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Ln Warlord Limits Chance n Jap Defeat I Sovs Jopo nese Must I Win WorThis Year; I Airmen Blast Japs I ißy United Press) 1,.-*, »«••»’<* premier. (UneraJ L|V Ton UMHy ha » adm " leJ t Nippon can he defeated. Tojo* Kj »inie P« arl Harbor ha* been K hP*n could fight for 1H KZ-, if neceMiary. fj.jjy. however, the Tokyo radio L„ Tofc> a* warning that Japan L ns the war thia year, or face I u aeard by the United Press in Lg Franc I»CO. the Tokyo broadEc qooted the premier a* »aying E. mJ u the year in which the Ew of the world war must be de- ■ Tojo h*< not yet told his people If th* destruction of the 22 ship LiT-- convoy In the Bismarck tin fart, theer is no indication Ktaday* English language broadL that he U preparing to do so. merely declared in a stateKtt t# the Japanese house of repEntatlves that the government Ecoecentratlng Japan's whole Lt: tn the defeat of the United L: < and Great Britain. By sigKrMtly omlttimt China from the L of powers to be defeated. Tojo Lrated a propaganda trick the Euece radio hau l>een playing Lnly of late IlbcAr'.hur« airmen are blasting L-v* In northern New Guinea Ely for the start of a path ■nuh the East Indies. ■ TVy again have pcunded the Lllih air and troop base at Lae L■> northeast coast of the isiL setting huge fires that could ■ wen for 40 miles. And Allied Ed troop* have pushed advance Lue«e forces back towards Lae. | b believed that MacArthur la ■Ring ready to shove the Nippon■Mt cf New Guinea for good. ■►Mb fliers bombed the Japan■held railroad yard* at Thar! ■cion. 75 miles south of Man■by Is Burma. ■General MacArthur apparently is prlng his forces for a final paign to push the Japanese out ■ flew Guinea. airmen have renewed their locating atucka on Lae. the F»y port on the northern New P®«» coast in a raid yesterday, ►* were set visible fcr 40 miles, ►drome* and adjacent installs- ►» were blasted and strafed. ► attack* came ceaselessly, one another, throughout the day. I*»*rican and Australian planes ►« computed the job of mopping faftet destroying a 22-shlp JUfv f * conT °y off ‘be New Guinea The few surviving enemy paters and sailer* were hunted P «a their rafts and email boats F- k! -ted. n i s doubtful whether l*w of the 15.000 in the convoy ■’lre*. P®w»»er. hopeful aa the news th f Far East is thi- week. Pt 7 wpvrts say It is too early AEF ,0 Ch!n * l»i» t ary ebservers in Washing F "ote Madame Chiang Kair“ I!? for an Allied invasion C They H y lh * Alles wUI EL’L kh “ "* w • upt>l)r route* L *“« b* done. One such k.h* ** "P*"* 4 when the L n r * ul ‘ 8 Burma and reopen M<rai road But the Burma kVr WrOW ,B<l co Meeted. And LJ7 lines win Lu> /*, to “ nd u American troops l ,B Ch ‘“ by force. RfADIN* P»ocrat thirmomctip 22 T — « S f „, *«ATMM It,-" W * v * tenlgM; In ? * ’« •• •«s **** m®- I ***' ’"•derate To heavy Un. *"**•* Wit ” P ’ l " t hi , •* portion south.ast u -a. »*"»M Freeh I L-_ EDITION I

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Five Men Killed In Army Bomber Crash Blythe, Calif , Mar. 8.-(UPI-Army officials announce the crash of a four-mot cred army bomber near Flagstaff Arizona. with a loss of five lives. The plane, on a routine night flight, crashed in mountalncus territory and struck near San Francisco peak. The dead included flight office" Keith O. Martin. Junior, the pilot, of Columbia, 8 !>.; Second lieutenant Ralph .Major*, a co-pilot, of Canton. (>.; Second Lieutenant Frederick Ruh), a co-pilot, of Pittsburgh, and Technical Sergeant Robert Sanford, the radio officer, of Sanches. Mias. 133 Villages Are Seized In Russian Drive Red Army Continues Relentless Advance Against Nazi Foes Ry United Press The Russian threat to Hitler** bastions on the central front Is growing by the hour. Red army colnmns. advancing south and southwest of Rzhev, have taken 133 towns and village* since Thursday night. That's almost at the rate of four an hour. The Moscow noon communique, reporting on last night’s, operations. says that the Russian forces routed the Nasis from 30 localities. Troops pushing toward the enemy forward anchor of Vyaxma captured a rail town 1< miles south of Rzhev. Some 800 Nazis ware annihilated in the battle. And three German planes. 57 tanks and eifcht field guns were captured. Farther west, the advancing Russians are only about 100 miles from Smolensk, the main German base on the central front. Moscow says that the Nazis are fighting back desperately with tanks and Infantry forces in an effort to protect Smolensk. The Russians also have regia-j tered important new gains ini the northern Ukraine, where the | Red army Is heeding toward Hit I ler'a Dnieper river line. Soviet troops already have captured several villages west and slightly north of Kursk. And their drive now threatens to cut the rail line between the enemy anchor of Bryansk, at the lower end of the central front, and Nazi supply bases in the Ukraine. Northwest of Kharkov, the advancing Russians have seized another village. They killed 200 Nazis and destroyed two tanks and four field guns. * The fight In the Donets basin rages on. but Russian reports indicate that no decision is yet in sight Red army troops have wiped out >OO of the enemy in a 24-hour fight in the northeast corner of the basin. Farther south, the Russians have beaten back several counterattacks by enemy troops guarding (Turn To Page •• Coluain •> g Japanese Admirals Honored By Emperor 11 Admirals Are Given Wooden Cups (By United Preset Jap admirals may lose their ships —but not their decorations The Tokyo radio reports that Emperor Hirohito haa rewarded 11 of hia admirals with wooden cups, guaranteed to stay afloat Thbroadcast, picked up by the OWL fails to say what the admirals did te merit the awards However, the OWI recalls that Hirchito preoeated an imp-rial award to Admiral Tamamoto shortly after the United Rates navy detested bis forces la the Coral Sea Leas than two weeks later, the Jap emperor summoned home flve admirals defeated in a sea battle tn the Solomons and congratulated them. The Tokyo ratio baa not men Honed the recent destruction of a SS-ahip Jap convoy off Now Guinea perhaps because no admiral* were I left for Hirohito to decorate.

U. S. Doughboys Smash Forward On Tunis Front American Soldiers Within 50 Airline Miles Os The Sea By United Pres* American troop* have wrna-hed to within 50 airline mile* of the sea in central Tunisia. General Elsenhower's communique today tells of the capture of the important town of Plchon >»y an Allied tank column. Plchon is about 20 miles north of Paid Pas* and the «ame distance west of Kairouan. A pass in the mountains at Pichon points to Kairouan. However, there is no confirmation in the headquarters communique of an earlier Algiers radio report that the American* have seized Fald pas*. . But the communique doe* confirm front dispatches reporting that most of the Axis attack* on the British in northern Tunisia are subsiding. It says the British now are engaged In vigorous patrol activity in the north and are making small gains. One pocket of activity remain*, however. A late front dispatch say* fighting still rages around Sed Jenane. west of Mateur on the northern Tunisia coastal highway. The British are reported to have withdrawn from some of their position* in the town after the Germans hurled a stiff attack at them, using dive-bombers. Infantry and armored cars. Increasing patrol fighting 1* reported in the Mareth line zone in southern Tunisia, with Axis patrols successfully shelled by artillery of the British eighth army. In the area of the great salt swamp south of Gafsa French patrols were reported active. The Germans still are holding Gafsa but it I* menaced by both French and American force* Genera! Eisenhower said bad weather restricted major air operations in Tunisia but that Allied flers made their regular patrol flights without loss. ■ ' O'" 1 -- 1 Urges Price Control On 'Honor System' Asserts Few Farms Short Os Manpower Washington. March 8 — (DP) ■— The new deputy price administrator. former senator Herring of lowa hopes to put price control and rationing on “the honor system " He contends that if the honor system works In reducing pleasure driving by motorists, it can be substituted for police control in other rationing set-ups. Herring believm the need for rationing enforcement should be brought home to the people by means of big rallies and parade*. He suggests we start by holding meat rationing drives throughout the country next month. Aid Is Urged Washington. March 8 — (UP) — The national firmer* union say* we ca nsolve our food production problem very largely through an expenditure of about 11.000.000,000. The union contends that only about one quarter of our farms are really seriously hurt by the manpower shortage. The others. It reports. are maintaining their production. The union says it the government will help the more impoverished farmer* to hire help and buy supplies. we can step up food produc(Turn To Pars 8. Column 3) —o — Township Trustees In Monthly Session The monthly meeting of the township trustees of Adame county was held shortly before noon today in the offices of Lyman L Hann, county school »uperiutendent. In the court bouse. Following this meeting the trustees were to go to the office «t Ernest L. Worthman. county aoeoaaor. for • wekly tension. • Eleven of tbe 12 township truetees serve as assessors il tbeir respective taxing unite ana weekly meeting* of tbe latter group are held to learn progreea of the work.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday. March 6,

Pennies* But Not Coppers ft " 1 ' B rah 1 ■■ Bg ►war Ji gy aaßiMg 'A.,'"< Victim of th<- war. th- one-rent piece, formerly made of !'"• percent copper, now I* being made of solid soft steel. The pennies will !»<■ ■’copper*" no longer. These pictures were taken at the Philadelphia mint. Pauline Dunbar work* on a counting machine When In fuil production, the plant will turn out alx-ut 3.080.000 of them daily. Jack Ka*trln work* on the mumping machine.

Re-Issue Statement On Extra Gasoline No Additional Gas To Men On Furlouqh In answer to repeated demand*, the Adams county war price and ration board today re-isaued a sttaement received from OPA offices which forbid extra gasoline rations for furloughs or leaves of men in the armed forces. Glenn Hill, board chairman. Hated that hundred* cf Inquiries have been made with the local board relative to the Issuance of extra , gasoline and some have Insisted other ration board* are releasing I the additional coupon*. However, he aaid. a bulletin received this week from OPA offices again reminded that «uch a practice is not permitted. The beard also advised all food stores which handle the rationed products to obtain official copies of the OPA table on point value* from the local post office. Some stores do not have the official tables, a survey ha* revealed o New Naval Officer Grade Is Proposed Washington. Mar. 6 — H’P) — A new grade of naval officer la In tbe offing with the introduction of a hill by Democratic senator David Wal»b of Massachusetts. The bill call* for the addition of a navy rank to correspond to a brigadier-genera! In the army Senator Walsh I* chairman of tbe senate naval affairs committee.

Central Soya Co. Laboratory Experiments In Many Fields

Cookies and cake ’’like mother lined to make" may soon be placed in the category of other "out for the duration" items- and in this | instance, possibly for good, research experts at the local Central Soya Co.. Inc., laboratories assert. The food Is just as tasty and more nutritive but the Ingredients will be different The imminent shortage of milk powder, egg whites —both scarce and costly now—has prompted the local laboratories to add to their program of experiments with meat and soups, that of using soya products in bread, muffins, pastries, candy, pancake and others. Fcr this purpose an experiment al kitchen has been set up in the company laboratories and Mrs. Margaret Newman, former home management supervisor of the Farm Security Administration, la In charge fftx days a week. Mrs. Newman bakes cakes, cookies, etc., expert menttng with the best amounts of soya to use and the best m< tbods of preparation Hot. delicious pastries from the

Rumor Coffee Ration Will Be Increased Washington. Mar. 8 — (UP» — Reliable quarter* In Washington believe coffee ration* may he increased somewhat. Prhne administration official* refu»e to comment on the rumor, but admit that some thought I* being given to determine whether present limit* should be retained Coffee Importers in New York say large amounls of coffee have reached thi* country since January 31. —o_ See Possible New i Finnish Peace Move Swedish Observers See Possible Move Stockholm, Mar. 8 — (UP) — Swedish observer* say the appointment of Henrik Ramsay a* foreign minister In the new Finnish cabinet will Increase the possibility of a separate peace with Russia. These observer* say the appointment should move Finland Into closer cooperation with Sweden. which ha* been urging a separate peace for some time. Reports reaching Sweden »ay Edwin Llnkomle*. the new Finnish premier. i* dropping many of hl* proNazi policies. Llnkomle* fa «*id to have di* covered on a recent trip to Budapest that Hungary la trying much harder to get out of the war than Finland I* And Swede* who know him say he la sufficiently clever ("‘urn To P»g* I. Column *»

experimental ovens are happily re- ‘ ceived and consumed by co-work-era. the approved recipes are I forwarded to the Fort Wayne ofBeen and from there into recipe booklets. The kitchen was ffrst prompted by the growing shortage of meats and other protein foods, especially dairy products, and the present work consists essentially of developing tasty meat dishes with soya products. The general idea Is to make available meat supplies go further—all this in anti< I pat ion of soya products becoming available to the general public. High protein soya flour or grits contain approximately M> percent protein and. in comparison, lean beef only 10 percent. On a cost basis, leaders of the laboratories assert soya flour Is the moat economical source of protein today The addition of 10 percent soya ff:ur or grits cute frying losses tn half, they say. and furthermore. the added soya greatly Increases the food vslue of the flna! ' ~<Tura To «. Column •)

Important Industrial Center Target Os Extremely Heavy Raid By Large Bomber Force

Ship Building Goal Doubled For This Year Maritime Chairman Sets 20 Million As Shipbuilding Goal Washington. Mar. B.—(UP)—The chairman of the maritime commission, Admiral laind. ha* doubled the shipbuilding goal for 1943. Land ha* set the goal at the aatonithing future of J 0.000.080 ton* He hold member* of congress that he think* we can build twice a* much ’hipping this year aa President Roosev. It ha* asked. He also revealed that in February we delivered 1,328.000 tons of cargo ships That wax cn top of 150 new warships, whose construction during the month is revealed by the navy. Land says we will not need any new shipyards to reach 20,000,000 ton* but that we will need much more steel and 250.000 more worker* than w» had In the xhipyards in mid December. New War Vessels Washington. Mar. 8. — (UP) — Navy and private shipyards throughout the country'are engaged in the mass production cf a newwar vessel a cross between a corvette and a destroyer. The shipe are small and sturdy and are expected to aid materially In America* battle against the submarine. Sixty already have been launched, and orders have been placed for 300 more. The vessels In reality are junior destroyers. They were developed by Rear Admiral L. E Cochrane, chief of the bureau of whip*. Wartime experience and a study of the British ccrvette type escort vessel contributed to their building. Cochrane says the now warship is not the complete answer to the (Turn Te P*g* 8. Column 4) O BULLETIN Washinpion. Mar. 6 — (VP) _ The navy announces that a I'nited States naval task force has bombarded Munda and Villa. Japanes air beass in the central Solomons. Two large enemy destrovers which sought to drive our ships off were sunk. No American vessel was lost in the engagement.. ——o Decatur Resident Dies This Morning Mrs. Amos Biqqs Taken Bv Death Mm Ada Biggs. 72. wife or Amos Bigg*, died st 8 o'clock this morn Ing at her home. 414 North Seventh street, after an extended illness Death was caused by com plications. She was born In Bluffton. August 18. 1870, the daughter of Mr and Mr* John Wiener. She was a mem her ct the Church of the Naxarene of thin city. Surviving besides the husband are one son. Alfred Biggs, of Fort Wayne: three daughters. Mr* Erma Dau»cher. of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Flora Hufford. of Rossville and Mr*. Esther Yaney. of Peru: one elater. Mrs. Dora Blue of Fort Wayne, and 11 grandchildren One daughter and c»e brother are de(ein<l Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon at the Black funeral home Rev J T Troeax officiating Burial will be in the Antioch cemetery at Hoag land The body may be viewed at tbe funeral home after 1 o’clock thi* evening.

— | State Assembly To Adjourn On Monday I —W—■■■ IMust End Session By Monday Niqht Indianapolis. Mar. 6 — (UP) A *enat» m<-a«ure providing for pro-rating any decrease In gasoline tax fund* resulting from the war was approved by the Indiana house of representative* today The measure, which now goes to the governor for signature, was pa*s<-d. 75 to 3. The bill would distribute any such los* in revenue among the highway commission, cities and town*. The main provision* of the new act would eliminate the 21,250.800 annual diversion from the state highway department fund to the general fund The measure provides for the highway fund to pay only 50 percent of the cost of operating the State police department The act further provide* that if gasoline tax fund* fall below |22.850.000, counties will take 54 percent of the loss, citie* 13 percent and the state highway department i 33 percent. Today's session* of the Indiana general assembly remove all re--1 inaining hope of an early adjournment of the legislature, which must complete it* activities by . Monday. i Both branches of the lawmaking body still face the task of disposing of several Important measure* before adjourning sine die The chief task confronting the legislators is the necessity to complete action on the biennial appropriation* bill. Representative* refused yesterday to concur in senate amend(Turn To P«g« 8. Column 3) —— o Farm Bloc Fighting For Farm Deferment ■" I — Plan Vigorous Fiqht To Defer Workers Washington. Mar 6. -tUP>—The senate farm bloc plan* a vigorous flght for It* bill to defer farmer* from the draft. The drive to pae* Senator Bankhead* meaiure Is gaining momentum and Bankhead say* he 1* sure tbe bill will pass next week. Another farm blcc leader. Senator Nye of North Dakota, say* military official* should abandon thend plana to mobilize 11.000,800 men even If it means a longer war. otherwise, say* Nye, they will be ’gambling with hunger and even with thin supply line* of food to cur men and our Allies " The concern of the senator* over farm manpower and food production found an echo in a radio address by Secretary of Agriculture , Wickard. Wlckard said black market operators are wasting thousand* of pounds of meat through Inadequate handling. Next to food. Washington is concerned with the tax problem A house way* and means sub-commit-tee ha* approved a 20 percent pay-as-you-go income tax plan effective July 1. However, the sub-committee referred to the full committee the question of forgiving any part of 1942 tas. say they want no part of the sub-committee's measure --a Tuberculosis Clinic Here Next Thursday A tuhercuioai* clinic, sponsored by the Adam* county tuberculoat* aasociation, will be conducted at the Decatur public library next Thursday. March 11. W. Guy Brown president of the association, announced today. The clinic will open at 10 a. m.. with Mia* Lot* Beeman, county health nurse, in charge. Physician* ar* urged to eend i patients ta thia clinic tor obaarv atloa. association officials straaa. and the general public is invited to i tahe advantage at thia opgortuity tor free cliaical exam teat too.

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Air Ministry Soys 14 Planes Lost In Attack, Indicating Ferocity Os Raid By United Press Hundred* of RAF bombers huvo *ma*hed at the big Nazi industrial city of E**en In the Allied nonI atop air assault on the continent. The attack stretched the day and night pre-lnvasion air operation* through their ioth Rtralght night. The British air ministry de*cribe* the Essen raid a* "very heavy and concentrated." Essen, in the heart of the Ruhr valley. Is the site of many of Germany's most Important war plants, including the huge Krupp arm* work*. The big RAF plane* are believed to have poured some of their fourton super block-busters, along with hundred* of ton* of other bomhi, on these targets. Indicating tho heaviness of the attack the 52nd raid of the war on Essen—the air ministry says that 14 planes failed to return. Only la«t summer, the German industrial center suffered the greatest air assault ever made when 1.938 RAF homiier* smashed It in a single night. Coinciding with the Essen raid last night, other British planes struck at the French coast near Dunkirk. They were over the target area for a half hour — hut results of the action hare not been made public yet. Italy also ha* had another taste , of Allied air lightning Cairo aay» that Allied liomlier* p<-rhapi American —aet fire* In tho Important port of Naples on Thursday night. One plane was lost. From Germany. Itself, come* an admission that the Allied air campaign I* really hurting. Tho Berlin radio say* that very heavy damage ha* been caused at Hamburg. Cologne. Wilhelmshaven and Berlin In Norway, a Nazi radio station reports that 500 special repair establishment* have been set up throughout Germany, apparently to aid In cleaning up bombed cities. The German* have threatened revenge in the spring with a new weapon—presumably a hint that the Nazis are getting ready to (Turn To Pare Z. Column |) —— . .. —.-o.— __ Annual World Day Os Prayer Mar. 12 The annual World Day of Prayer will be held at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church here on Friday, March 12. It was announced today The event will begin at 7:30 p. m. having been changod from afternoon to evening this year, because of the number of women who ar» working Members of Protestant churches of the city will participate in the special services. Red Cross War Fund Above $2,500 Mark More Reports Made By Section Leaders The Red Crass war tund shot above the 82.500 mark with the latest report from the rural section leader*. Lyman L. Hann, county chairman, reported. Contribution* yesterday amounted to 1232.75. more than 8150 being repeated by Wabash township. The total to date is 82.542.12. « The following sectional leaders in the onemile square sectiou reported: Carl Heddington. 812: aololcftur, no name. |7; Lloyd Klesa, 812: Christ Knipsteln. 825; Otia Sprunger. 314 50 H E Sprunger. 812; Eugee Farlow. 212; Ezra Schertz. 27; Homer Hoffman, 87; Rufus Huser. 222; Joel Neuenschwaoder. 213; Dale Affolder, S 3; Jacob Stucky. 210; Leo Sprunger. 83; Ray Butcher. 27; L. F. Sprunger, 28: Sylvan Bauman |10; Chat. E. Armstroog. 11; David Amstutz. 11l 50; Robert Gerber. Mr*. Harold Owen*. »1»2»; Joha R. Ludy. 21250.