Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1942 — Page 1

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✓oI.XL. No. 156.

CHURCHILL WINS PARLIAMENT VOTE: REVEALS HEAVY LOSSES IN AFRICA

t Arthur Air :e In Heavy Ittack On Japs $ Offensive Opened |n New Theater Os Australia Campaign I|e bourn*. July 2—l'P»—G»*n. | ■flu* MacArthur's air force ha* K.l an offensive In a new he«< of (he Australian campaign kith a heavy and successful atA the Japanese bale at Kenlari. In Celebes inland of the Neth-r'an-lii East Indies. Il was antodßC' 1 today. ()Sei plane* attacked the enemy I P 1 in Portuguese-Dutch Hmmr island midway between Dili tnd tmrtbweßt Australia and hit at .■■neiy base* in the Me-Sulamaua northern New Guinea and , tteg Bougainville island area of to the east. ll' ItW'** “ n indication of the vast of MacArthur's front -the s operations of hl* planes Ufßoed some 2.800 miles from 1 wont to east. In 'their attack on Kendari. on th*BiSt side of the southeastern 1 Celebes, in the main Nethon in a low level surprise target, which took the long’ Allied bombers 850 miles Latßiwe*' of Darwin, was the alr-i; " **ira*e and the »upply Installation , Allied reconnaissance planes scouted Kendari June 24 and ght back information which , ■ lilted the charting of the at-.. air force commander of an Infl-taut area led the Kendari;, raM personally and reported: ■ saw bombs hit among a (vroHi of grounded Japanese planes saw the ill -endiary bvttibs istam fire*. It was a most successt flny heavy bomb* were dropp- L Jed, Ind a crew member comment-j j threw incendiaries out ofi hole available The Japs wfliiave a job dousing those •b completely were the Japan- L ■ surprised by the attack. In the same technique was • B as in the raid on Tokyo, j B there was no fighter inter- I tepv m and even gun fire was believed here that the tk meant that the Japanese it be building up Kendari r biggest lease in the north-, ( irn tone. Rabaul. in New ( tin island. Is proving somea par Bulletins 1 WAn East Coast Port. July 2 -*J(UP) —Blazing amidships, a . flea American merchant ship ; ; slid to the bottom 11 hours •her It wsa struck by a tor£do off the east coast in | bread daylight on June 28. ivors rspvrted today. 4A.noth»r vessel at the scene 8B attack effected a rescue in flmatter of minutes, survivors •EM. and brought th* entire «rpw of 50 men to shore withI* two hours. Washington. July 2—(UP)— At small Brasilian merchant VBBsci has been torpedoed off the northern coast of South fleriea. the navi announced today. Thio brought to eia ■ th* total of Brasilian ships reported sunk. The navy said fl is understood there were n* casualties." tj „ .-o iKMPERATUKC READING •IMOCRAT THERMOMETER 1 •:00 mm. « j StOO a. m. s» WOO p. m- — 7t *OO p. m. SO WEATHER Wontmued cool thia afternoon ■M tonight. |'

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U. S. Carrier Lands Reinforcements at Malta ! 1 > , > i’t ' - . it • • • eSMI ' • ****** 1 ~ **. vMaaiitfiaiill «si ... _ .. •eWSSAr - Here I* the U. 8. aircraft carrier Wa«p which ha* landed plane reinforcement* mi tin- much bombed island <d Malta In the Mediterranean. The l‘ S. Navy announced that 30 minute* after the carrier'* arrival the Navjt plane* engaged the enemy in combat that ended in a victory for the combined tones of the United Nation*.

Mission Teacher To Speak Here Tuesday Lions Club, Ladies Will Hear Teacher A vivid word picture of the Far East, the capture <>f Malacca ami Hingapore by the Japanese and her experience in making a K.OOO-tnfle Voyage to the United Stales, will Im- xi ren by MUa Bonita Bloxsom. of Pennville, who for three yearn prior to February. INI, a nils•lon leather In the .Malaya states, at the leKuiar meeting of the Lions club next Tuesday. To give more p» rsonx the opportunity to hear Mi«s Bloxsom. who ext aped from Malacca just five j days ahead of the bombing of her ‘ school house by the Japs, the mein berx will entertain their wives and . sweethearts at the diner meeting ai i the K. of P. home at 6:15 o'clock Ralph Gentle, manager of the Schafer store, is chairman of the j program He met Miss Blossom several years ago, calling on her 1 father. J. M Bloxsom. a retired hardware merchant of Pennville. Miss Blossom arrived In Sings pore. February 23. IM» and a year , later wax made principal of the Methodist girls’ school in Malacca. She arrived in this country last April, after one of the moat eventful voyages in history. While aboard ship malaria broke out. but Mina Bloxsom was one of the 22 pasxengem who did not become 111. She did her part cn board ship, performing duties assigned to the women by the captain A rigid, 24-hour look-out was kept for subs and much to their relief the ship landed safely in New York harbor, making a trip almost around the (Turn To Psge 2. Column S> -O Urge Heavy Bombing Os Submarine Bases Sustained Bombing Urged By Experts Washington. July S—fl’Pi— Naval experts suggested today t.iat intensive, sustained bombing of German submarine bases in France and Germany might relieve som« of the pressure of submarine warfare off the Atlantic cons’, until a great fleet of patrol boats can be bulk. Eventually, these experts believe, the augmented antl-subma'ine fleet together with extension of '.he con voy system now in force along the east coast, will result in a diminuilon of the submarine mena-e Hubmarines and mines laid by them already have accounted for nearly ISO United Nations merchant ships known to hare been lost ta ths west Atlantic area since Pearl Harbor. Occasional British bombing of some German submarine bases hat had a useful ''notseace'' effect, the (Turn To Paps 2, Column S>

Post Office Open Until Noon July 4 For Sale Os Bonds Americans will have a more practical way than the old method of shooting fireworks to demonstrate their patriotism on the Fourth ol July. Postoffices throughout the nation will be open for the «ale of war bond* and stamps. The Decatur post office will he op.-n until noon and those who wan* fio send ••fireworks" to the Japs or to HPler are urged to buy bonds and stamps Sales for the day will be taliuUited and the result of the bond buying American patriots will be announced from Washington There will be one delivery of mall in Decatur Saturday mi nting No delivery of mail will be made on ' the rural routes, the local office announced. ——O — Eighteen Rejected After Army Exams Furloughs Granted For Men Accepted Eighteen of the men who underwent army examinations at Toledo. Ohio. Wednesday w re rejected and two were held over for further examination. it was unoftciaiiy revealed today. Raymond Frans, former G. E. worker, was named acting corporal of the group of men from the conllngent who were accepted They will leave from the draft board here on the morning of July 15 Io enter active service Publication of the exact time of depaiture and destination is prohibited. Those who were accepted into service, besides acting corporal Franx are: Loyd Myers. Doyle Gay. Er mH Shlfferly. Louis Wolpert. Luke Heimann. Lewis Shoe. Gerald Schroeder. Waldo Marbach. , Henry Ritter. Eugene Arnold. Vertin Kaufman. James Skiles. Forrest 1 Wable. Thomae Sheehan. Richard i UFountnine. Franklin Oliver. Karl Human. Bernard Gaae. Virgil Bixler. Francis Carver. Richard Schaf er. Jerome Geimer. Glen Clark. Elmer Inek-hen. Elmer Rolston. John Zuercher. Raymond Sheets. Ij»un Miller. Kenneth Hawkins. Ed win May. Lewis Koenig. Gerald Cook, Darold Borne and Richard Kiting. Walter Koenemann and Clyde Everett were also accepted for service. but they chose to be Inducted immediately, rather than accepting the furlough. Those rejected are: Benjamin Kntetxinann, Clarence Backingham. James Miller. Harold Pontius Robert Chronister. Chris Zuer< her Dailey Fogle. Dewitt Williamson (Turn To Past* I. Coloma t> 0 NO PAPIR gATUROAY In accordance with custom of years standing, the Deeatur Oatly Democrat will not pub lists an sditOxn Saturday. July 4. |

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 2, 1942.

Probe Crashes Fatal To 36 U. S. Army Men LaPorte Lieutenant Is One Os Victims Welch. W Vs.. July - <VPi An army preliminary Investigation board sought today to determine what caused a big transport plane i to crash and explod.- in flames yesterday. killing 21 army men. State police, after recovering 21 charred bodies from wreckage acailered over a wide area at the fcot of a mountain, said no moi.- were aboard the plane, though It could carry 24 pas-engers The plane, formerly used by Am erlcan Airlines, had been convert-1 ed from commercial to army use, and waa taking the men on an un-1 announced mission. The crash brought to a total of ; 36 the army men killed yesterday In airplane accidents. Nine were killed when a consolidated 824 bomber crashed near March Field. Cal. Witnesses said the transport crashed shortly after noon. They saw it dive toward the mountain, a wing fly off and a tower of flame rise ao It crashed. The pilot seemed to have been fightlug her in the air." a wltn- ss said "(Ince. I thought he had it straightened out. Then it made the final dive." The scene of the crash was the coal mining community of Premier. W. Va., three miles southeast of here and a few miles east of the trl-state border of Virginia. Kentucky and West Virginia Eight victims were identified as tlTurn To Page Column 21 Report Is Given On Scrap Rubber Drive 127,854 Pounds Os Rubber Collected Walter J. Henderson, local oil company representative in charge of the rural campaign in the scrap rubber drive, reported today that a total of 30.514 pounds of the scrap rflaterial wax collected In tho three-day drive. Mr. Henderson commended telephone exchanges, county highway workers, county commissioners •nd others who aided In the drive, completed last night Witts the first salvage drive only completed a few wVeks ago it was feared by many that the new scrap rubber drive In the rural areas would not result In a heavy collection. Mr Henderson however, expressed the opinion that the rural drive could be deemed a complete , success. ItMM Lb. Total Joseph S Anderson county chairman and Clarence Zlaer. city ( chairman, reported this morning ! that a total of 12T»5< pounds of , I (Turn To Cage 5. Columa II

Commission Is Established To Try Saboteurs Roosevelt Sets Up Special Commission To Try Eight Men Washington. July 2 Il'Pt President Roosevelt today set up a *pe< lai military commission to try the eight Nall saboteurs who were apprehended last week after they had landed on the east coast i from submarines. The military commission will consist of seven members presided over by Major General Prank McCoy. It will sit in Washington, meeting July 8 or a* soon thereafter as practicable Coincident with the announcement of the establishment of the military commission. Mr. Roosevelt signed a proclamation "to deny to certain enemies in time of war access to the civil courts " The White House. In an accompanying statement, said the proclamation "applies only to enemies who have entered this country since the outbreak of the war for the purpose of committing hostile act* against the government." Prosecution of the eight saboteurs will be conducted by attorney general Frauds Riddle and the , Judge advocate general of the army Mr. Roosevelt also named the I defense counsel Col Casslll* Dowell and Col. Kenneth Royal) t It was understood the death penalty would be sought for the eight would-be saboteur, Arrest 20 In Caribbean Defense Command Headquarters, Canal Zone. July 2 — (UP) — Lieut. Get: Frank Ani drew*, commander of the Carib- ' bean defense command, today dis- , closed the arrest* of 20 persons (Turn To Page 2. Column 4) Robert H. Heller Heads USO Drive City Chairman For Drive July 13-18 Robert II Heller, member of the •state legislature, real estate ag- nt and former newspaperman of this city, ha* been named chairman for Decatur for the I’nlWd Service Organisation tlStn drive, H-rman Kruec keberg. county chairman announced tmlay Mr. Heller accepted the post and will form an organization for the city for the canvas* to be made during the week of July 13. Appointment of oth- r chairmen for the towns In the county were also announced by Mr Krueckeberg Tiny are' Brice Rauserman. assistant cauhler of the Hank of Berne, chairman for Bern*- ' Lester W Stucky, president of the Eastern Indiana OH and Sup ply Company, chairman for Geneva Paul Rahner, town < lerk of Monroe. (halt man for Monroe. Clarence Smith, cashhr of the Farmer* State Rank, chairman for Preble. William Noll. Spanish-American war veteran, chairman for Pleasant Mills The county-wide canvass will be launched eimultanei usiy In all i ommunitie* and one we>k w|| be devoted to an intenaive drive to raise the county’s 12 3'W quota. The USO Is strictly a service or(Turn To Page 8. Column •> Electric Current Off Four Hours Saturday City electric current will be shut off early Saturday morning, from 4 to 8 o'clock, during wnich tim* nec*s*ary connections will bo made at th* switchboard. M J. Mylott. •uperintendeut. announced today.Service will be resumed at 8 o’ clock, ao that those Industrie, which will operate on the Fourth of July will have electric energy to ( carry on operations

Tells House Os Commons War In Egypt In Balance; Says 50,000 Men Lost In Battles

Battle For Egypt Is Raging To Climax As British And Germans Seek Knockout Blow 11. . - — By United Press > Th»- battle for Egypt raged to n , ■ climax today with the outcome still | in doubt despite Axis claim* of a I break through on the fluid desert . I front at El Alamein on the 60-mile • road to Alexandria naval base. , Roth the British Eighth army tin- - det Gen. Sir Claude Auchin'eck and the Nazi columns under Field Mar- •! shal Erwin, Rommel were striking • . for a knot kout with all of the pow•i er they could muster and it appear- >| ed likely that the loser would have ( little or nothing left at th- end of the main iwttle which began Wed- • j n»-»day morning. United Pre?* staff corresftondent Richard McMillan • I reported from the battlefield that " preliminary shelling started Tues 1 day inotniiig. ' The British communique, cover-j Ing Wednesday'* dwelopniwnt* ' only. wa» encouraging. It said that "i Rommel's attack* had been tepuls- ' ed in ’he first stage of fighting ex- ' cept for one tank thrust which broke through the defensit post- ' | lions, These tank*, however, were 1 later detested and al du»k Wednesday night the British described 1 the results .i* "Not unfavorable to i U 4 ' The communique ul»o said that British units were fighting some 17 , I mile* west of the Alamein port- ' tions. indicating that Auchinleck was striking offensive blow* a', the enemy rear and flank The fluid nature of the front and the running type of battie that Auchinleck wa* fighting was regarded a* encouraging to the Hi iti i*b but at the *am« time R'lmmel wa* attacking along the coa»t am! , also circling along the Q.ittaia depression to strike at the British i south flank Sand storms were rag- ' < mg along the battle front. This morning, the German communique claimed dial these maneuvers had been succes.ilttl and | that the All* assault forces had broken through the El Alamein region and were "pursuing" ’he Brit-1 ish toward the Nile Delta and Alexandria. The Axis claimed the capture of El Alamain. These claimwere not otherwise sulHttantiated. although the enemy communique* j have been b-s* exaggerat -d than I usual in regard to positions in the • Egyptian davance. if the claim of a break through should be confirmed, it would not necessarily meiu that the British had lost the battle but (Turn To Page 2. <'<dumn D —o _ Henderson Requests Increase In Funds Controversy Rages Over Funds In 1943 Waahing'on July 2 tl'Pi Price administrator !a-on Henderson. in * stormy ***«ion of a senate appropriations subcomniittee, requested today that the gloup raise I*l3 fund* for his office to tK1.000.000 Instead of the t 75.000.000 voted by the house Henderson told a closed meeting of the committee that the house I cut in fund* for the office of price administration mean* a reduction 1 below what hi* office is now doing under the price control "inundate” 11 of congres*. He would not authorize the in- | ference. however, that prices could not be kept under control with the fund* voted by the house The controversy over price con- | 1 trol. farm prices, wage sublHiatlon and taxation has been brew- , Ing for week* But statements - and speeches by official* last , night, sharply criticising fongress { for failure to cooperate In the pro , (Turn Te Pag* 8. Column

Russians Deny German Claims On Sevastopol Terrific Battling Is Reported From Crimean Naval Base Moscow July 2. Il’Pt—The Red army buttled furiously today to - turn back powerful German attack* In th- street* of the Crimean naval base of S’-vastopol and on the southern flank of the Kursk front where Axie troops were repulsed with T.ottu dead and several him tired tank* damaged or destroyed. Encouraging new* front the Kursk front followe Axis claim* that Sevastopol bad fallen ami that the remnant* of the gallant garrison tiiat underwent an unbelievably terrific battering for 25 day* were trapped on the narrow Kheronespeninsula. Soviet source* denied the Bla< k Sea base hud fallen but admitted the German* were advancing slowly and in *om>> places ha<l managed to break through On the Kharkov front the Red army reportedly wa* holding and : beating off furious atta<-ks in whi< b the Germans were Hiifferlng Immense lomo-s betause th y Wele being compelled to u-e latge force* in close formation Red Stat said lit one itistam e i I German division, afiet preliminary (Torn To Page 3. Column C> o - Local Man’s Mother Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Flora Fry Dies Wednesday Afternoon Funeral service* will be held Friday afternoon foi Mrs. Flora Fry. 72. of 25”2 We|»*er Patk av<- , nue. mother of Henry Nrireiter of ( this city, who died Wednesday a 112 .to "p. tn at her residence in i Fort Wayne Death followed an illness of five week* and wa* attributed to carcinoma of the liver. Mr* Fry wa* iMirn near Roanoke in llu.Clngtoi, county and had lived 'a Fort Wayne for 22 year*. Nhe was u member of the W<-*t Cre.ghton Avenue Church of Chist The deceased wa* well known here, where she had visited many time* with her son and daughter-1 in-law, Mr and Mrs. Henry Neirelt er. and her lifelong friend Mrs Florence Kohl* Much of her life! wa* spent on a farm near Hoag land. Survivors other than the son tn Decatur include the .i'J*l>and. George Fry. one daughter. Mrs. Irene Hohman. Fort Wayne, on • step daughter. Mr*. F. C. Bolyard, one stepson. Clarence Fry. both of For’ Wayne, four brother*. John Bolinger of Tulsa. Okla . Edward of Bird.vllle. Ohio. Geo-g,. <>f Custerville. Okla . and Jesse H ilinger of Waynedale. and one grandson. Thoma* Hohman. Fori Wayne. The 4>ody wa* removed to Mun(Turn To Page 3. Column 4* No Defense Classes Here This Evening Classes in the defense engineering training program will not be held tonight W Guy Brown, local representative in charge of the classes, announced today Paul ( Schultx. who was drowned Tueeday night at Bluffton, wa* a member of the school and bi* h-otheru are also enrolled Regular classes ' will he resumed Monday

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Confidence Vote Is Given Churchill; 25 Votes Cast Against Government Leader Ixitidou. July 2 -tl'l’t Prime minister Winston Churchill won a vote of confidence in the house of commons today after a dramatic *pee<-h in which he said the costly battle for Egypt wa* "now in the balance" but decaired hi* confidence that "the genera) strength of the United Nation ha* greatly Improved" in PH:' The vote wa* 475 Io 25 after the prime minister demanded "a decision one way or the other without favors, either for myself or for the government but sustaining the government or changing the government.'' In hi* speech. Chtitvhill admitted that: The Axis armies of Nazi marshal Rommel had advanced 400 mile* acrosn the desert and were approaching the Nile valley after battle* In which the British lost s’t.tnm men anti large amounts'of material, including 230 tanks out of 30it in one battle, ami suffered an entirely unexpected tiefeat Tobrnlf. The British held superiority in im-ii. artillery, tank* ami airplane* at the start of the battle for Libya and in all the total* sent to the middle east amounted to mote than 950.01*1 men. 4,50<i tank*. 8.000 aircraft almost 5,000 piece* of artillery. 50.000 machine gun* ! slid more than lOO.ihh) vehicles. Th- balance of naval |*>wer in the Patlflc has been definitely altered in otir favor ” Although the summer is half gone. Hlth-r ha not been able to stair hi* m.iji.t ttffeiislve against Ru-*la, which ha* been bolstered by 2.ut'i' British tank*, and "the Russian* will surprise him ' again a* they have In the past A Japanese invasion of Australia would be "most hazardous" at present and the Allied watchword through the southeast Pacific I* “attack." The army in India is "larger than ••ver before in history" The vole of confidence in Churchill wa greeted by loud cheer*. —o— - —- Nome Omitted From Married Men List The name of Jerome Geimer »a* omitted from the list of married men In yest-rday'* *•!••< five servile contingent Geimer wa* one of in married men In the group — -0 — . 50 New Slate Police Officers Appointed — Richard Sutton One Os New Appointees Indianapolis. July 2 —<UP> -Appointment of 50 new state polio* officers, bringing the etrength of the d» part men t to 3m<. wa* annotin<ed today by superintendent of state police Don F Stiver. The group wa* the second this* of fifty men authorized by the 1!M1 general assembly The first clasa wa* appomt-d last Keptember Trooper* were selected after competitive examinations and a two month's training tour»e at Culver military academy They wIU lie aanigned to important defense areas in various parts of the state. Among the trooper* apisdnted and .msigned were: R:< hard Y Button. Decatur; Eat I Lawrence Hiatt and Edward C. Rigg*. Marion, Jacob L. Bsrott. Lebanon. Gale De Lon. Kokomo. Char Ina W Blum and Charles Llewellyn Enoa. Huntingtou. Lioyd D. Hlckerwou and Ralph Powell. Pera. Ray C. Byroad. Harry J Luck and tTtsra Ts Pag* 8. Column 8)