The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 April 1945 — Page 1
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volume FIFTY-THREE RED UNITS AT THRESHOLD OF REICH CAPITAL
RUSSIANS LESS THAN miles from burning BERLIN
THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1945.
NO. 156
ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL MONROE TOWNSHIP HOME
I
Thia is the beautiful country home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur I Qiltz in southern Monroe township. It is alsi the center of activity' of .ICO acres of fine, fertile soil in the township whch Mr. Giltz and son operate, producing mostly grain and fat cattle.
LONDON, April 31.—(UP)— i;,il Armies stormed the last de- , enst ., of Berlin today and a lo,.ow dispatch said they were ■xpected to break into the burni,;. capital over the week-end.
Hy I nllril
Russian troops reached within 0 mites of Philadelphia today, h,. Philadelphia In this case is On-man town 13 miles south-
as t of Berlin.
LONDON, April 21 (UP) — Red Army laid siege to I ilanung Berlin today, storming' capital’s last defenses from ositioi's seven miles or less
u way . NAPJER TIBJUD, ALA Mrs.
I Mary May, :onor guest .of Nap-
(A German transocean broad- mh gra , iuat n . L . la3S 45 . Bi =a»t reported by the FCC said pj n . 1( j j,| a cjiver wingr on her eastern front had moved hueimndi o., d Lieutenant Turn r within the immediate vicinity Uunni h , ru Sunday morning,
f Berlin” vith gun flashes of Apra 15
Ah Soviet and Nazi guns visible ;
ji the eity. Another Nazi broad- I A. May was choscii ns honor ;ast said the Soviets had captur- cnrlct on the basis of excell: nee <i Muenchcberg, 16 miles cast • in flying, ground s.hool studies, f Berlin, after throwing a new physical fitness an ' military
bcur.ng
SPECIAL TRAIN GOES THROUGH THIS CITY Delegates to the San Francisco conference, traveling on i special train the Del-Mar- in two sections, are scheduled to pass through Grecncastle this afternoon about 4:15 o’clock on the New Ymk Central Uailroid Approximately 350 of the 1,800 delegates to the conference wil' be on the trains, it was said. Delegates aboard the train are reported to be diplomatic missions and members of the judic-
ial conference.
Bartletts To San Francisco
EMACIATED BRITISH TOMMIES LIBERATED BY YANKS
Receives Silver lings From Wife
MAY BAN STATE FAIRS WASHINGTON. April 21. State, regional and county fairs may be banned this year as a
Dean Edward R. Bartlett of DePauw Univoislty will accompany Mrs. Bartlett to Sm Francisco this week-end, where Mrs. Bartlett will be a representative
titvcl conservation measure, i , ... . . , of the Womcl s Division
rrdnspoitution Director J. Mon-
ana corps into battle.)
Thou: uids of Soviet guns and lanes were pouring a steady ain of steel and explosives inthe devastated city. The muf:il thunder of their explosions ias au hide to American ninth rmy troops along the Elbe riv-
r, 45 miles west of Berlin.
Til gradual • i - ceremonies were held in 111? f eld house at Napier 'Field 'with Lt. Colonc* C, urge 10. Kiser, Deputy Commander, officiating. The grad- \ uatci were sworn in a a officers
me Johnson said today. In a statement Johnson cautioned fair managers against making elaborate preparations for such events during the Sumiiicr end Fall. Those who do so. he said, “arc proceeding at their cwn risks.”
Tigers To Enter Track Contests
by Lt, Eleanor Adjutant.
E Moi fie, Tost i
DePauw University will have a track tram this spring and Will participate in both the Big State anil th- I, tile Slate meets, ao-
C.ty, Kansas. Mr. Turner is locomotive crgincer for
, Santc Fe Railroad.
The Germans freely admittci’ In addition to his wife Mary. le situation was deteriorating Lt. May had us his guests his Japidly. Both their primary and two children Turner Dunning, Sromlary defense lines east of III, Ux year of age, and Jano capital had been shuttered. Lynn w o la four months old, erlin’s days appeared numbered, and h s parents, Mr. and Mrs , , , . . Turner Dunning. Sr. who live at
Johannes Steel, an American , ,, ,,
•Hlle Uth B. Street, Arkansas Bdio commentator broadcastin ; Vom Paris, said an agreement ail been reached that the Red , rmy would be the first to en- [
*r Berlin. He predicted the ! Prior to entering the s "rvlce,
Lt. May attended Arkansas City Sen;,or High School, and work 1 for ten years for the Shell Oil Co., Inc., 50 West 50th St., New York City. He started there as an office boy and worked up to assistant chief pipe line dispatch-
er.
Mrs. May s now living with her grandmother, Mrs. Mary H. Hartley, 713 ’South Locust
IDs GOODBYE TO HER Street, Grcencastle, Indiana. M VW FR1K.NDM ON | Following graduation exer s THURSDAY Lt. and Mrs. May were g’lesto - —— I of honor at a tQa dance hel l at
i (•irding to Lloyd L. Mcsscrsnitth, 'acting dire;tor of physical eiiucation at DePauw. The announceni nt rescinds a recent statement that no track activities would be carried on at the
Grecncastle sc ool this year.
The Big State meet will be held at Indiana University on May 12, and the Little State in -t will be held May 1!) at
College. Indiana, Pur-
f the
Methodist Church at sessions connected with the United Nations' Security Conference. Dean Bartlett, who plans to lie off the campus until May 12, expects to visit DePauw alumni in California and to attend meetin i of the Sun Francisco and Ixjs Angeles alumni gr ups. The Sui Francisco group will meet in Oakland, Calif., on May 1 and the other group will meet on May 5. Dean Bartlett is taking color movies of the DePauw campus and activities with him to the meetings. NO SUGAR BLANKS UNTIL FIRST OF MAY j Since the schools of Grccnca.s- ■ tic have given out ill of the can- ' ning sugar applications allotted to them, consumers are asked! not to make further inquiry at I
THESE EMACIATED soldiers of the British armies, who were held prisoner by the Germans from four to five years, were liberated by the Second division of the U. S. First Army, when the Yanks took the German town of Gcttingen, location of a German prisoner of war hospital. This is a U. S. Army
Signal Corps photo,
(International Soundphoto)
the schools until May 1 when the next shipment of applications is expected. A consumer may write to the Putnam County War Price and
220 Starving Pclitiial Prisoners Were Burned By Nazi SS Troopers
the Hnrlbam
A CONCENTRATION CAMP NEAR LEIPZIG, April 21 (Up)
Twelve German SS
and
that an application be mailed to
due and Notre Dame will be in-l hlm Tlu> B ard doe8 not
j eluded in the Big
Rationing Board oifke, asking starving Allied political prisimeru
into a big wooden building at
ussian:; wmld by-pass the city nd enter it from the south.
RS. ROOSEVELT HAS LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. April 21 jlis Franklin D. Roosevelt has "veil from the White House id I has left nothing undone for Jer successor, Mrs. Harry S. p'timan, who is expected to octpy tire mansion Monday. Mis. Roosevelt was on sched-
Napler Field's Officers Club. FOURTH IN FAMILY TO BECOME MARINE With three bi ithers already
serving as Leathernecks, Charles Cooper, of Stilcsvillc, Ind., is the
such schools ns Central Norcnal, Anderson, Indiana State, ) and Wabash being Included in the
smaller meet.
DiF auw has twelve candidates now out for track, and conditoning sessions have been held during the past week. Opening competition, the DePauw team meets Wabash College, 'Ball, State and Indiana State in a meet at Crawfordsville on Sat-
urday, April 21.
Members of the DePauw squad are Lous Bayard, Kohler, Wise.; Richard Dickey, Anderson; Joe Gcrichs, Francesville; Harold Ginb.ier, Fort Wayne; Donald Hurlbcrt, Waterloo, Iowa; John Longfellow, Elkhart; John Mast, Fort Wayne; Hoy Murphy, Rob- • nson. 111.; Charles Werner, Winslow, Ariz.; Fred Whitmore. Frankfort; Lynn Wildman, Sterling, UL; and Bob Kelly, Chicago. All members of the V-12 unit. Temr manager is Ed Klein, Point Pleasant Beach, N. J.
Bard does not have
State, with 1 applications at this time but«an
application blank will be mailed as soon as the next shipment
arrives.
ing on the barbed wires of Ficir enclosure where they had died
troopers , , v hen they tried to break ut.
Gestapo agent lured 250 j The SS men stood outside the building armed with machine
this camp two days ag . sprayed i W inii "hen the fire broke out tiiain with inflammable liquid and ! SHlnp of thc streaming victims, burned them to death. ! " uman torches - tlir.mgb
I the windows. They were shut I saw the blackened, rotting down,
bodies today. A little Czech pris-
B-29s POUND JAP SUICIDE PLANE BASES
15 AMERICAN VESSELS LOST
DURING INVASION
OF OKINAWA
3 ALLIED ARMIES AIMED AT LAST Nazi citadel STRIKE TOWARD HITLER'S HIDEOUT IN II YVAKIAN
ALPS
II > I iiI • eil l a reM A BIU broadcast said loday hal Anii-rican anil Itussi.in paIrills were only Pi inlii s apart i:i an uiiidenlifii'd seetur. The report was attribulcd to "mes,sages la-aeliing Moscow.'’ PARIS, April 51 i UP) .'hree ail ed arniieM .tiuik fi e Nazidom’n last cita'icl m tli'j Bavarian Alps .along a front of Viore tlinn 200 miles today. lithe north, Bntian aimored diviaona erveloped Biemen and donned into the suburbs of
. lambing.
Striking in (he war’s deeisiv--.lour to prevent the Nazis fiom rallying lire bicken armiis for a prolonged stand in the Bavarian <'Ips, the Amt riean Third and -Vvcntli nil the French Fii:t \iinita wliclcd against the I'oimtiUn citadel nlo- g a twi.stng battle line extendin;.' northnstwai d from the Swiss to the Czechoslovak bordc: s, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's I bird Army rammed a half-doz-en armored spearheads up to end acto:«s the Czei li'i.slovn'.t j:' : lor on a front looping In to within 5S miles of Piisen and Ofi miles or less west of Ptague, th taut ma il escape corridor b--tween northern and south in
Germany.
The U. S. Seventh Ainiy struck south and Minim astwaid from captured Nueniber-; within less than 70 miles of Munich, northern anchor of the Nazi Ba-
varian line.
The French closed in from th--west to a point baiely 50 mile i Irom Lake Constance, western shoulder ol the Bavaiiun re-
doubt.
CONSERVATION DEPT St IIEDULKS HUHOOI
INDIANPOiLiS, Ind., April 21 i Twenty-five cand dates will participate in the 1945 Conser- | vat ion officers training school |
1' t" the last minute, thereby fourth son of Mrs Go , du , Coop . ^ mp '' Un K lhp fastc3t pxit “"Y er to enlist in the United States
t"i„g First Lady ever made, Malin o Corps,
itli Hie exception of Dolly ^ 17-year-old volunteer, young •'•'I' 'ii. wit© was running from .Qo 0 p er joined tht* Marines Tues11 1 '' ''y Ili'itish. April 17 at Indianap Jis. Roosevelt held her last when called to active duty, he 11 icncc Thursday after- -.vin receive recruit training at 1 u ' r ' n softly lit td 10 Marine Barracks, Parris Is-
>ati (lining room. She couldn’t i and , g. C.
11 he said, without bidding, m a Marine brothers are Llcut-
n,,,lb y p 10 the friends she had ,. nant Colonel Harlan Cooper, 37, banning Tu .vdny at the Indlet :,> regularly for so many F irst Sergeant Louis Cooper, 22. iuna University Extension build-
anil Corporal James Cooper, 28. i n K In-re. ,
told her all-female aud- Colonel Cooper, win has 20 Men who cuoccasFu ly campletr ii" that she is going directly years service in thc Corps, is sta- ( the two-week course will be as ) NVw York, where she has an tioned somewhere in the Pacific. ! signed to the enfor men! I ii'tincnt on Washington Enlisted ■’s a prlvat.e he was aJ-| branch of the ,ndiana Dr P arl "roc, then to Hyde Park on vaneed through thc ranks and '«> nt of Conservation’s fish and
mi " a y- now is attached to a quarter-
•’ii t off she will dispose of master unit.
Roosevelt’s belongings. Louis is firnt sergeant of a She revealed that she expects Marine Detachment aboard a keep on wilting, though her naval vessel. He has been in the
Huute plans will not be made Corps five years.
James, also with five years as a Marine, is serving in a motor p ol at Parris Island. The four brothers all attended Stilcsvillc High School. The •Cooper family’s home Is at Rural
Itoute 2, Stilcsvillc.
STATE PARKS OPEN MAY 5; |on i told me the story.
BROWN CO. LODGE OPEN
I He said that, altogether, 500 prisoners were enticed into the building on the promise of getting soup for a n «m meal. Then thc slaughter began. About
80 escaped.
The prisoners were
INDIANAPOLIS, April 21. May 5 has been set as official ‘ opening date” for Indiana's 15 slate parks, although the properties operated by the Indiana
Department of Conservation The prisoners were “trusties” have already drawn thousands of from the Buchenwald camp at visitors. .Weimar, atid most of them wen Blown County Lodge and cab- Russians, Czechs, Poles and
ins opened Saturday and the French.
Arcade hotel ami pavillion ut The Czech who told the story Dunes State Park open May 19. said he was Karl Tykal of Opening dates for ether hotels Prague, captured while acting a
operated by thc department have
Others were picked off hy a German tank stationed in a
nearby field.
Tilt- hod ca of the slain i', n still were lying around the camp, hi " kened by the fire, rotting under today’s hot sun. Tykal said that he was camp
barber, and that
an SS man
who
talked too niiieli
while in
hia
chair gave him
a hint of
plans
to execute the
prisoners.
The
Czech informed
some of
his
mates anil they
short-circuited
the high tension
electric
wires
which were woven tiirourh the
i irbed wire surrounding
the
(GUAM, April 21 (UP)—Upwards of 300 Superfortresses today blasted the Kyushu bases ol Japanese suicide planes blamed for the sinking of some of the 15 American vessels lost in the battle of Okinawa and Japan during the past month. On Okinawa itself, three American divisions thrust deeper into the enemy’s last-ditc li defense line less than three and a half miles north of Naha, capital of the island, and the thii cay of the greatest piound oli.ii live ol the Pacifii
not been set. Despite the May 5 opening cate for the parks, visitor:; are welcome before that time. Milton Matter, department director, pointed out that the opening oate merely signifies that admissions will , be charged at the gates beginning at that time.
Truman's Choice?
'■ she is settled again. She '’"mod her syndicated column,
’y 1 >ay " last Tuesday.
•’"e stated definitely that she x ‘sn’t aspire to public office.
20 Years Ago
IN GUEENCANTLK
HINTS RETIREMENT
r-’tir.TOL, Er.g., April 21 (UP) Cvime Minister Church!I.
in Busrcll- hinted today that ha m ght rc-
f lira - or b- ret'rrd after the dc-
Have Brad n was !l1 -’ 0 n bnainosa,
v »'uk wac started on the oil 1 feat of Germany.
•y ft.".Me bulldirg on north • In * speech acceptin'* t> freedison street owned by W. D 1 dom of this city, he said that he im M and John ui. James. Tne “or v/'hoover ntrnds In my placo”
game d vision.
The school, which run;) through May 8, will b- supervised by Harrell F. Mosbaugh, director ,of the division of flth and game and John Nigh, chief of C msc-r vat’on officers. Various (’ vis o heads of the department wil’ participate in th" program.
AT SCOTT FIELD
SCO! r FIE’ D. 111. Pvt. James C. Hedge, son of Mr. am Mrs. Melvin O. Hedge 1505 T,nr ust street, Grecncastle, Ind., ha arrived at Scott Field, THino''parent radio school of the AA r Training Command wh.rc he wid
be assigned to school.
31ST ARMY GROUP IIIMJ.,
April 31. (UP)—Eighteen iiiiiul- moat
led allied airmen weie beaten : ml bayonetted by Nazi guards on a torture march they dubbed “The Stettin .Iniiiit,” u Canadian
survivor said today,
i Tin- Canadian Warrant Ol titer Armaiul Joseph Panibrun, Itonificc, Manitoba, an airforce i nvigulor, said the vieilrns in j eluded a Ihoiisaiid Americans. 1 Pnnihriin said llial during thc two mile march, which took place last July, Ocnunn ruaiine eluhtM'd iind j iblied the fliers to t'-nipl ti-.ein to escape. If the\ tiled, they were mowed (Iowk with inaehine guns by othei
niuriiies.
member of an under . roun.u i rganizatlon. Wedne: day at n ion, he said, the Germans cooked up a batch of soup. They called all the pr. oners into one big barracks to oa.t it. Some of the prisoners, who h ul learned from Tykal of the plans to execute them all, had hiu h-n under buildings, but the smell of f od forced them
)Us.
As • on ns all had gathered
In the building, the SS men mov- away.
nip on Tuesday night. But of the prisoners were too wi ary to even try to tscap,-. The men killed in the stampede to get out of the building probably were fortunate. At least they didn’t suffer the tortures endured by the men wh se hodh - We saw, faces twisted, legs ouriii (i to stumps, flesh blackened. This wash’s pu d. tiii.uieth n someone told us. Wc saw the
corpses .
Due Russian among the. 80 who escaped was h re this aft a He sat beside the body of h brother and wept. He did not talk. His brother's b by lay ir-nr the fence and how he recognized
it I will never know.
The aitting man jerked convulsively when he lo ked up. 1 wish he had not. For almost an hour 1 had noticed him sitting there, not moving, saying nothing, and I know n w why he wan si cut Most of his face seemed burned He wan alive, but he woul
have bei n better off dead.
The little Czech W o t-dd u the story had tied the camp bfore noon Wednesday and h " set up a first aid station of sortfor th sc who managed to get
Advances of up to a mile were reported all along the four-mile line extending across the southern end of the island yesterday. Swanns of planes and the .,ig guns of warships joined massed land artillery in an unprcee lented suppol ting bombardment. The big fleet if Superfortresses iKimbcd nine airfields altogether on Kyushu, sout icrninost of the fapanese home islands. T.ie raid
was the thud in five day.-; on the, , . . r
| Appointment of
suicide-plane basr.s, but two <>; I the airfields USA, near the j northeast coast, and Kushira in I the south -were hit for the first
time.
| A 21st Bomber Command a " nouncement said the attack:, c ivereti the “length and brea It i
of Kyushu.
There was no menton of opposition and it was in deal c l that both fighter and anti-air-craft reaction by' the Jupai
was neglibiblc.
Jap Resistance On Cebu Ends
MANILA, April 21 (UP) American troops shattered the last Japanese organized lesistiiuc on Coiifi to complete the conquest of the central Philip-
pines t day .
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the sweep through the central Philippines liberated at least 0,400,000 persons on more than a
score of islands.
IF promised that, the resources id the freed mva, in-usuimg marly 35.00 squaii mil a. would he used for the reh.dnlitation of the Philippines and “for prciecuticn of the war against Japan
itself.”
Japanese losses on C bu enicunted to approximately ii.COO
{dead.
FOUR NAMED TO IIP.HU \Y POSTS
INDIANA! I Li.v In 1 . April 5’1
h.' three e’iv -
heads within th State Highway Coniii]'.' on ha: i -n
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p. i d way i ngineer
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ROBERT HANNEOAN, above, Is being mentioned In Washington as President Harry S. Truman’s choice for one of two posltiona, observers apeculating that the
national chairman
xt in. They splashed some highly nflnnmabh? liquid over the assembled prisoners, locked the tool s, covered 'the windows and then toiscd in incendiary gren'ideo. In a few seconds the frinip building was n r orlng furnace,
looking human flesh.
Victims screamed in agony, '.nine dived headfirst into the filthy, stinking ditches which
Thursday, when American annor and vehicles roll'd int this part of Leipzig, the litt! Czech and other survivors kisso the hot sides of the tanks.
GETS PURPLE HEART I
MOLOTOV AW All Li)
Atlanta who r.-sigi Fred Kcllam ol : was re-appoint: .I
bridges.
State Represent 't ve ' un ■ . ■ [T, Miser of Garrett wa ; an- i superintendent of ui.'int ■nance replacing Noianan F. S< h if r ’ In I.ana: oils, now a ;nemb of
the Comm s-'icm.
Mr La.uer nl: a announc' d | Unit .1. T. Hallctt, tr liiienjad i city traffic engineer, has accepted thc past of ’ngineer of road de-agn, the p.:)s:’.ion formerly h-l-l by Mr. Vogelia-.-.eng.
WASHINGTON, April 21. (UP) The capital waited somewhat impatiently today for let Foreign Commissar V. Molotov and the B ;; The. Bi Four and possibly Big Five tailwhich will iM'gin with his urr.i I The latest information avail able indicated he would nac'i here late today, giving American, British, Russian, Chin : • fend possibly French diplomat just three days for dlseusjio.i
relating to the San Francisco ue-j Kair e/u '. i and partly rloii ly (urity conference opening no. •''' ,a 'k today and tonight with an
Wednesday. i <» va.,:<m-al shower
® &&&&&& o 0 O Todays Weather O | G and <*> ! 0 Local Temppratiire tSl ' o o a ■:;> e o » «
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Watt received p. elegram from their sen
James Boyd Watt of the U. S. S. Democratic ,. „ Drum that he Is now at Hunters h^mlv be'wl ‘ hcy ha<i U3 ° a ns a ,atrinc ' 1
“ucturs wil; b: .i rie into a | would hnv; to ask War-wcirv' Point, Calif, .and will be home in lec j” d by Truman to play a role saw 3ome of thelr Bc0rc l» cij a lcrn garage. iBritlan “for a new leap forward. |th near future. Their other ssn -lin u ar t0 t}, a t 0 f Harry Hopkins Oodles still lying there thla af- “ Ir - and Mrs. Mel • n TaulTncn for a mw lifting of the soul and Charles Byron W’att is with the m the administration undsr ternoon. lr - visitors in IndlanapaLs. I body” to defact Japan. Oth Army in Germany. Roosevelt, (Iat*ra»tionalJ I saw other nakad men hong-
Molotov’s visit will make po .- stonn near Lie Oh*
or
or thuiHerRiver. C ■ I-
Pictures coming out of Manila slble theHe ncf?oUatlons
ihow a Hoosier foursome being j A ncw attempt by Britain, i I onored. One appeared in to- |j U8f) j a and U. S. to agree on i ay’s Star and in it wa.u Lt. John n broadened Polish government j I 1 . Usher, one of four b ang j n ^j me t 0 8ea t Poles for at lem ti awarded a Purple Heart decora- the , a8t gtagp9 of the Unltod Na .,
tion by Lt. Col. William E. Dibit tiong conference . icginientcl commander. | tcussea »■ p««. Two)
north tonlgiit and
Sunliy
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