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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, JATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1944.

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MAIN TARGETS WERE RERUN l AND FRENCH INVASION COAST POSITIONS LONDON, Jan. 22 (UP) - Big fleets >f British bombers sent a new nonstop Anglo-Ajnerican aerial offensive against invasion-jittery Europe into Itafcsecand day with block-buster raids on Germany and occupied territory last night. The double-pronged night assault aent the weight of bombs dropped in a little more than 24 hours by upwards of 3,000 British and American planes an targets ranging from Berlin to the French invasion coast to nearly 6,000 tans- an average of 200 to 500 tons an hour. *1110 first British announcement of the night raids did not identify •pecific targets, but Nazi radio stations as far east as central Germany went silent as the bombers, hundreds strong, swept out from Britain in two main formations. The largest armada streamed out icross the east coast in the direction of northwestern Germany for more than an hour, while the second headed across the southeast coast toward the French invasion shoreline. Frequent earth-shaking explosions from across the channel indicated the ■mailer force might be attacking the Pas de Calais area pounded by 1,500 Allied aircraft yesterday. A small number of German planes ■truck back with what apparently was intended to be a retaliation raid on London. Though the attack was the heaviest on the capital in more than a year, it was a feeble effort in comparison with the "blitz"' raids of 1940-41 and only a couple of tons of explosive and demolition bombs were dropped. A ffew fires were started and some houses demolished during the night’s two alarms, but British night fighter ■nd anti-aircraft batteries shot down eight of the raiders to score their OWir biggest victory in six months, j London's anti-aircraft gunners put j up their heaviest barrage of the war/The deafening din of crashing | shells drowned out ew.n the occasion- j \1 chrumii of a bursting bomb. British night fighters attacked the inemy planes as soon as they crossed the aoutheast coast. One pilot, Flight U. John Hall, shot down a Donnier ind a Junkers in his Mosquito. They were his first victims. An estimated 1,500 Allied planes, from four-engined American Flying Fortresse s and Liberators to singleengtned British Typhoons and Hurricanes, dropped nearly 2,000 tons of bombs along the French invasion coast In daylight yesterday. Targets were identified only as in the Pas De Calais area, but they presumably included gun emplacements. barracks, airfields and communications. Eiteniy fighter opposition gunerally was weak, but anti-aircraft fire was heavy and six American heavy bombers two light bombers and three fighters wertj lost. Nineteen enemy plans were shot down. Berlin, hit by the RAF Thursday night in the 11th heavy raid since November 18, has been evacuated of virtually everyone but workers and ioldiers as result of the Allied obliteration offensive, Delegardo Olivares, Berlin correspondent of the Spanish newepaper Arriba, wrote on his return to Madrid on leave, a Madrid dispatch reported. “There are trenches everywhere, dug Bo as to afford immediate shelter to (jho.se who happen to be are ind when an air raid warning is sounded,”tOiivares wrote. “There are barrage balloons all over the place and anti-aircraft batteries have been placed in the most unexpected points. “An immense acreage of ruined louses has bec,n totally abandoned. The few remaining Merliners. tired of JOthering about their homes and untsehold goods, live in huts and cellars, eating municipal food and gong‘somberly about their work.”

NAZI TROOPS ARE FLEEING IN DISORDER

REDS H A V E < OM1M.ETELY ROUTED GERMAN NORTH-

WESTERN FRONT UN i .S

MOSCOW. Jan. 22. i UP) Red armies cleared the Germans from a second direct railway between l^mingrad and Moscow today and pressed on in pursuit of en my nuits fleeing in disorder from their shattered northwestern front defenses. The Soviet high command said the j remnants of German divisions which i j besieged Leningrad for more than |

years were

serving country NEW BEACHHEAD

ESTABLISHED BY ALLIES IN ITALY

Wm. M orris Crowe, gunnel s mate s e c o n J class, of the C S. Navy, is away

on sea duty, is the son Mrs Kosa Cl owe and

He Of aT. the

FOK A SHOT AT NAZIS—Yank gun crew somewhere In Italy busy with small ‘tasks as men wait for orders to warm up the Nazis. Each time gun is tired, quarters grow larger, for their “house“ background, Is walled with shell cates.

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20 Years Ago » QRJCKN CARTER

Harry Moore, Paul Cook and Oris Lush attended a state convention of

shoe dealeis in Indianapolis.

Roy Aubrey was home from Indianapolis where he was attending

Corttral Businass College,

Plan Class For USO Hostesses Plans are being made for a senior hostess training class to be o»nducted by the Volunteer Sendee Committee of U. S. O. Putnam county women who are willing to serve as senior hostesses in either of the local U. S. O. centers, Liberty Ship or the Elks, are invited to attend the three hour instruction class planned for the evening of Thursday January 27, at 7:30 p. m., in Liberty Ship. After that date, only women who have received this instruction will be called upon for hostess duty until another instruction period is held. Numerous registrations have already been made and additional ones are now receivable by post card addressed to Mrs. John Cartwright, GreencastlS chairman of the volunteer services committee. Senior hoetesses-in-charge, will continue a s directors of botli centers Members of this committee include: Mrs. Marshall Abrams, Miss Grace Browning, Mrs. Jeannetta Bills, Mrs. Wilbur Crawley, Mrs. Joe Crosby Mrs. Charles Lemmink, Mrs. George Long. Miss Virginia Miller, Mrs Fred Pease, Mrs. Gene Pennington Mrs. Perry Rush, Mrs. L. G. Sts 1 ', ings, and Mrs. Russell Vermillion Miss Libby Rogers is in charge of program planning. u. S. S. READY FOR EXPANDED PROGRAM IN '44 NEW YORK (UP) With the American Merchant Marine playing an ever-enlarging role in the prosecution of relentless war against the Axis, United Seamen’s Service is prepared to handle an unprecedentedly large number of men during 1944 in its more than 60 world-scattered centers, it was announced by Douglas P. Falconer, executive director of H.S.S. Approximately •kis.000 days about 244.000 during 1943. At the residential clubs abroad, operated at the U.S.S. residential clubs in the United States, compared with lodgings will be supplied the mer in co-operation with the War Shipping Administration, a minimum of 200.000 day's lodgings will be provided. Mr. Falconer said, compared with about 70,000 in 1943, when only part of the present vast U.S.S. network was in operation. The total of check-ins at home and abroad in the recreation and residential clubs is expected to be nearly 1.260.000 the U.S.S. director stated, compared with about 721,770 in 1943. At the five rest centers operated in the United States by United Seamen's Service in concert with the W.S.A an aggregate of alwut 46,000 hospital days was recorded for 1943. Mr. Falconer said that if the present load continues during 1944 there will be at least 56,400 hospital days of service rendered at these centers for; the con-

voy men.

“United Seamen’s Service to date,” Mr. Falconr said, “has kept pace with our armed forces, opening centers in North Africa. Sicily and Italy and in the South Seas soon after our troops had pushed the enemy back. In anticipation of the imminent invasion of Europe, U.S.S. is ready to move in and establish centers for merchant seamen in Frartce, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway or any other place in which military i befiehhends are established.”

FREE MAILING TO BE DENTED III’REAl *

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. iUP» A joint congressional oe nomy com- I mittee has recommended abolishing the free mailing privileges of all gov ernment agencies except the War Navy and Treasury departments. The committee proposes that evi n those departments be removed from the free-mail list after the war. The committee reported to the Senate that two-billion pieces f such mail now are issued annually by the ex-

ecutive departments.

Boy Scouts To Help In March Of Dimes

Fred Pga.se of the local Boy Scouts executive council announced today that Greenastle Scouts would coop iate with the National Foundat- ei for Infantile Paralysis in the "Maj .: Of Dimes" drive now in progress The troops under Robert Patton and C. Clifford Frazier ate making plan 5 for a house to house canvass next week.

abandoning one

stronghold after anothei and ( isl- i ing aside their arms in a panicky attempt to escape a Soviet trap that threatened to annihilate 300,000 oi

them.

Enemy forces immediately south of Leningrad were squeezed into a hamile wide corridor that was disintergrating rapidly under Soviet

husband ami father of Mrs. Win. M. ( rim.- Virginia Hur - phrey Ci owe and little Uoani Ci owe.

MADANG SEEN AS NEW GOAL OF M'ARTHUR

L\NO ON WEST COAST \M> OUTFLANKED NA/.I DEFENSES BEFORE ROME ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Algiers, Jan. 22. (UP) American, British and Fiench troops and the Fifth Army swarmed aslion on tins Italian west coast far behind the fr nt today and seized a deep, milelong beachhead that outflanked the two most formidable German defense lines befofe Rome.

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I of Italy deep in the rear m U> pres-

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ADVANCED ALuIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea. Jan. 22

pressure from three ^idrs. Consider- *1 i 1 ) Alhei naval and air blasting , >f Japanese attempts to reinforce | V '"h strong attacks by othei mull

thvir new Guinea garrisons were re

able prisoners were being rounded up, the Soviet high command said.

Gen. Leonidna Govorov, command- j ported today by Gen. Douglas Mac

Surgical Dressings Room Will Re-Open Mrs. Joe McCord, instructor in charge of Surgical dressings, annrunces that the long belated December shipmeit of Red Cross surgical dressings material has arrived and tlie surgical dressings room in the MascnicjTemple will open, again, for "businels” Tuesday afternoon

January 25, at 2:00 p. m. j GeVmrns''from t“he 'Leningra'd'-Mga- wat " r " ,,f| ' Madan *' SH ' ,k fm,r en , em y The need for workers in the surgi- railn>ad . p r , vk(U . sly , f'oop-laden barges, and other medium ,al dressings loom is pressing, Mrs,. ^ ha( , u , rely on an omcr-I " " a l ^' tl ' s sa ' ! ’ k -° oar K us M ■ The 1 h cenib -j g.- l H* v line skirting Lak. Ladog > i i4a.mag«4 other - Hansa Bay shipment is he, the January ship-1 fpom yollthovstroi on the Volkhov " " ' ment’s bill of lading is in the Red I ,, . , ,, , . I h concentrated air attacks in the

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er of the Leningrad armies, and Gen Kyril A. Meretskov, liberator of Novgorod, re-opened the second direct railway line between Moscow and Leningrad yesterday with the capture of Mga, five-way railway junction 29 miles east southeast of

Leningrad.

Occupation of Mga and several surrounding localities cleared tire Germans from the Leningrad--Mga-

Arthur's communique, with the op-eratic,--is hinting a determined twoway drive on the strong enemy coastal has 1 - of Madang, on the northern

coast.

Allied medium bombers and fighters dropped 71 tons of bombs on Japanese positions in the upper Ramil valley; American P-T boats, speeding through the Japanese-controlled

Crosr office, as is a notice of the impending arrival of February mater-

ial. Simpson Stoner, Putnam county

chairman of Uie American Red

Cioss, urges that Putnam county i women volunteer as never before to

assist in making up this vital mat-

erial. It is hnii J (bat not only the faithfuls, those women who have been working -gularly since the dressings root., was ..op-ned, come back, but that new workers report

for duty at regular intervals. “Casualty lists are growing long-

from Volkhovstroi on the Volkhov River to Schusselburg and thence over a short line to Leningrad for communication between the country s

two largest cities.

It was over the emergency lin I built following the smashing of th • Leningrad blockade in December 1942, that the Russians relieve I tic

ol the Fifth Army, including British, French and American, in the Liu

valley.

"Amphibious attacks began before dawn when allied troops of the Kit Hi Army went ashore from landing craft al ng a deep front extending several miles from north to south. “British commandos and American Hangers are participating in tics attack. "Operations in Italy are under the direction of General Alexander, commander of the central Mediterranean force, formerly the 15th Army Group.”

An appeal \v r; "in '" by Rex Boyd. ; er ea h day,” Mr. Stoner said. "That

county chirman, to have cards filled as soon as possible and forwarded to Lois Arnold, treasurer Mr. Boyd also urged that all "special gift" donations be forwarded to Mr.

Arnold.

The men's organizations of the county are showing considerable interest in the effort to raise $700.00 in Putnam County and have responded generously. The Kiwanis, Rotary and Elks clubs of Greencastle and the Lions Club at Roachdale are among the organization? contributing to the fund to assist those children, the. victims of infantile paralysis.

Ramil valley, a headquarters spokes man said, indicated a possible Australian offensive vith limited objectives as the veteran jungle fighters ] | continued to improve their positions uly 30 miles south of Madang. The attacks by the P-T boats

hard pressed population of the for- ! n >x r *'l».V night carried them farthei mer Czarist capital with food ancl| n,,lth lha ''' at aM - v ti,m ‘ P revious, y fuel and rushed arms, equipment an,ll ,llul ,oUow ‘' 1 ' Alli *'' 1 ‘ n '’Xmunitlons to'GoVbibv to mount his I U ‘ ,,di "- contrul ,,f th ' coast to present offensive. I il P oint 45 milea below MadlH ^'

Govorov’s armies, advancing on a 21-mile front outh and east of Leningrad, and Meretskov- northern wing, advancing on a 16-mile front joined forces at Mga after captuiic. a score or nn r localities in th

respective sectoi •

all types of medical materials going to be needed in greater quantity than ever before is a foregone conclusion. .Surely, it is not asking too much of any Putnam county woman that she set aside two b urs a week, at least, for this important

work."

Open hours for the dressings room will begin on Tuesday, January 25, from 2:00 until 4:00 p. m., Wednesday 9:00 to 11:00 a. m.; Friday, 2:00 to 4:00 p. m. Beginning Monday,

January 31, the room will be open on j day niorning at his farm home w that day each week, too, from 2:00 to J () f Morton.

Milton Terry Found Dead This Morning Milton Tny, age 75 yeai • a i. tired farmer, was found dead Satin ,

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Navy crews reported that th' equipment of th 100 Japanese troops killed wh- n Dir barges sank indicated

lev were replacements for the „

.in , 1 1 rinidad Madang area r ather than troops be

Axis Spy Ring Probe Underway

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 22. i U7Pi The Argentine Government announced today that it was pressing a ''coi~^let' iirve-ftigation'' of an elh g.’d Axis ring in th e intiv

following the arrest of a t ie Argentine Consular Rritish collate! -e- |i.un i;.

nember of lerviee by ffic als at

T/g evacuated. Other Allied planes i.n night air , . trol off Wewak, 290 miles above Madang, damaged a 1,000-ton enemy i . ighter, while at Hansa Bay midway I between those two points, medium bombers, fighter-escorted, struck at enemy supply dumps and small shippi." g. The target area was covered

with fin .

British authorities at Trinidad d:

4:00 p, p. m.

m„ and from 7:30 to 9.30

CLUB MEETING JAN. TV*7 The mid-winter council meeting of Indiana Federation of Clubs will he held at Claypool hotel Jan. 25, 26 and 27. Hoosier Salon luncheon at noon Tuesday. Wednesday, b aid meeting. At 8 p. m. conference of department chairmen, district and county presidents. Thursday, 9:30 a. m., Juvenile Delinquency Forum with Mrs. Frederick Baltz, leader of discussion. Other speakers on juvenile delinquency are K. P. Pettijohn. F. B. I., Indianapolis: Judge Rhoads of Ma"ion County Juvenile Court; Govcrnot Schricker; Dr. Malan. state supt. of public instruct!: n, and others.

Fourth War Loan FOURTH WAR LOAN NOTES Wonder which township will reach the over-the-top mark first, this time. If our memory serves us rightly, it was Clinton, during Die Third War Loan. How you doin' ? LET ’EM HAVE IT! One of the women on Greencastle township's north section team, has come back to the Bond office twice for more supplies, and the kind of supplies we most enjoy putting aut - application blanks! We still have plenty. LET 'EM HAVE IT! Word comes to War Bond office that the girls in the four uptown Greencastle Bond booths are doing a rushing business. We heard of one purchaser who has a son in the South Pacific who made the rounds one recent afternoon and purchased a $500. Bond from each booth. "Don’t want to play favorites, was the re mark. And Friday afternoon, a $5,000 sale was made at one of these sales centers. BYE—BYE, BUY BONDS

LADING CLOVER PROVES GOOD INDIANA PASTURE

To Extend Control Over Farm Wages WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. (UP) War Food Administrator Marvin Jones today announced plans for extending government control ovei farm wage rates “wherever necessary" to check inflationary increases. Far wage rates have increased during the past year due to the labor shortage which tends to force wages upward, the WFA felt Mie need to apply a "check to prevent production costs from getting out of hand. Acting at the direction of Economic Stabilization Director Fred M Vinson. Jones issued regulations to govern procedure "for establishing wages and salaries of agricultural

workers.”

“State agricultural wage boards will be appointed where necessary to hold public hearings and assit in the establishing of specific wage ceilings and in determining penalties for violations by either employers or employes.” Uie announcement said. Tlie boards will be named by Jones to function in states where he deems wage controls necessary. They will function under supervision of Col. Philip G. Bruton, director of the WFA ofice of labor. The boards will function for agricultural workers in a manner similar to War Labor Board control over industrial wages. They are intendsd to prevent rises in farm production costs out of line with the stabilization program. Vinson ordered wages and salaries of agricultural workeis earning more than $2,400 a year frozen and ruled that they cannot receive increased

Mr. Terry who had been making - — his home with his son, Leo Terry iri.l I Ladino e'- \ i, i new pasture ern family, south Indiana street, ha. j introduced in Indiana just a yea gone on tin- fuim lo .spend a f.-.v) ago, i-■ giving a good a e unt ef d

days.

.Surviving are two sons. Leo of Greencastle and .jwight Tcrrj

who has been reported missing m

action in Italy; one daughter, M> *

Herbert Flint of Greencastle; one sister, Mis. Oliver Hudkins of Paris, Calif., and one brother Wilson Terry of • Bakersfield, Calif., and lour

grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Mo iday at 2 p. m. at Union Chapel church near Morton. Burial in ti e cemetery nearby. Friends may ca l at the Rector Funeral Home BARNIIARDT RESIGNS George E. Barnhardt, of Brazil, personnel director of the Indiana State Highway Commission, has n nounced his resignation us chairm n of the Clay County Democratic Central Committee, effective us soon as his success i can be named. Mr. Barnhardt, who has served his party a county chairman through the cam paigns of 1938, 1940 and 1942, a nounces that his duties with the Highway uepaitmcnt take all pf his time and does not permit him tlr opportunity to devote to the woi k the time necessary as county chair-

man.

TWO RUNS FKIUAV City firemen made two runs Friday to extinguish grass fires. Th first call was to the Home Oil static] on north Jackson and the othei alarm came from south Jackson street.

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j self both as a poultry and a sheep Terry I pasture, say 'Purdue University ex

tension agronomists.

This mammoth type white clove, is believed to hr sufficiently eoh resist'int for Indiana. Being shullov root'd, it does not make muc! growth during hot, dry weather. I will stand up under wet soil condi turns for short periods. A rich sop well supplied with phosphorous aie potash, is ideal for this crop. It is recommended that pasture witli Ladino predominant in t!h. mixture not be grazed closely to long peri*ids. A good practice is t graz, Ladino heavily for n shor time, then allow it to recover foi three or four weeks before grazing

again.

This clover may be seeded in tin sirring, in fall or spring seeded grains, just as clovers and alfalfa often are seeded in Indiana. One pound of seed per acre in mixtures - nough to give a satisfactory stand It has be'ii reported that zupplle. of this seed available in Indiana ar" small at the present time. However there are snail quantities of seed available in scattered areas, and most seed supply houses throughout th* state have ordered tins sect

created recently along the lines of the FBI had bein invest!" iting Axis - py activities for no time. ‘Some arrests already have hi n made,” one spokesman said. "But duo to the bearing of the inquiiy of th • interests of the Belligerent nations the matter has be n kept secret

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ment to carry forward th ation until the facts ai

established and punish on those responsible in all activity contrary h inti (-national polii y.”

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DEATH OF INFANT The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. James Heavin, west Walnut street, died at 5:30 p. m. Friday at the coun-

puy without prior approval of Jones. (Y hospital. Burial was Saturday af-

(Coullaucd on Vaiio Tnol

tvrnoon

TO SPEAK SUNDAY

Dr. William Mather, member of the sociology department. will Initiate the first in a series of pro-fessor-student discussions Sunday evening, Jan. 23, with a discussion of the Caste System in America. The Methodist Student Movement is sponsor of Mhe project. The first group will meet at 7 p. m. af the Alpha Phi house. It is open to students, faculty, cadets and others who

nay be interested.

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he listed as a

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abroad. Unofficial however, that he

en employed recently.

The current investigatmn was h - lieved the first ax.iinst Axis activities conducted by the Gen. I’" Iro Rauures government, although several minor inquiries a ■ ri carried out during the Castillo Regiim at the request of the American and

British governments.

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Partly chudy, continued night and Sunday.

Minimum 6 a. m. 7 a. m. . 8 a. m. 9 a. m. 10 a. in. 11 a. m.

mild to-

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