Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1945 — Page 1

XLIII. No. 201.

AP OCCUPATION, SURRENDER DELAYED

■Teachers ■II County Bal Schools Bly One Vacancy Kists In Rural Khools Os County (K one vacancy exists in the teaKk staffs of the 32 consoligrade and parochial schools Lyman L. Hann, t superintendent of schools, MMhced today. are 26 P ul)lic and s ‘ x pa ' schools in the 12 townships, o f Berne and Decatur. The r.arKial schools do not come unjurisdiction of the county but are listed with staffs prepared in 'Hee new principals have been in consolidated high They are, R. F. Ringham LgfiK Hartford Center school, forrrtetii the principal of Lafayette ftißd, in Alien county; Roy C SfoHprineipal at Jefferson, a forJfcacher in Madison township, and Frank Owens, forof the Markle high who will be the principal Kirkland high school. fIK Kirkland township school is need of a mathematics and Iteacher, Mr. Hann explainL consolidated and grade MBs 1101,1 tllP registration on August 30. Classes on Tuesday SeptemL roster of teachers in the 12 I including the parochial follows: . * Blue Creek ; Miscy school —Mrs. Edith Mori .rjß Mrs. Rozella Sautbine. J Bcoln School, Mrs. Rhea StrayMrs. Leia Chanmess. French . ?.Kkm ,-chool, Miss Pauline Muss'. Bar Byer school, Mrs. Agnes Shoeschool, Mrs. Pearl « Hartford SgBF- Bingham, principal; Fred Sybilla Sprunger, Phyllis £sßkman, Ruth Grandlinard, s»£>B Cobb, Edna Glendening, BeugSMugsburger. S' B" Grove school. Mary SchlaggKf. gfcSl"' Jefferson iS B? C. Sieg, principal; Edward Pearl Windlan, FlorSP®fl Roth, Imogene Palmer, FranHelen Kenney, MadeStelnbrunner. S T Kirkland Owens, principal; Harvey u'^B ard . Mildred Macy, Rowena BMf. Irene Kirchner. g|'B Wer school, Mrs. Layke Scher- ~~ Betion school, Mabel Marshall, fif'.... Monroe Blue, principal; Florence jjfl' Gyneth Schindler Luginbill, I)o<l dridge, J, J. Dilts, Surena SL®‘ lni ' e ’ Ezra Sn y <ter ’ Leo 111 - -Magdalena Johnson. school, Benj. Teeple ami Kizer. §aB IPW - er b | ‘r» school, Harry ’ Mson. B_ i B cliei t school, Esther Hirey Jnchester school, Nellie Price. psß'nnger school, Frieda Lehman. Broohial, Ruth Munro. Preble ■eble school, R. M. Houck. Bree Parochial schools, H. F. > en ’ W. EL Uffelman, F. C. B>iege, Marvin Meyer. Root a°nmouth, 0. e. Striker, prin,B’ Tressie Glendening, C. V. B er - Myron Lehman, Blanche tW nson - LaVon Thompson, Alice '» id - Goldie Fisher, Vera Fish'■'era Owens. Burn To Page 2, Column 7) ■ BMOCRAT thermometer BEMPERATURE reading fl®: 00 a. m 62 B® ; 00 a, m 64 Bl:00 a. m, 68 WEATHER • 111 art| y cloudy today with .yterad showers in extreme portion thia fore.|fl on ' Pa| f tonight and Sunday, l JJ coni,n o cooler tonight and IK north P ort, on today.

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Sterner Attitude Is Taken On Argentina Noblesville, Ind., Aug. 25—(UP) — Mark L. Thompson, Lafayette attorney, today prepared to represent 1). €. Stephenson, former Indiana grand dragon of the ku klux klan serving a life sentence for murder, Stephenson's plea for a rehearing of his case will be acted on by the Indiana supreme court this fall. The former klansman filed motion for a new trial 10 months ago. He was transported from the Indiana state prison at Michigan City to the Hamilton county jail here to await hearing. The supreme court adjourned for summer recess before acting on his case. One Change In Faculty List At Catholic High Complete List Os School Faculties Announced Today Only one change has been made in the teaching staff of Decatur Catholic high school, taught by the Sisters of St. Agnes, it was announced today. Sr. M. Benigna, who taught the past five years at the Immaculate Conception high school in Elmhurst, 111., replaces Sr. M. Agnes Terese, science and Latin instructor in the local school for the past 15 years. Sr. Agnes Terese will teach at St. Mary’s Springs Academy, Fond du Lac, Wis. Her successor formerly taught here before going to Elmhurst. Sr. M. Fidelis, who teaches English and German in the high school, will continue to serve as principal of the school. The high school staff and subjects taught by the instructors follow: Sr. M. Fidelis, English, German; Sr. M. Leonida, mathematics, social studies; Sr. M. Alma, English, Latin; Sr. M. Benigna, science, social studies; Sr. M. Dorinda, home economics. English; Sr. M. Hugoline, commercial studies; Rev. Robert J. Hoevel, religion and physical education; Gerald Vizard, physical education and coach. Teachers in Grades The teachers in the grades, and department are: Sr. M. Bernarda, Bth; Sr. M. Letitia, 7th; Sr. Mary Beatrice, Gth; Sv. M. .Xngelus, sth; Sr. M. Carissa, 4th; Sr. M. Dominica, 3rd; Sr. M. Henrita, 2nd; Sr. M. Eudocia, Ist. The music department is under the direction of Sr. M. Patricia and Sr. M. Joachim. Frank Ashbaugh will continue as director of the school band. Youths Warned Not To Leave War Jobs Must Consult Draft Board On Changes Washington, Aug. 25.—'(UP)— The shooting has ended, manpower controls have been abolished, but physically fit registrants 18-25 Who leave draft-deferred jobs still are liable for immediate induction, it was learned today. Orders have been sent from National selective service headquarters here to State headquarters that the rule against wartime workshifting still is in effect. This has brought up a complicated situation which has been thrown in the laps of local draft boards. The war manpower commission abolished all job controls immediately upon Japan’s announced surrender. A man presumably cou’d take off and work anywhere he wanted to. pftit Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey’s draft office followed this with a directive stating that “other government agencies may have given certain registrants the erroneous impression that it is no longer necessary for them to obtain favorable determination from local boards before leaving the employ (Turn To Page 5. Column 1)

Senators Back Cancellation Os Lend-Lease President's Order On Termination Is Hailed By Senators Washington, Aug. 25 —(UP) — Member of the U. S. Senate today enthusiastically endorsed President Truman’s termination of the lend-lease program and blasted any British hope for a change in the decision. Senators agreed with the President and lend-lease administrator Leo Crowley that lend-lease was a war measure and never intended for poetwar use —even for a few weeks or month. The immediate reaction to British criticism of the “abruptness” with which the program was ended made it quite clear that the decision was final, despite Winston Churchill’s blunt statement that he couldn’t believe it was the last word of the United States. Even such a loyal follower of the late President Roosevelt as Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y., said the British “must have known” the situation. “I certainly approve the termination,” he said. “Termination of the program at war’s end has been made clear in every debate we have had on it, including the one last spring.” In London, touring members of the U. S. house foreign affairs committee approved the President’s action, Rep. Karl Mundt, R., S. D-, said the American people probably would favor taking another notch in their belt to help Europe, “But in many ways we’ve run out of notches.” After the rash of criticism in Britain yesterday, American officials here tried to correct some misunderstandings • about this week's action. Crowley met the press in a hurriedly-called conference and pointed out that ending of lend-lease was not a matter of discretion for him or for the President, but a decision made by congress long ago to end the program with the war. Crowley also explained that there was no question involved of denying Allied governments the chance to get needed supplies from this country. The only change as a result of the end of lend-lease, he said was that after V-J day our Allies must pay cash for what they get or arrange for loans or credits. Crowley also listed a six-point (Turn To Page 5. Column 5) To Honor Boy Scouts For Collection Work Banquet Is Planned Here September 27 The “good turn” work of local Boy Scouts in the waste paper drives will be rewarded at an appreciation banquet to be accorded them on September 27, when General Dwight Eisenhower medals will be awarded to 36 scouts and two cubs who gathered a minimum of 1,000 pounds of paper last March and April, Clarence Ziner, program chairman, announced today. Arrangements are being made to obtain an outstanding speaker. Tentative plans call for a joint meeting of the Lions and Rotary club members at the K. of P. home. Boy Scout winners come from all three Decatur troops, the American Legion, Lions and Rotary. The list of winners is being prepared by Mr. Ziner and Steve Everhart, county commissioner for the scouts. Ever since the waste paper drives were launched in this city as a war-time support measure, the Boy Scouts have volunteered their services. With the advent of the monthly pick-up drives under the direction of Phil Sauer, city, chairman, the Scouts have donated a day’s time in the pick-up of waste paper and tin cans. , In the March and April drives, an extra effort was made and more than half of the scouts qualified (Turn To Page 5, Column I)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 25,1945.

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SGT. RALPH G. NEPPEL, 21, former Gliddon, la., farm worker who lost both legs in the war, receives the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Harry S. Truman during ceremonies at the White House honoring a group of 28 Medal of Honor winners.

New Aufo Prices To Be Slightly Higher Cost Os Production Plus Fixed Profit Washington, Aug. 25 — (UP) —- Price ceilings on new cars will allow each manufacturer his production cost plus a fixed profit and will probably make new car prices “a shade higher” than they were in 1942, reliable sources informed the United Press today. The office of price administration is. expected to announce its pricing formula for new cars on Monday. It was learned that White House pressure was put on the' OPA to speed up the fixing of new ear ceilings so the industry could get going without any waste of time. The new pricing has already been handed to manufacturers, it was understood. The OPA is now believed to be ironing ,out lastminute objections of some car-y makers prior to making the formula public. According to United Press sources pew car price ceilinga will be fixed on the basis of this threepoint formula: 1. Each car maker's 1941 production costs, plus. 2. Estimated production cost increases since then, plus. 3. A profit allownce based on each manufacturer’s average Warnings in the 1936-1939 period. Under this formula, it was said, no flat percentage increase on all cars was possible and the price boosts will differ on the various makes. The difficulty of fixing new price formulas was heightened by the fact that some car makers boosted their prices in 1941 while others waited another year before raising theirs. Production costs varied among the companies according to their efficiency and this also complicated the problem. And of course profits differed. Taking all these variables together, government and industry sources said, the net result to the public will -be price tags on its favorite cars that range between "a shade above 1942” and “somewhat higher than 1941.” (Turn To Pag» 2, Column 4) o James Ward Funeral Sunday Afternoon ■Funeral services for James E. Ward, who died Friday morning, will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Walters, *604 Jefferson street, and at 2:30 o’clock at the Church of God, with the Rev. Glen Marshall officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery.

BOOK LISTS The complete book lists for the Decatur public schools, Decatur Catholic schools, and the rural schools of Adams county are printed in today’s issue of the Decatur Daily Democrat. Turn to pages Three and Four for the complete lists. Mass Suicides Are Reported In Japan Mass Hara-Kiri At Emperor's Palace San Francisco, Aug. 25—(UP) — Radio Tokyo said today that Japanese were committing mass harakiri in front of Emperor Hirohito’s palace. The enemy broadcast reported that "large numbers” were killing themselves, presumably in the traditional manner of disembowelment by daggers, as the hour for the American occupation of their homeland neared. “This feeling isn't understood by the allies of the western nations,” the Tokyo commentator, Isamu Inouye, said. “This spirit is deeper than they can fathom. The people are hyper-sensitive.” .Inouye said the Japanese had fought with everything they had during the war and now were in “deep sorrow and gloominess and cannot realize they have been beaten.” “Everything is dark and gloomy,” he said. “Thansportation ie in a confused state. Homes are leaking with rain. Everything is in dire straits. The Japanese have no baths. Health conditions are bad. “The Japanese are tasting defeat.” FCC monitors said the report, carried in a Japanese-language broadcast beamed to North America, gave no details of the mass suicides. Though Tokyo previously had announced that her war minister and chief of the naval general staff at the time of her surrender had committed suicide to atone for Japan’s defeat, this was the first intimation that hara-kiri had spread to the Japanese masses. Japanese tradition holds that a person may recover “lost face” by committing hara-kiri. A Tokyo broadcast a few hours earlier advised the Japanese people to “acknowledge the fact that Japan has lost the war and that she is a defeated nation.” “Only with the honest and true acknowledgement of this fact can we make a beginning of the new Japan,’’ the broadcast said. Going even further, the influential newspaper Asahi said in a - * (Turn To Page 5, Column 1)

Typhoons Force Delay Os 48 Hours In Scheduled Occupation, Surrender

Bulgaria Postpones Scheduled Election Nation Yields To Allied Pressure London, Aug. 25 — (UP) —Bulgaria yielded to Allied pressure today and postponed indefinitely her national elections scheduled for tomorrow. The postponement represented a diplomatic victory for the United States and Britain, who protested to Sofia that Bulgaria’s present single-party system made free elections impossible. The Bulgarian government announced in a Sofia broadcast that the decision was made on recommendation of the Allied control commission. Since Russia also is a member of the control commission, this indicated that the Soviets had supported the western Allies despite the cries of official Russian newspapers that Allied intervention was unwarranted. The text of the Bulgarian announcement clearly showed that the government made the postponement decision reluctantly. It said: “The government, after careful consideration of the notes of Britain and the United States of America expressing the views of their respective foreign ministers, approached the Allied control commission. “This latter has recommended in a communication received today that the Bulgarian government postpone the elections which ought to have taken place on Aug. 26 in view of the Bulgarian government’s desire to facilitate and speed up the conclusion of peace. “The government, taking this recommendation into consideration and in following its desire to avoid anxiety as regards preparations for and the carrying out of the elections, decided to postpone them to a later date.’’ o U. B. Conference To Be Held Sept 4-9 The lOlet annual session of the St. Joseph conference of United Brethren churches will be held at Winona Lake September 4 to 9, inclusive. Bishop Fred L. Denni§, of Indianapolis, will preside. The conference, will close. Sunday, September 9, with the reading of pastoral assignments. Two Fighter Pilots Land On Jap Field Forced To Landing By Engine Trouble San Francisco, Aug. 25 —(UP) — Two American fighter pilots beat Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s armies to the Japanese mainland today by landing on an enemy airstrip and conversing with Japanese off! cers for approximately two hours, broadcasts from Okinawa said. The two pilots, identified as Lt. Col. Clay Tice, Jr., Phoenix, Ariz., and Douglas D. Hall, Anamosa. la., landed together on an airstrip on sotith central Kyushu when Hall’s P-38 developed engine trouble, Gordon Walker, American Broadcasting Co., correspondent said. The fliers returned to Okinawa after waiting on the air strip for a flying fortress which delivered them gasoline, the broadcast said. When it arrived the Japanese helped transfer the fuel with portable pumps. During their wait of some two-and-three-quarters ■ hours “the two pilots chatted pleasantly” with Japanese officers and enlisted men, who were described as “extremely friendly and affable.” “The Japanese accepted a box (Turn To Page 5, Column 5)

China Yields On Occupation Os Hong Kong Chiang Gives Up China's Claim To Outer Mongolia Chungking, Aug. 25 — (UP) — Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek today gave up China’s claim to outer Mongolia, offered Tibet, a Jijglu degree of autonomy and yielded to Britain on the occupation of Hong Kong. At the same time, he sent an uigent third invitation to Communist leader Mao Tze-Tung at Yenan to come to Chungking for a personal conference to avert, civil war in China. Mao had reeponded to Chiang’s second invitation with an announcement that he would send an emissary in his place. Thus Chiang moved swiftly to settle China's outstanding internal and foreign problems in advance of Japan’s formal surrender to the Allies, now scheduled for Sept, 2. Addressing a joint session of the national supreme defense council and the central standing committee, Chiang said that China’s recognition of outer Mongolian independance was in agreement with the Kuomintang party's revolutionary principles for upholding the equality and freedom of peoples. He said that without recognition of Mongolia's independence there was no hope of friendshp between China, and Mongolia. He said also that the successful end of the war assured China of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Manchuria and the independence of Korea. In a statement which cut off fears of a growing British-Chinese dispute over Hong Kong, Chiang said China is unwilling to send her troops to accept the Japanese surrender of the British crown colony lest such a move create a misunderstanding with the Allies. He added that it was hoped that China and Great Britain, through legal procedure and demands of the times, could effect a rational (Turn To Page 5. Column 2) Former Local Police Chief Is Discharged James Borders is Back From* Service James Borders, a former Decatur police chief, who enlisted in the army in December, 1942. followed by 17 months of overseas service, is home, honorably discharged from the armed forces. Agent Borders, who served in a civilian status with the provost marshal’s office, had a basic military rank of sergeant. Following his training in this country at the military police schools at Fort Custer, Mich., and Staten Island, N. Y„ he shipped for overseas and landed at Casablanca, Africa. He served in Algiers and Oran and then crossed the Mediterranean, serving in the Corsica and Sicilian campaigns. He went into Italy, followed through to Rome and northern .Italy and was with the troops in Southern France. He traveled through that country and Belgium and was in Germany on April 2, crossing the Rhine with the invasion and remaining in that country until he started back for America. He wa« attached to a mobile police laboratory unit. Sgt. Borders flew to the United States in an air transport command ship. They left Marseille. France, hopped across the Mediterranean and flew to Dakar, N. Africa, then to Natal, Brazil, South (Turn To Page 5, Column 2)

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American Landings Delayed To Tuesday And Surrender Os Japan To Sept. 2 Manilla. Aug. 25—(UP)—Three typhoons swirling out of the western Pacific forced Gen. Douglas MacArthur today to postpone initial American landings in Japan until Tuesday, his own arrival until Thursday and the signing of surrender terms until Sept. 2. MacArthur anonunced the 48hour delay in the landing schedule fewer than IS hours before the first American troops were to fly to Atsugi airdrome, 14 miles southw’est of Tokyo, to prepare for mass air and sea-borne landings two days later. He said that there was nd definite assurance that the new schedule could be followed but added: “It is hoped that by that time the winds and seas will have abated to an extent that will permit our forward movement.” Also postponed, presumably until Sept. 3, were* Allied landings at the southern tip of Kyushu, southernmost of the Japanese home islands. MacArthur indirectly confirmed yesterday’s Tokyo announcement that troops would land on Kyushu, but gave no date. Tokyo had reported that the landings would begin there Sept. 1. Japanese headquarters reported to MacArthur earlier today that typhoons had turned the landing airfields into a morass, disrupted communications and flooded a wide area marked for occupation. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, whose fifth fleet will help support, the landings, said the occupation forces would go ashore with full combat equipment at docks and across beaches from all types of ships commonly used in an amphibious invasion of hostile shores. “We will go prepared for anything,” Spruance said, “but I have every expectation that the landings will come off all right. I believe the Japanese government is doing everything possible to accede to General MacArthur’s wishes.” Spruance said he was confident that minesweepers would clear safe channels through American and Japanese mines into Tokyo bay. where Japan will sign the Allied surrender terms aboard the American battleship Missouri a week from tomorrow. An ABC broadcast from fleet units standing off Tokyo said all preparations had been completed for the landing of occupation troops. One Hundred American major caliber guns will be pointing at the narrow strait at the entrance to Tokyo bay as a precaution when fleet units move into the Yokosuka naval base area Thursday. Sea-bee units will follow combat troops ashore to ready installations for liberated war prisoners and Internees as well as the occupation! forces themselves. The Japanese already have been ordered to set up a 500-bed hospital for the prisoners and internees at Yokosuka. MacArthur granted a Japanese request to permit Japanese newsmen and cameramen to cover the landings and surrender ceremony. A maximum of 10 Japanese correspondents, still photographers and newsreel cameramen will be permitted at the landings at Atsugi airdrome, Yokosuka naval base and Kanoya, the latter on Kyushu, he said. Only two newsmen, one photographer and a newsreel cameraman will be permitted at the formal ceremony. Japan, meantime, continued to carry out MacArthur's preliminary requirements for the occupation. Withdrawal of Japanese troops from the occupation area south of Tokyo was expected to be completed today, radio Tokyo said. United Nations naval forces were scheduled to move into Jap(Turn To Pago 4, Column 2)