Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 173, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 30 August 1945 — Page 1

l'..$ti HUMID INDIANA: Fair, warm, and rather humid tonight and Friday, VOL. XLVII No. 173 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN. INDIANA THURSDAY, AUG. 30, 1945. , INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS X

News Of Our Men And Women With The Colors WW ADDRESS Pvt. James M. Pope, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pope of Terre Haute R. - R. 3, is stationed at Ft. Ord, Calif ., : waiting assignment lor overseas army occupation. His address is: Pvt. James M. Pope, 35969735 Co. N, 4t'.i Repl.' Bn., 1st Repl. (Inf.) AGFRD No. 5, Ft. Ord, .California, Honor Soldier Relatives gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pope of Terre Haute R. R. 3, in honor of their nephew, Pvt. Russell W.

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Pope of Sullivan, who has been stationed at Camp McClellan, Alabama. Thosa enjoying . the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Pope, : narcnts of Pvt. Pope, Mildred

Katherine and Mary Pope, Mr.

and Mrgr.iiArron Pope, Mr.JandCHed was Major Gregory BoyMis.' Ray White an.ori, Byrle, - mgjon,-; 32,; Okanogan,, WashingMis Sylvia Goodman' aiid Vdati- tont Marine fighter pilot ace,

ghTer Rosalfe, Mrs. Dennis- L,;TjW4 nad been snot down ana De

Goodman, Mrs. Frances Pope, Mrs. Ellen Pope all of bullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pope and children, Jackie Lee and Melba Rose and Mary Neckless all of Terre Haute. All departed at a ' late hour wishing Pvt. Pope good luck and a return home soon. Pvt. Pope has finished his basic training and will report to Ft. Riley, Kansas for further assignment. TRANSFUSED Pvt. James A. Pitcher has been transferred to California. His present address may be secured from his parents. Eaton-Milligan -Vows Exchanged Mrs. Elsie Eaton, Rural Route 1, has announced the marriage of her daughter, Phyllis, to Glenn E. Milligan. The wedding took place at 11:30 o'clock Sunday morning after the morning service in the First Methodist Church of Sullivan, with Rev. R. M. Criswell officiating . The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis S. Milligan of Emporia, Kansas. Attending the ' couple were Miss Marcella Eaton, sister of the bride, and Henry N. Gettinger, friend of the bride and groom. Following an organ prelude by Mrs. Loren Harris, Mrs. Kathryn Reid sang ''Beloved, ft Is Morn." Throughout the double-ring ceremony "I Love You Truly" was played softly on the organ. After. a brief wedding trip, the couple will be at home in Wichita, Kansas. The bride will continue her studies at Friends University and, the groom will resume teaching duties in the Wichita Public Schools. . "BACK TO CIVVIES" (Know those who . have served by the little gold button reproduced above. Men and women honorably discharged from the nation's armed forces are entitled to wear It.) .

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PrisonersFrom JafHeMHole" Savage Beatings And Brutal Treatment R evealed After Evacuation Near, Yokohama. , ABOARD ADM. BADGER'S FLAGSHIP AT YOKOSKUA, Aug. 30. (UP) Five hundred Allied prisoners, rescued late yesterday from a Japanese internment camp in the Yokohama area, told today of savage beatings and other brutal treatment Jn the "blackest hell hole" of the war.. Medical examination indicated that most of the 500 were suffering from injuries, concussion, burns or malnutrition. One of the first prisoners reslieved killed over Rabaul after bagging his 26th Jap plane. Rear Admiral Robert Garney, Chief of Staff to Adm. Halsey announced that the liberation was carried out by a special naval task force. Garney told correspondents that Commodore Boger Simpson took a special liberating force northward to Amori, near Yokohama, to effect the first rescue of prisoners on Japanese home territory. I "There has never been a blacker hell hole than the pris oner of war hospital we are now evacuating one and miles north of our one-nair mooring,'' I Simpson radioed to Halsey. Simpson said "the prisoners' cheers as the rescue boat hove into sight "brought tears to our eyes. Arrows Drive Hard

Workouts, Look To New Laurels

Football Coach Bill Jones of .height, 6 feet; weight, 165; SenSullivan high school is leading a ior. William Sevier, height, 6 feet, sauad of some fifty aspirants for 3 inches; weight, 170; Senior. Lee

1945 varsity gridiron bertns ho tnrouen prueinuB wwJn.u nrepares his squad for the open - ine gime of the season against ih Washington Hatchets ' at "Hatchet Hollow" in the Daviess County .eat Friday night, September 14th. Although his squad is comnaratively green this season, Coach Jones reports that the boys are hurtling and showing a splendid pttitude. The cool weather of the last week, while tough on the vir.pninff corn, has been a boon for the Golden Arrow pigskin chasters and this week has seen thp "Jones Boys" going through twice daily workouts, sessions starting at 9:30 a. m. and 3:30 p. m. William Keck, new S.H.S. basketball coach, is assisting Head Coach Jones with the grid ders and Stewart "Red" Faught,: Forld War H veteran and a fouryear, fou-star Sullivan high football hero, has also been assisting with the early season workouts. 1 , With a successful record of seven wins and only two defeats last year, the present edition of Arrows is bolstered by nine returning lettermen. Currently, Coach Jones' gridiron ' roster shapes up as follows: i Ends Max Cooley, letterman,

WAKEMAN CHAPLAIN CHAUTAUQUA SPEAKER

Chaplain J. C. McDonald of Wakeman Convalescent Hospital, will deliver the morning address at the Merom Bluff Chautauqua CHAPLAIN J. C. MCDONALD on Sunday morning, September 2, at 11:15, following the Sunday School hour. Chaplain McDonald served for eighteen months in World War I, entering as an Apprentice Seaman and was discharged from the service as commanding officer of submarine chaser No. 134. ; In this war he was chaplain of the 01st Battalwm and the!, 18th Regiment at the Replacement Center at Camp Roberts in California until he came to Camp Atterbury in February of the present year, where he is acting as chaplain for the reconditioning unit. . He has served two churches in the last twenty years. The first was the Congregational Christian Church at Franklin, Indiana and he is now on leave of absence from the First Presbyterian Church of Martinsville, Indiana. EXPLAINS REUNIONS . CLINTON N. Y. (UP) Dr. Willard Thorp, Princeton University English professor, has a v "1C . alumm to their College reunluiis. iiiorp says h isn i "just a chance to carouse around and see their ex-college mate," but "a retreat to the one place where they have escaped the pressure of day-by-day life." In Double-Daily

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neigm, 0 ieei; weignt, iod;i Junior. Basil Sluder. heieht. fi.rLAIN LAdUK

i - . . v. ' : feet; weight, 160; Senior.. Tom Raley, height. 6 feet; weight, 162; Senior. Jim Walls, Irvin Raley, James Chowning, .Sophomores, and Garland Decker, Freshman, are other end candidates. Tackles Kenneth Brown. height, 6 feet, 1 inch; weight, 190; Senior. Ike Southwood, letterman; neight. 5 feet. 8 Inches; weight, 145; Senior. William McCrocklin, letterman; height, 5 feet. 10 inches; weight. 180: Junior. Mike Fougerousse, height, 5 feet, 10 inches: weight, 165: Senior. Bill Mor ns, height, 5 feet, 8 inches; weignt, lau: senior. Other candi dates are Raymond Hunter, Jun ior, and Charles Smith, a Sophomore. Guards Dorvin Olson, letterman, height, 5 feet. 7 inchpsweigh. 150; Senior. Gene Scully, letterman. 5 feet, 10 inches: weight. 165; Senior. Jim Boles, 5 i1- mcnes; weignt. 160; Senior, D soutnwood, height, 5 feet 11 inches: weight, 145: Sophomore. Byron Thrasher, height, 5 feet 11 inchps: weight. 156: Junior. Other candidates are Dallas Moore, a Junior, and Stanley Scully and Dick Hughes. Sophomores. Centers-Oscar Mood, letterfContinued on Page 4 Col 2)

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LATE PORTLAND. Oree-on ' Ausr.! outfitting docks of the Kaiser

. an estimated $25,000,000 damage, burning six newiy com

pleted ships. - I S A 1 AA PAA AAA 1- II proximately $3,500,000 each and

proximately $3,500,000 each and;two troop ships cost 4$,000,000. The other damage was to the shipyard installations.

i More than Z,500 workers w$re in the immediate yicinny of the fire. Firemen were driven from the outfitting docks by the heat. , f The fire was believed to hate started when sparks from

a welder's outfit ignited oil being piped in a generator on the(was returned to the residence of

Rpvar ViVtoi-v. n crnnn ptpH sh

er inflammables, the fire spread rapidly to other ships. The flames spread to the outfitting docks and engulfed four 15-ton cranes, threatening to topple them. The .yard is operated by Henry J. Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., for the U. S. Maritime Commission. , LONDON, Aue. 30. (UP)i-A Russian spokesman said today that Martin Borman, Adolf Hitler's deputy and second most powerful man in Germany jwas believed still at large. Maj. Gen. I. T. Nikitchenko,? Soviet representative on the United Nations prosecuting committee, disclosed that the Allies have dismissed reports of Borman's death as unfounded. : Speculation over Borman's whereabouts was touched

off by his inclusion last night ordered to trial at Nuernberg France and Russia. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. under consideration a plan to on new cars already rolling off today. Interested government tion Board and the OPA. ,

I . At oresent new automobiLf are reserved for a limited

number of users who are considered essential drivers. .

' OPA is using the same list for distributing 1942 cars.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 30. (UP) Heiress Barbara Hutton today divorced her third husband, handsome film actor Cary Grant. Miss Hutton charged Grant with causing her "grievous mental distress, suffering and anguish." She testified that he would rather sit around upstairs than talk to her friends.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. (UP) President Truman said today that he thought the Army and Navy Pearl Harbor report showed that' the disaster resulted fundamentally from "the policy which the country itself pursued" in 1941, a policy of non-preparedness. The President expressed his views at a press conference while numerous congressmen were dmanding further

investigation and public court drew nart of the hlame. . The President also sided Henry Stimson in challenging report, this time in defense of dell Hull. The President said today pletely with what Stimson had

criticism of Hull.Mr. Truman yesterday had associated himself with Stimson in denouncing criticism of the Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Marshall. Discussing the report under rapid-fire questioning by a packed news conference, the President said he had read the report carefully.

DAY HOLIDAY Labor Day, next Monday, September 3, will be a full holiday in Sullivan with all stores and institutions remaining closed all day. It was announced today that the local merchants have agreed to dispense with their usual Thursday afternoon closing next week because of the " holiday Monday. There will be no issue of the Daily Times on Monday. KEEP PRESSURE UP NEW ORLEANS. (UP) Engine Co. No. 30 of the New Orleans fire department is leading the organization with 6,085 pounds not of water pressure, but of waste paper for the salvage drive. Keep competition among the fire laddies for collecting waste paper has developed. Leading companies will receive red, white and blue badges for their work,

NEWS

30. (UP) A fire in the Oregon shipyards today caused two troop ships cost $4,000, - ' - . . . .

Fed hv fresh namt and oth-line

among the 24 war prisoners by the United States, Britain, ;. - (UP) The government has lift rationing control altogether assembly lines, it was learned agencies are the War Produc V : , . J of eligibles which was set up martial of top officers who again with Secretary 'of War portions of the Army board former Secretary of State Corthat he wanted to agree com said yesterday in challenging HOSPITAL COUNCIL PLANS 700 BOXES FOR GI CHRISTMAS George Field Camp & Hospital Council's quota of Christmas boxes to be sent overseas this year will be 700. Sullivan County's quota will be about 75 boxes. work on the boxes will com mence next month. The public is asked to watch for additional notice of the project. ' NO ENTERTAINMENT HOUSTON, Tex. (UP) Dancing couples at a wayside tavern thought it was "just a brother act" when two swaggering, rak ishly dressed "twins' burst onto the dance floor, flourished eix guns and ordered: "All right, shell out the cash!" The Optimistic impression vanished ; when one of the robbers fired a bullet through a peanut machine and another into the floor under the dancers' feet, The holdup men resembling a vauucviuc uiouiex x.i spuny wmie siraw net is, wuue sports shirts and dark trousers, netted $258 when the dancers decided they'd better "shell out the cash."

Several Deaths Occur In County

MRS. MAMIE SHEPHERD JASONVILLE, Ind. Aug.30. Mrs. Mamie Shepherd. 74 years e residence of her brother, George, southeast of Hymi'iih ur i f-ii irfju cm it n ia3 nr rr nil mera, at 9:15 o'clock Wednesday night. She is survived by two other brothers, Porter and Welwood, both of Jasonville, R. R. The body was taken to the McClannahan Funeral ' Home and Drotner, ueorge, tnis alter noon. . Funeral services will be held at the Cloyborne Church at 2 o'clock Friday . afternoon with the Rev. Bert Sanders officiating. Gurial will be in the adjoining cemetery. . JOHN A. SPINKS HYMERA, Ind., Aug. 30. John A. Spinks, 72 years. Old, died at his home here at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. He is survived by the.widow, Josephine; four daughters, Mrs. Hallie Ingle of Farmersburg, Mrs. Dorothy Buckingham of Shelburn, Mrs. Margaret Layman of Putmanville, Ind., and Mrs. Fontella Cameron of San Antonio, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Nell Vanicha of Covington, Ind., and Mrs. Eliza Smith of .Danville, 111.; and six grandchildren. . . , -j--Thf body 'was taken ' to he McHujgh Funeral Home in Hymera.J where rites will be held at 2.00 p. m. Saturday with burial in the K. of P. cemetery. The Rev. Russell will officiate. MRS. ROSE ELLEN TAYLOR SHELBURN, Ind., Aug. 30. Mrs. Rose Ellen Taylor, 86 years old, of Farmersburg, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ethel Howard of near Shelburn, at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. She is survived by one other daughter, Mrs. Amy Stewart of Terre Haute; one son, Silas Taylor of Chicago; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. The body was taken to the McHugh Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p. m. Friday at the Funeral Home with burial at the Fletcher Chapel cemetery.

Details Of Death Of Sullivan Marine Hero Related In Letter To Parent

Heartaches on the home front for those who will not return from the war are in a measure eased by the knowledge that there are those with whom they served who too, will never forget them. To these men who knew them as brothers and "life, guarding" comrades the memory of their courage and service shall never die. Such a bond between brothers-in-arms is universal on every can soldier and his allies have soldiered and it is expressed freely to Mr. and Mrs, French of 629 North Court Street in a letter recently re - tcivcu xi um mci mi commander. The -letter comes from Lt. Ward Wilcox of the United States Marine Corps under whom i their son, Corporal Jack French ) served, with the First Marine Division. It. tells how the Marine Corps hero was killed on Okinawa Island in the Shuri sector, May 5th, 1945. The letter read: "As Jack's company commander, I feel that a 1 peincps yuu wuuiu c , w.v something more of the' circumstances of his death than it was puuic w " ."""WK i aueauj ncuy yvu UiC imvj Department. "A letter of this nature Is always difficult to write for there is nothing to be said which

Gen.

MacArthur

Up His Headparters At Yokohama Today

Admiral Nimitz And Admiral Halsey Go Ashore At Yokosuka Naval Base Occupation Proceeds Without Bloodshed "From Melbourne To Tokyo Was A Long, Hard Road, But

This Looks Like

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, YOKOHAMA, Japan, Aug. 30. (UP) Gen. Douglas MacAr;hur set up headquarters in Yokohama today as the first 10,000 troops of his occupation army raised the Stars and Stripes over Japan's largest naval base, two airfields and a )ig slice of the Tokyo plain. . , A half dozen or more Japanese towns, some within a few miles of the southern outskirts of Tokyo, were occupied- by Allied sea and airborne forces in their first few hours ashore.

MacArthur, Supreme occupation commander, established

his headquarters in Yokohama s new Grand Hotel with other top American officers less than an hour after landing, from Okinawa. . . ' ' , " From the top of the hotel MacArthur could see Emper&v

Hirohito's palace in the heart of Tokyo. Both Hirohito -and the Japanese government now must take their orders froml

MacArthur.

South of Yokohama, Adm. Chester Nimitz, MacArthur'? partner in the conquest of Japan, and Adm. William Halsej of 3rd Fleet fame went ashore at the newly occupied Yokoonlrrt Mnnnl Itnnst . 1 T 1 1 1 T .

ouiva navai uaoc, luimeny dcipaus nuiriuer one navy yaruv iu

already had surrendered formally to Halsey s deputies.

American and British Marines and Bluejackets alscj raised. the American flag over three fortified islands guardJ

ing me approaches to Yokosuka, Cape Futtsu, seven mile

across the entrance to Tokyo

half sunken hulk of the Japanese battleshio Naerato.

The air and seaborne landings on Japan were carried oul

under a canopy of 2,000 warplanes and the big guns of hunl

dreds ot warships in Tokyo END WAC ENLISTMENTS WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. (UP) Enlistments in the Women's Army Corps were discontinued Col. Westrey Battle Royce, director of the Corps announced today. can in any measure compensate your loss, and there is always the chance that it mav sp oniy to aggravate your sorrow. However, I feel that if our positions were reversed, I would like to know at least how it happened, and that is my only guide for this letter. "As you- probably know already, Jack was the section leader of a section of two ma chine guns in his company. Early on the morning of May 5th, the company was .involved in ex-

"e",tremely close and bitter fighting!,, . .. . ' ,. I Carl . ,u t 'Following a pattern set earlieH

nese defense line protecting lShuri The fighting had progressed very slowly and Jack's guns, set up on the company's right flank, had been invaluable in protecting that section of our line from repeated and determined attacks from a strong force of Japs who were dug in just out of hand-grenade range to our front. However, about ten o'clock an enemy mortar barrage hit our positions with one shell scoring a direct hit on Jack's fox-hole. He was killed instantly XVV ill. an(j 1m sure h(J suffered nQ pain at all. His body was evac j that 'same day and buried i with full military honors in the First Marine Division Cemetery (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4)

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The Payoff. Bay from Yokosuka and thd Bay and adjoining Sag'ami Bay. Jap Officers Polite. The troops landed with full combat equipment, but not shot was fired by either sidq Japanese officers were polite anJ bowing. MacArthur's huge trans port plane "Bataan" alighted oi Atsugi airfield, 18 miles south o Hirohito's palace, at 1:58 p.;'n (11:58 a. m. C.W.T.). He tol. nevsmen and GI's who clusteret about the plane that the surrend er plan was "going splendidly." "There is every indication tha ,the occupation will continue with I j out friction or bloodshed," hi faid- "In the outlying theaters ,fi2hting has practically ceased. Ii i this area 200,000 Japanese troop have been disarmed and demobil i7ed. From Melbourne to Tokyi was a long, hard road,- but thi looks like the payoff." EDWARDSPORT AGAIN REJECTS INCORPORATION PLAN EDWARDSPORT. Antrum 3n U tnis year at Bruceville, the voter.; of Edwardsport Tuesday rejected a proposal to incorporate thd community into a town organiza-J tion. The vote was 163 against proposal to incorporate and approving the proposal. thf lit There was one vote cast whicl was discarded by the election judges. It was the second election heldl in Edwardsport on the incorpora tion proposal. A month ago the voters cast their ballots and the) vote was a tie with 123. voted cast for each side. This was followed by a peti tion to the county commissioners for another election, and the jvote Tuesday resulted.