Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1942 — Page 1

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Ijlies Discuss Lssia Plight Meet I Diplomatic Leaders I Reported Arrived I from Four Nations I Jn \mr 5. 'VPt Reports that diplomatic and mill<>f '•><* <"•’«’ I <». !• discussing matters of t'X-’ utv. !>• y Importance a. P* -u-Btative. of the Inited I Great Britain, fighting I? 4 *- »»'l aM " f * hl * ll J I L play vital ,h, ‘ form ' ; ■** j .....Hid front In western |L had no* arrived and it . I B ,|‘.a!>'l 'ha' a conference of 1 ■ . mein, nt was imminent if it 1*],,,. -If -'in ted. on further I Russia or combied Allied laai-rr both In. radio- -aid that it wm now |.rt,ten.<l th ‘t I’t ime Minlst. r (’hurclull had arrived In I , Th'- Axis insisted that I, A Steinhardt. I’nited ambassador Turkey, wao IL Ottilia way to Moscow I I T - ;p especially Well Informed I, att-r outlining the trw- pH**” of Ku,wla ' w,,< * ,m|l ' triiiy today I Sinh is the military layout I Lt<,h .oufronv Hie diplomatic and , I l.tj-y expert- now assembling in ' |C t ,,l’ i. useless to apecuEr. f.ir the moment on the larger ELihiliti't of this gathering of L,... They will certainly take Ifcleerount mom than the limned |a> military situation. For ex-L-y. the future < onsequencea of 11. .army • advance are more aerIwfiiun Its immediate results." I laoar those known to be in Mol- | I gas sere Adm. William II Stand. I ley ad Sir Archibald Clarke-Kerr, |t!e American and British ambasslUri Maj-Gen Follett Bradley, | I find State- army, special re pre-1 leta'ie of I’lesident RooseVelt; I I iron Philip Fuyinonville. Am J leitM leasc lend delegate; Roger I ■ C*'-*-V lightltir Fiance represent-I »nd M.iJ Gen William Stef lta*>:. representing the N rweg- i Ikl toiemnient In evlle. I A I'nited Press Muicow dls-i Ipuhuid that Garreau and Stefliter had 10.-n In Moscow for I ':n>< and that tlff- American ■ aadßrttlsb embassb a Insisted that I it- amta>eador. were there on I (Witte business I I' wm repotted that Gen Brad ley and Adm Standley were guests 6 'he Russian army at a Moscow dbUer last night. Ay->pos of th Daily Telegraph bnt on the importance of discusstar the future consequence* of the forman Caucasus advance. Alla radio broadcasts reported that American reinforcements, including the bluest tanka, were flowing into ftypt. where Gen Charles lie Gaud,, the fighting French leader, tmted yesterday De Gaulle was n><t«d to confer with lighting framh forces in Egypt aa well as with the British command. formany disclosed that Field X*'»iui Hermann Goering. No. 2 i had held a t woday confer- ** with a big and moat Import I •Stroup of German leaders who ' Scituted wrt „( HU |, r , m ,. (1,,, ! f**- bsmcß. so only German defense com-I *»•»(• and Field Marshal Erhard [ ■*h of the air force but such di- *•* BgUrra as Paul Joseph Goeb J* Propaganda minister and *W« bitter enemy: the Ger- ** ministers of interior, econ- ” ■ »nd aimaments and muthe labcr front lender, a "*»*Matlve of Hitler '• charn elAl,rw| Kosennberg. I. ader for waDoceupied territory In Rus 1 fol-Geu Kurt Dnluege. secret f . an< l “protector" of the territories and peasant lead among the conferees "*®a»y said the conference con . . "topical war-economic and sT 11 ’ ol,,kal «H*»«lons ' »h sources suggested that , s 7?*™“ ** ••• ““ urgent one of a sewers internal T» Page 1, Column 31 TtMPtRATURI RFADIMG WMOCRAT THCRMOMKTER ‘ »4 73 WEATHER (j **** r *d showsrs and thunder this afternoon. Warmer In ‘ *"d extreme east portions , J ” ,er "oon Not much change ‘**P* , ature tomgnt. *** -——— NOON _ EDITION

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7> 7~ r" ~ i 1 I kn -■* • 1 bit w I, fi ' l I OhH s ' "Mr ikff jJw —-1 JJj f Ts. (X 4 / B VyJsL*4 ffwO* 1 k&fll|W >S| .53? ® BJw The wlwtrir <h:Hr. Sugar Registration Closed In County • Estimate Os 20 Lbs. Placed Too Hiqh — The last or hundred* of Adam* county residents registered last night at three high schorl* In the county for their canning sugar. Glen Kill. Incal rationing administrator. stated that no total registration figures will b ■ available for a few days The ration board office will remain closed each day neat week until 1 p. m. to enable the office personnel to compile the flgun ». The estimate of 20 pounds per registrant, which wax relea* d ye« terday. was said today by ration board officials to have been too high An estimate of IS pounds per person would In 1 more accurate when the Anal flgtfres are computed, the officials stated ■- O — Unde Os Decatur Lady Dies In Ohio Mrs. Eugene Runyon of 1»»3 South Fourth street this morning revels- ( cd word of the death of her unde C. C. Hoffman, aged so. of Orville Ohio. Mr Hoffman was the last rr ■mber of the Fred Hoffman family of Orville and a brother of the late i Fred Hoffman of this city Funeral services will be held j Monday aftenma at 2 o'cloc k itEWTi In Orvilk. |

Pictured above. is tlie District of Columbia jail where the eight Natl saboteurs await the penalty of the military court which tried them One is an exterior view, showing soldier on guard, the other is "death ch.iinbei " 1.. •!• > trie • tail in th* W'.i-.li ington. Ii < jail, made available t< military authorities in connection with carrying out the death penalty for the Nazi saboteurs. SenteiK) will l>«- pronounced by Pn-sldi lit Roosevelt Fifteen Scouts To Beaver Island Group To Leave Early Sunday Fifteen Hoy Scouts from Decatur with five adults will leav- here early Sunday morning for Beaver Island In latke .Michigan for their annual week's > uting. All Scouts who make the trip must have compiled a required record In their work during the past y ar to be selected. They will leave here about 4:30 a in Sunday, stopping enroute to attend < hurch services At Char levolx Michigan they will ferry to the island, located about 40 miles out in the lake. The S< Uts who will make the trip are Dick Wemhoff. Ted Hill. Jo<- Daniels. Joe Kortenbi-r, Bob Meyer. Bill Freeby. Roger Gentis, Medford Smith. Dick Gehrig. Jack Downs. Bill Downs, Jim Cowens. Norman l.ismardson. Bob Boknrcht. 1.. a:li N- I- ■ ’ Accompanying the Scouts will be Albert Reber, who will serve as cook; Dr Ben Duke, as physician; George Rentz, as driver and Scooters Lloyd Cowens. Steve Everhart a.id Lowell Smith. o Probe Os Tribune Is Ordered By Biddle Chicago Aug « -tVPt-A federal grand jury investigation of the publication by the Chicago Tribune and two other newspapers of a news dispatcli alleged to have * contained confidential millthry Information was getting under way j today. It was ordered by attorney genera! Francis Biddle In Washington , last night. He said it would be (rawed upon a preliminary investigation by the justice department which had been rec >tnmended by the navy Biddle said the Inveatlgatlon was of "certain newspapers.” Justice depattment officials i said the newspapers were the Chicago Tribune. the New York IMIIy New. and the Washington Times j Herald

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Decotur, Indiana, Saturday, August 8,1942,

OWI Calls For Sacrificing To Assure Victory Warns Americans Could Lose War; Cites Great Need Washington. Aug ft — (I'Pt The office of war information bluntly warned Americana today that "we could lose this war." It suld the nation, an a whole. Is not yet "ankle deep" 111 the global warfare against the "fanatical imn" of the Axis and declared: "There Is no doubt that the American people mean to win this war; hut there is doubt that all of us realize how hard we are going to have to work to win It. "We have done pretty well, hut pretty well in not enough Noth Ing will lie enough till we have won." Prepared by OWI director Elmer Bavin ami his staff. It was the first major, all-emliracing statement issued since Davis took the job of developing "an informed and intelligent understanding" of the war's status and progress. Described by Davis as "a review of the general situation." it said that: Production, measured against military needs, "is not enough" for victory and that June output of planes, tanks, naval vessels and most types of artillery lagged "slightly behind schedule.” Merchant ship sinkings "far exceeded new construction” during the first half of 1942 and "even if shipbuilding continues to rise and sinkings to decrease. we shall probably be well into 1943 before we have as much merchant shipping as we had on De< 7. 1941." It Is "certain that we are not going to win without heavy losses of men" and the nation had lietter prepare itself for that eventuality "our Allies have carried most of the load and we have not given tlu in as much help as we led thmn to expect." "Popular pressure" for opening a second front in Europe—or elsewhere can serve "no useful purpose" unless military authorities approve It. Tremendous plant expansions during the past two years have given the nation "more factories than, at the moment, we can use not too many, perhaps, compartTurn To Page 3. Column 5> Drill Oil Well On Geneva Farm Bern*. Aug 8: An oil we'l was shot this week on tin Roy Keller farm southeast of Geneva, and prospects for a good flow of the black gold are excellent. The well was drilled to a depth of 1.024 feet and when it was idiot the oil and emoke spurted hundreds of feet into the air. The oil w.-ll was drilled bv Te l Yoder of Linn Grove, with a water well drilling outfit. The project wm financed tntlrely by a group of Berne men headed by Jacob Mo-s.-r A rli h oil field is believed l> rated in that vicinity.

County Ration Board Scene Ot Bustle Os Activities

Prior to January, 1942 the word "ration" wa* little more than a fairly new word in everyone's vocabulary. The "ration Imard" was hardly more than some new fangled notion of thia Second World War Today, however, that picture has changed completely The woid ration ha* grown to mammoth significance in every American homo and the ration board i» almost the hub around which revolves tha community which It eerves. In Adam* county this Is no exception. aa was shown today in a survey of the pondurous dutie: thrust upon the board here now known as the Adam* county war price and rationing board. In January. 1942. Glenn Hill. I Bernstein and Earl B. Adams of Decatur. Ernest Stengel and E W Baumgartner were named to this new board. Mr. Hill for a time did practically al! of the clerical work himself. The other members were called in only to "par* on" and sign certiflcatn* for the one item being rationed -new tires The the clerical burden grew and a clerk. Mias Eileen Bleeke. was employed Passenger cars were! added to the "ration list" Then in | succession came sugar - that hardest of all rationed products—then to new tire* and tubes were added truck tires and tube*, farm implement tires and tabes, recaps an I retreads for pa*sen«er car* and

With Company fel Gerald W Vizard, former coach of the Pleasant Mills high school, who resigned to accept a position | with the McMillen industries In this city. One of his major assign ineiits will he the direction of the employes athletic program and supervision of the playground adjacent to the McMillen home j development project | — • Gerald Vizard Joins McMillen Companies Former Coach Will Direct Plant Proqram Gerald vV. "Doc" Vizard athletic I < a< h at the Pleasant Mills high I i s< hool Him e 1933. has resigned his ! , position to become manager of tin Enmployes' Service Department ' for the Central Soya company and McMillen Feed Mills plants, here In that capacity he will direct all social and athletic activltiuu which are sponsored by the companies f i factory employes, and will have charge of the contact* maintained by company officials and workers, with former employes now In the nation's armed services Company executives eaid that | Mr Vizard's duties would hlso In < hide the development ami U-e of the park maintained by the comj ponies for employes and their famI files The (Kirk is located adjacent to the McMillen home develupmen' I auction, on North Second street > 1 extended Mr. Vizard will also asoisl in the management of the Federal Credit | I'nion ami the Mi Millen <oii-eiva tion club The companies have for several year- had teams in the Ifocatur industrial softball, basketball and bowling leagues, all of which will be continued and expanded under Mr. Vizard's direction "Doc” Vizard Is a native of Pleasant Mills and a graduate of the high school th. re He received his A B degree from Wabash college j (Turn To Page 3, Column St — 0— Telephone Service Is Disrupted Momentarily About 6'tn lin<* of the Ci'izens Telephone company were out of commission for alsrut two minutes lat< this mornit?!'. when a workmen set a can on a "bus" line which shorted and blew out a fuse. The disruption of service was only mo- ! inentary.

trucks, latter came the widely heard-of but scarcely seen No. 2 war tire" new cars, bicycles, typewriters and price ceiling records, statistics and tocords soon followed. What next? Gas rationing? It ha’ been indicated that gas rationing m not too far distant and that this, too. will be handed to the ration board. That board, wfliich in January had a chairman and four oth*. partly active members with one clerk, has grown hut hardly in proportion to its duties. All of the original five men. plus a new one R. O. Hunt of Geneva, work many hours each day. signing records, checking DPA bulletins, etc. The clerical force ha* been boosted. In addition to Miss Bleeke. Mr* L R Zinsma.ster, Mi-a (Toe Liniger. Mt*s Joan t'owetM and Mis* Rosemary Spangler have been working fulltime plus adder* hours, especially during sowar registration periods, in an attempt to keep pace with thmyraid at detail* that rationing em- | brace* Salaries of two of the girls are paid by the county, the othera by i the office of price administration (OPAL The board members themselves are among th* government's do!-lar-a-year men ■ without the dollarl (Turn To Page 6, Cutumu l| I

Gandhi Sends Conciliatory Letter, Receding From Plan To Deliver An Ultimatum

Fate Os Eight Nazi Saboteurs Still Unknown Incidents Bring Belief Six Moy Be Electrocuted Washington. Aug 8 Il'Pt Intense activity today al the Dis-j itrict of Columbia jail where thej eight Nazi saboteurs an- held in-f 1 dilated that Important develop I ments were Impending regarding : their fate possibly electrocution of most of them in the electric chair No one outside the military ‘ knew just what was taking place ' | and they dedim-d to talk It was ! | entirely possible that officials ' were preparing to carry out death ! I sentences believed to have been ! Imposed on at least -lx of the gestapo-t rained saboteurs who] were landed ill June on Plot id.■ j and New York coasts from sub ma t ine'. About 111:15 a tn a clergyman either Catholic or Episcopalian | was admitted to the jail llej was not Identified by reporters | and Io- refused to answer any, questions. Brig Gen Albert J, Cox. pro- i vosf marshal of the Washington j military diatrlct. and charged i I with carrying out the as yet offi dally secret sentences, arrived at I the early hour of 6:30 a in. He was accompanied by his assistant. Maj Thomas M Rives. Rain streaked across the jail I entrance as two army sedans and an army scout car rolled up a | little later At least one officer | ; wa- in each vehicle. At S'3o. Cox. Rives ami two j other army officers met in a cor j rldor on the first floor. They | conversed briefly and Cox was I overheard to say In a firm tom "All right." Then they entered all elevator I which goes to the fourth floor where the death chamber Is located Thi< two officers soon drove! away, but returned at 9:27 a. m. ! Nupt John Green of the district ' jail arrived at 9 2o and a! 9 4<>! he entered the elevator A group of soldiers then came down the stairs. Shortly before 10 a in Cox came down to the first floor again He refused to say anything Some reporters Were permitted Inside the jail and a' least 25 mote stood outside As far us could be learned, no one except the military had seen the saboteurs today. They have 1 teen held In a separate wing of' the building from which civilia; <Turu To Cage 3. Column C> Will Fill Vacancies At Monroe Meeting Democrats Plan Meet At Hiqh School Nomlnstii n of candidates for, town-hip trustee in Jefferson and . Blur Creek township* and advisory board members in Preble. J- fferaon i and St Marys towm-hips will tak« . place at a meeting of the Demo-1 cratic central lommittee. Thursday erasing, at the Monroe high s< hool. i G Remy Bicrly. county chairman , announced today Samuel Clelland. of Fort Wayne | Demos-rat candidate for congress I from the Fourth dlstrii t ami Judge Roscoe <'. O'Byrne of Brookville. > have been Invited to speak The county, township and city | candidate* will attend. Mr. Bierly , stated Organization for the November; election will be planned and a pro-, gram adopted to aid in the reg is : •ration of eligible voters and mail-: Ing ballot* to absent voters A < special attempt will be made by the i committee to get a ballot in the hands of soldiers and sailors Three members are to be srl-ct ( ed for the St Marys township ad visory board; one each tn Preble and Jefferson townships The can-1 didates fur the township prst* will j be re< unintended by the precinct | committeemen from their re«pe< ! five districts and the BMBiaations I l-iSmo-d by the central committee. |

Only Nine Rejected In Army Examination Accepted Men Leave Here On Auqust 21 (inly mm- of the men in the contingent which left here Friday for Toledo. Ohio to take army exam--1 illations wer. rejected, an unofficial check disclosed this morning All of the men returned lisst I night Th se who were accepted I received tlo- <u t oin a 11< I Islay fur-' , lough , With Howard Christian Steiiry as their acting corporal. th>y will leave here on the morning of August 21. Those accepted, besides Steury are Theodore Bunner. la<i Bentz. Frank Burg. r. Louis Koeneman. Frank Shout Etm-r- n Mo er MelI vin Sprung! i. Chester Martz. Jacob 1 Musser. Jaim-e Baumgartner. Ali bert Kukelhan. lairls L< Fever. Ivan Sprunger. Albert Miller. Robert Day, Thurman S< hi> fersteln. w <,-n i>. 1,1 Vai • Flu*- k... i Orio-ll Sprunger. Richard T<-»-pb-Edgar Biiltemeier William Buck. I Tillman Sprunger, Emerson ladr I man. John l(i< kord. Harry Bleeke, , Rob* rt Banta. Gerald Hart. Slier- ■ man Liechty. Jerome Flueckigei Those who were r<-jected are: I Warren Harden. Albert Bixler. Homei Sho.inak r. Orrin Stultz. Marcus Parr, August lleiinaun. Arm-1 Slders. Michele Riccardi. I Russell Vanm-tt. Th<- two contingents g ing to active duty w-ll leave lo re within a tout day period Thore who took the exam on Monday and were a< - ccpted will leave on the morning l<d August 17. o — Railroads Carrying Heaviest Assessment Utility Assessment Figures Announced Wa-hlgton township, outside of . tin- city of Decatur, benefit* the i most from the distribution of the | -t.Ce assesHimnt of lailroads and lllilitii-s in the county, the table ill the county auditor'- office show Os the 53.1 14.947 placed on the tax duplicate, Washington township is < redit.-l with 1616,410. The state's assessment last year was f 3 021.0*7. Tin- three railroads carry the heaviest property assogsmenL the Erie being the highest with |x62.771 The Pennsylvania Is next with 1 1567.43<> and th- Ni< kel Plate third 1 with an assessment of |.537.592. O’her large ments include i the Indiana S.-rvi..- Corp. $375,990. Michigan Gas Tran-mission Corfi. 1 $212.500 and the Citizens Teh--lihone Co. of this city. $208.653 The assessim ire are distributed in the taxing unit- in which they are located and ate as follows: Townships Blue Creek. $|0.222; 'French. 59.510 Hartford $25.5i»2; 1 .lefb-rson. s|o.!>‘". Kirkland. $222. 21*. .Monroe. $247 750. Preble. s39* i 122; Root. $363,765; S’. Marys. $451,319; I nion. $7,239 Wabash. $151939. Washington. s»;ifino Towns Berm-. $123,372; Decai tur Root, $35,5*0; Decatur-Wash-ington. $316,124; Monroe $15,595. Geneva. $56 3'ol Wi’h receipt of the state's asi sesameat sheet, the final valuation figures on whioh tax«w will be paid | Hext yewr. Were ! ompieted by the ' county auditor today o Captured Jailbreaker Makes Suicide Attempt Auburn. Ind Aug * tl'P> | The condition of W J McCoy. 4*. I recaptured Allen county jailbreakI er. remained "Seriou- today at i the DeKalb county hospital where ;he was taken last night after -lashing his throat with a safety : razor in his cell in the ItrKalb I county jail Mi-4'oy. accused of issuing fraud ' ulent chwks. was one of five men , who slugged a jailer at the Allen < ounty jail Tuesday and escaped i over a jailyard wall H« was re- ■ captured early last night by Dej Kalb county sheriff Artus Coyle and marshal Reign N< hondelmeier 'of St Joe while walking along the | B * O railroad tracks east of I Auburn near the Ohiolndiana line.

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Makes Last Minute Bid For Negotiations In Effort To Avoid Catastrophe, Struggle l B mbay. India. Aug (I Pl ! Mohandas Gandhi, receding from this plan to deliver a seven-day ultl- ! matum to the Biitish Indian gov- ' ernment on hidependem e. has I drafted a most conciliatory letter I to th.- Marquess of Mnlithgow. the I viceroy. In -i last inimde bid for ' m-gotiati'.ne. W'-ll Informed quarters said today Nationalists of the ail India con- ' gress r-olillllittee inei-l today Io pass their resolution falling for mas- civil disobedience Ulllese 111 ,dia is grant'd iminediat#- indi-peti dem e But quarters dose to Gandhi, who is delegated to lead tin- disobedience campaign, said he not only would act “step by step" so that an ' all-embracing campaign woiibl not be started at once, but that in a ' letter already drafted he addressed the viceroy in "most i-onciU-atory most friendly and pleading ' terms." It was expected that tin- r- «ilution would In- passed I day or toI morrow and Gandhi p'.anm-d to send his letter "Tlonday At first In- proposed Io i-mloei-it with the resolution < ailing for disobediem as ths- alternative to I independence now But well Informed sourci-s said today that he now plans merely to send the letter ho there wollhl In"no ImpreHHlmi of a threat, or even intimation, of a struggle. "It is a letter from a sincere friend to a sincere fri« nd." an in ! f rmant said, and added that it was intended to avoid a catastrophe in event that the viceroy's reply was : unsatisfactory. Await Siberian Attack I Washington. Aug 8. ll'Pl • | Military experts raprewwd In lie! I today that th- i-mej.vp... t,->i JapI anese attack on Si 10-ria may be ; made soon unless the German- suf | fer sudd'tl, major reverses in their battle for the Cam-asm (Rep Warren G M.igmi-on. D. I Wa-h . said in Seattle l.i-t night | that Japan and Russia already are i fighting an unde, lared war ami It w.i "comm n knowledge" that the I Japanese recently sank a> veral Ril-siali whip- in th* Far iff* i Recent Japanese military operation- In both tin- north ami south Pa< Iflc. Washington ob-ervers said, .ippr-arr-il to be designed to str. ngthen the flanks of their great Ily extended lines rather han .is prelude to hew aggressive moV<M in those areas. , Preweiit Japaiies!- activity in i New Gum-a. they believe. Is 111. . tended to ! onsolid.iti their position on the Island whir h Is a logical stepping stom- for any Allied of- . fetinive from Australia At the Maine lime, th-- presence of sl/abl. .lap.iiie-e force- in the w. -ternmoHt Aleutian Islands was -til! bs'keil upon mon- as an effort iio prevent I N uni from u-athlng Ito~ei.i byway of the north I'aclth or Bering Sea 'han pri-|Ki rat ions for an eastward thru-l Sime the Japanese move into the Aleutians appeared to be timed with the start of tin- great German drive on the Caucasus, it was felt here that a Japan--e drive against Sllw-ila might <a>ine at any time, to miticide with Nazi advance(In tli< other hand, if the German drive ele uld falter the JapanI »--e might delay the anthlpat d Siberian venture Another factor to be considered I is the plesetlt political upheaval In India It was suggested that it the Jajuiii-se become convinced they <an munt on the Indian populace for support, or active interference with the British, they might move |<n India All liglita on the fiw floor of the •jail .x>opt tho-e in the vestibule and those over 'he telephone switchboard wen- turned off at II:l'i a. m Reporters had been wa'ch(Turn To Page 3, Column <) ——— -o - ■ ■ —• New Sexton On Job At The Catholic Cemetery Joseph Coffee, well known reaid- , ent of this city, is the n< * sextM at the St Joseph's Catholic cemetery. succeeding ,ir Lengerich, who is no* in the 4' S. Army. William I-ose. Jr. aecretary of the cemetery board, announced today. Mr Coffee and family have moved to the residence on the cemetery ground* Mr Lose *a* elected secretary of the board, following the resignation of Adrian Wemhoff.. I who served several year*.