Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1944 — Page 1

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ILLIES SMASHING THROUGH GUSTAV LINE

in! Russia Kes Men On ■ral Front Ret Reserves Are HLrted Moving Up ■■Central Front \|.y Ilf) - The H. -I mi hiliK .... .. .til 4. in the 9 .. and th |M -ummer of ■■ .! front Which . «|<-ci*iv<■K,.. of Poland. military aarices i»d!- . n s.-laht of the < inip.i.fii would Im--88,. "al.- open flat- . h „ Russian |Ki;.-rmat>) proper. ., w.-k- reportiol ■■ nil th., i iitral front |^B I.,- .« kin Itiissia. Join n .ii.i-ii movement - ■■ ziiu-ntH of the which hail Crimea and thI'kruini-. |H-r <|i.i hiiit.-d that |K . - i- gathering .. ftont. still out bombing ratlße of the -fin. suggesting that - required th-rn iii’o the front linen scale offensive. >i:iie time, th-- lied air |H. expanded the . - ■ I'ettic attacki on rad ivntera and comin,.-- f .’ling the front liii i. ’o tin- Carpath ■ 5.,1,1-t '.ic'u.ti air force refitted, i.-f n ined. and Tin- vi< toile* on the Mt) f ont* maided the high tn l inn . titrate It* air |Ho' ’ .«■ 4:i < masse* almii; ■ ici or* than were dealt B earlier campaign*. ■■ p-'V. r was expected Io it* air power on the gßltu-s.* along shorter Hee were dealt with In - wa ■ . xpected to play :’ei tide in the coining SB deployed over the vast itt soft.-ninß up German in •)>.- Sovi|.|-PoliHh ’• we,-,, reported steppB their a’tack* behind the ittie* I’.lncident with the along the recently Bi front. H Guerillas Active y May in (I’Pi—Alban- , ...rdimittnK a maj with Marshal Joalp ■ ' l all out drive In Yugo- ■ captured ElbaSmn, U* -otitli of the capital city and two other strategic u Übatila, it was disclosed |B A.inntatt operations were V' " ll ,n » Yugoslav partisan y"' |l! < indicating that Broz ’< form a Balkan guerilla W* • big push against the had been completed sueBJ-’ Th mar*hal reported H! 4 * 5 " *<o that Bulgarian KT 4rmi * s * were working In with hl* Yugoslav B“" !fi ber of Albanian pier ■*“ eohnated st a hunt K B «l<ie Elharen, the Alalso occupied ■*' mile, le-low Thana, and V' * ml!ea from the Greek K «n the Tlrantt-Halonlka J Cashier Taken ■ hls Morning ■ s^f' 1 *“ <, *‘ n,ng . >r of tne “ Banl< - 'o<>k IP at hlx B L* Oniln * “"d W “'’ t «WOV«*<I K?*' ° n rtouth r*lfih etreet. K ( * a ’ r >lled a»d a hypo- ■ ** »4mlni»t(.red. ft* I "ATUAE READINQ g "at thermometer K a m, S •mT - 70 | *• 7« L WtATHtR ■iL * Mrt, y cloudy with Brtt, iM n Wcdnoeday and B Potion* to ■* “ntinuad warm. •

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Two Aviation Cadets Are Killed In Crash Seymour, Ind.. May 16 (UP)— Au army board of in<iulry today in-1 ves'lgated the enish of an AT-lUI training plane from Freeman array i airfield whieti claimed the live* o .' two Illinois aviation cadet* yta’erday. Col. K. T. Ilundquim. commandant. identified the victim* ae A/<! Marvin L. Hull of Evanston 111. and A/C David Hunter of Ooak Glen, 111. Ilundqulut'* announcement said that the cadet* were on a comtmt training mlralun twhen their plan t crashed in Jennlng* county. Ind. — — All Decalur School Teachers Re-Hired Increases Granted To Pay Living Cost • All Decatur public school teacher* will be re-employed. It was announced at a meeting of the city school btiard Monday night. Contract* have be. n signed. Walter J. Krick, superintendent of the Decatur public schools said today that an average increase of 9.03 percent was given to the teacher* to take car., of the added Increase In the coat of living. The total of the increase* will be 9C.4M The school hoard anticipates increase* from state fund* to take care of the Increased pay to the teacher* so that there will be no change In the local tax rate. Collections from the state gross Income tax and other funds have been larger than in previous years, because of the war work, and this I* reflected in the amount to be sent local school*. The classes to be taught hy the teachers have not yet been determined. These will be announced next fall. Some changes are anticipated. The teachers will bo: Junior-senior high school: W. Guy Brown, principal; Merritt J. Alger, la>W! II J. Smith. Sylvester Everhart. Il A. Adam*. Sigurd Anderson, Vaughn Millikan, Deane Dorwln. »iith (hAifroy. Eloise Lewton. Harold Mumma. Amo* Ketchum. Glennls Elzey. Helen Haubold, Kathryn Kauffman. Eleanor Pumphrey, Daniel Perry, Mildred Worthman and (Tura Tn Psge S. Column St -0 Truck, Automobile Collide Last Night 'Donald Ehrman, a Ixtng Island N Y. <school teacher, and John Joseph Clark, a hitch hiker of AUtany. N. Y„ escap.-d serious Injury when a ear owned by Ehrman but driven by Clark was nearly demolished by a truck driven by Hob Ball for the Belmont Trucking company last evening. Officers Roy Chlleote and Rtfltert Hill, who investigated, reported that Clark was driving we it on ÜB. 22-*. but mimed hl* turn where the road jogs at the Intersection with U. S. highway 37. He made a “U” tutn in the road and failed to see the truck, which crashed Into the back end of the automobile o Monroe Church Host To 1945 Conference Methodist District Conference Is Set The 19*5 Fort Wayne district conference of Methodiat churches will lie held In Monroe, the assignment having been made at the 19** conference, held Monday at St. Paul's Methodist church In Fort Wayne. The Fort Wayne district Include* Adams. Allen. DeKalb. Steuben and Wells counties. The annual Indiana conference will be held at New Cattle May 25, and another district conference will be held at Fort Wayne June 1«Officer* for the next year were elected at Monday’s meeting, with Dr. William W. R<»blnson, superintendent. an chairman. iDr. M O. l*ester. pastor of the Decatur Methodist church, was named group leader for Adam* county. Dr. Lester was also name I a member of the committee on mlnIgterlal qualifications, and Rev E O. Kegerreis. paa’or of the Monroe church, aras named on the resolutions committee

I — - ——— Bombers Make Heavy Raid In Hollandia Area Chinese Advance On 100-Mile Front Near Salween River Area Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific. May Iff.—(UP)—Liberator and Mitchell bombers o( (he fifth air force, In the second consecutive heavy raid on the Wakde-Sarmi area west of Hollandia. failed to find any enemy planra at the two airfields Sunday and It was believed loday that the big Wakde airdrome may have been knocked out temporarily. The new blow at the Japanese position, 110 miles west of Hollandia, came as Australian jungle fighters continued their unopposed advance up the northern coast of British New Guinea to reach the vicinity of Bunabnn, nearly 50 mile* north of Madang and a similar distance from Hansa bay. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said the American bomber* caused extensive damage at Wakde Island and the Sarmi coaat when they spread 220 ton* of explosive* over the area, in following up the 200-ton raid on Saturday. The airfields at Wakde and Sarmi have been targets for the heaviest raids in the southwest Pacific threater eince U. S. troop* captured the three Hollandia airfields in MacArthur's march back to the Philippines. The aerial offensive against the Japinese in Dutch New Guinea brought in new attack by Liberators 011 BoHhek village and Sorldo (Turn To Paw* 1, Column I) Correspondent Tells Os Italian Battle Allies Find Tough Going In Italy By Clinton B. Conger, (UP. War Correspondent) Inside the Gustav Line. Italy. May 16— (UP) -The tide of battle has rolled two mile* beyond this onetime enemy strong point and all around me is the debris of war — bullet-pierced helmets, rusted rocket gun*, and splintered dugouts. There also are German* -living and dead The living ones are prisoners moot of them grenadiers. That tali one over there ha* a stubble beard on his face and wear* the Iron cross. He tell* officers he formerly was a farm worker, I* 29 yea* old, and hae been in the German army nine years. He marched with Rommel in Africa and despite his long years of service and the defeats that have come his way. his morale I* high. He stands smartly at attention, waiting for further question* from Allied officers. Another prisoner, a corporal. I* a member of a crack SS uiut and wear* a new style field uniform with the coat cut like an elongated mew jacket with wide Haring lapA fierce, sharp battle was fought on this ground. In the rubble of a house an American helmet and a German helmet lie side by side. There is a bullet hole through the American one. Rusty weapons are scattered everywhere. A bazooka lies in a ditch and nearby are several abandoned gas masks. Ixine* are being cut through the weed* as our motorised units advance. and every now and then they come across a dead German. The smell of death Is In the air, for the enemy retreated without burying many of hl* dead. There I* one fresh mound, however, and above It a erda* on which is written: “Unknown German soldier.” (Tuew To Page 6. Column •) Miss Annie Winnes Reported Sinking (Miss Annie Winnes. secretary of the Red Cross chapter, was reported In a sinking condition inday by her atater. Mis* Jessie Wlnne* Mlm Winns* has been a patient at the hopltal for several week*, following a stroke which paralysed bar right side.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 16, 1944

■— J- - Offered College Presidency Sts' 1A 5 w i COLLEGE OF WOOSTER’S CHOICE for president to succeed the retiring Dr Charles F. Wishart at the Wooster, O, Institution I* Prof. Howard Ixtwry, left. Woo*tei grad and professor of Engllsli at Prince ton university. In center I* Chief Justice Carl V Weygandt of the Ohio state supreme court and right, Dr Arthur H. Compton, physicist at th< University of Chicago.

Collapse Suffered By Rev. Orlemanski Bishop Rules Priest Must Do Penance BULLETIN Springfield, M.s**., May 16— (UP)—Bishop Thoma* M. O'Leary today lifted the suspension which he had Imposed upon th* Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski because of the priest's much critlzsd mission to Moscow. The lifting of the suspension was announced after the bishop received from Father Orlemanekl a letter which wa* described as “A complete apology.” Rprlngflcld, Mass., May 16—(UP) —-Btehop Thoma* M. O'Leary of SprlngfYeld remained firm today in hi* decree that Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski must do penance in a monastery because of his unauthorized mission to Moscow, despite the fact the priest has suffered a physical and nervous collapse Through the Rev. George A. Rhea, chancellor of the diocese. Bishop O'lx-ary ruled that Father Orlemanski'* Hine** did tot alter the order depriving him of priestly privileges, and directing him to remain in an unnamed monastery foi altout a month. ’Dr. William C. Kostarskl said father Orlemanski had “suffered a severe shock ti* u result of this affair. 1 have ordered likrsi to quiet and rest.” The priest was in bed at hl* rectory of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic church where bx 'Turn T« Pag* Column I) — O Celebrate Feast Os Ascension Thursday The feast of the Ascension of Our bord into Heaven will be observed in «t. Mary’s church Tnursday. It is a holy day of obligation and masse* will be said at 5:30; 7 and 9 A. M.

Huge Invasion Armada Massed By Allies Off British Coast

!»ndon, May H.—(UP)—Censorapproved photographs disclosed today that the Allies already have massed a huge Invasion armada off the British coast. and German broadcasts reported Intensified •hipping movements In the port* of southern England. Frankly concerned over the Increated port activity, the Germans •ent more than 100 hombers against the south coast early today for the second straight night in quest of a clue to the Imminence of "Dday" for the opening of a western front. A German transocean dispatch said heavy bombers attacked Ports mouth harbor and city, causing "very great damage." Bomba and flarea were dropped, the latter lb facilitate the taking of reconnaissance photographs. In sharp attacks on several towns. A concentrated anti-aircraft barrage, coupled with forces of night fight

Area Rent Control Men Here Thursday John E. Williams, area rent dir-ector-attorney. and Herman Kohr. chief rent examiner, of the Fort Wayne Decatur defense rental area, will be in Decatur, st the post office, on Thursday. May 18, from 9:30 A. M till 4 P. M when they will be glad to answer any question* on rent control problems, and to give any advice or as*lstanc<> required by landlord* and b.-nant* of the area. o Bad Weather Grounds Allied Big Bombers Speedy Mosguitos Strike At Europe Ixmdon. May 16 —(UP) — Bad weather grounded the Anglo-Ameri-can heavy bombing fleets last night and early today, but speedy RAF Mosquito 'ltomber* struck into Germany and France during the night and 100 or more Nazi raiders sprayed IxmXh* and flares over five Briti*h ports In another att*-mpt to unmask Allied Invasion preparation*. For the third ancceaslre night, the wide-ranging Mosquitoe* took over the RAF Ironxbliig offensive, dropping *core» of rwo-ton blockbuster* on the Rhineland industrial and transportation center of Ludwigshafen. Other undisclosed targets In northeweetern Germany snJ an airfield In France also were attacked. (Turn To Pag* 6. Column I) O' Ernest Longenberg-r Suffers Broken Arm ’Ernest 1-ongenberger. who live* west of Decatur on the AdamsWell* county line, sustained a very badly fractured right arm In a fail from a tractor. He was tak’-n to (he Adam* county memorial hospital where he Is now a patient.

era, scattered the raiders and shot down at least five of them for a two-night bag of 20. A spokesman for the German air force reported over the Berlin radio that reconnaissance plane* had noted “fresh movements of Invsslon barges tn the ports of southern England" since last Friday. Several hundred vessels had been assembled at Bristol alone, the luftwaffe's main target Bunday night, for "what looked like immediate action," the German spokesman said. Tacitly confirming Axle reports that the Allies were massing the greatest number of ships off Britain since the Dunkerque evacuation, the Ixindon Evening Standard published photographs of a large concentration of tank landing ships “lying somewhere off the! tTurs To Pa«e 4, Column I)

Allied Troops Pouring Through Widening Gap In Broken German Line

— labor Trouble Is Mountng In Detroit Area Chrysler Plant Is Latest Shut Down By Labor Trouble By United Presi; The Chrysler Highland Park plant wa* added to those shut down by labor trouble In the De* trolt area today when three supervisory employe* wore ejected forcibly by member* of the CIO United Automobile Worker* union Meantime, 3,500 member* of the Independent Foremen's Association of America remained Idle st Detroit In defiance of a war labor board order which set the first shift of Monday as the deadline for ending the walkout Today's flareup of violence was apart from the foremen's strike for recognition of the union and arose from the dismissal of two union members who had ordered the driver of another firm's truck to leave the grounds. After the Incident the 3.000 men on duty In the Chrysler plant were »ent home, causing a shutdown Previously 13 plants had been affected by the strike which wa* directed against six major plant* Including the Packard plant where 30.000 were Idle. Robert H Key*, president of the FAA, said Walter Nelson, attorney tor the union, wanted to confer with war labor board chairmatt William H Davis in an effort to learn whether the WLB can grant the association some form of recognition which the company* have denied. At Washington, undersecretary of war Robert P Patterson and acting secretary of the navy James V. Forrestal charged that the strlki* wa* holding up delivery of guns and planes, endangering the lives of fighting men. At Allentown. Pa.. 3.000 men struck at the Mack Manufacturing Co. plant, tying up production of army trucks in 10 plants United Automobile Workers (CIO) officers said the strike wa* spoil taneous and unauthorised. AFL railway and motor coach workers in lx>* Angele* threatened a walkout unless the company consents to negotiate a new contract providing wage Increases. The Hummer Manufacturing company at Springfield, 111., remained Idle as 450 AFT, machinists refused to work until the firm, a Montgomery Ward subsidiary. signs a new contract, replacing one that has expired. Public Hearing Set For Truck Line Sale Teeple Application Hearing On June 5 A public hearing on the Joint application of David H. Teeple. exe cutor of the estate of David F Teeple, for the sale and transfer of certificate* number* SO7-A. 1. 2 and 3. and number 565-CCH. covering the Fort Wayne and Portland Truck Line will be held by the pub lie aervlce commission of Indiana, on June 5 at Indianapolis. The purchasers of the truck line are David H- Teeple. Leo A. Teeple, Julius F, Teeple. Anthony E Teeple, sons, and Mark C. Braden, son in-law of the founder of the Fort Wayne and Portland Truck Line. Mr. Teeple died suddenly in April. The son* and son-in-law have been operating the line and application for the transfer of the certificate wn* filed shortly before Mr Teeple'* death. The line operates over U S road 27 and haul* freight between Fort Wayne and Portland. The terminal is located in this eity.

Demand Avery Take Part In Negotiation I Ward Company Union J To Submit Demands t Chicago. May 16.—(UP) Sewell < Avery, the IHW.OOO-u-year chair- 1 man of the board of director* of 1 Montgomery Ward and Co., will bo 1 asked to participate In negotiations 1 for a new lalmr contract with the United Retail. Wholesale and De • partinent Store Employes union, 1 Leonard Levy, International vice I president, eaid today. 1 “Because of the many statements 1 which Mr. Avery ha* made to the press without giving us a chance ' to discuss the iasues with him. we ' will demand and Insist that he par- 1 tlclpate in the negotiations.” Levy said. "Mr. Avery has not attended 1 one bargaining conference In the ! four years we've had a local at the 1 plant.” 1 Levy said he would ask the company to open negotiations tomor- ' row or Thursday but he expected a later date would be set. Possibility of future disputes ' with the company was anticipated unless a compromise is reached ' over certain controversial item* proposed for the new contract. At a meeting last night the union (Turn To Pure 1. Column I) ■ o i Mrs. Gerhard Kohne Dies This Morning Funeral Services On Friday Morning Mr*. Rosa Kohne. so, widow of the late Gerhard Kohne, prominent resident of Washington township, died of a heart allim-nt at the family home at 1 o'clock this morning Mrs. Kohne came to this country from Germany when she was 12 year* old. Her mother and father never Immigrated to the United State* Khe wa* horn in Germany April 12, 186*. The deceased wa* a member of bt. Mary * Catholic church and of the St. Mary's sodality. Surviving are seven children. William of Decatur route four; Mrs. Anna Schelder and Mr*. Ma tllda Henderson of Fort Wayne, Mis* Clara Kohne. H>-nry and Edward Kohne at home and Mrs. Florence Gillig. wife of Leo Gllllg. Adam* county sheriff of this city Her husband preceded her in death about 15 years ago. Funeral service* will be held at 9 o’clock Friday morning at St. Mary's church, with Rev. 1 Joseph J. Belmetz. pastor, as celebrant of the requiem mas*. Burial will be In the Catholic cemetery. The body will be moved from '.he Gllllg and Doan funeral home to the Kohne residence Wednesday and may be viewed from 7 o'clock that evening until time of the funeral o Injured Berne Girl Taken From Hospital ■ ■■■ I Sandra Cramer. 5, daughter of Mr. and Mn* George Cramer, of , Berne, iwho wa* injured when I struck by a milk truck In Bern® , Saturday, was reported as much Im i proved today. Hhe has been dismissed from the Adamo county memorial hospital. Decatur Girl Hurt When Struck By Bat ’Mis* Connie Hill, 13. daughter of • Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hill of 602 Marshall street, sustained a thresInch gash above the ngbt eye when i *he was struck by a baseball bat. ' while In a gym daaa'at Worthman I field, Monday afternoon. ’ -She wa* taken to the Adams ■ county memorial hospital for treat ment and examination. A; first it I wa* feared she had sustained a ; fractured akull, but thia waa not • true. Shewn* to be dismissed frura the hospital this afternoon.

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Allies Casualties To Date Definitely Less Than Expected; Nazis Withdrawing Alligj Headquarters. Naples. May 16 (UP) The Allied fifth and eighth armies were smashing through the broken Gustav line from the Liri valley to the sea today, and the bard-hit but still fighting German* were showing the first sign* of withdrawing to the Adolf Hitler line. Allied casualties In the five-day offensive to crush the German army in Italy have been definitely lighter than the high command anticipated a headquarter* spokesman re ported officially. French troops of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’* fifth army. si>earheading the big push through the Gustav line, have reached the German frtiUery posttlpn* covering it from tin- rear, as the whole battleline swung westward like a gate hinged on the Cassiuo-San Angelo anchor post of the Nazi defenses. The spokesman emphasized that the offensive I* now only In Its first stage that of the breakthrough from the Liri valley below Casslno to the Gulf of Gaeta - with the first German parachute division securely holding Casslno and the San Angelo heights a mile and one-half to the northwest. The Germans now probably will move slowly backward to the Hitler line, running roughly from Piedlinonte five mile* west of Casslno. down through Pontecorvo and on to the sea. While Gen. Alphonse Join's French troops expanded their breakthrough west of Ansonia, the gridiron of defensive positions in the Liri valley to the north enabled the German* to ease back slowly, fighting for all the ground they yielded (The German DNB new* agency acknowledged that In the coastal mountains, "which represent twothird* of the battle area." German troop* under prensure by American and French force* "have taken up new prepared position* after a short movement carried out mostly at night.") The fifth and eighth armies together captured 21 square mile* 4>f fortified territin-y yesterday, bringing to 81 square miles the area seised in the first four days of Gen Sir Harold It. I. G. Alexander's all-out offensive to capture Rome and crush the Germans in Italy. The bag of prisoners for the offensive had risen to 3.000. French Moroccans again spark'd the fifth army offensive with a gain of more than two miles to capture Mt Fammera, due west of Ausonia and westernmost peak held hy the Allies. They also caplured Sin Giorgio on the narrow south side of the Liri valley mile* H<>uthw>Ht of Hritis'/held Sun Angelo, a* well a* Casale, Anunzlata and Castel-Nuovo, all (Tore Tn Pern 4. Cn)un4n g) o — Let Contract For Reroofing School Fort Wayne Company Awarded Contract The contract for reroofing th* Liwoln school will be given to the C. L. tkhust company of Port Wayne, which was the low bidder, at 82.320, h was decided at the meeting of the city school board Monday night. Arnold it Klenk of Decatur also •übmltted a bid of |2.*63 and one of »2.«72. Contract* were signed with Rule ert Yake for the tearing down of the old South Ward school building. Mr. Ynke wa* the hlghe*' bidder recently at 14-12 for the job. He furnished Mtlsfactory performance bonds aud insurant* at the meeting Monday. Mr Yake agreed to demolish the buildlug and level tb* the ground within I2it day*. The school board plans to use the area a* a playground aud want* to have it open before the beginning of school next fall.