The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 March 1944 — Page 1
« + * + «»* + + + + + + tjl i «li. w i:\iiim; + rain \ni> colder •:* + + + + + + + +
✓OLUME FIFT\ -TWO
THE DAILY BANNER IT WAVES FOR ALL"
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1944.
NO. 126
ONE-MAN ARMY” HONORED
FAR SHORT OF PEDED QUOTAS
• \
1
El* I I* DKAFTING OK CDS AND MKN NOW
DEFEUUED
GTON, March 16 -(UPs mi's 6.100 draft hoards today with the need ol > the draft of fathers and
MHjPiasilying one out of every 20 men now deferred for farm and war | iMEKmoet military manpower re- j
■HpRts by July 1.
The oomplexities of the manpowei j problems were outlined before a Senate committee yesterday by Selective j Service Jpi rector Lewis M. Hershey * and additional details were expected i ^■pfBade public tixlay when Col I ■■HV. Keesling, Hershey’s legislative aide, testifies before a Housi ^^^^Rafiairs subcommittee. 't. L 0m$*y said in an order to the |||pl||ibrtls last night that the draft of fatlHrs already underway, muat |d up to meet quotas which pen 100.000 men short of
pi month since October.
My 1, Hershey said, the arme>. I^will need 1,160,000 more It in sight, there are only Reaving a deficit of 240,oou it come out of the 1,700,000 erred in agriculture and tiv
in war activities. This
If means f reclassification of about oii“ | out Of (every 20 occui>atioiially de ■ve Service, Hershey said, ■ pg on the basis that “les-. man out ot every three” it physical icquin mentii be
armed forces now are in
| men able to do combat duty, must, in the future, make
F available in
numbers to meet induction lents,” he said. “At the pae we must secure men from ■asses and particularly wo |eure men, fathers and nonfrom the gioups now deferIndustry and agriculture.”
ANNUAL C. OF C DINNER TUESDAY AT GUBIN CHURCH
COL. OWSLEY WILL BE THE i • l EST S PEAKE It KOK MEETINO MARCH 21 The annual dinner meeting of the Greencastle Chamber of Commerce will be held .next Tuesday evening at the Gobin Memorial church and the organisation has b< eii quite fortunate in securing as the speaker. Col. Alvin M. Owsley, of the Ball Brothers Co., of Muneie and former National Commander of the American Legion. He is cne of the nation's forceful speakers and a large audience is looking f,a ward to hearing him. A native of
extensively
Late World News LONDON, March 16.—(IP)— Powerful fleets of American planes .smashed at Southern (iermun.v today in the wake of British bombers which strewed more than 8,300 tons of explosives across the tteieh and occupied territory last night in the heaviest aerial assault of all time.
SERVING COUNTRY
*7 -
lime. ••* ’* oxo-.
.ugh n » 1
MOSCOW. March 16. (I P) slan mohile forces swept through
62-mile break in the Bug river line
today to within less than 2X mites ^ of the Dniester in a drive which seal- | vt. Arnold ed the fate of Vlnnista and o|H>ued w;, , ; r L . m An I
w
Sgt. George M. Arnold is the son of Mrs. Hattie Arnold of Fillmore. He is the father of Evelyn Kay of Greencastle K. 3. He entered service December 4, 1942. He is stationed somewhere in England. His add less is Sgt. 35572330, A. !’. O
Nation’s highest award, the medal of honor, is placed about the neck of Sergt. Charles E. Kelly of Pittsburgh, the "oneman army” who killed 40 Germans in the battle of Altaville, Italy. Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark, Commander of thv Fifth Army, does the honors somewhere in Italy. It was the first such award to be made lor heroic action on the Italian mainland in the present conflict.
A. & P. Has New Self-Service Store
The latest type of A & P self-ser-vice market was opened in Greencastle Monday, according to an announcement made by John A. Lindgren, Jr., vice president of the Indianapolis urea, of which Greencastle
is a part.
The company is taking this progressive step in the food retailing industry in line with the growth and
increasingly progress of Greencastle. With this
' complete new changeover, the new A & P self-service store now has room for displaying a complete line of grocery products, a large produce department as well as a dairy and bakery department. This store also has u complete meat and fish markid there now are 1,498,0001 et.
jits Classified as 1-A for im- j The new store embodies the lateht induction but that only 420 I principles of fine food retailing being i this group can be expected j developed by the A & P Tea Coinphysical requirements. | pany throughout the nation today, nklitional 250,000 inductee j The new store features among othe. fbe provided from amon , I notable conveniences, very wide reaching 18, he said, while | a isles. All merchandise is displayed 250.000 can be expected from j along these aisles and the customer
helps herself to anything she chooses, knowing exactly what she is going to pay, as every item is prominently priced as wtell as being properly marked with the correct ration point values. The help-yourself type of store is a real convenience as you do not have to wait for a clerk to
serve you.
With tlie merchandise easily accessible from the many tables where it is displayed, customers are provided with easy running carts in which to assemble their purchases. The store is also provided with convenient checkout stands where merchandise from all departments is totaled which makes for speedier shopping. . Another worthy featun of the A & P iclfrservice store is that the extremely low prices are not specials for one day, two days or three days,
fication of 2,593,000 father., he old dependency 3-A classi,485,000 men in 4-F, he said Itly are being “worked over,’ ■y a relatively small number jexpccted to enter the services respects for the immediate fare not'substantial in the liglr
11 needs.”
Iipy previously hail ordered a [ tightening up of deferments )n up to and including the ag [but at the same time makin ■ible to continue deferrtn , kviio are found absolutely esj by state or national Selective t headquarters.
IlNGTON FUNERAL HELD ON THURSDAY
Manford A
Madame Carranza To Speak Monday
Madame Matilde Carranza, a native of Costa Rica and at present a language teacher at St. Marys of the Woods, will be brought here Monday evening, March 20th by thv Greencastle Teachers (Federation. She will
speak on South America. The meet-! enviable record
) Texas, he has traveled
throughout the world.
Colonel Owsley was graduated first in Military Rank in his class from thv famous Virginia Military Institute, the West Point of the South, now very much In the public favor as the Alma Mater of General George Marshall, chief of staff, U. S. Army; the University of Texas and the Law Courts of London, England the Middlv Temple and Lincoln's Inn He holds several Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Laws and Doctor of Humanities, and has been decorated at home and abroad. As national Commander of the American Legion, Owsley set an all timv high record for travel and speaking in every state of the Union, delivering over seven hundred addresses in a single year. Each National Political Campaign finds Colonel Owsley on tour throughout the country. Colonel Owslvy established
in diplomacy as
ing is to be held in the auditorium | the minister of the United States to
of the Second Ward school at 7:301
p. m.
The Teachers Federation feels very fortunate to have secured such
Rumania, Ireland, and Denmark. He knows how to speak to business men He is in great demand as an after dinnvr speaker, and comes to
a timely and interesting lecturer and ' ,rt 'encastle, to especially compliment
have decided to make tills a guest |
meeting. The public is cordially invited to the meeting and it is hoped that many will take advantage of this opportunity to hear Madame
Carranza.
PROPER LIGHTING TOPIC c: ::7:c::eon speaker Proper lighting facilities increased production in properly lighted plants from 3 to 15',;., according to Al. Jamison, illuminating engineer of the Public Service Co., in his talk before the Greencastle Rotary Club on Wednesday.
the American Zim Products Division of Ball Brothers Company of which
he is an active director.
Tickets for the dinner are in tho hands of Helen Black, secretary and any member of the American Legion who wishes to tAtond may secure tickets from Commander O. W. Hollowell. All reservations must be
made by Saturday night.
The committee in charge includes Lois Arnold, O. W. Hollowell and
James Pence.
the way for a southward push against Odessa. Any hope the Nazis may have held for an effectlve stand along the Bug, the last natural defense barrier in the Ukraine, was shattered by Marshal Ivan S. Konev's smash across
i the river.
Special Session Of Legislature INDIANAPOLIS, March 16 (UP) —Gov.Henry F. Schricker informed President Roosevelt in a telegram today that Indiana laws did not now authorize counting of supplementary federal ballots. His message was in answer to a query svnt to all state governors last night by the President. Schricker added that a special session of the legislature would be called soon and that he would recommend that the federal ballots be legalized in Indiana. “I cannot speak for the general assembly, but do not anticipate serious opposition to such a proposal," Schricker said. He added, "our people arc definitely in favor of giving the ballot to every voter in the armed services. We hope to reach most of them under our own laws, but failure to do this should not invalidate a federal
ballot."
Postmaster, New York, N.
Blows Dealt Japs in South Pacific
ALLIED HEAVY BOMBERS POUND AT STUTTGART
Preceding the talk of Mr. Jamison Lois Arnold pronounced Rexcll Boyd the winner of a current events con-
test apniuored by a popular maga- \.\y,| AIRPLANE ENGINE c ENT-
Halleck Raps ~ Delay By FDR
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, March 16 (UP) — American troops have smashed a heavy Japanese counterattack against their beachhead on Bougainville island and killed more than 1,200 enemy troops in six days <4 fierce, close-quartvrs fighting, Allied headquarters revealed today. Charging fanatically against American machine guns and flame throwers, the Japanese were mowed down by the hundicds and finally were forced to retreat .leaving 1,173 of their dead on the battlefield. A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 16 (UP) American airmen, rounding out four straight days of attacks on the Japanese bn e at Wewak, New Guinea, shot down eight more enemy planes in heavy aerial combats Tm day while nearly 200 miles to th cast ground forces moved to withli less than 25 miles of Madang, it wa announced today. Heavy and meiliuai bombers dropped 174 tons of explosives on Hornm and Hand! plantation In the now assault. while escort planes engaged an enemy fighter force of 30 planes, of which eight were definitely shot down and probably two others, rail' lug the Japanese loss to 73 for tlv four 'ku'ii » » ., Targets in the Wewak area \v : gunned in low-level attacks, a earn munique said, and smoke from bln. ing fuel dumps blanketed the entlr section, Night air patrols also bon: bed an one ny barge conccntratio i on Muschu stand, destroying four o'
the boats.
To the east in Mintjim valley, A lied ground troops pushed forward fnirn Cape Rigny and passed throug • the villiages of Saipa and Yok pi m their drive toward Madang on t'n north shore of Astrolabe bay.
m —* t«<l SItil! j till llftf
I
feral services for
F
hip resident, who died Monda ' j W eek, week in and week out, until I were held at tne Chastai j gut; ij (jnn as market conditions jus-
tify change. This means that you can get the same law price on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday as you
get on the weekend.
Through this means of everyday low prices, a lot of the weekend congestion is eliminated as a customer can shop any day that she likes and still get the advantage of the lowest
possible prices.
Loren Welsh will continue as man-
herd I ager of Hie new store and C. F. Bar-
bv Sigler was called for con- ! '<*1, former assistant mat iger m L n the Hoopeston, Illinois store, will be Ft. A. Sigler was one of the in charge of the meat department.
I at the annual spring stallion iheld at Lafayette Wednesday
pon.
p .in Russellville Thursday a.: Bn Burial was in the Mt. He-
■cmetery.
LI,Eli) IN < ONSI LATION A. Sigler was in Terre [ Thursday, where he was calli consultation by Dr. Archet ■ary at the Federal i ” Thel have .in unusually fin'
fcf Holstein dairy cows and it |
iii connection with this
!0 Years Aj>o
EN OKEKNGASTEV
“We have made every effort to provide Greencastle home makers with an opportunity to purchase foods at the lowest possible prices in an up-to-the-minute market,” Mr. Welsh said. “I am grateful indeed for the cooperation and friendly patronage given me by the people of Greencastle .and it is the Increasing
pationage of the people of this comRuby Wright was here from! munlty that’ has made possibU tii rn visiting her mother, Mrs. expansion and conversion "f ’.m [Wright. j modern, spacious, new type so * Taylor was home from La- service store we are now opiuhig, where he vva» attending Pur- j continued VV elsh.
liversity.
Emma Johnson and Miss | Phillips spent the day in In-
olls.
ON HONOR ROLL
Miss Mary C. Wren of Greencastle is on the Indiana University honor
r and Gordon Prevo were the' roll for the past semester, it was snof their parents in Terre nounced today by Charles E. Ham
assistant registrar.
zinc. Mr. Boyd was awarded a globe of the world for his proficiency in current topics. Mr. Jamison proved himself an excellent talker and raconteur a,nd his remarks on lighting were of considerable inbre t. The future use of t> un si nt lighting in homes was commented on and it was said that this type of lighting could be adapted to floor and bridge lamps. An appeal was made for consumers to use lighting as sparingly as possible to conserve coal, transportation and manpower as well as tungsten, whic.i is o important in the war effort.
NAZI ATTITUDE TOWARD PRISONERS 13 CHANGING JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 16.— (UP) The German attitude toward prisoners of war changed from one of harshness, while the Nazis were winning, to one of kindness after the tide had turned, an American who returned with other repatriates aboard the exchange motorshlp Gripskolm said today. Francis Vicovarl, young New YoPk architect and volunteer ambulance driver, said that when the allies begun winning, more barracks were built to house the prisoners, and the food became better. “There has been a noticeable change in the treatment of prisoners at the camp whore I was interned in a year’s time,” he said. “A year and more ago when Germany was on top, they treated the prisoners harshly, and camp conditions were bad. Now that the Germans know they can’t win the war, there is a decided improvement in their treatment of their enemies.” Other repatriates said that unrelenting allied air raids against the Reich has lowered civilian morale and that the nation was reeling under the attacks, but warned that Germany was by no means near Intel nnl collapse
ER MAIN OBJECTIVE OK NIGHT RAID
16 (UP) One
of the largest armadas of RAF heavy bombers in recent weeks smashed at Germany and occupied territory last night with the great Nazi aircraft engine center of Stuttgart as the main objective. • An hour-long procession of fourengined bombers roared out across the English east coast last night, and then split, with one force heading eastward and the other southeast at great height. Jjater a third stream of bombers flew out across the southeast coast in a touthcrly direction. A Zurich dispatch said several hundred bombers crossed the SwissGerman border in the vicinity of Lake Constance in tho face of heavy anti-aircraft fire between 16:30 ami 11 p. m. Soon after the dispatch said, ’“terrible detonations" were audible from the direction of Stuttgart, on" of the principal industrial centers in
southern Germany.
Several other towns In southern Germany also apparently were at-
tacked Zurich reported.
Stuttgart's Daimer-Benz works turns out engines for Messersc'imitt and Helnkel planes, as well as for tanks and heavy army trucks, while Its Bosch factory manufactures electrical and ignition equipment for internal combustion engines. Stuttgart, with a population of 415,000, also in a junction of several of the main railway routes to south and
southwest Germany.
Last night's raid was the first or Germany by the RAF's heavyweights since they unloaded 1,700 tons of bombs on Stuttgart March 1. However, twin-engined mosquito light bombers have made numerous sorties
ov^r the Reich in tile interim.
Objectives attacked in “oocupied territory’’ last night actually were believed to lie in Fiance, where British heavy bombers have been
raiding railway yards and
LOCAL BOY’S OUTFIT TO APPEAR IN MOVIF
T S II mild E. Day of Grecru istl . now stationed at Burbank, Calif. pictured m scenes of new movie' Janie" now in production at Warner
Brothers.
Harold is a member of the 121 Gun Rn which Is supplying an all army background for the picture One hundred and fifty soldiers nr •
WASHINGTON, March 16. (UP) President Roosevelt delayed his decision on whether to sign or veto the compromise soldier vote bill today pending results of his canvass of state governors on effectiveness of its federal ballot provisions. Acting shortly after the House completed action on the measure by approving it 273-111, Mr. Roosevelt wired the 48 stab s governors yesterday for their opinion as to whether their state laws would permit use of the federal ballots and if not, whether steps would be taken to rrtake their use possible. Rep. Charles A Halleck. R., Ind., chairman of the Republican congressional elections committee, said he believed the survey unnecessary because the positions of the states already were known, and rebuked the President for “speaking as though he were an authority on state election laws,” in his recent soldier vote
message.
He recalled a similar survey of gubernatorial opinion by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D. t Vu , and said it showed that governors were “willing and ready to provide the soldiers with a full local absentee ballot, if the government provided transportation, thereby making the bobtail federal
ballot unnecessary.”
University Has New Instructor
Appointment of Joyce Roadman, Sioux City, la., as instructor of women’s physical ^education at DePauw University was announced today by
Dean Edward R. Bartlett.
Miss Roadman, the daughter of President Earl Roadman of Morningside College, replaces Miss Patricia
Roche who began officer training in j participating and 22 pieces'of equip .....rr.-o »r—^ n "» /v.i-1 m ,, n t including 40-m guns, weapon?
carriers, jeeps, ambulances, trailers and a wrecker are being used in the
convoy scenes.
The n - >vie features Joyce Roy-
FIERCE BATTLE RAGES TODAY IN CASSINO RUINS
GERMANS PITTING IT STIFF RESISTANCE AGAINST ALL-Ol T DRIVE ALLIED H E A D Q U A R T E R S, NAPLES March 16 (UP) \ savage battle raged through the blackened ruins of Cassino today, and official reports said allied tanks, infantrymen and artillery were slowly crushing a fanatical band of German gunners who ^rept back last night to defend the bomb and shell-tom wreckage of their mountain strong-
hold.
As the allied armor closed in for the kill, fierce fighting exploded on the Anzio beachhead 10 milt s to tho north where American shock troops lashed out In a sudden attack southeast of Aprilia. The German beachhead lines swayed perilously under the fury i f the American assault, and observers speculated that the doughboys might have launched a major drive to coincide with the big push at Cassino. On both fronts, however, the tiermans were battling desperately to prevent an allied break-through that might collapse their defense structure in southern Italy and lay open the invasion roads to Rome. Beaten into nibble yesterday by the greatest aerial and artillery bombardment in history, Cassino remained a battleground today and all reports Indicated that the Germans had rushed in strong reinforcements to defend its ruins to tho death. German infantrymen and mortar crews swarmed back into the twisted heaps that remained of the ancient stone town and fought back stoutly under the merciless rain of shellfire from the surrounding hills and the rakiiblasts of the attacking allied a i mored forces. Front reports said the allied tanks and assault troops were forcing llio Germans slowly out of the town, with sappers winking frantically to cigar away the yugekage llmt blocked their path. Heavy rains which In ;an at !) p. m. yesterday continued through the night and added to the difficulties of the attacking allied troops. The Germans, apparently reinforced by fresh units rushed into tho battle during the night, fought baric viciously with fungire, hand grenades, and then "screaming mcemies”-— multi-barrelled trench mortars, While the battle raged inside tho ruins of Cassino under clearing skit (, other allied forces pushed into tho hills to the northwest, threatening to cut off the Germans in the town. Simultaneously, American infantrymen tm the Anzio bcaehhead front were revealed to have launched a new attack outheaat of Aprilia. Two enemy strongpolnts fell to tho Americans yesterday but headquarters spokesmen said tin Nazis counterattacked savagely and that violent fighting still was in progress this mot niiig.
#
w
'lllfe fj
HANNA’S STORE WILL TAKE BOOK DONATIONS Sam II mil l's Hoi k Store will bo the despository station for Gre.-neastlo citizens w in wish to comribute to the book diivi being sponsored by tho Krcshme.i ('• aimi-sion ol Y. W. C \. Tlie drive, whirh will continue uid.l Saturday March 18, Is for the purpose I i' collecting bo KS tor pri son. »S of war. College or high school text looks, detective stories, language bonk ', books coneerning piofeKsional subjects, and st and ml woiks in English literature ire the types of books needed. Th ■ Fre man Commission is wnirking in cooperatioi with tho World Student Relief to send boohs into tlie prison camps of Germany and Italy for the use of American
the WAVES March 0 at Smith Col-
lege, Northampton, Mass.
Miss Roadman attended Morningside College three years and later received the A B. degree from the University of Illinois in physical edu-
cation.
At DePauw Miss Roadman will teach modern dance, individual and
nolds,, Bob Hutton, Ann Harding Edward Arnold, Robert Bcnchley and Louise Beavers, Michael Curtis, director of "Casablanca'', is directing.
team sports.
INDIAN ATOMS LIVESTIH K
INFANT DIES Hogs 8 500; fairly active; 23c — higher on all weights; 200-250 lbs., Sally Ann Johnson, infant twin | $14.20-$14.40; top $14.49 on 200-210
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Venard lbs.; 250-.I30 lbs., mostly $14.15; 330aircratt I Johnson of this city, died Wednesday 400 lbs.. $13.75; 160-200 lbs., $14.10-
plants during moonlit nights when | afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Putnam $14.30; 100-15!) lbs, $U-$12.25; sows
(flinty hospital 15c-25e higher, mostly $13 40-$13.60
war prijuners.
vi> *» €' V 4* «r
•» m
$ T’ulay's Weather
«
& and
9 Local Temperature
«
$»««•*«*••«
Cloudy with occasional rain to-
day, tonight and Friday; colder today.
Minimum
46
6 a. in
47
7 a. m.
49
8 a. m
52
9 u m :
58
10 a. m
. 57
11 a. m
. 59
12 noon
61
1 p m.
60
° p m
60
■ I until mi I'nKr 'I’llrn**>