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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL'

VOLUME FIFTY-TWO

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1944.

NO. 220

REDS CONTINUE RAPID ADVANCES AGAINST NAZIS

maiet forces aumost FRONTIERS OF LATVIA ANI> LITHUANIA

NURSES WADE ASHORE IN FRANCE

MOSCOW. July 5 (UP) — Red armies rolled over the approaches to p .land and the Baltic states at a pace ranging up to more than a mile an hour today, smashing to within 10 miles of the Latvian border, 55 miles of the Lithuanian stronghold of Wilno and 25 miles of the Barancwicze gap to Warsaw. (A London broadcast said there was evidence that the entire Ger-1 man Baltic army group was making preperations to evacuate by sea as a ivsult of the rapid Soviet advance. A Stockholm dispatch to the London Pally Telegraph said the Russians vere fighting in the outskirts of Bar-

anowicze.)

Soviet calvary, tanks and mechanized infantry were cutting the fleeing German legions to pieces and in most sectors the retreat had lost all semblance of order. Where the Germans did attempt resistance or counter-attacks, the Russians almost invariably brushed them aside and pressed on with little loss of mo-

mentum.

Only at Molodechno, strategic railway junction 45 miles northwest of Minsk, were the Germans able to! stem the Soviet tide temporarily. ; Street fighting raged on into the third day at Monodechno, but the Soviets already had outflanked the city from the west and its fall was

expected soon.

Polotsk, by-passed anchor of the German line protecting Latvia and Lithuania, fell yesterday to Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian’s 1st Baltic army only 24 hours after other Soviet forces had liberated Minsk, capital of White Russia and first bastion on the ancient invasion route to War-

saw and Berlin.

Thrusting 45 miles northwest of i Polotsk, Bagramian's forces captur-1 ed Miory, 11 miles south of the. I I vitvia n border and 46 miles east of ' . the Latvian stronghold of Daugav-

pils (Uvinsk)

Southwest of Polotsk, the 1st Balt-1 ic army joiited with the. northern ■ army of Gen. Ivan D. Chemiakhov- ( sky’s 3rd White Russian army in a ! march on Wilno, which the Soviets . incorporated in Lithuania following the partition of Poland in 1939. Bagramian's southwestern column ! advanced 27 miles in 24 hours over virtually roadless terrian to capture Myagel. 63 miles northeast of Wil- I no. The advance carried nearly a j third of the way to Wilno and put' the Soviets within 10 miles of a ' first-class road to the stronghold. Stormovlk assault planes support- , cd the 1st army with liombing- and rtrafing raids on enemy strong points and troop columns. Hits were reported on 200 motor vehicles, 60 railway cars and seven supply dumps. I Thirteen enemy fighters were shot \ down J Tile 3rd army pushed across marsh- j and through woods to within 561 miles east of Wilno with the cap-1 lure of Naroch. Enroutr, an enemy j cavalry detachment was wiped out, i with 1,200 Germans killed and tho |

surviving 400 captured.

Striking out in advance of the j ground force. Red air fore** bombers) 'aided Wilno Monday night, smash-; mg three German troop trains and' starting at least 15 fires. 1

PUTNAM COURT NOTES

Bessie Mane Moss vs Melvin E. j Moss, suit for divorce. Hughes A- ; Hughes are attorneys for the plains '

tiff.

Margaret E. White Vs

White, divorce. The plaintiff's

torneys are Gillen & Lyon.

IN “LINE OF nUTV” INDIANAPOLIS July 5 (UP)— Mrs. Martha E. Smith, a telephone company attendant, wasn’t worried today about receiving a reward for the return of $56,000 worth of stolen jewels which she found in a j phone booth dyeing a routine check. She said it was in “line of duty." The gems were In a purse stol'm from Mrs. Marguerite Jackson White Monday night and were in a secret compartment. The thief took aj change purse containing $10 hut overlooked the valuable jwelery. HOLIDAY TOLL 334 The Nation today counted at least 334 home front casualties as the cost of the long Independence Day week end celebration, 81 more than the total accidental deaths whfch the National Safety Council had predicted for the fourth-day period. Traffic accidents caused 142 deaths, 94 were drowned, and 97 died violently from other causes since midnight Friday.

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First American nurses to land in France are shown above walking from the surf after wading ashore. Underfoot is a traction mat laid by U. S. army engineers to permit passage of the vehicles over the soft sand. (International Soundphoto).

Fancy Saddle Horses Here Sunday

Miss Sue Fisher

of Indianapolis is

showing "Rippling

Rhythm’’. 'Miss

Fisher is eleven

years old and en-

ters the Ladies

Horsema n s h i p

class. She always

wears a blue rid-

ing habit.

Miss Sue Reeder of Indianapolis is riding "Radium Sport" owned by P. O. Ferrell of Indianapolis. This is a five gaited

horse.

Pair Held For U. S. Officials

Clarence Dunlap and Carl L. McCartney, youthful bandits from Franklin, Pa., who were taken into custody by the Indiana state police last week near Greencastle, are being held in the Putnam county jail

for Federal authorities.

It was believed at the sheriff's office Monday that Dunlap will be turned over to military officers as he is an Army deserter. McCartney was expected to be placed in charge of a United States marshal on a charge of transporting a stolen ear

from one state to another.

Dunlap, who was wounded in the shoulder by state detectives Roy Newgent and Raymond Foltz, is recovering from the bullet injury.

YANKSCARRY FIGHT TO JAPS; NEARER TOKYO

U. S. NAVAL UNIT ATTACKS BASES ON LV 650 MILES FROM

JAPANESE CAPITAL

THIRTEEN FRENCH VILLAGES TAKEN BY YANK TROOPS

AMERICAN 1ST AKMV NEARS GERMAN COMMUNICATION

CENTER

LONDON, JiU> 5—(UP)— British bomber's heavily attaekeil the German Robot bomb hase*! in northern France and hit a synthetic oil plant in Germany’s Ruhr valley last night, and large formations of homhers crossed the channel today apparently for ne« raids on the French coast. ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, July 5 (UPl The American 1st army, capturing 13 villages in a general advance along its 25 mile offensive front, drove to within a mile of the German communications center of Latlaye-Du-Puits and sent patrols plunging into the outskirts. At the eastern end of the 1,000 square mite Allied beachhead, British and Canadian troops tightened their assault are around Caen astride the main Qherbourg-Paris railway and highway with the occupation of Kontane, three miles to the southwest. Tho Germans still were holding tenaciously to the eastern end of the Carapiquet-Caen airfield, however, and fierce fighting was under way thvrc. The latest American advances brought Lt. Gen. Omer N. Bradley’s troops to within less than two

SERVING COUNTRY

O. J, Stewart, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Stewart ol thlsl^^ city, is serving 9p£lM with Unde Sam’s forces somewhere • ^ in F.ngland. and has probably been taking part in ttv invasion ol Normandy during the past few weeks. O. .1. Stewart, Jr.

HITLER DELIVERS GRIM SPEECH TO GERMAN PEOPLE

PUTNAM SERVICE MEN BUY 58,000.00 IN WAR BONDS H.'i IT.K ( ENT OF AKMV; !i" I’FP CENT OF NAV\ Bl UNO

WAR BONUS

Putnam Cc unty men in s< rvict are not only fighting for America but word has just been received from Washington that they have pur chased $8,000 in War Bonds Thos; of us on the Home Front may fee! that we are doing oui share in buying bonds but. when we considei what our men and women in P**r vice are doing, it makes our effort

meager, indeed.

The figures of the Army and Navy departments show that 85 per cent of the men in th army and 02 pe;

miles of LaHaye on three sides and j cent of the men in the navy arc buy

at last reports they were closing in on the stronghold slowly but steadily in the face of withering crossfire from machine guns, mortars and

light artillery.

Richard .

at-li

BISHOP LOWE REASSIGNED i MINNEAPOLIS, July 5 - Birfiop 1 'tus Lowe has been reassigned to ihe Indianapolis area by the north ‘entral jurisdictional Church, in session here. 1 ' (I,:

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

The Putnamville baseball team, ' with Virgil and Orville Blue forming the battery, defeated the Indiana Portland Cement squad, 17 to 6. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mason were visitors in Crawfordsville. Miss Minnie Williams left for Cam* j tlr 'dge, Mass., to enter the summei ; term at Harvard University. Miss Tmogene Mullins, who under- j went an operation at the county hos-1 Pita], was improving rapidly. |

Miss Janice Jester of Shvlbyville is riding "Itentucky

Springtime" a five gaited

horse,

PEARL HARBOR, July 5 (UP) — The campaign to wrest Saipan from the Japanese entered the filial phase today as new strikes were reported against the Bonin and Volcano islands, 650 miles from Tokyo, by a powerful U. S. Naval task force which sank or damaged six enemy ships, including four destroyers, and knocked out 104 planes. U. S. Marines driving up the west coast of Saipan, captured Garapan, the first Japanese city to fall to Americans in the Pacific, and Tanapag harbor while other ground units advanced along a line all the way to the east coast to squeeze the enemy into a nine-mile square area at the northern tip of the island. Fall of the Marianas’ administrative center and the important landlocked harbor came as Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher’s carrier task force hit the Bonins and Volcanos with waves of planes and tons of shells from the guns of cruisers and destroyers. The task force, which struck the island groups of Japan’s inner defense line for the second time in a month, opened the new attack Sunday by raiding Iwo Jima, key island of the Volcanos. American fliers shot down 39 enemy planes and probably 16 others while 24 additional planes were destroyed on the ground in the Initial

attack.

On Monday the American forces, with cruisers and destroyers joining in the bombardment, again hit Iwo Jima and also attacked Haha Jima in the nearby Bonin islands. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said three Japanese destroyers were sunk or beached, a large cargo ship ani‘ a medium oiler, and another destroyer were left helpless and burning

in Monday’s attack.

Several small cargo vessels also were damaged, while 26 planes were shot down and an undetermined number destroyed on the ground. ! In the two days of action the carrier force lost nine planes, but all the surface vessels escaped damage. Since th<f beginning of the Marianas operations, the Japanese losses in the central Pacific were: 826 planes destroyed; 72 probably destroyed or damaged; 36 ships sunk together with 17 small craft; three probably sunk and 50 damaged. American losses in the same actions were: 163 planes missing and four surface vessels damaged.

' One American column advanced to within a mile northeast of La Hay* and captured hill 95, the third height on a semi-circle around the town to fall since the start of the American offensive. The village of La Fleche on the northwest edge of the hill al-

so was taken.

(A front report broadcast by the London radio said the Americans also were within on* mile of a La Haye from the vest and northwest.) Another column pushed across the La Haye-St. Lo D’Ourville road to within two miles west of La Haye. overrunning the villages of La. Detrousse, Moulinerie. La Harie, Turoaville. La Chapelle and L’Ozourie. Further gains were recorded east of La Haye, though heavy resistance a half mile southwest oi St. .lores was slowing th*- pace of the advance. The Germans re-captured St. Jores in a counterattack yesterday, hut subsequently were thrown out of thv

town again.

American forces southwest of Carentan at the central hinge of the front joined in the offensive at dawn yesterday and by noon had driven another half-mile down the Carentan-Periers highway to a point just north of Raffouville, capturing the villages of La Molsvntiie. Le Varimesnil, Les Mesnil, Les Baleries, I-a Sadotterie and La Campagne. The terrain necessarily channelized the American advances both above La Haye and southwest of Carentan to ridges or high ground, since these offer faster avenues of approach than the marshy, swampy areas, many of them further flooded by the Germans. Heavy and accurate artillery fire supported the ground forces and the three heights captured by the Americans above La Haye gave them excellent emplacements from which to cover an assault on the town itself. Both the American and German batteries were using anti-personnel shells which burst in the air and spread shrapnels over a wide area, killing and maiming even those in foxholes. American guns were outfiring the Germans, however, five or six shots to one. Front dispatches said that 543 prisoners had been taken by the Americans up to noon yesterday.

ing War Bonds regularly. It prove: that these men want to do every thing they can to bring peace to America and, in addition to their readiness to give their lives, th?y are not hesitant in investing tht small amounts in their pay envelopes. The banks in Putnam county have the largest cash deposit- in history. If only a small percentage of these deposits were put into Wai Bonds to draw interest Putnair county could raise every War Bon. quota with the greatest of ees Surely we on the Home Front can equal the job of investing in Wai Bonds so admirably set by this Putnam county men and women u

service.

Putnam county still has a Job to do in the Fifth War Loan drive ;t it is to be a success. The figures published yesterday show that an-' proximately $.300,000 has yet to L raised this week. It is true that thv workers have not been able to solicit everyone. The people of the county are asked to cooperate to put their respective townships over hy going to the nearest bank or post office and putting every dollar that can be spaied into this fighl. We can’t let our Putnam County boyr think we are failing them. We have until Saturday, July 8th. to complete the job. WE MUST NOT

fail:

I VOMITS ALLIES HAVE 8UKI* VKSKO REICH IN WAR 1 PRODUCTION LONDON. July 5-—(UP) —Adolf Hitler, in the grimmest speech of hl;i career warned today that Germany was fighting for its very existence and knowledged that toe Allies have far outstripped the Reich in war production. He told German arms and other war production leaders at his head quarters that "tus gigantic struggle for the I >tr th* < J t .iiai nation is deciding th»* future -if many generations to come " "I know that unheard of strength, nerves and determination are necessary to survive in such tinu-s as the present." he said. Hut * also know that the guiding star of all our aetions is the one unchangeable principle that we will not capitulate, however great the difficulties that fa-m

us "

In what amounted to a desperate appeal to his people to keep fightng despite defeats and overwhelmng odds, Hitler called on everyone to emulate his forces at the front, where "our gallant soldiers are a“compllshing what semis impossible and do not shrink from tasks which *eem impossible to carry out " It you will look to this heroism, Vou will understand my iinshakeabbfaith," Hitler -aid, "Victory will reward us for everything the Individual has sacrificed, for all tho troubles which we have had to shoulder, and for all the blood aacn fices made by families. ’ The speech, reported by Lie German Transocean and DNB News Agencies, was regarded here as the gloomiest and most foreboding ever made by Hitler, exceeding even that following Italy’s capitulation last year. Though he did rot mention the Allied invasion of France, the AngloAmerican victories in Italy and th<Red Army’s breakthroughs on tho eastern front, Hitler acknowledged that a "magnitude of difficulties" was confronting Germany The pessimistic tone of the speech, coupled with the fact he chose to make it before German war production leaders, led to the corelusion that he was making a final "ffort to squeeze oul still greater efforts from German workers already laboring to th*' limit of their en.tura nee

The

Douglas Hammond Killed In Action

Mr. and Mrs. Pat Hammond, of Putnamville, have received word from the United States government that their son, Douglas, has been reported killed in action in France on June 12th. He has been in service about two years and had been overseas about one year. The word was received by Mr. and Mrs Hammond on Friday.

ROACHDALE CELEBRATION WAS HUGE SUCCESS Members of Hie Koachdale Lions club and all citizens of that community who assisted them during their four day celebration awoke Wednesday morning tired but happy, because the observance was probably the mo-t successful they have held in their ten years of observing the Fourth of July. The throngs which packed the streets of the little town Tuesday night were so thick they almost had to move together. Everyone was in a holiday mood forgetting for the moment the grim horrors of a worldwide war. The observance closed wilh a fine display of aerial fireworks in the west edge of the city. Mrs. Mary Parker Died At Hospital

^ Mrs. Jeanetta Bills returned home j Wednesday from the county hospital.

Mrs. Mary V. Parker, age 72 years, died late Tuesday afternoon at the Putnam county hospital She was the widow of John W Parker* ’ Surviving are two children Mt*. ■ Clonn Greer of Indianapolis, and' Clyde Parker of Jefferson township; one granddaughter, Beverly Sue Parker; two sisters. Mis Anna Dent and Mrs. Grace Collier of Indianapolis; and two brothers, Ralph and Schuyler Arnold of Stilesvilk Funeral services will be held on Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Tri-County Church in Jefferson township. Burial will he at Stil*-:;-

ville.

Friends may call at the Reed Funeral Home in Cloverdale until time fop Hu services.

speech was Hitler’s second

Public utterance since Hie Allied in vasion of France. Last week, he spoke at funeral services for Gen.. Eduard Dietl, former commander of German forces In FinJand, w'-o v**as

Tilled in an airplane crash. Hiis war cannot be mea-sured on

th* events of the day,' he said tolay "In such .* gigantic struggle when eternal history is made, tem porary .success or failure does not. flay any decisive part "In this, th* greatest struggle tor tin- fate of the »ennan nation Everybody has his task, in fight mil work r-lentlessly

for victory.

AA’e shall survive these times and in the end, win this war " Hitler praised the heroism of the -' nil an **ldi**r mri asked "In view of siicli heroism, .* Mould leadership such as Germany's which has the fortune I** I** able to say that foi four vears it has achieved nothing hut success, fail In the test’ No'" He acknowledged that Allied tech nlcians had equalled and in some caa es excelled tin Germans in technical inventions, hut asserted that "the German genius of invention is about to restore the technical balance in lb order to create th ■ prerequisition for finally changing Hie course of

this wqr."

Tran - icesii ml Nazi armaments dneetor Albert Speer, oenfered .vtth production leaders ami announced » furthei increase in production despite (Continued on Page Four)

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