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THE DAILY BANNER “IT WAVES FOR ALL”

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tJKEEXCASTLE, INDIANA, FK1DAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1!)4J:

NO. 101

RDNER BROS. HAD BAD FIRE DURING NIGHT

SllAGE and repair shop destroyed in soith PART or CITY

SERVING COUNTRY

L ICE D I S C O V E R FIRE,

jsil Icp Cream Plant Scene Of t onflaKratlnn; CrawfordNville Truck Answers Alarm

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'ire at the Coca-Cola Bottling jit Thursday night at eleven lock completely destroyed the garand repair shop. The fire was iovered by Policemen Logan odium and Charles Bergen, the Sit policemen, according to Otis \lner as they patrolled the south of the city. )ne truck which was in. the garage driven out but the cement mixer, r.jr mixer, acytelyn torch, about hundred belts for the ice cream )inet, ice cream cabinets, lathes various other equipment was rned. Jr. Gardner said there were two walls and fire doors which preJted the fire from spreading to remaining part of the plant. The lit was not incapacitated and •lc will continue as usual, hie Crawfordsville fire depart'd was called and came bringing jlr pumper truck and botli trucks n the Greencastle department e used. The Greencastle men had fire under control when the wfordsville department arrived, Gardner reported, ill Jones, one of the firemen, slipon the roof of the building durthe early part of the fire and was ly bruised but not seriously in-

he firemen were there until hind four o’clock this morning, he truck which a student drove of the garage was scorched burned on the right side. Large ;s of burned wood which were charcoal were found on the k and around the whole building, he building was brick and just walls were left standing.

Private Jack Adelman 'Private Jack Adelman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Adelman, 201 Columbia street, is attached to Co. H. 2nd Cj. M. T. R. Reg. Ft. Francis TC. Warren, Wyo., Bldg. 343.

Dr. Manhart 1$ Forum Speaker WAR-PEACE DISCUSSION HELD AT UNIVERSITY IS OF INTEREST

ry Trial Opens In Putnam Cour!

tel McCloud is c harged WITH CONTRIBUTING TO DELINQUENCY

FILLMORE HAD BIG CROWD AT FARM MEETING MANY FARMERS OF FLOYD AND MARION TOWNSHIPS WERE

PRESENT

NEW O F F 1 C E K S E L E C T E D Splendid Program Enjoyed Thursday In Assemlili Room Of Fillmore

High School

3stel McCloud, Jackson township png man, went on tral in the jtnam circuit court before a jury day morning, charged with conbuting to the delinquency of a (nor. More definitely he is chargwith selling wine to Lewis Long, 'ler 18 years of age, the minority Long making the alleged offense latter for hearing in the juvenile i:t. As a rule all hearings in this lift are private, but this was held the court ixKjni and the public not excluded. A number of the 'endant's friends were present, his was the first appearance in ' trial of Wiiliafn Padgett, as mly clerk of the court, but he adnistered tihe oaths to the jurymen "J witnesses like a veteran, urors finally retained were GrovGoodpasture, Jefferson twp., Glen Ichael, Bainbridge; Clarence Beck, t>yd; John Williams, Warren; Me!McCammack, Jefferson; William ler, Jackson; Edgar Neese, Washton; Clyde Coffman, Roach dale; car Michael, Cloverdale; Win. H. by, Greencastle; Ott Herod, Greenitle, and James Broadstreet, Jeff-

on.

NO, VOCAL RECITAL TO BE GIVEN SUNDAY •Miss Edna Tyne Bowles, contralto, d Professor Henry Kolling, pianwil give the next in a series of sic recitals Sunday afternoon at in Meharry Hali. All of the setions are of modern origin, none ting earlier than 1895. Professor Kolling will open the ->gram by playing the first movent of IPaul Duka's “Sonata." Next » Bowles will sing three works of composer Debussy, ‘Romance, ’ s Coches—the Bells and "Ln levelure—Her Hair Both of ( iese writers are French. The form is best known in this country for 'Soerer’s Apprentice,” a work ich appeared in Walt Disney’s

antasia.’’

Szymanowski's “Twelve Etudes, us 33," follow with Professor Kolr 4t at the pier,a. These are very O oulluiinl on I’MBr l'no»

Dr. George B. Manhart, speaking before a war-peace forum, open to townspeople, faculty ami students of DePauw University, named nationalism, imperialism, militarism and alliances as the things to be avoided in the peace settlement which will follow the present war. Dr. Manhart illustrated how the four factors forced World War I on Europe and how the had feelings stirred up by the war kept the Versailb's Treaty from realizing its aims. Nationalism was blamed for hampering the carrying out of the 1918 peace settlement, leading to the insistent demands by the Allies for reparations and to th . r*mch march into the Ruhr in the early ’20’s. Tile severest economic action taken against Germany, according to Dr. Manhart, was the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930. The ensuing general depression brought out the worst traits- selfishness and imperialism— expressed by Italy’s march into Ethiopia, Japan’s annexation of Manchuria and Hitler’s demand for more territory in Europe. But conditions in 1935 were less conductive to war than those of 1914 because the League of Nations still meant something. But by 1939, alliances were beginning to appear with the formation of the Axis, the Franco-Russo treaty and the pacts between Fiance and other smaller powers. Dr. Manhart blamed the failure of the league upon the failure of the United States to join it and the consequent discouragement of the better elements in other countries. The forum agreed that some kind of international organization will ire neeejed to perpetuate a peace after World War II has been won. The alliance system, nationalism, imperialism and militarism must have no place in the next peace. People all over the world must come to understand that they can be good citizens of their own country at the same time of the world; just as a good Hoosier can, at the same time, be a good American. It was also concluded that party politics must he kept out of the peace settlement. The danger of an office-hungry, minority party must be anticipated so that nothing will prevent the United States’ entrance into the international machinery. Dr. Hiram L. Jome will lead next Thursday’s discussion on “Methods by Which This War is. Being Conducted and Their Relation to the Peace Settlement.’’ The forum will again be belli in room 10«S East College at 7 p. m. Sam Hanna will pre-

side.

The combination of Floyd and Marion township farmers, the fine weather, and the general interest of the community, made the farmers’ institute held Thursday at Fillmore the largest attended and one of the most interesting of the series of institutes being held in Putnam county this week. The assembly room of the school building was filled in the afternoon, ivith a very satisfactory attendance in the forenoon, also. Otis Crane, of Marion, an institute speaker- of years’ experience, said the institute at Fillmore had the largest attendance of adults he has found at any of the 26 gatherings of tlrat nature at which he has spoken this season. He spoke in especially complimentary terms of the art display, which he judged, the work of pupils of Miss Maxine Tharp, art teacher of the school. All of the vocational classes of the school were represented in the displays, all of which were

good.

John Sears was chairman, and at the close of the institute he announced tire new officers, for 1943, as follows: Chairman, Raymond Ader; vice chairman, Gilbert Knetzer; sec-retary-treasurer, Mary Lou Arnold; assistant, William Havens.

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER PLANNED IN THIS CITY Plans are being made by the Greencastle Federated Church Women for the World Day of Prayer. Tire I observance is scheduled for the first Friday in Lent. February 20. The meeting this year is to be a union meeting in the Baptist church. The local program committee, consisting of Miss Evelyn Lash, chairman. Mrs. Fred Todd, Mrs. Russell Shannon, and Mrs. H. B. Gough, is arranging a worship service on the theme. "1 Am the Way.” It is hoped that there will be an unprecedented attendance, for in this year of all years there is a growing appreciation. and an awareness of the need

for spiritual values.

The speakers were Mrs. O. A. Scipio, of Lafayette, and Otis Crane, of Marion, who have spoken at the other institutes in the county this

week.

Herschel Knetzer gave an informal

BATTLE STILL IN PROGRESS AT FAR EAST BASE

BRITISH PUT CP DESPERATE LAST STAND AT

SINGAPORE

LONDON, Feb 13. (UP)—Britisii imperial forces still hold the eastern part of Singapore island in a glorious and desperate last stand against the Japanese, and British planes have even defeated a Japanese plane fleet somewhere over Malaya, dispatches said today. British warships were joining field artillery and coastal guns in bombarding the Japanese on Singa-

pore island.

The imperial forces faced constantly increasing odds as the enemy poured troops and tanks from the mainland to the island, and enemy planes attacked from dawn to dark

without pause.

It was indicated that the British, Australian and Indian troops still held a line extending from the naval base and the Changi Fortress at the , northeast corner of the island,

i through

report on the Rotary 4-H adult lead- | through the water reservoirs in miders’ conference at Purdue, which he island and on to the northwestern attended as a delegate from Putnam j suburbs of Singapore city and the

county. I south coast -

The total attendance was 313,1 There was no doubt that the Jap-

of whom 99 were adults.

The Fillmore school band gave program of fine numbers. There was

anese attack was savage and relentless and the imperial situation was desperate, bui it was indicated plain-

2 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN BY U. S. DEFENDERS

GEN. M’ARTHI R REPORTS AGGRESSD E NIPPON PATROL ACTION JAPS ATTACK IN ’WAVES’ Try To Wear Out Vnlianl Bahian Force By Waging Unceas-

ing Attacks

W ITH GENEKAL WaeARTHI R’H ARMY IN THE PHILIPPINES, Feb. 18.— (UP)—Cocky \nieriean and Filipino veterans ol six weeks war against Japan clamored today tor C. S. troops to take the offensive after outwitting, out-righting and mopping up more thnn 1,000 crack Japanese troops landed hcliind their lines on the Bataan coast. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UP)— Aggressive Japanese patrol action against Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s forces on Bataan |tonlnsula was reported to the War Department today during which two enemy dive bombers were downed by our antiaireratt batteries. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. (UP) — Japan’s commander-in-chief in the Philippines has resorted to a new strategy of “attacks in relays” on Bataan peninsula after failing to overwhelm Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s men in frontal assaults, it was reported today. Military officials said the invaders, by sheer numerical superiority and relays of fresh troops, evidently hope to soften up the weary and outnumbered defenders preparatory to a final grand assault aimed at knocking them off the island of Luzon. The Japanese commander, Lieut. Gen. Masaharu Homma, was said to have abandoned at least temporarily his costly tactics of hurling his full weight against the American and Filipino troops as he w r as doing 10

days ago.

Instead contingents of Japanese) troops are kept in the fighting lines only about 48 hours, and then are

ARMY PROSPECTS

The following Greencastle and Putnam county men are subject to induction in the armed forces of the nation; Cliaiics Milo Green, Cloverdale R. 2. Charles Leroy Scott. Greencastle R. 2 Harry Raymond Conrad, Greeacai tl R. 1. James Arthur Gibbons, Roachrnde R. 2. Kenneth John Eitel, Greencastle. Paul Otho Gorham, Fillmore. William Craig Cline. Cloverdale R. 1. Roy Wendell Sandy, Cloverdale. Ralph Eugene Runyan, Greencastle. Robert Burns Whisenand, Fillmore R. 1. Roy Alva Woodall. Cloverdale R. 1. John William Carter, Harrodsbuig, Kentucky. Patrick Edward Keller, Cloverdale. Stanley K. Staley, Cloverdale R. 3. Herschel Lee Campbell, Greencastle. Theodore William Soper, Greencastle.

NAVY UNITS HANDED JAPS HEAVY BLOWS t . S. FI.I I ! INFLICTED CONSIDERABLE LOSSES IN ISLAND VTTACKS

WARSIlli’s WERE DESTROYED

a display of trophies won in comnier- j ly that Japanese claims were much

SWEET FUNERAL TO BE HELD SATURDAY AFTERNOON

Funeral services for Mrs. Barbara Ellen Sweet, widow of Samuel J. Sweet, who died Thursday at her home on south Ja,cks»n street road, will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Rector Funeral Home. The Rev. H. C. Fellers will officiate. Burial will be In Forest Hill cemetery. Pall be irers will be Albert J. Williams, Albert Shuey, Lawrence Busby, Vernon Shirley, James Strain, and James Tucker.

cial and music contests by organizations and individuals of the school. Awards were made as follows: Hobbies 1, John Cash; 2, Marjorie Cox; 3, Charles Devalley and Jane Morehart. Rugs 1, Grace Heavins; 2, Imogene Arnold. Fancy Work—1, Ruby Bray; 2, Roscoe Eastham and Grace Mi irehart; 3, Mrs. Thelma Eastham and Mrs. Worth Arnold. Quilts- -!, Marllia Helen Knetzer Davis. Cakes, adults, angel food 1, Mrs. Stanley Sears; 2, Mrs, Chas. Isibdell; 3, Mrs. Lulu Clift. Dark cakes 1, Grace Havens; 2, Worth Arnold. White layer cakes 1, Amy Buis. Canning, adults- 1, Amy Buis; 2, Lulu Clift; 3, Worth Arnold. Angel food cakes, boys and girls 1, Waneta Arnold; 2, Ina Robinson. White layer cakes, boys and girls —1, Verlin Cash. Dark layer cakes, boys and girls1, Vera Jean Ross. Potatoes, open class 1, Mrs. Oren Buis; 2, Royal Bast in; 3, John Dry. Eggs, brown—1, George Bowman; 2, Verlin Cash; 3, Daisy Will am-

son.

Eggs, white—1, Mrs. Henry Jackson; 2, Cecil L. Nichols; 3, Mrs. Chas. Snodgrass. Corn, adults, 10 best ears 1, O' t Lydick; 2, John W. Day; 3, C. J. Ragan. Corn, boys, 10 best cars 1, John Charles Sears; 2, Robert Huffman; 3, Paul Eugene Havens. Corn, single ear, boys 1, John Charles Sears; 2, Lawrence Acton; 3, Verlin Cash. Corn, single ear, adults 1, Ott Lydick; 2, John W. Day. Com, hybrid, 25 ears 1, C. J. Ra-

gan.

In the vocational department, awards were made as follows: 7th and 8th grade, motors 1, Jimmie Auston; 2, Morris Broadstreet; 3, Kenneth Miller. 9th grade, shop 1, Verlin Cash; 2, Eugene Smith: 3, Wendell Clark. Best blue prints 1, Donald Cash; 2, Harry Martin; 3, John Alexander. Best set of drawings 1, Ivor McMains; 2, Bill Robinson; 3, Bob Bo-

wen.

Art, high school, color 1, Bob Wayne Buis; 2, Gene Miller; 3, Mary Lou Arnold. iPencil drawings 1, Ina Robinson; (L'uulluiicil on I’wkc I'our)

NAZI WARSHIPS ELUDE BRITISH NAVY, AIR FORCE R. A. F. PILOTS, ROYAL V\\ Y OUTWITTED BY GERMANS IN DARING MOVE

LONDON, Feb. 13 (UP)—British pilots offieially reported Unlay that three or four tor|*edoes struck home against the German battle fleet that escaped homeward through the Dover strait and that a big explosion was seen around one. of the 2(i,()()•(ton enemy warships Scharnhorst and

Gnelsenati.

LONDON, Feb. 13.—(UP)—British aircraft and warships scoured the gray North sea today for a German battle fleet which sailed audaciously past the Dover coast under a ferocious attack by British planes and ships headed for the haven of Helgo-

land 300 miles away.

The German naval exploit which, pending further word from the admiralty and the air ministry, the

withdrawn to the rear before they British public regarded as a Biiti.sii are exhausted while other combat naval disaster, came as imperial

exaggerated because Singapore

fought on stoutly.

Most news came through the Singapore radio by way of Indian

radio stations.

At Calcutta, the Singapore station was heard broadcasting that a Japanese aircraft carrier had been sunk but it was believed this referred to the Netherlands Indies announcement that allied aircraft were believed to have sunk an enemy carrier off Celebes iiecently. Reception of the Singapore station was Intermittent and largely repeti-

tive.

Again and again, Singapore broadcast a communique issued there at 7:30 p. m. yesterday Singapore time (8:10 a. m. yesterday EWT) which repot ted that the Japanese were attacking heavily from the west and northwest and that the British were holding. It said that one of four British counter-attacks was success(i'untlnmal hi* l’n«e Three)

Farm Home Is Razed By Fire TWO-STORY FRAME HOUSE DESTROYED BY FLAMES ON THURSDAY

troops move up to take their places. MacArthur’s forces, estimated at no more than 20,000 against more than 200.000 Japanese, must face these constantly fresh troops from the “fox holes” and jungle growth of Bataan where they have fought doggedly for 67 days knowing all the time there was only the faintest hope of reinforcements or evacuation.

HOGS REACH $13.05 INDIAN U’OLIS LIVESTOCK Hogs 7.000; market active, all weights 25c higher; 160-250 Him., mostly $12.80-$13, extreme top $13.05; 250-280 lbs., $12.70-$12.85; 280-100 lbs., $12.55-$12.75; 100-160 lbs., $11.50-$12.65; sows 15c higher, good sows mostly $11.40-$12.25.

MARRIAGE LICENSES John Arthur Dobson, laborer, of Cloverdale, and Lois Marie Nee.se, at home, Manhattan. Rex Edward Frazer, farmer, Lizton, and Bernice Virginia Long, at home, Roachdale. Gobin Methodist church choir will meet for practice this evening at 7 o’clock.

forces were fighting for their very lives at Singapore, and it threatened to rip the government wide open even if it did not jeopardize the position of Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself. In the most dramatic naval fight in British home waters since tin days when the Dutch fleet ruled the sea in the dark days of Charles II Britain admitted the loss of 42 planes and said that casualties in tin British destroyers which, after four hours and 45 minutes, joined airplanes and small surface craft in the attack, were “not heavy." German plane losses were put at 18 fighters. A preliminary communique said it was indicated that a navy plane hit a heavy German fleet unit and possibly hit a motor torpedo boat; that Beaufort planes of the coastal command “claimed” three torpedo hils and that bomber command crews were “confident’ ’that bombs struck each of the three main German fleet

units.

But the first communique, issue 1 jointly by the admiralty and the air ministry, did not claim a single definite direct hit on a single German warship. Britons could only hope that later (Coutinueil on

LINCOLN CROWS W ITH RASSINO OF TIME, SAYS BOOK RFVIEWFR

A defective flue was believed to have been the cause of a fire which completely destroyed the two story frame home of Mr. and Mrs. William Scott, east of Greencastle, on Thursday afternoon. All their household furniture and clothing were burned, and only a few small items were saved from the blaze. It was believed that the loss was covered by insurance. Mr. and Mrs. Scott had sold their farm and had purchased another near Fincastle. They had planned to move soon to the Fincastle farm.

Ora A. Day, of Fillmore, was chosen toy 100 farmers of the coun ity, to go to Indianapolis to appear before the state tax board with other representive farmers of the state in a demand that the board lower the tnx rate on farm land.’

Kathryn Turney Garten, wen known Indianapolis book reviewer, gave an interpretatin of Carl Sandberg’s famous “Life of Lincoln” before a capacity audience at a Lincoln Day cha|X‘l of DePauw University Thursday. Mrs. Garten gave her usual ompetent performance of dramatic review in summarizing the huge twovolume work of Mr. Sandberg. She mixed comedy and pathos, anecdote and fact. She based her interpretation of Lincoln upon tile magnificent characterization of the book. Although the story of Abraham Lincoln as related by Sandberg and retold by Mrs. Garten is fact based upon an enormous amount of re-’ search, Lincoln is not a character musty with historical age. He becomes a living man, and a strange man with a deep sense of humor and a deep melancholy. Much of his story must be illustrated by anecdotes, and Mi's. Garten told them in profusion. She made a point of comparing the time of Lincoln with the United States today. She stressed the con-

fusion of thinking, the chaotic actions of people, the money-grabbing and office-seeking with Which Lincoln struggled. Lincoln had to contend with dishonesty and war profiteering in his own cabinet, with disloyalty in his own family, and with

a disinclination on the part of the! I" ,n< s

northern people to supply the army with men. The Emancipation Proclamation, as Mrs. Garten pointe i out, was a means with which Mr. Lincoln hoped to secure southern negros to fight in northern armies. Nevertheless he preva'led. and on the eve of victory made a speech in Washington in which he suggest! 1 the loan of $5,000,000 to the .. -uth for reconstruction and was called mad for it. And even before peace was stabilized he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth who believed he was playing the greatest role of

his life.

Lincoln and all he personaly believed in has become the American Dream. He is one man who can remain comparatively untouched by time his illusion grows rather than diminishes..

VireraD Carrier, Plain’s And AuxiU iarv \ i ssels Reported Sunk By Vmerican Ships

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UP) — The United States Navy's devastating attm k on the Japanese-control-led Marshall and Gilbert Islands Jan. 31, lit droving a 17,000 ton aircraft carrier, four ether warships, 11 auxiliary vessels and 41 aircraft, served today to lessen the danger of a second attack < n Pearl Harbor and to increaa. the security'of Allied shipping lanes in the southwest Pacific, The Japanese, prior to Lie navy's thrilling raids, had used Marshall and Gilbert bases as springboards for attack.- on Wake Island and perhaps even for submarine assaults on intracoastal shipping along the Pacific coast, of the United States. It was considered likely that the bombers whs h attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7 were based on Carriers stationed at the Marshal Islands. The raid on the Japanese islands was announced on Feb. 1, but no details were available then. Last night in a speeial communique the navy announced the results of the action which heralded the first major offensive by the U. S. fleet m the Pa-

cific.

The announcement of Uie raid two weeks ago was hailed here as excellent news, but no one had expected that the extent of the damage inflicted on the enemy waa so extensive as now revealed. The navy announced that in addition to the warships and auxiliary craft destroyed, several Ships wei o damaged. Severe damage was done to hangars, ammunition dumps, furl supplies, industrial buildings and a radio building. The well-balanced American raiding force of aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers under the command of Vice Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., traveled well over 2.000 miles from its Pearl Harbor base. The attacks were centered on Roi, Kwajalein, Wot jo, Tan a and Jaluit Islands of the Marshall group and Mnkin Island in the Gilbert colony. The -damage inflicted upon the Japanese navy and it . supplementary forces was such that it went far towanl gaining revenge for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. By a coincidence the same number of Japanese aircraft were dcstn\ed at Pearl Harlwr and in the Marshall-Gilbert

raid 41.

Planes operating from aircraft carriers, fanning out over the islands to unloose their Ixmilxs, apparently were responsible for most of the

damage done.

Secretary of navy Frank Knox reported the American losses in the Pearl Harbor attack as one 'battleship, three (I stroyi rs. i target ship and a mine layer. The battleship Oklahoma capsized but its con Itioii was such that it could be righted and repaii - | Knox said intensive damage was done to the army’s land-based planes and "some damage" was done

to hangars.

The death toil of American soldiers and sailor at Pearl Harbor was around 3,000. The navy did not entimate the Japanese loss of life in

the Marshall an I Gi!brrt raids.

In addition to the aircraft carrier, the navy’s n-talitory action at tho Marshall Islands cost Japan a light cruiser, a destroyer, three large fleet tankers, two submarines, five cargo vessels, three smaller ships, and other ships seriously damaged. I he Japanese also lost two largo sea-

15 fighter planes; 11 scout M oiiIIiiimmI on I’am* four!

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