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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1945
Page
2
Note from the Linton Daily Citizen office urges society items to arrive by 11 a.m. for that day's publication. Personal news from clubs lodges parties and churches are welcomed per Helen L. Grubbs.
Social calendar lists Linton Lodge 560 4 A M meeting at 7 30 p m with F C degree work and Delta Theta Tau at the library 7 15 p m Also Quapaw Council 80 Men s Hed Hall 7 30 p m Carpenters Local 487 K of P hall 7 p m Violet Rebekah Lodge 312 7 p m Loyal Order of Moose 7 30 p m Glenburn Youth Fellowship 2 00 p m at the community house and Tuesday afternoon bridge club with Mrs A Foster
Tri Kappa initiates dinner at Martindale Tea Room at 6 p m then initiation at Catherine Froeschke r s home. Freeman Greene County Hospital board meets at 7 15 p m. Baptist Ladies Aid all day at church. Eagles Lodge at 7 p m. Ells Lodge at 8 p m. Ladies Fancywork Circle with Mrs Eli Mott at 2 p m. IOOF Unity Lodge 637 meets at 7 30 p m. Rotary luncheon at Catholic school hall 12 15 p m. Glenburn W P C S at the community house 4 30 p m.
F H C club meets with Mrs. Harry Tryon at 7 30 p m Thursday American Legion meets at the Legion Home at 7 p m Stated meeting Linton Lodge No 560 A M at the hall at 7 30 p m United Brethren choir practice at the church at 7 p m Methodist choir practice at the church at 7 p m Baptist choir practice at the church at 7 30 p m Christian choir practice at the church at 7 p m
Women's Relief Corps meets at the hall at 7 p m. Chapter 19 Women of the Moose meets at the hall at 7 p m. Prayer meeting at Glenburn Mission at 7 p m. Quapaw Tribe No 143 Improved Order of Red Men meets at the hall at 7 30 p m. Alpha Bible class of the Methodist church meets with Mrs. Chas Elkins at 680 North Main St at 7 30. Election of officers. All members are urged to attend.
Announcement of the marriage of Ruth L. Helderman to Clifford E. Wells. The vows were read by local justice of the peace Robert L. Jackson on Saturday afternoon. Witnesses were Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. B Hert. They plan to reside in Springville.
Women of the Moose Chapter No. 19 held a regular meeting with Ruth Porter presiding. Officers elected for the year include Edith Core as Senior Regent, Mary Love as Junior Regent, Laura Fritz as Chaplain, Margaret Tryon as Recorder, and Audrey Jackson as Treasurer.
Members of the Linton Beauticians gathered at the Martindale Tea Room for the last meeting. Hostesses Mrs. Dora Wright and Mrs. Grace Winfrey served a chicken dinner as Thelma Holden presided. Four shops joined the Greater Linton club The Grand Beauty Shop The Rhodora Beauty Shop The Venus Beauty Shop and Holden Beauty Shop.
Officers for the ensuing year were elected at a school meeting of 4 H girls and their mothers. Rose Scecina was named president with Betty Panky as vice president and Mary Ann Shepard as secretary treasurer.
S Set and Mrs. Donald Pritchard are spending a few days with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunter and Mr. and Mrs. William Pritchard. Tom Huff and Bobby Gladfeter visiting grandmother Mrs. Josie Cain will soon depart for San Francisco California.
A wartime Berlin report contends Hitler delayed invasion after Dunkirk believing Britain would surrender without a fight. Goering pressed for a cross Channel assault, massing ships and barges in Antwerp Zeebrugge and Rotterdam while Luftwaffe bombed southern England. By September weather and dwindling barge output doomed the plan.
Churchill defended Britain’s Levant policy saying no territorial aims. Britain ordered its Syria envoy to press for stability as De Gaulle faced French force actions. Syrian capital Damascus and Beirut report continuing unrest and Arab League meetings in Cairo to address the Levant crisis.
The Fifth Army launches an eight week post V E Day orientation plan across the 6th Army area. It begins with the film Two Down and One To Go and expands weekly to include readjustment talks, Africa and Pacific theater reviews, home front discussions, and redeployment preparation. Unit schools and officer training rise to support education for soldiers awaiting redeployment with 1.5 million textbooks provided by the United States Armed Forces Institute.
Mrs Anna Roach of Linton visited friends in town on Monday evening. Mr and Mrs James Baker and daughter Thelma of Newberry R R paid calls. Rex Stevens of Linton spent the weekend with relatives. Mrs Elmer Dove and Mrs Rosa Barnard of Vicksburg along with Mrs Gale Carpenter and children of Lyons R R visited Friday evening. Irvin Carpenter, recently ill, has resumed work. Mr and Mrs Jesse Stevens joined Mr and Mrs Ralph Stevens and son Rex to visit Mr and Mrs Huddie Goodman near Burris Chapel.
Bossie a Black Angus heifer owned by Milton Stephens astonishes cattle experts in Chesterton Indiana by having six nipples rather than four and adopting a calf to suckle beside her own offspring.
Soviet delegation reports big powers rejected Russia’s reading of the Yalta voting rules. American and British delegates delay action for 48 hours as a split grows over whether peaceful settlements begin with discussion or investigation, with United States seeking a firm position while others prefer restraint.
Grace McBride and Delores from Indianapolis spent the weekend with friends. Bloomfield and Terre Haute visitors joined relatives across Lyons including the Lesters and Tidds visiting Tever Haute and Clay City families. Memorial Day brought gatherings with Hinsman Akron Ohio and numerous Grounds relatives from Detroit Clinton Linton Clay City and Indianapolis.
Strasbourg dispatch details Nazi efforts to eradicate French life in Alsace after 1940. Regulations extended to hats and names, monuments were destroyed, streets renamed, dialect purged, and Aryan models imposed. Mixed with coercive measures to enforce conformity, including forced divorces, camps, and conscription.
The article notes ongoing Allied advances toward Okinawa with Tokyo admitting continued operations and mentions U S destroyers Morrison and Lance sustaining casualties among their crews. It also briefly warns farmers about cattle licking fresh paint and potential lead poisoning.
Researchers at an American University estimate total direct war costs by all nations since 1934 exceed one trillion dollars. The United States accounts for about 280 billion dollars, Germany about the same, with vast property losses not included.
Gold was found at Diamond Ledge in 1875 but after a single season of operation the Diamond Ledge Gold Mine Co. dismantled its shafts and moved away.
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