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fOLUME FIFTY-TWO

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1944.

NO. 233

GREENCASTLE GIRLS INJURED IN BUS CRASH

BARBARA HADLEY LISTED AS i seriously hurt in mishap WEDNESDAY Three woung women from the Creencastle community were injured Wednesday, one seriously, when In Indianapolis Railways motor bus (truck a steel railroad overpass support at Missouri street and Kentucky Lvcnue, killing one man and injuring b passengers. Among the seriously hurt is Barbra Hadley, Greencastle, Beverly Brown, 21, and Malinda Neese, (6 were also injured and treated Lt the Indianapolis city hospital. The [ondition of the latter l two was lescribed as “fair”. In the crash, the right side of the bus was ripped out, Stacking its Luman cargo in a bloody pile. Seven Lmbulance loads of victims were takL. to hospitals while several other Lassengers were given medical attention by private physicians. I Although the driver, John W. Bridges, was .injured seriously he refused to be taken to a hospital iinlil all the passengers had been cared lor. He was ordered slated by police Bn a charge of reckless driving. I Street railway maintenance pnen Induy arc completing a cm ck of the wreckage to determine whether mechanical failure caused the bus to Beer suddenly against the pillar, mechanics said they found the front kxcl broken, but were unable to Betermine whether the break was a irause or result of the accident. I Bridges told fiolice he was apkrnaohing the underpass at moderat ■ ■peed when it went out of contro' land veered. He said: "The wheel keemed to be loose in. my hands.” He had been a bus operator since [April and company officials said his safety record is "gcod.” ! When the impact rolled back the side of the bus tike orange peel, [many passengers were thrown out to the pavemen”. Broken glass was showered iiO feet, l assengers were [stacked in tne front of the vehicle.

SERVING COUNTRY

S. M. Abbott

CpI. Smith M. Abbott, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Abbott of R. R. 1, Greencas11 e , graduated last week from the Army Air Forces Flexible Gunnery School, Laredo Army Air Field, Laredo, Texas, a member of the A A P" Training Command. He is

take his place as a

ROOSEVELT TO BE RE-NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENCY

now qualified to

member of a bomber combat crew.

Reds Hammer At Prussian Frontier LONDON, July 20—(UP)—The Red army hammered at the gates of Plant Prussia today. Berlin indicated in reporting heavy fighting only eight miles from the frontier, and far to the south the Russians drove within sight of the great fortress city of Lwow in lower Poland. Nazi broadcasts reported that Soviet assault forces had pushed to Augustow, 38 miles northwest of Grondo and on the border of the Suwalki triangle eight miles from the soil of Germany proper. Nazi Refugees Coming To U. S.

Demmy Platform Committee Busy CONVENTION HEADQUAR TERS, CHICAGO, July 20 (UP1The Democratic platform committee worked into the early hours today, amid signs of increasing tension over the racial issue, to complete the draft rf party policy for submission to the national convention this afternoon. A 12-man drafting subcommittee worked until 3 a. m„ completing the final draft of the platform described by Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida, a member of the subcommittee, as “the shortest the party has ever had” - for submission to the full committee ai 10:30 a. m. CWT. • Asked whether it contained a racial equality plank which would be suitable to Negroes and to the draftI era, Pepper said, "any document on which more than one person collaborated is not wholly satisfactory to

everybody.”

New emphasis was placed on the racial issue which has divided the party by announcement that the Tennessee delegation had rescinded its decision to cast its 26 votes for President Roosevelt ponding the time when it learns the content of the platform’s racial plank. Gov. Prentice Cooper of Tennessea member of the platform committee, warned that if certain proposals should be written into the platform over southern opposition there would IContlnued on l , aa« T«*o«

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

AVERSA Italy. July 20.—(UP) Nearly 1,000 European refugees—' most of whom have known the terror of Nazi prisons soon will arrive at Fort Ontario, near Oswego, New York. They are traveling from Italy aboard an army transport on personal orders from President Roose-

velt.

The refugees, mostly Jewish, include a baby less than a week old. And the oldest in the group is 87 years. Nineteen nationalities are represented. Included are 365 Yugoslavs who had been in concentration camps in Italy ever since the axis overran the Balkans. The remaining refugees crossed the Alps from southern France last September when they had heard the Germans intended to deport them to Poland, where they would be killed. Some of the passengers’ who embarked were afraid of what they might undergo in the United States. Several asked about the type of concentration camp at Fort Ontario and wanted to know if they would be permitted to get in contact with relatives here who might obtain their release. Terrifying tales of Nazi cruelties were told. One refugee said that 600 persons in his group leaving France were captured by German soldiers. Later reports said they had been herded into a tunnel where they were put to death by gas. The terms under which the refugees are being sent to the United States call for their return to their native homeland at the end of the

war.

LODGE PROPERTY RULING INDIANAPOLIS, July 19. (UP) Attorney General Janies A. Emmort today ruled that fraternal lodges were charitable institutions but that each particular case, where a tax exemption w’as sought, must be determined on its own merits. Emmert made a long review of Indiana statutes and court records on the subject for Chairman Charles H. Bedwell of the state tax board. “Each situation must be determined upon its facts and circumstances," Emmert said, adding that property of lodges which was rented for some other purpose than for use of the lodge itself was not exempt from taxation.

DEMOCRATS AGAIN SELECT FDR AS CANDIDATE FOR FOURTH TERM CHICAGO STADIUM. July 20 (UP)—The Democratic National convention renominates President Roosevelt today for a fourth term amid bitter party disputes on the Vice presidency and charges of boss-con-

trol.

Mr. Roosevelt will aecvpt the nomination in a radio address tonight. His voice may calm the storm which threatens to .veaken the New DealDemocratic coalition of 1936 and 1940 in this campaign year. Some of tiw President's closest political associates here have fallen out and are beginning to call each other names. Southern leaders met in rebellious conferences last night and broke up. apparently frustrated both as to their objectives and methods of achieving them. Principally they wanted to scuttle Wallace and put up a southerner for his $15,000-a-ycar

Job.

Wallace is still likely to be scuttled in his contest with Sen. Harry S. Truman of Missouri, who has sdme kind of White House acceptance and the support of some of the big party bosses here. But putting a southerner on the ticket this year does not seem likely at the moment. The vice-presidential balloting may be held tonight or may be deferred until tomorrow. Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, who feels along with some

DEPAUW MAN MISSING ANDERSON, Ind„ July 20.—Lieut. Mark Bt ight. 25, fighter pilot, former DePauw man, is missing in action in the Pacific area, according to a message received by his parents, Mr. ami Mrs. C. E. Bright. He had been in combat service two years and was credited with downing nine Jap planes. Mis first achievements were at Guadalcanal and Midway in 1942. wdien he shot down five planes. He holds the navy cross and air medal. He served as an instructor after returning home late in 1942, but returned to combat duty in 1943 and had been at Palau recently. IN 111 \NAI*OMS l.l\ EST<K K Hogs 12.000; holdovers 1,600; active; 100-270 lbs steady, 270-400 lbs 25 higher, sow’s 10-15 higher; good and choice 160-180 lbs ,$13.00; 180270 lbs $13.80; 270-330 lbs $12.50$12.75; 330-400 lbs $12.25-$12.50; 100-159 lbs $10.50-$11.75; sows $11-25-$1165, mostly $11.35-$11.60. I Cattle 800, calves 800; steers and heifers steady, cows steady to weak: load 1123 lbs good and choice steers told to arrive around $16.75; bulk odd head steers cutter to mediumd $8.50-$ 14 00 and few to $15.00: heifers mostly $8.00-$13j00, top $14.00cows mostly common and medium $7.75-$ 11.50; cauners and cutters $5-,O0-$7.5O; vealers steady, top $14.50 Sheep 1,00; generally steady; few choice spring lambs up to $14.00, ►practical top $13.50; bulk good , to near choice spring lambs $12.00-$13-.00.

Robert Cooper Badly Injured

Mr. and Mrs Hubert Cooper. Sr., of Ladoga Route 1, formerly of near Greencastle, received word Wednesday that their son, Aviation Student Robert R. Cooper, had been seriously injured in an accident at

Keesler Field, Hold. It. Cooper Miss. The family left immediately for Mississippi after

receiving the word.

Before entering the army, Robert was a motor carrier for The Daily Banner and Indianapolis News.

Bainbridge Lions Name Committees

others here that he has been maneuvered out of his chance at the vice presidential nomination, jarred convention managers with a surprise request that they hold up release of his speech placing Mr. Roosevelt in fourth term renomination. That was a baldthreat to run out on the assignment to propose the President’s name, but it lasted only a few hours. Toward 2 A. M. today one of Barkley’s aides said the senator had sent a note to national commlttre publicity headquarters authorizing release of the speech on schedule to-

day.

Meanwhile, it was learned that Wallace ••vill deliver a speech seconding Mr. Roosevelt’s nomination for the presidency. The presidential nomination was scheduled for mid-afternoon, following the address of permanent chairman Samuel Jackson of Indiana, disposition of credentials and rules disputes, and adoption of the platform. Barklvy evidently was resentful of the smooth operations here of the big four—national committee chairman Robcr E. Hanncgan, who was handpicked last winter to handle Mr. Roosevelt's re-election campaign; Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, who bosses the Democratic party in Illinois; Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, who rules the organization in New Jersey; and Edward J. Flynn, leader of the Democratic party in the Bronx and the manager of the President's successful tiiird term

campaign.

The center ring battle is over the Vice Presidential nomination for which Mr. Roosevelt personally endorsed Wallace but for which Hnnnegan now says the President would

be happy to have Truman.

The fact that Truman and Hama - Dr ^ \\ veach, Dr. Lee Osborne, gan are fellow Missourians and that! j,,. Harry Osborne.

The newly organized Lions Club of Bainbridge held its first stated meet ing Wednesday evening in the base ment of the Christian church. The Christian Ladit-s Aid were hostesses. The meeting opened with the president, Bruce Lane in charge. Forty-

nine members were present.

The following committees were

announced by Mr. Lane:

Bloyd Samian was appoined Lion Tamer succeeding George Smith. Membership Committee: Guy Collings, Guy Cox, James Curran. Program Committee: Ray Etchcson Bloyd Samian, Albert Balch. Publicity Committee: Jewel Blue

Cyril Masten, Roscoe Hillis.

Safety Committee: Chester Simler, Willis Dickson. Marshall Acton. Health and Welfare Committee:

KERR DELIVERS KEYNOTE SPEECH TO CONVENTION

DELEGATES \< ( OKI) OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR 18--M1N VTE DEMONSTRATION CHICAGO STADIUM. July 20 (UP)—Democrats went whooping into the asiles for the first big demonstration of their convention last night when Gov. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma made a keynote ppeech calling for the re-election of President Roosevelt and denouncing Republican administrations under which America ‘‘hardened under Harding, cooled under Collidge and hungered under Hoover.” The speech was interrupted by a 12-minute demonstration during which state standards were paraded down the aisles to the platform where Kerr put on a 10-gallon white hat while the band blared, “you're doin' fine, Oklahoma.” Kerr's reply to the Republican party's "accent on youth" was the declaration that such "tired old men" as President Roosevelt, Admiral Ernest J. King, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and Gen George C. Marshall "are winning this war.” Repeating the refrain, ''shall we discard as a "tired old man,” he alluded in staceajj) succession to 59-year-old Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, 62-year-old Admiral William K. Halsey, Jr., 64-year-old Gen. MacArthur, 66-year-old Admiral King, and 61-year-old Gen Marshall. Then he added the paragraph which stopped his speech and produced the most deafening demonstration which this convention had seen thus

fur.

No, Mr. Dowry,” the keynoter said, “wc know we are winning this war with these ‘tired old men,' in eluding the 62-year-r>ld Roosevelt as their commander-in-chief." The words “commander-in-chief" were almost drowned out by the burst of applause which greeted the word "Roosevelt." Kerr Oinnself was caught off guard. He had expected applause, but he hartw't expected bedlam. He quickly sensed the situation, however, and decided that if the delegates wanted to whoop it up a while, it was all right witli him. Spreading ids arms like a cheerleader, he urged them on. He looked up into the balcony to where the band sat, and called for music. He wiped tlie sweat from his ample face it was 90 degrees at the time - and grinned delightedly. The state standard bearers swarmed down the aisle toward'Kerr. The Hawaiian and Philippine delegations thrust their standards into his hands and told him to wave them on high Five minutes after t .c demonstration started, Kerr had gathered in all but a handful of the floor standards which helpful sergeants-at-arms stacked like rifles behind him. The anti-fourth term regular Texas delegates, however, sat unmoved ir. their seats and refused to join the parade. An enthusiastic pro-Roose-velt man from another delegation tore down half of the Texas placard in passing and, rushing down front, handed it to Kerr, who waved it to the crowd.

Ilillcr Hurt By Buinli Is DNB Report

BULLETIN

MIKADO WILL GIVE JAPANESE A NEW CABINET

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The Japanese Domei news agency announced today that Gen Kuniaki Koiso. governor-general of Japaneseoccupied Korea, and Admiral Mit sumasa Yonai, former Japanese premier. had been selected to form a new Japanese cabinet. The Domei dispatch was recorded

by FCC monitors.

LONDON, .Inly VM —The DNB official German lien* ngenry announced tnda> that Adolph Hitler and thirteen of his top i,nliking military collaborators were, wounded in an attempt on the Fuehrer's life when A homh explode,I during a conferenca at the Fueher'a headquarters. DNB listeirl Hitler's injuries a« slight burns,, bruises and light concussion of the brain. The weight of the blast fell on a cluster of gold braided Nazis including seven generals and two admirals. Four were wounded seriously, while nine others Including Gen. Alfred -lodi, chief of Hitler's personal military staff and an ardent Nazi escaped.

The official Japanese Domei agency touched off speculation over a prospective Japanese bid for peace today with an announcement tnat Emperot Hirohito had called in a civilian with a view to forming a new government to succeed that ol ITemiei Gen. Hideki Tojo. v>i resigned on bloc alter cc. could not win the war. Domei said that Hirohito had called Marquis Koichi Kuio. lord keeper of the privey seal, before him laU Tuesday (Japanese time) some eight hours aftei Tojo submitted his cabinet's resignation, but did nut indicate whether the emperor entrusted Kido with the formation of a new government or merely had sougiil

his advice.

Kido already has conferred with former premiers of Japan to obtain their opinions on the new cabinet, but FCC monitors said available evidence from Japanese broadcasts im plied that Japan did not yet have a new’ government. Though a member of the Tojo government. Kido never was a member of the militarist group which put Tojo in power and was considered a moderate” before the outbreak of the Pacific war. He long has been close t<> tlie imperial family and Hirohito may feel that Japan could obtain a more favorable peace with a civilian government than one made up of members of the war party headed by Tojo. Chinese experts on Japanese affairs sai'l in Chungking that the cabinet’s resignation may foreshadow Japan’s unconditional surrender before Germany collapses. They ex-

MiiKKolini to have attended the

conference and escaped the olast by

arriving a few minutes later. It was announced that after Hit-

ler's wounds were taken (rare of, th«

conference was resinned. German reports said the attempt on Hitler'* life was engineered by the Allies. BOMBERS OVER GERMANY

Don McLean sold Adam Beck, president of the Indiana Portland Cement Company, two Lincoln automobiles, a coupe and a sedan. The price of the two cars was slightly less than $10,000. The' Greencastle Specials defeated the fast Ellettsville baseball team, 5 to 1 on the Zinc Mill diamond. Harry LaRue was the umpire. William Woodall, 17, of Clovenlale, was drowned in Eel river below the Palls about 4:30 p. m. while wading with a crowd in swimming. Mrs. Sarah Black Durham. 85. died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Bridges, just west of the • ity. She was the mother of Andrew E. Durham and J. Ernest Durham.

Allies Advance On Norman Front S U P R E M E HEADQUARTERS A EE. July 20.—(UP I-Allied forces have readied the railway a half mile from Troarn, seven miles east of Caen, and have driven the enemy from the villages of Cormelles, a mile and a half southeast of Caen, ami nearby Ifs, a communique announced today. V. F. W. NOTICE

Regular meeting of Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post 1550. Veterans of Foreign Wars, tonight at 8 o’clock.

Hannegan owes some of his rise to political heights to Truman makes the Wallace men more than a little suspicious that something is wrong. But there is supporting evidence that Hannegan does have a go-ahead for Truman and directly from the

President.

Persuasive reports persisted that he had received a letter to that effect. Hannegan denied it. Others said that it was received and that it suggested cither Truman or associate justice William O. Douglas if Wallace were not acceptable to the

convention.

Sen Joseph F. Guffey, of Pennsylvania, shouted what other Wallace supporters had been whispering when he said: "I doubt wry much if Mr. Hannegan quoted all of the letter the President is supposed to have written. It is time that Mr. Hannegan remembers that he was elected chairman of the national committee to serve all the members of our party, to give some of his time to tlie party and not all of it entirely to the candidate (Truman) of Hannegan, Kelly, Hague and Flynn." CIO spokesmen echoed Guffey’s charge that these four men who are bulwarks of the New Deal-Democrat-ic coalition are unfairly bossing the

convention.

Education Committee: Evan McKeehan, Glen Michael, Bill Luther. Community Betterment Committtc: Frank Miller, Frank Baker, Gilbert Hale. Civic Improvement Committee: O. L. VanCleave, D. O. Tate, Arthur Giltz. Citizen and Patriotism Committee: Elva Tate, Walter Steele, Stanley Sears. Boys and Girls Committee: Ernest Johnson, Dolby Collings, Ralph Clodfelter. Sight Conservation Committee: Paul McKeehan, Jesse Cowger. Attendance Committee: Clarence Steward, Roy Hanks. Claude Etcheson. Constitution and By-laws Committee: Otto Lefforge, Roy Zenor, Gor don Hunks. Convention Committee: Homer Sands, Raywood Curran, Ralph Hanks. Finance Committee: Charles Kinnaman, Howard Shuey, Clifford Ooley. Lions Education Committee: Howard Hostetler, Frank Smith, Otto Lefforge. Eats Committee: Gene Hess, Charles Kinnaman. Bill Harlan. Suggestive Committee: Dale Ross, Carl Riggle, Raywood Cut ran.

Dr. J. C. Heston Rotary Speaker Dr. Joseph C. Heston of the De Pauw University faculty gave intei esting views on the study of post war education and the establishment of a bureau of testing and research before Greencastle Rotarians at their weekly meeting on Wednesday. In speaking of the bureau, Dr. Heston said Uiat it wil igive to new students and returning war veterans individual diagnosis for vocational educational and personality adjustment problems. According to the speaker. DePauw is following along with the better known universities in establishing this bureau which can be of so much benefit to students, and representatives of DePauw have visited several universities that have already established these bureaus, and its representatives have conferred with the better known men in this field of work. The interest of Rotarians in Dr. Heston’s talk was evidenced by the discussion whica followed. Two state penal officials were the guests of Floyd Hemmer.

LONDON, July 20.—(UP)—An armada of more than 1,200 fighterescorted American heavy bombers plunged deep into central Germany today and dropped a great weight of explosives on alreraft. motor, synthetic oil, and ball bearing plgnf* scattered between Leipzig and tha Rhine. ELEANOR AT SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO, Cal.. July 20 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President, paid an unexpected visit to San Diego today. The first lady visited the Navy Hospital here and spoke to wounded veterans of Pacific battles. Her departure from tills area was not disclosed. Senator Truman Out Of The Race CHICAGO, .liil.i '10.—Mayor Edward Kelly today announced that Sen. Truman had withdrawn from the viee presidential raee, leaiing ns the only likely candidate, Henry A. Wallace.

PATTON'S ARMY AT FRONT LONDON July 20.—(UPl The German Transoceart news agency said today that an army under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton has gone into

action in Normandy.

peeled the new Japanese cabinet to start a “peace offensive” toward the

United States.

Informed observers in Washington

saw a possibility that Japanese peace moves may be forthcoming, but cautioned that it was impossible t“ | judge the significance of the new move until it was learned what forces were behind Kido and the com-

position of the new cabinet. Tlie bespectacled, mustached Tojo,

ruthless instigator of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, was the seci nd of the three axis war lords to fall from power as allied armies relentlessly closed in on their home-

lands.

Even as Benito Mussolini was ousted from the premiership of Italy only one week after the first American air raid on Rome. Tojo was forced from tlie premiership of Japan while American Superfortresses were pressing an aerial offensive against Ills home islands and Amen- < can sea and ground forces were ex- j panding their foothold in the Mari anas, only 1,500 miles from Tokyo. Domei’s initial announcement of the fall of the Tojo cabinet was carried on a "hold for release” basis last night, FCC monitors reported, and frankly acknowledged that the resignation was prompted by realization that the government, even “by utilj izing ail the means available, was unable to achieve its objective" in

prosecuting the war.

“In apologizing for the government’s meager power to the men on the fighting front and the 100.000.000 people of Japan who continue to work toward certain victory, it has been decided that this cabinet should be dissolved,” the initial announce-

ICual’aned on Paso Tnai

CHICAGO STADIUM, July 20.— (UP) Sen. Samuel D. Jackson, Democratic nominee for governor of j Indiana, told the Democratic nation- , al convention today that a change m I notional administration in time of | war was “frightening to contem- ( plate” and that it was “dangerous to

make."

C O N V E N T I O N HEADQUARTERS. CHICAGO, July 20—(UP) — Cries of "spy!" stirred Democrats lolling in the lobby of the Blackstona hotel today. Big Jim Farley shouted in jest: “Get the FBI! Get the Secret Ser-

vice!"

Reason for the excitement was | Rep. Charles Halleck, Ind., a Repub- - (lean leader. As Democrats croyvded ; around to shake hands, Halleck explained he was here to discuss GOP finances with Jouett Todd, Republi-

can national treasurer.

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