The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 January 1941 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNER

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I B<'liev<‘d To Have Crashed In ite Mountain K^Klon In Southern Oregon

LA, Wash. Jan. 18.—(UP) Mies, hampered by gale-driv-hml snow, take off again toearch the rugged Siskiyou gs along the California-Ore-I for a lost bopiber and seven | Erickson, owner of the Alpne in the Siskiyous, and a onipany linesman reported day that they saw a twinplane flying down Mumbc nyon Thursday, with one Jtering. The twin-motored lias not been reported since morning, when it took off 2hord Field, Taccfna, for practice in Muroc dry lake ats of Yreka, Mt. Shasta, Hombrook, Scotts Bar and Trinity Center reporte-d hav a plane resembling the Thursday. While these rethe report of Erickson, confirmed, they all came in an 80-mile radius. Most placed the plane in the reeen 1 and 4 p. m. Thursday, time it should have been the mountains. 1 authorities at McChord Field ts would be ordered out toMoffatt and Hamilton Ir San Francisco, to search |(ous, and that planes from Field and Pearson Field. Couver, Wash., would search tern Washington, from ime other reports of a dis-

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nd poor visibility prevented |;h search yesterday and five returned to their bases fcw hours. Commercial planes tween San Francisco and pn were unable to detect v because of fog, rain and If the plane managed to land safein the mountains and authorities it was highly improbable- the men faced freezing weather lack of food. The bomber cari only emergency rations of choco-

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REPORT BRITISH (SHIP BADLY DAMAGED IN. Jan. 18. (UP)- The ofi's agency asserted today British battleship Malaya, ons, had arrived at Gibraltar lay badly damaged, eged that the British had tried &1 the damage but that it learned from “well informecs” that “great havoc had sught to the deck and the arfcommand towers, battleship was taken to the docks immediately upon Val, the agency alleged.

CAPTURE OF 1800 ITALIAN TROOPS ENS, Greece, Jan. 18. (UP) troops captured 1.800 Italpsterday, according to an offitnmunique, and some of them joted that two Italian liners. p.006-ton Lombardia and the fton Liguria, were torpedoed Adriatic while bound for Alfilled with troops,

D. BOLLINGER WILL SPEAK SUNDAY | Hiel D. Bollinger of Nashville, will be the guest preacher at Memorial Methodist church January 19, at the 10:40 ng worship hour. He will upon the subject "Christian lials for These Times.’’ Dr. ger is general secretary of work of Wesley Foundations [Methodist Colleges. His ten of service as secretary has M him in touch with practicalcollege campus in the He is recognized as one of forceful speakers among sunger ministers in the Methchurch. Bollinger will conduct a Table in Mason Hall, Sunday g At 8:80 o'clock to which all •ted are Invited.

ENSIGN ROBERT .1 I LIAN SI THEHLIN

Life upon the bounding waves, and in the bounding air above the bounding waves, as demonstrated by the stormy Caribbean Sea, is being enjoyed by a Putnam county young man. Robert Julian Sutherlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sutherlin. of Groveland. Mr. Sutherlin. being the trustee of Floyd township. The son is a graduate of the Groveland grade school, of the Bainbridge High School, of the chemical engineering school at Purdue university, and also—which is of more important to him just now- he is a graduate of the Navy air school at Pensa-

cola, Fla.

He cast aside his prospective career as a metallurgist to enter the navy’s airplane training school as the means of joining the navy's flying forces. He is now an ensign in that service, a commissioned rank corresponding to that of second lieutenant in the army organization. Ensign Sutherlin flies seaplanes, and has had many thrills arising particularly from his patrol service, in which he has visited all of the principal coastal cities of the Caribbean area, and farther away, even to the west coast of Central America. He has crossed the Equator and un(Coiitluiifil <»n l*nite Two)

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LANE INTRODUCES REAL ESTATE BILL

DEl'AUW GROUP TO BEGIN TRIP ON FRIDAY FEBRUARY SEVENTH The DePauw University Choir will make a three-day singing tour leaving the campus Friday, February 7 ami returning Monday, February 10. according to Van Denman Thompson, director. On February 9. the group of thirtyfive voices will sing in the Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago. However, the remainder of th« engagements have not been completely decided upon. Requests from several churches have been sent the choir for their appearance, but they have not decided as yet which ones to choose. Dr. Thompson stated that the choir will make several weekend trips through the spring season. He added, however, I hat they will probably not take so long a trip as they did last year when they went to Atlantic

City.

In the Indiana Senate yesterday, Senator O. Bruce Lane of Putnam and Montgomery counties introduced a bill which provides that adverse claims against real estate which arose more than 50 years from time of a property exchange shall cease to exist or lie barred against present owner. It was referred to the Judiciary C. committee. Senator lame is joint-author with Senator Vermillion of a bill which provides that liens of assessments for streets, sidewalks, sewers and other improvements shall expire five years after the date on which the las* payment on assessment is due. The bill went to the committee on county and township business, of which Senator Lane is a member.

MARRIAGE LICENSE Win. James Bonn, assistant manager J. C. Penney, Creencastlc, and Dorlis Jeu.u Tozer, Springfield, III.

POLITICAL GOSSIP INIUCATKS CHANGE IN STATE’S CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS

Political gossip from the nation's capital intimates the impending reduction of the number of congressional districts in Indiana from the present number 12, to 11, becaus.of the decrease in population, and may result in the dismemberment of the p esent 11th district and the distribution of Us counties to adjoining districts. The 11th district is composed of Madison and Hancock counties and the eastern half of Marion township exclualve of the city of Indianapolis. The west half of Marion county, including Indianapolis, composes the 12th congressional district. Inasmuch as the counties composing the 11th district are Democratic, the adjoining congressional districts, which usually align with the Republican party in their voting, the dismembered parts of the Democratic 11th will not be welcomed by the other districts, it is claimed. Madison coif.ity lies along the entire east side of Hamilton county which is a part of the 6th district and which district is now represented in Congress by Noble J. Johnson, Republican, and in which Putnam county is included. But adjoining Madison county on the east Is the 10th congressional

district, and, In the distribution of parts of the 11th, Ma lison wouth be more logically assigned to the 10th district as it is much nearer the gcographlChl center of the 10th than It is to the center of the 6th. Anderson is the county seat of Madison. Hancock county, also usuahy Democ.atic, borders only on Hamilton county, and is adjoined for its full length, north and south, by counties in the 10th district. Its county seat is Greenfield The east half of Marion county is adjoined on the no th by Hamilton county of the 6th district, on the south by Johnson county in the 8th district, and on the west by the 12th district. Logically, it is claimed, th • east half of Marion county should be affixed to the west half of the 12th district rather than to either of the two other districts on the north and south respectively. The 6th district, consisting of ten counties, had a total population of 278,685 in 1930 but gained approximately 2.500 in the ten years between that year and the year of the latest census Madison county, suggested as a possible addition to the 6th district, (Coatlaoed oa Pas* Two)

FARMER KILLS HIS EMPLOYER, ENDS OWN LIFE

ATTEMPTED TO ABDUCT HOUSEKEEPER OF MAN HE MURDERED

MICHIGAN FARM TRACED* Harrison Irish Force** Woman To Accompany Him To Khnck Following Slaying

LAPEER, Mich Jan. 18 (UP)— Harison Irish, 40. a farmer, committed suicide last .’light after slaying his employer, Ernest Castamer, who had frustrated Irish's attempt to abduct Ins housekeeper, Mrs. Josetta Smith. Irish s wife committed suicide at Easter. He had long been trying to persuade Mrs. South to leave Castanier and live with him and his four children. Mrs. Smith told sheriff George Uurrigan that Irish appeared at her bedroom window last night. He fired several shots through the glass and climbed in. He carried an automatic pistol and a rifle. Castainer ran into Mrs. Smith's bedroom and grappled with Irish. He wrested the automatic from him. As they fought, they moved into the living room of Castanier's farm house. Here Iriali fired three bullets into Cast mier killing him. She told sheriff Carrigan that Irish then took off his overalls am! overshoes, forced her to pull the overalls over her nightgown and to put the overshoes onto her bare feet. H e then dragged her a half mile to a little shack on Russell Lake Mrs. Smith said she urged him to give himself up to the police. He kept answering, “No, I’m going to kill myself." Irish instructed her to leave him as soon as he had taken his life and telephone number 100 in Imlay City. In the shack Irish shot himself in the head with the rifle. Mrs, Smith fled to the farmhouse of George Bennett, Called the number given her by Irish and found it was that of the Imlay City coroner. Irish leaves four children between the ages of 15 and 2 1-2 years old. Castanier was single.

Kiwanians Honor Now Div ision Hoad

JUDGE MARSHALL I). ABRAMS DELIVERS TALK ON CITIZENSHIP AT JOINT MEETING At a joint meeting of the Greencastle and Brazil Kiwanis clubs on Friday evening, at the Glenn House in Brazil, Hon Marshall D. Abrams delivered an informal address on Citizenship. The speech followed the presentation of the lieutenant-gov-ernor's banner to the Brazil club by past lieutenant-governor Harvey Walls. Ward Mayhall, president of the Greencastle club, was introduced by the Brazil president as having charge of th<’ program. In a few opening remat ks President Mayhall paid tribute to the Brazil club and to Joe Decker, present lieutenant-governor of the seventh division in whose honor the joint meeting was being held. With deep gratitude for the loyally shown by the Brazil club, past lieut'nant-governor Walls presented H onllnurd oa I*hcb I our) Bulgar Cabinet Shake-U|> Looms SOFA, Bulgaria, Jan. 18 (UP)— Reports of a possible shake-up in the cabinet were revived today after the return from Berlin of Parvan Graganoff, Bulgarian miniater to Germany, to make what was called an ordinary report. Neutral diplomatic quarters showed interest in Dragonoff's visit because it coincided with an illness of Premier Bogdan Flloff. Germany was reported displeased with the ton e of a speech Filoff made last Sunday. Filoff said Bulgaria would defend Us freedom, if necessary by force of arms.

MAGNETIC CABLE—Fear lhat magnetic mines lurk in U. S. and West Indies waters cause magnetic cable to be instated on U. S. liner America. The Bastians of Atlantic City examine cable as cruise ship quits New York.

SUMMER WEATHER COMES TO AN END IN INDIANA The Weatherman's forecast yesterday of colder today and tomorrow came true and today there was a cold wind, carrying snow and sleet with it ami also a drop in the temperature. Yesterday the mercury stood at close to the 50 mark in Greencastle, while this morning at about the same time the temperature was about 30 degrees with the prospect of it going considerably lower during the weekend. FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS Infantile paralysis is caused by a virus. This virus attacks certain cells of the spinal cord known as the anterior horn cells. The muscles themselves are not directly attacked, but, cut off from their base, they shrivel and atrophy. Scientisls have not y d discovered a cure for infantile paralysis. Through the National Foundation they a e making every effort to find one. Meantime we must do everything we can to relieve those who are afflicted. With proper medical care, rest, exercise, splints, braces, massage, much can be done. All this calls for dimes many, many dimes. Each dime given will be an added safeguard for the children of America. Give as many dimes as you can. Gilbert D. Rhea, M. D. Member, Putnam County Committee, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

(lookin'; School To Be Meld Soon

daily banner to sponsor SCHOOL; MISS JESSIE HOG I K IN CHARGE The Daily Banner will present the outstanding home event of the year when Miss Jessie Hogue rings up the curtain on, the Happy Kitchen Cooking School soon in this city. Every woman in the Greencastle area should avail herself of til's cordial welcome to attend the free lectures which will reveal numerous kitchen tricks new to every housewife. And tlic men, too, are invited to attend this kitchen revue. Miss Hogue, long known to Southern women as an expert of culinary art. will present an entertaining series of lectures and demonstrations on the art of homemaking, along with the preparation of dishes out of the ordinary. In this parade of the preparation of foods, women will he able to gain full mastery of the art needed in the kitchen today. Based on economy and utility, Miss Hogue will divulge secrets gained over years of study in this particular phase of the arts. The saving the housewife will he able to accomplish by attending the school, with its new streamlined scientific ideas, will pay big dividends on the time spent there. How to use leftovers, how to purchase in a scientific manner, how to get the most out of a medium of foixi; these are but a few of the features that will unfold from the completely equipped stage of the Happy Kitchen Cooking << niiliiiiicil «»u T r .«fM

LETTKR FROM SCOTLAND TELLS CONDITIONS THERE AND IN ENGLAND

Bernice Hammond gave an address at the B. Y. P. U. meeting at Fillmore. Harry Allan wai elected vicechairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and Ed Hamilton, treasurer.

Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hardy have received the following tetter from Glasgow, Scotland: “Well we have come through one year of war and we are still unbanned here in Glasgow. We have had a few bombing raids but nothing to speak of. The English towns have come through a severe time, especially London and I am told the spirit of the average Londoner is unbelievable. Even with the bombs falling on each side of them they are still unconcerned. They have certainly shown a wonderful example to the rest of this country and something of a reputation for others to equal. Our boys came home last Christmas and they have been with us since. I am afraid it will take something very bad before they will leave home again. “My line of business is finished until the war ends however, there will be plenty for us to do after it is all over. “Jan and Eric go to school daily and life here In Glasgow goes on quite normally. I don’t say it will always be like this, as any day we may be bombed. The Germans have farther to come to this part and the hills around here do not make it any easier for their operations. I believe this explains why we have not seen more of them.

MAKES FRANK PLEA FOR AID FROM AMERICA BRITISH PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS TO WORKERS IN S< DTLA Nil

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“Well I suppose you must wonder how it will all end and all I can say is, that no one here today thinks of anything but victory. Certainly after the collapse of France it did look serious however, our air force saved the day and it is only a question of time until Hitler gets his just reward. “God help him when the end comes now, for the countries adjacent to Germany that he lias robbed and oppressed are waiting to get their own back. “Shall feel sorry for any Germans when this time comes. Before then we^ shall have a great deal more to suffer, but anything would be better than to be under the rule of Germany. “From your vantage point you read and tune in on both sides of the news. It is my honest opinion that the reports by the British Broadcasting company can be relied on to thutmost. If the German air force had not lost so heavily during September they might be here now and I can assure you they are still a long way off. To hear them talk, you would think they had not lost a plane whereas, there are any number of scrap heaps scattered throughout (Ceatlaaad oa Pas* Two)

President Roosevelt s Personal Representative To England Accompanied /Mr. Churchill. LONDON, Jan. 18 (UP)-(Prime Minister Winston Churchill, addressing an open air gathering of air raid precautions workers at Glasgow last night with Harry L. Hopkins, President Roosevelt's special envoy, on the platform with him, asked for American aid in weapons, ships and planes. He said frankly that Britain would require more weapons, ships and planes than it could pay for in order to maintain “the front line of civilization." He added: "We on this island stand four square in the path of the European dictators. Their threats will not appall us." He expressed his hope that by the end of this year or the beginning of 1942 Britain would have reached arms * quality with Germany, and his conviction that Britain would win a complete and decisive victory over the “forces of evil." It was evident that Churchill attached great Importance to the presence of Hopkins. He and Hopkins had just ended a rapid tour of Glasgow's civil defenses when ho made a short speech in response to the cheers of a crowd* Hopkins was sitting shyly beside Churchill, his face half hidden behind one hand, when Churchill said: "Mr. Hopkins has come in order to put himself in the closest relations with things he c. He will soon return and report to his famous chief the impressions he has gathered in our islands." Then he turned toward Hopkins and continued: "We do not require in 1941 large a mies from overseas. we 'o require i. Veapons, ships, ariplanes. All that we can pay for we will pay for but we require far more than we shall be able to pay for. "I watch with deep emotion (be stirring processes by which the democracy of the great American republic is establishing its laws and formulating its decisions in order to make sure that the British commonwealth of nations will lie able to maintain, ns it is maintaining at present, the f ont line of civilization and progless." Chyrchlll said that the question for decision was "such a simple one." "Are we to move steadily forward and have freedom or are we to be put back in the Middle Ages by ,1 totalitarian system that crushes all forms of individual life and has for its aim little less than the subjugation of Europe and little more than the gratification of gangsters' appetites?’’ he asked The Prime Minister pledged Britons to continue the struggle whatever the dangers and hardships.

PENAL FARM ESCAPE HAS ACQUIRED HABIT Charles Eaton, an escapee from tho Indiana State Farm at I’utnamviiie, created excitement at Bedford yesterday when he dashed a second time for freedom from the office of Justice of the Peace J V. Stapp, where he had been taken for questioning. Eaton and James Self, 2.! years old, of Indianapolis, escaped from the state farm Tuesday. They were picked up in a Motion freight car yesterday at Bedford by Railroad Detective Lawrence Thompson. He took them to Stapp's office. Stapp and Thompson left the pair under the charge of Mrs Stapp momentarily amt Eaton chose that occasion to dash out of the office. He had not been caught last night.

41 Today’s Weather • and • Local Temperature Sunday fair and slightly colder in east portion. Minimum 25 6 a. m 29 7 a. m 28 8 a. m 28 9 a. m 27 10 a. m 25 11 a. m 25