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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1945
Page
2
Society items must be in the Office by 4 1/2 a.m to appear in that day’s issue. All personal news club and church items welcomed by Helen L Grubbs.
A Tuesday social calendar lists a Cub Scouts pack meeting at 7 in the high school with a guest speaker Miss Hazel Davis from the Philippines and public invitation. It also notes numerous local group meetings at 2 36, 7 30, or 7 in various halls and churches with several organizations and hosts.
Community organizations announce meetings and events including Linton Lodge No 560 F and A M, Baptist Ladies Aid Society, Eagles Elks Unity Rotary Glenburn W S C S and other groups with times from noon to 8 00 pm plus memorial and prayer services for the week.
Mrs John Padgett celebrated her 72nd birthday with a chicken dinner at her home. Attendees included Roscoe and Betty Carruthers, Johnny Wolf and families from Carlisle Paxton Linton Dugger and other relatives with gifts received by the honoree.
The Civic Garden Club met at the local library with new president Mrs C W Martin leading. Officials were appointed for the year. exhibitors planned seed pods rock gardens and winter bouquets while summer party and fall harvest show were slated. July dinner July 10 at Humphreys Park Shelter House.
In Chicago on June 12 detectives Walter Paradowski and George Rush pursued a jewelry store thief for several blocks before catching him in an alley. Bystanders in a nearby building threw bricks and milk bottles, mistaking the pursuit for a stickup, until the detectives identified themselves.
The Women of the Moose Chapter No 19 held a meeting at the hall with routine business and standing committee reports for the month. Co worker Jennie Gillett was ill. Membership Chair Edna Bland announced Chapter Night on Friday June 15 with games and prizes and refreshments to follow.
A West Virginia law prohibits aliens from owning goats unless the animals are properly confined. The statute anchors livestock control with defined enclosure requirements and penalties for noncompliance.
President Truman urged raising congressional pay to at least 15 000 a year and linked it to Little Steel wage stabilization. He noted income controls were lifted and said the House already approved a 2 500 expense account as part of salary discussion. He supported a more direct approach while not disapproving the measure.
Indiana ration boards will resume canning sugar issuances on June 18 after a two week suspension. Regional OPA administrator Birkett L Williams said revised state quotas will be worked out immediately with expectations to average about eight pounds per applicant amid high demand and limited supplies.
Marine Sgt Maj Charles Guili ford of Brazil Indiana narrowly escaped a bullet that grazed his jaw while his unit came under Japanese machine gun fire near Okinawa. He reported the shot left him with all teeth and fueled his anger to assault the enemy nest.
Five New York women postal employees were ordered held in bail of 250 dollars each after being accused of rifling overseas parcels. The charged women appeared before U S Commissioner Garrett W Cotter and were held for federal grand jury action.
On Okinawa the First Division Marines advanced 650 yards south with light resistance. Sixth Division Marines closed in on a remaining pocket by Naha harbor, fighting heavy. Japanese air attacks on the American fleet slackened. three planes were shot down in Sunday actions.
Wiesbaden Germany June 12 Pearl Harbor caught Adolf Hitler flat footed He hemmed and hawed for four days before he could decide what to do about it The Reichstag heard his declaration of war four days later Allied records show no coordinated grand strategy or sustained Berlin Tokyo liaison Hitler relied on Japanese reports of naval success to justify declaring war and granting U boats free action against American convoys in the Atlantic
Fragments show goods including instruments electrical equipment rubber and tungsten involved in trade patterns likely constrained by Allied blockade, with traders seeking alternatives and routes to move scarce material despite wartime controls.
An Irishman and former British Army prisoner John Cushing testified that Nazis planned to destroy the Gatun locks of the Panama Canal. He said he was to lead a sabotage squad after joining a German group and was later captured in 1940.
T/Sgt. John O Young of Newberry has earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for valor in aerial combat. His crew was shot down near Maribor Yugoslavia. the co pilot was killed and Young assumed duties as co pilot. Pfc Clarence Mottern writes from Munich Germany to his parents in Newberry.
Tex. Up Cpl. Frank Abraham 21 of Tyler helps free his brother Lt. Robert S. Abraham 22 a B 24 co pilot held by Germans since his ship was shot down over Vienna last October.
Sgt. Roy Hoblit returns to Gainesville Texas after three years as a Japanese prisoner. He says he found good in his captivity and now values life in the United States more than before.
The report details U S submarines sinking six ships off Newfoundland and Bermuda en route to the Canal Zone for Pacific action. Signalman First Class George F. Smith of Akron describes firing torpedoes that split a ship in half after coming under air attack while Lieut Commander O G Kirk piloted another sinking a heavy cruiser.
Lieut H K Nauman of Frankfort Kentucky commanded a damaged destroyer that may have sunk during action. The U S government negotiated a land deal with Indians in 1795 for six square miles at the Chicago River mouth where Fort Dearborn was later built in 1803 to 1804.
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