The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 December 1944 — Page 2
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IReds Advance Into Slovakia
LONDON, Dec. 19.—(UP) — Moscow reported today that the Budapest-Vienna railway, the last practical escape route for the garrison of the beleaguered Hungarian capital, had been brought under Russian artillery fire.
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LONDON, Dec. 19.—(UP) — Two Russian invasion columns advanced into southern Slovakia on a broad front today and converged on Kassa (Kosice) in a last-breaking drive to wipe out (he narrow German salient separating the Red Armies in Hun-
gary and Poland.
Powerful German defenses along the mountainous SlovakHungarian border cracked wide open under the Soviet attack and Moscow dispatches said Russian tanks and infantrymen were punching rapidly northward at a number of points on the 88-mile invasion front. Simultaneously, the French radio network broadcast a dubious report that the Red Army had broken into Budapest and locked in hand-to-hand battle with the axis garrison.
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TODAY’S RIBLE THOUGHT God is live, he rules the universe. Things are not nearly so bad as you think. Talk it over with God and get new hope and courage; Sighing and sorrow yhall flee away.—Isaiah 35:10.
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James T. Dillen of this city was admitted to the county hos-
pital yesterday.
Mrs. Rachel Jobe of Cloverdale was admitted to the county hos-
Soviet units were said to have pjt a i yesterday afternoon,
crossed to the west bank of the
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I river and entered Buda, former seat of the Hungarian govern-
ment.
More credible was an account 1 velayed by the clandestine free Hungarian radio that Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s Second Ukrainian Army had reached the suburban town of Rakospalota, a mile north-northeast of Pest. Today’s early morning Moscow communique gave no word
on the struggle for Budapest and \ hospital.
Berlin commentators asserted that Soviet pressure on the capital had relaxed with the start of the Slovakian offensive. Russian field dispatches, however,
Miss Kay Tincher and Irene Wallace spent —Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sutherlin at Fillmore.
( Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hunter, ' Olive street, are the parents of a baby boy born this morning at the Putnam County hospital. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cantonwine are the parents of a girl born Monday evening at the county
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I Or. and Mrs. Edward R. Barti lett received word early Tuesi day of the birth of a son, James ; Richard to Lt. and Mrs. Ran-
.. , 1 dolnh Bartlett at their Flushing, said the assault was continuing!.. ‘ . „
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with unabated fury and describ- j ed the fighting as probably thej bloodiest of the entire war on
the eastern front.
The communique reported sweeping gains for Malinovsky’s forces all across the border lins where they wrested 48 towns and hamlets from the axis detenders in a series of pitched
battles that cost the Nazis at' ^ r- ant * ^ rs ' < ^ asse " Baley, least 2,000 killed and 1,850 pris-1 Mrs - Vir S il Eiteljorge and r norR I daughter De Ronda and Mrs.
Elva Tincher had Sunday dinner
Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hardwick have received word that their son, Cpl. Thomas E. Hardwick has arrived safely over seas. He is somewhere in Burma, and his address may be obtained _from
his parents.
cners.
I The Russian right wing drove
a 15-mile wedge into Slovakia; with Mrs - Frank Grimes and
Mrs, Russell Rogers in honor of Mrs. Cassell Baley's birthday.
between Turnian Novy • Ves on the west and Buzita on the east, and pulled abreast of the frontier on a 12-mile line farther east, where they captured Alsokeked. 12 miles southeast of Kassa.
° t n th ;‘ r J ef K t W i ng ’ th , e Sovie Vnd friends. Pvt. Greenleaf is tl* captured the border railway sta-l d ter of Dr and Mrs H E
tion of Banreve and thrust six H Greenleaf
miles north to take Abovce and ,
SOCIETY
Federated Reading Club
' To Meet Uedn.-sday
The Federated Reading club will meet in the City Library. Wednesday at 1:30. Mrs. Dan Jones of Brazil will review the life of Winston Churchill by Guedalla. Mrs. Jones is past president of the fifth district of the
Federation of Clubs.
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Mrs. J. W. Gough Hostess To Wonder Club The Wonder Club met Friday evening with Mrs. J. W. Gough. All members were present and prize.* were won b> Miss Kay Tincher and Mrs. Gough. The next meeting will be Jannnry 5th with Mrs. Charles
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Ladies Aid
Meets Thursday The Brick Chapel Ladies Aid will meet Thursday December 21st at the home of Mrs. J. R. South. Please bring a homemade present for the grab-bag, also sandwiches.
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Women’s Union To Meet iVursday The Women’s Union of the Christian Church will meet in the church parlors Thursday, December 21, at 2:30 P. M, Mrs. William Stiles is devotional leader and Mrs. Clay Brothers will give the program. Her subject is “Peace in the Americas and in the Orient.”
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Home Economic Club .Met Satunlay A beautiful decorated tree on which were gifts for all the children, formed a lovely setting for the Christmas meeting of the Club Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Nel-
son.
The dining table was decorated in keeping with the holiday season, and a bountiful pitch-in dinner was served. The evening was spent playing games and a social time was enjoyed. The lovely home portrayed the Christmas motif and added charm to the evening. 4> 4* 4- 4* Kappa 'Delta Phi Held Christman Party The Kappa Delta Phi Sorority . held their Christmas party MonI day evening at the home of Mrs. Stuart Richards. Assisting hostesses were Mrs. Maurice Hurst, Mrs. Lauren Linley and Mrs. Walter Seeley. j During the evening gifts were exchanged and the names of 1 secret sisters were revealed.
ATTIRST SION OF A
Marine Corps Woman's Reserve, will arrive home today for a ten day furlough with her parents
Kesovce, the latter southwest of Kassa.
50 miles
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CATHOLIC CEREMONY
I INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 19 _ (UP)—More than 400 members I of the Catholic Hierarchy and Clergy assembled today for par- | ticipation in the installation of | the most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, D. D. as Indiana’s first Archbishop. Cold, snowy weather forestalled preparations for the traditional outdoor processional. All other parts of the ceremony creating the new Ecclesiastical Roman Catholic province of Indiana were to proceed as planned, in St. Peter and Paul Cathedral.
, New names were also drawn for
Pvt. Edith Greenleaf, of the j next year Prizes were won by
Miss Evelyn Johnson and Mrs.
George Williams.
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Sewing Club
Met Friday
The Neighborly Sewing Club i met at the home of Mrs. Cowger December 15. The meeting was ! called to order by singing Silent | Night, with eleven members present. Devotions were given by Mrs. Green and a Christmas gift exchange was enjoyed by
oil.
Contest was given by all present and delicious refreshments were served by the hostess. The meeting adjourned to meet with Mrs. Green on January 26.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.— (UP)—Attorney General Francis Biddle today disclosed that a federal grand jury in New York has indicted two corporations .md four of their principal executives on charges of conspiring to defraud the government
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STRIKES BIRD AT 6,000 FEET
NEW YORK (UP)—Capt. Fructuoso Perez Suarez of Companile Mexicana de Aviacion, a Pan American Airways affiliate had a puzzling experience one night recently while flying a PAA clipper at 6,000 feet between Punta Penasco and Her..losillo, Mexico. While the 21 passengers dozed and the crew kept watch, the cabin windshield was shattered and the remains of a bird splattered over ths crew. Capt. Suarez would like to know what kind of a bird flies 6,000 feet above sea level in the deed of the night.
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FORT WARREN, Wyo. (UP) —Sgt. C. J. Munn, assigned to the signal corps at Fort Warren, believes he has established some sort of a commuter’s record. Sgt. Munn lives at Fort Collins, Col., which is about 50 miles from the post, and estimates that he has traveled about 50.000 miles the past year In commuting between his home and the post.
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QidPftpardtioMMtULdtImttfi ing less than a filibuster. Acting Democratic leader Hill, D., Ala., and Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex., whose foreign relations committee has approved the nominees, arranged to keep the senate into session late into the night if necessary to dispose of the confirmations. They were prompted by the knowledge that it will become increasingly difficult, as Christmas draws nearer, to keep a quorum of at least 49 senators without which the senate would automatically have to adjourn. Many members of the house of representatives, which has no part in the confirmation argument, already have departed
for home.
Adjournment without action on the nominees would constitute a victory for Pepper and his followers, and Pepper, who held the senate floor most of yesterday, gave no signs of giving up,although he disclaimed any intention of conducting a filibuster. He argued that the pending list of nominees “is out of character” with the liberal record of the Roosevelt administration.
should be made through the newspapers and by direct radio appeal. “And then,” he added, “wo should keep ourselves receptive and listen to the criticisms and suggestions the voters make so we can change our legislative
In loving memory of our be loved husband and father, Drew Miller, who passed away 3 years ago, today, December 19. 1941, Mrs. Myrtle Miller and children. Hoininations Before Senate WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 — (UP)— Administration leaders called the senate Into session an hour earlier than usual today and planned a night session if necessary to reach a vote on the six controversial state department nominations.. Confirmation of President Roosevelt’s six nominees was virtually all that stood In the path of adjournment and Christmas at home for members of the 78th congress. Majority sentiment In the senate appeared to favor prompt confirmation. But a vote was prevented by the determination of a small group to stall action in the hope that President Roosevelt would reconsider his selections. The delaying action was led by three senators who Usually are among the President's most consistent supporters—Claude Pep- ’ per, D„ Fla., Joseph F. Guffey, j D„ Pa., and James E. Murray, D, Mont. They launched a full | dress foreign policy debate which some senators considered noth-
Demands G.O.P. Reorganization WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.— (UP)—Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., today joined in demands for reorganization of the Republican party but said any leform must include arrangements to report party plans and activities to the people every six months through press and radio. Ferguson gave his endorsement to the reorganization plan proposed by Sen. Kenneth S Wherry, R., Mich., under which the Republicans would maintain a full-time, four-year national chairman and a research bureau to advise Republican congressmen on constructive legislative programs. “But we should also make it our national party’s business to repo# npt less frequently than every six months to the people— the voters—on what we do here in Washington," Ferguson said. Such reports, he explained,
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