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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - August 24, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaJerito to a Kathke a a a a Cloudy and warm or a a to the daily Banner a a Ltd a 1.1. The Home news United i Tess suck vat it Waves for All a Illume forty seven Green Castine Indiana t1h a slav Akil St i�4, it a a. And. 2 it a go Tovi w Ough m is a Phosy i l it i iad bed of in ii it i Kisun must be i of City adminis i k \ i Lon fund has been i Domdei Maary Street the Kail Are <111 a Dot front tirade from the Street Leel big problem which will fac City administration of Greengas when the service on the Interr line through Greencastle finally ils continued. Will be the earing for area in Seminary and Indiana .lt1,ets occupied by the traction line lurks. N Brazil the problem will be Dlf-1 i ent because the there is on Umi National Road which is a part 7 the state Highway system and the the Highway commission doubt i will accept the Burden of caring a a. Otto Bundy pied name k. Smith wednesday night the bad places left in the Highway Bill Ough Brazil when mooned. The track is of o my key Bundy died Vic does Day night at 10 of clock at the put i Nam county Hospital where he had j been a patient for the past four i weeks. Or. Bundy had spent All of a his in Greencastle and Coates Volle. Survivors Are a Nephew. Walter Thornbrough of ind Ana Polis and a Nece mrs. Russell Vanlandingham. Of it. Olive with whom he Mude his Home. For several years or. Bundy and i brother William Bundy operated r Blacksmith shop in North Green-castl.-. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 of clock from the Shannon funeral Home. Interment will be made in the Coatesville cemetery. Fillmore to have Ann i a Flower is i0w to supervise recreation \ 1101 a taif it to Post m\i1k by a kit of Imp. C. Will coi nt1 new office will be vision of state recreation filler super Anil local Board and jut in Greencastle none cd in on a state Highway erd Aiti Ini i a i mute a Ping where the to us i Street on Seminary. I l. City itself will have the Burden caring for the situation there be no Chance that the receiver for lit Indiana railroads will spend any or Here for that purpose the a a now being ban kept. It a fhe interurban right or Way exile a approximately 4,000 feet on in 1/ninary Street and approximately feet on Indiana measuring from a Wood Street Cross 1 the Hanna intersection on incl a on the South. The right of was Ough the City la the length of the a a which Are eight feet Long so i it the right of Way occupies about r>00 Square feet of City streets or 66 Square Yarda. The track on India i Street is Laid steel ties and the Concrete pave set Over the Tiea and Between thei is in Good condition and the face la not rough so that unless i a traction compan pulls the rails in the Street Hudacek. For junk p 41, it is probable the abandonment the service will not make much Terence on travel conditions on it Street even if the City docs not irk there in that connection. J. But on Seminary Street already a Ai Ere la a deplorable condition the ils being a different Grade from e Street Levels in most places and a e surface of the paving material or the Tiea for their full length of the feet being too Rouh to permit a portable travel Over it even Wotli. Any further disturbance of the Terral. If the company pulls the los there the surface will be Ren a red i Partible. The ties on sem Ary Street Are of Wolt a too and if key Are left in the ground they will Cay and leave Heles but if they Are. Ken out that removal will leave i e space they occupy so rough that giving by the City will be Una void sponsored by Garden lib vill by held in masonic building Nonoi n i i for Hil St 80 May be to mrs. K. S. Cow kill. President of the the annual Flower show sponsored by the Fillmore Garden club will by held wednesday August 30, in the masonic building in Fillmore. Communications May be addressed to mrs. R. S. Cowgill president of the club. Schedule of the fax Flower show and rules of the Fillmore Garden club Are Given. Mrs. Jack Huskey is Genera chairman. Section i Dahlia class 1. Decorative 1 variety named in vase. Class 2. Cactus 1 variety named in vase. Class 3. Sonpon 1 variety named in vase. Class 4. Basket of decorative mixed varieties. Class 5. Basket of Cactus mixed varieties. Class 6. Basket of Sonpon mixed varieties. No foreign foliage permitted Section ii. Zinnia a a All american giants scheduled elsewhere. Class 1. Arrangement of giant Dahlia flowered. Class 2. Arrangement by Sonpon. Class 3. Arrangement by fantasy. No foreign foliage permitted Section Iii. Asters class 1. Arrangement of double. 14 it Iii in in on i nor two Putnam county will have a supervise 1 recreational program twelve months of the year decor Ling to an announcement by c. C Parr District recreational supervisor for Indiana Parr name Ken the Smith As Putnam county recreational supervisor in recognition of the Fine work done by or Smith in organizing the recreational program in Greencastle this summer. The new office will be under the supervision of the state recreational department in conjunction with the Greencastle recreation Board. This Means that there will be set up in the county town it a program similar to that in Greencastle this summer. Hie program Here included Tennis horseshoes playground activities picnics Hunts deck Tennis and innumerable other sports for Chol Ren and adults. During the summer Kenneth Smith was Ai led by miss i Eona Kustner but with the opening of school the local recreation activities As previously run will be under this new joint supervision. The same people will net As supervisors in this new arrangement with the exception of the people named by the City. Mrs Ethel Hall will be the new heat i of the girls recreational activities while the boys recreational program will be under Roy Carrington. Howard Mccall. Kenneth Sybold. Oscar Knight and Bud Forepaugh. The playground at the first and second Ward building will be closed on saturday and the swimming Pool j will close its doors to the Public at 9 30 saturday evening the facilities at Robe Ann Park will be there until the cold weather sets in and available for use by All delegates return from Bloomington or. Raymond Baldwin and mrs. Cecil Brown delegates from the local unit of the american legion auxiliary have returned from Bloomington when they attended the american legion auxiliary convention. The convention body adopted a department newspaper to to sent to every adult member of the auxiliary at a Cost of 25c per member. Per year same to be sent into department at the time National and state fees Are forwarded. This newspaper will take the place of the monthly bulletin which has previously been sent to the unit presidents and secretaries. The convention i it by also adopted a Resolution deeming it advisable not to present the name of mrs Knul Lemstra of Clinton As a candidate for National president at the National convention to b in september but endorsed her As a candidate for this office in 1940. Among the local members who at ten led the convention were Mes Dames Rachael Buis Almeda Brack Ney. Johnnie Thomas. Edna Best. Alta Newgent. Marie Moore Gale Arnold Sarah Pease Chloe Flecnor. Viva Sweeney and t Jesslo Michael. Chamberlain asks for emergency Powers for his Cabinet to Rule dramatic Point in european history atmosphere ill London was due of solder realization of cute dangers facing Lur Opu by London. Webb Miller aug. 24 up report a German patrol had crossed the East prussian Frontier and penetrated almost a mile into Poland Keport a Kormany now in Gliadin ass Ron win ii oath St a i. Fob a i a i Nettie i. Ends ordering mobii.l/. X i Ion loll is of commons App Noyes Kesoli i Ion Par held in Chicago Hament assembled today for its most fat. Lul session since August 3. 1914. Arizona Duke not i Pony enter City on was to new York City w Iii re i i x expe4 i to arrive by sept. 85 is i Sun $1 there is no fund in the City budget r next year and no Money on hand the City Treasury now. Which could used to care for that situation Lere will be close to 500 Square Irda of paving on Seminary Street r some one to put Down some be in the future. Even the use of temporary crushed cd and some binding material such heavy Asphalt or tar. Will be More pensive than the City Treasury can re for with its present resources. May apply now for inter Loans Illian Murphy wins scholarship la l or i High Honor comes to former school Acher of this county in the govern-1 ent Extension work. The associated press has recently 1 trounced that two fellowships Are a red annually for nine months cd a Menea and study at Washington. Juji c. Which fellowships go to the Tost outstanding boy and girl who Promise of Success in sex Sion work in the future. Miss Lillian Murphy who taught i the Bainbridge schools the year before last and since that time has in employed in the Federal work i Trrry haute has been appointed v 5 y the Federal gov slim it to one of less fellowships. It is quite an Honor and distinction cause she is one of the two who ave been so sponsored in the United Al utes. Miss Murphy s duties begin 01 Washington on october 1, where he will finish her masters degree. Is a graduate of a Niver Ity. Applications Reino Kkt Cei ved by miss Madonna ok1mes at a out mouse applications for 1939 emergency Winter Grain Loans Are now being received by Madonna Grimes at the court House in Greencastle. Carter h Holland supervisor of the emergency crop and feed loan Section of the Fann credit administration with office 307 Federal bldg., Terre haute is in charge of Western Indiana District. These Loans will be made Only to i Farmers who cannot obtain credit from any other source a provided by regulations issued by the governor of the farm credit administration. The Money loaned will be limited to the Farmer s immediate and actual Cash needs for growing his 1939 Winter Grain crops and in no instance May exceed $400.00 Farmers Are not eligible for these Loans if they can borrow from an individual. Production credit association Bank or other concern. Emergency crop Loans will not be made by the farm credit administration to Standard rehabilitation clients of the resettlement administration whose current needs Are provided for by resettlement. I As in the past the Security for sends fighters to Maginot Lim two lasses of reserves out vehicles subject to re i 1s1tion Paris. Aug. 24 up franc poured in endless Stream of front line fighters into the Maginot line facing Germany today fearful that War might be less than three Days away. France was moving nearer anti nearer to general mobilization. A1 ready almost 2.000 000 trained fighters were under arms two classes of reserves called out last night and notified by posters on town Hall bulletin boards throughout France were being shuttled eastward on special trains. Another proclamation made a t motor vehicles subject to requisition As of last Midnight. In Paris alone 700 buses were requisitioned during the night and held at the Edge of the City in readiness1 for hauling troops the strategy was reminiscent of that of 1914, when a taxicab army was recruited overnight on the Paris streets and moved up to reinforce the Marne. It was reported that French North african troops also were reinforcing vital passes in the mountainous French it Alian Frontier. President Albert Lebrun hurried hero from vacation for a meeting today of the Council of ministers. It was believed that the possibility of discussed. The Constitution confers upon the Senate the Power to declare Wai it was doubted by most diplomats Here that Ltd Many would attack Poland and France simultaneously without a declaration of War and in that Case France would have to formally declare hostilities before going to Poland s Aid. Many buses already had been requisitioned to help move troops and parisians were walking in Greate a numbers than since the world War. Arizona Duke and his spotted cow Pony Comanche entered Putnam county yesterday on their Way to new Yolk City where they expected i to arrive not later than september j convoke not parliament would be 1 25. Arizona Duke docs not like to i have his Little horse called a cow Pony because says the Young cow j boy his horse is two thirds arabian and one third Percheron. But Comanche to the eyes of most beholders. Has the ear Marks of a cow Pony but a very smart Alert one. I Comanche is 11 years old much older in the scale of Ages in the Equine world than his master is in the human world. Arizona Duke and Comanche trav i Al on the berms of the paved roads rather than on the pavements themselves because of the hardness of i the Concrete. Even at that Comanche needs and gets two pairs of new shoes about every 250 Miles of travel. Tho cow boy and his Pony left their Arizona Home last december and a part of their expenses Are met by the Sale of Post card pictures of themselves. A experiences Well a few Quot said Arizona Duke. A we have been hit twice by automobiles encountered 22 below Zero at Raton pass in new Mexico where i froze my feet hands and earn. Out of Denver. Colo. I tied up my horse and left him alone for fifteen minute3. When i came Back i had been stripped Down to the Saddle with chaps spurs sleeping bag and equipment gone. Tourists Hunting souvenirs did Clover Dale woman died wed Esi a y e v e eng mrs. J. L. Livesay. Age about 60 years Well known resident of the Cloverdale Community died wednesday evening at her Home South and these Loans will consist of a first Lien East of Cloverdale on state Road 42. Indianapolis livestock hog receipts 6 00q, Holdover 65 All weights 15 cents higher practical top $6 65 on 220-230 lbs extreme top $6.70 sows 15 to 25 cents higher 300-375 lbs $5.50-$8.00, others mostly Down to $4 65 100-250 lbs $035-$6 -65 250-300 lbs $6.15-56.50 300-400 lbs $5.85-$6.05 100 160 lbs $5.50 55.90 cattle 500. Calves 500 few lots and loads of medium and Good steers steady at $8.00-$9 00 several head of Choice yearlings $9.50-59.60 most heifers $6.50-58.65 bulls unchanged dealers 50 cents higher top $10 00, Good and Choice $10.00-510.50. Sheep 1.000, fab lambs 25 cents higher most Good and Choice $8.00 $8 50. Slaughter ewes steady at $2.00 -53.00. Gei Many a demands on Poland the conclusion of a German a russian no aggression pact brought Europe close to a dramatic and possibly tragic turning Point in its history. British and French mobilization machinery was in operation in Fig Georges special train racing Down from Scotland brought him to r. Meeting of his privy coun us ready to sign documents enabling the country to come to a full War footing. Prime minister Neville Chamberlain who had called parliament into emergency session was ready to address the House of commons immediately after its Assembly at 9 45 a m. Edt on the situation which Germany a demands and the world shaking German Russlan pact had precipitated. He delegated Viscount Halifax foreign Secretary to address the lord. Both houses were ready to pass in record time in timing it through All stages within a few hours an Emer 1 up icy Powers Bill no Vlaj the i totem Gerv i work ment drastic Powers to insure the defense of the nation. Viscount Halifax was instructed to make a 10 minute radio speech at 4 30 p. M today to the English shaking Peoples of the world including the United states outlining Britain a ski Silton and i a affirming its determination to go to Poland said if Germany attacks. Crowds gathered before the Palace 1 of Westminster where parliament meets at the Little Blind Alley of Downing Street nearby chamberlains official resident and at Buckingham Palace to cheer the King j Adolf Hitler had rejected a British i government admonition and Appeal. Warning that Britain would meet i Force with Force and asserting its firm belief that with Good will All i Europe a problems could be solved peaceably. The atmosphere in London was one of sober realization of the acute sickening dangers that Europe faced but it was not one of despair or of Mere in Aumic a acceptance of the inevitability of an explosion. Hope persisted that a Way out would be found. There had been other emergencies not it is True As grave As this one in years past and the explosion had not come. Even hitlers rejection of the British government communication even the signing of a non aggression pact if it proved to be no More by two powerful totalitarian nations whose political ideologies ostensibly were As poles apart did not cause britons or their government to give up Hope. Already there had been rep Recus Sions not All unfavourable to Britain throughout the world from Tho Ger i a a a i huf i Quot a a president rat Lunsfor peace cause i t Thek Xii in Exi is i r i or not ii Liioi i d Congress i Koi i to make i i a Iii k a la Iii a latin Castel Gandolfo. Italy. Aug. 24 up in Ope pious Xii toni Gap. Will broadcast an Appel for peace for the world a in the grave the Hague Netherlands. Aug. 21 up the government ordered preliminary mobilization of its armed forces today. On the crop financed. Landlords or others having an interest in the crops will be required to waive their claims in favor of the Lien to Tho governor of the farm credit administration until the loan is repaid. Checks in payment of approved Loans will be issued by the regional emergency crop and feed loan office at St. Louis. Missouri. Mrs. Livesay had been an invalid for some time. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. On display in the Central National Bank window is a Callett Chronograph wrist watch which was won by Don Frazier As the outstanding Star of the Quot All Start a basketball team. 20 years a to d in Greencastle state department Lias warned amerlean against going to ii rope i less i Washington aug 24. Up president Roosevelt today appealed to King Victor Emmanuel of Italy to use his Good offices to Avert War or. Roosevelt said that this nation accepts As a fact that All nations a have an absolute right to maintain their National Independence is they to a if that be sound doctrine then it must apply to the weaker nations As ?11 As the stronger a he said. Or. Roosevelt s new Effort to pre Ace was announced by the state d apartment As the president himself sped Back to washing ton by special train to take personal command of this nation s activities in the crisis. The Appeal was made through u s. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips. It went to no other country but Italy. London. Aug 24 up u. S ambassador Joseph p Kennedy today advised american tourists to leave England because of the War Crisc. Kennedy a statement said a the International situation has reached a Point which makes it advisable for american travellers to leave Washington aug 24 up president Roosevelt returns today to Survey the possibilities of exec to american influence anew for the cause of peace and to direct accelerated measures to safeguard amen ran neutrality if War comes. Another Questi n facing him is whether Tho Situ ton a become so acute As to warrant a ailing a Spe Cril session of Congo important element a Tho Adi in 1st ration urge that this country should make on Mure Appel for the Powers of Europe to adjust their differences. But even those who favored a new declaration bar Roosevelt despaired that words from this aide of the water could swerve the on Rushing course of events in Europe. They Clung to a shred of hop and while any Hope remained they Felt my a in Meed Rny a tami London. Aug. 24 up Tho House of commons tonight approved a Resolution enabling parliament to pass the emergency Powers Bill in one Day but Only after prime minister Neville Chamberlain had intervened to chide Laberite criticism of his politics. The vote was 475 to four. It was hoped to have the Bill in the House of lords soon after 7 p. It London. Aug 34 up in Exchange Telegram dispatch from Warsaw today reported a German patrol had crossed the East prussian Frontier and penetrated Vanost a mile into Poland. The dispatch said the germans occupied the Bagno estate in the Llama District. House of commons. London aug. 24 up prime minister Neville Chamberlain informing parliament that Britain is in a imminent p Ril a if War. Declared today that add a of Hitler had demanded a free hand in Eastern Europe. Germany informed great Britain the prime minister said that if Britain or any other country interfere 1 in Eastern Europe Germany would not be responsible for tin ensuing conflict. Chamberlain Aske i for emergency Powers for his cd hint to Rule the country almost Lik a a dictatorship he expressed Hope that the in org Vicy Powers Bill which he Intro Ivd would receive Royal assent before Midnight the prime minister indirectly i bilked Russia for secretly be tint lug a Nan Agar Essen pact with Gei Many at the Sam time she s negotiating for an Alliance with Britain and Frame the grave faced Hom Berlant told tiie House that Quot Germany is new ill a condition of Complete reclines j for before made Ida ominous announcement to common i an i through its in my Quot St Ltd the Brit ishm Ople As a whole tin1 King had held a privy Council at which lie signed order in Council under thereat Seal authorising the govern i ment to mobilize the Navy naval reserves an a the territorial who Rita 1 guard when necessary. The King also authorized Edward thousand turkeys residing at Staley farm Southeast of Relie i Nion 4 4 Millinie in a ii opkins Rochester up Secretary a thousand turkeys can t be wrong at least in the matter of their hunger. Surely the thousand head of them that advanced toward us. And gobbled at us and thrust out their ugly Heads at us. And said they were hungry at the Basil o. Staley Turkey farm South and East of Belle Union. The other Day at least thought they were right but or. Staley said they were not. He knows More Abou turkeys than they do about themselves. Denied further rations and the Grasshoppers being scarce some of i the gobblers having nothing Bette to do vented their impatience by chasing the Little Staley dog who is mostly Pekinese and possessed of a Handy Robert a. Hoffman Fine sense of humor. He ran As far a he had to. And came Back laughing about it. This Peke is somewhat of a Lap dog but there Are other dogs on the Staley place that Are not Lap dogs far from it. Their chief business is to keep marauders away from the turkeys Day and night and How. In fact or. Staley had to instruct names signed on the petition for an american legion charter were Hostel Brothers Justin g. Schmidt. Gerald Russell v. Vermillion Jore g. Of Neal. Aurl o. Allen. Gwin g. Ensign James a. Bittles Robert e. Hanna Harold m. Hootman. Lawrence w. Crump. Frank r. Young. Paul Grimes. George c. Kritch. Paul Gibson. Charley Doniehue. Thomas l. Howard. A the biggest if these watchdogs of let us enter this Premier or had not been very cordial up to that time. So is just Isnit Safe for any mischief maker to a fool around the Staley turkeys with the idea of lifting some of them it can to be a Lone. The turkeys on the Basil Staley Home place Are Only a part of tin total number raised by or. Staley he having two other places not a away and on these three places he is raising 5,000 head of the big Birds this season. At the Home place there is a mingling of the Bronze Variet with a White Holland contingent which he got in Florida but he i fers the bronzed Birds to All others. Or. Staley is sue ending with Ali Turkey business mostly because of his close attention to it we think but he himself attributes much of his Success to his use of the i r. Hiding system of Turkey raising the Staley business is built on what or. Staley thinks is the oldest exclusive Turkey hatchery business in the state. He has been in the work 14 it ii r i ii Nuil i no n la cute to it in Hospital minn., aug. 24 a of Commerce Harry Hopkins registered at the Mayo clinic for a general physical sex Auina ton Torlay. Hopkins who underwent a major abdominal operation Here in december. 1937. Arrived in Rochester last night. He registered at the Hospital under an assumed name and refused to talk with newspapermen. $ o amp o o o 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 today s weather 0 and 0 local temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 partly Cloudy tonight and Friday somewhat warmer Friday Anil in South portion tonight. Minimum 6 a. M. 7 a. 8 a. 9 10 a. 11 12 noon j pm m. 2 p. M. M. M. M. M. M. 61 63 64 70 4 Foj 4 o 76 79 82 83 83

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