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THE WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy, little wanner tonight with drizzles. a showers and cooler. 63rd YEAR. No. 22 PIQUA, OHIO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS INAMO Japs Toil Before Delighted Audience i Not long ago the Jap soldiers in the foreground were the arrogant rulers of Singapore.

Now prisoners of war, they shovel dirt while an audience of Chinese boys and girls watches with approval. Yamashita in End War BY WILLIAM C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent Manila, Nov. 12, (U.P.)--Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, caught beneath a mountain of evidence linking him with the mass murder of thousands of Filipinos, appealed to the Philippines supreme court today to halt his war crimes trial and restore him to the status of a military prisoner.

Yamashita's defense counsel filed the appeal before his trial was resumed this morning, in an llth hour move to save him from execution for the crimes committed against the Filipino people by his Japanese soldiery. There was no immediate indication as to how long the commonwealth's highest court take to act on the petition, which asked for. a writ of habeas corpus and a writ of prohibition to halt the trial. If the appeal is rejected, Yamashita's last recourse would be to the Supreme Court of the United States. Maj.

Robert Kerr, Chief of the prosecution staff, announced he would wind up his case Friday afternoon. The supreme court petition was based on five defense claims: 1--That the indictment does not charge Yamashita with violating the articles of war. 2--That the military commission trying him has no jurisdiction because there is. no -martial law ano hence no ''military government in the Philippines. 3--Gen.

Douglas MacArthur ha: ruled that war criminals are to be tried in Japan or in occupied territory. (The Philippines are not occupied territory.) 4--The letter of authority. under which the trial is being conducted (Concluded on Page Five! HEAD TOWARD HOME Shanghai, Nov. 12. (UP)-More than army and navy officers and enlisted men were headed for the United States today aboard the USS Hocking after more than two years service in the Far East.

It was the first large scale shipment of army men from the China theater. The group included 1,100 enlisted soldiers and 500 officers. FIGHTING MARS ARMISTICE DAY By United Press The United States observed its first peace time armistice day day since 1941 with Sunday services throughout the nation and the world for the dead of both World Wars. Observance in a world at peace of the 27th anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War was marked by fighting in Indo-China, Java and Manchuria. Rain dampened outdoor ceremonies planned for New York, but religious services held throughout the city.

In Washington, President Truman, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Canadian Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King interrupted discussions on the atomic (Concluded on Page five) DOOLITTLE URGES LEADERSHIP Louisville, Nov. 12, (U.R)--Lt. Gen.

James H. Doolittle, today had said America must assume leadership in a political and diplomatic effort to maintain world peace, in a talk prepared for delivery as part of Louisville's Armistice Day observance. Doolittle. who led the first bombing raid on Tokyo, spoke here yesterday. He said this nation also "must be able to enforce our will for peace upon any nation that doesn't want peace." "We merely have to consider the full destructive capacity of an improper use of atomic energy to come to the realization that we could not survive another long war," Doolittle said.

BY GWEN MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Nov. top official of the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration appealed to the allies today to stop "stalling" and come to grips with the desperate problem posed by Europe's displaced persons. Edward Rhatigan, assistant director of UNRRA's 135 displaced persons camps in Germany, said the task of finding homes for homeless refugees could not wait six or nine months for the United Nations organization to start operating. "The problem must be grappled with now," he said. "People deteriorate fast." His appeal carne as chairman Sol Bloom, N.

of the House Foreign Affairs committee prepared to introduce legislation to give UNRRA its second U. S. contribution of $1,350,000,000. His committee will begin hearings Wednesday. ILDIERS LEAVE IT Southampton, Nov.

12. (UP)-Four hundred protesting officers and warrant officers of the Royal Australian and New Zealand air forces waited today for "decent ac- comodations" to carry them home. The men walked off the troopship Orion Sunday in protest to what they described as "utterly impossible" overcrowded conditions. The ship sailed without them. "We will stay in this country until we are offered decent accom- odation," one officer said.

"We will go on refusing to be herded like cattle. When we came over to fight for the mother country everybody made a fuss over us. Now no- body seems to care how we get! home." Bloom said he was confident this would be the last request for UNRR A The U. S. already has paid UNRRA $850,000,000 of its first $1,350,000,000 pledge.

A house-approved bill to provide the remain(Concluded on Page Nine) SERVATION New York, Nov. 12, (U.R--Hugh Baillie, president of United Press returned to New York yesterday after a two-months tour of the Pacific 7, here he witnessed preparations for the undeclared civil war now underway in China. Baillie said in an interview upon his arrival at LaGuardia airport from San Francisco that he had seen United States forces preparing to move Chinese Nationalist troops northward and in Shanghai had seen numerous machine gun emplacements. He was told, he said, there were 400,000 Communist troops in the Shanghai area but "I never saw one of them myself." His trip was high-lighted by exclusive interviews with Gen. Douglas (Concluded on Page Two) Fumes Nearly Fefol i To Ohio Mem, Women Cincinnati.

Nov. 12. i William Lindeman, 49, Cincinnati, and his mother-in-law. Mrs. Sarah Bell, 86, of Clarksville, today were recovering from the effects of carbon-monoxide fumes.

Police said the timely return home of Mrs. Mary Lindeman, wife and daughter of the victims, probably saved them from death. The fumes came from a furnace flue. SENATOR'S DEATH CAUSES A DILEMMA Boise, Nov. 12.

(UP)--The death of Sen. John Thomas left Gov. Charles C. Gosset confronted with a ploitical dilemma today. Thomas, Idaho's senior senator, died Saturday in Washington after a stroke.

Thomas was a Republican. The question facing Gossett, a Democrat, was whether he should resign and have himself appointed by Lt. Gov. Arnold Williams to succeed Thomas, allowing Williams to become governor, or name a dark horse. Gossett's decision was expected to have far-reaching affect on the conservative element of the Democratic party.

For the conservatives have no love for Glen H. Taylor, Democrat, now the state's senior senator. Indonesians Using Stolen 5 Against BY JOHN S. BOWER United Press Staff CorrespOTident Batavia, Nov. 12.

(UF) -Fanatical Indonesians were reporting: turning stolen Japanese tanks and guns against the British in the East Java naval base of Soerabaja today. Dutch sources said native warriors were massing in the interior for a "holy war" against the Allies. (Melbourne radio said the Nationalists issued a radio appeal "to Russia and Australia to intervene and bring to an end" what was described as "British and Dutch Official information reaching Batavia indicated that most of Soerabaja was held firmly by the British 5th Indian Division after two days of fierce sstreet fighting, although the Indonesians still were resisting strongly. BAP planes attacked Nationalist-held sections of the city for the second time yesterday afternoon, scoring direct hits on a number of buildings where the Extremists were entrenched. (An Australian broadcast said the Javanese situation "has developed into a real war with hundreds of Indonesians killed while other Indonesian Nationalists stili refused to- obey 'the British call for British army headquarters revealed that Maj.

Gen. Noboru Yamamoto, chief of staff of the Japanese 16th army in Java, had been arrested, presumably in connection with the surrender of Japanese arms to the Indonesians. Lt. Gen. Naganao and Maj.

Gen. Nakamura, the two ranking Japanese commanders in Java before the surrender, now are awaiting trial in Singapore for giving up (Concluded, on Page Five) NOTED COMPOSER DIES ON SUNDAY BY JACK GAVER United Press Staff Correspondent New York, Nov. 12. (UP)--The new production of "Show Boat" which will open at the Ziegfeld theater Jan. 5 will be more than a commercial venture.

It will be a memorial to Jerome Kern, composer of this best-loved of all American musical shows, who died yesterday. Appropriately enough, what probably was Kern's last composition will be used in the production a new song for the finale. The 60-year-old Kern, one of the nation's top melody-creators for more than 30 years, died at Doctors hospital seven days after he collapsed while walking on Park Avenue. He had suffered a cere- Jap Prosecutor Washington hears that Joseph D. Keenan, above, an assistant Attorney General in early days of the New Deal, has been chosen to prosecute Jap war criminals.

Duties of the job correspond to those being performed in Europe by Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson. ATTLEE BOMB PLAN DEBATED ON SUNDAY BY MERRIMAN SMITH Washington, Nov. 12, (U.R) The British government wants better evidence of Soviet cooperation with America and Britain before giving Russia access to atomic bomb secrets, a high authority reported today as the three-power atomic energy conference continued here. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, according to this source, has proposed an international pool of war secrets, including the atomic bomb, with admission limited to those who give full cooperation to the United Nations organization and also put their own secret weapons into the world pool.

President Truman, Attlee and Canadian Prime Minister W. L. (Concluded on Page Four) MOTHER, DAUGHTER HELD FOB MURDER (Concluded on Pane Eight) 2,493 TROOPS TO ARRIVE ON MONDAY Boston, Nov. 12, (U.R)--Three transports with 2,493 veterans of the European theatre dock here today. The Hood Victory has 1,958 passengers.

There are 512 veterans aboard the Bernard Carter which sailed from Marseille with members of the 257th Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company, lllth Evacuation hospital and 836th Medical Collecting Company. Twenty-three miscellaneous army personnel are aboard the John Mitchell which sailed from Napks, Italy, Logan, Nov. 12. (UP)--Mrs. Ellen Lowery, 50, and her daughter, Mrs.

Mary Walton, 29, were held today for questioning in connection with the slaying of Marion Lowery, 71, a week ago. The two women live about three miles from where Lowery, their husband and father, was found dead Nov. 4 in his log cabin home. The body was found by his son, Willard, 26. A piece of stovewood was near the body.

Lowery had been dead several days when his body was discovered. Sheriff Floyd Duffy said that the two women had been under unrest since the day after the killing was reported. By GEORGE WANG United Press Staff Correspondent Chungking, Nov. 1Z, (U.R)--Gen- eralissimo Chiang; Kai-shek appealed to Russia today for permission to fly his armies into Manchuria and avert a civil war with the Chinese Communists massed in the northern port cities and along the great wall of China. Dispatches from the north said Chiang's field commanders had abandoned all thought of entering Manchuria by sea and were staking their hopes for peace on the conferences now hi progress with Red Army commanders in the Manchurian capital of Changchun.

Upwards of 1,000,000 Communists and an even greater number of Nationalist troops were poised along the great wall. There was grave danger that the threatened civil war might explode at any moment. Communist spokesmen asserted three already had been a number of stiff border clashes, particularly near the port of Shanhaikwan, eastern gate to Manchuria. They charged that more than 3,000 "secret agents of the Chinese-American secret service" had been sent to the border with American equipment to aid the Nationalists. (The dispatch did not make clear whether any Americans were alleged to be among the "secret The Chungking government said 300 of its representatives were conferring with the Russians in Changchun in an effort to obtain permission for the landing of Nationalist troops transports on Soviet-held airfields in Manchuria.

(Concluded on Page Five) MAKIZAWA, NAKANO ARE FOUND GUILTY Taihoku, Formosa, Nov. 6. (UP) --A Japanese military court convicted Major Yoshio Makizawa and Capt. Yoshio Nakano today on charges of torturing two American fliers--Ens. Edwin J.

Waraseck and Lt. Ted Hart (sometowns unlisted). The court recommended 10-month prison terms for each defendant. It was believed to be the first case in which the Japanese have tried their own war criminals. The Japanese Army judiciary department that that when Allied investigators arrive it would turn over evidence in five similar cases.

Neither defendant, under Japanese law for wartime cases, a permitted to have counsel. Makizawa admitted torturing Waraseck on Oct. 19, 1944 because the ensign refused "to give information about a naval task force." Pencils were interlocked between Maraseck's fingers and Makizawa ordered a soldier to step on his Court Takes Children From Mother (NBA Telephoto) Mrs. Mabel Murray snarls at lier former iinsbanfl, M. Murray, back to camera, as she comforts their daughter, Linda Sue, 7, in a Los Angeles courtroom.

The dramatic scene above occurred after the father had been awarded custody of Linda Sue and two other children, 1 COMMODORE KEIFER. 5 OTHERS DIE IN CRASH (Concluded on Page Two) COLUMBUS DOGS GOING STRONG Secret Revealed Washington, Nov. 12 (UP)--Columnist Drew Pearson said in his syndicated column today that a secret Roosevelt-Churchill agreement of more than a year ago set forth the decision to cismaml? German industry and convert the Reich into largely an agricultural nation. Athens, Nav. 12, (U.R)--Dogs owned by Dr.

Charles E. Paul of Columbus took the first r.vo places in the open all-age field trials staged by the Athens County Field Cl here yesterday, and another Columbia dog finished third. Dr. Paul's beau's Peerless Freckles wz.s the winner, followed by his dam, of Maryland. Third place winner was Rex.

Village Jack, by Johr. Murphy. Beau's Peer! less Freckles also won first place at Canton two weeks ago and at i last week. PROBE COLLAPSE OF BLEACHERS Fire Loss $80,000 Cleveland, Nov. 12.

(UP)--Damage estimated at nearly 880,000 resulting from the three-alarm fire in the Hower-Langton block in the East 105th street-Euclid Avenue district here yesterday was under consideration for necessary repairs, property owners said today, Bbod Donors Fail To Save Ohio Girl 'Voiiimbus, Nov. 12. given by donors om more than SO volunteer; fa led to save the life of sr old Norma Potts, victim of a hit- and-run driver. The child suffered a skull fracture, and was unconscious for eight days after she was struck Nov. 1.

She this morning. The driver of the cat not been found Cleveland, Nov. building inspectors today began investigating the collapse of temporary bleachers at the Cleveland Rams-Green Bay professional football game here yesterday, in which the 30-tier wooden stands at Spectators seated in section 8 of theh 30-tier wooden stands at League Park charged that "too many tickets were sold," and the stands overloaded as a result. "The seats were very insecure," id Philip Lewis, 47, of Cleveland, left leg was injured. "The section folded up like an acordion and there were plenty of people with $3.60 seats who couldn't get ip Several others who were Injured also that the stands were over- Beacon, N.

Y. (UP)--Three local volunteers early today found the bodies of six Navy men and officers and the wreckage of their light bomber which crashed into the I'og- ghrouded Fishkill mountains about two and one-half miles east of here yesterday. Commodore Dixie Kiefer, veteran Pacific air commander, was among those 'killed in the crash, the Navy announced at New York. Keifer was commander of the Carrier heroine of the motion picture "Fighting Lady." Identification of the other victims was withheld by the Navy. Naval officials from the Eastern Sea Frontier Command, conducted a search by state police, volunteers, Navy men from Quonset, R.

and Army men from nearby West Point and Stewart field. The men who found the wreck- FIRE FAILS TO INTERRUPT WORK age, Charles Wood, John Brown and John Brown, all of Beacon, reported hearing shots and seeing flares Just before finding the plane. Five of the Navy men had been hurled from the plane, while the sixth was pinned beneath It, they said. The plane was mlslsng on a flight from. Caldwell, N.

to Quonset. A short time after the plane took off, several persons were reported they saw a low-flying plane through a heavy fog, and a few minutea later heard an explosion in tha mountains. CANADIAN LABOR TO BACK STRIKERS Clyde, Nov. 12, All of Clyde Porcelain Steel Company's 650 employes were at work today despite a fire which caused an estimated $1,000,000 worth of damage when It destroyed three of the plant's buildings Sunday afternoon. Cause of the fire is still unknown, although it is believed to hare started near the baking ovens.

Firefighting equipment was brought in from Fremont, Clyde, Norwalk, Tiffin, Green Springs, Belierae, Vickery. and Sandusky. Although the blaze swept through the main administrative building, plant manager R. C. Douglas said there would be no interruption in work and that contractors would start planning a complete rebuilding program today.

By United Press Labor unions throughout Canada were called upon to stage a one- i day demonstration walkout today I in support of striking workers at the Ford Motor Company's Windsor, plant. Telegrams asking for a 24-hour "sympathy strike" were sent to Canadian unions yesterday by Roy England, president of Local 200 United Automobile Workers (CIO), whose 10,000 members have been on i strike for two months over demands for a closed shop and check of union I dues. They were joined last week lap 10,000 additional Windsor acting in sympathy. The Canadian Seamen's Union promptly announced it would com(Concluded on Page Five) WAGE INCREASES FOR THOUSANDS BALKAN PEOPLES LOSE ENTHUSIASM Tito Stores Victory Belrradr. Nov.

11. 'UP'--Local return- on Yugr. first postwar tor.i'h 1 gave Marshal Tito's national front coalition a victory 7 Troop Ships Due New York, Nov. 12. (UP)--Seven ships were scheduled to dock today I with 5,584 members of the U.

S. armed forces, Cirvrmnati. Nov. 12, So- virr, occupation of Bulgaria last year changed that country from pro-Russian to bitterly anti-Communist overnigh'. according to veteran European correspondent Chas.

Lanius in a. broadcast here last night. Laniu? expressed belief that, all Balkan peoples are a good deal less enthusiastic about the Russians than they were a year before the Red Army drove out the Germans. Ke said that Bulgaria has been saddled with a Russian-controlled Communistic government which imposed a reisn of terror. Atlantic City.

N. Nov. 12, (U.R)-- i Wage increases for 7.000 miscel- laneous operations workers in automatic machine production plants of the American Glass Industry were announced today at the union-management wage conference. Harry H. Cook, Toledo.

International President of the Americar Glass Workers Union (AFL), saic agreement was reached for mini' I mum hourly wares of "'2 c-ent-s fol male and foi a The new rst.e 3 10 hourly increase for and from. 8 to 10 cents hourly increase for jmen in the plants affected. Conference Progresses Washington, Nov. 12. (UP--A committee of the Labor-Manage- i ment Conference tentatively has 1 agreed on a plan designed to lessen and perhaps eliminate the hundreds of strikes over union recog- 1 ration, it was learned today.

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