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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1944
Page
6
A wartime voice reflects endurance and resolve in buying War Bonds. The speaker notes repeated luck and the need to persevere until one’s number is called, drawing a parallel between front lines and home front duties.
Craig Jackson, son of Orign Jackson of Pleasantville, serves as a motor grader operator in the 836th Engineer Aviation Battalion. The unit received a Meritorious Service Unit Plaque from Lt General Walter Kreuger for aerial strip construction in the Southwest Pacific, including rapid clearing of jungle, coral runway surfacing in 23 days, and defense against Japanese attacks. Jackson arrived overseas in August 1943 after enlisting in November 1942. his wife, Mrs. Craig Johnson, lives at 1013 Main Street, Linton, Indiana.
A brief retrospective notes dates and events from 1924, listing notable incidents and developments. It highlights calendar anchors, personages, and institutions referenced in the era, presenting a compact glimpse of that year's happenings.
President Coolidge travels back to Washington aboard a slow regular train after a day in Chicago. Public Service Commission orders the Chicago and St. Paul railway to restore miners trains for workers at Black Hawk. Bloomfield bank deaths rise to ten Greene county men in recent months.
Five year old Kenneth Dale Knight, living with grandparents in Indianapolis, battles a pancreatic disease. Navy order allows Radar Instructor 2e Kenneth Knight to return home through Red Cross aid after a radio chat with his son. The boy hopes to see his sailor father before death, while his mother died years earlier.
Allied communique reports heavy fighting on Leyte with defenders holding high ground near Dagami. A Liberator bomber sank a Japanese destroyer off Luzon, while bombers hit Manila area airfields and Fort Stotsenburg barracks. Palau based bombers hit Lahug and Open airfields at Cebu. In New Guinea area Ra baiul airfield attacked with 36 tons of bombs. Tokyo broadcast claim of Rabaul garrison amphibious landing remains unconfirmed.
A car belonging to Bus Mc Cammon of Duggger reported stolen earlier in the week was found wrecked west of the Switz City junction on state road 54 just after 1 a.m. Authorities could not locate the driver. The vehicle was badly damaged and this raises the local stolen car total to seven in ten days.
An American soldier in Germany, Sgt. Jay E. Buttermore, wrote his parents that he captured three Germans using his mess kit as a bluff. He describes stepping from a building at his camp and flashing the kit to take the prisoners.
Tokyo warned it would hold responsible airmen found to have breached warfare practices. The note cites the Doolittle raid as precedent and answers from Japan to U S and British inquiries, delayed nearly three months.
Dr. E. V. Bull Greene county war bond chairman reports a letter from R. H. Sherwood president of the Central Indiana Coal Company noting a $15,000 Series C bond purchase through Peoples Trust Company in Linton. The note says more purchases would help and all contributions are appreciated by solicitors this week.
The home of Mr and Mrs Ora Roberts in Owensburg was completely destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening. The couple and their two children were away at the time, and the entire contents were lost.
Private First Class Alfonso Ponce of Fort Morgan Colorado and Private Thomas Thompson of Linton Indiana of the 26th Infantry Division rescued two machine gun crew members buried by a shell on the Moselle front. They crawled out of their own foxhole and dug for fifteen minutes to free the trapped soldiers despite heavy shelling. Both men were shaken but unharmed.
Carl Cole receives a letter from his brother Orville Eugene Cole 1/c in the U S Navy. Orville recalls censorship and his part in the Guam and Palau invasions while describing his days aboard a ship and asking about the Terre Haute and Linton families.
Robert A. Maxwell, stationed with the Seabees in the South Pacific area, has been promoted to Electrician's Mate third class. His unit recently marked its year overseas. The Maxwells were formerly Linton residents and are informed by his parents Mr and Mrs Wayne Maxwell.
Mrs. Harry Haseman announced that her husband Harry Haseman has been transferred from Aberdeen Maryland to Camp Robinson Arkansas.
Fourteenth Air Force bombers and fighters sank four Japanese freighters and probably a fifth, with 11 more damaged in attacks off Shanghai Amoy and Formosa. P-51 Mustangs hit Pentsei on December 4 sinking one freighter and damaging eight others. Liberators sank a large freighter east of Shanghai and damaged another west of Formosa.
Indianapolis couple proud as their son Flight Officer Robert Ragsdale, the last of the Flying Ragsdale brothers, chooses to continue unloading bombs over enemy territory. His father, a retired Army captain, and two other brothers died in service. Robert remains overseas as the family accepts the duty.
New York December 6. Demand for automobiles in the postwar period may reach one and a half times the best prewar years and sharply boost industry employment. Charles E. Wilson of General Motors told the War and Reconstruction Congress of American Industry that GM's peacetime peak employment was 250000 versus the war peak of 505000. He projected 150 percent of prewar output could lift GM employment to about 400000 with related gains through supplying units.
Jorge Zuluaga of Colombia’s agriculture department studies agricultural methods used in Louisiana’s famed strawberry belt to understand production practices.
Mrs. Jessie J. Jonas wins custody of her 20 day old daughter Maureen Sue from a Columbus City foster placement after a bid for 1 000 000 damages against Dr. Portia Parker. Indiana officials say unlicensed adoption actions prompted new welfare licensing. In Ruhr raid, British bombers hit Soest yards as American planes bomb Berlin with heavy losses.
British and Polish troops of the Eighth army crossed the Lamone river on a wide front south of Faenza and created a firm bridgehead near the town. North of Faenza British units moved west from Godo amid heavy fighting along the Lamone. Indian troops on the Fifth army flank pressed toward the Faenza Bologna highway as Ra Venna was captured and harbor access began to open.
Boston report notes Cadet Arleen F Goode of Jamaica Plain has set records by becoming the only Seaman 2e ever accepted in the pay officers class. The 23 year old accountant breaks promotion barriers from enlisted ranks to officer candidate school in the Spars.
A scheduled basketball game between the Junior Hi team and a Crane, Wisconsin team here tonight was postponed to December 21. The announcement was made today.
Indiana reports Paul H. Alber 53 and wife 46 killed when their car collided with an eastbound train six miles west of Wabash. The crash occurred last night as investigators begin inquiries into the fatal accident.
Report from Indianapolis shows cattle and hog weights with bid ranges and prices. Notes include 200-270 pounds hogs at 14.25 per head and various loads with prices around 14 dollars, plus bulls and veal listings and per hundred weights.
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