The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 December 1941 — Page 1
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ON ASKS OY DONATIONS ll INCREASED
v children may not get
on CHRISTMAS
CLINTON CENTER SCHOOL ORCHESTRA
GIFT*
MORNING
COOl’EHATION URGED Willing To Contribute Are ked T<> Bring Toys To Eire I)r|»iirt menl
js there is a marked incrcns* number of toys turned in to medcan Legion’s annual Chi: tTcy Campaign, dozens of unfor children in Putnam county pss the thrill of being rememi Christmas Day. i annual program of the Legone in which the entire' ojmy should share.” said a memthe Toy Committee today, “in with different townspeople there are literally dozens of and discarded toys to be found home-! of the average family ireenciutle. However, our prohas been to impress upon thes • ies the fact that their contributo thus Toy Campaign is ut-
y needed.”
tubers of the local Fire Departand several interested individhavc given freely of their time pairing the toys as they have in from the grade schools. •era! local merchants have ofthe Legion their suiplus stock ys, games, candy, etc at tmof the Christmas buying season, e this cooperation is greatly opiated by the Legion, it was ted out that last year over 400 idual packages were prepared Hie needy children of this county the present supply of games, skates, dolls, books, candy, is far short of the total needed
ill the requirements.
^sons willing to contribute t.> j toy collection are asked to bring contributions to the fire d lent or to the Legion club Parents wishing to Insure rearing ,<;f Hueir children ou stmas morning are asked to e the names and ages of their jren with some Legionnaire.
Violins .lime wuiche n. Irene u u nman. Christine Pelfrey. En la Cunningham; Clarinets Ghana Martin. Hubert McGaughey and Wilma Webster; Cornets John Hurk, John Brackney, Jessie Clifford, Betty Chilcote, Gail Crodian; Trombones Ida Bulk. Betty Miller; Alto Horn Mary Belle Ens->r; Melophone Malcolm Burk; Saxophones Julia Romine. Glen F'lint and Marcia Flint; Drum Lloyd O’Haver: Banjo Merle Vauglit : Accordions Mary Miller, Caroline Conneiiy and Charles Evans; Piano Helen Farrow. Director Mrs. Frank Jarrell. The orchestra_js the only one in the county and will enter the district contest.
FOUR KILLED WHEN TWO TRAINS COLLIDE POTTSTOWN, Pa., Dec i* (UP) Fcur persons were killed when two Pennsylvania railroad trains collided at nearby Frick’s^Lock today. Christmas Seal Sale Progresses CHAIKMW s\\s REPORTS ON FIRST WEEK ARE VERY S \TISF \< TORY
General Blackout Ordered Early Today Over Central California
SEATTLE, Dee. of almost J,0(1(1
Seattle’s business district eaily today, smashing windows of stores that had failed to observe the blaeli-
(IT’)-A crowd t WALDEN ABEL’S SAFE IN persons roamed HONOLULU AFTER BOMBING
ea ■ ly
John Abel is in receipt of word from his son Walden Abel, who is in
ion Drafts Resolutions
Protect
Your Home from
Tuberculoiii
e patnotism of the members of Nnai County Post No. 58. of American Legion, was mac.e ilnc.nt in the meeting of the post, (toy evening. A committee wgs W consisting of Glen Lyon. John Mw and Frank Stoessel. to ..iait lutioiif expressing the sentiment toe post members regarding th JCk by Japan on American citizatu, puss ssions. In response to tostrui lions, the committee memrepoit -d the following patriotic
-tSoiw.:
/HERkas. the Government f th ■ lied States of America and its (fie ha\v suffered an unwarranted treacherous attack by Japan and tog the time negotiations were ftog lie king toward a peaceful -lenient J the difficulties existing -'een this nation ami the Governt of Japan; and /HERKAS. the President of the |tod States has requested and Tress has now adopted a declara1 of war upon Japan; °'V THEREFORK BE IT RE (LV’EL. by Putnam County Po.-t /• 58 of t| le American Legion that Post urgently and earnestly rej*t thv citizens of Greeneastle an 1 vicinity during the existence of Wa r that they display the flag ! their country as an emblem of to loyalty and patriotism and ’r. to < nstantly remind them, as citizens, the solemn duty that y and each of them owe the counf °r which it stands.
Christmas Seal Sale chairmen are reporting satisfactory returns for the first week of the annual sale which began Nov. 24 and lasts through Christmas. Much interest CHRISTMAS in tm ‘ success of SEALS tote drive for funds
to carry on the anti - tuberculosis work in the county is apparent. Christmas Seals are appearing on letters and packages in the local post office bringing to mind the fact that it was a postal clerk who
first conciev l tin idea of selling an [extra stamp at Christmas time for
anti-tuberculosis work.
Einar Holbell a postal clerk in Denmark, was sorting Christmas letters in a Copenhagen post office one night in 190:i A naturally sympathetic soul ht had always been distressed by the 111 aght of stiffering during the holways when so many were happy, lb thought of the suffering that tube' -dosis causes. Then the idea cam. to him: why not sell an extra stamp. :i decorative Christmas stamp, at this time of year and set aside the mot - y for the care of tuberculous chihhen? From that inspiration came th. Christmas Seal, adopted in this country four years
later.
You can j< ■ wry postal employes consider thenis. lv. s messengers of health each year at Christmas time. Miss Elizid . n Ward lias charge of the sale of Chri I mas Seals at the Gresncastb p •» • Rice. Buy Christmas Seals and u- them to decoiate your letters n packages. JAP ENVOY GUARDED TO PREVENT SUICIDE
JDwf
, have paid for medical re- , c ,rc h on the problem of tubercu--s among young children, young
out ordered through the Pacific I Honolulu, where he is a teacher in
northwest. An iinderterinined number was jailed and at least lour were
treated for injuries.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 9. (UP) — A general blackout was ordered throughout central California early today when approaching planes, possibly “hostile,” were reported off the
coast.
The “alert" was issued at 2:06 a. m. PST (5:06 a. m. EST). Originally it was believed a stray naval patrol oomner was off the coast, but Maj. C. H. Titus, public relations officei for the fourth army, said: “This is a different situation now.” Col. John Clark, commandant at dcClellan Field, Sacramento, said it lad been “authenticated'’ that enemy planes” were “close or over the Golden Gate.” Brig. Gen. William Ryan, commanding the 4th Interceptor Command. ordered the blackout when listening post picked up sounds of “more than one” aircraft off the Golden Gate. There was some belief the aircraft might be naval patrol bombers, but Ryan sai.j “We’re going to shoot
the schools there. Mr. and Mrs. Abel cabled they were safe after the Jap bombing of Sunday morning. Nothing else was said, other than that
they were “O. K.”
U. S. READY TO DECLARE WAR ON NAZIS, ITALY NEW YORK, Dee. il (l I*)—Tin National Rroadea'stiiig Company’s Stockholm eoriespondent, David Anderson, reported in a broadcast at 7 A. M. CST today that reports in Stockholm said Germany would declare war on Die < nited States with-
in two hours.
WAR FLASHES
INDIANAPOLIS, Dee. 5) (CP) — Eighteen German and Italian Aliens were arrested by Federal Bureau ot investigation officers at scattered points in Indiana last night. S. .1. D.aytou, FBI thief here, saij today. WASHINGTON, Dec. b (l 1*)— Preparations ha\o hern ma e t black-out tin- White House whin aim if a general hi.u kout is ordered for lie nation's capital b\ “proper authorities’ of the district of C dumhin, the White House disclo >ed today. .MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. !t. —(UP)—The newspa|M-r El Pais report .1 today tliat liir German pocket outtleship Lut/.ow was raiding oft the .Argentine coast. There was no confirmation from other sources. LONDON, Dec. !).—(UP)—The German radio reported today that Japanese authorities have ordered air raid precautions in certain districts nortii and south of Tokyo. LONDON, Dec. !) (UP)-—The German official News agency leported today that the Japanese Imperial general headquarters hail announced that Japanese land troops were attacking the Singapore, area. WASHINGTON. Dec. !)_(t;P)_ President I boose veil's address to the nation tonight will Is- devoted largely to a discussion of "the Nazi pattern” of the present war involving the. United States, the White House
said today.
HONG KONG, Dec. *1—(UP)—A British coiivniunique tonight reported that Hong Kong's artillery batteries aliened up on Japanese attackers and ’’halted their advance."
Three Hoosiers Among Dead When Japs Attack Hawaii; Manila Bombed Early Today
WASHINGTON Dec. 9. (UP) Congressional leailers were ready today to acknowledge war with Germany and Italy II those axis powers join their Japanese partner in
LONDON, Dee. !l (I P)—British Empire forces are now nio\ ing up the Malaya Peninsula against Japanese forces “which are so small that their destruction is merely a cleaning up operation,” an authoritative informant asserted today. NEW YORK, Dee. !) (UP)—New Zealand declared war on Japan to-
By United Press Japan asserted today that its fighting forces, in an unbroken series of successes, had started a land attack on Singapore, destroyed more titan 200 American planes in assaults on the Philippines and Hawaii, and bombed America’s Midway Island 1,300 miles west of the Hawaiian Islands. Berlin reported from Shanghai that Russia had recalled to the United States Pacific coast, all Russian ships en route from the west coast to Siberia. First news of the assertion that Singapore was now under direct attack came in a German official news agency dispatch from Tokyo, heard in London by the United Press listening post. The dispatch said the Japanese imperial staff had announced that Japanese land troops were now attacking the Singapore area. A dispaten of the Italian official news agency quoted imperial headquarters that Japanese naval air units attacked Midway Island yesterday afternoon and successfully bombed airdromes and fuel depots without
loss.
It was asserted that the American islands of Guam and Wake were now fully under Japanese control and that the Japanese flag flew over them. The Japanese official news agency, in a broadcast heard in New York by the United Press listening post, said that among 200 American plane: destroyed in the Philippines and Hawaii were 40 flying fortresses and 20 other long range bombers. It listed 200 planes destroyed ir Hawaiian attacks and 100 in Philip pine attacks. 40 at Iba air field ant
60 at Clark field.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 9 — (UP) — The war deiiartment. Issuing the lirxt official casualty list of the United States-Japanese war, today listed the names of 37 American soldiers who were killed in Japanese air raids on Oahu. The list of men killed in the bombardment of the Hawaiian base included three Hoosiers: Private Robert G. Allen, Air Corps, next ot kin, Mrs. Sarah E. Allen, other, Sims, Ind. Pvt. 1st Class Robert L. Schott, Air Corps, next of kin, Mrs. Hazel C. Schott, mother, Elkhart, Ind. Corp. Robert P. Buss, Air Corps, ext of kin, Robert Buss, father, Elkhart, Ind.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UP)—Columbia Broadcasting system’s Manila correspondent, said in a broadcast today that Manila had heard unconfirmed reports that Kobe, Tokyo and Formosa bad been bombed. MANILA. Dec. 9 (UP) Japanese struck at tile Philippines by land and air today, and 200.000 residents ot Manila went to the hills for safety.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UP) Recruiting offices were swamped
day . a German official News agency j Wlth applicants today as Congress
dispatch heard by the United Press
listening post reported.
NEW YORK, Dee. 9 (UP)—A tierman official News Agency dispatch reported today that Japanese troops had entered Bangkok, capital of Thailand.
tilities against th' United States. Speaker Sam Rayburn told the United Press another war resolution
down any plane that doesn’t identify | woul( , be adopU .(| immediately if
Itself
The blackout extended inland to Sacramento and to Vallejo. Sirens wailed throughout the city. Police squad cars halted late motorists and forced them to turn off their lights. Street lights blinked out, section by section. it was the second blackout of the night. The first came early last evening when 60 planes were detected approaching the coast. That force came within 20 miles of San Francisco before turning back to sea. it was the second blackout of tire night The first came early last evening when, Ryan said. 60 planes were detected approaching the coast. That force came within 20 miles ol San Francisco before turning back to sea. he said.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 9 (UP) Special American guards at the Japanese Embassy May are guarding
VANCOUVER. B. C.. Dec. 9. (UP) The blackout last night along the British Columbia coast was ordered because of information of
. Ham"- enemy movements in the Pacific, the
^rU P Tm ns:r P KiSis^ CanaLn command disc.osed today. Nomura or members of his staff. U said the blackout was not a prac-
L^caT polke have been stationed tice. but the “real thing.”
the embassy, it was learned. I ; .
Mult!
»nd young mother*.
inside
and have special instructions u, frustrate, rf poss.ble, any suicide at-; tempts. . . Hara-Kiri, in which the victim disembowels himself, is a 500-year-old | Japanese custom that originate J with the feeling that suicide is preferable to disgrace, or “losing face. Well informed sources said there had been fear that Nomura, extremely. disheartened by failure of his ef forts to avoid a JaJpanese-American war. might seek the Japanese gentleman’s way out. INDIANAPOLIS HOG MARKET Hogs 7.000; market active, weights above 160 lbs.. 55c higher. 160 lbs., down 50c higher; 160-230 lbs., SlO.so*11. 220-260 lbs.. $10.70-210.85; 260too lbs., $10.55-$10.70; 100-160 lbs., S9 7,">$10.85; sows 25c higher, mostly i$9,50-$10. . -—
rotary club to hear HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA The High School Orchestra under the direction of Gene Pennington will make its first public appearance Wednesday when they play before the Rotary club. They wifi also play Thur sday for the Kiwanis club. It is composed of the following students: 1st violins Harriet Seller, Robert Meredith, Carol Cash. Phyllis Strain. 2nd violins Gloria Rice, Norma Spencer. Gwin Jarvis, Mary June Strain. Mary Louise Brown, Imogene Braden, Fay Von Tress. Ruth Ann Pease. Helen Tzouanakis. Violas Mary Louise Reynolds, Alice Sheridan. Cellos Aubert Meredith. Rebecca Longden,
either Italy or Germany move
against this country.
President Roosevelt, still apparently uncertain of the intentions of Rome or Berlin, addresses the nation at 10 p. m., tonight in his new and virtually all-powerful role of “war president.” He will give an amplified report of fighting in the Pacific where Japan Iras dealt our naval and air arms a punishing blow. There is a scattering of sharp ami bitter congressional protest against officers presumed to have been responsible for permitting Japan to get away with a surprise attack on our Pacific strongholds. The capital is speculating on tiro possibility of a shake-up in the navy high command although information reaching tha public is so meager that there is no demonstratably sound basis for fears spreading here regarding extent of our reverses in the Pacific. But after 48 hours of war, it appeared that Japan and the axis had won the headlines and the radio bulletins if nothing else. For the most part the American public is reading and healing of apparently successful, damaging and astonishing Japanese air attacks on our bases, on units of the fleet and on our shipping.
SINGAPORE, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, Dec. 9 (UP)—Japan has
hos- succeeded in kinding addition',d
troops in Northern Malaya and savage fighting continue J throughout last night for the important Kota Bharu Airdrome, a communique ol the Malaya command said today.
20 YEARS AGO
IN GREENCASTLE
The Friday Circle club met with Mrs. Ed Dalby, south Indiana street. “The condition of Stanley Davis, who was struck by a Monon train Tuesday morning while on his way to work, continues to improve,” said the newspaper. John Robinson made a business trip to Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Barnaby and sons saw Pavlova at the Murat, Indianapolis. Claude Wimmer was here from Bainbrldge,
Australians At Wai With Japs MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 9. (UP) — Australia proclaimed a state of war with Japan today, retroactive to 5 p. m. Sunday, and prepared to co-operate to the full extent of its resources with Great Britain, the United States and the Netherlands East Indies in their fight against Jap attempts to dominate the southern
seas.
It was the second British dominion to enter the war. Canada declared war on Sunday. Official news was received of the first Japanese attacks in the Australian defense sphere. Prime Minister John Curtin announced Ural tire army would be increased immediately. PENGUINS TO PERFORM FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN A pair of live penguins, furnished by the United States Society of zoology, will perform for city school children in the Greeneastle high school gymnasium Wednesday morning from 11:20 to 12 o’clock The program, will be conducted during the activity period, and is presented to increase interest in natural history and birds of foreign lands. Supt. Paul Boston announces th at children under school age will be admitted free if aecompanid by an older person. There will be a 5-cent charge for school children tinder 12 years. All persons over 12 will be admitted to the performance for 6 cents. MARRIAGE LICENSE
Kenoeth L. Broadstreet, laborer,
MANILA. Dec. D—( UP) —Japanese planes bomlHKi the Manila area by moonlight early today and reliable sources saiJ Japanese troops had been landed on the small island of Lubang, only 80 miles from the
capital.
Flames leaped up on the southern side of Manila a short while after a Japanese bomber formation caused an air raid alarm at 3 a. m. There rad been an earlier alarm period roan 12:35 a. m. to 1:40 a. m., but no planes appeared. (Nichols air field was the chief target of the Japanese planes, NBC reported. It said about 10 planes attacked. One soldier was killed and 10 were Wounded, all Americans. According to NBC one airplane hangar was damaged and an officers’ barracks burned. (The BBC. heard by CBS, reported that the Japanese also bombed two short wave transmitting stations. BBC said the Japanese planes continued their attack for 10 minutes in face of heavy anti-aircraft fire. (NBC reported that two persons were wounded by a bomb which struck near Fort McKinley. (BBC reported that a Japanese had been arrested at Manila as he was cutting telephone lines.) United States naval authorit'es confirmed that America’s mid-Pacific Guam Island had been attacked but had no details. KUIBYSHEV. Russia, Dec. 8 — (Delayed) (UP)- Russia maintain'd official silence today regarding the U. S.-Japanese war. but diplomatic I circles anticipated "important developments” in view of American lendlease aid and Russia’s obvious strategic potentialities in the Oriential war theater. No news of Japan's war declaration had reached the public. Tire Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, signed last April 13 and reaffirmed last month by official press spokesman S. A. Lozovsky, has been the basis of Russian policy. Until today, the press had followed every development in JapaneseArnerican negotiations, publishing the official announcements without
comment.
U. S. Consul Walter T. Thurston Mrs. Robfcrt Hoffman. Red Cross ^nf-rred today vith Sir Stafford Greeneastle township. Cripps, British ambassador to Rus-
sia, who later' discussed the war at the Chinese embassy. Thurston .scheduled a conference with Soviet Foreign Vice-Commissar Andri Y.
Vishinsky.
talked about the possibility of expanding the selective service age limit from 21-28 years to 18-35 years The original draft, law had a to] age limit or 35 but it was reduceu
to 28 early last summer.
The House military affairs committee meets this morning t>> dra: legislation that may be the firs step in wholesale revision of the draft law to mobilize manpower to
defeat Japan.
The committee will consider wat department recommendations for removal of existing prohibitions against use of selectees an 1 nati nal guardsmen outside the Western Hemisphere. Chairman Andrew J. May, D„ Ky., said it also would d scuss the possibility of broadening
the age limits.
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service directcr, said in a speech at Boise, Ida., last night that state induction quotas "will be doubled and tripled for January and succeeding months." The scheduled quota for January, before Japan a
attack, was 99,000 men.
The selective ser vice program, as il now stands, -would have 892,000 selectees in the army by January. Tentative induction plans, all made before the outbreak of the war with Japan, were expected to bring 500,000 new selectees into the army by
April 1, 1942.
GREENCASTLE TOWNSHIP PASSES CAMPAIGN QUOTA
chairman of
reports a total of one hundred twenty three dollars and seventy-five cents received in the drive tor members of
the American Red Cross.
Her assistants were Mrs, Maurice Kersey, Mrs. Roy Brackney, Mrs. Paid Albin. Mrs. Rosa Knauer, Miss Florence Evens and Mrs. Roscoe
Zaring.
DePauw University shows a very successful campaign in its membership drive for the Red Cross. A total of one hundred seventy-five members was obtained under the direction of Charles Molden, John Fassnacht, Miss Edith Greenleaf anti Miss Mar- [ garet Williams. The Delta Theta Taus have canvassed the city and a good membership is reported by them. However, if any one has been overlooked, and wishes to join the Red Cross, they may do so at the local post office with Miss Ward, or at the county
$ ® ® o ® o ® ® $ Today’s Weather $ O and Q $ Local Temperature Q Partly Cloudy tonight; Wednesday considerable cloudiness aid colder; snow flurries in north portion.
Fillmore rural route, and Virginia superintendent's office at the court Lea Lawson, at home, Fillmore. | house with Miss Boswell. 1
Minimum 6 a. m. 7 a. m. 8 a. m. 9 a. m. 10 a. m. 11 a. nr. 12 noon 1 p. m. . 2 p. m.
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