Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 89, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 3 May 1945 — Page 1

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VOL. XLVIT No. 89 News Of Our Men And Women With The Colors "Remember Pearl Harbor" WINS "ROOTS AND WINGS" Pvt. Harry L. Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Morris of R. R. 3, Carlisle, lias won the right to wear the "Boots and Wings" of the United States . Army . Paratroops. He lias completed four weeks of jump training during which time he made five jumps, the last a tactical jump at night: involving a combat problem on landing. Jumping at The Parachute School at Fort Benning, Georgia, has been steadily developed to a recognized war science. American Paratroopers have been recognized throughout the world for their meritorious actions against the enemy. 100 DAYS AT FRONT The 20th Infantry Yiepiment of the Gth Infantry Division was pulled out of the front line Wed- ' npsday, -April 18th. afl!r Ml) flAys of - 'continuous ctmibafr -Vigbfiixl ih; .fap.'Hiese. a 'record for the Southwest Pacific theater. The battle-weary ' veterans of the 20th were relieved from cambat but . immediately were reassigned as military policemen in war torn Manila. This is the fourth campaign for the 6th Division. Pfc. Earl Romine, husband of Mrs. Virginia Romine, is a member of the 20th Infantry. He has served 19 months overseas being stationed in Hawaii, New Guinea and now Luzon. Pfc. Romine is the father of twin daughters, Janet and Janice Rimine. Anyone wishing his address may secure it from his wife who- lives at 40!) North Broad Street. IN IIOSFITAL Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Goble of Shelburn R. R. 2, have received . word that their son, Pfc. Paul J. Goble, has been sent to a hospital in England. His address may bo secured from the parents. WITH GENERAL PATTON Pfc. Kenneth R. Cox, who is with Gen. Patton's 3rd Army, reveals in a recent letter, that he is well, however, has been very busy, working as much as 24 hours a day for the last month. CdI. Lloyd L. Cox, is in the Marianas Island and reports that the B-29's are busy .with Tokyo. Pvt. Floyd H. , Cox, is stationed (Continued on Page 3, Col. 6) II n Death Summons Mrs. Almira Brodie Mrs. Almira Brodie, widelyknown resident of Sullivan county, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Russell Exline or. Sullivan route five about six miles ast of the city, Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock. She was the widow of Joseph P. Brodie and was a member of the Church of Christ. Surviving in addition to the daughter are one son, Nelson Brodie, of Atlanta, Georgia; two . sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Mason and ' Mrs. Lucien McKinley of Sullivan; one brother, Guy Alsman of Sullivan; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. The body was taken to the Billman Funeral Home, where funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 oclock Saturday afternoon.

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UNITED PRESS SERVICE PRE1EIII VETOES 10 Says Legislation Would Be Injustice To Those Al ready Called, WASHINGTON, May 3. (UP) President Truman tcday vetoed legislation to defer large numbers of agricultural workers. He said it would be an Injustice to those already inducted or about to be inducted. The joint resolution, introduced by Rep. John A. Flannagan, D., Virginia, chairman of the House Agricultural committee, was designed to halt induction of farm workers who are deemed necessary to agriculture. The bill, Truman said, "would single out one special class of our citizens, the agricultural group, and put it on a plane above both industrial occupation and military services." - Truman said he did not believe Congress .really intended to give" blanket deferment to agricultural workers as a group, bujf, regardless.-or the intent, he saifl this was the result and he was forced to slop it. Thieves Take More Gas Stamps At Linton Plant LINTON, Ind., May 3. Thieves paid their second visit to the Texas Oil Company Tuesday night and walked away with a number of kerosene and gasoline coupons, according to a report made to local police. Upon arriving at the plant Wednesday morning, Mrs. Clem Hux, plant manager, found that the front door had been sprung and , that thieves had proceeded to "crack the safe" again. Their other robbery occurred about six weeks ago. It was found that 595 kerosene stamps had been taken and 3,000 gallons worth of gas stamps stolen. , An investigation was made by local police. It is thought that this work was carried out by the same gang that has. been operating in Sullivan and Bloomfield. EVELYN CREW BARNES, FORMER PRISONER OF JAPS RETURNS TO U. S. Two persons from the Wabash Volley, Mrs. Evelyn C. Barnes of Fairbanks, and Alonzo Greenwell of Clay City, were among approximately 2,500 Americans, Britens and Canadians, the largest number of repatriates to be evacuated at one time from any war theater since Pearl Harbor, who arrived at Los Angeles from the Philippines yesterday, an Associ ated Press release stated last night. The group included 15 Hoosiers. Mrs. Barnes is the daughter of Mr: and Mrs. L. H. Crew of Fairbanks. She and her, husband, Richard Porter Barnes a mining engineer, went to the Philippines 11 years ago. Since their liberation, Mrs. Barnes has written her parents several times, bhe said she was first at Santo Tomas prison camp and then was transferred to the Los ' Banos , prison camp from which she was liberated. Her letters indicated she had lost weight while a prisoner and told : how happy she is to be free. Relatives of Mr. Barnes live in California.

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The Commentator's Corner (By Joe Adams) Unfortunately, the surrender ot Hamburg isn't going to have any immediate effect on the meat shortage over here; . About this time of year it takes a true genius to make the coal pile and the weather come out even. - - John Gloom opines that everything seems to be collapsing, even Spring. Mussolini's brain, or what was left of it, according to an autopsy was found to be "very ordinary." Not that it should surprise anybody very. much. It is interesting to note that doctors at Milan who examined the corpse said that only -one-third of the deposed dictator's brain remained after the mob had kicked him in the head. Or could it be that they kicked hun'somewhere else and that was all of his brain? Due to the war and the breakdown of the apprentice system for teaching the trades, there is a critical shortage, of help in the printing, business. But no one hrrdly suspected that it is itts bad as an Ohio paper indicates in. its advertisement in a current trade paper. The ad follows: Wanted-Printer or press feeder, competent or incompetent, experienced or greenhorn, ambitious or lazy, honest or crooked, drunk or sober, pleasant or disagreeable, permanent or fleeting. Over in the neighboring county of Clay it is related that a local farmer wrote into, the- proper board for priority to purchase a manure spreader. The board secretary wrote back asking him to be more explicit about his needs and to state what he was going to use it for. The disgruntled farmer wrote back, "I am going to use it to take my wife and family to Sun day school." He got his priority. MARRIAGE LICENSES Stewart Wright, Linton, U. S. Navy, and Bernadine Pinkston, 430 South Section, stenographer. Taken in Italy? rr cm 2 -1 '-.-:. :- t .. "liC.,;. & : , c d REPORTED included in the haul of prisoners taken in northern Italy by Italian patriots is John Amery, above, 33-year-old son of Leopold Amery, British secretary of stat for. India. Jdhn Amery is accused of being an Axis radio propaganda j 1st (International,

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WASHINGTON, May "3. (UP) The conquest of Italy cost Ihe United States mote than 100.000 combat casualties, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimuli disclosed today. , Stimson told his press conference that the U. S. rh Army had suffered 109,163 casualties from the start of the Italian campaign to April 28, when the Germans were sent into the headlong rout which culminated in the?r unconditional surrender yesterday. Of the 5th losses, 21,577 were listed as killed, 77,248 wounded, and 10,338 missing. Meanwhile, total U. S. combat casualties in all theaters officially reported here approached within less than 50.000 of an even 1.000,000. The over-all figure was 950,472, including 848,089 Army and 102,383 Navy, Marine Corns and Coast Guard casualties. This represented a jump of 29,099 from the total of a week ago.

WASHINGTON. May 30. (UP) Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes said today that a presidential order to seize strike-closed Pennsylvania hard coal mines "might come today." Some 72,000 anthracite miners have been idle since their wage-hour contract with operators exp'red at midnight Anril 30. The United Mine Workers have reiected a, War - Labor Board order that they continue production under a 30-day extension of the old contract. .' Ickes also disclosed, at a press conference, that 38 soft coal mines are still closed by misunderstandings as to the effective date of a new contract approved late Monday. Ickes said 11,000 soft coal miners are idle and that the nation is losing 58,000 tons daily as a result.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 30. (UP) The United Nations conference started the hard business of drafting a charter for enduring peace today with renorts of mogress toward solution of the long-deadlocked Polish problem. , The American delegation met for an hour but failed to reach final agreement on the amendments it plans to propose to the Dumbarton Oaks plan, the working basis on whrch the proposed world charter will be drawn. Local Navy Airman In Rough Sea Two Hours After U.S.S. Bismarck Sea Sank

Chief A. O. M. Robert Hall- , beck, U. S. Navy torpedo plane i squadron gunner, who survived I the sinking of the U.S.S. Bis-! marck Sea off Iwo Jima on Feb- j ruary 21st of this year and who j has been home on leave for several weeks will report for duty at Seattle, Washington, May 10th.; Hallbeck, son of Mrs. Lorella j Hallbeck, Sullivan County Recorder revealed that he was! aboard the ill-fated ship when she was mortally hit by Japan- j ese aerial bombs. He was in tha i i. j i . . i water aooui iwo nours oeiore being picked up by q U. S. destroyer, and was fully expecting to be in the rough sea all night, he revealed, because Jap planes came back to strafe those in the water and destroyerss that1 were standing by haft to "get under way again." The Sullivan Navy aerial gunner had only a lifejacket while in the water. Some

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of the men had managed to find life rafts that had been in planes. Waves were breaking ten to twelve feet high at the time, it was also revealed. He had made 20 missions from the ship in three campaigns, supporting ground troops on Leyte, Lingayen and Iwo Jima. Their targets included anti-aircraft and shore installations. They had run into some Jap planes in these campaigns but in order to save their craft it was usually the enemy policy to "get out" and sneak back at night. The young Sullivan airman, a veteran of more than three years service, was returned to the States the last of March. . His mother received a cable from him revealing that he was safe just a few minutes before reading in a newspaper that his ship had been lost. . .

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INTERNATIONAL PICTURE .4 : ''-':..;:..... -:- ' fC jf -.k i Give Information On Coal Situation For Consumers Xhiendment Lifts Restriction On Coals Produced In This Territory. . ' ' The following statement embodies the latest information on the coal situation as it affects coal consumers in the state of Indiana. Regardless of any conflicting opinions, this information is official and it comes straight from the SFAW. Mr. W. G. Stockton, Area Distribution Manager of Solid Fuels Administration for War in the state of Indiana, stated that he has every reason to believe there will be no modification of the regulations as to the quantities of coal twhich will be available to tile consuming public during the coming heating season. . Domestic and space heating coal consumers are urged to look to their coal supplies for next winter immediately. According to regulations issued by SFAW such consumers of coal will be limited generally to 80 of normal consumptive requirements during the coming heating season. One ray of light in . this situation, however, is the recent Amendment to SFAW regulations lifting, temporarily, the restrictions on . coals produced in the Midwestern territories of Indiana, Illinois and Western Kentucky. Under this Amendment consumers may now purchase 100 of their consumptive re(Continued on Page 6. Col. 3) HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted May 2: Mrs. Theodore Shoptaw of , Farmersburg, for treatment; Edward White of Shelburn, rural route two, for observation. , Dismissed May 2: Robert Cruse of Shelburn, rural route two; Nema Pigg of 201 South Section Street; Donald Wasmer pf .Jasonville. FOOTBALL PLAYER HURT Billy Shipman, a Sullivan high school sophomore is being treated at the, Mary Sherman Hospital for a fractured leg sustained during football practice scrimmage yesterday afternoon. His home is at 647 N. Watson Street. RELEASED BY RUSSIANS, DUGGER SOLDIER HOME Charles Nichols, a returned prisoner of war, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Delphia Nichols at Dugger. Charles was released by, the 'Russians;' i '

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of all German forces in Holland, Denmark, Norway and Czechoslovakia was reported under negotiation, and possibly in some cases already concluded. , Prime Minister Churchill was absent from the House of Commons today, prompting entirely unconfirmed speculation that he might be away on some business connected with peace negotiations.

BULLETIN! ' LONDON, May 3. (UP) Premier Stalin announce! in an order of the day today that the 2nd White Prussian and British 2nd armies have-linked up fn a six,ly-mil front between Wismar and Wittenberg, on (lie Elbe River. '

(By United Press) The end of the war with Germany drew rapidly near today as the collapse of resistance spread from the borders of Denmark to Czechoslovakia arid the remnants of the southern redoubt in Austria. - ' Fast-breaking developments included : , H Hamburg fell without a fight. f ' I The Germans began a wholesale evacuation of Schleswi.;?Holstein, the Reich's northernmost province, putting out to sea in all manner of craft. The Hamburg radio, in its last broadcast before the British entered, read a decree by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz's new government declaring Prague, Czechoslovakia, a hospital city. The decree presumably meant Prague would not be defended and the Germans in Czechoslovakia would surrender. London reported, without confirmation, the imminent surrender of the Germans in Holland and Denmark, totalling perhaps 100,000 men. The Paris radio broadcast a similarly unconfirmed report that the Quisling government of Norway was negotiating surrender of the Germans there. The announcement of Adolf. Hitler's death, followed quickly by the fall of Berlin and the surrender of nearly one million Germans in Italy and western Austria, apparently took the heart out of most of the German soldiers still in the field. New Zealand troops of the 8th Army entered the AdiatLport of Trieste, previously reported . occupied by Marshal Tito s Yugoslavs, and peace settled clown on the remainder of the Italian front. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, commander of the 6th Army Group tn southern Germany, said the Nazis' national redoubt was crumbling and. final victory may come at any moment. The 3rd and 7th armies pushed steadily ahead through Austria and the last corner of Bavaria. The 3rd Army, which took Hitler s birthplace at Braunau, sped on toward Berchtesgaden without meeting resistance. ! . In the northern redoubt, the Germans were surrendering by tens of thousands. Almost 100,000 perisoners were handled by the American 82nd Division. Troops of the British 2nd Army linked ur with the Russians in Wismar, clearing the Baltic coast of Germany snd creating a final, dwindling pocket north of Berlin. The Canadians captured Oldenburg at the southwestern corner of the redoubt, In the war against Japan, Allied troops entered Rangoon in the final phase of the campaign to liberate Burma. The by-passed Japanese remaining in central Burma were entirely cut off from escape into Thailand. . American Superfortresses renewed the offensive against Japanese suicide plane bases on the home island of Kyushu in support of th campaign on Okinawa. Two more American divisions were sent into action to speed the cleanup of the important southern end of that island. Australian invasion forces fanned out on Tarakan off Borneo, rapidly overrunning that oil-rich island. Amidst all the confusion, the whereabouts of -the new Fuehrer, Admiral Doenitz, was not clear. There was like mystery about other leading Nazis, including Heinrich Himmler. The latest report on Propaganda Minister Paul Josenh Goebbels was one from' Moscow which said he as well as Hitler had committed suicide. The information was volunteered by Hans Fritsche, Goebbels' deputy, who was taken prisoner.

SLIGHTLY WARMER FRIDAY "Indiana: Cloudy and coll tonight and Friday, becoming partcloudy and a little warmer Friday afternoon. Light rains in north portion- and occasional, light rain in south until late tonight; fresh winds Friday. PRICE THREE CENTS

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