Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1945 — Page 1

YdTIIII. No. 204.

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■Troops B° ore ■Evening dfe. MacArthur And JBn. Nimitz Ready Japan BULLETIN , tot Francisco, Aug. 29 — first of some 200 transport planes gjgHbkinawa bearing infantrythe occupation of ToBC correspondent MercilfßLeHer reported today. jJ®. Au "' 29— <UP) —Gen - arrived in Oki,.&d Admiral Chester W. Nitz Kw to Tokyo bay today as zK hour approached for mass aeßir and sea landings in the jateßTokyo area. sea-borne troops will on three fortified isaiding Yokosuka naval ?e i» Tokyo bay at 6:15 a.tn. iioiHßw (4:15 p.m. today CWT). M '■ a tti. tomorrow (8 p.m. to- • B?Ti, MacArthur will land tkKmsands of air borne infan •tfflStat Atsugi airfield, 20 miles rJK Tokyo, and 10,000 marines 4 Bejackets will ewarm ashore snßips at Yokosuka itself. ■eiiaration for the post-sur-iinßinvasion, the greatest air '• flue’s ever gathered in the dfißwere making last-minute at bases 1,000 miles Ksßrthur and his headquarters (ftS|w from Manila to Okinawa f;B|tched the vanguard of the troops who will accomOxMni climb into their transrtiggn Okinawa’s airstrips. 1,000 miles to the norththßconquest of Japan - landed waters of Tokyo bay S®osuka in a giant Coronado escorted by fighter.-. commander of fleet immediately the battleship South Dawill serve as his flagHfflße will represent President gjSti and the United States at formal surrender aboard 4 ■ttleship Missouri next Sunwill sign the docuIthe supreme Allied com1 William F. (Bull) Haight the 53,000-ton Misflagship, into Tokyo bay res of other c Allied warraneports and hospital ay in preparation for tolandings. liur left Manila after inGen. Jonathan M. Waintis successor on Bataan sgidor in the dark days of be his guest at the sursremony aboard the Misainwright accepted. rs of Wainwright’s staff Gen. A. E. Percival, the )tnmander Who surrenderBgapore, also will attend the B ~ Hp' l ' To Page 3, Column 6) late Bulletins ■nghai, Aug. 29— (UP) — Bated U. 8. army and navy '■ n Mid today Japanese beat fwican prisoners mercilessly ■Bfe infamous “bridge house” '■ptment camp in attempts to 3 B> military information. ■ Francisco, Aug. 29—(UP) '■tyo radio said today “some *®lties” were inflicted by pac- ’■ dropped on Allied mterne ßcamps in the Tokyo area. >Bocrat th EF.MOMETER Bmperature reading a. m 70 a. m 77 2»00 p. m. 84 WEATHER *1 Considerable cloudisß*ith occasional showers and north portion this Ir On * toni Oht and Thursday. ■ ued warm.

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Trade Pact Is Signed By Russia, Hungary London, Aug. 29—-(UP)— Radio Moscow today announced the signing of a trade pact between Russia and Hungary. Wages, Price Boost Asked For Industry WPB Asks Boost In Low-Pay, Low-Price Industries In U. S. Washington, Aug. 29 —'(UP) — The War Production Board wants wages and prices increased in lowpay, low-price industries producing scarce materials needed for reconversion. An authoritative WPB source said today that because of the need for stimulating production in these industries the WPB is asking the Office of Price Administration and the War Labor Board to join in taking action. Typical of these industries, the official said, are brick and iffiil pipe producers. Their products - are essential Ho Both industrial and home construction. Because of low wages these industries have failed to obtain the manpower needed for full production. Low price ceilings at the same time have tended to discourage the producers. As an example of the low state to which these low-wage, low-price industries have fallen he cited the soil pipe producers. In 1941, he said, there were 52 plants employing 11,000 men and they produced 585,000 tons of soil pipe. Now there are only 32 plans employing 5,000 people and in 1944 they turned out only ISO,OOO tons. Meanwhile a review of WPB reconversion action slhowis that it has revoked 140 orders and 95 schedules, the vast majority of them since the Japanese surrender. Many others will be dropped Sept. 30. By then the WPB will be left with some 50 or 60 orders and 20 or 30 schedules. This compares with 654 orders and schedules on V-E day. Only a few regulations have been added in the last few weeks and these have been designed as reconversion replacements for certain war-time controls. For instance WPB rounded up its essential inventory controls in an omnibus inventory regulation. One of the new regulations is designed To prevent the placing of simultaneous duplicate orders for materials by a single firm. Another will enable WPB to set a more rigid limit on inventories based on the num(Turn To Pag?e 6, Column 7) o War Prisoners Os Japs Reported 111 Food Badly Needed By War Prisoners With Admiral Badger’s Occupation Forces, Tokyo Bay, Aug. 29— (UP)—The American navy was urged today to rush adequate food supplies here at once to combat dysentery by International Red Cross representatives who informed Rear Admiral Oscar C. Barger that at least 5,000 of 34,000 Allied war prisoners in Japan were ill and needed immediate attention.. Dr. Marcel Junod, Swiss representative of the Red Gross, conferred with Badger aboard this task force’s flagship, the U. S. S. San Diego, and revealed that milk and sugar were needed urgently for the prisoners. He told Badger that 6.000 prisoners were held on Central Honshu in the Tokyo area, with an estimated 8,000 in the Yokosuka “Those at Yokosuka-only a few hundred yards away now-may I be released soon. The Japanese admit (Turn To Pag# *< Column 6).

Navy Reveals Plan To Speed Men's Release Demobilization To Be As Speedy As Possible—Nimitz Tokyo Bay, Aug. 29 — (UP) — Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said today that demobilization of the navy will take place as rapidly as possible and steps already are under way to return navy men to the United States as fast as ships are available to carry them. In a press conference, Nimitz said that the navy’s “shooting figure” was a 500,000-man peacetime fleet. Asked how seriously the Allied sea blockade affected Japan, Nimitz said: "It brought about their surrender—l don’t know how much more than that!” Nimitz said it was now impossible to tell how the invention of the atomic bomb would affect future navies but he said it was certain that such bombs would have a hard time reaching submarines. He added that when the full story of the submarine’s participation in the war is told, it would bo realized then how much victory depended on it. “One thing should impress every thinking person,” Nimitz said. “Here’s an island empire with its army intact, with a large airforce but with practically no navy. It was brought to surrender before any assaults had taken place. “That was brought about by seapower—seapower spearheaded by our carrier-Borne air forces and raided by the excellent and efficient work of our shbmarines. “This seapower made possible /the advance of our Pacific fleet westward. It made possible the bringing up of forward troops — (Turn To Page 5, Column 6) More OPA Suits Are Filed In Indiana Indianapolis, Aug. 29 —(UP) — Office of Price Administration officials today proved to price violators that the OPA still was potent even though the war was over. 'Four suits were filed against violators in federal district court in Indianapolis, while a record of 20 cases were on file in federal court at Hammond. Survivors Os USS Houston Are Found 300 Crew Members Are Reported Alive Washington, Aug. 29— (UP) — The hand that fills in the blank pages in the book of war began to write again today. It began on a page bearing the title “Uss Houston.” And as it started its journey across the paper, hope, like a swift-ly-flaring spark, burned brightly again in hundreds of hearts in homes scattered across America. An American officer, Lt. Col. Nicol Smith of the Office of Strategic Services, was responsible for bringing to America the first word received on the fate of the Houston and her crew of more than 700 since she disappeared without trace in the last flaming battle of the Java sea Feb. 28, 1942. Smith told reporters that some 300 members of the 'Houston’s crew were alive in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Thailand. He said he received his information from five Houston survivors who escaped from the camp a few weeks ago and stumbled — weary, emaciated and almost dead —into a Thai guerilla camp operated by OSS representatives. Smith did not name the five survivors nor did he give any details (Turn To P«« 2, Column 6)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wed nesday, August 29,1945.

Wainwright Is Rescued LAWv J.—5T 1 Jh jSfi \ •h f igßif I 19 1 i wmb * I * JB LI Wi ll . If ’ JSifc i L—. ..A W' ■: • ■ . LT. GEN. JONATHAN (Skinny) WAINWRIGHT, hero of the last days of Bataan and Corregidor, is pictured in Chungking, the Chinese provisional capital, after his arrival by plane from Manchuria, where he had been held in a prisoner of war camp. Wainwright is shown above, center, with Brig. Gen. I. C. Beebe, left, and' Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, right.

Miss Margaret Moran Retires As Teacher Resigns After 47 Years In Schools Next week’s school bells will have a different meaning for Miss Margaret. Moran, teacher in the public schools in this city for the past 35 years, who has tendered her resignation to the school board. Miss Moran concludes 47 years as a teacher. She taught in the rural schools before coming to Decatur and during her career as an instructor taught in the former ward buildings and recently at the Lincoln grade school. Commenting on her long service in the education of youth, a friend paid tribute to the well known teacher, in the following article: “The name of Margaret Moran for the first time in several years will not appear on the roster of the teachers of Decatur. This is pursuant to her resignation. Many a parent, who has children of school age will deeply regret that she is closing her career as a teacher. “Miss Moran entered the school room many years ago well prepared to discharge the work falling to the lot of a teacher. She has faithfully and conscientiously performed her duty throughout the years of her employment in this capacity. She shirked no responsibility, but labored with diligence as to each child in the way of imparting useful knowledge, and especially did the backward child receive careful attention). She felt discipline in the school room was one of the prime sac(Turn To Page 4, Column 2) Tanvas Funeral Rites Here Friday Morning Funeral services for Alex W. Tanvas, who died Tuesday noon, will be held at 9 o’clock Friday morning at St. Mary’s Cathblic church, with the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Adams Post 43, American Legion, will conduct full military services at the grave. The Holy Name society will meet at the home at 8 p.m. Thursday to recite the rosary. The body will be removed from the Gillig & Doan funeral home to the residence thia evening, and may be viewed after 7 p.m.

Congressman Gillie Lions Club Speaker Opposition to compulsory military training in peacetime was voiced by Congressman George W. Gillie, of Fort Wayne, in a speech to the Decatur Lions club at its regular meeting Tuesday evening. Any future wars will be battled by scientists, the fourth district congressman said, making even more unnecessary co m p ulsory training of the nation's youth. Clyde Butler was chairman of the program. Lisi 24 German War Criminals For Trial Trials Slated To Begin Next Month Washington, Aug. 29 — (UP) — Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and Joachim Von Ribbentrop today headed the list of 24 German war criminals who will he tried by an Allied military tribunal. The list was made public in the capitals of the United States. Great Britain, Soviet Russia and France. The announcement said that investigations were going forward of the cases of other war criminals who have not, been included in this list. The list was drawn up by a committee of the chief prosecutors. The United States is represented on this committee by supreme court justice Robert 11. Jackson. The trials will begin in Nuremberg next month. Those named for trial include: Robert Ley; Alfred Rosenberg; former supreme commander Wilhelm Keitel; Franz Von Papen; Hans Frank, governor-general of Poland; Ernst Kaltenbrunner, aide to Heinrich Himmler; Wilhelm Frick, interior minister; Julius Streicher, Jew baiter: Walther Funk, economics minister; Hjalmar Schacht, financial Wizard; Gustav Krnpp Von Bohlen Und Halbach, head of the vast Krupp works; Admiral Karl Doenitz; Baldur Von Schirach; Fritz Sauckel, labor director; Albert Speer, munitions chief; Martin Bormann, No. 2 Nazi party chief; Col. Gen. Alfred Jodi, chief of staff; Constantin Von Neurath; Arthur Seyss-Inquart, governor of Holland; Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, and Hans Fritzsche, Nazi propagandist.

Army And Navy Reports Make Serious Charges On Marshall And Stark

Teachers' Institute Is Held Here Today Rural Schools Open On Tuesday, Sept. 4 Speaking to the school teachers at the afternoon session of the annual Adams county teachers’ institute in the auditorium of the Lincoln building, Dr. Logan Hall, Indianapolis minister and widely known lecturer, emphasized the building of character in youth as one of the requirements of teaching. “To teach character we must possess it,” Dr. Logan, who is pastor of the Meridian Street Methodist church, said. The afternoon lecture wasj entitled, “The Measure of a Teacher.” The speaker wove an outline of the fundamentals which make a good teacher. “Today's teacher has to be a person of parts,” he explained. “What are the dimensions of the teacher of youth?.” asked the speaker. He listed them as follows: I—The1 —The depth of his convictions; 2 —The breadth of his sympathies; 3—The height of his ideals. “Science has run ahead of the moral development of the race. The atom bomb and its Implications are not in safe hands unless we catch up in character with the swift current of the physical sciences. To teach character we must possess it. Each of the three dimensions cited must be both cultivated and taught.” In the morning program which opened at 9:15 o'clock, Rev. William C. Feller, pastor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, gave the invocation. A vocal duet by Miss Leitz and Lyman 11. Hann followed. Lyman L. Hann, county superintendent of schools, was chairman of the institute. Teachers from Berne and Decatur, not under the supervision of the county superintendent, were invited guests at the one-day conference. Business sessions were held during the morning, consisting of group meetings of the grade teachers; the high school teachers and the school principals. Wilbur Young, director of the division /of school inspection, (Turn To Page 6, Column 6) 0 First American Flag On Japan Homeland Raise First Flag On Japan's Home Soil Okinawa, Aug. 29 —(UP) — The first American flag was raised over Japan's home soil at 12:10 p.m. yesterday on A4sugi airstrip by members of the Fifth airforce’s “Flying Circus.” The Stars and Stripes slipped into the breeze from the peak of the Japanese field's radio mast. ' American officers returning from the first reconnaissance landing declared today that the Japanese had smothered them with politeneee, feeding them turtle soup and roast beef at a flower be-decked table There was a chubby little lieut-enant-general on hand to greet them. He and his fellow officers appeared in high good humor, smirking and saluting at every opportunity. Col. John H. Lackey, Jr., of Norfolk, Ma., who piloted the first plane to land on the field, said: “There were all kinds of sandwiches, turtle soup, roast beef, eggs, ffeh, and some kind of mixed salad that had cucumbers in it.” The Americans ate in what was formerly the mess for a Kamikaze suicide outfit, but the Kamikaze boys had either all committed Ha-ra-Kiri or were eating their cu- ■ .<■ . ... ■ —■ ' - (Turn To Page 2, Column ()

Army Planning Revision Os Point System Congressmen Show Mixed Reaction To Draft Continuance Washington, Aug. 29 —(UP) — House military affairs committee members showed varying reactions today to proposals that they act to continue the draft. Some said flatly that selective service must end with the war. Others urged greater inducements to spur recruiting in the hope that the waning needs of the armed services could be met •through enlistments. President Truman has asked congress to extend the draft, and is recommending that in the future men 18 through 25 be inducted for two year periods. The army followed up this proposal with a summation of its needs and an appeal to congress to find away. By next July 1 today's army of 8,050,000 will have been whittled down to 2,500,000, committee members were told. Os this total 1,700,000 will he retained from the present strength, 500,000 will be inducted and 300,000 will volunteer. This means that 6,050,000 men anil women now in the army will have been returned to civilian life by that time. To effect this release the army will revise its point system. As soon as General Douglas MacArthur gives the signal that conditions in the Pacific warrant au easing of restrictions the critical point score will be dropped from the present 85 to 80 for army men and from 44 to 41 for women’s army corps members. All point scores will bo recomputed and brought up to date. Present ecores were computed as of last May 12. No jnen with scores of 60 or above will be sent overseas. The automatic release age will be lowered from the present 38 to an undisclosed younger age. Earlier the navy—which will be heard Friday by the house military committee — announced that bv Sept. 1. 1946, it will have reduced its strength from today's 3,389,000 to 550,000. These are the figures the committee is weighing to measure the nation's military needs against its manpower resources. (Turn To Page 3, Column 6) Drivers Uninjured In Aulo Collision Accident Occurred Tuesday Afternoon While trailing a threshing machine in his auto at a low rate of speed yesterday afternoon on U. S. highway 224, four miles west of Decatur, Roy Nidlinger, 50, of Monroe route one, was rammed from tire rear by a car driven by Chailie Nelson, 50, of Albany. Both cars were driving west. The Nidlinger auto was pushed into the separator and badly damaged. The Nelson car also was damaged. Neither of the men was hurt, and although an ambulance had been called, they were able to proceed without medical aid. The threshing machine was pulled by a tract or driven by Gale Nidlinger, 20. son of Roy Nidlinger. The youth was not injured. Sheriff Leo Gillig was called and investigated the accident. No charge have been filed and it was intimated that if cause of action was instituted it would originate among the parties involved.

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President Truman, Secretary Stimson Strongly Denounce Marshall Criticism Washington. Aug. 29 — (UP) — President Truman today made public army and navy reports on the Pearl Harbor disaster containing serious charges against Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief oC staff, and Adm. Harold R. Stark, who was chief of naval operations when the Japanese struck. Both Mr. Truman and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, however, strongly denounced the criticism of Marshall contained in the report of an army board of inquiry. They reaffirmed their faith in him. There was no official disagreement, however, with sharp criticism of Stark and of Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short, then commander of the army's Hawaiian department, and Rear Adm. Huisband 'E. Kimmel, commander of naval forces at Pearl Harbor. No court martials were recommended for any officers. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal ruled, however, that neither Stark nor Kimmel ever again should “hold any position in the U. S. navy which requires the exercise of superior judgment." Both Stark and Kimmel are on the retired list, although Stark un- ■ til recently served as commander of U. S. naval forces in Europe. Secretary Stimson repeated an. earlier finding that Short had made errors of judgment which had demanded his relief from command. Short also has gone into retirement and apparently will stay in that status. The army and navy boards investigated the Pearl Harbor attack, which plunged this country jinto the war and broke the back- ; bone of its, Pacific fleet, under the | authorization of a joint congressional resolution approved Juno 113. 1944. The army board report disclosed (hat the late President Roosevelt. ■ warned his high command at a White House conference on Nov. 25. 1941, that the Japanese might attack the following Monday. Present at the meeting wero Stimson, Marshall, Stark, former j Secretary of State Cordell Hull, [and the late Secretary of Navy I Frank Knox. What Mr. Roosevelt told them was recorded in Stimson's diary. e*cerpts of which were contained in the report. “The President brought up the relationship with the Japanese,” the diary said. “He brought up the event that we were likely to be attacked perhaps as soon as—perhaps next Monday, for the Japs are notorious for making an attack without warning, and the question was what we should do.” The board report also contained this line: "It is important to observe that the President of the United States had been very careful, according to the testimony of the Secretary of War, tp be sure that the United States did nothing that could be considered an overt act or an act of war against the Japanese.” Both the war and navy departments, the report said, made it clear to Mr. Roosevelt that they were “not ready for war.” Marshall and Stark in a memorandum to the President said it was essential for the United States to gain time, the report added. But on Nov. 26. the day after the White House conference, the report continued, Hull told Stimson that he had decided —in the words of Stimson's diary—“to kick the whole thing over.” The Secretary of State was referring to a decision to present to Japanese emissaries here a 10point proposal for safeguarding peace in the Pacific which, the board said, the Japanese “took as an ultimatum.” Hull went ahead, the report said, but Stimson did not learn about it until Nov. 27 when, according to the diary, Hull told him “it is now in the hands of you and Knox, (Turn To Page 3, Column •).

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