The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 November 1944 — Page 1
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THE DAILY BANNER
UME FIFTY-THREE
IT WAVES FOR ALL
VICES FOR AYHUR RUBUSH HERE SATURDAY
KNOWN LOCAL MAN PASm:d AWAY THCRSDAY AT COUNTY HOSPITAL st rites will be held Saturday ling at 10 o’clock from the BecJ Funeral Home for Mayhur Ru69. who passed away Thursday i m. at the Putnam county hoa1 Short services and burial will ild later in the day at Edinburg. v. Victor L. Raphael, pastor of I rcsbyterian church, will have rge of the services for Mr. Ru h allbearers will be Dr. W. E. Edgton, L. H. Dirks, Ed Coffman yd Moss and Maurice Stapley. h>- well known east Walnut street dent had been in failing health some time but news of his death ae as a great shock to his many mis. He was custodian at th • encastle high school building for rial years and was known by dreds of students. He was an fr in the Presbyterian church and .ember of the Masonic Lodge. x. Riibush is survived by the wida daughter, Mrs. Holland Grays Rockville; a son, James P. Ruof I^archmont. N. Y.: a sister, John Groscost, of Greentown. three grandchildren.
iY ends may call iuial Home.
at the Recter
St FFERS INJURY
'll a. Warren Newgent, west Waist reet, fell down the basement ps in her home Thursday and ke two bones in her right foot.
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1944.
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PRESENCE OF AMERICAN RECONNAISSANCE PLANES over Tokyo recently indicates that the Japanese capital may be among the first of the major enemy cities on the bombing target of U. S. airmen. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of U. S. Army Air Forces, has already indicated that American bombers will pound Jap targets on the same scale that German industrial centers are being bombed. Key objectives in Tokyo, which was bombed several times earlier In the war, are shown on map (InternationalJ
TOKYO BOMBED BY BIG FLEET OF SUPERFORTS AMERICAN B-29S OVER J.\l‘ CAPITAL FOR NEARLY j TWO HOCUS TODAY WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. (UP) — One hundred or more B-29 Super fortresses, officially opening a twopronged air offensive to soften Japan for invasion, bombed Tokyo by daylight today, and the enemy admitted factories and other Important installations had been damaged. Roaring out from new bases on Saipan in the Marianas, 1,550 milei: to the southeast, the giant four-cu-glued bombers swept over Tokyo at noon do p. m. Thursday, CWT) to give the jittery Japanese capital its first taste of American bombs since the historic April 18. 1942 raid by Lt. Gen. Janies H. Doolittle’s fliers. Four hours later Tokyo belatedly admitted the raid and backed into admissions of whnt it sought io Imply was slight damage to factor- ^ ies and other major installations |’’Small fires” were caused. Tokyo I broadcasts added, but only among j "civilian homes and hospitals" auJ I rdl were controlled "immediately.” Tokyo said the bombers, attacking (in 10 or more groups, were over the j city for two hours. Three were shot down ,u later Ja iI ancse communique said, adding the ! customary: "Chir damages have been ( slight."
PENNIES, NICKELS, DIMES PURCHASE WAR BONDS
FRED JUSTUS PASSED AWAY THURSDAY A. M.
$10,000 DAMAGE SUIT FILED IN PUTNAM COURT
yuga Is Scene Of Train Wreck
A YUGA, Hid., Nov. 24. -(UP) •■iigine and 18 cars of a Nickie e freight train were derailed here ht night, injuring three persons in nearby section building and killing estimated 100 head of livestock in rs just behind the engine. |Thr injured were William Spangt who suffered a brain concussio i Vi bruises; Herman Bailey and H. Meyers, who received cuts and li.scs. when the derailed tram ecked the section building along right of way. All the injure I hre section hands. Town Marshal Milt Weir said th..t carloads of sheep and two enrjSils of cattle were upset. Towns»plc and state police had rounded; ail the uninjured animals today, I
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local man was a qt AIIKY ENGINEER HERE FOR
MANY YEARS
Fil'd Justus. 6.'!. died early Thursday morning at bis home on South Jackson street after an extended illness. The deceased was well known in this community as he was a quarry engineer for many years. He was born in Gosport on Augusi JO, 1881. the son of John and Martha Brighton Justus. He was a membei of Putnam Lodge No. 4 >, I. O. O. F.
j The attack, the first on Tokyo by j land-based aircraft, was announced here hy Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander of the Army Air Forces ami chief of the global 20th Air Force. He said another communique on damage done to the industrial targets would be Issued “when detai,s
are available.”
“The battle for Japan has been joined." Arnold said in a special report to President Roosevelt. "This operation is in no sense a hit-and-run rale. It is calculated extension of
• . —— our air power . . . no part of the JapThe sum of $10,000 is asked by j ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Phd-iancsc empli-e is row out of our Howard McClellan, of Stilesville, in j ippines. Nov. 24. (UP) American | range, n 0 war factory too remote to a compla nt for damages for wrong- tanks and infantry neared the rollin'; | f,.,.| our bombs ...”
What about your savings? Are they gathering dust ? Th rev sacks of money permits, nlckles, dimes which had been growing fatter (and also dustier) throughout the list several months were put to the use of Putnam County's fighting men and women at the op ning of the Sixth War Loan drive last veek when the owner, a resident of Marion township, sent them t ) Greencaatle by Carl Bunten, /ice Chairman, to sc ■ how many they
von Id buy.
When the change was counted, it was found that the money could purbase $600 (maturity value) in Seres K. War Savings Bonds. And so .he owner gave our boys the means >f anothvr step toward Berlin and fokio and at the same time got his lame on the dotted line to receive ,'150 in interest from our government. Are there moiv sacks or cans of honey gathering dust In Putnam Jounty? Why not put your savings nto the service of your country? .Vhy not do all you can to bring our boys home more quickly? Invest in the safest and liest investment of all, in your government and in victory! SOVIET FORCES BATTER GERMANS ON VAST FRONT RED UNITS REPORTED AT SOUTHERN EDGE OF HI DU’EST TODAY
ALLIES PRESS NAZIS BACK TOWARD RHINE FRENCH INSIDE STRASBOURG; 3RD ARMY HITTING GER-
MAN SAAR
Howard McClellan, stii.es
VILLE IS PLAINTIFF
IN CASE
YANKS DEFEAT
CRACK DIVISION OF JAP TROOPS
WIPE OUT NIP FIRST DIVISION'!
IN TAKING ENEMY
STRONGHOLD
Surv.ving are the widow, om daughter, Mrs. Jane Harlan; twr sons, Cecil and Kenneth Justus, city, a brother, Roy Justus of Jonesboro, Ark., and three grandchildren. Services will be held from Uu Rector Funeral Home at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon wiUi Dr. C. M McClure in charge. Pallbearers will be Homer Lcusas
t about 100 head were killed out-1 Lois Cowgill, J-ilin A. Fiiend, Charles [ht or had to be destroyed. Meikel. and Albert J. \\il!:s l S
egro Shot By
Interment will
cemetery.
be in the Cosport
^IGrimteapwhlK
Thanksgiving Toll
PIKEVLLLJC, Tenn. Nov. 24 Wy With the alleged axe murde 1 '- i and his two victims silenced oy ' dh. police doubted today that they Mild determine why James T. Scals 17-year-old Negro trusty of :i 'ah reformatory, killed Mrs. H. E. c< >tt and Mis. Glen McKinney, wife nd daughter of the institution’.!
upei intendent.
Seales was shot to death yesterday •'in he "attempted to escape” from lyi-ch mob which obtained his re'an feom the Pikeville jail. The dead trusty used a double ed 1 ;- 'I axe in his alleged attacks on the omen at the state training an.l Bficultural school for Negro boys. Witnesses said a mob appeared at he jail and said the Negro boy was
anted a t the school.
Seales was handed over, witnesses and the mob herded him through the town, brandishing a lope. The boy begged for his life.
Suddenly he broke away
ful death on file in Uie Putnam cir- j :uit court. Mr. McClellan is ad- i ministor for the estate of his wife, I Nellie B. McClellan, deceased. Defendants in the action are Ralph D. Abrell. of Greeneastle, and the Indiana Equipment Company, Inc., of (Indianapolis. According to the suit, Mr. Abrell, ,i representative of the Indianapolis ■incem, on the evening of June 21 1914, about 6:15 p. m., was driving west on the National Road in a 1941 Pontiac roach belonging to the com
oany.
Abrell is charged with operat ng the car in a careless and negligent manner at a high rate of speed. As 'ic approached the McClellan h«ne in Stilesville, it is alleged that he un 'awfully left the highway and drove onto the McClellan yard striking Mrs. McClellan causing her death. As a result, damages of $1(1 '0C ire asked by Mr. McClellan. LEAVES FOR NAVY Bill Wilde who volunteered for navy service some time ago, has been called and left for Indianapolis Monday morning. It was presumed he would be sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station for his boot training.
tanks and infantry neared the roll in;; Ornioc plain tialay after capturing
the Japanese stronghold of and plunging on across the
The Saipan based B-29’s, workin f
Limon ] under the newly-formed 21st Bomber Leyir Command, Arnold said, will coordin-
LONDON, Nov. 24. (UP) Red army troops were rc|K>rted storming Csepel Island in the Danube on the southern edge of Budapest today, while other Soviet forces hooked down aeros.i the southeastern conn r of Slovakia in a fast-breaking offensive that threatened to roll up tin shaken German flank in Hiingaiy. Ilerlin and Moscow agreed that Iwiions lighting was raging on tin immediate eastern approaches Ir Budapest and at a half-dozen key j points on the long battlefront extending 170 miles northeast of the
capital into Slovakia.
(By Unit'sl Press)
Thanksgiving Day accidents caused the death of at least 40 persons. 20 less than the 60 the national safety council predicted would die during the nation's traditional lediday, j United Press survey showed today. Traff.c accidents accounted for 30
of the fatalities.
California led the nation in high-
way deaths with 15 casualties and 111- I but no damage was reported
inois was next with three deaths, j Two hunters were killed in shoot ng j accidents in Michigan; four persons I died from burns received in fires in \ that state and Californ.a. and five
persons d ed from train-automobile ! CO Tot!TfaTal!u!'r'in Individual states' Funeral services for Moses were California 19: Illinois, 5: Mas-i Cullough. age 82 years, who u m 2 Ohio 2 Michigan. 3; ! Wednesday night, at the county hos-
sachusetts, . . • p 3yl . pttal will be held Saturday morning ! Missouri, 2; and New York. Penn»yi ^ n ^ ^ VIcCurry
Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Poland cemetery. Friends may call
FIREMEN CALLED
City firemen were called to the White Way restaurant, just across the street from the flrv department Friday morning. A short in the electrical wiring resulted In the alarm
Moses McCullough Called By Death
Medied
shot ' and j vania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West |
. I Virginia and Wisconsin, one each. In Des Plaines, 111., village policeman Arthur Flentge. SO was called from his dinner table to investigate
20 Years Ago
IN GRtXNfASTLE
Coo.l Sutton was injured in an auto ae cident on the National Road near
Brazil.
Mr - and Mrs. Ward Davett wert v 'siting m Roachdale. Miss Mary Weik was the guest of friends in Terre Haute. lielta Theta Tau sorority met with Mr ®- Oay Potter.
at the McCurry Funeial Home. Mr. McCullough spent most all of
‘tV d -ath of Louis Simec end Edward his life in Washington township, Bailina both of Chicago, who were where he was a well known farmer, kil!, d when their cai struck a freight | He had been making his home in train When FI ntge arrived at the ' Greeiicastle for the past four years, scene of the accident he collapsed | The deceased was a member of the
and died of a heart disease. Ea* 11 ' 8t B *' aZ1 '
The safety council, basing its eiti- I Surv.vors me ude one daugh er. V ! , „ math tolls during previous Mrs. Edith Smith of Indianapolis; m ' ^ nredicted that 300 persona ! and three tons, O D. McCullough of y : m™,; “ hijurlc* Gi eenaatle .nd Rn„ MoCuIIoukI. nncnlvrd during the holiday period bn- and R. S McCullough, both of Wo.h-
tween Thanksgiving day Sunday. ington township.
river bridge 800 yards to the south. Destruction of the crack Japancsi 1st Division, one of the best in fir enemy army, virtually was completed in the advance, which carried through tugged hills to within 19 miles of Ornioc itself and threatened to roll up tile entire Yamashita line protecting that air and sea base on the west coast of Leyte. Control of the bridge over til • Igcyte river put the American .'I'Jnl Division in position to launch an attack over easier ridges, but swamps on either side of the road were expected to hamper the advance sonv -
what.
Gen. Douglas MaK'Arthur reported in his daily communique that the enemy suffered “terrific losses" from American aitillery and superior infantry file power in his bitter defense of Limon. northern anchor o’ the Yamashita line. "He had attempted to mount a large-scale counter-offensive and • failed," MacAithur said. ' "He lias been compelled by our aggressive tactics to a piecemeal and ineffectual commitment of his forces. Scattered Japanese groups which penetrated to the Finaniopoan and Capoccan areas, two miles northeast and five and half miles oast of Limon. during abortive enemy counte' - attacks were being mopped up. MacArthur said. American Liberators, re-fueling ut captured airdromes on Leyte, bombed supply dumps and barracks at Ipll, soutli of Ornioc, destroying larg supply buildings, while fighte’S destroyed an enemy motor pool and strafed communications lines souln of Valencia, seven and a half miles north of Ornioc. Tavern Robbed Thursday Night Hoffman's tavern on south Indiana street was robbed Thursday night, Polio.' Chief Ralph Hammond reported Friday morning. According to the officers, the thief or thieves forced open a window in the rear of the building and then entered the main part through the- toilet. About $4 was taken from the cash register and the Juke box was robbed of between $12 and $13 in nickels. Some old coins from foreign nations and a sweater were also reported as
stolen.
nte their operations with those of the China-based 20th Bomber Command, whose B-29’« have already can led out 17 missions against Japanese empire targets. •The systematic demolition of Japan’s war production .begun six months ago from China bases, henceforth will be carried out with decisive vigor, softening up the Japai - esc heart for the ultimate invasion by combined United Nations land sea and nil forces,” Arnold told Mr. Roosevelt. Tokyo is the site of some of the most vital Japanese war industrien These include the giant Mitsubishi and Ishikawajlma shipyards, the Mitsubishi heavy industries and numerous airplane, and ammunition factories, oil refineries and machine tool, electrical, radio and precision instrument works. The Tokyo radio, which gave the world the first (illicit hysterical account of the Doolittle raid, was silent for several hours after today's attack and then blossomed forth with its usual report that the li-29’s hud "failed to attain any tangible results" due to “effective intercep-
tions.’’
The attack on Tokyo came just 24 hours after Japan had observed its thankngiving day the Minamati Festival in Which Kmperior Hliohito had offered newly harvested grain to his gods. Even as the festival was in progress, the Japanese witnessed a harbinger of things to come when a single B-29, according to Tokyo reports, flew over the Na,';oya area some 275 miles west-aoutft-v/est of Tokyo. Other reconnaissance flights by B-29’s over the island of Honshu, oi which Tokyo is located, had steadily Increased Japanese fern a of a coining raid on their capital and thousands of children, women and older rc s idents had boon ordered out in prep-
aration.
Arnold gave no indication whether the B-29 bombing crews hud be"; given special Instructions to avoid Hirohito’s palace, which Doolittle’s fliers spared despite an excellent opportunity to hit it. 1. O. O. F. NOTICE Membcis of Putnam Lodge No. 45. I. O. O. K. please be present at Rector Funeial Home at 8 o'clock Friday night for the Ritualistic service of Fred Justus.
Hut the Russian early morning communique remained silent on a Berlin announcement that Red Army troops had lauded in force on Csep-I, a 'lO-iiiile long island formed by two arms of the Danube extending almost into the heart of Budapest A German DNB news agency commentator aid powerful Soviet links battled their way onto Cscpel under covei of a heavy fog early yesterday morning, cementing a solid siege are iround tl e western, .southern and eastern approaches to the city. The Nazi admission indicated that tile battle for budapest was entering its final phase, with Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky wheeling the shock spearheads of his 2nd Ukrainiai Army into position for a frontal assault on the Danuhian stronghold. There were no details on the fighting on Csep.1. but German and Rushan accounts agreed that a battle of mounting ferocity was in progress in the Hatvan area 22 miles north east of Budapest, where the Soviets were edging forward yard by yard through rain, mud and a maze of
Nazi minefields.
German reinforcements were reported streaming steadily into tiefront line ;, under constant attack by Russian warplanes, Vounter-attaek-ing again and again in a desperate effort to prevent a breakthrough a. Hatvan that would enable the Sovets to cut through to the Danube north of Budapest itself. The savagry of the fighting was pointed up by Russian field disputedes telling of mass slaughter of Sovi t prisoners by German and Hungarian
PARIS. Nov. 24 (UP)—French armored forces captured the western half of the ancient Rhine river citadel of Strasbourg early today, while American Third Army tanks struck out In a new attack across the approaches to the Siegfried line on hii 11-mile front inside Germany’s Raur
border,
German resistance was stiffening in the final street battle for Strasbourg. but the enemy was believed t> have rallied too late and complete liberation of the great communications and industrial center appeared .mmtnent. Gen. Jacques Leclere, liberator «>f Paris ami hero of the North Africnn loser ts. stormed into Strasbouig with his 2nd Armored Division just oefore noon yesterday after splitting the German front in eastern France with a 20-mile dash across the Alsatian plains. Clinton H. Conger, United Pro .:' war corrcsjiondeiit with the Gt'i Army Group, reported that struct battles raged throughout the night around the famed 12th century Strasbourg cathedral in the heart of
the city.
Some 80 miles to the northwest, Lt. Gen, George S. Patton’s ilrl A l iny tanks jumped off in a new attack three miles inside Germany's Saar basin Just beyond the junction of the French, German mid Luxe’' • bourg borders. One column of Uie lOtli Armored Division captured Obcrleukon, nii.e miles northwest of Merzig and another fought into the outskirts of Tettingen, two ami half miles to tin west. The advances carried ’> within a few miles of the outposts of the main defenses of tne Siegfried line in the Rani basin. Rain, floods, and stiffening enemy resistance combined to slow other allied armies at the northern ami southern ends of tho 400-mile front almost to a standstill, hut some limited gains were reported. The situation, army hy army, from noith to south was: British 2nd Army Advanced through mud and minefields to wituin less than three miles west aid southwest and within sight of tile border fortress of Vetilo In southeast Holland; yielded Hoven, three miles northeast of Geilenklrchen. Germany, to enemy counterattack In toughe.it fighting since Normandy. American 9th Army Captured Pattern, three milea southwest "f Julich. and fought into Bouriu-im, one mile southwest of Julich and 24 miles west of Cologne; remainder of front stationary. (The London Daily Express, quoting a German news agency, said American troops attempted to cross the Rot r river anil break into Julich, one of the main strongholds protecting Cologne.) American 1st Army Advanced west, south, and southeast of Welsweillcr. nine miles northeast if Aachen and two miles beyond Kschweiler; gained 600 yards in easter.i tip of Hurtgen forest. (A BBC broadcast heard hy NBC said 1st Army troops were less than two miles from Duren, com pa nloi fortress to Julich on the Roer river ) American 3rd Army Pushed attack along 11-mile front in Saar basin; licresscd pressure against .”.125 Germans holding out in five foitms groups in the Metz area; advanced four miles in the vicinity of Romclfing, 27 miles south of Saarbrucken. American 7th Army Captured
advanced
half-way through the southern Vosges to within 15 miles of the Alsaee
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troops. Barges loaded with wound- western hall of Strasbourg
ed Russian captives were, said to have been floated out into the Dan-
ube and sunk.
Hip Russian communique claimed only slight p. ogress in the Hatvan sector and around Miskolo, 80 miles northeast of Budapest, but it re|M>rted the captuig of anothci 2.500 Germans and Hungarians yesterday, I running the bag for the past 15 days j
to 14,t70 prisoners.
EN ROUTE HOME Mis. Chuiles Arnold received i telephone call from her son, Capt. Charles Arnold, early Thursday morning. He has been granted u thirty day leave and was calltu,' from California. He will airive m Greencaatle next week. Capt. Arnold has been serving in New Guinea
L. R. McNeely, secretary, and lately has been in Leyte.
41 Today's Woather 4 * and • 41 Local Tomporotur* 4 Partly cloudy tialay and tonighr., becoming cloudy with light rain Sat-
urday; warmer.
Minimum 6 a. m. 7 a. m. 8 a. m. 0 a. m. 10 a. ni. 11 a. m. . 12 noon 1 p. m. . 2 p. m. .
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