The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 October 1940 — Page 1

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tw office of Gilbert E. Ogles »v auditor, a letter has been ved from tlv- State Board of Commissioners notifying the that the board has been pe--by the courts to certify to the auditors the valuations by the state board concerning fo.- taxation purposes of the •ty owned by the Public SecCompany and the Northern InPower Company in the state, .state boai I had been enjoin ‘d certifying values previously d by it on these two utilities at injunction had been cleared

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i total valuation in the county the Public Se’vice Company jrties is placed by the board lit which taxes are to bleed in th year 1941. The valui in the county for the corpori, for tax collections this year. . J283.540. K total value of Northern IndiPower Company property in the |y, for tax collection in 1941. is (390 The value for this year's collections was $282,660. a conable increase which, it is sugmay be because of the roll of this county of the central es of the company. Public Service Company's Tties in the individual taxing of the county, as fixed by the board, are as follows: Clovertownsl yx $t>.390: Floyd towi514 080 Greencastle township. Jefferson township, $47,Madison township, $2,830: Martownship, $8,030; Monroe town53,940 Warren, $56,460: WashIon township, $65,430; Bainbridge 5630; GreencaaUe city, $62.Total. $287,850. Northern Indiana Power jipanys values in the taxing units fixed a.- follows: Clinton town51.840 dovordale township, 400 Floyd township, $2,840; 'klin township, $25,580: Green$44,180; Jackson M bip, $10,240; Jefferson townHtfO; Madison . township, $3,Marion t wnship. $7,820; Montownship $19,430; Russell town51,800. Warren township, 10 Kanl ’ Ige corporation, $5.- ■ Clover I d,- corporation, $21,810: poratlon, $136,460. Wdale corp nation, $16,460; Rus$8,790. Total, $329,390. Hfun the county there ar e 4 'ic power transmission lines, 19 • "inpanies operating, 6 l I - . .-ping cars, telegraph wpres.s . i porations, and 4 rad-

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CONGRESS REFUSES TO ADJOURN FOR ELECTION WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UP) — Congress, which has refused to adjourn or recess until after the election. found its attendance dwindling today. The Senate was in recess until tomorrow, Republican Leader Charles L. McNary. G. O. P. candidate foi vice president, having blocked a nearly consummated plan for merely formal meetings twice a week. The House scheduled a meeting for today even though it bad virtually nothing to do, but had an agreement to recess then until Monday This agreement was reached after Speaker Sam Rnlburn had abandoned all efforts to vote a recess until some definite date in the future.

Six Bands In Concert Fridax

WILL PLAY AT GYMNASIUM FRIDAY IN CITIZENSHIP WEEK PROGRAM

Five Putnam county high school bands, along with the DePauw University band, will appear in the big Citizenship meeting to be held in the gymnasium Friday evening. The bands appearing will be from Greencastle, Belle Union. Fillmore. Cloverdale and Bainbridge. They will appear in the parade and will also be massed at the end of the gymnasium during the concert all six bands will give. The DePauw band will not appear in the parade, but will give a program in the gymnasium during the parade and will then join the high school bands in the mass concert during the program. MEN WITH JOBS ARE TOLD TO ‘‘STAY PUT’

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 —(UP) — Maj. Joseph F. Battley, advisor to the Selective Service Board, advised men in ordinary occupations today to “stay put’’ and not look for jobs in defense industries. Contrary to the general impression, he said, men who take Jobs in defense industries now actually might run a greater chance of being drafted than if they remained in oth’r lines of work. In some instances, he reported, companies holding defense contracts have wrongly been offering jobs to men with the inducement that this would help them obtain deferment. There will be no group or industry deferments in classifying men for conscription. CHI KCHILL A GRANDFATHER

JAPAN SAYS ANY TROUBLE FAULT OF U. S,

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PLACE BLAME FOR PRECAR IOCS SITUATION ON A51 ERICA AND BRITAIN JAPANESE PRESS VIGOROI s American Evacuation Soundly Raplied By .lap Newspapers. British Subjects May Also Leave

LONDON, Oct. 10. (UP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill became ? grandfather today when his daugh-ter-in-law. Mrs. Randolph Churchill, gave birth to a son. The babe, born into one of England’s oldest and most distinguished families jn the midst of hammering German aerial assaults, will be named Winston. The Churchills are descendants of the First Duke of Marlborough.

Saddle Club To Have Ride Oct. 2fi

WIFI. START FROM DEER STABLES AND WILL END AT RAMP CREEK RANCH Putnam County horse enthusiasts are looking forward to a big day on Sunday. October 20. An organized ride in charge of the local saddle club will start from the Deer stables at 8 o'clock and will wind over ten miles of country paths which lead through woods, over river beds and over hills. The Ramp Creek Ranch north of Greencastle will be the terminating place of all riders and spectators. At noon, a chicke.n dinner will be served by Mrs. George Garrett to all who have made their reservations to Mrs. Frank Deer by Friday, October 18 After the meal is served group singing will be conducted and all will join In singing typical old American songs, both Western and otherwise. The state farm band will accompany the singing. One of the highlights of the afternoon's games will be a treasure hunt on horseback. Prizes will be awarded to the winners of games and contests. If you like horses and things outdoors, be sure to attend the Saddle /->(,,v, 111 nn October 20,

SHANGHAI, Oct. 10 (UP) The British embassy has cabled the foreign office at London asking whether it should prepare to evacuate Britons from China, it was understood today. News of the embassy’s action came is the American Chamber of Commerce called a meeting for tomorrow to consider an appeal to the United State government for forced emergency reduction in steamship rates as a means of speeding evacuation if Americans in China in view of a threatened Far Eastern crisis. CHUNGKING, China, Oct. 10. • UP)—A Japanese formation totaling 119 planes dropped 800 bombs on Chungking, the emergency capital, today as China celebrated its national holiday, commemorating the revolution which overthrew the Manchu dynasty. Bombs showered in the populous suburbs and in villages along the south bank of the river. TOKYO. Oct. 10. (UP) Newspapers increased the vigor of their comments today on the United States government’s advice to Americans to leave the Far East and on allege I Anglo-American plots to sabotage Japan’s new order in the Far East. The extreme nationalist newspaper Kokumin, which seeks to speak for the armed forces, said Japan was “sternly" watching the “obstinate British and American plots" and that responsibility for the future would be borne by Britain and America. A columnist’s article in Nichi Nichi, said that the United Stat-s was likely to go to war if it thought that its feeling of superiority had been injured by the new Japanese-German-Italian alliance. “Therefore it can not be denied that Japanese-American relations are now in the gravest crisis period of history,” it said. Hochi said that the advice to Americans to leave the Far East was “just an expression of United States Enmity against reality in greater East Asia.’’ It suggested that the United States ought to withdraw its armed forces from the Far East before civilians were advised to leave. Some of the newspapers refrained from editorial comment but gave prominent position to special articles from Washington, New York and Shanghai and to headlines to the effect that the United States was taking threatening measures against

Japan.

Asahi’s New York correspondent said that Japanese-American trade relations already were in semi-war condition. Yomiuri’s Shanghai correspondent said that among maneuvers to put further pressure on Japan, was considered by Secretary of State Cordell Hull of a plan to withdraw marines from China. However, the newspaper added, Japan’s determination to construct a greater East Asia was immutable. DEED LAND TO STATE Owners of land principally in Washington township who have deeded right of way to the Indiana State Highway Commission and whose deeds have been recorded in the office of Mrs. Nellie M. Denny. Putnam county recorder, are as follows: E. W. Girton, Lester Crabb, Otis Gardner, Raymond E. Day, Glenn C. Skelton, Herbert J. Hinote, David Stigler. Charles L. Gardner, Fred H. Boyd. Walter Hutcheson. Mack Long. Frank Fisher, Chas. O. Burke, Edmond W. Stockwell, Lena A. Hunter, David A. Kendall, Charles C. Cook, Wm. Albert Girton, Glenn O Hassler, Fred Bennett. Forest H. Aker. Ola Pollom, Edward S. Chew, Emma F. Roberts, Odessa H Volkers, Phillip Hutcheson, Jr., Marcellous Crousore, John D. Hooten. John A. Routt, Charles E. Lewis, Charles T. Brann, Lloyd B. Fellows, Claude Hutcheson, Mont Bridges. Other deeds of the same character will soon be recorded. LEGIONNAIRES ATTENTION! All members of Putnam Post 58, are requested to assemble at th“ American Legion home Friday evening at 6:30 attired in Legion caps and shirts The ex-service men will march in the Citizenship paradwith the Legion color guard.

WARREN TOWNSHIP CLUB SPONSORS SHOW Warren Township Home Ec Club is holding a county community talent benefit show. “The Revue of Future Stars" on Oc’ober 22-23 in the Greencastle H'gh School Auditorium, beginning at 8 o’clock. This variety show w.U be composi of amateur artists Irom all s.-c-ions ol Putnam co mty and a few of th - adjoining townj ou'side of his coun y. The outstanding feature of the Revue is that Chicago ra ho auditions are to be offered, ilus six cash prizes, and that two complete shows a:e being organized. Tryouts and interviews are being i; ranged for October 15-16-17 in the Putnamville Community Buliding fr :n 7 to 9 each evening. Musicians, impersonators, readers, dancers, trios, sclolsts, harmony groups, novelty sets, quartettes various ensemble groups are invited to aliened auditions. The Revue is under the direction of Miss Wilda A. Weaver of Chicago.

GREENCASTLE POLITICAL SCENES

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VICTIMS ELDERLY PERSONS

Clul> Members See New Hall

ROT ARLANS ENJOY VISIT TO HARRISON HALL AFTER

LUNCHEON

The Greencastle Rotary Club enjoyed a visit to the newly completed John Harrison Hall. DePauw science building, after their weekly luncheon on Wednesday, October 9th. The tour was conducted by Dean Herbert Smith with the assistance of Dr. T. G. Yuncker, professor of Botany, Dr. C. P Hickman, professor of Zoology, Dr Fowler Brooks, professor of Psychology, and E. R. Smith, professor

of Geology.

The laboiatories of the new building are excellently equipped. Each of the laboratories is lighted indirectly, has gas and electric outlets, and has individual laboratories for each student. A feature of the equipment are the “blackboards" made of opague green glass on which yellow chalk is used, making them more easily visible and with less strain on the eyes of the student. The lower hallways have terrazzo floors in shades blending with the walls, I whereas the hallway on the second floor has a flooring of a rubber comI position in an attractive color design. The seal of the university is cast in metal and set in the terrazzo floor in the center of the main entrance

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Dr. Clyde Wildman, president of | the university, and Charles Barnaby, I Sr., honorary member of the Rotary ' Club, and chairman of the DePauw University Building Committee, were

present.

This picture was taken Saturday night in the courtroom, during the address before a Putnam county Republican rally by Raymond E. Willis, candidate for United States Senate in Indiana

The above picture shows the speaker's stand and Henry F. Schricker, Democratic candidate for governor, when he appeared in the high school gymnasium Saturday evening.

RHODE ISLAND HOST TO REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE

“DOWNTOWN COACHES” SEE GRID PICTURES Another nice crowd that was interes’.cd in football, attended the Dow i Town Coaches meeting in the assembly room of the court house Wednesday evening, during which Coach Neal of I ><4Patiw explain“d some of the formations and plays used by many football coaches and pictures of the 1939 Indiana-Purdue game were shown on the screen. Another meeting will be held in the assembly loom next week, at which time another big Indiana game, along with some DePauw games, will be shown. INDIAN \POMS LIVESTOCK Hogs 9,500. Market steady; 160200 lbs.. $5.80-$6.10; 200-300 lbs.. $6.20-$6 35; 300-400 lbs., $6.05-$6.15; 100-160 lbs.. $4.60-$5.60; sows mostly $5.60-$6.15. Cattle 600, calves 600. Bulk lightweight butcher cattle common and medium grades $6.50-$8.50. mostly steady: beef cows weak to 25 cents lower at $5-$6.25; common and cutter cows steady; calves strong to 50c higher at $12.50. Sheep 1 80o Fambs steady to 25 cents >ower; good to choice lambs $8.75-$9.25.

CTRCriT < OI’RT NOTES Hollis Ray Perry was granted a livorce from Daisy Perry.

20 Years Ago IN GREENOABTLB Mr. and Mrs. Albert Houck, and Mr. and Mrs Emmett Green we-e among the Fifth district Shriners who attended the pinic of that organization at Turkey Run. Miss Reggie Daniels was here from Vincennes where she was teaching school, to visit her mother.

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN. EN ROUTE TO PROVIDENCE. R. I . Oct. 10 (UP) Republican presi- ! dentia! nominee Wen iell L. Willkit | appealed for the support of little i business today as he turned into industrial northern Connecticut a ad Rhode Island, whose economy is | based on a multiplicity of small fac- ; lories and relatively few large scale

! employers.

He offered a six point program j "for the rebuilding of American business" and declared that victory I for the Republican ticket would [ mean needed "help” ’for “small bus- , incss in America.” He charged that the new deal has I "been the enemy of little business" i and that big business concerns have | fared better in the last seven years j than their smaller competitors. Willkie is en route to Providence, R. L, for a majo speech tonight at 9 p. m. EST. He makes brief talks during the day at New London, Conn., and Westerly, East Greenwich, River Point. Woonsocket. R. I. and Attleboro, Mass. He leaves his train at East Gree.ij wich at 11 a. m. to travel the reI mainder of the day by automobile. A pledge tc revise the federal tax structure and to set up government laboiatories to seek new uses for industrial products highlighted Wilikie's business program which he. offered in a speech at New Haven. Conn., last night.

NEW ( I BAN PRESIDENT HAVANA, Oct. 10 I UP I Fulgencio Batista, who seven years ago was a stenographer-sergeant in the army, became president of Cuba at toon today. When he finished epcatuig the oath of office before chief justice Federico Edelman of the Supreme Court in the sumptous hall of mirrors. of the presidential palace, a battery of artilley outside fired a salute of 21 guns. He was elected president June 14 but up until a few days ago it was feared that his inauguration would be indefinitely pos’poned because the constitution provides that congress must proclaim his election, and congress has not yet convened due to the large number of seats in contest.

Student Poll Refutes Report m’vioritv favors military INSTRFt TIO.N AS WELL AS FA A A poll taken among DePauw university students (luting the past , week, refutes the report made by a ; small group of students last week in which it was stated that military training was opposed in DePauw. It was shown by the straw vote taken during the past week that there is a decided majority of DePauw students favoring the Civil Aeronautics Authority military instruction in DePauw and once a^ain the matter oi the Reserve Officers Training Corps came up for a decision among the students and again it was favored by a substantial majority of the students, although not as strongly as was the CAA proposal. The students were about equally I divided on the matter of conscription in the nation in this poll, which also included a political angle as mere was a vote on Willkie and Roosevelt and the decision rested with the former by a majority of 852 to 175. Nornan Thomas collected a total of 46 /otes during the balloting. MOVIE STAR’S SISTER BELIEVED RAID VICTIM HOLLYWOOD. Oct, 10 (UP) — Film actress Madeline Carroll maintain'd a vigil at the telephone today, hoping foe word from London that reports of her sister, Marguerite, having been killed in a German bombing raid were erroneous. Miss Carroll refused to believe press reports and spent a wakeful night awaiting a reply to frantic cablegrams to her parents "It can't be true," she said. "Certainly my family would have informed me."

British ( apital Experiences Longest And Most Severe Aerial Attack Of The War

LONDON, Oct. 10-—(UP) Royal Air Force planes bombed mfiTtary objectives, including communications, In Germany during the night and also attache 1 invasion ports, ths air ministry announced today.

TRAINS ( RASH: 2 KILLED

BUCHAREST, Oct. 10 (UP) German and Italian circles said today that a rupture in British-Ruman-ian diplomatic relations was "only a matter of hours” and that British legation officials had prepared to go to Istanbul, Turkey. LONDON, Oct. 10—( UP) Scor. s of men, women and children tenement dwellers were buried today when a giant German bomb crash'd into an emergency air raid shelter in a crowded London area. Rescue workers, still digging for bodi«s after several hours, said that they had no hope that anyone cou>d be brought out alive. Thv» bomb stiuck the shelter toward the end of the longest German air raid of the war, the third night of the new “Hammer-Krieg’’ attack. A commercial firm had built a big emergency shelter trench, heavily sandbagged, for its employes in the only open space in a tenement district. Dwellers in nearby tenements had been given permission to use ,t at nights. Leaving their own frail horn's, the tenement families cowered in the shelter during the hours Nazi Planes were raining bombs on London. The great bomb which struck the shelter buried all of them. There was no chance for any to escape. Their homes around it were undamaged except for broken windows and pitted walls. As in the case of the hospital Uih Nazis bombed the day before, many of those in the shelter trench weru aged men and women. Maintaining relentlessly the ferocity of their attack, the Germans, after only a brief pause at the end of their night raid, returned to give the Metropolitan area Its first daylight alarm during this morning ruSh hour. No bombs dropped, and word was flashed from the coast that German plane formations, crossing over ths Kentish coast, had been broken nn by anti-aircraft guns and chased out to sea by Spitfire fighting planes. The Germans had bombed 40 areas in greater London and towns, villages and country districts all over England and Wales during the nigh'. Dive bombers which attacked one London district spattered machine gun bullets on the streets. Wales suffered the severest attack in weeks. Homes were ruined and gas, electricity and water mains were broken in one town, though casualities were reported relatively Hffht. German aviators dropped incendiary bombs harmlessly in mountainous areas of Wales. There were serious casualities in a town in .southwest England where several heavy bombs struck a home area. Hundreds of incendiary bombs showered on homes in a northwest England town. Several persons were killed and many wounded when a Nazi bomb struck a Wesleyan Chapel in a southwest England town while the congregation were holding an on(r»nttnii4>fl on I’nicr Two>

CHICAGO, Oct. 10 (UP) Two men were killed today when two Indian! Harbor Belt iallroad freight trains collided at the intersection of a Spur line and the main road west of here. The dead were A. J. Burns, a brakeman, and Fred W. Wallish, a fireman, both of Hammond, Ind.

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