The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 1

a a a a a a a strong winds. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1944 PRICE FOUR CENTS WHOLE FAMILY DAILY TRIBUNE Weather: Fair NEWSPAPER 1 SEYMOUR night, casionally Thursday. and Fresh warm to 0c- VOLUME LXIL. NO. 260 SEYMOUR, INDIANA, SUPERFORTS Pic.

Receives Raymond Mackey Pic. Raymond C. Mackey, of this city has been awarded. a Purple Heart for wounds received in action in France on August 7. Pfc.

Mackey, the son of Mrs. Emma Mackey, Seymour R1, entered the service on October 18, 1942, and 'went overseas in February, 1943. Pfc. Mackey received serious shrapnel wounds to his back and side. He has been returned by plane to the Vaughn General Hospital near Chicago, and his condition is much improved.

Two. of his brothers, Earl Mackey, Seymour RI, and Harry Mackey, 917 West Laurel street, visited him Sunday. Capehart on Tour of County Republican Senatorial Candidate will be at Hardesty Hotel Tonight Homer E. Capehart, Republican candidate for United State senator from Indiana, will meet the people of Seymour and the vicinity at the Hardesty Hotel from 6 until 8 o'clock tonight. The informal reception at the hotel here will follow an tour of Jackson county.

Mr. Capehart arrived in Seymour during the morning and accompanied by Hayden Green, Republican county chairman, and a few party workers, started on the tour, visiting Cortland, Freetown, Medora, Vallonia, and He intended to return to Seymour shortly after 5 o'clock. Dinner at Brownstown. Mr. Capehart was guest at dinner at Brownstown which number of prominent, Republicans and party workers attended.

He said he would make no formal speeches at any of the stops. The public is invited to meet Mr. Capehart at the Hardesty Hotel tonight. Party workers especially are urged to be present, Mr. Green said.

An effort was being made late today to have Mr. Capehart give an informal speech during the evening but the plans still were indefinite. He will return to Indianapolis tonight. He came here from Batesville where he spoke at a Republican rally Tuesday night. Local Pilot Is Given Air Medal 15th AAF in Italy (Special to The Tribune) Second Lieutenant James C.

Utterback, twenty-one, pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress operating from a base in Italy, has been awarded the air medal by order of Major General Nathan F. Twinning, commanding General of the 15th AAF, for "meritorious achievement in aer-1 ial flight." Lt. Utterback is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Noble L.

Utterback, 206 Calvin Boulevard, Seymour, Ind. His wife, Mrs. Virginia R. Utterback, resides at 6363 Middleton Huntington Park, Cal. Lt.

Utterback, a former student at -Purdue University, Lafayette, entered the armed forces in September, 1942. He received his commission at Blytheville, April 15, 1944, and was assigned to overseas combat service with the 15th AAF in the Mediterranean theater of operations. He has flown seventeen combat missions against the enemy. Son of Health Officer Drowns Ralph Street, age nineteen, son of A. R.

Street, of Columbus, sanitary engineer for Jackson county with the Indiana State Board of Health, was drowned Saturday at Key West, according to word received by his father. He was a gunner's mate third class, in the U. S. Navy. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Stanley Mortuary at New Castle.

Friends may call at the mortuary at New Castle Saturday afternoon and Sunday. IN RAID OVER TOKYO Forest Blaze Destroys 500 Wooded Acres Huge Fire Near Jonesville ExtinguishedWarning Issued to Hunters, Residents A forest fire that burned over approximately acres, destroying some of the best timber in this section of Indiana and also a saw mill located in one of the timber areas, was reported to have been extinguished today after raging for about hours in the vicinity of Jonesville north of Seymour. As a result of that blaze and another which burned over small woods northeast of Fleming east of Seymour Tuesday night, warning was issued from the district forester's office at Brownstown today to all residents and hunters particularly, to use extreme care when in or near a woods to avoid starting a fire. The condition of the countryside is extremely dry, foresters point out and this condition had been augmented by dry leaves that have been falling during the past few days and now have covered the woods Forrest T. Miller, district forester, could not be contacted today as he is in Morgan county assisting in fighting three large forest fires that are raging there.

Saw Mill Destroyed. No buildings or property of that nature except the saw mill was lost in the blaze north of Seymour, which was about two miles north of Jonesville and about one mile west of Alternate U. S. Road 31. Austin Easley, supervising warden of the southern district, who was in charge of fighting the fire because of the absence of the supervising warden of the district embracing the Jonesville area who was fighting the forest fires in the northern part of his area, said the conflagration near Jonesville started on the farm of Sam McCord, said to have been burning brush.

The fire got out of Mr. McCord's control, Warden Easley said, burning through the woods on the McCord farm, over the Frank Murray farm, the Georgia Thompson farm, the Orville Thompson farm, the Wright farm and the Spurgeon farm before it was put out. No Crop Land Damaged. The fire was confined to and did not damage crop land, Mr. Easley said.

Some stand. (Continued on page 6, column 5) Mrs. Grubb's Rites To Be at Lafayette Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret E. Collins Grubb, age sixty-nine, a resident of Seymour for the past three years, will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Templeton Funeral Home at Lafayette, Ind.

Dr. Otto Steele, of Lafayette, will be in charge of the services and burial will be in Grand View Cemetery at West Lafayette, Ind. The funeral party will leave Seymour at 8 o'clock Thursday morning. Friends may call at the Voss Mortuary after 7 o'clock tonight. Mrs.

Grubb, wife of Bern B. Grubb, died late Monday 1 night at the home, 627 Ewing street. She had been ill for the past three years. but was not bedfast and her death was unexpected. Capt.

McLeod Returns From Special Training Captain and Mrs. W. H. McLeod have returned to this city after an absence of several weeks in Orlando, Florida, where Captain McLeod went to take special instruction courses in an army school They also have been, guests of Captain McLeod's father, A. R.

McLeod at Jasper, Florida. Captain McLeod is adjutant at Freeman Field and he and Mrs. McLeod live at 507. Homestead Avenue. Lt.

R. Wessel Is Prisoner Of Germany Parents Get Word From War Department -Reported Missing Since September 13 Second Lieutenant Richard F. H. Wessel, age twenty-two, bombardier with the U. S.

Army Air Corps who has been missing in action since September 13, is a prisoner of war in Germany, according 1 to an official. message received from the War Department this morning by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Wessel, residing northeast of the city on Seymour R1 near Reddington. Although Lt.

Wessel, who failed to return from a bombing mission over Germany on September 13, is listed as a prisoner of the German government, no information as to where he is being held was included in the message. Family Has Been Hopeful, Members of his family have been hopeful for some time they would receive word that he was still alive and were overjoyed to receive the wire stating he is a prisoner. Lt. Wessel has been in the Army Air Forces since January 11, 1943. He was, graduated from Shields High School here with the class of 1940 and had an outstanding scholastic record.

He is member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church. Lt. Wessel had been averseas only a few weeks when he was reported missing. Mrs. Ella H.

Willman Dies at Son's Home Mrs. Ella Honan Willman, widely known resident of this city, died early this morning at the home of her son, Honan Willman, 731 West Second street, after an illness of three weeks' duration. Mrs. Willman, who would have been seventy-three years. old Monday of next week, was born in Seymour on November 6, 1871, the daughter of Patrick and Ellen Honan, both deceased.

Her father was a native of Ireland. She was married October 26, 1894 to William H. Willman, in this city. Mr. Willman died on September 22, 1937.

Mrs. Willman was a member of St. Ambrose Catholic Church and had been devout in her faith. For many years she was a prominent member of the St. Ambrose Ladies Aid Society, During her long residence in Seymour she had made a wide circle of friends by her kindly manner and her sincerity.

She is survived by the one son, Honan P. Willman, and two grandchildren, David and Barbara Willman. Funeral services will be conducted at o'clock Friday morning from the St. Ambrose Catholie Church with the pastor in charge. Burial in Riverview Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Voss Mortuary after 7 o'clock tonight. The Rosary will be recited at the Mortuary at 7:45 o'clock Thursday night. Weather Records Here are official and weather OF A SHAPPY for Seymour records! fort CONE BACK 1'S the day, Ther COMPORTING fo maximum temper SAAG. ature reading SILENCE IS GOLDEN from a downtown thermometer, and unofficial, The minimum, for the twenty- -four hours, is from the records of Miss Louise Ahlert. government weather observer here, and is official.

The river level is obtained from the Seymour Water pumping station at Rockford. Temperatures Minimum 50 Reading at 2 p. 74 River Stage 1 inch below low water mark. Election Boards Problem of Party Workers As November 7 Nears Filling of election boards Was one of the primary concerns of party workers in Jackson county today as the general election, now the chief topic of conversation anytime two or more people congregate, nears. Tuesday was the last day, according to election calendars, for county chairmen of the two leading parties to certify in writing the names of election inspectors and other members of the election boards for the several precincts for next Tuesday's election to the county clerk.

Market Beans, Farmers Urged Crushing of Soybeans Needed to Provide Oil for Requirements With every possible pound of fats and oils needed to All large military and civilian requirements during the coming year, W. R. Isaacs, chairman of the Jackson county AAA, is urging all soybean growers to market their entire 1944 crop for crushing and to depend upon meal rather than whole beans for livestock feed. Mr. Isaacs declared that a procedure has been developed under which soybean producers who market their crop are assured sufficient meal to meet their feeding requirements.

This procedure is now in operation in all North Central States and in Kansas, New York, and New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The plan provides that soybean growers who have marketed their beans and are unable to buy meal for their livestock through regular trade channels will be furnished certificates entitling them (Continued on page 7, column 3) Surface Resigns Post, Enters Insurance Field Walter L. Surface, South Walnut street road, who for the past seventeen months has been vocational rehabilitation field agent for the state department of education in southern Indiana, has resigned that position to become special agent of the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, for Seymour and vicinity, it was announced today. Mr. Surface's resignation as vocational rehabilitation field agent I became effective today.

He assumed that position on June 1, 1943, after serving aS coach of football, basketball and' track at Shields High School for nine years. Mr. Surface for a number of years has been active in local civic affairs, and is chairman of the 1944 Jackson County War Fund Campaign. He also is a past president of the Seymour Rotary Club and has been active in local recreational circles. In his new post, he will have offices in Room 213 of the Seymour National Bank Building.

The inspectors for all the precincts were fled with the clerk, but the complete, boards in only three precincts were filed, it was reported today. In addition to inspectors, judges, clerks and sherifs also comprise the election boards under the Australian ballot system. The vacant posts on the boards are expected to be filled soon. Absence of people due to employment in the war effort is believed to be one of the chief factors that make election board members hard to get. Party workers also are being as particular as possible this year in choosing election board workers so that the best interests of their party will be served, -as many predict a close vote in many of the precincts.

Thursday will be the last day the county clerk, Albert H. Horstman, may prepare not less than five copies, in alphabetical order by precincts, of a list of all voters registered under the provisions of the War Ballot Act and deliver them to the county chairmen of the Democratic and Republican parties or to the county chairman of any other political party taking part in the local county election if he requests such a list. Unknown Voice Asks Germans To Join Revolt Stockholm, Nov. 1 (P) The newspaper Dagers Nyheter said today that a radio speaker calling himself Col. Gen.

Louis Von Beck, former German chief of staff, told the German people and army last night that have decided to become your leader" and urged them to help overthrow Hitler. The speaker, broadcasting on a wavelength not normally used by any German station, ridiculed Berlin reports that he had committed suicide after the abortive attempt on Hitler's life July 22. "A half hour after (Gestapo chief) Himmler gave orders to shoot me I escaped," the speaker was quoted as saying. He was said to have added that his former "comrades on the general staff" would "recognize my voice." "When I give the signal you must take every Nazi a prisoner and assume operation of all railways, radios and newspapers," the speaker said. "I order you to organize into fighting groups and equip yourselves with weapons immediately.

Prepare to take over the SS arsenals." Germans Withdraw Forces from Salonika Rome, Nov. 1- (P) -The German high command announced today its forces had evacuated Salonika, principal Balkan seaport and second city of Greece. Allied headquarters disclosed earlier that British patrols had reached the city, which had population of 240,000 before the war. A pall of smoke has hung over Salonika several days as the Germans carried out demolitions there. Many Pranks Reported in County Halloween, 1944, Becomes History Many pranks were reported to authirties as having been committed throughout Jackson county Tuesday night as Halloween, 1944 arrived and became history, but no reports of serious vandalism or destruction of property was I receieved.

The nearest to actual violence in the county on Halloween night reported occurred Brownstown, where three small boys, about twelve or thirteen years of age, were caught by a group of boys said to be considerably older, and were relived of both their shirts and undershirts by the bigger lads, according to the report made to Cletus G. Sneed, Jackson county sheriff. The shirts and undershirts of the boys were found later at the Brownstown theater but the boys who took them were not located. Paul Martin, assistant county road superintendent, reported to Sheriff Sneed that several large Last Defenses Before Antwerp Giving Away Berlin Radio Says Strike is Aimed at Vlillingen on Tip of Walcheren London, Nov. 1-(P)-Allied Amphibious forces have landed on the south shore of Walcheren Island and are assaulting the last Nazi gun positions blocking the sea lane to Antwerp, the Berlin radio declared today.

The Germans said the seaborne strike was aimed at Vlissingen (Flushing), on the lower tip of Walcheren, even as Canadians to the east fought across the narrow causeway from conquered South Beveland Island through a wall of enemy fire. The Allies landed on Walcheren after an artillery barrage from the south shore of the Schelde Estuary, only recently cleared of Germans, the Berlin broadcast said. It gave no hint of the progress of the assault, and there was no Allied confirmation of such a landing. Adjoining South Beveland Island, however, had been captured in the same kind of squeeze attack, with British, forces landing on the southern coast while Canadians pushed across the land causeway. Walcheren Flooded.

Three-quarters of Walcheren had been flooded by Allied bombbreaching of its dikes, with sea water sweeping over some of the German batteries controlling the estuary approach to AlliedAntwerp. Eight miles northeast of Vlissingen (Pop. the Canadians had almost completely negotiated the strip of causeway from Beveland to Walcheren, late front dispatches said. The Canadians apparently still wene twenty-five yards short of actually fighting onto Walcheren, blocked by a huge bomb crater and meeting concentrated artillery, mortar, and machinegun fire. An earlier dispatch said they had crossed onto Walcheren, but this was not borne out by later information.

Below the Maas River, Allied columns struggled through kneedeep mud in pursuit of Germans escaping over the river behind a screen of stubborn rearguard actions. The skillful enemy withdrawal apparently already has saved a large proportion of the 40,000 (Continued on page 6, column Plans for World Air Transport Chicago, Nov. 1- (P) -The United Nations and neutral countries were called together in the International Civil Aviation conference today to work on a plan for world air transport, with the hope that commercial flying can be put to work immediately toward reconstruction of the world. The meeting has no close counterpart in air history, and only one which resembles it in the matter of participants. That was the Paris convention of 1919 which related solely to the technical aspects of aviation and which was not ratified by the United States.

Today's meeting, expected to occupy representatives of more than fifty countries at least three weeks, involves the issue of economic control of a vast and growing industry. That issue to what extent should proposed international air authority govern a nation's right to commercial flying outside its borders? is the biggest one on an agenda which has three other major topics: Immediate operation of air routes on a provisional basis. Technical standards and procedures. An interim council to serve until a permanent body had been established, Paris Suburb Rocked By Bomb Explosion Paris, Nov. 1-(P) -An explosion rocked a Paris suburb today fifteen minutes after Gen.

Charles De Gaulle had made one in a series, of While All it Saints' Day speeches might have been an attempt against De Gaulle's life, French officials expressed the view it was sabotage, and was only coincidental with the speech. The war ministry said considerable damage and some casualties resulted. Air raid sirens were set off. This may have been to warn Parisians of flying debris, but no official explanation was available. Candidates in State Roundup Schricker Speaks at Richmond and Capehart at Batesville By Associated Press.

Intensity of the political campaign in Indiana increased Tuesday night as the candidates swung into the last seven days before election. Senator Samuel D. Jackson, Democratic nominee for governor, said at Richmond that if elected "I shall go into office with no promises to any man for any job or of any advantages of any kind over any other man or group." Senator Jackson said he would play no favorites and said any and all promises made during the campaign had been directed and would continue to be directed "openly to all the people." Ralph F. Gates, Republican nominee for governor, continued his campaign in Lake county and pledged himself, if elected, to maintain a sound conservation policy in state government. Praises State Parks.

"Indiana is blessed with one of the finest state park systems in (Continued on page 7, column 3) Dewey Hits at $1,000 Club in Buffalo Speech En Route With Dewey to Boston, Nov, 1 (A) Moving into New England for a major speech in Boston tonight, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey opened fire today on the CIO's political action committee and the one thousand club after an attack on President Roosevelt's record in office. Paul Lockwood, the governor's secretary, told reporters the GOP presidential nominee would "discuss the question of who will outbid the one thousand club for control of the Democratic party" in his talk to be broadcast (NBC) from 8:30 to 9 p. Central War Time, from Boston Garden.

"He will talk about the subversive elements who now seek to take over the country," Lockwood said. "He also will outline the principles by which we must live if we are to be free." Another Dewey spokesman said it was obvious that Sidney Hillman, chairman of the CIO political action committee which is supporting a fourth term, would be the center of attack, as well as the organization of $1,000 donors to the Democratic campaign fund. In Washington, Mr. Roosevelt said laughingly yesterday that he was a member of the club but didn't know what the benefits were. In his Buffalo speech last night the GOP nominee asserted there was no such club in his party, adding: "I have not offered the government of the United States for sale (Continued on page 3, column 2) John B.

Martin, 88, Dies Near Freetown John Bluford Martin, age eighty-eight, died at his home one and one-half miles southwest of Freetown Tuesday afternoon. He had been ill for three days. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Winklepleck Funeral Home at Freetown followed by burial in the Freetown Cemetery. Japanese Radio Gives Warning About Fires Marianas May Have Been Used as Base For New AttackReports Confusing By Associated Press. Superforts bombed Tokyo today in the first American raid on the Nipponese capital in more than two years, unconfirmed Japanese radio reports indicated.

Tokyo radio sputtered for hours today about a B-29 superfortress raid on the Japanese capital, but the War Department in Washington said it had "no information about any aerial operations over Japan." In a series of confused reports, Tokyo radio said a B-29 apparently from a newly developed base in the Marianas Islands appeared over the capital but left "without attempting that several four engined planes were over the city; that at least one plane raided a factory district throwing workers into confusion. Attack Wednesday, The reports all agreed that an enemy plane or planes were over the Tokyo area around p. Wednesday (Tokyo, time), One broadcast, recorded by the Federal Communications Commission, giving detailed instructions on combatting fires in inflammable Tokyo, said "an enemy plane suddenly raided part of the Kant6 Region an important industrial area covering 'the entire area around the capital and embracing several prefectures. "Several enemy four-motored bombers" roared over the capital at 1 p. m.

but were driven off, the first Tokyo report said. A later broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, said: Confused Reports, "Latest reports disclose only one enemy plane, a B-29 bomber, and not two as believed earlier, appeared over Tokyo early this, afternoon." Half an hour later, the broadcast continued, "without attempting attacks, the enemy plane fled in a southerly direction." The contradiction of succeeding reports recalled the confusion among Tokyo broadcasters when Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle's bombers struck the city, April 1942.

This is the Arst report American planes over the city since then. At the time of the Marianas invasion there was much speculation that engineers would build a huge base on Saipan for Tokyoraiding B-29s. There has never been any confirmation that such base was developed. Propagandists Busy. Neither China-based superforts nor any other land-based bombers have previously been reported over Tokyo.

Japanese propagandist: immediately termed the flight a "Roosevelt face-saving aerial stunt" to cover the alleged "American debacle" off Formosa and id the Philippines before the election. The Japanese still claim huge "successes" in air and naval battles off these islands. piles of brush were found in the roadway on county roads west of Clearspring, but no reports of accidents had been received. State police at the Seymour post received calls from Freetown Tuesday night reporting that tin cans had been hurled into the yards of homes there and city police here received complaints of outbuildings being overturned, windows being soaped, leaves piled on porches and other similar antics but local Halloween mischievousness, as a whole, was considered light. No city-wide parade was held here but a number of children, dressed in grotesque costumes and masked, paraded by themselves through the lighted business section.

Many residents, in neighborhoods where they heard groups of children moving about, kept their porch lights turned on to forestall the possibility of tick-tocking, or of having unwanted objects placed on their porch- Roosevelt Desk Deep in Talk About Campaign Washington, Nov. 1- (P) -President Roosevelt- -desk deep in political talk and obviously enjoying it- -worked today on the windup of. his increasingly active fourthterm campaign. Here's what he has to do between now and election day next Tuesday, in addition to his regular day-to-day work: Deliver two campaign addresses, one from the White House Thursday night and one in Boston Saturday night, make informal appearances at Bridgeport and Hartford, and Springfield, (Continued on page 4, column.