The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 September 1944 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1944.

CE FIGHTING REPORTED IN ARNHEM SECTOR

S POCKING MEN AND IPPUES INTO CORRIDOR NEAR NIJMEGEN PREME HEADQUARTERS. Sept. 22. (UP) British armforces were reported holding a rious link with allied airborne beyond the uppei arm of the at Arnhem today but were ng a flood of tanks and fightien through the narrow corrictor of Nijmegen for a great drive Germany. >e than 200 miles to the south. 5 en. George S. Patton’s veteran rican 3rd Army was locked in a ing tank battle east of the lie that outmatched in fury anyyet seen in the western camtcr five days of reckless countacks that cost at least 130 s without halting the eastward ress of Patton’s spearheads, the s hurled fresh panzer divisions the fight this morning and led up strong artillery forces to rt the counterblow. , ually-desperate fighting swirled igh the maze of Siegfried line fications along the U. S. 1st y front and on the 7th Army line g the Belfort gap as the allies Germans throw in their maximpower for the decisive battle of

west.

Hied forces were gaining ground ly hut steadily on all fronts, and rently swinging their heaviest fs in the north Holland sector on the Moselle. headquarters said British 2nd ly troops and American airborne Is wiped out the last German renee in Nijmegen and struck out hward to the relief of the emled sky troops holding out in ihem. , fficial reports, admittedly lagbehind the battle action, said relief column had advanced at t two miles beyond Nijmegen, radio Berlin and the allied-con

YANKS MEEt SIEGFRIED LINE AND CRASH IT

SERVING COUNTRY

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Johft Ra.vmond

Rexfonl Carrol

Joseph Warren

These three are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Ra.vmond Hammond Sr. of Washington Township. John R. Hamond Jr. A S has neon stationed at Great Lakes in Boot Camp since August 17. Rexford Carrol Hammond S 1 c just graduated from gunners mate school at Great 1-akos and has left for active duty in the Pacific. Joseph Warren Hammond of Officers Training School at Notre Dame, has been in the Navy 2 years and spent 8 months .in .the Hawaiian Islands before intcring the Officers School.

GERMANY'S MUCH-VAUNTED ‘‘impregnable” defenae barrier — the sprawling Siegfried Line — falls under the might of American troops, as they pass easily through this break in the ’’dragon’s teeth.” Yank Infantry, afoot and riding the back of a bulldozer tank, are shown above crossing the line near Roetgen, Gennany. This is an official United States Army Signal Corps photo. (International)

led radio Toulouse said the Brithad made contact with the Arn-

garrison.

pooled dispatches filed late yesday fiom the Arnhem sector said itish artillery had reached fhe

GERMANS FLEE AS REDS DRIVE INTO ESTONIA

SOVIETS ADVANCING UPON TALLINN AT MILE-AN-HOUR PACE MOSCOW, Sept. 22 -(UP—Soviet armored columns closed on the Estonian capital of Tallinn at a mile-in-hour clip today, stampeding tens of thousands of Germans into headlong flight for the Baltic sea and a possible Dunkerque evacuation under the waiting guns of the Red fleet. Stripped of their air cover and with their sea flank exposed by Finland's surrender, the Germans' grip >n the Baltic states was weakening Hourly under the terrific impact ot the week-old Soviet offensive.

A possibly greater disaster loomed in the south where Russian and Romanian Hoops spilled out the broad central plains along the Hungarian border in a fast-breaking campaign to knock Hitler’s last important

satelite out of the war.

Spearheads of the combined Rus-sian-Romanian army were less than

a just south'of the Rhine e»tpqry , 17 miles fl om Hungarian border

was shelling German assault

LATE NEWS PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 32.— (UP)—A second day of American carrier plane raids in the. .'Httnlla area was reported by radio Tokyo today, In the wake of smashing attacks on shipping and airfields that 1>rought a dee la nit ion of martial law by the frenzied Ja|MUiese puppet government of the Philippines.

LONDON. Sept. 22.—(UP)—A Polish communique reported today that Marshal Konstantin K liokossovsky’s Red Army hud stormed across the Vistula river into Warsaw and joined Polish Patriots In wild street battles against the German garrison. ROME, Sept. 22.—(UP) —Pietro Caruso, former pollee chief In Romo and first of the Italian Fascist criminals to be convicted for collaborating with the Germans, was executed hy a firing squad today.

Hubert Cooper Jr. Wounded In Action

H. Cooper Jr.

Mrs. Hubert Cooper received a wire from the War Department late Thursday telling her that her husband, Hubert Cooper, Jr., had been wounded in action somewhere In France. The action in which he was wounded took place on September 8, and no other details were glveib in

LONDON, Sept. 22.—(UP)-r-Near-ly 1,000 American heavy bombers escorted by fighter planes attacked Industrial targets in the Kassel area of central Germany today.

the message. Mr. Cooper was a member of the Browning Automatic Rifle brigade under General Patton. He went over seas in July, following his entrance into the service on January 18, 1944. He was home just prior to going overseas in early July.

Mrs. John McCabe Called By Death Mrs. Nell VtcCabe, wife of John A McCabe, well known Montgomery county horseman, died Thursday morning at St. Vincent’s hospital in Indianapolis, following a brain tumor operation. She was taken to the hospital Sept. 15 after having been ill two weeks at her home, west of Crawfordsville. Mrs. McCabe was a former resident of Thomtown, but had lived near Crawfordsville the past several years. She also was a member of the First Methodist church, and a leader in civic affairs. She was born at Thomtown, the daughter of Albert and Sally Flaningam. Surviving, besides the husband, an' two brothers, and the parents, who reside in Tipton. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the First Methodist church. Following the services, the body will be taken to Indianapolis for cremation. Friends may pay their respects at the Utterback Funeral home until noon Saturday when the body will be taken to the church to lie in state until time for the rites.

GOV. DEWEY TO SPEAK TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES GOP STANDARD REARER WILL CONCLUDE WEST COAST CAMPAIGN ABOARD DEWEY CAMPAIGN TRAIN. Sept 22 (UP) —Gov Thomas E. Dewey winds up his Pacific Coast campaign tonight with an address from Los Angeles’ huge memorial coliseum when he vill outline the Republican program for expansion of unemployment compensation, old age pensions and minimum wage laws.

SLIGHT CHANGE MADE IN GRADING SYSTEM

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adio Berlin continued to trumpet “iously exaggerated claims of lossinflicted on the Arnhem pocket. ■ r admitting the juncture, Berlin the 1st Airborne British Division Arnhem had been “completely pidated” and then announced that t “liquidation” was still in progJnited Press War Correspondent naid Clark reported from the 2nd Jny front that increasing numb?‘S British tanks, with American is troops and British infantrymen ing their turrets, were moving > ms the Nijmegen bridge to join I»he battle to the north. German tanks, troops and artillery itteied at the narrow life line tching up 55 miles from the Bel~n border to Arnhem, and Clark Jported that the enemy attacks L ie mounting in force. [The breakthrough at Nijmegen, wever, appeared to have doomed 1 German hope of stemming the Jlied push short of the Reich and Pit reports said a sweep into the (thern plains of Germany was in ospect. Clark revealed that many of tha iiinan divisions rushed over from ' stern Holland to strike against the hed corridor were raw units, while . hers were garrison troops or mem p® of panzer divisions sent into ttle without tanks.

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

Miss Helen Black, of Rushvilla. 88 appointed secretary of the -hamber of Commerce and seiretary the Retail Credit Association. Prances Evans underwent an apndicitis operation at the county capital. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gardner and r - and Mrs. Kimber Gardner spent p day in Marshall, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cox and aughter and Albert Shuey returned otne from Milwaukee, Wis., where <-y visited Mr. and Mrs. Cecil

huey.

aa*d mov.ng at a pace that promised to breach the border In little more than a day. Budapest lay barely 120 miles beyocid the frontier, with no natural barriers but toe T.sza river between it and the onrushing Soviets. On the Baltic front, Marshal Leonid A. Govoiov’s Leningrad army was less than 48 imiles from Tallinn by nightfall yesterday after a day oi spectacuar advances running up to

26 miles.

Hard-riding armored units overran the German rear guards all along the line of flight, killing at least 800, While Russian attack planes bombed and strafed the Nazis mercilessly. Military sources said the German retreat had all the earmarks of a flight to embarkation points along the Baltic coast, although there still was no indication Uiat the enemy had succeeded in massing any sizeable evacuation fleet there. The northern wing of Govorov’s army advanced six miles along the Gulf of Finland to capture Aseri, while a second column drove 26 miles along the Narva-Tallinn railway to capture Kadrina, 48 miles from the capital. At Kadrina, the Russians were seven miles from Tapa, where the railroads from Narva and Tartu meet to form a single line to Tallinn. A third spearhead advancing up the railway from Tartu pushed forward 12 miles to Vaike-Maarja, 14 miles southeast of Tapa. Farther south, Govorov’s left w.n;> moved out 26 imiles northwest of Tartu to capture Piknume, 23-miles east of the Tallinn-Riga railway line, in a thrust aimed at cutting that last direct ra.l route of escape for the Germans in the Tallinn area. German forces along the EstonianLatvian border, meanwhile, put up a desperate defense against Russian 3rd Baltic army troops striking eastward toward the Gulf of R.ga in an effort to cut off the Nazi Estonian

armies.

The Soviet early morning war bulletin said fierce battles raged along the border railway line northwest of Valga, Where tlhe Russians wire cut ting slowly through Orman fortifl cations before Rujiena, a big railway junction only 33 miles from the

seacoast.

There was no new word on the fighting around Riga, although the (Continued on Page 2)

Floyd Hemmer Is Kiwanis Speaker

Floyd Hemmer, superintendent of the Indian State Farm and a candidate for lieutenant governor of the State of Indiana, addressed the Kiwanis Club at its weekly luncheon Thursday. Mr. Hemmer gave a talk on the question confronting the government of the United States and its people. The speaker said that in his opinion that there was no one person in the United States who knew the answer 1 to the problems to be solved. However, he was unafraid of the questions that would confront the American people. The speaker said that the American people have had the ability and perseverance to meet difficult questions in the past and that this same ability would fortify them in the future. In closing, Mr. Hemmer said that he likes to think of and compare the ability of the American people to that of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, that they have the ability to deliver when needed.

HOG .MARKET Hogs 7,000; steady; 120-240 lbs $14.80; above 240 lbs $14.05; 100-119 lbs $13.75-$14.00; good and choice sows $14.00-$14.05; mostly $14.05. * ENTERTAINS BOARD

LOCAfc BOY WOUNDED IN ACTION IN FRANCE Mrs. Paul Hill. 122 W. Washington street, received word yesterday that her husband was wounded while serving with the 7th army In France He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hill, 309 Sycamore. City Has Only Borrowed Truck The fire truck which Indianapolis loaned the city some weeks ago is now the only fire fighting apparatus Greencastle has. The Studebaker truck which has been in service here for several years, is out of commission, due to the fact that the booster pump on it has worn out and has torn Itself up. The transmission of the truck, which carries the booster pump, has been dismantled and efforts are being made to get replacement parts for it. This may mean a delay of weeks and until it arrives, the city will have to rely on the single truck, which carries only hose and a small chemical tank. If a serious fire should break out in the city, the firemen would be greatly handicapped. The new truck has been ordered, but it may not get here until Decern b<k and the best thing the residents of the city can do is to be careful and avoid any kind of fire.

A slightly modified gracing system has been adopted for Grpencast.’q High School, which will become operative at once in grades 7 to 12 inclusive. The new system will use A, B, C, D, and F, whereas the old system used A, B. C. D. E. and F. The change has been made to secure uniformity with the majority of schools in the state, most of which use the newer 5-point system. In the new system C is an average grade, B denotes work above average, and A signifies work that is definitely superior. D indicates that the scholarship is below average and that the student is in danger of failing. F reports definitely failing work. Other advantages of the 5-point system arc that it is simpler to use and that it lends itself more readily to the application of the normal probability curve.

Omer Akers, chairman of the Putnam OAunty Selective Service Board, was hoat to the other members of the board, their wives, and the clerical staff, at tlhe home of his son, Gene Akers Wednesday night. Those present Included Mr. and Mrs. Joe Croaby, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Houck Mrs. Lefeha Spencer and Mrs. Elbeit Jones.

Blood Donors Needed Blood Bonk, 28 & 29 Con You Help? Phone 418

CONSERVATION CLUB TO DRAIN FISH POND

Members of the local Conservation Club, assisted by Game Warden Paul Myers, will drain the club’s fish rearing pond at the Leater Conrad farm, north of the city, next Wednesday afternoon. All members who can help are requested to meet at the O. K. Barber Shop on the east side of the public square at 1 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. It is suggested that the members bring their hip boots. The pond is well filled with fish and the club will get credit for them from the State Conservation Department.

Dewey Oswalt Rites Saturday Funeral services for Edward Dewey Oswalt, who died of a heart attack Wednesday at his home near Bain-bridge, will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from thj Sands Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Brick Chapel cemetery. The Rev. Smith will officiate. Survivors are the widow, Mrs Dell McGahan Oswalt, his father, Emmanuel Oswalt; three brothers, Ray of Attica, Carl Oswalt of Battle Ground and Charles Oswalt; and one half-sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Shcrcliffe of Temipieman, Ind. -Friends may call at anyti-me at the Sands Funeral Home, until noon

Saturday.

PUTNAM COURT NOTES Lucy J. Patterson vs William W. Patterson, suit for divorce. Gillen & Lyon are the plaintiff’s attonneys.

Notice

Any person who was bitten by a black Chow puppy last week end and who is not undergoing preventive treatment for rabies should call Mrs. Hugard at 505-R for Irstructiohs.

The address, which will be broad cast at 10 i>. in. CVV'T over thv National Broadcasting company network, will be a followup to last night’s speech from San Francisco when he promised, if elected, to find a middle road betwevn "New Deal regimentation” and ‘‘a reactionary philosophy of dog-eat-dog’’ to postwar jobs and security for all without loss of personal or political freedom. A round of meetings with leaders of the aircraft and motion picture industries, labor organizations and political groups precede the evening address. Dewey and his party were aeeompanied by Gov. and Mrs. Earl Warren as they moved south into the |K>pulous Los Angeles area which holds 40 per cent of the state’s nearly 4,000,000 voters. Dewey made, his initial bid for California's 25 electoral votes last night before an overflow crowd of 15,000 persons who jammed San Francisco's civic auditorium to hear the GOP nominee charge that the Roosevelt administration has "failed utterly" to solve the problem of political freedom and economic security. "Saturated as it is with the defeatist theory that America is past its prime, the New Deal can see only two possibilities for America ever increasing regimentation as one alternative, and reaction as the other,’’ ho charged. "It believes that ecomanic security can only lx* purchased at the price of freedom. That argument is false, our people do not want to see this country ( dragged further and further toward complete government control over every aspect of our lives. Neither do we want to go back to the reartinnary philosophy of dog-eat-dog." There is a middle ground, Dewey Insisted, which involves a limited amount of government intervention into the daily lives of business, industry and agriculture. "Whether we like it or not, and regardless of the party in power, government Is committed to some degrev of economic direction," he said. “Certain government measures to influence broad economic conditions are both desirable and inevit-

able.”

For example, Dewey said there should be limited government control of money and credit to keep interest rates stable, a government work program to take up the slack in employment which private enterprise cannot absorb, and support prices on basic agricultural products. He promised that the days when men and women "had to work for whatever they could get" are gone

forever.

"Government’s first job in the peacetime years ahead will be to see that conditions exist which promote widespread Job opportunities in private enterprise,’ he said. 'There are many means to that end, including the creation of foreign markets and the promotion of foreign trade. If at any time there are not auficient jobs in private employment to go around, then government can and must create additional Job opportunities.” Dewey said he did not mean Job* on the federal payroll, "if all of us (toanaued oa r*ce Faat)

NO. 289 YANKS RETURN TO MANILA BAY IN BOMB RAID JAP8 CAUGHT BY SURPRISE BY CARRIER BASED U. S. PLANES

PEARL HARBOR. Sept. 22.— (UP)—A popular uprising in Manila, actual or potential, was suggested today as the frenzied Japanese puppet government declared martial law following a heavy American carrier plane raid on Manila bay and airfields on each side of the Philippines

capital.

The attack took American forces back to Manila bay for the first time in more than two years, and was described as "superlatively successful" in a special communique by Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz. The great fleet of carrier planes from Vice Admiral Mare A. Mltacher’s task force delivered the blow Wednesday and apparently caught the Japanese and their Filipino Quislings by surprise. Shipping in Manila bay and in Subic bay and ground installations at Cavite naval base, Clark Field and Nichols Field all were blasted. Thir-ty-seven ships were sunk or damaged; 208 enemy planes destroyed. Fifteen American planes were lost but some of the flight personnel were

saved.

The thundering barrage of rockets, bomba and machine gun fire laying the foundation for Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to Bataan may have gone far toward neutralizing Japanese air strength in the entire Philippines area, it was believed here. Nimitz already had announced the elimination of enemy air strength in the central and southern areas after four days of raids last week. Jittery Japanese broadcasts acknowledged the raid and President Jose P. Laurel of the Quisling Philippines government proclaimed “immediate martial law throughout the entire islands in view of national defense and preservation of peace and

order.”

The carrier force, operating as part of Admiral William F. Halsey’s Third Fleet, took a heavy toll of Japan’s waning air and naval strength. The American pilots shot down 110 planes In the air; destroyed 95 on the ground; sank 11 ships; damaged or probably sank 26 others, and damaged one floating drydock and two barges. Surface ships of the carrier force escaped without damage. The Japanese claimed, as usual, that damage had been "negligible" and 30 American planes were shot down with six others damaged. Nimitz said that in addition to the heavy shipping and aircraft losses inflicted on the Japanese, "much damage was done to military objectives on and adjacent to Clark Field and Nichols Field, and to the fields

themselves.”

The communique listed Japanese ship losses as follows; Sunk -One large destroyer-leader: four large oil tankers; one small oil tanker; two large cargo ships; one medium cargo ship; two small cargo ships Total; 11. Damaged or probably sunk - One destroyer; two large oil tankers; one large transport; 10 large cargo ships; 12 medium cargo ships; one floating drydock; two liarges Total: 26 ships, one dock, two barges. The strike at the heart of the Philippines, which the Japanese invaded Dec. 13, 1941. failed to bring any response from the long missing Japanese navy. The destroyer-leader ani tile destroyer were the only warship*

encountered.

The raid brought the war hack to Manila and its superb harbor two years and four months after the gallant garrison and the survivors of Bataan surrendered Corregtdor fortress May 5, 1942. It was certain to have been a tremendous stimulant fContinued on 1'nitr Fnnrl

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