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Ay TODAY IN HISTORY S7X 1869 The University of opens at Berkeley. 1943 British planes bomb Hanover, Germany, heavily. Cloudy, continued cool; Sunday fair and continued eooL Devoted to the Best Interests of Fremont and Sandusky County FREMONT, OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1944 Fremont Messenger. Pounded 1SS Fremont New Founded 1887 Merced lilt VOL. 87, NO.

301 4o 61NOUS COPT lOe PER WEEK 10 1 PAGES mm mmm msmw vimtm MB. FIREBRANDS' RAINED ON NAZIS POLITICS HOLDS ATTENTION; F. D. r. v-4 HERO'S WIDOW IS MOTHER -45? i 1 RUSSIANS GRAB TALLINN, SMASH FOE IN ESTONIA German Defense Lines TALKS TONIGHT Killen Named For Dirchard Library Killed This Is an obituary for "Birchie" a four month old kitten named for Birchard library.

"Birchle" Was a Idtten with only one life, and he lost lt the evening. The cat was the property of a local school teacher. Thursday night at 8:80 p. m. he crossed the street to further his friendships.

It was dangerous ground and "Birchie" was struck by a car. BATTLE TO WIN ARNHEM BRIDGE IS STILL RAGING Part Of Sky Unit Still In Danger Before Big German Army Third Americans Wreck 60 Tanks In Fight On Meuthe River By United Press British tanks and armored ears careened through a blazing four-mile corridor of German gum to the south hank of the lower Rhine today, rescued a trapped band of paratroopers there and drove for the Arnhem bridge in a desperate race to relieve the main airborne force pocketed across the river. Front reports said the highway I On Finland Gulf Are Breaking Part Hungarians, Menaced By Huge Army, Calls For All-Out Fight MOSCOW, Sept. 23. UP So-vlet flying columns struck south and wet of captured Tallinn In a race to envelop and destroy the routed remnants of the ler-man army of Estonia today, and the Russian army newspaper Red Star declared that the liberation of all the Baltic states Is "imminent.

Thu Innc-nrenared German de US- jr, 4 $2,000 NEEDED FOR RELIGIOUS TEACHING WORK Community Council Plans Meeting Monday Night To Map Campaign The Community Council of Christian Education will begin its drive for funds Monday with a supper, meeting at 6:30 In Grace Lutheran dining room. The budget is $2,000. needed for salary and supplies in week day fenses from the Gulf of Finland down to the Estonian border were span over the Rhine to Arnhem was still standing when the Brit falling apart under slashing Russian attacks from the north and west, and military spokesmen said virtually all of Estonia was now ish armor reached the river after British authorities recently disclosed the use, by RAF bombers, of a new type of incendiary bomb which, on ignition, becomes a firebrand spouting a 15-foot flame. Its descent is partially controlled by a small parachute, as seen In inset, upper right. Large photo shows ignited bomb, laying on its side, spouting flaming jet which burns for two minutes.

a wild ride up the Nijmegen-Arn-hem highway from Elst, four miles to. the in the hands of the Ked army. A front dispatch to the Red Star said the Germans, stunned by the speed and fury of the Soviet ad Dewey Hits New Deal's Social Security Job, Advises Changes Bricker Wants Nation To Be Ready To Take Its Place In New Order ByI7nltd Frew Politic held the renter of the Lace today. President RooevHt makes hi first avowedly political appeal tonirht for re-election to a fourth term In a peech to the AFX Teamster Union that i expected to challenge what he considers Republican campaign "misrepresentation." Governor Thomas E. Dewey ended the west coast phase of his election drive in a speech last night to 90,000 persons in Los Angeles Coliseum.

Governor John W. Bricker, speaking in Boston today called for a United States prepared to unite with other nations to prevent by force the outbreaks of small wars which might lead to a third great World War. Mr. Roosevelt speaks over nationwide (NBC and CBS) radio facilities at 9:30 p. m.

from the banquet hall of Washington's Statler hotel where more than 700 leaders of the AFT union will gather at the caU of their president, Daniel J. Tobin. In view of the manner in which Mr. Roosevelt accepted fourth term renomlnation, his address tonight was expected to be aimed primarily at refuting the accumulating charges brought against his administration by Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York, the Republican presidential candidate, and other leading Republican figures.

Program Advocated Dewey surpassed proposals of preceding Republican presidential nominees in advocating a five-point program for expansion of unemployment, and old age pension coverage, medical aid for the needy, job placement, and aid for returning servicemen. Dewey unveiled his social security program last night In a nationwide radio address. He proposed: 1. Extension of old age insurance The British tank column loosed a heavy barrage of cannon and machine gun fire on German positions around the trapped airborne force In Arnhem, and headquarters spokesmen said the situation inside the town had improved considerably with the arrival of the relief party on the south side of the Christian education in nnhlir WIFE OF CLYDE JUDGE IS DEAD KEY CITY IN PO VALLEY NEARED scnoois, with Miss Alice Trueschel vance on Tallinn, sunerea -enormous" losses in the final assault on that seaport capital. Covering 48 miles in the final day of their offensive, the Russians entered the city so swiftly that the Germans apparently were unable to wreck its modern port facilities.

Th harhor itself was described as teacher. There are over a thousand beys Rhine. O- 1 Mrs. Elizabeth Richards Allies Are Only 23 Miles From Bologna After Quick Advance ROME. Sept.

23. UP British as a graveyard of wrecked shipping, littered with the bombed-out hulks of scores of Nazi vessels that tried and failed to stage a last-minute evacuation of the Dies In Cleveland Hospital CLYDE, Sept. 23Mrs. Eliza The wearied sky troops still were fighting grimly and well to keep their foothold In the 'doorway to Germany, but it was admitted that their situation, after more than six days of close-quarters slugging, was touch and go. Early Aid Needed A dramatic radio message from the airborne commander in Arnhem said the morale of his troops was high and that they would hold out In their "patch of hell" until relieved, but observers believed re doomed garrison.

Near Budapest Far to the south, another Red nr-mv strtrmed throueh weakening Mother of the new baby Is none other than the former Mrs. Colin Kelly, widow of the hero who lost his life In the Pacific early In the war. Here she ts pictured with her husband, Lt. J. Watson Pedlow, of the Navy, whom she married In October, 1943; her 3-year-old son, Colin P.

Kelly III, and the new addition to the happy family, John Watson Pedlow, Jr, all of Washington, D.C (NEA Telephoto) Eighth army troops drove beyond captured Rimini Into the Po valley today and established beachheads three miles wide and two miles heth Richards, 78, wife of former Common Pleas and Appeals Judge S. S. Richards, of Clyde, died Friday at 5 p. m. in Deaconess Evan deep across the Mareccnla river.

gelical hospital. Cleveland. where German and Hungarian resistance along the eastern border of Hun U. S. Fifth army troops widened their breach in the center of the she had been a patient since last winter.

ana gins receiving this instruction from the first through the idxth grades. Over 150 solicitors will visit nearly 3,000 homes next week. The city Is divided Into seven sections of which the captains are Mrs. I. G.

Rhoda, Howland street; Rev. F. M. Otto, east State street; E. H.

Bradley, Franklin avenue Mrs. R. Bauders. Franklin avenue; Mrs. Claude Thompson, Cherry" street; Mrs.

IL Nickloy, Park avenue, and Mrs. IL Zimmerman, Buckland avenue. Each captain will have 21 solicitors. Full Instructions will be given to the captains and the solicitors, and all materials handed out at the supper hour Monday evening. The Revs.

J. R. Walter, Lawrence Price, L. G. Fritz and E.

E. Zimmerman omprise the committee of solicitation. Many supporters may not be contacted because of the gasoline shortage. The are asked to leave their subscriptions with A. E.

Lee-dy at the Croghan Bank. Ten volunteer solicitors could be used. Gothic line by taking Mount Cit- gary, threatening nouny to Dursi across the frontier within 120 miles of Budapest. fThe imminent threat of inva lief must come quickly. Elsewhere on the long front, the The funeral will be Monday at 2 p.

the place not yet determined. The Rev. W. Q. Halver-son, of the Clyde Presbyterian erna, two miles southwest of Futa Pass, and Mount Tronale, four miles due west of Futa Pass, and drove into the threshold of the pass itself.

sion brought a frantic appeal from the Budapest government for the (Continued on Page Column t) church, will officiate with burial in McPherson cemetery. The body School Teachers Told They Have Important Job Fitting Boys, Girls For Peace Role The Americans also captured high ground three miles northeast will remain at the Mitchell funeral home until the hour of services. GENERAL IKE'S KNE INJURED IN FRANCE LONDON, Sept. 23. UP NBC Correspondent Merrill Mueller broadcast from France today that of the important road junction of Firenzuola, coming to within 23 airline miles of Bologan, key city of the Po valley and ultimate objective of the forces under both Hungarian army ana peopie io fight for their lives and "western civilization," and the clandestine Radio Atlantic said Hungary had put out hurried peace feelers to the Allies.) On the Baltic front, the battle for Estonia degenerated into a full-scale Nazi rout as the German defenses collapsed in the north, following the fall of Tallinn.

Hard-riding armored columns of Marshal Leonid A. Govorov's Len (Con tinned on Page Column your charges so that they may be "Hanging Hitler is not although I do not object, but what to do with the German peo able to. do their part intelligently during the progress of this peace. Partitioning Opposed 'T do not advocate many of the pie is the greatest problem facing Lt. Gen.

Mark W. Clark in the central sector and Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver W. H.

Leese to the east. The Eighth army's advance north Mrs. Richards, one of Clyde's most widely known women, was a native of Lewistown, born July 1, 1866, a daughter of John B. and Elizabeth Strain. She married Judge Richards 29 years ago at Columbus Grove.

Survivors in addition to her husband are two stepchildren. Attorney William Richards, of Toledo, and Mrs. Walter Bucher of Cleveland, four step-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren. She was a member of the Clyde Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower "told an of us today as the war with Germany shows every indication plans submitted for the settlement of Rimini placed infantry and or being over soon," Dorothy Fuld heim, Cleveland radio commenta ingrad army, including riflemen me this morning the war will last only so as Gestapo control makes the main nation annihilate itself." Mueller said Eisenhower's plane ST. JOSEPH'S FUND NOW TOTALS $66,290 The last day of St. Joseph's drive for $90,000 to build a new high school opened Saturday morning with $66,290 In the fund. Father A. C.

Sprenger stated that he still had hopes of the orig FIRST MASS SINCE '32 HELD IN REICH armor well within the entrance of the Po valley where two great highways, Routes 16 and Nine, fan out in the direction of Ravenna, tor and world-wide traveler, told Sandusky county school teachers in the common pleas court room was forced down recently in triaay afternoon. on the Adriatic coast, and Bologna. of Germany. Partitioning the country into several small states and other devices would only drive the movement to unify Germany underground. The Idea of "killing all Germans" is a thoughtless statement.

I do, however, advocate complete control of the German political state and would, if necessary, put Allied officers in every office down to the last village. In Presbyterian church. mounted in American jeeps, captured Tallinn after a 48-mile, 24-hour dash along the. coast of the Gulf of Finland that caught many Germans in the seaport capital awaiting evacuation by sea. Govorov's troops were reported pushing beyond Tallinn toward the few small Dorts west of the capi It was one of manv noints France and he was uninjured in the landing, but suffered a wrenched knee while helping pull brought out by the speaker during Pastors Asked the plane off muddy ground.

Mueller safd in a Paris broadcast that TWO CITIES CHANGE TO 'SLOWER' TIME To Help Drive ner sometimes solemn, often witty talk given as part of the first of a series of three county teachers' meetings. Her address was preceded by that of H. B. Fletcher, special agent In charge of the tal, while his southern flank link By JACK PRANKISH KORNELIMUENS TER, Germany, Sept. 22.

(Delayed) UP More than 1,000 persons, including pious German families and solemn GI's from the American First army, crowded Into the 13th ceatury St. Kornellus parish church this morning to hear Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, cele tms way tne country can be con trolled." Pastors of ail Fremont churches The speaker declared that the Elsenhower was returning from a flight over a front line area when his plane was forced down. The supreme commander's only III effect resulted from his giving a hand to members of the crew trying to tow the plane from a ed up with the Soviet Tnira uaitic army to form a continuous 130-mile front in a general advance for the Baltic coast. have been aked to announce from Nazi war strategy had been stu While Fremonters will turn their clocks back one hour at midnight Cleveland Federal Bureau of In vestlgatlon office.

pid and explained what she called their pulpits Sunday that the "The peace will not be settled In her "artichoke" theory. city's fall waste paper salvage campaign will be on Thursday, Sep September 30, two principal northern Ohio cities will make the change this week end. a day or a week or a month." Mrs. brate his first mass In Germany spot where lt bogged down, he Big: Production "The Nazis and the Japs peeled off countries as you would take since 1932. "Slow time will take over in the outer leaves first before tember 28, Joe Lauer, publicity chairman, said Saturday.

All school tfachers have also been said. Mueller said this explained earlier reports that Eisenhower had Spellman, in a strong, clear voice, told the doughboys how Goals Must Stay Fuldheim said. "The peace will be a continuing process for at least ten years. I hand you a challenge as members of your profession to present the true facts of history to inal goal being met as there had been only six complete reports turned In. This leaves 22 team yet to make final reports, several captains having turned In only partial statements as late as Friday night.

It Is possible the campaign will be continued into next week in an effort to complete the final reports which have not yet been turned in. Father Sprenger said drive officials had received excellent cooperation among the workers soliciting and there had been a great deal of enthusiasm displayed. The educational hall will be open Saturday afternoon until 5 and from 7 to 9 in the evening for the convenience of pledge captains and others who still want to make contributions. Cleveland Sunday morning at 2 when Clevelanders will officially turn back their clocks one hour much the United States was In been "indisposed" and added that asked to announce the campaign debted to them for the "job they the coming week. from Eastern War Time to East reaching the heart of an artichoke.

None objected as long as the heart was not When that happened the war began. The allied strategy has paralleled this process, taking the outer leaves first and pushing through to the heart are doine" and expressed gratifi Mr. Lauer said that corrugated ern Standard Time. cation that so many of them kept Refugees From TROY, Sept. 23.

UP Vice President Henry A. Wallace asserted last night that wartime high production levels, more than 50 per cent above those of 1940. paper would bring $18 a ton; slick paper (magazines with torn cov sight of their religion in the bud "General Ike's health was never better than today." Two Lockbourne Airmen Killed Railroads, airlines and bus companies plan to stay on the "fast" time, however, and travelers will have to be reminded of the differ ers) $18 a ton; newspapers, $13 a China Are Home and blood of bulletwept Battlefields. A German oarish priest assisted must be retained after the war if ton and mixed paper, $10 a ton All must be tied in bundles. as we are now doing with (Continued on Page 2, Column ence.

Suburban busses will run on Soellman in the first of several Mrs. E. E. Overmyer and chil 17,000,000 unemployed is to be averted. Wallace told 1,000 persons at a rally Sponsored by the United La Fremont school students will collect the paper and their respec services planned during his visit to dren, Dannie Lee and Beth, have returned to Lindsey, after four tive schools will receive the money the first army.

Tne voices oi an American soldier choir filled the Boosters Meet rninrfnl old church which was un years in Hunan, China, where Mr, Overmyer is a missionary. it brings to be used for various school projects at the discretion of Cleveland time. Clocks will be turned back Sunday in Sandusky also. The new shift in time will be. from fast war time to central war time.

Sandus-kians were recommended to make the change when retiring Sunday night. Fostoria Drive bor Committee for Roosevelt that a postwar national income level of $170,000,000,000 must be maintained to achieve satisfactory living damaged by war except for a small the principals. Monday at 7:30 He remained in PungJan, China, while his family waited in India shell hole in the roor. At tha mii of the services Spell To Assist U. S.

0. for passage back to' the States. man marie his usual offer to send Instrument On Mrs. Overmyer had an attack of standards. He offered Russia's employment standards as a yardstick for First meeting of the Fremont a card to the nearest of kind of malaria fever during their stay in Boosters Club, organized theJast nv nMier eivine him a name ana PORTSMOUTH, Sept.

23. UP Corporal Henry Rubin, 21. of Royal Oak, died of a skull fracture last night in a hospital here, the second victim of a trainer plane crash 26 miles east of here. Lt. James F.

Dudley, 25. of Kokomo, the pilot, was killed outright when the plane clipped a power line and crashed into a knoll. The fliers were stationed at Lockbourne air base near Columbus. William Ward, on whose farm the plane hit, was burned severely in pulling Rubin from the India. week, will be held at 7:30 p.

m. Plane Stolen For the time being they will address. One German woman asked him to send a card to one of her Monday in the Junior Chamber of Commerce rooms pn Croghan make their home in Lmdsey. Mr. TWO CARS CRASH IN STATE STREET Automobiles driven by Glenn E.

Shoemaker, 1232 Franklin street, and Florence L. Coleman, 920 relatives in the United fatates. Overmyer hopes to join his family WAR IN BRIEF Theft of the chronometer from the Army airplane loaned to Ross street. The meeting will also mark the second post-game clinic at which in the States next spring. He was connected with the Evangelical high school, while it was parked at churoh at Lindsey.

the Fairgrdunds was reported to Coaches Sive Kohr and Jim Mari east State street, were damaged in a collision in the 400 block, west FOSTORIA, Sept. 23. Fostoria will have another paper collection on October 9, it was decided at a meeting of the Fostoria Salvage Committee meeting. The churches and other organizations will be asked to furnish loaders and the Army will furnish trucks for the collection in the evening. All money derived from the sale of the paper plus the funds now in the hands of the committee will be turned over to the U.

S. O. The collection in July brought $285 and It is hoped that the October collection will be greater. police Saturday by C. F.

Walton, nis will tell what happened In their games this week and advance some clerk-treasurer of the school board. CORN HITS BOY'S State street, at 6:08 p. m. Friday. Mr.

Walton said the instrument The cars were enroute in op said he would. PLOESTI BOMBER WINS CITATION The 451st Bombardment Group (H), of the Fifteenth Air Force, of which Sgt. Glenn Bliss, husband of Mrs. Annie Bliss, and son of Mr. and Mrs.

Will Bliss, of east State street, is a member, has been a unit citation bv the War information on next week's foes. EYE, INJURES IT was valued at $120 and had appar posite directions and neither driver The public is invited to attend ently been removed by someone JAPANESE THINKS CALIFORNIA LOST could understand how the left the clinic. It is possible that mo A youth living on Wayne street, whose name was not 'obtained, with a knowledge of airplanes as the instrument panel was not dam front ends happened to come to tion pictures of an Ohio State game will be shown. gether. aged.

suffered an eye injury when struck by a kernel of corn during Inasmuch as the plane is government property, the F. B. I. will be MRS. FRED CLINK'S the Ross-Lorain football game Fri VE-DAY NOT SO department.

Bliss, former Fremont CHEWING CANINE day night. Officer Jack McGuire notified. Police Chief Charles John GOOD FOR V. DAY has reported. son said.

CAUSES FLAMES MOTHER IS CALLED Mrs. Marie Ernst, mother of Koss star atniete, is a Hispanic a motor pool with this group. Th rotation reads: "For out A 13-year-old youth admitted INDIANAPOLIS. Ind- Sept. 23.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23. UP Mrs. Irene Lyman reported today that she received a letter from her son, Alfred, a marine, who landed on Guam with the first wave of American troops. He wrote: captured my first Jap today and when I questioned him he said you may take Guam, but you will never recapture UP V.

E. Day. 30-year-old war FIREMEN'S DANCE throwing corn but said he did not hit the other boy. He gave police By United Press WESTERN FRONT British armored cars and tanks race through four-mile corridor of German guns, rescue trapped band of paratroopers and drive for Arnhem bridge in race to relieve main airborne forces pocketed across river. RUSSIA Soviet flying columns strike south and west of captured Tallinn in race to envelop and destroy routed remnants of German army Estonia.

PACIFIC? Puppet government of Philippines declares war on United States and Great Britain following U. S. task force attack on Manila area. ITALY British Eighth army drives beyond captured Rimini into Po valley and establishes beachheads across Marecchia river. plant machinist, will be glad when standing performance of duty in armed conflict with the enemy, and nnan th.

mAf Hiffioillt. And tfVinff TICKETS GO WELL the war in Europe Is over and the names of two other boys Mrs. Fred Clink, Birchard avenue, died Monday at her home in Clarksburg, W. Va. The funeral was conducted Tuesday.

throwing corn and the matter was referred to Juvenile Officer Carl maybe his telephone will stop ringing. Ever since Indianapolis decided to celebrate VE (Victory in conditions on the ground and despite extremely adverse weather In tha sir the GrOUD Stroup for further investigation. Vvl SUA H.vaifcT MAm successfully bombed Ploesti, Ro Europe) Day practical jokers have been calling to ask when it is going to be. CINCINNATI. Sept.

23. UP Robert Fitzwater's dog liked to chew on electric cords. He chewed on one yesterday. The fire that resulted did $75 damage to a bed and mattress. SEVEN BODIES HUNTED BELLAIRE.

Sept. 23. UP Rescue crews today still sought the bodies of seven miners entombed by fire in the Powhatan mine last July 5. following the recovery yesterday of the bodies of five more of the 66 victims. mania." LONG WAY FROM HOME EAST MORICHES, N.

Sept. EPPIE MILLER AT CRILE Pfc. Urban (Eppie) Miller, who recently landed in the States after nearly two years in North Af Tickets are moving rapidly for the IJalloween dance being staged at Rainbow Garden for the benefit of the Firemen's Fund, members of the department said Saturday. The dance will be October 31 with Will Keating's orchestra playing and Bonnie Schwerer, Sandusky singing star, will entertain. Tickets are on sale by members of the department.

23. UP Josef Lemmen, walking on a beach strewn with wreckage AT NAPOLEON FAIR Miss Leota Leyda, home demon TEACHER HIRED PORT CLINTON, Sept. 23. Robert L. Easton, who has been serving as a vocational instructor with the federal civil service at Camp Lee, has been employed as the new industrial arts teacher in the local schools.

He is a graduate of Miami university, Oxford. FINNS, NIPS BREAK HELSINKI, Sept. 23. UP The rica, has been transferred to Crile General hospital, Parma. His father, Carl Miller, and Mr.

and Mrs, from last week's hurricane, picked up a sign which read: "No Hunting Finnish government announced stration agent, was in Napoleon Saturday judging the 4H club western district elimination Charles Snyder of Fostoria, will last night that it had severed diplomatic relations with Japan. or Trespassing. M. A. Redford, Lessee, Palm Beach, Fla." visit him Sunday..