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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - December 13, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaThe weather Faik and colder i it. 0 the daily Banner �444 4 44� 4 a1x the Home news 4 4 United press service 4 it cd Klome forty eight it Waves for All 99 , Indiana wednesday december is 1u in it Seymour hit by Auto tues. Night sfas driven by Russell Oxman received fracture of Leo to _ a a occurred at intersection i 0 Washington and Dur no. 50 series of shortest Days starts today today the shortest sixteen a lays of tire year Start for from dec. 13 to Dee. 20 each Day has just 9.4 hour s of possible Sunshine on tuesday. Dec. 12, and then again on dec. 30 the possible Sunshine period is 0.5 hours. Though dec. 22. The first Day of a a Winter is usually Tei Nied the Short o \ Wood Street esl Day of the. A. Fth weather Bureau show that there Are sixteen of these Short Days. Winter will Start at six minutes after 12 o clock on Friday. Dec. 22. Ham streets county spa expenditures total $520.728 for entire period la Pond a turks Here amounted to $351,034 program for first concert Lunes Seymour. 54 years old an. Employed at the mid West j. Southeast of town and Liv 1 in a Small Frame building at the Ith end f Wood Street near the was hit by an autom Obi e Velby Russell Oole Marr at 7 �5 Las evening at the inter scr a of Washington and Durham its and received a fracture fright leg Between the knee and e. City police had him taken u. Putnam county Hospital in an Ibula nce after receiving first Aid my a phys Cian at the scene of his i today by prof. Leopold Liegl. Direct Jent j tor. The concert will ii1 Given wed amour had been up town 1 no Day night at 8 15 in Meharry Hall expended 0.4 county roads brings tidal sex Ien Dituro for Relief work in count., to Irasid total of s520.72h j. E. Cannon rites will be thursday it is announced at Indianapolis that the expenditures of the work a projects administration spa in Putnam county this last year amounted to a total of $130.105 and for the entire period elapsing sin a a j the administration War. Established a a kit Ai w to play to j 1935 the total expenditures have night at 8 15 of clock in been $�?T551,954 in this county. Moha Vilty Viall a it is stated that prior to the Aftab i Lish ment of spa the Federal kor the completed program for the gency belief administration t Fera i initial concert of the newly organized 1 spent $80.510 and the civil work a Depauw concert band was released administration Cwa spent 58,451 in Putnam county. I this brings the total exper Dituro for work Relief in Putnam county to i been ordered to go Home by to the program will open with a a a grand total of .$520.728. According i officers and he had been refused Spanish March Amparito Boca by to the statement. A drinks at several taverns and Jaime Texidor followed by Baches j in Putnam county the bulk of thin stores earlier in the evening a come Sweet death a. Featured Money particularly the spa uni Ling to the statement of the number will be the first movement has hem expended on the Bett of Shubert so unfinished symphony ment of county roads including the a Seymour does not know just How one of the most popular and Best i setting Hack of fences widening of j happened to be in the path of he liked of All his symphonic works. /. The Grade improving the Draina a it it Mobile and no one saw him until Brahms Waltz and a Ciri Biribin by construction of Small Bridges and it a moment before he was strut a Pieta Lozza will conclude the first i culverts and the application of Stone i that time he was Well out on the part of the program. And gravel which in most instances. Ent. Coleman who lives on i the second half of the concert will has been treated with Asphalt just co Urbitt Street just West of include the Marche and scherzo from t Monon track saw Seymour when the suite a love of the the Coleman car was not More thin oranges by Prokofieff. A collection a ii w i feet Distant and Coleman stepped of Christmas carols and hymns will a Quot a m Iii min Hub i car within thirty feet according also be Given. His own statement and that of or. Leonard Johnson William Saul and mrs. Harold Taylor in another David buckles will be featured n 1 who saw the Accident. Coleman a a three Kings in soloist arrange funeral services for James k. Cannon widely known citizen of Greencastle and associated with the j. F. Cannon and company store Here for Many years will be he d thurst Lay morning at nine of clock from St. Paul a Catholic Church. Father Mcgrath will be in charge of the services burial will he in Forest 11111 cemetery. Friends May Call it the family residence. Pallbearers will be George Long. I m. J. Murphy. Leon Welch. De j Brock Way. Simpson Stoner and or. J o. F. Overstreet. Opens two tremendous Russ drives Veteran Bonus deadline Hope to reach Gulf of bothnia Ano Cut Finland in two it is a announced today that some 150 000 world War veterans had nl-1 ready filed application for the adjusted compensation due them from i War time service voted by Congress j in 1924 in the form of a 20-year enl Maiks i Dorment policy and made payable in 1956 in the form of Federal Bonds. Near Argentina to resign from league chieftains met the dead line for policy claimer is. T a saw january 2, 1940, and Many widows i Hus a attack on soviet Russia a s aggressor against Finland rejects demands i>inpnt4 lick indicate biggest 14�tile of runs fun Nonh War was fast developing i 11 i it in school band presents concert series of three Are being Given to uniform members Greencastle High school s band presented their first in a series of tin of concerts at the High school auditorium last evening at 7 30 of clock. The concerts ate being Given to Mcney to Purchase new uniforms for the band. For the first in the series the concert was rendered with the precision of masters. The Horn Section was particularly Able and they carried their parts Well. Mary Ellen West an eighth Grade clarinet soloist did an exceptionally Copenhagen do matk. Dec. 1 up finnish re enforcements a were reported striking Back despot a a Lely today in a counter offensive i against the russian army drive i across m of Elaml toward the Gulf i of Bosnia and the swedish Frontier j Bergen. Norway. Dec. 15 up the British freighter Deptford of j j 5,00 tons was torpedoed by a Ger Man submarine just North of Bergen i orphans or parents of veterans May i not be aware that where the Veteran t i died prior to the enactment of the j Law in 1924 they arc eligible for \ the so benefits in the order named. Kiwanis lenders map activities president-ele4t Fay names service club committee Heads Paul j. Fay. President elect of the i and today and it was believed that Only j Greencastle club of kiwanis inter i tack five of its 35 Crew members had been National has called a meeting of All dinging Musi take action in response tip Finland s representations or confess failure Geneva. Dec. 13 up Argentina leading the attack on soviet Russia As an aggressor against Finland announced to the league Assembly today that she Wou d resign from the league of Nat on unless Russia were excluded j Rodalfo Freyr Argentino chief i Delegate had been nominated to open the attack on Russia As the Assoc Bly began in p enary session Fin Apical against Russia s at five saved. J Quot the Argentine Republic can no ii the officers and the chairmen of the i longer consider itself a member of i various standing committees for 7 30 Copenhagen. Dec. 15. Up up. M. Thursday. December 14, in Russia has opened two tremendous room 108 of Banbury Hall. This drives across mid Finland in Hope of meeting will he held to map out Al a aching the Gulf of bothnia and warns activities and achievements cutting Finland in two reports for 1940. In it letter sent out by or. Fay the officer a acct were reminded that reaching Northern capitals said today. Dispatches indicated that the biggest Battle of the ruano finnish War was fast developing and wan Likely to Start within two or three Days on the mid Finland front Between Hytti the league of nations so Long As the soviet Union is Able to claim that title a he said. He denounced Russia As a flagrant violator of International covenants a a Vio Ator Quot without the slightest Argentina s decision to abandon presented award 1940 in the 25th anniversary year of j in league membership rather than kiwanis International and also a it to a fellow member with Russia was critical year in the history of the 1 unalterable. Freyre said. United states. I Russia in a Brief polite note had As chairmen of the standing com rejected the league demand that it Mitten Al. President Fay has appoint Stop Hosti cities and Start a it each Nego a the finnish position on this front j de rations under league auspices. Thero Jarvis Fulmer achievement David a was no alternative for the league. Grimes agriculture Charles me a r a j now to take action in response Curry attendance Eugene Akers. J t0 Finland s representations or confess Fai ure at a Crit Cal Point in its 20 years of life. It wan the first the russian Fine piece of playing considering that she was prepared for the nolo in a a 8fdmi Ami kure. To tile North very Short in Rod of Lime. J finnish position on this the program was Well ii Lanoil it was indicated was critical the and the break in the playing of the finns were called upon to Stop with band by severs orchestral selections. Sheer courage iwo great russian. Gave the program added interest. Armies overwhelmingly Superior in p0ys and girls work Hiram Jome. The numbers that were played with numbers armaments and equipment. I business standards Russell Brown i tile greatest smoothness were the j two corps of tin1 russian ninth finance Rupert Hartley Flowers league gathering since the european i exonerated of blame for the of ment. Another Novelty arrangement i 1 of Quot the world is waiting for the Sunrise and the polonaise from thi a Rimsky Korsakov opera a a Christmas a night will conclude the program. A Junior leaders of county sick George Mccoy health and Nan j War started it nation Walter Cox. Hoosier land. Township Field men hear Baker the new music group is composed of 4�i members both men and to. In e oui Donkey serenade and Bells across j army according to reports were the Meadow. J driving southwestward from the it nation Walter Cox. Hoosier land. Freyre the Argentine chief Dele for the first appearance of the a Salla area just above the Arctic j Roy Abrams House Rowland head-1 Gate read to the Assembly a carefully orchestra the performance was in a Circle and northwestward from run jpy inter club relations drover for-1 prepared declaration approved in a it la 1 deed commendable. Mus sail 105 m les East of Ulea Borg i Ward. Kiwanis education Herrick Vanee by his government. Twenty five Junior 4-h leaders of it uncut coi Loert wilp Biven at important finnish port on the Gull Rire Eylenf. Kiwanis scrap Hwik. Cecil the assemblymen listened Dunemn Putnam county met tuesday even i 7.g# p m n Fet Rumary is and at of Bothman. A Fellers Laws and regulations har tonally As he outlined Argentina s mkt in court Houck Assembly room House asst min .1 a planned administrate k lit 1.1n a is for operation of farm i4hh�ram feature noticed this time the a Cappella of 40 voices j the Suomu Salmi clip was re-1 vey Walls membership and class Al Early Hopes for the league and tin room and As a part of the program. I wlm a but a he turd in Ulia concert one of j ported to be nearing Hyrum Salmi cation Herold Ross music Russell it had suffered. Of a the members witnessed the Flung it 1 novae Tieg vill he the singing and and continued Advance would put it j Alexander program i hat k l. Baker Farmer file d Man pm the state office of aaa at West Fayette. Was the instructor wed Day at a gathering in the Assem a room of the court House attend-1 i by the township Field men of put a an county the purpose of the meet a being the explanation particular further awards to 4-h workers. J l e pand playing in unison of in the these being awards for state Recagni tion. These medals were presented i in i a. A i it by the state club office represent i a 111 iwo i Hill a i locally for this purpose by Mcclure of ban Ridge and miss Var pases r or for �0 Days no sheriff s of Shott of Greencastle. # auditor s deeds re Mary Ann Newgent receive i a Gol 1 j Oil pm i l re t 1 ii Sam Hanna corded j pin for having won a r de ribbon a award in dress revue at the state a t Ter citing weaknesses of the league in position to a a Levi either directly Public affairs Frank Knebel. Public he opened a blistering attack on run West toward Ulea Borg or veer off a City Clwyd Moss reception Jack Hla and. At the end. Said northwestward and seek to meet i Krider. Support of churches Grafton Quot if and n my duty to state with the other corps at the Railroad june-1 my dry. Ltd child and to a greatest regret acting As inter ton of Kovaniemi. 60 Miles East of j Tut cd Bowman vocational gut Nncy. Preter of my governments Unalt or Cornea at the top of the Gulf. J Able decision that to in Argentine it a the British Exchange Telegraph Public ran no longer consider herself former Greencastle a member of the so Long jus thing 1.500.000 men Ana priest passes away soviet Union is Able to claim that one noticeable feature observable 1 fair. The reports of the Putnam county Juanita Mcclure received a gel 1 of the administrative rulings in recorder. Mrs. Nellie m. Denny for medal also for having an out str. I or which the farm program will by the months of october and novem a ing record in 1 11 c u it we a rated during 1940 her is that during that 60-Day period Chrystal Hendrich also was Given a i during 1940 before the meeting opened m1&Quot. A there was no sheriffs or auditors Clark said deed recorded indicating Thero had i Quot there Are practically no change been no Sale of real estate in this it in the 39 program. Possibly the j county by either of those officers in civil change is an increase in the one other feature that is notice amount of payments Wlinich can be Able and not so Good is the fact that by about $9,000, More mortgage Load was placed on Putnam farm land than was the total amount of the satisfactions of mortgages in the same area indicating a net increase ill the Moi tenge Load. Mortgages j kno this release the town recorded on farm lands in october Pap committeemen wi�?T1 he ready j totalled $24.251 for november j to it answer any question which farm $18.679. My y have in regard to the pro i the situation As regards town an and to discuss with them the j property is about parallel excepting i m plans for 1940. They will show a that in november the releases were 1 banners How they can place their More than the mortgages. In oct Nior gages recorded on town understood that Drill will be in operation soon North of Road 10 reported from High that Russia was 1 m fussing 1.500.000 men and 1.000 planes in the karelian Lathun pm a j for Neil by the seeding of soil co i Irving crops. Quot allot or. Clark added a Are mjg established and will he Rel Mem Jar Lary l. Many Kadrli tonal Leann of pit Nam a Gold medal in recognition for hoi county lands Are being taken for the a work in foods. Officers of the Junior 4-h leaders club were elected by the members As follows president James Robert Nichols. Vice presidents. Virginia Garc Sci and Russell Grimes. Secretary. Mary Ann Newgent. Reporter Madonna Call. Song Leader. Margaret Hatcher. Recreational Leader. Frances Homi Rich. Recreation centers Are toy repair shops irn m full compliance and ass St f the Mutual Effort of Farmers to Ive a fair share of the National a come by the control of their pro i to in and at the same time he Fertility of their land by follow Good soil building practices such in it teased seeding of Alfalfa and c Quot vers and the application of 1 Quot Ladin i follows divorce sprncer ind. Dec. 13. Up beast Friday Joseph and glady3 Hennin Schwomeyer of near Clover a Sale were divorced. Yesterday they obtained a License it a wed at the Owen county clerk s suffice. Ii was indicated they would be a in tied today. I a it of Christmas seals protect it four Home u rec a n the goal of eradication of tube Rulo la within alight. That goal can by reached if the Public will cooperate 8/ purchasing Chr Atmaa Stair Ober mortgages Roco Ruea an property including All the towns and the one City in the county amounted to $17,664 in november. $12.675. In the chattel mortgage Field the figures loom up Large but there is a redeeming feature in that situation which is that the releases of such mortgages very largely outweighed the amount of the mortgages recorded. The latter total for i he two months october Ami november was $93,959. The satisfactions totalled $131.681. Masonic Noth e Royal Arch chapter will meet in regular session wednesday evening at 7 30 of clock. Election of officers. Recreation centers All Over Putnam county arc Busy transforming broken toys into gifts for needy children is the Holiday season fast draws near. These toys will make useful gifts for Santa to distribute to the needy in these communities. Toys pour into these centers where they Are repainted repaired or overhauled so that they will Gladden hearts when they Are distributed. At Cloverdale the Hurst Collina american i Cion Post and the recreation Board Are sponsoring the project while at Reelsville the Parent teachers association is assist i purpose of exploration of Oil production some of which lenses hav been placed on record but most of which art1 to he recorded a Little later. It is reported. These new easements arc being taken principally in the Southeast part of the county hut there Are tracts scattered Over the county generally. Une Oil firm is interested in these Laler leases and one individual whose office is in Ohio. Is taking leases also. It is reported that at least some of these leases will cover All Mineral rights. It is the understanding that a Drill soon will he in operation on the North Side of the National Road West of the Road 43 intersection. Drilling has not yet started on the Large tract recently leased by a subsidiary of the Standard Oil company in West Putnam Paratory to a crushing offensive in father Augustine Rawlinson of a that Southern area. It was believed. A Dlan Apolis. Died at the St Vince t county red Cross the dispatch said that the drive a Hospital tuesday father Rawllen was agreed on yesterday at a meet son served As pastor of the St. Paul a i ing of russian military chiefs at j Catholic Church in this City As Well Moscow including War commissar a As churches in other Indiana cities. 1 enrolment ends Klementi Vor Shilov and chiefs of Lle will he Well remembered in this the Leningrad military Are a the air City Force Ami the Baltic Fleet these. He is survived by n sister. Miss Crosa of its com 20 years ago in Greencastle Harry How kilns. Of the Stone Gar on of the most Active groups j a pc and wife moved to the Miller the world War 25 years ago today ing. Is that at Rochdale where the Patent teachers association is aiding in gathering and fixing the toys. Anyone in these communities that have any toys that Are placarded can get in touch with the recreation Board. Santa Claus complains Santa Claus ind., dec. 13.�? up Indiana s Santa Claus. Oscar Phillips postmaster of this Village of 60 persons today made his first complaint in Many years. He said that he had on bar. 1-More than 1.000 letters addressed to various but without the specific by United Presa serbian army occupied Belgrade 28,000 austrian prisoners taken third austrian invasion of Siberia ended. Allied troops advanced across Yser Erna from nieuport toward Lom City being named and criticized what bar Zyde. Battle of Lodz ended. Apartments. David k. Lillienthal was a candidate from Depauw for the irhoades scholarship Depauw won from stale Normal in basketball 61 to it. A Surprise Shower was Given for miss Mamie Albaugh at her Home on East Washington Street anticipating her marriage to or. Grove of Sedalia to. Mrs Mary Mathias returned from a visit with her son. Lee and family in Chicago. Miss Margaret Emily Mccaughy entertained at a Christmas party it her Hom the Nyta alumni club entertained chieftains were said to inv a agric in that if they did not crush Finland no it a the War would continue until Spring. I London dec. 13. Up a laconic air ministry announcement that Royal air Force a Security patrols Hall been maintained continuously last night Over German mine layer and aircraft bases was believed today to Mark a new British anti mine Campaign. British planes flew repeatedly Over Hel Golamb bight the water Between tie German fortified North sea base and the German coast it a said authoritatively ready to it attack any enemy planes which i might lie encountered. It was believed that the air ministry announcement revealed new tactics to Hall mine laying by German Ali planes trying to catch enemy planes As soon is they left their bases before they got out into North Rea steamship lans instead of waiting in Hope of driving them off the British shores perhaps after they had Laid their mines. Quot Royal air Force Security patrols were continuously maintained in d night Over German mine Lay r and aircraft bases in Helgoland bight Quot said the air ministry announcement. It was the first time the phrase Security patrol Quot had been used. Anna Rawlinson Ami a brother. Frank Rawlinson of Indianapolis a brother Charles Rawlinson of ran Francisco. The funeral will lie held from the is Peter Ami Paul Cater the Putnam county red chapter iras just closer one most successful j pains. Every township was represented in the drive. The work of the town a ship chairman Tiro Delta Theta Taus Walro solicitor the ironies in the City t Ami tie business men and women i who had charge of the downtown Edra Friday morning. Burial will. ,. A District brought the membership to is tcrro1.a new High. Be in St haute. Mary of the Woods Cloverdale class to present Plav will ii Given fuday and saturday evenings in school auditor m a total of 8.50 members or about 30 a or Cut it More than the previous year was established. Or. Hartley As chairman wishes i to thank and express his grat Ifica tion to every one who Lind any part. In the Roll rail. Toys Ark needed anyone having toys which they the Junior class of the Cloverdale a wll Honi to l la Quot a Quot it a High school will present its anmid1&Quot&Quot l"1 Cli Sarll it Lam at Hjalma mid Winter Plav in the school and is a Rke it i to n a it a a a. Or bring Thorn to the fire department Tori urn Friday and saturday even for repairing and final distribution Ings. _ the play entitled Quot Sara secs it1 r h Longden left this after through is a farce comedy in Throe for Petersburg Fla. Where acts. Or will spen a the remainder of tie the cast of characters will be As while in it Petersburg he will he Al tin Central hot-1. Paris. Dec. 13. Up German patrols resuming intensive activity after heavy artillery bombardments left Large numbers of dead in Nomany a land French military dispatches sail today. The night was quiet after conspicuous patrol operate legs yesterday but the activity was resumed especially in the Central sectors of the front this morning. Operations were conduct ii by the members of the Active Theta he called the a absent minded writ-1 chapter it the Home of mrs. W. M. Lar units which had been concen . Follows boil Cummings a Friend in need Max Huber 0 0 # it # 0 Fri o 0 a 0 it Oso. A japanese Bellboy 0 today a weather 0 Freeeman Hunter ,. Jack Pritchard. Hobbs chum in need Ari of help Wayne Mckamey local temperature 0 j. L. Pritchard a novelist 00 00 0 000000 Marion Fritz fair tonight and thursday except Corinne Pritchard. His wife Cloudy in extreme North portion to Naomi Anderson night colder except along la Ake Gretchen myer a film celebrity Michigan tonight rising temperature Irma Sendmeyer thursday afternoon in extreme ers. A i Jonilu Wirtl of run two Kitty Cardwell a newspaper reporter. Doris Morrison mrs. Minnie Goi Ulrich jacks aunt. Northwest portion. Minimum. 6 a. M. Sara Bennet. Min s Niece in Law 7 a. M a a Marble Corinne s Friend 9 a. M. 10 a. M. Elevator girl at the film Capitol hotel. Lurla Cummings 1 p. M. V 2 p. M. 50 .34 52 31 30 30 31 32 31 31

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