Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 68, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 4 April 1945 — Page 1

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a 1 WO 1 4 kt . j 3 "Remember Pearl Harbor" IN ITALY Mrs. Leland C. Russell of Terre ' Haute has received word that her husband has arrived safely overseas. He is somewhere in Italy., RETURNS TO HOSPITAL '' Pfc. Claude II. Barnes returned lu Camp Atterbury Hospital after spending a 15-day sick leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ellery Barnes, 1711 Chestnut Street, Terre Haute. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes are former Hymera residents. Pfc. Claude H. Barnes was wounded in France, August 6, 1944, and was in a hospital in England before being sent backto New York FebrurjZTTSfiT Anyone.-kS'TnsiKMress may VnTe it from his. parents. WRITES FROM INDIES Mrs. Ada Sluder of Shelburn R 2, has received a letter from her son, Cpl. Don D. Sluder. who U now -stationed in thev Dutch ESist Indies;' working in a Hq. Gp. office there as a teletypist. -He had me a Torme'r Graysville bdy,' Harris Karhs, 'tvho was on his. way brck to the States. He sent his mother a bracelet, of ; Australian money he had made while in New Guinea. ( Another son, Pvt. Max O. Slu (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) Wabash Goes To 18 Feet At Merom Ray Redifer, river ; observer at Merom, reported a stage of 18 feet on the Wabash there this morning, two feet above flood stage. The river had raised six or seven inches during last night and .40 of an inch of rainfall was recorded during the night. More than five inches of rain has fallen in the last week, it was revealed. --While the rise of the river is Qtijpectacualrily rapid at this time, it is because the low bottom are filling in. Mr. Redifer predicts the river will go to 20 feet atv Merom, even without additional rainfall.

William 1. Dugger, Pioneer Of Town That Bears His Name Marks 94tH Birth Anniversary

.Today marked the 94thirth anniversary of the man who give the town of Dugger its name and vho has been the most influential figure ii its sixty-two years of growth and progress. His' name is William R. Dugger. Mr. Dugger came to Sullivan County with his brother, Francis M. Dugger and their, families in 1883 and settled in that section of the county that was destined to become the town of Dugger and which was named in their honor. At that time, Mr. Dugger often recalls, there were no more than i half dozen families living at the site. .His brother is now deceased. Together the Dugger brothers directed the sinking of the old IXigger mine and' for many years operated it in joint ownership as the tqwn grew in size and population.Vlrv later years Mr. Dugger and his sons began the Sunflower mine east of the town and operated it fdra number of years. William Dugger was bom in Greene Couhty, near Kobbyville, the son of Thomas and Sabra Dugger. He was twice married, first to Mary Mitchell of Greene County and later to Sadie McKissick, also of Greene County. To these unions were born the fol

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CASE TESTIFIES i Mrs, Hardin On The Stand In Own Behalf This Morning; T rial Nears Close. Mrs. Hazel Hardin, of Hymera, ' who is charged with manslaughter and aiming a weapon in connection With the death of Loren ' David Gorby, 16, Hymera high school student, testified in , her ( own behalf in Sullivan Circuit i Court this morning. The Gorby ycuth was killed shortly after midnight last May 30th, in the ' yard at the Hardin home, a .38 calibre revolver bullet penetrat--tng-rrty-ieft temple. Mrs. Hardin testified that she and her (ep-datfgnfpr,"1Virs. He-' lores Trump, name home from ! the tavern which the Ilardins operate at . Hymera, about mid-j night after closing the place of ; business. Her husband, George ; -Ugnlin had come home earlier, her testimony showed and was sleeping on the. davenport in the j front room. He was not awakened by the two . women, it was testified, and Mrs. Trump went to her bedroom and was fixing her hair before a dressing table when she became' frightened at hearing something outside the window. The shade was up about 12 inches, according to the testimony. Mrs. Hardin, who was in the dining room, secured the gun, went to the. front- porch and turned on the light but didn't discover anything. She said she went back into . the house and looked out the window in a bedroom on the west side of , the house. She saw a white, object, she testified, to the southwest, however, .she fired the gun "toward the northwest in an effort to scare away anyone who might hapnen to be nearby. The husband, awakened after the shot was fired, said he thought they should call the law, 4U was stated and the two women went to the home' of the: town marshal, Cecil Scott, iri the Hardin car and brought him back with them. Scott had a flashlight and they (Continued on Page 4, Col. 3) lowing surviving children: five daughters, Mrs. Lilllie Yung, Mrs. Sabra Dickey, Mrs. Alice Leaman, Mrs. Abigail Chowning and Mrs. Vera Graham, all of Dugger; and fouXsons, E, H. Dugger of And-j ersonReid Dugger of Franklin and Marion E. and Orville E. Dugger, both of Dugger. , Since the founding of the town, Mr. Dugger remembers well many historical events that have greatly altered the life of those within its boundaries. He Temembers the building of its churches, the carrying of the option, now years past, that prohibited liquor in the town, modernizing of the city streets, addition of the water system, and the building of the city park. A lifelong member of the Church of Christ there, he is the oldest resident of Dugger and one of the oldest in the county, He is in excellent health. Mr. Dugger still resides in his homestead of those early days in 1883 when, he and his family first migrated" to Sullivan County. .. ' i. . Open house was observed for him today with many friends and' relatives Calling to join- in the celebration. ;

Capt. Duckworth 1 Is In Hospital Captain George H. Duckworth,! son- of Mrs. Eva Duckworth of Shelburn, and hero of several episodes of European warfare, is now in a U. S. Army Hospital in England for observation, according to a letter received by the mother yesterday. Pant. Duckworth assured his

mother that h is-illness was not serious and had probably resulted from internal injuries suffered in battle August 30th, 1944, at Brest, or possibly from exposure during the recent frigid weather on the Western Front. j On numerous occasions Captain Duckworth has displayed exceed-1 ingly high standards of military honor and a keen sense of concern for the safety and welfare of his men. i The Shelburn infantry officer told of having been in the Rhine area when ordered to report to the I field aid station, of being sent to a larger hospital in France and in less than two and a half hours was comfortable in the .English" " hospital. The trip to, England was made in a C-47 transport plane, j Duckworth, who has been rec-! ommended for the Silver Star' Medal, and twice awarded the' Bronze Star, wears the Combat; Infantryman's Badge, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, and the European Theater of Operations ribbon with numerous battle stars. Capt. Duckworth is a grad-j uaie 01 EneiDurn nign scnooi. He is 30 years of age and has been overseas eighteen months Most Miners Are Believed Working TERRE HAUTE, Apr. 4. While it was reported yesterday that many Indiana miners remained away from their work, no official statements from owners and operators or from miners could be obtained concerning the number not working nor the reason for the unauthorized work stoppage. Louis Austin, president, District No. 11, United Mine Workers of America, said "I have no report from the board members as to what mines in their sub-districts are working. It is my opinion that the majority of miners in District 11 are working." He said that letters dated April 2, 1945, have been received from the Indiana Coal Operators' Association and the Indiana Coal Producers' Association confirming the continuance of operation of the mines in accord with the order of the National War Labor Board issued March 31, which provides that if a new wage agreement is reached,, it shall be retroactive to April 1, 1945. CONSERVATION CLUB The Sullivan Conservation Club has resumed their former schedule of meetings held on the iirst and third Thursdays of each monlli. The first meetins in Anril will be held this comine Thurs day, the 5th, at 7:30 p. m. in the Norris Building, E. Jackson St. Of interest at this meeting, will be a report of the stream pollution problem in thiscounty and the part several clubs in the county are taking to stop this practice. The. club invites the fishermen of this locality to 'attend and participate in this meeting. , APPLICATIONS FOR FARM LOANS WILL BE TAKEN HERE Carter H. Holland, Field Supervisor of the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office, will be at the office of Charles Davis, County Assessor, in Sullivan from 9 a. m. to 11 a. m., on April 13, 1945 to accept applications from farmers for loans to produce crops or to purchase feed for livestock. Farmers needing financing for crop production or feed should arrange to meet Mr. Holland at this time.

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WITH THE BRITISH SECOND ARMY IN GERMANY. Apr. 4. (UP) British armored forces crossed the EmsWeser canal today, presumably -in the sector ten miles north of Osnabrueck and about 33 miles southwest of Bremen.

BUENOS AIRES, Apr. 1 (UP) Seven hundred Germans, Axis sympathizers and saboteurs, have been arrested throughout Argentina in the past 43 hours, it was reported today from reliable sources. LONDON, Apr. 4. (UP) The German DNB news agency reported today that American 9th Army spearheads are nearing Minden, 34 miles west of Hannover.

(By United Press) More than 50.000 miners in Pennsylvania and Alabama rema'ned idle today as coal production in other sections resumed on an almost normal basis. Fifty-three Pennsylvania mines employing 14,000 men were completely shut down. Absenteeism in other mines was estimated at 14,000 men. Production loss was 160,000 tons of coal. There were only; scattered operations in Alabama fields, although miners were returning slowly. Most of the West Virginia miners were back at work. W'lliam Blizzard, vice-president of United Mine Workers. District 17, in Charleston, said all but two mines in the Kanawha area were being worked. UMW Spokesman Tom Price of District 6, Columbus, O., said "several mines" in eastern Ohio and "two or three" in the southern district were idle. ' . Full crews were at work in southern Illinois mines today.

TUIIPIN BABY DIES AT DUGGER Carrol Sue Turnin. 10 months old daughter of Mr. andf Mrs. Gerald Turpin of Dagger, died yesterday evening at six o'clock at the residence there. She is survived by the parents; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Turpin of Sullivan, rural route five, and Mr.' and Mrs. Carl Cox of Paxton, rural route one; and the great-grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. Ernest Burris of Merom, and Jacob Cox of Paxton. The body was removed to the M. J. Aikin & Son Funeral Home in Dugger where funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock in the chapel. Services will be conducted by Rev. Paul S. Lewis of the Plainfield Methodist Church. Interment will be made in the Dugger Cemetery. . MARK GOLDEN WEDDING ON EASTER SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Laughlin celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home at 840 East Washington Street on Easter Sunday. Many beautiful gifts were received and a delicious dinner was served at noon. Beautiful table decorations consisted of gold lilies, and snapdragons, and a white gold wedding cake. The children and grandchildren present were: Mr, and Mrs. Oral Laughlin, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley . Denney, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lewellyn, Miss Beulah Laughlin, Imogene Bonham, Mayrne Laughlin, Loraine Laughlin, Louise Laughlin, Norma Lewellyn, Loretta Kay Lewellyn, Barbara Ann Eonham and Ronald Denney. NEW SUITS Vera Maxine Hornbeck vs. Mollary Winfield Hornbeck. Complaint for divorce. Betty J, Taff vs. Joseph Taff. Complaint for divorce. HOSPITAL NOTES Dismissed Apr. 3: Herbert Snyder of Paxton; Glenn Thompson of 218 West Donaldson Street. COLD STOPS CENSUS TAKERS SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (UP)--The city of Springfield recently hired 15 city census takers. Within, two weeks every one of them had quit because of the snow and cold weather. STORK BRINGS 32 PIGS ROCKLAND, Me. (UP) Three sows at the Rockland City Farm recently give birth to litters ot eight, 11 and 13 pigs, respectively, on the same day,. ,

NEWS

RATIONING AT i A GLANCE Meats, Cheese, Butter, Fats, Canned Fish, Canned Milk. Red stamps Q-5 through Z-5 and A-2 through J-2 good for 10 points each. K-2, L-2, M-2,' N-2 and P-2 valid April 1. Q-5, R-5 and S-5 expired March 31. Used Fats. Two red points and 4 cents given for one pound of waste fats. Processed Foods. Blue stamps X-5, Y-5, Z-5 and A-2 through S-2 good for 10 points each. T-2, U-2, V-2, W-2 and X-2 valid April 1. X-5, Y-5, Z-5, A-2 and B-2 expired March 31. Shoes. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 airplane stamps in Book 3 good until further notice. Take Book 3 when shopping for shoes. Gasoline. Stamp A-15 good for 4 gallons through June 21. Serially numbered strip "D" coupons, "B-6," "B-7,"."C-6," "C-7," "E-2," "E-3," "R-2" and "R-3" coupons remain valid until further notice. Effective April -1," 1945, non-serially numbered "D" coupons which are in book form, "B-5," "C-5," "E-l," "R-l" and first quarter "T" coupons will be invalid for transfers of gasoline to consumers.1 State and license number must be written on face of each coupon immediately upon receipt of book. Upon receiving new license number, change old number on face of book only. Mileage Rationing Record must be submitted with all applications for supplemental and special rations, including furlough rations. Tires. Inspections not compulsory unless applying for tires. Commercial inspections due every six months or 5,000 miles, whichever is first. Fuel Oil. Period 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 coupons now good. Unit value 10 gallons. All change-making and reserve coupons good throughout heating year. Consumers in this area should not have used more than 87 per cent of season's ration as of March 26. Price Information Obtain price information from the Price Clerk of your local War Price and Rationing Board. Report any overcharges. ' i GENERATIONS IN 4 WARS METROPOLIS, 111. (UP) Four generations of the descendants of the late G. F. Thane of Metropolis have fought in four wars. Thane fought in the Union Army during the Civil War; his son, Louis W. Thane, served in the SpanishAmerican War; one of his grandsons, Edward Meinders, saw service in France in World War I, and one of his great-grandsons, Pvt. Calvin C. H. Bremer, is now serving in World War II, somewhere in the South, Pacific.

State Legislator Killed In Action

PRINCETON, Ind. April 14. A War Department telegram received by Mrs. James Eckerty informed her that her son, SSgt. Gene Eckerty, a member of the Indiana House of Representatives, had been killed in action, February 25, in Germany. Sgt. Eckerty served as representative from Gibson Counly in 1943 and was re-elected to the 1945 session but did not take his seat as he had gone overseas in December. He entered the service in August, 1942. . He was serving with an infantry rpiment in Gen Patton's Third United States Army. Eckerty, a Republican, was a graduate of the Indiana University Law School. His mother, a sister and the widow, Wilma, who is a school teacher at Owensville, survive. During the last session of the General Assembly a letter written from the front by Sgt. Eckerty was read to the House by Representative Earl Teckemeyer of Indianapolis. The letter contained an appeal from Sgt. Eckerty for prayers for homesick Iloosiersjn combat. The pathetic anpeal brought tears to the eyes of many of the legislators. Quarterly Gross Income Tax a Payments Due i INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Apr. 4i I (Special) Tax time is here for nearly 100,000 Hoosiers who must' make the first quarterly payment on their Indiana Gross Income Tax account for 1945 in April. The' three-month obligation for all, taxpayers whose levy exceeds 510 per quarter became due Saturday, March 31, and must be paid before April 30. Tax blanks have been forwarded to more than 80,000 individuals, partnerships and corporations in the state, Gilbert K. Hewit, director of the Indiana Gross Income Tax Division, announced. Only those persons who reported their income on a quarterly basis in 1944 received the blanks, Hewit said, but other taxpayers will find the 1945 forms available at all auto license branches in the state. Under the provisions of the Indiana Gross Income Tax Act, all individuals who have an income of $1,250 or more per quarter are obligated to report their earnings 011 a three-month basis. This includes gross receipts from rentals, interest and commissions as well as wages, salaries and fees taxable at one per cent. Retail merchants whose sales exceeded $2,750 since Jan, 1 also must file returns and pay the tax at their rate of one-half of one per cent. For the first time in the history of the Indiana Gross Income Tax Division retail stores will be allowed to deduct federal excise taxes collected on such items as furs, jewelry, luggage, cosmetics and sporting goods. This new provision of the state tax. law became effective March 5 and retailers may deduct excise taxes collected only during the last 27 days of the quarter. ., Wholesale organizations must file returns if their gross receipts exceeded $4,250 during the present quarter. Returns which reach the Indiana Gross Income Tax Division, 141 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, after April 30 are subject to penalty. SULLIVAN RESIDENT'S MOTHER SUCCUMBS Mrs. Fannie Coryell, 80 years old, of West Union, Illinois, succumbed yesterday morning at 9:30 o'clock at the home of her son, Arden Coryell in West Union. Survivors include a son, Noble Coryell of West Sylvan Dell Street, Sullivan. The body was taken to the Prust Funeral Home there. Funeral services and burial will be made at West Union

Reds In Outskirts; Fanatical Garrison May

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Russian Smash-Through On Danube Front Gains Momentum; U. S. Third Army 140 Miles From BerlinYanks On Okinawa 10 Days Ahead Of Schedule Pocketed Germans Fail To Break Trap. ' BULLETIN! (By United Press) Allied armored columns, intent upon bisecting the Reich under "divide and conquer" tactics, made steady nrogress today as they blasted their way up to Erfuvt and Minden, vespectively 110, and ISO miles from Berlin. An advance iirmnvpd Rnparhpad nf thp P.rd Armv vrn.

nbout 180 miles from the nearest Russians. American tanks of the 9th and 1st Armies reached tho new German defense line on the Weser River at several points between Minden and Beverunpen, abreast of armored forces of the 3rd Armv. Behind the Weser, only tho Elb.' River remained to the Germans a$ a defendable position. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's oueeze of Germany's waist drew tighter as a consequence of the happy collaboration of American transport planes, and tanks. Fuel and ammunition for the tanks were flown to Patton's forces as they raced toward Leipzig and Chemnitz on open roads, enabling the 3rd Army to continue progress at a steady mile-an-hour rate.

Vienna burned today as -Red army tanks and troops broke into the outer edges of Germany's second city. A fanatical Nazi defense garrison, built around a strong force of S.S. troops commanded by Gen. Sepp Dietrich, seemed determined upon holding their positions even if it meant the destruction of the former Austrian capital. There' were unconfirmed Swedish reports that civil war had broken out in Vienna. As the Russian smash through the Danube front gained momentum with the capture by Red troops of 330 towns along; a 300-mile front, Allied armies in the west practically finished setting the Dutch trap around the German 25th Army. At their nearest point, the American 3rd Army was barely 140 miles from Berlin and about 180 miles from tho nearest bulge in the Russian army's Silesian front. And the American 7th Army, although slowed down in its advance on Nuernburg by a German counter-attack at Enheim, was less than 300 miles from the Russian 3rd Ukrainian Army on the Vienna front. In face of resistance which in comparison with the fanatical defense of Iwo Jima could be called light, the greatest invasion of the Pacific war continued ten days ahead of schedule on Okinawa, with American 10th Army columns driving in parallel advances down the east and west shores towards Naha and two more important airfields. The bulk of the. Japanese garrison of 60,000 is believed to be concentrated in the southern tip of Okinawa and American observers anticipate an earlv stiffening of enemy resistance in the ravines north of the capital. At the extreme left of the Allied forces on the west front, a new security blackout covered th British and Canadian movments, but British sources announced another "important spearhead advance" and at the same time told of the capture of Nordhorn at the extreme tip of the British drive towards the North Sea. The loss of Nordhom costs the Germans their last direct railroad upon which they are withdrawing troops and materiel from Holland. The last alternative rail route circles the North Sea coast. ' The British 2nd Army, driving on the ports of Bremen' and Hamburg, reached a point 60 miles from Bremen. To its right, the American 9th Army found stiffening enemy resistance but moved tanks across the Wrra River, onlv 48 miles from Hannover, and was advancing on the Weser River where the Germans were trying to establish their next defensive positions.

The American 3rd Army, having cleared the Thuringian forces, swept forward on 'a 60-mile front from Kassel to ! Meiningen and pushed its central armored column from Goth a toward Erfurt on the Autobahn that leads'to Leipzig. Pat-1 ton's tanks were in the clear and on the plains again on a wide cement racetrack. The 7th American Army drove steel fingers down parallel roads toward Nuernburg and Munich and was little more than 50 miles from the former and 125 miles from the Bavarian capital. Within the Ruhr pocket the Germans, while hammering at the ten to forty-mile fixed American wall in an effort to find a weak spot for a breakthrough, staged 11 different attempts to get out yesterday but all were repulsed. 1

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