Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1944 — Page 1

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(MIENS IS CAPTURED BY BRITISH ARMY

Allied Armies Inning Ahead ■Schedule ■senhower Reports ■Hied Armies Well ■head Os Schedule BULLETIN Supreme Headquarter*, AEF. 3V_(UPi—Gen. Dwight fe»,*enhower. reiterating hi* that Germany can and K be defeated before the !■,! end. declared tonight K the German armies of France have been n 18 day* of fighting K co*t them more than ■llOO catualties. and a vaat of plane*, tank* and zed field equipment. an official report »übmitt|Bto the joint Anglo American of staff. Eisenhower K ms Allied invasion force* met and defeated the of the German arntie* inflicted a "fearful beat on the Nazi luftwaffe. Headquarter*, AEF, ■ v il l. I'i 4',.-n Dwight I) r. supreme Allied comdi«) losed Imlay that his more than flee day* ot >i hedule In their march western Europe and relter■th.*l tmany could be defeatyear if all on the home and did their duty. supreme headquartLindon from France. Eisentold newsmen at a 50-min--i• -in hat the campaign* on Dplus-85 —BS days May -lune G were well of the original timetable net plus 90. th-- Germans draw hack Into be said, they are bound to pull their troops out of Denmark. Holland and ■lurn to defend their homeland. ■ stsnred newsmen with a ■ki- tn hi* eye that the Allies ■lainly will not assist such revealed that the ■tin* only eight days after the ■tiun levan decided to stake ■yma on containing the bridge ■ in Normandy, contesting every ■ of ground regardless of cost ■kn and materials. his effort." he said, "the ■ id everything the German* ■r-i-d iiu lulling crack Panner*, ■trooper*, grenadier* and *ui- ■ outfits were thrown, enabling ■Allies to kill, capture or wound ■in.-.i fighters remaining In the ■ked when he believed the war ■»’t Germany would end. he ■*<l broadly and repiled that he ■ hl. forecast at Algiers before ■»»"»* to England last winter, ■that time he said Germany ■* be beaten in 1544 |f every- ■ nn ,h " battlefronts and the ■- fronts did hl* duty fully. ■ D'vid* Command ■ |,r " lflt ‘ Headquarter*. AEF. ■<»'* To P M , | relume I Thomas Graham raided Bronze Star I former Decatur Man ■Honored In Europe let. Thomas Graham, of ■ r 'ty lnd Bluffton, ba. been ■ **>»« Bronte Star for ajw conduct and meritorious ■ n the Invasion of France. ■ r »r announcement from the KT* S 'heater of operations, retoday, ■ ?; r “ ham ’ • Paratrooper with ■tj’i * ,rbor “* dlrlsion, also Khrta 1 .* 4 . *" ,bc *“»«»l«n of ■ missis ! ” U ' • nd WM ,e P° r »' Kk t • c “ on ' ,a,er re ‘"™' ■ t '• division unharmed. Bln-uw’J «*«‘roop officer i. a Ki. Ki *, Mr Bnd Mr * »*B ■is .V N Tenlh ,tre * f »’• El. of U. former «•’«» J«*» E rnn-L? " Dow •"‘Ployed L Kj* to entering the service U. ■ Mom V <,BMI,UnI manager of Jthi* ejjy Bnd W c,Bl *« *1 etore ° Ot b « r «l fro "» in a*. . Nor ««ndy invasion. | * uw •tntloned in England.

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Russians Speed Into Suburbs Os Bucharest Capture Os Ploesti Hailed As Costly Blow To Germany BULLETIN London Aug. 31—(UR)—The Red army ha* broken Into Bucharest, capital of Romania, Soviet Premier Marshal Josef Stalin announced in an order of the day today. Moscow. Aug 31— (UP) —Russian forces aped south from newlyraptured Ploesti Into the suburbs ot Bucharest, capital of Romania, today. Other Soviet column* to the east reached the border of Bulgar-ian-annexed Debruja and ened to croaa the pre-war frontier of Bulgaria itself In pursuit of Germany* fleeing decimated arm les. Bucharest wax expected to fall momentarily. Latest report* from foreign source* said it was in the hands of Romanian troops loyal to King Michael, though possibly surrounded by German* Michael surrendered Romania to the Soviets last week ami declared war on Germany. German resistance had melted almost completely away in the flaming attacks of the 2nd and 3rd Soviet Ukrainian armies. More than 15,000 additional prisoners, including the commander of the "th German army corps and three divisional commanders, were captured yesterday, increasing the total for th)* whirlwind I2day Ro man lan offensive to 318.000. .Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's (Turn To Page 1. Column 4) — O —— Application Blanks At Filling Stations Gas Coupon Books Will Be Issued Application blank* for the renewing ot "A" gas coupon book* to ail auto owners may be obtained at filling stations in (hi* city and throughout Ihe county, Mina Rosemary Spangler, chief clerk of the local war price and ration bourd. announced today. The filling out of the application, known as No. 534- revised. Is a simple matter. The applicant (or car owner) must print hl* name and address, give the vehicle's license number, the model and make of auto and sign the blank. The application should then be mailed to the local office, together with the back cover of the old “A” hook. which gives the aerial number of the former coupon book. The books will be Issued prior to g&ph-mber 21. when the present ones expire The local board has not yet received the new coupons. Newspaper dispatches from Washington state that the coupons will be good for four gallons each and that there will be fewer coupon* in the book, since the present ones are good for only three gallon* each. It is also possible that there may be more coupons in the book, thus eliminating the necessity of renewing the books before another six month*, but the local board doe* not have the final Information at this time. • Tbe big job of mailing the coupons will be done by volunteer worker*. Mie* Bpangler said. The application* will be processed in the local office a* to location and divided into three groups, namely Decatur. Berne and Geneva. Voiunteeir In these points will then have tbe task of writing the applicant's name on the cover of tbe coupons and of inserting the coupons In an envelope for tbe malls. TEMRERATURE READING OCMOCRAT THERMOMETER B'OO a. m. M-.-.-....*••••••••-•'* EB 10:00 a. m. M Noon — 70 ff:00 p. m. 74 WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday: oooler tonight; continued cool Friday; fresh wind*.

Toulon Harbor After Capture By French Forces

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TOULON HARBOR, seem- of the French fleet scuttling. Iles battered and partly demolished after its capture by French forces. Hulks of Home ships can lie seen jutting up out of bay.

| *9 . Election Calendar Received By Clerk October 9 Is Final Registration Date Voter*, other than those In the armed forces, have until October !» to register or transfer their registration in order to vote In the general election, Clyne O. Troutner, county clerk, announced today. Mr. Troutner has received a copy of the election calendar, governing the registration of voters and the voting of war ballots by members of the armed forces. The calendar follows: Oct. » —The last day for a voter not coming under the war ballot law to register before the general election. Also the last day on which a voter may transfer hid registration before the election. Oct. 23—The last day w’tvh applications for war ballots may lie received by the clerk where the ballots are to be mailed without the territorial limits of the United States. Oct. 27—The last day on which the members of the armed forces may personally procure and vote at the clerk's office official war ballots. ‘ Oct. 28—The first day on which a voter may personally procure and vote a regular absent voter's ballot at lite clerk's office. Oct. 28—The last day when applications for war ballots may be received by the clerk where ballots are to be mailed to the voters within th<* territorial limits of the United States. Oct. 28—The last day a person serving with the armed forces if personally present In county of his voting residence may register with the clerk of the circuit court. Nov. 4—The last day a voter may make application for a regu(Turn To Page 1, Column 7) ,—0 Rural School Pupils Register For Classes Rural Schools Open On Tuesday Morning 'Pupils in the rural schools were registering today for classes that open Tuesday morning, Lyman LHann, county superintendent of schools, announced. Yesterday the teachers of the county attended the annual county teachers institute at the Lincoln building in this city and heard Simon Davidtan of Lima, give two lectures. The attendance was unusually good. Mr. Hann stated,* and the teachers enjoyed Mr. Davidian'e Inspiring talks on Russia and the United States of America. During the day, Mr. Ilsnn distributed the mesh bags to school principals and teachers for the milkweed pod collection campaign which gets underway In the county nest month. The school children will gather the pods, which, when ripened, provide a floss that the navy will use In the making of life preservers and life belts. A contest will bo conducted among the rural schools, sponsored by the Rotary and Lions clubs, and between the 'Berne and Decatur schools.

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Decotur, Indiana, Thursday, Auqust 31, 1944

Road To Berlin By United Press The shortest distances tq Berlin from advance)! Allied lines: Northern France — 448 miles (from point near Helm*. Gain of 72 miles iq week). Hout hern France — 59<i miles. (From point near Grenoble. Unchanged for wteg.) Italy—s7ft mile* (from Pesaro. Gain of 34 miles in week.) Russia—32B miles (from point near Warsaw. Unchanged for week. I 19 Japanese Ships : Sunk Or Damaged Intensify Campaign Against Jap Vessels ! Allied Headquarters. Southwest Pacific Aug. 31 — (UP) — Allied •homlber* Intensifying the campaign , against Japanese shipping, sank or damaged al least 19 more vessels from the far northern Kurile Islands to the Molum-as and the Eaet Indies In the southwest Pacific, it i wa* di*clo*ed today. 'Heavy and medium bomber* made another softening attack on , Halmahcra, unloading 113 tons of explosives Tu.-Hday on that enemy base which is 250 miles south of the ' Hilttppines. W4des|geud damage was Inflicted on coastal defenses and supply and barrack* areas on Waelle and Kaoe Bays. The largest Japanese ship bagged was a 7.ftfto-ton freighter-trans-port which air patrols dest-oyed or severely damaged Monday night off the Celebes Two small freighters were sunk ' at the Kai Islands, and a 1.0«0-ton ■ freighter and a small coastal craft were destroyed off the east coast of Mindanao, where air patrols a gain hit the Port of Davao, for the 10'h time in three week*. Hou th of Halmshera, fighterbomber* made » new assault on the (Turn Ta P»g* 8. Column I)

Belief Growing War In Europe Can Be Ended Within 35 Days

<Editor's note: The greatest war In history will have run five year* tomorrow from the September day Adolf Hitler sent his armor rolling against Poland. The vice-president and Kuropean manager of the United Press has surveyed the fighting fronts from his vantage point in London on the eve of the anniversary and presents the following report on where the Allies stand after 60 months of blood and struggle. I By VIRGIL PINKLKY • London. Aug. 31 —(UP)—On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the European war. one finds In London official and semi-official quarters a growing number of converts to the belief that the war In this theater can be ended within the next 3F» days if the Allies gel good weather ami a fair share of the battle brbaks. Even the most conservative military view agrees that the next five weeks should see the armed power of Adolf Hiller's third reich broken forever even if some fanatics should retire Into the mountains and forests and wage futile guerilla warfare for a time. A German wehrmacht which In three months has suffered between 700.060 and 1,000,PM casualties in

Meat Point Values Remain Unchanged Civilian Supply Os Citrus Fruits Upped Washington, Aug. 31—(UP) — Present point value* of all rationed meats will continue through September, but the supply of better grades will Ih> smaller, the office of price administration *aid today. Many kinds of cheese will cost two more red point* a pound next month. A can of condensed or evaporated milk will have a new value of one point instead o! twothirds of a point. Creamery butter will remain at 16 points a pound but process butter not generally iHiught fol’ table u*e. will go up six point* a pound to a new value of 12 points. Farm butter will stay at 12 points. Although there was no change announced in the point value of canned salmon, the war food administration re<iuced the civilian allocation of that commodity from 130.0ft0.t100 to 53.000.0 M pound* of the 1944 pack. This might presage (Turn To Page 8. Column 7) Lt. Liniger States Hay Fever Is Worse Than Modern War In the opinion nt an a my air corps officer, there are -wonse thing*) than war That’s tne way Flint Lt. Vaun Llnlgsr of this city feel* about hay fever. Lt. Llnlger. holder ot the Distinguished Flying Cross, with 68 i successful missions to hi* credit in I the European theater of operation*, is a victim of hay fever and the sneezing and crying eye* are wonse to take than th)- bombing mission*. Hi* leave wain't up until September 9. but he left today for Miami Beach. Fla , hoping to obtain relief from the hay fever. Mrs. Llnlger ac- ' com pan led him.

France. Italy and Russia, is retreating—ln some places In headlong rout—without the protection of its luftwaffv In the air and increasingly barraased by snowballing guerilla movements within its lines. Many additional thousands will live to reach the reich borders. The best approximation of the fighting strength of the wehrmacht in the field today Is 2.000,000 compared with N. 000.000 In IMO after the amazing German blitskreig victories. Two years of uninterrupted retreats have stripped the Germans of vast amounts of equipment including rail transport, gasoline and oil and Industrial sources. They have plunged Nasis Into a stale of gloom so deep that they are frankly admitting that the reich la facing the gravest situation In Its history. Aflled high opinion, on the other hand. Is reflected in statements like that of Prime Minister Churchill that the end of the conflict may come sooner than previously could have been expected and In that of Prime Minister Jan C. Smuts, an elder statesman with a vast knowledge of the over-all pictista To Psge », vviuam

Robot Bomb Coast Is Virtually Isolated In \ Powerful British Drive

Pleasant Mills Man Is Suicide Victim Charles Dague Ends Life With Shotgun Charles Hague, 33, shipping clerk at the Decatur Casting company, died at ths Adam* county memorial hospital at noon today of a self Inflicted gun shot wound from a 16 gauge shotgun, which he held to his left chest at his home in Pleasant Mlllr at about 11 o’clock this morning. Although the shell tore a large hole above his heart and under his left shoulder blade. Mr. Dague did not die Instantly. His wife was at home when he committed the HUlclde attempt and called the Zwick ambulance. He was removed to the hospital and death was attributed to hemorrhages. He bled profusely while Irelng moved from his home to the hospital Recognized as a valuable employe, Mr. Dague also served a* an employment manager at the Decatur Castings company, in addition to his duties a* shipping clerk Fellow workers were shocked to learn of his untimely death. He was employed at the Industry since January M. 11130. It is believed that despondency over his health caused him to commit the.act. He was M-heduled to have his tonsil* removed this wook ami he seemed to Ih- suffering (Turn T.I Psge 4, Column 7) O Joseph Winteregg Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Joseph D Winteregg. 72. retired business man of Berne, died at his home at 3:15 o'clock Wednesday astern-ton. He had been ill for an extended period and bedfast Mince May. his ailment being a serie* of complications. The deceased was born in Adams >-ounty July 13. 1872. lhe son of Joseph Winteregg of Switzerland and Katherine Riecher Wln'viegg of France. His entire life was spent in Adana) county. On Oc'ober 13. 1895 he was united in marriage to Mlm Caroline Sprunger of BerneBesides his wife, the following children surrive: Mrs. Gilbert Hirsohy. Decatur R R. 8; Gerhart Winteregg. Islington, Ky; Mm. Ike Marvel. Ithaca. N. Y.; Ellis Lehman, Berne; Norman Winteregg. Dayton. Ohio; Mrs. Joe Brewster, Cleveland Ohio. There are al*o a number of grandchildren. On<> sister. 'Mrs. Amo* Schindler, and one brother, Hen-y, reside in Berne. Mr. Winteregg was for many year* prominent in bueineaa affairs In Berne. He clerked in the post office, dealt In real estate and insurance, was ctwhler of the Bank of Berne for 16 years and manager of the Adams county farm bureau for 10 yeans Five yeans ago he retired because of ill health. iMr. Winteregg was a member of the First Menuotiite church, w'eere funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, with the pastor. Rev. John P. Suderman. officiating Burial will be in the M. R. E. cemetery. The body will i>e returned to the home from the Yager mortuary Thursday evenins. — - —0"" Major Harold Stump Is Prisoner Os War 'Major Harold Stump, squadron commander of a P-C7 Thunderliolt fighter unit, who -was reported miming In action since June 10. is a prisoner of the German government. according to word received by hi* grandfather. George Stump of thia city. Major Stump is the »on of Mr. and Mrs Charles Stump of Cody. Wyo. He is well known In thia city, having visited frequent iy with hia grandfather and hi* sunt, Mr*. W r m Kuhl*.

Nice Fails To Yankee Troops, No Opposition Nazis Sacrificing Hundreds Os Troops In Delaying Action BULLETIN London, Aug. 31 — (UP) — French partisan troops have captured the great river port of Bordeaux, the fourth city of France, a communique issued by the French force* of the interior said today. Chamberry in southeastern France and Ronnerre in the Yonne Department also were captured by the French irregulars, the communique said. Rome. Aug. 31.—(UP) — Victorious American) troop*, striking from both end* or the front in southern France, sent straggling remnants of the Germans IKth army reeling northward Into the Lyon area today ami captured, without oppoattion, the resort city of Nice on the Mediterranean. The capture of Nice, largest of the French Riviera resort*, carried the southeastern point of the Allied beachhead to within 12 mile* of the Italian border. The city, with a population of more than 200.00 ft wa* virtually undamaged except In the harbor area. In th)- Rhone valley, tbe battered German forces were sacrificing huge supplies and hundred* of men in desperate rear guard lighting in an attempt to delay the fast pursuitig American troops. Despite heavy losses In flercc battle* along the eastern shore of the Rhone river, a substantial portion of the Germans broke out of the American trap from Montelimar to Livron ami succeeded in reaching the Lyon area. The harassed Germans were expected to make an attempt to reform their forces at Lyon, a famous silk manufacturing center and France* third largest city, and hold on to delay a* long as possible a juncture of Allied troops from north and southern France. The Germans apparently hoped to stall the Allied drive until all their units could be withdrawn to a point from where they coud retreat to the German frontier. (A communique from the French (Turn To Pag* *. Column 4) 19 Are Ordered For Active Induction Leave September 20 For Active Service Nineteen Adams county youths have received orders from the county selective service board to report Wednesday. September 30, for active induction into the nation's arm<-d forcea. Thvs)- youth* have all previously passed their pro-induction examinations and have been awaiting call. The 19 young men will go to Indianapolis, where they will be assigned to various branches of the service, according to the needs at the time of their induction. The complete list of the men who will report for duty September 2D is a* follows: Ivan Morse Yaney. Arthur Werling. Homer Francis Rauch. David .Milo Nussbaum. Herman Don Brown. Roy Everett Hlrschy. Merlin Dale Ntucky. Leßoy Clinton Cable, Morri* Krueckeberg. Robert Frederick Mutschler, Alfred Mart In Buitemeler. John Doyt Spahr. Robert Lee Uechty, Kenne'h David Lehman, Brice Franklin Sheets. Robert Louis Robert Earl Hendrick*. Robert Jack Garner and Robert Altou Everett.

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American Doughboys Within 26 Miles Os Belgian Border, 80 Miles From Germany Supreme Headquarters. AEF. Aug. 31 (UP)—Powerful British armored force* broke across the Somme river line today, captured Amiens and plunged on toward Boulogne. Calais, and the beaches of Dunkerque in a fast-rolling offensive that threatened to overrun the robot bomb coast within 72 hours. Far to the east, two American tank armies fanned out beyond the shattered Aisne und Marne river line* at top speed in twin drives that unoffi) ial reports said had carried to within 26 mile* of the Belgian border and little more j than so miles from Germany. Battle-hungry British Tommies, i spurred by the prospect of lifting the "rocket-siege" of London within a matter of day*, swept across the Homme in a burst of power that sent lhe Nazis fleeing in disorder from Amiens. Vanguards of the British 2nd army speared into the city early this morning and at mid-day the main force rode through in pursuit of the enemy. Tank*, gun*, ami troops were reported pouring across the Bomme in an increasing tide and headquarters spokesmen said the new bridgehead on the north batik wa* firmly extablbdied early this afternoon. Amiens, which straddles the Homme altout 4ft mile* inland from the channel coast, wa* the scene of one of the final Allied victories or World War I in August. 1918. Six days after the start of that offetiKive the German high command advised the Kaiser's government to sue for |H-ace. Simultaneously. Canadian Ist army troopers lunged into tbe Seine river port of Rouen and thrust acroa* the Dieppe highway nine mile* above Rouen in a drive to seal off the channel town, where a host of Canadian* found death ami glory In th)- great commando raid two year* ago. German re*l*tam-e was crumbling swiftly under the trip hammer British and Canadian blow*, ami front report* indicated the Allies might reconquer the entire pas de Calais area ami it* rolmt bomb bases by (he end of the week. "The all-conquering Nazi hosts are now shattered, hounded by day and night, and they have lost all semblance of an effective fighting force," United Press war correspondent Richard D McMillan reported from the British field headquarters. "They have only one Idea — to drag themselves somehow out of the dutches of their fast-moving British pursuers." McMillan reported that hundreds of Germans, worn out by the refootless pounding of Allied land and air forcea, quit cold before Amiens and r,imply lay down along the roadside to watch the British armor roll by. They were round/Turn Tn t. Column 4) NELNET LININGS ANE NINE OF PAPER > WASTE PAPER Needed at once! QHVF / A Bimdlff • Wn.k UHI L I Some Bo y * s (jf e Have your WASTE PAPER and TIN CANS r*ady for the ragular pick-up SATtHDAY, SELT. 3