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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
6
A wartime declaration urges total defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies. It calls for breaking Hitler's spirit, burning cities, shelling German homes, and starving the Axis of power until surrender. The speaker envisions freedom for all peoples and the destruction of Nazi ideology.
Herbert Hoover argues for victory and criticizes dictatorial economic powers used to win total war. He says wartime policy risks Fascist economics and warns against surrendering freedom and diversity to uniformity, urging continued American initiative.
Old Squibs notes justice of the peace John H. Sayre of Wabash arrested for speeding, served warrant on himself, and in a self trial pleaded guilty. He fined himself one dollar plus costs, paid the State 50 cents, township $1.59, the officer $5, and himself $2 for hearing the case, then lectured himself on speeding. Also reports local business moves and student honor lists with details on lighting districts Delphi Burrows Buck Creek Flora.
Religious services are held on Sunday in the recreation hall. A thousand employees are engaged in construction of additional building facilities. Using modern production methods and safety devices the plant turns out shells of all sizes. Remote control preparation of cordite as a propellent for heavy calibre shells is an interesting series of operations. It is weighed, tied in bundles and cut to the required lengths on a machine once used for paper cutting all without being touched by human hands.
The Citizen restores a second column of local comment inspired by the late editor. Carroll County farmer Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture, holds Friday 6:30 p.m. wartime farm talks on the Blue network. He invites letters from listeners addressed to Washington. The oldest Minneapolis bridge, 70 years old, is sent to salvage with 450 tons of wrought iron to be recycled for military use.
A collection of quotations on power and justice from Burwell Lytton Mary Baker Eddy Frances Bacon Thomas Jefferson and Frank A Vanderlip. The passages stress that power requires justice and self restraint while liberty and moral authority must guide authority.
Harrell F. Mosbaugh, director of the Division of Fish and Game, reminds Hoosiers that Indiana law prohibits selling or buying nine game fish species including largemouth and smallmouth bass, Kentucky bass, various bass kinds, bluegill, red-eared sunfish, crappie, and rock bass. Restaurants and hotels may not serve these fish except when a guest legally takes the fish and the dish is prepared for that guest. The statute applies to fish taken in or out of Indiana.
Miss Betsy Landis, dean of girls at Logansport High School, named Special Representative for north central Indiana to recruit stenographers and typists for war service in Washington. A nationwide thirty day campaign will fill commercial help needs with immediate jobs in the capital. Examination at 7 p m June 25 in the high school commercial room offers senior typist and junior stenographer posts from $1440 yearly, with limited senior stenographer positions at $1620.
Remington, June 7. The town loses its physician as Dr. Richard Schantz enlists in the army. Two dentists remain. A Milwaukee pacifist preacher now works in a war plant in addition to his pulpit duties. The article notes salvage totals for brass, copper, and zinc and cites Goldsboro, North Carolina volunteers gathering over two tons of scrap metal in one day.
A compilation of remarks from public figures and engineers praising industrial buildup, resilience, and technological progress during wartime. Quotes from Curtis Nettels, Walter Lippmann, Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D Roosevelt, Thurman Arnold, Charles E. Wilson, and an RCA F pilot reflect confidence in production, defense, and postwar opportunity despite war dangers.
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