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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1944.

NO. 88

RUSSELLVILLE MAN KILLED IN SICILY, JAN. 7 WORD OF PEATH OF CORPOK.AL LEON ANDERSON HAS BEEN RECEIVED Corporal Leon Anderson of Russellville was killed in action January 7 in Sicily, according to word received by his sister, Miss Dorthea Anderson of Indianapolis, Corporal Anderson entered th ' army Infantry more than a year ago and had been overseas six months. He had lived in Russellville all his We and was a graduate of Russellville Hig-h School. A brother, Sergt. Everett Anderson, an engineer, is stationed in North Ajfrica. Two sisters, Mrs. Mil-| dred Alexander and Miss Thelma Anderson, both of Indianapolis and the parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Lee Anderson of Russellville, also sur-

vive.

To Deal Firmly With Gen. Franco * WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UP) The entire field of Spanish-American relations apparently was being revised today in the light of evidence that Gen. Francisco Franco's regime still is furnishing active aid to Ger many at this crucial time when the Allies are pieparing to invade Western Europe It appeared that the United States and Britian had -determined to put an end to Spanish aid to the Axis, and that this country's suspension of oil shipments to Spain - pending, in the state department's words, "a reconsideration of trade and general relations between Spain and the United States in the light of trends in Spanish policy" was the first step in thi;) direction. Some observers believed it likely that, barring concrete steps by Franco’s government to prove its | neutrality, orders .nay be issued suspending shipments of all other goods to Spain and possibly halting all economic relations with th>l ebuntfy^. Severance of diplomatic relations was regarded as an extreme possibility but not a probability. Five Youngsters Burned To Death CHICAGO, Jan, 29 (UP) Five children, ranging in age from five months ^o 11 years, were burned to death early today when their home, a on6-story frame buildmg located outside the limits of Suburban Melrose park, was dcstroped by -firr while their parents were at work in a war plant. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Porter, th parents, had left their children u charge’of their oldest son, '’Sonn' 13, early in the evrning to go tc wx>rk, The fire, believed to hav; started; from an overheat, d stove consumed most of the building while the children slept. Sonny was the only one who escap

cd.

The victims woe Laura Jean, five months, Selma, 2, David, 4, Paul, 7 and Grace, 11. The volunteer fire department of Stone Park, an unincorporated village in which the home wag located failed to extinguish the flames until the home had been almost completely destroyed. They called additional equipment from Melrose Park and Maywdod, 111., but help failed to ar rive In time to save the building. An inquest under the direction of A. L. Brodie, Cook county coroner, was gchcduled for late teday. Th« alarm was sounded when Sin., ny ran to a neighbor's house t ■ call his parents. They arrived aft.r th< tragic fate of their children had been established.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING ON FEBRUARY 2

The annual meeting of tile Greencastle Chamber of Commerce will be held Tuesday evening, February 2,

at the Presbyterian church.

The speaker will be Dr. Albert Haring, head of the Indiana University School of Business, and a recognized authority on economics and

business in the United States.

INFANT DIES

Roberta Sutheilin, three day old infant daughter r.f Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Sutherlin of Roachdale, died

TAX HELP AVAILABLE

While most taxpayers may try t prepare their returns themselves, i deputy collector of internal revenue will be at the Post Office building. Greencastle. on February 1 2, 3, 4, Z, 10, 11 and 12th from 8:30 a. m. *.o 4:30 p. m. to give any advice i assistance needed. No charge will be

made for this service.

FILIPINOS AIDED ESCAPE MIAMI. Fla., Jan. 29. (UP)Two Filipino prisoners at the Davao penal colony assisted in the escayo of three American officers on whose sworn statements the army-navy account of Japanese prison camp

Friday evening at the Putnam coun- ] atrocities was based, aco rding to

ty hospital.

Philippines Pres. Manuel Quezon.

A BIRTHDAY CAKE

Mayor Walter Ballard presented Frank Arn, pr esident of the Gr. c.ncastle Production Credit Association v\ ith a beautiful cake bearing 10 candles at tire annual meeting held here Thursday. Botli Mayor Ballard and Mr. Arn appeared quite well pleased with the whole matti r as they had their pictures taken.

LINKUP TO THK RIGHT, FOLKS

S. D. JACKSON NEW SENATOR FROM INDIANA

I I \\ AVNE LAWYER APPOINTED TO SUCCEED THE LATE SEN. VAN NOTTS INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 29 Samuel D. Jackson, F- rt Wayne lawyer and former Indiana attorney general, was npmed United States senator by Governor Henry F. Sehricker Friday night to fill most f the unexpired term of the late Senator Frederic: VanNuys. The Governor made the announcement of Jackson's appointment at a i pecial presg confer, nee called soon' inter Senator VanNuys funeral an< ; burial services weie held here and at Anderson. lackion, a Democrat, like Van- J Nuy.-, will serve at least until th" N vemher general election. At ionvei.lir ns this summer, hot t parties nu-t fill two S.nate nominations me for the interim between the elec i ti n and the end of the Van Nuys I rm in January md another for a ull six-year term. Jackson, a 48-year-old native of F, rt Wayne, hn- been engaged activily in Indiana politics since his graduation from Indiana Law Scltool here in 1917. Jui kson served as Allen County :u-seeutor for two terms from 1922 to 192(5. As prosecutor he won convictions in a number of murder trials, eii a vigorous anti-vice campaign nd pros cuted the railroads for alleged v Vila lion of the automatic fire box deer law which was placed upon the statute book by the railroad rotherhoods. He was a candidal ■ for Congress m 1928, and dining the national ampaign that yeai took an active part in Alfred K. Smith's bid for the presidency In Lie first World War he was j an t,is dom'd an infantry lieutenant in 1917, trained troops at Camp lachary Taylor, Kentucky, and later was tnal judge*advocate there. Jack’iin is a member of the American Leg:- ■ n. He served as Indiana attorney general from June 7, 1940, until he in signed Jan. 15, 1941, to meet the demands of a private law practice in Fort Wayne. He was appointed attorney general after the death of Omni St' kes Jackson.

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PUTNAM COUNTY S ANSWER! Or will there be a.u answer? Is our reaction to the vicious, de-prau-d treatment we have learned our men are receiving in Japanese prison camps, to take the form of name-calling, fist-doubling, teethclenching, and to end there? Surely there can be no one among us who is not shocked to thwry center of his being at the bestial treatment being mete 1 out to American boys who grew up iu the belief that they had a heritage of "life, liberty, and the pursifit of happiness." And their lot has become worse than that of a slinking mongrel in the back alleys of any slum district. To permit our righteous indignation end there is to let those boys down to almost as dastardly a degree as the Japanese nation is pushing them down with heels and whips and bayonets. THERE IS SOMETHING WE CAN DO! There is a response we ,as citizens of Putnam county can make, and make ourselves neard. But it is so easy, so unspectacular, that it may not have immediate appeal to the teeth-clenchers and the fist-double-uppers. ITS THIS. No county in th- state has, as yet, met its War Bond quota. Let us say to the state and to the nation and to our men and women in service, "We’re mad, furiously, desp-rately, fighting, mad! We arc a part of the population who has not had t i cany arms and give up our soft, comfortable way of life. But our boys at the front are being crucifr d and the best way we know to give vent to our fury is to give those boys every pen.ny cf financial backing they need, and to do it NOW." Let's make Putnam County No. 1 Putnam county will me t its quota in the Fourth War Loan drive. We all know that. But we have the habit of meeting such quotas in a leisurely, apathetic sort of way. Banks in the county open at nine o'clock Monday morning: Post Office windows at the samy hour. If our fury is great enough, our desire to make an answer strung enough, there will be line-ups at those bank doors and before those windows on Monday mrning, and by throe o’clock Monday afternoon, Putnam county will have purchased her $900,000 worth of War Bonds. LET THAT BE PUTNAM COI NTY’S ANSWER!!!

FULL STORY OF JAP ATROCITIES NOT YET TOLD

FILL REVENGE FOR JAPANESE BRUTALITY OF PRISONERS IS NATION'S ( KY WASHINGTON. Jan. 29 (UP) A senate committee chairman promised today to dig- out still, unpublishfacts about Japanese prison camp atrocities which already have roused the nation to concentrated fury and , given it a blazing new battle cry - i "Vengeance!" J This prom is-, underscoring a | White House hint that the full story I has yet to be told, came as the conI vietion grew among «• .ngressional ! and military leaders that only the ( t.--struetlon of Tokyo and the unleashing I of war's horrors upon the Japanosi people at home can quench this I country's thirst for revnnge. j There was no doubt that the ! American people ha I been aroused t > | a pitch of angvr unparalleded since Pearl Harbor by the Army-Navy dis- ' closure that the Japanese employ- ; ing starvation torture and butchery I had exterminated at least 7.700 Americans a.nd many more Filipino J heroes of Bataan and Convgidor.

Smedley Rites Henry E. Karsh Will Be Sunday Div« Saturday

. , The new senator is married

This group was almost at the head of the dinner line at the annual j thm meeting of the Production Credit Association Thursday. The young lady was! interested in knowing what was going on when such bright lights as the

photographer's flash went off. She found out.

IT’S DINNERTIME AT PCA MEETING

This picture shows Dr. John W. Holland, afternoon speaker at the Production Credit Assoeiatian’s tenth annual meeting held Thursday. He was being fed fancy cake by Mrs. Roy Newgent, while Mrs. Kent A. Len/.en was assisting. Mrs. Cecil Brown is in the background, looking things over. The American L gicvr Auxiliary, assisted hy the men of the I-eglon, served the dinner In the high school gymnasium and everyone was given a real meal.

BERLIN AGAIN THE TARGET OF BRITISH BOMBS

LONDON, Jan. 29 (UP) Another mighty force t f British fourengined bonbers, striving for •) knockout, raid d burning Berlin last nignt for the second time in 24

hours.

Guided by huge conflagrations set in the previous night' i assault, the big b< rubers sent hundreds o! i( ck-tuster.- ranging up to four tons in weight raining down on Berlin in the 13th ma u - r raid since the RAF launched its obliteration offensive against tile Nazi capital last Nov. 18. British authorities withheld announcement of the night's taiget until after 9 a. m. (4 a. m. EWT). neaily two hours later than usual, and it was believed that the raiders actualy had hit the city olny a few hours before dawn in contrast to the dusk attack Thursday night.

IVA FOUNDERS ATTEND MEETING

20 Years Ago IN (*Rrr*« *

■litter Sudranski was home from Purdue UniviT-iity. Julia Wernekc was absent from school! on account of, the mur.ps. Bill Kocher was r- visitor in Indianapolis. Willie Hoppe, world's champion, and (Jake Schaeffer ex-title holder, staged an exhibition 3-cuahion hillard match at the Star poolroom

These thirteen original founders of the Greencastl- I induction Credit Association attended the tenth annual meeting held here Thursday. They have seen the organization grow from a mere foundling to one handling hund- ( reds of thousands of dollars annually.

Mrs. Grace Smedley, well known Putnam county resident. passed away at hoi home, northt list of Fillmore. at 7:10 p. in. Friday followin ', an extended illness. She was the wife of James Smedley. She is survived hy the husband three son and two naught is; three brother, James, Hi uben and Ott MeAnninch, and a sister, Mrs. Joe Hurst. Lasl rites will tie held from the Campbell r uneral Home in Coatesville at 2 o'clock Sunday aftern on. REDS CLOSE TRAP ON UPWARDS OF 250,000 GERMANS SOVIET FOR< ES SURGE TOWARD LAST ESt \PK ROUTE FOR GERMANS MOSCOW. Jan. 29 (UP) Red Armies, closing a trap on upwards of 250.000 Germans, tore huge new chunks out of the disintegrating enemy budge blow Leningrad a/id surged toward the last escape r a 'l‘ road today. The Russians appeared closed to the encirclement of huge German army than at any time since Stalin-

grad.

Slashing into thv; southern fla.nk of the Nazi Salient, Gen. Kyril A. Meretskov's Vanguards west of Nov. gorod swept across the LeningradVitebsk railway, next to the last escape route out of thv.* budge, and pressed on toward the main Leinn-grad-Pskov line, 23 miles to the east. The Germans were reported reeling back in disorder under the Soviet hammer blows. Thousands were cut off by the speed of the Russian advance and annihilated. Others surren-

dered.

On the northern flank of the budge, Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's Leningrad armies swept up more more than 50 towns and villages south and southwest of the former capital, pushing to within 34 miles of the Estonian border an ; narrowing the escape corridor to 65 miles. Fi-.ntal attacks,on the bulge cleat ed the Germans fr m nl! but an 11mile stretch of the main MoscowLeningrad railway and trapp’d thousands cf Gei mans defending the remaining segment around Chudovo. nearly 70 miles southeast of Lenin-

grad.

SERVING COUNTRY George Higgle is the son of Mr. I. and Mrs. Char- [ les Higgle of Roachdale. His address is George William Higgle S 2 c, Geo. Higgle Bldg. 3, Deck ^ I Foi l Mcl-Lnty. Baltimore, Md

White House Secretary Stephen T. Early indicated yesterday that the account of Japanese barbarity was a continued story when he said “th* time has come to release factual, carefully authenticated reports of

Japanese atrocities.’’

Today chairman Elbert D. Thomas subcommittcv on war prisoners announced that he would summon army and navy intelligence officers to closed hearings some time in the near

Hoi.ty E. Marsh, father of Mrs Frank Day and Mr . William N

Kirkham, both of this city, c’ier future. Expressing surprise that his

early Saturday n.» rning, at the !i ,n. of Mrs. Kirkham on Highland

street.

The body will be taken to the horn of another daugiit:*r, Mrs. Harr; Johnson at Monrovia. T ie funeni. will he held at Hall in V- rgan conn ty. Tile time and place will be an

nouneed later.

Rev. Fellers Tc Attend Conference

H. C. Fellers, minister of the Firs Christian church, will leave early Monday morning to attend th" Drake Conference on "The Church and The New World Mind,’’ to be held in Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 1st to tth inclusive. One hundred ministe! together with two hundred eduent ors, social workers, j urnaiists. in .lustiiai leaders and others, will Spend four days studying the place if the church in the building of tl World Mind that will be necessary for post war days. Sir Wilmot Lewis, head of the British Press ,ii America, Dr. G. Baez Camargn scientist of Mexico City. Dr. W. E. Hocking of Harvard University, an I other w rid renewed leaders wll 1 speak to the delegates during th *

conference.

Though 2000 to 2500 people are expected to attend the conference, onl.v the three hundred selected delegat e will participate in the deliberations and uiscussions. Mr. Eellers, as a member of the Pre-Confeicnce Sein inar meeting in Indianapolis from November to January 10th. wrote ope of the papers which will he read us part of the findings of the seminal', and lie is one of the 100 ministers selected as a delegate from more than 8000 ministers of the Christian church in the United States and Canada. The First Chns-

group had not be*n told in advam e of the facts in the Army-Navy re-

port, he added:

"My committee is going to get nil the information it can through the

proper channels."

In Los Angeles. Capt. Samuel R. Grashio, campanion of the latv* Lt. i Col. William Dyess in the infamous "March of Death.” told how 1.100 Americans and 1,400 Filipino prisoii- | ers died horribly in Camp O'Donnell, Despite the rising demand for I vengeance against the Japanese a | demand which found its most clamorous expression among congressmen there was nothing to Indicate that Allied staff chiefs would permit popular anger, howtver just, to altar strategic decisions reach'd alter long and careful consideration of all military .necessities involved. These decisions, calling for the smashing of Germany and Japan in order, will In* unswervingly adhered to despite such demands as that of Chairman Andrew J. May, !>.. Ky, of the house military affairs committee that the entire fleet move at nnce upon Tokyo and "blow it into

hades.’’

This does not mean, however, Unit Tokyo will not one day lie destroyed. It is no secret that even now heavy new blows are being mounted in thi* Pacific, an | observers h"re would

I not be surprised if Japanese garri-

sons in the Marshall islands were soon introduced violently to overwhelming force and sudden death. Admiral Ernest J. King, coni-manchr-ln-ehief of the U. S fleet and chief of naval operations, announced only recently that American naval strength in the Atlantic would be dispatehe | to the Pacific as soon as the Nazis begin to totter. The temper of th*,' people was high, ■is indicated i.n dispatches from all over the country and in statements hy congressmen. I.n San Francisco,

tinn church, honored in the selection ! Lt. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, General of its minister, is providing funds tc I of the westvrn defense command.

Cover all his expenses.

Germans Expect Invasion Soon

LISBON, Jan. 2!) (UP) Neutral diplomatic sou res reported from Vichy today tint t e O-rman high command expected the Allies to invade Fiance with n 120 days and wa» massing tr. op:, guns and trains ac

. ordingly.

One Vichy .‘•lUice way quoted a< reporting that t!u* Germans, seeing

j felt constrained to warn the public ] not to attempt retaliations agai'ist | Japanese-AmeriCHns. At the proper time, he promised, "unremitting justice will bo meted out to the Jspi ansae who have been guilty of these dastardly and cowardly acts."

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