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

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VOLUME FIFTY-TWO

EENCASTLE'S JUDGING TEAM STATE CHAMPS 10 (\I, ilOYS WIN FIRST IN I.IVKSTOCK EVENT AT I'lRDCE UNIVERSITY The Grecncastle High School livegtock judging team won the Indiana state t hitmpionship judging contest for the first time i.n the history of the munty at Purdue University Friday and Saturday and the individual members won caaah, medals, trophys and scholarships worth several hundreds of dollars. The team, coached by Gene Akers was composed of Bill Wilde, Bob Strain, Wendall Brattain, Alva Cash. Dick Hoffman and Carl Ctrain. They took top honors over twenty-six competing teams after winning their way to the state finals by tahing local, county, and district contsts over a period of time dating back to las'. April when they started. By winning this state honor, they are barret: from future contests, but most ol them are high school seniors and will go into college or other advanceti work in the completion of their high gcho >1 work next spring. The winnings Saturday were over ail 4-H Club and Vocational Agri cultuial teams competing. Including in the trophies won was the Bell Railroad Sterling Silver trophy, valu ed at $400. They are to keep it on year. Other awards were $50 was bonds, Indiana State Board of Agriculture four years scholarship f. Purdue University, individual trophys, medals, ribbons and awards. The team scored 1621 points out o r a possible 1800 points. It was an ail time record high for points scored In piling up this remrkable total, th. Putnam young men judge horses, sheep, swine and beef cattle. They won in the swine contest, the sheep contest, placed fourth in th horse judging and fourth in the beef

judging.

As individuals, Bill Wilde score , second ip, all competition. He was one of the popular judging youths at the state round-up. Bob Strain won fifth in individual judging and Alva Cash and Wendall Brattain were no*, far behind him. Brattain and Strain tied for secorvl Place in swine judging. Stiain wo the sheep judging contest and th Indiana Live Stock Breeders Association gold medal. Wilde won third place in the beef cattle judging and the Purdue schol-

larship.

The honors won Friday and Saturday are the highest that can be awarded the young men and shows their ability to go into the keenest competition and come out on top.

LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 2.—(UP) —Richard Wicker of Straughn, Henry county, and Burnell Barnett of Wabash today were declared winners of $100 scholarships to PurdUe University and gold medals for high Individual scores in the annual state junior dairy and livestock judging contests held last week. Wicker won the dairy contest and Barnett the livestock judging event. Runnersup were Mary Louise Mansfield, Wabash, in dairy judging

FREED IN FRANCE Mrs. Myra I>avis Wilson, ar American citizen, who has been held at a German interment camp in * >raiice for three years, is soon to be released according to an item which appeared in her home newspaper a* Charleston, 111. Mrs. Wilson was well known in Grecncastle and vicinity when, she "as a young woman. She is p cous.n f| f Mrs. J. w. Hendrix of -Putnamvillc.

al smith is ill New YORK, Oct. 2—(UP')— The condition of former Governor Alfred ' of New York, critically ill at the Rockefeller Institution hosI'dal, was reported “unchanged” today after 24 hours of “real improvenient.”

NEGRO hunted

HUNTINGTON, Ind., Oct.2-(UP.i Stutp police organized posses with ’ "odhounds today to search for a ■ e ffro man who attacked State Par °lman Charles Enos of Huntington arid took his service revolver when c officer attempted to arrest him. file Negro was reported at several ar m homes east of here, asking for l,0 <l and water. Enos picked the Ne* k r " up on a highway early yesterday n Is patrol can and was bringing *5“ *° Huntington fi>i ■ questionong fn fhp man attacked him and fled.

THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL’ GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1944. NO. 297

SOME GALLON CLUB BLOOD DONORS

„ V}, e above picture, left to right, shows Miss Mildred Dimmick, Lui.

’ d Clarion Hess Campbell, Mrs. James Strain, John A. Fi r nt

and Mrs. Ray Miller, all of whom have contributed a gallon of blood to th< Ked Cross Blood Bank in Greencastle. Some have given more than a gallon which included Miss Dimmick, 9 pints, Mr. Friend, 12 pints. Others in th, county who have contributed a gallon or more who are not pictured, include, Wan Vaughn 10 pints, Miss Virginia Harlow, 8 pints, Eric Boesen, 8 pint

and Miss Mane Boesen, 8 pints.

BULLETIN

J. H. COLEMAN DIED IN FRANCE, PILOT WRITES

PUTNAM MAN WAS TURRET , GUNNER ON A B-I7 BOMBER Mrs. Ella M. Coleman is in receipt of a letter from the pilot of a B-17 bomber on which her husband, S Sgt. James H. Coleman was the turret gunner, announcing his deatii on February 11, 1944. No official word has as yet come from the War Department, although he was reported missing on February 25, 1944. The pilot, Lt. Geno DiBetta, writing from his home in Parkersburg, West Va., after being returned here with the remainder of the crew saved, three having been taken prisoner by the enemy, said: “God took your husband away fighting to the last. Internment was by the French people, who felt very sad about him and paid him great

honor.

“It has been rather difficult for me to write this letter but It is only a very small thing compared to the sacrifice that you have made.” S Set. Cokunan is survived by the widmOand it daughter, Patricia, ag; T.montljp. His mother. Mrs. Myrtle 'Coleman resides at Bellmorc. He is also survived by two brothers and two sisters. Mrs. Coleman is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Wright and resides on Rural Route 1, Greencastle. Coleman entered the service on August 19, 1942 and went overseas just a year later to the day. Two Injured In Road 43 Crash George E. Marcum, 16, and Mabel Graver were cut and bruised when the 1938 Ford pickup truck, driven by Marcum, crashed into the rear of a Central Transfer & Storage truck on state road 43, six miles north of Greencastle about 2 a. m. Sunday. According to Eugene Crawley, state policeman, who investigated the accident along with Sheriff Paul Grimes, both vehicles were headed south on 43. The big transfer truck, driven by Edward C. Brown, of Indianapolis, had just got underway after pulling an automobile out of a 'ditch. The light pickup ran under the back of the bigger truck and its occupants were cut by the broken glass from the windshield. Young Marcum is the son of Rome Marcum, Greencastle Route 1. Officer Crawley said that the accident was due to t'he heavy fog and he was of the opinion that had Marcum been driving at a fast rate of speed both would have probably been

killed.

20 Years Ago IN GREENTASTLE The first Putnam County Fair was underway around the public square. Guy Call arwiounced the sale of the Ideal Grocery, on east Washington street, to Carl Williams of Madison township. A hea’'v frost accompanied a minimum temperature of 39 degrees. Miss Lola Neese and Miss Helen Lewis were visitors in the city from Manhattan. Howard Dean w.mt to Lansing. Mich., to drive bark a new Olds-

mobile

(By United Press) Allied armies ground forward into the German defense* al points along I hi 1 front Holland to Hie Belfort 4iu;> today, breaking up or holding a series of determiiKsl enemy < tnnier attacks designed to disrupt the mounting .offensive. American broadcasts from Francs reported that Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges’ 1st army, supported by 500 airplanes, had torn u hole in tire Siegfrbsl line near Aachen and were advancing al a rate which threatened to carry t-> the Rhine. LONDON, Oct. 2.—(UP)—More than 1,000 American heavy bombers attacked enemy industrial targets in the Cologne and Kassel districts of Germany today. LONDON, Oct. 2.—(UP)—Supreme headquarter* broadcast a warning to Dutch civilians today that “there is every likelihood that a severe and prolonged aerial bombardment will he carried out shortly” against the Islands in the estuary of the Schelde river. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Oct. 2 (UP)—Allied forces in Holland have advanced north of Oss, 1ft mile* west of Nijmegen, clearing the Germans from Hie banks of thc Meuse river, a communique unotinued today. ROME, Oct. 2 (UP)—American troops have captured Monte < ap|>cln which dominates the Florenee-Imola highway, a communique disclosed to-

day.

CHUNGKING,, Oct. 2 (UP) — Chinese official spokesmen, stung by the loss of the U. S. 14th Air Force’s fourth major base in eastern Chinn, charged bitterly todnv that thc United States and Great Britain have failed to provide more Ilian a pitiful amount of “token” asistance to China in tin- war against Japan. Annual School Bus Inspection Planned INDIANAFOIUS, Ind., October 3 — (Special) — Indiana state police this week will begin an Inspection of school buses, Don F. Stiver, state police superintendent, announced t.>day. An outstanding school bus safety record has resulted from th.ann.ua! state police inspection in cooperation with thy superintendent of public instruction. Mr. Stiver praised the safety record of drivers of the state's 5.7S7 scihool buses. In a peroid of 16 months, covering the last two school years up to June, state police record.showed one student killed and 22 per sona injured in school bus accidents. Of the 82 school bus accidents reported in. that period, 63 involved property damage, 18 personal injury and one a fatality. Rural accidents predominated. In the 10 school months of last year, 37 rural and eight urban school bus crashes were reported. From January to June, this year, 30 lural and aeve.v urban school bus accidents were re corded by state police statisticians. “The safe driv.ng record made by Indiana's school bus drivers becomes all the more remarkable when one considers the tremendous mileag. piled up daily by nearly 6,000 ve hides,” asserted Mr. Stiver. He credited township trustees and school officials w.th helping establish the record. Mechanical inapectia.i of buses will be rigid this year due to "wartimdeterioration," the police off.cial said. Troopers will list defects. Gar(Coatlaued Oa Pace Three)

DUNKERQUE IS UNDER ATTACK BY CANADIANS 1)IU\ FOLLOWS U DERATION OF VITAL PORT OF CALAIS LONDON, Oct. 2.—(UP)—Canadian troops were reported storming historic Dunkerque today, attacking that last German stronghold on the French channel coast barely 24 hours after liberating the torn and burning port of Calais. Calais fell at midnight Saturday after eight days of overpowering land and air assault, and the Canadians were expected to deal as swiftly with an estimated 15,000 Nazis trapped in Dunkerque, where the ill-fated British expeditionary force of 1940 fought Its last battle. Word of the assault on Dunkerque came in a field dispatch to the London Daily Express early this morning. There were no immediate details on the battle and headquarters had no confirmation that the attack had begun. Sporadic street fighting still was under way in Calais as Canadian patrols stalked from house to house rooting out die-hard Nazi gunners who refused to surrender with the rest of the garrison. More than 5,000 Germans, including the Calais commander, Col. Schroeder, were reported captured by a late hour Sunday night and the final count was expected to reacn 7,000 or more. Col. Schroeder, apparently trying to convince his commanders in Berlin that he fought to the last, sent an emissary to the Canadians at 11 o’clock Saturday morning with an offer to quit at three p. m., provided the Canadians would march in and lot the German garrison simply decline to fight them. It smelled like a trap and the Canadians refused. They sent back blunt word that the time for bargaining was past. They were going in with the bayonet and the only way for Germans to surrender was to walk out of the port with their hands in the air. At one p. m., reported United Press War Correspondent William A Wilson, from a spot outside Calais, the Canadian assault opened up witn a cascade of shellfire and a rain of bombs from RAF warplanes. At three o’clock, the barrage lifted and grim-faced infantrymen moved in through the smoke and flame. One thousand Germans surrendered within an hour and more quit as fast as the Canadians reached them. Reds Expected To Fight Japs WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—(UP) — Far Eastern diplomatic observers gave three major reasons today for believing that Soviet Russia will enter the war against Japan sometime after the defeat of Germany. They do not believe that Russia will do it immediately after Germany’s collapse. In fact, if all other factors were equal, they believe Russia would elect to stay out. But they give these reasons for believing she will eventually join China, Britain and the United States as a belligerent in that area: 1. Russia has an old score—the Russo-Japanese war which Japan won to settle with Japan and it is also to her long-term interest in the maritime provinces of the Far East to see Japanese militarism destroyed. 2. She wants a voice in the final peace settlement in the Far East, esspocially in the disposition of Manchuria which is a neighbor of Russia’s Far Eastern port of Vladivos-

tok.

3. The sooner the war in the Far East is finished the sooner Russia will be able to begin reconstruetion of her devastated western areas where more than three years of war with Genuany have been fought. Although there will be considerable relaxation of war production in the United States and Britain after Germany surrenders, there will be little in the way of durable goods In either country for export until the Japanese war is over. While half of the world is at war, there will be little chance for Russia to put her rehabilitation program Into full swing.

NOTICE Applegate Lodge, No. 155, F. & A. M., Fillmore, Tuesday, October 3rd. Called meeting. M. M. degree. Members bring pie and sandwiches Raymond Lisby, W. M.

SERVING COUNTRY

Clarence Walters Robert Walters

Sgt. Robert E. Walters and Pvt Clarence “Sonny” Walters, sons of Carl and Pearl Walters met somewhere in England a few weeks ago. This was the first time the brothers had seen each other in two

years.

SOVIET TROOPS DRIVE STEADILY IN YUGOSLAVIA REDS ADVANCING AT NEARLY A MILE AN HOUR PACE INTO COUNTRY

MOSCOW, Oct. 2. (UP)—The Red Army, advancing nearly a mile an hour across Yugoslavia, slashed to within 40 miles of the BelgradeAthens railway toilay in a drive threatening that main artery of escape for perhaps 200.000 Germans in the southern Balkans. Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian Army penetrated the suburbs of the mining town of Zajecar and reached to within approximately 45 miles of the big railwayhub of Nis in its rapid-fire advance. Malinovsky's forces were expected to link up with Marshal Tito's Partisan army within the next few days, if they have not already done so. Recent reports had placed a large Partisan column near Zajecar, a fiveway highway and three-way railway

center.

The drive was aimed squarely at Nis, junction of the Belgrade-AUlens and Belgrade-Sofia-Istanbul railways and one of the most important comi munications centers in the Balkans. Severeance of the Belgrad-Athens railway would leave the German garsons In southern Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and the Aegean Islands only secondary railways and highways over which to escape to the

north.

Front reports said the Russians also were advancing through southeastern Hungary toward Szeged, Hungary’s second city, and were widening their bridgehead on the west bank of thy Muresul river in central Transylvania, but the Soviet hign command Sunday midnight communique one of the briefest in recent weeks gave no details of these campaigns. Native Of City Died Saturday Mrs. Maudie Cox Gerald, 29 years old, 3108 Roosevelt, Ave. Indiana|>olis died Saturday in the Methodist hospital after a brief illness, Mrs. eGrald was a native of Greencastle. Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning in Lie Moore & Kirk, Northeast street, and burial will be in Thomas cemetery. Survivors are two sons, Wayne Gerald, 10, and Vernon Gerald, 9; three sisters, Mrs. Louise Shonkwiler and Mrs. Mane Well, both of near Greencastle, and Miss Martha CV>x of Chicago, and five brothers, Clayton Cox of near Morton, Seaman Second Class James Cox serving in Seattle, Wash., Fred Cox of Greencastle, Stuart Cox and Elmer Cox, whose addresses are unknown. PUTNAM COURT NOTES Joseph John and Catherine John are charged with failure to support child in an affidavit filed by Walter Cox, trustee of Greencastle township. In the affidavit it is alleged that the child was abandoned at the county hospital on Sept. 10. Emma Gregory et al vs. Leonard Jeffries et al, petition for partition. Robert W. Marks is the plaintiffs attorney.

NOTICE Emergency collection of clothing for Europe. Received Saturday, Sunday, Monday

at

The Christian Church.

SUNDAY MORNING FOG ; BLANKETS PUTNAM CO' ^Y One of the heaviest fogs to ever blanket Putnam county covered almost every community Sunday morning as well as a portion of Saturday night. ! Long before day-light Sunday, it was impossible to see more than a few feet and at day-light, visibility was limited to some twenty to thirty I feet and as late as eight o’clock, objects less than a block away were completely hidden from sight. Ccffee Rationing Held Unnecessary WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. -(UP) — Hoarders were left today holding bags of coffee that will soon be stale as the government put its foot down hard on rumors that the nation's favorite beverage would soon be returned to rationing. War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes, after a hectic week-end which saw a run on coffee supplies of grocery stores develop, announced definitely that “rationing is unnec-

essary.”

The assurances were fortified by a State Department announcement that Brazil—the biggest coffee producer in the world -has promised to resume coffee shipments to the United States today. For several weeks, United States importers have been having difficulty in contracting for coffee in Brazil, and as a result, stocks available for civilians in the United States have steadily declined although they did not reach the low points which existed at the height of the axis submarine campaign. The present situation was caused primarily because the price of coffee locally at Santos, Brazil, was averaging about 45 cruzeiros per ten kilograms whereas thv selling price in New York for this same coffee was only 43 cryzelros. (A cruzeiro is approximately five cents.) Brazilian exporters apparently felt that it was either better to wait until the Office of Price Administration decided to raise its ceilings to attract more coffee shipments to the U. S. or hold their coffee for possible sale in European markets. Commandos Free 3 Greek Islands LONDON, Oct. 2.—(UP)—British broadcasts reported today that British commandos had struck what may be the first blow of an allied campaign in Greece by liberating three Greek islands, one of them only si:: miles from the mainland. A BBC correspondent in Cairo said the commandos landed without opposition on Kythera, six miles from the southernmost tip of the Greek province of Pelopennesus, and on two other islands whose names were withheld for security reasons. The fate of the German garrisons was not disclosed, but it was believed the enemy troops either escaped by sea before the commandos landed or were killed or captured by Greek

patriots.

BBC said inhabitants of Kythera reported that 150 Germans on that island ilestroyed their installations several days ago preparatory to departing. Greek patriots shot up several German boats while they were waiting for air and submarine escorts, BBC said, but it did not reveal what proportion of the garrison actually escaped. Mrs. Mae Cox Takes Own Life Mrs. Mae Cox, 62, committed suicide at her home about two miles south of Rockville Saturday afternoon. by tying a bathrobe cord around her neck, attaching the other end of the cord to her bed-post, and rolling out of bed. Her husband, Ralph Cox, was in bed with a broken •hip, he could not see what his wife was doing because the head of his bed was in the way. Mrs. Edna Branson, deputy Parks county cororner, who investigated, said that Mrs. Cox had been strangled by the bathrobe cord. The body was not discovered until a daughter, Mrs. Clifford Easter, who lives with her parents, returned to the house with her husband after a trip to Rockville. Mrs. Cox had n leg amputated about a year ago, and had been bedfast since that time. JH health wa« thought to have been the cause ot

her act.

AIRDROMES ON * PALAU ISLANDS IN YANK HANDS AMERICANS IN FIRM CONTROL OF SOUTHERN CHAINNEAR PHILIPPINES PEARL, HARBOR, T. H., Oct. 2 - (UP)- -American troops held firm control of the southern Palau islands and three airfields within threa hour's flight of the Philippines to* day after killing more than 10/KM) Japanese in 19 days of bloody, no-

quarter battle.

Veteran Marine and army units "secured” five of the southernmost islets in the strategic Palau chain over the week-end and herded the surviving Japanese into small pockets, one on Peleliu's "Bloody Nosa Ridge." and the other on nearby An-

gaur Island.

An estimated 2.000 fanatical enemy troops were believed holding out In the two pockets, the bulk of them apparently dug in among the rock caves of Bloody Nose Ridge, which already has witnessed some of tlia toughest fighting of the Pacific war. Warplanes of the second Marino 'wing, presumably operating from the captured Peleliu airfield, spattered 1.000-pound bombs across the cave fronts on Bloody Nose Ridge, while ground troops fought their way slowly up the rocky slopes, rooting the Japanese out with flame-throw-era, grenades and gunfire. Practically all of Angaur island also was in American hands, along with Ngesbua, Kongauru and an unidentified tiny lah-t just north of Peleliu. The Angaur airfield and a partially-completed fighter strip on Ngesbus were in American, hands, providing jump-off points for landbased bombers leas than 600 miles east of the Philippines. Of the estimated 12,000 Japanese holding the southern Palaus when the American invasion began on Sept. 15, about 150 were known to have been, captured and more than 10,000 killed, against officially announced American casualties of 5,500 as of Sept. 28, Including 686 killed. Strong Japanese forces still were believed entrenched on Babeltlhaup and other islets in the Palau chain farther north, and the Tokyo radio said scores of American aircraft carriers were ranging off the islands a possible enemy hint of new opera-

tions to come.

A communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's southwest Pacific headquarters reported new carrier plana strikes against the Halmahera Island south of the Philippines and a landbased raid on the Kendari airfields in the Celebes that destroyed threa grounded enemy planes. In the northern Pacific, Liberators of the U. S. 11th air force bombed Schumushu island in the Kuriles Friday, meeting moderate anti-aircraft fire. All the raiders returned safely. SGT. ROBERT E. BUIS AWARDED AIR MEDAL

AN EIGHTH Al RFORX'E BOMBEIR STATION, ENGLAND. — Award of the Medal for "Exceptionally neritorious achievement while participating in sustained bomb combat operations over enemy occupied continental Europe" to Sgt. Robert E. Buis, 19, College avenue, was announced recently. A waist gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress, Sgt. Buis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maynard H, Buis,of the same address, has participated in more than U) bomber combat missions over Germany and the occupied areas. Ha attended Fillmore High School, Indiana University, and Ball State Teachers College prior to entering the service.

$ Today's Weather • « and 41 41 Local Temperature 41 • •4I4I4I«4I4>«4I4I Mostly coludy and cool with few light ahowers today. Partly cloudy and cool tonight and 1'ucsday.

Minimum - 6J 6 a. m 62 7 a. nv 62 8 a. m 62 9 a. m. 62 10 a. m. 64 11 a. m. .. 65 12 noon 70 1 p. m — 70 2 p. m 70