The Franklin Evening Star from Franklin, Indiana • Page 1

luaitum Division (Comp) Indiana State Library i LOCAL FORECAST FAIR leading paper VOLUME 60. PRICE THREE CENTS NUMBER 55. FRANKLIN, INDIANATHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1944 PHONES Business 710. News 53 RUSSIANS JOIN U. S.

IN DRIVE CONTRACT FOR RESURFACING COUNTY QUOTA FOR WAR FUND ENROLLMENTS SEVEN COUNTY 4 I HERE AWARDED AGAINST NAZIS: DRIVE IS $12,000 i 1 i Hammer East Prussia As Dinner Meeting Of Unit Yanks Fight Way To Leaders Held Wedncs- SCHOOLS, 1,693 Trafalgar Total Yet To Be Added 420 Listed As 1 m-i. I If Noblcsvillc Firm To Begin Work On Streets In High School Pupils, 1,273 In Grades A total of 1.693 pupils were in at Few Days To Cost State $48,415.30 Award of a contract to the Mid- Western Germany day Campaign Opens Here October )th Hit Japs Again By International News Service American troops surged against Johnson county fcr the second straight year will be asked to raise a S12.000 quota in the annua1. National War Fund drive to be con- kn Hfir-ftr1 MKit if tendance at schools in the Johnson dlewest Roads Company, of Nobles-county system today as the first week ville, for the resurfacing of State of classes neared an end. All schools highway routes through Franklin, convened this week excert Trafal-j with work to be started within par, which will not begin study until the next few days, was announced Monday. today by S.

C. Hadden, chairman Of the total. 1.273 pupils are in the i of the State Highway Commission, crade.s and 420 are in the high! Contract piice of the improvc- the Siegfried Line today. Armored and infantry columns Finashed at the vaunted German homeland defenses at several points across a front of mere than sixty miles. The initial goal of tjeut.

Gen. Courtney H. Hodges First Army GERMANY A spearhead of tanks border into Germany. Signal deploys over a broad field in Belgium just before slashing across the Corps-NEA Radio-Telephoto. ment includes work on 2.52 miles cf Roads 31 and 44 within the corporation lines, as given as $48,443.30 by N.

F. Schafer, head of the department of mtaintenancc for the commission, which will supervise the resurfacing. The project here was seemed to be the important restaurant, munications center at Aachen, only; The Qta remain- the same dc-37 miles frcm the Rhine river. Sitc the Tact the county went over On the broad, advancing front the top in 1943 by $914 me drive extending from immediately below I will be conducted similar to that of Aachen down to Trier. American artillery lai clown almost continuous barraires to clear a pith for the tanks and foot soldiers.

One column of Gen. Hodges" force. which had penetrated Germany easti PRE-PLEDGING EVENTS HELD BY SORORITIES Series Of Parties Staged, For Hushees Enliven First Week's Activities On College Campus Prior to sorority pledging Satur day on the Franklin' College campus the four organizations. Pi Beta Phi. Delta Del'a Delta.

Delta Zeta and Zeta Tan Aloha, are holdine a ser- lies of parties, formal and informal. for the rushees. a tea xca.i held tHi; aftprnnnn hv thp r.elta 7.pta for of Eupen. Belgium, to seize the town of fhe nr5t eek devoted to a clean-of Roctpen. moved on up of tho aiM Friday, the heights before Aachen and October 13 be the one-day so- number of rushees in the sorority rooms.

Tuesday night at the Hill- view Country club, the sororitv held I DRIVE HEAD 4 -r fig" vs George M. Foist, local manager for the Public Service Company of Indiana, has been named chairman for the annual Red Cross Fund Campaign which takes place early next year. The appointment at this time permits development of a county-wide organization to aid in the drive. FOIST NAMED BY RED CROSS To Direct Fund Campaign. In Johnson County For Coming Year George Foist has accepted rhe! me I chairmanship of the Red Cross war fund drive for 1945 according to an nouncement made bv the Rev.

4 cue ted here between October 9 and November 9. it was announced Wed nesday night by Boyd Gill of Frar.kiin. county chairman, at a dinner-meetina of unit chairmen in the Victory rocm of Sny- a year ao Mr. Gill announced. Besins Monday, October 9.

It wiU start on Monday. with a oiir-oay of spec-al rifts at business firms and industrial plants. With the next lew days Ucitation of Pujils at al1 school in u.e jm. I he second week oi tne campaign will on Sunday, October 15 with the one-day county-wide house to house canvas of the resi- cential area, and all residents wi.l nk-prl ti-. remain at hmno for a two-hcur period that afternoon to meet the solicitors.

Homes which were missed on Sunday will be vi-s-t Continued on Pace Four.) OCD FIREMEN ORGANIZE AT DINNER HERE ijckcrc Xamed President n(. "I Aid Training Of Rural H. S. Students Meet In October Fifty Auxiliary Firemen who have completed the training program of the Office of Civilian Defense, have been awarded certificates and membership cards, it was announced at a dinner meeting attended by 34 members of the organization. Wednesday evening.

Organization of the croup, repre- senting rural areas, took place dur- ing the program ith the election of Raymond Pickerel of Trafalgar, as rresident; Loren Bills of White River township, as vice-president: and vice-president William Core of Franklin township, as sccretatv-treasurer. Monthly meetings will be held by the group with the October 5e.Mon to be held lot the court room on Wednesday. Oct. 11. The program for that meeting will be announced later.

Forest rv Heads Attend. Representatives of the state Di-won of Forestry, attending the meeting outlined plans for offering fire-fighting- training to students of i rural high schools in Johnson county during the coming weeks and ursed support of this progTam by the Aux- iliary Firemen. As outlined by Jo- seph De Young, who chrects this pro- gram fcr the OCC and the Division of Forestry and Frosty Miller, dis- trict forester, a two-day training i program will be given in the schools, on cay is devoted to a study of forest or outdoor fires and their (Continued on Page Two.) i i 1 Jl'ST BEFORE CROSSING INTO PRESIDENT Raymond Pickerel of Trafalgar, was elected president of the Rural Auxiliary Firemen, an OCD sponsored organization, at a dinner meeting Wednesday evening honorina iiity members who have oomr.trted the required training program. Monthly meetings will te held by members of the organization. REPORT BAKER AS "CRITICAL" Is Patient In Indianapolis! Hospital Injured In Stokelv Blaze Whit nd.

Sept. 14 Sampson Baker, young Kentucky migrant worker who was seriously injure! a week ago today when flair.es ac-1 eompanicd by a series of explosions wrecked the Stckely Brothers fc Company earning lactory here. reported in a critical condition U-; day at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Baker, not first reported in the list of injured, rooe to Greenwood on a truck following the fire but did rot complain cf being hint until he arrived there. Examination reveale." crushed chest and he is now rf-i rted to have developed pneu- monia and is in an oxygen tent.

Charles Drake. Whiteland brick-, mason and contractor who was unconscious one steam pipe explosions, will be returned to his home this weekend from Methodist hospital. He si fered a severely lacerated scaip. concussion, a double fracture of the pd is and a broken right arm. i Flank Evans, of Whiteland.

oper- 8 tor oi tne imams ouu service station there, suffered minor burns (Continued on Page Beuel BONt i if i. i -i 4 "-i i 5 I i i I i i i i a rose formal coffee. The sorority colors, rose and green, were reflect-! ed in the party appointments. A varied program was presented dur- ing the evening. Miss Sadie Kre- theoi, of Indianapoils.

is presi-j dent, and Miss Norma Mitchell, of Franklin, rush chairman, Pi Phi's Entertain At the home of Mrs. Russell WU- son. a patroness, the Pi Beta Phi entertained Wednewiay night for their rushees with a formal dessert. arangements for which were in 1 jchaige of Miss Jan Lowe, of Good- land, social chairman. Miss Lowe is also arranging for a tea.

Friday af- frC V- line lAAivn-a. atiiu Jean Weisman, of Franklin, are co-! chairmen of rushing. The president (Continued on Page Two.) VOID COUPONS CUT QUOTA OF GAS IN COUNTY lOvcr 16,000 Gallons With-1, held From Dealers In Three-Month Period, OPA Reports Here A total of 16.440 gallons of gaso- line was withheld from the inven- torics of 40 Jhson county filling Richard E. Lentz. chairman of the drunken driving.

His license was re-Johnson County Red Cross chapter. vcked for one year. Although the drive does not suit i The driver. E. J.

Keiser, was ar-until next March the appointment rested b' State Patrolmen Arthur of the chairman is made earlv in 1 "onick and Ray Schafer after the order to give him time to set up his 1941 Chevrolet coach he was driving organization. Last vear the quota north on the highway collided al-set was $30,000 and Randolph Core most head-rn with a southbound was the chairman. tnick of the Indianapolis Forward school classes. With all schools expectin? an increased enrollment by next week, the attendance figure for the eight schools in the county system is expected to near the 2.000 mark. Needham and Hopewell, only two grade schools in the countv whose graduates enter Franklin for their high school educations, reported 162 and 116 attendance figures, respec- thely.

Center Grove Leads. Center Grove leads total grade hv whitoianrf ith ibr ana mini scnooi aLiniunnie uiui -vjh i Clark 229. Union 202 and Nineveh Center Grove has 273 in the grades which is 16 above the attendance last year at this time, and 126 in high school, which is exactly the same Whiteland reported 270 in the grades and 118 in high school, Clark 1 170 in the grades and 59 in high (Continued on Page Two.) i DRUNK DRIVER FINED AFTER CAR HIT TRUCK Indianapolis Motorist One Of Five To Face Mayor In Citv Court All Plead Guilty 1st ho was involved in an accident hot. 1:30 elock Thursday mora iv TT CI SiftVlTatf iy of. frVlA I w- w- Oliver hill near the Sugar Creelc was fined $25 and costs.

$3. in city court here a few hours later! after pleading gaiilty to a charge of The truck was loaded with paper cartons. Both vehicles were badly wrecked. A fine of $25 and costs. $30, waj given Everett Harrell.

42, of In- dianapolis, who wjus arrested on U. S. highway 31 shortly alter mia- night by Patrolmen Worrick and Schafer and charged with drunken (Continued on Pace Seven.) News Service radio of French forces I I i I I I 1 i SEVEN VETS NUCLEUS OF GRID SQUAD Franklin High Is To Open Campaign Here Friday Against Columbus; Team Is Light Hoping to repeat their 19-6 tri- umph recorded in last year season opener at Columbus, the Franklin high school Grizzlies engage the: rival Columbus Bull Dogs in at South Central Conference football battle here Friday afternoon. With both teams onetune their camDaians. the kickoff is scheduled for 2:30 on Goodell Field at Franklin College.

Officials will be Coach Tom Downey of Greensburg. referee; Heze Clark of Indianapolis, umpire: i Coach Roy E. Tillotson of Franklin College, head lineman. Coach Jesse Lash is starting the 1944 season with a lighter team i than the great 1943 aggregation, The line, which for the last two or! three seasons has averaged over 200 pounds per man. will be down to around 150 this year.

There is not a 200-pound player on the Franklin team. The opti- mistic outlook, however, is due to the fact there is more reserve strength than in 1943. Starting against the Bull Cogs will be Pete Crowe and Bill Wolfe at ends. Dick McQuinn and Dave S-Vlvij at Dick Norman at left guard. Buzz Nelp or Jim Mc-( Continued on I'aj Six.) DEMOCRATS TO HEAR JACKSON AND SCHRICKER County Delegation To At- tend Editorial Outing At French Lick Opens Friday Johnson countv will have a dele- gati of less than a dozen members i attending the annual fall meeting Qf Democratic Editorial Association, to be in session at French Lick on Friday and Satur- day.

Elmer Thompson chairman of the Democratic county committee, reported today. Amoni those who have reserva- I nous 1U1 me uuiuig aic ouu Robert B. Houaham. Mr. a Thompson.

Mrs. Ida Schn county vice-chairman, and Herbert Harris, who is a member of the edi- torial reservations committee. I Transportation difficulties and a requirement that only those register- ed as guests at the hotel could attend the Saturday night will limit the delegation from this county. However, a capacity house of 800 is assured for the outing with more than 700 reservations on file Wednesday. Will Open Campaign.

The meeting will mark the opening of the Democratic election campaign in Indiana, with Gov. Henry F. Schricker. Democratic nominee for United States Senator, and Senator Samuel D. Jackson, nominee for governor, as the principal speakers at the banquet Saturday night.

They also will speak briefly on Saturday morning- at the editors breakfast along- with Cornelius on Page Two.) Queen Sends Note To Fred Lockwood Fred Lockwood. managing director of the Greater Franklin Chamber of Commerce, received a reply Thursday to his letter to Queen Elizabeth of England concerning the meaning of the word, The reply is a formal one written on notepaper engraved with the words, "Buckingham Palace" in red. The note reads: The Lady-in-Wait- ing to The Queen is commanded to! thank Mr. Fred C. Lockwood for his kind letter of the 22nd of July; and to say that it has been read with interest by Her Majesty." It was dated August 21, 1944.

i 1 The appointment of the war fund chairman was made at a board meeting held this week and plans were also made to start new classes in home nursing and first aid. The CamD and Hosnital Council 'reported calls for many needs at the Wakeman general hospital in-1 cluding glass ash trays, musical in struments and coat hangers. Any (Continued On Page Three.) I one of a series of improvements on highway routes over the state on 'hlch the commission had received blds last Tuesday, Two Routes Included Included in the local project 13 the resurfacing of the Road 31 route from the intersection of 'North Walnut and North Main streets near the north cit' limits- son- east 011 Jefferson to West Court and then around the court house 011 West Court and Monroe streets, eontinuing south on South Main street to the concrete pavement be- ginning at tne Dnage over Youngs Creek. The section of Road 44 to be resurfaced begins at the end of the concrete pavement near the west city limits and extend east on Jef- ferscn street to Forsyth street, north. on Forsyth street to East King and then east on King street to the cast (city limits.

This route duplicates that; of Road 31 on Jefferson street be- twecn Walnut and West Court streets. Will Speed Completion Plans for the work here, a -nounced several days ago by Mr. Schafer, provide for removal of a large part cf the present surfacing: material and the laying of an entirely new surface over the mileage involved. ay Commission has moved contract wnthin 43 nours after tids were taken, indi- rates a tn ti, TF ment WOlk herp rnmnWwi irliilo 1T Tw.) TRAIN WRECK DEATH TOLL 29 Early Morning Crash Near. Terre Haute Kills War Veterans TERRE HAUTE.

Sept. 14 (INS) Twenty-nine persons were killed and at least 65 were injured in a headon collision of the southbound Dixie Flyer of the Chicago ana Eastern Illinois Railroad with a mail train just outside North Tcrrc Haute early today. Many of the uijured were in a critical condition and the death toll was expected to mount hourly. Most of the victims were soldiers and army authorities, who took charge, refused to reveal their identities until their next of kin had been notified. A number of wounded men wearing the Purple Heart awarded dur- were among the dead and injured included also were many aviators embarking on 30 day leaves after serving their required number of missions on the European front.

The crash occurred about 600 yards north of the city limits of North Terre Haute. Authorities said they had been told that the Dixie flyer's engineer ignored a passing signal for the other train at Athcr-ton a short distance north of the scene of the wreck. Two baggage cars and three passenger coaches on the 14-car Dixie train, which left Chicago at 10:05 o'clock last night, were derailed. Ralph E. Smith, a resident of North Terre Haute, who held a lantern while soldiers dug their comrades out of the wreckage, said the two locomotives were jammed to-getther up to their cylinders.

Authorities said they had been informed that of the killed and injured, 39 were soldiers asleep in the lirst Pullman coach of the south bound train, which was split open. WEATHER Data furnished by J. L. Van-Cleave, observer for the Franklin co-operative weather station. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Maximum temperature 76 Minimum temperature 52 Amount precipitation 0 Low mark during night 53 FORECAST Indiana Generally fair tonight and Friday.

Cooler timisht and warmer Friday. operators during June. July rd numcrcus outpost points of' thej Siegfried Line this area. Fuither steady sams were reported by General Dwight Eiscn-! hewer northeast of the city of Luxembourg. The supreme allied commander remained nowever, rejaram me aeptn oi American penetrations toward the, Siegfried Line.

Russians Take Fortress. The Germans, meanwhile, were Eastern front. Huge Russian after inflicting what Moscow call- ed enormous losses" upon the enemy, stood in the vital city of Lomza in northern Poland and. consequent-: ly. at the gate of East Prussia.

Lom2a. regarded as the fortress) guarding the approaches to East Prussia, fell after a fierce night action in which the Nad were hurl-, ed back across the river Narew. Other Red armv units farther south reached the Polish-Czechoslo- vakian pre-war border, and. in northern Transylvania, swept on! toward the Hungarian frontier. Put Pressure On Japs Japan sustained additional blows 1 from air and sea.

Admiral William! t. Halsey's mighty Third Fleet con-! Unued to eury out relentless as-j saults against Nipponese strong! (Continued On rae Iwo.) I SERVICE HERE i Tf) i Wl 1 iln I I IJ f- I I C. E. McDonald HitCS At ninn r.mor Unmn I m. ft a i tviuv At Clock Funeral services for Clarence E.

McDonald hae beei arranged for Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Flinn funeral home. The Rev. Richard E. Lrntz cf the Tabernacle Christian church, where Mr.

McDonald had' been a member for many years, vail conduct the ri'es. The body will arrive here Friday morning and friends may at the funeral home Friday afternoon-and in the evening from 7 to 9 o'clock. They are also invited to attend the services Burial will be made in Greenlaw Air. McDonalds death occurred unexpectedly early Wednesday at Chicag-o, where he had gone to visit his son. resulting from a he a it attack.

TODAY'S WASHINGTON ROUND-UP By International Nm A surprise move is expected when the Chinese delegation is caJled into the International Security Conference at Dumbarton Oaks. It is revealed that the Chinese, instead of meekly initialing the work of the United States. Russia and Britain, arc going to demand drastic charges in far eastern colonial policy before supporting the new security plan. i In military circles today the con- census is that the next seven d3ys will bring momentous developments i on all war fronts and that the com- ing events mi: lit give a clue to the length of the ar against both Ger- many and Japan. On Capitol Hill.

Rep. Knutson I predicts that the House will refuse to adopt Senate provisions de- signed to liberalize the Bill. thus prolonging the deadlock over enactment of postwar reconversion legislation. A vote is scheduled for Monday. Sen.

Kilgore (D W. Va-says he will introduce a bill looking: toward control by American of all stock in American firms and United States patent rights formerly held by residents of Axis nations. i A QUICK LOOK AT THE By International SUPRExME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F.

Americans tear into Siegfried Line. ijuel berg 1 ROETGEN, Germany. Greeting given American invasion forces by German populace astonish Yank troops. rmwmmi MOSCOW. Soviets reach Czech border, mount drive on East Prussia.

BELGIUM tvXrt GEN. MacARTIIUR'S HEADQUARTERS. -MacArthur airmen batter Jap Molucca bases. and August following their accep- tance of illegal ratien coupons, John E. Scott.

OPA district en- The action was taken on July 18. it was disclosed. majority of the penalties was the result of carelessness on the part of operators who accepted coupons without them first having been properly marked with the license number and state written on "them in ink. an official of the county war price and rationing board explained today. Total For State A total of 501 296 gallons as withheld from the inventories of 595 Indiana operators during the three-month period the report also showed.

South. Bend had he greatest I number of dealers penalized during this period 190 with total gallon-! age deducted amounting to 52.371. Although station operators at An-! derson suffered a total of 54.849 I gallons of gasoline in reduced in- ventories. fewer of them were af fected 129. Stations Arc Checked Before OPA officials make a reduction in an inventory, they determine if more than five per cent of the total coupons received from the station in its payments for gasoline are counterfeit, it was explained.

I For each gallon sold illegally, OPA deducts a gallon from the inventories of the individual stations restricting future business volume to legal sales. Counterfeit Coupons Reported. Black market gasoline activities have been renewed in Indiana with the unloading of thousands of counterfeit coupons. Office of Price Administration officials said today. Most of the tickets are A-12's.

apparently dumped in an attempt to get them in use before their Sept. 21 expiration date. OPA agents said. I Some bogus C-4 and B-4 "con pons also are being passed. HIZSITflDMLTM QUEBEC.

War strategy conference raises question of Soviet Russia's role in Allied war oh Japan. WASHINGTON. Eastern seaboard by 140-mile-an-hour Atlantic hurricane. mm 60URG Luxembourg Petonge fil v- WASHINGTON. Next seven days expected to bring momentous developments on all war fronts.

GERMANY WASHINGTON. Chinese delegation expected to drop political bombshell on Dumbarton Oaks. TSienville jiO? uw Zweibrueckcn fcgj hmMWT miles 25' LONDON. Lyons reports riots in Berlin. WHERE ALLIES MASS FOR ATTACK Closeup map of area where Allies have invaded Germany locates the two points of penetration, ore south cf Aachen, the other north of Trier.

Strengthened by arrival of the new U. S. Ninth Army. Allies were poised for massed assault on the Siegfried Line, which was tattered by six-ton-per-minute bomb attack. PEARL HARBOR.

U. S. Naval task forces and planes hit Jap strong points in Philippines before invasion..