Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1945 — Page 1

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X Allies Advance ‘ In Borneo; Jap Cities Are Hit By U.S. Bombers Pearl Harbor, July 3 — (UP) — 'Australian troops advanced swiftly i( in the battle for Borneo’s oil riches tn-; today as American Superfortresses th continued their campaign against Japanese oil resources in the home--11 ; land. ‘ The Melbourne radio reported the & Australian seventh division had in - driven northeast 10 miles from its — IBalikpapan beachhead to capture the Spinggang and Hanggar airdromes. ■ Japanese resistance was stiffening, but patrols reached within a mile of Balikpapan city before they were stopped by a burning storage tank, which gushed flaming oil !in their path. For the third time in a week, the Superfortresses blasted a Japanese oil center, this time the Maruzen refinery in eastern 'Monshu. The refinery was battered by 50 of the huge Iwmbens just before midnight, and returned crewmen said black oil smoke spiralled 10,000 feet before the last plane left the target. — It was believed the plant might be completely gutted, lu the past •week the B-29’s also have burned out the fUtsube river and Nippon oft plants. A Tokyo broadcast said that “many” more Superforts today laid "mines in Toyama .bay and along the Sea of Japan just west of the home island of Honshu. American warplanes from several air forces teaming in the great blockade of Japan sank or damaged 32 more enemy vessels. That made ©lll Japanese ehips sunk or damaged in nine days. ‘ Food Is Cut To attest to the effectiveness of that blockade, the Japanese government today announced a 10 per cent cut in staple food rations for all Japan’s major cities. A Domei dispatch said the tighter rations would ibe in effect until the October harvest. •Chinese troops, driving ahead in central Kwangsi province, stormed into tho city of Liching, 15 miles north of Liuohow, which they recaptured last week. Street fighting was underway in the city. The Japanese, however, had not stopped their offensive northward from the Liuchow penninsula. and * Chungking today reported the fall ) of Fahsein, a road junction at the top of the neck of land jutting into South China sea. Japanese plane's, except for a few of [the suicide variety, still were conspicuously absent from the battlegronts and from the skies over Japan, and Tokyo today explained the airforce was being saved for '{Turn To Page 2, Column 6, '•gg — ——————-——“I0 Reynolds Baby Lives Only A Few Minutes John Stephen Reynolds, the son bom to Mr. and Mrs. Doyle (Pete) Reynolds at the Adams county memorial hospital at about 7:30 o'clock this morning, lived only a few minutes. An Angel’s mass will be said at W-l services Wednesday morn-1 Ing at St. Mary’s church by Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor. Interment will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. The mother’s condition, who before her marriage was Miss Flothilda Harris, is reported satisfactory. Mr. Reynolds is city editor of the Daily Democrat. Besides the parents, the baby is BBtvived by two grandmothers, Mrs. M. S. Harris of this city and Mrs. Lona Reynolds of Bluffton. The body is at the Zwick funeral home. I o - DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER TEMPERATURE READING 8:00 a. m 58 10:00 a. m 62 „ .Noon 68 2:00 p. tn 72 WEATHER | Indiana—fair and warmer toIday and Wednesday.

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Senate Considers Approval Os Plan Republicans Will Not Oppose Peace Charter Washington, July 3. —(UP) —The Senate foreign relations committee laid plans today to hold public hearings on the United Nations charter to an absolute minimum. A five-man subcommittee appointed to draft rules for the hearings hopes that personal appearances can be limited to witnesses qualified to discuss specific provisions of the collective security treaty. All others will be invited to submit written statements to be incorporated into the record of hearings scheduled to start next Monday. Committee Chairman Tom Connally, D„ Tex., said he had no desire to prevent full discussion. But he believed that friends of the document would serve the cause best by submitting written statements instead of making time-consuming appearances. Connally said only four petitions to be heard have been received and the subcommittee took no action on any of them. He said two of the requests came from persons who expressed opposition to unidentified parts of the treaty. The other two were favorable. The subcommittee decided at its first meeting yesterday on only two witnesses to date. They were former secretary of state Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who served as chairman of the American delegation to the San Francisco conference, and Leo Pasvolsky, special state department assistant on international organization. Republicans Approve Chicago, July 3. —(UP) —Republicans will vote for ratification of the United Nations charter bat probably will find strong reason to differ with the Truman administration in its application, Herbert Brownell, Jr., said last night. Brownell, Republican national committee chairman, was here for (Turn To Page 5, Column 2) ________ o _______ Ernie Pyle Given High I.U. Honor Widow Will Receive Award For Writer Washington, July 3. —(UP) —The medal for merit, the nation’s highest award to civilians, will be bestowed posthumously tonight on Ernie Pyle, famed chronicler of doughboys in world war 11, who was killed by a Japanese sniper’s bullet on the tiny Pacific island of le. Announcement of the award was made by the war, navy and state departments. The medal will be presented to Pyle’s widow, Mrs. Geraldine Pyle, at a memorial ceremony here following a preview showing of the film, Ernie Pyle's “Story of G. I. Joe.” Taking part in the ceremony will be Burgess Meredith, who plays the part of Pyle in the film, the four surviving marines of the grou,p that raised the American flag on Iwo Jima and the soldier who carried the body of Capt. Waskow down a mountain in Italy, the subject of one of Pyle’s most famous columns. Two war correspondents who worked with Pyle, including Chris Cunningham Os the United Press, will tAll of their association with the famed war correspondent. Many notables will be present to honor the beloved little reporter. including British ambassador Lord Halifax, Gen. Jacob Devers, new chief of the army ground forces, Lt. Gen. and Mrs. James H. Doolittle, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Lt. Cmdr. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.

Meal Shortage To Be Fought By New Leader Anderson To Attack Production Trouble, Not OPA, He States Washington, July 3 — '(UP) — Secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson is going to fight the meat . shortage, not the OPA. with the extra power granted him by congress, ' he revealed today. Anderson told reporters that on Monday, his first official day on the job. he conferred with price administrator Chaster Bowles about possible effects of amendments to the OPA extension bill, signed by President Truman over the weekend. The bill gave Anderson greater power than held by any of his predecessors. Among them was the authority to allow small slaughters to ship meat across state lines and lift present slaughter limitations. These limitations .have ben blamed for some of the current short- ■ ages. The former New Mexico congressman reported that on a recent ■ cress country tour with his house ! food investigating committee he found surplus beef “just being ■ wasted.” He predicted that exer- : vise of his certifying authority will ; eliminate this situation. ; “Foolishly administered, the amendment would nullify a good ; deal of the work done- by OPA,” Anderson declared. “I wanted to i assure OPA that I intend to work in : conjunction with, not opposition to, > the OPA program.” Local authorities, aided by the i new flexible meat program, must cooperate in combating the black ; market, Anderson declared. He cit- > ed the example of Detioit where the meat supply has been drastical- : ly cut by quotas placed on small i slaughterers. He made it clear that he does not ■ intend to issue “blanket authority” , to slaughter indiscriminately. It will be necessary to “tie restrictions” to permits to make sure that the extra meat slaughtered will go to shortage areas, he explained. Anderson said he could not estimate when the effects of the new program would be felt. Every case ' will be examined individually with ■ promise of local cooperation as a "prime consideration,” he said. The new secretary’s busy first I day included an appointment with ' President Truman who told him he wants to keep “personally posted” on all angles of the food siftiation. Otherwise Anderson turned his attention to the task of merging thew ar food administration with his department. He has partially turned over this job to a special advisory committee composed of top-notch agriculture and food experts. 'The committee is iheade dby 'Milton Eisenhower, Gen. and president of Kansas state college. , 0 Gen. Richardson To I Lead Pacific Attack Pipelines Os Troops Are Being Created Honolulu, July 3 —(UP) —Two • pipelines of troops and supplies ’ for the final attack on Japan were] 1 operating today with the creation of the new command known as 1 army forces middle Pacific. 1 Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, ' Jr., was named commander of the middle Pacific, which parallels 1 the army forces western Pacific ■ command recently organized under Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer. Both are under Gen. Douglas 1 MacArthur, army commander for all the Pacific. ' Richardson said the two com- ’ mands were charged with the ' supply, training and administration of all army troops in the Pacific. He also announced that an offi- , cer already has been chosen to govern Japan after the enemy homeland is conquered. Plans for the military government of Japan are being shaped at Manila. Richardson said that, he believ(Turn To Page 5, Column 1)

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50,000 Persons To See Man In Barrel < Shoot Over Niagara Niagara Falls, Ont., July 2 — • (UP) —For the first time in 14 ] years, an attempt will be made 1 next Sunday to shoot the roaring i rapids below Niagara Falls in a steel barrel. William “Red” Hill, 32, will ' launch himself into the swirling 1 1 waters of the Niagara before an j audience expected to number ii 50,000 or more. . Hill is the son and namesake H of the late William “Red” Hill, senior — who negotiated the treacherous rapids twice during i his long career at the falls. ,

Henry F. Morrison Missing On Submarine Keie Presumed Lost

With the navy’s official announcement that the submarine U. S.S. Kete is presumed lost, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Morrison, 315 South 12th street, released the message received last April 16 that their son, Henry F. (Peck) Morrison, 2!), motor machinist mate, first class, was aboard the ill-fated ship and had lost his life. When the parents were notified, the navy made the request that they should not divulge the name of the ship or station, or discuss publicly the fact that their son was listed as missing. This newspaper interviewed the Morrisons and withheld publication of the fatality, in compliance with the navy's request. Petty Officer Morrison's death is the first and only one. in the county, as far as known, to occur aboard a submarine. The navy’s | message did not state where the tragedy took place and neither did the public announcement, released to newspapers from Washington, D. C. The navy’s announcement reads: The submarine U. S. S. Kete is overdue from patrol and presumed lost. It carried a wartime complement of from 80 to 85 men. The Kete was commanded by Lt. Comdr. Edward Ackerman, whose wife, Marjorie, lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Kete is the 44th submarine reported lost in this war. Petty Officer Morrison, who joined the navy on December 31, 1940, was slated to be promoted to the rank of chief, following his return from the mission which proved fatal. He had served aboard the Kete ever since it was commissioned on July 31, 1944, at Manitowac, Wis. His mother attended the commissioning of the ship, but did not get the opportunity to go down into

Taverns Do Not Close On The Fourth Os July The Fourth of July is not one of the days stated in the new Indiana law when the sale of alcoholic beverages is banned. Taverns and bare will not be forced to close tomorrow. Days on which bars are closed by law include Sundays, Memorial day. New Year’s, Christmas and on primary and general election days. —o Meeting Called By CAP At Hanna Park There will be a meeting of the CAP this evening at seven-thirty o’clock at Hanna Nuttman park.

o. ...W " I x & FA .Jr . % < Ail t w «■ I l Wd the undersea craft. Petty officer Morrison served aboard submarines ever since 1941. Following his boot training at Great Lakes, he was sent to Hawaii for submarine training and had served aboard two other similar ships, before being assigned to the Kete. The young petty officer was born in Decatur May 29. 1916. He attended one year of high school and was employed by the LaFontaine Handle company prior to enlisting in the navy. During hie long service aboard submarines, Petty officer Morrison engaged in several battles in the Pacific. He had received two unit commendations for extraordinary service and his crew was credited with the destruction of enemy ships and cargoes in the combat zones in which the subs operated. His last visit home was about a year ago.

Second Army Spearhead Is Assuming Control Os U. S. Occupation Zone

I. - — John L. Sullivan Takes New Office Navy Air Secretary Sworn n On Ocean Aboard Adm. McCain’s flagship,. Western Pacific, July 3.—(UP) — John L. Sullivan was sworn in as assistant secretary of navy for air I aboard this aircraft carrier as task force 38 of the third fleet plowed through the battle zone waters off Japan. While our carrier fighter planes flew overhead to intercept possible enemy attack, Sullivan. 4G, Manchester. N. H., took the oath in a dramatic ceremony on the gigantic flight deck as officers and men stood at attention wearing battle dress. The oath was administered by Vice Adm. Aubrey W. Fitch, deputy chief of naval operations for air. It was the first time an assistant secretary of the navy has been given the oath in a war zone at sea. Sullivan replaces Artemus L. Gates, who was sworn in as undersecretary of the navy in Washington July 1. The new assistant secretary took the oath here July 2 (east longitude date) to coincide with the mainland ceremonies. o Services Announced For Mrs. Lou Lester Funeral services for Mrs. Lou E. Lester, mother of Dr. M. O. Lester, pastor of the First Methodist church of Decatur, will be held at 1 the Shirley Brothers funeral home in Indianapolis Thursday morning at 10:30 o’clock. Interment will be 1 made at the Crown Hill cemetery in that city. . o ■ Vicksburg To Rejoin Union On July Fourth Vickburg, Miss., July 3.—(UP) —Vickburg will rejoin the union tomorrow. For the first time in 82 years—the first time since the Blue overwhelmed the Gray, the unreconstructed will celebrate Independence Day. Every civic club in the city will be presented in a parade to be led by Major Gen. Edward 11. Brooks, of Atlanta, Ga„ commanding general of the fourth service command. 0 Mrs. Rose Parr Os Berne Dies Today — Pneumonia Is Fatal To Bedfast Woman — Mrs. Rose Parr, 73, of Berne. | died this morning at eight o’clock iat the Adams county memorial hospital of pneumbnia. Mrs. Parr had been bedfast since fracturing her hip on April 15. I The daughter of the late Frank and Nancy Priest Cottrell, she was married to Betrum Parr, who pre- . ceded her in death. I Surviving are 'four daughters, . Mrs. Harve Riesen, with whom she i made her homo, and Mrs. S. C. Sanders, of Berne; Mrs. W. D. TeeL ter, Flint, Mich.; Mrs. Sam Farlow. . of near Berne; three sons, Louie. Dale and Merle Parr, all of Gen- • eva, thirty-two grandchildren, and ; twelve great-grandchildren. Two brothers and one sister preceded her in death. i Funeral services will be held 1 Thursday afternoon at two o’clock at the Bethel Brethren church, east ■ of Berne, with the Rev. W. F. Johnson officiating. Burial will be in the Mount Hope cemetery, northeast of Berne. The body was re- . moved to the Yager mortuary, where friends may call after four o’clock Wednesday afternoon.

Governors Talk Over Problems In Conferences World Peace, Farm, Business Problems, Taxes Are Discussed Mackinac Island, Mich., July 3 1 —(UP) —Governors of 42 states moved today toward speedy ac- ’ tion on the San Francisco charter under the whip of Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen's appeal for united national support. Discussion and approval of the charter were scheduled for July ' 4th as the national conference of ■ state executives sped through routine study of how to revitalize small business aijjl agriculture. Stassen, former chairman of the conference as goverrtor of • Minnesota, left with the gover- • nors his recommendation! that ■ the San Francisco charter be es- - tablished as “the policy of the 48 1 states.” ! Addressing the 37th annual conference last night, Stassen called for its universal support as a medium of keeping the world at peace “for at least 50 years.” Stassen sair there was no reason why the world pact could not . be the basis of enduring peace. Emphasizing that the U. S. , must lead the way, he declared t that “the peace loving nations do , not fear the power of the United ; States; the aggressors do fear , the power of the United States, i "And so must it ever be.” Stassen said there was no reain Minneapolis, from where he will fly to Washington to report to President Truman and the state department. He gives up his duties as member of the U. S. , delegation at San Francisco at t the week’s end and will embark for the Pacific to rejoin Admiral William F. Halsey as assistant chief of staff. To Ask Approval Gov. Mortimor Procter of Vermont said he would ask conference endorsement of the charter J in a resolution tomorrow. Reac- , (Turn To Page 5. Column 5) o Marion Tinkham Is Victim Os Gun Shot Prominent Farmer In Critical Condition Marion Tinkham. GO, well known Blue Creek township farmer, living about four and one-half miles south of Pleasant Mills, is in a critical . condition at the Adams county me- < ; morial hospital, suffering from a 1 self-inflicted gun shot wound in the r left side of the abdomen r The attending physician stated that the critically wounded man had a chance to survice. ' The tragedy occurred about 10:30'. 3 this morning in the kitchen of the | ‘ Tinkham home. Mrs. Tinkham and daughters were in the house and ’ heard the explosion of a gun. They ’ ran to the kitchen and found Mr. ■ Tinkham lying on the floor. He was bleeding profusely and the Black • ambulance was called. Mr. Tink- • ham was removed to the hospital, ■ where the physician made a pre--1 liminary examination of the wound. J The gun which Mr. Tinkham used 1 was described as a shot gun. The gague was not learned. The bullet 1 tore a hole about the size of a sil- < ver dollar in the man's side, the t physician stated. Sherif Leo Gillig did not find any ; reason for conducting an investi- - gation, the facts showing that the - wound was self inflicted. It was , stated that Mr. Tinkham had been r worrying over business matters and had suffered a -breakdown in health.

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British Troops Also Taking Positions In Berlin; French Will Arrive At Later Date Berlin, July 3—(UP)—A raindrenched spearhead of the United States army’s second armored division rolled into Berlin today and began taking over its assigned occupation zone in the southwestern part of the city. British occupation forces wore moving in on the northwestern part of Berlin at the same time the American convoy came in on the broad Autobahn from the staging center at Halle. The French also will occupy a zone of Berlin, but the exact area has not been disclos'd. The American vanguard of about 70 jeeps and a score of trucks left Halle at 4 a. m. and reached the Zehlendorf section of southwest Berlin at noon. The American zone of occupation will be administered under the headquarters of the first airborne army, commanded by Maj. Gen. Floyd Parks. The second armored division, commanded by Brig. Gen. John H. Collier of Dallas, Tex., comprises the main body of the occupation force. The barrier of language held down to a minimum the fraternization between the Americans and Russians in the initial phase of the occupation. The Russians seemed keenly curious, staring intently at the U. S. army vehicles. Some smiled, others only Sla red. The press camp in the American zone was established in tire relatively lightly damaged villas and small hotels of the Zhelendorf area. Correspondents again found themselves bedding down on the floor in sleeping bags and bedrolls. Some buildings had electricity. but there was no gas and the water supply was fitful. Strikingly few German civilians were to be seen in the towns and villages through which the American convoy passed on the way to Berlin. Those who were in sight, watched the Americans intently. Children among them often waved. Hardly any young or middle aged German men were visible. Wherever there were civilians, women, children and old people predominated. It appeared that a high percentage of the population in this "area had fled west to the American and British ones of occupation before the Red army moved in. All along the Autobahn were big red-lettered posters. They proclaimed among other things (Turn To Page 5, Column 3) 0 ■ Court House Is To Celebrate Birthday It will be 73 years ago tomorrow’ that the cornerstone of the court house was placed in position. Chris, tian Felty, county commissioner was given the honor of placing the stone. The ceremonies were held on July 4. 1872 by the F. and A. M. and Odd Fellow< lodge. o Jap Diplomats May Be Exchanged For General Wainwright Washington. July 3—(UP) —Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, hero of Bataan and Corregidor, may soon be coming -home after three years in Japanese prison camps. Wainwright commanded U. S. forces on Bataan and Corregidor from the time of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s escape to Australia until the final surrender in 1942 to the Japanese on Corregidor. Diplomatic sources here said arrangements were expected to be made for exchange of some of the 132 Japanese diplomats captured in Germany for Wainwgiht, now being held in Korea. These sources did not suggest how many Japanese Wainwright might be considered worth.