The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 February 1944 — Page 4

THE DAILY BANNER, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1944.

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Meet Hillsboro In Regional Tourney

feed agricultural winter course 'students and promote study of th*. science of the soil. Hoffman was a graduate of th« o.al high school last year and one .f th • out-tanding agricultural stuents, hiving won the war bond w rded by Standard Oil Co. for his achievements in h;s farm projec m He was also winner of the 194.-t .Ciwanis trophy awarded a senior member of the basket ball team or the b asis of sport-nanship. scholarship and ability.

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(By Jim Zeis)

HONOR STf OK.NT Robert A Hoffman, Jr. was one of eighty-nine students in the annua closing exercises of the winter shot course at Purdue University Frida morning, February 25th. Youn, Hoffman will do official testing ■ dairy herds in Putnam County an has tested the dairy herd at Ros

BAINBIUIMiE HHiH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM Pictured above are the coach and the members of the Bainbridge squad who downed the Tiger Cubs Saturday night. 19 to 40, to win the Greencastle Sectional championship. The Pointers are now pointing for their game vith Hillsboro in the Regional meet at Crawfordsvillfe this coming Satur-

day. If they com - through this encounter the Bainbridge team will clash with the Waynetown-Bridgcton tilt Saturday night.

,inner of the

Polytechnic this week.

Institute, Terre Haul'',

The closing exeici.-es were held in j Agricultural Hall with Dr. E C i Hlliot, President of Purdue present- I ng the Certificates and addresses vere given by Dr. Elliott md Dean j

V. C. Freeman.

Tlie students were also guests at a banquet Thursday evening at which time Bob Jr. was one of th'- 1 students honored, having placed third in his class in a judging contest held

at the end of the term.

Knox County had the highest ra cord of attendance, having fifteen

•students, eleven of whom were given scholarships by various organiza tions. Bob Jr. was the only student to attend from Putnam county. Dr. Elliott wa s enthusiastic when speaking of a new building which Purdue hopes to erect when conditions permit. a building which will house and

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TWO TEAMS TIED Eitel’s bowling team in the city league and the University A keglers are tied as result of last nights match. Each team has won 45 and ost 21 games to lead the league amd i play-off will be held at the University alleys on Thursday evening at

7 p. m.

It was also announced today that the banquet for the local bowleis will be held at 6:30 o’clock on Wednesday evening, March 8, at the First Baptist church.

the recent American raid there, suggested today that Japan may have hoodwinked the world into believing that Truk was its ’’Pearl Hartor”. Naval experts now believe that Japan's major outlying naval strong hold is elsewhere, probably in the Bon ins. one of the strings of island.close t>a the homeland. The Bonins, a group known to th<Japanese as the Ogasawara. are ap proximately 600 miles south o. Tokyo. Paradoxically, the Plan I. were first settled by Americans, am Comn/dore Mathew Perry, w 1 opened the doors of Japan to th civilized world, once thought of d ! veloping them a a an advance U. S

base.

Most heavily fortified island in thr group is believed to be Chichi Jimn This island is aproxim itely iK)ft mile north of Guam and approximate!' 1500 miles west of Wake Island. Failure of the Japanese to develo Truk into a first rate naval base ha puzzled naval experts here. The; consider it ideal for the purpose with extensive deep water, protects anchorages, and large land masses that would permit the installation oi all needed shore facilities. Vice .n’ miral Ben Morreel, chief of th navy’s bureau of yards and dock who has studied aerial photograph, of Truk, said that in American hands Truk could be developed into a real

base.

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Wednesday 7 p. m. Post Office vs. Midwest Thursday University A vs. Eitel’s Friday University A vs. University B

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he coming of war found the electric

power industry of Indiana in a strong position. Most of the utilities had weathered the Jong depression, building up their generating and transmission facilities to a satisfactory peacetime standard. Then came Pearl Harbor and the demand for tremendous war plant expansion. But Indiana utilities were not caught "off base.” They ordinarily anticipate required power loads about three years in advance; but, even that much preparation w asn’t enough, they reasoned, if the war should be of long duration. There was only one safe course for the electric utilities of Indiana to take ... immediate construction of additional generating plant capacity and completion of loops of high tension transmission lines, strengthening interconnections w ith the generating stations throughout Indiana and adjoining states. Turbines, generators, boilers and other equipment had to be made quickly. Equipment manufacturers were deluged with orders. But they "came through” and Indiana's generating capacity was stepped up rapidly . . . and today, despite the vastly increased power needs, the demand has been

met . . . and there is no shortage!

Public Service Company power lines together with other Indiana company lines constitute the heart of the "Indiana Area” which includes western Kentucky and southwestern Ohio. All are interconnected to form a vast

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coordinated network of power lines which permits each individual company to pour energy into the lines of a neighboring company when the need arises. Thus, no cm or industry located on the network lines need suffer from power shortage or breakdown. Should an interruption occur, power is immediately routed in from one, two or even three other sources. Interconnection and coordination have solved Indiana’s double problem of adequately supplying normal civilian power and light needs, plus the tremendous power demands of swollen war production. At the same time interconnection has been the deciding factor in keeping the com of electricity down to the lowest level in the history of Indiana. When the war is won, Indiana will be in an enviable position with abundant power and adequate facilities. Great peacetime industries are sure to develop and will naturally be attracted to Indiana’s vast reservoir of low cost, interconnected electric power.

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Won Lost Eitel’s 45 21 University A 45 21 Zinc Mill 58 28 Coca Cola , 37 29 Bluejackets 36 30 Midwest 34 29 j Home Laundry 34 32 j Public Service 28 35 j Post Oft'ii ( 26 57 J Lone Star 25 38 i University B 23 43 I O. K. Barbers 20 40

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I Japs Handed Nevf Setback By Yanks ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwvet Pacific, Feb. 29 (UP) American airmen, aided by Navy PT-Boats in a running battle off Bougainville, delivered another smashing blow on the beleaguervd Japanese throughout the southwest Pacific Saturday, destroying or damaging 29 planes, 34 barges and two cargo ships, it was announced today. The aerial offensive was centered on New Britain and New Guinea in | the drive to neutralize the enemy’s I largest bases in this area. More than 200 Solomons-based bombers hit Rabaul on New Britain for the 24th consecutive day with 164 tons of bombs, again encountering no opposition from enemy fliers, and only one plane was lost in the attack Fourteen barges, four Jetties and an ammunition dump were destroyed or damaged at Rabaul, while two other barges and a small cargo ship were sunk off the Duke of York Island. Escorted Liberator bombers made wide sweeps of the coastal areas in northern Ne\v Guinea, destroying or damaging a total of 29 enemy Planes. Five grounded planes were destroyed, and probably four others in a barrage of 80 tons of Allied bombs on But and Dagua airfields. At Tadja airdrome, 18 grounded planes were destroyed or damaged, while U. S. fliers blasted two parked bomber's at Madang and AlexIshafen, and fired one barge and a coastal vessel in harbor. A group of navy PT-Boats and "Black Cats" from a navy night patrol sank at least six Japanese barges and damaged 11 more in a running battle off Bougainville In the

Solomons.

One PT-Boat sustained a direct hit from heavy enemy coastal fire, v navy spokesman disclosed, and was demolished with the loss of two officers and ll-’ jnen. Three of the.

crew were rescued.

A group of 12 enemy barges was caught emerging from Jaba river in the glare of a flare dropped by a Black Cat” pilot, Lt. Robert Lee Coleson, USNR, Spencer, La, Four were sunk by the PT-Boats ajid t'.ie eight others damaged heavily. Farther south on the Island, PTBoats encountered five more enemy barges, loaded with men and supplies, and sank two of them and

probably one other.

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JAPANESE TRICK? WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 (UP)__ The absence of battleship dry docking and other first class naval maintenance facilities at Truk, noted in

QUADS Do!\ ( ; ^ HSANOR K.N’CUndI UP) Quadruplets J two girls were born 3 ""V"'" 1 ■ . ported ’’doing .veil" The babie s were bom .1 penter’s home and then j uirsing ho One weis ounds, two w.ghed tire, J xmnds each and the three and thr. -quarters, "They arc lovely litti, J we are having diffiej Ing them," the matron df ing home said.

SOCIETY NEWS

(< oiitiinitMl from I'nitc Two) daughter Dorothy and son Kenneth Mr and Mrs. Gilbert Tate and son Duane of Indianapolis and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Flint and sons Bob, Jim mie and Buddie. Manf-jrd Tuttle of Richmond arrived Monday to visit with his brother, Maynard, of the U. S. Navy, who was home on a short leave. + + + ••• Shower For CpI. And Mrs. l/C-m Huber Sat.urday There will be a shower at the Nazarene church Saturday afternoon. March 4, at 2:00 for Cpl. and Mrs. Leon Huber, who were married Feburajy 24. Everyone in invited. + ■* + * W. S. C. 8. To .Meet Thursday The Circle meeting of the W. S. C. S. of Gobin Memorial church will be held Thursday, March 2 at the following homes: Circles 1 and 5 will meet with Mrs T. G. Yuncker, 620 Highwood Ave. Speaker, Mrs. Ada Harris. Circle 2 will meet with Mrs. James Roberts and Mrs. A. L. Goodenough, 610 Anderson St. Speaker. Rev. A L. Meredith. Circles 3 and 10 will meet wiili Mrs. L. L. Messersmith, 422 Anderson St. Speaker, Mrs. Claude McCluiv. Circle 4 will meet with Mrs. John Cook. 417 East Washington street. Speaker. Mrs. Lester Jones. Circles 6 and 9 will meet with Miss Helen Birch, 202 West Walnut St. Speaker, Mrs. Ivan Ruark. Circles 7 and 8 will meet with Mrs. Chapman. 402 South Indiana St. Speaker, Mrs. Blanche Monnett. All speakers will discuss some topic connected with the Orient.

EVERY WED., FRI„ SAT., To a paradeoH Nations Finest I WED., MARCH lst( Jan Savilfil Shuffle lUiytlw

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—sij. fSWMklM Sifefee*--HMI IS THE MAYFLOWER HOTEL in Washington. D. C, whert S Jack, Inset, president of the fabulous Jack and Heint* P‘» b j Cleveland, has invited the entire U. S. Congress to dinner on * W w? u re . cent| y ha * teen the object of a renegotiation ^ <1 y which found he owed the government some seven null ^ it r *a°?K War contract8 . Intends to tell the lawmakers howl* saved the government money.’’ So far, according to Jack, mos 10 congressional replies have averaged 50 per cent acceptance in >P p l " du,trlal exhibit of 64 other concerns held under WW duction Board auspice, the same night.