Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 105, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 25 May 1945 — Page 1

MILD, SCATTERED SHOWERS Indiana: Partly cloudy and mild with widely scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Saturday,

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News Of Ouir Men And Women With The Colors 'Remember Pearl Harbor TRANSFERRED Pvt. .Hilmer McKee has been transferred from Camp Bland ing. Florida, to Co. A, 6th Battalion, A.S.F.T.C., Fort Belvoir, Va. - . RETURNS TO BASE William L. McCammon, S 1C, .returned to the Naval Supply Depot at Clearfield, Utah, Monday after spending the past week with his wife and parents at Paxton and other relatives and inends. " : RETURN TO CAMP Cpl. Howard and Cpl. Ivan j Shipman have returned to camp at Santa Anar California, after I spending a few days with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ship-; man of Sullivan R. 3. . 'CAPTURED MANY KRAUTS 6TH ARMY GROUP, GSR-

MANY Doughboys of the J43rd ln no1U!-"u vt Z " , n4ril TofSptry Regiment marked their t.6na courts m the country secohd aunivk'sary -overseas with fmo8v. .wre. ,coma cUh-e iritvi German soil, thi' juqh iTri ' the Siegfried Line and toy the) Tne British" sources were inRhine River. In a few days,, time i clined tQ minimlze Wasilington they captured 2,886 German . . . , , ,. . . soldiers. Members of this regi- . rePrts that . disagreement bement include Pfc. Paul E. Ma-.tween the United States, and lone, 35 E. Mier Street, Sullivan, Britain over procedure was deIndiana, (laying the trials of ' such top

Part of the 3Gth, "Texas" Di(Continued on page 5 col. 5) BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. Eric Melaun of 319 West Washington Street are the parents of a daughter, Euponia, born May 24th at the Mary Sherman Hospital. Mrs. Meloun was formerly Miss Nell Coffman of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Harry VanAntwern of Freelandville, announce the birth of a daughter born May 24th at the hospital here. She has not been named. Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Walters of Westville, Illinois announce the arrival of a baby girl born May 25th at the Mary Sherman Hospital. She has been named Karen Lee. Her mother was formerly Miss Noma Reeves of Shelburn. MOTHER OF LOCAL RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Mary Berry, 66 years old, died Wednesday at her home in Marshall, 111. She was the mother of Mrs. John Milburn of this city. The funeral and burial occurred at Marshall this afternoon.

Local Summer Playground Program Will Open On Monday, June 4th; Announce Tentative Time Schedule

The summer playground program will begin in Sullivan June 4 and continue until t August 10. This program will be under the supervision of Coach Bill Jones, with the help of two senior high school boys, Max Cooley and Bill George. These men have been making preliminary plans for the past several days for the opening of this summer playground program. In order to most conveniently accommodate youth living in all sections of the community, two programs of activity will run concurrently one at the high school athletic field in the north part of the city and one in the city park in the south part of the city. Activities at the high school athletic field will consist of baseball, touch football, softball, speedball, croquet, and track activities. The activities at the gity, nark will in-

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10 OF Jackson And U. S. Prosecution Staff Arrive In London. LONDON. May 25. (UP) Pres sure for swift trial and punishment of Axis war criminals mounted today with the arrival i in the European theater of the American prosecuting staff, head ed by "Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. Authoritative sources said the official British stand on the dis position of captured Nazi criminals is being formulated by the ! cabinet and probably will be an- j nounced within the next . few days. , ;' These informants indicate Britain may.ionow in u.e Policy proposed by the United , States. Under that plan, the prmfip?1 al would be tried by Natl0"S S ! Nazis as Hermann Georing, Ro bert Ley and Julius Streisher, Dugger Miner Suffers Burns Audie Cox, 37 years of age, resident of Dugser, was admitted to the Mary Sherman Hospital this morning where he received treatment for burns about the i face suffered earlier today in I the Sherwood-Templeton Coal I Mine near Linton. The condition of Mr. Cox could not be learned immediately. RECEIVES OFFICIAL NOTICE OF LIBERATION OF LT. PAUL TERRELL W. D. Terrell of Sullivan rural route five, yesterday received a telegram from the War Department giving official notice of the liberation of his son, Second Lieutenant Paul Terrell, April 29th from a German prison camp. . The War Department announcement followed indirect receipt of this news. elude tennis, horseshoes, gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, croquet, volleyball and speedball. The following is a tentative and probable daily time schedule: I Meeting Age .Time . Place Group 9:00-11:30 H. S. Practice 10-14 Field i 9:00-11:30 City Park 10-14 1:30-4:30 H. S. Practice 14-17 Field 130-4:30 City Park 14-17 6:30-8:00 H. S.' Practice Older Field Boys All boys are urged to report to either the city park or the high .school athletic field for the organization meeting on this first day, June 4. Mr. Jones pointed out , that plans were, at present, tenta tive and are subject to change in view of the interest of the boys reporting for the summer playground Erograsj,

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Dr. George S. Davis of Purdue University will deliver the address tonight at the 63rd annual commencement exercises of the Sullivan high school. His subject will be "The Marks of a Truly

Great Man." The commencement will be held at the Community Gymnasium at eight o'clock. Eighty-five members of" the class of 1945 are eligible for diplomas which will be presented by Principal Harry C. Gilmore along with other honor awards for the graduates. Tickets for admission to the exercises have been distributed among school patrons and friends. Announce Annual Memorial Day Program Here The annual Memorial Day program in Sullivan will be given at Center Ridge cemetery at two o'clock Wednesday afternoon with patriotic groups and other organizations of the city taking part. The parade will form at the

eld gymnasium, North Court street j conferences with British government leaders that were exat 1:30 and it is especially re-fpected to clear the way for a Big Three meeting this sumquested that all patriotic organi- mer. British quarters indicated that the conference" would zations and others as well partlci-jnot be held until August, despite optimistic ' Washington pate in the parade in tribute to f orAcastg that it might occur as earlv as June. - : ,r ?,6r n'f'nr, tiEK? J Davies, formerly American ambassador to Russia, was K-rnJ-ffi'siSKnSte cjeduled to confer with Churchill and Brillsli Toieigit fcjs children are asked to march in retary Anthony Eden m connection with the proposed fhg the parade. Wednesday., ; Otto! Three meeting. Thrasher will be parade marshal. .

The program at the cemetery will be as follows, with Rev. Jack Anderson as master of ceremonles: "Star Spangled Banner" Band j and audience. Invocation Rev. R. M. Criswell.

General Logan's MemorialDay her husband, Private Eugene B. Order No. 11 Mrs. Edith Miller, i Laffoon, recently indirectly rePatriotic Song Baptist Church j ported to be a prisoner of war of Mixed Quartette. (Mrs. McCoskey, i the German government, stating Mrs. Baldwin, Mr. McGuire ' and that he has arrived in the con-

Mr. Harbaugh.) "Flanders' Fields" Sharon Lee . Ford. Address William Dickerson Gettysburg Address (speaker to be selected). Song Baptist Church Quartette. . i . "The Unknown Soldier" Mrs. Mayme Thompson. Benediction Rev. Homer Weisbecker. Salute, by American Legion Firing Squad. FORMER CARLISLE RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Minnie Lillian Blevins, wife of James Blevins, and a former Carlisle resident, died Friday, May 11th, at her home, 13743 Mercer Street, Pacoima, California. She was born in San Francisco and was 70 years of age at the time of her death. She is survived by the husband and by a son, Otto, also of Pacoima Funeral services were conducted from the North Chapel in SanFernando, California, May 14, at 1:30 p. m. with the Rev. Elwin W. Smith officiating and burial was made in vahalia cemetery, Carlisle News. High

School Honor Roll For The Second Semester

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iyUl XUil'VlCUlb DUUJCL, Willi bll grade in no other subject car ried, below "B." Betty Jo Anderson, Erown, Don Courtney, Barbara Yvonne Cox, Joe Ellis, Wendell Fleming, Bettie Johnson, Robert Laughlin, ! Myrna Lewellyn, Merna Weis-1 becker, Deloris Worth. Distinction. To attain this ranking the stu dent must receive "B" in at least four full-credit subjects, with the grade in no other subject car-, ried, below "B." Rosalie Anderson, Jane Bedwell, Su'Ella Bledsoe, Nella Brashier, Nina Brashler, Becky .Campbell, ffancx .Carter, Rose-

(By United Press) ABSIE, American broadcasting station in Europe, said today that Allied troops in Germany have captured Gen. Karl Albert Oberg, former RS commander in Paris and known as "the butcher of Paris." r :

SAN FRANCISCO. May 21 5. ( UP) Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., returned today to the United Nations conference and immediately met with other members of the American delegation to give them a "fill in" on his talks with President Truman. ; Stettinius also arranged tq meet with the other members of the conference's "Big Five" Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromvko. British Ambassador Lord Halifax, Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong and French Delegation Chief Joseph Paul-Bongour. ' Stettinius was in Washington, for two days, during wh'ch he canvassed the many post-war European problems

in talks with Mr. Truman and tvith State Department officials. He was believed to have brought word from Mr- Tinman that the United States along with Britain. Russia and China, will stand pat against any. "softening" of their, veto power in the proposed world organization. ! These four countries in talks here prior to Stettinius' return had made it clear that they were ready to reject de-

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, LONDON, May 25. (UP) Joseph E. Davies, President Truman's special emissary, arrived in London today for

Eugene Laffoon Back In States Mrs. Clarice Terrill Laffoon of Jasonville, formerly of Shelburn, today received a telegram from tinental United States and "will be seeing you soon." Pvt. Laffoon's arrival here followed his liberation from a German prison camp by Allied troops on the Western Front. The former POW's wire was was shortly followed by an official War Department Liberation notice. ' mm GIRL SCOUTS WILL ASSIST IN CANCER RELIEF CAMPAIGN Girl Scouts of Troops 1 and 4 will canvass the city Saturday, May 26, to collect funds for the National Cancer Relief Drive being conducted throughout the United States to appropriate 'funds for research for relief of cancer. ' This benevolent gesture oh the part of the Girl Scouts of Sullivan is in cooperation with the Heme Economics Clubs of Sullivan County who are sponsoring and directing the drive within the county. Watch for the familiar Girl Scout Miss in her green and gold trimmed uniform and have your donation ready for their most worthy cause. Imary Cox, Mary A. Donnelly, Leland FergusoA, Lois Golish, Jerry Clara Hutchison, Charlotte Ingersoll, Norma Morin, Robert Page, J. W. Pigg, Joan-Reid, Adam Sajko, Joe Scully, Barbara Stark, Betty Stewart, Margaret Stewart, Wayne Stinson, Thelma Tapley, Phyllis Valentine, LeAnn Wible, Sharon Ford, Mary Gill, Alice Hamilton, waomi nearicK, Mary j. is.eys, Myra Laughlin, Mary F. Monk, Aleana Phillips, Mary Rambis, Kathryn Reid, Junior Usrey, Joy Weathers, Paul Wible

Honor Roll for the sixth six This meeting is open to the pubweeks grading period, April 16 to lie. The meeting is called in re- . Igard to the special meeting to be (.Continued, oa Page 3. Col. $ held in yincennes June 7, I

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proposed security council. BREAKS ANKLE IN . . , MINE MISHAP Tom Bridwell, 64-year-old Sullivan County miner was admitted to the Mary Sherman Hospital Wednesday evening about 10:15 o'clock where he received treatment for a fractured ankle suffered in an accident' in the Peabody 48 Coal Mine east of Sullivan about nine o'clock the same evening. Mr. Bridwell stated today that he was aiding in "pulling the steel" in the recently abandoned mine and in some manner a heavy bar struck his leg, breaking bones in the right ankle and causing minor lacerations to the foot. I The injured miner was report'ed today by. hospital attaches as being in a satisfactory condition. ,He is . resident of Hymera. COMMENCEMENT DANCE TONIGHT WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The commencement dance, sponsored by the Sullivan Tri Kappas and honoring the 1945 graduates of Sullivan high school will be held at the old gymnasium tonight from ten to one o'clock, Leo Baxter's orchestra will play for the dance which is open to the public. WILL INITIATE CLASS The Sullivan lodge of Elks will hold the final initiation session of the lodge for the current season next Monday evening. A (class of candidates will be initiated and a lunch will be served in the club rooms at 6:30 p. m. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Pfc. and Mrs. Donald E. Willis of 650 East Johnson Street, Madi- " . - n cnn npPt1 hnrn i enn Wicpnncin nnnnntiff Tne M 13tn at thg jruSlX F. Regional Hospital Pfc. Willis is ;n:triirtnr in Radio Mechanics 1 at Truax Field. TOWNSEND MEETING Townsend Club No. 3 will meet at the City Hall May 28, 7:30.

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Sacrifice Will Be Sold Tomorrow , Tomorrow Americans all through the nation will pay tri bute to their countrymen who have died in two great World Wars by wearing a red poppy. In this city, as in every other city and town all over the coun try, the woman of our American Legion Auxiliary will be on the streets with baskets full of poppies for sale. This large corps of volunteer workers, organized by Lulu Bledsoe, Poppy Chairman, will see to it that everybody in the city has an opportunity vo buy a poppy.. Disabled war veterans young ones from this war, older ones from the last made these poppies at Marion. These men who have been working in" the hospital during the winter and spring to have the little flowers all ready for Poppy Day have benefitted not only financially but mentally as well. To be able to earn money, to have, a pleasant occupation has done a great ' (Continued on Page 3, Col. 4) CARLISLE LEGION SPONSORS MEMORIAL PROGRAM WEDNESDAY A Memorial Day Service under the auspices of Carlisle American Lesion Post 263 will be held at CtAlisla. Wednesday afternoon, 'May'1 ':),-' at two o'clock. The program will be held at the Methodist church. Tt had been previously announced -that the program would be .held Sunday afternoon in the public school yard. The program will be as follows: Organ music. Song by audience "America The Beautiful." j . "To The Colors," Bugler. Presentation of Colors, by Carlisle Post Color Guard. Invocation, Rev. John Sutch. Pledge of ; Allegiance to the Flag, led by Ozro Pifer, Commander, Carlisle Post. Song, "America", audience. Memorial services honoring the dead of World Wars I and II, by Carlisle unit of the Legion Auxiliary. Address, Rev. C. S. Marsolf. Retirement of Colors, Carlisle Post Color Guard. "The Star Spangled Banner," audience. Taps. . ADDITIONAL CASUALTIES OFFICIALLY REPORTED Army and Navy war casualties announced by the Office of War Information for release today include: Army . wounded, European regions Sgt. Kenneth Conner, husband of Mrs. Mary Conner, 31 1-2 West Jackson St., Sullivan. (These lists are all based on prior notification of nex of kin.) Liberations Reported Army Liberated Prisoners of War in "Germany announced by the Office of War Information for release today include: Pfc. Gratehel II. Rilenge, son of Mrs. Laura Rilenge, route 1, Shelburn. WILL CONDUCT LAST RITES SUNDAY FOR SMRS. SARAH BOLES Funeral services for Sarah Elizabeth Boles, resident . here for many years, who passed away at two o'clock Thursday afternoon, will be conducted at the Pentecostal Church at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, with Rev. Disney officiating. Burial will be. made in fenter Ridge cemetery. The body was taken from the funeral home to the home of the son, Vard Boles, 103 North State Street this afternoon. WBLCUT-SAMULES Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Wilcut have announced the marriage of their youngest daughter, Velma Jean, to Robert W. Samules of South Bend, Indiana. The marriage took place May 11th at South Bend,

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Japanese Defenses Crack At Eastern End Of Okinawa Line, However. Strongpoints Of Shuri And Naha Remain Firm Claim Air-borne Jap Suicide Troops Land On Yank-Held , Airfields North Of Battle Line.

(By United Press) Five hundred Superfortresses dropped 4,000 tons of incendiary bombs, on Tokyo shortly after midnight today in the second great fire raid against the Japanese capital this week. t . Details of the" attacks, which followed a record one by 550 of the B-29's early Thursday, were delayed pending the return of the bombers to their bases- ia the Marianas. The bloody battle of Okinawa continued unabated. The Japanese defenses cracked at the eastern end of the lino kit the strongpoints of Shuri and Naha" to the west held firm. A Japanese communique said lir-borae suicide ; troops lixul landed on two Ahief icii-hotd WfieldTiorth of tfteimt tl? line and had done much damage. "The communique added that suicide planes were attacking American ships off Okinawa. Radio Tokyo reported new American air 'blows ' at the lome islands, however, and predicted that American -troops 3oon would try to land on Amami Island, 115 miles northeast of Okinawa and 185 miles from Japan. The enemy radio said sixty Mustang fighters and some Superfortresses attacked the Tokyo-Yokohama area fov fifty minutes without doing much damage. The planes might have been engaged in photographing damage from yesterday's attacks by 550 Superfortresses on Tokyo. In addition, the broadcast said, ten or more Superfortresses sowed mines in the Kanmon Strait between Honshu and Kyushu islandsUnited States North Pacific He'adciuarters announced that an American naval task force shelled targets on the east coast of Paramushivo in the Kurile Islands north of Japan for half an hour on1 May 20. Fires and explosions were pet off n buildings and ammunition dumps. ( Mop Up On Mindanao. Elsewhere in the Pacific area. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced that the fighting on Mindanao in the Philippines has reached the mopping-up stage. Three American divisions joined forces north of Malaybalay in the central part of Mindanao, penning the surviving Japanese in the hills. Organzed Japanese resistance also was reported to have broken iown in the Ipo Dam area northeast of Manila on. Luzon. A Chungking announcement reported signs that "the Japanese were folding ut) in central China. A military spokesman said three enemy divisions have been withdrawn from Hunan, Honan and Kwangsi provinces within the last few weeks. Okinawa continued to hold the spotlight in the Pacific fighting. Despite the vigorous Japanese defense of Shuri and Naha, the weakening of the eastern end of their line exposed those two strongholds to attack from the1 rear. A Japanese broadcast said fifty more American transports and a task force which included six aircraft carriers had arrived off Okinawa, bringing the number of American ships off the island to more than 400, according to Tokyo. The situation in Europe revolved around preparations for the punishment of Nazi war criminals and the occupation of Germany. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor of Axis war criminals, arrived in Britain with his staff to start work. , Meanwhile, 'a great search was on for Joachim von Ribbentrop, the only top Nazi cabinet member still at large since the suicide of Heinrich Himmler, chief hangman. Ribbentrop was believed to be in southern Germany or Austria. Allied Supreme Headquarters announced that close control of news to be published in Germany will be exercised until the purge of war criminals and militaristic influences has been completed. An Allied press service will be set up in Great Britain, headed by an American, to produce all world news selected for the German press-

ASHCRAFT RITES ' AT CASS SUNDAY Funeral services for Ferman "Jack" Ashcraft, 57-year-old Cass resident, who died yesterday morning at his home there, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Cass Methodist Church with Rev. Wimn, pastor of the church officiating. Interment will be made in the Ajitioch Cemetery.

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RITES SATURDAY FOR MRS. WALL The body of Mrs. Laura Wall, of Dugger, who died at the home of her son, Osa Wall of Indianapolis, was . removed from . the Aikin Funeral Home to the home of a niece, Mrs. Maude Watkins, in Dugger. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Saturday at the Methodist church with Rev. C. E. Homberger and Rev. Paul Lewis officiating. Burial will be made in the Dugger cemetery