The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 January 1941 — Page 1
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MEMBERS OF - GRAM) JLB^ IN SESSK )N
HOM'ARn MYERS OF FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP IS FOREMAN OF JURORS
>1 A Y RESPIRE T W O l> A Y S
Jury Expected To Frohe Shooting Of ' f Harold Will her At Cloverdalc Last Summer
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, 0 At 10:30 o'clock this forenoon, the h, grand jury called for the January term of the Putnam Circuit court, retired to beiiiK its investigations Jf I any crimes and misdemeanors which U may be brought before it, or taken up by it on its own volition. The ihi jury members are Howard Myers, of ^ Franklin towi ship, designated at
War Flashes PUTNAM BOYS
[jf Judge Marshall Id.
BWtnnnan Clark, M township; Manford McGaughey Franklin; |mnk Moreland, Jackson. Mrs. Jessie Mandleco, Franklin; and Russell O’Haver, Greencastle. 1 The drawing of three of the jury members from Franklin township, and one from Jackson indicates a desire to have jurymen living away * Vrlfrom the scene of the occurrence of i. the principal'matter which will come before the Jury which is the killing of Harrold Walker by Chelsie McWilliams in Cloverdale, June 30. 1940 The member- of the jury were __ charged by Judge Marshall D. Abrams in accordance with the re or J quirementa of the statutes. In first addressing them he said: :“You look like a pretty good grand jury.” He charged the five men and one woman, who compose the jury, that ^ 1 they are toj investigate all felonies imfei and misdemeanors which may be —^ brought to their attention, or they may, of their own volition, take up “You are not to permit malice, nor favor or affection to influence you in your work. You are not to disclose evidence which may be presented td you excepting in the writx'i- | ten record which is to b c kept by Ic, for use of the prosecutor
You are to determlnr is sufficient proof of
guilt to warrant an indictment being turned. You are an inquisitorial y of the Circuit court, a part of the machinery of government; an infforming or accusing Ixxiy. Generally speaking,” said the judge, “your
. powers arc very broad.”
The order of their procedure given the jury by the court, in their work, is first, to consider the cases of all ~)C‘ persons detained in jail awaiting investigation of the charges against f ‘ them; second, the investigation of charges against persons at liberty under bond; third, the investigation .of willful or corrupt conduct of public officials; fourth, the condition and management of prisons and county poorJ^arm; fifth, investigation of any violation of any criminal law of which you as individuals may have Judge Abrams said he believed two 'days would be required for the con■Ssideratlonj of crimes and misdemeanjora aatiMuit on Wednesday, tin third day! the jury as a body would be taken Ro the county jail and the county fkri' closing their work with
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HOME, Jan. U7 (UP) British and Italian troops are fighting cast and south of Ueina, Italian base on the Libyan coast, a high command communique said today. Italian troops, it was asserted, have inflicted considerable losses on British armored forces in what was -.escribed as lively
fighting.
SHANGHAI, Jan. ^7 (U i A Dome! (Japanese) news agency dispatch from Hanoi, Indo-China, reported today that peace negotiations would be started Wednesday hetwoon Indo-China and Thailan l with Japan as the mediator. LONDON. Jan. 27 i UP) Britis, Royal Ai Force planes bombed Gci many for the first time since We 1 nesday duiing the night, the air min istry made it known today. LONDON, Jan. 27 -(UP) Twi hundred Italian soldi* rs have bee: killed or captured in a two day fight with revolting Ethiopian warrio s or the important Debra Tabor-Dcssy* road east of Lake Tana, it was re ported today while British Empire forces drove into all parts of Italy’ African Empire.
EN ROUTE TO CAMP SHEUBY
LEFT TERRE HAUTE MONDAY YIORNI.NO for year of ARMY TRAINING 1) I E T II E R E O N T L E S D A V
ATHENS, Jan. 27 (Up) General Uge Cavallero, new Italian com-mander-in-chief in Albania, is throwing great masses of men against almost impregnable Greek positions without regard for losses, a ‘Greek spokesman charged today.
ROME. Jan. 27 iUPi High Italian quarters denied today reports that Gemian troops were pouring into Italy and that there had been serious rioting at Milan and Turin in the industrial north. Italian inroi mants at Milan and Turin joined in a denial that there had been disor ders.
Officers Named For Institutes
FEBRUARY 17 IS DATE MONROE TOWNSHIP MEETING
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If any [indictment is returned, it will be pied in court immediately after the [close of the work of the
jury.
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School Trustees t Tax Funds
WILL Hf LSEI) IN PAYING 117 TEACHING UNITS IN THIS COUNTY
The fU> Is needed for the payment of the kHaries of Putnam county’s hca!” 127 tear 1 ' ig units received a contri bution of $44.4fiO from the state’s I semi-annual distribution of gross Income tax funds, recently. This dis-
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’'ually foi each teaching unit. This money Las sent by the state directly
to the aohool trustees.
Teackii units are based on an I average daily attendance of thirty five gran school pupils or twentyfive hign school pupils. A total of - 19,881 am h units were allocated in d making the present distributions, according to the division of statistics
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cation. IA similar distribution of $350 a unit Is scheduled for next July.
ELKS NOTICE
Elks [will meet In regular session Tuesday night at 8:00 o’clock,
Officers and committee-members have been selected for the Monroe township farmers' institute, to bi held February 17, as follows: Chairman, Francis Lane; vice chairman, Otha Bales; secretarytreasurer, Mrs. Earl O'Hair. Finance Committee chairman, Harvey Nichols; Earl O'Hair, Webb Evans. Arrangements Committee chairman, Arthur Giltz: Herschel Nichols, George Estes, Jeff Baughman, Membership Committee chairman, Jess South; Ben Pruitt, Mrs Clifford Reeves, Mrs. A thur Giltz. Mens Exhibits Committee chairman, Paul McKeehan; Frank Frazier. Boys Exhibits Committee chairman Francis .McClure. Girls Exhibits Committee chairman -Bernice Stewa.d. (Program Committee chairman, Mrs. Clifford Earley; Dolby CollingMrs. Russell Scobee, James law-
man.
Nominating Committee chairman, Fred Low man; Ralph Clodfelter. Mrs K am is I>mp. Dinner Committee chairman, Mrs. Ascha Casaity; Mrs. Herman Hendrich, Mrs. Eva Price, Mrs. Raymond Nelson. Women's Exhibits Committee chairman, Ms. Ralph Clodfelter; Mrs. tit ha Bales. Door Prize Committee chairman Otha Bales; Clifford Earley. Officers and committee-niemberH for the Jeffeiaon Township farmers institute, February 19, are the following: ChaiVman, Basil Staley; secretarytreasurer, Gertrude Stringer. Entertainment Committee Mrs. Hattie Neier, Mrs. Walter Dorsett. Miss Ethel Hurst. M . H. Glover. Premiums Committee Mrs. Zella Cummings. Mrs. Edna Goodpaster, Miss Lucille Stringer, Mrs. Ora Hurst, Elizabeth McCullough. Publicity Committee Mrs. Freda Hodge, Mrs. R. P. Alice, Mrs. Lola Vaughn, Mrs. Edgar Hurst Asst. Judges to exchange Mrs. Flora Larkin, Mrs. Alva Foster. FIREMEN' MAKE RUNS City firemen made two runs Saturday, the first to 514 south College avenue, when a motor fan on a stoker became overheated. The second alarm came in the afternoon at 300 Greenwood avenue where some food had been left in an oven and the fire had not been turned off. Damage wax reported slight in both eases,
Are Members Of 151st Infantry, t amp Is Near Hattiesburg,
Mississippi
By this hour of the day, Tuesday. Putnam county should have 25 representatives among the young soldiers who are being assembled at Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Miss., for a year of intensive military trainim,. The county's contingent in the great army of national guardsmen who are being taken from their homes in many states to help form the new national defense forces are a part of Company I. 151st U. S. Infantry whose headquarters have been at Terre Haute but which, along with Company K, also of Terre Haute, and companies from other cities of southwest Indiana, departed from Terre Haute this forenoon en route for Camp Shelby. They were routed over the C. & E. railroad, travelled in Pullman sleeping cars, leaving Terre Haute at 10:50 o'clock a. m., and expected to arrive at Camp Shelby with 26 hours of travel, but that was uncertain. Troop trains are not run on a fast schedule and no effort was to be made to rush this one to its destination, it was said. These young men have been informed they will be assigned at once to the making of rifle ranges, along witn their routine drill and seasoning
maneuvers.
Six of the contingent are now corporals, but, within a short time, thenpresent company strength of 84 men will be doubled by the induction into each company of 84 draftees. When that occurs, those now corporals may be promoted to sergeants, and the corporals' places filled by other for mer national guardsmen, so that, in such an event, Putnam county may have a dozen or so non-commissioned officers soon in that one company. One of these former guardsmen from this county, here over the weekend. said the amount of their pay is not assured, but that they hoped to participate in the following pay schedule: Privates, $30; 1st class privates, $36; corporals, $54; sergeants. $60 to $75; 1st sergeants and staff sergeants, $84. Mail for these Putnam county young men going to Camp Shelby will reach them if addressed to them by name, care Co. 1, 151st Infantry, A. P. O., Box 38, Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg. Miss.
MB. WIU.KIi: M\kUS \ HIT WITH LONDON
YCUORDI D \t YUM WELCOME ON HIS YURIY YL IN BRITISH CAPITAL TO STI OY WAR CONDITIONS
PLANE CRASH KILLS TWO—Wreck of TWA sleeper plane in which fwo were killed and 12 injured, when it crashed in early morning at approach io St. Louis municipal airport. Plane was ripped in two and officials wondered why more of sleeping passengers didn't meet death.
Kmnanian I\oIm*I Still At Lirge
Hold A SIM Y IS REPORTED Old. YNI/.INg REVOLT IN THE I’ROY INt Es
BUDAPEST. Hungary, Jan. 27 <UP) Horia Sima, dissident Rumanian Iron Guard leader, was reported still at large today and organizing revolt in the provinces despite an official Rumanian government announcement of his capture. Reports that Sima was still at liberty came both direct from Bucharest, through the strict censorship, and from Berlin. There were various reports also that resistance of Iron Guardists continued at various places in the provinces, including the Turnu Severin. Craiova and Temesvar areas of the southwest near the Jugoslav and Bulgarian frontiers. The United Press Bucharest correspondent said that though officials continued to assert Sima had been arrested, many persons were convinced he was in hiding. Berlin reportr from Bucharest were that authorities ordered another search of Sima’s home last night but that he had not
been found.
Bucharest dispatches and Balkan reports generally indicated that Gen. Ion Antoneacu, the premier, was in effective control of the situation in Bucharest and big provincial cities but that resistance continued in the Bucharest suburbs, on a small scale, and that roving hands of Iron Guard rebels were roaming provincial areas. Travelers arriving in Budapest from Transylvania reported that there had been fighting as late as Saturday at Temesval and that German troops intervened to stop it. According to these informants Guardists had dominated that town. (Cnntlniieil •«' Psire Twnt
Committees Hear Milium F\|>erts YltMY YNI> N YYY Oi l K HRS TESTIFY REGARDING YltMS
ME AN I RE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (UP) The Senate foreign relations committee opens hearings today on President Roosevelt's arms lending bill as top officers of the army and navy give to the House foreign affairs committee secret testimony that they declined to give in public. Secretary of Stat<- Cordell Hull will be the first witness before the Senate group. The officers scheduled to appear before the House group are Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff; Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, and Mhj. Gen. George H. Brett, acting chief of the army air corps. Soon after both committees meet. Sens. Burton K. Wheeler, I), Montand Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D„ leaders of the opposition, will introduce a resolution in the Senate requesting President Roosevelt to demand that the warring nations of Europe state their war aims, their peace conditions and “any and all secret treaties for disposition of territorial spoils.” In a statement announcing their plan. Wheeler and Nye said the United States was entitled to know the aims of the belligerents because the threat of this country’s involvement in thi' war is imminent. “Most historian* and students agree.” Iln-y said "that the treaty ot Versailles provoked the present war. Before the United States goes anv further along the road to war we should have a suiances from our potential allies that American boys will not be ploughed under European soil every 25 years.
TO OPEN SCHOOL FOR II Y N DM YPPKD ( IIILDREN SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 27. (UP) A school for handicapped children will be opened here next fall, following a gift from E. M. Morris,
local financier.
The former mansion of the late Col. George M. Studebaker will be used for crippled, hard of hearing, sight saving, speech defectives and
cardiac cases.
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LORD HALIFAX < ALLS I PON PRESIHF.NT; MAY FNGI.ISH A MB YSSADOIl
l>us\ Week Faees State Lawmakers
Tells Kepi rters. Officials Yml Citizens His Y(sil L For First Hand Information
FIN Yl. YCTION ON NEY ERAI. IMPORTANT BILLS DCF.
IN LEGISLATURE
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27 (UP) Not satisfied with an almost uit precedented burst of speed in the passage of legislation last week, Republican membe.s of the 82nd general assembly indicated today they would pour on still more coal during
tile next few' days.
With few exceptions major bill.in the GOP program to redistribute the patronage power given to the governor in the McNutt reorganization act of 1933 were past the house in which they originated and going down the stretch to final passage. Heading the list of important billalready past the halfway point wer proposals to repeal the 1933 act and to place state departments under th» authority of four th ee-man executive committees the “big ripper bill. Both were in the Senate judi clary committee and were regarded a.; virtually assured of favorable ar-
OPPONK bill
EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Jan. 27
(UP) Opposition to the proposed oil an<l gas conservation law, introduced in the House of Representatives last week, will be sponsored by a group of southern Indiana oil operators, 1
land owners and businessmen. Charging the bill would cripple In-
diana's oil and gas industry and branding it as an "underhanded move to strangle” the small operator and to pro-rate production, the group has pledged $1,200 to fight the measure.
A public hearing will be held in
Indianaoplis Tuesday by the House
natural resources committee.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 27 (UP! Lord Halifax, the new British Ambassador was expected to present his credentials to President Roosevelt
today.
The meeting the usual procedure set up by state department p otocol—will bo anti-clamatic in view of the dramatic f‘. st meeting of th< President and Halifax last Friday afternoon on storm swept Chesa- j tion.
poake Bay. Mr. Roosevelt broke a i- i Si n. William K. other precedent then by disregaiding president pro tern of diplomatic protocol and sailing out said the uppe
to meet Lord Halifax as he ai riven aboard the new British battleship
King George V.
Despite that meeting and the din- ( net- party at an Annapolis dock aboard the President's yacht, Lord Halifax will not became a full-fledg-ed ambassador until he pays hin S first formal call at the White House | presents his credentials as the representative of King George VI, and I exchanges the niceties of diplomacy. (President Roosevelt also is expected to announce early this wee*, his choice of an ambassador to Great Britain. He is understood to have chosen John G. Winant. former Republican governor of New Hampshire and at present director of the international labor office. Winant conferred with M . Roosevelt last
Friday.
Halifax already has paid his first
•Tenner, Shoals,
the Senate,
chamber might b.
called into a special session Satur day to pass the keystone measui' and send it to Governor Schricke.' before the passing of the tentative
Feb. 1 deadline.
So far in the session, now nearly a third over, 305 lulls have been introduced approximately equal to the corresponding point in tire 8Lst session when a record of 914 measure
were started on their way.
RK>DLI HON FOKYY YRDED
20 Years Ago
EN OKHKNOASTUI
PLYMOUTH. Ind , Jan. 27 (UP) A resolution, urging defeat of thf aid-to-Britain bill in Congress, has been forwarded to President? Roose veil and Indiana's congressmen by
Mayor J. Abner Bowman.
The resolution was adopted yesterday by 625 persons attending n
call upon secretary of state Coideli | locturc by the Rev. Father John O’
Brien of Notre Dame. In discussing
Hull. He spent more than an hour at the state department Saturday after which he announced to reporters fhut he and Hull "see
things very much alike." TO Rl I.E ON MOTION
Charles H Burnaby, R G. McCutchan and Dr. W. R. Hutcheson were named a special committee to arrange for the Anniversary Day program for the Rotary club. Harry Allen, Frank Bit ties, William Blanchard, Charles H. Barnaby and C. C. Gautier were named chairmen for succeeding Rotary meetings Among the officers elected by Central Lodge of Odd Fellows were Everett Tharp, Earl Tharp, Chester Humphrey, H. Hammond and Fred Tincher Roy Abrams of the Citizens National Bank was tn Kentucky on husines*
NEW ALBANY. Ind., Jan. 27 - (UP l Special Judge George C. Kopp will rule this week on a motion for a new trial for Milton Hawkins who is under (k-ath sentence for tinmurder of a Jeffersonville taxi drivel last May. The defense filed affidavits charging two Jurors discussed the case during the trial. The prosecution submitted counter affidavits denying the allegation. Defense attorneys argued that Hawkins had been made the goat in the slaying and was entitled to a life sentence as was given James Hayden, his accomplice who pleaded guilty without a trial.
"an America Stay Out of War,'' the priest urge 1 the U. S. to stay out of Europe's wars and warned the nation not to jeopardize its defense by sending aid to countries that have been involved in constant quarrels for
centuries.
NY Y < LUCK ( OMINI.
LONDON, Jan. 27 (UPi Wendell L. Willki,. revealed today that he is in Great Britain to study British production methods with a view of co-ordinating them with United States production. It was his first detailed statement of the specific considerations which brought him to Britain on a "personal inspection’’ tour and served to recall United States reports that he might accept a post in President Roosevelt's official family having to do with defense production. Before he left the United States, he endorsed Mr. Roosevelt’s "all-out” aid to Britain hill and saw secretary of state Cordell Hull and the Presi-
dent.
"T want to see where you • shortages and strength are and study your methods and see how thev can best be combined with American methods,'' he told more than 300 British and foreign correspondents at a press conference at the minist y of information this morning. He announced that he might go to Eire to talk with Prime Minister Eamon De Valera Britain urgently needs naval bases in Eire, to replace those she returned to Eire before the war. There have been reports in the United States that the American government has aided British efforts to persuade Eire to let her have
them.
Wlllkie said he planned to stay in Britain for two weeks. He refused to comment on American or international politics. "I am strictly as a private citizen to get all the Information I can.” ho said. "You know the people decided in November that I should not have anything to do with the government.” Wlllkie had appointments to see Prime Minister Winston Churchill, foreign secretary Anthony Ed m, and minister of labor Ernest Bevln today. It was un lerstood that he would lunch with the Prime Minister who, like other officials, has gone '>ut of his way to make Wlllkie feel welcome. He told the newspapermen that he wanted to talk to everyone from officials to the man in the stree’, that he wanted to talk to the heads of other Democratic governments such as Queen Wilhelmina <;f The Netherlands and King Haakon of Norway which are established in lyondon because their countries spin the hands ol Germany "I want to fin I out what they are thinking’ about the conditions of today and after your victory, so I can tell the people of the United States.”
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The British reporter asked for his observations of the English and conditions here since his arrival by plane from Lisbon ycsteiday. "I have only seen two or three incidents of bomb damage so far," h ■ replied. "I don't want to comment yet, but I see Ixndon is still standing and I think you people am
great.”
Wlllkie chatted amiably with the correspondents and the British among them obviously liked him. He smiled and laughed when questioned concerning official matters on which he did not want to comment "I find it is some times difficult to understand some of your accents," he told the British, "hut I suppose you have the same trouble with mo and my broad Indiana accent.'’ Willkie was introduced to the c ir1 Con t In lied un I’nKe i'll ref t
LEGION MEETING
There will be an Important meet ing of the American Legion this evening at 8 o'clock at the Legion Home.
Joseph Ferrall itinerant certifying clerk for the National Youth Administration, will be In Greencastle, Wednesday, January 29 from 10 a. m to 4 p. m. at the commissioner’s court room in the court house, and on the 15th and 29th of each month thereafter. All youth both male and female between the ages of 17 and 25 giclusive that are out of school, unemployed, not married, and In need of employment. are asked to meet Mr. Ferrall. at the county court house Wednesday. Projects will be opened for the youth of Putnam county In the very near future, providing these unemployed youth with the opportunity of gaining actual work experience from construrttve worth while project*.
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