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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1943
Page
1
A Delphi area column remembers Lieutenant Russell W. Rowe and reflects on lost young life amid war. Shifts to local humor and sports notes including Wib the ventriloquist, Clarence Marocco and Elmer McCall quip, and praise for Barber, Snyder, and Lehman after a sectional tourney performance.
Mr. and Mrs. John Rowe of near Delphi report their son 1st Lieut. Russell W. Rowe a heavy bomber pilot is missing in the South Pacific since February 13. The Seventh Air Force announced he received an air medal for a Wake Island raid and was to report for further duty after a brief South Sea Island vacation.
Carroll county auto license branch reports 3383 passenger car plates sold to date and notes a few tabs left. About 4106 drivers licenses and roughly 300 truck and 300 trailer licenses issued. Public notices warn of fines for driving without license and urge proper plate placement. A homecoming tale recounts Rev. Larry Margowski’s grandson Richard Quick of Delphi.
Horace Larry Taylor son of Larry M. Taylor of Delphi will wed Miss Jane Williams of St. Paul Minnesota this Saturday at the bride’s parents home Mr and Mrs Ray Williams. Taylor noted as an outstanding Delphi musician and pianist Williams a professional radio star and singer who taught in a St Paul dancing school before radio work Taylor will live in Chicago while he arranges music for the Duffield trio.
The Citizens present an all sectional team with forwards Snyder Robeson Ledman from Burlington and Camden Flora as centers. Guards include Burlington Cutler and Delphi.
Roy Clauser led the event as general chairman while Delphi Rotarians and guests celebrated four years. A Peru naval station service men group performed music after dinner. District leaders Arthur Raabe and Paul Chalfant attended with spouses, and Rev Miles Freeman and Clarence Darragh were inducted into Rotary.
Burlington Polar Cubs beat Cutler Wildcats 21 to 2 to claim the sectional crown at Flora, advancing to the regional in Peru to face Monticello. The club’s success came on strong early leads and sharp shooting by Barber and Snyder, with details noting 28 Carroll men accepted for army service and several assigned to Navy and Marine Corps.
Announcement reports the marriage of Mrs. Edith Retherford and Wade Farr of Delphi, Carroll county officials, at 6 p.m. in YeoMan. The couple, joined by only Robert Million and Mrs. Retherford’s daughter, will reside in South Delphi. Farr serves as county auditor and Deer Creek township trustee, while Retherford is a county recorder and active in social groups.
Capt Ralph Hanna of Lafayette formerly of Delphi has been sent to Banning California after graduating from Fort Leavenworth where he completed a nine week polishing course. He serves in the chemical warfare division and is currently a hospital patient with pneumonia threats. Hanna's family plans to join him in California next week.
The First Presbyterian church of Delphi will dedicate a 34-star service flag in Sunday worship on March 7. The banner honors Presbyterian men serving from North Africa to the Pacific, with a star for each man and a drive to raise 1 million dollars for wartime needs. The Delphi Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops join in carrying the colors and pledges.
Ralph L. Lucas, 32, of Colfax route 1, was sentenced by Judge William B. Smith in Carroll circuit court to two to 14 years in Indiana state prison and a $1000 fine plus costs after pleading guilty to check forgery. He was arrested in Frankfort after forging checks totaling $1592.19 across multiple counties, including Delaware, Cass, White, Tippecanoe, Hamilton, Warren, Hendricks and Montgomery, with two checks in Delphi and one at Boone service station. Lucas has three small children.
Ruth Whiteman of Delphi resigns from provisional clerk stenographer role in Carroll County Welfare Department due to ill health.
The U S navy department seeks typists stenographers and junior clerks immediately. Civil service representative E R Billings will interview applicants at the Delphi post office Friday March 5. Truck drivers mechanics and laborers are also in demand.
The Delphi fire department is called to Miss Florence Crawford's home in South Delphi at 70 o'clock Tuesday morning to extinguish a small fire. Little damage is reported.
Carroll county residents purchased more war bonds in the past week than any prior period, led by Camden bank at 13176.75. E bonds totals include several banks and post offices, with Flora and Delphi locations noted. F and G bonds contributed 12040 toward the county’s March quota of 39342.
Bradley Gene Woods 12, son of Mr and Mrs Walter Woods, died Tuesday at his home six miles northeast of Brookston after an illness dating from August. Survived by parents four sisters Mary Hemmig Hammond and Mildred Cripe Logansport and six brothers Clifford Gene at home Robert Delphi Herbert Kenneth and Gerald in service.
The Will-Be's meet the Has-Been's in the traditional annual basketball game. Next year's veteran team faces this year's graduates with Craig at center Delaney Spear as forwards Wood and Kempf as guards. Coach Elmer McCall leads the Will-Be squad while Clarence Marocco trains the Has-Been lads Sebring center Wingard Cole forwards Pauley and L Anderson guards.
Ruth A. Shaffer 32 wife of Howard Shaffer of Lafayette died at 12 15 am Tuesday at St Elizabeth hospital Lafayette after delivering a daughter who died at birth The mother died on the operating table due to birth complications She was member of the Methodist church Survived by husband and three children from a former marriage Alberta Maxine Campbell Cecilia Nell Campbell and Lawrence Keith Campbell Funeral services were at 2 pm Thursday in Lafayette Burial in Veedersburg
Burnside Haynes about 80 years old was seriously injured Tuesday noon when a ten foot log pulled by a horse rolled over him at his daughter Mrs. John Thompson's home near Delphi. He sustained a broken collar bone and a lacerated ear, was treated by a local physician and not taken to a hospital.
Mrs. Florentine Fife of east of Delphi, aged over eighty, was taken to St. Elizabeth hospital Tuesday evening after a fall left her with a broken hip. The Grimm ambulance transported her from the scene.
Nelson Giles of Delphi was told his grandson Staff Sergeant Eugene Giles age 18 formerly of Lafayette was killed in a bomber training crash 230 miles northwest of Glenrock Wyoming. Giles born May 2 1924 in Lafayette and a Jefferson high school graduate enlisted in the RAF in June 1942. He was the son of Mrs Joseph L Wagner and Dale Giles of Lafayette. Military funeral services are set for Friday at 2 p m at Hippensteel funeral home Lafayette.
Stanley Henderson aged 29 of Delphi is confined at a Lafayette hospital with a compound fracture of his right arm. The injury occurred Wednesday morning at the Aluminum Company of America plant in Lafayette where he works as an assistant press operator in the extrusion mill. A fellow worker reportedly was manipulating a fever that led to the injury.
Frank Ohman of Flora was fined 11 dollars and costs totaling 1450 dollars by Justice of the Peace Rossie L. Dern on a Saturday. He was arrested by Sheriff Robert Moore for possessing improper license plates.
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