Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1945 — Page 1

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Item Regards, p| With Japan 'first Problem Rigid Censorship Evokes Protests Os Correspondents Potsdam. *luly 18. (UP) -Thel Big Three meeting was resumed; this astern »• and President Tru-, man was understood to have in-j formed Premier Stalin ami Prime Minister Cliiifi hill that he regards ■ res the war ag inst Japan as the first problem of the conference. ar.-1 In their second joint meeting since the conference opened yesterday, the three chiefs of state were believd to be still limityg Itte&’Bpussions to preliminaries. ' fgjvently establishing the order - the high issues at etake 1 solved. nnan was scheduled to j ' h Churchill ami pay a , all on Stalin before the i business session, but I no immediate word from ; c o tn p o u n d 11 e had done so. opacity as chairman of ig, however, Mr. Truman to have already won a ; it in forcing the Pacific : ? top of the agenda. a few hours after his; lal meeting with Prime. Churchill and Premier ; > Missourian was under-' 1 have made clear the t position that the swi’t Japan is the principal 'routing the United Na-!, particularly America,! d Russia. 1 ' nnan was scheduled to h Churchill today, after! I will call on Stalin. It •stood that the preliminrs taken up yesterday ■ scttssed further today. '■ man. appointed chairman ; eting by Churchill and Stalin, ’st ted his ease at the first;' prclimin: y session in the new pal-; ace of Potsdam yesterday after-; noon. i rigid censorship that evoked I repeated protests from Allied correspondents on the scene blacked out all detailed information on yesterday’s 90-minute meeting. But it was learned that Mr. Truman, Jrithout making any direct ; demand- on Russia or Britain, informed his fellow-conferees that . the log 6 of lives in the Pacific must: be ended as quickly as possible. With that accomplished, the j foundation can be laid for a peace that will outlast generations to | come, Rhe President said. A teief official communique issued a> the close of yesterday's meeting described that session as a “praiminary exchange of views" Otters requiring decision by the hda 1m () f the three states. “It was decided,” the communique added, “that the three foreign (James F. Byrnes, An.<J thonyfeden and Vyacheslav M. Mo- / lotov)| should hold regular nieet-| iagn wi li a view to preparing work ? of the c (inference.” MlgTruman, with typical direetnecs, (surprised both Stalin and CbJWh ill yesterday by plunging. right it ito the business of the con-! ference as soon as he accepted the To Page 3, Column 8) —- . 0 Hilliard Gates Is Lions Club Speaker Hilliard Gates, public service dirsports announcer of ra-1 di o Station WOWO, Fort Wayne. was th< guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Lions Tuesday evening. speaker pointed out how of outstanding sports events add color to radio programs, ai >d related many of the humutous ;jßf*nces in his 10 years of Dr. Joe Morris wais of the program. —o DEMOCRAT thermometer TEMPERATURE reading B°° a- m. 62 yo a. m. __ 68 • 74 ® Co P- m 82 WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Wtursday with no material j g' an 9 e 'n temperature.

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Treasury Chief j i .y ■ wi ■ iii % jt Illi M|| HHe JggEM ; *<&*%'*» x'.V Fred M. Vinson was confirmed unanimously by the United States senate Tuesday as secretary of the treasury, succeeding Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Wilson Appointed As Rubber Director Retiring Director Gives Tire Picture Washington, July IS. —(UP) Rubber Director John L. Collyer predicted today that some A-card holder.? may obtain new tires by next February or March, if present production goals are met. Tires have not been available to A-card holders since July. 1943. In a farewell press conference, Collyer said 25,000.000 (M t passenger car tires were scheduled tor production this year or ‘‘little more than essential replacement needs.” Collyer based his estimate that some A-card holders would get new tiles early next year on the expectation that some 3,000.000 tires above essential needs would be available at the end of 1945 and the expected increased production in the early months of 1946. He emphasized that at least 75,000 tons of natural rubber must be obtained from newly liberated areas in the far east if 194(1 needs are t<> be met. “This is a must,” he said. “Without this, we can't, squeeze by. We look on the supply of natural rubber as the number one problem.” Collyer revealed that between 2,000 and 3,000 tons of natural rubber already had been obtained from the Philippines and Burma. He said Allied military progress in rubber-rich Borneo was “encouraging.” He added that this government hoped that considerable stores of rubber had been put away in Borneo, either underground or under water. The United States, he said, “won’t wait to get equipment in (Turn To Page 2. Column 5) - All Passenger Cars At Army's Disposal Civilians' Travel Is Further Reduced Washington, July 18 — (UP) - Civilians who insist on traveling by train will do so hereaftei a‘ the risk of being tos-ed oft anytime and anywhere it's necessary to make way for war traffic. And they can't say they haven’t been warned. The uncertainity involved in future rail travel by civilians was made clear by the office of defense transportation yesterday when it took control of all passenger day coaches and parlors, baggage, express. club, lounge and (lining cars. This order, ODT said, puts all passenger cars at the army s disposal. If necessary. cars can be shifted from one train to another, or from one railroad to another. Trains can be dropped from one schedule and put on another— anytime. ODT could not estimate just how deeply civilian train travel would be cut from now' on. But a spokesman indicated that travelers— particularly would-be vacationists faced several alternatives, all und’urn To Page 4, Column 3)

Military Men Warn Japanese Full Os Fight Full-Scale Invasion Os Enemy Homeland Seen As Necessary Washington, July is. (UP) ' Rumors and hopes of quick peace in the Pacific take a bad beating among military men here, who believe* Japan is full of light and must be invaded. She has 5,000,000 (M) well armed troops in the home islands and about 4.000 first line fighter and bomber planes. Japan ateo has an enormous store of infantry weapons. The consensus hereabou's is that Japan still will fight despite the astonishing failure to challenge our navy'6 daring approaches to her shore lines. Thus the spectacular reports of Pacific fleet and air operations, coupled with reports of changes in President Truman’s travel plans, may prove to be less immediately significant than they appear in tin* headlines. Another jolt to the optimists came yesterday when it was reiterated here that occupation of Japan is fundamental in our war policy -occupation by invasion unless the enemy leaders decide to call it quits before that, but occupation in any event. There are of course some persons who believe that the enemy leaders may get sensible and decide to submit before much more of the homeland is wrecked. The government will have terms on tap for the Japanese to fulfill in such a contingency. But the consensus id that this is a rather remote hope Chinese communique announced officially today the recapture of (Turn To Page 2, Column 2) oNew Waler Well In Operation Shortly Expect Operation Within Sixty Days In all probability the new water well drilled on the city's recently acquired property east of the 'Monroe street river bridge will be in operation within the next. 60 days, Ralph Roop, superintendent of the water department stated today. The 30 h.p. electric pump which will draw the water from a 400 foot depth has arrived and will be placed in position by Moody Brothers, well contractors, who tire now engaged in drilling another well in the Catholic cemetery. A temporary six inch water main is being laid by Carl Striker across the Monroe street bridge. East of the bridge an eight inch main will be laid. Mr. Roop stated, and connected with the pump house. The new' well on a test run last fall produced 255 gallon of water per minute. Mr. Roop estimates that it will yield up to 309 gallons per minute. The well will be used regardless of plans for a city water softening system, because the city (Turn To Page 5, Column 5) o Mrs. Leo Studer On Derailed Streamliner Mrs. Leo Studer, mother of Mrs. Harold Daniel of this city, arrived at her home in Fort Wayne early this morning after a thrilling experience while returning from California, where she had visited the past year. She was a passenger on the crack Union Pacific streamliner which was derailed near Dunlap, la., yesterday morning after a cloudburst had loosened the rails. Several people were injured and all were shaken up severely. The car back of the one in which Mrs. Studer was riding burned and her car was on fire for some time. Twelve cars were derailed. The passengers were brought on to Chicago on a special which arrived at 11:21 last night. Miss Nancy Daniel met her grandmother there and accompanied her home. Mrs. Studer apparently suffered no ill effects from her exciting journey.

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Pullmans Out On 450-Mile Runs & r US < J1 Yjhlly.'/ d THESE ARE CONDITIONS facing civilians who travel under the OUT order removing Pullman cars on train runs of less than 45(1 miles Two passengers on the sleeperless "Owl” traits operating between New York and Boston try to sleep in coach chairs

Senate's Veterans Split Over Charter Opponents Os Old League Chanqe View — AVashington, July 18 — (UP) — . The senate’s four remaining veterans of the old League of Nations 1 fight are split three to one in favor of the United Nations charter, a survey showed today. The lineup was just the other way around 25 years ago. The four veterans of the league fight are Sens. Kenneth D. McKellar, D.. Tenn., David 1. Walsh, D. Mass. Arthur Capper. R. Kans., and Hiram W. Johnson. R.. Calif. McKellar, Walsh and Capper said they would vote for -senate ratification of the new plan for a world organization to keep the peace, with force if necessarl. Johnson, a leader of the league opposition 25 years ago. went on record against the new treaty. He gave no reason but promised a statement on tin* -object later. The new lineup means a shift for Wal-h and Capper from tile positions they took during the league fight in 1919-2 H. At that time they both supported reservations to tin* League of Nations covenant in the Versailles treaty. Both voted against ratification without tlie reservations. Johnson voted against, the treaty, with or without reservations. MeKellar voted for tin* treaty and against all reservations. Wal-h said he did not believe any reservations would he offered to the new charter and that he would vote for its ratification with(Turn To Page 2 Column 3) 0 Grant County Deputy Sheriff Shot Fatally Fatally Wounded By Fellow Deputy Marion, Ind. July 18 —(UP) — Burk Williams. 37, Grant county deputy sheriff, was fatally wounded by a fellow deputy while attempting to make an arrest last night. While closing in on a suspect in a dtive to break up an organized burglary ring here, Williams was struck in the temple by a bullet fired by Raymond Smith, 40. He died an hour later in a hospital. Several arrests were made in Grant county Monday when sheriff Lora Puckett began a drive to solve a score of county burglaries. The campaign resulted in the arrest of three persons and the recovery of $5,00-0 in loot. One man, Clarence Tucker. 42, an ex-couvict, was being hunted yesterday. When deputies Williams and Smith heard that Tucker was in Marion to see his wife, Mrs. Anna Tucker, 28, they went after him alone. Smith said that after he and Williams located Tucker aud started closing in on him. Tucker turned as though attempting to escape. Smith fired but the bullet missed Tucker and entered the deputy’s head.

New York Newspaper Famine Finally Ends New York, July 18 -lUPI New York’.- morning new.-papers. fat with advertising, hit the streets for ’ the frist time in is days today and I the metropolitan area’s 13.000.tmh ! readers celebrated by rushing the : new-tands. Ending a famine of news brought on by a walkout of the newspaper • and mail deliverers union, thick editions were circulated today The New York Times went to 42 pages. The Ib-rald Trihutie printed 46. Chinese Recapture City Ot Kanhsien i Former American Airbase Is Taken 1 Chungking. July 18 (UP) —The 1 and that a full-scale invasion will be necessary. If Japan is to be invaded, the time for laying in a stock of hard 1 or soft drinks for the victory cel ■- bration is a long way oil and the ; money just now would be better spoilt in war bond.-. The redeployment of the American armies from Europe to the Pacific, [n tact, has only begun. Many army and navy officers believe the invasion or Japan will ; be a tougher undertaking than the ! invasion of Europe. 'Die Japanese army is not rated on par with Germany's. But tlie lay of the land in ; Japan is such as enormously Io favor the defenders against attackers coming over the beadier*. Japan's home islands are similar in 'some respects to Okinawa, where marines and the army had to fight through hills and ridges to . win. An idea of Japanese topography may be gained from the fact : that railroads there average one ; bridge for every four miles of i track. It is no country for rolling i armored advances such as Pattons j men made through France or I great enveloping movements such as swallowed German forces in the Ruhr. Great open spaces ire ■ needed for such tactics. Japan is taking a bad beating in the headlines and the Allied air ; and surface forces obviously are dealing some punishing blows. But the feeling here is that the war will continue for some time if Japan's armed forces must be made ! impotent before she quits, it is I estimated that tlie job of knocking ' out strategic targets in Japan will . take at least another 12 months of i air bombardment. ; In addition to the army of 5,000,000 (M) men at home, Japan has i another 5,000.000 (M) healthy men (Turn To Pair** 2. Column 4) Mrs. Womack Rites Thursday Afternoon ; Funeral services for Mrs. Burg ! Womack, who died Tuesday mornI ing, will be held at 1:30 o’clock I Thursday afternoon at. the home. | 816 Line street, and at 2 o'clock at I the Nuttman Avenue United Broth- | ten church, with burial in the Decatur cemetery. The Rev. C. N. VonGundy will officiate. The body ' has been removed from the Zwiek funeral home to the residence.

1,500 Carrier Planes Os American, British Fleet Resume Attacks

Aussie Troops Press Inland On East Borneo Aircraft Support Aussies Drivinq Back Jap Forces Manila. July 18 (UP) Veteran Australian troops pr<vee j Japanese I'nit? steadily inland in eastern Borneo -upported for tin? tirst time by tactical aircraf' flying from Sepinggan airfield near Baliknipau. Gen. Douglais MacArthur's i mimuitique announced today The airfield is approxima’ely five miles east of Balikpapan. and within -triking distance of any ’portion of llie con-tantl.v changing front. \rmy engineert? also were work ing on Manggar airfield. LI miles wust of Balikpapan. and it vvdl be able to take its full (|tiota of planes soon. This airfield ha- two hardsurfaced runways. Stunned by the iswift loses of their stronghold on Mount Batoehampar, Japanese force., althouaa still tight ing stubbornly were believed definitely weakening in their defense of the route- leading to Samat inda. (io milers to the north. Heavy bombers, reconnaiissance planes, and fighter- continued poimding Formosa. Storage facili’ie; on Koktt island in the l’e cado . „ west of Fornioisa in the Formosa straights, were damaged by strafing. Tin* Make boatyard- were bombed at night. Un Formosa’s rout aw.-st court many supply in-tallations were de-troyed o damaged, while heavy bombers in the wake of a liight rai I on the I'a nton tnduot ria 1 are i made a daylight attack on Honan Island arisenal and near-by TiettHo airfield. Blockading search plane at. night bombed and strafed enemy -hipping in the Amoy. Sw.itow. and lbmg Kong area, on the sou tiea (Turn To Page 6, Column 5) o Decatur Firemen To Meet Thursday Niqht Harty Still's. Decatur fire ( liief, today announced that a meeting tor volunteer firemen will be held at the fir.- ,-tation Thursday evening at 6:3() o'clock. All firemen are urged ’o be present. - o Halsey Raid Caught Japs Flat-Footed Correspondent Tells Os Attack By Fleet BY RICHARD W. JOHNSTON With U. S. naval bombardment force It) minutes from Tokyo. July 18. (UP) Ships of this vast at i tacking armada ( time as close to ' Tokyo today as ships can gel unless they tuck up their bottoms and walk on dry land. We knocked down Tokyo’s front door early today and howled 2,t)tm tons of exploding steel down the rice plain alley that leads to Emperor Hirohito's palace only' 35 miles away. From a platform 111 feet abov ■ the swaying deck o:' this mighty battleship I saw red hot salvoes roaring into the murky sky destined to smash against Hie vast Hitachi steel works at Mito. For 50 consecutive minutes we swept the Tokyo coast playing a 16 inch-gun tattoo on the great industrial plants and housing areas in which it is estimated half a million Japanese are concentrated. This ship, like others in the force, fired nine gun salvoes with an occasional intermission as we moved from target to target. (Turn To Page 2. Column 2)

I 1 I Plal Is Approved By City Council To Develop Building Site For New Homes A plat incurpor.iting 22 lots facing North Tenth street and Dayton Avenue lor the Giles Porter fust addition was approved by the city council last evening. Mr. Porter has purchased 12.75 acres of land north of Marshall street ami extending northward to Dayton Avenue and west ol Tenll. street as a proposed housing site The plat filed covered only 22 lots facing the above mentioned streets. It was staled that Mr Porter, who operates tile Porter Trailer company on Thirteenth street il'S Highway 27'. contemplated developing the site into suitable lots for new houses. The mutter of sewers, streets and sidewalks, along with the extension of the city light and water utilities, are matters to be considered in the development, it was stated. The board of public works and safetv reported the purchase ot an International one-ton truck for the city electric department. The purchase price was $1124, s4o7i. in for a t rude in of a used city truck. A petition by Herbert ('. Braun and ('hulmer Bollenbacher for the (Turn l'o Page 2. Column 3) 0 Says Slalin Favors Freedom Os Worship Dean Os Canterbury Quotes Red Premier London. July 18 11'I’ t !•■ Hewlitt Johnson, dean of Cantbli'y, quoted (h-neralis-imo Stalm ’today as advoeaiina ITecdom I worship and religion. Dr Johnson tepo t.-d in the 1.- : -don New. ('hronicb- of in intview he had with Stalin during li: | recent I rip to Russia. Hi (|itot'• 1 l Stalin as saying: "Religion cannot be stopped (’ t >!i6cience cannot !>■■ st ;l:. d. it. ; ligion is a matter of l onscionce ami conscience is free. Wo: ship ami I religion are free." Ho told Stalin that considetab! ; hostility against Russia had be. :i - prompted in tin past by repori - of the Soviet government's treatment of the church. Stalin I 6ponded: "The church has its history, and Iwe hive our histoi y The pa t ri.r - h !of the Russian orthodox eliurih . pronounced amithem.i on the n-w I Soviet government and hade the I pedple refuse to pay laxe-. We on I our part were obliged to defend ; ourselves. Th. state had to ai t." i Stalin added that th.’ wat has ; shown the church, how ercsimt ta'ly patriotic tin- Soviet government i 'and also revealed the patriotism es i the church. To Dr. Johnson', requ- : for sttg L ge.-t ion on met hods ol <1 a win. Britain and Russia i lotsei toeelli I and keeping them together in tie l post-war world. Stalin implied: “Il was easy to keep togeth-': i (Turn To Page G. Column 5) Indianapolis Boy Held For Robbery Chicago. July 18.—-(UP) A 17 year-old Indianapolis, Ind., hoy. ' , who police said bragged about ti 1 yeat'6 of clime, was held today al'J ter ills arrest lor trying to rob j three Federal Reserve bank em 1 i ployes. Police said that James Mescal confessed yesterday that he and two other youths tried to hold up the bank workers. Mescal was caught, but the other boys lost 1 their nerve and ran. Mescal admitted serving jail sen •' fences in Indianapolis and Arizona, police reported.

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Raid On Heart Os Japanese Empire Follows On Heels Os Fleet Poundinq Guam. July 18 ■ t UP) - Japanese broadcasts imported up to l.aol) American amt British carrier [dunes struck from a. task force lurking oft the east coast of Honshu at ait fields and military concentrations in the Tokyo area today for the second straight day. Tin imported assault on the heart of the empire and neighboring districts followed by a lew' hour- a 2,00t>-ton broadside leveled at Honshu's coast by the giant rifles of Allied warships sailing in to tin- approaches of Tokyo. I Enemy accounts said tin* new I carrier-borne attack hit t'tie districts of Chiba, Ibaragi, Kanagawa. Tochigi. Gumma, and Fukushima as Well as the Tokyo region. Ja[>ane:u- broadcasts said the great carrier strike that spread havoc across Tokyo's sprawling network of airfields from dawn to ’ dusk yesterday was resumed in force around noon today. Three hours later the attack i still was raging and upwards of otm Allied warplam-s w.-re bombing ami strafing ait dromes and othei military installations on ail ' side- of Tokyo, th.- em-iny accounts said. 'l'h< new air blow i .imc hss 1 than 12 hours after a thumb-rin" | night bombardment by an Anglo* I American .surface fleet against: I the defenseless Japanese coast, I barelv 25 mil, . f<■-mi Tpkyo. ' I’hmt di.-p.Wh. , hinted Hie I Allied battlew.igons weim maneu1 vering off Tokyo bay this aftcr- . noun and the Japanese alerted I their coastal population to expect ’ tu ft 11»■ r > li»*11 i 111’’. The i m-niy task fori • is liable ! to a".ick us at .my i ho-- n time I and tdm •■." the -lapam se Domei tiews a.i- tii y admit'- d bb-akly. I 'The .l.ipam-si. lat< r reported -'that sizeable formations of lib.-r---i | ators ami tiglllcrs from Okinawa ; sirm k .southern Kyushu and Shi- : |<ok'l today and fighters - ami bornm - ■ again raided Shattg- -! liai Tin* ('him < ■ seaport was bombed heavily by 60 liberators I' and mitclieli bombers ye '•■'■day. aecoi'ding to Tokyo. I l-'.n tot ies, hoim - ami docks in tln- wood-and-pap' i * : - lining Ij a 7m mile belt of Japan s eastern I I shores abov. Tokyo were blazing furiously from a two hour night ■ bombardment by th.- Allied suri I face raiib-i that Tn-gati around s 11 p. m. (Tokyo titm-i last night. United I'l '-s war < orrespond;em Riehard W Joijns!on report- ; * .1 from tln bridgi- of an Amerii!<an warship that the bombarding i; flei : wrecked i lie huge Hitachi (Tarn T > I'ag. 3. C durnn 5) : Legion Lashes Vets' Hospitalization Bill Mere Economy Axe Aqainst Veterans i Washington. July 18 — (UP) 1 The American Legion todaj at- • tacked a proposed veterans’ hos- ‘ pitalization bill as "an economy axe wielded against the veterans." John T Taylor. Legion legislative director, told a senate finance subcommittee that the measure "can be interpreted only as an effort to save money at the expense of disabled men and wo- (. men who served in the armies of r our country." i The bill was introduced by Sen. h Edwin C. Johnson, D.. Colo., at the request of the veterans ad- , ministration. It would coordini ate existing hospitalization laws and give the yeterans administrator wide discretion in extendb . ing medical care to disabled veterans with disabilities which were L not incurred in service. L Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, re(Turn To Page 3, Column 8)