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Show S'AGEasgsasgSSEW SUNDAY herald Army Navy Merger Disp ute Awaits Truman's Decision Br SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent 2. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UJJ The army-navy debate over, the armed forces merger question reached white heat today with the . approach of a White House decision on the issue. -High-ranking officials of the war and navy departments-r-bothfman's hands ever since he be civilians and gold-braids uttered filch phrases as "ridiculous" and 'oh yeah" in discussing each others charges, counter-charges, inferences and innuendoes. ? Meanwhile the navy revealed It had withdrawn its endorsement endorse-ment of the Air Power League, a fcrvate organization wnose avow ed purpose is to foster development develop-ment of military aviation. The navy said the -league was in ca hoots with the army in trying to put the unification plan across. "t ' " - The army-navy debate has been In progress for weeks but It took on the tone of a backyard brawl shortly after White .House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross announced pthat President Truman "in aJl probability will send a , message on unification to ; congress next week. The message, which will reveal the president's position on pthe Issue, is expected to put "an end to the inter-service i fracas. V- J?The president's message also jnay cause Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal to go through with his origina plan to resign by tne ena of the year. Forrestal had abandoned that Intention to stay on until the merger fight was resolved. It was learned that an undated letter of resignation, signed by Forrestal, had been in Mr. Tru- came president Political and na val circles reported that when Forrestal leaves he will be re placed by Edwin W. Pauley, the president's personal representative representa-tive on reparations and' Demo cratic national committee treas urer, Secretary of War Robert. P. Patterson used a press conference to deliver a counter-punch at Forrestal for his recent charge that the army is muzzling officers opposed to the merger plan. The charge, said Patterson, is "ridicu lous." As a matter of fact, he added, every one knows that he called on army officers to "freely express their own personal con victions with force and vigor." lYamashita Not Allowed Visitors MANILA, Dec. 13 (U.R) Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, under death Sentence for Philippines atrocities, atroci-ties, is being held incommunicado and even his attorneys have been denied the privilege of conferring with him, Capt. Milton Sandberg of the defense counsel said today . Sandberg said a direct request to- Lt. Gen. W. D. Styer, western Pacific commander, brought an g nswer from his chief of staff that there was no reason to grant permission per-mission to defense counsel to visit Vamashita pending final disposition disposi-tion of his case. Sandberg said he wishes to talk with Yamashita regarding an appeal ap-peal to the supreme court and future aspects of the case. 1 Styler has completed reviewing review-ing Yamashita's case and sent the papers by plane to Gen. Douglas MacArthur for final approval. - fylan Questioned on Missing Partner r WEISER. Ida.. Dec. 15 (U.R) Sheriff Arthur Caviness refused to divulge whether Lee Hart. 47. found yesterday wandering cold and hungry in the Owyhee county wilderness 160 miles south of here, had disclosed the whereabouts where-abouts of hi? partner. Red Mc-Cullough, Mc-Cullough, missing from their Sand Hollow cabin near here gince last Oct. 23. Hart had been hunted since ftov. 20 by Deputy Sheriff Al Walters, who, with John Stringer, Nyssa, Ore.. Hart's employer, found the missing cowhand, clad 5nly in Ievis and shirt and with frost-bitten feet wandering in the Reynolds Creek section between Marsing and Murphy. Caviness when asked if Hart had explained the whereabouts of McCullough said "I have nothing no-thing to say." He added he might have a statement "tonight or to-jnorrow." to-jnorrow." , Hart is being held for investigation investi-gation into McCullough's disappearance. Takes Co'mmand Colorado Hotel Fire Death Toll Remains Mystery GLEN WOOD SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 15 (U.R) The death toll of a $200,000 fire in the Hotel Glen-wood Glen-wood remained a mystery today as volunteer firemen still were unable to uncover any trace of four persons believed to have perished per-ished in the blaze. Firemen were unable to make on extensive search of the smoldering smold-ering ruins of the 50-year-old hotel because of the danger from outer walls which surrounded the debris. Ice, which had formed over the water-soaked debris, also hampered hamper-ed efforts to determine the fate of four persons who were unaccounted unac-counted for among the guests who had been forced to flee the burning burn-ing building. Eight persons were injured, two of them seriously, when they were forced to jump from the second and third stories of the hotel after all other escape routes had been cut off by fire. Those who were in serious condition con-dition were Mrs. Stella Hart and her son Robert. The youth suffered suf-fered a leg fracture and his mother moth-er severe cuts and loss of blood. They were from Glenwood Springs. Arms of the Law 'Crack Down t t . ; - V f J 1 ... ..J. : Y ; Nv La A' v'' I .'. , :J i r ' J-K'" Vj'S' N. - ArM. Producers AsIc Lifting of All ideas of resistance are gone from war veteran James Sweeney, after: three policemen and a detective combine efforts to subdue him. Sweeney was captured as a suspect, Philadelphia police said. In the roberry of a haberdashery in which $49 was stolen. Sweeney was discharged from the Army last May. New Missouri Dam Planned WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 OJ.R) An- 1,850-foot dam will be built on the Misouri. river at Garrison, N. D., after three Indian tribes are compensated for land that will be flooded. The senate appropriations com- j mittee last "night approved $2,- 000,000 as an initial construction fund for the $120,000,000 dam but provided that none of the fund be spent on construction until the Indians are paid. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, D., Wyo., introduced the Indian amendment. He told reporters the dam will flood 221,000 of the 600,-000 600,-000 acres belonging to the Man-dam, Man-dam, Gros Ventre and Arikara tribe on Fort Bert hold reservation. Jury Indicts Insurance Men Dairy Ceilings WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U.R) The National Cooperative Milk Producers federation today urged the government to lift immediately immedi-ately price ceilings on milk, butter but-ter and other dairy products and end subsidy payments to dairy larmers. The recommendations were formally submitted to Under secretary of Aericulture John B Hutson and Tom G. Stltts, chief of the department s dairy branch. Government studies show that under present high civilian- de mand, the price of milk might go up two cents a quart if subsidies are 'terminated. Butter prices were increased five and six cents last month with the end of one subsidy and might go up more with the end of dairy production payments. The milk producers' committee said, "the proper time for elimin ation of subsidies and price con trols is the present but if such action cannot be taken, within two or three weeks, the dairy pro duction subsidies should be continued con-tinued to June 30, 1948." The government has announced all dairy subsidies will end not later than that date. The department is authorized to spend up to $568,000,000 for the subsidy during the present year. The committee urged immediate public announcement of the governments gov-ernments policy for at least the next 12 months so that dairy farmers can make production plans "with some degree of assurance assur-ance as to the future." Boy Scout More Popular Than Pinup Girt BY BRUCE CAMPBELL United Press Staff Correspondent ST. PAUL, Minn.. Dec. 15 (U.R) In the GI tradition, there'll be plenty of pinup art on the 1946 calendars but top place in picture subject popularity still was held today by the Boy Scouts. The curves of a luscious pinup girl will grace meny a date-plate, a spokesman of Brown and Bige- low, world's biggest calendar maker, said. Yet a surveyby the Convict Admits He Murdered 14-Year-0ld Girl WASHINGTON. Dec. 150J.R) The justice department announced today that a 35-year-old former convict of San Mateo, Calif., has admitted the kidnap-murder of Thora Chamberlain, 14-year-old San Jose, Calif., school girl. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover announced that Thomas . Henry McMonigle has been arrested for Shooting the girl. McMonigle admitted ad-mitted throwing her body from a 350-foot cliff into the Pacific ocean, Hoover said. The girl disappeared Nov. 2 after- she was seen entering an automobile in front of her high school. Navy divers were enlisted in fruitless efforts to recover the body at the point where McMonigle Mc-Monigle said he disposed of it Hope of finding the body has now been abandoned. firm showed that the largest sell-' ing illustration remains- Norman Rockwell's annual official Boy Scout calendar cover. j The ralonriar xiwrt rwmVi- poohed' an idea that demobilization demobiliza-tion of the armed forces had given civilians a wolfs-blooo transfusion transfu-sion and a greater yen for the whistle type of calendar art. During the war, he said, the firm was swamped with requests for calendar covers from service personnel starved for a sigh of the feminine form. , Strangely enough, pinup girl pictures ran a close race with outdoor out-door sports illustrations for GI Dooularitv. Such requests have dropped to almost nil now that soldiers and sailors are returning to their wives' andrsweethearts their pin uos in the flesh. But the pretty slrl calendar motif will never be neglected, with Brown and Bigelow s high-paid stable of figure artists koii Armstrong, Zoe Mozert and Earl Moran still turning out most of the covers. The survey also revealed that religious-theme calendar illustra tions, always near the top, are gaining in popularity. Thern is no known reason for this, but the firm hazarded a guess that uncertainty un-certainty -of the war years had something to do with it. Two other points stand out in Brown & Bigelow's sales analysis. One is that the calendargazing Dublic likes quality in both sub jects and reproduction, the other that there is no such thins as localized appeal. What is appreciated by Pumpkin Center also goes over with Times Square and vice versa. Actress, Husband Part Amicably ! HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 15 (U.R) ; Marie McDonald, whose luscious icurves earned her the nickname '"the body," and motion picture 'agent Victor Orsatti have sepa- vorced," Orsatti said today. The parting was apparently an amicable one, the separation was due to a "difference in temperament." tempera-ment." Orsatti said. They were married Jan. 10, 1943. J Miss McDonald last week liled (suit for termination of her contract con-tract with Producer Hunt Strcm- berg on grounds tnat ne loaned her services to other producers at more money than she was getting. She also sued for recovery of $2500 which she said" she advanced ad-vanced Stromberg. Vets Taken From Disabled Ships ; NEW YORK. Dec. 15 (U.R) '"Operation Santa Claus" established estab-lished a beachhead on Manhattan i island Friday when 1,127 returning return-ing veterans who were taken from two disabled troopships entered New York harbor on the army transport Saturnia. The officers and men from the disabled troopships George Mc-Crary Mc-Crary and Henry Ward-Beeches enme home to the welcome of shrieking harbor boat whistles, completing a stormy voyage from Bermuda, where the Saturnia had picked them up after their ships had been towed there. DENVER. Dec. 15 (U.R) The federal grand jury today indicted I four Denver insurance agents of a national fraternal benefit insurance insur-ance company of Kansas on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States government and the veterans' administration, un der the soldiers and sailors relief j act i The agents were representatives; of the Ancient Order of United j Workmen, organized at Newton,' Kan., in 1868. i The four agents indicted were' Samuel Leonard Berenbein, anj attorney; Ben Schechter, insur-; ance agent; Harold Isadore Man-: koff. also an agent, and Marie: Stoeffler, assistant to Berenbein,: all of Denver. More than 30 insurance poliicesj were alleged by the government to have been sold to newly-inducted members of the armed: services under the pretext that! the premiums would be borne by the federal government, through! the veterans' administration. j The policies netted the order' more than $400,000 in new busi-' ness in Colorado, of which Beren-I bein and others netted commissions commis-sions totalling $50,000. U. S. Dis-j trict Attorney Thomas Morrissey said. j Hauling of horses into Wvom ing for rodeos lsf considered a commercial operation by the state highway patrol. One-trip permits costing $5 each are required re-quired every time the state line is crossed. TRIAL IN RECESS NUERNBERG, Dec. 15 U. The trial of 21 Nazi leaders was in weekend recess today. American Ameri-can prosecutors were about two- thirds finished with tneir intricate intri-cate story of how Germany loct-ed, loct-ed, exploited and devoured whole nations and their populations. Electric service is available to almost half of the farms in Colorado. Rent An Airplane Fast' - Safe - Comfortable On to Fiv Passengers Express Any PUee MERRILL CHR1STOPHERSON Pro to Airport Phone SSI Just Arrivedl . . ALADDIN TABLE LAMPS TRE-WAR QUALITY PIN-IT-UP LAMP BEAUTIFUL FLOOR LAMPS PECK ELECTRIC 46 North University Avenue JESSE JAMES ROBBED WASHINGTON. Dec. 15 (U.R) Look who got robbed Jesse James! James, a taxicab driver, told police a fare poked a nickel- i plated revolver at him and said "Gimme all you got. James gave SI 5 in all. ALLIES TO WITHDRAW FROM LEVANT AREA LONDON, Dec. 14 (U.R) Great Britain and France have agreed on a point withdrawal of their j armed forces irom tne Levant area, foreign secretary Ernest Bevin announced in commons to-; day. Bishop W. E. Mammaker of Denver, of the Methodsit church, says the postwar period needs to be "swept by a great wave of evangelism." P S i' ML-. m mm MX 5 : ..-..j&MMi . Hkr ..j... (NEA Teltphoto) -Brigadier General Harold F. 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