The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 December 1940 — Page 1
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SWAHLEN ASSED AWAY ON TUESDAY [f it MRS, «E R- ALLEN 1KI) SIDDENLV IN ST. LOUIS lA TK or UNIVERSITY jwlh |eii Wdl Known In Thin (l \\ as Member Of Bela Thrtu Pi FrateHty and Mrs. J. P. Allen received parly Tu. sday of the sudden uf Mrs Allen’s brother, Dr. f H swahlen at his apartment , st. Ann's Maternity hospital Liuis. where he had lived foi ;ast many years. Swahlen was born and reared II but spent much of jiild-hood and young manhood tencastle. where he was educat- , the public school and in DeUniversity. His father, the p, Swahlen was an instructoi ,pauw and it was because of this the family moved here from Bon Dr. Swahlen was gradufrom the university with the of 1899. He was also a memf the Beta Theta Pi fraterritty. joking his graduation here, he k! medicine and was educated . universities of Germany from place he returned to take up ractice of his profession in St. Hr specialized in obstetrics ras considered an authority on ibject in this section of the naSwahlen had been in poor 1 for the past year or more, but lone much of his usual work, londay evening he attended a ng of St. Louis physicians and xpected to drive to GreencastD esday to spend the week-end Mr and Mrs. Allen. Swahlen was born on June 4. He is survived by the sister. Mien air: a brother, Ben SwahSt. Louis The funeral will be in St. Louis on Thursday after the body will be taken to the >me in Lebanon, 111., for burial.
TWO “ENEMY AGENTS” EXECUTED BY BRITISH LONDON, Dec. 10 1UP1 Two ’’enemy agents, ’ acting in behalf ot Germany, were execu5»d today m Pentcnvillc prison, the home office announced. Jose Waldberg, a German citizen born at Mainz, and Ka 1 Meier, a Dutch subject of German origin born ut Coblenz, were the men executed. They weie arrested soon after arriving secretly in England, the home office said, and were convicted at Central Criminal Couit, the famous "Old Bailey,” Nov. 22. They possessed a radio transmitter which they intended to use at night, and a considerable sum in one poun I (nominally $5) notes, it was charged.
Kites Tuesday For \\. L. Akers
War Flashes
-HENS, Dec. 10.—(UP)—The > army was reported today to unleashed a new offensive on jntire 150-mile Albanian front in Jfort ti, smash Italian defenses 80.000 new Italian reinforceIs can be thrown into action.
AWA Dec. 10.—(UP)—The lan destroyer Saguenay has irpedo il by an enemy submari the eastern Atlantic." and 21 re missing and presumably d ci ■ uminique said today, en ratings were wounded. NOON Dec, 10.—(UP)—The ministry reported today that Royir Force bombers are repeatedly hiring the new Nazi submarine ^ling station at Lorient as Prime Wr Winston Churchill announcibat the air arm which protects fish shipping against German at"'as being reinforced.
WELL KNOWN FARMER DIED SUDDENLY SU.NDA1 NEAR PLEASANT GARDENS Last rites were held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the Miller & Sons Funeral home in Brazil for William Lewis Akers, well known Putnam county farmer who died suddenly Sunday morning at his home a quarter of a mile south of Pleasant Gardens. Mr. Akers, age 68 years, had been in pool' health fur the past year. He was born in Owen county, a son of Timothy and Margaret Akers, but he had made his home on a farm in Washington township, Putnam county, for the past six years. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Lina Emily Akers: five sons and a daughter, Ray Orville and John of Gary; Carl of near Montezuma; Roy of Annapolis, Mo,, and Mrs. Edna Kinard of Gary; also 13 grandchildren. Final services were conducted at the Dailey chapel in Parke county and interment was in Dailey Chapel cemetery. Rev. Dallas Rissler and Rev. Charles were in charge of the services. RESERVES AT BOSTON
BOSTON. Mass., Dec. 10 (UP) Navy officials said today that the Sacramenlo, a training ship manned by Indiana naval reservists, had arrived at Boston navy yard after a
375 BALLOTS PROTESTED IN RECOUNT
SPECIAL BOARD ENDS RECHECK OF VOTES IN COMMISSIONER’S RACE < ROSS HAS MAJORITY OF 38 Protested Itallot, May Be Presented To Cireuit Court Judge For Final Ruling The rechecking of the votes cast in Putnam county in the recent election for county commissioner was concluded by the recount board Monday evening and the members of the board reported the result of their work to Judge William M. Sutherlin, of the Putnam Circuit Court, the same evening. After scrutinizing all of the county ballots as cast in all of the 37 election precincts, the number of votes credited to Buford Lee Fall, defeated Republican candidate for commissioner, and to Andy L. Cross, successful Democratic candidate for the same office, give Mr. Cross a majority of 38 over Mr. Fall. In the original count, Mr. Cross had a majority of 43. The total vote for Cross in the original count was 5,745, and the recount total vote for him is 5,713. Fall's total in the election was 5,702 and the recount vote is 5,675. The contest action was started when John H. Alice, attorney for Mr. Fall, filed a petition for a recount of the votes for commissioner, together with a bond whereby his client assumed all costs in the proceedings. The recount of the ballots was the first step in the proceedings ,to furnish evidence upon which to prosecute the contest in court. As the matter now stands, the con-testor-plaintiff. Mr. Fall, can proceed with the contest, using the i rult of the recount as evidence, or he can drop it. His attorney, Mr. Alice, said this morning that he and his client will confer today concerning the continuance of the matter. In the recount, 375 ballots were protested by one side or the other. Most of these, it is said, were protested because of minor irregularities. Most of these protested ballots were counted by the recount board, for one candidate or the other, and they were pretty evenly divided between the two parties in the contest
voyage f om Us base at Indiana Har- 0 ne member of the board said.
ON Dec. 10 (Ul?) * Tin cniixcr Diomede intercepted man merchant vessel Ida.1 a prize clew was unable to the Idarwakl from sinking,
nnounced officially today.
5 men of the Ida wald' '' prisoners aboard the Dio-
>c announcement said.
r®ON. Dec. 10 (UP)—British r re forces, smashing into the llr| M in the Egyptian desert ! surprise offensive on blitzkrieg are seeking to d ivc the Itall0 the si a where the British •' c »n blast them Into surrender oaihilatlon, it was ndicated to-
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TO INTRODUCE BILL INDIANAPOLIS, lnd„ Dec. 10 (UP) Arch N. Bobbitt, state Republican chairman, said today that bills would be introduced in tin' coming general assembly to mak the office of attorney general elective instead of appointive. YOUTHS HELD IN AUTO THEFT CRAW FORDS V1LLE, Ind , Dec. 10 (UP) Police today held three El wood youths whom they said confessed the theft of three automo biles during the past week. The youths gave their names as Lowell McCarthy, 16, Max Simmons, 17' and George Knopp, 18. Police arrested them following a wild chase thiough city streets which ended when their car went out o: control and crashed into a tree. The car had been stolen from a local filling station owner, police said.
The validity of these ballots will be decided by the court, if the contest is continued, and it is a possibility. it was pointed out, that the court’s rulings may upset the findings of the recount board. As a result of the close culling of the ballots by the recount board, Fall lost 27 of the votes credited to him by the precinct election boards, and
Cross lost 32.
FAST TRAIN TO FLORIDA DERAILED; SEVERAL INJURED B IT L L E T I N ATLANTA. Ga., Dec. 10. (UP) — The Southern Railroad’s fast passenger train to Florida, the "Ponce Dc Leon,” was derailed about 12 miles south d here today. First reports said several persons were injured.
BOSTON INVITED TO
ATTEND COUNCIL MEETING
Paul F. Boston, superintendent of schools of Greencastle is a member of the alumni advisory council fo Indiana State Teachers College which has been invited by President Ralph N. Tirey to meet at Terre Haute
Friday and Saturday.
One hundred of Indiana State’s leading alumni representing practically all the counties in the stab' comprise the group which has been formed to enable the college to receive suggestions and criticism. President Tirey considers the formation of the alumni council as one of the most important administrative steps at the college in recent years. The meeting this week end will be concentrated on giving the counsellors a comprehensive view of the college’s program and its facilities. Later conferences will be held at which the alumni will give suggestions as to how the college may im-
prove its program.
CAR BACKS AWAY; MAKES ARCH, HITS LAMP POST Breaking away from its parking place on the south s.dc of the square, in front of the A&1P grocery stor^, an Oakland, owned by Dan Cooper of Mt. Meridian, started backwards down Washington street, made an arch and crashed into the light post in fiont of the Central National Bank at 2:00 o’clock Monday after-
noon.
The car hit the post with enough force to break the glass lamp and drive the light rear wheel of the car forward against the fender. Tne o ash att: acted attention of many of the holiday shoppers who were in Greencastle. DrPauw Orchestra To Give Concert PROGRAM THURSDAY EVENING IN MEHARRY HALL; MR. BEKG CONDUCTOR The DePauw University Symphon Orchestra conducted by Herman Berg will present a concert Thursday evening at 8:15 o’clock in Meharry Hall. The orchestra this year is composed of seventy-five pieces making it larger than ever before. Mr. Berg has cordially invited the public to attend the concert. The following program will be pre-
sented :
Predule to “Dio Meistersii^er”
Wagnei
Symphony No. 6. Op. 68 (Pastoral) Beethoven 1. Awakening of serene impressions on arriving in the country: allegro, ma non troppo 2. Scene by the brookside: andante molto moto 3. Jolly gathering of country folk: allegro — 4. Thunderstorm; tempest: allegro 5. Shepherd’s song; gladsome and thankful feelings after the storm: allegretto Suite from the “Water Music” Handel-Hai ty 1. Allegro 2. Air: andante un poco allegretto 3. Bouree: vivace 4. Hom-Pipe: Deheato. ma con molto brio * 5. Allegro dcciso Natchez on the Hill Powell Mrs. McClure Is Taken By Death WOMAN ILL FOR PAST TWO YEARS DIES AT HOME NEAR RUSSELLVILLE Mrs. Wancta McClure, 42. in failing health for the past two years died Monday afternoon at her home (wo ami one-half miles northwest of Russellville. Her death was attributed to a complication of diseases. Mrs. McClure was bom May 22, 1898, near Boswell, Ind.. the daughter of Ephie and Dessa Gooding. Sh“ was married about twenty-five years ago to Roy McClure. The deceased was a member of the Brown’s Valley Christian church and was graduated from the Russellville high school with the class of 1916. Surviving, in addition to the parents ami her husband, are four ehildren, Mrs. Margaret James of Crawfordsville, and Robert, Dale and Marjorie at home. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Brown’s Valley Christian church in charge of Rev. Luke Bolin. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery at Crawfordsville.
HEADS MISSION—Marquis of Willington, right, former governor of Canada and former viceroy of India, interviewed by newsmen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He heads British Economic "Victory" Mission touring South American countries, outlining hopes for new economic exchange with New World.
CTRFI IT t'Ol'RT NOTES Ruby B. Stringer, 306 south Jackson street, Greencastle, has filed a complaint for divorce from Eugene V. Stringer, and also asks support money during the period during which the divorce proceedings are pending, and, in addition, she asked, and the court granted, a restraining order directed against the defendant husband, to prevent what she alleged, is a threat of bodily harm. They were mauled June 10, 1935, and separated December 5. 1940. She asks the custody of their minor child. Albert E. Williams is attoi ney for thn
plaintiff.
Germans l sinjj
New Type Boml> RESEMBLES GAS MASK (ON TAIN EK AND EXPLODES l P-
ON BEING TO! I TIED
Miami Host To Duke And W ife
LONDON, Dec. 10 and air raid wardens doners today against German bomb which
(UP) Police warned Lonr new, deadly resembles a
:Hf; NS, Greece, Dec. 10.—(UP) troops trudged north H’h lower Albania in two col- ' ,,Kla y from the captured bases '‘"“•innm p ase Three!
GAME warden relieves poisoning OF HUNTING DOGS IS ENDED HERE
.ORE DAYS \to SHOP
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That there will be a cessation in the poisoning of dogs in the geneial vicinity of Wildwood, is believed by Victor Walter, who, as game warden for Putnam county, has been seeking to discover the identity of the low-minded person who put out poison that caused the death of three hunting dogs in that area, lately, and made other canines sick. Curt Higgins, of Bainbridge, is another dog owner who lost his pet by the same means. It was a bird dog. a gentle animal that would harm no one, and it died aftei hunt-
ing near Wildwood.
But the apparent denouement of
came after a police dog owned by Roy Alter, near Bainbridge, got hold of strichnine and died. A report leached Mr. Walter that a neighboring man had remarked: "Why, that poison wasn't intended for Alter's dog.” Mr. Walter found the man who made the statement and. after some pressure was applied, admitted that another man had intended to poison a dog which, however, escaped that fa’e, the poisoned bait being found by the police dog, It was not long before a certain resident of the neighborhood left the country, and, with his going, it is believed the
TO SHOW NEW TRUCKS Greencastle's first showing of International trucks will be held this evening at the Hess Sales and Scrice showrooms on East Franklin street. The public is cordially invited to attend this preview and see the new line of trucks. Entertainment, refreshments and prizes will help to make up the evening's program.
gas mask container and I'xplodos ir the hands of anyone who picks it up. Bombs of this type were scattered about London during the ferociou * all-night German raid Sunday night and Monday morning. The bomb consists of a metal cylinder, which contains a small 1> ml and from which langles about fivi inches of wire. The cylinder is in four pa t3, wh i h ar supposed ti separate as the bomb falls. Two ol these parts become a rough sort oi parachute, two becoming rotating vanes. Thr bomb drops from the cylinder to the end of the wire, which keeps it attached to the parts
of the cylinder.
The bomb may explode on landing. If it Iocs it may cause casual-
itics within a : adius of 50 feet. DIM ALI MM S FIG I RES IN FATAL AI TO ( KASJi
Rev. Earl Pittinger, 57 years old, of Kokomo, a DePauw alumnus of the class of 1909, participated in an automobile collision near New London which resulted in the death ot Mrs. Elmer Ridgeway, of New London. at a Kokomo hospital, yesterday.
A newspaper dispatch says:
“Cars driven by the Rev. Earl Pittinger and Mrs. Elsie Beale. 40, daughter of Mrs. Ridgeway, collided at a road intersection. Sheriff Lew Stewart said the Rev. Mr. Pittingei ran past a stop sign. The minister suffered a broken shoulder, his wife severe lacerations and Mrs. Beale an
injured heel.”
Mrs. R. W. Vermillion was called to Palestine, 111., Monday, due to the illness of her father, H. K. Hulse.
EX BRITISH RULER AND HIS DUCHESS IN FEORIDA I’Oit BRIEF \ ISIT MIAMI. Fla.. Dec. 10 (UP) The Duke of Windsor brought his Duchess back to her native land to-
day.
The former Wallis Warfield of Baltimore eamo home for the first time in 12 years, but for only a fourday stay to undergo a major dental
operation.
They stepped off the yatch Southern Cross at 9 a. m. onto American soil just four years to the day afte Edward VIII gave up the throne fo: "the woman I love,” arriving they hoped with as little ceremony apossible. They were greeted aboar I | ship by a small group of officials air: repo: ters while 50 police kept crowd at a distance. Later today, at St. Francis hospital in Miami Beach, Dr Horace L Cartee, dental surgeon who treated the Duke at Nasrau in Septembe-, will remove the Duchess’ impacted, abscessed wisdom tooth. A genera! anesthetic reportedly will be nece.ssa y and he may scrape the bone. "The Duchess and I are very glad to be back again," the Duke said. "II has been 16 years since I was here. But she laughed away a question as to her reactions as an American returning home. “Well, I’m not off the brat yet," she smiled as they stood side by side on the canopied afterdeck of the yatch Southern C. oss on which Axe Wenner-Grcn, Swedish industrialist who has a Bahamian estate, brought them to Miami. "I ll have to wait." WOl LI) TAX BONDS
the series of crimes against canines^ poisoning of dogs will cease.
20 Years Ago IN ORHKNOASTUB
Jesse McCoy of Cloverdale is the only survivor of the four members of the original board of trustees of the Putnam county hospital. Ott Webb, as country treasurer, was an ex officio member. The engagement was announced of Miss Marjorie Thomas of Rushville and W. Donald Maxwell of Greencastle. She attended DePauw the preceding year and was a Kappa. They were to be married January 2. The home of faring Duell near Manhattan was burned.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (UP) Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., today backed a draft of funds to force “slacker money” to contribute to national defense by removing tax exemption privileges
from federal bonds.
“We feel here very strongly,” ho told a press conference yesterday, "that In view of this national defense program we should draft all money. By that I mean to say if a man is going to lend his money to the United States government, that lie should
pay taxes on it.”
He said that to continue the issue of tax exempt bonds would make “possible the additional creation of what I call slacker money.” The treasury, he explained, will request the new Congress for authority to issue wholly taxable bonds. He pointed out that his department already has that discretion in treasure notes and will take advantage of it in a $500,000,000 financing on Wednesday.
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x< >. 4<; HITLER TALKS TO WORKERS IN ARMS FACTORY SPEAKS FROM STEEL PLATFORM IN BERLIN ARMAMENT PLANT TODAY PREDICTS GERMAN VICTORY Tells Workers That Great Britain Mill get Harder Blows Each Sueoeeding Night
B91RLIN, Dec. 10.—(UP) Adolf Hitler, addressing German workers from a steel platform in a Berlin arms works, re-emphasized his confidence in German victory today and said that Great Britain would get harder and harder blows every night. Hitler Hiked in philosophic vein on the blessings of labor. I le was applauded occasionally as he pictured a world of work for all. of duties imposed on all men and all women of a nation, as opposed to the capitalistic system. One thing was certain, he said, Germany was politically and economically united. Turning to Germany’s war machine. Hitler emphasized its equality. “Thousands of officers have be n promoted,” he said. “We have now officers who have been privates and corporals for years and years.” Te then discussed the educational system and described how children now got the finest education. He described the opportunities created to build the eGrman nation anew from its foundations. “How wonderful and what a joy to realize a goal which at first glanco seems fantistic!” he exclaimed. “Wo build a nation in which birth means nothing ami work and achievement
everything.”
Addressing “my German workers,” Hitler started by saying he had little
time to talk.
“Very briefly, as time permits,” no said, “I want to give you an insight into the deeper significance of the conflict. I want to consider western Europe in the first place.” He compared the population of Germany, 85,000.000, with the smaller populations of Great Britain, Fiance and Italy. He compared the territory of Germany to that, inducing colonial possessions, of Britain and France. Germany’s 85,000.000, he said, had a “living space” of hardly 230,000 square miles, as compared to 15,500,000 square miles for the British. Nations were not made so that one nation might have 40 times as much teriitory as another, he said. The nation which had too little would one day take what it needs, he added. “My great task," he said, “was to reach a solution thiough an appeal to reason, thus bridging the gap between too much wealth on oi ■ side and too much poverty on the oth -i .” The right to life, hi- .--aid. was a general right and an equal right. The right to life was equal to a. right to the soil which gives life. Uareasonably, he continued, nations had always had to fight for this right. “In 1933 we demanded first national unity because we knew that only thus would we be able to pie. i
our claims.”
Referring to conditions of 1933, when h - assumed power. Hitler said: “National unity was for us the prerequisite to a new order of German conditions, to an attempt to show the German people how strong they teally were.” Hitler said that he sought national unity through an appeal to reason. Then he described how the opposition within Germany worked against
him.
Returning to the question of how many people might live in a given area. Hitler emphasized his determination to get more space for Germany.
PURCHASE CARPENTERSVILLE SCHOOL GROUNDS FOR RECREATIONAL CENTER
A real thrill was given the 1 meeting of the Parent-Teacher’s Club of Roachdale Monday evening when J. M. Stafford, trustee of Franklin township, announced that the Baker brothers, of Indianapolis, natives of Carpcntersville, had purchased the school building and its su rounding beautiful grounds at Carpentersville to become a community renter for the free use of the residents of that town and the nearby area. The school form-rly conducted ir. the building was consolidated several years ago with the Roachdale school and the township had no fu ther use for the structure and the spacious grounds. The building is in excellent physical condition, and is well suited for
use as a community recreational center, and for the meeting of organizations of a community nature. The Baker brothers, although business men in Indianapolis, retain a close affection for the part of Putnam county with which they werso fam'llar during their boyhood. They have a park-like place on Big Walnut, at Fine Bluff, east of Carpentersville, and fo merly had a similar place on the same stream where the old route of state road 38 crossed the creek. At the Roachdale P. T. A meeting Monday, the orchestra of tn<= school, under the direction of Marian Rice, gave a program of numbers that pleased the gathering very much.
INDIAN \l’()LIS HOG M \KI\K I Hogs 14.000; market fully steady, 160-190 lbs $5.95-$6.10; 190-260 !•.; $6.10-$6.25; 260-300 lbs $6-6.10; .”.00400 lbs $5.85-6.05; 100-160 lbs $4.60$5.85; sows $5.35-$5.75.
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