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THE DAILY BANNER “IT WAVES FOR ALL”

CJREHNVASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, FFBUFARY Iti, 1!42.

NO. 102

ELL KHOWN LOCAL WOMAN PASSES AWAY

Ixrn CALLS MRS. FANNIE I \KKOW ON SATI KDAY EVENING

SERVING COUNTRY

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L \hvu.vs MimIo M<‘r Homp In I’ut T„;im County; \V«* Very Well Known Hesiilent i-- Fannie Ctow Farrow, who, U1 .h a long period of her life, one of the best known mi of I’utnani county, died at 10 i k Saturday night at the age of h ns Site was a native of Putcounty and her home was within I orders through all of her life, parents were the late Mr. and Edward H. Crow, early-comers the county. Their homestead a few miles northeast of Greer- ^ .id through the girlhood and young womanhood of the seven k iters, it was the center of much p . hospitality which in older days evident in the homes of the

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Farrow attended the district .1 of her neighborhood and was a dudent in the old DePauw Acad11 which she enrolled in 1885. a alhool which also was attended by

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of her brothers and sisters, were seven daughters and sons in the family. They were Sallie Westover, Mrs. Jessie ton. Mrs. Matilda Lemon, Mrs. Hunnicutt, Mrs. Porter Dobyns, Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton and Mrs. Hvw; and Hanson Crow; Edward Crcr Jr., and Robert Crow. Of all of tl se. Mrs. Hamilton, now residing with ler son, Edward C. Hamilton in ^Hrra.xtle, was the oldest and is now he sole survivor of the ten chit-

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Farrow remained with her its through their lives, caring for kiiem with the assistance of the othri child! n, but some years aftei that) he; ths she became the wife of s Farrow, in 1916. His deatli ted several years ago. She was mher of ♦he C-obin Memorial ^iidist. church in Greencastle, b vices will be held Tuesday aftn at 2 o’clock from the Rector il home on east Washington ii and interment will be in the st Hill cemetery. Friends may at the funeral home. Dr. Delus Tillotson will have charge of Services.

Private Eugene Clark Private Eugene Clark, H. Q. Go., 150th Infantry, Ft. Clayton, Canal Zone. Private Clark has been in tne a’.my 10 months and he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Clark of near Greencastle.

n Pooie Wis! Be On Program CBN UAL NATIONAL HANK IS I SPONSORING “PROFIT FROM PASTURE”

Jiiii Poole, well known radio comitor and dean of livestock roporlp will appear on the “Profit Pasture” program, Friday. Ftbi iary 20th, at the Gobin Memorial kvthodist church. This program i*§) nsored by the Central National

; of Greencastle.

le of the highlights of Jim Poole’s broadcast is his amazing vo■inry one of the wonders of Mr. Poole entertains as he > ns and is well adapted to talk )ny group as he was first in busiafter a varied career as farmfchore boy, reporter and editor. |h ■ program will also include C. HL >ng of Lafayette, who conducts aBhodern soil conservation service. Hie talk of Mr. i^ong is anticipated by nil.' farmers who will attend in vBv of Mr. Long’s experience and the ood advice he will offer. ' Central National Bank has reqiAied all who can be their guests ttKIioon lunch to notify them in adi

\l'.)ITORS BIG TASK

the office of Eddie Buis, county Iter, the present big task is the bpletion of the assessors’ books, P‘ li will go into service March i. are fourteen of these book-i, aJtti ugh there' are but thiiteen tUL The fourteenth Ls for use

y in Greencastle city,

ie bcoks descirbe all proper-

ty fcwners in the respective town-

both real estate and p ;r-

Bargains Offered hr 'Dollar Day MANV \ \Ll ES ( AN BE FOL’Nl) IN TODAV’S ISSI E OF THE It VNNER Appearing in today’s paper are the advertisements of Greencastle merchants cooperating in the outstanding sales event of the current year DOLLAR DAY, Wednesday, Febru-

ary 18th.

Despite the fact that prices have advanced and war time restrictions have been attached to various commodities, customers will be offend one of the largest and most varied stocks of merchand se in the history of this opportune event. This has been made possible through the foresight of Greencastle merchants in preparing far in advance for Dol-

lar Day.

Women, children and men will profit by scanning the advertisements very carefully. Values in clothing, household goods and furnishings, appliances are all offered at unusually low prices considering the present trend of prices. The arti.lca offered and the quantity and quality of the merchandise would do credit to a city many times the size of Greencastle. The people are urged to shop early so that any last minute rush may be

avoided.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL MEET ON MARCH 7 The annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Greencastle, will be ncld in the Gobin Memorial church on Monday evening. March 2. it is announced. The chief speaker of the meeting will be Clarence Jackson, Executive Vice President of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and former director of the Gross Income Tax department of Indiana and widely known throughout the state. He is now acting is Slate Civilian Defense chairman and should have an interesting message in his speech before the Chamber of Commerce. Kites Wednesday For Mrs. Shockley PASSED VWAY MONDAY MORNING AT INDIANAPOLIS; III RIAL AT FILLMORE

ALL-OUT PUSH ON MacARTHUR IS INEVITABLE; FALL OF SINGAPORE WILL RE LEASE MANY JAPS FOR ISLAND DRIYE DEFENDERS AWAIT ATTACK American CimmiaUder In Bataan Reports Arrival Of Fresh Invading Jap Forces WASHINGTON, Feb. 1H—(I P) Aided by heavy artillery fire an i aerial attacks, Japanese infnn r\ is slushing at Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s Bataan peninsula defense lineal several points, a coinniunii|ue sa'n today in describing what maj be the prelude of the enemy’s big offensive. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 iUP» The position of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s valiant heroes was made immeasurably more dangerous today by the fall of Singapore and an all-out Japanese offensive to drive them off Luzon island may ptart at any moment, Japanese strategists who have been concentrating on Sing.i]H>ie in recent days, now will have men available to shift to the Philippine theater for an all-out offensive against the defending American and Filipino forces. Week-end war department communiques already had reported that the Japanese were moving up fresh troops. Sixteen days ago the Japanese commander in the !Philippines, Lieut. Gen. Masarahu Momma, believing he had MacArthurs valiant forces at his mercy, delivered an ultimatum demanding the r surrender. Otherwise, he said, they would face "inexorable disaster” under the blows of an all-out Japanese offen-

sive.

But since the ultimatum the men of MacArthur have held Uie enemy at a virtual standstill. MacArthur has held out on Bataan peninsula now lor .'18 days, compared with the Japanese oneweek siege of Singapore, and still has not fallen back upon his own "Singapore''—the fortress of Corregidor off tire Up of Bataan in Mania Bay. In the battling of tire last five weeks he appears to have held the Japanese to an advance of about 15 miles southward of the OlongapoHermosa line to which his men fell back on Jan. 9 after the fall of Ma-

nila.

A war department communique Sunday said that fighting along the Bataan battlefront had been "limited Ho local, unimportant patrol skirmishes’’ with the Japam.-v evidently feeling out MacArthui lines in an effort to find a soft spot or a springboard for their oflensiv "Forces of the enemy evidently are being regrouped for a resumption of the offensive," the communique

said.

“Japanese units on the front line which had suffered heavy casual; ties are being relieved by fresh troops.” Increasing discontent behind the Japanese lines including sabotage and fearless hostility on the part oi the Filipinos- in defiance of Gen. Momma's threats of wholesale executions was said in the communique to be piling up more troubles tor the invaders. The case of a Filipino truck-driv- < Con t IniH'il on Cnirf* Two)

WEST COAST PROTECTOR—Possibility of attempted Japanese invasion continuously menaces West Coast of U. S. But defense measures a re indicated by this scene. Pilot, gunner and observer hop into patrol plane that's protected b y sandbags on Army field and prepare to take oft.

( LASS IN FIRST AID COMPLETED RECORD-HREAKINC SESSION FRIDAY

Putnam county’s record breaking class for the training of instructors to teach Red Cross First Aid, held its concluding session Friday, February 13th. The feminine members have gone back to the wearing ol skirts after having practically lived in slack;; for a two weeks’ pet iod. Knees that had bcome somewhat the worse for wear in the artificial respiration practice, now will have an opportunity to become whole agam. As a result of the very capable teaching by Thomas Costello, field representative from the eastern area of American Red Cross, sixty-one persons were made more hazard-con-scious than they had ever been before in their lives. One member ot the class was heard to remark that she wondered how she had managed to live as long as she had, considering her sublime ignorance, up to now, in matters of accident prevention and intelligent first aid meas-

ures.

Friday evening's class marked the termination of thirty hours concentrated work, but in spite of the time and study that were required, every member of the class felt he had been several times repaid for the effort lie had expended. In spite of class discussions that concerned lacerations, amputations, concussions and apoplexy, Mr. Costello dealt with all of the subject matter in such a way that morbidity had no part in the course More than one person was heard to say, as he left Bowman gym, his certificate in hand, that he'd had so much fun he was sorry the classes were over. Miss Ju ly Kinder, DePauw student, and Miss Catherine Riggs, member of the physical education staff in the college, were repeating the course and were awarded renewal certificates. Mrs Elsie Davidson

INGENIOI N TRANSPORTATION FSED SATT KDA\ EVENING

Mrs. Mary Shockley, age 89 years, i Addow of George Shockley, passed iway Monday morning in Indianap oils, Mrs. Shockley was a fonuer resident of Greencastle and Fillmore. She is survived by two sons George and Lester Shockley of Indimapolis, two grandchildren, Mrs. Roscoe Skimmerhorn of Greencastle and Merle Lisby of Indianapolis, four sisters. Mrs. Dora Storm of Fillmore, Mrs. Daisy Williamson of Fillmore, Mrs. Laura Johnson of Greencastle

... land Mrs. Ethel Walker of Danville

l "' ! ' r > ' 1 1 "'' hrou » ht " l j and two brothers, Ernest Smith of

Fillmore and Reuben Smith of Clov-

U» date as of March 1. aad fc:m the bae; of the arse.-aments of the coun-

tyV >iopetty.

D CIRC I IT CO! KT NOTES A suit venued to the Putnam court

fron the Hendricks Circuit Court is

tha of Edgar M. Blessing vs. Bertha Jockhart Christie, to recover at-

toit: >y\, fees.

erdale. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o clock from the Fillmore Methodist church. Burial will be in the Fillmore cemetery. The City Council will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock.

Saturday evening was a big time on the DePauw campus. It was the one evening the girls made their own dates and gave their own “Golddigers’’ ball. The girls, or many of them, took their dates to dinner and it was on this event that some unusual modes of transportation were used. One young man from the Phi Delta house rode in the McCurry ambulance. He did not even have to walk to this ambulance, as he was wheeled out by his girl on a stretcher, und went sailing away with the sirens sounding. Others rented a one horse-shay and with driver behind, took their men friends for a ride. Other girls were content to walk their dates to dinner ami to the ball afterwards, but according to all information, they had a fine evening. CONDITION IMPROVES E. R. Bartley, south Indiana street, was rep<*rted slightly improved at the Putnam county hospital Mrtnday.

Hov/ard Funeral To Be Tuesday JOHN HOW ARID srcCI MBED A’l CO! NTY HOSPITAL ON SAT I RDAY NIGHT John Howard, a resident of north Greencastle. died Saturday night at 9:20 o'clock at the iPutnam count v hospital where he had been a patient since February 6th. Mr. Howard was 65 years of age and a lifetime resident of Greencas-

tle.

Survivors are one sister, Miss Margaret Howard of Greencastle, three brothers, Harry of Greencastle, Daniel of Indianapolis and Edward of Attica and one nephew, Robert Howard of Greencastle. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock from St. 'Paul's Catholic hurch, in charge of Father Thomas McGrath. Interment will be ma le In Forest H ' cem tery. Friends may call at the Shannon Funeral Home.

20 YEARS AMI

IN GREENCASTLE

of Crawfordsville, and Mrs. Mary Demuth of Plainfield, had driven from their respective towns for each evening of class work and were awarded Teacher's certificates. Putnam county persons who were granted certificates for teaching tne Junior, Standard and Advanced Course in First Aid were the following: Mrs. Walker Baker, Mr. and Mrs, Raymond Baldwin, Mrs Marvin Boll (Bainbridge >, Mrs. Kenneth Bryan, Mrs. John Cartwright, M's» Wilma Jean Chambers, Mrs. Guy Codings (Bainbridge). Lewis Cowgill. Mrs. Cecil Coopr.der ll’utnamville). Miss Leah Curnutt, Mrs. Frank Deer, Mrs. Kathryn Dcttlorf (Continued on I'iikp Threei Dutch Fighting Jap 'Chute Troops NIPPON INVADING I OKIES ON LV 27(1 Mil ES NORTHWEST OF BATAVIA BATAVIA, Feb. 16 (UP) Netherlands Indies troops and Allied airplanes fought Japanese parachutist and sea-borne troops today in the Pialembang area of Sumatra oniy 270 miles northwest of Batavia. A Netherlands Indies communique had announced the launching of a full scale Jap invasion attempt on Sumatra after Dutch troops had wiped out most of an estimated 700 parachutists who had landed Saturday at three points near Palem-

bang.

The communique announced als > the landing of enemy invasion forces in the Anambas Islands, ]50 milr*

northwest of Singapore.

With their landing in Sumatra the Japanese have established a 1,700 mile invasion line, extending in a west-east direction from Palembang through Borneo and Celebes to the Amboma islands in preparation for a major attack on Java, the heart of the Dutch East Indies, whicn contains Batavia, the capital, and the United Nations command. RANGOON. Burma, Feb. 16. (UPi Japanese troops were closing

M'niitiniH»4l I'hu«* Two) ROADS SOFT IN PEAC ES

Roads of the Putnam county highway system which did not give up the frost from their sub-bases dining the last preceding thawing and rainy spell of weather, are now su - rendering to the warmth and wetness of the present spell and again they are soft in places where there is not a protective coat of bituminous surface treatment, or a considerable

thickness of stone or gravel.

The water from slow rain of Sunday forenoon an 1 the drizzle of last night and today, is soaking Into the highways where it can, and in places where it encounters a layer of frozen material under the surface it makes the surfaces soft. Countv road men are watching traffic, to prevent

the damaging of roads.

Death Summons Eliza Stevenson El NEKAL SERVICE PLANNED TtESDM FOR BAINBRIDGE

RESIDENT

Eliza Laf >e Stevenson, age 79 years, well known Bainbridge woman and the wife of Edgar Stevenson, died Sunday night at 10:30 o’clock at her home in Bainbridge. following a three months Illness due to complications. She had been an invalid for almost five years. Mrs. Stevenson was born in Putnam county near Barnard on August 24, 1862, the daughter of Thomas and Margaret K* lso Lafoe. She was united in marriage to Mr. Stevenson on March 9th. 1890. The deceased had been a life long resident of Putnam county and was a charter member of the Barnard Baptist church. Survivors are the husband, a sis-ter-in-law, Mrs. Martha Pierson, of New Winchester, five nieces and one

nepnew.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from tht Chastain Funeral Home in Roachdale, with burial in the Roachdale

cemetery.

Friends may call at the Chastain Funeral Home Monday evening and Tuesday morning. Men, 20 To 44, Sign Up Today LEGION MEMBERS ( (IMPOSE HOARDS FOR DRAFTING OF NEW SM I ( TEES Young men in Putnam county w’ao have become 20 years of age before December 31, and men 36 to 44 years of age. registered for military service over the county on Monday. Two registration pines in Gieincastle, the American legion Hoi" ; and at the Court House, were crow !- ed at all times during the mornin ; and at noon it was estimated thal more than 500 men had registered within the city. Each of the townships in the county also had a registration place in charge of the Legionnaires of the community and this made it more convenient for men to register near

home.

Amanda Davis Expired Monday

Rev. John G. Benson, pastor of tiie Union Me this list Episcopal church in New York City, offered his pulpit to Rev. John Roach, another New York pastor, and William A. Brady, theatrical manager, for a debate on the use of stage and /films in its work. Mrs. Raymond Fisher was elected secretary of the Keystone Bible class.

RESIDENT (H PI TNAMVII.LE

COMMUNITY DIED AT

( Ol NT) HOSPITAL

BRITISH REEL FROM DISASTER AT SINGAPORE ( III KCHII.L ( \BINKT TARGET OF CRITICISM BY BRITISH

Pl'BLIC

TRAGIC FAR EAST BLOW Prime Minister And England’s Officials Draw Verbal Fire Of Shocked Empire LONDON. Feb. 16.—(UP)—Britons. shocked by the fall of Singapore and asserting that the country faced its gravest, situation since the collapse of France, demanded with increasing insistence today a radical and immediate change in the direction of tiie war and a merciless purge of Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s cabinet. They received their first news of the surrender of the British garrison through Japanese communiques. Then Churchill, in a world broadcast, announced it in three words: “Singapore has fallen." For nearly a whole lay, there had been no other official news of Singapore. The British people know that one of the few such surrenders in their history had come atop the humiliating cruise of a German battle fleet past the I lover coast within range of

shore guns.

They knew that half a dozen famous regiments of British regulars, British royal marines and sailors and engineers, an Australian imperial force, Indian regiments, Malayan and Sarawak forces had been involved in the fall of Singapore. — They knew nothing of the number of men Involved in the surrender, how the collapse had come, what proporntion of the garrison had been evacuated to the Netherlands East Indies, which are now under a full scal n Japanese attack. But the most dramatic, if not actually the most important defeat of the war. was a ghastly fact to them. It dwarfed the surrender of the little garrison at Hong Kong, and people went back to Kut El Amara in 1916 when a British army surrendered to the Tu’ks, and Lord Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown in 1781 for comnarisons, H had taken the Japanese only a few weeks to drive down the Malay peninsula from Thailand, the British imperial forces had withdrawn from Malaya to the Island Jan. 31, two weeks ago. The Japanese had attacked one week later, needing only one week to take the island fortress. Men of the brigade of guards, symbol of British military prowess; the East Surrey regiment the Leicester regiment, the Argyle and Southerland Highlanders, the Gordon Highlandt i s, the Manchester Regiment, the Loyal Regiment th ■ Royal Marines navy men from the “impregnable’’ Singapore naval base, royal engineers, royal artillery, the Australia is. the Malay Regiment, the Sartwak Rangers, the Hyderabad Regiment, the Punjab motorized unit, mixed Punjabis, Baluchis, Yats. Garhwalis, from all over India and men from the famous northwest frontier force of India had been in

the fighting.

Reports started to circulate that there had been another Dunkirk, that many if not most of the British and Australian forces had succeeded in leaving tne island Friday night for the Netherlands East Indies. But for hours, the country waited vainly for official news. Long after the Japanese had announced the surrender, the British Broadcasting Corporation heard the Singapore radio at 10:37 a. m. EWT give a routine broadcast of world news. The announcer ended: “Good night everybody. We shall IOiotInueil on I’nicr Twnt

PARK (T.OSFJD BECAUSE OF THE ROADS BEING SOFT

The Robe-Ann park has been closed by the Park Board until the roads through the park have settled sufficiently from being damaged by traffic and persons are asked to remain out of the park with vehicles until the entrance ways are again open.

Mrs. Amanda Davis, age about 89 years, of near Putnamville, die • Monday morning at the iFu'naiu county hospital. Death was due t< pneumonia which developed alter she received injuries in a fall about two weeks ago. Mi's. Davis made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Hai’bit, who; • husband is an employee oi the Indiana State Fai m. A son. Kenneth Davis, resides at Reelsvi le. Funeral sei vices will be announced later.

* ® ® ® o © ® & $ * $ Today’s Weather ® ® and © i> Local Temperature ® £ © ® © © © © © © © © Becoming colder late this afternoon, decidedly colder tonight, with a moderate cold wave in northwest portion; rain this afternoon changing to light snow tonight; increasing winds becoming fresh to strong tonight

John Abel haa received further word from his son, W’al len, and his wife, who are in Honolulu and were there during the raid by the Japanese. last December 7. They are now working for the navy de|>artment in civilian defense, in the city of Honolulu.

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