The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 September 1945 — Page 1
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VOLUME FIFTY-THREE
THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"
RE6ISTRATI0N AT UNIVERSITY i SEPTEMBER 21
pB WILDMAN ANNOUNCES CALENDAR FOR NEW SCHOOL YEAR
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1945.
NO. 277,
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The DePauw University calendar for the new school year, a; announced by President Clyde E Wildman, returns to the norma two-scmestcr basis, with an add ed summer session designed pri maiily to meet the needs of wai \eterans and pre-draft age men As recently published, the new schedule sets the dates for th< first, or winter, semester from legistiation day, Sept. 21, to thi end of the examination period or. Feb. 1, 1946. Orientation week setivities are scheduled for Sept 17 through Sept. 20. with short class meetings scheduled foi Sept. 22 and regular class sched ules beginning on Monday, Sept 24. The opening of the football season, the historic “Monon Bell” jiidiron classic with Wabash College, is also scheduled for
Sept. 22.
A high point in the first semester will be Old Gold Day, DePauw's traditional homecoming celebration, on Oct. 13, which will feature a gridiron battle with Ohio Wesleyan University and the annual alumni mixer. Vacations during the first semester will include the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 22 and a Christmas recess from Dec. 19 to Jan. 2. , The spring semester will open with registration on Feb. 4, 1943, and brief meetings of all classes the following days. The regular class schedule will go into effect on Feb. 7. The annual Phi Beta Kappa chapel, which recognized outstanding scholarstic achievement among the seniors, is scheduled for March 28, with a apring vacation extending from April 3 to 10. Another high point of the semester is Foundeis' and Benefactors’ Day, which will be celebrated on April 25. The spring semester will close for most students on June 12, the end of the final examination per-.
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Joseph S. Baird Aviation Machinist’s Mate secnd class Joseph S. Baird, son of Clifford Baird of Roachdale, Indiana, has been awarded the Navy’s Distinguished Flying Cross by Admiral Barbey for distinguishing himself in action in the Pacific. Baird, at present stationed at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Norman. Oklahoma, v.as presented the decoration by Captain A. H. Douglas, Commanding Officer of that station. As a Combat Aircrewman, Baird has seen much action on many of the fighting fronts of the Pacific theatie. Besides this latest addition, his array of ribbons includes: Air Medal. Asiat-ic-Pacific Theatre, Philippines Liberation, and American The-
atre.
Mrs. Martin Dies At Co. Hospital
Mrs. Elizabeth
ADJUSTMENT BOARD MEETS FOR 2 DAYS i STUDY PROPOSED BUDGETS OF VARIOUS COUNTY TAXING UNITS The Putnam County Tax Adjustment Board convened at 1C a. m. Monday for a two-day session dining which the members will study the proposed budgets • or next year of the various taxng units. The board members selected, Frank Stoessel, of GreencasCe, | to serve as chairman. Emmons j Wright, ot Washington township, was named vice-chairman of the sessions. Members of the boaid in addi-1 tion to Mr. Stoessel and Mr. j Wright are Lonnie Steele, | F ranklin township; Jesse E. | Page, Jackson township; L. E. Michael of Cloverdale; Paul McKeehan of Monroe township, and Walter Ballard, mayor of Gieen-
castle.
The first item of business was the 1946 county budget which was discussed until the noon hour. The County Council, last week, reduced the pioposed levy to 92 cents after making cuts in the county revenue, county hospital maintenance and county
welfare figures.
At 1:30 p. m., the Board was scheduled to take up the Greencastle Consolidated Schoop budget. This was to be followed oy the Greencastle Library; Greencastle township; Clinton township; Cloveidale township and Cloverdale town, and the Green-
castle City budgets.
! Tuesday at 9 a. m., the Board j will take wp the floyd township I budget. The remainder of the I township budgets will be studied during the day and the board ex
HISTORIC SURRENDER PAPERS IN U. S.
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CHURCH WILL MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY
PRESENT CHURCH BITLD,i ING WAS DEDICATED
HALF CENTURY AGO
LATEST OF HIROHITO
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' The Frist Christian church of ] I this city will celebrate the fif- | tieth anniversary of the dedica- j | lion of tnc present church buildj ing, in special services next Sun- i day. Seutember 16th. Duiing the) | morning worship per od. begin-1 ning at' 10:00 o’clock, special! j iccognition will be given all pec.-! pie who attended the dedication 1 .ervico in 1895, and two service | j rolls will be presented to th; ' church, one for tho young people i who have served in World War ‘ ! II and one for the young men | | and women who nave entered | 1 full-time service in the Christian \ | ministry, Mission field, or related
occupations.
The committee desires to secure the names of all people who attended the service fifty years ago. so they may be invited to shaio this golden anniversary service. Please call 703 or 727-K at once, giving the nsmes. At 7:30 p. m. the Christian Youth Fellowship groups will present a special service, open to
YANKS OCCUPY 3 MORE CITIES, 2 NAVY BASES
STEADY STREAM OF U. TROOPS POURING INTO JAPAN
TOKYO, Sept. 10 — Allied | Supreme Commander, General Douglas Mar-Art h, ir tonay ordered abolishment of tire Japanese .mperiul General lleuu.*.iurters 1 and ('lamped a light censorship I on Japanese news obnnnels, nud I snspen.d.-d the Japanese shortnafve l»r«.»deasts to the world.
In ,i series of orders
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Nipponese military anil its government, MacArtiinr dissolved the central li-ad <1 Japanese mYitarism, afte -live September 18 and extended Lie Allied eonover 1) rnwd news agency,
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THIS is the latest picture taken . of Emperor Hirohico, made in
the public, built around the great i Tokyo b,.f„re the siwrender and rose window on the east side of : later turned over to the U. S
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ht tho United Srotot, Republic ot Chum, Umted Kingdom ond tho Union of SoyioI Sociohtt Republic*, ond m tho mterott* of tho othor
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Suoremo'^omrrnnddt tor
Martin, age 79 years, passed away Sunday noon at the Putnam county hospital. She had resided in Cloverdale for the past five years wheie she made her
home with her daughters. She is survived by four chil-
tnr the Allied Rooet!
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS of the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay are now in President Truman's hands. The historic papers were
Templeton I pects' to complete its work late ! Down to Washington. Truman is shown looking at the papers with.
the church. This window was the gift of the young people’s soicety (Christian Endeavor) of
1894-95.
Meat Rationing To End Oct. 1
Sound photo).
JAP SOLDIERS CHARGED WITH CANNIBALISM
Tuesday afternoon.
9 Girls Place At State Fair
! dren, Clyde Martin of Battle
iod. Alumni Day has been‘set I Ground; Otis Martin of Minnet ent-i • vit'Q fjpnrirp Knoll hik! Mis nfl.m courjity plflC6 , cl in the llnu*
for June 15. with baccalaureate 1 sota ' M,s -George K.nou anu mis. ^ _ j_ ...
Nine 4-H club girls from Put-
ami commencement
scheduled for the following day. In returning to the new calendar, President Wildman indicated that DePauw is getting away from the Idea of extreme acceleration, which has been judged educationally unsound by educators throughout the nation, and yet is making privisions for returning veterans In retaining
a summer session.
exercises 1 G®' 8 ° rth ’ both of Cloverdale; i8; iana state Kair * vllss Smith
grandchildren and grandchildren; one
SIAMESE TWiN'S DIE
PHOENIX, Arlz., Sept. 10 — I UP) Louise and !Maciia (Miranda. ‘ .Siamese” twins born Aug. 25, died here tonight after less
than two weeks of life.
Hopes that the babies anight
22 great P°rts:
sister Mrs I Dorette Shoemaker. Green-
Minnie Dollin, Chlllicothe.’m. ']**'"*■ Clothing. (1st. Blue Rib-
Last .lies will be held at 2:301 bo "-
, Phvl is McElroy, Washington,
o’clock Wednesday afternoon •’ • ,! Clotning. 2nd. Red Ribbon
from the Montmorenci Methodist; ?
. Martha Jean Elmore, Clover-
church where she was a member c; . jthl lst time Rjbbon . Friends may call at the Reed ^ ^ aover .
dale, Clothing, 3rd. White Rib-
bon. J
Jacquelyn Steward, Monroe, Baking, 2nd! Red Ribbon. Beverly Trembly, Greencastle,
The appointmnet ot George W. I Baking. 3rd. White Ribbon. Gove of Kent, O., as director of I Martha Elmore, Cloverdale, choral music and assistant pro-1 Baking, 1st. Blue Ribbon, fersor of voice at DePauw Uni-; Marjorie Whitman, Warren, versity has been announced by ; Canning, 2nd. Red Ribbon..
Funeral Home in Cloverdale. NEW MUSIC TEACHER ON UNIVERSITY STAFF
Dean Edward R. Bartlett. (Pro-
be severed and live independent- I fessor Gove fills a vacancy left ly were given up soon after their !, b y tbe resignation of Prof. John
birth when 'it was discovered that the girls had separate stomachs and intestines hut only one liver and joined intestinal tracts
Betty Trippett, Cloverdale, Dress Revue. Blue Ribbon.
left to right. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, and General George C. Marshall. Signatures of Gen Douglas MacArthur and the Jap enjoys are shown In the photo be-
low. (International Saundphoto)
China Demands Eight Traitors
NANKING,'Sept. 10.—(UP) — China bluntly informed Japan today that she wanted Nanking’s puppet premier Chen Kung-Po and seven, lesser traitors returned without any further attempts
at concealment.
Gen. Ho Ying Chin, Chinese army commander-in-chief, sent this brisk order to Japanese Commander Gen. YTisuji Okamura shortly after Okamura had signed the formal surrender pap-
ers yesterday.
The Japanese news agency iDomel called Premier Onen a suicide on Aug. 28, but Chinese authorities declared that in reality Chen and his seven companions fled to Japan on that date.
Quisling Gets Death Sentence
LONDON, Sept. 10. —(UP) — Former puppet premier Vidkun Quisling of Norway has been convicted of treason and sentenced to death, radio Oslo said to-
day.
The broadcast said Quisling s fortune, totalling 1.800,000 kroner, was confiscated. The verdict of the court of three supreme couit Justices and four civilians was unanimous except for two dissensions on two points. “The accused. Vidkun Abraham Quisling, Is sentenced to death for crimes against military law,” the broadcast said.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.— (UP) Meat rationing will Oct. 1 and shoe rationing will end soon after, it was learned to-
day.
Secretary of Agncultuie Clinton Anderson favored lifting meat rationing Sept. 1, it was learned, but Price Administrator Chester Bowles requested that
LONDON, Sept. 10 (UP)-
nd | Foreign Minister Dr. Herbert j Evatt of Australia 'demanded today that "superior officers up to the highest” presumably including Emperor Hirohiio and the Imperial general staff—be punished for Japanese barbarity in
the South vest Pacific .
TOKYO. Sept. 10. (UP) — American forces took over three more cities and two naval biu.-s south of Tokyo today as a steady stream of reinforcements swelled the occupation army to nearly 100,000 men.
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Radio Tokyo said 3.000 troops of the 37th Division occupied Odawara, 45 miles southwest of Tokyo, along with Sagamishara and Zama, Three hundred other troops entered Hiratsuka, 35 miles southwest of Tokyo, to arrange for its* I occupation ptobably Wednesday | by another ; e . ^ _ , . 27th, the broadcast said. Both Hiratsuka and Odawara are on the main Tokyo-Nagoya coastal trunk latlway.
He made the demand in re-
no action be taken until OP.Y I leasing Australia's official report had cut down its paid field per- to the United Nations war crimes
Joponese can-
commission on
nibalism and tortures in the
Australian war zone. The report charged:
1. Japanese soldiers ate flesh from their own and American and Australian dead in New
supply of beef, lamb, mutton and Q U i nea following the Buna-China poultry on the market, although campai{rn in 1942-43. there is still a po.k shortage. 2 15() Au8tnUl9n! , wh() sur . Fats and oils will continue to under a white flag jn
be rationed, as will sugar. Shoe rationing, it was learned,
sonnel.
Having laid off most of its paid field employes, OPA has agreed that meat rationing will go Oct. 1 and the two agencies have drawn up blueprints heralding the end. There is a good
Joint army-navy task forces ian up the Stars and Stripes over the aKtsuyama naval base at the southeast entrance to Toover the Katsuyama naval base base, on the east coast of the Chiba peninsula, southeast of Tokyo. .. Gen. Dquglas Ma ‘Artjiur's “gloved fist” occupation policy continued in force and no untoward incidents were reported. Other developments included: 1. MacArthur told his troops they must lespect the property and personal l ights of the Japanese people and carry out their occupation duties “without unnecessary violence and without undue oppression.”
Oct.
New Britain were shot or bayonettei to death, a few at a time in tho presence of those still to
die.
3 Two Roman Catholic
will probably end between
15 and Nov. 1.
President Truman notified war agencies on Aug. 15 at the time
, . .. , Priests, one a Dutchman and the ot the Japanese surrender that • T , . , „ other an American, and two
as many controls as possible "
V. 1 I K Ilf. a imfi.Hi no Catholic Nuns were bayonetted should be lifted within 60 days • _ .. .
| to death in a New Britain vil-
'SAK.V NOW TRANSPORT pearl harbor, sept. io.— (UP) The aircraft carrier fiaibtoga, which carried deatn and destruction to the Japanese
Toms.
Professor Gove has studied at Hamline University, St. IFaul. Mir.n., and at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Chicago Musical Colieg \ the University of Southern Cali
Noted DePauw Grad Is Dead
“Quisling also was found guilty of crimes against civil law. The accused is acquitted of chaige number one and other
charges.”
throughout the Pacific war, left j versity, having formerly served Sunday for the United States as director of music at Riverside
w >th 3,800 Navy officers and n| en who will be discharged. The ship was conveited into a giant transport, with eight-tier tunks lining its hangar deck.
fornia and the Claremont Cm- novelist and poet, died at St. AniPges in California. He cor.es t J thony’s Hospital at 9:15 o’clock DePauw from Kent State Uni-1 last night following a cerebral
hemorrhage which he suffered
Friday evening.
Okamura is believed to have replied that lie would take steps immediately to see what could be
none In the matter.
Among the crimes charged to
At the same time. Gen. Ho an- QuiHl , ng wpre trcasont man . nounced that Gene.alissimo Chi- sIauKhter enlbl . zz , olne nt. theft
Max Ehrmann, Terre ^Haute ang Kai-Shek has exempted]^ collaboratlon with Germany.
He was accused specifically of being responsible for the deaths
Junior ICollege, Riverside, Calil Previous to that he was engaged
in church, concert, and work in New York City.
Nanking “until further notice”* from all taxes and levies. This step was taken to give the people of China’s pre-war capital a ihunce to recover from effects of
There will be a special meeting of Gen. Jesai M. Lee Post 1550, Veterans of Foreign Wars, to"'ght at 8 o’clock. •
Hero Welcomed By Huge Crowd WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 — Gen. Wainwright arrived in the national capital at 12:80 p. m(t WT) He was greeted at the airport by his wife and Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff. The hero of Bataan and Convitdor addressed the members of Congress during the
afternoon.
DePauw fraternity pledges included Harry Gough, Deke; Paul Sweet, Delta Tau; Elmo Sweet and Hugh Hauck, ATO; and
Donald O’Rear, Sigma Chi. in ’»ck Davis won three first] SAN , ' KA ^ ( - ’ Walnat the State Fair clog >-Gen JonaUian ^ Wa^n * h °w with hia Airedale, “Tara- wight, waving his ^ Hill Max.” arm at a ma98 of cheerln S h Miss Ethel Hunt and Miss b Tekbrttl^ San I ndianlm,r na Were Vi8it0^,, Francisco Sunday. The long, somoia n a polls. I ^ ^ sUrted in the Mb and Mrs. Andrew Sanford. foreaU ^ Bataan ended joyouso son went to Clearwater, Fla. t csaiiaasd ea r««» Three)
that all
laws and orders issued by the Japanese duiing the occupational period were nullified immediate-
ly.
Mi. Ehrmann was born in j the past eight years.
Tene Haute, the son of the late
. | Ho also announced radio , Max and Margaret Barbara Lutz
I Ehrmann. He attended Terre Haute public schools and was graduated from the Tene Haute High School. Following his graduation he entered DePauw Un versity, where he majored in literature and philosophy. After ! his giaduation from DePauw he studied post graduate work in letters and philosophy at Harvard University. Then he came home to write the poems and novels Whioh won him fame.
Both DePauw
universities showed great appie- l buck ciation of the work of Mr. Ehr-’ i iann. He was one of ten famous graduates of DePauw. upon
banking’s streets retained the appearance of a vast, holiday celebration today with enthusiastic crowds rushing about seizing all the American soldiers they could find. Some people
of more than 100 Norwegians. Club Sponsors Sale, Fish Fry
all if possible.
The OPA believes most rationing will end this yeai 'ncluding rationing of automobiles and
tires.
Other controls which will continue for some time are those ovei rents and prices. The OPA wants to keep prices down. Rent j control has been the most successful of all OPA price control programs. According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, rents went up only four per cent bo-
lage about Aug. 19, 1942. The bodies of the Nuns were naked
when found.
4. Two American prisoners were dissected and their livers removed while they were still alive .in the Kokumbona area of Guadalcanal in the latter part of
September 1942.
5. Japanese troops killed up to 59 natives and 36 Australian soldiers without justification or excuse at Milne Bay, New Guinea, in 1942. Many, including
tween August, 1939. and August,!^ natives wpl( , subj e P ted 1943, where as food went up a!- f r ig b tful mutilation and some most 50 pel cent, and clothing 4.>j werp f or ba yonet practice per cent. ) while they still were alive.
Evatt said the report, taken in
At the same time OPA points cut that landlords had an in-
conjunction with the American
creased income of around 40 per sta t empn t „ n atrocities released cent during the same period be- j as ^ week, strengthened
de-
cause of fewer vacancies, cieased maintenance costs and slightly increased rental rates. The next important WPB control scheduled to go is the one over home construction. It is
removed within
expected to be the next month.
giee, “Doctors of Letters.”
FUUCIVfEN CALLED
City firemen were called to 601 Anderson street at 12:30 p. m. Sunday to extinguish a roof fire. Small damage was reported by Fire Chief William Lawrence.
The Bainbridge Lions Club is sponsoring a big community sale and fish fry in the north Putnam town on Monday, Sept. 29th. The sale will start at 1 p. m. and the fish fry will be held
in the evening.
Proceeds will be used for the
yelled, " 1 hank you, G. I. I hank Bainbridge recreation hall and >ou, G. I.” while others merely ^ for g j fts to the top scholars
and Harvard! ^ "T in the 8enior C ' a8S ° f the Bam - materials 7e^dW'to'thatTf ^4
ami ridivaiu tunneU Yankee troopers on the bridge high school.
Stock and merchandise and ■any other items of value will be sold. A 4 per cent commisslun will be charged on stock ahd 10 per cent on small items. There
j confirmed policy of the Austral- . ian governnjent . . that there ! should .-tie ho. immunity for trial for war (crimes of any Japanese
whatsoever."
Australia has informed the war crimes commission that it desires machinery be set in mo-
2. —The Eighth Army announced that 8,085 allied prisoners have been liberated, including G,096 who already have been
exacualed.
3. Radio Tokyo said 50 American minesweepers of the Fifth Fleet began clearing waters in and around the Sasebo naval base in western Kyushu with Marines .scheduled to land after a channel has been cleaied. 4. Officers of the American North Pacific Fleet were scheduled to inspect Japanese naval vessels at Ominato naval base in northern Honshu following the enemy’s surrender of the area
ycsteiday.
5. Korean patriots protested the announced American plan to maintain Japanese government officials in office in Korea until all 100 000 American occupation
troops have landed.
6. Admiral Sir Biuce Fraser, commander of the British Pacific Fleet, sailed from Tokyo aboard his flagship, the Duke of York, for Hong Kong, where the oiler
“the 1 I )0st I ,<,n, ' c l official Japanese sur-
render for scheduled for today or
tomorrow.
H'onitlniieri on Pnic«» Two>
On Oct. 1 veterans will receive ^ tion immediately for the trial of a new priority to buy building 1 Japanese war eriminals, Evatt
The historic surrender ceremony was held yesterday morn-!
who the school bestowed the de-,ing in the auditorium of
Central
the military.
HAD CLOSE CALL
Mr. and Mrs. George Weber
He said the Australian report was based on the testimony of 500 witnesses and was prepared by Justice Webb, chief justice of Queensland for the war crimes
the
Okgmura^agreed ^ ^bZ ^1^ the state council of
so forces in China, Formosa and
bridge Club requests that all
Indo-Chinu no. tl, of 16 degrees item8 con8igm , d t 0 Carl Riggle
north latitude “will cease hostll- by Se p tember 17.
itles and will remain at the sta-| Mu8ic for the occa , lon wi i, bp tions they noy occupy” pending fUr nUhed by the Boys’ School demobilization a s directed by B^d Alton Hurst ami fred
Chiang.
Hunter wil Ibc the auctioneers,
Chevrolet coupe was hit by a 1
the Australian Legion of former
switching freight train at a Na- j servicemen and service women tional Road crossing in that city. 1 v °t e< ! 4o cable Evatt and the Mr. Weber saw the train in tima; BrlU8h government a protest to cut his wheels but the car was 1 a £ a ' nst re t en tion °? Hirohito and damaged on the left side and top the P reae,lt members of the Jap-
ln the accident. nnese Diet.
• (ContiaNed na Pag* Two)
® Todays Weather * $ and 0 & Loci' Temperature 6 Mostly cloudy, scattered showers and thunderstorms today and extreme southeast early toirght. Clearing tonight and fair Tuesday. Much cooler today and tonight. Continued cool Tuesday. Minimum — 72 6a. m 72 8 a. m 75 9 a.m.. 78 10 a. m 80 11 a. m 76 12 noon 72 1 p. M 76 2 p. m 76
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