Brown County Democrat from Nashville, Indiana • Page 1

latitat EtaU LBxUf Official County Paper Devoted to the Best Interests and Welfare of Brown Gounty Home First in Everything SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR $1.50 Per Year NASHVILLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1945 $1.60 Per Year NUMBER 7 SERIES OF SWIMMING LESSONS MEMORIAL SERVICE FOB AIRMAN NEXT SUNDAY AT STATE PARK POOL Brown County Did Well In Mighty 7th OE Tops ID Another series of swimming lessons will be held at the Brown County. The memorial services for First Lieutenant Charles Glenn Noblitt will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday at the Mt. Zion church in Van Buren township and will be in charge of the Rev. State Park swimming pool. These classes will be much the same as those held each year and will be for begin (By Homer W.

Horton) Brown County purchased $171,509.39 worth of bonds in the Seventh War Loan Drive. Of this amount $56,172.39 was in bonds. Our general quota was $64,200.00 and our quota was ners, intermediate ana aavancea Jack Woods Welfare Director Morgan Co. Jack Woods, of Nashville, was appointed War Time Welfare Director of Morgan county Tuesday. The offer of appointment came as la surprise to Mr.

Woods as be had not applied for the position. A vacancy occurred there, and the board, learning that he was no longer employed here, asked him to come to Martinsville for an interview and he was immediately hired. Robert Brown, who was formerly the Morgan county director is now on leave and serving his country as an officer in the Coast Guard. Mr. Woods' appointment is expected to be swimmers and are under the sponsor T.

K. Smith, of the Christian church at Columbus. Special musical numbers will be given, including vocal selections by a quartet from Houston. ship of the American Red Cross. $45,300.00.

Of the total amount our They will be held each Tuesday and Lieutenant Noblitt, who gave his men In service credited us with the Saturday, beginning Saturday, July 21. purchase of $4,800.00, besides the amounts sent home for Investment. and ending Tuesday. August 28. The Saturday classes will be held from 10:00 to 11:30 a.

m. and the Tuesday life for his country while in performance of duty in England May 23, 1944, after sixteen months in service, was a popular and highly respected Part time residents and friends were responsible for $110,605.50. The Stan classes from 1:00 to 2:30 p. m. young man with-scores of friends and dard Oil Company credited $2,000.00 The life guards, Betty Maxwell and no doubt there will be a large atten worth end the Federal Loan Bank' John Weaver, will be the Instructors.

dance at the services in his memory $3,000 00. Following is the table showing the 4-H Club Contests result of all loans. Total purchases in Sunday. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Horace Noblitt, well known and esteemed residents of the Story neighborhood, and the husband of Mrs. Mary K. Noblitt, now living in Indianapolis. 1942 are not shown as complete records were not kept Year of 1942 95,902.50 Held Here July 11 Last Wednesday July 11, the 4-H Second Loan 75.935.50 Third Loan 128.588.25 clubs of Brown county held their Fourth Loan 178.329.00 county contest in Judging and Dem come permanent if Mr. Brown does not choose to return to his former job when his country no longer needs his services Mr.

Woods will begin his official duties there August 1. He resigned as director of the Brown County Welfare Department recently when a new board was appointed, after having 'served in that capacity for nine years. His salary in Morgan county is considerably more than he received here. He will continue to live in Nashville, at least temporarily, and drive back and forth to his work each day. Five visitors and a stenographer complete the office force there.

Mrs. Olive (Marshall) Woods, of onstrations in Home Economics. Prac Fifth Loan 204,458.35 Dr. Crabtree Holds Man at Point of Gun tically all of the girls clubs in the Sixth Loan 181,131.95 Seventh Loan 171,509.39 county were represented. An all-day program was held at the school build ing in Nashville.

H. E. Edwardson had charge of the singing and County It is perfectly legitimate, in a case of emergency, to cast aside personal appearance and caution, thinks Dr. L. Agent Elmer Congram assisted with the ereneral Droeram and gave a talk R.

Crabtree, formerly of Nashville and on coming events in the conuty 4-H now city health Officer of Columbus The results by years are as follows: 1W2 95,902.50 193 289.716.50 1M4 581.875.55 Total purchases since the war began amount to about $1,150,000.00. Of this amount part-time residents and friends accounted for upwards of sixty per cent There is no way of estimating the large amount of bonds bough by our people" in outside counties (especially on the pay roll deduction plan) for which we received no Late Monday night the doctor, clad program. Miss Virginia Brown, vocational Home Economics teacher in Martinsville, was the judge. Psyche oniy in nis unaerwear, naDOed a sus Morgantown, is one of the members of the Morgan county board. Mrs.

Woods grew up in Nashville and is a graduate of the local high school. Houston, county 4-H leader, had general charge of the entire program. Placings were as follows Judging Clothing: credit 1st, Patty Waltman of Bean Blossom pected peeper at his home at 1823 Elm street in Columbus. The Crabtree family was preparing to retire for the night when next-door neighbors called to Mrs. Crabtree about midnight and told her that a man had been peeping in their windows.

Dr. Crabtree grabbed a .32 calibre revolver, ran out the front door, and found the man, a soldier, between bis garage and the house. The man had his hat in his hand This was not a favorable time for our farmers to invest, which partly ac counts for the falling off from pre vious records. It is also due to the the 8th Infantry, receiving 3 battle stars and the bronze star. His brother partial disintegration of the Neighborhood Leaders Organization which has not received the attention from the Legion Executive Dies At Indianapolis Home John R.

Ruddick. national treasurer Our Boys In Uniform Navy Lieut and Mrs. Carl Allison are hers visiting his mother, Mrs. Olive Tomlinson. Forrest Whitlock.

also in Germany, visited with him before he returned ABC Club; 2nd, Carol Wilkerson of Bean Blossom ABC club; 3rd, Maxine Fleener, of Trevlac Jolly Janes. Judging Food Preparation i 1st, Barbara Bowden of Nashville Victory Sisters; 2nd, Mary Louise Ogle of Bellsville Happy Hustlers Club; 3rd, Betty Lucas of Johnson Township Triple Victory Club. Judging Baking: 1st Norma Jean Followell, Nashville Victory Sisters; 2nd, Marilyn Weiser, Nashville Victory Sisters; 3rd, E. N. Brindley Will Be N.H.S.

Principal The County Board of Education, which is composed of the five township trustees and the county superintendent, met Monday night in the superintendent's office to plan for the coming school year. It was' decided to open all schools Friday, August 31. This will be booklist day and organization day. Regular class room work starts Tuesday, September 4, which, is the day following Labor Day. By starting at this home.

Forrest is in the army of oc Chairman and headquarters which any organization must receive in order to hold together. cupation. of the American Legion and a son of Mrs. Almeda Ruddick of Nashville, The County was first organized for Mr. and Mrs.

Bert Rund, of Helms and the doctor thought he might be concealing a gun, so he ordered the fellow to "Drop that and stick up your hands!" The soldier obeyed promptly. In the meantime Mrs. Crabtree had notified city police, and when they arrived the doctor, clad only in BVD's was still standing in the yard of his home with the gun pointed at the soldier. Bill Proyor is home on leave.vislting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Pryor died at his home in Indianapolis last Friday after an illness of several bond selling in time for the Third Loan. The Neighborhood Leaders Or burg, have received word that their son, TSgt. James T. Rund, is on his way home. at Hope.

Bill was with the invasion forces at Leyte in the capacity of a months. He was 65 years of age. ganization, set up by Mr. Flock, was Mr. Ruddick was a veteran of the radio man.

He is expected here soon Spanish-American War and of World for a visit with his aunts, Miss Marie Poling and Mrs. Veva Cope. Bill 'en War He had been national treasurer of the American Legion since Neighbors who notified Mr. and Mrs. Crabtree that there was a man peep listed in the Coast Guard when less MSgt.

Donald T. Murray, who is stationed at Camp Atterbury, is spending a furlough at his home here. He and his wife ar maintaining a home on Hilltop. 1935 and formerly was a district ad than 18 years old and has seen exten sive overseas service His "brother, Noble, is in the Navy. His father was Rosalie Ennis, Nashville Victory Sisters.

Judging Canning! 1st Edna Teague, Needmore Cinderella Circle; 2nd, Ruth Shattuck. Demonstration Senior Division: 1st, Juanita Bright and Jackie Weiser, Victory Sisters, Nashville; 2nd Eva Richards and Vilma Fleener, Trevlac Jolly Janes; 3rd, Esther Kennedy and Janet Tomlinson, Nashville Victory Sisters. leinonstratio.i Junior Division: 1st, Janice Harding and Saralou eddle, Nashville Victory Sisters. extended to Nashville and used for; this purpose. The value of organization is shown by a comparison of the year 1942 with those also by the fact that local buying rose from under $20,000.00 in the Second Loan to around $85,000.00 in the Fifth.

Some of this is due to the more general realization of the necessity and benefit of buying. But success here and everywhere is proportionate to the amount of personal solicitation. Many of the Neighborhood Leaders have continued to do a faithful Job from he Third right through the Seventh. just recently discharged from the Coast Guard and is also a veteran of World War I. The family formerly jutant in the Indiana Department of the Legion.

He had been with the Bell Telephone System for the past thirty-nine years, and had been secretary- treasurer since 1938. Survivors, besides his mother, include the widow, Mrs. Catherine Ruddick; a daughter, Miss Elizabeth Ann Ruddick, of Indianapolis; three sis Pfc. Charles H. Stratton and Pvt Laurel C.

Snider, who were with the Eighth Division in Europe, have arrived at home to spend a furlough with relatives. lived in Nashville. time one-half the term will be completed before the Christmas vacation. Last year the term was opened later and it meant about a week of the first "semester was not completed unil after the vacation. A majority of the teachers do not like this plan.

The school officials did not like it either as it complicates the budget. William Lucas was elected for another term as attendance officer for the county. The Board of Education feels that his work as attendance officer is outstanding. E. N.

Brindley, who was principal of the Central High School near Madison, has been hired as principal of the Nashville Schools for the coming year. Mr. Brindley was principal of the Van Buren township high school in this county for two years, 1941-43. He rates high as a principal. Oddis Timbrook, who taught in the Lawrence Schrougham has completed his mechanic's course at Ft Knox, Kentucky.

Lawrence completed the ing In their windows said the map had been hanging around the house almost an hour. Two of Mr. Crabtree's sons, Lt. Lee Crabtree and Harold Crabtree of the Navy, had been visiting their father that evening and the neighbors at first thought the man outside was one of the sons. The soldier, who was identified as Ellsworth Bean of Wakeman Hosiptal center, was turned over to military police.

He told Dr. Crabtree he and his wife resided on Meridian street in Columbus and that he was with the military police at Wakeman. He said he thought there was an alley to the rear of the Crabtree home and got lost back of the house. The incident, has the tinge of a mo work with honor, placing second in Donald B. Brummet, seaman, second class, left yesterday after spending a leave with his wife and parents, Mr.

and Mrs. C. A. Brummet on Morgantown Route 3. the entire class.

He is expected home this week-end to spend a few days The first and second placing individ-lals in judging and the 1st placing enior demonstration team will repre-ent Brown County in the District 4-H udging and demonstrr.tion contest to held at Greenfield, Indiana, August 3. Mrs. Ilcjuston will coach the with his wife and two children after which he expects to be sent to Ft. Riley, Kansas, for further assignment. ters, Mrs.

J. E. deGafferclly and Mrs. William Peeples, both of Nashville, and Mrs. H.

Newell Rogers of Indianapolis; four brothers, Buel S. Ruddick of Manhattan, Lease Ruddick of Centralia, 111., Thomas R. Ruddick of Sandoval, 111., and Dr. H. C.

Ruddick of Evansville. Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock Monday morning in St Joan of Arc Catholic church in Indianapolis and burial was in Crown Hill jlrls and accompany them to this con Cpl. Carl Crider, who, was discharged July 5 at Camp Atterbury under the point system, had been in the army almost five years. He enlisted July 18, 1940 at Fort Knox, Ky. test.

Floyd David and Heschel Helms, both have written their parents that they met on Luzon and spent two Neighborhood Leaders who canvassed the county for the Seventh War loan include: Hamblen: Mrs. Albert Wilkerson, Mrs. Isaac Fox. Myron" Mrs. Elmer Parsley.

Jackson i Tyner W. Myers, Frances Zupancic, Mrs. J. R. Bennett, Omer Young, Mrs.

Rex Derringer, Mrs. George R. Fleener. Johnson: Fred Thlckstun, Mrs. Roy Followell, Mrs.

Radia Wilkerson, Mrs. Mary George. Van Buren i Mrs. Ollie Kritzer, Mrs. Fern Pyles, Lon Clark, Mrs.

Burnell Hedrick, Lon Miss Phyllis Waltman vie thriller but, whether the man be guilty or not, the doctor displayed good sense in detaining him until police arrived, for there are few more despicable characters than a Peeping Tom. days together. Floyd is with the 6th Division and Herschel with the 38th Division. Both haye been in service over four years. Floyd is a son of Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph David and Herschel is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Helms, all of Jackson township. Bride of Army Man At three o'clock on the afternoon Richard Snider arrived here.

Tuesday to spend a 30-day furlough with his mother and other relatives, after serving with the 87th Division in Europe. After his furlough he expects to be sent to the Pacific. Orval Dewar Saw Much Service in War of July a very pretty wedding took place in the Post Chapel at Ft. Sheridan, 111., when Miss Phyllis Waltman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

same school with Mr. Brindley last year, has been hired as coach for the Nashville School. Mr. Timbrook, who is a native of Van Buren township, also taught in the Van Buren schools before going to Jefferson county to teach. His team last year was outstanding, winning almost all the games played during the entire term.

Mrs. Elmer Congram, wife of the county agent here, has been hired to teach Vocational Home Economics in the Nashville School. Last year she substituted here, for a few. days when Mrs. Houston was ill.

She taught as a substitute for several weeks in the Martinsville schools. Her regular teaching work was done in Illinois. No principal has yet been hired at Pvt. William Olen Deckard, who has been a patient at Fletcher Gen- Gredy, Mrs. Russell Lutes, Russell Thickstun.

i ieral Hospital, Cambridge, Ohio, for Thomas Waltman of near Bean Blos-sonij became the bride of First Sergeant Lief Mlkkelsen, son of Mr. and Five Take Their Pre-induction Exam Five young men, who recently reached their 18th birthdays, were sent to Indianapolis Tuesday for their pre-induction physical examination into the Armed forces. They are Herman Scott Ayers, Dalton Krebbs and Robert Eugene Hedrick, all of Nashville Isaac Petro, of Hamblen township. Navy machinist's mate, who has been home on a 30-day leave, left Monday to report back to duty. He expects to go to sea again.

He spent 14 months aboard a battleship in the Pacific and took part in several actions against the Japs. charged from the army on the point the tou ntha- 18 now vT system, had reason to know a lot I on a He AWM wounded whe ht h. I serving with the Army overseas. He Washington: Mrs. Ceicll Seitz, Mrs.

Eva Baugh-man. Earl Taggart, George Howard, Albert Dougherty. Mrs. Geneva Rob Mrs. John Mikkelsen of Glencoe, 111.

The couple had as their attendants mediately around him during the Jap returns to the. hospital August 13. war. Serving with the telephone sec Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Rumfeldt brother-in-law and sister of the bridegroom. Chaplain George Rawley read erts, Winford Moore, Mr. and Mis. Roy Reed, Fort Joseph Koons and Mrs. Edna Frazier.

tion of the Signal Corps, he was many times just behind the lines working in Mrs. Orville Moberly arrived home Monday after visiting her son, Sgt. Dale Moberly, at Vaughn General Hospital, Hines. Illinois. Sgt.

Moberly was rtoute 2, Leonard Burdett Bush of Helmsburg. Mr. Adams, trustee of Nashville: Nashville Route 1 and Freddie LeRoy Washington township, is looking for Cpl. William H. Smith, husband of Mrs.

Gertrude Smith, has been admitted to the A. A. F. Regional and Convalescent hosiptal at Miami, for treatment and rest, according to word received from the Public Rela seriously wounded on May 16 on Lu a commercial teacher for the Nash ville high school. Camden of Nineveh Route 1.

Dale W. Wilkerson, who is registered in Thomas W. Creamer, a registrant of Madison county, were transferred to go with zon, and his condition is much more critical than the family thought. He was shot through the hip and bladder. tions office there.

this group for their pre-induction ex Sgt. Brown Bails Out 109 Times amination. Homer Kenneth Parks, another 18- the capacity of a telephone operator. Often it was necessary to lay a telephone line when wireless would have worked just as well except that the Japs could intercept the wireless conversation. When wireless telephones were used it was necessary that the operators explain to officers that their conversations might be intercepted.

Dewar was one of the first men taken through selective service and at the outbreak: of the Japanese war was sent to Australia. His first introduction to the wilds of tropical jungles came when the Americans were crossing the Owen Stanley mountains in the face of fierce Jap resistance. The one- place that he never cares to Howard Zody arrived here Wednesday from Camp Blanding, to spend a furlough with his family and parents. Mr. and Mrs.

''Clarence Zody. He reports at Fort Riley, Kansas August 2. year-old, sent up last week for induc Marine Pvt Robert O. Bond, 18, was wounded in action on Okinawa May 4 and again on June 8, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Claude O. Bond, of St Louis, have been informed. He is now in a hospital on Saipan. He is a grandson of the late James N. E.

Bond. tion, was taken into the Army, accord the double ring ceremony in the presence of a few relatives and friends. The bride wore a white wool suit, with a pale pink blouse and white accessories. Her corsage was orchids. Mrs.

Runnfeldt wore a gray suit with a corsage of gardenias. Mrs. Mlkkelsen is a graduate of Helmsburg High School of the class of '42, and for the past three years has been a long-distance operator for the Bell Telephone Company. She has been located at Camp Atterbury for the past year. First Sergeant Mikkelsen is a member of the 106th Infantry Division and went overseas in October, 1944.

He was a prisoner of the Germans from Dec. 21. 1944, to April 22 of this year. After an eighty day furlough he will report at Miami, Florida, for further assignment The couple are honeymooning in Wisconsin and Illinois. Their many friends extend their congratulations and best wishes.

ing to word received at the local selective Service Office. Mrs. Maud Calvin, Mrs. Mildred Tucker, Mrs. Gayle Fritch, Mrs.

Clarence Robertson, Mrs. Margo Griffith, Mrs. Alberta Shulz. Walter Griffiths. Mrs.

Anna Bradley, Mrs. Opal Sellers, Mrs. Delphia Taggart, Mrs. Lee Bright, Mrs. Leatha Walker, George Bond.

Non-resident friends who helped: Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Ballman, Mrs. Louise Brooks, Theodore S.

Bick, Er- nest Calvin. I. B. Calvin. Dudley R.

Gallahue, Major Kent Gleason, Mrs. Olive R. Jones, Mrs. Richard Lieber, Rullell Lutes. Mrs.

Mary E. Mathey. L. S. Murphy, Mrs.

Arlle Petit. Dr. William Blake Rice, Elmer W. Roes-ner, Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph Sperry, Charles W. Youngman, Miss Ethel T. Melle. Henry W. Beebe, Doyle D.

Beattie. William Peeples and Elmer Congram gave able assistance during the campaign. Private Norman Harness, of Camp Maxy, Texas, will come Sunday to spent a few days with bis aunt Mrs. Allen Percifield and family. He ex-spects to soon be sent overseas.

Lt John H. Gredy visited his brother, Pfc. Lorenzo Gredy in Manila July 4th, according to word received by the boys' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Laurent Gredy, of Stone Head.

Lt Gredy is expected home soon on a furlough, after completing his missions as a pilot with the Fifth Air Force Bomber Command. TISgt Glenn E. Brown is still stationed at Ft. Bennlng. Ga.

Only one other person in the camp has jumped more than Glenn who has bailed out 109 times. While acting as jump master on a "problem" he successfully landed a plane load of paratroopers on a small island just off the Florida coast In the Gulf of Mexico. However in one of the jumps there he missed his island and landed 300 yards out in the water. After a little difficulty he untangled himself from the harness, suspension lines and the chute. Even after being soaked he stayed with his men on the "problem" all night.

His address is: Sgt. Glenn Brown, 1st Academic- The Parachute School. Ft. Benning. Box 51.

William L. Pittman. who was stationed at Parr is Island, S. was transferred to North Carolina and his address is Co. 8th I.TJB.

(Rifle) Tent Camp, Camp Lejeune, N. C. George I. Tucker, 90, Killed by Train Mrs. Robert Gregg and Mrs.

George Tucker attended the funeral last Friday at Franklin of their aged uncle. George I. Tucker, who died Wednesday at Robert Long hospital, after being hit the previous day by a train. Mr. Tucker, who would have been 90 years old next month, was driving his car in Franklin when the accident happened.

He waited for a passenger train to go by before crossing but see again is New Guinea where it "rains all the time" and is always hot He followed the fighting forces in the invasion of New Guinea, Leyte and Luzon. In the Philippines he stated there was at least some civilization which was more than he could say for most of the other places except Australia. He was an eye witness to the de Pvt. Franklin Followell left Tuesday for Miami, for two weeks' rest and examination, after spending Pvt. Air a Greathouse, of Camp is spending a 10-day furlough here with his wife and two struction of the city of Ma a 60-day furlough here with his par- daughters.

He will report at Fort Word was received Tuesday by Lon Gredy. of Stone Head, that his brother, Hans Gredy, of Chicago, had suffered a stoke of apoplexy and was seriously" ill. Mr. Gredy left that evening for Chicago but his brother passed away before he arrived there. nila.

When, he left, there on March ents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Followell, Riley, July 25. Mrs. Ralph Clark and daughters have returned home from Indianapolis, after a few days' visit with her sister, Mrs.

Ina Poling and family. Miss Esther Kennedy, Billy McDonald and Jimmie Tracy are at River-vale near Mitchell this week, attending the Methodist Youth Camp. drove on the tracks in front of a troop 20 he accompanied 316 people of all nationalities, who had been Japanese prisoners, to Australia. He left Aus and other relatives and friends. Frankle was held for eight months as a German prisoner of war.

TCTTLE-HICKS tralia April 5 for the States, arriving Major Bowen Sims, who has been in Mayo General hospital, at Galesburg, HL, has been here visiting his sister, Mrs. Psyche Houston. He will return the latter part of next week. in California June 18. He was dis train which was approaching from the opposite direction.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Tucker, to whom he was married more than 69 years ago, and two sons. Loyd and Herman Tucker, both of Franklin. four battle stars, arrived here this Miss Melba E. Tuttle, Nashville Rural route 2, and Harry R.

Hicks, of Martinsville, were united in marriage here last Thursday by Harry Kelp, local Justice of the Peace. week and is spending a furlough with Artie Parker and daughters returned to their home in Indianapolis Wednesday, after a week's visit here with her father, James Bowden, and other relatives. Bob Whitlock, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Whitlock, of Indianapolis, formerly of Spearsvtlle, returned home on a 30-day furlough for recuperation, from Germany, where he served with charged at Camp Atterbury June 25.

with 107 points to his credit He is a brother of Stacy Dewar who was just recently inducted Into service. his wife, Mrs. Clara Mae (Mobley) 1st Sgt Clyde Goe, who hag been In Italy for the past two years and has Goe..