The Tipton Daily Tribune from Tipton, Indiana • Page 1

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today -and tonight; west to northwest. rather cold 67; 7 Weather. Humidity, 42-34. day. Temperatures The Tipton Rain, .276.

Entered as Second Class Matter Oct. 4, 1895, at Postoffice at Tipton, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. VOL. 157. TIPTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1945.

NAZIS FLEE REICH PORTS, BREMEN AND HAMBURG Available Labor May Decide New Factory Location The available this vicinity may troyed by fire will payroll of $100,000 management still failed, the industrial of Commerce said supply of mould-makers and core-makers in determine whether a foundry recently deslocate in Tipton and bring with it an estimated to $150,000. Negotiations with the factory are under despite rumors that they had committee of the Tipton County Chamber today in a prepared statement. No public announcement was, made after negctiations the committee said, because of fear that efforts would. be made by other interests to block removal of the industry to The committee's completely covering developments to this time follows: "Negotiations have been under way for several weeks with the owner of a foundry dastroyed fire in another city. in an effort to bring this indus-; try.

to Tipton. 'The foundry own-: has made three inspection. trips to Tipton and the industrial committee has made one' trip to the present location of factory which was destroyed by. fire Jan. 6.

In addition, background information' concerning the city was obtained and provided. "The factory owner now is considering a site in Tipton for! a new building providing priori-: ties for reconstruction of present property can be used at a new location. "An. option to purchase the Tipton Furniture whose plant was badly damaged by fire in February, was effected and options also were obtained on 12 lots to be used for expansion of the industry. These options.

however, have been allowed to lapse because 'of the excessive cost of co.1structing a railroad siding. the piant. A siding is necessary for a foundry which receives heavy materials by rail. "Estimates by the Nickel: Plate railroad placed the cost of the siding at $12,400 for ap-1 proximately 1,500 feet of track and a bridge across Buck creek. The plant owner, who has asked that the community furnish the siding, considered the cost cessive and not worth the expenditure by the community.

"Tipton is being considered as a site by this plant owner he is now located in a city where he must compete with three ollier foundries for labor. In Tipton, there would be no foundry labor competition, but, on the other hand, there is a question whether sufficient foundry labor could be obtained. plant, since the start cf the war, has employed about 50 persons, but before the war employed up to 100. Its payroll now would be from $100,000 to $150,000. "Because the industry would be expected to be an asset lo the city of Tipton, the industrial committee offered to atA tempt to raise several thousar.d dollars by- public subscription and also to provide a factory site.

These inducements were made only after bids for the plant were received from other cities. At the, start of negotiations, the foundry owner. "asked only that a railroad siding be provided and that assistance in obtaining additional. land be given. freight rate differential also is a detrimental factor from Tipton's standpoint.

This factor and others must be considcred before a decision can made to move the -plant to Tipton but no definite answer has been received to the' committee's proposal and none is expected for several days. "In the meantime, all persons who would be available for foundry labor are asked to notify the City office in VANDEGRIFT Washington, April 4 The Senate has confirmed the promotion of Lt. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, marine corps com-.

mandant, to the four-star, rank general. BRITISH RACE TO ZUYDER. ZEE Statute Miles -North Sea- 50 100 HAMBURG: DEMDEN' EMS A a NETH. LINGEN a HANOVER GERMANY: BERLIN SARNHE MINDEN MUENSTER FEM MERICH 2ND CAN IST 9TH A DUISBURG I RUHR: TO 15T KASSEL 055 COLOGNE MARBURG DRESDEN BONNO REMAGEN GIESSEN I COBLENZ FRANKFURT. CZECHOLUX SLOVAKIA: PILSEN MANNH HAS WURZBURG.

7TH FRANCE REGENSOURGO STUTTGART STRASBOURG BRITISH SECOND and Canadian First Army forces are racing northward to the Zuyder Zee in a strategic move to isolate German forces in northern Holland-reached within 65 miles of the Nazi North Sea naval base of Emden. There were growing indications the Nazis. were making. a desperate effort to evacuate their troops frown occupied Holland before their escape routes were cut os by the British and other troops of Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's 21st Army group.

Other German troops were frantically trying to break out of the trap effected when U. S. First and Ninth Army troops joined forces at Lippstadt to seal off the Ruhr. 'To the Lt. Gen.

George S. 'Patton's fast-moving U. S. Third Army reached a point just northeast of Eisenach, 155 miles from Berlin, while the U. S.

Seventh Army took over the task of clearing embattled Aschaffenburg, bypassed by the Third Army. (international) Windfall Group Votes Hospital Donation; Woodruffs Plan Gift Mothers of World War 2, record in favor of a Tipton county agreed to help furnish a. hospital Ray Hull, chairman of the today. At the same time, Herbert v. Morris, chairman of the hospied that Dr.

and Mrs. I. H. Wood'tal pledges committee, announc- ruff, North Main street, had agreed to equip a hospital room. The new donations raised to eight the number of groups and individuals who have agreed to provide equipment for.

a hospital room. One other organization, Phi Beta Psi sorority, has pledged to donate $500 in nursery equipment for the proposed institution. Resolutions Passed The War Mothers and the Modern Priscilla club also went on record in favor of hospital action taken previously, and 'urged the establishment of the institution for the benefit of the county' residents. Their action raises to 44 the number of organizations which have passed. resolutions the hospital establishment.

The War Mothers. resolution was signed by Mrs. Ruby Pick-. ering, president and Mrs. Addie Lassiter, secretary.

Mrs. Lassit-1 er's son, Sgt. Ellis Lassiter, has given his life in service. Martha E. Mitchell, president, signed the Modern Priscilla club resolution.

It also was signed Tessie Smitson, secretary. Members of the county hospital committee will make a final plea for $2,500 for preliminary to the county council when it meets in a special session April 16. Attend Meeting Organizations which have approved the hospital have signified their intention of sending representatives to the meeting and will urge that the appropriation be made to determine water, sewer and, power facilities available, the site most advisable and the type of building needed. The preliminary appropriation would offer a foundation of factual material to guide subsequent action in the hospital -plans. The, request for funds was made by: the county commissioners who: adopted a resolution asking the council for their assistance in the hospital movement.

Proceeds an estate (Continued on Page 6) RUSS TEAR INTO VIENNA'S MAIN DEFENSE LINES Leitha River Crossed; Wiener Neustadt, Plane Center, Captu.ed. Nazi defenses in the suburbs. Advanced 'assault units of the third Uxrainian. army surged. across the river and juammered forward to within six of Vienna.

These forces captured at least one inside, t.ie greater vierina lanits which were drawn i by the Nazis after the Anschluss on 1038. Simultaneously the second Ukrainian army, carving out gains of 19 miles, broke across frontier and sent a second column into. the burbs of Bratislava, three ters of a mile from the city where they were only 25 miles from Vienna. Center Russian storm forces captured the great Messerschmitt plane center of Wiener Neustadt south of Vienna yesterday. Wiener Neustadt, one of the.

biggest aircraft production centers in all Europe, is 22 miles south of Vienna. Along with the bomb-torn city, target of scores heavy bomber raids, the Russians: captured Moscow, April Soviet tank forces tore into the Pouter defense Inic of Vienna proper. today, according to dispatches from the front which said the Russians were battling fiercely with the Germans to. break into the Austrian capital: Early capitulation; of Vienna seemed procaile as two powerful Soviet armies closed in. on t.ie city aiter crashing through than 100 other towns and.

within Vienna's southVern Tolbukhin's troops outflanked the famous sulphur. spa 10 miles south of Vienna, taking Traiskirchen and: Moellersdorf, two and miles northeast, and within nine miles south of the prewar limits of the capital. The Soviet communique. revealed that Russian armies in Austria, Hungary and southern Slovakia captured 75,150 prisloners in three, days. Paper Planned Saturday; Volunteers Sought paper collections in Tipton will be resumed Saturday by Boy Scouts under the rection of Banta, Ross Wickersham, county civilian defense director, announced today.

Boys will meet Saturday and will collect paper placed in front of homes or business establishments. No campaign has been held here since March 10. A new salvage chairman is being sought: by Mr. Wickersham to replace A. B.

Loy, who. resigned because of business and other civic duties. Mr. Loy chairman of the county Red Cross War Fund campaign, and is president of the Tipton County Chamber of Commerce. Adults who can assist in the drive Saturday are asked to contact Mr.

Banta at- the Oakes Manufacturing company or Wickersham at the Tipton Telephone company. PHILLIPS IS HELD ON LARCENY CHARGE Junior Phillips, 19, north of Kempton, was being held in Tipton county jail today pending a trial in justice of the court on charges of larceny. He is alleged to have taken some clothing from the home of Clarence Horton, near the junction of U. and state road 28. Naval estimates are that 5,000 beachings by landing craft are required to put 250,000 men on a hostile shore.

DIES IN CRASH -Toblas Studio LIEUT. CECIL CURNUTT Crew members of the bomber piloted by Lieut. Cecil Curnutt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mayo Curnutt, Prairie township, have given him credit for saving their lives.

Lieut. Curnutt was killed in the Mediterranean area, Nov. 16, 1944. Following a successful bombsling mission, during which one Jof the plane's engines was shot away, crew members voted to I remain with their ship and to' reach their base, Another of the bomber's engines was hit by su-janti-aircraft fire during their getaway from the target. Over.

friendly territory, other crippled motors failed and Lieut. Curnutt ordered his crew. bers, to another compartment to a landing. The bomber crashed into. the Adria-.

tic sea and all crew members, except Lieut. Curnutt, were. thrown- -clear of -the plane. Lieut. Curnutt was never seen after he brought his plane down on the sea; but.

his crew bers were rescued by British sailors after. five hours in the water and taken to a hospital! Indiana Railroad Strike Handed to War Labor Board Indiana railroad drivers; striking over the reported re-! fusal of the company to oust the superintendent, were for; the fifth straight day today as tie-up was handed to the National. Labor board for ac-: tion. Four, drivers residing in Tipton were called to Indianapolis today, Ray Mitchell, agent said, but no: word had been re-, ceived regarding a settlement. The union is demanding discharge of Barlow Neely, intercity service.

supervisor, and the company has scood fast on its contention that discharge of a. supervisory employe is- a "management prerogalive." The. un-' lion refused to submit the issue to arbitration, and walked. out on strike after a' National Labor Relations strike vote: under the SmithConnally-Harness Act. War Bond Sales.

for. March Exceed $82,000 in County War bond purchases: in Tipton during March totaled at least $82,232.75, according to Judge Frank Russell, war savings staff chairman; and the total may' be increased when: final reports are obtained from several outlying issuing agen-. cies. The total is slightly er than that of February, when; sales reached $82,098.50: Totals by issuing agencies for: the past week follow: Farmers Loan and Trust company. $9,768.75.

Citizens. National Bank, 850.00.- Tipton postoffice, $1,149.75. Perfect Circle company: $825: Federal Savings Land' Loan association, 219 Total, $18,643.75. 3 Of the total, employes of the Oakes Manufacturing company purchased $933.50. Patton's Army Reported 65 Miles From Czech Border PARIS, April flight by eastward from the great Reich ports of Bremen and was reported in battlefront dispatches today.

Accounts of a considerable movement of Germans threatened port areas were given by Allied airmen as reports acknowledged that the two cities, along with munications center. of Hannover, were menaced by the of American and British ground forces. YANKS ADVANCE ON OKINAWA CAPITAL Two More Airdromes Threatened in Fourth Day of Invasion. Guam, April -Twin columns stabbed. southward along both coasts of; Okinawa, threatening the capital of Naha and two more dromes today.

ns the invasion the strategic island entered. its; fourth, day. Having up to three! and one-half miles in the third, day of their U. S. rines and doughboys veered ward the south after forging a double barrier of steel across the waist of the island.

The Yanks, veterans forming the 'new 10th U.S: army. hold an eight-mile belt: across. Ishikawa isthmus. sealing off that neck of land in: what was described as a "complete American victory." "The. victory," International News Service.

Correspondent Howard Handleman said, "was won. by strategy rather than: by! blood as the Americans hit the island where the Japanese were least prepared to fight. back, and in three days occupied almost half of what was described as 'the southern and critical por-ten tion of the island. One U. 6.

steel-tipped column was last reported but six. milas north of and four miles above the Mahinato' airstrip, while, across the island another spearhead was only four miles from: the Yonabaru, airdrome. Three Jap. Cities Guam, April "very large of Superfortresses; poured tons of demolition bombs into three industrial! in the Tokyo area: today in their fourth attack on the Japanese homeland in as many days. The B-29s hit Shizuoka, 85 miles south of Tokyo: 20 miles west of the cap-1 ital, and Koizumi, 20.

miles north of the capital. The raids on Tahikawa and Koizumi were the first by the B-29s; Shizuoka has been pounded before. (Tokyo radio reported that the 'majer targets for, the B-29 attack were the northern Kanto! Tokyo. and Yokohama areas.) Scholarships Given to Three Students from Tipton School Miss Miriam Stoner, daughter of and Mrs. E.

N. Stoner, and Herman Crouch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Crouch, have ceived county scholarships to Indiana university, B. Stemen, Tipton high school principal, announced today.

Each scholarship 15 valued, at. $90. in university fees. Miss Judith Wheatley, daughter -of and Mrs: Gordy Wheatley, also received a special merit based on her scholastic. average.

during her high school career, Mr. Stemen said?" It is valued at $75 in 01. 0.3 The county scholarships were given after the applicants take 'examinations qualifying them for the awards. army forces Hamburg, out of the Nazi radio the comonslaught ROTARIANS HEAR OF POSTWAR RADIO Minstrel Show Aides Entertained At Regular Meeting of Club. The postwar radio will be very much like the prewar radio except for possible changes in cabinet design, Hu: bert Tudor, RCA engineer from.

Blcomington, told members of the Tipton club at their regular. meeting at the Boy. Scout cabin in park Tuesday night. The club. entertained non-.

members who assisted in the hospital benefit minstrel show given Feb. 19. Both members; of the cast and persons who asI sisted in preparations were vited. Radio, the speaker told his: audience, is merely the door to the larger field of electronics which embraces such inventions as television and the electronic microscope. The war, he said, 'has speeded developments in the field of electronics but because, the improvements will be used first in.

the large population centers, Indiana will be slower, to receive. the changes. Research Required. Research develcpment now being carried on at the RCA laboratory at Princeton, N. probably will not; affect radio, broadcasting for another five to' seven years because the research involved is a slow process, the speaker said.

Frequency modulation radio which made its appearance shortly before the war is said to eliminate static and to aid in the more complete reproduction of music, but the availability of FM sets will be limited because of the higher manufacturing costs compared with the present amplitude modulation sets, he explained. Lack of adequate sponsorship for television programs and the 'necessity of relaying the programs by relay stations has slowed the use of television, Mr. Tudor said, and as a result large population centers will have, wide use of television before the. more sparsely settled areas are served. Personal walkie-talkie 'sets and private broadcasting stations for use by taxi companirs, physicians arid businessmen is a postwar possibility, according to the speaker.

Officers Nominated. The following slate was nominated for the club election to be held April 17:. Merle DeFord and Frank Bunch for president; L. M. Burdge and (Continued on Page 6) Rites Are Changed for Frank Mundell Funeral services for Frank Mundell have been, changed from the' East Union church to the Shaffer funeral home in Arcadia at 2 p.

Thursday. Burial will be in the East' Union cemetery. Mr. Mundell died Tuesday at the Hamilton hospital in Noblesville following, a long illness. He had lived in Arcadia 12 years.

Among the- survivors are five brothers, Joe and Elwood of Arcadia and Oliver, George and John of Tipton county. The Allied airmen attacked the retiring enemy units durting the night. Spearheads of the Allied 21st army. group struck within lat least 65 miles of The American ninth: army hammered forward in areas leas than 48 miles from Hannover. The exodus of Germans from Bremen and Hamburg was reI ported 'as columns of.

both the British second army and the U. S. ninth army pressed advanices shrouded by a continued security blackout. Paris, April (INS) The French government, with Gen. Charles De Gaulle presiding, was informed while in session today that French army troops had captured the important southern German city of Karlsruhe.

Windfall chapter, today were on memorial hospital had room and "to do more, if poshospital committee, announced WAR PRISONER CAMP PLANNED Windfall. will have its second war prisoner camp during as many years if sufficient requests for prison labor are made here, County Agent Walter M. Clary announced Requests for a minimum of 200 workers are being asked by the army. before the camp will be established. Only 80 requests for prisoner labor have been received, Mr.

Clary said, but indications are that a sufficient number of quests will be received to open the camp about June 1. Up to 250 men would be housed there during the early summer, he said, but the number would be increased during the tomato season. Requests. for labor should be made to the county agent. The prison labor will be available to farmers and canners and will be used for setting, blocking and hoeing tomatoes and for canning peas.

They will be available in groups of 10. for an eight-hour day. Approximately 1,000 Germans were housed at Windfall camp last summer during the early I part of the tomato season and another 1,000 prisoners were sent there later. The camp was disbanded in November. The proposed camp will be on the Carl Scudder farm, near Windfall high school, and will occupy the same location as last year, Mr.

Clary said. RELATIVES SEEK TO FIND JOHN WEST. John R. West, believed to be' of Tipton, is being sought by relatives at Martinsville, who requested that Mr. West be of his father's death.

'Anyone knowing his whereabouts is asked to contact SherIf Jesse Tudor. The request was made by the sheriff of Morgan county. Lt. Gen. George.

S. Patton's third army began a new drive for Leipzig and a juncture with the Red army-today. It drove-17 miles to close swiftly. on Erfurt. 130 miles of Berlin.

Patton's forces drove to within 65 miles of the Czecholovakian, border as they struck across the main German escape routes into. Bavarian mountain. redoubt: They were 180 miles. or less of the west'bound Russian Other tank' spearheads hook-: ed around the southern, corner of the city and struck for Erfurt, 16. miles to the (A BBC, broadcast heard in New York said Yanks had advanced sev-.

miles east of Gotha, more. than half-way to Erfurt.) Third army units were on the move along. a an 80-mile front curving southwestward from. Kassel to- the Werra river line. 27 miles south of Gotha, where Americans made their.

closest approach to Czechoslovakia. The. advance penetrated. the formidable Thuringian forests, in the third army's path all the probably, the toughest obstacle way to Berlin. Police Search for Two Anderson Boys.

Who Escaped Jail Anderson, April .4. (INS)-Two youthful burglary, suspects, both parole violators, Madison who': escaped from county jail this morning after slugging the turnkey, were. the object of a widespread police. network today. Anderson police identified the two escapees as Daniel O'Brien, :22, of Elwood, and Kelso 23, address unknown.

They were arrested March '14 by Anderson authorities in connection with a burglary. Both were on parole from the Pendleton O'Brien and Bowers staged a this morning, which was a frameup, police said. When Perry Huffman, turnkey, entered their cell. toquell the' dispute, they him and escaped. Huffman was not believed seriously' injured.

Both youths were. clad only in shirts and trousers had no hats nor overcoats, Anderson authorities said. They were sighted once 'after their escape, headed north on foot, near. the Pennsylvania railroad. HASH NAMED DIRECTOR.

The name of John Hash was omitted from the list of Tipton County Tuberculosis association officers elected Monday night. Mr. Hash was re-elected to the, board of directors..