The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 March 1941 — Page 1
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, :mK foM'Y-NINE ilAINCE is PASSED BV COUNCIL "‘“^vmaHWAv”' claims soM K A I'l’KOPKIATION of County Troaxurer foi hinr Wan Not Allowed; were Disapproved Putnam County Council, in tf ain Saturday after having lin g session Friday, passed an which appropriated the required to pay claims the county highway mainfund which were carried ov1940, This list of 1940 claims one for approximately to pay W. P. Rigdon, Dan--tractor, for black-top work late in the past year, an 1 eludes back wages to some 75 county heads of families hers, for labor on the roads the closing months of 1940 same ordinances revised the appropriations for county ctivities, making total reducufficient to make possible the ntof the deferred claims from
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rever, this action, as well as al> appropriations and transfers by the council at this meetill be certified to the Indiana Pax Board for approval of distal. No claim will be paid that list of those held over from ■util the approval of the state is given for its payment, request of the county treasuran adding machine to cost (was not allowed, request of the superintendent Jnty schools for a total of $675, ‘ng $360 for a deputy's salary, approved, request of the prosecuting atfor new compilations of statthe amount of $125, was rerequest of the superintendent county infirmary for $400 fo, igeiator for the preservation for the imnates, was tlisapi sheriff was allowed $.'500 inof the requested $400 for the of court papers, under the
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court bailiff, Arthur Real, was pay at the rate of $75 pier for 9 months of each year. A of $200 and $100 for milerequired by law, for special , was allowed. the court house, $1100 for wa‘50 for repair of building an.! Jires, and $250 for repair of pent, were allowed, iaudito's request for $100 speJtpenditure was allowed, appropriations and transfern
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ordinance making the approion for the payment of the deroad claims changed the budf til. various sub-funds in the Ipal highway rund as follows: aliens For 1941 Deductions
of January 1
’fts $ 2,500 int and lime . 1,000
25
!e ste.'l 600 ro-'d material 21,000
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Dr. Clifford Plopper
SUBJECT: •'CHINA’S CRISIS” Speaker Has Spent leant In Cliinu; Will Conduct Open Forum To Answer Any l|uestions
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Jurors Drawn For April Term PUTNAM JURY COMMISSIONERS CHERRY AND ROCKWELL DRAW NAMES Charles A. Rockwell, of Clovcrdale. and John W. Cherry, of Greencastle, jury commissioners of Putnam county, this forenoon drew the names f freeholding voters of the county to form the juries for the April tenn of the Putnam Circuit Court. For the gland jury they drew nine names, the first six of these to ser--t as the jury unless excused, in which case the vacancy or vacancies will be filled from tho three alternates For the grand jury the membeis will be the following with alternates: Cecil F. Bartlett, Floyd twp. Vernie Larkin, Jefferson twp. William Glidewell, Greencastle
twp.
Lon Hamblen, Clovcrdale twp. Harve Blaydes, Franklin twp. Lester Storm, Marion twp. Dennis Jones, Greencastle twp. Cliff Vickroy, Jefferson twp. Marion L. Cooper, Warren twp. For the petit jury, the members, with alternates, will b the following: Lee Wood, Clinton twp. Mrs. Lillie D. Reeves, Greencastle
twp.
Orville Greetw.AUv twp. Earl Bunten, Manon twp. Edmon Marshall, Madison twp. Ross McCullough. Washington
twp.
Jesse South, Monroe twp. Ira C. KnoU, Clovcrdale twp. Alva Carrington, Russell twp. Robert Crosby, Jackson twp. Frank Morrison, Cloverdalc twp. S W. Dod is, Franklin twp. Lee Brookshore, Greencastle twp. Carl A’-nold, Marion twp. Clarence Humphreys, Russell twp. Glenn Picket, Franklin twp. Fictcher Hunter, Warren twp. William Clark, Jacksn twp. Carl Beck. Monroe twp. Emory Brattain, Madison twp. Eula Clyde Ames, Greencastle
twp.
Dan Hall. Clinton twp. Carl Huffman, Washington twp. Ezra Arnold, Floyd twp. Salvation Army Breakfast Tuesday SIXTY WORKERS HAVE KEUEIV-
A speaker who will discuss a most timely subject in these days of world turmoil, Dr. Clifford H. Plopper, has been secured by the Men’s Forum of the First Christian church for an address in this city next Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. Plopper, who has spent years in the Orient, will speak on “China’s Crisis.’’ He will then hold an open forum to answer any questions from those in
the audience.
Dr. Plopper, professor of church history in the Nanking Theological Seminary, China, is in the United States, one of the Americans who an evacuee at the advice of our government. He has been in the heart of the war district .and since the outbreak of the conflict in 1937, he and wife have been tirelessly engaged in
refugee work.
Dr. Plopper went to China in 1913 and was stationed in Nantungchow. In January. 1915, he met the steamship ‘‘Manchuria” as it touched its first Japanese port, and on shipboard was married to Miss Alma Favors. Together in Nantungchow they engaged in both evangelistic and educa'
tional work.
In 1916 Dr. and Mrs. Plopper were asked to go to Wuhu where their work was not different from that in the former location. In 1922 after furlough, they returned to that station. The work among young men there had grown to such proportions that the different missions requested the national committee of the Y. M.
The annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to be held tonight at 6:30 o’clock at the Methodist church will feature Col. Roscoe Turner who will speak on “Aviation: Past, Present and Future.” I. J. (Nish) Dienhart will also speak on the subject of "Airport Development.” Walter Ballard, us chairman of the program committee, has been in charge of the arrangements. E. A. Browning will preside. There will be an open discussion following Col. Turn-
er’s speech.
Yugoslavs Will Offer New Pact
E. A. BROWNING WILL PRESIDE AT DINNER
65 VESSELS IN VARIOUS PORTS SEIZED P>\ . U. S.
TAKEN UNDER ESPION \U.E ACT OF 1917; ITALIAN, GERMAN, DANISH BOATS ARE HELD SEIZED TO HALT SABOTAGE
Official Washington Believes Ships May Be Pressed Into Service For United States BERLIN, March 31.—(1 I’)—A Nazi spokesman said today that American “confiscation” of Italian and Danish ships nia> be an exent of "historic Importance” lint lie could not say whether the action was re
i PRESENT NEW TREATY IN' PLACE OF AXIS PLAN OF FORMER REGIME
BELGRADE, March 31 (UP) — The government of Premier Gen. Richard Dusan Simovitch will offer to sign a non-aggression pact with Germany in place of the tri-powet pact alliance signed by the Cvetkovitch government, well-informed quarters reported today. An official declaration on Jugo slavia’s attitude toward the tri-power pact probably will be made after full-dress cabinet meeting Thursday, informants said. Tho pact joining Jugoslavia to the axis, in the form signed by the gov ernment of former Premier Dragisha Cvctkovich, was said by the informants to be unacceptable to the new cabinet and the non-aggression pact will be proposed instead, they ex plained. JUDGE BRIDWKLL DIES
INDIANAPOLIS, March 31 (UP) —-Funeral services will be held a*. 2:30 p. m., Wednesday at Sullivan for Judge William H. Bridwell, 69. 1 member of the Indiana appellate
C. A. to take it over. This they consented to do if Dr. Plopper could have three years to get it organized and established. He was also the executive secretary of the Wuhu
Church Council.
Dr. Plopper was then appointed to I DOLBY COLLINGS NAMED
court for the past 10 years who died here yesterday in Methodist hospital. A long-time Democrat, Judge Bridwell was serving his third successive term on the appellate court bench.
the faculty of the Nanking Theological Seminary. During the 1927 disturbances he and his wife went to the Philippine Islands where he taught in the Union Theological Seminary. As soon as the seminary in China could re-open they returned to
Nanking.
When the war with Japan broke out in 1937, Dr. and Mrs. Plopper were on furlough, but in the fall oi 1938 were able to return to China. The seminary opened its work in Shanghai and there they added to their teaching schedule service to tho refugees who crowd that city. Dr. Plopper serves the churches of Disciples of Christ under the auspices of The United Christian Missionary Society. He has degrees from Transylvania College and the College of the Bible, Lexington. Ky.. Yale University, and his PhD. degree from the Hartford Theological Seminary Foundation.
TO CO. LIQUOR BOARD
PRESIDENT PUSHING AID TO GREECE, YUGSLAVIA
garded in German act of war.”
quarters as “an
WASHINGTON, March 51 (UP) The seizure of 65 Geman, Italian, and Danish merchant ships caused official capital circles to wonder today if they would be pressed into
American service.
Maritime commission and coast guard officials insisted that the seizures, made with startling suddenness over the weekend, was intended to prevent sabotage and that it was not preliminary to confiscation and American use. Twenty of the 28 Italian ships seized had been sabotaged by thei crews, some so severely that they constituted menaces to navigation and property in the fiort in which
they were berthed.
The "battle of the Atlantic" is now raging with German submarines, surface raiders, and airplanes
FORT JACKSON, S. C. March 31 (UP) President Roosevelt, witn material aid and moral support, appealed today to be directing America's "power and resources” into the Balkans to strengthen Greece and Y ugoslavia. Making good his promise of “action and more action” to head off the march of dictatorships, Mr Roosevelt was reported reliably to have authorize I ihe extension of further material aid to Greece. The orders, it was learned, were issued during last week Loin the yacht. Potomac, while the President was cruising off the Florida coast. His authorization, it was understood, also made available further material assistance to Great Britain. The natu e of the assistance | was not disclosed.
May Halt Work In State Mini's
BI.WKET AGREEMENT BETWEEN MINERS AND OPERATORS ENDS TONIGHT TERRE HAUTE, Ind . March 31 (UP) Approximately 7.000 Indiana miners, members of Dist. 11 of the United Mine Workers of America, expected to halt production tonight with the expiration of a blanket agreement with producers and operators. Owners and operators of strip and shaft mines have refused to agree to a working clause to make wage increases effected at the joint Ap-
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INVITATION FROM II VKKY ALLAN
ES KENNEDY DEAD AT RUSSELLVILLE HOME
•hes Kennedy, ago 61, died a* n e in Russellville Saturday afyrn - His death was due to a ■cation of diseases. Mr. Ken- " a s born in Montgomery counMan h 3, 1880. He is survived 1 w ‘d°w, one sister, Mrs. James of Russellville.
(| IMUit COURT NOTES ' ' Voliva has been appoint^ministratrix of the estate of le ^ Fr y- James & Allee are *ys.
j , r l3op *ett has received Tme nt as administrator of
apthe
The annual Salvation Army break fast will be held tomorrow morning at the Rc-yale Cafe at i :00 a. ni Sixty workers repn-senting some o’ public spirited citizens all have received invitations from general chairman Harry E. Allan to this im-
portant breakfast,
Some five hund o t cards are made up and will bt* given out at the
breakfast to the workers.
The executive committee spent four hours routing and rerouting these cards to make sure that evorv card that will be handed out will be a perron who could contribute and each worker will receive fiom seven to eight cards ami they are so routed they will be right in the neighborhood of the worker who happens give them. The general chairman Harry E. Allan who received free hair cut and shave last year for being the first one to arrive will have the pleasure of passing it on to some one else this year. Audrid Fleenor, who was chairman of the drive the past two years very successfully, is a guest this year giving his loyal support to Harry E. Allan. Every worker is asked to be on time tomorrow morning so that the bieakfast can start promptly at 7:00 o’clock, lasting just one hour. Cap-
FIRE LADDIES CALLED OUT
EARLY TODAY BY ROOF FIRE Greencastle’s city firemen answered an alarm before breakfast Monday morning, 5:40 a. m. to be exact, at tile Harry Field home, 425 Anderson street, when a roof fire was reported.
Damage was estimated at $50.
The city foremen were called to Northwood to extinguish a glass fire Sunday morning. The blaze was buring strongly when the firemen arrived but the flames did no damage
except to weeds and grass. OBTAIN SETTLEMENTS
WASHINGTON, March 31 (UR) The new defense mediation board announced today that it has obtaine I a settlement of strikes in the four plants the Labor Department sent it
last Thursday.
INDIANAPOLIS L1V KSTOUK
The new liquor-control law of th
| stale makes changes in the manner of the selection of the members of
the county beverage boards, and
the number of members. Saturday, the members of the Putnam County Council carried out their part of the naming of the beverage board members by designating Dolby Ceilings, of Bainbridge, as their nominee on the beverage board .to take that ]>osition at the time of the reorganiza-
tion of the board this spring. However, Cqunty Attorney John
H. James lias pointed out that Mr. Coiling*, who is a member of the county council, will, by law, have to choose between resigning as council member to accept the beverage board membership, or of refusing to accept the election to the beverage
board, to remain a council member. That situation arises from the re-
strictions of the statute which bar one person from holding two county
positions which pay salaries. Mr.
James stales. He say any one person can hold a city office, for instance, along with a county office, and receive pay for both, but ho cannot hold two county pay offices, leg-
ally.
Membership on the beverage txmrd pays $10 a month straight time, and membership on the county council pays $10 for each day served plus $15 annual salary. The new liquor law specifies the county council name one member of the beverage board, the county commissioners one, the mayor of the largest, city one and the state one, making a membership of three local persons and one who may be local or not local.
palachian conference retroactive to
attempting to destroy Britain’s sea Al)ril j. They offered, instead, to life-lines and starve her into capil- . continue to operate under terms of ulation. Britain already has los*. tl, 0 present contract until negiotia-
over 5,000,000 tons of merchant shipping and her crying need is I ships. The seized ships total over .300,000. It was suggested that their use in American service, would per- ' mit the release of that amount of | American shipping to the British, i Government officials have been ! studying the legal aspects of the ; United States requisitioning foreign vessels in American ports to relieve this coun’rys ship shortage. The Italian, German, and Danish ships were seized under the section of the Espionage Act of 1917. which reads in part: “The Secretary of the Treasury may make, subject to the approval of the President, rules and regulations governing the anchorag • and movement of any vessel, foreign or domestic, in territorial waters of the United States, may place guardthereon and if necessary in ids opinion, in order to secure such vessels from damage or to prevent damage or injury to any ha: bor or waters in the. United States or to secure the observance of the rights and obligations of the United States, may take by and with the consent of the (President, for such purposes, full possession and control of such ves-
sels.”
Some lawyers said this wording would permit the United States to press the ships into its own service.
Hogs 13.000; weights above 160 lbs., 15c lower, 160 lbs., down steady to 15c lower; 190-250 lbs., $7.45$7.85; 250-300 lbs., $7.05-$7.45; 300400 lbs.. $6.85-$7; 160-190 lbs., $7.65$7 80; 100-160 lbs., $6 10-17 25; sows 10c lower, mostly $6.60-$6.86. Cattle 1.700; calves 700; market opening slow; early steer bids mostly 25c lower; heifers steady to weak; cows barely steady; few yearlings and light steers $9.25-$U; load 800 lb., heifers $10; vealers 50c lower.
tain Walter E. Dowell will be on i Top $12.
William E. Pickens. James hand to outline the drive plan and) ar « attorneys for the estate, j serve as guest speaker.
Sheep 500; lambs steady; good to choice wool Iamb* $11.25-$U.50.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Crawley of Washington were the week end guests of the former’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crawley.
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
lions for a blanket contract an
completed in New Yo:k.
In refusing the offer, Charles Foneannon, Terre Haute, presidem of Dist. 11, UMWA, asserted th* work-stoppage amounted to a lockout inasmuch as the men were of-
fering their services.
Foneannon predicted that a number of independent operators, not included in the blanket contract would sign retroactive clause agree ments before the deadline tonight. BAKERY IN NEW LOCATION Rusty’s Pastry Shop has moved to its new location at 102 N. Jackson street in the remodeled store at tin i corner of Franklin and Jackson. ! According to the management : new equipment has been installed s-o i that they will be able to handle all i types of bakery and pastry order- | for their customers. This equipment includes an automatic control gas
1 oven.
Mrs. Beck Dies At Washington
M. E. MEN’S CLUB WILL HOLD DINNER MEETING
The Methodist Men's Club of Gobi n Memorial church will hold the:: April dinner meeting in Communlrx Hall, Wednesday, April 2 at 6:30 p. m. A most tempting menu has been announced by the ladies
SERVICES MILL BE HELD Tl ES DAY AFTERNOON;MOTHER
OF REV. BEUK
Telegrams were received here early Sunday morning announcing the death at Washington Saturday afternoon of Mrs. Sadie Beck, mother oi Rev. Robert T. Beck, formerly of Greencastle, now minister of the First Christian church of New
Castle.
BRITAIN DEALS II, DICE’S NAVY CRUSHING BLOW
ROME ADMITS LOSS OF FIVE MARSH I PS IN FIGHT WITH BRITISH BA T T L E IN I OX I A N SEA Report From Egypt Asserts Italian Ships Now Firing At Each Other ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, March 31 — (UP) Italy’s crippled fleet, ripped by the British navy in a histone fight in the Ionian sea, may have completed its own disaster by figiwing among itself after the British ships had left, it was understood authoritatively today. The commanding officer of the battleship Warspite, flagship of the British Mediterranean fleet, disclosed that after tile British fleet had retired from its attack, considerable heavy gun firing was heard in the distance from the Italian ships, and was thought they were firing at each other. ROME, March 31 (UP) An Italian war communique today admitted loss of three medium-tonnage cruisers and two destroyers in a big naval battle with the British fleet in the central Mediterranean Friday night and Saturday.
LONDON March 31 (UP) British warships after inflicting a shattering defeat on the Italian navy rescued nearly 1,000 Italian seamen before German dive bombing planes forced them to abandon their attempts to save between 200 and 300 more, the Admiralty said today in a
communique.
Before abandoning the rescue operations, the British commander radioed the chief of the Italian naval staff at Home giving him the position of the survivors and suggesting that a hospital ship be sent, the Admiralty asserted. A reply was received and it is therefore possible that some of these men may be n .-cucd. The commuique told for the first time the story of the greatest British naval victory of the war, in winch one of Italy's two crack 35.000-to:i battleships was severely damaged, three Italian 10,000-ton crack cruisers and two destroyers were sunk, a third destroyer was probably sunk; i 5,069-ton cruiser was poss-bly sunk; damage was inflicted on other Italian ships, and two German dive bombets were shot down. It confirmed the astonishing news that in the engagement there was not a single British fleet casualty, except for the crews cf two missing planes, and that no damage was done to any British ship. It was recalled here, as Britons expressed amazement at the completeness of their navy's victory, that the Italians and Nazis had Joined Saturday in claiming terrible British fleet losses in attacks by German and Italian planes. Today's communique disclosed that an Italian cruiser captain was among those saved by British ships and that an Italian admiral, commander of the S-inch cruiser squadron, wax missing.
charge of the dinner. Harold T. Porter, fonner Rector scholar ind !>■ Pauw graduate will address th club Subject, "Unemployment ns • Effects National Defense in Indiana.’’ Charles McCurry, chairman oi the nominating committee, hat u ranged a complete new slate of f 'floor* for the new year. This promises to be a most interesting meet in and every man of the congregation will want to attend. Dinne reserva lions should be made through tin church office not later than Tucsilai afternoon.
SADDLE ( LI it
MEET
Clarence Vestal accompanied hl;t father, the late William B. Vestal, to Chicago where the latter was to undergo an operation on one of his eyes. Miss Helen Birch was here from Bloomington, 111., visiting her sister. Mrs. Albert Lockridge, and family. Talbott Christie returned from Florida where he had spent the wintari
The Putnam County Saddle Club will meet in the office of John Earnshaw Wednesday evening at eight o’clock. All members are asked to be present as important business will be transacted. MOVES OFFICE LOCATION
Dr. J. F. Gillespie moved his office location Monday from the second story in the Alamo building to the basement room in the same building formerly occupied by the Ladies Dress Shop. The offices of Drs. J. F. and R. J. Gillespie will be remodeled into two new apartments.
Mrs. Beck, a member of a prominent pioneer family of southern Indiana. had been ill since December but up till then had taken an active interest in the insurance and real es tate business operated by the family since the death of her husband. Win. Beck in 1916. She wits intensely interested in church and welfare activities, and followed closely the work of her minister son. whom she often visited during his six years residence in this city. She knew and enjoyed the friendship of many local people who deeply regret the news of her passing, and several from here expect to attend the funeral services which will be held Tuesday afternoon in Washing-
ton.
The body will lie in state for several hours Tuesday at the First Christian church, Third and Walnut streets, where she so long was a devoted member. Besides Rev. Beck she leaves a son Evart and daughter Miss Doris, of Washington, and a little granddaughter, Martha Jeanette Beck of New Castle. Those who si>ent the day Sunday with the family in Washington were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Roby, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Van Horn and Mrs. J. F. Spurlock.
FORMER RO.\( HDALF. GIRL MILL 1*1 .AY AT NASSAU
Mrs. Carlos Saizodo, harpist, who is the fo. mer Mujorie Call, oi Koachlale, will accompany her husband to Nassau, Bahama 1 (lands, in April, where ho will appear as guest harptst in several recitals, during the Balia man festivities, .it the request of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Both Mr. and Mrs. Salzedo are wide-
ly known as Im p urtijts.
«eo*»**#*« Today 's Weather • and * Local Teinpemui» * **•«•«««« Mostly cloudy, occasional shower* in east and central portions tonight: Tuesday partly cloudy to cloudy, light showers in extreme east portion in forenoon; not much change in temperature.