The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 February 1942 — Page 1
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For Victory.. Buy UNITED STATES DEFENSE BONDS * STAMPS
^loik lU'-ry farm officer will WORK IN U. S, CAPITAL
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j visor of WVlfare at the Indiana ! state Pena! farm for the past four h i been chosen from a wide
l V. Cohen who has been super- j Pi . t« . uf thf* TnHinnn ! | ;
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years, na oee.i — “ i |l field for ipecial work in the office I / of the C .rdinator of Information in [ Jf the office of the President of tile United States and has been granted a leave of absence by the State Farm officials it was said today by Floyd j HeniH superintendent. Mr. Cohens activities will be under the d - rection of tile Coordinator, Willie ,1
J. Donovan.
In commenting on the selection o: Mr. Cohen for this important p.ias • of war-time work. Mr. Hemmer sanl: The work of this department deals with any phases of secret information necessary to the prosecution of the war and proper safeguards against propaganda and fifth column activities in the various
parts of tile United States.
A representative of the United States Army called at the office of | the Indiana State Farm today and state i that Mr. Cohen’s qualifications seemed outstanding in the field. I That his work as director of welfare I at the Indiana State Farm indicate 1 I that he was qualified to assume the I duties of this new post for whir ii ■ precedence and previous experiem • J are not ax .tilable. Mr. Cohen will be ■ assigned to the offices of this division of the executive branch of the government at 28th and E stree. j m, D. C. He has been in-
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JAP REGIMENT WIPED OUT BY BATAAN FORCE xatim: troops m uok factor IN VKTOKV REPORTED in M’ARTHI U STOPPED MAJOR OFFENSIVE Vmerican (ieneral In Philippines Reports Filipinos Now Mopping I p Invaders
PI WASHINOTON. Feb. lit (IP) — Strong Japanese iorees u-ing Itanie thrower-, '.ind supiHirled In a nonstop artillery liarrage are ham.iiering at (Jen. Douglas MacArtlmrs lines in appareni preparation for “I resumption of the offensive” aimed at a knockout conquesi of the Philippines.
Dick Terry
Dick Terry, is probably the only Putnam county boy to be in Burma at this time. He is supposed to be in or near Rangoon, where some bitti” fighting is now going on. He is a member of a ground crew of the famous Fighting Tigers, the Yankee fliers in China’s army, which is aiding in the defense of the famous Burma road. He is sergeant in the Fighting Tigers and was released from the Yankee flying forces to enter the war under Chinese colors. He went to Rangoon via of Singapore, which is now in Jap hands
British Battle Japs In Burma
RANGOON THREAT (JKOWTNH
A'. NIPPON INVADERS STEADILY ADVANCE
formed, however, that he will be in - mediately removed for a period o. time from the Continental United Stab , but the destination to Which he will be taken is not revealed even
to Mr. Cohen.
Mr. Cohen has many friends in CneiK.istle and among the staif and ulty of DePauw University. I chose him approximately four years ago from a wide field of ca>diilates to pioneer a system of ciassificat; -n and education here at the Indiana State Farm. His success has bees outstanding and his gained re. - i, ion from the American Prison A sociation and numerous otnc: -r ... nleiested in the Welfare and Eds. y m Programs of Penal i-
tutions.
"W' ire very reluctant to lose his •terva here at the Farm, but feel that i’ s a patriotic duty to grant
him tins leave of absence.
1 Board of Trustees of the in- - dir n have been contacted an 1 T to thus arrangement. Harry vkins, assistant to Mr. Cohen, 'lime the duties of Supervis Welfare during Mr. Cohens
■ at the institution.’’
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WASHINGTON S BIRTHDAY OBSERVED BY ROTARIANS
'ii the approaching birthday of • Washington, the Greencastle l’.< ’ iry Club commemorated the 1 ' 1 t with a special program at their " ly luncheon on Wednesday. rough the courtesy of Dr. Her1 Ross, a DePauw sophomore, l:,,| ph Sheppard, gave an excerpt *' ! the play Valley Forge by Rob111 Sherwood. The tribulations be- ,: ’sg the continental army during I harassing winter were adeptly II un by Mr. Sheppard, and he sucIII ‘ i in etching a vivid picture of ctvat American with his tenacd” and determinntioiv to continue a 'dht against great odds.
( HI N(iKIN(‘ < 111 N \ Fell. 1!) (I P)—Chinese forces have met and defeated Thailand troops in Northern Burma and the Thailanders are retreating on Choing-Mai, an important base 80 miles on the Thailand side of the frontier, it was announeed officially today. RANGOON. Burma. Feb. 19.— (UP) Imperial defenders battled desperately to hold the Japanese invaders at the lower Bilin river today as a second major front developed in the north and the climactic hour drew near in the struggle for Burma. The Japanese on the Bilin front were hammering toward Kyaik to which is only 2.0 miles by air from Pegu, on the Rangoon-Mandalay railtoad portion of the Burma road, and appeared to be launching a second offensive some l”.o miles to the northeast, in the general area west
of Chiengmai.
There was no confirmation here of reports broadcast by the Indo-Chlna radio, that the Chinese had launched a counter-invasion of Thailand. (Chungking sources said nothing was known of a Chinese thrust into northern Thailand, but that allied troops were massing in north central Burma for a climactic battle with an estimated 100.000 Japanese.) 15 More Putnam Men Left Today (.(> TO FORT HARRISON FOR INDICTION INTO ARMY
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CAN REGISTER SATURDAY FOR FIRST AID COURSE
Preliminary registration for a uvlard First Aid course may be l,liu te at the Second Ward school •"Hiding Saturday. Feb. 21 at 11:J0 0 ' lock. General information will be JJivtn at this time and text books 1 l y be purchased. ■ he course proper will begin TuesI'‘ay. Feb. 24, at 7:00 o’clock and will ""dinuc for five weeks, meeting on • ui'sday and Thursday evenings for I 'wo hour period each class night. • bis group will be taught by Miss •■'ah Curnutt who lias just complet'd 1 an instructor's course given by ""mas Costello, Red Cross i i-pre-J 11
Fifteen young men went to Fort Harrison Thursday morning to be inducted into Uncle Sam's expanding army. This was the third group, totalling 40 young men, to go within two weeks. Those going included Charles Milo Given. Clove rdale, Charles Leroy Scott, Greencastle, Harry Raymond Conrad, Greencastle, Kenneth John Eitel. Greencastle, ’Paul Otho Gorham. Fillmore. William Craig Cline, Cloverdale, Roy Wendell San ly. Cloverdale, Ralph Eugene Runyan, Greencastle. Robert Burns Whisenaitd, Fillmore, Ray Alva Woodall, Cloverdale, John William Carter. Harrodsburg. Kentucky. Patrick Edward Keller, CioverduU. Stanley E. Staley, Cloverdale, Herschel Lee Campbell, Greencastle and Theodore William Soper, Given-
castle.
Stanley E. Staley acted as leadeof the group with KeimeUi John Eitel as assistant leader. I. O. (X F. NOTICE
By Frank Hewlett WITH GEN. M'ARTHUR'S ARMY IN THE PHILIPPINES, Feb. 19.— (UP) Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s Philippine troops have wiped out a Japanese regiment in the most successful American counter-attack of the war. and frustrated what was to have been the start of a major Jap-
anese drive.
In the battle, which is now in the mopping up stage after a week of savage and difficult fighting on the American left wing, the Filipino troops whom MacArthur organized and trained, answered the most vital question of the campaign. j That was whether they would be able to stand up in battle against veteran Japanese regulars. They answered it with a positive and inspiring affirmative. Side by side with the famous Philippine scouts who are a part of the American regular army, they met and disposed of a crack Japanese regiment including
its commanding colonel.
(It should be noted that Hewlett's dispatch covers a battle already ended, in its main phase, and does not conflict with official dispatches indicating that the Japanese are launching a new major offensive.) The battle was fought on the
American left wing.
The Filipinos, many of them recruits. fought with the bayonet and hand grenade coolly and cunningly
under their young American
who by personal bravery set the example as they battled beside the
hardened, seasoned scouts.
A high officer, here at the front, gave an illustration of this leader-
ship.
The company in which First Lieut. Willibald Bianchi. of Now Elm, Minn., was an officer was in reserve. Bianchi. carrying a rifle, voluntarily took part of the company into
action.
Early in the fighting, he was
wounded in the left hand.
He throw away his rifle, drew his pistol which he could handle with one hand, and continued to lead his
platoon.
It was not long before Bianchi and his men were advancing into the fire of a Japanese machine gun nest. Bianchi's men located the nest and he disposed of it with a hand gre-
nade.
Later he spotted another machine gun and directed fire against it. As he did so he was wounded again. The platoon kept on, Bianchi in tile lead. It reached an American tank which had been abandoned the previous day when a land mine disabled it. Bianchi climbed, despite his two wounds, into the tank and with its gun wiped out the second machine gun nest. He was wounded a third time, this time seriously. The officer who told he this story said he had just heard from a field hospital that Bianchi had passed the crisis and was expected to recover. In the same action, First Lieut. R. K. Roberts, of Bisbee, Ariz.. led his
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WITH A.E.F. IN ICELAND—Nine Red Cross recreation and hospital workers and stenographers fiave made perilous voyage to Iceland and are now on duty with A.E.F. there. Pictured in Washington before they left are, front row: Margaret Singer, Uniontown, Md.; Jane Goodell, New York; Helen Stephenson and Camelia Greetham, Washington. Back row: Mary Dolliver, Fort Dodge, la.; Betsy Quinlan, Waynesville, N. C.; Doris Thain, Birmingham; Jane Duncan, Washington, and Elizabeth Clark, Framingham Center, Mass.
MERCURY HIT 2 ABOVE ZERO THIS MORNING < OMMI NIT\ EXPERIENCED DE- ( IDED COLD SNAP ON
THURSDAY
Americans In Java
BAT \\ I A, cign troops have arrived
Feb. 19inchiding to aid in
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Hay And Pasture School Tomorrow
A temperature of 2 degrees above zero at 6 and 7 o'clock this morning reminded Putnam county residents that Winter does not end for a month | yet. Some thermometers, becoming ambitious, let their markers drop clown to several degrees below zero. The temperature it 6 and 7 was i reached from a mark of 8 degrees j above at midnight, indicating a | descent of a degree an hour from! the middle of the night until morn-
ing.
Persons having to go to work at 7 o’clock or soon thereafter, find no
officers, j cheering sunrise to brighten their
rising from their couches. Inste id of tile sun showing above the horizon, however, there is the bright planet, Venus, which shine* el-.r white above the eastern horizon some lime l.t fore the cun begin to show. Venus became a morning star early in this month and will continue to have that distinction until winter comes again. But Venn., bright as it is lacks very much of being the sun in that respect, and it gives off i> warmth, appreciable
on the earth, at h ast.
The bulletins of th<. weather b - eau are so sc i i'y in the.i information that the prospects .r the next
of Java, the Ancta newsagene.v said
today.
The agency said the \mericanwere a relatively small Imdy. American ground troops as well as bomber and fighter pilots are “now seen frequently in Java,” according to the agency statement. Americans are nib n seen in wait ing rooms of the telephone exchange placing calls to their Inline towns, it
added!.
Auditor Calls County Council MEMBERS WILL MEET VT THE t'OI RT HOI SE ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH A meeting of the Putnam County Council has been called by Auditor Eddie Bins for 10 o'clock. Friday. February 27, in the Commissioners' room in the c mrt house. The call is addressed to all the members of the council who are John Sinclair, George Aker, George Ensign, Roy Hillis, (' J. Ferrand, Lonie Steele, and Fred Boatman. “All taxpayers” of the county are invited to attend, if they so desire. The business to be considered by the council, as stated in tile call, includes ‘‘to consider an
day or so are rot made known. With a( ]ditional appropriation to pay the
Greencastle Encampment No. 59. I. O. O. F. will meet Friday night at 7:30 o'clock for important work.
infantry platoon and himself wiped out an enemy machine gun nest with a hand grenade. He reached his objective with only two of his men. The rest had fallen before Japanese machine gun fire.
CLAUDE ETCHESON SEEKS TRUSTEE’S NOMINATION
salary of the county superintendent of schools for the year beginning August 1(1 1941,” and also to appropriate the balance of $3823 left in the gasoline fund of the county at
the close of last year. FDR HAS ( OED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. (UP) A slight li*ml cold today kept Pn si-
ihe breeze ecu mg from the squ*. west this ,i ..ing, it v cuite lik.'.v, i however, tiiit the cold will not ia.r long. In . d mtal y. t...-. advertisi >g I calendar says today is a poor dc.: |
to fish
DR BARTLETT TO ATTEND CONFERENCE AT CHICAGO Edward R. Bartlett, dean of the
university, will represent DePauw i Roosevelt confined to the White university at the conference on pre-1 House but Presidential Physician induction military training to be held I Ro SS t Mcintire said the indisposi-
under the auspices of the Institute of j Ron was not serious.
Military Studies of the University of Chicago February 20-22 at Chi-1
cago.
The conference, attended by delegates from 108 colleges and universities in all parts of the nation, will consider the problems of pre-induc-tion military training and the special defense training courses which are being introduced into educational institutions. MEETING TONIGHT The regular meeting of General Jesse M. Lee Post No. 1550, will be held this evening at 8 o'clock at city hall. The meeting will not interfere with the defense class which is also being held at the hall tonight.
ALL-DA J SESSION SPONSORED Bt CENTRAL BANK IN THIS CITY The annual Putnam county hay and pasture school, sponsored by the Central National Bank of Greencastle and backed also by various groups of farmers and stock raisers of the county, will be held in the Gobin Memorial church in Greencastle, Friday, beginning at 10 o’clock. Interesting speakers are on the pro-
gram.
David L. Grimes, county farm agent, acting chairman of the hay and pasture organization, will call the group to order at 10 o’clock, with introductory remarks, and will present Fred L. O'Hair president of the Central Bank, who will speak briefly. At 10:30, Ora A Day. chairman of the Putnam County Conservation Association, will talk on Triple A and what it has done for the pastui
program.
At 10:45, Floyd .! Hemmer, superintendent of the Indiana State Penal Farm at Putnanivilb will speak The forenoon program will be cl"sed by the address of C. M. Long, of Lafayette, on ‘‘Modern Soil Conservation Service.” Luncheon will la at the church. Jim Poole, of tie Arcady Milling Company of Chicago will speak at I 1:15 in the afternoon, and at 2 | o’clock the bank will present inter-
esting films
"Muddy Waters,
Tomorrow.” The program
o’clock.
Darwin I-. kr\ North (oust Defense Base: I'ir-I 'Direct Attack Du Xiistralia SYDNEY. Xiistralia, Fein I'.tdT*) — X strong Japanese air foree of alMiut 11)1) bombers protected bv fighters 11 .| \ i R bombed the north port ol Darwin twice today, inflicting considerable damage on military installation* in the vital Xllied base. At least four enemy bombers were shot down. “Our armed forces and civilians behaved gallantly," Prime Minister Curtin said. ”1 have no information regarding casualties but it is most obvious that we suffered." SYDNEY. Australia, Fob. 19 (UPl Japanese planes, opening the attack on the Australian continenc, savagely bombed Darwin, key north coast deleii. . base, for one hour today and damaged military installa-
tions.
The Japanese piaffes in their first direct attack on continental territory. concentrated on Darwin itself and on shipping in the harbor, the only north coast port, a communique of the Royal Australian Air Force said. Details wi re not immediately available, but it was hope 1 here that the aiiti-aircrafi batteries which had been rushed to the Darwin area as soon as the war started had accounted for some id the attacking planes. Prime Minister John Curtin had made the first announcement of the raid personally, from his sick lied at a hospital where he is recovering from acute gastritis. At that time it was known only that a number of bombs had been dropped.
on “Grasslands.” and “Harvest of
WAR FLASHES
LONDON. Fell. !9 (I I’!—Radio London said today Mint the Russians are using a new secret we,i|ioii. It is a pump, driven by an electric motor, which squirts cold water upon the Germans who are quickly covered with be, in the below-zero
weather.
j BXTXXIX, I eb. 19—(I I’)—Britain's $ IlMl.tMIU.Oilu naval base at | Singapore, Briti-h naval olticers said today, was blown up before licing abandoned to the Japanese. PARK BRYAN LOCATED IN AUSTRALIAN CITY
will close at 3
“WORLD DAY OF PRAYER'’ MEETING HERE TOMORROW The "World Day "i Piayor’’ meeting which is to be held Friday at tie First Baptist church will begin at 2 o’clock instead of at 2:30 as previously announced. Practically all of the churches in the (aty are cooperating in this observance.
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Park Bryan, Bryan of this here where he is perhaps th< resident now
where he has rrpr. great rubber comp. Prior to going to located in Sh.angh ]mrts have been In
..! the late Julius and well known 1 for many year*, y Putnam county ig m Australia, s.sited one of the uv for some time. Australia, he was ii. China. No re..rd from him re-
TEKRK HAUTE EKOIT TO DRILL FOR OIL IN MADISON TOWNSHI!' AREA
Claude Etcheson, trustee of Monroe township, has announced his intention to become a candidate in the May primary election for renomination and re-election to the same office. on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Etcheson is in business in Bainbridge. and has resided in Monroe township practically all of his life, thus being well known to the voters of that township.
211 YEARS AGO
IN ORKRNOABTLE
Mrs. Ferd Lucas entertained “at a delightful little party” for her daughter. Louise. Miss Dade Shearer discussed “Pa-
That Madison township sub-ter-rain will soon be tested for the presence of oil is said to lie assured by leases of many hundreds of acres it land within that township now being taken. The area included within the leasings centers, it is said, in the vicinity of Fern Cliffs, but the exact location of the proposed well has not been made public. The bulk of the acreage under lease lies south of the greater part of the land which was leased by the Stanolind company, which drilled a well on the Wells farm, north of th • Brunerstown road, and west of Little Walnut creek, stalling it in De-
cember, 1939.
That well was dry, as was one which was drilled later on the E 1 Cooper farm on the National road, west of the intersection with road 43. Although the new well in Mnd'non township will not be many miles distant from the Standolind effort,
company located its well too fa’ north to tap the oil reservoir. Whim the promoters say they are assured
ecntly, friends hen today stated. EIRE SCHOOL TONIGHT Isical men who attended the Au\iary Fire School I,is Thursday night at the city file depertnieiit will meet again this even ng for class work. The instructions will be in charge of Fireman William Lawrence. Th i school is a part of the Civilian Defense pri.gr iii: I'm L diana and muc'i interest is being manifest here in the
covered by | training.
gan Religions” before the Woman’s it is claimed by the promoters of the
exists under the area
their leases.
It is said the new well will be piomoted principally by Terre Haute financiers. Not much information has been given out concerning th. r plans. It is known definitely that they are taking leases, but it is sail they do not intend to have the leases recorded until after the well ha I
been drilled.
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Local Temperature 0 > O 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 Rising temperature this afternoon and not quite as cold tonight as last night: occasional snow flumes in ox-
The new company s geologists will ti mi north-central early this afterhave the benefit of the ‘'log'' of tit.' noon.
Standolind well, which record show ;;
Circle of the Presbyterian church.
new project that the StamUdind
the thickness of all of the stra.a penetrated by the drill. In years long gone, a well was drilled at Reelsvtlle, located in the Big Wa’.nut bottoms just south of the town, in which a fine flow of salt water was developed, and nothing else. That old well is located some miles south of the probable location of the new venture.
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