Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1945 — Page 1

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late Solons Awaiting Close 1 Legislature ■Enrolling Clerks ■Swamped, Delaying ■Close Os Session Mar. 6- (I p * “A ■ . stenographers ■ k.-p' Hoosier legis"ii their own lime with their calendars still ■ --, “Monday." ■'. adimn nnient of the 191a ,■ g ,neral assembly. schednlwoa 1 until 4 oi' !’■ 1;1 - 'today. ■ ■ l!-h-t Creighton «■ Warsaw. believed the session end before nightfall. 11(|I going to quit until a^B arP sttie that everything is all -e i.-ighu-n said. "The legis ■t-- has done it- work. bul W 3 n .> to have errors in the room. . ... .-moiling < lerks toil- ■ bills, typing them reading their for errors. .. ;-s were busy in attora! J.ittte, A. Emmert's cf-inn-king stenographers' and watching for medianmistakes. They had i- 15 bills before them. in the house and senI close to their desks ..... committee last-minute errget no pay for their work official 6'l-day sess--r.'.-l at midnight. They used ■ devi<o of stopping the mid senate clocks to give the clerks time to catch up. senate recessed at 11:50 nt.''until the fall of the gavel" ■ this morning. The fo'.’a.wel suit five minutes Me 1 -- wi • stopped in the two of the constiturequirement that house .v. lit. hard T. James. Portland. must sign new law ' . ci’ niembei S in se.-s official signatures re- : -the regular legisla-1 si>i<. qie. Thi s wag exto require only a few inin- ■ senators and representprepared to go home after Meir h stay in the state leaving about 4"t» new laws the Hoosier statute books. jjMlh'iiiig .i special session before 1947 legislature, only 25 sen- ' ' v "- p assured of returning in role lawmakers. Hoosiers ‘ a new house and half the of the senate next second legislative meeting (■ (Turn To Page 6. Column 2) o jßtaatur Girl Hurt Hit By Auto Clark, seven year old of Mr. and Mrs. George ■jf“ ! about 4 o’clock last even-1 *hen she ran into an automo- ■?‘ driven by A. H. Luckenbill of City. p U ,' ! . ler ear was d riv i n ® south lllil strp *’t and the child, with J ft ilter playma’es who were lan across the street, mtes,9n, ’’ auto, but collidMr’ ’’-Il the one going north. Mti* 8 , I '' was ba '-i!y bruised ,Oilr ,ee,h j arre d loose. e , talien t 0 l!le hospital ■ M "' eat ' men ' was administered K. o unav °idaible by police offiCoWe ‘- who investi- ■ read| ng H emocrat thermometer ■.. a - m - —. m |£‘- -— " I"-J." S WEATHER I • f, 'Tn n oon OU a n d and C . e " tral this iH »riod Os ? even,n 9 with a HI ,le « ,L fain and I e *«nin« Jt | ! awest Portion this 9 cle, rh 9 ’ decidedly colder and 9 c * l t - onißht wedne - O * outh Portion.

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Speaks Thursday HLiwl First Lt. Marcella Brandyberry, who has just returned from more than three years service to enjoy a 30-day leave with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brandyberry. 315 North Tenth street, will relate some of her thrilling experiences in the Hawaiian Islands and Pearl Harbor to the people of this community at the men's union prayer service, at the public library auditorium at 7:30 p. m. Thursday. Lt. Brandyberry enlisted January 19, 1941 and sailed for Hawaiia October 13. the same year. She was there when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor and this is her first visit to Decatur. She returned by plane, landing at San Francisco February 19. Those in charge of the men’s union service extend an invitation to men and women of the community to hear Lt. Brandyberry. Group Ordered For Active Induction 49 Are Accepted In February 28 Group Seventeen men have been ordered to report for active induction with the nation’s armed forces Thursday, March 29, the I Adams county selective service ; board announced today. Sixteen of these men are Adams countyresidents and the 17th is a transfer from Greenville, Mich. The board also announced that 49 men of the contingent sent to Indianapolis February 28 for pre- . induction physical examinations were accepted for the armed services. The men who will leave here March 29 for active induction will he given final examinations before being assigned to the various branches of the service. The complete list of the March 29 contingent follows: Fredrick Ray (volunteer), Merld Affolder (volunteer), Richa/d D. Graber, Walter Ray-1 Haines, Roy Junior Taylor, Richard Schroeder, Loren Vaughn Nussbaum, DeWayne Steiner, Donald Edward Myers, Lawrence Leroy Jones, Elmer Kukelhan, Walter Allen Smith. Loyde Melvin Bird. Eugene Anthony- Braun, Richard Mahlan Bryan, Robert Gerald Brewster, Ora! Cloyd TayI lor (transfer from Greenville, ! Mich.) 49 Accepted The complete list of the 49 accepted from the. February 28 contingent follows: Walter Mathias Leimenstoll, Carl Edward Stuckey. Merlin William Sprunger. Elgene Fred Hoile, Joseph A. Schwartz, Donald Elroy Grote, David William Sprunger, Richard Eugene W alters, Menno S. Eicher, Solomon B. Schwartz, Marion Earl Schindler, Denver W T ayne Rich, Charles Edward Workinger, Donald Wayne Hirschy, Enos E. Swartz, Harold Wayne Scherry. Lester Scheiman, Paul Martin Schueler, Albert Allen Anderson. Maurice Leroy Tinkham, Charles Edward Rauch, Jack Andrews. Clarence Edward Amstutz, Robert Dale W’orkinger, Charles Henry Yake, Emanuel M. Schwartz. Chalmer Coolidge Miller, Ellis Neuenschwander, Menno E. Hilty, Noah R. Schwartz. Richard Orville Manley, Waldo Conrad. Eli C. Beer, Curtis LeDoyl Zimmerman, Daniel O. Schwartz, Harry Dorwin Bollinger, Wayne Leroy Barger, Raymond Luther Chamness, Robert James Kaehr, Lester Fredrich W. Thieme. Tru(Turn To Pa»» 6, Column 3)

Soviet Forces Launch Strong Stettin Drive Great Baltic Port Under Heavy Attack By Russian Forces London, Mar. 6. —(UP) —Marshal) Gregory K. Zhukov has thrown two I tank armies into a powerful drive on Stettin and has opened a heavy artillery bombardment of the threatened Baltic port, the Nazis I reported today. Berlin said Zhukov also had concen'trted five infantry armies aad two tank armies in the Oder valley 30-odd miles east of Berlin; The Germans predicted that the frontal | push against the capital would begin as soon as Zhukov’s flanks are secured. A blazing battle in the Baltic cosatal area rapidly was clearing the right flank of Zhukov's first White Russian army. The German defenders pinned against the Baltic i in shrinking pockets were being re- ; duced and the drive on Stettiti was ; overrunning the lower Oder vali ley. A German high command cast a [ veil of loose generalities over the I battle of Pomerania northeast of I Berlin. It conceded that the RusI siaus were attacking on a broad front and had scored “minor penetrations." Zhukov swung the eiwire northern half of his first White Russian army north and west toward Stettin and the Oder estuary. Soviet vanguards were believed within 10 miles southeast of Stettin, a Moscow dispatch said. Nazi broadcasts conceded that the outskirts of Stettin already were under fire of Soviet guns, softening ithe city’s defenses for ultimate assault. Stettin, 73 miles northeast of Berlin, is Germany’s biggest port on the Baltic and the main source of imports for Berlin. Zhukov’s forces toppled the main fortresses guarding the approaches to Stettin yesterday. They were the walled city of Stargard, a 12way communications center 20 miles east of Stettin, and the railway and highway junction of Haugard, 28 miles northeast. o Boys, Girls Given Auto Driver Tests A number of teen age boys and girls were taking their auto drivers’ tests today. Under the lawspecial permits may be issued to boys and girls when they reach the age of 16. The applications must be signed by their parents and a driver’s test given them. o — Committee Approves Vinson Nomination Nominated To Head Federal Loan Agency Washington, March 6. —(UP) — The senate banking committee today approved the nomination of economic stabilization director Fred M. Vinson to be federal loan administartor. Chairman Robert F. Wagner, D.. N. Y., said the vote was “unanimous and. of course enthusiastic.” The committee’s action was expected. In nominating Vinson, ’ President Roosevelt had undertaken to end his bitterest current misunderstanding with congress. Vinson is a Democratic party stalwart. His background is the law and politics, mostly politics. He has been serving as director of the ofifee of economic stabilizetion. When Vinson’s nomination went to the senate yesterday secretary of commerce Henry A. Wallace quickly expressed approval. Former secretary Jesse H. Jones *was equally prompt and even more enthusiastic. Jones and Wallace havenot agreed on much of anything else in years. When Mr. Roosevelt fired Jones as commerce secretary and loan agency head, conservative congressmen enacted legislation to prevent Wallace getting the multi-billion dollar loan agency job along with the cabinet post to (Turn To Pago 6, Column 4)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 6,1945.

Famed “Peggy” Returns Home •** ' Hl fw' ■ LT. BEULAH GREENWALT, the famed "Peggy" of W. L. White’s “They Were Expendable," is greeted by her brother. Cloyd, at Lick- | ing, Mo., where she has returned to be with her 75-year-old mother, who is very ill. Lieutenant Greenwait, an Army nurse on Corregidor, when that fortress fell to the Japs, was Released with the internees at Santo Tomas in Manila. She reached the United States and was immediately flown to St. Louis.

U. S. Marines Ready All-Out Push On Iwo Massing Strength To Annihilate Last Japs Guam. March 6— (UP) — U. S. marines were massing strength today for an all-out assault to split and annihilate the last thousands of Japanese in Northern two. I How many Japanese remained to oppose the American push was not known definitly. A total of 12,864 enemy dead had been counted by I 6 p. m. aturday, (but field dis | patches estimated that at least three quarters of the original garrison of 20,600 had been wiped out. Opn I American dead for the first 13 days — through Saturday —of the bloodiest campaign of the Pacific war totaled 2,050. (A Japanese communique broadcast by Tokyo radio claimed “about” 20,000 marines had been killed or wounded and 250 American tanks “either stranded or set afire" in the battle of Iwo.) improved wind and weather conditions speeded preparations for the attack. Mountains of supplies were being unloaded on both the eastern and western beaches. The fighting front has remained virtually unchanged for more than 48 houis while the third, fourth and fifth marine divisions brought up munitions and supplies for the attack. The third, in the center, has only a quarter mile to go to the northeast coast to split the decimated enemy garrison. The Japanese tried time and again to infiltrate the American lines Sunday night and early Monday, only to Ibe broken up and thrown back. Hundreds of the enemy were killed, but the infiltration parties did Ibring the marines under “substantial” artillery and small arms fire, o Transfer Granted To Teeple Truck Line The Indiana public service commission has granted *'.e transfer of the David F. Teeple truck line, which operates between Fort Wayne and Portland, to David H. Tee’ple and his three brothers and their brother-in-law, Mark Braden.' The other brothers are Leo and Anthony of this city, Sgt. Julius F. Teeple, U. S. army, stationed in England. The firm will be known as the Fort Wayne-Portland truck line. The truck line was established about 30 years ago by the late D. I. Teeple. It operates over U. S. highway 27, with the terminal in this ci'ty. Attorney Nathan C. Nelson represented the applicants at the state hearing yesterday in Indianapolis'.

Rioting Rome Crowd Charged By Police Rome, March 6-— (UP)—Mounted police charged a crowd demonstrating against the escape of Gen. Mario Roatta in front of the Quirinai palate today, killing one and wounding a ntwnlber, after a bomb had been thrown. The demonstrators were part of a crowd that had taken part in an anti-Roatta tally in the cplosseum, protesting gainst the escape of the former army chief of staff under Mussolini. Roatta had been held for trial as one of Fascism's leading war criminals. 0 _ Intensive Campaign For War Bond Drive Seventh Bond Drive Will Open April 14 Washington. March 6.—(UP) — The press, radio, and al! other advertising outlets were asked today to devote more of their energies than ever before to promoting war bond sales, starting April 14. The naw drive, the seventh, will have a record goal for individual bond purchasers of $7,000,000,000. The total goal for all investors will be $11,000,000,000. Officials of the treasury department’s war finance division, representatives of the state war finance commttees, and leaders from every advertising field are meeting here to plan the most intensive bond campaign of the war. lEric Haase, representing the association of national advertisers, told the conference that his organigation was prepared to put forth its greatest .effort and was expecting full cooperation from nationally known firms. Haase gave the conferees an encouraging report on the public attitude toward the coming drive. Pulblic opinion surveys made by his association, Haase said, show that “practically everybody realizes that bond drives and bond buying must continue until both (European and Pacific) wars are finished.” And “half of the people,” he added, “expect such drives will have to go on for some time after the end of both wars.” The pibolem will be to reach every possible 'bond buyer rather than to try to convince him that war bonds help win the war, Haase ■said. Thomas H. Lane, director of the war finance division’s press, radio daily newspapers would be asked advertising sections, said that to carry a minimum of $7,500,000 in display advertising during the period April 14 to June 16. Organzation for the seventh loan, war finance director Ted R. Gam(Tunn To Pago 6, Column 5> •

Fall Os Great German City Imminent, Little Resistance Is Offered

Report Germans Move Offices From Berlin London, Mar. 6. — (UP) —The London Daily Mail reported from Stockholm today that the German government evacuated most of its offices from Berlin to Berchtesgaden, Adolf Hitler’s Bavarian retreat, last week-end. Only well-known Nazi leader remaining in bomb-battered Berlin was propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, commandant for defense of the capital, the dispatch said. 0 —_—. j Flood Danger Again Threatens In State Emergency Relief Machinery Set Up BULLETIN Cincinnati, 0., Mar. 6 — (UP) —Ohio river flood crest predictions were revised sharply upward Tues da y from Pittsburgh to Louisville as pouring rains continued through the day. A 70-foot crest was predicted for Cincinnati, less than ten feet below the disastrous 1937 peak. By United Frees Emergency flood relief machinery was set up by Gov. Ralph F. Gates today after continued overnight rainfall added to reports of danger from overflowing streams in southern Indiana. After a decline in flood stages on i the Ohio. Wabash and White rivers the swollen streams resumed their rise, and the Governor designated the state guard to take charge of emergency work. Most of the danger was along the Ohio river, which blocked many roads and highways from Aurora in the east to Mt. Vernon in the west, closed schools and crept into towns along the way. A crest of 62 feet, t lO above the flood stage, was expected at Aurora and residents of New Albany, across the river from Louisville, Ky„ were warned to prepare for a 44 to 45-foot flood. 16 to 17 feet above the danger mark. Governor Gates ordered Brig. Gen(Turn To Pagv 6, Column 7) r 0 Churchill Visits Western War Front Optimistic View Os War Expressed With Canadian First Army, Germany, Mar. 4 —(Delayed) — (UP) —Prime Minister Churchill said today during a tour of the western front that "anyone can see that one good strong heave all together will bring the war in Europe to its end.” Churchill’s optimistic view of the war in Europe was expressed in a brief speech to the 51st Highlanders of the Canadian first army, which he visited today. The prime minister arrived from Belgium Friday, landing on an airfield in Holland in a driving sleet and snowstorm. He was welcomed by Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and spent, the night at his headquarters. Churchill spent Saturday with the U. S. ninth army. Gen. H. D. G. Crerar, Canadian first army commander, welcomed Churchill at his headquarters at 11 a. m. today. Later he visited the 51st Highland division, which paraded for him. “Your struggle here in the north has enabled a great advance to be made in the south, and very soon the enemy will be driven across the Rhine,” Churchill told the Highlanders. “Far away on the other side of 1 (Turn To Pagie 6, Column 7J

100,000 Japs Destroyed On Luzon Island Americans Close In For Kill Os Remaining Japs Manila, Mar. 6. —(UP) —Six Japanese divisions — possibly 100,000 men —have been destroyed on Luzon and American forces ringing iih° remaining, trapped groups were slowly closing in today for the kill | Only four of Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki 1 Yamashita’s original garrison of 10 ; divisions were left on Luzon and ‘ they were split up into three firmly encircled pockets. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's American troops and Filipino guerrillas were reducing tlie Japanese points of resistance on the ground, while land and air forces maintained a strong blockade of possible enemy escape routes from the island. The Japanese, facing almost certain disaster, were holed out in the Zambales mountains in southwestern Luzon; the southeastern section of the island below Manila and in the northeastern corner. With many of the islands below Luzon already occupied by American forces, MacArthur's regular troops were steadily crushing the two southern pockets and probing into the north while Filipino guerrillas were adding to the squeeze from recently cleared Ilicos Norte I province in the northwestern corner of the island. MacArthur personally described | the position of the Japanese forces i on Luzon as "critical.” “The equivalent of six divisions with supporting elements,” he said, “have been destroyed together with the main supply depots, holding great quantites of ordnance, mu(Turn To Page 5, Column 4) O Lone Superforts Hit At Japan Homeland Attacks Reported By Radio At Tokyo Washington. March 6 —(UP)—Lone Superfortresses bombed Tokyo. Wakayama, the Osake-Ko.be region and the Nagoya area on Japn’s main home island of Honshu last night, radio Tokyo said today. Two other Superfortresses "raided" Shimonoseki and vicinity at the southern tip of Honshu. Tokyo said, but the ‘broadcast did not indicate whether any iiombs were dropped. The “few bombs” dropped on Tokyo caused no loss, the Japanese said. Only "slight damage” was caused elsewhere, the broadcast added. Another lone Superfortress appeared over the HiroshimaJMatsuyama area at 4 A. IM. Today, with out dropping bombs, Tokyo said. The enemy broadcasts were r corded by the FCC. The Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Hochi warned the Japanese people that American planes had dropped pamphlets which sough* to turn the people against the military. The newspaper cautioned against “disunity” in the homeland. Toklo also said the government was planning to tighten state control over the light transprtation industry in order to increase its efficiency and prepare for “any emergency,” Amoy, Japanese-occupied port on the China eoast, was raided by “several tens of Ibom-bers, fighters and 'B-2fte” from 1 to 4:19 n. m„ yesterday, another Tokyo broadcast said. The radiers machine gunned the city and dropped bombs at several points, Tokyo said.

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Doomed Rearguard Os German Forces Offers Spasmodic Resistance In City BULLETIN Paris, Mar. 6 — (UP) — American forces captured Cologne tonight and at the same time Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army broke through the German lines and drove eastward 25 miles toward the Rhine. Paris, Mar. 6—(UP) —American first army forces drove into the walled center of Cologne barely a mile from ihe wrecked Rhine bridges today and the fall of the great cathedral city appeared imminent. | A doomed German rearguard I still offered spasmodic resistance I in tlie streets of the burning city, but field dispatches and roundabout Berlin reports indicated strongly that the battle was entering its final hours. One-third to half the city was in American hands before midday, and armored and infantry columns of three U. S. first army divisions were closing in with increasing speed from the northwest, west, and southwest. The break-through into Cologne’s inner citadel signalled the end of Nazi Germany’s hold on the Rhineland. More than 75 miles of the Rhine's west bank from Cologne northward to the Dutch border Were in Allied hands or swept by Allied shell fire and the remnants of three German field armies battled desperately to escape across the river. Cologne, Hie fourth city of Germany with a prewar population of more than 768,000, was a , blackened, burning shell, with i most of its civilians fled and apparently only a weak covering force left to defend its Rhine crossings. Front reports said the attacking Americans at some points were meeting only scattered rifle fire from German snipers. At others, the Germans were fighting back hard but in small numbers from street barricades and dugin tanks. All tlie northwestern, western and southwestern perimeter of the city was in American hands and the way was open for a. smashing thrust to the banks of the Rhine, less than two miles ahead of the converging Yank spearheads. American dive-bomber pilots who barrelled down to roof-top level in search of German strongpoints reported that Cologne appeared to lie a dead city this morning. There was no sign of life in the central streets and the central span of the huge Hohenzollern bridge was believed to have been knocked out. As the Americans closed in to ciinch their biggest triumph of the 12-day-old offensive, other first army forces to the north were teaming up witli the American ninth and Canadian first armies to write off the remnants of three German field armies op the west bank of tlie Rhine. Units of the first army were mopping up disorganized Nazi pockets along the Rhine bank be(TuHl To Page .3, Column 6) — o Over 1,000 British Planes Pound Germany ILondon, 'March 6—(UP) —More than 1.100 RAF planes bombarded Germany last night, most of them hitting the key railway and defense hud) of Chemnitz. 38 miles teration raid. Chemnitz, 38 miles southwest of Dresden, was 'described by the air ministry as “essential for the defense of Eastern Germany” against the Red Army. Though Chemitz had been bombed repeatedly by Allied air armadas, including an American formation yesterday, the new attack was ordered because the city still was not devastate to the extent of smouldering Dresden, the ministry said.