The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 August 1944 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"

VOLUME FIFTY-TWO

GREENCASTLB, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1944.

iCOUT TROOPS WILL COLLECT WASTE PAPER LANS FOR DRIVE MADE AT IMPORTANT MEETING TUESDAY

“Waste paper Is still our Number shortage,” said Fred Pease. Putcounty chairman of paper salrage and district Scout commission ir at an important meeting of ireencastle Boy Scout directors iommitteemen and Scout masters on Puesday evening. The purpose of he meeting wia to inaugurate the loy Scout paper drives, which will egln on Tuesday, August 15th and very third Tuesday in each month hereafter. In his talk, Mr. Pease pointed out at the need for waste paper is rowing and he stated that, if we re to meet the paper requirements or military and essential civilian eeds, we must collect and move to he paper mills an average of 667,000 ons of waste paper every month. Vccording to Mr. Pease, the Boy Scouts of America have been called on to take the initiative in helping to solve this critical shortage. Plans were made at the meeting 'or a house to house canvass of Greencastle to explain to every house wife and business man the need for their cooperation. The house to house canvass and the monthly collection of waste paper will be in the j hands of the Boy Scout troops in' Greencastle and all funds collected from the placing of the paper in the proper channels to find its way to the paper mills will be used by the Boy Scouts for promotion of Boy Scout service. Attending the meeting on Tuesday evening were John Poor, Putnam County Salvage chairman. Charles Griffin, Wabash Valley Boy Scout Aupervisor, Dr. E. R. Bartlett and H. H. Brooks, directors. Jarvis Fulmer, assistant Dist. Scout commissioner, Dallas Bee, John Gardner and Adam Wagner, Scout committee, John Andrew and A, B. Frazier, Scout masters. Arrangements are now under way for the collection of paper throughout Putnam county and plans will be announced as soon as completed.

NOTICE The Teen Canteen will be opened on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, ane Saturday evenings from 7:30 to 10 until the opening of school. MAXWELL HEADS PROGRAM

Gl JOES HAPPY OVER CAPTURED NAZI BANNER

Nearly 10,000 singers and musicians will participate in the 15th an nual Chicago Music Festival, spon sored by the Chicago Tribune Char ities, liic., Saturday night, Augusi 19, in Soldiers' Field in Chicago. An audience of 90,000 people is expected announces Philip Maxwell, festival director. The program is dedicated to America's fightirig foices.

GETS WAR SOUVENIRS

Miss Thelma Hansel, south of Put namville who has made it her hobby to write to her brother’s friends in the army, has received two souvenirs from overseas. It was money, 1,0 Francs, which mean 10 cents here in America and 10 lire which would hr 20 cents here. The money was sent to her by Pvt. Ernest W. Chiles who Is in Oirsica, an island in the Pacific. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Chiles of Indianapolis who were formely of south of Putnamville are the parents of Pvt. Chiles. In the last letter which Miss Han sel received Pvt. Chiles said he was well and that they were getting very good food. Miss Hansel enjoys writing to the boys. She says it is very interesting and that they write interesting letters about army life, and what they want to hear moat about is the kids back home. Pvt. Chiles address is Pvt. Ernest W. Chiles. 35563631, A. P. O. 512, % Poatmaster New York, N. Y.

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

Bellmore defeated the Greencastle Specials, 10 to 5, at the Zinc Mill diamond. Campbell, Ogles and Blue formed the local baseball battery. Russell Clapp and Wallace Blue spent the day in Linton. Harold Stewart and Roy Aubrey were visitors in Indianapolis. Miss Margaret Gilmore went to Bay View, Mich., for the remainder of the summer.

A GROUP OF GAY doughboys display a captured Nazi flag to an enthus.astlc French audience who received them with open arms and gifts. As th* victorious American Army entered the town, the liberated residents prominently displayed Old Glory. (International)

4-H Club Dress Revue On Friday The annual Putnam County 4 H Club Dress Revue will be held on Friday, Aug. 11 at 1:30 P. M. in the Greencastle high school auditorium. Since materials aie both scarce and expensive, the girts have had much training in dyeing used materials and in renovating old garments in order to make use of every available thing. To every 4-H girl, clothing is more than a necessity, it is a subject of universal appeal. "Be not the first by whom the new arc tried, nor yet the lust to lay the old aside." Thus sang the poet and a true adage it is today for the man or woman who would be well dressed on a limited income. Every type of costume which is included in the wardrobe of the modern girl will be modeled in the revue Miss Betty Young of Bainbridge wil announce and describe each costume The music will be furnished by Miss Marion Greenleaf of the Greencastle club. The public is very cordially invited. A "Sweepstakes Winner" will be selected in each class and awarded s championship ribon. MRS. FRANK ANDERSON DIED AT GOSPORT HOME Mrs. Vance Marie Anderson, wife of Frank Anderson, died at the home in Gosport Tuesday evening at six o’clock. Mrs. Anderson is survived by the husband, one daughter Mrs. Nonna Krusebsterna, one son. Dewane, a grandson, four brothers, Charles H. Hale and Bruce Hale, Greencastle David Hale of Gosport and Virgil Hale of Indianapolis ami four sisters, Mrs. Doris Stevens, Mrs. Virginia Sanders, Mrs. Myrtle Anderson and Mrs. Mary Stevens, all of Indianapolis and her father, John Hale. The funeral services will be held from the Gosport Baptist church Friday afternoon at two o'clock with burial in the Gosport cemetery. The body is at the home in Gosport where friends may call. MARRIAGE LICENSE Raymond Jones, Cloverdale Route 1, and Jeknne Harper, Greencastle Route 2.

STONER REUNION The 46th annual Stoner reunion will be held Sunday, Aug. 13 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar O’Hair, near Brick Chapel.

THIRTY-SIX 8CtfOLAR.HHll*8 AWARDED BY DEPAUW John C. Lee of Fort Wayne, Ind., has bet-n awarded a Rector Scholarship at DePauw University, Dean Edward R. Bartlett announced today. Lee intends to be a pre-medical student in tire University. Announcement of this scholarship brings the total of Rector scholars for the new school year to thirtysix. Established at DePauw in 1919 by the late Edward Rector of -Chicago. th*' scholarships provide tuition expenses to the holders for the fouryear college course. The endowment represents the largest single scholarship grant to any educational institution.

IN ENGLISH HOSPITAL

Mr. and Mrs. Russell O'Haver have received word that their son, Pfc. Lloyd W. O'Haver is in a hospital in England. He would appreciate hearing from his friends. His correct address can be obtained from his patents. Lloyd was brought by plane from France to England.

Guam Campaign In Last Phase PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 9. (UP) —U. S. marines and army troops hammered the Japanese into a tiny portion of northern Guam today in the final phase of the campaign to retake the first American territory seized by Japanese in the Pacific. The Americans were closing in rapidly on the beleaguered enemy along the entire line across Guam, advancing as much as six and a halt miles at one point to press them into an area of approximately 18 squa’-e miles. With more than 10.000 of their dead already counted, the Japanese forces faced the almost certain prospect of being cut in two by marines and soldiers who drove to within less than a mile of Guam’s northern shore at the center of the front. Admiral Chester W. Niioitz announced that the troops, in a six and a half mile advance up the west const, had reached Ritidian Point on the extreme northwestern tip, while tiic forces on tile east coast drove three miles to near Anao Point. In the steady advance, the Americans captured strategic Mount Santa Rosa, highest elevation in northern Guam, leaving only Mount Machano as the last possible hold-out point for the Japanese.

Succeeds McNair

UEUT. GEN. JOHN L. DEWITT former commander of the Fourth Army and thv Western Defense Command, has wen named to succeed the late Lieut. G^i. Lesley J. McNair in an undisclosed command of great importance in Europe, according to tht war department.

Barn Destroyed Tuesday Night

Fire, believed caused by spontaneous combustion, destroyed a cow barn, 32 tons of baled hay and a milking machine at the C. J. Ferrand farm, east of the city on th*» Indianapolis road, Tuesday night. The blaze was first discovered by Meredith Myers about 9:15 p. in. while driving along the highway. The flames in thv one-story structure were out of control by the time neighbors arrived on the scene. Seven or eight calves were led to safety from the burning building and a hastily formed bucket brigade then poured water on a larger barn nearby. Their efforts wvre successful in confining the conflagration to the one Irani. Garnet Leonard, who lives on the farm, better known as the Sinclair farm, was not at home at thu time the fire was discovered. Neighbors in the vicinity estimated the damage at more than -1*2,001*.

New Cabinet Is Formed By Finns STOCKHOLM, Aug. 9 (UP)— Men favoring, or at least not actively opposing, an early peace with Russia appeared today to be in the majority in the now Finnish government of President Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. (Radio Paris and Algiers said the new cabinet will hold its first meeting today). Mannei'heim announced th*> government yesterday to succeed that of Risto Ryti. A'hose resignation last week nullified Finland’s eonimitments with Germany and opened the way for a peace bid to Moscow. Two of Hie seven new members of the cabinet, interior minister Kaarlo Hillilae, former governor of Lapland, and justice minister Baron Ernst Von Born, leader of the Swedish people’s party, have been proponents of an immediate armistice, while the other five have never openly opposed peace demands. Anti Hackzvdl, the new premier, nominally is a member of the conservative party, but has not participated In that party's anti-peace stand. He served as Finnish minister to Moscow from 1922 to 1927 and was foreign minister from 1932 to 1936. Foreign minister Carl Enokell is a political neutral. He held the foreign ministry portfolio from 1918 to 1919 and represented Finland at the Versailles peace conference. Some surprise was caused by Mannerheim's failure to include Eero Vuori, Finnish trade union leader and an ardvnt proponent of peace, in the new government, but informed sources suggested this may have been due to tactical rather than political reasons. Since neither of the two most powerful parties, the social Democrat and the Agrarian, was anxious to take a linger share than necessary of responsibility for asking Russia for an armistice, the only solution wns to select two politically neutral men as Premier and Foreign Minister who easily could be replaced once peace has been concluded, these sources said.

RIGA GOAL OF POWERFUL NEW RUSS ASSAULT TWO RED ARMIES POUNDING NAZI DEFENDERS OF LATVIAN CAPITAL

MOSCOW, Aug. 9 (UP) Two Red armies launched a powerful assault toward Riga, capital of Latvia, today after smashing a desperate German attempt to break out of the Baltic trap and escape to East Prussia. The Germans counter-attacked at least 40 times yesterday with six infantrv divisions an.i strong panzer forces around Birzai. 57 miles south southeast of Riga, but failed to pierce the Soviet ring of encirclement and finally began to retreat after losing 6.000 killed and 1,350 captured. Closely pursuing a battered enemy, Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian's 1st Baltic army then resumed its offensiv" and captured more than 80 towns and villages in a 14-tiule advance northward to N. Radvisliskis, 45 miles south southeast of Riga. Simultaneously, Gen. Andrei I. Yerekenko's 2nd Baltic army raptured Krustpils, Ivatvian railway hub 70 miles southeast of Riga, and advanced anothvr eight miles to the northwest through Aiviekstes, 65 miles southeast of the capital. Crossing the Aiviekstes river, the Russians emerged onto open plains stretching northeast to Riga. No formidable natural obstacles remained in the path of either the 2nd army or of the 1st army in their converging advance toward Riga. The 2nd army killed 2,000 Germans at Krustpils. junction of the Moscow-Riga and Daugavpils-Riga railways. Heavy German counter-attacks slowed or halted Soviet advances all along the central and southern sectors of the vast eastern front, but the 1st Ukrainian army extended its bulge across the Vistula river some 115 miles below Warsaw and with the 2nd army widened the Russian arc paralleling the Czechoslovak border to 188 miles. See-saw battles continued without decisive change both in Warsaw's eastern suburb of Praga and on the immediate approaches to East Prussia with the Germans figh’.ing a "do-or-die’ - struggle to protect their eastern frontiers. German Gen. George Lhidemann sought to break the Russian encirclement of his Baltic forces by striking at the southwest corner of the Baltic sack in an effort to blast open a corridor through Lithuania to East Prussia. Massing their armor and mobile guns in a narrow sector on the La-tvian-Lithuanian border around Birzai, the Germans charged again and again at the Soviet lines until, in the words of the Soviet midnight communique, they "were bled white." The battlefield was left littered with the corpses of enemy dead and the wreckage of German equipment. Soviet observers believed Lindemann has nearly 15 divisions south and southeast of Riga and it was anticipated he soon would launch further counter-attacks against the Soviet sector anchored on the Baltic approximately 25 miles west of Riga. There was no indication of the depth of the Soviet wall west ot Riga, but it was doubted that Lindemann now has sufficient arms and strength left to break through. Lidemann's defeat at Birzai also gave thv* Russians valuable time in which to strengthen the salient. To the south, Marshal Ivan S. Konev’s 1st Ukrainian army extended its bridgehead on the west bank of the Vistula bt'low Warsaw with advances of three to six miles along a 30-mile front. One column cut the Sandomierz- Ostrowiec highway at Wloslow, while others captured Samorzec, four miles south of Sandomterz, and Korytnica, 25 miles southeast of Kiclce. Marshal Ivan Y. Petrov's 4th Ukrainian army cleared the Prze-mysl-Drohobyez railway and captured Chyrow and Dombromil 17 and 14 nviles south of Przemysl. 40,000 Truckers Out On Strike INDIANA POINTS, Aug. 8- (UP) - Thomas E. Flynn, president of the international brotherhood of teamsters, estimated today that 30,000 over-the-road truck drivers were engaged in a mid-western walkout and that, at the present rate, «t least 40,000 more would be out within, the next 24 hours.

SERVING COUNTRY

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Pfc. Robert E. Buis, son of Mr. aiul Mrs. Maynard Buis, 612 South College Avc, has comp I e t e d final p base training as aerial guune: of a heavy bombardment unit a t t h e 2 2 2nd Combat Crew Training School, 2nd Army Ah'

Robt. E. Buis Force. Pfc. Buis entered the service April 1. 1943. He received Army Air Force gunnery training at AAF, Las Vegas, Ncv. Yank Bombers Blasted Japs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Aug 9 (UP) Liberators struck within 25' miles of the Philippines Monday t* batter two Japanese airdromes ot Halmahera with 48 tons of explosives in tile second heavy strike on th strategic peninsula, it was announce-

today.

Thirteen enemy planes were de ‘troyed on the ground and tile Lib erators met no aerial opposition ove Halmahera, which is between tin Philippines and the western end o Dutch New Guinea. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s com munique said enemy fighter plane, were sighted but did not attempt t>

attack.

The bomb loads were consentratei on Oalela and Lolobata airdrome: on the northwestern peninsula o Halmahera. In addition to the d< stroyed planes, many other J a panes' aircraft were damaged and ex plosions and fires started anion ground installations. Night air patrols struck into thHalmahera area in. an attack on an enemy convoy in Wasile Bay. A direct hit was scored on a 3,000 toi cargo vessel and a naval escort wh

strafed.

Other heavy bombers carried ou a new attack on Yap Bland in th western Carolines Monday, droppin 31 tons of explosives without inlet coptine, MacArthur announced yes terday that the Yap air base habeen neutralized in Sunday's raid. In the ground fighting east o Aitape in British New Guinea American jungle troops continue! their advance below the Driniumn River to split the Implied Japanes troops into three groups, and Mac Arthur described the enemy posi tion as “becoming difficult." The Japane-e already were esti mated to have lost between 8,00‘ and 12,000 men from initial force n approximately 45.000 which made aabortive attempt to break from th A Hied trap between Aitape anWewak a month ago. PUTNAM C'OFRT NOTES Marcus Eugene Anderson, John son county. and Basil Andrew Schneider, Dubois county, are charg ed with escaping from the Indian) State farm on August 6, in affidavit filed in the Putnam circuit court. Prisoner of Japan Applies For Ballot IND AN APOLIS, Aug 9 Nearly 4.000 applications for absentee service ballots, including one from a prisoner of the Japanese, were received today at the office of the secretary of state. It was the largest number of applications received in a single day since th*' soldier vote application division was opened July 10. Director Clarence Campbell of Dana said, and brought to between 60,000 and 70,000 the number received to date. Tlie prisoner applying for a ballot was Markle Tobias Smith of Connersvtlle, now in a prison camp at Osaka, Japan. Campbell said his application was not certified and he was uncertain as to Its validity under the soldier vote law. He said it would be sent to the Fayette County Board of Elections, to which would be left the decision as to whether a ballot should be sent to Smith. Campbell said the deadline for accepting applications had not been determined, but that the division would work to the last possible day on which ballots could be returned to service voters in time to permit them to vote. The division, which began with two clerks, now has nine and soon will have eleven workers processing applications.

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YANKS OCCUPY LE MANS AFTER PUSH EASTWARD

AMERICAN FORCES ARE NOWONLY 112 MILES FROM PARIS LONDON, Aug. 9 — (I P) — Ths German DNR News Agency said today American troops liaxe driven be-y-oRl la» Mans and are “forging ahead to the east and southeast.” WITH EASTERN SPEARHEADS IN FRANCE, Aug. 9 (UP)—Amertean forces occupied la* Mans, 113 miles southwest of Paris, Today. SUPREME HEADQC ARTICRS, AKF, Aug. 9 (UP)—Ameriean colunis in Itritlany have pushed to within five miles of Loricnt, engaged the enemy four miles from Itresl and are fighting in the outskirts of St. Malo, a communique announced today. The Canndian-Kritisli drive smith of Caen progressed 7,000 yards yesterday and is continuing, the communique said. London, Aug. o—d p>—strong forces of fighter-escorted American flying Fortresses and Liberators tombed Stuttgart, Important German industrial and rail renter, arid targets elsewhere in southern Germany today. ROME, Aug 9. (UP) Biltisn troops battling stubbornly resisting Germans captured a dominating height east of Florence and inched forward in the western suburbs today. but in the ancient Rennaissance apital itself activity was limited to patrols and sporadic small arms fire. With both sides obviously reluctvnt to launch a pitched battle inside the museum-like city, the Eighth Army’s constant probing across the Arno river into the northern section was aimed mehely at checking to see that the Germans do not infiltrate hack. The British patrols reported they have a curious feeling of invisibility is they steal through the streets of north Florence, because the Florenincs pretend not to see them, fea:ng German wrath later. The patrols said some parts of that sector have no water supply since the Germans blew up a pumping station. Florentines fortunate enough to have water have started a black market, selling it at 20 lire per bottle. The fate of Florence probably will be decided in the loop of the Arno at Pontnssieve to the east and in thr area between Empoli and Montelupo to the west, where violent battles were raging. Nazi Diplomatic Ace In Custody ISTANBUL, Aug. 9 Franz von Papen, former ambassador to Turkey was arrested as soon as he entered Germany today on his return to the Reich from Turkey, it was reported here. The information cam*' from an official of an international bank here who was a personal friend of Von Papon. The bank official received no details of the arrest, (The German-controlled Paris radio said earlier today that Von Papen, who left Turkey when that country broke relations with Germany, had arrived in Berlin.)

TITO IN ROME

VATICAN CITY, Aug. 9 (UP) — Marshal Tito, leader of the Yugoslavian partisan forces, has arrived in Rome with his staff and vi-ited the church of St. Peter yesterday, tha semiofficial Vatican news agency announced today.

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