Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1945 — Page 1

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BIG THREE AGREED ON VICTORY, PEACE

®ied City Os Bdapest Falls IRed Forces I ftpital Os Hungary I (Captured After I Igc Os Six Weeks llftB,,::, Feb. 13-(UP)-The capital of Hun- | city of 1,500,unlay to the Red army singe of six weeks, Mar.innounced in a special the day. t f,;.« iliicli resistance by the Imß 'br:».in and Hungarian encircled '1 flickered out in II of the ancient city :i., river, and the is Bl pn.-oners captured by the in the siege mounted fell under the com..ui: of Marshal Rodion : v second Ukrainian iarmW l 1 Marshal Fedor I. Tolthird Ukrainian army. (lamped a noose of on the gateway 'BjjS| A.i.-'tia and southeastern I l,f I!uilai ’ est " 0U miles, . iorc, ’ s were ‘'''poi't|oi Bl.’ U' I' llliin ,li sh command filmed out through SilefßMi. Qians river, seven to 10 yond the broken Rober ;E|BmL :: army was running BSB" 1 over tlle < ' rackins tle ’ Silesia in a two-way some 70 miles of * ttreM, capital of Saxony, and ■ MB'"' southeastern flank of fortifications. ■ I of Budapest was fore by the announcement ih.it all organized rell sisnß * u tllP ei, y kad been 11 !l became a certainty Ithe German high 11 eoaKd tor the first tinst 1 in II ivtidHE ignored Budapest, and lot*' broadcasts admitted || tile city had been *• S, B i; >. a broadcast ordt rof ||Uhß| Malinovsky and Tidal .’uliaß hailed their armies for vieiory in the battle of and called Budapest a pt*a!!y important strongs' Herman defenses '’on It ,o Vienna.” of bloody fighting T.i Page it. Column 5) Il MK Harvey Kitson pig This Morning \ Serai Services Birsday Afternoon M. Kitson, 53, wife of I ■ Ki,6 °n of 511 West Madi- | died at 3:30 o'clock this |“>Wa' Irene Byron sanitor- "" of Fort Wayne after a ' !s B^ s 'b slle bad been bedfast T” > SMB )ast 10ur years. j )orn j n Allen county 1-eaßr 26, 1891, the daughter of ■ nna; belle Baker. a member of the First church and the Pythian '’ : "B ng ’ n bddition td the hus.?"“'B a daughter, Mrs. Vaughn ? :i: »Baiid two granddaughters, ’ ’ Bl services will be held at " Bm Thursday at the Black ' ”' r ß ,>me au d at 2 o'clock at the 1 church, with Dr. i otficiati ng. Burial will wDeeatur cemetery. Friends ■ a: tne funeral home after ‘ '' g this evening. The casket ' ' BT 0 opened at the church. .""Sr ■—o— BF er ature reading 7'B RAT THERMOMETER ' ® : ” a "> 31 m 31 Zw-— 30 B' m 30 ! WEATHER iJffiSp cl °udy, except occasH »"3jB ery li ® ht sn ° w in ex * 3 J 9® nort h portion tonight « *fß* ,n . tsd '' , y <and rain « v . ■’B' in extreme east porrly toni ® ht A lin, e Tk ' n extreme south pori TB' 9111 ' Not rrtt'ch change -■jerature Wednesday.

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Cigaret Shortage To Be Worse During Year Washington, Feth. 13—(UP)—The cigaret shortage will probalbly grow worse during 1945 and about the only thing that can be done alxmt It is to eee that available smokes are spread around. The federal trade commission arrived at that conclusion today after an extensive investigation. It reported its findings to chairman Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., of the senate interstate commerce committee who requested the inquiry. o Yankees Punch New Holes In Siegfried Belt Germans Throw In Reserves Against Canadian Offensive Paris. Feb. 13—(UP)—Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's troops punched two new holes in the Siegfried pillbox belt north of Echternach today, giving them three possible gateways to the Rhineland. Canadian first army units beat down brisk German counterattacks and suddenly stiffened resistance to score new gains in the offensive against the northern end of the westwall. Units of seven German divisions had been counted in the forces bracing against Gen. H. D. G. Crerar’s push toward the Ruhr and Rhineland. The Germans appeared to be throwing in reinforcements at the expense of other portions of the western front. Heavy fighting now was going on along an arc of 12 to 15 miles southwestward from the Rhine above the village of Griethausen, three miles northeast of Kleve. The village fell to Canadian troops who crossed the railway northeastward from Kleve. The 80th and fifth divisions of Patton's U. S. third army shouldered past the concrete forts of the Siegfried belt at points northwest of Echternach. Farther to the north Patton had a breakthrough the west wall in the Pruem area. The fourth division rooted out the last sniper in Pruem and repulsed two severe counterattacks across the Pruem river northeast of the town. To the south other third army troops erased one of the last fragments of the Ardennes bulge when they captured Vianden, lower anchor of the old St. VithVianden line across the base of the salient. Field dispatches said the Germans were throwing crack tank and panzer grenadier divisions into the threatened Rhineland (Turn To Page 6, Column 4) 0 Pvt. Arthur Berning 1$ Killed In Action Ceylon Soldier Dies Os Illness In Italy One soldier was killed in action and another died of natural causes in the European theater of war, relatives have been advised. Pvt. Arthur L. Berning, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Berning of U. S. highway 27, living in Allen county, just beyond the Adams county line, met death in combat in Luxembourg on January 27, the parents were ad- ; vised last night. The young soldier went overseas only last month and could not have been on the battlefront more than two weeks when he met death. Forest Mann, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mann of Ceylon, south of Berne, died of hardening of the arteries in Italy, where he was serving with the U. S. army. Pvt. Berning was inducted into the army last June 26, taking basic training at Camp Hood, Texas. He was transferred to Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, following a furlough home last December 20. He left for overseas about January L The young soldier was a graduate of St. John’s Lutheran (Tura .To Bag* Columa 6).

Roosevelt Conferring With Stalin, Churchill i SFlsfcX’ 1W a Ba \ P 3 7 \ II Wk >l. - z '■ -v ■; A BMBh., z THESE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS taken at the Crimea conference in Yalta. Crimea. Russia.’ show, top, President Roosevelt, right, conferring with Marshal Josef Stalin of Russia, and. bottom. Roosevelt, left, in a huddle with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, over the coffee cups at a conference luncheon. This is an official U. S. Army Signal Corps radiophoto.

Attend Conference Os Tomato Growers Otto Case, local fieldman for the tomato growers association. Herman Geimer, Lawrence Braun and Lewis Rumschlag, local growens, went to Purdue university, Lafayette, today to attend the annual tomato growers conference. Mr. Rumschlag produced the largest tonnage of tomatoes last year for Crampton-Stokely plant at Celina, Ohio. o— — — 51 Men Are Accepted For Armed Services Word Received On Feb. 7 Contingent The Adams county selective service board announced today that 51 men in the contingent sent for pre-induction physical examinations last Wednesday were accepted for armed service. Those accepted have been returned home on furlough to await call to active duty. In addition to the 51 accepted, one conscientious objector was accepted for duty in a work camp. The complete list of accepted men follows: Hugh David Mosser, Harold Ernest Zeigler, Hugh Kedric Engle, Harry John Schwartz, Chester Bowen, John Thomas Parr, Kenneth Edwin Wanner, Henry H. Schwartz, Wilmer Beer, Stanley Duane Arnold, Edward Louis Selking, Floyd LaVerne Steiner. Harold Victor Schwartz, Benjamin James Jones, Lester Zimmerman, Chris Eli Biberstine, Edward Adolph Sprunger. Maurice Edward Miller, William John Miller, Oscar Theophilus Brown, Everett N. Stauffer, Frederick Ray, Enos Girod, Lester Daniel Kaehr, Robert Herman Geimer, Reuben Graber, Laurel Keith Mattax, Sanford Junior Reynolds, Raymond Robert Baumgartner, Charles Roger Bentz, Charles Henry Backhaus,, Kenneth Virgil Schnepf, Thomas Edison Beihold, Marvin E. Conrad. Leo William Alberding, Gilbert William Bultemeier, Merle Affolder, Walter Ray Haines, William Edward Faurote, Alfred Hugo Henry Thieme, Levi R. Wickey, Alfred Martin Bultemeier, Robert Louis Reppert, Howard Earl Schwartz, Elmer Kukelhan, Walter Allen Smith, Loyde Melvin Bird, Eugene Anthony Braun, Donald Nicholas Minnich, Richard (Turn To Page o, Column 5),

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Foresee New Allied Attacks On Germany New Invasion May Be Big Three Plan London, Feb. 13. — (UP) — Military observers said today the Allied big three may have planned invasions of southern Norway. Denmark j and even the German Baltic coast to speed victory in Europe. Speculation was touched off by the big three’e promise in. the Crimean declaration that Allied armies and air forces would strike “new and ■ even more powerful blows . . ( into the heart of Germany” from the east, west, north and south. The timing and scope of operations from all four directions “have been fully agreed and planned in detail,” President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin said in the declaration. “Our combined military plane will be made known only as we execute them, but we believe that the very close-working partnership among the three staffs attained at this conference will result in shortening the war,” the declaration (Turn To Page 2, Column a)

Major Decisions Are Reached At Conference Os Big Three

t Washington, Feb. 13. — (UP) —I The major decisions reached by > the big three at Yalta: Germany Will be subjected to “new and even more powerful blows ... to bring her to “unconditonal surrender.” Terms were agreed upon for occupation and control of Germany. German militarism and Nazism will be destroyed: the German general staff will be “broken up for all time,” all of Germany’s capacity for waging war or producing war materials will be eliminated or controlled. War criminate will be punished. A commission will be established to study reparations. Conference An agreement was reached on voting procedure in the council of the contemplated world security organization, a question left unsettled at Dumbarton Oaks. To prepare the charter for a world security organization along the lines of that comptemplated at Dumbarton Oaks, a full United Nations conferenca will meet i«

Gates Warns State Revenues To Drop Urges Legislators To Slash Expenses Indianapolis, Feb. 13—OUP) — Governor GatesG warned the Indiana legislature today that there was little hope for the state to match expenditures with current income during the next two years. He declared that a possible ?18,000,000 difference between revenue and income was “a wholly alarming outlook.” Frowning on new taxes for any purpose except state institutional construction and rehabilitation of returning war veterans, Gates urged Hoosier lawmakers meeting in a joint session to: 1. Cut to the bone all but essential state services. 12. Hold the line against increased spending. 3. Forego many needed construction projects. 4. Fight against reduction of the state general fund balance. ■5. Effect sound economies. “I hope I am wrong when I say, in all frankness, that I can now see but little opportunity fur matching (Turn To Page 6, Column 5)

| San Francisco on April 25. Liberated Europe The three countries will jointly assist liberated European territories and former Nazi satellites to establish internal peace, carry out emergency relief measures, form interim governments, and hold free elections of permanent governments “responsive to the will of the people.” The three countries will confer whenever the necessity arises in connection with these problems. The principals of the Atlantic charter, including free determination of governments, are reaffirmed. Poland Russia gets roughly the eastern one-third of pre-war Poland, on the baste of a Polish border roughly following the old Curzon line. In return, Poland will get “substantial territory from Germany in the west. The so-called Lublin government, now recognized by Russia, will be “reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of (Turn To Cage 2, Column 3).

United States, Russia And Great Britain Lay Plans At Conferences

Nazi Radio Screams Big Three Commits Greatest Political Crime In History London. Feb. 13— (UP) —German propagandists today called the Crimean declaration the "program of the haters of Yalta.’ Germany "will smash this Satanic plan,” DNB promised. After a lengthy delay in informing the German public of the nature of the Crimean communique, an official DXB news agency dispatch was issued with instructions to German editors that it be headlined: “Germany has to be exterminated.'' The DNB dispatch charged that President Roosevelt.- Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Stalin had decided upon "new crimes against humanity.” It charged that the Crimean conferees were imbued "with tlie spirit of old testament Jewish hatred” and were attempting the “greatest political murder of all time.” Apparently propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels was caught off base as he had been busily warning the Reich to beware of "a Wilsonian peace plea.” Ever since the big three conference had been rumored. Goeb-1 bels had turned loose the full propaganda facilities inside Germany to warn the Reich against a big three appeal to the German people. He assured them that the big three would issue a honeyed plea to "Germany which wotrld make “unconditional surrender” sound appealing. He warned the Nazis to beware of any such new “Wilsonian” tactics. But when the big three communique failed to bear out this build-up, the Nazi propagandists apparently did not know how to break the grim news to the Nazi public. For hours after the news (Turn To Page ft. Column 3) 0 Two Young Indiana Chiidren Drowned Mother Blames Dog For River Tragedy BULLETIN Mt. Vernon, Ind., Feb. 13— (UP) —Mrs. Mary Wallis, 32, Mt. Vernon, confessed today that she drowned her two young children in the Ohio river but lost her nerve in a suicide attempt, sheriff Ralph Rowe announced. Mt. Vernon, Ind., Fob. 13 —(UP) — A big yellow Collie, blamed for the drowning of his two young masters, helped officers today to search for the body of one of th ni after he had located the other in the Ohio River. The two children, Arthur Lee Wallis, 6, and Margaret Louise Wallis, 3 were drowned late yesterday when they fell into five feet of water off a ferry landing on the Kentucky side of the mile-wide stream. Mrs. Mary Wallis, 32. Mt. Vernon, mother of the .children, said that the frisking dog pushed them into the water while they weie on 'their -way home after visiting an uncle, Albert Carmen, a resident of the Kentucky side of the river. The mother, the only witness to .the tragedy, said that she removed her fur coat and shoes and leaped into the stream to rescue the children. She said she was unable to reach them and made her way back to the river bank. The Collie led searchers to the partially submerged body of the little boy last night, a mile below the ferry landing. The dog had been locked in a vacant farm house by. Mrs. Wallis shortly after the drownings. Mi®. Wallis told Mt. Vernon officers that she did all she could to save the children and repeatedly said, “I didn't harm them.” She said tihat she went to CarAlurn To Pass 6 ( Column

Killed In Action ’ ■? ,*"* jgiiiL ii> If " J 111 •fe B Hk ■MmB v JMb: i s i i a -Rt Pvt. Arthur L. Berning, son of) Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Berning of north of Decatur, was killed in action in Luxembourg January or Trapped Japs Fight Bitterly In Manila City Japanese Garrison Blasted Back Into Burning Waterfront Manila, Feb. 13. — (UP) —Three American divisions linked up inside southern Manila today and blasted the Japanese garrison back into the burning waterfront in the deadliest, close-in fighting of the entire Pacific war. The decisive juncture, sealing off the last avenue of escape for the trapped Japanese in Manila, came as Bataan and Corregidor across Manila bay were rocking under a tremendous bombardment by hundreds of American planes. More than 200 tons of high explosives were showered down on Corregidor Saturdfiy and Sunday, while a big fleet of army and marine warplanes ripped up the southern corner of Bataan with another 500 tons. It was the greatest aerial blow ever struck in the Pacific, and apparently was intended to < lear the way for an amphibious assault on Corregidor. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique reported that the giant guns on “the rock” appeared to have been knocked out >f action. At the same time, a force of American Thunderbolt fighters caught 35 troop-laden Japanese barges off the east coast of Bataan in daylight Saturday and blew them out of the water, killing an estimated 2,500 enemy troops. There was no indication whether the barges were evacuating troops from Bataan, Corregidor or Manila. There was even a remote possibility they may have been trying to .sneak reinforcements into the capital to aid the Japanese garrison in its finish fight. Inside Manila, meanwhile, the survivors of several thousand enemy troops compressed into a narrow pocke south of the Pasig river , were fighting with redoubled ferocity as the Americans herded them slowly back to the bay. MacArthur revealed that virlui ally every street in the capital had been sown witji mines and booby traps and that his troops were mov- - ing slowly to hold down casualties - and spare the city from destruction insofar as possible. The communique said unite of ■ the first cavalry division and the ■' 37th infantry joined forces near the Paco railway station while other cavalry spearheads linked up with i the 11th airborne division on the ’ southwestern end of the capital near the Polo club. Armored and infantry units of .(Turn To Ewe fit Coiiuuq ii

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Allied Heads Agree On Plans To Defeat Germany, Prevent Wars In Future Washington, Feb. 13. — (UP) — The Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill conference report got an enthusiastic cheer from congress today on its proposal that the United States, Russia and Great Britain be bound in post-war unity as a “sacred obligation’” to the peoples of the world. President Roosevelt, Marshal Josef V. Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill made that postwar compact the foundation of I their “report and statement” Jll the Crimean conversations. To achieve it they announced they had summoned the United Nations to conference in San Francisco on April 25 to draft a world security treaty. It will be in the I Dumbarton Oaks pattern. The Black Sea conferees announced they had reached final agreement on treaty frame-work, including voting methods. Announcement yesterday of completion of the Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill conversations and of the April conference call opens the administration campaign to present the security treaty to the senate before hot weather begins to swelter this capital. Final senate action is sought by mid-summer. The conferees held their eightday meeting in Yalta, a Crimean resort. They said they had agreed on war and post-war plans for Germany. They passed on her a grim cleansing sentence, but assur'd the German people that they would survive and be fit to live within the “comity of nations.” , They announced agreement on , objectives and methods of dealing with most of Europe's political and economic problems — boundaries, forms of government and such. They promised aid to distressed i populations and revealed they I would intervene jointly almost anywhere to aid or prod liberal’d peoples toward desired objectives. The report revealed a specific 1 Polish settlement based on compromise but in very substantial measure granting all basic Russian ■demands, including territory. There ' were instant rumblings of objections to that. But over-all poplitical and economic plans for Europe were tied ' firmly to the ideal of free elections and universal suffrage. This latter was regarded as a reassurance to Americans, and especially to ■ the senate, where Mr. Roosevelt : must soon stand sponsor of a security treaty guaranteeing world ■ peace backed in part by our armed ; forces. Some saw an inference in the I statement that the Soviet Union is maneuvering to swing at least its . moral strength into the Pacific war against Japan. It was no more than ■ an inference. But it was observed that April 25, when the United Nations conference begins at the i Golden Gate, is the last date upon (Turn To Pag(e 6, Column 7) 0 Late Bulletins | r——— London, Feb. 13—(UP) — The London Polish governt ment tonight rejected the big three decision on Poland. Paris, Feb. 13—(UP)—The Canadian first army completed the conquest of the ReichsI wald or Reich's forest at the north end of the Siegfried line today and pressed on into the Rhineland through heavy German artillery fire. Alameda. Calif., Feb. 13 — (UP) —A navy twin-engined transport plane crashed into [. San Francisco Bay today, and 21 passengers and three crewmen were presumed killed' * At the 12th naval district headquarters at San Francisco, officers said one body had been recovered. The plane, a C-47 transport, took off from Oakland airport at 6:52 a.m. and crashed at 7:05 a. m.