The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 October 1944 — Page 1
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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1944.
NO. 308
ROOKS NAMED AS SIXTH WAR LOAN CHAIRMAN
;iv\rw COMPTROIXER HEADS 'DRIVE CAMPAIGN IN PUTNAM COUNTV
ANOTHER VERY ATTRACTIVE FARM RESIDENCE
U. S. SOLDIERS TO HAVE REAL ‘TURKEY DAY- MEAT
H, H. Brooks, comptroller of Deuw University and president of ie Greencastle Rotary Club, was nv\, chairman of the Sixth Wai jan Drive for Putnam county at a et tins; of the Executive Committee r the drive Thursday evening. Mr. oks, a graduate of DePauw, has jen connected with the University !ice 19.'14. The Sixth War Loan Drive will igin on November 20 and continue rough December 16. It is one of e most important of all the drives the Allied armies are fighting on •rman soil and moving closer to th. ipanese homeland. “Putnam counhas exceeded its quota in all preous bond drives, and in the Sixth
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This is the beautifully located country cottage of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Irwin, located on a high knoll on the Bainbridgr?-Roachdale black top pavement. It overlooks a section of very fertile farm lands and is one of the attractive homes in that community. It formerly was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Call of Roachdale.
Var Loan Drive it is expected that the county’s excellent record will be maintained,'’ Mr. Brooks said. Members of the Executive Committee are Mr. Brooks, chairman, J. Crosby, O. W. Hollowed, Miss lizabeth Ward. Johjj VenpilHon. A', art Shuey and Fred L. Bergman.i. xecutive chairman for all Putnam ounty drives is Fred L. O'Hai. Plans for the immediate organization of the county’s thirteen townships wen discussed at the meeting. Within the next few days Mr. Bfofeks will appoint all vice-chairmen and township chairmen for the new drive. WALTER CAMPBELL IN BAD ACCIDENT 39 YEARS AGO TOD AI Walter S. Campbell, widely known implement dealer here recalled today that it was on October 14, 1905 that he suffered the loss of both his legs In a train accident at Fontanel, west of here. Mr. Campbell was breaking on tin Big Four at the time of the accident. Hi also stated that n'txt week, he will n ,'ive his fourth set of artificial ■•mi's having worn out three hereto-
fore.
Scott ( ouch to be BURIED AT PTLLMOKE Shin t funeral services for Scot: Lnueh, age 64 years, who died at his, horn. j n Indianapolis, will be held at h' 1 Killmore cemetery Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The regular service will be held at 1 o'clock from thi Royster and Askin Mortuary. 1902 north Meridian street, Indianapolis, •'lr. Couch was the father of Mis. f ion ics Wade and Indiana Lydick ol Fillmore. PUTNAM COURT NOTES J- J. .Jones is charged with importing swine without a health certiflcatl ' in an affidavit filed in the Putnani circuit court and signed by L. 0. Pish.
Chauncey Masten Died Saturday Chauncvy Masten, age 64 years passed away at the Putnam county hospital at 3:15 o'clock Saturday morning. Mr. Masten, well known fanner residing on the National Road, a short distance west of Mt. Meridian, entered the hospital last Sunday. Death was due to heart
trouble.
He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Anna Collins Masten, and two sisters, Mrs. Fred Todd, of Greencastle, and Mrs. Anna Fisher of Stilesville. One daughter, Madonna Masten preceded him in death. Mr. Masten was the son of the late Mr and Mrs. John W.
Masten.
Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Reed Funeral Home in Cloverdale, The Rvv. Harold McCammack and the Rev. Gene Hurst will be in charge. Burial wil be in the Stilesville cemetery. Friends may call at the Reed Funeral Home Injuries Fatal To Mrs. Miller Mrs. Amelia Miller, aged 73, wife of David Miller, 15 south Hoosier street, Brazil, died at 1:45 a. m. today at the Clay County Hospital of injuries received at 9:00 o’clock last night when she was struck by an automobile driven by Raymond Hughes. Brazil R. R. 3. on U. S. Road 40. the National road, east of the Knightsvllle road. Mrs. Miller, in company with Mrs Pearl Allenbaugh, 321 north Leavitt street, had been visiting a mutua. friend in the New England section of Knightsvllle They were returning home and had started across the National mad near the Sunset Stables. ,Thi tfe were two cars approaching froirt thp west. Evidently Mrs. Miller did not see the ears coming up the grade for witnesses report that Mrs. Allenbaugh seized Mrs. Miller and attempted to prevent her from leaving the curb on the south side. However. Mrs. Miller continued to cross the pavement. The first of the two cars drove around her, but Raymond Hughes, who followed, was unable to see hei and his car struck her. She was hurled to the pavement. Brazil
Times.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
OVERSEAS PARCELS MAY BE MAILED ON MONDAY
The Greencastle 'Post Office has beerii informed that Christmas parcels for overseas may be accepted all day Monday, October 16th. This ruling is by reason of the fact that the deadline, October 15, falls on Sunday.
Bob Steegmiller Writes Of France
PARIS, Oct. 14 Yankee soldivrs in the field will go off K-rations for Thanksgiving and dive into a real menu. The Army today announced this gastronomical treat for the GIs: Breakfast Grapefruit sections, cereal, milk, grilled pressed meat, fried and scrambled eggs with buttered toast and coffee. Dinner Roast turkey with giblet gravy and sage dressing, mashed potatoes, glazed sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, cranberry jelly, pumpkin pie, hot buttered rolls, coffee, candy, apples and oranges. Supper Cold sliced lamb, Vienna sausage, lyonnaise potatoes, cold slaw, spinach, p-aaches, cookies, bread and butter and cocoa. Praises P-47s And Doughboys A Ijt tflar received ^from Jimmie Walsh by his mother, Mrs. Jane Walsh of E. Walnut St. highly praises the "dough-boys" and the P47s. Sergeant Walsh, who was formely connected with the VoncastL Theatre, is now with an armored Division somewhere in, France. His letter follows:
ARRIVES IN HOLLAND Mrs. Beulah Sears, 209 north Vine street, h as received word that her K °n Cpl. LaMarr F. Sears, has arriVed in Holland.
20 Years Ago *N GREENCASTLE
Geo. T. Douglas to Harold A. Staley, et ux land in Cloverdale twp.. $1. Frank G. Detro, et ux, to Wayne Detro, et ux, lot in Fillmore. $1.00. Forrest G. Hurst, et ux, to Geo. Wm. Ogle, Jr, et ux, lot in Cloverdale, $1.00. LEE MAMS GETS FOX Lee Manis of Bainbridge driving a truck into town Friday night, saw a gray fox in the road. He swerved his car to keep from hitting it, but the fox still didn’t move. Mr. Manis backed up. got out of the car, and threw a blanket over the fox, brought him to town and sold him to Glenn Hurst
for $1.
Mrs, Charles Steegmiller received the following letter from her son, Robert E. Steegmiller, who is stationed somewhere in France: Dear Mom, Well we got a little break so here goes ^another letter. 1 wrote two letters to you last week. Hope you got them O. K. So far I am still O. K. and just hope I stay that way. I have lost a little weight which I believe is due to eating those C rations. They’re not much for putting on fat so if you will, don't forget to send me a package with some food in it. 1 would like a nice banana pie but guess that’s out, so you can just forget to bake that. I know you Can’t buy bananas any way. Boy, what I would give to sit down to a good steak dinner so you can just have one waiting for me when I get home. We buy eggs every once in a While from the French people here hut it is kind of hard telhng them what We want as hardly any one can speak French. I said we bought them, buu that is wrong, we trade cigarettes and candy for them. The French kids run you nuts coming up saying cigarettes for papa. I saw a little girl the other day, she must have been around 4 years old, trying her best to smoke a cigarette and I just imagine that she got pretty sick. I didn’t stick around to
see.
The American Red Cross was he.e this morning and gave us hot coff e and donuts and one of the girls was from Ft. Wayne. She has been overseas for over a year doing Red Cros? work. It is getting to be quite chilly at nights now but it has quit raining for a couple of days and that is a big help. The country that I am in now is certainly beautiful. Can hardly see how there can be a, war going on in it but there sure is. I received a letter from Mervin L. the other day but haven’t had time to answer it but hope to soon. I just write to you and Blanche and sis and don’t have much more time to write. Well, Mom. write soon and tell me the latest gossip around Greencastle and tell me how the family is making it. I hope that I can be home to help eat that Christmas dinner but don’t know whether it will be possible or not. It sure would be alright with me though as I have just about got my fill of this war. Say Mom, I see where your favorite war conespondent is back in the good old U. S. A.. Ernie Pyle. Well, he wag over for 29 months so guess it was time for a break. Well Mom, write soon and I will write again the first chance I get. Bye for now, tell everyone hello for
me.
Love,
Bob,
Sept. 27th, 1944 Dear Mother, I can't remember when 1 last wrote to you, but it seems like ages. This is the first day for a long time that we havn't been on the go all day. I don’t know how long we will sit here, but will write as much as I can. I really should take a bath as it has been nearly a month since I last had one, however, I figure that I had better let the bath go, another day without one won’t hurt me much and I know you are anxiously awaiting a letter. We have certainly been driving hard. I ride with Col. Powers in his peep and we have been on the move nearly sixteen hours a day. We are in direct support of the infantry and tanks. Lots of excitement, these "Krauts" are ceitainly stubborn
people.
The weather has definitely been against us, it has rained part of every day for the past two weeks, mud is knee deep. I just changed my 'shoes,and socks for the first time in 3qy<eral days. .1 have been so w*t and miserable that it isn't funny, however there ar-* plenty of the fellows who are having it tougher than I am. My heart really goes out to the "dough-boys" as they have a hard and rugged life, day in and day out. I think the most beautiful sight I -ever saw in my entire life, was a few days ago. It had been raining hard all day, we wert being sheihd hard all day we were being shelled afternoon the sun. came out and racing along with it came our beloved P47s. They blasttd the “Krauts" out •of the place am. our morale went up a hundred percent. Just as soon as the weather e'ears a little hit. those t oys are on the job. What a wonderful feeling it gives to us to know that they are up there working hard
for us.
Our gang ha-- been spear heading this drive all the way across France, and we want to keep moving. If we stay in one place a day or two we begin to get / ttery as we want this mess over with and get home. In a few minutes wa are going to take a peep and attempt to find some fresh eggs. My high school French comes in rather handy now. I don't remember a whole lot of it, but can get by O. K. I wish 1 could write more often hut I don't get much time. If you don't hear from me, just remember it is only because I am busy. I am enclosing an article reproduced from the "Stars and Stripes ’. It gives the low down on part of the good work we have been doing. Give my regards to everyone. . Love
Jimmie
ALLIES AWAIT PEACE MISSION FROM HUNGARY
DISPATCH FOLLOWS I N(ONFIRMED REPORTS OF RIOTS IN BUDAPEST LONDON. Oct. 14. (UPI -An Istanbul dispatch said Hungarian peace missions were expected to leave Budapest today to contact the allies on the fighting front southeast of the capital and at the Vatican to request armistice terms. The report was attributed to Hungatian diplomatic circles in Istanbul. One delegation was to leave for the front to contact Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky, commander of the Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Army, while the other was said to be planning to enplane for Vatican City to contact Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, supreme allied commander in the Mediterranean theater. The dispatch followed closely unconfirmed reports that panic had broken out in Budapest as Malinovsky's tanks and mobile infantry exploded across the sea-level plains southei^it and east of the capital in a bid for its speedy capture. The unreliable Paris radio said Hungary already had accepted preliminary allied armistice terms, but this was believed at least to be pre-
mature.
SERVING COUNTRY
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Ralph E Shaw
Ralph E. Shaw S 2 c. entered the Navy July 19, 1941!, and has been overseas since February, Shaw is a graduate of Greened s 11 e Riga School, class of 1943. He would like to hear fro n his friends.
Tells Of Activities Of Paratroopers
Germans Battling Three !?ed Armies
MOSCOW, Oct. 14 (UP) Three huge Red Armies, ba ked by planes, guns and warships, stor.r.vd the German's Baltic pocket from three sides today in a bid for speedy liquidation of nearly 100,000 trapped Germans preparatory to a final assault East Prussia. Quickly exploiting their capture of Riga, capital of Latvia and main fortress in the pocket, the 2nd and 3rd Baltic armies smashed at the doomed enemy from the north and east, while the 3rd Baltic army stabIx'd into the southern flank, Soviet warships and planes backed the attacks with shells and bombs and at the same time maintained a tight blockade over the enemy’s two remaining evacuation, ports, Liepaja and Vents pits. Only yesterday, a 6, 000-ton German transport was sent to the bottom by the warships, while naval planes accounted for a 6,00f
tonrwer.
The Germans attempted to ease the pressure against their southern flank with an amphibious landing behinu the Soviet lines near Palanga, 14 miles north of Memal, but were driven off by Soviet guns and planes with a loss of four of their 24 landing
vessels.
UOI N< IL \\ ILL MEET
The city council will meet in regu-
at 8 o’clock.
Ya Don't Say!
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14 "The prettiest sight I ever saw was a bunch of our paratroopers silencing one of those big shore batteries on the channel coast,’’ Lt. Howard W. Boomershlne. Greencastle, reported on his return to the Armed Guard
Center here.
"Our ship made seven trips to Ur’ beachhead carrying supplies an I
troops and the Germans used to take j lBr . SPSsion Monday evening
pot shots at us rvgularly. A British 1 monitor moved in and dueled with the battery for two days, and then one morning we saw big, British transport planes over the battery
area.
’The paratroopers fairly boiled out of thy planes. After a short time the battery quit firing. That silence was the nicest sound 1 had heard jn a long time," the Armed Guard Officer related. Lt. Boomershine also reported brushes with enemy aircraft off the French coast, and buzz bomb raids in the English port. Before entering the naval service February 15, 1943, Lt Boomershiiie was athletic director of Kentland, Ind public schools. He is u graduate of Central NormalOollegv, Danville, Ind. and obtained his Master's degree from Purdue University in 1940. At Central Normal he lettered in football, baseball, basketball, track and tennis. His wife, Marjorie, lives at 615 East Seminary, Greencastle. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo D. Boomershine are residents of Monon, Ind.
B-29s JOIN IN AERIaL ATTACK ON JAP ISLAND RAID CARRIES INTO FIFTH DAY CAMPAIGN TO SMASH JAI* DEFENSES
Mrs. Nelson Taulman and Mrs. ‘“'raid Handy spent the day in Ind■ana polig. Miss Jane Farmer went to Rock rille for a Sunday School meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Randel attend t '' 1 H show in Brazil. "ard Arnold was home from s Pearville, Kansas, where he was emI'loyed during the harvest season.
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm G. Wyer of Denver, Colorado are spending a few weeks visiting with their daughter and husband. Dr. and Mrs. D. W. Killinger. Mrs Paul Hendrick and daughter Sandra Lou who have spent the past several months in Florida with their husband and father Paul Hendrick, who is in the U. S. Navy, returned to their home in Greencastle Friday.
BKAZZILL THROWING HIS MONEY AWAA .INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 14 (UPl When police found Lon Brazzill, 47, Aurara, Ind., throwing money around the lobby of a hotel, they arrested him on a charge of vagrancy. They were unable to determine the amount of cash Brazzill scattered about him, but they stopped him before he became bankrupt. Brazzill had $305 left.
BIRTHS ON FRIDAY I8TH Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rubeck, Poland Route 2, are the parents of a daughter born Friday, Oct. 13th, at the Putnam county hospital. A daughter was born Friday, Oct. 13th to Mr. and Mrs. John Garl, 202 south Indiana street, at the Putnam county hospital.
Putnam County War Chest HAVE YOU HEARD THAT: The book your money buys kee|>s some boy in u prison camp from going "Btirhed-WIre Crazy.”
TINS TIN! GIVE I S MOKE TIN! Tin is fast becoming one of our chief worries. Japan still holds possession of the largest tin produein ■ mines in. the world, and, no doubt, they will destroy these mines when the South Pacific Islands arc retaken. We need more and more tin for the manufacture of war materials, machinery for producing war materials and civilian uses. Our government stockpile of tin is gradually becoming smaller. We are slipping in our collections of empty tin cans on the home front our hugest possible source for tin this tin may be used over and over. If a tin can Is thrown away, that tin is lost forever. We must not let this condition grow worse we must improve it at once. We must salvage all possible tin. until the Japs are driven from the South Pacific and the mines ar" returned to normal production. Even if the European war were over tomorrow, we would still have u hard salvage job to do. Let's not think now of slowing up on the job let's keep enthused until the last Jap says, "enough." Let's make our Army and Navy of ficials, and our fighting men, proud of Indiana. Let's "Help Pass the Ammunition," to our fighting forces whereever they may be.
ROME, Oct. 14.—(UD—The last remaining German troops on the Greek island of Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic have surrendered, it was announced today. ROME, Oct. 14.—(UP)—American troops of the Fifth Army have cleared the town of Gesso and cap til red a height to the north, less tlian nine miles from the Hologna-Kimini highway, it was announced today. PEARL HARBOR. Oct. 14 (UP) American B-29 Superfortresses, joining the all-out offensive to knock out defenses protecting the invasionmarked Philippines, blasted burning Formosa today on the heels of curler planes which destroyed or damaged 227 enemy ships and 530 planes in four days of raids on Japan’s inner
bases.
(A Japanese communique said the Superfortress raid was carried out by "about 100 B-29’s” and followed two new attacks earlier today by 450 carrier-based planes. (The enemy communique, broadcast by Tokyo radio and recorded by FCC, said the B-29's were repulsed "almost without dropping any bombs,") An announcement at the War Department in Washington by Gen. 1L H. Arnold, commanding general of the 20th Air Force, said a "large force" of the huge four-engined bombers attacked military targets on Formosa today, but gave neither the size of the force nor the specific targets. It said further details would be revealed as soon as they are available. The Superfoi tress raid carried into the fifth day a sustained campaign that smashed Japanese defenses from the Ryukyu islands, within 200 miles of their homeland, through Formosa and the Pescadores to Luzon, the heart of the Philippines. In the first four days of the offensive, Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher’s famed “Task Force 58,” wagj ing the greatest carrier strikes in Pacific w'arfare, took a terrific toll of enemy-sea and air resources. Robert McAllister Missing In Action Staff Sergeant Robert L. McAllister, ago 20 years, of Reelsville, is missing in action according to word received by his mother. Mrs. Eva McAllister, on Thursday. The message from the War Department read as follows: ’The Secretary of War desires me to express his deep regret that your son, Staff Sergeant Robert L McAllister has been reported missing ir. action since twenty-four September in Germany. If further details or other information are receive*! you will be promptly notified. Signed. The Adjutant General.” Young McAllister has been in the service eighteen months and tie lias been stationed overseas for th*' past six months. He attended Reelsville school and is well known in the Reelsville community.
B. E. Lockwood, who has been' visiting with Rev. F. O. Eraley anil family left Saturday for his home in Cuyahogo Falls, Ohio.
DER FUEHRER, who should nave stuck to paperhanging, gives out with a spiel for his Nazi listeners. And brother, he really gives out. That's okay, Adolf, you give out now—you'll be giving up soon. March of Time Newsreel of a recent speeofc, (International)
FINGER PRINTS ARE CU ES HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 14 (UP) - From a set of smeared fingerprints on the door of her stolen automobile, police hoped today to learn the identity of the man perhaps a (soldier who forced his attentions <>o her earlier at a canteen- who strungl d Georgette Bauerdorf with a towel jammed down her throat. & Today’s Weather <8* I • and ♦ [ 4b Local Temperature 41 4l4»4l4b4t4t4t4t»4t4l Fair today through Sunday, warmer south and central portions today, continued mild Sunday.
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