Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 5, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 5 January 1945 — Page 1

WARMER Indiana: Cloudy and warmer tonight and Saturday; light snov.' in northwest and in extreme north portion Saturday. Keep Buying War Bends! VOL. XLVTT No. 5 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN, INDIANA FRIDAY, JAN. 5, 1945. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE TRICE THREE CENTS

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News AbouJ Our Boys In Arrpy, Navy Marines 'Rememhei Pear! Harbor"

RETURNS TO CALIF. SSst. James R. Richardson has returned to Santa Ana, Calif., for' reassignment after spending a 21-day furlough with his brother, Ralph Richardson and family of

Dugger. He has spent 35 months The first republican majority in Australia and New Guinea bius t0 reorganize state agencies, with the 5th Air Force. SSgt. aiming at changes in the adminisRichardson enlisted in the Air tration of the department of pubCorps before Pearl Harbor and ic weifai-e WCre introduced in was in the first convoy to go to the Indiana legislature today, the South Pacific after war was Measures to revamp the set-up declared. 0 the state welfare board and to Friends may obtain his address change the method of appointing from his brother, in Dugger. county welfare board members were presented among 11 new RETURNS TO CAMP bills in the House of RepresentaSgt. Laurel E. Rose, who spent tives. a 10-day furlough with home After meeting in joint session

folks, returned to San Luis Obispo, California, 1. Monday, VISIT PARENTS Lt. and Mrs. Durward M. Phillips are visiting the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Phillips. They will leave Monday for Denver, Colorado, where Lt. Phillips ginecrs. ne nas nown extensively for the last few months in a radius of a thousand miles from' Denver. IN ALEUTIANS Andrew D. Davidson, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Davidson of ShelbuVn route two, is serving with the Army somewhere in the Aleutian Islands. He holds the rank of Staff Sergeant of a Detachment Engineering Company and holds an important post, which cannot be disclosed at this time. He has been overseas 17 months and has been in the service since March 4, 1943. RETURNS TO CAMP Pfc. Ear! M. Hunt of Merom, has returned to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, after enjoying a , furlough- with relatives and friends. LEARN OF DEATH OF HURLEY POSTON Word has been received here of the death of Hurley Poston, former resident 6f Sullivan county, at Chicago on December 27th. He was a member of the staff of a hospital in that city for a number of years. Death was caused Dy coronary thrombosis. Dr. Poston was a brother of Lola and Olga Poston of Sullivan, and spent his boyhood days in this county. He was buried with full military honors at Arlington National cemetery, Washington, D. C. Local Soldier Serves Eng

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SIXTH ARMY GROUP, France, A commendation for constructing an Army hospital in the interior of .France in record time was given Company B of the 335th engineers recently by Col. John G. Strohm, commanding' officer of the hospital. Pvt. Carl E. Ridge, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs Roscoe Ridee, route cne, Sullivan, and Pvt. Edgar P. rd, 37, son of Thomas LifLifford ford, route one, Jasonville, Ind., are members of this company. "It was an extremely difficult task of adapting an old infantry caserne to meet the needs of a hospital with more than 3,000 papointed out. Company B is one of the construction units working under the Continental Advance Section, the trmy service rorce unit wnicn supplies the Sixth Army Group I

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AT BE GO P MAlirfiS . kj. r. m wassuic5 InLegislature XMi!,rJ Pofrmn wouia ievamp State Welfare Board. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 5. (UP) to certify the election of Ralph F

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January Gates as governor and Richard T. Reverend William H. Grim, fathJames as lieutenant governor, nf th hriri. nnH nnR(np tb.

me nouse ana oenaie reiurnea iu their chambers and adjourned until Monday. Senators presented four new bills. Again, the expected flood of early legislation failed to materlalize on the second day of the 1945 general assembly.

The welfare reorganization bills was engaged in business for followed the recommendations of many years. 'Two sons, Hervey a legislative welfare investigat- William. Dufton and Gilbert Grim ing committee headed by Repr. Dutton, live in Chicago. A daughEarl B. Teckemeyer, republican, ter, Mrs. Wilfrid Paul Riggs, lives

Indianapolis, which proposed a widespread departure from present welfare laws in a report given to Gov. Schricker recently after a two-year study. The commission was created by the 1943 legislature. House Bill No. 22, sponsored by Teckemeyer and Repr. Charles T. Miser, republican, Garrett, proposed to completely abolish the oresent five-member, nart-time state welfare board and replace it with a three-member, full-time board. Reflecting wartime seriousness, members of the 84th Indiana Gen-1 eral Assembly established a pre-1 cedent yesterday by settling down on the opening afternoon to routine legislative work. The House received 19 bills and a resolution, while the Senate received.10 bills and two resolutions. The House, by a vote of 92 to 0, passed a bill appropriating $200,000 to meet expenses of the session. ; . ' CAT AND DEER FRIENDLY KERRVILLE, Tex. (UP) Add a cat and a deer to the list of ani mal friendships. Tabby and a deer o:i the W. E. Dieterat ranch near here have played together since the deer was a fawn. With Company Or and the 7th Army. At present, the company of specialists, commanded by Capt. Meyer Bergman of Aberdeen, Miss., are conducting headquarters base In the interior of France. The company had previously won fame at Marseille when they removed 61,500 pounds of explosives from the docks and 2,000 teller mines from a landing field nearby, besides building the first landing strips for Dukws. The engineers received their first battle experience in handling mines when they cleared 2 000 teller mines from around Hill 609 at Mateur. They then crated Lumber mills. The millions of board feet which they cut were used in preparatory construetions for the invasion of Elba ana mat ot southern France.

Dean McCammon Hurt In Action

Mrs. Mildred S. McCammon of Sullivan R. R. 3, received word Tuesday evening from the War Department that her husband, Private Dean McCammon, was slightly injured in action in Germany dn December 19. The teleJ I lUl Ijf SJll iCLUItlUi;! J, eram stated that she notified of his condit would be condition soon. Pvt. McCammon entered the qrmed forces May 1. 1944 and has been overseas since the middle of Octoben He is with General Pat. t0"'f T0h:riirm,y; The 24-year-old infantryman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam McCammon of Indianapolis, and brother of Mrs. Ralph Mitchell of Cass. Hervey Duttons Will Celebrate Golden Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Hervey E. Dutton will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on January ninth. They were married January 9, 1895 at the Methodist Church in Sullivan, the ceremnnnv heinff ripi-frrmjvt hv Ihn church at that time. Following' the wedding at high noon a breakfast was served to guests at the parsonage. Mr. and! Mrs. Dutton have spent all the years of their married life in Sullivan, where Mi: Dutton in Newark, New Jersey. On Christmas day the family gathered at the Dutton home on Cross Street to celebrate the 50th anniversary. Those present were: Gilbert Dutton, Hervey W. Dutton and wife, Jean McArthur Dutton, Mrs. lone Watson Dutton and Mrs. Dorothy Dutton Rises. Two oanei ana sod Dutton, were also present. Farmersburg Resident Dies FARMERSBURG, lnd., Jan. 5. Clarence M. McCjocklin, 50 years oldi died at his home near Far. mersburg Thursday morning. He is surviVed by the widow, Esta; a foster son, Billie George; one Bbter Mrs..Alean Antburg; four brothers, George, Arch, Lawrence and Lester. The body was taken to the Wood Funera Home, Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Westlawn CemeterV- The Masonic Lodge No. 594 will officiate. MARY JOSEPHINE MILLER JASONVILLE. Ind., Jan. 5. Mrs. Mary Josephine Miller, 71 years old, died at 4:30 o'clock i nursday arternoon at the resi?Ja?,ySSnst,?fet ShelbuR- a sister of the deRites will be held Saturday afternoon Louis Steinhall, Jr. Missing In Action Mr. and Mrs. Louis Steinhall, " .u'w" , Tv, ' "Ce'veT,da1tJ1.e5am ,frm th,e Sr., of Shelbum rural route two. War Department yesterday af ternoon stating that their eldest son, Private First Class Louis Steinhall, Jr., has been missing . Z , 7 T s'nce tl)e 18th ecTeTmer: was a. miiiui ui kltC milieu &t iea Army lnrantrvA graduate of Shelbum High School with the class of 1943, Steinhall went overseas in Septi'ember of 1944. He is nineteen years of age.

Waste Paper And South Half

City salvage officials announced today that a waste paper and

tin collection will be made tomorrow,' Saturday, January Cth, in the

south half of the city which includes' Washington Street and all

streets south of Washington. Boy Scouts of Troop 53 will make the collec tion aided by city trucks and drivers. All scouts are hereby notified to asscmbc at the City Hall tomorrow morning: at eight o'clock. : , Your waste paper and tin are vitally needed to speed the day of victory. Equipment and supplies, ammunition and medicines are packed in the paper you must save. Every scrap of tin you salvage may play an important part in the winning of a battle or the saving of a life. Do all you can! Place your waste paper and tin cn the curb bright and early tomorrow. i

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. (UP) The United Stales, in an open Allied political cleavage today reaffirmed its recognition cf the Polish government in exile at London in the face of official notice that Soviet Russia has recognized,1 as the provisional PoRsh government the committee that was set up at Lublin under Russian sponsorship. A major crisis in United Nations relations appeared to have been precipitated by opposing stands on which cf two Polish factions constitute the government of Poland. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. (UP) President . Roosevelt said today that the United States and Great . Britain have agreed on a program for feeding Italy and that more food is

now Koing mio max country. I He told his ncw j-nnfpi-Ano fhtit Ikn mn,,, n,.n.,:j

more calories for the Italian people, but that he could not tell whether that meant more grams or pounds. i

LONDON, Jan. 5. (UP)-The U. S. 8th Air, Force, refeuming ts heavy assault on Germany, sent more than 1,000 bombers and 500 fighters in a smashing! attack today on at least 20 important enemy supply points behind the fighting lines.

CHUNGKING, Jan. 5.-(UP)-Major General Claire thennault s 14th Air Force fighter pilots destroyed five Japanese locomotives, four planes and several bridges in two days of attacks in the China war theater, a communique reported today.

Group Forwarded , For Induction j Into Armed Forces: It was announced today by the local Selective Service Board that the following men were forwarded to Indianapolis January 2nd for induction into the armed forces: Army Lewis McCammon, Cass; Hubert Oscar Bennett, Carlisle R. 2; James Lyman Ammerman, Sullivan R. 3; William Douglas Speer, Sullivan R. 3; Edgar Riley Saunders, Sullivan R. 3; Floyd Arthur Hall, Farmersburg; Roy Junior Timms, Oaktown R. 2; Elra Edgar Pittman, Jr., Sandborn R. 1; Earl Joyce Rogers, Paxton; Aime Camille Mathews, Hymera; Russell Arnold, Jr., Sullivan R. 5; Joe Daniel Cass, Sandborn R. 1; Hugh Collins, Jr., Sullivan R. 5. Navy John Jefferson Wolfe, Sullivan; Louie Andre, Sullivan R 5; Robert Dale Sheffler, Sullivan R. 2; Thomas Lee Collins, Sullivan R. 4; Jr. Jack Alumbaugh,, 716 E. Beech St., Sullivan; James Curtis Fox,1 Farmersburg. Marines Harry Nelson Ransford, Graysville. PROPERTY CHANGES William B. Wilkey. . who re cently sold his residence on South State Street to Mrs. Alma Drake of Fairbanks, has purchased the former Delilah Wallace property on South State Street from Jacob Blakeman. The Blakeman's will occupy the former Kirkham property on North Main Street which they own, purchased some time ago from Mrs. Grace Brokaw Rawles, now of Columbus. Hud Bland has purchased a one-story frame residence on South Court Street from Mrs. Julia Beck, former resident who now lives in California.

Tin Pick-Up, Of City, Tomorrow NEWS County Wheat Champ To Attend Ag. Conference Richard Pirtle, Sullivan Coun ty's wheat champion will go to Purdue to ' attend the annual Agricultural Conference . Week program this next week as an award for growing the best ten acres of wheat in the County in 1944., The conference of farmers from all over the State is to be held January 9th to 11th on the campus of Purdue University where major farm problems will be the topics of the week. Pirtle won the Sullivan County honors with his field of Rudy wheat which was scored the highest by committee of judges from Knox County. It was grown on the Frank Mason farm. The expenses for the special trip are provided by Igleheart Bros. Millers of Evansville who sponsor the Wheat Improvement Program of Southwestern Indiana. The contest is directed in the Countv bv County Agricultural Agent J. Howard Telfer and the Sullivan County Wheat Committee of which Wallace Springer is chairman. Rudolph Hoefling, champion wheat grower of Vanderburgh County, will be crowned wheat king at the annual banquet meeting of the Indiana Corn Grower's Association by Dr. Edward C. Elliott, president of Purdue University. Hoefling's field of Fultz wheat was iudeed jbest in the area by a committee ,of judges working with C. E. ! Skiver, Wheat Specialist of Purdue. The Pirtle field was Reserve Champion, placing second to the Hoefling field. FIRE RUN The local fire department was summoned to the Boone Harness Shop yesterday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock to extinguish a small j blaze caused by some oil spilled on a stove; The danger was quickly averted as the firemen sprayed a chemical over the flame. Little damage was done.

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Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anderson of Sullivan rural route, have rereived an official notice from the War Department notifying them of the death of their son. Private First Class Lowell A. Anderson. The 21-year-old infantryman was killed November 30th somewhere in France. He had previously been reported missing in action on that date. I Pfc. Anderson entered the Army February 18, 1943 and received most of his training at Fort Lewis, Washington. He Was transferred to overseas duty the latter part of August and arrived at his destination September 10th, 1944, where he joined the 7th Army Forces. He was a former student of New Lebanon High School and was a native of this county. ' Surviving are the parents; two sisters, Sara and Rosalie, at home; two brothers, John and Jerry, also at home; and the grandparents, Mrs. Ella Anderson and John Carmiehael of near Carlisle. Wounded Veteran Arrives Home Christmas Day Christmas Day was a day of Thanksgiving for the Rice Davis family - on. .East ' .Washington Stree.t when their son, Private First Class Rise Davis, Jr., arrived home for a well-earned furlough. He is a wounded veteran of the present war and has just been returned to the United States for observation and treatment. Jlis wife, Mrs, Mary Margaret Davis, formerly of Indianapolis, and his parents and family were expecting him to arrive in Sullivan around January 1st and , (Continued on Page 6, Col. 7) Death Summons Mrs. Wagner, 71 Mrs. Mame Wagner, 71 years of age, died this morning at eleven o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrsl Lela McCammon, at 327 West Donaldson Street, following an extended illness. She was a native of Sullivan County and a member of the Paxton Christian Church. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. McCammon, with whom she made her home, Mrs. Naomi Self of Sullivan, Mrs. Nora Caton of Farmersburg, Mrs. Margaret Rankin of Sullivan, and Miss Josephine Wagner of Sullivan; one son, Corporal John W. Wagner, who is now overseas with the United States Army; two brothers, Matt Lane of Sullivan and Med Lane of Cincinnati, Ohio; one sister, Mrs. Grace Hiatt; seven grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. The body was taken to the Billman Funeral Home, here it is in state. Funeral , services will be conducted in the Billman funeral chapel Sunday afternoon at three o'clock with Rev. Jack Anderson of the First Christian church officiating. Interment will be made in Center Ridge Cemetery. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Jan. 4: Wayne Wonders of 448 South Section Street, for treatment: Mrs. John Shields of Shelburn Route 2, for observation. Dismissed Jan. "4: Jackie Lee Vaught of Sullivan Route 3; W. N. Benef iel of Carlisle Route 1; Cecil Daves of Sullivan Route 3; Chas. Garner of Shelburn; Mrs. Houston Persinger and son of 1208 North Court Street. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Harold Baughman of 1423 North Main Street, announce the birth of a daughter, Elva Berniece, born January 4th at the hospital here.

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Field Marshal Montgomery Given Over-All Command Of U. S. 1st And 9th Armies Germans Make Strong Counter Attack North Of BudapestJaps Report U. S. Convoys In Philippine Waters. BULLETIN! (By United Press) Allied armies were on the offensive on both flanks of the Gentian salient in Belgium today, making slow gaim against bitter German opposition, as Supreme Headquarters announced that Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery had been given command of all forces on the northern side or the salient. ' Troops of the American 1st and 9Lh amies and the British 2nd. all under Montgomery, were poundincr at the enemv bulge from the north aloncr a front of about 40 miles. Headquarters announced the British had gained more than a mile to a point three miles south of Hctton toward the northwestem end of the client, find a field d'snatcli reported corresponding 1st Army gains to the east.

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counter-attacks in the 24 hours ending eary todav, and still managed to gain p. mile in one place and 400 yards in another. The shift in command placed Montgomery in charcre of the 9th Armv and nil of the 1st not cut off in the south by the German breakthrough, but President Roosevelt st!d in Washington it does not mean the British Marshal has become demitv commander under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower of all Allied ground forces on the western front. v

(By United Press) Allied troops continued to advance into the northern fkmk of the German salient in .Belgium today on the third day of their offensive, with sonie units cf the Americm 1st Army gaining as much as two and one-half miles in one sector against gradually stiffening enemy resistance. FieM Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of the British 21st Armv grour. has been given over-nil command of the American 1st and 9th armies and is d;recting the drive toward a junction with the American 3rd Army south of the salient, it was revealed. Tank and infantrv units of the British 2nd Army joined the American 1st in the issaut, which is along a front of some 40 miles along the northern rim of the salient. On the Russian front, the Germans were making a strong counter offensive about SO miles northwest of Budapest in an attemnt to rescue the cornered -Nazi garrison in the cflDital. where a battle of annihilation still raced. Soviet f;eM disnatches-snid the attack was being held after gains of as mwh as s''x miles. Allied 8th Army troons in Italy made good progress against fierce German opposition northwest of Ravenna and north of Faenza. a communique announced. In the Pacific,-the Japanese renorted one or more American convovs with an escort including battleships and earners, were sa'ling through the Philinoine waters south of Luzon. The report coincided with Japanese speculation regarding an imminent invasion of Luzon, and announcement that 35 more Japanese ships have been wrecked bv American aircraft off that island for a total of 60 in three days. British forces on the As;atic mainland have landed on the western Burma coast and seized the strategic port of Akyab without opposition, it was announced. Disnatches from the western front said the American and British advances from the north had cut the gap between them and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army to 12 miles or less. , The Germans had been concentrating their main armored strength against Patton, but front renorts said todav that the 3rd Army had regained the initiative after it had been forced back on the defensive around Bastogne. The enemy made 17 unsuccessful counter attacks on the 3rd Army frdnt in the nast 24 hours. The drive on the northern flank was along a line roughly parallel with the highway from St. Vich in the east to La Roche in the west, and at least three spearheads were within one to three miles of the road yesterday. Th snow and rain over the front had ceased today, but the weather was still murky and the snow deep underfoot. Formations of American bombers flew over the lines to strike at enemy communcations in the rear, although the tactical air force was unable to get into action in the early part of the day. . '

Heavy bombers from Britain flew over Germany agaiiv' after the 12-day offensive had been interrupted yesterday by

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