Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 65, Number 17, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 26 November 1942 — Page 8

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OPEN LETTER FROM THE COUNTY PRESIDENT OF CRIPPLED CHILDREN The newly organized Elkhart County Chapter of the Indiana Society for Crippled Children wishes to be of service to the entire County, rural as well as urban. We need the cooperation and help of the Granges, P. T. A. Church Societies, Service Clubs aflfd all groups interested in the welfare of the crippled and handicapped in your community in support of this program. We ask your aid in locating all crippled or handicapped children and adults in your area. There are seventy known cases in the county; if there are more we would like to know of them, our services are available to all. Please help us that we may help you. The Elkhart County Society is organized as a non-profit making corporation and is non-partisan and non-sectarian. Our purpose is to be of service to the crippled and handicapped of the community through cooperation with exi sting agencies and by supple-

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meriting their services where conditions exist which they are not entitled to meet. . In accordance with the state program it is our purpose: Ist: To be active in aiding location, diagnosis and treatment of all crippling diseases, realizing that much permanent crippling and disability can be avoded in this way. 2nd: To aid all cripples who are not eligible for public aid under State Laws. 3rd: To promote education, vocational guidance and employment of cripples. 4th: To support all legislation relative to care of the crippled and handicapped. In the short time we have been organized we have furnished the transportation to Riley Hospital in Indianapolis and to the South Bend Clinic, purchased a wheel chair, cooperated with the Elkhart School Board in their program of special education and supplementary home teaching. This is all done through volunteer service and we hope the members of your community will want to join in this humanitarian work. This program is financed thru memberships in the society, donations from groups and individuals, and the Easter Seal Sale which is sponsored by our affiliate organizations, the National Society for Crippled Children. We are issuing a monthly bulletin which we send to all interested at no cost. Our meetings are open to the public. The next meeting will be at the Elkhart Y. W. C. A., on Tuesday night, Dec. Ist, at 8:00 o’clock. Mrs. J. M. Flemming, is the president of the Elkhart County Chapter of the Indiana Society for Crippled Children. PRESIDENT OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA AT GRAND COURT OF HONOR Walter W. Head, national presi-r dent of the Boy Scouts of America, will be the speaker at the annual assembly and grand court of honor of the Pioneer Trails Scout Council at the Elkhart High S/Chool auditorium Sunday afternoon, November 29. Besides serving as president of the Boy Scouts of America for sixteen years, Mr. Head is one of America’s outstanding public and civic leaders. Boy Scouts, cubs and from all parts of Elkhart, Kosciusko; y and Larange counties will gather for the occasion. All advancements earned during' the past year will be recognized. There will be a special ceremony

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WALTER W. HEAD President, National Council Boy Scouts of America for new eagle scouts. Sixty scouters who have completed five or more years of service will be awarded veteran scout certificates The silver beaver award for distinguished service to boyhood will be presented to an outstanding scouter of the area. The general public is invited and urged to attend. The doors will be open at 2:00 p. m. and the program will start at 2:30 p. m. Scouts, cubs, and scouters have been asked to report not later than 2:00 p. m. Arrangements for the program are being made by a committee consisting of C. N. Schuler, Stanley Raymer, and Willard Stiver of Elkhart, Glen Hart of Goshen and W. Howard Thompson of Warsaw. A dinner in Mr. Head’s honor will be served at the Hotel Elkhart following the program in the high school. All are welcome to attend the dinner and reserva- 8 tions should be made Friday noon at the Boy Scout Office in Elkhart. ELKHART COUNTY POTATO SALAD CONTESTANT WINNER Miss Wilma Jones, president of the Jacksonian Maids 4-H Club of New Paris, was named second place winner in the 1942 Potato Salad Preparation Contest held recently in connection with the Northern Indiana Muck Crop show at Albion. Wilma, who received a ten dollar iqpsh award as second placing, is'the daughter of Mr. and Mrs'. Clarence Jones, of Jackson Township, twelve girls representing three different counties participated in the event which was won by a Noble county girl. Annabelle Juday, a member of the Benton Peppy Pals 4-H Club also participated in the contest. MEMBERS OF NEW DEAL CLUB TO MEET WITH MRS. KENNETH CULP Members of the New Deal Club will be entertained on Thursday evening, December 3rd at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Culp. ;

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Pacific Sea Victories Prove U. S, Naval Strength Is Growing as Japs’ Russ Smash Nazi Threat to Caucasus; MacArthur Traps Japs in New Guinea Released by Western Newspaper Union. ..... ■ ■ ■

The North African coast was the end of the first lap of their journey to Berlin for thousands of U. S. soldiers who participated in the successful invasion of French North Africa. The above photograph, one of the first pictures passed by the war department, shows a detachment of U. S. troops landing at a picturesque Algerian Mediterranean village west of Oran.

SOLOMONS: Smashing U. S. Victory Americas had scarcely received the nevys\of the brilliant naval victory in the Solomons which drove the Japs back reeling with 23 ships sunk and 30.000 sailors and soldiers drowned, when additional reports were forthcoming on the sinking of five enemy warships. The second action w&s the concluding part of a great three-day engagement which routed the Jap fleet from the Guadalcanal area. Shrewd and resourceful Vice Admiral William F. Halsey, commander of the American forces, emerged from the battle as one of the outstanding heroes of the war, for it was his audacity and pluck in the face of superior Japanese forces that won a smashing three-day victory. Jap ship losses in the slugging encounter included one battleship, three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, five destroyer? and eight troopladen transports sunk; four cargo transports destroyed on the beach near Guadalcanal, and one battleship and six destroyers damaged. Enemy losses in the second engagement were one battleship, three large cruisers and one destroyer sunk. Naval officials said there was ‘‘good reason to believe” that the sinkings reported in second engagement were in addition to those previously recorded. American losses were two light cruisers and six destroyers sunk. The major part of the sea action was fought directly off Guadalcanal island, which the Japs approached with three strong fleet task forces intent on effecting a landing that would dislodge the heroic American defenders. One of the decisive elements in the battle was the daring of American surface units in steaming directly between the lines of the Jap columns, firing broadsides in both directions. In this phase Rear Adm. Daniel J. Callaghan, former naval aide of President Roosevelt, was killed in action. While the navy rejoiced in its triumph, it accorded full credit to General MacArthur’s aircraft which had originally spotted the Jap concentrations and made repeated bombing attacks on the enemy shipping. NEW GUINEA: Jap Dunkirk? Steadily the jaws of the Austral-ian-American trap had closed on the strategic Jap-held port of Buna in New Guinea. Significant of the importance of the New Guinea drive to dislodge the Japs was the presence in the field of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. While his land forces converged on the enemy positions, MacArthur’s bombers had fanned out for widespread aerial activities. On their calling list besides Buna were enemy installations at Lae and Salamaus. The critical plight of the Jap garrison at Buna was emphasized by the arrival of eight enemy warships in thp vicinity. In a grim game of hide-and-seek that ensued between American Flying Fortresses and the Jap vessels, one enemy cruiser and a destroyer were sunk and another destroyer damaged before the flotilla fled. Observers were of the opinion that the Jap warships might have been preparing to evacuate the Jap defenders of Buna. 18-19-YEAR DRAFT: High Schoolers Deferred President Roosevelt set aside three weeks beginning December 11 for registration of youths who have reached or will reach their 18th birthdays since June 30. The President’s order likewise provided continuous registration on their birthdays of youths who become 18 on or after next January 1. A presidential proclamation hailed the new registration as “advisable to insure victory." t

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RUSSIAN FRONT: Reds Shoiv Mettle The Nazi threat to the Caucasus mountain passes and the Grozny oil fields was lifted when the Russians staged a fierce counter attack in the Ordzhonikidze area which resulted in the annihilation of 5,000 German troops and the capture of 140 German tanks, 70 field guns, 2,350 army trucks and 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition. The furious nature of the Red assault and the fact that the Russ forces were fully equipped with planes, tanks and other mechanized equipment indicated that this engagement might be the signal for a far-flung counter-offensive all along the Soviet front. At the other end of the Caucasus front German attempts to break through the Soviet lines near Tuapse were repeatedly beaten back. Meanwhile reports said winter was closing down Rapidly over the entire Russian front. As it had for weeks past, the Nazi front at Stalingrad remained at a stalemate, with German attacks beaten off by the stout-hearted Russian defenders. The industrial city’s factory area was the principal target of the Nazis’ effort to gain a firm foothold in this strategic Volga metropolis. NORTH AFRICA: 3-Pronged Pincer What was left of the tottering Axis empire in North Africa had drawn closer around Tripoli, as Allied forces menaced it from the east, the west and south, while the Mediterranean on the north had fast become a lake dominated by United Nations air and sea power. From the east, Gen. Montgomery’s Eighth British army had swept through Libya in pursuit of Marshal Rommel’s battered Afrika Korps. From the west American and British forces had poured into Tunisia, aided by units of Gen. Giraud’s French North African army. From the South it was reported that 10,000 of the fighting French army, mechanized with American equipment, had struck northward from Lake Chad in French West Africa. Goal of the Anglo-British armies from the west had been strategic Bizerte in Tunisia sea-coast “springboard” to southern Italy. British paratroops flown in American planes had captured airfields deep in Tunisia, reports disclosed. The Morocco raid described these paratroop operations as the largest ever carried out by air-borne troops. FRANCE: Laval Mask Off Pierre Laval could now write his own ticket. Observers believed that ticket would be filled out with orders for greater French collaboration with the Axis. For when doddering Marshal Petain invested Laval with dictatorial power giving him the right “on his simple signature alone to make laws” the immediate fate of continental France was in pro-Berlin hands. Petain’s decree simply gave official sanction to what had been an unofficial fact for months. Everybody in and out of Europe knew Laval had been the real boss of the Vichy regime and Petain the figurehead. Now Laval could emerge In his true role. Across the Mediterranean in Algeria, Admiral Jean Darlan continued as the titular head of French North Africa. But no longer had he Vichy’s blessing and no longer was he heir-presumptive to Petain’s post. Achieving the doubtful distinction of International Turncoat No. 1, Darlan had dexterously cast his lot with the Allies, following the successful American invasion. Previously he had been notoriously pro-Axis. His elevatfpn to second in command to Petain had been a reward for his Axis leanings after the 1940 French Collapse.

ROOSEVELT: War’s *Turning Point* American victories in the Solomons and in North Africa might well be hailed as an apparent turning point in the war, President Roosevelt declared. But, he warned the American people, there is time only for working and fighting, none for exaltation. The President coupled his analysis of recent military events with a rebuke to critics of the government’s war and international policies, who speak “either out of ignorance or out of political bias.” Declaring that he had made a constant effort to keep politics out of the fighting of the war, Mr. Roosevelt pleaded guilty, however, to having permitted pressure to disclose flie sinking of an American aircraft carrier 10 days before the November elections. He said he had realized that “if the news of the sinking had been given out two or three weeks later, it would be publicly charged that this news had been suppressed by me until after the election.” The result was that vigorous protests had come from commanding admirals in the Southwest Pacific and at Pearl Harbor that military information was being given to the Japs, because they probably had no sure knowledge of the sinking. GAS RATION: Curtailed in East Demands for petroleum products by the American Expeditionary forces in North Africa far in excess of original estimates resulted in a curtailment of 25 per cent in the gasoline of motorists in the Eastern states. The OPA order did not affect the Middle West, where rationing had been scheduled for December 1. Motorists traveling in the East from other states, however, would have to comply with the new rations which gave three gallons of gasoline for “A” coupons, instead of four. Officials said the East Coast curtailment would result in saving about 20,000 barrels of gasoline a day. ‘FREE RUMANIA’: Fund Grab Foiled How a plot to spirit exiled King Carol of Rumania into the United States from Mexico and establish a “Free Rumanian” movement in this country was foiled, was disclosed with the indictment in Detroit of three leaders in the cabal. At stake was nearly $80,000,000 in frozen Ru-

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EX-KING CAROL ... he eyed $80,000,000. manian funds now in custody of the U. S. treasury. The indictments charged violation of the Foreign Agents Registration and Espionage Acts. The defendants were Glicherie Moraru, selfstyled leader of the movement, Stefan Opreanu and George Zanfer. SEA SAGA: Boise Story Told Triumphant survivor of a battle in which she helped sink six Jap warships off Guadalcanal in early October, the heroic light cruiser Boise was undergoing repairs at an eastern American shipyard, after being battered by gunfire, swept by flames and losing 107 of her crew in action. That the Boise would be refitted in time to steam off to war again was emphasized by her commander, Capt. E. J. (“Mike”) Moran, and navy officials. The Boise was lead ship of an American naval task force that engaged a Jap cruisertransport force bearing troops for the Southeastern Solomons and bore the brunt of the fighting in which the enemy lost two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and three destrpyers. '-t> Given up for lost in the battle, the undaunted Boise later joined its companion ships after receiving shell hits in vulnerable places. In the engagement, the Boise fired more than 1,000 rounds of six-inch shells in 27 minutes.

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WASHINGTON: In a move to speed shipments of important war materials through Mexico, the United States has agreed to finance rehabilitation of key lines of the Mexican National railways, it was announced here. The U. S. government has agreed to bear the cost of all necessary materials and equipment as well as repair costs and the expense of maintenance.

NEWS NOTES AND ' PERSONAL ITEMS Thurlo Gall and children of near Elkhart were guests Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gall. Mr.a nd Mrs. Fred Jensen were guests at supper on Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stump. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gran and family moved to Nappanee on Monday. Mr. Gran is employed at the Vitreous. Bert Rhodes and Lily Hoskins of South Bend called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Noble Rhodes on Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bontrager and family of Cassopolis were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gall and Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Stump on Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Williams and (family of near Plymouth were entertained on Saturday at | dinner at the home of Mr. -and Mrs. Noble Rhodes and family. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Richcreek, Mrs. T. M. Banghart and Mrs. Kenneth Crowe and son David spent the week end at Lima, O. guests of Mr .and Mrs. Fred Banghart. Members of the Harold Myers, Reuben Flora and Delbert Flora families were among those entertained on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Flora of Wakarusa. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stouder and family and Mrs. R. O. Hepler were guests at an oyster supper Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold McGowen an family of near Bremen. Mrs. Devoe Swank and Eldon Swank and parents returned to their home on Saturday night after having spent the past week with Devoe Swank who is stationed with the United States Army at Austin, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Loyal Haney and family entertained at their home on Sunday in honor of the birthday of Mr. Haney. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Noble Rhodes and family, Mrs. Bessie Dumph and json Keith and daughter Wreatha, Rev. and Mrs. J. Detweiller and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Reed and daughters, and Mrs. Joy Wagner and children. RECORDS SHOW ACCIDENTS DECREASED 58% DURING OCTOBER Accidents on the state highway system, during the month of October dropped 58 percent in comparision with the same month of the preceding year, S. C. Hadden, Chairman of the State Highway Commission, pointed out today. Reports by motorists showed 998 accidents last month while 2,363 were reported in October 1941. Similar reductions were shown in the number of fatalities, 36 this year against 85 last year; 374 injured this year against 1,211 in 1941 and property damage of $119,714 in 1942 as compared with $284,337 in 1941. During the first ten months of 1942 a total of 13,131 accidents on the State highway system have been reported. These resulted in 498 deaths, injury of 6,436 persons and property damage amounting to $1,787,045. During the same period in 1941, 18,886 accidents were reported. These involved 702 deaths, injury of 9,708 persons, and property damage of $2,543,786. In the first ten months of 1942, 7,694 of the accidents reported have occurred on state highways outside cities of 3,500 population, while 5,437 of the accidents have occurred on state highways within cities of 3,500 or more population. In the same months of 1941, there were nearly twice as many accidents on state highways outside the cities, 11,941, as compared with 6,945 occurring within the cities. SISTER OF NAPPANEE WOMEN DIES OF HEART TROUBLE Mrs. Nellie Schneider, aged 69 of Bremen died suddenly o’s a heart attack at 5:30 a. m. Tuesday. She was born in Elkhart County August 10, 1873. She was married to John Schneider, who died some time ago. Surviving are the following children, Melvin, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Mabel Hansen, Charles, Mrs. Lulu Stump and Mrs. Esther Kuhl, all of Bremen, and Mrs. Madge Heminger, of South Bend, and two sisters, Mrs. Pfeier and Mrs. Jane Woodbury, both of Nappanee. The funeral will be held on Friday at 2:00 p. m. in the United Brethren Church with Rev. C. G. Reidenbach, pastor, Burial will be in Bremen cemetery. She was a member of the United Brethren church.

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