Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 217, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1944 — Page 2

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Mattoon Mad Man Is Branded Hoax War Plant Fumes Are Blamed For Hysteria .Mattoon. 111, Sept 13—(UP)— Police today buried the mythical “mad man of Mattoon' in an equally mythical cemetery after branding the phantom who haa terrorised thia city for two weeks a hoax, whose mysterious "gardenia gas" that 'paralyzed’’ his victims was only carbon tetrachloride fumes from a nearby war plant. Police commissioner Thomas V Wright and (apt Harry Curtis, head of the state police called in to aid in the capture of the “phantom, said that after checking and re-checking the stork* of his 35 "victims.” they were convinced he was non-existent. .Mattoon, now- • r. refused to let the mysterious ->nesthetiat die so ignominious ». death and the mass hysteria so evident among residents only yesterday immediately turned to mass Indignation against police officials who refused to believe Ihe stories of the inys.ierioua attacks. "That statement Is ridiculous." said William Kidwell state's attorney of Coles county and a resident of .Mattoon Why. Sb to 75 feet across the street from that war plant are houses where the resider's aren't liothered by the

SALE CALENDAR .. > HEPT 14—Glen White Adm Mie. 5 mile* south. H mile weat of Will Mliire, Ohio. 50 sure (arm. 17 acre farm. All personal pro perty. Roy S. Johnson, auctioneer. SEPT. II —Dr. W. E. Smith, 3'j milea Northeast of Decatur, Ind., or *j mile East of Union Chapel Church; Pure Bred Hoiateine and Farm Equipment. J. F. Sanmann, auctioneer. SEPT 15 Mrs. James Riley, household foods. 810 Winchester St . Lester W. "Bud Suman. Auct SEPT. 15 Jacob B. Steiner, 2 miles west. 1 mile north of Berne. Country home. 2 acres, household goods. Jeff Liechty, auct. SEPT 15 Btetier Furniture Co.. Willshire. Ohio. Continuation Sale of •New and t eed Furniture. J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer. SEPT. 16 DARREL CLAUSE. 119 Acre Fann Livestock and personal property. 4 miles East of Decatur J. F. Sanmann. auct. SEPT 18—John Mastenbrook, 3 miles South of Kalamazoo. Mich I<W» Acre farm. Modern improvements, and Pure Bred Brown Swiss Dairy Herd. J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer. SEPT. 18 Wm. Ohler. 2 miles east of Decatur, 70 acre farm and per sons', property. Roy 8. Johnson, auctioneer. SEPT 19 —Catherine E. Burk, Admrx., Joe Burk, 2’j miles east and % mile north of Pleasant Mills. Farm sale. Lester W. <Bud) Suman, auctioneer. SEPT. 19—Russel Malott, 4 miles South of Warsaw, Indiana on No. IS. 200 acre farm and all personal property J. F. Sanmann, auct. SEPT. 20 —Charles Boring, 1% mile»4East of Pleasant Milla. Indiana Livestock and personal property. J. F. Sanmann, auct. HEPT 21—Homer W. Vore. 2>i miles Northeast of Pleasant Mills, Ind Improved 120 Acres. J. F. Sanmann—Auctioneer. HEPT. 22—Jesse Stamm, Charles Stamm. 4 miles Northwest of Kewanna. Ind.. 150 acre and 100 acre farms, modern improvements, and Large Dairy Herd J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer. SEPT 23 Luella and Gladys Bolinger. Willshire. Ohio Four room home and household goods. J. F. Sanmann. auctioneer. SEPT. 23 —Homer Liby. 1 mile east of Decatur. Chris Bohnke. Auct SEPT 28 Julius Heideman. 2 miles west, 2 miles south of Decatur Chris Bohnke. auctioneer. SEPT. 27—J. J. J. Moser Heirs, 31> miles west. 1 mile north of Berne160 acre and 80 acre farms, livestock, implements. Jeff Liechty, auctioneer. SEPT 30- Charles K. Miller. 4 miles west. ' 3 mile north of Decatur. Chris Bohnke. auctioneer. SEPT. 30— Showley Park. Bruce Lake. Kewanna. Ind., 10 acre lake shore property, two modern homes, cottages, boats, etc. Completely equipped recreation park. J. F. Banmann, Auctioneer.

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fumes. The plant han been using a cleaning substance (carbon tetrachloride > on gun shells ever since the war began and there never were any complaints liefore.” He sdmitted. however, that some of the reporta of the attacks might have been the result of mars hysteria but was firm in his belief that "someone did throw oy . squirt gas Into wm« of the I homes ” n Capt. Curtis said that In the r first cases reported there probH ably was a house prowler and the , fright, plus tbe war plant fumes created the imaginary anesthetist , Mattoon's madman first made . i his appearance Aug 31 when r i three persons reported they were temporarily paralyzed and made ill by a sweet-smelling gas. appar ently forced through their wini clows with a spray gun • The reports spread rapidly until -a total of 35 persons claimed they f had been attacked. All reported - the same effects from breathing the gas. They liecame 111 to their , stomachs and were partially para- , lyzed until the effects wore off. K Os C. Picnic Netted $l,OlO Francis Costello, general chairman for the Knights of Columbus picnic, held September 3 at dun Set park, east of the city, informed tbe lodge members that the net profit* from rhe affair wen- 11.010 He expressed ha* appreciation to th* members and the public for their support and purchase of grand prise ticket*.

— ...S - ■'» r l — —•1. . ■ - ’ Close Presidential r ’ Election Foreseen I * See Close Contest For Popular Votes r r ’ Washington. Sept II—(UPt — Best bet aa tbe political campaign * accelerates today Is that the presl ' dential election will be a close con- * eat tor popular votes. ' Political events in Maine. Texaand Ohio variously comforted Dem ocrata and Republicans but with--1 out producing conclusive evidence of a national trend either way. Maine's jump-the-gun state election yesterday gave the Republican gubernatorial candidate 73 per cent ot the vote and a plurality of HO.ooo. tbe largest in recent state records. Democrats will find some offset to the returns In the fact that only 11)5,000 or eo voters of approximately 350.000 qualified registrants actually went to the polls. But the returns seem to make the state safe for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the GOP presidential candidate. If Maine is to be given any political barometric significance at ail, the big Republican margin there suggests bigger Republican votes elewhere Rut It Is a fact that .Maine voters this year cast 76.6 m) fewer ballots than four year ago when the state's election was curtain raiser to a presidential poll. Thia show of comparative disinter** at or indicaton of a failure of absentee voters to' send in their ballots offers someth'r.g for all campaign managers to consider. Politicians were interested in landslide returns from two of Maine's congressional districts to which the CIO political action committee limited its Maine election activities. The PAC-Dcmcuratic candidates were licked badly There were pre-election reports ot Democratic resentment In Main*against the PAC —a factor which may be present in oher states. President Roosevelt’s supporters won a vita! first skirmish in their battle to hold Texas electoral votes for the adminiatratiori The possibility that Texas' S 3 electoral votes might be cast for some Democrat other than the president disturb* the White House considerably more than anyone will admit The first test vote in the Dallas state Democratic convention was won by tbe fourth term forces by a count of 503 to 774 with 72 absentee votes unrecorded. The proRoosevelt total did not represent a clear majority and may be reversed. but it was sweet music at Democratic national committee headquarters here. In convention at Cincinnati. 0.. president John L. Dewis ot the United Mine Workers of America called on his 500.000 followers to vote against Mr. Roosevelt in November. Uswia cannot deliver all of those votes even though tbe union convention might repudiate Mr Roosevelt by resolution or even endorse Dewey. But be can deliver some of them. AMERICAN DRIVING (CsstlaaeS Tram rags n Ippolito. Isotb 17 miles north of Florence and just west ot burgnano. Fighting was continuing through five main passes into the German's gothic line. The Allied communique failed to reveal the location of the passes, except to say the British Sth army was within a mile of one pass northeast of Florence and the U. 8. stb army within two and a half miles of another heavily de fended gateway somewhere north to northwest of Florence. klh army troops, who previously had crossed the Sieve river north east of Florent*, have advanced five miles In the last 24 hours, an Allied communique disclosed today

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I , There and elsewhere along the Italian front, however, tbe Allied forces were meeting increased German artillery fire as they closed with the gothic line fortifications. —O . — OTHER UNITED ICMUIMt M.S **M« >) seif appeared under way in force as a general advance continued eastward toward the Siegfried line, which on the Ist army front lies aliout five to 10 miles behind the frontier,” the headquarters dispatch said in reporting ad vanced elements in touch with the last great fortified belt before Berlin. Indications were that the Americans would l»- in close contact with .the Siegfried line at a number of places very soon Headquarters revealed that bom Its were dropping on the Siegfried lin*- ami its supporting buses at the rate of six tons a minute, day and night, in a mighty soft i ening-up barrage that thundered Into its sixth straight day today. I On the heels of a dramatic. warning from Gen Dwight D 1 Eisenhower that German civilians I must quit the Ruhr and Rhineland or be bombed out. a great parade • ot American and British warplanes swarmed out over the advancing Allied armies this morn Ing to spread new ruin through ' the enemy's west wall fortifies--1 lions. A blanket of security cenaor- , ship ol>m ure<l the advance of Jje , American Ist army's two speai'- ’ heads into Germany south of Aachen ami Iteyond 'I ru-r. liut correspondents were permitted to reveal that both columns were operating In strength and that new crossing* of the border were Imminent at six other undisclosed pointk f Al the same time it was ani- nount'd that a new American fighting force, the U. S. Pth army li under Lt. Gen. William II Simps son. haa landed somewhere in e France to Join the million or e more men already wheeling Into h line for the grand assault on e Germany. b Another great striking arm. s the newly-constituted Allied air »- borne army, also was ready to li join in the battle for the Nasi homeland. Headquarters refused y to comment, however, on a Paris i- radio report that the iwra troopers d and glider-liorne infantry would n soon ho land'd behind the blegr. I fried line to smash the enemy's

communications and transport. •sal Nasi Fate Rome. Sept. 13—(UP)—French troops from the 7th and 3rd armies forged a solid line through 1 central France today and the Allies threw two other columns across the escape routes into Ger- . many, sealing the fate of thou-i sands of Nasis hopelessly trapped in southwest France. A headquarters spokesman said the junction in force of the two armies at Chatlllon. 42 miles northwest of Dijon, left the Germans in southern and western France facing the alternative ot death or capture. There was no official estimate of the uumiu-r of enemy troops implied by the two Allied anntes although unofficial sources said earlier this week they exceeded 20,000. Prisoners in southern France already tidal 75.000 and are expec tec I to Increase swiftly as a result of the juncture, which a communique said was made "in I force” on the Seine river.

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FUND IS ALLOCATED (Costlsusd Frees Page 1) many youth recreational projects sponsored here through the schools and civic organizations, will be the ' director of tbe canteen. He will ; have personal supervision over tbe place. Work on remodeling the diner Into a gathering place for high school youths got underway today and It Is hoped that the center can Ito formally opened in a few weeks. The street and park departments of the city will cooperate in revamping the North Ward school grounds. The site will be filled In and leveled and the 3600 grant will be used in hard surfacing the area, so it .can be used in spring and fall months as a roller skating rink and In the winter be flooded . for ice skating. Members of the budget commit--1 tee are Waiter J. Krick. R O. Gen--1 tie. E V McCann. C. E Bell and 1 Arthur E Voglewede. Carl C. Pumphrey is president of

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Democrat Campaign Committees Listed County Chairman Lilts Committees Pour additional committees to acnlst in tbe coming campaign were announced today by Adams county Democratic chairman Clyde O. Troutner. These committees are: Entertainment: Helen Reuaser, chairman; Helen Kenney. May the Decatur Community fund and Mrs. Herman Keller la the secretary. Herman H. Krueckeberg is the treasurer.

FIRESTONE! TRACTOR TIRES We have in sltx-k the following gizew: SF' 13-28 tire# and tubes 500-16 and 500-15 K ARNOLD & KLENK I Madison St. gjh Public Saler Because of the death of my husband, the late Joseph 0 undersigned administratrix will sell at public su< ti,,n south and % mile west of Wren or 2'-j miles north of % mile east of state line, or 35* miles east and % mile north ant Mills, on •’’■l Tuesday, Sept. 19,19411 Tima: 12:30 P. M. ■ • — CATTLE —8 ■ Guernsey cow. 5 yr old. giving good flow of milk Holstein cow. 3yr old. giving good flow of milk freshes li Red cow, 3 yr. old. giving good flow of milk. fn-»hen la Guernsey cow, 3 yr. old. giving good flow of milk rebr<M. ■heifer, 1 yr. old. open; 3 Guernsey heifers. 6 month* old ■■ 3 — HORSES — 3 B* Sorrel team. wt. 1550 each—sorrel mare <; yr ( ,|,| W | t h colt by side; Sorrel mare, 3 yr. old. Hoot— Dur or- sow. will farrow by day of sal> Kj TRACTOR AND MACHINERY Ki 10-20 McCormick-Deering Tractor in A l condition: ir Oliver tractor plow; Moline. 7 on a side, traitor disc; ll.exm drill. 10 hoe; Rock Island corn planter, with sv rod »l sire tooth harrow. 150 tooth, like new; 14" bottom Oliver ridinz bottom Oliver walking plow; smooth land rollei :os corn cultivator 5' cut Oaborne mower. Weber wagon 1‘ 3 ' 15’ grain bed. like new, >' dump rake. 7 shove) plow <i<-nMe plow. M Plymouth Automobile, 'B4 model 2 door coach, in A I W fair tires. Also Hupmobile Coach. B MISCELLANtOUS ' Set of work harness, like new; aausagi grimier lard vr<«;M| drum; DeLnval cream separator. lowa < ream sepnator. hoth condition; 2 incuhators. IRn egg size; pitc h fork- single ties trees; many other articles too numerous to mention K Some Household Furniture including some Antique !>i»bet K TERU3-CASH. ■ Mrs. Catherine E. Bin VdminblratfsH Clerk—Verlin Burk. B Auctioneers—Lester W. "Dud" Human, phone 6761 is.aiur ■ Itonald H. BlaJr. phone 21. Petroleum Bj PUBLIC SALQ REAL ESTATE I 80-ACRE FARM AND PBRBONAI. I’KOPKinV | I, the undersigned, am quitting farming and edl mH tsr -o® farm and personal property at public auction i<>. ,d <. 1 uulv Mt>M Bluffton. Ind., on State Road No. 1, then % niilu can on B Monday, Sept. 18, 19441 •ala tUirting 10:30 A M. I REAL ESTATE I This Is a good Mt-acre farm, good producing v-u ■«“*<’> ''J*® lancl. located close to Bluffton. Ind The- feme-, ;■(“«! Ini’’ aiHiut new. The fgrm la all under cultivation ■v • !■’ and pasture, nice orchard, good drilled well, and » ► electric lights la ail buildings. ■ IMPROVEMENTS | Good k-room bouse—this house la all iiusicin >s«n» aaHB room down stairs. 3 rooms up. All mouerr. kit ie i cabinets, furnace with blower, thermastati* ;c!ly •>' '« ‘dJB old. targe baaement. french doors, open stair way. i >' '' \ **■ in yard. Barn. 3«x72 Poultry house. 4«x20 Com ‘ rih jWI ' g 3»xl». Cement block milk house, brooder house M TERMS: 11.000 cash on day of sale, Imlaii' ' ‘l' l *" 10 when deed and abstract Is delivered. •&.••<» mortgast' , “ 1 . 1 ■ or paid. PocMession will be given on or befon Jan 1. 1 :,,J ■ FARM MACHINERY, TRACTOR AND MISi EIJ 'NWj Minneapolis Moline tractor and cultivator •i' Inr, tractor disc: 14-in. Little Genius trac tor plo* ' * ! ' , Deere Van Hrant drill with grass seed and fertilize. a'«scMr ■ ™ Island side delivery; Moline hay loader 5-fl Bradley ni« 7W seeder; ( section spike tooth harrow; Emerson insnute • New Idea 4 wheel wagon with grain bed. good ruhlwi ' trailer with grain bed and stork rack; 1 wagon "ox ai jß er house; 1 oil brooder stove; metal chk-kett feeder*. ■» * fountains: hog feeders, bog fountain oil drum 5" - ’ ' fence; Ji rods woven wire sense. new; steel post*. nc» " g •r; hay rope; Lanta hay fork; grindstoue. I ONE COW I One Jersey cow. 7 years old, fresh | POULTRY v <1 “io Ughorn pulieu. now laying percent ■ > FEED z - ImM - ! L»0 bu. good Columbia oata, >4 acres corn in H« ' I TCRMB-CASH I Alvin Honegger, Owotfl

Holrhou.e, Spearke,, w 4l>f chan man. ' Slj o * ' George- Krick pubii.ii>- < u M man; Pete '<’« »»■< Frank 'W •Arrange men■» p*., „ HMI Bak. B. rna,-| . h Gu« Mann M . , Brigioc. K.g, . ing. Mr., cj ar4 li Date * form,., •"> '■“ .nx4 J*® the nezt t.-m, 1U .,., 1 American farm* u »r ’ MW ed 1,500,0 cm