Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1945 — Page 1

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OTH ARMY WINS OKINAWA ISLAND BATTLE

■ur American ■visions Rap Ips On Luzon —- ■Hrmmer Positions Sin Climactic Drive ■jo Clean Up Island HL .Juno 21—(UP)—Four divisions today hamJapanese positions in 9^K| iern Luzon in a climactic to clean up the island, and flfl llt - them was within 100 miles SHhe north coast. 37th division, after capHamm, capital of Isabela J^fl g!l ,-... crossed the Hagan river point within 100 miles of on tile north coast of Lujt was another seven-miie for the fast-moving 37th. west, the 6th, 25th and divisions were liquidating |Kny positions in the rugged The 6th was working highway four, northwest of gflAiL while the 25th and 33rd IKp.'i out north of Baguio. communique from Gen. IHighs MacArthur’s Jieadquartpointed out that guerrilla SH>rs in the northern reaches of gHuii prevented any escape for ■ Japanese from the mountain into which they were aKpiily being pressed. Japanese have been estimto have about two divisions Luzon, the largest enemy force anywhere Philippines. Tuesday’s drive, the 37th |Misii>n killed 39 Japanese and flßtui'ed 103, mostly Formosans. IHjL- have still to meet any deresistance in the Cagvalley push. Iflhoii, taken by the 37th, had ■flpr-war population ( of 30,000. gflt' sm.il! Hagan airstrip also was |flt4i, but it long had been unand was badly overgrown. |Heavy bombers of the far-east-air forces made another atIflk on the Balikpapan area in Borneo, but communiques ■ did not mention the Allied which Tokyo said had liomthe oil center for several past. The Japanese also fIV reported minesweepers operin Balikpapan Bay, but that, was unconfirmed. OS — o Bciprocal Trade ■tension Passed ■ Reject Efforts To ■ Limit Authority ■Washington, June 21—(UP)— SB overwhelming victory on post|B r tariffs made administration in the senate confident Isl" 1 ' of similar success with the Woods international program. senate passed the adminisbill to extend the recip- ■ di trade act another three W rs b 7 a vote of 54 to 21 late after rejecting half a en a,tp mpts to limit presidenauthority on reciprocal tariff Mictions. fl e bill, having been approved “B! e bouse, now goes to the fl' 1 e House in exactly the form by President Truman. fl"‘‘ ate Democratic leader Alfl ■ Barkley of Kentucky infl/ f ' ~>ti the test on the recipfl\ trade bill as an indication fl tbe fight on the Bretton jflu 3 a sreement would go. 1 teen Republicans, including * bo bad consistently voted . e administration on every o 'n pd with 38 Democrats K n” e Pr °S r essive, Robert M. ■i n te ’ Jr ’’ Wis., in the final call. ■?! “ 1 opposing votes included ■ uemocrats and 16 Republic- ■ RMOMETER ■ fi .L MPERATUR E READING ■ t0:oo am 63 I'- : S I !:W P-M J ~70 ■ Pj WEATHER I ■ FrJ ,y c,Ou< ty tonight and ■ • l 'ower. With acattered rain ’ It., * or thundershowers H y. Warmer Friday.

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Strikes Crippling War Goods Output 52,000 Workers Out, Others Threatening By United Press Production in many industrial areas across the country was crippled by strikes today. More than 52,000 others in four manufacturing areas threatened to walk out. p There were Iwo bright spots 1 in the labor picture. Three hunc dred employes of the Spencer Lens Co., Buffalo, N. Y., returng ed to work after a two-day strike in protest against alleged transfer of workers to lower class jobs, j One thousand strikers at the r General Electric Co., Bridgeport, ( Conn., returned to work today. . The strikers, all males, claimed > their wives were earning more .money than they were in other [ divisions of the plant. , Chicago, Detroit and Akron j were faced with the most serious . strikes. j In Chicago, 10,000 truck drivers j stayed away from their jobs for the sixth day as the army continued to move in combat troops to operate the lines. t Other strikes in the ’Chicago -■ area involved 5,500 workers at . the McCormick works of the Int- , ernational Harvester Co., 700 at , the National Malleable Steel & Castings Co., and an undisclosed . number of AFL printers and pressmen at the Lakeside Press of R. R. Donnelley and Sons. The United Auto Workers, CIO, at National Malleable walked out in protest against company refusal to discharge four workers who were expelled from the union for alleged dual union activities. Harvester workers protested now piece work allowances and the printers and pressmen sought a maintenance -of - membership contract clause. All of the Chicago strikes continued in defiance of war labor board back-to-work orders. More than 8,190 Detroit workers were idle in jurisdictional disputes affecting the Budd Wheel Co., the Packard plant,'the Ford River Rouge plant and Chrysler Corp. The Budd Wheel Co. was most seriously affected, with 7,500 workers out. Another 2,000 members of the United Auto Workers, CIO, struck at the Zenith carburetor devision of Bendix Aviation Corp, to protest guards “ordering workers around.” Eight hundred AFL workers vyere out in 12 lumber yards in a bid for a closed shop, higher wages and vacation pay, while 165 more were out in small scattered strikes. (Turn To Page 4, Column S) Contingent Leaves For Physical Exams 21 Leave Today For Pre-Induction Exam Twenty-one men left this morning for Indianapolis for pre-iuduc-tion physical examinations under selective service. Those accepted for the armed services will be returned home to await call to active duty. Included in the contingent were two men transferred from other draft boards. Ernest Lineberry, also scheduled for examination today, has been transferred to the jurisdiction of the New Castle selective service board. Paul Lester Hilyard was the leader of today’s contingent; Other members of the group are as follows: Edwin Charles DeLong, Otto Joseph Hake, Jr., Lewis Marcus Williamson, Richard John Boch, Paul LaVerne Myers, Bruce E. Bricker, George Frederick Dellinger, Paul DeWitt McCollough, James Madison Myens, Carl Winford Elliott, Gilbert William Bultemeier, Gilbert Hartman, Harold Lee Speakman, Eugene Pettibone, Roy Dale Gilliom, Lowell Alvin Thatcher, Joseph Tilman Farlow. Elmore Verne Sprunger, Ray Wendell Dal - ner (transferred from Gary), Robert Deward Colter (transferred from Chicago). A contingent of 18 men is scheduled to leave Fiday, June 29, tor active service.

Frisco Confab Scheduled To Close Tuesday President Truman To Speak At Final j Conference Session 3 San Francisco, Juno 21.—(UP) . —W ith a definite adjournment date r finally in sight, the United Nations .. conference settled down today to 3 six days of technical and formal . steps needed to complete the char- . ter of the new world organization. , President Truman will arrive next Monday and address the final session-of the 63-day conference on ’ Tuesday afternoon. , Postponement of the final session r from Saturday until next Tuesday was announced officially by Secret tary of State Edward R. Stettinius, 5 Jr. Unavoidable delays in completing the work of technical coin- , mitees, which in turn delayed the . final drafting job and preparation of the five official language texts of the charter, were given as the reasons. All but one of the ,12 conference 1 committees have reported to their parent commissions. That one—the committee on the political and security functions of the assembly —will present its report today. It was in that committee that the latest conference “crisis” arose when the Soviet union reopened the question of the discussion powers of the assembly. A few hours before Stettinius announced the new closing date, he revealed settlement of the assembly dispute in which Russia and Australia played the principal roles and the United States and Great Britain acted as mediators. The controversy involved the rights of the assembly to discuss international matters. The Australians wanted unlimited rights of discussion. The Russians wanted discussion limited to matters pertaining to peace and security. ’ It was settled by compromise, the Russians yielded on their insistence that discussions be limited to matters relating to “maintenance of international peace and security.” The Australians gave up specific mention of the assembly’s right to discuss matters relating to the “purposes and principles” of the charter. The net result was a paragraph giving the assembly the right “to dis Cuss any questions or any matters within the scope of the charter or relating to the powers and functions of any, organs provided in the charter.” Other conference developments included virtual completion of two of the most controversial issues at this meeting. Early last night commission 111 approved the charter which contains the much-dis-puted Yalta voting formula. Later commission 11 approved the new chapter on dependent areas and international trusteeships. Rou(Turn To Page 4, Column 5) — o Authorizes Output Os 691,018 Autos 10 Major Companies Prepare Production Washington, June 21. —(UP)— The nation's 10 major automobile companies today were preparing for their first passenger car production since February, 1942. The war production board yesterday authorized the production or 691.018 new passenger cars during the nine months beginning July 1. The first new cars will hit the market in early fall, but Mr. Average Motorist won't be able to buy one. They go first to the most essential users. General Motors Corp, was assigned the highest quota—2Bs,2Bß; Chrysler was next with 148,905; Ford, 119,730; Studebaker, 27,825; Hudson, 21,602; Packard, 20,118; Nash, 19,550. Willys-Overland, Graham-Paige and Crossley were assigned 16.000 each. By next July it is hoped production will reach a rate of 2,000,000 a year. Industry’s goal is 6,000,000 a year as soon as possible a? ter the war.

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Belgian Crisis Over King 1 wrwwi J v fly g S| ■ < ■fIHHB 1 tec-;...........■£;»• . .. — .a..->.<«*•. t OPPOSITION which has developed in Belgium against the return of 3 King Leopold 111 to the throne he held until he became a voluntary 1 German prisoner of war in 1940 and Leopold’s stand that he never- . theless plans to return have created a crisis in Belgium. Fears of , violence and bloodshed were expressed by some observers who point i out that despite the opposition against Leopold, the monarchy will remain under the regency of Leopold’s brother, Prince Charles, left until the king’s 15-year-old son, Baudoin, right, reaches his majority 1 in three years. One of the factors involved in the anti-Leopold stand 1 is believed to be popular resentment against the monarch’s marriage 1 to a commoner. King Leopold now is at Salzburg, Austria, recuperJ ating after his liberation from the Nazis.

• Destroyer Is Sunk ! By Double Jap Blow Suicide Plane And Baka Bomb Blamed ' Washington, June 21 —(UP) — The navy, rapidly removing the news blackout on Japanese suicide attacks, told today how the double blow of a Japanese suicide plane and a “baka bomb” sank the des- ‘ troyer Mannert L. Albele off Okinawa last April 12. The account, containing the first disclosed incident of a baga bomb bitting an American ship, followed by only 12 hours navy release of a six-month old account of a suicide i plane attack on the light cruiser Nashville enroute to the invasion (Turn To Page 2, Column 2)

Sen. Kilgore Reveals Secret German Plans To Rearm Nation

Washington, June 21. —(UP)--j Sensational charges were made today that German industrialists have prepared detailed plans to rearm Germany and finance Nazi party underground activities. The chargee, based on hitherto secret documents, were made by Sen. Harley M. Kilgore, I)., W. Va„ who recently returned from Germany. Kilgore aimed his accusation principally at leaders in German industrial cartels. “Masquerading as ‘neutral’ businessmen without political allegiance they have already conceived vicious plans for a third attempt at world conquest,” he declared. Kilgore announced that the subject will be pursued further in hearings before the Senate military affairs subcommittee on war mobilization of which he is chairman. The hearings begin tomorrow with Bernard M. Baruch as the first witness. State and justice department officials will follow. One of the principal documents released by Kilgore was a confidential report on a meeting of Ger- , man industrialists at Strasbourg on Aug. 10, 1944. Authorship of the document was not disclosed. It dealt with plans of leading in- ( dustrialists for dissociating themeelves with the Nazi party, strengthening their economic con- ; tacts with foreign firms and cloaking future activities under the

Pfc. Robert Hoffman Awarded Silver Star (Pfc. Robert L. Hoffman, son of Mrs. Elouise Hoffman -of Geneva, serving with the 44th infantry armored infantry battalion in Germany, has been awarded the Silver Star for “gallantry in action,” the war department announced today. The citation awarded him reads: . “For gallantry in action in the vicinity of Rochlitz, Germany, on April 14, 1945. When one of his fellow soldiers was seriously wounded, Pfc. Hoffman unhesitatingly lifted him to his back in order to carry him to-safety. In seeking the aid station, he had to cross 400 yards of fireswept area, including an exposed bridge which was still receiving fire. His great courage and devotion to duty resulted in saving the soldier's life and are in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States army.”

I guise of non-military research. The Strasbourg meeting, according to Kilgore’s evidence, was held in the Hotel Rotes Haus and attended by principal German industrialists with interests in France. Presiding was a “Dr. Scheid, holding the rank of S. S. Obergrup penfuhrer and director of the Here (Hermandorff and Schonburg) company.” Others included representatives of leading German industries as Krupp, Rochling, Messerschmitt, Rheinmetall, Bussing and Volkswagenwork factories and representatives of the German naval ministry anti the ministry of armament. Scheid was quoted as telling the group that German industry must recognize the war was lost and must take steps for a postwar commercial campaign. They were told to make contacts and alliances with foreign firms “individually and without attracting any suspicion.” They were told to lay the groundwork for borrowing considerable sums in foreign countries after the war. As examples of “the kind of penetration which has been most useful in the past,” Scheid reportedly cited: "Patents for stainless steel belonged to the Chemical Foundation. Inc., New York, and the Krupp (Turn To Page 2, Column 1)

Battle Is Won Alter 82 Days Os Bloody Battle; Gen. Stilwell Appointed

President Foresees Better Food Status Forecasts Material Improvement Soon Olympia, Wash., June 21. —(UP) —President Truman today forecast a material improvement in the national food situation when the new food adipinisiration takes over. Mr. Truman made this forecast in a special news conference here in the office of Gov. Mon Wallgren, his host during a vacation in the Northwest. The President said he thought the food situation would straighten out automatically as soon as the new administrator —Rep. Clinton Anderson, D., N. 'M., who becomes administrator and secretary of agriculture July I.—takes over his job. I Mr. Truman also praised congress for its renewal of the trade agreements act. saying this action “places the United States squarely behind the principles of international trade cooperation which must prevail in the interests of world peace and economic well being. At the same time the President expressed gratification over the progress of the San Francisco United Nations conference, saying he. was very happy that it had been a success. He announced plans to make a brief stop Monday at Portland, Orc., en route to San Francisco where he will address the adjourning session of the conference on Tuesday. Mr. Truman said he would leave here at 10 a.m. (PWT) Monday and fly to Portland, arriving there about 11 o’clock, and leaving there in time to reach San Francisco about 4 p.m. Monday. Other points made by the Provident in his conference: 1. After conferences last night with Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska and Sen. Warren Magnuson, D., Wash., he plans to revitalize a commission for the Alaskan highway and strongly favors postwar completion of the 600 mile gap which still exists in the road between the Northwest an d Fairbanks, (Turn To Page 5. Column 6) O Officers Elected By Welfare Board Berne Man Elected President Os Board Members of the Adams county welfare department board organized last night by electing officers, who will serve until the annual meeting of the board in August. Under a new law, the board members were appointed in May by Judge J. Fred Fruchte of the Adams circuit court. E. W. Baumgartner, of Berne, was reelected president and Joseph C. Laurent was elected vice presi dent, succeeding Mrs. Katharyne Nelson. The other members are Mrs. Luella Ellsworth of this city; Mrs. Lenora Glendening of Geneva, and John Duff, trustee of Hartford township. Members of the department, who are named through the merit system. are Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp, director; Miss Bernice Nelson, visitor; Mrs. Veronica Linn, childwelfare visitor; Miss Ruth Borns and Mrs. Lois Black, clerk-stenog-raphers. Two temporary visitors are being employed during the summer months. They are Mrs. Mabel Marshall, a teacher of Kirkland township, and Mrs. Dorothy Rathman of this city. Henry B. Heller was renamed attorney for the board. The department supervises and directs the old age pension and child welfare departments of the county department. •

Wake Island Is Raided By Allied Planes By-Passed Island Reported Attacked By Carrier Planes Guam, June 21 —(UP) — Three hundred or more Allied carrier plane., attacked by-passed "Wake ■lsland far behind the Pacific battlefronts yesterday, Radio Tokyo reported. The first attack in strength this year on Wake focused new a'tention on the tiny islnd where 385 U. S. Marines made an epic though futile stand against Japanese invasion forces in December 1941. Tokyo said the task force from which the planes took off included at least two aircraft carriers, but . did not indicate its nationality, a British task force attacked Truk island last week and an American , task force hit Jaluit atoll i.l the Marshalls only Monday. Navy and Marine patrol 'bombers, ; meantime, sank three Japanese , ships in Tauxhima strait and the East China sea off the Japanese i coast itself Wednesday. Navy bombers also shot down an enemy plane over the main Japanese homo island of Honshu and damaged an- , other to the south. Okinawa-based planes struck al the lAmami islands to the north and carrier plantes raided the Sakishimas to the south west in continuation of attacks to neutralize en- , emy air bases on those islands. Radio Tokyo’ reported that the , Japanese cabinet had approved an emergency measure to provide . housing on a community basis for war workers bombed out of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama, Kobe . and Kawasaki. If existing buildings cannot be (Turn To Page 2. Column 3) o General Eisenhower Greeted By Mother Receives Welcome Os Homecoming Son Kansas City, Mo., June 21—(UP) —(General of the army Dwight D. Eisenhower received a homecoming son’s welcome today, a hug and a kiss from his 83-year-old mother, r Mrs. Ida Stover Eisenhower. The general's five-starred plane eased onto the runway of the inuni- [ cipal airport at 12:16 p. m. (CWT) after circling the field and coming , in to land from the southwest. It . taxied back from the northern end , to near the TWA building. As the big ship rolled to a stop, motorcars carrying members of the i general’s family drove up. Eisenj hower saluted as he stepped out, , then grinffed broadly as he spied , his mother. •’Hello Mom,’’ he Called out. “How are you feeling.” “The same old way, son,” she replied as she hugged him to her bosom and smothered him with kisses. Abilene Ready Abilene, Kans.. June 21—(UP) — Abilenes fI.ODO' residents hope Gen. Dwight D. 'Eisenhower is hungry when he arrives home tomorrow. They’ve made '50,000 sandwiches for the occasion. Members of the junior chamber of commerce, their wives and everyone else they could reeruiT worked throughout the night to make sandwiches filled with lunch meat, cheese and salami for the welcoming home celebration. It took a lot of ration points to fill 100,000 slices of bread, but the citizens of Abilene figure they owe (Turn To Page 4, Column 4)

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Radio Tokyo States United States Now Makes Preparations To Invade Homeland Guam, June 21 — (UP) — The American 10th army has won the battle of Okinawa after 82 days of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific war, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced todays Simultaneously, Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a surprise move appointed Gen. Joseph W. (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell, chief of U. S. army ground forces, to command the victorious 10th in the climactic’ battle of Japan. Radio Tokyo said the United States apparently already has begun preparations for a “direct invasion of the Japanese mainland.” Nimitz's brief, triumphant communique reported that all organized Japanese resistance on Okinawa, hard-won stepping stone island only 330 miles southwest of Japan, ended today. “Remnants of the enemy garrison in two small pockets in the southern portion of the island are being moped up,” the communique said. Only yesterday, marines and doughboys of the 10th army had split diehard enemy remnants into three separate death pockets. Nimitz’s announcement indicated one of the three pockets since had been wiped out and the others reduced to impotency. Total Japanese casualties were not announced immediately, but they were believed well above the 90.000 mark. A total of 87,343 Japanese dead had been counted through Tuesday and 2,565 other enemy troops had surrendered. American casualties have not been tallied for publication since May 24. Then they totalled 35,116 in the army, marine corps and ' navy, including 9,602 dead. It was a costly campaign for the U. S. fleet as 31 ships, mostly smaller units, were sunk, and 54, including four large units, were damaged. At that time, the American casualties already had exceeded those suffered in the invasion of Tarawa, Iwo and Saipan, previously the most costly in the Pacific campaign. Conquest of the island gave the Americans an island base 60 miles long with a number of air bases and sufficient ground area to deploy hundreds of thousands of troops for the invasion of Japan. The return of Stilwell, one of America's most experienced far eastern warriors, to a field coni- . mand for the big Pacific battles ; to come was announced by Maci Arthur in Manila in his new . capacity as commander of all army forces in the Pacific. ■ Okinawa at present is under - the over-all operational command i of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, t but MacArthur’s new post leaves t the selection of local army coml manders to him. Stilwell will succeed Lt. Gen. , Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., who i was killed in action on Okinawa ■ only Monday as he watched his , forces carve up the Japanese remI — (Turn To Page 2, Column 7) o Honorable Discharge SGT. MAJOR RAYMOND T. SUMMERS, who enlisted in the regular army on Sept. 28, lf>39, has been honorably discharged. He is a veteran of the Tunisia. Sicily. Normandy, Northern France and Rhineland campaigns. He was wounded on June 6. 1944 in France and was decorated for heroic service. STAFF SGT.’EUGENER. HITCHCOCK, a veteran of four and onehalf year® of service, joined the army on Dec. 27, 1940. He served in Normandy. Northern France and Rhineland campaigns. Awarded Bronze Star and hae other citations for heroic ’service. »