Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1944 — Page 1

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raZZ Os Cherbourg To Allies Expected Any Hour

JAPAN REPORTS NAVAL RATTLE RAGING

Wall Os French Wort Nears As ■ffies Advance

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ■ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Henry Heller Named As City Attorney Veteran Attorney Is Appointed By Mayor Henry B Heller was named city attorney at the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday night by .Mayor John B Stults. H- re places former Judge Huher .M. DeVoas, who died unexpectedly a few weeks ago. ■Mr. Heller has had many years experience in county ami intinici. pal affairs as a former county attorney and attorney for the town of Berne. Ills appointment began as of June 20. the date of the council meeting. He was the only applicant. A bill was presented Io the council from Harry .Moltz in the sum of 1232.15. .Mr. Moltz ex ' plained it was the cost of opening i a sewer to the Decatur Produce | company back of the Kraft Cheese I company during May and June. The bli had first been presented the Kraft Cheese company, which had refused payment in a letter from W. A. Klepper. regional manager, stating that the difficul. ty was due to the closing of a public sewer. The matter of de : termlnlng whether tho damage i was done in a public or a private ; sewer was referred to the street and sewer committee for investigation. Asks Sidewalks A petition was filed by George j Squier and others requesting per • mission for the construction of a ‘ Sidewalk and curb along Itoth sides [ of Oak street between Winchester i and Cleveland streets. It was re. | ferred to the street and sewer, committee in conjunction with the city engineer. A petition to construct a sewer one half block west of the Adams street sewer in the west part of the city, known as the Lynch ad dition, was filed by Clarence Smith and others. It was referred to the street and sewer committee in conjunction with the city engineer. Tho city engineer was ordered to prepare plans and specficatlons for the Johnson sewer in the south part of the city and to submit them to the next meeting of the council. An agreement was approved with William 8. Hockemeyer in the sum of for an extension | of rural light lines to his farm home in Madison township Allen county. It was reported that a different tractor had increased the water production of the well recently drilled east of the Monroe street bridge to 24u gallons a minute, but that the tractor being used for the test had to be adjusted before more speed could be obtained. It was announces! at the meet. (Turn To Pa«» <• Colu ,nn — —o Bank Sales To Date Total $230,333.50 Report Is Issued On First Week Os Drive ißond sale* In the fifth *» r I,,an drive up to June 17 total 1230.J33.50. of which t1«0.706 50 were sales to individuals. The balance. H9.W *»• P"" hM “ ed by corporations and otln tw «Bales at the various Issuing afenctes in the county were repi,rted as follows ©«Xr » M ’“ B4o SlSiva ” Woo ° *<*•"*"•* hsi .26 Monroe . Pl Mills

Finns Flee In Disorder After Viipuri Falls Report Citizens Os Helsinki Urged To Evacuate Capital Moscow. June 21. — (UP)—Triumphant Bed army troops struck i out from newly-captured Vlipurl today in pursuit of disorganized Finnish columns retreating toward Helsinki under a hall of Are from Riustans bombers and fighters. (The British raerto said the Russians had advanced six miles beyond Viipuri,. 'BBC also said the Finnish radio, was broadcasting constant appeals Io the people of Helsinki to evacuate the capital "due to the scope of tho Russian offensive in Karelia.” > Marshal M-onid A. Govorov's Leningrad army stormed Into the ancient fortress city yesterday to complete a rapid 11-day campaign through Finland's strongest defenses in the Karelian isthmus and bring the Soviet forces within 135 I miles east of Helsinki. Finland's I capital. (The British radio said Stocki holm dispatches reported from Finland that Marshal Baron Karl Mannerheim had taken the initiative toward forming a new Finnish government to discuss peace.) The capture of Viipuri. whose fall brought Finnish capitulation in the 1939-40 war. broke a "bottleneck” of the coastal route leading to Finland's capital and front dispatches indicated the routed Finnish troops would not he able to mak- a stand on the comparatively wide open territory. With the occupation <rf the key (Turn To Page 4, Column 8) Perugia Falls To Brilish In Italy Driving Rains Slow Advances By Allies Rome. June 21 Ul'O’l BrHfeh Mh army trorips have cleared the Germans from Perugia an-t advanced three to four miles brvond the town, a communique said today, iwhlle French and American units of the Allied s'h army on the British left flank pushed slowly northward against bitter etimny opposition Driving rains slowed the Allied armies all along the central battlefront and desperate Nazi rear guard were putting up a fierce delaying fight everywhere, but there was no Indication that the main German forces had been sent into action. Eighth army veterans wiped out the last enemy resistance In Perugia yesterday morning after an allnight battle against snipers and machine gunners entrenched in the streets and houses of the ancient Cathedral city. dait«wt reports said the British iwere fanning out swiftly beyond the town In full pursuit of the retreating Nazis. Twenty-three miles Io the wont, other Bth army forces captured Chiusi and swept on nort.ieast of lacks Chiusi to Highway 73. There was no major change in the sth army front to the west, but headquarters spokesmen reported French and American troops were running into savage resistance in the Radicofani sector and north of Gronseto Damage Carrier Rome, June 21 t'UPi-American Thundettooll fighter-bomlM rs attacked and seriously damaged an enemy aircraft carrier in Genoa harbor, believed to be the 20.000ton Italian currier Regola which wds seized by the Germans las' Septeitther. It was announced today. A formation of Thunderholts led by Lt. Gordon A. C Moody. Coldwater. Mich., scored five direct hl’s on the warship. The Regola was believed to have been damaged previously and taken to Genoa for repaint and refitting.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 21,1944

Nazi Robot Plane In Flight .. . • • I * ' f W ■ ’■ C, < ■ • * .- *'*■ w- ■ N...... . . ,w . . One of the Nazis' pilotless planes, which have been hurled al the Brit ish from somewhere across the channel, is caught in flight by the cameraman. The robot device, now disclosed to be Jet propel! cl. is diving to earth with flame streaming from the propulsion unit. These weird Nazi death dealers have a 16 foot wng span and are 25 feet l\. inches long. Anti aircraft gunners and American heavy bombers join ed forces In an effort to smash the* enemy’s terror campaign with this missile. Signal corps radio.photo.

G. 0. P. Convention Committees Meet Mrs. Luce Resents Following Hoover Chicago. June 21.—(UP)- Republican national convention preliminaries began today in resolutions and other committee meetings with certain diveiolons In disputes Involving former President Herbert C. Hoover. Wendell L. WUlkie and Rep. Clare Boothe Luce, R., Conn., the G. O. P. pin-up girl. The resolutions committee, charged with drafting the 1944 platform, meets this morning under the chairmanship of Sen Robert A. Taft. R„ (>. The Republican national committee will meet at the same time and asub-commlttee on credentials contests conven<*« this afternoon. The convention meets next Monday. June 26. Lovely Mrs. Luce, whose selection to address the convention was widely acclaimed as a tribute to herself and her sex. learned only a few days ago that she was to go on the air lase at night after Mr. Hoover had spoken for 45 minutt** (Turn To Page 4, Column 8) o British Commandos Leader Is Wounded Ixoidon. June 21 — (UP) J .ord Lorat, 33, leader of Britala's commandoea was wounded in 'he illva- j slot, of Normandy, it was disclosed i today. Lovat kt now In a hospital In England where he is reported re-1 covering

Sgt, Frederick. Scheumann Killed In Action In Italy

Sgt. Frederick W. Scheumann, 22. 1 eon of Mr and Mrs. Martin Schaumann. living on Decatur rural route one. In Allen county, wax killed In j Italy on June 11 according to a I message received by the |mrente last evening. It waa the formal message from 1 the adjutant-general, went in behalf o* the secretary of war. and did not ! give details. It stated tha' a letter I would follow. Sgt Scheumann had been over-' iieaa since April, 194.1, landing in North Africa, where he saw active service. He waa transferred to Italy i In February I!M4 and waa attached to the MMh Engineers The young man attended St. St. John*a Lutheran school and waa graduated from the Hoagland hign school. He entered the army on September 26. 1942 and took hla basic training at (’amp Clainborne, 1 La. Surviving besides the parent* three broth era: Tech. Sgt. Norvin Scheumann. stationed at Pearl Harbor, H. 1., Melvin and Vernon at

Indianapolis Child Is Fatally Injured lndlana*polis, June 21 (I'Pi — Richard Bowyer. Jr.. 21 month old son of Richard Bowyer db d today of Injuries received Saturday when he was struck by an automobile while playing in the driveway of a trailer camp. Authorities believed the youngster wiM struck by someone backing out of the driveway , who was unaware of the ac< blent. o ——- Briton s Statement Denounced By Hull Lyttelton Offers Apology In Commons Washington, June 21. — (UP) — Secretary of State Cordell Hull's indignant denunciation of a careless British statement that the United States provoked Japan into war was certain today to bring 1 quick apologies from the* highest British officials. Lord Halifax, the* British ambassador, was expected to call on Hull soon to try to make amends (or the colossal diplomatic blun'ler made by his colleague, Capt. Oliver Lyttelton, British minister of production. » Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself may participate in the effort to correct the unfortunate im presslon created here by the re-1 \ markri ot his cabinet minister. Hall I fax and Churchill were understood , | to have* conferred already by tele- ; phone. Lyttelton's assertions left Hull (Turn To Paa« 8. Column Si

ft V ’ - *" home. ’Prior to entering the armed service he waa employed ut the Peter Eokrich Packing iplaut lu Fort Wayne.

Greatest Sea Battle Os War May Now Be Underway In Pacific

Big American Aerial Fleet Pounds Berlin Attacks By Robot Bombers Stepped Up On England laindon. June 21. tl'Pt —More than 2.P(M! American flying fortress-1 ee, liberators and lighters gave Her- | lin one of its heaviest bombard-1 ments of the war today in the first I big bomber attack on the Nazi capital since the Allied invasion of western Europe. Four weeks to the day after the last daylight attack on Berlin, more than 1.000 heavy bombers of Lt.-Gen. James H. Sth air force returned to strike a powerful blow at the German capital. Fighters of the United States Sth and 9th air forces flew with the bombers "in very great strength"--' probably at least 1.000 streaking | over western Europe and Germany , to guard the forts and liberators. | Along with Berlin the massive striking force smashed at Basdorf. a village on the outskirts of the capital. A communique announcing the attack tnenHone duo oilier target, indicating that the full weight of the bombing fleet was focused on the capital and its Immediate environs. A Berlin radio commentator said the raid "swept" Berlin before noon and that it was dirc-cted a gainst the city's residential quarters. The enemy broadcasts, which described the Berlin attack as a “teri ror raid." said the* American form- ■ at ions were engaged in violent air 1 battles throughout northern Ger--1 many. Step Up Assault Ixmdon. June 21 tl'Pt The Germans stepped up their robot bomb assault on southern England last night ami today in defiance of Allied air fleets that have pounded their launching bases with tens of thousands of tons of explosives in the past live months. Just as Allied officials were about to congratulate themselves on a i 24-hour lull In the enemy attacks. , the winged. Jet-proiudled torp<'does ' begun to roar across the channel | coast from the Pas !»•• Calais area i again with even more frequency I han previously. A British announcement lacon(Turn To 8. Column X) O Special Bureau To Handle Service Vote Indiono Preporcs For Service Votes Indianapolis, June 21 — (UP) Indiana today prepared to set up in the statehouse a special bun-au to handle the administration of the servicemen's vote law GUbf-r’ E Ogles, chief deputy secretary of state, said that arrangements were made to establish an office to care for hundreds of appllrations arriving daily from Hoosier men and women In the armed forces at home and abroad Ogles said that aupllc’it'ons for •beent voter ballots, to he cast under the provisions of an act passed by the Indiana legislature at a special session last April, were being received at the statehouse at a rate of Hut to 500 a day He estimated that 15.000 have ls*en received thus far. The number of applications Incieasi d dally, he said Ogles said that oecretary of state (Turn To Pagv 5, Columa •)

Decatur Man Charged With Theft Os Tire Local Man Is Jailed Here Tuesday Night Lloyd Biherstein. 35. of Decatur mad.- two mistakes lust night will'll he is alleged to have stolen a tire. As a result, he Is in the Adams county jail awaiting the filing of charges. His first mistake was 'that he thought the road was clear when lno police offic rs were in -iglif j His second was when lie turned iup a blind lane just east of , Decatur. He is alleged to have stolen a tire from a car belonging to Ralph Egly, parked in front of the Egly . residence on Line street. Mr Egly i saw the man leave and ordered l him to stop. Blle'istelu is alleged Io have I Jumped Into a car and rushed 1 away while Egly grabbed a ham-j mer for protection and started after him in his car. The chase led east of Decatur along the Piqua road where Biherstein i turned west on a gravel lane i which leads to a dead end at the oast bank of the St. Mary's river. At the end of the lane, Egly armed with his hammer, caught j up with Biherstein and Is alleged to have made him confess. Armed by the authority given any private ‘ (Turn To Page 4. Column 7) <> Roll Back Japanese Remnants On Saipan Aslito Airfield Is Seized By Americans By Percy Pint h (For the Combined Press. Released Tliorugli I'niied Pressi Aboard an Expeditionary Force Flagship. Saipan. June 21 (East Longitude Timei (UP> Rolling back remnants of two Japanese di elsioiiM in a wide sweep across the island. American forces who storm <-d Saipan six days ago now occupy southern Saipan in strength —in eluding Aslito airfield, the greatest prize of the Marianas. From thin 3.600 foot airfield necessary for protection against the developing Japanese air attacks, American landbased planes will operate soon, replacing carrier-based aircraft which have done a lone Job of keeping the skies clear. The Japanese lost 300 planes in a vain attempt to cripple our amphibious force, but did not succeed In sinking a single American ship. Driving northeast and south of their Saipan beachhead, the Amer-' leans smashed toward Maglcjetimbay on the east and expanded their' 8.000 yard beachhead to nearly a third Os the Island. The line extends a short distance ‘ south of Garupan. skirts the base j of strongly defended Mount Tapot I chan, an extinct volcano towering over the center of the island, toward Magh-lenne bay and from there towards the south coast where a small body ot Japanese troops are trapped on the rocky Nafutan point on the southeiiHiern extremity of (Turn Te t'nge 4, Column 4) O TEMPERATURE READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8 00 a. m 59 10:00 a. m. gg Noon 73 2:00 p. m. ... 82 WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Thursday; scattered thundershowers in north and west portions tonight and in north portion Thursday.

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American Fleet And Japanese Navy Meet Near To Besieged Marianas Islands Pearl Harbor. June 21 -(UP) — The greatest naval battle since Jutland appeared In the making, if not under way, on the approach* s to the besieged Marl, anas today between the American fifth fleet and possibly the entire 'Japanese fleet. (Radio London quoted the Japanese Doinel agency as saying that a “fierce" naval battle was raging in the waters between the Philippines and the Marianas.) The outcome of the battle may dcl rmine the control of the west, cm Pacific, including the sea approaches to Japan itself, as well : as tho length of the war against Japan. Admiral Chester W. Nlmitt. ' commander In chief of the U. 8. I Pacific fleet, disclosed at a press , conference yesterday that strong I Japanese units — "possibly their entire fleet" had emerged from , th« Japanese home Islands in force for the first time In nearly two years and had been sighted between the Marianas and the Philippines. "A major engagement is a pos. sibility.” h.- said In a confident revi- w of the developing battle for the western Pacific. "We have put enough muscle Into our fifth i fie* t to handle the situation. We assume the Japs will put tn I everything they have. If the | fleets Join, it will be a decisive battle." Japanese naval quarters . also hinted at far.readilng devel opmetits in th** Pacific. A Japanese Itomel l>roadia-t recorded l>y the federal communications com. mission quoted a Japanese naval spokesman as saying that war re. suits of the lmm<*diate future should be watched closely. "A big naval battle in the Mar. ianas area will have far.reacbing result* mi the Pacific war situs, i tion," he was said to have added. No Information Washington June 21 (Ul’i Tin* U. S Pacific fleet" may have succeeded In catching up" with all or a portion of the Jap. anese fleet west’of Saipan In the Marianas yesterday, secretary of the navy James Forrestal said to. day. He told newsmen that the enemy fleet had been sighted at various times In the last few days, "milling around" from 500 to 300 miles westward of Saipan. He said there was no definite Information that battle had been joined, l,ut only •some indication" that our forces have caught up wth the enemy armada. He point, ed out that the S. forces are under strict radio silence Admiral Ernest .1 King. com. (Turn Tn Pass 6, Column •) O Ladies Entertained By Decatur Lions Farm Party Is Held Tuesday Evening A hilarious evening was enjoyed by memthers of th,. Decatur Lione club and their wives or sweethear'a at Roy Price's farm Tueeday night. A chicken dinner was served in the hay loft of the Price baru on the farm located aiimut two miles southeast of Decatur on U. S road 33. This was followed by a show furnished by the Geels family. After this, music for a square dance was supplied by the Geel* In 'he hay loft. Th<v guests took turns riding on two hay wagons.hitched behind a tractor to complete the evening. •At the next meeting of the clufc, to be held next Tuesday, officers for the coming year will be iusullud.

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