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i State Historical society Topeka, Kansas IOLA REGISTER Tha Weekly Befisicr, Established 1867. The Iola Daily Register, Established 1897. Successor to The Iola Daily Register, The Iola Daily Record, and Iola Daily Index. VOLUME XLyilJ No. 217 IOLA, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1945.

SIX PAGES The War At a Glance The Weather BORNEOA Rich Prize for Allies Subs Join In Blockade Of Japan KANSAS Considerable cloudiness over state with occasional showers and thunderstorms southeast this afternoon, extreme east early tonight; followed by clearing late tonight and fair Tuesday; cool er west and central this afternoon and cooler tonight and southeast Tuesday; high Tuesday 75-80. Temperature Highest for the 24 hours ending 5 p.m. yesterday. 86, lowest last night 67; normal for today 79; deficiency yesterday excess since January 1, 79 degrees; this date last year highest 92; low est 68. Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 8 a.

m. today, preci pitation for the 48 hours ending at 8 a. m. today total for this year to date. 26.50; excess since January 1, 6.56 Inches.

Sunrise 6:07 a. set 8:47 p. Thermograph Readings Ending Over Top On Bonds Goal Exceeded By About $7,000 Here; Overall Quota Was Passed" Some Time Ago Allen county is over the top in all phases of the Seventh War Loan, Judge Wallace H. Anderson, county campaign chairman, said this morning. Unofficial reports gathered by the Judge show that the sales of bonds will exceed the $337,000 quota by approximately $7,000.

No definite figure can be given until the sales of all agencies have cleared through the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City. However, the sale of bonds on Friday and Saturday was lively in all parts of the county and the Judge 1s confident that the quota was oversubscribed. Long Past Total Goal More than two weeks ago the overaU goal in the drive was reached. However, the bond quota was the largest ever assigned to the county and a week ago there was some question as to whether or not the bond goal would be attained. U.

D. Nevitt, financial secretary, is now compiling a report of bond sales made during the drive. When this is completed it will be published, showing the actual sales made in the various districts in the county. 1 of the most Interesting spectacles of the week-end has been that of Japan's notorious Admiral Kichisa-buro Nomura doing a bit of vigorous fishing in the peace pool. Nomura is by way of being an expert on peace that is, on some aspects of it.

He's the fellow who was in Washington as the mikados special envoy, talking peace and expressing Nippons deep affection for Uncle Sam. when the Japs made their treacherous attack at Pearl Harbor. His name Is deeply engraved on American memory, The admiral casting a long line in the hope of hcoking a bit of information says that the Allies policy of unconditional surrender is only costing them higher casualties He admits theies no sign that they are suffering from war-weariness, but declared: As long as the enemy asks for Japans unconditional furrender she will have to shed blood proportionate to the time and intensity of each battle. Nomura has been about a bit and isnt silly enough to think that any such statement would affect the Allied war program. Undoubtedly he is trying to draw from the Allies some further, more concrete, declaration as to what unconditional surrender entails.

Why? Well, because Japan knows that she is beaten and she is looking about to see what can be salvaged from the wreckage. Things must indeed look black for Tokyo. The home-land is virtually isolated by Allied naval and air blockade. Japan cannot feed and already is faced with a food crisis. We are just hitting our stride in an areial bombardment which will be more terrible than anything the world has seen.

This past week-end also has marked the eighth anniversary of Chinas struggle against Japanese barbarism and it finds the Chinese at long last heading out of the roods. Tokyo will have noted that thls'Enntvevsary-was the occasion of (Cos tinned an Pace 6. No. 11 Charter Hearings Begin Stettinius Tells Sen-' ate Pact Offers World Effective Instrument For Lasting Peace By JACK BELL Washington, July 9. (AP) Edward R.

Stettinius, told the senate foreign relations committee today that the United Nations charter offers a truly effective for lasting peace. The silver-haired former secretary of state was the first witness to testify as the 50-nation agreement reached at San Francisco started officially through the senate amid indications it may be ratified without amendment or reservation. The historic session got underway four minutes late. Chairman Connally opened the proceedings by inserting in the record the speech of President Truman to the senate the day the treaty was delivered, together with a copy of the treaty itself. Jammed with Visitors The caucus room was jammed with visitors, including some standees in the rear.

They let out a cheer first when Stettinius arrived and then when Conally, in white linen suit and black bow tie, strode in. Stettinius wore a gray suit and a maroon tie. Speaking from a prepared manuscript in a large caucus room where the late Wendell L. Wlllkle once expounded his one-world views, Stettinius declared: I believe the five major nations proved at San Francisco beyond the shadow of any doubt that they can work successfully and in unity with each other and with the other United Nations under this charter. Have a Great Stake No country has a greater stake, he continued, than the United States in a speedy beginning upon the task of realizing in fact the promise which the United Nations charter offers to the world.

Explaining the charter In some detail, Stettinius said he did not consider it a perfect instrument. He felt, he said, that as time goes on Democratic principles and techniques will gain headway In the interna- tional field. In short, he said, the course which is charted by this document is one which I believe to be within the -capacity, of the nations at this period of world history to follow, and it is a course which leads in the direction of our highest aspirations for human advancement in a world at peace. Meet Security Interests Stettinius emphasized that the war and navy departments have certified that they are of the opinion that the military and strategic implications of the charter a whole are in accord with the security interests of United States. The former' cabinet-officer was to be followed to the witness chair by owlish Leo Pasvolsky, a leading charter tecnician.

(By the Associated Press) Japan 50 Japanese planes were destroyed or wrecked in a series of attacks by army, navy and marine fliers. Borneo Australian infantry advanced in the Pandansari refinery area near Balikpapan. Philippines Enemy casualties rose to 423,236 as 3,824 additional Japanese dead and 386 prisoners were counted last week. China Chinese headquarters announced Japanese marines who landed southwest of Amoy were being forced into retreat. Chinese captured south guard pass on Indo-China frontier.

Burma Japanese activity increased In Sittang river bend, 70 miles northwest of Rangoon. No Break In Berlin Deadlock Americans Are Hopeful A Big Three Decision Will Speedily Untangle Food and Fuel Mixup By DANIEL DE LUCE Berlin, July 9. (AP) The inter-Allied deadlock over the government of Berlin continued unbroken today as high diplomats began arriving for the impending Big Three meeting. Averell Harriman, U. S.

ambassador to Moscow, is to land at the Tempelhof airdrome this afternoon and take quarters near the Little White House prepared for President Truman in the heavily guarded Potsdam area. A procession of American limousines started regular service from the airdrome to Potsdam, carrying distinguished visitors. Set Up Wire Network American army signal experts virtually completed stringing a thick network of cables and wires by which Mr. Truman will be in touch with Washington while he confers with Generalissimo Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill. Guards from elitered army regiments were increased throughout the Potsdam area.

A heavy sprinkling of American and BritLshsent-ries were in the The Berlin governmental impasse over the issue of supplying food and fuel for the district occupied by the Americans and British still was unsettled and the possibility increased that the Big Three might have to resolve it. Experts Over-all Plan Col. Frank Howley, chief of the military government of the United States occupation zone, declared last night he expected the major power to decide within a few days on an over-all plan of government (Continued on Page 6, No. 3) May Form Chapter Of War Dads Here A meeting to consider the question of whether a chapter of the national organization of War Dads should be formed here will be held next Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian church, it was announced today. The meeting will be addressed by a state officer of the organization and his purpose will be simply to explain the nature of the organization, its purposes, and objectives.

Bert Fryer will preside. No effort will be made to form a chapter at that meeting. This will come later if enough fathers of service men are interested. Women as well as men are invited to the Sunday meeting, anyone who is interested in learning about the War Dads program of aid. to service men.

War Dads chapters already have been formed in Fort Scott, Pittsburg, Chanute, Erie and Yates Center among the towns closest to Iola. By recapture of the island of Borneo the Allies will reap a rich store of oil and rubber and by the same token, will deprive the Japs of these vital products. Map above shows principle production centers of these and other raw materials. Interior of Island Is mostly jungle-covered mountains. AP Man Executed Joseph Morton Otfe'of? Group Caught By Nazis While Trying to Save Downed Allied Fliers Probe Polish Army Control Issue Is Whether Or Not Troops Will Recognize New Regime London, July 9.

(AP) A showdown on control of the 250,000 Polish soldiers and sailors abroad appeared possible today as the British strated investigating a charge that a Polish captain had been arrested for attempting to transfer allegiance to the new Warsaw government. The foreign office said the inquiry resulted from a report by Polpress, Warsaw government news agency, that Polish military authorities in Britain had arrested Capt. Waclaw Kostecki, lecturer at a Polish training center. Arrive From Warsaw Warsaw government representatives arrived at the week-end under instructions from the newly recognized regime to take over property previously controlled by Tamaz Arciszewskis' exiled regime. The incident brought into the open the potentially dangerous question of what is to be done with Polish forces here, on the continent and in Italy, and of whether the forces will remain under present command.

Many Polish officers have refused to recognize the Warsaw regime. The British government thus far has sidestepped the issue by saying Polish forces abroad are under British operational control. LaCygne Has 10 Inches Of Rain Over Week-End LaCygne, July 9. (AP). Streets were flooded and a number of trees uprooted during a storm which hit here early this morning, the second in less than 12 hours.

More than three inches of rain fell in 45 minutes, bringing the total precipitation since Saturday morning to 10 inches. Creeks are dangerously high. The first storm hit at 10:20 oclock Sunday night, damaging a theater building, and blowing down utility wires. Ration Office Closes At Noon On Saturdays In line with the new 44 hour week for federal employees, the local War Price and Rationing Board will close at noon each Saturday, W. T.

Lewis, chief clerk announced today. The office will be open from 8 to 5 right through the noon hour each day except Saturday. On Saturdays the horns wil be from 8 to 12, effective July 14. SAYS TOKYO Aid Planes in Preparing Way for Invasion; Chinese Claim Capture Of Indo-China Gateway Washington, July 9. (AP) In a five-way strike, a very large task force of Superfortresses rained incendiaries on industrial targets at five Japanese cities on Honshu island today.

A 20th Air Force headquarters announcement said Gifu, Sakai, Wakayama, Sendai and Yokkaichl were hit in a night incendiary demolition raid today (July 10, Japanese time.) The Superfortresses were from MaJ. Gen. Curtis E. Lamaya forces based in the Marianas. By LEONARD MILLIMAN A considerable number of American submarines have moved into waters around Japan, Tokyo reported today, joining thousands of daily raiding planes in strangling Nippon and preparing the way for invasion.

Chinese claimed they captured the grateway to Indo-China, posing a similar threat of strangulation and conquest to 200,000 Nipponese ground forces in southern Asia, already cut off and threatened by British troops mopping up in southeast Asia and Australians overrunning Borneos oil fields. Only the Beginning Tokyo reported nearly 200 U. S. fighters, bombers and Superforts bombed, rocketed, strafed and scouted widely separated targets in Japan today. Enemy propagandists described the attacks as part of an American attempt to raze the Japanese mainland thoroughly before invasion and warned that this is only the beginning.

Really heavy raids, Tokyo said, will follow the rainy season which is just starting. Extent of Nippons fears was indicated in the most direct semiofficial bid yet made for peace. Kichisaburo Nomura, ambassador to Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, made it, saying the Allied demand for unconditional surrender was costing additional Allied lives. More Ships Sunk Week-end Allied communiques announced 40 more Niponese ships and small craft were sunk or damaged, and 64 enemy planes destroyed, including the first aggressive fighters encountered over the enemy homeland in more than a month. The Allies acknowledged that Japanese kamikaze suicide plane attacks damaged three British aircraft carriers, and Nipponese marine assault units landed on the East China "invasion coast near Amoy.

The entire southwestern comer of Kwangsi, Chia border province, was reported cleared of the invaders, including Tanchuk, former U. S. air base. Tanchuk is the fourth former 14th U. S.

air force base retaken by resurgent Chinese in southern China. In northern Kwangsi, Chinese regulars advancing 20 miles (Continued on Page 6, No. 4) Victor Murdock, Veteran Kansas Publisher, Dies July 9. (AP) Victor Murdock, editor-in-chief of the Wichita Eagle, who as a member of congress in the early 1900s was credited with helping break the iron rule which the speaker exercised over the house, died here yesterday at the age of 74. He served 12 years in beginning in 1903; and in 1917 was appointed to the Federal Trade Commission by President Woodrow Wilson following seven years with that agency, he resigned to return as editor of The Eagle.

Murdock was bom March 18, 1871. at Burlingame, coming to Wichita in 1872 where his father, the late Col. Marsh Murdock, established The Eagle. After retiring from the Federal Trade Commission he devoted his time to his duties as editor-in-chief of The Eagle, writing editorials and preparing front-page human-interest articles for tt newspaper. He once estimated he had interviewed more than 3,000 pioneers in writing his page-one features.

His ability to coin phrases was widely known. It was he who gave Jerry Simpson, Populist Kansas congressman, the nickname of the "Sockless Statesman. In 1890 he was married to Mary Pear Allen who died in 1940. Surviving are two daughters: Mrs. Harvey Delano, San Francisco; and Mrs.

Howard Fleeson, Wichita: a brother, Marcellus M. Murdock, publisher of The Eagle. Washington. July 9. (AP) Tribute was paid in the house today to the late Victor J.

Murdock, editor of the Wichita (Kas.) Eagle, former members of congress and chairman- of the Federal Trade Commission. Rep. Rees told the house of Murdocks death and eulogized him as "one of the outstanding progressive and constructive leaders of Kansas By LYNN HEINZERLING Linz, Austria, July 7. (delayed by censorship) (AP) German offi cials now in custody say Joseph Morton, Associated Press war correspondent who was captured after he flew into Slovakia during a Czechoslovakia uprising, was executed in the Mauthausen concentration camp January 24, on orders from Heinrich Himmlers staff in Berlin. Morton, 34, an imaginative and energetic correspondent who came out of Romania with the first interview of King Mihai after Romania made peace last year, was captured near Plomka in Slovakia the day after last Christmas.

Thirteen Others Killed Nine other Americans and four Britons all members of a group which flew into Slovakia in October to help bring out American fliers stranded there were shot to death with Morton and their bodies were cremated, according to these witnesses. Mauthausen is rated fifth in -the list of major Nazi extermination camps. Thousands of men and women were executed there, or allowed to starve to death. One of the Germans held, an interpreter who was present during the interrogation of the group in Mauthausen, said that some were beaten and tortured in an effort (Continued on Page 6, No. 5) Bomb Accident Pfc.

Jimmy Dowell Is Recovering from Wound Pfc. Jimmie Dowell of Iola, who was accidentally shot in the shoulder last Saturday morning, at his uncles home in Kansas City, is reported to be recovering rapidly at the Veterans hospital at Ft. Leavenworth. The 19-year-old veteran of combat in France and Germany went to Kansas City with other relatives for a family reunion at the home of an uncle. Jack Dowell.

Jimmie, accompanied by his wife, arrived by train. His father, Herbert Dowell, and another uncle, Amos Elmer Huskey, drove up in a trucks, After Huskey 4 decided he would move the truck from the driveway to the backyard and at the same time bring in his 22 caliber rifle, which was in the truck. He was walking along carrying the gun when it was discharged accidentally. The bullet went through a window, burying itself in Jimmies shoulder. The young soldier was taken to the army hospital at Ft.

Leavenworth. where the bullet was removed. His wound was not considered dangerous. Police May Take Action Against Barrel Rider Niagara Falls, July 9. (AP) William Red Hill slight, 32-year-old souvenir shop operator rode through the Niagara Rapids in a barrel yesterday to fulfill a pledge taken at his fathers deathbed three years ago.

and today faced the threat of police action as a result of his exploit. Hill, who foiled efforts of the Niagara Parks Commission police to prevent the trip, contented himself meanwhile with the knowledge that he had set a new record in making the bouncing, swirling seven-mile ride in two hours. He nursed a bruised left arm his only injury and intimated that it was his last ride in a barrel. Anyway, he said, the red-painted 750-pound steel barrel, which had been built for Hill was ruined by frequent collisions with rocks, "sprung beyond repair. C.

OF C. MEETS TONIGHT The regular meeting of the chamber of commerce will be held at 6:30 tonight at the Kelley hotel. President Jerry A. Miller expects several committee reports. "no physician should ever mix in politics, he explained the fact that he had accepted the title of Staats-rat (a Nazi-coined title) only upon guarantees by Goering that his personal and political liberty would not be infringed.

He made it explicitly clear at the time, he told me, that he would not Join the Nazi party. While it is obvious that today no mans denial of Nazi activity can be taken at face Dr. Sauerbruchs statement is given certain credence by the' fact that the Russians, on Marshal Zhukovs personal insistence, placed him at the head of the Berlin Health Service in the new city regime installed by the Russians. "I didnt seek the job, the doctor said. "Im terribly overburdened already.

This is undoubtedly true since he is one of Germanys most famous physicians. Despite his 70 years he is still spry and lean, with an extraordinarily intelligent face. He took on the job (in addition to the fact that the Russians ordered him to) because I wanted to help my fellow Germans who needed doctors more than ever. He went on to explain that during and after the battle of Berlin there was an inde-CoRtinued 3 rage No, 21 Truman Is On the Way To Big Three Meeting Washington, July 9. (AP).

President Truman is en route to- day to Europe for the Big Three meeting with Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin. The president left Newport News by ship Saturday. Accompanying him was a staff of advisers including Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. The Big Three meeting will be held in the Potsdam area near Berlin.

A Timetable For Return Schedule Announced For Embarkation of Divisions in Europe Washington, July 9. (AP) On the theory it will bring no comfort to the Japanese, the war department has issued a time table for the return of 31 divisions from Europe between August and January. With others either back or in the process of returning, the movement will involve more than 500,000 men. Plans still subject to change call for eight divisions to remain in Europe as occupation forces and 18 still to be there at years end, presumably to await shipping facilities. These Already Back Divisions already back in this country are the 86th, 97th and 95th infantry with most of the 104th infantry also home.

Advance detachments of the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 44th and 87th infantry and the 13th armored have arrived with the remainder of their units soon to follow. These 11 have been scheduled for Pacific action, although the war department stressed that the men who fight in them will not necessarily be the same ones who opposed the Nazis. In announcing the schedule for the 31 divisions scheduled for embarkation beginning next month, the army said that for security reasons no information is being given as to whether they will go to the Pacific, be assigned to the reserve in this country or be disbanded. The Schedule: August: 85th, 28th and 30th infantry divisions and the 20th armored. September: 14th, 5th, 6th and 7th armored; 17th airborne; 88th, 91st, 35th, 45th and 103rd infantry.

October: 9th armored and 92nd, 26th, 79th and 99th infantry. November: 10th armored; 10th mountain; 13th airborne; 83rd, 63rd and 106th infantry. December: 2nd and 11th armored; 34th, 90th, 80th and 76th infantry. The eight divisions ticketed for occupation duty are the 1st and 4th armored and the 1st, 3rd, 9th, 29th and 36th infantry and the 82nd airborne. The 18 not now scheduled for return this year are the 3rd, 8th, 12th and 16th armored; the 101st airborne, and the 42nd, 65th, 66th.

69th, 70th, 71st, 75th, 78th, 84th, 89th, 94th, 100th and 102nd infantry. Sgt. Carl O. Scheipline Discharged On Points St. Sgt.

Carl O. Scheipline, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Scheipline of Carlyle, has been discharged from the army with a total of 143 points. As an aerial armor gunner Sgt.

Scheipline participated in 55 combat missions over Europe. He holds the Air Medal with nine Oak Leaf clusters and his service ribbon shows that he participated in five major campaigns, Normandy, Ardennes, Central Europe, the Rhineland and northern France. Sgt. Scheipline is a graduate of the Iola high school and was employed In Detroit, Mlrhigran yhpn. into tb? service; Chaplain Elliott Tells of Life In Germany A description of conditions prevailing today in Germany as seen by Chaplain Pliney H.

Elliott, son of Mrs. Cora Elliott of Iola, recently appeared in The Leavenworth Times. Prior to his induction into the service Chaplain Elliott was vice-principal of the Leavenworth junior high school. He Is now a captain and has been overseas since October, 1944. In a series of messages to friends in Leavenworth written during the closing days of the war in Europe, Chaplain Elliott covered his travels into the Reich before V-E Day.

and they furnish interesting sidelights on the bigger headline action. Capture von Rundstedt Describing his entry into one of Hitlers biggest PW camps, Elliott said, They came running to us and grabbed us and all 1,500 of them kissed our hands, our our cheeks in fact we were so sin-prised it almost was a riot. He told of inspection of a room "about the size of the Junior high gym" where 350 prisoners slept and ate without privacy or furnishings -r of any kind. Chaplain Elliott held I religious services for groups of the liberated prisoners. By the way, said one message, our (Seventh) army captured Field Marhi von Rundstedt Just a few minutes ago and he was here in town.

Some of our officers got to seem him but I didnt. The Leavenworth man visited Munich, and said he was all over the sites of Hitlers famous speeches and parades, but found Only lonely walls of buildings standing against the sky amid piles of rubble. Meets Actress Mother I wanted a white flag to bring home as a souvenir, says Elliott in opening the account of an interesting incident, so I stopped at one of the few remaining houses that was intact. An elderly lady came to the door. I told her I was a chaplain and would like to have their white flag.

After she had given him the banner, Elliott said, the woman told him she was the mother of Anne Stewart, an American movie actress. She was thrilled to high heaven when I told her I had seen her daughter in pictures, the chaplain relates. He promised to send a message to Miss Stewart when he returned to this country Informing her of her mothers health. Wish to Be Noticed Deploring the condition of surrendering German soldiers. Elliott says he felt sorry for the humilia-f tion he knew the Nazis must feel as they walked back in the cold, rain and snow to turn themselves in.

Furthermore, he writes, we do not pay much attention to them as we meet them on the road and they seem to want to be noticed. The civilians also seem to be stunned or in a stupor, as they did not believe it really could happen to then. Raises Havoc Aboard Ship Hitler Was Insane, Immoral, Hypnotic, Famed Doctor Says By CURT RIESS (Copyright, 1945, NBA Sorrice, Inc.) Berlin, July 9. Dr. Ferdinand Sauerbruch, world famous physician who was often reputed to be Hitlers doctor, told me in an exclusive interview that he had no doubt that "Hitler was pathological to insanity.

He insisted he had never been Hitlers doctor. Hitler had no morals, no knowledge of good or bad, right or wrong, Dr. Sauerbruch told me. On the other hand he had a flair for people and knew with an almost unfailing instinct what they would do for him. He also had a strong hypnotic influence.

But Goebbels was infinitely more intelligent and was the man who really guided the leader whom he pretended to follow. In Dr. Sauerbruchs opinion, the Nazis were nothing but a bunch of crazy people, sick people and criminals. He violently disapproved of the so-called mercy-killings and said he hopes that all Nazi doctors mixed up with the killing of the old or insane not to mention the minority victim of Nazi bestiality will be speedily hanged. The 70-year-old doctor emphasized that he was neither a Nazi nor Hitlers personal physician.

Saying that Flame, smoke, debris and shrapnel fly as 500-pound bomb carried by Navy torpedo bomber, accidentally dropped on flight deck of unidentified carrier somewhere in the Pacific, explodes, killing 51 men and injuring omrevealed number. Photo was taken a moment after the blast and shows men dropping to deck cither to escape blast or because of injuries. Photo by Sgt. Lon Wilson for Yank, the Army weekly. (NEA.