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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
2
Joe Marsh Dee and Jane Cuppers observed their Golden Wedding Anniversary last Saturday with a large crowd of friends from town. The couple’s long marriage showed how two people with different tastes can grow tolerant and understanding over the years.
Allied armor and infantry push across the Marne toward the German border at Chateau-Thierry as Patton’s tanks race ahead in rain. The town’s World War I shrines and cemetery are touched by new cross marks and occasional shell damage, while German retreat continues.
J Orrin Moon bond drive chairman eastern Jackson county has a desk with his name plate and a private secretary in a Kansas City office yet he has never sat at the desk and has not seen the secretary for a year. He visited the treasury department recently and was shown bond headquarters but remains too busy to spend time there.
Mr and Mrs Paul A Smith and their children aged 18 months were left homeless after a mysterious arson fire struck their new brick house in Latrobe Pennsylvania. Police and fire crews responded as the blaze destroyed the residence and left the family without clothing or shelter.
Week-end guests visit Lyons area including Lex Mears and family Cory and Webb Minch. Local calls include Rev J E Slimp from Lymn Indy and Bernard Baird of Valparaiso. Various residents travel to Indianapolis Crane Purdue and Sandborn for visits and events.
Mrs Don Foster and son Larry and Miss Fern and Vern Wilson visited Tuesday with Mr and Mrs John Mowery near Marco. Gerald Leo Cunningham returned home after summer with grandfather James Angleton. Mr and Mrs Irvin Carpenter hosted a dinner for brother Paul, stationed in Delaware. Loretta Joyce and Linda Kay Carpenter weekend trip to Indianapolis. Abner Richards of Burris Chapel dined with Mr and Mrs Jesse Stevens.
Folkstone reports the greatest explosion of the war near the French rocket coast. The booming detonation shook English houses and rattled crockery as a tremor-like roar filled the area. Britain ponders whether Nazis tested a V-2 launch while debris and broken windows appeared along the coast.
German prisoners of war operate an automotive repair and maintenance shop at Fort Sheridan under civilian supervision and two American NCOs. They service all noncombat vehicles, aided by a bilingual inmate who writes orders and bulletins in English and German, with team-based work records ensuring traceability.
Secretary James Forrestal announced the Navy has added about 65 000 vessels totaling over 9 million tons since World War II began. Combatant ships 36 percent, landing craft 22 percent, rest Naval craft. Total force now 3 717 000 across Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard with $118 billion authorized. Further needs include assault troop and cargo ships plus bombardment ammunition and 40 mm antiaircraft guns.
Eleven year old David Dennis from Maumee keeps 25 chickens on top of his father's garage to avoid spoiling the family backyard. He chose a penthouse coop after his mother and two sisters objected to poultry in the yard.
A pair of trumpeter swans hatched two cygnets at Jackson Hole National Monument Wyoming. Biologists call the event nationally significant as the species once thrived across the region but dwindled to fewer than 50 by 1931. Swans pair for life, fly at 3-4 months, and face hazards after 5-6 months.
Indiana safety officials report eight month totals under the motor vehicle safety responsibility law. Evaluators say uninsured drivers caused 3.73 million dollars in damage, 32 percent posted 131 thousand dollars for property destruction, 68 percent showed financial responsibility via insurance. Driving privileges suspended for 14,217. 14,702 suspensions lifted. 57,319 accidents were reported.
Civilian employment in the War and Navy Departments and the emergency war agencies accounted for 71 percent of the total 2 800 000 Federal employees in continental United States in March 1944.
Police hold a 20 year old mother on neglect charges after footprints linked a two month old boy named Terry to her in an Indianapolis hospital. She traveled from Pittsburgh in April and said the child was born July 4, later leaving the infant at an apartment door before authorities placed him in the Board of Children's Guardians' Home.
Fred Allen recalled leaving his Cambridge home as a boy to perform on amateur nights in Providence R I. He said he lived in a furnished room for three weeks until the amateur nights ended, then he ran out of the room and back home.
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