The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 November 1944 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"

IE FIFTY-TWO

IS REQUESTS ORATION OF LOCAL SHOPPERS

CNS ASKED TO MAIL IDS, rAC'KAGES EARLY THIS YEAR

their excellent cooperatioi recent overseas early Christiji ng campaign now a matter prd. the people of Putnam arc being a skod by the Poa\ [ to continue their help in easstrain on Post Office persontransportation facilities by domestic cards and package.? ember 1st. master Albert Dobbs today j attention to the Post Of ■ lesti nate that there will be iristmas mail this year thar |efore. This docs nut take intr ^t packages that were mailed October 15th. pg last year's experience, Mr. said the shortage, of help all post offices face this year overcome if the public will |e a few simple requests. ople will find it to their a dje, "Mr. Dobbs said, "if. they operate with us on this alltant matter of Christmas mail such public assistance is joniing, can we promise delivery [ packages and Christmas cards December 25th. kspite many handicaps, our len and other post office emits last year did a good job. \ they have pledged themselves prpas* that fine record this nas season, but they can’t kre the impossible. If the flood b stmas mail is, as most author- [ predict, greater than ever bothe post office employees will I every bit of cooperation they let." , pfs all adopt the slogan, "shop piail in November this year.' 1 JIANA UNIVERSITY HONORS ERNIE PYLE JOM1NGTON, tnd., Nov. 14 |)—Ernie Pyle, the colorful but Burning American war corres(ent. returned today to Indiana Jersity, his alma matei. and rek<l his second honorary degree in

Di:th.

le 14-year-old globe-trotter, who I similarly honored by the Univer|of New Mexico last month, had fried upon him by Indiana the liary degree of doctor of humane |rs, amid tributes by admiring

lat >rs.

Lie heard himself described as [accurate reporter with a yen to about common people and orry things," "a soldier fighting (tin' freedom of mankind,” “a i Jlnlist with a kef'n sense of ob-1 kation." "unexcelled interpreter cf pninda and hearts of men In pee* t in war," and "an advocate for ! lights of the soldiers in the

Its."

Fhilo his father, William C. Pyle, his "Aunt Mary" Bales, both of | home town of Dana, lnd„ looked I’ylc modestly accepted the deal a special university convocifresident Herman B. Wells of Inha University conferred the d •

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1944.

NO. 335

NAVY GUNNERS BRING DOWN JAP DIVE BOMBER

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I . - - - ^ ^ ^ A JAP DIVE B0M3ER burns on the water after being shot down by Navy gunners aboard! an aircraft earner ilui.iu; the rreent liattlc of the Philippines. A photographer can be seen In the foreground recording the scene. This is an oflicial United Slates Navy photo. (International Soundphoto)

YANKS PRESS EVER CLOSER TO JAP BASE THREATEN TO CUT ENEMY FRONT IN TWO LV ORMOC SECTOK A LI JED HEADQUARTERS. Philippines. Nov. 14.—(UP)—American invasion forces threatened to cut the Ia|>anes«‘ front in northwest Leyte n two today with a push to within five miles of the key road junction if Ubungao. 10 miles north of Onnoc. (A Japanese eonununique said Ja(uines.> planes had sunk an Arncr.ran battleship in an attack on a task force east of Luzon last night. Aurther Tokyo broadcast, heard by CBS, said American earner plar.es bombed Manila, 550 miles north of Le>ie, twice yesterday.) Tl»e fall of Llbungao, already under Amritran artillery fire, would Isolate two enemy dlviatons delaying the American advance down the main highway from Pinamopoan t » the north from the main Japanese garrison around the wrest roast se.t and air bas»' of Omioc in the south

SERVING COUNTRY

M o r r i s Leon Dunn, f i r e ni a t first class in the U. S. Navy, Is with a destroyt r on sea duty in the South Pacific. Ho is the husband cf M i s . Catherine ^ Dun of (J r e e n - Morris L. Dunn castle.

UNION AGENT HELD

tecil a. Shuey, an Indianapolis kn sentntive of the Carpenters and Inors' Union of the A. F. of L . was lasted by Indiana state police at lion headquarters at Indianapolis Viday on a charge of being an acP"iy after the fact in embezzleInt. Mr. Shuey was arrested on a HunfSton county warrant in connection P 11 the embezzlement there of [4 40 in union funds. The case also ■ulted In the arrest of several ■ntington county union officials. Huntington county sheriff took Shuey to Huntington after tho Irrant was served.

Dealing Gets Prison Penalty Elbridge Patrick Dealing, charg'd with second degree burglary in the robbing of the local Railway Express office last 'week, received a irison sentence of 2 to 5 years upon his plea of guilty in Putnam circuit court before Judge John H. Alice Monday afternoon. Dealing, who was arrested at his home in Indianapolis Saturday by Sheriff Paul Grimes and state policeman Gaylord Howerton, was return'd to jail pending further investigation oT his case. Mrs. Hearing was taken into custody by the authorities who are probing her alleged activities in connection vith her husband. Sheriff Grimes said Tuesday that Mrs. Dealing and h< 1 12-year old brother, Eugene Johnson, Sycamore itreet, weie involved in cashing b>tween $l.. r >00 and $2 000 in government checks stolen from mail boxes in Indianapolis by Dearing. The Johnson boy was apprehended at tin home of his grandfathei. neai Mooresville, Monday night. The shei iff expected U. S. posta 1 authorities to be in Greencastle som time Tuesday or Wednesday on the

case.

AMERICAN WARSHIPS BLOCKADE JAP ISLAND PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 14 I UP Ameiican warships blockaded Ngeregong sland in the southern Palaus today and apparently trapped a small enemy force on th ■ tiny isle, the first recaptured by the Japanese in the Pacific war. Admiral Chester W. Nunitz announced that approximately 200 Japanese, aimed with knee-mortart and machine guns, landed on the island, northwest of American-held Peleliu, Tuesday nigtht during a

storm.

A small U. S. Marine patrol stationed on Ngeregong was quickly removed in Several American 1/ 11 I landing craft infantry), und Nimitz said the 1 vacuation was made with-

out casualties. ,

The Denges passage, north of Ngeregong. through which the Japanese invaders apparently came, was immediately blockaded by tw»> U. S.

gunboats und a destroyer.

On Thursday, American surface ships and planes bombarded the is-

SOVIETS MAKE NEW ADVANCES UPON BUDAPEST

Metz Hit In Two-Way Drive I'AKIS, No\. II.—(1 I*)—Supreme headquarters ri piutcil tmtn\ that the U. S. !lrd \rm.\ hail captured the Yser fortress croup, four miles south of Met/.. PARIS. Nov 14. (UPl Lt. Gen George S Patt "i's :ird Army stormed Metz from two sides today, capturing the second of the city's nine math forts In a thrust to within three and a half mih i of the outskirts from the south un i launching a frontal assault five miles to the west.

It also would rut the main link lietween Ormoc and Palompan. 16 miles

OUTFLANK NAZI STRONGHOLD AND DRIVE TO Hi MILKS OF CAPITAL MOSCOW, Nov. 14 (UP) —The 2nd Ukiainian Army outflanked the enemy stiongtlold of Jnszbereny today and sent armoreo forces thrusting to witnin less than 16 miles east of Budapest In a converging drive on the Hungarian capital, already besieged from the south. (Berlin reported that Soviet tanks had driven into Jaszbereny, 31 miles east of Budapest, yesterday but the enemy report was not confirmed by the Russian communique.) Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’? forces, which swung a 20-mile a?e i round Jnszbereny, were moving apidly in the drive from the east ind advanced moie than 10 miles ir 24 hour;;, ,despite increasing eneir;

opposition.

The offensive, the second launcher' ./gainst Budapest by Red Aimy. was taking a heavy toll of German ami Hungarian forces. A communique <aid that 1.200 enemy troops were killed and 1.000 others captured yesterday on the eastern approaches to the capital, with the 20th Hungarian Infantry Division 1 educed to about

l OoO men.

Malinovsky’s thrust from the east was sprat headed by one unit which seized Benyc, 16 miles east of Budapest, the western anchor of the arc mound Jaszbereny. The eastern end of the arc was established in Ja-szapati, 10 miles cast of Jaszbereny, where the Soviet forces cut one of the two main highways between Budapest and Miskolc, the country’s seventh city in northeastern Hungary. (Berlin said other Russian troops which entered Fuezesaoony, 50 miles southwest of Miskolc, were menacing the second highway 18 miles above the first road. Cutting of the two highways would leave the Germans uml Hungarians in northeastern Hungary only a.Ciicuitous route to

Budapest.)

In establishing the front around Jaszbereny, a key communications center on the Zagyva river, the Soviets also occupied Jasymihalytelek.

Students Hear Col. Dave Shoup Col. David M. Shoup, Marine hero of the battle of Tarawa who has won the nation's highest award for heroism, the Congressional Medal of Honor, returned to his alma mater Monday to tell DePauw University students that theirs is the chaUcngf to stop future wars Colonel Shoup. a DePauw graduate with distinction in 1!)26. was introduced by President Clyde E. Wildman in Monday's as-

sembly.

Telling DePauw students that they must do tomorrow's fighting, CnJoneJ Shoup cautioned them that "there must lie no errors” and that they must not waste a moment of thei/ time in college. "It appears to me to be a sad com mentary on so-called civil zed progress," he said, "that we have not yet reached the state where it will not be necessary to kill millions of men and women in war. This is a challenge to you. Do something!" Colonel Shoup characterized the Japanese as being tenacious, tricky, and well-equipped fighters, with absolute obedience to their officers and to their vmperor. Ho told factual stories to indicate what the American forces are up against In f.glltlng the hard Pacific battles. Awarded the Did Gold Goblet las* spring as DePaUw's alumnus of Uu year, Colonel Shoup has received th Navy Cross, the Purple Heart, ano the Gold Star in lieu of a aecom.' Ihirple Heart. He will go to Washington this week, where Presidoa Roosevelt will present him w.th th Onigressional Medal of Honor.

Nineteen mil' north of Mots front dispatches . aid, other 3rd i Army eUments widened and ilei'p-

:o the northwest, an altcmaUve re., P111 . (| ' lh) , jt

Moselle rivi 1 nortln a -t of Koenig-'-macher to within a mile and a half

of the German border.

The Ami-in an itli Army simultn 1eously stepped up its attacks along a front stictcliing 27 miles south from the Chateau Salins area and seized Leintrey. 11 miles east of Luuevillc in an advance to within 10 miles southwest of San i bourg, gate-

way to the Sam valley.

United I’ri's War Correspondent Robert Riclmrd.v with tbe 5id Army, sab I elements <>1 the nth Division captured the .second of the mam forts ringing Metz at Ormy, five mites southeast ol Metz, and press’d on anothei mile and a half into

W 1 'is en..' • : i« n ni.>.

No details v ere available yet as t’ how the fort fell, but it was known to be situated within »n" city limits of Omy iin I was believed to be cf the sam" solid conciete and steel construction ns the famous Driant fort and others in the Metz chahi,

though smaller.

PAROLED CONVICTS HELD IN SLAYING OF GROCER

land heavily raking the Japanes'! three miles to the southeast; 1 aplospositions and sinking an undisclosed | Z) . n tmarton', 13 miles to the south-

number of barges.

The Japanese invaded the island probably in a desperate effort to pro-

tect their bases in

20 Years Ago , IN GREENCASTLE and Mrs. Ed Hamilton were Parents of a baby daughter. Mrs. E. B. Taylor and Mrs. Clevc fhomas entertained a number of Fiends at the Taylor home, which gas beautifully decorated with fall bwers. Milt Brown returned home from a Usiness trip in Missouri and Ark-

hsas.

the northern

Palaus, already under daily attack by American planes based on Peleliu and nearby Angaur. 4 KILLED IN CRASH PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14. (UP) Four persons were killed and a score we ,e injured today when two packed trolley cars collided in one of the heaviest fogs ever seen in the greater

Pittsburgh area.

TO HONOR HOOSIKKS INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 14 (UP) In recognition of the 300,000 Hoosk>rs serving in the armed forces. Governor Schricker today established Sunday, Dec. 10, as "Hoosier sons and

daughters day.”

we;t and thiee miles from the rail line f> Miskolc; and Tapiobtckae, 20

miles south of Hutvan.

(The Germans reported that Malinovsky had thiown 100.000 men into that fiont They also claimed the Russians, in an attempt to reach Budapest from the rear, had mad.another crossing of the Danube at Batina, Yugoslavia, 109 miles south

of the Hungarian capital.)

I Marshal Tito meantime announced that his Yugoslav partisans had broken into Skoplje, on the AthensBtlgradc railroad, and engaged th? Germans in fierce street fighting. The town is only 90 miles from th > Greek border and one of the few enemy-held points remaining on the rail line, which would give Russia a short supply route from the Medit-

erranean.)

MICHIGAN < TTY, IND., Nov. 13 (UP) Polin' Chief Joseph Wolf announced today the solution of the robbery-slaying of Harry S. Akchevoun, 48. glvHicr of Joliet, 111., S^pt. 24, in the home of George Naha-s, nigtit club operator, witli the arrest of three paroled convicts. Th" men wch Lloyd Ma.itcll, 26, South Bend; John Francis Hanrahan, 27, Indianapolis, and Robert Brown, 34, Niles, Mich., former resident of Michigan City. Wolf said that Mantel! had made a detailed confession, involving Hanrahan and Brown. Mantell was taken to Indianapolis by state police to help in a search of White river for the gun used in the killing. Mantel] said they threw the wea|>on and part of the robbery loot into the stream near five-mile bridge. Akchevoun was shot to death wh ;n he returned home with Mr. and Mrs. Nahas. The night club operator was wounded In the hand during a fight with three men who had entered his home, Ixiund and gagged his young son George, Jr., and lay in welt for

him.

nforeement and evacuation port 011 the wifd coast, though several rough mountain trails between the tw-> towns still would remain In Jaiwtn-

ese hands

Gen. Douglas MucArthur disclosed In his daily communique that th’ Japanese now Lave oomnutted ftvv of their ts-st divisions possibly 75.000 troops —to the Is'ytc front tn an atemp o smash he American Invasion of the central Philippine*. Two of the divisions, are 26th an I the 1st, were giving ground slowly in bloody fighting along the Pinamop-oan-Ormoc road just south of Limor.,

10 miles north of Libungao.

Medium tanks spearheaded the American 24th Division's advance along the toad, followed by inf anti y who rootl’d the Well-entrenched Japanese from strong roadside defense! with flame throwers and bayonets. Dismounted elements of tho American 1st Cavalry Division, executing an end run around the Japanese flank east of the road, consolidated their positions on Mt. Catabaran and Mt. Cabungangan and pressed on to seize Hill 2 926. eiglTmlles south of Carigara bay and flvi miles northeast of Llbungao. East of Omioe, the American 96* h Division broke the last organized enemy resistance beyond the central mountain range amt pursued the fleeing Japanese remnants westward MaeArthur report/d in; bis communique that the pace of his offensive hail dislocated Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita’s general preparations for a counter-attack by penetrating

his potential assembly areas. Election Cost County $4,674

The net cost to Putnam county for the November 7th election '■s $4,674.19, the office of County An Iitor Eddie Buis, announced Tuesday

morning.

ADOLF HITLER ILL, DEAD OR INSANE, BELIEF SWEDEN REPORTS CANCELLATION OF AUDIENCES MITII DIPLOMATS, ASSOCIATES LONDON, Nov. 14 (UP) Swedish reports that Adolf Hitler has cancelled audiences with foreign statesmen and diplomats, as well as with many of his close associates, heightened speculation today that he is insane. ill, or dead. Official allied circles remained aloof from the growing discussion over Hitler’s health and whereabout'*, but cautioned against wishful thlnK-

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Premier Dr. Stephen Tiso of the puppet state of Slovakia was said to nave been among those whose appointment to confer with Hitler had been cancelled on short notice. A London Daily Herald dispatch from Stockholm said Dr. Otto Dietrich. German press chief who customarily gives Hitler a daily report on world events and opinion, repeatedly nas been sent away without seeing the Fuehrer. Httlei's personal photographer. Heinrich Huffman, has hern unable to issue any photographs of Hitler since mtd-Septemhei. the Hera'i saiil. It added that reliable sources npoited Hitler still was alive during tin' last weeks of October, but causing his immediate entourage great anxiety. Living in an armored train, Hitler became so restless and apprehensive over allied bombing that he rarely spent more Ilian two days in one place. He ordered the train to run into the deepest convenient tur1111 each night, the dispateh said. Obff.’rvers pointed out that German radio assurance;; of Hitler’s goo I health yesterday weir broadeast only for overseas consumption and expressed surprise that tile German 1 were devoting so great a propaganda effort to an attempt to prove Hltl ■ • well when a single inlliut" spec m from the Fuehrer; himself would do rile job lOO-fiKP (IRt hWi effective'". 'Fag' Black Markets Flourish In U. S.

(By United Ureas)

Millions of Americans were Scrambling for c garets today, upsetting the routine and morale of war plants and business offices, enriching hundreds of black market operators, and increasing an already acute shortage with extensive hoarding, a nation-wide United Press sur-

vey showed today.

Everywhere men atul women were ready to pay exorbitant prices, stain I in line for hours, anil resort to all varieties of dodges to assure thorli-

F1KKMKN MAKE RUN City firemen were called to th; Double Decker on south Locust street Monday night to extinguish a small fire In the basement. No estimable damage was reported.

The total cost of the election was *7,116.39. Ihjtnsm county, however will be reimbursed by the State of Indiana In tho amount of $2,472.20. HAD A FINE RKO A DePauw "Dad" who planned to come to Greencastle late last week for Dad’s Day at DePauw University, had made his reservation at a local hotel, but because he did not come until the wee-small hours of the morning, it was not held until his arrival. He got here about the time It was discovered the Railway Express Office waa robbed. Seeing the light and some officials there, he went there to make inquiry about "breaking into Jail.” the only place he could find an empty bed. Sheriff Grimes was at the express company office and OKed the idea. He took his customer to the jail where a downy white bed awaited him. The customer spent the rest of the night there and the esily part of the morning, expressing his delight und thanks at being accommodated. Late Saturday, he brought his daughter back to the jail to see his fine accommodation.; and both got a‘big kick out of the experience.

Tirpitz Sunk By Royal Air Force

LONDON Nov. M. (UP) Britain probably will shift another major portion of her fleet to the Far East to participate In the war against Japan us a direct result "f

the sinking of Gei many s last capit d j selves of a smoke

■‘hip. the 1.1.000-ton iirpitz, in a Extensive bluek market operaN fjord Sunday ttona were reported in New York,

Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, l>— tro t. Atlant, Connecticut, and Buffalo, N. Y. national and regional Office of Price Administration officials were investigating t hew exploiters for profit of an unavoidable wartime situation and threatened drast! • a<

tion.

Dealers everywhere reported unprecedented demands for granulated tobacco and cigarct papers and it was a common sight to sec novice;; trying to “roll their own.” Sectional runs on pipes and pipe tobacco, particularly by girls, were revealed. Shortages In Uiese substitutes

were threatened.

In government office buildings in Washington, in w ur plants in Philadelphia, in shops and factories

proclaimed that the loyal navy now throughout the country, hoarders

The destruction ol the Tirpitz by a fleet of 29 fom-engined RAF Lan.•Hsters at least removed the most nelions threat of all to allied convoys plying tin sea lanes lietween United States, Britain ami Russia and will free numerous British waishipis fio u escort duty for tasks in other waters. Britain has 15 lo 19 battleships ranging in tonnage from 29,150 tons to pi maps 4(),000-ton.s-plus and at least nitii aireialt eairieis of 14.501 to 25 000 ions in service. Many already have sailed to the Indian Ocean to join Admiral Sir Bluer Fraser’s growing Far Eastern fleet, tail otheis had been kept in Atlantic and arctic waters to counter the ever-present menace of the Tirpitz. The London Daily Mail jubilantly

was “free to give its undivided attention to Japan.” The Lancastcis administered thy coup du grace to the Tirpitz. a $50.‘ 000.000 battleship which took five years tisJiuild, in Norway’s Tim 11 so fjord 22# miles north of the arctic circle. Three direct hits with six-to i earthquake bombs pierced the T ii • pitz’s decks, internal explosions followed, and she rolled over on her side

loaded theii pockets w.th dimes and stood watch o ver vending nachinoa, to empty them the instant they were

rcsbocked.

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4k Local Temperature 9 • 4»«»4t«4>4>4»0$ Mostly cloudy with scattered showers today and tonight, oceasion-

and slipped to the bottom of the shal- , al , lght rain north an£ , partly cloudy low fjord, all la a mallei of minutes j 80U ^j, Wednesday, cooler tonight, the air minlstiy said. considerably cooler Wednesday, fresh

Subsequent’ reconnaissance showed W | lu j a 700 feet of the ITrpitz keel exposed in a pool of oil and wreckage. Her outrigger booms designed to protect the hull from torpedo attack also

protruded above the water.

Marion Fcrranu and David Grimes have returned from a trip to Wisconsin where Mr. Ferrand purchased some fine Holstein cattle.

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