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WOLF HITLER’S BODY REPORTED FOUND

Bloody Baffle ■r Okinawa End on ■ Japanese Predict n ßAmerican Invasion SB Soon Os Homeland tfie — *•' fl,.am, .ho*' 1 - -(UP)-The battle B kiuawa ‘" tel ' ed the ,nopup ‘T fl, today and Tokyo predicted ,l "‘invasion forces next will in Japan itself in the “near Cheste r W. Nimitz was *'■ ''“Bhected momentarily to issue a 3 announcing the end of ■ organized resistance on Okinalready being converted in- - ii'uijni' base ful ' the invasion f,£ the first time since thc 10111 IKv landed on Okinawa 66 days Nimitz failed to mention sSe^K n n(l action in his regular PaH communique today. It was posBb he was preparing a special r communique. U announced yesterday that jH principal enemy forces on OkihnrJßni already had been destroyed. Tokyo, while regarding Add^W. MW ., as ( | oom ed, said Japanese •’ were flrmly entrentehed in SHr positions yesterday and were ana in fierce fighting with superior enemy fore-T-flrokyo estimated that 500 AmerN troops had gone ashore on peninsula on the southwest Kst below Naha. 1 Field dispatches said the Sevtb division overran Chinen penmla on the southeast coast of mawa to its easternmost and tips yesterday, ■renty-five to 100 Japanese soldi were killed on the peninsula more than 10 000 hungry, raggle B civilians were taken into cus|Brhere have been no reports of progress on the rest of F island since Monday, but it was , that Marines on the southBst coast had completed the capof Naha airfield, biggest, best last airfield on the island. unite inland were believed squeezed the last survivH the original garrison of pergKs 80.000 Japanese into the tip of the island for final, annihilation. already was writing off and attempting to rally r]|| Japanese people for a stand ’ death of their home islands. influential Tokyo newspaper |B®itiri Hochi bluntly told its Utters that Okinawa had been jMdiiced strategically to an “isolatisland” and warned: aßThe moment for 'the battle of on our own soil is rapi lapproaching. It is high time gM*i the entire nation of Japan burned all bridges and • the fullest, complete, all-out ) ' for this imminent deSBM™“nt. whose outcome will de- ■ rise or f a u O s our coun try I centuries to come . . . present cou rse of military ® on Okinawa, coupled Mtv recently-intensified enemy air , on Japanese cities, is consid- ( an unmistakable sign of a invasion attempt, against th? mainland in the near I 6 news P a P fir , as quoted by it 0 radio, cited President TruK* 3 disclos,ll ' e that 7,060,000 AmjjB 311 tro °PS would be used against Br, as ev ><tence of the United ||B? S determination to crush her. ° tller Tokyo newspaper, Asahi, that American troops IH? aaln a beachhead in Japan, |_ said they would run into an fflß. e?tlall 'e series of underground Ib;“ oCrat thermometer ® B .^ PERatur e reading ■ 5 50 B ! '°°P-m 66 Il Mont WEATH ER Cloudy tonight and aßbtr em ay ' Showers south and Him „ e * est Portions tonight CCasional l! ght rains exnorth a ”d showers and Bhl „ ? t ' ms 80uth and cenOn ’ Thursday. No chan 0® in tempera-

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60 Percent Os Bond Goal Is Subscribed Washington, June 6—(UP)—The seventh war loan reaches its halfway point today with approximately 60 percent of the $7,000,006,000 individual goal and 50 percent of the $4,000,000,600 E bond goal subscribed. Twenty-three days remain for war bond volunteers to sell $2,861 - 000,000 worth of bonds, including nearly $2,100,000,000 .in E bond's Latest reports up to last night put total sales at $4,139,000,000, including bond sales of $1,9'92,000,000. o Japanese Troops On Run In North Luzon Big Bombers Again Blast At Formosa

Manila, June 6 — (UP) —The Japanese were on the run in northern Luzon today, offering only small arms fire in opposition to the 37th division which crashed six miles along highway No. 5. The six-mile gain in one day carried the 37th 10 miles north of Santa Fe, at the head of the upper Cagayan Valley, and within 16 miles of Bayombong, capital of Nueva Vizcaya province. To the west a parallel drive into the northern reaches' of Luzon was opened by the 33rd division on highway 11, north of Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines. The 33rd had reached a point about 20 miles northeast of Baguio. Highways 11 and 4 eventually join at Bontoc in mirthern Luzon, but the two columns still were far from a linkup. Mitchell B-26 medium bombers and lightning P-38 fighter-bombers made another milk-run the length of the Cagayan Valley to drop 250 tons on the retreating Japanese and their supply dumps and bivouac areas. Most of the bombing was in the Gattaran area in the northern part of the valley. On Mindanao, American troops gained another five miles northwest of Mintal in the Davao area. The big bombers of the far eastern air force again bucked bad weather to hit Formosa. Over 50 liberators, escorted by lightnings, dropped 250 tons of bombs on industrial targets in the Takao sector on the southwestern coastal plain. o —- Ex-Convict Is Held In Brutal Slaying (Chicago, June G— I (UP)-4Chester Rice, 37, an ex-convidt, was held for questioning today in the brutal slaying of Mrs. Josephine Rose, attractive 43-year-old widow. (Rice was taken inlto custody at nearby Hammond, Ind., last night on testimony of Mrs. Ross’ two daughters who told police their mother repeatedly had rejected Rice’s proposals of marriage. Rice a switch engine operator, had (been drinking heavily at the time of his arrest, police said. —n John R. Brown Dies Early This Morning Funeral Service Friday Afternoon John R. Brown, 69, retired farmer, died at 12:30 o’clock this morning at his home in V ashington township after a long illness of heart trouble. He had been bedfast for the past four months. He was born in Weston. 111., September 25, 1875, the son of George and Sarah Brown, and had resided in Adams county for the past 17 years. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge. . Survivors include the wife, Rae; one son, Clifford R. Brown, of Decatur route 2; one sister, Mrs. Jessie E. Blair of Weston, 111., and one grandchild. One grandchild and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at the home, with the Rev. E. O. Kegerreis officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery, west of Monroe. The body will be removed from the Giliig & Do* ll funeral home to the residence this evening and may be viewed after .: 30 o'clock.

Believe U. S. Will Occupy Only Bavaria American Armies To Turn Over Most Os Seized Territory London, June 6.—(UP)—United Slates armies will turn over most of the territory they conquered in Germany to* British and Russian troops and occupy only Bavaria, it was believed today. The ninth army will yield such cities as Leipzig, fifth largest in Germany, Magdeburg, Chemnitz and Erfurt to the Russians. The Ninth had taken over much of the First army’s sector when the First returned to the United States. The Rhineland and the Ruhr, including Cologne, pre-war Germany’s third largest city, Dueren, Duesseldorf and Essen, will be taken over by British occupation forces. Though largely conquered by the American First, Ninth and Third armies, the Ruhr and Rhineland have been administered lately by the American 15th army. Unless radical changes were made yesterday at Berlin, correspondents who have been travelling with American armies in Germany believed the American occupation zone will be confined to Bavaria in southwest Germany. This sector probably will extend as far north .as Frankfurt, at present Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters, and certainly should require no more than one or perhaps two of the four American armies at present in Germany. The division of Germany presumably was decided upon at the Yalta conference last February. Present occupational conditions inside Germany undoubtedly have caueed some changes in the original plan, but they probably were minor. —o Roy Momma Named To City School Board Lumber Dealer Named To Succeed Pumphrey Roy E. Mumma, well known lumber dealer of this city, was elected a. member of the Decatur school board by the city council in session last evening. Mr. Mumma wae the only applicant for the appointment and he received the five councilmanic votes. Mr. Mumma will succeed Carl C. Pumphrey on the board on August 1. He formerly served one term on the board. The other school trustees are Gerald Cole and Gregg McFarland, the Democrat members. The council also received a petition for a street light and two rural line extensions. Mns. Ed Rice petitioned for a street light on Walnut street, between Washington and Meibers streets. William Beltz and Alfred Grote, filed a petition for a rural line extension to their farms, as did Lloyd Mishler and Dewey Plumley. The petitions were referred to the electric light committee and the plant superintendent. The assessment roll on the Oak street sidewalk and curb was adopted, without revision. No objections were filed and the assessments were certified to the city clerk for collection. — Jealous Husband Slays Wife, Tries Suicide Peoria, 111., June 6 — (U'P)—A jealousyjcrazed husband slashed his wife to death wUh a razor blade and then attempted to end hie own life police said today. Local authorities surmieed that the slaying and suicide attempt were a sequel tq a quarrel last Sunday, during which Elmer Hamm, 4-5, fired three shots at Carl Graves, 47, who he ©aid wns carrying on an affair with his wife. The bullete entered Graves leg. if he brutally slashed body of Mrs. Elizabeth Hamm, 40, was found yesterday lying across a bed. Hamin was lying unconscious on the kit- ( chen floor. His wrists, arims and •body also had been cut, and there was evidence that he had swallow- > ed iodine.

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Body Reported Found In Berlin Ruins L BL. i IX 4| IWwli VbW flfc | \ V Adolf Hitler

Decatur Police To Seek Pension Fund Ask Appropriation From 1946 Budget Decatur policemen are interested in having a pension fund established for members of the force, as provided by Indiana law.. 'Last evening, following the formal council meeting, John C. .Hazelet, of Fort Wayne, secretary of the fraternal order of policemen, wae h guest of the local police and explained to Mayor John B. Stults and members of the council how the Fort Wayne police fund functioned. Under the law, cities of the fifth class can establish a pension or retirement fund. The law provides that a maximum levy of tiwo cents on the $l6O of valuation may be levied ats the means of raising funds to pay pensions. iPolice members, the law also specified, .shall contribute up to a maximum of $24 a year. Retirement benefits are payable after 20 years of service, with an additional $5 per month for each year served after that time, and up to 35 years. (Several of the Decatur policemen stated that 'they intended to ask the board of public works and safey to include an appropriaion in the budget for 1946 and seek a tax levy of two cents on the SIOO. (Decatur has five policemen. They are not covered by the social security law or unemployment law. Eight B-29s Lost During Kobe Raid At Least 20 Jap Planes Shot Down Guam, June 6 — (UP) —Superfortresses shot down at least .20 —and perhaps many more —Japanese planes over burning Kobe during yesterday’s 3,300 ton fire raid, air crews said today. Eight B-29s were lost. One and perhaps more of them were rammed by Japanese suicide pilots. Other ensmy aircraft gunned American crewmen parachuting from a crippled superfortress. The Japanese also used “Baka" planes — rocket-propelled, explo-sive-laden suicide aircraft launched from a "mother” plane — against the superfortresses. Lt. John C. Hoyer of Missoula, Mont.’, said he saw a “Baka” plane miss a superfortress by a wide margin and plummet down into the flames. The 21st bomber command was (Turn To Page 2. Column 8)

’ * U1 u • V * —— - " ' •"" ' ~~~~ z' Seventh War Bond Table Bonds purchased by Adams county investors up to June 2: PURCHASED QUOTA E 80nd55373,293.75 $441,000 Other Individual issues — 263,123.00 425,200 Corporations 171,122.00 * 428,600 TOTAL — $807,538.75 $1,294,900

BULLETIN Washington, June 6 —(UP) An army transport plane carrying 18 Wacs and a crew of three has been missing in Africa since May 30, the war department announced today. The plane was lost on a 766mile flight from Accra, on the gold coast of British West Africa, to Roberts Field, Liberia. o Sludy Revision Os Yalta Vote Formula Seek Settlement Os Conference Crisis San Francisco, June 6. —(UP) — The United States is exploring the extreme possibility of revising the Yalta voting formula as away of settling the United Nations conference crisis over the big five veto, it was learned today. Revision of the formula, according to highly authoritative sources, is just one of several possibilities being studied. But it iis indicative of the extent of the search tor a solution which would preserve big five unanimity. The major concern is to find a way out that will not leave deep scars. It is agreed that a showdown vote on the issue now would end in Russian defeat but the cost would be a body blow to big five solidarity. There has been no official discussion of the veto crisis here for more than 24 hours. Nevertheless, it dominates the conference — especially on this day of June 6 which originally was set for adjournment. The actual negotiations on this delicate issue are going on in Moscow where Harry L. Hopkins, the personal representative of President Truman, prolonged his stay because of “new business.” No one here would deny that .Hopkfiis was negotiating directly, with Marshal Josef Stalin. There was no elaboration of the fact that revision of the Yalta voting formula was a possible solution of the crisis. Such a revision would not be expected to make a (Turn To Page 5. Column 4) — —o — Restaurants Facing Cut In Meat Ration Washington, June 6 — (UP) — Restaurants are due for a 20 per cent cut in meat rations in July and August. The office of price administration soon will announce an allotment cut for institutional users for tihis period. OPA also will slash their canned fruits and vegetables rations about 12 to 15 percent and sugar about 20 to 35 percent below amounts available in May and June.

High Russian Authority States Body Identified “With Fair

Soviet Action Delays Signing Big Four Pact Russian Insistence On Word Deletion Delays Signature By JOSEPH W. GRIGG, Jr. (For the combined American Presa) Berlin, June 5. —(Delayed)—(UP) - Russia’s last-minute insistence on the deletion of a single word which she feared would comprise her neutrality with Japan delayed signature of the big. four pact on Germany for nearly six hours today. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, the Soviet delegate, aleo blocked immediate establishment of the Allied control council in Berlin and discussion of coordinated policies for the four occupatin forces. Zhukov said he had not been empowered' by his government to carry on further discussions until American troops had withdrawn from the zone of Germany assigned to the Red army. The Russians had prepared one df their now-famous banquets in celebration of the signing of the pact. However, both Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, the American and British delegates, said they had to return to their headquarters tonight. The meeting broke up shortly before 7 p. m. and the leading American and British delegatee drove back to Teinplehof airdrome for their return flight. (Drew Middleton of the New York Times, in another dispatch for the combined press, said the day which “began with such high promise ended in frustration.”) The dispute which delayed the signing of the big-four pact from noon to 5:45 p. m. centered around the word “nationals” in article 10: “The forces, nationals, ships, aircraft, military equipment and otherproperty in Germany or in German control or service or at German disposal, of any other country at (Turn To Page 2, Column 7) O French Claims Delay Occupation Os Reich Claims To Cities Delay Settlement

Washington. June 6. — 1 (UP) — French claims to the cities of Cologne and Frankfurt-Am-Main are delaying final settlement of the occupation zones in western Germany, it was reported today. The British assertedly want Cologne and the Americans want Frankfurt. There also is a less advertised but possibly far more important difference over the Ruhr valley with its rich industrial facilities and its coal deposits. Germany’s coal is one of her few remaining major resources which could be drawn on for reparations. The British want Cologne within their northwestern zone of Germany. it was understood. The United States is insisting that it hold Frankfurt as a communications outlet and an entry point for American forces in their southwestern zone of the defeated country. Another though less serious hitch in the now-unveiled big four control machinery has caused the allied control counci! to postpone temporarily the establishment of headquarters in Berlin, officials revealed. Until the rubble of the reich capital is cleared away and satisfactory housing and office space (Turn To Page 2, Column 5)

Wounded On Luzon / - HUvf A 1; i < X 11/ 1 > B ..1 If i B Bf Casualties from the Luzon battle in the Philippines continued to befall Adams county soldiers, it was disclosed today. Pfc. Curt La Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross La Turner of Berne, formerly of this city, was seriously wounded on Luzon on May 16, the parents ere notified last evening. A veteran of major battles in the Pacific, area, Pfc. La Turner serves with a medical detachment of the famous 38th or Cyclone division. He participated in the Hawaii. New Guinea and Philippine liberation campaigns and his exploits as a soldier brought him the award of the Bronze Star, enhanced with two battle stars. One of the first men from this city to be inducted in the armed forces, Pfc. La Turner entered the army in 1941. He has been overseas 17 months.

SIO,OOO Is Asked By Slain Lad's Father Suit Is Filed Here For Wrongful Death A suit “for wrongful death” and seeking judgment for SIO,OOO, was filed today in the Adams circuit court by Jacob Snyder, (father) administrator of the estate of Clark Snyder, who allegedly was shot and killed by George Adams, local truck driver and farmer, living on U. S. highway 27, north of Decatur, named defendant in the complaint. The cause brought today is the result of the death of the 15-year old youth who called at the Adams farm home on the evening of August 13, 1944, and died from wounds from a bullet fired by Adams from the kitchen of his home. The complaint states, "that for some time prior to said date, said decedent had made the acquaintance of Betty Purdy and of this defendant; that on numerous occasions he was an invited guest and a social visitor at the home of said George Adams; and that he frequently visited and called at said home during the day time and also in the evening. “That some time after 9 o’clock p. m„ in the early evening of August 13, 1944, said Clark Snyder entered upon the premises of said George Adams for the purpose of making a social call and (Turn Tor Pagie 4, Column 6) 0 Exceeds Schedule Os Quota Returning Men Washington, June 6. — (UP) — The army transportation corps has exceeded its scheduled quota by more than 14 percent in returning 95,000 U. S. troops to this country from Europe during th® 19-day period between "R” day May 12 and the end of the month, it was learned today at the war department. Officials were also confident th.it the 250.000 quota for June would be reached or exceeded.

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Smoke-Blackened And Charred Body Found In Berlin's Ruins; Believed Poisoned By Joseph W. Grigg (U. P. Staff Correspondent) (Representing Combined U. S. Press) Berlin, June 6 — (UP) —Adolf Hitler’s body has been found and identified with fair certainty, it was learned from a high Russian military source here today. The body, smoke-blackened and charred, was one of four discovered in the ruins of the great underground fortress beneath the new reichschancellery' after the fall of Berlin. These four bodies, any one of which answered pretty well to Hitler’s description, were removed and carefully examined by Russian army physicians. All were badly burned from the flame throwers with which the Red army soldiers finally cleared out the underground command post where Hitler and his leading Nazis made their last ditch stand. After careful examination of teeth and other characteristics, the Russians singled out one body which they believed almost certainly is that of the Nazi fuehrer. Asked why no official announcement of the discovery has been made yet by Moscow, this Russian source said as long as any element of uncertainty exists the Russians do not wish to state definitely that Hitler's body has been found. The source added, however, that there seems little doubt that this actually is the corpse of Hitler. Examination of the hody showed that Hitler almost certainly died of poisoning. Whether this was self administered or whether Hitler was killed by one of his henchmen there is no sure means of knowing. It will be recalled, however, that Russian sources recently reported that Hitler died of an injection given him by his physician. Dr. Morel, after he had been insane and partly paralyzed for Several days. According to a telegram sent by propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels to grflhd admiral Karl Doneitz, Hitler died at 3:30 p. m. on May 1. Goebbels himself apparently committed suicide shortly afterward, just before the (Turn To Page 5, Column 5) 0 — Herman Krueckeberg To Head Lions Club Chosen As President At Annual Election Herman H. Krueckeberg, assistant cashier of the First State Bank, was elected president of the Decatur Lions club, at the annual election, held at the weekly meeting of the service club Tuesday evening. Mr. Krueckeberg will succeed Deane Dorwiu. instructor in the Dej catur junior-senior high school, who has served ae president for the past year. Other new officers named last night are ae follows: John Halterman, first vice president; Robert Gay, second vice president; (Francis EllewoUh, third vice president; Thurman Drew, secretary; Harry Knapp, treasurer; Herman Lankenau, lion tamer; Phil Sauer, tail twister. John M. Doan and Russell Acker were elected to the club’s board of directors. The new officers will be formally installed Tuesday, June 26, and will take office at the July 3 meeting. Richard L. Jackson, of this city, who recently received an honorable discharge from the army air force, spoke of his experiences in the Italian theater of war. John Halterman. Harry Knapp, Roger Kelly and Richard Macklin were co-chair-men of last night’s program.