The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 December 1944 — Page 1
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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1944.
NO. 65
DEPAITW CHAPEL
lly iDilrd I’rraa okyo said today that 50-ship erican convoy had entered Sulu Sea in the Philippines was approaching Mindoro cr ceaseless ’ air attack “in apparent attempt" to supply d reinforce the American chhead on the island, just thwest of Luzin. Japanese communique imed 17 sh ps, including a iser and a destroyer, had been k in attacks Wednesday ougii Saturday and the ofial Domei Agency suggested convoy's main objective was replenish Mindoro rather than attack on the west coast of
Domic called the convoy a cat fleet." Japanese planes intensified ir attacks on the convoy ursday night and all day Frisinking four morp large -sports and a torpedo boat damaging two other larg 5 sports, a cruiser and a desycr, the enemy communique d. e communique boosted the her of vessels claimed to ve been sunk since the convoy t was brought under attack the Mindanao sea south of yte Wednesday night to 11— transports and a torpedo t—and the number damaged six, including the two Pe convoy, originally reportby the Japanese to include at t 30 transports and 20 esing cruisers and destroyers, ently was traveling the 600-mile route from Leyte the 150-ship armada which ded invasion troops on Minro Dec, 16. Earlier Japanese broadcasts d reported that the American ’es on Mindoro were making attempt to enlarge their idgehead and suggested that n. Douglas MacArthur may contemplating an Imminen* vasion of Luzon, site of th.< Pita] city of Manila. | American airfields on Mindoro only 145 miles south of Man- . while the northern coast of indoro extends to within nine lies of the Luzon at the nnrw Verde island straits. The Japsucse communique knowledged that four Japanplanes had been lost in the test attacks on the convoy. Mai Arthur’s daily communique mained silent on the Japanese sims, but reported Chat his edium bombers had heavily maged a 7,000-ton freighter ansport in a raid on enemy 'PP>ng in Lingayen Gulf, a ttle more than 100 miles of anila on the west coast of izon. K was in Lingayen Gulf that e Japanese launched their in»smn of the Philippines in | member 1941. ( Twenty-three Japanese planes ftseked American airfields and ipping at Mindoro Wednesday i-ght, causing some damage, cArt'hur said, but eight of the 'dors were shot down. No eny ground activity was reporton Mindoro
C. Edmund Jarvis, barii>f the UePauw School of presented an usually inAig and satisfying program iDcPauw chapel on Friday. He Imonstrated his technique in stetions ranging from arias of ogas to Negro spirituals. Paessor Jarvis sang the beaiful “Non tiu andrai” aria ozart’s “The Marriage of ," Craven’s “B6rder Baloblnson’s “Water Boy,” egro spiritual “Hand as arranged by Burleigh, scy’s “Swamp Land Meland Gilbert's “Pirate
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Hl'RT IN FALL Bill Rogers was seriously Inured Friday when a ladder sliped from under him, and he Tell n a banister while working at nc of the University halls.
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IN GREENCASTLE Russell Hurst, motor route arrier for The Banner, was inred when his Ford roadster a* struck by an eastbour.d Reo uto on the National Road at t. Meridian, Delta Pi chapter of Phi Delti vappa was formally Installed 'ere. Charter membera of the rsternlty Included R. P. Mulln ", James Rubush. Perry Rush, ster Blue, Aubrey Cox, Gilbert kwart, Bayard Allen, Eugene urst and Frank Masten.
N?les Visited By Local Boy CSstian M. McClure, son ol Revgnd Mrs. Claude M. MeClurj writes the following interostii; letter from an Army Air Basifeomewhere in Italy: Dea'Mother and Dad, Lit Saturday after we had beenpaid, George Harvey, Hassel, ad I went on a three day passto Naples. We three had teersaving up our pass days for the ronth in order to have more timefor seeing things of interest. We decided to go to Naples hecage none of us had had enoirh time on previous passes io gt a good look at that city, and vc really saw a lot of the sight in and around Naples this
time j
W left here around four o'clok Saturday afternoon and c.idn.’ get to Naples till after darktso about all we could do thenwas to get a bite to eat and lindg place to sleep. Really fourt a nice place to stay for thre nights—a sort of apartmen affair with three single bedtin one room, another room with lounge chairs and a table for ur meals, and then a bathroon all to ourselves. It cost us atout twice as much as it was actiily worth, but we didn’t waa to spend a lot of time looking 'or a cheaper place. T* next morning we went dowi to the Red Cross Club earR and got the excursion to Ponfel. Most of the trip was speil in waiting and riding on olovj trains but we had about thra hours at Pompei. Passed VesiVius on the way and it is still smoking a little from its last •ruption—there’s also a tour tha goes to the top of that volcan*, but we didn’t want tc clinkt and sweat over what we tnew would be there anyway. I Link Harvey really didn’t wart to go because he said you nevil - con tell when one of those thirfs will erupt. Itterc are two parts of Pompei —tie modern section which is lik> most Italian towns except cenaps a little cleaner and more of i resort, and the ancient bistort part which is set aside and beiig preserved as much as posslbt. Of course there are parts stit uncovered as yet, but you are-able to see most of the city as it was buck in 79 A. D. It's amelng how well the building;, struts, and objects have been preserved. Several houses have Lett completely restored with fur titurc and everything, even the wine shops have their jugs •inc cups. One of the most infuriating sights was the public balh. There were three main roans- one for cold water, an-
Drops Supplies ^{PATTON HURLS TROOPS, TANKS AGAINST NAZIS
PI SH THROUGH DANUBE | ! VALLEY IN DIRECTION OF VIENNA
AN ANTI-TANK GUN Is wheeled into position by U. S. troops in the forward area on the German-Bel-gian border in the photo at the top while Nazi troops are shown advancing during the present enemy offensive in the photo below. The Nazi troop picture is from a roll of captured film. Both nicturcs ^areJJnlted^Statea^ArmvSignalCorpsradloDhotos. _fI n ternMtioa,l 1
Note Of Sobriety Will Mark New Year's Eve Festivities
(By United Prewi)
A Sunday ban on liquor sales in most states, coupled with wartime shortages, .vill inject a note of sobriety into New Year's eve celebrations, but nightclub operators prepared today for a banner week-end with some celebratants ignoring the calendar to usher in the New Year
ahead of time.
A majority of the states will observe regular Sunday closing hours, a United Press survey rewaled, with fewer official relaxations in sight than in 1939, the last time New Year’s eve
fell on a Sunday.
No public drinking will be allowed in Kansas, New Mexico, Minnesota, Nebraska, Indiana, Massachusetts, Washington, Ohio, Texas, Georgia and all
legally-dry states. j both
proprietors in Francois De Reinert, who says there will be nothing other than a "dignified observation” of New Year’s Uve in the Atlanta Biltmore’s Empire Room, where dlnnera will be served from 9 a. m. until midnight, with dancing until 4 a. m. A universal shortage of Scotch, Bourbon and straight Rye whiskeys was reported, although stab a where liquor is rationed declared a "holiday bonus." There were fair supplies of other liquors, however.
In states where Sunday serving is permitted liquor dealers w re jubilant, foreseeing a “double celebration" on both Saturday and Sunday nights. In Illinois, bars and clubs would be open as usual, and retailers were attempting to set aside stocks to take care of the crowds on
Ward Company Case To Courts CHICAGO, Dec. 30- (UP) — Montgomery Ward ft Co.'s dispute with the Army over government seizure of its facilities In seven cities appeared headed for the courts today as Sewell Avery, militant chairman of the board of d.rectors, charged that President Roosevelt was invoking seizure powers when and where he pleased. Federal Judge rhllip Sullivan set Jan. 8 for a hearing on the government's petition for an injunction rentra nlng the company from Intel fering with b'.'.e Army’s operation of the plant. Government and company attorneys apparently had agreed to make the suit a test case to determine the validity of the Smith-Connally-| act and see it the executive department of the government haa any JuWsdkt.on in labor dis-
putes.
Oth’ r states have juggled regulation closing hours to permit the sale of liquor after midnight Sunday for periods ranging from one to four hours, while still others will serve set-ups, with liquor on a bring-your-own bas-
is.
In Washington, where the state liquor board has steaxllactly refused to modify its no-Sunday-serving tdict, larger i nightclubs have announced New Year’s festivities for Saturday night, complete with all the tra-
otier for warm, and the other ] ditional year-end hilarity.
for hot water The baths wero really miniature swimming pools an.I around the walls were niches for your clothes. They even had running water through lead pipes, and I actually saw the pipes too. In one room of the bath there was a sort of museum and included in the objects were two plaster casts of bodies. It seems that during the uncovering of Pompei someone stuck o pipe through the ground into a rave like, so he poured plaster In and let it set then dug around Ihe cast and found the body perfectly moulded in shape. The guide explained that the flesh and bones withheld the lava long enough for it to form around the body, It'a almost unbelievable ’cause there are expressions on the faces- -expressions of horror which they undoubtedly had during the eruption in 79 A. D. There were bakeries, drug stores and soap factories -all with their tools of labor. It was a very interesting tour even though the guide explained that the people were very low moral tCeatlaaeft oa Pax* Two)
A Minnesota law stipulating
that no liquor will be sold after | 2 a. m. Sund ly will be rigidly v.n* ] forced, state officials aaid. Mold- ■ its of 3.2 per cent beer licenses may remain open but residents i have been asked to do th' ir cele- | brating Saturday, leaving Sunday for "prayer, meditation and
generally a day of rest." Colorado, on the other hand,
has been promised the closest thing to a pre-war c. leoration possible. According to statute, liquor sales are prohibited between 8 p. m. and midnight, but most hotel managers and night club operators predicted, on the
Georgia's would-be celebrants apparently will miss out entirely, in vi':w of the Sunday blue-
la.v and the fact that the sale of | _
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mixed drinks is proh b ted at all f ,, ’ . r law would net be allowed to in-
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Typical of Georgia nightclub ( r..niiD„,.,i rmm* Four)
A BEAUTY SPOT NEAR CLOVERDALE
Company attorneys said in court that the firm would not comply with any mandatory orders for turning over the books to the Army, but added that they were accessible if government representatives wanted to look
at t '.em.
’Of the President can, as ha pleases, choose among those who reject the mere advice of the government and seize the property of some but not others, the nation no longer has a government of law," Avery said in a statement handed out by an assistant. t He refereed specifically tc th: President’s failure to act agains* the American Federation of Music ans, which defied the War Labor Board, and against <ihe unions which recently cancu a i strike against two Chicago suburban railroads.
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LONDON, Dec. 30 (UP) - Russian armored divisions broke across the Hron river barrier and drove west through the Danube valley toward Bratislava and Vienna today while in Budapest thousands of Nazi and Hungarian troops fought on for the fifth straight day in a suicidal battle to delay the Red Army
invasion of Austria.
With major elements of their second and third Ukrainian armies still pinned down in the struggle for Budapest, the Soviet advance south of the Danube appeared to have been stalled momentarily about 90 mills from Vienna, where the Germans were making a determined stand on
the edge of the Gyor plain.
The Moscow early morning communique made no mention of fighting along the 55-mile front from the Danube south to Lake Balaton, but Berlin said the Russians were reinforcing their lines after being stopped by strong German countvr-attacks. To the north, however, the Russians hurled the Hron barrier noar its confluence with the Danube and shook their armor loose on t.fe Bratislava plain after a savage, two-day battly that cost the Germans 11,000
casualties and 45 tanks.
The Hron, second of the six Danube tributaries covering the eastern approaches to Vienna, was forced by units of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's second Ukranian army yvsterday with the capture of the west-bank towns of Nana and Parkan, 77 miles southeast of Bratislava and little more than 100 miles from
Vienna.
German spokesman said another Red Army bridgehead was established 29 milt's to the north around Kalnica, 07 miles east of
Vienna.
Soviet front dispatches indicated that Malinovsky's armored units were striking rapidly westward for Komarno on the Nitra River, 25 miles beyond the Hron Vanguardsof Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukliin's third Ukrainin army b“low the Danube already were withing 10 miles of Komarno at
Tovaros,
Inside Budapest, meanwhile, one of the war’s bloodiest street battles raged on through its fifth day. Sparked by a fantical core of Nazi Elite guards, the Axis garrison was fighting until death for a partially-ruined city that thv German high command itself callously wrote off as of no further military value except that its prolonged defense might delay the Soviet march on Aus-
tria.
Moscow dispatches said both sides were using massed tanks and artilKry at point-blank i ange and that the streets and houses were littered with dead. The Nazis, asking and giving no quarter, blew up the Danube bridges behind them, waling themselves in the downtown section of Buda for a last-ditch stand.
DRIVES ARMORED WEDGE into German pocket IN ARDENNES
IT. COl. JOEL CROUCH, a former United Air Line pilot of Riverside, Cal., flew supplies behind the German lines to relieve surrounded U. S. troops. Crouch gained fame on "D-Day" when he spearheaded the air invasion of occupied Europe. (International)
Methodist Will Renew Covenants
CHICAGO-Dec. 30 — Renewal of their covenants w.th God will be made by millions or American Methodists Sunday in special services at the year’i end, as they pledgt daily prayers for success of the denominaci rector of the crusade movedhrst program of rebuilding a!' home and in foreign countrias, according to a statement releaa ed today by Bishop J. Ralph Magee, resident bishop here and director of the Crusade move
ment.
Thousands of Methodist coi. grcgatlons will use a spec a* covenant Sunday service based upon an order of worship written by Jolcn Wesley, founder ot Methodism, in 1755, and first used in the French Church at Spitalflelds, England. Th s year's edition of the service was prepared by Bishop Ralph S. Cushman of St. Paul, Minn., vicechairman of the General Board ' of Evangelism, sponsor of the
observance.
Orders for nearly 3,000,00,1 covenant cards have been filled from the Crusade for Ohr at headquarters here, Bishop Magee announced. In signing the cards, Methodists will covenant to "give myself to the accomplishment of the objectives of the Crusade for Christ as fol-
lows:
"To do my Christmas duty as a world-cit zen; to carry my share of the task of world rs'ief and reconstruction; to witness for Christ in my dally contacts with my neighbors and fellow workers; to practice Christ's principles of the stewardship of all of life and possessions, and to unite in a Church-wide movement to increase Sunday Schoi 1 enrollment and attendance nnd to provide for the religious education of the unchurched." Tradit onal Watchnight scr-
PARIS, Dec. 30 (UP) - Lt. Gen. George E. Patton hurled more than 100,000 troeps and hundreds of tanks into his spreading counter - offensive against the southern wall of the Ardennes salient today and drove an armored wedge hallway across the Nazi [Kicket to within 12 'miles of the U. S. First Army spearheads in the north. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. iUP)—The United States today chalked up another war crime against Germany as it waited for the Nazi reply to its “strongest possible protest” for the exe.-, cution of about 115 unarmed American prisoners on the First Army front. It was the first major reported violation of the prisoners of war convention by Germany against American soldiers, although the record being compiled by the allies as a whole is replete with atrocities and violations of the rules of war against civilians and other allied soldiers, especially on the eastern
front.
There was great doubt here that anything the Nazis would say could explain what an otfidal U. S. First Army report revealed to be a deliberate mass assassination of helpless prisoners of war. The State Department announced la&’t night that it was forwarding to the German government through neutral Swiss authorities "the strongest possible protest . . . with regard to the killing by German force.) rear Malmedy, Belgium, of all but 15 of a group of about 130 American soldiers and officers who had been taken prisoners by a German tank eor)*fl' and .■tripped of their equipment.’’
Virgil Ray Deem and Mary Katherine Phillips, both of Greencastle.
LOCAL INFANTRYMAN PROMOTED IN ITALY WITH THE FIFTH ARMY, ITALY — Private First Class Robert C. Schmidt, son of Mrs.
Edith A. Schmidt, who lives at 206 West Walnut street, has been , . ttl(1 h^nutiful bungalow type country home of Mr. and promoted to corporal. He is a „ T t his J wuehael on State highway 142 east of Cloverdale. It la radio operator with the 88th ^ r K.iek ennVtruction and modem, and during the summer growing; .. Blue Devil” Division of Lieutiss £rrs»*"KS ffiss 1 - «•* «• ho.pll.my_.iMr. «r; h> moit k P„ „ om , ln Indiana. Fifth In Italy.
Superforts Aid U. S. Broadcasts
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UP) — The United States has discovrred a slick new technique for shooting its propaganda broadcasts home to the Japanese people. It delivers its verbal salvos wh'-n B-29 Superfortresses are over the enemy homeland, silencing Japanese radio transmitters and preventing jamming from breaking up the American programs. Just such a technique may have been used last night In th^ first of a series of several broadcasts to Japan from the powerful new transmitters at Honolulu and Saipan, urging the Japanese people to revolution. During the program undersecretary of State Joseph C. Grew, for 10 years U. S. Ambassador to Japan, joined with fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in warning the Japanese people that they face destruction unless they overthrow their present war-lord government. (Coatlaned oa Pace Two)
Liars Hoodwinked By WAC Captain BURLINGTON, Wis., Dec. 30. —(UP) C. C. Hulett, president .-.l the Burlington Liars’ Club, admitted today that judges of the club’s annual New Year’s contest to choose the world’s champion liar had been hoodwinked by a girl, but said they would award her the title re-
gardless.
The winner was WAC Capt. Hope Harrin who signed her name as “Capt. Hope Harrin" end convinced the judges she was a GI wolf who had a recipe tor air mailing dehydrated ilcndes to the boys overseas. The lie was chosen the biggest whooper of 1944 and marked the first time a woman has won the
championship.
"We’ve born hoaxed," Hulett admitted, “but we’ll stick by our decision and award the title to
her anyway.”
Capt. Jdnnin, a former Conway, Ark., school teacher now
vices will be held in many | assigned to the quartermaster Methodist churches at the close i corps of the European theater
of 1944, with the covenant cards being signed in the first, moments of the new year, Bishop Magee explained.. Both youth and adults part.cipatc in
these services.
DR. E. C. ELLIOTT WILL RETIRE
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 30. Dr. Edward C. Elliott, president • f Purdue University since 1922, v'ill retire June 30 under the university’s age retirement policy. This announcement was made ioday by Allison E. Stuart of this city, member of a special committee of the board of trustees. No successor has been selected, Mr. Stuart said. Trustees will meet soon with Dr. Elliott and members of the faculty
to consider candidates. BRUNER KITES HELD
Funeral services for Jo Ann Bruner, 3 months old infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Bruner, who passed away at the home of her parents Friday, were held at the Nazarene church Saturday afternoon .it 2:30. Burial waa in the Boone-
Hutcheaon cemetery.
of operations, won the Judges nod on a recipe for producing a 'ehydrated blonde to add a feminine touch to GI iron rations, u project on which some of the i most active GI minds have been | concentrating hopelessly ever
I since the war began.
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ACCIDENT VICTIM
Charles Lianne m a n was slightly injured Friday when th.Penal Farm station wagon left the road ami turned oviji and hit i utility pole near the farm.
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