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ABILENE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1945 - FOURTEEN PAGES
DARING RESCUE BY COAST GUARDSMEN—Four Coast Guardsmen from the Icebreak*
er Mackinaw made a daring trip across the ice of Sandusky harbor to two sand ships caught
in the ice in the first big freeze of the season on Lake Erie. The men, tied together with
ropes, carried oars and a skiff for an emergency. The vessels, John M. McKerchey, and
Kelly Island, were freed from the ice and the Mackinaw then cut a Channel into the har-
bor. (NEA Telephoto).
I
Die in Yule
Mishaps in Area
Sudden death struck three times in Central West Texas
Christmas day, resulting in deaths of three Abilene residents
and of an Odessa woman en route here for the holiday.
Two other Abilenians were injured, one critically, in traf- 1
fic accidents, and a third accidentally shot as violence marred 1
an otherwise peaceful observ-
ance of the Yuletide here.
Killed almost instantly in a head-
on automobile collision were Mrs.
Kathryn Childers and four-month-
old daughter. Linda Kay, 417 Syca-
more. D. K Childers, her husband,
was seriously injured when the car
which he was driving collided with
another driven by Cpl: Tillman 1
Rutledge of Merkel on U. S. high- ,
way 80 two and a half miles east'
of Merkel at 5:30 p m. i
Farther west on U. S. 80,
seven miles west of Big Spring,
Mrs. Pat Darnaby of Odessa,
was shot fatally through the
neck by a motorist who feigned
injuries in an attempted high-
way robbery at 2:50 a. m Tues-
day.
Abilene Mrs Claude Painter,
33, was found dead of asphyxiation
at 6:50 p m. in her home at 1426
Avenue B at 6:50 p m.
In critical condition at Hendrick
Memorial hospital was Iris Gra-
ham. McMurry college registrar, as
result of injuries to the brain and
skull received in an automobile col-
lision at South 20th and Butternut
at 9:55 a m
Also in the hospital was Bob
Hash, 11. of 342 Peach, who was
wounded in the leg in an accidental
litharge of a 22 rifle by an 11-
year-old friend, Eugene Nichols, at
South 2d and Mesquite Tuesday
afternoon. His condition was re-
ported as good.
An Odessa man was reported to
he held in Big Spring today
by Sheriff R. L. Wolfe, for ques-
tioning in Mrs Darnaby’s slaying
Mrs. L P Cook of Abilene, a sis-
ter. said she was informed the man
was arrested in Odessa last night
EXACTLY AS IT GOES" - Byron
EVENING
FINAL
Associated Press (AP)
United Press (UP) PRICE FIVE CENTS
MRS. PAT DARNABY
SAYS RUMOR
Chiang's Eldest
Goes to Moscow
AT DETROIT go
Employes, B
GM Resume
Peace Talks (
Three Ministers
WITH FRANCE
U. S. Ready to
Discuss Franco
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.)-
The United States has notified
France of its readiness to discuss
with Britain and France all aspects
of the relations of the three gov-
ernments with Spain's Franco re-
gime.
Acting Secretary of State Dean
Acheson told a news conference
today that the United States gov-
ernment. replying to a French
suggestion for such discussions,
had incidated its willingness to go
into the matter whenever and
1 whereever France suggests.
This U. S. reply, Acheson said,
was delivered in Paris this week
The secretary added that he had
had no word from France since
the original suggestion and hence
could not say when or where the
three-power discussions might take
place.
He stated, however, that it was
not impossible that they would
begin early in January.
Acheson disclosed that the
British government also had
replied to the French note,
but said, its contents would
have to be released in London.
Although contents of the French
note have never been made pub-
lic it is generally believed it pro-
posed that:
1. The three powers discuss in
detail their relations with Franco
and explore the desirability and
effect of a diplomatic break with
the generalisimo’s regime; and
2 The three powers discuss pos-
’ sibility of formally recognizing the
Spanish government - in - exile,
whose headquarters currently are
in Mexico City, as the provisional
government of Spain.
Acheson said he had obtained
CHUNGKING. Dec 26. A , -----
The Chinese press reported today further information on the Spanish
that Chiang Chung-Kuo, elder son Republican attitude regarding Gen
of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek eralissimo. Franco in a long con-
left for Moscow Tuesday. ference last Saturday with Fernan
Official quarters refused to con- do los Rios, foreign minister
firm or deny the report. | of the Spanish Republican govern-
The press said young Chiang, ment in-exile.
who was special commissioner for Acheson previously had confer-
foreign affairs in Manchuria, would red on Dec. 15 with Dr. Juan Ne
be consulted on Sino-Soviet probgrin last premier of Republican
win he sought treatment for a
wound in a hand. 3 * Vuc
According to Darnaby. Odessa lems now being discussed by the aPain__
cafe operator he and hiswife were Big Three foreign ministers in Mos 1
enroute to Abilene to spend Christ cow. Cavein Trane
mas with relatives. They carried The official reticence may indi- ‘ P3
with them the cafes receipts for cate the report was well-founded. 30 to 35 Miners
the day, approximately $1,400. A government spokesman today
Near Big Spring, a man who replied "no comment." to a cor PINEVILLE, Kv., Dec 26.—P)
Darnaby said appeared to have respondent's question whether Sov- —Between 30 and 35 miners were
blood on his lace stepped into the iet forces actually would withdraw trapped in a deep coal mine here
road from a parked car and at- from Manchuria by the scheduled today when an underground ex-
tempted to flag down a car imme- date. Jan 3.
diately ahead of the Darnaby vehi- ------------
@ The latter car circled past the
man and 4---*
plosion closed their exit. W E.
Lewis, mine operator, said.
Lewis said the explosion was so
deep in the pit that it was not
heard on the outside, but that it
stopped several yards Cruiser Augusta
Docked for Repair -..................
... LONDON. Dec. 26.—(AP)—An Ar- approximately 8:30 a. m. (CST).
the my spokesman said today that the Rescue crews were preparing to
11:30
down the road, and Darnaby halted
his car alongside the man
As Mrs. Darnaby opened the car
door to offer assistance, a w ................ -- -oun - ini nescue crews
stranger shot her through the neck cruiser Augusta, one of the United enter the mine at 11:30 a m
with a .45 automatic. Darnaby was States warships being used as a (SCT) andLewis said nothing
quoted as saying He said he reach .troop transport, was considerably would be known about conditions
ed for his gun, and opened fire [damaged three days ago in heavy in the explosion area until efforts
after the man fired two more shots, seas and had put into Portsmouth had been made to penetrate the
He said he believed he hit the for repairs. cave-in
gunman in the hand. |-------------------—--------------------------------------
Darnaby was quoted as saying u r
t he then chased the man down the HALF IN AUTO MISHAPS
highway, but that the gunman
evaded him. Returning to the
scene, he said he found that the
• car parked beside the highway had
disappeared
He said he drove back to Big
Spring and notified the sheriff
Driver of the car that had stopped
ahead of his vehicle already had
reported the shooting, but left
without officers' learning his
name, Abilene relatives said they
subsequently learned
Mrs. Barnaby's body was taken
to Odessa where funeral will be
held at 10 a m Thursday. It then
will be brought to Abilene where
a brief service will be held at
Riker-Warren chapel, with burial
following in a local cemetery.
In addition to the husband and
sister, survivors include the moth
er, Mrs. B. F. Person, three nieces,
Mildred Frances, Lora Lee, and
Regina Cook, and one nephew. Le
laad Cook, all of Abilene: and two
was believed to have occurred at
cave-in.
Christmas Accidents Bring
Death to 415 Over Nation
Please see MISHAPS, Pg. 9, Col. 5
By the Associated Press
Black crepe replaced the green
holly in scores of the nation's
homes today as mourning for vic-
tims of violent deaths over the
Christmas holiday.
A survey disclosed approximate-
ly 415 persons were killed vio-
lently. with more than one half of
them victims of automobile acci-
dents
The traffic fatalities numbered
219 while at least 68 persons died
in fires. Violent deaths by miscel-
laneous cause accounted for 128
victims These included deaths by
shootings, freezing, a tornado,
train and airplane crashes and ac-
cidents in the home
The heaviest single toll over the
holiday was taken in a hospital
fire in Hartford, Conn, with 17
persons fatally burned Six other
persons in Meriden. Conn., died
in a fire at a home
Texas and California reported
the most deaths by violence. 52
and 46, respectively The fatalities
in Texas were 33 victims of traf-
fic accidents, 1 by fire and 18 by
miscellaneous causes, including 15
slayings.
Heavy snowfalls, rain and sleet
in many parts of the country kept
highway travel at a minimum ov-
er the holiday.
DETROIT. Dec. 26. —(P)— For
the first time since they appeared
before President Truman’s fact-
finding board in Washington last
week, representatives of General
Motors Corp. and the CIO United
Automobile Workers got together
at the bargaining table here today.
Negotiations were resumed as
the strike of 175.000 General Mo-
tors workers entered its sixth week
and as only two days remained be-
fore the fact-finders hold their
next meeting.
Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO
vice president, said the Detroit
sessions would deal only with pro-
cedure for handling local union
grievances in the absence of a
working contract. General Motors
cancelled all written and verbal
agreements with the union several
weeks after the strike began.
Neither the union’s demand for
a 30 percent wage increase nor the
merits of the locals’ grievances ap-
peared on the agenda, Reuther
said.
Picketing of the strike-bound
GM plants, abandoned over the
Christmas holiday, was maintained
only on a token basis today.
A UAW-CIO spokesman said
the union again would be rep-
resented when the presidential
board takes up its studies of
the dispute Friday. No hint
has been given by the corpor-
ation as to whether any of its
officials would return to the
capital.
Lloyd K. Garrison, war labor
board chairman and a member of
the GM dispute panel, said the
hearings would continue even if
either party should withdraw.
The UAW-CIO meanwhile asked
the federal Veterans administra-
tion to withhold a decision in the
veterans’ job insurance test case
until its arguments can be heard.
The case involves John E. Cody,
former serviceman now employed
at GMs AC spark plug division
plant at Flint, Mich Cody con-
tends he has been denied unem-
ployment compensation although
he is not a union member and did
not vote to strike. His appeal now
is before Cyril Smith, Michigan
Veterans administrator.
Conciliators, UEW
Talk Wage Demands
WASHINGTON, Dec 26.—P)-
The labor departments concilia-
an Session State
3 Known Dead
In California
Apartment Blast
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec !
26—(P).—Three persons were kill-
ed, a fourth is missing and five
others were injured, none serious-
ly. when an explosion of a butane
gas truck destroyed a warehouse-
apartment building here today.
The dead were tentatively identi-
fied as Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson
and Caroline Sue Stovall. 10. all
residents of the apartments on the
upper floor of the two-story build-
ing.
Frances Watson, another resi-
dent. was unaccounted for but
friends said they believed she was
out of the city on a holiday visit.
The injured included Anthony
Berta, truck driver, who explained
the explosion: "I stepped on the
starter and the butane just took
off."
All available fire equipment
fought the blaze, and had it
under control within a half
hour. Police regulars and re-
serves were called out to patrol
adjacent blocks, where the
force of the explosion had
shattered virtually every win-
dow. A bank a block away was
put under heavy guard.
CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN
— Akihito Tsugo-No - Miya
(above), 12, is the crown
prince of Japan and potential
ruler of 70,000,000 people. (AP
Wirephoto).
Greeson said patrolmen report- RECORD CLEAN
ed some residents of the 20 apart-
ments had escaped to the street. 1
which was littered with broken
glass, metal window frames and I
fragments of brick.
The building housed the Santa
Barbara distributing company’s
beer and soft drink bottling works.
Located at Chapala and Cota
streets, only a block from the main
artery. State street.
Taylor Tops
V Bond Goc
Police and sheriffs telephone
exchanges were jammed with calls its
from residents many of them
miles away, inquiring about the
blast.
tion service scheduled a 1 p. m. I.1 1
(CST) meeting today with officials, 1 IC
of the CIO-United Electric Work II QPULV 1 VU 1
ers whose 250.000 members have
authorized a strike to back up their (e ny i I
$2 a day wage increase demands. I ITCI IC Prof Ino
•No walkout date has been set. | CIUUC
but a union spokesman said Mon-
?*st%"«r^ Veni Coleno, one of the world’s
Electric and Westinghouse "at outstanding aerialists, will do a
least meet the offer of General double som ersault from one flying
Motors for 1312 cents an hour in - trapeze to another 75 feet in the
crease.” , . . air in front of the Hardin Simmons
GE and Westinghouse represen-university auditorium as opening
tatives have been invited to similar feature of tonight’s premier per
meetings with the conciliation ser-formance of Benny Fox’s Star
vice tomorrow and Friday. Spangled Army circus
Neil Brant international repre- P48100 Army circus,
sentative of the union, told news
men his reference to GM s offer
did not mean that the 132 cent
figure would be accepted or that
the motor company would be ex-
empt from a strike should one be
called Union-GM negotiations are
scheduled to be resumed after
January 1.
WELCOME HOME!
With friends and neighbors The
Reporter-News joins in welcoming
home the following who now are
wearing the honorable discharge
button:
Victor Sanford Thigpen. Navy.
Fred Marllock Clark, Army.
Wilson M Bourland, Army
Cyprus William Freeman. Navy.
Hugh Rust Hawes Jr.. Marine
Corps.
Jimmie L. Washburn, Army.
James E Herrell Jr. AAF
William Claude Gay Jr . Army
Martin Dougharty. Army
Willard L. Hopkins, AAF.
Horace I. Hopkins, AAF
Horace Scott Strain Sr, Marine
Corps.
Henry Oliver Bright, Navy.
Wylie Vrban Clack. Navy.
Only o few more days . . .
Wearing the close of
Holiday Rotes on The
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Take advantage of this
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for a year and save time,
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Accord on All Major Issues
Seen; Communique Awaited
it MOSCOW, Dec. 26.—(P)— The foreign ministers of the
United States, Russia and Great Britain met this afternoon to
clear up the last few details of their conference, hoping to
complete by night agreements on a number of details.
They gathered at Speridonifka palace at 2:30 p. m. (5:30
a. m. Central Standard time). Agreements were reported
reached on main questions. Informed quarters said the area
of agreement was greater than anyone, including perhaps
ministers, had hoped when.---—----—
they met. ... ... . .. ,
The hour of issuance of the final Nin W5A clanr
communique was doubtful. A Brit 11 H NOhE
ish informant said yesterday theM VIURU CHIU
bulletin would be issued at 2 a
m. tomorrow (5 p. m. today CST).
but latest indications were that no
definite time had been set.
French assent to the procedure
on drafting peace treaties for Eu-
ropean states still was awaited. The I
French have indicated, however,
they would not object. China al-
ready has agreed to the formula.
Commander Gets
Death Sentence
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes telephoned the French
foreign office Monday after-
noon. but was informed that
Foreign Minister Georges
Bidault was out. It was not an-
nounced whether Bidault had
called back. One of the issues
that broke down the earlier
conference of foreign minis-
ters in London was French in-
sistence on being a party to
all European peace treaties.
Diplomatic sources said the at-
| mosphere of futility which prevail-
ed after the breakdown of the Lon-
don conferences of Byrnes, Foreign
Commissar V. M Molotov and For-
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin has
been eliminated and the Big Three
now were reunited in a spirit of
collaboration.
KWAJALEIN, Marshall Islands,
Dec 26— A)—A second high rank,
ing Japanese officer—Rear Adm.
Shigamatsu Sakaibara-—must hang
for war crimes.
A military commission on Christ,
mas Day decreed death by the rope
for Sakaibara, former Wake island
commander during the occupation,
and his executive officer Lt. Comdr.
Soichi Tachbana, for the mass
executions on Wake Island Oct. 7,
1943, of 98 American civilian em.
ployes of Pan-American airways. A
military commission in Manila re.
cently sentenced Lt. Gen. Tomo,
yuki Yamashita to hang for con.
doning atrocities by his troops in
the Philippines.
The conferees were said to have
struck up a more intimate acquaint-
Taylor county today stood above l anceship between themselves, pro-
ducing a real measure of admira-
tion for one another.
series E and over all Victory
bond drive quotas, C. M Caldwell,
county bond sales chairman, an-
nounced. This brought the county
through the seven War bond drives
and the Victory drive with a per
fect record.
Truman Slates
January Address
Total of series E purchases had
reached $740,000 and overall sales KANSAS CITY Mo Dee 96
credited to the county by the Fed- (UP )—President Truman said to-
eral. Reserve bank amounted to day that his major pronouncement
*of the new year would be a "state
of the nation" radio address early
Jin January on his overall legisla
The series E quota was $725,000
and overall $2,430,000.
Bond purchases took a rapid
jump during the past week, run-
ning up the total of series E sales
nearly one hundred thousand dol-
lars -
he had made his second Christmas
live program
Mr. Truman made the statement
to correspondents who met him in
his federal building offices after
Lockett Shelton, sub-regional
manager for the state war finance
committee, announced three other
counties of this area of 29 counties
had exceeded their quotas. They
were Borden, Martin and Crockett.
visit in 18 hours at the home of his
93-year-old mother, Mrs. Martha
Truman.
A correspondent remarked that
he understood the address would
be "anti-labor’ and asked the Presi-
dent whether such an understand
I ing was correct
I The President replied it would
! not be that, at all. dismissing any
such possibility with that brief re-
mark.
Yule Greetings to
150 GIs Overseas
Shortly before he was sentene-
ed, . Skaibara who “admitted or.
Idering the executions—requested
"that the people who planned and
carried out the dropping of the
i atomic bomb on Japan should be
I regarded in the same light as we.”
On Sakaibara’s orders, the 98
Americans were blindfolded,
marched to the beach, shackled
and shot by Japanese riflemen The
admiral told the commission he
feared the Americans would aid
invasion forces he believed might
assault wake.
The commission paid little heed
to the plea of the Japanese defense
counsel, Lt Comdr Kozo Kirata,
that "it was one of those tragedies
which happen necessarily with the
ruthless actions of war. ’
Fate of 'Little
Glass Eye' Studied
Yokahama. Dec. 26.— (PP— An
American military war crimes trial
commission late today took under
advisement the Allied case against
Tatsuo Tcuchiya, alias "Little Glass
Eye." and is expected to announce
a verdict tomorrow.
In his closing argument. Major
Louis Geffen of the prosecution
staff contended that the case “is
very simple-a violation of the
rules of land warfere forbidding
I any form of cruelty to prisoners.”
He again demanded the death pen-
! alty.
This act free to the public, has
been acclaimed as one of the
greatest feats of the flying trapeze
Miss Coleno catches by her heels : . -
upon completion of a double som- This left five counties of the 29
ersault from one trapeze to the still under their quotas but two-
other • Andrews and Crane—were certain
Her act will be a prelude to the I meeting the quotas before Jan.
three hour show that will be of- Those still not reported safe
from the .Mac ETLNS so .tame foloo peremW; onehecorene
rium tonight Miss Coleno will give seats were Nolan, Runnels and
her free performance before each -_____
show of the one-week engagement
of Benny Fox's circus in Abilene, Courts Closed
matinee and night through Jan 19
c . / v AUSTIN, Dec 26—(UP —Tex
Veterans or porecachipest of the as higher courts here omitted their that received by Abilenians from w ould he conducted later in the
pullsot Folreien Wars is bring- usual Wednesday sessions because overseas. C T Cornerly, manager week for two more defendants, one
Abilene and o% and his Scircus to lawyers from over the state would of the local Western Union office, of whom was charged with direct-
iinienenland, area circus lovers, have had to leave home Christmas reported.
half a show that for three and one: Day to appear before the courts There were no trans Atlantic
for military audiences under aly ' here today, calls here, however.
pices of the Army Special Services |
division. The Abilene engagement!
is the first the circus has booked
for civilian audiences and will be
the last until after it has conclud-
ed its contract with the army
next June.
Approximately 150 Christmas
greetings were cabled by Abilen-
tans to servicemen overseas yes-
terday. a much larger number than
As the commission began its de-
liberations in the case—the first of
its kind in the Japanese homeland
—it was announced hearings
ing the slaying of an
American
prisoner
Tsuchiya was accused of fatally
beating Pfe. Robert Gordon Teas
of Streator, III. a survivor of the
Bataan Death March" who died in
the Mitsushima prison camp.
Special guests at tonight’s pre-
mier will be Reporter News carrier
and sales boys. Frank Pruitt, cir-
culation manager, announced The
VFW is providing tickets for the
boys
Dallas Bus Crash
Kills 1. Hurts 11
THE WEATHER
U. a DEPT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BU REAL
ABILENE AND VICINITY Fair today
tonight and Thursday; somewhat warmer
today
EAST TEXAS Fair and warmer to-
night in north and west portions this
afternoon, and in east and south por-
tions Thursday Gentle to moderate
northeast to southeast winds on coast
WEST TEXAS Fair this afternoon
tonight and Thursday Warmer this af-
ternoon
Maximum temperature past 24 hours
59
Minimum- temperature past 34 hours
T Temperatures
Wed Tues Tues Mon
T AM Hour PM
4 1 56 62
DALLAS. Dec 26 — UP) —One
passenger was killed and 11 others
were injured early today when a
Dallas-bound Bowen bus from
Houston plunged off a bridge over
Five-Mile creek near here
James Waldon. 36, died from
a broken neck.
The bus did not turn over, nor
were any passengers thrown out.
1 The bus driver, L. G. Anthony
o’ Fort Worth, refused medical
treatment until all passengers were
cared for He suffered a lacera-
tion over left eye and a possible
rib fracture.
Anthony said the accident was
caused by the driver of a car trav-
eling in the opposite direction,
swerving over on the wrong side
of the road in his path The bus
driver said he managed to only
sideswipe the left side of the car,
after pulling to the right as far as
VICTORY :
LOAN -
0
S inrise this morning 7 38.
Sunset last night 5.42.
11
1
RS TEACHER'S MAD—KIDS ARE GLAD—Paris school chil- posiblehut then had to swerve
# 5 dren got a break recently when French civil servants, includ- avoid turning over
42 se ing school teachers, went on strike because their demands In this maneuver. Anthony said
12 10 on the government were refused. In photo above, pupils in he could not avoid crashing
1-42 Paris school sit with arms folded, while teacher lounges at bursouahthe ridges trailing The
his desk, reading his newspaper. I the almost dry creek.
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