The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 April 1944 — Page 2

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FDR 'Draft' Asked By Tammany Leader WASHINGTON. April 12. (UP) - Tammany Leader Edward V LauRhlin's call f»r a fourth tenn draft probably will be climaxed today by completion of pro-Roosevelt slate of New York state delegates to the Democratic national convention. Laughlin issued his diaft-Roose-velt statement here last night through the Democratic national committee \thieli in a session last January “solicited” the President to seek another term. The !<6-vote convention slate will be completed in New York City today by selection of 20 delegates-at-Jurge, each with one half vote, at a meeting of the New York state committee. James A. Farley wax scheduled to be re-elected chairman of the committee, the movement to oust him by the Albany county Democratic machine having been dropped. As leader of Tammany Hall, the New York (Manhattan) county Democratic organization. Laughlin

said:

“There can be no compromise with ivy-towered isolationism. The blood that has been shed by our boys on the battlefields must not be in vain. The Democrats in New York support without reser/ation President Roosevelt and his policies. We believe he must run regardless of his personal wishes because the people need him, the soldiers, sailors and marines need him as commander-in-chief and a gravely troubled world needs his wisdom and experience in the planning of an enduring peace.” CIVILIANS WILL GET FEWER PAPER BAGS IN 1944 WASHINGTON. April 12. Customers will have to manage with far fewer paper bags and much less paper wrappings, the War Production Hoard said today, announcing the

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civilian suppty of such wrappings j had dropped to less than one-third I of normal. | £ho • ii ptpei craft products “has grown even more serious than the prospect at the beginning of the year." when half the normal supply was predicted, W'PB said. Conservation and re-use of the packaging materials must he “e:<tended to the limit.” WPB asserted, warning that stores may be completely out of bags and paper for in-

definite periods.

Gunmen Killed On Street Car CHICAGO. April 12.—(UP)--While passengers ducked for cover, two gunmen who preferred death to rapture, were shot and killed in a gun battle with three policemen in a

crowded street car.

The victims were Edward Zimman, 21, Chicago, who was paroled to the army last October, and George H. Sperry, 27. Seattle. Both wore civdian clothes, but police believed they were deserters from the army. Police began the chase of the gunmen yesterday when they saw them driving a stolen car. The men abandoned the car and boarded a street car with the policemen following. Two of the officers entered the front door and one entered the rear. “All right, you have us." one of

the gunmen yelled.

But when two ;;f the officers approached him he opened fire, wounding officer James L, Woulfe in the leg before he was felled by the police bullet. The other bandit diew a hunting knife and attempted to stab one of the officers who shot him through the heart. None of the passengers aboard the crowded street car was injured in the exchange of

bullets.

Earlier the two bandits had participated in two spectacular daylight

holdups.

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lersonal And LOCAL NEWS

BRIEFS

Society New Mayxville Chib Has Splendid Meeting Airs. Leonard Chatham of near Coatesville entertained sixteen members of the NeV Maysville Community Club Friday afternoon, April 7. Mrs. Chatham is a former member of the club and very graciously asked the club to meet at her home at this

time.

The meeting was opened by singing Faster songs and repeating the Lord’s Player. Mrs. Ruby Major read a paper, “Convoy to Victory.” Mrs. Alice Hatfield gave a Biblical contest won by Mrs. Juanita McMurtry. Mrsj McMullen and Mrs. Hatfield had charge of the seed and flower exchange. The hostess served delicious refreshments. Guests were Mrs. Gene Patrick, Mrs. Lowell Johnson and Ruth Young. The next meeting is with Mrs. Mary Sanders. May 5. I*. T. A. Meeting Friday At Kidpath School The Martha Ridpath P. T. A. will meet Friday afternoon at 2:15 P. M. in the auditorium of the school. Devotions will be given by pupils of the Third Grade. There will be a musical program with all grades participating. There will also be installation of i officers for the coming year. *k + ❖ d* ! Mrs. Hosteller Hostess To j W. S. C. S. Of Huinhridge i The Bainbridge W. S. C. S. met at the home of Mrs. Blanche Hostetler, Thursday afternoon, April 6. Fifteen members and one guest, Mrs. Dorothy Sears, were present. Response to the roll call was "An Easter Thought". The devotions were given by Miss Minnie Graves. The society decided to display the globe, Bible and a copy of the Upper Room in a window of Tote's store, as suggested at the District meeting. Mrs. Alma Hillis will be hostess tw the W. S. C. S. in May

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Baptist Circle

To Meet Thursday ^

Mr. and Mrs. Mont Chadd, Green-1 The Bi P ti8t Wonl< ' n Missionary castle. Route 2. are the parents of a * Circle wil1 meet Th “ rs(1 ay afternoon

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1944.

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Claude Webb has been confined to

his home due to illness.

Mrs. Mable Skimmerhom spent

Wednesday in Indianapolis.

Mrs, John Casady, Coatesville R. 1, is a patient in the county hospital. Frank Peck of the Crawford Hotel died late Wednesday afternon at the

Putnam county hospital.

Mrs. Grace Munson, south Locust street, was admitted to the county

hospital Tuesday.

Mrs. Wes Branneman, Cloverdafe Route 2, is a patient in the Putnam

county hospital.

Wesley Custis, Jr., who has been seriously ill at the home of his moth-

er, is improving.

Mrs. Glenn Hutchins, Coatesville I Route 1, was admitted to the PutI nam county hospital Monday. Called meeting of Morton Lodge ! No. 460 F & A. M. Friday April 14. j F. C Degree 7:30 P. M. Leslie Frank

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j Mrs. William Yont, Jr., stopped -n Greencastle to see relatives, wnile on her way to Hollandsburg, Tues-

day,

Attention Lawn Mowers We are now ready to sharpen your lawn mower, as we have in the last 23 years. This year of all years is the time to take care of your mower. Get them in early so as to give us plenty of time. We also sharpen scissors, knives and hedge knives and grass shears. Give us a trial and if not satisfactory your money will be refunded. Wc have lawn mower handles, rollers and some repairs. No delivery. Bruce Shannon 226 Bloomington. Phone 854

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son born Tuesday at the Putnam county hospital. Mrs. Otha Zimmerman and Elizabeth Myers visited Private Otha I Zimmerman at Fort Benjamin Harrison Tuesday evening. Mis. T. G. Yuncker left today for j New York City to visit her daughter. Miss Barbara Yuncker. Wnile there ‘ she will attend the D. A. R. Con-

gress.

Mrs. Grace E. Routt spent the Easter holidays in Indianapolis visitj ing her sons and their families, Mr ■ and Mrs. Gordon Routt and Mr. and | Mrs. Carl Routt. I Mis. Garold King and daughter, Sharon Rose, left Wednesday. April 12, for Junction City, Kansas to visit with Pvt. Lamar G. King, who is stationed at Ft. Riley, Kansas. Pvt. Pesse C. Duell, Ft. Benjamin Harrison spent a short time with his family at 408 Elm street, this past weekend. Pvt. Duell is getting his basic training at Ft. Harrison. Mrs. LaFayette LeVan Porter has gone to New York City where sh? will attend the D. A. R. Congress. From there she will go to Detroit where Capt. Porter is stationed. Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Z. C. Duell were Mr. and Mrs. David Duell and David E. of Rockville, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hedge ami Gene and Carol, Mrs. Emerson Clark and Mrs. Jesse Duell and sons Danny and Gilbert of Greencastle. P. F. C. Ezra V. McMains, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. McMains, left to report for duty at Lincoln, Nebraska. He was here 16 days after his graduation as an army mechanic at Farmingdale, Long Island. N. Y. Lt. John A. Downey is home on a furlough visiting his wife and baby and parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Downey.

ARLENE UNDERWOOD, 18, of Fall River, Mass., is under arrest in that city on a kidnaping charge involving Jimmy Chase, 2>*, who was found abandoned in a New York subway last Jan. 22. Jimmy is shown above as he appeared at that time with Honey Shane, who found him. Since then Jimmy has has been In a foundling home. Mother of the child is Alice Chase, 23, wife of a ship captain, who told police she gave the boy to a woman to place In a private home while she worked. (lattmttioaal)

I it 2:30 at the home of Mrs. Raymond Skelton. Mrs. William Huber will

give the program.

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Section Four Meeting, Thursday Section Four of the Christian church will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock with Mrs. Glenn Fry. 4. 4. 4. Clinton Fulls Sewing Circle Will Meet The Friday Sewing Circle will meet with Mrs. Jewel Phelfrey of Clinton Falls, Friday for an all day meeting. All members are asked to bring a covered dish and one prize. + + ■(•* P. T. A. Held Meeting Tuesday Officers for the coming school year were elected at the last meeting of the High School P. T. A. held April 11 at the high school building. The officers are: President, Mrs, Granville Thompson; 1st vice president. Mrs. Albert H. Northruij; 2nd vice president, Mri. Vernon Shirley; 3rd vice president, Mrs. Frank Deer; secretary, Minna Mae Bartley; treasurer, William Stiles. Mr. Fellers, retiring president, expressed his appreciation to the officers w'ho assisted him this year and to the program committee. Mrs. Longden read the devotions. Mrs. Zink, chairman of the program committee, introduced the speaker, Miss Irene Feldt. director of Placement Service at Purdue University. Miss Feldt said that the ideal guidance is to match the student with the job, explaining how the high school may play an important ro.o in finding student aptitudes and abilities. Post-war vocations were discussed in the round table that followed the talk. Miss Fedlt urged that

studehis should prepare for the ‘ lean years” by getting the best possible training and experience now.

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Mrs. Vemer Hfxick Hostess Tu The Four Leaf Clover Club met Tuesday with Mrs. Verner Houck. There were twelve members present and one guest. Mrs. Franklin Torr was in charge of the responses. After the business session a very interesting and instructive lesson on yeast bread and rolls was given by Miss Smith, home demonstration agent. After th“ demonstration members were at liberty to ask questions and taste the different breads and rolls. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Edmund Torr. Th.; lesson will be given by Mrs. Phillip Hutcheson and Mrs. George Friend. + •F 4* + Smit h-Craw ford Marriage Announced Miss Dorothy Ptmline Crawford daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Crawford of Indianapolis, and Homer Clifford Smith of Greencastle, son of Mr and Mrs. Walter Smith ol Kentucky, were united in marriage Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Presbyterian Manse. The single ring service was read by the Rev. V. L. Raphael. The young couple was accompanied by Miss Mildred Clark of Indian-

apolis.

Mr. Smith is with the Seabees, stationed at Camp LaJeune, North Carolina. n KNOWN DEAD (CoMtlaNiect from 1'njte Ou<> > Highway Department prepared to cut off others as water crossed the pavement.

YANKEE AIRMEN <1 uw)lu«fS from Oar) When the number of German planes destroyed on the ground and the destruction of production facilities were added to the aircraft shot down in combat, however, the results of the attacks offset the losses sus-

tained.

The attacks on Junkers 88 plants at Oschersleben and Bernburg, both within 95 miles southwest of Berlin, disrupted reconstl|uctLon work and wrought new destruction on factories heavily blasted earlier this year. REDS PUSH AHEAD (CoDtloilril from I'liKr One ( for a fight like the famous Russia,! stand at Sevastopol despite a purported older by Adolf Hitler to hold the peninsula at all cost. Other military dispatches reported that Soviet troops who reached the Czechoslovak frontier had captured half a dozen towns described as “actually the key to the heart of the Carpathians” and hinted that Russian mountain fighters had penetarted the passes leading down to the

Hungarian plain.

In Rumania, other Russian forces forced a new crossing of the Sirot river to capture the Pascani rail junction on the trunk line running north from Bucharest and strengthen their

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miles to the east. (A Nazi-relayed Rumanian communique claimed the recapture of small towns 14 and 26 miles west of tasi on the railroad to Pascani.) (The Gennan high command reported that German and Rumanian forces “further disengaged themselves to positions farther south” in the lorthern Crimea.) Military quarters reported that the pincers drive into the Crimea was sweeping the defenders backward ‘like chaff” except in the tough Ishum hills positions before the central plains, which had been by-ptwsed by the column striking across the Sivaxh Sea to Dzhankoi, rail junction lontrolling all lines in the northern Crimea. By yesterday morning, field reports said, all the basic defenses of Ihe Perekop isthmus and the Sivash coast had been overrun, and the Russians swept out on the steepes through Dzhankoi. The capture of Kerch and conquest of the eastern end of the Crimean peninsula was described as an equally brilliant feat. Captured German documents revealed that the Nazi command thought the Kerch fortifications were “impregnable.” A Soviet encirclement threat forced the defenders to abandon the town and fall back to the west. The northern drive reaching up to 37 miles split the axis garrison with the capture of Dzhankoi.

INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK

Hogs 9,000; fairly active; generally steady; 190-330 lbs mostly $13.80: few loads choice $13.85; top $13.90 on load choice 235 lbs; 330-400 lbs $13.60; 160-190 lbs $13.60-*13.70; LOO159 lbs $11 00- $12.25; rows mostly $12.90-$13.15. Cattle 900; calves 4,00; steers and heifers barely steady; cows unchanged: two loads good to choice medium weight steers $15.85; 15 loads mostlj medium grade $13.50-$14.75; common to medium $11.50-$13.25; load light weight heifers $14.65; early bulk $13-00-$14.50; common and medium cows $9.50-$11.75; canners and cutters $6.50-$9.00; vealers strong to 50 higher, top $16.00 Sheep 50; not enough on sale to make a market. V

ENDORSES FDK

NEW YORK, April 12 (UP)— Senate Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley indirectly endorsed a fourth term for President Roosevelt last

flanking of the Iasi rail center 41 night and said the Democratic party

*tood ready to submit iu record k the people for judgment. “ Barkley, speaking i*f ore a lyn Democratic rally, challenged ? publicans and "chronic compla.Jl to come out in the open and sJI what portions of the N,-w Deal 1 gram they would repeal or nmt^ TO START NEW PAfEg Chicago. April 12 (Up) _ ^ Chicago Tribune announced 114, that it had applied to the War vj Juction board for the necessary bo start a morning n e Ws . paper in Milwaukee. The announcement said the step was taken in recognition of the J feat of Wendell Willkie in the Wi* consin primary election last week. GEN. EISENHOWER ( HKISTENg FORTRESS “GENERAL IKK LONDON, April 12. (UP)-Ca. Dwight D. Eisenhower broke a botti* it Mississippi water over a Flyuig Fortress yesterday, christening :t “General - Ike.” Maj. James A. McPaitlin of Po u . tiac, Mich., squadron commander rnd Lt. Arthur B. Maclemore ol Greenwood, Miss., were discussing Eisenhower’s forthcoming visit to their base a few days ago and one suggested that they should -do something really nice for the old man." “Why not name a plane after him,” United Press Correspondent Dougald Werner suggested. They snapped up the idea, and tie christening was the result.

DEATH IS OFFICIAL MEXICO CITY. April 12. (UP)Antonio de Lama Rojas, 32-year-oM Mexican artillery lieutenant wtw tried Monday to kill President Manuel Avila Camacho, died today from peritonitis which developed from 1 bullet wound in his abdomen.

News of Boys Rcxford Carrol Hammond inductri into the navy recently, has started his boot training at the Great Ukes Naval Training Station at Chicsgo. and his bunk-mate is Hilly HemiU, the great National league baseball player who is also going through hd boot training period. Mrs. Durwood Twigg has reoehed word from her husband, E. M. 2 c Durwood Twigg, that he has arrived safely overseas. For his address see Mrs. Twigg. William E. Knauer who was inducted into the armed forces recently, has been sent to Camp Cook, California. where he will receive to basic military training.

$ + •!• + ♦♦♦ * + + + + + +{£ ♦ ANNIVERSARIES ® 4* 4« 4. 4. 4- 4- 4* -P 4* -I* -I* v “1 ( .V Birth hay Charles Lee, 413 E. Hanna street, 28 years today, April 12. Mildred Powell, 20 years today. April 12. James Allen Hayes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Hayes. Lincoln Avenue, 2 years today, April 12. Pvt. Herbert A. Robinson, 28 years old today, April 12. Lloyd Goddard, today, April 12.

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To The Voters of Putnam CountyI am a candidate for the Republican nomination as Judge of the Putnam Circuit Court in the May primary election. Judge Marshall D. Abrams, desiring to participate actively in the war effort, resigned as judge of our court and is now in England with the United States Army. I was appointed by the Governor of Indiana to serve out the vacancy thus created, or until January 1, 1945. I accepted the appointment, although it meant giving up my law practice which I had spent thirty years in building. Being bayond military age, I was glad to replace a younger man who would be valuable to our country in the armed forces in these critical times. i I should like to call on each of you personally, but the duties of ihe judge’s office make this impossible. I feel that I cannot conscientiously take the time to the neglect of the duties of my office. The restrictions of the use of gasoline should also be respected, and I cannot wage a political campaign in the usual peace-time manner. In soliciting your support, I know you will consider, very carefully, the seriousness of determining the Judge of the Putnam Circuit Court, the office is very important to you and to yours. Decisions affecting your lives and affairs are being made almost daily in the Circuit Court. It's for you to decide who is the best qualified to serve the people of Putnam County as their judge for the next six years. „„ '' nomi " a '7 d °" d you may b. a» WK | of my strict tZ rtw “<< "V <*•*'" '« - ° - Sincerely, ;**■ JOHN H. ALIKE Judge of the Putnam Circuit Court.