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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1944.

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NS MADE I FOR YEAR BY COUNTY GROUP ESJTENSION committee in k; Ai.RIC LLTl RE AND HOME 1 ECONOMICS MET HERE

Th' County Extension Committee in 'Agriculture and Home Economics met! in the assembly room of the c»urt house Tuesday, Jan. 4th. following a luncheon at the Royale Cafe. Twenty members of the committee were present. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the activities of the agriculture and home economics extension work in the ‘county in 1943 and to develop the policies and programs which should be followed during 1944. Mrs Clarence Ragan, retiring president of the county Home Economics Clubs gave an excellent report! of the activities of the 18 Home Economics Clubs. vMiss Smith, home demonstration agent, submitted the progTon of work for 1944 which includes lessons on nutrition, clothing, energy and time savers and home recreation. She also gave a report of the 4-H club activities of the past year indicating that there are a number of boys and girls who do not have the opportunities offered by 4-H dug work. A map of the county was presented showing the location and extent of club activities. It was quite evident that 4-H club enrollment follows club leadership. It was suggested that 4-H leaders be secured in other areas of the county not served by 4-H club work, Mr. Grimes, county agent, who presided at the meeting summarized the 1944 project committee reports in swine, dairy and farm crops. It was pointed out that efficiency in agriculture is based upon the proper use of the land. Therefore, a complete program in agriculture must include all of the factors which contributes to efficient farm management. Credit was given to the various cooperating agencies for the activities they have sponsored in developing • good relation between the rural and urban people. This in turn has hud an uplifting influence on the social and economic welfare of Putnam county people. L. M. Busche, assistant countyagent leaner from Purdue University mentioned the vast changes that have occurred since extension work started twenty-five years ago. It was suggested that in 1944 an agriculture conference be held in the county combining various schools to meet the needs of all members of the family. It was also suggested that the extension committee give thought to post-war problems. The following officers of the CounJxtension Committee were re for 1944: Chairman, R. J. ^_^|ian, Cloverdale twp.; vicechairman, Lois Arnold, Greencastle; secretary, Mrs. Lloyd Houck, Washington twp. Other executive members of the committee are Mrs. Ivan Ruark, Madison twp., and Elvin Harlan, Greencastle twp.

LEGION BACKS MARSHALL IN CRITICISM OF STRIKES

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 6.—Warren H. fAtherton, national commander < f thd American Legion, telegraphed Gen. George C. Marshall today that tha right to strike should be suspended for the duration of the war. Atherton advised the Army chief of feta ft that the Legion supports the statement, attributed to General Marshall by some newspapers, that labor troubles in this country have prolonged the war by lending encouragement to Germany. “n out opinion the right to strike should be suspended for the duratlon.” Atherton’s telegram said, “and we[ people fortunate to be safe at home should- devote twenty-four i|0|ps a day to support our sons who fight for us at the front. Our nation must stand behind you in your inspired leadership.”

20 Years Ago IN OBJEENCAATLJi

Staten Owens was injured when auto was hit by an interurban Mh at the Almeda crossing. JePauw defeated the Butler bas‘tball team, 36-21. The DePauw t >eup included White and Laughlin, wards; Johnson center; Irvin and t, guards.

FIREMEN ANSWER TWO » CALLS ON WEDNESDAY City firemen answered two alarms on Wednesday and Fire Chief William Lawrence rep.rted damage in each call. The truck went to the home of P. B. Smith. 512 Anderson street at 11:20 a. m. when the furnace pipe burned and fell to the basement floor. Smoke damage resulted. At 3:30 p. m„ the firemen were summoned to the home of Mrs. W. M. O’Brien, 511 east Seminary. An Ml mop hanging in a stairway .•aught on fire. The blaze was due to spontaneous ombustion There was some damage.

NAZIS TRYING DESPERATELY TO HALT RUSSIANS REDS WITHIN 20 MILES OF LAST ESCAPE ROUTE FOR ENEMY FORCES

MOSCOW, Jan. 6.—(UP)—The Red Army drove to within a little nore than 20 miles of the last pracical escape route for upwards of l.000.000 Germans in the Dnieper bend today despite frantic Nazi eforts to stall the greatest Soviet offensive of the war. Front dispatches said German Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein. lad hurled the last of his reserves jn the southern front into action md was trying desperately to obtain aid from the central and northern fronts. However, the 1st Ukrainian Army’s rapid, multi-pronged advances west, southwest and south of Kiev already had severed Germany’s best north-south oommunicationa near the fiont and the Moscow news leported that the Wehrmacht no conger could shift strength on a scale which could interfere with the Red Army’s progress. (A German spokesman told Swedish correspondent that the Nazi winter line in Russia had been split by the Red Army’s deep penetration of the axis defenses.) More than 60 towns and villages were swept up in advances of up to 10 miles on the approaches to Poland ind Rumania yesterday. Some 4,000 Jermans were killed, many prisoners captured and rich booty taken, including three tanks, 20 guns, 80 ;rucks and six radio transmitters. No progress westward toward or icross the old Polish border was reported for the second consecutive Jay, Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin apparently concentrating on the capture of ail highway and railway communications between Kiev and the Dniester before resuming his westward march. (A Swiss broadcast quoted a Russian military commentator as saying the Red Army had penetrated deep into pre-war Poland.) The fall of Berdichev, a city of 80.000 nearly 95 miles southwest ol Moscow, yesterday cut the next-to-the-last escape railroad for German forces still resisting inside the Dnieper bend and released five infantry division, a tank brigade, a tank regiment and auxiliary units to reinforce Russian drives to the south and southwest. The Russians found Berdichev, whose pre-war population was preponderantly Jewish, virtually deseited. The Germans had massacred its inhabitants with the same thoroughness they employed at Kiev. It was estimated that more than 1,000,000 Ukrainian Jews have been slain by the Germans. Southeast of Berdichev, another of Vatutin’s columns overwhelmed enemy resistance and rolled on through Arivchunka, 83 miles south of Kiev and only 22 miles north west of the Jouble-trunk Odessa-Lwow railroad, last practical escape route for the Nazi Dnieper bend forces. Still a third Russian column seized Tarascha, junction of four highways 23 miles southeast of Belaya Tserkov, in a nine-mile advance toward a junction with the Russian bridgehead below Cherkasi, 66 miles to the southeast, in a drive that would encircle sizable German forces on the west bank of the Dnieper. On the central front, the 1st Baltic Army captured 90 more towns and villages, including Vlasye, 20 miles north of Nevel and only six mites south of Novosokoini, junction of the Odessa-Leningrad and Moscow-Riga railways. The Germans counter-attacked several times with infantry and tanks in one sector, but were repulsed with a loss of 14 tanks and two .self-propelled guns. The Russians killed 400 German*

PACK RIDIN’ PUPPY—Just so his puppy pal won’t get lost In shuffle, New Zealand soldier carries pup on his pack, as he climbs 30 feet up side of a transport, somewhere in South Pacific. Pup soon will become real dog of war.

Railway Dispute Outlook Brighter WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 (UPi Leaders of 18 railway unions turned back to their tangled wage dispute today with the outlook appearing brighter for a settlement. More than 200 representatives •>f three operating unions the firemen and enginemen. the conductors and the switchmen assembled here to review recent developments in which their refusal to accept presidential arbitration brought govemmen seizure of the railroads to avert a strike. The chiefs of 15 non-operating unions scheduled a session later today to discuss President Roosevelt's latest move, the reconvening of the emergency board Which awarded the 1,100.000 non-operating employes sliding scale of increase ranging from four to 10 cents. • j The board wao Instructed to coil aider the union’s additional claims for overtime, which were not an issue in the original case and were injected as a result of a conference with Mr. Rcosevelt last spring. 'Leaders of the non-operating group appeared uncertain whether the IPresident's order to reconvene the eimergency board accepted their position that the 10-4 cent increases no longer were in dispute. The unions originally rejected those increases but withdrew objection when they offered to submit the overtime issue alone to the President for arbitration. Mr. Roosevelt's arbitration proposal collapsed because the unions would not accept a management argument that the sliding scale of increases should be reviewed if the overtime question were arbitrated. JAPANESE FLEET PLAYS WAITING GAME, BELIEF

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UP) Competent naval observers said today that failure of the Japanese fleet to come out and fight, rather than resulting from outright fear of the U. S. navy, was apparently rnotivat ed by Intentions of the Japanese high command to await the tune and conditions most favorable to them. These observers, who have followed closely all developments in the Pacific, believed that the Japanese were waiting for the U. S. fleet to came into areas where they could use powerful land-based air forpos as support for surface elements.. Furthermore, it was said, there is evidence that the Japanese are counting on a time when the U. S. fleet is so split up that they can “polish it off” piecemeal by throwing overwhelming forces against each segment. The major portion of the Japanese fleet is reported still at Truk, the big enemy naval base in the southwest Pacific. All efforts to lure it out for a fight, even to the extent of American carrier task force sweeps within Truk's patrol areas, have failed to stir the Japanese.

EVACUATION ORDERED CAIRO. Jan. 6. (UP)—Reliable diiplomatic sources said today that the evacuation of civilians from Bessarabia, the disputed border province between Rumania and Russia, had been ordered by Gen. Ion Antonescu, Rumanian chief of state.

CITY COUNCILMAN HURT WHEN TWO CARS CRASH

City councilman Rex Thorlton was able to be down town today, following painful injuries to his right arm., shoulder, and leg as well as cuts and bruises in a crash of two autos, three miles west of Rockville Tuesday. Mr. Thorlton was riding with El-

don Rowings and they were enroute whlch will speed the day

to Newport at the time of the accident. A man by the name of Rubush, who got in the Rowings car at Rockville, suffered a broken leg in the mishap. Mr. Rowings escaped injury j but his car and the one which turned 1 in front of him, were badly damaged.

CONGRESSMEN GIVEN REPORT ON LEND-LEASE MR. ROOSEVELT IN FIRST DETAILED STATEMENT ON AID TO RUSSIA WASHINGTON. Dec. 6 (UP) President Roosevelt, reporting to Congress that American Lend-Lease expenditures new total more than $18,608,553,000, declared today that Kile major offensives agreed upon at Cairo and Tehran would "speed the day of victory" and the "uncondi1 tional surrender of the Nazis and

| Japanese.”

j In a lengthy report that contained J the first detailed disclosure cf war aid to Russia as well as obvious answers to congressional critics of Lend-Lease. Mr. Roosevelt emphasized again that the program would save American lives and be an imI portant factor in Shortening the war. The report, Mr. Roosevelt's 13th on lend-lease, was transmitted to the secretary of the senate and clerk of the House for formal presentation after congress reconvenes

next Monday.

"The coming year will be a year of decisive actions in the war." the President said in a letter of transmittal. "By combining their strengtlh, the United Nations have increased the power of the common drive to defeat the Axis. We have already beaten back cur enemies on every front on which we are engaged. “At Telhran and Cairo, plans were agreed upon for major offensives

of victory.

With the closer unity there achieved, we shall be able to strike ever-in-creasing blows until the unconditional surrender of the Nazis and th

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Pointing out that the cost of lendlease from its start on March 11, 1941, through November of 1943 amounted to 13.5 per cent of all United States war expenditures for that period, the President said "the cost of the war to us, and to our Allies, is high in any terms." "The more fully we can now

Henry H. Evens, age 68 years, a mobilize our man[>ower, our supplies,

lifelong resident of Washington township and well know.n resident of the Poland community, died Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at the Putnam

county hospital.

Survivors are one brother, Albeit! Evens, who is a patient in the local hospital, and one sister, Mrs. Irwin Hapney of Reelsville.

and our other resources for the decisive tasks ahead," he said, "Uv earlier will victory be ours and the lower the final cost in lives and

i material wealth.

CHARGES WHITE HOUSE HAS USURPED POWERS

MILFORD, 111., Jan. 8.—(UP) —

Rep. Jesse Sumner, R., 111., said today she would not run for re-election because “the White House has usurp-

ed the powers of Congress.’’

Miss Sumner, serving her third! country;” more than 3,500 tanks and term in the House, said that “most I 185,000 motor vehicles all this in

The United Nations enter the new year stronger and more firmly united than ever before. Germany and Japan will tooth soon learn that

to their sorrow."

The report dramatized in multiple ciphers the increasing flow of American (war aid to the Allies. In the section on supplies for Russia, t'lie (President cited figures showing that througfi last October the Soviet union received nearly 7,000 airplane? “more than any other lend-lease

of the major questions of policy are now decided by the White House instead of Congress.” "About all a rank and file representative can do now is try to keep informed and, when colossal blunders are made, urge that they be corrected,” she said. “Until some president is elected who believes in representative government enough to appoint administrators to liquidate our expanding bureacracy, it is practically a farce to insist that we still have a republic.” Miss Sumner said there probably would be a formal peace conference after the war, but that the issues probably would be “settled in advance at secret meetings like the nes at Moscow, Cairo and Teheran.”

MORE DONORS NEEDED It was estimated today that 75 more blood donors are needed for next Wednesday's blood bank here. Those desiring to aid this worthy cause are asked to register with the Putnam County License Bureau.

addition to vast quantities of fcid, clothing, steel, and munitions. The President's report also went into the post-war problems of oil

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Biiruaec I’ritelianl, Jr.

Burnace Pritchard Jr., is the son if Mr. and Mrs Burnace Pritchard of Limedale. He entered service In the Seabees July 22, 1943 and is now stationed at Port Hueneme, Calif. His address is Burnace Pritchard, Jr . S 2 c. 122 N. C. B. Cc. C-4. Port

Hueneme, Calif.

BORGEN BAY NEW GOAL OF U. S. MARINES

AMERICANS HAITI.E THEIR WAY SOUTHWARD FROM

(APE GLOUCESTER

ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Nvw Guinea, Jan. 6 i UP) U. S. Marines, backed by | c *_ r ' ve tanks, artillery and planes, battled their way southeastward from Cape Gloucester against strong resistance today in a determined effort to smash Japanese forces at adjacent

Borge.n Bay.

Front reports indicated the enemy had rallied strength after yielding the Cape Gloucester airstrips in northwestern New Britain and for

the first tune since the

landed Dec 26 was offering serious opposition. A Japanese counter-attack was repulsed Tuesday, but enemy artillery still was pounding Ameri-

can-held Target hill.

Marines who landed on the west side of Ca|, - Gloucester joined in the American attack after uniting forces with the main beachhead units at Sagsag. Four light Japanese air raids on the Cape Gloucester aiea be fore dawn Tuesday caused light

casualties.

Allied bombers, meantime, blasted Japanese shipping over a wide area, blowing up two freighters of 2,000 and 4,000 tons and damaging a.n escort vessel at Koepang, Timor, and scoring hits on a cruiser 15 miles northeast, of Kavieng, New Britain. Other Allied plants started large fires at Kaviong airdrome and harbor Monday night and Tuesday and shot down three oQ 19 enemy fighters. Solomons-based American fightvrs destroyed six and probably 11 out of

production and use of foreign air- 20 defending planes in a sweep over

PRISON POPULATION DOWN MICHIGAN CITY, Jan. 6- (UP— The Indiana state prison population stood at 1,986 inmates today, lowest since 1928, according to Warden Alfred Dowd. Doiwd credited better times and abundant jobs for decrease in admissions. II. W. WORRALL DIES Harley V. Worrall of Indianapolis, husband of Mrs. Mary Long Worrall, passed away early Thursday morning at the Veterans hospital in Indianapolis, after an Illness of several months. Mr. Worrall is survived by the widow, and two sons. Lt. Robert L. Worrall of Newport, Ark. and James Worrall at home.

ports, putting before congress two suggested international agreements —to provide for "fair and equal access" by the United States and other nations to world oil pnoduction, and to establish a system of "general military security” to watch over world airfields. Aid to Russia through last October was valued at $3,550,443,000 “or more than one-fourth of lend-lease exports to all countries.” The flow of American material to the Red army was gr^Uy speeded in 1943, with the ratio during Che first 10 months of 1943 some 63 per cent higher than tor all of 1942. Tota^ lend-deaSe exports to thi | United Kingdom were valued at $5,980.379.000 some $2,168,299,000 went to Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean area, and $1,60.1,346.000 to China, India, Australia, and .New Zealand. These figures covered the period from Maroi 11 1941, through October, 1943 whereas the over-all total of $18,608,553,000 covered the period through November. Possibly ag a reply to critics of government spending policies in South and Central America, the report said that from March, 1941, to October 31, 1943, total lend-lease shipments to Latin America amounted to $116,543,000 and that the arrangements to supply war equipment to those countries had the approval of the high command. The report observed that “no lendlease aid is being furnished to the republic of Argentina," the only one of the Latin American countries still maintaining relations with the Axis. It omphasized a number of other (Continued on Page Two)

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Rapopo airdrome at Rabaul, BrBitain, with a loss of two

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On New Guin'ea, American Sixth army troops fanned out inland and along the coast southeast of their new beachhead at Saidor, while Australians rounded the southeastern corner of the Huon Peninsula and reached Cape William, some 70 miles southeast of Saidor. The Australians reported decreasing resistance as the Japanese retreat became more chaotic. Huge quantities of supplies and equipment were being captured. American Kittyhawks intercepted Japanese bombers attempting to attack Allied shipping at Saidor and forced them to jettison their bombs without hitting a single vessel. Two bombers and three of their escortfighters were shot down against a loss of only one Allied plane. Allied bombers hit the Japanese base at Madang, 55 miles north of Saidor, and adjacent Alexishafan airdrome, starting large fires and silencing at least five guns. FOURTH WAR LOAN DINNER Putnam County is to be well rop-iN-sented at the Indiana War Finance District meeting tonight, according to John C. Vermillion, Chairman for Putnam county in the Fourth War Loan drive. Members of the local committee who are planning to attend the TVrre Haute meeting are asked to meet at the Central National Bank at 4:30 this afternoon and transportation has been arranged. Committee members will be dinnbr guests of Anton Hulman, Jr., of Terre Haute, chairman of Vigo County’s Fourth War Loan Drive.

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Allied forces rained telling blows

on axis Europe today, pressing a full-dress offensive on the Fifth Army front in Italy, pounding the continent from the Baltic to France by air, and battering through crumb-

ling Nazi defenses in Russia. 'The pre-invasion bombardment of

western Europe picked up steady momentum with British bombers 1. i striking in foi . • the Baltic port k [ of Stettin and thrusting at Berlin ! while daylight raiders hammered lelentlessly at the Fit nch coast after American heavy bombers had carried out their most widespread as-

sault of the war.

Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s AngloAmerican troops surged against tli‘ German defenses astride the road to Rome in the wake of one of the heaviest rolling barrages of the Italian campaign. They advanced a mile along a 10-mile front and were fighting through the streets of Sa:i Vittore in bloody struggles at close

quarters.

Russian tioops drove within 20 miles of the Odessa-Warsaw railroad, the last major route of escape for an estimated 1,000,000 Germans threatened with encirclement in the

Dnieper bend.

The British air attack on Stettin gave added significance to a Russian

on the Baltic frontier, now

threatening the Sokoliniki junction of the Odessa-Leningrad and Mos-

cow-Riga trunk railroads.

Stettin, city of warehouses, shipyards, arms works and refineries, is the main supply port for the northern Russian front. The RAF hit it by moonlight with a heavy weight

of explosives.

Simultaneously British Mosquito

Marines | bombers thiust at’ Berlin for the

second straight night and also attacked other targets in western Ger-

many and northern France.

The record raid by American heavy bombers yesterday hit Kiel, western Germany, Bordeaux and Tours. It cost 25 bombers and 12 escorting fighters, but 95 German

defense planes were shot down.

Manifestly the allies had launched their pre-invasion softening of western Europe, though it was a matter of broadest speculation as to how much time would be devoted to the aerial preliminaries. Comparisons with the pre-invasion campaigns against Mediterranean islands and Italy suggested that weeks if not months might be required for the

larger task.

In Jugoslavia, Marshal Josip Brozovich’s Partisans were engaged in bloody street fighting with the Gei mans in Banja Luka. Nazi armored headquarters. The Partisans were leported to have driven the Germans from the entire 60-mile Cetina valley in Dalmatia.

JOHN EARNSHAW HEADS FROZEN FOODS CONCERN The annual meeting of the Putnam County Frozen Foods, Inc., was held Wednesday evening at the plant on east Washington strvet. John W. Earnshaw who recently purchased the controlling stock, was elected president. Mis. K.irnshaw was named vice president and Paul Johnson was elected secretary-treasurer. The above four wen? also elected directorsand in addition, others named include Harry Allan, Walter Cox, J. S. Simison and Edgar Prevo SUIT FOR DIVORCE Lela Whitlatch. through het attmneys Hughes & Hughes, has filed suit for divorce in the Putnam ciicuit court from Milton Whitlatch.

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