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Navy Gourtmartials
Capt. McVay For
Indianapolis Loss
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—f^P)—
The Navy formally accused Capt.
Charles McVay of negligence and
culpable inefficiency in the loss
of the ten thousand ton cruiser
Indianapolis in the closing days of
m the war. The charges were pre
pared for the opening session of
the general court martial in the
Washington Navy Yard to try
McVay, 47, the son of the retired
admiral.
Every man aboard the Indian
apolis was a casualty when enemy
action sent her to the bottom in
the Philippine Sea on July thir
tieth. Dead or missing, eight hun
dred eighty; wounded, three hun
dred sixteen.
The charges accused McVay of
, neglecting to cause a zigzag course
to be steered through an area in
which enemy subs might be en
countered. and failed to issue
timely orders to cause the vessel
to be abandoned.
CIO Asks Anti
0 Trust Prosecution
Of General Motors
DETROIT. Dec. 3— (/P) —The
CIO United Auto Workers asked
U. S. Attorney General Clark to
investigate General Motors Corp.,
with a view to anti-trust prosecu
tion. The contend that General
Motors control a large part of the
supply fuel pumps for industrial
use which constitutes a monopoly.
Some two hundred twenty-five
thousand General Motors em-!
ployees are idle in the nationwide i
strike by the union to enforce its)
demand for a thirty percent wage
increase from General Motors.
Manville To Take
Eighth Brule
4 NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.,Dec. 3
—(/P)—Tommy Manville, 51, as
bestos heir said he would take as
his eighth bride Georgina Camp
bell, 26, descendant of a promin
ent Kent, England, family. Man
ville said he met Miss Campbell,
a newspaper woman, recently
when she interviewed him. He
% said she had been assistant New
York correspondent for the Lon
don Daily Mirror and Hollywood
correspondent for the London
Daily Mail.
PILOT DON GEORGE
STILL MISSING
Don George, pilot for Ferguson
Airways, who was forced down
last Wednesday by weather, some
place between here and Kotzebue,
is still missing. Frank Whaley, of
^Wien Airlines, and Gene Jack of
Arctic Air Service, have flown
t over the route and have not been
able to locate him.
MISS AMERIC A—Bess Myerson of New York City is crowned “Miss America 1945” by Venus
Ramey of Washington. D. C.. “Miss America of 1944,” at finals of the beauty pageant.
Truman Asks
Congress To Solve
Labor Troubles
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3— </P) —
President Truman has asked Con
gress to set up a fact finding
board to make recommendations
for solving labor disputes in “im
portant nationwide industries”
and ban strikes and lockouts dur
ing federal consideration and for
recommending a system of hand
ling reconversion labor troubles,
patterned after the Railway La
bor act.
Truman told the legislators the
board should deal with disputes
in such widespread industries as
steel, automobile, aviation, min
ing, oil, utilities, communications.
The President said he was ap
pointing such a board on his own
authority to deal with the General
Motors and CIO auto workers dis
pute.
Scientist Warns Of
Danger In Haste
On Atomic Rom!>
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 3— <7P) —
Dr. Vannevar Bush said the pre
pature outlawing of the atomic
bomb could well be “disastrous”.
Dr. Dush is director of the Office
of Scientific Research and Devel
opment in cautioning the Senate
atomic energy committee against
too “quick an answer” on the
problem of controlling the newly
discovered power source declared
“it’s impossible outlaw when there
is no effectively supported law.
The first task is to create this. A
good start has been made. The
best possible support our govern
ment can bring to that good start
is the expedious passage of sound
legislation for domestic regula
tion and development of atomic
energy.”
Nationalists
Appr oacli Mukden
CHUNGKING, Dec. 3— (/P) —
The rich industrial city of Muk
den in Manchuria lies only thirty
miles ahead of the advancing Na
tionalist spearheads the Chinese
Central news agency said as Chi
ang’s forces rolled northward
without reported opposition.
The central news agency said
the first government troops to be
flown to Manchuria would be
taken in by plane next week.
Press dispatches said negotiations
were “proceeding satisfactorily”
on the new Chinese and Russian
agreement on Manchuria.
LaGuardia To
Broadcast Sundays
Coast To Coast
NEW YORK, Dec. 3— (/P) —
Mayor LaGuardia, whose amateur
broadcasts over the city-owned
station WNYC, have entertained
New Yorkers every Sunday for
several years will turn profession
al January sixth. He has signed
a contract with the American |
Broadcasting company to com-!
ment on affairs in a coast to coast
hookup each Sunday night from
6:30 to 6:45 PST.
Search For
Lost Navy Plane
SITKA, Dec. 3, — (/P) — Army,
Navy and Civilian searching part
ies are combing the rugged inter
ior of Baranoff Island for a Navy
Plane believed to be down in a
routine flight between Kodiak
and Annette Island. The plane
was reported lost Friday morning.
High winds in the area made a
thorough search virtually impos
sible until today.
Kussia Forbids
Transportation <)f
Iranian Troops
TEHRAN, Dec. 3-i/Pi-The
Iranian government urgently pe
titioned Russia to permit the
transportation of Iranian troops
into trouble-ridden Azerbaijan
Province where armed Democrat
autonomists are reported to have,
seized police and government of
ficials.
Soviet military authorities in
Azerbaijan, which borders on
Russia prevented Iranian rein
forcements from entering the1
province on the ground that their I
presence would cause further
fighting and bloodshed.
In a note handed the Soviet Em- J
bassy, the Iranian foreign minis
try declared government troops
were needed in Azerbaijan to re
store order and promised they
would not be used in aggressive
measures against the populace.
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Republican Rift
Develops In
Congress
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—</P)—
Danger signals for any early
agreement on the mid-term Re
publican policy program are
raised by a group of first and sec
ond term House Republicans as
the Senate and House GOP steer
ing committees continued meet
ings in an effort to present an af
firmative policy statement.
The party’s national committee
is meeting December seventh in
Chicago. Thirty-nine House mem
bers who service started last Con
gress, joined in warning the leader
that they intend to express their
own views on major matters and
not let party leaders speak for
them. Several members said the
rift developed between younger
and older Republicans
Japs Told Consuls
To Burn Their
Important Papers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—t/F)—
Congressional investigators heard
that Lt. Gen. Short’s staff were
informed before the Pearl Harbor
attack that the Jap Consul in
Honolulu was burning his import
ant papers. The question of whe
ther Gen. Short ever saw the Navy
message at Pearl Harbor, telling
of the Jap order in code for the
destruction by their consuls, in
Allied countries has been in dis
pute.
Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles, head
of the Army Intelligence Division
in 1941, read the Senate and House
committee an affidavit which he
said he obtained from Col. George
Bicknell, then Hawaiian Intelli
gence officer. Bicknell said that
on December 3 1941, he learned
from naval officers about the Jap
message to their consuls. Bicknell
added he learned from Robert
Shivers, FBI head in Honolulu,
that the local consul was destroy
ing his papers. Bicknell said he re
ported this information at a staff
meeting held for Short. The affi
davit didn’t make clear whether
Short himself was in attendance.
Committee aides said that Gen
eral Marshall would testify Thurs
day.
Adm. Nimitz
Strongly Opposes
Armed Merger
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 3— (/P) —
Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz said
the development of the Navy’s
striking power through new wea
pons “should not be interrupted
for the sake of administrative
amalgamation in the name of un
demonstrated economies.”
Participating in a broadcast
with John Lewis, United Mine
Workers president. Nimitz had
reference to the proposals to
merge the armed forces. Lewis,
although saying he had not fully
studied the merger suggestions,
expressed the belief “it will make
for greater concentration of mili
tary power than we have before
had in this country.”
TURNKEYS DO
A PRISON MAKE
FORT SHERIDAN, 111.— (.ip) —•
Cpl. Marv Weiss arrived in a
small town at night, picked up an
A.W.O.L. soldier, and decided to
put his prisoner in jail until train
time the next day. In response to
considerable pounding on the
locked door of the bastille, an el
derly gent poked his head out a
window and reported the turnkey
wouldn’t be around until morning.
“O.K.” the Army man fumed.
“We’ll take our business some*
where else.”