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No. 277,

MULHOUSE, METZ FALL TO ALLIED ARMIES

MAtlacking M's Downed jap Planes II Jw° nese F |ghters ffßirst Effort To | Ajse Superforts flNov <ri*> Rprift? w.-n- allot down by ■LJK, i.ci.ter* during yvsterK_^b,,, k mi Oniura in the in liven ••ntoday. ■ - .1 added that the due to Millie Hk( Mb . . on of the 2<>lb Ixiliib in .lune 15, 1944. ■ g Sr.t o.p. iiorireHH was reR -I* r illi*!*-r < 111 iitiiKlan ...nt to III* pri-HUlliptlnll Hi*’ Kf*! it none of the B 29's ' > in lay uFtlon the KAy targets of Nanking and in yesterday's reported 2<i Japanese Kith 19 probably and others damaged Brlflt .•!•• *i* ti.it**i . i.ip.hi I-- 1 of the • be.-Il or damaged against a !*ix Japanese fighter*. irked the flrnt time that e fighter* in strength had » come within range of the armed superfortresses. an on that damage already by American bomba and increasingly heavy on Japan proper had ni; air strength In an HBl"*-- mentioned in th*it'd Japanese . oinmiiiii tit** possibility that MBP hundred planes were In in 'he air battle Tokyo n, ... superfortresses were ML Japanese lotnmiinl sup* rfortrew »■> H'l.ni- 12 probables. had Bflh'' Twenty six were hat*, been downed over Mt re they homlnd 'he a:r raft works. ami the Hfl"•' ' Xnhw.d and llonat Ta.n'y four were list.-.I :- ; , -t.arim.-nt communique 2" Planes shot down. If. shot down and 19 dam ■fl T! -' I ipalleHe acknowledged d four planes over and two over China ' >n to Omura. the super ~|so attacked dot ks at ltd military storage ami |M» I " • "' facilities at Shang | Tn Psg» 4. Column «) Report Made lar Bond Drive ith's Purchases dited To Drive ■rctuuM of war lionds for 18 days of November • to *85.278. Earl Caston. >an of the local war bond Miunced today. purchase will be credited «th war loan.” Mr. Caston a good start toward 3,000 quota." W l>ond salesmen In the * are canvassing their and good reports are n to county hesdquarteis rst State bank. Ive is underway in Deca* employe groups are signor the purchase of the — ' ll L Nell, chairman of fflßPiyroll division, stated. »i»th war loan drive was i W' 1 " 11 Ofneral Electric 'S’ -Monday afternoon with a Program and the war r " in that Industry are out J”’ th< ‘ ll ' P»*t record of overu”lr Quota by 210 fl’ drive is expected to reach ■** tempo following the holiday and grow In until it reaches a cliK T e «>d of the month, fl" ottl «l*ls predicted.

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U. S. Bombers Hit Two More Jap Warships Jap Resistance In Limon Pocket Near To Breaking Point % Allied Headquarters, Philippines. Nov. 22.— (UP) — American Liberators scored damaging hits on two more Japanese warships, one of them a light cruiser, in a predawn attack Sunday on the naval base at Brunei bay. Borneo, lien Douglas MacArthur announced today. He al*o disclosed that Manila and the remainder of the Philippines had been brought within yange of his land-based bombers for intensified raids through the use of expanded airfields on Leyte as refueling bases. Heretofore, only carrier-based planes have been able to reach Manila, capital and main enemy stronghold in the Philippines. Though he hae announced no land-based attacks on Manila. MacArthur said Liberators from southern bases had refueled at Leyte over the weekend before going on to raid target* on Cebu, Mindanao and elsewhere in the central Philippines. On the fighting front. Japanese resistance in the Limon pocket in northwest Leyte appeared near the breaking point, but the enemy was preparing a storng new defense line along ti)e Leyte river to the southeast. The bombing raid on Brueni bay waa the third within a little tnorg than three days. Earlier raiders scored direct hits on a battleship, a heavy cruiser and a destroyer. A spokesman for MacArthur said the Japanese had a large concentration of shipping at Brunel, which they had been using as a stopover point on the north-south run between Japan proper and her (Turn To Page 1. Column 41 ■ O' — Mrs. Cora Chilcote Dies This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs. Cora E. Chilcote, 46. widow of the lata- True W. Chilcote. died at 4 o'clock this morning at the home of her sister. Mrs. Deaaie Noack. 215 South Twelfth street, after a long illness ot compile*tiona. She was born in Velon township February 24. I*»K. the daugh ter of John and Caroline Redling sr-Drake She spent most of her married life in Warsaw, returning ro Decatur after the death of her husband 10 years ago She was employed at the Wayne Novelty company. She was a member of the Gleaners lodge at Warsaw. Surviving are the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Noack. Mrs. Harvey Gay. Frank ami Louie Drake, ail of Decatur; Mrs. William Amstutz of Berne. J J Drake of New Castle, and Theodore Drake of Hoagland. One brother and one sister preceded Iter in death. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Noack home and at 2 o'clock at the Nuttman Avenue Vnited Brethren church, with Rev. C. N. VunGundy officiating. Burial will be in the East Salem cemetery. The body, taken to the Zwick funeral home, will lie returned to tne Noa<*k residence, where friends may call after 7:30 o'clock this evening o 7 Beery Funeral Rites Delayed To Thursday Funeral services for Mrs. Bill Beery, who was killed last Friday in Wilcox. Arisons, by the accidental discharge of deer hunting rifle, were again postponed today. The body did not arrive here until f o’clock this morning. Services will be held at 1: 30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the home of the victim's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Marts, three miles east and three fourth of a mile north of Monroe, and at 2 o’clock at the Pleasant Mills Baptist church. Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery.

U. S. Loses These Warships in Pacific Action - l J' .. „„ ... -r . — . ■ ..... ■. ’ ■ I a 1 X I • ' I J 1 *" U. S. NAVY HAS ANNOUNCED the loss of the V. 8. Aimer Head. top. a destroyer, and the destroyerescort I'. 8. Eversole, below, and eight other lesser vessels In the Pacific as a result of enemy action. The Head carried a complethent of 250 men under the command of Comdr. Arthur M. Purdy. Seven of the vessels were lost in the Philippine area but not In the big naval battle with the Jap fleets.

FDR Warns Against War Output Letup — I Joins War Leaders In Plea To Workers Washington. Nov. 22. — (UP> — Preaident Roosevelt today was j solidly hacking his war and home front leaders in their attempt to | convince war workers that they must remain at their war jobs until Allied troops are In Merlin and Tokyo. A series of strong appeal* hy Gen Itwight I>. Elsenhower, mobilization director James F. Byrnes, production chief J. A. Krug and other top officials asking war workers to resist the temptation of switching now to "peace" jobs was climaxed yesterday when Mr. Roosevelt declared that workers who quit war planta are coating the lives of American soldiers. The concerted campaign to keep war workers at their lathes and riveting machines was touched off. (wo weeks ago when industrialist Henry Kaiser reported that the, heavy turnover in shipyards waa, jeopardizing the output of vitally needed merchant vessels. Byrnes said subsequently that the shortage of heavy ammunition was so acute that hot sheila were being flown from the factory to the battlefront. He followed this with the threat to eliminate virtually ail civilian production unless lagging programs were brought up to ached-' tile. As appeal* for Increased produc- i tlon reached a crescendo, officials | appeared to Im- considering the advisability of offering solid Inducements to war workers to overcome their desire to find jobs that offer peacetime security. Krug said it was "human nature" for a man to think of caring for his (Turs Tn Puce I. Column I* Total Os Delinquent Taxes Low In County Treasurer's Office Reports Collection Not more than J 6.000 of the current real estate and personal property taxea due up to November 7 went delinquent in the county, a check at the county treasurer's offlee revealed today. The November tax collections, including $4,029.7fi of delinquent taxes, total $230,554 95. The May collections amounted to 1263,020. making a grand total of $4K9.553.17. The current year's tax bill was $495,763.44, exclusive of $1,969.99 of i special assessment* certified to the county treasurer for collection. In the May settlement, delinquent taxes on record amounted to $14,392.62. Thhi included the current year's and prior to 1944, an amount considered very small as compared to other countie*. The county auditor I* making up the settlement sheet and the distribution of the local tax fund* from the November tnatallment will be made to the various taxing unit* within the next few week*. For the past 10 year*, delinquent taxes have been at a minimum in the county.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 22, 1944.

Winter Resort Travel Being Probed By OPA Motorists who use gasoline illegally to travel to winter reecrt* face lhe lom of their mileage rations, the office of price administration advised today. Administrator Cheater Bowie* said the OPA i* now preparing an enformement program to prevent ilj legal use of ration* in winter va- , cation travel. Motorist* wh > misuse their ration*, he said, will be called before hearing commissioners who have the power to revoke not only the supplemental "B" or “C" ration*. but *ba*ie "A" rations a* well. Protesting Cologne Citizens Are Slain Nazi Authorities Machine-Gun Crowds London, Nov 22. tl'Pi—A Swiss , newspaper said today that Nazi authorities at Cologne machine-gun- : ned crowds demonstrating for pt ace ' recently and killed more than 220 persons. Some in the crowd* even cried.' •'loug live the Allies!" the Basel Arhelterzeltung said In a dispatch reported by the British exchange. telegraph agency. The dispatch appeared less than 24 hours after disclosure that Ger- - man prisoners taken on the Amer-: , lean Ist army front before Cologne had confirmed reports of disorders inside the city. The prisoners were quoted a* saying that the gestapo was hanging civilians In Cologne for disobeying Nazi official orders. Earlier Swiss dispatches r>a!d 21 person* had been hanged there in a single day. The Basel newspaper said peace demonstrations also had oc-j curred in many other Rhineland cities and Poster* were said to be appearing nightly on the walls ' turn To Pm« 4. Co!unis I)

A Thanksgiving Prayer IDEAS OF THE PREACHER-FARMER OF PRAIRIE HOME by L. Dewey Burham

Our Father and our Uod. We beseech Thee to hear our humble prayer a* we a come to Thee with heart* of: gratitude. So rich are our blessings. so unworthy our hearts! So great Thy love, so selfish we! Our hearts are grateful Father, because during these past months of sunshine and rain, Thou hast emptied the great horn of plenty to us In rich and abundant harvests. Now the little children shall not go hungry during the snows. Now the widows and orphans, the refugees from war's calamity, around the world, shall eat. Thou hast given us abundance, it is thine, and we shall send it on. and on, until hungry mouths are fed and a child's cry shall be stilled, and a weakened body shall be made strong, and hope shall return to the forsaken. And all this, our

Services Tonight To Mark Thanksgiving Most Businesses To Close For Holiday Special church services tonight will open Decatur's observance of the traditional Thanksgiving holl-j day. The union Thanksgiving service. I sponsorerffannual by the ministerial association, will be held at 7:3<) o'clock this evening at Church of! the Nazareqe. Rev. F. H Willard,' pastor of the First Evangelical • church, will deliver the Thanksgiving sermon and special music will he provided. ThankMglving services will be conducted al the Zion Lutheran church tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. Paol W. Schult*, pastor, will pre•eut a special sermon and the church choir will sing a holiday selection. There will he no ser- i vices Thanksgiving day Business generally will be sus- > pended throughout the city all day i Thursday, with the exception of restaurants, confectioneries, taverns and theater*. The First State 1 bank will be closed and the only mail service will be to war industries and on special delivery mail. I The Dully Democrat will not pub- j | lish an edition. The city's industries engaged in war production will work the regu-. lar weekday schedules tomorrow ——— "W Crocker Funeral Is Held This Morning Funeral service* ami bur>ai were held at St. Mary's. 0.. this morning for Mrs. Crocker, mother of Mrs. James Biair, former Deca- ' tur resident, who died Sunday at tier daughter's home In Americus. Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Blair will spend Thanksgiving day in thi* city at the home of Mr. and Mrs Bryce 1 : Thomas. Mr. Blair was formerly j i city editor of the Decatur Daily I Democrat.

Father, makes us glad. It fills our 1 hearts with thanksgiving ahd renews our faith in Thee. Dear Father, help us to remember at this Thanksgiving time that a truly grateful heart Is one rededicated to Thee, and to the great task of feeding a hungry world which Thou has set before us tillers of the soil. And .here and now. we do rededlcate our toil to Thee We know the snows of I winter will come but they will go ■ again. Thou. In Thy providence, will send the sunshine and the showers of spring, the growing of the summer, and the harvest of another autumn. It 1s Thine, too. We will be faithful and true We so dedicate ourselves to Thee. Wy are grateful, too. our Father, that our lot has been cast In such pleasant places. We Americans are truly grateful to Thee that no bombs have fallen on our cities, and homes, that our children, and our women, and sAfoebled have not been uprooted from their homes and forced to flee before an Invading hoard. We are grate(Turn To Pag* 4, Column 4>

German Key Bastions Seized -- Allies Pour Onward Toward Rhine

Ohio Telephone Union Rejects Demand By WLB Phone Union Defies Government's Order To Return To Work Washington. Nov. 22 — tl’Pi — The Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers today rejected a war lalror Ixiaril demand tiiat strikers return to work unconditionally. WLB public member Nathan - Feinsinger told officials of the union thut their tight then became one with the government of the United States. "And no other union has succeeded when it undertook such a fight and tin- WLB will do every tiling in Its power to see that this union does not win." he added. The union s decision was revealed when tin- lioard resumed a ses I sion following a recess requester! I by the federation. The mext step would lie for the ; board to certify the case to eco- : nomic stabilization director Fred M. Vinson us a preliminary to I seizure of the telephone facilities and possible Imposition of sanctions against the union The army has not yet certified that the dispute is impeding the war effort. I»ut it was expected that such a i certification would lie forlhcomiTurn Tn 4 I'nlumn 41 Reject Garbage Bid At Council Meeting City May Take Over Hauling Os Garbage , The city council in session last I night rejected the bid of John L. Walters for tile garbage hauling contract, his proposal being to do tile joli for >2,750 u year The board of public works and safety received the bid y«wterday afternoon and submitted it to the council for consideration. 'Members of the council thought the price was too high. The city is , now paying Mr. WiUteiw at the rate ’ oi 12150 a year, on a monthly conI tract baois. Thie price is alsiut | double to the pre-war cost, councilmen pointed out. Councilman Joe Brannen launched the idea that possibly the city I could take over the garbage haul I ' mg contract and sell the garbage to farmer* who feed it to huge A dlscuoslon of the posribllltiea followed and it wae brought out that If and when the city builds a sewage disposal plant, that an incinerator coulß be constructed at small cent, and the garbarge burned, if hog raisers did not wan' to buy it. Investigation will In- made within the next two weeks and If 'lie council deeuM the plan feasible the garbage hauling J<lb may be turned over to the street department by the flint of the year. A petition for an overhead light on'Meibers street, bet ween Dlerkes (Turn Tn Paae 4. Column t> I— ——o —— - Rev. Paul Schultz Lions Club Speaker Rev,. Paul W S hultz. p:wtor of the Zion Lutheran church, was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Lion* club Tuesdiyr evening Rev. Schultz delivered a Thanksgiving addrese. Paul Berg conducted the me>-tlng and George Rent* waa chairman of the program. The Lions and Rotary clubs will meet in Joint scMlon next Tuesday al the K. of P. home. Awards will be presented to the school winners in the recent milk weed pod collection. Teacher* and student* will be guests at the meeting.

Russian Forces Seek To Reopen Gulf Os Riga Soviet's Sweep On Budapest Is Almost Stalled To Standstill London. Nov. 22 tl'Pl Soviet! tank* and riflemen, supported by the guns of the Bed fleet, slashed deep Into the last pork't of Ger-| man resistance <>n the southern tipi of Haare island today. In a bitter-ly-contested drive to reopen the Gulf ot Riga and break the Nazi blockade on Riga harbor. Far to the south, German count-er-blows and driving rains that chmiH-il tin- Hungarian battlefields Into a quagmire stalled the Red army's enveloping «we» p on Budapest almost to a standstill. Marshal Rodion V. Malinovsky’s 2nd Ukrainian army hacked out | limited gains all along the tm-mile front extending northeastward from Budapest, but the ceaseless rains and stiffened enemy resistance prevented any decisive breakthrough Both Moscow and Berlin hinted strongly that the uneasy lull on the eastern front waa about to end in a mighty Russian offensive, perhaps simultam oitsly in Poland and East Prussia where the Nazi* re-| | cently have been r> porting immense concentrations of Soviet men ami material. One Berlin spokesman said seven to i ight Re.i army divisions, possibly 100.000 or more men. already had gone over to the attack In eastern Czechoslovakia in a hid to break oft the German eallent Jutting into the Russian lines in th? Cze< h-Hungarian border area The early morning Soviet war communique, as usual, ignored the German report*, focusing instead on tlie no-quarter battle raging on Saare island. All organized enemy resistance on the 1.010-square-mlle Estonian island appealed to be crumbling swiftly under the concerted Soviet blow.* from land and sea Hemmed into a narrowing corner four mile* wide and about four miles deep on the southern extrunity of Curve peninsula, the trapped Nazis fought back desperately but with little or no chance of survival. Unit* ot Marshal Leonid A Govorov's l.etilngiad army. Joim-d by amphibious troops landed from the (Torn Tn Paas t. Cotsisv •< Nationwide Bible Reading Is Urged Plan Is Sponsored Throughout Nation A coneorted plan for every American to read the Bible dally between Thanksgiving and Christmas is living sponsored through out the United State* by a com mittee of nationally known lay men and presiding officer* of 32 Proteatant denomination*. The plan provide* for the listing of passages on IxMikmarks which will be distributed among the member* of the churches and worker* In the larger Industrie* of communitie*. The listed paxsage* were selected by army and navy chaplain* a* being the favorite passage* of men in the armed service*. A listing of the passage* in the form of air mall letters ha* also been made available for sending to men in service. The Decatur aasoelation ha* arranged for the distribution of these material* along with posters announcing the date In the various churches and the officials of the larger industries have made arrangements for distribution among the employes. The bookmarks may also be found In stores and other public places in the city.

Buv War Savinas Bonds And Stamps

Price Four Cents

67 Nazi Tanks Are Knocked Out In Big Armor Battle; Draw Nearer To Roer River BULLETIN Paris, Nov. 22—(UP)—The American Ist army captured Eschweiler today after a threeday seige. unhinging the German defenses west of Cologne, and far to the south the bastions of Mulhouse and Metz fell to Allied armies chopping up the Nazi positions in France. Pari*. Nov 22. — Allied armies captured the key bastion* iof Mulhouse and Metz today, ! smashed through the Vosgea mountain line guarding the upper Rhineland. and neared the Roer river west of Cologne after knocking out 67 Nazi tank* in an armored buttle. The French Ist army swooped down on Mulhouse, industrial capital of Alsace, *o swiftly that It captured part of the German 19th army general staff The American broadi casting station in Europe said the French racing down tin- Rhine val- ! ley bad battled into Colmar, 20 miles north of Mulhouse. The siege of Metz < tided offi. tally at 8:45 a tn CWT when the last German resistance eouapsed. freeing powerful 3rd arm, forces to Join in the pursuit of ths German* fleeing northeaaters France • Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch't | 7th army."between the French Ist | and I 8. 3rd. crashed through the Vosges in advances <>n d broad front which brought the doughboys within signt of Germany Itself and formed the upper arm of a pincers dosing against the Nazis in the upper Rhineland. To the north. Lt Gen. William II Simpson* 9th army was revealed to have "decisively defeated-'*' the most formidable German tank force thrown Into battle since Dday in a four-day battie northeast of Aachen. The ninth. American Ist, and British 2nd armies now were battering the outpost* of lite Roer river line through Julish and Duren 20 miles West of Cologne, into which the German* were withdrawing behind a rear guard including artillerymen and engineers fighting a* infantry tThe National Broadcasting company quoted the British radio a* reporting that the 3th army cap tured Julich and two smaller town* on the Roer, lull confirmation was lacking t American trooji* were storming Street by street through Eschweiler, turntable of the German defense* northeast of Aachen, and the victory which will unhinge the enemy i position* west of the Roer seemed near. The fall of Metz and Mulhouse iTurn Fn < Column 4) Election Cost Bill Sent State Auditor County auditor Thurman I Dr«w ha* sent a bill for *2,440.50 to Richard James, state auditor, for the additional expense* In connection with the November election. Under the law passed by the *pecial sesalon of the legislature on November 4, the aUte pay* the expenses of allowing an extra day to election board tnemhetw for the two hour Toting extetwlon The county's bill Is Itemized a* follows: for Inspector*. *396; Judge* *612; clerk* *612: ansiwtatit clerks *2l<; sheriff*. *4os; additional meals, *196 50. TEMPERATURE READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETIR • 00 a. m. 33 10:00 a. m. 33 Noon ... .....™ 36 2:00 p. m, 37 WEATHER Cloudy tonight and Thuraday forenoon followed by decreaaIng cloudlneea Thursday after, noon; ocoaaional light snow In extreme north portion late tonight and Thursday forenoon; , littl* change In temperature.