Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1945 — Page 1

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12,000 Bombers Raid Berlin

■reales! Air laid Os War ■gainst City I ■l4th Straight Day ■ Os Aerial Offensive ■'■On German Targets I'" I ’. Hl> * ~ Al ’ jf 2J*"'| American planes s (ban I tons ot ' !e , v-o'ivi- 1 and al least 0 • ndia)ms "ii Berlin to- .. .| 1( , i daylight raid or, th" <l. rnuin capital. 1 ■ of 1.2"" nyins forsheperded ■.'-.... Hiafing fighters wright of exploami fill' hon‘h> <»nt<> three railway near P le I of Berlin. | ■?;..- was th- 14th straight day i ■ (1 ppcord aerial offensive ■ Omaiiy. The Berlin i : ■ . u.is stria k in support of the ‘ army. It was designed to i ' ciiiiiiiiiiiii'aliens vital to K German troops in the front ji.Hjilil 11 lirn Berlin. great pounded what Nazi lied terror royal air force joined in .,ff. t.-iv.' against the A big lor. " of Lancaster p«,by Mustangs at a synth, tic oil plant Rittir industrial center of American onslaught was primarily Berlin's rail the core of all German Tj '' u'Mk-U was directly in supthe R.-d army son es massaiong the Oder river line 30- • ■ miles east of Berlin. railway lines are convital to the Nazi armies east of 'he capital against omoming Soviets. Virtually -applies and troops moved » to the eastern! must pass through Berlin. size of the raiding fleet todays attack was probeven heavier than the last I American strike ..n Berlin Fell. :: when more than 1.000 j dropped about 2..'.■•() tons ■ explosives on the city. "reached'' the greater . area at noon and 20 min■slater repori.-d that the "first. , were returning" from the ' mosquito bombers rocked with two-mn block busters i tight for the sixth straight . The air ministry said the I ‘ had dropped 400 tons! explosives on the capital in Past week. ’ I e ■ C ' , ool Units Receive ■ Hfofe Distribution units in this county have in the semi-an-.e’ltbutm;; of teacher’s sal|K --■ J'- from the gross income collections. ■^? ea ’ fi this y-ar are figured |H n _. T Cent ° f tlle avp rage mini- |® * aary for eaeh teaching unit, ■L th' 31 ' 6 '' t 0 4,1; eac * l un ’l |BL.,“‘ e pilan Wa s Bet up in 1933. S . unite are based on an ■C' da '. y altendll <'<- of 35 grade FA ? ' l3 t >. 01 ' 25 ' hlgh sc!!001 k thp 1943 distribution, ■ -estate Un ' tS Were a,locate ' l S ■ Mod WEAT HER ■ with COld wav « tonight Bvs'X'"" >•« ■ *’’"" <>rtl ’’ 15 ‘o 20 ■ (x trem’. -20 to 25 degrees T -«uiay »,* Uth porti °h early ■ f,ir i" nort? inß , General, y portion , and CloW, y in B? A'. T “» enri sleet near Ohio ■ 9 ear| y knight. ■ U \T h ■ T ‘“i^ < | " ! ” rthwe »t per-

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Trapped Japs Ignore Order To Surrender Annihilation Drive Opens Against Japs In City Os Manila Manila, Feb. 26 —(UPi—Trapped Japanese in Manila ignored, a surrender ultimatum today and American troops immediately began an annihilation drive against I the enemy remnants holding out :jn three government buildings. The final assault on the last enemy pocket in the capital came as other American forces pushed into the foothills of the Sierra Madres mountains east of Manila in an attack on the 25-mile long Kobayashi line. An estimated 1,000 fanatical ■ Japanese, believed commanded * by Rear Admiral Iwabuchi, were lodged in the three buildings and faced certain doom. They had been given three choices in the ultimatum —suicide. ' a fight to death, or honorable surI render. Their only reply was sniper fire while the edict was being read over the public address system. When the deadline passed at daybreak, American guns opened fire and the troops prepared for an assault on the buildings to clean out the last resistance in Manila. With the city virtually clear, other American troops resumed their drive toward Luzon's eastern coast with an offensive against the Kobayashi line. Units of the first cavalry and sixth infantry divisions were atI tacking the Japanese line from Taytay, two miles north of Laguna bay, to Norzagaray, 19 miles northeast of Manila. At the same time, the 11th airborne division continued its rapid drive southward along the west j coast of Laguna Bay and crossed i the Juan river. 15 miles below | Muntinlupa. The thrust brought! | the airborne units witbin five I ! miles of Los Banos, where another sensational liberation of ; Allied internees was carried out I Friday. In resuming the drive toward : I Luzon’s east coast, the sixth infantrymen captured Montlban, 11 miles northeast of Manila, and pushed on through San Isidro, a I mile to the north. Fighter-bombers and dive-bomb-i (Turn To Page 2. Column 3) O Miss Clara Miller Dies This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Morning Miss Clara C. Miller, 55, of 226 I South Fourth street, daughter of I the late Mr. and Mrs. Andrew; Miller, died early this morning at I the Adams county memorial hos-1 pital, following a four weeks’ illness of complications. She was born in this county on May 2, 18S9, and spent her entire life here. Her father was a prominent retired farmer of this! city. Miss Miller was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the C. L. of C., and the Third order of St. Francis. Surviving are the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. Julius Kohne, Mrs. Benjamin Eiting, John, Casper and Peter C. Miller, all of Decatur: two sisters who are nuns, Sister Basilla of Beloit. Wis., and Sister Ethelgreda of Hayes, Kan. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 9 o’clock at St. Mary's church, Rev. Joseph J. Seimetz, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body will be moved from the Glllig and Doan funeral home to the Miller residence Tuesday and may be viewed after 7 o'clock that evening until time for the futieral services.

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Help For A Wounded Buddy On Bloody Iwo .lima i ■ W'i Sr W' 1 " BE -••- ' KwBHK ■■ A TRIO OF MARINES ( all ies one of their wounded buddies on a stretcher to a first aid station set up on Iwo Pima beachhead. American warships, which gave heavy support to the invaders, form an impressive background. Leathernecks waiting to move forward crowd a foxhole in foreground.

Bad Weather Delays State Legislators General Assembly Begins Final Week Indianapolis, Feb. 26.—(UP) —Icy roads in northern Indiana delayed the arrival of many Hoosier legislators to the capitol today, but the state general assembly began the final week of the 61-day 1945 regtt-! lar session. Only 36 senators answered roll call shortly before noon, two more ! than a quorum. House members were scheduled do resume their lawmaking at 1 p. m. The $88,000,000 biennieum state bjtdget bill was at the top of the calendar and was expected to occupy most of the day’s consideration. Highways were hazardous j throughout the extreme north por- j tion of the state, where a sizeable portion of Indiana legislators live. When -the senate and house were : graveled to order, the action mark-' ed the opening of a race against ‘ time for the legislature. A long-jam of bills apparently i will keep Hoosier legislators at ; their desks for long hours to deal I with the liquor question, appropriations, welfare, public health, elee-! tion law codification and state departmental reorganization. Final consideration of all these Republican majority program meas-1 tires was necessary, and sine die i adjournment of the biennial legis- j lative session was only eight days! away, including next Sunday. Representatives were scheduled j ti begin consideration of the SBB,-! 500,000 budget bill today to pro-1 vide for the operation of state! government for the next two years.; Some GOP experts believed that: (the final outlay of expenditures so- I the biennium might, reach $92,000,-1 000 if hard-pressed state educa-) tional, benevolent and penal institutions receive - adequate assistance in the face of heavily-increase war costs. j Senators, besides taking up the i appropriation bill after house pass-1 age. must decide finally what will be done about the control of alcoholic beverages —in Jhe hands of Democrats during the past decade. The house failed to work out a complete liquor program to the .satisfaction of all patronage-hun-(Turn To Page 5. Column 4) o First Donation Is Reported Today To Red Cross War Fund Although the drive does not open until Thursday. Clarence Ziner, county chairman of the 1945 Red Cross war fund drive, today announced that the. Eastern Star women had donated $25 to the county fund. Ht wae the first report received 'by Mr. Ziner. Other organizations are planning to back the drive with their donations as soon as a regular meeting is held, Mr. Ziner stated.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 26,1945.

James Boyers Released From Philippine Camp The name of James Boyers of Berkeley, Calif., was among the ; list of names of prisoners released ! from a prison camp on Luzon Isli and in the Philippines recently. He ■ was taken prisoner about three years ago. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Luther Boyers of Berkeley and a grandson of the la>te Dr. J. S. Boyers of this city. His grandmother, Mrs. J. S. Boyers is nowresiding in Cleveland. Ohio. James is also a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson, former residents! : here. o Russians Open New Drive For Bailie Seek To Split Nazi Northern Defenses London. Feb. 26—(‘UP)— Soviet ' armored forces pushed to within ’ 60 miles or less of the Baltic today i in a powerful drive to split Gerj many's northern defenses. Tanks and infantry struck out ' through Pomerania for the Baltic after breaiehing the Nazi line based ! on the Danzig-Stettin railway at a point midway between those two big seaports. (A thrust to the sea in this area ! would slice off the northeastern j tip of Germany, along with the Pol- | ish corridor and t'he free state of j Danzig. Tens of thousands of Gerj man troops in the area would be ; j cut off from all escape except by i j sea. lOn the Berlin front the Germans I appeared to have thrown in their | I aerial reserves in an attempt to , I break up Soviet preparations for a i frontal assault on the capital from i their bridegheads on the Oder, 30j odd miles to t'he east. The army organ Red Star said German and Soviet fighter planes were, engaged in major battles over I (Turn To Page 5, Column 5) 1 I

Lenten Meditation (Rev. Paul W. Schultz, Zion Lutheran Church) “LOVE IS SELF-GIVING” “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3, 16. Here is the most lovely and the most sublime text in all Holy Writ. It is infinite in scope and inexhaustable in content. It so beautifully lays open to us the loving heart of our God, it summarizes the whole of Gospel truth, it forcibly and definitely reveals the only way to eternal life in heaven. God’s love is so great that it embraces the whole world of sinners and it is so self-giving that it spares not His only begotten Son. Before we were born, yes. from eternity, this unfathomable love sought us and seeks us still in all our sin and guilt. It alone sent Jesus into a bitter but vicarious death on the cross as the propitiation for all our sin. And whosoever will now accept this love in Christ Jesus by sincere repentance and undying faith shall have eternal life. Such a one will selfevidently also lov'ff God in return with heart, soul, and mind. He alone will also richly show a true Christian love to his fellow-men. His love, though imperfect, will ever draw its strength and pattern from God's love in Christ. Thus only can we possess a love which U self-giving and which glorifies God and benefits our neighbor whoever or wherever he may be.

Economic Charter Os Americas Presented Designed To Protect Rights Os Peoples Mexico City, Feb. 26 —(UP) — The United States presented to the InterAmerifan conference today ;i 10-point "economic charter of the Americas." It is designed to protect the "natural right" of the peoples of the Americas to live decently. The economic charter was one of eight resolutions presented to the steering committee today. The others concerned elimination of subversive activities, wartime trade controls, cooperation in health, sanitation and food programs, social questions, social security, admission and surrender of war criminals and maintenance of internal economies of the American republics. The objectives of the economic charter are: continued mobilization ot economic resources until total victory; orderly transition from war to peacetime conditions; and a constructive bases for sound economic development after the war. The charter would pledge the Americas to the following principles in attaining those objectives: 1. Rising levels of living. 2. Equal access to the trade and raw materials of the world. 3. Reduction of trade barriers. 4. Elimination of cartels which restrict international trade. 5. Elimination of economic nationalism. 6. Just and equitable treatment for foreign enterprise and ..capital. 7. Endorsement of financial and agricultural proposals agreed to at Bretton Woods and Hot Springs. 8. Promotion of private enterprise. 9. International action of fa(Tuirn To Page 6, Column 5)

American Troops Storm Into Rhine Stronghold, Advancing On Cologne

Boost Point Values On Margarine, Lard Washington, Feb. 26. — (UP) Housewives found higher ration values on margarine, shortening and cooking oils when they went out to do their shopping today. Because of a tight supply situation, the office of price administration ordered these increases over the weekend: Margarine from three red points a pound to five. Lard, shotening. salad and cooking oils — from iwo points t pound to four. Butter was not affected. It remains at 24 points a pound. o — Tokyo Center In Flames After Powerful Raid Record Air Assault Is Made By B-29s And Carrier Planes Guam. Feb. 26 —(UP) —Much of | the center of Tokyo was believed ' in flaming ruins today following yesterday's record one-two air assault by more than 200 superfortresses and 1,000 carrier planes. Some fires may be smouldering l ; pn Emperor Hirohito's palace grounds. Bombs fell near the stables bureau of the imperial household ministry on the palace grounds, as well as near Omiya Palace, residence of the emperor’s mother, a mile and a half away, Tokyo said. (The American broadcasting station in Europe said about 25,000 square yards in the heart of Tokyo was in flames following ! the double raid, NBC Monitors reported. BBC, heard by Blue network, said part of the imperial guards barracks was demolished by a bomb which fell in the palace precincts.) Radio Tokyo said “enemy night bombers’ following up the daylight raids crossed the Japanese coast in the direction of the capital at 9 p. m. yesterday (Tokyo time), but did not say whether they had dropped any bombs. It was expected that planes from Vice Admiral Mare A. Mitscher's task force SS, the world's greatest concentration of aircraft (Turn To Page 5. Column 4) 0 Draft Calls Impend For Men 30 To 33 Only Necessary Men To Retain Deferment Washington. Feb. 26 — (UP) — ' Local draft boards were under order today to begin drafting a large number of the 1.500,000 de ferred men in the 30-33 year age brackets. Selective service headquarters announced over the weekend that such deferments will be allowed to continue only if the registrant | is “necessary" to an essential industry. Heretofore, a man who was simply “engaged" in an essential industry was eligible for deferment. 1 There was no estimate of the < exact number of 30-33 year men < who will be called up. But offi- ■ cials said a “large number" of the ' estimated 1,500.000 deferred reg- i istrants of those ages would he ; affected. Men over 30 are expected to make up 30 percent of the ( entire draft call by the end of 1945. “If all other factors are equal," ( the selective service order said, ; “a father should be given greater consideration for occupational , deferment than a non-father in ; this age group.” . (Turn To Page 2, Column 3> *

Marines Take Firm Grip On Half Os Iwo Situation Growing Brighter On Iwo, Marine Officer Says Guam. Feb. 26—(UP)- American Marines have a "firm grip" on neatly half of iwo and their situation in the blood battle for the island springhoard 750 miles south of Tokyo "grows brighter • very day.” a ranking marine officer said today. The marineis held the east-west runway and two-thirds of the north south runway of Iwo's central air field. They were battling tirelessly to complete the couqut st of the base and win more high ground overlooking the northern half oi the island. The most optimistic official pronouncement of the week-long invasion came today from aboard admiral Richond Turner’s flagship | off IWO. The marine officer's asserI tion that the situation was hecomi ing brighter by (the day reflected confidence that she Marines were over the hump in the hardest fight of their 168-year history. The officer said th" Marines had won some of the high ground a- ' round the central air field, ami now were concentrating on seizing more elevated positions for use in the drive northward on the island. When the Marines win peaks farther north, they will have excelllent oibs' rvation of t'he entire northern part of the island, the officer said, and-spotters can direct artillery and naval gunfire. ( A Tokyo broadcast heard by the United Press in San Francisco said American casualties on Iwo had had reached 22,mm "Three marines a minute." Tokly also claimed that the Japanese planes had sunk an American submarine off Iwo.) Tanks and flame-throwers again were spearheading the attack, backed up by swatnns of carrier planes and the big army Liberators. Fighting was savage, with many hand-to-hand eomibats reported. With the capture of Motoyama airfield No. 2, the third, fourth and fifth marine divisions will have all Iwo's airsttips- within fighter-plane range of Tokyo -in their hands. Motoyama airfield No. 1, farther south, fell to the Marines last w "k But the battle of Iwo was far from over. The Japanese still hold Moto, a volcano dominating northern Iwo, and a cluster of other peaks, all honeycomlbed with gun emplacements and defense tunnels froan which they were raining shells and rockets on the American-held portion of the island. U. S. navy secretary .lames V. Forrestal, who visited the beachhead four days after D-day, tol-1 newsmen aboard Vice Admiral Richond K. Turner's flagship oil i the island that the clean-up would j take many weeks. “We’ll be digging dead Jal« and I some live japs probaibly out of the caves for many weeks to come,” he said. o Miss Sophia Heuer Is Taken By Death Miss Sophia Heuer, 72. lieflong resident of Adams county, died Sunday at her home five miles north of Decatur after an illness of two weeks. Surviving are two brothers, Theodore of Root township and Herman of Decatur, and a sister. Mis. Henry Franz of Foil Wayne. Two brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the residence and at 2 o’clock at the St. Peter's Lutheran churcht Rev. Karl Hofmann officiating, with burial in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwiek funeral home to the residence Tuesday evening.

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Yankee Troops Less Than 13 Miles From Cologne, Other U. S. Forces On Advance Paris, Feb. 26—(UP)—American troops stormed into the Rhineland stronghold of Erkelenz and drove an armored wedge be yond the town to within 17 miles of Dusseldorf today. Other Amer ican tank columns to the south broke loose on a broad military highway less than 13 miles from Cologne. Far to the south, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's rampaging third army tanks began to roll through the German flank in a broad end run that threatened to sweep down the valley of the ■ Moselle to Coblenz on the Rhine. Patton’s armored and infantry forces reached the Nims rivet line 20 miles west of the Moselle and about 55 miles southwest ot Coblenz. Forward patrols reach ed the approaches to Bitburg, last great German road center west of the Rhine in that sector, ami found the town practically de- ! sorted. A few Germans still inside Bit burg were being pounded heavily by the American mobile guns * moving down from Rittersdorf 1> 2 miles to the northwest. At the northern end of the 150 , mile Allied offensive front th) 'Canadian first army advanced three miles or more on a five j mile line in a power drive that j carried within less than two miles of the Hochwald forest The forest, lying between Calcat and Uedem, formed the third and last belt, of Siegfried line fortifi cations between the Canadians and the Ruhr valley, barely 25 miles to the southeast. But the Canadian and third army gains were overshadowed by the great power drive of the American first and third armies j across the Rhineland plain. Vanguards of the \merican Ist army’s lulth Timberwolf division I already were in sight of Cologne s ! bomb-scarred spires on the broad military highway leading northeast. from Dueren to the Rhine. Field dispatches said tank-led doughboys of the 104th captured Goldzheim, five miles northeast of Duren and 15 miles west-south-west of Cologne. Pushing beyond the town, agaihst still patchy enemy resistance, the Yanks were closing in swiftly on Blatzheim. 12 miles from Cologne and only four miles short ot the Erst river—the last natural barrier before Cologne. To the north, vanguards of the i U. S. ninth array outflaiLked the Nazi stronghold of Erkelenz from the east and west and thrust on beyond the outskirts of the town of Venrath, seven miles from the industrial center of MuenchenGladbach and barely 17 miles from the Rhine bend at Dusseldorf. Golkrath, 2 r 2 miles west of Erkelenz, fell to the ninth army, along with Kuckhoven, Hassel Weiler, Kauthauscn, AVockerath, I and Billigen. one to three miles I east, and northeast of the town. river in force on both the ninth ! and first army fronts and the advance on the Rhine was expected to pick uti speed from here in. More than 1,700 Germans were captured by the ninth army and (Turn 'l'" Pag.- " ('ol-irun It