Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1943 — Page 2

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BRITISH REPEL NAZI ATTACKS UX CF , , * TF< Ig OF TUNIL-'l jjj^ i^^Goulet*e X Kelibia J Tebourbo mastoutq/ r e l Bob/ y / U mNabeul / \ iff / f’Enfidaville XX. / OUSSELTIAxiZSr lo Kebirq Mak '°!< • 5R jkSOUSSE ■PK»'Cn»^-KAl»OUA^X^'\.. Mo . ioslir Fondouk >^k o ' $o X--1X 1 ■ 1 ■■—-<,* BRITISH HIST ARMY INFANTRY UNITS hurled back strong German counter-attacks in the Medjez el Bab sector in Tunisia when the Nazis attempted to take back ten strategic hills overlooking Tunis and Bizerte. Further south, near Enfidaville. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery is reported massing strength for a northward push. (International)

Convicted Traitor 1 To Seek New Trial Three-Way Appeal Made By Attorney Detroit. April 19 <l’P»— Max ' Btephan, the D.-trolt restauran: ; proprietor convicted of treason, will a«k the supreme court for a new trial. I j Stephan's attorney, Nicholas , Salowich. says h<- plans to make a , triple-harreled appeal to the high j court. The appeal, he ways, will ( ineludnjhree requests. He will pell- , tlon th«- court to reconsider Its pre- , vioao refusal to review Stephan's conviction request the court to consider bis petition as a general I appeal covering all phase* of the I case, and ask for > n> w trial on the basia that he has newly discovered evidence to present. I The attorney's reference to newly discovered evidence is believed to Im- connected with information reportedly contained in a letter. from Haiowich to suprem* court. justice Frank Murphy. It) the let- ’ ter. the attonuy reportedly said he had learned that Stephan acted on the advice of a prominent Detroit citisen when he harbored an escaped Geilnau filer. Stephan waa convicted last August and sentenced to be banged in November. The execution was delayed pending rMtilts ot an appeal to the supreme <ourt. The court subsequently refused to review the case and a second execution date

□Behind the Scenes Ifp HOLLYWOOD Yl

< By HARRISON CARROLL J Klar i>»lur»» bjadxale Writer HOLLYWOOD—R. A. F. bomb*. Bonja Henle hears, have completely demolished her home near Oslo She docM. t know when it han-

pened or any other details. Only received this information aince her return to the coast to star in • Winter Time." Tipster a Norwegian air cadet training in Canada. Easy to guess, says Sonja, why the house m.ght have been hit.

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It's close to the central gas work* supplying the city. Dorothy Lamour and Captain Howard twolng it at the Mocambo attar their wedding. just like Ginger Roger* and Pvt. Jack Brigg* Movie star or not, at the wedding reception. Dorothy was more nervous than her bridegroom. She forgot to throw Uie brdal bouquet and she kept introducing her new husband formally a* Captain Howard until reminded that thsy were married. After that, it waa “my husband, etc. ’ Manpower shortage hits the dude ranch**: Esther William*, just back from VlctorvUk. says she and her doctor husband had to serve ■their own breakfast, catch and Kiddie their riding horses and, Mtv, nib ths animal* down. Not that thsy minded, but it dhows you that ths luxury spot* are not going their headless way. Ptl Danes engagement ring from Tommy Dorsey a hugs ruby She didn't get it until just before ths wedding party took off for Las Vegas. . . . Lou Costello * Irish Better, Sheik, had eight puppies the ailing star's bed. ... Ths Perg westmore Betty Huttaj reunion at Stepsy Maate's didot mean a thing Thsy wese Just hawin* a few laughs. . . . Lieut. Col Dsrid McDonald, direcU* W sensational British battle Alm.

wa« set for April 27. Hut the supreme court issued a stay of execution pending a decision of Stephan's forthcoming appeal. 0 REVEAL TOKYO (Conliassd Fiss Facs i) observed the apnivensary of the Doolittle adventure by hlawtlng Japanese offensive Irastw along the 2,000 mile arc of islands north of Australia. Air field* on Timor island in the Eartt Indies, Finscbaven in north- • as: New Guinea, and New Britain island east of New Guinea were hit. Bonrbs were dropped on a 10.turn ton freighter off New Ireland, north of New Britain, but results were not observed. o Five Mississippi Men Go On Trial Charges Grow Out Os Lynching Neqro Hattiesburg. Miss , Apr 19 — 11 'Pt—Deputy sheriff Holder and four other men are standing trial today on charges growing out of lynching of a negro convicted of murder. Holder Is charged with failure to adequat ly protect his prisoner when a mob took Howard Wash from his jail. The other defendants are accused of leading the mob which hung Wash, taking the prisoner's life without due process

"Desert Victory," wm vtsitlng the Twentieth Century-Fox studio. Last time I was on this lot.*' ho said, “was m a W a day extra in 'Cavalcade'." . . . Death of Publicity Man John Miles a shock and a loss to Hollywood. His cheerful fight against a long illness showed the same caliber of courage that won him a Croix de Guerre with two palms when he fought with the Mannes in World War L The seven black wigs worn by Ingrid Bergman in "Saratoga Trunk” will be donated by Warners for use at bond auctions. Should raise thousands of dollars! Latest word to Mrs. Gig Young (wife of Warner actor I is that her mother, father and sister are in* temed in a concentration camp ' near Manila. Even this is a relief. She feared them dead. Ensign John Howard, late of the movies, gets his dream when he takes command of a minesweeper at Norfolk, He wm erasy for his ’ own boat, however small. The former actor topped every one of his classes m the training : course at Cornell. i HOLLYWOOD PARTY MNI? r Mary Pickford's German police dog and Janet Gaynor's great dane were inducted at Fort MacArthur. i ... Re the combed up hair-do, I Veronica Lake told a friend: "It's I wonderful! How would you like to : go through life with something I half-Minding you and falling in , your soup all ths time?" ... Peter Du Rcy, tor many years one of : Hollywsods best known dress i extro and Mt players, died of a . heart attack- ■ . . Cecil Kallaway due to receive a citation from : Prime Minister Curtin of Australia for his shortwave brvadcMts. . . . Virginia Grey and Jack Boyle (the i actor, not the dance director) at i Circa. .. . Invited to come to the i Eddie Cantor broadcast. Dennis i Day's two ensign brothers brought IB sailors with them! They had to practically moos the asters out to make room. . . . Town's smalsst Victory garden is being raised by Keg Murray-ea tap es ths fi Capitan Jitator.

Catholic School Honor Rolls Listed High, Grade School Roils Are Announced Honor students of the Deeatur Catholic high school and the »t Joseph's grade school were announced today by school officials. EigTiteen are listed on the high school honor roll and 27 on the grade school roll. The honor students follow: High School A H Patricia Bolinger 5 Vers Heimann i 1 Mary Catherine Keller I 2 (Tara Lengerich 2 4 Joan Wemhoff 5 1 Dolores Rumschlag 5 1 Dolores Geels 5 1 Lola Geimer .....I 3 Donald Heimann 3 3 Jean Johnson 1 5 Joan Miller 6 1 Mary Miller 4 I Mary Catherine Rumschlag »• Virginia Spangler 3 3 John Voglewede 2 4 Mildred Wemhoff 1 5 Lois Cclchin <1 William Hartman 3 3 Grade School Grade 8 Mary Frances Schmitt fi 2 Patricia Mothers H 2 Ruth Holthouse 5 5 Alice Geimer 2 1 Margaret Brite 4 6 Grade 7 Norma Appelman 3 6 Agnee Geimer 4 3 Maxine Kelh-r • 3 Donna L. Kortenber •'« 3 Clarice Rumschlag 7 2 Grade 6 David Gilllg 9 1 Philip Terveer 7 3 Dorothy I'leman 8 2 Grade 6 Shirley Lou Berling 3 7 Elizabeth Bruun 1 William Gilllg 4 « Jvliann Meyer 4 6 William Bchulte 4 •> Kathleen Smith 7 3 Marilyn Te< pie .19 Grade 5 Ann Gass 3 I Rosemary Gilllg 1 I Isabelle Kintz 4 S Janet Vhrick 3 6 Grade 3 Matthtw Harris 6 3 Catherine l-oshe 5 4 Thomas Rumschlag 3 6 o —— AMERICAN FLIERS (Continued From Pace 1) strafed and a building destroyed The Solomons actions occurred on Saturday. Island time, and constituted the second successive day’s a-waul t on enemy shipping in the Shr.rtland area approximately 300 miles northwest of Guadalcanal On the previous day. a formation of heavy bombers and torpedo planes possibly damaged a tanker and cargo ship. Fires Started General MacArthur's fliers In the south Pacific have at nick more crippling blows at the growing Japanese air power In the island arc nerth of Australia. The fliers started fires in a dusk attack on Penfoe airdrome on Timor island In the Hast Indies. They blasted the airdrome* at Finscbafof the law. Wash was convicted of treating his employer to d ath and a life sentence was Im posed Later a mob broke Into the county jail, seized Wash and hanged him from a railroad bridge. The prosecuting attorney charges the deputy sheriff fall-d to make a serious attempt to thwart the mob.

Ship Trimmer T 1 e> *>, •—-» * ACCURATI TRIMMINB of steel plates la necessary before they are ready Is be welded lots ships, so this worker st the Kearny, N. J, shipyards cuts away a few tpchas of unwanted metal. With He acetylene torch be trims the plate* *o perfectly, they It within a traction of an inch when hoisted down and placed in the hull. (Inf smell one! J

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en In northern New Guinea and on Cape Gloucester In New Britain island. east of New Guinea. The Allied fliers also raided enemy bases in the clusters of Islands between New Guinea and Australia. The latest attacks by Mas Arthur's airmen were carried out yesterday on the first anniversary of Jimmy Doolittle's famous raid on Japan. And today It is know tor the first time that the Shangri lai from which the fliers took off for their spine-tingling adventure was one or more airfraft carriers. Raymond Lavelle, an Argentine diplomat who was in Tokyo when the Doolittle raiders swooped over the city, says he has never seen such panic. Lavelle has resigned his post in protest against what he described as his country's service 'as the eyes and ears" of the Japanese government in the western hemisphere. lu Burma. British fliers have have blasted the Japanese base of Pinbon. starting a large number of fires. And British land troops on patrol have fought a fierce skirmish with a band of Japanese troops in northwest Burma. "" —o Average production of mint extract is 26 pounds per acre

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Gen. MacArthur Lauds Wainwright Defender Os Bataan Given High Praise Hartford, Conn.. Apr I>—(VP) —General MacArthur from faroff Australia haa joined Connecticut's general assembly In praise and a prayer (or General Wainwright, imprisoned defend r ot Bataan. MacArthur's cable to Mrs. Wainwrigbt lauded her husband as an honored soldier who did his duty, and prayed he would soon be back lu the ranks. In slate ceremonies broadcast worldwide by rhort wave radio. Governor Baldwin prea nted Mrs Wainwright with a legislative resolution expressing "heartfelt gratitude" to Connectl-i-ul's famous sou.

MacArthur, who turned over the Philippine defense to Wainwright when ordered to Australia said hi bls cable: "The rolls of no stale hi the Union are emblazoned more heroically than those of Connecticut.

and no name shines more brightly on that great scroll than that of General Wainwright God grant that before long we may have him back In our ranks, an honored soldier who did his duty.” Philippine pr aident Manuel Queson joined hl the tribute to Wainwright. He told the joint assembly session: ' You owe General Wainwright the pledge that he , . . and the Filipinos aoon will be liberated from th • Invader" .— ' o- — — — Grand Jurors Will Convene Tuesday The April term grand jury of the Adams circuit court will reconvene Tuesday merning after temporarily adjourning last week. The jury has been called into special session to investigate a criminal matter. prosecutor John L. DeVoss stated when the venire was issued

A number of witneases were summoned before the jury while It was in session last week. It is also considered likely that the jury may Investigate other criminal matters, since II la empowered to act in that manner. Before adjourning Its session the grand jury will Inspect the county buildings, which is required

DEWEY AND LANDON -J If i Jr JI TAIKINO TO OOV. THOMAS f. DEWEY In the exerntty, Albany is Alfred M. Landon (right), ex-governor of porters that Dewey's handling of the New Y.,rk State li-bwSB attracting much attention in the midwest.

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