Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1944 — Page 1

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■ YLII No. 61.

REW AERIAL ASSAULTS AGAINST EUROPE

Wiled States ■fuses Io Sell lips Io Eire ILh Government To Oust Of Axis i- translating «■„ s , against with >C*f ... ih «! that the r H ..t -ii '»■* '■••‘"y BMaT 'ri., , , /-• Im II. Hi <>r c, a,’i lieell sunk * Th y said to I t'.lUspoit —Ei ln hl ' l ,rop 'hj t.-fll-al “ ■■ . related - that Axis repre- ■ ,»... .KIH-lb-d, I that the lilsh * H consider the E.umm !»•■ ilia' h<- would not . .-■->■ before he rethat the Axis - 1 -I The American ..>>l th>- presence of Axis K>. i'liilaiigerwl the liven of .mil the success routing ■| .- ■ bifid «IH W»pap(-r* rejection nt the • the Will of people. Iri h . which t>prehe I> Valera political wing. th.c Go-man or Japanese -r-:.- tepre* ntatlvex are |S (-nsm-fr Itplitn.i'lc « - -tivey Information to homeland*. It «ay» tha’ hav. any mean* of comwith their countries, by cable, which panne* London. > <'i llai', i m- - e to lie of \XI» |H '■ ■ \ ■ -l<li«-t and - i , \mil'caty op. L> l’<o <. Column 4) -Kluable Horse Is /•Bstroyed By Bull '• valuable saddle home a yearj fill) owned by Roy Pr ice. Ad county treasurer. was killed ,1 Friday afternoon when a old hull suddenly ran ->n th- Price farm southeast valuable eaddle horse. : for’ old won also badly In B"' 1 and may have to tie destroy V Price .aid that the bull had cau—d an) previous trouble -1 d rwri immediately after the , B*k |||s " Biss Elizabeth Leyes Bfives In London <’ro«. headquarter* at Alex Va. has announced that r . z.c:» h L-y*e. former Monteacher, was includatf in |B<roup of American Red Cross who have arrived safely raEuland Three other Indiana were alto Hated tn th- anMg o ■ope To Broadcast Bn Sunday Morning B sv * York. Mar 11- (VP) — H** •*”«» will make a radio ad ■”’ ,o «orrow. the fifth anniver Bg T ’>!« coronation Th- OWI ■!' the Vatican broadcast will at It io m EWT and Pope win ilart .peaking at ■ Th- pjpc wl)) h(g (alfc (<j 1 from aoutbern Paly II T£m ’’E«A Tu «e reading ■ democrat thermometer II a. m. « I I Ram * IATHt * ■ tr tty elouder to cloudy and II II eMiL?*" **“*” *" d '**’* ’•*" f I taern *"*•** *"** WwTl «« "* rt f I — **"***•■ to. I «*■ (■-...' **** ®to 10 miloo M ** ***'

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Warn Os Impending Shortage Os Beef Shortage Will Be Strictly Civilian Chicago. Mar 11 • H'Pi ■ War food administration officials report that the nation will have to K"t along on less beef during the next three month*. However the shortage will be strictly civilian and will center on •the ea*' and west coasts The WFA *ay* the allotments for the armed forces and lend-lease won't he affected. Meanwhile, the meat industry claims that the b.-es shortage I* artificial that. It ha* been brought on by the Increasr In national Income. Thl*. the Industry points out. means that more people ire In a postion to buy steak*. A spokesman for the meat packIng industry says cattle slaughter was at record height during January and February He add* that most of this was from a supply which normally would not have moved front the stockyard until May or June. Costs Increase Chicago. Mar II - (TP» -The composite American citiaen who tries to on'fmnWe his dinner companion forth. check in hotel* and restaurant* ha* good reason to lie reluctant The business of serving food now is the nation's *l«th largest industry Some «ti.O«»<MH» people are served dally in limmhm) eating 'Turn Tn P*g» «. Column St o ■ —— Red Cross Campaign Reports Excellent 20 Percent Os Fund Subscribed To Date Red Croat. Fund County s Quota. »I«.7ih‘. Donations to date Berm Geneva 3.0.e Decatur ..... — TOT Al. 13.W8 O With the soliciting getting und erway in Decatur, total subscriptions Io the IH4 Red Cross fund are mor* than 30 penent of the 11C.700 goal. Clarence Miner. county chairman of the drive, announced today I The campaign is coming along | under full power In Berne and Geneva, and In the rural sections, the drive is tar ahead of Ust year's standing It wa« pointed In Decatur, a sepsra’o drive is being made among the beelne** firm* and stores. contribution* being made in the name of the firm Individual- are also being soiteited at their home*. i The drtva will continue throughout the month of March *

Regional Advisory Board Meets Tuesday G D Alarlcean. general traffic manager of the Central Coya Co., and Glenn V Hill, former president of the Decatur Chami»-r of Commerce. have -been invited to attend the Slat annual meeting of the Great latke* icgiotial advinory ■ board at Toledo next Tuesday. Plans to handle the increaeed freight traffic on the railroad* expected during the next few month* will be made at the meeting Nhipj per* from Indiana and Ohio and ’ eastern atates -will attend «> Woman Arsonist A Former Mental Case Description Tallies With Hospital Record Logatwport, Ind.. Mar. 11 (l'P» Sheriff Harold Smith say* that a dexcriptloil of Maude Lucas, a former West Virginia mental patient, tallies with that of Mr* Aleen Elliott Otl. The 11 year-old woman i* charged with arson at the laigan I sport slate hospital Mm. OH. an attendant at the , Logansport institution. I* also being questioned in connection with Are* at mental institution* at Evansville. Toledo. G . and Weston, w Va. Her husband. James OH. Ir held a* ari accessory. Tile sheriff says that Dr. Harry Garrison of Weston ha* written him that a woman known us Maude Lucas wa* a patient al the Weston state hospital in IMS. She later wae discharged. Garrison said that Maud Lucas , underwent an operation in 192" and had scars on her wrist* resulting from three suicide attempts. Mr* Oil ha* eimilar scars, accord ing to the sheriff. She also attempted to commit suicide two ' week- ago by taking an overdose I of a »leeping potion. Investigator* of the state Bnmarshal'* offlie said it i* believed that Mrs Ott ha* bes-n ma»qu< rad ing under the name of Aleen El- : Rott, a former attendant at W es- | ton and now in Washington. D * Mrs. Ott has dented being the former Maude Lttca*. Another letter from A. L. Morri* of the Spencer, W. V* . hospital reports that a Maude Lm a* had been - - — (Turn Te Pw € Column «l Rural Moil Patrons Make Bond Purchases in the recent Fourth war loan drive, mail patron* of Hay Smith, rural carrier on rou’e four, had him purchaae a total of HJ<M» in bond*. Mr Smith s route is la Kirkland and French township* sad farmer* in thoso distrkta who could not gat . to town during the drive, gave him ' their money to purchase he bond* French znd Kirluaad ware among the eight town*hi»* that weat aver I tha top »• ike drive

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday. March 11,1944.

Legion Post Plans Anniversary Party Hold Program Here On Wednesday Night Adam* post 43. American Legion 1 j will celebrate th»- 25th anniversary I of the founding of the American ' Legion with a party at the la-gion home in thi* city next Wednesday 1 evening at fl o'clock The American Ix-glon was found- | ed in Pari* in 1919, with a small j band of i'nlted State* veterans of World War I forming the nucleus of the organisation which Im* grown into one of the largest and most influential groups in this nation. Wednesday night'* anniversary program here will start at fl o’clock, and only those pre-ant when thi- program s'art* a ill be eligible for tin door prize. An officer from Baer Field. Fort Wayne will Ih- the principal speaker Following the brief -peaking program a dance will be held and refreshment* and fond 1 wIP be served lame* K Staley, commander of Adam* post, will l»- in charge of ' the program, which i» for Legionnaire* and member* of th- auxll--1 iary. A special invitation is extended to all service men and women of the community who ate hmm- on leave or furlough There will be no admi*-ion ' charge. . — .. —■ No Funeral Frills, Final Cobb Request Humorist Insisted Final Rites Cheerful Paducah. Ky. Mar 11 ti'P’ — The choir of Burkes’ Chapel African Methodist church will sing "ilwing l*ow Sweet Chariot" and "De p River' at memorial service* today fnr Irvin H. Cobh. Cobb died yes'erday in New York j .Matti* Copeland, former Negro ' cook In the author's home at Pat ducah. rounded up some of h< r choir friend* to sing the two ' song*. Th« humorist a-k--d Mattie to do that for him in a letter before hl* death At the memorial service* there will he no mourning In hi* farewell message to hi* home townsfolk. C<*»b said "Keep the thing cheerful, boy* and girl»'» Th* t*>n and women of Padm-ah will respect Cobb In every detail Cobb outlined his Wishes for funeral rites tn a letter written last Dee mbe- to Edwin Paxton, editor of th* Paducah Drmocr*' Cobb's last latter said ba wan’ad ! a<- frills "If anyone trie* to insert one of tbo** dismal number* me up i "(Twa T* rwi £ Celwzss I)

Hong Kong Is Raided By U.S. Bomber Planes Big Japanese Supply Base Is Attacked By Liberator Bombers By I'nlted Pre** American heavy bomlrer* have bombed Hong Kong, the liig Jap rttpply ami relay port on the Chin." < >a-i A communique from G-neral Stilwell *av» liberafor* carried out an attack laat night on the Kowloon dock* and dropped many bomb* in th- target area. The Tokyo radio acknowledge* the attack and *ay* a doyen homie er* took part. Bu it make* the unital claim* that our plane- were forced to JettlMrti their homb* when th-y encountered Interceptor plane*, and that a howpital and the re*ldentia) quarter* were damag. ed. The American 11th air force, abut splattered homb* on other enemy holding* in Indo-China. Fighter bomlier* *et fire Io a 1.700-ton en-nty freighter, and *ma*hed Jap airdrome Installation* on Weichow island Elsewhere In the Pacific. Am- rican plane* have practically wiped out the 'own of Ponape. on the island of th- same name in the Carolim*. The town wa* the third mo*t Important Jap ba-e in the Island* But when our homie er* got through with it ttf'er lews than three week* of hammering the town wa* destroyed, it* airdrum- wreck'd, and the seaplane base «o badly flattered the Jap' had to decommission It. Ami on New Britain inland, other American plane* are helping the marines drive southward from Tala*-a. on the north coast The (Turn To Pag* <• Column 11 —O-—'.-Ehrsam Is Candidate For County Surveyor Incumbent To Seek Democrat Nomination William Ehrsam. Adam* county surveyor and road *upervi«or today announced he would be a candidate for r«-election for a second two-year term a* surveyor, in the Democratic primary next May. Mr Ehr»am i« a native of Adym* county, having oeen horn and reared in Monroe township, wherhe now reside*. He attended the Monroe township public achool* iHe served in th V.s army during the last war for three years, lit month* of which were .pent oversea* and nine month* In the army of occupation after th war. He I* marri-d and the father of six children Hi* oldest boy ha* I served about two years in the I 1‘ S. navy Hi* experience in th surveyor * office dates back to service a* depn'y under his brother Harley until hi* brother enlisted in tharmy, al which tint- Mr Ehr«am was named to fill out the unex hired let in of about *ix monthHe wa* subsequently elected for a twiey-ar term, which he i» now comple'hig. Previous to entering the survey nr's office he was engaged in farming He also did <u«tom threshing am’ plowing Mr. Ehrnam ha* been active in l> mocratic politic* all hi* life He Is the firat candidate to announce for the office —-.■■■ ■ ■.. -a — Straub Family Has Second Auto Crash Bad luck runu in families, the StraWh* -believe today. Laat Wed nesday Mr* Glen tSrauh. Sr. was driving on •(’. « TSti ea*’ of the , St. Mary'* river bridge when a state highway truck pullei out and I hit her automobile damaging a feni der, running boar I and headlight. Thia morning at 12 IS o'clock. Glen fftraub. Jr., returning to hi* home in Peterson from work on a sight shift at a local induatry. tell aalaap one mile north of Peter on Hla car loft Um road, turned over and waa very beavUy damaged Fortunately no one wa* injured in either wreck Bo h aceid*nfa were reported to the office of Sheriff ' Leo Gillig

American Bombers In Raids From Bases In Both England, Italy

Soviet Armies Advancing On 500-Mile Front Russian Forces Rout Germans In Central Sector Os Ukraine 11 By I'nitcd Pre i Itussiaii arinic* are smashing forward all along the stm mile front in the southern I kraine. In the central sector. Soviet forces have routed the Nazi troop* estimated at some ixo.iWO men capturing an enormous quantity of biMiiy and killing upward* of enemy soldier*. The Soviet high command claims this powerful drive destroyed or captured Hie bulk of German armor massed to proled th- approachover 5<M» Nazi tanks an I self-pro ea to Besearabla .Moscow lists polled guns among the huge booty. Front diapatchea say the Russian thrust was eo great that the Nazi* were caught off balance and retreated in headlong flight, thelt Wea|M>n* abandoned by th- road- 1 side. The German* made a last futile attempt to stem the fttrioti Ku* , Nian onslaught at I man a fort! fled town of 42.m>0 person* Bui Moscow say* the .Nail* were fore- . ,(1 to withdraw after bitter street ' tight ing In old Poland Russian tanks and Infantry are reported clearing the Nazi* from Tarnopol street by street. Miutcow says the Nazi* thr--w strong reinforcement* into the tight to holster th- apparently doomed garrisons. To the southeast of Tarnopol. oth-r Soviet tnsips are hammering \ away at the outer defense* of I Proskurov a rail junction on the I German eitpply line R-d army | unit* there forced the upper Bug ' . river on a .Io mile front Meantime, another Red army i* ( driving southwest from Krivoi Rog toward the Black sea Front dis patches place th!* fort nly 21 mile- northeast of the valuable ; port of Nikolaev in a 1- mile surge through the German lines. Far Io the northweet, Soviet troops forced the upper Bug river ' in a sweeping drive toward the key junction of Pruskurov One wing of this force is using tank* to I clear the Nazi* from the streets of | Tarnopol. - Meanwhile, radio Moscow charg <-s tliat Nazi o<eup.ition forenn kill I ed some 2.IHHISMHI people ill Soviet i territory Moscow base* Its charge on documents found in a building in Kiev, said to have been meu- | pied by the Herman gestapo Six Persons Die In Virginia Hotel Fire At Least 25 Others Reported Injured Richmond. Va. March It H'l’i i Six person* died last night when fire swept the fashionable Jefferson hotel, long the cen’er of•-» rial anti political activities tn Rich mond Va At least 25 other* were injured. Virginia «t«te senator Aubrey Weaver died of a heart attack dur Ing the fire The blaze wa* confined to the top floor* of the hotel. All available firemen were called out le-fore the flame* were brought under control Bold:er* and Bailors from nearby camp* aided ht rescuing gues'e trapped on the two floor« A bell boy said the blaze atarted in a linen clone! One woman was killed in a jump from the eixth floor Many of the injured aleo were hart in leap* Oth*ra were overcome by *moks which rolled ihrouffb the cotridom. Moot of the guetu bad retired for the night when the fire wae dtacovered shortly before midnight. |

(andidate r* Kri ’* ? hh*eL % William Ehr-tin Adam* cotttHy Mirvcyor. t-ul.iy ami-imccd hi* candidacy for the l>- itocrati.-m»m imitioit for lb-- office. *ubj io the May primary el. • t-»a Boy Seoul Contest Held Friday Night Berne Scout Patrol Wins High Rating Three tdain* county Boy Hcout patrol* particlp.it d in the Anthony Wayne area council and midwest tiiwf aid contest*, held Friday night in the General Electric • htb auditorium at Fort Wayne. The Crow partol from troop •*. Berne, with Sherman Htuckry a* scoutmaster won an \ rating, the highe*t given in thi* contest. The Berne patrol was one of several re- , - ejving tin* rating \ total of 4* : patrol* from this ar, a participated - in the eont«*t. The < row patrol from ’roop 42. I.il-il* - lull of tills d'y. Will! l*>Well I Smith a M (mtmastei. was granted I a B rating on a peis einuge « >re of 1 ss Me :iri«-rs of thia patrol are Roger Gentis, James C-we-tia Roberi Boknecht Medford Smith. Victor Porter Byfmd Smith and lin k AL - Connell. The Cdbra patrol of troop til. Rotary dub ot l»- atur. wi'h Harold Ihtniel a* ...tutma-ter. was given • a C rating on a percentage score !of 7t*. only one point »lio-1 of a H ' rating Meirtliera of this patrol are ijoe Itatiicl. Nell Thoma*. Norman Stlngely. Sheldon llatiiei. Eugene i Zmer. Norman Le-»nard*on and I’an Fte.diy B-iaii--- of transportation pnde ' h-ms th*- Chicago cotittwl wa* ell minuted 'hi- year i tid the area ami midwaut contests were t*>th held at Fort Wayne la- night. The An'hony Wayne area coum il I wa • paid high honor at laat night s I meeting when it was awar-ted a m*--,-fal for high proficiency tn pr-unut ! ing Scout activities, this council | rankng a* one of the t>c*i in the I entire (ountry. .Vuong the judge* at la»' night'* p.mtest were Jiylvcster Everhart. ' l.ow. ll Smith and Harold Baniel, of tiii* city Other Hecat.gr fl out leader* who attended the content were Avon Burk. T ('. Smith and Carl <’ Pumphrey - ■ ■ o— - — ■ ■ Lenten Meditations On Editorial Page L.ri .-ii meditation., written by : pastor* of churche* tn Decatur and j vicinity, and -which have been runn- - ing daily In the Decocrat *!me Ash W--dti<*day. will be printed on the editorial page, page 4 for the remainder of the *ea*on . The..- meditation* will continue until and tn< It =im< Eae'er Fa’ur•lay. April » o—-- — Regular Legion Meeting Monday Th* regular meating of Adam* post 43. Amerlraa Legion will b* hald at tha Legion twm* Monday «vmib< at I o'clock All mamhem I are requested to be praeeot.

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No German Fighters Offer Resistance To Flying Fortresses In Raids Over Germany (By l'nit<-(l Press! Aim-rh an lemiber* of both the eighth air Line In Britain and the lath air force in Italy have delivered new blow* against Germany and |i* occupied territory today. Flying Fortn-ese* from Britain i struck into Germany beyond the i Rhine, while l.iberat'ir* *ma»hed at the French invasion coaat. The ' target* haven't lw-en the double barreled assault by the heavy bomber* They did not run Into a single Nazi tighter plane in the daylight thruat*. The exact trget* haven't li(-en revealed. Our twin-tailed Lightning fighterbomber* also have made additional raid* on the continent. The day's raid* followed an assalllt by RAF four-engined bomber* on three unidentified aircraft factories and a bearings plant in central and Mmthern Frame l*et night British Mo»(|Uito Iximher* also raked western Germany, and . only one plane wa* lost in both operation*, the first loss the Britinh have suffered in four night assault*. From the south. Yankee medium bomber* have attucked Florence. Italy, for the first time. Florence i* the transport hub of northsentral Italy Tito < hies target* for today'* raid* were railroad yard The Allied announcement of the Florence raid say* the German* there, a* in Rome, ha* made deliberate lute of out obvious reluctance j to risk incidental damage to art!*- | tic, historic and religious object* in j tit,- city. Reconnaisaancc ehowed ' heavy ( imrentration* of rolling stock and equipment in the yard* Consw|itetly, <-x|*-riem i-d liomber squadron* wer*- ihoseti for the attack. and every precaution was | taken to avoid damage to the city proper The Gel null controlled Rome j radio '•>)' Allied plain-., also raid- ;• -I Rom-- today . Radio Rome aid the (ity was I "hi ivily bombed and that bomb* | fc’l on the diatrict,- of Porto Nac‘cion ami M<»utes.»< * o Tb*- btoadj cast said many house* were hit and 11.isiialtie* wire num-'i'ou- m tho«I district*. Vester.lay American medium i Itomber* raided the Rome railroad i yard* and ar*- believed to have cut the supply Bn-- that runs from ; Fioreim- to tin- capital city A* tor land flghting. it's tevealed I tliat last Tuesday night American {troop* in the Anzio eector beat off a German attempt to infiltrate Al It.sl line* Nazi war prisoner* say | German tim e* in the beachhead I area are tn a poor state of morale j following ill fated attempt* to drive i the Allie* out. Aero** the Italian frontier, in j Bern, Switzeriand. um-onfirmc-d reporta way both tin- Allie* and the Nazi* have given Pop<- Plus assurance* tli.it Rome will not tie turned into a battleground It s reported , that the |hi|h- may make an an--1 nouncement along these line* tomorrow in a broadcast on the fifth I anniversary of his coronation. Pierre Pucbeu. the former Vichy ■ minister c»t interior, ha* been senI fenced to death at Algiers. He wa* I convicted tn treason charges. ! Pu< heu was the first Vichyite to he | tried by a liberation court. _-o — — Janet Zeser Injured When Struck By Auto Janet Zeser. 14. daughter of Mr. and Mr* Dan Xunnr, sustained a splintered iNMa in the left ankle and a bruise on the right thigh, when xhe wae struck by i car on North Second street, driven by Charle* Fry nt route five. Decatur, Friday night at IU:4« o'clock Officer* Rrdiert Hill and Adrian ( offee. who investigated, reported the ffirl wa* crossing the utreet form the Equity store to go to tbu John Jo»*ph'a conf*e’lotwry. when e.ruck by th* car She wn« m*hed to the Adam* county memc-UI bo*pita! wbete X ray* revealed she bad not broken her righ - leg a* first feared After treatment. *he was removed to her home.