Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1945 — Page 1

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jiifslCrazed Kinawa Japs ■Death Pocket ■ ast 3,000 Japs On ■sland Squeezed In jKpvcn Mile Pocket 1H..:,,. Ji is -d'UIP) — Tenth reinforced 'by a secu)jniic .Hvi-ion, squeezed t lie |M :: ,|H!'-i-crazed Japanese on bK\, i:n<> a -oven-squar'-mile pocket today. ■1..., IPS of the sixth division, the main battle line after 5K.... I,], Oioku peninsula, pac|K' jjy's advances with a thrust K .: lr west coast to within two fiK. of the .southern tip of the K<l. n ,.resistance continued IKj.in was expected to collapse iy hour. Os the original Jap«H,.'s.nTismt of 85,000 American |K,. knl killed 50,4159 and capturpK,ihn in the first 77 days of the through Saturday. |K,. invasion Jittery Toklo radio its warning to the Jap|H people that a new American IK. G canid be expected coon, ig® 3 ,imii'ted it 'lid not know in llKc.i direction the blow would be flKvc'kr the enemy will devote effort toward a landing ».ri<in on the China coast, aim Kfcr: a:'ack against the liorm--hy following one island to or take some other methK docs not give us any reason Tokyo said. said preparations for the M; American invasion hop alwere under way in the Ukinarea. Tokyo broadcast said a mnk would be issued soon exJKiihg “sure to kill” combat meforces. IKreniier Kantaro Suzuki was |K< -d as saying the “decisive bat■Mliad just bagun.” ■Kb" American drive toward the tip of Okinawa has carrhalf way or more across Yae|Mbkr plateau. A front dispatch hH:he battleline was fluid. ■ Cal. Daniel A. Noland of Los ext cutive officer of the bivi.-ion's 381st regiment, refK'd the las, surviving Japanese |Ke suffering from a severe water |®tage. jKlh-y haven’t been able to get for some time,” he said. captured one prisoner who |K de-perate from thirst. Another |K ull 'y a email quantity of brackHB water in his canteen.” plaguing the remaining enIKwas an almost constant rain of explosive from the sky. Tosaid ill-odd American battleother warships were bomthe southern tip of the is■(Turn To Page 2, Column 3) ■■ o John Voglewede ■me On Furlough jK?covering from the amputaof two toes on his right foot, ■' J° lln Voglewede, son of Mr. Mrs. Raymond Voglewede of |K a,U1 ’ route, two, is home on a furlough from’ Carson GenjK Camp Carson, Colo. of the battle of the y ln Belgiura last winter, Pfc. |y effp de was forced to leave K' r , ont lines of battle on Janu- ” w hcn his feet were frozen. K pantryman with the first K’ ! ', 0I1 _ of the First Army ’ he * e ‘0 days in the front lines ought through zero temperaK. and flve feet ° f snow. Bfn Was ev &cauted to a hospital K ( , gan(l an d returned to the K, States on March 22. To K.. ? was necessary to ■wi ate two of his toes. The Kj h So er ’s Siad to be home KL 8 * een t°f < i that he will be Ke no 311 ' lonora^'e discharge in Kthp ar future - He has been K army s >nce March, 1944. ■ temdc AT THE RMOMETER ■ j.J’PERATURE reading ■»:ooa’m 58 ■non m -- 62 1 2:00 >m. 8r I p artl Weat her C l° Udy ton, o ht and ■liH No decided change S xem Perature.

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Lard And Shortening Point Values Raised

Lard And Shortening Point Values Raised Washington, June 18 tirpi Point values of lard, shortening and oils are now 12 points a Pound instead of the 10 points ey have been. The OPA raised he value Saturday night because civilians’ shares have been reduced for the third quarter of IJHo. Butter and margarine values were left at their present high point levels—butter 24 points a pound and margarine 12 points. ■' 15 Polish Leaders • Enter Guilty Pleas Go On Trial Before f Military Tribunal Moscow, June IS.—(UP)—F‘fteen of 1G Polish underground leaders charged with terroristic 5 acts against the Red army pleaded guilty today to all 'or part of the 1 charges when they went on trial before a Soviet military tribunal. 5 Gen. Bronislaw Okulicki, leader of the Polish home army, was > among a group of 12 defendants who pleaded guilty to all the i charges. Three others pleaded • guilty, in part, to the charges and i the sixteenth, identified tu Zbigniew Stypulkowski, declared himself innocent. ! One group of the Poles wic, 1 charged with the organization of i armed bands in White Russia and ■ the western Ukraine on instruci tions from the London Polish gov- ■ eminent for the purpose of attacking Red army formations. A second group was charged 1 with using clandestine radio stations. The indictment charged that Okulicki admitted under preliminary examination that he ordered the Polish home army to maintain itself intact in order to fight the Red army. It said he admitted operating, during 1944, 25 secret radio stations in Poland and 10 in the western Ukraine. Okulicki also was accused of espionage and sabotage. The indictment quoted an alleged order from Okulicki to one Colonel Slaboda, dated March 22, 1945, a few days before the Polish group was arrested. This said: “A Soviet victory over Germany will threaten not only Britain’s interests in Europe but will threaten also all of Europe. Considering British interests in Europe, Britain will mobilize all Europe’s forces into an anti-Soviet block. “It is clear that we will occupy first place in this European antiSoviet bloc which cannot be organized without the participation of (Turn To Page 2. Column 4) O Ernst Koenemann Funeral Tuesday Retired Farmer Dies Saturday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Ernst Koenemann, 72, retired farmer, who died Saturday afternoon at his home one mile cast and one and one-half miles north of Hoagland. Death was caused by a heart attack following an illness of three weeks. He was born in Preble township, February 28, 1873. the son of Henry and Louisa Eichkoff-Koenemann. He had resided in Allen county for the past 45 years. He was married to Eliza Fuhrman, who died June 22, 1926. He was a member of the St. John s Lutheran church at Flatrock. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Arnold Zelt and Mrs. Edmund Zelt, two sons, Rudolph and Oscar, all of Allen county; one sister, Mrs. William Macke of Preble township; four brothers, William of Hoagland, Henry F. of Fort Wayne, Herman and Arthur, both of Preble township, and seven grandchildren. One sister is deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the home of the i son, Rudolph, and at 2:30 o clock at the church, with the Rev. H. W. Hartenberger officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body was removed from the Zwiek funeral home to the son’s residence Sunday.

Yanks Pursue Last Big Jap Force On Luzon Jap Casualties In Philippine Islands Now Reach 402,363 Manila, June 18—(UP)—American mechanized troops sped across the Gagayan valley floor today in pursuit of the last large Japanese force on Luzon, an estimated two divisions. American naval units meanwhile pounded the beach defenses fronting the Seria and Miri oil fields of North Borneo. The Japanese, apparently fearing another invasion, put the torch to at least 29 oil wells, and Chinese fishermen indicated the enemy was retreating inland. The Philippines fighting stole the spotlight for the moment in the southwest Pacific as two columns of the 37th division raced 13 miles along the Cagayan valley against' virtually no opposition. Two enemy divisions—the sole sizeable enemy force left on Luzon —were believed to be somewhere in the Cagayan valley, but they showed no signs yet of making a stand. One column of the 37th division, driving along highway five, reached the town of Cauayan, 17 miles north of Echague. Six miles to the west of that, a second column liberated Oscariz, a town of 17,000, and swept on through Cabatuan, 19 miles north of Santiago. The two routes of advance merge near Cabagen in the central Cagayan valley. Northwest of Bagabag, on highway four, the sixth division continued to meet stiff opposition, but reached a point, eight miles above Bagabag. On Saturday, the sixth killed 189 Japanese and captured 32. One patrol from the sixth division found a Nazi swastika flag wrapped in a Japanese blanket, possibly the property of a German observer. Today’s communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters announced that total Japanese casualties in the Philippines campaign have reached 402,363. Last week, 9,210 enemy dead were counted, and 1,037 prisoners taken. American casualties for the week were 103 killed, two missing, and 522 wounded. In North Berneo, Australian troops were pushing slowly along the jungle road from Brunei town (Turn To Page 2. Column 1) 0 Harry R. Moltz Is Reported Unchanged Harry R. Moltz, well known produce dealer of this city, was removed to the Adams county memorial hospital Saturday evening. He suffered a slight stroke while at the (Masonic hall. (No change was reported in his condition today. o Si. Mary's River Above Flood Stage Heavy Damage Done To Crops In County More than an inch and one-half of rain fell in Decatur on Saturday and Sunday, it was reported today by Herman Meyer, local river gauge reader. The St. Mary’s river has also reached flood stage and at 8 o'clock this morning stood at 13.61 feet. Flood stage'is 13 feet. From 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.in. on Sunday, the rain amounted to .69 of an inch. From Sunday to 8 a.m. today, .86 qt an inch of rain fell, a total of 1.55 inches for the 48 hours. The rain has done a lot of damage to farm fields, corn, wheat and soy beans, farmers report. Mr. Meyer predicted that the river would rise a couple feet in the next 36 hours, cresting at be- • tween 15 and 16 feet, providing more rain didn’t fall today or tonight.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 18, 1945.

Gen. “Ike” Is Welcomed Home w ' .miwiufKiwHH Wl -r- .. I ■ Tr -- .. r . ' Hi 1 ' K H-UZI ' SI' y IS : H

Gen. “Ike” Is Welcomed Home

Soldiers Driving Trucks In Chicago Truck Lines Seized On Truman's Order Chicago, June 18 —(UP) —Soldiers began driving civilian trucks today when a striking independent union member failed to heed a government warning to return to work. Members of the independent truck drivers union of Chicago refused to mount their cabs at the start of work and two soldiers each —a driver and a guard—were assigned to the idle vehicles. Some 600 drivers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters were back at the wheels. They refused army offers of protection but were guarded by police squad cars which tailed the trucks. Soldier drivers were manning trucks of some of the largest cartage firms in the city. Military police were assigned as drivers for 67 vehicles of Willett and company. Approximately 80 soldiers were on duty as drivers for Keeshin Lines. All trucks had posters warning that they were under protection of the federal government. Ellis T. Longenecker, federal manager of trucking lines seized Saturday by the ODT, warned the strikers that trucks would be manned at the start of work today “either by the regular drivers or army drivers.” Longenecker’s warning was supported by movement of additional troops into the city to augment the 1,500 military police already here. They stood ready to enforce the seizure by driving trucks or escorting non-striking workers. The army has promised all necessary men to keep war materials, food and other commodities rolling, Longenecker said. The ODT seized the lines under a presidential executive order after the unions voted to strike Saturday unless the war labor board granted the drivers a? 5 a week wage increase based on a 48 hour work week. The WLB had sanctioned a? 4.08 boost for a 51-hour week. o Bandits Lose Loot, Believed Wounded Indianapolis,. June 18 —(t’P) — Two armed bandits had tough luck after a holdup .Saturday night. They eluded police and were at large today, but bothe were believed hit by bullets during a chaee — and they dropped a bag containing their ?3,.200 holdup loot. Police recovered it.

Service Station Is Looted Third Time The Badders & Tutewilcr service station. Thirteenth and Monroe streets, was broken into again Sunday night, the third time the station has been looted in the past five months. Entrance was gained by breaking a window on the south side of the station. The intruders obtained 580 gasoline ration coupons (A, B, C and T), and also robbed the pinball machine. No estimate was available on the money taken from the machine. The breakin occurred between 10 p. m. and 7 a. m. this morning. Q Liberated Decatur Soldiers Now Home Four Men Receive 60-Day Furloughs Four Decatur soldiers who served from four to 16 months in German prison camps arrived home over the weekend, leaving their hardships behind as they gave way to the happiness which came with putting their feet down on native soil and happy reunions with loved ones. Liberated by American and Allied armies as they crushed the German armies, the Decatur men were brought back to the United States and given 60-day furloughs before reporting to army distribution centers in Florida and other states. The list includes: PFC. FRED KUNKEL, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman P. Kunkel, Decatur route one, a prisoner of war from January 18, 1945 to last April 26. SGT. ANTHONY WILLIAM KITSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kitson, 818 N. Third street, a prisoner of war from December 12, 1944 to last April. SGT. RICHARD M. LA FONTAINE, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey LaFantoine of Monroe route one, imprisoned from December 17, 1944. PFC. DOUGLAS NEIDIGH, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Neidigh of Willshire, Ohio, a prisoner from January 30, 1944 to last April. Although having lost considerable weight during their imprisonment. the men have regained most of it since their liberation. They are feeling fine and are in high spirits. With Fred Kunkel’s return, it. was learned that he had been wounded in action on January 18 in France and was taken to a (Turn To Page 4, Column 2)

Tells Congress Combat Soldiers Demand Peace For World Be Preserved

Pfc. Herbert Smitley Lands In New York Pfc. Herbert L. Smitley of this city was one of the more than 20.000 veterans of the European war, the 86th (Blackhawk) division, whic.n landed in New York City Sunday enroute to the Pacific war. There were 300 Indiana men in the army and they were given a wonderful reception. This was the first full combat division to return from Europe. 0 _ Supreme Court Voids Order To Deport Bridges Cancels Order For Deporting Os West Coast Labor Leader Washington, June 18 —(UP) — The supreme court today cancelled an order calling for the deportation of Harry Bridges, west coast labor leader, to Australia as a communist. The decision was 5 to 3. The ruling brought to a close the long series of hearings over deportation proceedings started against Bridges in 1938. Bridges, who has remained an alien since coming to this country in 1920, turned to the federal courts after attorney general Francis Biddle on May 28, 1942, ordered that he be sent back to his native land. Biddle held that Bridges, head of the powerful Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Union (CIO), was an undesirable alien as a member of the communist party which taught overthrow of the U. S. government by “force and violence.” The supreme court reviewed the entire* proceedings upon Bridges’ bid for freedom through a writ of habeas corpus. Bridges appealed after federal judge Martin I. Welsh in Californi; refused to issue the habeas corpus writ and his refusal was upheld by the ninth circuit court of appeals. Before the high court, counsel for Bridges denied he had ever been a member of the communist party or its affiliate, the Ma(Turn To Page S, Column 6) O Fred C. Hoile Dies Sunday Afternoon Funeral Rites To Be Held Wednesday Fred C. Hoile, 73, retired Root township farmer, died at 2:15 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital agter a year's illness of heart disease. He was born In Germany. December 19, 1871, the son of Rudolph and Lucille Tieman-Holle, and had lived in Root township all of his married life. His wife, Mary, died March 20, 1944. He was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran church. Surviving are one son, Charles Hoile of Union township: four daughters, Mrs. William Hoffman of Ohio City, O.; Mrs. Albert Riehle of Union township, Mrs. Kenneth Ohler of St. Mary’s township, and Mrs. Lewis Shinkel of near Ossian, and seven grandchildren. Other relatives reside in Germany. Funeral services will be held at 1:45 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 o’clock at the church, with the Rev. E. B. Allwardt officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Four Japanese Cities Blasted By Superforts Port Os Kagoshima Is Reported Burned To Water's Edge Guam, June 18. —(UP) —A fleet' of 450 superfortresses burned the port of Kagoshima to the water's edge and set fires visible up to 150 miles in three other cities along a 500-mile front in Japan today. The 21st bomber command said preliminary reports indicated “excellent results” in all four target [ cities — Kagoshima and Omuta on; the southern island of Kyushu and Yokkaichi and Hamamatsu on the central island of Honshu. Nearly 3,000 tons of lire bombs were dropped in the four-way assault. It marked the opening of the second phase of the air offensive against Japan, the attacking of secondary cities now that the major industrial centers of Tokyo, ' Osaka, Nagoya. Yokohama, Kobe and Kawasaki have been devaaJ tated. Striking in the pre-dawn dark- , ness between 2 and 3 a.m., the big r bombers caught the Japanese deI senses napping and burned out thousands of piece-work “shadow ] factories” in the cellars and backyards of the four cities. 1 Returning crewmen said Kago--1 shima, a major port on the southern tip of Kyushu, burned to the t water’s edge and sent smoke billowing 12,000 feet. They called it 1 one of the most successful B-29 3 raids in recent weeks. j Street and port lights were on j when the bombers attacked and t even naval craft in the harbor wc.e £ showing lights. Meager to heavy i anti-aircraft fire and only a few fighters were encountered. Good to excellent bombing was reported at Omuta, a chemical and 1 synthetic oil center 100 miles north 1 of Kagoshima. Several large exs plosions followed the shower of fire bombs. Omuta also has the 1 _______ t (Turn To Page 5. Column 4) g O il Hope To Complete r :: Confab Saturday Seek Limiting Os Debate On Issues San Francisco, June IS —'(UP) — The United Nations conference broke its major committee bottleneck today but adjournment Saturday depends upon quick settlement with Moscow of new difficulties over the powers of the arsembly. , 'Soviet Russia has formally reopened the question of the assemIbly's powers to discuss international matters, contending that the pre- “• eent language in the proposed char- [' ter fa too broad and is a threat to ’ national sovereignty. a A suggested compromise was re- * ported to have been worked out and 1 may be presented to the conference steering coinmittee today. But the 1 ‘ Russian delegation here is not empowered to approve it and was s said to haive cabled Moscow for an I okay—a process that may taka sevII eral d .ys and could delay the Saturday adjournment. ’’ (An intensive schedule fa planned l ’ for this week with public commission sessions each day—probably as many as three a day after midweek. Commission HI meets this , afternoon to approve the work of 1 its committee on the charter sec- * tion on peaceful settlement of disputes. , The big five met late yesterday ’ to plan for that they hope will be r the last five working days of the (Turn To Page 5, Column 3)

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Tumultuous Welcome Given By Thousands To Returning Hero Os Allied Victory Washington, June IS.—(UP) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a conquering hero came home, told the j world’s leaders today that the combat soldier of this war expects them “to preserve the peace he fa winning." The 54-year-old Texas-born Kansan, given perhaps the most tumultuous and heart-felt homecoming reception in this capital’s history, declared in an address before congress that “the problems of peace <.tn and must be met.” The grief of those who mourn for the dead, he said, “can be relieved only by the faith that all this shall not happen again.” The congress in joint session re--1 ceived the general with applause, Bhouts, and whistles in an ovatt'n lasting a full minute. Jammed into the house chamber also were the supreme court justices, the cabinet, and a host of foreign ambassadors, ministers, and charges d'affaires. The galleries were packed. As Eisenhower talked, his often solemn words were interrupted . time and again by applause as enthusiastic as he had received from the crowds along the parade route. The modest man whose Anglo. American armies whipped the Nazi ’ I Wehrmacht’s best, went before congress after a parade past crowds ,j of hundreds along the avenue which has reverberated in the past to the names of Grant, Sherman, Dewey, and Pershing. On a vast banner floating high over Pennsylvania avenue were the words, providing the shouted ■refrain for the thousands who saw him, “Welcome Ike.” He came from Europe in a fourl engined Skymaster—the luxurious I craft in which President Roosevelt flew to Yalta and in which Presi- ; dent Truman will fly to San Francisco this week. From the moment the plane hit the tarmac at the National airport with the three other , mammoth planes bearing his party. ( General Ike had been taking tha cheers of the multitude. [ . The capital had gone all out to , honor him with a day-long program. . —a parade, a tribute from congress and the government’s highest dignitaries, the presentation by President Truman of his third distinguished service medal, a White House dinner. But when he faced the congress, General of the army Eisenhower, the hero of as great a military campaign as was ever fought, had nothing to say about himself except : “I am summoned before yon as the representative—the comtnand- - er—of those 3,000,000 American J men and women to whom you de- - sire to pay America’s tribute for • military victory. “In humble realization that they, • who earned your commendation, - should properly be here to receive it. I am nevertheless proud and. - honored to serve as your agent in - conveying it to them.” Speaking for those millions, Gen- - eral Ike said there was “no slight- - est doubt that our people’s spirit ) of determination, which has buoyed us up and driven us forward in - Europe, will continue to Are this I nation through the ordeals of the i battle yet to come.” i “In this spirit,” he said, we rc- - new our pledge of service to our s commander-in-chief, President Trui man, under whose strong leader- ■ ship we know that final victory is • certain.” Eisenhower talked of the AmeriI can soldiers who faced every haz- • aid the Nazis could conjure up and r “conquered them all.” He talked • of our Allies, the magnificent fighti ing men of Russia, Britain, France, ’ Belgium, Holland, and Luxem- ■ bourg. , And he paid a special tribute to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill —-“these two God-given men.” i “To those two all of us recognize (Turn To Page 3, Column 3)