The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 January 1941 — Page 1
£4+4 ♦++ + + + + + + + +UI •IHK WEATHER -i- + CLOl’I>' \.M) 1 01.1)1 .K ^+ + + *+ + + + + + + + + -i-@
THE DAILY BANNER
“IT WAVES FOR ALL”
<5$ + + *! , + 4* + + + + + + + + + ^ <■ ALL THE HOME NEWS + <- I'MTED TRESS SERVICE + 0 -M- + + + + + + + + + + +
VOLiffME FORTY-NINE
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22,1941
NO. HD
MEN’S I OKI M COMMITTEES Fake listed PloRG A NI/ ATIO N AT LOCAL CHRISTIAN CHC'KCH IS Ol U K AI’TIVE — DINNER MKKTINO THURSDAY "l ; Monthly Ot Men’s Forum In Chulch BiiMement At 0:30
O’Clock
l||
MU:
. I’Ul"
ilS"
miJ :s A 1 * HI J
i TM i a]
♦♦♦«
The Min’s Forum of the First Christian'church will hold its monthly dinner meeting Thursday evening at 6:30 Slock in the church basement. The past presidents of the ' organization will conduct an installation sendee for the new officers, ft. 5. Mullins, L. J. Arnold, Frank McKirpyj Keehan and Harold Stewart have will be HR*:, Azbell, president; Will Herod, vice president; Julian Steele, secretary and Wllmer Albin, treasurer. Mr. Mullins, the first president, will give a brief history of the Forum, Its organization, its charter members tnd its objectives. The first meeting was held Oct. 30. 1932. Gene Pennington will provide music. The committees appointed for the coming ye*r are as follows: Membership: Harold Stewart, Julian Steele. W. F. Albin, John Sutherlin; prom. gram committee: Ross Azbell, H. C. t Fellers, Ted MeKeehan; objective committee! W. F. Albin. L. Leonard, row* J g. c g a y Ws music, Gene Penning ton; publicity, Wm. Stiles, H. C. Fellers; boyn committee: Bob Dean, Wm. Stiles, Ted MeKeehan, Cecil Fellers. Monthly program sponsor: January, H. W. Stewart and Ted MeKeehan; February, |Bob Dean; March, Paul jflj Boston; April, Gene Pennington May, Ross Azbell; June, Lawrence Leonard! Si pteniber, Roy Sutherlin; finr^toy Abrams; November,
December, E. H. Bart-
ley.
^^^^^■commtttees: January—VV. F. Albgfclumman; Paul Albin, Joe Croabgjpfch Robbins, Delmas Brook-Shire^|nbei-t Dobbs. E. Blakewell. Febifcry -Wm. Stiles, chairman Paul Bostmi. John Boyd S C- Sayers, G. Pennington, Leon Snyder. March—L. W. Hudlin, chairman H. A. Thomas. Dent Chaney, John Sutherlin. Elmer Gibson, Vomer
Snyder, John Dietrich.
April—Raymond Irwin, chairman Cecil Fellers Lee Masten, Chas. Rec tor, Otis Gardner, Walter Gardner,
^ Everet Long.
A.' May -Paul Heaney, chairman; Will in Herod, W. T. Handy, N. Taulman, W. Patterson, W. R. Hutcheson, L
Easter, R L. Pierce.
June—E R. Bartley, chairman Lois Arnold, Lee Williams, Dr. James, Roy Abrams, Marshall Ab-
rams, R. West.
September Julian Steele, chairman; L. Leonard, G. Stoughton, M. Shonkwllor. Clifford Frazier, Paul
J jHr.
October H. Stewart, chairman; Ross Atbell, Roy Sutherlin, Wm Sutherltn Carl Shoemaker, Algan
0oorcti P Handy.
, Movlpber Ted MeKeehan, chairman; D C. Stewart, R. G. Headley, Wm. Alexander, Paul Siddons, G
Beneflel. Maurice Kersey.
Decipher John Torr, chairman; H. Edvards. Edmond Torr. Bob Dean,
Uco. (Jeu rett, C. .Hartnagle. McRIYNOLDS TO RETIRE
I FROM SUPREME COURT
_
ttllNGTON, Jan. 22 (UP) Me Justice James C. McReynthe Supreme court, one of the ^naming members of the so(oraervative group on the high [• advised President Roosevelt ■that he ml ends to rttin
mm
tMp will give Mr. Roosevelt opporI to appoint his sixth justice on
(fir man court.
eynolds advised the President, letter dated tislny, that he into avail himself of the rights M under the law passed in 1937 pting Supreme court justices to at full pay of $20,000 when I ached the age of 70. McReynkill be 79 on Feb. 3. justice, who voted against New Deal laws, pointed out to Resident Siat he had served on |igh bench continuously since n after receiving McReynolds at 10:15 a. m. the President led a brief reply, congratulating (derly justice on his long service wishing him “many years of
and happiness.”
CONTEST WINNER
MR. VillEKIE I IS ENR0UTE TO ENGLAND DEFEATED GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE ACCOMPANIED BY TWO FRIENDS (JETS CABLE FROM CHURCHILL Also Carries letter Of Introduction From President Roosevelt To British Prints Minister
Miss Mary Alice Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Miller of Franklin township and a senior in Roachdale High School, has been chosen a carn^jdate from Putnam county for the annual D. A. R. pilgrimage to Washington, she having | been judged the winner of the Gixxl
Citizenship contest sponsored in Put-1 noon lBST) tomorrow .and if Willkie
nam county by Washburn chapter
NEW YORK. Jan. 22. (UP) - Wendell L. Willkie left at 8:30 a. m. (EST) today for England aboard Pan American Airways’ Yankee Clipper for a private investigation of the effects of the war on Great Britain. The plane is due at Bermuda this afternoon and at Lisbon, Portugal, at
She was selected on the basis of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism. One person will be chosen to represent the state sometime in
March.
Death Summons William Gowen
WELL KNOWN MADISON TOWN-
SHIP MAN DIED UNEXPECTEDLY TUESDAY NIGHT
William Edwin Gowcn, age 73 years, passed away at his home west of Greencastle in Madison township About 9:00 o’clock Tuesday night. Mr. Gowen had been in good health and his death was quite a shock to his family. Death was due to heart
trouble.
Survivors include the widow, Lillie; one sister, Mrs. Nannie Chenoweth of Battle Ground and one brother of LaFayette. Also surviving are two girls, Mrs. Mildred Ames of this city and Mrs. Virginia Beckley of Parke county, and a son of Mrs. Beckley, Phillip Leon, who were reared by Mr. and Mrs. Gowen, Mrs. Bernice Adamson who was also reared in the Gowen home, preceded Mr. Gowen in death. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock from the Long Branch church. Rev. Clarence Vincent of Mentone, Indiana, will be in charge of the servi-
ces.
Friends may call at the home west of town until one hour before services Thursday afternoon. STRIKE HALTS WORK MILWAUKEE, Jan. 22 (UP) A strike by 7,000 production employes today halted work on $20,000,000 worth of government defens*' orders at the west Allis plant uf the AllisChalmera Manufacturing Company. (.ONE WITH THE WIND Andy Browning, manager of the Voncastle theater announced today return engagement of Gone With The Wind during the week-end of February 16. The great picture will be shown at half the price charged one year ago. Mr. Browning reports. CIRCUIT COURT NOTES Mrs. Ethel Mae Soper was grunted divorce from Theodore Wm. Soper in Circuit Court today. The defendant defaulted and his interests were cared for by Prosecutor Rexell A. Boyd. Judge Marshall D. Abrams dered the defendant to pay at-
torney's foe of $40.
Ollle T. Ellis of this city en the local hospital Wednesday ng.
makes good connections with the British air line at Lisbon, he will 1 • in London Friday. He received a cablegram yesterday evening from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, through the stat" department at Washington, inviting him to an interview as soon as he reaehjd London. Earlier, President i Roosevelt had given Willkie a letter | of introduction to Churchill. Two friends, John Cowles president of the Minneapolis Star-Journal, and Landon K. Thome, banker, accompanied Willkie. They expect to spend two weeks in England interviewing officials and Britons in all walks of life, to leam as much as possible about the state of British defenses and the British plans for post-war
Europe.
Willkie, defeated Republican presidential candidate, has endorsed President Roosevelt's lend-lease plan for aiding Britain “with modifications.” The clipper will be the first to cai ry passengers directly from Bermuda to Lisbon, eliminating the stop at Horte, Azore Islands, which is being abandoned because of the lack of
traffic.
In his last interview at his headquarters before leaving, Willkie was suffering from the effects of typhoid innoculation and small pox vaccination. He Said he was taking one traveling bag and a small handbag and would leave the handbag in Lisbon so as not to exceed the 44-pound baggage limit on the British air line The Yankee Clipper bearing the 1940 Republican presidential candidate and two friends as passengers, took off from La Guardia airpoi t bound for Lisbon, where the Willki.' I«arty will transfer to a British passenger plane to go to Britain. Mrs. Willkie kissed him goodbye and waved as the big plane taxied into the sound and took off. After he had cleared customs and had his passport inspected, Willki'* submitted to an interview. He was asked if he would make a report to | President Roosevelt when he return-
ed.
“Well, no,’’ he replied. “I have no plans for that. You see, I’m not going in any official capacity. I’m going as Wendell Willkie, private citizen, and my friends are going also as private citizens. I’m traveling on iny own passport.” He planned to return about Feb. 10 and had made no arrangements loi a speaking tour after that. "I will undoubtedly have things to say about what I learn, but I have no definite plans to speak. And I wish you would explain that I have no plans to .s|>eak formally while I’m in England and will not speak at idl outside ol what may be necessary in (ContllMiril on Viikp Tlir*«»
LIFT “MORAL EMBARGO" ON PLANES TO RUSSIA WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.—(UP) — Removal of the “moral embargo” on shipments of strategic war supplies to Russia headed the United States today toward closer friendship with
the Soviet Union.
Lifting of the year old embargo by the Stat ■ Department follows recent Japanese efforts to ameliorate RussoJapanese differences in the Far East. The move was interpreted by some as a bid by this country to draw the Soviet Union away from the Berlin-
Tokyo-Rome axis.
One of those holding that view was Sen. Claude Pepper. D., Fla., member of the Senate foreign relations committee and often a spokesman for the administration “I’ve had a feeling all along,” he said, “that all Russia needed was sympathy and help from the United States and Great Britain and she would stiffen her resistance against Germany and Japan.”
KITES FRIDAY MORNING FOR S1BBIE BUIS
PASSED \WAY TUESDAY NIGHT AT HOME OF DAUGHTER,
MRS. JOHN ELLIOTT
8ER\ R ES
STILEHVILLE
fej ' , |_ 1 » rta* fW | 11 lilt lie IBH — "■ ‘i, - "— ■ % / ** ——-j- mags: BBS iSgS-li SK iE ill i 1 . — MIL (M k at ll SS II ill* tin WfMm ■
mi fe
RIP NAZI EMBLEM—While thousands watch from downtown San Francisco street, five youths rip Naii flag from German consulate. Two sailors in group were held. U. S. State Department expressed regret to Germany.
DEI’AUW STUDENT SURVEY SHOWS VARIANCE WITH PARENTS’ BUSINESS
The "id days when occupations were handed down from father to son are apparently over at least as far as DePauw university students are concerned. A survey of occupations for which this present generation of students is preparing itself. Is at distinct variance with the occupations listed for the ps rents. F'athera of DePauw students engaged in farming, the animal industries, forestry, transportation, manufacturing, the mechanical industries, laborers and the various trades found few DePauw sons wishing to follow these pursuits. Instead, an overwhelming majority were preparing themselves for professional jobs. Almost two-thirds of all DePauw students fell into this classification. The leading professional choices are Education, Medicine and Law. Other important occupations anticipated by DePauw students are journalism, public service, chemiatry, metallurgy, business, and salesmanship. However, 26 per cent Indicated
that they had not selected their future field definitely. Although eighty students came from homes of ministers, only 1 indicated that they planned to he clergymen themselves. Out of the 722 women on the campus only 12 admitted that they expected to become "housewives” as a career. Out of more than 800 men on the campus, there wer e but two farmer. 1 ;. Along less specialized lines, ISO students were about equally distributed among such careers as artists, accountants, dieticians. persorviel workers, social workers, etc. Only a few indicated that they expected to enter clerical positions. The survey indicated that college students, at least at DePauw, are predominately interested in special ized careers; that the occupation of the parents has little influence upon the students' occupational choices, and that a large number of students, one In four, are undecided about their future occupation even after entering collage.
Death Followed Extended lllneMs; Spent Practically Entire Life In Putnam County Mrs. Sibbio E. Buis, age 71 years, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Elliott, near Coatesville, Tuesday night about 9:30 o'clock. Her death which followed an extended illness, was not unex-
pected.
Mrs. Buis was born in Putnam county June 1, 1869 the daughter of Joseph and Louisa Farmer Ruark. She was married to Chamer Buis and spent practically her entire life in Putnam county. Survivors include the daughter, Mrs.. Elliott; three sons, Herachel of Muncie. Ralph *.( Indianapolis ail Claude of Marion township; nineteen grandchildren and other relatives. Her husband died July 4, 1934 and one son. Vemice K., died July 9, 1930. Funeral services will be held from the Stilesville Baptist church Friday morning at 11:00 o’clock. Rev. C. L. Earhart of New Market will be in charge of the services. Interment will be in the Stilesville cemetery. Friends may call at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Elliott located one and one-half miles northwest of Coatesville until one hour preceding the services Friday morning.
Plans (Complete l or Institute
FRANK JARRELL PLANS PROGRAM FOR TEACTIERS NATURHAY, FEBRUARY I F unk Jarrell, superintendent oi schools of Putnam county, has completed the program for the Putnam county Teachers' Institute to be held in the auditorium of the Greencastle High School, Saturday, February 1 It is as follows. 9:30-10:30 Registration clerks Donald Cooper and Lloyd Hurst. 1();00 Invocation Rev. Dallas Rissler. 10:00-10.30 Music Reelsville, Cloverdalc, and Belle Union. 10:30-11:00 Announcements. 1:00-1:45 Music Bainbridge Band. 1:45-2:30 Sectional meetings. 2:30-3:00 Announcements Frank Jarrell, county superintendent.
FIGHT PARALYSIS Everybody feels that we should fight infantile paralysis that dreadful crippling disease, that cruel enemy of our boys and girls. But nobody feels it more keenly than the women especially the mothers, who must bear the brunt when the lisease strikes. We women in Putnam county are well organized for the fight. We have our clubs, our parentteacher associations, our church, farm, and other organizations through which we can work We can reach a lot of people. Apd that is all we need to do. People are glad to give. .We did well last year. We can do even better this year. Let’s all join the MARCH OF DIMES and help fight our common enemy. Mrs Bernard F. Handy President, Putnam County Federation of Clubs Member, Putnam County Committee to Fight Infantile Paralysis MAJORITY OF COMMITTEE FAVOR LENDING MEASURE
Kuinaniau Cities Under Army Rule
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UPI An unofficial poll revealed today that J5 of the 25 members of the HouS' foreign affairs committee are in fa vor of til*- administration's arms lending bill. Nine are opposed to it and one is undecided. The division was almost entiiely along party lines. Thirteen Democrats and two Republicans support the bill, although some also will sup|>ort restricting amendments. Eight Republicans and one Democrat oppose it. Home of these favor the objective <>l aid to Great Britain but oppose (tie broad grant of power to President Roosevelt.
TROOPS STAND GUARD FOLLOWING SERIES OF OlTBUEAKS BUDAPEST, Jan. 22. (UP) Diplomatic reports from Bucharest alleged without official confirmation today that possibly 1,000 persons have been killed in the current outbreak in Rumania. The estimate of dead is far in excess of any reports received from any other quarter on the Rumanian out-
break.
BUCHAREST, Rumania. Jan. 22. (UP) Troops stood guard here and in provincial cities today under orders by Gen. Ion Antonescu, premier, that peace and order must be re-est-ablished throughout the country within 24 hours after a crisis precipitated by the assassination of a German army officer. It was indicated that the loyalty of the army to Antonescu had permitted him to control a situation which provided the first great test for his re-
gime.
As the result of the German officer's death, the minister of interioi and the chief of the secret service had been dismissed for laxity in seeking the assassin. The new minister and chief had j dismissed high officials here and in the provinces but some of those dis missed had refused to give up then
places.
Last night .in a series of decrees, Antonescu prescribed the death penalty for the murderer of any German army man in Rumania and niilitar ized 87 important industries including those of armaments, aviation, oil. telephone, textile, match, cement, shoe and cigarette to bring them under army rule.
ROME ADMITS BRITISH GUNS BEFORE TOBRUK PENETRATE STRONGHOLDS IN EASTERN SECTOR AFTER BITTER FIGHTING BESE1GEI) FOR THREE WEEKS Italian High Command \niioiinees Successful British Advance; Tobruk EntireR Encircled CAIRO, Jan. 22 (12?) British middle east headquarters reported today that British advance forces had established themselves within three miles of the town of Tobruk at dusk yesterday. "British forward troops.'' said general ho t (quarters, "were firmly established within three miles of the town of' Tobruk yesterday evening. "Our attack had penetrated the defenses of Tobruk to a depth of
eight miles."
NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (UP) National Broadcasting Company picked up a British Broadcasting Company news bulletin today quoting the Australian defense minister as announcing the fall of Tobruk. ROME, Jan. 22 (UP) -British forces have succeeded after bitter fighting in penetrating the line of strongholds before the eastern sector of Tobruk, the high command said today in its communique. British forces attacked Tobruk yesterday morning alter having completely surrounded it for 20 days, the communique said, and succeeded toward the end of the day in breaking through the eastern strongholds.
LONDON, Jan. 22 (UP) Tobruk, Italy's big naval base and army stronghold 75 miles inside Libya, was believed today to be in the hands of British and Australian shock troops who broke through its outer arnl inner fortresses yesterday at the bayonet point. It was reported that the near eastern command was holding up a formal announcement of the capture only because i. wanted the city mopped up and the victory consolidated before the news was given out. British military authorities here said that, although they lacked confirmation of the olty's capture, they had no reason to believe it had not
fallen.
Heavy l iiihtinji
J
Vrouml klisura
REPUBLICAN MEETING Putnam County Republican Women's Club will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Assembly Room of the couit house. All Republicans are urged to attend.
MRS. JEMIMA SUTHERLIN OF ITITNAMVILLE OBSERV ES liIRTHDAV
20 Years Ago Of GKUNOABTUi
Mrs. Mary Mathias reviewed the 5th chapter of "The Near East: Cross Roads of the World,” at the meeting of the Presbyterian Woman's Circle. Beulah Alexander led the Junior Christian Endeavor meeting. Members of the Salvation Army advisory board Included Dr. W. M. McGaughey. Mat J. Murphy, Judge J. P. Hughes, J. P. Allen Jr., C. C Gautier, and C. 0. Gillen.
Her H5th birthday slipped up on Mrs. Jemima Sutherlin, of Putnaniville, Tuesday, and caught her feeling and acting with the vivacity of ;i young woman of a number of yeai.. less age. "Grandma has been cutting around some,” said one of her daughters, or granddaughters, Tuesday, when The Daily Banner called ujion her In the person of one of its reporters “Grandma" has resided for the last ten years with her daughter. Mrs. Frank Sutherlin, in Pulnamvillo, and the newspaper man found the large front room of the Sutherlin home filled with daughters and granddaughters of the sprightly old lady, she visiting with them with all the interest which they themselves showed. Four generations were there in that room, the fourth being represented by a small great grandson who addressed a granddaughter as “Mama.” And not all, by any means, were there. In addition to the son. Frank, there are two other sons, Arthur and William, of Greencastle. There • are two daughters. Mrs. Maggie Sutherlin and Mrs. Lottie Milenz of Medaryvllle. There were five other children, not now living.
Mrs. Sutherlin read The Daily Banner avidly, without glasses, which she never has worn. She keeps well informed on world-wide condition)-', having a deep concern as regards the participation of the United States in the conflict now raging abroad She worried in World War days because of her sons who were in it. and now she worries because of her grandsons. Mrs. Sutherlin was horn In Jefferson township, the daughter Alex and Eliza Hill Newman. She grew to young womanhood there, and it was in that Newman home, more than HO years ago, that she married Janies K. Polk Sutherlin. A part of their married life they spent living in a log cabin on the north side of the National road, at Westland, a structure which survived, probably more than a century old, until the recent widening of the highway Included the site of the cabin and it was torn down. Mr. Sutherlin “got converted," as she expressed it, and joined old Bethel M. E. church, bought last year by Mrs. Nellie M. Denny, and made by her Into a home, but Mrs Sutherlin has dispensed good deeds and cheerfulness and good Influences through her many years of life, without be-
coming a church member,
ITALIA NS THROW URPLANES, TANKS, INFANTRY INTO 4 Ol NTEK ATT At KS ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 22 (UP) Italians are throwing airplanes, tanks and wave of infantry int i their bitterest counter-attacks since they were thrown out of Greece in the first days of the war, reports from the All niiaii fronts said today. The heaviest fighting was In ttie Khsu it sector and although details were scarce, Greek informants said the Italians were suffering severe losses and steadily losing ground Gen. Ugo Cavallero, chief of the Italian general staff and now commander of the Albanian expeditionary four, is placing great importance on the Klisura sector, a Greek spokesman said The Greeks occupied Klisura two weeks ago but Italian still are entrenched in mountains north ol tlie town. The public security ministry said that in an Italian air aid on Preveza. a bomb struck an emergency hospital, wounding patients wounded
in an earlier raid
Salonica was bombed “without victims or damage,” and Volos, south of Salonica, suffered a few casualitles and some damage when bombs fell in a lower class resi lential section, the ministry -aid
t Today’s Weather • • and • • Local Temperature • Cloudy and much colder tonight and Thursday; preceded by light snow in north iiortion tonight.
Minimum 45 6 a. m 45 7 a. m 46 8 a. m 45 9 a. m 46 10 a. m 47 11 a. m 47 12 qoon 47 1 p. m 47 2 p tp. 47