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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1944
Page
1
The piece recalls Linton days before widespread coal cook stoves, when families kept woodpiles and paid $1 per cord for stove wood. It notes scarce coal nearby, the Hensley brothers supplying wood, and trains carrying coal toward the moonlike total. It also comments on wartime politics, fuel efficiency, and a list of old-time terms from an English boy abroad.
Allied airmen reported German evacuation of the robot bomb coast of northern France toward the Marne and Reich borders. German traffic clogged routes from Dieppe to Beauvais as Allied forces pierced west and south toward Le Havre and the Seine, with British Canadian and American units advancing on multiple fronts.
More than 100 Duval county inmates barricaded inside the Jacksonville county jail as authorities sought an army tank from Camp Blanding to aid reconquest. Shots were reported from windows but no casualties confirmed. roughly 130 inmates held in three tiers with rifles, shotguns, and tear gas, while police and deputies sealed the block.
Homer Beanie Burger aged 63 died at his Jasonville residence after a long illness. He was a member of the Jasonville Fraternal Order of Eagles. Survivors include brothers Ben Burger of Terre Haute and Arthur Burger of Jasonville and five sisters: Laura Rumple, Maude Wathem, Sylvia Bedwell, Orda Griffith, and Effie Murdy. The body was taken to Mathers Funeral Home for arrangements.
L. C. Rogers digging for a cess pool unearthed 54 bottles of beer believed to be buried by bootleggers. Their hideout on Rogers' Jet had been dismantled years earlier.
Mrs. Ford Beasley learns her son Sgt. Cletus Rich Sams died August 9 while serving in the United States Army in France. Sams entered service in 1941 and saw duty in Iceland England Ireland before Normandy. He was 27, a Linton Stockton High School graduate class of 1933, played football, and is survived by his wife Margaret Sams of Flint Michigan daughter Dianna Mae Sams and grandparents John Morgan and his wife.
Greene county board chair confirms widespread mix up over rationed beef grades. Choice, good and commercial remain rationed while utility grade was removed last Sunday. Butchers report customers misinterpret point surrender on top grades, with meat trays labeled by grade and angle of cut, as required by OPA rules.
Mrs Katherine Cyganowski picked a 15 pound cabbage from her Warren Rhode Island Victory garden during wartime food effort. The giant produce measured 18 inches in diameter and showcased home front resilience.
A nursery shop sign urges mothers not to feed infants pickles pie beer or caviar. The humorous poster reflects parental advice and old time child care norms in a city setting.
Indiana brief reports note Sharon Reed near La Fontaine had a Jersey cow calf born after 37 days, with two calves appearing as twins due to identical markings. Other items include a restaurant worker bound for grand jury investigation in Indianapolis and legal motions over a Will G. Irwin case.
Lydia Margarette Edwards widow of Allen Edwards died at her Worthington home Thursday night after four days of illness. Aged 77 years a Greene county native she is survived by two daughters Maude Hamlin and Geneva Edwards both of Worthington a son Jean Edwards of Bloomington five grandchildren and four great grandchildren plus three half sisters and a half brother listed as Mrs Mell Gobert Mrs Dora Jewell Mrs Nannie Hunter and T V Hutchens of Bloomington Myers Funeral Home will return her remains to the family home Saturday with services at the Methodist church Sunday at 2 30 p m conducted by Rev R G Stevens Interment will be in Worthington cemetery.
American forces captured Cannes on the Riviera and pressed toward Lyon, about 15 miles north as French Maquis aid, with reports of battles near the Rhone valley industrial center. Advance from Grenoble signals a widening push while Strasbourg escape routes near Lyon face disruption.
A CBS sourced radio Paris broadcast picked up by United Press indicates the German commander in Paris has surrendered to the Allies this afternoon. It notes all resistance ceased though it is unclear if all Nazi units in outer Paris complied. German commander met General Leclerc at Montparnasse station and accepted Allied terms.
Paris reporters describe French and American troops entering the city amid street fighting and barricades. Germans retreating from the northeast corner as resistance bands and citizens join the assault under cries of Vive La France.
Immediate need at Naval Ammunition Depot Crane Indiana for fifty women to run power sewing machines sewing silk powder bags. Night shift pays 78 cents an hour, day shift 72 cents, trainees 58 cents. Apply via local United States Employment Service or at Crane Indiana depot.
Mrs Hugh Baker of Jasonville admitted for minor operation Thursday evening. Mrs Clifford Baker of Lyox underwent tonsillectomy this morning. Mrs Everett Barnard Jr of Linton route 2 dismissed Thursday afternoon. Mrs Hugh Lynch of 6th St S E taken to her home Thursday. Mrs Ralph Kirkwood of Jasonville dismissed this morning. Harry Crooke of Elnora taken home this morning.
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