The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 March 1944 — Page 4

THE DAILY BANNER, ^REENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1944.

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Retain Present Leader; Truman WASHINGTON, March 27—Chairman Truman, Democrat, Missouri, of thv Senate war investigating comj rnittee, declared today the country’s "wise and experienced” war leadership must be “continued until the job at hand is completed”—and ! brought a prompt cry of "politics” from Republicans on the committee. Truman said in a press statement that the nation should give Presii dent Ro.isevelt, as commander in i chief, "prayful understanding and j vigorous support” in the "hardest I test we have yet to face" the pro- | pective invasion of Europe. The ReI publicans declared his views are "at I variance” with the committee's conclusions.

Ml. VESUVIUS IN ACTION

R.AME AND MOLTEN LAVA pouring from Mt. Vesuvius light up the

■ky near Naples, Italy, as the volcano’s terrific eruption makes.! thousands of Italians homeless. Allied troops helped to evacuate and* care for refugees. - * (International Soundphoto/

BOMBS RAIN ON JAP ISLE OF PONAPE

«-• . » i THESE BOMBS, released by Liberators of the U. S. Seventh Air Force, are headed for the Jap island of Ponape in the Carolines. The relentless pinpoint bombing followed an avalanche of fire bombs which Bet half the base afire. Seventh A. A. F. photo. (International)

"Because this is a political year,” the Truman statement said, "there may be some unthinking partisans who might seek to capitalize upon the inevitable losses that may attend (war developments). The government will need the support and confidence of all citizens in the tasks that lie ahead of us. Our commander in chief will require the prayful understanding and vigorous support in the momentous decisions that are his. “I think the country realizes that wc have wise and experienced leadership,” the statement continued. "And I am further convinced that

SOVIET FORCES ARE MASSING AT RUMANIA’S BORDER

By United Press The Red Army knocked at the cutheastern gates of Hitler’s European fortress today, massed along Rumania’s Prut river and the uppei reaches of the Dniester for a dri/i beyond Russian soil into the enemy

stronghold.

In the west the unrelenting Brit

this lead; rship will be continued until j jjjh-American air offensive pounded

the job at hand is completed.

In great force at targets in the “in-

ARM V N USE TALKS

AKRON, O. (U|F) A barbaric acl of war was revealed recently by an Akron Army nur c wl.o wa;* aboard an American hospital ship when it was bombed by a German plane off

Italy.

Lt Blanche Sigman, recounting her adventures in a letter to her mt thcr, says she was with the 05tt. e vacua lion hospital unit when the Nazi let loose his bombs of death "though we were brightly lighted with white, red and green lights,” a

ho-ipital ship designation.

“The girls (other nurses) acted) wonderfully. The sailors said they never could have saved us if we had

become hysterical,” she said.

The nurses were literally blown out of their bunks, Lt. Sigman wrote. Many ran frightened through j

up to the deck completely

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vasion area” of northwestern Europ the Ruhr and central Germany ir. preparation for “the hour of on: jreatest effort and action” whici. | Prime Minister Winston Churctnn

| said is approaching.

The Soviet Second Ukrainian Army had reached the Prut on a 53 mile front and its artillery was pouring shells into the enemy lines across the river in evident preparation foi i thrust deep into Rumania without giving the retreating Germans a breathing spell to dig in for defense. In this sector the Germans had been driven back across a Soviet border for the first time since the start of tile invasion 1 009 days age on June 22, 1941. The Germans were reported trying to fortify positions on I ho west bank of the Prut but the liver is not more than 100 yhrds wide and it appeared unlikely they

ing strenuous efforts to bolster their | the final nine weeks phase of threatened position ’-mania, with , pilot trrdnin*. _

its essential oil fields now threatened. Ankara dispatches said they had sent nine divisions into Rumania trom Hungary, and a Beilin broadcast said the Rumanian government had called up additional men

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itcam up to the deKik completely j c °uld make a real stand shoit of the

without clothing. Some jumped nak- j Carpathian foothills.

ed over the side of the boat. One | To the northwest the Germans girl was wrapped only in a sheet, j were in no better position and were “By some miracle none of the J falling back before the First UkrainAmcrlcan girls were killed, tout some ian Army towards the northern Ruof the British nurses and doctors! manian province of Bucovina, the perished. j rail center of Lwow and the Czech“Nursies,” Lt. Sigman said, "who I oslovakian border. The Germans

were living in a ward over which a bomb exploded were not seriously injured, though covered with debris. . . M iny of the lifeboats on dock were damaged and unseaworthy. “When wc finally reached th ■ water by sliding down the rope ladd -rs, many of us had severe rope burns. We found 75 packed into one

were dangerously exposed in a salient north of the Dniester beyond Kamenets Podolski where they were squeezed between the First and Second Armies. Kamenets Dodolski was encircled, as was Tamopol, where a Soviet force began a battle of extermination in the streets. The Russians

lifeboat. The bomb had punctured j | la{ i served both railway escape lines

one end of the boat and we used helmets to bail out the water.” Rescued a short time later, the nurses and doctors were taken aboard a nearby hospital ship to

North Africa.

NO I'll M Notice is hevetiy given that Hoy Alheight has fill'll his hclltlon in the I’tlllt.llh t'lfetlit t'nutt III have the time and iilaee of Ids liivtli doterinineil Said lintltion is sot for he'ring March 31st. Hi 44 Mated tilts s.'itll duv Ilf March, 11141 Otner <’. Akers, Clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court. 27-It.

Escapes Ctaath

and in capturing Kozlov were 63 miles southeast of Lwow. The Germans were reported mak-

Ruben Hugh Bowman, husband of Mrs. Mildred Bowman is now staioned at Great Lakes and would like .o hear from his friends. His address s Ruben Hugh Bowman, A S, Co. >70 U. S. N. T. S., Great Lakes, III. Sgt. Perry E. Lewis, the son of Vlr. and Mrs. Leonard Lewis is now iverscas. His address is S Sgt. Perry E. Lewis, 20531176. A. P. O. !8, c o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. Sgt. William Lee Lytle, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lytic and the husband of the former Zella Marie Lewis. His address is Sgt. William Lee Lytle 35378331 A.P.O. 9972. caVe Postmaster, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Burnacc Pritchard of Limedale have received word from their ton, Burnace Pritchard Jr. S 2/c who has arrived safely over seas. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd M. Surbev, Bainbridge R. 1, have received wore’ from their son Cpl. Harold D. Surber saying he had arrived in England. Haiold would like to hear from his friends. His address is "Cpi. Harold D. Surher-35090198, A. IP. O. 638 </, Postmaster, New York City, New York. Mrs. Joseph C. Eskew of Crawfordsville has received word that her husband has arrived safely somewhere in England. His address may be obtained from Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Boswell of Madison township. Altus Army Air Field, Altus, Okla. March 27 Aviation Cadet Robert B Cook, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs, Fred

ed training planes and taking 70 lec-ture-hours of combat subjects in giou.d school, will be awarded the silver wings of an AAF pilot and appointed a flight officer or commissioned a second lieutenant. From Altus he will either go on to train with the multi-engined bombers or fight ers that he will ultimately fly ' ir ombat v. m s, cr he will be sent tf Central Instructors School at Randolph Field, Texas, to loam how ti Instruct other ycung men training for their silver wings. H’AC IN ACTION Some citizens of our town had th opportunity of seeing a WAC doing a patriotic duty one day last week She proved a real service and showed her ability to recognize tiie emer ;enoy and immediately go into action A grass fire was raging across th garden of one of her neighbors, am was spreading into the lawn and lick ing closer aitd closer to the house and surrounding shrubbery and grape ar-

bor.

After W’atching its progress, in stead of calling the fire department she ccoly took a rake, and alone am unaided, stopped the fire’s advance, and beat out the flames. This saved the firemen a trip, and was specially a good deed, since none of the occupants of the house was at home at the time. To say they were deeply grateful is putting it mildly. This WAC was Sgt. Mary Glenn Hamilton, who was spending a furlough here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Hamilton on Park street. TO SEEK DISMISSAL HOLLYWOOD, March 27.-(UP) Charlie Chaplin was scheduled to go to federal court tomorrow, prepared to ask Judge J. F. T. O’Connor to halt his half-completed Mann Act trial and dismiss the charges instigated by Joan Barry, who wanted to be a movie star and became his mistress instead. Chaplin already has admitted through his attorney, the veteran Jerry Giesler, that he indulged in intimate relations with Miss Barry in

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maid in a nu>\ begun. He has tt. d further he brought M in 1942, but lit ii isted the w ment has not i t v. n he canin’ across any state lim for purposes.

Proves Hit,

B. Cook, 601 N. Locust, has reported j Beverly Hills, while he was teaching to the AAF Training Command’s ad- her the art of the cinema and groomvanced flying .school here to begin ing her to play the role of a house-

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JAF DESTROYER HIT DURING RAID ON TRUK

WEARING HER steel helmet and\ also the jacket, both of which | were pierced by shrapnel during a German air raid on the evacuation hospital near Nettuno, Italy. Lieut. Mary W. Harrison of Bel foe, O., shows how near deaf came to her. dnternatir-

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