Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1944 — Page 1

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■ rier Planes ,I'3l'h Luzon ■Day In Row 1111111 l .— —— , Campaign End Meer, Beachhead On fiMmdoro Is Secured a, '■ plant-* of ( < i 4. ••<! w iili deE' I'4 ships on.l . lir.-t hours ijent an unparalleled aerial f4aR . hl of Luxon into it* W i«hi day today with an< w d attack*. i the around campaign on a |to final stages and the Hd on Mindoro *ecure, a -nd Filipino* in ...... t . ..UHI <>U l.ttzoll |K.., ■ • i".. ■ apii.i. |M I v. - • .1 C. IKg\m.-r:.a'l . envoy of ■ ion |B^ r ... had I»->.|| kitlit r < I'll of MlU'l >; " ■■p. .-.,| I- further Amer ■■,-, ■„ .11.. lints mlclc b- ’ 1" hap* on l.nzon la-unit from Pacific fleet - .1! I’e.irl Harbor K’.*' Vl'i. : <1 William F H i! fl-' plant* *till were |Kr:.. ,y ... 1..1Z0H after sink • damaging K,-.: U . r un 101 planes lax' )’■ 'lay ami Saturday pl.tie's of (Jell. D"Ug- ■ l A."hic - - > ttiiw st Pat Ith &U 4 fi'.-H'led the aerial lieu ■hfiior; tainpaign over the r»of th- Philippine* and re’ha’ his aircraft, together of the third fleet had ■fvr-i >1: damaged severely 71! ■typiaix. in the week ended the ground. Brig Gen. Wil- ■ c Dunik'la invasion forces only eight and a halt ■mr<»« 'ln- Verde island strait sere . neireling a large ■got J.1|1.1l in the lulls east San Jose in the south ■leonirr of the island, ■sos—- 0p;...-.'ton totilinti'd ■fetiimilh ant. with six enemy ■*> killed and three prisoners Bind in one 24-hour period ■Man engineer* promised to ■ l.rfields ready on .Mindoro’s ■* cine field* in record oper■>l time ■ U-yte. 3'Ht miles southeast of ■bro. th.. 77th division neared ■ wokirt* of Valencia, prlnci- ■ hpa:,.-.. Stronghold Os the B* 'orridor and headquarter* ■ls Gen Sosaku Suzuki, after To Page 2, Column *( B Hess Says Mail Ils As Important As I Gasoline For Jeep ■ Norbert Hees. son of Mr. and • f’ S. Bess of Decatur route 4 ■ » high value, like other fight B** n at the front, on mail from ► The twice wounded veter- ■* the Italian campaign, wrote BjHrent*. a* follows you Pop and ttw rest of B hmiiy | want t 0 t(f |] you | ► •ornething and need it bad. my jeep needs gas to keep P** 111 * 1 need letters and pic- ► from home, any kind of mail fortunate co nt par mi to ►of my buddies. I get quite a Peters from home. Hut more f L •*•*>» a higher morale and ►J morale ia a wicked punch on P c *rm*n> nose. Ho keep the Fuming. a || O s y OU an< | you |i ► from me soon." ► Hes», a graduate of Decatur P'' 11 '' high school entered the F la November, 1942. going ’**• In March, 1943 While s < with the Infantry in Italy. “ wounded twice, the first on r H, 1943, and the second * >»»t January. J* Ma «RATURE READING . Moc «At THERMOMETER ’;** •- m. to m - -- 14 L , WEATHER wnlght, Wednesday In- *"• cloudiness with light ig, "•Hhweet portion Wednesday; warmer ex- " •xtrome south portion warmer Wednesday.

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Oak Leaf Cluster To Sgt. Harold Feasel A Bronz.. Oak l>af <;, . r iliis been awarded Sgt Harold Fc-aael of this city, who aa* w , UU d.d m action in France on Jj t|j wife. Mm H. : y F. as.-l o f gu; Winchester street, hue been advise d The Bronze Oak Leaf elu*;, ; ;ia been awarded to the wounded solder in addition to the p ur[ ,',. Heart. Sgt Feasel was with ifae ;oi« ; j n ’ fantry division when woun led Mt Fea.u-1 received a typewritten cepy o! the official award from the com mandlng officer of the div'sion, —— o--Nazi Budapes! Escape Route Is Under Fire Budapest Vienna Railway Is Under Fire Os Artillery London, Dec. 19— (t’p) —Moscow reported today that tin- Buda pest-Vienna railway, the last practical escape route for the garrison of the beleaguered Hungarian capital, had been brought under ItusKian artillery fire A Soviet broadcast said the jaw* of the flee! army pincers clamped on Budapest were only 15 miles apart, and the corridor between them was swept by shellfire, partially sealing off the German and Hungarian troops in the city. "Budapest already has lost its military and economic importance for the Wehrmacht, and has become an untenable, cut off outpost.“ a Moscow radio report said "The only railway left to Vienna Is exposed to constant air attac ks, and it Is already under Soviet artillery fire" Dispatches from Moscow said that bad weather and stiffened resistance along new defense line* had slowed down the Hungarian campaign. After their long advance. the Russian* now were up against defenses in which the Germans were prepared to make considerable sacrifices to prevent s Soviet break into Austria, they said. Two Red army columns advanced Into southern Slovakia on a broad front and converged on Kassa (Kosice, in a drive to eliminate the narrow German salient separating the Russians in Hungary and Poland Powerful German d' feno'S along the mountainous Slovak Hungarian border cracked wide open under the Soviet attac k and .Moscow dispatches said Russian tank* and infantrymen were punching rapidly northward at a number of points on the Cs-mlle (Turn To Pxwe 2. ’..lu-un «» ———o —-

Order Retrial Os Della Moser Case Suit Is Venued To Wells Circuit Court The trial of Mrs. Della Moser, masseuse, of 1132 North Second street, originally charged with practicing mrdlelne without a license, will be tried in the Well* circuit court at Bluffton Attorneys in the case, a suit filed In the Adatns circuit court in June. 1941, entitled the State of Indiana, on relation Jesse W Bowers, secretary state board of m°dlcal registration and examination, complaint for injunction vs. Della M Moser, agreed before special Judge Walter K. Helmke of Fort Wayne, to venue the case to tiie Wells circuit court. The retrial wa* ordered by the Indiana supreme court, which ruled that the trial court had erred Mr. Helmke was named special judge in the case The supreme court’s order on the new trial conclude* Its finding* a* follows: "The trial court erred in sustaining the appellee's motion for a finding and decision In favor of the appellee at the close of appellan't evidence. The judgment is revemed and the cau*e is remanded for a new trial and further proceeding* con*latent with this opinion." Judge H. Nathan Swaim wrote the opinion and Judge Helmke hae ordered the finding* spread on record.

.Jap Aircraft Plant Gets 40 Direct Hits MMLyI kt «1 Llm- - THIS. THE FIRST PICTURE of the Icomblng of the Mitsubishi Aircraft plant at Nagoya. Japan, by B-29n based in Saipan, shows smoke- pouring from more than 40 direct hits on the important Nip aerial industry target Till.-* photo was received in this country by RCA radiophoto.

Decatur Stores Open Evenings This Week •Decatur merchant* r-por’ a heavy bu*in>-<* from (.'hrletmas shopper* I. evening. Tin- stores were open until *:.’{(( o'clock, the firat of a week's night iti’liedule to aicotpmodate the shoppers Far the balinci- of the week, the i' tail stores will be open until S:3# uud on Saturday night to Io o'clock All store* will lie closed Christina* day. Says GOP Committee Paid For Telegrams Continue Probe Os Indiana Election Indianapolis, Dec. 19 — (l'P> — A telegraph company employe testified today that Indiana attorney general James A. Emmert'* order countermanding a state election lioard directive to 92 county clerks wa* wired Nov. (I at the expense of tlie Republican state ommittee. Tile employe. Robert II Huron, told a 8. senate Green campaign Investigating committee hearing that the 92 messages directing county board* to disregard an order to accept affidavits instead of certificates of error to correct registration mistakes, were charged to the GOP committee and not to the attorney general’s office. Banin produced copies of th<original messages filed in behalf of Emmert and the state election lioard. and Sen. Joseph II Ball. 11. Minn, one of the senator* conducting tin- hearing, said it appeared that Emmert's telegram wax filed before that of the state ••lection commissioners. Emmert, a Republican, was among a score of witnesses yet to t'ppear before Ball and Hen. Thomas Stewart. D.. Tenn., on Democratic charges of irregularities in tlie recent Indiana election, which was swept liy GOP state candidates. Tin- hearing focused attention briefly on northeastern Indiana when Eugene Martin of Fort Wayne, Allen coun’y Democratic chairman, testified that the Republican* were favored in the distribution of registration supplies Martin, the 14th witness tailed before Stewart and Ball in the hearing on Democratic accusations 'hat thousands of Hoosiers were denied Ibo right to vote Nov. 7, said that Democratic deputy registration officers had to make many trips to the Allen county courthouse because they were given only 25 registration blanks at a time "The Republicans got 50 or 75 at once, but we couldn't get anything but little dribbles," Martin asserted. The Allen county Democratic chairman said that he had considered requesting a court ruling to force an "even distribution of supplies." but that he had decided "the courts were all Republican and we probably could not get a mandamus action decided In time to do any good." Martin, however, replied in the negative when asked by Bali if he meant that "courts would dscids a case on political grounds rather than its own merits.”

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Decotur, Indiana, Tuesd ay. December 19, 1944.

Sgt. Warren Andrews Wounded 2nd Time Adams County Native Is Wounded In France Relatives in Decatur and Adam* county received word today that T Sgt. Warren L. Andrew*. 22. a native of Adams county, lias been wounded for the second time in action with the I'nited States army In France. Mrs. Grover Levy, of this city, a cousin, received a letter today from Sgt. Andrews, in which he stated he luid been wounded in both legs and is now confined to a hospital In France. The letter was dated Decemlter 2. but the sergeant did not state when his wounds were redeved nor their severity. Sgt. Andrew* said that he had been awarded the Purple Heart and the expert infantryman’s combat tnedai following his first wound. He was first wounded June 24 during the Invasion of Normandy, when he was severely wounded in the back of the neck. He was out of action for approximately four months following the first wound and wax stationed In a hospital in (Turn To Page 2. Column St _ o Warmer Weather Is Latest Prediction The wevther forecaster predicted warmer weather tonight and tomorrow. The mercury dropped to about Meveti above early this morning and at k o'clock was in above. A snow flurry was in progress during the inorniug and streets and highway* were still reported to Imslick and treached,lie.

Decatur Firms And Employes Enjoy Holiday Gatherings

Tills is Christmas week and several happy gathering* of management and employes of local industry are observing the good will season with parlies, banquet* and holiday programs. The annual Christmas party for employe* of the Hchafer company, including the glove manufacturing department and the Schafer store, will be held at the American Legion home on Thursday evening. Dinner will lie served by the Legion auxiliary. Places will lie arranged for 125 guests and a program of entertainment will be given by the Dorothy Durbin revue. Earl C. Fuhrman, manager of the Schafer company, will act as chairman and an exchange of presents will be made during the evening. C. C. Hchafer, president and founder of the company, will attend. Home Builders Meet Mat evening the members of the .McMillen Home Building Corp, held their annual Christmas party and award program at the Legion home. Approximately 100 guest* attended. Axel Christensen, professional entertainer from Chicago, amused the crowd with his delightful pro

BULLETIN Washington, Dec. 19. —(UP) —The 23,000 ton naval auxiliary oiler Missisoinewa was sunk recently in the central Pacific by enemy action but nearly 80 percent of the crew was saved, the navy announced today. The normal complement of the ship is about 250 officers and men. The nature of the enemy action was not disclosed. Among the ourvivors wo* the skipper, Capt. Philip G. Beck, of Brooklyn. N. V. Pepper Drops Fight Against Appointees Drops Battle After Talk To Roosevelt Washington. Dec 19 — (l'P» — Hen. Claude pepper. D.. Fla., announced after a telephone conversation with President Roosevelt today that he wax going to abandon his fight to delay senate confirmation of six top state department nominations ‘ Pepper said the president told him that if the senate failed to act on the pending nominaions in this session of congress, the same list would be forwarded to the new congress which meets Jan. 3. "In view of that fact there is nothing we could accomplish by delaying senate action until the next congress, and we are willing to let the matter come to a voti immediately,", Pepper told report er*. Pepper, who had led a "new ileal" revolt against the nomina tions on grounds that they were too < onservatlve and "out of char (Turn T" Pigu 2. (•olumii If

gram. Piano music wa* furnished during the evening by Richard Saylors of this city, and H. W. ■McMillen presided a* toastmaster. Nine awards of war bonds and stamps were made to home own era. who during the past year did the most to beautify their home. In th>- Central avenue addition. Mi. and Mrs. Cliff Steiner. 957 Dterkes street, again won first prixe and Mr and Mrs. Emanuel Kistler. 1237 Master drive, won first prixe of a |so war bond each in that area Mr and Mr*. Dale W. McMillon. Mr and Mrs. Robert Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Dale W McMllhn. Jr., of Fort Wayne, attended the party. Mr. McMillen, founder of the home building corporation which aided plant employes to build or acanlre more than 125 new homes in Hie city, spoke briefly and extended greetings to •he faniilh-s and winners of the beautification contest. Central Soya Party The annual Christmas party for employe* and their families of the Central Soya company and MeMiller Feed Mills will be held at the junior-senior high school (Turn To iMge 2, Column 7;

Battle To Stem German Counteroffensive Is Now Reported In Full Swing

B-29s Based In China Lash At Jap War Center China-Based Forts Rejoin Offensive On Jap Homeland Washington. D -c. 19 I'l’t — China based superfortresses rejoined th'- mounting American aerial offensive again*! the Japanese Homeland today, striking in medium force a’ the war production center of Omui i. T.te raid came only 24 hours after other B-2!M from Saipan kindled fires visible for 7b mile* ia the important Kokuki plant of the- Mitsubishi aircraft works at Nagoya. 425 miles to ’he northeast, yesterday. i Tokyo said two or three superfortresaca from China flew over the Yamac uc-hi prefecture area and the Souban'area. The former covens the southern tip of Honshu, and the latter Includes the Kok-ura-Yawata district of northern Kyushu. The plane* did not drop any Ismvbs and "fled ’ after inierceptiou by Japatie* air defenew units. Tokyo reported. Tlte war department Identified the targets hit Icy the Chinaibased 2 th bomber command today only a? "induct rial" installation* on Kyushu, Houthei tnnost of the enemy’* home inland, hut Tokyo conceded that Ornura had been buntbed Thirty to to B-29a participated In the attack. Tokyo said, bit’ caused only "slight" damage. Ornura. f»(ht mile* southwest of Tokyo, lie* in Western Kyushu and has been Icotnaed four times previously. the last Nov. 21 Aircraft plant* were attacked three times and a chemical works one.-. After tlie Nov. 21 raid, the 2'nii bomber command shifted •.« attention from Japan proper to Manchuria. occupied China and Tita land. Brig. Gen. Haywood H. Hansell, commander of the 21st bomber command. told war correspondent* at the B-29 base on Saipan -hat yesterday's attack o't Nagoya eaused (Turn T-i 4'agi- 2. Column Ic

Government Seizure Os Wards Imminent Firm Continues To Refuse Compliance Chicago. Dec. 19 d'Pi Government selxure or Montgomery Ward and Company properties in seven cities appi-ared imminent today as the firm reiterated determination not to comply with a war labor board directive which included a demand tor maintenance of union membership. The company met the minimum wage scale aet by the WLB for employes of Its Detroit stores, but a company spokesman said Wards would not acede to other WLB demands. In Washington the WLB said Wards offer to make Detroit wage Increases retroactive to Sept 7. 1943 did not comply with the directive which ordered them retroactive to Dec 7, 1942. S-well Avery, chairman of the board of Montgomery Ward, aafd the Detroit wage Increase wa* made Independently and that he hud not changed his prevlous’yannounced attitude that the compuny “cannot In good ciHxenship" comply with the WLB directives. At Detroit. W R. Rosevear, area manager, said Ward* was putting a new basic wage scale of 4« cents sn hour into effect. Handbills distributed to Ward employee tn the Detroit area said the company had offered to adopt e scale of minimum wage rates In (Turn To P*<* 2, Co hi mu I)

Wounded In France ■e ’ J’fc. Dore Gallogly. 2(>, son of Mrs. Dewey Gallogly. 909 LineStreet. was wounded in action in France on Dec. 1. the war department ha* notified the mother. The young infantryman was witii tile fifth division in General George Patton's third army, hi* mother said. The- message stated that further word would Ice forwarded to th<- mother a* quickly as possible. Pfc. Gallogly. a 1941 graduate of Decatur high school, entered the army in February. 1942 He tcccck basic training at Camp Swift, Texas, and additional training in Ireland, having gone overseas In September. 1942. Prior to his an listment. the young soldier was employed here at the General Electric plant.

Roosevelt Returns From Vacation Trip Three-Week Vacation At Warm Springs, Ga. Washington, Dec 19 (I’J’i - President Roosevelt, tanned and reared from his rigorous fourth term campaign, returned to tlie White House today after a three week* vacation at Warm Springs. Ga . to leal with seriou* diplomat!*. military and domestic problems. Although lie kept up with hix paper wo-k on a daily basis white resting nt the "llt'lc White II iu*' " on lli>- Warm Springs (oiindation. Mr Roosevelt came home to a wide assortment of official tasks a complicated foreign affaire situation, rurthi rance of plan-, for a meeting of tin- "liig three." completion of the administration's program for the new congress, final drafting of the government's new financial budget, and his Jan 20 inauguration. Mr. Roosevelt left Washington Nov. 27 and reached Warm Spring* tin- next day He left the Georgia spa. firtnou* for the after-treatment of polio patients, on D- <■ 17. stopped yesterday to itMpect rhe 1117.000 acre marine corps training base at Camp Lejeune. N. <'.. and arrived here at 7:30 a. 111. (CWT) to<ay. (This was the first public disclosure of Mr Roosevelt's whereabouts tor the past three week*. He wa* accompanied on his trip by corrtapoiidents for tlirei- pre** association*. > Problems competing for the president’s immediate attention included: 1. Tit,- military reverses on the • Turn To Pa<e 2. Column -J> Nazi Counterattack Slows Italy Drive Rome. Dec. 19 —(l'Pi— British troops backed up to the Bologna highway north of Faetixa today under a fierce tank-supported German counterattack but to the northwest other units of rhe Eighth army continued a alow advance through rain and sublairn resistance toward the Henio river. Indian partola of the eighth army were reported to have crossed the Senlo river three mile* southwest of the Bologna highway but presumably withdrew aftat a brief contact with the enemy.

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Regrouping To Meet Onslaught Carrying Germans More Than . 20 Miles Forward Pari*. Dec. 19 (t’Pt —Massed American tanka, guns, and men moved up today Io meet German armored columns striking more than 20 miles Into Belgium, and a front dispatch said Lt. Gen. Courtney H Hodges’ first army lines "appeared to be stabilizing" along the northern half of the 70mile defensive front. The British radio said the battle to stem the Icig counteroffensive of Marshal G -rd Von Rundstedl ' I* mew tn full swing." I'nited Press correspondent Jack Frankish, with first army forces, said reports were circulating that the German advance in Belgium had been slccwc-d to a snail’s pace if not completely Stopped. Rallying from the shock of their incest stunning setback since Kasserlne Paas in Tunisia. Hodges' doughboys had succeeded in regrouping to meet the onslaught which pushed them oat <»f Germany at point* on a .”>(> mile- front. Frankish reported. Low clouds and haze blanketed a considerable part of the battle zone-, but Allied planes again were swarming to the attack wherever they could find Nazi pangers and infantry Grim and tense, the Americans were pouring up into defensive positions. I'nited Pres* correspondent John McDermott reported from another sector of the front in a diMpatc-h which quoted a staff officer ax Haying "We've got plenty to lialt the Germans. Il look* like the Jerric-t want their finish this side- of the Rhine." At supreme- headquarters It wa« reported that the German* not only were continuing their offensive- against tlte I'. S, first artny. hut were fighting harder against the- American third and seventh armies. From Lt. Gen. George- S Pattot's third army front. l'uite-d Pr"*» corr'-Hpondent Rolcert W Richards reported ger .lly stiffening Nazi resistance which virtually paralyzed the drive into the l Saarland and 'he- section of France : manned ley Patton's right wing. Lt. Gen Alexander M Patch’s j weventh army was reported edging deeper into the fore-field of the Siegfried line- in the Rhenish Palatinate- and storming the fortifications of Bite he- in the French border zoneBotli Germany and the Allies maintained news blackout* over tie- battle in Belgium and Luxembourg There* were- no specific locations beyond the- disclosure 'Turn T» I‘cu,- 2, Column II o Sugar Company Head Moves To Fort Wayne Mr. and Mr*. Harold W. McMillen and son* Michael and Barry have moved to For: Wayne, where they purchased a re-sidenc.- at 1417 Hawthorne road Mr. Me M'llen, president of the- Central Sugar company. will lie engaged for the next few month* in the- final liquidation of the industry and will maintain his office here, ia’er going to the general offices of the Central Soya company in Fort Wayne Mr. McMillen m a vice-president and director of the Central Soya company, which was founded here by hl* father. Dale W M< Millen of Fort Wayne, in 1934 Buys Health Bond Delta Theta Tau* have voted purchase of a *5 health bond.

official* of the Christ maa seal campaign in Ad* ama county an* nouncod today. All proceeds from the annual Christmas «i»>al aalua are used In the fight o n tuberculosis and to provide free clinics and otherwise carry on the light a*

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