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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL’

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1944.

NO. 132

HDIER VOTE BILL STUDIED BY PRESIDENT

|), ; OF GOVERNORS OF | I A TKS STOOD I!) TO 19 ON Al’I’KOVAL

IaSHINGTON, March 23—PrcjiK welt today began study of LfivHi' vote bill in the light of a T, : M i nors which turned up a b., i to nineteen tie of “ayea” T"nay.s ' on the question of api.,l ]uobable approval of use E ,l, !al ballots as provided fot- in hieasure. [I'cutives of nine stales were committal and the White Iious< yd to receive a reply from Govr Olm D. Johnston of South Carp Roosevelt conducted the poi Lip him decide whether to ap L or veto the bill which give L-iIn and preference to state bal I instead of the federal ballot. !h he recommended to Congress Indicated he would make up hi; II on the basis of whether the nevv Uation would mean more or les.' bg by tliose in uniform. ii' hill would permit use of fodrr lallots only by service men and |rn overseas and only in case; jr> they apply for a state bako kept. 1 and do not receive one b;

bx i and Vermont gave Uv lident assurance today they wd use of the supplementary bal raising to seven the number ot |rs where no doubt remains that ballots can be used. The others |l'HliforniH. Maryland, North Car Florida and Kansas. Pir governor of Alabama said fed ballets would be acceptable if fern-kv vote bill is constitutional

OH A I’1,1 N TRIAL STARTS

| HOLLYWOOD, March 23 (UP) •—A jury of seven women and five men. all old enough to remember when Charlie Chaplin was thv fun- ■ blest man ever to stumble across the | silent screen, settled do;vn today to hear the story of his adventures with Joan Barry in New York and to decide whether they were justified in sending him to prison as a White slaver. The red-haired Miss Barry insisted they do and charged that Chaplin took her to the big city two years ago for sexual indulgence alone. She O manded that he be put behind bars for the next ten years. The white-haired Chaplin, who earned $8,000,000 entertaining just such people as those who are sitting on the jury, admitted that he took Miss Barry to New York, but con-t'.-nded that he was only the picture producer looking out for the interests of his starlet.

POLITICAL riMticri rod DSMS

Miss Northrop Wins Oratorical Contest

Miss Florence Northrop, Greencastle high school student, was winner in the District Oratorical contest sponsored annually by the Rotary Club. Miss Northrop will compete with winners representing Rotary clubs in Rockville, Lafayette and Grawfordsville at Crawfordsville on Wednesday, March 29th. The win ner at Crawfordsville will go forward to further competition to determine the winner in Indiana. Miss Delight Thompson, another Greencastle high school student competed with Miss Northrop on Wednesday and both presented the subject “American, British, Chinesi and Russian Agreements’ 'in n creditable manor. In their orations eaelr

governors of the following state., discussed the Atlantic charter, Mos-

cow, Cairo and Teheran conferences and gave their interpretations as to how the agreements effected have influenced the course of the war and

they either expected or wouk nimond authorization to approv |<rdeial blanks: Utah, Massachu New Mexico, Indiana, New

jip.lilre, Rhode Island. New Jer-j wi11 affect thr P ost war wor,d - Com ’

ineiit was made on the closer underi standing between the Allies and Rus-

I sia.

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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, farmer, Inspects lumbering operations on his Hyde Park, N. Y., home grounds. In public life the president of the U. S., Mr. Roosevelt Is shown with Prof. Nelson C. Brown of the New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse, as they survey tim-

tr <

ber cut this winter.

(International)

Ni braska, Maine, Oklahoma anii

pccticut.

thr- other side of the ledger advices that no action has been n cr is planned to authorize |> in Nevada, Iowa, Idaho, Ilk G< < rgia, Virginia, West Virgin |\\ isionsin, Colorado, Minnesota Montana and Mississippi. Gov

Els ol North Dakota, Tennessee, | lining Michigan and Oregon In-1 Mrs. Nellie Olive Turner, age 68 I' ere is little likelihood of years, widow of James Turner, died Ballon of federal ballots. | Wednesday evening at the home if li K,,ii.s.-velt has been reported jher son Walter Turner at Lawrenceficuiarly concerned about tlielvllle, 111. populous states and this lineup | Mrs. Turner was born at Hamrick the two with the biggest vote. Station in Putnam county and wa-

Mrs. Nellie Turner Called By Death

York and Pennsylvania, in th' 1 [•< ommital classification with

the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hutcheson. She was a membei

Jl'-i ni.i approving the federal bal* i °f G' e Cliristian church of Hamrick

| :nid Ohio and Michigan not ex-j Station.

•d to.

imocrat Workers Met Last Night

The deceased had been making het ! home with her daughter, Mrs. Edna j Rissler of Clay county. She suffered a stroke about two weeks ago aftei ! she went to visit with her son hi

| Lawrcnceville.

1 Besides the son and daughter, she I is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Al

i umber of Democrat workers of belt Girton and Mrs. Minnie Frazier -mi county held a pre-primary both of Reclsville and two grandchil-

nization meeting in the Assemb- drew,

lien of the court house Wednes- The body was taken to the Moon ev ning. i and Son Funeral Home in Brazil rs Lillie McFerran, county vice- Funeial services will be held some i n;,in presided. Several matters , ume Saturday,

nsinoHs pertaining to the coming 1:1 iy campaign were discussed.

Kliided the matter of register- Rflttlp III tl’.e voters who need to be regis- Dll Id DOIIIw III

'I. among those being the new,

and those who have changed j

felence since their last voting. j Piei c was a general discussion j P ig the workers concerning the 1 p-uy campaign which is getting pr way and means of placing a |"'“ms ticket in the field for the

campaign.

Ruins Of Cassino

STKTTIMUs T<> LONDON Washington, March 23 iupi iloniatic circles believed today t undersecretary of state Edid R. Stettinius, Jr., may use his lending London visit to sound out possibility of a Roosevelt-fcrchill-stalin conference on clari■tion of the Atlantic charter.

20 Years Ago

•N RKrr.Ni

Goldie Newgent was confined "° r homf ' •’y an attack of the 1 tbps. I oss Wells was here from Terre j r e Vls 'ting friends and relatives. ^ u Wton spent the day in ^tir Albin Iran dieted ,.u. iness in

Wiapolis.

ALL’ED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, March 23.—(UP) Bitter hand-to-hand fighting continued the wreckage of Cassino today while German foices in the surrounding ; hills launched a series of strong i counterattacks in ,an effort to

' lieve the pressure on their embattled

palatroopers inside the town. Battling with knives, guns and g enadcs the New Zealand infantiy4i«n were reported slowly beating do.vn the wearied German units Holding out for the ninth day in a .-i.ow pocket of ruined houses on the southwestern corner of Cassino. The New Zealanders littered the tc /n behind them with anti-personei mines to prevent infiltration by enemy rnlpers ami managed to hurl the N: .1 “green devils'' from a few more rubble heips around the Continental

hotel.

Smallpox Survey In City Schools According to information from M. E. Stapley, superintendent of schools, a survey of city elementary schools has revealed that only a small per cent of the students have been vaccinated for smallpox. This unfortunate condition should | be corrected as soon as possible, since it is only in areas which an- ( not cautious that smallpox epidemics thrive. Medical science has u sur method of protection, and arrung< | ments have been made to vaccinal, students at school with a minimum ( of cart to parento Any student eo, be vu, • - . of ode U i.» ullage, a sup from a parent on or before March 29. Sue 1 -. , slips have been sent homo for parent signatures but if additional ones arc needed, they arc procurable fro a room teachers. Indiana has been backward us : compared to many states in the fight against smallpox. Fourteen known cases have developed already this year. A cooperative effort on the part of all parents to have students vaccinated within the next week would be an important step in safeguarding Greencastle against small-

pox.

Ray Wright Dies Of Heart Attack Lawrence Ray Wright, age (•-1 years, a railroad employee, who made his home at 707 south College avenue, died suddenly of a heart attack Thursday morning. Mr. Wright was well known in this city, but had spent most of his ,fe in the Putnamviile and Munhatun communities. He was born 1'. ’utnam county. Survivors are one sister, Mi -.. Myrtle Dinkins of this city and or irother, Hinton Wright of Crawfordsville and other relatives. Funeral services will be held Sun day afternoon at 2 o’clock from t.i Rector Funeral Home. 'I he Rev. Cecil Fellers will officiate. Ruii i will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the Rector I’uneral Home.

REDS SCATTER ENEMY FORCES IN BESSARABIA

:.M> I’KItAINIAN \KMY MORE THAN MALI- WAY ACROSS

BFsvAHAlIIA TODAY

• MYRON SELZNICK DIES HOLLYWOOD, March 23 -IUP) Myron Selziick, 45. promeinent nctcr’s agent, died today of intestinal ’ie:no"ihag«\ He was the mother of David O. CDlznick, film producer.

MAY OUST FARLEY WASHINGTON, March 23 (UP) The movement to oust James A. Farley as Democratic state chairman in New York was reported today from Albany to have been supported by David K. Niles, one of President Roosevelt’s administrative

assistants.

Farley retained his state chainna'i-

resigned the j

ship

Democratic

chairmanship in protest

President Roosevelt's desire for a third term. He is active now in antifourth term maneuvers which, so far,

have bean conspicuous

futility.

MOSCOW, March 23 i UP) Th2nd Ukrainian army, already half way acrosj the waist of Bessarabia, P-diiy scattered Gem an and Human ian f.uv** • trying d«- perately to r.group for a Hand north of the Prut river an' -r J Rumania. Steadily widening and deepening tln-ir bri igehead across the L niestei river, M trs-ul Ivan S. Konev’s fly ing column, sma -iicl through enemy tear guard resistance and broke up German group-, rallying tor an alien,pt to stem one of the most anfazing Soviet advances of the Russian

war. *

Nudushita, 34 miles northea-t of the Prut river and 17 miles north of the key escape railway junetio: of Haiti, was seized by the Soviet yesterday. To the west, other Russian units advanced to within 2f miles of the Prut. Far to the east, the Russian stormed the last defenses of Voznes ensk and the Black sea port o' Nikulin vv, the last two German stiongholds on the east bank of t .

Bug river.

Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky's 3n Ukrainian army reached the suburbs of Nikolaev, a city of 167,000 persons at the Junction of the Bug and Ingul river . after capturing Kaliiovki "ight miles to tlw northeast: Ber goyavlo k, fiv miles s iuth, am Gorokhovkn, ix miles east. In tl".- initial stages of their at. t.r k on Nikolaev's defense belt.) th' Russians sma- lu-d six enemy gw batteries with their own artillery, destroyed a locomotive and 15 ammunition cars and dispersed an enemy battalion. The as a-.dt on V- zn^sensk, a tov.: of 21,011) on tu Cmcln-Odcssi railway, followed the reduction of its twin stro ighold of Pervmaisk. 3. die to the re rthwest, yesterday aftel i 1 ii-re tri t battle. tn-i Germans turned every building in Pervo naisk into a fort, but were driven into 1 .- Bug by the Rusalm attack. ’ lundr-ls drowned in th 1 riw r in a futile attempt to reach th - roiithw t bank. Many pii;»nei

were taken.

Northw t of the Soviet bridge head in Be- - i h hia, Konev’s forces further reduced thn enemy Salient beyond Zlimcrinka with the capture of 15 more towns and villages. In one >-t i German infantry attempted a count.-r-attack. but wen pin- ( 1 to tie yround :>y wWiernRussian mortar and machine-gui While Soviet tanks broke

BOMBS SMASH JAP ATTEMPT TO AiD WEWAK BASE

DESTROYEU AND T»U1 ( ARGO SHU’S SI NK BY ALLIED AIRMEN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Southwest Paeific, Match 23. (UP) — Allied bombera sank a destroyer and two small cargo ships off thnorthern No.- Guinea coast Monday night in smashing another Japanese attempt to reinforce their battered I Wewuk ba. - a communique announced today. Air patrols intercepted the three ships off Aitape, 90 miles northwest of Wewak, and sank them with direct hits, a communique said, bringing tile desti action of Japanese ships to eight in two days. A five-ship convoy, including three armed corvettes. was sunk in the same area Sunday. The two cargo ships d-.--stroye I in Monday's operations totaled 2500 tons. Heavy and medium bombers continued their assaults on Wewak dropping 100 tons of explosives on the base Tuesday in a raid which led smoke from large fires rising 4,000 feet into the air. Ground forces on New Guinea also were active, with Australian and American patrols joining in the Kabcnau river area, .even miles southwest of Bogudjim, and only 25 miles below the big enemy base at Madang. In the St. Mathhias Islands, north of New Ireland, U. S. marines were consolidating their positions on both Emirau and Elomusuo Islands, which they seized Monday, the communique

said.

Allied airmen maintained their constant attacks on the now-lsolate.l Bismarck archipelago, hitting enemy positions throughout New Ireland and New Britain. Night air patrols raided Kavieng and Namatunai airdromes in northern New Ireland and the- Cape St. George area on tiie southern end of the island. The big enemy base at Rabnul on New Britain was hit for the 15th day since Feb. 3 by Solomons-based planes, which dropped 13 ', tons of bombs in a daylight attai k that silenced at least 10 Japanese guns. The communique -aid there again was no aerial interception and a spokesman describe I the attacks on Rahaui and also <n Wewak as ra| idly becoming “ju -t another milkrun’’ for allie I I anbe'is.

SERVING COUNTRY

Ashworth

Pvt. Fay Ashworth is the husband of Loretta Ashworth and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Ashwort i. His address is Pvt. Fay Ashworth, 35145970, A. P. O. 20- A. e o Postmaster, Shreveport, La.

Nazis Shell Anizo Hospital, Kill Five ANZIO BEACHHEAD, Italy. March 23. (UP) Between thirty and forty shells from German longrangi guns exploded In the American field hospital area here today, sending huge thunks of shrapnel ripping through ward tents and killing five patients. Eleven others were wound-

ed.

The new shelling of the clearly marked hospital area brought the total hospital casualties from enemy bombs and artillery to thirty-thre persons killed and seventy-four wounded since Jan. 22 landings. The shells started falling shortly after -1 a. m. At I ast fourteen tents were torn by the fragments. One ward tent where forty patients were sleeping received a direct hit. Three were killed where they lay and two others were struck in tiie head by fragments as they reached for their helmets. All the American hospital units now have been concentrated in one area, the Germans having reportedly said during the last shelling of wn- , tents that they were too widely dis pc i.sed over the beachhead. The area is marked with twenty-foot square red crosses and each tent bears a red eioss on a white baekgiound. There u.s no military installation in the

immediate area.

ALLIED PLANES BACK 511 /X!S SKY THURSDAY

NAZI RADIO STVHolj* REBORT PLANES OVER VcT.STKEN

GERMANY TODAY i

LONDON, March 23- (UP) - Powerful forces of Ametlcan hutiVeers smashed at Germany fc*- the second straight day tonl.cy in a broadside attack on the northivunt Resell and the Brunswick ar a, where the Nazis reported violent air battles, after a 1.000-plane British niglit ] bombardment of Frankfurt. United Slate', a'iciy 1. iaiartevn

announced tbat'. tr erators and Flying I ably 500 to 700 bom! over Germany with fighter escort in strength” for an att: 1.500 U. S. warplanes.

The daylight ae rial siege eg Gei - man war production centers was reported by the Nazis finally to have succeeded in luring Reiehsmaiili d Hermann Goering's fighters into battle, in contrast with yesterday's attack which was not challenged by

a single enemy plane.

Targets for the widespread bombardment* by the U. S. Eighth Air Force heavyweights in addition to the Brunswick war plant a*»a 120 miles west of Berlin, where the (airman bomber base at liandorf, tirw airforce station at Achmer, and a big'

aircraft park at Wei l.

“Strong forces of B-24 Liberators ami B-17 Flying Fortresses eel the U. S. Eighth Air Force today attacked targets in northwest Germany, ineluding a bomber base at Ilainl|>M. :i Luftwaffe station at Achir. r, ami :i large aircraft park at Werl,” a communique of the U. S. strati gic air

forces said. z

: lie !■ i' e Lib-

• t: e

.'is. swept back an Amui levin “very great lek by peiiuijia

Japs Penetrate Border Of India

LONDON. March 23 (UP)- Nazi radio stations report it 10 A. M. (6 A. M. EWT) today that a strong formation of Allied planes was :w .1(1ing toward western Germany,

GOP Woman’s Club Has First Meeting The Putnam County Republica Woman’s Club held its first meeting of the year at the city council room Following the I le-lc' to tin' Flag th business meeting was held at which time it was vot'd t" contribute $5.00 to the American Red Cross Wa: Fund drive. Officers of the club wt re continue! for the' coming year as follows; President, Mis. William Boatright, .irsl vice preside t. Mr; Thad Jones econ 1 vice jn' side-nt Airs. Roy VI,rain::; thir l vn , president. Mi , •Ailllnm Spencer; lourth vice prosilent. Mis. Jo.m McCullough; treaseiier, Miss Edith I Browning; parliamentarian, Aiis. Catherine Long. The vacancies ei secretary and uuditoi arc to be fill"d by the executive

board.

Attention i« called to the women of Putnam county that any woman believing In tie piinciples of the Republican party and intending generally to support it.-, candidates is eligible for membership. PKOPERTI OW NED BUT NOT USED BY COLLEGE TAXABLE INDIANA: DLLS, March 23 Attorney Gen, i 1 James A. Emmert .eld today in an opinion that pr; petty owned by religious, educational md charitable f a diuioeis , i. > ,w uubje;t to property taxes unless the

NF.W DELHI, fjajreh 23. —),UP) Advanced Firitish ' patrols fou*h’ hack today against Japanese spearheads which knifed across the bordei of India lot the first time to threaten the city of Imphal. capital of Man-

ipur state.

British Indian forces were undertood to have prepared strong box lele nse positions around the city. , )ne* unconfirmed report at Calcutta said forward elements of the enemy bad penetrate I to within 28 miles ol

the Manipur capital.

MRS. LEONA SNYDER

OBSERVES 93RD. BIRTHDAY Mrs. D ona Snyder, well known lo, al woman, quietly observed her 93rd birthday anniversary Thursday at her home on north College avenue. Mrs. Snyder was born In Saee, Switzerland of French parents. She was christened in the famous Rheims

Cathedral and came to when she' was a little girl, family settled at Bedford.

The aged resident is the mother of seven children, two of whom Noble and Eugene Snyder, real ie in

G reencastle.

Mend/ rs of Mrs. Snyders family have taken part in five different wars. Her late father fought under

Napoleon.

BLAMES Ol’A

In 1940 when he

National Committee Ilr, ‘

against! through to their r ( ear and killed 70.

of them.

IjONDON, Mnreh 26 (UJP) BiV formations of UA.F raiders (ollowad I UPi yesterday's 1,500-ton American mill on Berlin with the third sssawH in fi,ve days on the burning Germ an war production center of ErankSvmt

last night.

A Britisli announcement ttiat British four-engined bombers were cm r Germany "in strength" with Krasdifurt the main target indicated that other Nazi eitii* also m iy have' beu,l

attacked.

The raid on Frankfurt, coming * soon after the RAF’s 1,000 plami attack last Saturday night and in American daylight blow Monel.iv indicated that the Allied air eeimnre I had marked the big soul' w *t Germany industrial city for knoeknat

treat moot.

Travelers from Gtfninny r< 4* ng Sweden .-aid fires still were burning in Frankfurt yesterday from lb,earlier attacks. I^a.uietain t , LIans from the city was in fun :swi»g, they said. The' center "f FrankRnt was reporti d to have been wiped on;. The miles-long pi,,mss n <( night raiders marcel out acro.se tire Hrrtish

America I east e ast e4irly la»et ir dit arli'l • Thed weary Am eie-nii b.mi'- i pilot* w> e*

j returning to tlvedr barr 1 ks al** r their nine-hour flight to B idi i. Bet wi'en 600 and ViNi tByin;.' Fm • tresses anil Liberator;, from tin 8t!i air force, with an e-(;ort of l.utn fighters, gave Berlin its tdV; si t 6 pounding in 19 days ywteeYIny an I kindled fires t i it sb>t flame* 4,#<K)

feet in I tin sk'^

Travelers arriving in Swi 4*' In* plane after the attack **iid the 1 Imumhi'Ute coneentraU'd their e oli -iv-s on Berlin’s northern suinirbs vqln*" mejst of Uio ettpitafs msjo: insist;. s Were situat'<1. Tile i tire dlstriiV-

thiok, choking

CHICAGO, March 23 (UP) Responsibility for a shortage of meat rests squarely with the OPA, B. B

Btumliy,president of the National vvas cover' d v\ l.h Livestock Producers Association, sai I n.oke, they aul.

today in a speech in which he char-1 aeterized the roll-back and subsidy order affecting livestock "an example ofblundering” and a "device to offset'loose fiscal and wage policies. Bniintey, in his address to the annual meeting of representatives of .350.000 farmer members of the assoclatloi lid then still wu time to

sively for purpose's of the foundation i work out a constructive program for

‘Berlin was aa inferno of it < < ec'S >eetlc'<l *’ M I’Httf I'llfervl

Chairm an C i ’ le H. Beelwell of the State Boa. if Tax CcmmisMoners h ;,i a k"d v hether «a 126 acre dud., farr.i id. ,d ing Taylor iniverjity at Upland was subject to taxation

.ifter M ’.red 1, 1944.

Bedwell slid tie fern was

for their

reported missing

meat supplies and urged that this to-

done.

STRAWN RITES FRIDAY Fureral rervices for Thomas Dav-

id Stfawn, who died Wednesday will j,,. adJbe held Friday afternoon nt 2 o’cloc.a from the Strawn residence in Roaeii(iale. The Rev. W. W. Kirk will of-

® U 4> 1ft * ^ S» * V * Today's W“attot "9 4 and O Local Tcir.pe'-atjre fll ft 0 # G G Q & & 9 €> 9 \ Cloudy with rain clearing this aSternoon; fair tonight and hiereifcing cloudiness Friday; mild tempi raturwi.

PUTNAM COURT NOTES

Charles M. Sandifur vs Ada Sandi-

fur. petition for guardian. M. J. missing

Murphy is attorney for the plaintiff

Pvt. First Class Dennis R. Lam-

bert. husband of Mrs. Iva Lambert of Stilesville. has been reported

In action according to word

received.

rec

and operated under a share-ci*^p (plan by which part of the milk produced

i;J use d for th, college dining room. | fieiute. Burial will be in the Roach

dale cemetery.

Friends may call nt the Chastain Funeral Home until 9 o'clock Friday

niornir.a

Since the farm b not occupied a d used ex lusively by the 1 university, Emr.irrt held, it is rubject to prop-

er tax-s

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