Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1945 — Page 1

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Kid Charter K Approval Kanimous Vote ORecorded By "'Knate Committee ijKiington, July 14.—(UP) T^a®iit' ,( l Nations charter had a umK start today toward Senate •fjßtreaty to join the nations of in a new organization to pre Kt future wars headed toward with the overwhelming appK'l of the Senate foreign recommittee. sKte debate is scheduled to auJKtiilv 23. Committee ChalrConnally, D„ Tex., doubts jgafeWwill run more than 10 days. W J confident of almost unani'wfoMralilicntion without reservaT® committee voted its approTstßti yesterday at the end of fiv«Bys of public hearings. The indicative of the overwhSing Senate sentiment that. States should not forenew opportunity for interi|j|Kil cooperation for peace as the case of the League of 25 years ago. llUliiram W. Johnson, R.. Calif.. remnant of that group still J|Hk committee, did not vote on c> ‘ ai ' ter - two other absentees — ®Hjames E. Murray, D.. Mont., liißenrik Shipetead. R.. Minn. — privilege of getting on rgjM, however, any time until the > s formally reported to the next Monday. i® public hearings ended with .3 .sKing plea for Senate acceptamßof tlle treaty without reserrafls or dissension. 'M closing witness was John FJk Dulles, chief adviser to the AsHcan delegation to the San ruHfeco meeting of 50 United NaKis where the charter was '.•one who had a major part in fgjgffion of the agreement Dulles wSKablc to answer searching as to the rights and readabilities of the United States agßfciember of the new organizaKlt intensive questioning by StMEugene D. Millikin, R., Colo., lusHd the answers unequivocally -"B 0 line - Millikin that: _ ®The United States could withthe organization at any tit® for “good reason’’ of which o P'nion would be the only Bl’he Senate will have the final w® through a treaty requiring a ratifying vote on terms which the United States -•make a military contingent to the organization. •The United States cannot be B to any disarmament program *®ut its own approval. ■The Monroe Doctrine of hem«®ric defense is unaffected exf'®that ’i- i s recognized as a reSflßl means of maintaining peace. rt®'he United States retains comfreedom in deciding whether Pacific islands capJSB from Japan shall be placed United Nations trusteeship. S- o ® Suicide Plane wsted On Wreckage 81111B 1111 - July 14—(UP)—A Japanplane scored a bullseye Amp, ’ican ve-eel recently— B l was j ust a waste of ’KamiB Japanese flier crashed his "•t S<,Uaiely <in a ,sma!l wrecked ‘that was being towed out to *W or use as a 'target for navy Rl ßerews. .B e <ierp l i et sank almost immedtaking the Japanese plane R «pilot with it. ■’ o ■mocrat thermometer ■emperature reading . B°° 68 B° a,m 69 ■ ; oo a.m 70 WEATHER •Partly cloudy through SunB y with scattered thunderB° Wer * today and in south ®uight. Not much change in Bnpc-fature.

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Seek Showdown On Newspaper Dispute Union Officials At WLB Hearing Washington, July 14 — :(UP) — The war labor board today sought a showdown on a dispute between the International Typographical Union (AFL) and the nation’s newspaper publishers. The issue have resulted in strikes in Jersey City and Bayonne, N. J., Fort Wayne, Ind., and Birmingham, Ala. About 20 other cases are before the federal conciliation service or the WLB. Disputes between the Union and Shreveport La., Times and Journal were certified to WL(B yesterday. ITU officers were to appear at a WLB public hearing to show why the Union’s contract demands on the publishers should not >be held in violation of public policy and destructive to the national no-strike no-lockout policy. WLB officials said that it was the first time that a union had been summoned to answer that question. Most WLB hearings for cause involve union failure to end strikes or union or company noncompliace with board directives. The board demanded that the ITU officers show why the board should not withhold approval of any union contracts negotiated under present union policy, suspend proceedings of pending voluntary applications for wage increases and why it should not handle ITU disputes like other unresolved labor controveries. Today’,s hearing followed an ex(Turn To Page 6, Column 7) O J — Coal Miners Strike Over Meat Shortage Pledge Early Action - On Miners Grievance Gillespie, 111., July 14.—(UP)— Representatives of 3.000 coal miners in this areas who quit their jobs yesterday in protest against “inadequate” meat rationing, were assured today by Carter Jenkins, district OPA director, that their grievance will be acted upon in Washington within a few days. Meanwhile, the protest walkout had spread to four counties. About 2,200 men employed in the Peabody mines in the Taylorville area, have announced they will quit work next week unless they receive more meat for their lunch boxes. They are members of the United Mine Workers union. John Marchiando, president of the Progressive Mine Workers of America, whose 3,000 members in this region started the walkout yesterday, said that 11,000 additional members of his union will leave their jobs next week unless the food situation eases. Jenkins said he sent investigators into mining communities in (Turn To Page 4, Column 4)

Sen. Willis Predicts Approval Os Pacts • Indianapolis, July 14 —i((JP) — Sen. Raymond E. Willis, R., Ind., p* - edicte senate approval of the Bretton Woods monetary agreement and the world security charter with little or no opposition. Willis, visiting Indianapolis on business yesterday, said that the senate would adjourn for a vacation within a month. The senator .said that overwhelming strength would be thrown against the Japanese homeland soon and that he “hoped” the Pacific war would end “sooner than isix months.” o Two Nazi Prisoners Hanged For Murder Die For Murdering Fellow-Countrymen Fort Leavenworth, Kan., July 14 —(UP) —Two Nazi prisoners of war were hanged today for the murder of a fellow countryman whom they accused of dividing food “unfairly” between Americans and German prisoners at Aiken, S. C. Supported by two chaplains and condemned men, Sgt. Erich Gauss, flanked by eight 'soldiers, the 32. and Pvt. Rudolf Straub, 39, walked about 200 yards from their cells to the same warehouse gallows where five other Nazis died Tuesday in the army's first execution of enemy prisoners in this country. Straub, who had fainted when the death warrant was read to him Thursday night, was the first to enter the execution chamber. He had regained complete composure and walked with head erect, eyes forward. Asked by Col. William S. Eley for any last statement, Straub replied in , German: “I stand here not guilty. What I did was done as a German soldier under orders. If I had not so done I would have been punished when I returned to Germany.” His voice was firm. The trap was sprung at 12:07 CWT and he was pronounced dead 15 minutes later. As Gauss marched to the gallows he glanced obliquely about the death chamber as if seeking some method of escape. Asked by the interpreter if he had any last words, Gauss said he had no statement but desired to ask a question. Informed he could only make a' statement, he replied: (Turn To Page 6. Column 3) o South Bend Walkout Ended Friday Night South Bend, Ind., July 14 —(UP) —A walkout of about 800 workers at the Studebaker corporation’s automotive division ended la<st night when members of the United automobile workers local No. 5 (CJO), voted to return to work Monday. The workers walked out of the plant early yesterday because of a dispute over wages.

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President Nearing Landing In Belgium Truman Armed With Committee Backing Aboard U. S. S. Augusta with President Truman, July 14 — (UP) —President Truman sailed through British waters en route to the big three meeting today armed with concrete proof that the United States would cooperate With other nations in settling future conflicts. The president’s cruiser moved into British territorial waters last night, passing the southern end of the Scilly islands just off Land’s End, England, and headed for the English channel. It is due to arrive in Antwerp, Belgium, within the next day or two. After landing there Mr. Truman is to fly immediately to Potsdam, Germany. j The senate foreign relations committee’s unqualified 20 to 0 approval of the world security charter virtually guaranteed senate ratification, gave the president most of the added bargaining power he sought for his forthcoming conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian Premier Josef Stalin. Congress has already given the president complete assurance that the U.S. will cooperate economically with other nations in an effort to smooth the flow of world postwar commerce. The senate committee’s action yesterday on the world charter extended that assurance for all practical purposes to the political field and made it likely that Mr. (Turn To Page 6, Column 6) — 0 ■ Slightly More Meat Promised Civilians • Butter Point Value Cut Also Promised 'Washington. July 14—(UP)—A little more meat, a little more butter and a few extra red points 'to buy hem with in the very near future were virtually assured the American people today. Two actions by the new secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson are responsible for the probability of more meat. Yesterday he: 1. Announced a new cut in the amount of beef aud lamb packers are required to .set aside for the armed forces. The set-aside for beef was cut from 30 to 25 per cent, Anderson said civilians could expect “(slightly more” beef and lamb as a result. 2. Formally authorized non-fed-erally inspected slaughters to kill animate for shipment across state lines. This order, effective July 16, Is expected to provide fairer distribution of what meat is available for civilians, relieving some of the most acute shortages. Together the new movies are expected to give civilians the full (Turn To Plage 8, Column 2)

Aussies Hammer Near Refinery In East Borneo Australians Follow Vital Pipeline To Sambodja Refinery Manila, July 14. —(UP) —Australian tanks and infantry, following the vital pipeline route, hammered closer today to the Sambodja refinery in east Borneo after cracking completely Japanese defenses northeast of Manggar airfield. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s spokesman announced that troops of the Australian seventh division drove four and a half miles up the pipeline despite fierce Japanese efforts to force them back. Finally the Japanese, apparently realizing the situation was hopeless, abandoned the remainder of their defenses and withdrew to the west. The Aussies captured the small undefended coastal town of Bangsal in their advance to the northeast. Netherlands East Indies forces have cleaned up Karinango peninsula and, together with the Auesies, have driven a salient up the Balikpapan-Soengaiwain water pipeline, about nine and a half miles north of Balikpapan. These troops were pushing eastwai-d against strong Japanese defenses around Mount Batochampar. i The Australian wedge east of the - Batochampar defenses has been I deepened slightly and Japanese dei senses there are in danger of being r out-flanked. t Australian units of the ninth di- - vision pushed another two miles ; up the Beaufort-Jesselton railroad and now are about 28 miles sou h I of Jesselton. There has been no ; resistance. t — o ; Navy Flag Officers Changes Announced 29 Changes Os Duty • Listed By Forrestal Washington, July 14 — (UP) — ■ Secretary of the navy James For- ; restal today announced 29 chan- • ges of duty for flag officers. Vice i Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, commandI er of famed task force 58, was named deputy chief of naval operi ations for air. • Mitscher relieves Vice Adm. ■ Aubrey W- Fitch who will become i superintendent at the naval I academy at Annapolis, Md. Rear Adm. Frederick C. Sheri man, commander of a carrier divi- ■ sion in the Pacific, will succeed I Mitscher as commander, first carI rier task force, Pacific. Vice Adm. John H. Hoover, deputy commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, will assume command of the Second carrier task force.* He will relieve Vice Adm. John S. McCain. McCafti will report to the secretary for a further assignment. Vice Adm. John H. Hoover( commander of the Marianas, will relieve Towers. Adm. Henry K. Hewitt, mem ber of the general board of the navy, will relieve Adm. Harold R. Stark as commander of naval . forces in Europe. i Forrestal said the reassign- • ments, all of which will become i. effective within 30 days, were (Turn To Pape S, Column 7) O Honorable Discharge Pfc. Norman F. Bultemeier, route one, Decatur. Pfc. Bultemeier has been discharged from the Atterbury separation center on the point system. Edward Z. Gauze, who concluded 12 years of service June 22. First enlisted in 1935, honorably discharged three years later. Reenlisted and served three years, \ nine months. Served as auto mechanic until discharged at Fort McClennan, Ala., three weeks ago. Served in France, Rhineland and other fronts, and was awarded two Bronze atana.

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Carrier Planes Smash Japan's Far North Zone ' Third Fleet Airmen Pound Supposedly Safe North Zone BY RICHARD W. JOHNSTON Aboard U. S. warship, with Halsey’s 3rd fleet off Hokkaido —July 14. —(UP) —For three years Hokkaido has been safe from the war —until today. This was Japan’s far northern safety zone. It was just below range for B-29 bombing armadas from Saipan. It was a little too far for north-ern-based bombers from the Aleutians. This forested island lies with its horns percher above Honshu on the map of Japan—and today Admiral William F. (Bull) Halsey’s airmen let the islanders have it. We came into Hokkaido just as we did into Tokyo—with a rapidity which the Japanese did not suspect. Again 1,000 U. S. carrier planes flew over many targets. A pilot who just came back reported there was no airborne resistance over Hokkaido, but the flak was as intenee as it was in Tokyo. Hokkaido’s 3,000,000 people had seen U. S. planes before. They were B-29 superfortresses which were high overhead on reconnaisdown through the clouds of miet sance. But they had never come which cling to Hokkaido’s mountain peaks in our Corsairs. Hell(Turn To Page 6. Column 3) Two Badly Hurt As Small Plane Crashes Indianapolis, July 14.—(UP) — Dr. Leonard M. Myers, 44, physician and student flier of Cheyenne Wells, Colo., and flying instructor Richard Learning, 30, were injured seriously yesterday when their small plane crashed. State police said that the engine of the plane etopped and the crash occurred while Learning, an Indianapolis man, sought to start it with a dive. The plane caught the top of a tree and crashed. Myers was taking a lesson from Learning when the accident occurred. He was in Indianapolis to visit relatives. o Congress To Recess Early Next Month Final Money Bill Is Passed By Congress Washington, July 14. —(UP)Congress today wae clear of all its appropriation legislation for the new fiscal year. Both houses are expected to recess by early August. The final money bill, an appropriation of $769,000,000 for 17 war agencies, wais sent to the White House yesterday after both houses agreed to give $250,000 to the fair employment practice committee and i 535,000,000 to the office of war information. That was less than those agencies wanted but constituted an administration victory although Republocans took some of the credit for restoring the once-eraised FEPC funds. Foes of the administration-launch-ed FEPC, mostly southern Democrats, had sought to kill the agency entirely and nearly succeeded. They finally managed to cut its appropriation from a budget recommendation of $599,000 to the final $250,000. Opponents of the OWI, largely (Turn To Page 3, Column 8).

General Chennault Resigns Air Post Quits As Commander Os 14th Air Force Chungking, July 14 —(UP) —Lt. Gen. Claire L. Chennault resigned as commander of the U. S. 14th air force today and his resignation was accepted by Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of all American forces in China. Chennault announced his decision to retire from the army but did not specify any reasons for so doing. The reason for Chennault’s resignation was officially described by the 14th air force as “retirement.’’ An official statement was indicated to be forthcoming. Fifty-five year old Texas-born Chennault has had a stormy career ever since he first formed the world family “Flying Tigers” in the summer of 1941. Chennault probably knows as much as any other man in the world about the capabilities of the Japanese pilot, of the Japanese plane. Time and again, he has amazed those around him by his ability to turn his field glasses on an approaching Japanese squadron and accurately call off every move that they would make. He came out of retirement from Waterproof. La., where he was living in a simple cottage with his wife and eight children in (Turn To Page R, Column 6) 0 Vernon N. Sovine .Dies Friday Night Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Vernon Neil Sovine, 15, son of Dave and Elsie Pendland Sovine of Pleasant Mills, died at his home Friday night at 9:40 o’clock of a heart condition from which he suffered the greater part of his lite, although his condition became serious only about two weeks ago. He was born April 16, 1930, in Pleasant Mills, and was a member of the Methodist, church in that town. Besides the parents, survivors include a grandmother, Mrs. Laurinda Pendland, who makes her home with the Sovines, and the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. Melvin Dellinger and Carroll Wayne of Pleasant Mills, Nina Sovine at home, and Sgt. Luther Sovine, now in the Philippines. One. brother is deceased. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and at 2 p.m. at the Methodist church in Pleasant Mills, with the Rev. Seth Painter in charge of the services. Burial will be in the Elm Grove cemetery at Bluffton. The body will be taken to The home Sunday frqm the Black funeral home and friends may view the remains after 1 o’clock. o Fort Wayne Airman Is Enroute Home Manila, July 14 —(UP) —Capt. Louis Curdes, Fort Wayne, Ind., fifth airforce mustang pilot who has shot down 10 airplanes — seven German, one Italian, one Jap, and one American —is going home on leave, it was announced today. Curdes is credited with shooting down an American C-47 transport to prevent its confused pilot from landing on a Japaness-held island. The plane crashed into the sea and all aboard were rescued the next day. Curdes, who was twice captured and twice escaped in the European theater, was awarded the distinguished flying cross for this action.

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Honshu Steel Port Aflame From End To End After Merciless Pounding By Ships Guam. July 14— (UP) —American battleships, attacking under cover of a 1,000-plane carrier strike on . Japan’s northern islands, set the Honshu steel port, of Hamaishi aflame from end to ' end under a merciless two-hour bombardment today in history’s first big naval blow at the' Jap- , anese homeland. Led by thnee or more of the most* modern and hardest-hitting dreadnaughts in the Pacific fleet, ’ -a flotilla of at least nine American warships steamed within five . miles of the Japanese shores at ’ noon today (Tokyo time) to unlimber their giant guns on Kamai- . shi, 275 miles north of Tokyo. Unchallenged by the elusive ( Japanese fleet and air force, the surface raiders sent salvo after I salvo of five, eight and 16 inch • shells crashing down into the city's sprawling steel mills and . dock yards. J When they wheeled back to p sea 120 minutes later, the entire city was blanketed in smoke and , flames. The huge Kamaishi steel , mill was completely demolished and the adjoining coke ovens , were burning furiously from the • cannonading. The battle-hungry Yank fleet. ' apparently broke radio silence to . flash word of the successful bom- ! bardment back to fleet Admiral ! Chester W. Nimitz' headquarters on Guam, in a blunt challenge to the Japanese to come out and fight. And first reports from the scene indicated the enemy had discreetly ignored the challenge. It was the navy’s greatest and most spectacular strike at Japan since the war began and it shattered forever the myth of impregnability the Japanese had woven about their home islands since the “Kamikazi” wrecked the years ago. ■ Meanwhile, there were signs s that the fleet's massive carrier . blow against northern Honshu. L and southern Hokkaido, almost 200 miles north -of Kamaishi, might still be going on this as- • ternoon, 12 hours after the at- • tack opened at dawn. Fragmentary reports flashed , back from Admiral William F. , Halsey’s mighty third fleet off the Japanese coast said there was no initial opposition from sea or . air. The startled Japanese, who had • been trumpeting for four days > that Halsey's warships fled southward after blasting Tokyo last I Tuesday, were caught completely (Turn To Pago 6, Column 4) o — Firestone Workers l ' Discuss Strike End Call Mass Meeting Oh Order By WLB 1 -__ * By United Pre<s6 About 16.600 striking rubber workers at the Firestone Co.’s Akron, O„ plant meet today to decide whether to join a back-to-work movement that has cut to approximately 37,000 the number of workers idled by labor disputes. Today's mass meeting was called ’ in response to orders from the Na--1 tional war labor board when attempts to arbitrate deadlocked ’ contract negotiations were unsuc- ' cessful. The CIO United Rubber workers have remained away from the big plant for the past two weeks. Production at the Chrysler Co.’s , Dodge plant was resumed yester- , day, reducing the number of idle . Detroit workers to some 8.200. , A ishort-lived walkout over eus- , pension of a CIO maintenance man charged with .sun bathing on company time was called off at the. (Turn To Page 3, Column 2)