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0 00 April 30, 1943. THE DECATUR REVIEW PAGE THREE Reds Forecast Heavy Summer Land Campaign By EDDY GILMORE Of the Associated Press Moscow Soviet Russia's official government newspaper Izvestia said today the coming month will see the beginning of an intensive sumCher land campaign which a well decide the outcome of the war. The pronouncement came as a violent air war mounted all along the front. The press generally sounded a prophetic note that tremendous events were in the making and a significant air of expectancy pervaded Moscow. Reds Attack, Nazis Say (The German high command reported the Russians attacked strongly again yesterday on the eastern line of the Germans' Kuban defenses in the Caucasus, but repulsed despite strong and artilHere, lery support.

German pilots were credited with 67 Soviet planes. (Transocean reported from Berlin that the Russians opened the Kuban offensive Wednesday with 10 infantry divisions of 150.000 troops. strongly supported by tanks and planes, and that the Soviets had numerical superioritv. At no point did the Russians gain. this propaganda agency added).

Nazis Get Reinforcements The Germans were reported to be moving up reinforcements. munitions and supplies in all sectors, but Nazi train and truck communications were being struck heavy blows by the Red airmen. The destruction of 116 German planes in two days. west of Karsnodar in the Kuban valley. gives some insight into the terrific air war.

Miners Continued from page 1 to await the President's deadline ing Government seizure of strikebound mines and plants. But all developments seemed due and Lewis' decision. Crisis In Stormy Career 4The deepening -deadline tension heard the name "dictator" adpre ded to Lewis' long list of appellations. It came from Senator Tom Connally (D-Texas). author of the seizure bill.

and recalled the stormy crises of the labor leader's career. Creator of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and its first president. the stocky, beetle-browed Lewis stepped into the limeSight long ago when he split the union movement to organize millions of workers outside the ranks of the American Federation of Labor. During the turbulent thirties he was labor's strong -both hailed and hated -and seemed at the peak of his C. I.

O. power when he threw his support behind the Roosevelt campaign for re-election in $936. But later he broke with the President. bowing out of the C. I.

O. leadership after opposing the third term. He subsequently parted with Philip Murray, his long-time friend and successor at the C. I. O.

helm and his United Mine workers followed him out of the C. I. O. he had formed. Miners Ask More Negotiations New York (AP) Soft coal miners today told President Roosevelt.

in reply to his back-to-work order. that they "want an agreement." and want to work and asked a renewal of collective bargaining with the mine operators. Their counter-proposal. made in to the President. reiterated the miners' charge that the War Labor board had pre-judged the miners' case.

A return to collective bargaining at this late date. in the opinion of union executives. would not prevent a work stoppage in the soft coal mines at midnight tonight, the expiration time of the extended contract, unless the contract is further extended. Released By Lewis John L. Lewis, U.

M. W. president. made public the reply after a session of the international policy committee of the union. Several union district presidents who are members of the policy committee and who were interviewed after the meeting said the telegram meant that in the abbe a voluntary stoppage there, work in sence of an agreement would the mines at midnight tonight when the present extended contract expires.

The U. M. W. always has taken the position that they never work without a contract, and Lewis has said during the wage negotiations which began early last month that in the absence of an agreement, the miners would not trespass on mine property. The U.

M. which seeks a $2- a day wage increase among other demands, told the President that making of an agreement through a renewal of collective bargaining is the logical means of providing justice and equity to all Up To White House The action by the policy committee apparently put the next NAVY'S NEW FIGHTER PASSES TEST The Brewster F3A. newest through a flight test success- part of the F4U Corsair. and fighter plane for the U. S.

navy, fully at the company's was designed for aircraft cara gull-winger, single-seat mon- at Johnsville. rier operations with the fightsairport oplane. produced by the Brew- navy sky-battler is a counter- ing fleets. ster Aeronautical goes (ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO) Patrol Of Japs Wiped Out On Guadalcanal Washington (AP) American troops wiped out a Japanese patrol of one officer and eight men on Guadalcanal Wednesday, the Navy reported today. but the reason for the enemy's being on that American-occupied Solomon island was not given.

A communique said the patrol was discovered in the vicinity of Beaufort bay on the western coast. about 25 miles southwest of the American airfield. All Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ceased on Feb. 9 though the mopping up of stragglers continued after that. Whether the nine-man unit was simply one of the final groups of stragglers which had wandered down from the mountains to attempt an escape or whether it W3S a functioning military patrol put ashore was not disclosed by the Navy.

The communique also reported several forays against Japanese bases in the Solomons Thursday. Allied Planes Bomb Japs At Amboina By the Associated Press Allied warplanes. breaking through a strong screen of Japanese Zero fighters. violently attacked Japanese barracks. hangars and seaplanes at the former Dutch naval base of Amboina 600 miles north of Australia, Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said today. Three of 15 Japanese interceptors were shot down or damaged, a communique said, and the entire formation of U. S. Liberators returned safely. Coupled with this attack, Dutchmanned Mitchells set fires at Koepang.

capital of Dutch Timor. Other Allied planes struck at the Tanimbar islands and New Guinea. the Burma front, British headquarters reported that sharp local fighting erupted along the Bay of Bengal coast, with alternate attacks and counterattacks by Japanese and British troops, but the situation as a whole remained unchanged. Forger Flees Prison Taking Blank Checks Walla Walla, Wash. (AP) State prison authorities are especially anxious to find that escape Spokane forger.

Warden Bert T. Webb said 10 blank prison checks disappeared along with the trusty one has already come back, cashed for $300. CATCH OVER LIMIT Los Angeles (AP) A thief went fishing in the rear of a haberdashery and reeled 10 suits of clothes through a ventilator. He left behind a trout rod. line and hook, disclosing his method to police.

Jack Lamm, the store proprietor. said the catch was just 10 suits over the limit. move in the wage dispute up to the White House. The message to President Roosevelt said in part that the War Labor board "would and could not do other than to apply its fixed mathematical measuring device 10 the existing wage structure of the bituminous coal industry, and deny our every request." maintain." the message asserted. "that such a conclusive action conceivably would not be a decision based upon the equities of the miners' case.

Admittedly it is in contramention of the very principles of equity and justice upon which American justice is predicated and which of our courts the great free institutions they are. turns a deaf ear to the pleas of a half-million of America's finest industrial soldiers. and their several million dependent wives and children who daily find their living standards being lowered to the point of despair by mounting prices of foodstuffs and the essentials of life." Tuscola Council Accepts Votes Of Third Ward Tuscola (Staff) Votes cast in Tuscola's third ward in last week election were accepted by the city council last night in a special meeting held at 8:30 p. m. In its meeting last night, the council rescinded its action of last Tuesday night, in which it had sought to cast out the third ward's entire ballot.

The effects of last night's council meeting were to end possibility of a dispute over the election of O. R. Twiford, who had run without opposition as candidate for alderman from the third ward. and to declare the proposal to float a $90.000 bond issue defeated. The bonds were to have been issued for the purchase of the 40- year-old Tuscola water plant of the Illinois Municipal Water Co.

Present i in last night's meeting were Mayor Herman Wiesner; City Attorney James Lemmna, and Aldermen Gaylord Gates, Earl Davies, J. S. Campbell and C. W. Dearduff.

Mayor Wiesner, the city attorney, and members of the council this morning declined to comment Leukel, Former D.H.S. Teacher, Dies in South Dr. Walter A. Leukel, a Decatur high school agriculture teacher from 1919 to 1922, died Tuesday (in Gainesville, for a number of years he was an agronomist and plant biochemist at the University, of Florida. Word of his death was received yesterday by Mrs.

Will Hostetler from her niece. Mrs. Ruth Hostetler Leukel the daughter of Mrs. Minnie Parker Hostetler, who died in Gainesville last Feb. 17.

Mrs. Leukel's wire said she was going to Wisconsin, presumably for the funeral of her husband in Madison. where his relatives lived, and then would come to Decatur, bringing with her the ashes of her mother. Before Mrs. Hostetler's death she had asked that her body be cremated and the ashes placed in the family lot in Greenwood While in Decatur Mr.

Leukel was manager of the Decatur high school football team. Besides his wife, he leaves two sons. Bean Contest Rules Listed Farmers who wish to enter the annual Illinois 10-acre soybean growing contest may get contest regulations and entry blanks at the Macon county Farm Bureau office, it was announced today. The entries must be mailed to the Illinois Crop Improvement association, of the University of Illinois college of agriculture, contest sponsor, by June 1. A pint seed sample must be sent in by that date, also.

An entrance fee of $10 is charged. Contest winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded during the U. of I. Farm and Home week. Any Illinois farmer is eligible to enter the contest.

Only one entry per field will be accepted. The test plots should be at least 10 acres in one continuous rectangle, with the width equal to one-fourth the length. The plots will be harvested prior to Nov. 1 by a committee under supervision of an association representative. A 15-pound sample of the harvest will be judged.

Judges will consider the grain on the following factors and percentage points: Yield per acre, 40; economy of production, 25; oil content, 20; quality of beans, 15. Contestants will be required to keep a record book which judges will check to compute production factors. Patriotic Aircraft Plant Worker Must Stretch His Wages San Diego, Calif. (AP) Aircraft Worker Le Roy Pixley, Valley Spring, S. decided to invest 58 per cent of his wages in war bonds.

Furthermore, he said he'd double that if anyone else matched it. Mrs. Nettie W. Atkinson, from Denver, matched it several days ago. Pixley is trying to figure out where to get 116 per cent of his wages.

GRACE TAKES $50,000 CUT New York (AP) Eugene G. Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel has taken a voluntary pay cut of 58 per cent which, a company statement yesterday said, would leave his 1943 net compensation, after federal taxes. at $42.546. compared with $90.257 in 1942 and $163.608 in 1941. A Complete Home- Cooked Meal, Served 11 A.

M. to 8 P. M. Sunday, May 2, 1943. For Only SIXTY CENTS AT THE WABASH DEPOT DINING ROOM CHOICE OF CHICKEN GUMBO SOUP or WILD CHERRY JUICE COCKTAIL BAKED YOUNG HEN TURKEY with TASTY STUFFING SWIFT'S PREMIUM SUGAR CURED HAM and PINEAPPLE SLICE STEWED CHICKEN with HOME EGG NOODLES ROAST CAPON STUFFED WITH CELERY and SAGE DRESSING PORK TENDERLOIN PATTIES BAKED IN TOMATO SAUCE RIB OF BEEF and BROWN GRAVY ROASTLLED CUBE STEAK with FRIED ONIONS LOIN OF PORK and APPLE SAUCE VEGETARIAN DINNER with CHEESE The Above Orders Include the Soup or Cocktail, Salad, Potatoes, Vegetable, Dessert, Hot Tea Rolls, Butter, and Coffee.

R. L. SEABOLT. Proprietor PHONE 2-0480 WEEKDAY REGULAR DINNERS 50c PLATE LUNCHES Rural Teacher Positions Open There are several vacancies for teacher positions in Macon county schools for persons holding state certificates, County School Supt. Robert B.

Ernest said today in announcing the names of 34 rural teachers who have signed contracts to teach during 1943-44. Those who have signed contracts are: Mrs. Lucille Bartels. Decatur, Major school; Mrs. Hylma W.

Paceley, Decatur, Excelsior school; Mrs. Helen Jones, Decatur, Mound school; Mrs. Elizabeth Kortum Johnson, Decatur, Chariton. Lenora Vulgamott, Cerro Gordo, Berry school; Mrs. Thelma Bowder, Decatur, Progress; Mrs.

Bertha S. Huston, Argenta, Fairview; Rose Gisinger, Argenta, Argenta Grades; Mrs. Pearl B. Harrison, Blue Mound, Old Blue Mound school; Adelaide Foulke, Maroa, North Harmony; Mrs. Lola Wesselhoff.

Warrensburg, West Stringtown; Mrs. Lena Johnson, Mt. Zion, Salem. Hirs. Ruby Haines.

Decatur, Mound; Mrs. Ethel Skipper, Blue Mound, Thomas Hister, Decatur, Pleasant Grove; Mrs. Dorothy J. Snyder, Macon, Davis; Elizabeth Anderson, Kenney, Evans school; Lola M. Dice, Illiopolis, Prairie Chapel; Mrs.

Velma S. Broughton, Decatur, Sulphur Spgs. Mrs. Flossie Atchison, Weldon, Rural Park; Mrs. Maude K.

Stombaugh. Moweaqua. Charter Oak; Mrs. Jean Churchill Harris, Niantic, Dingman; Mrs. Edna Stocks, Dalton City.

Ocean Wave; Mrs. Luella C. Blenz, Argenta, Brown; Mrs. Nell Penley, Decatur, Lake View; Mrs. Velma Deihert, Decatur, Hight.

Mrs. Florence White. Decatur, Walnut Grove; Mrs. Ruth Kiser, Argenta, Zion; Martha Greene, Decatur, Maple. Grove; Mrs.

Cora H. Pinkston, Oreana, Belle Prairie; Maude L. Cooper, Decatur, Bend; Mrs. Stella Berger, Decatur, Casner; Mrs. Dorma V.

Wood. Oakley, Walnut Grove College; Earl F. Johnson, Mt. Zion, Salem. Council Votes Shift For Fund Balances Inter-departmental- transfers of funds were authorized by the retiring city council in its final meeting yesterday.

Commissioner Beecher Hughey requested transfer of $1,400 in the Streets and Public Improvement department's engineering division wages and salaries funds to the wages and salaries account of the street division. A $40 transfer from the commissioner's salary fund to the employes wage and salary fund, and a $300 transfer of automobile purchase funds to automobile maintenance funds was requested by the Health department. The Department of Public Affairs requested a transfer of $300 from the new police equipment fund to the traffic divison materials land supplies fund. Women's Hats Soon To Be Put Under War Restrictions Washington (AP) Women's hats shortly will under government restrictions. The War Production bcard disclosed today it has reached agreement with the millinery industry to proceed with a conservation order controlling size of large brims.

the yardage used in fabric hats the length or ribbons and veils. Meat Rationing Continued from page 1 point. Permission was butchers to include hamburger "heel of round and skirts" as as. otheer scraps and discards. Following is a summary of changes which appear on the table, showing old and new values: Points Per New BEEF Steaks Round 9 Top round 9 Bottom round 9 Round tip 9 Flank 9 Roasts Round tip 8 Variety Meats Brains 2 Sweetbreads 3 Tails (ox joins) 2 Tongues 5 Tripe 2 VEAL Steaks and Chops Round steak (cutlets) 9 Sirloin steak or chops 00 Roasts, leg 7 Variety Meats Brains 3 Tongues 5 LAMB-MUTTON Variety Meats Brains 2 Livers 5 Sweetbreads 3 Tongues 5 PORK Steaks and Chops Center chops co X-ham, bone in.

slices 9 Roasts Loin, center cuts 9 Ham, shank end 6 X-ham, boneless. slices 9 X-Replaces former item, slices." Other Pork Cuts Spareribs 3 Neck and backbones (X) 1 Hocks and knuckles 2 (X) Reduced from 2 points pound on April 11, 1943. Variety Meats Brains 2 Chitterlings (X) 1 Z-sweetbreads 00 Tongues 5 Tails 2 Snouts 1 (X) Reduced from 4 to 2 a pound on April 11, 1943. (Z) New classification in group. READY TO EAT MEATS (Cooked.

Boiled. Baked and becued) Ham. shank end 8 Tongues, slices 9 Spareribs 5 Sausage-Fresh, Smoked, Group 1: 100 per cent meat content 6 Group 2: not less than 90 per cent meat 5 Group 3: not less than 50 per cent meat 4 Group 4: less than 50 per cent but more than 20 per cent meat: souse and head cheese included regardless of higher meat content 3 MEATS (CANNED) Brains 2 Bulk sausage to Meat loaf to Vienna sausage 6 FISH (CANNED) X-Sea mussles X-Shrimp (X) -New classification. FATS AND OILS Salad and cooking oils 5 NUDE BODY FOUND Aurora, Ill. (AP)-The nude of a man apparently about 50 old was found yesterday by Aurora fisherman on the bank an island in the Fox river, Kenneth Shae Made Adjutant go the granted well the new point Pound Old 8 8 8 8 08 7 3 4 3 6 3 8 7 6 4 6 3 6 4 6 8 8 00 7 9 "ham 4 1 3 a 3 2 6 3 2 points this Bar- 9 8 6 Cooked 6 5 3 2 3 6 body years an of Kenneth Shae, high school student.

has been named battalion adjutant of Decatur Schools Military Training Corps, Lieut. Homer Chastain, commanding officer, announced today. Adjutant Shae will hold a rank comparable to that of ranking captain, and will be second in command to the major. ranking student officer. who will be named in two weeks, Lieutenant Chastain said.

Jack Wolfe. of St. Teresa high school. captain of Company and Richard Harkness is captain of Company B. Boys holding second lieutenant ratings are Dean Jacobsen and David Sober, Company Gregory Bacopolous, Lee Milstead, Norman Rotenberg, Com- and pany B.

List Appointments First sergeants are Jack Wallace, Company and Robert Cushman, Company B. Dean Cox is clerk of Company rating corporal, and Jack Hill is company clerk, also rating corporal. Jim Neuendorf, Company and Eugene Mixell. Company are company guides, rating sergeants. Guide-on-bearers are Ted Daum, Company and Irving Melnik, Company B.

Supply sergeants are Eugene Hale, Company A. and James Ehman. Company B. Platoon sergeants in Company A are Russell Carter, Paul Davidson. Squad Kenneth Wunderlick.

Jack Achison, Ross Mullen, Harold Hebel. Rollin Allen, Wilbur Reed. Platoon sergeants of Company are Harry Witt, Gerald Cannon, and Max Pritts. Corporals of Company A are Charles Page, Bob Witt, Harold Clanton, Dick Weatherby. Jack Rodgers and Thomas Mentis.

Cadet officers of Company B. which includes junior high school boys. are senior high school students, while practically all of the non-commissioned officers are junior high school students. Cadet officers of Company including Decatur and St. Teresa high schools boys, are taken from their own company.

Senior Boys Named Lieutenant Chastain explained that the cadet officers for Company were chosen from the senior high school ranks a number of the boys, who deserved such ratings, will graduate in June and will not have an opportunity to serve in such capacities later as will the junior high school pupils. The 120 wooden training guns were purchased for the Victory corps by the Decatur school board. The school board has also ordered insignias and chevrons for the group. Company A drilled last night for the first time uniform, with the exception of caps, which had not arrived. Uniforms for Company have not been received.

Two Killed in Peep in 2d Army Maneuvers Lebanon, Tenn. (AP) First Lieut. R. M. Fletcher.

of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Pvt. Peter G. Pelias. Joliet, of an armored field artillery unit participating in the Second army maneuvers were killed early on the morning of April 28, when the peep in which they were riding skidded over an embapkment a short distance south of Liberty, Tenn. Buy Another U.S.

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