Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 74, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 12 April 1945 — Page 2

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Sullivan, Indiana Telephone 12 Paul Poynter L.. Publisher Joe H. Adams Editor Eleanor Poynter Jamison ... Manager and Assistant Editor Entered as second-class matter July 1, 1908 in the Post;ofiee at Sullivan, Indiana, under the Act of Congress' of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Saturday and Sunday at 115 West Jackson St. United Press Wire Service. National Advertising Representative: Theis and Simpson, 393 Seventh Avenue, New York (1) N. Y. Subscription Rate: By carrier, per week 15 Cents in City By Mail In Sullivan And Adjoining Counties: Six Months , $1.50 Month (with Times furnishing stamped envelope) 30 Cents Year ,. :.. $3.00 By Mail Elsewhere:

Year v. $4.00 Six Months . ... $2.00 Month (with Times furnishing envelope) 35 Cents SPRING VEGETABLES PLENTIFUL Spring beets from the south have joined cabbage, onions, and carrots on the list of plentiful food supplies in Midwest food stores, according to Perry S. Richey, District Representative; Office of Supply, War Food Administration, Indianapolis. Consumers are urged to increase their use of this valuable fresh vegetable through the weeks "inmiediatly ahead in oi dei' to prevent waste and make maximum use of the available crop. ' Current retail prices make beets a good food buy in most Midwestern markets. Young, tender beets are really, two vegetables in one, he added. The tops are excellent as a green leafy vegetable rich in iron and valuable vitamins. The roots are colorful and contain some vitamin Bl and G in addition to their caloric value.

Bits Of News (Continued from Page 1) cent "crew letter" received by Mr. Moody from his son, ' was written March 20, the third anniversary of the commissioning of the U. S. S. Soutii Dakota and reTeals that during the last 'three years the ship has traveled 1942,423 miles and has crossed the Arctic Circle once and the Equator exactly thirty times. She has .fought the Japs at Guadalcanal, ( searched out ' the Von Tirpitz : with the British Home Fleet, and ' only a few weeks ago stood to- 1 wards Tokyo with the carrier Task Force that introduced a lew more Japs to their ' ancestors The letter goes on to tell in dutail of the many brilliant ex- ! ploits and naval victories of, the ship and her brave crew. ; The history .of the South Dakota is bidden in part under the title of ''Battleship X." According to official releases, however, she is credited with shooting down thirty-two planes at Santa Cruz Islands and with destroying three cruisers and one destroyer at the battle of Savo Island. At the present time the total bag of planes is more than 50. She has fought in the Marshalls, the Carolines, the Marianas Islands and the New Guinea campaign and throughout Pacific waters. She was the first battleship to hit ! Saipan in the Initial bombardment and raided Truk, Palau, Yap and Woleai. She received battle scars in the First Battle of the Philippine Sea but remained intact, and carried on in the work for the Philippine landings. Likewise the gallant ship has survived several typhoons in the Pacific and South China Sea. Sgt. Lex Woody, a brother of Paul was killed in action several i months ago on the western front. Several other brothers are now , .serving in the armed forces. FOUGHT AT BASTOGNE I SSgt. Jack C. Smith, of Weed. California, grandson of Mrs. Mary Cunningham of 448 South Troll . Street, Sullivan, was in one of the hottest hot spots of the war last December, headquarters . of the 101st Airborne Division has revealed. Smith pulled into Bastogne witJi the 506th Parachute Infan- 1 try shortly after the start of the famous Battle of the Bulge when Von Rundstedt broke through in the Ardennes. Within two days the Yanks at Bastogne were completely encircled. It was at that time the attacking German commander called on the Americans to surrender and received his famous oneword reply from Brig. Gen. Ant hony C. McAuhtle. The answer was, "Nuts." The 101st had only one defense plan, That was to attack continuously, even though at one time ammunition was so low the men were rationed out only 11 rounds each. Bad weather with a low ceiling prevented planes from bringing support or supplies. Medics had more wounded than . they could handle. "But seven days after the encirclement, the battle of the Bastogne pocket ended." said headquarters of the 101st. "A corridor had been pushed through by our own troops and the 101st had added another chapter to its his-

tory march through the battles of World War II." In addition to its part in the gallant stand t Bastogne, the 506th Parachute Infantry regiment played A major part in the earlier Normandy and Holland campaigns. It took part in the fall of Carentan and later liberated Eindhoven in Holland. Twice it licked the elite German 6th Parachute' Regiment in France and Holland. Jack C. Smith is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hosea Smith, former residents of Sullivan.'

V1S COMMENDATION WITH THE 74.9TH TANK BATTALION OF SEVENTH ARMY IN FRANCE. Company "C" of the 749th Tank Battalion was reofntly commended by Lieut. Cofonel John H. McAleer, commanding officer of the 275th Infantry Regiment of the 70th Division for its brilliant work during recent action on the Seventh Army front in France. Corporal Wilburn E. Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester h. Baker, Route 2, Sullivan, Indiana, is a member of C" Company of the 74'Jth Tank Battalion. Corpcral Baker entered the armed services January 11, 1943 and is entitled to wear two Battle Participation Stars on his campaign ribbon and has been awarded the Purple Heart, and the Good Conduct Medal. Technician Fourth Grade Earl H. Phegley, brother of Carl Phegley, Route 1, Sullivan, Indiana, is also a member of "C" Company of the 749th Tank Battalion. T4 Phegley entered the armed services January 11, 1943 and is entitled to wear three Battle Participation Stars on his campaign ribbon and has been awarded the Purple Heart and the Good Conduct Meal. The commendation, in part, reads: "The prior planning, reconnaissance, and execution of all assigned missions, and the high professional skill displayed was eminently gratifying. The liaison Work of Captain Swenson was particularly helpful. Despite enemy pressure, the Company was responsible for restoration of the Regiment's lines. Company "C ' performed in a highly superior manner." The 749th Tank Battalion first entered combat on June 28, 1944, and since that has served with three armies and seven infantry divisions, traveling some 2,000 miles through- Belgium and France. While serving with the First Army the 749th Tankers spearheaded the attack on Le Haye and led the combat teams whici later liberated Laval and LeMans. Early in August the tankers ot the 749th, operating with the Third Army, participated in the closing of the Falaise Gap. The battalion was the first to cross the Seine River and among the first tank units to enter Belgium. SHELLS THE NAZIS 6TH ARMY GROUP, German v. The 105-mm. howitzers of 1 the 6!)3rd Field' Artillery Battalion, paving the way for U. S. Seventh Army doughboys through heavilyfortified mountains of Northern Alsace, recently threw their 57,000th shell at the Germans. Members of the - battalion include: Pfc. William Pirtle, R. R. 2, Merom, Ind.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Danielle asked a perfectly natural question but one. that dumbfounded Aggie. "How much gold did they have?" "Good Lord! I didn't think to ask!" He came as close to grinning as was possible in the little darkroom. "Where'a it hidden?" He was on the point of rebuffing that, also, when he saw her eyes dilate with horror. They were looking at the floor; they had kept moving back toward it since she had entered the room; what she was seeing there made him whirl from the cupboard. It was a ghastly thing. Under the blanket was movement. She pointed and shrank into a corner. II er mouth sprang open. "Don't yell again," he said fiercely. He bent, and whipped back the covering. Dr. Davis's hand had relaxed its hold on the knife and was slipping across his chest in a movement started, possibly, by the weight of a fold of the robe. That was all. Under the robe, such motion had been hideous. Revealed, it was shocking enough, but not devastating. The arm slid away from the knife, down across the chest, and flopped limply on the concrete floor. Danielle had covered her face. Aggie knelt by the corpse. He touched the skin of its face. It was Hot cold. Cool, but not cold in the way of yesterday's death, or death hours old. Rigor mortis had not Set in. Not yet. "We'll get out of here in a minute," he said to the girl. He reached again for the blanket and his eye fixed on the protruding knife hilt. A good knife engraved. And initialed, he perceived-, as he bent close. The initials were in fancy script: "H. II. B." HankHenry H. Bogarty. It was in all likelihood the knife that had pinned the calling card to Sarah's door. The knife he believed Calder had found and taken. Aggie gazed at the door that had been locked, andv the high, small window. Then he pulled up the car robe again. He rose and took Danielle's arm. "This has been rotten for you," he said. He led her out into the warm night. "Your father killed himself with Hank Bogarty's knife. He must have seen Calder that night! It begins to look as if after all!" "Yes," she said. "I don't know what 'you're talking about but I know what you mean. Father did it." "Unless " He was walking to- ' ward her house, "I better fc.e how Sarah's coming along by now if. your phone's working again." "It isn't out of order." "It was. Old John tried to get your father before I came over." Thev went into the Davis house Part of a chain of corps artil. Itry units supporting General Jacob L. Devers' 6th Army Group, the 693rd has seen a variety of combat during its 222 consecutive days in the line. But the main mission of its 105-mm. howitzers, which can hurl a 33-pound projectile 10,300 yards with accuracy, has been close-in infantry' support. "Our record firing 4.600 rounds of ammunition in one week was in support of the Mautes-Gassi-. court bridgehead across the Seine," said Lt. Col. Raymond L. Schoemaker of Washington, D. C, battalion c o m m a n d e r. "The bridgehead was made secure in thc- face of strong enemy counteri.ttacks. Only 2o, he is one of the youngest lieutenant colonels in the Army. . The battalion supported armored columns in a series of thrusts that started at Le Mans and endcd in the capture of Sarrebourg.

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hurriedly. Aggie tried the phone. "Dead," he said. . . "That's funny. It was all right when I went to bed. I called a couple of people just before." She switched on more lights and half smiled at the figure he made: pajama tops stuffed in his tuxedo trousers, pajama bottoms flaring below. "We've got to get the police," she went on. "And you ought to send for Dr. Smith. He's the best one in Parkawan. Sarah may still need attention. We can go over and raise old man Waite. It's nearest. Golly 1 I feel sick and feeble." Aggie's eyes had been preoccupied. Now they fixed on her. "Do you know how the phone line comes in here?" "From the barn to the house. The garage." "Have you got a flashlight?" "I'll get one." With the flashlight, they went out again by the back way. Aggie pointed the flashlight and found the place where two black wires were fixed to the house on glass insulators. He followed them in a long span to more insulators on the front of the converted barn and from there, around the side of the building, to a rear corner. At that point, the wires had been snapped from the glass. He turned the light to the ground and found the shiny end of one wire dangling from the maple tree. "Somebody yanked 'em down," he said. "Must have had a long pole to do it with. Or a ladder. Or shinnied the tree." "Why? What does that mean?" "I couldn't say. Everything I find out gets crazier and crazier. Was there a phone in the darkroom?" "No." i.v "The garage?" . ' v : -V "No." "But somebody took the trouble to pull the wires down. Who? Why? Danielle, I think that somebody killed your father." "Behind a locked bolted door? Or by climbing through a window hardly big enough for chickens?" She had spoken quickly, but she went on sadly, "Why not quit all this? Dad did kill Jim and himself. We" She broke off. Aggie gasped convulsively. "Come on! We're going to Waite's and fast! Suppose somebody got him too and even Sarah !" , . He ran and Danielle ran behind him through the yard and out into the road. Their feet pounded dully on the dirt and softly on pine needles. Old leaves in the Waite driveway made their running noisy again. They stomped up on the porch. But Mr. Waite was not dead. Aggie's clamor eventually raised him; he appeared at a window, thrusting out a head I, the 693rd was activated March 1, 1941, composed mainly of men from Oklahoma, Texas and Coloi ado. It landed in England Feb. 24, 1944, and came into Normandy July 14 to fire the first shell fired by XV Corps artillery on August 7. ' LEWIS Mr. and Mrs. Gus Richey were t Torre Haute Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Barrick of Sis'tiivDrt spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wheaton. Mrs. Jennie Boston and Mary Grunell were in Clav Citv Tuescav Mrs. Pearl Davis, who attended the funeral of Mrs. Lyons .'ere has returned to' her home in Clav City. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Woods attended the carnival at Hymera school Friday night. ville Saturday morning T.Irs. Everett Hendi dncks was Boeder Ga? Tv-.-jjorc, ti : : - ft. 4' - - i 1 t 6 5 i t it

INC, in a tasseled nightcap and bawling, "Who is it? Stop that noise I What's going on?" "It's me! Aggie Plum! Sarah's sicker! I came to get Dr. Davis, . but he can't go. I want to use your phone!" The old man was slow to comprehension and, even then, unwilling. "Why don't you go to the club and wake up that Browne puppy? Why- bother me in the middle of the night?" "Come down here, you cranky old idiot, and open the door!" Aggie said. , , - There was a long delay. When the old man descended he was dressed in trousers and a smoking jacket and he had taken the trouble tc comb his while hair. Aggie asked the location of a phone and brushed him aside. Danielle, hurried in Aggie's wake, giving him the number of Parkawan's best physician. Aggie rattled for the operator and balked another number. The girl was startled. Byron Waite, behind her, was still complaining. They watched Aggie while the number was rung. "Hello!" he said. "John! Thank heaven! How'f Sarah?" He nodded his head, as if old John could see him. "Why if she feels like it." He swung around toward Danielle and Waite. "Sarah's coming to the phone." He did not turn all the way back, bul kept the corner of his eye on his involuntary host. "Sarah! I want you to wake all the servants! Get them in the house! Lock every door and window!" He paused to listen, "I'll be home yes but I don't know when . . . Why? Because George Davis is lying on his garaye floor with a knife through Ms heart! There's a genuine ki'lei loose around here and I want yu to be careful. Yeah. 'Bye." 'He turned. "That goes for you too, Mr. Waite." The white-haired man had reacted with a look of slight shock and no more. Now he was standing in front of Aggie calmly eno igh. His marble-blue eyes faded from a once more penetrating color seemed to lack focus. He took a black case out of his jacket and set a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez on his large nose. "Davis is d'jad," he said. "Murdered?" "Suicide," Aggie replied. "That is I think so." "You found him?" Waite asked. "I did." "How, may I ask? Aren't you rather presumptuous, young man, to be poking into affairs that arc no concern of yours? On numerous occasions you- have appeared in aia suspicious light and I think th-j spectacle of you and Ms Davia rushing about in the small hours is outrageous!" (To be continued) i Conyricht, 1IM3. by Plillln Wyll; .' Distribute! uv Ktne Features -Svriilii'oU. lp. hostess for the Missionary Society of the United Brethren Church Thursday afternoon, 1 Justice Boston of Jasonville will move to Lewis in the near . future. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jones were in Lewis Monday. Mahan Brothers transacted business in Lewis Monday. JUDGE DONS OVERALLS CINCINNATI, O. (UP) From ence Denning's life. The municipal court judge takes off his judicial robes and puts on overalls so he can work from 5, until 12 p. m. at a grinding machine in the Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. Actress Fire Yu Ism SLORIA DICKSON, above, swn ictress, is dead in Hollywood. -- )arcntly suffocating; during a f..? it her home. Miss Dickson's b-iiy A'as found in a bathroom in, which . she apparently hr.r ri:.'i trying to find safely.. Mi::a r;.son's husband, Willip.m Y:x','aid, former middleweight bo""-. returned home "hcn the fuo v.rs Bt its hsisht. (lnictnaiic;i:A)

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i . ,- LT. WIUIAM E. DELANEY of Detroit, who scored four direct hits on the Jap super-battleship YamoLo, which was sunk dur ing an engagement south ot Kyushu, was shot down after he had unleashed four 500-pounij -bombs. Delancy crouched bi'.nd his tiny lii'e ra almost in the middle of the enemy flotilla and watched the battered ships hi iheir death throes. Hs was pickec up four hours later by a U. S. flyins boat- (International) PAXTON Mrs. Wm. Jesse Smith and son, Billy Ray, of LaPorte spent a "ew days here last week visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Smith and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Pati1Coxr MTT'and Mrs. rharW Phinunor. Mr. and Mr:Carl CoX Mrs. Eileen Robertson, Mrs. Omar Meek, Mrs. Opal Campbell and Ezra Cox attended the funeral of Carol Sue Turpin at Dugger Thursday afternoon. Pfc. V. L. Johnson is spending a two-weeks furlough here with his parents, his wife and children and friends. Floyd Shelton and family have moved from the Wolfe farm to the Bertha Lee property. Mrs. Roxie McCammon and Mis?; Maude Daugherty were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and ' Mrs,' James Brashier and daugh.' '"rs. They aiso visited Mr. and ' Mrs. Lucian Mason and family ' and Mrs. Fannie Watson. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lowdermiltf, ; Mrs. Elsie Stone and Misses Joan Ladson, IVIary Lowdcrmilk and LaVaughn Hiatt were in Terre f"je Saturday. Mrs. Charlotte Rich returned to her home here Saturday i'rom Sullivan where she has been conWe Try ir r-

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fined with a broken hip. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Meek and family moved to Sullivan Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Davidson purchased their property here and moved to it Saturday. Cecil Goad of Odon, spent Thursday at his home here. B. F-. Dailey of Chaiiestown was called home Monday because of the serious illness of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Dailey. After a few days visit here Mrs. Dailey will accompany him home. Mrs. Melba MacDonald spent Sunday with Mrs. Zelma Whitlock and family.' Mrs. Ed Padgett and Dorothy Railsback called on ' Mrs. Iva

Shake Mondav vpnint? Mrs. Virginia LaFollettc spent Wednesday in Terre Haute. 1 Mrs. Lucile Whitlock was taken :to the Sullivan hispilal Saturday for treatment. Mrs. Golda Hiatt of Indianapolis spent the week-end here with ,...' , ' ivlla& mi..a D.dimu.i ana Mrs.. 1 Helen Platzer of Indianapolis s wMK-ena guests or Mr and Mrs. Otis McCammon ! and Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Brani non' j Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stocking and Mrs. Frances Ladson of Carlisle were evening guests of Fred i MacDonald and family Sunday, j l Several from ' here saw the 1 Senior Class play "The Camp- 1 'bell's, are Coming" at Carlisle j Friday evening. I if I 1 " HI v. ...by NOT burning WASTE PAPER Each 100 lbs you save makes 17 protective bands for 500lb. bomb...

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DAILY TIMES OPEN FORUM Letters and Interview of suitable nature and proper news j paper interest are sought for this ' column, lc editor reserving i r'Sut lo cc,,sor an? the y ar ticle he may deem is not suitable and proper. Articles of 500 word or lss are preferred. Alt articles sent to the Open Forum must be signed and address given, In or-J dcr that the editor may knov the writer, however, the writerV jj not be published if re Qnestefl, Articie, publishes Herein no necessarily express the senU ' m , , raSi Tima an, n,. ' paper may or may not agree wiU tatemenU contained herein. i . ,. LOCALS John Wagner and Mr. pud Mrs.j Ozro Wagner and children have returned to their home in Detroii; after visiting relatives am' friends in Sullivan., i Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tucker and daughter, Ellen Eaton, spent tin week-end in Sullivan. Mrs. Ida Dann of St. Petersburg Florida, who is the County Welfare Advisor of Pinellas County, arrived Tuesday for a visit with -MjrSAngelo Gadberry and other relatives. FACTOGRAPHS The saw viper is a small old world tiesert viper, marked with a dorsal series of light spots, and a zig-zag line along each side suggesting the teeth of a saw, Sloths vary from the size ot a small "bear to that of a cat. They are all residents of tropical South America. ..Tie tilolh produces bnlyjjne youiig at a birth. ji' cliBga to,ita mother until it becomes abldl to provide for itself. 1 he nmYOif 'K it v , Phone .".fil

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