Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1943 — Page 1

Sit Win th* War! i se Is Chores!

I No. 105.

RATION’S COAL MINERS RETURNING JO PITS

Byde Bebout Is Wied In Action Bi Africa Front

JtA Adams County JBaltv Reported bK North Africa; SKon April 12 «.!■ I' hk ' '' r u 1 ><• I;. i.mu' i r ikk the ■nt i* ' ’■" ■ "■'''' HHy • I ''" sMlylsw " IIBIIm ai i'. Haß rnuiry. '42 ' ' • u •' ■ ' "• -■!..' I ■ 1 11 IB K> ' bbhm> I.- .•, . i. ■ B* ' ' ■ ! XV:c*'B 1 - ■ i I' .•- c.luuin «> GHB Bice DeVilbiss Mhis Morning t Former Prominent Lady Dies l"SI|l!' l| ill F.'.'-'ll-e I. 11. *■’ '" bollle "t h‘ < WM- ••'••* \. *1 111 .l' 'Bsfl m H* HiHB '*'' '*"' ■ vi ' 11 ; EB B^B*'' '""" ■""* '•’i , i..i year* ~;■.! m ' *'" ■’ '■ • ' "*"' s ' !t •' IL !m .... f MIB ■'' :. n-Vm.i.- «,- '' ' ,r :||! -' ■>■ i-'ii.k.' ..f Mun at. 1 Hl-' 888” 1 ' -’ ■' * ■ * |W " ' I'" •■• ggo- ■■-< M '“ it ‘ ,i * i> ■ l||||V* ' '* '* -• '■' U ' II ll‘ ! n BBt 41M A !t ,t " i> *•■'•• " : ''• d Sh.- »J, i„. / * • k funeral home rt ""ning |., ~ < 1... k '•■-’•i in charge Th.READING I’WJCPat THERMOMETER M* ■ "’• ■ ■ 4e IB’"’ <e I&4, w «athm ’’"UM: Mn> lnu , l j cool light front m FB*' 110 " tonght.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

War Casualty ... ' ■ |g> MK* **?* Jw] ® Clyde C. Hi'bout. noil of John E Bebout. died in North Afti. i April 12. Adams coimiy'H rirst reportwl death in the Tiliiislan cainpaiKn Bebout entered th. armed nervic January 13. If'l2 Adams Post Sponsors May War Bond Sales Kreischer, Jaberg County Co-Chairmen Adam* county l.eaionnalrcs join cd their to tmo Hoarder comrade* Imlay In openitiK tire on the Axis with war bond dollar*. .Many < I the Ant' rican la aion bond sale* men. whose Job II will be to sell the extra bond* during May. remember firing other kin I* of pro jet tll<» at some of the same eltetnie* ju«t 25 yeare ago. "We re out to Hell all the bond* we tan bei ause < f that, because w. know the need of tiKhtlag melt for these fighting dollar* that buy bullet*, gun*, tank* and plane*. *ald Commander Lloyd Krektcher. of Adam* Po*t No t! who will di reel the drive in Adam* county. a**i«ted by Ed Jaberg. t ot halrman “We know that . Very dollar invest etl ill bond* A'o'lbl help I'.et It* home that much ». otter. Our l<oy* in North Africa ami the south wtot Parlflc know that, too." A* the drive began for the |H3.170 quoin, county ex cutlve < hair man Earl Caston, of the war saving* ataff. announced that only sale* of E bond* will count toward quota. The la-gl n. however, ha* decided not only to help ..-II enough E bond* to tmet the quota, but to sell the other two aerie* F and <• bond*, also. In moHt countie*, la'gionnaireand member* of the l<gi n A.txil lary, which number 22.m«’ in the stat*, will organise tor a hott*e tohouse canva**. Every Industrial plant, etore and .dine also will be Moli. ited Chill. 10-'. lio.'L "‘ I laluir organiiatioti* will be "•signed for . all*. --O— Doughton Demands Rumi Plan Scrapped New Debate Opened On Pay-Go Proposal Washington. May 3. 'l l’' Chairman Koliert Boughton of the house wajM and mean* committee has opened the new pay a* you go tax debate with a demand that the Rumi skip-a year plan he thrown into the scrap head poughton t Id the house that the Rumi plan which Is backed by the R. publican* - should be. a* he put it. “killed so dead that It will never again Inresurrected." Adoption of the Rum! plan wou.d be unju*tidable at any ton- Ifeugh ton declared, and he added that it te “unthinkable’ that the bill should be approved at a time when the government n-eJ* revenue so badly. Instead, the North Carolina Democrat said, the house should ad opt bls treasuryendorsed proposal That plan would forgive par: of _ (Twalrr PageVcelama «>

Mateur Falls To American, French Troops Vital Junction 20 Miles From Bizerte Is Taken By Allies Allied ll'-ad piariei*. North As rira. May 3 <lT' The Allie* j hav captured the North Tunisian i town of Mateur. vital lall ami road I junction 2<i mile* *outhw>**t of j Bizerte The action first was re-1 ported in a broadtaat from radio Algier* ami later wa* confirmed In an official announcement by General Eisenhower. General El* iihower raid that American and French troop* took the town in a swift surge eastward against yielding German positions. The announcement doe* not reveal any <|etails of the action, but radio Algiers brondt ast a French communiqu which said that French colonial* had smashed forward to reach a point II and inn* half mile* from Bizerte These force* are fighting in the coastal j sector north of Mateur and north I I of troop* from the American army I second corp*. The m-w gain* po* a sudden threat to the great Axis naval base of Bizerte ami follow a weekend lull In the African campaign. Th.* Allied advance in the north has netted CH Axis prisoners. •# of whom ar German*. Meanwhile, at the foot of the Tunisian "coffin corner," the German* made a small attack against th.- veteran British eighth army after General Montgomery’s men had heavily bombanled th ir position* Th<- eighth army i.-pulsed the a -ault easily. on the southwestern front. ( Frem h patrol* thrust close to the village of I’oiit dii Fah and ret lurried that the area I* Very heavily mim-d. I In the air. Allied plane* rak.il enemy tank* and troop carrier* a* well a* Axis position*, starting numerous fire*. A bull tin from Allied headquarter* in t'tlro reveal* that five enemy bomle-r* were shot down during a raid on Allied shipping In ' ill., eastern Mediterranean Katitr(Turn To I‘ag® <. Column 3» - • oMrs. Sarah Borders Dies Sunday Morning Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon r Mr*. Sarah Border*. 72, former I well known Adatn* county resti dent and mother of Corp Tech i James Border*, di d Sunday morn- > Ing at 3 o’clock at her horn.- In ; i Kent. <> I h ath was caused by complication* and followed an lllnes* of several year* Mrs Border* wa* born In Blue Cre.-k township on January 1. IS7I. I and resided in this county until . six month* ago. when -h moved I to Kent. Her husband. David, preceded her in death Rurviving are four children Corp Jame*. a former Decatur police chief now with the I’. 8. army at Staten Island. New York. Joe and May of K nt. O and Mr*. Thoma* McGaugh of Celina. O.; a brother. Otis Him* of Fort Wayne and a sister. Mr*. Charles Morrison of route six. Decatur. Funeral service* will be held Tuesday afternoon ft 2 o'clock at the Zwlck funeral home, with Rev William F Her. pastor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, officiating Burial will be in the Willshire, o. cemetery. ’ The body will arrive this evening and may be viewed at the 1 Zwlck fun ral home until time for ' th.- services. BULLETIN Washington. May 3—(UFI — American fliers attacked Japanese held Kiska in the Ateu--1 tiana 13 more fimeo last Saturday. The navy announce* in a communique that fire* were 1 started and an explosion wa* 1 touched off. • On the *am* day. American 1 flier* blasted two enemy base* on Attu Island. 200 mile* to th* w**t Os K'*k« Bomb* were dropped on Holt* Bay ’ and Chicagof harbor on Attu.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May 3, 1943

Laval Bomb Target Again J I A ii I \ JF Pierre Isival. li-fl above. Vichy chief of government. I* reported to have been th- target o( it bomb blast again With him wa* Pierre * athala. right. lii* secretary. Laval ii-porti-dly e«i p»-d serious Injury, but t'a 1 thala wa* ho*pltallzed It was -aid the incident occurred after a< in feretice betwe. Il Laval and Hitler

Center Control Staff Will Meet Tonight Air Raid Wardens To Meet Wednesday Citizen* defense corp* activities In Decatur will be etepp'd up con siderably this week. It wa* shown today. In anticipation of Hie ap proachlng "air raid" by CAI’ plane* <n Memorial Day afternoon. Muy 30 Milton Swearingen, center control chief, today call'd a I ting of the ceiiti i' control staff corp* f> r H o'clock tonight In the city hall and urg'd that all members be present promptly Chief Swearingen cite I th.- fai t that during the "paper Immh raid' on .Memorial Day. al' calls and ills patching of unit* will be handled thn ugh center conttol and urged nu tuber* to be pn nt tonight to go through the nr*t of a serie* of "brush lip” program* The next meeting will be held at (Turn To Pag* f. Column 41

Can You Spare A Few Acres

Adam* county has about 2.200 farm* with som> 200,<hh> acre* f tillable land. Most <d thi» land la devoted *o raising of corn, soybeans, hay and, other farm crops. including oats, wheat, and pasture, with a generous sprinkling of garden prodine and orchards. There Is no dispute with the farmer who decides what he wants to raise. He knows best as to rotation of crops, the adaptability of «oil and the running of his farm plant. Compared to the total a small percentage of our county acreage has been devoted to the raising of sugar beets. I*ast year 2.ORR acres, or a shade over one percent were sowed to beets. I'P lodate than "50 acres have been contracted in thH county for the 1943 season. If only two percent of the acreage were alloted to sugar beet*, this county, the home of Indiana's only refinery, cculd furnish 4.H* acres, or approximately 40.1*00 tons of beets, equivalent to 12 million pound* of sugar. More than half of the sugar now awed in the Vnited States comes from our sugar beet crop Any serious reduct i n In the sugar beet acreage will doubtless mean a cor responding reduction in each family’s sugar bowl. The 36 million pounds of sugar produced by th* local plant last year provided the ration quota of 2< pound* annually for almrot I 500.000 people.

Germans Boast Os Sinking 77 Allied Ships Last Month (By I'nlted l’i'ie*i The German* Pre boasting that they «ank 14 Allied w,.r-'i p* and 63 merchant ships last month. A communique credit* I'-liOlU with | exacting moot of the toll in raids on supply line# Th<- German* claim thi* include* an aircraft carrier, a cruiser, five dintrovers and nix sub marlnie. They -ay a subchaser. 11 E boat* and a palnil boat were damaged Til" German i lamia of large succnsse* al »e;i ar - invariably exaggerated Clean-Up Week Is Opened In Decatur The annual clean up we k opened in Decatur tin* mornin; with n crew of the city street department manning trucks at an « .iil,’ hour to ph k uy the first o' the eollei tlou of tin can* and other rubbell Citizen* are urged to • ooper.it' l in the campaign by having the traoli pill'd in I colitaitH ! along tin ' curb or tilb-y.

The farmer has a gn at proble m this year, handicapp I as he Is with the lack of In Ip His sons have gone to war But sugar Is a war necessity and arrangements have been completed to tiling the Heeded Inlmr for the bee's from Texao to this terrltoiy. The sugar company giv-s the assurance that sufll< lent help will be available to the beet grower The Mexican Is anxious I work and d<> his *har- in the field*. Including the harvesting of tomatoes and other crops that require stoop labor. Are we overlooking a very serious problem h-re by not attempting an attack on the sugar *h rtage* If the acr<-age is cut in half, the run Will colt-e quetitly be cut in two, resulting in a great loss to the processor. to the farmer and thc«ce who seek employment in th mill. Food Administrati r Cheater A Davis. Governor Hchricker of Indi ana. Governor Bricker of Ohio, the Indiana and Ohio Slate War Boards, the Adams County War Board and many interested farmers ask that more sugar beets . . . more sugar Id- grown in ihl* and ether counties Th-rec still plenty of time to sow sugar beet seed The need for more acreage Is vital. l-and ow ners. farmers, farm op-rators. can you spare a few acres for sugar I beets this year* Adams county haw not fallen down in meeting any war Bred

15-Day Truce Announced By John L. Lewis Shortly Before Roosevelt Plea

British Fliers Given Setback In Australia Heavy Losses Are Inflicted By Japs In Raid On Darwin IBy I’nited Pi efcO Tough. British Spitfire* have met their tirst setback in the Pa< itic in an encounter over Port liarw in An Australian broadcasting commission < orrespondent reveal* that | it was the famous Biitlsh 11/htei craft that stiff-red heavy losses In I the Japanese raid on li.iiwin y> * i terday Antiaircraft batteries kept the raider* so high they could do littb- damag- to their target* But Allied air 1 **.v weie reported a* unusually heavy The Nipponese raid on Pott Darwin came a f- w hour* after Au*J tralian army minister F M Forde warm-1 that Australia stfii b In Imminent danger of attack Forde tol<i reporter* at a press conference that if I'liiieil Nation* strategy I* not played correctly Australia will be ov< rruti A high Chinese military strategist Join* Forde in warning of Japane e < ffeti Ive plan* Gen ral Vang t'hb-li <le< hire- tliat Japan will launch a new drive at the first opportunity And he predie I- It may lie aimed at Amilralia and New Z- aland The general warns that if the two British Pai ill' dominions fall, Nippon will have a military castle that w II be unshakable for nil turi'-s He urge, an early Allied offeiislv* to t'.p et the Japanese time table But the Japams, i amv out sir Olid be-t ill anotllet eticnlltltcr With I Allieil pilot.- 'hi-, time OVI th flood ravaged rh't tb-bl* I l euttal China Fifty Nipponese plane* were engaged by about a third a* many American fll-1 - in a two hour dogfight The Jap* finally were driven off. according to a Chinese di-pitch witli nndetetmim-d los»e< All American pianist return'd ■ 1 1. 11l Burma, th. royal air for< • at lacked Japatieee position* south of Bnthldaiing j La ml lighting I* gt wing more furious <>n 'he east side of the i Maytt ridge In western Burma The British <nt up one Nipponese patrol party without »uff> ring a 10.- • Turn T.. Page «. Column '• Josephine C. Lauby ’Dies This Morning I Funeral Services Wednesday Morning Mr* Josephine C Muby. 62. died at 2:55 o'clock th'* morning at the home of a daughter. Mrs. Ed A. lUstee, IM North Second street. Ib-ath was caused by complications after a lengthy Illness She ».w born in Washington. Indiana. March S. Iffffl. the daughter of Jeeeph an I Anna Kaasler She was married to Maurice latuby in Washington. April S. HH»7 Following hi* death in IML Mrs Lauby had made be." tiome with her daughter In thia city. Surviving are four diughten* Mrs. Hoaae. Mr*. J C Sutton. Jr and Mrs Forrest Warner, all of this city, and Mrs. M Ferrta of Huntington; one sister. Mm. J B Mattingly of Champaign. 111. and fit ■ grand children One m»i died in infam y She was a member of the St Mary's Catholic church Funeral servlceo will be held at the church, with Rev J J Seimetx officiating Bur.al will le in the Catholic cemetery The t»»dy wa* removed to the Gillig and Doan! funeral home, where it may be' ' viewed after » o'« 'o< k 'hat • vrnmg 'BtnDPO I

Coal Miners Happy To Return To Jobs Weep Unashamed At Roosevelt's Plea I'm ntown I’.i May '• il’l'i No group of American- is h ippie today than the grimy, hai I mu • •*l min< r* of the Pennsylvania <oal fleids You don't qm-stioii the patriot' m of these nil'll in theii presence Many of them wep' una-ham <1 la- ' : night a* they *at in their unpalnt ••d shanties to hear th-' p:. idem . plead With them to get In. k t > digging coal forth- b y* at the i front And they are grateful th it thing* have turned out so they don't have Io ' hoiee bi-tW'ei n th* ! pH-'hl' nt of the I'nlted State* and I tin- president of tlh'lr union The miller* gatheie,) tlieit wiv< and children around hem to Ji-t- n Io the pr»-*ld< 111 * appeal The Will I already had been passed around that Lewi* had ordered them back to work Hui some of the lo< al of fli'i't* were afraid the order might not go through, and they told illminer* to listen to th- president, then make up their own mind* Mr* Grace CaSserly cried all through the president * *pe,-< h a* she Hal by the radio with her min er hit-band When the National an III' 111 wa* played, she leaped to Iler feet, ten., streaming down h* r fa." Iler father and a da n"it. Inlaw ,-obbed will het Sh< ha* four son ill the »e. tie George I'..' ky loads coal and ia* tough a mini a . you are likely to find Bitt h<- wept uiiasliamed while Mr Roo-evelt sp >k" And when the president wa flu meh. he <'rie I "I tlitnk we ought to :• back to work Patterson Gives Committee Report Seek Settlement Os Priorities Battle Wa-hlngtoli May 3 il’l’i rndersei'i'elaty id war Patbr-01l say* th< army navy and rtlblo-r administration are gom tn tty 10l work out a *.iti t.n toiy solution | of theii spirited prinritie- <om i petition I'atter-oii report that I ii* plan* a -wing around the eoiin-: try with tubb.-r dir ctor Will un| I. 0. ■ • and unde - • iry ' navy Jam** Fori.'-tal The pll po-e of the forthcoming t'ip th.-i war undersecretary -ay- will be' Io break botfb'li ik wb. v. they are found I’atteixm t< tifi.d thi* morning at the Tinman committee ■ inv.-« tlgathut of the di-pu’. Iletw.'.'lii the three agenci * ove. prjorttb - for i omponetit parts for lini-oi't in. gasoline synthetic rubhi r fin torn-* mil escort ship- He revealed that hi- and Jeffcr* have m t sinie he proteatml piildiely two week ago that the aviation gasoline shortage was created by the granting of prforitle to the rubber progr im And referring tn th rubber chief Patterson said "We bidieve that. Working tie gether. we ran solve this thing Patterson told the Truman committee. however, that the -hortaae of high octal: gasoline I* very real l|«- said petroleum administration figure* show then- will be a shortage of llwm barrels u day of the plane fuel during May And that shortage, he d> dared, will m-ceasitat • a cut in the training of combat air crew* in this i oimtry Retail Merchants To Meet Wednesday Fred Schulte, chairman of the retail committer of the Chamber of Commerce, today called a meeting of all retail mer. !ian*>* of the city, to lie held at the city hall Wednesday evening at 73" o’clock Cloo- : .tig of the store* for a half day each week will be dia< u«*d. and al! merchants are requested to be I present.

Buy War Savings Bonds And Stamps

Price Three Cents

Some Pay Increase Believed Likely; Lewis And Ickes To Lead Negotiations By I rdt.-.l Pf--Th.- buck tn wo k mowmen* I among th<- -oft < o.i! mines* i* well llllll' l w iy Report- mdn !’■■ -.mi.- I-' I" IH-rielit of th'' *oB ' 'll mine* may b opi-ruliiig b.foi. the d*y I* IIV.-I- But the hold .O il millei * i apparently an' waiting until to- ; mol tow wln-a ’ln- la day tinie I atmouiiccil by John L le-w * offiI dally gi» into • ft. ct The I'.day postponement of th'-.-trike wa- agie d on y. -ti-rdiy between ..I.'ary of Interior ;|. ke .mil 1.. wi« It wa mnoiince<| by la-wi* jll t befo: Ptesld.'llt H,... . v.-it w. nt ..ii th air with hi* ipp. a! to the millet * to . i b id, to : work I’ndi-f the agreement, th'' union i ri-cognixe* a new < uildiiyer in tile governm n' and will negotiate a eontract pre imably diie.-tly with lek'-* Th.- miner .-•■ii. 'ally aro I . ype. ted to get mill" pay increase either in the form id i six day guarant i d work week f >r the duration or th>- adoption of portal-to-portal pay or both Either plan would give the millet more money without t.chnii illy violating the little steel wage formula L'-wi- ha* called a meeting o( Hi. I’niti-d Min Worker, inter, national polity commit!'-'- for thi* ’ aftenii'oii to di'iur<-iimptioli ol I contract negotiation* \ IMW spok>-mall iy* hasn't been decid'd whether the negotiation* will I be resum'd in N w York or transfer!. <1 '. Wa hhlgt m The Iran*- . fer may be artalig' d h<. ittse th" i miner- now mu*t deal with tlio government a thei employ r There I* -om. h< itamy a* the i millet* ft). li.n k to w.ck today. . \ W. t Virginia ituioii ..ffi.-.-r - iy- t ' neo min. • . hi hi* d. trlct. I won ' in.- I i.monow iii.rnIllg 'ill.. till! * the time the Il li. ..ft ■I i I -1.11 ' 111 KellI tn. ki m ..ft • al id di.-trlcf 111 iy* I no miii.-t* w. e m hand at th** -tai' of ‘he d.v -Ii " tod i>'. I'd I t"pl I-, nta! 11. of di 'rjit .'o reI port* that non <>f that urea * 21 min.'f* « ’’ t»-p" ’ Info ■> i the night -hist tonight 4in th< o'h.o hand inlori spok •• i men e tlmafe that m<n. thin half of llliti'.i- '*"• min. li.ne retut It' d 1.1 w.n k \i .1 till I II- ay i they will try to re'urn ill of Ohio’* 25 lllllH'l 4 'lulus Most of th 111. ii . xp' ■ - re| . f at r turning to th* ... " S'.-io I Grin, hi who aoik* a' hifllbert ' mino mar I’nhmtowu, Pa. -aid: '1 feel lik going to Work I . realize just what the pt’esidenC ! -aid W must k. -p at work if u I .» ' .1' ! h.'lp i our - «it» r iht 4 i ! Th.’ p«- «h b.t‘« f| h- ippf .it Lt ■ n . .' i ' ■ • * • < - • •! ' • (Turn To P‘*«f <. Column 6) Expect Big Battles Soon On Red Front Says Russian Troops Land Behind Lincs (By I nit "I Pr«*> Th.- who:. Russian W ex-p«-et»*| to explode Irt.i big Hale battle. m >iti. ii'.i ly F on' di-pntchen indi ite hat i»di th-- German and Rus* an a mh-v. • .impa"<4 r"I grouping their strength. Several Urge *< ale eng ig*m<»nt» I already have been joined in th" mirth***" t’aui ,»*u- wher" the Germa no are clinging otubborßly to their Kuiian bridgehead. Th.- Ixmdon radio today qnnte4 Stockholm dispatches saying that Rus-tan troop* have landed iwhim! the Gerrmn linen on th" e.-a of Axov and th" Black Sea < oa«t The dispatches claim the Red army m«n have been battling strong German and Rumanian force* for two day*. In the t'kralne. ■ Ge,man Infantry battalion of l.ffho m-*n into Soviet pasitiOM 23 mile* *ontbea*t of Kharkov only tn be burled hack In the Ore! sectivr, tTara To I’ag* t. Celuaia 1)