Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 73, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 11 April 1945 — Page 1
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News Of Our Men And Women With The Colors w 1 "Remember Pearl Harbor" BACK IX STATES , - Sgt. Robert W. Spencer, - who has served overseas the past two years, Is now enjoying a fifteenday furlough with relatives and friends in Chicago,' Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is stationed near Savannah Georgia, and also enjoyed a four-day stopover en route with relatives,, in Baltimore, Maryland. Sgt. Spencer is the son of Walter J. Spencer, a former resident of Haddon township. ' RETURNS TO BASE TSgt. Joe E. Payne, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Payne of Shelburn, Route 2, left Sunday for his ..base at Sacramento, California, after spending, as he stated, a wonderful two weeks with his parents and friends. Sgt Payne is a veteran of thirty-five bombing raids over" Continental Europe. He is now grounded for tlio present and working 01 the Snjjer Fortmss and aircraft of - I he 'Air Transport .Command;1 tt. Payne holds the Air Medal with ; three Oak Leaf Clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross, i OVERSEAS i Mr. and Mrs. Earl Godfrey f have received word that their i son, Pvt. Carl E. Godfrey, has arrived safely overseas. He is some- , where in France. Anyone wanting to write to him may get his address from Mrs. Earl Godfrey, v 839 N. State St. . BACK ESf STATES Master Sergeant Paul J. McCammon of the United States Army was scheduled to arrive at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, on or about April 6th prior to coming to his home here after completing 34 months of active duty with the Armed Forces in the European Theater. . MSgt. McCammon, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. McCanv mon of Sullivan R. R. 3, served with the Quartermaster Corps overseas. KETURNS TO FT. ME A HE Pfc. Arnold Ov Bledsoe, has returned to Ft. Meade, Maryland after spending a three-day pass with Jiis wife, daughters, and other relatives. WINS BRONZE STAR Mr. and Mrs. Ray F. McClure I of the Dodd Bridge community has recently received a letter ( from their son, Malcolm, who is with the United States Army fighting in the European Theater. He stated that he has been a'warded the Bronze Star Medal which is a presentation made for meritorious service displayed by a single military man carrying . out duties above and beyond the call of duty and for long and faithful service. McClure is now engaged in I active fighting with the infantry somewhere in the Nazi homeland, j WILL BE COMMISSIONED t Ac, J. B. Billman will receive his commission and wings from Ihe Army Air Force Pilot School (advanced single engine) on April 15th at Craig Field, Selma, Alabama. He will be commission- ; ed a Lieutenant in the Army Air Forces as a pilot. He is the son of Mrs. Katie Billman, and the , grandson of Dr. G. G. Billman of this city. ' . ' WITH THE 749TH TANK BATTALION OF SEVENTH ARMY IN FRANCE. Company "A" of the 749th Tank Battalion was recently commended by Lieut.(Continued on Page 2, Col. 4).
PLAN TO RATIFY
L each Agreement After Government Seizes Mines; Average Daily Raise Of $1.30. WASHINGTON, Apr. 11. (UP) Soft coal producers and the United Mine Workers prepared today to ratify a new wage contract estimated by operators to mean-on average daily raise of $1.30 for-unners and a $150,000,000 a year exponse for the industry. ' " ' " .' Negotiators ior. the two parties
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reached agreement last . nigrrThe cagt ig as follows: shortly after the government . seized 235 coal mines, that had I Silas Stonebraker, who runs the been beset by wildcat stricks American House Lowell Badger, traceable in part "to the uncer- j Libby Stonebraker, his young tainty of the nearly six weeks , daughter Anna Lois Patton.
of wage discussions, The seized mines were located in seven states Pennsylvania, . ,. ". . . TTl'r' Yirgm;h
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called capUve mines operated by steel companies. The new contract, which still must receive government approval will be put in final form by an operators U. M. W. sub committee this afternoon and placed before the full negotiation committee for ratification. The ten cents a ton royalty demanded by U. M. W. president John L. Lewis was not in the final contract. Industry sources said that concessions won by the unon would mean a .25 cent a ton increase In production costs of coal but would not mean additional output. Some sources doubted that the War Labor Board would approve the agreement without modification of some of its provisions. Pittsburgh Sstrikes continued today in the Pennsylvania soft coal fields despite . government seizure of the pits and the negotiation of a new wage contract. APPROVE RESULTS SOIL CONSERVATION REFERENDUM HERE Dean Harry J. Reed of Purdue University, who is also chairman of the State Soil Conservation Committeev has notified County Agent J. Howard Telfer that the State Soil Conservation Com mittee has canvassed and approv ed the results of the referendum Ion the creation of the Sullivan .County soil conservation district. The Sullivan County soil conservation district is composed of 'all of Fairbanks and Turman Townships and that part of Gill u:. i . . : - r iun t o Railroad and west of the Mt. Zion Cemetery road. The official tabulation of the votes is as follows: total votes cast, 727; number votes in favor of the district, 674; number voting against the district, 53; and percent favor votes cast, 92.7. According to the list of eligible voters, 1028 land owners could have cast votes. ' . ABEL FUNERALRITES THURSDAY Funeral services for Archie Abel, who died at Evansville, will be conducted at the chapel of the Billman Funeral Home here Thursday morning at 10:00 o'clock with 'the Rev. . Wyman Hull officiating. Burial , will be made at Decker, Ind. .'In the list of survivors published yesterday the name of . one sister, Geraldine ' Morin of Sullivan was omitted.
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DOGS AND CHICKENS MUST RE KEPT UF Authorities today issued a warning to local residents that they must keep up their dogs and chickens. With the gardening season under way, many complaints have already been received at the city hall and it is pointed out that it is the patriotic duty of all citizens to' keep up chickens and dogs, in view of the fact that the government urges that more food than ever be produced in victory gardens. It is likewise against the law for dogs or chickens to run at large and officials expect the fullest cooperation in this respect or more stringent steps will be taken. t Graysville Play On April 13th An exciting-lhree-act play will be given by the Graysville senior class on April 13, beginning -at n-nn r m Tho nnm of this now rnmin Thru the Rve." Harvey Keyser, in love with Libby Norman Clark Lily Turner, in love with Harvty OL'iiucue ouuuii vev Jeanette Burton. . Jessie WeatheVby, . .a village ae James Kearney, an ex-sailor-Emery Ransford. I Mrs. Humphrey Mearson, from i Denver Carol Canary. Kosamond Mearson, her young daughter Norma Dean Padgett. Trixie Angel, who is fond of dogs Sylvia Walters. Ronald' Tanner, a suspect Darrel Monroe. Rosalie Reed, a young college girl Margaret Payne. Monica Morrison, her roommate Ernestine Kasinger. Bubbles, Mother's precious baby "Fuzzy" Unger. The play is directed by Mrs. Enid Monk. Music will be furnished by the . school orchestra, under the direction of Vivian Church. Berlin, Appears A "Dead City" HEADQUARTERS, UNITED STATES AIR RECONNAISSANCE WING, April 10. (UP) Three American reconnaissance planes flew over Berlin in per- i feet weather at low altitude today and saw neither humans nor vehicles moving in the clearly discerned streets below, , Nor was there the slightest reaction from the city's famous anti-aircraft batteries. The pilots said Berlin seemed "a dead city." In the more than 100 miles between the Allied front lines - to the west and the capitol city, the pilots saw only empty highways I and empty railroad lines. Their report caused speculation here that the Nazis were abandoning Berlin. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Apr. 9: Wayne Arthur of Worthington, for observation; Ted Springer of 219 East Jackson Street, for treatment. Dismissed Apr. 9: Mrs. Paul Simmons of4 Sullivan rural route one; William Sands of Shelburn; Gus Kielblock of Dugger. Admitted Apr. 9: Ray Thompson, Sr., of Jasonville, for treatment; Mrs. Grover Ellis, of 316 West Beech St., for treatment; Mrs. LeRoy Phegley of Carlisle, for observation. t , Admitted Apr. 10: Mrs." Delmas Carrithers of Sandborn R. R. 1', for observation; Mrs. David Bed-r well of Carlisle R. R. 2, for treatment; Mrs. Woodrow Stevens. of Sullivan R. R. 2, for observation; Mrs. James Huff of Sullivan R. R. 2, for observation.
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1 WASHINGTON, Apr. 11. (Ur; Allied armies in Europe have released nearly 10,000 U. S. prisoners of war from the Nazis, according to the best estimates available today. Liberation of others is imminent. ; The Germans marched AUied ; prisoners away from 'threatened fronts in an effort la prevent their liberation. , Th's hps caused great congestion and confusion in central , Germany, and the Nazis no longer are able to move prisoners as desired or feed them adequately because of transportation difficulties and food shortages. "Conditions will get worse for our prisoners before they get better," Brig. Gen. B. M. Bryan, Army assistant provost marshal general, said. Meanwhile, the International Red Cross is attempting to supply prisoners in Germany with food packages provided ,by various national Red Cross organizations.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 11. (UP) Congress was asked today to recognize Italy as a full ally and grant aid to the Italians. ' 1 The plea on Italy's behalf was placed before the House committee on foreign affairs at vi meeting attended by nearly 200 representatives of Italian-American groups.
Italy now is a co-belligerent; a status that does not give full rights as an ally.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 11. M'pnepI 1 1m oii'H!intAOfl niico redweight today in an effort per cent.
' PARIS, Apr. 11. (UP) More than 4.000 French officers, perhaps a fifth or a sixth of France's pre-war officer personnel, were liberated on the night of April 6 when American 9th Army forces overran a prison camp on the southwest edge of Soest, it was learned today. J .NEW YORK, Api',-ll,-(l!P,) ClHairman GeovcKTay
lorof the War Labor Board eral wage increases may be in boosts and hourly rates have living.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 11. (UP) Congress was told today that prolonged resistance by isolated Nazi units may delay indefinitely the United Nations' relief and rehabilitation program for Europe.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 11. (UP) Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Montana, today accused an O.P.A. chief enforcement official of preventing the seizure two years ago of meat bootleggers about to be indicted in Baltimore in a "two million dollar black market operation." He demanded immediate removal of the official, Thomas I. Emerison, deputy price administrator for enforcement. "If they -don't get someone else up there to head the prosecution of the black market, they might just as well close up the O.P.A.," Wheeler shouted. "When they've got somebody down there without trial experience it's no wonder the black market is going wild."
CARLISLE SERGEANT IS RECOVERING IN ENGLAND THE 61ST GENERAL HOSPITAL, England. Hit in the right knee by Nazi mortar shrapnel during his infantry unit's attack on German positions near Aachen, Germany, Sergeant" Charles W. Trimble, 20, of Carlisle, Indiana, is now recovering at this United States Army general hospital in England. He has been awarded the Purple Heart in addition to his Presidential , Unit ' Citation and three Combat Stars.1 "Sgt. Trimble has made very satisfactory recovery here," said his ward surgeon, Captain Arthur E. Prevedel of Superior, Wyoming. Soon after he was hit, frontline medics gave Sgt. Trimble assistance and arranged his evacuation from the combat area on an improvised litter made of two poles and a raincoat. Taken by ambulance to a field hospital, he was given further medical treatment before he was flown to England. A 1942 graduate of the Carlisle High School, Sgt. Trimble entered' the Army February 26, 1943, at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Trimble, reside at Carlisle. His brother, Staff Sergeant James W. Trimble, is stationed in the South Pacific Theater with the United States Army Signal Corps. NEW SUITS Frederick L. Marts, vs. Mary Mildred Marts. Complaint for divorce. MARRIAGE LICENSES Moritz J. Beaupain, tool and die maker, Jasonville, and Betty Ann Michael, at hom,e, Jasonville.
NEWS
(UP) The government innf livo lino's -r.fl rAntc i luinrl. to boost the fall pig crop by 18 - indicate. today, that some gen-1 the offing for: industries where 1 not caught up with the cost of CROWDER W. R. C. WILL DEDICATE SERVICE FLAG The Hud Crowder Women's Relief Corps No. 275" will dedicate their service flag tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock in the Woodman Hall with special services. Two gold stars for heroes who have given their lives in World War II are displayed on the flag along with nearly a hundred blue stars for service men and women now serving both here and abroad, the program chairman said today, At the services tomorrow afternoon special music will be presented, with Earl Cummings, local attorney and veteran of World War I as guest speaker. Ministers of the local- churches will also be present to add to the success of the homage paid our heroes and Will Dickerson, Sullivan's own poet, will have "an appropriate recitation , for the dedication. The services are open to the public and all are cordially invited to attend. Takes Old Job on Furlough SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UP) His ex-employers were surprised, but happy, when TSgt. Richard Irwin, home on a convalescent furlough, asked them to let him work at his old job while at home. The officers immediately said that in view of the manpower situation, they were doubly glad to get an experienced ex-employee to help them out. The sergeant had been in battle for a year before his leg was shot up and he had been in hospitals for eight months before arriving home for two weeks.
Notify District Operators Of Gov't. Seizure
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Apr. 11. -r-Seizure of mines in seven states, including Indiana, by the government and agreement between soft coal operators and the United Mine Workers of America on a new contract last night found all shaft mines in District No. 11 and two open-pit mines idle. Telegrams to operators of the idle mines concerning operation by the government began coming signed by C, J. Potter, deputy administrator of the Solid Fuels Ad ministration for War, read: "Pursuant to the President's executive order, the secretary of the interior today assumed possession of the following mines of your company (mines named). Request you open mines for work at usual hour on Thursday morning, April 12, U)45. Letter follows." Operators said last night they had not received the lengthy telegrams setting forth procedure by managers named by the government. All officials of District No. .11, U. M. W. A., were in Washington at a meeting of the national policy committee and could not be reached for any word concerning whether or not the miners would report for work Thursday as directed by the secretary of the interior. Harvey Cartwright, commissioner of the Indiana Coat Operators' Association, none of whose member mines were working yesterday, also was in Washington at the meeting of the bituminous coal operators. C. N. Templeton, president of the association, said no official word had reached him. (Workers in all Sullivan county mines continued idle today, it was learned here.) Merom Seniors To Give Play Friday The Senior Class of Merom High School will present a threeact hypnotic farce, April 13th, at 8:00 P. M. The characters are as follows: Susie Smithers, the cook Dorothy Bogard. Gidion Gumm,. the gardener Roscoe Bogard. Lovice McLaurin, and Kenneth McLaurin, a young married couple Pat Frederick and Robert Brown. Pernicious Peters, the porter Bill Raley. Anemia Peters, the maid Betty Brown. Francine Hoyt, a friend of the McLaurin's Pat Copeland. Russell Logan, her fiance Eugene Sparks. Professor Paxton, a professional hypnotist Paul Gettinger. Rosita Gondelez, his fiancee Patsy McNabb. Sappington Tuppy, Kenneth's un'cle Bob Jones. Tabitha Todd, Lovice's aunt Norma Daugherty. Mrs. Edith Carmichael is sponsor. ADDITIONAL CASUALTIES OFFICIALLY REPORTED The list of Army-Navy war casualties announced by the Office of War Information for release today include: Army dead, European regionsPrivate CHirthel J. Montgomery, son . of Sheldon Montgomery, Carlisle. , Army prisoners of war, Germany (European regions) -Private First Class Harold C. Ford, brother of Robert H. Ford, Route 3, Sullivan. (These lists are all based on previous reports to next of kin.) BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gibbs of Pleasantville, announce the birth of a daughter, Karen Elaine, born April 10th at the Mary Sherman Hospital.
Seven Armies Pushing Aside All Resistance;
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Fall Of Austrian Capital Opens "Back Door" To Germany And1 Hitler's Berchtesgaden Enough Gas And Ammunition On Hand As "Full Speed Ahead To Berlin" Is Ordered Liberation Of Southern Luzon At Hand.
V ESSEN FALLS TO SPEEDING YANKS BULLETIN! ' PARIS, Apr. 11. (UP) The great German arsenal city of Essen fell today in the wake of three American armies racing over the last 100 miles to Berlin at a clip that was expected to bring a juncture with the Red army in the next 2 1 to 72 hours.. ... :: ; f,. ; '- ' . (By United Press) The final great concerted offensive in the west, with seven Allied armies pushing aside the last disconnected German resistance, carried British and American forces to within less than 100 miles of Berlin, today at the nearest point. Vienna fell to the Red armies, a free Austrian broadcast said, as the last three Nazi-held districts of the Austrian capital were cleared. The victory opened the back door to both Germany, through the Danube valley, and Hitler's Berchtesgaden "Redoubt." Sufficient gasoline, ammunition and supplies to carry the Allied armies over the last 100 miles to Berlin and the 150 or: so miles to make a junction with the Red armies has now been accumulated. It was the necessity to allow supplies to catch up with the armor which forced the American columns into comparative inaction the past few days. But the "full speed ahead" order has been given and gains have averaged 25 miles a day. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said that German resistance in the west had collapsed and warned populations of Bremen and Hamburg that destruction of those ports will onlv in
crease their hardships. His proclamation coincided with a stiffening of die-hard resistance inside of . Bremen where strong forces of mixed German troops, sparked by the SS detachments and backed by German naval units and forces in the port, battled to hold Bremen as other Germans still hold Dunkerque, St. Nazaire, Lorient and other important ports along the French coast. Bremen still was burning from British artillery shelling and the main British effort appeared to have swung past Bremen towards Hamburg and Luebeck. On the central front, four American armies the 9th, 1st, 3rd, and 7th were engaged in a concerted shoulder-to-shoulder drive through a 180-mile-wide hole they pounded into the last German positions from Hannover to Crailsheim. Brunswick now was behind the American 9th Army front which was near the Elbe River loop at Magdeburg. The 1st Army, moving on from captured Nordhausen, had Halle as its next objective. At the northern end of the front, the Canadian 1st Army, after trapping an estimated 150,000 enemy forces in the lowlands' by their capture of Zwolle and Meppel, moved on the last German corridor at Gronengen. Deprived of all direct railway outlets, the enemy had only , a causeway across the Zuider Zee. Even that escape route would be cut if Groningen fell. ' - Both wings of the enemy front in Italy curled back as the American 5th Army on the Ligurian coast swept on to-, wards the naval base of La Spezia after the fall of Massa. These American troops operated in difficult terrain. The whole country is mountainous with only a narrow flat coastal shelf. On the Adriatic coast, the 8th British Army gained two and a half miles through three Po Valley towns. - In the Pacific, the last organized Japanese resistance in southern Luzon was crushed and Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced its imminent liberation. His forces also seized the whole Sulu archipelago which provides an easy stepping stone towards Borneo and its oil and mineral wealth. On Okinawa, the enemy held his cave and pillbox positions fanatically on the Naha front and American forces have brought naval guns, Marine artillery and mortars to support the 24th Army Corps in its costly drive the last four miles toward Naha.
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