Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1943 — Page 1

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ROMMEL’S ARMY AGAIN IN RETREAT

Lera/ Million I Marne J Men To I Be Called Soon

I Selective Service I Head Soys Supply ■ Os Single Men Is J Hear Exhaustion ■fHb.nitton- Mar *— ,l ~ ■lni million married men will • iU-'i up m lhe draft ■ -rsi-o director H , ■-L. y -a> - that the pool men i.ipahle of military . p . ■ ' ally exhausted. to! ! . na'o appropila- , a bcomt!i:fee that the only ■J-,,,.. available are about >. Mudeiiti who K.ip.!.!- for Induction HStner i-aa - - i‘> committee wa« K, Hershey’s views when It him about mat-power ;>’di ’--ti On the heels , • :nent the selective board issued a directive the reclassification of B»»r the maximum age limit Hr ysers directive imli- ated that the I:®:’ m«y "" ,0 obtain for limited service and to ether- into essential Indusud agriculture. HLd to help relieve manpower ill th ssentlal Indusdepartment announ.Ki plan --l-ise about 548.000 from military service. Hptatdc-n- Rooevelt established ■ iw-xc. committee to solve the shortage last week. stabilization director ■ -mmttiee which Adm.tai In-ahy. Bernard Ha-ry Hopkins and Judge Bosenmaa. sum question before the is whether the armed can -xpand to 11.000.000 this y ar w ithout dlslocat itid munitions proHh ir.'dh-- Washington develop -he house ways and means ■ -.--natively approved a dditig tax to place Hk> taxes on a current basis. u -he armed services, do-1 ■ rs and certain others J be exempted from the pay go plan Robert L. Houghton, of Sorth Carolina, said ■nyproval was tentative because ■hfh: modifications" In the paydeduction plan may be made H** It Is decided what to do taxes due on 1942 Income members of the committee Bertrand W ■n.’U" Republican o f California. ■J Donald H. McLean. Republl■lot New Jersey—voted against ‘■MUn. Gearhart said the plan was “too Indefinite and "■i incomplete < 1 UM1 I‘»” i« what To i* t . z, Column 4) ■ 0 . H»Hn Fuchs Rites ■ttsday Morning ■*Wwal services Win be held •***y morning at 10 o'clock at » '*•«" funeral home in Berne Pu.hs, 66. native of y* h township who died fiaturH.* 1 ’■’-••t haven hospital in ■ r »ond, where he has been confor 12 yearn. ■T* brothers. William ana mH Edward of near two sisten, Mns EUss.Uginbr.; and Mrs. Enoch Yo■.Cv *■ ,unr ‘ re Huri *i win b» IB* R £■ cemetery. '■WLadyls rarely Burned Slders. 23. o f the WM pa,nfnl ” r mT-c ly burned Sunday morn Of, * k *”*" hw dre * Ha eZ M too near Mj-s sanered ,^c an d and third deK * K>a! ,h * abdomen and K ***’’’*'■ ‘'’aches and the at [■J? 8 * Hyeici*n reported. KLT** ***- «• ‘be Adams Kof-£*? ortal hoepital immedfB* W..T!??* **«eat. where Ba: her gen M “pretty fair". The mZJT lhoc<h ’ to of •

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Men 38 To 45 Are Ordered Placed On Active Draft List Throughout Nation Washington. Mar. S — U'Pl — America Is calling today on its second team to help win the war. Men from 34 to 45-second on the draft Hat. though not behind in ability or determination — are being taken off the deferred list. The order, announced last night by selective service, apparently is paving the way for admission to the army In limited service categories the men who up to now M 2 In 4-H Draft board records revealed today that 852 men in Adams county once again face the prospect of being called by the nation's armed forces. That number of men are between the ages of 88 and 45 and have been placed In class 4-H by the local draft board. Although a large number of these are farming, in essential work and entitled to other types of deferment, probably a good percentage will be eligible for 1-A (H) classified ions. haven't been needed. A broad bint that this Is the ease was contained In the order, which says 4-H men with no other claim to deferment than age will be put into 1-A. It adds, they will be the first men over 38 Inducted. >. “If and when the armed forces deermine that they can be used in the military establishment.'* The use of the words "military establishment" is taken to mean they may not go into war training service, but might be given desk jobs or other non-combatant work to release fighting age men for (Turn To Pago ». Column 31 O Postwar Planning Urged By Wallace Dangers Os Third World War Noted Delaware. O. Mar. I—(UP)— Vice-president Wallace said today , that a third world war Is probable unless full postwar cooperation Is achieved between the Soviet Union and the other Allied states. He declared that the world s future well-being will depend on the extent to which marxism "as It Is being progressively modified In Russia" and democracy, "as we are adapting It to the twentieth century conditions, "can live together In peace. Wallacev who spoke at Ohio Wesleyan University, added that communist propaganda for world revolution, or American failure to contribute to the solution of « . .Id post war problems, eould foment a third world war. Wallace condemned the spirit of Japanese and Prussian militarism which he said "systematically devoted the highest virtues of their citisenry. generation after jteneratlon. to the glorification of the state and the ruthlessness of war." And bo stressed the necessity for cooperating after the war with those Germans who are opposed to Nazi racial theories and to the concept that might makes right Wallace declared that In the post-war world, the cause of the common man must be served by full employment and expanding production, and by the complete utilisation of invention and technology. As for the danger of another war. Wallace said such a conflict would be Inevitable If. "Russia CTurn To Page I, Column I) i 0 Sugar Stamp No. 11 To Expire March 15 The Adams county war price end rationing board today reminded boueewivee that sugar stamp No. 11 (ration book No. 1). will expire I at midnight March U. Stamp No 13. good for five pounds of sugar win be good from March Id until | May m.

Supplies For Our Troops In The South Pacific i vnr /Hhhh| ’ - H. i a ■ 1 V wMhktr BEB EW KfihmuLß > m E 9 BT tfi Equally as important as the task of fighting the enemy is the Job of keeping front lino troops supplied with food and military equipment. U. S. soldiers ata base in the South Pacific area ate shown loading two large merchant vessels with material almut to be transported to battlefronts.

Russian Threat To Smolensk Is Growing Hourly German Defenses On Central Front Steadily Crumbling By United Press The great German bulge on the central Russian front Is crumbling under the impact of at h-aat three battering-ram Red army assaults. The danger to Smolensk. Imse for ; all Germany's armies of the center. Is mounting hourly. The town of Sychevka. 42 miles north of Vyazma, has beenevacuated by the Germane. The situation at Vyazma itself is described by the Germane as "confused" More than 100 towns and villages In the general Smolensk bulge have fallen to the Red army within the past 24 houns. And the Germans now soncede that Soviet attacks on Smolensk are to be expected at any time. One P.ed army column la stampeding through the Axis lines from captured Gzhatsk, 125 miles north-<-aet of Smolensk. A second Russian army Is cruahlng its way south from Osuga. And a third is ramming Into the German defenses from Olenlno 32 miles west of Rzhev. Swedish dispatches from Rome report that the Germans have transferred three armored and nine Infantry divisions from France to the Russian front in an effort to •tern the soviet offensive. And the Moscow communist paper Pravda warns tnat there should be no exaggerated optimism so long a* the Germans take advantage of the absence of a second front and move reserves into Russia. Some of these reserves may have reached the southern front. (Turn To Fags I. Column S) Tribute 1$ Paid To American Workmen Message Received By G. E. Manager Tribute to American workmen in producing equipment for the armed forces was paid by Lieut. Gen. Brehon Sommervell. following a 14,000 mile inspection trip he made of the global war fronts. The message wa* sent to Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric company, who distributed it to plant managens in bis organIgallon. M. E. Lord, general manager of the G € Fort Wayne works relayed a copy of the complimentary message to E W Lsnkenau. superintendent of the Decatur G. E. plant. The message roads: "The suitability and performance of equipn.ent produced by American Industry, which I have just •een on a 84.000 mile Inspection trip through the Onrrtbean. South America. North and Central Ameri- ( ca. Africa, 'Palestine. Irnu. India, sod Burma, is a tribnte to the gen las of American engineers and to the skill of the workmen who made it. its adequacy everywhere was a source of great nat sfactlon to me. You and everyone In your organ! satton should bo proud of yoei contribe tin and the important part you are playing in helping us to victory. Brehon Sommervell. UsaL Gen. Com weeding services of supply" •

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 8, 1943

Bread Slicina Ban Will Be Lifted By Government Order Washington. March 8 —(UP)— The ban on sliced bread is about I to be lifted. Th* department of agri-! culture Is expected to Issue an or- ' der today permitting bakers to slice bread sold for home consumption. Officials explain that the ban was intended to save wax paper But the war production board nowreports that the paper and wax supply situation looks all right for the next few months. The department of agriculture Is expected to issue Its order later today. o Letup In Bombing Raids On Germany Feeble Attacks By Nazis On Britain By United Press The RAF air assault on the fortress of Europe was scaled down to mine-laying operations Isst night. it was the second straight night that the great four motored bombers which wrought havoc to Nazi Germany failed to bomb major targets In conquered Europe. However, the planes that sow mines In enemy waters sometimes drop a bomb or two Just for good measure. The German radio reported British planes over the Helgoland area. During the night. Nazi planes crossed the channel in an attempt to get to London, but were driven off from the British capital by a wall of anti-aircraft fire. Other enemy planes bombed points in southeast England and the home counties. Three of the raiders were shot down — one a fourmotored Heinkel bomber, a type rarely u*ed against Britain. The rtids were an attempt — although a feeble one—to retaliate for the greatest air assault In history. The story still is being told' of that withering 10 days of fire I snd destruction. It Is estimated that the Allied, bombers dropped a greater weight, of bombs during that 10 day period i than German plane* dumped on London during their entire limonite offensive beginning in 1940 Reports continue to reach London of the vast destruction wrought. Nazi radio Vichy says 4.200 homes, most of them In the center of the city, were destroyed in the February 28 raid on Cologne. The enemy report says (Turn To Pag* 8. Column 4) ■O ~~ Arm Fractured In Fall Over Bucket Mrs. Orlen Fortney. »4. of Pleasant Milla, was treated at the Adams county memorial hospital Sunday for a fractured right arm sustained when she fell over a coal bucket in the kitchen at her home. o Mercury Drops Below Zero This Morning Astor a night In which the season's record low was equalled If not broken, the mercury In Decatur thermometers started upward today. In conformity with predictions of the weatherman, the Dully Democrat reading advanced from a low of about tlve degrees below sere during the night to exactly zero at 8 a. m The five degree below reading is one of the lowset readings of this winter.

Legislature Racing To Complete Session Legal Deadline At Midnight Tonight • Indianapolis, .March 8 — (UP) — Tiie Republican majority of the state leg.slature has acceded to demands of the Indiana farm bureau, dlstributom and farmers to re-draft a bill to re-create the state milk control board Racing through a pile of legislative matters still to be considered before the l«gal deadline for ad Journing the general assembly at midnight, the lawmakers were told by house majority leader George Henley of Bloomington that a new measure Is being drafted to replace a bill killed by the house three Weeks ago. Under the new plan to be introduced sometime today, a four-mem-ber board is provided. Th» governor would appoint from lists turn-1 Ished by tho various interests Involved, one member representing the farmers, a third representing the public and one representing milk distributors. The bosrd's attorney would be named by attorney general James Emmert. Henley says that the appropriation allotted to the present board will be reduced and that the life of , the new board will Ise limited to June 30, 1945. The present board expires by statute next June 30. In another action this morning, the bouse completed legislative action on a R<-publlcan platform measure liberalizing workmen's unemployment beenflts. The lower chamber accepted a senate amendment removing drastic restrictions from so-called voluntary qqults. The bill, in it* final form, raises maximum benefits to <lB weekly for 18 weeks but suspends ijcnefits (Turn To Pag* *. Column 4) High School Pupils Aid In Book Drive Students Assist In Victory Book Drive The Decatur Junior-senior high school Is staging its own victory book drive this week to augment the city drive being conducted by the Decatur public library. It was announced today by W. Guy Brown, school principal Miss Glennis Elzey, school librarian. will supervise the campaign. The purpose of the school drive, like those all over the nation. Is securing good, entertaining and instructive books for the men in service. Juvenile books or books hsvlng a copyright date previous to 1935 will not be accepted Good travel, fiction, biography or history books are among those acceptable. Citizena may participate by giving books to tbe students, who will In turn bring them to the school library. From there they will go to the victory book drive centers. A goal of 400 books has been set for the school drive. Cash contributions will alstr be accepted and tbe money used to purchase new books which will be sent In along with the others. Assisting Miss Elzey with tbe campaign are the following students Fred Pickford. Beatrice Light. Elea Mae Jackson. Allee Roth. Ronald Stucky. Jane Maddox, Ted Hill. Don Kirsch. Phyllis Kraft, Jane Dailey. Robert Metzger aad Norman Leonardson.

British Eighth Army Again Chasing Rommel; American Airmen Smash Axis Convoy

Public Health Group In Second Meeting Advisory Council Discusses Program The second meeting of tbe Adam* county public health advisory council was held at the Decatur Junior-senior high school Saturday afternoon. This council has been formed to aa«kit In the public health program, which has been In progress since last October, under the supervision of Miso Ixils Beeman, county health nunse. Further plans for the program were discussed at length in Saturday's session, and the individual membem of the coun<'ll will report activities of the group to the various organizations which they represent. Council mem tiers have been appointed because of their activities and interest In health programs generally In the community or through the various organizations, Members of the council In attendance at Saturday's meeting were: Dr. D. D. Jonro, Dr. James Burk. Walter J. Krick. W. Guy Brown. Lyman 41. Hann. Mrs. William Bowere. Mrs. Leonard Saylors. Mrs. Nelle Mae Ixiwe, Mm. Charles Holthouse. Mrs. Braden Pyle. Mrs. Walter Meyens. Mrs. Leland Ripley, E. ' M. Webb, Thurman I. Drew. John Stoneburner, John puff. George Schlcferstein, Loren Heller, Harve .Mankey, Carl Fuhrman, G. C. Reinking. Benoit Johnson. Gle 1 Neuenschwander and W. H. Patterson. o Fruechte Funeral Tuesday Afternoon Edward Fruechte Is Taken By Death Funersl services will he held Tuesday afternoon for Bdß&rd Fruechte, 59. well known Preble township farmer, who died Saturday night at 8:45 o'clock at the Lutheran hospital In Fort Wayne. Servi. es will be held at 1:45 p in. Tuesday at the home in Preble township and at 2 o'clock at the Magley Evangelical and Reformed church, of which he was a member. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Rev. John Michael will officiate. Death was attributed to complications. following an illness of several months. He has been bedfas' two weeks and in the hospital two days before his death. Mr. Fruechte was born In Preble township on March 3. 1884. the son of John and Elizabeth Fruechte. and was a life-long resident of the township. He was married on September 1. IPIO. to Ix-na Reppert Surviving, besides the widow, are two children: Walter at home and Mrs. Ed ward Shaffer of Preble township; a sister, Mrs. Harold Mayberry of Bryan. Ohio and a brother.Eniest of W’lchita Falls. Texas; one grandchild. A daughter is deceased. The body was removed to the residence from tbe Zwick funeral home Sunday and may be viewed there until time for the services. ■ -4> Planned Meals Under Point Ration System Anyone interested In planning meals under tbe point ration sya tern is invited to attend a meeting In room 107 of tbe Decatar junior senior high school Tuesday after noon at 3 o'clock, it was announced today by Miss Mildred Worthman. Instructor of home economics. a Public Is Invited To Canning School The canning demoastration to bo bold toalght at tbe Lincoln acbool Is o*sa to the public aad a cordial mvitatloa is uxteaded to local citlmm to attoed.

American Planes Again Blasi Al Japanese Bases Bases In Solomons Arc Again Pasted By American Airmen By United Press American airmen again have blasted Japanese bases In the Solomon islands. The navy reports attacks on three enemy bases In the Holomons. American planes liombed Kahlil and Ballale island In the Shortland group and Vila on Kolombangara. An attark also Is reported on an enemy cargo ship at Kleta on Bougainville island. Results of the attacks were not observed. General MacArthur's headquarters reports that Australian and Dutch fliers have attacked the Japanese base at Tool, in the Kai Islands between Irutch New Guinea and Australia. The Allied planes attacked in two waves and gave the base a heavy pounding. Meanwhile, a spokesman at Mac Arthur's headquarters warns that the possibility of a Japanese Invasion thrust at Australia has not vanished. He points to heavy concentrations of enemy troops and shipping In the Island area north of Australia. And he says there Is urgent need for further reinforcements in the south Pacific. Acting secretary of state Sumner Welles says unconditional surrender and complete disarmament of Jjtpan will make the Pacific safe for all nations with Interests there. He was asked at his press conference todsy whether the Allies would welcome establishment of American air bases In the Pacific after the war. He did not reply directly to the question. But he said the United States should not claim the Pacific as an American lake. American fliers also have struck a heavy blow at Japanese transportation In Burma. They bombed and sunk a 5,000 ton cargo vessel In the Rangoon river In southwest Burma. Hits were scored on another vessel and damaging near misses on a third. The Americans started fires covering an area the size ot a city block when they bombed the docks at Moulmein. also in the southern Burma region. Chinese troops appear to be pushing invading Japanese soldiers back toward* the Burma border. The Chunking cotnm.imi says the Nipponese have a general with-' (Turn To Pag* 2. Column 3) Red Cross War Fund Growing In County Rural Donations May Exceed $3,000 Contributions to the Red Croas war fund from tbe farm sections In the county were fast approaching the 13.000 mark today. Lyman L. Hann, director of the campaign tn the rural territories reported. With 1182 85 reported by the sectlcn leadens over the weekend, the total farm contributions rose to (2.725*7. Mr Hann estimated that contributions from th* farm homes will reach and probably exceed (3.000 The following section workers reported from their territories: Irene Kirschner, town of Preble. (50; F. P Heimann. (13 50; Irene Kirchner. 33. Mrs. Victor Kneuss. (5. Charlie R Myers. (586. Del more Wechter. (14; Henry Wallses. (3. Omer Merriman. 318: H L 81pe. (7; Amos Huser. (IS; Victor Bleeke. (6; Paul Becher. (6; Leo Engle. (3; Martha D Mazettn (1; Car! Koenemaa. (•; Fred VI man. (4 50. Pan! Gerald Malaton i (8; Ollie Feller. (20; Student in I Diehl school. .10.

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German Marshal Is Forced To Retreat After Taking Hard Blows From British By United Press Thu British eighth army is chasing Marshal Rommel again. An Allied communique announced today that General Montgomery’s veterans have scored a cleancut victory over tbe Nazi marshal’s African corps and that the enemy is retreating. Rommel started to beat a hasty retreat yesterday afternoon after six unsuccessful attacks on British positions before the Mareth lino in southern Tunisia. The Nazis ran Into heavy artillery fire and when the smoke had cleared away 33 enemy tanks had been destroyed without the loss of a single British tank Rommel then Itegan hl* retreat to the hills northwest of Medetillie. the outpost before the center of the Mareth line. American bombers soaring out over the Tunisian coast smashed a large convoy carrying supplies to German-Italian forces in Tunisia. In a two-wave attack, the American planes sanl: two ships, left four others In flames and damaged a seventh. Five enemy planes, attempting to protect the convoy, were shot down without the loss of a single American aircraft. In central Tunisia, an American armored patrol, badly outnumbered, charged Into an Italian position with machine-guns chattering and took 85 prisoners without losing a man. The attack, described by United Press correspondent Phil Ault in a delayed dispatch, occurred Saturday night In a pass 1® mile- west of Gafsa The successful assault was led by captain Alfred McCutcheon of Amarillo. Texas and lieutenants John Souther of Gainesville. Georgia; Robert Howard of Muskogee, Oklahoma: (’ B. Williams of Amarillo. Texas;a nd Wendell C. Sharp ot New York City. In addition to their prisoners the Americana captured two 47millimeter guns so new that the wrapping paper -till was on them. Elsewhere In Tunisia things continued about the same In the north, the British first (Turn To Page 3, Column ?) o First Lenten Sermon Wednesday Evening The first of the series of lenten eennon* will be given Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock at St. Mary's church by Rev. J seph J. Selmetz. pastor. Father Seimetz's subject will lie. "The Duties of Par* nts." The entire series is built around the family ami home. lx-nt opens Wedne*<lay with the observance of Awh Wednesday. Easter this year will I be April 25. — Late Bulletins London. Mar. B.—(UP) —American heavy bombers have raided Rouen and Rennes in Brittany, London. May B.—(UP)—British light naval forces hsve destroyed a German motor torpedo boat and scattered other enemy craft in a sharp engagement off the cast coast of England. An admiralty communique announces the engagement took place early today. Ankara. Mar. B.—(UP)—General I emet Inonu has been unanimously re-elected ot a second four year term as president of the Turkish republic. ■ — o— ' ■■ ——— tIMPffRATURI RgAOINS vtMOCRAT TMffRMOMffTffR 8:00 s. m. — —0 10:00 a. m. T Noon —— 13 2:00 p. m 20 8:00 p. m U WEATHSR Warmer tonight and Tuesday Forenoon. Light snow In nerthweet portion late tonight snd T uoeday forenoon.