Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1942 — Page 1

We Must Win the War! AU Else Is Chores!

Vol. XL No. 158.

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Axis Offense Drives Onward Jo Don River Advance In Russia, Nazis Driven Back In Desert Fiqhtinq By I'nited Pre** | The Axis offensive drove e.-ist-1 (ward to the Don river sector in Southern Russia t inlay despite juonntinff to*'*« in tank* and men coiintErstiack that .-nmk th rough the ■ cel front again*! the Nazi flank a Although Allied desert fighters wd powerful aerial squadrons had hrnai tack the enemy drive broagh Bgy t toward the near Let. diapat ches from Moscow acknowledged that the northern end >f the ptn< rs pushing perhaps ’,OO Bllea| eastward from Kursk ti rough the Russian t'kraine tocard the Cu ucasus had created ani 'Xtrenely seilou* situation. The lermans Said they had crossed he Don, established bridgeheads <nd trapped large Soviet forces. The chief hope for Immediate elief waa Indicated by a report n the Garman high command's I ommunique, saying that poweru! Russian forces led by big air nd tank units were attacking lorth of Orel, which might mean hat the Red army wa*. opening a dg comtei ittack designed to ■reak into the German flank and Ither weak' or break up the dfenaivo |h>ni Kursk toward the foroneah Rector of the river Don. The Rnwl.ms did not mention he Orel fighting but Berlin said he Gertsan vere holding In a big attic that itill was In progress 5 A counteroffensive in the Orel actor *OUld be the logical move t Soviet marshal Semyon Timo llto again -t the German breaktrough on the IM-mlle wide turak-Khark .• front. where %arheads were pushed eastward 0 the Don in bloody battles. The .lertnan claims of establishing * widgebead- on the east bank of he Don. probably near Voronezh, routd mean they had reached a | oint about 130 miles east of ; lursk. _ Moscow dispatches, however, “ (Turn To Page 5. Column 1) "lame Dr. Jones To bounty Health Post Berne Physician Is Appointed By Board Dr. Dalle; D. Jones, of Berne. >day was appointed Adams courtr bill th officer, by the county succeeding 'aimer Ktrher. who resigned to dn the United States army. Dr. Jone- will serve the unex ired term of Dr Eicher’s. which tns until January I. IMO. Dr. Icher was commissioned a caplin ta the medical corps and is ow totaled at Camp Rucker. Ala. I an agreement with the Dr. Jones will di•er the Bel'l work and quarantine utles of the office, while Mrs. aimer Richer will continue to o the e*i< • work and make the idsthly Mat:st leal reports to the urte board of health. Dr Richer was appointed to the ort iart January lie resigned how ho Received his commission. | Dr lone'- is widely known iroughout the county For many ears he and his brother, the late? mMm Jone*. conducted an I ■Seo ih®ei!i. Dr. Jones served War. was com first lieutenant when the servlie and when was a major e it UOW i lieutenant colonel in » nurtfew reserve, but has not era eatiud on account of ais age e is ?! Meats old. vSErraturc reading DRMOGRAT THERMOMETER S:tt a.- M W:«0 a. m « Neon ..... •« „ t:«B »m. . . 70 ► m. - 74 Weather •"•♦♦•red ehewers and thunderteem* M south portion this aftereon and tonight. Cooler in eenrt and worth portions this afterro aM ten i ß m.

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New Court House Light Catches Fire Court house attaches had a few f exciting moments again this morning when one of the new fluores-1 < ent lights “shorted" and caught j fire. This time the fire was in the ireorder'd office. The fin- depart- 1 'mi nt was not needed Several i weeks ago the department made a j run to the court house when one of I i the lights In the treasurer'* office I j caught fire. o Contingent Leaves For Army Service Another Contingent Leaves This Morning Rain threatened for a time to mar the send-off of the second contingent to leave for army exams at Toledo, Ohio, within six days. Pictures were taken of the group and the men climbed aboard a bus and passenger car between showers at , on early hour this morning. Bernard Joseph “Bun'' Braun was , named leader of the group. Those who left: Vaughn Edward Merrllat, Kilis! Jacob lilrschy. Carl Charles .Moellering. Robert Morris Spiegel. Richard Edward Tonnelier, Donald William Borne. William John Kuhnle, Jr.. Harold Roger Shady. William Andrew .Miller. Chris C. Bury. Harold William Billington, Guy Lavon Koos. Elmer Voder, Harry Dale Riesen. Arthur Leonard Bohreti. Thomas Eugene Mosser, Robert j Paul Andres, Harvey Fayrtt .Mann, Jack William Zizelmati Merrill Kdward Spitler. Orval Jamia llabegger. Harold Leon Bailey. Arthur laigan Reinhard. William Bowman Melchi. Bernard Joseph Braun, Frank McClymonds. Henry Gart Dierkes. Robert Lee Owens. David Eugene Lybarger, Robert Kdward Reinhard. Donald Josefus .Miller, Clifford Wayne Reynolds, Arthur David Kipfer. Roy Herman Martin la-hrman. Raymond Weston Bodie. Jerome John Bosse Facta about the contingent: All but Merlllat. lilrschy and Bodie are from the third registration and have numbers beginning with 10.000 . . . lilrschy and Kipfer went as 1-A.O'a or those who are listed as conscientious objectors to combatant duty . . . Decatur men in the contingent included "BUI” Kuhtiie. Jr, local McMillen cm- | ploye; the leander. Bun Braun. Koos, Bill Melchi. former Decatur high athlete: "Roney" Reinhard. Henry ‘ Hank ’ Dlerkoa. local mechanic and former city light em ploye; la-hrman. Raymond Bodie who was transferred here from Los Angeles. Calif , and Jerome Bosse, loi-al signboard operator . . . Chari Braun, who was to have gone with the group, went to Davton. Ohio to enter the I'. S. air corps last week. It was learned by the draft board . . . Ralph E. Roop, board chairman. was in charge of Mending the contingent . . . Taking a photo of the group was almost eliminated because of the rain, but the men ' (Turn To Page S, Column «» — . o - To Resume Defense Classes Here Tonight All classes in the defense engineering training program will be resumed on regular schedu’es. beginning tonight, W. Guy Brown, local representative for Purdue university. announced today. p Trustees Set Date For Annual Picnic ■ Annual Picnic Set Sunday, August 16 The annual picnic of the Adams county trustees will be held August 14 at 1 o'clock in Lehman's park at Berne. Date for the event was sot thia morning by the trustees la the monthly meeting at the c.'fces of Lyman L. Hann, county acoool superintendent. The trustees also set September 3 as the regrttration day for students in the rural schools in the county and September M as the opening date of the term Plans were made for the bearing teste to be conducted in the schools early this fall The teachers' inatltute will be held Septetube. 3. day before the opening Other routine business was conducted during the meeting today.

Senator Norris Assails Nelson On Rubber Plans Charges War Board Head With Failure To Aid Production Washington. July •—(L’.P.) — i Sen. George Norris. 1., Nob., in a hi-at.-d exchange with war production board chairman Donald Nelson. today accused him of "doing nothing" to use agricultural comi moditlea In an effort to Increase ' tin- nation's rt»l»l>er supply Norris made the charges before a senate agriculture subcommittee after Nelson had criticized and objected to legislation recommended by members which would establish a rubber supply agency. The agency would have charge of producing a national stock pile of synthetic rubber made from farm and i forest products. "This is a very unfair and tin- ' true statement,” Nelson replied anI grily to Norris' charge. "I hold you in such deep respect as a sena-1 tor that I don't like to have you I make statement* like that about I me and the organization of which I am head." Nelson told the commit‘ee he left the proposed legislation would "Interfere with, rather than help" the synthetic rubber program. He 1 asserted that construction of plants ! to use farm commodities in producI ing synthetic rubber would necea- , I sltate the use of critical metals | which "would have to be taken I away from the munitions program " The nation needs "no more then I 400,000 tons of rulnber" to meet essential civilian and war needs, he said, and "any amount above the 400,000 tons will be over and above easenua! needs " When Nelson termed the pend ing legislation "extremely dangerous." Norris asked: "What is it that you are afraid this agency we propose to »et up 1 will do that is wrong?" "It would be dangerous because ' it would tak* out of the hand* of (Turn To Page 4. Column «> Decatur Boy Scouts Take Week's Outing 45 Decatur Scouts At Big Island Camp Forty-five Decatur Boy Scouts. ■ccomi>ained by four leaders, left early this morning for Rome City, where they will spend the Week a' Big Island camp. The four leaders, aro Steve Kver-; hart. Harold Daniels, Dale Von Gunten and Eddie Boknecht Scouts in attendance are as follows: Rotary troop «i—Jack Downs. Dave Moore. Bill Freeby, Robert I .Meyers, Herman Andreas, Huhert i Schmitt, Jr.. Dick Weinhoff. Joe Daniels. Jim Roop. Robert Teeple, Kenneth Loshe. Jim Kortenber. Jack Rayn. Eugene Lyons. Robort Gage. Bill Downs. Lions troop 62 -Medford Smith. Bill Porter. Paul Bucher. Richard Saylors. Leigh Nelson. Roger Gen- < tls. Jim Cowens. Harold Nash. Bob Boknecht. Ralph Schnitz. Tel Hill. Roger Knapp. Richard KnarPLegion troop 63 — Dick Gehrig. Bill Whittredge. Jim Hart. Keith I, Gilpen. Bill W f olfe. Paul Morgan. Gene Moser. Herbert Fruchte. Cletus McManama. Richard Cottrell. Jack Reynold*. Bill Bollinger. Moose troop 64 — Lyman Hann. Jim Beery. Dwight Egly. Kenneth Roop l>on Llby of troop 61 and Freck Hower of troop 43 are working a'. < the Big Island camp this summer < o — Checks Received For Gas Tax Distribution I < “ ~” i County auditor Victor H. Eicher | today received a check for |27.!1#5.- I 56 from the state auditor In pay- i ment of the last quarter's distribution of the state gasoline tax. The i amount was about 1*.060 more than for the same period a year ago ’ but It was explained that the pros < ent dii’rlbotion covered ’he last 1 quarter ta IMI. H. Vernon Aurand. < Decatur clerk-treasurer, received a < check for ffl.MkM as the city’s ’ share.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 6, 1942.

Practice in London Streets Ri Es. British soldiers are shown practicing street fighting in a section of blitzed London. The soldier n the foreground, armed with a Bren gun. covers his comrades as they advance against the "enemy An antitank gun Is seen in the background Lying In the street Is one of the "casualties" of the battle

Annual Beet Workers Picnic On July 23 Suqar Company To Entertain Workers The second annual picnic for the beet worker* In the Central Sugar company'* territory, will he held at Sun Set park. east of in-catur. July 23. J Ward Calland. field manager and vice-president of the company, announced today Preparation* are being made to entertain 1.500 men. women and children. Food and refreshment* will be served In abundance, free to all. Three fat steer* from one of the sugar company’* farm* will lie 1 prepared and barbecued for the guests Mr. Calland. who is general i chairman of the event. Mated that the fleldtnen. their wive*, the official* and office assistants and their wives would join in nerving the food and refreshment*. La*t year’s picnic was a great success and In addition to the two steers consumed, almut <.500 !»«»«- i tie* of pop and soft drink* were distributed. The program this year caiT* for the serving of food at 10 o'clock In the afternoon there will Inmusic. outdoor events and amuse(Turn To page «. Column «r O Leqion To Conduct Military Funeral Memtier* of the American Legion 1 are asked to meet at the Legion home at I P m. Tuesday From i there they will go to the nome of I the late Ivan Shifferly to c.mdu t , military funeral rites. Aged Decafur Man Dies At Richmond William Jackson Is Taken By Death William Jackeon. SI. of this city died Sunday morning at s:4so’clock at the Eas' Haven hospital in Richinond He was born in Adams county April 5. IMI. the son of Daniel <» and Valeria Ludwig-Jackson Hl* wife, the former Ellen Crandall, preceded him In death. Surviving are the following children: Mrs Odle Bush of Boyertown. Pa.. D C. Jackson of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Catherine CrablU of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Ireta Buck master of Ashley. Mas* . Fred of Toledo Ohio; two sisters. Mrs Emma Myers of Columbus. Ohio, and Mrs Kate Brumgartner. also of Colum bus A daughter, three brothers and two sisters are deceased He was a member of the fresbyterian church Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 230 o'clock at the Black funeral home. • with Rev George O. Walton officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery The body may be viewed at the funeral home after 7 o’clock thia evening

345 Instruments Recorded In June A total of 345 Instrument ■ were recorded in the office of M * Huth ■ Hollingsworth, county recorder., during the month of June, accord Ing to the monthly report made known today Revenue on tiie ln*trum> nt* to- . tailed 5312.30 Mrs. Holliuge worth ■ I* now back at her desk la the office after a several days' absence | , caused by a sprained ankle suffered I in a fall from a bicycle Mis* Rose i ■ N'ewtwald. deputy recorder, handled all the duties of the office during i the absence of the recorder. | o Injuries Are Fatal To Peter Helmrich Adams County Farmer Dies Sunday Morninq Funeral services will ’> • held Tuesday for Peter Helmrlcli, 7*. of route two. who died Sun lay a' lo a tn. at the Caylor clinic in llluff--1 ton from complications. . suiting from injuries sustained Tuesday The aged man died from uremic poisoning, which followed injuries of a severely lacerated right leg when he was t aught in a mowing machine. He lay in the field fori three hours following the accident I before being discovered hy his 1 daughter. Anna Mr. Helmrich was born fit Rieschweiler. Germany. October 13. Im;4. the son of Jacob and Elisabeth Weidler-Helmrli h. He wa ■ married In Adam* county 4* years ago to laruisa Leimenstall, who survive*. Surviving aIM are the following children: John J. of Magley. Mrs Pau! Cable of Preble. Fred of Detroit. Mrs Bertha Wood of Ossian. Mr*. Alice Smith of Monroe, Otto of Magley and Anna at home. Two sons, a daughter and two brother* preceded him in death. The services will Im- held at 1:30 o’clock Tuesday at the home and 2 o'clock at the Magley R> formed church, with Rev David Gret her | officiating Burial will b-> in the Magley cemetery The body will lie taken to the residence from the Black funerai home thw afternoon It may Inviewed there after 7 p. m. until time for the funeral. q- - — Student Is Named To Honorary Fraternity Max E Johnson. son ot excise of- J ficer and Mrs. Burl Jotin*on. is one of 13 students at Indiana university elee’ed to Phi Beta Sigma, fresh man honorary scholastic fraternity Men elected must have between a B plus and A minus average for the finat semester of the freshman year or have attained «uch grades for the whole first year. Farm Bureau Picnic Is Held Saturday A good sued crowd heard Haaall Schenck state president, apeak Saturday afernoon at the farm bureau ptcnic. held In Lehman park at Berne A basket dinner was < served at noon.

Another Is Severely Damaged In Aleutians On Independence Day; Japanese Bases Bombed

Allied Planes Step Up Offensive Thrust At Japanese Bases In Area Os Australia Melbourne. July 6 tl'l’i Allied I planes, steadily developing their i offensive operations. bombed enemy bases over a 2.650 mile front yesterday They struck at Atamhoea. In the Dutch part of Timor Island In the northwestern zone, and the Lae-Salamaiia area and Florida Island in the northeastern zone Fighter planes drove off 27 Japanese bombers, escorted by six zero fighters, which attempted the heaviest raid on Port Moresby, New Guinea. In seven weeks In Florida island, near Tulagl in the Solomons, the Allieil planes attacked a new Japanese base at the village of Haleta. The i'lllted Nations command had learned that enemy troops had filtered Into the village recently, and a small bomber force was sent out last night to attack them The raid on Atamhoea. on the 1 north Timor coast near the PortuI gUese part of the island, also was a light one in which the Allied ' pines centered on the building ' area. But the raid on the Lae Salai mana area on the north New 1 Guinea coast was heavy The { Allied planes attacked Japanese i installations in waves and started fires throughout the target area They sh >t down one challenging enemy fighter plane and damaged foil A Twenty enemy heavy bombers, escorted by six fighters, made the first laid on Port Moresby and ' seven bom tiers followed ill a , ond attack Accurate gun fire and the prompt challenge of Allied fighters kept damage and casual I Iles light Ihe laid OH the L.*-s.ilamau.i I area wa» the third in successive days and the seventh in nine days —— o — Miss Dorothy Hoffman Deputy County Clerk Miss Dorothy Hoffman liaa been appointed deputy county i ierk. it was announced today by Clyde (> Troutm-r. Adams county clerk, am • reeding Mrs. Marie In-Bolt. Miss Hoffman, daughter of Mr ami Mr- Itt’n Hoffman of near De i eatur. has been serving as regtefra Hon clerk in the ofici- for t!l>- past two and one-half years. o Lions To Entertain Ladies Tuesday Night Memliers of the Lions club will entertain their wivro and sweethearts at dinner Tuesday evening at the K. of P home at 6 15 o'clock Heart Attack Fatal To Dale Shifferly Dies Suddenly Os Attack Saturday Funeral cervices will be held Tuesday alternoon at I 3o o’il<sk at the home and 2 o'clock at th»East Liberty I'. B church fn. han Dale Hhifferly. 46. who died sud denly Saturday at S 15 o'clock of a heart attack Planning for a picnic with the family. Mr Shifferly had started upstairs In the home, near Mon ! roeville. As he reach- d the top of the stairs he suffered the attaik. He was born in Adams county December 5. IMS. the eon of John W and Lydia Fuhrman Shifferly His wife Ruth Miller Shifferly. sur-, I vlvea. with a one-year-old child. Donnie; two brothers. Otis of Ad ams county. Vent of Sturgis. Mn h lean and a sister. Mr* Morris Brown of Wren. Ohio He was a meber of the Eaet Liberty church and was employed at tbs Central Sugar ccmpany He was a first World Wsr veteran and a memb-r of the Adams Poet No 43. American Legion Rev R D Smith of Aetna Green (Turn To Paa* », Cvluiaa 4»

F. D R. Gives China Pledge For Triumph United Nations In Pledge To China Os Ultimate Victory Washington, July 6. tl'Pl Presid- nt Roosevelt t«.day pledget! J the I'nited Nations to fight on to victory with China "to the establishment of ja-ate and justice and freedom throughout the world Tile pledge was made in a message to Chin-se Generalissimo Chiang Kal Shek < n the fifth anniversary of the battle of Marco Polo bridge near Peiping the Incident that set off the current Slno-Jap-anese war. Tin- nu-ssag. made no mention of s|H-citic aid for China At a recent meeting with President Roosevelt, Chin***- foreign minister T V. So. ng requested mor. air strength for his country The text of the president's message to KaiShek "111 the name of the people of the Ciiif-d Stat.-- your tlghtiio. Allies I in this war for lorn. I greet you on this anniversary of thy most H despicable attack on you in all I your long and noble history "The people of the I Iflted States . 1 hail you as brothers in arms In file - great and difficult tasks remaining I ' before the flee and freedom loving ( peoples of all the earth ! "We are united as n-i'ioi> and peoples have never bet re been unite-! We an- united t<; th- end that th.- common aims of civilized men ad women shall bei ome actual ' and universal. "Five year- ago. at th Marco (' irn I. 1 ' Three Youths Injured in Accident Sunday Logansport Youths Injured In Wreck Three laigansport men were in-Jur-d Sun-lay motning abom 9 30 c'clo< k when th.-ir west bound auto crashed into a tree on West Monrm- street an<l rolled over The accident m-« urred near the Inters-1 tion of Fouroe and Monrmstreets when the auto hit a tree in the lawn of the J. Im Tyndall residence. Injured were. David Bair. 21. Wil’i- Be-I IE aed Ha ley W I IS None was seriously hurt They were taken to the Adams county memorial hospital and released as i ter treatment. Harold Wagon- r. a hit. h hiking sailor, whom th.- thrw had picked I up was uninjured Bair, driver of the car. told police chief James Borders, who m | veatlgated. that he had fallen asleep at the wheel. Tin- others w- r<- also sleeping Bair said he and his two companions had driven trom their ' laigansport home Friday night to Manon. Ohio, and were on the way back when the accident occurred Th-y had n> sleep in the interim, he said, except that m-< ured while riding The car was badly wrecked and the tree wa« heavily damaged Membi r« of the auxiliaiy police aid-d chief borders in directing train, and clearing the wreckage from the street 'Cops, Robbers' Gome Is Fatal To Youth Indianapolis. July 6 tl'Pl — William Gunaril. 13 year-olj son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Gunnell. Mooresville, died yesterday at the James Whitcomb Riley Hoapltal after he was accidentally she- June 26 whilo playing cope and rob hers" An operation was performed a ebon time earlier to : emove I a 22 caliber slug from his stomach '

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Navy Announces Sub Activity In Aleutian Zone; First Report Os Undersea Action Washington. July 6 tl'Pl I'n-it.-d State* submarine*, con.inning the r.-h-n'l--* poiin.llng dealt by American forces against Japanese unit in the western Aleutian island-. have sunk three enemy de-atroy.-rs and severely damaged a fourth. th<- navy announced today. Ail four Japanese vessel’ were torpedoed on Independence Day three'at Ki-ka Island and the fourth at Aga’tu Two of the destroyers at Ki’ka sank and the third "when last seen, was burning fiercely." Th.- destroyer at Agattu was stink. The communique was the first disclousure that American submarine ar.- operatitne In Ali-'i'lan waters. Damage on enemy forcre reported previously was inflicted by army bombers. Previous announcements have told of a Japanese cruiser and a transport being sunk, and of hits being registered on four other cruiser*, a destroyer, a tiansport, a carrier and a gunboat. The navy's The navy's communique today came a few hours after William I Zimmerman, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, revealed that nearly I.’hio civilians har« Iteen evacuated from the wvstein Aleutian and Priliilof Islands He said. . however, that the evacuation was 1 on a voluntary basis and that he knew of no order proclaiming the area a Zone of military operation*. The substantial one day hag of three des’roy. t- on July I brings to 6'l the numlier of Japanese warships sent to the bottom of the Pa--1 cifjc by American forces since Pearl Harisir In addition, 16 war--hip- h»v<- Iteen listed as proluUdy sunk atiii 60 or 61 have been dama g .-it o • Youth, Uncle Fined By Justice Os Peace Willa.il la-hlii.iti. 11. so.i of Mr. and Mr- Eh Lehman of Berne was i fined II" and cos’s and th- lad'* timle. Il.i' vey Biiky w a f.n i 41 and < st- by justice of peace i II Mii-.'ltnan Saturday. The lad was fined for driving without a ■ an .inll.-.-ti-.-d driver to operate hi* | lic<-n<e li:s uncle for pe mining i car They w. re arrested by officer I M.-ndi-nha'l of the state police. o - Mrs. Aqnes Fisher Injured In Wreck Mrs Ago- Fieher. 33. wife of Homer Fisher, route three, Decatur suffered several fracture.! rH.«, numerous < ut- and bruise* shortly after noon today when a car driven by her son. William. Ik. crashed into a cement abutm.-n*. onehalf mile north of the Den- school , house, east of this city. county memorial hospital Her son She is confined In the Adam* ,-si ap>-d with superficial Injuries. —o Plans Ordered For Bert Smith Ditch The county commissioners In s ssion today ordered Harley Ehrearn, county engineer, to prepare ■dans and spe< iflcatlons and an estimate of lost, for the construction of the Bert H Smith ditch, which affects about 2.000 acre* of land tn Monroe. French. Hartford and Wabash towMhips. The viewer's and < ngitieere reports rec mnunded the construe- • tlori of the project These reports were flb-d today with the < ommiss loners The proposed improvement begin* west of the MRE cemetery and runs to the Wabash river The main brato-h of the ditch is about three miles in length There are three laterals in additkn to the num channel Engineer Ehrsam will file his report at the August meeting of the board and coortrnctlan is expected to get started next tall.