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Italian Battleship In Gibraltar Harbor Madrid. Oct. 19 (CP) Report* from La Llnea. Spain. «ay that an unidentified Italian battLwhip entered Gibraltar harbor from the, Mediterranean last night. It wa under escort of two British destroyers. Shipping circles report that two other Italian battleship* are expected to follow soon. It L- believed they will be re-fitted in the Britl-h yards at Gibraltar. Indiana Coal Miners Are Still On Strike Slight Handful Os Miners Resume Jobs Terre Haute. Ind. Oct. 19 (VP)—-Indiana's striking coal mln erx continue to turn a deaf ear to John L. Lewis' plea that they end the work stoppage Commissioner Harvey Cartwright of the Indiana coal operators aaaociatlon says that only three of tho state's deep shaft mines have any semblance of activity. He reports that about 25 rnen turned up for work at the Knox consolidated number two mini, this morning. And he has been advised that only six miners reported at Knox number five Mean while, a day shift of 1« men went underground at the big Kind's Station mine near Princeton. They relieved a night shift of 45 miners. Although 150 miners returned to the Dugger domestic mine yesterday, only a maintenance crew is on duty today Cartwright says that 17 mines either are idle or so Inadequately manned that they are nearly unproductive. .Members of the local at the Blackhawk mine had voted to return to work today, but as yet none have appeared. President la>u!s Austin of district 11 of the UMW is not available for comment. He is said to have gone to Washington after conferring with Indiana labor commissioner Thomas Hutson. Austin had said earlier that the miners would return to work at the beginning of the week. ■— " ■ o— — ■ • ——• War Board Approves Production Goals Indianapolis, Oct. 19—(CP) The Indiana agriculture war board formally ha* approved the 1941 food goals for the state. The goals—generally calling for increases in food production and lower livestock production were drawn up at a recent meeting of farm representative* and war* food administration official-. o Berne Students To Hear County Clerk County clerk Clyde O. Troutner will i peak to the studen’s of the civil government class in the Berne high achool Wednesday morning .Method* of conducting an election will be the topic of his address. o Treasury Secretary Arrives In Algiers Believe Morqenthau May Visit Moscow —- Washington, Oct 19— <l’P»—Another top government official ia conferring with officials abroad Washington report- that secretary of the treasury Morgenthau has arrived in Algiers. The official dtecloueure says Morgenthau will discu s money matters with various Cntted Nations commanders But in Washington there is a atrong belief that ’he secretary of the trea-ury may ’ake time out to visit Moscow while the tri-power diplomatic get-together w underway there. Two aMis'anta are with Morgen-thau-Dr. Harry D. White, the man who drew up the American prop*' sal for a world bank, and Fred Haith, a confidential advisor. The world bank plan is comparatively new. It wee Juet announc ed officially last week, apd detailed Proposal* are being sent to various Allied aation. this week.

Report Nazis In Retreat In Battle Os Kiev - Increased Supplies Promised To Russia From United Nations i By ('lilted Press) The Humeian government-con-trolled newspaper, Izv-stla. reports that Nazi troops have begun a retreat north ot Kiev after losing cne of the most ferocious battles of the Dnieper river line. The newspaper says the Germans above Kiev are falling back to the west and southwest, surrendering the northern defenses of the t'k- - rainian capital. I Tit- field reports do not make dear the exact sector in which Axis troops are withdrawing whether it is Just north of the city , limits or farther north where the Russians have set up bridgebeads. r But it is evident that a major crack has appeared in the Nazi lino somewhere north of Kiev. The ‘ German high command has thrown every resource in the massive struggle on the northern approaches to Kiev, the keystone bane of the Dnieper line, N w, apparently, the Germans are conceding defeat. Izvestia's disclosure coincides with reports that the Red army has driven a spearhead into the Dnieper bend to a point 20 miles . west of the river and behind Dnepropetrovsk. Soviet epearheads are believed to be within 10 miles of the railroad leading to Bessarabia in a race to sever the chief ' escape route ft r Axis troops garrisoned in Dniepropetrovsk. Today is the seventh day of the grim battle for Melitopol Two thousand Germans were killed in yewterday's fighting alone. Russian casualties must have been almost ax high. Front line dispatches now (Turn To Page ». Column 4> Receive Details 01 Lieut. Baker Death Adjutant General Writes To Parents Some details concornlng the death of Lieut Wilbur Baker in the Pacific area on October 1 have been received by the parents. Mr. and Mrs O. K Baker of this city. It was made known here teday. A letter from J. A. (’Ho. the adjutant general states In part that. ••Tiie official casualty report states that your son died as result of a wound received from the explosion of a mortar shell. W hile demonstrating the Improper method f dropping a mortar shell into the tube, the shell accidentally slipped and went off. forcing the unexploded mortar shell out of the tube. No further details were given in th is report.” The letter continued that "hvery effort is made to reverently inter the remains in our military personnel in graves proper,/ marked for future idemitieation. I p n termination of the war. consideration will be given to return of the remain* to the I'. 8. ■ When military security perm: s. the quartermaster general, who has jurisdiction over such matters, will advise the family of the location of the grave." The letter carried a measage <>r i condc-lence to the tamily. Lieut. 1 Baker, who entered the service it Fort Wayne, resided here and attended Decatur junior senior high ,< hool for a time. Hi* father i. In charge of job printing at the Decatur Daily Democrat office. No Extra Gas To Seasonal Residents Washington. Oct 1»- — <’ •*’ ” Additional gasoline to make focal shopping trip* wrll no longer be granted to person. IWinff >» «’«* < rary or seasonal residence*. H w ever . according to the latest OU regulation, those permanently Bring far from food markets, and theme requesting added ration, to medical ne-d* will continue to re reive the added coupons. Persona requesting additional eamdine to buy food for buatnes* purjwwea mu.t Ibt the request as an occupational need.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 19,1943.

In Moscow For Conference

i ip.« j iP *** -'/i I j a . Cordell Hull

Ccrdell Hull, (’nited State*, secretary of state, and Anthony Kd<*n. British foreign secretary, have- arrived In Moscow to attend three i power conference* on war problems of the t'nited Nations The -*■<■ md | front in Europe is expected to play a leading part in the di- u< on- I

Miners Strike Shuts : i I Down Steel Plants War Production In Alabama Hampered Washington, Oct. 19 — (t'P) Giant steel furnaces in Alabama are shut tight a* some 22.‘MH) coal miners remain out on strike. Officials of th,- Republic Steel ’ corporation report that production of vital steel Ingots In their Ala bama furnaces has fallen 20 percent because of the coal strike. The Alabama members of the 1 I'nlted Mine Worker* union have ‘ ignored personal appeals from \ their union leaders. The strike Is in it* sixth day and only aboil* | 2,500 workers have gone back to j work. In Washington, a solution to the ' strike hasn't been found as yet. 1 And the Appalachian coal operat--1 ors are attacking the contract which John L. U-wis wants the whole coal Industry to adopt. Lewis nnd the Illinois coal owner* have sent the contract to th<* war labor board. But the Appalachian operator* have demanded a hearing on the proposal before the WLB And that hearing will be held on Thursday thus delay Ing any decision on the contract until that time. This delay, it's Indicated, might affect the Alabama walkout, bocause the strikers want to work under a contract. in another labor dispute, officials of the non operating railway unions are meeting in Washington to think up away out of their difficulties. kJconomlc stabilization director Vinson has thus far refused to approve a wage Increase to the l.'Htl.'ttto members of i these unions. And if* reported that the union official* are considering a strike vote among their members, as well as other proposal.*. o— I Exchange Prisoners With Nazi Germany 4,000 Allied War Prisoners Return Gotvborg. Sweden. Oct. 19 tl 1’) -S.me 4,(HW Allied war prisoner* will return home in the first exchange of prisoners between the United Nation* and Germany Sev-! .nteen of these are Americans. According to United Pres* cor-1 I re*|M>ndent Jack Fleischer, most of the prisoners were captured in the I early day* of the war. Six hundred and 5o are strvtch-r cases. The small number ot Americans is due to the fact that very few American* have hern taken prisoner in this war. The name* of the Americans will be released as * on a>, the next of kin have been notified. As the Allied prisoners arrived in the port of Goteborg. Sweden. German prisoners reached a port in Scotland for transfer to the hospital ship the Atlantis. Os *42 German prisoners only thre- youth-1 ful veterans showed any enthusiMm tc go back to Germany. United Press correspondent James McOlincy described the German*- - many of them with limbs missing, moving up the gangplank on crutches Their fsce* were stiff and sullen They were grim and , silent One guard *ald: < Blimey, they don t seem very < happy to be going home

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Start Distribution Os New Indiana Acts Indianapolis, Oe<. 19 (I P) Distribution of the acts of the 194! Indiana general c xembly will !>•- gin tomorrow. The *ecretary of state'* chief clerk, William HutchllMion, expects the distribution to i be completed by the middle of text W*-ek Th.- first 2,"00 of th" IS.iMM) copies have i,e,-n delivered by tii* printer*. They will be distributed t<> county I clerk* ot) the baeis of 1<) books for i ,-very l.tmo votes ca*t for secretary of state in the last election. The, act will be proclaimed as laws by Governor Schricker when th** clerks' receipt* are returned. * 0 Accident Victims Reported Improved Two Mexican Youths Are Reported Better Condition of two Mexican youths, critically hurt in Saturday's auto crash, was reported improved today, while funeral services for three others fatally hurt In th,* crash still were no' completed Doth Tommy 8.-rrera and Salva dor Jauregui were reported sligh'ly Improved today nt the Adams county memorial hospital Each is suffering from a brain concuss i sion and severe facial and head lacerations, in addition to other seri »us Injuries It was revealed Imlay that the name of the 14 year old Soto girl, who died Sunday morning in the hospital, was Apolimia and not Pauline, as was first announced. I The other two who died wero Pete Soto and Victor Soto, aged IS and eight, lespectively. Funeral services w<- *• held today at ths* home near Convoy. (>. for Homer Clyde Alnxworth, 51 driver <»C the other car Involved) in the headon crash, seven miles: east of !»••<■»• ur on I S 2-'I Funeral services for th*- thr,*e S„t , children will b,- made when I a brother. Tony, arrive* from! Camp Abbott. Oregon, where h<Is in service with the I'. S army. A telegram from his command-, ing officer stated that he is <*n-i route home It is expe. **<l that he will arrive sometime Wednesday. Surviving the Victims, besides I the parents, Anastacio ami Anna Soto, are the following brothers and sisters: Mrs Kat** Masquwla |of Fort Worth. Texas; Valentine j and Lupe. who were hurt in the • same crash; Pauline, who was at I first reported killed instead of i J Apolonla; Felix. Albert and Mercy.: al’ a*, home. Burial will Im* In a triple grave In the Decatur Catholic cemetery. I following services at the St. I Mary'* Catholic church. The bodies may be viewed at the Gillig A Duan funeral h<*me. Clum Baker Injured 11 When Struck By Auto George C. "Clutn " Baker. well 1 known Decatur rMident. b confin- i 1 ed in the Adams county memorial ‘ hospital for treatment of Injurhe sustained about Ram today when 1 he was struck by an auto while rid 1 ing a bicycle. The aecidant occurred near the Central Sugar company, where the ' injured man Is employed No report I of the arcidea’ had been made to I city police late thl- aftenmoa. Bak I er is not tbough’ to be seriously 1 hart 1

Fifth Army Seizes Last German Stronghold Along North Bank Os Volturno

U. S. Subs Take Heavy Toll Os Jap Shipping Secretary Os Navy Reveals Heavy Loss Inflicted By Subs By I'nlted Pic American xubmarin*’* art* littering th,* hot* >m of tit*- Pacific with Japa!),-.'*' shipSecretary of navy Knox ha* just released an up to date box score <>f sinking* by American submarines. Il*-re it i» since the war began, American sub- have put torp, doe- inf > 16" Japan* •• v.-s,-|. Some 319 of these d*-finitely have b<-,*n -• nt to tht bottom of the 9** mare than the previous anmmm - d t*»t.,l Tliirty ix have probably b*-,it sunk, and 105 have b.-*-n <l.,inau<-<l Thu underwater marauders have tackled Jap fighting ships ~* well ■i- fat merchant v<—seis The r< * ~rd liiclnd -- 39 combat ship* unk md 1" otln-r fighting ship* probably -unk Thirt.-eii were dun aged Knox says that I'. S -nb* took ear,* of just about thrw quarters of the ships Japan ha* lost sine,* Decembc.- 7. 1911. Thu-, the American uml<’i wai, r raid*-: * are striking at on** <>t the weak linkin Japan's chain of empire her shipping. Down in tin* southwest 1*.,; if!,-. American warplane- bav*> again whittled down the strength of Japan's air poWe F-*r ill,* sec md time iii tine,- doys th- Jap t*n>(. !o a.»y pun: hut* o’ in raids on Dfu Bay. New Guinea Th* en-my lo*’ 21 to 30 plane- in th- lat*--t On, Bi) raid on Sunday In the biller land fighting oti ! N< w Guinea. Au ’raliaii infantry m,*n have snuggled thiotiuh th*jungle to leach within ten miles of the enemy's ha*, at M idaiig But there aren't any forth* i de tails on this big advanci- as yet. Two Japan, •*- effort* to r.-'ake their has,* at Fill-, hhaf-ti have been turned back by the Aus-i*-* There's no fre-h new about the strong British thrust from India ill! • W -tern Illi! 111., But a N*-w Delhi < itmmunique reveal* tha’ Amelie:,n fighter ah,l fighterI iHimber plan,-* have joined In | support of the drive They pound i ed Jap troop positions at Maung- ! daw. tile pr*-eilt objective ot the j British ground for* • ■ o Enrollees Sought In Air Corps Wacs Recruiting Campaign In Northern Indiana Fort Wayne. Ind. Oct. 19 ,I'i’i Organization of an all H •*-;• contingent of air corps Wa<« is underway Recruiting team* from tl, Ba*-*-Field army air base have op*ai* *l t four to six weeks campaign tor enlistee,, throughout northern Indiana. Th,- recruiting teams will travel from Fort Wayn to 11 other ,'ities in the area within a f* a Auth rities say that, for the (|r*t time, women between the ag« * of 2d and 5" years can enlist dir, , tly | in the army air corp*. Howev«*r. the Wars will be trained tirst a unit—at Fort De* Moines, la Following »pe< ializ*d training, the uo-enUed “»ir Ww»" will be assigned to various continental ale base* or. if they volunteer, to overseas base*. Fir*’ Ueutenant Charles Miknu* I of the air c rp* and Wac First Lieutenant KMe Murtagh head the Fort Wayne recruiting staff They believe the quota will be reached before the drive end* <m Ih-crm-ber 1.

Two Navy Officers To Speak In City Lcqion And Schools To Conduct Proqrams Two I' S navy offi, i s will le- : , peakers nt th*-navy <lay program-J •o b>- held ill this city. Monday, cvenlt:". <h!ol„-i 25 and Wednesday morning, o, ■ >b,-i 27. II V«*r-i non Atnalid. county chairman of! th.- observance announced today I Th** A:n*-ri< an Legion and th<’| Di c.rui public and Catholic' i o-hool* are cooperating with Mr I Attrand in a proper ob»erv in, ** of I . th,* navy's natal hlrihday. Monday evening. Lh ui t’omdr ’ i Edwin T Bauer. I' S navy. I*. iO,-sf.illt chaplain Bunker ,; Hill, near I’* u. will be th.- prin Jcipal speaker at a program spoil*, f so:<*,| by Adam- I' *st 13 of th*- , Ant* ,31) L* s- >it at th** Legion ; home Membe sos the Lion* and! Rotary clubs and th,* Chamber of I , Commerce ar,- invited a guest of the Legion The program I- lining pi, pared 1 for tii** joint seltiHil program at I - th** junior senior high school on I i Wednesday morning, when Ensign i garni),*l Laser, also *,f Butikei Hill I - naval ha-,-, will Im- the speaker. Ensign Laxer i« a hero of th,*: ( catrle.- Yorktown and wo» oil: s b*>,rd ship when If wa- sunk by the Jap- in the i’actfl. He ha* , an into: .-sting in*-->g*- to tell. I’rin,-1j,.,i W Guy Blown i- com 1 piling th*- -,-hool program, both . tiools presenting a short program in ‘ nine, •ion with tin* navy da) addle-**. Says U S. To Play Leading War Role » South Africa Leader Hints Balkan Drive ‘ Lot, ion. <>, t. I'' ilTf I’rim j Minister Smuts of South Atri* , : says th** I'nited States "undoubted i ’ iy" will play a leading and p* rhap ’ ' decisive rot- in the Allied gratol ’ ' assault on Hlti*rs European fort res*. Th<* empire'- elder tat,-snia , i ; ’ predicts th<* big l"i»h will c m- I next, year, and he hints that tii i ' Allie* Will invade th.* Balkans l>* ■ fore winter in preparation for ’he 1 filial atta, k Almost a year ago Smut* foreshadowed (h<* North African inva -i ' ion in a similar talk The S-iiiHc African h ad-r is a member of thBritish war «al,met He has b*- 'i in London for • V -tai week Smuts contends that long d< maud* on th- British ■ turn,’’! wealth have mad** it natural to l«»*’k j I eo-called Mtrategt, r.-erv* forthAnal mov,« in th* war H*- »ay‘ 'hat up ti ti”* ’he l ulled Sla'* * ha* been primac.ly what it * < ot-. iginally intend'd to !>• ’h*- ar-< na! of democracy * hl *' our great I ,nd an I •” trained for th.* big blow again*’ i ! Hitler. South Africa'* prime mm -’ -r . add* ’hat Increaring American p*c- ' th ipation in the war will be th** i be»t justiti, ation for th* al! import- . ant part ’his country Is likely to i play in peace. Says Smut*. The hopes ami prayers of th,* old world a:*- wt’h i.x m»-t powerful , ff-pring. For no nation in history has so great and honorable a dosttny Im•• n markI _ (Turn To Page ’■ Cdumu «> BULLETIN Washington. Oct. 19- —’OP) —The senate today accepted by voice vote and *ent to the White Hou*e a bill to increase dependency allotment* tor the fMriliM of enlisted men I" the armed force*. The bill provide* for a month to the wife of a service man. plus WO for the first child and W 0 for each additional child.

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23 More Towns And Villages Taken By Allies As German Defenses Smashed ißy I nited |’i, -si The battle ot the Volturno river I ix a page in hi-iory now. Th.- hurt .•Inmy defense p lie- <>n the river'* north bank hud I,*-* n shattered I in a day of fighting in which tile Allies overran 23 mor** town* asid village* along th. 100-mile front i stretching aero** 'he peninsula. American soldi**,-- on the fifth I army's right wing punched through I shu-keiiing German resistance to ' seize several towns to which the iG ’mail' had anchored their line, j On the Italian w. st coast, British ! units of Un- fifth army eaptur- d 1 Bresra. five and < n*- half mile* west of Capua, the last German position on th,- north bank of the river. Tie* Germans now in to be , bark fra* king behind rear guards for .i possibl* -’and along the Gad* I gliatio river. I* miles above the Volturno But th. Alites *,on may run into | stiffer German • -sletaii, •■. A 'Stockholm mwspaper report* in a Zurich dispatih that 30 German divisions have l>* * n rushed to Italy Ito -pearhead .i count,-, attack The * Nazi troops which come mostly I ;rom Franc are said to have been ! tagged originally for tin Rusaiatt fi nt. Victory at th* Volturno river ww j marked liy (leie-ral Elsenhower today in a tribute t<> In* men. The | Allied commaml*" a, chief said th” ; feats of his doughboys and Tom- ■ mies will .0, lie phra ,*d it ‘ Fill many of ill*- bright* st pay* < in history.” Many of those *oldi< r» so n may have a new assignment invasion „( tl)*' Balkan- I’rim,* Minis'..-r Jan Smut* of South Africa hinted broadly today that th* All:. , will invade the Balkans b. ore winter. Sp-aklng in London, th*' war cabinet memiH’i' pt.’di, ted Allied advance* in -oiithe.ix’.-rii Euro|>,-. II • added that we will l>, making our ,|Cp*w-i’i IIS for th*- grand assault I by ail anus next ) * ar Hut Hi Balkan already ar** aflame with battle A guerrilla <-,»mmuni>|u>' i* ports that partisan I tones ai<* ri aiing th<- German* * fiom th,' menu’a ins along the Jug.--j xlav Austrian frontier. I At the Slim time. Allied liotnie I* r» have join, 1 n the spreading ■ battle of Jugoslavia M*dium and I fighter lH,mb**rw from northw. -t ! Africa have hammered vital German railway ya'd- at Skolpje, in - Uthern Jugoslavia. It was tlio first raid of its kind And it < aught the Germans •• by surju -- that ■lley faded to put V. n on. tighter plane hi the air. But Jugoslav cu* ri Illas are not ~’<Turn T'» Page 1. Column «) Republicans Oppose Income Tax Increase Flat Opposition Is Voiced To Increase Wasthlngton, O ’ (9 (t’PX publican member* of tb- hou*o w.,y.s and mean* * >mm'.”*’«* have cotne out flatly aza n-’ any in- . . ».* in th- federal in.'ome tax,-*. They say th« pre ent I* vi*w. wh!< I) have reach-d the unprw d* en-ed level of JSO.<MM» «"«•‘MWt Os one-'hird <»f the>afi >nal Income - constitute the high* ’ tax burden in the world The Republican statem, nt k*-u* d by repr< -*-n’a'iv*e Knu’eo.r of Mis* ne-ota. wa« not specific in oppos* ing all Increases in oth**r taxes It directly mentioned only income rate* It Implied, however, ’hat there should be no increase of any kind. The Republican* called on Pre* sident Roosevelt to tn ’Hute ec«momies to offset *ax Increase of ||U.* ,HH. >h,<>*MMi a«k**d by the administration One of the economies -ugnested was to dmmim S«M,,*m government employe* The lt* pu>,li-<-an« al«o recommended tha’ the Pre Ident study the possibility trf YruraYu Pag* «. Column I)