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Weather: Scattered afternoon and evening showers today, tonight and tomorrow
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VOL. 24, NO. 225
FORT WORTH 1, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1945
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warning —
mariners,
Japs Put to Death
Tarrant Reaches
Galveston Won’t
Russia to Release
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Truck Drivers In
Dallas Vote Strike
agreed upon at Moscow as soon as
of gladly sacrificing himself for against the Soviets. Russia broke
55. will be received by the Trinity
Prior to the strike the AFL
Treasury Probes Compromised $200,000
when plans were also made to
FREED UNDER BOND
change was made to allow mem-
on the matter until the Treasury’s
Mexican girl.
port hers snowed today.
investigation is completed.
NSEPARER
Mines Found In Alaskan
Waters-Shipping Warned
After Killing
In Riverside
Japanese May
Be Trying To
Sow ‘Current’
U. S. Fighters
Strafe Japan
Home Island
400 Truck Drivers
Threaten Walk-Out
Big Sugar Shipment
To Relieve Shortage
Roosevelt has retained Randolph
Paul, former general counsel of
the Treasury, as his counsel in the
matter. Informed today of the
Treasury’s order to delve further
into the returns of- both Roose-
velt and Hartford .to determine the
exact nature of the case, Paul de-
Warsaw.
The Western Allies simultane-
ously will withdraw recognition
from the Polish exile government
in London, accused by Russia at
the recent Polish terrorism trials
of plotting an underground war
lantic & Pacific Tea Co. executive.
Hartford in 1939 loaned the late
President’s son $200,000, of which,
he said only $4000 was repaid.
The investigation, centering in
New York and Dallas, had the en-
Fred Mayfield, 46, of 801 Stella,
was free today on $2500 bond set
yesterday when he was charged
with rape in Peace Justice Frank
WASHINGTON, June 25 (UP).—
A Treasury spokesman said today
that an intensive investigation had
been opened into the income tax
of Motorized Carrier Truck Lines
employes, to which most of the
Johnson drivers belong, is a com-
pany-dominated union.
shall. Bonham, Sherman, Wichita
Falls and Sulphur Springs.
Church Posts Reward
In McBride Slaying
Indo-China Thursday night and
Friday morning. Previous reports
had indicated that most, if not all,
of the B-29s in China had been
moved to the Marianas.
In the Philippines, American
(Continued on Page 8, Column 4)
tigation.
Hartford’s 1942 income tax re-
turn showed efforts to seek deduc-
tions for $228,500, listed as bad
debts, it was said. It was reported
Washington
Calling
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name a new organ, to be received
by the church, the Lydia T. Mc-
Bride Memorial Organ.
Mrs. McBride, who was slain
June 15, on steps on the D. McRae
schoolground, was Sunday School
organist at the church.
RAIN SLOWS HARVEST
AMARILLO, June 23. (U.P —
The Panhandle and South Plains
of the United States.
• We are not sure yet whether
any of the mines have drifted this
Workable system would require a bureau in almost every railroad,
airline and bus station. That would mean fantastic number of trained
personnel. Add to that almost incredible amount of paper work.
CUT AIRLINE FARES
DALLAS, June 23. (P—A ten
per cent reduction in Ores effec-
tive July 1 over Braniff Airways
was announced here today.
grenades, some had been behead-
ed by their officers and others had
been shot.
A captured order from the com-
manding officer of the seventh
tank regiment of the second Japa-
nese armored division elsewhere in
the Philippines said:
* “Men who are slightly wound-
ed will participate in this bat-
tle. Their unit leaders will see to
it that they end their own lives.“
in Manila, the central command-
ing officer of the defense forces
wrote:
“Those in each unit who afe
wounded or sick and unable to
engage in combat will carry two
days' rations to a comer of the
fortress on or about the 21st and
will commit mass suicide.
“Each unit's commanding offi-
cer will put a responsible man in
charge to witness their deaths.
Freedom of meditation for a day
and night will be granted prior to
suicide so that each man may at-
tain for himself the determination
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Railroads now operating virtually at capacity. Peak is expected
in August when redeployment of European troops will be in full swing.
On order are 1200 Pullmans, 400 kitchen cars. They won’t be ready
before year end.
■Railroads now handle twice as many passenger miles as in 1918,
doing this with 17,000 fewer cars.
Airlines have added flights but have fewer seats for non-essential
RMY men think Lieut. Gen. Courtney Hodges, commander of First
. Army in Europe, may succeed General Stilwell as chief of army
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warning issued to shipping from
the 17th Naval District in Alaska 1
and are investigating."
• At Ketchikan, the Coast Guard;
Over-Age Veterans
LONDON, June 23. «.P — Mil-
lions of over-age troops will be
mustered out of the Red Army,
beginning in the last half of this
year, under a demobilization bill
placed before the Supreme Soviet
tonight.
Radio Moscow announced that
the proposed law called for the
discharge of the 13 older age
classes in the Red Army in grad-
ual stages to avoid undue strain
on the Russian transportation sys-
tem and to insure the veterans’
absorption into peacetime jobs.
The first group of dischargees
will be mustered out within ther
next six months.
1st Lt. Melvin R. Millard, form-
er Vandervoort Inc. employe, son
of Mrs. Roy Millard, and husband
of Mrs. Ollie Hinds Millard, all
of Abilene, was with the 200th
Coast Artillery on Bataan.'
Cpl. Larry Loggins, brother of
of Mrs. J. Fred Jones, 808 Sum-
mit, and Mrs. Bransen Bussey Jr.,
3508 Avenue N. He was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Loggins
of Teague.
his country.”
A captured Japanese naval air
lieutenant from Bataan said he
was told by a commander named
Sato to tell all patients in a
hospital to “prepare to die hon-
orably” because the situation
was hopeless.
Those patients who were able
reward to be given to the person president of the Teamsters Union
bringing about the arrest of the (AFL) in an effort to prevent the
slayer of Mrs. Lydia T. McBride, । strike.
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Washington staff of Scripps-
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It hopes its propaganda will work: “Is this trip necessary?”
‘Take your vacation at home.”
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SEATTLE, June 23. C.P! —Jap-
anese attempts to cripple ship-j
ping by floating mines across the
Pacific on the Japanese current1
was indicated today by shipping
warnings from Pacific northwest
DEATH TRAILER AND HATCHET—Deputy Sheriff W. W. Wilson,
top. looks in the door of the small trailer to a blood-soaked mattress
where the near-decapitated body of Mrs. Ethel Mae Eiland was
found. Below is the hatchet with which her common-law husband,
W. H. Hatch, hacked her to death “because I had to— she didn’t be-
lieve in anything.”
tors that mines had begun appear-
ing along the Alaskan coast.
The Coast Guard announcement
gave no indication as to whether
the mines were enemy-manufac-
tured. and Naval district head-
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The Chinese were battling for the Avenue D. He had been overseas
Liuchow airbase yesterday, and its a year with a coast artillery unit
fall was expected soon. at the time of his capture.
far south," a
headquarters
“but we have
States. there's nothing startling
about attempting to float mines A •
across the Pacific. Its entirely 1—
control of the country from the
government which just took it
over from the parliament.
A commentator on Radio Tokyo
said that the Emperor may use
his “imperial supreme authority”
if things get worse. That meant
Hirohito would boss everybody, in-
cluding the cabinet.
Wheat harvest has been slowed by Hurley's court in connection with
the disappearance and alleged as-
said the strike is unauthorized by
the union, but that the men “just
got together among themselves
and agreed to do it.”
The AFL union is bargaining
agent for employes of M & D
Motor Freight Service, Yellow
Transit Co., Gillette Motor Trans-
port Inc., Southwestern Transpor-
tation Co., and Texas & Pacific
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that the uncollectible notes were
not itemized in the return. There' agreed not to take further action
dorsement of the House Ways and was no breakdown of the debts as - "----"-----"" h 7--------
Means Committre and the Senate far as' could be learned.
The statement said captured
records and documents fixed the
number of enemy wounded in
the Philippines at 82,012. of
which only a small percentage
were permitted to recover and
rejoin their units.
Much of the evidence was found
in Luzon, especially Manila, the
statement said.
At Bayambong in the Cagayan
Valley, 1810 Japanese were found
dead and two dying in a hospital.
Some had killed themselves with
Dead in Sinking
Relatives of four more Texas
prisoners of war since the fall of
Bataan and Corregidor today had
received word from the War Dept,
informing them that the prison-
ers are now presumed lost as a
result of the China Sea sinking
of a ship on which they were
being transferred to Japan last
Oct. 24. The men, now listed of-
ficially as “killed in action” are:
Pfc. Theodore C. Hoffman Jr.,
son of Mrs. Theresa Reagan, 2725
80,000 of Own Men
By WILLIAM C. WILSON
MANILA, June 23. (U.P)—Nearly all of the 82,012 Japanese wound-
ed in the Philippines campaign died or were put to death by their com-
rades on orders froth Japanese officers, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
headquarters reported today. Many were forced to commit suicide.
History rarely records such callousness in its atrocities,” an
official statement said. •--
tins office at
Close Meat Shops
GALVESTON, June 23 UP.—
Galveston grocers decided at a
mass meeting last night that they
would not follow the lead of Hous-
ton in closing their meat markets
to force meat wholesalers to com-
ply with OPA price-ceiling regu-
lations.
The* independent retail grocers
adopted a resolution pledging to
continue buying meat so long as it
remains available at official OPA
ceiling prices. It was generally
conceded that no meat black mar-
ket exists in the Island City.
Some 700 Houston grocers, with
the support of District OPA Di-
rector Stephen J. Tully, voted to
close their markets Monday and
keep them closed until wholesaler
ceilings are enforced.
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INVESTIGATE DEATH
DALLAS, June 23 UP.—A man
and his woman companion were
being held for investigation today
in the strangulation death of Jack
W. (Indian Jack) Jackson, 60,
whose body was found in his hotel
room yesterday.
The 28-plane raid was only
a teaser of what will happen,,
when Okinawa becomes the base
it is in the blueprints. But dis-
patches from the field revealed
six airfields already are in oper-
ation on the island, and the
steady development of Okinawa
was enough to keep the Jap-
anese on edge.
Roosevelt Note Given A&P Executive
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Finance Committee, the spokes-
man said. He denied a published
report that the Congressional com-
mittees were dissatisfied with the
On His Way Home
Staff Sgt. William W. Ficklen
was on his way to Fort Worth
today from the East Coast to join
his wife, Mrs. Dorothy D. Ficklen,
and his 16-month-old son, Dave,
both of 1413 Long, after , spend-
ing a year in a German prison
camp.
Overseas since February, 1944
By FRANK TREMAINE
PEARL HARBOR, June 23. CP
The Okinawa investment was pay-
ing off today as planes based on
the bitterly-won island raided
general rains and in some places
seriously damaged by hail, a re- sault Thursday of a 13-year-old
with the exile group in 1943.
Successful completion of the
Polish unity conference was an-
nounced at Moscow early today.
An official statement said the full
composition of the new govern-
ment would be published in War-
saw within the next few days.
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Fort Worth. The complaint
meeting of the Council last night charged the National Association
DALLAS. June 23. C.P— Drivers
of all trucking lines operating in
Dallas had voted today to join
other striking drivers who walked
off their jobs June 12, at the
Johnson Motor Lines.
Clifford W. Potter, regional
WLB disputes director, notified
War Labor Board officials in
Tokyo reported that Emperor -
Hirohito soon might take over
1. Suspension given several em-
ployes for absenteeism will be
ended, and one of two men dis-
charged for that cause will be re-
instated.
2. Temporary abeyance of the
company’s policy of suspending
employes for more than three in-
excusable absences in each six-
months period, until a satisfactory
program to combat absenteeism
can be worked out by the union
and the company.
The strike began Thursday,
when more than 200 employes in
the hog and sheep killing divisions
left their jobs in protest against
suspension of five Negroes and
discharge of two others because
they were absent on June 19,
Emancipation day. The walk-out
yesterday halted all livestock kill-
ing at the plant
"The strike is bver, and every-
body is back at work,” A. A.
Lund, general manager of the
company, announced today.
A. J. Pittman, district director
of the United Packinghouse
Workers of America (CIO), ex-
pressed satisfaction that “we have
the opportunity to work out a fair
policy on absenteeism. If one had
existed before, the strike wouldn’t
have occurred.”
declarations of Brig. Gen. Elliott Treasury’s progress in its inves-
Roosevelt and John Hartford, At-
as a gunner wilh the Eighth AAF
bers to take part in the hcmecom- based in England/ he was cap-
bombed and
of the local.
Most of the Johhson employes
were members of the Natl. Assn,
of Motorized Carrier Truck Lines
Employes, an independent union
branded by AFL representatives
as “company dominated.".
Drivers of all trucking lines
operating in Dallas already had
voted today to Join in the strike.
“Our members here have no
and wanted to die were given
hand grenades or pistols, the pris- Sgt. Wm. W. Ficklen
oner said. He admitted he killed -
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two others with his sword. The
remainder were killed by dynamit-
ing individual wards, he said.
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Meeting Postponed
The annual membership meeting
of the Fort Worth Club will be
held Friday, instead of Tuesday
as previously announced. The
Travel rationing is unlike food or gasoline rationing.. Every per-
said, , son is not entitled to a given number of miles per month by train,
just received the plane, bus.
In judging travel priorities problem is:
Where to draw the line? ODT hasn't figured out answer to that
one.
Waahington, asking that they con-
Donations toward a fund for a fer with Dan Tobin, international
ing welcome to Lt. Gen. William tured May 22, 1944. He holds the
H. Simpson who will arrive in • Air Medal and Purple Heart and
Fort Worth Tuesday. I has been in service 6 years.
It has been established formally in KcnntimCedyonnpahee“,scnmnlar;
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ALL READY? Your waste
paper, sorted and tied in
bundles, should be waiting on
the fron§ curb tomorrow at 8 a.
m. when 50 trucks start Fort
Worth's city-wide collection. Be
sure there's a bundle in front of
your home — to help hurry V-J
Day.
81 Pct of Goal
Tarrant County’s drive to sell
$8,900,000 in Series E bonds for
the Seventh War Loan today
reached 81 per cent of its quota.
A total of $7,209,000 in Series
E Bonds was rung up on the
sales register at committee head-
quarters.
Before the drive goes over the
top in Tarrant additional sales of
$1,691,000 must be made.
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Allies to Approve
New Polish Regime
LONDON, June 23. (P— An
authoritative source said today
quarters here pointed out the pos-
sibility the mines had broken
voosgfrom American were* desper-! P OF says no essential traveler thus far has been unable to reach
ate enough to attempt to float! his destination and return. ODT worry: Can this service be main-
balloons against the United. tained 2 a 3
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Return to Jobs
An estimated 1000 employes of
Armour & Co.'s plant here re-
turned to their jobs at 7 a. m.
today after a two-day walk-out
at the big meat-packing plant.
Union and company represen-
tatives gathered at 10 a. m. to
dined to comment.
The congressional committees
S/ desired thrr Drden,Psu sign an agreement on these points:
are simply striking in sympathy
with the Johnson employes.” He
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The 13th Naval Dintriet here ! e # # _
, Transportation Rationing Seems
The Coast Guard
cautioned all Alaska
A Tokyo broadcast today said: Pvt. Hallford M. Shirley, son of
China moraSu Perrorts basedin Mrs. J. G. Shirley, 3526 Avenue
The Victim ... Murder Scene ... Weapon
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The Japanese radio also re-
ported that Tokyo now had "vir- —..
H: He had been overseas since
February, 1941.
Lutheran Church Council, which teamsters union filed charges
started the fund with a $25 dona- against the company with the
tion. regional labor relations board in
The donation was voted at a — — ~ *
that Britain and probably the
United States will recognize the
new Polish unity government
tually" completed all its invasion
preparations. A civilian volunteer
corps was operating throughout
the capital’s 35 wards — or what
was left of them.
Another enemy broadcast re-
ported signs of a new deploy-
ment of American and Chinese
forces in China for a counter-
offensive “when and if Ameri-
can forces attempt to land on
China’s coast." It said 20 Chi-
nese divisions were moving into
“battle positions” in the south-
ern provinces.
Today’s Chungking communique
reported two important places in
southwestern Honan recaptured by
Chinese troops, but riade no men-
tion of the fighting at Liuchow.
have begun appearing in waters Certain, But How Is Big Question
along the Alaskan coast. 1 ,
The Japanese current sweeps Ilf ASHINGTON, June 23.—Travel rationing is not in immediate pros-
northward from Japan, along the W pect. Reason: Office of Defense Transportation can’t devise a
Aleutians and south along the | satisfactory rationing system.
Alaska coast and the west coast I Need for rationing exists. But how to do it?
More than 400 Fort Worth motor freight employes threatened
today to walk off their jobs Monday in a “sympathy strike” with a
minority group of Johnson Motor Lines employes who have been
strick since June 12.
All members of Truck Drivers Local 47, of the International
Brotherhood of‘ Teamsters, • • •
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TYLER, June 23. (U.P — Relief
was reported on the way today
for at least 10 Texas cities which
virtually have run out of sugar.
A Tyler wholesaler said a total
of 29.000 hundred-pound bags of
sugar were en route to Tyler,
Dallas, Fort Worth, and other
Texas cities where sugar supplies
have been exhausted.
Other cities on the “sugar list”
included Abilene. Denton, Mar-
A 38-year-old carpenter hacked
his common-law wife to death
with a hatchet in a Riverside
trailer camp early today because
“she had quit believing in any-
thing.”
Dead was Ethel Mae Eiland,
about 35, her head almost severed
from her body by repeated blows
from the hatchet.
The admitted slayer la W ll-
11am Homer Hatch, sandy -hair-
ed. slender and medium-tall,
who came to Fort Worth about
six months ago from New Or-
leans. He was accompanied here
by the woman.
Murder charges were filed
against Hatch in Peace Justice
Frank Hurleys rourt at 10 a m.
The Woman's body was not lo-
cated for more than four hours
after the slaying Sheriff's depu-
ties toured Riverside streets look-
ing for "a bulldog tied to a trail-
er” in which Hatch said lay the
slain woman.
Shortly before 1 a. m . the car-
penter called at the residence of
his ex-landlord, Charles C. Jones,
1600 Layton, and said he had kill-
ed the woman.
Accompanied by Sheriff's Depu-
ties W. J. Tuck and W. W. Wilson,
Hatch, who had moved his trailer
to the Riverside camp earlier in
the evening from the Jones prop-
erty, attempted to find his way
back to the scene of the slaying.
"I know about where it is.” he
told the officers, "but I’m not ex-
actly sure.”
Hatch told the deputies he had
left his bulldog tied to the trailer.
The slayer, who kept failing
asleep in the back seat of the
car as officers were trying to lo-
cate the trailer, was placed in
county jail and the two officers
continued the search alone.
About 5 a. m., in a trailer camp
at 2805 E Belknap, the officers
found a trailer with a dog tied
outside.
Inside. on a blood-soaked bed,
they discovered the almost-decapi-
tated body of the woman, the
right side of her head almost chop-
ped off, and with hatchet gashes
on her neck. The woman was fully
clothed. Blood stains were splat-
tered on the walls and ceiling of
the trailer.
In blood - stained clothing.
Hatch told • Press reporter:
“I’m glad I did it. I slept bet-
ter last night than I have ever
slept in my life.”
Mr. Jones told officers the cou-
ple had been quarreling violently
the past two weeks, and that yes-
terday, he demanded they move.
About 9:30 p. m., Hatch, who does
not own a car. got an unidentified
man to pull his trailer to the E.
Belknap camp.
The carpenter told officers he
and the woman went out to eat
after their trailer had been moved.
Then they returned .to the trailer,
where the slaying occurred.
“I couldn't help killing her*
Hatch said. "She didn't believe in
me — she didn't believe in any-
thing. If it was to do over, I’d
kill her today. She should have
been killed.”
When a photographer asked
Hatch to pose for a picture, ho
said:
“Sure. How do you want me
to look — sad about it?”
The woman, in whose personal
effects were found letters addres-
sed to Mrs. J. C. Eiland, was plan-
ning to leave Hatch, according to
Mrs. Jones. A suitcase, packed
with her clothing, was found in
the small traifer.
Mrs. Jones said that Hatch had
been insanely jealous of the wo-
man since about three weeks ago
when a man, known to the Jones
only as “Bert,” came by to see
Mrs. Eiland.
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Japanese suicide plane banes near
Fukuoka on the southern home is-
land of Kyushu. Seventy-five Mus-
tangs based on Iwo Jima attacked
airfields around Mito, 65 miles j
north of Tokyo.
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and small boat operators not to
approach any unidentified floating
metallic object.
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Probe Charges
By Bus Unions
Regional office of the Natl. La-
bor Relations Board today was in-
vestigating charges by two labor
unions that a Fort Worth Transit
Co. driver was discharged for his
union activities, and that another
was beaten by employes of the
company when he attempted to re-
cruit members for the union.
The charges were filed jointly
• by the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen and the Amalgamated
Assn, of Street. Electric Railway
and Motor Coach Employes
(AFL), both of which have mem-
bers among the bus drivers.
J. E. Brooks is the driver alleg-
edly discharged for union activity.
The charges claim that D. H.
Brown was beaten by other em-
ployes.
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