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IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE VOLUME 27, NUMBER 40. ASSOCIATED FRI88 LEASED WIRE MEWS BSRVICE IRONWOOD, MICHIGAN, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1946. 10 PAGES SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS 12.000 SOLDIERS IN PROTEST 6 Year Old Girl Kidnap Victim; Ransom Asked Kidnaper Telephones, Demands $20,000 BULLETIN Chicago-- (IP)-- Golden-haired Suzanne Degnan, 6. was kid- naped for $20.000 ransom today and her father, a $7,500 a year government employe, appealed by radio for her safe return, promising "I'll giva you Ihe money." Chicago (IP)-- Six-year-old Suzanne Degnan, daughter of a Chicago OPA executive, was kidnaped early today and the Chicago city news bureau said the kidnaper had contacted the family by telephone to repeat a $20,000 ransom demand. The pretty, blue-eyed, golden- haired girl was missed from her bed at 7:30 a.

m. when her father, James Degnan, went to awaken her for school. At 10 a. m. the kidnaper telephoned the north side home, the city news bureau said, to reiterate the ransom demand to Degnan, who earlier told newsmen: "I have no money and I know of no reason why I should be a target for kidnaping for ransom." THE NEWS BUREAU said the telephone call was made by a man.

Police traced the call to a number in the Rogers Park district. The section in which the Degnans live is known as Edgevvater and adjoins the Rogers Park district on the south. A ransom note found in the girl's room stressed that the family not notify the police or the newspapers or the child would be harmed. The threats were repeated over the telephone, the news bureau said, and the caller insisted on the ransom, saying he would call later. Shortly after 11 a.

m. Detective Chief Walter Storms hurried from the scene of the kidnaping at 5943 Kenmore avenue, a two-story duplex house, to the Summerdale police station, collected six squads of police men and raced west with them. THREE FBI AGENTS with Degnan as did Sheriff Michael Mulcahy of Cook county (Chicago), a friend. Police Commissioner John C. Prendergast, who took office only seven days ago, assumed personal charge of the case.

The Degnan home is on the corner of Kenmore and Thorndale avenues, in a middle class neighborhood on Chicago's north side. The residence is a large brick house set well back from the street and surrounded by shrubbery. The owner the house, Atty. A. Louis Flynn, lives on the second floor, the Degnans on the first.

Prendergast gave this account of the kidnaping: Suzanne was sleeping alone in the back bedroom. A sister, Betty, 10, was asleep in another room. The windows of Suzanne's room were unlocked. THE KIDNAPER ENTERED the bedroom either by using a seven foot ladder which was found near an incinerator in the back yard or could have reached the window from the rear porch. At 1:30 m.

the Flynn's negro maid, Ethel Hargrove, 55, said she heard a commotion in the child's room, directly below, and that the Flynns' two boxer dogs were barking. The maid said she heard Suzanne pleading: "I'm sleepy." Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keegan, son-in-law and daughter of the Flynns, drove into the garage and said they heard the dogs barking, but saw no one. Degnan also heard the dogs but thought they merely had awakened and challenged the Keegans.

The remainder of the night passed quietly. When the child was missed, the ransom note was found on the iloor near Suzanne's bed. WRITTEN IN PENCIL a piece of oil-smeared paper, the note demanded that the ransom be paid in $5 bills. The child was wearing blue pajamas and none of her heavier clothing or bedclothing was taken Irom her room by the kidnaper. Degnan, who earns approximately $7,500 a year in his government position, pleaded "someone may think I have a lot of money but I haven't--and I have no way of getting money.

All that I can ask is that the girl be returned unharmed." Degnan, who is in charge of board operations for the Chicago Metropolitan OPA district, came to Chicago from Washington a year ago. Mrs. Degnan came from Baltimore six months ago. HIS WORK DEALS with personnel and management of ration boards, not with price fixing or rationing. James F.

Riley, OPA Metropolitan director, said he knew of nothing in Degnan's that would have prompted anyone to kidnap the child. Before entering government service in 1S42 Degnan had a tire SM 2 Hits Proposed British Loan Washington--OT--Rep. Murray (R-Wis) said yesterday "everyone knows" that the proposed loan'to Britain "will be used for bombs and bullets to take the lives of innocent people in Java, Indo-China and other countries." Murray said in a statement that this country is providing $2,700,000,000 for the United "Nations relief and rehabilitation administration and added: "We should not nullify these Christian objectives i i Britain or any other country the funds with which to carry on an imperialist war to destroy human beings. "The time has come to tell Britain and all countries that the American people are not going to give further from their depleted resources any money to any country that does not subscribe aiid support the principles of the Atlantic charter." The proposed loan of $4,400,000,000 to Britain is expected to go before the house soon. Administration leaders, although admitting strong opposition, predict its passage.

MOVIE SAVES FAMILY'S LIFE. Because their son coaxed them into going to a movie Friday night, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Cox escaped death in the wreckage of their home at Palestine, when tornado struck.

Mrs. Jimmie Farris, left, looks over the remains of their home with Mr. and Mrs. Cox. (NBA Telephoto.) Illness Is Fatal To E.

Stenstrom Former Local Man Dies at Bessemer Stenstrom, 54, veteran of World War died at his home on 106 East Longyear street Sunday morning at 11:25 o'clock. He has been ill for the past several months. Born in Ironwood on Sent. 1, 1891, he resided there until he moved to Bessemer about years ago. For the past seven years he has been employed as auto mechanic in the Gogebic county road commission garage.

Following graduation from the Luther L. Wright high school he worked in the Newport Mining Co. the Twin City and I Ford garages of Ironwood, sub-! sequently being employed for a time as a car salesman in Ironwood. He was a member of the Peter Gedda post of the American Legion. On New Year's Day he and Stenstrom, the former Mayme Maurin of Ironwood, observed their eleventh wedding anniversary.

In addition to his wife he is survived by two children, Robert, 9 years old; and Maurine, 8. Also surviving him are two sisters, the Misses Selma and Evangeline Stenstrom of Ironwood; three brothers, Charles, Kenosha; Albert and Meller, of Ironwood; and a foster brother. Luther O. Anderson, also of Ironwood. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the J.

J. Frick funeral home, with the Rev. F. E. W.

Kastman officiating. Interment will be at Riverside cemetery, Ironwood. The remains are at the J. J. Friek funeral home, which will be open on Monday evening until time for the services.

Hirohito 1 White Horse Now Is a Lieutenant's Souvenir Says Pope's Name is Banned in Poland Chicago--(IP)--The Rev. Aloysius Wycislo, a Catholic priest recently returned from Poland declared today the name of the Pope can not be mentioned in the Catholic pulpit or press of Poland as the result of a censorship imposed by the present Polish government. Father Wycislo said in an interview that Polish priests and bishops had told him "they could not say what they pleased in church and that they were not allowed to mention the name of the holy father in press or pulpit." Watchman in Copper Country Is Killed Atlantic. Mich. (IP) John Heikkinen, 55, employed as a fireman and watchman at the Stratton handle factory, was killed today when a pile of sawdust, used for fuel at the plant, toppled and buried him.

Gen. Morgan Ignores Order of UNRRA Frankfurt. Germany ()-- Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick E.

Morgan was understood today to have received a message summoning him to UN- RRA headquarters in London but he remained in his office standing firmly on his refusal to resign as UNRRA administrator in Germany. It was authoritatively stated that Gen. Morgan is "making no pians to go England." UNRRA headquarters in London had announced that Gen. Mor gan had been asked to come to London to resign. Hakkinen Rites On Wednesday Township Resident Stricken Saturday Funeral services for Matti Hakkinen, 74, who died suddenly in Ironwood township Saturday afternoon at 1:20 o'clock of a heart attack, will be held Wednesday at the Finnish National Lutheran church at 2 p.

the Rev. J. Hirvi officiating. Born in Toysa, Vaason Laani, Finland October 20, 1871, Mr. Hakkinen' came to the United States and settled in Ironwood in August, 1900.

After residing here for several years, he moved to Herman, where he operated a blacksmith shop until 1920, when he returned to Ironwood, where he has lived since then. Mr. Hakkinen was married to Miss Sofie Hakkinen, who survives him, on August 5, 1894, in Finland. A golden wedding anniversary was observed by the couple in August 1944. Besides his wife he is survived by two daughters: Mrs.

Emil Tilman, Cleveland; Mrs. Arne J. Kujanson, Ironwood; and four sons: Arvid, at home; Waino, Ironwood township; Theodore, Ironwood, and John of Marquette, and seven grandchildren, 2 great- grandchildren and two brothers in Finland. The remains may be viewed at the Ketola funeral home Tuesday evening. On Wednesday morning they will be taken to the church, where they will lie in state until time of services.

Interment will be in the Riverside mausoleum. Wisconsin Ahead of Michigan in Drive Washington --(IP)-- Wisconsin placed seventeenth among- the states of the nation in the treasury's official standings in bond sales in the victory loan, the treasury department announced. Wisconsin sold 117 per cent of its $45,000,000 Minnesota was tenth on the list, and Michigan thirty-fourth. North Dakota led the nation. Pearl Harbor Committee May Study Forrestal Criticism Waihington --(IP)-- Rep.

Keefe R-Wis said today the Pearl Hnr- bor committee may have something to say about Secretary of the Navy Forrestal's official criticism of Adm. Harold R. Stark. Last August 13 Forrestal directed, in reviewing navy inquiries into the Japanese attack, that Stark "shall not hold any position in the United States navy which requires the exercise of superior judgment." Without expressing any opinion on the matter, Keefe told a reporter: "That is one matter with which I shall certainly want to deal when the committee gets down to writing its report." In the light of Stark's testimony before the senate-house inquiry last week, members were reluctant to discuss publicly Forrestal's censure. But one Democratic member, asking that his name not be used, said he thought "an injustice was done to stark." A Republican member, who also wanted to remain anonymous commented: "I can't understand the difference in official treatment accorded him" and Gen.

George C. Marshall, former army chief of staff. Stark testified last week that as. chief of naval operations in 1941 he believed he had fulfilled his full duties by sending to Adm. Husband E.

Kimmel, then Pacific fleet commander, a "war warning" message on Nov. 27, 1941, and 'supplementing it later by notice that the Japanese had ordered their consuls to burn their codes. i. Yokohama --(JP)-- First Frost, the white stallion from Empei-or Hirohito Imperial stables, was hoisted aboard a Liberty ship today as an American army lieutenant's souvenir, and within two weeks will be prancing on a San Francisco dock. The horse that lured 50.000 curious service men to Meiji stadium for his only occupation appearance goes to the United States as the trophy of Lt.

Dick Ryan, former Hollywood stunt man who staged rodeos for the army in the Pacific. "I have turned down all motion picture offers for First Frost and will show him at veterans' hospitals and civic events," Ryan said. An army report disclosed today that the Japan Racing association early in the occupation offered First Frost to General MacArthur, but he declined. The association then decided to give the horse, valued at. 15,000 yen to a representative of the U.

S. army and transferred the papers to Ryan for 1,000 yen. Ryan said he had an official report by Capt. Alan Summers, army investigator who checked on the horse, that First Frost "originally belong- to the imperial household" but later was 'sold to the association bacause the horse was very nervous and it was impossible to hold him down for parades or inspections for which Hirohito needed him. Capt.

A. O. Johnson (330 Owen Drive), Madison, helped arrange transportation for First Frost. Forecasts UPPER MICHIGAN Cloudy and colder tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and little change in temperature.

WISCONSIN Partly cloudy and colder tonight. Tuesday fair with rising temperature west and partly cloudy east portion. TEMPERATURE Maximum for 24 hours ending at noon today, 31 degrees; minimum, 22 degrees. County, School Tax Deadline on Jan. 9 Deadline for payment of county and school tax payments without penalty is Wednesday, January 9, City Treasurer William Pollari reminded today.

Total county and school obligations paid to date amount to $146,692.06 while city taxes collected totaled $226.361.15. Recent payments of county and school taxes were made by the Oliver'Iron Mining company, Lake Superior District Power company, 12,620.99, and the Republic Steel corporation, $57,981.78. SOPPLY roy Lutes, above, is new commander of the Army Service Forces, succeeding retiring Gen. Brehon B. Somervell.

General Lutes, from Cairo, 111., will direct supply -lines for U. S. troops scattered throughout the world. Prefer to Deal With CIO Union Companies Against Fact Finding BULLETIN Waihington Fourteen oil companies served notice on government fact- finders today that they preferred i negotiations the ClO-Oil Workers union over wage demands to continuation of fact-finding hearings. Washington oil fact- finding panel reconvened today with signs that the oldest postwar wage dispute--between the ClO-oil workers and a large segment of the industry--is nearing settlement.

Agreement on an 18 per cent wage increase for the Texas company's West Tulsa refinery, matching the amount Sinclair refining company previously had settled for at all its operations, was regarded by government officials as a significant break in the three and one-half month dispute. THE UNION STRUCK in September for a 30 per cent increase, leading to navy seizure of 53 refineries and pipelines on October 4. The Texas company development, and its possible effect in setting a pattern for the balance of the industry still under navy operation, served to ease the tension slightly as the nation entered one of its most crucial weeks since V-J Day. Strikes in steel, electrical manufacturing and meat packing industries are scheduled to begin in order on Monday, Tuesday and Wedesday of next week, idling 1,100,000 workers. This number would augment the strike of CIO-Auto workers at General Motors, ClO-glassworkers at Pittsburgh plate glass and Libbey- Owens-Ford and an independent union at 21 Western Electric plants in New York and New Jersey.

With only a week remaining to avert the additional shutdowns, there are these prospects, aside from whatever may stem from the oil fact-finding inquiry: President Truman's fact-finding panel has asked the U. S. Steel corporation and CIO- Steelworkers to resume collective bargaining. Government a sources say they are hopeful the company will make its first counter offer to the union's demands for a $2 daily wage increase. Such an offer, these persons said on the understanding their names would not be used might influence CIO president, Philip Murray, to call off or delay the industry wide strike of 700,000 members of its steel union now set for January 14.

The fact-finders may call company and union representatives to Washington this week to discuss preliminaries to -the inquiry, due to be completed by February 10. GENERAL MOTORS--the fact- finding board which has finished its inquiry into the strike of 175,000 CIO-Auto workers over a 30 per cent wage increase demand likely will report to Mr. Truman by Wednesday or Thursday. Although the corporation did not participate in the fact-finding proceedings, it could consider the board's recommendations as a basis for negotiating with the union toward settlement of the 49- day-old strike. MEAT PACKING Government economists and wage-price policy administrators worked to clarify the government's position on a price increase for the "big four" meat packers.

This might permit an acceptable compromise to be proposed at a series of Chicago meetings arranged by Conciliation Chief Ediar L. Warren for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The 200,000 ClO-Packinghouse workers may be joined by the 135,000 AFL meat cutters in their demands for a 30 per cent wage boost. A break in any one of the cases could lead to a solution of all the disputes involved. The ClO-United Electrical workers late Saturday scheduled their LABOR--Page 2 2,000 in France Also Object to Shipping Delay Soldiers March on Camp Sunday Paris (IP) Two thousand I soldiers in the U.

S. army's rede- 1 ployment Camp Boston at Le Havre marched to camp headquarters yesterday protesting delays in their shipment home, Stars and Stripes said today. The army newspaper said the camp commander accepted a latter addressed to Theater Commander Gen. Joseph T. McNarney which stated the men had been given four readiness dates the last Jan.

2 and were now informed they would not be moved into the port area before Jan. 15. Waihington (if)-- The White House said today President Truman has no action under consideration in connection with demonstration by army enlisted men in the Philippines protesting a slowdown in demobilization. Press Secretary a G. Ross, asked at a news conference whether the president was considering action on the G.I.

protest at Manila, told reporters: "None has been taken and none is now under consideration." Manila-- OT-- Harbor authorities reported today that at least 10 troop transports with a capacity of 40,000 to 50,000 were due to reach here by Jan. 16. However, under the present point system the army and navy together have less than 3,000 men eligible to sail this month because December shipments had largely cleared the debarkation depots. Reject Plan at Mosinee Camp Union Explains Its Compromise Stand Conciliators assigned to the dispute between Local 15 of the International Woodworkers of America, CIO, and the Mosinea Paj.er Mills company said today a compromise which with thu approval of the company was rejected yesterday by ttie union. The walkout, called about tivo weeks ago after announcement that the Mosinee company had sold its Michigan holdings to the Roddis Lumber Veneer company, affects two lumber camps south of Wakefield.

Federal department of labor representatives were called into the case last week after the Mosi- company refused to comply with a war labor board directive granting a 10 cent hourly wage increase, retroactive to April 26, 1945. The union accuses the company, in a resolution to continue the strike, of making counter proposals which would negate the directive and engaging in various other "dilatory tactics in order to stall the negotiations and prevent a successful culmination" of them. The resolution, drawn up yesterday, states in part that the em- ployes will remain on strike until full recognition has been received from both the Mosinee Paper Mills company and its successor, the Roddis Lumber Veneer company. Walter J. Patterson, director of conciliation of the state labor mediation hoard, is the conciliator in the local strike.

OKU. ARK. CM of Mexico TORNADO AREA--Map shows Texas area where tornado ripped a path of death and destruction. Arrows indicate towns Telephoto Gen. Marshall Sees Progress Meets With Chinese Reds and Government Chungking () Gen.

George C. Marshall met today with government and Communist peace negotiators and at the end of the first historic session declared that "we have made progress." President Tuman's special envoy, making his first comment since he stepped into the midst of the Chinese negotiations after the rivals agreed to methods leading to a truce, said the conferences would be resumed tomorrow. Marshall met for about three hours with Gen. Chou En-lai, head of the delegation the Communists sent her to talk peace, and Gen. Chang Chun, represant- ing the Chinese government.

All three emerged smiling from the conference. Both Chang mid Chou agreed with Marshall that progress had been made. Earlier Chou had predicted that a truce halting the spotted fighting in China's civil turmoil would be made effective before Thursday, when China's all-party conference opens its peace meeting designed to skirt the peril of civil war and work out a program of peace and unit. It was reported reliably that the "cease fire" order would given when the committee three concludes its work, possibly tomorrow. After the conference, Marshall told reporters it would be "highly undesirable" to disclose the character of the talks now, but promised that a full statement would be finished.

made when they are Police to Enforce Double Parking Ban Strict enforcement df the existing regulations against double- parking in the downtown district will go into effect immediately, Chief of Police Thomas announced today. McRae The police chief also cautioned motorists of the one-hour parking limit imposed in the shopping district during the hours between midnight and 6 p. m. Want-Ads Provide Way To Reach Big Audience Your daily newspaper affords every Gogebic Range family a way of reaching its subscribers at small cost. By inserting a Want-Ad on the Globe's Classified Page you can place your message before more than seven thousand families in Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon counties quickly and at small cost.

A 15-word Want-Ad for' example can be inserted for three consecutive days for only $1.20 or six days for the bargain rate of $1.80. Additional words cost only a few cents more a day. On The The Ironwood Daily Globe The Newspaper of Ihii Goflcbic Martha Grose Is Dead at 56 Funeral Rites to Be Held Wednesday Miss Martha Helen Grose, 56, of 626 Pabst street died Sunday morning at 11:20 o'clock at Runstrom's hospital. She had been in ill health for six years. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Nyberg-Miller funeral home by the Rev.

A. C. Hellert of St. Luke's Lutheran church. Thursday morning the remains will be taken to Wausau where burial services will be conducted at 2:30 p.

m. at Pinegrove cemetery. Miss Grose was born in Wausau March 11, 1889. She came to Ironwood in June, 1908, and resided here ever since. She was employed in the former William Brenzel tailor shop in Ironwood for 15 years and in the John Cychosz tailor shop in Bessemer for 17 years, retiring in 1939.

She is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Joseph Schwartz of Ironwood, Mrs. Eric Hoppe of Wausau, and Mrs. Alfred Zehetner of Milwaukee. The remains may be viewed at the funeral home until the time of the services.

Shout Approval Of Demands for An Investigation Noisy Meeting in Manila Is Orderly By JOHN GROVER Manila (IP)-- At least 12,000 American soldiers jammed into the shell-battered ruins of the Philippines hall of congress tonight for a noisy but orderly protest to the demobilization slowdown and thundered approval of a resolution calling for a congress- sional investigation. Boos rang through the hall as an enlisted man, acting as chairman, read a statement from Lt. Gen. W. D.

Styer, commanding army forces in the western Paci- fie, explaining the delay in homebound trips. EARLIER. THOUSANDS of milling enlisted men had marched to Styer's headquarters and sent in a committee of five, which was told by the general that the "changing international situation" prevented sending all eligible men home at once. Long before 6 p. servicemen began gathering and climbing the twisted masonry fronting the great flight of ruined steps to the capitol entrance, where a make-shift stage had been set up with a wheezing loudspeaker.

By the time T-4 Harold Schiffrin, Rochester, N. the chairman, called the meeting to order the triangular lot in front of the legislative hall was packed with thousands of soldiers. They cheered as one by one enlisted men took the stage and spoke their mind. SPEAKERS exhorted their listeners to write their congres- men, and declared the war department was changing the rules on redeployment. One soldier orator asserted that "the only thing they (the war department) ever managed to snark up worse was the draft." "Bear in mind," Styer's statement said, "it took us 30 months to build our strength in the western Pacific, yet it has been reduced in four months fay two-thirds." The statement said there still remained much work to do, supplying occupation forces in Japan, Okinawa, Korea and elsewhere, "rolling up" unnecessary bases and disposing of surplus property." Meanwhile, a charge was hurled that a uniformed man, representing himself as an officer, examined hundreds of soldiers telegrams to congress which already had been turned in to a cable office here.

The charge was made by Earl Baumgardner, manager of the Manila branch of the Radio Corporation of America, shortly after the soldiers demonstrated outside the office of their commanding general and called another mass meeting for tonight. THE MANAGER DECLARED that whoever the man was, he had no authority to examine the files, violated the civil and crim- codes, and he had called the matter to the attention of Lt. Gen. W. Styer, commanding army forces in the Western Pacific.

"You can be certain that the examination of the cable office files was without the knowledge or approval of General Styer," said Lt. Col. A. A. Kurd, public relations officer.

"No statement can be made until an investigation is completed to determine whether any investigator of this command is guilty." Earlier a committee of five soldiers personally placed the men's complaint in the hands of Styer after a parade of about 3,000 soldiers to headquarters during the morning. Styer told the committeenien, that the "changing international situation" forbade sending all eligible men home immediately. MILITARY POLICE said all the demonstrations had been orderly, and even good-natured, but Styer asked that a mass meeting planned for later today be called off. The committeemen sale' it was too late to do so, and estimated 10,000 men would attend. The general declined an invitation to address the meeting, but said he would make a statement through the press and radio.

"No matter how good your intentions," Styer told the committee, "I am afraid some hotheads will cause trouble and somebody will get hurt." The general also said that the Ten Under Arrest in Cairo Demonstration Ten nerson were mass would have a bad 0 of the THE I SPEAKERS, counseling the men against excesses, said they hoped to put their case before congressional investigating committees scheduled to visit Manila. They also said they wanted to. place their protests before Secretary Patterson, who had been scheduled to reach Manila today from Tokyo. But Styer told the G.I. committee that Patterson sent word he had decided to by-pass demonstrations last night in which thousands of youths, marching in the funeral procession of assassinated Senator Amin Osman Pasha, shouted for revolt against the government.

The demonstrators, shouting "down with (premier) Nokrashi Pasha," hurled stones at the presidential palace before they were finally dispersed by club-swinging policemen. Osman Pasha, Wafdist senator and former finance minister, died early yesterday from three gunshot wounds in the back, inflicted six hours earlier in the crowded opera square. Police arrested a 25- year-old suspect, reportged to be the ''509 of a high government official, in connection with the assassination. Manila. Styer, flanked by Maj.

Gen. Walter A. Wood chief of staff, and Maj. Gen. Russell B.

Reynolds, in charge of personnel, told the GJ. committeemen a the AFWESPAC has been reduced to SM MANILA--.