Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 154, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1941 — Page 1

JXXIX. No- IM.

RUSSIA SLOWS DOWN NAZI ADVANCE

MINDS OF ■i BESOMING Jiefense jobs DI l abor Disputes ■gd Strikers Bark i I Tn Jobs Today (By ru.'. d Press) . isixii . unis oi ell ikllu’ <l* f •> more th.in 1 ~1 xFL shipyards , . rlmi* strike SH m.i-t |K-,- lending an hourly . t 111-’ .Hid tune ami i etrik* r* •. . i.rum although ■Mi ..• ■ win eparate <oti lift' ."I I- til I II**! . . .. ! .nasu I • ■ ’h* 1’ * ’ fM. •*,. II p allls. Wlll< h !»».■ ||K. . . io- f ■■ * «• • 11.1 I' P> •if tllldr! ol lb ■ ■■tr tfi- P' Im' !.»< k "i li.'.l pt...lm Hon *• < ailed May ■■l 'I ■ ■ -’■* " k ' • ■„ i>.iw in mi. • | mi ll i‘‘ all' i 'll I . .h. inn al .1 X l-l.in - Wo: k.-i •< I''' ■K'.t. r .■ F Ilia) to plot. |Kt' . mpioy. r,:.;. . s pi oil i. ..1 an ' • I " HHfa-.- Ml. h : 100 I io.' f1^L..... w oi k.-i* • ii i |H :» Ingaimyll mk* ■Hr<- a. , ailed Friday t" ■Mr ' . v a. Hoi, ■M .p.oy.- 'l'ln ' ■Bmi' g'ieVall*** to all imnniittee. MMf" ' ’ ll 1 ’"" ’ U ’ L ' ' ' IBMti l . their join to .ml i V- k They voted t.. MH I>v • • hourly wag* in■Mt;-:.: national *l*-t.’H-* ’■ ■ • 'I healing on f!i> for .i lucent raise tn! » e k. Prints Are jft"und \lony llighwav June 30 >.r. <ii of inv.-tin-.rt dr. *. '^^B’7 '4 hill.- prim.* of an ' <lf 'he Sperry f.o’llbfur 'he riiltot pilot r , zyrosciqi.. ■M 4 ”' Pillowing din'.v. iy of nil a lonely road m -tlb BMh*-«h Grove, Wynn, special agent in BM * f the local FBI off i« **. re-S-B r| ." . details of th. . I MB I'aini'il that til- plan||Mj'"Jn!| by Beech (irov. pol.. . 4*y« ago. 11l OPENING |!F CIH POOL l J, Swimming Not Ready For Tuesday fpeiilng of the municipal |mhil haw been delayed MB ,p » dayn. .Mayor ForreHt today ■M wa« originally xch.-d MH 0 open tomorrow. July 1 Kiley Htatetl. however. HH“ ! ay in the arrival of new MB 1- ' 11 !l, “ 1 prohibited op. mildate 88®* >' effort Ik being made to “ Pool UK noon as po-sllll. ami we have every MH* t 0 l *beve that it will be Fet thin week ’he next two or tin lays ax the pool is In shape mM® 1 * ’he entrance of .swim ■M?* "Pining date will be "*1 the mayor slated. I 1 |H remodel.-d and added to lonfotm hoard of health ipe. ifi Hm 1,1 ***« aw immeis < lean. I •unitary water.

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SECOND Mtn DATETUESDJf Youths Now Os Age To Register For Sen ice Tomorrow Approximately I »»♦ youth* in Ad am« county who have les om.. u year* of age Kime Ortolan 111. i«<o. will reglMer Tnekday in the •erond draft reghtratloii IxM’al draft board member* have etHimaled that ladween 1. r »0 and L’ttu youths, or almut 170, will lie required to register here The draft twiaid offn e will open at 7 a m. ami close at !• p in Kegiwtration will he cotidio ted ciititlniniUKlv during those hours, with reglKtrara' working hour, ataggered to accomodate the registrant*. A few youths who are over 21 and for Mime reason did not reg Inter in the find draft are aho ex pitted to lie regi terml tofimriow These include men who were in •ervice during the first registration. former inmates of an Insane asylum and others. They will register on a different colored card Ralph K It.sip chairman of the Adams county draft itoard. lias eallisi attention to the fact that I Tuesday’s registration will lie conducted along the -am»- lines as lb' I first registration Registrants need not present I applications for deferment, they I will not lie given questionnalies nor pliysic.il examinations These will follow after the national I > tery and the new registrants have been given older numbers Youths required to register and who because of Illness will In unable to |tr<-seii< themselves at draft board headquarters are asked t » telephone 172 and report the fact | A registrar will be ■••nt out Registrars will also Im- rent to ’ the hospital and the jail to register any patients or Inmates. The registration will be conduit<si at only one place in the draft latard offices loi ated in tin- Ik-catur I library building on South Third ' street I No youth, requireil by law to register w ill be . Xciiseil Failure CONTINUED <»N PAGE THHKItI DEATH CLAIMS THOMAS REED Retired General Electric Company Worker Dies This Morning Thoma« Reed. 7*». retired General Electrii worker, died this morning at * 13 o’clock at the Adams iviunty memorial hospital Heath was attributed to computations after a dhort Illness. The deceased was born in Scotland on January 21. lk'»s He came to this copirtry year* ago. settling in Philadelphia, from where in 1«23 he niovrsl to Decatur. He work'-d at the Imai plant until Ills retirement ! hl I»S2 There are no near living relatives. He had resided in the Itok nei'ht apartments on Third street. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at the Black funeral home at 2 o’clock with tihe R<-v. Paul W Schultz officiating. Burial will he in the DecaMr cemetery. The iMidy may be viewed at th.* ' Black funeral home after 7 o'clock I tonight until time for the services. oHand Injured When Caught In Wringer Kenneth Frank, of route six was admiMeibto the Adams county memorial hospital Saturday when he caught hl* right hand in a wringer The attending phsykian stated that the muscle near the index finger was split. BULLETIN Indiana. Pa.. June 30—(UP) A dust explosion ripped through an isolated section tion of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coat company’s Mclntire mine. 12 miles west of here today. severely buring 18 miners and trapping 18 others, two miles from the entrance. Rescue workers equipped with oxygen tanks battled "through dead air” two miles from the mouth of the mine to reach those believed trapped, with the expectation that all may be rescued-

Soviet River Boats Reported on the Danulte " ’A — ' ' MBWRr *'< ■ • • • • I • • I V,i Aii X. TOK-. ‘ .. ’1 < Simii.. -- - J. a ■ Soviet rivri boats, wide fm shallow navigation and h-avily armed, an- shown tii-d up in a lied porl on the Black Sea ltii»«l.iu official sources claim these gun Imhils are liellig used oh the D.iliiilm River to g.Hxl effect that prisoners have been captured and war equipment taken In action on the Rumanian shore

CONTINUED HOT WEATHER SEEN Some Relief Maj Reach Central States By Wednesday By l ulled l’>.-. A layer us hut. humid air Inmmi-| .si ti-mp-iatun-.* into thi- S' * today I from the Rocky Mountain to the Atlantic -I’.ilHi.iid A J Kuan J S. forecaster at ( Chicago, predicted the weather) would l ontiiiU- warm and humid ' | over the ill-tern iwo third- of the’ nation, except in areas with scat-. ter.il thundershowers. Thousand* of persons went to | inaelies and at least ’*'• drowned in 12 slate* fwelve othei i de.llll- Wen- alilllm ed to ileal end (our to lightning Kuarr said tempiratuie* were Hear OI below normal on the west ( coast and that a mass of cool air : drifting eastward, would bring relief to flu- noilln-iii great plains tomorrow and to tin- e.i-t central states Wednesday ll* *atd it would tom h the North \tl.inti< states later thl* week 1? Die In State By I’nited I’r—* Violent deaths over th- we. k nid in Indiana totaled 13 today, in (hiding four dlownings, three ti.it fn fatalities, tin trocution and sui 'tin latke Webster, ti- ■■ Ninth Webster. Charles Gribble. «o. Muncie. Waller Hickman 1" Park el his son-in-law. and lliikinans daughter. Helen. 11 I S.cuid.iy when a thiinderst >nn capsized their rowlmat Four relatives of the victims Were rescued) by a fishing party James Tiumbell. IC. Churubusco, drowned yesterday in a K <;.v. I fit fl »e miles north of < ity Saturday’* heat was fata! Io (Continued on”page five* 37LICENSEST0 MARRY ISSUED This Number Issued B) County Clerk’s Office In June A total <>t 37 marriage licenses were Issued in the office* of county clerk Clyde O Tn.utner during the month <rf June, it was disclosed today in a survey of the marrcconlx- . This figure does not include those issued late this afternoon. '"•n"/nun»lmr is the highest of this ymr for any one month. It is attr - buted partly <<’ ’he fact that June I* known as the ’month of brides and lias a speotal attraction. The fait that young couples set earlier wedding dates because th.’ groom to be was involved ill the draft is also believed to be a fac'°A total of IM licenses were given during the first six months of Rte year the records show May was next in line with 35 issued Penults were Issued during th. other months as follows: January 11; Februray. Hl -March 27; April 28.

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Decatur, Indiana. Monday, June3o.lo4l

Christen Passes Army Aviation Cadet Exam Janie* It. Chiisteii. of thl* city. 11l - *U(Ci-**fully passed tile I'nited States army aviation cadet ex-1 amination. U was made known here today Christen ha* been placed on . cadet list and expects io Ih* inducted into the air cadet i ori»s within a month. Mi Christen, the son of Mrs. Mice Chri«’»m of Winchester stree Alice Christen of Winchester street, was graduated from Deca-‘ ntr junior senior high school In I'.tii He took his cadet training a: Fort Wayne and was one of seven 1 students to finish the course of tin- 11 who started He has been i-iivployed at the Stulls Home Grocery. MAY INCREASE ELECTION PAY ■ '«*' » - New State Law Permits Increase For Election Workers Among the state legislation which became **Cf*i 'ice last Friday) wlieti county clerk Clyde <» Trout-1 ner received his copies of tin- It'll • \<t* wns a law permitting an in-j < reuse in the pay of i-li-etloti board members. The law provid* till* increase in counties, in which I* situated a city of the first, second, third, fourth or fifth class Since Deca - tur in a fifth class city, tin* law I* offectlve in the * ouniy. The oliange is effective only if rhe county commissioners make .(lid file an order to that effect not I,.*S than 15 day- prior to the dat**’ of any primary or genera) election. Tin* law provlds for an increase in such cane* as follows: Each judge, clerk and assistant cl-rk from 35 to »«: each sheriff; from »3 lo M and each inspector from to 313. Another new law of Interest is that which provids no marriage | license shall be issued when Un* ' male has minor ithildren of a for- , mer marriage either wholly or partially dependent upon him for support. unles* lie accompany his ap-, ! plication with proof under oath ■ i ~7c<»ntinuev on page THRICK) O Reeves Appointed Purchasing Agent Indianapolis, Judge 3(1 il’l’) laiwre-nce E. Reeves, t olumbu* automobile dealer, will take office as state purchasing agent tomorrow. succeeding L. L. Needier who resigned Friday to take a post in Washington. Reeves was appointed Saturday by Governor Schricker. TEMPERATURE READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 78 10:00 a. m. 80 Noon 85 2:00 p. m. 3:00 p. m. 97 WEATHER Partly cloudy, continued warm and humid; afternoon and evening thundershowers today and through Tuesday. (

WILL ORGANIZE USD CAMPAIGN — Adams County Committee Members Are Announced Today A group of men and women from lt*-ca'ur Monroe. Berm*. Geneva. Plea-'ailt Mill* atid Linn Grove, I have In-ell invited by Mayor Hurry Baal* of Fort Wayne, fourth district united service organization I chairman, to attend a meuling Wednesday evening at the Hotel Anthony. Fort Wayne, for the purpose of organizing the I'HO < amimign in this county. 11l hi* letter to rhe Attains county mi*mbvr* of the committee. Mayor Baal* -.lid ’’Governor Scbrick er hit* emiHiW-ied Hie to officially ajqHiint you a- one of tile leader* ill your -ectlon of the Fort Wayne Area campaign and the purpose of tin* com in unii a Gon is t> invit ■ and urge you to attend a compli-m-nfary lmff*-t dinner to In- held in tile <’haltel«box of tile Hotel An thony in Fort Wayne on Wednesday evening. July 3 at fi 3« o’clock. Th** committee follows: Judg<* J Fred Fruchte Mayor Forrest Elzey. Mr- l«oi» Black. L. E Arcli- ! Iwild. Adrian Baker, coinmantler of I the American la*gion. W Guy Brown. Mtihur It lloltJiou-,-Monroe: Pau! Bahtier. Mr* E W. Bitsche. Berne: Edward Lieclny. E. R. I Lift lity. Geneva: Ralph My •TH, Miss Glad/* Cook Piea-.nit Mill*: It H Everett. Linn Grove: Frank Nu*-I«aum. kpproxiinaiely 150 person* (torn rile Fort Wayne area have In-ell ill- ' vited to attend tin* organization i meeting. Detail* pertaining to the raising lot fund* for the I'Sit to provide <<XINI’INtt«t» OM PAGK FIVK) ARMY SERVICE LIMIT IS SET R»o8e ve 11 Authorizes 900.990 New Draftees In Next Year Waifhlngton. June 30 tl’Pi An estimated 75V.000 young men of 21 21 Will register for selective servile tomorrow, and a large proportion of them will lie Inducted into the army during coming month* to help fill the SflO.OOtMiian quota set liy President Roosevel' fur the new fiscal year. The 8.308 draft boards throughout the country will register tomorrow all the young men who have become 21 since th • first Rtiay la-J Ot tidier Hi. At tluit time, more than 10,000.000 men from 21 to 35. inclusive, registered for possiHde service A liigll percentage of the 21-yeur-olds will lie chosen for the army because they are in better physical condition titan older men. liecause few of th«tn have dependents that would cause deferments; and because of the new policy of automa tic deferment of men 28 or older. Mr. Roosovelt. in an executive ~Tcontinukd ON FAGB FA VBA

Blitzkrieg Pace Slowed But Germany Claims Capture Os Lwow; New Front Is Opened

(Jerman-Finnish Attack Is i Launched On North I Front; Optimism Is Voiced By Soviet. ATTACK SLOWED Moscow Jun. 311 <U P> Russian | forces were reported holding firm ; Imlay against a new German Fin-1 nieh attack which military obtu-r-t vers said was designed to sever. lainiiigiau and the Karelo-Finnish republic from the main body of Russia and form a continuous German flank from Finland to the Baltlc slales. Foreign military nb tfvers interpreted the new Finulsn offensive as an indication of a lag in the I timing of the Naxi attack on the i I krainlan front and an endeavour | to divert Rusxlon strength to the . north and away from the main onI alaught of Minsk and toward the I I'kranian city of Kiev. The Russian attitude was optli inistlc today and there was belief here that Germany’s one week old , blitzkrieg had failed for the mo-1 irn-nt. Nazi Claims Beilin. June 30 <U.R> Germany claimed today the occupation of Minsk, gateway town in white Russia on the highway to Bmoli-nsk and Moscow. I.wow, fortress town In South Poland. I.tbau. important Baltic naval base and assorted the right around surrounded Soviet . central army has been drawn taut. The claim to the capture of Minsk, around which the bitterest fighthtg of the was has raged, was I made by an authoritative milllary spokesman. Tit spokesman said that Nazi forces occupied the key fortress city and pushed on further to the "•CONTINUED ON PAitg THKKNi THREE MARINE DESERTERS HELD Captured In Ohio After Chase As Kidnapers. Robbers Findlay. Ohio. June 3t» il l’) ■ Three deserters from the (’ S. marine corps Iki-i- at Quantico. Va . 1 who were captured Sunday morning after a running auto gun batrle chase with the Ohio state highway patrol will be proseiuted in 1 Ohio with rolrtiery and shooting wiflh intent to kill, patrol head1 quarters rtqMirtcii today. The men. Joseph Sacilotto, 20. t Cleveland. Joseph I'atnpisl. 20. ’ IlixMiklyn N Y . and Mario Libera toie. 21. Geneva. N Y. an- wanted also by Indiana and Pennsylvania authorities for aimed robbery and kidnaping, the patrol reported. The highway iratrol reported that , Gilliert Marcus of Chicago picked up the three men as hitchhikers at Gary. Ind . Saturday and took thorn to .Michigan City. Ind. There the men took over the car at the point • of a gun and later released Marcus at Markle. Indiana, after taking his clothes and money. Patrolmen Glen A. Petticord and J. L. Bishop sirthti-d the car at ' Beaver Dam. Ohio after a radio liroadiost of Its description. They gave chase and shots were ex dbanged. The car was wrecked at ’ Williamstown. Ohio after an 85- ‘ mile an hour chase. 1 Liberutore was wounded in the right arm. He was confined to the Findlay hospital while the other two remained in t.he Hancock county jail. ’ o Rev. Rosselot Heads Decatur Ministers Rwv. G T Rosselot. pastor of th» ■ First I’nited Brethren church, was t elected president Os the ItecgtUg I niinisAc'.'ial association this morn- ’ Ing in a meeting held at the First I State Bank Rev. R. W. Graham of the First Mmhodist church was elected vice president and Rev C. R. Moser of ’ the First Baptist church was nattitsl secretary-treasurer.

HUGE SPY RING 1 IS SMASHED IN UNITED STATES 29 Taken Into Custody In Huk'e Roundup By FBI Agents • — i New York. June 30 —(UP) — Seven persons charged with es pionage against the United States pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court today Eighteen other*, including two women, arretted in what authorities called "one of the greatest counter espionage efforts” ever made by a law enforcement agency, pleaded innocent. Ni-w York. Jinn- 3o RjP Figli-ii-i-n person- suspit-ti-d of i sp.mi | .igi- for Germany, rounded up dur Illg the weekend liy fi-i|el.ll Intri-all <>f investigation agents after two years of iiMinter espionage. were to !»• arraigned today They and II others arrested elsewhere or already In jail, reportedly directed by Frederick Joubert Ihi 1 quewtie. a fit year-old matt of mystery once involved in a murder c harge for espionage In the World War. comprised wli.it FBI agent called the greatest npy ring evt-r uncovered in this country They were -aid to have gathered information on -hip movements to Gnat Britain, on I’niied Stale-* defeii-e |iriHliicti<>n and mi the de Velopment of new and secret mill tary i-quipnii-ni in this country, and t<> hsve transmitted their discoveries to a foreign power unnamed but obviously Germany silo*- that I* tin native country of 22 of the prisoners. One of them. Kverett Mliinti-i Roede, an engineer and designer a native of New York and one of the few Anietit .in born |iri hh-ih was employed by the Sperry Gyro scope corporation, makers of the bomb sight formerly usi-d on ttv I’nited State U Hpl.llie, but le ci-ntlv turned over to BHtaill after an improved type wa developed for till* ci try Another was Axel Wheeler HUI brother of James Wheeler HUI for mer chief aide to Fritz Kuhn, the German-American bund leadei who is In prison for larceny Three of the 28 were women In addition to the Is urrosli-d here, four were selztsl In New Jersey, one in Michigan and one in Wls eonsin. <>f th- five in jail, four had been charged with violating the federal registration act .mil mu*. Rem* Mczi-neti. a -;«-war4 on Pan-American An way- Trans At (antic Clippers, had been arrested jl-oNTtS’I l-Jli ON t'AUI-. TWO) YOUTHS LEAVE FOR ARMY CAMP Six Adams County Younjj Men Leave Today For Training If successful in passing camp examinations. six Adams county youth* began a year's selective service training today. The six left Decatur about 9:2S o'clock this morning on an ABC bus. bound for Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, where they were to be Inducted Into training. The six are: Roman Joseph Brite, Gerhart Martin Haugk. Leroy Clayton Bibersteln. Lemyed Stetler. lawter Mazellu and Raymond Edward Fields. Stetier was chosioi as leader of the group, carrying the credentials and tickets. A large group of relatives and friends was on hand at draft hoard headquarters this morning to watch the departure of the six. If all are successful in passing the camp exams, the county will have a total of 127 in training.

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Conflicting Reports From Warring Side# Becloud Military Situation On Terrific Warfare. HEHINDSC HEDI I.E lt> railed Pt* - Rir ian armed forces app-.iu-d today to have slowed «i<>wn the whirlwind blitzkrieg pace of the German panzer divisions hut reich forces reported tin- capture of Lwow ma-*ed tetiifii- fmi.s for an attempted bieak through at Minsk and opened up a vast new fighting front on the fioo mile Russo Finni-h iHiider \ spis ial Nazi communique reported the oiciipatimt of Lwow. in outheastera Poland about 100 miles west of the former RussoPolish frontier Lwow is an important position mi the route tie ward the I’kiallie B i« *5 miles -oilthwi a Ilf Luck where terrific fighting Is in progress as German I forces attempt to clear a path toI wanl Kiev, the I’kraine capital Today’* Russian and German reports gave no < liar picture of the military situation around Minsk where the hardest fighting of the eight day-old war in progress Some Nazi ri'isirt- claim that armored unit* have slashed beyond ! Minsk but it s-enn-d evid-tit that Geiman infantry masses have not been aide to follow up the breakthrough of tanks and armored cars if one has incurred \ larg- Ru-sian force, estimated at iwo whole armies Iry the Germans. i< believed to In- partially cllclri'led to the nmlliwi- * of Minsk in the Bialystok aron Tin* outcome of the Minsk battle may hinge mt whether till Russlnn fence, fgihtlng a* a contalnesl unit, f* able tn smash German efforts to send masse* of Infantry hi the path of tank force* now in the Minsk ti-glmi I’tib-ss the Nazis can effect a follow through the armoi’i-d units ire llk-ly to be i lit off and destroyed pleiem>iil by heavy Red a'lnorid corpThl* morning's Mo*, ow < mmunlqit- .lid not indicate tl*-* progress <'( ' i htfng ai.mud Minsk hut imuiniii d to employ 'he phra-e In the di -ction of Min-k ’’ Indi, iting that Ih- Germans hi.v« not yet reached th * InifHiitant town To the noit’i liow. ver i th nmn thrust which nwiy liecome a flunking maneuver Is developing Thi* Is along tin* Dvina river. ju*t southeast of Dvln*k Dvlnsk is ir.o mile* noihwest of Min k and is linked by a gom! highway with Smolensk 2li» mile* away Smoten*k I* the Ilex' big Germ 111 lillJiM-* live on tin- route to Moscow om i* Minsk fall* into Nazi band- Minsk Is aliout ?un mile from Smolensk If the Germans are aid.- to drlvo aero-* tin- Inina and < ia«h ahead on the Smolensk highway the Russian tone, defending Min-k might eventually find lhems.lv. lilt off from letr-ai to 'ln* -.i-f Il tppearisl that little progress wa made by the Germans and Finn* In tin- opening phase of their attack on the new northern frontier Aitempts by German Finnish forces to iross the Karelian Isthmus and udvam’e on Leningrad were said by the Russian- to have TcONTINUKD ON PAGE THKKtei ■ — - ,1 ——— War Bulletins Washington, June 30.— U.P — Acting secretary of state Sumner Welles indicated today that • group of American Red Cross nurses as well as some U. 8. marines were aboard a ship that reportedly was torpedoed enroute to Great Britain. Asked about the reported incident at a press conference, Welles referred questioner* to the navy. The navy stilt wa* checking circumstances and the fate of those aboard ths Ship. Washington. June 30.— UP — Sen. Burton K. Whesler. D., Mont., cslled todsy for sn mvestigation of printed reports thst U 8 nsvsl vessels hsve been “shooting or destroying” German naval craft.