Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1944 — Page 1

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RENNES CAPTURED BY AMERICAN FORCES

■ Prussia s Med By led Artillery |hHK Russian atQ i Hoar Approaching kfcMBOW. A«ff. 3 tUPt Russian ***** German *e>il of •an PHHwtafc*o<l from a range* < Aok ° r •••«** “'><i the proclaimed that If JBm JW*y "I* era*hlng file* IM of Hitter’» inner fort re**. and (MfflMlifW Mtel hour la approach iftep, Dan D <iu-tni.ikh..v-ky-■MMP|,,b,M< ' “Ward the pet MMMUB border on a broad re at a ww» vrim*h. if maintained, ell BltgMßfrry " *hto the Ger Imlay. PyotM line Mspate he-* said tlie ||MBHHfen unit* were reeling ack (ft 4Hp»" In-fore Cherniak PN|flßfflM|lre threeugh strong to *1 mile* from East had Itfc tb®te ■Ointnand and were pc hi the* I The traMrcan news agency jft|MHHbd Russian assault Sl*» wswt «ke ting themselves to |gMMEpN< h the East Prus|MmM| IThe broadcast per .tg» »«« <k*jgn**el t« ease the im MffjM the Merman home front •i t>|**ff*lils now were mi tail II iTteHflhtn high commune! Russian tank* ■enrratiitaw out in July by Nazi MMHHjted .mother 250 by air ttaeka. The Soviets lout 1.32# teatoW'fM acme period, a Hersaid.) published an mMbip depicting the relo days of the lied * *SMtaNKba>l i*-.>, le* <1 tlm ll.>l entered the War iW arw*. ami were battling along Jtte-Bllte- Vtetnia front south of la an edtWiai accompanying the "Thu Redgrrni baa cut all road* Hi* ■HKHMy and is within touch i a n "It I* entfhln. 'he galea of IIJ HBMHKlbr' i and ready to tteUtl tti Steel hecks Today the hear the buaciog ttatd> -r of our artillery r tth the roar of our guns, fate Mte tteMterniany's door. Her eaching [(A# Allsajie radio broadcast re- >'?«•’! tty (lie Stockholm ne-w-pa ■MilMMnlngen said the Rusthe border into Nt Itetetel# ut Eydtkuhnen and M Iff a* ffdvane e- along the Kau T’chdhmm~l7’ Meins Advance a North New Guinea IHKE- — ■■Casualties flufticted On Japs AllteA BNUlmi.n 1.-r< Southwest F'®®* 3 tlT’i American !**■ MhNDged on a two and a toiiu -#oii' in northern New ■NtefMvfffter Clearing a coast'*MßCf*r a#i mile east of the Drinand inflicting heavy JteflHteS 8# the trapped Japanese MacArthur [** tottay’a communique that an enemy suite* Were allied wh-n American* Japanese attempt P*** hunk in the area l®W the & 8 base nt Aitape last Assjk-an offensive into the Wrt Os Mteniy held territory lie M th* Mtainmor river was aim •* further reducing the Starved, Ml* tejUyi*' 1 45,000 Japanese # hsd triad without success for te%7 teno wee k a to break UM’»n< Ircllng Allied lines ’tfßy*> claimed In a broad by the United Prer.s ■HBKclsco today that Jap •tee te*»9» in the Atape area. an<l we *f equipped by * f^P r '’ lh method have (tepfe-out offensive against O»*rtea» linea l 4nh«r reported that a navy ,T “ ? * t| p. M . i ’column I) ”

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William Zwick Rites Saturday Afternoon Funeral eervices Cor William 11. Zwick. prominent Decatur buttlneaaman. who died unexpectedly Wednesday afternoon, will be held at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Zion Lutheran church, with Rev. Paul W. Schultz oficiating Burial will be i nthe Decatur cern-e tery. The body may Im- viewed at the Zwick funeral home on North Second Street after 7 o’clock thia evening. The casket will not be opened at the church Chamber of Cominert e officiate tmlay requested all , Decatur etoreg and office* to t-loae from 2:30 to 3:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Heights Overlooking Florence Captured Furious Fighting Is Reported Near City Rome, Aug 3—(UP) Ilrifish troopa stormed and captured the height* or Mount l<a Pogglona overlooking Florence from the southweat. It wa* disclosed today, while other Sth army force* hammered out small gain* in furioti* nghting on the wentern and aotithern approache* to the city. Everywhere along the 21-tnile ■leffe arc below Florence the German* were battling tenaciously to hold their remaining hill poaitlon* against a British “squeeze" attack pressing them slowly into a narrowing triangular pocket based on the «outh bank of the Arno river. German self-propelled guns and heavy artillery thundered Into action from dangorously-exposed positions south of Florence, adding their support to the storm of machine gun and mortar Are being hurled against the advancing British. Mount La Pogglona fell to the New Zealand armored units yesterday after a savage battle in the hill* above San Michele, putting the New Zealanders little more than four miles from the outskirt* of Florence. At the same time, British Indian troops on their left flank burst across the Pesa river on a broad front below Montelupo and pushed on more than a mile to within nine miles west of Florence. Routh of the historic city, hitter fighting raged along the valley of the Greve, where South African forces and British guardsmen bayoneted the Germans from Htrada, seven miles below Florence, and Poneta, two miles farther to the (Turn To Psgs t. Column 1) Nazi Plane Center | Smashed By Bombers Friedrichshafen Is U. S. Plane Target Ijondon, Aug. 3.—-(DPI— A huge striking force of some 750 Italianbased American heavy bombers smashed at the Nazi aircraft manufacturing center of Friedrichshafen on the German-HwlM frontier today and ripped up enemy communication* line* funnelling Into the Brenner pass from northern Italy. Preliminary accounts of the Friedrichwhafen raid gave no detail* on the damage Inflicted on the city's giant aircraft engine and assembly planta, but Zurich dispatches said the thunder of violent explosions rocked Swis* frontier towns for fully 25 minutes. Part of the big task force veered off to the east to lay their blockbusters acron* the network of bridges and railway lines running through the Alps into Germany, Ineluding a railway viaduct on the Brenner pass route. The Italian-based daylight raid came after a 24 hour period during which JHIIed aircraft ranged from Belgium to the Bay of Biscay, smashing rail and highway trans(Turn To Page 3. Column •) TffMFCRATURi READING DtMOCRAT THERMOMITER •:00 a. m 74 to. (X) *. m, #5 Noon #0 fl:00 p. m. M WCATHKR Continued warm and humid tonight and Friday; scattered afteraaaae* sm/4 AUaillßA t H unfl* MSkla AkAeA at a f"wWVI divvwl wwvevvvvgp I-iwf’wwtWtrw^val

All Industries In Muncie Face Strike Threat Dispute Os Rival Unions Threatens Paralyzing Strike By United Pre** A jurisdictional dispute between rival CIO and AFL union* today threatened to tie up all industries at Muncie. Ind. adding lo the widespread strike* that plagued the United States and Canada, tying tip transportation in Philadelphia and Montreal and hampering war production. Hixleen thousand CIO workers at Muncie voted to quit their jobs in sympathy, a *i>oke*maii *ald. after 250 members of an AFL union agreed to |M>*t an "iron elad" picket line around the glas* house at the Ball Brother* plant. The dtepute arose after the national labor relation* lioard awarded bargaining right* for miscellaneous workers in the glas* house to the CIO fidlowing an election. The AFL contended that It had bargaining rights for work ers in the glass department and established picket lines July 23. CIO workers recognized the picket lines but returned to work when the protest dwindled to only "token" picketing. Most of the plant's 3,500 workers hail been back to work for several days when the trouble flared up again At Philadelphia, where a strike of 5 MOO transportation workers entered Its third day. truck* were pressed into service to transport workers to their jobs in war factories and the city awaited an expected order from President Roosevelt for the federal government to seize control of the paralyzed transportation system. Within the city, heavy police guards were maintained to prevent any recurrence of sporadic outbreaks between negroes and whites which occurred yesterday. The unauthorized strike began when the company began training eiglit negro worker* us tram and subway operators. The regional war inan|>ow<-r commission plated navy production losses at 70 percent with army contracts suffering a 50 percent deficit. Production losses, the army said, affected radar, planes, heavy artillery and flame (Turn Tn Pass 1. Column 4) Appropriations Are Approved By State The state tenird of tax commls- ; sionera haw approved the $51.32# 4S In special appropriations made by the Adams county council last week. County auditor Thurman I. Drew received the oflcial approval today. The appropriations are divided, 520.WMt.4S for the general fund and 130,941.00 for the highway department Alhout )42.<MM> ol the amount will be spent In opairing thr« s bridges in Blue Creek township. Bids on the improvements will be received by the county commissioner* within the next tw< week* —■——-—-*> — Subsidy To Stripper Oil Wells In County Adjoining Counties Also Are Subsidized Washington. Aug. 3.—(UP) — The office of price administration today released a list of stripper oil wells to be added to those receiving subsidy payments under the government’s stripper well premium plan to stimulate production. Name* of live pool* which will be cut off from subsidy payments, and a list of wells whose premium payments have been changed also were announced Pool* added to the program and the amount of subsidy payments per barrel Included: Indiana- Wheeling, Gibson county. 36; Trenton. Jay. Blackford, Grant. Huntington. Wells. Adams. Wabash. Delaware counties. 35. Pools dropped from the subsidy program: Illinois Aden. Wayne and Hamlit on counties: Maunie-North White, county; Albion-North. Edwards County.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 3,1944.

I “Decatur” Jeep in Ixindon

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I Pictured aliove I* one of the unique- pic ttirc* of the war showing Pvt Leslie It Hunter of thl* city, at the wheel of a military polk e j.-c p, christened "Decatur." a* he travel* on Piccadilly, om- of the fashionable thoroughfare** in Ixmehen. England The* three other oce*upan!s of ' the* jeep were* not Identlfieel by Pvt Hunte r in hi* letter tee hi* wife* : i Mr*. Alnie*ela Hunter. 127 N. Seventh street, who received the* original i picture. The* Hunte*rs have* one* daughter. Fern Ei|j-e*n. Pvt. Hunte-r ha* be*en overseas, stationed in lamdon. since De*ee*mbe*r 1943, lie* entered the* service De-cember 23, 1»42 and took training at Fort t'u* ter. Mich., amt Fort Geo. Meade. Mel He i* the* son of Mr. and Mr*. Clarence Hunte-r of thl* city. Evidently Pvt Hunter i* chauffeur for the military police squad a* it make* it* official circuits of the »tre*et* in the* world's lurge*t city. I - -

Decided Increase In Casualties Os Army 1 — Reflection Os Bitter Fighting In Europe Washington. Aug. 3 — fUp> — Announced casualties of u. s. army personnel Jumped 11,190 during the week from July 6 to July 1.3. secretary of war Henry L. Stimson revealed today. That figure, apparently reflecting the bitter tight Ing In Normandy and Italy, wan more than twice the usual number of army casualties i announced during a seven-day I period, which normally has been, about 5,tt00 in recent months. Figures announced by Stmo-nn j during his news conference. together with total* released today by the navy, indicated that overall casualties among the I . S. armed force* during this war now are well over 300,000. Stimson said army casualties announced In Washington through July 13 totalled 21M.47.3. while a navy casualty Hat released today showed 51,871 casualties among navy, marine corps, amt coast guard personnel. In addition, report* from the Pacific said 7,8,31 casualties have been reported thus far from Guam and Tinian, making a total of 277,978. Stimson said the army casualties included 39,720 killed. 97.000 wounded. 41.234 prisoners of war, and 40,519 missing. The navy's list Included 21,816 dead, 15,883 wounded. 9,703 missing and 4,469 prisoners of war. The Guam and Tilllair figures Included 1.330 dead, 6.067 wounded and 337 missing. Them* totals add to 62.766 dead. 118,950 wounded. 45,703 prisoner* and 50.559 missing for all services. — _ Says U. S. Fleet Is Near Operating Radius Against Japs Chicago, Aug 3 — (UPI - The United mates fleet Is virtually within an effective operating radius against Japan, and concentrated attacks on the Japanese mainland can be expected soon, according to rear admiral Arthu- 8. Carpender, iwho commanded AHI rd forces in the southwest Pacific in 1942. Carpeoder. speaking last night before the grand lodge of the,Benevolent and Protect We Order of Elks aaid that no spot In Japan is more than 70 mile* frum the coast, and that Japan has 45 cities of more than 100,000 population, all but three of which are within range of the navy * 18-lnch guru. ■•lt does not require much imagination to specula’?) on what may take place one of these day* when Tokyo Is under the range of those guns, plus the work of B 29 bombent escorted by thousands of fight er plane*," he sail

Conrod Funeral Rites On Friday Afternoon Funeral service* for August Conrad. imMirie-r of the Adams county council, tfho died Tuesday evening, will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Black funeral home and at 2:.3ft p m a’ tie ZJon Lutheran church. Iter. Paul W Schultz officiating. Buria. will be In the Frledheim Lutheran church cemetery. The body has been removed from I the Z>wick funeral horn- to the Black funeral horn**, where it may be viewed until time of the services, 0 . Warns Production Job Not Finished Report Is Issued By Donald Nelson Washington, Aug .3 (UP) War production chairman Donald M. Nekton reported today that only 48 tier cent of the 169,000,060,1)00 1944 munitions program was completed al the mid-year mark and warned against a“deludlttg ourselves that the war production jJb is already finished ” Nekton's report was Issued as top production and military of'rials entered into their third day of discus siotm with war mobilisation director James F Byrnes on tmthods of solving manpower shortages in certain war plants. Tlte WJ’B chief explained that the 4* per cent figure tends Io giv» “an overly op'imUvtic impression" because It does not indicate the (Turn To Page 4. Column 4) Truman Resigns As War Probe Chairman FDR Running Mote Quits Committee TRUMAN RESIGNS AS Washington, Aug 3 I UPI — Ban. Harry S Truman, D., Mo, Democratic vice presidential nominee. resigned today as chairman of the Senate war Investigating committee. Trutnan refused pleas by commit tee members that he remain as chairman, saying that "I am of the opinion that any statement, hearing or report for which I would be responsible would be considered by many to have been motivated by pol 11 leal consideratlon*." Truman sent his resignation to Vice President Henry A. Wallace, president of the Senate. Hugh Fulton, who has been chief committee counsel under appointment from Truman, also submitted his resignation But Truman said the committee would meet again tomorrow and probably would re- ' quest Fulton to remain.

r —■. - _ Armored Spearheads Os Americans Plunge 30 Miles Into Briitany

» I Secretary Stimson, Announcing Fall Os City, Gives Praise To Allied Armies — Washington. Aug. 3 — it Pt — | Secretary of war Henry L Stimson said today that U. S. force* i in France have occupied the key | i I ran*|Hirtut ion center of Renne* i in their drive to seize the Brittany | i peninsula. Stimson said the Americans in a Unlay advance of 60 mile* have destroyed the bulk of sewn German divisions, captured more than 20.000 prisoner*, and liberated more than 1.000 square mile* of > French territory. "Now.” he told hi* new* confer- < elice, "we have pushed beyond i Pontorson ami southward on to Rennes, which ha* been occupied." The American drive. Stimson said, ha* r>-*ulled in destruction of large number of German tanks and guns. Stimson said American, British and Canadian operations are completely coordinated. The earlier attacks of Briti*h and Canadian* at Caen tied up German forces, .•*!>«•< tally armor, which thinned the German lines to the west and assisted tho American breakthrough "Our swift advance at Normandy is the most satisfying accomplishment since the successful Allied landings on French beaches.’’ Htlmxon said "It over«hadi»w<-il even the swift envelopment and liberation of Cherbourg "American armored for«Ts had their first lalKc-scub- test ill France and passed it with (lying colors." Ntrateglcally. he said, the U H. successes mean: "The breaking of our confinement in the Cherbourg peninsula and the opening of territory in which mobile warfare may be waged and the growing Allied strength put to full use” Seven Hospitals Hit By Nazi Robot Bombs England Rocked By Murderous Barrage lamdon. Aug 3 —(l’Pi —A murderous barrage of Nazi rotatt bombs rocked Ixilidon and parts ot southern Englund throughout last night and the early morning hour* today, striking seven hospitals. among other targets, and piling up a heavy 101 l of killed ami wounded civilian* Apparently trying lo *wamp the British defenses, the Germans pushed off big salvoes of their i deadly flying bombs ut frequent ■ Intervals. using an unusually | large proportion of "glider” robots that dropped silently from the I skies to bury their victims with i scarcely a moment’s warning. Official sources revealed that the new "glider" Itomb* have a wing span of about 23 feet and a 30-foot fuselage, compared with the 16-foot wing span and 25-foot fuselage of the original . robots. Both missiles, however, contain a one-ton explosive charge In the new types, the roliot's engine shuts off while still a considerable distance from the objective and the Ixmib glides in almost soundlessly, with only the whistling scream of its slipstream to warn of its approach. It also was revealed that the Germans have developed a two-in-one "pickaback'* plane, nicknamed the **Huper-|)oodtebug" by RAF fighters. One appeared off the British , sector of the J ormati beachhead during the night of July 24 25 and ( was shot down by an RAF flier. < rashing Into the sea with a colossal explosion. The new giant flying teimh I* ( really an old twin-engined junk-er*-x# flghier-itomber carried beneath a Mes*er*chmltt H>9 fighter ( The two planes, operated by the Messerschmitt pilot, take off together In pickaback fashion, with all three engine* running. (Turn To Bags 4, Column 4)

i Japs Increase Resistance To I Yanks On Guam Three Towns, Tiyan Airfield Captured By American Forces Pearl Harbor. Aug. 3.—(UPI Japanese resistance Increased on Guam today us American forces cloned in on the northern tip of the Island after slugging their way through heavy mud ami dense undergrowth for more than a mile ye*t< rday to capture three towns and Tiyan airfield. Tiyan, the sixth airfield added during the .Mariana* campaign lo the chain of bases from which American plane* can strike at Japan's inner defenses, was taken with the ahi of a terrific bombardment by carrier aircraft of Adm. Marc A. Mltscher’s task group. Adm Chester W. Nlmitz's latest communique disclosed that 7.41*J enemy dead have been counted thus far on Guam, while on Tinian. 12<> mile* to the north, where marine.* continued to mop up isolated stragglers, 3,075 enemy dead have been burled. Only a few nests of Japanese remained in the ravine* «Ud caves at the Mouthern tip of Tinian, where American Josses wer-- 20S dead. 1.121 wounded and 32 missing. American casualties on Guam through Tuesday totalled |.u22 killed. 4.941 wounded and 305 missing. Nimitz announced. The main Japanese force compressed within the northern sector of Guam fought with increasing desperation as marine* of the tlrsi provisional brigade an d army troop* of the 77th division under .Maj. Gen Boy S. Geiger advanced i after taking Tiyan airfield am! thtowns o! Sam io. Toto ami Timo(Ttsrn To Pag* i, Column 1> Proposed Preble Tax Rate Is Increased The proposed tax rate foi Prebl > township, payable on taxable property In 1945 te 55 cent* on the llmt according to tin- budget pre pared by Charles V Fuhrman, true I tee The rate I* five cent* highei than that In effect thte year, due to an extra levy for school bu-es. The ! proposed rate will produe ■ f#.4&L baaed on the towimhip's valuation of 51.735.3f10, Mr. Fuhrma.t said. —.— Diner 1$ Approved For Youth Center State Fire Marshal Deputies 0. K. Site Deputies from the state tire rflar shal's office in Indianapolis, who, with Harry Stults. city flre chief, and Janie* |, Kocher, inspected the old diner building on Madison street, found no objection to it being used as a youth center or teencanteen, Mr Kor her stated The deputy inspector* made one recommendation that the door* be re-hung so that they would swing out, thus conforming with the state law governing public places. The dlneY hi owned by Adam* Post 43 of the American la*glon and the free use of the building for a youth center, to be supported by the Decatur Community Fund, was offered the local committee. Mr. Kocher is a member of the site committee which recently Inspected the place and recommend ed its use for a canteen. The building te practically fireproof and being <rf one story only, the flre hazard is a minimum obstacle, the lire marshal deputies pointed out The matter will be presented to the Community Fund directors by the site committee at a meeting j next week, it wax stated.

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More Than Thousand Os German Garrison Surrender To Fast Moving Americans BULLETIN London, Aug. 3 — (Ul Allied headquarters repo ed today that American elements had pushed south of Rennes. Supreme Headquarters. AEF. Aug 3- it pi Armored spearheads of American forces plunging 3o miles into Brittany on a 35mlb- are smashed into Rennes. Comteiurg ami Dinun today, while j tb<- northea*t counter-attacking German tank* checked the British br«-ak through drive east of Vlre. United States tanks striking eastward from the Avratiches area in Normandy captured Mortain, big rail and highway junction Is'., mile* soutli of Vire ami 12> 2 miles ! east of Brecey, threatening tn Iso- ! late thousands of German troop* ! to the north. A* the Americans approached ! Rennes. Breton capital and key transport hub nearly half way across the peninsula, more than a thousand troop* of it* German gar- , rison marched out to meet them ( and surrender. I (The capture of Rennes was announced in Washington liy secretary of war Henry L Stimson > I I nited |»r ** corre*pondent , Robert C. Miller, reporting the r penetration* lo Rennes Com i bourg. 28 miles to the northwest, f and Dlnan. on the Brest railroad i m-ar the coast said a big part of I the Refine* garrison -dirty, hag gard and bleary-eyed decided in . advance that they had had enough , of the war. Their surrender undei ' Hie command of their own officers was u rare event forth proud Wehrmacht. "The drive continues to roil ahead, gathering momentum hourly Miller's dtapatch said I'he numte-r of German prisoners now was running into the thousands, witli some I s unit* rounding up more than they could handle, and if the Naz.s had any resources fesr tile defense- of Brittany there was no evidence of it. I nited Press corre*|>ondvnt Bn hard D M< Millan, in a dispatch hied from the Briti*h front ut i> :m P m . said that in om- of tin- most furious German counterblows the Nazis hurled massed tanks across the Noireau river in the area of Conde. 15 mile* cast of Vire. I'ln- German armor fanned out (Turn Tn P*«. k Column”"77" County Council To Select Succesor ( special meeting of the Adam* county council will be held on August 12. for the purpose of electing a successor to Auguwt Conrad, veteran member of the cuuncllinanic Itaiby who died Tuesday Under the Iww the council muat meet wi’hin in day* of the member* ch-ath to elect a successor, who will serve th- unexpired term, which run* to November, 1 #46 Mr. Conrad served two term* on the council and watt re-elected In Nov-emlh-r, 1»42 GET READY! Bundle your waste paper today. Stack it and tie it up. Send it to war—waste paper makes hlood plasma boxes, helmet linings, gun covers, thousands of other war items. So put your paper out on the curb for collection. Help to shorten the war. Remember: SATURDAY IS Waste Paper and Tin Can l>ay in the Monthly Citywide Drive. | Let's make It 10 Tons in August |