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THE DAILY BANNER

IT WAVES FOR ALL'

OlUME FIFTY-THREE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1945.

NO. 173

ST RITES FOR i- F0IIMEIi JUDGE DIK WM. SUTHERUN TO BE SATURDAY

El.'. KNOWN ATTORNEV. PASSED away on THURSDAY EVE

William M. feutherlin, 67 years,, j isseil away in Indianapolia, at ■30 o’clock Thursday evening. 11 r Sutherlin had been in poor ] alth for the past three years. | e W as horn in Putnam county [ovember 27, 1877 and spent ost of his life in Putnam coun- j He served as jud^e of the Putm county Circuit Court for veral years, also as prosecutg attorney for six years, was ?ry active in politics, and at one -ic was chainnan of the Demoatic party for quite same time. He was a member of the Putm County Ear Association, d practiced law in Greencastle r many years. As a young an he attended the Putnam junty schools, DePauw Univerty, and Danville Teachers Colgc. He was a member of the ;rst Christian church. Masonic idge, Scottish Rite of Indianapis, also the Elks Lodge, and as a member of the Odd Felws Lodge for many years. Mr. utherlin was a veteran of the

Irst World War.

He is survived by his wife, rs. Ethel Day Sutherlin, one n, Roy, one gi undaon and four randdaughters, four sisters, rs. William Myers, Mrs. Ola ayler, Mrs. Mac Hodge and Ira. Perry Harbison, all of Putrm county, one brother, Guy utherlin of Putnam county, and lie brother, Usy Sutherlin of •jawfordsvllle, and other rela-

ves.

Funeral services will be held turd ay afternon at the Rector uneral Home with the Rev. ecil Kellers of the Christiar, (lurch officiating. Burial will in Forest Hill cemetery, rienda may call at the Rector j

Uneral Home.

Pull hearers will be S. C. Sayis, Kay Hamilton, J. P. Hughes, fed O'Hair, Dr. Throop and

am Hanna.

TO DEMOBILIZE TROOPS UNDER POINT SYSTEM ARMY’S VAST MACHINERY STARTS FOR RELEASE OK SERVICEMEN

THAT FAMOUS “LITTLE RED SCHOOL”

PARIS, May 11.- (UP)—Approximately 1,000,000 American tioops will remain in Europe as an army of occupation, official Lcurccs at Supreme headquarters indicated today.

William M. Sutherlin

KIWANIS CLUBS HOLD DISTRICT MEETING HERE

COUNTY WILL PAY BOUNTY ON FOXES, WOLVES

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APPROPRIATED FOR PAYMENT BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL

ondon Expects Big 3 Session

SPLENDID PROGRAM EN-

JOYED BY MEMBERS THURSDAY EVENING

Greencastle Kiwanians were Hat Thursday evening at a district Spring Conference meeting of Kiwanis clubs of Terre Haute, E-loomington, Brazil and Green-

«estle.

Dinner was nerved In the Presbyterian church to a large and enthus.stic group at 6:80 p. m. Herolcl T. Ross, president of the local club, acted as master of ci remonies. The invocation was given by Rev. Cecil Fellers, pastor of the First Christian church. Following the meal, the Kiwanians went to DePauw'a 1 •ittlo Theater for the continuaDon of the evening’s program. When the group had le-as.semti-led, all joined In singing “Amer-

ira.”

Lieut.-Govchnor A. U. Hamm Pod charge of the presentation of certificates. This feature was followed by songs by the E'ks Chanters fiom Tcne Haute with Carl Jones, directing. A vivid motion picture entitled •Two Jima” was provided by the L.oomington club. This graphic film revealed the heroism and l.mody fighting requiied of the

' American Marines to take this j Pacific island from the Japanese.

A skit, “Boston Bans,’’ by

I members of the Kappa Kappa

LONDON, May 11.—(UP) — iltish newspapers loosed a

lurry of speculation today over 1 Gamma sorority of DePauw Unik c possibility ol a Truman-Stal-1 versily, was the Greencastle -Churchill meeting in London | club’s contribution to the enterr >ut official sourcets discounted tninment. Selections by the Brajtn reports. j vi! K-wanis Club Chorus was the Tin Evening News said Prcsl- ncxt feature. C. W. Damm is ;'int Truman v/as ready to visit 111 rector of this talented group, uomlon and that Prime Minister I A round taale discussion was

huichill believes “an early eetiiig of the Big Three is urgently required. ’

C OURT NOTES William J. Vanderbrcok, larion county, and George Dctm, Allen county, arc charged • Hi escaping from the Indiana tate farm on May 7, in affiavits filed in the office of Omer ki rs, clerk of the 'Putnam cir- j uit court.

under the auspices of the host

club.

The principal address of the evening was delivered by Ivor J. Robinson, Governor of Division So. 7, Indiana Kiwanis District Announcements, singing of “God Bless America,” and Pledge ol Allegiance to the Flag conceded the meeting.

IKS. TRUMAN VISITS SON AT WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, May 11.— pres. Tiuman is scheduled to J-ieet his mother, 93 years old, at at airport this afternoon after M-c had flown from Independence, Mo., to spend Mother’s Day V <th her son.

More U-Boats Head For Ports

LONDON, May 11.— lUP) Five more German U-boats from

WASHINGTON, May 11. (UP)-The army’s vast machinery for redeployment and partial demobilization of some 3,100.000 soldiern In the European and Mediterranean theaters was getting under way today on the tasis of the point scores announced by the War Department. From among these men, an,I Pacific veterans too, the army 1 Ians to discharge more than 1.300.000 men cn the point system in a year. At present. 85 points make a man eligible for discharge, but he may have to wait months to get the discharge. The number of points required may be decreased later. It is a complicated business in Europe, because Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen. Joseph T. McNarney must fi.st reshuffle personnel from one division to mother and one unit to anothe-. Except for outfits which must move promptly to the Pacific and for wounded and casuals, surplus soldiers will be shifted 10 surplus units before the mass movement of tioops begins. The army explains the procedure this way: “Let us take the infantry as cn example, and let us assume Uiat there are four infantry di- ■ isions in the theater, and that one division has become surplus. “The theater commander will tren giade the men in all four divisions according to the prior- , t y credit scores, select out the U1 fourth, and designate these men as surplus. “He will then shift all the men temaining in the surplus division who are not surplus into the act.ve divisions, and then transfer all the surplus men from that pctiVe division into the surplus division, which will now serve as a. vehicle for eventually returning them to the United States. “Remember, however, military necessity governs this selection and tiansfer. That means no man in a unit that remains in service can become surplus until a qualified replacement is avail-

able,

“If military necessity should entail the immediate transfer of a certain unit to the Pacific, tnere may conceivably be no time to apply the plan to men of that unit before the emergency transfer is made. Consider- ! alion will be s iven these men when they arrive In the new theater. “The active units needed against Japan will now be shipped to the Pacitic. Those units iiqulrcd for occupation duty will be sent to their stations. The surplus units will be returned to he United States as quickly as possible. “In the U. S. the men of these surplus units will revert back to a surplus pool in the ground, air or service force:’. These surplu pools will include surplus men

Putnam County will pay n bounty on fox a am! wolves, i' was nnnr-inced t,)day by th. members • f the Find of County '"i'll-..ri.'s oners. The County Council In session on Saturday. May 5. nyj-vopr ntt, 1 three hun died dollars for the bounty fund, and the Conim'sa'/m-rs on Mon 'ay at their regular meeting se' the n 1 ,nmtj that will bo paid. Two dollar; will bo paid or j foxes • ver six months of ago

one dollar on foxes mvier six months of ago; and ten dollar? will bo pa d on wolves. Thf : • alps of the animals must be cxliib tod and an afiidavit must bt signed before the County audi bar that the animals were killed in Putna n County. A claim for the amount of the bounty

THE ECOLE PROFESSION ALE, leading school of Reims, France, 1 ma - v th ‘ n bo si 8nrd and filed which has served as the headquarters for Supreme Allied Command- with the o unty auditor for payer Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, gains historic importance as the ment by the Commissioners at site of the formal surrender of the Nazi Wehrmucht. It was in iy u .:, I1( !..p t, () f CommissionGeneral Eisenhower’s war room, located in the building above, that ,. .. i '. Allied and German officials affixed their signatures to the peace ^ 1 documents. U. S. Army-Signal Corps radiophoto. (International ’* ■' ''no'.it : m’‘.V *> Soundphoto). ^ _____ , the PuLnam < unty ffieir’ j i ' * j : mil'ir '..) th? r. mint , paid 1

ehjrinhig countiec, and it s 1011I1 ctlmu’atc intercct in k’lllnf the:;: an!mala which are harm ing ch'ckrns, pigs, lambs am other stock in the community.

POPPIES COMING

INDIANAPOLIS, May 11. (UP) Indiana American Legion

German Families Had At Least One Slave Laborer Writes Sgt. Green

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Mr. and Mrs. Lysle Green are Germans had at least one of in receipt of the following letter j these so-called slaves. Standard from their son, Sgt. James L. | equipment with each was a leathGroen. who is with the victor- i e r thonged whip,

ioiis American armies in Germany md probably saw many of them

surrender last week:

April 18, 1945

Still in Germany (Dam) Dear Mother and Dad, Yes, I really am slipping or. my letter writing, but things Just

Sometimes 1 get to go on the Auxiliary officers announced toadvance parties to pick new CP ,', iy that disabled ex-servicemen sites. By so doing I get in on the U. S. veterans hospital at a little of the authorized conver- Marion were making 725.000 arsiition with these people. It is 1 fjcial poppies In preparation all in the line of duty. By that 1 l0 r the annual “Poppy Day” sale

rn an it is legal. The first thing y.i a y atj

they try to get across to us is Proceeds from the sale will he I hat they are not Nazi’s. Then used for rehabilitation and child

go along «o fast, and I have beep they tell us that their coffee is j welfare work sponsored by the moving so fast that I just have- no good, that their tobacco is no, legion and Auxiliary,

n’t taken uny time to write ahy- good, that they only get one pai'.'j < ne. As 1 have told you before, I of shoes every three years, three always write to you first. In the haves of bread a week, then 1 ast month, I don’t think I have liiey wind up by saying the written to any one in that per- phrase that will be popular in led. Incidentally, since I was in * lie good old USA when wo come' Coblenz, I have traveled some 11 ack, Alius Kaput. Then when “10 miles across Germany. So v/e tell them that they started by that,‘you can tell that I am the war they say that they could

The attention of our readers is called to the letter of “Jimmie" Greene in this issue. We have heard lots about the good intentions of the average German civilian. Jimmie tells of most of them having at least one "slave” i.id the standard equipment used on them was a huge whip. We rubmit the letter, written from tie battle field and rescue fields, ■is evidence that the German civilian is about as guilty of war crimes as was the gestapo.

STALIN LAUDS YANK, BRITISH ARMED FORCES

LONDON, May 11. Marshal Ftalin in messages to President ’11 uman and Prime Minister 1 hurchtll today congratulate I the American and British pco1 les and their armed forces on the defeat of Germany. ■1 heartily thank you for your friendly congratulations on the occasion of the unconditional 1 render <>f Hitlerite Germany, ’ lim me: sage to President Truman said. “Peoples of the Sovu l Union highly value the parti1.pat on of the friendly Amerl- ■ m peoples in the present wai •f liberation. “The joint s*iuggle of tile Soviet, American and British armies the G?!man invaders, which has ended in their complete rout and defeat, will go t 1 wn in history as an example 01 the fighting collaboration of I ur peoples. “In the name of the Soviet piople and the Soviet governivent I beg of you to convey to the American people and the gallant American Army the hearty greetings and wishes II wo words inaudible) victory." HEAVY SNOW

BbSTON. May 11.—(UP) 'I he worst May snowstorm in 23 years still raged In northern New England today after taking two lives, causing more than $1,000,000 crop and property

On Sunday, May 1.3. at 7:30 p | carnage, and leaving highways m. the Greencastle Commandety 1 L °f?S e d with up to 15 inches of

Will Observe Ascension Day!

almost iflose enough to throw n’t do anything else because they No. 11 of Knights Templai will! 1 ' ,,ow a l so,1) “ points, a stoqc into Czechoslovakia. As were afraid of the Gestapo. Then observe Ascension Day in ser-| ti e picture looks now, I won’t ex- they say that Hitler and Gocbbels vices held at the Christian 1

pect wje will enter Czechoslova- have big mouths, producing big church.

l.ia. At tlu^rate we have been go- laik. They even go to the extent The Reverend Cecil Fellers lug, weyioiild probably get there nt picking up our cigarette butts will deliver the address. Allj

and using the tobacco to roll their Masons, sojourning knights, and has I ’ Wh. Their tobecco is nothing ,; ie public are Invited to attend, more than drie<i grass. But they ’'i*'’ knights will attend in full

are so much better off than the ll P a lia.

marauding wolk packo in the At-1 f Iorn a n overseas theaters and iabtic surrendered at sea to | f :,, r plu8 men from the contlnent-

British warships and headed for northern Ireland poits today.

hog market

Hogs 6,000; active, steady; 1’ «d and choice 160 lbs., up and

110-160 lbs., $14.80; 100-140 lbs., ,hc Canadian coast. *1.'1.50-$14 50; S°od and choice 0 n land, the last diehard Nazi

A Londonberry dispatch said German submarines had surfaced to surrender all the way from U c Azoies area to a point off

jSf'Ws $14.05.

Mrs. W. T. Handy was hostess lo the Veronica Club. Local thermometers register-

*d 46 degrees

John M. Hellinger, new Penbsylvama railroad agent, purhased the house being built on ®^ u ,th College Avenue of C. Y. Lillis. Mr. Hellinger expected to ** u>Ve family here from 111-

ln °i« shortly.

(troops still fighting in Europe I ireled back through western Czechoslovakia under the assault ty three vengeful Red armies. The latest submarines to surrender brought to at least 11 the number to capitulate in the last 24 hours. Four were en route to the American naval base in Londonderry and the fifth headed for Belfast. All flew the prescribed black flag of sui render.

Part of Germany’s fleet of Eboats—motor torpedo boatswas expected to sail into Felixstowe today and surrender to the British navy.

ul U. S. “It is from these surplus pools that the planned reduction of • urious types of army personnel will be made. Robert Phillips Held A Prisoner Mr. ami Mrs. Raymond Phillips of near Brick Chapel have received word that their son, Robert ritilllps thnl he has been released from a German prison camp by Allied armies. This was the first word the parents had received from their son, since being notified by the War Department that he was reported missing on April 16. He was rescued from the prison camp on April 25 and was immediately flown out and was thus aWe to not-fy his parents of his Safety.

tomorrdw;!

The KMman resistance

bien rf>rtlor lens of a big joke. They-Khp with only small arms, and v^W’^ew artilleiy pieces. I have Anly seen one German plane since tliejpiTO. That was in the Maar. rspnpmber? The big question liipre is “juat where is the Jerry armor aim planes?’ Maybe it is all on the Russian front, i.iaybe it is in the Alps, or better yet, maybe theie just isn’t any.

The German people are giving

‘.he old soft-soap -waving, saluting us, eagerly telling us which vay the Jerry’s went, gladly offering fresh eggs, (today we got 2,500 for the battalion) and always telling us how glad they 1 re that we have come instead of tin/ Russians. I think it’s too had that the Russians aren’t tak1. & some of these places, cause t.icy don’t have any thing like the Non-Fraternization law. '.here are some GI's that are be ing given court martials just for miking to German civilians. I hope it is for the best, but to me it seems like they are cariying ;ome things a little but too far. The only threat we impose upon tnese ex-supernivn, Is that if any of our soldiers are sniped at. we will turn our howitzers around and level their town, house, barn ir? or \vhat ha^e you. We haven't done It yet, but the Col. says v.e will if the occasion arises. He is a man of his word. Many of the Nazi soldiers are discarding their uniforms and fast being happy civilians again. However, we capturned many, r.any PW’s. All they can say is Alius Kaput, meaning all is destruction, damaged, destroyed, etc, But the sad 1 art of it is that the Dcutchland hasn't suffered anything like France, Belgium, or any cf the occupied countries. Another r»'tylul thing over here is the mai ’h home by the slave laborers. Poles, Russians, French, both men and women. Almost every family of

HOTEL .MYSTERY

CHICAGO, May 11.—(UP) — A man was found beaten to death and his body stuffed Into a closet at th“ Stevens hotel to-

1 ay.

BULLETIN

occupied countries. Everyone of Ascension Day is a festival them belonged to some kind of a held in commemoration of the

jarty organization from the Hit- cacension of Ch-ist 40 days after CHUNGKING, May II.—(UP) lor Youth to the Volkstrum. My Easter. The Order of Knights —Chinese troops killed approx’.how these people have been de- Timplar observes Easter ami mutely 30,000 Japanese during

eelved.

Ascension Day as H-.'-ir order is the past 10 days in cnieking the

The President's death came as !< unded on the Now TtcstViiumt enemy lines in Hunan and Honan ouite a shock over here. Most of .and the teachings of Christ. [ provinces, it was disclosed today,

us feel ns though his death will have no effect on the time-tabla of the war, cause it bps been layert out. The only thing that worries me personally^ is that Pen-j d- rgast man qualified to take over anil run things the way FI) it did. He will probably need and

German Army Knew It Could Not Defeat U. S. Says Nazi General

SEVENTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, May 11 (UP)

hould get a lot of help from ,, „,,, , ' .... , . ” ' Gen. Nikolaus Von Falkcnhorst

More experienced men. It is too Lad that we had to lose our three best diplomats, Rooaevelt, Hull, end in my opinion, Willkie. I haven’t been getting much n ail lately, cause it hasn’t been able to catch up with me, but

former German 0 -mmand 1 In Norway, surrsndereid-t day with an assertion Unit the Allies have liberated Germany from “a sya-

ti rn of gangsters."

"It's a national disgrace

Unit

1“11 get it soon. Naturally, I can’t wc were unable to liberal' ouicomment on any of your letteis. .‘/.dves,’ h- told Maj. Gen. Harry

'ilie last time I got mail. 1 received 9 letters from you. So I

know everything is OK. I am Knlkcnhorst was picked up at c kle dokel too, so I guess that ’Praunstein, where ’he had fled

J. Collins, commander of 42nd (Rainbow) D vision.

"Tli; Army knew it," he said. "Your country can produce more 11 one day than Germany can in 01: ? month. Everyone should hav ■ known that when war was I clared on America, Hitler had rplcte c> ntrol of the Army, for the Army leaders never

would have done that."

He said the German General staff knew from the beginning I that Germany could not win the

war.

"Nazi party members were put in command positions in th-' army and they knew nothing

B-29s CONTINUE AIR BLOWS ON JAP TARGETS U. M. MARINES ADVANCE ON OKINAWA CAPITAL IN LAND W AR GUAM, May U—(UP)—Japan's Inland sea and major harbors are “polluted" with explosives and mines drop|ie<| by an armada of Siija-rfortresses seeking to bottle up the enemy’s naval and merchant fleets, the 21st Homher Command disclosed to-

day.

GUAM, May 11 (UP) B-29 Superfortresses. 150 strong, bombed one of the largest naval aircraft plant* in Japan today in I be second day of a renewed offensive to cripple the Japanese air force. On southern Okinawa, marines II the Sixth Division crossed the Asa river estunry, last natural barrier before Naha, and drove on within 1,000 yards of the ruined capital city. Through Wednesday, 38,856 Japanese dead hud been counted on Okinawa. B-29s attacked the Kawanlsht naval aircraft plant "nt Fukae, c a the inland sea. coait of Honriiu between Osaka and Kobe, in excellent weather. Fires still weie bin ning nearby tn Japan’s main fuel storage area and synthetic oil plants ft'ong the inland sea from yesterday’s record 400-plane Superfortress raid. Small forces of Superfortresste today attacked the Oita and Saeki airfields on Kyushu in the 20th of a senes of neutralizing tsids on bases from which Japanese suicide planes have been id tacking American shipping of( Okinawa. (A Japanese Dome! dispatch leported by the FCC said a suicide plane had heavily damaged a large allied aircraft carrier off Okinawa yesteiday.) Japanese places renewed theii attacks on the fleet off Okinawa Wednesday night, a communique revealed. Two auxiliary ships wde damaged, one of them by a suicide plane that shattered into hundreds of pieces on the vessel’s deck. A second attack followed next morning, but caused no damage. Yontan airfield also was bombed Wednesday. Hits were scored on (ne runway, but it was in operation again within two hours. Martins and tanks crossed the Asa river estuiry above Naln c n the west coast at low tide ever a pontoon bridge. Construction Of the bridge was delayed slightly by two Japanese soldiers \>ho approached the span and Mew themselves up. Limited gain:-' also were made elsewhere along the 10th Army line stretching within 1,500 yards of the inland town of Shuri and the east coast port of Yon-

anaru.

Carrier and marine land-based p'anes had a field day. They realed caves with 500-pound b( mbs and bombed and strafed groups of up to 150 enemy troops moving north toward the American lines. Gunfire from ships offshor: also broke up a number of enemy troop concentrations and < estroyed pillboxes, gun emplacements and motor transport. Central and northern Okinawa -vas given over to the control of the island’s military commander, Maj. Gen. F. G. Wallace, May 4. (Cunllniivil on I’nge Too)

just about completes the letter (die Russians troproarlv d ; about warfare," liesaid. "They

fought the most insane war in all history and there never was a chance that military operations would be suceessful Hinder such

mad loaderffh.p.’’

Falkenhorst said he never had anything to do with the civil and political administration of Nor

for tonight, hi s ho ne near Breslau. One of Love Jim. Germany’s ablest strategists in

■ combined land, »:'a and air op-

VONCASTLE TO RESUME orations, he commanded all forcITS MIDNIGHT SHOWS e* in Norway from the invasion

April 9, 1940 until the middle of

Due bo the lifting of the Fed- | a .st December, oral curfew ban as direct re- He said he was relieved of his emit of the Allied victory in command when Col. Gen Europe, Karl Sutherland, man- Lothar Rcndul.c went to Norager of the Voncastle theater an- way from Finland following the nouncad today that the popular latter’s capitulation, midnight slrows w.ll be resumed ; ’’Germany is through now as a

Increasing (cloudiness in afternoon with light rain beginning 1 1 southwest by mid-afternoon and spreading over moat of state by evening. Rain continuing

"Hitler’s watchdog,’ he said. "He was sent there to run ’Norway and to watch me as Hitler knew I was not a party memlrer but a professional sold-

ier," he said.

government issued the midnight take 100 years to repair this j "You’ve liberated us from a closing restriction. The Von- country to th? point where it system of gangsters that Held

way. That was under Reichscom- j until Saturday forenoon and inissar Josef Torboven, who wai clearing Saturday afternoon.

Warmer today and tonight.

starting this Saturday night. j v > rid power arvl you need nevjr Midnight shows at the Von- f ar she will rise- again and wag ’ castle were halted when the another war," he said “It would

castle was also one of the fir's t Greencastle firms to cooperate in observ.ng the ban on outside il-

was in 1940.” Germany never at any tii.ne could have beaten the United

lumination during the brownout. States, he said.

us completely in check aU these years," he said. "Now we can think again and speak our minds again.”

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