Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1944 — Page 1

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>L XLII No. 178.

IRESTJJTOVSK FALLS TO RUSSIAN ARMY AMERICANS DRIVE ONWARD IN NORMANDY

Vazi Transport dub Threatened By Yank Drives

German Troops In Disorderly Retreat h Effort To Avoid Trap By Americans Headquarters, f 26. — (ffl't '•’"•• American in e<l cßmns closed in today B •Msi'li ami east on < <>u saeee, *?. nnamly transport hull en G«*Mnn divisions. ami drove > it* Orftsk'in alit-i making a B|Mhi swiftly on the ■K Am can armored bleak rugb. Wtrch shattered (he <|ern de'rffm in western Norman first firmy spi -tirheads struck mn» jpg'- "1 I'oillances anil ipteUHjflh ■ "m iii Ifiiu nt of Nazi of the Imminently afifeHMsd Sown. remnants the foul flu I'M hlg Mt - ! in disordei ly retreat i patthay effort to escape south it b-fiifc the Anierii aim captur ami t hill routes out of the fast ket. Hell* re|iiii ti ll Hum tirst iy fe^Kqtiailets that the ml ■RRnt i-ing Kotitliwari! from I*H akd westward along the lai M|pH*tl struck into the outoi i'. s. arforward miles to |u ' MMtl of St lai. irfter a due) h retjfc German tanks. the west, a spearhead < driver two miles south-south It of Mni|iertlls all ! within less n a fflii-t of Percy, a road tow n mlM^Bou' beast of t iiiit.ini i-h ••Vet. niileH southwest of up with the armored ’«• IlHh-mling flu- Xtneritan iik thr|UKii to a depth of 15 N in Bi' t ouiaiu es area, and orted Bhile the main force still i * MBe over two niileH from tewfißiat its fall appeared im hm, »n» bi s column struck down U-HHBy road 2** mile* below fallen western am hot of the mpled perman defenses and tnrad she village of Marguerite e east another moved Iley about four niileH rrhuchon, seven mile* lam es and five aouthiy. rtera spokesman said were withdrawing a* ihle along the main he went coast, with ee« of confusion in while a few milea Inlatance was at infer in o net up a wavering • retreat. HBnrtegti force* moving down ■ penetrated within ' i ' l Huuvi tir U-ndelln. hurt kmor road center uhove already waa out flankon t*M> southeast by armored la whl< » captured the eighth Iflmv junction of f'erlay-la I®. 11 •ilea so* 'hwest of St lai, Ktfljjfeliantele fondly, two 1 OMMhi : iitiTM milea southeast h> thegeast wing of the AmerifroutlCeneral Bradley's force* mOisii milea south of lawW Birman. cutting a lateral Page 2, Column ») vcmmraturc reading ••■■rat thermometer -— n. tn. 70 »:flt • m. -7« MH .. 8o m I WEATHER Jtoniflht and Saturday. **MBight and continued cool

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General Killed S; • U. Oen. L. McNoir Lt. (ion. Lesley .1. McNair ha* been killed by enemy tire while on *pecial assignment at the Normandy front 19 Youths Ordered To Active Induction Report August 18 For Active Service Nineteen Adam* county youth* will report for active service with the nation** armed forces Friday. Atlguat IS. the local 'elective Hervice board announced today. These youths were accepted for military service at examinations held in recent weeks. They will he assigned to branches of the service needing men at the time of their active induction. Tin- lit who have received orders to report on August IX are as follows: Itussell Paul Miller. Maynard Ralph Li'liinan. William Edwin Lenhart, Richard Leonell la-hman, Lawrence William Fuelling. Ilarve Emanuel Bertsch. Jack Edward Schnepf, Gilbert William Bultetneier. Brice Waveland Fisher. Victor Schueller. Harvey Edward Caston. Paul William Zurcher. Edward Itale VonGunten. Herman l>on Brown. Walter Albert Kukelhan. Loren Wilson Vore. Alfred Hugo Henry Thieme, Edward Franklin Sprunger, Harley Junior Ttimbleson. Harold Eugene Ellspaw, also scheduh-d to report on tite lath, has been transferred to the jurisdiction of a Chicago board.

Republicans Meet Here This Evening Name Candidates To Fill County Ticket The Republican precinct committeemen and vice-committeemen will meet at M o’clock this evening in the Decatur library building for the purpose of nominating candidate* to fill the county ticket. Harry Essex, party chairman, an nounced. Places to be filled start with a candidate for Judge of the Adams circuit court and all county office*, with the exception of county treasurer. and commissioners for the first ami second district*, f'amli•latex for congress and joint state representative were also named in the .May primary Mr Essex said that candl<>.tes and Republican township trustees would also attend the meeting. The lietnocrata nominated a complete ticket in the primary.

Europe Rocked By Powerful Allied Attacks Mighty Two Way Aerial Attacks Hit Axis Europe Ixmdon, July 2R. tl'Pt Almost fl.oui) American heavy bombers and j fighters from Britain ami Italy rocked Axis Europe by daylight today, smashing at the vitals of the Nazi war machine in central Germany and the Ploestl oil Helds In southern Itoiimatiia. The mighty two-way blow was set In motion by a fleet of 2.000 C. S. Sth air force flying Fortresses, Liberators and flutters that Berlin ; said skirted tin- German capital to hit the big aircraft ami chemical centers of Brcssati. Halle and Merseburg. Simultaneously, an estimated 500 i Italian based heavies, covered by strong lighter format ions, heaped new devastation on Ploesti's battered oil installations. The Romanian ground forces threw tip a terrific flak barrage and laid a dense smoke screen across the vital oil lields, but returning American fliers said their bombs touch ed off great tires and explosions through the target area. At least 1,000 flying Fortresses and Liberators and an equal number of long-rung*- Mustang. Light nlng. and Thunderbolt fighters parliclpaterl In the assault, laying their bomb loads through a thick overcast that blotted out the targets. Ifespite Nazi accounts of furious air battles racing all a< toss the center of the relch. first reports from returning crewmen indicated the luftwaffe put up only a feeble defense. Antiaircraft fire over tin- targets was so thick, however, that at one stage of the attack the escorting i American fighter pilots found their : visibility dimmed by <be black i bursts of exploding flak. One large formation of bombers and fighters was jumped by a group of Hi Messerschmitt lofts and tTurn To Pag* 1, Column 11 ■—'o — - — State Payment Made To Decatur Schools — Check Received For Semi-Annual Payment Superintendent Walter J. Krick today received a check from the Klute auditor in payment of the teacher'* HtipiHirt fund, totaling *16.304.50 representing one-half year's reimbursement of gross Income and other taxes which undistributed to local taxing units. Mr. Krick said that the state now pay* *1,062.50 per teacher unit and that Decatur received the pro rata distribution on 32 teacher*, for the first half of the year. Payment to teaching units In the state was Increased this year and in 1H45 Will he stepped up on the basts of the minimum pay for all teacher* hi the state. The receipt of the gross income payment will be Included in the budget, which Mr Krick ami mem tiers of the school board are com piling. The budget will lie prepared next week, along with the annual report. Mr. Krick does not contemplate any Increase In the school's levy for 1V45. o Geneva Child Unhurt When Struck By Car Jerry Worklng -r aged one and a half year*, of Geneva. escap<-d serious Injury when run over by a car driven by Ehner Inetcher. 22. also of Geneva, Thursday evening at 9:30 o'clock In Geneva It was reported to *herlf< Les GIHIg who Investigated, that Mr Ineichen was hacking out erf the Line Btreet elevator drive on the main street In Geneva and drove over the boy. who he failed to see.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 28, 1944.

.Army Plane Crashes Three Killed "WBK lORq a »j MRS. F. D. SWEIGER looks out of Hu- side of h<-r damaged breakfast room at one of the propellors of the B-21 lumber which . lushed and burned at a Kati*u* City. Kan. residential urea, killing three airmen and injuring three airmen and two civilians The plane, which was on a training flight from the Army field at Lincoln. Neb . swooped low over liouhoh in the district and when the wing tip touched the peak of a roof, it was thrown out of control.

District Judging Contests Are Held Geneva Girl Places Second In Contest f.Mles Ernesta llofatetle-. or Geneva. won second place in the Fort Wayne distrk-t l-H clothing judging contest, held Thursday at Hun tert xwn. Mlm H<rf»tetter .who won the Adams county contest last week, had a score of only on.- percent lower than the winning conti-staiit. ML* Horothy Creighton of Ko-<iueko county. Mire Nell .Vfuhler, also of Geneva. placed In the B grouping hi the demonstration contest, with her demonstration on "waxlilng a s-woater.” Other Adame county entrants in tin- district con'iet were: Gloria Reiat-n <»f Berne and Mary C Schaffer of Decatur in the bak'ng division. la‘la .'•iniiley of Jefiferson township in the canning division. Kathlei-n Zerkel of Hartford township in the clothing division, and Ernestine Hofotetter and .MaximPyle of Geneva In the food preparation division Miss Imma Winklublaek and Mias Edna Tmth of the state 1 II clt»b maiff of Purdue university, were judgori of the district contests.

Yesterday A Black Thursday For Shaky Cause Os Nazi Germany

• lulled Press war correspondent Edward W. Beattie has covered the war from Its preliminary stag eg, through Its many phases and turnings, up to today's fighting No correspondent I* better acquainted with Its character and strategy.) By Edward W. Beattie. (VP. Staff Correspondent! London. July 2k. (VP) Yesterday was a black Thursday for tinshaky cause of Nasi Germany anti today looked like a blacker Friday as two tremendous armies hammered closer to the reich from the east and the west. Yesterday with Its unprecedented series of portentous Russian victories and the major American breakthrough In Normanffy was the blackest day Adolf Hitler and hts cohorts have known —yet it was the precursor of the ultimate, superla’lve black they are to know soon The unprecedented victories of Russia alone were enough to doom l»r. Joseph Goebbela* "total" mobll-

Hospital Inmate Commits Suicide isigansport. Ind, July tl'P) The Cass county corone ■ return--1 i-d a verdiet of -uicide today in the ■ D'-ath of Marshall J Dyer, 51. patHetit at the laiga-isiHirt state hospital who was found hanged from a show.-r in a bathroom yesterday Admitted: Mrs. Howard Savieo. Monroeville; Janie* Jacobs. Mon ro••ville; Lyle Stutts. Hoagland; Miss June Ramsey. 12t»3 W. Madl- . i 22 Killed In Crash 11 Os Ambulance Plane I Yank Wounded, U. S. Army Nurse Aboard lamdon, July 2H il Pi Tw.-n ly two persons aboard a troopcar tying ambulance plane •-nroute to Hie I'nited states were killed last night when Hie aircraft trashed I Into a cliff mar the Mull-ofGallo . way in Scotland, flu- ninth air ~ force announced today j There w.-re no survivor*. , After striking the cliff tin- plane fl' rallied to the rocks below and • luirneil. The victims im hided • Turn T.i pur, Column

' Izatlon campaign within 21 hours 1 of Its start. They foretold the fall of Warsaw, Prsetnysl and Cracow and the "tirg -of battle the battle being tarried by “inferior" people whom Hitler despises into the retch's own eastern marches. There are few people In l»ndon today, or sot that matter probably In Berlin, who cared to forecast where the Red army drive nine I separate offensives between the , Finnish tundra and the Carpathian | pass* s will end. The Germans must stand some where in western Poland If they are to prolong lite war more than a matter of wet ks They must stand on the same ground where firepower, manpower and momentum, which the lied army now com tnands. won Hitler the first battles of the war. It Is the Polish plains where natural defenses are few and the ' Red army will have full scope for the syeat sweeping slashes with (Tara Ta Page e. Column *)

Historic Polish City Falls Before Powerful Red Offensive Sweep

19 Jap Ships Sunk In Daring Carolines Raid Marines Make Bid For Quick Conquest Os Tinian Island Pearl Harbor July 2* tl Pi • A powerful I' S navy task for< e -.ink Io em-iny ships, including a destroyer, in a daring raid on the western Carolines, it was disclosed today, while marines struck out In u bid for quick conquest of the re inaitilng two-third* of Tinian Is land in the Marianas Marines in control of one third -if Tinian six days after its inva sion, advanced southward in a drive to eliminate the remaining Japanese from the 2" square mile island Front dlsputchn* described ■ em-s of death and deslrmtion of Guam where marine* and army troops pressed their battle of anni hllatioli against Japanese trapped on Grote peninsula. Carrier based planes struck at enemy bases on the Palau islands and Yap ami I’lithi islands in the Carolines Monday and Tuesday. \dm Chester \V Nimifz's latest communique revealed, ami he list ed us sunk one destroyer, tin oiler, .t destroyer e«oil or mine layer, -•■ven small cargo vessels and ’many smaller craft " Nimitz reporteil that five enemy aircraft were shot down ami 21 were destroyed on the ground, while five AmericHn cargo planes were lost Four pilot • wen- t es-i-ued, however The carrier plane attack was the tirst attack on the (Turn T<> Pag* 4. Column <> Three Prohibition 9 Candidates Filed Two County And One District Candidate The name* of -undulates have been certified to Adam* coun- . 'y clerk Clyde o Trout tier for ounty or district offi< <-s on the Prohibition ticket Two of the landldates were chosen at an Adams county convention held in Berm- on June »1 , rh<y are Emanuel Kistler of 1214 Muster Drive. Deiutur. t-umlidale for sheriff, and Alfred Lelmmn 617 High street. Berm- i-undhlati- for -ounty commissioner from the second diatrict. These twi im-n are properly qualified ami will be placed on the ballot. Clerk Trout tier said The third candidate Is Rev .1 M Dawson, of near Decatur, chosen a* a candidate for congres from 'he fourth distrht at u meeting held in Fort Wayne on April 26. Dm- to the fact that this name ha* not been certified by the secretary of state of Indiana, who must perform this act in ull cases where more than one county is Invohed. this name will not l»- put on the ballot unless the proper state certification is received However, clerk Troittm-r said Im believed that the Fort Waymconvention had been certified to the secretary of state who would notify Adam* county to put the name on the ballot Clerk Trout tier also -said that no certification has been received from the *ecretury of state on the candidacy of Rev George G Holston of Lltlll Grove, named at a recent state convention of the Prohibition parly a* a candidate for United State*

American Neqro In Normandy Captures Score Os Germans With American Trmip- N- ar Mai igny France, July 2* it'l’i A negro dgnahnan wa r stringing wire along the road mar MarUny lanight when a Geiiman suddenly up proached him in the darkness 11-- jumped an I shouted 'Who dal'.''' At tin- same lime he reached for li' tifli- and started firing That brought 20 more Germans tumbling from the hedges. They had been I waiting all around him and debut Ing w hether to «iit render. His random aiiota copvim i-d then! Tin- ' m -to iiont.d for h- Ip and got it ! British Army Moves Closer To Florence Forces Are Massed For Battle Os Pisa • Rome July 2** tl Pi Th.- Brit r Jsh Sth army, advancing yard by r yard through bitter em-iny resis tame, stormed io within seven * miles or lens of Florence today while American ami German forces 1 ' to tin west mussed fol the buttle ‘ : of Pisa and eM hanged heavy ar ' j tilh-ry and mortar tire a< rose the 1 Arno river New Zealand tanks anil infan trynn-n spearheaded the frontal ■ ' drive on Floreme. slugging direct ly up highway two against fanatic ally resisting paralroo|)>-rs and rllOl k Units Who fought to Hie death from a network of hill post 'ions and ma< him-gun m-sts cover ' : Ing the southern approaches to the ‘ I city. ' The New Zealanders pushed their lines forward about a mill yesterday, capturing the strongly fortified lown of San Cl-I lallo and moving on four miles to the north west of Ceiliaia In the t'erbaia rector and just north of San ('as claim the sth army was barely seven miles from Florence lasi night, well within artillery range of that ancient center of commerce and culture <in their left tank, a m i mid British armored column hammered I out substantial gains in an enve i loping sweep apparently aimed at • iiltllig Hu- Arno riv.-r line around Empoli. 2’t miles west of Florence r • j 'lh«* BntiHli iitlvniK-i'd an niurli a (Turn To I’.iic** I, Column Hearing Held Here I For Appropriations Tax Board Conducts Hearing Here Today The heating on the approval of , the special appropriation* made by ( the county couticil last week was , being held 111 the auditors office this afternoon by a representative . of the state tax hoard Tin- major Item* are for bridge , repair*, totaling approximately *42. , (too. for three bridge aAiutments in ( Blue Creek townpblp. in the vicinity of Salexn If the appropriations ar« approv ed. the auditor will advertise for I hide for the constru< thill of tile - wbutment* early In August. i The liridge abutments were weakened with the dredging of the ■ Blue Creok ditch and th« beany rain* last year. Which washed out i the (III* and weakened the iitruc- - ture*. f The superslruc'ure on on<« t bridge is not any too good, but the i county failed to get approval from - WBB stir steel and other material i required to build a now bridge.

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l Berlin Admits Loss Os Great Fortress City; Reds Within 30 Miles Os Warsaw BULLETIN London. July 28.— (UPj — Marshal Ivan S Konev's Ukrainian army has forced the San river in lower Poland and captured the twin German de sense bastions of Przemysl and Jaroslaw, the Soviet* announced tonight after Berlin had reported the loss of the historic fortress city of Brest Litovsk. lailtilon -Inly 2S 11 I'i The historic Polish fortiess city of P.resi Litovsk. where Germany ami Russia signed ilu-ii first world war peace treaty, bus fallen to a Soviet offensive id epic sweep now surging westward from tin- Carpathi- ! alls to Hu- Baltic, the Berlin high command admitted today. Nazi grmidcaMts said fighting had broken out at Przemysl, another Polish i-itadel 6u miles west of Lwow indicating that the Russians were storming It from the cup ' Hired area of Ztirawica two miles to the north l- ' The fall of Brest Litovsk. almost ! ' 11, Hi led slintighold 115 miles east ~ of Warsaw, unhinged the last Ger man salient looping eastward into . 1 tin- string of liasimn on wliiih the last Nazi hope to, an effective I .stand in central Poland di-peuded Berlin acknowledged that the roiiti'd and hard pres-eil German ! ! army in the east abandoned Brest Litovsk and fought hack to new positions'' a s llOWelllll Soviet furies mirrowi'd the esiupe corriI dor westward to alsiut six miles 'flu Nazi ,ii know li-dgemeiit of iiresi Litovsk' loss indicated that the Red army was adding a black Fiiday to the black Thursday on j which It ama-M-d ns greatest vic * lories us tin- war tn a single day. ovel running Six of the biggest Gel mall defense bastions on the east 1 •rn front With the i apt lire of Brest Lit uvsk. Marshal Konstantin Kokos-ov-iky ini.- nut the la-t German am fmr impeding a frontal push against Warsaw, against which Russian armored lori es were driving within less than to miles, at a rat, promising io bring the Polisli 1 ■ apital under siege within a mat 1 'er of days Stockholm reports said German authorities and Nazi party officials 1 were fleeing Warsaw and had com pleted plans to evacuate Its Industrial plant- while Polish patriots were pi< king off occupation troops in an upsurge of guerilla warfare w ithin Hu- ■ ity Along with Brest Litovsk, the Get man higli l ommaml admitted tin- lo*, of Lwow. Bialystok and Daugavpils three of the six bases taken yesterday tn the Red army's greatest day of the war. which loosed a victory salute of 22.400 rounds in Moscow last night. Ancient Brest Litovsk, at the ■ oiifluem ■* of Hu- Bug ami Much ' awiec rivers, is the hub of rail - lines to Moscow Minsk. Warsaw, i and East Prussia Its prewar pop . ulation was s<>.omi. The Russians fortified It heavily before the first world war and considered It im - pregnable But it fell to the Ger mans in 1915, and the Germans made It headquarters for their eastern army. Far to the West, Rokossovsky's Cossack cavalry and armor already was pounding toward Warsaw, scattering the remnants of broken ami disorganized German armies. , The pace of the advance Increased as the German units fell apart under the terrific hammering. "The enemy I* on the brink ot a precipice." the Hovlet army journal Red Htar said ‘"Forward to the West" is written on our hat tin flags " A German catastrophe of tli«> Stalingrad calilwr was shaping up IT ar a T» Fa«s 2, L’gUma