Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1944 — Page 2

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Mrs. Will Rogers Dies Last Night Humorist's Wife Is Taken By Death Santa Monica. Calif.. June 22 — .Mm. Will Uogeiw. Widow of the < imiboy humorist and mother of former Rep Will Roger*. Jr., and movie actor Jimmy Roger*. died last night after an illueM of several month* the family announced toany. Sh>> wa* years old. Jimmy and Hi* slater .Mary were at the bedside. Will. Jr., now a second lieutenant in the army ie oversea*. '.Mrs. Roger* had been in failing health for ,n>me time. Funeral arraing- merit* have not'

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been completed Roger* Mid. but •he body will be interred bexlde hin father'* in Claremore, Okla., the hirmoriat'a birthplace IMr». Rogena, the former Betty Blake, was widowed nine year* ago when her famou* hiMtaud died in an Alaakan plane crarh. They were married Nov 25, 1906, and by coincidence, her home town wag Roger*. Arkanw.ii> ALLIED ARMIES (Continued From Pag* J) Ino. highway* diverge eastward toward the Adriatic seacoast, feeding into Ancona. Headquarter* spokesmen reveal ed that Italian troop* bad joined the Sth army force* on the Adriatic front. Allied medium bomber* yesterday pounded railway and highway bridge* in northern :q*<l northwestern Italy and shipping in Livorno

(Legbvrn) harbor, while light bombera and flghter-bembers hit ammunition dump*, road line* and other target* around the battle area. No plane* were loat in the daylight sweeps or in a follow-up night raid by British medium and heavy bomber* on »be VentljaigUa rail yards, on tbe Italian rlvlerg. Light allied naval unit* sank a German lighter oS Elba ialapd Sunday night and on tbe following night Bve more lighter* were spotted enroute to Elba to evacuate Nail troop* from the taland. The warship* permitted the lighter* to load up with men and equipment and then raced in to engage them with gunfire and torpedoes, sinking three and ponsibly four of tbe troop-packed vessels. — - o■" LOST —an opportunity, if you don’t rush right out and buy your family the new breakfast treat. Post's Raisin Bran. l>eliciou«ly satisfying. Ask your grocer.

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• Japs Lose Heavily ■ In India War Zone I Also On Retreat In North Burma Southeast Asia Headquarters, Kandy. Ceylon, June 21 —(UP)— Brillab Imperials, attacking from both end* of the Kohlma-iinphal ' highway, cleared the Japanese from 14 mile* of the road to leave only a 10-mile section of the supply route In enemy hand* today. Armored troop* thrusting southward from Kobima were reported driving swiftly through tbe Japan e«e defense* a* they neared a junction with the British moving steadily north from Manipur state capital. The Japanese were reported suffering heavy losses and abandoning considerable quantities of food, clothing and weapons in their retreat. The advance* represented a total gain of more than 50 miles along the Kohipia Imphal road since the allies opened a general offensive to clear the Japanese from India, and relieve the threat to the AssamBengal railway. Chinese troops aleo were pushing the Japanese back in tbe Mogaung valley of northern Burma A communique said the Chinese captured the village of Mahung. one mile southeast of Isolated Mogaung. and blocked the road and railway another half mile south. The Chines*' block sealed off the northern end of the Japanese main railway from Mandalay to MyitkyIna. where allied troop* were flghtIng through desperate enemy defenses Inside the city. Airborne Chindits cut off the last possible. Japanese escape route from Myitkyina by occupying Malngna illage on the east bank of the Irrawaddy river. o URGE VOLUNTEER (Contlnusd Proas Fa** I) hard plugging work here at home " Mr. Grallker said that the farm drive was coming along good, but that final report* were not yet available. Farmers are extremely busy now and the solicitors are doing their canvassing In the evenings or when time permits. O-. REDS OPEN NEW (Con'.lpiMd From F*g* |) Soviet forces striking deep into the wavering Finnish lines. Southwest of Lake Ladoga. Marshal Leonid A. Govorov's Leningrad army continued its swift pursuit of Fnnish troops northwest of captured Vilpuri. Advancing as much a* 10 mile* at some points in the first day's operations, the Red army overran more than 100 towns to seise foothold* on tbe Leningrad Murmansk railway at Lodeinoe Pole, near tbe eastern shore of Lake Ladoga. 120 miles northeast of Leningrad, and Vichka. five mile* above Medversbegorsk. near the northern tip of * 11— • KE--. * IDO YOU WANT Excavating WORK Concrete WORK ■ ' or oih«r lyp«g of | baxement and con* g at ruction work? * . I W/• •' I Phone 3644 IMIKt BICCABDi CURT WOLFE

Onega. The Soviet troops, driving northward through the Aunus peninsula, were stretched over a 75-miie front •long the Svir river connecting the two lake*, from Lodeinoe Pole to Vosnexenyv, where the river empties into latke Onega. Aft her breaking through the Finnish defense* north of the Stalin ! canal, the Russians advanced to Ixidelnoe Pole, where they forced the Svir river and established a bridgehead on the .northern bank This salient also occupied nearby Svirstrol. a city of 18.009 and the site of a power station that once supplied electricity to Leningrad. NAZI ROBOT BOMB ’Cnsttno** ■**<• IV bomb* came in over the channel coast. RAF fighter* attacked the pilotleas plane*, far out over th<- channel. sptaylng then: with a hail of gunfire that sent many crashing harmlessly Into the sea. British defensive measures apfteared to haw improved considerably since the start of th«- enemy offensive a week ago, and the in-

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c««sant bombing of the Pas De Calais area wa* believed to have *ma*hed many of the Nazi*' rocket installation*, but It was admitted that the attacks were piling up casualties and damage in southern England. Lord Winter, an influential labor ite peer, denounced the enemy offepslve a* a “wanton'' awault on the British civilian population and promised stern retaliation If the blind bombing continued. “Many small German town* could bo 4vlped off the tnap in one operation if we choose to do so,” he said in a speech al St. Alban*, a town well within range of the robot attacks. —o Tire Thief Is Fined, Jail Term Suspended Lloyd Bibersteln of this city, who pleaded guilt to stealing a re> app<-d tire from the auto owned by Ralph Egly of Line st-eet, wa* fined 125 and costs and .iontenced to 30 day* in Jail by J Fred Fruchtj in Adams circuit court this morning. Judge Frucbte suspended the Jail sentence during good behavior. Biitemleln. who has a former convic-

tion against him. pleaded for another chance The court eiwpeuded tiie 30 days and told him not to show hl* face again as a defendant, or he would get the limit of the law. Biberstein told the court that he wanted tbe lire so he could drive to Fort Wayne to ge. empioynjent, the tire on hta car having blown out. Q Mrs. Sophia Mattax Is Taken By Death Funeral •eiwicea will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the .Methodist church at Geneva for Mr*. Sophia Mattax. 73. ot tha» place. She died at the Portland hospital after a three month*’ illness. She wa* (be widow of the late Dr. L. L. Mattax and the mother of Harold Mattax. pdbliaher of the Geneva Herald. Ateo surviving are another son. Lee of Bluffton, and two daughters. Miss 1-avone of Geneva and Mr*. Ixruise Lynch of Andenaon. '.Mr* Mattax wa* for many year* a leader in church and lodge work in her community. Be was a member of the Meghodist church the Wa*tern Star and the

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