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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - December 26, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaThe weather Cloudy and cold it. A 4 a the daily Banner �0 a All the Home news 4 4 United press service 4 a it it Waves for All i me forty eight Greencastle Indiana tuesday december 26, 19.10. No. 61 Ujj asians Shell finns from distance i gins i heavy fro Ike tiles As far As Twenty Miles fifteen Days left Roscoe Scott will soon open new 1 Sec. W All Ace for Abbit Hunters to afe on site of towns historic one gasoline record in Indiana is reached sectors kept Active my Kiharu from european War i from the finnish front we Ern front quiet Only fourteen Days of open season for Rabbit Hunting Are left the season ending wednesday january 10. Taking rabbits after that Date is a violation of the Law. Rabbit Hunters have been enjoying one of their most successful seasons finding an abundance of cot Tontai s in almost every part of the state. Natural reproduction of Rab about january 20, the Monon Grill will have its doors opened to the dining Public on almost the site of the old Billy Thompson restaurant at the Monon crossing of Jackson Street. Roscoe Scott who has erected and will operate the new dining House has taken Down the Thomp son Structure which had become a with u a taw j displeasure to the eyes of Greengas bits has been so great in some parts of the state that they were be coning a nuisance before the Hunting season opened. Despite the fact that rabbits form the chief game bagged by most Hunters there is no evidence that they Are in danger of Estermina minor Recks in Greencastle Christmas week end in city1 was free of any Seri i finnish army general quarters. Vii Puri dec. I a russian Quot big Bertha Quot i Tion. I smashed into Vii Puri today in a Uba dment which started Chrisl evening and showed no signs of sing. Tough out the night the shells onto Homes and buildings threes and fours from the Bian lines 25 Miles away and the fire engines on their Way to fires had made a pan demo 1-l of the City. He City was now under an almost pc tenuous air raid alarm. Plants it Over Vii Rupi. Dropping bombs ring the Daylight hours yesterday the first Alann came today just 1 Lent in the county according to i Kore 9 a. M. Anti aircraft flick word this morning from the state once started. Pace Barracks at Putnamville from Midnight the russian Quot big j he sheriffs office in the court House Rothas Quot a new development began in it from the office of the City to a with increasing intensity. Ice no a building. F seemed to carry higher charges was another Accident anywhere tie residents standing As it did. In close proximity to the other buildings of the Vicinity which Are much newer and much More attractive in appearance. A Billy Thompson put up his place in 1880,�?� said or. Scott this morning. A the leased the land from the heirs. First he had Only one room the North then he built a second floor Over the first room then a lean to Kitchen and finally added a bar room. A this first regular customers be sides the Railroad men. Were the men and women working at the old Woolen Mill just South of there. They were Given a fifteen minute recess during each Forenoon and each afternoon just As children have in school and they would go to Thompsons place and eat and drink a Little. A the had a sort of game of Chance with a big piece of Candy As the prize. No one wanted the Candy it was always put Back and some thing else taken in place of it. The Candy got As Black As soot from be j ing handled so much. A in 1890. Thompson bought the ground from the Daggy estate. The Monon Railroad brought him a Good Deal of business but when the big four was built in the �?T80 a and had a Union station with the Monon right by the Side of the restaurant almost he did a big proposes All to agriculture will Siphon three Iii naked millions from consumer to the producer8 proposed plan oppose o hitter Flag lit exp eted before any adoption is made a proposed by Radical Secreta a of a. Washington. Dec 26 up Secretary of agriculture Henry a Wallace s plan to Siphon a m i Imus of. Of $300.000.000 n year directly i i Consumers to help finance the farm program was described in detail today in an official statement. An Al time record High of $23. 95.000 w 11 be paid to the state in gasoline taxes by Indiana Norto its in 1939, be and k. Fishback Secretary of the Indiana Petroleum Indus ies committee has est a mated. Gasoline tax recipes this year have been running 8 9 per cent ahead of 1938 and on that Bas s he said the estimated total of $23 795. In gasoline taxes will be collected by the state by the end of the year. A a gasoline taxes have become one of the major sources of state revenu., providing Mil ions of dollars to build roads which Benefit every Community in the state said or. Fishback a since the gasoline tax is a special j Levy imposed upon a single class of Frank i. Irvine a injuries proof. Fatal tuesday flying Captain who was Hurt in crash Dies at Washington f l o w n East o n is n Day was taken to Walter Steed Hospital. Where he died was son of William Irvin of thin City capt Frank g. Irvin died in the waiter Reed Hospital in Washington d. C., at five of clock tuesday morning his father William Irvin of this City was told by army officials. Capt. Irvin was flown to the Washington army Hospital sunday from Indianapolis where he was injured of s smash is with the exception of two or three minor automobile accidents in the City of Greencastle. Christmas Day a j passed without an automobile Acci heavy toll is j taken Over nation nearly 51 0 die violent deaths in country i King week end holidays g. 0. P. Women to meet wed. Keg r la ii monthly meeting will be held in court House at 7 30 p. A taxpayers. The rate should be the statement was prepared by As reasonable As possible. Sight shout 1 Distant aaa administrator j. B. Hut j not be lost of the fact that most of a St Friday morning when lie at son and distributed to All agriculture i the motorists that pay gasoline taxes i tempted to land an army ship in a for department Heads with approval of i have incomes of less than $30 a week. I a municipal Airport after Flyte Wallace officials described the state i Merit As a guide Sheet for discus i i a 1 1 a Roosevelt plans it from California. Capt. Irivin re Sion of the plan. The proposal face n a explosives than had the first ones the county these officers if Ini had not i desk i Coverdale has had add flurries by United press the women a Republican club of sudden death Cut Short Christmas Putnam county will hold its regular festivities in hundreds of Homes Dur monthly meeting wednesday even Nero i ing the week end. A Survey showed ing. Dec. 27 at 7 30 in the court today. House lobby. Republican Nice will at least 493 persons died violently be guests at the meeting at Yule celebrations in automobile. The Community singing will la m air plane and Railroad accidents m charge of mrs. Ethel fall of Rac shootings fires and by drowning Coon led by Mary Elizabeth Abel of traffic accidents killed 347. Nearly Greencastle. Members from Clover three times As Many As to total killed Dale will furnish special musical by other causes. Numbers. Thirty three persons committed us special information has been 30 died from Burns and 87 died Cei ved by mrs. Ray trembly presi Day for the no n already in jail but from i nobody was put in jail. They were smashing craters six i Yakeen informed of it. Deep and 12 feet across in the the state police Barracks Izen Earth. I Man reported a heavy traffic on the National Road. Sheriff Lawrence Graham sail i there was a Freedom from cases of Public intoxication too. He said a i had a lot of visitors during the to be opposed Cei ved an injured spine in the Friday morning Accident and was partly sized from his should a is Down. At one time saturday night it was feared to Ould die at the methodist Hospital but he rallied and improved rapidly until he was Able to be removed t a i the Washington Hospital later in the i Day. A capt. Irvin was bom and reared in Groa Castle where he was widely known he was educated in the City a the plan still is Sten Tauc As to de j Tive front established to enact presi Public schools and in Depauw unit ails. But Wallace has committed j Dent Roosevelt a special session non Versley where himself publicly to its major Provis an Uncertain future having met Cool reception the Treasury. It combines the certificate plan i for raising direct and the a Domestic allotment system whereby the tax would collected Only on that portion of agricultural products consumed in the american Mark t i political issues of next ses or two Price i sign of Congress May be it 1 bitter ones i Washington. Dec. 26 up the harmonious democratic Legisla a an automobile mishap in Green w x 8 i p residents at Castle. Christmas eve. Was due to times past have found the colliding of an automobile driven precious Metai. By Xeuy Yun ulcer. Of Northwood the miscellaneous Lead All states number of violent deaths with 45 j 29 of them from traffic accidents. Illinois was second with 39, and a Michigan was third with 36. At Collegeville. Minn., As St. Johns Abbey was stilled in Observance of Christmas eve brother Walter Stel i Ner shot and killed brother stanislaus a Yaworksi. Then shot him Sci twice. County authorities said the had not Learned his motive or where with a car parked at a. H. Manuel so it has been Only a few years since Home on Anderson Street. Miss was quite a flurry among clo Yuncker was accompanied by her e townships residents because sister. Barbara on a sight seeing the finding of some grains of Gold tour of the City Christmas evening a a a Ream bed not far from cd it to ser thu Christmas lights and be town. There was not a a Gold while they were looking at some but other parties panned the j especially attractive effect near the he Job tanned the gun. They said no kinds and gravels of that Creek a Manuel Home at about 8 15 o clock. Be. Hoping to find More of their car collided with the Manuel grains. There have been other car. Miss Barbara Yunckers head liar finds in the county All of was thrown into the Windshield Lem of inconsiderable amounts. A causing cuts on her lips and fore but the belief of some persons that head and some Teeth were loosened it was reported. On Christmas Day at 11.15, aug Christmas visits when their Auto to to mobiles driven by Chester York wag struck by a Wabash iad May be Gold deposits in the unto is discouraged by the com of missioner of the state department of knee ration. Inquest would be held and that they had ordered him interned at a St. Cloud Hospital for observation. Five members of a family two children their parents and their. Grandmother were killed at Chicago last night while making a round of u Dent from the six Republican candidates for the nomination for governor of Indiana. William e. Jennet it Shoals David Hogg of fort Wayne Glenn Hillis of Kokomo George Jef Fery of Indianapolis judge Emmet of Shelbyville and Clarence Benadum of Muncie which will be presented by mrs. Simpson Stoner. Mrs. Thai Jones. Mrs. Lee Rei ves. Mrs. Vernon Gardner mrs. Lynn Brown mrs. W. Janies. The program will be followed by a White elephant gift Exchange. The committee on decorations and gifts. I Dent Roosevelt s special session non Versley whore he took part in All trility Bill is menaced today by con sports starring in football and Bartons. It was outlined by Hutson to j Trover Sial issues awaiting Congress. J pc tall during his collegiate course. I the american farm Bureau federa presidential politics will be a my following his school work he enter Tion convention in Chicago Early thi j Jor Factor in Congress 1940 Delibera a cd the army joining the air corps month. It has been approved by the tons which begin Jan. 3. Apart where he was stationed at Kelly Grange second largest organize i from the questions of nominees a tul Field. Sail Antonia Texas. To com group of Farmers but the federation party platforms grave issues of pub plated his training course there and was noncom Wiital. Lie policy will have to be disposed of., was transferred from one station to the officially approved statement a the regular session of congress1 Ever the country of a train said that principal features of the which adjourned last aug. 5 left in ing and test Pilot. For the past Sev plan would be finished business which is Likely to 1 eral years he has Bren at Wright a prior to the beginning of a Mark i disturb both democratic and re pub Field Dayton where he was one of eting year for each commodity Ali Elican party lines. Hotly disputed the War department s Foremost test Secretary of agriculture would Erti legislation and presidential authority pilots. It was one of these test trip i mate the Quantity of the commodity ies expire next year unless Congress to the Pacific coast that he was fat a required for Domestic consumption a can be persuaded to continue them ally injured. He went West two week during the marketing year. This or Roosevelt a authority to Nego ago j to Fly Back East the ship in which Quantity would constitute the be. Tifi j Tiatco reciprocal Trade agreements he cracked up last Friday. It was and Ira Moore collided at the Intel or. Simmons says that although Section of College Avenue and sem y a few diamonds and scattered Inary the latter being headed Ecsi wounded his daughter and posits of Gold have been found in i on Seminary and the former South j coming ted suicide at his Ludington Road passenger train. John Slavickas. 64. Shot and killed a Uliana there is hardly a week that on College. The damage was not be division of geology is not asked heavy. The City police investigated i examine specimens which arc or i without congressional consent or and reported that Thia was the Sconn i vice already is the Center of political i ship of the character Ever built the discussion in which republicans and first one having cracked up a couple a group of democrats from Agricula of years ago in Tost flight killing the Price to be fixed for certificates j Tural states proclaim determination 1 the Pilot and capt. Irvin s wreck during the marketing year on the j to prevent its Extension. That Auto i was in the remaining one built it Cate allotment that is the qua Tity for which certificates would be issued. A the Secretary would determine mrs. Clyde Grimes miss Florence j it r pro Harp a formula. One Ortity will expire june 12. 1940 the j was Sai l the motor died on the plane Evans. Mrs. Janies Mcintyre mrs., suggest Ian is that the Price lie equal j reciprocal Trade program was Spon As he attempted to land and without to the amount of which the currant sorted by Secretary of state Cordell a it Ower he was helpless from striking Harold Kayser. Mrs. Roland Smith. Mrs. Clyde Williams mrs. Grace j Williams and miss Betty Grimes. A refreshments mrs. We Roby. Hostesses mrs. Frank Deer mrs. Homer Lukecus mrs. Thad Jones. Mrs. Clyde Gray. Mrs. Gilbert ogles every Republican is urged to attend. Price for the commodity i below the parity Price. A each Farmer would be Given cer r at her than by or. Roosevelt j the Concrete runway at the Airport. President announced this w he hit the ground he bounced Hull but the month that he would press for its sex tif Cates amounting to his i Dividu tension. Al share of the american Market in each commodity the remainder would be sold at whatever it. Would paved to be precious stones or Metal. Named at i. U. Most of the diamonds which a Kris found in Indiana and most of Bloomington. Ind. Dec. 26 la Gold have been found along the j up Lyle c. Bryant of the of the glacial Boundary and j varsity of Chicago has been named Pere carried into the Hoosier state professor of business administration Tho southward movement of the at the ind Ana University school of Ciers. The occasional discovery business. A Diamond or a Small Nugget or he will take up his duties at the Ket of Gold flakes is usually made j beginning of the february semester. P eng the glacial Boundary in Brown j land economics and the Editorship Fonroe and Morgan counties. Univ of various research business pub Ca i Lew of the diamonds which have a tons will Compromise his activities found had any great value due i at the University i flaws or colouring. 5n lash and wife parents of a son Don lash formerly world prize inning Long distance runner on the Indiana University track team and l0w a state police officer assigned the Barracks at Putnamville Bone the father of a boy baby born at noon Christmas Lay. Local fans said it was the first boy Mai Horn to any of the current Fco Rolfi record holders in the distance a Venta. Last year lash received the James e Sullivan trophy As the nation s outstanding athlete. Mrs. Lash is the former Margaret Mendenhall of be Idle ton also an Indiana univer bit graduate. Lash had been invited some time fourteen killed by v submarine British Sill i sink without warning. With heavy loss of life London dec. 26 Impi fourteen persons were killed yesterday when the British Steamer Stan Holm. 2,473 tons was sunk without warning by a German submarine off the West coast of England it was announced today. Ten survivors were injured. There was a terrific explosion on the Stan Holm two hours after the ship left port and while most of the members of the Crew were celebrating Christmas below decks. A deck hand had sighted the a boat but not until the submarine was ready to fire its torpedo and when mich., Home Christmas Day. At Worcester. Mass. Mis. Benjamin Jacques. 45. A state Hospital a. Pendant. Entered a room where he estranged husband was eating Christ Mas dinner with six other persons and opened fire with a pistol. Her husband and his Host were wounded seriously at Princeton. 111., a Groom to be went berserk Christmas eve shot and killed his parents seriously wounded his brother and then killed himself. One of the most unusual deaths occurred at St. Paul. Early anger. 35, was run Down and killed by the automobile to was cranking. The Engineer and fireman of a Rock Island freight train were killed near Choctaw okla., Christmas Day when the boiler of a locomotive exploded. At san Francisco an aged couple died in a hotel fire which for a time had threatened to trap 150 guests. At Pierre s. D., a Man arranging Yule decorations on the roof of his new year s to take Many to state Parks bring for Export. Farmers in order to receive certificates would have to and to comply with aaa and other Fon Novor Christmas never came i program 1 Lay Huby Keeler was scheduled to a Farmers to whom certificate a -k0 Nln court and divorce him. Issued would obtain the Cash value miss Keeler a suit charging Jolson with cruelty was on the court Cal about 25 feet High and overturned wrecking the ship and injuring him self fatally. A passenger Riding with Jolson disappointed him was uninjured it was reported Hollywood. Dec. 26�? up a i capt. Irvin made a Complete report reconciliation message for which Al to Tho War department and to the Jolson reportedly waited hopefully company tii Ludvig the plane As t it the cause of the Accident and it is believe 1 they were similar to the on3 which wracked the original plane. At Observance of the new year s Holl Day this weekend will take Many of the certificates by Selling them hoosiers. To the state Parks j the fixed Price. One suggestion is Virgil m. Simmons con Unis that the first purchaser of the pc sooner of the department of censer j duct be required to buy the certify vation predicted today. Popularity of the Parks As Winter Outing places has increased steadily As a result of Date. The Cost would be passed on directly to the processor who would have to show that he had purchased the provision of facilities for enjoy a certificates for All of the commodity Nunt of these areas. I he Sells in the Domestic Market. Winter sports skiing skating tobogganing and Sleigh ing have been a popular innovation at Pokagon when weather conditions arc favourable. Hiking Riding and picnicking Are favorite activities at All Parks especially those where the inns Are open during the Winter. Yontl Neinl in Ruge two 6� to participate in the sugar bowl it was too late to warn the Crew a rack meet at new Orleans. La., next sunday when such stars As Glenn j Cunningham. Archie san Romani. I cd a Zamperlin of the University of j Southern California and others i l compete. He declined to accept definitely contingent on the Safe and scheduled the world War 25 years ago today quins Abed tired. Happy after foray on skates Callender. Ontario dec. 26 the Dionne quintuplets went to bed thirty minutes Early last night tired but Happy after an exciting Christmas Day highlighted by their hilarious attempts to master new ice skates presented by their physician or. Allan Roy Dafoe. The Day began for the Quinta at 4 30 a. M. When they aroused the Nursery to find out what Pere Noel had left for them. They heard a radio broadcast of Christmas carols breakfasted and then pounced on the stockings. Delighted cries came from the five Little girls As they found Small toys apples and oranges. Shorty before 10 a. M. Their parents or. And mrs. Olyva Dionne and the other Dionne children made the r marriage enthes Norris w. Clark Printer Fillmore and Virginia l. Ruark. Stenographer Fillmore. Sully Labhart guard at state farm. Greencastle route 2, and Mary Lorrin Genet waitress Greencastle route 2. John Carlton Nordman. Post graduate student. Crawfordsville. And Margaret Alice Riley teaching. Greencastle. Endear before Superior judge Thomas c. Gould Jolson. More woeful than he Ever was when he Sang a Mammy Kong was not opposing the action. To the last however he held Hope of reconciliation. He by United press u United states protested to great Cha of his expected child. How Britain against seizure and detention j Tumcl Ca i or the family they do. Western front. 20 years ago in Greencastle end a French custom. Or. And mrs. Frank Cannon spent Christmas at Rushville with her parents. Mias Lydia Ann Williams was Here from Knox where she was supervisor in the schools of music and drawing. Or. And mrs. G. W. Grove came Here from their wedding trip for a Brief visit with the latter s parents or. And mrs. Philip Albaugh. Before going to their new Home at Knob Roxter to. A another suggestion is that a Pool be established to buy the banners certificates. This Pool then would ? sell the certificates to processors no certificate would be required in connection with the Sale of articles for Hutson outlined three advantage which he said the certificate plan would have Over the present appropriation method of financing the farm program. These were a first it would provide a continuing source of that would not require specific action of Congress each year. It would be a step toward making the program self financing. A second it would place outside the Federal budget a Large part of the Protection Given to farm tricorn under government programs just As the Tariff protects other industries. A third the certificate Pui would relate the source of revenue1 directly i to the commodity included in the the farm program costing approximately $1,000.000.000 a year has been almost exclusively from appropriations from the Federal Treasury since supreme court declared the processing tax unconstitutional in 1936. President Roosevelt has insisted that All above the $500,000,000 annually appropriated for Noil conservation and funds for agriculture department administration be financed by added taxation. He has threatened to Send Congress a a Bill Quot ii unil Niril a a a a la no a two said ruefully a a i Hope a hell come right Back a when Sho left their Encino Home Octobi-17 and went to her parents. Besides his father. Capt. In in is survived by the widow the former miss Eleanor Raub of Indian amp Pohs i who exp to go immediately to i Washington following the flight for her husband and a brother will of Lafayette an a sister mrs. Robert business mod in cite on saturday All stores did a rus1ii business during Losi of shopping ska so reports today indicated Greencastle business men War most swamped with the late c Mas shoppers All Day on sat urdu and that the volume of business for the Day was much greater than that of a year ago when Many made comparisons. From Early in the morning until the doors were closed around 9 30 of clock saturday night every place was literally a Bee hive with business. It seemed that no particular line was favored Over another and All stores were so Busy that the extra clerks were unable to take up the Slack and people waited patiently or picked their own merchandise and in a Way waited on themselves. It is believed the volume of business for the entire year of 1939 will equal if not go ahead of 1938. As there remains the balance of this week but few Are expecting any great volume during these few remaining Days. The store personnel will be Busy taking inventory an l preparing the Way for the opening of the new year which comes next monday. Sadler Spokane Wash. The body will to returned to Greencastle As it was one of the requests of capt. Irvin that he in buried Here. The body will be taken to Tho Rector funeral Home and will probably arrive some time thursday although no definite word was received by or. Irvine a father today at n. Hedge it i is Stock of the. A. Kelly store Harley hedge who operates a meat and grocery at the Northwest Corner of the Square has purchased the Stock in the store of the late c. A. Kelly in South Greencastle. Bov scout notice there will be an important meeting for members of troop 99. Wednesday evening at regular meeting place. Special announcements will b a made regarding hike on thursday. A today a weather a a and a a local temperature a a a a a a a a a a a a mostly Cloudy tonight and wednesday Little Diange in temperature. 2929. 303031 .-.3334 12 noon. 35 1 p. M35 2 p. M. A. 35 minimum 6 a. M. 7 a. M. 8 a. M. 9 a. M10 a. M. 11 a. M

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