Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1945 — Page 1

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w Three Meet ■ely To Map Lope Future ■Believe Confab To wße Eu ro P e s Real ■Peace Conference bulletin ■ London, June 14—(UP) — Minister Churchill an-PH-nred in commons today ■L the big three wilt meet Before the British election ISesufts are announced on July June 14 — (UP)— B impending meeting of the Big " Jin map Europe’s future for |K‘ yeaiß to come, authoritative nK^. es indicated today. SK white mouse source said that practical purposes Presid- !■ Thurman's imminent confer- ■ e with British prime minister IK. Churchill and Soviet PreBr Josef [Stalin will be “the real conference of 'Europe.” Big Three,” he asserted, ■: chart th,' general outlines of peace.” SB, was evident here that the func|K of any subsequent full-dress peace conference would ■ J ratify, probably with some the decisions blue|A:,.,l at the Truman-Churchill-parley. IBiasident Truman said yesterday ■ |a,. Big Three meeting would ■an attempt to arrange for a Bi-h conference. This, he added, ■1 he a major objective of the Three meeting. officials disthat the agenda for the Big conference would cover at |Kt these points pertinent to the gHire of the continent which has ■ivril so fertile a birthplace for on several of the 30 questions which must be ■>l amicably to prepare Europe <■ peace. These include (Poland’s to a slice of defeated Gerin return for Polish land goto Ruutia. Final agreement on the way ■many must pay reparations for ■ war on aggression. The Ameri‘British reparations in Berlin probably will Mrc a preliminary report and rec- - Big conference. ■!. Final decisions on the use of Mrtn.ii! labor for reconstruction Mirk in Russia and other Nazi-vic- ■> nations. The United States alhas given tentative approval M litis project. M The future of the Dardanelles, Mvital water passage to the Black Ma wlhcre Turkey wants sufficient Marantees of control and Russia Mms assurance of an outlet to the erranean. M-she problem of opening up the Mrtet-occupied Balkan countries Madniit Allied officials and jourMl»ts and to promote governWjnsof a more Democratic nature. ■“ aiso would involve arrangeM B! s for Democratic elections in Mn Russian-controlled countries ■ Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, ■*’ The puroblem of Poland, deM'dkig on ,the resu it s o f this meeting of Polish political ■jiioua In Moscow. ■‘•Arrangements with Russia for ■ shim To p a g e 5- Column 2 ) ■ - o a * * * * * * * JMorable Discharge ■ ****** * Richard WjSprunger son ■ h and Mrs. W. R. Sprunger of lHe Wi ' lrevert s o the inacon July 5 jj e en t ere( j the K/ Ce ov ’ <»> 1940 and was the M ®an in Berne to enlist before was a pilot of a B-17 K., fortress and completed 35 ■"-‘Ms overseas. ■ bS at thermometer ■ 8 1 MPERatu RE reading | 0:0 ° a. m. ... I P.m WEATH ER u.u? Udy toni ° ht and ■ ' thl occ *» i onal show- ■ * north thund,e '‘«torm«. CoolIl' rthw ««t portion Friday.

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British Ships Sink Two Japanese Vessels

Calcutta, June 14— (UP) —Destroyers of the British East Indies fleet sank a Japanese supply ship and submarine chaser off the northwest coast of Sumatra a communique said today. Date of the action was not given. , * The enemy vessels were sighted by a submarine. The destroyers supported by RAF were sent to join tlip attack. Japanese bombers attacked the British ships but failed to cause casualties or damage. Planes From Europe Now In Philippines Flying Fortresses, Liberators Arrive Guam, June 14.—(UP)—Radio Tokyo said today that the first flights of flying fprtresses and Liberators from Europe have arrived in the Philippines to join the mounting American air offensive against Japan. A Japanese Domei dispatch broadcast by Tokyo and heard in London reported “scores” of the four-engined bombers which devastated Germany were at Philippines bases. Though it was known that bombers from Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle’s eighth air force were on their way from Britain to the Far East, this was the first report any had arrived. It was not confirmed by Allied sources. Tokyo also reported that two Liberators had appeared over the Tokyo-Yokohama area at 11:30 a. m. today for the first time, sending a non-stop air offensive against Japan into its ninth straight day. Tokyo claimed anti-aircraft guns shot down both planes. The appearance of B-24s over central Japan indicated they soon may be adding their bombloade to those of superfortresses on Tokyo. Some Liberators front’Okinawa already have attacked Kyushu in southern Japan. Twenty superfortresses mined waters oil western Honshu during last night, Tokyo also reported. More than 51) Okinawa-plane (Turn To Page fi, Column 5) — —— Lie Delector Test To Alleged Robber Police Take Porter To Capital For Test Ed P. Miller, Decatur police chief, announced today that Robert Porter, 34-year-old “floater" who gives his home as Delaware, and against whom charges of grand larceny and robbery have been filed in the Adams circuit court, probably will be taken to Indianapolis Friday to undergo a lie detector test. Porter is alleged to have slugged and robbed Dewey Kasee of ?285 and numerous articles at the latter’s rooming house on South Fourteenth street early Tuesday morning. The police chief also stated that a number of articles reported by Kasee as stolen are still missing. Included in this loot is a fully loaded Smith-Wesson 38pistol, and the police chief warned of the danger in handling the weapon, particularly if children should find the gun. The loaded gun, a seven jewel Elgin wrist watch, two pairs of men’s shoes, two pairs of trousers and two or three white shirts are reported as missing. Authorities believe that Porter hid these articles in some out of the way place between the scene of the alleged attack and the downtown (Turn To Page 2. Column 3) QSchool Band In Flag Observance Tonight All members of the Decatur high school iband are requested to meet promptly at 7 o’clock this evening in the school music room for the annual Flag Day program. The iband will lead the parade from the American Legion home to the (Elks home, where the annual flag Observance will be held at 7:30 o’clock.

Yalta Formula Is Adopted At Frisco Confab Little Nations To Fight Veto Power Over Amendments San Francisco, June 14—(UP)— The “iLittle" United Nations, defeated in their fight to “soften” the Yalta voting formula, prepared today for a final 'battle gainst Big Five veto power over amendments to the world charter. That isue and several odds and ends of the proposed charter which seemed to defy solution caused united Nations conference delegates to set June 23 unofficially as the earliest possible date of adjournment. 'No official closing date has been set since the earlier target of June 6 was missed. The aim had ibeen toward next Wednesday. But officials conceded that it will tbe physically impossible to complete the work ‘before a week from next Saturday, and possibly not until June 25. The structure of the new league is virtually complete except for a few holes here and there. 'They are the questions of the right of withdrawal from the organization whether there shall be provisions for expulsion, some minor items on trusteeships, whether 'the 'Big Five can veto nomination of a secretary general, plans for transitional military arrangements, and ‘the whole problem of an interim commission to act until the new organization is formally set up. ILarge sections of the charter are getting tentative approval by the conference commissions daily. The security council commission approved unanimously last night the much-disputed section on regional arrangements — the one which provides for limited exemption of such groups as the Ban American security system. Commission II meets today to approve the preamble, principle and purposes of the organization, and at least one commission meeting a day will be held during the rest of the week.

The issue that had hogged down several technical committees—the voting formula—was settled yesterday. After Ibeating down an Australian test amendment to modify the Yalta formula, the full committee voted 30 to (1 (‘Culba casting the lone dessent) to accept the Yalta formula as is. Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex., who steered the formula through the last hectic days of committee de(Turn To Paffe 2, Column 4) -,— —. Long-Range Rocket Blueprints Found Planned Attacks On Cities Os America Paris, June 14 — (UP) —ls the European war had lasted another six months, Germany might have bombarded New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Boston with giant rocket bombs. Ordnance intelligence experts attached to supreme headquarters said German scientists were within a half year of perfecting the mass production of rocket bombs capable of pin-point bombing at a range of 3,000 miles. The Allied experts based their statement on the results of a month-long survey of a huge rocket assembly plant 800 feet under the Kohnstein mountains near Nordhausen in Germany. Blueprints for the long-range rockets wefe found and German scientists said they were prepared to turn out the missiles in sufficient numbers to neutralize American air superiority. Maj. William J. Bromley of Grants Pass, Ore., said the proposed rockets obviously were intended to subject American east coast cities to the same robotbomb ordeal London suffered beginning last summer. The Germans might have begun their bombardment of the United States even before the end of the European war had it not been for an RAF raid that smashed the (Turn To Page 5, Column 6)

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Fort Wayne Vet Held After Traffic Death Fort Wayne, Ind., June 14—(UP) —John ißadenibaugh, 65, was killed about* 112:30 A. M. today when struck by an automobile driven by Carl J. Suedhoff, Jr., 20, a war veteran recently returned from overseas. Police charged ‘Suedhoff with reckless driving and placed him under S4OO bond. —. —o Nation's Sea Losses During War Revealed Merchant Ship Loss Revealed As 1,554 Washington, June 13. —(UP) —Of 4,453,061 U. S. soldiers embarked by ship to fight the Axis in ‘Europe and Africa, only 3,604 were lost at .sea. This was a better record, proportionately, than World War I’s—despite the greater deadliness in this war of U-boats( bombing planes, and mines. But it was only part of the grim accounting of World War 11. New data on the war at sea disclosed today that: 1. This country lost 1,554 merchant ships of 6,277,077 tons, to enemy action or as a result of causes due to war conditions, from Sept. 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945. The total includes a large number of small ships. 2. U. S. merchant seamen have suffered 6,066 casualties, including 5,579 dead and missing and 487 prisoners of war. 3. A total of 4,770 merchant ehips, Allied and neutral, have been lost to the enemy action. 4. The U. S. navy lost 99 ships of all kinds sunk in Atlantic or adjacent waters. Its loss in dead and missing in these waters was 9,023 navy personnel, 508 coast guardsmen, and 35 marines. Overall navy ship losses in all theaters total 314. The army personnel losses at sea were caused by the sinking or damaging of 41 ships, ranging from small auxiliary craft to large transports, during the 41 months from Dec. 8, 1941, to May 9, 1945. In this gigantic movement of soldiers, losses were 0.04 per cent —four men lost at sea for every 10,000 embarked —as compared with (Turn To Page 6, Column 3) o Eyewitness Story Os Prague Revolution Nazis Slew Helpless Women And Children Prague, June 14 — (UP) — On the morning of May 5, 1945, the outside world heard a Czech voice break into a program of German martial music on radio France, shouting: -‘Send help. We have risen against the Nazis.” Then for five days there was silence, while the bloodiest uprising of World War two boiled through the streets of the enslaved Czechoslovak capital. This is the first complete story obtained from eyewitnesses of the revolution in which the men, women and children of Prague fought behind barricades and in their homes against the 200,000 Germans garrisoning their city. Fanatical Nazi elite guards who formed the core of the Prague garrison quartered Czech l>oys in the city streets. Witnesses said they crucified captured patriots, ran their tanks over helpless women and children and used hostages as a human screen for their own armor. And some of the Nazi fanatics themselves, who defied their own high command’s unconditional surrender order, were burned alive by the enraged Czechs. (Turn To Page 3, Column 4) 0 Berne Man Chairman State Barber Board Marcus S. Lehman, well known Berne Ibarger, has been appointed chairman of the new state board of •bartber examiners. The board, appdinted Wednesday iby Gov. Ralph S. Gates, will take office June IS. Other board members are 'Arthur C. Wilson, Shelbyville, vice chairman, and Mount iWillta, Terre Haute, secretary.

Aussie Troops i Driving Into Brunei City Japanese Firing Rich Oil Fields • Before Withdrawal BULLETIN San Francisco, June 14— (UP) —Tokyo today admitted the fall of the oil-rich island of Tarakan to invading Australian and Netherlands troops. Manila, June 14.—(UP)—Australian troops today drove into the outskirts of Brunei, capital of the Borneo sultanate of the same name. Field reports said the city apparently had been abandoned by the Japanese. Aussies of the famed “fighting ninth” division trust across the city line from the .east after seizing high ground only 200 yards away in an amphibious landing up Brunei river. Another Australian column captured Brunei airstrip and rolled on unopposed within two miles north of the city in an eight-mile advance along the Brooketon-Brunei road. Brunei probably will fall within the next 24 hours or so. A front dispatch said the enemy garrison appeared to have fled along the coast to the southwest, firing oil wells and tanks as they withdrew. Flames from the burning oil were visible 40 miles at sea. The lightness of enemy opposition was shown by disclosure that only 61 Japanese were killed and one captured in the initial landing Sunday. Aussies who moved up the Brunei river in boats Tuesday and landed east of Brunei also reported almost non-existent opposition. They advanced swiftly inland and captured high ground overlooking the city's waterfront area. On Labaun island in the mouth of Brunei bay, other ninth division troops cleared the southeastern half of the island and chased the remaining Japanese into the northwestern hinterlands. The Aussies were within two miles of Timbalai airfield. Australian warhawks and beaufighters supported the ground operations with bombing and strafing raids. They also sank two coastal vessels at Samarinda. On Luzon, Americans of the 37th division blasted their way through strongly-held Orioung pass seven miles northeast of Bagabag and pressed on to the north along the (Turn To Page 2. Column 4) O Religious Education Fight To High Court Final Test Likely In Supreme Court Chicago, June 14. —(UP) —A University of Illinois instructor’s fight against religious education ,i n Champaign, 111., schools was aimed today at a U. S. supreme court test of state and church mergers. Mrs. Vashti McCollum asked the Champaign county circuit court to ban teaching of religion in the city’s public schools as regular classroom procedure. She considers religious worship, she said in her petition, “a chronic disease.” Landon L. Chapman, Chicago, attorney for Mrs. McCollum, said last night the case would probably be taken to the high court whichever side wins in the state court. At Champaign, President Delos Huxtable of school board district 71, earlier promised a vigorous fight against the teacher's action would, if necessary, be carried to the high tribunal. Chapman said Mrs. McCollum's suit had the support of the Chicago civil liberties committee, the Chicago action council, Dr. John Lapp, prominent Chicago layman, and the Rev. Paul J. Folinc, president of the Chicago Protestant Ministers association. The lawyer charged that the Champaign religious training program violated the first and 14th (Turn To Pag* 4, Column 3)

Push Slowly-Retreating Enemy Toward Sea; Take Many Military Prisoners

Combat Casualties Total 1,017,097 'Washington, June 14 —(UP) — U. S. combat casualties reached ‘1,017,097 today, a gain of 5,048 since Friday. The total included 899,9152 army and 11i1 ; 7j145 navy, marine corps, and coast guard casualties. o Civilians Face New Sugar Supplies Cut Rigid Controls On Sugar Distribution Washington, June 14.—(UP) — Civilians faced a new cut in sugar supplies today as the government acted to plug leaks which threatened to deplete important sugar reserves. Announcing sugar allocations for the next three months, the war food administration told civilians they will gqt 1,380,000 tons —10,000 tons less than in April, May and June. The cut, while slight, was important because the summer canning season just ahead is normally the heaviest sugar consumption period of the year. The civilian share is 153.600 tons less than was available during the same period last year. Meantime WFA placed rigid new controls on the distribution of all U. S. sugar stocks. To make certain that quarterly allocations are not exceeded the agency limited the amount each distributor can sell to civilians, the government, armed forces and special authorized buyers. In the past WFA allocated supplies but had no effective way to prevent claimant groups from getting more than their share. In 1944, for instance, civilians used 100,000 tons more canning sugar than the allocations called for. On occasion the army has bought more (Turn To Page 2, Column 4) 0 Goods Output To Be Far Short Os Needs Urge Investment Os Cash In War Bonds Washington, June 14—(UP) — Not more than $1,000,000,000 worth of new consumer durable goods production is expected this year, the treasury reported today. Therefore, the treasury said, there is little reason for possible bond buyers to hold on to their cash in hopes of buying new cars, refrigerators, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners and electric ranges. The treasury statement was made in a letter to state war finance chairman as E bond sales in some parts of the nation fell short of schedule. Seventh war loan individual sales totaled $5,397,900,000, or 77 per cent of the $7,000,000,000 individual quota, and E bond sales reached $2,438,000,000, nr 61 per cent of 'the $4,000,000,000 E bond quota. The production that can be expected provided raw materials are available will be only a drop in the bucket compared to the income that people will have, the treasury said. It pointed out that in the first quarter of this year consumer spending was at a yearly rate of $104,000,000,000. It said the war production board estimated that by July, 1946, durable goods output will be at the rate of $4,000,000,000 a year with $1,500,000,000 of that volume going into producers’ durable goods. The treasury said the prospects of capacity durable goods production could be shown partially by the following "reconversion timetable:” Automobile industry—ls months. Sewing machines —9 months. Vacuum cleaners—4 months. Electric ranges—9 months.

Polish Conference Will Begin Friday Former Premier May Head New Cabinet London, June 14 —(UP)—Moscow announced tonight on the eve of a Polish conference in the Soviet capital that the Russians had finished investigating the case of a group of Poles arrested by the Red army and would submit it to a Soviet court within a few days. The Moscow radio said 18 Polish leaders, instead of the 16 reported by other sources, had been arrested in Poland last March. They were accused of diversionist activity against the Red army. Moscow said a Soviet prosecutor had ended his inquiry into the case. Presumably the court to which the case will be submitted will hand down a sentence. No public hearing has yet been held, and this still might he done. The brief Moscow report did not identify the 18 Poles nor explain the discrepancy between this number and the 16 reported by Polish sources. , Observers regarded it as no mere coincidence that Moscow should report on court proceedings in connection with the Rolish case a day before big three and Polish representatives in Moscow were to open a conference. A Moscow dispatch said the conferees probably would set up a new unity government for Poland, with Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the London delegation as premier. Representatives of the Sovietsupported Polish provisional government in Warsaw, headed by President Boleslaw Bierut of the Polish national council, arrived in Moscow yesterday and began a series of preliminary conferences. Mikolajczyk and’Jan Stanczyck, also a former member of the London cabinet, were expected to leave by plane for Moscow sometime today or early tomorrow. Five other Polish leaders from within Poland also were due in the Soviet capital momentarily. The conference was scheduled

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Supply Os Cigarels Reluming To Normal National Shortage . Faces Early Easing New York, June 14—(UP)—Popular (brand cigarets were displayed openly on many retail counters in the New York area for the first time in many months, and tobacconists said today there would probably be an easing of the nationwide shortage soon. Retailers reported almost normal deliveries from five big brands. 'But spokesmen for the manufacturers said there may still be some hoarding by dealers ‘because of the widespread 'black market. However, they said ‘because of lessened military demands the cigaret situation will probably be noranal by next January. ‘Lucky Strike was reported making 68 per cent of normal distribution. based on 1943 figures. This was ‘l6 per cent more than lasp month. Eighty five per cent of the normal Chesterfield production is now being distributed by the manufacturer. Other figures showed: 'Old Gold—OS per cent of normal distribution going to retailers. ‘Phillip Morris—-75 per cent of normal distribution, 10 per cent over May. Camels—s 9 per cent of normal (Turn To Page 4, Column 5)

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Radio Tokyo Tells Japanese People Os U.S. Preparations For New Offensive Guam, June 14. —(UP)—Tenth army troops, supported by a tremendous rocket and artillery barrage, broke through the last Japanese defense line on three fronts today ad pushed the slowly-retreat-ing enemy garrison toward the sea. Front dispatches said captured fortifications were yielding scores of Japanese military prisoners and thousands of civilians to the advancing Americans. United Press war correspondent E. (1. Valens reported that the 96th division, on the north rim of YaejuDake plateau, crushed moderate resistance and smashed forward toward the only high peaks barring the way to the southern shore of Okinawa. A column of Ist division marines on the west flank pushed across shell-swept rice paddies to the stronghold of Mezado, south of Kitnishi ridge. Mezado lies within 2% miles of southern shoreline . cliffs, which Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge described as ideal for Japanese suicide jumping. The 7th division on the east flank cracked stout Japanese defenses reinforced its spearhead, and seized considerable plateau territory i n dominating high, ground, Valens said. The Japanese garrison of about # 10,090 troops compressed into a diminishing pocket of possibly less than 13 square miles. It gave ground slowly, leaving the battlefield strewn with dead. Radio Tokyo told the Japanese people that American forces in the Pacific appeared to be preparing for a new offensive, but admitted that it did not know whether it would be directed toward China or Japan proper. Another broadcast urged the Japanese to make their home islands a fortress and prepare to fight to the last man because there could be no unconditional surrender for Japan.

Tokyo said the plight of the Okinawa garrison was “truly desper* ate.” Premier Kantaro Suzuki, recognizing the inevitability of defeat on the island, told newsmen in the Japanese capital that he had no intention of resigning when Okinawa falls. The Americans seized the northeastern, southeastern and western edges of bitterly-defended Yaeju* Dake plateau, last Japanese toehold on Okinawa. One column was within three miles of the southern tip of the island. Massed American artillery, naval guns and planes supported the final assault, spreading death and destruction among the last 10,009 fanatic defenders trapped on tho plateau. Victory was at hand for the Americans after the bloodiest campaign in the Pacific war. They already had killed 71,203 of tho Japanese garrison of 80.0'19 troops, an average of nearly 1.000 a day for the 74-day campaign. American dead, wounded and missing were believed well over 49,000, but the cost rapidly was being offset by the swift utilization of new air bases for the air offensive against Japan. Radio Tokyo conceded that the (Turn To Pag« 5, Column 4) Attend the Combined t AMERICAN LEGION and B. P. O. ELKS Flag Day Service TONIGHT 7:30 ELKS HOME Public Invited