Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1945 — Page 1

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liman Speech ■esday Closes ■sco Confab ■xtraneous Issue Os Syria And Lebanon ■njectcd By France K pr.Hb i'<■l'lih’ 25 (I’P) - K, jnj.'cieil the extraneous isKs Syria and Lebanon into the ■ Nations conference today K few hours before the arrival ■(■-’dent Truman for a dramatic Rx of this nine-week--old meet- ■ :i ,y delegates of 50 nations K llt ,’ c iiy of San IFrancisco were ■ rP( i io give the President a Kg welcome when he arrives ■ late today. He will address the ■ ]U meeting of the conference Krow night. K meets in plenary ■on at 9: i' l o'clock (DWT) to- ■ io give formal approval to K'ew Worid charter. Hut mean- ■. it experienced a new flurry ■dtem. nt as result of’.France's ■_. that a three-man cominis■be set up here to investigate ■i-pute in the levant. Even the ■h admitted however, that it ■ be outside the authority of ■ conference. ■e request, made to secretary ■ate Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., ■eof tin' four presidents of the ■renee, probably will be reject■o on- not even the French - ■d let it delay tomorrow's ad■nent plans. ■ it was potentially etnbarrass- ■ for the Big Four sponsoring ■rs since it placed them in the ■i of rejecting at the birth of ■ new organization a request for ■filiation in a dispute. Actually, ■ conference has no power to set ■such a commission, especially ■ tu deal with a bitterly-disputed ■tical question. ■lie work of this conference is ■e. The charter is now in the ■ds of the printer. Only the closH ceremonies remain — plenary ■ion approval of the charter toMt, the signing of the document Bi specially-built, Hollywood-like ■draped setting, and Mr. Truk's address tomorrow. ■he new world charter will bene effective when it has been ■tied by the governments of the ■ Five and a majority of the 4'5 Bri nations. | separate agreement will be subB'l'd to the delegates for their ■natures along with the charter Borrow. It will set up a “preparaB' commission” to sit in London ■ art until the charter has been Bified and the new world organiBioti has met and elected a sec-fcry-general. Each nation will be •resented on the commission. If principal work will be done by |4 member evecutive committee, ■he president’s arrival for the Bing ceremonies overshadowed ■ the moment the more than 1,500 ltrs of work that has been done re - Mr. Truman is expected to (theoccasion to deliver his first tlusively foreign policy address, the spotlight will be on ■ Truman, many of the tributes he paid will be for the late auklin I). Roosevelt. "hen the conference steering (Turn To Page 2, Column 8) —— o scatur Rotarians o Berne Tonight Decatur Rotarians will attend the feting this evening of the newly Mzed Berne Rotary cluih, which 'he held at the Swiss Case in «Place. T he local delegation will be liead--0 Leo Kirsch, club president ( a b°ut 25 members, tit is the “ Meeting of the Berne club and Hogram will be furnished by ' atnr members. E. M. Webb is Silent of the Berne club. thermometer Sn/ PERATURE READING . 8;I » a.m 71 * l :°" -- 2,00 P-m. 76 WEATHER ► Uy tonight becoming fair •how?/** scattered "0 ht t|. B,n extreme south porInd tOnlflht Cooler tonight ln wuth portion Tuesday.

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12 Persons Killed As Bus Is Wrecked Joplin, Mo., Juno 25 H’P) ,\t leartt 12 persons, mostly military personnel, were killed and a store injured here today when a bus enroute to Camp Crowder, plunged over an 18-foot embankment. 'Officials said the bus carried 33 persons, none of whom escaped •some injury. The bus, according to authorities, careened from the highway catapulated over the embankment and landed bottom-ide up. The dead included the driver, who was pinned in the wreckage' The injin ed were taken to hospitals here and at Camp Crowder. ' 0 Okinawa Springboard To Pacific Victory U.S. Forces Within Inner Defense Ring (Editor’s note: Okinawa Island is now ours, bought at heavy cost in American lives. What we learned there, what the island is worth to us, and what the payoff will be are covered in the following dispatch by a veteran United Press war correspondent who has been with American forces in the Pacific since Pearl Harbor.) By William F. Tyree Guam. June 25. (UP)—The conquered island of Okinawa is America's springboard to victory in the Pacific. The United States’ land, sea and air forces are now established for the first time deep inside Japan's inner defense ring and the stage is set for the climax of this long and bloody war the invasion of the enemy's homeland or China or both. The Japanese who doesn't know this is living in a military vacuum. The fiery handwriting already is appearing in the skies over Tokyo. Everywhere in the Pacific, Gl's and generals feel the same way about it: “This is the time. This is the place.” They say: “It's been one damned island after another, but now we've got a toe-hold where we want it.” Okinawa is a jaw in the snaggletoothed trap of islands stretching northward from Formosa to Japan, ready to close when American commanders feel the victims have had sufficient beating from the air. Superfortresses blows already are raining regularly on the enemy’s home islands. But now the way is clear for a drumfire bombardment and tight blockade that will lay the Japanese open to invasion. From Okinawa, it is 325 miles to Japan, 45(1 to Korea, less than 500 miles to the China coast, and al, these are now threatened. In other words, the capture of Okinawa is a long step toward To(Turn To Page Column 4)

Seven Decatur Lads Involved In Wreck Autos Sideswipe On Highway Near Here Seven Decatur youths escaped critical injuries in an auto accident at about 10 o'clock Sunday night on U. S. highway 221, three miles east of Decatur, when their auto and one driven by abort Wayne woman sideswiped each other, hurling the vehicles into the fields on either side of the road. Albert Gillig. Pat Briede and Anselm Hackman, Jr., were removed to the Adams county memorial hospital for treatment and medical care. The Gillig boy. eldest son of Sheriff and Mrs. Leo Gillig, received a severe arm injury. The tendons in his left arm, just above the elbow, were severed and it will be necessary to keep the arm in a cast for about eight weeks. The Hackman youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anselm Hackman, suffered a cut on his right arm, but was not seriously injured. The Briede boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Briede, suffered a broken nose and fracture of possibly three ribs. Other occupants of the auto (Turn To Page 2 Column 3)

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Churchill Launches Election Campaign Demands Majority For Conservatives London, July 25. (UP)—Prime Minister Churchill opened a 1,000mile campaign tour today witlf a threat to retire unless tlie country gives the Conservative party a thumping majority in the general election July 5. “It is no uee people thinking I can continue to serve unless I have a great majority wlvn I return to the house,” lie told a crowd gathered around his car at Aylesbury, county seat of Buckinghamshire. It was his first step on a whirlwind four-day tour ,-.n Head of the Conservative party that will take him through Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds. Bradford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and a number of smaller towns in England and Scotland. A loudspeaker was thrust in his hand when his automobile stopped in the Aylesbury market place. “This election is one of great importance,” he said, “because it conies at a moment, when the future of our country is at stake. “If we break' into factions and no party has an effective majority, the greatest weakness will arise. We can only preserve our place in the world by being united. “We had to have an election because this parliament has lasted so long, but it is greatiy to be hoped that we shall he strong enough to keep the place we have won, not only in the world of diplomacy, but also in commercial and trading activities without which we in this island cannot live." With that, he waved to the cheering crowd and roared off to tlie next stop on his tour. Accompanying him was his daughter Sarah. There was lit tle doubt of Churchill's own election to the house as a member from Woodford, a 'Lon(Turn To Page 2, Column 7) — 0— Li. Glendening's Death Established Parents Notified By War Department First Lt. Hilbert V. Glendening, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mito Glendening of Geneva, died on May 31, 1942 of wounds received in battle ’n the il’hilippines, the war department has notified the parents. The date of his death was established in a letter received from the war department last Saturday. For several months, Lt. Glendening was listed as missing in action and in May 1944, the war department notifield his parents that he was presumed to be dead. The official notice eliminated all hope of the probability that he may some day be reported alive. Lt. Glendening is a brother of First Lt. James K. Glendening, Weet Point officer, who returned home last week after being liberated from a German prison camp. He had been a captive aiuce July, 1944.

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New Chinese Column Closing On Liuchow Chungking, June 25.- (UP) —A new Chinese column closed in on Lieuchow from the northwest today as the bitter battle in the southern outskirts of the air base city continued. The Chinese high command reported that Chinese forces driving . along the Kweichow-Kwangsi railroad had gained ground around Changninhsiang, 6 miles northwest of Lieuchow. ______ o ———_— More Than 135,000 Workers Now Idle Detroit Is Hardest Hit By Strike Wave By United Press More than 135,000 workers were I idle today as a wave of labor disutes disrupted war and civilian i production in several main indus- [ trial areas. Darkest spot on the labor hor- - izon was in Detroit, where some 45.000 workers were thrown into - idleness in a series of walkouts. Paralysis of every plant in the > Detroit area loomed as delegates i of the maintenance, construction, ' and powerhouse workers council (UAW-CIO) met to discuss their jurisdictional feud with the AFL. Members of at least five poweri ful maintenance workers unions I in Detroit had ordered their dele- ' gates to vote for an area-wide strike. Packard’s 22,000 United Automobile workers (CIO) had voted ! to go back to work. However, 1,000 maintenance men did not vote and if thej’ did not go back 1 to their jobs the plant could not • be kept open. Other Detroit plants affected were Budd Wheel Co., Chrysler ■ Corp. (five reconversion pro- ’ jects), Ford Motor Co. River ’ Rouge plant, spring and upset building; Stinson Aircraft, aeronautical products; Hudson Motor Car Co., Federal Mogul Corp., and 12 lumber yards. Some 16,700 workers of the strikebound Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., plant in Akron, 0., were warned that the war labor board would probably ask the government to seize the plant un less they went back to work. A second back-to-work order was sent the strikers, members of the . United Rubber Workers, CIO. Maintenance production workI ers of the Pensylvania Electric ■ Co. in Pittsburgh threatened to ) strike July 5 unless the WLB approved their wage demands. A . walkout of the power workers i would threaten war production in ■ the Pittsburgh area. Labor disj putes in Pittsburgh hampered the i Pittsburgh Press, the Duquesne ■ workers of Carnegie-Illinois Steel, • American Brake Shoe Co., Anchor Hocking Glass Co. I A strike at the Alcoa Canonsr burg plant ended today. In Chicago a strike of truck f drivers was becoming ineffective as 10,000 army drivers manned I trucks today and were joined by - more than 5,000 civilian drivers ■ of the AFL brotherhood of team- . sters.

Lord Haw-Haw Pleads Innocenl To Treason Lays Claim To Being Citizen Os America London. June 25 —(UP)—William “Lord Haw-Haw" Joyce pleaded innocent to charges of treason today, basing his plea on a contention he is an American citizen. Charles Head, defending Joyce, claimed at a preliminary hearing in Bow street police court that the man who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain was not, and never had been, a. British citizen. Head told the court that Joyce was born in Brooklyn, the son of an Irishman naturalized as an American. Head conceded Joyce had claimed British citizenship in applying for a passort to go to Germany, but pointed to his New York birth certificate as proof lie was not British. Prosecution counsel Li A, Byrne read a statement Joyce was said to have made to intelligence officers following his capture in Germany. Byrne also introduced a copy of a birth certificate showing Joyce was born April 21, 1906, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Tho prosecutor also submitted a passport, application from Joyce in which he stated he was born in Galway, Ireland. Joyce said that his mother was English and his father was a naturalized American who “lost his citizenship later through failing to register because he left (Turn To Page 4, Column 5) 0 Russians Reverse War Trials Stand Attend Conference In London Tuesday London, June 25. —(UP) —A British foreign office spokesman said today that Russia, reversing her previous stand, hast decided to send two representatives to London for a conference on the trial of major Nazi war criminals. The conference will open in London tomorrow with delegates from the United States, Britain and France in addition to Russia. The four countries will discuss procedure and a date for trials of Reichsmarshal .Hermann Goering, former German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentron. former deputy fuehrer Rudolf Hess and 100 or more other high Nazis. Russia at first had ignored invitations from the United States and Britain to send a delegation to London. but apparently changed her mind almost on tlie eve of the opening of the conference. Robert H. Jackson, supreme court justice and chief American prosecutor of war criminals, will represent the United States. He has proposed that all top war criminals be tried simultaneously on a charge of conspiracy before the end of summer. Britain endorsed the proposal.

Japanese Casualties On Okinawa Over 110,000; Mopping Up Continues

Gen. Arnold Calls For Pacific Bases I Need Island Bases To Preserve Peace June 25 (UP)—Gen. H. 11. Arnold, commander of the army air forces, believe- the United States must have unrestricted use of island ibasert in Hie Pacific after the war to keep the peace. “The future peace of the world depends on our doing this.'' he 'old a pres« conference yesterday on his return from a tour of the Pacific. "Indeed, the fate of matikind may t depend upon it.” "W'e are today probably the, greativst power in the world. We I must use it against Japan and are making plans to use it to mak" the final stage of the assault against Japan easier." He said the United States Jtould not permit anything to interfere with the full play of its air power. The United States in the years to come no longer can rely on "passive defense Mere bases here at home,” he said. "I've come back convinced that we must have a bridge across the Pacific. Otherwi.-e. how will we ever be aide to defend ourselves?" Arnold pointed out that a superfortress was capable of flying thousands of miles non-stop and could -trike anywhere in the world. "An enemy given this plane or the improved vir-ion of the future would be able to destroy our cities . . . unless we have use of these liases," he -aid. In response to a question, ho said the United States probably never would have enough bases in U.te Pacific. to accommodate all its air -trength. He said B-2Ds soon would (Turn To I’age ~ t’otu'Uin : i o - Frank Uhrick Dies Here This Morning —o Heart Attack Fatal To Local Resident Frank I. Uhrick, 73, well known resident of Decatur and Adams county, died suddenly of a lieart attack at S:3O o'clock this morning at his home, S2l North Second street. He was a former employe of the Nickel Plate railroad. He was born in Adams county June 16, 1572, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Johnson-Uhrick. He was married to Rosa Diehl Johnston November I, 1901, and she preceded him in death March 10, 19311. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Ralph Shady of Tocsin. Mis. Harry Staley, Mrs. Richard Myera and Mrs. Ray Kinsman, all of Decatnr; three sons, Luzern. Ernest. and Paul Uhrick. all of Decatnr; one sister, Mrs. Charles Cook of San Diego. Calif.; two brothers, John and Daniel Uhick. both of Fort Wayne, and 12 grandchildren Funeral arrangements are incomplete, pending word from the son-in-law, Richard C. Myers, who is in army service. Funeral services will be held at the Zwick funeral home, with burial in the Ray cemetery, west, of Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock Tuesday evening. 0 Navy Trainer Plane To Be Flown Out The navy trainer plane that was forced down last Monday evening on the Lewis Rumsehlag farm, south of Decatur, will be flown off the field this afternoon, it was announced. The plane will be flown to the Bunker Hill Naval Training base. The two navy officers who were in the plane when it landed. lost their way in flight to their base and landed the plane in an oats field as their supply of gasoline was run uing low. They were not injured.

U.S. Chutists Are Landed On Northern Luzon ' o Japan Reports New o Invasion Attempt Is Made On Borneo ’ Manila, June 25 —(UP) —Radio ‘ Tokyo reported today that Japan 11 ese civilians have been evacuated 1 f ! inland from the Borneo oil center of Balikpapan. where landing at- ' I tempts were reported previously 1 Enemy broadcasts told of new ' invasion preparations around the H rich oil center as the American | drive to clean up northern Luzon in tlie Philippines gained impetus by the first full-dros airborne 1 invasion of the Pacific war. * '"file enemy's advance io the Balikpapan area had been antici paled,” said Tokyo. Tile broad- ( cast reported that "food preparations and defense setups had been i ; completed, and civilians had been j evacuated further inland.” ( Tokyo added nothing new to j yesterday’s reports of "landing attempts" which Die Japanese , claimed bad been "checked." | Today's communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquart- < ers reported that over 150 planes , carrying more than 2no tons of , bombs raided the Balikpapan . area. Bitter fighting raged in the 1 Cagayan valley of northern Luzon 1 after the lltli airborne division 1 dropped parachute troops amt ’ for the first time in the Pacific —glider-borne units at Hie north- ' ern gate to the valley. Some GO miles to the soutli the 37th division was fighting its way to the rescue of a guerrilla force grimly hanging on Io Tuguegarao. capital of Cagayan province. The 1 Japanese savagely lounter-atlack-ed tlie guerrillas. The 37th had gained nine miles by Saturday night to a point 10 miles from 1 tlie besieged town. The airborne force, after a rela- , lively easy landing, linked with ; the sixth army units and guerrilla troops which had captured . Aparri, north coast port. Then I they drove two miles south of • their landing site o Laho. 11 miles south of Aparri and s:’. miles - north of Tuguegarao. i The landing was made at Cardi- > clan field, a bomb pocked air- . strip abandoned by the Japanese. o — Weekly Band Concert Here Tuesday Night Program Announced For Band Concert S The weekly concert of the Deca-1 1 tur high school band will bo pro-1 ■ sented Tuesday night at 8 o’clock 4 on the court house ramp. The hand 1 i' will meet for practice at 7:15 o’clock this evening. The final concert in the summer series will be played Tuesday night, July 3. The complete program for tomorrow night's concert, announced by , Albert Sellemeyer, director, is aa > follows: “Golden Plume.” Huff. f “Carmen,” Bizet. “Our Director." Bigelow. “Magnets Overture.” Huff. ? “Ironclad,” Jewell. “Goofus.” Kahn. i "When Johnny Conies Marching r Home,” Lambert. 1 "National Emblem," Bagley. 3 “Fort Chester," Hutt'. “Elves Dance," Tschaikowsy. . “Star Spangled Banner.”

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Japs Pounded From Homeland To Far Corners Os Stolen Empire By Planes Pearl Harbor, June 25 (UP) — At least six Allied air forces battered the Japanese today from their homeland to Hie far corners of their stolen empire. in a Weekend that saw some of the heaviest aerial blows of the Pacific war. upwards of 1.000 tons of bombs were heaped on 1G targets across a 5,000-inile front. From tlie Kuriles to Borneo, i very type of plane, tioin little tighter Io giant superfortress, took part in tlie preinvasion offi targets include* Formosa, Canton. Hong Kong, Balikpapan. Kyushu, tlie Kurile Islands, Marcus Island, the Marshalls, the Sakishiime. Luzon and Mindanao. Tokyo admitted that Okinawa —base for bigger aerial blows to come—was lost The toll of enemy casualties on the island, whore mopping up continued, was over the lit),dot) mark. A Japanese communique claimed BD.BOO American casualties in the campaign. in southwest China, the Chinese and Japanese battled hotly for the former American airbase of Liu- < how. Tlie light for tlie city was in its fourth day. Chungking reported another Chinese column was closing in from six miles northwest of Liuchow. Nowhere were the Japanese safe from air attacks. Tlie targets read like a list of their old conquests And it was only the boginning. Gen. H. H. Arnold, in a pre s conference at Honolulu, repeated his promise that American planes will heap 2JWO,OOfI tons of bombs on tlie Japanese homeland in the next 12 months. Arnold also revealed that B-29 sup' rfortr s wi'.l operate from Okinawa, enabling them to carry larger lionili loads. The B 295. according to Tokyo, mined waters off Honshu and Kvushu and raided secondary target-. on tile islands in the Weekend attacks. But the 2oth was only one airforce taking part. The U. S. sth and Utli air forces and the RAF under Gen. Douglas MacArthur's command hounded and pounded the enemy along a 2. 111 '"mile arc of the south China Sea. ill, bßluir’c 1»• ••» vi•»« l»nnihp(i Balikpapan and Formosa, and the RAF helped in the attacks on Borneo. Medium bombers ranged tlie China coast from Canton to Hong Kong, bombing and strafing river shipipng and other targets. Tlie railroad terminal at Nanking, on tlie Yangtze river far inland, was bombed. Fighters of the 7th airforce, of the marines and the navy pepi pered targets from tlie Sakishima Islands south of Japan to the Kuriles north «f it. Jtazuki airfield in northern Kyushu was bombed by army thunderbolt, fighters from the new bases on Okinawa. Shipping was attacked in the Tsushima .traits between. Kyusliu and Korea With Hie mounting air attacks (Turn To Page 5. Column 6) Alleged Robber Pleads Not Guilty Robert Porter, railroad worker, charged by Dewey Kasee of Fourteenth street, with grand larceny and committing a robbery with the aid of a dangerous weapon, pleaded not guilty before Judge J. Fred Fruchte in Adams circuit, i court Saturday noon. The court fixed his bond at sl,ont> and he was remanded to Hie county jail. Porter informed the court that he did not have funds to employ counsel. He did not request the court that a public counselor be provided him. Kasee charged Porter with taking S2SS from his person, when tlfc two men went to Kasee’s room. Kasee also charged that Porter used violence in committing the robbery.