Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1945 — Page 1

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IEFER MEN 30 OR OVER IN "USEFUL WORK”

■kee Troops ■nforced On ||iiawd Island sßsiege Fortress Ml Shuri, Threaten W Outflank Anchor Wednesday, May 22 ' Reinforced Amer ic a n Okinawa besieged the qHH s ~;;y of Shuri today and to outflank the eastflK:{lllr town of Yonabaru in KSH drive southward along the .Jgjß Admiral Richmond Kelly commander of U. S. ainK forces for the Ryukyu operation, predicted Okibo captured in the near future.” He Okinawa already was as the base for- ”im■Kt attacks” against Japan. SHery day, at this early stage, H. airplanes from Okinawa said Admiral Turn-sß-Think what it will be like from now!” mKjiies of the first division ; jEAougliboys of the 77th and SS-'ir.y divisions claimed a to roughly 1,000 yards ■He Shuri. KS a wide semi-circle, the EK slid around Shuri along a UH from the center cff the ■H Tin- marines fought along side ’ tlle sol(liers along Shuri's main fortifica--1 HMwere pierced in some of the "BB st Auditing; of the Pacific shhe SKrois of the 96th division ■ disclosed to have probed SHktt'ly through Yonabaru, coast port, in the deepest HKican penetration on OkinaPress war correspondThomas, with the |IM said the patrols reconijoitYonabaru and later with96th plunged west of Yonain a drive that threatened Yonabaru from inland defense positions. fien - Ro -' s - Geiger, com||Hling general of the third amphibious corps on Okisaid his men were ‘‘making progress.” He acknowledgthat the Japanese |H err on Okinawa was ‘‘the effective we have run into m>e Pacific.” declined to make a definite as to when the Shuri zone would be broken. 9E''" Sl ” ! - any withdrawal from would force the Japanese To Page «, Column 3) ■■ —— o "Rate Bulletins ■■Washington, May 22.—(UP) HB Japan for several months has attacking the western States with long-range bombs which jW" 3 " h ave caused “no propdamage,” the war and ■B''-" departments revealed today, They called the Japanese at)fßmpt “fantastic” and said the ■■ ac<s “constitute no military balloons cannot be conetl their launchers, the Apartment said, and “the ■H*"”* that an y given place ST i be hit by these attacks |« on| yone in many millions.” May 22 — ( UP > — At) - HK 11 .' l Karl Doenitz, Marshal m Keitel and other. GerBjL ■ eatlers at Flensburg are ■£ r? d t 0 be retuFne d to civilIbL ' * Wlthin a few days to BBar , P . r6bat,le indictment as s^E fe . r ' minals ’ a source assoj , ? h BUpreme headquartto <fey. OtpßT therm ometeh <) * ATURE reading ■o:oo a' J IBoon -- 52 — — 18... . Leather ®” lepo Zaht nd Wednesdayj>n.„ n ' Bht - warmer WedIBtninht'. Dlmini »bing winds

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Returning Veterans Hurt In Train Wreck Piqua, O„ May 22.—(UP)—Army and railroad authorities today were investigating a Pennsylvania train wreck here yesterday that critically injured two returning war veterans and sent at least 18 others to a hospital for treatment. A spread rail on a 35-foot overpass was blamed unofficially for the wreck. The train, carrying returning troops enroute to Camp Atterbury, Ind., Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and Fort Bliss, Tex., piled up on the embankment, some of the care tumbling down the grade and others straddling the rails. 0 10 Os Graduates Are In Nation's Service Eight Others Listed For Early Induction Ten of the 79 graduates of the Decatur high school are already serving in armed forces and eight others are scheduled for early induction, a list prepared by W. Guy Brown, school principal, discloses. Diplomas of the 10 young men will be presented to their parents at the 64th annual commencement exercises of the school on Thursday evening at the junior-senior high school auditorium. Eight of the graduates are serving in the navy. They are, Edgar Leo Borne, Van Thomas Colter, Donn Eugene Eichar, Thomas Kellum Lutes, Morris E. McClure, Frank Young, Jr., Cletus Alfred McManama, James Carl King, (coast guard). Two are in the army air forces, William Marbaugh and Douglas Keith Gilpen. Os the eight others, two have enlisted in the navy. They are Roger Paul Staley, Bernard Gene Brooks. Bill Howell is enrolled as an air cadet. Two of the graduates will leave next month for active duty, either in the army or navy. They are William Porter and Richard Sheets. William Wallis Brorner, Ronald Leon Stucky and Everett Joel Arthur, Jr., have passed qualification tests for the ASTRP, making them eligible for a six months to a year’s college training program, before active duty. W. C. Dickmeyer, of Fort Wayne, president of Wayne Candies. Inc., and nationally known Lutheran layman, will deliver the commencement address.

18 Men Leave Today I For Active Service Induction Os Four Students Postponed Eighteen Adams county men left Decatur this morning for active induction into the nation’s armed forces. (Scheduled intduction of four others 'was postponed to permit the youths, all high school seniors, to complete their school work (before being sent to service. (The 18 men leaving this morning will ibe assigned to various branches of the service after taking further examinations. All parsed pre-induction physical examinations in recent 'weeks and have been awaiting call to active duty. (Herman Joseph Hain was leadei of today’s contingent. Other membens of the group were: Gilbert William Bultemeier, Alfred Hugo Henry Thieme, Lester Fredrich Walter Thieme, Ralph Junior Teeter, Leroy Justus Moser, Eugene Christian 'Sommer, Nolan Eugean Hoffman, Winston JBwight Moser, Silvinio WilHam Vergara, Vilas Eugene (Burry, 'ames Clayton Everett, Charles William Bollinger, ichard (Paul Hurst, Obbie Tiue Jackson, Werner (Elmer Hoffman, Julius Joseph Baker and Leslie Eugene fohmit. Ohrnit had been given a special assignment as an air combat crewman and was ordered to report with today’s contingent. The four students whose induction was postponed are: Chester William iPorter.'Richard Earl Sheets, Thomas Antony Terveer a»d Albert Francis Gillig.

American Ist Army To Lead Way To Pacific United States First Army Now Underway To Pacific Theater Washington, May 22 —(UP) — The pace-setting American Ist army will lead the way for Yanks in Europe bound for the Pacific. First to land in France, first, to invade Germany, first across the Rhine and first to meet the Russians, Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ fighting first will add another record to its resounding list by being the first major U. S. fighting force in Europe to transfer to the Pacific. The war department announced last night that the Ist was already “on the move” — to the Pacific via the U. S. This presumably meant that advance units had embarked from France for the United States where they will be given furloughs before going on to help finish the job in the Pacific. Naturally it will take some time to move an entire army, which may number somewhere around 250,000 to 300,000 men. However, troops for the Pacific war have high priorities on transocean transport. A token return of the victorious first army to American soil will take place this Thursday when Hodges, accompanied by six of his generals, 15 to 20 lower officers and 24 Gl’s will arrive in Atlanta. The war department said that the divisions and corps that go to Japan will not “necessarily” be the same as those that fought in Germany, though all divisions are being brought, hack to the U. S. However, it added, “enough veteran units and veteran personnel will take the field under General Hodges to insure the same vigorous assault against the Japanese as was made against the Germans.” This was the first definite word (Turn To Page S, Column 6)

Federal Seizure Os Truck Lines Impends Chicago Truck Line Strike Continuing 'Chicago, May 22^(iUP)—Government seizure of Chicago trucking facilities appeared imminent today after members of the independent Chicago truck drivers union voted to continue a strike crippling food and war material distribution. A st?p toward federal seizure was taken in Washington when the war labor board referred the dispute to stabilization director William H. Davis. Davis was expected to recommend (before nightfall that president Truman seize the truck companies. (Army officers stood ready to take over, under office of defense transportation supervision, operation of an estimated 10,000 trucks idled by the six-day work stoppage, result of a wage dispute. By a standing vote, some 4,000 independent drivers last night decided not to heed a war labor board ultimatum that they bad 2,500 other strikers go back to work under threat of truck lines seizure, requested by opeators. The strikers’ action also disregarded WILB threats to cancel draft deferments of essential drivers and to nullify a retroactive pay award granted last week under a compromise wage settlement. WLB had declined to reconsider the wage grievance until the strikers return to work. The board awarded the men a $4.08 increase for their current 51-hour week, but they demanded a $5 week raise and a 48-hour week. Meanwhile, the strike halted deliveries of perishable food's, merchandise and water material. About 4,000 Chicago-area groceries were without fresh fruits and vegetables the past weekend. Staple stocks were expected to last only a week longer.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May, 22,1945.

Receives 100th Medal of Honor ■ . %V > ■ 1 r" A £ ■ A. ■a '^BkrWU? 4 >’* , ~ " i HiiwiifiiiATiiiifillßMß TECH. SGT. JAKE WILLIAM LINDSEY, 24, Lucedale, Miss., is shown above as he arrived at La Guardia field in New York from Europe on his way to Washington, D. C., where he received the 100th Congressional Medal of Honor to be awarded in this war. The sergeant was presented the award by President Harry S. Truman before a joint session of Congress for his “gallantry and intrepedity at the risk of his life.”

Youth Pleads Guilty To Burglary Charge Sentence Is Taken Under Advisement BULLETIN Judge Fruchtesentenced Huliinger to 30 days in jail and fined him $25 and costs. His driver’s license was revoked for 90 days. The jail sentence was suspended on good behavior. Summers received a 90-day sentence at the state farm at Putnamville and was fined $lO and costs. James Summers, 19-year-old Decatur youth, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary when arraigned before Judge J. Fred Fruchte in Adams circuit court late Monday afternoon. Sentencing of the youth was taken under advisement pending further investigation by the court. Ed P. Miller, Decatur police chief, stated that Summers had pleaded guilty to the specific charge of burglarizing the Badders and Tutewiler filling station at Thirteenth and Monroe streets on the night of April 5. A total of $45 in cash and a quantity of gasoline coupons were obtained in this breakin. The chief said that Summers also admitted other breakins in this city, including one of May 15. also at the Badders and Tutewiler station, when $23 in cash and more gas coupons were taken; the West End Texaco station, where the loot was $1 in pennies; the Maier Hide & Fur Co. and the O. K. Welding shop, with no loss reported in either breakin. Summers also admitted, the chief stated, to the theft of an automobile owned by Kohne.'on the night of April 5, The youth told the chief that he threw the gasoline, coupons into the river. Floyd Hullinger, also arraigned in circuit court Monday afternoon, pleaded guilty to driving an automobile while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He was arrested by city police early Sunday morning on Winchester street. o Red Cross Service Workers To Meeting (Personnel of the Red Cross home service office will attend a conference in (Fort Wayne tomorrow, at which a representative of the veterans administration will be the speaker and answer questions in connection with the veteran’s aid services rendered by Red Cross. Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth, executive secretary and Mrs. Harold Grant, assistant, will attend the meeting all day Wednesday. The local office will be closed. Earl B. Adams, chairman of the Red Cross home service, will attend the afternoon session.

Living Costs Reach New 20-Year Peak New York, May 22—(UP) —Living costs for the average family of wage earner's and lower-salaried clerical workers in the United States rose 0.4 per cent in April to a ?0-year peak, the national industrial conference board announced today. The (board’s April index stood at 105.8 (1923 equals 100), 23 per cent albpve January, l®4il, the base month of the little steel formula. April living costs were 1.5 per cent higher than a year ago. .' o — Relates Surrender » Os Nazi Submarine i ‘Local Sailor Aboard A j Destroyer Escort J’etty officer Glenn Habegger, of Mrs. Elvira WardHibegger of this city, and son of Mi;. and Mrs. Homer Habegger of Berne, a veteran of nearly two yehrs service at sea, had the distinct honor of being aboard a U. S. destroyer escort that accepted the surrender of the German U-boat 858 at Cape May, off the Jersey coast, following Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8. Petty Officer Habegger is a radioman, first class, on the U. S. S. Pillsbury, going aboard on December 10, 1944, after serving a year and one-half on the U. S. S. Davis, also a destroyer escort, which saw combat service in the Anzio beachhead landing and the southern France invasion. The U. S. S. Davie was later sunk by a German U-boat. In a diary-form letter received here by his wife, PettyOfiicer Habegger relates that the skipper of his ship received word of the contemplated surrender of the German U-boats, which, according to the unconditional terms, were to be turned over to the British and American fleets. Men from the Pillsbury went aboard the U-858, placing members of the crew under arrest and leaving a skeleton force aboard, sufficient to operate the boat and deliver it to American naval officers. It was an exciting moment, the petty officer describes, and newspapermen, writes, broadcasters and movie men were on hand to witness the surrender and interview the captain of the U. S. S. Pillsbury and other officers. The German prisoners were taken aboard his ship. The American sailors were given a great welcome when they came into port, Petty Officer Habegger relates. His ship sank the last German submarine, No. 546,'just before V-E day and also brought in the first’ U-boat surrendered to the American fleet, following the close of the German war. It has had one of the most glorious sea records of any ship its size in the fleet, it was related.

Indefinite Deferment Os 9 Men Ordered-To Review Younger Rejected Men

Lend-Lease Extension Needed To Beat Japs Necessity Is Cited By President Truman Washington, May 22. — ( UP) — President Truman and the foreign economic administration told congress today that lend-lease -i.ust continue on an “adjusted and reduced” basis to generate the overwhelming power needed to crush Japan. FEA reported that a grand total of $38,971,000,000 in American lendlease aid had been poured into the United Nations war machine in a little more than four years up until March 31. This, it said, amounted to fifteen cents out of every American war dollar spent during that period. The mdst important thing the U. S. has gained through lend-lease, the report declared, has been “the defeat of Nazi Germany and the hastening of the day of victory over Japan.” In addition, however, it said this country had received up to last Jan. 1 nearly $5,000,000,000 worth of reverse lend-lease supplies and services from its allies.” Both the report and a letter from President Truman accompanying it avoided any direct mention of Russia’s role in lend-lease now that full war emphasis has been shifted to the Pacific. The Soviets are neutral there. This was partly attributable to i the fact that the report covered only up to the end of March. The war in Europe ended in May. Since March, because of the end of the European war, the bulk of Russia’s $300,000,000-a-month lendlease deliveries have been suspended. Work has begun on a 45 percent reduction in the flow of lendlease aid to the British commonwealth. Additional reductions are in the making in lend-lease programs with other allies. The report said more than 98 percent of this nation’s vast lendlease contribution had gone to the four major allies —Britain, Russia, France and China. It listed Britain’s share as $12,775,000,000 to the United Kingdom, $1,257,000,000 to Australia and New Zealand, and a large part of the $5,836,000,000 which has gone to the Africa-Middle East-Mediterran-ean area and the China-India section.

Russia received $8,409,000,000 in (Turn To Paso 5, Column 1) 0 Cpl. Philip Carmody Is Killed In Action Native Os Decatur Killed In December Cpl. Philip J. Carmody, son of My. and Mrs. John Carmody. 4228 Park Avenue, Indianapolis, former residents of this city, wais killed in action in the Belgium Ardennes Bulge battle on last December 18, the wl> department has notified the parents. He previously had been reported missing. Cpl. Caibody was born in Decatur. Prior to moving from hhis city, his father was manager of the old Holland St. Louis Sugar factory. 'Cpl. Carmody, a member of the 10th Armored Division, also served in the Saar region. He entered the army in November. 1943 and arrived overseas in October, 1944. iA graduate of Cathedral high school, Indianapolis, where he had been active in football, he also attended Indiana University and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity 'and St. Joan of Arc Catholic church. Survivors besides the parents are a brother, Pfc. John Carmody, stationed in Germany, and one sister, Miss Frances Carmody. The three Carmody children were born in this city.

City Without Electric Power This Morning Overload Is Thrown On Small Turbines At Municipal Plant Decatur was in “darkness” at intervals between 8:40 and 9:50 o’clock this morning when the! two small turbines at the city light and power plant went “dead” ; because of an overload thrown on them from the ISC high ten-1 sion line that had been feeding 3,000 kilowatts into the plant. Industrial plants, public offices, stores, the hospital and schools were without light or power. The | teletype, operated by a small | motor, and the three linotypes in the Daily Democrat office w r ere stilled and not a line of type could be turned out. Household refrigerators defrosted and housewives had to curtail ironing and wash- ■ ing duties. Lester Pettibone, superintend- j ent, said that the 5,000 K. W. I turbine had been down since yesterday as'workmen were cleaning the condenser. The two smaller generating units, of 2,000 and 1,000 K. W. capacity, were turning out the “juice” and about i 3,000 KWs Were being received I over the high tension line, which ' is fed through the plant’s switchboard. The 3,000 high tension circuit clicked out and the entire load was thrown over on the two generating units in the city plant. It was stated that the city was pulling on the line beyond its capacity. The city’s generating units (Turn To Page 6, Column 6) 0 — Mrs. Chas. Morrison Dies Monday Evening Funeral Services Thursday Morning Mrs. Charles M. Morrison. 75, died suddenly of a heart attack Monday evening at her home, two ‘ miles southwest of Willshire, O. She had been in failing health for several years but death was unexpected. •Sthe was born near Willshire Nov. 27, 1869, the daughter of Joseph and Deliah ’Sims, and was married to Charles' Morrison Jan. .1, 1888. She was a member of the Union United Brethren ehure.h near Willshire. .Surviving are the husband, one son, Orval Morrison, of near Pleasant Mills; two daughters, Mrs. Ivan Byrer of near Pleasant Mills and Mrs. Lester Davis of near Warsaw; one brother, Otie Sims of Fort Wayne; five grandchildren. Two sone preceded her in death. 'Funeral services will Ire held at 10 a. m. Thursday'at the Union U. B. church, with the Rev. C. C. Nichols officiating. Burial will he in tihe Tricker cemetery. o Willshire Graduate Exercises Thursday The annual commencement exercises of the Willshire, 0., high school will be held at the school auditorium Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. M. Clifford Townsend, former governor of Indiana, will deliver the commencement address. Catherine Jean Miller is class valedictorian and Doris Shoaf is class salutatorian. Diplomas will be presented by Dale Clouse, president of the board of education, and eighth grade diplomas and awards w’ill be presented by Clark Sipe.

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Drafting Os Older Men Is Likely To Be Virtually Ended Under Latest Order Washinkton. May 22—(UP) — Selective service director Lewis B. Hershey today announced indefinite deferment for men 30 or over who are contributing to the war effort or are doing “useful” community work. Hershey also instructed local boards to review the cases of men in the 18-25 age group who were previously disqualified on physical grounds. Local draft boards henceforth, Hershey said, should give fathers over 29 “sympathetic consideration" in meeting draft calls. The boards, he said, also should remember the cost to the government in dependency allotments of inducting fathers. Under the new program, which is effective immediately, drafting lof older men virtually will be ! halted if local draft boards rule I that they are engaged in work contributing to national health, safety or interest. Hershey told a press confer-’ ence that the monthly draft calls will be reduced to 90,000, starting i July 1. This is a drop of 25 perI cent under current calls. This cut made possible the liberalized policy for calling up of men in the 30-37 age group, Hershey said. Selective service, Hershey said, plans to fill 45 percent of the 90.000 July call with 18-year-olds, 33 percent from the 19 through 25 group, and 22 percent with men in the 26 through 29 category and those over 29 whom “we can’t avoid taking.” Under the new program and in view of the fact_ that the navy will reach it's authorized strength June 30, the army, it is said, hopes to obtain a larger proportion of 18-year-olds than it has been able to get in the past. When the navy reaches peak strength and ceases to accept enlistment of 17-year-olds, it was explained, the monthly crop of 18-year-olds will become larger. Hershey emphasized that the armed forces need younger men. Munitions .cutbacks in war plants will make older men available for war jobs, he pointed out, and this situation should enable the release for induction of younger men now occupationally deferred. Discharged veterans, he said, also will be available in increasing numbers to replace the younger i men in war plants. . i Hershey added, however, that j men 30 and over who leave essenj tial jobs will still face the prospect of induction. Os 4-F’s and limited service ‘ registrants in the 18 through 25 age group at present, Hershey ’ said he hoped about 10 percent would turn out after review to be available for military service. , The now program abolishes the . 30 through 33 age classification. Registrants in this group were ’ necessary men in an essential industry. Local boards now have full ( authority to determine which men over 29 will be drafted, and are no t longer restricted by the list of essential activities. In case of doubt, Hershey said, (Turn To Page 5, Column 3) QUICKIES by Ken Reynolds I \ . \ u —J, “I see you managed to put the car I got with a Democrat Want Ad in the garage by yourself!”