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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1944.

NO. 46

19TH CORN SHOW i FARMER S home IN MARION township is CONCLUDED WITH BANQUET

DINNER AT PRESBYTERIAN CHCHCH WAS WELL ATTENDED

The nineteenth annual Putnam County Corn show closed Friday evening with a banquet In the Presbyterian church, sponsored by the Putnam County Bankers Association. It was the largest attendc i of any former com $roweis banquet, there being shout 125 on hand for the .wards which were made during ihe evening. The corn show demonstrated one thing, that the com winners of Putnam county do not all go lo the dads of the county, because the two top winners In the five acre ,corn contests were

iioys.

A vet* tan of all com shows, John Oay of Marion township, carried off the lion’s share of honors by winning the aweepi takes in the 10 ears entry, the single ear entry, the shelled entry and the best exhibit. Mr. pay has always been a consistmt winner in Putnam county and Indiana state shows and usually places well up towards the top in the International shows. He produces open pollinated com .nly, but was challenged Friday eight by K. E. Beeson of Purdue University, to come back next year and win in the hybrid classes, He indicated he might be a serious contender in that divi-

sion next year.

In the 5 acie contest, top award went to Morris McGaughey and he was crowned king by Mr. Beeson who was the chief

This is the comfortable and hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Nichols In Marion township. It is located on the blacktop pavement south and west of Fillmore. Mr. Nichols is one of thv pioneer formers of eastern Putnam county, but because he has been farming many years, is no indication that he dws not use modern methods and he has won his laurels in corn growing in many Putnam county corn shows. He also has been a reader of The Daily Banner for the past half century.

Home, Contents Lost In Blaze

Efficient work • n the pj#rt of the city f.remen saved a new garage and one house from being razed by (lames Friday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock when the hcTe cf Ellis White, in Commercial Place, was destroyed. It was also the home of his mother, Mrs. Maude White. The contents of the one-story residonc* were also lost in the blaze. The firemen used the ttuek’s 200-gallon booster tank and were aided by a volunteer bucket br gade. The White home was beyend saving and the fire fighters devoted most of their of-

, , , .. , u , i forts to checking the flames speaker during the evening. His! .

1 from the house on the east and the garage on the west of the

ield was 124.7 bushels per acre

A close up for second top honors waa Wayne Buser with a yield of 121.4 bushels per acre. Morris won a green gold medal for his award, in addition to being crowned the king of them all. Winners of awards above 100 Innhela per acre were given gold medals, from 85 to 100, silver

and from 75 to 85, bronze. Lowell A. Dicks, president of

the Corn Growers Association rttiided at the meeting. He ini reduced Lois Arnold who acted at toastmaster and awarded ‘ome of the prizes, while ethers were awarded by County Agent

burning structure. f T n commenting on the conflagration, Fire Chief William Lawrence pointed out Saturday morn Jig that although the cai! cam? from beyond the city limits, the firemen answered the alarm as a good neighbor policy and the policy of helping those

in distress.

HAY-SAVING SUGGESTIONS A HE MADE BY DAIRYMAN The increasing number of Indiana dairymen inquiring where :i few additional tons of hay may tie purchased should lead every

Dinlcl Holmes. The list of | twntM . to use supplies in the mow

nwards in the 5 acre contest included the following: '14.7—Morris McGaughey 111.4 Wayne Buser

I20.f-Shirl Evans

Ul.3—Everett Wichman 117.3- Paul McGaughey 117.1- -Ivan Harbison UM Schuyler Arnold & Sons 113.6— Clendon Herbert 113.1 Zannie Garriott 112.6 Cecil McGaughey 111.7— Oran E. Buis 111.8 P.alph Clodfelter 111.4- Raymond Crosby 111.3 -Andrew Sutherlin 110.5- Lester Wilson 'OT.e Warren Harlan

-06.7—Leland Torr

105.3— John B. Grimes 102.7 Malcolm Shonkwiler *02.6- John A. Harbison 101.6 W. N. McMullen 101.5 Beit Brattain 101.0 Raymond Wright 100.8 Osborn Hutchins 09.3 -Otis Clodfelter 99.1— Lowell A. Dicks 07.3— Leonard Mann 96.0- Joseph Grubb

06-0 N. C. O’Hair

05.6 Alva Carrington 05.1 Claience Ragan 05.0 H. C. Perkins 02.0 R. h. Norman 016 Phillip Carrington 01-3 Richard Hoffman

89.9- Marion Seam

88 i Kenneth Sinclair /

86.6- Paul Blue 85.6 W. J. Alice

83.4— C. O. Leonard

8T9 Roy Foster *5.7- Meiele Fox

Supers Over Central Japan WASHINGTON, D.e. 9 (UP) —American B-29 Superfortresses raided the Seto Naikai coastal area of central Japan for more than an hour today, radio Tokyo reported, touching off speculation that the giant bombers may have sought out the Japanese fleet at the Kure naval base. Tokyo also said lone superfoi tresses for the third straight day made two nuisance _ attacks on the Japanese capital itsvlf during the morning. Only during (the first at 3 a. m. (4 p. m. "Friday, EWT) were any bomba—' “a few incendiaries’’—dropped, the broadcast said. The second sortie over Tokyo at 9:30 a. m. was followed by an hour-long “raid on th'.> Seto I Naikai coastal area,' 1 Tokyo asserted, the broadcast did not say, however, how many B-29s participated or whether any bombs were dropped. Seto Naikai, or "inland sea," flows between th*e main Japanese home islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, the Kure naVal base lies on the southeast coast

of Hanshu.

The whereabouts of the Japanese fleet have been a mystery since its flight from the Philippines fallowing its disastrous defeat in October. It might well be that a number of the vessels, including those which limped honva

NOTED SINGERS ARE SOLOISTS FOR MESSIAH

WILL BE PRESENTED IN IGREENCASTLE ON DECEMBER 17 Nell Tangeman, well known Indiana mezzo-soprano* and William E. Ross, Indiana Univernity voice professor, Bvill be guest soloists r.t the BePauw University presentation it Handel’s "Messiah,” to be pt^formed l«y the DcPauw-Grctticastle Choral Union on the IJePauw tarnpus .Sunday, December 17. Other soloists announced for the occasion by John ToiD-s, director of the Choral Uni#n and associate professor of v choral music at DePauw, Jane Johnson Burroughs, her of the DePauw sti well-known Indianapolis teacher, and John White, music teacher at. Arsenal Technical i'igh School in Indianapo^K.

HEADS TRUSTEES

with caution, wains G. A. Wiliams, extension dairyman at

Purdue University. It is a wise plan roughage supplies

From now until the pasture sea-; f F0 m American son. each cow in milk should tacks, consume at least two tons of . __ / ’

good quality legume hay. When thrt ! tons or more of silage iU'>' already in the silo, to give varj jety to her ration, only one-half as much hay will be required. This does not include feed for the herd sire and young stock.

For dairymen who may need

• that extra ton" of hay which may bo difficult to obtain next February, here are a few timely suggestions for sttetching the

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to budget f or n-pairs, were at Kure, where on hand. tp P y would be relatively safe

submarine at-

HOME FROM PACIFIC

Theod re (Ted) Stone, son o Mr. and Mrs. Art Stone of this city, arrived home Friday night, after spending about thirty months in the South Tacific area. This is Stone’s first furlough l • me s nee he left Green- ; istle almost three years ago. He apent most of his time in

Australia and New Guinea,

The presentation will b« rrlade by the soloists and a ehiirus of 225. Music for the program, which will be the Christm^a section of the famous work, will be bj the DePauw University orchestra. The program will be presented at 8 p. m. in BoWmen gymnasium. Mrs. Tangeman nas appeared in the Bach Cantata broadcasts over 1 the Mutual Network under the direction of Alfred Wallenstein, In opera in New York under Carl Bamberger, with the New Yoik Oratorio Society under the direction of the late Albert Stoossel, and as soloist at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church in New York. Since her mairiage to Robert Tangeman, professor of music at 11id ana University, Mrs. Tangeman has appeared frequently In ’ecital. opera, ami radio progtains in Indiana and neighboring states. She was soloist with the Columbus Philharmonic Symphony in February, witft the Indianapolis in March and with the Cincinnati Symphony under Eugene Goossens during the present season. Mr. Ross has been professor of voice in the School of Music at Indiana since 1938. He has had nine years of professional work in Chicago, where he was a member of the Chicago City Opera and the Chicago Civic Light Opera companies and soloist in programs broadcast by WGN and the Columbia and NBC networks. He Is known for the singers he has developed, including Phyllis Wilcox, finalist in the "Hour of Charm" national radio auditions and James Pease, a winner pf the 1943 Metropolitan Opera auditions. The presentation of the ••Messiah” will be the initial performarce for the Choral Union, which was re-oiganized at DePauw this year under Mr. Toms’ diiectiou as a permanent singing group. The gr:.np is composed of DePauw students and faculty members, townspeople, high school students, and members of local church choirs.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 8.— i UP)—William Nisbit .Clinton, was elected president today of • he Indiana Township Trustees’ Association at the annual conference of the organization. Otto F. Walls. Knightstown, was reelected secretary-treasurer.

AMERICANS IN ' OUTSKIRTS OF JAP BASTION

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Philippines, Dec. 9.—(UP)—The American 77th Division thrust into the outskirts of Ormoc, last | sizeable Japanese port on Leyte, today in a drive threatening to toll up the rear of enemy forces fighting to the last man against a frontal assault nearly 20 miles to the north. The division overran Camp Downes, an old American military camp dating back to the Spanish-American War, on the outskirts of Ormoc yesterday after a three-hour advance feom the beachhead they had carved out only 24 hours earlier in a surprise landing. The speed of the advance indicated that the Japanese, caught off balance by the amphibious blow, would not be able to organise sufficient resistance to prevent the speedy fall of ] Ormoc, th’elr main supply and j reinforcement gateway. (Radio Tokyo claimed that Japanese ground forces, aided by paratroops, have "virtually captured” the American airfield at Burauen, more than nine milts behind the American lines on Leyte. It also acknowledged the Americans landed south of Ormoc and claimed thnt Japanese planes had sunk nine American ships and damaged six others off the cast and west coasts of Ley-

te.)

Six other American divisions sent the all-out offensive on Leyte into its third day by further lightening their stranglehold from the north, northeast, east, southeast and south on 40,000 to 50,000 Japanese* hemmed into two pockets in the northwest comer of the central Philippines Island. The bloodiest fighting of the Leyte campaign was raging south of Limon. 20 miles above Ormoc, where the Japanese had concentrated the bulk of their forces in an attempt to prevent a frontal breakthrough onto the Ormoc plateau. Field Artillery UsedByELAS ATHENS, Dec. 9. -(UPl ELAS forces of the national liberation front were revealed today to have brought their own; field artillery into play against British troops and Greek gov-! eminent regulars as the battle 1 of Athens neared the end of its iirst week. Reports from scattered sector? cl the Athens "front" said the

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KLAS units, for the first time using artillery, had infiltrated previously vacated positions and had yielded virtually nothing to the British and Greek regulars. Authorities reported that a situation strikingly parallel to the early phases of the Athens crisis was building up at Salonika, big port In northern Greece, where u general strike wa% call-

ed and tension mounted.

Japanese Admit Osaka Hard Hit

Hy L lilted The Japanese acknowledge! tor the first time today the severity of the earthquake that lipped across central Japan Thursday afternoon, and revealed that war plants and residential areas were damaged In Osaka, the empire’s second city. Carefully -censored enemy broadcasts, which for the past •.’4 hours had been minimizing the extent of the disaster, lisled damage caused by tidal waves J and landslides In a half-dozen j ciowded manufacturing centers j extending from the edge of the Tokyo district to Osaka. 240 miles to the west. Official accounts issued by the Dome! news agency, however, made no mention of Tokyo itrelf or of the loss of life In j Thursday’s upheaval, which observatories around Uie woild reccrdcd as even greater than the 1 1923 convulsion that wiped out Yokohama and much of the cap-1 ital and killed almost 100,000 persons. The Dome! dispatch, recorded by FCC monitors, admitted th • shock was particularly heavy In the Osaka area, a sprawling fuch ry city of 3,242.033, res.dents I

The Elks Club was the scene Friday evening of the capping service for fourteen Red Cross ' volunteer nurse's aides. This is the second class to have been graduated in this type of Red : Cross service within the community in a six months period, j Awarding of the official nurse’s I a de caps signifies a successful completion of the specialized 80hour training course. During their period of hospital training the recent graduates had been identified by their blue cambric jumper dresses worn over white

blouses.

Simpson Stoner, chairman of Putnam county chapter of the American Red Cross, expressed the appreciation of the local Red Cross organization for the unselfish service the members of the group have given and recognized, again, the valuable com- ! munity work being done by I members of the first unit of volunteer nurse's aides. Representing Greencastle community, Dean E. R. Bartlett stated that the Red Cross nurse’s aide program is one of highest standards. He pointed out that no thought of momentary compensation is held by these civic women who give so unselfishly of their time and ahilitiea. He reminded his audience that it is only because of the assistance of such volunteers as the current graduates, that hospitals throughout the country, facing a shortage of professional help, are able to care for an increased

patient load.

Mr. Stoner gave particular credit to Mrs. Don Ellis, chairman for Red Cross nurse's aides for the organization work she has dene from the time this projei^ was first brought to the community. Miss Mary Mafgarum, superintendent of Putnam

8:23 A. M. yesterday. The bat-1 Count y hospital, in congratul.ittle swayed back and forth in 8 the class ’ added a special through the streets and houses j eonunendntion for members of of the town for more than 10| thp firat c!as « who have complethours, but the battered enemy I ed al least 150 hours of sendee.

cow broadcast an unconfirmed Swedish report that all Austria was being evacuated, with the Nazi party offices transferring

from Vienna to Carlsbad. YANKS PUSH DEEPER INTO

SIEGFRIED LINE KNOCK OUT 12 GERMAN

P" LLBOXES »N 8AAKLAUTERN SECTOR

TARTS, Del. 9 (UP) — American infantry knocked out 12 b:ttcrly-d :fended pillboxes vv ith flame-throwers, grenades and cannon and plunged deeper into the maze of Siegfried line defenses northwest of Saarlautjrn today after smashing the strong?st German counterattack yet uncorked cast of the

Saar river.

Some 603 counter-attacking Germans with 11 tanks stabbed back into American-held Dillingen, two and a half xilqB northwest of Saarlautern and six miles inside the Saar basin, at

enemy i

finally withdrew at 5 P. M. MEET IN ENGLAND Sergeant Courtland lWordy) Tharp recently had a visit with Corporal F rman Grimes in Eng'and. Sgt. Tharp reported that this was the first Putnan county boy he had seen since last April when he saw Lt. Dick

Coffey.

STATIONED ON ISLAND

Included in this group were Mrs. Vera Blanchard, Mrs. Robert Hoffman, Miss Eileen Hoffman, Miss Betty Lee, Mrs. Hiram Jome, Mrs. Earland Ritchie, and

Miss Helen Tobin.

The blue and white caps were presented to the graduates by the trained nurse instructors who had been in charge during the training peri.d. Mrs. Martha Fllen Johnson, Mrs. Elsa Morrison Stoffers, and Mrs. Earle Wiseman. The oath of the Civilian Defense organization was given to the graduates by Jacob

of that

second only to Tokyo in size and | Mrs. Walter Herbert received importance, ;* call late Friday night that her brother, Pfc. Glcndon Anderson, I Eitel, a representative

: had arrived on an island off th" : group.

iost coast of U. S. A. from i Convocation and benediction hospital in England. Ffc. And- , were given by the Reverend Cecil erson was wounded in Germany Fellers. Suitable piano music Oct. 8. He stated that it woulilwas supplied by Mrs. Jean Brown

Russians Roll

Toward Budapest

AS 33 JAP SHIPS WERE SUNK IN MANILA HARBOR

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20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

Mr and Mrs. Elmvr Blue en^tained E<1 Jackson, grovernorel «*t of Indiana. The Veronica Club held its "'dstinag meeting with Mrs. "lUiam Blackwell. '■rginia Mathes entertained .. of little frknds with a l "rthday p nrty .

ThU remarkable photo by aerial reconnaissance, taken Nov. 25, of Manila Harbor graphically telU the story of the potency of the " rial carrier strikes against enemy shipping there. Thirty three vessels, sunk or sinking, are visible in and near the breakThe city of Manila has been spared the devastation that has been wreaked upon the harbor by Admiral Halsey's fast nJ.a fwt carrier force. Included among the sinking hulks are a light cruiser and a destroyer. Numerous sampans and small ships of | h than 2000 tons have not been counted. This is a U. S. Navy ohoto. (International houndphoto),

LONDON, Dec. 9. (U4’) — Two Russian aimies rolled up the German flanks noith and southwest of Budapest today in a powerful bid to envelop the Hungarian capital and lay its formidable defenses open to direct assault. Moscow and Berlin dispatches revealed that major tank battles were i aging on either side of the beleaguered capital, with reinforced German and Hungarian divisions putting up a desperate but losing fight to hold open their two main lines of communication between Budapest and Vinenna. Four armored columns of Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian Army wedged deep into the Nazi defenses between Budapest and Lake Balaton, pushing within nine miles * 1 Szekesfehvar and threatening to bring that covering strongiiold under attack by nightfall. At the same time, Marshal i Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s Second Ukrainian fcrccs crushed 18 miles through the enemy lines above Budapest and reached the great bend of the Danube at Vrc, 18 miles to the north. \larmed Berlin spokesmen ad- i rnitted the gravity of the twin Soviet offensive and warned | .'hat the showdown fight for i Bn iapest could be expected In a • matter of days at most. The developing Russian offensive brought fresh rumois of, panic in Austria ,and radio Mos-

be 3 to 5 days before getting b.6me.

Bosselman. At the class of the service, refreshments were served during a social period by members of the K*'d Cross, canteen committee. Mrs. Leo Con--ad, chairman, was assisted by Mrs. O. D.‘ McCullough and Mrs. Leo Terry. Members of the class included: Mrs. Claire Bundy, Mrs. Frances Hammond, Mis:; Frances Hendrich, Miss Mary Hendrich, Mrs. Kathleen James. Miss Florence Ionic. Miss Patricia Lenzen. Mrs. Waqeta Linley, Miss Suz’nnc Pulliam, Mrs. Lois Ritchie, Mrs. Elsie Ruark, Mrs. Hoyland Simison, Miss Helen Werncke, and Miss Virginia Young. SMOKES ROOM BUSINESS CHICAGO (UP) Something i:i w has been added to the menu o! Mrs. Lou Clarke's coffee shop. And she’s doing a land-office business. Mri;. Cluike’s success secret is the precious cigarette. She gives away one smoke with each meal.

Nubbins cries as he is wheeled to the operating room at Mercy h ispital in Denver, So his mother, Mrs. Marshall Hoffman of Cheyjnne, who, picks him up from the cot to comfort the three-year-old, whose kidney malady has attracted world-.vide interest. The operation was termed by the surgvon as "quite satisfactory”, and It is expected the child will scon be allowed to return to his home. (International Soundphoto).

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