Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1941 — Page 5

IESDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1941.

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P PtiHI.IC SALE CALENDAR ■ jlcoi Schiebsr, 2 mllM North. 1 mil* East of Di.on JohnM ,on * ® on ' *“ ction ««''» '5-* M Pott*r»on & Son. complete clo»e out. 4 miles touts of piratant Mill*. 6 mile* southwest of Willshire. Oh<o. John w * *® B ' Auctioneers. |B>Grc V Mellott. Bryan. Oh,o. Dary Auction Johnson A Son, Auctioneer*. l - oc,, '*®® t, complete closeout sale, 9 mdes south. 4 miles east of Bluffton. Sanmann. Biair. Kent, auctioneers w Townsend. 12 miles east of Fort Wayne, 1 mile west of Zulu on Road No. JO. Implements and livestock. Johnson M * ®° n - Auctioneers. v '° D f *P fr i 2'4 mile Northeast of Decatur, complete d.s M persai sale. J. F. Sanmann. Aur.t. ■ Smith. 8 miles Southwest of Fort Wayne on lower Hunt >"jtcn road. Johnson A Bon. Auctioneers Ley. complete close out sale, 10 miles south. 4 miles east of Bluffton. Sanmann. Blair, Kent. Auctioneers ti 4 Becher, complete dispersal sale. 2 miles northeast of ■ Decatur. J F Sanmann, D 8 Biair, auctioneers.

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i Lake. California. «,.fi»e year* ago the tragic r party would have given uj 'or the road that rune tM little, foreat hemmed ka Because it didn't, then, Igttn members of that val wa of pioneers lost their The forty five Immigrants g-> «ed had a struggle that I' Story K r fab i of a land of peri ing'.iri*- thia famoux I M by George and Jacob r wen- one of hundred* i heading westward by U.vlng Illinois in April of yea th* bonnet* party wax 14 worn w hen it reached ■ ■» the city of Reno, b I* encamped for a rest F’ltnl lt» undoing. Thai de►M 'b- patty to be trap•f > winter that came a Marijf that year. I") on the pioneers reachh late in October as snow its Uy. Freezing, the band ’’’ted to seek shelter in isough and canvas huts. The bt perpendicular walls of h barnntt their way to the 1 valley beyond were made ■er mpastible by enow and Drftt twirled up around the people to a depth of I'wt Their oxen wandered •"d pernhed in the snow. '•* ttarvmg group of eighty *•*- tubsuting on tree bark •"at few mice could be i brave ten men and I 11 di-< Ided to forge ahead * «-ar<-h of help on the ’•J" nf thr-ir aranite prison Wen- halted Christmas • wifiilier storm that raged week Hix men died, r travelers were forced

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while the country is at war, is sub jr< t to trial before a military court under the espionago art of IWI n if < otivli ted. ha could be •aatenced lo ’ death or Imprisonment for not inori* than Jo ya«ri" Ihe m held him mt umtniinu a do. The investigation. its agents Raid, was incomplete. The* did not 1 know when he entered the l'nlted ■ States or If bls title was auJivntle. A <i RUSSIA RELATES ICONTINI,|Ct) from ranis oxn i <hlne tuns. Mio automatic rifles, 10.000 artillery shells and S.IMIO.IWH) , rounds of ammunlthm with the I count sit ill in progress The recapture of Klin was announced In a communique which I also told of the recapture of Yae , naya Pollana. south of Tula on the south Moscow front and Imdillpo and Bogorodltsk southeast of Tula In one sector. Il was asserted, lied cavalry slashed 15 miles thiough the Germun Hues tn destroy a garrison in the rear. A special communique of th.- of Bilal Soviet information bureau taunted Hitler on his recent speech

to tenon to eaillllbalixm in older io survive After thirty-two terrible days, two man ami live women won through to the valley and the .lohuaoii Ram h. where the town of Wheatland. California now standi* In quick nu< cession, four relief imrtlex were sent to th* Itonner’s rescue Tin* first, reaching the dazed starving and half froxen party on February nineteenth, brought out twenty people The second rescued seventeen more on March first The thlid found nine Immigrant* still alive Imt r nir wen- toil near death to lie moved Among th» five starring back with their rescuers was Tamson Donner. She didn't go far. Bidding her two little daughterr farewell she turned around and fought back through five milet of drifts to nurse her dying husband. She had vanished when the fourth rescue party arrived here at Don ner Lake to find that one man still lived among the bones of hit fellow travelers. The Ikinnci patiy' heroic struggle fills a broad page nf the histoiy of Hu- winning of the west In memory of ilto-e hardy people mu clevi-n ai re trai t near here ha* Im-i-ii si-t aslrli and a atone and bronze minium* nt eri-i tcd nt honor of their fortitude U. S. Highway <O. the most traveled artery between the East and central California, now skirts this little blue lake that witnessed the suffering and privation of the Donner party. It chmbs the preciptious. seven thousand foot Donner Pass that defied those pioneers and then twists down into the valley that lured thousands of immigrants to peace and con tentment — and many to their deaths.

giving German total Ineses in the Russian campaign nt 112.314 killed 671,767 wounded and .11334 in Insln< Putting the total German losses up iu Nov. 22 th<- end of the nfth month nf the war. at about fl.imo,oiHi men In tall the communique said th.- Germans had Inst M.ooo killed on the Moscow front alone between Nov 16 and l»- < in Against Hitler's claim of 3.sod <»'io llusalan prisoners, the communique said that actually there was a total of 520,000 Russians missing, ln< lulling prisoners The communique aeserled that 111 the first five months of the war the Russians had destroyed or cap lured up to IfiOoii field guns, more than Is.'hmi tanks and about H.oOo planes a . BORMANN HEADS CONTINUED FH<m PAGE ONE for the most part In these urtlvl tier Fnt tin purpose of clarifying views concerning the method of civilian defense uperatlons the state council has announced that the county director will name a county civilian defense council, to be composed of the sheriff, a mem tier of the board of county com misslonei - the county health offi cer, a representative of the county federation of women's clubs, the county superintendent of schools, a representative of the county medical society, the county agricultural agent, the county welfare director and the civil defense director of each incorporated city and town in the county. Plans and announcements concorning the local civilian defense organisations In the cities and towns of the county will in- made by Mr. Hoiinann at the time dictated by needs and t hatiging cottdi-

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Knox Back After Hawaii Visits - ■ _JM .R w * •mPii * - - ■B. JHBW * Hcs retary Knox, left, arrlvea in New York Returning to Washington following a dash by air. tn Honolulu. Hawaii for a first-hand account of the Japanese attack on J’rari Harbor Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox ut ahown. Mt. being greeted by Commander Edward P. M<"*c. commanding officer of the naval air station in Washington. Knox flew to the west coast, took a Clipper plane to Honolulu, and then flew back the aame way.

Hons Likewise all Information concerning the activities to be undertaken, both on a county plane, and In the citle* and towns, will be released through Mr. Bormann. who will function as coordinator of all civilian defense activity in this county. His reports will be made to the statu defense count il In Indianapolis. The two directors arc well known in this community. Mr, Bormann, a past commander of Adams post of the American Legion. also eurved one term as fouith district commander. He has been employed by the creamery since his return from service In the first World War and ntenUy moved back to Decatur from Huntingtoil, where he was employed in the Cloverleaf Creameries office. Mr. Thomas moved here from Greenville. Ohio, following the establishing of the Central -Soya company's plant In ibis city in iP3.3 ' by Dnle w McMillen. He ha* been active in busines- circles and is a member of the Rotary club. . —— —o— i. JAP LANDS TROOPS nMINt.-KH FROM PAGE ONE) successfully. "Pursuit of the enemy continues without interrupt ion." this communique said, iKadio Berlin asserted that the lapaue-e shot tlowti 45 American planes over the Philippines, pn-' sumahly yesterday.! Further deep peiit-iration was claimed in Malaya Japanese dispatches described > fer<M*ioils attack- on British Hong Kong by smeessive waves of planes uni a con tin ii oils artillery laimb.ii -inient. ■ \ gm lilt .I dispati li of ilo Dooti'l new agency referred to "th« appointment ot Gen. Sir Ari hlbaltf I W.nell. t'ommatider In chief In I Indl.i. < - commander In < hies of | far i a.-feru \llh d armies "l Toju asserted lllat "in le.-s than in days the majority of the Atneri- i ran fleet hi Inin ib-uoyed and I be major part of Hie Biitlsh far i astern fieri put mH of ' I'omiiai." | lit aid .Lilian wa.-> it.idy for al long war and clldctl Ins speech ; with tlie statement: I wish io expres the firm de-

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rmlnatlon of the Japanese empire it to lay down Its sword before bdutng the L'nlted States and the itlsh empire.” Tojo charged that the l’nlted ates by means of a bieak In otiomlc relations and "military rcats'* had tried to make Japan cept proposals which would have mpronilsed "the very existence the empire." He charged that e l'nlted States government ough It accused Japan ot atrklng without warning "had 'st provoked ns by assuming a cldedly war-like attitude "It Is none other than the l’nlted ates and Great Britain who reed war upon ns,” ———o —■■ - - KNOX REVEALS JONTINL’ED FKOM PAGB ONEI te ships lost were the battleship tzona. bombed and destroyed by ploslmi of its boiler* ami for»rd magazine; the old target ship lah. which hail not had cornbatH status for many year-; the d* royei's I'assiu. Downes and taw and the minelayer Oglala, be itiiny and navy lost an utidisused numlier of airplanes Japan lost 41 airplanes and three ibniariiies mo- of which was ipturcd It and one of the de royer submarines were two-man aft from ncar-l»y mother ships 'htn Knox reported yesterday, e main laidy of the l'nlted tales fleet was al sea seeking intact with the enemy Loss of life greatly exceeded rst estimates. There Were 2.SSI ixitli services killed k>7 woundI ami 26 missing Those figures e remarkable for the high ratio dead to Wounded which probably tn lit- m iminted for by lite aloat nii'vitalily large loss of life Mianl the Aiizona which appatitly went oft like a Gargantuan niton t racker II was a "lucky' ton the At tzona A bomli went iwn one of het stacks Skillful and brave, Knox said tin fight liotli at my und navy ell put up mice I hey gm going ui tli.it did not take long. But it the few minutes or few limits lore the Japanese shuck that ibjed to the investigation now oposetl Ami if it was a com mid failure tin action to be taken

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will Im» "for the good of the service." however distasteful that may be. There was no doubt that Knox* frank acknowledgement that the army and navy were caught looking the other way—ls they were liHiklng at all hit congtesH with shocking Im pact Knox and others seem'd uncertain whether there would lie sepir ate army and navy bunt'd* to make the executive Itiveatlgatioii or it joint hoard representative of both •ervltes Knox will recommend boatd members to Mr Roonevelt | today and has promised that the! Investigation will begin Imnieii lately . <> — -

News Os The World ♦ ♦ lamdiin Mi necessary step* have . been taken or are being t*iken ’o concert war plana of the 'ttajm ! Allied power*, an offl< tai mikes-1 man said today. Berlin - The offit ial Herman news agent y broadcast to<i iy that German sulimarines hav>* .oink a! British cruiser off Alexandria. Egypt. Moscow— llusaimi t omiiiiitiit|ii> - I indicated today that tin- inon*i-ntu n I of the German ietr**at from Mo. cow was Increasing and dis* loatal that Red army chief* already were discussing a "New phase of often ' slve war.” Manila Determined American and Fllipmo traps have beaten off repeated Japanese attack- in the I Linguyen an a of W.-.terii Luzon ' after smashing a frist inva net < fort in which at least 151 boats were u«cd first details Lunt that front said today ALLIED POWERS TO -CONTINUED Fll’tjS RAGE UNK) to four years In thi* war at the present rate would m» an a total expenditure of nearly Ifitiooo.ooa min There was general expectation I here that imporiant moves toward | unifying grand strategy among all ' major ant! Axis powers. Im biding China were imminent. Special Important e was attrlbiited in diplomat)!' quarters to the I forthcoming .Moscow negoHatlone I designed to I--nit tn t lonely co - ordinat.il stratcgti plans and anil agreement on isilitical colhibot <1 aiiou as well j Informants -aid it would nut In '

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siirpii-lng if as one i«*iilt of ihiti talks British forces, *-1 w<dl as polish, would be fouiid fighting along id tin llut»ians on Russian soil As regards Ho- Nr the; lauds, the . Holland govt riinii'iit for some months had intimated it* willing nese to cult i a formal alliance with I llil’alll If Wl* suggested In dlplll | matte quarters that Britain's uU'f I spullsivem - - might httVe liectl dio l paltly to tin flirt that tile l'nlted Stans was not thon actively in the I war. I Only oti< ' ginh of th<- land In j ’stivi.-i ltu--i.i is uiidei iiiitivation I lar agriculture.

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Morninqstor Triol Wednesday Morning Th* tiial of Henry "Hank" Morn* ' ng.i,i 3*. of (leneva, on a charge I Os a- suit and battery, is scheduled to tn- triad W<'dn*wday mornlM in Adaiiia aircuii court The tase Will he tried beforo I Judge J Fred Frut hte without a I j’try upon agreement of Muruing star - attorney. D Burdette Custer, and I'losecutor Harry T Grube. Value of farm imph rn* nts and I mat hlnery in the t'. S it; IMO ai mounted to »1 "-ft 266.127. a- cotnpaicd to 63.3U1.651 I'"' tn H»3tt