The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 February 1942 — Page 1

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folks from the area surhinK Cloverdale went to the is’ institute, held in the audm of the school building of that Wednesday, and participated interesting program, jbert Coffman, president for the j institute, presided. Arthur »ns was vice president. Mrs. a Doyle was secretary-treasur-bsd Mrs. Virginia Lewis was aspt. new officers elected, to serve wei'e the following: PresiNewton Reid; vice president, Herbert; secretary-treasurer, Virginia Lewis; assistant, Mrs. Uavis. The membership committ< reported 44 new members, brought a vote of appreciation ttie audience for the committee ^Hl»'l'S. students gave interesting ^^Bams just before the noon lunchME ’ nil at the opening of the afterprogram, i. Crosby, of the AAA county ization, spoke on work of her Hment. O. A. Scipio, of Lafayette, at the forenoon session on e Time Activities in the HMB' In the course of her addshe said: ^■ter eight years of study, a proftMO at Northwestern University if you are a typical American pend your leisure time in a typAmerican fashion you will diyour leisure time doing the folg: 1, listening to the radio; 2, ag newspapers; 3. attending ss 4, playing bridge; 5, motor6. attending parties. He calls fche “rut of Ar'crtc-jin leisure.’’ pie have been more leisure-con-IF the past few years. We have led that by taking time out for ition we can be more efficient r work. With the complexity jroblems confronting the world we need more than ever to (tain a happy family life as norpossible. notional stress,. such as worry, refit :ts itself in the lives of our childrsn Why not plan for good times togtther? Some families have family fcrchestras, others make an outdoor fireplace and have picnics, earn one 11 iping. A workshop in the basement for dad and the children solves thekroblem for some. Keeping scrap boat: of interesting events, family etc., all have their places. It is lust as important to teach our boys and girls how to spend their Wnu time as to teach them how to work. ‘ ^t s Crane, of Marion, spoke on “Wi ning Then and Now.’’ ^1 ? advancement of agriculture in Am< ica has been a late thing. In my iwn father’s time, he cradled Whe t. I have hound oats after his end !• in new ground where the stun ps were so thick a reaper could not ;et the grain out without waste: 75 ber cent of the people lived on tern 3 in this state when I was a boy and there never was a time when a pars 'ti needed to be unemployed. »nt advancement in machinery and methods came. A straw stacker, la band cutter, and self-feeder, tna n engine. Similar advancemar is being made in all farm mac’iinory. I :an remember when hens were not xpected to lay in the winter and wotrpn put up eggs in the fall so they would have them to cook for Utai (giving and Christmas. HyI <Continnefl on I'liKc Three* Lt. Col. McMahan Goes To London ■BAH OF D'I’AIW KOTC I NTT ■iTtANKFEKKED TO LONDON FROM CAPITAL Ci eencastle friends of Lieutenant CWonel Bernard McMahan, wh be^i, stationed in Washing! he V\ r ar College, hav. ■ eccived ■mation that he ha ,i gent >ndon as a inilitat uache. Lt. McMahan-was gi uluated froi.i auw University h.’ki later \ > of the R. O. T C. unit on fpus and he and hi famih y friends In the city.

U. S. STAND IN BATAAN SLOWS JAP SCHEDULE (.1 NS OF MAND \ RAY FORTS BIO FVCTOR IN JAF DELAY

Feb. 12--The Birthday of a Great American

AI.L-Ol T DRIVE

E\I*E( TED

Oen. Mac Arthur's Valiant Rut Wearj Defenders Outnumbered Nearh Ten To One

BULLETIN

W \SIIINOTON, Feb. 12.—(I Ft—; Japanese trnnps tuday oermpled the islunil <>! Masbate, near the eenter ot the Fhili|>pine arelii|K‘lago.

Private Thomas \\ . f ailahan Private Thomas W. Callahan of Greencastle is now stall ned at Me:idian, Miss., with the 6s7th Ord. C »., Meridian Air Base. Private Callahan was a driver for the Hanson Motor Express.

Jdgar D, Seller Expired Thursday FORMER OREENCASTLE ORO- ( ER DIED IN INDIANAPOLIS THIS MORNING Edgar D. Seller, age 55 years, passed away at his home in Indianapolis Thurday morning. He had been ill for some time. Mr. Seller moved to Indianapolis about twenty years ago, but before that he lived in Greencastle and at one time operated a grocery store here. He is survived by the wife, the former Miss Margaret Lemmick, who has been ill at the City Hospital in Indianapolis for three months, due to an infection in the blood stream. Six sons and four daughters also survive, two brothers, Elmer Seller of this city and James Seller of Indianapols, one sister, Mrs John Layman of Morton and his father Walter D. Seller of near Hazelwood. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

University Forum Will Open Tonight DISCI SslON OF POST WAR PERIOD IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC In keeping with its war program, the University announces a new feature, a forum type meeting, which will discuss the nature of the postwar settlement. Beginning this evening, it will be held in 103 East College on Thursday evenings from 7 to 8. Each meeting will begin with an introductory talk of approximately twenty minutes on some phase of the topic to be followed hy open discussion and questioning. Townspeople, students, and faculty are all invited to attend and participate. Dr. Wildman will preside at the first meeting this Thursday. Professor Manhart of the history department will introduce the question, “What can wo learn about the requirements .or a peace settlement from the study of the origins of the last two wars?’’ Later discussions will include a study of the relations between the methods by which this war is fought and the peace settlement, the political and economic readjustments which the peace settlement should include, and the ideals which must animate the .settlement and its l later enforcement. It Is felt that a meeting such as this will be available to more students. Too, it will have the advantage of more varied types of discussion and influence than a specific course in post war readjustment problems which only a limited number of students and faculty participate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—(UPl Japanese preparations for a "knockout" of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's resistance on the Philippine island of Luzon have been battered and thrown off schedule by the squarelyaimed guns of the U. S. forts in Manila bay, military observers believed today. Supporting MacArtliur’s rugged stand on Bataan peninsula that has thrown back repeated Japanese frontal and flanking assaults, the guns of Corregidor fortress and nearby Forts Drum, Hughes and Frank have been "effective” in recent days in silencing the enemy’s concealed batteries around Cavite navel base below Manila. The planes of the tiny air force remaining to MacArthur have hunted out the concealed guns and directed the fire of the U S. forts upon them, army communiques revealed. Despite their overwhelming superiority in manpower on the Bataan battiefront perhaps 150,000 men against MacArthur’s 20,000 weary defenders the Japanese sought to silence the four forts at MacArthur’s rear before going all-out against his lines stretching across Bataan peninsula. MacArthur's American and Filipino torces will be driven back into these forts, particularly the bastion of Corregidor just off the tip of Bataan, if they are overwhelmed in the Japanese grand assault which MacArthur expects to be unleashed at any hour. The Japanese attempted “knockout" on Bataan undoubtedly would have come before now, qualified military observers said, had not the fire of the American fortress guns some of them 12-inch weapons taken up every challenge of the Japanese batteries around Cavite. So effective has been this answering fire, it was reported, that the Japanese have been compelled to shift their guns, thus delaying the attempted blasting of the forts. So long as the forts and their batteries hold out Manila bay can lx- virtually no use to the Japanese. Sixty-six days after the Japanese invaders poured into the Philippines the men of MacArthur still were holding out valiantly, but the latest word received by the War Department carried the ominous message that still more Japanese reinforce(Coiillniied on I’iiko Four) MRS. HAMMOND TO BE BURIED HERE SATURDAY The remains of Mrs. Charles F. Hammond will arrive from Chicago over the Monon at 1:30 p. m. Saturday. The funeral party will go immediately to Forest Hill cemetery where Rev. Victor Raphael will conduct a short service. Mrs. Hammond leaves thiee daughters, Mrs. William Anderson of Chicago, Mrs. Marie Stingold of Los Angeles, Cal. and Mrs. Manford Wright of Chicago, one grandson and one sister, Mrs. John Dishington of La Porte.

THE VOICE OF LINCOLN DOWN THE AGES—“I always feel inclined, when I happen to say anything to soldiers, to impress upon them the importance of success in this contest. It is not merely for today, but for all time to come, that we should perpetuate for our children’s children that great and free government which we have enjoyed all our lives. . . . Still, let us not be over sanguine of a speedy, final triumph. Let us be quite ober. Let us diligently apply tho means, never doubting that a just God, in His own good time, will give us the rightful result.”

Awards Are Made At Belle Union INSTITI TE HELD IN JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP PROVED RIG SUCCESS

HAS FOUR COMPOSITIONS OF OUTSTANDING MERI T

Mrs. Sam Sweet Called By Death

WELL KNOWN LOCAL WOMAN PASSED AW \t Till RSI) \Y

AT FA Mil A HOME

could

SCOl'T ceremony

Ixwnl Boy Scouts presented a brief but impro-s - my at the Voncaat i evening m

of : d anniversary

At the farmers’ institute held at Belle Union, on Tuesday, Oliver Stringer presided as chairman for 1!)42, and Zella Cummings was secre-tary-treasurer. The nominating com-

mittee for 1942 reported, naming | Meditations on Hymn-1 tines, pu Walter Keller chairman for 1943, 1 mhe I by the Lorenz Publishing ( >, Dora Prichard, vice chairman, and waa lusted as a best seller in i s Miss Alma Hill secretary-treasurer 1<,r E'tl for the next year. The attendance Bell-three Lyon and He dy ot (

If music were rated as movies air.

Dr. Van Denman Thompson, director of the DePauw School of Mu ii would receive “four-bells." His hell-

ringing compositions follow: Bell-one His motet for mixed

voices, “Blessed Art Thou. O Israel," Ml . a Barbara Ellen Sweet age

was listed by J. Fischer & Bio., New York City publisher^ as a 'host s '-

ler' for 1941.

Bell-two His volume of Organ

was 43 in the afternoon with all of the school pupils in addition, making

a fine audience.

Mrs. Scipio and Mr. Crane, whb have been the speakers at the preceding institutes in the county this week, delivered the principal addresses at the Beil Union gathering, in

their usual happy manner. Awards were made as follows:

Eggs Malcolm Neier; 2, Roland

Neicr; 3, Dillard Walters.

Corn 1. Gene McCammack; 2, Wendell Hurst 3, Leon Bennett.

Potatoes 1, Eulella Walters.

Pies 1, Evelyn Baugh; 2, Nclla I

Cummings; 3, Lulu Foster. Wheat 1, Malcolm Neier.

Home Ec projects- 1, Wanda Glo REKT Prichard; 2. Euleen Baugh; 3, Nellie

Leonard.

Shop work 1. Keith McCammon. Candy 1, Betty Jean Alice; 2, Barbara Baugh: :: Virginia Buis. Quilts 1, Lulu Foster; 2, Zella Cummings; 3, Juanita Clearwaters; 3. Mary Mae Lewis

cago list his anthem, "Ride On!" .i ; a ‘best seller’ in Palm Sunday nut; - ic. Another of his Lenten anthem.', “Father Hi Thy Mysterious Pres

ence,” was a runner-up.

Bell-four "Spring Bursts Today, was again selected on tho "best seller’ list of Easter Carols for th

sixth consecutive year.

Truly, a four-bell tribute to 1> Pauw's organist and composer.

RED ( ROSS WASTE PAPER PROJECT REPORT Public School Pupils Cooperating Lbs. col- Total collected lected Feb. 9 Total

2190 5115 13540

20845 *97.06

Magazines Newspapers

Mixed Paper

Total Value

ooservs t of tihe ft

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le Flag by nee featun ill bo ropei

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495

2455 3005

$24.00

Help your country at war by saving waste paper and putting much needed pulp back into production. All proceeds go to the Putnam County Red Cross campaign. Collections are made each Friday. Newspapers and magazines go to ward buildings. General waste paper should be put I

Death Summons World War Vet

SMITH \\ \s EHPLOM H FOR 'I \ N Y YEARS AT

ZINC MILL

Bert Smith, age 62 years, passed away at his home on Crown street this morning. I le was well known in Greencastle, having spent most of his lifetime in this vicinity. He was

about 92 years, well known Greencastle woman and the widow of Samuel .1 Sweet, passed away Thursday morning at about ti o’clock at the l imily residence on south Jackson

street road.

Mrs. Sweet, born n tr Greencastle on May 22. 1850. llti iaughtei' of Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, had been a life long resident ot Putnam county. She had spent all ot le r married life at the home on south Jackson street. Mr. Sweet died in 1929. Survivors at" four children. Mrs. Will Burks, Mrs. e uni s J. Harrold and Dora Sweet, all of Greencastle. and Thomas Sweet, ci And tson; 11 grandchildren and . i lit great grand-

children.

Funeral services wil be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock from the Rector Funeral Home. Interment will be made in Forest Hill

cemetery.

Friends may call at Hit Funeral Home at anytime.

Disaster At Singapore Jolts Britain

EAR-HI \< RING PARLIAMENT REI’ERCl SSIONS PROBABLY WILL RE RESULT LONDON. Feb. I”—(UP)—Tho siiiga|>ore divisiicr today shook Rr:lain mo e rii.ui an\ .hng since the fall ol Frame ami symptoms upitcarcd of "I ir reaehirg parliamentary re-pereii-'inns." It was admitted frankly that if Riirma and lava lulhm in the wake of Singapore even thr (mtsoiuiI position ol Prime Minister Winston Cliureh inav lie jeopardized. The l.ondnii Evening star reported that < liureliill will broadcast to the nation Sunday night, discussing tin- war situaiion in general and the Ear Last in particular. LONDON. I eli. 12.— (I P)—A Rritisii miiit irv commentator said at 3 p. in. lodav (hat communications to Singapore appear still to Is- func-

tioning.

However, the spokesman said ho had no new report on the gallant stand ol the nut numbered, out-gun-ned, nut-planed garrison of Rritisii, Xustralian .uni Indian troops who are lighting on against an inferno of Japanese attack, ignoring a demand that they surrender. Tin* spokesman said tli.it he had no information to confirm or deny tho reports id the 4 ipanese radio that an attack lias been launched to clean up “the remnants" ol I lie Rritisii forces in Singapore. TOKYO, Feb. 12—(Official broadcasts recorded hy I nited Press at New Y ork, London and sail Eniiicivcn)—The main Japanese army entered Singapore city today lor the decisive'move in a campaign of auniI hilation against Rrilisli troops who ignored advice to siirre a ler, a Japanese Imperial headquarters ;uimmneenieiit said. Radio Tokyo said the Japanese soldo rs had hecit unable to capture the entire city because they hail been helping non-eomhalanis. The advance of the main army followed pressure against British defense lines hy oilier Japanese troops advancing from Bukit liniah lull siv miles from the city. These forces drove wedges deep into enemy positions in the city pro|M-r and cleared the way for (he climactic advance.

Rector

Art. grades V and VI—1, Marvin a World War veteran and was em-

Vaughn; 2, Barbara Buis; Gloria McCammack; 3. Leon Phillips. Art, grades I and II—1, Anne Alice; 2, Earl Wilson; 3, Ray Stringer. Antiques 1, Mrs. Dora Prichard; 2, Mrs. Maun McCammack; 3, Mrs. Zella Cummings. Fancy Work 1. Evelyn Baugh; 2, Florence Buis; 3, Rosalee Allen. Dark Cake- 1. Zella Cummings. 41 ontlnn<Ml «»n Two»

20 YEARS AliO

IN GREENCASTLE

Prof. L. E. Michael, principal of the Cloverdale schools, spent the day in Greencastle. Miss Mildred Wells, of the Central Normal school was here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wells. Mis. Walter Brown was ill with the grip.

in containers and placed In front of! DePauw defeated Rose Poly In

houses by 11:30 a. m. each Friday’, 'basketball, u4 to 14.

ployed for many years at the American Zinc Products Company, until failing health forced him to give up his work a short time ago. Mr. Smith was born May 9. 1879 at Manhattan, the son of Volney and Josephine Baker Smith. Survivors include the wife, Mrs. Anna Layman Smith, one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Hedge of Indianapolis, and one step-son, Jasper Miller of Michigan City. Two children preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning from the Rector Funeral Home, in charge of the Rev. V. L. Raphael. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the Rector Funeral Home. FIREMEN MAKE NOON RUN A fire in the roof at the Ward

Fire Schooi To Be Held Toniohf

PART OE FIVIUVN DEFENSE PROGRAM FOR ST \TE OF IN HI\N V Instructions in 1'iie fighting will start tonight at 8 o'clock at the city fire department with the opening of a Fire Auxiliary School here. This program is a part of the Civ-1 ilian Defense program for Indiana and the local school will be in charge of city fireman William Lawrence. About 25 local men. selected from various organizations in Greencastle are expected to attend the session this evening. According to Fireman Lawrence the work in the school will be taken up in units. Tonight's instiuction will be on Forcible Entry. Other units are Ladder Practice, Hose Practice, and Incendiary Bombs. The main purpose of the school is to nave local men available to step into the fire department in case the regular force is called out in an

SINGAPORE, Feb.

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“whej

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Singapore will

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population for

undergoing their ord<

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assistant

met and Mary chei, Greencas-

Mayhall honi’' on Anderson street, emergency, such as a bad fire at one soon after noon today, called out the ,,f the nearby defense plants or due fire department and inflicted some to bombing of industrial areas in this damage in the roof. I ueetton of the state.

Karl William

sales manager, Nap) L. Kucher, school G

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John Anderson, farmer, Bainbridge, and Pearl Miller, waitress, Bainbridgc. 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Today’s Weather 0 Ci and 0 Local Temperature 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 •■> 0 0 0 F' w snow flurries in west portion this afternoon and tonight; not so cold tonight in northeast and eastcentral portions.

Minimum

6 a. m

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