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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1944.

NO. 40

UEUT. COFFEY UADS BOMBERS ON JAP ATTACK

inC\I. BOY TAKES LIBERAXOKS ON NIP RAID INPACIFIC

A PRETTY HOME ON LITTLE WALNUT CREEK

~j> H AAF heavy bomber base in the PALAUS — (de]8 y*d) - The distinction of being one of the crew members on toe lead plane of the first Liberator bomber formation to bomb th ,. japs from this advanced base wei.t to Lieutenant Richard E. Coffey of Greencastle, Ind-

iana, navigator.

Leading the way across hundreds of miles of the Pacific for other B->4s in a heavy bombardment group, Lieutenant Coffey’s

Nestled in among the trees and shrubs on a level spot on Little Walnut creek, is this beautiful homi? of Mr. and Mrs. Sam J. Henry, northwest of Greencastle. The rippling steam flows through the front yard. It is reached by foot over a swinging

was one of the Liberators bridge, and to g,> fishing, Mr. Henry has only to step out on the

front porch. It is one of the modernized country homes in Putnam county that is surrounded with all the beauties of nature.

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on both Yap and the island of Koror in the Palaus. Anti-aircraft fire was heavy, but inacurate, over ooth targets, and a! Ithe planes returned safe-

ly.:

“It really wasn't as rugged as we had expected,” Lieutenant Coffey said, "but that ack-ack fire is enough to worry anyone. We wen- lucky that there was no fighter opposition." Lieutenant Coffey’s father, Wjljiam J. Coffey, lives in Greencattle. He entered the army in September, 1942, and received hit wings at San Marcus, Texas. He graduated from Greencastle High School in 1941 and attended Indiana State Teachers Col>fe for two years. A brother,

YANK FORCES

FORGE NEW TRAP

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AMERICANS ENCIRCLE NIPS

IN FIGHTING LEYTE LSLA

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Dec. 2.—(UP)—Two American columns, forging 1 a new trap in muddy northwest Leyte, drove through drenching rains today to within a, little more than a mile of a junction that would encircle Japanese troops in the northern tip of the

Ormoc Corridor.

RECOMMEND PICTURES

“SMOKE GETS

EYES”

The Indorsers of Photo-Plays especially reconv-nends the following pictures to be shown soon, "My Pad Wolf,” "Seventh Cross", "Irish Eyes are Smiling, ’ ••The Master Race." “Lost in The Harem" for Abbott and Costello fans, "Crime by Night", "American Romance" and "Casanova Biown.” Reports are received weekly from the National Preview Committees in HollyWood.

REDS ROLL ON Kaiser Predicts TOWARD AUSTRIA "Great Ordeal"

INVASION GATE'

RUSSIANS mi* THROUGH DEFENSES ON WAY TO

LAKE BALATON

LONDON, Dec. 2 (UP) —

aNDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2 — Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser told 1,400 members ot the State Chamber of Com ncrce and their guests today that with the end of the recent political campaign "another election is in order —

„ . . . . _ . the members of both parties Hard-driving Russian troops , , , . T-

1 i must elect to save the nation in what may well be one of the greatest ordeals in its history.'’

plunged westward within 35 miles or less of the Austr.an gate at Lake Balaton today, ripj ping through the German and

Jack, is a Lieutenant (Jg) in thv

Navy.

Order Evacuation Of U.S. Nationals (By United Pr-ss) The United States Embassy in Chungking today advised all Amer.can nationals to evacuat* northern Yunnan Province, including Kunming, headquarters of the U. S. 14th Air Force, because of the growing threat of the Japanese advance through southeastern China.

Hungarian defenses at a pace that threatened to reach that fateful battleground in the next

48 hours.

HOG TRICES WILL REMAIN HIGH IS EXPECTATION

UFAYETTE. Hid., Nov. nemand for pork and pork products probably will be sufficient to keep hog ptices in a strong poaition for the next marketing year. Oct. 1, 1945. Exceptions may occur for temporary periods at the close of the war, when there may be a bunching of receipts, and possibly during the heavy hog marketing months this winter. Agricultural econo1 'lata at Purdue University do •lot expect hog prices to be? depressed for so long a period as

‘.hey were last winter.

The Indiana spring pig crop declined only nine per cent below last spring, as compared to a decline of 29 per cent for the western part of the com belt. The number of sows estimated to farrow this fall In Indiana was down 28 per cent from last

All along a front of more than

20 miles west and .".orthwest of captured Pecs the Axis lines Were wilting before the furious Russian onslaught. Berlin and Moscow dispatches indicated the em my was pulling back hurriediy to the marshy southern shores of Lake Balaton, where German strategists have predicted the decisive battle of central

£a ope would be fought.

Once around the southeastern j corner of the lake, little more 1 than 40 miles of open country would separate the Red Army ;

from the borders of Austria.

An unconfirmeu report issued by the Yugoslav telegraph agency said Marshal Josip T.to's Partlsians had crossed the frontier into Austria about 100 miles west-northwest of the oncoming Soviets, but informed observers were inclined to doub*.

its veracity.

‘‘No political party, no Industry no labor organization can survive,” Kaiser said, "if it does not fulfill its obligation to know, to respect and to serve the needs of the New Age of which it is a part.” Kaiser's speech, broadcast by the Blue Network, was the high 1 ght of a luncheon of the state chamber's annual meeting. With him at the table of honor were Governor Schricker, Governor elect Ralph F. Gates, Paul Hoffman of South Bend and Dean Mitchell, head of the State —hamper of Commerce.

Speaking briefly, Governor Schricker welcomed Gates to the state's chief office, reviewed and praised Indiana's war record and thanked the people of Ind.ana for their "splendid co-opera-tion and great patriotic service . . . now that I am about to re-

tire from office."

Gate* said that in assuming his new duties he was grateful for an organization 1 ke the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, which Governor Schricker called the largest in the country, and

Meanwhile, other Red Army promised that during his tenure forces to the north pressed 1 business and industry would restendily in on the defenses oi i ceivc protection "that free enBudapest, where the Germans terpr.se shall go forward." ordered all civilians from the Kaiser praised Hoffman, who city’s eastern section and began declined to speak, as head of the

throwing up street hanicades for a house-to-house stand in the

Hungarian capital.

WARREN TUCKER HOME

(A Japanese communique said a Japanese "air commando" had landed on American airfields at Dulag and Bureauen in eastern Leyte last Sunday and was "believed to have scored great war] results.” The communique indicated that none of the commando returned.) One column pushing down the western side of the LimonOrmoc road below the Leyte river was nearing Tolibaw, two and a half miles southeast of Limon and 17 miles north of Ormoc, while the other was approaching BonbonOgn, about a mile to the east on the opposite side of the road. American foi-ces completed a similar envelopment and encirclement last month around Limon itself and killed thousands (•f trapped Japanese In liquidating the pocket. Some 11 miles south of the enemy stronghold of Ormoc, units of the American Seventh Division bloodily repulsed a series of suicidal Japanese charges near Palanas Tuesday and Wednesday night, but tropical rains generally stalemated ground activity. American fighters bombed ene-my supply dumps and communications routes around Orrnoc and attacked a barge center in the Camotes Islands, while Liberatora dropped 40 tons of tombs on Matina airdrome on Mindanao, south of Leyte. l destroying two parked planes. American planes searched without success for further Japanese ships attempting to reinforce the Leyte garrison, but sank or damaged three vessels end four barges in Dutch East .Indies waters. Australia-based Liberators also started fires visible for 45 miles and destroyed three parked planes in an attack on Celebes. A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur acknowledged that the Japanese may be sending small bargeloads of troops into Morotai Island, part of which is hi American hands, but ridiculed the Japanese radio reports of a large-scale counter'anding and said the American situation was in no way endang-

ered.

RELIEF FROM GENERAL COLD SNAP SUNDAY WEATHERMAN SEES BREAK IN COLD WAVE OVER WEEKEND

II)' Inltrd I'rrHN A general break in the season's first cold spell tomorrow was predicted today by the weatherman, who reported warming effects already underway throughout Nebraska, Iowa and the Dakotas. The cold wave, originating in central Canada and moving southward and eastward into the United States, was centered in ‘he midwestern area early todey, the Weather Bureau at Chicago reported. Temperatures in the northeastern states were expected to dip slightly later in the day before rising. Lowest temperature recorded during the night was at Atlantic, la., where the mercury hovi red at seven degrees below zero. Yesterday, a record season low of 17 below was registered at Bemidji, Minn. Nearly all of the northern half of the nation was covered with cne to four inches of snow throughout the four-day cold snap, the weatherman said, with the heaviest fall recorded along the southern and eastern shores of the Great Lakes. Syracuse, N. Y. had 23 inches of snow, ami approximately ten inches fell at Albany. N. Y., Vnd at Marquette and Grand Rapids, Mich. Tile weather man said a general warming effect would be felt today in the first Qer of states east of the Rocky mountains, extending to the rest of the nation by Sunday.

The cigarette shortage has hit the D\ Pauw campus with a bang, and as a result, old fashioned cob pipes as well as the ne ver type are coming Into their own and some of the»? days, it may come to pass that the fair coed will smoke her cob pipe as she strolls along the street, but recently Th 1 .- Daily Banner camera man found this quintet of fair lassies in the bum room of Mason Hall. Their pipes and the juke box were in full blast and the shortage of cigarets was no s. rious matter for the moment. The young ladies are, left to right: Dorothy Jo Mathers, Dorcas Owens, Janet Amos, Helen Coyner and Louise Martin.

PEARL HARBOR DISASTER STILL WAR MYSTERY

DETAILS OF SNEAK ATTACK BY JAPS WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC

committee for economic development, in which capacity, the West Coast industrialist said, ’“prosperity w.U record him as one of t;he great citizens of this

country." | * In a brief afterword at the' BLOOMINGTON, Dec 2 —•

Flying Officer Warren Tucker 1 conduaion of his broadcast, I Three Jndiana university baskel-

oi the Royal Canadian Air Force

INDIANA NETMEN HURT GOING HOME AFTER GAME

has arrived home from Ottawa,

•HI, as compared to 38 per cent! Canada, for a visit with his parlor the western pait of the com I t nt ‘ s Dr ancl Mrs c c Tucker,

belt.

Feed supplies in

Kaiser informally asked Cie| ::>a ll players were injured last State Chamber of Commerce for night when their automobile complete support of Purdue Uni- sideawiped a stalled truck seven

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Indiana

the year beginning Oct. 1 are ‘‘stimated to be approximately ; 0 Per cent below last year, relative to livestock numbers, therefore, say the economists, •inie further reduction below ,Mt spring in number of sows to Hrrow next spring in Indiana appear* likely. But for those "I’o are in a position to lay in fieir year’s feed supplies at feed •■rices prevailing this fall and ’‘•rly winter In the heavy corn Producing areas of the state, a ■sasonable margin between feed '“sis and hog prices in Indiana ■‘•'ems probable for the next 12

■ninths.

Builds B-29 Bases

20 Years Ago _ IX GREENCASTLE Mrs. Arthur Plummer wjm

[juntess to the Thursday Reading

Club.

versity’s research into the proi duction of low-coat hous.ng. In | that support, he said, Indiana i ?oi:!d pioneer in the field—"Indana can have another first."

Nazis Draw On Northern Troops LONDON, Dec. 2. (UP) — | Danish sources said today that j (he Germans were withdrawing the bulk of their occupation forces from both Norway and Denmark to reinforce their hardpressed armies on the western,

and eastern fronts.

Only sufficient troops absolutely necessary to man fortifi- j cations along the Norwegian [ coast and in Jutland ,thc mainmj land portion of Denmark, were Deing left in the two countries, the Danish press service in

Stockholm said.

The report appeared partially Lome out by a British admiralty communique announcing the

miles north of Greencastle as they returned to Bloomington from a victorious game with

Wabash college.

Ray Br&ndenberg of Corydon, sophomore guard, suffered a

severe shoulder injury which he j a I 1 P Ucatk,n card 5cnt for carh said would keep him out of to- i

morrow night’s game w.th Camp

TRANSPORT GASOLINE Application blanks for the first quarter of the 1945 transport gasoline are now being mailed to the truck operators in Putnam County, according to Ernest A. Browning. Chief Clerk of the Putnam County War Price and Rationing^ Board. These application forms, numher R-596. are in tne form of a folded mailing card with instructions to operators printed on the back of the part bearing the address of the consumer. On the application part of the card the name and address of 'he consumer and the Certificate of War Necessity number have been recorded. Applicants are asked to check these for accuracy and make corrections if

necessary.

The Applicant is to answer questions 1 and 2 which appear above the space for the signature. There will be a separate

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Miss Leila Talbott and Miss ““sie Talbott were hostesses vj

George Fritch was in Browni

guilty on a hunting trip.

lh " s C. C . Club.

neer of Oshkosh, Wis., is respon- t; ansport off the Norwegian sible for the mammoth task of coagt Monday. Ten other enemv building B-29 bases on Saipan. A VPMt .j a u ig 0 were sung or dam-

West Poijit graduate, he ha* been; severely 0 ff Norway by the

llrecting the building of Pacific * ..

oases

three years. (International) 0Hrr|pr V nrcp

Atterbury here. A1 Cralavansky of East Chicag»>, reserve center, suffered cuts, and Gene Turner, a reserve guard from Kokomo, was knocked unconscious but recovered. The car was driven by Dean Daniels, a freshman forward from South Bend. TRIAL IN RECESS HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2.- (UP) -Already days ahead of the expected schedule, the assault trial of Bandleader Tommy Dorsey i nnd Co. started a week end recess today with speculation that defense attorneys would call for an early dismissal of the charges. Thlee key witnesses, including Jon Hall, have visited the stand, but none, least of all Hall, have been able t« throw much light on the mystery of who slashed off the end of the bronze film actor’s nose at the luxurious Dorsey apartment last Aug. 5.

SERVING COUNTRY

Sgt. Harold F, Hunter Sgt. Harold F. Hunter, crew chief on a B-17, is stationed somewhere in England. Sgt Hunter is a- 1 graduate of the Cloverdale High School.

Certificate of War Necessity 1 held by the consumer. “All applicants are asked to j complete their applications, sign them and return them to the local office of the War Price and Rationing Board on or before Saturday December 9,'’ said Mr. Browning. The application cards have been addressed for the return to the local board so no written address is necessary. A 3 cent -tamp must be attached how-

ever.

It is absolutely necessary that i ach application be signed by the consumer before any gasoline for 1946 can be issued. No writting should be put In the rpace inclosed by the heavy line since that is reserved for board notations. Only the application part of the card should be returned to the office. Nazis Threaten To Quit War Rules LONDON, Dec. 2 German high command threatened lastnight to abandon international rules of warfare as the result oi what it charges was "incteasing infringements of international law by our enemies." The Immediate cause of the .statement, broadcast by the German official news agency, D. N. B., was the proclamation issued Tuesday by French Maj. Gen. Jacques Leclerc that unless sniping in th? city of Strasbourg ceased, five German hostages would be executed for each Frenchman shot. The Nazi high command asserted that if this order were carried out "Germany will resort to the most energetic coun-ter-reprisals’’ against Frenchmen in the Reich. However, the statement said, "an inquiry already is in progress as to whether Germany should continue to regard herself bcum! by th? Geneva and Hague conventions” and charged that "increasing infringements of international law by our enemies . . . can only have been perpetrated intentionally.” Among th? Important provisions of the international rules for war arc that prisoners of war must be humanely treated and that armies must not employ poison gas: must not kill an enemy who has surrendered: must not mak? improper use of the flag of truce, and must not pillage. Following Leclerc’s proclamation. supreme Allied headquarters in Paris announced that the Allied Expeditionary Force is operating in conformity with th? Geneva convention of 1929, particularly as it respects prohibition of reprisals against prisoners of war. Charles Sheets Dies Suddenly Chailio Sheets, 71 yeais of age, died suddenly Saturday j morning at his ham? in Fillmore ! Death was due to a heart attack He is survived by four {•'ns, three of whom are serv.ng overseas. Three daughters, Mrs. Hugh Fler.mlng and Mrs. Tate, both of Indianapolis, and Mrs. John Albright of Washington, D. C. also survive. Funetal arrangements will be announced later.

Benny At Odds With Petrillo

HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 2.—(UP) — Comedian Jack Benny, unlike Ills voluble screen and radio self, had nothing to say today about •he threat of James Petrlllo's American Federation of Musicitns to keep his regular Sundav program off the NBC network. Instead. Benny seemed inclined to wait and see just which way the wind was blowing. But local NBC officials said the “show would go on" despite the AFM announcement that it would put the wraps on it because of a dispute over nonunion engineers employed by the studio. The netwoi k spokesmen said they based their announcement cn information from the New York office that new action had l^en taken. Local AFM President Spike Wallace said he didn't know anything about Uiat but he guessed somebody had gotten together with somebody In the

Fast.

Earlier he had said no deadline (or settlement of the dispute had been set by his union. “All I know is." he said, “that the Benny show won’t go on the rlr with non-union engineers in the studio. Network officials declined to explain the exact nature of the AFM complaint or how many employes were involved. But at Chicago, Beverly Fredenall, vice president of the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians, said he had been informed of the AFM move and that it

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UP) —Barring a congressional investigation it appears today that years will elapse before the public learns all the names of those responsible for our plight ,vhen Japan hit Pearl Harbor and the reason why Admiral James O. Richardson earlier had been summarily relieved of his Pacific command. The War and Navy Departments practically closed the book op Pearl Harbor yesterday. The departments announced results of service investigations and ‘.he conclusions of the two secretaries that no further action should be taken •against either Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short or Rear Admiral Husband E. Kim-

mel.

(In Dallas Short issued a 1 statement saying that "when the entire story is unfolded I am certain of complete vindication in the eyes of the American people." Charles B. Rugg. counsel for Kimmel, declared in Boston that the Army—Navy findings meant “Kimmel has been cleared.") Congressional reaction was immediate and largely partisan. House Republican leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., R, Mass., said the people would want more details than the departments made public. Sen. Lister Hill, D„ Ala.: "I am satisfied." Sen. C. Wayland Brooks, R, 111.,: "Someon? was responsible. If the evidence does not place the responsibility on Kimmel and Short, it is the duty of Congress to find out on whose shoulders the responsibility rests.” Chairman Andrew J. May, D., Ky., of the house miiitairy affairs committee: "It looks like a final decision, there seems nothing further for congress to do about it." Sen. Harlan J. Bushfield, R., S. D.: "I think this administration doesn’t want an Investigation of Pearl Harbor The American people are entitled to it. however. Th? solution probably lies in congress having its own investigation. Those men were fired but they arc not subject to court martial." Sen. A. B. Chandler, D., Ky.: "Kimmel and Short deserve an apology from those who made them wait this long to clear their names"

Sen.

Homer Ferguson, R.,

prompted by the “fact that the | Mich., author of a resolution technician responsible for th.' ,now Pending for a senate invTsti-

p-oper bi-oadcast of the show is not a union mr.n -that he is >i NABET man." Frcdenall suggested NABET members be recruited to appear on the show if the AFM refused to take part.

Reads of B-29 Raic

WHILE her 12-day-old daughter, little Sandra Lee Morgan, remain* fast asleep in Asheville, N. C., Mrs. Dorothy Morgan amilea ai she reads wire reports of the first B-29 raid over Tokyo in which her husband, Maj. Robert K. Morgan, piloted the lead plane, the "Dauntless Dotty." Major Morgan gained fame as pilot of the "Memphis Belle," veteran of many mladoqs over Europe. (International.

gation of Pearl Harbor: "I’d like the evidence and conclusions to the senate military affairs committee to aid us in determining whether there should be a senate investigation. The people -vant to know how this thing at Pearl Harbor could possibly happen and yet nobody to be

blamed.”

In similar statements yesterday, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of Navy lames V. Forrests 1 each announced completion of th" separate army and navy inquiries requested by congress. Stimson reported that “several officers” in Hawaii and here in Washington had not performed their duties with necessary skill and judgment, he said. Short already had been punshed by relief !rom his command. Ro.i;e Dietrich who has been I visiting his parents, Mr. ana ' Mrs. John Dietrich, has returned i to his home in Loveland, Colors-

Todays Weather ® and ® §> Local Temperature ® Cleai.ng and continued told today and tonight; Sunday increasing cloudiness and a litt’c Warner.

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