.

1 1 it I I i. I Francisco headquarters. I to police. Olof H. Brinell, 49, of 3869 FIVE CHILDREN DIE IN BURNING HOME; The trial opened this morningr before a military commission of ANOTHER BABY BORN Lankershim stepped out of an automobile in which three companions were killed, gave his name to a witness and then dropped dead.

The car failed to 800,000 Army Film Strikers Delay Action for 48 Hours Work or Picketing to Resume Then, Conferees Decide Either back to work or back to the picket line at the end of a 48-hour period of grace That was the situation in the Hollywood film strike last night after conferences between leaders of opposing groups, a meeting of strikers and sympathizers in the Hollywood American Legion Stadium and long-distance calls between unionists and Eric Johnston, head of the film industry. At Johnston's request, the strikers agreed to extend the picketing armistice, which has been observed for 96 hours, until tomorrow night, to give the film leader an opportunity to consult with the film producers as to the settlement terms worked out with American Federation of Labor heads in Cincinnati. Called Last Delay Speakers at the Hollywood mass meeting said that the delay would be the last that would be granted and that if full settlement is not announced tomorrow night they will resume picketing on a large scale. The strikers charged that the Hollywood producers had "refused to "honor the settlement of the motion picture strike agreed to in Cincinnati by their representative's, Eric JohnsKm and Donald and de make a turn on Topanga Canyon Road, one-half mile south of five U.S. generals with an eC change of legal fencing.

Defense-counsel, headed by Col. Harry E. Clarke, consistently wa overruled in 4ts effort to block the trial of Japan's No. 1 war lord in the Philippines. Bloodlust Story Told The real drama started in mid- Battles Reds in China Civil War CHUNGKING, Oct.

28. U.R)- It is certain, according to this official report, there were unidentified planes over the city that night, but positive and final identification never has been made and the final chapter of the incident may lie in the files cf Japanese intelligence records of that period. Compiled from hitherto secret and confidential documents and testimony, the history gives the first official account of what was expected from the' Japs by the military during the tense weeks immediately following Pearl Harbor. Services Warned Both the Army and Navy had ample advance warning that the Japanese were planning operations against the West Coast and the entire coastal region was on nearly continuous alert for the morning when the prosecution called Patricinia Abad, 26, beau tiful Filipino with an arm in. a HAILEYBURY (Ont.) Oct 28.

(IP) Five children of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Harquard burned to death in their home 20 miles from here last night, approximately one hour before Mrs. Harquard gave birth to her seventh baby. The blaze started when Harquard attempted to light a fire in a stove before proceeding to the nearest telephone nine miles away to summon a doctor.

An explosion resulted and within five minutes the wooden dwelling was a mass of flames. Their five children, ranging in age from 1 to 6 years, perished. Severely burned, Harquard was driven to Hailey-bury for treatment while his wife went on foot to. the nearest house, half a mile away. There her seventh child was born.

One child died in infancy. Vanowen and 'crashed over a soft shoulder Into a eucalyptus tree. Police said the other dead were Clarence Thomas, 65, transient; Marine Maj. Oliver E. Rob-inett, believed to be stationed at Camp Pendleton, and Roger Denny, a screen writer of 5836 Cleon Ave.

The bodies were taken to Praisewater Funeral Home, Van Nuys. Acts to Save Three The presence of mind and quick action of a taxicab driver who jumped aboard and stopped jbl freight train after an accident was credited by officers with the probable saving of lives of three sling. She recounted a tale of savagery and bloodlust of four Japanese sailors who were part, of the Manila defense com mand. (n Wirephoto YAMASHITA ON TRIAL Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, right, stands with defense counsel, Col.

Harry Clarke. He went to trial yesterday in Manila as a war criminal. Yamashita wore banks of rib bons on his gray green open-colr lared shirt as the tral opened, -n 10 weeks after Dec. 7, 1941. Landings were anticipated at Mrs.

Abad, on the verge of Seattle and other Pacific Coast tears, said the four Japanese ran amok more than an hour in, cities. Rumors were rampant that the Nips planned to bomb Communist sources reported today that an undeclared civil war is raging in at least 11 Provinces of North China and said the Chinese Central government has concentrated troops, in the area to wipe out Communist forces. One of the major centers of fighting, the Communists said, is in the rich agricultural Province of Shansi, which borders Inner Mongolia to the north. Government sources, backing up the reports of large-scale fighting, said 15,000 government troops were killed in one two-week battle alone when Communist; troops captured the transportation town of Chang-chih in Southeastern Shansi. Rail Junction Attacked Another 50,000 Communist troops are attacking the Tatung Navy Tests 'Electronic-Brain7 Robots crash victims.

the cities first on various dates, the Philippine Red Cross Building where 100 women and children had taken refuge. She said then perhaps attempt a landing The accident occurred when with assistance of some Japanese-Americans. One Japanese informant here an automobile driven by Aurben Copeland, 37, of 202 E. Cypress Glendale, struck a car of a mind can drive the defense," it she was shot through the right elbow and bayoneted nine times through the body while she cowered behind a medicine cabinet. Three times the bayonet reported to 11th Naval District said in a statement.

The Navy said it already has Southern Pacific freight train at Mission Road and Aliso St. developed three pilotless instru about midnight. Train crew members were unaware of the crash, which oc Rain Falls Here; More Predicted Illustrated en Pag 3, Part I WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. (U.R) The Navy revealed tonight that it is conducting research on pi-lotless aerial missiles whose "electronic brains" will guide them to a target at supersonic speeds of more than 700 miles an hour.

It said thai, research in naval curred at the eighth car from Headquarters that Japanese families inferred from a short-wave radio broadcast from Japan that the Coast would be bombed Feb. 18. Shelling of the Barnsdall Oil Co. installations near Santa Barbara by a Jap submarine which surfaced off the coast at Elwood occurred the night before the famed "Battle of Los ments of destruction called Glomb, Gorgon and Gargoyle. Glomb is a 4000-pound glider bomb which can be towed by a fighter plane and directed into a target through radio control and television.

The Gorgon is a the engine, and the smashed au rail junction in North Shansi clared that the producers "have repudiated their newly elected head." -Terms of the settlement, as tomobile was being dragged by the train when William H. Porter, cab driver, of 451 Rustic Drive, boarded the train and Slow sprinkles of rain swept against bitterly, defending gov ernment forces, according to leisurely across metropolitan Los aviation will continue in peace jet-propelled missile which can be carried by a bomber and beamed against an enemy plane understood by the strikers, were immediate reinstatement of Angeles last night, reports from widespread sectors indicating passed through her body and wounded her 10-month-old daughter, whom" she was clutching, she testified. The infant died. Fifty Slaughtered More than 50 women ahi children were slaughtered by the Japanese, she told the commission. Long befpre the court opened at 8 a.m.

(4 p.m. Sunday, P.S.T.) soldiers and officers alike vied with Filipinos for a chance at the few seats allotted the public It was first come, first seated. There was no favoritism. Military police carefully examined credentials ofN everyone entering the grounds of the commissioner's residence, where the told the engineer of the acci-j dent. i Driver Killed i Copeland was killed almost in- i Etantly.

Passengers were his! that the light showers began in San Fernando Valley and moved time with other experiments in radically new types of piloted planes, jet propulsion and radar. "Man will be too slow for combat of the future, but man's strikers a of March 12, with re-establishment of their union contracts and removal of replacements, and settlement of all jurisdictional questions southward. Up to shortly before midnight Pasadena and other points ad through negotiation for SO days, with unsettled ouestions to be jacent to the city on the east resolved by a committee of the remained dry. The United States Weather Bureau predicted intermittent wife, Alice. 30, who received internal injuries': Miss Evelyn Powers, 21, of 120 E.

Cypress Glendale, who received a probable fractured skull, and Sgt. William C. Latimer, 23, of Camp Cooke, who was cut and bruised. The engineer of the train was Harry B. Pickett of -5317 Black-well St.

American Federation of Labor executive council. showers, more than usual windi- trial is in progress. Unions Held Ready In a statement issued after Accused Seems Disinterested Yamashita sat with the same disinterested expression as he the mass meeting last night, the strike strategy committee said that the unions are ready to abide by the terms of this Mrs. Gladys M. Meyers, 45, of by radio control or by its own automatic target-seeking device.

The Gargoyle, also jet-propelled, carries a 1000-pound armor-piercing bomb designed chiefly for use against ships. Tests Successful As early as 1940, successful demonstrations of pilotless planes had been made with a torpedoplane -which was controlled by radio and directed by television from a point 10 miles distant. The "ghost" plane's torpedo was sent squarely through the center of a maneuvering destroyer. "The pilotless aircraft of the future, controlled by electronics, will come electronically on its target," the Navy said. "Electronic brains will guide the counter-missile with precision.

Out of research and development progranis will come airborne radars which can initiate defense, and automatic circuitry which can instantly release the airborne counter-missile." ness and general cloudiness today and tomorrow. Slightly lower temperatures also were forecast. Storm warnings for small craft were ordered early last night from Pt. Conception to Newport Beach, with southerly winds forecast up to 25 miles an hour 1518 Shirley El Monte, was wore when ne signed tormai killed at Shirley Ave. and Valley Blvd.

when she jumped back- Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, commander of the 2nd War Zone and governor of Shansi. The Central News Agency charged that Communist forces in Honan Province were attempting to break up communications there by destroying dikes on the Yellow River, resulting in floods which have left Chinese homeless. The Communist report that fighting between central government and Communist forces had reached proportions of civil war in 11 provinces of North, East and Central, China was made at a press conference for foreign newspapermen. Vital Transport Lines Prize Recent dispatches have described clashes in Shansi, Sui-yuan, Honan, Hopel, Shantung and Jehol provinces, mainly along vital rail lines which central government troops are attempting to open up to a free flow of commercial traffic. Negotiations are under way in Chungking to settle the points at issue where government control in the north ends ahd Communist control beginsp-but so far no agreement has been announced.

A government statement Saturday said that the government was prepared to concede the status quo of Com The strategv committee said BRITISH JET PLANE CAN GO 540 M.P.H. LONDON, Oct. 28. (JP) Britain's standard R.A.F. Vampire, a jet-propelled fighter, has a normal top speed of 540 miles an hour, the highest j-et claimed for any operational fighting plane, it was officially announced today.

This speed can be maintained by a fully equipped and loaded plane for "long periods of level flight," the announcement said, adding that higher speeds have been obtained experimentally. The twin-tailed Vampire is powered by a De Haviland Goblin turbo-jet engine. Torn to Page 2, Column 7 that it acceded to the request for bv this morning. Hornblow Will surrender papers at Baguio Sept. 3.

Attorneys quickly plunged into legal details while a beaming interpreter carried on a running undertone of comment for Yamashita. The deflated conqueror of Singapore nodded -from time to time. A military commission of five U.S. generals will write a new chapter in international law if it holds him responsible for the reign of terror which his imperial troops spread through the Philippines. It is also likely that any precedent set here will be used Streetcar Tilts Over; 16 Injured Illustrated on Tag 3, Part I additional time "only to demonstrate that the responsibility for any further picketing must fall squarely upon the producers." The strike started almost eight months ago as a result of a jurisdictional dispute over the selection of a bargaining agency for 77 set designers.

Approximately 7000 workers are out on strike and the cost to the film employees was estimated to Angeles." General's Report As to the excitement in Los Angeles on the night in question, Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, commanding "general of 4th Army and the Western Defense Command at that time, made on the basis of reports submitted to his headquarters, declared: "It has been definitely ascertained that the blackout and antiaircraft firing in the Los Angeles area on the morning of Feb. 25, 1942, were caused by the presence of from one to five unidentified airplanes.

While it is possible that these airplanes were launched from Japanese submarines, it is more likely that they were civilian or commercial planes operated by unauthorized pilots." Explanation Given No American -fighter or bomber planes took to the air to intercept the strange planes during the night. The explanation given by Gen. DeWitt to Maj. Gen. A.

D. Surles of the War Department, Washington, a few days later was as follows: "The reason was that we didn't have much pursuit we had 15 planes in three different places a total of 45. If that was a reconnnaissance preceding a carrier we did not want to have our pursuit in the air, half out of gas when the attack came in. The pursuit was alerted, the pilots were in their planes, their engines were warm and their propellers turning all ready to take off to intercept any attack that would possibly have followed- the reconnaissance. The bombers were alerted, warmed up, ready to go in search for the carrier if the attack should materialize.

That's why no planes were sent Turn to rage 2, Column 4 Wed Heiress amount to $20,000,000 in wages. VICTIMS' KIN CHARGED FOR NAZI EXECUTIONS A southbound car of the Los Angeles Transit Lines failed to make a turn in the tracks on Hooper Ave. at 20th St. shortly after noon yesterday, tilted over and skidded to rest on its right side in the center of the by defense and prosecution when munist forces except along rail Bay Machinists to Strike Today SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.

(P)Some 13,000 C.I.O. and A.F.L. machinists in San Fran intersection. BY DANIEL, DE LUCE BERLIN, Oct. 28.

(Hitler's lines. Lenora Morris Arthur Hornblow producer at Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer Studio, will marry Lenora Morris, the former Bubbles Schinasi, tobacco heiress, in New York late this week, 'friends of the couple in the film colony here disclosed yesterday. The bride-to-be, who once was the wife of Actor Wayne Morris, already has gone east with her son, Michael Morris. Hornblow is expected to follow tomorrow morning. Mrs.

Schinasi, mother of Mrs. Morris, will announce the wedding plans at the Waldorf-Astoria within the next two Of the passengers aboard the courts sent the bills for behead trolley, 16 were injured, none se ings to the victims' families, it Stettinius Mending the leaders of Nazi Germany-Japan's Axis partner in international crime are tried next month at Nuernberg. In modern military history the commander always has escaped responsibility for the crimes of his men. The legal loophole has been the failure to show that the commander directly ordered the riously. Crowds which collected was disclosed today.

Moreover, cisco and Oakland today made final plans to strike tomorrow for a 30 per cent wage increase. helped them leave the car through windows, and ambu After Operation New York Ncw NEW YORK, Oct. 28. Ed lances took them to Georgia Sfeet Receiving Hospital. Such action would keep an estimated 80,000 workers idle in the ghoulish bill collectors kept track of every penny.

Meticulously kept records recovered from the once-dreaded people's court in Berlin show that the assessment for jailing, sessed $246 for two months bed and board while Josef lingered in Moabit and other prisons, $120 for the death judgment and $24 for its publication. Defense Fees Low The scene of the trial was shifted to an outlying town, and for transporting the judge, two prosecutors, two justice of ministry officials, a bailiff, two Elite Guard officers and a major general of the armv the family was billed for Fees for defense attorney were kept comparatively cheap $32.64. The motorman on the trollev ward R. Stettinius who un shipyards and shops should all crafts observe the picket lines. was Alvin Alexander, 27, of 1134 derwent a gallstone operation Friday at the Columbia Presby days, it was learned.

judging, beheading and burying an "average German" charged with treason was $1601.12. terian Medical Center, today was reported as "progressing nicely." American representative on E. 45th and the conductor was Sam J. Smith, 45, of 1420 E. 20th St Smith said that he realized what was happening only when he lost his balance as the car turned to its side.

Hornblow is 47 and Mrs. Morris is 25. He formerly was married to Myrna Loy. Chile President Arrives on Coast OAKLAND, Oct. 28.

(IP) The self-styled "great German the United Nations Preparatory Reich" squeezed the helpless Commission, he flew here from families of the executed for ev An emergency truck and a re London for the operation. ery conceivable cost incurred by pair car righted the trolley President Juan Antonio Rios Morales of Chile arrived here today and made readyfor his Britain Launches Anti-Jive Drive Chleo Tribunt PrM Servlct LONDON, Oct. 28. Now that the American G.I.'s who brought weird dances to Britain are going home, ballrooms in this country have embarked on an anti-jiving and anti-jitterbugging campaign. Couples who engage in such energetic dances are warned to cease them, and they will be barred from the ballrooms if they ignore the first notice." while curious throngs looked on SMOKE AT CRATER LAKE MAYBE VOLCANO REBIRTH the state.

Charges Listed A bill submitted in the case of inspection of bay area naval and FEATURES INDEX Meddling In-Laws Attacked in Drive to Save Marriages military installations, scheduled for Tuesday. Josef Haidinger, 44, who was a friend's marriage had been broken up by a bothersome mother-in-law. LONDON, Oct. 28. (U.R) Aj campaign to prevent mothers-in-law from meddling in British marriages is under way in England today, backed by the Society for the Suppression of Family Interference.

The society hopes to obtain PORTLAND (Or.) Oct. 28. (IP) Smoke arising from the waters of Crater Lake has geologists speculating and timorous Ore-gonians wondering if they're about to be blown up by a new volcano. The mysterious smoke has been seen four, times within two months. Witnesses whom E.

P. Ieavitt, superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, considers thoroughly reliable say dust- legislation to bring the marriage Nuns From Nagasaki Arrive in Seattle SEATTLE, Oct. 28. (P) Eighteen Roman Catholic nuns, three of whom were imprisoned on the outskirts of Nagasaki when the atom bomb struck, arrived here today aboard the Dutch motorship Klipfontein. The society, through its secretary, Wilfred Hodgkinson of Nottingham, charges "interfer to 2000 feet high.

There is no source of fire within the six-mile wide crater. Geologists, mindful of "where there is smoke" are speculating whether the fire may be resumption of volcanic flames quiescent since before the birth of Christ. Dr. John Eliot Allen, chief State geologist, says such a phenomenon might be caused by a tremendous subterranean burp, forcing a huce bubble of gas through the 2000-foot deep water. Eyewitnesses' accounts of the cloud, rising a thousand feet high and billowing out like a mushroom, "are the description of a typical volcanic cloud," Allen said.

"Quite possibly there is partner and his or her parents before a matrimonial advisory court when the injured party requests such action if there has been desertion because of "possessive mollycoddling in-laws." He said the society favors issuance of certifications of com earning $64 a month as a railroad blacksmith when the Gestapo arrested him in March, 1942, centained these items: To the official executioner for cutting off Haidinger's head $48. Funeral and burial $94.40. Included in this fee was $8 "overtime" because the burial was a secret night interment, $4 for the rent of the coffin which was kept for continual use by the graveyard, and 16 cents for use of the coffin pillow. Actual burial was quite economical. The Nazis provided no shroud and tumbled the corpses naked into the grave.

For the imprisonment and trial the costs skyrocketed. The Haidinger family was as MacArrhur Restores Christian Teachings Gen MacArthur ordered Christian instruction reinstated at St. Paul University In Japan and ordered other former Christian colleges investigated. See Page 7. Part I.

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Part WOMEN. Page 5, Part IL colored clouds seem to emanate ing in-laws" with responsibility for at least 3000 divorces annually in Britain. British Say Hitler 'Probably Dead' Chlcaso Trlbun PreM Brvlc LONDON, Oct. 29. The Brit-ish Cabinet has decided that Adolf Hitler is "probably dead." basing its verdict on the findings of a joint intelligence committee of the British chiefs of staff after exhaustive inquiries, the Daily Express paid today.

The Express said the Cabinet will publish the intelligence re. port in a few days. petency to those about to "The campaign will attempt to minimize parental domina marry. from the surface of the lake. They mount in an enormous column, then slowly dissipate as they hit the winds above the crater's rim.

The famed scenic lake, which lies in the crater of an extinct New York Streetcars to Give Way to Busses NEW YORK, Oct. 28. (ZD-Mayor F. H. LaGuardia said today in his weekly broadcast that all streetcars in Manhattan and the Bronx would be replaced by busses by' the end of 1946.

tion and thereby save many "You have to prove your knowledge of the highway code to obtain a driver's license," he marriages," Hodgkinson said. This 50-year-old "happily married' family man said the so said. "Why not some sort of volcano, is protected by cliffs 500 ivolcanic activity down, there." ciety was formed in 1943 after test for marriage licenses?".