Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1945 — Page 1

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ipect 400,000 ■azisToFace (rime Trials Small Fry Members Os Nazi Criminal feS Groups Face Trial Sept. 8— (UP) — K a l of 300.000 to 400,000 Germans Schargw of criminal wartime ae|KDf is expected to follow the masu* trial of big shot criminals "WhHiuled to begin in Nuernberg Kt month. United Press was given that today by a reliable and inindividual. Twenty-four per- ■ already have been named for tnas'er trial which will he con v ied by commissioners and pro ®teutors representing Great Bri ■ France, the Soviet Union and S, United States. aKriiis group includes Hermann Jr Rudloph Hess and other to Kti -tars. Among charges to be in the indictments te that t e Nazi SS and the Gestapo were. |Kiinina! organizations, it is exthat this charge will be adequa'ely during the Nuproceedings the trial of small fry of those outlawed outfits IHould be largely matters of sum|Kary procedure, the United Press informed. The SS and Gestamembers will make up a large | of the 300,000 to 400,000 perwhose trial and punishmon' forecast. SB Some members of these criminal probably will escape the United Press was on grounds that they'wei'e into membership and coercinto obedience. The Nuernberg master trial is to be the last joint projHirriiiion by the four powers. The SHttMixands of additional individuals |H*t>uld be tried by local court? of kinds, including military and courts of liberated IHsiates. Sgl The 24 master trial defendants, they are present for the event, unquestionably will be the United Press waa inOne till is mussing. Mar- . Bormann, Adolph Hitler’s sechas not been accoutred for. Goering, is ill and may - live long. Goering has been heart attacks. four powers are determined ■ lu ma * !e an “indisputable record" the master trial. It will be of detailed and overwhelming as to make is impossible E i or 20 or 30 years from now for to start a propaganda cam|®Paign attempting to show that the were unfair. J, Convicted defendants at the mas|fl' er trial probably will be banged. may also be executed but it ■ K not unlikely that the 300,00 t |fl' 0 additional trials now will much more often end Pti on or forced labor sentenced. a! is a matter for local courts. Hitler Alive? •■ Londun ; Sept. B—(UP)— British | ■ fress dispatches from Ger■■hT 17 sai ' l .. tuday ,hat Britfah inte *- '■ '^ ke officers had intensified in- ■ Ugaiiull of reports “too strong hm l ° aore ’ Utat Adolf Hitler and ■ hat r ief dfcpu| y. Martin Bormann, K 211" s «*n recently in HamJfl Turn To Page 6> column 8)~ || Township Trustees This Morning fl nJ 11 * tow nship trustees met at fl®a°r 10C1< thi,s mornin S with UyI ent 1 * r I,ann ' county superintend- ■ n , o spools, for their monthly !■ fl Pertaining to the operajfl w , of ,he ecllools > tlle opening fl Oort *k" serae ster and other imfl A J a ‘ SUbjwta were discussed. ■ iJ »urnment will be at noon. fl ° a r ?“ CRAI THERMOMETER I 8 an* MP * RATURE READING H . a an». .. 7t> al w a. m. 77 H ’• 79 fl Pam WEA ™E« fl tsdiv * cioudy, warm and humid fl tfterna {Onisht with scattered fl •how.». n » nd evenin 0 thunder- ■ »lth ' U " day partly c,oudy fl Muth * cattere d thundershowers I Mrth * nd extrem « east, cooler A r ■ «nd west. fl

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Pearl Harbor Probe A Political Issue Likely Big Issue Os 1946 Campaign Washington, Sept. B—(UP)—Congressional sources predicted today that the expected senate-house investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster will become one of the big issues of the 1946 political campaign. If the senate-approved Barkley resolution for a committee of six Democrats and four Republicans gets house approval the Republicans will charge that the Democrats “stacked” the committee to whitewash the Administration. If house Republicans win 'their demand for a political equal group of 12 members, six from each party, the Democrats will charge that the GOP sought control of the committee to smear 'the late president Roosevelt and his administration Either way it will probably become a political issue. But congressional sources gave house Re publicans little hope of amending the Barkley resolution. Speaker Sam Rayburn said that the Republican proposal was “out of the question” and that house Democrats would vote for Barkley’s resolution. There are 241 Democrats and 190 Republicans in the house. Barkley offered his resolution with the approval of President Truman after Republicans demanded a full dress congressional inquiry. They were not satisfied with recent reports on 'the disaster made by army and navy boards. The reports found five public tTiirn T<» P®»ir* 4. Column 71 o Movies To Advertise Indiana Are Planned Indianapolis, Sept. 8— (UP) — Movie shorts and newsreels adver tising Indiana soon may be a real ■ty, Lt.-Gov. Richard T. Jame«? eaid today. James announced that the State Department of Commerce and public relations would meet Thursday to discuss recording all elements of Hocriier Hie on film. Such movie?, he said, would be Shown around Indiana to help Hoosiers understand their state. Hoosier Farm Prices Six Points Higher Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 8 —(UP) — Hoosier farm price.? for Aug. 15 were six points higher than they were a year ago, Purdue University and federal agricultural stars! icians reported today. The farm price index for midAugust was 176, using the 1935-39 period as 100. Livestock gained four points to 159 and grains were up two points to 187, while other farm commodities fluctuated. Adjustment Board Will Meet Monday Annual Meeting To Be Held By Board The Adams county tax adjustment board will meet Monday morning at the auditor’s office for the annual meeting and review of local tax rates. Besides three members who represent governmental units, four persons are appointed by Judge J. Fred Fruchte of the Adams circuit court, to serve on the board. Mayor John B. Stults, by virtue of his office, is a member. Charles Burdg was named by the township trustees to sit on the board and Henry Dehner was elected by the county council to represent that body. Increases in the county and other tax levies face the board members. Under the law the tax adjusters may reduce levies, but not change individual appropriations. Following the board’s review and action, on the budgets, the levies are referred to the state tax board and final decision lies wi-h the state body. If the total levies exceed the maximum of 11.25 in the townships and |2 in incorporated towns and cities, they are subject to reduction.

Over 100,000 Are Idled By Strike Wave Detroit Is Hardest Hit By Wave Os Postwar Strikes By United Press A wave of postwar strikes swept, the nation today, idling more than 100,000 workers, as industry and labor wrestled over reconversion from wartime to peacetime production. Hardest hit by work stoppages was Detroit. There a 15-day strike of 4,500 employes at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., a Ford Motor Co. supplier, stopped work of more than 30,000 on production of Ford cars. Twenty-two thousand Ford workers were idle in Detroit, and 8,000 others were affected at the firm’s plants in Buffalo, Chester, Pa., Richmond, Calif.; Dallas, Tex.; Edgwater, N. J„ and Louisville, Ky. A company spokesman said work at the River Rouge plant and all outlying assemble units would be resumed Monday — “strike or no strike.” The Highland Park tractor divsion will remain closed, the company said. Hudson Motor Co. auto output also was halted at Detroit -after 500 foremen quit, idling 6,000 production workers. Seven thousand others were affected by minor Detroit-area strikes. At Orange, Tex., a back-to-work movement of 15,000 strikers in the Consolidated Shipyards had failed to materialize. A threatened strike of 10,000 steel workers at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Plant, Pittsburgh, was averted last night. Sixty railroad yard workers voted to go back to their jobs Monday morning, when full production was expected to restart. The steel plant strike had caused shutdown of four blast furnaces and thrown 3,500 out of work. Had the slop'page continued, a company representative said, 10,000 would have been sent home today. Demanding incentive pay, 12,000 white collar emi loyes of the Westinghouse Electric Co. in Ohio, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts were slated to walk out Monday. Publication of the Reading Times, Reading, Pa., was susTn Ph?-*' fl Column 71 —o Einstein Is Credited With Atom Bomb Aid Letter To Roosevelt Led To Development Washington, Sept. 8 — (UP) — Albert Einstein, famed mathematician and originator of the theory of relativity, was credited today with having written President Roosevelt a letter on Aug. 2, 1939, that led to this country's development of the atomic bomb. The revelation was made bv radio commentator Raymon 1 Swing in a broadcast (ABC) last night. Swing said the letter stated Einstein’s relief that uranium “may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the. immediate future.” It was delivered to the president by Alexander Sachs, New York economist and friend of Einstein, in October. shortly after the outbreak of World War 11. According to Swing, Einstein recommended that the president appoint someone to keep government departments informed of developments and give attention to obtaining a supply of uranium for the United States. Experimental work also should be speeded up, he said. A portion of the letter said that in addition to generating great power, “this new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it Is conceiv-' able —though much leas certain —that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be condurn To s < Column •)

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JUSTICE ROBERT H. JACKSON, right, chief member of the U. S. war crimes commission, is shown conferring witlt President Truman after his return from Germany, where lie lias been completing preparations for the trials of Nazi war criminals which will start next month.

Sen. Aiken Fears Partisan Politics Says President To Make Some Enemies Washington, Sept. B—(UP)8 —(UP) — President Truman is coming to the time “when he’ll have to roll up his sleeves and make enemies,” Sen. George D. Aiken, R., Vt., predicted today. “I only hope he makes the right kind,” Aiken added. Aiken, a liberal Republican who votes far more often with the Democrats than he does with his own party, said that partisan politics may appear in this session of congress. However, he said, those who start them will run the risk of incurring public displeasure "because the American people are intolerant of either side playinj; politics in the reconversion period." “People < .n’t want party politics in reconversion,” Aiken said. "They want to get tilings back on an even keel again as soon as possible, and they want it done witli tlie same unity which went into the prosecution of the war. They are intolerant of politics in the reconversion period—and in this case, intolerance is righteousness.” The president, Aiken predicted, “will have the people behind him” in most of the moves he makes. “In general,” he said, “the president’s course so far has met witli the approval of most of the people.” Even so, Aiken said, there may be “a pretty substantial Republican vote” in the 1946 congressional elections which may increase GOP strength in the house of representatives. “This will probably come ■about," he said, “because people realize that we should have a check on the government and a strong Republican representation in congress would provide that.” Aiken expressed tile hope that all groups in the months just ahead “to bring the country through a crisis which may be as great as the war.” o Eight Applicants For Service Office Post At leai?t eight men have filed as applicants for the appointment of county -ervice officer, which, under an Indiana law,\ the county commissioners may make. No appropriation has been made for the salary or office expense of the contemplated new appointment, and if a man is named funds will have to be provided by the county council. The county service officer would serve returning G.l.’s in various ways, as provided for in the G. I bill and other provisions of law recently passed by congress and state legislatures to aid him in the post-war program.

Rev. Carey R. Moser Returns To Pulpit The Rev. Carey R. Moser, pastor of the First Baptist church, has resumed his pastoral duties after an illness of >?ix months. The Rev. Moser today expressed hi,? appreciation for the many kindnesses shown by friends during his illness. Wake Island Japs Ale Rais, Birds Over 3,000 Japs Killed On Island Guam, Sept. 8 (UP) -Japanese troops that surrendered last Wednesday on historic Wake island were reduced to eating rats or I irds, and less than 509 of the 2,-250-man garrison coul.l have withstood any American invasion long■r than 12 hour?. This was revealed in an announcement yesterday which said more than 3,000 Japanese on the island had been killed by Amerian bombs and shells, or died of starvation, since overwhelming ’he U. S. Marines’ garrison on Dec. 23, 1941. Over half the remaining garrison would have died of starvation within a month, a Japanese nedica! officer predicted. The Japmese had existed for months on housands of birds which they trapped or killed with tiny bows and irrows on one tiny near-by island which was designated by the U. S. congre. o in the early 1920’s a? i bird sanctuary. The Japanese ilso virtually exterminated the hordes of rates which infested Wake. A Japanese naval lieutenant .aid Wake's garrison was defeated as long as three months ago, although it -till had plenty of ammunition and 18 tanks. He .said that “a few hundred marines could have subdued Wake ;n a few hours any time yin the ast two months.” Only 70 of the original Japanese orce which eivaded the island remained among those who surrenlered-,' it waG disclosed. Blue Creek Township Barn Is Destroyed A large barn, filled with hay and housing a tractor, on the Fred Oakley farm in Blue Creek -township, three miles oouth of Pleasant Mills, was burned to the ground at about 5:30 last evening, following a freak bolt of lighting which started the fire. No rain preceded or accompanied the halt of lighting. A light rain fed about three miles south of the Oakley farm, but none in the territory of the I barn. Benoit Johnson, trustee of S’. Mary'..; township, was driving past the farm and saw the lightning : strike the barn. The barn had been filled with hay. A good tractor also , was burned in the tlames, Mr. i Johnson salfj.

Stars And. Stripes Are Unfurled By MacArthur Over Japanese Capital

Nimitz To Return To Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor, Sep’. B—(UP)8 —(UP) — Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz will move his headquarters back to Pearl Harbor from Guam about October 1, it wad learned reliably last night. Guam was only a temporary headquarters. Asks Navy Revise Discharge Program Urges Better Break To Combat Veterans Washington, Sept. 8— (UP) — Chairman Davijl I. Walsh of the Senate naval affairs committee today asked the navy to reorganize it.a discharge program to give a better break to combat veterans. Walsh tentatively suggested a point program which would credit naval personnel for decorations, combat participation stars, age, length of service, leng'h of sea service and dependents. The navy's present point system considers inly age, length of service and dependents. In a letter to Secretary of the Navy James V. Forresial, Walsh also urged that the navy liberalize i's rules for the discharge of men who want to resume studies of medicine or other scientific matter. 1 , and for older men who desire to •e-enter civil life, Special hardship cases also ihould be studied, Walsh said, and men who enlisted for specialized assignments as in intelligence units or construction battalions hould be discharged quickly if they are needed no longer. Walsh said he had received “many letters complaining that the 'otiuula used by the navy is not entirely satisfactory." He suggested that discharge points be computed this way: Five points for each dependent ip to three; two points for each medal or decoration; one point for such authorized battle star; oue,ia!f point for each year of age; ( Turn To Pagv ft, Column 7) Peter E. Amspaugh Dies This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Peter Eli Amspaugh. 74, prominent Decatur resident, died at 7:05 o'clock this morning after an eight months illness of complications. He was taken from his home, 720 North Fifth street, to the hospital Friday afternoon when his condition became critical. He was associated with the old Laman & Lee Co., and in 1913 acquired stock in the Lee Hardware Co., with which firm he was associated until January 25, 1925. Since that time, he had been an automobile salesman in this city. He was born in Washington township October 11, 1870, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Amspaugh, and was a lifelong resident of the county. He was a member of the First Methodist church of Decatur and of the Red Men lodge. He was married to Julia Ann Archbold August 20, 1896. Surviving are the wife, one daughter, Mrs. Elmer Chase of Decatur; one son, Doyle Amspaugh of Dayton, O.; one sister, Mrs. Earl Martin of Kirkland township, and two grandchildren. One sister and two brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 o’clock at the church, with Dr. M. O. Lester officiating. Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 o'clock this evening.

Probe Is Launched In Fatal Air Crash Seek To Identify Bodies Os Victims Florence, S. C., Sept. B—(UP) — Eastern airlines officials soug'ht today to identify the charred and broken bodies of 22 persons killed when a Miami-New York passenger transport crashed into a swamp near here. The bodies were held in local funeral homes until indiviidal identification could be determined. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, EAL president, announced in New York that an investigation of the crash was underway. The huge plane, carrying 19 passengers and three crew members, crashed a few minutes after the pilot radioed the Florence army air base yesterday that he was “in serious trouble.” Nine military personnel were among the passengers. Their names were not disclosed. The civilian passengers were identified as Michael Shinefield. Paterson. N. J . L. F. Cockburn. Miami; W. E. Gray. Standard Oil Company. Miami; Robert Stevenson and his mother. Mrs. G. G. R. Sharp. Kingston, Jamaica. Andre and Louisa Gerard. French citizens enroute to New York; Mr. and Mrs. Oadav Figueredo, Caracas, VefifeZUbla, and W. E. Pierce, who boarded the plane at Jacksonville, Fla. The pilot was Capt. J. Olin King, Miami. The two other crew members were co-pilot R. A. Kelley. Miami, and flight attendant Gertrude Graham, Hawthorne, N. J. King apparently tried to make an emergency landing after radioing the army that lie was in trouble Mrs. B. H. Harwell said she heard the plane flying very low over the Harwell plantation shortly after 2 a. m. Then, she said, there wai a tremendous explosion. Her son, Hicks Harwell, 12 found the wreckage a few nUnutes after daybreak oFly Adm. McCain's Body To Washington San Diego, Calif., Sept. 8 —(UP) —The body of Vice Adm. John S. McCain will be flown to Washington. 1). C„ today for the final tribute of a grateful country. Funeral services will lie held Monday in the Capital. The commander of famed carrier taisk force 38, which spearheaded America's drive back 1 from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo, died suddenly Thursday night of a heart attack a: his home in Coronado. — o National Union Joins Fo’rl Wayne Disputes Full Aid Promised Fort Wayne Unions Fort Wayne, Sept. B—(UP)—Local unions 910 and 933 of the united electrical, radio and machine workers of America announced today ’hat the power of the national organization of UERMWA has been thrown behind the unions in their two-weeks old strikes at the Magnavox plant and also the INCA division of Phelps Dodg? copper produc’d corporation here. General President Albert J. Fitzgerald of the UERMWA in a ’elegram to UE-CIO leaders here stated that “the entire strength of our great industrial union is behind you in the fight in Fort Wayne to help main'ain full employment and fair wages in your community.” He stated that the national organization would make a legal fight against the Magnavox company's effort to obtain a temporary order restraining the union from male, ting or intimidating any (Turn To Page I, Column ()

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Yankee Occupation Os Northern Japan Is Also Imminent; Reds In North Korea Tokyo. Sept. 8- (UP) -Thousands of American troojjs began tin* occupation of Tokyo and Korea today. Upwards of 15,000 troops from the First cavalary division and other army units rolled into Tokyo by jeep and truck as Gen. Douglas MacArthur proudly unfurled the stars and stripes over the surrender, bomb-wrecked capital. Some 725 miles to the weest, Pacific veteran.? of the Seventh division splashed ashore from landing craft at Inchon (Jinsen) on the west coast of Korea preparatory to occupying the capital city of Keijo, 25 miles inland and all ■southern Korea. Lt. Cjl. Albert V. Hartl of Bismarck, N. 1)., led the 17 h infantry regiment across the Yellow dea beaches from landing craft of Vice Admiral Daniel E. Ba'bey’s Seventh amphibious force. The big guns of nearly 50 warships of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid',? Seventh Fleet covered the landings, but no re.-istanee was encountered.' The troops were veter< ans of battles on Attu. Kiska, Kwajalein, Leyte and Okinawa. Russian forces are 6ccupying northern Korea. American occupation of northern Japan also was imminent. More than s(i warrihips of the powerful American north Pacific Fleet anchored in Mutsu bay at ’he northern tip of the enemy’.? main home island of Honshu today. Japanese representatives will sign formal surrender terms aboard Vice Admiral Frank J. Fletcher’s flagship Panamint al 10 am. tomorrow (8 p.m. today, CWTI. So n afterward, occupation forces will land at the Ominato naval base on i northern Honshu and on Hokkaido, I northernmo. .t of the Japanese home i islands. (Radio Tokyo said the American schedule also calls for occupation of atomic-bombed Nagasaki Sept 26, the Sasebo naval base bn Sept. 22 ami the Kure naval base from Oct. 3 to 13. Other occupation da’cs were given as Wakayama Sept. 25 and Yokkaichi Oct. 2. Two American Sixth army officers will leave Tokyo Sunday to arrange for the surrender of Kyoto, ancient ancient capital of Japan, the broadcast said.) ‘ South of Japan, nine docile Japanese officers signed documents on Okinawa yesterday unconditionally ■surrAdering 1 a.MJpO,OOETHv2sT surrendering 105,000 Japanese army and navy men in 60 Ryuku island,? to Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell, commander of the American 10th army. In the long hay-passed Marshall islands, a fourth Japanese-held atoll capitulated. The half starved Japanese garrison of 1,067 troops on Maloelap atoll surrendered. The American flag will be raised formally on the atoll Monday. MacArthur formally ordered the star,; and s'ripes raised over the American embassy in Tokyo within sight of Emperor Hirohito's palace at 11:09 a.m. (9:09 p.m. Friday, CWT) witlt the words: “Let it wave in its full glory as □ symbol of hope for the oppressed and as a harbinger for the right." The flag was the one which flew from the capital in Washing'on on Pearl Harbor day in 1941 and later waved in triumph over Berli 1 and Rome, a,? well as from the mast of the battle, hip Missouri during Japan'.? formal surrender last Sunday. MacArthur returned to his headquarters at Yokohama after ’he ceremony. Transfer of his headquarters for his stiff. The occupation troops, first foreign army to enter Tokyo in her long history, bedded down for tha night in the former Imperial guard division barrack; and in tents on 'he parade ground near the Shrine of Emperor Meliji, father of Hirohito.