The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 November 1944 — Page 1
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IS. TIMMONS APPOINTED TO HEALTH BOARD
IHK.) BY (CITY COINC'Il. MONDAY SUCCEEDING MRS. HI GGAKD lis. W. O. Timmons was name ! I city health inspector by the city ncil during its regulai session lulay night. She succeeds Mrs liam Haggard, who submitted he 1 - ||gnat;on as a member of the city Jth board as of October t. irs. Huggard has served most efently for several months. Her fcgnation was due to additional les with DePauw University. Councilman Waul Mayhall mov[tliat Mrs. Timmons be appointed Serve for the remainder of th.|r. This motion was seconded by [incilman Cecil Fellers and the w:is unanimous. W. Query was granted perniis. to build a shed on to a garage J311 Ohio street at an estimat. 1. |t if $50. The petition of M. O. ^ikI to repair roof at 406 south liana street at a cost of $40 war. gi anted. Both of these p emi t: Ire passed subject to the approval 11he fire chief. The Application ol |rry Crawford to run a drain untile sidewalk at 302 west Walnut is allowed providing it was ap|vrd by the street com nissioner. letter from R. E. Sandy, pro|etor of the Home Steam Laundry read by Councilman Herbert liver. Mr. Sandy asked permiss.or. Ithe council to build a loading dock |o-thirds of the length of the •asi pc of the building at the corner of Mhington street and Spring Ave Be. The dock will he four feet wid Id extend north at sidewalk level, (will be built of cement and cement boks. Councilman Hex Thorlton pved that Mr. Sandy be granted rmission to build the loading dock, lis was seconded by Couneilnm: pliers and the vote on same w.ePanimous, llncluded in the claim Ordinance M the claim of the Seagrave Coniinyof Columbus, Ohio, for •'>x.:!72.6t» Ir the new fire truck.
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1944.
NO. 329
AS U. S. S. PRINCETON SANK IN PHILIPPINE SEA BATTLE
of C. Dinner On Hovember 28 | The annual Good will dinner, given th' Greencastle Chamber of ComIcree for DePauw Univers.ty stupnts and officials, will be held in Gobin Memorial Church on Tuesly evening. November 28. it was an fcunced. A committee consisting of James I 1 lice, Sam Hanna, Lo s Arnold, and r'aii Dirks i s arranging an Inter Pting program for the evening. Included In the lists of guests will heads of t he fraternities and sor titics and executive officials.. These citings have grown over the past w years until it is now one of tin I' nortant and most interesting meet t's’s the Chamber of Commerce holds Paring the year. PUTNAM COURT NOTES
HIT BY JAP BOMBS on Oct. 24 in the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, .he light carrier, U. S. S. Princeton, is seen during her last moments above water. Top photo, a Pacific fleet cruiser which took Princeton personnel aboard, pours streams ofwater into the stricken ship. Some of the survivors are shown, left, working hard to empty their overcrowded whale boat. Of nearly 1,300 officers anti men aboard the Princeton, nearly all were saved. Official U. S. Navy photos. (International)
PLEDGE LISTS ANNOUNCED BY DPUJORORITIES FOLLOWS COMPLETION OF RUSH W EEK ON COLLEGE CAM PCS
SERVING COUNTRY
A pledge list of 175 girls, including S from Greencastle and 17 from Indlanapois, was released today by DePauw University’s nine national sororities. All DePauw sororities did not complete, their quotas with the closing of the rushing activities which preceded the opening of the winter semester this week. This year's rushing activities at DePauw included a six-day rush period and a special day of rush orientation, instituted for the first time tliis year to acquaint new students and their parents with the problems and practices of preferential bidding at DePauw.
The following girls have pledged by DePauw sororities:
been
UNITED STATES CITIZENS CAST BALLOTS TODAY
VOTERS OF NATION VISIT POLLS IN WARTIME ELECTION , NEW YORK, Nov. 7. (UP)-
11 States Delay Vote Tabulation
If today's election is as close as many analysts say it will be, a presidential decision may hinge on th • service vote In that event the new president may not be known for days or weeks because eleven states d) not count their service ballots right
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thom"s :l \vny.
E. Dewey are top contestants today For example. Pennsylvania with 35 in the nation’s fiist wartime ptaV- doctoral votes and classed as a dential election since 1864 and tens doubtful state, does not start countof millions of citizens arc exercising, in S ds service vote estimated at ‘heir secret uallot rights from coast- JfbUnd 250,000 until Nov. 22. rho
Nannie B. Harrell vs. George M. harrell, suit for divorce. Hughes t r'lghes are attorneys for the plain-
tiff.
I-cna Barnes vs. Lorenzo N. Barnsuit for divoice. Hughes & fl'ighes are the plaintiff’s attorney i.
ATTENDING IM KIH E
Hoy Vcsclinovitch, son of Mr. and
to-coast in 140.498 voting precinct i. It is a rare and ligid test of our democracy. The men and women of the armed services have been voting for weeks and most of their ballots are sealed now waiting for the polls to be closed before being tallied. Poll takers foresee the closest presidential contest since 1916 when Charles Evans Hughes. Republica'i. lost by a whisker to Woodrow Wilson, Democrat. A score of states are listed as close or doubtful. The absentee service vote may be decisive in any of them, including big New Yolk and Pennsylvania. The winner needs ft least 266 of the 531 el-
ectoral votes.
National Democratic Chairman Rooert E. Ilannegan predicted tin t Mr Roosevelt would do better than he did in 1940 when he carried 38 states. Heibert Brownell, Jr., national Republican chairman, said not only that Gov. Dewey would be elected, but that Republicans would not “Concede a single state, outside the
solid South.’’
State laws already have assured
GOOD WEATHER MARKS ELECTION DAY IN COUNTY
LIGHT VOTE REPORTED SEVERAL PRECINCTS DURING MORNING
counting may take several days i t huge counties. Other states, with their electoral votes and the dates for counting such
ballots ate:
California 25 Nov. 24. Colorado 6 Nov. 22. Florida 8 Nov. 8-17. Maryland 8 Nov. 9. Missouri 15 Nov. 10. Nebraska 6 Nov. 13-Dec. 1. North Dakota 4 Up to Dec. 5. Rhode Island 4 Dec. 5. Utah 4- Nov. 7-12. Washington 8 Nov. 27-Dec. 5. British Official Dies of Wounds CAIRO. Nov. 7. (UP)* Jewish extremists critical of Biitain's policy in Palestine were blamed today for the assassination of Lord Moyne, British resident minister to the
Middle East.
(Prime Minister Churchill told Commons in London that the British
that the service vote will be delayed government had “as yet received no in 11 states. In any photo-finish el*. 0 ffj C j a | information which fixes authection this year the winner conceiv- . 0 f t)ie crime or gives a clue < > ably might not be known until Uv. lls mo tive." He added that "very last ol the late-tally states have be i searching inquiries will be made into reported. The last is North Dakot i jjj,. origin and association of these which makes its final service ballot ,t rHn g,.,s (the assassins) to
count on Dec. 7. Egypt.’’)
Officials estimate that 4.894 225 Moyne died at a British military service ballots were distributed and hospital at 6:49 p. in. yesterday, sev-
Iis. Sam Budich of Mai-Unavtlle j that 2,856,993 will be returned for cral houra after two youths shot him
street, has left for Purdue UniveipHY' where he is taking post gradbat work in botany and agriculture. He graduated from DePauw Univer-
pdy recently.
HIGGLE RITES WEDNESDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Mamie Sanders Higgle, who died at Miami, Ha., will be held Wednesday aftetihoon at 2 o’clock from the Chastain 1 Funeral Home. The Rev. Ray Brit|ion will officiate. Burial will be in : the Ladoga cemetery.
counting. New York already has : in ttle nec |( cheat and abdomen aj announce I that 411,128 service bin- h( , s i,.pp ( . r | into his automobile in lots had been received by the statu- » nm t f) f his home in Cairo, tory st iti deadline which was yeater- ,j hf , two aHH aiiants were mobbed, nay noon. In many states, including --tupped naked and nearly lynched New York, the potential soldier vote i t|y elUa g e ,i crowds at the scene.
which Mr Wendell L.
20 Years Ago IN OREKNr A8TLE Hatry Stamp was here from Raccoon. Mr. and Mrs. Don McLean and soo Hft on a trip ot V.cksburg, Miss. Harry Hawkins was first in the ■Weekly shoot held by the local Gun Club.
exceeds the number by Roosevelt led the late
Willkie in 1940.
In addition to the presidency and vice presidency, this election Will choose 432 members of the House of Representatives, .".6 United Staten senators. 31 governors and literally thousands of lesser officials. One of the 56 Senate seats Is for a meaningless two-month term which expires | with the present 78th Congress on : Jan. 3, next. Maine elected its three ' members of the House all Republi1 cans and a Republic*! governor last September. There was no. 194 4 senatorial election in Maine. PI TNAMVILK SCOUT NOTES All those inteiested in becoming a Boy or Girl Scout please come to the meeting Thuisday night, November 9th at 7:30 at the Piitnamvilie school
j house.
Rescued by police, they sullenly refused to, answer questions put *o them by high Biitisli and Egyptian
officials.
Gen. Sit Bernard Pagett, Biitisli commander in the Middle-East, referred to tnem as “Jewish assassins ’ In a brief statement eulogizing Moyne as a “great public servant.”
Election day In Putnam county was bright and cold, and the usual early voters were at the |m)IIs soon after they opened at six o'clock, but there was no rush at any of them locally. In some of the precincts less than 100 voters had cast their ballots by nine o'clock, three hours aftvr the opening. Candidates were busy at all the precincts and election officials forecast a heavy vote due to interest from til',- top of the presidential ballot to the bottom of the county
ballot.
Each voter received three ballots, federal, state and county. On the federal ballot were the names for senator. On the state were those for governor and state c-andidates and on the county ballot, were thv names of candidates for congress and the county candidates, including those for state representative. The polls will not close until eight o'clock. The vot* count will not start until after that hour and it will be well towards morning before any scattered returns are available. Eastern returns and in states or cities where voting machinfs are used, the returns will be available earlier than in places where the paper ballot is used. It is exported that some scattered returns will be trickling in late tins afternoon from Isolated spots in New England where only a dozen votes are cast in each election, while in the heavily regis tored precincts in the cities, the early reports will b" available soon after the closing of polls, due to tabula tions quickly by machines. In New York the polls remain open until nine o'clock and in Michigan the same is true, and with the soldier vote being counted latvr definite returns may be some time off. AWAITS WRIT HEARING INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 7 (UP) Mrs. Wyona Kidd Luallen. ex-wife of William Luallen, confessed Slayer of WAC CpI. Maoma Ridings, today awaited a hearing on a habeas corpus petition filed on her behalf yesterday in criminal court. Arrested at Knoxville, Ky., when her erstwhile husband accused her of the Indianapolis hotel slaying he later admitted himself, Mrs. Lualfcn has been held under high bond on a burglary charge.
NOTICE All mothers of the Mothers Service Club who wish to take part in the Armistice Day program Saturday are requested to meet at the Legion Home at 10:15 a. m. Saturday.
Mrs. G. B. Henry received a telegram this morning notifying her of the death of hei brother, Frank Webster. of Roanoke, Virginia. He passed away Monday.
HOG MARKET Hogs 9.000; slow; opened steady to Shippers; few sales 180-270 lbs., at mid-session to shippers 5 cauls under early; 160-180 lbs., $14.45; 180-200 and 240-270 lbs., $14.50-$14.55; 20!’240 lbs., $14.60-$14.65, top $14.65; 271-400 Ibst, $14.05; 100-180 lbs.. $12.75-$14; sows 5c to 10c lower; medium and good and choice $13.75
$13.90.
Alpha ( hi Omega
Helen Harris, River Forest, 111.; Carolyn Wilson, Indianapois; Betty Broth, Chicago; Esther Hildebiand, Greencastle; Ann Graham. Geneva. 111.; Mary Hobbs, Floasmoor, 111 : Barbara Carrol, Hammond; Marilyn Baker, Indianapolis; Elaine Aiken. Loctonia, O.; Jan Brackncy, Broom ton. Joyce Cooper, Freeport, 111 ; Susanne Lawver, Indianapolis; Virginia Zehold , Kenilworth, 11!.; Laurice Bartlett,. Melrose, Mass.; Prise.11a Armstrong, Kenilworth. 111.: Lucille Traintor, Springfield, O.
Alpha Gamma Della
Carol Borge, Oak Park, 111.; iPatrica Coyne, Villa Park, 111.; Maltha Ellen Harris, Columbus; Marilynn Kline. Hoopston, 111.; Eliza both lane Lcisk, Belleville, ill ; Eleanor Mackey. Waukegan. 111.; Louis-’ Martin. Indianapolis; Betty Lou Mercer, Indianapolis: Joan Nelson, Chi-i engo; Eleanor Nystrom, Waukegon 111.; Alice Smith. Chicago; Mary Virginia Smith, Chicago; Doreen Sutton, Clarendon 11.Us, 111.; Margaret Richey, B.rmingham, Mich.; Mar jorie Jane Thulin, Oak Paik, 111.; Billie Werner, Evansville; Dona Lou Wilson. South Bend; Barbara Young
Toled’), O.
Alpha Omieriin !M Ruth Bartsch, Winnetka, 111.; Marilyn Bredfield, Chicago; Marcia Conner, Sullivan; Betty Dunkley, Chicago; Mignon Fronian, Mt Carmel, 111.; Leola Gray, Chicago; Harriett Hesslin, Matt--on. 111.; Margaret Judaon, Oak Park, 111.: Ellynjean Kubricht, Congress Park. 111.; Rebecca Longden, Greencastle; Virginia Morbcrg, Chicago; Betty Owens, Greencastle; Lucille Reinhart, N -w Albany; Mary Ellen West Greencastle.
Alpha I’hi
Barbara Ann Kogan, Skok.c, 111.. Emma Lou Butzen, Milwaukee, Wis,; Janet CademUs, LaGrange, 111 Patricia Cllnthero, I eoria. 111.; Elea nor Ann Creed, Hinsdale, 111 ; I’a tricia Crothers, Grand Rapids, Mich Kathryn Erjeksm . J toekford, -.11 Marilyn Erickson, Rockford, 111 Gloria Fred, Marion; Barbara Jeai, Kreger, Winnetka. 111.; Margie Neal. Greencastle; Jane Osborn, Indian apolis; Barbara Page, River Forest 111.; Frances Pirkle, Rockville; Ihubara Reynolds, Chi ago; D ris lingers, Evanston, 111.; ancy Seism. Evanav.lle; Su- Shafer, Bowling Green, Ohio; Alice Sheridan. Green castle; Flora Stanbeiy, Rockford, III.; Marilyn Whitman, Ft. Lauder
dale, Fin.
Delta U Mii Delta
Lois Ann iBauersehmidt, Chicago; Jean Burton, Dayton, O.; Jean Cahail, Evanston, 111.; Barbara Chase, Rocky River, O.; Myra Egi,->r, Spencer; Rosemary Eyrich, Cincinnati' Sh rley Hooper, La Grange, III , Betty Howard, Loveland, O.; Rutli Kennedy, Cincinnati; Phyllis Lewis Marion, O.; Jeanne Lindsay, Chicago; Virginia McGahey, Ft Wayne; Marjorie McLane, Culver: Allice Melick Toledo, O.; Martha Lou M Her, South Bend; Mary Noll, Cincinnati; Jam -Pittman, Terre Haute; Ruth Ann Sheaffer, Grosse Point, Mich.; Jeanne Seifling, River Forest. 111.; Betty Lou Stephenson, Richmond; Betty Jane Thompson, Indianapolis; Pa-
tricia Walker, Pueblo, Colo. Delta /.eta 1
Mary Arnold, Charleston, III.; Jer rine Coffman, Hopkinsv.lle, Kentucky; Betty Jean Crousore, Greencastle; Beverly Farquer, Indianapolis; Rosemarie Hosbach, Erie, Pa.; Rosemary McBane, Fortville; Louis > McLean, Chicago; Ronianine Mutc.hler, Wilmington, III.; Marjorie Post, Sandusky, O,; Slcla Reeves, East Chicago; Patricia Stutz, Indianapolis; Harriett Vehslage, Seymour; Ann Marie Watsktn, Whiting.
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This picture, from the Signal Corps, somewhere in Germany, shows Pvt. Anthony Vcntivo, Windgap, Pa., helping Sgt. Charles Crawley of Greencastle, Ind.. wash his field jacket at a place which is local ed inside the Siegfried line, which is on the western German border.
LIBERATION OF LEYTE IN FINAL PHASE TANK CARRIER PLANES DESTROY 191 JAP PLANES, EIGHT VESSELS
GREAT TANK BATTLE'RAGES AT BUDAPEST
STALIN S\YS REDS HAVE
KILLED Ol! CAPTURED MILLIONS OF GERMANS
MOSCOW. Nov. 7. (UP) Victorious Soviet armies have killed or captured 8,590,000 German Hoops on the eastern ,110111 Marshal Josef Stalin disclosed today as his forces engaged the enemy in a groat tank battle outside Budapest, last Na’.i satellite capital in Europe. (Berlin reported that the Russians weie bringing up strong motorized formations for a final assault on Budapest, and claimed that oth r Soviet forces had made two attempts to eioss the Danube in an effort to swing around the rear of the capit-
al.)
Stalin in an order of the day obseivlng the 27tli anniversary of the Red i - -volution, said the Germauvlolated frontier hud been restored for it entire length from the Black S- a to the Barents Sea, and triumphantly declared: ‘ Our aim now is to smash Hitlerite Germany by the crushing pro?s in - of the allied nations." Slalin disclosed that the two sumniei offensives which carried Soviet troop into East Prussia, pushed the Germans hack to Warsaw and lib- • tsli-d Romania and Bulgaria, cost the Gilmans 790,()<)() killed or cap-
tured
On June 22. German casualties fothe fust three yeai - of the eastern campaign were set at 7,800,000. thus hri- g-ug the total to 8.590,000 f >: les-- than three and a half years of
warfui e.
Soviet forces liberated tens of millions of persons, from the yoke of Nazi - i, Stalin said, and together with allied armies have taken up p->-sitious --foi a decisive offensive on the life center of Germany.” Although the regular communiqu--for tin first time since Oct. 2 repo t-.-(J "no essential changes on th. front ' military dispatches said t)v. t attle before Budapest had reache I -fusee proportions" as the Gerinanf made an llth hour attempt to halt Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian Aimy. (Getman repoits also spoke of In ns fighting lit Budapest but diiimcd that Nazi panzer forces had hampered the Soviet drive by cutting the supply line between Budapest and Kecskemet, 43 miles to the
loutheast.
(The Gel limns also claimed their forces turned back two attempts r>y Malinovsky's troops to cross the Danube at Baja. 87 miles south oi. Budapest, and at flunafoldvai). 14
miles to the north.)
iR.iuio Paris, without offering an> jsource of its information, reported I that workers in Budapest had reI volt d, left armament factories anti I attacked the city’s radio station. U j also reported that the Hungarian government had escaped from Buda-
pest. )
NAVY It LIMP FALLS
BOSTON, Nov. 7— (UP) Two men were lost and eight rescued after a Navy blimp on an operational flight from the south Weymouth air base crashed into the Atlantic ocean 12 miles east of Cape Cod in foul weather yesterday, the Navy announced today.
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(PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 7 - (UP) —The Litreration of Leyte neared its final ph^se today while American carrier planes, striking at the ultimate American objective in the Philippines, reported the destruction >f 191 Japanese planes and blasting of eight or more ships In raids on the Manila area. A stihtfjprine chaser was sunk, j heavy cruiser probably sunk and a light crufter, three destroyers and "several"* two or more cargo ships damaged by aircraft of the 3rd Fleet in or near Manila bay Saturday. Pacific Fleet headquarters announced n a communique. Tank-packed American invasion forces on Leyte, 350 miles south of Manila, w ire reported sweeping aside light enemy opposition in covorging advances within 16 miles north and 11 miles routh of Ormoc, last Japanese stronghold on the island. "Our advance toward Ormoc continues unchecked/' Gen. Douglas Mao.Arthur reportqd in his daily eommiuiique from his headquarters on
Leyte.
The anticipated clash w.th the main Japanese force north of Ormoc failed to .lop. The Japanese weie r»>unter-attacking only feebly before resuming their retreat, but it was possible they have prepared for stand nearer Ormoc to cover
evacuation attempt.
Admiral Chester W Nimitz. in announc.ng the carrier-based raid on the Manila area, said preliminary reports shewed that "much damage" was done in Manila Harbor and at five airfields in the vicinity. The submarine chaser was sunk off Luhang island, at the entrance to Manila bay, w liilo the heavy cruise** probably sunk was left burning and settling in the bay itself from several b>nb a ml torpedo hits, The other vessels damaged also were hit
inside the bay,
Oil storage areas, shops and hangars were bombed and set afire at Clark Field, the main military field outside Manila, while ground installations also were damaged heavily at nearby Batangas, Ltpu, la-gaspi and Lubang Fields, More than 100 enemy planes were destroyed on the ground at the five a.rflelds. Eighty Japanese aircraft challenged the 3rd Fleet's fighter i during their sorties over Clark Field, but 58 *>f them were shot
down.
Enemy sir opposition weakened alter the first strike, but another 2:5 enemy aircraft were shot down over other targets, FivJ more were shot down n an attempted attack on th • American carriers and a final three were knocked down by carrier-based night fighters over Clark Field. The bag of 191 planes raised the unofficial toll exacted by Ainerii in forces In the Pacific since Aug. .JO to 4,500, comprising 1,553 shot down In combat, 2,694 destroyed on th - ground snd 233 probably destroyed ir damaged. Nimitz's communique al:• > report- \ new raids on Tori Shl.ma, an island east of Paramurthlro .n the Kuriles; Kurabu Zaki, on th - southern tip of Paramushiro; Chi Chi Jima and Halm Jima, in the Bonin islands; Koror and Babclthuap islands, in the northern I’alaiis; Yap Island, n the western Carolines; Wake Island and Marcus (Island. MacArthur disclosed that vanguards of the American 24th Division on Leyte had thrust four miles south of Caiigara Bay beyond Limnn on a winding mountain road to within 16 miles north of Ormoc, west coast air and sea base. "The enemy, situated in favorab!
defensive terrain attempted three piecemeal counter-attacks which, were sharply repulsed," MacArthur f<'nnllnii« k *l On I'ms#* Two* <»««••**«»«• $ Today's Weather O t> and * ft Local Temperature ft ftftftftftftftftftftft
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