Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1945 — Page 1

„enth War Loan IS Days to Go

I XLIII. No. 139.

MASH JAP SUICIDE CHARGES ON OKINAWA

|g Three Meet I Definitely 11-Truman ■President States ■Definite Time And ■place Determined J' ,ne 13 (UP) Kdent Truman announced toKhat a definite time and place ■ been set for the big three ■/president said the trips of ■ y L. Hopkins and Joseph E. ■ e s to Moscow and London ■ produced numerous encour■g results in preparation for ■e did not. say when the big ■ session will take place, but ■pparently will be held sonie- ■ r e overseas in July, accordK to previous indications. ■ appealed to American reKers not to muddy the waters Kegard to the Polish situation, K n g that the efforts of Hopkins ■Moscow had produced a very Ksant yielding by Russia on ■ long deadlock and that, defi- ■ progress bad been made. ■ was announced last night ■ Russia had invited 12 Polish Kers to attend a conference in ■row June 15 to discuss broad■g of the present Warsaw ■eminent in line with the Yal■agreement. ■r. Trbman at his news confer- ■ said, too. that the efforts of ■kins resulted categorically in ■ange in the Russian position ■ veto power in the United ■lions organizations. That end- ■ another deadlock that had de■etl the San Francisco conferee. ■alking about the forthcoming ■ting of the big three, the ■sident said it was important ■t the unity, mutual confidence ■ respect which resulted in ■itary victory by the three big Kers should be continued to ■c secure a just and durable ■ce. Be said that he would be ac■npanied to the big three meet- ■ by Hopkins, James F, Byrnes Id secretary of state E. R. Stet■ius, Jr., as well as the Ameri- ■ chiefs of staff. All of those In went with President RooseIt to the last big three meeting ■ Yalta. ■e said the leaders of the big lee nations must be able to Ik and trust each other and that e work of Hopkins and Davies arranging the time and place • the meeting of the big three aduced completely satisfactory d gratifying results. He described their London and )scow talks as preliminary to i face-to-face meeting with ime Minister Winston Churchill id Premier Josef Stalin. The president said, under ques•ning, that the question of re>e of 16 Polish leaders who ire seized by the Russian govament was one of the reasons r Hopkins’ trip to Moscow, hile no conclusion had been “ched, he said, every effort is made on their behalf by ( American and British govtaents. belief that we are 1 the road to complete settleof the Polish question, the Went said that this country’s •tion and policy had not been soged. Instead, he said, the “ge had been in the Russian *Point. Tl >is. he said, showed that the ” s, ans are just as anxious to a °«g with us as we are to ’ along with them. r Truman would not give the r «fs any hint as to the time Pace of the big three meet- ■ He said that it would be ° un ce<i only after the leaders reached the site of the con...ee ’ He added that no rers would be allowed to cover * inference. (T|> m To Page 4, Column 7) B ypu CRAT THERMOMETER e «perature reading 3:- — * ,m ™ P. rtl WEATHER im.. ‘ el(H ‘ dy Thursday; * *«rm and humid. I

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Request Display Os Hags On Thursday 'was made today that the flag Ibe displayed tomorrow in oibeervance of flag’day. “Second street should ibe lined with flags,’ a patriotic citizen said. Thursday evening a flag day service will be held at the Elks bonne by the American Legion and members of the Elks lodge. The public is invited. -— ~ 0 Seek Early Senate Action On Charter Seek Ratification For World Charter Washington, June 13.—(UP) Administration leaders have decided to seek Senate ratification of the world security charter as soon as the San Francisco conference ends, it was learned today. Prompt action was requested by President Truman. It was agreed upon by administration loaders in the Senate despite their previous intention to take a summer recess and defer action on the treaty until fall. The decision was reached because Mr. Truman is anxious that the’ United States become the first nation to ratify the treaty setting up a world security organization. According to the tentative program, the San Francisco conference is expected to end June 20. It is planned to submit the treaty to the Senate the following Monday, June 25. The plan calls for brief hearings before the Senate foreign relations committee. It is hoped by the leaders that the Senate vote on ratification can be obtained by July 15. Some Senators, however, predicted longer debate.

Congress had been planning to take a summer recess from July 10 to Sept. 10. Senate leaders agreed with Mr. Truman to postpone the recess if it is possible to get action on the San Francisco treaty promptly. The House could start its recess without waiting for the Senate. The speed-up schedule is almost certain to encounter some objection, however, among some Senate Republicans. Sen. Harlan J. Bushfield, R., S. (Turn To Page 4, Column 3) 0 Individual Sales Os Bonds Nearing Goal Lack $150,000 Os Achieving Quota Picture in your mind’s eye the raising of the American flag by the U. S. Marines on Saribachi hill on Iwo Jima. That feat took heft. With just a little of that same kind of heft and a heave to. the people of Adams county can hoist the flag of victory in the seventh war loan drive, for totals released today show that the E bond quota and other individual quotas lack only $150,000 of going over the top. And if money will do it, the flag raising should start immediately, for there are millions tucked away in the county. Up to last Saturday, local bond buyers purchased $408,337.50 in E bonds. The quota is $441,100, so only $33,000 need be put on the line to get that matter (Jut of the road. Tn the other security category, individuals purchased $307,760 in bonds, compared to the quota of $425,200, so a little extra digging will have to be done there to make up the SIIB,OOO. It’s as simple as that. No sweat, no tears, no work. Just a simple case of investing in America, or buying an acre of freedom. The corporation quota is lagging the most in the drive. With an allotment of $428,600 for investment tor aiql other business concerns, the amount of bonds purchased is only $178,622. The above figures released today by Earl Caston, co-chairman of the seventh war bond drive, total $894,719.50, compared to the county's grand total of $1,294,900. Are we going to let the Marines do all the fighting and raise all the flags?

London Polish Leader Rejects Bid To Moscow Refuses Invitation To Conference On Polish Questions 'London, June 13 —(UP)— Julian Zakciwski, one of three London Polish leaders invited by the Big Three to a conference on the Polish question in Moscow, rejected the invitation today. 'Zukowski’s action was announced (by a spokesman for the Polish exilq government in London, none of whose members’ was invited to the Moscow conference. (Exclusion of the exile regime generally was regarded as the signing of its death warrant, so far as the United States and Britain were concerned. (Russia broke relations with the London Poles in 1943. 'Prime minisiter Tomasz Arciszewski called a special session of the London cabinet today io consider future action. The other two London Polish leaders invited to Moscow, former Premier Stanislaw Mikolajezyk of ■the exile regime and Socialist party leader Jan Stanczyk, were expected to accept the IBig Three’s bid and leave by plane Thursday. The exile government’s spokesman said Zokowski, a Socialist and social worker who never had been active politically, had affirmed his allegiance to the London government as the only (body truly representative of a majority of Poles. lit was reported that Zakowski had written Arciszewski of his refusal to accept the Moscow invitation. IThe government’s spokesman said Arciszewski and his cabinet regretted that the “proposed conference cannot be truly representative.’’ He expressed his conviction that Mikolajczyk would insist upon the release of 16 Polish leaders held by the Red army for “diversionist” activity as a preliminary requirement for the forthcoming conference. Friends of Mikolajczyk said he also probably would inform Russia that the withdrawal of occupation ■forces from Poland with the exception of these required for mainen(Turn To Page. 4, Column 6) o Katherine France Will Is Probated Specific Bequests Provided By Will After making three specific bequests, Mrs. Katherine France, widow of the late Frank E. France of this city, Requested the residue of ■her large estate to her brothers and and sisters and a sister-in-law. The 'will was offered for probate in the Adams circuit court, in vacation. To her sisters, Rose Christen and Ruiby Durkin, a nephew, Dick Durkin, and a niece Dorothy Durkin, Mrs. France bequeathed her residence on Mercer Avenue, and all its contents, and her automobile. In the event of itfiie death of Rose Christen, her share is to go to Ruby Durkin. A codicil, dated Sept. 16. 1914. revoked the bequest of a business building on Jefferson street in Huntington, Ind., to her brothers, Frank and Richard Christen, and the bequeathing of '52,590 to them in lieu of the building, share and share alike. A summer home on Lake James in Steuben county was bequeathed to the decedent’s sister-in-law, Alice Christen, with the provision “that she be living at the time of my death,” otherwise the property should go to the Children of Alice Christen and the children of her brother, Bruce Christen. The residue of the estate was bequeathed to Rose Christen, Ruby Durkin, Frank Christen, Richard Christen and Alice Christen, share and share alike. iNo inventory was filed with,the the clerk. Mrs. France named Theodore F. Graliker, executor, and requested that 'Earl B. Adams be retained as counsel for the estate. The will was written July 28, 1939.

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‘Baka’ Bomb Taken On Okinawa

ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS of the Japanese suicide weapons is the “Baka” bomb, and one of these is shown above after it was captured on Okinawa. The winged bomb is launched from another plane and has suicide pilot locked in. Navy radiophoto.

Definite Occupation Zones Are Uncertain Soviet Move Halted By American Forces Wiesbaden, Germany, June 13. — (UP) —American occupation forces refused to permit Russian troops to take over the border strip of western Czechoslovakia liberated by the U. S. third army, it was revealed today. The occupation shift around Chemnitz went off without a hitch. But a 12th army group staff officer disclosed that if the Allies had agreed on just how much Ameri-can-held territory the Russians were to occupy, the word had nor. seeped down to this level yet. Lack of understanding apparently accounted for the situation in western Czechoslovakia. The Russians made a move to take over the area held by the Americans, but which is expected to be allocated to the Red army. The Americans refused to permit them to send a trainload of troops to the western border of Czechoslovakia after Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s supreme headquarters denied the request and ordered the United States forces to continue the occupation of this sector. The area in question is a relatively narrow corridor running north and south just inside Czechoslovakia. Gen. George S. Patton’s third army forces occupied it in the closifig days of the European war. Just how far the Russians are .scheduled to move is unoknown. There has been no definite announcement. Gei-man civilians have been predicting that the Rus(Turn To Page 5. Column 3) 0 Price Control Act Amendment Lashed Senate Amendment Termed Unworkable Washington, June I'3 — (UP) — President Truman said today he hoped the Wherry farm profits amendment would ibe stricken from the price control extension Act. Sen. Kennety S. Wherry. R.. Nab., author of the amendment, announced simultaneously that he would fight for it 'to the last ditch.’ iThe amendment, tacked on to the extension act before it passed the senate Monday, would iban any price ceiling on a farm commodity that does not permit a farmer to recover hie cost of production plus a reasonable profit. Administration leaders in congress, farm organization leaders and price administrator Chester (Bo'wles haive termed it rediculous and unworkable. Mr. Trutnan told his news conference he thought It was a bad amendment. He hoped the house would fake it out. The price control extension act is now before the house banking committee. Wherry held a press conference of his own and defied administration and farm group leaders who have criticized his proposal. He denied a statement by presid(Turn To Pagie 4, Column 6)

Four Youths Die In Train-Auto Accident Chicago Heights, 111., June 13. — (UP)—Four teen-aged youths were killed early today when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a freight train. A fifth passenger was seriously injured. The dead are Raymond Collins, 16, South Chicago Heights, driver of the car; Jeanette Moore, 15, Glenwood; Walter Craig, 17, Steger, and Elsie Lockinan, 15, Glenwood. Bernard Delehay, 17, Steger, was taken to St. James hospital with compound fractures of his right leg and left hip. Opposes Religious Training In School College Instructor Files Suit In Court Champaign, 111., June 13. —(UP) —Religious leaders rallied behind the Champaign school board today for a “finish fight” against a suit filed by a University of Illinois instructor seeking to halt religious education classes in the public schools. The instructor, a woman, said that she considers religious worship “a chronic disease of the imagination contracted in childhood.” The suit was filed by Mrs. Vashti McCollum, a physical education instructor at the university, who claimed her 10-year-old son, James Terry, was “embarrassed” because he was the only child in his class not taking the course. Mrs. McCollum petitioned the. Champaign county circuit court for an order prohibiting the religion classes which have been offered in the public schools on a voluntary basis the last five years. The classes are conducted in the schools by representatives of Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths. School board president Delos Huxtable said the board’s attorney, J.ohn L. Franklin, has been instructed to carry the case to the supreme court, if necessary. He indicated other school boards will be invited to file intervening petitions since they would also be affected by any ruling in the case. Mrs. McCollum, whose husband, John Paschal McCollum, is also on the university faculty as an assistant professor of vegetable crops, described herself in her court petition as an atheist or a “rationalist.” She included a pamphlet written by her ’father, Arthur G. Cromwell of Rochester, N. Y., which she said sets forth her beliefs as follows: “Religious worship is a chronic disease of the imagination contracted in childhood. Religionists know this, hence their determination to force religious training in the public schools while the plastic minds of our youth absorb readily and have no means of self-deter-mination. “Religion is born of fear, ignorance and superstition back in the dim paleolithic ages when the human creature was emerging from the tree-climbing, tail-hanging ape. "The germ us a reasoning brain began simultaneously to develop from the first day that the first crook realized he could hoodwink a few credulous beings into believing he had some personal tie-up (Turn To Page 4, Column 5)

Final American Assault Underway, Path Burned Through Jap Defenses

Concede Big Five Victory On Voting ! Formula Approval Virtually Assured San Francisco, June 13 —(TTP) —The “little” United Nations conceded victory to the big five today in their battle over the Yalta voting formula. Eventual approval of the formula was virtually assured early this morning when a United Nations conference committee, after a hectic night session, defeated an Australian attempt to "soften” big five veto rights in the security council. The vote was 20 to 10 against the amendment, but 15 nations abstained from voting and five others were absent. The committee scheduled two more meetings today during which tentative incorporation of the Yalta formula into the charter was expected. A two-thirds vote is needed for approval, but it was conceded that the opposition’s high-water mark already had come on the Australian amendment. Australian foreign minister Herbert V. Evatt, who led the fight to modify the formula, served notice that defeat at this conference did not mean the end of his battle. “It will go on until liberalization or improvement takes place,” he said. Evatt and his supporters here claimed a moral victory. They contended that the vote showed that half of the 50 nations at this conference, either by supporting (Turn To Pagie 4, Column 6) 0 _ Defer Arraignment Os Alleged Robber Further Probe Os Slugging, Robbery of Robert Porter, railroad worker, formally charged with gand larceny and robbery in two counts, Is being deferred pending further investigation of the alleged crimes, as charged by Dewey Kasee, who rooms at 122 South Fourteenth street. IPorter has not confessed to the crimes and it was indicated that he might be taken to Indianapolis on Friday to undergo a test by the lie detector. Porter is still confined 'to the county jail. The second count of the rubbery affidavit charges Porter with committing a robbery with the aid of a dangerous weapon. Under Indiana law this is a serious offense, which upon conviction carries a life prison sentence. Kasee alleges that Porter struck him over the right eye and then robbed him of $285. The affidavits 'were filed in Adams circuit court late yesterday and arraignment of the man may take place at 4 o’clock this after.llooll. Kasee also informed police that two shot guns and an electric iron iwere stolen from his rooming house. This angle of the case was being investigated by chief Ed Miller and local police today. 0 Church Conference At Berne In 1947 Berne will ibe host to the next session of the general conference of Mennonites of North America, which will Ibe held in 1947. Berne’s selection was announced at this year’s conference, held at North Newton. Kan. The next meeting will be held in 1947 to resume the regular triennial schedule, the 1944 conference having been postponed until this year because of wartime travel restrictions. The conference includes 145 Mennonite churches.

Borneo's Oil Installations Fired By Japs Australian Advance Reported Slow In Thick Jungle Land Manila, June 13— (UP) —The Japanese put the torch to rich oil installations on north Borneo today as Australian troops advanced slowly toward Brunei through thick jungle country. Reports from the front said that columns of smoke were seen and explosions echoed from the direction of Brunei, capital of the Sultanate of the same name. The Japanese troops were believed firing both the town and nearby oil installations. There still was no enemy opposition to speak of, but. the ninth Australian division found it tough going along the bad, narrow road through the jungle from captured Brooketon to Brunei. After another two-mile gain, the Australians were 10 airline miles, or 14 miles by road, from Brunei. A combined press dispatch from the front reported that the Sultan of Brunei and his harem were believed to be in the interior mountains, waiting to return to resume his rule under the British flag. Other reports said that 1,500 civilians, many of them hungry and sick, had been liberated so far. They included Chinese, Malays, Indians and Javanese. Australian troops meanwhile drove two miles north of Labuan airfield. That put. them about five miles from the. northern tip of the island. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who visited Labuan the first day of the invasion, yesterday went ashore on the mainland and went four miles inland to the front lines. “Rarely is such a great strategic surprise obtained at such low cost of life,” MacArthur said in a statement. Bulldozers made in Peoria, 111., were clearing a path through the tangled tropical undergrowth for tanks and trucks. American planes strafed and botnbed ahead of the advancing Australians and drew some ground fire in action. Front dispatches described the campaign as being waged in an Eden-like setting of lush tropical (Turn To Page 4, Column 5) o Heavy Downpour In Decatur Last Night At Least Two Inches Fell During Night iAit least two inches of rain fell in Decatur last night and the total for the 24 hour period up to 8 o'clock this morning was 2.39 inches, (Henman (Hi) Meyer, local river gauger, stated. Most of the rain fell prior to midnight. Os torrential proportions, -sewers were overtaxed and basements were flooded during the downpour. Birds were rained out of their neshs and blooming flowers were shattered by the pellets. The St. Mary’s river started to rise early this morning and at 8 o’clock stood at 5.91 feet. Mr. Meyer expected a steady rise during the day. ISome damage was reported in the city and rural sections. Newly planted corn and soy beans suffered from the downpour, it was reported. IThe weather forecast was for more scattered showers and mild temperatures during the next 24 hours.

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Americans, Armed By Flamethrowers Burn Path Through Jap Fortifications Guam, Juno 13 — (UP) —American troops, armed with special flame-throwers, burned a path through Japanese fortifications atop Yaeju-Dake plateau on Okinawa today and smashed desperate "banzai” charges by doomed enemy survivors. One of the greatest artillery barrages of the Pacific war shattered several enemy troop concentrations on tlie summit <>t the cliffs, where trapped Japanese were making a suicide stand. Marines and infantrymen scaled to the top of the plateau on rope ladders, then used the same ropes to haul up other troops and their supplies. The defenders virtually were surrounded. The Ist marine division on the west, the 96th army division on the north and the 7th army division on the east cracked through primary defenses and stormed across the plateau from three sides. It may be the final battle of Okinawa. United Press war correspondent E. G. Valens reported from 10th army headquarters that cornered Japanese troops hurled themselves at advancing Americans in suicide assaults. In one of the largest counterattacks, approximately 300 Japanese carrying dynamite "satchels” charged Ist marine division positions on the western front. Tlie leathernecks killed 64, including one woman. On the strategic southeastern coast near Hanagusuku. American tanks cleaned out 105 Japanese caves along the escarpment. Foot soldiers swept caves and breastworks with blasts of flame sprayed from 200 foot long firehoses. Others rooted out Japanese with grenades and rifles. The final American assault was under way, anil it was a battle to the death with no quarter asked or given. Gains of up to 1.000 yards were reported in the past 24 hours. Marines of the first division cracked the western end of the Yaeju-Dake position in a predawn attack yesterday morning. They clambered up 150-foot Kunishi ridge at 3:30 a. m. under cover of darkness with comparatively ease. Heavy fighting broke out after dawn, but the marines held their positions and reinforced them under fire. At last reports, the marines were fighting their way south and west. The seventh infantry division at the opposite end of the crossisland line simultaneously battled 500 yards onto the eastern corner of the Yaeju-Dake escarpment at a point northwest of Hanagusuku. Infantrymen of the seventh broke out rope ladders for tho perilous dimb. They, too, wero expanding their hold on the plateau under enemy fire. i Other elements of the seventh division were attacking high (Turn To Page 5. Column 4) — 0 State Canning Sugar Quota 9.4 Pounds Adams county persons will fare better in getting coupons for canning sugar than the average over the state, it was disclosed today tho announcement that 9.4 pounds is the per capita quota in the state. In this county, individuals have been issued coupons for 12 pounds of canning sugar. All applications for sugar were filled up to June 1, when the OPA ordered postponement in issuing the coupons. In this county a corps of volunteer workers worked untiringly before the deadline and individuals received their coupons before the freeze. The OPA has ordered the reissuing of the coupon in Uie five state area, including Indiana. Ohio. Michigan, Kentucky and West Virginia, on June 18.