Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1945 — Page 1

■ XLHI. No- 244.

IUNGRY JAPS DEMAND EMPEROR ABDICATE

■gotiations ■End Coal like Fail ■crvicc Restored Massachusetts Hfrcet Railways By United Pre»« was restored on the eastern Ma*sachuW t * r ... • railway txh«> as col- ■ llf -ii.. negotiations to end K,.. strike posed a great- ■. 9I t ., tn., nation* steel prou k•io • work movement \| l, motor coach and street •« ‘ante Inns than 24 ■ aft.r the union members had K t„ remain on strike in deof union leadership. K „! jk.'ii returned on orders ru union President A. L. K u ,i-. who threatened them ■ sanctions, including revoca Hot their union charter. K,*- blast furnaces were shut Khy the coal shortage and proK.u in th.- Pittsburgh smelting Vdropped to 47 percent of ca■y lowest since the deproe- ■ In the 1910‘s. ■rretary of Labor Lewis B. Kell..nlu<h said Ijist night he ■adjourn.-1 'he coal conference ■ would not attemnt to bring ■r* ami operators together K ‘until I get an Indication it K be worth while." ■ other major disputes, seme Hiru lotic-hiremen returned to ■ jol* along the New York ■r front and a new move was ■t* to settle Hollywood's 30-■i-chl film strike. Hrik ru <oal miners, numbering Ba in six eastern states, ncHt.d for nearly half the nation’s Bon idle workers. ■ore I han 20,000 (Steel worker* ■he Pittsburgh area were fur■h.‘d a« coal starved steel mills Hee.) their output by half. A ■ted States steel spokesman Bned that in.OOo would be laid ■ln the Chicago area within B‘- weeks unless the coal strike Ms. He said the company plan* to ■ its output to 25 percent of norB by Friday. Borne 32,'hhi cio etn p I oyes Baten. d a general strike in WilBgton. Del., today over the I'. S B’illatlon service’s failure to set- ■ disputes al two plants o.’ the ■t-anlzed Fibre Co. The New ■He county industrial nni m ■mil authorized Its executive •rd to cal! the strike "if other

. failed.” The board y directed to appeal to Schwel;i to arrange a labor-manage-meeting. op.rations were resumpartially In the strikebound ■* York harbor a* an intraW >t battle continued within the international longshoremen's ■I >n. ■J’espite a Solid Fuels Adminis M'ion estimate of production lossif Mping i. 000.000 tons a day. f 'etary Schwelienhach emphaaiz 1 !»• wo* • not entertaining any 4 J * of seizing the struck pro- ■ ' tilted mine workers President ■ :!1 '■ ***ll* "aid the union had ■ Pled every proposal offered ■ wniement and said the post meant, tn effect, that ■' I * r * no ! on«er were on strike V were “locked out." M • ’ -• • >-— .... I'tHe Damage Done | n I wo Fires Here B°nly slight damage was caused K. t T n !lrea suiting In calls to K . 8,1,i department in the past Kj 7, !l ?, Tile department was call- * 30 p.m. Monday to extinKrbkv ,mall * raM f,re near th® JJikTyndali t||e mm . ■ ‘»»olln« from a car which was' K. * r '‘ palr, ‘d at the Chevrolet F on First street caught fire V ,er 11 °’ c,ock • ,,1B morn E,. “ rnwl *° me ° r the wiring K>m- Ut °’ No ot,,er damage was « to* PeRATU « «AOING« •> «l»ar and warm.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY,

Record Farm Income Forecast This. Year Washington, Oct. 10 (TP) — The Agriculture Department predicted today that farm income in 1945 will hit a record-breaking peak of 120.400,000,00(1 despite a break In cash earnings during October and November. The previous record year was 1944 when farm cash receipts amounted to 111',<90,000,000. Farm Income has climbed steadily since the outbreak of war In 1939. when It amounted only to 17,977,000,00(1.

Plan Observance Os Navy Day In Cily Formal Observance Here October 24 The formal observance of Navy Day. October 27, wlll.be held here on Wednesday. October 24. II Vernon Aurand. county chairman, announced today. The earlier date is necessary for two reasons, first that the national day Is a Saturday and secondly, the schools will be closed on Thursday and Friday of that week for the Northeastern Indiana teachers convention in Fort Wayne. Mayor John 11. Stults has issued a proclamation in keeping with 'he national observance, naming October 27 as the day fir display of the American flag. While the local program has not yet been prepared. It Is planned to have a combined high school program at the junior-sen-ior building on October 24 anti an observance 'hat evening at the American la*gion home. Films from the ba’tles In the Pacific will l>e shown at l>oth plates. Mr. Aurand said. The mayors proclamation follows: • ■’Whereas; The United States Navy today stands as the greatest sea power that the world has ever known, and whereas; all the people of our na'ion owe their heartfelt appreciation for the protection that this great armada gave our homes and families by keeping the enemy from our shores, and whereas; the war is over and that ’A Strong Navy Guarantees Peace’ for the world to come. Now and therefore be Is official, (Turn To Page !. Column St Bank Official Admits Shortage Os $279,000 St Ixjuls, Oct. 16 -(UP) A 1210 a month bank official was held by the Federal Bureau of investigation here today after he told FBI agents that he lost 9279,000 of the bank’s funds gambling in East St. Louis and ‘living ueyond Ids means." Erwin J. Struekenberg. 37-year old assistant treasurer of the Chippewa Trust Co., confessed to bank examiners when they arrived yesterday for their periodic audit, M. F. Braun, president of the hank, eaid.

Limberlost Group Formed Last Night To Seek Restoration Os Limberlost Area A Limberlost memorial association wan formed at a meeting of representative citixens of Adams and Wells counties at Geneva Monday night. A meeting U * .jeduled for next Monday night at Geneva, at which time plans will he advanced for incorporating the movement. The purposes for wnlch the or* ganisatlon has lieen formed are to restore the Limberlost area and to memoralixe its most famous residents, including Gene Stratton Porter, Johnny Appleseed and others. The state conservation d'-part-ment hae made a prellmlnaijr inspection of the area with a view in mind of establishing a state ( park with recreational facilities, including a lake in the area. No definite sites have yet been obtained pending recommendations of the state conservation department. A brief on possible sites is now being prepared and will be submitted to the conservation department.

Tribute Is Paid To Mighty Third Fleet Parade Scheduled In San Francisco San Francisco. Oct. I'l (UP) - The city of San Francisco today paid forma! tribute to the victorious Third Fleet and its commander, Adm. William F. Halsey. A parade was scheduled to begin at noon (PST) at the waterfront; pass down Market Street and end at the city hall where Halsey will address the spectator*. Token detachments from each of the 13 mighty warships now authored In San Francisco bay will march in the parade. A luncheon will be held for the men following the city hall ceremonies. The city will honor Halsey at a banquet at the Palace hotel tonight. More than 5,000 of the 45,000 Allied fighting men who arrived yesterday will not participate In today’s ceremonies. They are the lucky one* en route to separation cellter* nearest their homes. Two trains left last night and six others were scheduled to leave Imlay bearing prospective dischargees homeward. Other men. not so fortunate, were given liberty. The fit st liberty ship to touch shore was from the battleship t’.S.S Alabama. As 100 sailors and marines leap from tile boat, relatives and friends — some laughing, some tearful swarmed around the men they had not seen for many months. Almost 200.000 San Franciscans peered through a murk/ fog yesterday to watch the Third Fleet enter the bay. Halsey's flagship, the U.S. South Dakota, sailed beneath the Golden Gate bridge exactly at noon, touching off a deafening clamor of whistles and cheers. As the South Dakota, a veteran of 15 lyajor engagements and seven invasions, dropped anchor between Alcatraz island and the Yacht harbor, the other flag-lie-decked ships sailed past in procession, 1,000 yards apar.. These were the submarine* Puffett, Haya. Kraken, Luggerhead. Pilot fish and Stickleback; the destroyers Dehaven, Samuel Moore and Blue; the cruiser Vicksburg, and 'he battleships Alabama, Wisconsin and Colorado. The ship* were the vanguard of others scheduled to reach west coast ports by Navy Day, Oct. 27.

Scouts To Continue Paper Collections Waste Paper Drive Saturday, Nov. 3 The Boy Scouts will continue the waste paper drives in Decatur, at least temporarily. Steve Everhart, district Scout commissioner of this city, announced today. "As long as the price for waste paper remains where It Is and the citizens are willing Io donate the paper to the Scouts we will ga'her it." Mr. Everhart said. The first collection of paper under the Boy Scouts will be conducted on Saturday. November 3. Mr. Everhart said that adult Scout leaders and probably representatives from the service clubs would man the trucks that will be used to transport the paper to the junk dealer. The city has offered the use of one truck, providing a driver is obtained by the Scouts organization. The price for waste paper Is 110 a ton and the Scouts believe they can make a margin between the cost of gathering and the sale price. If the members volunteer to pick up the bundles and help on the job. Mr Everhart said. The war time drives for waste paper were conducted under the supervision of Phil Sauer, city street commissioner.

Ralph Rice Is Named As Loan Appraiser Ralph Rice, former trustee of Root township, has heen .tamed one of the appraisers for school fund loans, succeeding the Ute Ixtuis Hoile. Other members are Barton P. Walters of Washington and Charley Pusey of Hartford township.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 16, 1945.

(liven To British, Now Back * ir I 4 *** I BRITISH SHIPS, built by the I’. S. and given to England during the war, arc- returned to the I'. S. Navy. The ships are shown at th* Brooklyn Navy yard

Urges Puerto Rico Granted Self-Rule . I, I- —. Truman Urges Wishes Os People Be Granted Washington. Oct. 16 (I’P) — j President Truman said today that Puerto Ricans, "within such limits as may be determined by congrt*s.” should be granted the kind of government they want. Mr. Truman said In a message to the House and Senate he thought the time had come “to ascertain from the people of Puerto Rico their wishes as to the ultimate status which they prefer, and. within inch limits as may be determined by the congress, to grant to them the kind of government which they dxtire" The chief executive said the present form of government appeared to be unsatisfactory to a number of Puerto Ricans and that various changes in tho government wenbeing advocated, including: 111 the right of the Puerto Rican* to elect their own governor with a Wider measure of local seif government: it!t statehood: (3) complete independence: and (4) a dominion form of government. "Each of these propositions Is being urged In the island, and each • Turn To Pag* t. Column i>

Nation's Housing Shortage Is Growing Steadily Worse

Ily l’nited Press A soldier In Chicago spread a newspaper on the sidewalk ami lay down to sleep. An ex-soldier pleaded in a Boston newspaper’s want-ad columns: "Would some kind person have a heart? Veteran and wife urgently need apartment." A couple with two children in Miami bogged for space to park their trailer. A housing official in Atlanta said "there’s not a dog house for rent." Two mouths after the end of Hie war America's cities still suffer from growing pains. A l’nited Ptess survey found today that the housing shortage from coast to coast is worse than it was six months ago. And the returning veteran suffers most. Soldiers, sailors, and marines come back to find the "no vacancy” sign up all over town. In New York, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco it’s the same story- more p.tople than there are living accommodations. Housing officials estimate that it will be next spring before there wll be enough new building 'o improve the situation. The jam has grown worse since V-J day because the veterans are moving into communities already filled with war workers—who like

BULLETIN Wright Field, Dayton, 0., Oct. 16 —(UP) —Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle disclosed today that he plans to retire from the army ■ soon. 12,485 Troops Dock In New York ioday Queen Mary Makes Seventh Crossing New York. Oct, 16 HP' The Cjuei-n Mary >nd three other ships ' were scheduled to dm k Monday with 12,4X5 troops. The Queen Mary, on her seventh ' cros-ing since Y E day. ,arrie<i IL2SX troop'* More than Wacs w«*r<* Included among the military personnel which also Included •oni** navy m»*n and the following (army units: i Headquarters of the 2otli. 56th aixl 7Sth fighter groups: 61st, 62nd, y.lrd, 56tli, 771 h. X2nd. X3rd. and X4th fighter squadrons; headquarters and l>a*e service squadrons of the ll"th. 443rd and I4«lh air service groups: 919th, >22n«l, and 866th air engineering aqu i Irons: - 22nd genera! hospital; and several thousand miscellaneous troops. Tin I'. S. army hospital ship Huddleston carried 571 patients, in (Turn To Fag- 4, Column <)

the big city so well they have- decided to stay. At Philadelphia, for example, only nine percent of the war workers plan Io leave this year. A survey by the Cleveland Press showed that 73 percent of the* war workers who moved to Cleveland intend to stay there. Many cities are trying to help veterans find a home, but only a few are having success. At New York the navy officers housing committee has a list of .'.mm wai’ing for apartments. Veterans get priorities on housing units listed with the c ity renting agency. Rear Admiral .Monroe Kelly, commandant of tin- third naval district, asked the* public to "give- 'he navy a break" and slay out of New York hotels during the last two week of October. He said that It the hote l situation is not relieved "thousands of bluejacke's who leave- been on the* front line in the Pacific will be deprived of the opportunity for reunions with their loved ones.” Atlanta met part of the problem by housing veterans in 400 houses i that had heen used by workers in a war plant, now dosed. Minneapolis set up a central housing bureau to help veterans, but in September there were 1,M4 (Turn To Page 2, Column <) I

Three Hundred Japanese In Demonstration Before MacArthur Headquarters

Argentina Seeks To Form New Cabinet New Government Is Opposed By Party Buenos Aires. Oct. 16 ll'Pl Argentina’s ruling triumvirate s'lll hoped to complete a new- government today despite the opposition of the country's biggest political party, the Union ("Ivica Radical. President Edelmlro .1 Farrell. Gen Eduardo Avolos and vice nd miral Hector Vernengo Lima pinned their hopes on attorney general Juan Alvarez, whom 'hey commissioned to find live leading democratic civilians wJllii •< to serve with them in a new cabinet. Alvarez was scheduled Io submit his five* choices for cabinet ministries to Farrell tonight, He told the United I’n-ss that he al ready had consulted with 'he five men h>> wanted, but hait not received a definite reply yet as to< Whether they would serve-. If they do consent, Alvarez , said, he himself will 'ake over the important interior ministry, which controls the police anil will regulate the coming general elections. Farrell would remain as president. Avalos as war minister and Verin-ngo Lima as navy min later. The five men with whom Alvarez consulted yesterday w< re Jorge Eduardo ('<>ll, former education, minister. Jose Maria ('antllo. former foreign minister: Bernardo lloussay. professor of pliyaf. olotty at Buenos Aires mi-dhal school; Carlos Herrero. a judge, ami Octavio Amadeo. Tin- I nion Civiea Itadhal made known its .-land in a resolution forbidding its nieiiibei's to cooperate in any way with any cabinet ~~ (Turn To Uaae 3 Column 3> Pvt. Harry Strahm Is Suicide Victim - Craiqville Soldier Kills Self Today Pvt Harry Wayne Ftrahm. Ik, son of Mr and Mrs. William Strahm of Craigvllle. died at S:IS o'c-lock this morning at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton as the result of a self infll, ted rifle wound in his forehead The youthful soldier, in service only eim e last May £9. had gone to the home of hi* brother-in-law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sc haefer, of Craigvil! -. and her iow<-d their auto, which he bad done on several previous occasions. Accompanied by a toy friend, Strah: , i drove to Ih-cat and attended a show. He took his friend home about midnight last night and then drove -about >-ne ami one fourth miles south of ('ralgville on state highway 301. Wayne Teeple. of Tocwo: enroute north on the highway about 2 am., saw the park'd car. without IlglllH. ami Stopped to investigate. Finding no <>n«- in the into, Teeple turned on the headlights anl saw Pvt. Strahm lying on the highway in front of th» Schaefer tar. The young soldier was still breathing and Teeple immediately called Ed Graden, Wells county sheriff, who summoned an ambulance. The soldier’s death followed this morning. He had need a 22-<a-lilwr rifle owned by hla father. Pvt. Strahm had never been away from home prior to ent< ring army service, and despondency over returning to the army is believed responsible for his act. Ho arrived home last Saturday and was schedul'd to return to Camp Wolters. Tex . following expiration lof his furlough next Monday. The youth graduated from Lancaster Central high school, Welle county, last spring, shortly before* his army induction. The body was removed to Baer Field pending army investigation.

Congress May Pass Measure To Curb Labor Responsibilities Os Labor Injected In Congress Studies Washington. Oct. 16 tl'Pi M tempts may be made in congress to write legislative restraints on organized labor info the administration’s full employment bill, t was learned today. The propositi, aimed at curbing "irresponsible" resort to strikes, ba* been disc u»a<-d informally among some nienilieis of the House Executive Expenditures committee, which has been bolding hearings on the bill However, there has been no crystallization of opinion ■ behind any spec ific move. Hep Ed Gos-e't, D. Tex. indicated Io- may inject the issue- of "union responsibility" into the <i»bate- over th>- bill. He predicted the measure would never > merge from coininitic-c- unless amended. •■Privileges and responsibilities should go hand in hand," Gossett told a rc'porter. ’’lf labor Is given further rights they should have con*c>Hponding duties Imposed on them. Th* present wave of strikes going on at ro-s the- country is not hc-iping labor. ’'Utile--* the public Interest is given mote- consideration by certain labor th<- whole- cause- or organized labor Is going to suffer. There is growing s< nlinien! in congre-s* to impose o:i organized labor greater respoii-ibility for its acts" The altitude- of many h-gislatoi-> i appeared similar to ilia' which er-. iipl<-d two years ago in passage of tile SinitliConnally aiitistiike law following three nationwide coal strikes. If a move should b.- made- now to attach labor icetr.cilits to the full employme nt bill, the situation , wouhl patallel the hatidl'ng of the SiniihCoiinallv bill in Fiat the Initiative would i>e kept lUm the lalacr committer-, which usually is friendly to the wishes of orxaniz t-ci labor. The Smitli Connally ac t w.c* passed as an amendment to the draft law and was handled by the Military \ffairs committee. Meanwhile, President Truman debited whether the War Labor Cfiirn T» I'age 4, Ccdu-iin <» Japanese General Taken In Custody Former Deputy To Staff Chief Held Tokyo. Oct. 16 ll'Pl The Eighth army today announced the arrest of Lt. Gen. S!> gc-ru SawaI.', formc-r .l ip.inc*,- d. puly c hies of staff. The annoum eni'-nt -aid Sawata Wan bel|c-vc>d involved in the execution of three American airmen who partic Ipateci In th<- Doolittle raid in Tokyo in April 11'12. Sawata was commanding gen>-r-i al of the Japanese Llth anti/ at the I time- of the raid, but th- announcement did not make known his exact connection with the executions. He has been imprisoned with other suspected Japanese criminals at the Omori prison camp outside I Tokyo Meantime-, it was I-arned that many minor Japanese war erfmi- ! nal*. suc h as members of the secret police who tortured war prisoner* and internees, never may be caught or brought to tr.al because of the" destruction of their records. A high officer said many reCl’urn To Page 2 Column S)

Price Four Cents.

Demonstrators Ask Hirohito Replaced By Crown Prince; Ask Food Imports Tokyo, Oct. I'l tUPi— Tlireo hundred Japanese demonstrated outside lien. Itotigla* .Mac-Arthur • headquarters today for abdication of Emperor Hirohito and permission td import food to avert inase starvation War minister Gen Sadainu Shimoniura. meantime’, reported to 'lie Japanese cabinet that Imth the war and navy ministries will l>e abolished Dec 1 and replaced by demobilization ministries. Shlmotnura said th* dcmobllixalion of the army in the home* Islands was completed Monday except for offh ers required to work on repatriation and related matters The surrender of munition* to the Allies prolmldy will be completed this month, he said Tin- demonstrators at MacArthur’s headquarters, claiming to represent J.'i't" tnemliers of a democratic mass labor party, sent a delegation inside with a declaration of their alms. They sought 1 Replacement of Hirohito with H year old Crown Prince* Aklhito 2 Resignation of all high Japanese civil and military officials and suspension of their pensions. 3 Alwdition of the peerage anti ! resignation of the entire lower , house of the die’ 4 Publication of war truth* and an explanation of the reason for th«> present military budget. 5, Distribution of food now held by the military The declaration was delivered to an in'e-rpreter Though written in English longhand, it wan not turned over immediately to MacArthur The delegation was especially concerned over food short ages. Armed sentries stood outsldo ' the headquarters during the demons'rallon, but there was no disturbancc The demonstrators carried banners proclaiming 'We ar<- starved We need so wl." \ spokesman for the group said said the hew Japanese premier, Baron Kijtiro Shid* Kara, earlier had refused to receive a delegation from the party. MacArthur said in a radio speech to ihe world only a few hours before the demonstration 'ha' a revolution "or more properly an evolution" which will restore the "dignity and freedom of the common man" already has begun iti Japan He said Japanese* civilians were* learning a great lesson from the* clc-m<H-ratic conduct of American t roops "They have, for the* first time, seen a free- man’s way of life in actual action and it has u'unned them into new thoughts and new ideas." MacArthur said "It will lake much time- and require gnat pai'encc-, but If world public opinion will permit Ihoso two essential factors, mankind will la- repaid Herein lies tho way tec true-, final peace." Mac Ar'hur gave the He* to earlier Japanese propaganda reports that American troops had raped, pillaged and looted in the initial days of the occupation. Wi'h few <v< ep'iccns," he said, "they could weil i,c« taken as a mode l for all time- as a conquering (Turn i‘o P.ikc* 2 Column 3> Monmouth Schools 'Are Closed Today Tin* Monmouth schools wero closed today because- of a breakdown in the school’s beating plant, (’lass** were dismissed yesterday. At the Catholic school In this city, the heating system has been down all fall, ponding arrival and Installation of new flues In tho boilers. Portable heaters are being used in the* class rooms and classes an* being maintained in a'.i except the first grade. St. Mary's church is not heated, as th« edifice is heated by tho central system from the school. The repairs are expected to b« made this week.