Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 1943 — Page 1

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■LIES SMASH ACROSS VOLTURNO RIVER

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Lanese Port L w Britain Is |e Heap After J Allied Blow I t inted Press’ Lft o f in New F^. n »H *»ut knocked ■of the greatest air atL fir fc, Arthur* flying ar**K7>ie port a blackened challenge* imagin' < L„j ind nineteen Jap* L s<rt »unk or blown ; |j*„! and »eventy seven i Es vete kn<» ked out o' ■ wbtiiMtne lender and i ■ cargo vessel were hit i ■d wrerely Lrn. a warehouse, wat-anti-aircraft Ey» and fuel ami amL»[» were destroyed. Ijapan-a- trucks were ifiai.V'hur neatly sums Lion with these wcrds: K crsihlnx and decisive I tie enemy " ■tot been a key enemy it tou'.hwtso Pacific. It ■ tn Truk as one of the ttii air and sea liases ■ Japanese homeland. ma.Uble plane in the ■ Pwcifi* took part in the ltd is planned in great w teeks. Mb mteUigenie officers | part of the plan. And 1 !>• one raid--It was a ■unc attack which tcok May and Wednesday. ■of planes took off from I alands just north of In They probably w>-re |ltd Woodlark. JOO miles ■M it boßib was dropped at ■by and the enemy was ■■patny by surprise, ■enter* swept low over natty airdromes. LiberI Tlymg Fortreeseg hamhmut in the harbor, pt Se tons of bomb* pd The gunners fired pds <rf ammunition, plait bomb fell the airft* pock-mocked with p buildings were a heap ■ aetal waterfront inF** r * blanketed with P smog*-and dead—pd lbs harbor. of Japanese losses Htt'royers three marp •! cargo vessels and F *“’*• •»r* sunk or deJapanese planes oa the g« und and U3 «-4 severely. We in *ll. L?** *' headquartE* ib» Japanese lost 60 »ir force. R* r *»°n« g;,„ UM LJ* * °»*r the Solowal'r * “nd tUI ,h * ml « h; r L ’ * <»n‘fned to softrntttkm f w a pomoqe Caused r "Tuesday t*? ‘* r ;iH w *” F'Za to* We<h * ■a»T„ * • P’ntpkla Rl iX ,h * wind °» ? Lrt 'le damage was Eu?/ 1 R tAOiy»a | jHtfiMOMrrtu ka. —- —- M —■ « —■— M R: “ oww P ust* aoe-

Start Hoosier Dad Draft In November All Local Boards To Begin Father Draft Indianapolis. Oct. 14. — (UP! — The real draft of Hoosier fathers will begin neat month. , That's the statement of Indiana selective service director Robinson Hitchcock. He says all local b ar Is will be forced to cal! up bona fide fathers in November. Meanwhile. Indiana Is embarkupon a state-wide checkup to make sure that every available non-fatb-er Is called. Medical field examiners will be assigned to ea< h draft board In the state to look Into medical cases and the educational backgrounds cf all men In class 1-A or about to be put into that classification. The Information obtained by the field examiners will be sent to the Induction station for use In passing upon the registrants' qualifications for service. The selective service director reveals that a good many Hoosier fathers already are in the armed forces. He says numbers of bona fide fathers are going to their local draft boards and asking for induction. because they believe the war will be over aoon and they want to get Into the fight and become war veterans before It is too late. Most of the draft boards are honoring such requests. Hitchcock says, even though some of the fathers who ask to be inducted must leave essential jobs. Reject Many Youths Washington. Oct 14 (UP) The chief of the selective service medical division— C< lone! Leonard | itowutree — reveals that many 181 and 19-year-olds are not m-a**uring up to army standards. Rowntree says 22 percent of white youngsters and 45 percent of the negroes In this age group have been rejected. The report Is based on 45.000 draft board examination* made during December, January and February. The official data — published In the American Medical Association Journal -reveals that the rate of rejection is ouly slightly lower than that for older.men. —o Graveside Services Friday Morning Graveside »ervices will lie held Friday morning at the Decatur cemetery for Robert Smith, who died Sunday. Funeral services were held yesterday but burial was withheld until a nephew. Robert Ray. who is In naval service, arrives. i -o- —— Three Accidents Are Reported By Police No One Injured In Wrecks Wednesday Three traffic accidents occurred In the city late Wednesday, police chief Ed Miller reported today At 4 p m Wednesday, care driven by Selma Koeneman. 18. of route two, Decatur and E. A. Crider. M. 220 South Tenth street, collided on Jefferson street in front of the high schorl building The accident occurred as the former drove her car away from the curb. Damage was estimated at 12" The accident was reported to officer Adrian Coffee. At 6:20 p. m. Wednesday a car driven by Iva Fuhrman. W. of route one. Decatur, and another operated by IfAier Feasel. 40. of 115 North FIRh street. ccUlded at Monroe and Second streets. Officer Coffee, who investigated estimated dam Me it N. Cars driven by Oscar Ainsworth. <». of route three. Decatur and Charles Mcßride. It. of route two. Decatur, collided at 7 So p m on Grant afreet at Mercer avenue Officers Coffee and Sephus Melchi inveetlcated and estimated damage at IH.

Postwar World Is Subject Os Senate Study Resolution Calls For U. S. Support To Maintain Peace Washington, Oct. 14 (I'Pl Th*- worll if tomorrow is the order of the day on capitoi hill. A resolution dealing with the In-, ternational set-up after the war has been drafted by a senate foreign ri latlons tuilecommittee. And now it goes to the full committee for study. The resolution calls fcr America's support of an international organization to maintain the peace of the world. Already the resolution has be- n branded as “100 general” both !»y senators who want a p st-war international orgfinizatlon and by senatom who frown on such an arrangement. Senator Pepper of Florida says, "The resolution Is good as far as it goes.” But he wants It to go farther. Senator Van Nuys of Indiana thinks just the opposite. He say* that if the resolution means we're going to cooperate In an international police force he'll vote against it. However, many senators are said to favor the resolution. And there | are strong Indications that it will I pasn the scrutiny of the full foreign relations committee that it possibly might pass the senate itself. The house of representatives already has passed a post-war resolution. And the house now is concerned with taxation — subsidies—and allotments ft r servicemen's dependents. In the battle over taxes, the pro posal for a 10 percent federal sales (Turn To Pngs 1. Column 1) o— Green Re-Elected As AFL President Pledges Labor Will Support War Effort Boston. Oct 14—(I'Pt William A Green has been re-elected president of the American Federation us labor for his 20th term Green pledges that labor will support the war effort until, as he put* It, our troops march into Berlin and Tokyo. Concerning labor's own problems. Green promise* that when "wayward” unions return to the federation, the rights of unions already in the AFL will be respected. Green apparently was referW Ing to the expected return of John L. Lewis and hl* I'nlted Mine Worker* to the federation. Re-election of secretary treasurer George Meany and most of the 13 vice president* also seems assured. The delegates now are speculating on how soon the l'nlt«*d Mine Workers, under John L. Lewi*, will be received back Into the organization The convention extended the welcome mat to the Ijewis group yesterday Delegates voted to have the executive council negotiate with Lewis on a plan for re admission Await Directive Springfield. 111. Oct. 14—(l'P»— I'nlted Mine Workers at two AllisChalmers plants in Springfield are awaiting the arrival of a war labor board directive. And the I MW war workers say they'll de cide whether to walk off their job* on the liaals of information contained in the WLB directive. The local ( MW union and a (Tura Te P*g* Cqluma 1) — —O Execute Norwegians For Wrecking Train Stockholm. Oct. 14 —(1 Pl Tto» execution of five Norwegians for the wrecking of a Nazi troop train was announced today In a German military communique a>- a new wave of sabotage swept Norway and Denmark. The Danish proas service, in a dispatch reporting the executions, said the troop train wa* wrecked October 7. Well-informed sources said a considerable number of Na zto were killed.

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1913 Philip Nolan? ' -- ‘ V "• *4 4 1 Jk ■ Stanley Mocarsky. above, of Hartford. Conn., may become a 1943 personification of Philip Nolan. Edward Everett Hale's famous "Man Without A Country" Found guilty of draft evasion. Mocarsky was sentenced hy Federal Judge Carroll C. Hlncks either to leave the I'. S within 30 day* "never to return" or to servo a prison sentence Expect Willkie To Bid For Nomination Willkie Feuds With Missouri Leaders St. Louis. Oct. 14.—tlTl Wen i dell Willkie is expected to make i forthright bid for a second Republican presidential nomination in hi* St. Ixui* speech tomorrow night. Ami he'll do it against a background of hostility. For the speech Itself Is the outcome of a heated feud with Missouri Republican party leaders. The 1940 G.O.P. standard bearer probably will not announce his candidacy formally until the first <f the year, but his speech in St. Ixiuts is viewed as a move to force the Missouri party leader* to accept him through pressure of rank-and-file party members. The feud between Willkie and the state party leader* led by Edgar Queeny. wealthy manufacturer and heavy contributor to G O. I’.funds — came into the open last month. At that time, the 194» Missouri delegation —3he first to back Willkie at the 194<» c< nventlon —submitted nine question* to the former presidential candidate W illkle refused to answer them, describing them a* "ridiculous." However. he offered to dls> u»» the question* at an off-the-record confer(Turn To P»g» 1. Column Z> —o- I- - - — Spain May Be Next To Desert Hitler Fold Withdraws Troops From Russian Front By I'nlted Press Adolf Hitler I* reported t« have suffered hi* third diplomatic defeat In as many days. Reliable reports fiom Lisbon say that Spain has withdrawn her blue division from the Russian front. And t morning, two Spanish diplomats arrived In Ixmdon to heighten the speculation . that Generalissimo Franco will be the next target of the Allied diplomatic offensive Portugal already ha* virtually slid down from her neutral shelf by granting the Allie* air and sea base* In the Azore* And Italy doubled tlfe blow at shaky Nazi morale yesterday by declaring war on her one-time Azl* partner. Now there are rumors that Spain is making a bld for new cordiality with the Allie*. When the blue division went to Russia in 1941. much fascist fan faro bailed It as a symbol of Spain'* solidarity with Axis Europe again*: tbs so-called "bolsbevIst threat.” But for some time there have been hints that Franco is losing - faith In Hitler's chances for vic tory. and that be has been taming a more polite ear to the Allies. '

70 Persons Injured In Train Derailment Passenger Train Is Derailed In Montana Mlle* City. Mont . Oct. 14 (I'Pl —.Moro than 70 persons were Injured when a Deluxe Milwaukee road passenger train was derailed II miles west of Miles City this morning. Five are said to lie critically hurt, but no one was killed. Railroad officials In Seattle helievo a broken rail caused the accident. Approximately 400 passengers were aboard the train, the Olympian, when the accident occurred. All 16 car* plunged off the track ju»t after the train rounded a wide curve. One giddier was thrown through a window A apeclal hospital train sped to the scene from Mlles City soon after the accident. Although all the cars left the rail, none overturned. The engine remained on the tracks. The train fortunately was derailed on the north side of the track. Had it gone off on the other side it would have plunged into the deep Yellowstone river which parallel* the Milwaukee road from Miles City to North Dakota. — ""O' Italian Prisoners Worry Over Families Camp Atterbury. Ind.. Oct. 14 — tl'Pi Italian prisoner* at Camp Atterbury are neither happy nor downcaot about Italy'-- declaration of war against Germany. Army officers say the prisoners are moat concerned instead about their families e-pecially those in German occupied territory. Rut no group expresion can lie formulated becatan- there are both lladoglio supporters and fascists among the Hallan>i interned at the Indiana po-t. o — Truck Drivers End Slrike In Southeast War Materials Are Again On The Move Atlanta. Os.. Oct. 14 H'Pl War materials again are on the move in the southeast as some 10.000 truck drivers return to work Union officials and representatives of the federal labor conciliation service held a day-long meeting in Atlanta yesterday. The meeting led to an agreement that union officials would return to their various headquarter* and urge the driver* to call off their strike The union officials made Jheir request, and the striker* voted to return to work. In th»» meantime* federal laltor officials will urge the war laltor Iwiard to hurry action on a wage increase request The strike had tied up about H.'HHi tons of freight In Nashville, Birmingham. New Orleans. Memphis. Atlanta and other cities. Coal Miners Strike Birmingham. Ala.. Oct. 14 — lI'Pl —The return of the nation's coal mines to private management ha* led to a strike of nearly 3.tHH> miners in Alabama The district president of the I'nlted Mine Workers says he has been given no official report of the walkout. Hut he says he understands the men struck to enforce a previous pledge by the I'MW-a pledge to work without a contract only for the government. The strike has stopped production in at least six. Alabama pits. One-Day Walkout At Connersville Ended Conne-rville. Ind . Oct. 14—(UP) — More than 500 workers at the Me-quay-Norrfai manufacturiag com pany in Connersville have returned to work following a occ-djy walkout. However, th» resumption of production to accompanied by a request to the national labor relatioM tioard to tahe a strike vote, it * one of the flr t such reqi-rot* made in Indiana. Employe* walked out yeuterday protesting failure of the war labor board to announce action on a wage dispute last July. At a meet lug last night, the worfcera agreed to go bach to their Jobe pending the NLRB des toiM.

Allied Assault Forces Establish Beach-Heads On Nazi Line In Italy

Crucial Bailie I Is Raging For City 01 Kiev Germans Reported Drawing Reserves From Other Fronts R) United Pre* Powerful Russian and German armies ar** deciding the fate of , Kiev In a great battle on the west . hank of the Dnieper river. Both I sides are constantly bringing up r reinforcements Ib’th are att.uk- . Ing ami counter attai king I' I* ( one of the major battle* of the we.*. The Germans are reported draw ing upon reserves from other fronts In a determined effort to hold on to their greatest base along th*- .Dnieper river line But - th** Red army also is pouring > fresh troops, tanks, gun* and calr airy across the Dnieper into th** i same area. South of Kiev, the Nazis are I struggling to prevent the Rus-lan - troops from disrupting their dei senses The Soviet army paper > Red Star say* fierce Russian • attacks have thrown th*- Nazis off • stride, and an* preventing them - from seizing the initiative anywhere. To the north In White Russia, other Soviet forces have thrust across the Sozh river, last harrier l»efor<* the approach*** to Gomel Tho Russian* batter***! th** Nazi] defense* both north ami south of th** city, and an* in position t<> battle th.* enemy dlr*-*tly before th*, town In th** southern I'kraine. th**l Russians have blasted their w.*y I (Turn Te Page 9* Column 4> o • Jesse Burnett Rites Saturday Afternoon Funeral services for J*' e** Bur- - nett, who dl*d Wednesday at th** Adatn county memorial hospital will be held Saturday afternoon a' 1 I 15 o'clock at the Bla.k funeral ’ horn** ami 2 30 o'clock at th.- Olive 1 Chapel Methodist church in Conr veree. O. Burial will be In th*- ‘ Wright cemetery near Sp. ncervilh*. ’ O. The body may In* viewed at the ' funeral home here after < o clock ’ tonight. i • o— General Eisenhower Marks 53rd Birthday War Picture Changed Vastly In Last Year ißy United Press! Somewhere In the flaming M**di- • I terranvan theater, a quiet man , with an raey smile, is celebrating 1 , ha* 53rd birthday today He’s America's Genersl Ek en- ’ hower. leader of the developing Allied drive Into southern Europe t Today all of the free world and all of the world scon to be free know- I ‘-‘ n > battered down the European hack door to Adolf Hitler* European fortreto-. ■•* the man who is keepIng Democracy's dale with destiny. A y»’ar ax<» Elaenhower’■ ham** c was seen only Infrequently in the 1 war headline* of the world A year ago -Fl*-ld Marshal Rom j mel w» pounding at the gat**« of a Alexandria, while Frosch North Africa lay enslaved in the grip of r the traitorous Vichy government. a A year ago Italy and Sicily were a Alls bastions, while the Mediterrsn**an route between Sicily and t Tunto wa- “Bomb Alley" for Allied s shipping r Today. S» Elsenhower observes a hi* birthday, sll ot North Africa i» a a gian- Allied invasion base . . . the y Mediterranean I* an Allied sea . . . k Sicily is In our bands . . . and Italy h to at war with the Nazi* V

Two Destroyers Lost In Mediterranean Weak Japanese Raid On Attu Reported W.ishingtoii. Oct II ill’* Til** navy aiinmmces an ineffectual j Japanese air raid on American-1 hel.l Attu l land in the Aleutians. | Tills was the first air att.uk on: Afu siiue American troop- wrest*d tii** Island from th** Japanese early in June, No damage was caused. • Tin- navy also reports the loss of the I' S destroyers Bristol and Bin k in the Mediterranean N** casualty details were received in connection with the loss of the destroy* r* Th*- ship* normal !y carried aliout 250 men ea*h« They were cimiparatively modern < raf '. B*th were sunk a* a result of underwati-r explosion* Tin- Bink ! a 157" ton craft, was sunk off S*l> iii<* on Oi tolier 9 Tin- Bristol. a 1 Tim* tonner. was sunk In the Mediterranean yesterday. Th*- Attu raid was carried out at high altitude hy a formation of I** iHonbers, prvsumalily operating from Japanese base- lii th** northern Kuril** island*. Th** attack wa* directed against the Ma**aii*« Bay area of Attu American plan*** nought to intercept the .ittiu kt-rs. but apparently wf*re unsuccessful in shooting down any of tin* hoinliers The navy report*l **d n > damage to th** I'nlted Stales intei ci-ptlng fighter, or to * n**my , plan* • —• <) Yoder Funeral Rites Friday Afternoon Amos Yoder Dies At Home Wednesday \m*v* Voiler *>l. veteran employ of th** General Electric uunpany. and former own*: of a grocery ami m»*at market In Decatur, died late . W**dne-*l.iy afternoon at hi-* Inun* In this ci’y lb* had l» * n in failing ' health for several yeans ami h. • • . am** *. -iously ill in June H** wa. born In \<lam* county; D**i >*niber 27. I'**!, th** aon of t'hri- 1 tian and Elizabeth Mo.**r-Y *d**r ll** was marrl* I t*> Mary Fan* lion Hi* •• i Jun.* 3. 19<*9. and liad lived in 1»* I catr ain* >• hi* marriage. ||<* was a m**ml***r of th** Finst Methodist church, th** Ma-onlc and I 0.0 F. I***l -of D>**.itur ami •he Scot'iah Hit** of Fort Wayne Surviving liesid*** the widow are I three sat.-re Mis Lydia Roth of Fort Wayne. Mr Fr.-d Fox and Miss Clara Yode*. both of B.rm*; and four brother*. J K Sod**r of Linn Grow. David and Samuel Ym dvr. birth of n**.*r Bera**, and Jonas Yoder of Wauseon. O Funeral service* will be he'd at ’ 2:3(1 p li* Friday at th** home. 215 X*. *i Fifth atre**-. with D M O ( |>-««<*r officiating Burial will he in ' th** Decatur cemetery. The Itody wa. removed from the Zwfck funeral home to the residence this as-1 ternoon. i Three Children Burn To Death At Muncie Muncie. Ind.. Ort. 14 —(UP) — Three children were burned to death when fire destroyed their horn** at Muni'ie thto morning. At the ame time, their mother was injured and their father burned critically The youngsters were aevenmon 1 hold Lollie Dwayne Stagg* and her statens. two-year-ohl Dolores and four year-old lads. < Their father. Alonzo Stag*-, to in ' th*- Hall hospital where attendants I •ay he might di* Mns Staggs escaped with sever* cuts on her arms 1 and houlders. She says she was ill < and wa* aleeping in a room ad t joining the childrens bedroom I When the amoke and fire awakened h*r. ahe broke through a window I pane to eacape-

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Americans, British Beqin Second Lap Os Historic March On Italian Capital B> I’nite.i I’re-s II ilish ami American soldiers ar** iriKsing the Voltun** river in fol*.* to begin the second lap ill their historic marih on Rome. ! Allied as-ault forces haw estab- | 11-lied deep beachhead on iho I ■■n**my ii**ld north bank. Ami into thorn are pom ing powerful I streams of men. tank* and guns. X.izi General K*-***rling evidently knew what was coming. Just as th.* Allies w.*re about to go over the top. he threw a powerful counter attack across th** river. Bui soldiers of the fifth army quickly crushed It and. seizing tin* offen-iw. stormed across the Volturno themselves Th** big push started Tuesday night after w* **k long rains stopped and the ground began to harden As the great battle raged, ! Allied h.adquarters withheld new* Jof th.- crossing pending the outcome <>f th.* fight. Tii** news wa* announced today by officials who apparently ar.* certain the beachheads w ill st ii k Th.* crossings were made east ami west of Capua, which lies 17 miles Inland from flu* Volturns mouth on the broad highway »to wards Rome. The Berlin radio says Allied warships off th** mouth of th.* ! Volturno river aided the attack* I ing Allied soldiers Allied soldier- are plunging ! ahead not only north of Naples but all along th** battleline I across the Italian peninsula. The i fifth army's American right wing ha- driven -lx mile- through central Italy to take tlu* town of Guardia, ami on the east coast, th** British eighth army has move*! ■ih**ad io capture Gililom* The Tommie* now ar** within eight mil*** <*f Yin* hiaturo. a junction on lii** highway from th** Adriatic I* Napl* - Near the Adriatic coast of Italy the Allie- have carved out brand new air From these fields tilled warplam* yesterday flew out to -nw-.i German planes parked on an airfield near Tirana, the capital of Albania At the i same time British middle-east I based boinb.-r* *trm k at a German i airdrome on Rhode** Not a plan** i was 10-t on either raid In northeast Italy, the German* i ipparently are winning their only I land Victory on any front A I partisan communique says heavily re infor* * d Nazi troops have i iiroki n through the thin guerrila I line* around Flume. Behind the scene* on the M.dii terram an front, both sides are i preparing for tho show down batj :l*> from Rom** Reports from Spain *ay Axis authorities have ord* i*sl all foreign diplomats to leave Rome immediately They're rushing last ininut* preparatioM to fight off an Allied siege of the (Turn To I’aar* t. Column II Adams County Youth Injured In Accident John Lammert Only Slightly Injured John Ummrrt. 17. of north of Decatur, was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital lata Wed-nw-day night for treatment of injuries, sustained in an auto accident. Sheriff Leo Gillig. who Investigated the accident, said that the youth apparently lost control of his car while driving on the Piqua road, northeast of Decatur The vehicle careened into the ditch, but did not overturn. Tho youth was taken to the ho-pital tu the Zwick ambulance The attending physician said that he did not sustain aerlous injuries, other than bnsts-M and a shaking up H* was released Attar treatment. The accident occurred about II 30 p. m m the lad was on has way Uout« from a <Ua*.« paviluM.