Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1944 — Page 2

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Two Sentenced For Illegal Gas Dealing Action Taken in South Bend Court Booth Beud. Ind.. Mar. 21 — <UP> Federal' Judge Luther Hwygert ha* ordered tour men tried in South Bend to serv* prison sentence*. and he has plated all other persona under probation James Mnsto of Peru and Thames Drudge, former Elkhart serviceman. were sent to prison on charges ot illegal dealing 111 gasoline ration coupon* Musto's sentence is two fear* and Drudge’s I* tour month*. Kermit Cook, also of Elkhart, is on probation on the same charge William Kllse of Logausport mint serve two year* tor possession of a sub-machine gun which the government alleges to be army ordnance property. John Sherwood of Parma. <>.. convicted of motor theft, is sentenced to a year and a day. Those placed on probation include two Elkhart residents. Jack Dutilup and Lila Dunafln. They were accused of motor theft. Afonso Dolines of Hoseland and Hubert ItU»eell and Homer .Murray, both of; South Bend, gained probation after being tried for theft from an interstate shipment. Lee Echols ot Gary, who was accused of forging n government check, also remains' free. —- Q

ALLIED TROOPS (Continued From r*K» I) other detail* on the awault are available Last night. RAF four-motored giant* roared into southern France to pound an enemy explosive* factory. There are no reported raid* on the reicb today, hut the German home radii* »*rvhe announce* that from now on It will lm»ue hourly bulletin* on Allied air action over the Nazi homeland The same tadio service. Ini tdciitall~, once broadcast reichamarnhal Goerujg ** boast that not a single Allied bomh would ever fall on German *>il Yesterday several hundred American bomber* atruck at the industrial city of Fiankfurt Swim and Swedish dispatches say the city ha* been ordered evacuated There wa.. other action during the night Britain's big guns on the channel coast pumped shell after shell into German shipping. Nasi bat furies on th, French side of the channel answered lurch, and a fierce’artillery battle was fought Towns were ahaken along the British coast Speaking of the British coast, It's being turned into a vast zone of operations for the coming Invasion of western Europe A 10-mlle deep zone exti-niiuir over more than «•»«» miler of the -couth and east coasts will be establish)d on April 1 The general public will lie barred from the area. ARMY BOMBERS (Csatlaase. Prow rags B .■» ■■■»' •• the heavy, inoisture-laihn snow just prior to being stricken with hear, attacks Northeastern Colorado w reported to have received the heaviest snowfall, with more than 12 Inches at Fort Collin* and Loveland Throughout the area east of the

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Gto hr UTOfMI mad I* assy ■arihm md nadtaMi * / A muniHf 111 continental divide a blanket of snow was sifted down overnight which varied in depth from five inches to more than a foot GERMAN PUPPET — fContlnusd From Fag* 11 35 miles of the Rumanian border. Thi 'Moscow government organ Izvestia -avs "smashed German regiments" are r« treating across Rumania Since Russia regards lie.- -aiabia as its own territory, the report apparently means the Germans ar* pulling liack beyond the Prut river the boundary between Bessarabia and Rumania A* the Red aimy rolled ahead, Its official organ, the Red Star said jubilantly: ‘'Germany has lost the battle of the south. The Dniester Is in-hind u- There is Increasing anxiety among Hitler's vassals, (specially the Rumanians." To the northwest, another Russian force also I* moving steadily ahead Th German high command «ay- a Soviet "battle group" has bioken Into Kowel. a big rail junction In pre-war Poland. The city Is I<MI miles south of Lwow and only 4" miles from the bonier line of the Polish territory taken over by the Germans before the Invasion of Russia Meanwhile. a Russian publication "Wai and The Working Cla-ses." says ths- Germans are • vacuating their forces from the f'rlmea to Bulgaria and Rumania Eleven -mt of 24 ships in a German Hiatk F-a convoy were sunk by Russian airmen. The convoy was believed headed for the Crimea to evacuate trapped Nazir. On the diplomatic front, the flnnish people got the first official report today on th Russian t>>-ace situation. Finland formally announced her iejection of Soviet arini-tice terms, but at the

»ame time promised to continue efforts to reach a satisfactory pea< , In a nutshell. Finland says she can't agree in advance to Russian demands without further clarification of their meaning — — o— —— * VESUVIUS ERUPTION (Continued From Page 1) Th* eruption of the historic volcano is the greatest in modern times. The American military government Is running an emergency evacuation center at the foot of the volcano More titan 7.OWi per*ins have been taken from the doomed town* in United State* army truck* The lava I* eouiwlllg down the mountain side at the rale of some three mile* an hour. It often come* to a stop until another explosive eruption shoves it father down the rugged slope. - Only a*x>ut one-ftfth of Japan* land Is suitalile tor farming.

n ,m 4 D L — WAR'UNO + □unevig Previously reported |4.092.48 I Paul Becker, Root 3o 27 Ed Omlor. Washington 22 HI Martin H Bultemeier. Root a IS State highway worker*. Dick Both. Eugene Swartz 9 William Adang, Jefferson 28 5 I Gail Runyon. Hartford .15 14 | Charles Pusey. Hartford 36 12 U-o H Roe. Root 28. 83 12 Mis O. Fortney. Pleas. Mills 34.06 Mrs. G Evans. Pleasant Mill* 18 Geo. A Zimmerman. Hartford 12.50 James E. Fox. French 36 18.50 Melvin Kohler. French 14 23 Henry Drayer. French 3 26 Robert Gerber. Wabash 15 12 David Amstutz. Wabash 14 19 Wilbert Baker, Jefferson 2 6 Mr*. It Bollenbacher, Jefferson 6 Reuben Gerber. French 4 36 Henry Dehner. I'nion 7 10 Arthur Blakey. Union 8 20.30 Ivan V Baikley, I’nion 5 ... 11 Mart hail Mclntosh. I'nion 9 1* Robert Ulman, Union 33 8 Ric hard F. Bleeke, Union 17 13 Alvie Beer. French 23 3 Rolla Raudeabush, Blue Creek 17 C M. Foreman. Blue Creek 17 32 Mr- B. McCullough, St Mary's 13 Howard Bluhm. French 21 6 Cloyce Crozier <add l) Union 1 Harry Michael*. Monroe 6 21.50 Walter C Oliver. .Monroe 10 13 Charles Chrlstener. Monroe 9 12 R. M Gilbert, Monroe 11 10 Paul Erp. Monroe 12 14 Victor Bleeke. Union 21 49 Total March 17. 18 * 554.05 Total to dale 4.686.53 • -O — 1 " ■ Rescuers Searching Passaic River For Bus Crash Victims Passaic. N. J.. Mar 2! -<UP>— Rescuers are searching the Passaic river dor from 10 to 16 persons believed missing from the bus which plunged through a Irrldge railing early yesterday

Thirteen bodies have been recovered The estimate of st hose still miaslng Is based on Inquiries received from relative*. Eight drodien were In the bus when it was raised from the river bottom try a crane late last night. Other* had -been recovered earlier, inffiudlng that of Walter tLeroy Thoma*, a pedestrian, who wa* fatally injured by the careening bit*. Only six persons survived the crash. —, - o James Oft Trial Set For April 4 Jasper. Ind. March ®l'-(CPI-Former la»gan«port hospital attendant James Ott -will be tried April I on charges of swindling au Insurance company. Circuit Judge Elmer Wood set the trial date In Jasper. Ott pleaded guil'y to charge* of collecting Insurance on at Incendiary fire which destroyed hi* Birdseye. Indiana home. Previously, prosecutor Kme*aw Lendl* dismissed an aiaon charge agalnat Ott in Cass circuit court at Logansport He U the husband of Maude Luc as Ott. who wa* sentenced last week for setting a recent Logansport state hospital fire.

CORP. NORBERT HESS ■■— l 11 . (Continued From rage l> durlug our 6«»-day grind last fall on the other sid<- of the German whiter line. You'll k-arn mote about the when and where of my outfit during those days by reading Life than I could ever put In a letter. “I told you that this la good (arm country. That'a imth good and bad . . . depending on how much sympathy you have for the lot of the Dago farmer caught In the middle of a battlefield. The farmer's livestock certainly has served u» well. Every once in a while a chicken gela tangled In barbed wire, (tuugb break for chicken I. era cow atop* on a land mine and we hare a feast. Even at their toughest, a battlefield steak makes the mouth waler. Then there's the story about the herd of sheep gruing peacefully in no-taau'» land The shepherd has taken off to some safer spot not the hundred odd sheep contluue to grew fat and wooly under the watchful eyes of hta sheepdog, who faithfully tends the dock, with a scorn tor both Americans and Ger"A new name for the Germans baa come more and more into use hereabouts The name Jerry, a lot of guys feel, la too sentimental Buch.- to out-dated Enemy too Unpersons! Wo call thorn. Just plain Knut bonds Thus * fellow on «a OF. tuboerratkm post I wfll pbuue in: ThofO'o a lot of Kraut T-sdt <tgt here s.-»’geW' Th*’ hard ..dem, to nomvey Jost tbs right o( iliMtMtc twt wwttliin

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which need* cleaning up. "It’* mld-March and without knowing anything about the Italian season*, spring docs seem very near. True, we can see snow on the mountains and at night the co'd doe* bite right thru the blanket, but iu the morning when the sun come* out we are beginning to see birds . . . singing away, just a* if the world ws* still the same and thi* spring were going to be no different lhau the la*t one. IV*

staff about \ money back, and. after one year all your money plu* interest. But when you cash in a Bond, you end it» * * Miff’*

W is a VERY important letter ■ CV It’s the name of the War Jr W* * Bonds you buy--“ War iavings Bond Series E" As you know, a Series E Bond will work for you for ten full year*, piling up interest all that time, till finally you’ll get four dollars back far every three you put up. Pretty nice. The first job of the money you put into “E" / wj#** l * * is, of course, to help finance the war. But it also

WAR BONDS to Have and to Hold Thia Advcrtbemgnt Sponsored in Honor of Adams County’s Firhting Men by The Decatur Casting Co. Uk fat State Bank Bark Elevator Co. LANKENAITS Light Gray Iron Caatinga Loaal Sand loaning Agent f-t 1 grad Grain The Boston »*•" Kraft Ckeese Company The Sckafer Company The Krick-Tyndall Co. Central Soya CompanyManufacturers of Dairy Products Manufacturers A Jobbers Drain Tile—Hollow Building Tile Livestock Foods Bag Service, he. Model Hatchery, Monroe Cal E. Peterson North baaond M Due lily Chicks Cloth lor TMb • “ • f * uJ U *• Tm W advertent nt-preyed nndcr tfe auoptces of Treasury Deparißmit and War Advortwni Councild • • A i

those silly little thing*, like birds singing, the Italian woman nursing her baby only Z(M> yard* from a 'Long Tom' I American long range gum. like that dog herding sheep in no-man's land; it'a those insignificant little thing* that remind me how unnatural thia business of modern war really la and how desperately we've got to fight to get the d— thing over. “I've written a lot and *ald nothing. »o I'd better quit. Remember

just to keep the letters coming to u*. I'd skip a meal anytime for a letter from home. 1 speak for the rest of the fellow* from Decatur, saying hel'o to everyone. I'll say cheerio and keep rollin’.'' It Will be noted that Cpl. Hem made no reference to hi* Injuries. Evidently he has fully recovered and is in the front line* again He was wounded Oct. 13, 1943 and again on Jan. 28. 1944. He has two brothers oversea*.

gives you a wotftlerful way to save money. And when the war u over, that money you now put away can do another job, can help America rwinj over from war to peace. There'll come a day when you’ll Mees these Bonds-when they may help yju over a tough spot 9 Theft why you ehoutd make up your mind to hand on to every Bond you buy. You can, of course, cash in your Bonds any time, after you’ve held them for 00 days. You get all your

Railroad Union To Raid Other Unions Open Hostilities Moy Follow Raids Chicago, Mar 21 — <VPI — A threat of open hostilities loom* today In the ranks of the nations "big Ove'* railway brotherhoods. Alexander Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. announced at Chicago last night that bis group would raid the membership of two other similar organizations. Whitney said hi* union would pay 85 to each member who obtained an application from a railroad worker belonging to either of two other unkm*. They are the Order of Railway Conductor* and the Switchmen’* Union of North America. The rank* of the "big Ive" have been split into two camp* since last December 23. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers agreed at that time to submit their pay dispute to President Roosevelt for arbitration. The conductor* and switchmen * organization refused, as did the locomotive both of whom are corporal*. They are Cpl Robert Hee* in England and Cpl. Richard He**, somewhere on the Anzlo beachhead In Italy. A third brother, Edward Hess, will take the physical examination this week.

life before its fall job is done. You don't gn* “ its chance to help you and the country m the years that lie ahead. You kill off its M-for-every-|3 earning power. All of which it’s good to remember whet you might be tempted to caah in «omc of yoT War Bonds. They are yours, to do what y* want witn But... H’s ABC sense that... ’ They'll do the best job fur you and ft* Am* ka if you let them reach the full fc* er maturity/

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tion-wide lai!rwi(J hfl ened Q ,!n *e BgX Th.- "bjg ■ “Hated with th, *2 7"' have no detetnti,,.. j Ut)M(Jiu among 10 Army As Bomber Crashes I El Paso. Tex ...I —Higgs field aruty'XM nounce tha- tw u other .iimy fjjen* terday wh.-u a B-jr , J _r l i ed near the field. The Hoosier* »e re tonant tR p Corporal Laine] y LAUGH, EAT, Ulf, fl® J' Os IMIA2RASSMEKT It'a go easy to enjoy a!t W day Confidence *he* r your plates are held k pu-c, cotnlort cushionj'sdet .ts- ?, J. Dr. Wernet’* Powder leu you enjoy solid foods, small *2 avoir! embarrass- lazukJ tnentoflooie iFjnS plates.Help*pre-