Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1944 — Page 1

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tLIES MAKE NEW LANDING IN ITALY

Hints |A To Drive oirlin Gates RgOrmy Continues Teyke Advances olymnqrad Front JgjßK, ' ■>< >r ■ JHKKt ,l '"" I Berlin. |al hint has been deli.• presence of Premier i by Alexander Sberlianl»r of the Soviet pomi He referred ironi<- German propaganda backing Into admlsEizi reverses by explainry re all part of a plan their lines. Then the er -aid: the it M»f G'lliian (tout will . i i added what has .1 tie -.i«i that the diploto Anglo-Amerl-m aho have puzzled over i > disunity. goal the . .inn nun <■ I '|m »• i- laying A k for push gained conol dH railway line berMS'» '>d and Moscow. >ntr*i flt .*■ line a direct route --f*H..jß Russian* with the tptaiAf Mga. a five way June M S|jb -eiitheast of Leninall III.' oi.lv one Illi.- so ' ev icilaltt.g a corridor of the city. üBM' •oh - det.-riora' 'io . ' wing of look Nov tureen wit li the wing of the Leningrad newH from the Kii-sia. Th.- army - it i-«.a took a -ingle _’l mile* northeast of I non Nazis W ar Hovno. Pag* 1. Column «> Five Are ifld In Accident jSB It'd Jan 22 il Pt - y f N''-aark and six I’--"y J Elanders k - d in an aiitotn bile M i' ll Other- were illjlll J|^B ! occurred w hi!'.iking Mrs Ada Allen ' '' treatment Mr* '.otillm old .on Eime; • tijn ed are m a 1.11 l

Funeral MBC‘ Morning -••rrjce. will In- held CmM ''' r "’"’ Wayne tor Frank '• who died Thumieterwn'n hoapllal at S - •* will lx- held a' i * »■ 'he Get! ar Ca raw'- 1 home and at S 3v oQw *' John the Haptl.t [W 11 ' 1 will lie in lhe fathoa- Fort Wayne milude (he widow forF .n<e. (Jaffer of thin E3 Whiter. Mm Charlee EmW !w ° Mr * Mi< h gW’ -t'J Mr. Hurton F Tel V 4 brother. Joseph Mona P* J ol Pon Wayne -oi ! 3 BER *TURE READING ’W CR *T THERMOMETER IS* *• w |3* m 32 J l ' " .. M tJar > el ® v «y and continued W*'•"< Unday.

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Blindfolded Scharnhorst Survivorsf’ome Ashore — , f—.mW I I ® : > i Tbi r ju ‘I !■ j I JL-JI .23 Blindfolded and guiding each other, the survivor- of the sinking of 'he German bsttleshlp Scharohorxt coin? ashore. above, in a Britisli port. They ar. dr. •*• I In merchant seamen's clothing from rescue kit*. Only 36 German of the crew of I.tin men were saved when British warships sank the Hcharnhorat off northern Norway. ,

Frank Walker Quits As Committee Head Democrat Committee Chairman Resigns BULLETIN Washington. Jan. 22. — (UP) —Robert Hannegan of St. Louis —commiaiioner of internal revenue—has been unanimously elected aa the new chairman of the Democratic national committee. He succeed* postmaster gen eral Frank Walker, who resigned the party post this morning. Waehington. Jan. 22 (l'P> —1 Postmaster General Frank Walker | has resigned his post as thairman of the Demor-ratlr national committee. He told committeemen meeting In Waehington this morning that problem* created by the war require that he give bis full attention to the postoffice department. In announcing his resignation. Walker called the New Deal admin Ist rat lon period the "gloriou* dec-

•de.” He added that the future demands the election ill 1911 '•! a President and a con grew who will fearlessly lead the country to vic- | tory both in war and In the peace that will follow. The committee is expected to name commisaloner of internal revenue Roliert Hatinegan of Missouri ao Walker* successor. Democratic leaders in the capital for the meeting generally are agreed on another point that Preaident Roosevelt should lot their nominee again The President h.’tnself isn t talking on that point. He was told yesterday that midwest Democrats had adopted a resolution asking him to run for a fourth term. Hie only comment was “oh —o— Conduct Bond Drive Os G. E. Employes plans are proceeding tor the fourth war loan drive among the General Elfclrte employes in this rltjr, along with th«’ <%inip*ilCTi ’<• be made In the Fort Wayne and Kokomo G. E plants Service men will be invited to speak before the employes and a plant wide canvass for the purchase of additional bonds, over and above the regualr purchases through the payroll deduction plan, will be made The goal at the Fort Wayne works is |3Wt.o®o The goal al the Decatur plant has not yet been announced. m i ' — Automobile Stolen Here This Morning A IMI Oldsmobile sedan belonging to A. C. Treuas of Berne was stolen this morning at »:« o’clock from in front of the Holthouse Drug store on North Second Street Chief of police Ed Miller said the keyu were left in the car It was farther described an being blue with white side wall tires and bearing Indiana IM3 license number —•

Orley Krick Leads Suggestion Winners Orley Krick of rhis city head* the list of Decatur General Electric employe* who won suggestion awards covering the !a*t two •week* Mr. Krick was awarded |2."> for his suggestion of a changin method* or repairing search light and dynamotor yokes. Other winner* for the period in the to 2" class include: Gerald Mill*. Huth I Brown, Charles S. Steiner. Edward E May. Forest I*roy Roop. G-rold P. Smith. Eugene L. Johnson. Rudolph F Schlemmer, William Strahm. Raymond S. Johnson. Frank L Rowley. Maxine l*iuiae Byerly. O A. ,M< Manama. Willard A Hpears. o Junior Red Cross Completes Articles Afghan On Display At Decatur Store M's* Grace (’offee. Adam* coun;y ihaimian »1 ’l>» Junior lU-d Pro *, today announced completion - S - . 1. _ . lit— 1x4,1*

. of war aid prop cis thr ugh her i organization. I An afghan. knitted largely by • students of the Lincoln school, is • on display today ai the Economy store In this city. Th‘s afghan is > to be sent to the station h spltal at Daytona Beach. Fla. I Four Decatur ladles. .Mrs. NA. Bislei. Mrs Hertel Nash. Mrs. ’ F» lix Maier and Mrs Max Sc Infer ’ donated their services twice Weekly io teaching the Lincoln pupils the- proper way to knit, nndsthe work on the afghan was completed by th-se student* Two hundred ash traye. collectJed by students of the- Calh He i schools and the- Decatur juniorsenior high school, are being sent to the Red Cross al Camp McCain. Ml*s. A number of joke and croseword puzzl-s. also pre-pared by Uncolli schorl students, are being sc-nt to 1 the Junior Reel Cross at Alexandria. Va. Lincoln «< hoot students who as Misted in knitting the afghan are as ’ follows: Janies Callow. Medford (Turn To Page 3. Colum" »> » —* O Argentina Organizes Hunt For Axis Spies II Bueno* Abes. Jan 22—11 PI— The Argentine government says it • Is organizing a hunt for Axis sple«. It announced the investigai tion after the British arrested an Argentine consular employe at Trinidad and charged him with being in the pay of an enemy of tho I'nited Nations British counter-espionage offlrial* picked up Alberto Osmar Helmuth while he apparently was en route t<> Europe The Ai gentine foreign office immedia'ely announced Helmuths dismissal from consular service. However. . the radio quotes an official Argentine broadcast asserting Helmuth was not dismissed—rathe, that he had been exonerated of the charges, so far as Argentina ia c-mccracd.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 22,1944.

West Coast Strike Settlement Voted I Workers To Return To Jobs On Monday Heat'le, Wash.. Jan 22 tl'Pi ' Six thou.-and members of the AFL Moulder* and Foundry Workers . have voted to end their strike In ' the northwest. The walkout over ’ a wage dispute tied up more than "0 west coast war plan's since its Inception Tuesday. Officials of four local union- in Portland. Tacoma. Seattle mid Everett an-1 nounced lute last night that tbaj workers had all voted to re’urn to their jobs Mondav. The vote which resulted in a three-to-on* count to return tn I work followed a war department | offer to obtain an immediiste hearing of 'he union'* grievances. The war department move was h.nged on an immediate ending of the strike. The work stoppage had been described as the worst in the northwest since Pearl Harbor.' To Return Tuesday Philadelphia. Jan 2*—HP'—

I'nioii leader* have a-sured the! WI’B that strikers .r the J din Roebling ste<; plant In Trenton.! 1 N. J. will return to their joint Tue.-day morning 1 Regional director Michael liarhis of the I'nited Rteelworkc r's union hus nromi-ed the WI’B and company officials that 'he sfrlk- . «rs will be issued a bac k to-work ' directive! Monday night. The I . (Turn To Page 3. Column t) —■ - —o Confessed Spy Tells Os Methods Os Ring Nazi Spv Testifies In Detroit Court Detroit. Jan. 22. — (VPf The attractive, confessed Nazi spy. Grace j l.uchanan-Dineen. has held a De- ■ tiolt courtroom speltboun I for two days this week She told the methodical plans of a German spy ring, in the trial of two alleged members of the ring. Dr. Frederick Th mao and Seaman Bertrand Hoffman. Before the gavel sounded to end ye st- relay's session. Mias Buchan-an-Dineen told government and defense attorneys about her plans to! convey vital Information about war plants, the servlcee. and everything else valuable to the German reich And the self-styled countess wasn't willing to take back any of her allegiance to the Nazis. She told defense attorney Walter Nelson that she thought national socialism would be a great service to France. The countess told the* court of her meetings with the defendant*. She described bow she coached Thomas and H.ffman in the ways of obtaining information She ad mills she sent It messages to Ger-' many before she was discovered. She told of a code she had worked out with Hoffman a merchant sea-1 man. |

Another Nazi War Center Is Raided By RAF 55 British Planes Missing In Heavy Raids On Europe — By I'nlter' Prong Th.- Hri'i h delivered another havmaker laat night and thia time the target was .Magdeburg, prim, war center. The big G.-rm.in city. *5 mile* aouihwekt of Herlin. buckled under the weight of 2.31M1 ton* of bomb-. Huge fire* were lef burning at Magdeburg, whoxe factorle* have been turning oi»f eteel. munition* am l junker', warplane* Berlin, however, did not get off went free. The Nazi capital, still burning from the 2.300 lon axrault on Thin dav night, wa* pounded again by a force of heavy bomber* and inokipilloe* though this time It wax only a diveinionary aUack. Other British plane* raked the French Invasion coast, which underwent a 2.200 ton bombing yesterday lit London, it's estimated tha’ about 1.000 plane* took part in last night'* operation*. And from that number. 55 failed to return. That'* the heaviext lo*« the llrltlsh have suffered since they 10-t 5S planes in Berlin raid list Aug list Still, it'* a moderate lox* compared with the number of planes involved, about live and one hal> percent. Raid London London. Jan. 22 (I'Pt Germati raider* gave lanidon it* heaviest at'a.k in more than a year la-i night although if didn't cpmpare with the *ocalled blitz raid* of Ibl'i and 'II About .10 Nazi planes dropped a couple of lon* of expl isive* and started a few fire*. British night fighters ami anti(Turn To Pare 1. Column <) Plan Stabilization Os Wages On Farms In Line With Policy To Fight Infiation • - Washington Jan <l'P> ! The war f> 'd administration ha* i announced a plan to keep farm j wages i'n line with the federal i tabilizatlon program I'nder the , plan, war food administrator Marvin Jones will appoin' state' agricultural wage boards wherev<* he think* it nece-sary to prevent Inflationary incieasea Wage ceiling* already are in effect on four crop- in California and Florida. The hoard* ailmhil • | tering those celling- will continm itn function. New boards set tip Iby Jones will hold public hear . Ing*, help set wage ceiling* for I .igriculttiiai workers, and deter-1 , mine penal les if ceiling* are violated. Tw<> cont rover-lai measures passed by ludh the tiotise and tile senate are about to be discussed again by conferees from both hoti-es The new 12.135.000.000 tax hill. pa*M-d by the eiiafe ye* | ter lav. Is expected to la- rejected ; by 'he house In quick order. If so. it will Im- sent into conference on .Monday so that senate and house meinlM-rs can iron out difference*. Deflate is expected to center on a bouse provision to combine the victory tax with the Individual inr-ome tax House and senate members al- - ready are meeting to iron out differences on another measure the hill to provide mustering out pay for discharged servicemen ll now appears that 'he house pioposaf for payments of *lmi to |3ou will win out. For -enate members already are wavering on their plan to grant up to ».'»<"• in mustering-out pay » —- o— Ernest Singer Rites Monday Afternoon Funeral servk-m for Ernest Singer. brother of Mrs Ponrl Reed of this city, who died at his home in Mouroevilla Friday morning, will be hold *• IJO p m Monday at the home and at 2 o'cloch at the St Marks Lutheran church in Monroeville. Banal atM be i nthu Monroeville. Burial will be in the Mob-

Troops Os Fifth Army Swarm Ashore In New Drive Towards Rome

Four Japanese Troop Barges Allied Victims . Two Pronged Drive On Base Os Madang Appears Developing t By I’nlted Preus I I The expected two-prong drive on ■ the Japanese Isise of Madang on • the New Guinea coaat appeata to . lie developing at last. ' Allied medium bombers ami i fighter* are raining Immbs on Jtipt held areas in the upper llamu val-• ley went of .Madang American I’. T. boats have sunk i fonr troop-laden Jap barge* off the I l co.iet of Madang. Veteran Australian troops are i continuing to improve their posi- . tlons in the llamu valley just 3'l mlhrt south <>f Madang A spokeatmin at General .Mac A-r-1 thur'u headquarters say* the conI centrated air attacks in the Ratnu valley indicate an early cffenslve Other American and Australian i forciis piwhing up the New Guinea ' coast have extended their control ' of the coast to a position 13 mile* ‘ below Madang. The P T boat* are reported to 1 have sunk the Jap troop barges off r Madang in a daring foray against enemy attempt* to reinforce <o;ie'al garrisons near Madang. The at-; ta«k against the barge movement* ■w.ir< complement'd by an Allied aerial blow against Hansa bay, which i* 1"" mike north of Ma-1 dang. Allied medium botnlwm and fighter* ate leported to have sunk 2" enemy barge. and damaged othi er* at llanua. I other Allied plane* damaged a 1.00-ton Jap freighter off Wew.lk. which is 2"o mil'* aliove Madang. And heavy American liomber*. raoglnc over the Dutch E.ie' Indie*. ; dtopped I‘| ton- o! bombs oil a Japan<*e naval base on Ambolna

. Island. -.-m..- - -*> ■— Two Are Accepted In Navy V-5 Program Eugene Pelt Hume and John Kelly. seniors in the Decatur junior.•eiilor high school, have been acccpied in the navy’s V-5 program, following c x.iinin ttions held at Fori w.ivm I' —lay The y Will l>. subject to cvill following completion cd I tbeii senior year. Mrs. Menno Steury Dies Last Evening Native Os County Is Taken By Death Funeral services for Mrs. Menno P Steuiy. 3*. native of Adam* county, who'died at the Adam* i county inc 'norial hospital “riday ; afternoon at I' 15 o'clock of pnen- ' moiiia. will be held Monday She j was a resident of Monroe township The service- will be held in the’ ! home a - 1:15 o'clock and in the 11. baseless .Meiionite c hurch, west \of Berne at 2 o'clock Rev. M J. Schmucker, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. hhc had been 111 since the latter part of December and a patient a' the Adams county memorial ho» pital Ince January |o Surviving are the husband, six children. I’aimei Roy. Robert Dale. Mary Jane. B< "y Lou. Lol* Ann and Nancy Jean; het patents. Mi and Mrs. Jacob J Bchwartz. Monroe township; tw.r brother*. Reuben Schwartz, near Monroe, and t’pl. Millard Schwar'z Camp McCain. Miss. and four sister*. Mi« Ben Mazelin of near Berne. Mrs Walter Butchei. Dei ra'ui. and liuldah and Rachel at home The body was taken to the Yager funeral home In Berne. I

McNutt Denies Big War Cancellations No Enormous Program Os Cutbacks Planned Detroit. Jan 22 il'l'i War manpower eommissioner Paul M< Nutt has told members of the Detroit victory ci itni ll that there I* n<> large scale program of war contra' t cancellation* Mi Nutt spoke at Detroit last night, said projected cancellation* implied peace was at hand which weaken* the home frotii will to tight The manpower chief stressea there is no eni rmous program of cutbacks. McNutt thinks a |*-ace scare is a major Instrument In the war of nerves He characterize* some of the ;p- ople guilty of Spreil ling peace j rumor*. One. he says, is the work ! er who uses peace rumors a* an alibi fur leaving the production line Another Is the employer whi wants to beat hl* eomp>-titor to the powt-war market and npreada the stories to cover up his forays on stockpiles that ought to be used for war pi duction. McNutt say* men like that have their Information from the horse's mouth of some socalled confidential service. Tile manjsiwer chief predicts a rise In employment of fit'.poo by next j July. He also say* the armed ’ fort es will show a net Increase of sno.ooo And that he say* mesne scraping the b ttom of the barrel - o Mrs. Clara Feller Dies This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon M - (la . Pauline Feller 71 w .1. .if llv . * Pellet died at ‘ .to th:.; morning a: her home *23 Meicer avenue, after a . • SW-..-.L a- ilttlkl iz-fl -

i tw< Week) illness m compiler | tion* , Fh<- was bom in Switzerland ' April 15. IMlfi. the daughter of Frederick and I’mlinc- DebroI Brunnei. and came to this conntrv when 15 year* old She- w.c i mari led September 25. I*"*” She wa* 4 member of the t'ros- Re so: :ned church a Berm J Surviving Iw side, the nilsband i are the following children Ollie' ! Feller of Blue Creek township. Mrs Olga Netleli»chwander of j Glen county Mrs. Vidor Ani.oh ier of near Decatur and Mrs ■ t Charle. Daniels of Decatur, two -idei* Mr* Otto Klefei of Dera-1 tn .>!.<! Mi - Il I. ti.o-l No-ole’ of Fort Wayne, four brother-. Emil; Brunner of Decatur. George and Jiile Brunner of Scottsburg and la wi* Brunner of Fort Wayne. ! seven grandchildieti and one | I greui-gr.indchiid Funeral services will be held at J 2 o'cloc k Monday afternoon at the I i Z.wtik funeral hottie with Rev (' j A Schmid offlditiiig Burial will!w in the M It E cemetery at . Berne. The hody may Im- viewed j at the funeral home after 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon Evansville Fire Toll Now Mounts To Six ii Evansville, Ind . Jan 22—(I’PI—- ' A sixth man ba* died as a result ■ ofa tire which destroyed the Evans i Hall war h using project at Evans- ! vllle He was 2t year-old Charles ! Mill* of Rohlnwon. 111. Four of the i six victims still are unidentified The other identified man was Roy . White of Harrisburg. 111. Police . are < bec king tenant list* tn an esI fort to identify the rest of the ■ tcodles. The men were trapped by the Are Jas they slept in the frame st rue- ■ ture The building wan occupied -by abc.ni W Evauaviile war workera but only a tew night shttt work- ; era were in then rooms wbeu the 15re occurred The tenants were aroused by a maid who discovered the ire.

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[ Firm New Foothold Established On Flat Plains Below Rome; Airfields Pounded BULLETIN Algiers. Jan. 22—(UPI—It is officially announced that Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry of Cresco, lowa, is the naval commander of the new landings on the Italian coast. 'By I'nlted Press' The Alli'* have established a thin new foothold on the plain* just below Koine There seems t. be no doubt aboqt that. American. British and Fien< h troop* of the tiftli army have swarmed ashore on the flat beaches along a stretch of several mile*. > The first uncertain hours after the : dfllcult amphibious operation have ' passed. And the w nd from Allied i headquarters I* that the operations are progressing satisfactorily. Sup- , plies and equipment are reported . to be pouring ashore, with virtuj ally no enemy air opposition. The German* admit our initial *uc< > sses. though they < laim Nazi ’I troops are lighting back furi< tisly. They say we've occupied the liar- ' bor of Nett uno. 31 miles below i Rome Ami that we've establish--1 ed other leaihheads between Net- ■ tuno and the Tiber river estuary, which is only 16 miles from the 1 Italian capital. Briefly, here are the details as 1 many of thrtn a* w. know now 1 ’ of the spectaculai < iteration which sha|H-s up tn all its elements like a dress rehearsal tor the second front. I Our troop statted storming I ashore from landing barges, on a t mt m veral miles. »Ide Just before dawn today. Guns from Allied waiship*. which accompanied the 1 transports, archer) a curtain cf -hells over their heads, into enemy |M*«ilioUa on tlie i oast Overhead, an umbrella of plane* swarmed vigilant tor an enemy air oppo- * it ion. Hours before ’th. landings our air force had swept vet a .loomile a.; , pounding Nazi Sinlrws amt communication Hues all the way to .Marseilles on the southern coast of France A tl<--1 of tighter-bonibers smashed the German headquarters. 15 mth* south of Rome with a spectacular raid on the villa which Iv used it This villa was only hie mil-* from the summer residence of Pope Pius, and It was in an area which previously had been restricted from Allied bombing bet ause of the proximity to the papal residence. However, the restriction wa* lifted when it was learned that th* I Nazi* were taking advantage of ft. and hail set up their lieadquarteia there. Filet who bombed the Gelquaiters say their attack was so accurate that (’astel Gandolfo. the p*pe! villa, "never felt a thing." But ah power and naval power were not the only coordinating Weapons the Allies iwed to set up ith plain* of Rome for the land* | ing The Allied fifth army units farther south teed off with a tleW drive against the enemy's Liri valley detente*, to divert attention. N t only were they successful In that aim. but they also made some gains. In fact. American troop* smashed across the Kapido river below Cassino. to crack the Nazi defense line The French already had crossed the Rapido farther north, threatening to turn the flank of the enemy belt. In the Mfnturno area, on th* coast which now I* le-hin-l th* liner of our nbw Iwachheads British uniU drove ah' ad two miles t* capture the town of Trlmonsouli — Fort Wayne Youth Is Killed By Freight Car Fort Wayne. Ind . Jan 23.—(1Tl -Five-year-old Kenneth Sanders of Fort Wayne has been killed by a Nickel Plate railroad freight rgr. The youngster and bis d < stepp* <t into the path of the car just as It was being switched off a tram near tb* union stockyard* The brake, man «ay» be yelled a warning but the boy apparently did not bear him.