Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1945 — Page 1

SeV enth War Loan 22 Days to Go

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HEW ALLIED BLOWS FALL ON JAP EMPIRE

Sew Landing SYankees On |oLlh Okinawa ■ Radio Tokyo Report Says Landinq Made ■ ■ Behind Jap Lines .lune 9— (VP) —Radio ril s ai<l today that. American '^Kp S and tanks have made a. IK. landing on southern Okina- ■ presumably behind the last. defense line. enemy broadcast said fresh forces supported by 20 IHL pushed ashore on the soutbcoast below Oroku yesterday troops already have most of Oruku peninsula Hl split the remaining enemy |0 |Kes on tile southern tip of the ■H n d into two shrinking pockets aM bid for complete conquest of ■ island. ißriiere was no immediate clue ■ jo whether the reported landoccurred north or south of southwest coast, anchor enemy's last-ditch defense north of Itaman, it puts the behind the Japanese smaller of the two pockets, south, it put them not only rear of the larger pocket. | also in a position to roll up strong Itoman-Hanagusuku line from the south. said the Americans and E*>anese were fighting it out in SKse range grenade combat all the perimeter of Japanese >d pickets. reports said the Amerihad flanked I toman on the and had driven into Hana- . southeast coast anchor last Japanese defense line. |Wrhp fall of Hanagusuku would Japanese forces dug in - 200 foot hlg h Yaeju-Bake <'>• to attack from the /e m^B r a nd speed final conquest of 1 »<■ island. American divisions stead- ’ one tightened their siege arc (he Itoman-Hanagusuku in the southern tip of alitl a smaller pocket Oroku peninsula to the I | suicide planes steppup their attacks on American off Okinawa as the 70campaign entered its final T WO ships were Wednesday but 67 of the . were shot down that day Thursday. I!■ ■— o—■onhunt Is Launched ■or Escaped Convict ( ■Wette, Ind., June 9.—(UP)— |B manhunt was concentrated to■f between Lafayette and Lebfor Earl Frederick Griffin, 21, dy'yK'nd convict who slugged a state reformatory guard reaped last night, be state police post here said had not been sighted t he fled from Guard O. D. gjßbittitts automobile six miles of Lebanon with the officer’s U"l. Wi!s ' ams was eu route J the reformatory * Griffin when the convict at:in, r beat him severely on ■■f “ e ’ d and face. Griffin waa bereturned to Pemdleton after a escape. ■ ~~ 0 ' yicqqo Transport For Hour ’ June 9—.(UP)-Thous-&'^Bff»WrJ >ei6on3 hike(l several miles this morninig ’ while the sur face line cars on the S '^ R alH ’ throughout th e Loop stood idle for algßHErkn hour. ■Hi »tol>pago, caused by trolley occurred at 7 a. m. —o t THERMOMETER HIM ..„? PE RATURE reading ”* -- *••+ 56 ■B ’ w «• m. .;... 59 . CTBihi ' WEATHER ■ Mw.? c ’ Oud y through Sunday showers and I ■ n t f ,tormß in extreme ’ today ’ and t 0" ■ er a?ternoon temln ® out h today and

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| Report Allied Troops Landing On Borneo Coast Brunei Bay Scene Os New Operations By Allied Forces Manila, June 9—(UP)—A Japanese broadcast said that. Allied troops began landing operations on Labuan Island in Brunei Bay on the northwest coast of Borneo at 12:30 p. m. today. The Tokyo broadcast, heard by the Exchange Telegraph agency in London, was the first report that a landing actually was underway in Brunei Bay, site of a big enemy naval base. Earlier Tokyo reported a landing attempt was obvious after the approach of a fleet said to include battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and 975 smaller warships. The Japanese said the assault forces were in divisional strength. There was no Allied confirmation of the landings, but today's communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reported that Allied light naval units has shelled the beaches of Borneo, a maneuver often preliminary to a landing. MacArthur’s communique also reported another heavy air raid i on the island in which heavy, meduim, and light planes dropped 1 170 tons, mostly on Japanese air j bases. During, the past week, the Far Eastern air force has made repeated attacks on Borneo, and Tuesday the Japanese reported an invasion attempt at Sadakan, 225 miles northeast of Brunei. It was possible that a show’ of strength designed to screen a landing in the Brunei area was made at Sandakan. Brunei is about. 250 miles northeast of Tarakan, the > island oft' the east coast of Borneo invaded last month by Australian and Dutch forces. division, with the Japanese headIn the Philippines, the 37th quarters at Bayombong firmly in its hands, today drove along the Cagayan valley in northern Luzon toward the town of Solano, with a prewar population of 17,000. / 0

i Appeals Court Rules Ward Seizure Legal Appeal To Supreme Court Now Likely Chicago, June 9 — (UP) —The government's long-standing labor fight with Sewell L. Avery, militant Montgomery Ward and Co. board chairman, appeared headed for the supreme court today after a U. S. appeals court ruled that seizure of the mail order firm's properties was legal. The ruling reversed a decision by U. S. district court judge Philip L. Sullivan last Jan. 27 holding that the late President Roosevelt exceeded his authority in ordering the army to take over Ward properties in Chicago and six other cities. At issue was the government's contention that Ward’s is engaged in war production. The circuit court of appeals ruling, returned late yesterday, was concurred in by judges Evan A. Evans and Otto Kerner. Judge William H. Sparks dissented. “The decision means a closed shop,” Avery said when informed of the outcome of the government’s appeal. He indicated that the company did not intend to accept the ruling as final and added that he believed the opinion would not be accepted by the people. Following the presidential seizure order last Dec. 28, Avery said he intended to push a test case to determine the constitutionality of the president’s powers of seizure. An ultimate appeal to the supreme court appeared certain. In handing down its decision, the court ruled that Ward’s was an essential industry and, as such, subject to the provisions of the war labor disputes act.

April Circuit Court Term Closes Today Although this was the last day of the April term of the Adams circuit court. Judge J. Fred Fruobte, had i a lull calendar of business. I Several hearings were to be held i this afternoon and other entries were to come before the court. Court will be adjourned until next September, when the fall term begins. Judge Fruchte will be on duty the greater pant of the summer, making what entries as are ■ permissible during the vacation per- | iod. -o Trustee Plan Is Approved By Committee Biq Five Plan For Trusteeship Wins Tentative Approval San Francisco, June 9. —(UP) — The United Nations conference j hurdled another major obstacle to adjournment early today when a committee tentatively approved a Big Five plan for trusteeships. The revised trusteeship system specifies as one of its objectives the promotion of ‘‘the freely expressed wishes of the peoples conI cerned.” It also includes a speI cial guarantee against any ‘freeze’ | of the status quo in present manI dated territories. The two provisions, written into the plan at Russian insistence, served to end a two-week deadlock on the trusteeship section of the world charter. Shortly after receiving Moscow’s approval of the revised plan, the committee wemt into an extraodinarily long session that ended after midnight with virtual completion of a trusteeship worthing paper. The system approved by the committee would guarantee Russia and China permanent seats on the trusteeship council whether or not they ever hold any trustee areas. It was the second day in a row that belated word from Moscow on a conference issue made more likely the possibility of an early adjournment. Russia’s change of mind on the controversial veto issue Thursday stimulated a new move to complete the world charter between June 16 and 20. Conference officials hinted that unless the charter is completed and ready to sign within two weeks, President Tiruman might be unable to attend the final ceremonies. Officials began prodding the 12 conference committees to clealn up their unfinished business and went to the unusual length of scheduling the most important remaining committee meeting—on the veto issue—for tonight at 8:30

(Turn To Page 6, Column 1) o China's Air Power Greatly Expanded Revitalized Force Poundinq At Japs $ £lungk|ipp| June <4—(UP)—4 revitalized Chinese air force, equipped with American planes manned by American-trained personnel, is blasting at targets throughout Japanese-occupied China, military sources said today. The great expansion of China’s air power has been reflected in daily accounts of its sweeps in the last 10 days against a variety of strategic targets. Today’s communique reported the Chinese planes destroyed or damaged more than 130 buildings, 77 boats of various types and a score of junks in raids on supply stores and communications i n Kwangtung, Hupeh, Hunan and Shansi provinces. Chinese ground forces recaptured Kuishi, 40 miles southwest <« Changsha in eastern Hunan provice, June 6, inflicting 200 casualties on the enemy, another communique annouced today. The number of new Chinese pilots, bombardiers and machine gunners who have completed their training in the United States may (Turn To Page 6, Column 7)

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 9,1945.

Gen. Bradley Gets Veteran Administration Job /I K'. wMiig NMk ■■■■ : 1 1 I :: A-- . •UigWEW - ■ • ••• HIIB7 * IIBP :«■ I * IM i:J w PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN, left, shakes hands with Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley, who is the newly appointed veterans administrator to succeed Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, as the General and Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall, right, called at the White House. Facing one of the toughest peace-time jobs of the next generation, Bradley will take over the affairs of the estimated 11,000,000 veterans of World War II within 60 days following a visit to his native home of Clark, Mo., and a return trip to Europe, where, as 12th Group commander, he won laurels leading the bulk of the American ground forces from the Normandy beachhead to the Elbe river.

Brownie-Girl Scout Day Camp Planned Girl Scout Council Will Conduct Camp The Decatur Girl Scout council will conduct a day camp for Girl Scouts and Browniels at the Boy Scout grounds at Hanna-Nuttman park, officials of the council announced today. The Brownie day camp will be held next week, on Monday. Wednesday and Friday, and the Girl Scout camp the following week, also on (Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The camp will open at 10 a. m. and close at 4 p. m. each day. The camp program will consist of games, folk dancing, dramaitics, handicraft, nature studies, camp craft and personal health, with the girls gaining instructions in how to keep a camp, Thursday of each rMeek, wieather permitting, there will 'be a swim at the city pool. Any Brownie or Girl Scout who has not already registered for camp may do so at the camp on June 11 or 18. The children will meet at 9:30 a. m. Monday at the library or the Methodist church, where transportation to the eamp will be provided. Each girl is to 'bring a bag lunch. Milk will be furnished at the camp. The day camp staff eon state of the following: Mrs R. C. Hersh, camp director; Miss Georgia Foughty, assistant director; leaders and assistant leaders, Mrs. Florabelle Faulkner, Mrs. (Leonard Saylors, Mis. Rosemary iHolthouse, Airs. Felix Maier, Miss Mary Smith, Mrs. Franklin, Mrs, Chester Reynolds Mrs. Milton Swearingen, Miss Glennys Roop, Mrs. Roy Kalver, Mrs. L. R. Zinsmaster, Mrs. Charles Langston, Mrs. Chester Harris, Mrs. Paul Kirchenibauer, Miss Agnee Nelson, Mary Lou Robinson, Miss Bangara Bracy and Miss Barbara Hoblet. Mrs. Robert Helm will be the nurse’s aide. Members of the camp committee are: Harold Mumma, Carl Gerber, Mrs. Carl Gerber, Mrs. Gladys Chamberlain, Mdss Eleanor Pumphrey and Mrs. R. C. Hersh. —— l o Two Youths Killed, Two Seriously Hurt Muncie, Ind., June 9 —(UP) — An Albany girl was killed instantly last night, a boy companion died in a hospital early today and two others suffered critical injuries as result of an auto-train collision on state road 28 north of Muncie. The dead were Mary L. Reynard, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Reynard of near Albany, and Robert Blakely, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Blakely of near Albany. Those injured were William Bruner, 17, and Robert Davis, 16, both of the same farm community.

, Seventh War Loan Near Five Billion Washington, June 9 — (UP) — With three weeks to go the seventh war loan was hammering at the $5,000,000,000 mark today. The treasury’s latest report on individual sales was $4,845,000,000 or 69 per cent of the $7,000,000,000 quota. This included E bonds sales of $2,226,000,000, or 55.6 per cent of the $4,000,000,000 E. bond quota. On June 18 the last phase of the drive will begin when securities for corporate investors go on the market. The goal for corporations is $7,000,00'0,00, making the total drive quota $14,000,000,000. o Defends Possession Os Stale Papers Espionaqe Suspect Defends Practices Washington, June 9 — (UP) — “Most state department officials,” dapper Emmanuel S. Larsen said today, “probably are very busy now T destroying official documents which they have taken to their homes.” Larsen, a state department expert who is one of six persons charged with .conspiracy to violate the wartime espionage code, defended his possession of data labelled “top secret” and "restricted” as a perfectly normal phase of a state department official’s work. He talked freely to a United Press reporter at the District of Columbia jail where he was awaiting final arrangements for release on SIO,OOO bond. “I cannot see how the charge can possibly be applied to me,” he said. “Nor can I see how I could be a party to any communist activities as I am no communist.” Larsen said most state department officials had the “tools for their work” — reference books, personal files and the like — at home and consequently often took secret documents or copies home. Many times, he said, they use the information in them to supplement their private files. “One must use discretion,” he said, “and make certain that such material does not fall into unauthorized hands or possibly be used against the interests of the United States. “I have always done this." Larsen emphasized his denial of reports that he, along with the five others, was associated with communist activities. He added that he could prove it “by papers in the state department." He said he had no more than a speaking acquaintance with any but one of the five other persons involved in the case. They are (Turn To Page 6, Column 3)

Red Leader Asserts Hitler Fate Mystery Marshal Zhukov Says Fate Is Uncertain (Berlin, June 6 —(Delayed)—(UP) Marshal Gregory-Zhukov said today that he regards, the fate of Adolf Hitler as a deep and still unsolved mystery. Zhukov said that Soviet investigators have not yet discovered any corpse which can be positively identified as Hitler’s and therefore that the possibility still existed /hat Hitler may have escaped. “We have not discovered any corpse which may be definitely identified as Hitler’s” Zhukov told correspondents from Moscow on their initial visit to Berlin. "Consequently iwe cannot make any statement about his death.” “He could Wave fled from Germany up to the last minute. We also do not know what has happened to Hitler’s aid, Marlin Borman who was in Berlin up to the end.” Zhukov reveialed. however, that Hitifir was apparently in his chancellory tanker up to two days before the fall of the Reich capital and that records hud been found showing that he married his mistress, Eva Braun, 48 hours before the capital fell. General Nikolai Beiarin, military commandant of Berlin, said that several (bodies had been found, one of wihich could have been that of , Hitler but that nothing definite had been established. He said that friends close to Hitler said he committed suicide but that Russsian investigators had not been able to verify their accounts. "Possibly," Bezarin said, “He is hiding somewhere in Europe, probably in Spain.” (Bezarin «a>id that there was no doulht that propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels committed suicide. He satd that he had made a peisonal invetigation of the fate (Turn To Page 6, Column 6) 0 Levi Sprunqer Dies At Home Near Berne Levi A. Sprunger, 81, retired Berne merchant, died at his home in that town Friday afternoon. Surviving are the wife, Mathilda; two sons, Grover and Harry, Berne; four daughters, Miss Anna Sprunger, at home, Mrs. E. J. Neuenschwander of McPherson, Kan., Mrs. H. D. MacCreery of Battle Creek, Mich., and Mrs. Elmer Liechty of Berne; 23 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, two half-brothers and three halfsisters. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the First Mennonite church in Berrie, with the Rev. J. P. Suderman officiating. Burial will be in the M.R.E. cemetery.

Five Million Japs Homeless From Air Raids Tokyo Admission Comes As B-29s Make New Attacks Guam, June 9.—(UP) —Five million more Japanese have been left homeless by American air raids on five of the enemy’s largest cities, radio Tokyo acknowledged today. The Ittroadcast came, as B-29s resumed their all-explosive raids on the Japanese homeland, striking simultaneously though in comparatively small force at aircraft factories at Osaka. Kobe and Nagoya in daylight today. Tokyo said about 50 Mustang fighters from Iwo attacked unidentified objectives on southern Honshu around noon in a follow through on the superfort raid. The Japanese said the Mustangs flew I over the border area of Miye and Nara prefectures between Nagoya and Osaka. The assault coincided with Tokyo's appeal to aircraft workers to step up production to bolster Japan's waning air force for the critical battles to come. Tokyo broadcasts, recorded in the United States by the FCC and relayed here, said 1,195,000 dwellings had been destroyed in Tokyo, Nagoya, Yokohama, Osaka and Kobe during American raids in the period through May, leaving 4,930,000 homeless. The enemy account did not include destruction in June raids on Osaka and Kobe. Ry cities, the totals were: Tokyo—3.loo,ooo homeless, 767,000 dwellings destroyed; Nagoya--380,000 homeless, 96,000 dwellings . destroyed, Yokohama — 680,000 j homeless, 132,000 dwellings destroyed; Osaka —510,000 homeless, 130,000 dwellings destroyed; Kobe 260,000 homeless. 70,000 dwcl-; lings destroyed. The May 24 and 26 raids alone' destroyed 257,000 houses and ren-| tiered 1,000,000 persons homeless in Tokyo, the enemy broadcast ■ said. Fanning out over southern | Honshu, 100 to 150 superfortresses ■ dropped 700 to 1,000 tons of de. molitian bombs on the huge Kawanishi aircraft works at Osaka, the Kawasaki engine plant, Kobe, and the Aichi company's Atcuta (Turn To Page 6, Column 7) 0 Cadet Encampment For CAP Members Army Air Force To Give Instructions A cadet encampment for 15, 16 and 17-year old boy members of the local CAP flight, will be held at Stout Field, Indianapolis, from July 15 to 29, Robert McComb, flight leader, announced today. The cadets will be under the same supervision as enlisted personnel in the army air force, dur- i ing the two week period. They ■ will he under military discipline ' and will undergo training in drill : and calisthenics. Practice flights in military planes and gliders will also be given by army air force instructors. The entire course is offered at government expense, as a means of familiarizing the youths with military life and instructions. Mr. McComb also announced that a similar course is being planned for girl CAP members at a later date. Local teen age youths who wish to take advantage of the training and military indoctrination, are asked to register with George Roop at Tuesday’s night meeting of the CAP, which will be held on the drill grounds, in the field northwest of the junction of U. S. highways 224 and 27. Cadets who wish to attend the two weeks course, must undergo one smallpox and three typhoid immunizations, it was explained. Mr. Roop announced that collections for purchasing men’s uniforms will be made at Tuesday’s meeting. The cost of shirts, trousers, caps and belts is $5.65 per member, he explained.

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Japan Facing Gravest Crisis Os Her History Parliament Asked By Government To Relinquish Power San Francisco, June 9 —(UP)— The Japanese government asked the diet (parliament) today for unprecedented powers to meet what Premier Kantaro Suzuki called the ‘‘gravest crisis since the forming of our empire.” The diet was requested to transfer virtually all its rights and powers to the government to enable rule by emergency decrees, the official Japanese Doraei news agency said. The request was contained fA ft bill introduced at the opening Os an extraordinary session of the diet today. Dome! said. Suzuki told the diet that the Allies’ demand for unconditional surrender left Japan no alteffthfive but to fight ‘‘to the very last." Dome! said orders issued or steps taken under the new government bill would overrule all existing laws and regulations and would concern, as occasion demanded: 1. Munitions production. 2. Production of foodstuffs and other daily necessities. 3. Transport and communications. 4. Defense and the maintenailee of peace and order. 5. Taxes. 6. Relief and rehabilitation. 7. Other items related to the I nation’s war effort. | Domei said the diet was expected to pass the bill ‘‘after short but earnest deliberations.” Leading members of the diet already have endorsed it and it bears the 1 approval of the great Japan poi litical association. Japan's totali- , tarian political party, Domei skid, i The measure virtually would do away with the diet and clamp i a rigid dictatorship on Japan. | Another Tokyo broadcast said a national volunteer corps was being organized which could •be , converted into a combat organization. "This will prepare the home front for full war duty in expectation that the homeland will become the decisive battlefield,” Tokyo said. Suzuki said the United States and Britain were clamoring for Japan's unconditional surrender, but insisted this would mean the ‘‘complete destruction of Japanese policy and the Japanese race.” "In view of this fact,” he said, "there is no other alternative for the Japanese hut to fight this war to the very last.” Suzuki said there was no one in the world who more "earnestly desires world peace and the welfare of humanity more than Emperor Hirohito.” As for himself. Suzuki said, ho found it a matter of "utmost regret” that the United States and Japan were at war. Japan ; was fighting "solely for the selfi defense of our empire and for the ! stabilization of East Asia against, i the inordinate ambitions of tho United States and Britain,” ho said. Q Throuqh Bus Service Planned To Cincinnati Fort Wayne, Ind., June 9—Announcement of through bus service to begin June 18 from South Bend via Fort Wayne and Richmond to and from* Cincinnati was made today by J. E. Wooding, owner and operator of the ABC Coach Lines. iThis service is a distinct advantage to passengers, Mr. Wooding explained, since they do not have to change buses at Richmond and are assured of their seat clear through to Cincinnati. However, the new service will be carried on as an extension to present schedules and will not alter them. This convenience is made possible by the cooperation of A'BC Coach Lines and the Ohio Bus Lines. Eight buses will be devoted to the schedule. The combined facilities will be called ‘‘ABC Coach and Ohio Bus Lines—(Through Service.”