The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 June 1942 — Page 1
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TY COUNCIL APPOINTS TWO BOARD MEMBERS
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i nls illDining Monday irhl's Session; Firemen’s Pension fluid Action Is Postponed.
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Ibert K Williams, local attorney form: Putnam county prosocuwa s a; pointed to the Greencastle pol f . i and R. P. Mullins, well wn di and civic leader. named to the Water Works ,1 as result of action taken by city council at the regular meetMon lay night. r . Williams succeeds Prof. HerGrccn!' if. His term is for two s . Mr. Mullins succeeds Lynn wn and- his term is for four years, b arc Republicans. ouncilman Gwin Ensign placed WilliamP name before the counand Councilman Rebel t Stoner :ed the nominations be closed, vote for Mr. Williams appointt to the school board was unanm . until man Stoner nominated Mr. Urns foi the Water Board and this :on was seconded by Councilman n Welch. Councilman Fred Starr •ed that the nominations be closTiic vote for this appointment also unanimous. n A i Raid and Blackout Ordijce. approved by the Indiana mcil for Defense, was passed by ciium-i This ordinance contains julations for air raid wardens, siliary firemen and other agencies !( mi. aion with the war emergenI now existing in this country, mnt • n by Councilman R. R. 1 that no one be permitted to on the city fire trucks except e m: e zed by regular mem- » Pie fire department" was s' d y Greencastle’a official ly. '.nman William Lawrence, who ndeu th state fire school at Labette, last week, gave an interestrep n the two-day session, he el imi ordinance, introduced Ca i drain Rnsign, was approvand p. ~ si * d. The matter of turnov. i t ie ..id interurban rails on th It ma street was tabled unthe e a ament or a government ic:a! r utacts the city. The quesn ot a : remen's pension fund was ay : u itil the next regular meetin July when final action will taken.
BASS SEASON OPENED AT 12:01 A. M. TODAY The state game fish season opeuen at 12:01 a. m. teday with more persons prepared to fish but with the i streams of the county in pour shape for fishing. The water was somewhat i high in them, but the worst part was the mud which had washed down into them from cultivated fields, making them yellow and unfit for angling. ; The only recourse of the ^shermon was the ponds which havti been stocked for public use, and. of these, one, the Thomas “lake" in uSdison township was muddy, also. Tijo AN bin and the cement plant pond* were in good condition. Twenty-five more hunting and fishing licenses have been sold this year to Putnam county residents than were sold last yeai indicating an increasing interest in those forms of outdoor sports.
British Silent On Axis Claims GERMANY, ITALY REPORT BIG VI( TORY IN MEDITERRANEAN ENCOrVTER
BUIS LISTS SPRING TAX SETTLEMENT SPECIAL SCHOOL FtTND OF $ri,H. r )(l.0S IS LARGEST SINGLE ITEM
A N N O l X C E D BY AUDITOR
Annual June Settlement Of Taxes Collected In Spring Made Public On Tuesday
ath Summons Mrs. Ida Newman lilox TOWNSHIP RESIDENT >111) SI DDENLY OF HEART DISEASE
LONDON. June 16.— fUP)—Italy and Germany joined today in claims of a major victory in a naval-aerial attack on two big British convoys in the Mediterranean, but Italy admitted that one of its heavy cruisers was sunk, and an unidentified “unit” and two destroyers were damaged. Italian radios claimed that Italian battleships had joined in an action which constituted “what is almost certainly the greatest air-naval battle of the war.” and said that about ,10 allied ships had been sunk or damaged, the damage including hits on a British battleship and two British aircraft carriers. Berlin asserted that a Orman submarine had sunk a British cruiser and damaged a steamship in an attack on a convoy, consisting of cruisers, destroyers and transports, in the eastern Mediterranean. The Italian high command, slightly less excited than the Italian ra- j dlos. mentioned no Italian hnttlentiins as having been in the actions but | said two of its light cruisers and five I destroyers had won a big victory in I a ferocious attack on one giant British formation. The Italian command also said that the engagement had ended last
night.
The British admiralty refused to comment on the axis claims and it was said that until the engagement had been ended finally, and ships in convoys had arrived at their destinations, it was unlikely to issue a communique. In the past, admiralty eomuniques have completely exploded Italian claims.
County auditor Eddie Buis announced the distribution of $259 - 779 41 Tuesday as the annual June settlement of the spring collection of taxes. The special school fund was the biggest item with a listed total of $72,856.05. The distribution in Putnam county is as follows: State Tax. $5,870 .87 Common School Revenue, $9,412.10 Teachers’ Retirement, $8,617.52 Board of Agriculture, $422.00 State Forestry, $241.14 New Harmony Memorial, $120.58 Indiana Wolf Lake Park. $241.14 County Revenue. $85,415.02 County Welfare. $29,621.81 County Unit Road Bonds and Interest, $13,380.44 Hospital Bonds and Interest,
$4,823.34
Hospital Maintenance. $3,675.71 County Jail Bonds and Interest,
$6,087.32
Township Tax. $9,792.15 Tuition Tax, $36,943.54 Special School, $72,856.05 School Building Bonds. $4,942.76 Township Poor Fund, $8,642.63 Township Road Bonds and Interest. $2,073.32 Library Fund. $2,810.56 Local Vocational. $2,028.37 Corporation Tax. $20,986.34 Street Tax, $196.83 Corporation Bonds. $7.39.63 Airport Tax. $316.99 Park Fund, $1,474.45
WILLIAM E. MUGG FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON Funeral services were held at 2 : o'clock Sunday afternoon for William j Elmer Mugg. 72-year-old Owen coun- : ty native, who died Friday at his I home near Quincy following a lingering illness. Services were held at the Baptist church with the Rev. Roy Evans in charge. Burial was in Coombs cemetery. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Etta McCammaek Mugg; two sons. Theory Mugg,. of Cloverdale, and Gilbert Mugg, at Ft. Bragg, N. C.; one daughter. Mrs. Moelva Fox, of Indianapolis.
Nazis Increase Fury Of Attack HURL “BIG BERTHAS” AND CRACK UNITS AT RED DEFENDERS
MOSCOW. June 16 (UPl—The red army has halted the Germans dead in their tracks afound Kharkov and Sevastopol, official Soviet advices said today.
HENRY RAHN PASSED AWAY MONDAY EVE FORMER COURTHOUSE CUSTOD IAN DIED AT HOME OF DAUGHTER FUNERAL ON \V K D X E S D A Y Was Also Custodian Of Roaehdale Library Hefom Coming To Greencastle
LONDON. June 16.-* (UP1 — Radio Moscow, quoting advices from Lisbon and Ankara, said today that Germany was secretly constructing submarine bases at the French West African port of Dakar. It said underground hangars and munitions dumps already had been built and that the number of Germans at Dakar was ““constantly increasing.”
Scrap Rubber Is Being Collected PUTNAM COUNTY WILL SUPPLY ITS QUOTA DURING THE TWO WEEKS CAMPAIGN
MRS. ELSIE BROTHERS TO BE BURIED AT HOACTfDALE
Burial of Mrs. Elsie C. Brothers. ! other points were likewise receiving
The soap rubber campaign got off to a good start at many points in. Putnam county and it is believed that most receiving stations will be well supplied with all kinds of old rubber during the two weeks set aside by the President for the collecting of the much needed rubber
scrap.
One of the collecting points, the Denny station at Cloverdale, had one of the best supplies during mid-day when they had received more than 700 pounds of old tires, ,hose, etc.
MOSCOW, June 16 (UP)—Germany hurled seven artillery regiments and her famed "Big Berthas' against Russian defenses before beleaguered Sevastopol today. while other Soviet forces awaited a new enemy push by at least iOO.OOO men on the Kharkov front. Dispatches from the Crimea said the Germans were blasting at the central Soviet defanse line with artillery of higher calibre than that which shelled Paris from long range during the fiist World War.
Henry F Rahn, age 56. died Monday evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Oscar Page of near North Salem. He hail been ill for the past fevy months. Mr. Rahn had seiv- ! ed as custodian of the Putnam county court house for the past three years until illness forced him to give up his work. Prior to coming here for a period of five years, he was custodian of the Roachdale public schools. He was born May 25, 1886 in | Garrett township, Douglas county. | Illinois, the son of John and Mary Rahn. He married Pearl Nora Offenstein of Paris. 111., February *i, 1913. She preceded him in death on October 19, 1924. Mr. Rahn came to Indiana from Illinois ten years ago. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Oscar Page, at whose home he died and Miss Dorothy Rahn of Indianapolis; one son, Paul Rahn, of Kingman; one grandson, D nald J. Page of New Salem; two brothers, Hans Rahn of Roaehdale, Alfred Rahn of Longview, Bl.; three sisters. Mis. Earl Jones, Mrs. P. S. Sehroeder and Mrs. Alfred Riley all of Tuscola, 111. Short funeral services will lie held at the Ohastain funeral home Wednesday morivng at 10 o'clock and another short service will be conducted the same day at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at the Waddington funeral home in Tuscola. Burial will be in a Tuscola cemetery. Friends may call at the Chastain funeral home Tuesday evening.
REPORTS VARY ON SEA BATTLE OFF ALEUTIANS
AT LEAST SIX JAPANESE SHIPS SI NK OK DAMAGED BY l . S. FLYERS
ITIDiD
M AJOR
ENCOUNTER
Xmerk'iin Navy \nd Army Reports Show Smile Overlapping In North Pacific
Donald E. Worrell « Corporal Donald E. Wcrrell, who recently received his promotion, is stationed at Ft. Benning, Go., with Company I. 151sts infantry.
Ir ' i i Newman, age 66 years, e n f V' liam Newman, was found 1 I Tuesday morning at her f ‘ >> 'darion township. Mrs. Newii.il seemingly been in fair 1,h only yesterday she had re- * e 'l : >e from a visit with her Mrs. Oren Buis. Her un- < ‘ c, ‘ ath came as a shock to relatives and friends. ^ “11 known woman was the ^(fr of the late Mr. and Mrc ' a<>s Gix. She spent her early life Mt. Meridian community. Survivors are the husband, two ghters Mrs. Oren Buis and Mrs. Slavens; two sons, Cecil and na 'd Newman; two brothers, Alwd Ernest Cox. and two sisters, *• G'dtlie Hamilton and Miss Lesr ' " 'th of Greencastle. ■ mera l services will be he'd ursine afternoon at 2 o’clock from New Providence Church. The Donaldson of Putnamville will teat.’, interment will be in the ov > lence cemetery.
age 59 years, who died Monday at Logansport will be held Thursday at Roaehdale. She was the mother of Mrs. Mary Charles, Miss Betty Brothers, of Indianapolis: Mrs. Edith Garlock of North Salem; Jesse Bm-
a fair quantity the first day of the
campaign.
Virgil “Jiggs” Deem reports that up until noon Tuesday, he had bought j over 1500 pounds of rubber and was expecting two truck loads to be
MOSCOW, June 16—A new German offensive by at least 500.000 men, with every plane and piece of mechanized equipment they can muster, was believed imminent today on the Kharkov front, where the Russians knocked out 180 tanks yester-
day.
Fierce fighting still raged at the Crimean port of Sevastopol, anil last midnight's Soviet communique in- . dicated that fighting of major proportions had been resumed on the Kalinin front, northwest of Moscow. (Axis reports heard in London said Italians had joined Germans in a new land, sea and air offensive against Leningrad that already had been in progress three days. German and Italian broadcasts said axis troops in invasion barges landed behind Russian lines from the Baltic, pre(Conflnaed (rnm Pus Oaet
thers, of Logansport and Edwin Bro- jj roU gj,j to him for purchase on Tues-
thers of the U. S. Army who is In
Austrei'a.
day afternoon.
WILUAM STEEG LEADING CITIZEN OF LIMEDALE DURING EARLY l)AYS
20 Years Ago Of GREENCASTLE
IN NAVY SCHOOL Word has been received here if the appointment of Lloyd Hurst as an instiuctor of typewriting in the new Navy Training School which was established at Miami University. Oxford. Ohio, on June 1. Mr. Hurst, a former Cloverdale and Bloomington high school commercial teacher, is a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College and was just recently awarded the Master of Science degree from Indiana
University.
BELGIUM JOINS RI.OU WASHINGTON, June 16.—(UP) Belgium today became the first of the smaller European countries to join th® mutual aid bloc in which the United States already is associated with Great Britain. China and the Soviet Union.
Fire Wardens To Get Instructions COUNTY GROUP WILL MEET AT LEGION DOME THIS
EVENING
The initial meeting of Fire Wardens for Putnam county, will be held this evening at eight o'clock in the American Legion Home and it will be followed by others in which district fire wardens will be given instructions in this line of protection for the civilian populace. The American Legion, throughout the country, has taken over this problem and in this county, the Legion sent Sanford Romine, one of its members, to a state school for instruction ami he will be the instructor in the meetings to be he’d here. The Wardens who have been named and who will attend the instructions school will include Nelson Hardy, Morris Williams, Russell Hardman, Harley Hedge, John Cook. Ed Rossok, Emory Brattain, D. C. Stewart, Paul Wright. Algan Moore, a representative of the University and the Indiana State Farm, representing Greencastle: Gene Hess. Bainbridge; Amos Hunter, Fillmore; Ralph Fry, Cloverdale: Vernon Gardner, Russellville ;and Blaydes Robertson, Roaehdale. Chinese Holding Japanese At Bay 80-MILE MIDDLE SECTION OF STRATEGIC SECTOR HELD BY DEFENDERS
MASONIC NOTICE Temple Lodge No. 47. F A) will hold its stated meeting nesday evening, June 17.
A. M. Wed-
KF.DITH reeves to serve ,N u. S. MEDK AL CORPS •'hys Meredith Reeves, registered r ' IP ' is here visiting with her pars ' Mr. and Mrs. Lee Reeves, west. ' lr >khn street. Miss Reeves, re'""V ’d instructor in the Toledo ■ 8 Pita.i at Toledo, O. is awaiting r, l to be called to foreign sendee th the United States MedicaJ ***■ Miss Reeves has been ordered "H a large quantity of supplies, ou Rh to last her for a long period tini « in the service. Thor e will be a story hour at the > library Wednesday afternoon at 0 o’clock.
The Limedale that a few of us know these days is not the same that was the scene of so much railroad activity in days past. Located on the Pennsylvania and the Monon railroad lines, once it was an important passenger and freight transfer point, visited, at times, by the notable men of the country, en route to or from French Lick Springs or West Baden, usually. Nearly always, a large group of passengers left or boarded trains on both of those railroads, at that station, and all trains stopped there. But, now. mail sacks are dumped off from trains as they speed through the station environments. and it is almost a rare thing for passengers to leave any train, or to board one. The town’s principal citizen in its early days was William Steeg, who, in conjunction with his wife, Emily, recorded tile plat of an addition to it, in the 60’s, speaking of the place as “Greencastle Junction,” but Mr. Steeg built two large lime kilns there, and in the course of time the post office department recognized “Limedale” as the name of the town. At about the same time, Mr. Steeg built the hotel there, which was usually known as the “Junction House” and he became postmaster, having
the postoffice in the office of the hostelry. It is indeed a rare thing for a conversation to dwell long on Limedale and its older days without the names of the locally-famous and beloved VanFossen brothers being mention-
ed.
Levi, one of these two, was brought from Frederick. Md., by Wm. Steeg to sharpen the drills used in the stone quarry owned by Mr. Steeg, from which the stone was secured for the lime kilns. He was an expert blacksmith. Before long, his brother, Lute, came also, and the two opened a blacksmith shop which became the headquarters of some of the best story-tellers ever known in Putnam county. In fact, the VanFossens started the unique but widely known Liars’ club, at whose sessions Baron Munchausen could have sat in and learned many things. A piece of log chain was the prize awarded to the teller of the best lie and The Banner unblushingly admits it once had the piece of chain in ils possession, as a reward for a remarkable piece of fiction, related by the then-editor in a session of the club. One example of those stories is this, John Branham and Levi Van(Cvatlaae* oa Paca Twa)
Gilbert Rhea, high school coach, and Donovan Moffett, Brazil coach, went to Champaign to attend the summer athletic course offered at the Universtiy of Illinois. Mrs. Eugene Hawkins was visit-
ing in Chicago.
Miss Florence Talburt returned home from Niles, Michigan, where she taught the past year. Charles McCurry drove the McCurry ambulance to Indianapolis.
DAILY BANNER HONORED The Daily Banner has been presented with a citation by the United States Treasury Department, through Fred L. O'Hair, head of the War Bond Sales in Putnam County for "distinguished services renderee. in behalf of the National Defense Savings Program." It is signed by Henry Morganthau, Jr., secretary of the Treasury and bears the seal of the Department.
CHUNGKING, Jum Chinese tr ips still I middle section of tl Kiangsi railway bet
16 (UP) — iM an 80-mile c Chekiangrecn Yingtun
and Shangjao, but 150,000 Japanese ate elosing in from the east and west in a huge pineei movement, a military spokesman said today. He acknowledged that the Japanese were advancing steadily, but said Yingtun and Shangjao still were
in Chinese hands.
"We are calmly resisting the enemy’s huge pineer movement according to preat ranged plans," the
spokesman said.
Against the Chinese infantrymen, the Japanese were sending tw< plane-supported columns, attempting to crack the Chinese hold on the Nanchang-Hangchow railway's vital
middle section.
WASHINGTON. June 16. (UP) A third great naval-air battle in the Pacific within six weeks is in progress today off the Aleutian is-
lands.
American airmen both army and navy already have damaged at least six Japanese vessels, maybe seven, and sunk another. One of the damaged vessels was an aircraft carrier. The battle apparently has been going on intermittently since Japanese bombers attacked the naval base at Dutch Harbor on June 3. Admiral Ernest J King said on June 7 that a battle was going on in that area but that tire situation was obscure. Last week the Japanese landed on one of the Aleutian islands. Only fragmentary reports on the Aleutian area have been released and they are confused now by different versions by the army and navy of the damage inflicted on the enemy. The navy version Army and navy airmen have damaged at least three cruisers, one destroyer, one gunboat and one transport, “some of them severely.” The army version- - Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, air corps chief, said in a telegram to the Glenn L. Martin Co., aircraft manufacturers, that army medium bombers attacked the Japanese task force in the Aleutians three times, sinking a cruiser and scoring three torpedo hits on an aircraft carrier. The Japanese force in the North Pacific is a (rig one probably far greater than the public has l>een given reason to suspect. It was recalled that Admiral King iccently said that the Japanese were not in the habit of sending a “boy on a man r
job."
There is every indication that the Aleutian battle has or will develoo into an engagement comparable-—in importance if not in size to those that preceded it. first in the Coral sea and later off Midway. And officials here are hoping that it will end as disastrously for the Japanese. The battle of Midway was a sequel of the Coral sea battle. Tne thrust at Alaska and the Aleutian islands and Alaska obviously wa.i planned by the enemy to parallel its attempt to capture Midway. The navy’s communique last night was the first official word of the Aleutians engagement since it announced last Friday that the Japanese had landed on Attu and had ships in the harbor at Kiska both in the Aleutians Last night's communique made no mention of th< enemy forces that have landed on the islands, indicating that they were still th r r“.
FLAG DAY OBSERVED About forty members of the Greencastle Elks lodge went to Brazil Monday where they attended the annual Flag Day ceremony presented by the fraternal organization in that city. Appropriate exercisos were held and following the patriotic program, the local men present reported they were royally ent rtained by the host lodge. SPECIAL \ F. \V. MEETING The General Jesse M. Lee tposc No. 1550. Veterans of Foreign Wars, will hold a special meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in city hall. All members are urged to attend as plans are being made to select a new home for the F\>st.
COLLECTED—President Roosevelt announces pick-up-the-rubber campaign to reclaim used rubber. Manufacturers told him up to 3,000,000 tons were available, but figures on scrap varied. Abovo is port of 20 ocros of scrap tires and tubes collected «t Firestone plant, Akron, Ohio.
$ Today’s Weather 0 $ and 9 & Local Temperature El Slightly warmer this afternoon and tonight: occasional tain ending this afternoon.
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