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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - April 21, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA 0 a the weather Peru j and Cool a the daily banned _ a it Waves for ally 8 1 United press service Aix the Home news v la my forty seven . Friday Al Kii. �?~21, 1. No. 160 in a >01 a Stoke i space is doubled Al Light company m port Lar furniture it a i e Spac e Grade i pies perform Toltl Dpi ays be now ample a Lyrl. Fir-1 i Loor is flyer it it tins in Lay from Street devoted visible to Vork of c i lagging the floor Spac Jajor in link amp company store j compl-1 Ion today. Or the it t ten Days workmen been working at top Speed in line to floor space of the pop a local furniture stye. The spacer Mit Vail Able by the removal inc Northern Indiana Power com a offic from the North Side of Hanm building on South Indiana cd to new Headquarters on South or Street partition separating the l from the Power company a for a office h is been removed thus a Irv the furniture store to of the Vii tire building. In Addi i to the a floor space the win i Spac. Has been doubled. It is Possi Hii for passersby to View entire spacious display room the front windows and at a a visualize the extent of the de merchandise Ili splayed. In Illard Sunkel manager issued invitation to the shopping Public trading area to visit the in Stop and see the vast Chang made a Small amount of redec-1 ting touching up some spots left ire Movin the partition remains to done l it or. Sunkel added that a w re would not interfere with visitors. He infused display room makes Isible for the store to attractive a arrange its displays of living m furniture lounge chairs floor desks dining room suites and Cial groupings of colonial Furni in solid Maple solid Cherry id Walnut and solid mahogany. On first floor too there Are special Lart ment for radios. And electric Range Aud a a Yete display. The office has been of to the Center of the first floor. Mezzanine has been turned r to the drapery department also this floor Are occasional chairs tables lamps and other Misccl-nh18 pieces of furniture. The Sec floor includes special room Dis is the bedding department rugs a link us and occasional furnish to a basement floor displays rang and stoves Kitchen cab 5 an its. Coal and Wood ranges d Coal Heaters. R 1 used space has been need by tip Horace link amp company n Foi a veral years to meet the r Ian it display requirements and the iving Public a clearer Pic of t hot extensive line of Mer Randise stocked by the popular fifth and sixth Grade pupils from the Greencastle school it entertained at Depauw Chapel Friday w the a program of piano solos and two part singing All of which was thoroughly enjoyed by the interested audience. Miss Leah cum Utt directed the group. Ben Rockhill opened the program playing two piano solos a Planta to on spiritual and Quot my by Bach. The other soloist was Marian Green Leaf Pupil of professor Kolling. Marian played Quot venetian boat among the songs. Quot All through the night Quot was especially enjoy 1. The Solo parts were Sung by Charles Bamberger and Tommy Bittles. Other numbers were Quot come thou almighty service on sunday Tobe on m. E. Uniting Indianapolis livestock hog receipts 7,501. Holdover 101 Market steady to i cents higher extreme top $7.25 for Load Choice 173 la. Weights sows steady Hulk $6-$6.50, few $6.65 160-300 is. $6.95 -$7.20 00-400 lbs. $6.65-$6.85 100 special services to be con 160 lbs $6.40-$7. Ducted by pastor. Rev. Cattle 400. Calves 600 steady my Clure i cleanup Trade run mostly comprised a of medium Grade Western Stock All methodism interested to i and heifers it $0.75. Veales weak extreme top $10.50. Special citing conference to held next week at Kansas Clov be sheep 500 2 double decks of goo 1 85 la. All shorn lambs steady at $ .60 other classes absent Quot the methodist Are one people will be the subject of Rev. Claude m Mcclure a address at Gobin memory j King l., me with Gladsome j my methodist Church sunday. April Quot Quot 23 at the 10 40 morning worship ser m Ndu Quot who has seen the wind Quot where got hath crawfish coming up for fresh in too much rainfall recently has stopped farm work the crawfish have begun tunnelling from their subterranean retreats up to the surface of the ground to get a. Breath of air. Although they can live some time under water by breathing the air imprisoned under their shells they have a limit and the late Rains have so saturated the soil that these crustaceans have a stomach full of water veritably speaking. They leak water when they step out on the surface of the ground. Sixty five hundredths of an Inch of Rainwater fell on the surface of the ground in the Vicinity of Greencastle. Last night which added to the Rainwater already to top and under the surface made More than we really need just now. Farmers say. Next summer they say. They will need what is running away in waste form now. Blowing for Corn has been stopped by the Rains some of the Oats ground shows a Green color fro the sprouting of the seed planted but some other contemplated Oats planting has not yet been finished with the this morning for a Cloudy Day. Today the cloudiness tomorrow there is a Good Outlook for additional rainfall. For May be t Hird term candidate vice. Rev. Frank o. Fraley of the Northwest Indiana conference will Oft. R the morning prayer and Paul Sartorio of new York City will read the scripture lesson music for the special service will be provided by or. Van Denman Thompson and the University Church choir. In View of the fact sunday is just three Days before the great uniting conference in Kansas City uniting eight million methodists members of three Independent branches of methodism this great service should he heard by every member and Friend of Gobin memorial methodist Church. The address will be based primarily upon or. Paul Neff Garbers 1939 Book entitled a methodists Are one or. Garber is professor of Church history and registrar of the school of religion at Duke University. Along with extended research in methodist history he has assembled at Duke University an outstanding collection of methodist records. He is vice president of the association of methodist historical societies and was chosen a Delegate from his own Western North Carolina conference to the uniting conference in Kansas City. His Book is the moving Story of separation and reunion in american methodism from the Christmas conference of 1784 up to the uniting conference of 1939. Without Bias or reproach or. Garber presents the historical social economic and religious causes leading to Many schisms and divisions of Early Days and the subsequent dark years of bitterness and strife. But since 1870 the trend has Ever been toward organic Union As closer contacts led to fraternity and federation. Until it was realized that overlapping and rivalry could not be justified and a new generation cried for absolute oneness. Clearly shown Are Kiwan ians in District meeting Iii Asseli. Verm 11 lion Reid resented it b \ i l Fri a i if reels Yigui High school commencement sixteen members of senior class received awards thursday night Rover \ Niman speaker it i ene of with a radiation was its decoration. Fine crowd present politic Al developments in Dic ate another Rac e expected in us i Lilly invite the Public to Jno in sturday or any time that is con. A Ilent and see the new Eft Ere Ini by enlarging the store. I Quot the improvement will to in ran greeted by the shoppers of i to see attractively display Quot Uch Imes As we Stock a or. Rokel said. Oal strike action is due hit to. Of ted to prevent it Oal suffering new York april 21.�? up it e pos. 11. Lity of White House a of incr today As wage hour Nego tors for miners and operators end sixth week of fruitless Ilir Cus Washington. April 21. Up1 political developments indicated today that president Roosevelt might be a third term candidate in 1m0 and almost certainly would Holt any conservative Democrat nominated for president next year. Public utterances of or Roosevelt and his political associates add up to those conclusions. The third term possibility had weekend attention after the president spoke Friday before the pan american Union my at it. Vernon. A. His pan american address was heavy with forebodings and assertions that the Western hemisphere was prepared to defend itself against economics or military attack. At it. Verr in or Roosevelt spoke sympathetically of George Washington a difficult decision when after Long years of service in the cause of the new nation he was recalled from retirement to serve As its first president. Or. Roosevelt sail he believed Washington would have refused the Call if it had been a Normal one. Political observers wondered Wyeth a to prevent a threatened nation-1 or might not have 4� famine of soft Coal appeared a been thinking of himself and the possibility that a real crisis and deep emergency in h<40 would present to him a decision As difficult As that which confronted Washington this time whether to be a third term candidate. Some of i Roosevelt a associates Are thinking that crisis perhaps world War. Might keep him in the White House another four years. Prisoners Dilt members of the Terre haute k j Wanis club thursday night served an hosts for the three other clubs in i the seventh Indiana division of Ki-1 Wanis International. The evenings program starting with a dinner in the Mayflower room of the Terre i haute House and closing with a dance. Hie formal dinner program featured an address by Connor k. Saam of Madison govern Quot of the Indiana District and included reports on activities by the pro dents of the four clubs in the seventh division. Greencastle. Brazil. Bloomington and tire haute. A program it it of entertainment composed of features presented by each club closed tin dinner session the address of Welcome was Given by o. C. Reden Backer president of the Terre haute . Who closed by introducing Verdic d. In wis. Lieutenant governor of the seventh division As Toast Masu r of the evening. Group singing was led by Carl Jones. Donald a. Rogers president of the Bloomington club was Calle i upon for the report of activities a f his club the Brazil club was represented by president a. B. Nees. Russell Vermillion president of the Greencastle club said that h s Clun has been particularly Active in 4-h club work a Vina sponsored a fair and organized a permanent fair Board. It was presented Twenty five awards to 4-h club winners. It also has organized Quot future Farmers of America Quot and has held several Fellowship meetings in nearby communities. The report for the Terre haute club was Given by president Rodin briefly some of the details of kiwanis Charity newsy Day which netted $1.386 for the club child welfare activities. The address Quot of governor Salm entered on the theme of Quot do unto others As though the others were you Quot he said the kiwanis program should stress Quot building better citizenship through More and bettor activities. Quot if every other division in the in Hows the same spirit demonstrated in the reports Here tonight a Sakl the District governor. Quot in Diana will make an excellent record this for the promm of entertainment. Jimmie trim a presided As master 111 ill i v i i of a a Cremoni a i presented fits the i a 1 a feature of thi it Isabelle Black vocal St. And miss Dorothy Kline accompanist. Miss Kline also gave two accordion Solo the varied issues involved the sever is unsuccessful attempts and final Ietna i it of Khvan acceptance o the plan of Union by 1938 in the largest reunion of christians in history. Gives Long eve system Baton Rouge la. April 21 Louisiana welfare officials done to know is Sam Webster. 120-year-old former slave is the nation s oldest Pioneer but they think he stops at figuring out this longevity business. A Uncle same says he got that Way Diana District by a minding my own fire originated in padded it Ell. Prisoners Del from smoke Quot Ith Eastern Industrial supplies finding because of the appalachian. Shutdown and the United mine Akers of America determined to tend the suspension to 21 other quotes a a May 4 if a settlement is reached Federal authorities exited serious concern. A his , Secretary of labor 108 m. Perkins presented the Pohlem to president Roosevelt yes Fri a after receiving a report on stalemate in contract Neotia i Here i Quot hat Steps would be taken was immediately indicated. The presi Vas known to be reluctant to f the picture personally until the c apartment had exhausted its Yurces of conciliation. I s Erkins representatives How r have appear three times be a it Lii it a on Puse two Worchester. Mass. April 21 i up1 fire broke out in the padded cell of Worchester county jail last night and three no n in a cell on the floor below were choked to death by smoke. The occupant of the padded cell was rescued unharmed. Thomas Makla 67. Walter Sumpter 66, Anu Antonio Bosti. 18. A Canadian. Screamed in terror and begged for life before the Smoko choked them. A guard was so blinded by the smoke that he could not quickly find the key to their cell on his ring of keys. The men had collapse. Against the bars which they had gripped in furious and hopeless efforts to escape. They died in route to r. Hospital. John Raskett 30, was taken immediately from the padded cell and suffered no harm. Jail authorities said he had been suffering from delirium Kremens and was sent to a Iii is flip ii i i to -1 1 and i or i i res the sixteen members of the graduating class of the Reelsville High school thursday evening sat under a charmingly constructed ceiling made from old Rose and Silver paper in strips Over the platform at the front of the Large auditorium with them wore their principal Glendon Rightsell the minister who gave the invocation and Benediction the Rev. Dallas Rissler and the speaker of the evening Grover Van Pun. In the front of the audience were seated their teachers in addition to or. Rightsell miss Grace Veatch miss Thelma Neier. Miss Marie Chadwick miss Margaret Aker. Charles Hollins. Everett Miller and the township Trust. Pete Holsapple. I. Hoskins was sponsor of the class during its years in school. The music for the caning was by a Trio from Depauw misses Emily Starr and Kathryn Cubertson and Mai Ion seller. Or Van Pun a a address was Replete with compliments for everything he saw and heard in connection with that Pait of the exercises which had preceded his address. He spoke in fulsome words of the Salut Atory of or Akeis of the Good looks of the graduates of the decorations and of the appearance of the people lie saw before him in the Aud Ince. Or. Van Duyn has been assistant state superintendent of education but resigned last Friday. He will study in Chicago University this summer and go into other work this fall. He is a Good speaker. Miss Veatch one of the teachers in the Reelsville school who sat before him thursday night was a teacher in the Hancock county schools under i i. Van Duyn. Or. Van Duyn dwelt in an interesting Way upon the importance of the business As he termed it of our schools. He said they concern in Indiana some seven Hundred thousand Young folks. If these youths he said were to stand Side by Side in one line that line would stretch across All of Indiana. Ohio Ami West Virginia there would he 650 Miles of children. It would require nine hours to drive past them $3,500.000 is spent annually for clothes for them almost $3,000.000 is spent to buy books for them and for Lead pencils along $3,500 each year is needed. A we Are of Worth to civilization Only As we project the very heat that is in us across time a was the thought around which he built his address. We cannot project our bodies because i hey change every few years. We do not have the same body now that we had ten years ago but our souls Are everlasting and they live on and on to help the world in some on. Of his illustrating stories is of particular interest Here in Greencastle because of the several visits made her by James Whitcomb Riley with whom the Story was concerned and because of the Many friends the Hoof u r poet had Here in the Days of. Ail Iii Nuil Oil 1 Vikt two i Oik i it court notes Alice e. Priest asks divorce and other Relief necessary from Wilbur r. Priest. They were Marr cd june 15. 1920. And separated april 20, 1939. They have two children. 18 and 15 years rid respectively. Failure to provide adequately is one of the causes for divorce Given in the complaint Charles Mcgaughy is attorney for the plaintiff. Lee Wood has been appointed adm Nistra ter of the estate of Mildred s one. Per Sonal property of $1.000 and real of a similar amount Are scheduled Lawrence w. Wood a Nephew of Clarkston s. A. Is named As the closet surviving relative. The Roachdale Bank and Trust company has been appointed admin Strator of the estate of Lucinda a Batman. I ssi v to Aid Britain and France in reserved military Aid said to have been Given by reds Soi r it i in f r o m if sol \ Aid offered is believed to Llave been More Thun Powers had expected i ii a a lit company to Llave opening London april 21.�?<up a Russia has offered great Britain Anil France an unreserved Alliance in which each nation would pledge to use its entire armed forces and All its resources to resist aggression in Europe it was understood today. Maxim Litvinov. Russian foreign commissar made the offer to sir William seeds British ambassador during negotiations at Moscow to bring Russia into the British French a peace front a it was reported. It was said that the offer was rus of s reply to ii British proposal that thl Northern ill Ana Power com Rusl. .xprea8 her willingness to go puny will hoi i open House for their 0 he and of Polana Rumania for ends in their new offices an i head a a they m attached quarters on South Jackson Street All p., yesterday that Brit la saturday and a Nee had offered Runia a j. A. Bamberger Latr tract manager three pow it Mutual assistance a l de that arrangements have b treaty but the proposal was remade to accommodate a Large crowd Portal Here it came from Russia and of visitors an i urged that families a a waa that Urush Cabinet leaders were studying it and planned a Folk is invited to new offices Down town any time sati Drav and friends of Greencastle customers attend the opening. L. B. Schiesz. President of the company inspected the Greencastle office today and was to Rema n for a meeting of i a ploys this evening he was accompanied by a number of company officials from the Genera offices in Indianapolis. Quot i know that i feel and i am sure that All the employees in the g re on cast be office agree that rile new off be Here is a tremendous or. Schiesz declared Quot in appearance modernity and service a celtics it is a real contribution to the business life it it of the a feature of the opening Celebration tomorrow of special interest to Greencastle housewives will be demonstrations of Home appliances by miss Freda Marie Eder the company a Home econ nest. While visitors Dook on. Miss Eder will prepare refreshments that will he served As a special treat during the opening. So ring a Uloa mip time is near i n y w ill ii \ i i by Traisi. Fire hazards to be remo de this is the time of year when that seasonal a disease Quot Spring fever runs its course. One of its More common manifestations is an urge to clean up ones property in order to get rid of Winters accumulation of rubbish both indoors and out. These individual cleanup Cam to consult 1 land and Rumania before replying. Beth Poland and Rumania Are reluctant to accept any formal offer re Sian Aid because thy do not War to antagonize Germany and also because they fear that in any general War in which Russia aided them their own countries would be a Battle ground for German and russian armies. However it seemed increasingly apparent that Russia would soon he a part of the a peace front a pledged to provide Poland and Rumania with War munitions if they asked for them t Cun tinned on in nut two track season opens tomorrow Triangle meet will be held on Field Depauw University will open its 1939 track seas u Here tomorrow with a triangular meet against be i-1 tra. Normal College and Indiana Central College. The s will be Depauw it first Competition since the Butler relays and the tigers first outdoor appearance of the seas n. Weather conditions have handicapped coach C. Buchheit in preparing h s squad for Competition. Depauw s Cees a will hinge largely on George Montooth and Johnny Scott in the dashes Glen Hager and Robert Franke in the Field events and Johnny life in the Broad jump. Several prom sing sophomores will be varsity test include in the hurdles and i sex Vraciu an i James Gipe in the pains Are usually inaugurated for the purpose of improving a Home s Given their first physical appearance but whether the ing Frank Gregg property owner realizes it or not he likewise contributes toward fatten nud lie distance and n Lay ing his pocket Hook inasmuch As s especially weak this year in the they eliminate Many Ordinary and High jump and p v vault having a 11city officials invite cooperation of no Little in the Way it of replacement Wool growers of Putnam county will have the Opportunity of seeing a round moving picture on the or duct Ion and use of Wool from the fleece to garment. This picture will be shown at re sell Vil be High school building Mon-1 Day evening april 24th, at 8 00 o a american clock and at Cloverdale the Folhnv-1 ing a Vong april 25th. And will be sponsored by the Putnam county farm Bureau. This will be a free picture and every Wool grower should make special Effort to attend. 20 y oars a ire in ill Feng Freedom m fress in War Dis us it society of news papers talk of ways to hold Freedom the Complete track schedule follows apr. 22 Indiana Central find cd tial Normal Here apr 26 Indiana state there apr. 29 ear urim. Hero. May 2 Wabash Here. May 5 Beloit relays there. May 6 Ball state there. May 19 Wabash Frosh it Here. May 20 Little state at Ball state. May 25. Butler a Frosh. There. May 27 big state at South Bend. Former l it l no Xibi pkg Hospital under guard. Dili Al Holle. Deputy fire chief Frederick s the school Board bought the lot Louth of the High school building Taylor said the fire was caused by from h. B Longden. To incorporate matches. Sheriff h Oscar Roche it with the school grounds. A from Center Roy a confined to the i Baugh was expected Home front James to go. Age 81 years an Uncle of Call Twigg of this City. Thought a Short circuit was to passed away wednesday at h sub a it was confined to the in Hallen Burg. Or Twigg was a it b it the so a of. Fine to the France where he had served with the former resident of this county hav a us a Kuari was treated for 112th engineers Marion Sears was ing spent practically All his life at ilm action and a fireman was recovering from a sprained ankle f Mcashe and Bainbridge. I homed funeral services will be held sat a and mrs. Robert Pierce moved urday morning at 10 o clock f drunkenness. Bosti was the it. Merrier Church near Hollens Quot a a a. Madonna Thomas Sang a Solo at Makla and Sumpter were serving the Locust Street Ehtor service. Or. Burg with burial cemetery. Uren near nun a ,. In the adjoining awaiting grand jury action 1 charge of larceny. A into the Hall property on Spring ave-1 nut. Washington. April 21. Up the american society of newspaper editors discussed today methods of preserving the Freedom of the press should this country engage in another War. The question shared attention with an a off the record discussion Between president Roosevelt and members of the society at the White House last night. Thomas e. Dewey new York District attorney and sen. Robert a. Taft of Ohio two leading 1940 Republican presidential possibilities will address the editors a off the record tonight. The free press Issue was placed in the for Verc it of the society a annual meeting by Henry Mencken Baltimore editor and critic who said that a general War in which the United states would participate was Likely. He Saul that president Roosevelt would then run for a third term i Cun i in Imp ii on rime two civic groups in a Spring cleanup and beautification Campaign. The plan Calls for the removal of Winters a cumulation of trash and rubbish from private grounds. It. Contemplates a j civic Awakening an appreciation of Beauty and a whole hearted dispose j lion to Aid in a worthy activity. The City will have a sufficient number of trucks to haul away rubbish. You a Are urged to place trash and rubbish a except ashes ii it containers and Call the office phone 595. Linked with the cleanup will he an Effort to make residents of Green Castle More conscious of fire hazards. This fire prevention Angle of City beautification should not be neglect i d. Every year the fire prevention officials Call attention to the removal of such hazards As a help in reducing fire losses. Succorso of Greencastle Quot clean up. Cloudy ton get. Except fair extreme paint up fix up Campaign depends Southwest Ilain extreme tast a fid upon each citizen. J extreme North slightly cooler West. I and South possibly Light local Frost search for is by rive Southwest saturday generally fa5�?o Halifax. N 8 april 21. Up West and South mostly Cloudy North four Canadian War ships searched cast slightly warmer Southwest the Harbor and adjacent Waters to sunday fair and warmer Day for Submarine amp amp amp a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 today a weather 0 and 0 local temperature 0 0 0 0 0 this sea port Northwest of Maine was excited by reports vouched for by Harbor pilots that a submarine or a submarine flotilla of unknown nationality had been in the Harbor Canadian naval officials were taking the reports with apparent Calm and even indicated a disbelief in them but the investigation they were making was thorough. Minimum. C a. M. 7 a. M. R a. M. 9 r. A. 10 a. M. 11 a. M. 12 noon 1 M. 2 p m.43 44 44 44 43 45 44 44 47 47

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