Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 75, Decatur, Adams County, 29 March 1945 — Page 1

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|u Island lilal Falls lank Army |ty Badly Burned ■ Defeating Japs; ■rt Is Undamaged ■la, Mar. 29-(UP)-'Ameri-■oops captured Cebu’s burnK blasted capital city and K] northward today in a fflthat may have overrun the ■ airdrome. ■ City, second largest city K Philippines, fell to units K Americal division which ■cd five miles in one day ■utflanked elaborate JapanKllbox fortifications on the K's western approaches. ■ city, once one of the most Kul in the Archipelago, was Kd nearly as badly as Ma- ■ Demolition fires started by Kpanese when the Americans K Monday, practically wiped Ke business district and ■ residential sections. ■ port area was reportedly jfl undamaged, however, and Kcellent harbor, second only Kila, will be able to accomKe shipping and naval vesKlmost immediately. ■ flanking maneuver by the Kans again caught the Jap- ■ off guard and the enemy ■y evacuated well-placed pill- ■ and buried tank defenses Ke troops entered the city ■ the north and northwest. Ki. Douglas MacArthur’s com■que said the conquest of the Kd city was achieved with ■rely light casualties. ■er occupying the city, the ■ieal units immediately start■oward the Lahug airdrome, ■mile to the north, under a ■r of fighter-bombers front ■"th air force. ■th the Japanese defenses disBiized and the planes blasting ■h ahead, the U. S. forces may ■dy have seized the airdrome ■ its two flying strips. ■ Japanese midget submarine ■opted to flee Cebu’s harbor ■ay night, but was caught by ■T boat and damaged so badly Bas believed to have sunk. Be communique disclosed that ■enemy plane attempted to ■ the landing beaches at TaliI five miles south of Cebu City, ■day night but failed to cause I damage. fcierfcan bombers and fighters In raked the remaining Jap■e positions on Luzon, in the ■hern Philippines, in support |lie ground forces. The attacks |c centered around Baguio, f lPr summer capital in the |h, and at Legaspi, in the jtheastern tip, where liberators faded 180 tons of explosives Ipoft installations. ■ac Arthur’s communique noted |t enemy resistance in the I th and central sectors of lon had “definitely abated due Ids great losses which can not | replaced." Heavy fighting conP |p d in the northern', sector, fever, particularly in the f B1 ° sector and around Balete f 8 to the southeast. A Death Toll Reported Lower • lllca N. March 29.—(UiP)—Rix tent fewer Americans loot their ■ in traffics accidents during ry and February than in the 'wo months last year, the na4 safety council reported tou! crease - however, had notfhlesson T th a wi( ieepread notion < tra vel, the council addrts us T att6r ° f sact ’ U cited re ’ sh< ™ ® asoiine ufiage Ite of ra*b th V ecreMe wae 'n twarttm han the result of >smocr^ T t RE READ| NG 8:oo . T THERMOMETER 54 Noon - 52 2:03 p m 51 p - w - - 53 M w , y ? UTHER night an? U ? IJ a, ' d ml,d * n<l 'Ual th Fr l* y- Bh°wer« ni Bht ana thunder «howerß to-

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Army Food Supply Is Below Safety Level Washington, March 29—(VP)— Secretary of war .Henry L. Stimson said today that the army food supply is below the minimum safety level because, “unfgortunately, you cannot eat priorities.” •In reply to a question at his news cons renee, Stimson said that “the existence of priorities does not insure procurement. Recent slaughtering of hogs in federal inspected plants, for instance, has been below expectations.” o — Reds Reported Sweeping Over Austria Border free Austrian Radio Reports Red Armies Moving For Vienna London, Mar. 29. — (UP) —The "free Austrian radio” said today that the Red army has swept into Austria at a point 40-odd miles southeast of Vienna and liberated several villages. A further 4 break-through in the direction of Vienna is imminent, the station, presumably Soviet-con-trolled, said. It appealed to Austrians to desert the German army and volkssturm (home guard). Radio Berlin, meantime, said the Germans had evacuated their pocket in the big bend of the Oder river at Zehden, 31 miles northeast of Berlin. Thv evacuation was carried out in "stubborn fighting,” the broadcast' said. “Weak” Russian attempts to force the Oder in pursuit were frustrated, Berlin said. The Russians presumably advanced southwest from Zehden to the Oder itself. 28 miles from Berlin’s city limits. The Zehden pocket was the last enemy toehold on the right bank of the Oder between the eastern approaches of Berlin and the Baltic. The free Austrian radio said the villages captured by the Russians southeast of Vienna were in Burgenland, Austria’s easternmost province. First across the Austrian border was Marshal Feodor L. Tolbukhin's third Ukrainian army group, the station said. Tolbukhin’s forces were only nine miles from the border and 45 miles from Vienna late yesterday, advancing across northwest Hungary against spasmodic resistance. "It was believed that armored units may have reached the border by this morning,” a United Press dispatch from Moscow said. Moscow the third and fourth Ukrainian army groups were roll(Turn To Page 2, Column 5)

J. Raymond Schulz Dies This Morning Heart Attack Fatal To Noted Lecturer North Manchester, Ind., Mar. 29 — (UP) — Dr. J. Raymond Schutz, 64. noted lecturer and minister in the midwest, died early today at his home of a heart attack. Dr. Schutz, head of (he social science department at Manchester College for 22 years and minister of the First Brethren church tor 25 years, delivered 12,000 lectures during his lifetime, three of them being yesterday. He was governor of the Indiana district of the Kiwanls club in 1929, and a member of the international board of Kiwanis for three years. In 1930 he became president of the Indiana council of religious education for eight years. From 1937 to 1944 he was president of the Standard Life Insurance company of Indiana. Dr. Schutz was the Republican nominee for congress from his district in 1932. Surviving are his widow, four sons and a daughter. Funeral services will be held here Sunday. Dr. Schutz was very well known In Decatur, having lectured in this city on many occasions.

Yank Infantrymen Crawl Along Beach On Cebu ' T'" ’— : ■ - . '' f _ ■ a .-lit a x® Ji • - <■- ■ ■ 1 7: - • a-- ■’ ■ i. ■> '■ & : s .y MB [W r! z y . ML;yhL.... £ VETERAN YANKS of the Eighth Army’s Americal division land on Cebu, central island of the Philippines, against, well-prepared beach defenses following effective air and naval bombardment. Shown above, the doughboys crawl along the beach as the invasion gets underway at Talisay. five miles south of Cebu City, midway along the island’s east coast. Signal Corps radiophoto.

Bond Drive To Start Early For Workers Figure Three Months Os Regular Savings For a million Hoosiers who buy war bonds where they work, the seventh war loan will start with extra savings for. bonds on next week’s pay day, Theodore F. Graliker, county chairman of the war finance committee, announced today. Under the new mechanics of the “Mighty Seventli” war loan--prac-tically two war loans in one because there will be only two instead of the usual three treasury borrowing campaigns in 1945—men and women employes of industrial plants, stores and offices will have an extra month of pay days in which to invest in bonds either through increased payroll savings or cash purchases. Their regular payroll savings for three full months, April, May and June, will count toward quotas that for the first time have been arranged 011 a sliding scale based on actual income and ability to buy. With employe-group quotas to be determined from the average wage schedule of each concern, the sliding scale quota plan for individuals on payroll savings is as follows: 3 Months Subscription Monthly Needed Wage (Cash Value) Under SIOO $ 18.75 SIOO-$l4O 37 - 50 $l4O-SIBO 75 00 SIBO-S2OO 93 - 75 S2OO-$2lO 112.50 $2lO-?225 131.25 ?225-?250 150-00 $250 and up 187.50 1 (Against all quotas in right hand column, individuals can. credit full three months of present payroll savings). "This whole program has been designed to make it easier to save money for war bonds for those now on regular payroll savings,” said Mr. Graliker. "By increasing the number of pay days involved from (Turn To Page 2. Column 3) „ 0 Gottschalk Resigns Stale Welfare Post Berne Man Resigns As State Director Indianapolis, Mar. 29 —(UP) Governor Gates today held the resignation of Thurman A. Gottschalk of Berne as director of the state department of public welfare. Gottschalk resigned yesterday, effective as of Saturday, after heading the welfare department since March 23, 1937. The recently-enacted welfare law of the 1945 general assembly goes into effect Sunday, creating a new state public welfare board and giving the governor power to appoint a state administrator and three regional administrators. Thus far, Gates has named only two members of the five-man board and has not selected the administrators. Joseph Andrew, Lafayette, heads the recreated board, with Fred Hoke of Indianapolis as the other already-'hamed member.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 29,1945.

Steiner Resigns As Hartford Principal (Russell Steiner, principal of the Hartford township high school the past I'3 years, has resigned to accept the prin'Cipals’hip of the Leo high school in Allen county. He is a graduate of Ball State Teacher’s college and taught in Blue Creek township before going to Hartford as industrial art teacher. He is well known in the county. ■ —o— — Order Quarantine On Dogs In City City Health Board Orders Quarantine A city-wide quarantine was placed on dogs today by the city health board. Dr. James Burk announced, after being advised that a dog belonging to C. L. August, 226 North Tenth street, had died of the rabies. The health board gave notice that dogs must be confined to the owners’ premises, or muzzled if let to run lose. Dr. Burk stated that no case of a dog biting a person had been reported. The August dog acted peculiarly and following its death a veterinarian was employed to send the head to the Indiana state board of health. The report came back as a positive case of the rabies. Rabies is a virus disease, contagious to canines. Afflicted with the disease a dog will snap or bite at anything or anyone that comes close to it. The disease is then transmitted to the victim. Rabies broke out among the canine population in Fort Wayne and Allen county and evidently has spread to the Decatur area. Dr. Burk stated that the quarantine would be-enforced here and that stray dogs would be disposed of iu the usual manner, as a matter of protection to the public. Combat Casualties Now Total 872,862 13,275 Increase During Past Week Washington, Mar. 29. —(UP)—U. S. combat casualties officially compiled here reached 872,862 today, an increase of 13,275 in a week. The total included 780,043 army and 92,819 navy, marine corps, and coast guard casualties. The figures: Army Jlavy Total Killed 153,791 35,750 189,541 Wounded.... 473,669 42,302 515,971 Missing .... 86,355' 10,500 96,855 Prisoners ~ 66,228 4.267 70,495 T0ta15....780,043 92,819 872,862 Os the army wounded, 243,508 have returned to duty. Secretary of war Henry L. Stimeon estimated at his news conference today that more than 300,000 Japanese have been killed, wounded or taken prisoner in the campaign for recapture of the Philippines. This estimate includes uncounted dead on land, losses at sea on transports, warships and coastal (Turn To Page 5, Column 2)

17 Men Leave For Active Induction Contingent To Take Examination Friday (Seventeen men left Decatur this morning for active induction into the nation's armed forces, the Adams county selective service board announced today. The contingent included 13 men previously ordered to report on this date, one who volunteered for immediate induction if accepted, and was sent with today's group, and three men transferred from other boards. iMerle Affolder was leader of the contingent. Other members are as follows: (Fredrick Ray, Richard D. Gralber, Walter Ray Haines, Roy Junior Taylor, Richard Schroeder, Loren Vaughn Nussbaum. DeWayne Steiner, Donald Edward Myers, Lawrence Leroy Jones, Walter Allen Smith, Richard Mahlon Bryan, Robert Gerald Brewster, Arth’ur James Hurst (volunteer for immediate induction), ILewtis Edwin Beery (transferred from Fort Wayne), George Edward Kahn and Earl Norman Williamson ('both transferred from Van Wert, O.). (Scheduled induction of three high school students, Elmer Kukelhan, Loyde Melvin Bird and Eugene Anthony Braun, was postponed to permit them to complete their studies this spring. Oral Cloyd Taylor, transferred from Greenville, Mich., also scheduled for induction today, failed to report. iThe local board also announced that a contingent will be sent to Indianapolis Friday for pre-induc-tion physical examinations. — —0 Soft Coal Miners Vote Favors Strike Present Contract Expires Saturday Washington, Mar. 29 —(UP) — By the overwhelming ratio of 8 to 1, the nation’s 400,000 soft coal miners advised the government today that they are ready to strike if their new .contract demands are not granted in the next two days. The strike notice, expressed in a countrywide poll conducted by the national labor relations board, sharpened prospects for early government intervention in the dispute to prevent a work stoppage when the present contract expires at midnight Saturday. The NLRB announced that complete returns from the poll showed that 208,718 miners favored a wartime strike, and 25,156 opposed it, as a means of enforcing their wage demands. A total of 311,281 miners were eligible for the balloting. Os that number, 236,418 voted, with 1,518 ballots declared void and 1,026 challenged. The final results were sent to President Roosevelt as required by the Smith-Connally antistrike act under the provisions of which the poll was held. The NRLB originally estimated that the poll would cost at least $300,000. It said today, however, that thanks to the United Mine (Turn To Page 5, Column 4)

Sensational Advances By American, British In Powerful Offensive

Business To Cease During Three Hours Churches Will Hold Services On Friday Business will cease, retail stores, public and private offices and banks will close Friday afternoon in observance of the Three Hours commemorating the time that Jesus Christ hung and died on the Cross on Mt. Cavalry nearly two thousand years ago. Increased significance is given to the day with the making of Good Friday a state holiday in Indiana. In Decatur, the faithful will turn to the church. A union Three House service to the Protestant churches will be held at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church beginning at 12 o’clock noon, and continuing until 3 o’clock. Ministers and choirs of the various churches who are members of the Decatur ministerial association will participate in the services. At St. Mary’s Catholic church the Three Hours will be observed -in private devotions and prayers before the Crucifix and congregation Way of the Cross at 12:45 and 1:45 o’clock. A blessing with a relic of the True Cross will be given at 2:30 o’clock. in the morning, the mass of the pre-sanctified will be celebrated at 7:30 o’clock. The church remains in mourning for the crucified Christ throughout the day and up until the gloria of the high mass on Saturday morning. A special service will be held at the Zion Lutheran church Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The setmon will be delivered by the pastor, the Rev. Paul W. Schultz, and the church choir will present special music. For nearly a score of years, Decatur merchants have closed their stores during .the Three Hours when the Christian world commemorates the greatest tragedy ever committed in history, the condemning to death of Jesus Christ, the Savior of mankind. Manufacturing plants will continue operations, although in a few cases schedules will be curtailed to permit some of the employes to attend the church services. 0

Food Point Values Higher Next Month Changes To Become Effective Sunday Washington, Mar. 29 —(UP) The office of price administration today raised point values of pork, lard, margarine, canned peas, and canned asparagus for the month of April. The changes are effective next Sunday. The OPA left, unchanged present ration values of beef, veal, lamb, butter, and other red stamp foods. But the price administrator Chester Bowles hinted that all meat points probably would be raised sharply in May and June. Noting the recent 12 percent cut in civilian meat supplies for the second quarter of 1945, Bowles said the decrease would be felt "very little” during April. “Later in the quarter—in May and June—there is normally a sharper seasonal decline in the production of meat and the decrease will be Jelt to a greater extent at that time than in April,” Bowles said. Decreased supplies are customarily accompanied by higher ration values. Bowles said that while there will be less meat during the rest of the year “we will still have enough to meet all essential needs.” Other changes for the next ration period beginning next Sunday and extending through April 28 were reduction of points on tomato juice, canned sweet cher(Turn To Page 6, Column 6).

American Jet Planes Join In Raid On Japs Fleet Headquarters Silent On Japanese Reports Os Action Guam, Mar. 29— (UP) —Japan reported today that an American invasion fleet was converging "from all directions" on Okinawa island, the enemy’s navy-and-air base in’the Ryukyu chain. Tokyo radio said American jet planes joined carrier aircraft in continuing raids on the Japanese homeland. The enemy claimed that American landing forces on Tokoshika island, west of Kinawa, have been “completely wiped out” by the Japanese garrison using heavy artillery and mortars. Official American sources have not confirmed repeated Japanese reports of U. S. landings on Tokoshika and Aka in the small Kerama chain. "Enemy naval forces and transports,” said Tokyo, "continue to increase in numbers in the Okinawa waters. They are coming in from all directions.” Tokyo said the American assaul units in the Kerams "are stranded, with the American invasion fleet cut to pieces by the Japanese air arm.” (Chinese central news agency reported from the Fukien province coast that “chaos’ prevailed in Formosa where Japanese authorities reportedly were expecting an Allied offensive. Civilians were reported evacuated from all seacoast areas.”) A Japanese imperial headquarters communique indicated that a naval engagement may be underway around Okinawa, principal enemy base in the Ryukyu chair. The enemy announcement said its air and "surface” forces had sunk or damaged 30 American ships from Monday through Wednesday in the Okinawa area. Tokyo radio said “feverish” fighting was continuing in the Kerama islands, west of Okinawa, with 20 to 30 American transports attempting to land reinforcements. It .said other transports were south of Okinawa for "possible landing attempts” on Okinawa and Okino (Turn To Page 2. Column 4)

First Casualty From Battle Os Iwo Jima Pfc. Norbert Cable Wounded In Action The first casualty to strike this county from the memoraible Iwo Jima battle was reported today with the wounding of Pfc. Noitbert Calble, U. S. marines, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Caihle of Decatur route one, Monmouth. (Marine Calble telephoned to his parents from a San Diego, Cal., hospital, where he had been evacauted following his injuries. He did not dwell on his injuries, merely stating that he had been wounded in the neck and was “coming along O. K.” It was the first word the parents had from him in eight weeks. They had not previously received word from the war department. The -wounded marine entered the services in June. 1943 and received his training at San Diego. He went, overseas in July, 1944. Prior to entering the marines, Pfc. Calble was employed as a glove cutter at the Schafer Company’s factory. He attended the Decatur high school. A brother, Sgt. Eugene Cable, is with a medical corps stationed in England. »

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Armored Task Forces Os American Armies Riding Deep Into Central Germany Paris, Mar. 29— (UP) —American first and third army tanks converged on the Hessian capital o& Kassel, 166 miles from Berlin, at a mile-an-hour pace today. And in the north, British armored columns plunged 20 miles through the broken German lines before Muenster. Armored task forces of the two American armies were riding deep into central Germany less than 40 miles from Kassel and 200 miles southwest of Berlin at a clip more reminiscent of peacetime maneuvers than an advance through hostile territory. The British second army's flying tank columns in the north were meeting equally weak resistance. Field dispatches said the Tommies swept. 20 miles or more beyond their last reported positions in the Borken area to an undisclosed point about 42 miles east of the Rhine. Racing through dozens of German villages festooned with white flags, the British were closing swiftly on the Westphalian capital of Muenster, 227 miles due west of Berlin. A military security blackout cloaked the exact whereabouts of the forward British columns, but it was indicated they were, a dozen miles or less southwest of Muenster in the Bulden area. Heavily-censored reports from the wide-open American first and third army fronts indicated that sensational advances were being marked up behind the blackout. Vanguards of the two armies linked up almost 100 road miles beyond* the middle Rhine and wheeled northeastward in what appeared to be a full-scale thrust toward Leipzig. 124 miles east of Kassel, and a juncture with the Red army. Behind the tank spearheads, Wiesbaden, 15 miles west of Frankfurt, was cleared of Germans by combined units of the first ami third armies. Frankfurt itself was outflanked and militarily untenable. Its small but tough Nazi garrison was being mopped up in a narrow corner in the northwestern corner of the city. The U. S. seventh army drew’ abreast of the first and third groups farther soutli with a pow Terful armored surge (hat carried almost 40 miles oast of the Rhine at a point about 25 miles south(Turn To Page 2, Column 2) — o— Late Bulletins With U. S. Ninth Army in Germany, Mar. 29 —(UP) —A rigid security blackout was imposed on the advance of the' entire U. S. ninth army in and north of the Ruhr today. Authorities permitted only the disclosure that the Americans had gained as much as six miles today. 21st Army Group GHQ, Mar. 29—(UP) —A complete security ban cloaked all advances of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's armies today but it was reported the advance was at such a speed that many Wehrmacht units were completely unaware of the location of nearest Allied forces. Washington, Mar. 29 —(UP) —The German army on the Rhine is beaten beyond hope of anything save unconditional surrender or piecemeal collapse, secretary of war Henry L. Stimson said today. London, Mar. 29—(UP) — The Allied-controlled Luxembourg radio said today that the mayor of Mannheim surrendered the city to American seventh army troops in the first voluntary capitulation of any major German city.