Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1945 — Page 2

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TWO LOCAL SOLDIERS (Continued From Page One) tra] Sugar ecmipany in tliLs city and the Wayne Pump company. Fort Wayne. Besides his parents he is survived by a brother, Morris Kru- < (kPlierg, ePHinali seco.:d class, I'. S. navy, .stationed at San Diego. Cal., two sisters who live in Fort I Wayne. .Mrs. Dmiwin Dressier and ; Mh.s Xurma Krumki’lierg: two sirs-1 tetfl. Gertrude anti Iren at home. ! and a brother. Melvin Kruecke-1 ■berg, at heme. Herman Kruecke-1 berg, assistant cashirr of the First State bank, is a second coueiit. Red Points are as Valuable as Money. SPEND THEM WISELY! REGARDLESS of Hie QUALITY of Meal you buy. the point value is the same. GET THE BEST FOR YOUR POINTS. Be sure of Quality by buying cuts from cattie selected from Adams County’s Finest herds. Gerber MEAT MARKET

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. THOUSANDS OF (Continued From Page One) | feet over flood stage. | West Virginia — Many roads ! were inundated. About 5,000 workers were forced into idleness around Wheeling. Streets at Pt. Pleasant and Martinsburg were under water. All bus service south and west of Wheeling was j discontinued its highways were ■ flooded. Ohio -’l'he state highway patrol I estimated 1t.209 persons were II made homeless by the flood outI side of Cincinnati, where another 3,mm were forced to move to : higher ground. An estimated I 23.000 persons were working on 1 flood relief at Cincinnati. Sixtyine war plants and business es-! ■ tablishnients were closed in Cin-1 ; einnati alone. Portsmouth was j the most seriously threatened ' city. The wafer there was within inches of the top of the concrete I wall protecting the town. Indiana Colder weather added <o the misery of 1.000 homeless, rite Wabash river also overflowed. Lawrenceburg suffered most, and food was being taken to the isolated town. Illinois A flood crest of 53 feet was expected to reach Cairo at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers Sunday, but the city is protected Ity a levee built to withstand flood levels of MASONIC Called meeting MASTER MASON DEGREE Wed., Mar. 7.7 p. m. Fred P. Hancher. W. M.

Logansport Man Is Killed In Accident Logansport, Ind.. March 7 (UiP) 1 Howard Adams. +5. railroad shop- ' mtn, was killed mar Royal Cell--1 ter last night when the automobile in which he was riding crashed into a ditch. Hurl Baker. 28, the driver, suffered rih fractured and his wife, Lor tie Hi. received head injuries. o HOOSIER FAMILIES .. (Continued From Page One) prevent a similar catastrophe but that suffering was intense. Schools were closed throughout I the Ohio bottomlands area. State | police said that 30 state highways were closed to traffic because of inundations. Riverfront war plan’s, at . many places across the south-1 ern border of Indiana were closed. I Farther upstate, Seymour report- ■ ed nearly four inches of rainfall had raised a major threat on the White river, which was seven. 1 feet above flood stage and rising rapidly. Ridgeview, a federal housing project near Seymour, was isolated by surface water and the White river over flow, but families remained In their home®. The Jackson county relief organization was alerted. On the southeastern tip of the state, Lawrenceburg reported need for additional food for refugees. Small boats searched the bottom- j lands for marooned families. The flood neared the top of the 80-foo.t floodgate at Lawrenceburg. In the far southwest, Mt. Vernon appealed for amphibious jeeps to help remove persons and properties from the paths of water from the swollen Wabash and Ohio. More than 30,000 acres already were covered by backwater. (>0 feet. Kentucky—The Ohio river was expected to reach a crest of 46 feet at Louisville tomorrow. This would force evacuation of 3,500 families in Kentucky river towns. Mississippi — Flood conditions were improving along the Talla- i hatehie, Coldwater, and Yazoo I rivers. : Arkansas —The flood threat was most serious along the White 1 river. Danger appeared to have passed along the Vrkansas ami ! t Ouachita rivers. . :

— W-• '""•./I. £P*\ .A* s j KWF* -fll SLf • • • *' w* i Stti * W /• * i P* ■ j NINTH ARMY doughboys take shelter in these ruins along a street of Juelich, Germany, to avoid the heavy enemy shellfire in the battle-scarred city. With troops of Lt. Gen. William Simpson’s Ninth Army, these infantrymen crossed the Roer river in a surprise assault and are now driving relentlessly toward the western Ruhr foundries at Muenchen-Gladbach. This is a United States Army Signal Corps mdiophota. (International Soundphoto) - - -wAjyrw-:v’; ■ ' ssrrv U„- \..; >.-| '' ■■■''■' < ■ , : . ' xV .-. ' . 'i a • \ I ? -■ : x' ■ fl '.. ■ - V \ -■ > : ■# ■ * W}| ♦ • v • '-'WI r '■ I ~ _ ~ t swe®**' Wi I *»- ‘ WZJ *!+ A It S*?’ WjWMlj! iT - ..Swi Klafl * fl * Kpjb* ,** z '~ Thy ' ' -- Ifeba: ; | NEARIN6 THB IMO CF TH! INFAMOUS “March df Death’’ on Bataan, a thinning line of American pris. MM M «4t apprfiacß Came 6’DdnftsU tn the island of Luatn tn the fhllippiues. The Yanks’ tragi* j burdens ire improvised stretchers Bearing their comrades who. dropped along the way. This phot# I *** tAkeft tJ> *“ a *° an J bEea released. (International Soundphoto) ’

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j ITALIAN POLITICAL (Continued From Page One) ing yesterday's anti-royalist demonstration in front of the Quirinale palace, home of acting King Umberto, died during the night. At I least seven other persons were j wounded in tile incident. Tire second victim of yesterday's I bombings to die was a Polish soldier who was (standing near the Quirinale palace ait the time of the demonstration. ( The first victim. Giuseppe Lasagt’ta. a 35-year-old truck driver, was killed instantly. Police said preliminary/investigation indicated that Lasagna was killed by a grenade he himself tried to throw in Quirinale square. Another person tried to stop him, and tile delay caused the grenade to explode in his hand, authorities rei ported. ! ’ OVERTIME SESSION (Continued From Page One) j the office cf attorney general I Jam ■= A. Emmert. Republicans admitted ihey found I 185 errors in the bill. Democrats! insisted there were 265 mistakes. ißariing a cal] by Governor Ga'tf® for a special session'this year or next, the assemibly reconvenes in January, 1947. However, the roster of si nators and representatives is scheduled to change in the meantime. Only 25 of the 50 senators were hold overs, qualified to serve again in 1947 without seeking re-election in 1946. The entire house membership of 100 is subject io the voters next year YANKS PREPARE (Continued From Page One) the Luzon campaign." His communique reported that ■ ground action was limited to patrol activity, although bombers and fighters continued steady attacks on the Japanese pockets i scattered throughout the island. | Mustang fighters in a sweep j over the Cagayan valley wrecked ; five Japanese planes at Echague > airfield and set affire two enemy . barges west of the Aparri air I base on the north coast. .Marino dive-bombers supported I the si.xtli infantry and first cav- I airy division units Which occu-i

pied several favorable positions alo n g the strongly defended | Wawa-Antipolo line east of Manila. Far north of Manila, first corps i tritops were moving slowly along the Villa Verde trail and Balete pass road in an attempt to cut the Japanese lines leading to the Cagayan valley. The rocky fortifications of Fort Drum, in Manila harbor, were racked by fighters and bombers, while units of the 11th airborne division swept along the east Toast of the bay to southwest of Ternate and seized 20 Japanese gunboats carrying small depth charges. A coastal craft carrying about 20 Japanese was sunk by P-T boats off the Zatnbales coast Saturday night. Meantime, the 503rd paratroop regiment reported it had sealed with dynamite a total of 300 caves ■on Corregidor. Hundreds of ' Japanese troops were burled alive I in the inner recesses of the rocky i fortress, j— o - Senate Nears Vote I On Work Amendment I Debate Limited On Bailey Amendment Washington, Mar. 7 —(UP) — The senate neared a vote today nn an amendment to transform a ‘voluntary” manpower bill into a “work-or-fight” measure. Senate Democratic leader Allien W. Barkley said the outcome would provide a good guide to senate sentiment on the advisability of imposing stiff controls on workers at this stage of the war. ' Introduced by Sen. Josiah W. , Bailey, D., N.C.. the amendment was designed to gear closer to the war effort the manpower bill offered by Sen. Chapman Revercomb,' R., W. Va. The bill provides that any male i civilian between 18 and 45. not i performing “substantial work in a lawful occupation,” shall be ordered to report for induction. Bailey's amendment would change it to read work in any “lawful occupation, activity, profession or industry essential to the war effort.”

‘WAR OF NERVES' ’ (Continued From Page One) tract demands. This would post-, ,pone action on the controversial royalty issue until about a week before the March 27 strike poll of the 400.000 UMW, members and 10 days before the contract expiies. Lewis in the past has waged his most intensive “war of nerves" in those waning days. Government representatives said they were hopeful that the parties would resolve a majority of the issues before the contract expiration and agree to a temporary extension df the present agreement pending settlement of any demands still in dispute. —x> RUSSIAN ARMY (Continued From Page One) Other Soviet dispatches said that in an unidentified sector the Russians forced a river—perhaps the Oder east of Berlin—penetrated the depth of Nazi defenses, and seized a major transport network. , Nazi broadcast® said strong Red army forces, attacking in relays, were hammering ’the fortifications on both sides of Kuestrin. Oder stronghold 38 miles east of Berlin. ■II ■■■ ■——— ■ ■■- . - ■ ■ -- Glamour of ’45 DOROTHY’S BEAUTY SHOP 703 N. Third St. For appointment phone 1049. Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or yoti are to have your money back. CREOMULSION For Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis M F’* KH few? /*M ftZul ft# •»t Lr/u nz A c • o wilW|r WHAT better wav to give your home fresh, colorful charm than with Imperial Washable tVallpaf per? It docs so much —costs so j little—lasts so la ■; anti it's in j our showroom light now! Smith Drug Co. WOULD YOU SAVE A DIME to lose a dollar? The small, amount you might save ’ (?) by not having Automobile Liability Insurance might cost you many hundreds of dollars if your car injures someone or damages property. Bet- ; ter see us about this protection. THE SUTTLES CO. Arthur D. Suttle*, Agent Decatur, Ind. Niblick Store Bldg. Th* Am CMMfty mS S. CMifni ij er cm a Hltllllll

DEMOCRAT WANT ADS GET REsjfi Scrap Plus Ingenuity Equal Equipment, ARC Girls Prove SSS •.•a bl\ wiSctl A,. ' I SCRAP FOR CRAFTSMEN—This Red Cross field man (left) |, Mh ing prize pieces of metal from a bombed Jap plane, and the scrap win used in Red Cress craft shop# in tbe Dutch New Guinea area. At right ii •ne at the finished preducts, a bracelet, on which T/5 Thomas Silveitr. es New York, is putting finishing tenches.

The first two American Red Cross girls on duty in the New Hebrides group slept under the open sky. Every night they prayed for clear weather and empty spam cans. Their quarters still lacked • roof. Building materials were scarce; their roof had to come out of the scrap pile—empty spafn cans, if there were enough, pounded flat and laid like tile over the sloping, primitive framework. So they prayed, too, that GI appetites would not slacken. It took three days, but finally the last flattened tin was “prayed on.” Now the rain could come. In every war zone Red Cross workers use every imaginable item to produce equipment to serve the fighting forces. With them it isn’t a question of, “Give us the tools and we will do the job.” In many cases, they must make their own tools out ,of anything and everything that come* to hand. In the Marianas, Red Cross girls furnished their recreation tent with discarded packing cases and bomb racks. Discarded crates made their snack bar. Plywood scraps, painted in red and black squares, were fastened to up-turned bomb racks to make checker tables. Other ingenious Red Cross girls

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® ___ in Iceland furnished a recreation center with a meagre supply O s sal. vage pipe and scrap lumber, old gasoline cans on stilts and wired for electricity provided indirect lighting —of a sort—for walls decorated bv soldier talent The lack of necessary supplies in the Western Desert proved no ob. stacle to club workers in North Africa. Rooting through the ruins surrounding their once bombed-out club building, they collected discarded bottles which they ground down for cups and glasses. Hospital recreation workers have become expert scavengers. From wrecked Japanese and German planes, they salvage aluminum strips, then teach convalescent Gls to turn out bracelets, watch bands and other mementos. From spent shells, nuts, bits of wood, sea shells and bright pebbles, soldiers make many useful and ornamental articles under their direction. In Foggia, imaginative Red Cross hospital recreation workers begged surgical needles from Army doctors. They wheedled soft leather from the Air Corps. In no time at all they were teaching soldier-patients to make mocassins which served as hospital slippers.