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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - December 21, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaThe weather fair and cold it 0 volume forty eight the daily Banner a a a a All the Home news 4 United press service 4 4 it Waves for ally , i Niriana till a Shaw Proem her .1, i. Action to be discontinued on january miss Marcia Hamilton pred 4 dim til wins honorable mention til i a ilm Moal posted Date announcement thursday on and time Marcia Hamilton daughter of or. And mrs. De c. Hamilton and n Sophomore in the local High school has won honorable mention for her i essay. A a childhood m submitted in a National contest. Awards were made on i he mice of to be substituted a Hie syst non at one time was in the world Only a few lines remain i of sincerity simplicity the c an incident Worth telling Clear of festive organization graphic phrasing and adequate handling of sentence Structure Drill for my on Wells farm official Winter to lil or Fries arrive on Friday with Winter having its formal net Little pening tomorrow and with the i u it her prognosticator prophesying c a tinted moderately and police re Pori Robert l. Pierce is attending conference i k e i m i n a it v work w is Don e during Early hours of wednesday morning Standard Del. Concern Elv i a keen wind nipping Down on us a from the Northwest it seems the t. Is being set for a Christmas that will be keen and Snappy from p a weather Many a viewpoint Wyeth i or it is a a a White Christmas or not. La Mhz a Market and Handy a Dairy Gorbei some time wednesday night Cash evidently voted new i axes to a oct a interurban railway service i Indianapolis and Terre Etc. Urst established 32 years a i A i �&Quot"1 i jilt Mill an 1 eaten month will come to an end it 1 us it o mum Yuwu Valora us company planning to Drill is suit in it 1 wave is expected a con Ftp Diuro of that company. All "2 to today s weather report but a led . And Snow is falling and a in the dark and eerie hour of tin e it Irving its effect Here in Central j or. Conrud at Campus Market lost .$7 or $8, Wilh Handy s netted nothing for tin robbers Robert l. Pierce assessor of put Nam county is attending the annual Corfe ence of the 92 county assessors in the state with the members of the Stute Hoard of tax commissioners j in the House of representatives in j the of statehouse Indianapolis. The conference opened yesterday when a governor m. Clifford Townsend greeted those attending with a Brieg i address. Many talks told about till Columbus Philip Zoercher. Chairman of the tax Board presided at the session j he warned the assessors that Many ight. Sunday. January 7. When Indiana Railroad replaces its Eton cars with a Fleet of Passcn-1 buses and motor trucks. Ormal notice of the impending i Nee from rail to motorized ser-1 o clock. Wednesday morning men Indiana Caterpillar tractors and Exea i arted work on the Madison 1 l Ster l. Conrad proprietor of the it municipalities Are not following pro a Campus Market at co lege Avenue visions of the state budget Law. Congress will be to Sipply edition a Reven be at next session Washington. Dec. 21. Up township site of the Oil Well which is to be drilled for the St Nolind o 1 company a subsidy Ary of the stamp i Ard Oil company. Thousands of acres of land in Putnam county Princi a paly in the tier of sections lying Snow storm Lau get a s. Officials at new York attempt to learn details of ship scuttling reports Are it on i jct nil German vow said they Wen conveyed from mexican met but u. S. Navy Shim i and Hanna streets gave thanks this morning when he found is me Mot in his pockets that he had forgotten was there. He had been thinking that this Money along w the some i. ,. Koch Mann. Secretary. _. Ikon from la s stoic j in. In Ovid new so when a son tax Board Engineer Louis Wahl. M Vea Awa it in a Troyer appeared. That this Money deaths Quot v night other speakers for the conference which will close Friday noon include j c. R. Benjamin and Marshall Williams Board members Edward i. New York. Dec. 21�? up seamen from the United states heavy Cruiser Tuscaloosa which brought to port the 577 survivors of a he scuttled 32.000-ton German liner Odu bus a d today that the Tus Jesse Robert a Vas being posted today at All i president Roosevelt was represented next to the Parke county line have Lions along the 72-mile route in j today to be considering a req St been leased by the St Nolind compliance with orders issued Las j that Congress increase selected in a Pany. The leases in nearly All instant Iii in Ding Snow in Northern Indin \ causes it least four deaths Day morning a ust by the Public service com-1 come stat and manufacturer s sex Sion and interstate Commerce i Cise taxes next year to provid $500.-Nmission approving the action. 000 000 for emergency National do one new buses anti trucks will be j sense measures rated Over highways closely pai. I Ces permitting the drilling for Oil on the property described but in one instance at least All Mineral right were included in the easement and. Oji the other hand three leases wore i Quot l no a by United pre a a driving heavy Snow that surged into Northern Indiana yesterday. Highways treacherous an-1 blamed ight or Early thurs j. 1.1 Mai Ion county intangibles tax ap-1 when it was robbed. J i i praiser and Kane Parks state 1 the burglars secured $7 or $8 in it inheritance tax commissioners. Cash contributed jointly by the Cash i Register and a Box m or Conrad s Dask and the Cash Register was dam i ii1cs _ i can Rosa quit escorting Tho Columbus British de Ling the interurban Une and will i m Lun i recorded on school properly which i poor today w my substantially the same service Terence Lelh Quot Quot a a it Ltd a lamp Quot excluded Tho right to Drill for any four a Quot it Quot Hoo Quot in Alicd he a a sent again to Congress Whon it Purpova at Shelb Lyvelle from injuries at first j meets Jan. 3 ills claim for 550.000.- the work which was parted at superficial suffered Mon 000 of new tax Revenue to Compon pm. A a a a Day Treasury for farm subsidies All communities now served b Railroad. Although definite Lul s Are not yet available the i pan plans to run express bus sate the. ,. Paid out in the past two years direct route Between Indiana i a a i a Uthe combined tax increase to be v up a Nicastle and Terre Haut ,. Proposed therefor would aggregate t i local service to other Point $1.050.000.000. D plans now said to it d on the present rail line but. T be under consideration were adopted Tho main roads. No change was understood that or. Roosevelt made in existing passenger far would not suggest specific rates to. Purpose. The work which was unearthly in hour wednesday was completed by 8 or 9 o clock that j aged when the intruders Jimm edit. Open or. Conrad the s morning a he May discover shortages in the Quot Stock of the store later but. So far i he knew nothing that had been taken i dumb Helsinki same morning an 1 the outfit depart l f Whitley county freight rates. Delivery of eight new 29-passenger luxe Noti coaches recently order Froin the White motor company us Between Indianapolis and Are haute is expected within Iii to week or ten Days. Two new the site of the work is on a narrow not much used Little Road which turns North from the Brunerstown Road just past the Small Bridge at the foot of Tho Hill on which the be imposed to pay the farm subsidy j Madison enter school House is it rated. Which is just West of Earl Ellis Arm. The site is on land owned by mrs. Ruby Weiss. It can a quote reached from the North much civic program to raise $500,000.000 \ for National defense Edmond Ain Hros Mckinney 59. _ was killed in Ini. Secrecy seemed to be their object. last night when his car skid n on u s. Highway 30 near col excepting the Cash. He said that the last time the store was robbed More j than a year ago he continued for some weeks afterwards to find losses which he d d not suspect at near c itys to Sitai. District shortly after noon he City or Norman b. Deuel Helsinki. Dec. 21 up this crime was put out of the8"�?T air planes bombed the Quot perfect Quot class when the in Luders i Hospital District shortly after noon i knocked a Telephone off the counter to Pluy. A on Ulp Columbus right. From 25 to 30 Bonis were dropped j but it was believed that casualties this was one of three versions of the Columbus incident circulating on the waterfront As immigration off cals opened a hearing to determine whether All the survivors Are Quot distressed seamen Quot and entitled to 60 Days of Freedom Here or whether any of them Are military agents Ami Shat be interned. Another version was the Columbus masters. Capt. Wilhelm Hehne s he said american warships had Quot conveyed or it least Quot of Lowed Quot his ship All the Way from Vera Cruz. Mexico and that the last i of them the Tuscaloosa had jut turned away and waa two Miles off when the British destroyer came up Bill. But the unit d pie was inform red there was consideration of a up i Sun i City directly into the path of a trailer truck driven by Oliver it. Loll a floor and n cal1 was la "r<1 Bench or 26. Of Milwaukee. Wla.1 a Tho before cab was torn away by a told it r could la replaced on tile were not heavy. His 25 trucks the the Impact hut Provencher and Helper Clarence Schu Neider sleeping in the cab. Minor injuries. Near Silver Lake t National tractor units and font i foot Semi trailers similar in a nce and capacity to those place m operation by the company last 1. An increase of Middle estate tax rates. 2. An increase in Middle Bracke Smith 18. Of Columbia City District Deputy of the order of the Eastern the third version was Given by i capt. Harry a. Badt of the Quaca 1 Loosa. He was neither conveying nor the Hospital District is in an out j trailing the Columbus he said Quot it lying Section but within the pity i was purely accidental that we came escaped with cording to to lug remembrance of i j limits. The Bonis apparent y ranged j upon her Quot just about the time the j Telephone Exchange operator who i from 200 to g00 pounds in size. J Columbus Crew started to scuttle and noted the time of the accidental Cal. They fell in a 1 be n a compare. Bum her. Frank from the Conrad store. Lively sea 1 area damaging several i the Tusca Loosa seamen talking off j Hook. That Call fixes the rime of Tho j i a Bey at after Midnight a it a m is. Another fore b a Entrance made at the Handy Creamery. Was North buildings. The record on Shore leave said two most Hospital buildings had been United states Ith Between Indianapolis and personal income tax rate.?. Saville. By. Are being added to i. An increase in selected Manu. win a Iii it hrs my broken country with outcropping i a a a escaped with Sugnet or discs Lark Fleet of Indiana Railroad fact users leg close taxes. He meat one. Sink holes and deeply is available for both package corporation Tux would eroded it about one Nule a on this remain As Tlley were Lix 1 at the Iasi North of he ,., and a session of Congress. A Middle brackets Quot is not a precis that destroyers bad from Joe. While All main line rail service will abandoned Bowman elder As Rover of the Indiana Railroad has a term with a it specs either to estate 01 income tax rates. But examination j More Conven entry. The Road is a Quot a Row and is. Without doubt the Quot bracket a crooked est Highway in Putnam coun to. Sir. Was killed when her Nus band a in nor tar i lit let j evacuated. The people had Tjien Shel a Voyed the Columbus from Vera it leads through some rough to Ltd a skidded into a machine driven by 11 1 1 Quot ter with Tho first alarm. One building Cruz from where she sailed thurs rain and the excavation at the Loca a a Eph Parker of Sliver la Ake. He. 11 m 1 Al Ursoi to patients and 20 nurses. It Day. Tion of the Wen is in the midst of i bund was injured seriously while morning. The office was ran a a a sacked apparently and papers we a i Dis arranged but nothing of value was 1 Bernard Muller 26. Of this Moi Liing. There have was injured fatally when his car been other attempts Ai robbery there. Skidd d out of control near la Porte before this and the off be f it rce Iris mile South of the South u h let a it Mically his Mother. Mrs. Joseph become cautious about leaving Mon Rovid. Which Forks at the. In authorized by the interstate of the. Income tax Structure suggests Wnm Erce commission to continue that term might be used to descaling a freight service Between Ignate incomes from the beginning Binkley Coal mine near Seeley of surtax level which is $5,500 ind. And connection with West end of the Bridge Over Little a nut. The excavation work which was done at the Well site included the making of a Basin of considerable area and wide trenches. The soil a Mil Ler driving in the opposite direct by on hands even in the Safe. The lion topped her car to investigate Safe door was Jimmie this last the crush and discovered his body time. Ii if to a a i in the wreckage. He died in a l Porte Hospital shortly after the1 Accident. And 20 nurses. It i Day and that the Tuscaloosa which was reported that at least one to j left Norfolk saturday had taken of Man Pat ent had been wounded ser or the Quot Convoy Quot monday piously. They said that tuesday evening the be lbs struck a nurses Dormi when the Columbus and Tuscaloosa tory and four or five other buildings j were about 420 Miles off the bomb fell near a school for the j Ware capes inside the United states Blind shattering windows there an 1 a Quot neutrality Quot zone the British de in other buildings for blocks around Stroyer identified by t he seamen As the first air a d warning was 11 j the hyperion radioed the Tuscaloosa 55 a m. 3 55 a. M. Cost. Anti air asking what ship she waa conveying. For single persons and $7.000 for what Ian Clay resembling shale such mrs. Grace Prather 55, Fucks f the Milwaukee Road. Pen a childless married persons and Range us Jug u8uajiy found in the Vicinity old injure fatally in a Crossroads dictation As to tin identity of railroads perhaps t0 the $50.000-a-Ycar income j coat deposits. Coal has been found in i the same locality. Sylvain and other steam a Terre haute. Level forerunner of the present Indian a Olis Teri a haute traction Servic probably the first interurban a Al built in the Midwest was a tiny j Lunan in Muir mile line known As the Brazil j spi1 transit company which be tunning single truck open Niroj a Between cottage Hill and har-1 it a ind. In 1893. This Lin Quot. Along a ship that the Ike of the Terre Haut Ltd trac Nai j Light company the Indian lib t pit in at it. Lauderdale >1 a remain at length collision near Kokomo when wet Snow packed the mind shield of a i the contract for the drilling of truck driven by Claude l. Nutter. A the Well including the erection of the j 44 of Kokomo an a it crashed into i j Derrick is held by the Noble drilling it prathers car. Company of Tulsa Oklahoma and it they will Start work at once having a or. And mrs. Clarence Jeffries of Shelbyville lied of injuries suffered monday when he was hit by a car it is Suid the company backing tin 1 j definite1 driven by Herbert crunch 22, at Shelbyville. His injuries were intruders time i a United a some of their material on the group i now. Jack Jeffries. 10-year-old son a Quot is Plainfield and Western Ami nor intermediate lines was red by the Terre haute. Later Indi it. Lauderdale. Fla. Dec. 21 up the new German freighter it a it is and Eastern traction com Araucua today prepared for an Indef any which inaugurated through j invite sojourn in a Florida Harbor a Zenger s or Vicc Between Indiana held there by the double deterrent Ami Herre haute in january inf a British Cruiser hovering of Theng i three mile limit and an attachment the t h. I. Amp e. System which in a against her. A heyday operated nearly 400 Miles there seemed Little doubt that inc United states would extend the Araucua the Welcome due a peaceful lie drilling of this Well Lack proof that there is an Oil Pool under. A Vod superficial until an operation the ground at the location they have aus chosen because the geophysical instruments usually employed to or die City Hgt ice have been conduct Craft firing started almost rimmed capt. Badt replied to the British to ing an investigate on of both of these i lately. Most of the bombs were 1 Quot find out for themselves Quot the sen two m it St recent affairs but there a dropped Between noon and 12 10 p., men said and when the destroyer Kokomo appeared this morning to be no in m. The hark of heavy guns and Chat moved in at full. 30-knot Speed to the 1 ter of machine guns continued do so the Tuscaloosa turned away. Throughout the bombing. When the a in a few minutes the Columbus Crew i bombs began to a fall 1 took shelter was going Over the sides in boats and j in a dugout in a Park with Many four puffs of smoke from fires they i others. The sky was Clear and v is had set to destroy the ship to keep ability was unlimited. There were few the British from getting it were women on Tho streets. There had Ris no from the decks been an car Ier alarm at 10 10 a. M. I capt. Daehne said Tho american although not planes were seen then. Navy had Boon most courteous uni j when the bombing began Many old that before they gave Over thres a men left behind when younger ones Cort the commanders of the two Rie him. Quot Glt d a new air plane in production briton reported to Hay one to comi iat in St fighting Crft of Germany track was sold to Tho Indiana ii Road and Public service Coni by of Indiana at a receivers Sale Jun. 1931. The Indiana Railroad a subsequently operated the Terre tout Brazi portion of the line under a sub lease from the Public a vice company. Lindbergh resigns Washington dec. 21 up a Hite House Secretary Stephen t my disclosed tot Lay that col. Harks a. Lindbergh has resigned r it a the National advisory commit a of aeronautics. Die president has appointed Brig. Jen. Walter g. Kilner to succeed hire. 2 to of 0k 1�?T Christmas sepia protect j. Tour Home a from n. Tuberculosis t1"� 0� the Ivorlee told a bout Tho Quot rat tale of Christma Seal in Thea country in 1907 waa of a ragged newsboy going up to a Booth in Phil Aoe Iphia dropping a Penny on Tho counter and a Yang Quot Gimme Ona. Me a later a got it a merchantman. Preliminary investigation by port authorities revealed that the Araucua was neither ranted nor carrying War materials and had not violated unit Quot i states neutrality Laws. A Complete Check of the 4.354-ton freighters Manifest was being made today after capt. Frederick Stengler who ran his ship into port Everglades Harbor near Here to escape the British Cruiser Orion had formally applied for entry into the port. The Orion Lay in the Gulf Stream where she had spotted the Araucua tuesday and fired a warning shot across her Bow in an Effort to catch her before she crossed into the safety of the american three mile limit. The Cruiser patrolled a path that enabled her to see every move in the Hathor and there was no indication that she would abandon her Vigil. Meanwhile a $38.541 libel action was brought against the vessel. Capt. Stengler was undisturbed by it pointing out that tile Araucua was the Only Hamburg american ship available for service of the papers. The complaint was the Imperial sugar co. Of Galveston. Texas which Termine the presence of Oil in subterranean reservoirs Are not effective in this car due to the thickness of the Rock formation and the test is being made Here is based upon the beliefs of geologists it is said three thousand feet is Given As the probable depth of the bore in this instance and it is expected tint All of that will be in Rock mostly Limestone. Xmas so in tor ivc Slin rians sly Ciai. Program has arranged for Church Christmas morning the Christmas service of the presbyterian Church on sunday morning will be at 10 00 of clock the Church school will join in the worship scr vice. Mrs. V. A. Raphael has arranged a program entitled Quot nativity messages which will include scripture readings Ami carols by the departments of the sunday school and the congregation. Mrs. Harry j Skornia will sing Quot of holy night Quot the special Christmas offering will be for foreign missions. All who wish to go Carol Ling a invited to meet at the presbyterian manse sunday at 7 00 M. On Friday of this week from 2 30 to 4 00 M. The children of the disclosed that his intestine had been i , dec 21 ill la i great and peritonitis developed. Britain is m Hing production of a i new Type of lighting plane to combat Dills Home saved from the two sat a n1 who a Early morning fire fire thursday morning caused Consi Lerable damage to the Largo country Home or. mrs. O. C. Dills in Madison township. It was fortunate that the Blaze was discovered As Early As it was. Otherwise the entire House would have been destroyed. Or Dills at the Ham and in looking towards the House saw the Blaze which had started from a spark on the roof. A Man helping him an 1 another passing the Home at the time gave Early assistance and neighbors gathered quickly and water from a nearby tank was used in extinguishing the fire with a loss of about four squares of the roof. The loss was entirely covered by insurance. 20 years ago in g re in Castle the germans used in a big five Houi air fight Over Helgoland buy monday. It was reported today. Went to the front ran into the street9 troyes had messaged with r Flocs. The planes were Iron the planes were 10,000 to 12,000 feet up. And Well out of Rifle Range. The planes apparently came from the direction of Hanko and Wen about their business As shrapnel burst in White puffs around then. It. Was report a in that four bombs had been dropped this morning on a Island. Faster and More Tjw Erful than the a i App Vik. Near Hanko. But the sex 8pitfir� of i text damage could not be Asce spec i. Good Luck and merry Tho 577 survivors including nine women six stewardesses one masseuse on Hairdresser and a trained nurse and two lab 11 boys wore head As guests of the United states at Tho immigration station on Ellis crack hurricanes and spitfires of the Royal air Force the new plan has already been tested and has been put into full production it wan said. The new plane according to information so far made available is a Bolton Paul All Metal two a. Iter with a Multi gun Turret mount a behind the pilots cockpit. It has a 39.5 foot wingspan. Its fuselage length is 30 feet and it has u 1.000-horse Power motor. A second new Model the Blackburn Roc is destined to play an important work in the naval aviation corps. The test Model of this plane a Fleet fighter was completed several months ago. Germany used in the Helgoland Bay fight its new Messerschmidt 110 j two motored fighters reported to have a top Speed of 370 Miles an j hour mounting two Small Cannon and four machine guns Forward and i two moveable machine guns in the i trained Here since All communications from Helsinki were Cut off because of the raid Here. Gary trustee faced with bribery charge a Gary ind. Ike 21 up mrs. Mary Grace Wells Schwaf. Former trustee of Calumet township Lake Battle at the Mannerheim line raged co unabated today with the russians i Helsinki dec 21 up the throwing hundreds of air planes and it Hulln Wirtl in Tom g. O. I. Ltd a b meeting the regular meeting of the i it Lunty. Faced charges of bribery today after being indicted last night by uie grand jury. The indictment asserted that she took $1,085 from or Bellfield ache son representing 12 percent of payments made by the township to lbs he formerly served As Gary health commissioner. John h. Allee was named City attorney. Succeeding Charles t. Peck. Charles Zeis r. S Cowgill. C. C. Cradle Roll. Beginners. Primary and Gautier were among the Active pall charged breach of contract by the Junior departments will have u bearers from the Templar line for failure of three other Ger-1 Christmas party at the Church gift for the funeral of James med Hays Man ships to deliver Ugar consigned of food May be brought for the none of the Honor pay pall them by the Texas company. Christmas baskets. Survive. Greencastle Defeated Amo 33 to 9. J it was a curtain Raiser for the de. Pauw Hanover game won by de Pauw. 60 to 10. Laura and Leslie Frank were elected Matron and Patron of the mor j ton chapter of the Eastern Star. More firmness that Britain holds air supremacy. They say that the use of the new Messerschmidt to combat British North sea patrols was a Nam county women a Republican form it Cal services to poor people. Club will be held dec. 27th at 7 30 a or Atcheson was not indicted by the of clock at the court House. Husbands \ jury will be guests at this meeting. A special program on the candidates for nomination for governor of Indiana will be Given by members of the club. There will be a White elephant gift Exchange and social hour. Every Republican woman is urged to attend. A so today a weather 0 0 and it a local temperature 0 c Oudy becoming generally fair to-1 night and Friday continued moderately cold. British experts now Assort with the world War 25 years ago today sign of weakness. It is assert i that the British planes engaged in. The Helgoland fight shot Down at bearers least 12 of 24 super my use schmidts with French attacking on front near sent against them. Reims. By United press German planes made first raid on England near Dover. Battle of Champagne continued. Minimum 25 6 a. M. 26 7 a. M25 8 a. A. 25 9 a. M. 27 10 a. M. 27 11 a. A. 29 12 Boot. 29 in. A 1�?T p us. 30

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