Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1942 — Page 5

>®*Y. AUGUST 4,1942.

I (jjese Army Planes Dive at 680 Miles Per Hour I _ TTT'.-T7T- a ;7 • ' U I h //,v; . ■ fife * / J Bk ♦ I i &. lumm Ilk - farnfr | ■f f &■ 1| Al * d~ ■ ■fl ■£7- " '-' .’■ r-'<'W* "QUS-- •' 5 • ? •■-.•' -i w w ■■*__ tn production for th* U. 8 Army Air Force*, these Republic P-47 plane*, known a* the "ThunI I iZkp!?'-' ! •U-metal fighter*, have done 080 mile* per hour in a power dive tert and in excess of S IfKX. ner hour in level flight. Superchargers take these plane* to 40,000 feet when needed. U S. ■ I Army Air Force* photo

■WAY’S WAR MOVES ! | (Reg. U. 8. Patent Otic*) 4 | By Louis F. Keeal* | Os th* United Pre** War Deck

G.-tnin throat now is Mjuih and southeast of if "»•• «“•»**« ,efl ii-I.\ the Germans . the ix'ith Caucasus oil |K . .., v . thin (heli grasp fighting still con- - -h.- bend oi th* Don fiontbut the Russians ■K}-.-.- and are making . r ,h at gives pr.im ■^BJ. ; .ppins b. Germans short and 'he Volga 0H- . i-h the situation is |Kp, t , The Germans. <3 i-d Hutov mov-d m heavy p. inilei south of - unking tn two id« the Kuhan >..im railroad which foothill* of the perfect path i. oil fields and leaihed og< < - t the Kuban probJB* in' > han- taken Voru on niilns north of r» ad i« fantastic th. y rave reached o > line >;.--. <ns admit they Bib -"•* «nd < laim only >t p;-.| the Germane "at if- T<> the east the Ger- > I Salsk !<><• miles » shore the Soadmits a with- » positions. the Germans "■ >. >ad leading from Ixmugrad. it is for to attempt a along -trike at the flank 4 ’ "f 'he Russians In the a. a That Is more t hive due eastward -trppes to the Caa t |, r ialter iB fea> ”-I'd army at this die yeai B| fa ‘ ‘-f -"" time Wm* G^rn - ,! ■ t" attempt a third -he Strait of Kerch ' Such a drive -lie. i.-d ever since their jBB” 1 ' 1 '' () f t), ( . f or t ri . M n f It they succeeded In Bo* * »»ing In forte, th* H®*” 1 p f 'ti* Russian left wins i'k< y to become critical t> that area would ■ being surrounded ]BE“ north, and east '^B r ' rs * ! i«n „ ominous and tt apparent even tn so JPfBIJc SALK * Pure Bred Poland S'a (h!na Ho#*—4o south of Fort Wayne x<> 1 then i, mile »v mile, north of Ossian *ll* MM •®AY. AUG. 14th 11 * P *- CWT. Guod G|lu b .,4 .* ln Aug and Bepi « 10 farrow in * ‘ oid »i<b free breeding ■■lit.?'' ‘ *’ Club members fg « Boarr?°*‘ * r * •*»* feeding wuoir immersed from f >r registrauon for bl *« ]■ ' 1 * .him Be held in jo**catalofM. ■ *illard A. Henry, g a Owner 0 I L. *• SH **utoa, Aicuo&etr

i abort a time as a week or two , whether the Germans are likely to I succeed in this, the most threatening of their drives. The outcome may have an Important hearing on 1 the second front deliberations In ' London SAILOR TELLS OF (Continued From Pass 1) pressed by the men who watched .the ship go down. "You may think | those boys would be pretty hardened." he declared, "but you sure would change your mind if you had ween them then There were tears in the eyes ct all of them who ' watched the water close over her,” Ihe said. "No wonder, it was like a home to most of us. It was my i only ship in sis and one half years with the navy,” he stated. , No, he doesn't mind going back ' oot to sen. Only, he wishes, "we could wind It up and get the thing over with.” "The navy Is a wonderful place ' In peace-time." he declared, "but It'a pr< tty hard on a fellow in war- ' time You really stick close to your work.” Ehrart had been in the continental U. fl about six weeka in the last 14 months. The j rest of the time he was roving the I sea. That, of counte. waa before Hhe Islington wse «'ink Now he is on a 14-day leave, but ' half nt that time la required traveling to and from the west coast, whre he is stationed. His wife, the former Hegins Heckman, of north of Decatur. Is a graduate of Monmouth high school. She lives tn Long Beach, California, seeing her husband off on another trip and then awaiting his return lihe came homo with him on his leave. There were other Incidents which he mentioned briefly. In his own words he “knew what he was permltted to say'' and "what he couldn't." There was some menrkm about dragging hooks along the bottom of the Aleutian waters for Alia aubs these snd mon- Indicated the Coral Sea battle wasn't all for EhraH. Ehrart U a native ol Weils county. He waa a member of one ot the wel' known Ossian Bear basI* * 'UJilk WAR BONDS I 1 An Army meter trailer looks much like any other automobile trailer which may be seen on the highways or m the tourist's camps. The Army's trailers are used as | travelmg hospitals, dental cUnics I and testing laboratories. These mobile surgical or dental uruU are hauled to thetr destination and the trucks released for other m»pneca They cost Item $1 ?nn to 13 000 and weigh from Ih to B 4 tons Yea caa help P*v ter them . , help keep our Army flt Invest M lams lew perceai <d your incxns in War ie®d« every payday You car. Jem the Ten Percent Club thgouAb the Payroll Savings Plan, ar buy Bond* regulirly through the Mtwt bonk or poetoflßee L .4. fr»«» > PsrermsM

Five Men Escape Allen Counly Jail One Man Killed In Shelbyville Break Port Wayne. Ind.. Au*. 4 (UP) — Fort Wayne police said that one of five men who neaped from the Allen county jail early today had been recaptured a short way from the jail. Frank Johnson was recaptured and 1* being held in the city jail. Still at large were hl* bpither Homer, 18. who wa* being held for forgery and burglarly; Walter J. .McCoy, 49. wanted in four states on check forgery charges; Darrell fiery. 24. held on a first degree burglary charge, and Raymond Beebe. 23. held on armed robber chargee. The five jumped jailer Jake Reiber when Keiber brought mop buckets for them to mop up their cell*. They slugged Keiber and made their way Into the Jail office, where they attempted to force Reiber to give up the keys to the outer doors. Falling this, they escaped into the jail yard In back and scaled a high wall to freedom. Sheriffs' officers said that 23 other primmer* who could have escaped with the five refused to do so. and remain* d in the cell block*. One M*n Killed Shelbyville. Ind Aug 4.—(UP)— State and local police shot and killed Ishmael Dewi*. 40. of Shelbyville. and seriously wounded. Harold .Miller. 27. also of Shelbyvfle, last night after lewis aided Miller In breaking out of the Shelby county jail. Lewi*, who was reeased from the jail Sunday allegedly plotted the break with Miller while both men were confined to the jail. Police -aid lewis appeared lawt night with a ladder and climbed to a second story window which he pried open. The bars on the window opening Into the bullpen had been sawt d. Three other criminal*, confined to the jail for minor offense*, were also in the bullpen and slept through the break. Sheriff Leonard Worland said. Sheriff Worland reported he wa* Mtispicious of Lewis* actions, and post d a guard around the jail. Officer* fired a warning shM first and then opened lire when the men refused a command to halt. Lewis was killed Instantly and Miller was reported iu a serious condition. Miller was b- Ing he ld on a charge of burglary. o —— Oats Are Threshed Despite Heavy Rain Berne, ind . Aug. 4 —Such a little thin* as r*in did not keep the Joe Schindler threshing crew Idle U«t Saturday Following Thursday night's record downpour, the oat* on the Mr*. Moody Brenneman farm west of town were aboa ready to float down the Wabash river. There wm only one thing to do- get th* oats out of the water. This was done and the oats were put right through the thrrmbmg m* chine. It wa. l long tedious and wet Job but most of tb* oats were salvaged, threshed and put away to dty ketball teams - the teams that boasted all big. bushy boy*. He graduated tn 1913 Khrart knew* Gleudoa Born* Intimately Olendoti a Decatur boy. to stationed now on the Saratoga. •Mai aircraft carrier of the Lex ingtoa —but be used to be on «X» Lexington In tact be wa* cat of th* baker* under Ebrar' • supervision.

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Jugoslav Guerillas Pester Mussolini Plans Subjugation Os Slav Patriots London. Aug 4 — (UP)— Jugoslav patriot activities have forced Benito Mussolini to call a formal war conference to map plans for the ruthless subjugation of the country, it was revealed today. Axis radios made it known that Mussolini had presided at a conference at Gorizla. 20 miles from the turbulent Jugoslavia border, to discus* with his highest army leaders a situation which, he implied, was attaining the proportion! of a second Allied front Addressing the crowd from the balcony of the Gorilla governor'* palace after the two-hour conference. Muasoliul mentioned Allied plans for a second front and said the Berlin radio reported:

"There will be no second front here, and it to improbable that a second front wil be set up anywhere else in the world. The Axis I and Tripartite powers (Germany, I Japan and Italyi have the mean* to win victory.’’ Mussolini then addressed a warning to those -like the Jugoslavs—who live beyond the “old’' Italian frontiers and "still dream morbid dream*” and commented: "To those element* Italy will apply the law.” Mussolini'* law. a Jugoslav government spokesman here charged. Including the burning of hundred* of Jugoslav villages and the bombardment by the Italian battle fleet of village* along the adrlatlc coast. Present at the war conference were Marshal Ugo Cavallero, chief of the general staff o the combined Italian armed orce*; Gen. V. Ambrosio, Chief of the the general 1 staff o the Italian army; Gene. Ro- j bo*'i. commanding the army corps base* on Trieste, opposite the Jugoslav border: Gen. Coturrf, commanding the Italian army corps based on Jugoslav Slovenia, and other staf officers, Berlin revealed. Mussoltil examined the situation. It wa* Mtd. and held it to be. to a certain extent, satisfactory. He gave detailed Instructions to the generals attending on their future course. Berlin said, and It was assumed here that the result would be an even more savage campsign of Axis terorixa'lon against Jugoslav civilians in an attempt to get the Patriot army of Gen. Draja Mikallovltch to give up It* fight. According to the Berlin radio, quo'lng a Transocean News agency dispa'ch from Home, the Gorilla conference was held last Friday. How serious the Jugoslav situation was from the Axle viewpoint wa* shown by British reports that even now heavy fighting was going on near Ljubljana, Jugoslavia, only 45 mile* east ot Italian Gorilla. a leading army base, between Jugoslav Patriots and Axis forces. ALLIEDPLANES (Continued From Pag* 1) In the Kokoda area remained unchanged. with Allied and enemy patrol* In contact and engaging in frequent savage, if brief and small, scale, fight* in the jungle. A special dispatch from an Allied advanced base reported without confirmation that the Japanese In the Kokoda area were now using light mountain artillery in addition to 'he trench mo<ars and machine gun* and othe. - automatic arms. This would indicate that the enemy Intended to make a determined bid to hold the Kokoda base, which ha* an airdrome from which fighter planes could rise to challenge I

Corn Borer On Increase w im. m* m*. mb. s*v na mr ass. ■*». ••». «*• | tofU'-TTto ___ _ . ® <£•11130 a—- — — p *r< TTB> “ • — — — — ■—

"Ther. to now every reason to believe the European corn borer will remain permanently as a threat to Indiana corn crops,” J- 2 Davis, head of the Purdue university en tomology department, has Informed county agricultural agent L. E Archbold by letter. This year the borer has increased enormonsly throughout Indiana with conspicuous abundance and damage to both field and sweet com. especially evident la the central areas of the state. This situation to largely caused by the two-gensration com borers which bare developed la ceatra! iMUaaa. saplaln Davis. UatU IM7,

Allied plane* on the way to attack the Japaneaa bases on the north New Guinan coast and the Blitnarck and Solomon islands. It was revealed that in landing at the Gone mlesion, to press on to Gokods, the Japanese had used a cruiser and three dertroyer* to shell the shore line. Then guns and planes bombed, shelled and machine gunned landing places to blaat a path for Invasion parties. During thslr advance over the Buna-Port Moresby jungle trail, leading up into the Owen Stanley mountains, the Japanese used their familiar infiltration tactics, trying to surround each Allied outpost by cutting through the jungle on each side. Ones when the Allied patrols withdrawing before them cut a suspension bridge, the Japanese unhesHatingiy jumped in the deep stream and swam across against a 10-mile current. It was noted that the JJapanese uniform was different from that used in Malay* and Burma. Instead of singlet and rubbersoled sneakers, ths Japanese use i green uniforms with green net over their head* to break their facial outline against the jungle background. (Richard C. Wilson, former United Pres* manager at Manila, who saw the fall of Hong Kong, reported that there the Japanese used the green net camouflage ) The Australian and New Guinea-, native troops opposing the Japanese in the Kokoda area were fight- | ins a strange guerilla campaign on the jungled mountain slopes. Dispatches said that the ha«ky natives, trained for years in jungle fighting were proving a match for the Japanese and that with the tough Aunstrallans they were inflicting high casualties. Troops in the area were gartifled. It was said, by the support of Allied bombing and fighting planes which were conatantly bombing and machine gunning Japanese troops and supply dumps with marked euccess. An Australian sergeant commanding a native unit praised hl* men highly and said that they were eager to get to grip* with the enemy In hand to hand fighting. He said that the native* had proved expert* with new automatic weapon*, and that one man, officially a cook, got a transfer to a white combat unit because of his quick mastery of latest weapons. Another showed hia marksmanship by holding his rifle at arm’s length and hitting a target at long range.

Church Board Will Meet This Evening Th* official Itoard of the First Evangelical church will meet in the church thia evening at 7:30 o'clock. Important matters relating to the local program ot activities of the congregation and the larger program of Christian education in the community will be considered and acted spaa. Every member of the board is expected to be present. ■l■ o ' — Berne's Oldest Man Celebrates Birthday 'Berne, lud . Aug. 4 -Christian C. Hlrschy. Bernes oldest citlsen. celebrated bls 94tb birthday Monday. He was born Aug. 3. 1848. He is a retired farmer and is remarkably avtive for a man of hi* age. He walk* uptown every day and this ummer cut hi* own patch of wheat with a sickle. He lives with bis daughter. Miss Rosa Hirschy. o — Albania is smaller than West Virginia, having 17.374 *<|uaie miles while West Virginia has 21170 square miles.

when th* ffrst indications of a twogensration borer became avMsat. the moths, parents of the borers, were out laying eggs only about 30 days. Durtug that period weather played an important role In pre-' venting an excessive increase and : catrysver from year U> year Now. with two generation borers. 1 the egg laying moth* are pre*en’ to lay egg* continuous!.* for >»• days, with the weather having practkalty no control The accompanying diagram • good idea of the seasonal ex currencs of ths different stage* of the borer, says Mr. Archbold.

Army Takes Over Well-Known Chicago Hotels 1 it-V ; ‘•'i f x Ek : JUK < Sit ' ffii._x.7--’■*.. . 'Mn.'’'""lSs Chicago's famous Stevens hotel, the world’s largest, and the Congress have been taken over by the U S- Army for housing trainees in the Army Air Corps and here we see Army men enjoying their first meal in the hotel's Boulevard room, once the dining room of natlonally-famous personalities. Chicago is experiencing a hotel jam due to the Army's acquisition of the two large hotels, the increase in war Industry personnel in the area and the influx of parents and relatives visiting soldiers and sailors.

Mrs. Lewis Arnold Dies At Bluffton Mrs. Lewis Arnold. 71. lifelong resident of Well* and Adams counties, died at 8 40 o'clock this m ining at her home in Bluffton following a paralytic stroke. She was born in Wells county, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Kirkwood She was a member of the First Evangelical and Reformed church c' Bluffton and the Rebekah lodge at Petroleum. Surviving are a son. George Arnold. of Detroit. Mich., and two brother*. Charles Kirkwood of Geneva rural route and Rolia Kirkwood of Bluffton The husband, one sister, two brother* and two balf-slster* are deceased Mrs. Sarah Case of this city is a sister-in-law of the deceased Funeral services will be held at 2 p m. Thursday at the Jahn funeral home In Bluffton, with burial in the Six Mile cemetery. July Rainfall In Berne Above Normal Berne. Ind.. Aug I — The July rainfall in Berne wa* mon- than two Inches above normal, according to H M. Keu**er. local Weather

NOTICE to Our Members, Friends and Patrons We wiah to announce that this organization ha* acquired, through out-right purchase, the Community hxchangc from A. N. Sprunger. and that we will take over the huainei* on Scplemlier 1. In acquiring that plant we believe that we can announce that we will have une of the l*»»t equipped and moot up-to-date grain and iced handling plants and feed grinding equipments in the county. After September I. our headquarter* will be moved into Ihe office of that plant on Ka*t Waler street in lierne. In the mean time Mr. Sprunger will continue hi.* hu.*ine** there. To the many customer* who have been patronizing the (ommunity Exchange we winh to make the statement that we will continue to hanrfl? the brands of merchandise that you have been accustomed Io having from Mr. Sprunger. This pertains to prepared feed*, concentrate* and brands of coal. etc. In addition to these we will also handle farm Bureau merchandise. W ATCH FOR Fl RTHFR ANNOI NCEMENTS AT THL TIME WE WILL TAKE OVER. Your Continued Patronage Will Be Appreciated. Adams County Farm Bureau Co-op

observer. The total for the month was 5.49 inches, more than half of which fell last Thursday night during re electrical storm. ' The normal rainfall for the month I H 328 leches, l<s*t year In July 1.59 inches fell here and in 1940 only 02 of an Inch. The temperature ia*t mon h wa* sliabtly above normal-

PEACHES FOR CANNING—ANOTHER LOAD Wednesday Morning (■eorgia and Carolina Elbertax. C. S. No. 1. 2 1 , inch size. Finest quality to lie had. Same kind we had last year. Price Will be Low! We also have plenty of Cans and Supplies. KROGERS

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27 MEN ACCEPTED poral by army official* at Toledo, and will be In charge of the contingent until Its arrival at reception center. — o ■ -. ...... Life take* on new interest when we forget self and think of other*.