The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 January 1944 — Page 1
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RES FEATURE SUNDAY THEKING OF 4TH WAR LOAN WORKERS
^ The Marines Can Take It
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Ar)( especially prepared film of ratual war pictures is to be shown at the Fourth War Loan mass meeting in the High School Auditorium, MjMty. January 9. at 2:00 o'clock. ThnpRgli school band has bevn invited to contribute the musical portion of the program. JoRn C. Vermillion, county chairma.n/ for the Fourth War Loan drive, will preside and several short talkR have been scheduled. All township chairmen, vice-chairmen, and their volunteer worker teams, are urged to attend this important meating and it is optn to the public. Additional volunteer workers are needed and they are asked to offer their Bvrvices by calling 99, the WarflLoan office. Twenty eight Putnam county Fourth War Loan Drive workers attended' the district meeting at the Terre Haute House in Terre Haute on Thursday evening. Representatives of six surrounding counties were present. John Vermillion, chairman of the j Putnam county drive, was at the speakers table along with fliose of the Indiana War Loan Committee of Indainapolis.
Marin* Corps Photo The bandaged Marine on the stretcher at a dressing station on Tarawa proves that he not only can dish it out but that he can also take it, as he calmly smokes a cigarette as traction is applied to a fractured leg. Note the flat, sandy beach that the Marines had to take first, before they could get at the Jap defenders. Every War Bond you buy backs UP these fighting men. From U. S. Tttnucr
FRED I. WILLIS GIVES UP SCOTTISH RITE POST Fred I. Willis, who has been secretary of the Scottish Rite bodies in Indianapolis for the past 16 years, submitted his resignation at the business meeting of Adoniram Lodge of Perfection at the Cathedral Wednesday night. Many members of the Scottish Rite throughout Indiana know Mr., Willis well. He is a brother of United States Senator Raymond F WilUs.
Lt. Brant Writes RED SPEARHEADS From Nazi Camp SET STAGE FOR
DECISIVE BLOWS
The first communication from Lt. ! Laurence F. Brant, Jr., well known j local lad. since his internment in a ] German prison camp has been re- ' ceived by his mother here. Young i Brant entrained for Camp Shelby in
January of 1941. and was shipped MOSCOW , Jnn . 7 (UP) Russian out of this country in May of lad spearheadSi settin g the stage for
LATE WAR NEWS An Axis-controlled Hungarian report asserts that crack Allied troops have landed on the Adriatic coast of
>1 ugoslavia.
RUSSIANS SEEK TO SMASH ENTIRE GERMAN ARMY IN
SOUTH RUSSIA
A bus-train crash in Arizona rosiilted in the deaths of 26 Army Air
Force cadets.
RAILWAY RIFT GROWS BETWEEN BROTHERHOODS
THREE UNIONS DENOUNCE OTHER TWO FOR ACCEPTING FDR ARBITRATION WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. (UP) The rift am ng the five operating railway brotherhoods became more embittered today as three of th< unions formally denounced the other two for accepting President Roosevelt’s arbitration of their wage
dispute.
Meeting to plan the next m ve :.i | the wage controversy, 214 reprej sentatives of the three unions the i j firemen and enginemen. conductors and switc.'.men adopted u resolution last night condemning the “dishonorable action” of the trainmen and engineers unions “as being inimical to the interests ;>f all em- ' ployes engaged in engine, train and
j yard service.”
The conference continued today to discuss President Roosevelt’s fivccent arbitration award to the trainmen and engineers. The award, made as compensation for overtime or away-from-home expense, supplemented an emergency board's award of four cents. The other three unions might receive the same consideration if they should agree to arbitration or to negotiate the five-cent provision in an agreement with management
representatives.
The resolution condemning the trainmen and engineers said their action had “resulted in destruction of a unified labor front, which action is without parallel in railroad labor
SERVING COUNTRY
K 1 rdis L Miller A. S. is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Miller of near OoatefYtRe. His address is Heidis L. Miller, A. S., Company 1617, U. S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, 111.
5TH ARMY GAINS AGAINST NAZIS; BITTER FIGHTING BREACH GEIiMW DEFENSES! HIGH IN SNOW-CAPPED
APPEN NINES (By United Press)
Miller
ALLIES HAVE PRODUCED NEW SUPER-PLANE FIGHTER CAPABLE OF 60(1 MILES AN HOUR WILL HAST-
EN VICTORY
WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. (UP)
The imminent prospect of new superpiane.s capable of traveling between 1500 and 600 miles an hour and esI pecially of new warplanes that may | hasten victory was raised today | with the Uicial announcement that a secret, jet-propelled allied fightei
soon will be in production.
Existence of the new fighter was disclosed last night by the U. S. Army Air Forces and the Royal Ail Force in a jcint announcement that gave no spec.fic data on speed, range
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Marines Taking r Heavy Jap Toll ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, Jan. 7 (UP)—U. S. Marines were reporte ' killing Japanese by the hundreds today in a slow, tedious advance toward Borge.n Bay in northwestern New Britain against the toughest rvsistance they have encountered since they land', d on Cape Gloucester, Dec. 26. Six hundred enemy troops were killed Tuesday alone, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said, boosting thv Marines' toll of Japanese the lan ling past the 2,000 mark. An official spokesman reported that the fighting was especially fierce in the inland jungles, where thick underbrush and rough terrain make machine-guns, rifles, bayonets, grenades and knives the principal weapons On the aerialfront, carrier-based American planes made their third raid sincj Christmas on Kavieng. Japanese stronghold 150 miles northwest of Rabaul, and damaged heavily two destroyers with 1.000-pounr’ bombs and torpedoes, -ight intercepting enemy fighters and a bomber were shot down against a loss of one American plane and damage to others. Supplementing the raid on shipping. lanAtased Allied medium bombers made a night raid on Panapai airdrome, one mile from Kavieng, and hBarby Kaselok plantation, starting fires. American fighters from Bougainvill# continued their daily sweeps ovef, Rabaul. shooting down 10 to 15 enemy aircraft out of a formation of 30 that sought to intercept them. Onqp-American plane was lost.
MARRIAGE LICENSE . 'jkJhferett Eugene Gowin and Mar■flpl Helen Keck, both of Roadhdale.
year. His letter follows:
October 25. 1943. t
Dear Mother:
I hope this letter finds you and the | family well and happy. 1 am well | and getting along fine. 1 won’t be able to write to the rest, because I can send only a few letters a montn. but 1 can receive as many as you send. Tell them all to write often. There are some things I want you to send me. See the Ri d Cross and find out now much you can send. Clothing undershirts, drawers, bath towels. P. J.s, handkerchiefs, gloves, good, candy, cakes, dried fruit, nuts, sugar or anything that you can send. Also R. blades toothpowder, comb. Buy a good pipe off of Bob S. and tell him Hello for me. Don’t forgot tobacco, cigarettes and cigarette
papers.
We get Red Cross boxes. I am a German prisoner, but don’t worry about me. I am getting along swell. Give my regards to everyone. I will close, hoping you have a Merry Christmas. I will write as often as I can. Lave, Laurence F. Brant, Jt. Mrs. Brant, in accordance with instructions from International Red Cross will be permitted to send a box to Junior about the middle of the current month. Only she, as next of kin' is permitted to send him the. type of articles he has expressed a wish for. However, if any of his friends care to contribute to the eleven pound limit package, she’is willing that they do so. Prisoners of war in Germany may receive one package of books each month provided they have been packed and sent from a book dealer and that the package weighs not over five pounds. Junior's mother hopes his friends will comply with his request for letters. Me. may receive them in any number. His address is as follows: Prisoner of War Mail, Postage Free. 2nd Lt. Laurence F. Brant, Jr., American P. O. W. 3088. OFLAG 64. Germany, Via: New York, New York. Return address of writer on
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FORMER CLAY COUNTY SHERIFF ON ‘JOB AGAIN BRAZIL. Jan. 7. Maurice Tilley vvas back oh the job today as sheriff of Clay county. '» A month ago. he was inducted into the coast guard and sent to the east coast but he was given a medical discharge. His wife served as sheriff during lis absence.
A. F. Whitney, president of the trainmen, commented that he bej lieved that any “desertion” had been done by the other three organizations and that the five had been
\Ivors are not expected to live and identification of Ihc vietims has not
decisive strategic blows to smash the | been announced, entire German army In Southern | —
Russia, rolled westward a dozen I Complete evacuation of German . „ miles beyond the old Polish borde. fon ,. s ln 1{llsfila ,, unt ieipated as the| ,nakin K lheir llect8ions indlVlllUa,ly
and thrust deeper in to the German ! Kl|ss j. ins NW( . e p forward on a 200- an<1 not as a umt flank on the approaches to Rumania j mn ,. froll( rmifing all Nazi opposi-
tion, pent rating deep into Poland and rapidly approaehing Rumania.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. (UP) The nation produced more than 8,800 airplanes in December, u gain over j the record of 8,789 in November bui | short of the 9,000 goal confidently I expected by War Production Board i olficiais, it was learned today. The objective vv uld have been achieved.
it was understood, had th;> army not | * Hat enemy bastion
withheld acceptance, for various reasons, of a large number of planes
at the last moment.
today.
The Germans retreated in disorder, abandoning arms and munitions, as Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin’s first Urkainian army intensified its campaign all around a 275-mile front west and south of Kiev. Eighty towns and villageo fc’l to t’Vj Russians yesterday and the enemy retreat in some sectors was taking on the appearance of a rout. (German broadcasts and news dispatches indicated that further re-
The 15-non-operating union chiefs also continued conferences on the President’s action reconvening the emergency board which granted th 1 1.100.000 non-operating employes raises ranging from four to 10 cents. After a conference yesterday, a union spokesman said the officials were attempting to interpret the President's order but had reached no decisions or conclusions. The unions
LONDON, Jan. 7.—(UP)—Power- j wer ® u,ice. tain whether the order tut forces of American Marauder left the P rev,ous awa, ; d
< APE MAY, N. .L, Jan. 7.—(UP)
—< on-t Guard cutters stood by today to pick up survivors from a navy patrol bout which sunk til sea about 60 miles southeast of here after col-
liding with a merchant ship.
bombers carried the aerial offensive' llu V * iad 1,1 1
treats were contemplated. The Nazi- ., KuinM Fr ,. nch tension coast
controlled Sca.-idi avian Telegraph
years ago Friday 'Airs C. J. Arnold was visiting relatives in New York City. i^Hrs. Guy Pickens was a visitor in Indianapolis. fjlphn Vermillion. county school ■U|>trintendent, visited the schools In Ctblton township. Wheeler was home on fur:h from the U. S. Army He and promoted to corporal.
bureau quoted a German military spokesman as saying that the Nazi military command “does not intend to keep Russian territory occupied only for reasons of prestige . . . if the Germans should be forced into total retreat from Russian soil, this would be a secondary question compared to whether the front had been broken along th'.' entire line.”) In their first confirmed penetration of pre-.var Poland, the Soviets advanced 18 miles west of Olevsk. swell miles east of the former border, and captured Rabitno, 11 miles west of the old frontier and only
260 miles from Warsaw.
The Russians took the high road north of the Olevsk-Sarny railroad through the Pripet marshes, ' merged from the marshes at Rakitno and swept on through a wide, 27-niile-long corridor toward the highway and
railroad junction of Sarny.
The fall of Sarny would widen the Soviet wedge between the German northern and southern fronts by cutting the only north-south railway east of a roundabout routed through
Brest Litovsk, 130 miles
west.
Thirty miles to the south, another Soviet column captured Gorodnitsa, terminus of a spur railroad two miles east of Rovno (Rowne) Province, the name by which the Soviets refer to that former Polish territory occupied by th’em in 1939. Gorodnitsa lies only 45 miles northeast of Rov.no, German administrative head-
quarters for the Ukraine.
Other elements of the 1st Ukrainian army facing Poland began a pincers drive against the railway Juiktion of Shepetovka, on the direct
line to Rov.no and Warsaw'.
The Russians completed the occupation of a 42-mile stretch of the
railway westward from
ialo its third day today, following night attacks h> the RAK’s speedy Mosquito raiders on targets in tiie spine area and in western Germany.
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-1 gieis, Jan. 7—(UP) — American | tanks and Infantry of 1.1.-Gen. Mark | \V. C lark’s 5th Army pounded Get-< man nuicide troops into three nor-j rowing death pockets in the streets ol Ran Vittore tudny and a breakthrough into (lie valley road to Romo
apjieared imminent.
in effect as
with only their
overtime claims to be settled. Management officials had contended that the award should be reviewed if the overtime issue was to be injected
into the dispute.
Putnam Younth Gets Air Medal
Mrs. Abe Roberts Died Last Night
Mrs. Mary Roberta, age 48 years, wn .■ of Abe Roberts, Oommercial Place, died Thursday night at 9:30 o'clock at the Putnam county hos-
pital.
Mrs. Roberts was taken to the h spital late yesterday afternoon after she suffered a stroke of ap-
farther | poploxy. One of her sons found her
in an unconcsious condition when he
[ The following item was recently
printed in the Berne, Indiana newspaper and concerns a former Put-
nam county youth, who has many.
.... M t : I on oxygen from the outside, relatives here now, as well as friends ....
Both principles are similar in
and altitude. But it said that several hundred successful flights with the propeller-less planes had already been made there and abroad, “many of them at high altitudes and e.\tiune speed and all with ut a single
mishap.” » ^
While the announcement carefully avoided mention of exact speeds, the London Daily Mail said the new plane probably would have a horizontal speed of between 500 and 600 miles an houi. Few, if any, current propeller type planes have attained that range, although they have ex-
ceeded it in vertical dives.
The principle of jet propulsion on which the new fighter plane works differs from the rocket principle, although there are many resemblances. including the absence of a pro- | peller. Jets involve compression, heating and expansion of air mixed with fuels, whereas rockets carry I their combustile oxygen in the fuels. Thus, a jet-propelled machine is limited to the stratosphere while a Rocket maclftne theoretically could hove ahead indefinitely and fly of into space because it does not depend
land road to Rom. British Fifth Army forces, hitting | along n sector extending five 'miles | south of the highway, advanced t > | a point just west of Rocca d'Bvan-
| dro.
On the Adriatic coast, Indian 5 troops of the British Eighth Army ploughed ahead yard by yard west of San Tomasso. Front dr patches made no mention cf the Canadian column believed advancing up the coastal road three miles north of Ortona and less than eight miles below Pescara, Adriatic terminus oC the trans-peninsula road to Rome. Capture of Mount Majo gave tho Americans control of the supply road from Cervaro to beleaguer' 1 San Vittore, whose seizure would permit Fifth Army tanks to plunge j on down the “alley road to CasI sino. six miles to the north and the
protectin'' the
Rome road.
American attack planes virtually unchallenged, peunded incessantly at the German rear lines beyind | San Vittore, and hit the railway j line at Fondi, 20 miles north of the | battle lines. Duly two Allied | planes were reported miaring aft' - i yesterday’s missions. Taking up the Allied aii offen1 sive over Europe. British Iwini engined ’.VIosqirtT < born’ 1M atlacki d unspecified targets in western Germany amt northern France last night without lo^s.
who (will he interested to learn of his
recent honors:
12th AAF Troop Carrier Command, Jan. 3. 1st Lt. Sammuel M. Blue, e«f 418 Hoosier street, Berne, Indiana, pilot of a troop catrier aircraft has been awarded the AirMedal for participation in the invasion of Italy last September. Lt. Blue is (the son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Blue, his father being principal of Monroe high school. Brig. Gen. G. H. Beverley of Marsalis, Texas, wing commanding, pin-
leturned home from school. I ned the coveted decoration on the Surviving 'bes.de the husbind are | ^ f'f/ in ^l, Pr “ ° f U '
five children.
Funeral arrangements will be an-
nounced later.
Approval Given 1944 4-H Club Fair
The young couple who was found in an unconscious condition in a car last Saturday suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and exposure are still patients in the Putnam county hospital. The young man, Leonard R. Sylvester, is reported improving. Miss Dorothy Schlendar of Syracuse, Neb. remains in a serious condition.
INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 7 (UP) — The 1944 Indiana State Fair 4-H club show was assured today by the Indiana State Fair Board as members
Berdichev j approved general plans despite a
with the capture of Miropol, 26 miles $17,971 deficit for this yeai s fair, east of Shepetovka, and sent van- Albert C. Derr, Boonvllle, boatd guards racing six mih-s to the south- president, said members agieed at west in an attempt to outflank yesterday’s meeting that many ex-
Col. John Cerny, cf Spokane, Wash, grvaip commander, and mem-
bers of the organization.
Shepetovka from the south
SERIOUSLY ILL Mr. and Mrs. Ray Trembly weio summoned to Columbus Friday by the serious Illness of his father, J. C. Trembly, former Greencastle wholesale merchant.
penscs incurred this year in starting a new type of show would be eliminated next year. The exact date for the show will be decided later, he
said.
The board announced it had a balance of $134,933.19. including a
$100,000 war December 31.
bond, on hand as of
The citation reads: ”. . . for meritorious achievement while participating in a night aerial flight as ^ member of a ccmbat crew In unarmed, unarmored, and unescorted Troop Carrier aircraft, at an altitude of less than 500 feet, over enemy held terrain. The skill, and courage, the devotion to duty, exemplified by Lt. Blue contributed in a large degree to the successful dropping of paratroops over designated dropping zones and reflects great credit upon him, the XII Troop Carrier Command, and the United States Army Air Foices.” The daring night flight over the German lines at Salerno and deep into German the enemy held territory near Avellino where the paratroops were dropped, has been hail- ( ed by Allied commanders as a significant contribution to the J present offensive of the 5th Army
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they involve the creation of tremendous pressures of energy which, when released, drive the craft ahead. Th speed depends on the amount of the energy released at a given time. ARMY CENSOR PROHIBITS MARCH FREE DISCUSSION NEW YORK, Jan. 7. -Film Actor Frederic March, who returned today from a 33,000-mile tour of military camps abroad, was prohibited by an army public relations officer from discussing with Interviewers the opinions of soldiers concerning strikes on the home front. The officer, Capt. Fred Driver, was stationed at the press confe’ence in USO-camp shows hearquarters to give army clearance on any statements March and Comedian Sammy Walsh made about their 14 weeks trip over five continents. COLD WAVE IS EXPECTED IN VICINITY OVER TONIGHT The Indiana Weather Bureau today forecast another severe cold wave for Indiana s me time tonight, with a minimum of from 5 to 15 above zero for various sections cf Indiana. WORRALL RITES SATURDAY Private funeral services will be held for Harley V. Worrall Saturday afternoon from the Rector Funeral Homo, in charge of Dr. Claude M. McClure. Burial will be In the Masonic cemetery at Crawfordsville.
U. S. Marine Ace Reported Missing OKANOGAN. WASH., Jnn 7. (UPI The m ther of Maj. Gregory Boyington, swashbuckling marine ace re| • rtod missing after he tied the American r cord of two wars by downing 26 Japan si planes, -aid witlh quiet convin.tion t lav lint “we know Greg will ccmc bark " The flier’s mother, Mrs E. I Hal* lenbeck, was in* lined by the navy last nigh’,- that hi r sm failed to return from a raid on Rabaul Harbor Jan. 3. Only a few hours befor •, Mrs. llallenbcck had learned that Boyingt n ..ad shot down his 26th plane in the fighter sweep ovei Rabatll to tie the record f Marin Maj. Joe F ss in this war, and the teat of Capt Eddie Rickenbucker in the last one. Mrs. Hallenbeck took the news that her son was missing almly. "I have faith that he will cotno back alright," she said. BoyingUm's three-year-old daughter, who lives with an aunt at Seattle, was loo young to understand, but she knew something was wrong. When She said her prayers la t night, she [iiawed: ‘■Phase, God, bring daddy back.” The Marine hepi's other two children, Gregory, Jr., 7 and Janet Sue, 5, were staying with neighbors last night, and the news was kept from
them.
41 Today’s Weathrr a • and • 41 Local Temperature 4i Much colder today an i te,night with temperatures ranging from fivu above in north [Kirtion to 15 above in south portion Saturday morning; continued col I Saturday; partly cloudy to cloudy through Saturday. Minimum 24 6 a. m. 25 7 a. m 25 8 a. m. 24 9 a. m. . 24 10 a in. 24 11 a. m 25 12 noon 23 1 p. m 27 2 p. m 27