Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1944 — Page 1

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BERMANS IN NORTH FRANCE IN FULL FLIGHT

»manian Army Surrendering To Bviet Forces Army In BjEonipictc Collapse; Kormans Resisting B bulletin r Aug. 25—(UPl—A report said Romania had Aar cn Germany fol*g a surpr.se attack by the A i«r us Bucharest today. g.- r ntimated that the *. z N.u garian government ■ kai been overthrown in the rd uprising sweeping Kri Balkan satellite* A milered by their . tin- Iti-il A. . nd>-rilig by the th'- tt'f 01 a . ..oil’ll' that already has . all Bessarabia is and carried K, of Hik barest. hi In .it< >1 tb.il , .1. bad collapsed ... a li. 2nd and 3rd So.1/ advancing .’I hours, rolled lll.lev or lens of the K Miiithern Romania pleat oil Cent K Ploetti. 111 w.-re offeilng . .. many points . . .1.. 'I tn me I < lavh I who weie .. i- . More . Ilol' il up yeetei .■ Ml" j> ■ ung in Italy follow Manilla: I’letro Bado--ap t Hi.il 101 lto the Allie* 'h- -'ill were Bel a In- homeland - nniM4ii.it |H ■ lai It'lMMan State |H ■■ • k M ha. 1 aim.mm <■ |H' 'hjt I: 'llina had accepted offer. warned a.- It. i army must a >p. • ioiim in Rouni : ll.iniali force* there destroyed. ■ .han towns and vil- «' . H,.|„ ,||, i,y (J,,. Soviet- • *. io w itbin I' -"'itli of (he Danube M' I liisinail. capital I^V 1 " iad .i niimhet <>f .lo 'h.. I- guarding the : : io Bucharest and .'I Adolf Hitler's tr.ay.i -.mine of oil ' ■ I ’> of 112.500 and !: , - second largest M inbined assault by ■Baiol u,c .irmies. alter It ■ : •• -d and virtually .ally stage* of the ..ffelislve, '■ .iHne garrison w.«s the assault, which W' : 'nmid.ible d. f.giae EB* around the city. B ••'•>. It'Mimi Y Malinovsky s Bf ' -I uppled foul other V'> I - • Roman. 37. miles ■B"’"' l'i-t. Bacall. 53 miles f" 1 *- "f lan: Husu. 17 miles |B' ' Vz-a and Bal lad, 5S miles of Galalt. 13s miles Um barest and fl* fr°® I’loestl. •'last Prussian and !.:• iin.mian fronts remainM Stocked hut U en Georgl 2nd white Russian " f War, ' aw gained R "To Pa M e 3, Column 1) W ll Burk Speaks To ® c otur Rotarians Hurk w.is Che speaker at the meeting of Ih e (Jeeatur Ro IK,. ■**’ Thursday evening The BE '“ W “ rRrwM '■i* l ' hp K " , ’ 4m I’ Dienlmry w hen he ■ ’’“"’••uver* s'aged by soldV •' '>>*t camp. lime ERATU ’’ E R <*OINO W "OCRAT THERMOMETKR H* » «. m. ~ W •• W - <4 W'*Pm - 70 'H w *ATHtR «l«udy and warmer to>Ks ,n €lo “'‘r lißh‘ U®Na, " * M ’ port,on A” U’rJ" "®rth P<”•*tura <i * X *fr*fnoon; warm--BnJ *' B **•’ • nd •®«‘ h

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Yanks Move Inland Past Southern Erance Wall ! i. . • ‘ I iiii: ..... ' ■ > . -’i-' *■ s • —I k- -rnT Ari ■ MafcsiffTlMsfi KUUHbs'Mr' —-X -. Tta 'AkJsKBIQr i .• ■ t jj- lifej 1 WMI f Ja nFWfeteWil o-.. .. ... j MOVING INLAND m southern Frnnce American invaders pass the eight foot steel and concrete wal running the length of the beach which was intended to stop such an invasion assault A great hob blasted In the wall by assault engineers can be seen in the t enter ol picture.

Navy Officer Named Acting Head Os WPB> Hint Nelson May Not Resume Old Duties Washington. Auk, 25 (VP) - President Roosevelt told his news conference today he did not know whether Donald M Nelson would I resume his duties as chairman of! the war production hoard alter his trip to China, whies began today. The president explained that it was difficult to say what was going to happen In the future. The prsldent's statement came shortly after he had ordered Lt. Cnidr. J. A. Krug, once a WPB rice chairman and now Just returnt- I from a navy assignment in Normandy. to take WPB and "run if in the absence of Nelson and the surprise resignation yesterday of | executive vice chairman Charles E Wilson, former General Electric president Mr. Roosevelt was asked whether he contemplated that Nelson would resume his duties as head of WPB after the trip to China which Nelson is making with Maj. Gen Patrick J Hurley on a mission assigned to them by the chief executive. He replied that Nelson was leaving today and that the mission was very important He said the question was almost iffy ami be did not know. He went on to say that it is sort of iffy to say what's going to ha|e pen In the future. And again, he said he did not know. (Tutu To Pag* (. Column •> Cites Need To Curb Agencies Authority Special Committee Urges Legislation Washington. Aug. 25. — (UPt The special house committee investigating executive agencies, citing an "urgent need” tor action, today called on congress to restrict the wide and oftimes "assumbed” | authority of government agencies, such as the office of price adminis- ■ tratlon. In a report naming no specific agency but believed aimed primarily at the OPA and the war labor board, the committee urged passage of legislation to make sweep- j ing changes In methods of settling } disputes between individuals and agencies" which are assuming more and more of the actual government of our nation." "If the cltlxens of the country are to have any protection what ever from the arbitrary actions of > those In charge of executive agencies of the government." said chair-1 man Howard W Smith. D. Va, in offering the report, "congress must enact proper legislation so that AAwa Zv. I'M* It Celutna <4

German Newscaster Is Heckled During Regular Broadcast i By I’nited Press) The newscaster on the G< rman domestic radio network was delivering his regular fare last nlvht when a voice broke in: "Paris has fallen . . . We will lose Warsaw, too." A short time later, the voice again Interrupted "out fatherland Is a Held of : ruins " When the anotinccr tried to read the German high command communique. the heckler added: “Lies, fables." Tn. broadcast was recorded by FTC monitors. Father Os Nine Asks For Divorce Decree Suit Filed Today In Circuit Court A father of nine children, six of whom are wards of the state of Michigan, has filed suit for divorce from the wife and mother in the Adams circuit court Kenneth L Barker, who gave his occupation as a laborer, and residence in Bellmont park, is the plaintiff in the case. The suit is entitled, Kenneth L Barker vs Martha P. Barker The couple was married July 14. 1923 at Hartford City, ami separated August 11, 1944 The mother of the children resides in Michigan, according to the affidavit filed in the case The first child was born October 2. 1924 and the last. June I. 1939. The plaintifl. in his complaint alleges that prior to their separation, the defendant was guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment, that they cannot live together in peace and i harmony He also alleges that he defendant this wife) told him that she was going to leave him and that if he didn't get a divorce, she would The husband asks that the care and custody of the children be given to the defendant, "or ax appears right and equitable to the court.” John T Kelly Is attorney for the plaintiff. Divorces are climbing Since July 1. divorces filed in the Adams circuit court run 50 (Turn To Page 3, Column *> . . — Labor Dav Observance Is Urged By Schricker Indianapolis. Aug 25 — (I’P) — Governor Schricker today proclaimed l-ahor Day, Sept. 4. aw a day for "prayerful rededication to the unfinisbed task" in World War 11. Schricker urged civic groups to arrange "appropriate public exerciaes to acclaim l-ahor's great contribution to the win-the-wa." effort." He said that Uie days ahead pie sen ted "a challenge to lartior"

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana Friday, Auqust 25,1944

Tokyo Reports New ' Landing By Allies Reports Landing In Dutch New Guinea By I'nlted Press Tokyo radio announced today that Allied troops landed on Mapia f island. 125 miles north of Manokwari. Dutch New Guirn-a. yesterday I but Were repulsed with heavy losses ami that Allied bombers twice attempted to raid "an area.” apparently on the west coast of Sit- / matra. while other bombers increased their softening-up assault 1 on llalmahera. There was no Allied confirma- | tion i>t the landing, which would • complete encirclement of Japan s large naval base at Manokwari. | The base was by-passed by Americans when they occupied the Sari one area at the far end of Dutch New Guinea in their leap-frog drive west along the northern New Guinea coast The broadcast acknowledged I "some damage" by raiders, identi- , Heil as a force of 2* carrier based planes, in the Sumatra attack It , was indicated that the raids were In the Padang-Emma sector. 325 , miles west of tile oil center of ( Palembang which wax blasted by B-29 superfortresses Aug 10. The ( Japanese said two Allied planes ( were shot down in one attack but made no claims alaiut the second i raid. Liberator bombers, in the heavI (Turn To 3. Column 1) Hull And Dulles Nol Agreed On Program II — Joint Statement Is Issued On Confabs 11 i Washington, Aug. 25. — HP) — Secretary of State Cordell Hull and i i John Poster Dulles, foreign policy adviser to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. . issued a joint statement today In- - dlcating lack of complete agreement on the question of non-parti- - san discussion of means of attaining a lasting peace. The joint statement said that they I had agreed on "numerous aspects" 1 | of ’he subject and would continue ■ to confer about developments as they arise. ""The secretary maintains,'* the xlatemet said, “the position that the American people consider the subject of future peace ax a nonpartisan subject which must be kept entirely out of politics "Mr. Dulles, on behalf of Gov. Dewey, staled that the governor xha-ed this view on the under- , standing, however, that It did not preclude full public non-partisan discussion of the means of attaining a lasting peace "The question of whether there (Turn To Page 3. Celuw.a II

Allies Storm Into Paris To Aid Patriots French, American Armored Forces In Aid To Parisians BULLETIN 1 New York, Aug- 25-—(UP; — Radio Paris aaid today that the German garrison in Pari* had surrendered to the Alliea with all their arm* and equipment. The br-oadcatt. a* recorded by United Pres* monitor* in New York. *aid all resistance had ceased, but it was not immediately clear whether the surrender applied to al! Nazi unit* in the outlying lection* of Pari*. By Robert C. Miller Purid. Aug 25 il pi French armored forces broke the German shell of reaistance around Paris today and rushed down the boule vards to join the embattled maquis in ousting the Germans from their capital. I The people of Paris came rush- : Illg into the streets to cheer the big American lelld-lease taliks with grinning French pilots wav img from the turrets The maquis. I liattle-wi-ary and bloody from days iof uneven battle with the less I numerous but better equipped i Nazis jumped over their street ! barriers cheering hoarsely Gen. Joseph-Pierre le-eb-rc’s armor had arrived none too soon. i for there were evidetices of stiff I lighting all around Ils. Allied forces were battling in | from several directions. An hour ~ In-tore noon one column was reported to have battled its way into the suburb of Gelltilly. Two others were Still battling bitter resistance in the outskirts Still another column was swinging toward Versailles, which had been by passed by the first iroops. and by noon was reported to have made "some progress'' at pushing i (Turn To Pag* 3, Column 3) o : Shift Is Announced In FSA Supervisors 1 Newman And Bowen To Change Offices I A change in the otpervisoiy posi i tions of the farm security adminia- . traiioti. affecting the otll.. in :htr , city and Fort Wayne wilt be made f, within the coming month, it w.i ~ announced today. . Ronald Newman, who has been I I supervisor of the local office, which i includes the territories of Jay and I Wells counties, will become manager of the Fort Wayne district ofJ flee, which will be moved from that : city to Columbia City, in Whitley i county. | Leigh Bowen, manager of the ' Fort Wayne office, will become supI ervisor of the Decatur office, with Jay and Well* counties under his supervision Mr Bowen has been : with the farm security adminlstrai tlo for nearly It* year* and Mr. I Newman I* serving his fourth year I with the governmental agency Mr. Howen live* in this city, and ■ the change will eliminate part of | the travel necessary in the conduit of the office*. • J The Fort Wayne district includes ’ Whitley county and alnce most of ■ I the farm patron* live in the north half of the area, tin' office will bi ■ moved there, Mr Newman said. Miss Leona Dornseif will con- • thine as clerk in the Decatur office. .— ■-— o —- - • | Six Servicemen's Ballots Cast Here Clyde (> Troutner. county clerk, today received 12f> application* 1 from the Indiana secretary of state for 'lerviiemen's ballota. Mrs Neil Highland, special clerk, was *ortIng the card* to preclude, ao that the Iraliots could Is* mailed to rer- ■ vleeineti and women. Wig balkrt* have already been CMI ill the November election. Four ' *et vicemen have voted in peraon at 1 j the clerk* office and two ballot* i were received th'ough the mail Net vlcemen who are home on leave or furlough may vote in person at tlie county dark'* office.

Abandon Seine River Line And Robot Bomb Bases; Racing Home

Americans Take Riviera Resort City Os Cannes Reported Battling Germans Only 15 Miles Below Lyon lloim-. Aw : <I Pi- American foti-i'H captured tin- Riviera resort illy of Cannes today ind were i reported battling the Germans only 15 mile* below l.yoll, big Rhone valley industrial (enter 170 miles inland from the Mediterranean roast. A I'nited Press dispati h from Annecy, capital of Haute Savoie province, said an American flying column was expected there mo tnetitarily from Grenoble 53 miles to Hie south Liberated by E’reiu h maquis. Annecy was draped with American and French flags in an ticipation of the arrival The fact that the Americans had i not yet arrived at Annecy appeared to disprove earlier reports that they already had reachml the Swiss Isirder at St. Julien. I'i miles ! farther north, ami Hvtan 25 miles ; northeast of St Itilien The Rome newspaper 11 Tetnjio | said an American armored column had engaged the Germans 15 miles sou'll of I.von alter an advance from Grenoble 5s miles to the southeast French maquis were said io be In control of Lyon, long a resistance center, but the GerJ mans appeared to he fighting to , prolong the American advance as ■ long as possible. The fall of l.yoll would < lit all the mam es< ape routes for Ge: man 1 forces remaining in southwest France and close the gap between the Allied armie in central and southern France to 17n nub ■ The American advance already hud cut the last railway link between France and Italy French forces tightened their ring of encirclement about the doomed German garrison in Ton lon capturing the land arsenal in side the city and the by passed stronghold of OlHoub-s. two and a halt miles west of Toulon The Germans were < linging • stubbornly to the naval ars.imi and two peninsulas whi< h partly i landliH k the harbor from the i southwest and southwest despit. I a hail of explosive* from Allied warships and plane* The enemy , presumably has completed his de (Turn Tn Pags •. Column 3) o Northern Germany I i Attacked By Planes Berlin Says Austria Also Under Attack r IJnidon. \ug 35 tl'Pi (More than I,l'h' American heavy bomb- ! era attacked numerous targets in [ northern Germany, the I' S. second , tactical air force announced, as Berlin radio reported that another torma'lon from Paly w»» ranging . over Austria on the second consecutive day of the renewed Allied aerial offensive. While the Italy based raid was not immediately confirmed by Allied source*, the second tactical air force reported tha' Hie great fleet of flying fnrtretue* and Liberator* ’ had attacked a "variety of import- ' ant targets" in the northern region of he Reich The bomlier* were accompanied hy strong forces of Lightning. Thundetiimlt. a.id Mustang fighter planes The targets in Northern Germany Included the flying bomb and rocket experimental station at Penemunde; a bomber assembly plant and bomber component parts plant at Wismar; another liotnher components plant at Ludbeek; a bom J ber assembly plant a' Restock; a (Turn T« P*e« i, Column <)

Entire Balkans Is Reported In Growing Turmoil Berlin Radio Says Nazis Withdrawing Troops In Romania London. Aug 25 il'Pi- A Bet bn broadcast said today that German forces had begun a withdrawal from Romania and Cairo heard they also were abandoning i Bulgaria as the result of Ro manic's capitulation to Russia The entire Balkans were reported in a turmoil over Germany's retbaek in Romania and the grow : Ing Red army threat to southeastern Europe. Slovakia was report .■d io have proclaimed martial law i and an uiidei ground radio < ailed ■ on the Hungarian army to revolt against the Germans Wilfred Von oven. German home service radio < (iintllelilator. I acknowledged ill a Berlin broadcast that German troops were pulling out of Romania, where tile ' - front was ' disintegrating under tin- impact of troubles and trea ' I .. i son "We d<> not want to deny that 1 1 the treason of the Romanian king 1 1 and his clique* is causing us some 1 worries and difficulties and will continue t<> do so until the situation lias been secured again by prompt action, as it wa* in Italy." i In- said Diplomatic circles in Ankara ’ | *aid Romania's surrender follow (Turn To !'•»> 3. Column <> Mrs. Nancy J. Smith Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon iMr- N.»ii'y .1 Smith *7. widow of the la’c Willi mi R Smith and 1 mother <>f Fled Smith. Il' South Tturd siieet. ’ha city diet y.-e’ei-d.i> al th" home <1 lie: non. Robert Smith, in Indianapolis Infirmiiiec 'W'.e attributed an i ause of death. 'Mr« Smith had been n failing health for several yean* She viaited heir al the Fred Smith home prior I to going io Indianapolis, and formerly livid wl'h her daughter, M * Don Vain :! in Cincinnati A member <»f a pionee, family. Mr- Smith was leun in Decalur on October 1". l*st>. a daughter of Pen dieton and Fran e* Rhe Her bun ’ band died in lf»2s The body will be brought here , today and tak< n to the Black Fun- | eral home, where ft may be viewed nf'er 7 o'clock tonight, until the funeral -ervicne Sunday afternoon at 2 .'ln o'clock Service* wiil be held from the funeral horn-. Surviving lieddes the fW.i roll* ' and daughter, an Frank I' Smith Jof UiGrange and Mr* Ki: Uiohnit ! of Indiana poll*, one brother. James Rice of IhM city, also survive* A . daughter. Helen, and three aona. Haive. Richard Carl and I ton K Smith aie deceasod Dr. M O la-nter. pastor of the Fust Methodist church, of which »he was a tnettvber. will officiate at the funeral service* Burial will be 111 the Decatur cemetery. Byion Hayes Named As Special Judge C Byron Hayes, well known at- . torney of Fort Wayne, wai aworn in yesterday a* special judge In the suit of the alate of Indiana v« the Adam* county commiaaionem. the county treasurer and the county auditor, mandamu* proceeding* to laue bonda in the projniaed Wabaah river dredge case. The auit. which wa« formerly tried by >udg« Endicott, wa» appealed to Ute appellate court and reopened The date <*t trial ba* not yet been aet.

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Germans Apparently Moving Back To Make Last Ditch Stand On Borders Os Homeland Supreme Headquarter*. AEF, Am 25 i t'l*i The German armie* of northern Frame were reported in full flight for the Rhineland today, abandoning their seine river line from Pari* to the sea and the robot . Ixnnli liases along th<- channel <oa*t With their 7th army reduced from a tirat-clas* lighting machine of some 450.0110 men to a disorgan- ! ized rabble of barely tm.mm In the disastrous battle of Normandy, the Germans apeared to be pulling > 1 out of all northern Frame and : moving back for a la*t ditch fight on the liorder* of their homeland The Nazi 15th army in tin Pas De Calais area, stripped of much i of it* armor and artillery to reinforce tile 7th army, was rejuirted racing headlong toward tli'e Marne river line and the Rhine, under i savage attack by Allied plane*. I Simultaneously. four Allied ' armie* crushed in llie broken remnant* of the enemy’s 7th army I below liie Seme. < ollVt-rglllg oil tile great < tiaimel jsirt of la- Havre. Canadian tnaip* swung eastward i- along the < hannel coast to capture - Honfleur at the mouth ol the Seine i and less than five airline miler, i across Hu- estuary from la- Havre, and headquarter* spokesmen said l ' the survivor* of the Nazi army .- ; were penned into a box between the Risle and Seme river*, barely 115 miles deep and 2" miles long The situation was moving awiflr . ly toward a climax, und *|Mike* men said It was quite probable . that by dawn Saturday the Allie* i i would be complete masters of the ■ south bank of the Seine Word of the mass enemy withdrawal was flashed back Io headquarter* bv Allied airmen who reI ported the roads leading east and . south from Dieppe Atllien*. Beau vai* and Hie surrounding areas ! jammed with German traffh Throughout Thursday large nunibels ot Nazi trucks were Spoltcd racing down toward the Marne , and the German frontier and RAF i night flier* reported that the flow lof traffn in< teased after dark For the first time since the bat • tie of France lagan, the Germans 1 ignored the pr< sence of Allied night planes overhead and rmle 1 bumper to bumper wnb their head ' lighis (dazing, indicating the (ran ; th haste of the e' a< nation ! Headquarters spokeatnen had no • > immediate comment. lieyond the grim note that the* weather in northern France was clear today and that Allied warplanes already I were ranging over the crowded ■ ! highway* 1 • The reported evacuation of the channel < oast from which Nazi iTurn To Pa<« 3. Column I) . «’ School Students To Register Next Week I Registration Hours Are Announced Today k I Registration of students of the I Dec atur junior-senior high Mcliool, preparatory to opening of the i I!H4 45 sclkhil year, will lie held i next week. W Guy Brown, prin- • cipal. announced today. i The Decatur acbool* will ojn-n Tuesday morning. September f> Student* ot the senior class will reglMter from H a. in until 3 p in. Monday. Augu*t 2s. Junior* will reginter Tuesday from !* a tn. to 3 p ni. soplio- - more* on Thurnday at the same i hours and freshmen on Friday, uli so during tile same hour* l Seventh grade pupil* will regi*- , ter at It a m Saturday and eighth i grade pupil* at 10 o'clock Saturi day morning * i No registration will be held Wednesday, in order to permit r memtier* of the Decatur school faculty to attend the annual iu*HI tute of the Adam* county teacher*, I which will i>e held at the UueuU school.