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THE DAILY BANNER "U WAVES FOR ALL”

UME FIFTY-THREE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1944.

NO. 31

KS USING AIRFIELDS ON LEYTE ISLAND

KRS DAMAGE TWO MORE JAP WARSHIPS says GEN. M 'ARTHI'H

TURKEY FOR THANKSGIVING?

•LIED HEADQUARTERS, Philira, Nov. 22.—(UP)—American •ators scored damaging hits on more Japajiese warships, one of ji a light cruiser, in a pre-dawn jk Sunday on the naval base at mi bay. Borneo, Gen. Dougina Arthur announced today. hIso disclosed that Manila ar.J remainder of the Philippines had brought within range of his -based bombers for intensified through the use of expanded lelds on Leyte as refueling bases, etoforc, only carrier-based plants e been able to reach Manila, caparid main enemy stronghold in Philippines. » hough he has announced no landed attacks on Manila. MacArthur Liberators from southern bases refueled at Leyte over the weekbefore doing on to raid targets Ct'bu, Mindanao and elsewhere in central Philippines, n the fighting front, Japanese resnee in the Union pocket ia hwest Leyte appeared near the akmg point, but the enemy was paling a strong new defense line Dg the Leyte river to the southlie bombing raid on Biunei bay the third within a little move in three days. Earlier raiders red direct hits on a battleship, a vy cruiser and a destroyer, spokesman for MacArthur said Japanese had a large concentran of shipping at Brunei, which :v had been using as a stopover }nt on the north-south run between "an proper and her stolen East ies empire. It was possible that some warships d sought refuge at Brunei buy er having been damaged in thj bond battle of the Philippines last

nth.

Other bombers from the Southwest cific command sank two coastrd sols probably sank two freighters (1 damaged five other vessels in lacks in the Philippines, Borneo jd Celebes. Francis McCarthy, United Press jtr correspondent at the Leyte nt. said the American 32nd Divin was expected to occupy Limon, lategie village guarding the northn entrance to the rolling Onnoc ain. “fairly soon” despite repeated emy attempts to break the encir-

Jement.

MacArthur reported in his daily mmunique that the rugged terrain the mountain pass, ideally suited

WLB Orders End To Phone Strike

GESTAPO FINDS MANY GERMANS DESIRE PEACE NAZIS USE MACHINE GUNS ON DEMONSTRATORS IN COLOGNE LONDON, Nov. 22 - (UP) — A Swiss newspaper said today that Nazi authorities at Cologne machinegunned crowds demonstrating for peace recently and killed more than 220 perrons. Some in the crowds even erred, "Tong live the All.es,'' the Basel Arbeiterzeitung :rai.( in a dispatch reported by the British exchange telegraphy agency. The dispatch appeared less than 24 hours after disclosure that German prisoners taken on the American 1st army front before Cologne had confirmed reports - f disorders inside

the city.

The prisoners were qv.oted as say-

hanging

civilians in Cologn.. for disobeying Miss Madonna Grimes announced I ‘ v,aZl orf icial ordei s. Earlier Swiss Wednesday morning that she has | dispatches said 21 persons had been resigned as deputy county treasurer I * lan ** < ^ t ^ lprt ' * n a ‘ il, 'Kle daj. effective December first. ' | T1,e Basr) newspaper said peace

Miss Grmes, one »»f the most popular employes in the Putnam county courthouse, has served in the office

GUN CREW READY FOR COMBAT SERVICE

When Basil Staley in Jefferson township, took a Daily Banner reporter to his turkey farm, there appeared to be a surplus of lurk ys. because he had thousands of them, all making a noise at once and it sounded as though one were on the western front. The big Tom pictured on the feed barrel, was six months old and weighed only 33 pounds. Mr. Staley raised something like five or six thousand of these fine birds this year, but he has them all sold under contract ami does not expect a home market for that many birds He also raised thvm for breeding purposes and annually ships thousands of eggs to hatcheries.

MISS GRIMES RESIGNS

AS DEPUTY TREASURER | inK , thal ,he , G f“ t,ipo WH - S

demonstrations al*.> had occurcd in many other Rhim land cities and towns. Fosters wen- said to Ik* ap pearing nightly on (he walls of bom

WASHINGTON. Nov. 22. (UP) - The government, concerned over a nossible breakdown in wartime communications, appeared ready todu; -O seize vital links in the country's telephone net wo .43 to prevent the lationwide tie-up threatened by the

strike of Ohio telephone operators. ^ n er. She made no announcement

In a chat demonstration of official i Wmraday as to her future plana Jeteimination to keep long-distance '

lines open, the War Labor Board last j i ' 1:ls ’cached evhii the army, pur-

light directed the 5,000 strikers to

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t TOP LEFT TO RIGHT Stafford, top gunner; Olson, nose gunner; Haher, engineer; Shelley, ball turret; Lopey, radio operator; Mears, tail gunner. OFFICERS LEFT TO RIGHT Lt. A V. Ellis, pilot; Lt. Wm. Smith, co-pilot; Lt. Byron Robensoir, navigator; Lt. Paul Warby, Bombardier. Lt. Ellis is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Ellis, residing west of Greencastle.

of Mm. Catherine Orask for the past • bed cities appealing for action three years in a most efficient man. I against the Nazis and threatening

the government if it insisted on con-

»et back to work by 10 a. m. today as the “only alternative" to probable government seizure of the struck

properties.

Officials of the Ohio and the national Federation of Telephone Woi kers remained in a closed conference here throughout the night to draft a reply to the WLB's return-to-

work order.

Warning that it would not consider grievances as long as the strike was in progress, the WLB issued its directive in the midst of signs that workers in Michigan, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Illinois, Indiana and possibly Connecticut might join the six-day-old waldout with “sympathy strikes."

Bell!

Dr. Bartlett

Chapel Speaker

tinuing the war. Hopelessness and

dissatisfaction

Dean Edwaid R. Bartlett of UePauw University told students and members of the faculty in chapel thin morning that "only in victory -.vlth- j out hatred and peace with Justice can a better social order be established." Dean Bartlett spoke at « preThanksgiving worship service for all

DePauw students.

Pointing out Uiat even in a day when human misery has reached unbelievable proportions and entice populations drink the cup of bitterness. Dean Bartlett pointed out that it is not necessary to exhort any o r . our groups to give thanks The ex-

Employes of the Michigan Bell j preMton of gratitude., he said, ho? Telephone Company, serving some of | nevur been dependent upon the fa-'-

j ticul&rly because of poor quality and 1 insufficient weapons, food and cloth ing, the newspaper said. Deserter! were increasing at such a rate, that soldiers have been warned that Uie Allies “cut off the arms and legs of every living German yildier captur-

ed,” the dispatch said.

It estimated that 16,300.000 Germans have been left homeless by A1 lied air raids and said the whole country was "yearning for peace,

cost what it may."

Workers and peasants were “awaiting the opportune moment for action," the newspaper said. Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler was tightening pressure In an effort to keep the country under control, it went on, but "even the Nazis admit the third Reich has lost the war.’

the nation’s most vital war centers, voted unanimously last night to support the striking Ohio workers. Spokesmen said, however, that no action would be taken until officials cf the Ohio union i eplied to the WLB.

A government decision for seizure i WB thankful' was expected to apply not only to J thanksgiving

ors of fortune; on the contrary, it seems that Thanksgiving has flourished where physical comforts were few and causes for despair abounded. “The primary question," Dean Bartlett said, “is not. 'For what are

hut 'To whom is our expressed’?” He in-

Rhine In Sight Of Seventh Army

l PARIS, Nov. 22. (UP) Lt. Gen Alexander M. Patch's American 7tr ! Army In eastern France has broken through the outci ring of defenses protecting the German Rhlnelanc and is pouring eastward againsl crumbling resistance within sight of the Rhine, it was announced today. Penetration of the Saverne gap ;r.

Japanese expeditionary forces in the Vosges mountains to within 18 China, has been removed from his miles of the German border was command in a broad army shake-up vealed by American 15th Ar announced by the Tokyo war minis-1 Corps headquarters only 48 hours

I after French 1st Army troops shntl

LIBRARY NOTICE

The public library will be closed all day Thursday, November 23.

Jap Commander In China Ousted

(B> t lilted Press)

Field Marshal Gen. Shunroku Hata. Commander-in-Chief of all

try today.

Hata, who only last week was reporter! personally directing the Japanese campaign against American air bases in Chinajs Kwangsi province, was transferred to the post of inspector-general of military educa-

tion.

His China command wan taken

inly collapsed the southern end of the enemy line with a drive to Uu

Rhine.

The leti cat through the Saverne gap was becoming panicky, with the Germans abandoning weapons an, other equipment in their haste to encane the advancing Americans

over by Gen. Yasujl Okamura, com-j one 7th Army column was more tnnr.

niander-in-chlef of the army in North China.

Japanese

Soviet Official Is Removed From Post

FIREMEN MAKE RUN City firemen were called to the Curry Inman residence, 531 Anderson stivet about 9:30 a. m. to extinguish a small roof fire caused by soot from a chimney.

GETS COMMISSION

the Ohio properties but others tied dicated that especially in a tim up by any sympathy walkouts. j when a nation is bound together an 1 The strike, which has crippled j | 0 other nations by a common fate communications to and from 28 Ohio j n (i.-almg wth a common foe it is

defense,' was compelling his fontsS j cities, was called by the National j the tendency to exclaim. “See what I resort to time-consuming piece- j Federation of Telephone Workers to j have gotten me by mihe own cal destruction of enemy pillboxes. | protest the payment of an $18.2 j 1 strength." The word of the prophet, pockets of he- weekly ccst-of-llving bonus to out-1 Dean Bartlett said, put it this way:

of-town operators brought into the -Some put then trust in horses, sonv Dayton, O.. exchange. , in chariots, lait we will make .’men-1 R G. Pollock, president of the Ohio tj( )n 0 f the name of Jehovah our j

federation, told the WLB yesterday God."

that the union had refused to end tin: ( “in cne quarter of the world a vast strike because no leader “could con-, population brings its offering of lif-s sclentiously order a girl making $21 :in( i wealth to one known as the Sou

ntrenehments and pockets

j.stance “in order to minimize our

jsse.i."

The Japanese were revealed to avi committed their 1st Division, tie ol the best in the Japanest) army, »> th' task of attempting to relieve V tupped force and manning the ew defense line along the Leyte

iver.

Elements of the American 24th Diishon killed 500 or more Japanese hiring a three-day period in beating ft repeated enemy attempts t > rcak through their road block near atagbakan and Tolibaw. two miles

“utheaat pf Union.

MiCarthy said the Japanese were 'toving heavy reinforcements up the read from Ormoc, 20 miles south of Ennon, to the Leyte river line under H hurricane artillery bombardment horn American long-range gui's mounted in the surrounding hills. East and southeast of Umon, Jap«ncs( patrol* were infllterating the American lines In an attempt to cue communications with the main bases

°n the east coast.

One patrol actually reached the north coast road between Capocau four and a half miles east of Union, oml Pbiampoan. two miles northeast tmd knocked out eight vehicles with nght machine-gun fire, blocking the i

road temporarily.

a week to work beside a girl making $39.25 a week for exactly the same

work."

The Ohio Bell Telephone Co., Pollock said, "could end the strike in a minute" by publicly announcing that it would immediately remove imported operators who are paid extra maintenance wages in addition

to their weekly wage.

The WLB set the 10 a. m. return-to-work deadline in an executive session called together after union officials refused a previous request to terminate the walkout. Nathan P. Feinsinger. WLB public member, said the only alternative to comphance with the latest order “probably

Is government seizure."

He cautioned union officials, however that even if the government tak< s over it will maintain the same working conditions that prevailed at the start of the strike and “you’ll be

no farther ahead."

of Heaven, believing that his safety is unalterably bound up with victoiy for their cause,” the speaker said. “In another quarter, a nation which has trained a generation of its youth , m the merciless skills of war has j abandoned its former faith and pays homage to ’blood and soil.’ In stPl other parts of the world, multitudes await the declarations of three powerful leaders of the United Nations, and to the weapons they control •; > the thanks as victory becomes assured. But ultimately spiritual values, not military weapons, must prevail."

Major Springer To Speak Friday

MOSCOW, Nov. 22 (UP) Mar-

shal Klementy E. Voroshilov, onairman of the S iviet defense council and one of Russia's foremost military figures, has been "’'elieved of

his duties" on the council,

revealed today

News of the Marshal's removal from office was disclosed in an official announcement published in the Soviet press thi t morning. Voroshilov is a member of the Red Army general staff and accompanied Premier Marshal Stalin to Tehran for the "Big Three” meeting with . Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt.

TO BROADCAST

Bishop U. Bromley Oxnam of New York will broadcast Thursday, November 23rd at 10:00 A. M , EWT on the Blue Network (WJZ). His subject will be “Thanks by Giving’’.

; eight miles cast of freshly-liberated Sai tcboiirg, another was 12 miles j northeast, and a third was 11 miles

| southeast.

The speedy 7th Army advame threatened to trap thousands of German soldiers caught between its coliinirs and the French 1st Army push ing north along the Rhine in the eti-

I emy rear.

At the northern end of the front j the American 1st, 3rd, and 9th Arm- | ies anil the British 2nd Army were

it was I "lugging it out in a showdown hattla

inside Germany Itself, measured in yards.

Gains were

BIG AERIAL BATTLE WASHINGTON. Nov. 22. (UP) American B-29 Superfortresses were believed today to have fought one of the great aerial battles of the Pacific w:u in their first test of strength with Japanese fighters over Kyusnu and occupied China yesterday. Tokyo claimed that 63 of the Superforts had been shot down or damaged for a loss of six Japanese planes. Though the U. S. War Department reported in a communique y, .terday that Japanese casualties wile 55 planes shot down or damag-

ed.

SOVIETS FIGHT TO REOPEN THE GULF OF RIGA REDS SEEK TO BREAK NAZI BLOCKADE OF IMPORTANT HARBOR LONDON, Nov. 22 (UP) Soviet lanks and riflemen, supported by th i funs of the Red fleet, slashed dei\ nto the last pocket of German r< - balance on the southern -tip of Saare sland today, in a bitterly-contested Irivo to reopen the Gulf of Riga and oreak the Nazi blockade on Riga

aarbor.

Far to the fiuth. German counterblows and driving rains that churn’d the Hungarian battlefields into i quagmire stalled the Red Army's nveloping sweep on Budapest almost o a standstill. Marshall Rodion Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian army hacked out imited gains all along the 80-idle ront extending northeastward from Budapest, but the ceaseless rains itlffened enemy resistance prevented iny decisive breakthrough. tilth Moscow and Berlin hinted strongly that the uneasy lull on the ■astern front was about to end in mighty Russian offensive, perhaps tlmultaneously in Poland and East ’russin where the Nazis recently lave been reporting immense concenratlons on Soviet men and material. One Berlin spokesman said seven o eight Red A i my divisions. | usably 100,000 or mory men, already mri gene over to the attack In eastm Czechoslovakia In a bid to broan >ff the German salient jutting into he Russian lines in the Czech-Hun-arlan border area The early morning Soviet war com. inique, as usual, ignored the Oernan reports, focusing instead on the 10-quarter battle raging on Snare

island.

All organized enemy resistance on he 1,010-squate-mi|c Estonian Island ippeared to be crunbling swiftly unler the i\».„ tried Soviet blows from and and sea. Hemmed into a nar<*wmg Corner four miles wide ami about four miles deep on the south'rn extremely of Sorve peninsula, he trapped Nazis fought back deaicrately but with little or no chance if survival. Units of Momhall Leonid A. Gknorov's Leningrad army, joined by amphibious troops landed from the Baltic fleet, stormed through a paw erful chain of fortifications throw! icrosa the two-mile neck of the peninsula yesterday. The barricaded tqwns of Rahuste and Kaimri, along with 17 other farm and fishing vil- ] 'ages, were taken by the Soviets ns ‘hey moved in for the kill. Russian warships patrolled the •shores of the island to prevent any German evacuation and poured a drumfire of shells into the ring of Nazi costal batteries and airdromes that for months had commanded th’’ 17-mile-wide Irbent strait linking the Baltic sea with the Gulf of Riga. There was no new word on the progress of the fighting on the Latvian mainland opposite Saarc, were Rusaian forces were battling to wipe out the remnants of 30 German divisions pocketed on the 6,000-squa mile Courland peninsula.

Major Springer, assistant to Colonel Hitchcock of Selective Service of Indiana, will be the principal speaker at the court house on Friday, November 24th, at 1:30 P. M. At this time, Putnam County will observe. Farm RecogniUon week, which is being observed over the na-

tion.

. m Phillip Hutcheson, Chairman of the

killed or captured 66.655 Japan . p utn , m County Agricultural War the Marianas and Palau Islam s . Boardi has extended an invitation to ing the past five months and »caw«-1 eyery farmer |n thf counly to attend

(ili,655 "GOOD” JAPS

PEARL HARBOR, T. H.. Nov. 32. I

American ground forces |

(UP)

Cnwfordsville downed the GreenCastle high school basketball team, 28 to 20. Masten with 7 points was outstanding for the locals. Roy Brackney left for the Mayo hospital at Rochester, Minn, Mr and Mrs. Cecil Brown were '•sitors m Bainhridge.

ed remnants of the enemy garrisons atill are being hunted down and destroyed. a communique disclosed to-

day.

W iliam F. Kocher, city, was

mitted to the Putnam

Wednesday.

this int?resting program, aand has expressed the hope that any other citizens who would like to attend be present. On this occasion, Putnam County will pay tribute to the far-

_ ad- mers of the county for the excellent

ftountv"hospital job they have done in increasing pro- Judge Advocate's office at Tenellas

ductlon for the war effort. Field, Fla.

Mary 4j|rnn Hamilton

FORT OGLETHORPE. GA , Nov.

22 Mary Glenn Hamilton of Groen-ca-stle, Ind., was commlaaioned a second lieutenant in the Army of the United States today at the graduation ceremony for the fifty-fifty Officer Candidate class here at the

Third WAC Training Center. Lt. Hamilton was formerly sta-

tioned at Camp Carson, Colo., wiv re she was assigned to the public relations office. Prior to her enlistment in Uie Woman's Army Corps she bad been the radio coord nator for the SD'rtridge High School in Indianapolis. a contributor to the American Education Press publication, "Ever/ Day Readlrg," and section manager

for the L. S Ayers Company. Lt. Hamilton obtained her bachelor

of arts degree from DePauw University at Greencastle, and her master of aits from the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury, Vt. She was elected to Theta Sigma Phi, national Journalism sorority, and is a member of the National Educational Asaociaton, the American Association of University Women, and the Business and Piofessional Women’s Club,

The new WAC officer is the daugh-

ter of Mr! and Mrs. Fay Stuart Hamilton, 6 Park St., Greencastle. Ind. Her brother is Lt. Francis N. Hamilton who is stationed in the

Lei's Give To Those Who Gave!

His name is G. I. Joe. He lies in a ( high, white hospital bed in a ward In an army hospital. He’s young, urd his eyes have seen so much. He's through with mud and foxholes and C-ratlons ami being cold and wet, and he’s through with the gun lie learned to shoot with quick and deadly accuracy. He is one of the thous-

ands of American wounded.

Today he lies in a plaster ca*i, waiting with a soldier's well-taught patii nee for his wounds to mend. Hi.i personal possessions were left behind when he was wounded. There WU'» only time to get him on a stetcher and hurry him bac k behind the line.) to a hospital tent. He was transferred to this country so quickly th..t none of his mail or packages from home have caught up with him. He

has arrived back in America so fast "Merry Christmas" back, and mean that his family may not know whete | )t, because you thought of him. he is, or have hud time to send him Give a gift to a “Yank that Gave” the things he needs and wants. II by ) uyin-’ your present foi him *o-

in his own country, but the little

Gave.” This boy gave. On Christmas morning when the gifts are distributed and he unwraps a gav Christmas package, he may whistle and say, "Gosh Isn’t this swell." He’ll look at the guy in the next bed to see whut he got, and tivy will talk and laugh and feel the spirit of Christmas warming their young i

hearts.

After a while when he lias put hn gifts on the table beside his bed Hr I leafeo thiough a comic book, hu’a going to lie there and think about Christmas; maybe he’ll look at th" card bearing your name and say to the guy beside him or to himself, “Why, I don’t even know those people. And they thought of me.” He's going to enjoy the feeling of kinship it gives him, and when someone says, “Merry Christmas" G. I. Joe will say

ESCAPES FROM NAZIS BRAZIL. Ind., Nov. 22 (UP) - Lt. Maurice Terry, flying fortress pilot, was bane today, slightly more than a month after escaping fi*>m a German prison camp. Most of the time atnee his escape was occup ed in working his way bark to an AUied camp. After Terry arrived Into friendly center, his trip home was so quickly accomplished that his wife, a nursu at the Clay county hospital, hadn't learned of his escape. She almost collapsed when ho telephoned her of

his ha.necoming.

O Today's Weather 0 0 and 0 0 local Temperature 0 00000000000 Mostly cU inly today and tonight with light showers extreme north- ^ west this evening; Thursday fsir | with higher afternoon temperature-.

town or the big city with the special house that spells home to film may be very far away. He lies thei'c thinking about home and a bo it Christmas. It might be Just another day In the hospital routine, just Doember 25 on the calendar, if it weren't for you. You know that you can “Give a gift to a Yank that

day. Friday. December 8, is the deadline. Take your gift to one of the Gift Depots. They are: J. F. Cannon * Co.. Fleenor Drug Co., Greencastle Production Credit Association, and Hanna's Book Store. Remember to enclose a card with your name and address on it wllh each gift. Gift wrappings, colored

twine and ribbon are needed.

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