Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1944 — Page 2

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Fort Wayne's Flying Ace Sale In England Major Bud Mohurin Escapes To England Fort Wayne. May 22. <l'l*l Major Walker M I Bud> Mahurln I may come home noon for a rent, uccordlttg to word received l>y the! pilot 1 !* mother. Mrs. Guy Mahurln of thi* city. Mahtir.ii’ mother r> < ently re | ceived new that her non, who was shot down over Fiance and reported missing in action, had escaped hack to England. If "Bud 1 Mahurln does return to Fort Wayne, he will receive a hero’s I welcome. The reaction of the home town folks ;o his possible leave Is expresst ( in the mayor's words. "Bud Mahurin is a symbol of all Fort Wayne boys In service." Mayor 11. W Baals -aid. "If he is given u ioaie Fort Waytie will receive him a* a representative of all thouyoung men who are sigh Ing on every front.” The 25-year-old ace bailed out! over France on March 27, j •4 |T • ''-r e > 9 fa J i 4 X ;< LOWELL THOMAS, prominent radio journalist. is pictured following the presentation of a degree of doctor of humane letters by Union college, located at Schenectady, hi. Y. (International)

■ 3RSL / X\j \J You wouldn’t burn war material with it. Today paper for such pursuch m helmet lining*, camouflage po-.es it critically short! nett, shell containers and blood If you burn paper, you're destroy* plasma boxes Then don’t burn pa- j n| a vlta > was material—you’re er»per — foe paper makes them all! dangering American lives. Paper is desperately needed whet- gUft Mvlng w „ te todayever our men are boxes.cartons. newspapers.and fighting. They de* 4 ma g af i oet . Don’t burn them. pend on paper for the Jufn thefn more than 700,OM! war articles that are QAIffT j A AMI made or wrapped UnVEs | SOMI gOY'S UH Fold |S«o«»laa» eaS CerrveataS aad Waatibailie* ty« KX’isrii ssssskk: serasS aboat 11 iaaaaa aaabeaarrtad. I. S. Victory WASTE PAPER Campaign Start saving your Waste Paper NOW for the next drive to be held soon. Decatur Daily Democrat

day he scored his Slat victory. No other word was heard of the Thunderbolt pilot until his mother received a letter from him announc ing his return to England FIRST BAND CONCERT (Continued »rvm race l) I the *< heduls of band concerts and practices for the coming week for i the benefit of the members. The high school band practice * wifi be this evening at 7:15 o’clock. The concert will be Tuesday at 8 ; o'clock The combined band and inarching practice for all band I members will be held Thursday at : 7 o’clock Instead of Tuesday night before the band concert, as flrat announced. o MAX NOLL, SURVIVOR (Continue r rv* r«» I) America llistoiy has already recorded how battleships and smaller ships were bombed in the harbor. The dense smoke from burning *>ll kept the harbor In daikncss for three days. One could not see a foot ahead. Under these condl- , lions the navy began the Job of salvaging, while marines ami the > army fought back in heading off! further attacks by the Japs Since last September, Mr Noil has been in the Guadalcanal sector In the Smith Pacific. He la In charge of about lb large bombing planes. He flew from a -mail Island to Guadalcanal and made the rest oi lite distance to this country by ship. He was enroute 20 days While at Pearl Harbor he met one Decatur boy. Joe Martz, who also fa in the navy. His brother. (’pl I, .well B Noll. I* now stationed on Pearl liarinn H! two sisters, Maxine and B tty Noll, are cadet nurses In training at the Methodist hospital. For Wayne The parents wire joyful this morning in telling that their 22 year-old son was home for a visit with “mom and pop" H« was s> happy to lie bat k that be was content to let the others talk about the war, whll, he ab-orbed the joy of testing ami putting his feet under the family table, the first time In four years. HUMMER PLANT (Continued From Furs I) Chairman William H. Davis of the war laltor board today told a house committee Investigating the federal seizure of Montgomery Ward A Co’s Chicago properties that if the WLB should he held to lack Juriediction in the case, some 15.500.000 workers in the nation would be released from labor's no-strike pledge. Davis |oM the committee that "until congress tells us clearly and

ry* 4 ■ V > ._ Ct dk ErW JHnk » SBgdSr 4ft BBk Sv* • Kw • * .jjklL g c ’ jy JI EBx '< ijMS TWO OF THI NATION'S top-scoring fighter pilots, Capt. John T. Godfrey (left), Woonsocket, R. 1., and Capt. j Don Gentile, Piqua, 0., smile at their mothers a reunion in Wash., D. C. Home on 30-day leaves, the | airmen told reporters that they flew on sorties together. Each agreed that the other wouldn't be alive without I his partner's aid and that his score of enemy planes wouldn't be as high. * ” (laterasti/wutlV '

I —i I — isn rrii~ ~ ~ ! explicitly that there are segments of our economy, men and women, trades and skills, that are not in the war. we cannot accept any . . . artificial limitation on plain wartime duty to endeavor to preserve industrial peace in America." Testifying ae th® first witness In the investigation. itavls said that without hoard Jurisdiction, the Montgomery Ward case "would lead finally to a complete disintegration of the <«isting machinery set up by congress to preserve industrial peace." Critics of the government’s action In taking over and briefly operating Montgomery Ward facilities In Chicago have asserted that the WLB. whose orders the company refused to obey, lacked jurisdiction because the mail order house is not primarily a war industry. This contention. If upheld, would leave 15.50(1,000 workers in Industries not actually engaged in producing war material "free to strike" lo enforce their demands, Davie said. The only way to have an effective no strike policy, he added. Is to ban all strikes, "and the only way to ban all strikes is to have a forum where all disputes can he peacefully resolved.” Davis .-aid the WLB assumed jurisdiction over the Montgomery I ‘Ward dispute because "Inability to I act In thi* case” would have as feeted thousands of employe* of other companies and "without the slightest doubt" would have led to "substantial Interference with the war effort.” ENROLLMENT IN 7-ntlnusd From Tana 1) yield was 120.5 bushels. Any corn grower who has five or more acres in corn can qualify for the five-acre corn club by becoming

Flowers Bloom Their Best In Victory Garden Rows *r qSfr S’ * ’ * ’■ *fr**'’ • ft? I e ' / ff.it - ■ -3 JOL There Are Sa Many DUferent Marigolds, aa Entire Planting 88. , Could Be Made sf Them.

v Border! of annual flowers around a Victory garden or along its path, will make the vegetable plot an attractive garden picture and help blend it in a pleasing manner wita tite general landscape planting. The annuals best suited for combining with vegetables are those which grow upright and bear flowers on long stems. They ean be sown tn rows and cultivated in the same manner as the vegetable crops: and ’ wiU respond to thia treatment with surprising vigor. These are also the flowers which 1 are best for cutting, so besides ' decorating the Victory garden they ! provide a constant supply of blossoms with which to decorate the i dimer table, or to fill vases around • the house The tr.ore annuel flow- . «t» cut, Ibe more they bloom. , IfZimuas and marigolds may be,

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- —— i t ar 4a »** & wr.> > ■ S' 1HIJ& A GERMAN artillery pioce is shown here in action against the Allies on the southern Italian front where fierce fighting is going on. This photo was received via Stockholm. (later national a mt mber of the Indiana corn growers' association. At harvest time the extension department ex- : poets to furnish judges to in-»pe< t and check yields of contestants. Appiit ation* for membership should be made to the county agent. Each contestant is furnished I- with a report blank in which rec r ords of plowing, seed bed prepar- : ation. kind of seed used, fertillza

said to lead the list of flowers suitable for Victory garden rows: and there are so muny varieties of these, differing in color, size and form, that an entire planting could be made of them. Asters, sown directly in the garden, and thinned out to give them plenty of room, will give a late summer and fall crop of beauty. Calendulas, caHiopsis * annual coreopsis), bachelor buttons tcentaureacyanue* of red. white, fetus and pink, sweet sultans, cosmos especially in the north comers whe r e their tall plants will not shade the vegetables: saipiglossis and soabioiss are all excellent Victory garden subjects. j ■ This list could be msde • great deal longer for gardens which nave room to spare, and th which dwarf ribbon plantings. and some of the sprawl/ annuals could be grown.

I '■■■ ■ „ ■■n iwi'! tion and cultivation are kept during the season. The annual report of the association, sent to all member*, Includes a summary of the five-acre work in the stale, medal winners, reports of the program at the annual meeting and the state show. FLYING FORTS (Continued From Faso 1) lutmbers and fighters struck at Berlin and Brunswick. Bla< k winged KAF raiders attacked last night through a 22,000 foot cloud layer that blanketed western Germany, striking so swiftly that most of their 2,000 ton load of blockbusters were ripping through Duisburg's sprawling factories and railway lines before the Nazi defenses could go Into action. Duisburg, just 25 miles east of the German-Dutch border, Iles 110 miles from the Nazi fortified North R< :i con-t and Is a vital bottb nock on the rail lines exit tiding fmm the Industrial iluhr yalley tc the west wail. Baeks of German night fighters attempted to beat off th® British raiders but most of them reached the scene after the first shattering explosions rocked the city. The Nazi fighter* dropped flares to illuminate the bombers and attacked the raiding formations In reckless disregard of their own antiaircraft barrage. Returning pilots said fierce aerial battles rngod on for a full hour, until the bombers reached the North Nea coast on their home-

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ward run Striking in the wake of 2.000 Allied fighter planes that blasted a trail of destruction all the way from the French coa*t almost to the Polish border yesterday, the British heavyweights also raided objectives in Hannover, central Germany, and an airfield In Belgium. The completion of an "extensive mine-laying program" completed the night's operations which cost 30 aircraft, the air ministry said In a cojpmunlque. LAST GERMAN ('uoutiuwwd Fr«* r«« . Pico region the Germans had drawn the 26th panzer reserve division from the region of the Anzio battle and hurled it against the French. Th** Germans have lost more than 6,000 prisoners in the current campaign and also have suffered "most severe". casualties In killed and wounded, a high military authority said today. Allbtl ca«t/;ltios also were ’■considerable.'’ he said, but not unreasonably heavy in proportion to the gains scored by the fifth and eighth armies. The intensity with which the Germans intend to contest the battle for Rome wa* reflected by the fact that all their reserves now were in the line or definitely committed to specified sectors. They had drawn numerous troops from the Adriatic front across the Appennlnes into the battle areas and put in the 278th infantry division from northern Italy, as well as the 26th panzer division from the Anzio beachhead area. One regiment of the 29th panz< r grenadiers division went into action on the Terracing front, but the remainder of. that division still had not appeared in battle. Reinforced on the coastal wing, the G«rmans came out strong

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with tanks when American pa trols stahlwd al Terracina this morning. Extended by the swift push down from Fondl. the American vanguard fell back under the Im pact of the counterassault, but at the same time continued consolidating its positions above the Appian way. The American forces were held up outside the town, and only patrols ever entered Terracina Itself. French troops suported by American tank- penetrated th* weak hinge of the third or 'swing

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