The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 March 1942 — Page 1

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■(HANGK WAS RECOMMENDED killing Kevi'i'd After Cnanlnioiis A|»|ir»>\al Of CAmunlttee CtmiI«»hi'iI Of Teachers.

According to an announcement from local school officials, the en- | trance-age ruling for beginning school children has been changed so that children in oruer to >e eligible for the first grade next fall must be six years of age on or before the following October. 15. I’he age ruling now in effect requires children to be six on or before January 1 following. The change in the ruling was made after it had been unanimously recomI by a teai hei-i < nimittee. 1 ill elementary principals and all first grade teachers. The recommendation came following a very thorough study of the committee on the practice of progressive schools elsewhere It is also in line with the general professional tren 1 of having children of more maturity and with more background-experi-ence at the time of school entrance. The committee also .recommended that there be no exceptions to this ruling. In the past exceptions have sometimes been made on the bases of pre-tests. It was believed that too frequently the effect of such te.sts ) even where children passed satisfactorily, was to neutralize the advantages which the child should rightfully have because of native brightness. Practically' all cities studied have now adopted the "no exception'' rule. The average age for first grade entrance in the cities studied would require this sixth ■ birthday even earlier than the date I of October 15 suggested by the local committee. In fact, about one-half of the cities investigated require children to be full six years of age at the time of school opening. Seme of the cities rcquirii!,, tiu '•■.11 sir years of age are: Brazil. Shelbyvllle. Princeton Lebanon, Ijafayette, and Whiting. Thr Superintendent and School Board concurred tihoroughly in Uie recommendation of the committee and the ruling was adopted to become effective in the fall of 1942.

Jurors Drawn For April Court Term members of grand and petit II RIES ANNOI NFED BY COUNTY CLERK

SERVING IN OUR ARMED FORCES

ROSCOE SCOTT RESIGNS AS DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN

Frank ('aneilla and (den Stone

T. C. Ridgeway

Sergeant Teddy Ridgeway recently

spent a ten day furlough with his Above are pictured Private Frank parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ridge- Cancilla. son of Mr. and Mrs. N. Can-

way, south of Putnamville. Sgt. Ridgeway has been in the service fourteen months and is a crew chief in the Air Corps at Randolph Field, Texas. His address is 79th Air Base, Randolph Field.

cilia, 201 W. Washington street and Private Glen (Teddy) Stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stone, 210 W. Libery street. Both boys are with Co. C. 81st Inf. Tng. Bn., Camp Roberts, California.

Roscoe G. Scott who has been talked for the Democratic candidate far mayor of Greeneastle, announced today that he will not be a candidate and he als';. announced that he had resigned as city Democratic chairman. So far there lias been no Democrat to announce for mayor and the filing time limit is Saturday at the time the county clerk's office closes at five o'clock. The fact that Mr. Scott has declin1 to be a candidate, will give any other prospects ample time to file a declaration oy closing time on Saturday.

ALLIED PLANES HIT JAF BASES IN NEW GUINEA

SENIOR CASTS TO GIVE PLAYS THIS WEEK-END

BAIN BRIDGE, BELLE I MON HIGH SCHOOL GRAD! AXES TO PERFORM THURSDAY, FRIDAY NIGHTS Both Class Plays H:i\i Splendid Stories; Every Part Will Ik' Well Port rayed

MOVIE STAR OBJECTS TO SERVING IN ARMY

Ward Mayhall To Head Drive Here

LOIS ARNOLD TREASURER FOR ANNUAL SALVATION ARMY FUND CAMPAIGN

EVENS FI NEKALS TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY P.

M.

The annual Salvation Army Drive here will be led this year by General Chairman W'ard Mayhall of the Central National Bank. Lois Arnold is serving for the fifth year as treasur-

er for this fund.

Heavy demands are now being laid on this humble organization due to World War number tw’o already here in the state of Indiana. The Salvation Army, aside from the tremendous responsibility of aiding our own distressed poor, is engaged in civilian, and national defense work. Here in Indiana last year some 56,000 families were aided, thousands of little children were privileged to enjoy Santa Claus’ visit to their home, over 200,000 free meals were given, over 600 men and women were converted in our penal institutions through services conducted by the

Salvation Army.

The following is for information only. Thousands of our friends are

Funeral .services for O. G. Evens, well known Greeneastle resident, who died Monday, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Rector Funeral Home. Dr. C. M. McClure will officiate. Interment will be in the Pleasant Hill cemetery, west of Greeneastle. Friends may call at the residence at ;t27 Bloomingtn street until noon Wednesday.

Judge Abrarns Has Decision Up-Held INTERESTING STATE FARM ESCAPE CASE AFFIRMED BY SUPREME COI KT

OPEN NEW BOMBING OFFENSIVE ON JAPANESE; BLAST HANGARS, RUNWAYS

FLYING

FORTRESSES USED

The Indiana Supreme Court has affirmed an unusual case heard by Judge Marshall D. Abrams of thi Putnam Circuit Court in reference to an escape from the Indiana State Penal Farm The title of the case was Elliott vs. the State of Indiana, and grew out of the appellant being transferred from the state prison where he was sentenced for a period

now asking, will the Salvation Army ^ W() jj ve y CarH the Indians icpeat the work they did over seas gt a t ( , p arni by the Boat of Public

Jurors for the April term of Uie Putnam circuit court, which opens j next Monday, April 6. were announced today by Homer C. Morrison, county clerk, as drawn by the jury commissioners. The jurors are as follows: Grand Jury John Vermillion, Clinton twp, Lonus E. Denny, Cloverdale. 8.uu Henry, Madison twp. Clyde Coffman, Franklin twp. L y Johnson, Washington twp. H' ;coe White, Greeneastle. Hex Hathaway, Madison twp. William E. Morrison, Cloverdale. Hnss Runyan, Greeneastle. Petit Jury H' moth iMotrison, Jefferson twp. ! Orville Collins, Warren twp. Wiliam Mack Ivcng, Washington I twp. Chi stine Burris, Cloverdale. Carl Rowing®, Madison twp. Charley Snodgrass. Marion twp. !■ rank Cannon, Greeneastle. Harl O'Hair, Monroe twp. Carl Brookshire, Jackson twp. Everett Logan, Washington twp. Oren Branneman, Cloverdale twp. H>ss Alice, Jefferson twp. Mrs. Zella Clearwaters, Cloverdftle twp. Hay Kivett, Jefferson twp. 'Iva Carrington, Russel] twp. Martin Kroadatreel, Jefferson twp. Jesse F. Jones, Franklin twp. i 1 rank Schafer, Warren twp. M alter Sublett, Warren twp. Oris Clodfelter, Russell twp. Oieo lore Harcourt, Jefferson twp. Harry Grantham, Jackson twp. I' rank Turner, Greeneastle. Hstell O'Connor, Clovotdale twp. makri.vge licenses

in the last World War? Yes, that has already been answered by hundreds of our officers and Salvation Army lassies who have made the supreme sacrifice working with our soldiers, in the British Isles, China, and most of these lives were lost in the main western front drive in France, Holland and Belgium, and now our girls are stationed with A. E. F. in Ireland and Australia. Yes the Salvation Army will come through again for wherever there is suffering humanity to be found whether it is in our peaceful homes

Welfare.

After his transfer to the State Farm Elliott decided lie didn't like the State Farm nor tile work to which he was assigned and asked that he be sent back to the stall prison. His request was refused and he then decided to take matteis into his own hand and left the farm and hitch-hiked back to the state prison, where he presented himself, saying he had been refused a transfer^ so he took it upon himself to make his own transfer. An affidavit was filed by the State Fa.mi officials, charg-

Amerioan Ami Australian Pilots Bound Japs Despite Heavy Rains Over Entire Area CANBERRA, Australia, March 31 iU?) American and Australian planes, opening u new offensive on the battered Japanese invasion bases in Now Guinea, scored direct hits on hangars and runways of the Dae aii,Ironic yesterday and left great fires raging, Prime Minister John Curtin announced today. Allied plane®, believed to include flying fortresses, succeeded in raiding the chief Japanese (rase in the Australian defense zone despite rains which had driven the Japanese back from the (Markham valley and the challenge of Japanese fighter

craft.

In their march into the Markham valley, the Japanese had sought new air bases to disperse their planes and evade such raids as that today, which had smashed dozens of their best fighters an t itoombers aground. Now they were back on the Huon Gulf, sheltering from the sheet-like rain which had flooded the entii-e

valley.

Port Moresby dispadhes said that the enemy now faced a rainy season, just commencing, which would extend through July and keep the valley, only practicable land route to the vital south coast, under feet of

water.

Experts believed that, if the Japanese had sought to march overland through the valley to Port fCuntiiiiiiMt on I*hkf Two l To Feature Work Of Blind Pianist DIM SY M PHONY' ORCHESTRA WILL PLAY NUMBER BY FORREST GOODENOUGH

What should the head of an average American family do when he realizes that his w fe an I four children are U sing the most important principles of living and are depending upon him U> make Lie means whereby they may enjoy society? Should a mother mast that her children be allowi 1 to live as they please or should she perm t them to wrok for a living ’ Si arid the son marry without a j< b to support himself and his wife and expect to live

with his parents?

These questions are pr> nted aaid answered in a very interesting way by the Senior class of Baimbrldge in their play, “New Fires,” to be presented Friday, April ,'irri. This class last year presented ' Life Begins at Sixteen,” a play that reeived much

favorable comment.

Dale Baker plays the part of the father with Mavis Huffman as ins wife. The children are Gerald Proctor, Pauline Fuller, Thelma Jean Rissler, and Dale Williams. Betty Bran is the daughter-in-law. They all come to an inherited Missouri farm; the father to further Iris writing, the rest of tire family for a pleasure jaunt. An ultimatum is issued that all must work for a living. The elder daughter and wife rebel but fate in the fonn of searlet fever intervenes to keep them on the farm until all have gained a saner point of view. They are materially aided by the country doctor played by Eugene McFarland. The farm hands, W.llard Scobee and Paul Wayne Tate, and the housekeepers, Vera Heaney and Jean Brothers, add humor and local color to the cast. They are assisted by neighbors Maxine Stultz, Norma Jean Valentine and Mary Jane Koos-

sler.

Tickets a re selling rapidly ami the indications are that a large crowd will see this interesting comedy written by Charles Quimby Burdette. It is the most used and most popular play edited by Row,

Peterson and Company.

PORTLAND Ore., March 31 ((UP) Lew Ayres, the movie star and first prominent American t> refuse to shoulder arms because of religious scruples, sped toward a conscientous objectors camp in Oregon t' lay and said that any other cour.se would cause him "a nightmaie of hypocrisy

and deceit."

Nervous, and as he put it, “emotionally upset," the handsome hero of many a movie epic including Hcllywoc i s first preachment against war, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” boarded the train at a flagstop north of Hollywood last night “The whole thing is almost ton close to me to talk about now,'" he said, pulling his brown tweed coat about his shoulders am. settling down in the tourist sleeper berth for which the .government had paid. Traveling with one other cwiscientious objector, a mechanic from Hollywood, Ayres said that his motives were almost entirely “Religious." He said he believed that his experience in making "all quiet" had had a tremendous effect on his outlook. and added that he would be sincerely sorry if his picture career

had been ruined.

GEN. M'ARTHUR CONFRONTED BY MANY PROBLEMS

IS GETTING UNQUALIFIED COOPERATION OF ALL ALLIED NATIONS, HOWEVER

THREE

MAJOR

PROBLEMS

General Coordination Of I’nitcd Nations Forces Expected To Require Several Weeks

LaFayette L. Porter Gets Commission

here in America, who have been vis-1 j n g hjfr, with escaping from tiie farm ited by poverty or on the battle field anc j Judge Abrams found him guilty, these workers will be found. Elliott insisted that the statute General Chairman Mayhall said against escape from stat< farm ri

applicable only as against those who are sentenced to state farm by the court, and not to him, who was never sentenced to the state farm. The

this week he was very glad to accept this responsibility and that it was his belief that the $1000 being asked for Putnam county will be raised

easily for our state wide service pro- court holds that the matter of pungram every citizen in our county j ishment and place of punishment for

will be called upon to cooperate. Everyone receiving a letter from the general chairman is asked to return

their post card as soon as possible.

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Prof. Chand!

To Leave D’Paim

POPULAR DIRECTOR OF GREAT city choir resigns from MUSIC SCHOOL

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Argo E. Key, of Phyllis Irene Purnell, Howard E. Fox of a »ri Fffie L. Pilant, of

Muncie, and of Anderson Farmers burg, Lewis.

Prof. Wilbur Chandler of the School of Music of DePauw University, has announced his resignation from the faculty. Mr. Chandler has made many warm friends since coming to DePauw University last year. He was instrumental in organizing the large chorus last fall, which finished its work by giving the Messiah just before Christmas and later the same was broadcast over a nationwide net work and received popular acclaim from music lovers throughout the country. Mr. Chandler came to DePauw from Des Moines, Iowa, where he was instructor of voice in the great city high schools. He has not announced his future plans.

offenses is a legislative matter, ani. not for interference by the courts, and that the statutes provide for a transfer of inmates from one institution to another, to authorize the transfer of appellant from the state prison to state farm, as was done. “So likewise the judgment in the present instance shall be considered the same as of the judgment had specifically stated that the defendan was sentenced to the Indiana State Prison, subjeet however, t" be transferred to another penal institution by the Board of Public Welfare, under the power granted said board." So appellant was in effect sentenced to the state farm to be guilty of escape

therefrom.

IS NAMED CAPTAIN IN AIR FORCE; REPORTS FOR DUTY

ON APRIL 13.

LaFayette L. Porter, 600 Ridge Avenue, received orders Tuesday morning from the Adjutant General at Washington, D. C.. to report on April 13, at Mitchell Field, N. Y.. to the Commanding General of the Air

Force, for duty.

Mr. Porter received his commission as a captain last week ami will be in the field service of the Air Force, thus relieving some younger men for

combat service.

The Air Force, which is one of the most rapidly expanding forces of the nation, is recruiting old men, those over 31 years of age, for this form of duty and Mr, Porter is the first to he accepted in this community. Mrs. Porter announced that she will continue to make Greeneastle her home. Mr. Porter is a veteran of the first World War. having spent some time in France during his service, but this commission in the air force will

be new work for him. Revised Policy

The senior class of Belle Union C/xh Cal/A^tiNAr high school wishes to announce its! I III JwICLIlCj play entitled “Bolts and Nuts" which will be presented in the high school ANNOUNCED BA INDIANA DIKgymnasium, Thursday and Friday j K( Toli As TO 0( , , pATIONnights, April 2 and 3, at 8:00 o’clock. ! A , CLASSIFICATIONS

The synopsis is as follows:

When the masterful Miss Rebecca | inDIANAIPOLJS. Ind. March 31 Bolt, whose hobby is psychoanalysis, ^ revised policy with regard to oeinherits a spooky old mansion from C upational classifications was an-

Plana were being made to rotui n the body of Mrs. William J. Snider to Brazil from Shanghai, China where she was accidentally killed by a shot intended for a high Jap ofi-

oial.

John H. Alice home because of

is confined illness.

When the DePauw Symphony Orchestra ptesents its second concert of the year tomorrow night in Meharry Hall, it will feature a student written student arranged coni|H>sition for the first time in its history. Forrest Goodenough, blind pianist and senior in the School of Music, will be the feature artist when his own “Concerto Piece for Piano and Orchestra" is played by the orches-

tra.

Mr. Goodenough has been totally blind since the age of five. He has worked his way through the Music School by keeping in tune the university's seventy-odd pianos an I those of sundry townspeople. After his first week in Grecncastle, he knew his way around. Since then he has been able to go wherever he wishes without the aid of cane or companion. He lives in Florence Hall and can find his way to and from classes, downtown, or wherever he chooses to go. He says that he can hear his way around by the echo ofhis heels on the pavement. By the sound of his own footsteps he can hear the whereabouts of curbs, stairs, or any obstacle that gets in

his way.

Mr. Goodenough has presented several piano concerts in Indianapolis and only last Sunday played his “Concerto" when the DePauw Symphony Orchestra made its api>earance in the Indiana university audl-.

torium.

The “Concerto," completed In January, was written at the insistence of Mme. Yvonne Druian, young

to his cemcert pianist who recently made

her debut in New York's Town Hall

an eccentric brother, she turns it into a sanitarium for patients, with phobias and nervous diseases, much to the dismay of her niece Benita. Whereupon the nuts start pouring in, and the fun begins in earnest.. Lutie Spinks, the man-hating maid, has a nervous habit of winking that gets her into trouble with flirtatious men patients. Gertie Glossop has a contagion-phobia. Cadwalleder Clippy has a cat-phobia and is frightened nearly out of his wits by the pet cat of malicious little Wilbur, a problem child. Prunella Kigg suffers from caustro-iphobia, Martha Grubb, the cook, fairly w’allows in melancholy, and Plunkett, the foxy family lawyer, develops a persecution complex. Even Twink Starr, Bonita's young fiance, whose suit is tabooed by Rebecca, joins the company of nuts in disguise, parading an acute case of

delusions of grandeur.

Hilarious situations develop with arrival of Dr. Hippocrates Joy. a ■synthetic psychiatrist, who undertakes to the cure the patients. Complications multiply as Rebecca searches for her deceased brother’s money, which he has left hidden about the house, providing in a freak will that a portion of it is to go to anyone who happens to find it. It soon becomes apparent that most of the patients are faking their various phobias in order to search for it. Its

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LAST KITES HELD TODAY

FOR JESSE M. JONES

Funeral services for Jesse M. Jones, well known local resident, who died Sunday, were held Tuesday afternoon from the Brick Chapel Methodist church, in charge of the Rev. F. O. Fraley. Burial was in the Brick Ohapel cemetery

nounced today by Col. Robins n Hitchcock, state director of Selective Service. “Conforming with a similar change in national policy,” he said, "instructions wall soon be sect to all Indiana local boards, requiring them 'to review carefully all occupational classifications so that manpower may be allocated among the armed foices, civilian activities necessary to war production, and other civilian activities essential to the support of the war effort. laical Ixoards, thru the process ot classification, must help direct men into those channels of activity when the nation at war will best be serv-

ed."

Col. Hitchcock pointed out that no substantial change has been made in the Selective Service law or regulations, but stressed the fact that men and materials must be drawn froan all nonessontial activities and directed in increasing numbers and amounts to the use of the armed forces, to war production, and to other efforts which support the prosecution of the war. "Many of the benefits, conveniences and comforts which the people of this nation enjoyed in peace ime must nessarily be given up in the national interest. Only those civilian activities which actually advance the cause of our war can now be accoided the protection of occupational deferment from military service. We must clarify our definition of What contributes to the national health, safety and interest, and this new interpretation will require a more careful consideration of the essential activity in which a registrant is engaged, the occupation-he holds within that activity, and the need for that particular registrant

GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, March 31.— (UP) Gen Douglas MacArthur is getting the unqualified cooperation of all United Nations officials and services nut still faces perplexing problems in forming a supreme command for a major offensive. The mountain of detail involved in preparing for defense of Australia and an eventual offensive against the Japanese cannot be eliminated in a day although the work is being speeded. But in addition there are three major problems that must be solved to achieve complete unity and authority: 1 Mac Arthur’s command does not govern allied naval forces. So far, this has not been important but it will be most essential that naval strategy be closely integrated with other operations in the offensive which MacArthur envisages. 2 The now separate organization of Uie Royal Australian Air Force must be integrated with American air forces, which are a part of the army. Some high Australian and American air officials have said that they were frankly uncertain how the integration of widely (scattered and diverse organizations can be achiev-

ed.

3 -There is considerable confusion as to the extent to which MacArthur might countermand or supersede orders of the allied governments and

forces.

Tnese problems admittedly arc serious ones in the United Nations effort to match the axis system of complete centralized and unified command for swift, smashing operations, but it is felt here that they will be solved. One bright spot is the reorganization of the Australian forces with greater responsibility for the tough, hard-hitting veterans brought home from Libya and other foreign battlefields. They are being regrouped and distributed throughout the Australian forces, weaving experience and ability into the allied set-up. Many younger overseas officers are being promoted. The old Australian military lioard is being dissolved to simplify the strategic command and one member of the board may join the Pacific war council at Washington. Others will be department heads. Until the general coordination of the United Nations forces under MacArthur is completed, probably several weeks hence, the veteran Anzac forces will hold a major share of responsibility for defense of Aus-

tralia.

Organization of the battle plan for Australia, based on a belief that the Japanese may hurl their might against the country's northern bases within two or three weeks, will tie studied by the allied leaders and meetings of the Australian war cabinet and war council ttiis week. A complete reorganization of the various commands of Australia's own land fore' s under Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney, commander-in •chief of the United Nations land forces, will be discussed. The discussions among MacArthur. Blarney an 1 Lieut. Gen. George H. Brett, deputy upreme commander of the Uniri I Nations under MacArthur, were said to he proceeding in “the most cordial manner.” Blarney will have command of the

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