Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1943 — Page 2

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Four Billion Fund Approved For Navy House Committee Approves Amount Washington. -Mar 3 — (UPt — Th* 1 house appropriation'' committee approved a |4 2<io.o>m "(»'• supplemental appropriation for the navy today. But commute* members cautioned against the armed service* drawing too heavily upon the nation* manpower supply. Hear admiral Randall Jacobs, chief erf the bureau of navy personnel, had testified before a subcommittee that tin' navy expected to total 2.900.000 office* - aud enlisted men by June, 1944. The committee reduced a proposed clothing and -mall store fund from 3147.W0.000 to Il'H'.U'H',two The committee said the navy’s man expansion program should be held to such minimum number as may be coiisisteii* with reasonably potential demands. It conceded that the additional funds might have to be approved later In all, the committee cut the navy's supplemental appropriation g19g.000.u00 below budget requests. | Testimony by navy personnel* chief tear admiral Jacobs waa| made public that the navy expects | casualties amount ins to IV percent of its total personnel. In the same testknouy. navy secretary Knox; told the subcommittee that an acuta* labor problem is holding

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back prime military operations In Hawaii. incidentally. Knox revealed during the testimony that Waves make better desk workers than the men in the navy. PURCHASE OF SIRENS (Continued From rags I) placed on tile. Copies are to he made and submitted to the councilmen before Anal approval is given i Prevent at the meeting were .Mayor John It Sults, clerk-treasur- i er H. V« ruon Aurand. city attorney . Hub«<r M IX'Voss agd councilman 1 Adrian Burke. Harry Hebble. Dor- 1 phus Drum. Joseph Brennan and Alfred Beavers, in addition to sev- , eral departmental heads. —— —-o ACCEPT LIONS CLUB (Continued From Pago 1) Graber. .Martin J. Graber Jr.. Dan i Habtgger. Sly van Habegger. John E Heimann. J. A Hendricks, Otto Hoile. Elmer Byerly. Harve Ineichen. Ezra Kaehr. Joseph Laughlin. Ver: Lautzeuheiser, Clifford Mann. B'nJ D Mazeiin. Charles .Myers. Kuasell Mitchell. William Neadstine. Leun Neuenschwander. Milo .Nussbaum. Reuben Nussbaum. Edwin Reffsteck. Lelaud Ripley. C. | W R. Schwarts. Eli M Schwartz. I Harold V. Schwarts. P. Palmer L Schwarts. Leonard Schwarts. MilI lard Schwarts. Reuben Schwartz, j Heetenguth * Hyerly. August Selk ms Jr., Robert K Bovine. Dan . Striker. Edgar Thieme. Walter Thieme. Ernest Thieme. Delmore I Wecbter and Fred Wekiler h Sons

NAZI GUN CREW WIPED OUT W- £ V». . . *■•'*•* • •**"<*<-* «•* ’* ■ ; .-mrr W* 3 ”■ ML. _ ... . ; uw-jfe-J mii i ■■mmdg.a W • — •• - ***'■ • ON THE STALINGRAD FRONT this is a common acene. The advancing Red Army, which entered the shattered city weeks ago, dropped a shell into a pocket where a Nazi gun crew was blazing away. The result is pictured. In lower photo, the Nazi never did get to throw the grenade, It is frozen in his hand. (Inttraatioatl)

The member* of the dairy herd improvement association are: Btn and Noah Mazeiin. Harry Habegger. Roy L. Price. Reuben Bteury. Everett Rice. Jacob J Schwartz « Son. Reuben Schwartz. Otto B Lehman. Calvin II Liechty w Son. I Janies Lybarger. R A. Brigg*. Myer* w Short. C. J Korte, Otto Ewel A sen. Peter B Lehman. Dale D. Mme*. Noah D. Schwartz, Noah trnuld. Mutsi hler w Kr ps. Stanley Arnold. Sant Nusubaum. George Zimmerman. Mr*. Sol Moeer * son. Itty T. Thoemaker, Obed Gerber. Edgar Thieme. Benj. G- rkc. Cbrw Stably, Wm Burke, and Harvey L. ! Sipe. — —-o-,— JAPANESE CONVOY r'auttnoe" Fron *••• I' five more Jap supply ships and lamaged two other*. The navy <ay* three medium-sized cargo vessels, one tanker and a small schooner were sent to the bottom in the Pacific and far east area The successful attack by MacArthur's flier* i« likely to have a major effect on the course of enemy operations in New Guinea. Military source* say the Japs apparently have been deprived of badly-needled reinforcements which might be used in a new drive against the Allie*. A communique from General Stilwell'* headquarter* reveal 1 that American filer* are aiding Chinese grouudfo rce* In tattling l

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the Jap*. The Yank airmen, working from base* In China and India, I have made shattering raid* on ■ enemy position* In Burma and the Yunnan province, causing wide- ' spread damage. Simultaneously, a British communique say* RAF bomber* last night made a heavy raid ou SagaIng. the Jap rat) and communications base in central Burma. British flier* *ay many bomb* burst in the target area and great fires were started. American plane* dropped 1.000 bomb* on Jap-held Kiska island in the Aleutian* during the month of February. The navy announced the total today In a summation of nine previously-announced raid* on Khka dur.ng the month. Ten enemy planes were shot down during the operations, and we lost none. The navy also announce* a new raid on much-bombed Munda—the sap base in the central Solomons. That's the 51st raid of the war on Munda. Q — ALLIED TROOPS <Ccati**M Fr*ta wage l) siderable damage was done in the two Tunisian citle*. The enemy report adds that target* In Sicily also were hit hard by Allied airmen. There was no activity other than i patrolling by the British eighth

Canada Considering Pay-As-You-Go Tax Study Plan Similar To Rumi Proposal Ottawa. Canada. March 3—(VP) — The Canadian fowe of commons is considering a pay-as-you-go income tax plan. The plan is similar to that devised by Beardsley Rumi, the New York banker. Finance minister J. L. Hsley says the government, under the new plan, would settle taxes on 1942 inoome at W cent on the dollar. Fart of tt>e Canadian income tax is al reedy collected at the source Thus, if the new plan is adopted, many Canadian tazpayera will already have paid their 10 percent. Hsley says the Uaaadisa ernment proposes to oollacl an extra 0100.000.000 in the new (isoal year. This, ho says, will be done largely by raising postal rates, the excise tax on spirits, tbs eigarett»tax and tbs tex on Bight dab chocks. SISTERSWOPERCENT (Ceattaeed From rage 1) chairman announced today. Ten section workers rsportsd contributions of 154 60 The previous total reported was 00,101.37. The list follows: • Charles Brunstump. Oil: John A. Corey. 03; Ernest Longenburger. OS; Junior Ray, 09; Hoy McMichael. 02; Harvey Shell. 06 50; Mt. Pleasant school, teacher and students. 04; Boyd Stepler, 04; Ervtd Schuller. O'; Charles Burdge. 06 o Search Continued For Trapped Miners Bearcreek. Mont. March O—(UP) Rescue workers are searching the inner recessea of the Smith oval mine for 54 miners trapped and believed dead. The explosion which trapped the minerw has exacted a known death army in southern Tunisia. Report* from the front say Allied planes are aloft day and night, smashing at German and Italian troop concentrations and pounding their supply lines. And already the Axis forces are feeling , the pinch. In recent fightitfg on the central and northern fronts. Allied airmen and ground forces vlped out at least 130 enemy tanks. Now. it is understood, the Germans are short of tanks and may be preparing to withdraw to tbeir former positions in the BiserteTunis area Nasi marshal Rommel. alone, lost 100 tanks In Kasserlne pass. The enemy is feeling Ils losses keenly because Allied bombers and fighters are pounding Axis port.and supply lines in Sicily and Italy as well as Tunisia. Cairo reports another heavy air raid on the enemy supply bases of Palermo in Sicily. Allied medium bombers started large fires in the port Monday night a few hours after American flying fortresses swept the harbor in a strung daylight attack.

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I New Commander e Hr JaHB a Wr* - f ill OtIFT.-WB- gg ■ I w .Maj. Gen. Harry C. Ingles, above, has been named deputy commander of American forces in the European theater, succeeding Maj. Gen. Russell P. Hartle, who will command troops In the held, ac--1 cordlug to an announcement in ' London He is a native of Pleasant Hill, Neb. toll of 20. Mine officials say the remainder were probably killed by the explosion, or have died since from the effects of poisonous black damp gas. W A. Romek. assistant mins superintendent says the rescue effort -blocked temporarily by a break down in the ventilation system—is proceeding rapidly. - ■■■ - -— FATHERS MAY EXPECT (OenUsseg Prem Fags 1) tire); The supply of available single men, excluding those deferred because of farm and vital war work, and including mostly 18 and 19 year olds, will be practically exhausted this month; The supply of married men without children and the few "stragg--1 lers'' from the youngster* will be about exhausted In April; The "stragglers'* from the married men without children group will be called first in May with the calls lor married men with children starting at that time. Local selective aervice officials , have received no word concerning the procedure of drafting fathers which would tell them whether or not men with one child would go first, those with two next and so on. National leaders recently have asserted that the number of children will not be an important factor , in determining order of induction. The local board agreed with national officials that some fathers have been drafted here. Thia dependency. in all cases, involved men mailed after Pearl Harbor or at a time when selection was Immigbnt. Although uu sUlMneni was se-

cured from the board. St was also authoritatively learned that It bad been planned, wherever possible, to defer the calling of married men without children until! after the 18 and 19-ycer«ids are called. Thl* applies to a number of married men without children wiho have been granted short deferments to "clean up" their buaines* or have been In class 1-A for weeks it was Indicated. Under the present setup, men 17 to 38 years of age are Included in the group eligible for military service calls. Q Youth Confesses To Michigan Murder lonia. Mich.. Mar. 3 (UP) Sheriff Leslie Murphy say* Donald Temelco ha* confessed to the murder of Clara Johnson, an lonia war work*:. Mis* Johnson was bludgeoned to

PUBLIC SALE CALENDAR MAR. 4—Robert Zinn and Floyd Schindler. 3H mile south of Berne. Ind Jeff Liechly and Roy Johnson , MAR s—Mr* Walter Beard, Admrtx., 1 mile east and 2', of Willshire, Ohio Roy Johnson, auctioneer 1 MAR. 5 George F Redpath. personal property. New pans * J. F. Banmann. Auctioneer. MAR. •—R. L. Crouch. 6 miles northwest of Winamac. J y Auctioneer. BiX ' Mar * Maxine Hurless. Willshire. Ohio. Roy Johnson juctlonw H MAR B—C L. Crouch. 123 Acre. Winamac. Ind J F Sanmann i MAR 8— Martin Katter. 3 miles west of Wapskon- a. Ohio Johnson, auctioneer. MAK S—J W Porter. 640 Acre*. 6 mile* east of Francisville. J. F Sanmann. Auctioneer. i .MAR. 9—Ed Thieme. mile* east ol Decatur on the old * Van Wert road ■« mile north of road 224. l a mile *»,: IS Slate Line. Roy Johnson, auct. MAR 10 —Harvey Garwood. mile east, 2 miles south of W Lester "Bud” Suman. auctioneer. ■ MAR 11—Wm. Ohler. 2 miles east ot Decatur. Roy John-on aur. DEFENSE I WORKERS I Our Bank will W remain open S FRIDAY I 4 to 5:30 p.m. I These special hours are observed S that you my canh your check* and « take care of your tanking need*. We urge you to take advantage of B this service. ■ REGULAR BANKING HOURS K THROUGHOUT THE DAY. H First State Bank II wemwmmMuwnmmmwnfWWW^nv^nnfngmrvw^xvr» -4dOBV

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death early last SatiirdiyTZW " Temelco. an lonia high , r!v J ball star, wa, ., 1 .., ri . h M'.t.t-i (a.., . . .BMfi telesraphiliK hl- r... 1 181 Mrs Temelco informed Murphy of the r«que, t . Murphy wired Montreal su'uW 0 tiea to apprehend thyouth and Canadian Informed Murphy ih*-. y,.,. had confessed Close Shoals Schools I. Because Os Measles 3 Shoals, hid Mar 3- i-j., Martin county , b „. cloned the city hool. ~f si,,JH and three surioutm .a •itip* iu pi<-»eni ill.. measles epldemh ■*;. . h baa claimed on- ilf. T:. may be reopened ui M '. i.,) re*/- a Uorv • TV