Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1945 — Page 1

KI.XLIII. No. 213.

GEN. MACARTHUR CRACKS DOWN ON JAPS cH — ——

jMeaf Rationing To End Oct. 1

lais, Oils And Sugar Continue 10 Be Rationed B|j| / 11 Controls On Prices ■ And Rent Continue ■ Under Government Hfl Washington, Sept. 10 (UP) |K| ea t rationing will end Oct. 1 and rationing will end soon at K er , it was learned today. flB Secretary of agriculture Clinton Mpiderson favored lifting meat |Kitioning Sept. 1, it was learned, price administrator Chester ow les requested that no action e taken until OPA had cut down K s paid field personnel. JII Having laid off most of its paid jflLl.l employes, OPA has agreed |*hat meat rationing will go Oct. 1 fHand the two agencies have drawn HU blueprints heralding the end. is a good supply of heef, Humb. mutton and poultry on the Siuarket, although there is still a shortage. ||H Fats and oils will continue to |flbe rationed, as will sugar. 11l Shoe rationing, it was learned, probably end between Oct. 15 ifltnd Nov. 1. ■9 President Truman notified war on Aug. 15 at the time ■of the Japanese surrender that as |flwy controls as possible should jjfliie lifted within GO days — all if 9 The OPA believes most ratjonMing will end this year —including |fl rationing of automobiles and |fl tires. ■ Other controls which will con- ■ linue for some time are those Mover rents and prices. The OPA ■ wants to keep prices down. Rent Mioulrol has been the most sue- ■ cessful of all OPA price control ■ programs. According to the burfl eau of labor statistics, rents went Uup only four percent between fl August, 1939, and August, 1943, ■'whereas food went Tip almost 50 fl percent, and clothing 45 percent. fl At the same time OPA points fl out that landlords had an increasfl income of around 40 percent fl during the same period because of fl fewer vacancies, decreased mainfl tenance costs and slightly infl creased rental rates. H The next important WPB confl trol scheduled to 'go ‘is the one fl over home construction. It is exfl P«ded to be removed within the fl next month. g On Oct. 1 veterans will receive fl a new priority to buy building fl materials second only to that of fl the military. ■ (Turn To Page 4, . Column '»> ' I Memorial Services J Planned Sunday For | Pvt, Loren Warthman I Memorial services for Pvt. Loren 9A. Warthman., who was reported 9 (“issing jn action in Italy, in March 9 “44 and declared dead by the | W last August 1, will be held 9 Sept. 16 at 2 o’clock at 9 “>e Monroe Methodist church. a 4. Pvt ' Warthmaa, a former resi- | “ e « of this city, met his death in ■ th' 0 *? 3, ,taly ' ,Ie was a veteran of | “e North African, Sicilian and ItaI tnt c am Paign«3. He took his basic ■ al »mg at Camp Wheeler, Ga., and I t,*?' oVerße as without receiving a I ,Ur >ough home. I th?» 18 survive d by the widow, I rar orniei ' Chrystal Christener, the I Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer I folinw l ma “ of Cra *SV‘Ue, and the IMn w S brothers and sisters: I Ji- , ltna Reed ot Craigville; I u J ' Luella McAhren of Oesian; I n aUl> WUh the U - S ’ I berrn M 1’ Donald - Donabelle, ElI and "Dale at home. I T ” ERMOMETER I 8 rn IMPEI * ATURt READING I Noon • 73 1 2:00 p- « I C,.-,. WEATHER 1 j niaht' n 8 * nd much cooler toI «how»r ° cc,,lona * thunderI *ariv ** * outh * a *t portion i Mnl a ' aht F ’ ir con- ! i cool Tuesday. <

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vidkun Quisling Is Sentenced To Death Norwegian Traitor Convicted By Jury Oslo. Sept 10—(UP)— Vidkun Quisling, the first of the European traitors to sell out to Nazi Germany, was convicted and sentenced ito death by a jury of fellowNorwegiaps today on six counts of treason, murder and theft. The hulking Quisling, who steadfastly had denied his guilt throughout tUye weeks-long trial, stood erect for more than an hour while presiding justice Erik Solem read the verdict. Solem then told the former Nor Wegian puppet premier that he bad the right to appeal to the supreme court "if you think the sentence too severe or that the procedure was illegal.” “I wish the case to be reconsidered by the supreme court,” Quisling replied in a low voice. In view of the appeal, no date for the execution was set. Solem said it had been proved conclusively that Quisling dealt secretly with the Nazis before the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940, and betrayed his country’s military defenses in exchange for money and the premiership. Specifically, he was found guilty on charges of military treason, civil treason, assistance to the enemy, murder — in connection with the deaths of 100 Norwegians killed by the Nazi occupation forces -- embezzlement and theft. The jury of three supreme court justices and (our civilians was unanimous in its verdict, except for two dissensions on two lesser counts. It ordered Quisling’s fortune, totaling 1,0(18,000 kroner, approximately $206,640 confiscated. Minton Not Interested In War Secretaryship New Albany, Ind.. Sept. 10—>(U. PJ—Federal, judge Sherman Minton today denied reports that lie soon would become secretary of war. The former senator from Indiana said there was no foundation ti> the prediction of radio commentadr Drew Pearson, who broadcast loot night that the cabinet post -would he Minton’,s within two weeks. “I don’t think I would take it, even if it were offered to me,” Minton declared. Mrs. Glen Eichhorn Dies Saturday Night Funeral Services Wednesday Morning Mrs. Phyllis Jean Coffee-Eich-horn. 19, Wife of Glen E. Eichhorn, died at 11:15 o’clock Saturday night at the Adams epunty memorial hospital. Dea'h was unexpected and followed an illness of six days of peritonitis. She was born in Decatur January 25, 1926. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Coffee, and was a lifelong resident of Decatur, with the exception of about six months, when .she lived with her husband At Riverside, Calif., until he was sen* to sea duty with the U. S. navy. She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and attended the Decatur Catholic high school. Surviving are the husband, now stationed at San Diego, Calif.; the parents and four brothers, Louis, Tom, and Gary, all at home, and Fred, in the U. S. naval hospital at Farragut, Ida. Funeral services will be held at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning at the church, with tfie Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. 1 Burial will be in the' Catholic cemetery. The body will be removed from the Gillig & Doan funeral home to the residence of the pasents, 503 North Fifth street, where friends may call after 8 o’clock this evening*

Australia In Demand For Jap War Punishment Urges Punishment 'Highest' Japanese As War Criminals London, Sept. 10— (UP) —Foreign Minister Dr. Herbert Evatt of Australia demanded today that “superior officers up to The highest”—presumably including Emperor Hirohito and the Imperial general staff—be punished for Japanese barbarity in the southwest Pacific. He made the demand in releasing Australia’s official report to the United Nations war crimes commission on Japanese cannibalism and tortures in the Australian war zone. Australian newspapers reviewing ihe report urged the Allies to scrap soft peace terms for Japan and mete out the harshest treatment to the enemy. The report charged: 1. Japanese soldiers ate flesh from their own and American and Australian dead in New Guinea fol lowing the Buna-Gona campaign in 1942-43. 2. 150 Australians who surrendered under a white flag in New Britain were shot or bayonetted to death, a few at a time in the presence of tho-e still to die. 3. Two Roman Catholic priests, one a Dutchman and the other an American, and two Catholic nuns were bayonetted to death in a New Britain village about Aug. 19, 1942. The bodies of the nuns were naked when found. 1. Two American prisoners were dejected and' their livers removed while they were still alive in the Kokuinbona area of Guadalcanal in the latter part of September 1942. • 5. Japanese troop# killed up to 59 native* and 36 Australian soldiers without justification or excuse at Milne bay. New Guinea, in 1942. Many, including women natives, were subjected to frightful mutilation and some were used for bayonet practice while they still * (Turn. To Page 4. Column 5) 24 Decatur High Grads To College High Percentage Os Graduates To School i Twenty-four members of the 1945 graduating class of the Decatur junior-senior high school/ are attending institutions of higher learning, W. Guy Brown, principal, announced today. In addition, four members of the 1944 class have also enrolled for further education after working for the past year. The 24 members of this year’s class attending college are figured as a high percentage, as there were 79 graduates last spring, 10 of whom were in the nation's armed forces at the time of graduation. The 1945 graduates and the schools they are attending are as follows: Everett Arthur, Ball State Teacher’s college, Muncie; Norma Baker, Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne; William Bromer, DePauw university, Greencastle; Helen Frank, Ball Memorial hospital, Muncie; Rosamond Grahaim Hanover college, Hanover; Leona Hoile, Illinois Wesleyan, Bloomington, Ill.; Virginia Hutker, Ball hospital; Patricia Kitson, Indiana university, Bloomington; Mary Jo Krick, St. John’s hospital, Ander son; Margery Linn, Rockford college, Rockford, Ill.; Kathleen McConnell, Christian college, Columbia, Mo.; Jane Maddox, Ohic State, Columbus, O. Colleen Miller, Indiana extension, Fort Wayne; Ruth Joan Miller, Michigan State, East Lan sing, Mich.; Mary Moore, Inter (Turn To Page 3, Column 2)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 10,1945.

' 11 ■"■■n 1 — 1 -—- —'■ - — Wife Welcomes Wake Commander fl _ flgfl Ji ■-ONG, ANXIOUS YEARS of waiting are over as the wife of Comdr. Winfield Scott Cunningham welcomes him home on his arrival at National Airport in Washington. Leader of the U. S. forces on Wake Island when war broke out, Cunningham was held captive by the Japs for more than three years. This is an official U. S. Navy piioto.

Adjustment Board In Session Today Expect Approval Os Local Tax Levies Tile local tax levies made bi’ county, township, school, library boards and incorporated towns and cities, wil? in all probability be approved in their entirety by the Adams county tax adjustment board, and referred to the Indiana state board of tax commissioners for final action. The seven men aboard met at 10 o’clock this morning at the auditor's office, with tiie intention of completing its work today and certifying the local levies to the state. Charles A. Burdg, trustee of Union township, and representing ths townships in the county, was elected chairman of the board. Olis Hocker of Monroe was named vicechairman. Thurman I. Drew, county auditor, by virtue of his office, acted as secretary. The members of the board besides Br. Burdge and Mrs. Hocker are, W. W. Briggs of Geneva; Fred Schulte, local merchant ; Menno Burkhalter of Berne; Mayor John Stults, and Henry Dehner, representative or the county council. The members serve without H’nrn Tn 4. Polunin

General Wainwiight Given Hero's Welcome In Capital

Washington, Sept. 10 —(UP) — Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, emaciated from nearly 40 months of Japanese captivity, received a hero’s welcome home today and in a speech of thanks urged Americans to see that “every subject of the emperor” is made to feel the full meaning of Japan’s defeat. “These truculent men must be forced to realize the folly of their ambitions,” said the slim professional cavalryman who was left behind to preside over the humiliating surrender of Corregidor in the early dark days of the war. “Until the Japanese people display sincerely a desire for peaceful ways, we must not abandon the watch,” he said. He spoke these sentiments to massed thousands at a civic reception on the Washington monument grounds. Previously, there had been two solemn, but happy reunions for Wainwright. The first was at the airport, where Mrs. Wainwright greeted him first as he stepped

BULLETIN Washington, Sept. IC—(UP) — The Agriculture Department today forecast a 1945 corn crop of 3,069,055,003 bushels compared with 2,344,478,000 bushels estimated a month ago and a 1944 production of 3,228,361,000. Garbage Disposal Problem In City Many Complaints By Decatur Housewives While Europe is faced with problems of feeding the hungry, Decatur has the paradox of getting . the overflowing garbage cans empt--1 ied and housewives are beseeching t?.e city hall to do something about ■ it. 1 The canning season had added to the local problem of gathering the garbage. Housewives complain that cans have not been emptied and that they don’t know what to d i with ihe tomato pulp, peach pealings and corn husks. One explanation given was that the contractor’s truck had broken down. Another is the shortage of labor for the particular job. Clark 'E. Ross, whose address is Wren, Ohio, lias the city contract. At 10 o'clock this morning 2) complaints had already been received at the city hall and city of(Tnrn To Pag>e 4. Column fit

■ I front the plane. They had been ,; separated for more than four i! years. i' They kissed and she said I “hello, darling,’ but Wainwright I appeared too overcome with emo- ■ tion to reply. ' The second was at the Pentagon 1 building, - where 35 veterans of Bataan and Corregidor — victims, - like Wainwright, of Jap prison camp inhumanity—cheered him. “It’s too bad that all of you are not here,” he told them, “but more are coming, they are on the way.” With Wainwright on the plane from San Francisco, where he received another reception yesterday, were four men who shared with him the hardships, starvation and abuses of Jap imprisonment. They were Brig. Lewis C. Beebe, Faribault, Minn., Wainwright’s chief of staff: Lt. Col. John R. Pugh, Washington; Maj. Gen. Thomas Dooley, McKinney, (Turn To Page Z, Column 1)

Central Head Os Japan Militarism Dissolved; Tight News Censorship

Japanese Forces In China Surrendered Nanking's Puppet Wanted By Chinese Nanking. Sept. 10—(UP)—China bluntly informed Japan today that she wanted Nanking's puppet premier Chen Kung-Po and seven lesser traitors returned without any further attempts of concealment. Gen. Ho Ying Chin, Chinese army commander-in-chief, sent this brisk order to Japanese commander Gen. Yasuji Okamura shortly after Okamura had signed the formal surrender papers yesterday. The Japanese news agency Doinei called premier Chen a suicide on Aug. 28, but Chinese authorities declared that in reality Chen and his seven companions fled to Japan on that date. Okamura is believed to have replied that he would take steps immediately to see what could be done in the matter. At the same time, Gen. Ho announced that Generalissimo Chiang Gaishek has exempted Nanking "until further notice" from all taxes and levies. This step was taken to give the people of China’s pre-war capital a chance to recover from efforts of the past eight years. Ho also announced that all laws and order's issued by the Japanese during the occupational period were nullified immediately. Nanking’s streets retained the appearance of a vast, holiday celebration today with enthusiastic crowds rushing about seizing all the American soldiers they could find. Some people yelled, “thank you. G. 1. Thank you, G. 1.,” while others merely grinned and pounded the half-stunned Yankee troopers on the back. The historic surrender ceremony was held yesterday morning in the auditorium of the Central military academy and Okamura agreed that ’ all Japanese forces in China, For(Turn To Page 4. Column 7) New Pastor Assigned To First U. B. Church l Rev. Charles White To Succeed Wilson i ’ The- Rev. Charles E. White, pas- : tor of the United Brethren church , at Roanoke for the past six yeans, has been assigned to the paatoratii t of the First United Brethren hurch in this city, succeeding the Rev. R. R. Wilson. The change in the local pastorate was announced Sunday at the closing session of the St. Joseph conference Sun lay at Winona Lake. The Rev. White was admitted to he conference in 1932 and was ordained five years later. The Rev. Wilson, who has been nastor of the Decatur church for the paR three years, has been transferred to the United Brethren church at North Manchester. The changes will become effective Sunday, when the Rev. White will make hfe first appearance in the local pulpit. The new pastor , and his wife are expected to move in'o the local parsonage next . week. They have no children. The Revs. I). 11. and Celia Pellett were returned to the Union Chapel U. B. church, east of De- i catur. • Other assignments in the Fort Wayne group are: Dr. M. S. Liv- : engood, South Wayne U. 8., Fort i Wayne; Dr. Benjamin F. Smith, Calvary U. B„ Fort Wayne; the : Rev, Clyde H, Abbott, Craigville; i the Rev. A. Nicodemus, Nine Mile; the Rev. Paul Ducker, Ossian; the 1 Rev. G. R. Champlin, Zanesville 1 Monroeville church, to be supplied. Dr. Benjamin H. Cain, of War- I saw, wao named superintendent of ' the conference for the 11th year. :

Credit Points For Overseas Navy Service Release Additional 423,000 Os Naval Personnel At Once Washington, Sept. 10 —(UP) — A Republican accused the administration today of deliberately keeping men in uniform so war workers could get first crack at peacetime jobs. Meanwhile the uavy granted sufficient point credits for overseas service to release an additional 423,000 naval personnel immediately. The Republican charge, similar to that levelled during the 1944 election campaign, was made by Sen. E. V. Robertson of Wyoming in an interview with the United Press. “I am convinced,” the westerner said, "that this administration does not intend to let these boys out until the war workers have the jobs.” He said the country was blaming the army “but when you bring it right home it is the administration's responsibility. It is the administration which is refusing to bring these men out until the others are taken care of.” The reason. Robertson asserted, is “so that discharged war workers can get the jobs without having to compete witli veterans’ job priorities which exist in many industries.” The navy's grant of one-quarter point for each month of overseas and sea duty followed by only r. day and a half an appeal by chairman David I. Walsh of the senate naval affairs committee for more combat credit for navy men. Secretary of the navy James V. Forrestai said it would be impossible to award combat credit on a fair basis because many naval jobs were just as hazardous as actual battle participation. Instead overseas credit will be given for all time served aboard ship, or at: any ship in commis sion, any ship in service, fleet activity or shore establishment outside the continental United States, and any armed guard crews, communications groups, convoy groups, amphibious forces, fleet marine forces, mobile hospital units or other units station (Turn To Paife 2. Column 7) Mrs. Cora D. While Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Cora D. White. 70, former resident of Decatur and Adams county, died suddenly Saturday at her home in Harvey, HI. She was found dead in bed by her son. Bob. with Whom she resided. She wa ■ born in Montezuma, 0., April 15, 1875, the daughter of Jacob and Susan Kittle. Her busband, Henry, preceded her in death. Surviving in addition to the son are two grandchildren. Ruth Ann and Bill White, at Mocttehearl; two sisters, Mrs. C. C. Sheets of Fort Wayne and Miss Ruth Kittle of Albuquerque, N. M., and two brothers, Elmer E. Kittle of Coldwater, O„ and Alva B. of Montezuma, O. One an preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Paul W. Schultz officiating. Burial will , be in the Decatur cemetery. Ths ; body will arrive in Decatur late tonight and may be viewed at the < funeral home after 10 o'clock t Tuesday morning until time of the j services. t

Price Four Cents.

Broadcast By Short Wave To World Is Halted In Series Os Allied Orders Tokyo, Sept. 10 —(UP) —Allied supreme commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur today ordered abolishment of the Japanese imperial general headquarters, clamped a tight censorship on Tokyo news channels and suspended Japanese short-wave broadcasts to the world. On a series of commands to Nippon’s emperor and its government, MacArthur dissolved the central head of Japanese militarism effective Sept. 13 and extended Allied control over Domei news agency. Japan’s number one instrument of propaganda in peace and war. Gen. MacArthur announced the impending break-up of the Japanese imperial general headquarters in a brief statement handed to the government. It read: “The supreme commander for Allied power# directed that the Japanese imperial general headquarters be abolished Sept. 13." This followed shortly after issuance of a MacArthur directive placing Tokyo newspapers and domestic broadcasts of Tokyo radio fountainhead of Japan's war of words —under rigid Allh-d management. The directive read: “The Japanese imperial government will issue the necessary oriel's *o prevent dissemination of news through newspapers, radio broadcasting, and other means of publication which fails to adhere to the truth or which disturbs public tranquility. To back up (his order, personnel of the U. S. counter intelligence office moved into Tokyo newspaper and radio offices and began censorship of news and information. Short wave broadcasts were ordered halted at 4:15 p. ra. (Tokyo time) and it was not known when or whether they will be resumed. (Almost four hours after this order was issued, the United Press listening post at San Francisco recorded a regular Domei short wave broadcast from Tokyo radio. The broadcast, sent in Morse, said in pari that the Tokyo police chief, Chiaki Saka, had reported 37 cases of “food-snatch-ing” by American occupation forces during one week, but 11) it there had been no cases of bloodshed or assaults on women dining the entry into Tokyo.) There had been consideral le criticism by press corps members here and in the United Stales because Domei and radio Tokyo were permitted to con'inuo their functions unchecked, while Allied troops were pouring into Japan for the occupation. American forces, strong, took control of three more cities and two naval bases. Tokyo radio broadcasts, prior to the censorship directive, said 3,090 troops of the 27th division occupied Odawara, 45 miles southwest of Tokyo, along with Sagamishara and Zama. Three hundred other troops entered Hiratsuka, 35 miles southwest of Tokyo, to arrange for its occupation probably Wednesday bv another 3.000 men from the 27th, the broadcasts said. Both Hiratsuka and Odawara are on the main Tokyo Nagoya coastal trunk railway. Effect of the abolishment of the imperial headquarters was to deprive the Japanese army—-now in the process of demobilization and disarmament—of a central (Turn q'o Page 2 Column 3) Morrison Reveals Britain War Cost London. Sept. 10—'(UP)— Herbert Morrison, lord president of the council, /said today that the war cost Britain $4,800.00; ,000 on land and $920,000,000 at sea. The lees of life was 240,000 persons in the armed forces and more than 60,000 civilians, Morri-on said in a speech at a victory celebration in Lewisham Borough.