Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1945 — Page 1

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JferyJaps Kr Invasion ■Homeland Casualties On Twlkinawa 15 To One i American Losses June 22— (UP) —Tokyo n ,, rt attack of invasion iml.iy as I lie Okinawa camNitereil the final mopup M w j|ii 94,401 enemy troops ' or captured. nll pr Kantaro Suzuki inhiS cabinet that the dictatorial powers “'it jus government by the ■‘tr ]t f( it free to act speedily p reS ent crisis to prepare f|)l . ‘ immediate invasion”, ai Tokyo said. emergency powers act. the Japanese govern--1,1 rul ‘‘ by rtecree witllollt to the parliament, goes col effect, tomorrow. also betrayed fresh conover the intentions of two IBrieaii task forces in the |B]iern Ryukyus. ■H Tokyo broadcast said the two |B>s. including five or six air- . carriers and four battle- ’ were "still active” near the IBsliinia Islands southwest of IBiawa, but gave no details. IB task forces first appeared gK the Sakashimas Tuesday. Tokyo broadcasts said SS American transports were southwest of Okinawa IB speculated that the Arneri|Bs were contemplating a landSgß nn Amaini Island 110 miles north of Japan itself. Tokyo said the inhabit|K of Kyushu, southernmost of Japanese home islands, were for invasion and were |Kaii> that the Americans intend there. jB 1 ’!"' s P irit of the special at; |MI (suicide) corps is thoroughly Hulled in the hearts of the enHB people of Kyushu,” Kuichiro |Muka. superintendent general, of |B island was quoted as saying. Okinawa, American infantry IBrai'd a giant coastal cave with throwers in an attempt to out the enemy’s command|B general. Japanese general holed up cave near Mabuni on the jßiiwast coast with a last handmen for a suicide stand, division troops were atthe stronghold. tiny enemy pocket was |Bo' attack by the 96th int’an|M division near Madeera atop plateau. Hordes' of |B il!:ilw Passing through their ■r hampered the Americans. ■Pdsewtiere on southern Okinaenemy stragglers were surby the hundreds, in t IB’ le casp s led by their officers. | others leaped to their off the 160-foot southern ■ organized resistance Okinawa ended yesterday. I fleet communique ipanese casualties for attle at 90,401 enemy I and 4,000 captured, 700 who were made sterday alone, casualties totalled at Ground casualties tsday totalled 36,588, 90 dead and missing, ique said. Navy casnot been announced Page 3, Column 4) o— Shoes On ■ation-Free h, June 22.—(UP)— ■ Price Administration today that 4,500,000 b and women’s odd lot e put on the market. ai >d at mark-down 1 through July 28. V HI be one pair to a rices must be at least elow June 1 prices. r thermometer *ture reading 64 * — .. 67 LEATHER warmer tonight and

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Chicago Truckers Returning To Jobs Chicago June 32—(UP)—(Faced with a payless pay day, revocation of draft deferments and possible less of retroactive pay, an ever increasing number of Chicago’s 10,000 striking truck drivers returned to their jobs today. The workers began to return slowly after government officials said the strike definitely was impeding the war against Japan. Movement of highly critical materials from Chicago, hub of the nation’s transportation system, to the j west coast, was seriously affected, i They said. o ’ Filipino Guerrillas ; Block Jap's Escape J X , Capital Os Cagayan Province Captured Manila, June 22—(UP)—Filipi- - no guerrillas seized the heart of : the Cagayan valley today, block- ) ing the escape of a Japanese force which battled the Ameri- ■ cans 35 miles to the south. > The Filipinos—led by Col. Rus- > sell W. Volckmann — captured Guguegarao, capital of Cagayan i province, as the Japanese finally ■ turned to fight the 37th division ■ in the lower valley. 1 Tho guerrilla force, driving ' across the Cagayan river in a sudden sweep down from the hills, by its maneuver also split enemy forces in northern Luzon, estimated at. two divisions. There were indications much of that enemy strength lay between the guerrilla force and the 37th division, which finally met stiff opposition after an unopposed march of two weeks. The Japanese threw two counterattacks at the American force in the area two miles north of Hagan. The counterattacks were hurled back with the 37th knocking out nine tanks, eight of them the flame-throwing type. This was the first enemy armor met in the drive along the valley proper. The fifth air force supported both the guerrillas and the 37th division, filling the air over the Cagayan valley with Boston medium bombers and lightning and mustang fighter-bombers. On Borneo, General Douglas MacArthur announced today, the Australian ninth divsion made a new landing at Lutong, oil refinery center on the west coast 80 miles southwest of Brunei Bay. The landing was unopposed. Front dispatches reported that (Turn To Page 3, Column 7) O— Poles To Appeal To Truman, Churchill Appeal Conviction By Russian Courts London, June 22.—(UP)—Premier Tomasz Arciszewski said today that his Polish government in exile will appeal to President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill in connection with the conviction of Polish underground leaders in Moscow. Arciszewski did not reveal what form the appeal to Mr. Truman ami Churchill would take. He said ais government could not recognize the legality of the trial. Twelve Poles were convicted of subversive activity against the Red army and given prison terms. He said the charges were “too fantastic to be refuted at the moment in detail, but this will be done in due time.” He particularly denied charges that the underground connived with the Germans. Arciszewski denounced the Moscow trial as a dispatch from Russia hinted that an official announcement of agreement among rival Polish factions on the formation of a new unity government was imminent. Arciszewski said all communication between his government and Poland since he took office had been subject to British censorship. “Quite obviously,” he eaid, the British would not pass any message directing activities against th/ Russians.” Testimony was offered at Mos—(Turn To Page 6, Column 5)

Urges German War Industry Be Destroyed Bernard M. Baruch Calls For Drastic Action In Germany Washington, June 22—(UP)— Financier Bernard M. Baruch today called for the removal or de-* struction of all German heavy industry to “break once and for all Germany's dominance of Europe.” Recently returned from Germany, Baruch told the senate military affairs committee that anything less drastic would fail completely to provide the basis for lasting peace. He declared “Germany’s war making potential must be eliminated, many of her plants and factories shifted east and west to friendly countries, all other heavy industries destroyed, the Junkers estates broken up. her exports and imports strictly controlled, German assets and business organizations all over the world rooted out.” “Eventually, purged and reorganized and the Europe around her made strong, Germany will be able to take her place with her neighbors," he said. “The new equilibrium of industrial strength in Europe might, take the form of a United States of Europe . . in which Germany would .be one of several peaceful equals, not the dominating war organizer.” Baruch denied that his program would mean destruction of the German people. He conceded that they would have a comparatively low standard of living for a time but said it would not be as low as Germany imposed on occupied countries or much lower than they assumed under Hitler. Baruch said he believed his proposed settlement of the German question could be used as the basis for a “comprehensive, all-embracing agreement with Russia on the major peace problems" because it would solve the Russian question of security against Germany. “I believe We can arrive at full understanding with the Soviets,” he said. “If is it not possible the sooner we know it the better.” Baruch, top presidential adviser in two wars, testified as the first witness in a series of hearings on what should be done to prevent another war with Germany. Today’s hearing was before the full military affairs committee. Next week state, justice, treasury and war department witnesses will appear before a military affairs subcommittee headed by (Turn To Pag-e 6, Column 7) 0 Raymond J. Miller Hurl On Okinawa Receives Treatment In Memphis Hospital Raymond J. Miller, torpedoman’s mate, third class, USNR, is in a naval hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where he is being treated for wounds and injuries received April 12, when a Japanese bombsr struck his ship off the coast of Okinawa. His mother, Mrs. Robert Miller, 915 Dierkes street, and his wife, Mrs. Marcell Grace Miller of Arcola, have gone to Nashville to be with him. Mrs. Arthur Miller, 627 N. Second street, a sister-in-law. said Mr. Miller had been aboard a destroyer which was attacked by a Jap suicide bomber. Torpedoman Miller was wounded in the left arm and right wrist and also received a wound in the face. Plastic surgery will be applied to the face wound. Following the attack, Torpedoman Miller was brought to Oakland, Cal., where treatment was given to him. He was transferred to Nashville the first of this week. The navy has not released the story of the bombing of his ship. His brother, Cpl. Arthur Miller, is stationed at Bastista Field, Cuba.

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Plan Campaign For Senate Ratification Sens. Vandenberg, Connally In Lead San Francisco, June 22. —(UP) —Democratic and Republican foreign policy leaders were ready today to begin their campaign for winning U. S. Senate. ratification of the new United Nations charter. Sens. Tom Connally, D„ Tex., and Arthur 11. Vandenberg, R., Mich., will fly back to Washington next week to begin their reports to the Senate less than two days after President Truman closes the United Nations conference. Bot'i Senators are members of the U. S. delegation. Both hope this time to avoid bitter partisan strife of 1920 which divided the nation and kept the United States out of the old League of Nations. Some quarters believed world war II might have been avoided if tliie* country had joined the league. With- only five days of this conference left, the spotlight already was veering from San Francisco to Washington. Here 50 nations have drafted a charter for a world organization. But in Washington two-thirds of the 96 Senators must approve that charter before the United States can participate in man's latest attempt to prevent war. If the United States—or any other of the five permanent members of the security council —doesn’t ratify the treaty, the organization will never get started. Present provisions call for ratification by the big five and a majority of the other members of the organization before the charter comes into force. Upon Connally, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, and Vandenberg, a member of that committee and Republican party spokesman on foreign affairs, will fall the burden of steering the treaty through the Senate. They will waste no time in starting their jobs. Two hours after Mr. Truman addresses the final session next Tuesday, they will be en route to Washington by plane. They will arrive there Wednesday, with Connally scheduled to speak in the Senate on Thursday. On Friday, Vandenberg will deliver a comprehensive report on the char(Turn To Page 5, Column 6) 0 Weekly Meeting Held By Decatur Rotarians iThe Decatur Rotary club was entertained with an interesting and Instructive discussion of “Astrophysics,” at the weekly club meeting Thursday evening. Joseph Gioibig, assistant superintendent of the Decatur works of the General Electric company, was the speaker, E. IM. Webb, president, and the Rev. Gerald IStuckey. secretary, of the newly-formed (Rotary club at Berne, were special guests at the meeting.

12-Year-Old Boy Is Found Hanged Mt. Vernon, Ind., June 22. —(UP) —Authorities investigated today the noose death of 12-year-old Franklin D.' Brown, an orphan, whose body was found dangling from an outbuilding rafter at his foster home yesterday. Coroner Harry L. Wilson of Posey county had not completed an inquest. The boy was found hanging by his trousers belt and binder twine. A story that the boy had apparently committed suicide was denied by police chief Edgar Aldredge, who said he understood another lad had been found who told authorities that Franklin was playing and intended to swing from the rafter to a toilet seat. 0 — Home Town Greets General Eisenhower Fellow Kansans Roar Greeting To General Abilene. Kan., June 22.—(UP)— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, he who led American boys to victo>y over Germany, basked today in the adolation of his fellow Kansans. Home from the wars for the first time in four years, Ike Eisenhower once more became just “one of those fine Eisenhower boys”—six of them —who went out into the world to make their widely different marks. All the Eisenhower boys have won respected positions in their chosen fields. And it was for the entire Eisenhower family—although symbolized by the lad who left off herding cows to corral Naz’is—that Ahilene staged its biggest celebration today. This town of 5.490 was claiming its most famous son to the tune of a turnout of 50,000 from over the Kansas plains that Ike — then known by his middle name of David —once roamed. He spent hie boyhood on his parents' nearby ranch. On the program was a mile-long parade of floats depicting the general’s, early life and the history of Dickinson county, cowboys, steers, bulls, sheep, hogs, and wheat combines —all intended to reveal that the townsfolk hereabouts haven't forgotten that these are what Ike Eisenhower believes most worthwhile. In a preliminary greeting, a crowd of more than 3,000 roared its delight and enthusiasm for Gen. Eisenhower and hie deeds as his special train rolled in from Kansas City last night. Ike brought with him his 83-year-old mother, Mrs. Ida Eisenhower, with whom he was reunited in Kansas City yesterday. Slightly ill from the hot sun under which she sat during ceremonies in the Missouri city, she was taken at once to her home. With the thoughtfulness he learned as a farm boy well taught in parental devotion and the will(Turn To Page 6, Column 8)

Five Aircraft Plants, Naval Arsenal Targets Os Raids By Superforts

Nearly 100,000 War Workers On Strike Wave Os Stoppages Hampers Production By United Press Nearly 100,000 members of tho nation’s wartime labor force were on .strike today in a wave of stoppages that hampered production in many industrial areas. The newest flareups affected the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., and ,( Lib'bey-Owens J Ford plants in ten cities. Nearly 16.000 gla-s, ceramics and silica workers, CTO, employed in the plants left work late yesterday. Chicago’s truck drivers’ strike went into its seventh day, with soldiers taking over idle vehicles.. At the same time, the war labor board ordered 5,500 United farm equipment workers, CIO, to end a walkout at the McCormick works of the International Harvester Co., Chicago. Five major war plants were shut down in Detroit. The biggest labor dispute there—a jurisdictional tight between AFL and CTO unions — had thrown 20,000 workers of the Packard main aircraft motor plant into idleness. Another 5,600 workers were idle at the Fort River Rouge plant, three units of Chrysler corp., and I'2 Detroit lumber yards. At Toledo, 0., strikes were in progress at four Libby-Ownes-Ford plants, the Akclin Stamping Co. and the Mather Spring Co. The government continued operating the Diamond Alkali Co., plant at 'Painesville, 0., where 2,000 United Mine workers were on strike. Other strikes still were in progress at Akron, 0., where 18,000 United Rubber workers, CTO, were idle at the Goodyear Co. and 16.000 at the Firestone Co. voted to strike; Ashland, Ky„ where 2,600‘ United Steelworkers, (CIO) stayed away from their jobs at the American Rolling iMill Co. for the ninth day; Bell City, Ky., where 300 coal miners protested the meat shortage; Pittsburgh, where 200 were idle at the Brake Shoe Co.; and Seattle, (Turn To Page 6, Column 4) O Marshall Promises Speedy Jap Defeat Asks Nation's Aid In Speeding Defeat Washington, June 22 —(UP) — Army chief of staff Gen. George C. Marshall has promised speedy knock-out o> rhe japar/ese with a force of firepower and men more overwhelming than that which defeated Germany, it was revealed today. Marshall warned that men and supplies must be available to carry out “additional operations” not immediately foreseen. “For example,” he said, “we have the great imponderable at the moment as to whether or not Russia will enter the war with Japan. That presents something for us to consider in our approach to final victory iu the Pacific.” Marshall’s promise was made at a closed hearing of the house appropriations committee ' ■which today approved funds of $38,500,000,000 to enable the war department to deliver its share of the victory punch. This figure—for the fiscal year beginning July I—includes1 —includes $21,376.000,000 in new appropriations. It is $586,000,000 less than the budget estimate and a total of $9,692,000,000 less than the amount provided for the current year ending June 30. In making the recommendation the committee warned against “optimistic errors of judgment" and pointed to a statement by Marshall that “it would be a costly mistake, a hideous injustice to (Turn To Page 6, Column 3)

Mass Trial Os Top Nazi War Criminals Plan Goering, 100 Other Top War Criminals Facing Early Trial London. June 22. —(UP) —Reichmarshal Hermann Goering and upwards of 100 other major Nazi war criminals will be tried simultaneously on a single conspiracy charge in the next six months, an authoritative American source said today. The mass trial will be speedy and should be completed before winter, he said. The informant said Chief Justice Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor, may press for action by an Anglo-French-American court in the event that Russia does not agree immediately to the four-pow-er tribunal proposed by President Truman. The number of Nazi leaders to be hailed into court for the mass trial will be somewhere between 35 and 300, he said, but probably would not exceed 100. Besides Goering, the group is expected to include former German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, former ambassador to Turkey Franz von J’apen, a number of high SS storm trooper^officers, assorted Gestapo leaders and a group of key Nazi industrialists and financiers. Ample international law already exists on which to try the accused men, the American said. He indicated they would be indicted mainly under the Kellogg-Briand pact outlawing offensive warfare. Articles of the Hague convention which made systematic terrorism, slave labor and other common Nazi practices international offenses also will be taken into consideration, the informant said. The prosecution will rely largely, but not entirely, on dossiers compiled by the United Nations war crimes commission in preparing the indictments, he said. He reported that the United States was disposed to consider sympathetically the pleas of for(Turn To Page 6. Column 6) 0 Truman Keeps Close Watch On Pacific k r . - ' Expect President 1 To Visit War Zone Olympia. Wa«h., June 22—(UP) ' President Truman today kept close ' ta.ba on the war in the Pacific as he continued his vacation in the northwest. Today he took a daylong ! motor tour to Mount Rainier, the ’ imposing, snow-covered trademark 1 of Washington state. The President was in constant 1 communication with world develop- ' ments. He had special radio facilities to keep him in touch with the ‘ progress of the war even while he 1 was driving through the great forests of this section. The odds were better than oven that Mr. Truman would go to the 1 Pacific, himself, before the year is out—particularly if conditions are ' such that Philippine Independence ■ can the proclaimed in the early Autumn, There also has been some ' diplomatic pressure for a meeting ' as soon as feasible between the president and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Mr. Truman’s first international date te.with the Big Three the middle of next month near Berlin. Speculation was that the chief executive would include visits to London, and possibly Paris in the course of his European trip. (Turn To Pago 3, Column 4),

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Main Enemy Home Island On Honshu Target Os Attacks • By American Planes Guam, Juno 22 — (UP) —B-29 superfortresses, already credited with destroying 112 square miles of Japan’s principal industrial cities, bombed five aircraft plants and a naval arsenal on tne main enemy home island of Honshu today. Upwards of 450 of the big bombers cascaded thousands ot high-explosive demolition bombs on the sprawling war plants from medium altitude. A new censorship policy forbade speculation on the weight of the bombload. Targets for the first six-way B-29 attack on the war were the Kure naval arsenal on the inland sea, main arsenal of the shrinking Japanese navy; two aircraft plants 20 miles north ot Nagoya, two more in a town near Kobe, and another at Tamashima, 90 miles west of Kobe. The raid was the third major B-29 strike at Japan this week and raised the number of individual industrial targets hit in , that period to 13. In previous . raids this mdnth. the B-29s dropp- ’ ed 20,500 tons of bombs on Japan. ' A Japanese army communique estimated the attacking force at i 360 and claimed that 26 had been i shot down or damaged. An in- - vestigation of damage to ground • installations was under way, tho ' communique said. The enemy communique noted ’ that the B-29s had begun attack- ■ ing “second-rate cities and war plants situated therein.” The 21st bomber command re--1 ported that a “large number" of ' B-29s hit the Kure arsenal, which ’ spreads over an area of 3,600 by 1 33,000 feet. It manufactures guns up to 16 inches, shells anti tor--1 pedoes. / Two waves of superfortresses hit the Mitsubishi and Kawaski aircraft plants. 1,300 feet apart in Kagamigahara. north of Nagoya. Two other formations bomb- ’ ed the Kawanishi aircraft plant [. at Himeji, 25 miles west of Kobe, , and the Kawasaki factory at Akashi, 10 miles west of Kobe. 1 At Tamashima, the Mitsubishu- ,. Mishima bomber plant was at- . tacked. Reconnaissance photographs, meantime, revealed that B-29s destroyed or damaged 60 percent ot Shizuoka, 52 percent of Toyohashi, 40 percent of Hamamatsu and half the commercial center ot Yokkaichi in raids last Monday and Wednesday. A week ago today, other photographs revealed, superfortresses burned out an additional 2.71 square miles of Osaka and threequarters of a square mile of adI jacent Amagasaki. Sixteen square , miles of Osaka -26 percent of ihe s built-up area—of Osaka now was Q in ruins. 5 The photographs all (old added e nine square miles to the devast tated areas of Japanese industrial cities, boosting the grand total t for 80 superfortress raids to 112 i- square miles. 0 — . n ’ County Servicemen Buy $18,900 Bonds 1 The Federal Reserve Bank in Chi--5 cago has advised the Firet State ’ Bank in this city that Adams coun--3 ty service men have already pur--3 chased SIS.i9OO in bonds in tho ‘ seventh war loan drive. 3 drive. ’ This figure was reported to the ‘ Federal Reserve by the V. S. trea- ’ eury department. The amoutit was not included in the total reported 1 for last Saturday, which showed ’ that this county was over the top ' in the purchase of E bonds by indi- ’ viduals. Many of the army and • navy personnel allot a certain a--1 mount of their monthly pay to the purchase of bonds, which total i«s credited back to the county.