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a Fact The population of the world estimated to be double what was in 1800. Volume -Seven, Number Order Vote On Merits Of Poll Tax House Discharges Committees Which Have Pigeonholed The Legislation By William F. Arbogast WASHINGTON. June House today took poll tax repeal legislation away from its rules and judiciary committees and ordered a vote merits of the issue tomorrow. The action discharging the committees, which had pigeonholed the legislation, was on a roll call vote of 223 to 95, after only 20 minutes of debate.

Immediately afterwards the house adopted a 219 to 94 resolution bringing the legislation up for decision tomorrow. The action was a victory for northern Democrats and Republicans who contended the taxes violated the constitutional right of citizens to vote. They had forced the issue before the house in earlier roll call vote of 223 to 95, discharging the rules and judiciary committees from jurisdiction. The legislation, passed several times by the house in recent only to be sidetracked by the senate, makes it unlawful for any state or community to require the payment of a poll tax as a qualification for voting in any election for president, vice president or for members of congress. Seven states now levy poll taxes.

Another Clash Ahead A second orth -south clash is in the offing this week-over legislation creating a permanent fair employment practices committee. The FEPC debate will take place first behind the closed doors of the rules committee and possibly later will spread to the floor. Reps. Cox (D-Ga) and Rankin (D-Miss) pleaded with the house to reject the poll tax proposal, terming it a Communistic" move. "Mournfully, I prophesy that the program of Marxism will go ward to consumnation.

If we pass this type of legislation," Cox said. "This is a Communistic attack on decent, democratic government and an effort to destroy the constitution." Rankin asserted. Rep. Marcantonio (AL-NY) responded that "the fundamental issue is whether or not returning soldiers will return to a country where this franchise is unrestricted in keeping with the best democratic traditions." Rep. Bender (R-Ohio) commented that "less than 20 per cent of southern people in poll tax vote now, because of this restriction." $161.000 in Bonds to Go The Seventh War Loan Drive reached a total of $503,000 in bond sales Saturday night.

This leaves $161,000 yet to go before the goal of $664.600 is reached. Volunteer workers will continue their solicitations and citizens are urged to buy every bond they can. In speaking of the show "Here's Your Infantry" given at the state fair grounds Saturday night, Ben Robinson, co-chairman of the bond campaign, pointed out this morning that the boys did not slow down because there were obstacles and the going was hard, but kept on going until they had taken their objective. "Our objective in the 7th war loan drive." Mr. Robinson, "is the sale of $664.600 in bonds.

We must not stop until we reach that objective." E. Bond Sales Monday, June 11, 1945 Township Quota Sold to Date City of Sedalia $443.600.00 $332,765.50 Smithter 26.000.00 17.006.25 Powling 8,500.00 4,631.25 Heath Creek. 11.500.00 6.843.75 Flat Creek 8,500.00 8.793.75 Sedalia 9,000.00 8,093.75 Cedar 11,000.00 7,862.50 Longwood 10,500.00 7.668.75 Washington 8,500.00 6.666.25 Prairie 8.500.00 9,399.50 Dresden 8,500.00 9,468.75 Hughesville 11.000.00 10,100.00 Houstonia 19.000.00 11,418.75 Green Ridge 27,000.00 14,006.25 Elk Fork. 8,500.00 6,468.75 LaMonte .27,000.00 25.856.25 Blackwater 10.500.00 12,956.25 Lake Creek 7,500.00 3,193.75 Totals $664.600.00 $503.000.00 Yet 10 $161,000.00 Bradley In St. Louis ST.

LOUIS, June Omar N. Bradley arrived here by plane from Moberly, this afternoon, to be honored by a parade through the downtown district followed by a reception and banquet at the Jefferson Hotel tonight. Tuesday Pay Day Tuesday will be pay day for all employes of the Missouri Pacific in Sedalia. Marriage License Issued Sim T. Crain.

and Smiley both of Hughesville. is it THE City Edition 139 Democrat Established 1868 Patton at Boyhood Church LOS 3 ANGELES, June 11-(P)- Gen. George S. Patton, said he hoped the army would let him take today off, to visit old friends. Gen.

James H. Doolittle, co-recipient of the rip-roaringest two day reception southern California ever staged for a couple of conquering heroes, prepared to leave for Seattle and an appearance there tomorrow. Cheering crowds estimated at nearly a million persons roared a welcome yesterday afternoon for the two commanders during a 120- mile motorcade of the suburban towns. During the morning Patton attended services at his boyhood house of worship, the Episcopal Fisherman Drowns CHARLESTON. June pre drowned (P)-James in a Lowery, drainage ditch 26, lead- was ing to Brewer's Lake near here yesterday when a fishing boat was overturned by a swift current.

B. Tatum, who was with Lowery, swam out. Lowery's body had 1 not been recovered at noon today. Medal Valued At $12,000 To Eisenhower Russians Present Two Leaders With Order of Victory FRANKFURT ON THE MAIN, June 11-(P)-Soviet Russia and the Allies are united in a desire for a lasting, firmly-based peace which will afford for the common man of all nations the "opportunities that we fought to preserve for them," Gen. Eisenhower asserted yesterday before high ranking leaders of Britain, Russia and the United States.

The Supreme Allied Commander and Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery both received from Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov the jewelled Order of Victory. It was the first time that Soviet Russia's highest award had been presented to any but Russians. Eisenhower was the eighth person to receive the award, and the British Field Marshal, the ninth.

Eisenhower, addressing a luncheon at his headquarters which honored Marshal Zhukov, conqueror of Berlin, declared: "Speaking for the Allied forces, I say we are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. "On two occasions now I have had the great honor of meeting high officials of the Soviet government. It is my feeling that in the basic desires of all of us they are one with us." Praised Zhukov The Supreme Allied Command- er bestowed glowing praise upon Marshal Zhukov, who in turn described Eisenhower as an American belonging to the immortal great of all time for welding the victorious Allied armies from so many different peoples. The littering Order of Victory, a diamond and ruby medal, is said to have a money value of at least $12,000. Eisenhower decorated Montgomery today with the Distinguished service medal for meritorious service.

The citation noted that Montgomery was in direct command of Allied armies invading Normandy on D-day and said: "The success of this invasion against seemingly impregnable fortifications was in large measure due to careful planning and through training under his guidance of all echelons of engaged troops." Swarm of Bees Into Hive A swarm of bees, filling the air in the 100 block on West Fourth street, interested persons in that area Saturday afternoon. They made their way to a tree on the property of the Standard Oil Station, on the northeast corner of Fourth and Osage avenue, but were "coaxed" into a hive placed there by Ray Hunt, who is in an office building adjacent to the station. A passerby cut the limb of the tree. on which the bees were. They landed on the ground, then went to the hive.

Mr. Hunt states this is the third hive he has filled in a similar manner this summer and it helps out in the sugar shortage. Dewey Short To Address Legislature WASHINGTON, June Rep. Dewey Short (R-Mo) has accepted an invitation to address the Missouri legislature at Jefferson City June 21. He is enroute by automobile to his home at Galena and is scheduled to speak in Kansas City Wednesday night.

He will also address groups in Joplin, Webb City. Neosho and Carthage on dates to be set later. SEDALIA Liveliest and Most Sedalia. Missouri, MacArthur on Borneo Beach With Troops By the Associated Press CBS correspondent John Adams reported today that Gen. Douglas MacArthur visited the Labuan beachhead on the west coast of Borneo only a few hours after Allied troops landed and was at the front lines during a brief skirmish in which two Japanese were killed.

Broadcasting from Manila, Correspondent Adams said that' when he left Brunei bay eight hours earlier, Australian forces were still driving forward at a steady pace. Veterans of Tobruk and El Alamein had broken through enemy lines at Victoria town, seat of the former straits settlement government, and captured the airport with light casualties, he said. Capture Bagabag MANILA. June 11-(P)-The U. S.

37th infantry division, in a swift nine-mile ac advance, captured the highway junction town of Bagabag northern Luzon and punched five miles beyond it towards the Cagayan valley, isolating a large body of Japanese in the rugged mountains east of the valley. Pilot Knocks Down Five Enemy Planes Was Jumped by Twenty-five Japanese Planes By Al Doping AN ADVANCED ARMY AIRFORCE BASE, June Pilot Robert J. Stone of Tracy, today knocked down five Japanese planes--three without using his guns--in a raid by the Army's 318th Fighter Group on Southern Kyushu Island. All together the group bagged 17 planes, bringing its total of enemy aircraft destroyed in operations from the Ryukyus base in the last 17 days to 97. Lt.

Stone was jumped by 25 Nipponese planes after he had shot down two fighters and went from 28,000 feet altitude "down to the deck" to try to shake his pursuers. "I was practically dragging my belly on the ground when we raced across an airfield," he said. "A Jap twin engined bomber had just taken off right in front of me. "I yanked back on the stick to hop over the bomber and his prop wash must have hit the two Jap fighters right behind me. Down In Heap "They ran together and both crashed into the i bomber.

All three went down in a heap." Stone hedge-hopped north until he shook the remaining Japanese. The five today ran his total enemy plane score to seven, making him an ace with two to spare, Capt. Judge E. Wolfe of Coshocton, Oho, shot down four enemy fighters to add to five he already had. Capt.

William A. Loflin, 908 24th St. Little Rock, and Lt. Durwood B. Williams, Godwin, N.

each picked off two Japanese to bring their tallies to three kills each. The Thunderbolt pilots hit Central Kyushu about 40 miles north of Kagoshima Won. They reported they were outnumbered at least three to one and one pilot, 2nd. Lt. Albert B.

Wensel, South Norwalk, said: "There were Japs and P-47's chasing each other all over the sky. It 1 was a rat race." Pulled From Burning Bed Then Loses Wallet JEFFERSON CITY, June 11- (P)-A friend dragged Pvt. Harold Johnson off the blazing bed in his hotel room and called for help to put out the fire. A mob would be firemen jammed the room to smother the flames and when it was all over Pvt. Johnson missed his wallet.

Police got there too late to search the helpful fire brigade. Productive Territory in Central Monday, June 11, 1915 DEMOCRAT Missouri Price Five Cents Full Associated Press Leased Gen. Bradley greets Daughter weien. Omar at N. Moberly, Bradley embraces during his daughter homecoming and only child, Mrs.

Henry Shaw Beukema of RosEurope June 9. It ceremonies for the Allied ground commander in was the first time he had seen his daubzter in more than two years. Gen. Stilwell Japan Can Last By Robert Geiger and Al Dopking OKINAWA, June 7-(Delayed by censor)-(A)- Gen. Joseph W.

Stilwell, making a front line inspection of the stubborn Okinawa battle, declared today that the war with Japan easily could last at least two years longer. "It is quite possible that we will have to fight in Manchuria," he said, even after the Japanese home islands are conquered. "Personally I believe it will require ground action in addition to anything done by bombings," said the commanding general of army ground forces, in disagreeing with a belief he said was held by many Americans that bombing alone could defeat Japan. Stating that he saw no reason to expect the Japanese to break, Stilwell remarked: "I cannot see how, when they are so tenacious individually, we can expect their mass morale to crack." "Vinegar Joe," who already had watched the U. S.

Sixth army in action on Luzon in the Philippines, has been here several days, living at the front and watching the hard struggle of the troops whose training is his responsibility, Television is Club Topic The Sedalia Rotary club met at the Bothwell hotel today noon, with Lawrence Barnett, president in charge of the meeting. Col. Jerome P. McCauley commandant of the S. A.

A. F. was scheduled to address the meeting, but at the last minute he was called to Kansas City. Program chairman for the month of June, Sam Raskin, introduced Milton Heinlein who gave a very interesting and informative talk on the subject of Beginning with the electron as a unit of energy the speaker demonstrated on the blackboard how a picture is taken, and how it transmitted to the screen for the 1s fireside reception. Asked if this is going to be practical, the speaker replied definitely yes.

Guests for the day were Rotarian Charles E. Messerly, formerly of Sedalia, now of St. Louis, with Bob Johns; Pfc. Louis H. Whitbeck, and Sgt.

Bud Thomas with Dr. L. S. Geiger. Re-ort Published That Hitler Has Two Children PARIS.

June 11-4P-S headquarters said today it had no comment on an unconfirmed report, published in London, that Allied officials in Germany were hunting two children said to be the offspring of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. The report said the children were a boy, five, and a girl, four. Drowns in Ditch SIKESTON, June 111-(P) -James Rynyon, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

Rynyon of near Sikeston, was drowned in a drainage ditch here yesterday while swimming with some other boys. War Minor to Social Demands By George Tucker FRANKFURT ON THE MAIN, June 11-(P)-As a man who has been exposed to both dangers, Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery now realizes that Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's artillery was nothing compared to the social demands imposed by the Russians. The British commander, who is almost as well known as a teetotaller as he is as the hero of El Alamein, has been under a barrage of "Bottoms requests since hostilities ended. Here yesterday, when he reI ceived the Soviet union's Order of Thought for Today Serves the Church of Our Saviour in nearby San Gabriel, and joined the Sunday school children in 1 singing "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The tall, white haired general, clad in battle dress with tank boots and five rows of campaign gravely told the 100 awed youngsters: "You never know how important God is until you meet him.

"You children here, whether you like it or not, are the soldiers and nurses of the next war. There will be war again, in my opinion, because there have always been such things." The pig-tailed little girls and starched lads never took their eyes from the platform speaker. Ask General Increase in Rent Ceilings Only Regulation Which Has Been 100 Per Cent Effective WASHINGTON, June 11-(P)- Senator Morse (R-Ore) disclosed today in the senate that he had written Price Administrator Ches-1 ter Bowles suggesting his resignation. As senate debate opened on the question of continuing the price control program for another year, Morse read a letter to Bowles advising him that it "would be in the public interest you to resign." Senator Chavez (D-NM) rose to say that other congressional invitations to administrative officers to resign never had been heeded. "The only way to get rid of them is to fire them or stop their appropriations," Chavez declared.

Morse charged OPA under Bowles with causing agricultural processors "costly losses through stupid mistakes." He accused OPA of political tivities in dealing with the Oregon lamb problem last fall and said OPA seemed to have "a high and mighty attitude toward congress." Wolf Cries Unnoticed Morse said he was unimpressed with OPA's "Wolf, Wolf cries" against any moves to lighten present price control. A general increase in OPA rent ceilings was requested of congress today by James C. Downs, representing the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Downs testified before the House Banking committee, now considering legislation to prolong the life of OPA. House committee consideration coincided with an imminent senate showdown on whether the price control program will be continued without major change.

"Rent control," Downs told the house group, "is unique among all price controls in that it is the only regulation which has been continuously 1 100 per cent effective at its original level. That very fact is proof of the discrimination against the owners of real estate." Ask Increase The National Apartment Owners Association specifically asked for a 15 per cent increase above prevailing rent ceilings. Eugene P. Conser, representing the association, charged that property owners have been made the "victims of error and discrimination" by OPA. He said apartment properties are permitted to earn on an average only about two per cent on net worth while other industries under price control are earning in excess of eight per cent.

Their ranks reinforced by members returning from overseas, administration forces were pointing for the first of a decisive series of votes on legislation extending the price law another year, as is. House Action Yet A debate limitation of 40 minutes a member was in effect, and the senate called one of its infrequent morning sessions in an attempt to gain a decision by nightfall. The house still must act. Continuation of price control itself is a foregone conclusion. At issue are two amendments the administration contends would loosen stabilization controls.

One, by Senator Thomas (D- Okla). would make it unlawful for OPA to set ceilings on farm products which did not allow processors reasonable profit" on each tiem. The other, by Senator Taft (R- Ohio), would require OPA to fix ceilings on manufactured articles high enough to allow the same dollar margin above costs that was received in 1939. Reading Club for Children The reading club for children at the Public Library will have meetings both Tuesday and Thursay mornings throughout the summer. Children from 6 to 9 years of age will meet Tuesdays at 10:00 and children from 10 to 13 years of age will meet on Thursday morning al 10:00.

He that is fallen cannot help him that is Herbert. Six Pages Religion is Returning To Germany Churches Being Reopened for All Denominations By Eddy Gilmore BERLIN, June 10-(Delayed)- (P) -Berlin's war church-. es are being reopened for Protestant, Catholic and Jewish worship with Soviet approval, Arthur Werner, 68-year-old German educator and Russian-appointed burgomeister of the city, said today. "It is very interesting," Werner said in an interview, "that three week ago Col. Gen.

Nikolai E. Bezarin, commandant of Berlin, told me: 'Please educate the children of this city so they will believe there is a God and have fear of God'." The main difficulty in returning religion to the people of Berlin appears to be the lack of places to hold services. Most of the churches were wrecked. The Nazis took refuge behind their fortress-like walls and used their tall steeples for sniping. Gen.

Bezarin said about twenty churches, mostly Evangelical Lu- theran, were open. Russians Approve in Philadelphia. Using Nazis "We have the Red army consent and approval," Werner explained. "I have appointed a Catholic priest, Father Bucholtz, to the town council. He is in charge of the department of religion." Father Bucholtz, the burgomeister said, is a former prisoner of the Nazis.

He was jailed with 164 others, many of whom were executed. Werner said the priest narrowly escaped execution himself. Werner said representation on the town council as head of the religious department will rotate from year to year among Catholics, Protestants and Jews. Werner estimated Berlin has 6,000 Jews now and said more are returning every day. Among those I have met was a 16-year-old boy, Morris Rosenthal, who said his father was killed in a concentration camp but that he has uncles, aunts and several cousins living Werner said his new town council consists of persons who were former prisoners of the Nazis, including the well-known anti-Nazi, Otto Mark Geschke, who heads the social department.

"We realize Nazism must be stamped out," Werner said. "I believe most of the people believe this too but, of course, we have some isolated cases of Nazis still at work and I am afraid they will continue their operations." Nazis Starved New Born Babes IN GERMANY. June 10-(Delayed) -Evidence was found today that the Nazis had starved to death the new-born babies of Russian and Polish women slave laborers in the Reich. In the factory town of Fallersleben, American army medical men found German records and got testimony from local residents showing that in that area alone 350 infants died in a nursery that was really operated as a house of death. The children, taken from their mothers a few days after birth, were left unattended until they died, the evidence showed.

Their bodies were then tied in bundles and wrapped in paper, and handed over to a German farmer who got twenty-five cents apiece for burying them in mass graves. The babies' mothers, who had been forced to return to work. were charged the burial fee plus $4 for care in the nursery. Wire and Wide World Features Overrun Beach Defenses Throw Jap Troops Into Confusion: Diet Balks at Rubber Stamp By Leonard Milliman Associated Press War Editor A three-pronged Australian invasion of northwest Borneo overran beach defenses and threw Japanese troops into confusion matching the bewilderment of the Tokyo government in the face of a parliamentary revolt. American forces carried their most extensive air attack on Japan into the fifth consecutive day, scored a two-day 17-mile advance in the Philippines, and drove frontal assaults through well organized Nipponese counterattacks and point blank artillery fire on Okinawa while U.

S. naval task forces shelled two flanking islands. Widest Allied gains were scored in China. Chinese troops recaptured the fort of Futing, two towns near the Indo-China border and threatened to overrun the key south China cities of Liuchow and Kweilin, both former U. S.

air Says War With Two Years No Changes Necessary He had "seen nothing here that would call for a change" in training methods and expressed belief that troops with proper basic training could master readily the Japanese methods of fighting from caves. Commenting again on the Japanese tenacity, he said that while the Okinawa battlefield reminded him of France in the First World war, the Germans in either war had not shown the stubborness of the Japanese. "The Okinawa campaign is a helluva tough fight, you can tell that by looking at the ground over which it has been fought." In answer to a direct question, he said the Japanese generalship had not been brilliant but that if the command's orders had been to fight a purely delaying action, it had made the right moves. Turning aside a correspondent's question as to how many men it would take to invade Japan, Stilwell asked the correspondent what he thought. When the correspondent replied more than a halfmillion, Stilwell smiled, "We'd be foolish to try to do it with less." Eldon Youth Dies on Luzon Private First Class Jack E.

Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kelly of Eldon, was killed in action in the Philippines on May 15, according to word received by his wife, Mrs.

Berdell D. Kelly, 1009 South Lamine avenue, from the war department. Mrs. Kelly had received a previous message telling her her husband was injured on Luzon on April 24 and was in a hospital. The second message stated that he had recovered from his injuries and had returned to duty and was then killed.

Pfc. Kelly was born on June 20, 1922. He entered service three years ago and since going overseas has been in New Guinea and the Philippines. He was married on July 7, 1944 to Mrs. Berdell Young Koester, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Herman Young. His brother-in-law, Harding Young, was killed in action in Germany. Surviving besides his wife and his parents, are a daughter, Jackie, three brothers and three sisters. Ask Fund to Attack Japan WASHINGTON, June 11-(P)- President Truman asked congress today to provide the army with $39.019,790,474 to finance the accelerated attack on Japan.

He transmitted the military budget for the fiscal year, July 1, calling for new appropriations of $21,963,093,400, the reappropriation of unobligated balanfrom prior appropriations totaling $8,818,195,574, and estimated recoveries from contract cutbacks and terminations totaling $8.238.501.500. The total program, a White House statement said, represents a reduction from a preliminary estimate of $45,500,000,000 which was included in the regular budget submitted by former President Roosevelt last January, contemplating continuance of the war on the European front. Wounded Youth Home To Visit Relatives Pfc. William J. Schock is spending a thirty day furlough with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. W. A. Schock. 1423 South Park avenue and other relatives.

He wounded in action in Germany on February 24 and at the end of his furlough will return to Wakeman Convalescing hospital, Indiana. bases. Assault Forces Invade The invasion of Borneo's jungles was made by three assault forces from the Australian 9th division, veterans of the African desert. They bracketed entrances to Brunei bay, one of the island's oil harbors and a spacious fleet anchorage. An airfield and the town of Labuan were quickly captured on Labuan island at the northern entrance to the bay.

On the bay's southern arm, landing troops hitting the beach at Brooketon drove two and a half of the 20 miles toward the town of Brunei. The third force landed nearby at Maura, but dispatches did not make clear whether this was the town or island of that name. Both are near Brooketon. Few Casualties The landings, undercover of combined Australian and American naval and air bombardment. were made with extremely light casualties.

Despite the initial Borneo success, General Stilwell noted that the Japanese are more tenacious fighters than the Germans as exemplified by their willingness to die rather than retreat. Newly announced campaign totals show Japanese sacrificed 392,116 men in the Philippines and 67,703 on Okinawa. The same attitude can be expected when Americans invade the homeland, which will require a force of at least 500,000. After taking Japan, U. S.

troops may have to conquer Manchuria, he said. The Japanese diet (parliament) was supposed to take a major step in preparing for defense of the sacred islands. But it balked at rubber stamping an emergency war powers bill which would transfer legislative powers to Premier Kantaro Suzuki's cabinet. The diet session was extended for two more days to give the legislators time to vote themselves virtually out of existence. Pick up Four Nazi Generals WIESBADEN, Germany, June 11-(P)-Four German generals and a number of other officials and scientists wanted by the Allies were picked up by occupation forces during a 24-hour period ending Sunday noon, the 12th Army group announced.

The arrests included General Walter Musshoff, former chief of the welfare division of the German air force. Among others seized were Lt. Col. Juedeich, former chief of the German psychological warfare board; Conrad Von Schubert, former observer for the foreign office in the Uyraine and later senior councillor in the German embassy in Croatia; and Dr. Max Rendschmitt, for 22 years architect of the city of Berlin.

Victory, Montgomery finally had to call on Gen. Eisenhower to save him. Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov and a dozen other Russians surrounded him with glasses, insisting they be drained to the final drop. Dismayed, Monty grinned sheepishly and looked hastily around.

"Ike, get me out of this." he called to Eisenhower. Eisenhower's grin was never broader. He shouldered his way to Montgomery's side. He explained to Zhukov's interpreter. Monty sighed with relief as the Russians indicated that they understood.

The Weather Central Missouri: Partly cloudy to cloudy and continued mild tonight and Tuesday. Temperature: 7 a. m. 62 degrees; 3 p. m.

76 degrees. Rainfall for three day period over week-end: 2.01. Lake of the Ozarks: .2 over full, fall .3. Sunrise 5:46 a. m.

Sunset 8:38 p. m. First quarter moon June 17; full moon June 25 Anna Lee.