The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 May 1945 — Page 1
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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"
OLUME FIFTY-THREE
SERVICEMEN GIVE UVES IN WORLD WAR II
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1945.
NO. 189
EAGLE SCOUT
AB mothers service , t’U B HAS COMPILED A USX OF MEN t The Mothers Service Club is m p,ltng a list of Putnam unty service men who have ed in service. They have a list, Ich is believed to be nearly mplete, which we herewith prent: yonald Anderson Orville Merle Buchheit Raymond Nichols Cox Dennis Wayne Dorsett Estel Bee Johnson William Kenneth Flint Kenneth B. Martin Willard Elmo Miller Orville Stotts O’Hair Eli Lincoln Smith Lloyd Edwaid Spencer Thomas Jesse Murphy James W. Watson RolH'it N. Warren Douplas Hammond Thomas V. Holden Charles D. Conklin, Jr. Holbcrt Nickerson Norman Hoffa * Joe Nickerson Vernon Arnold James F. Shuck James H. Coleman James F. Alexander Donald R. Goodman 1 Francis L. Boswell Noland O’Neal Harley Gene Ball 1 Dwight Terry Merle Cummings I Jack Jackson I Harold liootman Charles W. Buis Hobert Cox Lester Bryant Norman Zachary * John Paul Buchannan Morris E. Rivers Lamar Gerald King | Thomas Richard Irwin Robert L. Simmerman j Maynard D, Coleman Roy Carrington James G. Caimichael Max Gough 'Kenneth W. pickson Kenneth W, Knoll Earl Allen McCoy Joe Knoll 'Ernest Campbell Pvt. James Milford Conrad CpI. Charles W. Hutcheson Harold Freeman Hunter JSgt, James H. Hurst Pvt. Harry E. Varvel | Pvt. James M. Darnell | Pvt. John Harvy Wright Charles D. Toney James R. Best Herbert Alvora Robinson Chas W. Foxx Hobert Kendall
ECOMMEND RATIONING CONTINUE ANOTHER VEAR
WASHINGTON, May 30 Con ruled price control and rationK until at least July 1, 1046, ere recommended today by the *nate banking committee. The committee approved and ported to the Senate a measure tending the life of the Office ther year beyond its scheduled f Price Administration for an piration on June 30, 1045. Previously the committee had ndcr consideration an 18-month aitenslon.
I’lioto by Von S'eiiuns Studlc Eagle Scout Glen Fulmer Glen Fulmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jervis Fulmer of this city is Grccncastle's only Eagle Scout at the present time. Glen, who .a 17 years old first joined Scouting in. 104.0, receiving his Tenderfoot badge on Oct. 10th <>t that year. On July 13th, mi he was presented with his 2nd Class badge. He attained the rank ol 1st ciass Scout on Nov. 25tti 1041. He became a Star Scout on June 15th, m.3 and a Life Scout on D?c. 6th .of the same year. The highest rank of Scouting, The Eagle Sciut, was confered on Glen on, Jan. 31st. 1045 in Terre Haute at the Annual Meeting of Wabash Valley Council. Glen has been Senior Patrol Leader of Troop 43 and at the present time is Junior Ass.slant Scoutmaster helping his Scoutmaster, John Andrews, bring back their Troop to its former status us one of the best in Putnam County. Besides his Scouting activities Glen is active in Greencastle H.gh School programs being a member of the High School Band and Orchestra. Eagle Scout Glen Fulmer indeed has been and we know will always be a credit to his parents. comnunity and to 'Scoutirvj for the splmdid example he is setting All honors to one of Grccncastle's finest young and coming citizen. SALES OF’ WAR BONDS IN STATE BEHIND SCHEDULE INDIANAPOLIS, May 30 — ('DIP) Memorial Day will find (Indiana behind schedule in the purdhase of war bonds, State War Finance Committee Chairman Eugene C. Pulliam said today. Total E Bond purchases, as shown by Federal Reserve Bank reports, were $41,300,000 today some $4,200,000 short of the $45,500,000 which the Treasury Department progress chart lists as the objective far this date. "One .of the most practical contributions which we can make to observance of Memorial
FRANK KNEBB. TAKES ITALIAN VACATION TRIP FORMER BANNER MAN IS MAJOR IN U. S. ARMY IN ITALY Major Frank Knebel, formerly of The Daily Banner staff who has made a record for himself and his department of Public Relations with Gen. Mark Clark in Italy, has written us a lengthy epistle of a recent vacation he enjoyed from his duties after doing a splendid job in the recent surrender of the Germans and Italians in northern Italy. He
says:
May 17, 1945 On returning from. the Milan Press Camp to the base camp at Verona, Delbert Clark, our Lieutenant Colonel in charge, told me he wanted me to arrange for my crew to have a rest after the fine job we had just done at Milan. Accordingly, we all planned to clean up whatever work we had on hand and then take off. The evening of the 9th, a Wednesday, we left hoping to get a good night's rest in Milan. Just as we hit the Duoino Square the lights all over the square and in all the many streets leading to the square, went on. It was our first street lights since the time we sailed for Africa and it gave us all thrills. We had to stop the jeep and just look. Everywhere there were promenaders, out to see a spectacle which wss as foreign to them as it was to us. Indeed, while the Germans were here, they were not allowed out after dark so that even parading was something new to their way of life. We went to the Diana Hotel where we previously had the press camp and at once they assigned me my old room and made us feel at home. Thursday morning wo left early for Genoa, from where Columbus sailed for America. To cross the Po river, we had to get on a ferry that had b >en left behind by the Krauts. It had long pontoons with a raft arrangement on top which would hold several cars. As the raftlike arrangement got out from the shore the men at either end would take in on a cable at one end and let out on a cable at the other end. That would tend to turn the pontoons at an angle to a tow rope or guide rope that was held firmly at cither end and ran at 90 degree angle to the river. As the blades or pontoons caught the current of the stream it would gradually drift across, unable to go downstream as the guide rope held it in place. It was rather ingenious and got us across in about twenty min-
utes.
We had lunch in a little hotel just north of Genoa. From long experience we have found more and cheaper food in the country.
ter a good dinner, went for a walk. The town was small but all around the municipal buildings and a main street that stretched out like in any American town. The lights were on everywhere and many people were strolling. It was interesting seeing the many Partisians who seemed to be making up for the many months they were in the m lUntains by having a very good
time.
At the hotel, we saw several of the local Partisans who are the local brigade or unit leaders. They have their headquarters in the same hotel that we stay in. In the morning, about six, we awakened by the Partisans singing as they fell in to ranks to go to their posts. They sang marching songs; had clear voices and sang moderately well. After breakfast we were on our way through San Remo, the last beautiful Italian Riverie resort town and into Mentone, the first French town on the border It was not easy to get across but we managed. When we reached the border of the principality of Monaco, wherein is Monte Carlo, we were amazed there were no guards to halt us. We stopped at the first refreshment place and had :i cooling drink mainly to Use their phone book to look up an old lady, a grandmother of a friend of one of my travelling companions. We found the eld lady, an American, listed. Called her. Were immediately invited to her home. Then we went to pay for the beverage and found that we had only Italian money, and one 100 franc note on the B.tnk of Algiers. The proprietor Sid us the drink was on hinh neither money being acceptable. After a delicious lunch In a villa overlooking the sea, we went to the casino and were amazed by the sight of seeing hundreds of old ladies and men playing roulette, poker, and oth' ' games. In both the public and private rooms they were the heaviest players and many of the old ladies, who made up the larger percentage of customers, had on black dresses and looked like they had just laid their husbands away. It was somefhlitg ama,«ig to see. We also looked at the opera house and the gardens. Then we drove around the city and saw the home of the Prince of Monaco, one of the last ruling
MEMORIAL DAY.ODE
How tholl wo honor Hi# dead this year— With o wreath or a flag or a quiet tear?^ Corporal Grantham, what do you say? (His throat may be stopped with Ardennes c/ay.' He may not reply~but wait, do you hear That voice? It Is answering firm and clear.) "Thanks! None of that hero stuff for me. I was happy at homo as a guy could be,' With a pretty wife and a job I liked And a party sometimes where the drinks we | | , spiked. Fighting was not what I was born for— But then came along this blasted war. "They called me, I went. I fought and died.' My wife was brave, but I know she cried. \ You know what I'd do to a man who dared, ^ Make my wife sod or even scared . . . All right, then, II you are ashitg mo, Hero Is what I would like to see: "Remomber the parents and kids and wives t Of all the fellows who gave their lives. , Toko car# of our folks as wo'd have done.' But count battles lost that we have won If you, with your wreaths and flogs and tears' Let another war come in a thousand yearsl" ill Corporal Grantham has had his say; God help us to honor him just that way . —Ken Woodman.,
(Inspired by Corp. Edwin Rranthci who died of wounds at Ardenno
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5 DePauw Men Make Sacrifice DePauw University counted fir dead In World War II on ednesday and the total was a taggering 75 for the duration 1 ‘us far of the war. This total added to the total entioned elsewhere In this issue s coming from Putnam county fakes a terrific toll from this ommunlty In the present world Juggle. 20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
| bread, a type of spaghetti with | good sauce, eggs, a vegetable
j and wine.
I The autostrada got us in town \LLISON TO RELEASE j jygj a bout one. We rode around, 4,000 OF IvMPLOt ES ga ^ a much destroyed city. About three we decided to head
home
INDIANAPOLIS, Ma> 30 (UP) Between 30 and 4i0 per cent of 14,000 employes if the Allison Division, of Gen: ral Motors were scheduled today for layoffs during the next two
months.
General Manager E. B. Newill announced that between 4,000 and 5,000 workers would be released in June and July bocaustof contract cane:nations. Newill said that the production of Jet engines would continue for the remainder of 1945 and indicated that about half the workers la.d off would be able to get jobs in the plant in August and September making a new type engine. AT STILESVILLE SUNDAY , Henry S
Wood, well known Hoosier writer on rural life will speak Sunday morning at the Stilesville Christian church. Mr.
Wood’s subject will be ‘‘The Part the Church Should play In
v'est and see the Italian Rivoria, stopping at Alassio that evening. All along the drive, which became attractive and then beautiful as we got further from the port city and its satellites, there
In Nice we saw more troops than we had seen at any time in Rome or Naples so we hastily left the city and started across the Maritime Alps for Cunco and
Turin.
After several hours of twisting and turning, climbing ever upwards, we were only about five miles north of Nice but many miles up in the Alps, looking down on some of the ruggedest country I have ever seen and that is a big admission for anyone who has been all through
Italy.
We started down and sure enough, a bridge was out. The gorge was deep and there was no way across it. The French troops stationed there said they would have it in in days but we really couldn’t wait so we bad that long trip back. That threw us off what schedule we had planned. It reminded us once again that a schedule was n bad thing to make in time of or im-
SUPERS LEAVE TWO JAPANESE CITIES IN RUINS
were flowers, grand views and n mediately after war. cool breeze. The flowers grow Wp gan Rpm(j ^ ten almost wild and there are all col-1 Wp wcre tf)o t , red to plJsh on so
there for the night. Fortunately
Leste Sudranski was roin Purdue University.
Harry Talbott reported the le of the property on west Mlnut street owned by Mrs. S.
Hays to John Cherry.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Warelng
fife here from Cincinnati. , Mrs, Lycurgus Stoner was vis- the Post War World. Stlun < 1 » n g her daughter, Elizabeth, in Arnold is chairman of the prodianapolls. gram committee for the service.
ors and sizes. Geraniums grow like void and are in shades of red and ping; azeleas, in all colors; roses are almost plentiful and grow in tree shape, bushes, etc. and are all colors. Then there are morning glories and other flowers of that specie in all colprs so that the Whole thing Is a veritable flower gard-
en.
About eight, we arrived In Alassio. We had planned to stay in the Grand Hotel as we had a letter to the proprietor from the owner of the Diana in Milan.
the little hotel we decided to stay at had a good manager and he fixed us some lobster that saved the entire day for us. The following morning, Saturday, we were up before the sun and by noon were back in Milan. There were people waiting for us So we had to hastily shave, throw some other clothes In a Jeep and take off for a week-end at Lago
Maggiore.
Maggiore is Just northwest of Milan and Is popular with the people there who can afford cot-
However, we found that beauti- _
t«> ..W-hor. hotel destroyed to-1 side by Fascists who were brought there from San Remo j and further west on the riveria
when that area was bombed. They had really taken everything, tom up the remaining furniture, knocked out the glass,
etc.
We found a nice hotel and af-
Both lakes are connected with Milan by wonderful autostradas sc that we were near Maggiore In a little less than an hour. Here again we had to cross a ferry, run by civilians but with no charge for military vehicles. We —that Is our air force— had (Continued on Page Four)
GUAM, May 30 (UP) Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay announced today that 51 square miles of Tokyo had been destroyed and that there was “very little left’’ of’the Japanese capital while stiff winds fanned flames through Yokohama, target for the latest B-29 obliteration raid against the empire. A terrible picture of destruction—so great that It cannot even be measured by comparison to natural disasters was drawn by Lemay after photographs of the sprawling Japanese capital showed that “the most vital parts of Tokyo” have been re-
duced.
Yokohama, 18 miles south of Tokyo, was ‘‘burning like hell'’ as flames kindled by 3,200 tons *if incendiary bombs spread through the great war arsenal. It was the first devastation assault on the empire’s fifth largest city. Returning pilots said smoke billowed nearly four miles over Yokohama. The assault raised the weight of bombs heaped on Japan in the past 16 days to 20,800 tons an intensity comparable to that recorded against Germany in the preinvasion air campaign. Lemay, a veteran of air war ir. two hemispheres, candidly announced: “Whatever damage the Japanese announce can be taken as correct.” He apparently referred to Tokyo radio broadcasts which have reported that the major part of the city had been dr stroyed in the six Superfortress incendiary missions against th< capital probably the most de structive series of assaults in the history of warfare. He disclosed that photographic reconnaissance had revealed that the giant B-29 armadas burned rut 18.6 square miles In Indus trial Tokyo in the two 500 plane assaults last Thursday and Sat-
urday.
The new damage brought to 51.3 square miles the total area destroyed in the heart of the city—or approximately 45 per cent of the built-up area of the world’s third largest metropolis "We’ve destroyed all the urban area we have set out to destroy, Lemay reported. There is no possible way to estimate the number of Japanese killed or made homeless. But figures prior to the evacuation of Tokyo showed that from 75,000 110,000 persons were Jammed
"If the Japs persist in keeping on with the war, I now promise that they have nothing more to look forward to than complete destruction of their cities," the grinning Lemay said. The catastrophe heaped on Tokyo began Feb. 25, when more than 200 Superforts hit the eity during a snowstorm. They destroyed or damaged one square
mile.
Then the second major raid came March 10 and 15.8 square miles were damaged only a lit tic leas than the ruin caused by the 1923 earthquake. The succeeding sweeps through May 25 added section by sectioi to the fire-gutted areas. Now, according to Lemay'- 1 estimates, "the most vital parts (Continued on Tnicr Two) City Observes Decoration Day Business in Grcencaatle wa:snspended ninety-nine and one half per cent Wednesday, because of the observance of Memorial Day. The only activity dur ing the day was the preparation for the Memorial Day progi nr at the American Ijegion and Vet erans of Foreign Wars headquarters, and at Forest Hil' cemetery where members of thi Legion and Veterans C numittces decorated graves of fallen com-
rades.
The parade left the American Ixigion headquarters shortly a I tor two o'clock for Forest Hill, which was the center of intwes: not only due to the program being held there but friends and relatives quietly honored 1 ived ones buried there. The weather was perfect for the observance of Memorial Day. The sun rose bright, but cool and the forecast wan for a continuation of the cool days, and with an occasional rain shower.
French Troops Bomb Damascus
BEYROUTH, May 30 (UP) Ang.-. American sources sa o Fi cnch true as blasted their way nto the Syrian parliament build ,nj; at Damascus early today while French planes bombed and strafed the eity. JAPAN FORMALLY DENIES MAKING 1‘EATK OVERTURES
BERNE, Sw.tzi rland, May 30 (U; ) The Japanese Legation Issued a communique today denying that Japan had offered >euce proposals to the United States and (ir-at Britain. The f tnmunlque said such reports \ero Allied propaganda which did irot effect Japanese determination to pursue the war.
SERVING COUNTRY
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DePauw Shades Ball State, 9-8 DelPauw’s bast ball team remains undefeated in Indiana col lego circles following the T.g ts' 9 to 8 win over Ball State hen Tuesday afternoon. Pitcher Bob Saltier cracked out a home run in the last half of the seventh with Sorge on base, to knot the score at 8-al! A DePauw man g‘>t to second as result of a Ball State error ir the last of the eighth and a triple by Stan London brought in the winning run for the Old Gold. DflPauw downed the Ball State squad in their first meeting up
Into each square mile of the city, at Muncie.
Vurlin FI. Maurice l„ Pvt. Vurlin E. and Pvt Maurice L. Rader, sons Of Mi and Mrs. Ernest V. Ruder, It. K 3. Greeneastle, Ind. Pvt. Maurice L. Rader entered the U. S. Army January 29, 1943. He received hri training at Fort Oglethorp, Ga. Camp Forrest Tenn., and Fort Custer, Mich. After several months In the service he received an honorable medical discharge. He is now employed In defense
work.
Pvt. Vurlin E. Rader entered the U. S. Army May 29, 1944. He received his training at Camp Blanding, Fla., he was sent overseas In November 1944, first going to Italy, then to France and he is now somewhere in Germany. He is the husband of Mrs. Wilma Rader and the father of two sons Jimmy, 3Vi years and Billy, age 2 years. Prior to his entrance in the army he was employed at the Bridgport Brass Co. at Indianapolis.
FINAL PHASE OF OKINAWA FIGHT NEAR - — i JAPS APPEAR TO BE ON VERGE OF GENERAL CRACK-UP
GUAM. May 30 (UP)-The i0-day-old Okinawa campaign altered what may be its final •base today with a marine -reakthrough into Shuri, the enmy’s main defense citadel, and he captme of the capital city of Naha. A front dispatch from United .’less War correspondent E. G. Valnns said the last 25,000 to 15,000 Japanese in southern Okinawa appeared to be breaking up and soon should be split into disorganized or at least only semi-organized pockets. “After this happens", Valens aid, "it will obviously be a matter of mopping up." Clearing of southern Okinawa would enable the 10th Army to .‘urn all its energies to concerting the island into a bristling ouse tor the promised American invasion of Japan, only 330 miles 0 the north. Marines of the First Division broke into Shuri, keystone and central anchor of the shattered Japanese defense line across the southern tip of Okinawa, in a surprise attack from the west yesterday. The marines advanced 1,100 yards in three hours to the walls of the shell-battered, 15th century Shuri castle, until midmorning yesterday Japanese army headquarters and strongest position on Okinawa. The thrust was so swift, despite hip-deep mud at places, that tile marines surprised Japanese swimming in the moat around the castle. There was no immediate word whether the marines had entered 1 he ruins of the castle, but Maj. Gen. John It. Hodge, commander of the 24th Army Corps, jubilantly told newsmen: "I think we’ve got them! I think the thing is busted now!" fTHiei elements nY* the First Marine Division, along with units of the 77th, 96th and Seventh Army Divisions, still were stalled by mud and now-isolated Japanese pocket northwest, north, northeast, east and southeast of 8huri. The advance from the west met only light small arms and mortar fire, however. Hodge said he believed the Japanese had pulled out of Shuri with the exception of suicide defense outposts. The ruins of a two-story government building and a number of other wrecked structures were captured in Shuri. formerly Okinawa's second largest city, On the west coast, marines of the Sixth Division crossed Naha anal in the center of the wteckcd capital at 5:30 a. m. yester-
lay.
KIVVANTANS TO HEAR PROF’. JEROME HIXSON The weekly luncheon of the Greeneastle Kiwanis eltib will be held Thursday noon at the Presbyterian church. Prof. Jerome Hixson of DePauw University will be the speaker at the meeting. SERVICES SUNDAY Memorial Services will be held it New Providerwce Sunday, at two o'clock with Donus Denny as the speaker. Th ■ Vet.rans of Hurst-Colli ns Post of Clover.lale will attend,'‘and the Belle Union School band will play. The Sunday School will have a short program.
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Enterline of Elm street, are the parents of a daughter born at the Putnam county hospital Tuesday.
0 Todays Weather $ 0 and 0 0 Local Temperature 0 0000000000 Partly cloudy 'today, tonight and Thursday with scattered light showers tonight arri In south portion Thursday. Warmer In r> irth tonight and cooler north Thursday. Minimum 68 6 a. m 68 7 a. m 74 8 a. m 61 9 a. m 65