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DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE VOL-XLm NO. DRNTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 22, 1945 I'BN KAGfci WALKOUT AT GENERAL Motors workers, employed at the Chevrolet Gear and Axle Division in Detroit, are shown walking and running as they leave the plant No. 21 in the United Auto Workers (CIO) walkout. (AP Wircphoto). Jew-Baiter Stretcher Ruled Sane at War Crimes Trial NUERNBERG, Nov.

A mounting' pile of documents, ranging 1 from intimate diaries of lending Nazis to carefully worded secret plans of the German high command, was placed before the international tribunal today as the Allied prosecution moved to convict 20 of Hitler's highest aides as war criminals. As the third day's session opened the four-power court ruled that Jew-bait er Julius Strelclier was sane and must stand trial and denied a defense motion which asked postponement of the trial of Martin Bormurm, Hitler's missing deputy, who is being tried in absentia. The tribunal accepted a medJcnl board report finding Streicher sane and Lord Justice Geoffrey ruled that his trial Lucas Asks Why No Patrols Flown On Day of Jap Attack WASHINGTON, Nov. Lucas (D-I11) called today for Army nntj Navy i testimony on how many plane.s were available at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and why no long range patrols were being flown when the Japanese struck, A member of the Senate-House committee investigating (he disaster, Lucas told reporters he wants to know why, if it was possible to fly a 300-mile patrol in 1040, similar daily reconnaissance could not have been in effect a year later. -f Adm, J.

O. Richardson testified enrllev that he Instituted the air Five-Point Plan For Industrial Proposed WASHINGTON. Nov. (AP) A five-point program designed achieve Industrial pctce through voluntary arbitration, fact-finding procedures and a strengthened eral conciliation service has been placed before the labor-management conference. A four-day Thanksgiving recess, however, will delay its consideration until Monday.

The program was' submitted conference's public hearings committee headed by Dr. Prank Graham, president of the University of North Carolina. Graham's group has heard reports from ft number ot labor, business and civic groups not represented in conference. The executive committee withheld Graham's report from publication, but a copy was made available jto a reporter by a delegate who said felt it should be made public, The recommendations: 1. Genuine collective bargaining without adamant jjositions in matters customarily negotiable but with a give and lake spirit in good faith on both sides.

2. Provision In contracts for filial arbitration or for the decisions an conclusion of the grievance procedures for the settlement of disputes over tiie interpretation and application ''of the terms of the contracts. 3. Provisions for the structure ohd machinery of voluntary arbitration according to specified criteria and within specified areas of conflict. t.

The strengthening of the true values of the conciliation service by a more adequate midget for higher salaries and a larger staff selected by the director with the advice of a committee representing labor and management. 5. Public' provision for the procedures of fact-finding regarding the issues in dispute. Delegates and conference officials alike were pessimistic over prospects for the creation of voluntary arbitration machinery, as recommended In the report. Student Driver Charged After Fatal Collision Union Digs In for Long General Motors Fight June 18, 1940 when the Ar- For the nrst time since the trial i iny orrierc an in Hnwaii but opened two days ago, the accused called it ofr December of that German leaders appeared In high Prcv i 0lls Army Rnd Navy in spirits.

Smiling all the time, Helens- nave that no rcau iar marshal Hermanrt Goerlng chntted na rol Wrts flown fter Adm Hus animatedly with defense counsel, band immcl took ovrr com- Rudolf Hess, who has had only a mandvof the fleet from Richardson vacant stare for most of the court on i proceedings, laughed for the first committee's hearings were in recess today for Thanksgiving. But Lucas asked William D. Mitchell, time as he talked with former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribben- trop. Even the stern high command generals, Willielm Kcitel and Alfred Jodl, were smiling. Several hundred Ketch documents from the file of more than 2,500 amassed by U.

S. invest iga lorn will outline in thr Germans' own words the scheming and aggression by which Hitler and his henchmen led the world into World War II, declared Col. Robert Storey of Dallas, an assistant, U. S. prosecutor.

Storey credited Maj. William S. Coogan with most of the responsibility for screening and analyzing the tons of such material which were sifted for evidence tigninst the Germans on trial. Archbishop To Resign Post As Greece Regent ATHENS, NOV. Damnskinos announced today he definitely would resign as regent of Greece.

He made the announcement to a press conference shortly the 85-yeEvr-old Liberal leader, Thcrnis- tokles Soplioulis, was sworn in a.s premier, heading a new cabinet. Damaskinos said he would make a statement to Ihe Greek people later in the day. Sophoulis said in a pmss conference that Damaskinos wns forced by the British to hold up his resignation last night and swear in the new government. He said British Envoy Hector MacNell called upon Daniaskhios nnd told him that unless he helped set up the new government, he (MacNell) would leave at once for London as a marl: of protest. Earlier it had been announced that Damosklnos had withdrawn his resignation so that he could swear in the new government because the outgoing cabinet of Panayotis Kanellopoulls had no constitutional power to do so.

The announcement of a new cabinet resolved a sustained crisis. Ike Testifies Today fit Hearing On VNRRA Funds committee counsel, to obtain information on the number of planes attached to the fleet under Richardson's command and the number under Ktmmel's command. He asked also for a listing of the long- range planes available at the time of the Japanese attack. The Illinois senator said he also wants information on an Army night patrol. The committee may delay its inquiry into this subject, however, because Mitchell announced that the diplomatic side of the story will be brought under investigation with testimony tomorrow from former Secretary or State Hull.

Hull, in IH health, can for only 45 minutes at a time, the counsel said. He added that Sumner Welles, former undersecretary; Maxwell Hamilton, former head of Ihe Far Eastern, division; and Joseph c. Grew, ambassador to Japan in 1941, vvtll be on hand to fiJl in a full picture. Yesterday the committee heard Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy testify that he had guessed late in 1941 that the Japanese might attack the Philippines but that -he WASHINGTON.

Nov. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wns invited lo pull up a chair today at the table of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The cetUeiTilece was the COO.OOO UNRRA supply bill, for which the nowly-nppointed Arms' rtid not foresee an assault on Pearl chief of staff was expected to he Harbor.

witness, The general's a. m. CST) apix-arance was a change of pace for the committee, which, yesterday heard a former employe of the United and Rehabilitation Administration urge Hint the agency be abolished as a "nob'e experiment which fulled miserably." The witness, Raymond E. Ijinrt- eren of testified he and other American UNRRA officials had resinned and returned to this country "complntely and utterly disillusioned." UNRRA Director General Herbert If. Lehman, who contested miiny of Lindgren's statements, promised to supply the committee with UNRRA notes token at interview's with the resigned officials.

first Killing Frost- Covers Texas On Crisp Thanksgiving By The Associated Press The season's first killing frost extended from North to Central Texj as today as crisp, sunny weather filled the Thanksgiving order. Temperatures ranging from of 20 In the Amarlllo area lo 30 at San Antonio and Waco brought o. heavy frost over most of the stale although II did not reach the Rio Grande Valley. Mercury Dives to 26 As First Freeze Of (Season Hits Denton The first freeze of the season struck Denton Wednesday night as '-he mercury dived to 20 degrees, six degrees below the freezing point. Temperatures ranged up to a high of 53 yesterday as a blustery wind swept the ctty through clear skies.

Tlie forecast lor tonight and Friday was fair and continued cold, with temperatures ranging between 25 and 30 degrees tonight. First Contributions Received on Xmas Seal Sale in Denton 1928 Mr. nnd Mrs. Ray Bishop, North nnd Clrm Pierce, Center, were the first contributors to the 1945 Tuberculosis Christmas Seal Sale in Den ton, Mrs. O.

C. Knight, treasurer of the Denton County Tubercul osis AsoOt 1 a i on, announced todny. Approximately 6,000 letters, each containing the seals and a letter regarding; the ravages of tuberculosis, were mailed Monday and Tuesday to citizens in the entire county. Mr. and Mrs, Bishop and Pierce were the first, to return their money, but Mrs.

Knight said that others ere coming in to the central office in each mail delivery. Last year contributions to" cnmpnJgn rcncherl the Killed in Crash DENISON, Nov. Boyd McClendon, 78, of Venion was killed in an automobile collision on the highway three miles north here last night. Gnihtd, driver of in which one girl was killed five other persons injured la head-on automobile collision on the Fart Worth highway Tuesday night, was charged with negligent homicide in the second degree today. The charge was filed in I he Denton county court by Stale Highway Patrolmen J.

O. Maddox and E. J. Banks. The accident occurred when Gillard, who was driving toward Port Worth, attempted to pass another vehicle and collided liead-aii with a car containing three soldiers, according to Maddox and Banks', who Investigated.

The officers that Giltard apparently, was on the left side or the road when the two cars struck, since Miss Jennie Ruth MeGee, who was sitting cm the right hand side of his car, was killed instantly by the impact. According to Schmltz Funeral Home, where the body of Mi.ss McGee was taken following the n'ccl- tient, burial will be at George West. The body was moved from Denton to George West Tuesday. Funeral arrangements were Miss McGee was" 1 a junior student on the NTSC campus. Her brother.

Guy Wei don McGee, also is a stU- tient at the college. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Guy McGee of George West. Miss Doris Turner, a freshman student at NTSC who also was injured in the wreck, is still in the Denton Hospital and Clinic.

Hospital attendants said her condition Is not serious, she Is suffering from cuts and bruises and a leg injury. The three soldiers in the wreck suffered only minor cuts and bruises and were removed from the Denton Hospital to Camp Howze for treatment. Gillard was uninjured except for minor cuts and bruises. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

S. B. Gillard of Fort Worth. I10SP1TALIZED AFTER 'THANKSGIVING' Leonard (Joiiins in'iorn 4 the Dallns City-County hospital, examines Gleason West (left) as West and Arthur Clark (right), both employes of Swift and Company packing plant in Dallas. Texas, are treated the night of Nov.

20 for illness which developed after they ate a pre-Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving- dinner during- the day with some 300 other employes of the plant More than 100 of the group became ill several hours after eating the meal (AP)' Denton Quietly Observes First Peaceful Postwar Thanksgiving College campuses and school grounds were deserted today, the business district wns quiet as stores closed for the holiday while Denton observed Thanksgiving a day of prayer and thankfulness for peace, Tiie only general observance was union, service of all Dentoci churches held at the First Meth- odujlr-Jit l(Ka. the J. Hoytl Boles, field representative the First Presbyterian, USA, synod of Tex as, on The Object, of Our Praise," Dr, Frank Weedon, president of the Denton Ministers Association, presided. Meanwhile over the state, with the exception of Austin, Texas main streets took on scenes of trunquUUy on this Day. Tlic Texas scat of government decided to until next Thursday to declare a.

day of composure, giving Austin citizens rhnnce to witness the traditional Turkey-Day football game between Texas University and Texas A. nnd M. College. It was the happiest Thanksgiving' LA. den.

Alexander McCarrell Patch, General Patch, Seventh A Commander, Dies SAN ANTONIO. Nov. rmy Day in four years for thousands of Texans. Returning solditjrs, sailors nnd marines dug deep lox-holcs into turkeys, stuffed with dressing, for the first time in many months. And there was solemnity also.

Houston, Dcnison. Hlllsboro. Ban Antonio, Amarillo, Abilene, QaU'es- 65, bemedalled veteran of two Auto Workers Seek to Tighten Strike Reins DETROIT, Nov. The CIO Auto Workers Union dug in today for a Jong battie against General Motors Corp. and simultaneously sought.

to tighten its already nearly complete strike-hold on the company's nation-wide factory network. "We will travel the stiike road to the bitter end," said Walter P. Rcuther, union vice president who has led the flght for a 30 per cent wage Increase for General Motors'. employes. How far off that "bitter end" may be apparently hinged largely on two factors: 1.

The nature of the corporation's reply to a union proposal for arbitration of the wage dispute, promised by Friday. .,....2. The success of government mediation efforts. John W. Gibson, special assistant to Secretary of La cor Schwellenbach, arrived In Detroit last night.

Gibson, who was president of -tlM Michigan CIO council when he took the government post, said ne would confer with Reutner and otner union heads Friday. Production at Standstill Within three hours after the walkouts began at 10 a. m. (CST) yesterday, General Motors' vast production system came to a near standstill. Only the Merlden.

ball bearing unit of the 75 GM plants under contract with the UAW remained in operation, company ana union agreed, A. company spokesman announced at 1 p. m. (UolV trtac tne corporation's entire production force of 162,000 workers was Idle. An-' other 100,000 on the company pay- wars who led the victorious drive; roll are either.salaried workers or of the 8.

Seventh Army across France and Germany lost his battle for life last night. The high-tempered slightly-built, six-footer, Sandy, to his friends and his men, who triumphed ton and Beaumont, were among! In the Pacific theater as well as on many Texas cities which planned religious services. Football played Its usual colorful role, with games scheduled at Denlson, Abilene and San Antonio, as well as other cities. Servicemen's centers planned to stage special events and meals for personnel who could not be at home for the occasion. School students were granted a four-day reprieve from studies by the holiday, as classes will not be resumed until Monday.

36th Won 9 Ke Sent to Texas To Demobilize WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. Sen. Tom Connally announced that the 3Cth (Texas) Division, would be demobilized in New York and not in Texas. The Texas senator said he had conferred yesterday with Lt.

Gen. J. E. Hull of the Army General Local Baptists Score Action Of State Convention A resolution expressing regret for the recent action taken by the Bap- members of other unions, the spoKesmah said, adding there was no way of. detemiining how many of these were a flee ted oy the striae.

George Romney, genera rhana'ger' 1 of the AutomouUe Manufacturers Association, hail predicted a snut- down of but one car producer (presumably Ford) within a week afler the Starr of a General Motors strltce. at Sam Houston since last July, Other Companies Struggle would have observed i ln stot late yesterday birthday anniversary to- Romney said the other companies wouid "struggle to continue pro- tlie European continent, died of pneumonia In Brooke General Hospital here. He had entered the hospital Nov. 14. Commander of the Fourth Army General his morrow.

At his bedside, where an oxygen tent had been used to combat what typo of pneumonia, were his ductlon" despite their reliance on Thomas UAW-CIO presl- Julia Ullell Patch; Ws daughter d(mt sal tne union had a. Mrs. Charles M. Drummcmd- his OM strike und Additional support widowed daughter-in-law, Mrs Al- froln the National CIO has been cxnndcr M. Patch.

3rd, and hts brother, MaJ. Oeii. Joseph Patch. The general's son, captain, member of the U. S.

First Army in France, was killed Oct. 22, 19M, while assaulting enemy positions. Intimated. Keuther snld, however, that "we will not be able to pay the strikers any compensation." "We will flght to prevent 'evic- tions," he declared. "We will pay The colorful career of Sandy rent where it is necessary We will Patch found a climax in the Euro- i pay doctor bills." pcan war.

Placed In command ofj Asked whether the union could the Seventh Army March 1. 1044, Asked whether the union withstand a year-long strike. Reu- Stair, and wns informed that the I lml 11 drinking nnd opposing Texas Baptist colleges' con- trained the army for amphibious I tlier replied only that "we will not tist ''l Convention ut Ft. operations and led It when It hit the I cull oft this strike until we get our Wor 'h censuring President Truman beaches of Southern JYfince Aug. 1 wage demands." for nls nss ert ecl altitude" toward i 15 1844.

In three months the vcterans can be discharged and sent home by Christmas if demobilized in New York. The idea of returning the division to Texas for demobilization was turned down in the interests of the veterans themselves. General Hull told Connally, since it would probably prevent, most of them from getting to their homes for Christ- miis. The division Is not expected in New York before the middle of December. Hull also told Connally that both General Marshall and General Eisenhower had considered the proposal of Brownwood, Texas, citizens that the division be returned there for inactivation.

The 36th was mobilized in Brownwood in 1940. Today Is Truly Day of Thanksgiving for Denton Soldier Who Spent Last Three in Jap Prisons By ELIZABETH YOUNGBLOOD Record-Chronicle Staff Writer years ago, Cpl. Clifton Leo Frazier of Denton celebrated Thanksgiving amid the stink and horror of the famous Jap prison camp Cabanatuan, but today lie helped his family eat an old- fashioned American turkey with all the trimmings and for him It's truly a d.iy ot Thanksgiving-. Captured with about 160 other men of the 60th Coast Artillery after the fall of Corregldor on May 6, 1942, Cpl. Prazler managed to survive everything the Japs could offer In the way of mental and physical punishment nnd was liberated by the Allies Sept.

n. Clifton volunteered for service Feb. 7, 1941, and was sent immediately to the Philippines, where he v.atched the course of the war- Iron) its darkest days until hts liberation. He wns stationed on Bataan when Ihe Japs first attacked Pearl Harbor and made the heroic stand with other young Americans there before being forced to retreat to Corregldor. There, living on mule, rats, rice and watery stew, he fought until the islanrt was officially surrendered, and he was taken lo Camp Bilibld and then on to Cabanatuan.

At the time he was captured he weighed 165 pounds and in the early part of 1943, his weight dropped to an even 100. "We lived in a compound about as large as the TSCW campus," he number of times and that he got his worst treatment in April for refusing to salute a Jap guard. He was struck over the head and on the shoulders about 15 or 20 times with a heavy two by four piece of board. "He knocked me off my feet all right," asserted grimly, "but he never knocked me out and I didn't go down past my knees." His determination to keep on top, however, proved worthwhile two months ago when he was finally liberated. He now wears the American Defense Service ribbon, the said." and worked long hard hours I Asiatic-Pacific theater ribbon with In a 500-acre farm for the Japs." I two battle stars, the American the- In October of last year, he was ater ribbon, the Good Conduct rtb- moved to another prison camp on the northern tip on Honshu, where treatment grew steadily worse for the men who were put to work In the copper mines.

Reluctant to talk ot any of hts experiences. Prnzler admitted 'that he had been beaten and slapped bon, the Presidential Unit Citation with two clusters and a well-deserved victory Ribbon. But the ribbons and all the glory don't mean nearly so much to the young Ynuk ns Thanksgiving at home with lite parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.

E. Pruzicr, 418 Pierce. ferrlng degrees upon anyone holding such attitude was adopted by members of the First Baptist iChui'ch here last night at the regular mid-week service. Presented by Judge Ben W. Boyd.

the resolution read, "Be It resolved; that we, ths members of the First Baptist Church of Denton, Texas, regret the action taken by messenger? to the Baptist State Convention recently held In Ft. Worth, in adopting a resolution which apparently reflects upon the Honorable Harry S. Truman the President of the United States." The action taken by the local group was not that of a protest, said Dr. Frank Weedon, pastor. It, merely states the stand taken by the local Baptists, he said, and will be filed with church records for verification of the deplored action of the state convention at which trustees of all Texas Baptist colleges and universities were Instructed not to confer honorary degrees upon persons holding to "such a position" toward drinking and gambling as attributed to President Truman.

The President had been Invited to accept an honorary degree at Baylor University. Eisenhower Hopes To Return for Visit To Birthplace Soon DENISON, NOV. Dwight D. Eisenhower hopes to vis- It this city of his birth soon. He wiinu to see the Dcnison dam and Lake Texonm and visit Miss Jennie Jackson, school teacher here for 50 years who bounced the general on her knee when he was an Infant.

MLss Jackson and the general's parents were neighbors before the Eisenhowers moved to Kansas. The said he hoped to accompany Speaker Sam Rayburn to Texas at the first opportunity. Governor Harry F. Kelly of Mi- Seventh drove the Germans back chlgon offered state police help In almost 600 jnlles. The smashing -maintaining order but said he did not "assume there will be disorder." Precautions'ale necessary, he said, because of the strike's "magnitude." Navy to Reduce Discharge Score For Enlisted Men WASHINGTON, Nov.

22. drive made General Patch the first army commander to pierce successfully the natural frontier formed by the Vosges mountains. Patch handled the final mopping up of the Japanese on Guadalcanal, moving in with army troops late In 1942 to relieve the marines. Previously he had commanded United States troops in New Caledonia. For his work at Guadalcanal, he awarded the Dlstin-jThe Navy plan's' chorge point score for enlisted men guished Service Medal.

He returned to the United States lost March to head the Fourth Army Corps with headquarters at Fort Lewis, Wash. quarters. head- Illinois Attorney New Commander Of American Legion CHICAGO, Nov. 22. The 27th annual national convention of the American Legion was history today and In Its wake was a record endorsing In principle unification of the Army, Navy and Air Forces and a universal peacetime military training program with a minimum of one year's Instruction.

The Legion's final business yesterday was the election as national commander of John Slelle. Illinois attorney, farmer and Democratic leader who In 1938 served as governor for three months upon the death of Gov. Henry Homer. Hunger Strike ROME, Nov. In the displaced persons camp at Cremona, where they were brought by the Allies from Central European concentration camps, began hunger strike today In protest against the British policy In Palestine, the Italian news agency Ansa said today.

from 41 to 38 on Dec. 1. It will iower the score to 37 on Dec. 15 and to 36 on Jan. 1.

The changes will make another men eligible for release, the department announced last night. The change will not affect some specialists. Including key punchers and shore patrolmen, nor enlisted women. For.some ratings the score will drop only to 39 on Dec. 1 and to 38 on Jan.

1. These are water tenders, machinists mates, chief commissary stewards and ships cooks and bakers. In the Seabees, however, these ratings will be discharged under the new reduced scores. Weather DENTON AND VICINITY: Ffclr and continued cold tonight and Friday, freezing temperatures between- 25 and 30 tonight. EAST TEXAS: Fair and corjUhtMsd cold this afternoon, tonight, sad Friday.

Lowest temperaturees JS- 30 in north, near 30 in west-central and 36 near upper coast. Gentle northerly winds on the coast becoming WEST TEXAS: Fair and eonttett- ed cold this aJterncon, tonight and Friday. Lowest temperature 2O-28 In Panhandle and Sooth Plains and freezinc where tonight. WEDNESDAY TEMPERATUJU8- High Low Also: first killing tract ot UO,.