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THE DAILY BANNER _ "IT WAVES FOR ALL"
OLUME FIFTY-TWO
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1944.
NO. 302
ILLER NAMES AREA WORKERS FOR WAR CHEST < WVASS BUSINESS IMSTKU T AND LOCAL PROFESSIONAL MEN Kent Lenzen, Ernest Flint, Lawnc< Crump and Ed Coffman have ee ii named by Har ley Miller, a vieehairman of the Putnam County War best Committee as area wor kers r the canvass of the business di«rict or Ureencastle in the coming jar chest campaign. Roy Sutherlin Hi Kimball Larkin will have charge { the canvass among professional nen The work of solicitation hroughout the county will begin tonday, October 9th. In commenting on the agencies ihich make up the Nation Wat and Mr. Miller spoke of the War risoners Aid as one of the most worthwhile. This agency goes to he assistance of those unfortunate icn of war, who, suddenly shut off rom the most active kind of life low find themselves confined to the aost monotonous and deadening orni of existence. To keep his spirits strong there are two things a prisoner needs (above all else—an interest in life and the reassurance that he has not (been forgotten at honre. War Prisoners’ Aid undertakes to Igive him those two things—by providing him with books and study (courses, with games and sports equipment, with materials for crafts and hobbies and with direct contact in the prison camps by neutral representatives of the War Prisoners Aid. It has sent enough books to establis ha library one-sixth as large as the New York Library, enough musical instruments to equip all the "name bands’’ in the United States and enough of every possible recreational medium to stock a score or more of lar ge stores. "It is good to think that we have the privilege, by the gifts we maK to place these things in the hands of our boys held in enemy prison camps,” said Mr. Miller. $1500 Is DePauw's Quota In Campaign
A LAND MARK ON BIG WALNUT CREEK
PRICE CONTROL MEETING SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC
This is the former home of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Matthews northeast of Greencastle on Big Walnut crevk. It is the old Park Coffman home and is beautifully situated behind the towering bluff on the west and tall, stately trees on the east and thv back view is over the lowlands of Big Walnut. Mr. and Mrs. Matthews are now making their home in Quincy, Flor ida.
Society Members Get Riley Volume
A privately printed “Bibliography of James Whitcomb Riley,” by Anthony J. and Dorothy R. Russo, has just been distributed by the Indiana Historical Society as a gift to members of that Hoosier group. Mrs. Russo, who brought the work to completion after the death of her husband, was graduated from DePauw University in 1922 and has been well known in Indianapolis for many years as a partner with her husband in the book business. The beautifully printed and illustrated volume, dedicated to Josiah K. Lilly, Jr., was made possible by a grant to the Indiana Historical Society by the Lilly Endowment, Ine. (Its frontispiece is the portrait of Riley by Theodore Clement Steele, reproduced in color. The bibliography, the most complete list of Riley’s publications yet produced, is especially useful to collectors of first editions, to librarians, and to research workers in American literature. Mrs. Russo the former Dorothy Ritter, is a member of Kappa Alpha 'Diets social fraternity and won Phi Beta Kappa honors while a student at DePauw. She completed this important bibliographical work after I Mr. k is.-u's death ia bho. i PLANS MADE FOR ANNI \L I BOY SCOUT COUNCIL DINNER
WILL GLIDEWELL PASSES AWAY AT HOME NEAR CITY
WAS LIFE LONG RESIDENT OF COMMUNITY AND WAS WIDELY KNOWN William Glidewell, age about 57 years, well known resident of the Greencastle comtnumity, died early Saturday morning at his home south of the city on state road 4,'i. He had been in ill health for some time. Mr. Glidewell was bom October 9. 1877 in Putnam county, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Marion Glidewell. He spent most of his life in Putnam county. On February 24. 1905 he was united in marriage to Margaret Jennings. They were married in Washington Court House, Ohio. Mr. Glidewell united with the Christian church in 1904 and he was also a member of the Greencastle Masonic Lodge. For eight years Mr. Glidewell was
There will be a meeting of all members of the Putnam County War Price and Rationing Board and Price Panel assistants at the Office of the War Price and Rationing Board in the Public Service Company building .it 7 o'cock on Monday. At this meeting a film will be shown on price control and a representative from the district office will speak. Merchants and consumers of the community interested in the price control program are cordially invited o attend the meeting.
REPORTS MADE DURING ANNUAL CHURCH MEETING FIRST CHRISTIAN t HFRt 11 MEM HERS MET THURSDAY AT SECOND WARD
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Gun Explosions Mark Truce End
LONDON, Oct. 7.—(UP)—Canadian First Army troops were playing out the last bloody act of the drama of Dunkerque today under a sky turned dull red by the fires and explosions besetting the German ga*rison trapped in the French channel
port.
A mercy truce expired at 10 a. m. after the removal of French civilians ami British and Canadian land and air forces swung into action where the Luftwaffe and the Wehrmacilt had battered the remnants of the British expeditionary force' four
years ago.
Both side of the Straits of Dover were lighted by one great blast last night which shook Deal, thirty-seven miles west of Dunkerque. An hour later, fires still lighted the sky and dull rumblings and explosions persisted. It may have been either a huge ammunition dump or the Gelmans carrying out demolitions. The merciless allied bombardment from big guns and bombers was much like that which the Germans in June, 1940, inflicted on the shattered remnants of the British Expeditionary Force which tried unsuccessfully to defend northern France. But this time the Nazis were on the
acting assistant superintendent at, ( . nd and unhke the mem . the Indiana State Farm. He also | ^ of the B E they have no
The DePauw allotment in the $14.,550 Putnam county War Chest will be $1500, according to Lois Arnold, chairman of the Putnam county War Cheat committee. The fund raising campaign, which will start on Monday, Oct. 9, throughout the country as well as on tlio campus will be under the direction "f Mrs. William Nicoll, DePauw's committee chairman. Assisting Mrs. i Nicoll as vice chairman will be Miss Ermina Mills and Miss Mildred Dirn-
mick.
Bainbridge Wins Softball Crown
Bainbridge defeated Cloverdalc in this ctiy Friday afternoon to cop tim 1911 Putnam county high school championship. Bainbridge won, 9 to 7, but only Ml' i the Clovers had staged a rally that for a time threatened to at leas’ tie the score and send the game into extra innings. Bainbridge coasted along on a 9 to 1 margin until the last half of the seventh and final frame. The south Putnam boys pushed across six runs beloi,. they were retired and the contest ended, 9 to 7. Lon South with a home run and i triple to his credit led the Bainbridge batters. The Pointers had previously won the titi e in the north half of the county while Cloverdale downed Reelsville, 3 to 2, here earlier in, the Week to annex the crown for the southern haf of the county. Large groups of fans from both schools witnessed the championship
game.
The Wabash Valley Council Boy Scouts of America annual appreciation dinner, honoring scoutmasters, cub-masters and their wives, will be held in the Woodrow Wilson Junior High School cafeteria on Monday, October 30th. Guy Stantz. general chairman of the central committee in charge of the dinner, has announced that general plans for the occasion have been made. Scoutmasters, rubmasters and their wives will be invited as guests. Scouters and other friends of Boy Scouts will attend the meting. Tickets will be sent to the chairman of every troop or pack committee and members of the executive committee. Three hundred leaders in Boy Scout activities from Vigo and surrounding counties are meeting. Tickets wil Ibe sent to the
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farmed for a while and was in the road and br idge contracting business.
Surviving are tile widow and five
children, Mrs. J. D. Quackenbush. Mrs. Paul VonBurg and Mrs. I. L. Patterson, Robert Glidewell and Ted Glidewell; two sister, Mrs Ida Gjantharn of Muncie and Mrs. li. P. liamble of Farmland; twelve grand-
children and other relatives. Funeral services will be held Mon-
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Rector Funeral Home. The Rev. H. C. Fellers will officiate. Burial will be in the Brick Chapel cemetery.
SUBSC RIBES 100';
By making a 100"subscription the employes of the Omar Baking Company were the first to register a group contribution to the Putnam County War Chest drive. The subscription was made following an invitational presentation of the campaign needs by the committee chairman, Lois Arnold.
MASONIC NOTICE F. C. Degree, tonight at 7:00. Herbert Craver, W. M.
rescue fleet to shuttle them from the wide beaches to safety. With the allies in control of land, sea, and air, the fanatical defenders of the ports have no alternative but surrender or
death.
The truce ended after the Germans had asked and received a four-hour extension. Since 6 p. nr. Tuesday some 19,000 civilians and several hundred German. British and French wounded came out of the beleaguered port in a strange and pathetic procession while the guns were stilled and the troops on both sides girded for the final battle. OFFICIALS PROTEST ODT BAN ON SCHOOL BI S I’SE VALPARIASO, Ind., Oct. 7 (UP) Northwest Indiana public school officials went on record today as protesting the Office of Defense Transportation order against using school busses for r-xtracurricular activities. Since truck tires are available for beer trucks, the educators from 15 schools maintained the tires should he available also for school busses to transport athletic teams, bands and other student groups to the extent of 300 miles a year.
The First Christian, church held its annual meeting Thursday evening in the auditorium of Second Ward School. After a bounteous dinner the heads of the various organizations of the church presented their reports of achievements during th past year. Treasurers reported all obligations paid as »f September 30 th, and balances in all treasuries. A significont tv port revealed that the members of the congregation 'have raised $860 00 on their goal of $10,000 for the remodeling and expansion of buildings 'without the soliciting of a single individual. The committees in charge desires to complete the fund before November 12th, the date sei for the dedication of the new parsonage and the educational annex. The giving to missions and benevolences increased considerably over the amounts given the preceding year, total given to these larger services being in excess of $900.00. The minister, H. C. Fellers, reported 35 new members received during the year. He also reported that during the year he had delivered 77 sermons and addresse in addition to those require by the regular worship services of the church. He conducted 30 funeral services, married 40 coupl j es, and made a total of 967 pastoral | visits. The sixth annual church camp provided training and an outing for fifty seven young people of the church. 17 people attended summer conferences. Twelve members of the congregation passed from the church visible to the church invisible during the year. More than 100 young men from the church are now in the armed forces, about sixty of them
overseas at this time.
The minister called attention to the fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of the present house of worship, the golden anniversary to be in August of 1945, and suggested a number of "fifties” as goals to he reached before the anniversary. He expressed appreciation for the vision and loyalty shown by the members during his ministry in Greencastle, which will soon enter its eighth year Dr. Joseph Todd brought the inspirational address of the evening, speaking on the theme “The Church in the New World", stresing the im portance of the two directives of Christ for Christian living, "Thou shall love the Lord thy God, and thy neighbor as thyself, “and pointed out how these two ideals will help t-> build a greater and much useful church in Greencastle, and through
out the whole world.
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BREMEN ABLAZE AFTER HEAVY RAF ASSAULT GERMANY'S SECOND PORT \\D REICH ( VDITAL PKIMTUAL TARGETS OF BRITISH
liONDON. Oct. 7 iUP» A big force of RAF heavy bombers set Bremen, Germany's second port afire from "end to end" and also hit. Berlin, Dortmund and Saarbrucken in a shattering four-pronged assault on the Reich during the night. Upwards of 750 Lancasters and Halifaxes participated in. the night foray, which followed by only a few hours the largest American daylight raid on Germany since June witn Berlin among the prime targets. The main weight of the RAF’s as sault was directed against Bremen and Dortmund, the latter an inland port and one of the main railway centers in Germany's great indus-f trial Ruhr, with probably more than 1,000 tons of fire and demolition bombs being dropped on each city.
ARMY INFANTRY SERGEANT WAS GRAD! ATE OF THE
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Mrs. Flossie Alexander of near Fillmore has received word from the War Department that her sor\ Sgt. James F. Alexander, was killed in action on September 18th in Italy. Sgt. Alexander was an assistant squad leader with the 34th “Red Bell" Division of the Fifth Army in Italy. He was in the infantry. He was graduated fr-m the Killmore high school and left immediately for the. army. From Alabama he was sent to Fort Meade, Maryland, and he had been overseas since
October 1, 1943.
Yanks Pounding Jap Airdromes SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct, 7 (UP)—Allied airmen temporarily neutralized the main Japanese airfields on Halmahera island and sank or damaged eight more enemy vessels in a series of night and day attacks over the Dutch Fast Indies, a communique said today. In a two-day strike to knock out the threat of Jap aerial interference against the rear of the Philippinesbound American ground forces on Morotai island, formations of medium bombers and fighters bombed and strafed the Galela and Kaoe airdromes south of Morotai on Tuesday and Wednesday. The raiders poured 59 tons of bombs into the two air liases, destroying one grounded enemy plan-o and rendering both fields unserviceable, the communique said. Other raiders lashed out against the chain of Japanese island bases west and south of the Halntaheras, ripping up enemy airfields atvl wrecking warehouses, docks and military installations on Amboina and Boefoe islands and in the Celebes.
Bainbridge Lions
Sponsor Fish Fry Services Monday
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Miss Margaret Nelson spent the in Indianapolis. Mrs. Vernon Shirley was hostess to the Veronica Club. Mi. and Mrs. Ot s Gardner were in Frankfort and Kokomo visiting Tlatives. B. P. Mullins was elected to the oi ty council, succeeding Ed Hamilton who had resigned.
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Miss Marian Canady, a student of DePauw, entertained with piano I numbers in the interim between I the dinner and the presentation of the reports and the address. 31 Found Guilty Of Polygamy Practice SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 7. (UP) —Thirty-one fundamentalists last night were found guilty by an eigh man jury of conspiring to practice polygamy and "commit acts injutious to public morals” fifty-four years to the day after the signing of the Norman Manifesto banning plu al marriage. All those convicted prepared inmediately to appeal to the State Su preme Court and said they would "keep appealing until the Utah conspiracy law was proven unconstitutional.’’ The basis of their appeals will be the contention that preaching of any religious doctrine is n.it conspiracy. The jury went into its locked chamber immediately after Prosecu tor Brigham Roberts reminded th jurors that "every defendant ent--i Ing into the polygamy agreement i I personally responsible for the action of any other party to the conspir-
acy."
The group will be sentenced Friday. Oct. 13. The maximum sentence is one year in the County Jail or a fine of $1,000. Putnam County War Chest HAVE YOU HEARD THAT: A solicitor will call for your gift in the next few days. Make it big anil have it ready.
The Lions Club of Bainbridge i; sponsoring a fish fry and entertainment on the main street in Bainbridge on Friday and Saturday evenings, October 13 and 14th. for the purpose of raising funds to have a recreation- center i"r the young people of the community. The club will lease the Masonic Home for this purpose and the school P. T. A
is co-operating.
The Lions Club is also in Charge of the War Chest drive in the Bainbridge community. THOI SANDS PAY KIN AL RESPECTS TO XL SMITH NEW YORK, Oct. 7 Thousands ot persons from Park Avenue to tTie Bowery formed in line outside St. Patrick's Cathedial Friday to await their turn to pay final respects t > Allied E. Smith, who died Wednesday at the age of 70. An hour after the heavy bronzcasket bearing the body of the fomtime Governor of New York state had been placed on its catafalque in the Lady Chapel, police estimated that 20 000 persons were in line on
Filth Avenue.
Bulletin
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEE, Oct. 7 (UP) A strong German counter-attack north of Aachen has been repulsed, a communique announced today.
« ROME, Oct. 7 (UP) American troops have advanced two miles north of Ixiiano to within 12 miles of Bologna, a communique said today.
SERVING COUNTRY
For J. A. Frazier
James Abner Frazier, age 70 years, died Saturday morning at 1:45 o’clock at his home in Roachdale, following an extended illness. Death
was due to complications.
Mr. Frazier was born in Scott county, Va.. on March 20, 1865. tho son of George and Lucy Williams Frazier. On Oct. 27, 1887 he was united in marriage to Lucy Johnson of Virginia, who preceded him in death. In March 29, 1933 he married Elizabeth Sutherlin, who survives
him.
Surviving besides the widow are two daughters, Mrs. Ernestine Parker and Mrs. Alice Morphew, and three sons. George Melvin and Clyde, all of Roachdale; two brothers Jess of Virginia and Max Kiazier of Ladoga; and one sister, Mrs. Maigaret Johnson of Virginia; eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral set vices will be held Monday at 2 o’clock from the Chastain Funeral Home in Roachdale. Burial will be in the Roachdale cemetery. Friend.-i may call at the Chastain Funeral Home. KING TO BE HOSTAGE LONDON, Oct. 7 (UP)—A Stockholm dispatch said today that Germany has revealed she intends to mow King Leopold of Belgium and other prominent prisoners to Japan as hostages to be exchanged for Adolf Hitler or other Nazi war criminals who may fall into Allied hands after the fall of the Reich. If any captured Nazi leader is sentenced to death, a hostage will pay the same price simultaneously In Germany or Japan under the plan, the dispatch said.
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Malcolm Eugene Wade. S 2 c is the husband of Beatrice K. Wade and the son of Mr. and Mrs Mint Wade, of Fillmore. He is in the Nava) Air Force and his address is: Malcolm Eugene Wade S 2 c, N. A. A. S„ Hollister, Calif.
M. E. Wade
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