The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 July 1944 — Page 2

THE DAILY BANNER, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1944.

laast YEAR,'intercity hi’scs carried three times as many passengers as in any peacetime year. The wartime travel record was accomplished in the face of many handicaps: manpower shortage . . . lack of new buses . .. scarcity of some new parts and equipment. Rut the industry met the challenge and is fulfilling its pledge to "keep ’em rolling.” Everyone—executives, drivers, mechanics, clerks, operators and agjents—accepted his, or her, responsibility to keiep vital transportation uninterrupted. Yes, bus [transportation is working for VICTORY in IndGana, for many military people, war workers, and civilians are depending upon us daily for safe, frequent, dependable and con-

venient service.

For bus travel Information, call your ticket agent

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Jacob Taylor was admitted to the, ALLIES HAHMEK NAZIS Putnam County Hospital Saturday. I iconttnued From Parr onr, Mrs. John Tennant was admitted to I than they enjoyed in Italy, GorreU

the Putnam county hospital Sunday i said.

evening. Barbara Luther was taken home from the Putnam County hospital,

; castle, Indiana as second class mall | Saturday,

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Test your belief by your works. You must trust and follow him, or you deny him: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, hut have everlasting life. John 3:16.

lersonal 4nd 10CU NEWS BRIEFS

Miss Betty Wininger is visiting with Mrs. F.dith Moffett.

I Mrs. Ardella Swartzkopf is spendj ing this week at Davenport, 'Iowa. j L. W. Crump and Frank McKeej han, employees of the post office, j are taking their vacation. | Mrs. Garold King and daughter, I Sharon Rose, returned Saturday after a weeks visit in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Smith of LaPorte are visiting with Mrs. Smith’s sister, Mrs. Ivan Lisby. Mrs. Salem L. Towne of South Bend spent the week-end visiting relatives in i ireencastle.

| Mr. and Mrs. Harold Edwards, R. 1, Stllesville are the parents of a son j born Monday at the Putnam County Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. George L. White, lOO | Jacob street arv> the parents of a son born Saturday morning at the Putnam County hospital. Mrs. Hattie Scott of Coatesville visited over the week end with her sister. Mrs. Clara Matthews of Bainbridge. Miss Maude Sutherlin, who has been in Crawfordsville taking care of Mrs. John Deihl and baby son, has returned to her home on Walnut street. Mr. and Mrs. Mayhuer Rubush, accompanied by Mrs. R. E. Rossers ol Bloomington, Illinois, spent Sunday in, Rockville visiting with their daughter, Mrs. Roland Crays. Mrs. Katherin Donahue and Mrs Harold Graver of Brick Chapel returned Friday night from Carolina Beach, N. C., after spending two weeks with Mrs. Graver’s husband. Mrs. Paul Hartnagle and daughter Nora Jean, Glenda Finn of Indianapolis are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hartnagle and family south of the city. Paul Hartnagle is with the armed forces in Italy. Dan Aker of Reelsville is reported slightly improved at the Putnam county hospital. Mr. Aker was seriously injured a few weeks ago when he fell from a scaffold on the Big Four arch west of Greencastle. Several from here attended the Kroger Company employees picnic held Sunday at McCormick's Creek. Approximately one hundred and fifty were in attendance. The day was spent in playing baseball, swimming and horse back riding. Mrs. R. Fred Buis and little son went to Newpoit News, Va., the 6th of July for an indefinite stay with her husband who is in the U. S. Navy and stationed at Norfolk, Va. Mr. Buis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Buis of Mt. Meridian. Mr. and Mrs. Roland L. Hicks are the parents of a daughter, Nancy Lynn, born Saturday at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis. Mrs. Hicks is the former Miss Ruth Woliung, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woliung of Greencastle. Mr. Hicks, an ensign in the Navy, is now stationed on the beach of Normandy.

Permelia Lawrence, Cloverdale, was admitted to the Putnam county hospital Monday. Mrs. Hazel Evans, R 1, Cloverdale was admitted to the. Putnam County Hospital Saturday. Fred Ford was removed from the Putnam County hospital Saturday to his home in Roachdale. Mrs. Noble Fry ami daughter were removed to their home Sunday, from the Putnam County hospital. Norman Roe was taken to his home in Roachdale Saturday from the Putnam County hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Buis are the parents of a daughter born Sunday at the Putnam county hospital. Russell Siddons, Greencastle, R. 2. was admitted to the Putnam county hospital Saturday. He received injuries in a tractor accident. Those who underwent tonsil operations Monday morning were, Richard Owens, Coatesville, and Robert and Marvin Clifford, Coatesville. Society Mother's Service , ( ^ ( lub To Meet Putnam County Mother’s Service Club will meet Tuesday evening July 18, at 8:00 o’clock at the Legion Home. |

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At Sunday Dinner Entertains guests Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Myers and Mrs. Virginia Birt and Karen and Gordon Birt were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gasaway, Miss Thelma Gasaway, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Arnold, Linda, Marvin and (Edward Allyn Arnold, Mr. William Hammer of Indianapolis, Pvt. and Mrs. Carl Robert Myers, and Sgt. Earl jE. Myers. Sgt. Earl E. Myers will return to Camp Maxey, Texas Thursday. Pvt. Carl R. Myers reports to Fort Meade, Maryland oa Monday, July 24.

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Club Will Meet With Mrs. Cay wood The Community Service Club of Bainbridge will meet Wednesday July 19th at the home of Mrs. Warren Caywood. Roll call will be “A radio advertisement.” Miss Lueile Smith will give a demonstration on Iress fitting.

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Women of the Moose To Have Pitch-In Dinner Women of the Moose please bring sandwiches or covered dish for pitchn supper Wednesday, July 19. + •!• -9 dWoman Of The Moose To Meet Wislnesday AH members of Woman |Of The Moose are urged to be present Wednesday night, July 19. There will be an official visitor from Terre Haute i Chapter.

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The Americans also seized high ground east of Periers. third anchor of the German line in the American sector. The Biitish 2nd Army’s offensive was launched soon after dusk Saturday night following an hour-long artillery barrage that centered by turns on enemy strongpoints anti troop concentrations around the Odon bridgehead southwest of Caen. Advances of up to a mile and a half were recorded in the assault which apparently took the enemy bv surprise. At the southeastern tip of the bridge, Esquay was captured, while other troops seized commanding heights for an assault on the enemy stronghold of Evrecy in the valley below. To protect their flank, the British re-captured Brettevillette on the north bank of the Odon and began a battle for Noyers which front dispatches said still was continuing to-

day.

Stiff fighting developed all around the British offensive front yesterday afternoon and last night, with the enemy throwing in elements of five divisions in an effort to stem the allied penetration. The Germans also threw the! carefully-hoarded air force into the struggle. As many as 50 German Messerschmitts were sighted at one time south of Caen. A number of fiont areas were bombed and strafed by both German and .allied aircraft. British guns roared again all night, covering allied troops wjio were consolidating their latest gains and preventing the enemy from forming up for counter-blows.

h, art of the city, and captured Monte Maggiore, one of the dominating heights overlooking it from a distance of about four miles. ROBOT BOMBS FALL OX LONDON LAST NIGHT L ON. July 17—(UP) — Ger„.t bombs fell in the London area last night for the first time in six nights and the attacks continud m the Metropolitan section and Southern England after dawn today. Although details of the attacks were not disclosed, it was learned that some damage and casualties wore caused by the bombs. WARNS DEMOCRATS . July 17 (UP) -Walter White, executivi secretary for the National associati >n for the advancemint of color, I people, has warned the Democratic party that it ’can kiss the negro vote goodbye” if it nominates a southerner for Vice President. Negroes cannot run thv risk of having an anti-negro figure as heirapparent to the Presidency, White aid in an address to the NAC CP s wartime conferonc,* last night. However, he said that Negroes are not fooled by the "dishonest and tupid' platform of the Republican party, which "reached the height of double talk" <>" the Negro and contained "a wen el-worded plank on , postwar International relations." i FOR SALE: Holstein baby calves. Fciraiids Daily, Greencastle. K. 3. 17-2p.

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+ ++ *•+ + + + + + + +» > ANNIVERSARIES .[. .J. .J. .5. .J. -I- •]. .p .;. .j, Birt lidny Elnora Craver Chamber; 0 f Bowling Green, 17 years today July 17. D. O. Dunlavy, Fillmore, 74 years oday, July 17. Zella Mae York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. York ,13 years oW Saturday, July If. Don Carlin. 15 Berry stn i t 17 years old today. Pvt. Vurlin E. Rader, Camp Wanding Florida, 25 years, July 16. Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Alva Layton, 8 yeais today. July 17.

News of Boys Grover E. Best, who has been seriously ill for the past several days is getting better. His address is Grover E. Best. SC 2 c, U. S. Naval Hospital, Ward E-13, Ixmg Beach 4 California. Richard A. Best has a new rating of motor ordnance machinist mate 3yc. He is somewhere ovei sea. His address may be obtained i from his mother. They are the sons | of Mrs. Edna Best of south Locus; ! street. Another son, Boh, is stationed in Alabama. The address of Pfc. O. C. Fallor is 35153768, Detc. T. C.. Ft. Slocum. N Y.

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BOMBERS OVER FRANCE IvONDON, July 17— (UP) — a fleet of approximately 750 American heavy bombers crossed the channel through misty weather today to attack supply dumps for flying bombers, and bridges and Marshalling yards in the network of French railways feeding the German battle

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ICnntlnned rr»m I'aire One) propose anyone. But chairman Robert E. Hannegan of the Democratic National committee will be in touch with Mr. Roosevelt, and war mobilization Director James F. Byrnes also is here in a dual role as potential vice presidential nomine* as well as personal representative of the president on other matters. To put Ur ■ White House choice over assuming that he were a man of fairly regular party record — it merely would be necessary to pass the word to the floor and the delegates would

do the rest.

Unless the president has a surprise , candidate in mind, his choice would j come from among the men already most discussed among arriving party leaders. They are Sen. Alben A. Barkley of Kenturky, War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, Federal Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, and Associate Justice William O. Douglas of Washington and New York

j practical top $13.50, bulk good to | | near choice .$12-.$ r;. YANKS NEAR LIVORNO ROME, July 17. (UP I American troops drove up the *west coast within two miles of Livorno today and swung in from the east for a ! two-way assault on the richest prize in the Ita’ an campaign since the fall ;

of Rome.

Advanced units of the Unite 11 States forces reached Montcnero, a Livorno suburb four miles from the |

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NOTICE KLIP AND KURL BEAUTY SHOPPE Will Be Closed Indefinitely Effective Inly 17,1944 FLOSSIE WELLS

. ’ , iniu.Mi, MIL. him. .1 -unnw-ra . t, SMILING BROADLY AND CHEERING their release these ex-slavn. # N ration todt” are pictured after they were freed bv Amerirtn ? * M th * NaZls ln th * ‘‘ or * ttnt * Forced Into the Infamous labor battalions after .| f ° rCe8 advancln 8 toward Cherbourg. ■ ’. "4 is “iSS.