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INDIANA, WKDNHNDAY, (>OT<)BER 2, 1!»40.

NO. 300

etinos ON [TIZENSHIP VER COUNTY

nN S IN HOM HDALE AND .tSSWXVUXE THIS evening

SPEAKS HERE FRIDAY

ted

here last night

f9pe okers And Meetln B PIa«‘s , anoiinred. Of Interest To | First Voters. unship education meetings ,i last evening with the first open forum discussions taking in the local high school. This » tw0 meetings will start simusiy at Roachdale and RusThc two meetings will start

o'clock.

•one interested in attending | ('Jj JJj () Holt!

meetings, here scheduled, is •, jly invited to do so. While the

forum

discussion particularly first voters the meetings

pen. j the Roachdale meeting, Prof, j Id Zink of the DePauw Univer- [ olitical Science department will

je while at

i n g c. G. Pierson of the DePauw' ry department will take the in keeping the discussion on the ct of party setup in America. Thursday evening the second hdale meeting will be held and

RED CROSS TO ORGANIZE FOR ROLL CALL annual campaign to raise .MONEY FOR NATIONAL AND

LOCAL USE

FOLLOWS WAR RELIEF DRIVE Mrs. G. W. Hanna Named Residential Chairman; Frank Knebcl To Dir-

ect Business Area Drive

Red Cross leaders of Putnam county met last evening with a national field representative to discuss plana for the annual .TTU roll call. The roll call this year will follow' the war relief drive which wan a special drive to aid those who were suffering from

j exposure during the w'ar.

j At the meeting which was presid- | ed over by Rupert Bartley. Mrs. Robbins, a field representative, suggested

\| )mn tllMi mo ! methods of planning the fall'drive.

*7^ 1 It was very clearly stated at the meeting that all war relief funds DR. LOWE WILL SPEAK AT DINNER SESSION OF CHRISTIAN

CHURCH AT SCHOOL Itl.HG. i ing when the American Red Cross ! can be sure that the aid will not go

to Germany or any of its conquered

E. I). Lowe

j which were collected at the time of i the drive are being held to aid suffer-

COUNTY GETS MONEY The quar'erly distribution by the state of a part of its receipts from gasoline tax and vehicle license sales brought a check for $25,949.;i5 to the Putnam county auditor’s office Wednesday, which will be the final payment fiom that source for the present calendar year. It, along with other slm'lar payments, is car■narked by slate law for oxpenditure fc the maintenance of county roads

and bridges.

O her payments this year have ben: January, $23,490.95; April $36,416.07; July, $25,211.05. Those earlier payments, along with the one just received, make a total rf $111,087.42 for 1940. The total for the year 1939 was $104,639.88. The payment in October, last year, was $25,589.91.

May Relax Loan Bars To Rritain

GOP NOMINEE SWINGS INTO OHIO TO DAY

WENDELL WILLKIK WINDS UP .MICHIGAN CAMPAIGN AT ADRIAN DISCUSSES SOCIAL SEC CUTTY Principal Address Ol His Miehigan Tour .Made At Grand Rapids Last Night

CONGRESS HOPES FOR SIX WEEKS VACATION

POSSIBILITY OF EI'TI'KE ACTION ALONG THIS LINE

IS INIiMCATED

territories. It was also made clear J that the roll call drive is for money j to be used locally and nationally and none of this money will find its way ■ across the ocean unless the United ! States should enter the war abroad. Mr. Bartley appointed Mrs. G. W.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—(UP) — Notable characteristics of the movement to relax prohibitions against loans to Great Britain suggested today that the idea may persist beyond

I he election.

Practically all responsible officials

the Russellville Members and friends of the First

! Christian church will meet in their j annual meeting Friday evening at 16:30 o’clock with a covered dish din- | ner in the Second Ward School Aud-

itorium.

! Dr. E. D. Lowe, for more than

time Prof.°Zink will keep the j nineteen years minister of the Olive

fo urn discussion centered on • Branch Christian church of Indian- Hanna, president of Delta Theta Tau, nsibihties of citizenship.! a polis, and who will become General as chairman of the residential section same time Fillmore will be j Secretary of the Indiana Christian of Greencastle and Frank Knebel as first meeting with John! Missionary Association January 1st, business area chairman. County

l captain of the DePauw Uni- ' will be the guest speaker for the oc- ( chairmen will be announced later. j con'scripl.^n J legislation.’ debate team as leader. | casion. Dr. Lowe has had unusual Those who attended the meeting j , ^

Friday four open forum discus- 1 success in building one of the greatwill start at 7:30 in four differ- ' est churches in Indiana, and his mestowns of the county. At Bain- ' sage is always helpful to any group. A W. Cradall, Professor of] A very interesUng musical pro-n-at DePauw, wil preside while g'am will be given under the direcdle Union H. T. Ross, Professor tion of Gene Pennington. Reports

from the various department of church life will be given, with each

report limited to three minutes. A ' number of surpiises throughout the | NORM PEABODY OPENS

evening will make this meeting one | of the most unusual and impressive

the

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO CLEVELAND, Oct. 2 (UP) Wendell L. Wlllkie carried his presidential campaign into Ohio today, warning industrial workers ol the East they may be unable to collect social security in their old age | u.: leas they remove President Roose- • volt from otfice. He traveled through the steel an:l lubber manufacturing centers telling factory workers that “paying social security premiums to a federal gov- ^ ernment that is year after year inj creasing its indebtedness and continj uing an unbalanced budget is like j paying a premium into an insurance ] company that you know is going into bankruptcy before you get the prin-

cipal.’’

Willkie went to Cleveland to deliver a major address on foreign afI fairs in the public auditorium at 9 ' a. m. The address was broadcast over the Blue network of the Nation-

al Broadcasting Company. i Ogles, j s i His campaign foi Michigan’s 191 board

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—(UP) — Administration leaders hope to determine today whether Congress can recess until mid-November or will be -creed to remain in almost continuous session for the rest of the

yea.-.

All hope of adjournment until

Jan. 3, 1941, when the new Congress convenes, has been abandoned. Senate leaders arc trying to get a recess until Nov. 11 or Nov. 18 after .he election but House leaders are not sure that they can get agreement to it on their side. Senate leader Alben VV. Barkley said he

may know the answer today. Congress is expected to clean up

its pending calendar by Saturday night or at least by a week from today. I( a recess to a definite date is not agreed upon, a senes of threeday recesses will be ordered with a gentleman's agreement that no leg-

islation will be acted upon.

i ;i\ Hearing On Monday, Oct. 11

GERMANS ARE REPULSED BY RAF FIGHTERS BRITISH PF WES AND ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNS HOLD BACK NAZI BOMBERS 'll CH ACTION DI KING NIGHT I-ir ;e Format ions Of (tennail Planes Reported Over England’s Southern Coastline LONDON, Oct. 2 (UP)—Four "tel rific explos ons’’ rocked (ho northwest suburbs of Berlin during an attack by strong Royal Air Force squadrons on machinery and munitions factories, electric stations, oil plan’s and other objectives in Germany, the air ministry said today.

ROME. Oct. 2 (UP) - British plan's, raiding the Italian held post of Bug bug in Egypt, caused fires and casualties, a high command communique said today,, and other I plans, aiding the Italian Tobruk • | naval bas e in Libya, caused “slight"

damage and one casualty.

STATE BOARD REPRESENT\

TIVE TO BE AT COURT HOUSE ON THAT DATE

Philip Zoercher, chairman I Indiana State Board of ] missioners, has notified

county auditor,

TOKYO, Oct. 2 (UP) Newsaapers, reflecting increas.ng goveruI merit alarm over the possibility <'f

of the ' British and American pressure, inTax Com- j dicated today that Japan would reGilbert E. I Sm d he reopening of the Bu ma that the ' r °ad of supply to China by Britain

an open challenge and would act

jieecft

will lead the discussion. Center will hold its first W with Robert Dinkel, instruc- , Political Science, as its leader, mile meanwhile will be holding rst meeting with H. W. Voltmer t leader Professor Voltmer is DePauw Political Science de-

rent.

‘e only observance of the opening thenship Week, on October 6th, 1 the special services in the churches of the county. In evening there will be a special Hy Union Service in the Gobin

church which has

last night were; Miss

Evens, production chairman; Mrs. Joe Crosby. Mrs. G. W. Hanna, Mrs. Joe Todd, Mrs. Ray Herbert, Mrs. Russell Vermillion, Mrs. C. D. Conklin, sewing chairman; William Boatright, Rupert Bartley and Frank

Knebel.

another but did not foreclose possibility of future action.

It was noted here that there is' His campaign fo. Michigan’s 19 board or a representative will consome similarity between current dis-; elector al votes ended today with a | duct a hearing in the Putnam county , "ccord.ngly, of loans for Great Britain ' lfi ■ rninu,;<, leal P la I form address at j Court House Monday, October 14, at i ! Adrian, Mich., at 10 a. m., completing I which there will be opportunity fori LONDON, Oct. 2. (UP) British

‘ fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns, kept German bombers away from central London today during a series of morning raid alarms which follow-

| ed a relatively quiet night.

I Observers saw large German plane ' formations over the eastern, south- ] eastern and southwestern suburbs, l with British fighter planes chasing

from a nearby building injured a | and rateg 0 f t h e following taxing j them their muchine nuns rattling. spectator. Three eggs were thrown ] units wi ij be considered, in the order | A blast from biK anti ‘ aircra ft g uns

drove oil German fleets which at-

cussion

and the early history of peace time ,

Conscrip-' a tour of th<> automobile country dur- , (he tax payers of the county to ap-

° | tion was sponsored in the Senate by ! in g "’hich some spectators hurled ; pear and object, if they so desi “, Florence | gen Edward R Burke D., Neb., a 1 fruits ' vegetables, eggs and a waste- to the budgets, proposed tax levies lame duck legislator defeated in the baskct at the Republican candidate’s I an d rates of all of the taxing units 1940 primary The Senate bill to P art y but cheers ami applause greet- , „ f the county, to become effective

the ‘Johnson Act to permit ed hinl at allnost every stop. ; January 1, 1941.

Great Britain also is spon-! A cantaloupe landed near Willkie , Tho hearing will begin at 9

while he spoke at Detroit’s Cadillac | ocloik that morning, and at th

ualty, Sen. William H. King,

modify

loans to Great Britain also is spoil sored by a 1940 primary election cas- ,

H. King, D., Square and a wastebasket thrown | forenoon session the budgets, levies

I Utah.

The administration made no move to boost the conscription bill until

at the party at Pontiac, Mich., and] in w hich they are listed, if possible:

mwsrwcictaikwm . T’”; T ci ; n -°" ’-r?"’'-1 ] behind it, but Sen. Claude Pepper, D„ ! As the v ' lllkle cam P a *S n 11 aln slovl Jackson township,

ever held by this congregation, and N 0rm p e abody has announced the | pi a was a vigorous and persistent j *y nioveii through the outskiits of i Madison township, — ii oUi-vitl/-) a * f o n rl uhnvuinp' .... . j i ‘ i riron/1 Raniris Inst nip'ht n Small tOWIYShlp

all members should attend, showing erand o p enlng ' 0 { h is new Standard ! a( 'ivocate of a ^eace time draft. j Uland Ka J ,ids last ni K bt ' u Slndl1 their Interest, loyalty, and devotion gervice statlon on the southwest I In tlu . niat ter of conscription, (he 1 Po^cd r( ’ck crashed through two

corner of Indiana and Walnut I t: ansfer of 50 United States destroy- 1 P anes of the dlIK ‘ r four caIS frorv ‘

Jefferson town-

and Mar-

to the local church. Officers of the

church will be elected

be elected by ballot, and streets for Friday and Saturday of | ers to Great Britain and other hotly ! willkie s private car and scratched the results announced during the | thig week M r. Peabody, in announc- ] de bated short-of-war aid to the Brit- 'h 0 hand of william c Murphy, Ji ., meeting. ] ing th j 8 opening, states that there ' isll> pepper has appeared occasional- chief of the Washington bureau of Coffee, rolls, cream and sugar will 1 wi)1 he fm; souven j rs f 0t . everyone ! jy t 0 be the administration leadoff ] tho Philadelphia Inquirer. Mis. be provided by the committee. Each j whQ aRends tb e opening. 'man in engagements which could be ( Murphy, who was dining with him, been family is asked to bring its own table , The new service station, which ■ permitted to develop at some length was uninjured.

1 State ‘ The principal speech of Willkie’s |

i Service Dr. Charles B. Swartz, service and inspiration, ami all mem ‘1 catlon for many years, is a big im-j se i V es. It First Presbyterian church in bers of the church are txpectrd to at i pj-oyement to one of the busy downl mington. will speak on Citizen- tend. -town corners. The station boasts of ] oan battle.

j Anyone needing transportation will ] having add jtional drive space so that

them- ' Michigan tour was at Grand Rapids ( clty Greencastle sclWIl city, Gree i-

estimated at*

^orial —

| over to the Citizenship Com- service, and food prepared for scrv-; hag replaced the old covered drive j b . fore the President or the *e for the occasion. At this ' ing. This is a great fellowship of , ( . tation which s tood on the same lo- j Department had to commit

■ . .. . _t. , * I where before a crowd estimated at

gives l Pepper has jumped into the British 30.000 he charged that the New Deal ,

had “cut the jugular vein of Amer- j iea” by discouraging production and j creating unemployment. He prom-1 ised jobs for 9,600,000 jobless in the j

nation.

At the afternoon session, opening at 1 oclock, the following units will

be called:

Monroe township. Russell town- | ship. Warren township, Washingti r j township, Bainbridge civil town, C’o- j verdalo civil town. Roachdale civil town. Roachdale library. Russellville civil town, Greencastle civi

castle library.

Responsibility and the Church. ler programs for next week will ar in a future issue of the Ban-

call 816-M or 703-W, and cars will

call for you.

first voters are urged to atthese meetings which are being especially for you. However, [ thf benefit of everyone over high a age in the various townships lie county, the meetings will be »ti open so that all may parti' te.

Los Angles Man

VRUUK-Al'TO ( RASH OCX I Re> AT NATIONAL AND ROAD

48 INTERSECTION

ed by Prof. Vernon Van Dyke

there will be no congestion. On the exterior the building is very

attractive with cream colored baked enamel. The station is trimmed with red and blue, the latter being used in

g I a j the lettering over the service entr-; I llirt IN car LltV lance and the station proper.

* I Inside, the station is white with ] red and blue trim. New display cas- j cs and other accessories have also j been added so that a completely new j station will be displayed at the grand j opening. |

He told the Senate yes-

terday that Japan, Germany and Italy have “misjudged the character of the American people” if they expect this country to discontinue aid to Britain as a result of their new

military alliance.

| “'Hie road to prosperity is lined! i with jobs and the way to get on ] i that road is production,” he said. |

Fred Hoke Is Llul) Speaker]

era, now mured to night-long attacks. then was a lull in the early

morning hours.

Damage was reported to only one street in central London, though 15 outer districts and eight towns in southeast England were bombed. Fire bombs were dropped in the j eastern London suburbs and incendi lury and higii explosive bombs caused

. It - in the south-

iern an I southeastern outskirts. A 1 hospital in east London was hit by a j high explosive bomb but there were

j no casualties.

Northwest England suffered most j damage during th night, and there were casualties in four towns in the

area.

There were casualties in a town in I the Liverpool area last night when

Rallies Planned

Cleveland W. Cole, Los Angeles,

**" Un ‘ , " r " ty ' “ CIII.. w» «e«-rely injured Tuesday

-ding discussion of

"al party problems was par ted in by those present at thr ; b 'K

meeting featuring Pul-’ ttl0 in *'" 11

grnup

evening when his automobile and

Haute t uck crashed at

of the National

and state road 43, five

Terre

County Cilizenship Week held Highway

mght in the Greencastle high I ” rf . uffht lo the Putnam of these citizenship train- ; th e accident

l all

inro'.ings. the discussions are on a strictly non-partisan haParty organization from to national committee, the I machinery necessary to build ' complete slate for final electhc importance of party po'ilo a democratic form of gov""nt and the functioning of the or al college were the chief top-

oonsidered.

second and final forum meet“f this type will be held in the htflt. school next Tuesday evat 7:30 o’clock with Prof. Van again leading the discussion. ,ul >Ject of this meeting will be nship responsibilities and pro-

I coun’.y

I ambulance following th

The driver of the truck was also | said to have been hurt but not a'-

i badly as the California man.

| According to r'ports, the truck I was going vvest on U. S. 40 and Cole I was enroutc south on 43. It wasclaimed that he failed to observe the through t .nffic s’op sign at the intersection of the dual pavement. The force of the impact whirled the big truck around so that it war headed back east and it overturned on its left side. Cole’s car. a new Chrysler sedan, was jammed un against the truck and almost on top

of it.

URGES ROTAR1ANS AND ALL high explosiv bombs were dropped CITIZENS TO STUDY MEL- ] as tov.i p« oph wc ie leaving movio FARE LAW houses. One incendiary bomb only ! was dropped on Liverpool and it did

. « I I ROACHDALE MAN HURT j Fred Hoke of Indianapolis, presi-; no damage. Ill Lily Saturday • IN TRUCK-AUfO CRASH I den t. of the board of the Indiana Dr-1

1 ] partment of Public Welfare and trus-

Mrs. Erma Manson was arrested late Tuesday afternoon after

general public as well as fir it ■’ are urged to attend these disniep,in K8- Interested stn18 florn k >gh school history and

Masses

are also urged to be

GANDHI IS 72 i nd | a Oct. 2

meetings and public

(UP)

prayers |

MEETING TONIGHT A meeting in connection with the annual membership drive will oe held this evening at 8 oclock at the American Legion home. One of th ■ features of tonight’s session will be n complete display of World War posters which have been given lo

Post 58.

UNABLE TO SERVE Frank Jarro.lt. superintendent of the Putnam county schools, who was named by Clarence Pounds, superintendent of the Vigo county school.) and chairman of the district advisory draft board, to be a member of the district board, will be unable to servin that capacity because he himself is subject to registration for army service. He will yet be 35 years old on October 16. day of registration, his thirty-sixth birthday coming a couple of weeks later. His place on the district board will be filled by Paul F. Boston, superintendent of the Greencastle consolidated schools, it is announced. Each county chairman will name two laymen to serve with him on the county advisory board.

WILLIS TO \DURESS REPUBLICANS; DEMOl RATS TO HEAR

S< IIRICKER

TO CHECK CORN The five-acre corn plots in Pu nam county whose owners have ask-

ed for

automobik

volved in a two-way crash just west of the corner of Market and High streets in Crawfordsville. She was

will flock to Greencastle j charged wjth operating a vehicle afternoon and evening wit | 1f)Ul ;l driver’s license and ordered

| tee of DePauw University, was the ; speaker at the meeting of the Green-

she was driving was in-

Putnam county Democrats and Re

publicans Saturday

when each party will hold an inipo-t- ( a pp oa r

in police court Thursdo>

ant rally in the city.

Raymond Willis, Republican candidate for United States Senator, wi'l headline the GOP rally in the court room at eight o’clock, while Henry F. Schricker. Lieutenant Governor and the Democratic candidate for governor, will be the chief speaker at a Democratic rally in the high school gymnasium at eight o’clock. Both local county organizations are making elaborate preparations for these meetings which promises to be among the largest of the campaign, as the heads of the parties wil! be the speakers and among the most important who will be heard here during the 1940 campaign.

check-up on them, will be

checked for yield October 16. 17 and 18 by Teddy Caldwell, of Darlington, County Farm Agent David L. Grimes announced Tuesday morning. There were 28 Putnam county corn producers who enrolled in the fiveacre club for this season, but eigni

in-

!of them are note asking for an I spection of their corn plots. The

DETROIT LEADS j num ber to be checked is the same as At the start of the seventh inning, ] that of last year. Mr Grimes says.

Detroit was lending Cincinnati, 7 to]

h '"> throughout India today n ' 1. *n the opening game of the Work, awarded uhiiuui. inaia today >n • . ..ftpmoon. ...ui-i,

Last year, 12 gold medals wee

In the five-acre contest,

customers.

produced

Itader,

100 bushels or more per acre.

Tha Monday Club met with Mrs.

Lee Reeves.

| Mr. and Mrs. Otis Gardner an 1 family drove to Lafayette for the ! DePauw-Purdue football game. ‘ Harold Newgent was here from Powers, this state, where he was teaching in the high school. The Rev. Demetrius Tillotson became ill at the Northwest Conference meeting at Lebanon and was taken to the Methodist hospital at

Indianapolis.

morning. Everett Everman of Roachdale, driver of a truck pulling a trailer loaded with bricks, was injured in the mishap and required hospitalization. Hospital attaches, however, said his condition was not considered serious. He complained of pains in his abdomen, it was reported. Mrs. Manson, according to Traffic Officer Hugh Zachary, pulled out ot a filling station in front of the truck driven by Everman. The trucker, Zachary said, swerved to the left to avoid striking the car broadside, and in eo doing crashed into the front of a parked 1939 Pontiac coach after clipping the left front of the Manson Dodge sedan. Walter Stump, owmr of the parked coach, was in a nearby grocery. All three vehicles were damaged considerably.

LONDON, Oct. 2.—(UP)—Dr. Joseph Barnes Burt, vice president of the physical medicine section of the Royal Society of Medicine, said in a spi cl. ;it Bath today that unless every law of medicine was broken, a terrible pestilence would break out on the continent this winter.

castle Rotary Club on Wednesday,

October 2nd.

Mr. Hoke urged all citizens of the state to read the welfare law so that a better understanding of the law and administration could be gained. According to Mr. Hoke, contrary to I general opinion, the average relief j compensation was only $17 00, in- | stead of $30 00 per month, the max-1

imum, which isn’t available to tho I nam county for the present political

TO (H’LN IIEAIH*! \RTERS

R pu ili: in headquarters for Put-

campaign will be in the rooms m the F.r.st-UiUzens bank building which wi re formerly occupied by tho offi<- ■ of th ■ High Point Oil company. The rooms are on the second floor of that building, and are reached by the stairway f om the entiance

to the bank.

TWO MINERS RESCUED

EVANSVILLE. Ind.. Oct. 2 (UP)

—Two Boonville coal miners, rescued from the Decker shaft mine near Boonville late yesterday aft?r being trapped for nearly two hou s by in explosion, were in fair econ.-

dition in a local hospital today. They are Oscar Decker, 40. own-r

of the mine, and Davy Daugherty, 43, an employe. Both suffered lac-

erations, bruise* and shock.

applicant unless there are no oUvr resources. Although $22,897,000 was distributed for relief in 1939, of which the federal government contributed nine million dollars, much of this will be recovered as all disbursements would amount to a lien on any property owned in whole or part by a recipient, according to Mr. Hoke. In closing his talk, Mr. Hoke said “Understanding is the magic key that will unlock most of our prob-

lems” and he urged a better under- at home, North Salem,

standing among all groups. TO GET INFORMATION

Homer C. Morrison, clerk of Putnam county, has received notice that the county clerks of the state will assemble in Indianapolis Octobe 8 | to receive instructions concernl ig their work in the coming registra-

tion and draft for army service.

MARRIAGE LICENSE

Raymond W. Canada, laborer, Thorntown, and Helen Laura Witt,

DUKE HAS A CORN MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 2 (UP)—Dr. Harry H. Young, Miami chiropodist, left by plane today for Nassau to remove a “bad corn” from the foot of the Duke of Windsor, GovernorGentral of the Bahamas. He said he had been called to Nassau byth" Duke's aide-de-camp.

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