Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1943 — Page 1

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■cific Naval ■lie Still In Lative Stage ■ Deportment Says ■oponesc Reports Os K ss es Exaggerated ■ ny I'tilled Pres* ■ ... 1,,, nuv.d attempt to in the Solomon* W plu.o* of widely. ■.... . •-• <-ngag*inents. . > f iling when the Jnpane’* force* | position] Bl J... ■;> ini" “ big-scale battle. |E, fuhliltK "till la in the ■KL.y ph,.--. the navy de hhoiding detail* p there have been both sides. ISE ... J u p. aren't *0 reticent ..,.1:0- have been broad -■• imperial headadding new dam ~i Vnerican losses jßj. ( jji-.-i The latent Jap . -ha- another American bon sunk and still j J m.i«* d That * on top jKf V.itial Jap report that we >. 4 -;..»hip> and a cruiser ■ t >. ..| d onage to another *ll more cruiser* idand. The island is . -oath of Guad.il own navy, however, has - I.iim* as grossly |K leasts also list me. destroyed by during taid New inland And they claim l< at'oks on Phoenix s east of the SoloUse !<-' month, caused dimage .. . i’-elf. Amer lean c- i<> 'inning their mopp ■■t; -or. 1 Henderson field Idled h" more Japs ami th- Bm i?i river to a point •• of Tassafaronga ■ >...M- miles West of HenL 4 iilio- was Used hy the te l reinforcements, f oies have hit the Sis Guinea Island again. Kll mil of their big ■ r.<i:i:u-u Horne SS Jap* A .nd under gen Arthur have hammered ami liases over a wide th- -ninth Pacific — from i. ■ -|. to the northern h-ast one Jap wai tsm .-.I during an attack Britain iris nd. Ui-nta. British bomb- ■»"»< fir-* in Jap InstallsRrlied.iiing 25 miles from the Jap held port which is id a British ground »• o Idle Bulletins ®»W»r B tcn Feb. 4—(UP)— administrator Ickes extending |h« pleasure ■ : "l ben to the entire counB* lut he recommends some M**‘C»tion of the ban for resin oit producting areas. ■ itednd F.b. 4—(UP)—Un'"‘d reports have reached y* «*«t 75 Allied ships are f ' n ß to leave Gibraltar. |B**»*y for Algeria. The B*' w frontier dispatches add B* K Umted States ships. B* cs-rymg troops, entered from the Att» dawn Tuesday. Feb 4—(UP)— ForAnthony Eden jU*** <he house of comtoday that a statement B“* war situation will be B* •’ the next series of sittT *'« would indicate that r M '"'»ter Churchill will •oaach himself—next Feb. 4— (UP) — B? "*rman controlled Vichy B* M X« the Russians are more power Into W*’ tiatties raging In the ■* Udoga sector near Len B* v '«hy says the fighter * increasing in violence. READING TKIRMOMCTCR K 1 ’"' * BJ Km -—- ” KJ* at 42 B* **• . 42 WtATHIR u "'«ht and slightly

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Goebbels Worried Over Nazi Workers' Morale London, Fob. 4 (Up) The Nasi propaganda minister. Paul J<m*ph Gonbhels. apparently Is worri•*d a>bout the moral*- of German war workers. Speaking a*, a factory. GoHbbels told workers that he visited them to make sure they were juat ax determined as Natl leaders to fight until victory bad been won According to the Berlin radio, the Nasi story-teller -warned the Workers that they would lose everything If Germany were defeated. Hint Rumania Seeks Way Out Os War Growinq Hostility Reported In Finland • By United Press) The misfortunes of war are creating new cracks In the Europe that Hitler built. A United Praaa report from Ankara hints that Itumanla Is looking for away to get out of the war. The Turkish minister to Rumania has returned ht>mr suddenly after an interview with Marshal lon Antonescu. the Rumanian dictator. He is believed to have with him some peace prcpoxal which the Rumanians hop.- Turkey will transmit to the United Nations. , Reports in the Turkish capital say that Antonescu is beginning to despair of Rumania's position. Rumania la estimated to have lost 1.••00.000 men In killed, wounded and captured In Russia. Growing hostility to the Nazis also is d ported in Finland, at the other end of the line along which Hitler so confidently staried his drive into Russia. The Finns are said to he seething with anger over the recent statement by reichsmarxhal Goering that the Russian winter war with Finland in lf*3f» was only a bluff And there are Indications of ad ditional repercussions. President . Riato Ryti. at the opening cf parliament. expressed hope that the Allies would understand Finland's | position. In Germany radios have warned ; that drastic new decrees will be Issued within a few days to mobilise every possible person into th* war effort. Thousands of business letablisiim-r.ts will he closed and their w.-kers drafted Into war jobs. Balkans Worried Ankara. Feb. 4. -(UP)— A wave of anxiety Is reported sweeping the Balkans following the cuuJereuce between Prime Minister Churchill and President Ismet Inonu of Tur key. Bulgaria, especially, is said to have been bard hit because it wae playing up to Turkey. Reliable sources say the conference intimates that Turkey believes Ger(Turn To Pago 3. Column 4) 0 Docket Is Called In Circuit Court •_ I I Scores of cases were left off the docket, others were set for various action and some for trial In Adams circuit court this morning Judge J. Fred Frucbte called the docket this morning before a number of members of the Adams county bar association. Those present Included attorneys John !.. DeVom. Hubert M. IJeVoss. Hobert R. MeClenahan- Henry B. Heller. Nathan C. Nelson G. Remy Bieriy and John T Kelly. State Senate Passes Union Checkoff Bill Checkoff Dues From Company Paychecks Indianapolis. Feb 4 —<UP»- The Indiana senate this morning passed on third reading a bill which would permit the checkoff of union dues from company paychecks The labor bill now goes to the house of representatives for setion The propossl wss Introduced by Republicsn Benstor Edward B* ard-*-ley of Elkhart and actually was offered by Democratic Senator Charles Flemming of Hammond Flem mlug Bid bis fellow legislators ••These companies heretofore have said that union checkoff was against their policies but now thst tbta thing is under wey we sntlct pate a drastic change The measure would repeal 'he UM acta of the gaaaral aaaembly in reference to assignment of wages giving tbs employers the right to make deductions on wsges fcr certain stipulated purpose, to eluding cbnritlea and mm profit orgaataattoas aa well as salon dues

Allied Airmen Blast Axis In Mediterranean American Bombers Raid Sicily Ports; Enemy Vessels Sunk By United Press The Allies are hitting the Axis hard from the air In the Mediterranean theater. American Liberator Immbers have attacked the Sicilian ports of Medina and Palermo by daylight. Docks, oil tanka, a power station and a big ship were damageii at Messina, which is a naval base. Results of the Palermo homhlng couldn't be observed by our pilots, hut the Rome radio admits severe damage and says IS persons were killed. Rome claims four Allied planua were shot down. Imt the Cairo communique says all our planes returned safely from the two attacks. Meanwhile. American bombers and fighters attacked the airport at Gabes, which now is reported to be German field marshal Rommel's headquarters. They also strafed Axis tank columns, trenches and trucking lines around Maknassy and in the Ouseeltia region. Th* London admiralty announces the feat of five British submarines in destroying at least 10 Axis ships In the central Mediterranean in 'he past few days. Three other enemy ships, two of them transport*. were damaged. The admiralty says the transports were so badly battered they probably sunk. The admiralty denied a recent Axis claim that one submarine was sunk by eannonflre from an armored patrol car. Nine of the *hlps definitely de stroyed were Axis supply vessels, carrying war material to the enemy forces fighting in Tunisia. (Turn To Psge 3. Column 3) — „

First State Bank To Offer Extra Service Extra Hours Friday For Plant Workers To accommodate the hundreds of factory employes and their families. the First-State Bank of this city will render a special service on Fridays by remaining open an hour and one-half, from 4 to 5:30 o'clock. Theodore F. Giallker. president, announced today. Closing at 2:30 o'clock on the regular schedule, the bank will reopen at 4 o'clock and will give the extra service periods to factory workers and their families in th* transaction of their business All dt-part'aents in the bank will l>* open, Mr. Graliker said. Due to the long work schedules maintained by a number of industrial plants, many employes find it Impossible to get to tbe bank during regular business hours For this reason. Mr. Graliker announced, an extra one and onehalf hour service will be given on Friday. The schedule will be Interrupted next week however, fa-cause Lincoln'* hlrthdsy fall* on Friday. » legal holiday when the bank must close. Tbe service may lie transferred to Thursday. Most of the industries Issue < their pay checks on Thursday and Friday and the latter day wtH accommodate the largest number of patrons. Regular customers of the bank are asked to do their bunking during tbe established work hours. - ■ -o 1 ■ Fortress Survived Blow Os 15 Zeros With The Allied Forces Somewhere In New Guinea. Feb. 4 — (UP)—-Fifteen Jap Zero planes hit the flying fortress with everything they had But it still wasn't enough, for the big American plane came through the first *afely after knocking down at least two of the attackers. The fortress, piloted by lieutenant Arthur Curren of Staten Island, New York, was on a reconnaissance flight over Ra4»u! on New Britain Island when tbe battle staried. For two long boars the Zeros pounded at the big American *h)p to a running fight. They quit only within sight of j New Gaines And Current brought the fortress down on two engines and with one wing badly torn by enemy fire. One of tbe Jap Zeros was shot down by navigator Paul BagnM of Milwaukee. Bombardier Hatton Wall of Buena Vista, Georgia. got the other.

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Report Sea-Air Battle Here ' - 111 J ... ■. . * s o, O. • Bay cap* mm Vjjnheixi. j ■ £\ Jo afl? Q Another great sea-air naval battle between American and Japanese forces Is raging in the Solomon Island area, according to a Navy an nouncement. Tokyo's report on the battle fixe* the location a* In the vicinity of Rennell island, about I'm miles south of Guadalcanal, although the United States has given out no information a* yet.

41 Men Accepted For Armed Service 14 Are Rejected, Two Others Held Thirty-one of the 57 men who took final selective service examinations at Toledo. Ohio Wednesday were accepted hy the U. 8. army. It was made known last evening. It was also unofficially reported that 10 were accepted by the U. 8. navy and held aver until today to be sworn into the service. Two. Roy Frirdley and Ervin Bchwartx. it ie reported, were held over for further examination and 14 rejected. Those accepted by the army: Buri Townsend. Jr., who wa» named acting corporal of the group which leaves here February 10 for active service: Harrison Hakes. Brice Diehl. Edward Eichenberger. Robert Goldner. Leonlel Davidscn. Richard Frauhlger. Harvey Birch. IJoyd Kltson. Mark Wagner, Lewis Brown. Warren Burk. Kenneth Parrish. James Moser, Ned lllesen. Warren Augsburger. Weldon Steiner, George Ray. l>-onard Morrison. Robert Dull. La Verne Stetler. Char!)*) Truesdell, Arthur Zitrcher, Arthur Thieme, Virgil Webb. Glen Dubach. Lewis Bertsch. Paul Wolpert. William Huffman. Ralph Addy. Paul Wietfedit. It wax reported that Steiner. Hakes end Diehl were accepted for limited service. it Is known that LaVerne Kitchen is one of these accepted hy the navy. Kitchen informed his par ents In a telephone conversation last night that he had been accepted and would take his oath today. He eald he would likely be returned to Decatur late today. No Information was available concerning those rejected. Colter In Navy I*ate today Earl Colter, father of Richard Colter, a menrtier of the contingent, said that he had received word from his son. saying that he had been accepted for the navy and expected to be home this evening.

French Township Lad Is Seriously Injured Yoder Child Injured In Freak Accident Jerry Wayne. 3. son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Yoder, of French township, is In a serious condition at the Adams county memorial hospital, suffering from Injuries sustained Wednesday afternoon In a freak accident The little tot suffered a possible skull fracture and brain concussion when struck by a piece of Ice. Although no one witnessed the accident, it to thought that It occurred while the father was engaged In shoving Ice from the top of a 30-foot silo. When the Ice struck the ground. It is thought that a shattered piece struck the tot on the upper forehead His father looked over the top of tbe silo to see the boy. lying unconscious on the ground. He was taken to the office of a local physicton and then brought to the hospital. It Is thought that the large piece, which probably weighed nearly IM pounds, did not strike him. The father suffered a sprained back and leg injuries when he leaped from the silo to bis haste to reacts the boy The tod reportedly rallied to regain seml-consciousnes* this morning, but his condition Is stiU contidrred Mrioai.

Give Extra Time To Enter Essential Jobs Indianapolis. Feb. 4—(UPl—Selective service registrant* affected by the new rulings on non-defer-able occupations will have at least SO day* In which to enter war-es-sential jobs. Indiana'* state selective service director, colonel Robinson Hitchcock, nays that the new order will not become effevtive until local draft boards reclassify registrant* after April 1. He add* that draft regbtrants not engaged In essential jobs will receive an extra 30-day deferment If '.hey register with the United States employment service. Colonel Hitchcock has not yet received the new directives. However, he expresses aasurance that local Itoardx will temper firmness with common sense in applying the new regulation*.

o Stimson Says Convoy Losses Are Reduced More Supplies Are Arriving in Russia Washington. Fab. 4 — (UP) — Secretary of war Stimson reports that iend-lease supplies are getting through to llucaia in incretmed quantities. in his weekly review of the war. Stimson explains that convoy losses on the Murmansk route have been materially reduced, and that the railroad system in Iran is being rapidly developed to play an important role in carrying supplies to tbe far eastern battle-front. The secretary sees great significance in the lack of German air strength in Russia He says there may fa* three possible reasons for thia: First, we may have over-esti-mated the German capacity for producing aircraft: second. Germany may be suffering from a severe shortage of aviation gaaol'ne; and third, the Nasis may be gathering their air air force* for an offensive action of which we are not yet aware. Turning to other bat tie-fronts. Stimson declares there hasn't been much change in the north African theater In the last seven days. He reveals that Tripoli harbor Is rabidly being prepared for Allied shipping And that American and Brltsih planes already are using Axis-made airfield* in the city. Cooperation among land- sea and air forces in the north African theater, he say*, is perfect. Stimson say* there has been little ground fighting in the south(Turn To Pag* 3, Column 3) Q. .. Eisenhower Warns On Criticism Os Allies Allied Headquarters. North Africa. Feb. 4 — (UP) — A sharplyworded memorandum from lieutenant general Elsenhower warns his officers not to engage in unwar ranted criticism of any ally. The general declare* that any American officer voicing such crlticim will be subjected — and we quote —To “tbe direst punishment that I can possibly inflict administratively.” Objector Ordered To Report Sunday Clyde Steele. Ikited a* a mem ber of tbe Jehovah Witne** sect and claasified 4-E. has been ordered to report at the local draft board at 4 p. a. Sanday, February 7. it waa anaounced today by tbe board. fie to ordered to leave Monday morning at o'clock for Big Flats. New York to enter a civilian work camp.

Hitlers Army Os Caucasus Is In Dire Straits As Russian Troops Converging On Rostov

United States Bombers Again Raid Germany All-American Show As Warplanes Bomb Northwest Germany •By United Press) United States heavy bonvlierfl today carried out their second major air raid of the war on Germany. It wax an all-American show with United State* fliers manning all the guns, bomlnucks and cock-pit*. The targets were in northwestern Germany, but no detail* ar- revealed. This ta the-second American air raid upon Germany in eight days. United States plines bombed the big German naval buse of Wilhelmshaven. Emden and other points in northwest Germany on January 27 In their first assault on the Reich. Today's American assault followed a smashing RAF night raid on the great German submarine and Indusirial center of Hamburg. Returning Britluh fliers say many large flrtsa were started in Hamburg. Germany's second largest city. The RAF lost 16 planes in the raid, which could mean that up to 300 or more aircraft participated in the assault. Tons of incendiary and demolition bombs rained down on the port. And it was iudicatvd that the British planes met stiff opposition from anti-aircraft gutut and poxsMtly night fighters. The Hamburg raid also is believed to have caused cancellation of a speech by Nazi propaganda minister Goobbels. Report* reaching London from the continent say the Nazi had herded people all over Germany to their loud *peakers to hear GoebbeU speak from k Berlin war factory. But with the RAF on the wing. Berlin and all other European radios went off the air. It was the 95th raM on Hamburg, and Tuesday night's attack was the 112th on Cologne. laiat night was clear and starlight over the Dover Strait, and the RAF bee-lineJ to the target area without Interference from the weather man. It ia indicated that the Germans were alert to another attack, since Hamburg has been raided twice in the last five nlgths. German planes dropped a few bombs last night over the coastal area of northeastern England, at the cost of one plane. Little damage is reported and no casualties. o O— Fred H. Schamerloh Dies This Morning Allen County Farmer Is Taken By Death Frederick H. Schamerloh. 69. retired Allen county farmer and a native of Adams county, died this morning at 3 o'clock at his home, ■southwest of Monroeville, Death was caused by pneumonia and followed an illness of only a few day*. Mr. Schamerloh was -born in Union township on April 5, 1673. the son ot Mr and Mrs. William Schamerloh. He had resided in Madison township. Allen county most of hi* life. He was a member of the St. Peter’s church. His widow. Sophia Lehrman. survives. Surviving also are three children: Paul and Della at home and Pvt Ed of Camp Howie. Texas; twoels tens. Mrs. William Bowers and Mrs. Fred Koldeway. both of Fort Wayne. Three sistens and a brother are deceased Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:10 o'clock at the home, four and one-half miles southwest of Monroeville, and at 2:N o’clock at the 6t. Peter's church Burial will be in th- charch cemetery. The body will be returned from the Zwick funeral home to the residence Friday morning and may be vtrared there until time for the services.

Wide Divergence On Pay-As-You-Go Plans Rumi Insistent On Skipping '42 Taxes Washington. Feb. 4 (UP)—N»-w nowerful ouppori developed today for putting Income taxes on a pay-as-you go basis, hut there was no meeting of mind* on the method. House speaker Sam Rayburn, in his first public announcement on the subject, urged quick action by the hotwe on any plan agreed uponBut witnesses before th* house ways and means committee were as far apart as ever from agreement. Beardsley Rumi, whose pay-as-you-go plan would forgive all 1942 taxes, iiwtoted that his method wax the best to get income tax payments on a current basis. The treasury is opposed to skipping an entire year's taxes. Rum!, a New York Banker, termed a* unwkie treasury recommendation* that last year’s levies be collected over a period of years. Such a proposal, he told the house ways and means committee, violates the principle of taxation according to aibllity to pay. Committee chairman Doughton of North Carolina disagreed with Rumi on his ekip-a-year tax** plan. He totaled that it would be bad business to cancel tax debts for those able to pay. Meanwhile, there's a mild form of consternation sweeping through government circles following the new wage demand.) put forward l»y (Turn To Pag* 3. Column I) 1 ■ O" " Says Steel Shortage Hampers War Effort Senate Committee Makes Blunt Report Washington. Feb. 4.—(UP) The senate committee investigating tiewar effort says th,* steel shortage romwi very close to being the chief stumbling block in the war production program. In a blunt report tn congress, the committee puts the blame for the shortage squarely on the aimed forces, the big steel companies and the war prcductloti board. Say* the committee: “Our fuel oil and gasoline shortage*. our farm machinery shortage, and our housing difihnltlex could be relit ved If siltfii lent steel were available.” Then the group go** on to charge the armed forces with seriously mid-r estiinatlng the amount cl steel needed to meet war conditions. The big steel companie*. says the report, held up pioductlon because they wanted to prevent any expansion that might affect their control of the industry after the war. And the WJ’B is blamed because I: delay*.! ,-utivrrting trie ste*l Industry to a war basis. The committee concedes, how ever, that an expected output of SO.OtMUMW ton* of steel this year Is I a trein-ndous achievement. And it 1 adds that present proape, ts for ill- I creased production now may faviewed without undue alarm although not with conipla:ency —. ——o New U. S. Destroyer Is Launched Today ■ New York. Feb 4 —(UP)—Uncle Sain has another new destroyer. The Kimberly was launched today at the Staten Island shipyard of the Bethlehem steel companjr. I It was sponsored hy Eble Kimber- , ly. of Bonita. Calif., daughter of the late rear-admtra! la*wls Ashfleld Kimberly, for .whom the ship waa natn<-d. e McWhirter Rites Friday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Geneva Methodiet chut ch for Mrs. Mary McWhirter. «S. a native of Geneva. wfa> died Sunday at her home in laraantville. following a stroke of paralysis. Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery Death occurred at the home of a eon. Forreet. where she had been residing The huaband D. J. McWhirter, la a retired Geneva station agent.

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Moscow Says Nazis Beginning To Show Signs Os Panic In » Efforts To Escape London, Feb. 4.—(UP) —The German official news agency reports the Russians have landed forces and established a beachhead north cf Novorossisk on the Black sea coast. — Bin i i By United Press The German army of the Caucasus I* scuttling through the last few escape holes remaining to it under a tain of Itimsian bombs and shells. It's Dunkirk in reverse for Hitler's troops, who only last summer crossed the northern f'ancasns and planted their battle flags almost within th* sight of the Caspian. Tfieir escape route through Rostov Is narrowing rapidly. Russian troops are converging on Bataisk. only !•• miles south of Rostov. Farther south, all German i*etreat routes have been cut off — except by roads since the Russians seised the last railroad line leading our. Ixmdon says the nails have only •wo possible means of getting out: one at Kerch, the other at Yeisk along the sea of Aiov. And unconfirmed reports from Moscow say the Germans already are crossing the Kerch straits under heavy attack from Huvslan planes. Rostov is not the only German strong point directly threatened by the tireless Russian offensive. The German armies in the eastern Ukraine are faltering. Russian troop* are driving on the strong point of Kharkov after capturing th<- rail junction of Kupyansk And they are believed on th* verge of capturing Voroshilovgrad, in tlie Donets basin. The Moscow midday communique says the Nazis are beginning to show signs of panic on the Kursk front. The Russians have driven to within 21 miles of Kursk and have cut the railroad from Kursk to Moscow. 30 miles to the north Their point of greatest advance is more than 300 miles west of Stalingrad. And at the place where they cut the railroad, the riisxlans have crossed the line which Hitler's men held' .ill last winter. About ISO miles to the south, th,- Russians have smashed across that line at another point. They are heading in toward Kharkov from the southeast — and in one sector are only about 6" miles from the city, which is the main anchor of German defenses in the Ukraine. These Russian forces have driven K 5 miles into the Uk*»lne. And they’ve reached the heart of tne tlcn mining anti manufacturing area in the Donets basin. Still farther south, below It*tov. Russian force* are advancing after cutting the railroad along whi«h German troops have l»een fleeing from the Caucasus. The Russian success has all but trapped an enemy force estimated at between loO.lXig and 2U0.000 men The Rtisshns hav*- driven Io within 27 ntlTes of Rostov south(Turn To Pag* 3. Column !>

Bieriy Resigns As Governor Os Moose Quits As Governor To Become Secretary A new governor ot Adams lodge 1311. Loyal Order of Moose, will be named next Tuesday night to fill tbe unexplr<*d term ot G. Remy Bieriy. Mr Bieriy recently relinquished the post to assume that ot secretary when Solomon Lord, incumbent. was forced to retire because of iiiness. The newly elected governor will serve with the other incumbent officers until April, when new officers will be named Mr Lord, a veteran and active member tn the order, will be honored on Tuesday night. February 16. when a class of candidates will be initiated to his honor. The class, which will receive degree work conferred by the local todge degree staff, will b« known as “The Sol Lord class “ Approximately a acore of candldldates have already been signed for tbe ciaM. Initiation of thia will boost the membership m the order above tbe 7M mark.