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S. PAT. OFFICE. COPYRIGHT 194 BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE 1 THIS PAPER CONSISTS OF TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE THREE CENTS PAY NO MORE MONDAY, MARCH 4, 191G 3G PAGES 0) -1 Haw SDVIETIOOTFRSCrasi Worst r. Asks Union Vote on Return to Work LEAVE WBENomij- riane nisiory ANEMPTYSHELL FIRM REJECTS THE FIGHT PROMOTER TwoKidnaped by Gang in $2 Bank Robbery HOLD SUSPECT IN SLAYING OF CHOIR COUPLE CI0PR0P0SAL (Picture and map on page 3) San Diego, March 3 OP) All persons aboard an American Airlines flagship listed by the air line as 27, including two babies were killed when the transport crashed into the side of a Laguna mountain peak 45 miles east of here today.

Sheriff Bert Strand reported. The plane crashed thru clouds against the 6,000 foot peak some 10 miles north of the Mexican border. It was the worst accident in com Manchuria Sacking Still Goes On Picture on page 3 and back i page; map on page 3) TO ARBITRATE I JUST yt jfcv You up!) gpa BY JOSEPH HEARST (Map on page 7) Chirac Tribune Presa Service MUKDEN, Manchuria, Feb. 26 mercial air lines records. Five bungling safecrackers equipped with acetylene torches and a submachine gun broke into the State bank at Herscher, 15 miles southwest of Kankakee, early yesterday.

They were frightened away by an unarmed night watchman and the bank's cashier, whom they kidnaped while fleeing. Their total loot was two .32 caliber pistols and 2 in postage stamps. i Edwin Etzel, 40, night watchman Footprints Match Those at Scene Delayed The sacking of Man Labor Officials Hit Latest Bid On Jan. 10, 1945, 24 persons were killed three fewer than in today's tragedy in a plane operated by churia by Russia was originally the same line near Los Angeles scheduled to be completed Nov. 15, but because of the magnitude of the The liner that crashed today was Job the Soviets are still busy strip and police force in Herscher, a town fing industries.

When they will Detroit, March 3 Special General Motors corporation tonight rejected the proposal of the CIO United Auto Workers that the of about 250 population, was stand union strike demands De suDmu ing in the doorway of the grain elevator at 2:30 a. m. when he heard noises in the bank, a hundred feet away. He promptly went to the home of Walter T. Payne, 5L the bank's cashier, and the two returned ted to arbitration, and countered with a proposal for a secret vote en route from Dallas, to San Diego, and was last reported over El Centro, in the Imperial valley at 9:53 a.

m. tChicago time. It apparently crashed into the side of the mountain a few minutes later. Find 31 Bodies Sheriff Strand said 21 bodies, all except six burned beyond recognition, had been located. The others, he said, were in the wreckage somewhere.

No one, he declared, could have survived such a crash. Burned wreckage of the big plane of the 175,000 striking production BY CHARLES BALLENGER (Pictures on page 2 and back page) Chicaco Tribane Presa Service 1 Bloomington, March 3 Prints of heavy duty shoes found on the edge of the sludge pit in the Hunter stone mill where the bodies of Russell Koontz, 43, and Mrs. Phyllis Coleman. 32, were dumped Friday afternoon have been matched with shoes owned by a suspect in the double slaying. County Prosecutor Robert McCrea announced tonight.

The suspect is Joseph Luther Woolridge, 29, a Negro, who was y2 ctv TO KC employes on the question of return ing to work at G. highest offer. to the bank in Payne's car, driving The G. M. statement asserted the leave Chinese territory is undetermined.

In Mukden, where 60 per cent ol Manchurian industry was concentrated, the job of looting is about completed, the once modern Industrial section having the appearance cf a town that had been bombed and helled. But as one Chinese source aid: "There is plenty of material left in the northeast provinces (Manchuria and the Russians will not go until they get it all. The Russians generally used Jap rrisoners of war or laborers In strip-ring the plants and it ts difficult to find the persons who actually participated in the stripping. Even the three blocks with lights out. Car Target for Bullets The two parked in front of the bank, where they were met with corporation's offer of a wage increase of IBM cents an hour "conforms to the wage pattern of the automotive industry.

The union re shots that drilled the windshield and flattened a front tire. Then jected this offer Friday, and asked first spotted from the air by navy and coast guard planes was on the east slope of the mountain about taken into custody today after po- they were surrounded and ordered investigation of a minor auto 1,500 feet from the top. A bulldozer was working as an additional one cent hourly. Citing other issues included in its rejected offer, the corporation asked: "What remains to be arbitrated in this case?" Charge Plan to Prolong Strike darkness fell to clear a road from the highway up the slope. It was planned to bring the bodies out this way.

irom tneir car. Asked what are you guys doing here?" Etzel said he was a night watchman and Payne, fearing to say he was cashier, said he was a filling station attendant. Both were hustled into the bandit ca. During the hour and a half before they were let out at 95th st. and highway 45, the gang discussed what should be done with their captives.

A suggestion by one that they should be bound and dropped into a field was vetoed by another who said Payne and Etzel Union leaders immediately struck back. Vice President Walter P. Reuther charged G. M. with an attempt to "prolong the strike" and asserted "it contemptuously disregards the welfare of its em Chinese officials have been unable to get much information, for they ere not permitted by the Reds to come to Mukden until Dec.

25, and even now their movement are greatly restricted. riant 70 Per Cent Stripped The story of the looting of the big Manchuria Steel company and chemical plant at Anshan, between Muk mobile accident in which Woolridge was involved last night disclosed footprints similar to those observed near the scene of the slaying. Find Muddy Shoes McCrea said that plaster casts have been made of two prints left by the same shoe in the vicinity of the sludge pit, on? of them near the pit's edge and the other 20 feet away. The prosecutor said a search of Woolridge's home, on the northwest outskirts of Bloomington and less than two miles from the Hunter mill, disclosed a pair of shoes, recently worn and muddy, and that coroner enester ounn set up a temporary morgue about three miles from the wreck scene. Wreckage Not Scattered The wreckage was not scattered but piled up in a small area indicating the air liner had smashed against the side of the Incline be 1.

,1 II Sun and 64 PRESIDENT TO GIVE ARMY DAY ADDRESS IN CHICAGO APRIL 6 might freeze. Finally Vut Out of Car ployes and the nation." J. Thomas, union president, termed the G. M. proposal "unwarranted interference in the union's affairs and said it is probably an infraction of the national labor relations act." The CIO-UAW, which today carried its strike into the 103d day.

Father to Get Honor Medal of Hero Son A Chicagoan who gave his life for a fellow soldier after knocking out Bring Spring to Chicagoans fore the pilots could pull up in an attempt to clear the peak. It was snowing on the mountain tonight and turning very cold, the sheriff said. The plane, an extra section of a one of tnese snocs maicnea laenii- President Truman will deliver an Army day address in Chicago Saturday, April 6, his military aide, Brig. I offered yesterday to return to work den and Dairen, illustrates how the Russians operated. The story comes from Going Nashan, a Japanese engineer who was employed by the Reds.

He said the big plant, which the Japs developed in the 14 years they controled Manchuria, was 70 to 0 per cent stripped. "The Russians came to Anshan en the 22d, five weeks after the Jap surrender, and the stripping started three days later," he said. "Col. Caesar I. Kisaroff, an engineer, and a staff of 60 to 80 Russian technicians directed the work, which was done by 3,000 or 4,000 Japanese prisoners and 2,000 to 3,000 Jap laborers.

The job was scheduled to under General Motors' latest offer, provided the company would accept arbitration by an arbitrator to be New York to Los Angeles flight, had left Dallas, at 1:41 a. m. today. Scheduled stops were made in El Paso, and Tucson, Ariz. The flight originated in New York at 11:02 p.

m. Chicago time FARM DIARY Day by Day on the Farm, a chronicle of activities on The Tribune experimental farm, is resumed in today's issue. Turn to page 6. Gen. Harry Vaughan, said last night in Washington, D.

C. It will be his first talk in Chicago since he assumed office. The address will be in Soldiers' cally tread impressions in the plaster casts. He said the shoes were apparently manufactured for the navy, altho they have no manufacturer's name or other indication of origin on them. The tread, he said, is decidedly unusual, consisting ot bars across the heel at right angles to the line of the foot and a series of irregular knobs on the sole.

Near Death Scene Woolridge has admitted under many they were put out near Oak Lawn, a quarter of a mile apart, and warned against looking at the car or giving the cops any information, or we'll be back and take care of you and your families." The two rejoined and called police. They told Lt. Carl Relli, state policeman, that the bandits were in their thirties, and three of them were big men, near 6 feet tall and weighing about 190 pounds. Asked by Lt. Relli whether he or Payne had been armed, Etzel looked surprised.

no," he said. We never have any trouble down there." named by President Truman. Refers to Early Demand yesterday. Boston was the original The corporation's reply, sent to terminal point, but because of field unless weather interferes, and will follow his review of a military parade which is to include at least two machine gun nests on Okinawa and killing at least 30 Japanese has been awarded the congressional medal of honor. The award will be given to his father.

The hero was Pvt. Edward John Moskala, 23, whose father, Al weather conditions the flight began in New York. union officials late today over the signature of Harry W. Anderson, G. M.

vice president, began with a reference to Reuther's demand early in the dispute that General a reenforced division. The parade (Picture on back page) Chicago area residents turned out en masse yesterday to enjoy the unexpected springlike weather that greeted them when they wakened. Forecaster Gordon Dunn said the high temperature of 64.1 degrees at questioning, McCrea said, that the shoes are his and that he wore them Names of Passengers Air line officials identified the passengers as: V. C. Berdine, navy chief petty offi- be completed by the end of October, but it was Nov.

6 when the Russians finished." Motors' books be opened to deter PTt. Edward, J. Moskala mine its "ability to pay" the 30 The loot was shipped by rail to'cer, San Diego. Cal. HICSWA ESCAPES PRISON IN JAPAN per cent wage increase originally bert, resides at 3120 W.

38th St. Saturday night at the time of his automobile accident and also wore them all day Friday. He has also admitted he was in the neighborhood of the Hunter Pvt. Moskala was an automatic 3:05 p. m.

established a new record for March 3. The previous high for that date was 63.5 degrees in 1894. will include the 5th infantry division from Camp Campbell, the 3d cavalry reconaissance squadron from Fort Meade, the 19th provisional tank company with 34 tanks from Fort Knox, and two army service forces bands. Chicago is one of only four cities in the nation in which Army day parades will be held. President Truman is expected to come here by train for his address, and to fly back to Washington.

BUT IS CAPTURED demanded by the union. The question brought up by Reuthei was whether the company could afford to increase wages without increasing automobile prices. At the time, General Motors charged YOKOHAMA. March 4, Monday (JP) The Slh army provost marshal Conservatories in Garfield and Lincoln parks were besieged by visitors after The Tribune's story yesterday on the city's two great Dairen and Port Arthur and some to Korea, the engineer said, with 60 per cent passing thru the Chinese ports. Sail in U.

S. Ships The loading of ships at Dairen tarted Nov. 10 and the job was completed Dec. 6 when a convoy of ZO ships, including 20 American built Liberties presumably given to Continued on page 7, column 4 announced today that Pvt. Joseph rifleman attached to Company 383d regiment of the 96th division, which was commanded to attack Ka-kazu ridge on Okinawa before dawn April 9, 1945.

Moskala was well in the van. The Japanese answered the attack with heavy mortar and machine gun fire. Stays as Hear Guard Hicswa, condemned to death by conservatories. Garfield park author ities said 40,000 persons visited the Private 1st Class Eugene Mills, ma-rine corps, San Diego. Cal.

L. J. Baker, Fort Worth, Tex. J. II.

Menge, New Orleans. La. Mrs. C. C.

Bradbury. Inglewood. Cal. Miss Gladys De Lancey, South Pasadena. discharged March 2 from the WAVES.

William Bettersby. Berkeley. Cal. Mrs. E.

J. Lang, Zurich. Switzerland. Sgt. L.

A. Criswell, marine corps, residence undetermined. Mrs. E. O.

McGillivray. Charlotte. N. C. Mrs.

Margaret Greener. Forest City, and 2 months old boy. Mrs. R. L.

McCall. and 18 months old girl, believed to be of Birmingham, Ala. Miss Joyce Whitley. Atlanta. Ga.

Miss Annett Abcrnathy, Jacksonville, Fla. Comdr. K. D. Roblln.

U. S. San Pedro. Cal. conservatory.

One hundred thousand court martial for slaying two Japanese civilians Nov. 24, had escaped from the Yokohama army stockade, but was apprehended less than an hour later. The provost marshal said the Wellington, N. soldier escaped in Science and Industry. 15,584 visitors, also was noted yesterday.

The record of 16,092 was set on Labor day, 1942. persons have attended the park's that giving other parties access to its books might destroy free enterprise in America. "The novel economic and social theories which your union advanced," Anderson's letter said, have since been disposed of." Made Every Effort to Settle Reviewing the circumstances of the strike, the letter continued: General Motors has made every effort to resolve all ot the issues to Staff Sgt. Paul H. Lemons, May-nard, a survivor of the attack, said that when the machine gun fire forced the Yanks to drop to the mill Friday afternoon, the prosecutor said.

Woolridge's story is that after working until 2 p. m. in a restaurant, he took a rifle from his home and went to the vicinity" of the mill to hunt birds and ground hogs. Peter Hamm, 53, a local resident who was also hunting in the vicinity Friday afternoon, told authorities he encountered Woolridge in the afternoon near the mill and chatted with him about 20 minutes. Brother Also Held McCrea said no charge has been placed against Woolridge but that he will be held for further questioning tomorrow.

Also detained was Woolridge's brother, Cy, 31, a former service man, Cy has said he conservatory during the current azalea show, twice the 49,000 atten-j company with Yoshitaka To, a Japa dance for the first two weeks of last A sharp increase in' attendance at other places of interest to the public has been reported following ground Moskala crawled from behind a rock, threw a couple of gren year show, said William i. fcsiae- sing, chief horticulturist. stories by Miss Marcia Winn who is writing a series of articles on the Baby Hippo Magnet at Zoo nese under sentence for black market activities, and Pvt. Kirby Willis, San Francisco, under 20 year sentence for rape. They also were recaptured.

They escaped by forcing a defective door in the stockade, which formerly was the women's annex of (secure an early settlement ot the to strike." It then cited the latest city's museums, libraries, etc. Museum Attendances Soar The azalea show, which also is Lt. Eastcrday. U. S.

believed being conducted at Lincoln park, at Newberry library attendance tracted 20,000 persons, making a THE WEATHER MO.HDA MARCH 4, 194 CHICAGO AM) VICINITY: Cloudy and gradually Incoming colder to-daj; light rain in afternoon and tonight; colder tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and moderately cold; high today, 56; low tonight, 32; high tomorrow, 38; winds shifting to northerly 20 miles an hour today. Ullsoiv (Inurlv. ith orrakiunal rain hr-linnlnc in north and el central today; ram tomihl, hrrnmini mixrd llh light inn in north, rlrartne tomorrow; ranttnard mild In nuth and turninc rolrler in nnrth today; toldrr tontcht and tomorrow. TI MPI Al BI.H IN CHICAf.O For 24 houra ended 2 a. m.

Marrh 4. I 1 1 a. 7 p. 5fl 4 a Noon p. m.

5fl 4.I0..42K.S In. AH 9 55 jumped to 806 the week Miss Winn's spent Iriday in Indianapolis. G. M. offers, including a union dues check-off, in place of the maintenance of membership clause in the old contract, "a more liberal vacation plan," equal pay lor equal work, plant entry by international story appeared in The Tribune, com total of 47,000 persons who have attended the show there.

The show will continue at both parks urttil ades towaru the machinegun nests, then leaped to his feet and ran forward, firing as he went. The guns were silenced. However, the enemy began a heavy counter-attack, and the Americans were forced to withdraw. Moskala was one of nine men who volunteered to remain behind as a rear guard. During this action, survivors said, he killed 25 or 30 enemy soldiers.

At last the withdrawal was accomplished and Moskala and the others reached safety, only to learn that a wounded man was left March 10. No attendance report for Brook- Continued on page 14, column 2 field zoo was available, but a spokesman there said the grounds were pared with 617 in the same week in 1945. The Oriental institute drew 895 in the week her story appeared, compared with 402 the same week in 1945. At the Chicago Field Natural History museum, it was reported that 21,737 persons visited the place the week after Miss Winn's story Yokohama prison, and scaling an IS foot wall. They climbed a rope line tied to a poker bent into a hook, which they threw up to catch on the top of the wall.

CLIPPER PLANE BREAKS FLIGHT MARK TO HAWAII unusually crowded yesterday. The be of Augusta, Ga. Lt. Selvaler, U. S.

Jacksonville, Fla. Lt. Milton Milton L. Harvey, who hoarded plane In New York; address unknown. Mrs.

J. S. Upchurch. Jackson, Miss. Mrs.

S. F. Whlttakcr, College Park, wife of the assistant chief pilot of Delta Airlines. Crew members were: Capt. Samuel E.

Stoner of San Gabriel, First Offlcer E. E. Baker of Long Beach. Stewardess Maxine Rlckard of Detroit, Mich. Two other air lines employes were aboard the plane, returning to Los Angeles after a ferrying trip.

They were Capt. M. L. Fife of Los Angeles, and his first officer, R. L.

La Montagne of South Pasadena, Cal. zoo's baby hippopotamus was a big Authorities have granted permission to the families of the slaying victims to proceed with funerals, it was announced. Koontz is to be buried tomorrow after services at 10:30 a. m. in the Clear Creek Christian church where he was director of the choir at the time of his death.

Relatives of Mrs. Coleman said her funeral will be Meld in the same church Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Coleman was a singer in the choir which Koontz directed. Inquest Not Necessary Dr.

Ray Borland, Monroe county coroner, told other officials he in drawing card, the spokesman said. Lincoln park zoo reported 10,000 .30 2 p. 10 p. .55 3 p.m. 11 p.m...

.5 .31, 3:05.. 4. 1 Midn't 54 Moskala at once returned and brought his comrade to safety, then .3 on the museum. In the same week of 1945, only 18,522 persons visited it. Attendance at the Art institute rose to 17,899 in the week after her .54 ft a lam 7am Ham 1 a.

10 a. Hith nnrir. 4 p. m. 5 p.

m. p. m. 2 a. .54 again remained behind with him .43 .4 .51 and other wounded as a guard.

article on the institute, while 9,764 22. Minwt. 5:45. Mmntrl. 6:57 San Francisco, March 3 (VP) A new speed record of 9 hours 43 minutes between San Francisco and Honolulu was established today by a Constellation clipper.

Pan American' reported tonight. Killed on Third Trip While waiting he killed several persons visited there in the same p. m. Errninc Mar: Mart. aturn, Mrrtury Venni, week of 1915.

The Adler planetarium attendance was 2,867 for the weeki and Jupttrr. Fur 24 horn-t rndrd 6:30 p. m. March 3: other Japanese. Then word came that two other wounded Americans The 43 passenger plane, carrying tends to hold no inquest, stating after Miss Winn's article.

Attend-j were still up on the ridge. Moskala Plran trmprralure, 4H; normal, 30; cirrus i mre Marrh 1, 45 drgrtra; cxreai afnrc ra j.n i. a drt British Scrap Battleship frnmlattnn. nrinr: flfHi itir lnr Marrh 1 ance that week in 1945 was 1.700. In Color Tomorrow PHOTOS FROM ROME OF POPE PIUS AND CARDINAL STR1TCH Tomorrow's Tribune will bring" you exclusive photos of Cardinal Stritch and Pope Pius, taken by the Tribune at the recent ceremonies in Rome and flown home by plane for presentation today as Cardinal Stritch returns to Chicago.

Don't miss these exclusive, full-color pictures in tomorrow's Chicago Tribune. only the crew of 12 and hve pas- this is not necessary under Indiana sengers, landed at Honolulu at 9:36 law IIe rcfused to state whether o'clock tonight tChicago time. Pan anv sort of autoosv or Dost-mortem Nazi Flag Flies in Vienna visitors yesterday. Highways were crowded with motorists headed toward forest preserves or countryside and the city's bridle paths became busy thorofares. Fashion Parade on Michigan Michigan av.

was the scene of a pre-Easter fashion parade, with many men appearing without topcoats and a large percentage of the women garbed in spring finery. On the city's outskirts and in the suburban area, boys retrieved mitts and bats to engage in sandlot baseball while their little sisters tried Christmas roller skates for the first time this year. Their fathers readied golf clubs with an eye to a game soon if the weather remains as fine as it was yesterday. The second highest attendance ever recorded at the Museum of a Russian Scrub Rag! .1 of inch; dfftrirnry slnrc Jmji. 1, 1.20 int-ho.

IMtrheit wind Hcity, 24 mjl in hoar. Il.Btir hamidtty. a. 75 jtrr cent; 30 p. .53: p.

prirwtrr rradin. 6:30 a. 30.06 inches; 6 30 4 in he. fOthT weather repnrtk on pace 13 VIENNA. Austria, March 3 (JP)- American reported.

It took off at 11:53 this morning. A daily service betwven San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Honolulu will begin March 13. Viennese strolling along the Tein-faltstrasse were startled today to brought one down, then went back for the other. On this trip he was mortally wounded. The citation for the medal says: With gallant initiative, unfaltering courage and heroic determination to destroy the enemy.

Pvt. Moskala gave his life in his complete devotion to his company's mission and his comrades' well-being. His intrepid conduct provided a lasting inspiration for those with whom he served." of Jellicoe at Jutland IChicaio Tribune Presa Service LONDON, March 3 The veteran battleship Iron Duke, flagship in the battle of Jutland of Adm. John R. Jellicoe, who was then commander of the grand fleet, has been sold for scrap to a Glasgow firm.

The vessel was launched at Portsmouth in 1912. She was damaged in an air raid on Scapa Flow Scotland, in 1939 and beached, but was used as a naval depot ship during the war. examination had been made on either body. State police assisting in the investigation commented that no autopsy results had been made available to them and said further investigation may be handicapped if no scientific determination of such things as fingernail scrapings had been made before the bodies were surrendered for embalming. Widespread discussion was in progress among Bloomington res see a nazi nag fluttering irom a third story window.

Police discovered that Russian troops occupying MARCH 1946 12 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 TI 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 Tot ml averace tef pcu'ef circulation JANUARY, 1946 1,025,000 in excess of THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE third floor quarters had been using the flag as a scrubbing rag. They then had wrung it out and hung it up to dry..