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Envoys' purpose to wreck Hurley tells probe group WASHINGTON. (UP). Patrick J. Hurley, resigned ambassador to Qhirja, charged Wednesday that career diplomats in China wanted to give lend-lease arms to Chinese communists with the deliberate purpose of destroying the central government of Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-Shek. HURLEY TOLD the senate foreign relations committee that the man who led this policy was George Atcheson, theq serving as counselor at the American embassy in Chungking.

Atcheson later returned to this country and then was assigned as adviser to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo. Hurley recounted that about last Jan. 20 or 21 he called in the heads of all American agencies in China and explained to them what he considered the American policy support of the Chungking government with the object of keeping its armies in the war against Japan. HE SAID NOBODY dissented from these views at that time.

When he later returned to Washington for conferences, Hurley said, he was by a letter from Atcheson, who had been left in Chungking as charge Hurley said Atcheson confirmed most of his policies, but recommended that lend-lease arms be supplied to the communists. According to Hurley, Atcheson said he had the and acquieserce of every official of the HURLEY EMPHASIZED that the communists actually never did receive lend-lease arms. he (Atcheson) point out that the objective was to get See HURLEY, Page 5. Col. 5.

2 Outlook is good on tires To release new casings finntln burning jpurnal POUNDED IN 1881 LINCOLN 1, NKBRASK a WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5. 194 5 FIVE CENTS LEADS IN BRAZIL General Eurico Dutra (above), the lead over three opponents in returns from presidential elections in Brazil. Gen. Dutra has the backing of former President Getulio Vargas. (AP wirephoto.) Steer brings $10 lb.

Sell champ at Chicago CHICAGO. The grand champion steer of the Chicago market fat stock show sold at auction Wednesday for $10 a pound, an all-time record for this and the pre-war International Livestock Expositions. Slow bidding, coaxed by Auctioneer Roy Johnston, Belton, started at $2 until John R. Thompson, head of a national restaurant chain, finally bought the purebred Shorthorn steer shown by Joe Duea, 31, of Belmond, la. Joint plan not bv Roosevelt iproved I Refused sign with British WASHINGTON.

(JP. Congressional invesigators learned Wednesday that the late President Roosevelt declined to approve on June 7, 1941, a Britlsh-Amer- ican plan for joint military operations in the event the United States became Involved in war. This was brought out in records submitted to the senate- house committee investigating the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. They showed, however, that Mr.

military aide, Maj. Gen. E. M. Watson, told war department officials that case of war, the papers would be returned to the president for his THEY ALSO showed that on Aug.

29, 1941, Mr. Roosevelt approved a joint Canadian- United States basic defense plan. Earlier, the committee was told there was no evidence that the Japanese ever broadcast, prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, the so-called message signally a break with the United States. William D. Mitchell, committee counsel, read the records in the course of questioning Lt.

Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, former head of the war plans division, about military staff conferences which had been held with the British before the Pearl Harbor attack. GEROW TOLD of conferences in Singapore and Washington in 1941 when military leaders of the two nations agreed on joint plans of operation, contingent upon American involvement in the war. Gerow said the plans drafted at Singapore, widely nown as the ABCD (American, British, China, Dutch) plan, were preliminary and never received formal approval from anyone in See PEARL HARBOR.

Pg. 8, C. 2. DUEA, WHO owned the steer jointly with Carl Henkel, Mason City, business man, will realize $11,050 on the basis of the weight of 1,105 pounds, plus more than $1,300 in prize money. Highest previous price paid for a grand champion at the Chicago shows was $8.25 a pound for a cross bred Aberdeen-Angus, owned by Elliott Brown of Rose Hill, a junior exhibitor at the 1929 international ex- po.sition.

Thompson, the successful bidder, said the steer would be served at one of his Chicago restaurants W. H. TOMHADE, Chicago, secretary of the Aberdeen-Angus association, said the total price paid for was a new world record and the second highest price ever paid by the pound for a show steer. The highest previous price of record, 'Tomhade said, was for an Aberdeen-Angus, sold at the Eastern States fair, Springfield, in 1933. That steer, of lighter weight than sold for $11.15 a pound, a world record, brought its owner $10,202, or $848 less than Duea received Wednesday.

An all-time record price of $2 a pound was paid for the grand champion carload of steers, Herefords, shown by Karl Hoffman, Ida Grove, and Robert Storz, Omaha, Neb. The Wrigley building restaurant, Chicago, bought the load of 15 steers, total weight 15,330 pounds for $30,660. Realtors to study plan for housing WASHINGTON. P). Tire prospects are looking up.

The first new casings to be released to civilians by the army and 400,000 of reach the market in about a month. And these, which bolster hopes for an end to around New Years, will be followed by surplus offerings of auto, truck and tractor tires at a for some time. THIS DISCLOSURE by spokesman for the consumer goods division of the War Assets corporation followed announcement that the government is stepping out of the rubber-from-alcohol business because lower-cost petroleum plants can meet the national demand for synthetic rubber. The three plants erected at a cost of $117,000,000 to use grain alcohol for synthetic rubber making are being dosed immediately on orders of the Reconstruction Finance corporation. a WHETHER decision would touch off another controversy remained to be seen.

Farm interests since early in the war have supported the grain alcohol operations and opposed their curtailment. Recent new estimates that 300,000 tons of natural rubber will reach the United States from liberated and other areas in the next year made it unlikely, however, that the alcohol plants would see use again. REASON FOR abandonment of the alcohol plants was dollars anti G. See AUTO Page 5. Col.

4. 100 attend Bormann death plot with Adolf Bernie Masterson is Nebraska coach Lincoln and to partly cloudy and slightly warmer Wednesday night, with lowest temperature near 38. Thursday partly cloudy and slightly warmer with highest temperature near 56. to partly cloudy Wednesday night and Thursday. Warmer Wednesday night except little temperature change in extreme northwest, lowest temperature 35-40.

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Possibility of using such government construction as the housing units at Hastings naval air depot and some structures at Lincoln Army Air Field as stopgaps until residence construction can get under way in Lincoln, was discussed at length by realtors at their meeting Wednesday noon. As a result, President Walter Bloomfield named a committee to look into hte matter and take such action as seemed advisable. On this committee are Harvey Rathbone, John Bogan and William Steele. Most of the meeting was devoted to reports of the national convention at French Lick Springs, last week, by President Bloomfield, State President Henry Austin, and Irvin Leudtke, state executive vice president. The board approved several recommendations adopted at that convention: a RELEASE ALL new housing construction from rent control, to encourage a flow of new rental building and make for full em- polyment; abolish the new six- months rule on evictions, which tends only to tighten the supply of houses offered for rent; decontrol rents in the many areas that are approaching normal, and put elasticity into rent cpntrol administration as mandated by eight amendments adopted in the 78th congress.

It was generally agreed that trouble shooting must be done at Washington, tho attempts to get relief from the local OPA might not be entirely futile. meeting on evangelism Love is said most powerful More powerful than the atomic bomb are the forces of love and good will, declared Lin D. Cartwright, associate editor of the Christian Evangelist, at the one-day conference on evangelism at the First Presbyterian church Wednesday. Over 100 ministers and laymen were in attendance at the meeting, sponsored by the Nebraska council of churches and the Lincoln Ministerial union. Similar meetings are being held thruout the United States this week.

ONLY REALLY revolutionary idea ever released to the said the speaker, the doctrine promulgated by Christ, that men should love one He pictured the apostle Paul as he caught the vision of such a doctrine, the building of a world in which men had been remade thru the influence of Christianity, in contrast to the hope of Alexander the Great to build a world on Greek culture. a HAVE BEEN shaken by a terrible he said, referring to the war just ended, in its process the shackles have fallen from ministers everywhere and they stand now with dignity. Humanity is asking their advice, and the advice ministers can give is believe in Jesus Christ and be saved, with the rest of IN AN AFTCRNOON symposium on the church and lay evangelism Albert P. Shirkey, pastor of the Travis Park Methodist church, San Antonio, declared that every minister be a skilled surgeon of the soul in dealing with people individually. We are living in a tired he said.

See EVANGELISM, Page 5. Cl. 3. German aidatrix lelh lurid tale OBERURSEL. Germany.

(iP). Capt. Hanna Reitsch, German aviatrix who flew the last nazl plane out of Berlin, has told U. S. counter intelligence investigators that the missing Martin Bormann joined in a death pact with Hitler few hours before the German capital fell.

The 33-year-old pilot gave a graphic description of the final hours of Hitler and his companions in a reichschancellery bunker, but said she left upon the orders before suicides were carried out. a a a the army took her story off the secret list Wednesday with the comment that it was as accurate a description as will be obtained of those last Bormann, aide to Hitler, chief of the nazi S. A. (Storm Troops) and head of the volkssturm, the militia called to action in the final weeks of the war, is being tried in absentia by the international military tribunal at Nuernberg for war crimes. The drama of the end bordered on comic opera as Russian shells burst overhead, according to Capt.

Reitsch. She said Hitler berated Goering, Himmler and others as traitors while going thru the motions of directing a phantom rescue army that had been wiped out days before. a a SHE REPORTED further: Goebbels, surrounded by his wife and six children, launched into bursts of oratory with all the theatrics of a ham actor. Eva Braun became disgustingly dramatic. Blank-faced Bormann kept at his desk, writing a historical record of the finish of nuzism.

As the Intensity of the Russian barrage increased, the shaking fuehrer, on the verge of collapse, called lor repeated suicide rehearsals. S. S. guards, charged with seeing that the bodies were destroyed, stood by. KID RETI RNS- four years in army air forces, Jackie Coogan dons the costume of in which he won fame as a child movie actor to return to show business as master of ceremonies al Slapsie Hollywood.

(AP wirephoto.) Soviet Russia still refuses Iran TEHRAN. (UP). Soviet Russia has refused another request by the Iranian government to permit Iranian troops to move into the rebellious Azerbaijan province, it was disclosed Wednesday. a a a IN REPLY to the latest petition by the Iranian foreign ministry, the soviet embassy said it already had stated its refusal in its note dated Nov. 26 and would not alter the policy.

At that time the Russians said the entry of more Iranian troops into the troubled northern area would increase unrest. Iranian troops are waiting at Sharifabad for Russian permission to proceed. a a AN IRANIAN memorandum dated Dec. 4 expressed confidence that only will Russian military authorities not halt Iran troops who have been sent to Sharifabad, but they will be ready to help the Iran government in the northern provinces in maintaining Recalling the good relations and treaties existing between Iran and Russia, the note concluded with the polite but firm request, you please give immediate orders to allow Iranian troops from Sharifabad to To hear OPA head KEARNEY, Neb. (UP).

Loren N. Mills, director of the Omaha district of OPA, will speak at the weekly chamber of commerce luncheon meeting here next Monday. China moves ffoveiTiiiieiit to Nanking Troops sail! near Miikdeii By Ihe China Wednesday announced movement of part of its government personnel to Nanking from far-inland Chungking, while nationalist troops neared indu.s- trially-rich Mukden in Manchuria. The virtually unchallenged overland drive northward has passed the rail town of Sinmin, 30 miles west of Mukden, Chinese press dispatches said, and is nearing Mukden itself. Fresh fighting with Chinese communists was reported, however, near Kupehkow, a main pass from China proper into hoi province to the north.

From Tientsin came reports of imminent government action against in that area. Truman program stymied Lobar rant standing pat By President proposals aimed to bring peace to the troubled labor front met a solid wall of opposition from the top-ranking union leaders Wednesday. The freshest blast against the suggestions for ending strikes and halting proposed walkouts came from Philip Murray, president of the C.I.O. and head of the C.I.O. united stiH'lworkers union.

ATTACK Tuesday night in a radio speech at Pitt.sburgh followed earlier criticism of the proposed legislation by A.F.Lh President William Green and John L. Lewis, united mine workers presiiient. Other C.I.O. leaders joined with Murray in assailing the pre.si- intervention in the major labor dispute, the walkout of more than 200,000 employes at General Motors plants. the rising union opposition to Mr.

proposals, congressional leaders in Washington went ahead with plans to draft a bill to carry out the program for finding as a means to end industrial strife. House approval of llie proposed measure was predicted by Acting Chairman llamspeck, Ga), of the house labor committee. NATIONALIST officials returned to Changchun, Manchurian capital, to renew neatly-completed Sino-Russian negotiations for airborne transfer of additional thousands of government troops into Manchuria. Cabinet Spokesman P. H.

Chang announced the move of See ASIA. Pahe 8. Col. 5. 2 Union college hoard eonvenes Members of the Union college board, which convened Wednesday for an executive session, met with the student body in assembly Wednesday.

Rev. N. C. Wilson Lincoln, president of the board addressed the group briefly, as did the vice president, Rev. J.

Turner, Fort Worth, president of the Southwestern Union. H. T. Elliott, D. associate secretary of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, who is meeting with the board, read the scripture and also spoke briefly.

Following assembly, leaders of the three unions, northern, central and southwestern, met students coming from their territories. H. A. Morrison, educational secretary of the general conference, was expected to arrive for the board meeting. THE program will be up for study by committees of two major C.I.O.

unions within a few days C.I.O. united auto workers leaders have said the final decision on Mr. appeal for an end of the General Motors walkout would be decided by the strikers. On Saturday delegates representing G. M.

locals will meet in Detroit to draw up recom- See STRIKES. Page 5. Col. 7. 2 Liberty ship still sUtlled near Bermuda NEW YORK.

The Liberty ship Henry Ward Beecher, stricken with loss of her propeller while on her way from Marseille, France, to Norfolk, with 541 homebound war veterans, still lay helpless 510 miles north-northeast of Bermuda Wednesday. The Third naval district said the seagoing tug Restorer, with extra provisions aboard, and several other ves.sels, were on their way to help the Beecher. Help would have reached it earlier, the navy said, If rescue craft had not been given erroneous directions as to the location. One of the rescue ships dispatched to the scene carried extra provisions for the Beecher, whose supplies were reported nearly exhautsed. NEBRASKANS aboard the ship, which should have docked Monday in Newport News, are: Pvt.

Lee C. Seseman, Omaha; Pfc. James M. Boyd, Fairbury; Pfc. William H.

Sutton, Pawnee 2nd Lt. Louis L. Satranek, Omaha, and Albert H. Schwartz, Gretna. I.T.

C'DM. MASTERSON. slop war or fare N. IJ. athlmsseil by jorpeiiseii Despite well-intentioned talk of or the atomic bomb, the fundamental issue the world still must is the necessity of doing without war or face the po.s- slbillty of the destruction of the nations.

Prof. Theodore Jorgensen, University of Nebra.ska pliysieist, said here Wednesday afternoon. The Nebra.ska is on leave of absence from the university working at the atomic bomb laboratory at Lo.s Alamos, N. M. He joined with a group of University of Chicago scientists in 1942 in the work of developing and testing the atomic bomb, a a ADDRESSING A university student convocation at the Student Union building, Professor Jorgensen said: "Suggestions for controlling or outlawing the atomic bomb do not lead one to a happy frame of mind about our prospects, In each of them the fundamental problem of war still remains.

However I believe it does us no harm to look the facts in the face, unpleasant as they are. If we find we can no longer support this sacred in.stltution of war and survive, we must put every effort into arranging our social and political environment so that war is found to be PROFESSOR JORGENSEN discussed six of the suggestions which have been advanced to control atomic power: war on the rest of the world and win world control. 2 Corner the supply of the raw materials. In the lead In the armament race, the atomic bomb secret. our cities.

world authority Former Husker gets job Is awarded 5-year pact BY WALT DOBBINS. F.illfiir, Thf Journal Lt. Comdr. Bernard Masterson is the new head coach of football at the University of Nebraska. Masterson was given a five year contract.

No salary was di.scloscd. He will his coaching dutie.s in January and will be in charge of spring football practice. Masterson will announce his complete staff prior to drills. He sueci'eds George Clark, 1945 mentor, who was hired for a three-month period ending Dec. 1 and Col.

Lawrence McC Jones, the prewar coach, who resigned last week. Ban 7:36 a. p. m. readings for 24 hours ending at 6:30 a.

m. II 1 48 S3 New YoHt 42 27 hadrou 48 34 North Platte 35 20 hleaco S422' Omaha31 27 37 Kaidd Cits 67 39 Molnca 26 21 St. 8421 Ciraad Inland 45 81 SUrax City 89 24 KaoMM Cltjr S9 88 ValenUiie 66 34 Lord Lang, former archbishop, dies LONDON. Cosmo G. Lord Lang, former archbishop of Canterbury.

died Wednesday. Lord Lang, collapsed at railway station and was pronounced dead when he was taken to the Royal hospital at Richmond. He served as arcrbishop of Canterbury for 13 years and as archbishop of York for 20 years. He resigned the archbishopric of Can- Is liltarbury March 31, 1942. to control atomic energy.

a a FIRST SUGGESTION should not be dl.smlssed too lightly. This is the tried and See ATOM BOMB. Page 8. Col. 3.

2 Mercury climbs rapidly in city temperature shot upwards Wednesday afternoon, ending for at least awhile the wintry spell of the past week. Temperatures by mid afternoon were expected to reach 50 degrees, and sink only to 38 Wednesday night. Partly cloudy skies prevailed over the entire state Wednesday, and the weather bureau said they would continue thru Thursday with still rLsing temperatures. Increasing southwesterly winds were anticipated late Wednesday afternoon, presumably diminishing during the night. Temperature ranges for the 24- hours ending at 7:30 Wednesday morning included Scottsbluff 5218, Chadron 48-34, Grand Island 45-31, North Platte 35-20, Omaha 31-27, Valentine 55-34, McCook 54-27, Sidney 60-27, Big Springs 59-24.

Flood bill is awaiting action WASHINGTON. (UP). The $1,131,000,000 first 1946 deficiency appropriation bill, carrying reclamation rivers and harbors, and flood control funds, is await- TIIE OFFICIAL statement to the The board of Inlercolleglate athletics of the llulverslty of Nebraska, thru Its chairman. Dr. R.

D. Scott and with the approval of the hoard of regents, announced Wednesday the appointment of Lt. Bernard Masterson as fouthall coach of the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers. a a LIEUTENANT COMMANDER Masterson was graduated from Lincoln high school in 1930. He earned ten athletic letters at that school, three in football; two in basketball; two in track and three in swimming.

He has the distinction of having never See N. U. COACH. Page 8. Col.

1, 2 Senators 0. K. fund for UNRRA IJiiiled Nations hill wins 65-7 WASHINGTON. The senate Wednesday passed a 550 million UNRA appropriation minus a house provision which would have withheld relief funds from countries denying free access to American press representatives. Passage was on a voice vote.

Senator McKellar Tenn.) told the chamber that the bill was simply to carry out a pledge of last March for the United States to give $1,350,000,000 to the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration. a a HE CONTENDED that the bill was not the proper place for such restrictions as the house section. The senate turned to funds after voting, 65 to 7, for active participation in the seeking United Nations organization. Thus congressional action was completed on the final installment of this original UURRA participation promise. a a a THE HOUSE weeks ago approved the last instalment and Wednesday opened debate on a second $1,350,000,000 pledge.

McKellar well past the dinner hour Tuesday night banged his gavel on senate passage of the UNO bill setting up machinery for this active role in the infant organization. The measure now goes to the house where Chairman Bloom, N. of the foreign affairs committee told reporters he hoped for final passage before the Dec. 20 holiday recess. A UNO ORGANIZATION meeting is scheduled in London next month.

Senate passage found only one democrat. Senator Wheeler, and six republicans, Senators Langer, (N. Moore, Revercomb, (W. Shipstead, 'Taft, (Ohio), and Wherry, voting on the final rollcall. Wheeler protested that the legislation would give any president power to involve this country in war without approval of congress or the public.

ing action of the senate appropria- tions committee. ivyi. As approved by the house, measure carried 77 million dollars SI llOOl DUS VlCllIllo for reclamation projects. All reclamation projects recommended by the house appropriations committee were left in the bill as it went to the senate. HIROHITO ADDRESSES JAPANESE While members of the Japanese parliament bow their heads Emperor Hirohito reads imperial rescript at ttie opening session of the imperial diet in Ui house peers on Nov.

27 Tokyo. (By AP wirephoto Wednesday.) Victory loan Lancaster County Bond Quota $1.664,000 Purchased to date $1,217,772 or an CHELAN, Wash. (UP). Mass funeral rites were to be held Wednesday for 14 children killed when school bus hurtled over a cliif- top road and carried 16 to death in the depths of Lake Chelan. Public services were scheduled for 2 p.

m. in the auditorium of Masonic temple. There flowers banked five small silver caskets lined up side by side. A lakeside memorial ceremony for nine other youthlul victims, whose bodies remained hidden far below the surface, was announced lor later in the day..