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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - August 22, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaIn Wrath i Cloudy Ano �a1imi i 0 the daily Banner �1 i 1 air. The Home new s United Tess ski vice 0tttg it Waves for All a a plume forty seven gee Castle Indiana tuesday Al do St a a a a a a. N Ltd. Jilt w treaty affects All world Powers 1 to England to i k Lead to allies on foreign polio recall 1official Kush plans fur aranl.,in citizens in i event of War pkg. 22 i it tin decided today i it muh Mimi in extra is .s.si,a the grave Eun it a hear the governing its pro-1 a no cent on it. Tar a Walji Ion Don aug. 22 up i the 4ish Cabinet assembled today to aider a world situation changed i Denly and fundamentally by a 351 1 a announcement that Germany us Al in Koi la involved is. Ai re to bulk rec k a car in which or. And mrs. James Tucker i i or. And . Albert Clark of i a a Castle and a or. And mis. Pei Kins of Indianapolis we e i ung a j involved in a wreck with a truck near Effingham. In. Sunday evening when the Paity was a Roule Home after visiting in Illinois. The car was badly wrecked and mrs. Pucker who suffered several broken ribs was returned to her Home on Indiana Street Road in an ambulance mrs. Clarke was also slightly injured. Other occupants of the automobile were uninjured it was said. Budget was presented at Council meet Al Nekam. To be conducted wednesday 1. M. Only three of the five members were Able to he present monday St i soviet Russia had agreed to conic r. Non Agar Casio Quot treaty. Sen. Mead Speaks to postal jerks praised department As a pointing the xxx to Indi str Sanction building permits moved adoption of ordinance putting budget and proposed tax levies into effect lr0t�a he Shock and bewilderment which announcement caused Here wer a throughout Europe and Oug Hout the world t was up to great Britain the key a Dijon in an anti aggression bloc med to oppose German italian a Isio ism to give a Lead to its Al 1x1 1 an a Polis ind. Aug. 22. I up u. S. Sen. James Mead of new York praised the postal department last night As a pointing the Way to Industry Quot through its regulations for additional employment and tor wages and hours in an address to the National convention of Post office clerks Here. The senator pointed out that he did not wish to inject politics into a a the meeting but asked a third term France Poland Rumania an 1 u t and to face the possibility cat it would have to reorient its in "1 foreign policy. A tie proposed non aggression a element was announced late last to in Berlin and Moscow while and French military missions were actually negotiating Russia for her Entrance into a alliances against Germany a within 12 hour there had web throughout the its a a a Vei amp 0mi Ilic Lim the cd the led ii troops were i i d Ltd and a Western Frontier and pole a rifled St development thu v could have dreamed of though of the rings from inspired Ltd Urc a ast week end that Danzig the polis1 corridor and Lish e Tarta met but brought to a Poland s position \ Ess for the moment but nations Oug Hout Europe and Asia and to Esser extent in Africa and North 1 South America saw the develop it As one which might affect pm. In the other Side of the Globe Jai showed plainly that the German Solan announcement was regarded a smashing blow against hers. For persons who believe in higher wages Shorter hours recent working hours and conditions and who favor using Modem machinery As an Aid and not letting it control the Post office. Mead said is showing a if private Enterprise could equal its record there would be no employment problem he claimed. Mead also expressed fear a lest we elect men who will balance the budget before the budgets of the workers of americans arc another United states senator Patrick a. Mccarran of Nevada will let a principal speaker today. Man stages Brief sit Down strike 3aris, aug. 22 up Franco fan calling army specialists to the ors today As government leaders red urgent consultations with Ancess allies on the announcement it Germany and Russia were Nego ting a non a Gressi i pact foreign minister Georges Bonnett ranged to Telephone to London to t the views of the British govern int As soon As he reached his offi consultations were started with land through the polish embassy re and the French embassy at a saw. \ special report was ordered from i French military Mission in mos and from the French pm Basso re on the Chance of salvaging nettling from the French British gotta tons to bring rus a i to aggression Alliance e it. Wayne ind., aug. 22. Up John Clayton. 40. Staged a Brief. Sit Down strike on a roof top he relate yesterday in Defiance of a Benc warrent. But it was to no Avail. Heeded his resistance when the arresting officer called in the Aid of the fire department la Ider truck. Clayton was arrested several weeks ago for fishing in a private Lake and sentenced to spend his weekends in jail for a few weeks. Last weekend was to have been his last but he did t show up Deputy sheriff Robert Bledsoe called at Clayton a Home but evaded him and slipped Cut the cellar window. Taking up th.1 Trail Bledsoe located him a Short time later on a nearby roof top. When that fire department persuaded him to conic Down he made a third Bolt to Freedom and was quickly captured. In court today a charge of resisting an officer was continued until Friday. The Greencastle City Council consisting normally of five members transacted it important business Monda it. Vening with but three members present. Councilmen Neal and Stoner being on their vacations. Of the three i remaining members councilman Welch was delayed somewhat in his arrival by the unique but pleasant experience of serving soft drinks at his place of business of sixty Young folks members of r. Lafayette american legion juvenile band who paused in Green Castle that morning on their Way to tile state convention at Bloomington and paused again in the evening on their Way Home. When they arrived Here in the evening they were exceedingly thirsty they said and their director Hail to pay attention to their pitiful condition. He paid for the sixty cokes but took a receipt for the Cost and hoped to be reimbursed somewhere and sometime to said. Councilmen Welch Starr Ami Ensign comprised the City a legislative body for the evening with mayor w. L James presiding. City clerk treasurer Paul Grimes and City attorney Marshall d Abrams it hand also. On the outskirts of the meeting. So to speak were City chief of police Edward Maddox fire chief Harry Ragsdale and a newspaper Man. All of them Alert to catch anything of interest to them. The claim ordinance presented by councilman Ensign carried an item of $60 for a new Battery for the big fire truck. It is super sort of Battery. Required for the heavy service demanded by the operation of the truck. A number of building permits were sanctioned including a permit for Jos. Todd to erect a residence in Northwood to Cost an estimated $4.750. It is to be on Hillsdale ave no \ the Burget of estimated expenditures for the City during the year 1940 was presented for approval by chairman Ensign of the finance committee and he moved the adoption of an ordinance putting the budget and proposed tax levies into effect for the coming Calendar year. The motion was seconded by Council-1 funeral services for mrs. Maty Brumley wife of Samuel Brumley who died sunday Midnight at her Home on South Bloomington Stree will be held wednesday afternoon at 2 30 o clock from the Shannon funeral Home. The Rev. H. C. Fellers of the first Christian Church will officiate. Interment will be made in Forest Hill cemetery pall bearers will be Paul Len Burgei Hill Smith Roy Craver Arthur Greenlee and William Greenlee. Ascension to court House Book gives Beautiful View of country expect debate Over proposal t ills for sponsorship of to legion Constitution Bloomington ind. Aug. 22. I up heated debate was anticipated today Over a proposal reported to be in committee calling for american legion sponsorship of an amendment to the legion Constitution As delegates to the 21st annual convention swung into their final business session. The proposed amendment according to usually reliable informants would make All appointive offices of the Indiana department of the legion permanent. Details on the proposal were not available at once. A close race for the office of state commander was expected Between George Hish of East Chicago and Ray Townsley of Danville in the annual election. Both Camps were confident of Early Victory. Among the resolutions expected to come before the delegates for adoption was one which would pledge legion support to a movement to purge Indiana elections of dishonest 1 and corrupt influences Ami practices t the Resolution was sponsored by the Funkhouser Post of Evansville larg a est Post in the state yesterday the legion climaxed its i a convention with the enactment of its memorial pageant and Parade before what waa believed to be the largest j crowd Ever to witness an event in a Bloomington. J thousands of Pem it is lined thi streets and watch d from windows of buildings As other thousands of legionnaires and their families March d a mile and a half to Indiana uni-1 ver itys memorial stud Lum to pay tribute to the unknown Soldier. An estimated 12.000 watched the rites at the stadium. All but the ninth District commanders were announced after elections Ai follows George Hochbaum of Crown Point. First District Louis Kern of North Judson second District Roy Vance of Elkhart third District. Vincent an ascension to the roof of the court House of Putnam county was made today by a Banner reporter seeking something new the visit up a the e being made just at this time because of the roof work being done by Fred Wiliams who has the contract from the county for the Job. Entrance to the roof starts from the fourth floor of the building by Way of a Steep Little stairway leading up from the detention cell. It is not necessary to be an inmate of the be 1 to get onto the stairs nor can a prisoner in the Ceu reach the stairs but the foot of the Steps Are in the Little floor area adjoining the cell room. As soon As the reporter reached the floor of the attic of the building an impassioned female voice was heard calling for help from some villain. But no female was up there and the voice came from the radio located in the elevator Cage which runs to the third floor of the building and the sounds produced by the radio ascended easily up the elevator Shaft. The machinery by Means of which the elevator is operated is on the attic floor immediately Over the Shaft. The exit from the attic to the roof is by Way of a Short ladder to a trap door in the roof. The roof is. Of the same area As the ground space occupied by the courthouse but seems much Large because the roof is so nearly Flat that it seems to extend farther than the ground floor of the building. The principle aesthetic purpose i seeking the roof is to see the Beautiful View from it. The face of the Earth toward the East and South from the court House is limited to Range because of the Altitude of the ground Anil screen of tree forage but at least three fourths of the encircling horizon is much farther away the views toward the Southwest West North and Northeast being particularly Fine. It All emphasizes the fact that Green cast be is almost surrounded by the sunken lands adjoining big Walnut school Levy Mill remain at rate or. Roston is limits Oil Xii Eutivi s i Ems i is to 8h01i finn it Tai. It i Al Ity k which describe a three fourths itt t is i in i d Indice of strength of school Siruc Ture in mount of Law sol Val nation rack of 1 lipid local school officials Unno unc their budget for 1940 by publication in today a Issue. Although the Gro s budget Calls for u slight increase Over last , the net amount to be raised by local taxation is in Ducor. The change however is not reports robbed jailed let Ems Circle around the town. At this Timo of the year the Green tones of the foliage of Woods and Fields is especially love and when Indian summer conies the Green gives Way to the variegated tints of that season. Or. Williams work is insuring tie roof against further leaking. There has been trouble from crevices in the Dona which is mostly Glass and he has heavily daubed the joints in it i Chili Guetl in la mtg two firemen discover Ince liar Torch \ also in is Iii i of till. I a sight Mutai Rukin in. Comi an x Man Welch and was approved by the f it it Cater fourth la tract Council. Also introduced by chair a . Mcdani t,8 of Dunkirk fifth District Carl Wilson of Rockville. Sixth District Oscar Miles of . Seventh District Clarence u. Or. it. Bridges i i in new York City word has been received Here of the death of or. Milton c. Bridges an eminent physician of new into an City on August Lith or. Bridges waa a son of the late or. Arlandez bldg jes of new York City and the grand Washington aug. 22 up a son of Milton a Bridges facials were Uncertain today wha a Well known citizen of Putnam county. The widow two sons und a brother survive him. Ult a soviet German Noii Aggro a agreement would have on eur Oan peace and they rushed plans a evacuating american citizens in Cut of War. Authorities estimated that there approximately 100. Too citizens the countries Likely to he involved a any War. This include. 75.0 h i i at residing in tin principal Dropman countries. Till others Are a deportment Ollie a und the legation and consulates tie potential belligerent nations far have refrained from advising to leave. Two principal government involved in preparing plans evacuation of nationals Are the department and the. Near item Mission. Confers Between air officials have Bee. Pie Dur in the past 48 hours As news from rope became increasingly g. Details of the m plans re not divulged but it was under a Odd that they would g it into effect Tomat Caily upon the outbreak of a. Officials expressed Hope dial , e still might Avert War. News tha. A. R Nanny and soviet Russia would r lc-r1 i r Ouli Mied on pm a pc hot a fill called the City fire department was called to East Anderson Street Early this afternoon where a fire under the Hood of Lawrence Crawley a service truck was causing damage. The firemen used the a a boosters in extinguishing the Blaze. It originated it was thought from a Back fire at the Carburettor. M0ag trial is postponed a week a newspaper dispatch from Craw a Ortis Vullo last night stated a Atria of j Cameron Moag new York in it Chicago broker on a charge of being an accessory in Mak Man Ensign and put before the Council by him in a motion seconded 1 by councilman Welch was an ordinance fixing the pay of members of the City fire department and police department for 1940. This ordinance also was adopted by the Council. These ordinances were pre a pared by City attorney Abrams. The budget whose outstanding i features have been set out in the i daily Banner is based upon a valuation in the City for taxing purposes which is $15.000 less than the valuation upon which the 1939 budget was based hut there is nevertheless a net decrease of one cent in the City tax Levy. The valuation this year is $3,575,081. Then were some other changes in the amounts in funds hut. Generally speaking the new budget is very much like the budget in effect this year it will go to the county tax Board for approval. Next month. The levies proposed for the City and the amounts to be raised by those levies arc As follows general fund Levy $ .75 on each one Hundred dollars of valuation to produce $26,685. Park fund Levy $ .065 to pro Duce $2,329. Airport fund Levy $. 01. To produce $329. Bond fund Levy $ 035. To pro Duoc $1.220.50. Total tax rate. $ .86. To produce $30,602.50. There Are 85$ polls in the City taxed at $1 each. The total amounts of taxes collected in past years As shown on the Quot comparative statement of taxes collected Ami to be collected on the Belvidere 111 aug. 22 up sheriff Perry Bennett announced today that he had jailed Harry s. Fisher 53, Indiana Metal refiner who had reported that he was robbed of $10,000 in Cash last night by two men and a a drug crazed Fisher is the head of the Fisher Metal refining company of Valparaiso ind. He told sheriff Perry Hen Nett that the men and woman had lured him into Illinois on a pretend of Selling him two carloads of scrap brass and Copper and robbed him last night on a Highway two Miles East of Belvidere. He said the robbers threw away the keys to his automobile Anil sped toward Chicago in an automobile bearing Ohio License plates. He said he received a Telephone Call last week at Valparaiso from a a smooth talking business Many who identified himself of Hen Wolf of Cleveland. The caller. Fisher said to a him lie knew a Man who would sc11 him tiie scrap Metal for $10.000 Cash. He said he met Wolf at Valparaiso and agreed to meet him yesterday at a hotel in Rockford �?T411., 11 Miles West of Belvidere. He said in withdrew $7,000 from the Valparaiso state Hank obtained $3 000 in assorted Hills from his wife and drove to Rockford yesterday enough to affect the Levy which will App Moxim it Lex 1 h in ants of South Side building saved remain at .82. One of the lowest City school levies in Indiana the Library budget which is also advertised in today s Issue was reduced to the Point where the Levy was lowered from .07 to .06. Or. Boston superintendent submits some comparative statistics to show that the Greencastle school corporation is among the few top cities in the state with respect to its financial capacity to support Public education. For instance one of the la St indices of the strength of a corporation s school financial Structure is the amount of assessed valuation Hack of each enrolled Pupil. The table below shows How Green Castle ranks at the top of 15 comparable Indiana cities on this measure of financial capacity. The 1939 school levies arc also Given Gramelspache of , eight i afternoon the 7.000. Or said was District Joseph Iva Ehl of Conners i wrapped in 14 bundles containing Volle 10th District Ward Starr of. $600 each Anderson 11th District Ray girder it Ltd not Wolfe and his two Eom of Indianapolis 12th District. I pm nylons at the hotel he said and resolutions adopted by delegates a tolf introduced the woman As his yesterday included a Pica for Tower i wife and the Man us the owner of acc in political and religious prac ill it scrap Metal times proper display of the american j 1 Flag sponsorship by the legion of a a crime prevention week in All Indiana schools and raising of a fund by contribution from which War Ami Post War orphans might borrow to obtain a Colleg education. Chicago aug. 22 up approximately 100 tenants of a South site apartment building were saved by seconds from death or injury today when firemen discovered in the basement an incendiary layout and timing fuse which if ignited they said Quot would have blown the entire building a a it was the worst incendiary Torch i have seen in 35 years in the fore marshal Thomas Gaffney said. A it was an act of god that it waa discovered in time if it had been ignited every one m the building would have been trapped and a he praised mrs. M g Rice a tenant. For alertness and summoning janitor and policeman when she detected a Gas odor in her apartment the building a four Story Brick Structure containing 21 apartments is located in one of the South sides busiest districts. Mrs Rice detected the Gas odor at Dawn. She summoned William Bassetta janitor and policeman Hugh Mcnulty. They traced the odor to i tavern on the South Side of the building and summoned firemen. City use Snow Val. 1939 in r liar. I pull sell 1 a Sgroe Castle $5,013.00 s Al 1 Connersville 4.900.00 .00 Crawfordsville 4,820.00 1.57 Franklin 4,022.00 .93 Rush Villa 3,740.00 1.20 Valparaiso 3,420.00 1 15 id non 3,340.00 1.05 Hobart 3.1 10 00 l 6 Eton 3 190 00 1.14 Madison 3,130 03 1.10 Washington 2,010.00 1.31 Bluffton 2,625.00 1.40 Brazil 2.070 00 1.60 it Vernon 2.330.00 1.55 Clinton 1,750.00 1.65 Bucknell 1,430.00 1.07 i ionic for children at Park thursday Bloomington ind. Aug. 22. Up at least two persons were in serious condition today and several others ill from Tomaine poisoning with which they were stricken yesterday it the u Gion convention Here. 20 years ago in greenca8tle ing $632.886 false entries in books present budget Are 1936. $31.727.81 1937, $31.410.39 1938, $34.947.90 1939 $31.585.30. These amounts arc in contrast with the $30.602.50 Esti of the Tippecanoe loan and Trust company of Lafayette four years ago was postponed or.2 week by special judge Howard Hancock in mated collections for 1940. Montgomery circuit court today. A postponement was granted on re-1 quest of the state when Addison k Sills of Lafayette special prosecutor was unable to be c circuit court note Loran h. Griggs has been appointed administrator of the estate of Virgil Neler deceased. Mrs. Elmer and two children were visiting in Indianapolis. Glendon Rightsell was named one of the Grade teachers in the reels Ville school. Harold Knoll Leon Welch Glen Cook an i Bernard Handy drove to Bainbridge in the Handy car for th1? band concert. Estes Duncan of Cloverdale bought an Auburn five passenger Francis Moran returned Home from the army. Most of his time was spent in the Panama canal zone. Mrs. James and miss Thelma Koessler returned from a visit with or. And mrs. Harold Burks at air Ltd. Ohio mrs. James Hamilton went to Virginia for an extensive visit with Rel i natives. The suggested that we drive around Rockford for a while before winding up the Deal at Belvidere where the Metal was supposed to be a he said Quot we went in my Coupe. The second Man drove i sat in the Middle and the woman sat on Wolf slap. I noticed that we passed through Clinton wis., and suggested that we turn toward Belvidere. A the drivel did a Fisher continued a but he passed through Belvidere and while we were still Riding the woman pulled a Small revolver from her Purs and pointed it it he said Wolf took the Money and in handed a Diamond ring he had seen 011 Fishers Finger last week. Fisher said he had left the ring it Home. A then they threw away the keys to my car and got into the one with Ohio plates. I believe it had been following us. The last i saw of them was when the woman shouted to somebody in the automobile to a Swap the a he said to walked a mile to a tavern to summon help. Sheriff Bennett picked him up it the tavern and i brought him to Belvidere for questioning. Robe Ann Park will he the seen1 of a picnic for All the playgroup 1 youngsters at 12 30 thursday afternoon. The picnic Wall be sponsored by the Greencastle recreational committee and there will be supervised fun and frolic for All the children attending. As a feature of the picnic there will be a Derby with the cars classified according to Type a there will ix1 an award of Ribbens to the Winner of first and second place in each of the types. This will make one of the last outings in the recreational p and it is anticipated that a Large Crow i will attend. Each child will provide his or her own food. Mrs. Stuckey is prosecuting witness mrs. Agnes Stuckey of Green Castle owner of the grim at 1. 1 River Falls is the tim witness in suits filed in the Owen Cir cult court against Don in l Hurst Margaret Hurst and Frank Marshall charge i with Trespa dug the in Vav Law paste i by the la t session of the general Assembly p. Vides that trespassing can be enforced by Farmers if they Post Gus at entrances to licit properly sign do not have to be Podrid Ever when along the Boundary or at certain intervals a according to the Law. Which stipulates Only the sign at the main Entrance. The Law further states that p sons found guilty of trespass hould be fined not less than $5 nor Inore than $50 and that an and Liti n a tence of six months 4.n the county jail might h added by the judge. Convictions under the View Law were secured in Justice of la Pence Robert Newgent s court Hen. Day but the cases filed by or it Stuckey Are the first a 1h.1t Natur in th1 Owen county n Urt. Notice to. C. the department of Public welfare of county bus been designated As the selecting Agency of Putnam county for c. C. C. Enrollees. Those wishing information As to qualifications etc., please Call at the Putnam county office n w. Corner 3rd floor of the court House. Applications for the october enrolment arc now being taken. Recommendation is considered suggest Steps taken to leg Ali a hospitalization in 81 Kance plans Indianapolis ind., aug. 22 up gov. M Clifford Townsend today considered a recommendation by a special study committee tha Steps be taken by the 1941 legislature to legalize organization of group hospitalization insurance plans. The group headed by Earl c. Wolf president of the Indiana Hospital association. Was organized to determine whether or not such insurance was Legal at present. In its report submitted yesterday it indicated that the legality of this particular Type of group insurance was in doubt. The report recommended that 110 further action be taken on the matter until the 1941 legislature convenes. Lot m l it let i. I l to consider id the members of the Putnam county Council nut this Forenoon in the county commissioners room in the court House to consider requests pm transfers of balances in some of the. County funds to other funds to facilitate the work in some of the de part men to. the Road department. O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 today a weather 0 0 and 0 0 local temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 partly Cloudy mesday warm i minimum a a. M. A 7 it. M. 8 u. M. C a. M. 10 a. M. 11 a. A. A a 12 noon 1 p. M. 2 p. A. Tonight to tiit and vied 54 56 62 69 77 79 80 80

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