Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1943 — Page 1

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ERUN AGAIN BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBS

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Alfow Meat Packers Stock Up On Beet Ration Points Will Be Loaned Packers Washington, Nov. 27 tip) i Th« office of price adminbtia’ion announeea that meat pa< kerx will! be loaned ration point* xo they can atoek up on all grade < of beef during the pean production period. rp to now. points have been loaiu-d only for the purch i'“« of | cutter and cannor grade* of beef. The new order came a* report* were being circulated that point value* of meat* will be lowered next month because of aurphtse** 1 which are said to have cau*cd spoilage in some localities. Another OPA order set* higher price* at the packer level for preserves. jam* and jellies made from , apple* or frozen grape*. The in-[ crease to the consumer will aver-1 age two to three cent* per pound. The OPA ha* also set specific dollarw-and-eents mark-up* for sale of dried bean* by country shipper* to wholesaler* I Official* say this order will r<*lu* •• fholesale and retail cost* by amounts up to two cents a pound. Huntington Private Saves Life Os Buddy I' S. Army Forces. Makin Island ; Nov. 27.—(UP)—The quick action] of an Indiana member of the tight I Ing 69th battalion is credited with i saving one of hi* comrades on Makin Island. He I* Private Ernie Schoeff of Huntlngti n. He and Sergeant Oliver Hobart had been detailed to silence a sniper. Hohart surprised a Japanw soldier in a henhouse But hl* gun tnl**ed fire at point blank range He flung it in Hh» face of the Japanese, who wa drawing hi* own sun Hobart dropped to cover behind a log and called to Schoeff The Ho sler soldier came immediately and shut the Japanese. Shortage Os Tires Revealed As Acute December Quotas Announced By OPA Washington. Nov. 27 -tl'Pi The shortage of new pa-senger and truck tires and tubes i* still acute. The December quota* announced today by the OPA are almve those for November, but less than those for October They will necessitate more extensive use of re-capping service- for the remainder of the year The December quota of new tires for passenger car* and motorcycles is 27.6H5 mon- than for November. but the quota of tn-w truck and bus tubes is cut by 39.455 The OPA set up for the first time a separa'e quota of farm tractor and Implement tub.-*. December quota* are: Paisenger and motorcycle Grade 1 tnewi. 511.373; grade 1 529.35 V; new tube*. <45.477. Truck and bus—New tire*. 290.519; new tubes, 25* I*7 Farm tractor and Implementtires. 32.2 M. tube* 32.2'*' Brewster Funeral Services Monday Funeral aervice* will be held Monday for Gharli* William Brewster. Adam* county native who died Thursday night at hi- home in Fort Wayne Service* will be held at 1 p m Monday at the Mungovan and Sons mortuary in Fort Wayne and at 2:3# o’clock at the Mt. Carmel church, east of Heme, with Rev. F. W. Battenberg officiating. ► • Shipyards Workers Threaten To Strike Pascagoula. Mis* Nov 27 (UP)—A walkout of «.«#• worhem I to threatened at the Ingalls Shipbuilding corporation in Mississippi i The union member* will take a < atrtke vote Monday President Munrc Utnler of the shipbuilding company »ay» the ’ worker* are protesting refusal of t the war labor bdard to grant a union shop clause In their contract. <

— They’re Directing 11. S. Offensive In Mid-Pacific JBbb ♦'t ~ 1 it k' -V r* "*W >' ’it/ y aki k'A X ibk-IMhIpCT I I ■ m Wil 11 j m IP f LJI LXil JLE Admiral Chc-ter I, Nlmlts, <‘<>mmauder-ili-chlef of the Pacific fleet, and hl* subordinate army, navy _ and marlin eirp* officer* who an* directing the succexaful new offensive against the Jap* in the Mid and South Pacific, are shown together. I*eft to right aro Hear Admiral It. K Turner. Vice Admiral H A. Spntance. Admiral Nimitz, Brig. Gen. Henry G. Holmes. Jr., Lieut. Gen lt.ibert 4’. Richardson. Jr Maj. Gen. Ralph Smith. Maj Gen II J Smith and Rear Admiral Charles II M< Morri*

Details Os Gilbert Battle Are Related Roosevelt Son Tells Os Bloody Battling Pearl Harbor. Nov. 27- (I’PI— The battlo for the Hilberts will go down In history an one of the grimmest fights of the war. Detail* of the Gilbert inland offensive are coming In now and they're weaving themselves into a pattern of American gallantry and heroism. Two of the men beat qualified to tell the story of the savage struggle for Makin and Tarawa have just returned to Hawaii from th« Gilberts. They are two fighting marine colonels James Roosevelt, eldest son of the president, and Evans Carlson of Carlson’s Raiders. Both are grimy with the stain of battle hut they re still confident. And they agree that they have learned one Important fact from the Gilbert operation that Is, the Japs can't beat us. Roosevelt tells one of the most interest Ing stories to come out of the Gilberts so far —a story so fantastic it sounds as if It came out of a Hollywood thriller. Roosevelt Was With the troops which landed on .Makin And he describes how four Japanese officers -rigged in their best parade uniforms with medals on their breasts and feather* In their caps led a fantastic suicidal charge against the Yanks A hundred Japs followed the sword waving officers and died in the process. Hut. liefore they were wiped out. a savage handtiehand fight look place One young American private. says Roosevelt. was slashed by an enemy officer's sword Hut the doughboy grable-d it and then killed the Jap with hi* own weapon. The fight for Tarawa was even . tougher than that for Makin. And Colonel Carlson gives the word picture on that one. He says the Jap on Tarawa knew the marines vere coming and were well pre- < pared Some of them were in blockhouses with wall* four feet thick Carbon say* the Jap* fought ' with surprising tenacity and fermity But he say* the Amer- 1 leans learned a lot from the action Carlson describes Tarawa a* the < toughest job in the history of the marines. He say* "it was a business of fire and movement plus gut*." —o —— l Fort Wayne Captain 1$ Air Force Ace London. Nov 27 (TPI A Fort t Warne. Ind . man now la the lead- < Ing ace of the r. H eighth air force < He to Captain Walker Mahurin. I who shot down three enemy fight- I er* yesterday. That bring* hi- rec- I ord to 11 enemy alrcraf At the ame -Ime his fejlows in a Thunder- I bo? group go’ 21 more to establish I • new group record Mahurin »ays "It was a swell I day for hunting " 1

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Decotur, Indiana, Saturday, November 27,1943

Pfc. Eugene J. Gase Wounded In Action ■Pfc. Eugene J. Giute. «<>n of Mr. and Mrs. I'hilbert Gase of near Decatur. was wounded in action in Italy on October 26. according to word received here. Pfc. G#M wa* awarded the Purple Heart medal, which he I- sending to hie home here. He entered service on November 17. 1942 and left the U. S. for overseas duty in March. 194.1 tanding In North Africa in March, he took part in the Sicilian invasion. 14-■ had been serving with Pvt. Ixrren Worthman. who waa atao reported wonded in action. Mrs. Ga-e work** at the local General Eleclrlc factory. o Riff Between Nazis And Church Leaders Archbishop Charges Sacking Os Churches Bern. Nov. 27— il'Pi - Italian frontier reports di*cl(>so an open rift lietween the Germans in Italy mid the Catholic church Archbishop Cardinal Schuster of Milan—in a newspaper article accuses the Germans of sacking Milan churches at night, and stealing the cttchartotlc chalice at one church. He appealed to Italian parent* to prevent their sons from falling into the hand* of the German horde The article is interpreted as a request for-open violation of the recent German orders for Italian youth* to join the German army. The archbishop warned the tier-, gy under direct instructions from Pope Plus to stop leaving articles of value upon church altars during the night.

Outlines Necessary Steps In Acquiring Os New Airports

The Indiana economic council. •09-12 Hoard of Trade Building. In-j dianapolia. outlines the follow Ina ( first steps In the acquiring of airports by counties or cities. In vi»«w of the interest here in establishing an airport, the f< Mowing will be of interest to local citizens and public officials .U a result ot the tremendous impetus given to the aviation industry in providing for our war needs, and the remarkable performances of aircraft in the carrying on of the war. we are becoming very much aware cf the economic value of this rapidly growing form ot transportation It seems almost certain that the advantages of air transport will become increasingly Important to our peaceful pursuits in the post-war world the Indiana economic ccuncil. being concerned with the provision of adequate faci'itlrs for the transportation of persons and goods, is Interested In the develop men’ of a comprehensive system

Marine Major Uses Shotgun On Japs Major Crowe Legend Among 'Devil Dogs' With the Marines at Tarawa. Nov. 27 — (VP) The battle of Tarawa island —the fierce*! In the history of the I’nlted State* marine corp* provides another glowing story In the leatherneck fight Ing tradition. But th*- picture that United Press correspondent Richard Johnston will retnemher i* that of a red haired, fronty-eyed officer who lilazisi away at the Jap* with a double barreled shotgun. He I* Major Henry Pearson Crowe of Boston—one of the most famous marine leaders in the Pacific theater. Johnston saw .Major Crowe standing out In th*- open at Tarawa with bullet* whistling all around him. His inen were going down on all side- under a withering hall of Ja)>une*<- fire. But Crow.- stood tt|> there fearlessly I —shouting order* to hi* marine* and every now and then raising the shotgun Io his sliotiider to take a pot-shot at mi enemy sni,H-r. Crowe wat a star football player In th<« years after the first world war. In 1936 he won th.* Wemhledon International rifle champi instill’. But it took the steaming jungle* of Gnadalcan.il to make him a legend among the Devil Dog*. Crowe, then a captain, was In -charge of a group of half tracks and the unit ran Into a nest of Jap*. Carrying the same shotgun he 1 used on Tarawa, Crowe waved his men on with the hmthwry: •’You'll never get the purple heart lying In a fox hole, tat's go get 'em!" Shotgun blazing. Crow.- led the ■ (Turn To Pags S. Column 1)

of public alrpcrts to serve the peo-1 I pie of Indiana ami is prepared to i aesfst them in the -..tudying of local airport problems. City and county governing bodies are theretore advised that the economic council is in a position to receive requests f r investigations of prospective airpun sites in their localities There will he no charge for this service, but the cooperation of interested people In the community in making advance studies of their own situation will be greatly appre elated Planning Why alrpcrts are needed' Air transport Is superior, in some respects, to all other transport mediums It is expected that there will be a poet-war aviation boom which wi'l put hundreds of thousands of trained pilots and swarms of airplanes in the ocean of air ever the entire world The mar(Turn To P*go •» Column ()

Third Os German Capital Devastated As Merciless Bombing Raids Continue

Aussies Take Jap Stronghold On New Guinea Reveal All American Fliers Return From Big Raid On Formosa lB) United Pl .** I The Australian* are moving swiftly to clear the last Japanese soldier from New Guinea'* lluon peninsula. Sweeping through m wiy won Satelberg. th*- hard lighting Aus«de* occupied four more village* an<l are pursuing the Japanese The enemy Is tunning north t Wareu, the next Japanese base. The capture of Hatelberg In-cn-a* the streng’h of our hold on the peninsula And with the lluon peninsula clear. Allied force* could get e'*ady for an over water jump to New Britain, the site of Rabaul At the headquarter* of our 14th air tone In China It’s revealed that American flier* who made the Thanksgiving raid * n Formosa returned from th<- attack in linn- to eat their Thanksgiving dinner. Not one crew member was injured and It wa* a happy bunch of flier* who oat down to turkey and giblet gravy High man on the trip we. Ciptain Sam Palmer of Fort Worth. Tex. who led the second flight of tighter*. Palmer shot down three b* mbers and one Zero tighter Although the oflli tai communique credit* our men with destroying .11 Japanese planes in the air or on the ground, the Chin.*, central new* agem y raise* the total to 47 —and adds that this is a record number for far eastern warfare In the mill Pacific ar* a. army Liberator* again have raided HuMarshall*, just north of the Gil bert*. The fliers scored a direct hit on *m enemy tranop rt am hurts! In the Maleolap lagoon Tile American public today ha* a prettv good idea of what our casualty list will look like when Ameilean troop* cross tin- channel from England to Europe The situat I n will be much the same then as it was in the Gilbert* this week An invasion against an enemy (ore-warned and etrongly dug in The Gilbert* art- In our hands a deep sword cut in the enemy's side but never since American fighting men began writing hero I ism into the nation'* records have | so many men died so quickly in such a small area. Naval expert* believe the ruah(Turn To )'•«• Column 4) o —— Deny Texas Medical School To Be Moved University Regents Make Announcement Austin. Texas. Nov 27 (t'Pi I'niversity of Texas regents have announced a hands <ft policy regarding any movement of the univentity'a medical acbool from it* present location at Galveston Movement of the school has been proposed from ilmt- to time by varicu* krotii* It was the subject of a legislative controversy at one time The regent* point out that they I never had advocated any such movement nor had tbi-y made any commitment concerning any proposed removal. lowed a meeting yesterday, states Their announcement, which folthat the loeatien of the school wa* established by the Texas tonwtHutton and that only an amendment to the constitution could authorise any movement. The regents also have voted to require annual reports from laculty m<-in be is of the medical scbtx.l and of the university dental coltaffe.

Award Flying Cross To Bombing Plane Crew Unofficially Decorates Bomber ; With the RI'AF Boinlter Squad run in Tunisia, Nov 27 il'Pt ‘ Tii.- Turtle ha* i*** iv.<l the Hi- I tinguished Flying (’rm* "The i Turtle." it must lie explained, is a liomldng plain- and the first ever I to he decorated Hes view decorated her. I'llof * filially of course. But beneath th*- ' painti-d row f 4G bombs on the ’ Wellington's fuselag** they have paint*-*) a I>FC ribbon. * ‘Tlte Turtle" always i onn-* ba* k She's mad*- IG -uccessful .aide on * enemy ba**.* And *he* never 1 mi**, d a sortie. Site's had a few close calls, like the one over Mi**ilta tn the Stell- ' ian camitaign. A seat * blight -potted her Anti- , aircraft gunner* pumped 15 shells | Into her sides before she found ! cover. But tit*' ship mad*- base Tin- next day Hie crew worked like mad so she wouldn't miss th*- ! next night's *|h ration*. For "Th*Turtle" doesn't like to be left at hum*- for atty reason. It was decid'd when she had rea. he*l 2XO li urs, she'd !>•• sent away for refitting But they look lor through 100 hours then on lo r 46th raid she bombed an Italian airfield, and next day an en git found she was using too much oil (Turn To Psg» 4. Column 4) Wallace To Refute Senator's Charges Apology Is Issued To South Americas Washington. Nov 27 <I'P» Vi* president Wallace p' .*mi»e« that charges against our good neighiior policy soon will l»«- disproved officially .senator Butler of Nehru-ka. who ret > inly completed a tour of South and Central America, told the M-nat.- yesterday that our pol Icy Is fostering war and dictator* -hip ill the countries below the Rio Grand*- ll*’ chatged that |G.no**.ii*>*i uno in lend lea**- aid has kept military dictatorship* in power anil retarded so* ill progress The vice president has issued an apology to the good neighbor nation* And h** says Butler s charge- will li>* r< full’d by federal agencies handling lend-lease Meanwhile, pending senate action i* con* *-rned with averting a strike of more than ! <••"• >mm* nonoperating railway employe* The worker* already have completed a strike vote which is expected to be in favor of a walkout And officials say union representatives will meet Wednesday tn eon*ider -citing a date for th*- strike How*v>-r Senior wi of th*- interstate commerce committee. say* he experts hi* group to approvo a resolution Tuesday calling for an elght-cent hourly wage iticrea** Wheeler says the r>'«olution will lie referred to the •• nate for Im- ' mediate action Other senate action promises early approval of the overseas soldier vote bill Senator Lucas. I coauthor of the measure, ha* a* cused Republican leaders of trying to smother the bill with amendments But he »ay» he believe* he ha* enough vote* lined up to pa** the bill hi -übsiantially its present form Meanwhile, the senate military affairs committee i* in possession of General Eisenhower'* report on the slapping of a shellshocked soldier by General Patton But the committee is dissatisfied, and says it can go no further in Its investigation until it Is given more details. The committee ha* under con-1 sideration Patton* promotion I from the permanent rank ut col-1 ouel to major general. I

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Over Thousand Tons Os Explosives Drop On Berlin In Latest Allied Bombinq Raid By I'nlted I'tgxs Bi'rlin is in flames again today! And «o i* the great German arms center of Stuttgart. List night nearly l.uoo bomber* of the royal ah force blasted both cities with bundled* of tons of botnlis For Berlin It wa- the third heavy rani tin- Week And when the Brltl-h filers tuim-d for home it was lii-liev>‘d llu-y bail completed the devastation of almost one third of the German capital. Thirty two British bomber- are missing from both raids More than l.ttnu tons of exploitive* and fir*- liomb* were dropped on Berlin alone The air ministry •ay* fires from the previous attack* still wire burning and the weather wa go**l when the RAF arrived over the target. Pathfinder planes swept In first under the great blanket of «mok« hanging over the city and outlined th*, target area with flare*. Then wave on wav*-—cam*- hundreds of giant foui * ngin**l Lancaster*. Halifax*-* and Stirling* And down *civam**l the *uper blmk-busters and the Ini-endiarie*—starting hundreds of tn-w fire- and giving new life to old bhiz*’» until only a sea of flames H-mained lielow Returning crewmen reported tersely "Bombing results w*k*’ excellenr." The German radio again denounced th*- attack as a terror raid but withheld any details Presumably th*. Nazis were afraid of further alarming the German people already stupefied at th*- sp*-*-taele of their capital di-appearing lii-iii’.itii a wave of Allied lamibs Report* reaching Sweden say InO.imii to (iHiniMi It- rlin resident* already are homeless ami more than tie min are dead as a result of the I’iiiu’i’Utrated attacks In a di-pe ate attempt to control th** raging fires the Germans are said tie lie rushing thou and of Italian prisoner* by foiled marches to llcditi Io air firemen, police and vidunteer*. lairge fires also were left burnIng in Stuttgart the mam railway junction tor the movement of men ilid silppli' *o Italy It al-o I* the site of factories turning out airplane and tank engine* The twin night raid* follow (ho h*.ivle-t American attack ever made, when mon- than 1 .**••<» Iximhers and fighter* hla*t**d th*’ big port of Bremen and other target* in northern France ye.terday Th« day ami night assault brought th*' number of raid- on Germany to five in the past 24 hours and sent the Vnglo-Ameri-eati aerial offensive to it* highest pitch since the -tart of the war in Italy American troops, in i sudden hut*' of fighting on th<* western Italian front, have crushed two German counter attack*. I'niten State* artillery sma«he*t the German thru»t« before they (Turn To P»g* 4. Column 4) 4 » ' Berlin Newspaper Gives Instruction On How To Make Will Bern Nov 27 tl'i'i The Allied all-out air a o.iult ha* prompted llerltnens to prepare for the worst. Thl* was reflected by an articlo in a Friday toaue of a Berlin newspaper. The subject of the article was •'How to make a will " TCMPCRATURk READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8 00 a. m .. 32 10:00 a m. 32 11:00 a. m. 32 WEATHER Partly cloudy. Bt*6Miy colder toni|M; fair Sunday with little change in temperature. NOON EDITION