The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 August 1944 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"

VOLUME FIFTY-TWO

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1944.

IUGE POST-WAR GOODS, SERVICES DEMAHD PROVED

tXPENDITTRE OF MIIXION8 FORESEEN IN SURVEY OF OREENCASTLE The Post-War Planning Commitlee of the Greencastle Chamber of Commerce has compiled the returns |rom the recently conducted workpile lurvey and reports that the informalion obtained reveals that the comjnunity has an enormous pent up depi and for goods and services. The committee estimates that |here is a demand for over $3,700 - POO.OO worth of the goods and serjrices listed in the workpile questionnaire and the items covered by the lurvey were a portion of the things (low rationed or scarce and represents only a fraction of the potential ponsumer demand in the community. Some of the outstanding features of Ithe results were that 14 per cent of (those reporting expect to build new homes, which alone would indicate |l,420,000.00 to be expended in home Construction; 30 per cent expect to buy new automobiles; 21 per cent Dew washing machines; 18 per cent Dew radios; 13 per cent new living |foom suites; 10 per cent frozen food units; 3 per cent air conditioning and per cent telephone service. The area covered by the survey vas the city of Greencastle and the teiritory serviced by its four rural |routes and represents about 3,700 families. The committee reports that one of jits main objectives in making the Survey was to inform industry as to the demand for goods and services, land to encourage manufacturers, merchants and other employers to [plan for increased production ard ■Ufltributton, thereby increasing the I demand for employment in the post[war period. According to Harley Miller, chairIman, detailed figures of the survey 1 are available at the Chamber oi [Commerce for anyope interested. An [urgent appeal is made to all merchants and other employers of the community to begin now to plan for increased volume and employment. The itemizHtibn below gives in [dollar figures the expected expenditure for the larger items covered in I the survey. | New residences $1,420,000 Additional rooms 36,000 I Other buildings 46,800 New roofs 52,600 Plumbing 77.400 Electrical wiring 30,700 Electrical fixtures 11,050 Outside painting 77,250 Inside decorating 18,600 Landscaping 8,400 Air-conditioning 7,200 I Concrete work 11,350 ! Heating furnaces 51.400 Living room suites 46,360 Bed room suites 34,560 Dining room suites 20,250 Kitchen cabinets 10,700 Telephone service 10,440 Rangrs 59,100 Radios 18.900 Refrigerators 94.600 Washers 27,100 Frozen food units 56,000 Vacuum cleaners 12,060 New automobiles 811,250 Typewriters 8,400 Farm Equipment Trucks 89,600 Tractors 226,100 W agons 9,000 Combines 26,600 Rotary hoes 5,400 Manure spreaders 21,400 Cultivators 7,800 Discs 10,650 Corn planters 16,450 Plows 11,100 Drills 9,400 Corn buskers 54.750 Mowers 8,100 Rakes 2,410 Balers 24,000 Fencing 16,800

NAVY’S ACE GETS CHECK FOR SCORE

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Judge Jameg P. Hughes returned home from a visit in Gary and Chicago. Wftiile in the Windy City he attended several sessions of the Loeb-Leopold murder trial. Fdgar and Gordon Prevo spent the day in Terre Haute. Mrs. O. T. Higgins was a visitor in Indianapolis. C. C. Gillen was in Roachdale called by the serious illniess of hi; lather, Columbus Gillen.

JOHN TINCU, Chicago manufacturer, Is pictured above signing a check for $1,900 made payable to his nephew, Lieut (j.g.) Alexander Vraciu of East Chicago, who Is the Navy’s top-ranking fighter pilot The businessman promised the ace $100 for every Jap plane he shot down. Lieutenant Vraciu is In Chicago now on leave and boasts a record of 19 Jap planes downed, including six In one day In the air. Watching the check ceremony Is lieutenant Vraciu and his aunt Mrs, Sadie Tlncu, also of Chicago. (International)

WELL KNOWN CITIZEN DIED TUESDAY NIGHT THEODORE (HAWLEY PASSED AWAY AT Ills HOME ON SOUTH LOCUST STREET Theodore Crawley, well known citizen and one of the older member'' of the Putnam County B:tr Association, passed away early Wednesday morning at his home on south laieiist street after a serious illness of only a short durat«>n. He had been in failing health for Die past year. Mr. Crawley spent most all of his life in Greencastle. He was a member of the Masonic laidge. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Clara Hodshire Crawley, and two nvphews Jefferson Crawley oi Roachdale and Arthur Crawley of Greencastle. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock frotr the Rector Funeral Home. Elder F. •S. Fisher and the Rev. A. R. Meredith will be in charge, rntermcnt will be made in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the home on south Locust street.

Gets Overseas Red Cross Post Miss Harriet H. Hazinski, assistant professor of art and home economics at DePauw University, has been selected for overseas work with the American Red Cross, according to an announcement from Red Cross, headquarters in Alexandria, Va. Miss Hazinski, whose home is in South Bend, Ind., will be a hospital recreation worker at an overseas troop station. Formerly an art teacher at Central Junior-Senior High School in South Bend, at Wayne State Teachers College, Wayne, Neb., and at Our Lady of the Lake College, San Antonio, Tex., Miss Haginski came to DePauw in 1940. Besides her work in ar t, she has taught costume design and merchandising in the home economics department. She has her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from the University of Wisconsin. Miss Hazinski will begin a sixweeks training period at the American University, Washington, D. C., on August 14 and will then be assigned to overseas work.

TO RAISE COAL PRICES INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 2 UP) — Coal dealers today prepared to raise their prices on Indiana-produced bituminous coal shipped by trucks following a decision by the Office of (Price Administration to allow ceiling increase of approximately three cents per ton. The Indiana district OPA said yesterday that the ceiling revision would (become eftfective Saturday. The office also announced the establishment of ceilings on rail-shipped wash coal.

RUSSELLVILLE LEGION INSTALLS OFFICERS Frank Hnzlett has been installed as commander of the C. W. Scribner Post No. 255, American Legion, at Russellville. Other officers installed were: 1st vice commander. Iver U. Bain; 2nd vice commander, Forrest Potter; finance officer, Oscar Clodfelter, and adjutant, Franklin R, Jarvis. HISS BICKNELLS FUNERAL TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY PASSED AWAY AT COUNTY HOSPITAL FOLLOW ING AN EXTENDED ILLNESS Miss Louise Bicknell, age 48 years, of 307 west Walnut street, divd early Wednesday morning at the Putnam County hospital following an extended illness. Miss Bieknell was born in Greeneastle May 25, 1896, tho daughter of Edward and Emily Peck Bicknell. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Surviving are the mother, Mrs. Emily Bicknell, one sister, Mrs. Mary Sturgis and a niece, Miss Margaret Sturgis, all of this oily. One sister and her father preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the Rector Funeral Home. The Rev. V. L. Raphael will officiate. Friends may call at the Rector Funeral Home. SPEEDER FINED Brice Elliott, of Coatesville, who was arrested by city police Saturday night charged with speeding on east Washington street, was fined $5 and costs by Justice of the Peace Ola T, Ellis. J. O. Cammaek is at homt from West Lafayette, where he has been visiting with his daughter, FIleanore, librarian at Purdue University. Miss Cammaek Is spending a part of her vacation here with her father. Mrs. Cammaek is spending the summer in Tazewell, Va., with her daughter, Mrs. G. A. Pobst, who has been ill, but is now recowring.

FORMER STUDENT PICTURED On page one of today's issue of The Daily Banner is a picture of Lt. Alexander Vraciu receiving nineteen war bonds, one for each Japanese plane shot down. Vraciu will be well remembered in Greencastle as the DePauw student who startled his class mates and Prof. Paul Fay a few years ago whi n he jumped from a. second story window in Fay's class. He had arranged with his class-mates to catch him in a net when he jumped, but it worked perfectly and Prof, Fay as well as those in class were terribly startled when he went through the window. TURKEY SEVERS RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY LONG FNPECTED BREAK IS ANNOUNCED AT ASSEMBLY MEETING IN ANKARA LONDON. Aug. 2. (UP)—Nazi Germany's political mastery of Europe cracked today as Turkey broke off diplomatic and commercial relations in a defiant move that threatened to squeeze Hitler’s Balkan satellites out of the war and force a general German evacuation of Greece and the Aegean Islands. Turkish Forqign Minister Sukru Saracoglu announced the long-ex-pected break at a meeting of the national assembly in Ankara today, declaring that the rupture, effective immediately, was decided upon at the request of Great Britain. Tlie action was expected to be followed hy a Bulgarian attempt to make peace with the allies, with Roumanla and Hungary probably following the Bulgars out of the axis camp. Saracoglu brushed aside German threats of "grave consequences" stemming from the break and declared that it is for the Reich to decide on war or peace with Turkey. The Turkish diplomatic stroke came hard on the heels of another blow to Germany’s prestige in the north, where F’inland appointed Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerhelm president in an apparent move toward peace for that unhappy satellite. Mannerheim's , appointment appeared to presage a general reshuffle of the Finnish government that rejected Russia’s peace overtures last April.

CRITICAL MATERIAL War production Board .representatives were at a lumber dealers meeting here last night to explain lumber rationing which will eliminate about 90 per cent of these dealers’ business. To explal" the details of lumber rationing, he distributed printed literature from the government printing office which weighed two ounces, As many as 120 men were given these regulations, each weighing the two ounces, making a total of 15 pounds of critically needed paper. No tolling how many tons of this critical war material, paper, has been used for regulations issued by some bureaucratic Washington board, yet the lumber dealers are forced to eliminate 90 per cent of their business to meet a critical situation. THE OBSERVER

LONDON, Aug. 2 (UP)-Adolf Hitler’s iron grip on Europe was slipping today as Turkey moved toward breaking all her relations with Germany and F’inland took a first step toward peace with the appointment of Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf FIniil Mannerheim as president. Turkey was scheduled to make formal announcement of a break in diplomatic and economic relations this afternoon at a meeting of the li'ontt'aiMMl on f*ajte Twoh PUTNAM COUNTY EXCEEDS FIFTH DRIVE BY 11.4% COUNTY GOES OVER GOAL OF $1,088,600 BY $134,287.50 IN FIFTH DRIVE. The final figures for the Fifth War Loan, ending July 31st, were announced today by Mrs. E. Guy Col lings, chairwoman of Putnam county’s F'ifth War Loan drive. These figures show that Putnam county exceeded its goal of $1,088,600 by $124,237 or an excess of 11.4 per

cent.

The Indiana War Bond committee is anxiously awaiting final figures from Washington as to its standing among states n the Fifth War Loan drive. It is believed that Indiana will have exceeded its quota during the rlrive by the largest percentage of any state in the Union. The people of the state should take great pride in the commendable achieve-

ment.

Final figures by townships are as

follows:

Clinton

$ 43.544

$ 45,550.00

Cloverdale

65.316

67.862.50

Floyd

43,544

36.717.75

Franklin

87,088

90,467.75

Greencastle

424,554

594,901.50

Jackson ....

65,316

39,992.25

Jefferson

76.202

44,453.25

Madison ....

21,772

24.256.25

Marion

54,430

42,593.75

Monroe ...

54,430

60,068.75

Russell

76 202

86.642.0')

Warren

21,772

22.595.75

Washington

54,430

56.736.00

$1,088,600

$1,212,837.50

SOVIET TANKS HIT NAZIS IN WARSAW SECTOR REDS BATTER \\ \\ TOWARD PRAGA ON VISTULA

RIVER

LONDON, Aug. 3. (UP)—A communique (rum underground licadquarterN In Poland said today tlial strong Polish forces had clashed «ilii the Germans in the streets id Warsaw, and hitter lighting slili was going on. MOSC OM, Aug. 2 (UP)—The battle tor Warsaw entered its tinal stages today as Ri d armies stormed through the eastern suburbs and swarmed across the \istula river in a Hanking drive, while tar lo the northeast other Soviet forces n|»ciii'd an annihilation caui|Kiigii against perhaps '100,000 Germans trapinal in the upper Raltii .. MOSCOW, Aug. 2 t DP; Massed Soviet tanks battered l.icir way through German defenses to Warsaw's east bank industrial suburb of I’raga today as the Nazi command threw its dwindling aenai reserves against other Red Army forces thicatemng to pour across the Vistula River along a 200-milc front outh of the Polish capital. (A London broadcast said both Russian and pro-Soviet Polish troops have entered Praga. The Russians have brought up their big siege guns for a final bombardment oi Warsaw, the broadcast added.) Both the 1st White Russian and 1st Ukrainian armies were deployed along the east bank of the Vistula, from the southeastern surbut bs ol Warsaw to within 60 to 70 miles of Krakow, and a crossing that would outflank the capital and open the gateway to Germany itself appeared imminent, if not actually under way. German bombers and fighters in the largest numbers since the start of the Soviet offensive more than a month ago blasted and strafed Soviet engineers as they sought to bridge the Vistula, but the enemy ail craft were meeting Stiff opposition from Red air force fighters and antiaircraft gunners. It was becoming increasingly apparent that the Germans were at tempting to make a stand east of their own borders along the west bank of the Vistula, but the Red army was expected to cross that < font In lit* il «,„ I'tikc Two) Gen. Rommel Had "Accident" DNB LONDON, Aug 2 (UP)- The official German DNB News Agency said today that Field Marshal Edwin Rommel had suflered injuries ami a brain concussion as a result of an ’’accident.'' Reports from Allied war correspondents in France during the past few days said Rommel, commander of the German field armies on the Norman front, was critically wounded more than a week ago when an Allied plane bombed and strafed lii'i staff car. Some unconfirmed accounts of tln> incident said Rommel subsequently died from his injuries. Tropical Storm Moving Inland WILMINGTON, N. C.. Aug. 2. (UP) The Weather Bureau reported today that a hurricane, which lashed the North Carolina coast last night, plunging the city into darkness, uprooting trees and destroying seaside homes, was moving inland toward Tennessee and Kentucky with 1 diminishing intensity. There were no immediate reports of deaths although dozens of persons were treated at hospitals after being struck by the limbs of trees or broken window glass borne by an 80-mile-an-hour wind. Hundreds rushed inland out of the path of the storm ,and thousands of vacationers were brought to wdmington by bus from surrounding

beaches.

Rain fell in torrents along a 10mllt- stretch of the North Carolina coast, from Wilmington to Albemarle. Sound, and the Neuse river was rising rapidly. CpI. Walter W. Gardner, son of Mr, and Mrs. Wultei Gardner Lib rty street, is stationed at Fort Fisher, N. C. where the hurricane struck Tuesday night.

SERVING COUNTRY

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Pvt. George E. Braden, Jr., is now serving with the army in North Africa. His address is: Pvt. George 1C. Braden, Jr.. 35898846, A. P O 390, c o Post111 a s t e r , New York, N. Y.

George Braden,

NO. 245

RATIONING OF LUMBER TO STOP 90% OF SALES NEW (HIDER EFFECTIVE TUESDAY' TOPIC OF Rl(. MEETING HELD TFESDAV NIGHT Lumber ai .l Building Supply deal era from this section of Indiana, holt a dinner meeting at the Prc'-byteriai church Tuesday evening. 120 dealer, were present, some coming from a. 1 ' far as c-iuthem Illinois. The purpose of the meeting wai to discuss new regulations whici went into efieet August 1. This is tin first time the lumbar dealers run in to rationing and from the tone oi the questions asked at the meeting they did not lik- it. Neithei did thi WPB representative like to be askec such point questions and for a tinv it appeared there might he somi fire works, but calmer heads aske less [•anted questions and the meet ing moved ahead, Dozens of points are involved li the selling ol lumber and it appeal that about 90 per cent of the dealers' sales will be cut off immediately, a the requirements eanr-it be met Only essential industries, wai industr.es or the farmers wil he able to buy on certificates am the.se will have to be acted upon In var.Mus government agencies, in eluding the AAA board which wil art on most of the smaller request for lumber, especially that used or

the farm.

Some dealers said at the meeting that they would he forced out o business as they could not buy ad ditional supplies and their stocks ar. now exhausted. Mr. Hot!) of the War Productioi Board was present and distributei the new regulations which cover dozens of pages of printed matter He said these could be and might bchanged over-night. He said the or der limiting farm residence build ing to $200 and other expenses tc $800 is still in effect. This include; ' ,,fi t of material and labor and mean; that but little building will be carried on. Roth said the drastic ration- < g is tin- result of a lumber short age for war purposes, such as crating and packing of war equipment enroute to the war fronts and foi other necessary war uses. Edward Redman of Terre Hautri acted as chairman. He presented former presidents of the Association including Harry Allan, Greencastle. Lewis Walker, Terre Haute and Roy Metzger, l-ehanon. Don Wilson, mayor of Danville, III. and a lumber dealer was also present. R W, Slagle of the Lumber Dealers Association acted as chairman during the meeting and explained the regulations in many respects.

Fish Wins Fight For Re-Nomination MIDDLETOWN, N. Y„ Aug 2 (UP) Rep. Hamilton Fish, pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist, won his fight for Republican re-nomination in yesterday’s primary although hir margin was the narrowest of his 13 campaigns, unofficial and almost complete returns showed today. With 252 of the 278 precincts in the new 29th district reporting, Fish led Augustus W. Bennett, Newburgh attorney, 13,975 to 10,891. Bennett, who conceded dvfeat, was unopposed for the nomination of the Democratic and American labor parties, and thus will oppose Fish in the November election. A breakdown of counties show Fish carried only two of the four counties in the district Orange and Sullivan while Bennett carried Delaware and Rockland. JM'TNAYI UOURT NOTES Dee Miller vs Alpha Miller, divorce Roy C. Sutherlin is plaintiff's torney.

CHURCHILL IN MOST OPTIMISTIC SPEECH OF WAR SAYS ALLIED VICTORY’ IN EUROPE MAY' COME VERY SOON LONDON, Aug. 2. (UP)—Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Commons today that allied victory In Europe "may perhaps come soon’' and revealed that German flying bombs had killed 4.735 persons, caused the evacuation of 1,000000 persons from’ London, and might be followed by long range rockets carrying heavier explosive charges. In perhaps his most confident and optimistic speech. Churchill took a "sweeping glance at a World War approaching its closing phase" and expressed a firm conviction before Commons that the defeat of Japan, will not bo long delayed alter Germany is crushed. The only dark spot in his 105-min-ute review was the Nazi flying bomb attack on Britain he said 5,340 robots had been launched so far and the possibility of its intensification with more destructive rockets. He said London probably would be the target of the new weapon and advised evacuation classes and those not engaged in war duties to leave the capital. "I fear greatly to raise false hopes, but I no longer feel bound to deny that victory may perhaps come soon," Churchill said at the climax of his resounding summation of allied victories, actual and prospective, around the world. In addition to the 4,735 persons killed by the 4,500 tons of flying bombs launched against Britain between June 15 and July 31, Churohtlt said 14,000 were injured more or less seriously, while 17,00(1 houses were destroyed and 800,000 damaged by the robots. Again he affirmed, however, that the secret weapon attack would have not the slightest effect on the course of the war, and its only result would be to step up the punishment of the Nazis "after their weapons have been struck from their hands by our fighting men.”

YANK COLUMNS STRIKE OUT ON ROADS TO PARIS SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Aug, 2 (UP) — Powerful American armored columns today fanned out l ast along the roads to Paris with increasing momentum and struck southwest into Pontorson, 13 miles below Avranches, in a developing drive to cut off the Brittany peninsula. Lt. Gen Omar N. Bradley's selfsustaining tank columns stepped up their rate of advance as German resistance east, south and southwest of Avranches melted away like ice In a summer sun. The Germans were falling back In such haste that they were not even bothering to lay mines, blow up bridges or even destroy such obvious prizes as dams whose destruction would have flooded the Allied path of advance. Striking east toward Paris on a nine-and-a-half-mile front, one column rumbled through Brecey, nine miles east of Avranches, another passed through Montgothier, eight miles southeast of Avranches. Other forces plunging across the Selune river below Avranches on a wide trout rolled into the strategic railway and highway hub of Pontorson, Barley, 30 miles from Rennes, one of the largest cities in Brittany ajui capital of Ile-Et-Vilalne department. The advance threatened the main highways and railways linking the Brittany peninsula, with its big ports ICondnnrtl On I'ns* Two) © Today's Weather and ft ® Local Temperature • Fair and warm today, tonight and Thursday; widely scattered afternoon amt evening thundershowers.

Minimum 67 6 a. m. 67 7 a. m. 7d 8 a. m ent gq 9 a. m. as the Qer 10 a. m. -ti the city in g7 11 a -iraightening operat fgj 12 the Allied gains on tt. 92 ok