The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 May 1945 — Page 2
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still men dying at the rate of
forty or fifty a day.
Then were were taken back to
the sleeping quarters. This was
ebout the most miserable and filthy place I have even seen. It was a wooden building with large cracks ror the cold wind to blow through. This place \.ould normally hold about four hundred men, but the guide told us that there was times when the Germans ci-ammed between
(•re thousand and twelve hundred j
i.i this one building, and that was most of the time. The buildi' g was about one hundred and 1 fty feet long, and about thirtyfa e feet wide. The bunks were I uilt one on top of the other with about two feet of space between them. They did not have mattresses and two men had to share one blanket. There also was eight men to a bunk. We were then taken to the prisoners hospital. It looked more like a large chicken house than it did a nospital. It was tuilt on the same order as the deeping quarters and the patients had almost the same comforts as all the rest including two men to a blanket. Tney had the patients divided up according
»o their ailments. In one bunk j bring a three-day toll of Japan
there would be men with frozen feet and hands. In another, men with tuberculosis, and in other bunks there was men with about every disease imaginable. There were still some men in the hospital when I went through, i hese men were too far gone to nove or to do anything with. This Was the last building to visit but we apent about a half an hour asking the guide questions about the work they were made to do. This is really something and makes you wonder hew some of them held out as
well as they did.
Well, Rex, this is the end of my story. I have told you about
j picked out by the big bombers j in a follow-up of yesterday’s ' assault, in which returning crewmen reported tnat eight hangars at USA airfields were "blasted
right off the map.’’
(A Tokyo broadcast, recorded by PCC, said the Superfortresse;, in addition raided the Koohi district on nearby Shikoku Island. The Dome! Agency also reported that about 70 Mustang fight-rs from Iwo strafed and bombed airfields on Boso peninsula south of Tokyo, for an hour this
morning.)
Under support of a terrific naval bombardment, the Marines continued their drive down Okinawa’s west coast and reached the erge of Dakeshi village just
north of Naha.
At the same time the 77th Divis on, paced by flame-throw-ing tanks, neared Shuri, Okinawa’s second city three miles northeast of Naha, while tue Seventh Infantry hacked out small gains on the east coast
above Yonabaru.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced that American forces had killed 36,535 Japanese in the
Okinawa area.
He also disclosed that navy patrol plant*] sank or damag d 12 more enemy vessels in new raids off Korea and Japan, to
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TODAY’S BIBLE THOUGHT We can be strong only when wo work with and not against the might of the Creator: Be i trong in the Lord, and in the fewer of his might.—Eph. 6:10.
ton of Mr. and Mrs. Wells A. Ccrpenter, Crowderspoint, Pen-
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New Maysvllle Chib Guest of Mrs. Malayer The New Maysville Community Club rnet with Mrs. Nellie Malayer Firday, May 4. The meeting was called to order by fie president, Mis. Eleanor McMullen. “The Rose of Tralee’’ was sung and followed by the
Personal and LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
The class for Gray Ladies will meet tonight as usual at the Wean Business School at 7:30
o'clock.
St. Paul Parish Guild of Catholic Women will meet at the parish house tonight at eight
o'clock.
Dr. and Mrs. F.
J.ave been week-end guests !)>e doctor’s mother, Mrs. J.
Hearst.
collect read by Miss Verona
Clampitt.
Members voted a donation to iihe Cancer Control Fund. It was also voted to have Bible leading at each meeting. Roll call was answered with a tribute to mother. Mrs. Gladys ' Sutherlin gave an interesting 1 paper titled “Our Daughters as ( Corner Stones.” Mrs. Myrtle Grantham conducted two con-tis-ts, won by Ruth Jones and
Nona Grantham.
Mrs. Malayer served lovely refreshments to eighteen membe::3 and the following guests: Mrs. ll.elma Johnston, Mrs. Harold Sutherlin, Miss Verona Clampitt. Alberta Johnston, Nellie Perkin•>, Marjorie Gowin, Mildred Mc-
ese ships in that area to at
least 32.
American carrier planes made new neutralizing attacks on airfields in the Sakishima group, south of Okinawa. Saturday following a two-day naval bombardment by a British task force
(A Tokyo broadcast, heard by hEV e received word that tneir friendship Home FCC, clamed a Japanese sub- , tun> p V f Benjamin H. Dean, U.' j| ub y| e pUng Postponed
f Missionary Aid will meet next Inymth, June 7 at the cTnirch | basement with Mrs. Nettle Mil[ler fer hostess. All are requested to bring rags, sewing cnaterial to cut and sew carpet rags.
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Greencastle Morning Musicale To Meet The Greencastle Morning Musical will meet with Miss Virginia Harlow Wednesday evening at 6:30 o'clock.
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Willing Workers To .Meet Thursday The Willing Workers of Somerset Church will meet with Mrs. Daisy Davis for an all day meeting, Thursday. May 10th.
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Home Ec OuIAire tlub To Meet With Mis. Grouse The Home Economics Culture Club will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock with Mrs. Mark Crouse, 313 Elm street. Miss Lucille Smith, Home Demonstration Agent, will be present. Each member will please bring a jar of spoiled fruit or vegetables.
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On fury Chib To Meet 'May 25 The Century Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Clyde Wildman May 25th. Members please notice change of meeting date.
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Good Ghoer Cltab
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dean have received word that their ’
M. Hearst „ , _ of 1 Murtry, Joan Jones and Joe
£ S.-8nders.
. The June meeting will be with
I Mrs. Paul Coleman.
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marine “unit” sank an Allied air-: g Marine Corps, craft carrier south of Okinawa | iSa t e iy overseas,
yesterday.)
has arrived,
COURT RI LES
WASHINGTON. May 8.— lUP)—The Supreme Court, in a new civil liberties ruling, has de-
To Meet Thursday The Good Cheer Club will meet at the home of Mrs. George Irwin, Thursday afternoon. Members bring articles for the White Elephant auction.
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’Delta Theta Tau
The Friendship Home Ec ' To VI „ e , Wednesday
j Ciub has been indefinitely post- The Delta Theta Tau ^j, meet
There will be a special V-E l ,oned due t0 sickness. Members at the hom , e of Mrs Eugene day services at the Greencastle P ,eaae watch for a later an- - Akers, Wednesday evening at
Bible Center, Wednesday eV en- ( 110Uncement - eight o’clock,
ing at eight o’clock. The public i d'd’d-d’ * * * 4<
is invited to attend. | VerOI * ,ca C,ub
1 Meeting Postponed
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sublett of | The May meeting of Veronica
The -P. E. O. will meet at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at i the home of Mrs. James Pence,
the best I know how. If ® ny ‘!tided that state police officers Fillmore, spent Sunday visiting club has been indefinitely post- 615 Ridge Avenue.
Then
er.
one doubts this, please tell them
seeing is believing.
I am still alright and every-
thing is going swell. See you all later.
Your pal,
Tim.
I forgot to mention the forty American paratroopers that were brought to this camp and hanged.
IN WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON. May 8.— ,UP)—The Harry S. Trumans of Missouri moved into the White House just in time for today’s historic events. This will be the first full day at home in the nation’s executive mansion for President Truman, nis wife and 21-year-old daughter, Margaret. A small birthday dinner for the President in the late aftemoon will also be a thanksgiving — and a housewarming. The presidential moving from Blair House across the street yesterday would have reminded you of your own short-distance r oves except for two big White House limousines, small trucks scooting back end forth across Pennsylvania avenue and several house men in white t'es. Most of the Truman’s personal belongings were transported piecemeal. All the night before, fans had dried and aired thq mwly painted White House in-
terior.
Down the steep front steps of Blair House and into a car went a valet with the President’s suits, maybe 15 of them, blues. [
f reys and blacks. Somebody | lnto the
e'se came down with a dozen new bandboxes, a bunch of scuffed suitcases and an armful of
victrola records.
Into another car were piled dresses and huge pastboard cartons brimful of shoes Last came a servant loaded to the chin with Margaret’s school books. Tall, courtly Mayes, an overccat over his white tie and tails, left the “branch White House” to resume his role as butler at the White House proper and greet the President’s family
when they arrived.
A few minutes later the front door of Blair House opened. Mrs. Tiuman. her mother, Mrs. D. W. Wallace of Independence, Mo., and Margaret could be seen si aking hands with the Blair House staff and thanking then’..
Mrs. Truman and Mar- men garet helped slight Mrs. Wallace' down the steps and into a limcuslne, Mrs. Truman wearing a black suit with a brown fur and Margaret a gold three-quarter
cc at.
They all were smiling as the car swung around and swept through the White House gates.
ln thplr army. -W-
about l.ooo.ooo non . G ,rJ who were forced into se^T*
The United States u*a
000,000 men to wage the b»t£ against the Nazis on the Z: ent. The Britain* used iMta while the French had a IrJE V-E Day of approximate!* it
In addition
'i he main door was opened and 1 00 °- In addition to the re, the lighted chandeliers gleaming, j organized armies, Partishn Mr. Truman Wf.s already there a11 parts of Europe *■ and joined his family foF"4heir; about 1,000,000 men.
first White House dinner tqggtli-
For buff-colored Blair House this marked the end of an unique j period. The government’s guest
Clinton-Madisnn Home
Eo Club To Meet The Clinton and
Home Economics Club wifl
house served as home to the Tru- Thursday afternoon, May ifaS —- •--- *»•— .—i- the home of Mrs. Homer flhZ'
with Mrs. James Tabor u sistant hostess. Mrs. Jew, and Mrs. Raymond Wright»« give the lesson on "Every Pp Living.” Miss Lucille Smith,# be present. Members please safe change of meeting piaee
mans for the ’ast three weeks. In its front wall for passerbys to see is a bronze tablet inscribed
with the date 1824 and mention-[and Mrs. Raymond
ir.g Lincoln and Lee.
A big, blue-coated White House guard serving his last day
ol duty there remarked:
“They’ll have to add a sentence to that maiker soon. Like tnis: “ ‘It was here that President Truman and his family inent the first three big weeks cf his presidency before moving
White House’.”
Entertain With Birthday Dinner
Mr. and Mrs. P.ay P&rktr t# small daughter, Mary Mihd #, cently entertained with t Viflt,
a-,4*. A ' '
day dinner for their
may be tried either under federal with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bord- pened. or state law for mistreating pris- 1>?r Noblesville. Mr. Bordner | 4- 4* 4* 4* (rers. (has been seriously ill. Section Two Will The court returned the ruling; Mrs . j ohn H ood and daughter, ° n Thursday yesterday in ordering a new trial Judy Lynrii left Sunday morning ' Section Two of the
to join
GREATEST ARRAY
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UP) —On V-E Day the greatest array of fighting manpower the world has ever seen—fully 25,000,000 men—will have laid down their
arms.
But some will pick them up again within a short time. It has been estimated that about 3,000,000 American soldiers now in Europe and an undetermined number of French, British and Dutch servicemen will journey to the South Pacific to wage war against the last remaining Axis
power—Japan.
The army of the Soviet Union is the largest in Europe with an estimated 9,500,000 men under arms. The German army ranked second in size. As of last autumn the Germans had about 9,000,000
Virginia Ann, on her tenth 2 1 nlversary at their home r.ni Belle Union. Guests pn,# were, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cullough, Mr. and Mrs. Veil P&. ker, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Pufe and children, Mrs. Lotte Pihnr, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Stlma and children, Mr. and Mn gq Lopposa, Mr. and Mrs. J, ^ Shnoffner, and Mr. and Mn Hansel Nichols and son.
PEACE PARLEY
(Contlnnrd from Caff* bti) there and never any sembln# (f unanimity among the leidfy powers. The atmosphere her* ups well for greater success it thi conference than anticipated by even the most optlmistie a inontt ago.
three former Baker county, 1 foI Santa Rosa , caijf.,
Christian
church will meet with Mrs.
Ca„ police officials who were p fc j ohn E Hoot | w ho is sta- NeIlie Lee. Hillsdale Avenue, convicted for beating a Negro tloned with tne Arnly Air Force Thursday afternoon at 2:30
prisoner to death with their fists l t Santa Kosa Air Field . Mr . o’clock.
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Shower Honors
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and a two-pound blackjack.
ALLIES POISED
MANILA, May 8 — (UP) — Allied troops were poised today for a thrust into Tarakan's rich Paomesian oil fields just east of
liberated Tarakan town.
Elements of the Australian ani Dutch forces on the island •off Borneo seized the hill positions east of the oil fields and p .ished to within one and a half
miles of the eastern shore.
Although Australian officials announced that Tarakan town had been captured, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s commun.que said fighting still was in progress in
FLY TO NORWAY
LONDON, May 8 (UP)—The Allies notified the German High
Command that Allied plenipoten- one of the gigantic mobile supply
end Mrs. Lloyd
panled them as far as Chicago. Raymond Lee Burk, of 603 Main st., Greencastle, Ind., has been advanced to gunner’s mate, third class. Burk is on duty at
tlaries would fly to Norway in two British flying boats to accept the surrender of the Nazi
garrison.
The BBC European service radioed the German command
that two white-painted planes, a l'' an che Evans ct Muncie.
Catlina and a Sunderland would carry the envoys. It asked confirmation of safe conduct for the
aircraft.
.. _ .. , .. Underground leaders were rethe northern section of the city, i . ... . , , „ P° rted taKln £ contr °l of Nor-
The communique, however, normally reports that Allied planes already were operating from t'h ? newly-captured airfield, three miles northwest of Tarakan town, adding another base for the growing aerial offensive throughout the southwest Pa-
cific to the Asiatic coast. American Hoops on Mindanao
also may have captured another airfield. Front reports said units
way pending the arrival of an advance detachment of five members of King Haakon’s gov-
ernment from London.
The underground was understood to have prepared a list of possibly as many at 30,000 collaborationists for trial as traitors. Under a law passed by the Norwegian exile government in London, all members of puppet Premier Vidkun Quisling’s na-
of the 31st Division on Sunday | tlonal party are subject
had reached Maramag airfield in central Mindanao 45 miles north
of Kabacan.
The Philippines campaign was marked by another advance in ni| them Luzon where patrols reached within a half mile of Balete Pass on the highway leading into the Cagayan valley. The majority of the remaining
to public trial for treason. Quisling himself will be tried as an arch traitor at the earliest possible moment, Norwegian sources said. If convicted, he will be sentenced to death. King Haakon and the bulk of his government will return to Norway from London as soon as the military situation permits.
Japanese forces on Luzon wereJonce reestablished at Oslo, the believed concentiated in the val- government ’vill resign to permit
ley, which was blasted again e ver the weekend by attack and fighter-bombers carrying 285
tons of explosives.
Liberator bombers from the Philippines also carried out widespread attacks during the weekend, hitting strategic enemy positions through Borneo, Formosa and the port of Amoy oh
the China coast.
MARINES ADVANCE
GUAM, May 8—(UP)— First Division Marines pressed within slightly more than a mile of Naha, capital of Okinawa, today to pace a general advance by 10th Army forces in the goutn.
em part of the island.,
The mounting campaign along a 000-cnlle front from southern I Japan to the lower end of the Ryukyua also brought another attack on the Japanese suicide planes bases on Kyushu today by a fleet of nearly 60 SuperfortFour airfields on Kyushu were
formation of a new government Including members of the resistance movement. The Exile government said it had given special powers to home front authorities to maintain order and “take whatever steps the situation demands.” Some 40, underground troops and 10,000 Norwegian police trained in Sweden will police the country for the present. Lesser traitors tried and convicted of membership in the National aamllng party face fines up to $20,000 and disfranchisement
for life.
Mrs. Jones
A shower given by Mrs. John Wynkoop for her daughter, Mrs. Lee Roy Jones Friday afternoon was well attended. Those presint were Mrs. Eail Cash and daughters, Mrs. Hancel Nichols and son, Mrs. Robert Arnold and d-uighter. Mrs. Albert Hammond ai d daughters. Mrs. John Lofton, Mrs. Cecil Newman and son, /Ira. Clyde Cash and daughter, Mrs. Edna Cash and children, Mrs. Wayne Nelson and children, Mrs. Claude King, Mrs. John (.’ash and daughter, Mrs. Arthur Cash, Mis. Carol Macey, Mrs. Stella Cash, Mrs. James Macey. • Mrs. Everett Williams, Mrs. Clifford Wynkoop and son, Miss Luna Wynkoop and the guest of honor, Mrs. Lee Roy Jones. | The bride received many use-
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Miss Florence Jonv To
Wed Midshipman F. E. Donner Dr. and Mrs. Hiram L. Jome of DePauw University announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, , Florence Louise, to Midshipman Frank Edward Donner, son of Major and Mrs. Wilbur S. Don-
ner of Greencastle.
Miss Jome, a graduate of DeIPauw University and cnember of Kappa Gamma and Delta Theta
and repair bases which operate in the forward area of the Pacific to serve the fighting ships
of the Navy.
Relatives here have received word of the death of Mrs.
Mrs.
Evans was the daughter of Mrs. Sarah E. Ferrand, and a sister to Mis. Ruth Sutton, of Greencastle. Mrs. Ferrand, Mrs. Suite n and Mrs. Eugene Cooper, a niece, will attend the funeral. Mrs. Beemer Havens, a former resident of Northwood, and now ol Denver, Colo., stopped off Monday in Greencastle to visit v ith friends. Mrs. Havens has gone to Columbus, O., for the wedding of her daughter, Miss Virginia Havens, to Richard Korns, of Dayton, O., on Satur-
day, May 12.
Friends in Greencastle have
received word of the birth of twins. a boy and g Irl, Dan and Billie Anne, to Lieut. U. S. N. and Mrs. Wm. R, Mitchell, April 30th at the St. Agnes
Hospital in Philadelphia. Lieut. Mitchell is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Mitchell of Los Angeles, Calif. His mother
was formerly Miss Jessie Byrket ( Tau sororities. The wedding will
of Greencastle friends here.
and has many
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* ANNIVERSARIES + Birthdays Mrs. Charles Crawley, 309 N. Indiana Street, May 7.
HANNEGAN OKEYED
WASHINGTON, May 8.— (UP)—President Truman’s first cabinet shift bore Senate approval today and Democratic National Chairman Robert S. Hannegan
becomes Postmaster
cn July 1.
take place early In June In Gobln Memorial Church. Since her graduation in 1944 she has been a secretary at the University. Midshipman Donner, who will be graduatad from the United States Naval Academy on June 6 as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps, attended Purdue University before he entered naval training at Annapolis, Md. He is a member of Sigma CSii fraternity.
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Bainbridge Missionary Society Enjoys Its Meeting
Mrs. Ross Hanks was hostess to the Bainbridge Missionary Aid Thursday aftemoon May 3nd with 18 members and 1 guest
General present.
Devotions were given by Mrs.
Hannegan’s nomination was'^aggie Ha u
approved by the Senate late yes-j Mrs . pvank Smith sang My lerday, 60 to 2. after Republi- Fa(th Loofe, up to Thee, accomt nns lost a fight to force public' panled on the piano by Mrs.
hearings on his qualifications to Ralph Clodfelter.
hold the cabinet job. j The Missionary lesson on the The two votes against conflr- East India Tales was given by
nation were cast by Sen. Forrest Mrs. Frank Smith.
C. Donnell, R., Mo., who led the' After the buainess discussions, fight for hearings, and Sen. Ro- Missionary closed with the Mis-
bert A. Taft, R., O., - sionary prayer.
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