The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 April 1944 — Page 1

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UME FIFT\ -TWO

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1944.

NO. 141

R CONTESTS UP TO VOTERS IN MAY PRIMARY

IK CONTESTS ON DEMOi;AT TIC KET; ONE ON REI’I'BIjICIAN SLATE

ret 1 contests have developed on Putnam county Democratic t which will be decided in the aiy election on Tuesday, May 2. lipjj „f candidates for the primended Saturday and when the , cleared a\%ay it was found contests arc on tap in the xratic race for judge's nomin- ; in the sheriff's race, and jurer’s race. ere is one contest on the ReIcan slate, that of the nomination udge of the Putnam Cirucuit t. > two county tickets for the primary are as follows: DEMOCRAT Judge ?xoll A. Boyd, and Ralph P. 'sore. Prosecutor y Sutherlin State Representative nl'ord Romine Auditor idle Buis Treasurer ■ter R. Duncan and Jesse F. Jng. Sheriff dImtI D. Patton and Walter L. her. Coroner Jiarles MeCurry Surveyor jrthur Plummer Commissioner bios H. Hunter, second District, dliam L. Mullinix, Third District. REPUBLICAN Jlidge hn H. Alice and Albert E. WilProseeutor o candidate. State Ih'presentativc H. Richards. AiMlitor ■lara S. Jones Treasurer Jen F. Davis Sheriff faul Grimes Coroner aljih McGaughey Surveyor o candidate. Commissioner red E. Hunter, Second District, oss Torr, Third District.

NO JOBS FOR 30,000 ARMY OFFICERS, CHARGE WASHINGTON, April 3.—(UP)Rep. Adolph J. Sabath, D„ 111., dean of the House, charged today that 30,000 army officers are sitting in “cocktail lounges” throughout the country because the army does not have jobs for them. Sabath told reporters that many men have been commissioned out cf civilian life “to give them some kind of prestige,” while regular officers, “West Point graduates with 25 and 30 years of army experience,” are oeing retired. “I realize that many civilians were commissioned for specialized work uecouse of their skill and training, jut I would like to know how some >f these cocktail lounge officers got heir appointments and why they aie being kept in the service when experienced officers with full army careers behind them are being let >ut.” Sabath said. He saiil he had not been instrunental in securing a commission for .nyone, and that he did not believe .hat many members of Congress had '.ried to influence the War Departnent in this respect. He said, how-

SERVICES FOR MRS. MEIKEL TO BE HELD TUESDAY WELL KNOWN LOCAL WOMAN PASSED AWAY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING Mrs. Bertha T. Meikel, age 70 years, well known Greencastle woman, and the wife of Charles Meikel, died early Sunday morning at her home on north Jackson street, following a weeks illness. Mrs. Meikel was born in Greencastle February 14, 1868, the daughter of Joseph and Katherine Webber Kleinbub. Mrs. Meikel spent all of her life in this community. She was an active member of the First Christian Church and a charter member of the Bee Hive Rebekah bodge. Besides the husband, she is survived by one son, Eugene, and one sister, Mrs. M. D. Ricketts of this city. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the First Christian Church. The Rev.

3ver, that "someone is responsible” I Cecil Fellers and the Rev. E. F.

Singhurse will tre in charge. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Bee Hive Lodge will hold a service at the home this evening at 7:30 o’clock. Friends may call at thv family residence at 508 north Jackson street as the casket will not be open at the

church.

for such commissions, and that he ntends to make an investigation at .he end of the congressional Easter

recess.

His charge of wasted manpower •anie at a time when Congress, the A'ar Department, Selective Service and other governmental agencies were considering ways and means of inding additional manpower for both the armed forces and industry.

ndidates For ogress Unopposed noble J. Johnson, present repm-en-Jve in congress from the Sixth “ana District, and Oils G. Jamison of Terre auto, have filed for con*s in the coming primary election, Johnson toeing the Republican didate and Mr. Jamison the Dcm-

fBtic nominee.

remen Rescue Dog From Cistern

ity firemen were called to the ne of Mrs. John King at 619 And'n street Saturday to rescue a which had fallen into a cistern, n Sunday afternoon at 1.50 ock the city fire department was led to the home of William Rog314 north Madison street to exuish a roof fire. The neighbors rking with garden hose had the under control before the firemen Jived, however considerable dam-

was done.

Blood Bank Again Visits Greencastle

The Red Cross blood bank return'd to Greencastle today and will also be here Tuesday. Several donors ire expected to join the gallon cluo an this visit. The first donors were taken at three o’clock this afternoon vith appointments made up to and J including 7:30 o’clock. Tomorrow | .he appointments start at ten

| o'clock.

j Residents of Putnam county re j ported today and will tomorrow i dong with DePauw University stui Icnts and boys from the Naval PreI Flight school. A permanent record is being made I of all thost* who have donated or are willing to do so. This will be used n the future to help obtain the required number of donors. Mrs. Thad Jones is chairman of the committee and the Associate chapter of Tri Kappa again had charge of it at the Elks home. Mrs. H. D. Irwin Dies In Chicago Mrs. H. D. Irwin, 7100 Greenview Avo., Rogers Park, Chicago, sister of Edgar Prevo of this city and Gordon Prcvo of Illinois, died of a heart attack Sunday in a ho pital at Evans

ton, 111.

Mrs. Irwin was born in Old York. Illinois, the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs. Samuel Prevo. Survivors are the (husband, H. R. Irwin, and four daughters, Mrs. Edmund Hebei of Indianapolis, Mrs Charles Stearns, Mr-. Fredrick Denecke and Mrs. Wilder iMorrison of Chicago: five giandchildren and the two brothers. Funeral services will toe held Wednesday afternoon in Chicago. Edgai Prevo will attend from here.

Need Is Great

For Nurse's Aides

REELSVILLE TO DEDICATE SERVICE FLAG THURSDAY Thursday, April 6 at 8:00 at tha Reolsville High School there will be a Service Flag Dedication in honor of the boys who are in the service. This is being sponsored by the Washington Twp. P. T. A. The following program will be given: Flag Salute Star Spangled Banner Prayer God Bless America Presentation of Service Flag When the bights Go On Again Address Special music Prayer Tile public is welcome. RITES TUESDAY FOR WELL KNOWN ROACHDALE MAN JOHN T. <'Ol < IIMAN PASSED AWAY si itOENLY SUNDAY AT HIS HOME John T Couchman widely known citizen of North Putnam county and manager for many years of the Public Service Company offices there, died suddenly at his home in Roachdale Sunday afternoon at the age of .76 years. He had been in failing health for the last two years, but his d'eath was a seven shock to his wide circle of friends and to all who knew

him.

He was born in Parke county Jan. 20. 1S68. the son of Jacob and Mn-

CLOSE CALL FOR YOUTHFUL TRIO IN AUTO MISHAP

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CAR (RASHES INTO RAILING I ON BRIDGE WEST OF CITY i

SATURDAY

Three young people hail a narrow I escape from serious injury and possibly death Saturday night at 9.301 o’clock when their automobile crashed into the guard railing on the bridge over the New York Central tracks west of Greencastle on the Walnut street road. Roland Lambert, 17. Stilesvill”. suffered chest injuries in the accident. .Hucl italic, 14, daughter cf Mr. and Mrs. Bert Leslie, city, cut lip, teetli knocked out and knee injury. An 18-year old boy by the name of Yoik from Hall was also an occupant of the car, according to deputy sheriff Russell Clapp, who in-

vestigated.

The car, a 1940 Oldsmobile sedan driven by Lambert, was going east en route into the city. He admitted to the deputy sheriff that he was driving too fast to negotiate the sharp turn at the overhead bridge and the machine crashed into the iron guard rail, tearing out a section about 10 feet in length. The fait that the bumper caught on one of the iron posts, set in the concrete retaining wall, was all that prevented the car from plunging to the railroad right-of-way about thirty feel below. As it was, the car hung suspended over the side of the bridge

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SOVIET FORCES DRIVEYMES INTO RUMANIA

REDS ASSURE WORLD THEY HAVE NO DESIGNS ON RUMANIAN TERRITORY

Paul P. Evans

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Local Students Win In Contest

Bulletin LONDON, April 3 (I P)—The Admiralty annoiuieed ' today that British naval planes successfully iHimlM-d the German Imttlesliip Tirpitz in the Alten Ejt'ord of Northern Nor. way.

20 Years Ago Of QUENOASTLJi

Greencastle community faces the danger today of losing the reputation it lias earned throughout the years for being quick and enthusiastic in its response for community service needs. Enrollment for the proposed class for Red Cross volunteer nurse’s aides is far below the need for this emergency service. Any Putnam county resident who has been in our local hospital during the past tew months is well aware of the heavy burden tlmt is being curried by the trained nurses who aeon duty there. The Army and Na-y are curr nl'.y tak'n;; .IT' :v.:-.-<-s into service al the lute of nearly 3,000 a month and, although thousands of girls are going into training schools, the problem of keeping the home front healthy and well is growing more acute. For the sake of family and country, women must rally to the call of the Red Cross and enroll in the nurse’s aide class. The response from business and working girls has been generous. Surely there are women not employed outside the home who can give as little as three hours a week to easing the heavy load being carried by the hospital personnel. Three hours a week fould be all the time required to make up the 150 hours per year of volunteer service that is expected of a Red Cross aide. The training course comprises eighty hours and the women who take it will have gained invaluable instruction that could well prove of benefit in their own homes. Women between the ages of IS and 50, who have graduated from high school, and are in good health, are urged to call Red Cross office, number 4, or 633 or 709-J after office hours, and enroll for Red Cross volunteer nurse's aide training.

A wrecker from Scott's Franklin Street garage was summoned to the scene to get the automobile back ini

the bridge.

Tire young people were treated at the office of a local physician.

lain Daniels Couchman. He was w jth the front end badly damaged,

married to Leula V. Thurner at Fi icastlc on March 22, 1891, and spent almost his entire life in this community. He was a member of the Roaelidale Christian church, Masonic

lodge and Lions club.

Survivors include one daughtei Lillian F. Couchman, of Milwaukee; | a son, J. Turner Couchman, Indian- j upolis; two sistei i, Mrs. Thomas Stultz, Ladoga, an-1 Mrs. Fred Randell, Terre Haute; and two brothers, Henry Couchman, Truman. Ark., and William Couchman, Ponca City, j Okia. !

Indiana’s finest high school musicians participated in the annual coni' sl-feotival of the Central and Southern Indiana School Band, Or he: Da and V’oral Association Saturday on the Indiana State Teachers' College campus in Terre Haute as a record number of entries totaled 1 550. Music directors, parents and townspeople brought the number of visitors to more than 2,000. First division winners named oy the judges included the following from Greencastle and Putnam county: Greencastle Group I Betty Jo Flirt, K flat Alto Saxophone Marcia i l unilton, I. Glenn Fulinei French Horn Rob ert Pierson, 1. Marion Greenleaf Baton, I. Allen Haggard, Cornet Marcia Hamilton, 1. Eugenia Irwin, Baton, I. Betty Owens, b flat Alto Saxo phone Marcia Hamilton, II. Mary Ellen Weal, B flat Clarinet Al. Hamilton, II. Sara Ann iZnlt, Flute M. Hamilton

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New Coupons For Farm Gasoline

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Joy

Funeral will be held nt the Christian church in Roachdale Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock, in charge of the Rev. T. J. Wilson of Gas City. The body will lie in state at the church for an hour preceding the service, and friends may call at the Chastain funeral home Monday afternoon. Burial will be in the Roach-

dale cemetery.

Easter Program At Temple On Sunday Greencastle Commandery, No. 11 Knights Templar, will hold their annual Easter program at the Masonic temple here next Sunday afternoon, and will have as their guests, members of the Brazil Commandery No. 47. The Easter Message will be delivered by the Rev. Victor L. Raphael, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Music will be furnished by

Miss Esther Hildebrand.

The public is cordially invited.

SPEECH WINNERS |

the purchase of non-highway gasoline in five gallon quanities are tin new type strip coupons each of which .bears an individual serial nun h : and the designation "R-i" on Uu face, and the coupons printed in pur pie with only the words, “Mileage Ration” and the letter "R” on t i> face, said Kenneth West, Chairman of the Putnam County War IFrier and Rationing Board, in answerint the many questions that have aris- .i due to misunderstanding as to which coupons became invalid April 1 These R coupons are bound in boot form and have in small print, -it the stapled end of the cover, tie form No. It 531-B 'Hiis is the only form coupon which is now valid. Those receiving coupons for non highway ga olin have been Itold, during the last several weeks, that tli coupons would be good as long they lasted regardless of the expiration or renewal date written on th front of the book. Mr. West points out that that had been the plan, but that the great number of he old 1\ coupons Which have found heir wa into gasoline black markets han made it necessary to invalidate then and in that way destroy their vdu. for the illegal trade. Thus the farm

Thomas Yates of South Side Higli er making legal use of his tractor school, Fort Wayne, was the winner j gasoline is inconvicnced in having to

13 flat Ciiir.net Quartet, II Saxopluiv Quarter, I, Ficnch Horn Quartet. 1.

Group II

Charles Aker, Piano HI, HI La Vet la buekner, Voice

Jarvis, HL,

BobTrombone Jo Flint

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Richard Fulmer, Cornet Maui Hamilton I. Marion Greenleaf, Piano, I. William O. Grimes, Voice Betty Jo Flint, H. Norman Handy, E flat M. Hamilton, I. H <>it| IiiimmI on I'iiki* I 'nnr) Repel Nazis On Anzio Left Flank

COUNCIL TO .MEET

The City Council will evening at 7:30 o’clock.

meet this

of the extemporaneous speech contest held at DePauw University Saturday afternoon. Second place went to Miss Betsy Ancher, a Shortridg high school student from Indianapo-

lis.

FOURTEEN MORE MEN JOIN UNCLE SAM’S ARMED FORCES

»cal radio fans, who turned in on tsburg radio station WiCAE, heard rogram of popular music broad- j t by Ralph “Jack” Denny and his | hestra. IMr. Denny during the. -pro- j m said he hoped his “Greencastle nds were listening" and one numwas dedicated to Edgar Prevo. ty foremen were called to the ta Tau Delta fraternity house • n smoke filled the house, ot adies | m the furnace which had been put baskets in the bsement caused the Me. iss Nellie Browning was named nam county manager of the Ccole 'campaign toy Ewing Emison, iana manager,

. . men left Saturday to begin tt eir military training. First row Jesse Cox, Elijah St Fourteen ^Mannan, and William Ranshaw. Second row. left to right Olyn Campbell Edgar Clair, Barney Shaner, Truman- H ,, r p Pr t Vontr’oss. Thoma.-i Sutherlin. William Knauer, John Martin and Dennis Allan, Pauj Mason, rtonpri ****»-. ^ Young.

eitiher exchange his coupon or renew his applicat.on by the unscrupulou

profiteerer, said Mr. West.

In like ni inner the only one gal ion non-highway gasoline coupoi ■ now valid are the "E-l" strip coupon and the ”E" with form number R530

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Consumers who will havv books of the old type R coupons, which an printed in blue and state on the faoi that they “permit the delivery of on unit of non-highway gasoline," ma\ exchange them for in equal numbei of the new type “R-l" strip coupons providing the renewal or expiration date written on the cover is latet than April 1, 1944. The new R-l strip coupons are accompanied by a "Mileage Ration Identification Folder" which will have the coupon numbers recorded on it. Those who have the old type R coupons with an expiration date earlier than April 1, and those whose coupons are nearly gone, should make a new application. Simplified application forms were received bv the local board on Saturday and these will be used for those needing to apply for a renewal of their nonhighway gasoline ration for another six mo'.’.ths. I The five gallon purple printed ft coupons are giod for delivery of gasoline from bulk storage stations oi (Continued nn rage 41

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Nap rs, Apnl 3 Allied infantrymen have smashvd another German attack on the left flank of the Anzio beachhead ine, a communique disclosed today, while Italian units on the 'main 6tli Army front occupied a third Nazi strongpoint in the hills northeast il

Jassino.

Headquarter spokesmen said tliNazi attack was beaten off with n avy losses to the enemy after sev■ral hours of bitter hand-to-hand ighting in the muddy ravines south west of Aprilia. Official reports indicated the Nsd assault, launched by about 150 shock troops, broke down on the barrier wire line guarding the Allitdl

positions.

The Germans brought up scores if flame throwers in an attempt to linn their way through the wire, but .veie forced to break off the attack lefore midnighht under a heavy concentration of rifle and artillery fire. The attack began about 5 P. M. Saturday to the accompaniment >( a heavy mortar barrage Six houi < later as the enemy troops began to alter, 10 Nazi planes swept In low iver the buttle area and sprayed the Allied positions with anti-personnel bombs and machine gun fire. One enemy plane was shot down by antiaircraft fire. iniultaneously, German artillery emplaced in the Alban hills opened up a' heavy bombardment on an American battalion in another see tor. The enemy gunners shot 900 rounds of heavy and light shell fire in a series of “time crashes” similar to those used repeatedly by the Allied artillery on the German lines. AWARDED BALL COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FROM PUTNAM Harold Lloyd Cooper, a member of the senior class of the Greencastle high school, has been awarded a scholarship to Ball State College for the year 1944-45, according to an an-i*-uncement oi their rholnrship coni

mittee

MOSCOW, April 3. (UP) Red Army mobile columns, crossing a Soviet border for the first time in this war, drove five miles into Rumania today under orders to ‘-pursue the enemy until his final rout and capitulation,” but Russia assured the world that she has no designs on Rumanian territory. Russian troops and tanks surged across the border simultaneously at many points from advance positions in Bucovina and Bessarabia provinces, which Rumania ceded to Russia

in 1940.

One column forced the Prut between Cernauti, capital of Bucovina province, and Lipcani ami captured Dumen, five miles suiith of tire border, in a 10-mile advance that carried into tire great Rumanian plain between tlie Prut and the Seret

rivers.

Though the other points at which the Soviets penetrated Rumania were not disclosed, some were believed to lie immediately north of laai, strategic communiealtons hub which formerly served as south front headquarters of German Marshal Frits

Erich von Mannstcin.

Disclosure that tire Germans had been pushed back beyond one of tile frontiers from which they invaded Russia in June 1941 came one week after Marshal Ivan S. Konev’s 2nd. Ukrainian Army reached the Prut river border of Rumania above Iasi amt only 94 hours after the 1st Ukrainian Army drove through Bu-

covina to the border.

First word that the Red Army w is advancing through Rumania came from Foreign Commissar Vaicheslav M. Molotov, who told the first pre.n conference he ever has held last night that the Soviets had driven across the border “in several sectors” in pursuit of the German armies and their “allied Rumanian troops.” “Simultaneously,” Molotov sad, “the Soviet government declares that it does not pursue the aim of acquiring Rumanian territory or of altering the existing social structure cf Rumania. The entry of Soviet trooi s Into the boundaries of Rumania was dictated exclusively of military m-e-i ssitios and the continuing lesistanee

of enemy troops.”

(A dispatch from the Swedish newspapei Social Deniokratcn, reported to the Office of War Information. said German military authorities had warned the Rumanian government that civilians and p< o .auts fleeing from the Russians would be shot if they pammed roads and highways and thus blocked German troops headed for the front.)

Death Summons Carl M. Boswell Last rites will be held from the Clinton Fails church at 10.30 o’clock Wednesday morning for Carl M. Boswell, 66, who died at the Odd Fellows Home in Grecnshurg. The deceased was a former teacher at Clinton Falls. He is survived by a brother, Clarence Boswell. The body will be brought to tin; MeCurry Funeral home this evening. Rev. William McKeenhan will have charge of the funeral service. Bui' il will lie in the Clinton Fulls cemetery.

& Today’* Weather m • and HI Hi Local Temperature Hi «**«*«»* Fair and slightly warmer today and tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer.

Minimum 6 a. ni. ... 7 a. m. 8 a. m. . 9 a. m. . 11 a. m. . 12 noon 1 p. m. ... 2 p. ni.

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