Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 19 May 1944 — Page 2

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25,000 Enemy Planes Toll 01U. 5. Airmen American Aircraft Losses Are 6,900 VV.-dnng'on. .May 19. -ill') 'American army and navy fliers in al! battle theaters have destroyed i xince our entry into the war with Ic- a ot a little over 6.9<h [". s. Aircraft, official eatHnates revealed today Gen. Henry H Arnold, a: a press conferetu < yesterday. said that the' army air force* between Dec. 7. 1911. and May 15. 1914. had destroyed a total of 20,174 enemy platoe 16.510 m aerial combat! and "461 on rh<- ground. iln addition, lie <aid. army fliers pri’baibly have destroyed 16,510 more etc my plane - and damaged 5.516. I’. S army losses for the name ' pi rjod stand at 5.954 comba planes. Arnold eaid. <M there- 5.719 were saot duwti in air fights and 236 w,re destroyed by the enemy be fore they had an opportunity to take off The navy air f itcea, mrtnwiiile. I WMaMMMMSMMMMSMMaMMMHBaa

’ - — ■' 1 - '' - - -I - ' - - - - ' - - ■ - 1 - - — - 1 L ' 1 ~ Citizens of Decatur f AAAKF *. umftja" IMP / \ * '■*a®»*WßLW'; 1 W #*?< x Hb i, / s&- ~ ® BE idiUlfoFd 1 4 m \ , H IE ‘® Em Krw L -.. ■“* . * 4P*-J2sfcisM *wr -_.. K x ? Brn^" • MOla •.*ST- | HLI Annual City - Wide CLEAN-UP WEEK - May 22 to 25 Inc. - An Outstanding Success Vie urge every citizen to give hie support to this campaign as it result* in many advantages to personal and community life. With your help we can and will make Decatur the Cleanest little city in America. CLEAN-UP PAINT-UP FIX-UP BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME Gn the above days, (May 22 to 25 inclusive) City Trucks will haul away and dispose of all rubbish you may have. Please have in containers in the alleys or along the curb. City Trucks will NOT haul ashes Make Cleaa-t’p Week a week of home beautification. Clean-up the yard . . Paint the house . . Make necessary repairs . . Repaper and re- ! decorate .. make everything apic and span. I,- ’ 1 Let’s All Do Our Part City of Decatur

| contributed formidably to the 35,000 grand total by ehooting down more than 4.600 enemy planes hi air battles. This score cost about 9SO naval aircraft. •However. the navy did not have availaQile at this time any estimate of the number of enemy planed I navy flier* had destroyed on the ground After the recent records set ! by navy airmen in the pacific in : 'his reapewt, however, it is clear I that a final accounting will up the naval box score considerably. Arnold predicted a black future for the German air force. Estimating that German plane production i had been cut to one-fourth the | planned rate by Allied bombing, declared that the l.uftiwaff ■ waa ' now practically w ithout reserves and had been reduced to "Just s shell’' which he expected to see crumble very shortly " •As it is now." he said, "every time the enemy air force trlea to opjHise one of our raide. it takes irreparable losses." Arnold warned, however, thnt three statements should not be taken as a eigti that the luftwaffe is not still a powerful and potent weapon. 0 Parcel post was established by the T. S. posloffice department in ' 1913. England maintained such a service since 1883.

62 LEAVE TODAY I (Continued From rage 11 > tlngent follows: ■ Lexter Elwood Sheets. Karl El ■ wood Snyder, Richard Elmer Allii son. George Washington Hawkins. • Blaine Ludy Bailey. George Thomas Burk. Lloyd Sherman Rhodes. i Kenneth Sephus Jackson. Jerome • William Meyer. Daniel Yoder. Philip ' W. Piety. Bernard Charles Lemisb. Dale Mlles Moyer. Ruytnen Bert . rem lohnstoti. Harry Robert . Fratthiger. Gordon Thomae Sprtmger. Kenneth Edgar Smail. True Gephart. Jr., George Stauffer Lind sey. Milton Ix-Roy Hoffman. Warren W Lehman. Edgar Franklin Kless. Ambrose Leo Gase. Lloyd William Conrad. George Sterling Heare. Robert Carl Strik er. David Sloan Myer*. Florian Edward Keller, Dale Lucian Brandt. Laverne Dale Sprunger, George Frederick Dellinger, Glen Elroy Beer. Carl Edward Neaenschwander. Orison James Sprunger. Jesse Simon Wittwer, Wayne Deryl Hinchman. Homer Russel Springer. Harvey VonGiinten. Merrill Burdett Weaver. Mor to n Wilson Teeple. Carl Thomas Roberts. Chalmer Knittie. Roger Allan Kelly, Lawronce William Fuelling. Jack Edward S< hnepf. Gilbert Wil Ham Bultemeier, Brice Waveland

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Fishei, Victor Schueller, Harvey ■ Edward Caston. Roland Herman Miller Robert Goelz. Herman Harry Baumgartner. Glen Albert Grogg. Herman Don Brown, Walter Albert Kukelhan. Loren Wilson Vore. Alfred Hugo Henry Thieme, Edward Franklin Sprunger. Harley Tumbleson. Jr.. Clifford Christ Kiefer. Dau Morris Yaney. Joseph Warren Globlg. The conscientious objectors | were: Noah Leo Amstutz, leader; Joseph S Wengerd. Ivan Leßoy Steury. John M Schwarts. Pre-induction examinations for two men. transferred to other, hoards, have been cancelled because of the 30-year age limit. These are Thomas Edward Martin, transferred to Detroit. Mich., iqid Robert Allen Riley, to Kokomo 47 ALLIED OFFICERS (Continued Frotr rags t) resistance. Information furnished by Switz erland disclosed that some were! shot while resisting arrest e.nd others during a now attempt to escape after being recaptured. Eden said. Os 76 who participated i In the original escape, he said, 15 were recaptured and 14 still were at large. There war, no Immediate indication whether any Americans were ;

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ZMj cM Met I HX| - tei b_ CT Jl i * Join in the City-wide Clean Vp Week program May 22 ‘o 25 inclusive. Rid your prooerty ot all unsightly junk by having it ready for city trucks to haul away. We ask your heln and cooperation in making our citv a place in which we are all proud to live. CLEAN UP - PAINT UP FIX UP — PLANT UP - SIMtUCE LT CHAMBER of COMMERCE __ ... r u ti ,-j..

; among the officers who escaped or who were shot. Stalag lust 3 ie aitukted at Sagan. 6o miles northeast of Dresden. The mass escape occurred March 26. hut a ropresontatlve of Switzerland. the protecting power, learned of the Incident only during a routine visit to the camp April 17. Eden said. "The government was profound I ly shocked by this news and have . urgently requested the protecting powei to demand of the German government a full and immediate report of the circumstances under which these men met their deaths i and an explanation of Its failure! to report the facts at once to the protecting power." Eden said The names of the men shot were .’urnlahed by the Swiss representt’tfve and ths next-ofkin already have been informed, he added. "The bouse will wish ine to express its deepest sympathy with the ndativen and pay tribute to thecourage and high sense of military duty shown by all these gallant of fleers." Eden said. KING OF YUGOSLAVIA' >ntinued From rag* 1) planned by the king for some time. They said he had been forced to postpone action until he could find a sultaflde person to form the new

governmentThe new cabinet, It was said, would be representative of all Yug oelav parties Including, perhaps ! delegates from the national liberation movement of Broz. Some quarters believed that King 1* < ter may even instruct Mikhailovitch to aUempt a reconciliation with Tito. Partisan quarter* In London pointed out that anyone fightI ing the Germans would be considered an ally, thus leaving the door open for Mikhailovitch to come to aorne sort of an agreement. g—■ —- jii.—

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