The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 November 1945 — Page 1
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VOLUME FIFTY-FOUR
THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1945.
NO. 23
COUNTY HIGH IN PURCHASES OF V-L BONDS PTTNA'I CITIZENS MAKIN4. 81>:,ENDID response
|\ CAMPAIGN
Thi' Putnam county committee i uf the Victory War Loan drive' has been informed by Indiana state headquarters that Putnam county is in second place in pei cent of individual quota attained ar ,d m third place in the percentof T3 Bond sales. This excellent standing of Putnam county in the entire state was helped considerably by Floyd and Cloverdale township exceeding both F Bond and individual sales. Eugene Hutchins, chairman of the drive, stated today that if the workers in Putnam county continue to show this spirit and increase their efforts, Putnam county should be among the top counties in the state to reach its goal. Ttv percentage figures for
* stolen VEHICLES
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KOI M) ON national! State police found two stolen vehicles Tuesday which had b en. abandoned on the National Road A lOtMl Terraplanc. stolen ir Terre Haute, was found west ot Mt. Meridian and a 19li7 Ford panel truck, stolen in West Terre Haute, was found cast -d Stilesvillo. < OI KT NOTES
each township
as of November
10th are shown
here.
'; of E
'/c ln-j
dividual:-1
Clinton
. 57.2
233 5
Cloverdale
103.7
117. J
Floyd
130.8
180 0
Franklin
.161.5
191.1
Greencastle
45.9
167.3
Jackson
123.6
62.5
Jefferson
.. 19.1
107.1!
Madison
40.1
* 1
Marion
. 27.6
25.0
Monroe
46.7
12.0
Russell
41.5
10.0
Warren
25.4
50.0
Washington
12.1
20.0
Total issue price bonds sold
United States Rubber Com pany vs. Clarence E Stewart order for defendan.l to appear in court Nov. 27 as result of unpaid judgment of SI,907.99 Frank Stoessel is attorney loi the plaintiff. MARRIAGE l.H I \S|: Ezra McMains, Greeiuastle Route |3, and Gexlys Littrell, Greencastle Route -1
Pfc. Kerr Gets Bronze Star
Pfc. John R. Ken has recently been awarded the Bronze Star medal for heroic and meritorious achievement in Germany. The citation by order of Maj. Gen. Parker reads:
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“HQ Co., 310 Inf. Reg., 73l 107 jIDiv., Germany: Pfc. John R. Kerr, 35845826, for meritorious service in connection with mili-
5370.239.75 to November 10.
emy during the pci iod Mar. 2 1945 to April 17, 1945 in Germany. Pfc. Kerr as battalion scout ami observer was always working far in advance of his battalion. He always volunteer-)
ROACHDALE LIONS IN GOOD MEETING A splendid dinner meeting was enjoyed by the members of the Roachdale Lion s Club Tuesday evening. . David Grimes, of the Central National Bank of this city and former Putnam county agriculture agent, was a guest of the club and discussed soil conser- i vatlon. O. W. Huliowell, also of , Greencastle, showed war pie-! lures in connection with the 1 Victory Loan bond drive.
Pay Hike May Be Stalemated
HOUSE GROUP TO HEAR VIEWS OF GEN. ’IKE' TO TESTIFY REGARDING MILITARY TRAINING ON THE RSI) AY WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UP) The administration looked to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and other top military men today 11 oolstcr sagging congressional support for a compulsory military training program. Eisenhower, who is held in the highest regard by Republicans and Democrats alike. ,vas called to testify before the house military affairs committee tomorrow on a bill providing for a year’s training of able-bodied youths. Urgently requested by President Truman, the training program narrowly averted disaster yesterday when Democratic members mustered e n o u g h strength to defeat. 15 to 12, a Republican motion to postpone
hearings.
Acceptance of the motion would have killed the bill, mem-
bers said.
On Friday, the committee will hear Adm. Ernest J King, chief of Naval operations, and perhaps Secretary of Navy James
V. Forrestal.
Eisenhower also will be busy on Friday. He goes then before the senate military committee to support proposals for consolidation of the armed forces in a |
single department.
The training bill before the j ,, tn .. , . - session to discuss proposals to house committee would require a „ , , . . v on , . . . boost federal workers’ pay 40 year s training of all-able bodied . ^.niino • , ^ J ner cent and Increase by $10 uju
males upon reaching the age of i ‘
18 or upon finishing high school. | a ^ oal ' sa ' ul1 '
WILL CHECK
RECORDS FOR
SLAYER ESCAPES
CLARKSBURG, W. Va.. Nov. 14 (UP)—A search for Paul H. | Hahn, y’outhful convict who
POLICE CHIEF WILL ATTEND FBI SCHOOL
SECRET PACT escapccl from Jail with wiiusm : Gr : oncRsti ° poiicc
Russell Clapp, chief of the
department.
Turner. 27-year-old murderer I w* 11 attend a 12 weeks school ot ! w bo later was recaptured, was instruction in \\ ashingtoig D. C.,
SEN BREWSTER HUNTS 1 widened to other cities today. starting January 7th. The school ..J.u, wtdii,.» will be conducted b> agents ot !« RFKMFNT Turner ’ *"**»'* l ° dic the. Federal Bureau of Investiga-
AGREEMENT 1 month for the slaying of pretty ^ ^
wiaulMn Z^r m v ,4 1VyeRr ‘ 0l l hif L h 8Ch001 ^ tr H ied ! only outstanding law enforce-
\\ ASHING!ON, Nov. 14. ; c heat the hangman Monday | •
(UP)—Sen. Owen Brewster. R ! by breaking out of the Preston ment 0,ticer3 over the cuintry Me., demanded to know- today if county jail with Hahn. I are for thls training
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 j (UP) President Truman’s bil| for a 20 per cent boost in pay for government workers is in danger of being stalemated m the Senate civ 1 service committee until early 1946, it was learn-
ed today.
Senators on the committee were said to be locked five to five over the advisability of granting a wage increase now. One group, led by Chairman Sheridan Downey, D., Calif, wants Congress to okay a wage Increase for federal workers before it goes home for Christmas. Another group, led by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D.. Va., wants to delay action, preferably until
spring.
This was disclosed by an authoritative committee source as the senators met in executive
Thi names of the Cloverdale workers who have reached their ^ goal are, L. E. Michael, Chairman, Jesse Cassida. Cedric Ray, Robert Coffman Jesse Job, Leonard Mann, Ira Knoll, John Logan, Ralph Fry. Jean McCullougn, Allen Bain, Glen Allender, Gilberta Coffman, W. E. Mot i ison. Clarence Davis. Beil Graham and Mrs. Carrie A. Klinefelter. The Floyd township workers are listed here: Mrs. Win. Luther. Jr., chairman, Wm. Luther. Jr. Guy Shepard, Mrs. Ernest McCloud, Wm. Baldwin, Mrs. Ethel Ruark, Leonard Alexander Roscoe .and Alma Sutherlln, Mr. ind Mrs. Stanley Sears. Ro b“it Miller and Mrs. Ethel Kggcrs.
whichever is later, out in event before the age of 20.
any
CHINESE LAND AT PORT OF TSINGTA0 CHUNGKING, Nov. 14 (UP) Powerful Chinese government | forces landed in the northern i port of Tsingtao under ..he cover ing guns of American Marines and naval units today in a full scale drive to clear the Communists from Shantung Penin-
sula.
5 1 They' moved out swiftly * 1 through a protective cordon of 12,000 U. S. Sixth Division Marines, apparently under orders from American naval and Marine commanders to get clear of
the port immediately.
cabin ‘t
members, congressmen, federal Judges, and department heads. He said there was a possibility, however, that the deadlock might be broken by a compromise giving the government workers a 15 per cent inefease instead of the Truman-approved
20 per cent.
the United States signed a secret, pre-Pearl Harbor agreement with Britain. China and the! Netherlands on w'hcn to go to' war against Japan. Brew'stcr, a member of the l congressional Pearl Harbor in-, vestigating committee, said he would check State Department records in an effort to find the
answer.
He told reporters he had been unable to get committee counsel William D. Mitchell to look for the information in lecords of the late President Roosevelt. Mitchell, he said, felt it would be “an insult" to imply that the
President would have signed any } dency
such agreement.
Brewster said he hoped to learn whether there was an “A-B-C-D" i American-Bi itish-Chin-ese-Dutch) agreement which committed the four powers to war against Japan if she crossed a certain geographical line In the
Pacific.
He did not identity the geographical line. He said he didn't even know for fact that such an agreement existed. He argued, however, that nothing should stand in the way of the commit-
tee finding out.
The committee begins an im-
portant phase of its Peail Harbar inquiry tomorrow when it opens public hearings. A host of high government officials, present and past, are slated to
testify during the hearings.
Brewster indicated displeasure I with Mitchell's attitude on the matter of checking the Roosevelt
Hies. He said he now
Truman Guest Of Press Club
school and then only after in
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.
(UP)—President Truman attended a dinner in his honor at the National Press Club last night and came away richer by a membership card and a piano. | The piano whs presented by I Club President Edward Jamison who said ( the journalists’ grou» could not claim credit for Mr. Truman's elevation to the presi-
but the members can
take credit for making you) known nationally as a piano-
player."
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Among guests at the dinner were Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who returned to this country from Germany. Monday, Canadian Prime Minister W. L. MacKcnzie King, cabinet and Supreme Court members and military and congressional leaders.
Ivestigation by the FBI. Conse[quently, Chief Clapp is justly I proud of the fact that he has 1 been chosen for this instruction t Intended to improve municipal
j police departments.
J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, and members of his staff will conduct classes in the national capital. Additional instruction will be given at the CUironicle, Maryland. Marine
Base.
ACHIEVEMENT DAY ATTENDED BY NEARLY 300
The largest annual Achievement Day for the Putnam County Home Economics clubs was hold Tuesday, November 13 at the Gobin Memorial church. The record attendance from the 18)
YANK FLIER BEHEADED ON CEBU ISLAND
T\YO OTHERS ALSO KILLED ALONG WITH 40 FILIPINOS MANILA, Nov. 14.—(UP)— Japanese soldiers beheaded one American flier and tortured and killed two others along with approximately 40 Filipinos on Cebu island March 26, a prosecution witness testified today at the war crimes trial of Gen. Tomoyukl Yamashita. Teodoro Sanchez, a Filipino who served as chauffeur for a Japanese officer on Cebu, said he saw the Japanese force the filer and five Filipinos to kneel over a hole and then behead them with sabers. Sanchez now is charged with being a collabora-
tor.
The Americans killed in the Cebu atrocities were identified as Paul Mansella, Lawrence Fox and—Scott (first name not known.) Seven Japanese officers and men who have been arrested for the Cebu crimes will be arraigned at 9 a. m. tomorrow in courtloom No. 2, an army-constructed building near the commissioner’s residence where Yamashita is being tried. A second witness at today’s
Former Russell Resident Is Dead
clubs in the county, according to trial. Lt. S. J. Larkins of the j the registrar, Mrs. John Suther- 110th Graves Registration Comlin nearly reached 300. i pany, testified to finding the
If any pay boost conies out fJi | inquiry into State De-
the legislators themselves, the
Mrs. Margaret Leonard Fink, age 69 years, died at the homo of her son, Leonard Fink, in New j
York City on Tuesday.
Mrs. Fink was born and rear- | ed in Russellville and the body will bo brought there for burial
would I arriving probably Thursday af-
ternoon on Friday morning and
source added, it will be $5,000 a| year at the most, raising .them ; to $15,000. The pending prRpos-j al would make $20,000
partment files. I plans will be made after the ar“We’ve requested records of rival ,of the funeral party, the State Department bearing on j Mrs. Fink was the daughter all things of that sort and will I Georg* and Margaret Wilson continue to do so,” Brewster I Leonard, well known. Russell said. “I have received intima-1 township residents for many
R0TARIANS WILL
ed for patrol work and invari-| ably rrtui nod with necessary in
A-Bomb Expert Will Be Called
j skill and efficiency an- in acWASHINGTON, Nov. 14. J cor da n o with the highest mili-
1UP1 The United States, be-1 tary t| . adjtion He entered the
'ab’illy following Britain’s lea«l, j Kpivicu fronl Indiana."
has suddenly decided to cull an pfr KeI ., a | si) uvars the F. T.j « American atomic bomb expert! Q libbon w ,th 3 battle stars. | t >nto the three-power conferences | Go)kJ ColuJut . t awa rd and the 1 on atomic energy. Combat Infantryman’s badge.)
This development came only He entered th ' ,um ' ,u I
yesterday, on the fourth day of; U*44 and im- v 1 ' ' ' la ' 1
the discussions when Dr. Vanne-. the inM d J ' 11 1 ' ' 1 1 var Bush was summoned to the, recently oeen " 1,1
White House to sit in on
talks between President Truman
mi l Prime Ministers Attlee
Ureal Britain and MacKonzi-1 Mr
Ming nf Canada.
The Greencastle Rotary Club will be host tonight to forty Putnam County farmers at its annual “Rural-Urban” meeting this evening at the Presbyterian
church parlor.
Frank Mussell, division, man-
Gcn. Jesse M. Leo Tost 1550, ager of Allis Chalmers Co. will Veterans of Foreign Mars, will deliver the principal address, meet Thursday evening at 8 Lloyd Houck is in charge of the
o'clock.
i tions that they (the State De-
EIITEDTAIII EABMCnC partmcnt) have Miad ‘' an as,, ’ c - CIV I Cn I HIN r Anmcnd ment that certain papers will be
kept secret for 15 years.” Brewster said he did not know
what those records included but
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I,
program.
AWARDED A PAST COMMANDER’S BUTTON
anticipated they would he "any, papers the State Department decides.” A State Depjartment spokesman denied, however, that there was any secrecy rule applicable to the Pearl Harbor investiga-
tion.
“According to President Truman’s order everything in the State Department files pertinent to the investigation will be made
years. Deceased was united In marriage to Ernest Fink in 1893. He passed away on August 21, 19-
31.
Mrs. Fink was a member of the Christian Church and the Eastern Star Chapter, 311 of
Russellville.
She is survived by three sons, Leonard of New York City-; Leland of Elkhart, Indiana; and Paul of Philadelphia. IFa. In addition there are six grand-chil-dren, one great grand-son a brother, Fred Leonard of College Corner, O., several nephews and nieces, among them h ing Frank I
R. B. Hull, Purdue horticulturist, speaking to the club women on “Tile Greater Use and Enjoyment. of the Homestead” stressed! careful thought and planning a long time program for its beautification. He pointed out which illustrated how Indiana homesteads might be improved anti remain a part of the Indiana landscape and surroundings. The landscape program for the home should be a long time program and need not involve a great expense. Forethought, time and energy play a great part in j beautifying the homestead. “A New Fimsh fur Ol|l F’unujture” was demonstrated in a
bodies of two Americans in a foxhole on Cebu March 28. Ho said their hands were tied, the’r necks cut by sabers and their bodies partly burned. Other witnesses added to the mass of testimony on atrocities carried out by Yamashita’s mon In the Philippines. Fermin Miyazaki, a Filipino Japanese-interpreter, told of seeing 26 men and one woman driven to a north Manila cemetery in November, 1944, forced to kneel along a ditch and beheaded by seven Japanese in 40 minutes. Justina Manlisik testified that •ri) 34. meinheis. of iu;r family were killed in a massacre at
very fine manner by a 4-H mem- | Tanauan in Batangas province
,, ., . ... Everman and Floyd Gardner of available to the committee on re-1 , ... ^
I Russellville.
IComiaueil on l*nK» Titoi YEAR MEMBERSHIP PINS
He has the di-
theI vision to Berlin to be stationed*
the American occupation |
of; zone. Pfc. Kerr is the son of j
ami Mrs. Chas. R. South Indiana street.
Kerr,!
Until yesterday’s session, not _ ' _ ingle U. S. authority on atom-, BRITISH BLASTING ies hud been invited. In contrast.] JAVA NAVY BASE
Sir John Anderson, head of the! )Pi'iti,sh advisory committee on, •'tonijc energy, has been closely! connected with the discussions j
from the start.
BATAVIA. Nov. 14 (UP) British warships, planes and ar-
This picture shows Past Commander Russell Vermillion,
.. . This picture shows District Commander John Cartwright pro awarding 25 year membership pins to James T. Christie, Edward tillerv focused a shattering bom ‘I senting Past Commander Russell Vermillion with his Past Com- E. Coffman and Walter Webb at the annual Armistice Day dinner , . n the heart of S arab-1 zander’s American Legion button at the Armistice Day meeting of the Cassell C. Tucker Post of the American Legion Monday
oai'dme '« toH attempt' Monday evening llblM
a ja today
ber, Mary Ellen Rooker of Monroe township. She stressed the use of good material as well as careful workmanship is refinishing furniture. The lovely finish as shown on the chest of drawers used in the demonstration was a challenge to all home-
makers present.
Other 4-H guests present were Betty Trippctt, Cloverdale, the 1945 Dress Revue winner; Martha Elmore .Cloverdale, the 1945 Food Preparation winner; Edith Finney, Cloverdale, 1945 Canning sweepstakes winner and Mildred Bastin. their club leader; Betty Thomas, Bainbridge clothing sweepstakes winner, Jo Ann Brann, Bainbridge, Baking sweepstakes winner, and Mary Ellen Rooker. the 1945 Room Improvement sweepstakes winner ind Bernice Steward, their adult leader. The interview conducted by Lucile Smith, the home demonstration agent, pointed out their 4-H record i.ml achievement. They have not only been j winners for the past year but have outstanding records for 8
years of club work.
According to the summary of 1945 Home Economics club activities made by Lucile Kmith. home agent, the 18 clubs of the county have compared one of the most outstanding years of
last Feb. 10. She said the Japanese soldiers slashed the stomach of her pregnant sister causing the baby to come out. Both her sister and the baby then were beheaded, she testified. The witness began sobbing so violently that cross-examination was waived. Jose Corona, mayor of Tanauan, testified he had compiled 86 names of persons killed by the Japanese last February. He also had a list of 1,602 houses burned by the Japanese in Tan-
auan.
Juan Zaniosa said the Japanese raped the women of Tamilian , and that he once saw the Japan csv bayonet 100 men, women and children. Returning to the atrocities at Fort Santiago, the prosecution culled Sister Trinitus Logue of New York City, a Maryknoll missionary. She described deplorable conditions at the fort where she whs held through most of 1944 and described tortures of prisoners. Ko King Hun testified that in November, 1914 he saw 57 bodies removed from the fort after one nay’s killings. He said the Japanese used various methods of torturing American fliers including string-
bardment on
in a concerted attempt Monday evening.
to blast out Indonesian Nation- , alists making a determined stand ! in the East Java naval base. Unconfirmed reports circulated that Sutan Sjahrir, new Premier of the Nationalist governme 1
PIN UP GALS OF 1917-1918
nt,j
„ 1 was ready ta deal with the BrP nf aU ‘ Pat * r8on ’ 7 y ei,r o! ‘ l Si ° n ! is ;, and Dutch in an effort to ' A ’ Patterson, local grocer, ^ ^ strif( , in j aV a. i
' H s hit by an automobile whil- j
fussing Washington street in) HOSPITAL NOTES trout of his father’s place <,i i _ business, and suffered a deep, Charles Burg rets of 1 K«*h on his fonehead. i dale. R. 2. was admitted to th |
hospital this morning. [
Snow fell here during the da - | ^ rg Dorothy Warmoth aiu ' 1 a '"1 the maximum temperature' babv ^ of stilesville were dis- j Was only 30 degrees above zero. m j gae< j from the hospital Wed-| Mrs. Henry Ostrom was re- ( nesday morning. _ '‘Med president of the Women's , 1
Home Missionary Society of the
North - TO ° TK, fc: Ui ( ^ Aes t Indiana Conferene.- of “What some of us need is Methodist Episcopal church ! more horse-power and not s >
held in much exhaust."- The Grecncas-
| tie Kiwanis Bull-etin.
*1 the closing session
Urawfordsville.
work. One hundred thirty-two j ing up by the feet and running
wire thiough their bodies and placing them in spike-filled boxes with lighted candles under-
neath.
The seven defendants to be arraigned tomorrow will be tried
These women..wives of members of the American Legion, dressed up in their patriotic garb, served in excellent style, the turkey dinner to the Cassell C. Tucker Post of The American Legion Monday evening in the Gobin Memorial church.
leaders attended the four training meetings of the year, two on nutrition, one on “Psychology of Everyday Living” and one on “Hats and Bags.” Eighty-two demonstrations and fifty-four other lessons were presented to the membership of the local
clubs.
Tile piograni ol tile home agent for the local clubs composed of the lessons and demonstration on “Making Gloves,” “Remodeling Clothing,” “Feet and Shoes.” “Rug Making.” “Room Arrangement,” “Use of Color in the Home,” “Financial Facts for the Family,” “F’ood Preservation,” “Spoilage Clinics,” “Sewing Machine Clinics” officers training school, and the outlook meeting. Past county presidents as guests were Mrs. Pearl Stoner, Greencastle; Mrs. Maud McNary, Greencastle; Mrs. Joe II onilniiril on rage Two)
M •inllniinl on Phic»* Twn>
O Todays Weather • ft and <1 ft Local Temperature 9 O ftftftft&mftm* Fair today thmugh Thursday. Slightly colder today and tonight. Not quite so cold Thursday.
Minimum 6 a. in. ... 7 a. in. 8 a. m. . 9 a. m. . 10 a. m. 11 u. m. . *12 noon . 1 p. m. .
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