Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1944 — Page 1

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1,000 American Warplanes Swarm Over Europe NERICANS INVADE DUTCH NEW GUINEA

tfighty Processions Os Bbnubers Strike Heavy ■bws At Nazi Europe

Mfinany, Romania ■dYugoslavia Hit ■ Bombers Keep Up |Kmvosion Attacks |Kk A? ',»»■ A-U-K?, Kmope to- . p.u < ii HK | .. . -ii 1 ,. i< which Mr,■ *- m *«»»• h ; "" 1 M many Bm h |R ; l: iin.illiil. Ull.l Brigade. .1 tiiiin assault .„ .nt for. .'li Ik -, ■:. I r ->ly ■ art U-d |K . • • i.t thtollgll |K .... ‘A and probK. intensity. |K Fortresses ai-<raft t.uW-ries at and airdromes Up "S® <*f ! **e |Hr.-. .. I' from Italy m Bin harect and k-y 1.1 K*ts in Bel |M>- .- fl. ■ ' « ■ <•' Oil |K.> . ■».»- unbred y and the Bulk ~ 1.t.-polied I ■ '■ fi.mes and |K ,o- I-, land, d in Swifter "very rtro"K force*" of w. re striking at : . i'..r's and Lib ■>! ibf 15th air force "in -s-'.it over the |K* a.iy .i-sanlt on ’..> the Ger■r dforL |Hr..u “ barest for the |Ht'.-. " ‘‘ 'V' liberators tbr main rail yards of < ipltal in clear >'. ■ -.wniiK north|Ht Rumanian oil center thd lot the rail yards fifth time Fortrm.» attacked the y at 11. |grad>retuinins crewmen re oi< cess In the k ..'i luxommun uni »a fa. tot i.v Tenta Bt.n i .re<tit.-d both th., kui> Mu-1 their eMorts with down 'i of enemy fighters. M< >"< the aim,,tin. enient of Mhein or. Fn.-di.t hahaf.il and ttesl rv .. r< reported ■ *’ 4l mc.nulng over I. Column «) Radios Warn ■Occupied Europe ■ Invasion 'Near' M*- n ,i|, t a * ; * ■* •‘■S’d the occupied con M M * t ,Ut lh - invasion of »IH «MM -.hi, week. ■“J* 4 ’" 1 »"«»npt to draw •‘atentent from ■“MctWnindervi. enemy pro M* 48 * tatex-nd out repeated M***. 11 * •» Imminent assault that the i.l.sw w . rpected V * from both Em ■T ’*• mediterranean ■ 'ensati r»d, o B!ter aippmi,. r ’ lr »!'••• ion in Russia. sM Western (Europe, an*tly that "w. .re on n” ~IW Th ‘• N “‘ E , G obsenrers ■J ‘ «boar alert along the report In j every move KJ**"* io *>- Engliah READING W ocrat thermometer K"' - M f s W| ATM«R *• winds *“• **“•*« and

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Allies Smash Japanese Siege Around Kohima Six Japanese Ships Sunk By Land-Based Planes Near Saigon Allied Headqnartei*. Kandy, Ceylon. Apr. 24— tt’l’l — Allied troops broke the siege around Kohima today after clearing the 30 mile stretch of highway between the nearly encircled city and Dlmapur on the Assam Bengal railroad. A southeast Asia command communique said the besieged garrison at Kohima. vital supply base 60 miles north of Irnphal. was "completely relleted" and that the road to Dimapur was opened fully. Although no details of the operations w--re disclosed, the announcement indicated that the British may have been able to bring reinforcements into Kohima along the highway which had been threatened by one of two Japanese drive* designed to cut off the city’s supplies. Earlier dispatches said, the Japanese troops were regrouping their forces in -the hills around Kohima after being thrown back with heavy losses tfs the Alien strengthened their positions there and also in the Irnphal plain Heavy fighting was reported in the Kungael area east of Imphai and In the hill positions on the Palel-Tamu road, tp the south.where the Japanese were seeking to encircle the capital city of India’s Manipur state. (Turn Ts FMre 1. Column « — - O — Adolph Hart Dies At Fort Wayne Hospital Adolph Hart, age about M. well known Dacatfi' resident, died a little before noon today at the Lawton Banitoriwm in Fort Wayne Mr. Hart went «o Fort Wayne several months ago and had been in fslllng health for the past four months- The GlUIg snd Doan ambulance went to Fort Wayne »o return the tody to this city and funeral arrangements will not be made until iwter. „„ —o — Blast Nazi Supply Targets In Italy No Major Activity In Land Fighting Allied Headquarters. Naples. Apr--14 -t'DPi— KAF night bomber , struck haavily at Natl aupply ports and railroad dtojectives in central and northern Italy early today. eßmaiing 34 hours of widespread aerial Maws against the enemy’s bat . tnred communications lin»a leadi Ing to the battlefronts below Rome- , din AUled cnwsmuntque reported , no major action on the land although both aides traded heavy artillery fire on the Amlo beach bead and in the Cass Ino sector, and patrols were active in all sector* British four-engined Haltfas bomber. the prM-wn ••rial offensive today. tons of blockbusters on the eailway yards ala Key junction on the Aurtn-Bologna line ■laußaneously. wave, of •tor. and WeOlngston. bombed baiter imstallations at Genoa. Ban Stefano, and J>imH>lno- three «d me nuin port, of entry for enemy blockade runners fro<w bontbera (Turn To Fa<« »• °

Storms Cause Heavy Damage In This Stale Five Midwestern States Are Flooded After Heavy Rains By I’nlted Prose Lightning, rain and wind swept over Indiana last night leaving In Its wake thousands of dollars of property damage Including six tank barrels of crude oil on th* Rlbeyro island destroyed and taking the Ilves of three young persons as rivers swelled to near flood stage. William Collins, 17, Columbia City, and Colleen Harris. 18. Warsaw, were drowned yesterday when their car failed to negotiate a curve and plunged into the swollen Tippecanoe river yester day when it went through a bridge. Two other persona In the car manag'-d to swim to safety. At New Harmony, lightning struck a crude oft tank last night on the Superior Oil company leas* on Ribeyre Island in the Wabash river across from there. The heat and flames of the flaring tank set off five other crude oil tanks in th<> lottery In addition to the six tanka con talning 2.7 W barrels of crude oil. a circulating pump and motor were destroyed. Water three feet around the burning tank battery preventer! effective tire fighting. (Turn To P*s* 4- Column II 0 Beet Growers Plan For Final Meeting Meet Wednesday To Close Association The Central Beet Growers association. which wu« organised here In 1954 lo further the interest of beet growers for ths Central Bugar company, will hold Rs final meet Ing in this City Wednesday evening, vote to split a nominal Jack-pot of association fund, among the members and fhen dissolve, it was announced today. E. W. Hush he Monroe is preaident of the association, which had a membership of more than 800 during the sugar beet raising period in this area. Since the sugar factory will not operate next fall, the association of farmers twill become extinct. During Im 10 years of existence, the association colbu-ted oue-balf cent a ton on beets delivered <N the company, which <was used for annual expenses In the promotion of activities in the latetwt of the grower.. A board of nine directors managed the affairs of the aawoclatlon With the dletribu'ion of treasury funds to the matters, the Central Sugar company l» P>> nnl, »< to make final pajmiem to grower, for the IM3 crop. J. Ward Calland. field manager and vice-president of the (Tara T» Pags 4. Column 4) _ I I >" " Eighth Person Is Adjudged Insane The eighth person this yewr w.a adjudged insane 4>y Judge J. Fred Frucbte He wa. a 4» year-old man living on • Decatur rural route Two Decatur physicians filed report. of their examination of ’be man. who bad pr.viou.ly been an Inmate at «h. stale hospital at Eastbav.n. Judge Fruchte ordered him recommitted Elffht persona are more than <be average for an entire year, according to morde

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 24,1944

Yanks Blasting Nazi Airfield AS THEIR BOMBS EXPLODE on the Nail held Schipol Airdrome nt Amsterdam. Holland. B-26 .Marauder bomber' of the I’. S. Nitith Air Force head for home. The attack was one of many now being directed against airfields and enemy defenses along the Atlantic Wall.

Livestock Clubs To Meet Monday, May 1 4-H Club Members, Committees To Meet L. E. Archbold, county agent, announced today that plan* ar* underway for a joint meeting of 4-H club member* and aduit committees on 4-H be«-f calf club work, dairy heifer club project*, and dairy bull club work. This meeting Is scheduled for 8 p. nt. Monday. May I at the Decatur junior-senior high school. Motion pictures will be shown and refi* abmeiHs nerved. Plans will then la* suggested for the organization of the livestock clubs on an area basis In order to conserve lime, rubber, and gasoline. Heretofore. the livestock projects have been on a county basis. The adult leaders for the beef calf club work are: Wm Bchnepf. H P. Schmitt. Fred Ahr. J'>e Koors and -Mr. Welty. The 4-H 'Turn Tn Page 4. Column 8) — Q ■—— Dr. Cyrus Hudson Is - Given Special Award ryru* M Hudson, of this city, who received hl* dental degree Bunday from Indiana University. *»» given a *p»clal award for oiMa’anding work In children's dentistry. iMiwt of tbe graduates of tbe •chool will go Into active military service. *1(1 l»r. Hudson has he» a assigned to the <n hool for special internablp in chlldren'a dentistry.

Admiral King Promises Early Speedup In War Against Axis

Washington. Apr. 24— (UP)— An early speedup in the tempo of the war against Germany and Japan ««. prombed today by Admiral Ernest J. King, commander In chief of the U. 8 fieet and member of the Allied high command as he revealed that W battleships and more than M aircraft carriers of all typra •<* now ope'* l ’ng in the fieet. . In bl» first comprehensive pub lie report to Secretory of th* Navy Frank Knox on the war's progrras. Klug declared that "the en circlement of Germany la in sight, thst Japan's intermediate defenses have been penetrated, and that the Allies aro now "determined to travel for and font to victory " King warned, however, that bo h Snrope and In the Pactfi« long and tough roads stUI must be traversed before victory Is sebieved "bet we are now folly entered on those roads." Here ie bls >P

Passes Examination For Special Training Edward Walter*, member of the senior class of the Dwatur Juniorsenior high school, has succesrfully passed his ■written examination for i the anny peciallzed training program. and will take bla physical exaniinwtion befor-t iieing assigneu , to a college for training He is the • won of Mr. andiMra. Lawrence Wei--11 ters of this city. Reveals Damage To I American Warships I Adm. King Reveals Damage To 20 Ships • — Washington. Apr. 24.—(UP Ad- ’ miral Ernest J. King today listed the name* of more than 2o Amert lean warwhips which were damag . ed In various battle in the Houth ■ Pacific but which were not named I in the .communiques issued on • those engagements In addition, he disclosed that the New Zeafoßd cruiser la-and'-r was damaged In the second battle of Kula Gulf. Some of the ehips were damag ed twice- once in each of two dlf- ’ forent battles. Th« navy's policy generally Inot to announce the number ami names of ships damaged because of Its possible effect on future op- , erations. Here Io a brief resume of what J' the communiques reported on Am I (Turn Tn Pa«« I. Column 4>

pratul: European Zone «A* of March 1. IM4. the situation in the European theater is increasingly desperate for the Allies and correspondingly encouraging for u* "The German structure of satellite state* is crumbling. Italy has fallen and is a battlefield in which SO German divisions are taking heavy punishment. Romania. Bui garia. Hungary, and Finland are weakening Th* Balkans are ala m* with guerilla war. and other occnpled <ountries await the signal "The Russian armies continue to advance, a massive invasion threatens In the west, and with all this. Germany to scientifically and remnrseleoaly being bombed on a scale whora magnitude and iucrera ing tempo have Battened her "iTraaYirSdw A Pilumi li~

Largest Yank Invasion Army In Pacific Moves Against Hollandia Base

Committee Asks Curbs On OPA, War Labor Board More Rigid Limits Sought By Special Congress Committee Washington. Apr. 24 li'Pt A special congressional committee I ■today called for consolidation of the price control and stabilixatloil acts with mor,- rigid limitations on the office of price administration and sharp new curbs on the war laltor lam rd. The recommendations were made in a proposed consolidation bill drafted by the special house ( committee investigating executive | agencies, headed by Rep Howard' W Smith. D. Pa. The committee raid the price . control and stnhilixation acts, en-j, acted separately In 1942 and ; schedul'd to expire June 30. should now be enacted into “one cohesive whole” with certain 1 amendments to eliminate "harsh 1 and unjust provisions." Noting administration rt quests that both acts !>•> extended in their present form, the eom < mitten said that such action would , in effect "ratify every Illegal act < or mistake committed and will set a pi l cedent for further commission of the same Illegal acts or mistake, which the courts will not overturn because of ratiflca-j lion by congress" The report acknowledged that i the stabilisation program thus far > has "In a measure succ- ssfully combatted the peril of inflation"|< but said the agencies Involved had often gone far beyond the hiten' ' of congress In applying the controlr Th committee therefore pro posetl that the OPA be limited to applying controls only to those prices which, on the basis of s|h ciflc evidence, are rising or threatening to rise, rather than to all prle-s generally. The in usurp would retain the present Oct. 1-15. 1941 base for stabllixlng prices but would specifically require the OPA to "adopt” those prices rather than • simply to give them .’due consld eratlon." Adjustin'nt. would be j (Turn Tn Pa** »- Cotums »» ° ' Three Boys Taken Into Custody Here Youths Being Held For Investigation L Three 18 year old boys are 4ieing held in the Adams coun'y jail for investigation afte. Ibefr arrrwt late Sunday evening by alate policemen J, C. Mendenhall, of Der vtur. and Truman Bierle. of Bluffton. They are Albert Hodge, of !>un kirk: Robert Hink*r. cd Redkey and Floyd Becks of Hartford CWjr. They | are arrested while fixing a tire ( about eight miles south of Decatur ■ on V. H 37. It Is alleged the car la which they | were driving was inspngwrly regia sered tn that it usd d'-aler'a permit An unloaded platol was found In i the car. AB «d th* boys bad rm ords and Rinker Is under federal prutoation on a Dyac act violation i oharge A federal protetion agent from Portland was expected this afternoon to com Ina. the iavasti i gat ton. Tbe 4»ys are unemployed but ' were clasaffied 4-F under selac- i five sarrk* They had been sleep- i Ing in th* car and had all of ibelr 11 clottoM (with ’bron l

Auto Stolen Sunday Is Later Recovered Wave Os Automobile Thefts Continues The ■third car In u week stolen fnun th* eam** block on Madison s n-et was taken by n 17 or Ifi-year-'old 'boy from 4t» parking place in front << the side entrance of the K 1 of C. home Sunday afternoon irimut I o’clock It belonged to Nick Braun. i Mr Braun had etopp' da’ **» K. of C. hall to m-ak'- an ice delivery. Jack Hurst happened to look out the window and s*<- the y.rnng boy get In the car and drive away. He 1 ran down stains wl'b Mr. Braun and thc-y pursued the stolen auto in Mr. Hurst's car. At ■the Intersection of Third and Madison street*, they caught up with the stolen c-ir and bumped it. damaging a fender on Mr. Hurst's car This failed to mop tbe thl»< who kept on driving Mr. Hurst eoon after was forc ed to give up ih>- < hase due to tire trouble. i lacter in the day She automobile iiWa. recovered by Fort, May lie po 1 lice. It had been abandoned In fha’ city. Tuesday, an automctfille owned by Arnold and Klank was stolen on the other side of the at rem fnun .wiic-re the Braun ear was taken. It wau lat*r recovered In Portland. .Saturday Ed Miller, cbirf of polk-e received a letter from East Hl Louis. I!!-, police saying they had picked up tiwo Indiana Icoys who had confected to this theft. The third ear wa. (stolen from the aam<- block on Madison street Thursday night from la-Koy Rrpley. It was later found artrandoned near the interam-tlon of Fourth and Jefforsoh «*trec-ts. Theodore W. Bleeke Dies Sunday Morning I Union Township Man Is Token By Death I ’ Theodore W. .4. :• Ilf*’ ; long resident of Union township, died at I o'clock Sunday morning I ( at the- Adams county memorial , hospital after an 11 days' illness of complications. , He was born In Union township , June 16 1869. the son c»f Chris tiau and Mary Rup|*Bleek>'. IL was a member of the- Immatillc-I I Lutheran church. Surviving are the widow, formerly H dwlg Schindler: six soar | Erich of Allen county. Gerhart, i I Khmehold and Theodore, all at home; Wilfred of Wallburg TeX ; and (’pi. Louis Bleeke of Fort Leonard Wood. Mo ; three broth ers. Edward of R'dlands. I'alif Charles and (Mto Bleeke, both of I’nion township; and six grandchildren Two sons and one c daughter are deceased. A sister. I Mrs. Adam Biens died Saturday i morning. Funeral ac rvlces will be held at i 1 30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon , (Turn To Page 4. Column 7> ( Fred Bays To Speak Here Thursday Night Final preparations were being ( made by Mns Vincent J. Bormann, gcmeral chairvnan. for th* Fred j Bay* meeting Thursday evening at 1 the circuit court room. 'Mr Bays will ariva here late Thureday af-ernoon and will apeak at 8 o'clock. The public ia invited to tbe political meeting wtokh will ’ be the only one held during tbe pri mary election period it is apoMmed by tbe Women s Demo ratic club and a apswial lavimtuMi is iaeued to ' to the men to attend.

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General MacArthur Declares Japanese Army Os 60,000 Is Isolated By Move — Advanced Allied Headquarters, .New Guinea Api 24 (UP) The largest Am* rlcuu invasion army of the- southwest Pacific war has captured three' airstrips and la closing In on the big Hollandia air lease In Dutch New Guinea followInga triple landing that carried Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces 500 miles closer to the Philip pines, it was revealed today. The main invasion force captured the town of Hollandia and its emergency airstrip only a few hours after landing In Humbooldt bay on the north coast of Nrw Guinea Saturday, then joined another column that pushed ashore at Tenahmerah hay, 20 miles to the west, in u pincers drive inland toward the Hollandia air base A front dispatch reported the Tc-nalimerah column had sent patrols out to within five to six miles of the air base, keystone of Japanese air strength in this theate*. Some 125 miles southeast of Hollandia. the third Invasion force was revealed to have seized the two Taciji ucctK-ida <>uiy 6*« hours after landing at Altapo. Royal Australian air force engine era at ready were readying the Tadji airstrip-, and it was expected that they soon would be used by Australian warhawks. which can tak*» off and land under worse conditions than most other warplanes. Reports reaching headquarters indicated that operations In the Hctllandia Tanahmerah area wi re continuing satisfactory and authorities here- expect'd that the three airfields comprising the HbU landia air base soon would be in American hands. MacArthur, who landed at the Hollandia and Tanahmerah beachh ads only a few hours after they had b'-en secured, said the rarprise invasion had "completely isolated" the Japanese IBfh army of 60.000 men dispersed as far to the south' ast as Madang. more then 4<>o miles below Hollandia.The heavy air and sea bomba, cimc-nt that preceded the three landings scattered the Japanese garrison* and no organized enemy resistance has been reported yet at any of the- IH-achheads How- . ver. some of the Japanese cut off at Wewak were understood to Ice working their way along coastal trails toward Allapc- and strong counterattack* were antici(Turn Tn Page • Column •> - -o — Russians Preparing For New Offensives May Coincide With Western Invasion Moscow. Apr 24.-- (UP) -Front dispatches indicated today that Red armlea have completed regrouping on several sectors of the vast Russian front a d stand ready to launch powerful new offensives, perhaps coinciding with an AngloAmerican invasion of weatern Europe. Soviet week-end communiques, for tbe first time since the start of the 1*43-44 offensive*, reported "no essential changes" on any of the various sector* Supplementary bulletins disclosed that German counter-attack were continuing in Estonia and in tbe aouthwestern Ukraine, but apparently on a reduced scale (A German DNB dispatch said Hungarian troop* yesterday re captured Kuty. J 2 ml lew west of Cernaatl I Reinforcement* and sapp'le* were reported pouring into tbe Russian lines all along the trout InkXuf* x* Pm* L L'vtuma »i .