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GLUME FIFTY-TWO

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 1, 1944.

NO. 99

AD BLIZZARD HITS COMMUNITY ON THURSDAY

OADK ARE ICE COVERED AND SNOWFALL TOTALED CLOSE TO EIGHT INC HES Putnam County’s summer weathei 'jhich has prevailed for the past onth, came to a sudden end on Thursday when one of the worst blizirds of the winter hit the entile ection of the state. A brisk wind whipped a heavy jiowfall from the north and west tnd it was estimated from six to Ight inches of snow blanketed the ground by nightfall. The snowfall continued well into! nc night, but the greater part fell luring the late afternoon and eany * veiling. During the night the light) riowfall turned to rain, but it did I lot continue and traffic was some-1 fhat better Friday than Thursday, I dien all traffic was moving slowly.! State and county highway crews tere kept busy throughout the night I sing snow removing equipment and j hey reported most if not all of the I ighways open on Friday.

YANKS ADVANCE ON KWAJALEIN, EXTEND OPERATIONS

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FOOD SUBSIDY SEEMS DOOMED IN U.S. SENATE

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The season's most severe snow- I )torm, carried on winds ranging in! Velocity up to 50 miles an hour, movd east past the Great Lakes region I xiay and threatened to tie up the j tew England and Eastern Se-'board

States during the weekend.

The snowfall, which readied 101

Inches in some parts of the central' tales region, diminished in that j FAVOR I5IIX PERMITTING INrea, but swept the Ohio valley and i C REASE IN RETAIL PRICES farted to blanket Pennsylvania and I OF VARIOUS ITEMS ipstate New York. J A cold wave which will reach its I WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. (IIP) greatest intensity tonight moved in | The Senate, working under a limited .the wake of the snow in the Centra: ! debate agreement, prepared to sound states and Bismarck, N. D., The cold-1 a death sentence today to the ad-

v » <r WHILE INTENSE FIRES roll smoke skyward from blasted Jap defense positions, 7lh Division infantrymen advance on Kwajalein island under protective cover of a tank. Signal Corps photo. (International)

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spot of the nation, reported 26 degrees below zero with the tempera[ture still dropping and expected to reach 30 below. Minot, N. D„ reurted 23 below and Ashley, N. D., |24 The greatest 24-honr snowfall was

ministration's food subsidy program by passing a bill permitting increases in the retail prices of milk, biead, meat and other important foods. Conceding defeat. administration Senators said they would make no further attempt to salvage the sub-

I recorded at the army air base at i s jdy program but would renew the Chanute Field, 111., where 10 inches! fj^ht if and when President Roosejlell and drifted into bank! as deep] ve ] t vetoed the anti-subsidy bill and as IX) feet. Peoria, III, nad eight in-1 8en t tpe whole controversial issue

jehes and Chicago, Springfield, HI.} right back to congress,

jl'ort Wayne, jnd., some par s of • j^ ooseve it, vetoed a similai i Iowa and Nebraska, had six inches, j anti . subaidy bin last year and subOklahoma aty's two inches of, gidy 0 pp onent8 then were unable to snow was carried by -a 50-mile an ' muster up the requir ed two-thirds hour gale, and Dodge City had winds | ma j., rit y to override him. AdminisI up to 42 miles an hour. Throughout! t ra tion forces hoped the same thing

the snow-blanketed region, winds of would happen again

:;0 to 35 miles an hour were reported, j Bpfore taking . tho fina i vote and

sending the measure back to the strongly anti- subsidy house, the

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The coldest point in the east was j Caribou, Me., where the mecury [ dropped to 18 degrees beolw zero and the temperature was not expected to rise until the snowfall arrived

Saturday night or Sunday.

The U. S. weather bur 'au predict-

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Robert Jeffries Rites Saturday Robert D. Jeffries, 93-year-old retired farmer, died at his home at in j Crawfordsville Thursday morning. In ill health for the past seven years Mr. Jeffries had been in critical condition for the past 10 days. Death was due to a complication of ailments. He was born January 19, 1851. in Putnam county, the son of Harvey and Matilda Jeffries and on February 8, 1874, was married to Harriett Hilliard of Roachdale. Mrs. Jeffries 'lied in 1919, Mr. Jeffries was a member of the First Methodist church and of the Masonic lodge of Alamo. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. William White of Alamo and Mrs. Clayton Elmore of Crawfordsville; 11 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Nannie Steward of Roachdale and Mrs. Kate Higgins of Danville. The funeral will be held at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon in charge of Rev. C. Howard Taylor. Burial will be in the Roachdale cemetery.

senate faced a showdown on a number of amendments, including one to subsidize low-incom ■ groups by giving them direct aid in form of food allotment stamps like the ones issued in the depression years. The anti-subsidy provision was contained in a bill by Sen. John H Bankhead, D.. Ale., to extend the life of the Commodity Credit Corporation. It would permit limited US'of subsidies on domestic sugar, veg etaible oils, domestic wool, sugar beets, wheat for feed, and conserva tion payments. •THERE IS A WAR”

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Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Blue and son Charles spent the day in Indianapolis. Walter Cox visited relatives in Terre Haute. Mrs. W. O. Timmons returned home from a visit in Edinburg. Mrs. Nelson T'auiman was hostess to the Cardemdu Club,

A small girl Scout, probably nine years old, and quite small for her age, gave a realistic object lesson of devotion to duty during the snow storm Thursday afternoon that many adults could follow to advantage, and thus help our home-front war effort. The Girl Scouts are making paper bags and napkins for the county hospital. About 1,000 each are used a week, and It keeps them busy meeting the demand. I ‘ If older persons would take a tip from this youngster, there would be no vacant eats at surgical dressing classes or in other home-front war efforts. In the midst of the blizzard late Thursday this child with her sled and wagon, loaded with paper bags, delivered them to their destination. On being asked if it was necessary for her to make the delivery at the time, the child said: "You know there is a war and we have to do what we can to do our part, whatever it la and in spite of how we feel or the condition of the weather."

Four Scott Field, 111., soldiers have a new respect for at least one of the 4-F's they left behind. The four approached Ed Taylor, above, and asked why he wasn't in uniform. He told them and they began to sing a lusty song about 4-F’s. That did it. Taylor knocked two of them unconscious and th-‘ other two had fled. “I just got mad.” he said. One of those kayoed by Taylor was an amateur boxer who had won his last 28 fights before he met 4-F Taylor.

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V-5 Cadet Was Bombed By Japs Ray Larson, now a cadet at the DePauw University naval flight preparatory school, is one of relatively few Americnni bombed by the Jap:' on December 7, 1941. As a V-5 aviation cadet he is in training to get a chance to return that ombing. Larson went with his parents to China at th age of six months and returned to tile United States aboard the Gripsholm on August 25, 1942, in time to complete his so,, or year . ! high -jchool in the United Sta'e-s His father was stair •••ed a* Hongkong on December 7, 1941, an of ficial for the Socony-Vacumn Com pany. Hongkong, lik-‘ Pearl Harbor, underwent heavy bombing on the rirst day of the war. During the years in China, Larson lived in Canton, Shanghai, F>jeh nv, and several other towns along th southeastern oast in addition to Hongkong. He began Tarmac training in the navy approximately onyear after returning from the Orient. LEGION COMMANDER GETS MUSTERING OUT BLANKS O. W. Hollowed, commander of Putnam County Post of The American Legion, is in receipt of a supply of mustering out pay wanks an I anyone needing them can get blanks as well as full information througn Mr Hollowed or the Legion Post.

ADVANCED A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Feb. 11 (UPi- Australian jungle fighters have joined American forces in the Snider coastal area of the Huon Penninsula, it was announced today, thus opening the way for a ground offensive againri Japan's last thro? major bases in northern New Guinea. The junction of the two forces 14 miles east of Saidor gave the Allies complete control of the Peninsula after an 18-week campaign during which "the great bulk' of a Japanese force of 14,000 men was destroyed, Gen. Douglas MacArthurs com-

munique said.

The American force, which landed at Saidor Jan. 2 in a surprise thrust, has advancer! 10 miles to the west of Saidor, which is only 43 mil-s from Bogadjim, protecting outpost for the Japanese base at Madang, on the coast only 55 miles from Saidor. Another Australian force in the Ramu valley was 16 miles south of Bogadjim, thus making a twopronged thrust against Bogadjim and Madang, and against Wewak, 200 miles north of Madang, possible During the Australians advance up the coast after the capture of Finschhafen last Oct. 2, one Japanese reinforced division, trapped along the coast with its supply and communication lines cut and with its way to tiie south blocked by almost impassib’e mountain ranges and the Australians in the Ra nu valli y, was ''gradually destreed", thcommunique said. PUTNAM COURT NOTES James Denny vs. Opal M. Denny, suit for divorce. Theodore Crawley is attorney for the plaintiff. Leonard Brenton is charged with assault and battery in an affidavit signed by Maude Petro and approved by Rexell Boyd, county prosecutor.

TRAPPED NAZI DIVISIONS FACE RUSS ARTILLERY

RICI> GUNS BEMN FINAI. N HI LA TION OF GERMANS IN (HURRA-| POCKET MOSCOW, Feb. 11. ICID R us . (.an guns, lined up hub to hub all around tii“ perimeter, began the final annihilation of the remnants of 10 encircled German divisions in the Cherkasi pocket today and front i : patches said the slaughter was expected to make even Stalingrad pale

j by compari-on.

New advances brought the 1st and 2ni Ukrainian armies to within 10 miles north and south of the center (of t le 250-square-mi ic ;> > kel and every foot of it rocked und r the rar’ of steel and explosives from the mn - sed Soviet artillery. All signs indicated frit the encmy’s f:nal collapse in the pocki t

was not far off.

The few German prisnneis re . n ing Soviet lines reported d mor.’.l ization in the Nazi tanks v». ing daily. One prisoner w.i i i i by the Russians and returned afterward with 20 more G imnnwho had had enouglt. Russian infantry and l inks sloshed into the flanks of the di inert pocket at every lull in the bari ng - and looped away new chunks of territory, killing virtuallv ill (1 man s found in a no-quartev bat tie Red armies also rep rt-d mn gains on the approaches to the i-i center of Krivoi Rog deep in th Dnieper bulge and on the ni.rt iwestern front, where Soviet fore, pushed to within seven miles Luga, key front on the Leningrad (Pskov railway, in an encireleme) 1

drive.

Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's 1st Ukrainian army stormed to within 10 (fmifon mis* i «%<•>

SERVING COUNTRY

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Cadet H Hold E. Quehbenian is j stationed with the Army Air Corps ,:l Greenville, Miss He recently returned to the nil base after visiting with ills mother, Mrs. Ruth Quebbeman 601' E..st Washington street. j

; WOMAN'S CLUB WILL OBSERVE TOTH BIRTHDAY GFEST MEETING \T KAPPA HOI SE PLANNED FOR

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Wednesday, Feb. 16th. the Woman's Club of Greencastle will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding with a guest meeting at tin Kappa Kappa Gamma house at 3 p. m. In addition to personal gut sts of t!:- dub members, invitations have b. en issued to presidents of local literary clubs, officers and county presidents of the Fiftn Diaj tri'ri. and presidents of till Federated

Yank In Italy Discusses Bonds

Even though Putnam County has reached its quota in the fourth war bond drive everyone is asked to buy bonds regularly not just during i drive. Donald Carrington writ- i the following letter from Italy telling us

in Putnam county.

\Ii , Oseni A Ahlgren of Writing pi i ridrnt of the Indiana Federation of Clubs, will be the guest speaker. The committee in charge of th pn grbiu r 1 Rations is composed of Mrs. VV. A Haggard, Mrs. Frank Donner. Mis. A. C Northrop am! Mis. Truman G. Yuncker. The chiiir man of the tea committee is Mrs. N. C. O'Hair. Mrs. Clyde E. Wildman wife of the president of DePau.v Uni\ rsity. will preside at the tea

just why we must buy and continue! table.

to buy bonds: Dear Sir: You asked in your V-mail, to me here on the war front, my help in putting your War Bond drive over the million dollat quota. I can think of nothing that would give me great-

Mr and Mrs. Floyd Skelton. Fillmore Route 1, are the parents of a .daughter born Friday morning at Mhc Putnam county hospital.

McALINDEN, KITES SATURDAY Last rites for Charles McAlinden. who died Wednesday will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock from the St, Paul's Catholic Church Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery.

Officers Elected At Farm Sessions

Officers for the coming year were elected at two farm institute sessions held this week in Putnam county. There were more than 100 in at tendance at the Washington township meeting held Tuesday in the Re, Isvillc school building and approximately 284 were present for the all-day program of the Marion township institute held at Fillmore on Wednesday. Attractive premiums were offered at both places and many exhibits were entered. Officers for Washington township are; President-David Houck; Vic. • President-Phillip Hutcheson; Secretary, Cretia Boone, and Trettsurer, Mrs Mary L. Boyd. For Marion township the officers chosen are: President, Herschel Knetzor: Vice President, Mr Kiger: Secretary, Joan Arnold, and Treasurer. Lillian Buis

Donald Carrington

Officets of the Woman's Club are Mrs. E R. Bartlett, president; Mis. G. J. Longden, vice-president; Mrs T. Ci. Yuncker, secretary; Mrs. Heiold T. Russ, corresponding secretary and Mrs Joe McCord, treasurer. Besides the persons named above othei active members include Mis. C J. Arnold, Miss Lilian Brownfield. Mrs. Robert Crouch, Mrs. HebeiPlllis. Mrs. J. H. Fulmer, Mrs. J. C. Hearst, Mrs. F. W. Hikson, Mrs. David Houck. Mrs. W. M. McGaughey. Miss Jeannette O’Dell. Mis. Janu Oliver, Mrs. Henry Ostrom. Mrs. S. R. Rariden, Mrs. O. H. Smith. Mrs. Fred Starr, Mrs. Edward Stevens, Mrs. Simpson Stoner, Mrs John Tennant, Mrs. F. C. Tilden. (Miss Lela Walls, Mis. J. A. Bamb rger and Mrs, Harold Zink. The Woman’s Club was organized Feb. nth. 1874, with eighteen chatter members, among whom were th late Mrs John R. Miller, Miss Eliza belli Ames and Mrs. Emma Winsoi Among others honored members of the club was the late Mrs. Grace Beck Maxwell, mother of Philip Maxwell of Chicago, who last Sunday paid a tender and beautiful tribute to his mother in his home town

broadcast over WGN.

The Woman’s Club is not only th. oldest literary club in Greencastle but is the next to oldest in the entire state, the New Harmony club having been founded first. However, the Woman’s Club has a special claim to distinction in that it has continued to meet consecutive'y tor its entire history, while the Nev. Harmony club was discontinued for

a time.

Mrs. Mary Ray Expired Friday

! PLANE CRASHES IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER; 24 LOST AIRLINER DISAPPEARS WITH OUT TRACE 15 MILES SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, TENN. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. IE—(FI*) —Arm) engineers located the wreckage of an American Airliner tuda.\ on the bottom of the Mississippi river 15 miles south of here where it crashed last night, presumably carrying 'll passengers and a crew of three to their deaths. MEMPHIS, Tenn. Feb It. (UP) Army engine! reporti | t( they believed they had seen an American Airliner, carrying 21 pa - • sengers and a crew- of three, plunge into the Mississippi river 15 milo.'i south of here and disappeai without

a trace.

Capt. H. K Holloway, of the army engineers office here, said his men stationed on Cow Island apparently had seen the plane crash. He said he received the report from one of his men on a barge moored to tiie bank near the scene., “He may not have seen it go into the jiiver directly, but his attention apparently was called and when he looked around, he thought he saw it go into the river,” Holloway said, Holloway relayed the report to VV. J. Weismann, Memphis traffic manager for the airlines. The plane, en route from Little Rock, Ark., to Memphis, was running an hour late when it was last heard from at 11:30 p. m. CWT last night. Meanwhile, coast guardsmen and civilians searched the Mississippi river bottom for signs of the missing

aircraft.

I'v-o picket boats from the Memphis coast" guard station, manned by 12 men, were sent to the vicinity of Cow Island. They were keeping in contact with the coast guardsmen here via short wave radio, but early reports from searchers said it was still too dark to make much hoadS. .. , Weismann said American Airlines planes were retracing the course of the missing plane. Army and navy planes from the Memphis area were also expected to join in the seareli. Officials from the Memphis office of the airline were en route to Cow Island and Weismann said other official! were flying from New York. Army engineers said Cow Island, scene of the apparent crash, is h sand formation in the Mississippi directly on the line of flight froei Little Rock to the Memphis airport At least 11 of the plane’s passengers were members of the armed si i-

vices.

The airlines office in New York said the plane was piloted by Capt. Dale Fiancis, 39, of Arlington. Tex., First Officer Ray R. Majors. 26 of Springfield, 111., and Stewardo;-. Dovie May Holybee, Atdmore Oklu., and Fort Worth, Tex., completed tie:

crew.

cr pleasure than to be able to wa/i a hundred dollar war bond at an oncoming shell and have that shell make a graceful detour. Insist that all the townsfolk buy more than they can possibly afford make them buy until it hurts! Possibly then we can issue all soldiers who go to the front to do battle to the death a war bond wl)i"h will save our lives and astound our enemies! Sincerely yours, Donald Carrington

Mrs. Mary Ray, a former resident of Cloverdale, died Friday mornig at Ci awfordsville. Surviving are one son, Jake Horn of Cloverdale, and two daughters, Mrs Hubert Brown of Indianapolis and Mrs. Lee Fowler of Crawfordsville. V. F. W. MEETING Gen. Jesse M Lee Post 1550, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will meet tonight at 8:00 o'clock

LATE WAR NEWS LONDON, Feb. II, (I I*)—American Flying Fortresses striking -it Gcrnnin) for the second slraiglil du.v today hammered the arsenal and transport city of Frankfurt lor the foiirtli time since .Ian. ‘!!l. while Liberators ami Marauders led a heavy allied attack on Hu- Krench invasion coast. WASHINGTON, l-'eli, II.—(El*) — President Roosevelt today deseribert the military situation at Hie allied beachhead below Rome as very tense, hut railed altenliun to the fact that the allies still have control of (he sea and flic air in lhal area.

0 Today's Weattei 0 oud a 0 Local Temperature W $00000«00*0 Light snow and colder today; fair with cold wave tonight, snow flurries in extreme northwest portion tonight; Saturday fair and continued cold: slowly diminishing winds; lowest temperature tonight 5 to 10 above.

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