The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 October 1944 — Page 4

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YANKS HTR1, TANKS )Cunlluiir,l rrom I’mu.- Onr) scate effort to flush the Americans from their foxholes ami captured pillboxes and gun emplacements. The counterattack followed almost 12 hours of continuous shelling from batteries concealed in thv wbods west of the Moselle and in the fort itself. Richards estimated that the Germans sent 500 to 600 rounds into the fort arva during the night. German artillery also was active south of Metz, especially in the Lezey ! area 21 miles east of Nancy. Sever* | al very large caliber shells, believed | from railway guns, fell in one sector. I Richards said the Germans were j observed busily digging in all along* j the front northeast of Nancy, apparently hoping to stabilize the front in trvnch warfare such as prevailed in the last war. •Ird army troops north of Luneville I cleared the Germans from the ParI roy woods with the exception of oneI fourth of the northeast comer.

scientists to speed efforts to perfect ••V-3,” an atomic bomb. The German high command is disappointed in the performance of V-2 for threv reasons: First, it is imposible to determine its accuracy. Second, it travels faster than sound at a speed of from 2,000 to 3,000 miles an hour through the stratosphere, slowing down to 000 miles an hour as it reach s the earth, so has no terror effect oecause peaple in its path cannot recognize the danger. Third the bomb penetrates the earth so deeply it is less destructive than the robot bomb, the Daily Mail said.

V-2 WEAPON’S A FIZZLE Hiller Scores Another Flop LONDON, Oct. 6 Neutral obserers recently arrived in Sweden np.ut Germany’s secret "V-2" weapon j tailed when put in operation, a ; Stockholm corespondent of the Lon- | don Daily Mail t-. ported today. , Hitler was said to have instructed

Athens Goal Of Invading British HOME, Oct. 6 (UP) British invasion forces, supported by RAF warplanes operating from bases on the Greek mainland, overran the northwestern corner of the Peloponnesus and struck down the north roast of the peninsula for Athens today. capturing the fortified port of Rion. 60 miles west of Corinth and 95 miles from the Nazi-held capital. German resistance appeared to be melting swiftly in the face of the

swift British advance after a savag* but short-lived attempt to hold th> big seaport of Patras, the third city of Greece and the Nazi's main staging base for the supply of their forc-

es on the west coast.

German coastal batteries covering the entrance to the gulf of Corin' 'i were silenced quickly by the fast-

moving Tommies an it

that British warships would soon operating in those waters if were not already there to avenge the beating they took from the Luftwaffe during the ill-fated first battle

for Greece in 1941.

I SO HOLDS LARGE PART TN NATIONAL WAR FUND WORK

( HAI'EL METHODIST

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Sunday, October 8.

Minister, Forest W. Howell. 10:00 a. m. Sunday school. Teachers and classes for all ages. Charlie Hendrich, supt. in charge. 11:00 a. m. Morning worship. The

Holy Communion.

7:00 p. m. Youth Fellowship. The i meeting will be held at the home of ; the McBrides. Glenn Flint will lead the lesson. Friday night the Youth, Fellowship will meet at the home of Marcia Flint at 7:30 for a social gathering. All youth ate invited. You ate cordially invited to the

set vices of the church.

.MAM 1 \< E L\H \t STION

LONDON, Oct. 6.— (I P)—Prime .Minister P. S. tierl>raiid> ->:iid today that 1,000,0011 Dutch men, women and children in German-occupied Hidlatul luce imminent exhaustion of food, fuel and drinking water. KEELS\ 1LLE METHODIST (Til IUTI Sunday School next Sunday. 10.00 A. M. Ewing Waler, Su:d Morris MUlei, Asst Supt. On this clos.ng day of our s[>: c ial meetings, Sunday, October b, we are hoping for a t o iipiete attendance so far as poss'ble of the entire Rt rlsville community. All our m ■miterwill be epected, and all friends also are most cordialy welcome. The Rev. Claude J. Eaton, our evangelist, will bring the gospel messages both morning and evoning. He will also speak it tin Youth Fellowship meeting at 7:00 P. M. No t ■ of us can afford to miss hearing th sc messages of Evangelist Eaton next Sundaq. Everybody welcome IN MEMORY In loving memory of our dear mother and gramlmother. Maud" Ash. who passed away four years ago totlay, Oct. 6, 1940. She bade no one a last farewell. She said good bye to none, Her loving heart had ceased to tx-at Before we knew it she was gone; A silent thought, a secret tear, Keeps her memory ever dear. Sadly mis i by Mrs. Mary Louise

HOG MARKET Hogs 7.000: market steady; good and choice 120-240 lbs $14.80; above 210 lbs $14.05; 100-119 lbs $13.75$14.00; good and choice sows $14.00 $14.05. MAKE PROGRESS IN ( HINA KWEILIN FRONT, CHINA, Oct. 6 CUP) The Japanese driving toward Kweilin have only 350 miles to cover to’ the Indo-Ohina border to cut China in half a victory which military observers anticipate will make any future U. S. landings on the China coast a hazardous, difficult opertion. HEBRON Miss Evelyn McGaughey is at home on furlough, having finished her nurses’ training at Terre Haute. She will begin work at Culver hospital next week. Mrs. Merrill Leonard was hostess to the Past Matrons of the O. E. S. 1 Wednesday afternoon of last week. She was assisted by Mrs. Frank Kennedy. Mrs. Coral Scribner and Miss Olice Evans. Pvt. Warren Spivey and family of Crawfordsville called on Mr. an.l Mrs. E. H. Norman Saturday evening. Pvt. Spivey is home from California on a fifteen day’s furlough. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dahlgren were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rafe McGaughey and family. Mr. and Mrs. Cline Ratcliff and family of Clinton Falls were afternoon callers. Paul McGill, Mrs. Rose Mendenhall and daughter, Patty, of Indianapolis spent the week end with Mr.

Aubrey and children and Clyde Ash. 1 and Mrs. Paul McGaughey and son.

DUTCH WALL-BEFORE AND AFTER

THE NORTH SEA is rushing over the Dutch Island of Waleheren today Inundating German guns aqd ftxed positions established on the small island. The large sea wall, shown in top airview, erected to hold out the water from the center of the island which Is below sea level, was crushed when more than 2,000 Allied planes dropped 12,000 pound “earthquake" bombs for a series of direct hits, as shown In the bottom Signal Corps radiophoto. .... f/at*rnational Souadobatoi)

The USO will be the largest reciprocant in the National War Fund drive to be held throughout the nation during October. The National War Fund allotment to Putnam County in its War Chest drive will

was indicated i be $10,550. A large proportion of thai

be amount will therefore be alloted to

the work of the USO.

* Putnam County contributors can be certain by giving to the Putnam County War Chest during the drive October ninth to nineteenth that they are sending aid, comfort aand entertainment to Putnam County boys and girls in the service throughout the

world.

The USO is called by our service men the closest thing to home that exists for them. Said one soldier," When we hit any town, it is always the first stop on our list. It has be come for us more than a recreational organization; it actually feels like home." USO has more than a million devoted men and women vounteer | workeds, to make it feel like home. In addition to USO, there are j twenty-one other odganizations, inI eluding United Seamen's Service, i War Prisoners Aid, Philippine War 1 eRlief, United China Relief, Polish War Relief .and American Field Service, which are carrying on valuable work to relieve the suffering of not only the service people of the United Nations but to give hope and life itself to the liberated peoples of the world in the form of food, clothing

and medical care.

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