Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 157, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 8 August 1945 — Page 1

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VOL. XLVn No. 157 News Of Our Men And Womer With The Colors "Remember Pearl Harbor FIGHTS ABOARD COLORADO ABOARD THE USS COLO -

, RADO IN THE PACIFIC-Will- f 'Xns Zning room day and Friday. This meat will 'iam J. Tubby, electrician's mate, S'ndlto be on-the-hoof, however, the third class, USNR. whose wife 0 Say 'and Public is invited' to come and en- . lives at 314 South State . Street, - exhibUg are being judged joy the fair and share an appetiz- - Sullivan, Indiana, fought, aboard e,.8?ft t"7rf ing ''meat dream" with their

rights at Okinawa. The Colorado expended there more ammunition in support cf ground troops than in any of vue pievums umduuii suwu" ! and bombardment operations in which she participated. Under it i - e j1 a. 1T C ine command j-upi. w oiviaeauiey. .wuuse wiie uvea oi i 2089 Commonwealth Ave.. St. Paul, Minn.,) the ship took . up l.er station , off Seven days before to .help in the bombardment, and the ibeaches the invasion softening-lip then for 60 - days she continued her relent- '. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) f , 1 4 - """"" Legion Auxiliary Installs Officers The Sullivan American Legion Auxiliary of the Sullivan Amerit T-i a - .on J 4.

can region rvsi inu. 10a cuuuuui- ;roon August 11. ed installation services last night; Th'e County 4'H Club dress re during the business session of j which fa one of the high. their regular meeting in the New jgnts of the fair wiU be held American-Legion Home north,of Friday night Augugt 10. at 8:00 lClt; , 1U . 'p.m. in the Sullivan High School The 1945 officers assumed their Auditorium. The public is invited, office responsibilities from the The dresses guU wiU have . retiring members in impressive been jud d brfjre the blic

rites conducted by, theMerom Americafi Legion Auxiliary Degree Team with Mrs. Renaker presiding 'as installing officer. The paths, qfff ire were administered tq :$;''n4iiieal background of beautiful pianoairs. : Mrs Matgaret ' Wbodard, re tiring president of the Su,llivan unit, presented the unit gavel to Mrs. Ellen. Staggs, the newly installed president for the ensuing year, after the traditional custom, i Othqr members installed with the new president were: Vice' President, Mrs! Fasti Hancock; Secretary, " Mrs. Elaine Price; Treasurer, Mrs. Edith Clarkson; Sergeant-at-Arms, Mrs. Pritchard; and Chaplain, Mrs. Daisy Dudley. Immediately following the in-, stallation service a short review of the past year's work was ' given by Mrs. Woodard whp expressed her thanks for the fine cooperation received from the unit members. Brief, neverthe less inspiring words, were spoken by each member of the visiting Merom Unit. Succeeding the installation ceremony the unit and their guests retired to the spacious dining hall where at tables adorned with golden summer flowers set in blue vases upon multicolored table cloths they were served whipped jello, cake and coffee. MATOR IMPROVES Mayor A G. McGuire. who has been confined to his home for the last three weeks with sciatica, Is recuperating..

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I 4-1 E I Fair Opens Tomorrow; uress Revue Friday Night. ... . . ,,,, 1 . l....:. " .i .the County Fair to the public to mi mo 1au:..I morrow, mere were io cuhuuib ovhihita- two room imDrovement exhibits'; three handicraft exhibitg. and 2Q canning exhibits. The judjes for these exhibits are Miss Mildred Campbell, Vocational Home Economic Teachers of Leb-, anon Indiana, and Missv Marie Byers, Home Demonstration Agent of Greene County. . . - I Baking exhibits of the 4-H Club, members were brought to the fair grcunds this morning and judging

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of these exhibits will also be and hamburgers will come: imdone today. 1 mediately after the sheep. Home Economics Club . booths' TSullivan County dairy cattle went up today and judging will will be judged Friday afternoon, be done this afternoon. Such phas- Professor W. W. Yapp of Illinois es of home-making as home-made University, will judge all dairy soap, garments or articles made classes. Saturday's program will from feed sacks, etc., are subjects be the Wabash Valley Jersey of the County Home Economics Parish Show featuring Jersey Club booths. cattle from the 12 Southwestern All home economics exhibits Indiana counties, will be on display from Thursday publiCi both city and rura, morning, August 9 until Saturday is invited to attend this Muta

presentation, by Miss Edna O. Troth of the State 4-H Club Office of Purdue University. A program mnrt un nf numhpra from the different county 4H Clubs will beigiven along with the T county dress revue. I T J Jj ,T,..iaVlrl , CUQie 1 rUeDlOOQ New Commander Legion Post 139

I dead upon arrival at the Mary The Sullivan American Legion Sherman Hospital here. Post No. 139 met last night jn The child's father is now statheir new home north of the tioned in Germany with the city and elected the following United States Army and his officers for the ensuing year: mother, Mrs, Mary Etta Ballard Commander, Eddie Trueblood; Fisher resides at the Civilian

First Vice Commander, Claude Harmon; Second ,Vice Commander, Harry Walters; Adjutant, John Vickrey; Finance Officer, Jesse Bedwell; Chaplain. Charles Parks; Historian, Charles Baughman; Sergeant-at-Arms, Amos Faught: Delegates to the Dlstrict Legion Caucus, Eddie Trueblood, Charles Parks, and John ' Vickrey; and Alternates to the Caucus, Roy Thrasher, Robert Clarkson and Claude Harmon. Retiring Commander Amos Faught presided over' last evening's meeting in which the above members were elected to their respective offices. They will be installed at a special meeting in October, according to details learned today. Of the ten newly elected offi cers three are discharged veterans of World War II. Namely they are Eddie Trueblood, John Vickrey and Harry Walters.

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Meat Will Be Featured Here For Two Days Both Beef And Pork, On The Hoof At Th 4-H And Open Class Fair Tomorrow And Friday Will Be Well Worth Looking At Even If You Can't Eat It Now. Meat, a rare sight to many reoDle these davs. will be featured at the Sullivan Countv 4-H Club and Onen Class Fair Thursneignoors. rl- U ...Ml 1 ruin., uu-uie-uuui, win uc shown Thursday afternoon. Judeing wiU start at 1:00 p. m. Open classes will be judged immediately aner tne corresponding 4-H ljud ciass. un Friday morning, those who do not like mutton will - enjoy seeing the wool they wish they could have for that winter dress or suit. Judge Halsey Miles will start judging sheep -at 9:00 a. m. Friday morning. Judging, of those dreamed-of T-bone ) steaks tional show. . Maurice W. Fisher, 5-year-old .son-of -Pvt. and Mrs. Herman sher, was fatally injured Tues. day morning at the residence of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ballard, Carlisle rural route one, where he was visiting. The little fellow was fatally hurt when he fell in front of a i moving tractor which passed ' over his head resulting in a skull fracture. He . was . pronounced , Housing quarters at George Field Army Air Center. She is employed there in the Post Engineer's Office. Beside the parents, the child is survived by one brother, Ronald; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ballard and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Fisher of Vincennes rural route. The body was taken to Vincennes where funeral services will be, conducted Thursday afternoon at three o'clock in the Reel Avenue Church with Rev. Allno Brown officiating. Interment will be made in the Fairview Cemetery. TOWNSEND MEETING The Sullivan Townsend Club

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No. 3 will hold a special meeting as well as "large - numbers of Monday, August 13. at 7:30 o'clock men. working in coal mines, railat the city hall. All members are 'roads, ship repair yards and

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UP) President Truman today formally ratified the United States' membership in the United Nations World Security organization. By affixing his. signature to an ornate instrument of ratification in a simple ceremony at the White House, Mr. Truman made this country the first to put into force a world security charter adopted June 25 by 50 United Nations. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (UP) The Department of Agriculture said today that civilians may expect slightly more meat this fall' than they have been able to buy in recent months. ! Continued heavy demand, however, is expected to hold meat prices near their present high levels through early 1946, a department report said. .

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (UP) The War Department emphasized today that American farmers and farm groups will not be able to purchase overseas surplus materiel of the armed forces. Major Gen. Donald H. Connolly, of Army-Navy liquidation commission which has charge of disposing of such supplies, pointed out that the surplus property law prohibits return of surpluses to this country in order to protect domestic markets. -; Connolly said he had received many inquiries from farm

groups and individuals concerning the acquisition of some1 of the .overseas supplies. . Til SniT HVMlt Via eoifl tknvn1 J U- 1 ' X '

I,- "J .-, ic nam, uicic n uuiu iiul uc lillgt: aliIUUlll of verseas supplies which couJJ be conrerted to ' farm machinery or other farm eaiiinmpnt. I -

j ' . v 1 . t LONDON," Aug. 8. (UP) Brig. Gen. E. F. Koenig, retiring commander of the U. S. Army's United Kingdom base section, said today that American forces will be "practically withdrawn from Britain by next February lst." After that, only scattered personnel will foe left, and they should be gone soon. He said at a press conference that only 175,000 American soldiers now are stationed in the United Kingdom, including 96,000 Air Force personnel. Koenig will be succeeded tomorrow by Brig. Gen. S. F. Strong of Orchard Lake, Michigan. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. (UP) Dr. L. W. Gulick, director of the Army s Japanese program at the University of Chicago, said today Hhat persons suggesting that the Allies pulverile the Japanese Imperial Palace with an atomic bomb are talking through their hats." Gulick, a professor of Japanese, said such a raid would make the enemy fight harder than ever before. "The Japs love their temple of heaven more than the emperor who occupies it," he said. "They could replace the emperor, who serves as their Pope, but their heaven would be gone forever." He suggested instead that one well-placed load of atomic bombs: be dropped on Tokvo's business district. 4 It M ould explode the Jans' morale arid hasten the war's end, the professor explained. ' ' x m TEHERAN, Aug. 8. (UP) The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced today that Britain and Russia agreed at the

(Continued on Warn More Men Must Be Drafted WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (UP) Selective Service warned today that greater numbers of men be'tween 18 and 30 previously deferred for essential war work will have to be drafted into the armed forces. A report to the House Military Affairs committee said there was not a sufficient number of young men becoming 18 years of age each month to meet induction quotas. Repr. John J. Starkman, D., Alabama, who received the report for the committee said it 'also may mean that an additional I number of men. above 30 years of age will have to be drafted, The report did not specify twhat occupational groups would be in line for induction. But it said that the 18 to 30 year deferred group included 65,000 members of the Merchant Marine, other essential war activities."

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NEWS Page 4, Col. 4) V LOCAL SOLDIERS BECOME CIVILIANS CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind., Aug. 8. Indiana men discharged Sat urday and Sunday, August 4 andj August 5, at the Atterbury Sepa-I ration Center who scored 85 or more points under the Army's ad justed service rating plan include: Sgt. Burl Hollifield, 628 N. Wat son St.. Sullivan; SSgt. Samuel M. Moon, 960 N. Main St., Sulli-1 mid " Pi TTT T ! ' T"l van; it viiiiuu w. ijewis, 126, Fairbanks. Box ADDITIONAL CASUALTIES OFFICIALLY REPORTED Additional Navy war casualties reported by the Office of War Information include: - Navy wounded Pvt. James Everett Rlggins, Sr., USMCR, hus band of Mrs. Viola Riggins, Farmersburg. Motor Machinist's Mate 2c Sylvester Joseph Van Den Berg, USNR, husband of Mrs. Inez Van Den Berg, Sullivan. (These reports are all based on prior notification of next of km.)

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INTERNATIONAL PICTURE 1 1 r a Momentous Announcement By President WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (UP) Soviet Russia has declared war on Japan, Prisident Truman announced today. The president called reporters into his executive office to announce the momentous event. "Russia has declared war on Japan that's all," Mr. Truman said. lie said he hadn't been able to call a regular press conference but j the. annuoncement was . "so important I thought I had better giv it to you." The announcement meant that the days of the Japanese empire were numbered and the Pacific war, already shortened by the atomic bomb,- would be ended even sooner. The Soviet action apparently stemmed from arrangements made by President Truman and Generalissimo Josef Stalin, during the Big Three meeting at Potsdam. Russia presumably will throw against Japan the vast military organization that it has built up opposite Manchuria and Korea. lliis organization has been reinforced since Russia whipped Nazi Germany in the Eastern Front. . i DEATH SUMMONS MARTHA E. POLSON Mrs. Martha Ella Kimple Polson, 78, resident of Switz City, died yesterday morning at 8:41 a. m. in Livonia at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Lillian Wells, following an illness of three months duration. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Elsie Tincher of Livonia, Mrs. Lanie Hunt of Paoli and Mrs. Mary Hodge of Bloomington; two sons, W. C. Poison of Chillicothe, Missouri and Clarence Poison of Switz City; and one brother, Harvey Kimple of Paoli. The body was' taken to the Newkirk Funeral Home in Pleasantville. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday after noon at two o'clock in the Switz City Beptist Church and burial will be made in the Switz City Cemetery. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted August 7: Mrs. John Hurst of Freelanclville, for observation; Mrs. Basil McGhee of Merom rural route one, for observation. Dismissed August 7: Arthur Graves of Hymera; Mrs. Cecil Smith of 301 South State Street; Mrs. Nora Boone of Carlisle; Everett Vaughn of Jasonville rural route two. .

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Tokyo Says Dead And Wounded "Too Numerous To Count" Enemy, Shocked By Great Devastation, Charges U. S. Violates International Law All Living Things "Seared To Deat-B's In New Forays.

BULLETIN! . GUAM, Thursday, Aug. 9. (UP) Nearly 100 Stfperfortressts. hitting the Japanese home islands for the. fourth time in 24 hours, sent incendiaries crashing into the "death list" city of Fukuyama shortly before midnight yesterday.

w" 1 PEARL' HARBOR, Aug. 8.-r(UP) ToTtyp admitted today that America's single atomic bomb had completely destroyed most of Hiroshima, leaving "seared" dead and wounded "too numerous to count." ' The Japanese, shocked by the ruin, charged that the United States had violated international law by using the atomic explosive. Radio Tokyo quoted authorized quarters in the capital as saying the United States was violating Article 22 of the Hague Convention and showing disregard for humanity. "The impact of the bomb was so terrific that practically all living things, human and animal, was literally seared o death by the tremendous heat and pressure engendered by the blast," one Japanese broadcast said. American reconnissance photographs confirmed that four and one-tenth square miles sixty per cent of the area of Hiroshima had vanished. ( Unofficial American sources believed Japanese dead and wounded might exceed 100,000.' Five major war plants and scores of smaller factories, office buildings and dwellings were known to ; have ' been levelled. . ; Gen. Carl A. Snaatz, commander of the American Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, said reconnaissance photographs revealed that the fires touched off ;by the almost unbelievable heat of the bomb leaped block-wide streams and spread into the towns' outskirts. '

Set Fire To Yawata. . Meanwhile, more than 225 B-29'sset fire to Yawata, the Pittsburgh of Japan, in a 1,000ton daylight demolition raid toCOACH SERING TAKES CULVER, IND. POST Harold "Red" Sering, basket ball coach and teacher in the Sullivan high school for the last several years, has accepted a position as varsity coach of basket ball, track and baseball at Cul ver, Ind. high school, it was learned today. He will also teach physical education and shop work, assuming his duties September 4th. Mr. Sering came to Sullivan eight years ago and at first taught and coached in the Junior high school. His S. H. S. basketball teams won the county sectional tourney four consecutive years. Mr. and Mrs. Sering and daughter have been in Sullivan this week after spending the summer at Muncie. They are moving their furniture to Culver today. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Mize of Paxton rural route one, announce, the birth of a daughter, Cathy Rae, born August 8th at the Mary Sherman Hospital.

CONTINUED COOL TONIGHT Indiana: Fair tonight and Thursday; continued rather cool tonight, slightly warmer Thurs-

PRICE THREE CENTS Casualti City Ruined day. Crews said results were "excellent." Radio Tokyo said 30 other Su perfortresses escorted by 70 Mus tangs and Thunderbolts attacked airfields and communications centers throughout the central army command area on Honshu today. Preliminary reports indicated that Yawata could be scratched from the American bombing list because it no longer furnished a worthwhile target. Gen. Gpaatz announced three other missions: A number of Superforts mined enemy waters last night and early today, while another small force dropped 92 tons of bombs . on Marcus Island and a third attacked Doublon boat basin at Trulc on Tuesday afternoon. Carrier planes from Vice Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf's Ryukyus task force blasted military installations ashore, shot down four Japanese planes and destroyed several enemy barges. From Chungking, the Chinese High Command reported Japanese troops in western Chekiang province, attempting to drive and escape path through to the western approaches of ' Hangchow Bay, had captured Tunglu, Sinteng, and Linan all south or west of Hangchow. ;