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THE DAILY BANNER, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1944.

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to say that Williams hadn’t heard anything yet. He said he’d converted his plant to a bomb factory for the army and was turning ’em out

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HOMELESS CARS Ky Frederick C. Othinun WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.— (UP)—The case of the homeless freight cars in St. Louis, I believe you’ll agree, is something to read about. So’s the story of the factory without a wall in Columbus. O. Only not as funny as I. thought at first. Not nearly as funny. An advisory committee of railroad car builders was in session at the War Production Hoard and R. A. Williams, vicepresident of the American Car and Foundry Co., happenecT to remark that he’d just put in a harrowing 24 hours. He was in the midst of building for the U. S. army 610 flat cars when, at 2:35 p. m., the.uay before, he received a wire from Washington cancelling the order. Furthermore, he said, the order was effective that midnight. What to do with 610 flat cars was the question, particularly since 72 of them still weren’t bolted together Frank A. Livingston, president of the Ralston Steel Car Co., of Columbus, O.. interrupted

cancelled. Livingston said he thought he’d better get back to building railroad cars as quickly as posrible. He moved out all thj completed bombs, bomb parts, and machinery, including numerous presses so big he had to tear down one wall of his place to get them out. He had the whole business loaded up and ready to ship and nis factory on the verge of turning out freight cars when he got .mother wire from Washington. You guessed it. “Resume bomb production.” The Senate war investigating committee began a preliminary inquiry and I must admit that when I heard of it, it sounded like bungling on the part of somebody in a brass buttoned coat. I checked with the army and

Luxembourg and 35 miles more into Belgium. The latest headquarters announcement. covering operations through noon Wednesday, acknowledged that the main LiegeArlon highway had been cut within 60 miles of Brussels and that a second German armored spearhead was tearing out the American center in Luxembourg 25 miles to the south. Only in the north was there elear evidence that the Ameri•ans weie rallying and swinging back along the trail of their bloody three-day retreat to recapture a cluster of Belgian border villages from the enemy.

BOMB JAP BASES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, j Philippines, Dec. 22.—(UP)—| American fighter planes swept over a wide area of central and routhern Luzon from new bases on Mindoro Island today, ready io cover the next phase of the American liberation of the Philippines. The new bases were put in

it said the facts as reported here j operation Wednesday, only six are correct. It said the St. Louis I days after American invasion freight car deal wasn’t much to i troops first stormed ashore on worry about, because the army i the southwest coast on Mindoro, iias half a dozen standard meth-1 The oiled dirt runways brought ods of getting rid of those cars land-based fighters within 145 with loss to nobody. I miles south of Manila, capital of The Columbus bomb deal is] the Philippines and Gen. Douglas something else again. Seems i Mac Arthur’s ultimate objective, that after manufactuie of ordin-j Simultaneously with the comary sized bombs got going good.. pletion of the airfield. 29 Japanthe army found it could plaster ,se planes attempted a raid on Germany with block busters, ground installations, but lost 11 Production of these big babies to 14 aircraft in the attempt, soared; the 100-pounders slump-; Outnumbered American Lighted. That’s when the Columbus rings and Tunderbolts intercontract was cancelled. j (epted the raiders and lost a The Army Air Forces discov-' single plane in the dogfight.

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ered soon by experience sometimes a plane loaded ten 100-pounders could do more damage than one carrying a single 1000-pounder. That’s when the contract was reinstated.

On Leyte, the American 77th Division from the south and the First Cavalry from the northeast linked up Wednesday near Kananga, 14 miles north of Ormoc, and drove the Japanese | lemnants west into the hills in i I he northwest corner of the is-

DKIYE HALTED (land.

PARIS, Dec. 22.—(UP)—The' The main Japanese forces German armored offensive pocketed some distance north of

across Belgium and Luxembourg, halted in its tracks on the northern flank, was reported still surging forward In the center and south within 40 miles of the French frontier today, under a low cloud cover that held the straining allied air forces at bay. Field dispatches from the chaotic American First Army front frankly described the Nazi advance as a “breakthrough’’ and there was no information at allied headquarters to dispute the German claim that their forces had ripped open a number of

Kananga continued to resist frontal pressure from the 32nd Division, but they, too, were ex-

pected to crack soon.

COLD WAVE

lly | iiHimI I'reMN The season’s worst cold wave

gripped the northern tier of states from Iowa to the Atlanfl: coast today with the mercury (lipping to 22 degrees below zero at Black Moshannon. Pa., and

the weatherman promised little I relief before Sunday night at I least. | Temperatures will rise slightly throughout the midwest today and tonight, but will drop below | the zero mark again Sunday morning, the federal weather forecaster at Chicago predicted. Although the coldest weather was reported along the northern tier of states from Iowa east, the weatherman said below freezing temperatures prevailed as far south as the Texas Panhandle and the Ohio river. Black Moshannon was the coldest spot in the nation but a season record of 15 degrees below zero was reported at Cadillac, Mich., and Waterman. 111., i (ported 12 below. Rockford 111., reported 12 degrees below and Chicago temperatures dipped to two below. Binghampton, N. Y., reported five below and in Washington the mercury dropped to 20 de-

giees above.

Sub-zero temperatures were reported throughout eastern Iowa, southern Wisconsin, Illinois, northern Indiana, lower Michigan. Ohio, Pennsylvania and New England, but Minnesota, the Dakotas and Nebraska experienced slightly warmer weather than yesterday. However, colder temperatures were predicted for those aras tonight. Temperatures will rise to 20

degrees in

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Suppreme Court Justice Stank v Reed, left, swears in five of the six new assistant secretaries iseph C. Grew, William L. Clayton, Archibaldof State in Washington. From left to right are J MacLeish, Nelson Rock' feller and Janies C. Dunn. (International Soundphoto.)

"They seemed to be able to see right through the jungle," he said. “The natives would sit for hours waiting to sneak up on a Japanese when he was off guard. They were like cats hunting

Chicago today, the j mice. Finally, two or three of

weatherman said, but will drop | them would pounce on the Japto eight degrees tomorrow morn-l anese and carry h m silently

ing, and will return to two below J through the jungle." Sunday morning. ’ - ^ .

travel! in the right RutherfOid stated.

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NEW GUINEA NATIVES | BRING JAPS IN ALIVE

Rutherford said the favorite method of bringing in the prisoners was to bind their hands and feet with ropes made of jungle vines. “Then the natives would run a long pole through the vines and place the Japanese

SESSIONS AT PURDUE JAN. 9

An attractive program has been arranged for Indiana women attending the Home Economics meetings during the annual Agricultural Conference at Purdue University, January 9. -11, it has been announced by W. F. Graham, conference superin-

tendent.

The initial meeting of the

WASHINGTON (UP) — Na-

tives of New Guinea accomplish-

ed what American infantrymen 1 dangling between them," he ad-] home economlcs g r °up will open

were unable to do—“bring back ^

in the Hall of Music, Miss Mary Danke, home economics speciallist for Kraft Cheese Company, Chicago, will discuss “Safety in the Home,” and as a final feature of the annual Indiana Home Economics Association program Thursday afternoon in the Hal) of Music, Mrs. Ruth Sholty, Twelve-Mile, will present a discussion "The Japanese Homemaker in Contrast with the American Homemaker.”

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Japanese prisoners alive,” ac- | cording to Sgt. Thomas L. Rutherford, of Galax, Va., recently returned to the United States for the first time in four years.

to ao—"bring DaCK ded. He described another method

the natives used. They tied four long poles around the neck of the prisoner, with a native at , the end of each rope. If the Jap-

Sgt. Rutherford, who enlisted ^ anese tried to run in any dirccin the Army in 194iO and was tion, he could be brought back trained with the 24th Division in by a pull on the rope. "SomeHawai;, gave an account of the times there would be a few adaction in Dutch New Guinea. ditional natives with spears to He told of the dangers his encourage the Japanese to company encountered when sur- 1 - ■

rounded by Japanese and

they were saved

Tuesday mornihg in the auditorium of the Home Economics

building.

Included among speakers for the Tuesday afternoon session will be Mrs. Jeanette O. Parvis, Indiana Department of Fliblic Instruction, wh* will present a talk, “Home Canning for the Battle Front." During the Wednesday afternoon session, which will be held

ROCHESTER, N. (UP) — When his last wouldn’t fit the man’s shoe he was about to repair, cobbler Stephen DiGiorgio reached into the toe of the shoe —and drew out awad of bills amounting to $225 . The old brown oxford looked like a golden slipper to the cobbler - for the nonce. But the customer will get his money back, because DiGiorgio remembers his face although he doesn’t know his name.

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Rumors of Inauguration Difficult to Pin Down

CHATEAU THEATRE - TONIGHT AND SATURDAY Garrulous “Gabby”

Whito House Is Evasive As to Program Details

OPEN FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS Till 9:00 O’CLOCK

By HELEN ESSARY Central Press Columnist

But It Will Take Place January 20

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• WASHINGTON—Having heard in a round about way that there would be a little program of sorts at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue some time in January to officially usher in the Fourth Term I called National 1414 to check up on the rumor. , “There is going to be an inauguration, isn’t there?” I asked a charming telephone voice. "I mean, there was a lot of talk about

who was going to be inaugurated. But since we got the votes counted, the thing has died down.” i “President and Mrs. Roosevelt will be inaugurated on Jan. 20,” said the still charming voice, as calmly 1 as if inaugurations of President—and Mrs. Roosevelt —were of such frequent occurrences as to be classed

with hardy perennials. Nobody really paid much attention to them.

Not any more.

Next I called that compendium of knowledge, Colonel Eddie Halsey, secretary of the U. S. Senate, who is on all worth while committees in our national capital. Then I got Speaker Rayburn, that wise and doughty Texan of the House of Representatives, on the phone. Mr. Sam, I imagine, will have a relatively easy time running his show this year with a comfortable majority of Democrats in the

next House.

Bit by bit I pieced together the arrangements to date for the Inauguration of President Roosevelt. The performance will be run entirely by the White House. This is somewhat in the tradition of the past 12 years. Five thousand tickets will be issued—by the

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Where will the oath of office be administered? Not in the Capitol as heretofore. But—in the White House. On the east portico to be exact. , | The president will have with him his family. Certain members of the supreme court. Maybe. The inaugural committee. Maybe. 1 The new vice president. Maybe. The retiring vice president. Maybe.) You gather from the "maybes’’ that all inaugural plans are not' yet finished. Such is the case. Where Vice President-Elect Truman will take the oath of office is still a matter of discussion. Perhaps, this ceremony will be arranged in the Senate chamber. Perhaps he, 1 too, will be sworn into the second most Important position in the government—In the White House. The five thousand inaugural ticket holders will not have seats tc view the inaugural. There will be no stands erected in the Whitt House grounds. The onlookers will use their own two feet to keep

place for the ceremony.

On that day it is likely to rain or snow or sleet. Blizzards are common to this climate late in January. But you can brush oft ths rain, snow or sleet more easily standing than sitting. You don’t have a lap to catch the hunks of weather if you can’t sit down.

(Physiological note.)

After the Inauguration there will be a luncheon at the White House. To this event every one of the 5,000 ticket holders will hope to be invited. I can understand this wish. I had the most fun I ever had in Washington at the post-inaugural White House luncheon

the first time Mr. Roosevelt was sworn in as chief executive.

All this Jan. 20 simplicity is a little discouraging to your Cousin Minnie and your Uncle Tom’s child. They would love to come to stay with you for the inauguration. But It’s not discouraging to

me—providing I get one of the 5,000 tickets for the show.

If this mid-war inauguration of a president actually is hushed

and unpretentious, it will be in contrast to the inauguration of the Civil war president, Abraham

Lincoln.

On the evening of March 4, Mr. Lincoln held a public reception, or "Icvce,” as such goings on were called in the younger days of the nation. Two thou-

sand people jammed In the White House neighborhood stampeded through the opened gates. Even the Marine band’a lusty patriotic notes did not kill the angry shouts of the struggling guests. Women shrieked and fainted as their clothes were tom in the rush to get to the East Room. One of the crimson draperies in this lovely apartment lost a big square of brocade to a souvenir hunter. Lace curtains were hacked with holes as flowers were snipped out. “The White House looked when the guests went home," so William Crook, bodyguard, wrote, “as if a regiment of rebel troops had

been quartered there with permission to forage."

Civil War

Inauguration

Was Hectic

If every one of us conducts himself in the spirit of Him whose birthday this holiday symbolizes -- there will soon be an end to strife and the spirit of brotherly love will again unite the peace loving people of the earth. Our Christmas hopes join

yours!

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"Stand By For Action” "Wake Island," playn Uie I est role of his career in - Goldwyn-Mayer’s "An Amd Romanc the new Tfchi film opening Saturday i at the Voncastle Theatre. Opposite Donlevy, I [trays a Slovenian in'® .vho rises in the United I ! to become an industrial geni | the brilliant young new

I Ann Richards, who niaiwl

feature film debut in tluif King Vidor production. The cast of "An Am* Romance” includes Wader as Donlevy’s partner; as his cousin, and M

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