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THE DAILY BANNER “IT WAVES FOR ALL”

Volume fifty

(SEEENCASTLE, INDIANA, TIITRSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1!)4J

NO. 82

INAL CHECK WRITTEN FOR CITY AIRPORT

liNICIPAL LANDING FIELD NOW I > ROI‘EKTY OF CITY OF GRKENCASTLE

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Jreoneastle Tiow owns its munic,1 airport, lock, stock anil barrel. 1 Grimes, city clerk-treasurer, week wrote a check to the Pru,tial Insurance Company for 9.51, the final payment on the ;t of land southeast of town Ich became an obligation of th 2 Qtty of Greencastle in 1930. The airport at that time was to toe a government emergency landing field. Lights were erected and other Huipment installed but it was not king until material was dismantled Mid grass took the place of airplanes. ^Htccording to the records, the city eeiincM under the administration of ttB late Mayor W. L. Denman, voted to| purchase the airport from tne ®feencastle Chamber of Commerce the ^Prudential Insurance Oomy on the evening of July 22, 1930. rever, a remonstrance was filed on September 22, 1930, and the council agreed to put the proposal up to th^ taxpayers at the election on Nofjlnber 4, 1930. The proposition to tony the airport carried by a vote

ofil,559 to 908.

, jlThe council then drew up a contnct to purchase the land for $6,000. TOIs sum was to be paid off in annual payments of $500 plus interest. ®&hr local Chamber of Commerce figured in the purchase transaction in,that this organization had an option on the site which was a part ofF the Scott Browning farm. Tne Option and the down payment of $50Q was presented to the city by the Chamber of Commerce. Now, with the issuance of the check for the final installment, the .flfpcrt it actual'y the property of the city of Greencastle. About the only revenue from the flying field in the past several years has been from the sale of sod. A year ago, there was agitation for improvement of the airport so that college students could be trained under the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Sever a 1 well known aviators came to Greenciistle and looked the field over but the DePauw students who took the CAA course during the 1941 ■pring semester received their instruction at Indianapolis. More recently, in fact only two months ago, the city council again discussed iming the landing field and com.ees in this connection were apted. It had been estimated that ximately $20,000 would be the unt needed to install signal Ughts, hangars and other equipment. , Wlth the advent of war between this Cpunlry and Japan, Germany and Italy, the matter of the airport improvement was tabled indefinitely at this week's meeting of the council. Expense and inability to secure tne ^■essary materials were two factors m this action. Consequently, untaus the United States War Departt should decide to take over the 1 field, the airport question will along very quietly until the fuof aviation in this community ;well outlined after the present lonal emergency is over.

2 MORE SHIPS TORPEDOED BY NAZI U-BOATS AMERICAN VESSEL SINKS WITH LOSS OF MORE THAN 40 LIVES SURVIVORS RELATE ATTACK Assert Submarine Came To Surface And Crew Watched Seamen Drown In Atlantic

NOTH' E—INSTR CCTIONS WASTE PAPER

—Photo by Somheil Studios Corporal Junior Brant, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Brant, 111 Hill street, Greencastle is stationed at Camp Shelby, Miss, with the 38th Division. Corporal Brant, who has been in the service a year, is now on guard duty at Greenville, Miss.

Dealers To Keep Record On Tires

THIS REQITRED ACTION ANNOUNCED BY COUNTY RATIONING BOARD

miel Summers Called By Death

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ILL KNOWN RAIN BRIDGE MAN PASSED AWAV WED-

NESDAY NIGHT

Every tire dealer in the county is required to keep records under tire rationing regulations established by the Office of Price Administration, members of the local Tire Rationing Board announced today. Principal records which must be kept by a dealer, acording to the regulations, include: (a) On January 31, 1942 and at the close of business on the last day of every month thereafter, ‘he must taek an inventory of all new tires and tubes in A-s possession or control and keep arecord of this inven-

tory.

(b) He must maintain a file containing all rationing board certificates which have been presented by applicants to whom sales of new tires have been made. It is assumed that these records will be necessary to prepare reports which the local tire board or the O. P. A. may later require to be filed by dealers, board members said. “Another feature of the regulations important to tire dealers is that tire retailers may sell tires to each other in order to satisfy the particular needs of their own customers who may be eligible for new tires under the strict regulations set up by O. P. A.,’’ the board said. “This procedure also is important to merchants whose tire sales are merely incidental to their regular business and who may want to dispose of their tire stocks toy selling to another retail dealer. However, in all such sales the procedure in the regulations must be followed. This procedure is: “The retail dealer making the sale must obtain, from the purchasing retail dealer, a statement in duplicate acknowledging the making of the sale and the number of new tires fCoatlnurd on Twok P. T. A. To Observe 45th Anniversary GREENCASTLE CITY COUNCIL SPONSORING COMBINED MEETING FEB. 6TH

aniel Cordon Summers, age 86

6 months and six days, pas-

sed away at 11 o'clock Wednesday Mght at his home in Baintoridgo. He

(Mel been ill for several days.

ihMi Summers Wins bom July 15, **•55 in Putnam county, the fourth ©4 thirteen children. His parents were Daniel T. and Elizabeth Ceilings Summers. He was a member of the Groveland Presbyterian Church. BRrTwi> sisters survive, Mrs. Frank Rogers of near Bainbridge, Mrs.

John Michael of Bainbridge.

Funeral services will be held from the Sands Funeral Home in Bain••Jdge at 10:30 o’clock Saturday inioming with the Rev. Raymond Skelton of Greencastle in charge. Burial will be in the Bainbridge cem•tarv Friends may call at the fun#ral home at any time after 1:00

ofplock Friday afternoon.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 22 (UP) Americans waited patiently today for details of U. S. navy retaliation against German submarines which in a week have attacked six merchant ships almost within sight of the Atlantic seaboard and brought death to at least 75 seamen. The navy has assured the nation that “good news'* will be forthcoming to counteract the week of "bad news’* about Atlantic shipping. AH available naval units vessels and aircraft—are striking savagely at Hitler’s “rattlesnakes.” It was believed that when the navy considers the time is right to tell its story, the price German submarines have paid will more than offset the recent attacks. Late yesterday the navy reported the fifth and sixth victims of submarine attacks. The American steamer City of Atlanta went to the bottom off Cape Hatteras early Monday with a loss of 43 or 44 men. The Latvian freighter Coltvaira was attacked and believed sunk off the Atlantic coast with the loss of two of its crew. Survivors of the Coltvaira arriving in New York and Charleston, S. C., said the ship was “still floating” when they abandoned it and believed it could be salvaged. The survivor's stories about these attacks by underwater marauders which have infested Atlantic coastal waters was a week disclosed that the pattern of submarine warfare is nearly the same in each case attack without warning under cover of darkness—no regard for the safety of the crews. Only three of the City of Atlanta’s crew ot 46 or 47 were rescued. The three survivors upon arrival in Hoboken, N. J., told bitterly of the German torpedo crashing into the side of the steamer early Monday morning, and how it then rose to the surface and played a searchlight upon the helpless sailors struggling in the icy waters off Cape Hatteras. Two of the survivors, propped up in Hoboken hospital beds, told of their seven hour struggle to cling to wreckage until help arrived. Just before dawn a vessel passed nearby but they were too exhausted to signal

it.

One by one the members of the crew succumbed and when help did arrive only four were picked up. One of them died. The Atlanta’s crew cursed the submarine when it flashed its light on them. They shouted: “I’d like to wring your necks, you Heinies.” Then they prayed—(“anything to keep busy.” The Ciltvaira was torpedoed about 5 a. m. Monday morning without warning. Two of the crew of 32 were killed, according to survivors, appar ently by the torpedo explosion. The other 30 but over the side in lift boats rowed in the vicinity for two hours and then returned to the ship at 7 a. m. They finally abandoned it after salvaging their valuables. Twenty-one of the Ciltvaira’s survivors were taken to Charleston, S. C.; the others to New York.

Please remember that the seeimd weekly collection of waste l>a|*cr will lie made Friday. New spaper and magazines an- to lie sent by pupils directly to any of the ward buildings. It there is no elementary pupil in the home, citizens are asked to call the nearest ward building. Pupils will then he sent for this paper. General waste pa|H>r should he put in a carton or container and placed conspicuously in front of ilie house by 11:30 a. 111. Collections of this type of paper will lie made hy high school hoys between 11:30 a. m. and 12:30 p. in.

LOMBARD RITES CONDUCTED BY DPU GRADUATE

SIMPLE SERVICE IS HELD FOR II HOSIER MOVIE ACTRESS

WILL OPERATE BUS LINE TO POWDER PLANT O. \V. HOLLOW EI.L GRANTED PERMIT TO KI N Rt SES TO NEWPORT O F FIC E IN THIS CIT Y Bus Line Will Operate On Roads 13 And 36; Bus Garage On North Indiana Street

WAR FLASHES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UP)— Gen. Douglas MucArtliur’s men, the war department revealed today, are fighting against a huge Japanese assault launched hy an entire army group—possibly 300,004) enemy troops —plus heavy new reinforcements being rushed to Luzon by the Japanese high command.

The Greencastle city P. T. A. Council is sponsoring a combined meeting of all of the Greencastle Parent-Teacher Associations, to be held on Friday, February 6, at 2:30 p. m. in the high school auditorium. The meeting is in honor of the Parent-Teacher Association. Parents and teachers of all the Greencastle public school children are cordially invited to attend this meeting. Parents and teachers attending the county schools are to be guests at this celebration. Friends in the community are also welcome. Mi’s. James L. Murray, president of the state IParent-Teacher Association, will be the principal speaker of the afternoon. It is expected that this will 'be the biggest Founder's Day celebration that the Greencastle P. T. A. Council has ever sponsored.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22—(UP)— Carole Lombard joined the other movie immortals in Forest Lawn Memorial Park today. After the briefest, simplest possible service in accordance with the wish expressed in her will the bodies of Miss Lombard and her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peters, were intern'd in the Green Acres where are buried Marie Dressier, Will Rogers. Jean Harlow, Doug Fairbanks, Lon Chaney, Tom Mix and many another

movie star.

The sealed coffins of Miss Lombard and her mother, killed in last Friday's aerial tragedy in Nevada, were blanketed with gardenias in the Memorial Church. W'hether by chance or on purpose, the baskets formed a perfect ‘V in front of the pulpit, where the Rev. Gordon C. Chapman said a prayer, read a psalm ami recited one of Miss Lombard's favorite poems.

The services for Miss Lombard were in chaige of the Rev. Gordon C. Chapman, who will be well remembered here toy DePauw ana Greencastle friends, as he was graduated from the university with the class of 1928. He is pastor of the Westwood Comunity church In Los Angeles and has had an interesting career since going to California. He also read the marriage service of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in 1939 and has been quite closely associated with many motion picture people in Hollywood since taking up his work

there,

Greencastle and Putnam county will have regular transportation service to and from the Wabash Valley Powder Plant near Newport, Ind., it is revealed today in the awarding of a permit to O. VV. Hollowed to oper1 ate a bus line. According to the I temporary certificate the route is described as follows: “From Cloverdale via state highway No. 43 to its intersection with U. S. highway No. 36, thence via U. S. highway No. 36 to its junction with state highway No. 63; thence via state highway No. 63 to Newport; thence over such highways as are necessary to serve the U. S. Powder Plant south of Newport, passing through pnd serving Cloverdale, Greencastle, Brick Chapel, Morton, Hollandsburg, Bellmore, East Rockville, Rockville, Montezuma and Newport.” The new line will be known as Holly’s Line and the station will be located at 119 north Indiana street, where the offices of the line will also be located. A complet.' service garage will be maintained so that the buses will always be kept in good condition in compliance with regula-

tions.

According to Mr. Hollowed, “Now that I have secured a permit, as soon as the proper rating is given and modern up to date equipment is procured, I expect to establish a transportation service to facilitate persons in tilis county in getting back and forth to this new enterprise. This service should enable those who wish to live in Putnam county, to work in the new defense plant with a minimum of inconvenience to themselves [ and families. Each passenger will be I fully insured to meet state requirements and every efort will be made to maintain this line on convenient schedules,” The coming of this bus line to Greencastle should encourage people of the community, who are planning on securing work at the new plant, to continue to make their residence in the county. The shortage of rubber and the desire on the part of many to conserve their tires if they own automobiles, will be solved to a I large extent in the operation of this bus line.

.MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 22 (IP)— C'oininiinieatioiis with the Briti>.li base at lialiitul on New Britain Island ceased tonight after reports that enemy airplanes and warships were operating near the Strategic Islands northeast ol Aus-

tralia.

Bainbridge To Present Concert

llll-ll s< IIOOL BAND AND ( HORl S TO PLAY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST The Bainbridge high school music department will present the high school band and chorus in conct 11 Sunday, February 1 at 2:00 p. m. 'o the high school gymnasium. Program: Western March -Richards-•Fea-turing trombones. Sunbeam Overture—Olivadati. Flirtations Cornet trio—Clarke—by Dale Williams, Dean South, Ri.«sell Zenor. Gridiron Ghosts -Frankiser—Directed by Paul Wayne Tate. Cary Me Back To Old Virginny— Sousaphone solo by Betty Brann, accompanied by Kenneth Etcheson. Ohorus Sleepy Hollow Tune—Kountz. Jacob's Ladder—Loomis. Sweet and Low—-Barnby-Tenny-

son.

Ciribiribin Pestalozza. Czecho-Slovakian Dance Song— Keone. A Wheel in a Wheel—Loomis. Band Mercury March—Walton —Featuring twirling corps, Directed by Pauline Fuller. Mozart (Selection of Melodies) — Mozart. Bride of the Waves Cornet solo —Clarke—by Dale Williams, accompanied by band. Sunny South (JPlantation Songs) Lam pc. Cardinal Overture Johnson Required selection <>f class CD-CC-BD bands for district, state, and national contests.

Rotary Welcomes Two New Members JAMES PENCE AND ROGER MORRISON JOIN LOCAL SERVICE CLUB

James Pence and Roger Morrison were inducted into the Greencastle Rotary Club at their weekly luncheon meeting on Wednesday. Following the Induction ceremony. Prof. Reid Winsey of the DePauw University faculty gave an interesting talk on commercial art and the manner in which design is playing such an important roll in everyday life. Good taste in design and it’s relation to nature were instructively brought out by Prof. Winsey. The (Parade of Talent, a weekly feature presented by the Greencastle public schools, was represented by Emily Long, who rendered a saxaphone solo, “My Regard” by Llewellyn. She was accompanied by William Lockwood.

Will Bear Down On Farm Thefts

PUTNAM COtNTY OFFICIALS REPORT FOI It ARRESTS IN PAST WEEK In commenting on the various thefts of parts of farm machinery by Putnam county farmers, Judge Marshall D. Abrams, of the Putnam circuit court, stated this morning that the seriousness of the offense was not the value of the property but the fact that these stolen parts can .not be replaced due to the metal shortage. The judge sai l that upon conviction on a charge of petit larceny, a culprit could be sentenced for 1-10 years and fined as high as $500. On a grand larceny conviction, the prison sentence could be 2-10 years plus the fine. According to Rex Boyd, Putnam county prosecutor, four arrests have been made on charges of stealing iron and junk from farmers. Activity by thieves, especially at night in this community, has resulted in numerous conferences by the law oflicials. The authorities are also patrolling the county highways and more arrests will follow unless the stealing is stopped. In some cases, wheels of cultivators and other farm implements have been stolen, the prosecutor said.

Webster To Make Sheriff's Race

CO! KT HOI SE CUSTODIAN TO TOSS HAT IN DEMtH RATH PRIMARY KING George “Buck'’ Webster, court house custodian, is the first Putnam county candidate to announev that he will toss his hat into the May primary. Mr. Webster told a Daily Banner representative Ihis morning that he will seek the Democratic nomination for sheriff in the spring election.

Fred E. Snively is confined to his home because of illness.

20 YEARS AGO

IN GREENCASTLE

Thermometers showed an even zero temperature. That was the lowest of the winter up to that date. County Road Superintendent Elmer Blue went to I^afayette to attend the Puniue road school.

CAR AND TIRE RATIONING WILL CARE FOR GASOLINE Reports for January from the otfice of the State Auditor, who collects the gasoline tax in Indiana. Indicate that there will be no nee. for gasoline rationing for this state, because the tax collections indicate a drop of twenty per cent in the consumption of gasoline for Indiana since the tire and auto rationing

plan went into effect.

If this condition continues, and no doubt it probably will, there will he plenty of gasoline in the state, but the gas tax, which helps pay for lot of things in the state, will be considerable shoi'ter than ever before and a lot of road as well as other repair work now earned by gas taxes, will have to be discontinued or the revenue will have to come from some other source. JAPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSS SINGAPORE, Jan. 22 (UP) British troops have successfully am bushed Japanese forces in north eastern Johore sultanate and have inflicted heavy casualities wth slight losses to themselves, a general headquarters communique said Unlay.

BURKS FUNERAL TO BE HELD SATURDAY

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Funeral services for Ross Burks, Martinsville street, who died Wednesday, will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the McCurry Funeral Home. The Rev. B. H. Bruner of Linton and the Rev. H. C. Fellers of this city, will be in charge. Interment will lie made in Forest

Hill cemetery.

Friends may call at the MeCurry Funeral Home. The t>c. ly will not be removed to the home on Martinsville street, as was announced yesterday. Red Army Drives Toward Smolensk lit SSI.\NS SLASH AT STAGGERING GERMAN LINES AT

BORODINO

MOSCOW, Jan. 22 (UP) Tied army troops slashed into the staggering German lines today on the blood-stained snow of Borodino where Napoleon on Sept. 7, 1812 won the victory which opened the way to Moscow but cost him his empire. They were driving straight for Smolensk, 160 miles to the south west, tirelessly, with the precision of a machine and a relestlessness engendoerod by bitter hatred, in one of the most astonishing offensives

of history.

Snow-gliders towed ski troops along the ragged German flanks while infantrymen marched in close ranks through breast high snow, mile after mile in 40 degree below zero cold, to make a path for the tanks and trucks. Parachutists dropped behind the German lines from great transport planes while Stormovik dive bombers hurtled down on troop and truck columns in the German rear. It was the opening of the eighth month of the war and it was the 18th anniversary of the death of Nikolai Lenin, father of the union of Soviet Socialists republics.

GUERILLAS IN BATAAN SECTOR AID MacARTHUR NATIVE BANDS OF FIGHTERS HINDER JAP ADVANCE ON < OKKEG1DOK ATTACK J APS 1 N R E A R Brave American Defenders Report Heavy Fighting And That C a>nalities Are Mounting WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. (UP) — American and Filipino guerilla fighters taking i leaf from the pages of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo—today were striking sharp blows at the Japanese rear and aiding the battle of Gen. Douglas MacArthur to hold his Bataan province siege lines. Apparently encouraged by the valiant lesistance of MacArthur’s forces against repeated Japanese assaults, the guerilla bands appeared to constitute a potential source of major Japanese difficulties in their effort to establish firm control over tho sprawling Philippines islands. , Aguinaldo. in recent years a friend of tlie United States, was leader of the insurrectionists in the Philippine islands after the United States took them from Spain in 1898. His folowers fought guerilla warfare for several years against American occupatoin forces. MacArthur himself was enguged in some of the bitterest fighting of the 47-days old war against Japan. For the moment his troops after heavy counter-attacks had re-established their Bataan lines which apparently run from a point slightly north of Balanga across the rugged central mountains to the west coast in the vicinity of Moron. Bat Japanese pressure was steadily increasing. Four heavy attacks have been delivered against MacArthur in the past week. Each has been beaten off but the strain of constant fighting, the casualties among troops which obtain little rest and no reinforcement constantly increase tho difficulty of his task. MacArthur’s expenditure of ammu» nition particularly of shells for his 75. 105 and 155 MM. guns, has bgen considerable in bla*tihg Japanese attempts to push farward along the single east Batiyn highway and the narrow defiles Between the foothills of the central peninsula mountains. There is no official information on the state of American supplies and materiel. But thds far there has been no indication that he is running short. Vast quantities presumably were stored in Corregidor fortress in anticipation of the attack. MacArthur appears to have maintained firm control of the three-mile north channel which separates Corregidor and his communications port of Mariveles, enabling him to move supplies steadily up to the firing lines. The Americans have, however, been forced to yield about one-third of Bataan, it would appear, although they have fallen back to stronger positions and more easily defendablo

terrain.

The importance of guerilla fighting 111 draining Japanese strength and diverting some Japanese forces away from the main Bataan theater increases as pressure on MacArthur becomes more severe. JOIN FENNY A I’LANE CLUB I. * vCshing to do my bit towards suppi Hi ng our defense forces, do hereby promise to buy Defense Stamps at the rate of one penny's worth for each enemy plane shot down by our defense forces. I will accept the number sent out by Department Headquarters each week as being accurate, and will make every effort to keep up with our armed forces in this way.

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