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1-aiana State Library I' Capitol Commentator By JACK STINNETT (Associated Press) an ape Ila, I Til REPUBLICAN Vol. 42, No. 179 Established 1840 Rushville, Indiana, Tuesday, October 16 ,1945. Six Pages By Carrier 20c Per Week Washington Incidental Information: The stranger-than-fiction stories of this global war still will be turning up a decade from now like the one the Netherlands Information Bureau here came across recently. about the American in a Japanese prison camp in Java who built a radio receiving set in the hollow7 of his wooden leg.

Gaylord A. Buchanan, Claysville, lost his leg in his third year at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis but permitted to complete his course. An engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Buchanan was captured and interned in Java as the Japanese spread south.

With two tiny acorn tubes another prisoner had salvaged. parts from a wrecked set found in the camp, a charcoal fire and bits of copper. Buchanan built the set into a small aluminum cup and fitted the cup into a recess hollowed out of his wooden leg. A rectifier was built into a battered and discarded Dutch canteen anti an aerial was made of wire supporting mosquito netting over one of the cots. With that the prisoners kept in touch More Facts On Atomic Energy Demanded Today House Committee Seeks Additional Information While CIO Calls for More Tax Reductions.

Washington. Oct. 16 (ZP) A was House Committee called for more facts on atomic energy. The CIO called for bigger tax cuts for small-income people and business. That was part of the story on death and taxes two of the big subjects today in Congress.

In addition: The Senate Judiciary Committee okayed a bill to let President Truman reshuffle government bureaus and commissions with Congress keeping the right to veto any change. That veto proposal may bring on a stiff fight on the Senate floor. The President himself asked Congress to find out whether Puerto Rico independence, statehood, a dominion form of Failure Admitted By Gov't In Bringing Settlement To Strike In Soft Coal Mines AS PIERRE LAVAL FACED This was the scene in the yard of Fresnes prison Monday as Pierre Laval faced a firing squad. This is believed to be the only picture taken of the execution scene. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Paris.) writh the outside the tubes blew out.

A second set wTas constructed by Buchanan and Lt. Louis Emil Biechlin. USN, South Akron. but was too large for Buchan- government or an improved local government. This country, he said in a message, should be ready to give Puerto Rico what it wants.

Secretary of Commerce leg and finally was built in- I lace urged an immediate boost Local Police Department Prepares For Two-Way Radio Made With Wylie Returning As Night Captain to a pair of bath clogs with thick wooden soles over which the genius prisoners tacked strips of crepe rubber. Although Japanese guards watched and in the minimum wage level from 40 to 60 cents an hour. He appeared when a House Committee started work on a bill to bring about the raise for em- amined the prisoners constantly, ployes of companies in interstate the sets never were discovered. business. The CIO said the House-ap- There have been some com- proved tax bill to cut taxes by plaints lately that WACS and I give War Department civilian em-! ployes are being used to answer congressmen's mail, although! why this should be considered I scandalous under the circum- stances is a mystery.

In the Adjutant department, a staff of more than IOO has been assigned to answer I letters to congressmen about de- mobilization. The congressmen I send their queries over to the of- i flee and get back letters for: them to sign and send out. Who is better qualified to an- swer demobilization questions than War Department experts? I And they working for the taxpayers just like members of! congress? If any little I white fraud in a congressman sending these letters out over his own signature, the same any business man employs when Continued on Page Two A shift in the Rushville police department was announced Tuesday by Mayor Manley Abercrombie, following action Saturday by the city Board of Works. The new7 arrangement, which increases the force from five men to six, precedes installation of a two-wray radio system for the local department, expected some time after January I. Faye Wylie, former night patrolman, is returning to the de- New Court Business to the richest individ- uals and corporations.

It proposed to the Senate Fi- I nance Committee a plan to lower as night captain and levies mainly for little firms and will begin these duties at 6 people writh little incomes. this evening. But a leading Republican, Sen- Dilver Melick. who has been lator Taft (R-Ohio), handed un-! --------------------------------------------------expected support to the treas- jy, tax-chopping ideas. Those ACilOflS I ideas differ from both the House I and CIO programs.

The House Military Committee decided to hear four more wit- i nesses Thursday on using atomic energy for a better life-instead of I death to the world. There had been an outcry be- I cause the committee thus far has listened to only four experts on an atomic power bill. These matters were argued in committee rooms, where the real work of Congress is done. The Senate meet today. The Continued on Page Four were Rush Ladies Asked To Return Layettes To Red Cross All ladies in Rush county who are making articles for the layettes or the gray wool dresses are urged to complete them and return them at once to the Red Cross headquarters in the courthouse.

It is urgent that these articles be returned as there is much need for them. Due to a misunderstanding this was incorrectly stated in issue. An appeal for these articles is not being made by the Red Cross. Women of the Main Street Christian church will sew at the headquarters Friday afternoon. Next week the ladies of St.

church will meet for sewing on Monday and Friday afternoons. Woman Recovering From Blast Injuries BONDS for the VICTORS Mrs. Fred Shelhorn, living south of Milroy, is reported to be recovering from injuries suffered in a mysterious explosion a few days ago. Mrs. Shelhorn had cleaned out the garage and, placing the debris in a heavy paper sack, had carried the trash outside I to burn it.

As soon as she touched a match to the sack, a loud explosion occurred which I off the extreme tip of her I right index finger and peppered parts of her body with small metal particles. Dr. R. O. Kennedy, who treated the woman at the City hospital where she was X-rayed, said that many tiny pieces of bright copper had entered Mrs.

legs lrom down. She also was struck about the hands and face, with one lens of her spectacles being damaged. It was not definitely learned what caused the explosion which was so loud that the noise was plainly heard by neighbors on several adjoining farms. Two divorce complaints filed Monday afternoon in (circuit court. Raymond L.

Nicholson, discharged soldier of this city, has docketed a divorce suit against Marjorie Ellen Nicholson. The action sets out that the couple married 17, 1041, and i separated in March of 1945. I Nicholson charges that last January, when he was serving in the Philippines, the defendant abandoned the home of the parents she had been living. She also car- ried on an improper association I with another man, it is alleged. I Nicholson avers that he spent four and a half years in the ar- I my and that he provided an al- 1 lotment for his wife.

He is seek- I ing a divorce and custody of the I three-year-old son who, according to the plaintiff, was abandoned by the defendant. Ruby Ellis of this city has filed a divorce complaint against Dallas Ellis. The couple was married February 4. 1933. land separated October 12, 1945, according to the complaint.

Mrs. Ellis alleges that the de! fendant called her vile names, made false accusations against her and complained to her that I their marriage was a mistake. (She is asking for a divorce, custody of the six-year-old theTknees dau8hter and an allowance for serving as night captain, was transferred to the day shift as a patrolman. new hours, effective Wednesday, will be from 7 a. rn.

to 6 p. rn. Wylie, a WTorld War I veteran, formerly was employed as a night patrolman for more than eight years. He recently has been working at the International Furniture factory. Patrolmen Albert Land and Chester Brodie will continue to work at night with Captain Wylie, while Chief James Waits, Patrolman Ransom Aldridge and Patrolman Melick handle the day-time police duties.

Chief Waits pointed out that the employment of an extra man enable the department to give additional traffic protection at city schools. An officer will be on duty at the Belle Gregg school, in addition to the high school and Havens school. It is planned to have all six police officers qualified to operate the new radio system which the city hopes to install shortly after the first of the year, according to Mayor Abercrombie. This arrangement permit direct communication between police headquarters and officers cruising in the police car. Several small cities have adopted two-way radio systems for their police departments in order to provide better protection.

Arlington Class Will Present Play support. Boy On Motor Scoot Is Injured By Auto Earl Safewright, 16, was injured about the legs Monday afternoon when the motor-scoot he was riding struck an mobile on Spencer street. Safewright told police that he was driving west in the lane leading from the ice plant to Spencer street and that he Vern L. Sparks, field repre- stopped at the latter thorough- sentative of the division of pub- Conservation Official Is Visiting In County Official Coast Guard Photo On Alert. Coast Guardsmen in beach foxhole kept enemy planes from LSTs at Biak with this 20 mm.

antiaircraft gun. Invest in Victory Bonds to help these victors in last clean-up, U. s. Treasury Department lie relations, Indiana Depart- of Conservation, is spend- I ing a week in Rush county, ac- I companying Phil Ward, local conservation officer on numerous visits and missions. Mr.

Sparks will be guest of the Walker township club meeting tonight and will visit the various schools of the county during the week. He also will address the Lions club meeting at Carthage next Monday night. fare. Just as he proceeded, an automobile which had been parked suddenly backed up in I front of him and the two vehicles collided. The youth stat, ed that the driver alighted, I looked over his automobile and then drove away without re- I porting his name.

Police took young Safewright to Dr. Roy Shanks who treated jhim for leg injuries. Front end of the motor-scoot was The Junior class of Arlington will present Crazy Smith I at tile high school auditorium on Thursday and I Friday at 8 p. rn. This I play is the story of one of the I greatest institutions the home.

Mom and Dad Smith I find it difficult to keep up with their four extraordinary children. They take in their stride the son who is a football hero, I the daughter who aspires to be an artist, and the majorette daughter and their pugilistic son, who holds prize fights in the garage, The result is a sidesplitting comedy in three acts. The cast is composed of the entire Junior class. The mcm- of the cast are as follows: I Leatha Carwein, Lois Mitchell, auto- I Eileen Gardner, Rosemarie Orme, Beatrice Coffin, Avanell Adkins, Evelyn Hill, Joe Swain, John Nelson, John Shauck, Bob Veatch, Bobby Gardner. Robert Rouse and John Winslow.

The play is sponsored by Claribel S. Winslow. Survivor Of Iwo lima Campaign Is Speaker At Rotary One of eight men to come back from a company of 265 Marines, Officer Russell Prior of the public relations department of the Indiana state police gave a graphic description of his experiences during the assault on Iwo Jima at the Tuesday noon meeting of the Rushville Rotary club. Pinned down after advancing some fifty yards from the beach by Jap machine gun fire, Officer Prior said he looked back and saw his younger brother whom he had not seen for a long time. At the same time, he said, his bother saw him.

Neither knew what the other was trying to say, because of the noise. The speaker said he would never forget the expression on his face. According to the information, the United States forces were supposed to take Iwo Jima in about seventy hours. There were supposed to be, according to information, 70 caves on the island and 90 pill boxes. It was found that there were 70 caves and 90 pill boxes on every IOO square yards.

The Japanese had been building an underground city on the Island for 23 years. Under the surface was a network of concrete blocks reinforced steel, the speaker said. On the eleventh day. Officer Prior said, during an assault on the northern part of the island, the man next to him stepped on a tank mine. The man was killed and he was severely wounded.

He was protected during the night by the one remaining man of his platoon who had not been a casualty. This man was reported killed an hour after Prior was evacuated. In the hospital more than six Continued on Page Four Four Political Parties Prevail In Berlin Area Washington, Oct. 16 General Eisenhower said today reports indicate a fair and impartially supervised election in Berlin would not support the present Communist party of the government. The general put into his second monthly report on military government in the American zone of occupation a critique on politics in Germany including those in the Russian zone.

Eisenhower declared that one of the political devices fostered by the Communists in a bloc of parties would have no welcome in the American zone. Here is he had to say about Berlin, where the Allied control authority has its headquarters and where the four Allied powers have four zones: organized parties exist there. They were granted permission by the Soviet military authorities to organize and so were functioning when United States forces occupied the U. S. sector of Berlin.

The four parties are the Communist party, the Social Democratic party, the Christian Democratic Union, and the Liberal Democratic party. first two are well organized, active and have a basis of former members on which to I build. The latter two groups are new parties, though drawing support from middle class, Conservative Bourgeois elements formerly associated with the Centrum, the German Democratic party, and the German party. They are less well organized and less active than the Marxist parties. This is especially true of the Liberal Continued on Page Four Budget Slashes Reported Made By State Examiner Budgets of many local taxing units for 1946 were slashed Monday by three representatives of the state tax board who conducted a public hearing here.

Details of the slashes were not available today, pending a written report which will be sent to Auditor Merrill S. Ball, but it was reported that the state tax board men whacked two cents off the county general fund levy. This reduction, which affects the working balance, will make the county general fund rate 38 cents next year. It also was reported that a 1- cent poor relief rate, established by every township, was eliminated. Rushville township, however, had adopted a 2-cent poor relief levy and the cut leaves this township with a I-cent rate.

The tax board representatives contended that all of the townships had a sufficient surplus to handle poor relief next year. Complete information on the actions taken Monday by the tax board representatives will be available when the report is received here. session, which was attended by representatives from every taxing unit in the county, started before 9 a. rn. and lasted until 7 p.

rn. No taxpayers appeared, although it was a public hearing. Requests for additional appropriations for the remainder of this year, filed by eleven of the twelve townships, were approved at the session. John L. Lewis Continues to Dominate The Situation and No Government Seizure Is Planned.

ONE-HALF PRODUCTION PARALYZES INDUSTRY Hidden Japanese Silver Bars Of High Are Located Britian Extends Controls 5 Years London, Oct. 16 (TP) The House of Commons voted 258 to 139 last night to extend the wide wartime controls for five years, after the labor majority beat down a spirited conservative attack led by Former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. Eden, leader of the opposition in the absence of ailing Former Prime Minister Churchill, asserted that the broad powers over the economic life asked by the labor government were as no government has ever before asked in times of Earlier the House rejected 306 to 183 a conservative amendment which would have limited to a maximum of two years the powers under which the government is able virtually to draft labor, to regulat prices of food, clothing, building materials, labor and other services, to direct factories to certain types of production and even to requisition housing. The latter authori-- ty was used principally to provide billets for troops and to shelter bombed-out persons. THINGS GOING ON IN RUSHVILLE TONIGHT Red Cross Disaster institute, courthouse.

Kiwanis club, Odd Fellows temple. Eagles lodge. City council. Princess theater. Stroke Is Fatal To Will S.

Hiner Will S. Hiner, age 76, former Rush county resident and extensively related here, died Monday afternoon at Elwood, following a few days illness resulting from a stroke. He had resided in Elwood for many years. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Ella Hiner, three children, Mrs.

Paul McDaniel of near Knightstown, Mrs. Oren Veatch of near Arlington and Virgil Hiner of Shelbyville. He also is survived by four brothers, Hartzell G. Hiner of near Mays, Frank Hiner of Walnut Creek, California, Harvey Hiner of St. Louis and Jesse Hiner of Rushville, and a Mrs.

Emma Lee of Stillwater, Okla. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at two in the Methodist church at Elwood, and burial will follow in the cemetery at that city. Tokyo, Oct. 16 American division troops have located a cache of Japanese silver bars valued at $1,100,000, it was announced today. The silver, buried in an underground room about IOO miles from Tokyo, was found by a detachment under Capt.

John Hughes of Los Angeles and Lts. Philip Archer, Titusville, and Robert Belmont, Philadelphia. The soldiers started their search after receiving a tip from intelligence officers that a store of silver was hidden in the vicinity of an abandoned machine- shop at Haratsuka, near a naval ordnance plant, said Pfc. Paul A. Toneman, Washington, D.

American division press officer. The owner of the shop had been taken into custody by Japanese naval authorities and was not available for a guide, man said. The soldiers searched the area for hours and were about to give up when Sgt. George W. King of Murphysboro, 111., who was poling around with Continued on Page Four Farm Income Expected To Reach Record High Washington, Oct.

16 (ZP) A new high in farm income is in prospect this year. The Agriculture department today estimated 1945 cash receipts from farm marketings at $20,400,000,000. This compares with $19,790,000,000 in 1944, the previous high, and $7,877,000,000 in 1939. In the first nine months of 1945, cash receipts totaled $14,330,000,000, three per cent above 1944. Receipts from crops were about 16 per cent greater than last year with tobacco and the record wheat crop showing particularly large gains.

Cash receipts from livestock and livestock products ran about five per cent below 1944, resulting11 from the decline in slaughter. Washington, Oct. 16 (ZP) Tile government counted as a failure today its ten-day efforts to settle the soft coal strike, but it had no plans for immediate action. Hope was revived, meanwhile, for a new approach to the broader reconversion wage- price problem. Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach last night wound up to his fruitless negotiations with bituminous operators and John L.

Lewis over the mine unionization issue. The labor secretary said his settlement attempt with 200,000 miners idle and half the normal soft coal production closed down had collapsed. But he still had hopes, he told reporters, for some solution. He added that for the time being the government had no intention of seizing the closed mines. On the wage-price subject, President Truman was reported to a recommendation from war labor members that he set up a new sided group to devise a version pattern.

It was learned the WLB mem- hers themselves demurred from accepting a presidential invitation to establish such a yardstick. position was that as a war agency, already well along in carrying out White House orders to liquidate, it lacked the prestige necessary to frame and carry out a new formula. WLB wrote and enforced the war era formula, which limited basic wage increases to 15 per cent above January, 1941, levels. Under the recommendation, Mr. Truman would create a new group with the same industry-labor-public representation as WTB, but with added weight because of its specific assignment.

The WLB feeling was reported to be that this body might have its wage-price policy ready for consideration by the labor- management conference scheduled to meet here November 5. That gathering has been called to work out some method for handling labor disputes in peacetime similar to the job WLB held during the war. Schwellenbach left the way open for resumption of the coal negotiations, but said he knew of no prospects. He reported the mine operators rejected five separate proposals to agree to negotiate the issue with United Mine Workers union. The operators said their majority, though some mine owners differed, felt any agreement to negotiate would constitute of the foremen.

Lewis said this decision meant the miners locked But Continued on Page Four THE WEATHER INDIANA Clear and rather cool tonight. Wednesday fair and warm. Henry Joyce, 74, Dies At Kokomo Word has been received here of the death of Henry Joyce, age 74, a native of Rushville, which occurred at 9 p. rn. Saturday at Kokomo.

Mr. Joyce, who was a brother of the late John Joyce of Rushville, left here about 25 years ago. He was a retired fireman. He leaves his wife; two daughters, Marie and Helen Joyce of Indianapolis; four sons, Paul of Middletown, and Vincent, Ralph and Leo of Kokomo; one sister, Mrs. Anna Runyon of Muncie; and several nieces and nephews.

William, Bernard, Martin and Francis Joyce of Rushville are nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. rn. Wednesday from St. Catholic church at Kokomo.

Interment will be at 1 Kokomo..