Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1945 — Page 1

WeMustWin the War, Aii Else is Chores!

Vol.XLlil. No. 162.

173 JAP PLANES, 32 SHIPS ARE WRECKER

Truman Confers With Advisers ijn Board Ship Powerful Cruiser 2 Speeds President rinj To Big Three Meet laili Aboard U.S.S. Augusta on the tlantic, July 11.—(UP)—Presient Truman held shipboard con■rences with his top international Mtivisers today as this powerful I ruiser, sped him toward Germany ir the Big Three meeting next l|eek. , The President, now five days out "? Newport News, Va., will disenl- • hrk from this warship at a norlern European port and proceed r plane to Potsdam, the Berlin iburb where he will meet for the "st tifne with his Big Three partars — Prime Mlnistef Winston hurchill and Premier Josef StaIti. White House Press Secretary harles G. Ross, a member of the J| •esidenttal party aboard the Auista, said there would be no admce announcement of Mr. Tritan’s arrival date for security reaid me. j n The President was keeping in ' instant touch with Washington [l ' r radio and holding continuous inferences aboard ship with Sectary of State James F Byrnes id Admiral William D. Leahy, >e esidential cljief of staff. When the chief executive reaches jtsdam he will be joined by other gh racking diplomatic and miliry figures. They include Joseph Davies, former ambassador to )f oscow who has done sojne of the e ( ‘cparatory work for the coming g Three meeting, and consultant iperts from the state, war and n- ivy departments, including the int chiefs of staff. Gen. George C. Marshall, Admit - - Ernest J. King, Gen. H. H. Ar•ld and Leahy make up the joint I Aiefs of staff. I Questions of great import face ■ e impending Big Three confer- | fee. Among them are problems German occupation and control id possibly of boundary changes Deca: be included in the final Euroan peace treaty. .((Dispatches from I-on don said jilomatic sources there listed ““gilt territorial claims which the ||g Three may consider. These eluded Poland’s claim on Geriny to compensate for territory gspded to Russia, Yugoslavia’s deEmmd for Trieste, and the French fej; mand for the Saar and part of SMe Rhineland.) “®Mr. Truman’s party sailed from »wport News on July 7 for a TXund trip that will total mo-e an 10,000 miles. He will be the ; st American President to visit 'Sjstern Europe since Woodrow | ilson went to Paris for the 1919 1 ace conference. iMThe trip was memorable for Mr. gunman for another reason. It Mirked his first Atlantic crossing sagice he returned from France affflr the' world war, in which he (Turn To Page 6, Column 5) I||| o MOOO Workers Are lied By Strikes Biggest Stoppage In Firestone Plant By United Press lay as labor disputes struck seated war industries and civilian iduction. The biggest work stoppage was the Akron, O„ plant of Firestone a and Rubber Co. where 16,500 ■tubers of the United Rubber rkers-CIO were in their 11th day striking. The union called a eting for Friday to discuss a r labor board order to go back work. 1 flareup in the New York shipping corporation yard in Cami, N. J„ was .settled after a walkof 3,000' welders had paralyzship construction. Another 15,- - were idle for a few hours as yard’s activities virtually ceasJetroit,, scene of spreading labor übles a few weeks ago, again (Turn To Page 3, Column 4)

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Opponents To World Charter Given Inning Senate Committee Expected To Close Hearings Friday > Washington, July 11. —(UP) — ■ The Senate foreign relations com- . mittee today heard a succession of I witnesses against the United NaI tions charter, one of whom was esr corted from the witness chair by : two policemen. The opposition witnesses vari- ; ously assailed the charter as a • “communist plot’’ and a plan for - “empire rule” and protested the I “sinister” speed with which it was i being moved toward Senate ratifi- : cation. The committee put a general 15i minute limit on each witness’ ap- • pearance. Mrs. Agnes Waters, Washington, r D. C.. describing herself as repre- > senting the National Blue Star - mothers, was the first witness. She ■ called the charter “a fraud, deceit ■ and an international conspiracy ■ that will knock down this nation and overthrow this government.” i She charged it is part of a geni eral communist plot to control the i world. Committee Chairman Tom Con- ! nally, D., Tex., interrupted to warn , her against ‘gratuitous insults to -other governments.” i “This is not a war,” she shouted. ■ “It is a world revolution for com- - munism.” i Connally restricted Mrs. Waters i to 10 minutes. When she demand- • ed a further hearing he shut her ; off by pounding his gavel and re- : minding her that “I can make more I noise than you can.” She finally > was escorted away from the wit(Turn To Page 6. Column 6) Government Deficit ; Tops Home Problem 1 Spending, Deficit [ Into Huge Figures , Washington, July 11. —(UP) — t In the first week of the current sis- • cal year the figures on treasury , spending and the deficit already . have gone into almost incomprel hensibly large figures. > The official report on the first seven days of July is that the govL eminent spent $1,500,000,0'00. Tax L revenue in the same week was , $446,753,797.58. The (jeficit accumu- , la ted in eeven days exceeded sl,- ; 350.000,000: (M). r These statistics add up to the I hottest domestic problem President Truman will confront in the remaining years of .his term in the ■ White House. As war emergencies , diminish there will be an increase of pressure on the administration , for enocomy. As economies are as- ■ fected there will be dispute over 1 approtionment of the savings amoiig taxpayers and the proportion of treasury income which shall be devoted to reducing the national debt. These pressures and dleputes will have political significance and with elections coming on they will have considerable impact on Washington. The exce&s of spending over revenue has created an unexampled national debt of more than $260,000,000,0(0 (B) of debts unpaid after world war 1. There are a few . hundred of million chargeable to (Turn To Page 2 Column 3) O Youth Rewarded For Oxygen Discovery New York, July 11—(UP) — Frederick Menenko, 17, LaPorte, ■ Ind., high school student who dis- ■ covered a heretofore unknown form of allotropic oxygen, was ' awarded a SSOO war bond last night for his achievement. Menenko was the guest of the Gilbert hall of science, a branch of the A. C. Gilbert company of New Haven, Conn., at a banquet ' in the Hotel Astor. Other guests Included previoup winners of the ' award which is made annually to a high school student for original research in chemistry.

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WOUNDED when an American soldier fired machine-gun bullets into the tent area where they were sleeping, eight German prisoners of war are shown at Camp Kearns, Utah, awaiting transfer to a general hospital. Eight prisoners were killed by Pvt. Clarence Bertucci of New Orleans, who suddenly went berserk. >

Japanese Abandoning Salient In Kiangsi Chinese Stepping Up Corridor Offensive Chungking, July 11—(UP)—The Chinese Central News agency re- . ported today that Japanese forces were hurriedly abandoning their ; entire salient in southern Kiangsi . clinging to a number of former • 'American airbases since last Jan- . uary. , The high command’s communi- ■ que supported this viewpoint today . with the report that Chinese troops, stepping up their offensive against Japan’s China land coridor, had recaptured tllain-ch’eng (Sinchang) airfield and Nankang, both in Kiangsi province, as well as Chungtu, on the Kweilin-Luichow highway 35 miles northeast - of Liuchow in Central Ktzangei. Central News reported Allied planes were aiding Chinese ground forces by harassing the Japanese retreat. Kanhsien, principal Japanese stronghold on the Kan river, has been the target of Allied bombers for the past three days with warehouses, dumps, and hundreds of junks and sampans—loaded with 100t —attacked. Central News said that Japanese forces in Kanhsien, in southwestern Kignasi, had already begun retreating northward and Kanhsien might be reoccupied by Chinese troops in the near future. The Japanese are still holding Kahsien, Suichwan, and Taiho, in southern Kiangsi—all former principal airfield towns. Central News said in retreating from Kiangsi the Japanese might move toward fllengyang, along the Canton-iHiankow railway or high(Turn To Page 2 Column 3) o Finnish Missionary Says Tokyo In Ashes Residential Area Nearly Destroyed Helsinki, July 11.—(UP)—Tokyo’s residential area is in ashes and American bomb damage is evident everywhere in Japan, but the average Japanese seems to be making a determined effort to ignore the whole war. That, at least, was the picture of conditions inside Japan brought back by the leader of a Finnish ■missionary band just returned from Tokyo—the first Finns permitted to leave that country since the war began. The repatriate, Artur Karen, arrived in Helsinki with six other missionaries Monday night, after an arduous journey from Japan by way of Korea, Manchuria and the Soviet union. Karen told the United Press that a vast area of Tokyo, comprising practically all the city’s teething residential districts, had been completely devastated by American bombs when he left. At least 10,000 fragile wood and (Turn To Page 2 Column 3)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 11, 1945.

i Highway Pictures Shown Lions Club Interesting and instructive mov-1 ing pictures on the construction of highways were shown at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Lions club Tuesday evening. The pictures depicting the great advancements in highway construe ■ tion and plans for the future were • shown by C. L. Wagoner, of Indii anapolis, representative of the ■ t’ortland Cement Association. Cal t Yost was chairman of the pro- • gram. 35,000 Jubilant ; Veterans Return ‘ Eight Transports Led By Queen Mary New York, July 11 —(UP) —More I than 35,000 jubilant veterans of the I 'European war, the largest group of 1 returning soldiers to arrive home ’ in one day since V-E day, were ■ pouring into New York harbor to- ’ day. 1 'Eight transports, paced by the 1 giant Queen Mary and West Point, 1 steamed past the grey-green Statue of Liberty under a cloudless sky, ! their rails lined with 28,266 cheer- ’ ing Americans and some 7,000 Can- • adian soldiers. 1 Five infantry regiments, a gen--1 eral hospital unit, numerous eighth air force groups and scores of smal- ' ler units were among the arrivals. 1 The navy transport West Point, • formerly the S. S. America, brought 7,6(7 troops, including the 345th 1 and i24'7th regiments of the 87th division and their commanding 1 general, Maj. Gen. Frank L. Culin, ' Jr. ’ Other 87th division units included: Headquarters special troops, hand, 'B7 th counter-intelligence {Turn Tn ‘Pa.p’A 9. Cnlnmn QI

u urn 1.0 rage z column 3) Number Os Meat Animals On Farms Os County Decreased

One reason there is less meat on tlie table these days is the fact ■ • that there is less food supply on I 1 the farms. Conclusive evidence of this con- ■ dition is revealed in the annual as- • sessment reports of the township ‘ assessors, which have been compiled by Mrs. Vincent Bormann, ! clerk in the county assessor’s office. If all counties in the state 1 have fallen off in the number of 1 hogs, cattle and eheep like Adams county, there is no doubt that jul--1 cy meat roasts for Sunday dinners will be just pleasant memories in ' many households. Hogs Drop 10,000 Under the classification of “other hoge,” which includes the ' grade that goes to market, the number of hogs on the farms in this county dropped nearly 10,000 ; over a year ago. In 1944, hogs turned in for assessment totaled 27,899, compared 1 to 17,922 this year. This year’s value is given at $188,903 and a year ago, $207,925. Poultry also has taken a big

Sweep Japs' Planes From China's Skies Fourteenth Airforce Achieves Objective Kumming, July 11. —(UP) —The fourteenth airforce has achieved its objective of sweeping Japanese planes from China's skies, Lieut. Gen. Claire Chennault declared in a press conference today. He said the 14th’s next objective would be support of Chinese land armies now pushing Japanese ground forces back on several sectors. Chennault said the Japanese ara now shifting many airforce units from the home islands to Manchuria where the enemy has “numerous excellent airbases which are operational on a moment’s nqtice.” The general declared that he believed the Japanese had drained practically all their air strength from southeast Asia, with only an occasional enemy plane making a linking hop between Indo-China and China providing a target for the fourteenth’s gunners last month. He revealed that during the Ok(Turn To Page 3. Column 5) 0 Charge Violations Os OPA Regulations Chicago, July 11 —(UP) —A criminal information was filed in federal court today charging A. “Red” O’Neill, Lake Calumet, with violation of five office of price administration regulations governing the slaughter and sale of meat. 'O’Neill was charged with slaughtering without a permit, slaughtering in an unregistered slaughter house, selling ungraded meat, selling at over-ceiling prices, and failure to accept ration points in exchange for meat.

drop, falling from 18.268 dozen to i 15,105 dozen, which means about I 37,200 head less of chickens, ducks and turkeys. The number of sheep has fallen about 1,400 in the past year, dropping from 7,584 to 6.170 in 1945. Cattle, other than inilk cows, also took a downward trend, only 8,703 being listed as compared with last year’s 9,131. Milk cows also shrunk, this year’s total being 11,673 compared to 12,412. Despite car junking and the wear and tear of more than three years' war-time service, there are more automobiles In the county this year than the number assessed in 1944. Autos Increase In 1944, autos and trucks listed for assessment totaled 5,469. Last March the assessors listed 5,499, with a total value of $1,516,013. Fewer farm implements are listed this year, the number being 1,572, compared to 1,618. Gasoline stations and equipment also show (Turn To Page 4, Column S)

Tokyo Says U. S. Carrier Fleet Breaks Off Strong Attack On Jap Homeland —> --

Tightening Grain Supplies Foreseen Hope Os Increased Meat Output Slump 'Washington, July Hl — (UP) — Governm(ent hopes for increased meat production .slumped today after the agriculture department forecast a disappointingly small 1945 crop of corn, a major livestock feed.. The department warned that production of important feed graine this year may be the smallest since the United States entered the war. It forecast a prospective corn crop of 12,685,000,000 ibushete, or more than 500,000,000 bushels less than in 1944. Faced with a tightening grain supply food officials may have to revise their plans for stepping up hog and poultry output and cattle feeding. The department said that feed supplies should be amble for livestock and poultry but that consumption “cannot be as large as the ’ last 12 months” without cutting I down carryover supplies. Despite this rather gloomy out- ' look, some department officials hopeful that corn prospects would rise with better weather. They pointed out that corn crop predic--1 tions rose by more than 390,090,000 ! bushels from July 1 to harvest (Turn To Page 2 Col unin 3) ( 0 ; Kidnaped Child Is Returned To Mother 1 Marion, 0., Woman Held For Abduction Marion, O„ July 11.—(UP)—Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Creviston, estranged wife of an army sergeSlTT, cud- . died her nine-day-old daughter in her arms today and sobbingly thanked police for finding the kidnaped infant before anything happened to her. Tiny Jean Eileen Creviston apparently had no ill effects from her two-day stay with a war worker’s young wife who told police she stole the child from a hospital crib because she was unable to have a baby of her own. Mrs. Phyllis Lanman, 29, held for arraignment on a charge of abduction, said she stole the Creviston baby on the spur of the moment. She said she just couldn’t resist picking her up and running off with her last Sunday while visiting the Marion city Hospital nursery. Mrs. Lanman, whose abduction of the infant was traced through a stop she made at a stranger’s house to change a diaper, said she had given Jean the best of care. Police said Mrs. Lanman had a miscarriage three months ago—her second — and had decided she 1 would never bear a child of her own. 1 She was arrested yesterday at her rooming house after she tried i to tell Dr. Maude Bull that the child ■ was her own. She called Dr. Bull to look after the child, and told her that the baby had been born to her • unattended. , -o 1 850 Inca Workers On Strike In Fort Wayne ’ Fort Wayne, !nd„ July 11 — (UP) —W. B. Griswold, plant man- ' ager of the Phelps Dodge Copper ’ Corp., INCA division in Fort Wayne, said today that 850 United Electrical workers, local 933 CIO were striking because of the disciplinary lay-off of four persons in the heavy wire inspection ■ department. The strike is the result of a three months’ controversy, Gris- ’ wold said, and began Monday ! when the workers sat down on their jobs. The doors of the plant were closed yesterday.

Aussies Drive For Mount Held By Jap Forces Double Blow Dealt Japanese By Aussie Soldiers On Borneo Manila, July 11.—(UP)—Austra--1 lian troope today moved toward > 290-foot-high Mount Batochampar • where Japanese forces have massad 1 for a determined stand after com--1 pletely losing both Balikpapan harbor and the Pandansari oil refineries. Gen Douglas MacArthur’s spokes--1 man said the hardy Australians 1 dealt the Japanese a double, blow > on Sunday. While one group occupied the I Pandansari refinery, which is the • largest in the Netherlands East • Indies, other units landed on the > Djenebora peninsula, four miles : north of Penadjam, to secure completely Balikpapan harbor. The Australians, pushing across j in small boats, were covered by [ naval gunfire but met no opposir tion. The headquarters spokesmen l said other Australian forces which ■ had pushed almost a mile north- . east of Manggar had met “Japanese forces in considerable strength.” The Autralians. pushing northeast from Balikpapan, were reported within half a mile of the pipeline bridge on the Shoember river. The pipeline, five miles north of Balikpapan, leads northward to the tiny village of Wain on the WainBeser river. MacArthur’s headquarters also revealed that heavy bomber and fighter units, continuing the neut- • ralization of* Formosa, blasted grounded enemy planes and air- ’ drome installations at Shinchiku 1 and attacked oil fields on she southwest coastal plain. A night patrol plane harassed the enemy base at Mako, in the Pescadores. Reconnaissance planes, maintaing a round-the-clock, 1 blockade of the Asiatic coast bombed military targets in Amoy harbor and the Canton area and destroyed or damaged a freighter. The planes also attacked rail transport in Indo-China. It was announced that RAAF spitfires and beaufighters are now using bases in Borneo. Over 25 P-38’s bombed and ; strafed oil wells in the Shinei area ' of southwest Formosa while a navy bomber sank three small freighters in Kuching harbor, on the west coast of Borneo. 1 Two other bombers sweeping I (Turn To Page 2 Column 3) 1 □ Pacific Advisory Council Is Urged 1 Absence Os Postwar i Planning Is Cited . Washington, July 11 —(UP) — The almost complete absence of inter-Allied planning for postwar control of Japan was causing apprehension today in some official quarters. Certain U. S. officials, recalling the arrangements under which the big Allies drafted their four-power . control plan for Germany, are wondering when a similar system is going to be formulated for Japan. The answer so far has been that , nothing can be done until the United States, Britain, China and — if j she enters the Pacific war—Russia form a Pacific advisory council pattern after the non-defunct European advisory commission. So far, according to reliable sources here, no move has been made in this direction. While these (Turn To Page 5, Column S)

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Army Raiders From Okinawa Island Pick Up Pre-lnvasion Assault On Japan Guam, July 11—(UP) —Tokyo said the U. S. third fleet broke off its carrier strike on Japan today after a terrific aerial bombardment in conjunction with American army planes that wrecked at least 173 Japanese aircraft and 32 ships between dawn and dusk yesterday. As the fleet withdrew, U. g. army raiders from Okinawa picked up the pre-invasion air assault on the battered Japanese homeland. Tokyo said a flight of about 150 American mustang antj thunderbolt fighters lashed the Japanese suicide plane bases on eastern and southern Kyushu for . about two hours this morning. The fighter foray carried the pre-invasion bombing of Japan into its 36th straight day. Jittery Japanese spokesmen said tlie American battle fleet, that battered the Tokyo area with upwards of 1.009 planes yesterday had pulled back out of range during the night. “It is apparent that the enemy task force has withdrawn after the raid in fear of our special attacks,” the Domei news agency said. In the same broadcast, however, Domei warned that the American carriers, battleships, cruisers and lesser craft of the raiding fleet were still hovering off the coast of Japan in position to resume the assault at any time. Earlier enemy broadcasts said the carrier raids could be expect* ed to continue for “several days.” Domei said yesterday's bombing lasted for 12 hours, from 5 a. m. to 5 p. m. (Tokyo time) and estimated that as many as 1,200 Yank fighters, dive bombers and torpedo bombers took part in the attack. It added the usual claims that “almost no damage” was inflicted iu the target area and that 26 American planes were shot down. But the first enemy accounts made no claim of damage to Admoral William F. Halsey’s rampaging third fleet, despite the fact thJt some of the American wart ships steamed almost into the mouth of Tokyo bay to launch their planes. Fleet, dispatches said the stunned enemy failed to throw a single plane or warship against Halsey’s task force, and offered only meager opposition to the waves of American planes that blasted a vast stretch of the Kanto plain surrounding Tokyo. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’ Pacific fleet communique reported that American airmen had won complete mastery of the skies over Tokyo by noon yesterday, seven hours after the assault began. By nightfall, there still was no sign that the Japanese had been able or were willing to rally their air and sea forces for a counter blow. Two lone Japanese scout planes sallied out over the Pacific late yesterday, but both wore sent down in flames before they reached the scores of carriers, battleships and supporting men o’war that made up Halsey’s task force 38 —commanded directly by Vice Admiral John S. McCain. At least one American carrier moved within about 25 miles of the Japanese coast, but up to a late hour yesterday there was no sign of the Kamikazi plane squadrons or the battered imperial fleet that Tokyo boasted would (Turn To Page 8, Column 3) o- 1 DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER TEMPERATURE READING 8:00 a.m - 52 10:00 a.m 59 Noon — - 65 2:00 p.m 71 WEATHER Fair and continued cool tonight; Thursday, fair and warmer.