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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, .lANTARY 24, 1941.

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ISTRKSSING CONDITION 01 YOI TIIS SKI .N

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■^Ti: ROWDY t ONDK T Drinluni; Of Whiskey Pm- | By 15-Year Old Bay In |ale On January 11

A gli«'l>*e Into a distressing conion of yc>' ’ ' the New Maysville neighborhood, of Qrovelund, and which may counterparts in other parts of ^Hlwas given Thursday by a isided over by Judge rahalt D. Abrams, of the Putnam t, in the Juvenile division ■krt The hearing was pii-

the law lib ary

mm, Web)), 15 ytais old, :iud HMMe Jesse. 17, sons of Mi anil 1 i. LouJBVebb, who live on Char-j Keck’tf&rm north of New Maya- I le, were before Judge Abrams for an investigation of their part in occurrences centering on Sunday, January 12, Involving the drinking of

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whiskey bought by the 15 year old

IN rANTILE PAKALYSIS The Sunday of January 26, has been designated as Infantile Paralysis Sunday by the National Committee for the “'Fight Infantile Paralysis Campaign.” Nothing touches the imaginaUcn so surely as the suffering of children, and therefore no form of social amelioration should more effectively have the support of Christian people than the cue to br presented next Sunday. People arc urged to attend church somewhere January 26 and be ready, when the minister makes his appeal in behalf of this gi-eat humanitarian cause, to respond generously. Around this great cause let us unite without thought of race, or creed or parity. Rev. Claude M. McClure, Member Putnam County Infantile Paralysis Committee. Jiuljre Hancock Awaits Attorneys

HAS FINDINGS READY' IH T ATTORNEYS HAVE PROTEST-

ED BALLOTS

Judge Howard L. Hancock, of the

ECONOMY IS THREATENING PARTY RANKS

ECONOMY MINDED P.IIMIETEERS PLAN TO SCRAP CAMPAIGN “RELIEF” PROMISES RICHARDS FAVORS PROMISES Sen. Lane Suggests Compromise On Textbook Question; iSiate Bears Initial Burden INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 24 IUPI Two more Republican "rippe-’ bills were passed today by tlm Indiana Senate over the pro.es;s of the Democratic minority and forwarded to the House. The bills would; 1. Repeal the act which made the attorney-general appointive by the governor. 2. Make the attorney-general an elective official in 1942 and thereafter and provide for an interim appointment to be made by the governor. lieutenant-governor and secretary of state. Both measures were passed by a strictly party line vote, the first one 28 to 17 and the second 26 to 15.

gy * n R ()£ ihhd;il'', the night be fire, p ar | tl , colln ty circuit court, came to Mi jT d P °' Wdy f* 11 ' 1101 by that same bny , Greencaatle this morning to sit as “d other8 two homra ln Ncw special judge in the Putnam court, . 1 is **aysvllle next day, which was a case j n w nich he was named to VUhday. j U( ij C ial position last year. Both boys were before the Putnam Judge Hancock also is special I court a year or more ago, charged j U( |g e j n the Fall vs. Cross election with the rchbt y of the Clark store contest, having been chosen in the in Roachdale, and were found guilty i a , s t term of court, and he was asked of that charg' but were released on concerning the status of this case. — suspended sen nces, during good be- j-je sa j,| he had been ready for n

haviour.

I'im Their re-krrest, this week, came i Ml after an investigation of conditions involving these boys, and, possibly

other boys and men, conducted

principally by Sheriff Lawrence C. Graham and Deputy iom Vandiver, and by l^fose, jtor Rexell A. Boyd 'In the he ■ Ig 111 juvenile cour“. Thursday, the questioning of the boy* by kludge Abrams and Prosecutor Boyd seemed to be intended in part to uncover the identity of the

week or ten days to make his findings, but that attorneys still have the protested ballots and are not yet prepared to go into court for the finale of the matter. When he learns the attorneys are all ready, he will set a date for the handing

down of his decision.

The ballots are at present in the custody of Chase Harding, Crawfordsvllle attorney, to whom they were taken by John H. Alice Thursday morning, both of these lawyers

person whosold the whiskey th> representing the plaintiff-contestor,

15 year bid Webb boy, and the com- Buford Lee Fall.

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Incidentally Judge Hancock, driving from Rockville this morning, en

y.-.o umi. .-mjiu nun countered slippery places on the

i:ji w biskcy in Roachdale the Saturday state roads over which he traveled, night before his escapade in New ( but he said the greatest distress fell Maysville on Sun lay, Vonn e Webb to the westbound drivers because

the windshields of their cars were

know him. He was ^ plastered with the soft snow and

pHeity of others in giving the boys '■ whiskey to drink, at other times. ' - Asked who it was that sold him

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FINISH FIGHT WITH ARMY IS REBEL REPORT

IRON 4.1 ARD RADICALS BARRI- ( \diN(i “i ipMSELV K> IN PRIVATE HOI SES

LISTENING IN—Radio picture from London shows Britishers in air-raid shelter listening with rapt intensity to inaugural address of President Roosevelt. Thousands of other Britishers were reported showing similar interest.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 24 (UP) A sharp fight which threatened to split ranks of both political par,'ics was brewing in the Indiana legislature today as economy minded budgeteers plsnned to scrap campaign 'relief” promises in an effort to keep state finances off the red

side of the ledger.

Rep. Roy J. Harrison, R., Attica, chairman of the House ways and means committee whose jab it will be to shake, down the 1941-43 biennial budget recommendations, promised a rough ride in the committee for any bills designed to Increasexpenditu es or curtail revenue. "The ways and means committee is not concerned with platform promises,'' Harrison said. "It will bo our job to go into the budget and to make recommendations on some of these bills, but it's up to the legislature to decide what to do about it ' What the legislature will decide

Mrs. il. A. Chun li Expires Suddenly WAS MEMBER OK LARGE AND WELL KNOWN FAMILY OF PUTNAM COUNTY

The death of Mrs. H A. Church occurred suddenly at her home on east Washington street, at 8:15 o'clock this morning, from a heart attack. Her only son. Allen K. Church, of Evanston, 111., will arrive this afternoon and funeral arrangements will be made at that time. Mrs. Church was a member of a large and well known family of Putnam county. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Allen, whose family home was a short distance north of Greencaatle, Mrs. Church having been born there. She was a sister of John Joe. Will, Marlon and Dee Allen, all deceased, and Mrs. Albert Albaugh. also deceased, Mis. Lou Baker and Mrs. Ol Kern, now living in California, and Mrs.

vO do about It was the big question Mank Moore, no\“- residing at the

for backers of measures to give f:ee textbooks to Hoosier school children, to bring gross income tax

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standing In front of the hotel (In

Roachdale) and was drunk.”

Judge Abrams . epeatedly stressed the seriousness of a falsehood told by a witness sworn to tell the truth, but elicited no information whatever 'from the boy concerning

the identity of the man.

However both Jesse and Vonnie fepeati dly used the name of

pey as one who had given

Mtcy on various occasions Disney, However^ is already a wam ffH Juvrmle emirt, an inmate or

Uroytois, them whir

f irm school at Plainfield, , prominent undertaker of Roachdale He is 15) years old. and. ()l< | SU( idenly early Thursday ted, is not a desirable ^is home in Roachdale, will be

held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock.

Minstivl Show To I>r Presented

relief to retailers and to abolish the

poll tax.

With budget committee recommendations now indicating a biennial appropriations of $110,118,882, a net increase of about $6,800,000 over the current two-year budge*, economy factions insisted that tampering with income and expenditures might result in a deficit by July 1, 1943. Some estimates set the possible deficit as high as $5,000,000. Rep. Hobart Creighton. R., Warsaw, veteran member of the budget committee, warned that passage of platform iclief bills subscribed to by both parties might wipe out a current unapportioned balance estimated at between $5,000,000 and $7,000,000 and lay the ground work for a possible shortage. “'We’ll have to scrape the bottom

as it is," he said.

Governor Schricker indicated he would prefer economy to relief and that he would be willing to sacrifice free textbooks and gross income tax revision if necessary to maintain a

"working balance."

On the other side of the question. Rep. Renos H. Richards, R.. Patricks-

BKNEFIT FOR MON RDM TOWN- * n,r P minimized the importance of

SHIP FARMER'S INSTITUTE

AT BALNBRIDGE

Church home in Greencastle. In addition to the one son, Mrs.

Church is also survived by a grand-

son.

ROOSEVELT MAY ACCEPT AMENDMENTS

INCH DES NPECIUIC PROHIBITION against USE OF NAVAL CONVOY Y r.SSELS COMMITTEE HEARING ENDING Pmtident Indicated lie Would Not Object To Time IJjnit On Authority (liven Him WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UP) President Roosevelt today was n - ported willing to accept three amendments to the Arms lending bill, Including a specific prohibition against the use of naval vessels as

convoys.

Pei sous who have discussed the legislation with the president said he also indicated he would not object to a time limit on the authority that would be given him to lease, lend, exchange or transfer war materials abroad, or to a requirement that he report regularly to Congress j

Claim Not Allowed By Commissioners W. P. KIGDON’H CLAI M IS FOR BLACK-TOPPING ON PUTNAM ROADS IN 1910 W. P. Rigdon, Danville road contractor who has applied many thousand gallons of bituminous materials to Putnam county road surfaces past years, to the satisfaction of county officials and the driving public, is thoughtfully considering what to do about a claim for $3,670 which he filed with the board of commissioners for consideration in their January meeting, and which was not

allowed.

The claim is for black-topping done on Putnam roads in 1940 and the claim was filed, so County Attorney John H. Janies said Uiis morning, after the county’s road maintenance fund for 1940 was exhausted. He said the work done by Mr. Rigdon was under a contract made at a time when the county road fund contained enough money to pay for It. but that while that work was being performed, the

visibility was at a low ebb for them. One of these westbound cars nearly collided with Judge Hancock’s car. Judge Hancock is president of the State Association of Judges which will have a banquet at Indianapolis tonight in connection with the State Ear Association meeting, and he went from Greencastle to Indianap-

olis for that gathering.

FUNERAL TO BE SI NDAY

Last rites for S. E. Chastain,

3ert Roberts. 401 west Coltreet, was the only lucky Of the “Guess Who” contest lay and she will receive two kets to the Voncastle theater sing correctly that Maynard Kas the young man pictured, the county could properly it. Mrs. Roberts will reckets for “Second Chorus” Fred Astaire and Paulette veek’s picture shows a young is a farmer and lives northGreencastle. Try your luck |l or send your answers Into fie of The Daily Banner and free tickets to the Voncastle

Two one-act plays and a Minstrel show are scheduled for the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, at the Bainbridge high school gymnasium. Several numbers will be provided between acts during this benefit performance for ( the Monroe township farmers' institute. “The Point of View” directed by Reva Early will include in the cast: Flora Lowman. Clark Hendrich, Harvey Nichols. Grace McKeehan, Charlie Hendrich, Betty Judy, Stanley Lewman and Elsie Alice McKeehan. “Mrs. Stubbins Book Agent” with Dolby Collings as director includes: Kate Balch, Ruth Van Cleave, Howard Hostetler, Dolby Collings, and Albert Balch. The entertainment will close with a variety minstrel show Including the following performers; Cully Price, Paul Wayne Tate, Roy Hendrich, Willard Scobee, Dale Williams, Alice Priest, Dorothy Bressler, Betty Brann, Virgil Ader, Lorene Ader, Bert Miller, Cyril Masten, Dean Etcheson, Leola Modlin, Elva Scobee, Doris Price, Carrie Miller, Pattis, Joan and Donnie Brann, Garnett and Madonna Proctor, Vert Ader, Lucille Proctor, and Ivan Proctor.

a balanced budget as cninpared with the necessity for keeping platform pledges. He sai i he spoke for him self and "a number of others" when he promised to uphold the platform even in the face of economy pres-

sure.

"The improbability of a balanced budget in Indiana has progressed to the point of impossibllllty," Richards said. “We promised the children free textbooks and I think they should have them. "The same is true of helping retailers by lightening their gross income tax burden," he asserted. "They need relief and both parties promis- (< «»n<laued on Puce l oon HALIFAX LANDS IN U. S.

Kiwanians Help Decide Programs INTERESTING i{l MUONNAMES FILLED OUT BY INDIVIDUAL

MEMBERS

Greencastle Kiwanians, at thcii regular luncheon Thursday, formulated the work of the prog am committee and helpisl to decide the type of program most desire! through an amusing and interesting questionnaire which was filled out by individual members of the club. Dr. Joe Decker, new lleuionaiugovernoof the seventh division and i member of the Brazil club, attended the meeting and gave a few words of appreciation of the Green-

castle club.

Mrs. VV. N Rinker. president o' the Parent Teacher’s Association, urged active support and attendance at the circus which the association is sponsoring. Mrs, Rinker said that

on transactions, except information

deemed by the Army chief of staff, P ,anned to bo usc<1 for 11WM

spent for other things and the road ! fund was depleted before the claim

was filed.

Now, Mr. James said, there are

and the chief of naval operations to

be military secrets.

This was learned as the House I foreign affairs committee neared the end of its hearing on Ihe bill. Opposition members of the committee will devote their last day for calling witnesses to questioning the commanding officers of the army and navy about defense proposals of I

Col. Cha.les A. Lindbergh. The ad-i fun<j8 <iurin « the P reSent y, ' ar ’

ministration will present rebuttal to- ! which ca - s ’-' ho aaid ' 11 mi « ht bc ^ mof>pln * U P may

sible to secure consent of the state 1

morrow.

. . . tax board for a transfer to be made

by the opposition to-

‘ the road fund for the purpose of

hitches in paying the bill. He said the money to be collected this year is already budgeted for other purposes and that the only ohance to puy Mr. Rigiton is for a surplus to be found in some county fund or

Summoned by the

day were Gen. George C. Marshall,

Army chief of staff. Admiral Harold j P 3 ^ ,bc Kt S<Jon Claim. R. Stark, chief of naval operations, j ——

and Maj. Gen. George 11. Brett, act- , ing chief of the Army air corps. Another witness will be William R. Castle, undersecretary of state in

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EGGS (DISPLAYED IN CONNECTION WITH POULTRY M HOOL

The Putnam county poultry school, held in the assembly room of the Court House here today, suffered a re Juced attendance because of the unfavorable driving conditions of many of the county’s reads. The pro

11* it* ||** ( Iii liwIiivil'V if rani was given as announced, and I/UWIl wll I lit] IT II \ I lhero were dil ,p lay g of eggs Jn c „ n . - - nection with the meeting, the eggs

an attempt is being made to rats- : IN EFFORT TO SMASH ALLEGED being shown in the office of thi

_ county farm agent, David L. Grimes

LONDON, Jan. 24 (UP)- It was announced officially that Viscount Halifax, new ambassador to Washington, had landed in the United States today. Lord Halifax crossed the Atlantic in the new battleship King George V. it was announced. DEPARTS FROM HORTA HORTA. Azores Islands. Jan. 24 (UP)—Wendell L. Wlllkle, on his way to London, took off in a clipper plane for Lisbon at 8:35 a. m. today (5:35 a. m. EST).

enough money this year to cover the opeiating costs of the association for two yeues. These eosts are primarily to aid a few needy children each year, to the milk fund and to other worthy causes that come up in th ■ school system. Dean Louis Dirks, chairman of the Putnam County Infantile Paralysis comirnttee, announced that the local Kiwanis club contributed $9.45 to the drive thus .subscribing well over

100 per cent.

A directors meeting was announced for Monday evening. AH committee chairmen were urged to present and to bring with them a written report of their committees plans and program for this yea'r. Guests of the club at the luncheon were Dr. MoBirney, of the Gideon Bible Club, and Rex Boyd, local

prosecutor.

PRICE AND TIME BOTTLE-

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20 Years Ago IN OKKENCASTLB

Mrs. Gray Potter and Mrs. Park Dunbar were hostesses at a bridge party at the home of Mrs. Dunbar, Ix>cal visitors In Indianapolis included Fred Masten, Fred Todd, Dr. J. A. Throop, Fred Relsing, George Boyle and George Christie.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UP) Defense commission officials tixlay were reported ready to “crack down” on a few crucial armanirnt industries in an effort to smash alleged price and time bottlenecks. First official indication that the commission was considering invoking the so-called draft Industry clause of the Selective Service Act came from Defense Commissioner Leon Henderson yesterday. He told representatives of the lumber industry tnat lumber prices were too high and that he had had all the "wheedling cajoling •. threatening” that “my capacious stomach will hold.” Henderson, in charge of the commission’s price stabilization division, would not reveal plans In other Industries. but authoritative quarters said the government already was seeking lower prices in several other commodities and materials needed for defense. Henderson already has asked the steel scrap and iron business, copper, zinc and other Industries to cooperate in his effort to stabilize prices. Henderson told the lumber representatives frankly that unless there was an immediate improvement in (Coatlmird on 1‘sae Two)

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IN THE HIGH 2<>’S

BOTH SIDES LOSE. HEAVILY Agree To istop Fighting And Support Government Rut latrge Numive s Ignored Order

BUDAPEST. Hungary. Jan. 24 (IIP) Lon Guard radicals were reported barricading themselves In private houses in Bucharest today fin - a finish fight with army men and Iron Guardists loyal to the regime of Gen. Ion Antoncscu, promier, tot

power.

Thousands of Iron Guardists, including some who were members of the army and many peasants, were reported marching on the capital from the provinces to reinforce them. One report was that Gen D agulin. commander of the 5th army corps, was marching on Bucharest

from Brasov.

Rebels claimed control of half a dozen or more key jxiints in the provinces, including the Conntanza naval base and important air and

army bases.

There were unconfirmed reports that at several places in Ruman an Moldavia, Soviet regimes had been proclaimed after rebels captured public buildings. It was asserted that there was savage fighting, with heavy losses on both sides, when the rebels proclaimed a Soviet regime at Souchva. A dispatch from Rustchuk, on tho Bulgarian-Rumanian border, reported that more than 1.000 persons hail been killed in Bucharest alone before Gen. Antonescu reached an agreement with Huria Sima, vice premie:- and Iron Guard leader, to consolidate the government forces with moderate Iron Guardists to suppress the rebels. According to this dispatch, hundreds of ivKites had been collected in the streets of Bucharest and taken to subu bs. It was added that the bodies had been looted. The Sima-Antonescu agreement was leached last night and Sima at once broadcast an order to all Iron Guardist to stop fighting and support the government. But according to the Rustchuk and other reports, large numbers of Guardists ignored

the order.

Radio Bucharest early today broadcast a warning to the people of Bucharest to evacuate all streets in tho neighborhood of the police headquarters “because the army in

be forced to use

arms.” It had been reported long before that the army had ejected

rebels from the building

In the same broadcast radio Bucharest advised all peaceable persons to remain indoors as much as

possible for their own safety.

"If revoluntionaries force their way into your homes you must resist until help can be sent," the broadcaster added in apparent tacit substantiation of reports that the rebels were barricading themselves

in homes.

It was indicated that Bucharest was under a strict state of siege and Danub* ieport« sa d that though traffic had been resumed between the Rumanian and Bulgarian aides of the river there were no passengers because nobody was permitted to leave Rumania. According to reports fmm vaneus sources, Constanza, the p incipal naval base: Tekuci, one of the biggest air force bases; Craiova, wero in rebel hands. Rebels wete repoited in control also in some of the most important towns of Transylvania, over toward Hungary, including Turnu-Severln,

Greencastle and community awoke today to find a snow blanketed city and with a heavy snow falling. The temperature was around the high 20’s to the freezing point. However, it was cold enough that the snow did not melt, but it was extremely wet and heavy In handling and kept everyone working hard to keep the streets, sidewalks and highways cleaned the best as possible. The weather bureau forecast that the cold wave predicted for today and yesterday had been delayed and that it might reach Indiana by this weekend, and possibly tonight. Those who were up early enough or late enough, reported the snow began falling about midnight, but the heaviest fall was arpund 5 a. m. and again at 8 o’clock this morning. The total snowfall will be the heaviest of Ihe present winter season in this vicinity.

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41 Today’s Weather • and 41 Local Temperature «4l»ft*4i»«4l» Considerable cloudiness. Light snow or snow flurries In north portion tonight ami Saturday: colder late Saturday; cold wave Saturday night.

Minimum 27 6 a. m 2$ 7 a. m 28 8 a. m 27 9 a. m 30 10 a. m. 32 11 a. m 33 12 noon 35 1 p. m 37 2 p. m 37