The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 February 1942 — Page 1

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GREENOASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1942.

NO. 104

R. ENJOYS INUAL DINNER PARTY TUESDAY

IN OBSERVANCE OK bsHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY

SERVING COUNTRY

NOBLE E N T E R T A I N S

I.ouis F. Hays, Washburn »pter lt«*KPnt, Presided At Well Attended Meeting

OUTLINE WORK FOR WOMEN IN CIVIL DEFENSE

TRAINING COURSES LOCAL WOMEN IN PROGRAM

OFFERED STATE

THREE

PRINCIPAL

annual Washington’s birthday meeting of Washburn Chapter Daughters of The American lion, was held Tuesday eventhe Gobin Memorial church lose to 100 members and

present.

cards were Defense Stamp leach bearing a 10 cent stamp tarter gift from Washburn “Corsages" of stamps of denominations were presentpial guests and officers of the Louis F. Hays, chapter ReIresided. Mrs. Pierce lead the repeating the pledge to tne lid Mrs. Omer Beck gave the tion. Mrs. Hays presented iFayette L. Porter, state RoBid a member of Washburn who spoke briefly on the conditions and the part the . in Indiana as well as the naj doing to aid the country. She resented Miss Ella Beckwith liss Emily Beckwith, charter rs of the Chapter who were . Mrs. John Cook was chairthe Social committee. Ray Trembly is chairman of bgram committee and she prej Dr. Thomas B. Noble, Jr., of Ipolis whose hobby is a study [Navajo Indian and the making lures of the Indian and his naluntry in the southwest United )16. Dr. Noble was a camera laving snapped all the scenery Indiana, he went to Arizona i new landscapes, found the shots, all right, but came back, he had another |asn’t just another fad, like butterflies in an album, or for seashells. He had discovNavajo Indians. Noble had gone to the Navajo »tion to take pictures, and to admire the statMy, digni|clian», who now number 50.000, ly Dr. Noble can show you Imbination of two hobbies, a year he visits the reservation, |tch time he returns, he has | beautiful, bruath-taking pictfie doctor’s private office is a panel, about midway from • and ceiling. It’s an invenhis, built so that it is a simple to take an old picture out, ksert a new one. the backyard of his home at the Michigan Road, Dr. Noble lilt a glorified “hogan,” or Nav>use. The real ones are tents, M frames and skins. The docof brick, with a round roof. Ide is a collection of everything b that can be moved. Arrowrugs, baskets, beads, head- ( almost every example of > handiwork, is there for the ition of his friends. doctor also has reels of color s, showing all phases of the life, and especially their ceredances. He spends part of ?are time lecturing to various about the Indians, and showi pictures. hough Dr. Noble knows several bd words of the Navajo langhe doesn’t claim to be profiat it. He says it has been that the language has no loot, or link with any other age. There is no written recen things get just too hard to

Russell Hostage Staff Sergeant Russell, Costage is the sen of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Costage of this city. He is a membeof the 10th Air Base Sqrl., Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111. He enlisted in

Alay, 1939.

Legion Sponsors Oratorical Event

CONTEST TO BE HELD BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AT

UNIVERSITY

At seven-thirty o’clock next Thura-1

Namely, Nutrition, First Home Nursing 0|>en To Of Greeneastle

FIELDS

Aid And Women

FILLMORE DEBATERS WILL GO TO BRAZIL

Twelve More Young Men Enter The Army

An outline of training courses to be offered women locally for their part in the civilian defense program has been developed and coordinated by Mrs. David Houck, chaiiman of women's division of 'Putnam County Defense Council and Mrs. Simpson Stoner, executive secre’ary of Putnam County Chapter of the Red Cross, it was announced by C. d. Barnaby, Jr., County Chairman Civilian Defense Council. The training courses center >n three main fields, namely nutrition, fiist aid and home nursing.

Nutrition

Mrs. Ivan Ruark has been appointed county Chairman of nutrition for the civilian defense council and the Red Cross. The program is being set up by the State Board of Health, and is to get under way locally as soon as plans are received. Classes will be formed to study pr >-

, , blems of nutrition, as proper diet is

day evening representatives chosen . , , , , , recognized as essential to heallth,

The Fillmore High School is listed as one of the four schools that will ^ participate in a contest debate ai. Brazil next Saturday. The debater 1 will be held in the form of a tourney i with the affirmative and negative team of each school meeting the affiimative and negative teams of the other four ■ schools. The question debated this year by the Indiana State Debate League is: 'Resolved: That every able bod- | ied male citizen should have one year of full time military training before reaching the present draft age."

VALIANT STAND IN BATAAN NOT FUTILE GESTURE .M’ARTHI R’s EPIC DEFENSE IN PHILIPPINES TIES UP HALF OF l\l* MANPOWER EVEN .l\PS PAY TRIBUTE Americans Waging One Of Greatest Rear-Guard Delaying Hatties In Hisiorx Of Warfare

from the various high schools in Putnam county will compete in an

oratorical contest sponsored by the

American Legion. The subject of the addresses will be the American

Constitution, and the winner of the local contest will become eligible to

compete in a district contest. The American Legion hopes that through these contests, which are being held throughout the state, tne

young people of the high schools will become more vitally interestwj

in our democratic form of government. The public is cordially invited

to attend the local contest, which

will be held in Room 5, Speech Hall.

The addresses will be. brief, and the contest should be fi,.ijh«^ within an

hour. The local chapter of the Le-

gion desires that, if possible, you sup-

port with your presence this phase of its Americanization program.

Farm Bureau To Meet On Friday ANNUAL SESSION OF STOCKHOLDERS WILL BE HELD IN THIS (TTY The Putnam County Fat^n Bureau Co-Op Association will hold its annual stockholders meeting Friday. February 20. at 10:00 o’clock at the Presbyterian church. A report of the last year’s business will be given in the morning, also the election of five directors. Lunch will be served at noon. The afternoon speakers will be Arthur Mullins, district supervisor, and F. K. Wadsworth of the accounting department of the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-Op Association. All stockholders are urged to attend. CONFER WITH GANDHI

stamina and courage, "Good food for America is ammunition for war--the American housewife is setting the training table for total war’’Paul V. McNutt.

First Aid

In further coordinating the work of civilian defense and the Red Cross classes in first aid will be organized in the school buildings, DePau v University. Putnam county hospital nurses home, and other locations .is interest in various sections of the county requires, it was announced by Mrs. John Cartwright, chairman of Red Cross First Aid activity. Instructors who have been recently trained will be assigned to these classes which will be scheduled for

Snow Follows Mercury Drop WINTER WEATHER AGAIN VISITS COMMUNITY ON WEDNESDAY MORNING

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These young men are the latest group from Putnam county to join the armed forces, the group going to Ft. Benjamin Harrison through the Selective Service Board. Front Row Robert Steele Allen. Orris Clay Johnston, Ernest Lane Steele, Edwin Oliver Coffin. Second Row William Stanley Foster, Carl Allen Torr, John Arthur Dobson, Harold William Coffman. Voris Anderson Etcheson, Cecil Bryan Perkins, Ernest Richard Bain, Forest Enos Williams.

The robin that visited a West Side home a few days ago, and the flock of blue birds that Dr. Frank C. Tilden saw some weeks ago at his farm on Manhattan road, may be blaming their present predicament as regards the temperatures to the federal censoring of weather prognostications. Not finding the full reports of the probable weather changes in the newspapers, they had to rely on their own guesses, and guessed erroneously. At midnight, last night, the thermometer reading was 24 degrees above zero and at 6 and 7 o’clock this morning it was 20 degrees. The wind came from the northwest, and it evidently had contact with snow or ice on its way here, as it was snappy with cold. This cold snap will stop for a while the breaking up of road surfaces in Putnam county, abd elsewhere, but that trouble is merely postponed by the freezing of the road surfaces. However, the stiff crust on the roads now will permit the highway department to haul patching material to the breaks already existing, over surfaces that had been too weak to stand up un-

311 IS PLANE TOTAL

two afternoons or evenings each < * er heavy hauling while the sur-

faces were soft from the thawing. The freezing temperature has mowed down shoots of hyacinLis and other early flowering plants that

Cecil Brown. Post Commander of i the Greeneastle Legion, reported a total of 311 foreign planes shot down to date by the Yankee fighters. Last week's total was 75 planes. Those who joined the Penny a Plane club are paying a penny for each plane shot down.

Justin Godwin New Fire Chief

MAYOR \V. D. JAMES ANNOUNCES HIS APPOINTMENT WEDNESDAY MORNING

Americans Flee Dutch Islands U. S. CITIZENS DEPART AS JAP THREAT GROWS IN EAST INDIES

BOMBAY, India. Feb. 18.—(UP)— Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Chinese supreme leader, and Madame Criang conferred twice today with Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, regarding India’s role in the Far Eastern war. INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK

Hogs 7,000: market opened 25c lower than Tuesday’s best prices;

160-250 lbs., mostly extreme top $13.30;

as happens every so often To a $12.85-$ 13; 280-400

doctor, Dr. and Mrs. Noble for Chinle, Ariz. That's the Ing off place. From there on case of where-do-we-want-to-doctor recommends the counlighly, even to those wiho don’t Navajo’s or photograpTTy. pen you get out there,” he says, you see no living thing, you can low you’ve been worrying over ng. It lets you relax.’’ ^WARDED SCHOLARSHIP printendent Frank Jarrell reword Tuesday that M ; ss Heline Farrow of Clinton Center school has been awarded the county scohlarship to Butniversity for the school year 1043.

$12.95-$13.25, 250-280 lbs., lbs., $12.70$11 40-S12.50; good sows

$12.90; 100-160 lbs., sows 25c-35c lower,

$11.25-$12.

Cattle 1,200; calves 500 steers and yearlings opened about steady; heifers little changed; cows firm; early sales medium and good steers and yearlings $10-$12; most medium to good heifers $10-$11.50; vealers steady, top $15.50. Sheep 250; hardly enough fresh supplies to make market; 2 double holdovers good to choice western lambs fully steady to strong at $11.75-$11..00. I N dergoes operation Mrs. Gilbert Lambert of StilesviTle underwent an operation at the Putnan. county hospital Wednesday

morning.

week for a five-week period. It is planned to make this class work ava''lable to every woman in Putnam county desiring to take instruction, as the Red Cross has just completed a Gaining course which qualified sufficient instiuctors lo cover the entire county. A certificate in Standard First Aid can be obtained only if twenty hours of class work is taken under a certified instructor. Home Nursing Mrs. L. H. Dirks and Miss Pauline Smith have been named co-chairmen of the important activity of home nursing. They advise that a course of 24 hours of either 6 weeks of 4 hour classes or 8 feeks of 3 hour classes in afternoon or evening classes as each group desires will J--conducted by registered nurses. /. certificate for completion of coulee

is awarded.

All registered nurses in iPutnam county interested In teaching and conducting the Home Nursing courses are urged to contact Miss Pauline Smith immediately, in order that organization work may bo completed by the time necessary material for the class work arrives. Class work in Red Cross Home Nursing course teaches prevenUoj of illness and accidents in the home, as well as care of the sick, care of mothers and children, and community health in the prevention and control of communicable or contagious (Conllnurd nn I’nicr Fourl

already had broken through the soil in lawns, and some wild flower plants in the woods and fields wer° beginning to appear above ground. With the start it had this morning, the day developed into a typical winter day, with a dropping temperature which reached 17 degrees above zero at 11 a. m. The light snow of early morning became one that for a time was the hardest downfall of the winter so far.

Damaged Warship Being Repaired JAPS CLAIMED THEY HAD DESTROYED U. S. DESTROYER "SHAW”

RECEIVES PROMOTION Kenneth Scott Kirkham, son ot Mr. and Mrs. William Kirkham, Highland street, has been promoted from private first class to the rank of corporal. The Greeneastle boy is stationed at Pine Camp, New York. Private Robert Kirkham, another son of Mr. and Mrs. Kirkham, is a mechanic and is stationed at Camp Chorrera, Balboa, Canal Zone.

TERHUNE DIES POMPTON LAKES, N. J„ Feb. 18. —Albert Payson Terhune, 69, internationally famous as result of his stories about dogs, died today of a heart ailment. He had been in ill health for two years.

DANCER RESIGNS PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 18.—(UP) — Mayris Chaney, dancing friend of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was appointed to a $4,600 a year job in the civilian defense program, resign ed today.

HONOLULU, Feb. 18 (UP)— The 1.500 ten destroyer Shaw, which the Japanese ’ destroyed” in their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, has reached the United States under her own power for reconditioning, the navy disclosed today. The Shaw, which was in drydock when the Japanese attacked, was hit repeatedly by bombs, the navy said, one of which exploded her magazines and wrecked her forward section. An emergency bow was constructed to enable the Shaw to reach a west coast port, it was announced. The Shaw was launched in 1935 at the Philadelphia navy yard She was the second destroyer of that name. The first was cut In two by the British troopship Aquitania in an English Channel fog in 1918. but its commander, now Vlce-Admiial William A. Glassford, sailed the after part of the ship to Portland, England, 50 miles away, receiving the navy cross for the feat. A ,new bow was constructed and the first Shaw served with the fleet until 1928.

Mayor W. D. James announced Wednesday morning that he had appointed Justin Godwin as Fire Chief of the Greeneastle fire department. Godwin succeeds Harry Ragsdale, who recently went to LaPorte as a fireman at a defense plant. Ragsdale had asked the council for a 90day leave of absence which was granted at the regular session of the Greeneastle officials Monday night. Chief Godwin has been with the department as a city fireman almost eight years, being the oldest member of the force in point of service since Ragsdale’s departure. He was appointed to his post by the late Charles F. Zeis when he became mayor his second term on January 1. 1935. Mr. Godwin is well known here. He is a World War veteran and a member of American Legion Post 58. LEGION MEN WILL HOLD DISTRICT MEETING FEB. 20

BATAVIA, Feb. 18 (UP) Evacuation of Americans from the Netherlands East Indies was speeded today as the threat of a Japanese invasion of Java increased. Consul General Walter A. Foote, of Greenville, Tex., assumed charge of all evacuation arrangements and sought sailing accommodations for an estimated 100 Americans who remain in Java. It was revealed that Consul John B. Ketcham, Bayshore, N. Y„ and at least eight American, oil workers were trapped in Sumatra when thi Japanese attacked Palembang However, it was believed that Ketcham was making his way safely thiough the jungle on the west side of the island from his pest at Medan, past Palembang to Japa. Eight Standard 1 Oil workers in the Palembang area were believed t<> have left there and were expected here today. Two American missionaries, nam ed Williams and Mow, have arrived in Java after escaping from Borneo by marching through the interio’ jungle and sailing to Java in Chinese

junks.

Shelbyville defeated Greeneastle 31 to 24; Cloverdale defeated Emin-

ence 31 to 21.

The elementary schools of Russell township led the list of townships of the county in attendance and

There will be a Sixth District Legion and Auxiliary meeting at Crawfordsville on February 26. it is announced by members of the local Legion Post. A large number of the Putnam county posts will attend the meeting. RURAL YOUTH MEETING Fifty-four Putnam county young folks, members of the Rural Youth Club, attended the meeting in tne Community Hall at Morton Tuesday evening. They participated in the round and square dancing, and in the program, which followed the business session. Clinton township members were hosts and hostesses for the crowd. There were guests also present from Hendricks county. The next meeting will be held at the home of Eric Boesen, March 17.

Extend Dollar Day Through Saturday MERCHANTS I.IMNt. PI BI.IC ADDITIONAL DAYS TO PUR-

CHASE VALLES

Due to the bad weather the merchants of Greeneastle decided today to extend their Dollar Day specials through Saturday unless their supply is exhausted. They have many wonderful bargains offered to the public and everyone is invited to come in and look them over. The merchants have offered these special values to accommodate the public and with prices and stocks as they are now the public should take advantage of these special opportunities which the merchants are giving

them.

The quality of the merchandise is above average and such values as these should not be missed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UP) - Gen. Douglas MacArthur's epu stand in the Philippines is immobilizing one-half of the entire Japanese manpower spread over the 'Pacific battleffonts, military experts estimated today. With his outnumbered and weary men still "fig'hting like demons"— the enemy's own tribute to their valor MacArthur was described as waging one of the greatest rearguard delaying battles in the history

of warfare.

"When strategy on this far-flung Pacific battlefront is considered, as j well as the hopes of the United Nations in defend ng their other Pacific bastions, it it ridiculous to speak of MacArthur's resistance as a hopeless fight," said a military official. The Japanese, according to the best estimates available in Washington, have between 400,000 and 450,000 men in action on the fronts stretching for more than 4,000 miles from the Philippines to the Indian Ocean, but not includ ng Chinn. More man 200,000 of these troops, including some of the best shock troops ( f the Japanese war machine, are in ’he Phillippines, either facing MacArthur's defenders on Bataan peninsu la or policing Manila and the occupied areas, MacArthur's men are understood to number only about 20,000, with perhaps two Filipinos for every American. And every man of them knows ns he beats off attack after attack that he has virtually no hope of evacuation or reinforcements of

men or planes.

But so loiiv; as the. fighting rages on Bataan peninsula the Jananes® cannot divert many men or weapons for their big thrusts at the Burma road, at Sumatra and Java 1.500 and 2,000 miles to the southwest across

the China Sea.

In fact, the enemy is being compelled to move up reinforcements of troops, artillery and warplanes in evident preparations for an attempted knockout of MacArthur s 72 days of resistance, communiques of the past 48 hours revealed.

ALBERT ALBA Hi H BACK HOME AFTER 17,(100-MILE TRIP THROUGH 17 STATES

Albert E. Albaugh returned to Greeneastle Tuesday arietnoon from a trip of nearly 7,000 miles which took him through seventeen states

in addition to Indiana.

Mr. Albaugh, who is 84 years of age, and one of the best known residents of this community, left here on November 27th, for Seattle, Wash., for a visit with his son, Ralph

and granddaughters, Oma, a senior

in the University of Washington,

and Mrs. Marian Albaugh Short. He said he was attending a church ser-

vice with Marian on Sunday, Dec.

7th, when the Japanese treacherously attacked Pearl Harbor. The minister inteirupted his sermon to give

the news to the congregation. That night, according to Mr. Al-

baugh, Seattle had its first blackout and no buses or autos were allowed to operate. While in Seattle, he also visited Miss Marjorie Smith, daugh-

Prof. and Mrs. O. H. Smith,

New! ter of

| Maysville led in the high school list, city, who is to be married on Fen-

Military observers speculated that the Japanese commander-in-chief in the Philippines, Lieut. Gen. Masarahu Homma, probably will unleash his all-out attack soon in hopes of hung able to send a large part of his 200.000 or more men to other

fronts.

If MacArthur were to be driven from the island of Luzon and back upon Corregidor fortress, Homm.i would be able to release thousands of men, because the final phase of the battle of the Philippines would then become a siege assigne 1 largely to dive-bombers and Japanese guns arc und Cavite on the eastern shore

of Manila Bay.

( LB PACK 99 WILL

GET ( II \KTEK TONIGHT Cub Pack 99 will receive its charter tonight at a pack meeting to be held in the basement of the First Christian church. Robert Dean, Scout commissioner, will present tire charter. In addition to the charter presentation Cubs and their leaders will receive registration cards. Those Cubs who are ready for advancement will receive their awards. AU parents and Den Chiefs should make a special effort to be present. The

ruary 25th.

From Seattle, Mr. Albaugh went down the west coast to Los Angelos, Cal., where he visited his nieces. Mrs. Ruth Baker Day and Mrs. Margaret !

Martin, both former Greeneastle j P ,0 Kram will open promptly at 7:30.

girls and daughters of the late Mrs. Lou Allen Baker, who was a sister

of Mrs. Albaugh.

Mr. Albaugh stated that he trav eled two nights when no lights were allowed in the coaches of the train and the engine had no headlight. He went from Los Angeles to Fort Worth, Texas, where he was met by his son, Roy, who lives in Waco, 90 miles south of Fort Worth. Roy's two sons are students in the East, one attending Yale and the other Princeton university. While in Fort Wort;:, Mr. Albaugh enjoyed several side trips, visiting in Shreveport, La., and Texarkana. Texas. He said he had a great trip but that he was glad to be back In “good old Greeneastle.”

& O 0 ® O & ii* $ $ <1 Today’s Weather 0 §• and 0 > Local Temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Colder this afternoon and tonight;

occasional light snow.

Minimum 6 a. m. . 7 a. m. . 8 a. m. .