Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1945 — Page 1

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APAHESE RETREATING ON THREE FRONTS

han Urges Ingress Aid Ltforkers Lequate Benefits for Temporarily Unemployed Urged ■shington, May 28. (UP) ■dent Truman today urged con- ■ w close what he described as ■tor gap in the reconversion Em-"the lack of adequate Es tor workers temporarily ■ployed during the transition I war to peace.” I .proposed that congress act at | to assure war workers, Ktgli supplementation of state Eloyment benefits, of 26 weeks ■yments in any one year if they Ebless that long. He proposed Et $25 a week for unemployforkers with dependents. K'e must provide maximum sc|y to those who have given so |of themselves on the fighting ■ production fronts,” the presi- ■ said in a message to congress, [he transition from war to |e is part and parcel of the war ■we cannot shirk our obligaL to those temporarily unem|ed through no fault of their Bl) L recommended .specifically I congress: I Take emergency action to In the coverage of unemploy|t compensation and to increase ■ amount and duration of benefit least for the duration of ■emergency period of reconver- ■ | Extend unemployment coniLiion coverage to include fed- | employes, maritime workers | other workers not now insured. I Provide supplementary em■ency funds to assure each eligI worker 2G weeks of benefits in I one year, if unemployed that i . St3c provisions are. essential the orderly reconversion of our time economy to peacetime protion,” he said. “They are badteeded for the duration of the inversion emergency ... as a wark against postwar deflation.” highly optimistic report on the ion's immediate economic future given by war production chairhJ. A. Krug, who said the counts much better prepared for on v ersion now than it was in tnig predicted, that one year n today United States factories Ibe turning out durable civilian ds at an annual rate of $16,700,ITurn To Pago 2. Column 3) 0 7th Work Stoppage Chicago Factory Su'cago, May 28—(UP)—Five idred workers in the forge divi- • of the Dodge Chicagar plant «k today in the 127th work Wage at the plant since Deuber, 1942. k Picket line was formed •und the plant by members of i International Brotherhood of J°*smiths, Drop Forgers and ’Pers, AFL. The plant, a divi- ® of the Chrysler Corporation, Muces B-29 engines. A comJf official said the strike was in protest against a war w board refusal to grant erawage increases. " 0 "eMan Is Killed Flant Explosion ' ert b Amboy, N. J„ May 28 — ne man was killed in an P® loday at the plant of Bon‘*nas°o. Inc., at Bafiber, N. officials reported that a J containing pitch, for use in w e ® ctrica ' wires, exploded U known as the- "hot nSwul THERMOMETER . “ PEr ature reading Br;- —70 S —■ — ■ Mv . Weath er S a " d Ohio ,;„ th showers near ‘hi, evening.

State Police Called I To Quell Disturbance Connersville, Ind., May 08—(UiP) — Indiana state police from five cities were on duty at Connersville during the weekend after 200 persons threatened riot in front'of a tavern where three Camp Atterbury soldiers were alleged to have been mistreated. 'Windows of the tavern were smashed. The police from Conners. ( Vila, Pendleton, Putnamville, India napolit an# Seymour posts formed a cordon around the tavern for six hours before quiet was restored. • — oTo Suspend Business I Here Memorial Day Legion Services On Wednesday Morning Business generally will be suspended in Decatur Wednesday, Memeraorial Day, iwith the feature observance of the day the annual memorial services held by Adams Peat 43, American Legion, Wednesday morning. The majority of Decatur retail stores and offices 'will be closed the entire day, although local industries engaged in war production will continue to operate on regular work schedules. All taverns and clulbs .dispensing alcoholic beverages 'must also be closed the entire day, aa the new liquor law passed by the 19'45 legislature added Memorial -Day to the list of dry holidays in the state. The only mail deliveries Wednesday will be to war industries and special delivery mail, postmaser Leo Kirsch announced. .The lobby will be open and mail will be dispatched as usual. The First State Bank, county and city offices will be closed all day and the Daily Democrat will not publish an edition on the holiday. The Legion service will open at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, with military rites at both the Decatur and 'Catholic cemeteries, and a service at the lagoon in the Catholic cemetery for the navy dead. A brief concert by the Decatur .high school band Will preceded the parade at 10 o'clock from the Legion home to the court house, where memorial services will be field at the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument. The parade will move north on First street to Monroe street, west to Second street and then south to Liberty Way. The Legion has extened invitations to fraternal organigations, returned veterans of the armed forces, ‘Boy and Girl Scouts and school children to join in tihe parade. The Adams Post color guard and firing squad will take part in the ceremonies, and the memorial ri-. tual and names of departed veterans Will Ibe read by Tillman Gehrig, fourth district commander, and James K. Staley, district adjutant. The memorial address will be delivered by Arthur R. Holthouse, business manager of the Decatur Daily Democrat. o Change Meeting Os Civil Air Patrol 35 Members Attend Maneuvers Sunday The meeting place of the members of Decatur Flight CAP has been changed from the Lincoln school to Hanna-Nuttman park on Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, it was announced today. About 35 members attended the flight maneuvers at Huntington yesterday. Robert McComb, local flight leader, was one of the principal pilots in the maneuvers, which attracted 2,000 persons to the .Huntington airport. Mr. McComb flew a Waco plane from Auburn, with glider attached, to the Huntington airfield. George Roop, of this city, rode in the glider- „ , John Baltzell and Robert Reber of this city also flew a plane from the Auburn airport to Huntington. The latter plane is owned by Dr. Joe Morris and Mr. Reber. Efforts are being made to have flight maneuvers in this city as soon as a suitable landing field is available, members of the flight stated.

I Tension Flares Info Violence In Middle East * Bloody Skirmishing Between French And Natives Is Reported London, May 28. —< (UP) —Dispatches from the Levant today re ported bloody skirmishing between the French and natives at Homs and Hama, with an unspecified number of casualties on both sides. The tension in Syria and Lebanon exploded in violence, according to Beyrouth advices, coincident with a report in diplomatic quarters here that President Truman might be called upon to mediate the dispute. Reports that French troops were withdrawn from Homs, Hama and Aleppo to camps on the outskirts were followed by dispatches which said shooting had broken out in the first two towns. The combatants were natives, demonstrating for the full independent of the Levant, and unspecified French groups, apparently the troops. Damascus reports relayed through Beyrouth said telephone lines to both Homs and Hama had been cut, and details of the bloodshed were lacking. The diplomatic correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph said Mr. Truman’s aid might be sought to prevent further bloodshed in the crisis, which already has inflamed the Arab world. The crisis stemed from France's reinforcement of her garrisons in Syria and Lebanon in what the governments of the two Arab states denounced as a violation of their independence. New developments in the situation included: 1. Syria was reported to have ordered the mobilization of all men between 16 and 60. 2. Radio Cairo said fire from the French quarter of Aleppo killed six natives and wounded eight others. 3. Radio Ankara said all government buildings have been sandbagged in Damascus, capital of Syria. 4. French troops reportedly were withdrawal from Homs, Hama and Aleppo to camps on the outskirts. (Turn To Pagie 2. Column 4) ,o Navy Bond Review Here This Evening Program Tonight At Public High School The Fleet’s in! The sailor-musicians, including the USS Helena band and a number of survivors from that ship which was sunk in Kula Gulf in July, 1943, arrived in Decatur last night and today for the two hour entertainment to be given at 8 o’clock this evening at the juniorsenior high school, in recognition of this county’s high standing in the six previous war loan drives. Billed as the navy war bond review, the program is sponsored by the Adams county war bond staff and the U. S. treasury department. The concert will include selections by the 45 piece band;, the Musical Meehs, led by Jack Sherr, who directed his own band in New York before joining the navy, and several specialty acts by prominent performers in the outstanding navy organization. Among these specialties is Bill Thompson, STC, who for eight years was with Fibber McGee and Molly. He is the creater of the radio characters, Old Timer, Horatio K. Boomer, Wallace Wimple and Nick Dipopolis. He is a native Hoosier, coming from Terre Haute. Lt. Robert K. Adams, USNR, radio officer from Great Lakes, and a former radio and stage actor, will be master of ceremonies of the two-hour program, which is opened to the public without admission charge. The seamen and musicians were guests today of the American Legion, the Lions Club and Theodore Graliker, president of the First State bank and county chairman of the war bond staff.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May 28,1945.

Ex-Air Ace Aids In Trapping Spy ■ I I rB <1 !■ 1 l\ afe w/ c : t IW■ B $ g|j|| jfl| FOLLOWING THE ARREST of Paul Jean Marie Cavaillez (right) in New York by FBI agents on charges of serving as a Nazi spy, it was revealed that his capture was made possible on information obtained from Dieudonne Costes (left), World War I ace and transatlantic flier. Costes, who had been forced into espionage work by the Nazis in 1942, turned American counterspy when he arrived in the U. S..

Six Decafur Men Are Lauded By Doolittle Members Os Eighth Air Force Praised Six Decatur men, serving with the Eighth Air Force in England, today received congratulations from Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, who assumed command of the world’s mightiest strategic bombing force in January, 1944. They are: Sgt. Wayne C. Bodie, son of Mr. knd Mrs. Ira G. Bodie, 318 South Tenth St. Sgt. Jack W. Eady, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Eady, 116 South Sixth St. Staff Sgt. Carl J. Lose, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lose, 604 Mercer Avenue. Sgt. Herman L- Lenhart, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orval Lenhart, 216 N. First St. Master Sgt. Herbert A. Boerger, Decatur route three. Sgt. John J. Helmrich, Jr., son of John Helmrich of Decatur route two. The congratulatory message from General Doolittle, who is going to the Pacific war theater to direct the bombing of the Japs, reads: “I wish z to extend my personal congratulations and my heartfelt appreciation to every one of you for the magnificent job you have done,” Gen. Doolittle said in a message to all personnel. “Each of you,” he continued, "may be prbud of your part in the defeat of Germany, I am proud of you. The world is proud of you.” The Eighth Air Force was the (Turn To Page 5. Column 5) O New Interpretation For Veto Problems Reply To Questions Os Little Nations iSan Francisco, May 28 —i(UP) — A new interpretation of the Yalta formula of voting procedure by the United Nations security council was ready for approval today by the big four. The final draft of a statement embracing the latest interpretation was prepared over the weekend by technical experts of the American, British, Russian and Chinese delegations to the United Nations conference. lit will serve as a reply to a list of 32 questions submitted by the smaller nations in an effort to determine the exact area in which the big four and France—sitting as the five permanent members of the security council —can apply their veto power. lit will ibe considered at a big four meeting today. There was good prospect for immediate approval to the little nations which have been awaiting t>he reply since early last week. The outlook was good for final solution o»f the irksome veto question by mid-week, thus resolving another in the series of crisis which (Turn To Page 6, Column 3)

NO PAPER WEDNESDAY In accordance with annual custom, the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Wednesday, May 30, which is Memorial Day. o Two Nazi Bigwigs Suicide Victims Third Is Arrested In Hamburg Hotel London, May 28. —'(UP) —Two more Nazi bigwigs, one of them the successor to Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering as commander of the German air force, were dead by their own hands today. A third, Albert (little Hitler) Fors'ter, who as gauleiter of Danzig paved the way for German occupation of the Polish corridor in 1939, surrendered peacefully to a British lieutenant and a sergeant in a Hamburg hotel. In Forster’s pocket was found a poison phial similar to the one with which gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler killed himself in British custody last week. The two latest Nazis to follow Himmler in suicide were Marshal Robert Ritter Von Greim, who succeeded Goering as commander of the luftwaffe April 26, and Dr. Hugo Jury, gauleiter of lower Austria and former social welfare minister in the notorious Seyss-Inquart government of Austria. A small, empty phial was found beside Greim’s bed in a Salzburg hospital, where he was confined for treatment of a minor leg wound suffered during the final stages of the battle of Berlin. The position of the wound indicated it may have been self-inflicted. Also caught up in 'the Allied net were two married sisters of Adolf Hitler and a brother of Himmler. The sisters, found in the Bavarian Alps, were identified as Angela Hammitsch, 61, of Altmuenster, Austria, and Paula Wolf, 48. Himmler's brother, otherwise unidentified, was arrested by the British second army in northwest Germany. From Rome came word that Col. Gen. Heinrich Von Viethinghoff, German commander in the southwest, finally was taken into custody last Wednesday. 23 days after his envoy officially surrendered his army to Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G. Alevander. A BBC broadcast said other German soldiers still at large in the Chemnitz sector of southern Germany were fighting something like a civil war with civilians in the area. The troops were said to be plundering towns and villages for food and supplies after being refused permission to cross into the Am-erican-held area as prisoners. o Wounded Americans Return Home Rapidly London, ‘May 28 —(UP)'— The artny plans to have the last wounded American soldier either home or back on duty by July 10. IMaj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley, chief surgeon for the European theater, said in a radio speech last night that there were leas than 100,000 American soldiers left in European hospitals.

Apparently Abandoning Shun—Falling Back On Two Philippine Islands

U. S. Navy Building 20,000 More Ships Total Os 127,000 For War On Japan (Copyright 1945 by United Press) Washington, May 28 —(UP) — The U. S. Navy is building an additional 20,000 warships to give it a total of 127,000 ships of all types to complete the final phase of the second world war. This gigantic number of ships would be sufficient if placed end to end to make a virtually unbroken bridge from San Francisco to Yokohama, Japan. It will provide the vast armadas for the invasions of China and the Japanese homeland — some 5,000 miles from American shores. A United Press survey found that the navy now has under construction 19,882 warships, including 271 frontline fighting ships and 16,093 landing craft. Ships now under construction include two battleships, 15 aircraft carriers, 30 escort carriers, 47 cruisers, 104 destroyers and six destroyer escorts. When completed they will give the navy this unprecedented array of mighty sea power, minus any future losses: 25 battleships 41 aircraft carriers 95 escort carriers 114 cruisers 490 destroyers 371 destroyer escorts. The navy revealed last week that it already has 107,386 ships, aggregating some 15,000,000 tons, operating in all waters. Os these 100,000 joined the fleet since Pearl Harbor, including 1,150 combat craft. There were only 338 combat vessels before the Japanese at(Turn To Page 2, Column 2) o Violent Death Toll In Indiana 1$ Nine Military Airplane Crash Kills Pilot By United Press Indiana counted a weekend violent death toll of at least nine persons today. A military airplane crash cost the life of one man, a child iwas drowned in a northern lake, and seven persons died in traffic accidents. Lt. Robert a Barnes, army pilot of Decatur, 111., was killed last night when he bailed out of a fighter plane and his parachute failed to open. 'The accident occurred in Madison county near Fishersburg, along Indiana 13. Jerry Lewis', 8, of Bedford, was killed when struck by an automobile at a street intersection in that city Saturday. Rosemary Woods, 21, Wilkinson died of injuries sustained Sunday when an automobile struck a bridge near IMdCordsville, on Ind. 234. She died at Billings general hospital, Fort Harrison. A soldier involved in the crash was injured. Two persons were injured fatally in a headon collision near Mooresville on Ind. 144 Sunday, and six others were hurt. The dead were J. C. Cooper, 60, and May Simpson, 40, both of Mooresville. Two deaths occurred in Franklin county, Charles C. Ross, 20, Newpoint, a memitter of the merchant marine, was killed when his car and a greyhound bus collided head-on Sunday morning on road &2 near Batesville. Robert Pressley, 17, school boy and farmer, was burned io death when the car in which he was riding Saturday night, near St. Peter, overturned and was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Margaret Helen Dickerson, 25, Indianapolis, died of injuries received Saturday when the car in (Turn To Pago 2, Column >).

Pres. Truman, Hoover Confer At White House Landon And Dewey Are Also Invited To Meet President Washigton, May zs. — (UP) — President Truman conferred for 45 minutes with former Republican President Herbert Hoover today, and it was announced that two former GOP presidential candidates, Alf M. Landon and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, also have been invited to the White House. Mr. Hoover, returning to the White House for the first time since he turned it over to the late President Roosevelt on March 4. 1933, discussed with Mr. Truman the United Nations gigantic' problem of feeding the liberated peoples of Europe. The White House said Landon and Dewey had been invited to call on the president, but no specific topics for discussion were mentioned. A White House announcement said today's conference “was a very pleasant meeting” and that “Mr. Hoover had some very constructive ideas which the president was happy to receive.” White' House Secretary Charles G. Ross said he did not know whether the two men would confer again or whether Mr. Truman planned to offer Mr. .Hoover a post in connection with food and European relief. The former president, who won acclaim for his handling of food problems during and after World War I, came here on Mr. Truman's suggestion to discuss European food conditions. He favors immediate initiation of an emergency army program for seeing to it that some 100,000,000 persons in western Europe do not go hungry. Mr. Hoover had nothing to say as he walked out of the White House through a throng of reporters and photographers. He told (Turn To Page 2, Column 7) O Tito Appeals For Atlantic Charter American Troops Withdrew Further London, May 28 — (UP) —Mar shal Tito appealed to the United Nations to abide by the Atlantic charter in the Trieste and Carin thia disputes but voiced Yugo slavia’s determination to defend her “achievements” in a radic broadcast last night. As Tito delivered his speech which managed to be pacifying and defiant at the same time, the Soviet press assailed American newspapers for “provocation” ir their reporting of the Trieste incident. At the same time front dis patches disclosed ■■ at Americar troops in the disputed Venezia Giulia province of Italy have made further withdrawals ir their anxiety to avoid “inci dents.” Titp, in his broadcast, denied that “we have intentions of con quering by force that to which we have a right, because we are convinced the Allies will fulfill their word given in the Atlantic charter.” Speaking of Carinthia, from which his troops withdrew lasl week to be replaced by eighth army units, Tito said: “Unfortunately our brothers in Carinthia must continue to suffer and be victimized by a gestapo terror in the guise of a different (Turn To Page 2, Column 5).

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Pull Out Os Inland China Port; Other Allied Blows Rock Japs At Home, Sea Pearl Harbor, May 28—(UP)— The Japanese were retreating on all three main fronts in the Pacific war today. On Okinawa, they appeared about to abandon Shuri, keystone of their already ruptured southern defense line, for a new stand at least a mile and a half to the south. In China, they pulled out of the inland treaty port of Nanning. Recapture of the port by Chinese troops cut the Japanese continental corridor into Indo-China. In the Philippines, their scattered remnants continued to give ground on Mindanao and Luzon islands. Gen. Douglas MacArthur estimated Japanese dead, wounded and missing for the Philippines campaign at 378,427. Still other Allied blows rocked the Japanese in their homeland and at sea. Tokyo broadcasts said three B-29 superfortresses and 30 mustang fightprs bombed and strafed airfields near the smouldering capital for 40 minutes at mid-day today. Other superfortresses were said to have mined the waters off northern Kyushu and between Kyushu and Honshu. Tho Japanese also revealed that their foreign ministry, greater East Asia ministry and possibly 40 to 50 percent of Tokyo’s public utilities were destroyed in the great B-29 fire raid on the city Saturday. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, announced that American submarines have sunk 4,500,000 tons of Japanese shipping since the start of the war. This comprised 1,119 ships, including" four aircraft carriers and 122 other warships. A Pacific fleet communique disclosed that Japanese troops in southern Okinawa blew up 15 to 20 cave positions in front of Wana ridge northwest of Shuri yesterday. Enemy troop movements sighted by marine pilots south of Shuri strengthened the belief that the enemy was preparing to withdraw from the citadel from which has held up the American advance for nearly a month. Marines of the sixth division on the west coast pushed another 800 yards through the rubble of Naha, capital of Okinawa, and broadened their bridgehead across the Asato river inside the city almost to the shores of the East China Sea. In the Philippines, the American 32nd division captured a strategic hill and scaled 75 Jap-anese-infested caves in the Santa Fe area north of Balete pass in northern Luzon. American troops on southern Mindanao, southernmost of tho Philippines, fanned out in pursuit of Japanese forces fleeing into the hills in the interior. o______ 0 ______ Supreme Court Term Extended Two Weeks Washington, .May 28 —(UP) —Tho supreme court today extended its current term for two weeks, setting a tentative new adjournament date as Monday, June 11. The court had announced that it would adjourn today until Octoiber, but it.still had on its docket 42 undecided cases on which arguments have been heard. o Grand Rapids Bank Robbed Os $2,000 Grand Rapids Mioh., May 28 —A bandit today held up the Grandeville avenue branch of the National (bank of Grand Rapids and escaped with $2,000 in cash. Police said the bandit pushed a note under the teller’s window and demanded payment of $2,000 tn small denomination bills.