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II \s SHOPPING EASON TO OPEN ERE SATURDAY
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STATE LATIN CONTEST WILL BE HELD FEB. 22 Tlic principals and Latin teachers | of the Pytnam county schools have . ceived letters recently, invitinjit 'hem to enroll their schools for the
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jlate Latin Contest.
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Francis McClure of HainbritlKc ligh Scliool - has been appointed diairman for this county by the Extension Division of Indiana Univerlily. He will have charge of the our.ty contest to be held on Febru,\nd Business District IDecor I <u . y 22. This contest was started about sixeen years ago and now attracts argo numbers of Indiana school! and Latin students. Each school may end two representatives from each .,.itin class to the county contest, ’icin here the two highest ranking mpils go to the district and in like nanner the two highest tliere go to he state contest at Bloomington.
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#lp d ; ( ili/ens Advised To Do
’Ilr-ir Shopping Early
In today's Issue of The Daily Ban,oi\ (freencastle merchants arc annuncing their formal opening of he 1940 Christmas shopping season Vl t|i an array of holiday nicrehanjl,,, „| C |i as has sel loin been seen in
’utnani county.
With the coming of the holiday risen, the down town see frn o je city has been decora tea am* ligWed for the month of Deco nbci id beginning next Saturday, i'ant. the different stores during the -] aus will appear on the st ee and Kite n in and all day on Saturdays until Christman. The children a.well as adults are invited to come wn trw.i an I talk to San’a Clan this manner most people can c;t a good idea of wh.it they want
lu, Christmas.
Our caders are invited lo go tlirnigh today’s edition of The Ban very carefully ns there hiy plenty of rare Christmas offi ing. iste.l an I the early shopper will lienefil mate lally by larger and bcttoi selections of merchandise ,ind at the same time will avoid the last minute rush and the crowds which come with the closing houis 1: Ihf holiday season.
Deadline Dec. 31 For Vuto Plates I
State Dentist To Visit Schools
FOUL PLAY IS SUSPECTED IN HARRIS DEATH
LOCAL VOUNL MAN HAD BEEN PAID SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH
POLICE SEEK TAXI DRIYER
larst Rltea for tireeiK a-slle Young Man Will Be Held Salurday Afternoon
M) 1 INTENSION WILL BE (illANTKD, FRANK FINNEY ANNOUNCES
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huh mu motorists will have to pur1 i 1941 automobile license plates > •• •<« . I foi the first time in
r Ihrer years.
Drivers’ licenses also must be obtained by then. l unik Finney, state motor vehicle i nun:; .u.ier announced today there wind b no extension of the Dtc. Ill dcadlir ■ ini said the 1941 plates ''"iilti „ on sale next Thursday. Since 19:i7 his first year in office Governor Townsend has extended the deadline 60 days each year and at the 19M9 session of the geo eral a- embly recommended that | Maich 1 be fixed by law as the final I
purchase date.
Slati law sets Dec. .'11 ns the dea I- j line for plate purchases, hut Governo: Towns md has granted the period ulxi.n. through an executive order. More than one million sets of blue ■mil white plates will ho put on sale mine ]r>6 branch offices throughout
tlic state. /
Mark Rodcnbeck, Finney’s assistant, said 1940 plate sales up to Oct. 1 had i n.ken the record of 1.047,036 ' taliin , .1 last year. Sales for the f.'ri b monthis of 1940 aggregated
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y - announcement followcii Hie nb; . rvrtion by Gover trot-elect Hrniy |. Schricker that he looked "ith disfavor on extension of the "idlin' Schricker pointed out that llii' time for purchasy was fixed by
>K\ERAL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATIONS TO HFK t FILM AND HEAR TALK Beginning Monday. Dr RoWrt L '.’eden, senior dentist with the State r: I of H alth. assisted by Mis.-, line M Gcrke, county nurse, will viiil the county schools, showing a film and giving a talk on dental rare and health. Because of the lack of facilities needed for that particular purpose a some of the smaller schools, it will be impossible to visit all of them, a.s had been planned originally. Arrangements are being made to bring some of these schools together so that these children may also be
benefit! d.
In lb.' Greencastle ; chools, Dg ’eden will be assisted by Miss Pauine Smith, city school nurse. Sevc.al Parent-Teacher o. ganizaiens have made arrangements to have Dr Poden speak before their group and also show a film. These prisons in the county who are especially Interested in this movement hope to stimulate further interest, thi aghout the county, »i> .that in the futu:e a plan may he worked out to ecure dental caie for school children. The schedule of the schools to he visited is as follows: Monday In the foienoon, Russellville and Rcachdale; in the afternoon. Barnard and New Maysvillc. Tuesday G.eencastle schools and -hi namville. Wednesday In the forenoon, No 10 and No. 2. in Madison township, •and Clinton Center; in the afternoon Morton an I Bainbridge. Thursday In the forenoon, Groveland and Flbyd Center; in the aftemoen, Fillmore and Belle Union. Friday» In the forenoon, M anhattan. Ueelsvillc and No 10 in Washington township; In the .'S.ftc noon, Cloverdale, ' < « Miss Gc ke stated this morning that the No. 10 and Brunerstown school children, of Madison township, will join with the pupils of the No. 10 school at the latter's school house. Wednesday morning. She also announced that the Greenca itlc Thitd Ward P. T. A. will have Dr. Pedcn a.s their guest lecturer Monday evening at the Thi d Ward school building; that the Bainbridge P. T. A. Stu ly Club will have him with them in their meel ing in the school auditorium (Continued on Page Five)
BULLETIN The cause of the death of Mr. Harris was officially attributed to heart disease in a report made today by Dr. Hugh K. Thatcher, deputy coroner of Marion county, regardless of any other report attributing tin death to some other cause.
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Jiyiies', Harris, 23-year-old local young man, who died suddenly in Indianapolis Wednesday night may atve met with foul play according to latent' reports from the state capital. The young Greencastle man had received nis salary from the packing company where he was employed only a few hours prior to lii.s death htit when found he had only a dollar ip his person. Leaving work, shortly after 4 p. in., after getting his pay. young Harris was not seen again by friends until ho was found unconscious in i taxicab about 8:15 o’clock. At that time he was rushed to the Indianapolis city hospital where he was pronounced dead upon admittance. Indianapolis police today were attempting In establish his whereabouts from the time he left the packing plant until he was put into the taxi. Officers were also seeking the cab driver in an effort to learn who placed M Harris in th taxi. It was said that when the taxi reached tjie local man' rooming house, the driver found him unconscious and took him to the hospital. Funeral services will be held from the home of his mother, Mrs. George Harris, east Washington street, at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Rev. Claude M. McClure, pastor of the Gobin Memorial Methodist church will have charge. Interment will be in Forest Kill'cemetery. TO TRY BLOCKADE DASH TAMPICO, Mex.. Nov. 29 (UP I Two German freighters make another attempt today to elude the British blockade and reach the open sea. There was an air of urgency in thoir preparations am. in their persistence which seemed to strengthen reports that they were destined to refuel and revictual German raiders at some secret rendezvous. A Mexican gunboat was waiting to escort them nine miles out into the Gulf of Mexico, the end of Mexican territor|pl waters. They had steam up, they had fieen re-provisioned and refueled, their crows were aboard. GUESS WHeT
DR. GREENLEAF HONORED BY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Dr. Herrick E. H. Greenleaf ot Greencastle was, this week, elected second vice president of the Indiana Town and City School Administrators' Association meeting at Indianapolis. Dr. Greenleaf is a member o', the bon d 6f trustees of the Greencastle consolidated schools The new president of the association is John V. Beamcr of Wabash. H E. Binford of Bloomington is first vice president. The school officials adopted a resolution advocating enactment ol legislation permitting superintendents to purchase liability insurance with school board funds to protect teachers, other employes and volun leer student workers. British Warships Engage Italians -ON DON REPORTS NEW SUCCESS BY MEDITERRANEAN BATTLE FLEET LONDON, Nov 29. (UPl Douands for a concentrated campaign to knock Italy out of the war were whetted today by tlw- admiralty's report thal he Mediterranean fleet had struck another heavy blow at the Italian navy, reducing its capital ships to two. The admiralty said that in a sur-icc-acrial encounter west of Sardinia Wednesday, an Italian battleship of the new. 35-000-ton Littorio class, three cruisers and two destroyers were severly damaged. The only British casualty was the 10.000-ton cruiser Berwick, which suffered tw > ids and lost six men. but is already ,eady foi service again, the admiral-
ty said.
The action came only 16 days aft -i tile British assault on Taranto, in which three It ilian battleships, tb o cruisers and two auxiliary vessels were damaged. BERLIN, Nov. 29. (UP) Nazi nicimants said today that two British destroyers had been torpedoed in clash with German destroyers at the western exit of the English chanicl yesterday. «
15TH ANNUAL CORN SHOW DEC. 12-IH-I4
IN CONJUNCTION WITH OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATION AND FIRST CITIZENS RANK
SADDLE CLUB WILL ELECT OFFICERS MONDAY
DISPLAY
COURT HOUSE
Itavidj L. Grime* Anno^m-en Thai The Program For The Show Has Been Completed
Putnam County's Saddle Club will hold its annual dinner for the election of officers at the tbant Hotel on route 40 at 6:30 Monday. December 2 A turkey dinner will he serv-
ed.
At this time plans for the coming year will be made. Several members of the chib have moving pictures that will be shown. These includf pictures taken by Cloyd Moss, Dr W. J. Krider, R. E Sandy and Wil-
bur Donner.
The outgoing club officers are as follows: president, John Eamshaw; vice president. Irving Schmcltokopf secretary, Eleanor Wilkinson; treas-
ure;. Martha Hurst.
DePauw Group To \ isit lu Chicago
The program for the fifteenth an-
nual corn show fo Putnam county has been completed at the office of David L. Grimes, county farm agent, in conjunction with the officers of (hr Putnam County Corn Growers' Association and the First Citizens Bank and Trust Company of G erncastlc. The show will be held under the auspices of the Corn Groweri' Association, sponso cd by the bank i
and trust company. J. B Croshy is INTERESTING PROGRAM IS ARpresident of that financial institu- RANGED FOR TWO-DAY TRIP tion and the officers of the associa- THIS WEEKEND
tion are R. J. Coffman, director; Lois Arnold, assistant director. Th. judge of the show this year will be Walter Harpel, who Tias been here
before in a similar capacity. The show will be held in the lobby
of the Court House, December 12.
13 and 14.
Art Fair Will End Activities
PURPOSE IS TO STIMULATE INTEREST IN LOCAL AMERICAN ART
ROME. Nov. 29. (UPl A new engagement between the Italian air force and British warships, this one off the British Mediterranean island fortress of Malta, was described in today’s official war communique which said that another British battleship had been struck by a heavy caliber bomb.
Sixly-six members of DePauw University’s art department will leave Greencastle at seven o'clock Satin day morning to make their second annual “cultural excursion,” a week end in Chicago which will be devoted to the study of fine arts and music. Individual tours through commercial artists’ studios. advertising 1 agencies and industrial design stu- | dios, an evening at the Chicago Civic | Opera, and a specially conducted tour through the Chicago Art Institute I will he the highlights of the week
end.
The group will leave Greencastle Saturday morning in two chartered busses and will arrive in Chicago about noon where they plan to take up their headquarters at the Allerton Hot; I Saturday afternoon will be spent in trips through the Chicago studios where the students can see
NO. 37 THREE HELD FOR ROBBERY AT FILLMORE
YOUTHFUL TRIO NABBED BY IN DIA N APOLIK POLICE; ADMIT CRIMES
FOURTH YOUTH
SOUGHT
The Art Fair at the court house in Greencastle on Saturday from 2 to 9 p. m.. will culminate the activities of National Ait ffeek. In the corridor
of the court house many students of I commercial art in action.
DePauw University and the high school and other artists will demonstrate how art works are made. Some of the people are Miss Virginia Ostrander, carving; Ab Howard, commercial work; Miss Dorothy Gardner, charcoal; Fred Amft. pastel; Wendell Overman, oil painting: Miss Carmen Siewert, ait in yarn; Miss Mary Margaret Sheridan, woodcarving and
others.
’ ' ut: and expressed belief that per- ’>' 1 'liief executive lacked auth- KIWANIS CLUB MEMBERS
"riiy (, exte nc j the deadline.
1 ''•rill CONVENTION ENDS NEVV ORLEANS, Nov. 29.. (UP) I 1 :: American Federation of Laboi "'deludes its convention today. <il: "f the convention’s last acts 111 tl » approve the principles Cf 1111 -iU-hour work week. Officials 111 Privately that no attempt would 't# made
Pifsrnt
to obtain one during the emergency. ^''•' g 'tes le-clected Pi .'Sident Will * ni for a 17th term, and the 10 ot her officals.
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HEAR ART WEEK TALK Kiwanians at their weekly lunch•on meeting on Thursday heard Miss Harri tt Hazinskl speak in connection with Ait Week, on “Art. Our Inheritance.” Along with her talk Miss Hazinskl showed slides of some of the steps and changes in art work down through the ages. All Ihrough her talk Miss Hazinski showed that special types of art were frequently condemned and that it was not until a later period that that artist was appreciated. Most artists had to struggle If) make hia work even partially acceptable during his day. Today we are struggling to keep art alive and to make the American public more nppieciutive cf art woiks. Prior to the address by Miss Hazinski. Tom Bair told the club many of the interesting and important phases of Scout troop No. 90’s activities. This troop is sponsored by the
Kiwanis Club.
Guests at the meeting besides Miss Hazinskl and Mr Bai)'^ Included Walter George R. H. Bpum# n of Purdue University and James Y. Causey of the DePauw romance lang-
uage department.
There were two lucky winners in "Guess Who” last week and each will receive two free tick Vs to the Voncastle theatre to see “Bittersweet.'' Mis. Paul G inie;i and Ri Hammond, route three, were the first to guess that the tw> boys pictured were Walter and William Bryan. This week we have a young man lliat many will recogivzv He lives west of Greencastle and can bo seen almost any time driving around the City and to various places in the county. Try your luck an^ win two frie* tickets to the Voncastle Theatre. Just call your answers in to the office of The Daily Banner.
LIVERPOOL. England, Nov. 29. - (UPl Shrapnel fell in the streets like rain for more than eight hours last night while a seemingly endless curtain of anti-aircraft shells rose into the sky at an almost continuous wave of German bombing planes. Severe damage was done to some commercial property and many homes in the working class district were wrecked as bombs showered down on this. Britain's second largest port to which come ships of Die world with food, munitions and war equipment Officials asserted that the damage reported in a preliminary survey was not extensive and casual'ies were “generally believed not heavy.” The raiders first showered the city with incendiary bombs, starting fires in widely scattered areas. The fires were quickly extinguished, however, by fire fighters and air raid precautions workers who battled the flames despite bombs and shrapnel. STRUGA, Jugoslavia, Nov. 29 (UPi Frontier reports said today that 11 Italian transports loaded with fresh troops arrived at Durazzo, Albania, and were rushed immediately towar I the front where further Greek successes were reported. At the same time new rebel activity inside Albania wa i reported. Gieek columns were reported swinging west from Pogradec, into the Shkumbi River valley in an appaient attempt to cut off Italians let real.ng over the main road to Elbasan.
The purpose of the Art Fair is to stimulate interest in local American art and its purciia.se. American Art for every Home is the slogan of National Art Week. To help fulfill the goal of National Art Week, the committee is promoting an exhibition and sales of the following artists: Ray Miller, woodwork; Miss Pearl O’Hair, oil painting; Mrs. J. O. Cammack, sculpture; Miss Carrie Fox, placques; Mrs. Bernice Craig Dix, oil painting; Mrs. Harvey Owens, character dolls; High School Art Club, pottery; Merton Rapp, hand framed prints; Glen D. Leyenberger. Bainbridge. oil painting; Hetzer Hartsock. woodcarving; DePauw University Camera Club, photographs. Every resident of the county is invited to join in the National Art Week movement by coining to the Art Fair at the court house on Saturday, Nov. 30.
State Detective Roy Newgent Files Charges; Group Will Be Arraigned Tuesday A quick solution of the burglary of two places of business in Fillmore early Wednesday morning was reached by the arrest at Indianapolis, only few hours after the felonies were committed in the Marion township town, of three youths who, so the police say. confessed to committing those burglaries, connecting another young man with them, and, at the iame time, so the officers say, telling of their part in similar robberies at Bargersville and Stone’s Crossing, in Johnson county, not. far from Indianapolis. One of the young men arrested is Robert Nichols, a resident of Putnam county, and the others are Carl Gluff and James Gluff, of Indianapolis, riiey inplicated Raymond Williams, of Indianapolis, who had not yet been it rested, this morning. This forenoon, Roy Newgent, state police detective, filed in the office of County Clerk Homer C. Morrison un affidavit charging these four youths with second degree burglary, based on the robbery of the Pruitt Hardware store in Fillmore. Detective Newgent had been working for the state police and with the Indianapolis police department and the Putnam county sheriff and deputy, in tho
case.
Mr. Newgent said that the arrests were made by the Indianapolis police upon information supplied them by a private citizen who told them he saw things being carried into Nichols’ apartment in the northeast part of Indianapolis, which aroused his suspicions because of their character. The city police raided the apartment
and the arrests followed.
Detective Newgent had a list of the goods taken from the Pruitt
politan stars will be one of the high-! ... . t 1 “ store which is noteworthy because ol
lights of the Chicago opera season as well as of the DePauw “cultural
After dinner Saturday, the group will don their formal attire to attend a performance of Lily Pons and James Melton in “Lucia dc Lammermoor” at the Chicago Civic Opera The appearance of these two Metro-
excursion."
At 10:30 Sunaay morning the group will start on their tour through the Chicago Art Institute where they will see the current Contemporary American Art Show which is being held as a part of National Art Week.
the number of guns, with ammunition, taken from the store, with other items. Outstanding, also, was the inclusion of three zipper-fastened
night bags.
In the loot from the Pruitt place, were seven rifles and shotguns an I their ammunition. 80 knives, flashlights, and $16.75 in halves and quar-
Students in the course called “Art ter8 an(1 2 5 in nickles and dimes.
20 Years Ago IN GRKENCAjmjG
Miss Ida Nelson visited relatives in. Chicago. Ted Ogden was reelected captain of the DePauw football team. Roy Abrams, treasurer of the Putnam county Republican central committee, reported a balance on hand of $190 The receipts had bee-n $1933. Charles Barnaby was listed as contributing $250.
DUKE AND DUCHESS TO VISIT IN MIAMI NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 29. (UP) The Duke and Duchess of Windsor sail within two weeks for Miami, Fla., where the Duchess will enter a hospital foi a major dental operation. The visit will he “private” and will in no way be connected with the Duke’s official position as governor of the Bahamas, the post which lie assumed after leaving France and Spain last summer. The Duke and Duchess plan to sail on a Munargo line boal. arriving at Miami about Dec. 10. They plan to return here on Dec. 14 without going further into the United States than
Miami
The operation will be performed by Dr. Horace L. Cartee. an orthodonist and extractionist. The hospital will lie selected by Harold Christie, a representative of the Duchess. Dr. Canee visited the Duchess soon after her airival here last summer and recommended the operation. She is said to have an inpacted tooth. Both the Duke and Duchess desire the greatest possible privacy during their visit, it was said, and hope that arrangements could be made to make their trip uneventful. During the Duke’s absence, W. L. Heape, colonial secretary, will administer government affairs. ^
of the New Age” will be able to see a good proportion of the pictures studied in the course. A return to Greencastle is scheduled for about one o’clock Sunday afternoon This group excursion will be the second annual trip to be held under the sponsorship of Professor A. Reid Winsey, chairman of DePauw’s Fine Arts division. It has been described
as unique among trips of this kind!
since it includes music a.s another j branch of culture besides art. Mr. and Mrs. Winsey and Miss Harriet Hazinski, art instructor, will chaperone the group, most of whom will stay at the Allerton Hotel. The
cost to the average art student is
estimated at not more than eight dollars which includes a ticket to the opera as well a.s other expenses. The tour is being made as the culminating event of National Art Week which will be celebrated in Greencas-
tle by an all-day Art Fair in the Ireencastlc court house on Saturday where the reqiaining art students A’ill exhibit and demonstrate the work of the whole department. MARRIAGE LI< ENSES Jay Dean Keith, ttsuck driver, Indlanapolii, and Maxine Lydick, beautician, Greencastle. Raymond Junior Talley, fanning, Giecncnstle, and Minnie Catherine Cook, housewo. k. Mt. Men lian Delmer G. Taylor, farming, Ladoga, and Viola M. Estes, at home, Gicencaatle, ii.ute 3 J. D. Muncie, manager Merit Shoe Company, Greencastle and Evelyn Thompson, unemployed, LaPorte.
These young men are being held at Indianapolis by the police for further questioning, the officers having a hope that from the prisoners they will secure information regarding other similar robberies of recent dates. They will be brought to Greencastle for arraignment in court, next Tuesday. OPPOSED TO TAX WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. ( UP)— President Roosevelt said today that he would oppose any proposals to enact a sales tax to finance new government expenditures resulting from the national defense program. DIES IN POVEHli NEW YOFK. Nov. 29 (UP) - F ank Tinney, 53, once one of th': .state's highest paid black face comedians, died in poverty in a Long Island hospital last night. T.nncy began his career in Vaudeville, and reached Broadway in 1910, appearing in the “Follies.'' He played in London, and during the war, served as a captain in the quartermaster’s col ps, returning here to continue his successful career. Frank Jarrell, superintendent of the Putnam county schools, announced today that a meeting will be held at his office Saturday, at 9:30 o'clock, of the public school music instructors of the county to plan foi the second annual county music festival, which will he held in April.
U1RUU1T UOURT NOTES I The Federal Land Bank of Louisville asks judgment for $2396 90 and a foreclosure on property owned bv Absalom M. Watters et al, Lyon & Ab:ams being the attoineys for the plaintiff. In the condemnation suit of the State of Indiana vs. Paul Mahoney, the plaintiff filed a motion to dismiss Ralph McCalman as a defendant.
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