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VOLUME FIFTY

<JREEXCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1942.

NO. 109

WOODRUM FILES MANDAMUS SUIT TUESDAY NOON (ITV POLICEMAN SAYS HR WAS discharged UNLAWFULLY BY MAYOR

SERVING COUNTRY

FILED IN PUTNAM COURT ElcM'n Paragraph Complaint Is Filed Bv Gillen & Lyon, Attorneys For Woodrum

A mandamus suit was placed on record in the Putnam Circuit court today at noon, wherey Logan Woodrum. f"liner police officer of the city, sets out in an eleven paragraph complaint. certain facts which allege he was discharged from his official duties in an unlawful mapner. The complaint was filed by Attorneys Gillen and Lyon and is baser! on the Metropolitan Police Act, passed by the Indiana legislature in 1933’ which .«ets out how and In what manner a police officer or a city fireman may be discharged. The mandamus complaint today alleges the discharge of Woodrum was political and not for drinking while on duty as charged; that no formal complaint against him was filed, that no hearing was held and that the whole matter was political and not otherwise. The complaint was filed under the title of The State of Indiana on the j relation of Logan Woodrum vs. William D. James, as Mayor of the City of Greencastle, Ind., and in full is as Ifollows: 1. The Plaintiff, The State of Indiana, on the relation of Logan Woodrum, complaining of the Dejfenda/it. William W. James as Mayor of the City Of Greencastle, Indiana,

jsays:-

2. The said William D. James is jnow and for more than three years last past has been continuously the Iduly elected, qualified and acting Mayor of the City of Greencastle, ilndiana, which is a city of the Fifth

“lass.

3. That the Relator, Logan Woodm, was on the 13th of February, 11942. and for more than three years last past, has been continuously a duly qualified and acting police ofjficer of said City under appointment jof said Mayor and with the approval jof the Common Council of said City. 4. Relator says that at the time Jho was appointed as a police officer of said City, the said William D. James told this relator that the city jeampaign, which resulted in said jJames’ election as such Mayor, had been made with the understanding with “the boys” that a certain amount of gambling would be perniitted. and then and there ordered this relator not to go about places jwheiv gambling might be carried on. 5. Relator says that on the night jof the 2 day of February, 1942, he ehterod a basement room on the west side of the Court House square in said City and made a raid and arresti it a number of persons for gaming and confiscated certain gambling

[equipment.

6. That thereafter, on the 13th day jof February, 1942. said William D. jJames. while acting as Mayor of said K'ity, suspended and discharged this [relator from further services as policeman of said City, under the pietonded charge that this relator drank intoxicating liquors while on duty as such police officer, when as ;i matter of fact, the true reason for Unis relator’s discharge by said MayI' 1 ' was this relator’s disobedience of s.iid James’ prior order not to go about places where gambling might I be carried on. That said pretended discharge was and is wholly null and void and of no effect. 7 That said discharge was made wholly for political purposes. 8. Relator says that no written charges, for his removal as such police officer, for any cause, other than politics, was ever made and filed by •’inyoiie in the offices of the City f ’"uncil and Mayor in said City; that ho written notice of any kind notify4 n 8 this relator of the time and place of hearing, was ever served upon this 'clator, in person, or by copy left at his last and usual place of residence, jof any written charges being made [or filed for his removal as such pojlice officer; that no opportunity was |ever given relator for a hearing on il,n y charges of any kind, and no op|portunity was ever given relator to "lake a demand for such hearing; and that no written reasons for lelator’s removal as such police offijeer was ever entered upon the recjords of any board, or city council. 9, Relator says that he has at all !lhne. since the 13 day of February, Ib'IZ, and is now, and will continue tCoBlIuucd on rage Inn t

Joseph J. Pickett

Corporal Joseph J. Pickett visited recently with his parents Mr. ami Mrs. Joe V. Pickett of Fillmore. Corp. (Pickett is a mechanic, in the U. S. Air Corps, stationed with the 54th School Sqd., Elgin Field, Fla.

INSTRUCTIONS IN FIRST AID START TONIGHT

ALASKA AND THE ALEUTIANS

Latin Contest At Bambridge PUTN AM COUNTY STl DENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN EVENT SATURDAY The Putnam County Latin Content will be held at the Bainbridge high school building Saturday, February 28, at 8:30 a. m. Francis McClure, county chairman, is in charge. The contestants in the first year Latin are: Bainbridge—Raymond Morphew, Dorothy Hostetter, Raymond Fitzsimmons, alternate, teacher, Francis McClure. Greencastle Charles West, Nancy Cooper, Norma Williams, alternate, teacher, Miss Margaret Lou

May.

The comtestants in the second years Latin are: Bainbridge — Geraldine Worley, George Evans, Willis Ader, alternate, teacher, Misa Mary Rogers. Clinton Centeno—Mary Frances Miller, Helen Jane Farrow, Norma E. Giltz, alternate, teacher, E. S. Hous-

ton.

Greencastle—Margaret Neal, Allen Huggard, Jean Feld, alternate, teacher, Miss Margaret Lou May. In each division the two high ranking contestants will be eligible to compete in the district contest to be held at Clinton, March 21. This is the 19th annual contest conducted by the Latin teachers of the state in cooperation with the Extension Division of Indiana University. Wafson Loses Leg Due To Accident LOCAL MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN TRAFFIC MISHAP ON MONDAY Amputation of the left leg at the knee was necessary last night due to injuries suffered by Landy Watson, in a truck-auto crash east of the city shortly after noon Monday. According to the attending physician, Watson’s leg was badly crushed and almost severed in the accident. He is also suffering from injuries to the bones of the face and although he is badly hurt, his condition was reported somewhat improved this morning at the Putnam county hospital. Watson was riding with John Patterson in a truck when they were involved in a traffic mishap with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Clift, of Fillmore, who were riding in a coupe. The accident occurred near the Cagle service station on the Indianapolis road just east of Greencastle. LAST WEEK TO PURCHASE NEW AUTO LICENSE PLATES Greencastle and Putnam county motorists have only this week f o purchase their new 1942 license plates and driver’s licenses as the deadline in the state is March 1. The local auto branch has been busy since the first of the year but there are still several car owners who have not bought their new plates as yet. Mrs. That! Jones, manager of the branch office here, is anticipaing a last minute rush, she Minted this morning.

CLASS FOR EAST SECTION OF C ITY AT DEAN HOME ON WEDNESDAY WOMEN’S MEETING TONIGHT Announcement Made Of Other Classes On Various Evenings In Greencastle A class in First Aid for the east section of Greencastle will open Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Howard Dean on the east Washington street road. The class is open to both men and women and has as its instructors Bill Martz and Charles Molden. The class will continue to meet over a five week period on successive Monday and Wednesday evenings. Arrangements have been completed for the opening of a class for colored men and women to meet in the Missionary Baptist church on south Crown street beginning Tuesday, March 3, and to meet on successive Thursdays and Tuesday. The instructor for this group will be Gene Schobinger. The class in Maple Heights School will open Thursday, February 26. This class, too, is for both men and women and will be instructed by Fred (Paige. Its hours will be from

7 until 9.

Although the First Aid Class at second ward school held its organiza-1 tion meeting Saturday afternoon, the roll is still open for women who care

to join the class tonight. Miss Leah T H K E E

Curnutt and Miss Barbara Lenzen j

are instructors assigned there and Mr. Roosevelt Asks Unity At Home

ANZAC PLANES SCORE HITS ON AIR INVADERS THREE JAP WARPLANES WERE STRI t K BY SHIPS 'DEFENDING AUSTRALIA

UNITED DEFENSE DISCUSSED

Australia Xml New Zealand Offieiats Confer On Plans To Combat Jap Invasion Attempt

FOE CAN RAID ALASKA—In recent press conference President Roosevelt pointed out that attack on Alaska was perfectly possible, in present state of U. S. preparedness. When asked whether Alaska could prevent an attack now, he replied certainly not. Inset map at upper left shows Tokyo only 2,200 miles from Aleutian Islands. Germany is known to have 150 Dornier planes capable of doing 7,500 miles with useful load of bombs. Whether Japan has such planes

is not disclosed.

ALL-OUT WAR ALERT ISSUED

WAR FLASHES

WASHINGTON, Eel). 24—(UP)— The War Department announced to-

c Y PmlSIDcNT <ii ‘' i,,m ' ' m " 1 !M '' airrri,,t ^ * lit JIM VM I s | | || >s have begun a widespread

search for the Japanese submarines which shelled an oil refinery last night near Santa Barbara, Calif.

W ARNS UNITED NATIONS MUST WIN WAR IN SOUTHWEST

PACIFIC

P OI N T P R O G R A XI

Dutch To Stick To Indies Posts

ORDERED TO REMAIN IN POSITIONS DESPITE ANY EMERGENCY

the class is for women only. Its hours, too, are from 7 until 9. Additional text books were received at Red Cross Headquarters yesterday, so no student need be handicapped by not being able to “get his lesson.” Miss Patricia Roche's class at Third Ward School will open at 7:30 tonight and is planned for women

only.

An afternoon class, meeting from 2:00 to 4:00 on Wednesdays and Saturdays will have its opening meeting tomorrow, February 25, under the

And Pledges Full U. S. Aid

Against Axis Powers

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—President Roosevelt put Americans on warning today tha' the United Nations must win the war in the southwest Pacific or the United States must expect to fight Japanese invaders on California, Oregon and Washinton beaches. As lie spoke an axis submarine was shelling a Goleta, Calif., refinery.

Bob Black Enters Co. Clerk's Race

WELL KNOWN LOCAL MAN TO

SEEK NOMINATION IN

MAY PRIMARY

Robert Black, widely known Greencastle resident, announced today that he will be a candidate for clerk of the Putnam Circuit court in the coming primary election on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Black is now employed at the ordnance plant at Kingsbury, but prior to taking that job has been in the barber business in Greencastle since returning from the World War in 1919. He served one year overseas in the war and another year in training camps. In addition to his regular work, Mr. Black has served as a member of the consolidated city school board. He is married and has three children. Mr. ‘Black is widely known throughout the county as heRias been active in civic affairs throughout his residence here and has a wide circle of friends who are behind him in his

first political venture. MARRIAGE LICENSES

CHUNGKING, IVb. 24—(IP) — Well-informed Chinese sources said today that they understood the Japanese had captured Pegu, Burma, cutting the Burma road 48 miles north of Rangoon.

ALLIED HEAIHil XRTERS, JAVA, Feb. 24—(UP)—Japanese planes raided widely over Java today, a communique said, and at least one was shot down in addition to several damaged.

On Alaska, too, he said the attack

direction of Mrs. V. Earle Wiseman could come if Dutch, Australian and at the Hutcheson Nurses Home. New Zealand bastions fall thousands

of miles away.

It was an all-out war alert. But he promised that supplies would keep moving to all United Nations allies and that the United States would take the offensive—“continue increasingly the policy of carrying the war to the enemy in distant lands and distant waters—as far as possible from our own home grounds.’’ The President spoke last night to the world with a summons not only for unity at home and among the United Nations but with a pledge that American men, women and machines will do their part in the common effort to destroy German and Japanese militarism. He ignored Italy except as a minor axis partner,—but he doomed the aspirations

of them all.

He revealed for the first time that thousands of American ground troops and fliers today are fighting on the Netherlands East Indies battleground lying between the Pacific ocean and the China sea on the north and the Indian ocean on the

south.

“Hopeless,” was Mr. Roosevelt's description of any project to send the United States fleet to relieve Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his American-Ftlippino heroes in Bataan province and the fortified islands of Manila bay. MacArthur and his men are fighting a “delaying action.” That was the way the President described it. But he said they were doing monumentally more than ever had been deemed possible when that strategy for the Philippines was laid out long ago. Mr. Roosevelt laid down a threeH niifinued «»n Pfiic* Two»

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—(I P) — The destroyer Truxtoii and the naval cargo skip Pollux were lost with heavy loss of life after running aground in a raging gale off the Newfoundland coast, the navy announced tinlay in a oommiinique. The navy announced that at least 189 officers and men were lost.

Jap Sub Shells U. S. West Coast

DIE REFINERIES NEAR SANTA BARBARA, CAL., APPARENTLY ITS TARGET

Donald Stullken, graduate assis - ant. Purdue University, and Elizabeth Russell, student. Locust Manor, Greencastle. Earl McCullough, teacher and farmer, Washington township, and Madonna Rogers, stenographer, Put-

namville.

MASONIC NOTICE

The Inspection of the Cloverdale, Fillmore and Greencastle Masonic Lodges planned for Wednesday at Greencastle has been postponed on account of the illness of Ivory C. Toole, Grand Lecturer.

YEARS AGO

IN GREENCASTLE

CANDIDATE FOR TRUSTEE

George Sims has announced that he will be a candidate for trustee of Warren township on the Democratic ticket in the coming primary election. Mr. Sims has never run for an office before. He is a farmer and has lived in Warren township for the pant sixteen' years.

“Nathan Call, a Roachdale banker, transacted business in Greencastle Wednesday,” said the newspaper. L. E. Michael of Cloverdale was one of the timekeepers at the basketball tourney in Greencastle. Alton Hurst of the Greencastle High School was one of the men in charge of the wall score board. Theodore and Fay Miles were in charge of the

checking room.

Clarence Hollick of the Greencastle postoffice saw "Julius Caesar’’ in English's theatre, Indianapolis.

SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Feb. 23. — (UP) A big enemy submarine, presumably Japanese, shelled a coastal area eight miles north of Santa Barbara for twenty minutes last nigrft in a bold but unsuccessful attack on imporant oil refineries. It was the first hostile assault on the United States mainland of World

War II.

The submarine broke surface about a mile off Goleta, a small coastal oil town, and blasted at least twelve shells ashore from its deck gun, but failed to cause material damage. No fires were started and there were no casualties. The attack started at 7:18 p. m., Pacific War Time, in the middle of President Roosevelt’s war report to the nation. Santa Barbara police estimated 1 the submarine fired about twenty-1 five shells in the direction of an oil refinery near Goleta, a California coastal town, but there was no report of damage. The submarine surfaced about half a mile offshore in the twilight at 7:18 p. m., Pacific War Time, eye witnesses reported, and blasted away several minutes with its deck gun. One of the shells landed in a canyon. another on a beach. Whether by coincidence or not, the shelling was in the general location of the Bankline Oil Refineries and

oil derricks.

Morris Wheeler, restaurant operator w4n> lives one mile north of Goleta, gave the United Press this eye witness account: “I heard twelve explosions. I ran outside and I could see the submarine. It was twilight and I could see gun flashes. One shell whizzed over my head and landed in a canyon mile inshore. • “One landed on a beach half a mile from where I was standing, and

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Java. Feb. 24 (UP)—Netherlands East Indies officials received orders today to stick to Uieir posts in any emergency as this island awaited a direct attack by Japanese invading forces which were driving through Sumatra and Bali, to west and east. Allied warships and planes, including American dive bombers, which had smashed the Japanese invading fleet off Baii, watched for a new and powerful convoy which was expected at any time to attempt to land enemy reinforcements for the attack on Java, key island of the Netherlands East Indies and headquarters of the United Nations and Netherlands East Indies high com-

mands.

Dutch forces were reported fighting stoutly against the enemy in both Suniatra and Bali, where tlie Japanese had taken the Pasar airdrome. both islands, the Dutch were leaving nothing but ruin behind them as they withdrew slowly before Japanese pressure. No attempt was made to conceal the gravity of the situation here or the urgent need for reinforcements, especially in planes. Valiant Dutch and native soldiers were fighting a strong delaying action, and in Sumatra they had materially delayed the Japanes push to the lower end of the island, 15 miles across the Sunda strait from Java. In Bali also, though the Japanese were believed in control of most of the island, the Dutch were fighting stubbornly.

Emma F. Matthews Expired Tuesday WELL KNOWN w'oMAN DIED \f HOME OF HER SON IN

NEW CASTLE

Word has been received here i - friends and relatives of the death of Mrs. Emma F. Matthews, widow ow of A. R. Matthews, Tuesday morning at 6:30 o’clock at the home of her son, Orville Heacock, In Ne.v

Castle.

Mrs. Matthews was 84 years of age and was well known in Greencastle. She was a member of th Christian Church of Greencastle an I Women of the Moose. Her husband passed away on Dec. 19. 1941 and she had been ill since that. time. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Thursday from the home of her son in New Castle. Burial will be in the cemetery at Lewisville. LOCAL BOYS ENLIST WITH NAVAL FORCES

SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 24 - (UP> Australian airplanes scored hits on Japanese shipping and airdromes in a heavy attack yesterday on Rabaul, in the invasion zone of New Britain island in the Bismarcks northeast of Australia, an air ministry communique said today, and shot down one and probably three challenging Japanese fighter planes. One Australian plane failed to return, the communique said. Japanese planes resumed their attacks on Allied shipping in the Timor sea off the northwest Australian coast, it was added. It was made known officially that plans for combined Australian and New Zealand defense against expected Japanese attacks in the South Pacific from bases in New Guinea are under discussion at Canberra between Australian defense leaders and a New Zealand defense mission which arrived during the week end. It was understood that the discussions covered the possibility of Japanese attacks in the Tasman sea area between Australia and New Zealand, in the patch of United States communications with the South Pacific. Prime Minister John Curtin, announcing the conferences, said that the New Zealanders had attended a meeting of th. Australian war council at which a complete survey was made of the South Pacific situa-

tion.

Gen. Iven Mackay, commander in chief of Australian army minister F. M. Forde. Mackay was expected here today to attend a special defense conference of military leaders, which was believed to be connected with the Australia-New Zealand joint defense talks. Curtin said, in discussing defense plans, that New Zealand was almost as perilously threatened as Australia, and it was possible the Japanese might make a direct attack on New Zealand as a preliminary to an attack on southeastern Australia la which most of the country’s 7.000,000 people are centered. So far the Japan e had effected landings in New Britain island northcast of Australia and in the Solomons in the same area. Though they had not yet attempted to invade New Guinea, it was feared that Japanese aerial activity in that area, immediately northeast of the continent, might be the preliminary to an attack. NO SPRING INSTITl TE Frank Jarrell, superintendent of county schools, has sent a letter to the principals of the county schools advising them that there will be no teachers’ institute this spring. He calls attention to the fact that two already have been held this school year, for attending which the teachers receive pay, an i that this thi.d institute, if held, would be without pay. He says he believes the time needed for this third instiute, if it were held, could be better utilized by the teachers. Mr. Jarrell also calls attention l> the annual spelling contest for county schools, which will be held Saturday. April 4. beginning at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. These contests in the past have been held in the Greencastle high school building.

Recent enlistments in the United States Navy completed at the Indianapolis Navy recruiting station, headquarters for the Indiana area, include the following from Green-

castle:

Phil Scroggin, 413 east Hanna street; Robert John Morrison, R. R. 2; William Dudley Templeman, R. R.

threw up geysers of dirt, just like in j 1, and Wallace Gordon Kelley, 206 the newreela.” j Green street.

Today’s Weather © and ® Local Temperature v* X* & -S> £> ® ® ® Some light snow in extreme south portion and a few light snow Hurries this afternoon and early tonight; colder in west and south poitions tonight.

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