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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-13
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MANILA, July IS - (R -
Aussie Seventh Division Troops,
paced by flame throwers and
tanks, have knitted deep into
Japanese defenses of smashed
stone ridge north of captured
Balikpapan on southeast Born
60 in heavy fighting.
At the same time, headquar-
tiers reported today, Dutch units
joined the Australians in a left
flank march up Kariango Pc
ninsula to execute a brilliant
encircling maneuver against
the entrenched Japanese who
are pocketed some six miles
north of Balikpapan town.
The Borneo campaign is be-
ing fought in steaming, rain
drenched forests and deceptive
boys oVergroWn with mangrove
under a blazing tropical sun.
USE NOVEL TANKS
In the main assault, northeast
of Balikpapan in the Sepinggang
Ketjil river sector, the Austral-
ians are advancing over a scrub
by, rolling terrain permitting
use of their famed medium Ma
tilda" tanks.
In British Northwest Borneo,
the Aussie Ninth Division made
a surprise landing near Andus,
rs miles northeast of Beaufort,
while another column made a
10-mile advance along Beaufort
to the Jesselton narrow-guage
railway without opposition to &C.
cupy Kimanis village, five miles
south of Andus, which has been
Under rally harassing attack
from Australian Airforce Spit
fires based on Labuan and the
seventh fleet of PIT boats.
40 MURDERED
On Mindanao, southern Phil
pines, where japanese scattered
through the Agusan River val
ley and the Davao Gulf area
are being mopped up, prisoner
told oath division officers that
40 Japanese women and children
had been found in the Tamogan
sector with their Threats cut.
The incident renewed speculat-
ton that many other japanese
civilians may resort to mass sui
eide and murder.
According to the prisoner,
Formosan formerly employed by
the Japanese army, the group of
women and children were aban-
doned by the japanese army and
when they were caught between
the lines by an artillery duel, the
frantic mothers killed tn cir
children and themselves.
Evening star., 1945-12-10
First Real Snow .
OF Season Falls.
Colder Toniuht

Washington got its first real snow
fall of the season this afternoon, but
the Weather Bureau said the flakes
probably would melt as fast as they
fell.
The forecaster predicted the large,
wet flakes, which began falling at
1:25 pm, would change into rain
later. The thermometer dropped 10
degrees from As at midnight last
night to IS degrees at 1::30 pm.
Much colder weather tonight and
tomorrow, accompanied by strong
northwest winds and a tempera-
ture drop to about Is degrees in the
morning, was predicted by the
Weather Bureau.
The temperature will remain
below freezing all day tomorrow
and should hit low of about 20
degrees by early Wednesday, the
forecast said.
A high of So degrees was reached
at 1920 pm. yesterday.
Cold and windy weather is pre-
dicted for the entire Eastern sea-
board from New England to the
Gulf States tonight and tomorrow
with temperatures falling sharply.
The coldest weather yet expert
enced this season is anticipated.
Evening star., 1945-12-10
Unurmed Marine Shot in Face
In Attack by Chinese Civilians

from one of them and started back
to Tientsin.
Finally he met Russian woman
who took him to her home, where
her husband removed his wet and
frozen clothing and called the Ma
rines. The Marines brought a
truck and took him to hospital.
The sergeant, whose name was
not announced, had spent 80 months
overseas and joined the 1st Marine
Division in North China last No
vember IL.
The incident followed by four
days the Staying of one Marine and
the wounding of a second by Chi
nese gunmen near a village north
east of here. After the previous
shooting the Marines fired "a mortar
shells into village where the gun
man took refuge.
There was no indication here that
the two shootings were connected.
A Naval Board of Inquiry is in
vestigating the mortar attack in an
effort to learn If any Marine or
Naval officer was blameworthy. The
boards findings probably will be
sent to the Secretary of the Navy
and it Is unlikely any announcement
will be made here.
Evening star., 1945-12-10
Woman Found Slain
In Chicago Hotel.
(See TRUCKERS, Page A.
By the Associated Press


CHICAGO. Dec. 10.-The nude
body of a stenographer, recently
discharged from the WAVES, with
l2-inch bread knife thrust through
her neck, was found today in the
bathroom of her hotel apartment.
The killer left this note in lipstick
on the wall:
For heavens sake catch me be-
fore I kill more. I can not con-
troll myself"
The body of Miss Frances Brown,
80, the breadknife thrust through
her neck, its point and handle pro-
truding beneath each ear, was found
in the bathtub of her blood-spat-
tered, rif1ed apartment when her
roommate returned from spending
the night with a friend.
Police Capt. Frank Reynolds said
the apartment, in the Pine Crest
Hotel on the North Side, showed
evidence of a struggle and the kill
er's message showed peculiarities
which included the use of IN" for
n" in the word Cannot" Capt.
Reynolds said.
Miss Brown, formerly of Rich
mond, Ind, had been dead about two
hours before her body was discov-
cred. Capt Reynolds said it was
lying backward across the edge Of
the bathtub, the head down, with a
nightgown looped about the neck,
concealing the knife.
Evening star., 1945-12-10
Scientist Says Army Secrecy
DELAYED Atom Bomb w Years

Senator johnson asked "how
much delay this caused in produc-
ton for use of the first atomic
bomb?"
DR.. Szilard said the bomb could
have been produced "about the
spring of 1914, according to my best
guess"
That was a delay of l8 months, -
Senator johnson said. lone war
was finished and another near its
end"
DR.. Szilard said earlier he be-
lieved that Adolf Hitler could have
produced an atomic bomb within Is
months If he had realized its poten-
tial destructive power.
Senators Hart, Republican, of
Connecticut, Milliken, Republican,
of Colorado, and Tydings. Democrat,
of Maryland, defended the Army's
secrecy rules.
Evening star., 1945-12-10
.SchweI|enbach SAYS
u. ). Will Not Seize
GIN Plants in Dispute
Calls on Union and
Company to End Row
As Soon as Possible
BULLETIN.

DETROIT P.-The UAW
today proposed to the Ford
Motor Co. a company secur-
ity" plan providing for dis
charge of any employe found
guilty of "fomenting, insti-
eating or giving leadership"
in an unauthorized strike.
The proposal also provides for
financial penalties against any
worker participating in an
unauthorized walkout.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Dec. 10.-Secretary
of Labor Schwellenbach today
said the Government has the
power to seize the struck plants
of General Motors Corp, but
would not exercise it, and called
on both sides to settle their dis
pute "as soon as possible"
The Secretary told press con-
ference it was extremely impor-
tant" to the economic life" of the
Nation that an early settlement be
achieved in the Walkout, which has
made 213.000 General Motors work.
ers idle since November 81.
The Schwellenbach statement
came as the CIO United Automo-
bile Workers prepared to present
to the Ford Motor Co. it's plan to
penalize union workers engaged in
so-called wildcat work stoppages
and walkouts.
Defends Truman Plan.
Mr.. SchWellenbach, in Detroit for
a speech tonight, included in his
comments on the UAW strike at
GIN a defense of President Tru-
mans legislative proposals to help
labor peace in general
Asserting there was no desire on
the part of the President to "de-
stroy" labor unions, he defended his
chief against the attack on Mr..
Truman by Philip Murray, CIO
president. The Secretary pointed to
MIR. Truman's long record of friend
ship for labor"
Mr. Schwellenbach said he would
testify in Congress in support of the
Presidents proposal for the naming
of fact finding bodies to act in ma
jor labor disputes.
The President held up his ap-
pointment of a fact finding group
for the General Motors strike be-
cause the corporation and the auto
workers returned to negotiation, Mr..
Schwellenbach said.
"The philosophy behind the Presi-
dents proposal" Mr.. Schwellenbach
said, sis that the fact-finding boards
(See AUTO WORKERS, Page A-5.J
Evening star., 1945-12-10
BY the Associated Press,

TIENTSIN, Dec. 8 Delayed An
unarned American Marine sergeant
was shot from a horse on the out
skirts of Tientsin late yesterday and
wounded painfully in the face, Ma
rine headquarters said today.
The announcement said the Ma
rine encountered three Chinese CIV
ilians at narrow bridge spanning
an irrigation ditch.
The Marine smiled and greeted
the Chinese, who also smiled and
at the same time drew pistols and
began firing, headquarters said.
One bullet struck the Marine in
the face and he jumped into the icy
waters of the canal. He reported
that two of the Chinese followed
him along the bank, firing at point
blank range, while the third held
his horse.
The Marine said the two Chinese
emptied their pistols, reloaded, and
began firing again until at last he
made his way out of the canal to a
village Of mud huts.
Here, the Marine continued, vii
layers told him they were afraid to
help him, but he obtained a bicycle
Evening star., 1945-12-10
Patton PoroIyzed Below Neck,
Condition Critical After Crash
Nerve Doctors Called
From U. S., England;
Wife Flying to Side
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
| MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec
10.-Nerve specialists were sum-
moned from England and the
United States today to treat Gen
George S. Patton, jr., lying partly
paralyzed from a fractured neck
vertebra which he suffered in an
automobile accident yesterday
His condition remains critical, an
official bulletin at 6 pm. German
time) said.
An earlier Army medical bulletin
announced that Gen. Patton was
completely paralyzed below the level
of the fractured third cervical verte-
bra in the neck and that dislocation
of the fourth cervical was being
closely observed because of the very
serious nature of the injury.
The bulletin said an X-ray showed
the fourth cervical had been pushed
back in place, however.
Gen. Patton was completely ra-
tional and spent a comfortable night
at Heidelberg Hospital, the bulletin
said.
Hurrying to his side by trans
Evening star., 1945-12-10
Restaurant Manager Is Found
Shot Fatally, Woman Wounded
Pistol Discovered in
Apartment Hallway
Near Mans Body

Jack De Cosin. 40, manager Of
Childs Restaurant, 1910 New
York avenue NV, was found
shot to death early today in the
hallway of 2514 @ street NV,
and Miss Margie Suthard, 33,
also a restaurant manager, was
found wounded in her apart
ment on the ground floor Of the
building.
Police said four suicide notes were
found on Mr.. De Cosin's body and
a 45-caliber automatic pistol was
on the floor beside him He lived
at GIT Eighteenth street NV.
Miss Suthard was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital with a bullet wound
in her abdomen and was admitted
in undetermined condition.
The shootings occurred shortly
after 6 am.
According to police one Of the
notes left by Mr.. De Cosin was in the
form of a will. 1t was addressed to
his three children-Jacqueline, II;
Betty, %, and Robert, %, and Or
dered distribution of his property
Evening star., 1945-12-10
Dean Acheson Denies
Hur|ey's Charges Of
Wrec!king Iran Policy
= Says He Opposed
Some Recommendations
Made to Roosevelt
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

UnderSecretary of State Dean
Acheson denied before the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Commit
tee today that he had wrecked
Maj. Gen. Patrick ]. Hurley's
policy in Iran.
He said, however. he had opposed
certain recommendations which Gen
Hurley had made to President
Roosevelt on lease-lend policy in
the Near East
Gen. Hurley was in Iran in 1914
on a special mission for the White
House.
Mr.. Acheson said that in jan
uary, 1945, Gen. Hurley gave the
President a memorandum on policy
in Iran which was submitted to the
State Department. He said he sub
mitted a memorandum to the Sec
retary of State opposing Gen. Hur-
ley's recommendations.
Mr. Acheson then was Assistant
Secretary of State in charge of eco
nomic affairs.
Hurley Charges Read.
Chairman Connally opened the
hearing by. reading the transcript
of testimony taken last Friday when
Gen. Hurley testified that Mr. Ache
son had wrecked his policy in Iran.
He said then he had prepared for
President Roosevelt the Teheran
declaration.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican,
of Michigan, pointed out that Gen.
Hurley did not specify the details
of his charge.
Mr.. Acheson recalled that he said
Gen. Hurley had a heated contro-
versy at the State Department later.
as the result of his opposition. He
mentioned certain phrase" in his
memorandum which the Presidents
envoy resented, but did not iden-
tify it.
"Globalony" Term Used.
Although Mr.. Acheson did not
testify to the fact, it was learned
that the memorandum, which one
Of Mr.. Acheson's assistants pre-
pared, accused Gen. Hurley of deal
ing in "messianic globalony"
The phrase originated with Rep
resentative Luce, Republican, of
Connecticut, who used it in a House
speech criticizing New Deal policy.
Mr.. Acheson testified that during
a talk he had with Gen. Hurley the
envoy made caustic remarks about
his unnamed assistant, because he
was not in the military service. A
heated" argument ensued, he said,
but finally an agreement was
reached that the remarks be ex-
plunged from the record.
At the request of Senator Vanden-
tSee HTTRJ ,EV Pooe A-sl
Evening star., 1945-12-10
j. S.-British Board
Appointed 10 Study
Jewish Migration
Judge Huteheson Heads
Six American Members;
Report Asked in l20 Days
By ], A, FOX,

The composition of the Anglo
American Committee of Inquiry
which will study the whole queS-
ton of Jewish immigration into
Palestine and other means o1
aiding hapless Jews in Europe
was announced simultaneously
in Washington and London this
morning, and at the same time
the American and British gov
ernmentS called on the group OF
IL to speed its study and to re-
port within 100 days.
The committee will operate under
a rotating Craftsmanship.
Federal Judge Joseph C. Hutch
eson of the Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals was named as the Amer
ican chairman.
Other Americans Named.
The other American members
are:
William Phillips, former Under
secretary of State, who has served
also as Ambassador to Italy, per-
sonal representative of the Presi-
dent in India and delegate to the
London Naval Conference of 1885
o. Max Gardner, former Cover
nor of North Carolina and chair
man of the Advisory Committee OF
the Office of War Mobilization and
|Reconversion.
Frank Aydelotte, former president
of Swarthmore College and now
director of the Institute for Ad-
vanced Study at Princeton and
American secretary of the Rhodes
Trust.
Frank w. Buxton, editor of the
Boston Herald.
James G. Mcdonald, formerly
chairman of the board of the For
/Coa TEsyXyC no~a \
Evening star., 1945-12-10
Marshall Saws
Britain Sought
SingaporeAid
Testifies He Opposed
Pressure for Part
Of Fleet in 1941
BY ]. A. O'LEARY and
CARTER BROOKE JONES,

British pressure to persuade
the United States to move por-
ton of her fleet into Singapore
in the months before. Pearl Har-
bor was described to the Pearl
Harbor Investigating Committee
today by Gen. George C. Mar
shall, wartime Chief of Staff.
I'VE were very much opposed to
that" Gen. Marshall testified.
He said he and Admiral Harold
r. Stark, chief of naval operations,
did everything possible to delay the
war in the Pacific which seemed in
evitable because they wanted time
to be better prepared.
THE British were very desirous
of our placing a large number of
vessels at Singapore, said Gen.
Marshall. I'VE were very much op-
posed
Alarmed by Jap Moves.
Gen. Marshall said the British
explained that they were unable to
reinforce their feet in Singapore to
any extent, because of the situation
in the Mediterranean and the At
lantic, and were alarmed at the
menace of the japanese advance
into Indo-China and their threat
ened advance toward Thailand.
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan, who drew these state
ments from the retired chief of
staff, referred to the minutes of a
staff conference November 3, l94l,
little more than month before the
attack on Pearl Harbor. The min
utes showed Secretary of State Hull
had advised no further warnings to
Japan unless we were prepared to
back them up.
Were We in position to back up
additional warnings?" Senator Fer
guson asked.
1--WE were not" Gen. Marshall said
firmly.
Can't Recall Stand on Fleet.
Gen. Marshall also told the COM
mittee on his fourth day of inter-
rogation:
That he is unable to recall what
his attitude was at the time on the
disputed question of basing the Pa
ciflc Fleet in Hawaii in the spring
of 1910.
That in the fall of 1e41 it was
his belief that war between Japan
and Great Britain over Singapore
would have meant war between the
United States and Japan.
That he had felt, in staff discus
sions during the fall of 1941, that
the Army would be in reasonably
good shape to repel an invasion of
our Pacific possessions by Deem
Der S, but there were subsequent
delays, particularly in moving sup
plies and equipment to the Philip
pines, which was considered the
most vulnerable outpost.
did the President confer with
you in regard to this so-called ulti-
matum?" Senator Ferguson in
quired.
Wanted More Time.
II do not recall" Gen. Marshall
replied. Il might add that Admiral
Stark and were always on the side
of delay. We wanted more time to
prepare"
Pressed by Senator Ferguson, Gen.
Marshall could not remember when
he first knew of a message inter-
(See PEARL HARBOR. Page A-121
Evening star., 1945-12-10
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A Chicago University scientist
testified today that unnecessary
military secrecy had delayed pro-
duction of the atomic bomb atleast
18 months. IT
DIR. Leo Szilard offered this testi-
mony before the special Senate
committee investigating atomic
energy.
Senator johnson, Democrat, of
Colorado asked DR.. Szilard about
delays after the latter had criticized
the system of compartmentiliza
tion" evolved by Army officers when
they took over the atomic project in
1912.
DR.. Szilard explained that Army
officers asked the scientists to work
only on parts of the project and
not discuss results with other sci
entists on other parts. He added
this was unnecessary.
Evening star., 1945-12-10
Japan! Urged 10 Enter
War in Spring Of Al,
Nazi Order DiscIoses
Attack on Singapore. Not
Pearl Horbor, Fovored,
Nuremberg Court Told
By the Associated Press

NUREMBERG, Dec. l0.-Ger-
man military leaders were urging
Japan to get into the war in the
spring of 1941, but had no idea
the japanese might strike an
opening blow at Pearl Harbor
according to a hitherto secret
German command order dis
closed today at the Nuremberg
war crimes trial.
American prosecutors laid before
the four-power tribunal a directive
signed March S, l94l, by Field Mar
shal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the
high command, proposing a Japa-
nese attack on Singapore as means
of forcing England to the ground
quickly and thereby keeping the
United States out of the war"
That Keitel was reluctant at that
time to fight America was Seen in
his warning that Japanese attacks
be extended to bases "of American
naval power only if entry of the
United States into the war cannot
be prevented"
Farley Records Cited.
In court session marked by the
plea of innocence by Ernst Kalten-
Drummer, once dreaded No. 2 man in
the Gestapo. American prosecutors
turned to evidence of collaboration
between Japan and Germany in
spreading aggression throughout the
world.
Records of a conference between
German Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop and japanese For
eign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka in
Berlin on March 20, 1941, and April
S, l941, showed that Ribbentrop dis
paraged the japanese fear that
American submarines based in the
Philippines would endanger any
Japanese move against Singapore
In his directive in which he urged
a japanese attack on Singapore,
Keitel wrote:
"The common aim of the conduct
of the war is to be stressed as fore
ing England to the ground quickly
and thereby keeping the United
States out of the war. Beyond this
Germany has no. political, military
Evening star., 1945-12-10
British Lords to Hear
Joyce's Appeal Today

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 9-Britain's House
of Lords was to take up today the
appeal of William Gord Haw Haw)
Joyce, who has been sentenced tc
death for his wartime broadcasts fol
the Nazis.
Three or more lords of appeal
constituting a court of last resort
will listen for three or four days tc
arguments and then decide whether
to uphold or reverse the verdict o1
the Kings Court which found Joyce
guilty of high treason,
Evening star., 1945-12-10
New York Bors to Open
All Night December 81
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1o.-The gayest
New Year eve celebration in New
York since before the war was as
sured today as the State Liquor
Authority announced it would per-
nit bars to operate all night for
the occasion, provided they obtain a
special $40 permit.
The regular weekday closing hour
is am. Hotels and night clubs
reported they already had been
receiving q flood of early reserva-
tions.
Evening star., 1945-12-10
Mcmillan Takes Han(
In Jail Investigation
After 7 More Escape
Plans Immediate TuIk
With Welfare Bourd
And Commissioners

Flight of two more prisoners
yesterday from the District Jai
via the window route today
elected a promise from the
chairman elect of the House Dis.
trict Committee for an early
review of the situation with
District officials.
Representative Mcmillan, Demo
crat, of South Carolina, who sue
ceeds Representative Randolph a
head of the District Committee Jan
uary l, said he intended to confe
with the Commissioners and Publi
Welfare Board members at once II
chart a course of committee action
but SHE'D away from suggestion
for "hasty" congressional action.
Another investigation of the lates
break was set off by Commissions
j. Russell Young, who directed As.
sistant Police Supt. Harvey G. Cal
lahan to push an inquiry with EN-
phasis on the conduct of Sc police
men assigned to the jail as extr,
guards since last Monday. Il want
no whitewash," the Commissions
said.
Cut Bar With Knife.
District authorities still were con.
.cerned with fixing responsibility fol
the escape of five prisoners on No
vember "a when their attention wa!
diverted yesterday by two 17-year'
year-old boys who sawed through
a bar of the third-f1oor juvenil.
dormitory with a common table
knife, shinnied down length o.
bed sheeting, scaled two walls anc
disappeared
The escape was accomplished
even while eight policemen, foul
armed with shotguns, toured street!
outside of the walls in anticipation
of such break.
Sees Two Problems.
In discussing his intervention
Representative Mcmillan said The
problem, appeared to fall into two
categories: % Source of the diff.
fculties resulting in the jail break.
and the subsequent arguments ovel
responsibilities, and (2) the prob.
able need for review later of the
whole welfare law and welfare ad-
inlinistration machinery.
He said whatever the District
Committee does will follow "dehb.
crate consideration" and confer.
ences with Commissioners and pos.
sibly members of the Welfare Board
IF our committee can be of any
assistance we want to do what we
can, but l am not going to try to
run the administration of District
affairs" he said. ours is a legis-
lative responsibility and not the
details of administration"
Long Range Question.
The question of a review of the
welfare setup. under a law adopted
about 20 years ago, is more of a
long-range nature and should be
gone in at time when there are
no passions or personalities in
Volved,' he said.
Noting that the Council of Socia
Agencies was studying the District
penal and welfare system, Mr.. Nc
MILAN said he would ask for a full
report of the findings. He said h,
concurred with Representative Ste
fan, Republican, of Nebraska, of tn,
District subcommittee of the. House
Appropriations Committee, who sale
| (See JAIL BREAK, Page A-l2D
Evening star., 1945-12-10

Atlantic plane were his wife and a
neurosurgery specialist, Col. r. G.
Squirting of Louisville, KY. Already
at the hospital are Maj. Gen. A. w.
Kenner, theater surgeon, and Prof.
Hugh Carnes, a British specialist.
who had been flown to the hospital
(See PATTON, Page A-l2D