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SKBVIOB Temperature t-ocixl temperature at 7 a. 26; at 1 p. 38. Reading) Sunrise, sunset, 4:24. FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1945 Colombian Is Made Chairman Of U.N.O, Group BY R.

IT. SHACKFORD London, Nov. preparatory commission of the United Nations organization today elected Colombian Delegate Eduardo Zuleta Angel as permanent chairman. Zuleta, who Is Colombian ambassador to Peru, was nominated by the Netherlands and seconded by Czechoslovakia and Chile. There wore no other nominations and he was declared elected by acclamation.

His election was a complete reversal of earllei plans to elect a representative of a small European nation and resulted from a weekend of lobbying among delegates, particularly by the Latin-American group. Ukrainian Foreign Commissar Demltrl Manuiisky and Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak were elected vice- chairmen. The commission adopted the agenda and rules of procedure proposed by the executive committee. Eight Technical Committees It also adopted without debate proposals for organization of eight technical committees with the present executive committee, plus new commission officers, to form the steering committee. The commission adjourned after completing its Initial work In less than an hour.

Technical committees will meet tomorrow to elect chairmen and begin studying the 144-page recom mendatlon of the executive com mlttee. The executlvp committee repor was handed over to the preparatory commission by the executive chair man, C. Freitas-Valle of Brazi Eight technical committees wil study It. Freitas-Valle said 80 per cent the decisions of the executive com mittee were unanimous. He ex pressed regret that the "harmon; and quiet deliberation" had no been reflected in press reports which dwelt on the relatively few disagreements.

Organizational Work Most of the commission's work will be organizational and techrrlca but one major Issue will be to agree on a recommendation to the assembly of permanent headquarters for MEMBER AOmT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Price Four Cents German General Does Own Laundry General Lieut. Walter Lorenz, one-time recruiting officer of (lie Gcr- inan Luftwaffe, hangs one of his shirts to dry at the P.O.W. camp at lersfeld, Germany, in the American zone, where 278 generals and admirals are Wirephoto. the organization. Arrival of a special delegation from San Francisco, headed by Mayor Roger Lapham, signalled free-for-all campaign by United States cities to win the decision.

Presence here also of- delegations from Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and South Dakota's Black Hills was proving embarrassing to the American' commission members who were pledged to maintain a hands-off policy in the choice. The executive committee voted previously to recommend a site in the United States but specified no city. The commission will set up a committee to study all potential sites. The British still were working to have the site in Europe. The British press has been cool toward the American delegations and has cited the of locating the site within reach of American lobbyists." To Halt Production At Ford Rouge Plant; Blame Parts Shortage Detroit, Nov.

Motor Co. announced today Ford that most of its production operations at the River Rouge plant near here and in several of its hydro plants will be halted- tomorrow and Wednesday, because of a shortage of parts for automobile and truck production. Warplanes Sent To Ambarawa Area Of Java BY JOHN BOWER United Press Staff Correspondent Nov. warplanes were sent to the Ambara- wa area today where Indonesian extremists have been besieging 8,000 to 10,000 civilians in refugee camps and British troops. Increased fighting was reported at other points across Java after British rocket-firing planes Sunday smashed the Jogjakarta and Soera- karta radio stations, main outlets for extremist propaganda.

The Indonesians were reported to have suffered heavy losses in an attack on the Ambarawa jail Saturday night but fighting continued. Extremists attacked the summe capital of Bandoeng, 75 miles south east of Batavia Saturday night and skirmishes continued Sunday. Th newly appointed Indonesian mayo said 30 to 40 Indonesians had beei killed. River Overflows Coincident with the fighting, Tjidpundung river overflowed driv- ng 4,000 Indonesians from their homes. Twelve persons were ported drowned.

Hundreds was re- were busy evacuating native villages and 'urniture floated past the Preanger lotel In the center of Bandoeng Eurasians attributed the flood to sabotage by young extremists but Indonesian officials said It caused by a heavy rainstorm, British shelling of Soerabaja con- inued after Indian troops were at- acked by Indonesians again Sunday. British reports said the Indonesians suffered 75 casualties The Indians had six wounded and were forced to withdraw later when he Indonesians received reinforcements. In Batavia, a two-day "national 1 ndonesian convention opened Sun- 'ay and indicated it would support Sutan SJahrir. Move To Call Immediate Halt To U. Strike Elections BY WILLIAM F.

ARBOGAST Washington, Nov. ing to call an immediate halt to government-supervised strike elections, the house appropriations committee today recommended that all funds for this activity be cancelled at once. The recommendation, subject to approval of both the house and the senate, was made in a $1,131,552,312 appropriation bill to meet deficiencies for the fiscal year ending next June 30. Strike elections have been conducted by the National Labor Relations board under provisions of vhe Smlth-Connally war -labor disputes act. Separate legislation repealing the strike-vote requirement and imposing stiff curbs on labor unions is pending in the house but will not be acted on until the supply bill ap- However, more than half of the reduction was made "without prejudice" to reconsideration later.

Among the "without prejudice" cuts were $24,500,000 for temporary housing for veterans, $158,320,000 for hospital and domiciliary facilities for veterans, and $128,475,000 for river and harbor and flood control projects. All 'these items, the committee said, should be reviewed later by committee dealing exclusively with them. Of money actually approved, $928,000,000 was for national service life insurance handled by the Veterans' administration. The new money, augmenting $900,000,000 previously approved by congress, is necessary, the committee said, because of deaths of members of the armed forces who carried the reduced-rate proved today by the appropriations nati( lal servlce insurance committee is disposed Wednesday. of, probably In cutting almost every item It considered, the committee cautioned that further slashes must be made In federal spending.

during the next" seven "It is rare to meet with witnesses who evidence a conception of the, need to contract governmentalj The committee estimated at $2 400,000 the cost of conducting strike elections months. Noting that the strike-vote provision was a wartime proposal, the committee said the need for it has passed. It added that the regular work of the NLRB, which has requested repeal of the strike-vote requirement, is being held up by the elections. In addition to denying new funds for any such elections, the committee recommended that money already appropriated for that purpose be returned to the treasury. The $1,131,552,312 recommended for the various agencies supplied by the bill was a reduction of Truman Makes Secret Trip To Missouri BY MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Nov.

Truman made a secret plane trip to Grandview, yesterday for a two-hour visit with his mother on her.93rd birthday. The president left here at 8:28 a. m. and returned at 8:14 p. traveling about 2,000 miles during the course of the day.

For the first time he was unaccompanied by representatives of the nation's 'newspapers or broadcasting chains on such a trip. As the president put it upon his return to Washington, "I just had a notion that I would go and see her and I did." The office of White Secretary Charles G. Rossi had assured reporters for days before that Mr. Truman would not leave Washington over the week-end to visit his mother, Mrs. Martha Truman.

When the president stepped off his special luxury Sacred the air transport command terminal here, he was asked: "Does this mean that the newspapers of the nation will not be represented on your future trips?" "No," the president replied. "Well, what does it mean?" "It means that I wanted to go out to Grandview and see my mother." the president said. "Mister President," one reporter said, "the papers are a little exercised that the president of the United States flies half way across the country and back again without any press coverage. Do you have any explanation for Hu Says Note To Japan gnorantly Misrepresented Charge Germany Incited Japan To Attack U. S.

from budget estimates, repre- 130 seining one of the biggest percentage slashes ever proposed by the committee. "I A I spending, the committee com- Ann mented. "A spending psychology has "No," the president said sharply, his usual friendly smile disappearing immediately. "I don't have to give you any explanation and I don't intend to. "I wanted to go out there without any fanfare," the president said.

"Mr. President," a reporter said, "did the press association reporters ever cause any fanfare before when you went to see your mother?" "No," the president admitted, dismissing further questioas with a smile and a wave of his arms. Then he entered-his long, black bulletproof limousine and went to the white house. Thomas Wants Vlore Natty Uniforms or U. S.

Service Men Washington, Nov. Senator Elmer Thomas favors unification of the nation's military "orces under one head, the main- of a strong military defense organization ant the retention by his country of the atom bomb manufacturing secrets, he said today. Furthermore, the Oklahoman hinks United States soldiers should be given more natty uniforms, "The army uniforms worn now by oldiers In the greatest country in he world look like they have been lept in after ttiey have been worn a half day," Thomas told a reporter. It makes some of our soldiers look Ike day laborers and farm hands." Automobile Sideswiped BY WES GALLAGHER Nuernberg, Nov. designed to show that Gorman lead ers Incited Japan to make the at tack on Pearl harbor was placet Before the international war crime? tribunal today by American prose cutors.

The documents were added by the ribunal to the mounting pile ot Hitler's war plans which Includct schemes to assassinate the German envoy In Prague as pretext for invasion of to overrun Poland, the low ountries and, ultimately, to attack Russia. American prosecutors In the trial of 20 leading Nazis produced stenographic notes to talks between Hlt- er and Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka several months before the Pearl harbor attack and isserted that "our evidence will how these Nazi conspirators incited incl kept up a force that could rca- onably be expected to result in war with the United States." Ilcve.il Plan To Starve Russians Assistant U. S. Prosecutor Sidney S. Alderman produced a memoran- lum signed by a German General Thomas saying that war with Rus- la was necessary to provide food or the German army.

Alderman harged the German high command's plan to systematically starve millions of Russians in occupied reas as "one of the most sinister record." A detailed plot to assassinate a German diplomat to create an "In- ident" calculated to result in inva- lon of Czcchoclovakia was made by Hitler and Field Marshal Wllhclm chief of the German high ommand in 1938, Alderman charged. The tribunal adjourned for the day at 4:28 p. m. (9:28 a. m.

C. S. T.i The plot was just one step in Hitler's lawless plans to subjugate Germany's neighbors that were outlined in detail before the international military tribunal. Plans Made In 19.18 Reading from captured German documents, American prosecutors charged that detailed plans for the invasion of Czechoslovakia wen: made on April 21, one month after Hitler overran Austria and assured the world he had no further plans for territorial expansion, Plans for the proposed assassina- Inn Dpfpncp tion of a German diplomat and a subsequent blitz invasion of the Ht-iSoVS PriSOn tie country were known by the code I Chiang Proposes New Deal For Chinese Nation MY SPKNCKK MOOSA Chungking, Nov. 1 alisslmo Chiang Kai-shek proposed a new deal for China today, created a supremo economic council to tackle it and promised to "spare no effort to bring Internal order and security." "We must not allow internal disturbances to make us lose sight of the basic need of the Chinese people for a far higher standard of living," he said in a statement announcing appointment of live council.

While his troops drove more than 100 miles into linlf wiiy to the pi-en city of Muk- 1en where Chinese Communists were reported asserted hat his government was "acting to correct," those disturbances. Soong Named- Chairman Premier T. V. Soong was made chairman new council, which was told to seek at once economic irojects considered of prime importance to be carried out in the lext five years. Vice Premier Wong Wen-Hno was nade vice-chairman of the council nit the generalissimo said he hlm- elf would retain full responsibility Chiang said farmers would be among the first beneficiaries of a 'new deal" program that would 1m- irove their livelihood but did not go nto detail.

The generalissimo proposed that he council first set up a program improve transportation, badly disrupted by the war. Study Ways To Aid Industry The council also was told to study ncthods for helping China's indus- ry, for expanding foreign trade and or Improving health standards. 'In what had been heralded as an mportant policy announcement, hiang erected the council to ns- ure "a united, democratic, strong ml prosperous nation and a sub- tantial rise in mass living standards its people." (Chinese Communists bid for poplar support by distributing hind to easants in their areas of occupn- ion to ease the suffering born of ears of war with Japan.) Nationalist press reports, meanwhile, said Chiang's troops had captured without resistance the railway city of Chlnh.slen, 100 miles inside Manchuria beyond their Jumping oft point Nov. 23. To Undergo Heart Operation green" and were re- file carefully kept l.y name "case vealed in a Hitler's adjutant who was captured by American airborne troops.

Assistant Prosecutor Sidney S. Alderman told the court. While American prosecutors proceeded to pile evidence of Hit- grown up in government which must be dissipated." In cutting $95,000,000 from a $107,500,000 request of the Federal Works agency for advance public works planning, the committee criticized the Reconstruction Finance corporation for action it said "borders en counteracting" a previous congressional mandate. To curb the RFC, the committee wrote into the bill a proviso prohibiting loans by any federal agency to build projects for which plans have been financed through the advance- planning program, unless congress specifically authorises the loan. By Truck An automobile operated by Oliver! Swanson, 26, Lena, and a truck and trailer driven by J.

F. Simons, 50, Gratiot, were involved in an accident near Waddams Grove late Saturday afternoon, with the result that the passenger car was badly damaged but occupants were uninjured. Report made at the office of Sheriff Walter Fngels indicated the trailer attached to the truck hit the car as it was rounding a curve. It was said the truck driver did not stop until he arrived at Warren, the driver saying he was unaware that the trailer had hit the car. ler's plans for a ve war.

defense counsel filed lists of prospective witnesses and desired documents, which included indication that Rudolf Hess, No 3 Nazi will carry his Insanity pica to the court. Schacht Aided In Plot Agnltisl Hitler Counsel for Hjalmar Schacht disclosed that the former relchsbunk president will seek to prove that he participated in the bomb plot to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944, and tried to overthrow the Naxi government in 1038. In a document described by American prosecutors as "Hitler's last will and testament," the fuehrer fiitefully predicted he would "solve U.e German space problem no later than 1943-45." Hitler wu.s quoted as describing England and France as the relch's "two hateful enemies," and saying on Nov. 5, 1037, that "the question for Germany is where the greatest possible conquest could be made at the lowest cost," The document descilbed by Alderman as Hitler's last will was a U. 8 state department transcript of Hitler's program outlined at a secret meeting with Relchsmarshal Hermann Goering, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and former diplomat Con-stantin von three among the 'M Nazi leaders on trial on war crimes charges.

Ribbcntrop's Suffers As the trial entered it.s second week another case of siiattered nerves developed among the once- powerful "supermen" who stood be- JPormer Foreign Min- See CHARGE on page 10. Comfortably Equipped BY DEAN SCIIKDLKIt Manila, Nov. Japanese defense witiie-s for Lt. Gen. Tomoyukl Ynmashltii asserted today that "Oroyku Ma.ru"—prison ship "hell-hole" on which many of 1,300 captured Americans went well and comfortably equipped, The witness, Lt.

Gen, Shlyoku Koh, was asked If most of the prisoners were forced to walk to the ship last Dec. 13 when it was loaded with Americans bound for Japan. of them were marched to the ship but some weaker ones were taken In trucks," Koh answered. He testified he sent along 40 guards and a Japanese lieutenant. Survivors have described horribly jammed conditions In the holds which drove many to madness before the vessel was bombed and sunk by American planes.

Two-year-old Bonnie Stewart, Orlando, will have it delicate heart operation at Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, soon In an effort to correct a valvular condition affecting flow of blood to her lungs. The girl lives with her grandmother, Mrs. J. II. 1 Wirephoto.

75,000 Ward Workers Begin One-WeekStrike Chicago, Nov. 75,000 Montgomery Ward Co. workers In 12 cities will begin week-long strike today in the latest airing of long-standing labor troubles of the mall order firm with Its C. I. O.

employes. Officials of the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes (C. I. described the walkout as the first of a series "to out to the public the unfair labor policy which Ward's has pursued." Leonard Levy, executive vlcc-prcs- clent of the union, said the "demonstration" work stoppage was called failure of Sewell board chairman, to The trying S. military YamashUt on commission war 1 ordered sin Invf-stluatlon of Koh's of prisoner of war and internees camps after hearing his testimony that Cabanatunn camp inmates were "getting meat, eggs, fruits and vegetables." American military investigators have reported they had established that prisoners were slowly starving to death.

Koh denied receiving any protest on conditions from the prisoners. Former A. T. C. Pilot Injured In Crash Of Small Rented Plane Lincoln, 111., Nov.

M. Clou.se, 31, who served with the air transport command in India, was Injured seriously when a light nlane he was piloting crashed yesterday near the Lincoln flying service airport, one mile west of Lincoln. 41, up 100 feet when the engine 'ollowlng the Avery, Ward's igrce to arbitration of disputed contract Issues. Immediately affected were Ward M'opertlcs In Chicago, Denver, Albany, Amsterdam and Jamaica, N. Trenton, N.

Knraas City, Mo. Fort Dodge, and Barre, Vt. Union lenders In the Detroit, Dearborn and Royal Oak, branches announced they would Join the walkout tomorrow. Picket lines wen: set up early today around the company's main re- tall store and ninll order hou.su In Chicago, and union lenders predicted the plants would be "shut down entirely." Levy Mild nil but a few maintenance men and supervisory em- ployes would barred by picket lines. He added that other C.

1, O. unions had been requested to picket the company's 031 stores and 215 catalogue) offices throughout the country. County Farm Bureau Delegates Open Annual Meeting In Chicago Chicago, Nov. Delegates and members from Illinois' 99 county farm bureaus met here today at the annual convention of the Illinois Agricultural association, tin; nation's largest, of its kind. Business meetings of I.

A. A. associated companies and co-operatives will be held during the first two days of the four-day meeting. 15 Children Drown As Bus Dives Into Lake Wenatchec, Nov. Sheriff Urucn Parkinson said today 15 or 10 pupils were drowned when a flchool bus left the Chelan highway, and plunged over a fiO foot embankment Into 50 feet of water In Lake Chelan.

First reports said 40 students were thought to have been trapped In the bus. Later information from tho scene, 10 miles from the town of Chelan, indicated most of the children had escaped. Sheriff Parkinson said "five or six" Kwrim ashore and were rushed to hospitals. Officers were still attempting to piece together the fragmentary reports of the tragedy while divers wero being rushed from Coulee City and Seattle. Highway)! Slippery The sheriff said the accident occurred during a blinding snowstorm Highways in tho district were slippery.

The bus plunged down a 50- foot embankment into the lake. Tho accident occurred shortly after 8 a. m. and at 10:15 the sheriff wald It had been Impossible to Identify any of the victims. A big barge was floated to the scene and kept over the spot where the bus wont down.

The children were en route to school at Chelan. Says Japanese "Hell-Bent" For War In Nov. 1941 Washington, Nov. dcll Hull declared today that the Japanese were "hell-bent" for war In November, 1041, and rejected ft 10-polnt American note he said any peace-seeking nation would have been "delighted to accept," Tho 74-year old former secretary of state, testifying before a senate- house committee investigating the Pearl harbor disaster, said the Nov. 20 note ho handed the Japanese had been "ignorantly misrepresented." Japanese propagandists later called It an "American "ultimatum." The army Pearl harbor board said in Us report Hull's delivery of the note may havo started the war.

"There has been more misinformation and more Ignorant misrepresentation unintentional no the significance of this last proposal of ours than of any move wo made," Hull testified. Some Mcncfll.t To Japan "There was nothing In there that any peaceful nation would not been delighted to accept." Hull said the 10-polnt note mers- ly brought together the general principles on which the United States had been insisting since diplomatic talks began with the Japanese six months earlier. He added that five- of the ten points offered direct benefits to Japan. "The only trouble with this note was that the Japanese were I hadn't noticed the presence of ladles here I'd say hell carrying ahead their military policy," the former cabinet member said grimly. Earlier the Riling secretary had testified ho believed the state department was "thoroughly justified In wanting the fleet kept at Pearl harbor in the critical days of late' 1041." Tho former cabinet officer took the stand before a senate-house committee Investigating the Pearl harbor disaster for an hour's questioning.

In response to a question from Gerhard Qesell, committee counsel, about the state department's attitude on keeping the fleet in Hawaiian waters, Hull said: Dealing With "Desperado" "We felt that it would be more or ess useful, especially after the fleet was based at Pearl harbor, that It- remain there during the critical state of relations with certain other Japan especially," "We were dealing with one of worst International desperadoes within the memory of man. He at large, on a rampage, dangerous, reacherous and undependatale in every way. "It was a little more wholesome the many matters under discussion for our navy to be standing there." Hull suld that "from all tangible md Intangible reactions" he had received ho was convinced the state iepartment was "thoroughly justl- in that viewpoint. ied" Gcsell reminded the gray haired witness that Aclm. J.

O. Richardson, hen commander in chief of loot, had testified earlier in the investigation that he warned Wash- see SAYS on page JO. U.A.W. Union Seeks Government Intervention In G. M.

Dispute BY ALLEN V. HOWLING United Press Stuff Correspondent Detroit, Nov. 20 United Automobile Workers union (C. I.O.) sought government intervention today in the wage dlsputn which has caused a coa.st-to-roa.st against General Motors corporation and idled nearly quarter-million workers. Walter P.

Reuther, U. A. W. vice president, made tin: fold for federal aid In settling the battle over the The convention ends Thursday. Principal speakers, Rep.

Cannon and Hep. Everett M. Dlrksen (It-Ill will appear Wednesday night. Cunnnn will discuss "trends in government" nnd Dirkscn's talk will be based on his trip through 21 countries. union's demand for per cent A companion, Ewing Wiicox, i was not hurt.

The plane was about failed. 24 Full Shopping Dgys Before CHRISTMAS Redeployment Schedule By the Associated Press Twenty-one troop-carriers with more than 30,600 veteran of several theatres of wai are scheduled to arrive at three east coast ports today, and an additional 8,600 personnel from the Pacific are due at five west coast ports on at least 21 ships. Esther Williams Weds Announcer Ben Gage Hollywood, Nov. Actress Esther Williams, 24, and Ben Gage, 27, radio announcer just out of the army, were preparing today to honeymoon in Mexico. Miss Williams and were married yesterday at the Westwood Hills Congregational church.

The best man was Capt. Charles Gage, brother of the groom. Ushers were Actors Bill Tracy, Edward Morgan, Ed "Archie" Gardner, und Sonny Tufts. It was the second marriage for Miss Williams, divorced from Dr. Leonard Kovner in 1944, and the first lor Gage.

wage increase in a telegram to two of G. top executives. As the system-wide strike of 175,000 G. M. uorkirs went into the day, there also were these important developments: 1.

C. E. Wilson, president of General Motors, suld the corporation's wage ol'ers had been in keeping with the spirit of President Truman's wage speech on Oct. 30. 2.

Pickets at 03 General Motors plants barred office employes from going to work, adding another 73,000 to the number of idle in the work stoppage. 3. The U. A. W.

executive board, opened a two-day meeting which end the strike. Edgar L. "Warre, corporation, inaj I suggest that representatives of the union, the corporation and the U. S. conciliation service meet at the earliest possible date We again propose that the U.

S. conciliators be allowed full participation Rfuther's proposal for reopening the wage negotiations was made at the conclusion of a meeting of the union's strike strategy committee. Wilson's statement on the company wage offer was made when he was questioned about Reuther's proposal for reopening the negotiatinns. He said he did not wish to cum- ment immediately on the union urn- posal but he did not fuel the union fully appreciated the company's offer to raise wages a flat 10 per cent. "That offer was in line with the spirit of President Truman's speech suggesting Increases to meet increased living costs," Wilson said.

"That increase and cent advance under the the 15 per Little Steel formula meet the living-cost gains since la-H." Meanwhile, Secretary of Laoor Lewis Si-hwullenbai'h moved to set up machinery which he hopes will will include discussion of strategy. 4. The union set up soup kitchens for pickets and laid plans generally for a long siege. In a telegram sent late yesterday to Wilson and to H. W.

Anderson, G. M. vice president and director of personnel, Reuther said: "In the interests of promoting the earliest possible fair settlement of the current wage disputes between Ui U. A. W.

and General Motors strike chief of the hi bur department's conciliation service, has been assured by both sides that they will meet with him in separate conferent-es to discuss the strike. Washington reports said Schwullenbach might attend the conferences in an effort to bring the union und corporation to- I gether to reopen wage negotiations. Dates for the conferences have not been set, but indications were they would start this week, possibly nesday.