Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 154, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1945 — Page 1

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b Johnson Ute For lid Charter E _ — Irctofore Staunch jolationist Likely |r Ratification lington, 30-(UP)-Late foreign relations com- ■ met today to consider Eg hearings of the world E> charter as one of the L heretofore staunchest Exists indicated he might E r the charter. L Sen . Hiram W. Johnson, Eif a leader in the fight Kept the U. S. out of the | n f nations and the world ■ told reporters last might Eht “possibly" vote for U. S. Kpation in a new world Lto keep the peace by force ■essary. Eily most of the really forE opposition to the charter Kited away. Sen. Burton K. Er, D.. Mont., looked on as Lie leader of an anti-ratifi-L fight, told reporters during Keek that as far as he was Eed there would be no Eed opposition. He said he Lt made up his own mind Eat position he would take. Lr two other senators, exL to battle vigorously L U. S. entry into the proid world league, signified they ■ for it. Sen. Robert M. Lalite, P.. Wis., said he defiBintended to vote for ratifiL. Sen. C. Wayland Brooks, L, said as matters stand the Lr might also get his.supE the 78-year-old Johnson, ■Jroughout his career has ■ed direful warnings against ■os ainances with foreign ■s, showed signs that he too ■given up what was obviously ■I cause. ■ foreign relations commitb which Johnson is a mem■is expected to consider the ■ility of limiting hearings to ■weeks. President Truman is ■hied to submit the treaty fdy to the senate Monday ■ ultimate ratification by the scary two-thirds vote consulI certain. Jute Republicans are agree|to starting the committee fcfs July 9th, as projected. ■ considered the matter late Fdoy in a full party conl'erL Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., ►.conference chairman and to the San Francisco P"ce which drafted the r , r ; said the consensus of the F - n meeting was “to faciliI os much as is consistent ■ reas °nable opportunity for pcsentation.” p*Bberg, who delivered a F? senate speech yesterday possible imperfections I’fSnig approval as possible l® ! chance for collective ac- | M Prevent war, said he saw F e tor reservations. F Robert A. Taft, R„ 0., P’ n of the senate RepubliMW committee, disaColumn 6) s —o : r iin 9 New Record r w War Loans F 3 «on, June 30 —<(UP) — war loan officially L ay and already the treaLj 8 overa, l sales have set LT 8 new record for all war E ®los reported at the close h 1(9 yeste rday were $22,210, per cent of the E ' ® d ’Wo,ooo goal set for Iteir ’atn Wual sales had topping ’WOOO.MO goal by K’ and on! J F th P i r S ?. ad failed so far to l«0od quota. I »t 13,1i2€,00' ipo. fcj HERMOMETER Fj m TURE READING ft:: * I •- - 80 1 Leather & wft tod «y through |Wc w) ,, few brief ,h<>w ' I *r north Sunday. E '

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New Ration Stamps To Become Valid Sunday (Five new ration stamps, in both red and blue classifications, will become valid tomorrow, July 1, Red stamps 'A-.1 through E-l and blue stamps J-l through N. 1 may be used for meats, butter, cheese and for processed foods. The new stamps are valid through October 31. Today is the final day on which red stamps E-2 through J-2 and blue stamps N-2 through S-2 may be used. o Four New Cabinet Members In Office Secretary Os State Post To Be Filled > Washington, June 30.—(UP) — I Four new cabinet members take office today in the biggest single . shakeup in a President’s official I family since the late President i Roosevelt first took office in 1933. Their inauguration is regarded . a step toward reorganization of ■ the government's executive agen- , cies with emphasis on improving i administration of food supply and . labor problems. : The incoming cabinet members i are Lewis B. Schwellenbach of , Washington who replaces Frances , Perkins of New York as secretary [ of labor; Robert E. Hannegan of Missouri replacing Frank C. Waik- . er of Pennsylvania as postmaster . general: Tom C. Clark of Texas . taking over from Francis Biddle of ■ Pennsylvania as attorney general; and Clinton P. Anderson of -New . Mexico succeeding Claude R. Wickard of Indiana as secretary of agriculture. , Anderson will also replace Marvin Jones, whose duties as war food administrator have been combined with the agriculture depart- ’ ment in one of the major reorganization moves. President Truman etill has one ( cabinet vacancy. He is expected , to send the nomination of James F. Byrnes to the Senate Monday or Tuesday for secretary of state to replace Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who resigned to represent the U. ' S. in the new world security , league. , Schwellenbach, who replaces the only woman ever to hold a cabinet * (Turn To Page 5. Column 3) . O Reconstruction Plan I Urged For Germany Proposals Made By » Cologne Governor i • Cologne, June 30.—(UP)—Dr. Konrad Adenhauer, American-ap-pointed governor of Cologne, pro- ’ posed today a reconstruction plan for Germany and pleaded that the i Allies give the German people some ’ hope for the future. i Adenhauer outlined a four-point ! program. He asked that: 1. German currency be stabilized for several' years at its present value. ■ 2. That the Germans be told how ■ 'much of their former territory may ' still be considered Germany. 3. That some central state authority be set up to work with the Allied military governments in ruling the reich. 4. That a federal nation of three states be established. . Adenhauer said the states he ’ proposed would have common cur- ■ rency, identical laws, no tariff bar- . Tiers, and their governments would ■ be responsible to the central governing authority. He urged that the three states be cut from eastern, western and i southern Germany. He said if Russia didn’t want to do that for the part it occupies, he hoped the ’ Americans and British would create a two-state federal nation in their sectors. Adenhauer claimed his plan not only would give pre-Hitler Germany a chance to revive, but also wonk halt any attempts by the Nazis o rise to power again. “The continued occupation o Germany is urgently neces . sar 7 f ° r a long time to come,” he said. Ge.many is unable to rule herself now . But to give people courage an hope we must be as free as possible—like a horse in hardness ’ (Tarn To Pa»e 5, Column 3)

Allied Ships, Planes Pound At Balikpapan Allied Fleet Shells Oil Port Os Borneo In Big Bombardment Manila, June 30—(UP)—Allied ■ships and planes were reported continuing to pour explosives into Balikpapan today in one of the most shattering bombardments of the war, and Tokyo said an Allied landing was “imminent.” (A weak Tokyo transmission in Italian heard in London implied that landing operations already had begun at Balikpapan. It appeared more likely, however, that the ! broadcast merely was reviewing Allied activity off Balikpapan and interpreting it as a prelude to an invasion, as Tokyo has done on several previous occasions.) The Tokyo radio reported that the Allied fleet which, according to Japanese reports, has been shelling the Borneo oil port ceaselessly for three weeks, has been increased to more than 41 vessels. Tokyo said it now included five heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, 10 destroyers, more than 20 minesweepers and submarine chasers, three tankers and “a number of transports and other craft.” The Japanese eaid an aircraft carrier also was believed in the vicinity. “The possibility of an enemy landing attempt is becoming more imminent and the time for a showdown battle is ripening,” the Dome! news agency said. For the fourth successive day, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today, heavy, medium and light planes made a powerful assault on Balikpapan. More than 130 planes dumped 281 tons of explosives on gun positions, barracks and supply areas. That brought the total in the last four days to over 1,000 tone. The oil and rubber riches the Japanese won in Borneo fast were slipping from their fingers. On Tarakan, northeast of Balikpapan, the Allies already were pumping oil. In northwest Borneo the Australian campaign virtually was over. The Australians had cleared 125 miles of the coastline of British north Borneo and the adjoining (Turn To Page 5, Column 2) 0 Injured Youths Are Reported Improving Albert Gillig and Anselm (Jack) Hackman. well known Decatur youth wjjo were injured in an auto accident last Sunday, are progressing very nicely at the hospital. Gillig had the tendens of his left arm severed and Hackman had his nose broken. o Heavy Demands For New Homes Foreseen Indiana FHA Head Predicts Demands I ake Wawasee, Ind., June 30 ( UP)-®irector R. Earl Peters of the Indiana federal housing administration district predicted today that a heavy demand for new home construction was “immediately in the offing.” ipeters told an Indianapolis home builders' outing yesterday that the government was considering the establishment of private priori y quotas in many Hoosier localities where the labor market was such that approval by the area produc- , tion urgency committee was not < required. All restrictions except ceiling J prices have been removed for the ; proposed construction work under , the H-2 plan, Peters said, Explaining that there was no limit to the amount individuals might spend tor labor and materials. However a ceiling sale price exists, he added. < A quota of 600 units was estab- ( lished for the Indianapolis area, ( peters said. Quotas previous were , established for Fort Wayne, Evansville, South’Bend, Gary, Hammond 5 Plymouth, Elkhart, Decatur, Bluff- ( ton, Huntington, Wabash and Law renceburg-

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 30, 1945.

And The Pilot Was Saved - - ■ - wo SPECTACULAR ACTION aboard an American aircraft carrier is caught by the Navy camera as a wounded pilot is rescued from his burning plane. The carrier was hit by a Jap suicide plane. Saddle Horse Show lifilu rriddV NlQllt The Adame county selective ser- ' •* vice board today announced neceipt of orders for a special pre-in-Af-fonrlrinr a Ic Ciif duction call for Thursday, July o. Arienuunce is vur j 3 j or re . exam i na tj OII O s By Continued Rain registrants from the ages of 18 to 1 25 and is in addition to the regular Although the rain kept away pre-induction order .for the month the expected crowd, the Lions of July. All notices for the July 5 club saddle horse show was stag- have been mailed to affected ed last night at Hanna-Nuttman registrants. field, running from 9 o'clock to 0 about 12:30 this morning. Prev- T rl . man J A DrOCOIIt iously the show had been post- llUlilUll Iv I ICJCIII poned from June 21, because of The afternoon shower gave a I Charter On Monday dubious outlook, but plans went ahead for the show. Between 7 . . and S o’clock another drencher Bipartisan Foreign arrived and had it not been for Dl* "I C Lithe enthusiasm of the riders and lOllCy IS jOUghl exhibitors, the event, would have been called off. They wanted the Kansas City, Mo., June 30 show to ’go on, rain or shine. (UP) — President Truman hoped Along about 9 o’clock the pro- today that senate approval of the gram started. United Nations charter would The arena was muddy, but the lead to a bipartisan foreign policy riders didn't mind. The several that will not have to be changed hundred people who came to see wit h each new administration, the equestrian exhibition remain- Mr. Trumas was studying pubed in their cars and enthusiastic- l* c opinion and congresisonal ally applauded the riders. opinion—for a go-ahead Features of the 12 point pro- °n the GOO-word message he has gram, in which 59 ponies and prepared for submission of the horses were entered, included the charter to the senate Monday, jumping and musical chair events. What he wants is overwhelming The crowd applauded wildly for Public support for the charter as these exhibitions. ,he keystone of an organization Each event, with three cash will keep the world peacewinners and three ribbon awards, ful in the foreseeable future, was sponsored by a local firm or Mr. Truman had completed his individual. The cash prizes were message and was in the process $5, $3 and ?2. for first, second of deciding whether to send it. to and third place respectively. t lle senate, or deliver it personRibbons were awarded to fourth, a Ry The odds were that, he fifth and sixth placings. would not resist this dramatic The winners in the 12 events opportunity to campaign in confollow- gress persoflally for the charter, Class No 1: Ponies ridden bv ’>ut he withheld a final decision, children under 14 years of age. The president’s latest position 1 Pepper owned by William °n international affairs was reReichert. rider William Reichert Ported by Alt M. Landon, former Jr 2 Rex owned by Herman governor of Kansas and the 1936 Haugk ’ rider Jerry Price. 3, Republican presidential candiPeggy owned by Noah Graber, date - Landon spent 45 minutes rider Kedwin D. Graber. with him yesterday. Class No 2 Pair Class: 1, Sadie Landon said that Mr. Truman’s owned by Menno Eicher, rider general policy had his approval Lena Eicher; Topsy owned by an d that he believed the presiMenno Eicher, rider Rachel Eich- ‘lent was making material proer. 2, Stardust owned and ridden gress toward a goal of no politics by Victor Stuckey; Teddy owned * n *l ,e Held of foreign affairs, and ridden by Elbert Stuckey. The president also talked to 3. Modern Design owned and rid- Landon yesterday about the food den by William Reichert; Bonnie situation and the former Kansas owned and ridden by Roy L. governor divided the blame be- . . tween the farmers’ discouraged ~ , ... , . frame of mind and the “young Class No. 3: Neck rein through ~ . viass •> whipper-snappers of the office of the kegs’ 1. Lady, owned and rid- . r , ... ~ tne aegs. i, J- prlce administration, den by Carson Blowers. 2, King. owned by Charles Hosier, rider Landon attributed the present Chas Hosier, Jr. 3, Pepper, own- meat shortage to “reforms in the ed and ridden by William Reich- agriculture department about ert three years ago when they decidNo. 4: Pleasure Horses, ed the American people were eatEnglish equipment: 1. Bonny, ing too much beef and sugar and owned and ridden by Roy L. made it unprofitable for the pro(Turn To Page «, Column 3) (Turn To Page 5. Column 6).

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Grew Reiterates No Japan Peace Offers Washington, June 30 — (UP) — Acting .secretary of state Joseph C. Grew' has reiterated his oft-re-peated statement that the United States has received no peace offers from Japan through either official or unofficial channels. Grew’s latest denial was prompted by a report that the Japanese had made an offer which Sen. Homer .E. Capehart, iR., Indiana said “would be acceptable to me.” o Ruthenia Ceded To Russia By Czechs Annex Territory To Ukrainian Republic London, June 30. —(UP) —Russia was 4.600 square miles bigger today. Czechoslovakia ceded the Carpatho-Ukraine to the Soviets at the Kremlin yesterday. The area, also known as Ruthenia and the Carpathian Ukraine, formed the eastern tip of pre-war Czechoslovakia. It will be annex ed to the Ukrainian Soviet republic under the treaty signed by Czechoslovak foreign minister Zdenek Fierlinger and Soviet foreign Commissar V. A. Molotov. Sixty-three per cent of the prewar population of the 750,000 inhabitants of the Carpatho-Ukraine was Ukrainian, Czechoslovak sources said. Under the terms of the treaty, the inhabitants will have the right to choose before next Jan. 1 whether they wish to remain Czechoslovaks or become Soviet citizens. Those granted permission to remain Czechoslovaks then will have a year in which to enter Czechoslovak territory with all movable goods. They will receive compensation for property they are .forced to leave behind. Radio Moscow, which announced the agreement, said the terms must be ratified by the presidum of the Soviet, supreme council and by the Czechoslovak national assembly. Molotov hailed the pact as “an example of a brotherly solution of question touching the interests of the Slav people.’ l Fierlinger said Czechoslovakia always considered its union with the Carpatho-Ukraine after w’orld war I a temporary one. o Mishawaka Youth Is Drowned In River South Bend. Ind., June 30 — (UP) — Police dragged Pinhook Lagoon in the St. Joseph river last night for the body of Alex Vicsek. 16, Mishawaka, who was drowned while swimming. o Liuchow Recaptured By Chinese Forces French Indo-China Reported Invaded Chungking, June 30. —(UP) — Chinese troops have recaptured Liuchow and 220 miles to the southwest invaded French IndoChina, a high command communique announced today. The communique reported that Liuchow, former base of the U. S. 14th airforce in central Kwangsi province, fell to Chinese troops at midnight Friday. The city, which was captured by the Japanese last ' November,, previously was reported ' burning from enemy-eet fires as the Chinese closed in from three sides. In the first invasion of Indo- 1 China since it was occupied in the 1 first weeks of the war, the Chinese . smashed across the border to oc- ] cupy Chungchingfu, northeast of ' Caobang. In their drive along the China ’ coast, the Chinese recaptured Linhai, 175 miles south of Shanghai.

Saturday Sessions In Congress Today Government Year Ends At Midnight p Washington. June 30 — (UP) — Both houses of congress called Saturday sessions today in an effort to complete action on numerous "must” bills before the new government year which begins at midnight. (But the southern fight against the fair employment practice committee made Jt practically impossible to clear the slate. iLeaders expected that filibustering members of the senate would relent long enough to permit final approval of the $3;300,000,000 second deficiency bill and some of the other appropriation measures including the 38,600,000,000 (IB) army bill and the $1,000,000,000 laborfederal security appropriation. But it appeared that the fight over continuance of the FEPC would not be ended until Monday at the earliest. At that time the senate will vote on a cloture rule to break up the filibustering by limiting debate to one hour per senator. The FEPC fight in the senate is made in connection with a bill which carries funds for 16 war agencies. All of them technically will be out of money at midnight. Sen. Olin D. Johnston. D.. S. C., had the senate floor today to continue the FEPC filibuster. Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., who started the fight, removed himself from the three-day ffliburter yesterday shortly before Sen. James O. Eastland, ID., Miss., began a scathing tour-hour denunciation of the FEPC and what he called “communistic backing.” Scornfully rejecting compromise efforts of Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley, D„ Ky„ to give the FEPC a reduced appropriation with no strings attached, Bilbo declared, “They're trying to horse trade and I refuse to trade on such a principle as this.” o No Zone Division In Occupied Italy Plan Different From Germany And Austria Washington, June 30. —(UP) — Many questions in connection with Allied control over Italy today remain to be worked out, but it is clear from the report brought back to this country by General Joseph T. McNarncy that Allied occupation there will be on a much different basis than either Germany or Austria. Italy is not to be divided info zones occupied by the respective powers as in Germany and Austria. As a result the supreme Allied command in Italy will probably continue to function until some fundamental change in relations between the Allies and Italy'as a co-belligerent is reached. Italian armed forces as well as Allied forces are under this command. This is in contrast to the situation in Germany and Austria where the supreme Allied command is expected to he dissolved shortly. The supreme Allied command in the Mediterranean is headed by Field Marshal Sir Harold R. Alexander. General McNarney, who is deputy Allied commander as well as commander of all U. S. forces in that theater, expects to return to Italy by the middle of next month and remain until U. S. redeployment is virtually completed. The occupation forces remaining in Italy will be American and British, except for the Polish corps which will remain until its disposition i s determined. French forces which moved into the nor(Turn To Page 6, Column 5)

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To Predict Added American Invasion Blows Impending Guam, June 30 — (UP) —Tokyo said today that American destroyers and minesweepers were reconnoitering the coast of Oki- . noerabu, nett major island stepp- . ing stbne north of Okinawa on j the invasion route to Japan. 3 The Japanese have been pre- . dieting for some time that the . United States may invade one or more additional islands north of t Okinawa before landing on Japan . proper. Okinoerabu is part of . the Amami group and lies 40 miles above Okinawa anjl 250 . miles southwest of Japan. 1 Radio Tokyo said several del stroyers and minesweepers ap- . proached the coast of Okinoerabu j bn reconnaissance this morning. . One broadcast said a cruiser also r was in the naval force. The report followed close on a Pacific fleet headquarters comt munique announcing the bloodless ; American occupation of Kume j island. 50 miles west of Okinawa and 16th Ryukyu island to be j captured. □ Over Japan itself, B-29 superj fortresses extended their aerial i blockade of the west coast of I Honshu another 85 miles to the I ; north in an attempt to prevent r large-scale transfer of bombed ic anfl invasion-threatened industries to Manchuria. Radio Tokyo said 10 B-29s . swept across the main Japanese home island of Honshu between midnight and 1 a. m. and sowed II mines in the two largest harbors c ■ on the northwest coast —Niigata, 3 ' 150 miles north of Tokyo, and i 1 Sakata, 85 miles farther north. f It was the superfortresses’ first visit to Sakta and their deepest penetration yet of Japan. 3 With the disruption of transpori tation in southern Japan by heavy 3 air attacks, Niigata and Sakata ! well may be the main ports for the shipment of Japanese war 1 plants and personnel to Man- . churia. Radio Tokyo revealed the mass industrial movement across the sea of Japan yesterday. By this means, Tokyo said. Japan was preparing to carry on the war even after her homeland plants have been smashed and the coun■try itself invaded. The mining foray came less than an hour after 50 other superfortresses bombed the Nippon oil company plant at Kundamatsu on the southwest tip of Honshu, possibly Japan's biggest surviving i oil refinery. Navy liberators from Okinawa s joined in the bombardment of the t Japanese homeland yesterday, ati i tacking shipping, warehouses and -la railway tunnel around Katsuura '-1 harbor southeast of Tokyo. They v I also naitK a small cargo ship I south of Honshu and a fishing > | vessel south of Shikoku. 3 South of Japan, American ■ ground forces seized their 16th I island in the Ryukyus, Kuma, a • I 21-square-mile chunk of land 50 ' j miles west of Okinawa, 350 miles s from the China coast and 400 1 : miles southwest of Kyushu. I I Admiral Chester W. Nimitz re--11 ported in a communique that his troops occupied Kume without * finding a trace of Japanese sol--1 diers. Radio Tokyo first reported ' the landing three days ago, but I claimed a Japanese garrison had intercepted the invaders in 1 “heavy fighting.” 0 i Half Inch Os Rain ' In Decatur Friday ' About a half inch of rain fell in 1 Decatur yesterday, Herman Meyer, river gauge reader stated this morning. The exact measurement was ' .48 of an inch. June was a wet month this year, rainfall measuring 6.98 inches, compared to 2.88 inches last year, which is considered about average. On June 13, the rainfall amounted, to 2.39 inches, Mr. Meyer said.