Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1944 — Page 1

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AIRBORNE TROOPS POUR INTO HOLLAND

fee Battles Raging On Hsian Front KI !■,« Encirclement Iffhreat To Germans ■n Baltic Fronts I" -Th*radio t<Hlay ■HK i;A through lOa I, lit. Haiti* k who i„. by l-llnil*-SK ~.".ai" b> th«- North S*-;i HK. i ; , j break through half •)>*' |; along Hu- sea xlmli i.-nx of thou rt.M.p the upper Hal ' Bal' Har.-.l Io full J by Berlin account. and t,.» ax upward troops w.-rc t-n-To th.- southwest. Berlin : Moscow confirm other Ituxxiaii forcex tried Hie Vistula river at War *<c tli<- I’olixh capital. Herman l>\'B n*-w» ag.-n. y H th* *l*-f*-ii«iv*- battle on the front raged with "ex liolem • and Ito* IlllHXianx extend. <1 it to the area of in lower Estonia. fan <-x which broke at Xingle points Were and sealed off the sa.l in backhanded adid N C'i r.-v.-rxex in xevih tors. army wax about to spring th* trap it cloned on the in Hi<- Halt lex early it. only to have tile Nazis ■’itom.b barricade reach the North Sea near Higa Hriti-.li radio want the hatWarsaw ix entering its l-haxe utter the Rusxiunx th. Vistula about five hor'h of th.- capital, where KB' - "»‘ini- ol th.- river tx 1.-axt Th.- broadcast wax reby i K''l--' • " i ntiiniunii|iie for first rim. m several Weeks, not mention the lighting at r ’“ s til. n-u.il practice when off.-r.-iv. i utid.-i way but German re of a r.-n> w.-d drive toward Gulf of Riga. |B**tnxti rep.,rix said Marshal K Kokoxxovaky x Ixt Itu.bian 4 ,tny launched the a«»aulr on Warsaw yexter'>ut .lann.-d th.- first attempt the Vistula from Praga. B'”’" eard.-rn suburb, had radio confirm.-d reports fighting north of War ‘* n * l SiUll Soviet artillery wax point blank at German forhol‘l "‘K "'ll in eight fixit thick pillboxes. 9 r uck Damaged By W fe This Morning Hl','* ,I “ i 'onxiilcraflde damage to |^A,’' k loaded with rock wool on •itiat-ee- this morning at 9 o' Ml . k in '* loud was owned t*y »" ( ' ( '-Hy company of Fort Wayne |B 'lx* of the company said Mffi' :i!- -at kw burned oft the K -'"" 1 * hlrb ""T "aid la firejK*,. Ttl *‘ flr '‘ t'»rted from a abort |M» - ' ,i,lon *y*ffni underneath |B* ’"-k The city fire department the call ® lllcd Troops Within ■ *° Miles Os Rimini 1 A,l# Headquarteiw, n »« (Vpj -An Kiinu^*! 01 “* U ” n w i* lw " < r<wed the Sb-. 2T W *'’ l * r n China to comK* It J WPtI " 4rl *’ > • <ru «« BurK,, *■** ff'fde al a,I unspecified l Otl^" ATU ’* l! ”»AD'NO 9 IMoc "AT THERMOMETtR B J! ® 0 •- m xa K I 0” *• "»« 70 H «=•»•. m H hir * U THtR ■ h «ta ea 2' ,M •’ MI B ,rHh wbST ‘• mptr “ ur *-

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Tito Captures Son Os Guerilla Rival By I'nited I’mx The Yuoxlav partisan radio xald ; today that Marahal J<»dp Titox troops have raptured the son of his I rival uerflla chief. Draja Mlkhallo j vitch iMikhaiiovltcha son was said to j havetbeen taken when the partbana Iflterated Valjevo in W.m: -rn Merida. The yotMh wax living there "under German protection", according to the .broadcast, which wax recorded by MX’ monitors. Q Plan Airport Drive At Meeting Tonight Division Captains Named By Chairmen Divisional captains who will appoint lleutetiantx Io Mdlcit In their rexpex-tive areax for Adamx county's S&O.tioo airport fund, beginning next Monday, were named today by Karl Fuhrman, general chairman. Kight captains have lieen named by Mr. Fuhrman and they will meet tonight nt 7:30 o'clock at the First State Bank to plan their drive. The city has lieen blocked in areax including the Industrial section. halges and clubs, professional. retail business section, outlying business section, women's organizations. townships and Pleasant Mills. The assignment of territories and the captains of the classifications are: Industrial group. James Klberaon. laslges and clubs, Walter J. Bockman. Professional groups. Dr. Joe Morris. Retail business section, Carl C. Pumphrey. Outlying business sections. Phil Sauer. Women's organizations. Mrs. Martin Weiland Hural, ln< hiding Root, Preble a it.) Union townships. William Hchnepf Pleacant Mills, Glenn Mann. The chairmen at Berne. Monroe and Geneva are naming their own I organization for the county-wide drive which will be launched Monday. Ray Leitz. county chairman, stated tislay that the organization was moving along smoothly and that the captains and workers were enthusiastic over the interest manifest ml by citizens In general. Chairman Fuhtman said that a meeting of the divisional chairmen and their workers would be held Friday evening at tlie bank for the final pep-up preparatory to the opening of the drive. ■ ■ .. .Q „ - Huntington Officer Is Killed In Crash Gran-by. Maa* . Sept IS. —(('-Pi — Second Lt. John W Woodraw. SJ. Huntington. Ind., wan one of seven men killed yesterday when a Lite era tor bomilier crashed two miles north of Westover Field while on a routine .training mission, the army announced today. 0 American Destroyer Lost In Hurricane Coast Guard Patrol Vessels Also Lost Washington. Sept IS —(t'Pi— The U. 8. destroyer Warrington and two 125-foot coast guard patrol craft were lost in the hurricane which swept up the Atlantic coasUlne last week, with "heavy" loss of life on the destroyer, the navy revealed last night. Rescue vessels were said to have picked up some survivors. Including the Warrington's skipper. Cmdr Samuel Frank Quarles, of Nathalie. Va. Destroyers of the I.SOO-ton Warrington class have a normal complement of 230 officers and men. The coast guard vessels lost were the Jackson and Betlloe. each carrying a crew of about 35. The Jackson was commanded by U. (JGI Norman D Call. Lake wood. 0., and the Bedloe by Lt. (JO) August 8. Hess. Lohrville. Wle. The navy said it has not been determined whether either Yiwm’ Ta i-iMW

Schricker, Jackson Campaigns launched G.O.P. Candidates Assail Statements Indianapolis. Sept ig,—(UP) — Republican opponents of Governor Schricker and Sen. Samuel D. Jackson. Democratic nominees for I'. S. senator and governor, took issue today wl’h statement of Schricker and Jackson in their opening campaign speeches at French Lick Saturday. While Hoosier Democratic editor* and party leaders returned to their homes to carry the party'* campaign to every county in the slate. GOP gubernatorial nominee Ralph F Gales and senatorial nominee Homer E. Capehart replied to their opponents' speeches with sharply contrasting statements. ('apehart charged that Schricker -fully endorsed President Roosevelt's program and policies and said this meant that the governor "pledges himself to go to the U. S. senate, if elected, bound to the support of full continuation of the policies of Sidney Hillman. Franklin Roosevelt and the un-American theories of the new deal." On the other hand. Gutex said that Schricker and Jackson "obviously have abandoned all hope for the Roosevelt Hillman ticket in Indiana" and that they would make an effort to shake themselves loose from "the Roosevelt-Hillman coattails." Capehart said that Schricker "came out of hiding" to endorse Roosevelt fully and completely for the flrxt time In the campaign. However. Gates xald that Schricker and Jackson publicly endorsed a fourth term three mouths agolmt that now they were forming personal campaign dubs "that would exclude the names of Roosevelt or Sidney Hillman.” Gates referred to the announcement by Democratic |»arty leader* at the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association rally last weekend that Schricker-Jackson good government dubs would be formed to promote the party's stale ticket (Turn To Pass 4. Column 5> o — War Prisoners Work In Local Industry German Prisoners Alleviate Shortage To alleviate the manpower shortage, German prisoners of war, from the i'. s army prison camp at Celina. Ohio, started work today at the Krick-Tyndall tile factory in thig city. A «M|uad of 10 able fsidied men formed the first lalwr unit which arrived here under an armed guard this morning to help produce tile, ao vitally needed on farm* and public construction projects. The company must furnish trsneportation each way to the Cellira prieon camp, and a chauffeur. The armed guard Is an American soldier He ix Pfc. F'ancis Wheelock, a veteran of 2<> months service in the IMcific. The men have the letter* FW stenciled on their overalls, otherwise they can not be distinguished from the regular Ibborena in the mill. The men are assigned various duI it*. ilkhii inside and outside the mill The guard stated the men kept busy and that he Ime not had any trouble with them. A few of them can apeak English. <Under the contract, the company pays the common laflior wage scale (Turn To Pass I. Column «> 0 Yost Firm Awarded Bridge Repair Bids The Yost Construction company this afternoon was awarded the contract to rebuild three bridges over the Blue Creek ditch In Blue Creek township. The local firm was the only bidder and their total bid of 13M.700. plus 11 5o per lineal foot for piling If needed, wan accepted. The firm also submitted individual blds on the three bridges Work ia to begin Monday on the DeArmond bridge. The others are tbs D. A. Miller and D. D. Jones bridges. It is understood that the final contract will require completion of the three projects within 200 working days unless the war emergency prevents

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 18, 1914.

An Interview Inside Germany i'loti n vJ li J ' MV ) « wO - 9F". kl 4■' <a _ V : J STANDING ON THE OUTSKIRTS of one of the first towns of Germany to be approai hed by invading Allied troops. T. It Henry, tight, war correspondent for an American newspaper. Interviews Tech. Sgt. Leon Roxeman of Weehawken. N. J., G. I. camerman. The town ax the sign reads, lx Roetgen. Germany. This is a I'. S Army Signal Corps radiophoto.

Legion Convention Opened In Chicago Truman And Bricker Speak To Veterans Chicago, Sept 18. | UUPI- Vico presidential candidates of both major parties today told ’he 26th annual convention of the Ame rican I Legion that rights of refttrning vet-| erans must be prcctected and that the tnlx'akes made after th*- end of the first world war must not hoi repeated. Tile speakers. Sen. Harry S. Trit < man of Missouri. Democratic can-j dldate for vic** president, and GovJohn W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican vic*- presidential candidate, both are veterans of th*- first war. I Sen. Truman served in France ax' commander of an artillery ha'tery and Gov. Bricker wax a chaplain Bricker said that each returning j veteran is entitled to have hlx Job back, even at th*- expense of the civilian who held it while he wax' at war. Truman told the- Lgion tha* It sac-i ed a grave responsibility in that J he said, affairs of the nation will be in the hands of veterans of the first and second world wars for sometime after hostilities cease Bricker declared he was opposed , to the view which he* said hud' been expressed In some quarters: that veterans should not be given | (Turn To Pags Z. Columa <) Edmundson Barred As Lewis Opponent Autonomy Movement Leader Is Barred Cincinnati. (>.. Sept II.—(UP)— Ray Edmundson, of Hprlngtleld, HI., leader of a district self-governmen* movement In the United Mine Workers, today was barred from opposing John L. lx*wQ* In the union's December referendum for president. The prohibition against Edmundson's candidacy was included In a law committee report approved by the more than 2.700 delegates *o the un.on's biennial 10-day convention here. The* committee report also extended from two to tour years the terms of office of Lewis and the I union's other top-ranking In'ernat-I lonal officers. Following the defeat of toe autonomy movement. Edmundson relumed to hlx Springfield local of which Lewis Is a member with the announced intention of persuading the local to rescind the membership card of the UWW chieftain Lewis, in turn, appointed a three-meinber committee to determine if the autonomy movement waa a "dual movement" In violaXTucb Ta rag« UvDuub

Road To Berlin (By I'nited Press) The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Western front 300 miles (from (Mcint east of Aachen, gain of 19 miles in week ) Russia 320 miles (from Fraga. Gain of eight miles in week). I aly 553 miles (front point north of Florence. Gain of two miles in week). Dewey Will Bid For Labor Vote Tonight Major Address At Seattle Tonight Aboard Dewey Campaign Train. Sept, Di. (I'P) Gov Thomas E Dewey headed tor Seattle today to make his bid tor labor support in the November election with a program designed to “restore free collective bargaining and to correct the existing situation in which labor's rights are made subject to isditical favoritism." The Republican presidential nominee ix scheduled to address the nation tonight from Seal'.le's civic auditorium in the first of four int'Jor campaign speeches on the Pacific coast this week. Republican leaders anticipate a crowd of 10,600 for the western Washington GOP rally. Paul E. Lockwood. Dewey's secretary. said the Seattle speech would '‘discuss th*- problems that confront the working men and women of America." “Gov. Dewey will analyze the position in which American labor finds itself today under th** system of overlapping agencies and confliction of regulations which have been built up by Washington bureaucracy," Lockwood said. "He will set for'h plainly the measures which need to be taken to restore free collective bargaining and to correct the existing situation in which labor's rights are made subject to political favorl’ism.” Before the speech Dewey scheduled day-long conferences with business. agriculture, labor and political leaders similar to those he has held at nine other stops across the country during the last 11 day» Dewey will swing north after the Seattle address tonight, speaking at Portland tomorrow night. San Francisco Thursday night anil Loa Angeles Friday night. Moose Initiation On Tuesday, Sept. 26 The Initiation of 25 candidates thy Adams lodge 1311. Loyal Order of Moose, will I>e held at the Moose home Tuesday nigh*. September 26. instead ot tomorrow night, an erroneously announced in the Daily Democrat last week. All members of the lodge are urged to attend tbe initiation one week from tomorrow night.

Sky-Borne Allied Army Slashes Through Rear Os Germans In Holland

Yanks Extend Footholds On Palau Islands New Landing Made On Angaur Island; Other Forces Gain Pearl Harbor. Sept. IS. H'Pt American invasion forces t-Xtended their foothold in the southern Palau islands today, capturing one-third of tiny Atiguar and the southern end of Leleliti, together wl’h it* airlield, 560 miles east of the Philippines. Army troops of the Kist Infantry division, which landed bn Angaur Saturday, rolled through the threesquare mile Island against little opposition and penetrated a* much ax 1,500 yards at one point. Marines on Pelelitis. six miles north of Angaur, met stiff resistance but with the support of a steady naval and air bombardment, fanned out for one-third of a mile on the xou'hwest coast and wire driving northward. At the same time, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's veteran army forces tightened their grip on Morotal, in the Halmaheras. at the southern end of the American line extending around the southeastern corner of Mindanao from tin* Palaus. Southwest Pacific beadquarters said the troops reached all the fteriineter objectives against negligible opposition and continued *o consolidate their beachhead. While construction battalions rushed completion of the Pltu airfield. 250 miles south of the Philippines. Allied bombers dropped more than 210 tons of explosives in neutraliza'ion raids on other Halmahera airdromes. On Angaur. army troops under Maj Gen. Paul J. Mueller pushed more than 1,000 yards inland within a day after they landed. Joined their beachheads on the north anil northeast end of the island, captured a radio station and stared a drive southward. The American line, bulging a« much ax 1,500 yards from the beachhead, extended from the phosphate diggings on the wes* coast to a point 200 yards xoittli of rocky point on the eas* coast. "The northeast third of Angaur now Ix in our hands." Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz said, and observers believed the Japanese garrison of less than 2,000 men may be (Turn To Page 4. Column t) ... o — Food-Stamp Plan Is Revived In Congress Plan Absorption Os Impending Surplus Washington, Sept lU—tl'PI — A move to revive the federal food stamp plan—conceived during the depression to aid the economically unfortunate-—wax underway in congress today ax a means of absorbing impending food surpluses and assuring a balanced diet to some 16,000,000 lower-income Americans. A senate agriculture and forex try subcommittee met to act on an enabling measure and chair man Guy M. Gillette. D-. la . said it "undoubtedly" would be approved with a recommendation that the full committee speed it to the floor Gillette said, however, that the measure probably would not become law during this session of congress, even though the senate may accept it. Nevertheless, he xald. senate passage will form a basis for early house consideration soon after the 71»th congress convenes In January Introduced hy Sens George D Aiken. R-. Vt. and Robert M Lu Follette. Jr.. P., Wls„ the bill (Turn To Page I, Column I)

Air Force Abandons Great Chinese Base Action Forced By Japanese Advance Hendqunrters. 14th Air Force. China. Sept. IX. il'l’t Blasted runways and destroyed buildings were all that remained today or the great Kweilin air base, abandoned by the 14th air force In tlie face of two converging Japanese columns in China's Kwangxi province. Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault pulled out his air forces from the central strategic base for eastern Chiltu af'er desperate day and night delaying air battles failed to Stop the Japanese. The entire Kweilin system of air air fields were blown up with onethousand |h>uii<l bonds, together with all headquarters start x. ammunition, fuel, and bombs that could not be evacuated. The loss of Kweilin was the greatest strategic defeat yet suffered in China uttd forced the evacuation of buses built during the last two years by thousands of coolies. Tile engineers, who built the B-29 bases, supervised the planting of explosives beneath Kweilin's Installations. Chennault visited his favorite bases, from which he steadily hammered enemy coastal shipping, just before the entire Inxtallatioiw went up in smoke and flame. Refugees were fleeing the burning i lly to the wqxt ax the Japan (Turn To Purs Z. Column t> Heart Attack Fatal To H. E. Reidenbach Funeral Services On Wednesday Afternoon Funeral services will lie held Wednesday afternoon for Harold E Reidenbach, 17. of Convoy. (>, who died of a heart attack Saturday afternoon while driving hix car on I S. highway three miles went of Convoy. Services will be held at 2 p. tn It'WTi Wednesday at the St. Paul Lutheran church in Convoy, with Rev W II Moeller officiating Burial will Im* in the St Johns Lutheran cemetery near Convoy The body will remain at the High A- Hertz funeral home in Convoy until time of the funeral. Mr. Reideiibua h wax a promln ent Walther la-ague worker, having served as president of the Indiana district from 1937 to 1941. after serving two terms ax field secretary. A rural mail carrier, he also worked part time at the General Electric plant in this city He wax enroute to Mackinaw City. Mich, when* his wife has been for the past four weeks Surviving are the wife. Paula; a son. Ronald of Baltimore. Md ; a daughter. Jeanette, at home; a brother. Arnold, of Fort Wayne and six sisters. Mrs Dora Bischoff of Milwaukee Mrs. Edwin Roehm of Convoy and Mrs Esther Harder. Mrs. Wilma Sherer. Mrs. Evelyn Fry ami Mrs. Ella Schuster, all of Fort Wayne Brewery Workers In State Convention Fort Wayne Ind., Sept. 16 tl’Pl Tlie Indiana state council of Brewery and soft dring workers opened state convention headquarters today, with election of officers imminent although sewlonz were to be held until Friday, elate President William G. Johneon, Indianapolis. announced The ‘brewery workers' council conclave came in the midet of another convention, that of the Indiana state 'building and conetruction trades council The latter opened yesterday and wav scheduled to adjourn <today .with the election of off ice tw. .

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Powerful Array Os Planes Pours More Men And Supplies To Air-Borne Army Supreme Headquarters. AEF. Sept. IS (I'pi Allied sky trains totaling 2X5 miles in length pour>■<l reinforcements and supplies down to Lt. Gen. l*-wls fl. Brereton's air-liorne army fanning through Holland in a ludd attempt to turn the Siegfried line and open the way Io Berlin A front dispatch apparently written lust night said the Ger mans wen- fleeing from the Allied invasion liy air. and had evacuated at least 13 Dutch towns and villages. The security blackout still concealed from the German high command and the world the details of the descent on Holland details ot which the Nazis obviously had not been able to patch into a pattern for use in the defense of northwestern Germany. Crack German troops shifted westward from tlie Russian front counterattacked the tip of the American ixt army wedge which Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Ilovlgex had driven through tlie Siegfried line east of Aachen, but the Yanks absorlu-d tlie impact handily without tlie loss of a single- pilllxix. I'nited Press correspondent Jack Frankish, in a Ist army front dispatch reporting the German counterattack, said it was launched on a smaller scale than one yesterday. U. S. artillery rained more than 200 tons of shells onto crac k fusilier ami grenadier units, the finest German troops yet faced t»y the Americans in this sector Lt. tlc-n Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British 2nd army smashed forward across the Dutch frontier in a lull scab- advance after nearly two weeks of comparative lull. \rmor moved from the l>< Groot bridgehead across the Eseaiil canal in the direction of Eindhoven While the geography of tin- airborne onslaught remained obscure. it was evident that the British were pressing northward for a Junction with Brereton's forces A dispatch from the airborne front said file thunder of battle wax audible to th*- south, olcviotisly heralcllng the* approach of the British Again at 1 p. m. today, the hour of action yesterday, th** mighty array of planes rained men and material dawn to the forces in Holland which l>y Nazi account were in |*c>xilioii Io push past the nortil end of the Siegfried line alcove the Rhine and Into Germany. All of central England wax cov(Ticrn Tn Psgs t. Column 4> o — — Mrs. Herman Carson Is Taken By Death Former Minister's Wife Died Suddenly Funeral set vices will Ice held tonight at Goshen and at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the- Noble* Street Methodist c hurc h at Anderson for Mrs. Irene Carson, 52. former Decatur resident, who died Friday night at a Goshen hospital after an illness ot only two days Mrs. Carson was the* wife of Rev Herman R. Carson, former pastor of the First Methodist church in this city, and was active in Sunday school and church circles while* the family resided in Decatur She was Icorn In Greenville HI., January 14. 1X92. the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Daniel Thomason. She married Rev Carson in 1911. Surviving In addition to the husband are three* sons. Herman A. Carson of the merchant marine. John D. Carson of Fort Wayne and Lt Fred L. Carson, stationed with the third army air forces at Tampa. Fla.; two sisters, two brothers and two grandchildren. A son. Rolcert, died in California four years ago.