Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1944 — Page 1

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QRUCIAL STAGE OF ROME BATTLE NEARING

■tee Forces K Attacks Marshalls R| ■ — Kn More Islands (cjtured By Yankee |Sp s From J Q P S ■ H|7 Prose > n futhting power hns all <h.iin ..f th.- Mat on th'' KT3 inclines th>Knl. x It'* presumed the '• Th.Eg £ <ti>< ’.>*<•* that th. ■Kfig ", riicll' I'-SlSt.ltl. .- on . n mt t I atwe. a few tn I lea lurth. in tr ops already hold at <>f Kwajalein and Ebeye And they’re mopping up hitler of the Jap* with ar-bine-throwers. grenade* iln.- guns. in losses on Kwajaleln so been uncommonly light, iky- radio still ha* very ly about the developments arshaUs. But thin mornetny broadcast admits the Is growing more acute, the Jap propagandist* American planes have I down, that two destroybeeit sunk and two other damaged. These enemy I course, are not confirm1 Nomura, one of the Jap I Sait y who waa in Washing kt. th.- Jap* staged then ■iarlH.r sneak attack- it. las predicting that we'll ■r main strength Into the ■> because we consider It Mai mute of advance. ■ southwest Pacific, Amer|op< op Bougainville in the ■ hive «p)it Jap forcea on Ind in half. By striking ■’em Empress Augusta bay last <<>ast just below Numa lhe Yank* have divided the I the south from those In ■h k N. w Guinea. Allied bombk destroyed 80 more enemy Iln a 200-ton assault on ■m _o Hjct Meeting |®rsey Breeders ■M*' district meeting of will be held at -he ■■■- I’ott Wayne Tuesday. HH ■* '!1 a noon luncheon O: of G-wh'-n. district win preside. ■ iti'y men planning to ■EH*'' I rice, pre.-dell' of l-'-ey E I_ .unty agent; Reuben BH ' 1 Korte David Mos«>-r. - and Noah Arnold. Workers wHeturn To Jobs 5 tip I The board has otdei.d BB*" hanlcs to -nd a strike B^r 1 ? :l dozen war plants in bßß**' The Isiard further union officials to ' th- walk BB !>- '■ UK will he held M >ti "f th.- mechanic- .-.in an independent M ; k ye- erday in I'leve and Toledo The is believed to have re|||B rn a dispute over barrights o reading in’OCRAT THERMOMETER Es *• •" 40 |V • a. 46 I WEATHER cwgar tetfffcM and •on- ■ B."'°* ,l r cloudy with snow m Sitrsms north par- ■ SL* 24 U3O •"«* occ> ' ■ y iy 14 ""tss par hour this *M tonight dimin-

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Two Registrants Are Transferred To Texas The Adams county selective service board announced today that j two men. who failed to report Wed- I n.eday to take physical examinations. have been transferred to the j jurisdiction of other boards and are not delinquent. These two are; Ignacio peunte Alvarado, transferred to Dallas. Tex ; and Sylvester Coetancio Dels Cruuz, Jr. transferred to Regan Tex. 0 Wickard Says Farm Output To Increase Average Weather Is Only Need Os Farms Kokomo, Ind.. Feb. 5. — (VP) — Secretary of Agriculture Claude -Wickard says American farmers need only average weather renditions to break production records In 1944. Wickard asserted at Kokomo. Ind. last night that Americans are better fed than ever, with food consumption seven percent higher than in IMS. And he said that, although agricultural income is high, he believes the nation <l-es not have the Inflationary tendencies today that it faced in 1918. II- attributed much of the success of the British and Russians in the war to lhe flow of American food supplies to the Allies. Wickard rapped novelist Louis Bromfield and others whom he said predicted food shortages which have not materialized. Laud Women's Aid Washington, Feb. s.—(VPi—The nation's farmers take it all back—the bad things they once said about members! of the women's land army Tonight they are praising these women who answered the government's call for more farmhands, because lhe ladies of the soil have made gcod -In a big way. They work hard, from sun-up to sun-set. They have no glamorous uniforms, no elegant quarters and no fancy salaries. Just |25 to 150 a month, plus keep. Miss (Tara Bailey of the women's land army headquarters says more' than 250.000 women and girls work-1 ed cn farms for varying length* of time last year. This year, the WLA ' hopes to enlist 400.000 to sow and . harvest food for the war larder. According to .Miss Bailey, most of the farmerettes last year were ' businsM girls — girls who hardly , knew the difference between a cow - and a horse However, some were , trained In federal and state agricul tural schools, offering special short-1 term courses. There was a time when many women considered it not quite the thing to work on farms. But an .Miss Bailey say». "It's done In the best families now.”

Arlo Lehman Heads Suggestion Winners Arlo Verne Lehman of this city heaib the lint of suggestion winners at the local General Electric plant, winning at 45 prize. Other winners Ibted Gladys Lehman and Bonita Pauline Vian. Boy Scout Banquet Here Tuesday Night Scout Executive To Be Chief Speaker The annual Boy Scout banquet will be held at 0:15 o'clock Tuesday evening at the K of P. home in thia city. Members of the Decatur Lions and Rotary cldbs will diepease with their regular meetings next week to attend thia annual affair. R. L. Van Horn, of Fort Wayne. Boy Scont executive for the An'bony Wayne area coancll. will be the principal speaker Mr. Van Horn will speak on “Sc-outa are meeting the teat." The meeting will open with invocation by Rev Robert Hoevel. aasiatant pastor of St Marya Catholic church, followed with Scout songs, led by Dr Fred Patterson Following the banquet, the Roy Scout court of honor will be held, with W. Guy Brown as chairman. The meeting will close with the singing of "Taps." ®c®nt e®®* Clarsnce liner will act as toastmaster. and the laland ens will provide muk during the banquet-

Hope To Iron Out Spanish Problems ■— Seek To Keep Spain In Neutral Position Washington. Feb. 5 — (t’PI — Our government apparently does not intend to break off relations with Spain or even to force 'hat country to sever completely with the Axis. Official sources Indicate that we stopp'-d oil shipments to Spain mainly in protest against 'hat country’s continued financial and military aid to Germany. But there seems to be some hope in Washington that the problem can be ironed out soon. President Roosevelt has indicated that he would like to see Spain kept In a truly neutral position. And officials hope that we can continue to aid Spain's internal economy without Indirectly helping the Axis. Apparently we do not want *o precipitate a |>olltical uprising In the Iberian peninsula, either. The current crisis seems to center around Spain's continued detention of Italian ships the ex'ensioti of credit to Germany for purchases In Spain—and the continued presence of Spanish unit on the Russian front. Officials hope that if the credit to Germany is to conTnue. it will bn used for non-milltary goods. Reports say that the oil embargo already is being felt in Spain. Spain, to a great extent, depends on Allied oil shipmen's to keep food supplies rolling. 5,000 Chicago Area Workers Vote Strike Chicago, Feb 5. — (I'Pt — More than five thousand f< undry workers In the Chicago area have voted to strike on Monday to enforce their demands for a six-cent an hour wage Increase. Members of the AFL local 233 of the Molder Foundry Workers cf America made the decision at a closed meeting last night. Their action followed the refusal yesterday of a special panel of the regional WLB to grant the wage boost The panel believes the Increase is not warranted because of a previi us pay Increase granted in May, 1942

Decatur Merchant Policeman Is Dead William Workinger Dies Friday Night William H. Workinger. 5». night merchant policeman, and retired farmer, died Friday night at 9:3<t o'clock al the Adams county memorial hospital of a heart ailment MT. Workinger had been in poor health for the last 18 months and in a critical condition for four; weeks.

He was born In St Mary's township. April. 11. 1884. the son of Samuel and Margaret Hilyard Workinger. Hl* marriage to Madge Barkley took place Decern ber 25. 1910. He was a member of the Union chapel I'. B church. He gad lived in or around Adam* count) all his life. Surviving are the widow, 'hree son*. Rol>ert. of Decatur, and Kenneth. of Compton. Calif.. Pfc Lester of the U.S. air corps, stationed in England: two brothers Pierce of Greenville. Mich.. Perry and Bert of Wren. O. and two sisters. Florence of Lima. 0.. and Mrs. Mae Johnson of Decatur. Two daugb'ers are deceased There are three granddiildren. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at lhe Zwlck funeral home, and at _ (Turn To ». Coloma 4) pSenators Play Hookey, No Saturday Session Washington. Feb s.—(VPt—Too many senators played hookey from the Saturday session scheduled for today, and the senate had to postpone further conelderatlon cf the soldier vote controversy until Mon day. The convening hour of 11 a. m. found only seven senators on the flo.r. The Initial roll call was answered by ST senator* who filed In during the akw calling of name* And a later roll call brought the total number present i» 43

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 5,1944.

Nazi Blockade Runners Sunk Ib ’'- r '< 4 , * . A record prize wax trapped by three American warship* Including the cruiser I*. S. S Omaha above, when a trio of Nazi blockade runners, en route from far eastern Japanese ports, were intercepted and sunk in the South Atlantic The enemy vessels, laden with thousands of tons of rubber, tin, fats and ores, were sunk in attempt Ing to meak across the South Atlantic. Hundreds of tons of baled rubber, found floating in the debris, was recovered ami sent to the I'ilitcd States. In addition to the Omaha, the I S destroyers S uiters and Jouett took part In th< action.

10 Stales Establish Soldier Vote Plans Set Up Machinery To Permit Voting New York. Feb. 5.— (L'Pt At least 10 »tatea have gone ahead — without waiting for congress and have set up the machinery to permit soldiers to vote Several more are con*idering similar legislation. States which already have pawed new absentee voting law* are: Georgia, which was first; California. Illinois. Wisconsin, Oregon. lowa, Connecticut. Colorado. Montana. and West Virginia In general they have voted to lengthen the time for wending bal lot* or counting votes—or they have authorized the proper parties to send ballots automatically to all service men and women from the state. George, illinci*. lowa. Colorado. Montana and California have chosen the time-lengthening procedure, but servicemen or their families must reqinwt the ballots, while Wisconsin and Connecticut have voted to send out the ballots, anyway. Oregon has vote'll to go along with whatever procedure congress outline*.

Argentina Breaks With Axis Puppets Denmark Is Excepted In Argentina Decree Buenos Aires. Feh. 5. — il'Pl — The government of Argentina announce* it will break relation* with Axh satellite nation*. The decree breaks relations with Rumania. Hungary. Bulgaria and France, the only puppet government* represented tn Buencs Aires Denmark was excepted only because Its legation announced a few hour* earlier that It would now work only for free Denmark mtd would no longer accept instruction* from the satellite Copenhagen -egime. Non-belligerent rights were grantgranted by Argentina to Canada. Bolivia. Costa Rica. Cuba El Salva dor. Guatemala. Haiti. Honduras. Mexico. Nicaragua. Panama and Santo Domingo This release* them from restric(Tara To Fag* Z, C*luma »»

Adams County Man Is Naturalized Friday William Goelz 54 of route three Decatur, a native of Affolterbach, Germany, wa* naturalized in the Adam* circuit court Friday before Judge J Fred Fruchte. Inspector Murphy of ’lt" immigration bureau at Cincinnati was present at the naturalization. Mr. Goelz came to this country in 19U4. Former Decatur Man Is Taken By Death William Rimer Dies At Home In Gary Funeral services for William Rimer. 59 a former steel worker of this city, who died Friday afternoon at Mercy hospital. Gary, the latter'* home, will lie held at 2;:>o Monday afternoon at the Black funeral home. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will arrive her* from Gary Sunday night. Rev. F II Willard, pastor of lhe First Evan gelical church, will bo in charge o.' the service* Mr Rimer wa* employed In hl* trade in the constructing of the large oil tanks at I’rebb- and al««» assisted in the building of the sngar factory here in 1912. He married Mbs Josephine Bowers of Deca fur and moved to Gary abott* 25 years ago. He wa* born in Findlay. Ohio. He was a member of the Moose lodge. Beside* the widow he is survived by two son*. Robert R. of Gary. William T. of Chicago, and one daughter. Mrs. I’aullne Delong of Chicago Also surviving are a sister. Mrs. Dulsa Jenkins of Fort Wayne: Mr*. Mary Hoke ot Find lay. Ohio; Mrs Georg* iqiiler of Ulis city, a sbter in-law. Charles Bowers of this city, a brother inlaw and Richard C. Bower*, of Dayton, a brother Inlaw. The body may be viewed at 'he Black funeral honii Geneva Marine Is Reported Wounded The name of Private Richard Huffman, of Geneva, is Included in a list released today by the Vailed Slates marine* as wounded He Is not lis’ed on the records ot th* Adam* county selecttv* service board, th* Bat of Adam* county veteran*! of World War II compiled by the American Legion or on the county voting registration card*.

Strong German Forces Hurl Counter-Attacks At Allies Below Rome

Nazis Steadily Lose Ground In Ukraine Area Russian Air Force Destroys 86 Nazi Transport Planes ft> I'nitet' Pres-. The Nazis sit" losing ground steadily in the I'kralne. in a day of fieri e fighting. Red j armies have carved 100 square miles out of the pocket below KI v in which -ome imt.imo Ger- | mans are trapp'd The Dnieper I peket Is now aboil" 9"" square' mile-, in area. Front reports say the Russians are confident the I" encircled I divi-loiis will be liquidated rapidly. And Russian fliers are seeing ' to it that the Germans do not get I relief. For in the past -wo day- . I Rill air force pilots have destroy ed 86 transport planes attempting to fly supplies to enemy tris'P* On th" Estonian front. General Govorov's la'ttingrad armies have cleared the Gulf of Finland coas' j tip to the estuary of the Narva river. And they advanced along! the shore of Lake Peipus In an enveloping offensive against the city of Narva the ancient ci'adel on the eastern corridor to Tallinn.! the capital of Estonia Govorov's southern column captured a town of 2'» mile- north of

Luga on tin* la-ningrad Pskov railroad and advattc.-d to within 21 miles of a June'lon with another force driving up from the Nov-1 gorod area. The meeting of these two forces might encircle another German army in a salient below I Leningrad. There's definite evidence that the German-dominated countries Imo dering Russia are panicky over tho new Soviet gains A Swedish report -ay* a slate of emergency ha* declared throughout Lithuania. Evacuation panic also I* repotted in Riga, the capital of Latvia And a Berlin dispatch say* that many German civilian* | already have left Warsaw Rumania also figures in this war of nerve, for the Axis. A German broad' ast says Rumania's I dlc'ator Marshal Antonescu has i cancelled the po.l of civil gover-1 nor for the territory between the | Dniester and Bug rivers. This Itaken io mean that the Germans will probaldy not attempt to hold the Russians cast of the Bug. live.-. —- " 'O’— 1 11 — Two Names Are Filed In Illinois Primary Republican Groups Backing Candidates Springfield. 111.. Fel>. S—(VP) Two new Illinois! Republican group* have announced formally their selectiMU for the presidential race. The names of General Douglas l MacArthur and Colonel Hubert Me Cormck. publisher of the Chicago Tribune, were filed thia morning for consideration in the April II Illinois primary. Petition* for the southwest Pa clfic war leader were entered by W F Mclaiughlln of Glencoe, vice president of the state MacArthur for-president club McCormick, lead of the anti-Atiminiw'ration pre>*i and him»elf a backer for MacArthur as prtaident. is being support rd by the Republican nationalist revival committee His name waa entered by the committee * aecretary. William Grace, a Chicago atI torne and iaoiattoniat. Both McMughlin and Grace described the filings a* "purely draft movement»" and both aaid they acted independently of MacArthur | or McCormick

Half Deferments To Youths 18 To 21 Agriculture Only Deferment Basis lndiaua|M>lis. Feb 5. — (VP) Hoosier selective service registrant* between the age* of 18 and 21 inclusive are no huger entitled to occupational draft deferment* except tor agriculture The announcement is made by Colonel Robinson Hitchcock, the Indiana 1 selective service director. Hitchcock says the new policy ie |in line with public sentiment. It holds he said that men under 22 years of age heli ng to the armed service rather than a civilian ac- ! tivity even if their jobs are manifestly essential to the war. The director adds that elimination of lhe job deferment* will provide additional manpower. Ami that will delay the calling of an excess number of bona-fide fatherin older age brackets. The jobs of many ntn-fathers tin der 21 will be filled by fathers over 21 years of age. And from now on ’ fathers will l»- given consider- ! atioii over non fathers in granting occupational deferments. Jlitehcock way* that occupational deferments already in '-fleet and g <sl after February 1 will be coni tinned until their expiration They i will not be renewed, however, un | less they constitute ait exception to the new policy. Students deferments also were curtailed effective the first of this month They will he placed on a I quota basis for certain specialized and si ientlfic fields In colleges and | universities.

—o Adams County Native Dies In Fort Wayne Frederick Mailand Is Taken By Death Frederick W. Mailand. 67. died Friday at the St Joseph's hospital in For’ Wayne, where In- wa* tak en Sunday following a cerebral . hemorrhage. He war ls>rn in Adam* county, moving to Fort Wayne 3a year* ago. where he waa employed at the General Electric company until retirement five yearn ago. He was a inemle-r of the Zion Lutheran church and the B. V. S society. Hmviving are the widow. Elsie; a daughter. Margaret, of Fort Wayne, a sister, Mrs Sophie Zwick , of Seward. Neb . and two brother*. Charles Mailand of Adame county and William of Seward. Neb. The iate laiuto Mailand former Decatur tailor, wa* a brother. Funeral service* Will lie held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the ' Si li'-umann funeral home in Fort i Wayne, with Rev P. L. Danneti ' f.-ldt officiating Burial will be in ; Concordia cemetery. o - Girl Sells Pig, To Invest In War Bond Ann Gas*, granddaughter of L. A Holthouse of Windswept Farm ea»t of Decatur, sold her pig on the local market thia morning, receiving 532.75. It Weighed 25'1 pound* the pig. one of a litter raia«-d on the Holthouae farm, waa specially fed and watched by the young farmerette Miss Ann intend* to invest her proceed* in fourth war loan Isitida . o 1 — lll Cheese Factory Head Killed In Accident la>gan*p< rt, Ind., Feb 5.—(VP> —A 42 year-old owner of a cheese factory at Galveston. Ind. Alois Sidler. has been killed m an automobile accident Sidler lost control of bis automobile on read 35 •noth of Galveston and wa* thrown out of the car onto a teuce when tt overturned He was a native ot Switzerland.

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Bitter Fighting Is On Between Yankees And German Army In Town Os Cassino llv Vnited Press The crucial stage of lhe battle on the plain- below Rome is approacihng. Strong and experienced Nazi I forces have thrown still more ’ counter-attack* against the Allied lilies The latest attacks centered on the Brlthli position* in the ■ ' Carroceto sector, alxmt 2*> mile* I from Rome So far. the Tommies i hav« tinned them all back I broken 'he enemy assault*, and Inflicted heavy losses. A* far as It grass, the new- I* encouraging But there's no call for optimism yet The dispatches from th» bittiefront indicate the Nazi jab* an- only feeler blow*. The enemy i» sparring for an opening looking for a oft spot where he can le: loose the full 1 force of a counter-offensive designed io hurl our fighting men back ' against the si-a There's eery indication that the tempo of battle is being Stepped up constantly, and that American and British troops holding the beachhead are in tor -ome savage tight Ing. The Germans, who ye-terday . claimed to have encircled a strong force of Allied troop*, followed up today with a report 'hat th* trap|H-d battalions have been pressed together In a narrow area. 1 And. according to the latest Ger man high command communique, poo British troops have been cap- ‘ 'tired This i all enemy claim I not substantiated by Allied re- ! port/ Another furious struggle I* underway in the Liri valley at

t'assino some miles south of th<beachhead battlefront. latest repot ■» front the front indicate the Germans are moving more reinforcetnenta into t’assino determined to hold the town to the last ditch American troop* are dinging Mllbboiilly '<< a toehold on the northern outskirts ot <’a*.*'.no in the face of the most flirioil* kitol of opposition. and it appears that I the battle for Ca-sitio Will be long 1 and bitte. However ano’her Amercian col- ' until Is swinging wide around Cassino through the hill* And now these Yank* are reported ' | moving down behind the city tie ward the via t'asillna If they <ut thia highway, which la the Inland road to Home the German* in t'a-sino will lie cut oft The Allied air war against 'he enemy in western Europe is run- ' ning in high gear Allied planes of all types swarmed across the English channel today in a fullscale resumption of the offensive against the western invasion area. Powerful formations of United States flying fortresses and lib- . erator* punched 'o the heart of Franco to attack German air field- The Yankee heavy Iximb- ' er* roared through the middle of | tae Nazi tighter-defense belt on a Mm mile round trip -their eighth I major attack in nine days. Hut that isn't ail. The Paris radio says the area around the French capital was bombed. And marauder medium bombers in what is called "unusual" strength MHashed at targets in northern I France. The day raids followed last - night's mosquito bomber assaults on western Germany — and came l about 24 hours after the l.ltm ' plane American raid on the Nazi ■ industrial city of Frankfurt. i -—o War Department Film Here On February 15 The 'War Department Reportfilm which is being eshitoted in General Electric company cities i this mouth, will lie >hown in De- - catur at the Catholic high sch k»| > auditorium on February IS. The first show will Im- at J - o'clock in the afternoon and the > second at 'W in the evening, i Employe* may bring one guest to l the presentation and admission [ will lie G. E dub membership ' card or badge.