Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 4, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 4 January 1945 — Page 1
COLD Indiana:- Cold tonight and Fri day, lowest temperature zero t five above in extreme norlh ani 15 to 20 above in extreme south a few snow flurries tonight am Friday morning. Clearing ii afternoon. Keep Buying War Bonds! 3 PRICE THREE CENT? VOL. XLVIT No. 4 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN, INDIANA THURSDAY, JAN. 4, 1945. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE
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News About -Our Boys In Army, Navy
And Marines
Rememhe Pearl Harbor"
; AT GEORGE FIELD Tvt. Harold S. Cambill and his brother, Pvt. Wendell L. Gambill, have' been assigned to the Troop
STATE ASSEMBLE BUS SEIIIKEI1 Ifi FAREWELL PLEA
Co. Community , Council Hears Plant Queries
Arnold Welcomes Bong
to
Sgt. Robert Field
KiHed h Action mencan
The Industrial Committee of the Sullivan County Community Council met New Year's Day in the Council's new quarters in the
r f court house, and considered reKetirinST VlOVemOr plies to recent letters received
bv A. C. Owens,, President of
Urges Retention the
organization, making inquiry
r 1" concerning possible tuetory Joea-
Jl Dl " r urilaUll tions in Sullivan county. Mayor ry j n i McGuire also reported having DOcU'Q System. answered a number of similar 1 inquiries for locations in the city INDIANAPOLIS, Jan.' 4. (UP) of Sullivan.
rnrrier Command at George Field, Gov. Sehricker's last word of
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tii i4rt. nvnitofintT f?-n,n lVtr n..wtA rt tin fl.Hh TnHinnn GeiY
R-24 Aircraft Mechanics School eral Assembly's opening session UU'L
located at the Willow Run Bomb- today challenged the republican er Plant, Ypsilanti, Mich. They majority lawmakers to oppose reported to George Field last "any effort" to reorganized the week after spending a 15-day tie- democratic-established bi-partisan lay en route with Mrs. Harold S. board system governing state inGambill and daughter, Mr. and stitutions. Mrs. Cecil W. GambiU and other The retiring democratic Chief
The committee noted the fact
spirited exchange
and purchase of real estate in this community.
relatives. Their address is: 805th executive in a 7,000-word fare-
One of Sullivan's oldest established industries, the Draper Bottling Works, was purchased recently by Karl C. Ilooover of Hartford, Ky., who is recondi-
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While FOiviiit.' somewhere in France, Sgt. Robert J. "Cotton" Field, 22 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Field of Coalmont, was killed in action Nov. 13, his parents have been notified by the War Department. He had been in service since Jan. 20, 1943, and overseas since May, 1044. J He is survived by the parents; four sitters, Miss Mary Elizabeth Field, at home; Mrs. Joe Kurcfys ' of South Bendf JVtrs. Roy Christy, of Dngger, and Mrs. Dwight Man- j ning, of ., Terre Haute, and five1 brothers, James, John and Raymond, at home, and Cpl. Harold 'Field and Sgt. Charles Field both . in the United States armed for- j
ces serving in the United States. PfcWm. Pittman Suffers Wounds
1st And 3rd.
Press In On
rimes
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A. A. F. Base Unit, Sqdn. Box 273, George Field, 111.
T-t, well message, spoke of the pre-
tioning the plant and expects to
materially enlarge it. The indus
General of the Army II. H. Ar
nold, Chief of the Army Air Forc
ed materially to his long list of air victories. This is the first
Mrs. Sarah Pittman of II. R. 3,
es, welcomes home his leading photo of General Arnold wearing Sullivan, has received a message
sent institutional control system rv will be devoted to the cxelu-'war ace Major Richard Bong, his new five-star insignia. U. S. from the War Department stating
RETURNS TO CAMP Pvt. Robert' Ellis has returned to Fort Meade after spending . a furlough with his wife and family.
as "one of the strongest safe- -ive manufacture and distribu
guards against mismanagement." t;nri 0f 7-Up", a soft drink. It "I trust that any effort to wm serve several counties in change this system will receive southern Indiana, it was pointed your prompt and vigorous disao- ouj jjr Hoover will move his proval." Schricker said in his only famny to Sullivan.
reference to uie possibility oi kcRETURNS TO COMPANY publican reorganization legislation Mr. Owens announced plans Pvt. Owen Ellis has returned to which mieht herald the return of to make a countvwide industrial
his company, which is stationed the G. O. P. to complete power in 'rvy wun a view to e uiag.
somewhere on the western front, Indiana state government.
after recovery from wounds re- Schricker also appealed to the ""cn
ceived in action. joint session of the House and
Senate, as the assembly opened a RETURNS TO BASE 61-day biennial meeting, for reSSgt. Ada Carlin has returned tpntion of the five-member policyto Aberdeen. Maryland. after rimWino administrntivo hnnrH svs-
siguding the holidays ' yith her ipm of the state department of. parents; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sacra public welfare, although he urged of Sullivan. ' . equal consideration o the view of both the legislative welfare inves- . LEAVE FROM NAVY U tieatine commission created bv
who has just returned from the A. A. F. photo.
Southwest Pacific where he add- Soundphoto.)
LATE NEWS
(International that her son, Pfc. Wm. Otis Pittman, had received wounds in action Dec. 18 in France and is confined to a hospital there. Pfc.
Pittman is 29 years old".
Berlin Reports Parts Of Montgomery'? British 2nd Army Joins U. S. 1st In Big Attack That May Be Supreme, Bid To Destroy 3 German Armies,
Intensify War On Japs By Land, bea And Air.
r.ULT.ETIN! PARIS, Jan. 4. (UP) The American 1st Army smashed into the north rim of the Ardennes salient yesterday in the bitterest weather of the winter, took the Germans by surprise, and gained three and one-half miles on a six-mile front, it was announced today.
Today's delayed disclosure of Lt. General Courtney H.
ina the continuance and expan-
cf small industry within
this radius.
Estella Benef ield Called Bv Dath;
Services Friday
WASIITNfJTnN. Tan i flTPSprrptarv IVar
Henry L. Stimson said todav that Field Marshal von Rund- may. f them from their mother,
stedt was keeping enough troops in the area of h;s break- '. -n-n
! through "to make another punch possible." He warned at a TnrT iincmT iT
counter measures the Germans still have (he power to launch new offensives. .
His brother Cpl. Russell E. """S1' unaisivc iuvch-u umv no iim m umu, m Pittman, was recently dismissed nisssed armor and infantrv surged across the 'snow-blanketed from a hospital in New Guinea. Ardennes hills. A front dispatch said the push might tmj) Friends wishing their addresses thousands of Germans in the nose of the Belgian bulge.
(By United Press)
A great battle was in progress around the German &al- j
lent in Belgium today, with the American 1st Army leading
War difficulties have . shown
i AmAv . . 'V 'hosoitals what great reliance can -' ' LONDON, Jan.-4. (l7P)- liwrts from Lisbon said .'beiplaeed upon their personnel today that Portugal and Japan had reached an agreement anH communities in trying times, under which the Japanese will withdraw from Timor Tslanrl making it possible for them to
ON APPROVED LIST the attack from the north and the American 3rd striking up
from the south against massed German divisions making an all-out attempt to prevent a junction.
Edgar Earl Mathews, formerly the 1943 legislature and the stale of Sullivan, is enjoying a leave welfare board, fiom the Navy. He is the son of Hc gavc unquaiifiel " cndorseClaude and Ida Mathews, who live ment t0 the recommendation of at 300 N. 21st St., Terre Haute, the stale ciection codification .,..a r. i c.n; . ...
c.kx wu uum:.v "vtu ii. .u..,- commiss on, created by the re- ,a ut ho. hnm hprp fhe first vnn. Earl rennrts for dutv .Tanu- ..u, ....... -.n.o a faI! at ner home nere tne lirsl
irV7ih puouwn-wmiunra legiMd- of Scptember. ' She was born in Sullivan AWARDED PURPLE HEART "This report, in my opinion, is County the daughter of John Pvt. Roy Lee Alumbaugh has one of the most comprehensive H crah : vii-ihf.th MrRrew
been awarded the Purple Heart and important documents submit- Benef je(j and her entire life was
Beilin reported tht elements of Field ftXPo'TTtr-S nard L. Montgomery's B'itish 2nd Army and the American Oth had ininorl iha ArYiovIdn 1 ct in tl-in offnnl.- olrtriff o frnni
ui in swuinwesi ramie wnen a ronuguese military expe- Z'TT "Zl Z of almost 50 miles from Monschau, inside the German hr
dition arrives to take over.
Miss Estella Benefield, 78 years The airreement was snM tn en fnr Ta
abandon-
der on the east, to March e, near the west end of the salient.
old, a life resident of Sullivan, ment of th pntirp iclanrl hqlf Pm-tnonoco anH kalf n.,.l, yil,e Chairman of the Board of died last night at eleven o'clock Jfth thp ta,f DUtCJ' Regents of the American College at W Mary Sherman Hospital, -ni HthIrit?? Pa of Surgeons, in announcing that
the result of injuries sustained in
results of the 27th annual Hos-
ards of service to patients, declares Dr. irvin Abeii of Louis-
Allied headquarters intimated that this was Gen. Dwivht D. Eisenhower's big bid to cut up and destroy the three Nazi armies engaged in the Ardennes offensive. Security censo:-
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Initai standardiztion survey show M wuscuieu iuu ueiaus w ine iig-nung, oui ll was announc- ( By United Press) 3,152 approved hospitals in the ed that the 1st Army's attack began at 8:30 a. m. yesterday A cold wave returned to the middle west uTday, . while United states and Canada, which and was "progressing satisfactorily" this morning, temperatures in the New England and eastern states rose is 805 per cent of tne 3,911 il0S" n tIie Russian front. Moscow reported that a powerful to g've temporary relief in those sections. The U. S. Weather pUals of 25 beds and over uridcr German effort to relieve Budapest was being beaten back iti
uureau at Chicago predicted continued cold in the middle. .'V , ; : dI,ruveu HOb: an armored battle northwest of the Hungarian capital end
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iui wuuiiua icceiveu wniie in rti;- icu iu mc icSlaiuvuic in many arlf y,-0 cho woe a iiwmtiw nf uavs. 1 llliptl dlUI CS are CXDeCiea IO (lrOD t. u. -i- .u. T..it.: """" ",uo" "ic xndil JiiUHSUIl lllS'Ue Uie C1LV HHQ Ueeil COOI
tion in Aachen, Germany, Octo- years," he said. "I earnestly rec- th SuUivan christian church and aSai" in the northeast and east tonight and tomorrow. 0f the Coiieee lust nubiished Pressed into two pockets on either side of the Danube. ber 10. He sent his medal to his ommend that it rere ve a nrnm . . .. - ... . .... -1 01 lIle -8- J""1 puouhiicu. iL- ti... j- . . .
, ...-. ... - 7- - - ; . ot tne aunivan unapier oi me - , I Thev include the Mary Sherman ' -"""ui"quis iiurn uie itanan ironr, sam uanauian M
Order of the Eastern star, bnei , vvAaniruiJA, Jan. 4. (u I ) Secretary of Affricnl- HnsDitai of Sullivan. I Army rroops were making progress northwest of Ravennn:
ture uaude K. Wickard warned today that the tremendous 1 ,7 ;
wife, also some souvenirs, including a gold Jerry pocket watch, two bracelets and a chenille cushion top. Private Alumbaugh is
Vtill In a U. S. Army hospital in
nent place in your deliberation."
ho cnid was a sister of the late Mrs. Ger-
Present election laws
"contain weaknesses and ambig- trude Bailey. I producing power of the nation's farms might prove disasuities." They need clarification, c,.:.,;n rn !nc Mr trous, once war needs decline, unless aericulture. lahnr. anA
ngland. He writes home that he , , y 1 Myrtle Sherry of Lawrenceville. "'uuy luupi-iuie 10 mainiam a nigh level or demand. 1 getting along as well as can be blht? ,of fr,aud' incompetence or IllinolSi Mrs Kate Johnson 0f 'If we do not use our heads we can be drowned in sup-
pectcd, and is able to get i-""-'"" "l "u'"8- Vincennes, Mrs. Juanita Crowder piles ot larm products that will make those of the 1930's look around with the aid of crutches. The House and Senate conven- of Sullivan, with whom she made small in comparison," he told the annual Institute of the DeIle would enjoy letters from e,j for the 61-day session shortly her home, and Mrs. Lucille Hays, partment Extension Division. friends. Those wishing to write after ten a m to complete form- also 01 Sullivan. ' ' , 1
to him may secure his address al organization decided unon in The body was taken to the Bill-
fi-om his wife, Mrs. Roy L. Alum- pre-legilslative caucuses. After man Funeral Home, where it will
Governor Sehricker's address ue in state ana wnere services both chambers adjourned until the wil1 be conducted Friday afterafternoon, noon at three , o'clock in the funeral chapel. Rev. Jack Anderson
(Governor Schricker stays in of the First Christian church will office until next Monday, when have charge of the services. In-Governor-elect Ralph F. Gates terment will be made in Center takes office.) Ridge Cemetery. ' . .
baugh, Cass, Indiana.
pAST F.Y farcRVrcn WITH FAMA1TS RTH ARMORED
DIVISION IN BIG PUSH Pvt. Bond Beasley of Sullivan, sprving with the United States Army on the western front in
Eurone is a member of the -famous 5th Armored Division which made the first break through 'to Germany north of Trier. Joseph Driscoll, writing in a j si)pcial di'Datch to the Chicago I
I Sun from Paris recently heaps I
Vhigh praise on Major M. Phillips-
Rites Saturday For Isaac Inman
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mr. and Mrs. Bert. Jones of Shelburn, announce the birth of a a daughter, Judith Ann, born January 3rd at the Mary Sherman Hospital.
Distribution Of Funds By State To Local Units Reaches All-Time High
Isaac B. Inman, 69 years old, of
union, oiea at nis home there I Mr. and Mrs. William Dailev
Monday evening at nine o'clock ;0f New Lebanon are the parents following an extended illness. i0f a daughter, born January 3rd Surviving are the widow, Ada;; at the hospit three daughters, Mrs. Inez Sims of : . Terre Hute, Mrs. Mildred Miller' M and Mrs; Geoee Fox f of Dugger, and Mrs. Doris Griffin fhhelburn ,rui"al routen
after renillsinO fniir dpfprminpH nrrvmn nnnfflt.Qffo1
FortreSS Gunner that there was considerable patrol activity on the 5th Army's
iront. Tho war ao-ninct T-irifin .woi! !ntnnt.;ftfl,i i
,j ,.co iuu,u.-uivu u, illl, M'.l illKl 'nd the enemy's home islands to the central Philippines. Carrier-based air attacks were in progress against $ Formosa and Rvukyu Island south of Japan, while" land
manes accounted tor 2o enemv shins off Luzon Island I American forces swept inland on Mindoro from two
$ oreachiieacls on either side of the island. I Field dispatches from the western front could only hint at the furv of the battle, but made it plain that the German I were throwing in nearly evervthing for .what should prove -i I show-down in the Ardennes sector.
The extent of the Germpn effort in the Ardennes w
a tic i new
fl shown by the fact that ten full divisions totalling norhq
HOSPITAL NOTES
Distribution of funds by the 249.03.
Wn Jr., of Chicaco who belongs State to. local units of govern- i Sullivan county's distributions ford Inman of Pleasantville Burl wm.Jr- Dorn January 4th at the
"the famous 5th" as comman- nient m Indiana reached an all- from the State during the 1943- Inman of Indianapolis Cecil In-' 1
"t of a combat erouo and nd- time high of $59,467,046 during 44 fiscal year, on a per capita man of the United. States Navv
kits that "one doesn't know whe- the 1943-44 fiscal year ended basis, compared with property and Odis Dale Inman of thp U S
ier to write about the division or last June 30, it is shown by the taxes for local purposes levied Army; two sisters, Mrs. Melsie -Admitted Jan 3- Art Wenver
out one of the men, such as "ax and Social Security Manual for collection in 1944, are shown Lane of Detroit, and Mrs. Elsie of fihpihnrn for trMtmpnt- w ivr
h'hncborn, because they all just issued by the Indiana State below. (Figures in parentheses Bobbitt of Mattoon, Illinois: and Benefiel of Carlisle for ohsprva-
radiate the same will to win." i Chamber of Commerce. The dis- are state averages.) three brothers, Dan Inman of tion- William n Wiknn of T.inJ
-I writer adds: tributions were equivalent to Total: Property taxes $21.94 Linton, Will Inman of Vicksburg, ton rural route three for obser"In twenty days' fighting the $17.18 for each of the State's citi- ($29.63); State Aid, $21.67 Indiana, and Curt Inman of Cali- vation
(ciivision advanced from Norman- zens, the manual says.
(t!y to the Seine. Zigzagging and Sullivan county received a (encircling the Germans, the 5th total of $592,181.61 in such dis-
vmoved 150 miles south from j tributions during the same year, (Normandy to Fougeres and Vitre, the book shows. - The county's
then 100 miles east to LeMans, distributions . were divided as then 50 miles north to Argentan, follows: ' where it fought the German 7th I For Schools: $269,280.71
Property taxes ' State Aid, $9.97!
Army for three days, while Brit-
,sh and Canadian units advanced
from Caen to Falaise to form the
(other jaw of the Argentan-Fa-
(Continued on Page 6, Col. 1)
For Highways and Streets: Totnl $139,651.87; to county, $123, 681.11; to cities and .towns in county, $15,970.76. Public Welfare, Intangibles and Excise Tax Distributions: $183,
($17.18). For Schools: !$9.93 ($13.24); ($7.05),
For Highways and Streets: Property taxes $0.19 ($0.34); State
(Aid $5.17 ($4.43),
Public Purposes;
($16.05); State Aid, $6.42 ($5.70). . The State Chamber's manual, prepared prior to each legisla-
fornia.
Dismissed Jan. 3: Cecil Daves of Sullivan rural route three; Mrs. Bert Jones and daughter of
I Shelburn; Mrs. Raymond Prose I and son of 608 North Main (street; Mrs. Charles Moore of Oaktown.
S. Patton's 3rd Army, hammering into the salient fmm tho
south. It was believed probable that an eaual number, constituting the remainder of the enemy's strength, was reI r,:,.4: i. c it. ii.
&i&lhi support jrom uie norm.. . The big American push from the north, made after two weeks of preparation, began without benefvt of suitable fly ing weather. Low hanging clouds prevented tactical air sui port at the outset and made it easier for the Germans to d pose their troops for the battle. Heavv snow was reporj all across the front earlv todav. The German corridor v
-Among the men flying Eighth, r0Ughly 20 miles wide at the point of attack. Mr Force planes over Germany is u Gen Courtney Hodges' 1st Armv at the start of, Sulhvan Indfana SgT'sine'r W3S baTelv 12 miles from Houffalize, the Natf pwotT' tail gunner on B-Yl Flying Fort-J mside the salient. resses and B-24 Liberators, is a1 The 3rd army was about six miles from Houffalize. A member of a crew that makes lone junction if made soon enough might cut off large German missions in all weather over the forces in the western half of the salient.
ocean and continent, gathering
SGT. JOHN T. SINER EIGHTH AIR FORCE RECONNAISSANCE STATION, - England.
The body was taken to the Newkirk Funeral Home in Pleasantville and was returned to the home where it lies in state. Ar
rangements were delayed await-
Welfare and Other m8 messages from relatives. Serv-
Property taxes, $11.82 lces will be conducted Saturday
First Christian church of Linton, Sgt. Laurel E. Rose, who spent with Rev. H. J. Raines officiating, a 10-day furlough with home Interment will be made in the, folks returned to San Lois CalDugger Cemetery. . ifornia, Monday, January ll
meteorological data for future air and jground operations. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Hosea J. Siner, R. R. 1, Sullivan, Sgt. Smer is the husband of the form
er Miss Rosemary Crowe, Shel-
STEVE SPROATT IS Bond was fixed at $1,000. In a rn UTfTlWAV QTTPT 'recent announcement of various U. iUbnVYAl out appointments made by the com- ....,, 'missioners the appointment of Steve Sproatt of Carlisle, has M Snm,tl was, naHvertenllv
RETURNS TO CiVMP
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burn, Ind. Born in Sullivan, he is been named superintendent of .omitted..
a 1939 graduate of New Lebanon county highways by the board of Floyd Carey Is the mechanic high school and was a farmer County Commissioners in session 'for the county highway garage before entering the army in June, here this week with salary fixed for 1945. The name previously 1943. He has been overseas since at $2,250 based on mileage of given as Floyd Parks was an August, 1944. ' 900 miles at five cents per mile, error.