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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - January 9, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaAnd colder a �T�4 1 the daily Banister a it Waves for ally a a a All the Home news 4 United press service 4 a a forty seven Greencastle Indiana monday january 9, 1939. No. 72mcnutt candidate president Roui it or politicians it today with Ink Mchale in Philppine Post Eddlo of the Ronda Candi will open Headquarters Polis Jan. 0.�?<up>�? Nutt educator former Indiana and u. S. High to the philippine is ally announces today his the 1940 presidential roup of ranking Hoosier 111 meet this afternoon of Frank Sci Sale Pinili Atic National com Mattec in nutty a name in the Middle of the Road can open a Headquarters the drive to install him House will be directed will culminate a quiet Lizeh has been going Oil a is. And make Mcnutt wed candidate of Etther 1940 Campaign. To confers with Mcnutt i times a week by Tele i the 10.000 Miles to announce when Mcnutt Pis philippine Post and United states stood Mcnutt wants irl thin a month. Paul Kington publisher said Mcnutt planned to sail feb. 11, but Mchele Vas a definite decision declined to reveal in and would attend today s f was believed the person include Bowman elder Sor and treasurer of inked Hoosier democratic cent club Frank my Napolis banker and Jackson present Indi Atic chairman White haired and Hond course of his Rise he of the Indiana Una a school governor and higher. As governor he built i strongest democratic or in the history of the a Igina ted the a two per to which All state pm saute and which was Beto open its reported car Chest for his Cam l the Man behind him and guiding him from in sity to the status of Timber. Year Schaile has trav ads of Miles contacting i leaders and trying to regates to the 1940 con claims considerable sup Torado California new Gan Illinois Pennsylvan hand of course a solid gation. Sid Mcnutt is being of a Middle of the Road Quot canse he has a Liberal record yet is highly regarded men As a conservative. Butt 3 candidacy on that in receive favourably at i pc new York and Chicago month. Active in the affairs Merican legion 15 years ago. Me Mcnutt s most in and among Hoosier poles said no Man Ever had end. Mihalc led Mcnutt on As state legion com in 1928 saw him elected Nandur. His plans then Mcnutt to to governor and after four years of Mcnutt was elected in a Teristi vigor in his manner. Mcnutt a wholesale changes in in Ern mental system include no Flat Rue to Lanuel is news reel you no mayor. Of it. Id Ordale reel showing at the after tonight and Tomor of is a splendid picture of son of or. And mrs. A. Of this City. Of mayor of fort Laud and he makes a preen i for the news reel in be Prises in a Florida St. Citizens predict future weather some of our older citizens who Are following Tilia unusual weather have reported that there will be no colder weather during the next six weeks. They Are Basing their forecasts on the fact that on Friday january 6, there was no ice and it was mild. They report Many old timers forecast the following six weeks from january 6, by the weather that Day and because there was no ice on the ctr this year we Are Lead to believe that there will be no worse weather for the next six week on february 2, the ground hog will come out to forecast another six weeks and there should be but Little doubt As to the weather for the remainder of the couple Hurt in Accident or. And mrs. Jesse Ford driving near Danville ill., Friday in an automobile crash near Danville 111., Friday or. And mrs. Jesse Ford of near Roachdale and others were injured. The Accident is one of the worst which has occurred in the Vicinity of Danville this year. Travelling toward the North on Georgetown Road at 1 a. M., the car driven by Jesse Ford and in which Fords wife Betty. Roscoe Birge and mrs. Ruth Parvey both of Craw Fordsville were Riding collided with a car driven by mrs. Stella Erp we Sivilie route 1, and in which Charles e. Mcguire also of we Sivilie route 1, was a passenger at intersection of 14th Street. Occupants of the Ford Auto were removed to Lake View Hospital and those in the Erp car to St. Elizabeth Hospital. Birge who suffered raises and scratches on the legs and Ford who received a broken nose left the hospitals after their injuries were dressed. Birge is employed on the Ford farm. Mrs. Ford the More seriously injured of the passengers in her husband s car has a compression fracture of the first Lumbar Vertebra. Her condition Friday was reported a a Izairi Quot mrs. Parvey Riding in rear scat of the Ford Auto suffered cuts and bruises on the face and legs and the loss of several Teeth. Mrs. Erp and Mcguire suffered a Aoe rations. A fit and bruises and mrs. Erp several fractured ribs. In route to Danville from Lyons the Ford Auto and the Erp car travelling South on the four Lanc pavement crashed with such Force that the front ends of each were crushed and Ford and his wife were Hurley against the Windshield the Impact smashing the Glass. City police sent to the Accident scene assisted in caring for the injured and summoned the ambulances which removed them to hospitals. The Ford Home is less than half a mile East of state Road 43, South of the Road East from Fincastle. Notice to troop 48 All members of boy scout troop 45 arc urged to meet at 6 50 of clock this evening at the new High school gymnasium. Scoutmaster Russell Mapes has asked members to bring basketball Kennedy died suddenly Mon. Heart attack believed to have caused death of Well known Farmer a sudden heart attack is believed to have caused the untimely death Early today of 75-year-old Charles h. Kennedy Well known Putnam county Farmer at his farm near the put Nam Hendricks county line. The lifeless body of or. Kennedy was found in the barn lot at the Kennedy place. Members of the family reported that the aged Farmer had gone to the Ham a Short time before his body was found to the morning chores. Belief was expressed that he had been stricken a few minutes after leaving the House. Relatives immediately notified Putnam county authorities and Coroner r. J. Shannon and sheriff l. G. Graham investigated. The widow survives. Funeral services for the prominently known Farmer will be conducted at 11 of clock wednesday morning from the new Winchester Church. The Allan Campbell funeral Home of Coatesville has charge of arrangements. Burial will be in the new we Chen tor cemetery.50th wedding anniversary is observed or and mrs. Andrew Cross of Roachdale married in 1889 friends called sunday p. Al ceremony was pen formed by Rev. Levi Larkin minister at Bainbridge the pleasant Home of or. And mrs Andrew Cross in Roachdale was thronged sunday afternoon by friends who called to extend their congratulations upon the attainment of the Golden anniversary of the marriage of that popular couple. Monday is the real anniversary As it was on january 9, 1889, that miss Ollie Batman and or. Cross were married at the Home of or. And mrs. Woodson Batman her father Ami Mother West of Carpentersvle. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Levi Larkin a methodist minister residing at Bainbridge. Present at that marriage were a few of the friends and relatives of the two Young people among them being or. Crass Brothers George e. Cross now living East of Thom town John Cross of Brazil Ben Cross of Sheridan this state William who died at Indianapolis this vast december 8 and mrs. William crass or and mrs. Dexter Darnell of coat Tasville and a few others. Or. And mrs. Cross have lived in Roachdale and Greencastle the greater part of their married life. They arc the parents of mrs. Varis Tobin of Indianapolis mrs. Oakie Lieber of Indianapolis and miss Miry Ann Cross of Tucson Arizona. Mrs. Crass is a member of the Roachdale presbyterian Church and the Eastern Star and or. Cross is Active in masonic orders. Assisting the Host and hostess in the dining room at the reception sunday afternoon were mrs. Martha c. Irwin mrs. De Crosby and mrs. Stuart Hostetter. In the company that afternoon were or. And mrs. John Cross and miss Ella Beck Brazil formerly Greencastle mrs. William Cross and two sons Indianapolis or. And mrs. Voris Tobin and son Indianapolis mrs. Oakie Lieber Indianapolis or. And mrs. Dexter Samall Coatesville George e. Cross East of Thorn town and Many others from Greencastle and other cities. Or. Croes is a Salesman of farm implements for Walter Campbell of Greencastle. And in that capacity and in other preceding work he has formed the acquaintance and Friendship of the greater part of the Farmers of the county. Democrat editorial meet local democrats have been in formed that tickets for the midwinter banquet of the Indiana democratic editorial association in the Cleypool hotel at Indianapolis on saturday night feb. 11, Are now on Sale at the office of state auditor Frank g. Thompson 237 state House and the Hoosier Sentinel 210 Claypool hotel Indianapolis. A prominent party Leader and orator from Washington will deliver the principal address at the banquet. According to Ray e. Smith general chairman. He announced that gov. Clifford Townsend will speak also As will the two Indiana senators Frederick Van Guys and Sherman Minton if they arc Able to be to decide on policy discover theft of Upa checks from mail boxes must rally around new Deal Standard or Cut Relief costs party dissension minimized funeral held monday last rites for Charles Hester who died at Russellville at 4 30 of clock saturday were conducted at the Christian Church monday afternoon at 1 30 of clock. Rev. William h. Newlin of Craw Fordsville and Rev. Raymond Hart Ling pastor of the Russellville Christian Church officiated. Interment was in the Russellville cemetery. Or. Hester was Horn in Brown township Montgomery county. Aug. 25, 1872, a son of i. V. And Mary m. Hester. Surviving arc three Brothers. Adam James and Frank Hester All of Russellville and two Sisters. Mrs. John Wilson Parkersburg and mrs. Elizabeth Handy. Russellville. Two Brothers. John and Isaiah Hester and two Sisters miss Lucy Hester and mrs. John Walls preceded him in death. Fire threatened Bainbridge bldg. Office of National spotted Poland association badly damaged mayor Laguardia arrived today to support new Deal in vital contest the building in Bainbridge housing the offices of the National organization of the spotted Poland China association was seriously threatened by Firo monday. When mrs. Edwin Smith stenographer opened the front door of the building monday morning at 8 30 of clock she was met by an outward rash of dense smoke. She called an alarm to men nearby. The towns fire alarm the Siren at the electric Light Plant was sounded and the greater part of the male population of the town assembled on the ran each one carrying a bucket. The Impromptu Firo brigade rendered such Good service that the Blaze which had started from an overheated Funare in the basement waa confined to that part of the building the basement Walls were burned and everything in the Structure was saturated with the smoke but none of the important records was damaged otherwise. The building is a Brick Structure. Fred Obenchain is president of the association and mrs. Alice priest his daughter is office manager. Others employed in the office Ore mrs. Martha Collett and mrs. Adele Mas ten. Hareas Corpus hearing closed Illinois couple divided Over custody of child. Hearing in court intangible tax a tamps exchanged by january 10 it is announced at the office of Roland Lane county treasurer that january 10, which is tomorrow is the last Day for the Exchange of 1938 intangible tax Stamps for the 1939 issue.20 years ago in Greencastle Purdue beat Depauw 28 to 26 in basketball. Depauw led at the end of the first half. The Honor Roll at the High school included Cena Brothers Pearl Gibson Philip Maxwell. Mary c. Cannon Edna West Lawrence Wright Russell Welch Archie Duncan. Estes Duncan of Coverdale joint senator and i. L. Wimmer. Of Bainbridge. Joint representative went to Indianapolis to attend the Republican party caucus. Charles Kelley went to St. Louis to buy merchandise. In the Putnam circuit court this morning judge Courtland c. Gillen gave judgment in the Hareas Corpus proceedings brought in court last week by Perry b. Ward an Illinois business a in in which he asked the assist Anoo of the court in securing Possession of Tho Smaill child of himself and his wife Glady Ward. The proceedings developed from a visit of the wards at the Home of mrs. Ward s parents. Or. And mrs. Jesse Elliott in Fillmore during the Early part of the Christmas season. A Day or so after Christmas. Or. Ward announced his desire that he and his wife and their child Shirley Ann should return Home at once ins Ead of remaining until new years or latter As Uliey originally planned. Mrs. Ward refused to leave at that time and refused him the Possession of the child it is claimed. Or. Ward came to Greencastle and instituted Tho Hareas Corpus proceedings in order to recover Possession of the let Itle girl. All of the interested parties were in court monday morning including Little Shirley Ann who has been sick at Tho Elliott Home. A pathetic Little touch was Given the scene in court upon the Entrance of the father when his Little daughter in the care of her Mother ran to meet him in the court room and greeted him with warm affection. By the judgment of the court the father is to have custody of the Little girl one week in each month dating from the first saturday if the health of Tho child does not prohibit it and he also is permitted to visit with her on his various visits to the state on business. The defendant in the Hareas Corpus Case mrs. Ward is freed from Tho writ. Lafayette Baptist five to play local netters one of the fastest Church basketball games of the season is anticipated tonight when the i Lafayette ban list Church team meets the local Christian Durch five on the local Hardwood. Tonight a tussle is scheduled for 8 o clock on the High school gymnasium floor. The admission is free. Washington Jan. 9. Cup a House democrats must decide today whether to rally around the new Deal Standard raised by president Roosevelt on Jackson Day or Rebuff the administration wit i a Voto to Cut Relief Coats. The Relief showdown May coma before the weekend. Conservatives Are mane vering to Cut costs or to deprive or. Roosevelt of sole Power to allocate the big Relief Lump sums they would like to both. The $875,000.000 Relief appropriation now proposed by or. Roosevelt would increase the current fiscal year deficit to $4,097,000,000, if expended before july 1. Mayor Fiorello h. Laguardia of new York arrived today to support the new Deal in this first and vital contest of the 76th Congo Ess. He will represent the conference of mayors in a plea for big Relief spending. But Laguardia is viewed by politicians As More important in his role of first statesman of Tho american labor party which is a balance of Power Factor in new York state. He will testify before the House appropriations committee which still somewhat doubtful is hearing arguments in favor of or. Roosevelt a $875,000.000 spa plan for Tho remainder of the fiscal year. Avid Lasser of the workers Alliance will Tell the committee today that the sum should be raised to $1,050,000.060. A representative of the Congress of Industrial organizations will propose appropriation of $1,000,000,000. Lasser head of a Union of spa workers with some 400,000 members says his figure not Only would Tako care of the needy hut would raise their pay 20 per cent. Congressional new dealers welcomed Tho presidents Jackson Day speech at the $100-a-Platc Mayflower hotel dinner Here. Conservatives were less enthusiastic. Some democrats unfriendly to the administration were angered by what they regarded As an invitation by the president to a take a the address was variously interpreted. It challenged a a Normal democrats to Battle and invited them to join the opposition after they had been licked in Intra party strife. Or Roosevelt and other Jackson Day speakers minimized reports of party dissension. But the reports persist. And this weeks vote in the House on spa funds will indicate How wide and deep the cleavage Lias become. Another test is Likely in the Senate where democrats will Lead a movement to earmark Relief funds. That would deprive or. Roosevelt and spa officials of discretion in allocating funds to Ailt a the jobless. This plan gains impetus from charges of a a politics in Relief in the last Campaign and the fears of conservative democrats that Lump sum appropriations to the president might be used against them if indirectly in punishment for their opposition to new Deal policies. Or. Roosevelt asked for the Money without strings on it and condemned As either insincere or ignorant suggestions from democratic and Republican sources that local committees be established to keep politics out of Relief. Indianapolis ind., Jan. B. George b. Loy secret Sergioc agent Here said today 100 works Progress administration pay checks had been stolen from mail Box a and endorsed fraudulently in ind Napolia and Vicinity in the last six months. He said his Agency Hail asked a to pass checks out on the Job instead of sending them by mail t. A. Dillon Indiana spa Treasury accounts chief expressed belief Many checks reported stolen were those returned later to the office because workers to whom they were addressed had moved. He said he expected no a mme Bate change in the method of handling checks since an order for this must come from . 0�?TDaniel passed away sat. Night services will be held at Gobin memorial Church tuesday had been House Mother form coalition against Hopkins probably will be asked about reports Senate awaiting action Washington. Jan. 9 a up a senatorial coalition was expected to protest the Elevation of Harry l. Hopkins to the Cabinet today. The 3enate Commerce committee begins consideration of his nomination As Secretary of Commerce. Sen. Josiah w. Bailey. A. N. C., anti new dealer a political and personal enemy of the former works Progress administrator called a meeting of the committee whose membership includes several others of Hopkins congressional foes. A vote to hold Public hearings on his nomination was anticipated. Among the committee members who have expressed a desire to question hop Kirus about his political philosophy and his administration of the Relief Agency were Sens. Charles l Jet nary a. Ore., Arthur h. Vanden Berg. R., mich., and Bennett Champ Clark d., to. Other members of the committee include Sens. Morris Sheppard a. Tex., and Wallace h. White a. Me., chairman and ranking minority member respectively of the Senate Campaign expenditures committee which recently reported to Congress that spa workers in at least three states a i been influenced and coerced during last Falls election campaigns. The report did not blame Hopkins. One committeeman said Hopkins probably would be asked about reports that he once told a Friend that a a we la spend and spend tax and tax and elect and Hopkins has denied having made such a statement. The Senate with no legislation pending is awaiting committee action on several nominations of president Roosevelt to major offices. Chamberlain to leave for Italy former putna5i resident died at Louisville. By. Robert e. Buis age about 34 years a former resilient of Putnam county and the son of or. And mrs. G. G. Buis of near Coatsville died suddenly saturday of a heart attack at Louisville by. Besides the parents he is survived by n daughter two Brothers Reese Buis of Indianapolis and Cecil Buis of near Coatsville. Funeral services will be held tuesday afternoon at 2 o clock from the Fillmore Christian Church. Circuit court notes Ralph Hostetter is. Vera Hostet ter div Oroc the plaintiff was Ord ered by the court to make certain payments to the defendant pending the trial of the cause. Word has been received Here of the serious illness of William Ditta More of Greensburg. He is a former resident of this City. Newly militant democratic front gets first test of strength this week by United pres a democratic front gets its first test of strength this week against the dictatorial bloc. British prime minister Neville Chamberlain leaves London tomorrow for four Days of negotiation with italian Premier Benito Mussolini in Rome. Officially the visit is to further a he program of european a a appeasement which Chamberlain inaugurated after the czech crisis m an Effort so far vain to adjust International grievances by Friendly negotiation instead of by War or threat of thus the two leaders Are expected touch on the possibility of solving the quarrel Between Italy and Fiance Over Mediterranean colonial poses unions to discuss withdrawal of italian troops from insurgent Spain an i possibly to talk of a Broad network of anti War pacts among Italy. France Germany and Griat Britain. But actually Europe a diplomats will be watching for something More important. They will be looking for the first indication of How successful the demo Crattic nations have been in their struggle to unite and re Arm sufficiently to restore the balance of Power in Europe to offset the ability of the totalitarian states to gain their ends by threatening War at any moment. A. Burial will take place at the cemetery in Clover Dale mrs. Mahal a Home of Daniel widow of u. V. O Dan ?1, died at her Home on East Seminary Street saturday night after an illness of six months Nancy Mahala Home was bom in Coverdale township Putnam county. Indiana on october 27, 1858. Her parents were William Henry Home and Elizabeth Banc Horne who came from their native state North Carolina to Indiana in 1853. At that time an entire Branch of Tho Home family consisting of several Bro i ers and Sisters becoming unsympathetic with slavery sold their land and slaves and emigrated to Indiana first settling five Miles East of Coverdale where their Community became known As Hometown. Subsequently. Some of the members of this family group removed to Parke county Indiana and to the states of Kansas and California. On january 15, 1880 Mahala Homo was married to u. V. O Daniel at the methodist Church in Clover Dale. They lived in Coverdale until 1901 when they moved to Greencastle or. Of Daniel died in 1930 a few Days after they had celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Mrs. Of Daniel is survived by her daughter Essie and son Edgar v. Both of whom reside in Bronxville new York. Both daughter and son graduated from Depauw University in 1904 and subsequently married Depauw graduates. Ralph w. Gwinn and Ruth Ritter respectively. She is also survived by eight grand children and two Greit grand children As follows Robert David Gordon Margaret and Eleanor Gwinn Eileen Richard and Carol of Daniel and John Charles and Richard Harrison sons of David Gwinn. Besides the children and grand children there is one surviving Niece. Lelia e. Home daughter of the late James Thomas Horne who with the late John Robe t Homo were Brothers of the Jec ased. Mrs. Of Daniel we a a member of the Gobin memorial Church and was always keenly interested in the various aliases of the Church activities. Until recently when failing health prevented she was an Active member of a number of the women organizations of the City. She was always interested in civic and Public affairs and was one of the ii St two women to serve on a jury in Putnam county. For a number of years mrs. Of Daniel was House Mother to the Alpha Phi sorority. Her rare qualities of personality and of companionship with Young As Well As old made her beloved among the sorority members of whom she thought As adopted daughters and who in turn bestowed upon her the title of a Mother of Daniel a title of affection still used not Only by Many Depauw students Alpha Phis and others of the last third of a Century but also by the laughters and sons who have come Back with no stages from parents to a Mother of Daniel. Mrs. Of Daniels Home for Many years at every commencement or other anniversary or special College occasion has been a Mocca for those who know her in their College a lays. So vices will in held at the Gobin memorial Church at two p. Tues a a y january 11th. The service will to conducted by or. Howard Taylor formerly pastor of the Church sted by reverend Claude m Mccluir and a by the reverend f. O. Fraley burial will take place at the cemetery in Coverdale. Emery Ader South College venue. Suffered a heart attack while Down town Early this afternoon and was taken to the Putnam county Hospital in Tho Shannon ambulance. 0 0 0 o o 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 today a weather a 0 and a �?�0 local temperature a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 a a rain tonight and tuesday slightly Wanner in a u t portion tonight colder tuesday in wort portion colder tues by night and wednesday. M u1 a 46 c a. 48 7 a m. 48 8 a a. 52 i m. 56 10 n. In. 59 11 a. 60 12 noon .-.-.?. 63 1 p. 58 s p. A. 58

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