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THE DAILY BANNER

VOLUME FIFTY-ONE

IT WAVES FOR ALL

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1943.

NO. 271

death summons SAMUEL PUfiSEL; RITES SATURDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Lenore Briggs, widow of the Rev. A. T. Briggs, who died Wednesday, will be held Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock from the Gobtn Memorial Church. Th Rev. John'Tennant will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Hill ceme-

tery.

Friends may call at the MoCurry

Samuel Reese Pursel, age 81 years, Funeral Home this aftemcon and

1 evening. The casket will not be open at the church. The family requests

that no flowers foe sent.

WELI. known man passed away WEDNESDAY AT

COUNTY HOSPITAL

died at 10:45 'clock Wednesday evening at the Putnam County hospital. iMr. Pursel had been ill for the last six or seven years and had been a patient In the hospital since

last November.

The well known local resident was born December 4, 1861 and has lived in Greencastle for the last 56 years He has operated a loan company ir Greencastle for the last thirty years One daughter, Mrs. Victor Allee o' Plainfield survives, two granddaughters and a half brother, Harvey Clark

of Ml. Meridian.

Funeral services will be held from the McCurry Funeral Home Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. It is requested that there foe no flowers. Friends may caU at the funeral

home.

Murder Mystery Still Unsolved

BRICKiS FUNERAL TO BE HELD FRIDAY MORNING

ADOLF HITLER IS PREPARING FOR INVASION EIGHT MILLION SOLDIERS ON (1,000-MILE COASTLINE OF EUROPEAN FORTRESS

young men enter MILITARY service

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Tom Welch, Lawrence Acton and Royal Tharp. These three young men left Tuesday for military service, after getting a three weeks’ furlough following their induction. Others in the original group did not take their furlough. •

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2.—(UP) —Police admitted that they were temporarily at a loss today In their efforts to track down the assaultslayer of pretty WAG Corporal Maoma L. Ridings, Warm Springs Ga., whose brutally mutilated body was found in a hotel room. Lieut. Noel Jones of the homicide squad said Robert Wolfington, 22 hotel bellboy, still was the chief murder suspect. But Jones’ statement that the case had entered a “temporary cooling off period’’ was taken to indicate that specific evidence against the bellboy was lack-

ing.

Wolfington, the lasT person known to have been in 32-year-old Corp Ridings’ room Saturday night before, the slaying, submitted voluntarily tc a lie detector test yesterday but police would not disclose results. Lieut. Jones said police had been unsuccessful In attempts to trace several other clues to the slayer of the Camp Atterbury WAC, who is reported to have been one of President Roosevelt's favorite nurses at the Warm Springs Foundation. Detectives checked a report yesterday that a man with a “flat nose ami heavy arms” left a blood-soaked shirt at an Indianapolis laundry the day after the slaying. But investigation showed that the incident was not connected with the case, Jones

said.

Another promising but fruitless lead was turned In by a youth who found a note addressed to “Bob” in a street near the hotel. The note aaid "Corporal Ridings will be at the hotel Aug. 28. Don’t worry and pay her an early visit.” However, laboratory analysts said the note was too “tresh" to have any bearing on the case. Police said the note apparently was written by crank. Police refused to comment on story printed In an Indianapolis paper that a hotel elevator operator has reported seeing a “woman In black” in the company of a policeman the night of the murder. The paper quoted the operator as saying he carried the woman and the policeman in his elevator and overheard them talking about “a woman being murdered.’’ It was recalled tha\ Alfred Baynes. Jr., another bellboy who served Corp. Ridings Saturday night, told police he saw a dark-haired woman in the WAC's room.

LONDON, Sept. 2.—(UP) -Allied sources said today that Adolf Hitler has spread 8,000,000 troops along the 6,000-mile coastline of his continental domain and was about to impose martial law on all Europe in preparation for the anticipated Anglo-American Invasion. Messages from underground agents exile governments here reported that Reich interior minister and Gestapo chief Henrich Himmler distributed orders to military commanders all occupied countries to take over all key administration and communication centers and to arrest all reserve officers and officials suspected of allied leanings. As soon as allied invasion armies land on Europe, these sources said, the Germans plan to round up all able-bodied men and other persons suspected of underground connec-

tions.

Both Norway and Denmark, where the Germans believe an allied invasion is imminent, already are under martial law. All Danish army and navy officers are being arrested, while Norwegian officers some time ago were seized and sent to Ger-

many.

The Germans arrested 2,000 Dutch officers last month and Polish, Czech, Jugoslav, Greek, Belgian and French officers who still are free must report to the Nazi police once a week. A Norwegian spokesman said the Germans were intensifying their coastal fortifications and increasing their airfields in Norway. Nearly 1,000 German batteries have been mounted along the Norwegian coast, he estimated, while air strength totals 300 to 500 planes, including 200 bombers. Blockhouses and street barriers were erected in Oslo, the spokesman said. The waterfront area was cordoned off and Norwegians forbidden inside. The axis garrison in Norway was placed at 10 divisions or 200,000 men, of which two third are fighting men and the rest occupation troops. At least 50,000 troops, including several panzer regiments, were believed concentrated in Denmark, whose west coast has been fortified with blockhouses, machine gun post;:and concreete obstructions. High axis military leaders recently toured Greece. Jugoslavia and Albania. Guns from the Maginot line were reported to have been rushed to the Adriatic coast. Best available Information placed 15 German divisions in Greece and six in Jugoslavia with the Mediterraneon air fleet totaling 1.000 planes, including 700 bombers.

A. total of 1.86 Inches of rain fell

here during the night.

Farmers were complaining of too

biuch moisture. *

Ross on the Indianapolis market reached a top of $10, the highest they

had been all year.

Mias Elizabeth Daggy went

arieston. Hi., to teach in the Eng hah department of the high school. Within 30 minutes, 167 autos were jaunted as passing a certain home on 6 National Road following the opening 0 f the new pavement from e state road intersection, south of

Greencastle, eastward to

apollg.

Pictures Taken By Gen. Clark Shown

Points Go Up On 13 Articles

NEGRO HELD •

Sheriff Paul Grimes tcok into custody Thursday morning an Alabama negro named George Lee Crump. The colored man was reported loitering in a woods near Limedale and is being held on a trespass charge pending further investigation. EXHIBITION DRILLS BY CRACK PLATOON SATURDAY

Lt Edwin Dodge of the DePauw Pre-Flight school announced today that an exhibition drill, a track meet and baseball game with Wabash, will be held on Blackstgck Field at four o’clock Saturday afternoon. The crack drill plattoon of the Cadets will give ah exhibition drill in the. manual of arms, which will be very interesting to the public, and all who are Interested are cordially invited by Lt. Dodge to witness the

entire program.

MASONIC NOTICE

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2. County leaders of the War Finance Committee and Civilian Defense organization figuratively went on a spying :nission to North Africa with Lt Gen. Mark W. C. Clark Wednesday as they gathered for an inspirational state wide luncheon meeting that paves the way for opening of the Third War Loan Drive Sept. 9. Slide pictures, made from photographs actually taken by Lt. Gen. Clark, were shown for the first time in America and were described by his wife, who read his own interpretation of them. Mrs. Clark also read the letter written by her husband to be delivered to her in the event he did not return from his mission. The letter revealed, simply, the lieutenant general’s thoughts on the eve of his departure Sunday, Oct. 18, 1942. “It I do not come back,’’ it read, “do everything you can, as every American must, for our cause." Gov. Henry F. Shricker challenged Hoosiers who have been assigned a $257,000,000 quota for the three week drive. “Any man or woman who is not willing to lend his money to his nation in this critical stage of the wm is not entitled to citizenship in this state,” the governor said. “If we think we are doing a great deal, let’s read the casualty lists published daily in our newspapers.” Other speakers were Chester C. Davis, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank; C. S. Young, president of Chicago Federal Reserve Bank and Rep. Louis Ludlow. “Farmers should know that every dollar they can pry loose and spare after keeping debts current should go into war bonds,” said Mr. Davis, who was national food administrator. Mr. Young urged war bond investment because war bonds are safe, because war bond dollars protect other dollars and are a hedge against inflation, and are a nest egg for future

use.

“This war is not woh,” said Rep Ludlow* “To let down now might be calamitious.” Both Gov. Schricker and Rep. Ludlow expressed confidence in Hoosier war consciousness and in the state's ability to meet its Third War Loan assignment. At the meeting from Putnam county were the following war finance committee officials: Mrs. John Cartwright, J. B. Crosby and Joe Todd. Rotarians Have Dinner Wednesday Rotarians entertained their wives and guests at a dinner Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hemmer. Preceding and during dinner music was furnished by the state farm orchestra. FlowertT’were attractively arranged on the long tables which were set in the yard. Several guests were present including Dr. and Mrs. T. G. Yuncker and Mr. and Mrs. William Hanna. Lloyd Houck, president of Rotary, welcomed the guests and the Rotary wives and then turned the meeting over to the entertainment committee. Games were played during the even ing and the grand prize was won by Mrs. Kent Lenzen.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2.—(UP) — Beginning Sunday housewives will pay more ration points for 13 processed foods, including frozen fruits and berries and several types of canned vegetables. But point values of certain ether vegetables will go down, the Office of Price Adminis-

tration revealed today.

PRIME MINISTER IN WASHINGTON FOR CONFERENCE CHURCHILL AND PRESIDENT, BELIEVED DISCUSSING MEETING SOON WITH RUSSIA

SERVING COUNTRY

IPK’*

Temple Lodge 47 will meet Friday

Indian-! evening at 7:30 o’clock for work in

I the Fellowcraft Degree.

AUTO STOLEN

Amos Quinton reported to Chief of Police Ralph Hammond Thugsday morning that a car at his filling station on north Jackson street was stolen during the night. Quinton believed the machine was taken «> that it could be stripped of accessories as It did not have license plates and the gas tank was empty. #

Decreases were ordered in the point values of canned soybeans, beets, carrots, green or wax beans and canned fresh shelled beans. But the point values of other types of canned beans—baked, kidney, lentils, soaked dry and pork and beans— were increased from 15 to 18 for No.

2 cans.

The changes were revealed in a new September table of blue stamp point values showing revisions in values of 24 processed food items. Blue stamps U, V, and W in ration book two are valid until Oct. 20. Changes shown in the new chart: 1. Increases in value of four canned fruits- from 15 to 21 for No. 2 Vi; cans of pears; from 23 to 26 for No. 2cans of peaches; from eight to 10 for 16-ounce cans of cranberries or cranberry sauce, and from seven to 10 for No. 2 cans of apples. OPA said these products sold at too rapid a rate under the old values. 2. Decreases in value of six canned vegetables from 11 to 10 for No. 2 cans of fresh shelled beans and green or wax beans; from 11 to five for N ». 2 cans of fresh soybeans; from 10 to eight for No. 2 cans of beets and carrots; and from 24 to 21 for No. 21.. cans of tomatoes. Of the tomatoes, OPA said that particular size can was not moving as rapidly as desired under the old value. Other sizes of canned tomatoes were not changed. 3. An increase from three to four points for tomato sauce in eightounce packages in combination with cheese; but the one red point heretofore required for the cheese in such packages no longer will be required. 4. Increases for two types of canned vegetables from 15 to 18 points for No. 2 cans of all other canned end bottled varieties of beans, and 19 to 21 for No. 2'/^ cans of pumpkin

or squash.

5. Three-point increases for six ^frozen products from nine to 12 for a ‘pound of" all fruits or berries and 14 ounces of spinach; and from six to nine points for 12 ounces of peas, green or wax beans, and lima beans and for 10 ounces of cut corn. OPA explained that supply has not been able to keep up with demand under

old values.

6. Decreases for two dried vegetables- from four to one point for a pound of dried peas or lentils, and from four to two points for a pound of dried beans i except soy beans and blackeyed peas.) Dried primes, raisins and currants were restored to a value of four points a pound. Originally set at a 20-point-per-pound value when rationing first was Instituted in March, tile value of these products was lowered successfully and finally set at zero during the summer months when they were regarded as highly

perishable.

The new tables changed the value assigned to “home processed foods,” listed at eight points a quart in the August table. The new chart carried these products at “eight points per quart or the point value of the item shown elsewhere on the chart, whichever is lower.” The new chart for the first time grouped vegetable and fruit juices under a single heading, but their value was not changed. Likewise, for the first time it shows a “special products" heading, including canned and bottled soups, tomato or chili sauces, baby foods and the combination tomato sauce-cheese packages

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2. (UP) — President Roosevelt and Prirhe Minister Winston Churchill were believed today to be discussing the stand that the United States and Great Britain will take on vital political issues at a forthcoming conference of Anglo-American-Soviet foreign ministers. Such a three-power conference, first suggested by Churchill, was said to be in the arrangement stage. Reliable sources expected it to be soon, maybe within five or six weeka, and many believed it would be held m the United States. Churchill arrived at the White House last night for what was described as the conclusion of talks begun at Quebec. Tne Quebec confer<ence ended ^ith discussion of political and post-war problems facing the United Nations. Most observers agreed that sclu tion of virtually all of those problems depend upon Anglo-American-Soviet agreement—nst just paper treat! ?s on basic international issues. They see no possibility of a lasting peace without honest understanding among the three great powers and elimination of the doubts about each other that in the past have kept them from

joint action.

The meeting of foreign ministers— Secretary of State Cordell Hull, British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden and Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Viacheslav M. Molotov pre-

U. 5. NAVY FORCE HURLS CHALLENGE AT NIPPON FLEET AMERICAN TASK FORCE DARES JAPS TO COME OUT AND FIGHT

Ralph C. Biillerdick

Ralph C. Bullerdick, electrician’s! mate third class, is the son of Mr. i and Mrs. Cecil Bullerdick. His address is Ship Co., Tr. Gunnery A.

Camp Peary, Va.

NAZI RESERVES FAIL TO HALT SOVIET ARMIES REDS STEP UP DRIVES ON KEY AXIS STRONGHOLDS IN

DONETS BASIN

MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (UP) Red armies gained momentum in fast-break-ing drives toward the key Axis strongholds of Smolensk, Bryansk, Kiev and Stalino today, overrunning

sumably would be of a preliminary nearly 300 towns and villages in 24

nature. They would seek a basis for a meeting at which Mr. Roosevelt, Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin could thrash out their problems to-

gether.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UP) A 1 powerful U. S. Naval task force, spearheaded by carriers, is on the loose In the central Pacific today, ! .taring tin Japanese home fleet to

, come out and fight.

It already has struck from the air and sea against Marcus island, important enemy outpost guarding the southeastern approaches to Tokyo. (Radio u>kyo warned the Japanese people today that the atack on Marcus island io.( shadowed ‘ the bombing of the Japanese mainland.’’) It may be that the task force had previously bladed other JapanescI held bases and that other enemy strongholds are due for a pasting before the task force returns home. But there will be no details until it is safe for the American force to break radio

silence.

The attack on Marcus itself was not considered of paramount significance, because the island was not the source of any trouble to present American holdings. However, neither I could it be considered an “eccentric operation,” one undertaken primarily to harrass the enemy without any effect on over-all strategy. Admiral Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the U. S. Fleet, said recently that every move in the Pacific is part of a coordinated plan. Therefore, it is the opinion here that the move was designated to lure the Japanese home fleet out for a test of strt ngth. The composition of the Japanese home fleet is pretty much of a mystery. There have been reports that much^of Japan's new

years

BACK AT ILLINOIS U.

Mel ttowsr.-lihe cough at the DePauw football team last year under Coach Raymond "Gaumy" Neal, has Returned to his alma mater, Illinois University, as an instructor in physical education. Brewer served in the Navy until given a medical discharge recently. He also coached at Wabash before coming to DePauw. His home is in Carbondale, 111.

hours.

The German high command was reported rushing fresh reserves into

feverish counter-attacks at key points naval construction of recent all along the 700-mllc front from . las been added to it.

Smolensk to the sea of Azov, but no- . It was obvious from Japanese acI where did they stem the onrushing counts of the attack on Marcus that Russians. | the American force contained power-

The Soviets drove more than 20 ful air striking elements. They re-

miles into Tunisa's .richest coal and j ported that the_ planes roared over

iron area to capture the Donets ] the island in numerous waves,

basin antraclte center of Krasny Luch | Marcus island is primarily an air 44 miieg northeast of Stalino; Suez- , base. It is triangular in shape, about

Danes Subdued By Nazi Troops

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 2 (UP) —The newspaper Aftonbladet said today that new disturbances and sabotage have broken out in Copenhagen and elsewhere in Denmark, but reliable sources reported that German military authorities generally have stifled resistance tnrough the ruthless use of arms. A large Danish factory was blown up yesterday, 1,000 persons were killed or wounded in Copenhagen and 450 were slain at Svendborg, Aftonbladet said. However, most observers believed the casualty figures, if true, covered the entire period from the time martial law was proclaimed last

weekend.

Meat, bread and fuel are scarce in Denmark as result of German requisitions and transportation restrictions, the newspaper added. The possibility that a Danish refugee government wil .be formed, possibly in London under Danish patriot Christian Moeller, was pointed up by the resignation of I. C. W. Kruse, Danish minister to Stockholm, and

hnoe, 42 miles east of Stalino, ami Shterovka, between the two towns. Some 30 other localities also fell to the Russians in advances of up to six miles on the Stalino-sea of Azov front following the liquidation of th" encircled Taganrog garrison with the killing of 35,000 Germans and the capture of 5,100 others. Booty captured in the Taganrog entrapment, the first time a German army has been smashed in Russia since Stalingrad last November, inj eluded 95 tanks. 198 guns, 217 mortars, 409 machine-guns, 594 trucks and 22 stores of war material . "The enormous losses in manpower and equipment compelled the German command to dispatc fresh forces southward,” the Soviet high command

said.

five miles in circumference. It was heavily wooded until the Japanese began to develop it as a defense outpost. The .navy, in effect, confirmed Japanese reports of the attack. A spokesman described the operation as a "raid,” which would indicate that actual seizure of the island was not contemplated. The task force's schedule, the spokesman said, set Sept. 1 as the date, for the attack and he presumed that it was in progress. "However," he added, "no report has been received from the .raiding force, and’it is presumed that there will be none until need for radio silence ceases to exist." WILL WAGER BUFFALO

DENVER. Sept. 2. (UP) Coverage Vivian of Colorado Is willing to bet a buffalo that Colorado will outstrip Nebraska during the Third War

Loan Drive.

The buffalo, incidentally, isn’t Vivian’s property. It belongs to the Denver City Zoo. But Vivian says he is sure that Mayor Stapleton will approve the offer because as the governor puts it "there isn’t any

risk involved.”

Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska offered yesterday to liet a $35 hog against a product of similar value from any oth i state that Ne-

KIDNAPED DETECTIVE

TERRE HAUTE~Ind., Sept. 2. (UP)—Pvt. Alec Brown of the Bronx, N. Y., rep i ted AWOL from Camp Breckenridge, Ky., was held for military authorities today aftei he kidnaped City Detective C. 1) Thompson who had arrested him for impersontaing a military policeman. Police Chief Forrest Braden said that Brown was placed in the Vigo county jail ahd tirat army authorities would decide whether he 1 would fan court martial or trial in civil court. Thompsotr arrested the soldier at

the Terre Haute bus station Where I hraska would over-sell its bond quota he had pointed a pistol at civilians | by a greater percentage. Governor and questioned them about their Bottolfsen of Idaho has

the principal members of his staff

because the new situation in their rou t e t 0 p 0 y ct

homeland “prevents the King from fulfilling his constitutional functions.” However, Kruse’s statement indicated that he resigned only as repfesentative of the Danish foreign of- j fice, but still considered himself the | Royal Danish representative in Stock- j holm. Danish circles said his action . left thh way open far him to contact! a refugee government. I | Terre Haute policeman found him j hiding in art abandoned sewer at

Mecca.

draft status, Braden said.

Brown did not resist, but while en

headquarters in a

squad car, he drew his gun and f reed Thompson to drive to Mecca, northeast of here, where he took the officer's pistol and clothing and forc-

ed him out of the car.

The soldier drove away but so -n | j n observance of Labor Day. crashed the car into a ditch. Shortly j

afterwards, State Patrolmen Don Jackson and John Howarth and a

put up $35

worth of Idaho potatoes as his state’s

stakes in the bet. BANKS I’o ( LOSE

The First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company and the Central National Bank will be closed all day Monday,

There also was a possibility that tlie Germans would attempt to restore a semblance of an independent Danish government which King Chris-

tian X would recognize.

jHELD IN CAR THEFT

ATE TAINTED EGGS

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2 (UP) — Army'officials announced today that j

| 72 soldiers were stricken with mild Harvey Gorham, 22, on parole cases of food poisoning yesterday

from the state reformatory at pend- after eating tainted eggs for break-

leton, was held in the Putnam county ( fast.

jail Thursday charged with taking | capt. Elmer W Sherwood, post the automobile belonging to M. H. public relations officer, saiu that the Crouse, which was recovered in Terre men were part of 500 who ate at the Haute Tuesday night. The car wss same mess hall but thst none of'the stolen from behind the Murphy 5 others ware made ill. He said there 10 cent store Tuesday afternoon. were no serious esses.

tit Today’s Weather 4 tit and , 4 tit Local Temperature 4 ®tiMSttit«tittit*«44 Cooler today and in extreme south

portion tonight.

| Minimum 65 ‘ 6 a. m 65 7 a. in 66 8 a. m. . 70 9 a. m 74 10 a. m. 81 11 a. in. 85 12 noon 85 1 p. in 86 2 p. in. S6