Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1944 — Page 1

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B Invasion fees land On Bia Islands I Kncan Troops On I Ke Spring Trap I ® 3,000 Japanese gfej . , P'i on the MK,. ’ above the New Guinea, to . ip :i,y warning sta\ii)< ii<an bombing I’:: lippine*. it was today was revealed by ■Kui.a MacArthur as tils |. mil--* to the KKLi. 'ng a trap on per i p.inese Ileal Limon. HKft 'I" II ell. Il < |||||K I • .*• b-plll- 111 <ll IVe K|H«li>-ii< • sistance wan ell in ' Mapias, 145 miles \ineib an heid Blak ■■tt-.. - '!> "t No-intooi in ■fjwui. G.-.-hink bay. Maem .< supplement to Ills KM daily ■ inmunlque. <-.. Hiding by a eompat H|K*:i. ■. ton e yesterday, a added - d-signed to de n 1 which he could warn l.ipnne.e o. < uple.l MK In lie Philippines of tile ■K.,' \ :< an Heavy bomb ■■t .in lii-li’--l> plan. » • l.a-ed on captured HK • .■'■!. Hying poniesIMm I. «till operate pi 1 HHl..in New Guinea and ad ■Kw.lt cl..- of their approa. I. HKth. Japanese to get Intel ■■in--. all and ah-ft anti funs KHot> ' bombs on D , I fields on Negros In ■■ Philippines Saturday .ratering runways a ai bast two parked MH \i" patrols over waters to and west sank a Japan ..nd two fuel barges di ' .'.lies indicated that I cities 24th dlvis HHi... -1.- yte already tiad a j about two mile, ■ e. . pmu -1..* I. BK side <d a reinforced enemy on 1 n mo. Limon road . ..inmunlipie said the ■Bn pa. th ally severed" the Union and tirmoc. to the south, behind the |Bfh "tn hoath east and w.wt Kd.tr of the division, diove up the West coast to Ualogo, only 10 miles th. sea and air base of !■- at 1 wiping out 50 percent llKiri.... Japanese force which a counterattack, lee New Catholic Bceses Are Added Bart Os Fort Wayne B loces e Is Changed Nov. 16—(UP)— delegation announ. Us Pope Plus XII has BK®»ted Indiana and Ohio as |K**a»ll<al provinces with |K B P ,, '"an sees at Indianapolis yin, mnatl. B pope elevated Indianapolis ■ * diocese to an archdiocese. SB ’*’l“«‘»Gt»n said, and named Joseph K Hitter. Kl Os the city as its first arch |K*W Th re* new dioceses were jy* 1 ,n ■safayette an d Cvans- • anrt In Steubenville, O. Hr"'* 1 " for these dioceses are MB hUri h ° r Ht M » r r Lafayette. Bk** 1 <>t the Assumption. Evans *nd Church of the Holy K'eubenvllte. Lafayette diocese was ereBk. " y ' “"•’Mr off part of the °r fort Wayne. Ind . and <7 Parishes, 100 priests, ■ , “ions and 25 Catholic ‘* rv, n« • total population 3d'' 10 P*teons of whom some H\J“*. Catholics. It includes B, u* of New,on Jasper, id fnltcn. Henton. White. To Pa*, j, Colom, |)

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Suggest Hitler May Be Enroute For Jap Confab - Another Report Soys Hitler Takes Refuge In Neutral Country London. Nov. !«.—(l »i- Two Independent sources suggested today that Adolf Hitler, far from mad. ill or dead, has left by submarine or plane for Japan for a spectacular east west conference with his last major ally. The theory was advanced simultaneously by non-Hpanlsh diplomatic circhv In Madrid and by Willi Frischauer. Austrian author who haa spent 20 years studying Hitler's life, In a letter to the edlt< of the London Hally Herald. Diplomatic circles In Madrid also relayed a report tliat Hitler fled Germany last week and had taken refuge in some neutral country, ’'unconflrmediy Argentina." Other unconfirmed and often conillctlng reports from the continent dealing with Germany and the fate of Hitler asserted: 1. —Another attempt has been made on Hitler* life. 2. -Germany intends to begin peace overtures through Lisbon soon. z 3. -Gestapo agenla arrested 70,boo persons In suppressing a revolt in Munich led by bombing refugees and foreign slave workers. 4- Nine Russian slave workers were shot In Berlin on charges of killing a policeman and possessing great quantities of anna and ammunition. 5— Austrians have beun passive resistance against the German*. I.—A uew decree will be Issued soon giving gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler, apparently acting fuehrer /Tarn T« Ps«» 1. Hnttimn >1 —- —■ '“*O “ Legion Gift Drive Opened In District Hospitalized Vets • Will Receive Gifts ■ a Joint American Iwgion-Ausil-lary Christmas service men's program whereby gifts will be presented to every hospitalized veteran In Indiana, working In cooperation with Eddie Cantor's radio program and nationwide In acope. was launched In Decatur and the fourth district yesterday. Mrs. Ralph Roop Is local chairman of the gift campaign She stated that persons wishing to donate should take their gifts to the American l<egion home, or contact her by telephone, if they could not deliver them. Fort Wayne Post 47 has been designated as a collection depot and the quota for Indiana is 30,000 gifts. "A Gift to a Vank Who Gave" Is the slogan for the gift campaign. Participating liestdes the Legton and ita auxiliaries will be the Legion and auxiliary affiliates, the 40 A H and the H ft 40 as well as the Sons of the Legion and the Junior Auxiliary. Local merchants will co-operate In the program by providing collection depots and featuring gifts suitable to hospitalised Gi Joes and Janes. Thu*, under the program, the general public la asked to assist in the campaign. Donors have been requested to place an enclosure card on the gift, containing their names and addresses The national program calls for 2,000,000 gifts to Im> distributed to 500,000 “Yanks who gave" now hospitalised in veteran, naval and military hospital*. Gift* are to be received until December 10. Thi* will permit sufficient time to Insure proper distribution. The gifts will be (Turn Tn Puse *. Coltimn 4t — Affidavits Issued For Petit Larceny iProecutor Ed A. Bo*»e ha* issued affidavit* for the arrest of Jimmie Cross and JMse A. Florin, the latter a Mexican boy. for petit larceny. They ar* charged with »:ealfng a ease of beer from Bud McGill'* beer ' parlor, entrance to the place being Obtained by breaking through a gJaM. city police stated. Officer Robert Hill signed the affidavit.

Here Is First B-29 To Drop Bombs On Japan ' . . I' 278> ii i d THIS IS THE "POSTVILLE EXPRESS" of the U. 8. Army's 20th ajr force, the first B-2S superfort to drop larmbs on Japan. The occasion was the Yawata raid on June 15. 1»44. and the plane has flown every mission since then The crew of the Postville claims it Io l»e the fastest B-|* In the theater.

Threatens Snag To Early Congress End Social Security Tax Freeze Move Threat Washington. Nor. is, — p’p> — Th® perennial effort* of a group led ' by Sen. Arthur l<. Vandenberg. It. .Mich., to prevent the one percent aoclal security tax front doubling, threatened today to snag plan* ot congressional leader* for a short. | non-controveralal windup session of the 78th congress. The Vandenberg group for sev-1 era! year* ha* succeeded In forcing enactment of legislation preventing the otherwise-automatic Increase in the old age benefit payroll deduction* on employ** and employer* The rate will go to two percent on Jan. 1 unless congress acts to the contrary, and Itepublicans currently are seeking passage of Vandenberg'* bill to block the Increase. House apeakeY Sam Hayburn told reporters today, however, that "1 don't see any prospects now" for enactment of such legislation. Senate Ihmocratlc leader Alben W. Hinkley *ald earlier that effort* were being made to work out a, compromise, and that the senate Itemocratlc steering committee had > discussed effort* to reach such an agreement. Because the constitution requires that all revenue legislation must originate In the house, the "freese" either would have to be passed Aral by the house or adopted by the senate as an amendment to a house bill. l>e*pite efforts of Republicans. It appeared unlikely that the house would originate such a measure and the chance* of It* adoption by the senate as a "rider" to a house bill seemed somewhat remote. The "freeze" legislation was not on the legislative program mapped by democratic leader*, who hope to wind up the-new session well before Christina*. (Turn To Pace &. Column i) British Advance On Highway To Bologna Push Three-Pronged Drive Along Highway Home, Nov. 16.—(VP>—British troops, pushing a three-pronged drive along the Bologna highway west from Fori I. have advanced to within less than Hve mile* of Ksenia against stiff enemy resistance. It was anounced today. The Germans were using tanks and self-propelled guns In aupport of their troops as the Bth army drive neared Faenza. a key communication* point on the highway 30 mile* east of Bologna A communique said the British moving northwest of Forll had reached the .Montone river on a broad front, while the troop* below the Bologna highway captured several feature*. Including Petrlognone, a mile north of Mount Poggiolo. Polish troop* al*o Improved their position* farther south and cleared the entire Florence Forll road. Patrols continued active on the fifth army front below Bologna and front reportg said the Germans fighting In the snow along the American sectors now were wearing white camouflaged uniforms. ’ d

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 16,1944.

Railroad Fireman Injured In Wreck Chicago Nov. 16 —• (UPI One person wa* Injured and through traffic on the Pi-ntwylvalna and Rock laland railroads was tied up for more than two houtw early today when the engine and front truck* of a Pennsylvania Express and mall train wa* derailed at Englewood stations. Frank Stuart. 53. 1012 W. 20M> St. IxigaiMport, Ind., fireman, suffered a fractured skull, cut* and bruises when he fell out of the engine call. o f Msn Confesses To Revolting Murders Two Women's Bodies Horribly Mutilated Ixis Angele*. Nov. Id.—(UP)— Dapper Otto Steve Wilson, 32, a modern "Jack the Ripper" who confessed killing two attractive women and horribly mutilating their-bodies In the mo* 1 savage crime here In a generation, told police today that he passed away the time between the two slaying* attending a horror movie. "The walking dead.' A traffic officer making a routine ; ; check of all person* in the area, j which had been surrounded by a , cordon of police, arrested Wilson 1 In a bar a few doors from the hotel j where one of the crimes had been committed. The slashed piece* of the body ; of the flrat victim, Mr*. Virgie Lee | Griffin, 25-year-old errant wife of 1 a truck driver, was found in a closet of a downtown hotel. While police were Invewtigntlng the biood-splattered scene they were called to another hotel three blocks away where they found the •imilarly hacked body of Mrs. Lil(Turn Tn PM* t. Column >t

Sgt. James Brisbin Skiles Is Killed In Action In France

Tech. Sgt. James Brisbin Skiles. 23, of this city, non of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Skiles of Petcraon. wan killed In action in Prance on November 1. with General Patton's Third Army, hia wife, the former Mlaa Irma Mcßarnea of near Preble, wan Informed by the war department laat night. The Decatur soldier, who wan attached to a signal corps with the 319th Regiment, both Diviaion, went overseas laat June. He landed in England and arrived in France in Auguat. Hia wife had a letter from him thia week, dated October 31. It la believed he wan In the Meta nector. where one of the greatent battlea of the war la being fought. Prior to joining the army on July 16, 1942, Sgt. Skilea was em ployed at th* Mutachler Packing plant in thli city. He attended the Decatur high acbool during hia freahman and sophomore yearn and wan graduated from the Kirkland high school in the apring of 1939. • Sgt. Skilea wan married to Mlaa Irma Mcßarnea. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Mcßarnea of east of Preble, on December 13. 1942. Surviving beeidea the widow and parenta, are one brother. Pvt. Reginald Skilea with the U. 8. army overaeaa and one elater. Mlaa Betty Skilea. at home. Sgt. Skilea waa a member of the same division aa Cpi. Richard

Spicer Is Appointed To Succeed Klepper Changes Are Listed By Kraft Cheese Co. Delmar W. Spicer ha* been appointed genera! production manager of the Indiana production division of the Kraft UheMe company, succeeding William A- Klepper, of this city, who recently was elected president of Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., It was announced by Arthur J. Riddle, vice-president of Kraft and manager of national bulk cheese production. Spicer formerly wa* supervisor of the division's northern bulk cheese plant*. At the same time. Riddle revealed other changes In the «et-up of the Indiana production division, including creation of new executive IMisitlon*. with a broad expansion program contemplated. "There are a number of factors which point to expansion In the months ahead,” Riddle said, "and we are laying plans now with that in mind. “We now have pilot plant* recovering crude lactose from whey for . commercial purposes at Summit--1 vllle, Ind., and producing cbeddar I cheese in 10-lb. loave*. with transj parent wrapper, at Sullivan, Ind. i The market for these product* is 1 growing, and the Indiana produc--1 tlon division* will he called upon ; for Increasing quantities. Change* tTurn Tn l’»u» 1. Column •» O Anderson Man Killed In Hunting Accident Greenfield. Ind . Nov. 16 —(<UP>— William A. Jenkin*. 31, Anderson, was killed late ye*terday-when he stepped in front of a hunting companion* gun JiMt as it was fired at a ra4>bit.

L-010 Kiting, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kiting, who died September 17, of wounds received on September 15, and Staff Sgt. Raymond Sheets, aon of Mr. and Mrs. Noah T. Sheets, who was killed in France on October 9. Cpi. Kiting waa with the 318th Regiment and Sgt. Sheets and Sgt. Skiles were with the 319th Regiment, the latter being a member of Company L. The Decatur soldier took hia basic training at Camp Forest, Tenn., and specialised training at Camp Phillips, Kan., Yuma. Aria., and Fort Dis, N. J.

Six Allied Armies Now Hammering At Germans Along Western Front

Anti-Fag Alliance Gleeful At Shortage Give Prescription To Stop Smoking Washington. Nov. H. — (UP) — While the nation's smoker* bemoaned the scarcity of cigarets, the antl-cigaret alliance catne along today and said the shortage was a fine thing, that it would be better If It were worse and still better If It lasted say. until 1947. In the meantime, the alliance said, the shortage is a “golden opportunity for millions of smokers to drop the useless, health-destroy-ing. expensive clgaret habit." And for anyone who want* to drop that habit, the alliance proposed the following description: 1. Purchase five cents' worth of gentian root (or camomile blossoms) and chew it during the day when the desire to smoke appears. 2. Take a dose composed of half a teaspoonful each of Rochelle salts and cream of tartar each morning before breakfast for a week. 3. The greatest aid will be found in a change of dietetic habit*. Smoker* are fond of highly seasoni ed foods and stimulating drink*. 4. Keep away from smoke:* and a tobacco-*moke laden atmosphere I as far a* possible for three weeks 5. Take a turklsh bath twice i during the first two weeks. i 6. Keep out in the open air as much as possible. Keep the mind i occupied. . o Says Farm Youths Seldom Delinquent State Farm Bureau Hears Woman Judge i Indianapolis, Nov. 16. — (UP) — l Judge Camille Kelley. Memphis. Tenn., Jutenile court Jurist and authority on youth problems, said last night that wartime Juvenile delinquency affected farm youtlu, les* than others because experience had taught them wholesome living and citixenship responsibilities. Judge Kelley said that In a score J of years on the bench, she seldom found case* of delinquency In her . court involving youths engaged In or interested In farm work. “Experience has taught them the lesson* of wholesome living, production and the responsibilities of citizenship." she said. Judge Kelley spoke at s eesslon marking the end of the first day of the annual Indiana farm bureau convention. Hpeakers today Included Paul G. Hoffman, president of (he Studebaker Corporation, South Bend; Roger Corbett, secretary of the American farm bureau federation, and Robert J. Watt. International representative of the American Federation of Labor. Officers will he elected tomorrow The Indiana rural youth opened a convention yesterday. Winner of a convention public speaking contest yesterday was Elaine Edward*. Greenfleld. who I spoke on "Rural youth'* purt In the perpetuation of American democracy." Youth officer* elected yesterday • Included Carlyle De La Croix. Franklin county, president; Rex De (Tucn To Paas I. Column •» , .... p -..— Highest Soviet Award . To Gen. Mark Clark r ■» i. Rome. Nov. M-(VP)—4<t. Gen. Mark Clark yesterday received the » order of Suvorov, flrat degree, high- * est Soviet military award, a headl. quarters announcement said today h Th* award was presented to e Clark In a muddy field by Maj. Gen. Ivan Souoloparov, Soviet represen- ■ tutlv* to the Allied control commlal. sfon in Italy. It cited the American t general for "outstanding military ~ leadership. . . again** Hitlerite Germany in Italy."

Nazis Report Reds Closing In On Budapest ; Rail Town Captured By Russian Forces In Violent Battle London. Nov. 16 —(UP)—Berlin reported today that the Red army had launched an all-out attack east of Budapest and had captured the rail town of Jaszarokszallaa, 3* miles from the capital, after a violent battle. "The object of the Russian assault* Is to rush the German holt position at Hatvan. key rail Junction northwest of Jaszarokszallas. I>ut all Soviet break-through attempt* were thwarted," the Transocean news agency reported. Marshal it id lot: Y. Malinovsky’s 2nd army of the Ukraine wus swinging the entire front east of Budapest northward In a wheeling movement threatening to envelop the city from the north while other units battered the city's southern suburbs and push ed around it to the wegt from a bridgehead across the Danube. Jaszarokssallas lies nine miles north of Jaszltereny, the capture of which Moscow announced last night, and 13 miles southwest of Hatvan. Nazi broadcast* said the Russians took Jaszarokszallas by storm after overcoming "extremely heavy German resistance." A counterattack supported by armor precipitated a furious battle near the town and the Germans drove back into the northern part of it, Berlin reported. (Th« Nazi-controlled Norwegian radio quoted a spokesman for the German high command as saying that Budapest mild be "defended with all means at the disposal of the German army, without regard for the consequences the battle might have." according to the FCC.t The Hoviet army Journal Red Star in a dispatch from Hungary said Hungarian officers and men were surrendering in increasing numbers as the Red army closed against Budapest. Heavy rain Interfered with air operations over the Hungarian front. Moscow reported. but • assault planes managed to make . brief, sharp raids on enemy com- ’ municatlons. Htormovlks destroyed a column of 50 trucks in one such attack Red Star said the Russians i were carrying out coordinated attacks in all aector* along the . approaches to Budapest and regls- • term* steady. *ub*tsntial gains ■" —o - To Widen Probe Os Marion County Vote I Complaints Pour In To U. S. Investigator • . ' Indianapolis. Nov. 16 — (UP> — ’ Marion county'* preliminary electlon investigation today promised r to blossom Into a 'full-dre**' • probe. 1 Harold Buckle*. inve*t!gator for the U. 8 senate committee head ed by Sen. Theodore F. Green, D., R. 1., said he had presented his first report to the committee In Washington and that he had requested acceptance and the committee* approval for additional ’ Investigation. Bu.kle* said that complaints of . Irregularities in last week'* general election continued to pour , In. Democrat* charged that the name* of voter* were omitted from Republican-controlled pre- . cinct registration list* and that many person* were refused voting I | privilege*. ( The senate investigator said he (Turn T* Pa«* 4. Calaaui «)

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Two More American Armies Join Drive; Close Steadily On Fortress Os Metz Paris, Nov. 16— (UP) —Two more American armies—the Ist in Germany and the long unreported 9th in Holland—swarmed Into Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower's winter campaign today, launching simultaneous drives supported l>y thousands of bombers and field guns. Lt. Gen Courtney H. Hodge*' Ist army slashed out toward the Rhine after more than 1,200 heavy bombers had saturated the German positions on the Aachen front with some 4.900 tons of explosives. Lt Gen William H Simpsons 9th army went into*action on the Dutch front in concert with the three day old British 2nd army offensive, and likewise was supported by a heavy aerial attack on German positions in its path. With the new attacks, six Allied armies now were hammering the Germans along virtually the entire western front. Lined up flank to flank from Holland to the Vosges, they were the British 2nd army, the American 9th, the American let. the American 3rd. the American 7th and the French Ist. The United States attacks in Holland and Germany opened* a* Lt Gen. George 8. Patton* 3rd army in northea»tern France damped it* siege arc tighter on Metz in smashes to within one mile and a half of the fortress city from the north. United Press war correspondent Edward V. Roberts sent from the 9th army front the first announcement about it since an early autumn statement that Simpson had taken over the command. It Mid: "The sth U 8 army, under command of Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson, attacked at 1245 hours (12:45 p m.) this date. The attack was preceded by an aerial hornbardmeiit which continued to sup|M>rt the operation.” A like announcement sent from first army headquarters l>y United Pres* war correspondent Jack Frankish disclosed that Hodges' troops were slugging the German* on their home soil again. "An attack was launched by the First United States army at lino hours (11 a. tn’l this date, supported ami preceded by heavy aerial Immbardment.” Simultaneously the Sth air force announced that more than 1.20* of Its flying fortresses and liberators. accompanied by more than 45b lighters, crashed destructive loads of fragmentation Ikirilis on the German front line positions in the Duren Eschweller area east of Aachen. At supreme headquarter* It was observed that the mighty aerial onslaught ahead of the attacking troops was comparable to those preceding the break-through* at St. lx> and Cavin. Normandy. tin the 3rd army front, th* American* closed steadily against Met* despite German counterattacks south and west of the city which reclaimed Fort Hulivrt and Pelt re. Though the counter thrusts wedged Into their spearhead*, the American* still were within a little more than a mile of Meta from the south and wiihin w mile and one half to a mile and three quarter* from the fortress city from the west. The German gap east of Met* was reduced to *l* mile* by other advance*. * The setback* were considered no more than temporary and th* fall of Metz in battle for the first time In It* history still wa* believed likely within a matter of day*. German prisoner* said the be*t troops already had been withCTurn Tn Pare I. <V>lu>nn~*> TffMPERATURE READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETIR 8:00 s. m. 40 10:00 s. m. 42 Noon .. 42 2:00 p. m. — 4j WEATHER Clearing and tonight, occasional light rain *r snow In eatrsmr north pdHlon, Friday fair and continued Mid.