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UME FOBTY-NINE
GBEENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, JA.NTAKY 6, 1941
NO. 69
OINTMENTS MADE BY UNTY BOARD
H. JAMES IS NAMED UNTY ATTORNEY BY CO>IMISSIONERS NOTION SUIT FILED
MORTON CONSERVATION CLUB
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Full, l)«-f<*ato4l (Candidate, 1 h Tu RAHtrain Apimlnt- | meiitH By Andy Cross L. Rice and Andy L. Cross, tic members of the boatd /nissioners of Putnam county, Vular session of the board, morning, made the princijointments which, by the prolof law, are placed in the "f that board. Wallace Spenubllcan member of the board, [late at the meeting, after tmWilts had been made, nissioner Rice was name presy the board. John H. James county attorney, an appointments announced t‘me were the following: y highway superintendent, i O. Brattin, of Madison town-
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POSTOFFICE HAD BIGGEST YEAR IN 1940
RECEIPTS EXCEEDED BY OVER 44,440 MORE THAN ANY OTHER YEAR
FOUR GENERATIONS ENJOY DINNER
l!»3!l WAS NEXT REST YEAR
The Morton Conservation Ciuh is nc of the active game organizations ip the county. The officers are shown above, left to right, Janies Firestone, del - gate, Dewly Stultz, treasurer: Dell n Spencer, vice president, and John Marling, president. Seated is Wayne ettis secretary.
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Interest ini; Facts Are Announced B>' Albert Dobbs, Postmaster
At Local Office
Tile calendar year of 1940 was the greatest of all years for receipts for The Greencastle postoffice. Albert L. Dobbs, postmaster, reported today. The receipts exceeded that of any other year by more than $4,000, and the next best year was 1939. The total receipts for 1940 exceeded
$52,000 whicli was a gain of about I Four generations of the Hughes family enjoyed a birthday dinner Frlnine per cent over 1939 and assures) clay evening at the home of Judge and Mrs. James F. Hughes, south of
Greencastle. The dinner was in observance of the 88th birthday anniversary of Mrs. Hester Gwinn, mother of Judge James P. Hughes. She is shown in the above picture w’th her son, grandson, Janies G. Hughes and
great-grandson, James Edward.
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custodian, Henry
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loachdale. deer at the county heating planf^ird assistant custodian. George WebaUtr Marion township EltVktor operator, Gilbert Rogers,
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of the court house, Mrs. :urk, Greencastle. /ay garage foreman, Walter Comity asylum physician, Dr. Wm. E. Tiptc n Mr. IBrattin is a former trustee of MAlison township. He resides at Vivaliif. It was stipulated by the two commissioners making the aplent that he shall be paid an salary of $2 per mile of coun|i\vays, which total 816 miles, | cents per mile travelled in automobile in his wo k. s announced by the comlers that the remaining aplents will be made later. These elude the assistant road sufor Che road (districts. Fall Flies Injunction Suit Late Saturday afternoon, Albert Williams, as attorney for Buford Lee rail, filed a suit asking the court to restrain Andy L. Cross front taking office as county comBtiCClontM, until the contest suit now t'COurt shall be decided. It was tne Ent intention of the suit to Cross from taking part In jeeting of the county commtsbeginning Monday morning, was explained by one court ‘j, the suit did not become efin time to restrain Mr. Cross to the opening of the meeting e commissioners, because, he not all the steps required to up such a suit had not been :ted liefore the me«ting of the Jiissioners.
This scene shows members of the Morton Conseivation club enjoying an oyster supper at the hall in Morton last week. It is one of the more active organizations in the county and has a large membership from the central west section of Putnam county.
the Greencastle office of being in I first class for this year. The only difference the classification makes is in the salary of the postmaster an 1 had it not been for the economy act passed a few years ago under which the office is penalized ten per cent of its receipts, the salary of the Greencastle postoffice would be higher ban the present figure of $3200. It is believed the receipts of 1940 will double the figures of the office for twenty years ago, and shows a health increase for the office each year during the past few decades. There was nothing unusual in the community to cause the nine per cent increase of the past year, other than steady growth of business at the office throughout the year. The receipts of the office were said to have been about $30,000 in 1930 and with another increase this year probable, the total receipts for 11 years may be as high as close to 100 per cent.
War Flashes
DR. SWAHLEN LEFT DEPAIW GIFT OK $25,000
BEQUEST W I L L I* R O V I D E SCHOLARSHIPS IN GREEK DEPARTMENT
MEMORIAL
HIS FATHER
ANSWER TWO ALARMS City firemen made two runs over the weekend but no great damage was reported in either case. The firemen were called out at 8:45 a. m. Monday as result of a smoking stove at 908 south Locust street Sunday evening at 5:30 o’clock they answered an alarm at the University Shop on south College Averiue, when the furnace in the building became overheated.
NO RULING AS YET IN FALL’S RECOUNT CASE
CARIO, Jan. 6, ((UP) British bombing planes blasted at Tobruk today, preparing the way for a 60rnilc overland assault on the shattered remnants of Italy's defeated army of the Egyptian-Libyan campaign. ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 6 lUP) Greek troops are advancing on the Albanian port of Valona through a rain of fire from Italian airplanes, tanks and warships, reports from
the front said today.
NEW YORK. Jan. 6-(UP) Private advices received by the United Press in New Yo k said today that German troops will march into Bulgaria shortly as a result of a Nazi ultimatum which was reported to have been accepted by Bulgaria.
NEW TERM OF COURT 0PENKD HERE MONDAY
MARSHALL D. ABRAMS, NEWLY ELECTED JUDGE PRESIDES
ON BENCH
Above Zero )w Mark Sunday
TRY DOWN TO SEVEN ROVE IN GREENCASTLE THIS MORNING
JUDGE HANCOCK MAY NOT RE TURN UNTIL LATTER PART OF WEEK
appeared to he with a considle degree of shivering satisfacthat The Daily Bannen official ature observer reported this l : ng at 7:30 that the thermomreading at that time was 7 deabove zero. He almost boasted lie record made earlier this momsaying the reading at midnight 6 degrees, which continued out a b eak until the sligtit ris.i at sunrise. ^0 lay's record was quite similar. 8 o'clock. Sunday morning, the jtling was 6 degrees, and it had at that point for several hours
ceding.
Airnacrs and stoves were fo ced !?xert themselves to warm chilled res and apartments, an easterly bringing a damp coldness along It which made the work of ting apparatus harder, he weather man's report of proilities this morning in the way weather contained but little comJ't. "Snow in the north, snow, rain sleet in south portion Monday K8t," the weather prognosticator *d. But he added, "slowly using mperature."
Dr. Percy Swnhlen Died In SI. Loui* Last .Month. Splendid Gift To University A bequest of $25,000 to DePauw University was included in the will of the late Dr. Percy H. Swahlen. who died suddenly December 10 in St. Louis. The bequest is to be placed in DePauw’s permanent endowment and the income, which will amount to about $1,000 a year, is to be used for scholarships in the department of Greek. These scholarships are to be known as the William F, Swahlen Scholarships and are a memorial to Dr. Swahlep’s father who was professor of Greek at DePauw from 1887 until his death in
1915.
Dr. Swahlen received his M. D, degree from the Marion Sims-Beau-mont Medical College of St. Louis in 1904 after being graduated from DePauw in 1899. He did special woik in obstetrics and gynecology at Strassburg, Berlin, Teubingen and Vienna from *1905-1907 and then located in St. Louis for medical practice in 1908. He was resident physician at St. Ann’s Maternity Hospital and chief of staff for the last thirty-three years and had been a member of the faculty of St. Louis
University since 1906.
Dr. Swahlen held a unique place in his sperial field and was considered a foremost authority in obstetrics. It was estimated that he hud delivered more than 10.000 babies and his patients ranged from charity patientn to the wealthiest families in the St. Louis area. Following his death resolutions were passed by many societies praising Dr. Swahlen’s ability as a physician and surgeon. At the same time countless individuals, personal friends and patients, praised him for his kindliness and sympathy. Dr. Swahlen never married but maintained a bachelor’s apartment at St. Ann’s hospital. He had been in poor health during the last year but his death, due to a heart condition, was unexpected. He had performed an operation, held a staff meeting and consulted a dozen or more patients, made plans to visit in Greencastle later in the week, on the day prior to his death. He rarely took a vacation using as his excuse: “My patients do not want me to go away." He is survived by a brother, William Benjamin Swahlen, of Webster
Farm Institutes To Start Feb. IT
The time of the return to Greencastle of Judge Howard L. Hancock, of the Parke county circuit court, to appear in the Putnam Circuit court and announce his findings in the election contest of Buford Lee Fall against Andy L. Cross, is not certain. It was said, in the court room Fri-
MBLBOURNE, Australia. Jam 6 Military dispatches from Egypt were understood to indicate today that Australian casuallties in the fail of Bardt*' weie fewer than 500 men.
LONDON, Jan 6 -(UVt—British planes attacked Brest, on the French Invasion coast, for the second straight day yesterday and also attacked German airdromes, the air ministry said today.
HOME FROM WEST COAST B J. Currie returned Saturday
om Los Angeles, Cal., where he . . ^ w _ »lted relatives and friends during ( Grove Missouri, and a sister, Mrs. J.
e hoi id aye.
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DETAILS BEING WORKED OUT BY COUNTY AGENT AND TRUSTEES Many of the details a o being worked cut in the office of David L. Grimes, county farm agent, and bv township committees for the five township farmers' institutes which will be held in Putnam county, beginning February 17. However, other details will have to be arranged in a meeting of all the townsh'p institute officers and county institute officers, and such a county wide meeting has been arranged for Thursday, January 9, r. 2 o'clock, to be hel 1 in the county agent s office, at which conference Ur* county agent arks the atteni ance of all of Ur 1 township and cc-un ty institute officers. The township ins'itutc officers are the following: Monroe Township Chairman, Francis Lane: vice chairman, Olhn Bales; secretary, M s. Earl O'Hair. Washington Township Chairman. Curtis Strain: vice chairman, Luther Girton: secretary, Mrs. Vollir Uaab. Jefferson Township Chairman, Basil Staley; vice chairman, Lulu Foster; secretary, Gertie Stringer. * Cloverdele Township Chairman, Cleon Branneman; vice chairman, Everett Wallace; secretary, Mrs. Glendon Herbert. Marion Township Chairman, Henry M. Heavin; vice chairman, John Sea a; secretary, Richa d Pru-
itt.
CREDIT ASSOCIATION WILL MEET TONIGHT The annual meeting of the Putnam County Credit Assoc ation will be held tonight at 6:30 o’clock at the Lincoln Tearoom Annex. G. W. Sulley, authority on business problems, will address these attending the meeting. Mr. Sulley who has discussed merchandising problems with more than 500,000 businessmen, is one of the speakers of the Merchants Service Bureau maintained by the National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio,
HOME, Jan. 6 (UP)
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day. after Judge Hancock had heard I ^ C3|nmur . qu H >(i to _ objections and answers of the attor- , ay , : | ,
neys in the case, that it was expected, at that time, that the court’s findings would be made Monday morning, but, later, the time was left open. In the court room this morning, the belief was expressed that the case will not be called again until the latter part of this week. Judge Hancock took back to his office in Rockville the package Of 373 protested ballots, each one of which he expected to scrutinize with care, possibly making the same finding in regard to each one that was made by the recount commissioners hut having the privilege of changing that find-
ing.
LEAHY PRESENTS HIS ENVOY’S CREDENTIALS VICHY, France, Jan. 6. (UP) Admiral William D. I>*ahy formally took over his post as the new United States ambassador to France today. He called Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin and presented his credentials as the representative to the government which Saturday officially dropped its designation as a
“republic.”
Because he made his call in late afternoon Leahy did not attend Marshal Henri Philippe Petaln’s New Year’s luncheon for the diplomatic
corps.
The Greencastle Band will practice this evening at 7:30 o’clock All members are expected to be present.
at Ba li.: from dawn to dusk yestereday, and that further Italian strongholds had fallen despite stubborn resistance. It was claimed that heavy losses had been inflicted on the British forces.
DR. SIGLER RE-NAMED HOSPITAL BOARD HEAD The board of trustees of the Putnam County Hospital, meeting Monday in their room at the hospital, organized for the new year by re-narn-ing Dr. T. A. Sigler president of tlv board, Nathan Call, vice president: and E. It. Bartley secretary. Walter Keller is the other member of the
boa rd.
The hoard allowed the current claims against the hospital. This meeting was held one day earlier than the usual date in the month, because of the necessity of Mr. Call's presence at the meeting of stockholders of the Roachdale bank, Tuesday. TWELFTH NIGHT PROGRAM AT CITY PARK TONIGHT
20 Years Ago
(N GREENCASTLE
Juliana Gardner gave a reading at the evening service of the Christian
church.
Miss Gretna Mathcs went to Terr 1 Haute to enter State Normal school. M sses Grace and Gretna Mathes entertained at their home on south In-
diana st eet.
James Hughes entertained a num-
ber of frlenda at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Hughes, at a birthday party.
At the Twelfth Night program which will be held thi? evening at the City Park at 7:00 o’clock Rev. A. L. Meredith will talk on the Twelfth Night then and now. Charles Sheridan will tell stories as part of the program and Chester Elson will con-
duct a program of games.
The Twelfth Night program, arrange! by the Recreation Project, should attract many people aa it will be a gala event with all the old Christmaa trees providing the light as they burn, for the program Children are especially urge! to be pres-
ent for the program. FUNERAL TUESDAY
Funeral services for H. C. McKee who died Monday, December 30, will be held at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon from the Rector Funeral Home Rev. V. L. Raphael will be In charge of the services with burial In Forest Hill cemetery. Services were delayed P, I because of the absence of the two
sons.
The opening of the January ten. of the 64th Judicial Circuit of thi state of Indiana on Monday morning the circuit being composed o: the Putnam county court only was marked by Judge Marshall D Abrams, assuming his place upon tiv bench, it being his first appear ance in the couit room in his newly acquired official capacity. At Uvcourt reporter's table was Miss Mary Riley, newly appointed to that position, and, among the attorneys, wa Rexell A Boyd, new prosecutor of
the county.
Upon the opening of court b 1 Judge Abrams, John H. James, president of the bar association and senior attorney of Putnam county, arose at his seat within the bar or the court, and delivered a gracious and friendly greeting to the new judge to the bench. "I want to bespeak to the court our wish that you have a most successful career," said Mr. James, addressing Judge Ab-
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"It is gratifying,'' Mr Jame*. said, “to sec a young man In thn position of honor and trust, one wlv is well qualified, and who, we know will conduct the duties of his hig.'! office with the deepest sense of hi: responsibilities He is not only corn petent to be the judge of this c uv' but, in addition, he will not pcimi himself to be partial in his rulings. We have had instances of partislit;, shown in this court room, but ther.will bo no more, with you upon th
bench.
"As p esident of the bar as neia tion, I wish to say to my fellow a! tomeys that it is our duty to uphold our Judge in all proceedings b-for him. At times it will be difficult ,u: the couit to determine the real intent an 1 meaning of the law, and I ask each and every member of the bar to make his pleadings complete' and clear, citing all the uuthoritiev clea ly, to relieve the court of the unjustified labor of doing woik which should have been done by the attorneys who are paid to do It. I>o not file cases unlil you have really preparwd them." To these congratulatory reniuk:Judgc Abrams leplied informally. “I certainly appreciate thus,words." he said. "I can say I eonsclen' iously and sincerely shall try to have a good court here and i know you all intend to do what you can to make that desire effective. I want each attorney to feel he is as much a part of the court as the judge is. Attorneys and court must wont together. I will push the cases along as rapidly as possible. ""As to the matte - of partiality, I want you to know that each attorney will receive as much consideration from this court as any ethei attorney. The only partiality that will be shown will, naturally, be toward those who come Into court well prepared. I will assume that every statement ma le by each atUi ney is true unless I find it is not true, but I know of no attorney before this court who would Intentionally make any misstatement of law or fact. This court will operate in good
faith.”
Judge Abrams stated there are volumes missing from important •e.lcs of law booka In the law li(t'uulluuixl on l*usr T\«o|
NEW CONGRESS HEARS MESSAGE BY PRESIDENT
MOST VITAL ADDRESS SINC'L WOODROW WILSON'S WAR PLEA IN 1917 CONGRESS IN JOINT SESSION Formalities Of 'Oec’.iring Mr. T.oo r>vclt Elected As Ch ef Lxc'iiM’a Preceded His Message
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UP) The new Congress met in joint session today to hear President Roosevelt explain how he proposes to make the United States the great 'a si :inl cf democracy." Not s neo Woodrow Wilson went to the capitol in April, 1917, to a k Cong, css to declare war against Germany, had the "state of the union" aidress of a president b en more eagerly awaited. President Roosevelt, delivered in ueis n, his message on the future vreign policy of the United States, m answi to the throat of dictator nations, which said any act of aggressive aid to Britain wolld be an act of war. The president decla-ed that no th eat of any dictator naicn would stop this nation from inning and sending needed war mater als to the allied nat ons now engaged at war witn dictator nations. He said he would ask this Congress, additional appropriations, additional power and funds fo-’ the building of war munitions to be tumel over to Britain and her allies, which now !o not need man-power, but do need essential war materials
and supplies.
The president said if these nations are not in position to pay for these materials now, they will be in the future and that they will be pc'milted to pay for them at that time, or may replace the materials with the same as lias been fu nished In this emergency. lie said they might at a time when this nation will bo in sore need of them. In speaking of slackers, the president warned that if there are any, the sovereignty of the government will be used to save the government from their Intentions of damage to
this nation.
The President said he was speaking at an unprecedented moment in this country's history "because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today." "The American people," he said, “have unalterably set their faces against the tyranny" represented by the dictatorships across the seas. Mr. Roosevelt reiterated his scorn of threats from the dictate ships that they might regard United States aid to the embattle 1 Democracies ns war-
like acts
“When the Dictatorships an ready to make war upon us. they will not wait for an act of war on our part." he sai . “They did not wait for Norway or Belgium or the Netherlands
to commit an act of war."
Mr. Roosevelt set forth his program for extension of aid to the embattled democracies in these para-
graphs:
“I shall ask this Congress for greatly increased new appropriations and authorizations to carry on what we have begun. “I also ask this Congress for authority and foi funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds, to be turned over to those nations which were now in actual war with aggressor nations. “Oui most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for th“m as well as for ourselves. They do not need manpower. They do need billions of dollars worth of the weapons of defense. “The time is near when they will not he able to pay for them in ready cash. We cannot, and will not, tell l < mil IniiiMi «mi I’mari
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