Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 116, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1945 — Page 1

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BLOODY HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING IN NAHA

■ Percent Os Kdanao Freed ■Yank Troops IPeadly Hand-to-Hand Sighting In Cleanup Japanese Pockets M- I .'' (UP)—The islUinil.iii:i" wus 90 percent HK’ today but American i\ ( i.Mt.iny up the last Jap- •/ ’ kPts welP locked in some SSL hand-to-hand fightf it,,. Pacific war around uT..j.. ;l ii aid Japanese soldiers j, out toe to toe with bayhalts, and even fists as ivsistance reached its final, stage. In some cases, whipped off their helswinging them by the JR tl sed them as clubs to Japanese to death. bitter battle raged in the fields between the Tal--I!|Haml Davao rivers, west of K city ’ gK ponglas ('. MacArthur anin a eointnunique that 90 of Mindanao and 95 perthe island’s estimated pop’.i|Ki o f ton,O(M) had been liberatremaining Japanese troops mo-tly trapped in the hills of *T^K l . l .|,al in’.-iiui between AmerPH forces advancing from north BKomh. The fifth division, com.from the north, reported opposition in the hills »ti^l e Japanese had deflected 1,11 millimeter anti- . , no.. use them for direct t: 31st division, moving north the filth, captui'ed the airllol'tb °f Maramag on the highway. ibo Manila rainy seas- ‘ and troops battling for Mun fought their way forward lorreniml rains an.fi sticky SB. Forty-third division units within 4(Ht yards of the dam liic south while other forces tlie commanding high ■K'. tuih-i tlirmigh quagmires io Mtte up the supplies necessary for rain.- swelled the water alstored up in the great Ipj B. source of one-third of Man|H water supply. ■Biii'W drive developed along the B roast of Luzon, where 14th !■ units iea<lie<l Binangonan |B:aul began an advance nortilSBl toward Infanta. They were offshore by light naval j^B s "'hicii bombarded enemy posiin front of the drive. o —— ®9*on Seeks .Aid SI h Revising Honor sj Roil Os Veterans honor roll committee of AdPost 43, American Legion, te a n intensive effort to bring ■■** Sinn honor roll of veterans of ■ pr“sciit war up to datte. This rnli is posted in front of the home on Madison street, ration of the public is rein obtaining names of all Wlln are now, or have been, armed forces during the H 1!1 & Ugion is particularly degff hav e names submitted W 1,118 under is who have enEBaro ° r Berv ‘ ce ’ as those under nOt , I>r(>l ' f *t’ed through seBBuii' 1 ? erV ' (P ' Ijike,wis!e ' women Kei \ S '** various branches M. are not Iteted with the |K on a ' e aISO re/ l ue sted by the correctl! ° n s to the Tuesday night by the Sought and these SB immediately. ■ s ♦ WEat HER and Thursda X an POrtiOn ear| y ■fa Cool sterno °n- ContinKht ’’ l° L rth Portions toer J h *T sday and ccol- - ' Portion Thtirsday.

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Conference Hopes To Adjourn By June 1 Regional Security Issue Compromised 'San Francisco. May 16—(UP)— The United Nations conference again set it>3 sights today on June 1 as a possible adjournment deadline. The way was cleared somewhat iby a three-point compromise formula solving a 10-day dispute over regional security systems. The formula for linking such groups as the inter-Ameriean system with tht? proposed world organization was announced by secretary of state lEdiward R. Stettinius, Jr. 'Mexican foreign minister Ezequiel Pajilla immediately welcomed the plan in behalf of the 20' Latin American nations as one that would strengthen the inter-Ameriean system. The 'Latin American nations agreed to accept the paramount-au-thority of the world organization inenfordeiment action in return for specific recognition of the inherent right of individual or collective self defense. iln addition, the Latin Americans received the promise of the United States to call another inter-Ameri-can conference soon for negotiating a permanent hemispheric collective security treaty to supersede the wartime “act of Chapultepec” which was signed at Mexico City in March. The general reaction was that the gravest crisis of this conference had been liquidated. The delegates immediately turned to other unsolved problems—international trusteeships, a world court statute, and the campagin of little nations to strengthen the general assembly. The U. S. formula on the regional issue will be presented today to a special sulbeommittee which will pass it on immediately to the full committee for almost certain and immediate approval. The general principles for solving the regional dispute have been agreed upon since last Saturday. But the wording of them had stumped the best minds here for three days. The result is n three-point formula requiring two specific amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. The three points are: 1. tteeongintion of the paramount authority of the world organization in all enforcement action. (This is already in the Dum(Turn To Page 3', Column 8) -— o Foresee Tough U. S. Reparation Demands Rigid Control Over Germans' Industry Washington, May IG. (UP) -- There were mounting indications today that the United States’ reparations demands on beaten Germany will be as tough as the traffic will bear. The attitude of the administration and of administration supporters in con/ress alike seems clearly to be: “Make the aggressor pay." Details of the American plan have not yet been disclosed but President Truman already has outlined a two-fold objective which leaves little doubt its terms will be severe. The president told a news conference yesterday that “absolute insurance against German or Japanese rearmament — ever again comes first with us." At the same time he spoke of reparations “in kind" to provide the maximum rehabilitation and restoration of overrun territory. Informed quarters in Washington believe demilitarization of Germany will include a rigid control over her industry for many years to come to prevent the manufacture of war material. It doesn’t necessarily mean elimination of German industry and forced return to an agricultural nation and producer of raw products. It is taken to mean, however, close supervision over what German industry produces. The presidential stress on reparations “in kind" for maximum rehabilitation of overrun territory raises some questions as to what the United S.tates expects to gain (Turn To Page 2, Column J)

Allied Mission lakes Control Al Flensburg Western Frontiers Os Germany Closed By Allied Action Paris, May 16 —(UP) —Supreme headquarters took over control of the German government and high command at Flensburg and closed the Reich’s western frontiers today. An official 'source said a headquarters mission had matters at Flensburg “well in, hantl,” but did not mention specifically the fate of fuehrer grand admiral Karl Doenilz or marshal Wilhelm Keitel, supreme commander of the German armed forces. Headquarters said it had closed Germany’s western frontiers to both German civilians and Allied soldiers to “prevent the escape of war criminals and other persons wanted.” A prohibited area was established along the borders in which any hostile act on the part of the inhabitants will be punished severely, possibly by death. Only those with written permits will be allowed to cross from Germany into the Netherlands, Belgium, or France, headquarters said. Final disposition of the government and oberkommand was awaiting the decision of still higher quarters, possibly involving more than one nation, the source — from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters at Reims —said. Thus army hands are tied from taking some of the drastic steps being demanded in the United States and Britain, the Reims informant said. Other authoritative quarters already have said that the Doenitz regime has no standing as a government, but to what extent its (Turn To Page 2. Column 3) O Hoosiers Invest $32,700,000 To Date Indianapolis, May 16 —’(UP) — Hoosiers have invested $312,700,000 (M) during the first three days of the seventh war loan drive, state chairman Eugene C, Pulliam of the war finance committee announced today. The figures, which include $28,1001,000 (Mi) in series E bonds, were based on federal reserve reports, Pulliam said. The individual bond quota for the drive is $167,000.000 (Ml including $104,000,000' (M) in E bonds. Sales to date include ah payroll savings purchases from April 7. • —o Chapel Program Is Presented By Band High School Band In Final Program The Decatur junior-senior high school band, directed by Albert Sellemeyer, presented a concert at the school this morning at the concluding chapel program of the school year. The splendid performance of the 55-piece band was enthusiastically applauded by the entire student body at the conclusion of the performance. In addition to the regular concert, which opened with “The Star Spangled Banner,” four feature numbers were presented. The feature numbers were as follows: "Troubadors,” cornet trio, composed of the Misses Virginia Husker, Clarice Anspaugh and Vera Steury. Tuba solo, “Storm King,” by Miss Karlann Striker. Clarinet, quartet, ’‘Etude/’ by Misses Juanita Fruchte, tloyce Roop, Rosamond Graham and Eloise Jackson. Trombone trio, “Three Slippers,” by Misses Leona Hoile, Edna Mae Schultz and Donnabelle Roop. Miss Leona Hoile acted as assistant director.

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A Nazi Sub Is Surrendered 1 1| ■ ■ ••• ■ • ••••».»• • '. •••»'»f.>.W”'W--A.- i.iaw*'. ! ■ .... ■ I y ■ Wll Jk CMDR. J. P. NORFLEET, U. S. N., retired, shown at the left above, accepts surrender of the German submarine U-858 from Capt. Lt. Thilo Bqde, the craft's 27-year-old captain. The surrender took place in American waters, 42 miles off Cape May. N. J., with a crew of five officers and 52 men. The U-858 had sunk 16 Allied ships during two and one-half years of preying on Allied vessels in the Atlantic. United States Navy photo.

Honorable Discharge ★ ★★★★★★★ The following Adams county men have been honorably discharged from the armed forces: Pfc. ALLEN J. KISTLER, 734 Spencer street, entered the army Nov. 17, 1942, wounded in chest in battle of Sicily, July 10, 1944. Cpl. ARTHUR C. KEIFER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Keifer of Decatur route one. Entered the army on May 21, 1942. Wounded spine and pelvis in a fall down oliff in Italy on August 19, 1944. ——o Trieste Occupation Dispute Still Rages British Warships Anchor In Harbor London, May 16. —(UP) —British cruisers and destroyers have anchored in the harbor of Trieste under a canopy of Americaij heavy bombers, a dispatch from the disputed port said today. United Press correspondent James Roper reported from Trieste that the British warships arrived Tuesday. He said Sherman tanks, manned by alert New Zealanders, were patrolling the streets of the dock area under British control. With the permission of Marshal Tito, the British had begun unloading supplies at Trieste for the allied armies of occupation in Austria. ' The disclosure came while Great Britain and the United States awaited replies to their notes to Marshal Tito protesting administration of the port by his Yugoslav forces. The allied position was that an allied military government should administer Trieste as it does all other former Italian territory. The notes were described here as firm, although it was said they did not contain any ultimatum. The extent to which the Yugoslavs have seized control of Trieste was disclosed in a dispatch from the port itself by United Press correspondent James Roper. He reported the Yugoslavs have installed their own picked prefect, rertained a street Corso Tito, substituted Yugoslav time for Italian time, and begun conscripting men from 15 to 50 for the Yugoslav array. An Istanbul dispatch said rumors were circulating in diplomatic circles }n Balkan capitals that Tito is planning a league of Balkan states. ' These unverified reports said Tito envisioned a league of greater ; Yugoslavia, including Fiume, Salonica, and Trieste, with Rumania, I Bulgia, and Albania. It was said the organization would have Rus- ( sian backing. , Italian Premier Ivanoe Bonomi t stated Italy’s position on Trieste at a press conference in Rome last , night when he said his country ( would be glad to discuss the prob- 1 lem with Jugoslavia “when the passions of war have passed." Bonomi said he was confident any j differences between Italy and Jugoslavia could be ironed out. But he ■ added, “it is necessary that the j problem be not prejudiced by the ( (Turn To P.'iffe 4, Column 6) I

Red Cross Office To Be Closed Thursday The Red Cross home service office will be closed all day Thursday to permit Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth, executive secretary, to attend the funeral of her sister-in-law, Mrs. James Hollingsworth of Winchester. Mrs. Hollingsworth died Monday night. She was 62 years old. Her husband was a brother of the late Harl Hollingsworth of this city, former county sheriff. 0 _ German Resistance On Land Is Ended Surrender Os Nazi U-Boats increases f London, May 16. —'(UP) —All German resistance on land had ceased today—one week after the reich’s capitulation—and the number of Üboats surrendering to the Allies was increasing almost hourly. Nearly 50 German submarines already had put into Allied ports on both sides of the Atlantic or had surrendered at sea to Allied warships. A London Evening News dispatch said U-boats which still remain below the surface have been outlawed. Orders have been issued to Allied warships to sink any submerged submarines, the dispatch said. The last German ground resistance in Europe was crushed by the Yugoslav army. Marshal Tito announced that his third army had surrounded and compelled German and pro-Nazi Ustachi forces in the upper Drava valley to capitulate after a violent three-day battle. More than 5,000 enemy troops were killed and 30,000 including “many war criminals,” captured, Tito said. Tito said the battle had increased the third army’s bag of prisoners in the past fortnight to 100,000. o Pfc. Keilh Hammond Wounded Third Time Thrice-Wounded In Five-Month Period .For the third time in less than five months, Pfc. Keith Hammond, 19-yearold son of Charles Hammond, 928 Line street, has been wounded in coirtbat with troops of the American expeditionary force in Europe, the father was advised by the war department last evening. iPfq. Hammond was wounded in Germany on iMay 1, three days after the first rumor of cessation of hostilities had spread over the country. (Previously he was wounded on December 15, 1944 in France and on March 33, was wounded again, the latter time in Germany. •Pfc. Hammond is an infantryman with the 19th Armored Infantry battalion of Gen. Hodges First Army. He entered the army on March 22, 1944 and went overseas last October. He advanced with American troops through France, Belgium and then into Germany.

Marines Battle Through Mortar And Shell Fire; Near Center Os Capital

Soviet Radio Lashes Coddling Os Nazis Jackson Names Three Top Legal Experts London, May 16. — (UP) —The Moscow radio, joining the clamor over purported coddling of captured German leaders, said today that the “only fit way of dealing with such criminate is the hangman's noose.” f Indignation mouflted in London with disclosure that William Messerschmitt was living in a pleasant residential district of London, the city his planes helped to wreckliving in luxury and comparative freedom, British newspapers eaid. An English language broadcast from Moscow denounced the interviewing of Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering by allied correspondents. The radio said it was like talking to “a murderer who has just killed a child and is still carrying a blood-covered hatchet.” After prescribing the hangman's noose for “such criminals," the broadcaster attacked the Flensburg radio report that the Germans had some control over themselves and added: “It is not martinis or fried chicken that will tame the Hitlerite gangsters. They need a radical cure. Sensation-seeking reporters would do better to go to Hollywood for a ecoop interview.” Names Aides Washingtn, May 16. — (UP) — Supreme court justice Robert H. Jackson, whipping into his duties as chief U. S. prosecutor of war criminals, has chosen three top legal experts to aid him prepare and present this country's case against leading Axis evildoers. The war department said Jackson had chosen a small staff, composed mostly of men already familiar with the problems and available data concerning war crimes, in line with his determination that triate of leading Axis criminals be. (Turn To Page 2. Column 3)

Habeas Corpus Writ Sought By Daughter Parents Named In Court Proceeding (Au unusual case is scheduled for hearing before Judge J. Fred Fruchte in Adams Circuit court, in which a writ of habeas corpus is sought hy Lorien Schueler against her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Schueler, prominent farm residents living northwest of Decatur. The plaintiff is past 21 years, of age. iThe complaint was filed by Robert A. Buhler, attorney of Fort Wayne, who alleges “that she is now and has been since on or about the 14th day of May, wrongfully, unlawfully, illegally and without warrent, or due process of law, deprived of her liberty by said defendants (parents) without right, legal process or other legal writ to hold her and is being so detained at the home and residence of the defendants in Adams county." resident z Attorney Buhler, in his complaint, also alleges “that she is in good physical and mental health and emancipated”. It was said that Miss Schueler had been employed in Fort Wayne and that her parents objected to the company she kept, and that they prevented her 'from leaving their house. o General Eisenhower Meets With Churchill Ixmdon. May 16. — (UP) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower visited 10 Downing street today for a talk with Prime Minister Churchill. He was expected to return to France later today.

Complete Case Against Nazi War Criminals United Nations War Crimes Commission Completes Evidence London, May 16 — (JJP) --The United Nations war crimes commission has completed its cases against all top-ranking Nazis, including members of the government and general staff, and is ready to turn the evidence over to Justice Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor, the United Press learned today. Col. Joseph V. Hodgson, American representative on the commission, said “justice will be done expeditiously.” Hodgson said that if the western Allies and Russia agree upon a trial by a military tribunal, as proposed by the United States, prosecution could lie made without delay. Once such a tribunal is agreed upon, a group of between 25 and 30 Nazi leaders, including Hermann Goering, will be tried. Heinrich Himmler, if captured alive, will be included. Members of the German general staff who have been linked with specific atrocities have been placed on the commission’s war criminal list, it was reported. Jackson and possibly four coprosecutors will present the evidence. Jurisdiction, of Jackson and his colleagues, one each from Great Britain, Russia, France and one other Allied nation, will extend only to the Nazi arch criminals. Thousands of minor Nazis will be tried by lower tribunals which may be established by SHEAF or the Allied control commission for Germany. Hodgson, formerly attorney general of Hawaii, has been the champion of the military tribunal plan which lias won official sponsorship by the United States. “The United States lias utilized military tribunals for the punishment of war criminals following every war in our history," Hodgson said. “It. lias proven to lie a practical and satisfactory answer to a difficult problem.” 0 German Prisoners To Wurk Belgian Mines By United Press The British radio 'reported today that 4,000 German war prisoners will be put to work in Belgian coal mines starting May 15. The broadcast was recorded by United Pres.-,. o Late Bulletins

Washington, May 16—(UP) —The destroyer escort Frederick C. Davis was sunk recently by an enemy submarine in the Atlantic with heavy casualties, the navy announced today. The action took place “some days" before the surrender of Germany, the navy said. The vessel was commanded by Lt. James R. Crosby, 27, Seattle, Wash. He is among the missing. Tacoma, Wash., May 16— (UP) —An explosion at the E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Co. powder plant, 15 miles south of Tacoma, rocked the city today. Company officials refused to comment, but state patrolmen called to the scene said the explosion occurred at the powder plant. Company hospital attendants said doctors and company officials had rushed to the “explosion area."

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Bloody No-Quarter Combat With Japs For Possession Os Capital Os Okinawa Guam, May 16 —(UP) —Weary marines of the sixth division battled through a hell of mortar and shell fire within 1,000 yards of the center of Naha, rubbleheaped capital of Okinawa, today. They were fighting house to house through the capital in bloody no-quarter combat. Marine vanguards already had forced the Asato river, bisecting the city, but. a murderous rain of enemy fire still cut down reinforcements crossing the stream. The inland citadel of Shurl and east coast port of Yonabaru also were under siege along the fivemile front across the southern tip of Okinawa. Chocolate Drop hill, one of the main enemy strong points shielding Shuri, was taken at bayonet point by tiie 77th infantry division yesterday at heavy cost. Its capture broke a stalemate northeast of Shuri. Tim first marine division fought toward Shuri from the northwest. Yonabaru was attacked by the 96th infantry division after it beat off an enemy counter-attack in the vicinity of newly-captured Conical hill. Marines of the sixth division’s 22nd regiment in the outskirts of Naha also beat off a savage Japanese . counter-attack in handto hand fighting. The enemy remnants fell back into the suburb of Takamotoji. A n»w Japanese attempt — the second within a week — to land troops behind the American lines near Machinato airfield, live miles north of Naha, was broken up by naval gunfire. Field artillery, naval guns and both carrier and land-based planes supported the American ground forces. A Japanese Dome! dispatch said the Japanese defenders of Naha were facing “overwhelming odds" because the American attackers were being continuously reinforced. The dispatch claimed that Japanese forces had “completely destroyed" at least two out of the six American divisions landed on (Turn To Page 4, Column 8) — o— —_ Britain To Retain Pacific Possessions London, May 16. —(UP) —Authoritative sources said today that Britain is determined to retain Hong Kong and its other pre-war Pacific possessions. China has asked that Hong Kong lie returned to her. British sources said Singapore will be made a larger, “truly international” port, though Britain intends to retain administrative conlrol.

ALL OUT FOR THE MM ? MIGHTY gW' SEVENTH Buy Bonds rTCTt-iri L—, —J ★ ONE GREAT PUSH THE MIGHTY 7th WAR LOAN When it’s needed for victory, our fighting men throw everything into one great effort. The cost may be terrible, paid in death, destruction and wounds - • but they win their objective. Now we at home have a vital objective to reach. We must, as individuals, lend $866,300 (Adams County) to Uncle Sam during the great 7th War Loan drive. That money is urgently needed to pay for the guns, food, medical supplies and other ma. terial our fighting men need . . and it’s needed now. The ★ county’s total quota is $1,294,900.

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