Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1944 — Page 2

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Arsonist Confesses Use of False Name •» mat Mental Patient In Virginia Hospital Logau*port. Ind • Ma* Lt ll’Pl Mr*. Aloeu Ott now admit* her true name I* Maude Luca-...pud »he add* that »he was a mental pa'lent In the Weaton, W Va.. Male hospital Ca*f county sheriff Harold Smith *ay» *h«- coufer-aed to the falsie name thi* morning after being inmoved from a iio-pital to th • <q|]uty jail. Mr* Ot’. the LoKMiep'X Mate hospital attend ant who already confewed to startink ■> recent f ie there. was removed '<» 'h Jail after recoverInti Jrwn an overdose of sleeping powder* She was released a a mental pattom in lUH aud cam.- to Indiand a-ehort while later when- she a- lh< name Aivcu Ellloft. ThaaaSs th>> name of a r spec’ed attirtSfc a- the hospital where M £dSi was a patient. het husband James Ott, a* thi state H al«o I’ a la>gmifP>>rt attendan He'* the uii» aatio hue told dficei* that she Started several Logansport fires «. «w*P aa la-t y« ar'» Evati-vilie state hospital -blaze and a similat Os Ohio Hwyth says an attempt will l.e made to bring her to trial on arson lld Kes He exp cl* defense attoruuy to offer an insanity plea. -4- — t> — — Flying Forts Again (Coatinuwo Flora raw* 1) " In fcondon. the British air ministry ‘has given oir detailed results of the heavy RAF and Atneriean air smashes against in Germany RecoU-iiai--.ni' picture* show that very • xien|)v damage was Inflicted on a bigiffazi factory producing Diesel enfti-i Haifc In Italy. In N»ph» left with •ilt'iial leaders are exp-. led to m© he Allied nations a reao--luiloi*«l> inandmg the removal <>f pres IF gov* rnmen: leader - Thm revolution was adopted al a niuto* meeting Sunday. About T.Olln jperson* urged the ilidii'iou of Kimi Victor Emanuel and the removal Ol Pt inter Bad nil io . < Both side* In I aly. the Allies and the Nazi*. have received an] oral appeal from Pope Plus to! spare Roni- as a Iraltlefieid The Pope de. la red “To turn; the city Into a theater of war - would' lie an act as inglorious a« . It Is ia Miminalde In the eye* of

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Wins Medal Pte Donald h Drak* son oi Mi. and Mu- Claience Drak . 636 N .'th street, city, recently was awarded two marksmanship medal*. line medal is ol a .-harpshooter with wo bars desigua’.liig the tyi»- of gun need and th. otb--i is a .ii.rkiimi'« pin with a bat designating the typ. oi gun. I*fi Drake I- a cook with an .mti-airi-rafl unit. His wit. lives in till- city with his parent... He is stationed ii Camp Edwan Slate Doolittle For Lieutenant General - Tokyo Raid Leader Facing Promotion Washington. Mai ch 13 tl'Pi It’s going to be Lieutenan* GeUetal D.Millttle soon President Roosevelt ha* nominated Doolittle, naw a Major General for promotion ■Doolittle, leader of the 1942 raid on Tokyo, is commander of *'ne American eighth air force in Britain. •Mr Roosevelt also nmnintitei Captain Allan Smith and Captain Rdbt rt Hayler to be Rear Admiral* Smith is a graduate of the senior coun*e at the naval war college and has served as operations officer on the staff of the commander of the I’ulted 'States fleet's battle force Hayler. an ordnuuie expert. i« a native of Sandusky. <J. but spent most of his early life tn .Muncie b.d. o Qualifying Tests (Continued From Page 1) years Inclusive>by July I. Ibll Titos selected tor the navy college program will attend college* under contract to 'he tiny for a varying number «•' 16-weeka terra*. They will 4*e <>n active duy in uniform under milltaiy discipline and receive the pay of th- lowest enlisted grade The navy pay* all ex-(M-noes and give* consideration to personal preference for colleges ou (be navy list and course* to lie pursued Seventeen year old* who designate army preference and qualify on the t at are offered military scholarship* in the army special!*ed training reserve program Th.-y receive training at a selected college on inactive duty until the end of the term In which they reach their IMh birthday. At that time they are placed on active duty and

I iXfef I H— William H Fisher, won of Mr I and Mis. H> mer Fisher of thi* city. has lieerr advanced to 3/c petty offi< er. a< terding tc word received by the parents. He It a ttaki-r serving with th.- Atlantic fleet overate* For recreation a''>oaid whip, they play i>a*kedb*ll. tee said He is well aud getting along fin< The promotion o' Calvin G. Hahnert from the grade of we'geant to staff oergeant was anuiun.ed recently *< mewhe* • in Englund J>y a liberator bom-.i division -s-Sgt Hahnert graduated from high school tn I 193 P and prior to entering the servile ou -Sept, urive. 2<. IklJ was employed by the Adam* county surveyor's office Au armorer gunner on a It U lllterator. Hahnert received hi* wing* at the Las Vega*. Nev . gunner school and graduated from Hie larwrv Field armament s< hoo! Denver. Colo He has participated in raid* on nnat of the important industrial eenter* of Germany aud the o-'cupled countries. He i* th* *on of Mr*. G 11 Hahnert of -Monroe. •Pvt. L II Ziut*tua*ter of Fort i Belvoir. Va.. vialted here with hi* ' family over Sunday He I* a mern- | her of the engineer » corps I’fc. Raymond D Teepl • eon of Mr*. Leona Teeple of route two, ba* lieen transferred from Fort Jackson, ft. C. to Fort Cugter. Mich., Hi* new address io: A S. N. 3U474W1: Co. II 7Psth M P. Bn.; Fort Custer Mich. I S Army • Pvt Richard Engle, who entered service Decembei 27. is opendinit a ll>-day furlough h. re with bi* parent*. '.Mr. and '.Mi - Fred Eugle. He Will return Friday to Camp Gordon JohtHton Florida S Sgt. and .Mi Donald W. \rnold are visiting with the foitner'* parent*. Mr and*.Mrs. Floyd Arnold ol th c city Staff Sgt. Arnold U on a D' day furlough from Oxard. Cal. Thirty Men Ordered (Coa'.lniwd From Faw* l> James .4prunger. Waiter Wtlitaju SauUoiue. Jnteiiei John Fisher. Rule ert Isuato- Luitsbill. Uila.d Faw-bu-b. John Antnouy Voglowde. Keith Daniel Hammond. Alfred Wayne .Moser Donald Eug.-ne Frauhlger. .Marvin Let >y Beery. Merlin lu: Stu< k> . Hu hi t Leßoy Smitley. Jam. * Htfberl Co bran. Wilsent to an army installation for haute military training, after which. If still qualified, they are placed u the A. B. T P. Those diet ween D> and 32 year* of ag>- on July l. Ittli who qualify and d.-»lituate army preference are , earmarked for special conaid.-raiion - for the A. ®. T. P. after induction.

**• MM MMffS (row the fuselage and • Mream at KoM curves after a Jap pteae fte*> loUowiag a Bak Mt by U. S guaners «boa-t a earner latur.g part in th* recent attack on th* Mariana Ula&ds. A death bloom at aoteka asvd taxa choate up (bettor.) at the enemy craft kite the water Tte Mai of Xh* airwaas trail can ba waa Just bafi.a it smk* ba- . nealb the >urtaca. TMa to aa oftoai U.ft Navy flwto- aateraatioaaJ)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. DECATUR, INDIANA

i Mrs. Jacob Hilly Dies At Hospital i. Funeral Services Tuesday morning Mr*. Adelme SchwaiUdiilty. 44. wife of Jacob HL’ty. of Hartford township, died at Siliroclock Sunday morning at the Adam* county memorial hospital. Death was caused by <ancer. Bhe bad been ill since Jan 1. and was brought to the hospital three week* ago She was born in Monroe township August 26. ISM. the daughter of Jacob and Catberiue GraberSchwarts. Surviving are the hualiaud. the father, live <hlldreu: Menno. Joe. Aniou, Catberiue and Alvlnc Hilty, all tt home.one brother, Sam K Schwarts, and oue slater, Mr*. Roca Wicker, both ol near Berne. Funeral service* will be held Tuesday moritiug at 10 o'clock at the Jacob L. Schwarts home, two and one-half miles aouth of Berne, with Rev Sam Hilty oftetatiug. Burial will he in the Wabash cemetery, three and onejia.. miles eolith and one mile east of Berne. Tin* is a new cemetery aud the Jiilty burial will be the brst held there. ____ o — Eleven Mothers Donate (Continued From Pass 1> catur. 3 navy. Z army. Mrs. Harry Andrew*. R. 4. Decatur. 3 army. 1 navy Mr*. James Everett. Pleasant .Mill*. 4 army, Mrs, Harry Stimuli. Pieu»aut .Mill*. 4 army. 2 marines. Mrs. Fred Geimer. Il 4, Decatur. 4 army. Ml*. .Mary Meyer*. 1016 Vine street. Decatur. 5 army. Mr*. Peter Schwartz. 915 .Monroe street. Decatur. 4 army. — - —o— —— New Pressure (Continued From rase l> in- of the northern Ireland Eire border ia predicted Ir <h peapie working in Great Britain. *<uue It’d.kihi io SOo.O'Hi and atioth r 3'(i.(hh> Mtrvlng in the iliritish aimed force* have been cut off from home by the en.iiarg ». That tue Irish government feared r--p>'-camion* over it* r*fu»al o oust Art* diplomat* i* revealed in a report from Australia. Prime minIsterVurtin say* the De Valera government aoked Australis to intervene with Washington Curtin refused 'A -hipping embargo would di*rupt the Iriwh Fr-e *tate seriously. Ham Eugene Sheets. Keuib' n Jacob Dingg'-r. LAO Navy Leo Velez. Ruswll Os ar White, laife Grimm. FOrrcsl Eikward Hawkins. Orin Noble (.'rider. Paul Leiter Hawkins. Doyle Ivan Painter. Vernon Lowell Johnson. Robert Walton Johnson. Joseph Ralph Wolpert. Morri* KruefllMberg. Quentin Il Crist. Salvador Richard Jauregui. Roller! Frederick Mutschler. Eugene Foreman.

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Trar.-vporation Wi>uld be forced to, suspend and many industrie* would . han- tj clow. This would throw llloukatidrf out of work. 'Another diutinguisheii Irish-Am-erican ha* called upon tile Irish Free sta’e to driv out Axle agent*. He'd liudley Field Malone a former s*»lo'an; eecretary of *:ate under President Woodrow Wilton. In a cablegram to premier Hamon De Valera. .Malone call* at'ention to the gallant Irish lighter* in Ame'ri- . can tear record*, to -tuch men a* Captain Colin Kelly. Lieutenant Commander Butch O Hare, and 'he Sullivan Moya. Then Malone add*: “Your government no tougcr has any excuse for harboring the diplomat* of Japan and Naai Germany, who are endangering the live* of hundred* of thousand* of American boy* l‘m>u' to invade Europe." .(Flout the other tide of l‘ie world, radio Tokyo hue an expected comment A >poke*man tor the Japanese iroard of information tape the Irinb Free slate loikrwed the ouly sane and legitimate response in turning down Allied leauc' SBritish Troops Score (Conllautd From Fas* l> have had hi th- Sauth Pacific in well over a mouth. Shortly after oar tighter* had < leared the way. heavy and med ium bombers plaster'd the WeVUk airfield with Itn t-m* of ex plosive* Widespread destruction was caused The Madaug coast. l*i mile* cast of Wreak, also was attacked . Once again the Iwdiy-iialtered base of Kaitaal. T.i-w Britain wa* brought ni<der oui bombsights Ninety-eee ton* of explosive* were dropped on airflela* and the waterfront area. — 1 ■' '"' o —-— Consider Tightening tCsanaewA era* -*s* t» ofmaed debaie on the measarc by ■wiling ft ilte beat hill porsttd'. The cimfereiK t var.ioa limit a ■he federal war ballot to ovi-rna* aervtaemea whose states will ae-, cept it and who apply (or Mate absamtee ballot by October 1 and fail to get It. The M-naie Truoten committee iudfcg’e* that the aatkMi to atj last over the top in the production. of magncrium. that light bet tough metal u*ed te such war materte4s| as MHWWdtpry teHpb. 4a g MaraC 1 pvvdecUiMi wfM iiwiedt a surplu gaito- The rmwlitt sajv IMdj

foi uae Ju *ome uiiesaeutial civil-. uui Bern*. , LJurge* ol tUHrultefuliie * were I ilbected at llarry Slattery, rural t JcctiUicaikun *diuliii.-4r»:or, by] ntw-ie'ary of agricuituro Wh-kard today. At a M-natc agriculture | rubcommillei hearing. Wickarill -aid tbat what he called Slattery'* untruthfuln.aa can bo attiibu'etil in moat luatance* to aelf-lutrravt. I Aud be added tbat eaiiy iu 1941

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, he came to the coiiclu«ion that 'be j REA program would be tienefited | if a peraou with greater admiula- ' trativi ability took hint Ury* | ftoce. I - lha baarr. Republican autoI gr< •eaten liav, opeaed a drive to | overhaul wha they call itie "crazy ' quilt tax atructure. House ReI publican h adei Marita auiiou>ic<-< the n, w G. o. p. move a* wth collate** aud the admiui-trati m

MONDAY, MARCH

I are pre»-iii|, ' ■ \ npltftadM I mc-a utue. ■ Th. .jmpii!i> ■' ■. :n- out B I ready liefoi j Here otue »*P dfl ■ era of the id fJiliK . tax re'unt.-. .-"'u■•.»::« 'ttatilß i tug most of 'li-in i !t<.idiitomß . now with Hi. <l- ..-l.ni<day for la*t j.-v'« reurt. ■ Trad- tn a Go.*! 1 — tMfl