The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 March 1941 — Page 1
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UKEENCAJSTLE, INDIANA, TI MSDAV, MARCH 25, 1941.
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Line Marshall D. Abrams,
of the Putnam Circuit I.yon had formed a
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H ( , n was born and reared in ,, began the practice Hr here following his gradJ f, Law Echo I During these past twenty ■ |: , dtained the position as f j. attorneys in the comhllen, aside from long i3 an able attorney here Ibc bench, served two years ntative in congress from Indiana Congressional disK a wide acquaintance state as well as in Wash-
sl^i .e practice In tins distinct liartncrship Will make L strong law finns in Greener ch is noted for having the best attorneys in Indih d whom have served in bacities on many occasions.
kMEN ARE MISSING JOM BLAZING OIL SHIP
The senior class of the Cloverdale high school will p resen', its annual class play this week-end. The cast, left to right, rear row. Mr. Rissler, director; R ibert Woodall, Eugene Shopped, Wayne McKamey, Freeman Hunter, Max Huber and Harold Powell. Front row, left to right. Naomi Anderson, Lulu Clark, Luria Cummings, Irene Cassida, Mabel Horn'.
\. F. Of L. Has IJijj Ziiu* Mill Majority ONLY THREE MEN IN THE MILL OPPOSED MONO REPRESENT-
ED BY LABOR l N ION
AREA SCOUT EXECUTIVE NAMED FOR WABASH VALLEY
AB®K1) S S. PAN-NEW YORK FMa March 25—(UP) Nil. ere unaccounted fur In early today as the 9.31b £ i Cities Service Denver f im stem to stern, 80 mib 1 |( i’.qx lookout, N. C. Denver at 11 o’clock last ^R: dm was on route fne. I New York with 150.000 |< ide oil. In a short whib was entirely out of control I; a took to life boats I'h. 11 'n were believed to ha . g tinu' the i non I i; I the ship, and to hav twn t kpped. laaker W. W. Bruce and this pn i.moned by the Cities Sernver’s distress call proceede i |i< i I picked up 22 men from Bis. Some of the survivors kb I up by this vessel, includF ui who had been seriously
IY CONGRATULATES EECE ON ANNIVERSARY
^TI r\S. Greece, March 25 l ' j P| fl urkish officials refened to ^^^Itoday as a "friendly, allied n *Uon I in messages of omgratul.. 'till 'he 120th anniversary of •Ireek Independence from Turkey. A I « dficant message in view o. ie Ip kan tension, came from 'liiwll Kavzi Chakmak. chief of 1 "‘ Tilkish general staff, reading: ^Hhi'm.di people folkiw tin' sane h the celebration of a national r a friendly, allied country s' '■ with admiration the deeds ^^Jlu' ->ir army which rights for hi l! Id' (Is. and wish it a future be worthy of its heroism
'ikl sifcrfrices."
Hush K. Hall, field representative for the National Labor Relations Board, supervised the election held at the plant of the American ZincProducts Company here Monday afternoon, at which 140 men were declared eligible to vote, us to whethei or not the American Federation of Labor would act for them in conferences with the company. Mr. Hall announced that X44 men voted out of the 145 cud 141 favored the American Federation of Labor, while only three were opposed to the union being the collective bargaining agency in its dealings with the com-
pany.
Mr. Hall said the National 1-abor Relations Board would certify the result of the election to the company here within the next few days. Thomas Taylor, representative of the American Federation of Labor was present at the election. The election was held from 11 to 2 o'clock and everything went off just as had been arranged and all the men eligible to vote, with the one exception were on band to cast their ballots. No ballots were mutilated and all were counted. WILLIAM PICKENS KITES HELD Tt ESI) \Y MORNING Funeral services for William Ellsworth Pickens, widely known retired farmer and road contractor, who died Saturday, were held Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock from the residence south of Belle Union. The Rev. Gilbert McCammack officiated. Interment was made in the Stilesville
cemetery.
Mrs. Nettie Runyan of Cloverdale
is a sister of the deceased.
Charles S. Griffin will become Scout executive of the Wabash Valley Area of Boy Scouts on April 1, succeeding James Molter. active executive who resigned three weeks ago to accept another position. Mr. Griffin will come from Kalamazoo. Mich., where he has served as assistant Scout executive since
1938.
The new executive, who is 35 years old, is married and has two daughters. His family will come with him the last of the month to make thru
home in Terre Haute.
Mr. Griffin, who is a graduate of Iowa State College, was a teacher in ( the schools at Muskegon Heights. Mich., from September. MR!)-to 19JK He is a life Scout, who came up through the ranks of Scouting and served as assistant scoutmaster and scoutmaster over a period of eight years. He always has been active
in community activities.
I’OFICF ISK TEAR <;\S ()\ CIO I’ICKFTS
ATTEMPT TO MOVENT MOKK ERS I KO'! ENTI 111 N (i III I II l.EIIEM STEI 1 PLANT
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MEETS
Trouble Expected At Chicago Plant Where Thousands Of Volunteer
Pickets Assemble
NEW CONTRACT WILL COMPLETE “40” PAVEMENT The Indiana State Highway Commission will receive bids April 16 to build 3.764 miles of the National road between Plainfield and Bridgeport. The improvement of this stretch of the National road with dual-lane pavement will complete the transforming of that road int , thai type of pavement from Indianapolis
to Teire Haute.
MONTGOMEKV CORONER
BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 25. (UP) City police used tear gas today in dispersing a group of 200 pickets at the main gate of the vast home plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation as they attempted to prevent workers from entering the
plant on the 7 a. m. shift.
A worker drove to the gate in his car, and the pickets moved toward it menacingly and attempted to upset it. Twenty city police drove them back, but as the machine again pulled forward into the driveway and pickets approached anew, one patrol-
man fired a tear gas shell.
The steel workers organizing comniittee (CIOl hail just started to form mass picketing lines at the plant where the union called a strike last night, when an automobile pulled into the driveway which leads from tlx- street to the company
gates.
A patrolman fired two shells into 1 the crowd as they gathered around the automobile, blinding two men
t \EEEI) INTO XKMI HERVH E i affeciin.' rimr other .
The pickets retreated to the street,
Dr. William M. Mount, young , leading their blinded companions.
Crawfordaville physician and roron |
er of Montgomery county, who hold: WASHINGTON March 25. 'UP) a First Lieutenant’s commission in The new defense mediation board the United States army medical | holds its first meeting today one day
corps, has been called on the active
service,
MISS FRY, 73, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME
WAS NlSTr.lt OF V.l -I , OLIVIA AND l.KFKEY > Of.lt \; DIED TEE -DA’. MO iVN PRIVATE SERVHIS l'l\N\E!) Erie ids May ! nil l irnily Res deice; !>r "mvsI Whs IS ; red
Sl im I T:m ier
Miss Myrtle May Fry, age 73 years, well kdown local woman, passed away Tuesday m -ra il,; at tin family r s done? at CCS i ir.t Wa-n inglon sticet, foil, wing a fifteen mcntlis' illn ss. She had been crit ,ca ly ill for the pint lour weeks. Miss Fry was bo a n Hillsboio Fountain coun y, on May 7, 1837 he daughtc. of l.onj am a i I Mar :h.» Jane. Fry Her father, a C;vi War veteran, died \vh n . Iv was an nfant and seven yea s later hoi mother married J. M Voiivc, wh
died in 1908.
Miss Fry was educated in thpublic schools of Fountain county and she attended the old DePauw normal school and Indiana Slat" Normal. She taught in the public schools of Fountain county foi sev oral years before the family moved to Greencastle in 1894. Miss Fix then became a teache in the Putnam county scho >U>, in Clinton and Greencastle townships. After she retired from teaching she worked in Allen Brothers store for 20 years. She reti ed from this position in 1922, after the death of her mother, to take care of the family home A few years before her illness. Miss Fry, had succeeded in building up a small business as a maker of slip covers and draperies Her work came to have the appearance of that of a real professional and her work was much in demand The deceased had been a membe: of the Methodist Kp scopal Church since childhood. Sho was a member of tlie Gobin Memorial Chu ch, tie Woman's Bible Club and the Ari Needlework Club. Surviving are two sisters, the Misses OUvyt 4ltd Efficy Voliva of Greencastle; a brother, W. N. Vol iva. of Indianapolis and a nephew, John P. Voliva, also of Indianapolis Friends may call at the family residence but the funeral will be pri-
vate.
JUGOSLAVIA SIGNS PACT W ITH N AZIS
BALKAN N VTION PLEDGES ••< ()- OPER VI ion ' w l I II Wls POWERS
VOLKS MEET
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ViOiiiiix Simrods To Banquet
ONSERV VTION CLl B WILL VILET VT HIGH SCHOOL Till RSI)AY EVENING Ira P. Nelson, field representative of the Indiana Department of Conservation will be the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Putnam County Conservation Club at its dinner lo lie held on the evening of March 27. The meeting will be held in the Vocational Building of the high school at 6;30 o'clock and indications are that it will be one of the largest meetings the organization has ever
held.
The menu has been made out b> the officials and it will include everything from chicken pie to the finest d pies, cakes and other delicacies, which will Im- brought to the dinner by the membera. Th. public is cordially invited to the meeting and dinner which will be of the pitch-in kind. The program, in addition to a talk by Mr. Nelson will include a colored motion picture of hunting and fishing an.l should be of much Interest to all Putnam county sportsmen Music will be furnished by the Stat. Farm Band.
GAME KKSKKVKS Wild. I!K UK’ATEI) IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OF COl NH
lkn car recovered
utomobile, owned by Dwigh' of Hoachdale. was stolen night but later recovered in ipolig. According to reports, pm son had parked the car and V" from it for about threes of an hour. When she rethe machine was missing and ■t thought her husband had It
That Putnam county may soon have a number of game reserves located on lands wh ch are similar In character to the b"''st reserves is indicated by info ma' ion sent i< men in the county who are Intel ested in the conservation of wild life. The reserves be sponsored b> the federal government and patrolled by federal conservation off.cers. The costs would be met by fede at taxes under the Pitman-Robertson congressional act, which sets aside for such purposes taxes collected on sales
of guns and ammunition.
To each state is allocated a number of these reserve.' in part sccord ing to the number of hunting licenses issued in the respective states. The tracts would consist of from 2 to 10 acres in size, land that is at present considered waste land, an.) these tracts would be planted by the government in hardwood trees shrubs and evergreens, and stocked by the government with all kinds of game whose life habits are suitable. The tracts would be fenced to keep out stock but the fences would not keep the game inside the tracts, It
v er, when it was discovered had been stolen, Mr. Carson Rrry Hooser drove to Indlan-
Vhere the auto was eventually . .
sffer having been abandoned being the hope of t e rien so v. thief, movement that the game
animals
would find living inside the ti.n 1 so desirable that they would not b tempted to go outside, where the,' would be without protect on otht" than the present state game laws. The tracts would not lx- pasture i by livestock. Like the fop it reserves, these tracts would be taxfree excepting for the levy of $1 tax per year on each acre. Suitable areas would be plante I with kaffir corn, to furnish feed for
seed-eating bints
Information concerning the man- | ner by which land-owners may have trac’.s of their land used for this purpose may be secured from tnr
following:
Greencastle Marion Johnroii Fred Pease or Robert Hadley. Cloverdale K L Larkin or H. A
Gurney.
Bainbiidge O. (L. VanCleave or Homer Sands. Morton Wayne Bettis or James Firestone. Fillmore—Ted Brown or Dick Cow-
gill. '
Roachdale-—Ernest Moser or Geo. luppenlatz. Russellville—Albert Goff or A M. McGaughey. New Maysvllle—Rosa Morphew.
aft' r “potentially the most serious’’ strike yet to occur in defense industries. according to defense-labor offirinls, was called at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bethlehem. Pa. There was a possibility, labor offiI clals said, that the Bethlehem strike if it is prolonged, will lx 1 the first to come before the new board. Mosl defense-labor officials believed could be settled Is-fore the mediation board is ready to function, about April 1 and to hasten u settlement promised that “every appropriate government agency will la; utilized
PENMEN FOR EXSTER The large Coca-Cola bottles dis tributed over the city for the collection of pennies with which to buy eggs for the annual Legion Eustei egg hunt at Robe Ann park are not being filled up very fast during th. past few days, members of the Post report and they are asking that sufficient funds be left in the bottles G buy more than UK) dozen eggs for us on Easter Sunday morning, when tin annual egg hunt for the children will
be staged.
xUHls(*apinjj; l> Meeting Sulqnl PKOPEKTX OWNERS Wil l. HIS < I**n PROBLEM WITH EXTENSION SPEC I XI.1ST The landscaping of the ground.' surrounding a number of propertie in Putnam county will in' conslderc conference between the owners
Will (Hve Play Friilav Fvcnin"
( I I N TON CENTER SENIORS PRESENT “OPTIMISTIC OSCAR"
CHICAGO, March 25. (UP) O xnllunril on I’nite Twin
20 Wars Ago
LN GREENCASTLE
The 8. C. C. club met with Miss Leliii Talbott at her home on east
Hanna street.
Among the performers on the program of a Preparatory School Music recital were Miriam Peck. Virginia Rariden. Betty Pence, Sarah Jane Durham, Lloyd Thomas. Helen Duff. Mary Louise Throop, Dorothy Harris. Robert Stevens Janet Crawley, Imogene Cooper, Geneva Brown Madonna Thomas. Guy Pickens sold his west Wash ington street property to John Nelson who had also recently bought the Frank Allee farm.
ami K B Hull, an extension special ist from Purdue Unive sity, ner Friday. The office of David L Grimes, county farm agent, in th Court House, will be used for tin conference if the w rk on th:' off e. flior is completed by that time Mr. Hull will meet propi ty cwn era Friday, on the following schedule 9 to 9:30 Mr. and Mrs. Slinpam Stoner, Mr. and Mrs Joe Davis. 9:.;0 to 10 Mr and Mrs Kay F. •- ens, Mr and M:s. Robert Myers. 10 to 10.30 Mr and Mrs. David Houck. Mr. and Mrs lb x Thorlton. 10:30 to 11 Mr and Mrs. tPau! McKeehan, Mr. and Mrs Waite
Reeves.
11 to 11:30 Mr. and M t. Francis Lane. Miss Christine Burris. 1 to 1:30 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Houck. Mr and Mrs. C. H Neier. 1:30 to 2 Belle Union High
School.
2 to 2:30 Mr. and Mrs. Ea:l Sutherlin Mr. and Mrs. J R South. 7:30 to 3 Mr. and Mrs. Evan Mi Keehan. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ceilings. 3 to 3;30- Mr. and Mrs, L. E
Michael.
ELKS TO MEET The Elks lodge will meet in regular session ton ght at 8 o'clock There will he elec Ion of officer*.
The Senior class of Clinton Cen ter high school will present Optl m in tic Oscar, a three-act comedy the school building March 28, 8:oi
p. m.
General admission is 15c, . eservi
seat:; 25c.
The cast is as follows: Adam Martin, a mechanic
John Mi lie
Mary Martin, his wife Emmadell Hiot Mac Martin their oldest daughtri Mary Ellen Spence Belvn Martin, their youngest daughter Retha Wile-, Chester Martin, the son
Max Gilt
Milton Byron, a young grocery clerk Lloyd Pulliam Ida Linton, Chester's friend ! Kathleen Newgcnt Oscar Oswald Ostermoor, a young | go-getter Robert Wichman Madame Paulette, shop proprieto-
Julia Marcum
Xdoll Hiller l.iM's To Austrian ( iiy To Await signing Of Treaty
At Noon
VIENNA March 25 (UP)—Jugoslavia joined the German-Japan-ese-Itallan alliance today but with the provision that axis troops .shall 'ot march through its territory and hat its sovereignty and territorial ntegrity shall be respected. Following Hungary, Slovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania into the axis, Jugoslavia pledged full co-operation. But in Identical special notes the ixis powers said that during the present war they would not demand the right to march troops through lugnslavia and that they would respect Judgoslavia s sove eighty and territorial integrity at all times. BEU7RADE, Jugoslavia. Mates (UP) The army and polk" held Jugoslavia in n tight and anxious grip today, ready to suppress disorders which threatened to break out upon receipt of the news from Vienna that the government, submitting after weeks of delay, had signed a )vict of "co-ope ation" witn
Nazi Germany.
All army officers and men were confined to barracks ready for a call to action in event of demonstra-
tions or riots
Protests against submission to Germany, and aid to Go many in an attack on Greece, had reached the capital from all parts of the country. Last night, in a new form of protest, someone Utrew from an automobile which sped along a main Belgrade street, a dead hen on whieix was a tag: ‘Better be a dead he’i than lay an egg fo • Hitler.” But there had been no disorderly manifestation of the popular anger. VIENNA. March 25. (UP) Axis leaders gathered rtt Vienna today for the signature of a pact by which lugoslavia pledged "co-ope i ation” with Germany and its tripartite al-
liance.
Adolf Hitler, Joachim von Ribbcntrop. ins foreign minister; Dragish i Cvetkovitch. Jugoslav premier; Ah \- inder Cim ai-Markoviteh, Jugoslav foreign minister; Gen. Hiroshi Oshinui. Japanese ambassador to Germany, and Count Galeazzo Clano, Italian foreign minister, arrived during the morning for the signing ceremony at the Belvedere Palace Ribbentrop escorted the Jugoslav leaders to tile Bristol hotel and Hitler went to the Imperial hotel to iwait the signing shortly after noon (5 a. m, KST). The streets leading to the palace were richly decorated with flags and lined with people.
MR ROOSEVELT ACQUIRES A TAN, TESTS FISHING SKIL'
MOSCOW, March 25 (lrt»l Milan Gabrilovich, Jugoslav ni'nister to Russia, resigned yesterday, it was said autho itatively t< day It had been reported but not eonfirmed that (Jabilovich had determined to resign in protest against the German-Jugoslav ngnement. ROME. Mareh 25 (UP) Premier Benito Mussolini has accepted the "resignation" of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani as commander in chief in north Africa, governor of Libya and chief of the army staff, it was announced today.
ABOARD DESTROYER BENSON off Florida coast, March 25 (UP) President Roosevelt cruised int > sub-tropical waters today aboard the presidential yacht Potomac, aequir mg a tan and testing his fishing luck while the ciew of the escort destroyer got In some gunnery and torpedo
drill.
The Benson’s five five-inch guns were uni im be red but not fired yesterday evening A few rounds wer' fired from the 50-caliber antl-air-eraft port guns at three small balloons, which were towed several thousand feet astern. The first few bursts smashed two of the balloons and released the third. The firing was called off when an unidentified plane, apparently a commercial flying boat, appeared overhead. STARTS EDI R-YEAK TERM NEW YORK, March 25. (UP) Karl R. Browder, former general secretary of the Communist party in the United States begins a four-year federal prison term today for passport fraud.
( XR STOLEN The automobile of Mrs, Tom Flint, north Jackson street, was stolen some time Sunday night from the lot in the rear of the Flint grocery. To date tlie police have found no traco
of the car.
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