Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 167, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 22 August 1945 — Page 1

CLOUDY TONIGHT Indiana: Fair north and parti? cloudy south portions tonight. Fair Thursday; rather cool tonight and Thursday. i VOL. XLVII No. 167 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN, INDIANA WEDNESDAY, Aug. 22, 1945. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE 11,3 PRICE THREE CENTS f i AIU -

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p 9"HOME FROM OVERSEAS Private First Class Lee Hiatt, husband of Mrs. Cora Hiatt of Paxton, is spending a 30-day furlough there with his wife and children. He has recently returned from Italy 'where he served ten months with the 88th Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division of the Fifth Army. In addition to the Good Conduct ribbon he wears the Mediterranean Theater of Operations ribbon with two bat' tie stars. At the termination of his furlough he will report to Camp Carson, Colorado for further assignment with the United States Army. HOME ON LEAVE . ' WO Gerald E. Brashier was honored Sunday by a basket dinner at the Sullivan City .Park. WO Brashier is spending furlough with his wife, Mrs. Eugenia Brashier and children, Vickey and Jerry, after having spent r fifteen months overseas with the United States Marine Corp in the Pacific' Theater of . Operations . WO ( Brashier is formerly of Sullivan bat it has befert eight years since' his last visit here. Those present at the dinner were: the honored guest, WO Gerald E. Brashier, Mrs. Gerald E. Brashier and children, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Brashier and 1 and Mrs. Arthur Brashier, Mr. daughter, Mr, and Mrs. James Brashier and daughter, Mrs. Margaret Wolfe, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Brashier and family, Mrs. Permelia Hall and son, Mrs. Lola Bown, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Newkirk, Mrs. Scott Trimble, Mrs. Junior LeDune and son, Mrs. Herschel Trimble and

children, Ruth Richards, Mr. and,Robert G Tayior, jr-) born May

Mrs. Fred Brust, T75 and Mrs, Paul Brust, and Cpl. and Mrs. Fred Brust. HOME FROM OVERSEAS Pfc. Jack A. Curtis, son of Mr.and Mrs. Carroll Curtis, who has been visiting his parents in Hymera, has returned to his home in South Bend. He drove a jeep in the medical division of the 1st, 3rd and 9th armies and has been stationed in England, Scotland, France, " Normandy, Belgium, and Germany. He participated in three major battles and has been wounded twice. He wears the Presidential Citation with Oak Leaf Clusters and the Combat Medic Badge. . AWARDED BRONZE STAR The Bronze Star Medal for meritorious " achievement has been awarded 1st Lt. Eugene L. Behmer, 2210 Broadway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Behmer of Culver, for service recently on Luzon and Negros in the Philippines. The citation set out 'that Lt. Behmer's "Outstanding performance of duty as air-ground liaison officer was directly responsible for the success of numerous air strikes against the enemy. As a result of his excellent control of the planes above and his through ' knowledge of the ground situation, the ground troops were never endangered by strafing or bombing." He is' the husband of Mrs. Gladys Behmer of this city. PROPERTY CHANGES K. B. Smith has purchased the John Gambill property at 225 West Washington Street.

YEOMAN TAYLOR DIES 111 U.S.

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son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. MarStricken With F&'.lf!J!-i!!r

tal Heart HlneSS After Recovery From Polio. Robert Goodwin Taylor, Chief Yoeman in the , United States Navy, succumbed this morning at 7:20 a. m. in the Bethesda, Maryland Naval Hospital of a condition coronary thrombosis contracted following an apparently rapid recovery from a severe- polio infection. Yeoman Taylor is the ninty-first Sullivan County service man' to have died while in the service of his country. He was stricken July 29th with the polio infection while serving at Solomons, Maryland. For many days his , condition was critical and it was necessary that he be placed in an iron lung for respiratory aid. However, this week his condition had remarkably improved and high hopes were expressed by naval physicians at the Maryland hospital of his immediate recovery. Yesterday he was stricken with the fatal heart disease and death occured a few hours later. - " frhe deceased service man was born 'March 20, 1920 in 'the city of Sullivan, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Taylor, well-known attorney of the Hays & Hays law firm. He was graduated from the Sullivan High School in 1936. I He is a graduate of Indiana University with a Batchelor's Degree in Business Administration, later securing a . Law Degree from the 1. U. Law School. He was admitted to law practice by the Indiana Supreme Court in July of 1942. Yeoman Taylor was married June 21. 1943 to Miss Mildred Starns of Baton Rouge, Louis iana and is the father of a son, 4th, 1944. Mrs. Taylor and son, the parents, and Major John T. Havs were at his bedside when death occurred. "Bob" as he is better known to his many friends throughout the city and district, was a member of the Christian Church. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Mildred Starns Taylor; the son, Robert G. Taylor, Jr: and the parents, Mr. and Mrs.John S. Taylor of North Section Street. The body will probably arrive in Sullivan Thursday night accompanied by the family . and Major John T. Hays. Further details are pending and will be announced later. DEPLOYING TROOPS ASSEMBLY AREA COMMAND France After contributing to the defeat of the Nazis in Germany, Private First Class Maston R. Everhart, Route 1, Sullivan, Ind., is with the 663rd Field Arttillery Battalion at Camp New Orleans of the Assembly Area Command, near Chalons, France, aiding in the redeployment of troops to the United States and the Pacific. He wears battle participation stars for the Rhineland and Central European campaigns. ' HOME FROM OVERSEAS Lt. George R. Dickey, son of Eldon C. Dickey, arrived in Sullivan Saturday after nineteen months of duty in the European Theater of Operations. He has a 30-day delay en route after which he will go to Alabama for reassignment. ,

BUlie Pollock Weds Allen R. Markee

Mrs. J. Hurley Drake of Indianapolis, Indiana, announces the marriage of her daughter, Billie Pollock to Sgt. Allen R. Markee,

..il -a!lthe Lend-Lease act.

.Wedding Bell Chapel In Santa Ann, Calif., by the Rev. Gerald S. Bash, minister of the Christian Church of Santa Ana. The only attendants were Miss Jean Pavy of Greenburg, Indiana and Cpl. Walford Lampi of Moose Lake, Minnesota. Mrs. Markee is a graduate of Sullivan Hieh School and Han(over College where she was a member of the Phi Mu sorority. .During me past year sue was County Band Instructor of Wells County Public Schools at Bluffton, Indiana where she was a member of the Psi Iota XI sorority. Sgt. Markee is also a graduate of Sullivan High School and attended Indiana University. He has been in the service of the United States Army for the past three years serving during this time in the European, Middle East and Asiatic Theaters. Sgt. and Mrs. Markee will reside in Santa Ana, California where he is stationed. Rockford Polio Epidemic Reaches Peak " ROCKFORD, fit; Aug 2i-(UP) On the basis of cases reported in the last two days, medical authorities indicated today that an epidemic of infantile paralysis, which has stricken 153 persons

since July 1, apparently haa, ture of Emperor Kang Teh, Japan's puppet ruler of Manreached its peak. - j churia at his jmnerioi suite today. Dr. John R. Paul, poliomyelitis, The Soviet Far Eastern Commander radioed the Chief expert from Yaie univf 0f Staff of Japan's Kwantung Army that the emperor was to supervise the "W9inmyti" T foaSflfd 6hto 5o' The one time "boy emperor" formerly known as Henry

believe that the decisive point of the outbreak was at hand. Events of the next few days, he said, would determine whether the epidemic, which has resulted in 17 deaths, would increase in intensity or show a sudden improvement. Dr. Paul said that new cases admitted to county hospital yes'Z "VX U 1 type, less serious than the bulbar or respiratory type, prevalent m xne earner stages iu uic eiuuciuu, ETO VETERAN DOCKS AT N. Y. New York, Aug. "22 The S. S. Greenville Dodge arrived in New York August 20th carrying army veterans from the European theatre of operations including many Hoosiers. Included in the group is Sgt. Ellston F. Allen, Farmersburg.

5-Sgt. "Shang" Moore Tells Of PW Life In Nazi-land

The following is an account of over the Alps as we were losing Staff Sergeant John W. "Shang"too much altitude. The co-pilot Moore's PW story beginning and I were arguing who would with his final flight over Nazi ( bail out next, when a bullet

Europe in which tne Liberator bomber on which he served as gunner was shot down and he was captured. Moore is the husband of Mrs.-Alice Webb Moore of this city and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Moore of South Main Street. He was returned to the United States over a month ago following his liberation. "I was shot down Feb. 25, 1944 near Meiningean, Austria, on my 13th mission. The target we were raiding that day was Stuttgart, Germany, and it was a long mis sion. Two engines failed on us first, then we passed right over aj German airfield and eight fighters . came up after us. At the time, we were 20 flying minutes from Switzerland, but we couldn't get

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22uP) All authoritative evidence indicated today that tfie United States may cancel well over half of the obligations incurred by Allied Nations under the lend lease program.

That is supported by statements of the late President

Roosevelt and President Trumajri . in their quarterly lendlease report to Congress. , And! by the statement of the

Senate and House Foreign Relations committees renewing

President Truman ordered

diately focused attention on one : of the most difficult postwar jobs that of the final lend-lease settlement. Procurement of supplies to Allies under, lend-lease has already stopped; actual transfers will cease on the official V-J Day. - A major problem now is to work out interim agreements so that Allied nations can continue to receive lendlease material now stock piled in the transit "pipe line," or on order. Those nations will nave to pay cash or make arrangements for credit if they 'still wish such equipment and material. Foreign Economic Administrator Leo C. Crowley has pointed out that the export-import bank was ready to consider applications for loantl from any Allied nation that still wants lend-lease supplies that are still in the world.

Russia reportedly has been;seeking a six billion dollar

credit loan and Britain one of a'similar. amount. Crowley pointed out thaf the export-import banks, with lending capacity of 3,500,000,000 dollars, does not have enough money to finance a big loan but that it does have" enough to handle financing during the transitional period. But the final settlement of lend-lease accounts is the

really 'tough, long range problem. Officials estimate that

it may be as long as two years' before the lend lease book can be completely shut. :.' Every official statement ever made on lend lease settlement extended that the final reckoning should not be a simple matter of dollars and cents, but should be based on the quantity of the sacrifice; , ' . .

Quantity of sacrifice among the Allies,

American officials, means ,

same relative proportion of war" making resources, whether

manpower or wealth. A nation afn army of 1,000,000 would

score equal to a nation of 100,000,000 with an army ot 10,000,000. The same principle would be applied to war expenditures.

LONDON. Aue. 22 (UP)

P ucyi, was considered an intrnee and was being held at

his suite in "proper surroundings," the commander said. !

HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Aug. 21: Mary Ann Snyder of Carlisle, for treatment. Admitted Aug. 22: Everett Vaughn of Jasonville, for treat O Bicknell. for tonsillectomy; Nan cy Lou Willis of Dugger for ton

sillectomy; Mary Jarrard for from the Armed Forces into the;0ut of twelve months. The miltmsillectomy; James Hallett of school system for the coming j jry personnel have done even Carlisle Route 3, for treatment, i school year," Dr. Clement T. Ma- ijetter For tweive consecutive Dismissed Aug 21: Mrs. Fannie ian, state superintendent of public month' they have kept their total Ballance of Oaktown; Grover instruction, said today. He has j of accidents below the

. - r 2 Te,.iZ. Dismissed Aug. 22: George McCammon of Carlisle; Sally , Pooe of Sullivan Route 1; David Holmes of Sullivan; Mrs. Maxine Shounck of Shelburn; Roy Helderman of Bicknell. grazed his forehead, so we weren't loner deciding after that,

A fighter circled me all the way the Navy's PT boats. j Postnonement of the Indiana down but didn't fire at me. The bullet-sealing tanks, cred- State Convention of the American "We landed at the foot of the ited with saving thousands of air-! Legion from August 26th to SepAlps in knee-deep snow. They planes, were installed on the PT . tember 22 and 23 was announced put us in a German guardhouse boats after the Tulagi Gulf action ! today by William E. Brown of that night and later took us to the in the Solomons in 1942. Bloomington, state commander, train station. We Jiad to change ! J Earl Gulick, general super- after unanimous vote by the state trains in Stuttgart and the people intendent of the B. F. Goodriifll i executive committee, were enraged because of the Co. fuel cells division, said the' The convention will be held in bombing the day before. They tanks are made almost entirely of Indianapolis on the later dates in spit and threw rocks at us and we gynthetic rubber and four are in- Place of tne token convention

would have been mobbed it U hadn't been for' the guard. Later j we found out his wife and baby i had been killed two weeks before j in a bombing raid. After that, we were rushed onto another train. (Continued on Page 4, Col. 3),

NEWS

halting of lend-lease imme the Allies, according . to that each did contribute, thfe of 10,000,000 that furnishes Wave made a sacrifice on that Russia announced the capAsk Release of Teachers From

MilitafV ?rvirp'p8red with the averaSe of the military JwrVltCjother 14 Troop carrier bases in ithe command.

"Victory came just at the right I time to get many . former school administrators and teachers back iSTi1. , Z ,M 7 ,.T tor of selective service, "to re-1 lease immediately from the

armed forces, all school adminis- i mimitry via6 trators and teachers who left their satellite field of Atterbury, at Coljobs to enter the war, so thatjumbus, Ind., and Sturgis at Sturthey may be employed for the.gis, Ky. Most common cause for

coming school year." Teachers of agriculture, trade and industry, home economics, commerce and physical education are especially needed. Dr. Malen says. SYNTHETIC FUEL TANKS AKJRON, O. (UP) Akron built rubber tanks have been mstalled as standard eauinment on stalled on each boat. NEW SUITS Lillie M Gabey vs. John H. Gabey. Complaint and alimony,.

FORCES IN BURMA REFUSE DEMANDS

Allied Leaflets Telling of Surrender Are Ignored By Japanese. RANGOON, Aug. 22 KU.R) Japanese forces in Burma have refused to respond to Allied leaflets demanding their surrender, it was officially announced today. The new Delhi radio said last night that Admiral Lord Louis1 Mountbatten, chief of the southeast Asia command, had broadcast instructions to the Japanese for surrender on Thursday at Rangoon. . ' I The peace representatives were Instructed to travel in not more tran two unarmed aircraft painted : all white with green crosses on the fuselage and wings. I An Allied spokesman said that southeasts Asia command forces "took defensive action" yesterday when Thunderbolt planes attack-1 cd Japanese troops in the Burma area, "who were surrounding Al-' lied guerilla forces." The spokesman said the planes tried to do as little damage to the enemy as possible. Units of ( the Japanese 28th army were at- j tempting to retreat east toward Thailand in great numbers and were threatening to isolate the guerilla party which called for immediate aid. The spokesman said there was, I J. .. A V . I no indication inai xne Japanese or would agree to their "T taJ"uu,"" a,lu I,e aa ded funder the present situation any soft attitude can only lead to ' danger." . j British troops who tried to get eight Japanese soldiers to surrender along the Mandalay-Ran-goon road were forced to watch as seven killed themselves with hand grenadess. Accident Rate Low At George Field George Field, Lawrenceville, 111. The accident frequency rate at George Field has been comSince July of 1944 the civilian personnel rate has been "below the 'rate of all other baases in nine command average. Accidents among both groups bave been about one f onth- Te these misnaps: auio acciaeius, most frequently during off-duty hours. The civilian personnel score is mainly due to not being familiar with equipment used. State Legion Convention Postponed .piannea wr nugusv u, der Brown stated. Organizing state-wide aid for returning veterans and the families of those who will not return makes essential representation of every

for divorce Indiana Legion Post at the con'yention, he said.

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- - o ' Troops To Parachute In Sunday. MANILA, Aug. 22 (UP)Tokyo said today' that Gen'. . Douglas Mac Arthur will fly to the Japanese capital next. Tuesday and three days later, August 31, will dictate the surrender terms from an American warship in Tokyo bay. A I J 4- .-.nlnA TVilrim nowcnimpr AS savinC

that the first waves of occupation ' troops to land in Tokyo area will total 20.000 men. Landings will begin by air Sunday and by sea Tuesday, Tokyo said. ' j : ' ' Tokyo said MacArthur, Supreme Occupation Commander will land Tuesday morning at Attsugi airfield, 14 miles southwest of Tokyo with airborne reinforcements for the occu-

On August 31st, Tokyo said, Japan is scheduled to sign the "truce agreement" obviously the final peace terms incorporating the principles of the Potsdam declaration on an American warship in Tokyo bay. . The broadcast did not say who would sign for Jaoan, but the enemy delegation may include Hirohito in addition to the Japanese government chieftain and the heads of the

In addition to MacArthur, representatives of Britain, Russia and China will sign for the Allies. Canderra said Australia. also will sign-documents as a result of strong

representation by the Australian government. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced early today that the surrender of Japan will be signed aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo bay on August 31st. '

Orpha Dickey 1 Weds Pfc. Chas. Ford Mr. Eldon C. Dickey announces the marriage of his daughter, Orpha, to Pfc. Charles F. Ford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Ford of Pennsgrove, New Jersey. Rev. Harry Mercer officiated ai the double ring ceremony in the McKee chapel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church of Indianapolis Sunday, August 18 Miss Betty Lutes of Brownstown ana nc xvenneui uevue ui mjmour attended the bride and groom. Mrs. Ford is a graduate of Indiana University with the class of 1945. She is now employed at Eli Lilly & Co. of Indianapolis. Pfc. Ford is a student in the Indiana University School of Medicine. Mrs. Schleicher Becomes Bride of Capt. Liebermann Mr. and Mrs. Leonard H. Mansell have announced the marriage of their daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Schleicher, to Capt. Francis E. Liebermann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lieberman of 811 Hart Street. The wedding took place at 9 o'clock Saturday morning in the rectory of St. John's church, with Rev. Frank Scheper, pastor, officiating. Attending the couple were Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Frey, brother-in-law and sister of the bride. A luncheon was served at the Vance Tea Room. Following a short wedding trip (the couple, at the end of his , leave, will go to Camp LeJeume, N. C, where Captain Liebermann is stationed. MARRIAGE LICENSES William J. Trimble, Carlisle, R. 1, farmer and Mary Ashcraft, Linton.

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J - r Lhma, Australia First Occunation The first occupation lorces wiu be largely American, but also will include Australian and Philippine units. British and Soviet units possibly will join them la ter. Tokyo reported that American airborne landings at Atsugi will be f oll&we'd" on Tuesday with the landing of additional troops from warships and transports at Yokosuka, naval base city at southwest entrance to Tokyo bay. The landing occupation of Tokyo area will be completed by August 31st, Tokyo said, and the next day other forces would begin lending at Kanoya airfield at the southern tip of Kyushu, southernmost of the en home islands WPB To Drop War Priorities September 30 . i. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UP) The War Production Board announced today that it is reconverting itself to peacetime operation. Effective September 30, WPB is eliminating full wartime priorities control system substituting a new, limited measure intended to speed reconversion, break production bottlenecks and to protect the interests of the military, little business and central civilian program. This disclosure follows a WPB announcement that American women have awaited that the lid is off on production of nylon for civilian and prospects are good for large supplies of nylon hosiery by Thanksgiving Christmas at J the latest. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Pvt. and Mrs. Jess Ray Martin of Jasonville, Indiana are the parents of a daughter, Bonnie EInora, born at the Mary Sherman Hospital August 21st. Mr. and Mrs. Vernal Wills of 530 Sylvandell Street, are the parents of a daughter born at the Mary Sherman Hospital August 22nd. She has been named 'Merita Kay.