The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 August 1943 — Page 1
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THE DAILY BANNER
VOLUME FIFTY-ONE
IT WAVES FOR ALL'
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1943.
NO. 250
essay contest SPONSORED BY ROTARY CLUB
hope to present fitting memorial to thosk in ARMED FORCES
Through an essay contest, thej Gmncastle Rotary Club is hopeful of presenting to Putnam County a plan for a memorial to be a symbol of the appreciation of its citizens for the sacrifices made by those Putnam County men and women serving in the armed forces of World War II. The purjxsse of the contest is to stimulate the best thought of the county towards the type of a memorial, finance and maintenance and form of dedication and for the practicability and worthiness of each of these ideas set forth in the essay certain percentage points will be given. Beginning immediately essays may be submitted and will be accepted imtil midnight,, October 15th. The rules of the contest are given be-
low:
1. Write an essay which describes the memorial which you think would best express appreciation of those from Putnam County who serve in the Armed Forces of World War II. Be sure to indicate how the memorial would be financed and maintained. 2. The essay will be judged as follows: 50', Type of Memorial 40'', Finance & Maintenance 10% Dedication 3. All entries are to be written in ink or typed and limited to 2000 words, 4 Mail your essay to: Rotary Essay Contest, Greencastle, Indiana. 5. The prizes are: first prize—)25 War Bond second prize—$12.50 War Stamps third prize —$6.25 War Stamps 6. All essays must be mailed by midnight October 15, 1943. Anyone is eligible to enter who resides in Putnam County. 7. The essays will be judged by five independent Judges to be Announced later. The decision of the Judges is finarr*'* 8. The Rotary Club reserves the right to publish any essay received. No entries will be returned.
2 Negroes Fined; Auto Impounded John Rogers and Joseph Jones, Dayton, Ohio, negroes, charged with transporting whiskey, were each fined $25 and costs and their auto and contents were turned over to the Indiana Alcoholic Beverages Commission by special judge John Allee in the Putnam circuit court Saturday. The pair was taken into custody by state police on the National Road, south of Greencastle late Friday afternoon. Forty-two quarts of whiskey were confiscated along with the automobile. The colored men were brought to the Putnam county jail pending c urt arraignment.
AMERICAN LEGION POST WIUJ4AVE PROGRAM American Legion Post No. 58 will have a special program of “Post War Days" this evening at the home be- # ginning at 8:00 o’clock. In the round table discussion. Professors Hiram Jome, Frederick Ritchie and John Masten of DePauw University will participate. These men are well versed on political economy and economics and the discussion should be entertaining and informative. All members are asked to attend.
Squirrel Season Opens Tuesday Tomorrow, August 10. marks the opening of the squirrel hunting season in Putnam county, and according to indications, there are a good many squirrel hunters in this community. • The limit of one's possession is five, and the bag limit per day is also five. Those who have been in the woods report squirrels plentiful this season and local hunters are expecting to bag the limit. All hunters, except those who own land and who confine their hunting to that territory, must have a license to be in the field. This includes persons of
all ages.
GETS PROMOTION
Word has been received here of the promotion of Richard R. Hurst to that of captain. Captain Hurst is with the 593rd Field Artillery Battalion at Camp Clipper. Calif. He is the son of Mrs. Grace Hurst, south
College avenue.
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CROPS ON A SHELF—With agricultural program intensified, everybody in Switzerland has to help farmers on vacations and week-ends. Every bit of soil is cultivated too. This mountain shelf in Valais canton is supported by rocks, to grow crops.
McFAKLANE KITES Last rites for Mrs. Florence McFurlane, whose death occurred Friday night at Dearborn, Mich., 'will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the McCurry Funeral Home. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Rev. Raphael will officiate. Pall bearers will be Kenneth West, Ralph West, Roscoe Daggy, Chester Jordan, Harry Collins and Sam Hanna. The body will arrive at 12:00 noon Tuesday. The casket will remain open until 2:30 o’clock.
Woman Sought As Child's Kidnaper CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—(UP)—Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents turned to St. Louis, Mo., today in their search for two-year-old Howard Freeman and Mrs. Dixie Novak, who disappeared with the boy last Friday. Meanwhile, the child’s father, a soldier, was en route from Camp Huder, Ariz., to join the search for the woman who betrayed his wife’s friendship by stealing her baby. Police said Mrs. Novak and the child reportedly left a west side tavern Friday night -in the company of a truck driver employed by a St. Louis firm. Her father, William Palmer, lives at St. Louis, they said. Mrs. Novak took the child from the home of Mrs. Mildred Callahan, who was caring for him while his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Freeman, 27, was at work. Mrs. Freeman had befriended Mrs. Novak recently, so Mrs. Callahan believed the woman when she said she had come to take the boy to a doctor po.Hce said. Police said Mrs. Novak apparently had dyer her hair to escape detection. She was a blonde when she left the Callahan nome, they said, but when she called at the home of Miss Valeria Corleau that evening, her hair was black. FBI agents refused to disclose the charges on which they sought Mrs. Novak, but they said it was not in connection with the boy’s disappearance. Police intimated she might be wanted on a charge of fraudulently obtaining allotments from soldiers. She is known to have been married eight or nine times, they said. Her present husband is Pvt. Stanley Novak, 27, stationed at a Louisiana
army camp.
MASONIC NOTICE Stated meeting, Applegate No. 155, August 10 at 7:30 p. m. Fellowcraft degree.
Only 65 tickets were sold at the Monon depot for the Quincy picnic. This was the smallest crowd in years to take the train for this annual event. Miss Lydia Cravens was taking lier vacation from the Pitchford dry goods store. W. D. Lovett, county auditor-elect, was here from Roachdale on busi-
ness,
John Allee motored
olil.
THREE ITALIAN CITIES DIG OUT AFTER BOMBINGS MILAN, TURIN AND GENOA POUNDED BY SHATTERING RAF AIK RAIDS BERN, Aug. 9.—(UP)—Underground pamphlets calling for a general strike in protest against the government’s failure to make peace flooded Milan, Turin and Genoa, northern Italy’s three largest cities, following Saturday night’s shattering air raids, frontier reports said today. Fires still smouldered in the three cities early today, some 48 hours after scores of big British four-engined Lancaster bombers laid waste to huge areas with block buster and incendiary bombs in fulfillment of Prime Minister Churchill’s promise that Italy would be “seared, scarred and blackened” until she surrender-
ed.
(British bombers were idle last night, presumably because of inclement weather over the continent.) The underground pomphlets charged that the Badoglio government had betrayed the Italian people more than Fascism had ami called upon them to “fight for that peace which Badoglio is unwilling to grant you.” The pamphlets urged workers to strike today and refuse “any sort of collaboration with the Rome government.’’ They were signed “Giustizia E Uberta.” (Justice and Liberty.) (A clandestine radio station calling itself “free Milan" was heard in London broadcasting that “we must make peace straight away if we want to save ourselves . . . The people who succeeded in chasing Mussolini will rise again and chase Badoglio to obtain peace . . . Either we make peace or we die!’’) Observers along the Chiasso frontier line said at least eight fires still were burning in the Milan area at noon yesterday and details of the damage were given by travelers who arrived aboard trains six to seven
CLIFTON SAILOR NAMED MANAGER OF THEATERS
Announcement was made today by Harry P. Vonderschmitt of Bloomington, of the appointment of Clifton Sailor of that city, as manager of the Voncastle and Granada theaters in this city. He assumed his official duties Monday. His family, consisting of his wife and daughter will come to Greencastle within a week to make their home.
35 MAJOR RAIDS WILL DESTROY BERLIN, IS CLAIM RAF EXPERTS CERTAIN AFTER YEAR’S STUDY OF AERIAL ATTACKS
CITY FIREMEN ANSWERED 3 ALARMS OVER WEEKEND City firemen responded to three alarms over the weekend, but damage in each case was small, Fire Chief William Lawrence reported. Th* first call came Saturday night at 8:10, when a city truck went to 204 south Vine street where William Miller’s car had caught on fire. At 6:20 p. m. Sunday, the firemen were summoned to 906 Crown street to extinguish a fire in Mrs. Burt Smith's barn. Monday morning at 8:50 o’clock, the fire department answered an alarm at 509 east Ohio street, when a gasoline can in the kitchen of Mrs, Evaline Dixie’s home became ignited.
River Mud Gives Up Hold On Normandie NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—(UP)—The French liner Normandie, seized by the United States and renamed the S. S. Lafayette, today floated off the mud of the North River and passed the critical point in salvaging operations which have righted the rusty hull to an angle of 49 degrees. United States supervisor of salvage, Capt. B, E. Manseau, announced that the liner was afloat and controlled pumping would be continued until she rights herself to about 10 degrees. He said this would take five or six weeks. The ship will then be ready for delivery to a shipyard for possible conversion to war use. All operations, such as patching port holes and cargo openings and dividing the hull into compartments, prior to pumping proved entirely satisfactory, according to Manseau. “No delays are foreseen now in completing the salvaging job,” he
said.
The hull, Manseau said, was found to be in excellent condition. Most of the superstructure was burned in the first which broke out Feb. 9, 1942 as the luxury liner was being converted to a troop transport. Plans For More Soy Bean Foods WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 Anticipa-
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Clarence J. Bird
Pvt. Clarence J. Bird of 203 west Franklin street, is stationed at Fort Leonard Wood. Mo. His address is Co. B. 29th E. T. Bn., 2nd Plat., Fort
Leonard Wood, Mo.
hours late from a trip that normally ting reduced civilian supplies of such takes only one hour. ! important animal protein foods as The immense Pirelli aircraft part meats, dairy products and eggs rooxt works were razed, travelers said, year, the War Food Administration Since the plant was working around is taking steps for asharp expansion the clock, casualties among workers in the production of substitute foods were said to have been large. processed from vegetable products Gasometers and a power station Soybeans and peanuts will be the
were hit, plunging the city into darkness, and bombs also landed on the San Giovanni railroad bridge
raw material base for the substitutes. The food agency announced today that food products made from soy-
over which pass most of the trains beans for civilian consumption be-
tween now and next July would be
HEARING AUGUST 10
A representative of the Indiana state tax commission will hold a hearing in the office of Eddie Buis, Putnam county auditor, at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon in regards to an
to Indianap-j addtitonal appropriation of the Clov-
erdale townahlp school district.
twelve times greater than the quan-
leaving Milan; the industrial suburb
of Sesto San Giovanni, close to the con8umed durl tlre llke p^d Ansaldo, Fiat and Marconi works, “'■y 6 1
last year.
It previously had allocated suffi-
and the Farini railroad sidings, larg-
est in Milan.
A Zurich report said that three heavy bombs landed In the square opposite the main railroad station. Travelers reported that all traffic
cient peanuts to allow a 23 per cent increase in the production of peanut
butter.
For use domestically soybean pro- | ducts, or “soya,” as they are called,
LONDON, Aug. 9.- (UP)—Air observers speculated today that it will take about thirty-five major raids by the Royal Air Force to destroy Berlin, a city which public opinion here expects to be an early target of a concentrated, all-out air attack on the scale of that which struck Hamburg. This equation for the destruction of any city appears to have been established after more than a year of heavy raids: One ton of bombs must be dropped for every sixty inhabitants. On the basis of the Air Ministry's detailed reports, that formula is sufficient to remove any city from effective war production for many months, although ultimately it may be necessary to return with more bombs to prevent repair. Thus, one of the RAF’s “great strength" raids, with 2,000 tons of bombs dropped is regarded as enough to knock out a city of up to perhaps 120,000 people. Berlin, a city of 4,000,000 and the center of the German war effort, would need from thirty to thirty-five heavy raids to be knocked out beyond hope of recovery for many months, these observers said. Comparatively fewer raids would be required to paralyze production almost completely and to make life within the city unbearable. Ten major raids concentrated in fifteen or sixteen nights as the RAF is well able to do if the weather permits— probably would result in such confusion in public services, such terror among Inhabitants and such destruction to key industrial targets as to bring the war effort of the Reich capital almost to a halt. Variable factors in ..this equation are the area of the target city and the concentration of population and industries. But statistics show that as the size of the target increases, the number of tons of bombs necessary of effect the population decreas-
es.
Berlin, observers said, almost certainly would be an easier target to knock out in proportion to population that Hamburg, where there were many waterways splitting up the town and preventing the spread of fires. The Berlin attacks when they do come, will be almost exclusively an RAF job to be done at night. The 600-mile trip to Berlin appears somewhat above the effective range of United States Flying Fortresses with full bomb loads.
GEN. M'ARTHUR SEES VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC
CONFIDENT STATEMENT ISSUED BY COMMANDER OF
THE ALLIED FORCES
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Aug. 9 (UP) Allied successes have forced Japan on the defensive and the Pacific war has taken a vital turn toward victory, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today. MacArthur’s confident statement that the enemy’s ability to attack had been smashed followed the American conquest of Munda and a steady broadening of the Allied offensive in the island arc north of
Australia.
within Milan was halted with troops wjll be 1 , ncludtdi the WFA 8a id, in
roping off “danger sections” near the railroad station and the university city. No newspapers were published Sunday. Little was known of the damage caused in Genoa and Turin, but the correspondent of a Zurich newspaper said the bombing started before the air raid alarm was given. Many ter-ror-stricken people Jumped from a train leaving the station and were killed or badly injured by bomb fragments, the correspondent said, and the station itself was damaged se-
verely.
Leaflets were dropped over all
bread, soup powders, macaroni, breakfast cereals and in pancake and similar mixes and in the form of flour and grits for household us as protein fortifiers in breads, cakes, pastry, pancakes, meat loaves and
other dishes.
Many of these soya-supplemented | was killed the day after he had been foods, only now going into large- promoted from a captain to a major, scale production, are not expected to He was awarded posthumously the
PATTON REMEMBERS MOTHER PASADENA, Cal., (UP)—Lt. Gen. G. S. Patton did a few other things in Tunisia besides help chase the Axis out. He took time out, for example, to take a photograph of the desert tomb of Maj. Richard N. Jenson and send it to his mother, Mrs. H. N. 'Jensen here He explained that her son
be available on a national basis for consumers in any quantity until October or November. This expansion in production of soya products and peanut butter accompanies farm production programs
three cities, containing on one side calling for a big Increase i.n dry
two bca 118 an< J peas, likewise rich in
Badogllo’s proclamation of (Caatlaar* aa Paca Two)
1 proteins.
French Legion of Honor. In the English church at Casablanca there is a pulpit presented by Genral Patton.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Galen S. Irwin and Mabel S.
Young, both of Roachdale.
Charles G. York and Myrtle Louise
Shaner, both of Graencastls.
”Our resoureen are still very limited,” he said, "but results of our modest but continuous successes in campaign have been cumulative to
the point of being vital.
“ . . . The margin was close but it was conclusive. Although for many reasons our victories may have lacked in glamorous focus, they have been decisive of the final result in thv
Pacific.
“I make no predictions as to time or detail but Japan on the Pacific fronts has exhausted the fullest resources of concentrated attack of which she is capable, has failed and is now on the defense which will yield just in proportion as we gather force and definition. What that will be i do not know but it is certain." This statement by the supreme commander of the southern Pacific fightiqg meant Allied victory in the Pacific is now assurecj, a headquarters spokesman said. It should be read in connection with his past views and with the prediction of Adm. William F. Halsey, commander of South Pacific American forces, that the battle in the area would become "the battle of Japan," he added. Last March 1, MacArthur warned that Japan was in readiness for attack above Australia and bis statement today raised the point that if this attack had developed, the situation might be entirely different. As he spoke, reports from the fighting fronts created by his offensive started last June 30, showed Americans cleaning up final resistance in New Georgia island in the central Solomons and Allied fliers ranging north of the equator for the longest attack ino Japanese-control-led waters yet attempted. MacArthur congratulated Halsey's naval forces for the victory Friday in Vella Gulf, between Kolombanga.ra island northwest of New Georgia and Vella Lavclla island in which one enemy cruiser and two destroyers were sunk and a third destroyer damaged and probably sunk, without Allied loss. Thousands of enemy troops were believed to have been
killed.
The naval triumph chopped down a new effort to reinforce Kolombang. j ara island, on which the Japanese have their last workable airdrome in the New Georgia group. Yesterday Avenger and Dauntless bombers slammed 63 tons of explosives onto the airdrome, which is at Vila, and on the naval harbor at Kape, 19 miles to the northeast. The planes met no interception above Vila and scored hits on gun positions, bivouac areas and supply (CoalUura un Two)
j LONDON, Aug. 9.—-(UP) -Ruj mors that military coup may soon j dislodge Adolf Hitler from power in I Germany spread through Europe toj day and informed sources said major I diplomatic moves probably will develop this week, possibly involving Italy's withdrawal from the war. Allied obaerveia discounted suggestions that the sudden convening ■f German military leaders and high Nazi officials at Hitler's headquarters last week presaged Hitler’s fall | from power, but it generally was I igreed that they dealt with the worj sening situation on both the German home and military’ fronts. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were understood in London to be considering new peace proposals from Italy and tho possibility remote though it appeared—that Hitler might be ousteu led to speculation that they might confer soon with Premier Josef Stalin to
clarify allied policy.
Wilson Hroadbent, diplomatic correspondent of the London Daily Mail, said consultations among the British, American and Russian governments were "about to reach the final
important stage.”
With the allies smashing final axis resistance in Sicily and with vast areas of northern Italy’s three most important industrial cities in ruins from Saturday night’s air raids, London sources believed that the stalling of the two-week-old Italian government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio may be nearing an end. An Italian frontier report said thousands of anti-Badogiio pamphlets calling’ for a general strike beginning today as a protest against the government’s failure to make peace were distributed in Milan, Turin and Genoa following the air raids. An underground radio station identifying itself as “free Milan’’ was heard broadcasting, “We must make peace straight away if we want to save ourselves. The people who succeeded in chasing Mussolini will rise again and chase Badoglio to obtain peace . . . Either we make peace oc
we die!"
Badoglio was reported to have offered to surrender if the allies would agree not to use Italy as a base for an attack on Germany. The allies presumably replied with an adamant demand for Italy’s unconditional surrender. The nature of any new Italian peace offer was not known. Observers in Stockholm speculated that Nazi fears of a military roup in Germany to overthrow Hitler, or a demand from the military for a guarantee that the Nazi party would cease Interference in the prosecution of the war prompted the council at Hitler's headquarters, but they acknowledged that this might be wishful thinking,
Walter Barnett Called By Death
Walter Barnett, age 42 years, died Sunday night at 9:30 o'clock at tho
Cehtral Hospital in Indianapolis.
Mr, Barnett was born in Putnam county August 20. 1900. He was well known in Washington township,
where he spent most of his life.
Survivors are the father, James Barnett of Keelsville and two sister Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Rector Funeral Home. Burial
will be in Forest Hill cemetery.
The summer recreation committee announces a dance on the band stand at Rolie-Ann Park Tuesday evening from 8 until 9:30 o’clock.
Today’s Weather • and
fi liocal Temperature Scattered thundershowers tonight;
cooler.
Minimum 6 a. m. ... 7 a. m. ... 8 a. m 9 a. m. .. 10 a. m 11 a. m.... 12 noon ... 1 p. m.... 2 p. .m....
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