Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1945 — Page 1

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1)3.23 Square lies Os Jap lilies Fired ■ Air Assaults On ■jap Homeland On ■ Round-Clock Basis Lam, J« ne 12.—(UP)—Ameri ■ planes ranging from lighters ■superfortresses attacked sout'.i- ■ japan today, putting the air ■jult against the enemy homeE on a virtual around-the-clock Kdule. ■l ie new raids were reported by ■io Tokyo after the 21st bomber Einaml announced that B-29s t have burned out 103.23 square L of eight of Japan’s largest Edrial cities since last Novem■okyo said two B-24 Liberators, ■inmates of the flying fortresses ■he aerial devastation of Europe, K. ovei , southern Japan for the K time. They were sighted over Eern Kyushu, but apparently ■pped no bombs, ■bout 40 Thunderbolts an <1 Er American fighters, like the ■erators presumably based on ■inawa, attacked airfields near | Kanoya naval base and elseEre in southern and eastern Eshu, radio Tokyo said. ■he raids began at 8:30 a.m. and ■ted an hour and a half, Tokyo Id. ■n equal number —40 of super■tresses mined waters off Kyu- ■ early this morning, presumabEnder cover of darkness, enemy ladcasts said. ■Thirty other superfortresses ■re said to have mined Wakasa ■ off the west coast of Honshu Elly before midnight. Eacific fleet headquarters disked that other American planes ■ destroyed or damaged 68 ene- ■ aircraft, wrecked a number of ips and blasted installations ■m the Paramushiru naval base ■ the northern Kuriles north of ■pan to the Sakishima islands ■thwest of Okinawa Sunday and Eday. jArifiy mustangs from Iwo set the Ice yesterday with their second lack in as many days on Japan- ■ airfields near Tokyo. Sixteen kray planes were destroyed, three lobably destroyed and 33 damaglatTokorozawa air base 25 miles irtiiwest of Tokyo and Atsugi nail air station 25 miles southwest [the capital. [The fighters returned without I (Turn To Pagie 2, Column 4) I —— o 1,600 Mile Flight n 150 Superforts I - 1 20th Army Air Force Wing To Marianos Item, June 12.—(UP) — One h<ired fifty superforts, the entire [th bombardment wing of the F'h army air force, has joined Rrianas-based B-29.g after a 3,699p mass flight from India to TinF without the loss of a single R, it was announced today. |The 58th, oldest of all the B-29 panizatione, joined Le May’s apau Exp ress ” forces in the Marks and has been taken into the i ’ bomber command, it tjjas reRd on the first anniversary of inauguration of B-29 combat pntst Japan. Simultaneously, it was announcibat the Marianas-based sky gi•ts are now divided into four ’fobardment wings. be 58th, under Grig. Gen. Roger a ®ey, Denton, Tex., now occujjme huge base on Tinian. (Turn To Page 2, Column 7) THERMOMETER . T L Mperature reading a 8 '"! - - 65 ’ loon 71 2:00 P- m T „ 75 . WEATHER •i n u' derable cloudiness toll, and Wedn esday with . *ers or thunderstorms Show. an , d central Portions. rS ate ton '9ht or early Mrtk ‘ Sli flhtly warmer rth Portion tonight

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Fighting Aqain Breaks I In Syria, 30 Wounded Beyrouth, June 12—(uV)—Fight- I ing broke out again in Syria yesterday (when 39 persons were wounded in a clash between Syrians and native troops under the French, dispatches from Damascus said today. The brief battle occurred at .Tier Elchagour, halfway between L’Attakuie and Aleppo. Two British J tanks intervened and restored or- ' der, the dispatches eaid. Meanwhile the Lebanese govern- ' ment studied proposals which would impose special conditions on 1 the acquisition of land in Lebanon by French Nationals. The Lebanese delegation return- 1 cd from the Arab league conference ' in (Cairo today. x o Flag Day Exercises Here Thursday Night 1 Elks And Legion To Hold Annual Service The public is invited to the annual Flag Day observance at the Elks home Thursday evening at 7:39 o’clock, when the B. P. O. Elks lodge and Adams Post 43 of the American Legion, will stage 1 a program in celebration of the birthday of the American Flag. Vernon Sheldon of Fort Wayne, a member of Legion Post 82 and ' a lecturer in the Indiana exten- ' sion school, will deliver the flag ' day address. Mr. Sheldon is em- ; ployed at the General Electric < plant in Fort Wayne and is recognized for his ability as a public , speaker. The ritualistic work will be in charge of Florian Keller, exalted ruler of the Elks lodge, ; and his staff of officers. A patriotic parade, under the , direction of Dee Fryback, will march from the Legion home to the Elks east lawn, where' the service will be held. Ihe Boy : and Girl Scouts, Legionnaires i and the Decatur high school band , will march in the parade, Mr. , Fryback said. Legionnaires are requested to ( meet at the Legion home at 6:30 . o'clock Thursday evening to par- - ticipate in the service. Members are particularly urged to wear their uniforms, Adams post officials announced. ( Preceding Mr. Sheldon s address, the lodge officers will stage the introductory exercises. Prayer will be offered by George Dan- , iels. Elks chaplain, and the his- ' tory of the flag will be recited by ■ George Laurent. The altar ser- • vice will be in charge of Roger ■ Kelly, esquire of the lodge. Con- ' eluding the service, Henry Faurote, Legion chaplain, will offer ' benediction and the crowd will join in singing America. Chairs will be arranged on the i lawn for guests and the Decatur i band will play a few 1 vice, the committee, announced. : prior to the opening ot the ser- ]

UNCIO Vote Is Near On Voting Formula Opposition Os Small Nations Is Dwindling San FranlciEco, June 12—'(UP) — Little nation opposition to big power veto rights in the world .security council dwindled today ae the Big Five confidently sought an early vote on this last major issue at the United .Nations conference. The committee on the Yalta voting formula scheduled two meetings today in an effort to complete debate and (begin voting* on amendments. Only six little nations have spoken against the voting formula during two days of debate. Others will speak today. But the Big Powers are confident of mustering the necessary ttwo-thirds majority for writing the formula into the charter. The conference itaelf, meanwhile virtually leaped toward adjournment. Another commission 'will hold a public meeting today to approve the .section of the charter whfch will provide the new leaguers “teeth” —the chapter on enforcements and military agreements for providing the security council with armed forces when needed. That chapter is designed to prepare the organization for armed intervention to keep the peace. Another chapter—designed to eradicate some of the economic and social causes of war—was tentatively approved by a commission yesterday. (It would create an ftternational council to promote solution of economic and social problems. •Several other committees are ready to report to their parent commissions, the one on regional arrangements’ having approved its report late yesterday. Conference officials are leaving no stone unturned in their effort to complete the work here by June 20, The Big Five met late yesterday for one of their last meetings in the Nob Hill apartment of secretary of state Edward R. 'Stettinius, Jr. They agreed to oppose mention in the charter of the right of withdrawal of a member from the organization. They contend the right (Turn To Page 2, Column 2) -t Resume Issuance Os Canning Sugar June 18 Cleveland. June 12 — (UP) — Indiana ration boards will resume issuance of canning sugar Monday, June 18, regional OPA administrator Birkett L. Williams said today. An unusually large number of applications for canning sugar, and supplies far short of demand, had forced a twoweek suspension of issuances. Revised quotas for each board in the state will be worked out immediately, Williams said. The new quotas are expected to average approximately eight pounds per applicant.

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Borneo Drives Meeting Little Jap Resistance Australian Troops Advancing Against Slight Resistance Manila, June 12.—(UP)—Australian troops drove down the Brooketon-Brunei road today against little opposition and were within 11 miles or less of Brunei Town, capital of the tiny sultanate on rich Borneo. Fast progress also .was reported on Labuam and Maura Islands, first objectives in the Borneo invasion launched Sunday morning and led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur himself. The Australians already had a base for covering planes on Labuan, where they took the airfield in the first few hours of the invasion. That was one of the few points where any stiff fighting was reported. Ninth division troops moved rapidly inland after taking Victoria Town and at last reports from the front had gone 4,090 yards inland. Muara, tiny island in Brunei Bay just Off Brooketon, probably was entirely in Australian hands by now. Two-thirds of Muara were cleared in the early stages of the landing, and no opposition was reported. Brunei Bay was denied to the Japanese by the landings on Labuam, Muara, and Cape Polompong on the mainland, which put the Australians in position to sweep the mouth of the bay with their guns. The opening stages of the invasion to win back Borneo, rich in rubber, oil and other precious war resources, were surprisingly easy. The Japanese offered no opposition on the beaches after the powerful pounding by the American and Australiam navies and airforces which preceded the landings. Troops from the ninth division — desert rat veterans of Tobruk and other bruising battles with the Germans—made their first landing on the mainlamd on the beaches of Cape Palompong, jutting into Brunei bay. Quickly they drove 1,599 yards across the cape and set up headquarters in the evacuated town of Brooketon. The Japanese had blown up everything of value in Brooketon before fleeing inland. United Press Correspondent Richard Harris reported from Borneo that the town was a shambles.

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Washington Planning Gala Reception For Eisenhower

Washington, June 12. —(UP) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is coming back to a hero’s reception here on Monday. The reception will be “simple,” •they say. But by the time it’s over General Ike will know he’s had one—and so will upwards of 509,900 other folks icluding Congress, the capital’s civil leaders, the army high command. President Truman and Mrs. Eisenhower. For the man who commanded the Anglo-American armies which smashed Germany from the west, the capital plans:. 1. —'A parade through an “aisle of flags” from the national airport to the capitol. 2. —A joint reception by the House and Senate, at which he will speak. 3. A mammoth civil luncheon. 4. A press conference with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. 5. —A buffet dinner at the White House with Mr. Truman doing the honors. 6. — A few —mighty few —hours of “free time” which he can spend any way he wants to. The plans were made yesterday at a meeting of district officials with Brig. Gen. Robert N. Young of the chief of staff's office and Maj. Gen. C. F. Thompson, commander of the military district of Washington. Young and Thompson were a little apologetic about the parade plans: because there’s still a war on, they explained, it will be fairly modest—no big military turn-

Hopkins Back From Mission To Moscow Reports To Truman On Stalin Confab Washington, June 12 —(UP) — Harry L. Hopkins returned today from a special mission to Moscow for President Truman. He went immediately to the White House to give the chief executive a firsthand report on his conferences with Marshal Josef Stalin. Hopkins looked very tired as he stepped off the air transport command plane that brought him from Europe. He said he felt “all right’’ after his long aerial journey back to this country. Hopkins’ wife went to Russia with him but did not return. He explained that “the army has her visiting hospitals in Europe.” Hopkins would not comment on his mission to the Soviet capital or his conferences with Stalin. Informed officials said before he arrived, however, that among other things Hopkins had reported to Washington that he had made “good progress” in finding a basis on which negotiations for settlement of the Polish problem could be carried out. He appeared to have cleared the air on other U. S.-Russian conflicts. After he receives Hopkins’ report this afternoon, Mr. Truman is expected to discuss several international situations at his press conference tomorrow, probably including Russian relations in general as well as the specific Polish issue. With Hopkins was Charles E. Bohlen, state department Russian expert and political adviser who was in Moscow with him. Asked whether he felt encouraged by the results of his Moscow conferences, Hopkins said, “I just cannot comment at all.” Seamen Badly Needed By Maritime Service Chicago, June 12 —(Special)— Since V-E Day, U. S. maritime service recruiting quotas for apprentice seaman traininlg have been doubled, Commander R. T. Sexton, Chicago regional recruiting officer has announced. “Three times the number of merichant ships must sail to deliver the same firepower against Japan as ■was (brought to bear against Germany,” he said, “(because of longer supply lines in the Pacific”. IMen ifroim 17 to 59 are eligible for training in dedk, engine, steward, radio and purser-hospital corps departments. Volunteers should seek information from the U. IS. maritime service at 844 Rush street in Chicago and 91'2 Bast Wisconsin avenue in Milwaukee.

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“When the war is over,” Young said, “we can bring a division up Pennsylvania avenue. We are emphasizing now the job ahead rather than past accomplishments. This is a seventh-inning stretch.” Honored In London London. June 12.—(UP)—Gen. Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower, the Kansas farm boy who led the western Allies to victory in Germany, was given the honorary freedom of the city of London today amid cheers from scores of thousands of Britons. The five-star general, the tunic of his field uniform splashed with ribbons, rode in an open carriage behind two spanking brown horses through crowd-lined streets to Guildhall and Mansion house for the rare and ancient ceremony. Only four other Americans have received the honor, the last previous one Gen. John J. Pershing, American commander in World War I. The others were President Theodore Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant and philanthropist George Peabody. Still other honors awaited Eisenhower this afternoon. Then he will go to Buckingham palace to receive from King George VI an unspecified but exceptionally high British decoration and the king's personal thanks for his work as Allied commafler. Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, (Turn To Page 4, Column 8)

American Troops Launch General Assault On Jap Survivors On Okinawa

Rash Family Has Happy Reunion Liberated Son Is Home Briefly

The Joe Rash family, 420 Marshall street, had one of the happiest reunions ever on record last Sunday, when Paratrooper Carl F. Rash, who was a German prisoner of war for six months, was home for a few hours, enroute to Camp Atterbury. Pfc. Rash was taken prisoner at an outpost in France by a squad of German soldiers. He was confined to Stalag VII-A, probably the largest prison camp in Germany. More than 119,000 Allied soldiers were imprisoned there. The camp is near Moosburg. Germany, a little north of Munich. The Decatur soldier was liberated on April 28. His father, who is the custodian at the post office building, said his son was liberated by French troops. The family did very little interviewing with Carl, as he was not very talkative and preferred the rest during the few hours that he was home. However, he related a few of the hardships of being a prisoner of war and mentioned that the food served them was poor. The brown bread had sawdust for filler and the soup served once a day, contained grass and non-nourishing ingredients. He lost about 25 pounds during his six months’ imprisonment, but within the last month has regainIndiana Laqqinq In Purchases Os E Bonds Indianapolis, June 12. —(UP) — War finance officials announced today that Indiana was behind in purchases of series E bonds at this stage of the seventh war loan drive. Total individual purchases to date, including E bonds, are only 57.3 per cent of the quota of $167,900,090 (M) for the state. Eber M. Spence, chairman of the payroll saving division of the committee, said that industrial workers were ahead of the rest of the nation in bond buying.

Slugging, Robbery Is Reported Here Railroad Worker Is Held In County Jail Robert Porter, a railroad worker. described by local police as a “floater,” is being held in the county jail, pending an investigation that may lead to the filing of grand larceny and robbery charges by Dewey Kasee, 122 South Fourteenth street, who informed police officer Roy Chilcote that Porter slugged and robbed him of $285. Kasee and Porter had been in a local tavern, where they had a few drinks. Kasee told police that Porter told him that he did not have a place to sleep. It -was learned later that Porter had a room in the Haugk building. Porter went home with Kasee and there Kasee claims that Porter slugged him and took his roll of bills, amounting to $285. The police were called and officer Chilcote traced a telephone call which disclosed that Porter was at the Haugk lodging house. Porter claimed that he did not know anything about the slugging fest. Officer Chilcote questioned him and then turned back the mattress of the bed and found $59 in bills, which Porter vouched did not belong to him and that he did not know how the money got there. Kasee was bleeding about the head when officer Chilcote arrived at his home. He said that Porter struck him with a weapon and then robbed him. The incident occurred at about 2:30 o’clock this morning, the officer stated.

nfcssk x ed most of his weight. Pfc. Rash expects a furlougn following his reporting at Camp Atterbury. His father did not know if he would be discharged. The former German prisoner is one of several Adams county soldiers taken captive and is the first to arrive home, following the liberation of troops by American and Allied troops, as they swept through Germany and brought about the unconditional surrender of the Nazi army. Nippon Parliament Surrenders Powers Dictatorial Powers To Premier Suzuki London, June 12. —(UP) —Both houses of the Japanese Diet formally surrendered their powers to Premier Adm. Kantaro Suzuki today at the close of an extraordinary four-day session convoked to mobilize the entire nation for invasion. Suzuki emerged from an unexpectedly bitter parliamentary debate armed witli dictatorial powers for the duration of the war. Simultaneously, radio Tokyo revealed that the diet in its last official act passed an emergency mobilization bill conscripting all males from 15 to 65 and all women from: 25 to 45 for service in a new home guard. Ultimately, the age brackets for women will be revised to 17 to 40, Tokyo said. First accounts indicated that the Japanese home guards would not be mobilized immediately on a nationwide basis wherever an emergency, such as an Allied invasion, might arise. The Japanese Domei news agency said the home guards vould serve as guerillas in event of invasion, and called upon them to arm themselves with family swords, bamboo spears or any other weapons available. “In localities where regular army units are not stationed, the volunteer corps will make every effort to wipe out the enemy who might have landed from the sea or by parachute,” Domei said. Enemy broadcasts made it clear that Suzuki had not obtained his sweeping powers from the Diet (Turn To Page 2, Column 7) o Aluminum Allotted For Civilian Use ■Washington, June 12 —(UP) — More than 100,909.909 pounds of Aluminum will be released for civilian production starting ’his week, it was learned today. The war production 'board allotted t'hie amount for civilian use during July, August, and Sep’ember, two iweeks ahead of schedule because of the mounting stockpile of aluniinum and because aluminum manufacturers fear large cutbacks are imminent In war production.

Quota $1,294,900 $429,000 Needed For Quota

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Garrison Os 10,000 Nips Elects Fiqht To Death; Yankee Guns Blast Path Guam, June 12—(IT)—American troops, scaling the Yaeju-Dake escapement ou rope ladders, opened a general assault today against the Japanese -urvivor; on Okinawa who rejected a surrender ultimatum and chose to fight to the death. (Massed artillery blasted a path for Marines and doughboys ae they swarmed up cliffs and attacked with flame-throwers, bayonets and grenadee. The Japanese radio said that the Americans landed reinforcements at Minatoga, a >tnall port on the .southeastern shore of Okinawa. ‘“The Americans have opened a general assault against our positions," Tokyo said. Only six weary, Ideary-eyed Japanese accepted Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner's offer of surrender. The remaining garrison of approvimately 10,000 men elected to fight to death. When Buckner's offer expired at 6:'30 p. m. Tuesday (Okinawa time), orders were flashed to all U. 6. artillery and warships to re-ume fire. They blasted interlacing Japanese forttficationsTind caves atop the plateau in an all-out ground offensive. Ou the southeastern rim. Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold's 7th division ascended the Rocky slopes on. rope ladders and smashed forward in a frontal assault. The 7th’s offensive was based on strategic hill 05, d half mile west of Gushican. 'At the opposite end of the plateau, Maj. Gen.' Pedro De Valle’s Ist marine division advanced across rice paddies and fought upward along Kunishi ridge, western arm of the Yaeju-Dake plateau. The leathernecks battled to close the enemy’s southern escape route and trap thousands of Japanese in their “lost world" stronghold. (Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley'S 96th division attacked the escapment frontally from the north. The '96th systematically -ealed caves with special flame-throwers, fed rhrough long nozzle- from tanks below the escarpment. The first battalion closed approximately 59 caves. It halted a force of Japanese streaming from a cave, chased them back inside, then sealed them in escarpment cliffs with explosives. United Press war correspondent Edward L. Thomas reported from the front that Gen. Buckner’s sur- ! render demand went unanswered. Buckner predicted the last Japanese. resistance would be crushed ‘"within a matter of days.” •It was the first such formal offer made to the Japanese in the 3H-year-old Japanese war. Nine copies ot the surrender demand were dropped 'by American torpedo planes in canisters near what was believed the Japanese commander’s headquarters at 9:39 a. m. Sunday. Buckner’s forces sealed the enemy’s fate yesterday by seizing and enlarging two footholds in the Yaeju-Dake line in unhill battles [ against withering, often poinlblank I enemy machinegun, mortar and artillery fire. They (burned out, blew up and mopped up nearly 600 of the fortified caves and caverns from which the Japanese had been blocking the American advance up tho esI carpment. 'Pushing on to the south across the plateau, the Americans (Turn To Page 3, Column 6) o— . . — 2,500 Workers File Unemployment Claims Indianapolis, June 12—(CP) —Approximately 2,500 workers filed unemploraent claims with the Indiana employment security division yesterday. William C. Kelley, Indianapolis area 'IESD director, said that worker, swamped the local offices after a layoff of several thousand Indianapolis war industries employes. More than 5,600 workers were released recently by the Allison division of general motors corporation as a result of a production cutback.