Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1942 — Page 1

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■osier G. 0. P. Edges Aid In Klwar World Notional gEnmittee's Stand Eomst Isolation ’■ ■ >"»p oli ‘. June I ®~ ,UP > g/”-. Republicans today K Rut J Alexander, Pin* ** the,r c * ,,did>te ,or of sectary of Hate. v Knapp. Hager.Indiana l.wmakilßwW withdrew from the 54 counties had givj®,., opponent 1.254 vote* by tabulation. Only 1,■K , ete , ar® necetaary to K**teJune I# — iri’i - 4 , convention dele--.jij .idopted a platform BK, j. plank pledging the to support Amer, |K rr. . lit ion and linking V. . ominitlee'H anti "a' |K.. hl > 'he battle for the HKy- ■ nomination ion |Krn full speed with both ■ &,tmm: victory by admit! margin*. to a full ahare of |K|- -*.p .r-iblllties. the p.n'y veered toward the o! tie mad with the nation by holding that r»*poii*il»illtie* may be in 'he postwar world. »i'h our Republican BKof gov> inmelit,” the plat |Mt y.atform move was regard Ku'-.- supporter* of \V--n |H. Wddne on the OOP Inter team an opposed tn |K'K.:'c t Taft forces which Mirix-' even a mild peace |Kn- stand by thu party ippeareinent peace will |Kante another attack " the said "The military Os our enemies must he The first step In the peace must he un on render Our |Mm4 a, force? with s.-cilf Bust maintained at ill . than any no»»llde .mt potential en< war. conditions and developing and s<> apidiy that no one M’ rroup ■,! men Is suffli iem to determine what pro - t,ght and propet future time " Hatform praised the role HK** ! » r R-publlcan congte.c HB* the war effort and scored administration H»FP|m. Aas pledged to the to* of the war. of civilian def. ion MF 11 ’" to. ommend. tl >h.r Myfau; director be a comp.-' officer HBFt— Were to be nominal ■BBJ 1 •P’- on the state ticket hey ■ , the GOP factional mM n ."i dominated the con My* »>* ace between Janie* S»*» Hagerstown *|>.aio-i jK*" l '' „f representative. gy* candidate, and Rile Ai-» •< Pine Village, organize f or the we. i. taiy Ry*M>minatlon. MF* *»l» ■ sent a an anti-organ ■yeeiii.tit headed by 1.1.ut I few son U U*h New Deal Hy*»Wi« June 18 - <UP» BHt ‘ " senator. Raymond HBF lashed the new deal to 'l*-x-» that II seeks to HE! ®* nation to remain In ®y«d keynoted the 1942 Re ■JJ*’* 1 * "“iventloti with a iMu To ’*•«• «. Column S> Myj ~ Hr*'* Hay Crop Warted Good ■Of* '"teiity farmers ar.’ cu" Ijy?* r b>ve r and timothy hay They report the crop in gy**’* >be heavy rain doing a law Saturday. t>, ‘ “faits ha. been cat. |y? The new crop a the MKL_ “ wh **‘ wi!l 1 " i —w.ykT»**TURt RKADINQ ll*’* 1 TMgnMOMETfR Bw * *■ — ■* ‘ * BO W. *<ATH«R '' law **«mn*p•vs sv rvs P* • a. i tin P* r ' u

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Bomber Rescues Torpedoing Victims From Raft fl K J ► M&La. Seven survivors of a freighter that was torpedoed In the Caribbean are pictured being rescued from their improvised raft by a navy patiol bomber after drifting for seven days

Ask Cooperalion In Scrap Rubber Drive Campaign Committee Holds First Meeting Service station operators, oil company agents and distributors, tank wagon operators and other oil and gasoline company representatives in Adatns comity today Intensified their efforts to put Adams county “over the top" In the scrap rubber drive, which ends at midnight. June 30. Organized effort* of the workers to conduct a successful campaign to aid In the war effort were launched last evening In a meet Ing of the Adams county scrap rubber campaign committee and the various oil company representatives of the county, held at the tseglon home Joseph S Anderson. Geneva, chairman of the committee, urged in his uddres* that the oil men and general public cooperate wholeheartedly In the drive, citing the fart that it was to their interest that the drive be acclaimed an unlimited success. A successful drive, he pointed out. would result in easing the tension of the rubber situation and go a long way toward delaying or eliminating the necessity of gas rationing In this area. The campaign in Adams county is to be divided into two distinct drives. The one. colectlon of scrap rubber by service stations, tank men and agents is already well underway, although plans were made last night to intensify R. A second drive that to be conducted by the Boy Scouts in the city of Decatur under the direction of Steve Everhart will be launched nest Monday A systematic pickup of all scrap rubber in the city is to be mada by the Scouts and Cubs in a house-to-house canvass. This rubber will be solicited as contribution by the Scouts It will then be turned over to service stations With the proceeds of the one cent p«r pound sale being used to fur(Turn To !’»«* Column »> "■ — Greatest Meat Supply In Nation's History Livestock Industry To Meet 1942 Goals Chicago. June l«.-irPI-Albert K MMcheil. chairman of the nar lonal livestock and today that the nation. .Ivaatock and meat industry would 1842 goals by producing thegrea Mt meat supply ' b * h ‘*“ ,rT %X1? who opened the tww day annual meeting of 'be board. Mtlmated meat product.on forJHJ - he **M. “we must supply the men of Unde Bam s •«*«■« ,or,r ’ wl h of tacie average plenty o< »•*' L , Lidier eats about a pound of m*a He said producttoa ■ -■■■•.■‘•“'‘•"sxsrx and calve*.

Doi/y Democrat Is Given Certificate For Defense Service Earl Caston, county chairman of the war bond staff, has delivered to the Decatur Daily Democrat a certldcate of citation from the I'. 8. Treasury, "for distinguished services rendered In behalf of the National Defense Savings program." The engraved certificate is signed by Henry Morgenthau. Jr., secretary of the treasury, and bears the gold seal of the I' S treaeury The citation will be framed and proeerved in the newspaper office as a memo of the war. Contingent Leaves For Army Service Crowd Witnesses Departure Today Late thin afternoon pearly two score Adams county men were at Toledo, Ohio, undergoing army examination- i' 'ln- arinorv the men who left Dei atur early this morning in the latest selective service contingent. the men. whose departure was | marked by one of the largest crowds assembled at draft board headquarters in recent months, with the name* preceded by the order number*, are: 10.325. Robert Kenneth Woodhall; 10.402. Herman Edward Lyons: Robert Carl Brodheck: 108, Oscar Hemy Lengerich; 148-A, Chalmer Dallas Lee; 243. Franklin Kenneth Rayl; 374. Glenn Robert Goldsberry; 382. Oliver Wendell I'hllip Macklin. 459. Wavelaud Waldo Fisher; 473. IrM Isaac la-hman; 580. Richard Kunkel Moses. 5J7, Charles Joseph Leonard; 701 Ornell Merlin S< hindl-r; 725. , Joshua Ezra Lister; 754. Thomas William Adler; 77m. Erwin William Kiefer; 779. Earl la-roy Harmon; 1.015. Walter Leon Tumbleson; 1.0’3. Harold Earl Blythe; 1.043. Harold'll Stauffer; 1.134. Daniel Godfrey Christen; 1.159. Keith Byers Hants; 1.314. Holomon Joseph Eicher. L350-V. Calvin Peterson Magley; 1.382. Robert Yake; 1.443. Raymond Eugene Miller; 1,491. Edwin H met Kaufman; 1.498. Robert Clinton Martin; 1.54&, Charles Geiger Mark-; 1.573. Edward W Kirchner; 1.581. Robert Thomas Moran; 1.424. Arthur Leo Miller and 2.053. Harry Ellenberger Facts about the contingent: Ornell Schindler, of Berne, was named as leader of the contingent and carried credentials and tickets of the entire group Two of the men R- bert W.todhall and Herman Lynns, were registered in the third reg k«t ration Robert Yake left with the last May contingent but was rejected ~(Turn To P«8« <• Colum* 1) —o — — Recorder Injured While Riding Bike Mrs Ruth Holßagawortb. coua(y recorder, succumbed yesterday afternooa to the bicycle fad -with disastrous result*. Durfag her first ride la years she fell and suffered, in sddltfos to other lafisr'ea. a .praised right aahle. which will k „. p Her confined to her home for two weeba- oTd***It was eapiaiaod that sb* wa* bo: familiar with tbs “aaw coaater brak*s” that tbay bavo been pott.n* o* bicycle. '“J tht ££ several years and wbe* uaabl* I to stop «be rebicle she attMipwd I to jump oft.

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Army Ultimatum Is Given Struck Plant Demands Resumption Os Work At Pullman Michigan City, Ind., June 18. —t UP)—Chari** Burchfield, int*:nati>nal representative of the American Federation of Labor, said today that he would carry the case of 1,000 union strikers at th* Pullman Standard Car company to President Roosevelt if the army goes through with plans to n*»ve all materials at Pullman to other plant*. Michigan City. Ind.. Jun- 18 (I'l’l— The Pullman Standard Car) manufacturing company and l.iMMt i striking worker* today laced an army ultimatum that work muaf be resumed by Monday on 1.5 W Gondola cars for the government or the work will lie “done elsewhere." "If work is not resumed at I’ulk man on Monday." the army order read. ■■Materials will start to leave the plants on Tuemlay morning." Maj. H J. Hocker of the Chicago Engineer procurement divDlon Issued the order last night after company officials rejected the threepoint proposal for settlement of the labor controversy made by representative* of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (AFLL "The corp* of engineers doe* not take the position of In-ing tor or against either party in the di»pu’e.” Hocker’s order said. “But certainly must protect the continuity of the war effort and therefore proposes to have th» contract ; -•ompleted Immediately. If this is not done by Pullman, then it will be done elsewhere" Hocker said tha« at the outset •of the strike on Monday, the company needed on only 30 d.iy* Io complete the LSOO-car ord*-r and ■ that the strike prevented completion of 27 cars a day. •’Failure to move such a tremendous tonnage might easily as- , feet the outcome of some import- ; ant engagement.” Hocker aald The strikers had offered to go back to work under the three conditions: that the company rescind It* letter of June IS. abrogating an (Turn To J. Column tt>

Allied Convoy Running Axis Gantlet Is Savior To Malta

By Henry T. Gorrell With The British Mediterranean Fleet. June 1»— tl'Pl—4 Belayed t i —A British naval ottlcer revealed today that the Allied convoy which ran the Alla gantlet In the historic aerial-naval hattie juat ended may have aaved Malta day after day. the Germans and Italians threw everything they had from submarines and motor torpedo boats to battleship* and bombers into ui attempt to sinh the convoy with which I was the only naval correspondent and te cripple the Britiah Mediterranean fleet. "The enemy will probably attach day and night because they •re out to get Malta." said the captain of the cruiser to which I was assigned, after we left Aiea EndriMThe enemy tailed We pushed our oadly needed suppHee through Mt only to Malta bet to besieged Tobrak and when the fleet turned back toward it. base the captain •aid: • Malta might not have bee* abio|

Appointments Announced For Decatur G. E. Lonkenau Announces Personnel Shifts At Local Industry E. W lonkenau. general superintendent of the Decatur work* of the General Electric company, today announced the appointment of two men a* assistant superintendent* and several to supervisory posts in the local plant. R J. Houser of thia city and J. W. Globig. who recently came here from the Fort Wayne work*, were named assistants to superintendent I jnkenau. Both men ba I been supervisors of planning and wage rate*, prior to their promotion •William Heim and Frank Braun, of thl* city, veteran employe* of the Decatur plant, were named general foremen, a promotion from their former portions of as*lstant general foremen. J Kenneth Eady, of this city, also a veteran employe of the plant wa* advanced from foreman to assistant general foreman. A. J. Richart. formerly employed in the Fort Wayne work*, wa* ap pointed supervisor of tool design Mr. Richart now lives in Decatur Other promotions Include, Ezra Brandyberry, foreman of test; Hubert Omlor. foreman of inspection; Che«ter Mclntosh, foreman of test and Henry Kruckeberg. foreman or armature assembly. The promotion* and new appointment* are effective at once, the change* In position* having been In force for several weeks Only Two Tenants Object To Prices Rent Control Seen As 'Well In Hand' Robert H. Heller, chairman of the Decatur rent stabilization committee. stated today that the rent control situation In Deiatur was "evidently well in hand " Such an opinion wa* formed by the committee last night In It* meeting at the city hall when only two person* appeared as lenauls. to rent which they are laying One of the objector* wae an apartment tenant and another lived In a single residence. In the latter case, the tenant contender! hl* rent had been almost doubled. Neither were renters of their present residences on March I. however They | were advised to bring in proof of , the rental price on March 1 from the previous tenants The committee set rent paying period* on or after July 1 *• the effective date for the reduction back to March I level. Those not ! reduced are to be reported to the committee and In turn reported to the rent administrator to lie named for this area by the federal gov j ernment The next regular meeting of the committee will he held Monday night at 7:30 o'clock at the city hall Any one having an objection lor question is asked to.attend thl* or one of the- following meeting*, held each Monday.

I to hold out without our help." He was advised later of the role L'nited States consolidated bomb Ing planes had had in the attack on the Italian fleet and that the entire battle was over "We have done the job.” he said, "and we will do it again when necessary ” It was a carefully calculated, and coldly ekecuted elplolt which entailed desperate risks and the certainty that losses would have to be endured Every mgn in the fleet knew when It put to sea that the odd* i were heavy against them They ' fought it out coolly for days on’ end and In the far. of frenaled enemy attacks the fleet probably did as much or more damage ta the enemy as it suffered Itself (This was aside from the shat toting damage doae by the Ameri can planes > Bonds and torpedoes canto cfcoe to the cruiser carrying this ear respondent may times J (Turn To Tags I. ceiussa U I

British Forced To Yield More Ground In Libya; Reds Fight Back Savagely A t Nazi Hordes

Dollar-A-Year Men Slammed In i Senate Report Charge Failure To Convert Industries To War Production 1 Washington, June 18 tl’l’l —; The Netiate committee InVestlgat : Ing the war program charged to • day that I’hllip D. Reed. General f Electric's |120.000 a year IwMcrd 1 chairman who whs loaned to the 1 j government for Jl-a-year as chief 1 of the WPB's bureau of Industry, failed to convert Industry to war • production in the- shortest possible 1 time. • The committee. In a report on Its Investigation f’-a-y»»r men I singled out Reed for detailed • criticism, but al»<> accused several others. In. ludln k James <' Knowl j sou. director of the Wl’B's dlvlII sion of industry operation*, of I . I "temporizing, moderation and dei lay ' I i Not until "almost four month* i after Pearl Harbor.” the commit ’ , tee said, were the "mass of cur , tailnivnt order*” issued to change i - ■ industry over to the production of, i war weapons. Despite delay* In ■ the past. It added, conversion I* now well under way. The committee' also concluded that "certain H-a-year men with in the bureau of Industry branche* are unable to divorce themselves from their subconscious gravitation to their own industries." The committee's investigation | was undertaken at the- request of WJ’B ehaccmsn DoaaM M Nelson | after Robert R. Guthrie, a former WI’B official, charged In March I that conversion had been resisted iby representative* of iudu*trie* loaned to the WI’B I I The committee'* report wa* II |*suvd over Nelson's protest* It | wa* learned that Nelson made i last minute representation* to committee member* yesterday. 1 contending that publication of the ' report now would hinder the war effort. The report wa* Issued within 48 hours of one by a house milli tary affair* subcommittee headed I by R”p Charles I Fsddl*. D. I’a ■, which found "lack of proof that I <dollar s year men) Intended to ■ serve any interest other than that of the government " r The committee examined the | 1 history of conversion orders for I i several c onsumers' durable good’' Industrie* and found the follow [ ing: , | Mechanical refrigerator* A 81 1 I (Turn To !’»«• *. Column 31 ■ ■■ I O 1 ■— — Report U. S. Planes .Now At Sevastopol No Verification Os Stockholm Reports lawdon. June 18 (t’f’i — A dally express Rtwkbolui dispatch, j unconfirmed by any source, reported today that four-motored CnMed State* planes had arrived at Seva* I I topol to reinforce tbe Russian sir ’ | force and had already gone into action. The daily express dispatch said | the American planes had flown j there from middle Eastern base. Their flrat Job. it wa* added ■ wa* to attack German troop con- [ centration* north and northeast of Sevastopol, the Russian naval base fortress at the southwest side of the Crimea against wh.ch Axis 1 troop* led by German* are mak i ing one of tbe most ferocious attacks of tbe entire war It wa* specified tbs' the American* planes were "Liberator*, the British name for eonso'idated B-24 bomber* such a* made a akartering attack oa the Ru;nantan oil fields last week and UH two Italian battleship* in the big Med Hamarau air naval battle Jest end ad. Tbe Dally Express dispatch did , not specify that tbe pfcrae* were seat into actma aader UaKed State* sir corp* crews bat tie Implication seemed plain tha' they ' had been Down from Amertcen army bases in the middle east and < had entered tbe Sevartopo fight ae Valted States air corps suH*. <

Canadian Air Force Aids Alaska Defense Aid U. S. Squadrons Defending Alaska I Victoria, B C. June (g.—(l’P)— IJ-upt.-Gen. Kenneth Stuart, com mander of the Canadian armed forces on the Pacific coast, an- ! nounced today that royal Canadian air force planes and antiaircraft unit* had been aiding I'. H squadron* In the defense <>( Alaska. Stuart said that RCAF squadrons and anti-aircraft units of the Can adlan army bad been coop* rating with American forces In Alaska "for several days " Stuart said he could not reveal ' the number of Canadian* Involved or disclose where they were rationed He said he had been authorized to make the statement by the Can adlan department of national defense at Ottawa. Stuart commented on what he termed a "wrong Impression” given in press report* of views he had expressed on the importance of Japanese landings In the Aleutian islands. The landings, he said, could he . regarded ae a defensive action by . the Japanese against a possible I bu*e of attack by Allied fort e* on I Japan proper He said the land- : Ings also could be an attempt by j the Japanese to obtain a base for ; a possible attack on the Pacific coast. It wa* "Idle" therefore, he said, to term the Japanese landing* of no "strategic" Importance Germans Threaten To Destroy Czech Towns British Legislator Urges 'Eye For Eye' London. June IM tl’l’i — De-1 mand* of "eye for an eye" retribution against Nazi killing* of innocent Czech* Were voiced In the house of commons today a* the . German deadline for handing over | the aHsae-liia of Reinhard Heydrich neared Nazi authorities threatened Io burn Czech villages to the ground and executive entire population* miles* sabotage and resistance cease and the killer* of "the hangman" are tunic dover to aulhorlttc* by m |i m tonight, according 10l ; British rep its. The demand In the house wa* , made by Hlr Thoma* Moore con servative tnemlier. who asked that Britain teil Germany that in the j future, an undefended German , town or village will he obliterated i by the RAF In retribution for every . Innocent person murdered by th" I Nasis In an occupied country !>e|»ity icrltte mlister Clement At- | tlee said “There would not be enough Ger man village* to go around You (Turn To I’sg* *. Column t) Youth Injured By Auto At Hoogland Lester Hchettnann. 17. son of j i Fred Scheimann of route one. ' j Hoagland, is confined In 'he Ad-. . sms county memorial hospital suf ; feeing from injuries sustained last i night when be wa* struck by a car i tn that town. The auto wa* driven by Lee Hake Doctors Leaving For Army Are Honored Dr Palmer Eicher and Dr. Ben Jamin Chivenson were feted this noon tn a luncheon at the Rice ho- , tel. s-'agrd by the Adams county medical society Dr Etcher will leave Ju'y 8 to 1 enter service with the I’. 8 army ’ medical carps at Rucker Field. , Ala . while in Chav ins.>n will go to Camp Great. 111. lomoin-w to ‘ eater the same branch of service. } Scouts, Cub Scouts Will Meet Friday Stave Everhart ha* asked that " ail Bcoats and Cub Scoett meat at f Worthman Field promaUy st 1 a’- _ clock Friday afternoon Plans will 4w made for the scrap rubber drive „ at the meetiag

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Great Slaughter Os Germans Is Reported In Russian Accounts From Battle Zones (By I'nited Preen) Tin- nrmlen of Russia and China struck back toduy In attempt* to throw Axis offensive* out of gear, but hardpr«-r.wd British Imperial troop* in th-- Libyan deoert wore forcr-d to yield more ground to Col.Gen. Erwin Rommel's drive toward the Egyptian border. I'nited Press war correspondent Henry T Gorrell, only correspondent with the British fleet In tbe fourduy Mi-dlterranean naval aud air battle, revealed that tbe Allied . blows struck in defense of convoy 1 movement* may have saved Malta and per ha |» denied Rommel a swift I Libyan conquest. On the Kharkov and Sevastopol fronts In Russia, scenes of some of the war's fiercest tlKhtinfl Red army counterattack* were reported to | have seized the Initiative from the Germane at several vital point* but the situation still was grave, particularly at beleaguered Sevastopol. Front-line dispatches said the Russians had zecaptured an outer line of trenche* encircling Sevastopol wh<Me defenses remain unbroken after 13 days of unremitting siege. To the north on the Kharkov front where tip- German* were attempting to blast open a northern route to the Caucasus, the Red army troops of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko were reported to hare seized the Initiative In several *ectors after Hmashlng an enemy attempt to cron* a strategic river east of the city, probably the Don- • t* The Germans still have formid-* able reserve* available around Kharkov, however, and the lighting there may become even mote furlOM. A great slaughter of Germans wan described In Russian account* from tbe Kharkov and Sevastopol battle z< lies 3 Bial Nazis killed and ■47 funks destroyed around Khar- ’ kov within 24 hour*. Turkish report* estimated that . 'he siege of Heva«'opol already ha* i (Mt sO.o<Hi German* and Itumartian tr<s>p* or about one third of the German lltb artnjr under Col -Gen Fritz Von Manstein. The Germans dalmed steady al- ’ though slow progress In overwhelming the Sevastopol defenders and reported that the northern dei senses of the Black S a fortress liad lieeti pien cd and Its main bases captured In eastern China the troops < f Gen Chiang Kai-Shek stormed the Ollier d'fetl*e* of the Klaligsl pro* incial < apital of Nam hang tu a II ounteroffensive droigned to force the Japanese to withdraw troops from their offensive against the I vital Nanchang llangi how railroad. A Chungking spokesman said the Chinese were within 15 mile* of Nanchang. .•-trlk'.ng »—•••yty at the • tear of at leaet 75 000 enemy trisip* engaged 111 the big offensive to the southeast However, the Japanese still drove along the Nanchang Hangchow railroad and may Siam • lose a 68 mile gap still held by the Chinese between surrendered Sbangjao and ■ Yingtun. th,- latter about 80 mile* (Turn To Fas* I, Column 4) -p — - U. S. Airmen Blast Rumanian Oil Fields Oil Fields Blazing Chaos After Raids Ankara. Turkey. June 14—(f’Pl -Four I’nited State* army i*oashing planes which landed in Turhey six day* ago were part ot a fores of 15 which left the Rumanian oil fiehJ* in blazing chaos, it am* learned authoritatively today. The mystery of why th- pianos were forced to land in Turkey was dissipated It was apparejt that they *uy«d so long over'a perfect target, determined to make Americas first direct blow against th* Asia on the European coatlasat a heavy one. that they ran short of fuel on the way home. It was learned that the great consolidated B 24 fMr motored ulane* raased enormous fire* and flaaiage. which It will take tie Oor•nan* months to make goaC ia tha Ploootl oil fields l«0 mftaa north of Bucharest Foar of tha 1* plaaeo leaded tn (Turn Te Fo«e 4. Cilama **