Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 16, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 22 January 1945 — Page 1

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News About Our Boys In Army, Navy vsll Marines Remember Pearl Harbor"

3RD OAK LEAF CLUSTER A 12TH AAF FIGHTERBOMBER BASE IN ITALY. Sgt. Michael Rambis, Mess Department, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Rambis, Shelburn, Indiana, . can now wear the third Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Unit Badge, now that his unit, the 27th Fighter Group, a veteran P-47 Thunderbolt air xsupport outfit, has become the first AAF Unit in the Mediterranean Theater to be cited four times in War Department GQneral Orders. The sergeant, graduate of Sullivan High, was employed by the Plankington Packing Co., Milwaukee, prior to entering the service in September, 1942. PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN ' James W. Sinclair, son of Mrs. Ethel Sinclair of West Washington street, has recently been promoted to the rank of Captain. Capt. Sinclair is stationed in Chicago. I IN HOSPITAL I Mrs. Mary Knew has received word that Pfc. Wayne Knew Is now in an Army hospital in England. Friends wishing his address may secure it from his wife or mother, Mrs. John Knew. TRANSFERRED Sgt. Darrell Huff has been transferred from Germany to Belgium, also from the 1st to the 9th Army. He has been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge for actual participation in combat against the enemy. The handsome badge consists of a silver rifle set against a background of infantry blue, enclosed in a silver wreath. Darrell is the husband of Mrs. Alice Huff and son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Huff. LIEUTENANT ON LEAVE i Lt. William C. Batey of the U. S. N. R., has arrived here to enjoy a 30-day leave with his mother, Mrs. Charles E. Pigg of Sullivan R. R., and his wife and, daughter, Barbara Ruth, 16 months old. Lieut, and Mrs. Batey will also visit the latter's parents in Hopkinsville, Ky. He is stationed in Pearl Harbor and this is his first leave in 19 months. . WEEK-END HERE Sgt. Bill Lindley of CamD Atterbury, spent the week-end with relatives here. SOLDIER HOME Pvt. Wendell Gambill of George Field, spent the week-end with relatives here. VISITS HERE Pvt. Douglas Pace of Camp Atterbury, spent the week-end with relatives here. HOME FOR WEEK-END Pvt. Bill Leach of Ft. Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. Louise Leach. Pvt. Jean Shafer arrived home Tuesday night on furlough after serving three years overseas. He was with Patton's Third Army in Iceland, England, France and Germany. He has made his home since childhood with Miss Hester Hoover. ASSIGNED TO LST. CAMP BRADFORD, NORFOLK, Va. Robert B. Sweet S 2c, whose family resides at Shelburn, Indiana, is .undergoing training with the Navy's amphibious forces at Camp Bradford, Virginia

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20-Year-Old Sullivan Soldier Meets Death In Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walters, Sr., of Marion, Indiana, former residents of Sullivan, have recently received a wire from the War Department bearing the information that their son, Private First Class Frank L. Walters, Jr. was killed in action December 3rd somewhere in Germany. He entered the service June 17, 1943 and received his basic training at Camp Wollers, Texas, going overseas in October of 1944. He was transferred immediately upon his arrival overseas from England to France, where he joined the 84th Infantry Division. A letter from the division chaplain followed the War Department notice, tendering his sympathies to the family. He said that the gold star hero was buried in Holland with full military honors. The 20-year-old 'infantryman wall born in Shelburn, the family moving to Sullivan a few years later, where the remainder of his life, prior to army service, was spent. He attended and graduated from the city schools and while carrying on his school duties he maintained part-time employment at the City Service Corner Service owned by Mrs. Tom Dugger. Surviving other than the parents are seven sisters, Mrs. Irene Dudley, Mrs. Ruby Payne, both of Marion, Indiana, Miss Maxine Walters, Miss Marjorie Walters, Miss June Walters and Miss Betty Jo Walters, all at home, and Mrs. Nettie Stevens of Indianapolis; and three brothers, Robert, Harold and Hubert .Walters, all of Marion. Malinda Ferris, Elderly Dugger Woman Succumbs Mrs. Malinda Ferris, 74 years old, of Dugger, died this morning at 4:25 o'clock at the residence there. She was a member of the Dugger Methodist Church. Surviving are the husband, Frank Ferris; five daughters, Mrs. Delah Goodman of Dugger, Mrs. Laura Comstock of Eldorado, Illinois; Mrs. Clifford Hilton of Terre Haute, Mrs. Orval West of Shelburn, and Mrs. Morris Montgomery of Portland, Oregon; three sons, Fred Martin and William Martin of Dugger, and John Ferris of Brazil; one sister, Mrs. Mae Young of Hazelton, Indiana; and two brothers, Sherman Allen of Worlhington and Albert Allen of Riley. The body was taken to the M. J. Aikin & Son Funeral Home in Dugger, where it will remain until tomorrow morning. It will then be returned to the residence where it will lie ii state. Fuenral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon, however, further details have not been determined. They will be announced later. LAST RITFS HONOR MRS. TRUEBLOOD Funeral services were held 'Thursday, Jan. 18, for Rachael Ann (Thompson) Trueblood, 91, who passed away January 16. The services were held in the Primitive Baptist church at Fairbanks, with Rev. Wyman Hull, pastor of the Sullivan Baptist church, of- , ficiating. Two songs were beautifully rendered by Percy Lester. . Pallbearers were Francis and Willie Trueblood, James H. Fidler, Wendell Harris, Percy Lester and Claire Thompson. '. ' I Flower bearers were -Naomi and (Leota Trueblood, Mrs. Esther.Fid'ler, Mrs. Francis Trueblood and jRedith and Vivian Harris. I Interment was . made in the 'Fairbanks cemetery.

Mrs. Anderson Dies Suddenly At Carlisle

CARLISLE, Ind., Jan. 22. Mrs. Laura Starmer Anderson, 79 years old, wife of Albert Anderson, Carlisle druggist, died suddenly at her home Saturday evening. ' She was born in Knox county and had lived in Carlisle for many years. She and Mr. Anderson had celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary on December 27th. A highly respected citizen of Carlisle, she was a member of the local Methodist church and was also a member of the Carlisle Eastern Star. Besides the husband, she is survived by two sons, Leland F. and Wayne S., both of Carlisle; two granddaughters, Joann and Jerine Anderson, both of Carlisle; several nephews and one niece. The body was taken to the Risinger & Kresge Funeral Home and was returned to the residence Sunday evening. Funeral services will be held at the Carlisle Methodist Church at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. John Sutch officiating. Burial will be in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. MRS. CLARA BELL HUNT FAIRBANKS, Ind., Jan. 22. Mrs. Clara Bell Hunt, 83 years old. died at her home, four miles northwest of Fairbanks, at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lucretia Johnson of Rochester, Ind., and Mrs. Verna Russell of Farmersburg, Ind.; three sons, Seth, Jess and Jolly, all' of Fairbanksr fifteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She was a member of the Church of Christ of Prairie Creek. The body was taken to the DeBaun Funeral Home and was returned to the residence this afternoon. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Burial will be in Pogtie Cemetery. Victory And Peace Fourth Term Goal WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. In a ceremony of solemn simplicity Franklin Delano Roosevelt embarked Saturday on his fourth term as President of the United States dedicated to victory and lasting peace. Standing on the south portico of the White House he repeated the 37-word oath of the President for the fourth time, and set the theme of his new administration in these words: "In the days and years that are to come we shall work for a just and durable peace as today we work and fight for total victory in war." . , The crowd stood in the snow of the White House lawn to witness the inaugural ceremony stripped of its usual glitter and pomp by the grimness of war. The whole thing was over in 15 minutes, climaxed by Mr. Roosevelt's 551-word fourth inaugural address. A few minutes before the President repeated the oath after Chief Harlan F. Stone,' bespectacled .Harry S. Truman of Missouri was sworn in as the third Roosevelt vice president. He took the oath from the man he succeeded, Henry A. Wallace. FIRE RUN

The local tire department maaers0I1) Robert Anderson, Harry a run to the home of Howard Lowry, John Pother, James McPinkston at 533 West Thompson Kee and Herman McKinley.

Street yesterday morning at 6:45 to extinguish a blaze caused defective wiring, damaging by the beck porch and side of the house Estimate of the damage was not reported. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Cpl. an!( Mrs! James L. Plew . 1U. ; v. V. n n , , rrV. r.

Pamela Lou, born, December 25th BntTH ANNOUNCEMENT at the Union Hospital in Terre' llr. and Mrs. Warren Canada of Haute. Mrs.. Plew is the former Linton rural route, announce' the Sally Jardine of Bicknell. Cpl. birth of a daughter, born January Plew, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.l9th at the Mary Sherman Hos-

" Plew, is stationed in Belgium.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. (UP) President Roosevelt today formally nominated ex-Vice President Henry A. Wallace to be Secretary of Commerce, and the battle was ion. Southern Democrats took the lead in assailvng the political pay-off substitution of Wallace for Jesse Jones, who had told Mr. Roosevelt he did not regard Wallace as suited for the job of handling the multi-billion dollar Reconstruction Finance Corporation and its related agencies. Soon after the nom;nation was received by the Senate,

Senator Walter F. George, D., divorce the RFC and all other Commerce Deoartment and set

status a status they held until Mr. Roosevelt put them1 under commerce when he brought Jones into the cabinet in 1942.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. (UP) The House Military Affairs Committee voted today to exempt workers assigned to war jobs under proposed work or else leg'shtion from closed shop provisions of union contracts.

HOLD RITES FOR MRS. PALMER: Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Belle Palmer were held at the Railsback Funeral Home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with

"Rev. Jack Anderson, pastor of the Friday. He was a former resident local Christian church, bringing of Sullivan county and was widethe message. The music was furn- ly known. For a number of years ished by Mrs. Kathryn Kirkham Mr. Padgett was -engaged in the Reid, with Mrs. Paul Stratton at .undertaking business at Shelburn.

the piano. Pallbearers were Clarence AndFlower bearers were Mrs. Ralph i Williams. Mrs. Robert Anderson. Mro HarnH Drnrlnrrf Mrs .Tnhn ' Prather, Mrs. Harry Lowry, Mrs. Herman McKinley, Mrs. Gus Lowry and Mrs. Clarence Andersen. Burial was in Center Ridge cemetery. i ' pital. She has not been named.

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Oscar Max Wilms, 37, formerly of Managua, Nicaragua; Hans Rudolf Christian Zuehisdorff, 25, formerly of Bogota, Colombia, and Max Christian Johannes Schneemann, 44, formerly of Pereira, pnoxo.; NEWS Georgia, introduced a bill to lending agencies from the them ui in an independent CLAUDE PADGETT, FORMER SHELBURN UNDERTAKER SUCCUMBS Claude Padgett, 63 years of age, died at Spokane, Washington last Mrs. Elmer Carrico of near Carlisle is a sister of the deceased. Funeral services and burial were to be at Spokane. MARRIAGE LICENSES Paul William Hughes, 427 North State Street, Sullivan, truck driver, and Rosemary Bedwell, 1127 North Section Street, Sullivan, at home. ' Nelson H. Phegley, Carlisle, farmer, and Betty Lou Amett, Edwardsport, Indiana, at home. : NEW SUITS Noble Stoner vs. Glenn Gregg. Complaint for. replevin.

Swine And Crops School Will Be Held In County The swine and crops school to be held in Sullivan County Wednesday, January 24, will bring new and useful Information to local farmers. J. W. Schwab, swine specialist and C. E. Skiver, crops specialist of Purdue University, will speak at Fairbanks at the Fairbanks High School at 0:30 Wednesday morning and again at 1:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Carlisle High School. Pork producers will hear Mr. Schwab relate experiences in hog feeding trials which compare costs of raising hogs on corn alone and on corn with a protein supplement. This discussion will also bring out the dollar value of pasture for hogs. A brief review will also be given of the practical experiences of several of the top market hog raisers of Indiana. Mr. Skiver is well known as an authority on wheat, but is equally qualified to discuss soil fertility and crops problems. He is taking the place of K. E. Beeson originally announced as the speaker, but who will be out of the state at that time. Mr. Skiver will discuss the improvement of 1945 crops through superior varieties of seed and through proper fertilization. All farmers who have questions to ask or want to hear practical information on swine and crop practices, are invited to attend either the morning session at the Fairbanks High School or the afternoon session at the Carlisle ' High .School. - -. . -

Lieut. Kelley, Wounded Veteran, Back In States Lieutenant Harmon Kelley Jr., of the United States Army, has been returned to the States, according to a telegram received Saturday morning by his wife, Mrs. Patsy Campbell Kelley of Sullivan. Lieutenant Kelley later telephoned his wife stating that he was at Halloran Hospital,' Staten Island, New York and would be there three or four days before being transferred. The Sullivan officer, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Kelley Sr., of this city, served in the 3rd Army infantry and was wounded November 17th in Germany. He was in a hospital in England for about eight weeks and sustained a knee injury which Will require hospitalization for some time. He told his wife that he lost virtually all of his possessions at the time he was injured. He has been in the army three and one-half years. Lieutenant Kelley is the father of a small daughter, Pamelia Louise. Mrs. Kelley expects to visit him upon his transfer to another hospital. George J. Walters SuffersBattle Wounds In France Mrs. Ann Walters of Wolfenberger Street has received a telegram from the War Depart-, ment informing her that her husband, Sergeant George J. Walters, of the United States Army was seriously wounded January 5th, somewhere in France while engaged in action against the enemy The wire stated that a letter giving further information would follow. Sgt. Walters is 26 years of age snd encred the service March 21st of last year. He received his infantry training at Camp Wolters, Texas and was transferred to overseas duty in October of 1944 where he joined the Seventh Army forces of Gen. Patch as a member of the 100th (Century) Division. He will be remembered by many persons of Sullivan and Sullivan County as the former manager of The County Hardware where he was employed prior to his Army, service,

Soviet Armies Sweep

Into German : Silesia; Enveloping E. Prussia Nazis' Belgium-Luxembourg Foothold Vanishing Rapidly As Germans Fall Back Into Siegfried Line U. S Troops Roll Forward On Luzon After Capture Of Tarlac. BULLETIN! (Bv United Press) . .. . . INSTERBURG FORTRESS FALLS Soviet forces storming into East Prussia from two directions captured the fortress of Insterburg only 57 miles from the capital of Koenigsberg today, and in central Poland took the strong points of Inowraclaw, Aleksandrow and Labiszyn, the latter 182 miles from Berlin. Marshal Stalin announced tonight that the Russians had captured the East Prussian rail center of Allenstein. The southern wing of the drive into' East Prussia advanced on the main railway line bisecting the province in a push which Berlin said carried to the area of Allenstein,' which was confirmed by Stalin, some 45 miles from the Baltic Sea and threatened to cut off 200,000 German troops from the Reich proper. , Marshal Josef Stalin also announced th.nt Insterburg had been taken in a swift thrust of 16 miles from captured Gumbinnen. The" twin advances were rapidly shattering the entire .Nazi defense system -along- the Baltic. At the same time, the 1st White Russian Army in the center was smashing through western Poland and deeper into German Silesia. A.United Press dispatch from Moscow said the German defenses were collapsing like a house of cards. The Germans also were in full retreat from the Ardennes salient on the western front, where two packed columns of about 3,000 tanks, trucks and other vehicles were streaming eastward for the shelter of the' Siegfried Line under fire from swarms of Thunderbolt dive bombers. The tactical air force got into action despite low-hanging clouds arid wrought great destruction on the retreating Germans. The strategic offensive was continued with an attack by more than 300 heavy bombers and fighters on the Sterkrade synthetic oil plant in the Ruhr.

, (By United Press) Soviet armies swept into German Sileia today toward Breslau and the Oder River, drove steadily closer to the chief remaining Polish stronghold of Pozman, and were enveloping East Prussia, from two sides in a great encircling movement . The remaining German foothold in Belgium and Luxembourg was vanishing rapidly as the Nazis fell back into the shelter of the Siegfried Line and were reported moving' strength from that salient to meet the growing threat of British and French offensives in Holland and Luxembourg. In the Pacific, American troops on Luzon rolled steadilv southward from captured Tarlac and La Paz to within 20 miles of the Clark Field airbase and less than 60 miles from Manila, still against negligible Japanese resistance. American carrier and land-based planes maintained a widespread offensive against Formosa and the China coast. ' The vast Russian winter offensive showed no s'gn of slackening, anywhere along the 690-mile front from the Baltic to below the Carpathians. The move to isolate East Prussia from the Reich appeared to be gaining momentum, and Germany's indispensable industrial region of Silesia plainly was in danger of being engulfed. Capture historic Tannenberg. The 2nd White Russian army driving into East Prussia from the south was 14 miles inside the province on a front ot almost 40 miles, heading for the railway center of Allenstein and capturing historic Tannenberg, where the Czarist armies met disaster in 1914. ' A security blackout hid the progress of the 1st White Russian army smashing across the Polish plain toward Poznan, which is 138 miles from Berlin. At last reports, the Russians were 55 miles or less east of Poznan and advancing at a mile an hour along the Warsaw-Berlin railway. The 1st Ukrainian army to the south broke across the Silesian border on a 56-mile front and by last night was it least 19 miles inside the province. Berlin reported that one column in the Gross Stehlitz area was 14 miles from the Oder. The southern wing of this army was moving rapidly up on Silesia from the Krakow area. . The 4th Ukrainian army in the Carpathian region crashed into Slovakia and the cleanup in Budapest continued. The German withdrawal on the western front brought

the battle of the Ardennes bulge close to its end. The entire

western and southern wall of the salient was caving in on a line of 35 miles from south of Houffalize to the LuxembourgGerman border. The Americans made gains of four miles or more against spotty opposition. Sharp fighting was reported in progress in the Luxembourg road center of Viltz. On the northern flank of the salient the American 1st Army smashed a German rear guard action in Born, three miles north of St. Vith. and pushed on toward that highway center. The British 2nd Army, widened its drive.