Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1944 — Page 2

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LEYTE FALL IS (C'cmlinued From Pag. 1) northwest of Onnos and the last port on the island Mtill in Japanese hands, and at Puerto Bello, due weal acorss Ormoc bay from Ormoc. The 77th division, liberators of Ormoc caught the Japanese com nlctely unawares with its lauding at I’aiompon and forged inland to within in miles or less of another column striking along an east west road from the Ormoc corridot Little resistance was being encountered. The seventh division landed at Puerto Bello. five and a half miles West of Ormoc*. also against little resistance while the .■’Xtd and hrst cavalry divisions, s tsblng the last resistance in the Ormoc corridor, drove rapidly toward the West. Farther north, the 24th division marched clear across'the northwest tip of tile Island and cleaned tip the w<st coast in the Xan isi dor area. 21 miles north of I’.d un poi> MacArthur placed Japanese lo.iso iii the Leyte-Samar <*ani<uclgn sin c (he American landing th t 2” at 54,33** Japanese dead already recovered, an estimated lii.Soo dead either buried by the enemy or still to lie recovred. mt prison rrs. 30.n00 troops sunk ut sea in 10 convoy* attetnp'tng to reinforce the* garrison, and !'.M»o naval rat tugs in the c rews of 11 traiin|M>rts of 1»>I 3ii> tons and 27 warthips sunk. In addition 2.74 s Japanese planes wen* shot down. 1.615 by landliased aircraft and the remainder by carrier aircraft from the third fleet MacArthur said Japanese ground forces had been ‘•practically annihilated ' American loaves in the < .mi paign. lie said, totalled 11.217 2.633 dead ,122 wounded and 172 nursing.

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CLOSED : : . : Thurse O Fri. ■ ■ • FOR INVENTORY. . ; Arnold & Klenk i ■■■■•■■■■■■■■■■■■a■■■■■■f PUBLIC SALE sold my farm. I will sell at public all , lt „n al my farni j otic-half mile south of t’ralgviih-. on ' THURSDAY, DEC. 28,1944 Sale Starting at 12:30 CATTLE Rotui cow. r, years old. to freshen in Feb.: Whit. cow. 3 year* old to freshen In F< •».; Grade Holstein cow. 3 yrs. old. to fresh, n in Feb ■ 2 two year-old Holstein <owa, to freshen in Feb.; Grade Holstein y.-arlinx heifer; Holstelr. bull HAY ANO GRAIN Ten ton good mixed hay: Mo bu stood corn RABBITS I New Zealand doe-: S young rabbits; | hack Two rabbit pens MACHINERY ANO MISCELLANEOUS liotary ho* and cultipaeker. in good shape hay ladder and bed. mild Imai; 1 Sinrle row horse corn cultivator. spring tooth harrow; Section 'pike tooth harrow; 5-sbovel cultivator; fanning mill with nrrecns and au< k*r. ate >led utter; 21 bu hog feeder: « bu. hog feeder. Hit khJ. winter beat fountain, oil brooder stove; set work harm-* and collars, hay forks; Dane hay loader, D>-L..val cream separator; ■> nie- e i(cl living room suite, in good condition; kitchen cabinet, porch swing; spool bed with spring mattress: Globe hard coal stove with *. ton hard coal; circulating heater for soft coal; Perfection oil range TKRMN-4'AHH R. M. HARTMAN, Owner EHetthwr Bros.. Andleueers. Amos Gerber. Clerk. I BMw'T’W* J 5

NAZI SPEARHEAD (Continued From Page li ■ . would reach the first big objec-1 : five of their winter offensive —the , Meuse river line The possibility I I of their rushing across the river ■ faded when their original plan to ' have* paratroopers seize key bridges was thwarted But Shaef sources conceded that ■ it would be a major victory if the 1 German could extend their sall**nt to the river line, giving them a chan*** to strengthen their corridor while pausing for the next j I phase of the* offensive —o J HENRY W. WIETFELDT [I ct'ontlnusd From Page 1) For Wsvn< *.id M., Louiae Zwl< k , of I. in uln. X ;| c.. end thr. • grandchildren. Two slater** aud <*ne bro-1 i ther are deceased Funeral aeivi.es will b" held at I I'lo p m. Tiiu:n*day at tile home and .i 2 ■» dock a* th*- cm. h. with Rev Karl H'cfinann offiviaciig Bur-1 ial will b** tn the chur.Jr c metery. I Til*’ billy will be c-nnve j from the I i Za I. funeral home ti the resid- I ence this evening CHRISTMAS | cc'ontiriued From Pag* 11 ed this morning. There were 11 . babies in the nursery on Christ-! mas Sheriff Leo tlililg had two guests j a and Supt end Mrs Frank Kiison hud I 37 inmates at the county infirm-1 ary All were treated to a* good Christmas dinner. No iatallti"* were reported in war casualties over the weekend, a survey revealed this morning STRONG SOVIET (Cotitir ceil From Fuse II j Stalingrad With Utt •• pro*>|H*i f of *':ii*at , mg mot* than i scattering of men and equipment from th** city mill-; I ta.v observe:- believed the Xazis would no* Budapest's subways. [J hills canals and tall buildings fori ja <l****triic tit e. and ,fitic*ldal delaying! i stand Ol*i Soviet spc aihc cd drove* into ' the capita!'- western limits yesterday tn a live mile advance that car* n d from Toibagy to Bit iakeszl. i which s sepn at*d from the city'.-, : built-up districts by a inth-widc-park Nine mile- to the .couth, anoili* armdMLntumn penetrated within j two mllei* of the city proper al Xagyeteteny. and a communique: disc lowed that everywhere a'ong the 'tine mile length the Soviets were only three miles or less from their , go3*. Tolbukhin's left wing, meanwhile, hammered out a l.r-mlle gain northward from captured Bicske to seize I Caolnok. six miles below Eezter* tots and ■, than flv miles from* 'he Danube bend Anothei spearhea l to the southeast look l*eany '.u. 13 miles northwest of Budapest and has than nine mile* south ' of the Danube.

'Some Relief' Is Promised Midwest Severe Cold Wave Moving Eastward By I'lilted Press Th*- cold wave which brought temperatures as low as 22 degrees below zero to the midwest headed eastward today, still in subzero i strength Tile Chicago weather bureau J said the cold would diminish somewhat, as it moved east but that temperatures about five below could be expected, particularly in parts of Pennsylvania. Else where in tile east, the mercury j I was not expected to rise far above ' the zero mark. Meanwhile, the* Weather bureau reported, the midwest will have •'some relief," witlt temperatures rising to about 20 degrees above z* ro tomorrow The lowest temperature reading . ! today was at Rockford, 111., when I ‘.he mercury dipped to 22 below at 7.30 a m and then began to I rise slowly. Other low readings we re Inter1 national Fall- Minn , -IS; Mason I City ami Montezuma lowa and 1 Madison ami Park Falls. Wis j , -16; Springfield. 111. 15: Chicago. | 7. and Lafayette. Ind and Tole- i do <t ti Near Blizzard The men ury dropped near zero today in Indiana on the heels of a near blizzard whic h gave lloos lets one half of a whit** Christmas Snow fell generally over the state late yesterday after drizzling rain dampened the holiday i spirit for those who found it necessary to l><* out of doors, and the temperatures tumbled during tie night and today Indiana's accidental death toll reached nine for the three-dny i holiday period, -even vic tints of traffic* mishaps heading the list Another was but tied fatally and Miami county registered a drown* ' Ing. Latest victim was U'ilfoid Ft iitlare. Kokomo, killed In a traffic ■ ac < blent yesterday — - — o —* Successful Fanning magazine suggests that if you send Just one box to your serviceman that y.ii i include several smaller. Individual* ,ly wrapped packager inside* th large) one Five small package* are mole fun than just one During the first four months ol I ltd I. the nation produced more . than twice a- much powder and | explosives aa were produced during I the entire year of HUI.

ifTT? U’ ) LUZON / w AMfRICAN FORCfS in the Philip* pines have landed, according to the Japanese, at San Jose, on Mindoro, just 155 miles south of Manila. The new beachhead chopped out by our . forces represent an advance of 238 airline miles from L*ytc, but the convoy carrying our troops through the w aters of the Sulu Sea had to travel about 800 miles. Enemy airfields were neutralized by American land and carrier-based planes and. although attacked repeatedly, the convoy ftnaliy reached its destination. (International) ON THCIR WAY to ttadden the heart of every housewife are bright new inetal wash tubs, thO Bi st in two years from ths Amer* lean Can company's plant in At* lantn, Ga., which has been shut down du* tn metal restrictions altering this pieduct Ths wetkor above to *p»a«wn|" bottom of Cub. f/gfMeatieaa/jl

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Two Women Held For Murdering Husbands Women In Custody After Slayings . ... ~,1, Highland Park. Mich . Dec 26. — t IT) — Wayne county authorities said today a first degree murder charge would be tiled against Mrs. Nine Housdrn. 33. who c onfessed she strangled her hiinbatid across j the street from the police station land -tatted to St. Lout* with his dismembered body in the trunk of her automobile. .Mrs. Housden, who accused her * Husband, a cross country bus driv- | er. of bragging of his affairs with i othc r women, was arrested at Toledo, I)., when her automobile broke) down and a garage attendant became suspicious because she Insisted on remaining in tile car during the repairs Mrs llousden. a slender brunette, | told authorities tdie eirangh-d her * hu-hand with a clothesline and kept the body in her apartment for two* days waiting for deHVery of an automobile she had bought. •lain With Asa Tacoma. Wash.. Dec 26. (IT’i * County prosecutot .Marshall Mc-Cor-I mi* k -aid today a sanitary hearing | would be given Mrs. Petra Lorentsen, 39 year-old tuherc illai patient

B-29 SUPERFORTS “Shoot from the hip j with G-E GUNSIGHT I I - :I l I ■ O I W ■ • ■-/'l' I "ml 4 I I IL. HIBt I ji n. i rttti i Says one B-29 commender “Sixty Jap planes spread out like a fan made What th* gunner tees in hifl sights is a ring of A G-E Gunsight Computer is plugged mtoH a frontal attack on our no*. We got some hit* on them and they didn’t bright orange dots. Centering the Jap plane in each of five turret systems on tlu* B-29. ■ damage us."...That dispatch from the Pacific war-front shows that Jape the circle of dote, he presses a button under his This electrical “brain” lets gunners ainH now know B-29s pack plenty of guns in remote control turrets, electrically thumb. In a turret that may be sete/w yanu sights directly et the enemy - leaving E amuxl and fired by the G-E Gunsight Computer. away his guns fire electrically. corrections to the mechanical brain. B Guns pointed electrically. Because the B-29 \ ■ gunner has such a computer he doesn’t y \ \ / B have to guess about life-or-death ques- F ' \ / \ i 1 / l 1 iH tions like these: How much ahead of the I / 1 / | \ll * j } E Jap plane shall he aim? How much shall y / If I / \ I I t I ! I he elevate his gun to allow for gravity? \ / // J / j / 1 * Il I B How much for windage? For altitude? \ / / ! / f Ji J J JI J E Distance? All tliew* things affect the ac- 1 / 9 curacy of his fire. On the B-29 answers to / S H-wfw What will air How much How much He*. My gun turret I tronic marvel in a box no bigger than a away is he? temperature and will gravity will the ' 300 m.p.h. is several yards 3 •uitease. What is my altitude do to pull down wind blow Where do away. What ■ correct range? my shots? my shots? my shots? I aim? * change in aim? 9 _ _ ***'■ is It's no Accident that U. S airpl m< .• jnent H • ■’ is deadly. Will Ix-fore t‘»** * .gO * Forces and General Elt-ii.n ' ■ n< ?w idea* in fire-p«>wvr au;.! Pearl Harbor made everv i' I-' 1 _-iri-r... tin** more urgent <* I « muted to Wnght Field, bm '" I'l »L v iWr * * ‘ \fSt ■ Schenectady, conferred with < ■ ■■ *•«•*♦> in *’ ni ' ,kf ’ rs ~f ,he 11 - TL ’fl plane manufacturers. , . . . . - fl '—- w On the Gunsight ComptiK I Os the G-E Central Fm* j G-E engineers have worker! st< fr n ■ " lMr ’ X?*/ three yearo. 20,000 G-E emp!o.< * 11 ' f ITb \ f /I A' sub-contractors helped turn out il ‘ 1 r I. J \Ju ) mechanism — now in mass product!"! 1 ’ % ✓ B-29s ami other planes. But the job is not done. For ever. I weapon, the enemy seeks a count) t wf G-E scientists and engineers continue iw - -I work. Genera/E/ecfrn t o SM/xfo"*. A • Something else the Japs know w that two, or even There are no blind spots for enemy attack. Back in three, of the B-29's five turrets (notice location above) 1939 the Army Air Forces foresaw the need for a Cen- fcsrttsG-ff rwfx, can be switched in together under the control of a tral Fire Control system for airplanes—an extraor- tra” Suolay u> single gunner. The gunner with Uw best view can dinary example of vision. When war » ama tiiey Hskwl Monda> tnda >- b 46 r ' take over all the guns lie needs to fire a fatal barrage. General Electric to design such a system. g OR V | CTOBV . BVT AND HOLD WA" » oN ’ f GENERAL @ ELECTRIC

who confessed she killed her bus-1 baud with the blunt side of an axe ■ the day before Christmas because . he was "drunk aud bothering the ' kids." She was held in city jail ou an open charge after her husband's body was found in the blood-spat-ti red kitchen of the Ixtrentsen home Suiiduy by neighbors when the cftUdrvn told them "daddy's all . still." i The woman, released from a sani- ■ tailuin to -|H*nd the holidays with her family, told police her husband, I Nick. <ame home from a pre-t'hrisf-I mus drinking seasion with pals and i started abusing their three children i in an upstairs bedroom. [ "I picked up the axe and hit him with the blunt side." she sobbed hysterically ? “When he ran to the kitchen shouting. I followed him and kept hittins him " Then, she said, she took the dilli dren to slay with a neiahbor and took a four-hour bus rldo herself. Police were waltiuK when she returned home. POINT FREE MEATS IConlinurd From Pane 1) Bowles said. Republicans laid the tight situation to the administration's failure to apimint a food “caar" with * full {tower to handle all phases of the food industry, ami Indicated they mighr renew their fight for such an official in the new con*

I gross. Rationing .Dates Washington, Dec. 26—It'P)—The office of price administration said today that some confualon had developed about the effective dates of Its nt w ralionitiK order. The situation 111 brief, as explained by the agency, is: 'Become effective last midnight— Return of the canned vegetables to the ration Het; increase in the batter p®!n: value from 2» to 24 points. ■Will become effective next Sunday—«ll other point charges, including the return of unratloned meat.c to the ration lint and changes in point values of canned fruits. 'Blue tokens, whi- h were discontinued in the fall, will not tie put back Into use despite the -xpanded list of processed foods p-tt ou Ute ration list. o The famous song "Down by the Old MUI Stream" refers Ui the Blanchard river running through Fremont. O. It was written by Tell Taylor, who was born on a farm near Fremont in 1876 and lived there until his death in 1937. ._Q Following a recent raid on lamdon. rescue workers dug out a woman from the wreck of her home. She was able to walk, and her first thought waa of her kitchen. Hhe found that it had escaped fairly lightly, so she immediately set to and made tea for her rescuers.

Rosetta Is Occupied By Canadian Troops Savage Fighting On Italian Front Rome. Dec. 26. —(UPJ —Canadian* troops of the eighth army occupied 1 Rosetta. I<’ milew northwest of Ravenna. after savage house to house* fighting Christmas day and were reported driving today along the . east bank of the Henior river toward the German stronghold of Aifonslne. nine miles northwest of ; , Ravenna on the Ferrara road Elsewhere on the snow-covered Italian front activity remained quiet. Nnow from three to eight , Inches deep blanketed the fifth ' army sector below Bologna and t temperatures were below freezing. I The Mediterranean Allied air | force flew more than l,<oo sorties I yesterday aud reported 17 planes missing. Four enemy aircraft were destroyed on the ground. Heavy bombers of the 16th air • force attacked an oil refinery at • Brux. Germany, and rail yards it: . Austria. Planes of the tactical air : force attacked supply lints In nortbi, eru Italy and enemy communica- )' tions in the i*o valley while medium j » bombers pounded the flevlso rail’ yards in northeast Italy.

TUESDAY. DECEMBER 26. | J

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