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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - January 17, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA a a weather of Snow a a a <1the daily Banner a it Waves for ally t Aja the Home news 4 a United press service 4 Dot # forty seven letter Rosevelt published retaliatory Mea f economic Banc a Are imposed s. Is unfriendly and England informed they upheld a open a out Quot to China Jan. 17. A up a the tra nationalist secret a called Shunso. Or the of society a published an to president Roosevelt atoning retaliatory Raea United states and great nored economic sanctions an. The letter asserted was beginning to Foel United states was an in Yvor. A published in Noohi no the largest newspapers in bored Anglo american Coin the far East and said cd states should regard lain and not Japan As an ration. It was published Ivert sement. states and great Bri following a parallel Coure rep sen tat ions opposing n to form an Asiatic eco comprising Japan Man China at the expense of a re Lii interest in China of. The two great English nations have informed Jet hold the principle of the to China guaranteed by Ower treaty which Japan is obsolete and proposes by unilateral action he United s ates has Irrin by highly provocative actions How can your sex Tomiser that relations bean and the United states Britain were rapidly a asked the open letter. Quot we i to Point out that your must assume responsible whatever measures Japan Tilia Ting against sanctions t Britain and the United preparing to letter followed an Edi he Kokmin Shimun a paper without great in hich circulates largely in roles asserting that Japan a intend to interfere with China policy if it is Only but that should it develop Gnu finance Quot Japan with its destroy americans naval tonal questioned the pro Guam and Wake islands hat it would be in compact Mert can a naval policy and resented the views of a Lique instead of the Ameri unto society is a private organization. Names of its not made Public. Since of the chinese japanese led the anti British move Apan. At Ono time the or was hacked by the Power ii. One of the two leading a artics. It is generally Belt some political group is it , Indiana tuesday january 17, 1939. No. 79 big truck starts fire at Banner office monday fire caused when a big truck in the Alley beside the daily Banner office Tore off an outside meter and shorted it. Threatened electric wiring for a Brief time late monday. Quick work with office fire extinguishers and the fire department kept the damage to the minimum. Linemen wired around the damaged meter and the Banner press was continued with but slight interruption. Only a Short time ago another truck in the same Alley struck a pole carrying the High tension lines and damaged them to such an extent that the circuit was broken but in both cases the High powered current did not come in Contact with anything that caused serious damage. Election Bills Are considered study measure to establish Central counting Bureau special order of business similar Metis us was introduced Iii House with five other proposals leaders accept House reduction concentrate efforts to prevent further slash in deficiency y Relief Washington Jan. 17.-�? it up a Senate administration leaders Are concentrating their efforts to prevent further reductions in the deficiency Relief appropriation and arc willing to accept the $725.000.000 approved by the House it was understood today. Their reconciliation to acceptance of the $150.000.000 Cut made by the House in the $875.000.000 Bill requested by president Roosevelt was said to be based on fear that attempts to restore the original figure might create More support for those seeking to reduce the fund to As Little an $600,000,000. Another Factor influencing new dealers appeared to be general sentiment in the Senate favo Iling the action taken by the House. This was apparent despite the fact that chairman Carter Glass d., va., of the Senate appropriations committee and other members of the ant spending bloc it was Learned were attempting to build support to decrease the Relief funds even More. A i think even figure is too High a Glass said. Glass was understood to have questioned various conservative democrats and republicans on their views. Sen. Pat Harrison. D., miss., who split with the administration Over taxation and spending policies told Glass that he would vote for a reduction to $600.000,000. Sen. Richard b. Russell d., ga., a member of the appropriations subcommittee in charge of the Bill said he believed the House figure would to accepted. Bulletin Indianapolis. Ind., Jan. 17.�? a up it a Between 400 and 500 advocates of the Townsend old age pension plan besieged the House of the legislature today swarming into the galleries and corridors and uproariously interrupting the procedure. After some deliberation the House agreed to hear a 15 minute speech by Rev. Charles Mitchell of Indianapolis Townsend recovery plan organizer. Sentries confiscate food in american trucks Hankow China Jan. 17.�?iup> a japanese army sentries preventing the entry of food in of the French Concession halted american truck3 flying the american Flag today and confiscated foodstuffs in them. Hankow has been without lights for two nights because japanese interfered with the transport of Coal to the City Power Plant. Local school choir to give fill concert or. Zink contributes to commission report Raines funeral wednesday funeral services for mrs. Elizabeth Ann Raines wife of George Raines West Franklin Street who died monday. Will be held wednesday afternoon at 1 30 of clock from the Fillmore Christian Church. The Rev. V. L. Raphael will be in charge. Interment will be made in the Fillmore cemetery. The Fillmore Rebekah Lodge will also take part in the service. Indianapolis ind. Jan. 17.�? a up a the stat Senate today began consideration of sen. Jacob Weiss Bill to establish a Central counting Bureau in each county for tabulation of primary election votes the first of several major election Reform measures which have been introduced in the 81st general Assembly. The Weiss Bill was a special order of business in the Senate at 11 a. M. Hanna court is basis for suit Madison e. Masten plaintiff against Philander Pruitt to collect $1197.16 a Cappella choir to appear Friday night at school auditorium Benefit for choir Robes re Laird rink National Champion xylophone is will ahem Iii furnishing varied program or. Harold Zink professor of political science at Depauw Ute Vii. has contributed the Section on a a printing and publishing ar.audi industries to the report of the in Well known Man passed away monday Diana tax study commission which Edison 11 e b e rage 78 singing governor administered oath inauguration in foot Ball stadium to accommodate Many thousands it announces invention of radio York Jan. 17.�? up a University announced today it a of a radically new is i citing system which com imitates Static and other noises and will make All jets obsolete. Ives new methods of trans a requires specially striving sets with a much Nve Range. A employees ested for theft three years 26,000,000 a is were stolen questioned 2� York. Jan. 17. A up and present employees of owned subway system Are eat and 23 were Corra Lod in let attorneys office Early questioning about the theft w0 in Nickels 26.000,000 in the past three years. 1 attorney Thomas e. Dew that at least 30 station working in collusion with Nee men had each been e turnstiles of App Elmate a Lay and that their thefts United to three per cent of pendent subway systems Sines of 874,884,100 fares at three fiscal years. Austin tex., Jan. 17.�?<up> w. Lee of Daniel who became governor of Texas by singing for the radio r. Song entitled a pass the by scrub. Pappy a took the oath of office in the football stadium of the University of Texas today. Ordinarily governors arc inaugurate i in the state House hut so Many thousands were Here to Coimbra to the occasion that the state House was not Large enough and it was doubtful that the stadium which seats 7b,000, would be. The oath of office was administered at 12 38 p. M. By chief Justice c. M. Curton. Of the state supreme court in the presence of the 54,000 p sons who signed the petition which put of Daniel into the gubernatorial race and who received per a it Nal invitations and As Many More As could get into the stadium. Of Daniel then led Rhonl children in singing a song of his own composition Quot Beautiful of Daniel sold flour by radio entertainment and oratory and was drawn into the gubernatorial race by persons who admired him As an entertainer. His Hill Billy band and the theme song of his radio program a pass the biscuits. Pappy a became the Center and theme of his Campaign. He won overwhelmingly. A similar measure sponsored by the Republican state committee was introduced in the House yesterday afternoon along with five other election Reform proposals. Under provisions of the Weiss Bill a l ballots would be scaled immediately after the polls closed and taken to the Central counting Bureau. Here they would be tabulated in Public. Thus the necessity of precinct counting boards would be eliminated. Meanwhile a Senate committee appointed to investigate the selection of textbooks for Indiana school began its work by conferring with Floyd i. Mcmurray superintendent of Public instruction and a member of the state Board of education which made the selections. At this conference the committee members hoped to form late a plan for obtaining a Cross Section opinion of school officials on whether the present system is working satisfactorily or whether a change should be made. It was indicated that questionnaires May be sent the officials. Tile investigating committee outlined its program to contain the following Points of study 1 whether to retain the present system with some alterations �?~2 charges that a history text chosen by the Board favored the Southern cause in the civil War 3 alleged undue Price advances As compared with previous awards and prices in other states 41 charges that local school boards have purchased textbooks other than those authorized by the state Board. The committee expects to hold hearings and Prada Fly will Call up a on Linued on to incr the development of the building project on Hanna Street in Grcen Castle known As the Hanna court a a in part the basis of a suit on account filed in Tho Putnam circuit court in which Madison e. Masten is plaintiff against Philander Pruitt for the collection of a total of $1.197.16, with Coats of the suit to be added. According to the complaint these two men some time prior to january 1, 1929, entered into a partnership in a real estate development business and built certain houses forming the Hanna court that january 15, 1929, the defendant Pruitt moved into one of the houses thus constructed under an arrangement whereby he was to pay $50 a month rental to the partnership the amount being reduced later. It is claimed in the complaint that the defendant. Pruitt continued to occupy the property until feb. 1 1935. In the meantime becoming indebted to the partnership to the extent of $1.560. Of which sum one half or $780, was due this plaintiff Mas on. It is claimed. It it further set out that by Rea son of the resulting shortage in the it courses of the partnership the partnership had to borrow Money and pay $824.35 interest on the loan of which the plaintiff. Masten paid one half. He says. The suit is to colled the unpaid rental and interest alleged to be due the plaintiff Masten or a total of $1,187 16. Hamilton and Hamilton arc attorneys for the plaintiff. Highway safety discussed monday Kip out Given Indianapolis hid., Jan. 17.�? i up Money a pent for Indiana Relief and work Relief since april. 1935, amounted of $235.414,957, Clarence Manion Indiana director of the National emergency Council disclosed today. Learn identity of w c. Smith was Here just before re cent election Selling Campaign emblems representatives of state department had charge of program when the Groc Castic High school a Cappolla choir is presented in the High school auditorium next Friday night it will be the first time that any music group from the local schools will have Given a full length concert. Fridays program also will Mark the first formal presentation of the choir in the new wine coloured Robes purchased recently. The proceeds from this week s presentation will go to help pay for these Beautiful Robes. The High school choir consists of 35 students and is under the direction of b. W. Bergethon. Supervisor of music in the City schools. The choir has become recognized As one of the finest groups of its kind in the state and has appeared locally for the service clubs churches and Parent teacher associations. Last fall it took part in the state festival. Chorus organized in conjunction with the state teachers association. In february the chorus will appear before the annual conference of the school superintendents of the state of Indiana. This concert is Given to make to possible to reach the Public at Largo and also to give the citizens of Greencastle an Opportunity to express their appreciation for what the choir Means to this City by attending the concert and thereby helping these Young people to pay for their new Robes. The choir will sing three groups of numbers including sacred songs madrigals part songs and spirituals. These numbers will All be Sung unaccompanied in Quot Chapel style Quot of a Cappella it will be a program that everyone can enjoy and Benefit from. As an added attraction Richard rink National Champion xylophone is has been secured As assisting artist. Or. Rink who is a Depauw student is Well known locally. He will play several numbers on the new $600 instrument which he acquired recently. The concert will begin at 8 of clock and a Large attendance is anticipated. Has just been submitted. To tie g n Oral Assembly of Indiana. Professor Zink is also the author of the article entitled Quot a Caso study of a political Boss a just published in the psychiatry journal of the biology and the pathology of inte.-, personal relations. He a a be r chosen As a member of the executive committee of the Midwest political science association. Years died at the county Hospital survived by his sister appoint guardian for Wade Mill Man .1. .1. Gambo Coates Ville merchant appointed with Bond at $50,000 report of clerk treasurer Given shows that City of spends considerable amount of Money a safety on the highways of Indiana Quot was the subject of an interesting convocation program monday at Greencastle High school with repro a Nta lives of tire state department in charge of the special presentation Julia e. Landers coordinator or state Accident prevention Bureau and halic Myers state traffic director of Indiana Highway commission were the principal speakers. A safety experts told us some years a letter was received by Edward Aga that Indiana As Well As other Maddox Green Hustle chief of police. States needed to recognize that last evening from the Lafayette safety must depend on education in heir for Cement and engineering. A today we expect the Grade school to teach children How to Cross a at last physical infirmities and the weight of accumulating years have overtaken Wade Millman to such an extent that in the Putnam circuit court this Forenoon a guardian was appointed to protect his property from Lack of management. Or Millman 88 years old now. Has been one of the shrewdest financiers the county has known. His present difficulties Are not to mental failing but to the weakening of his physical resource a. Or. Millman recently returned from the methodist Hospital and has been confined to his bed since the n. Suffering from the effects of an operation for the Relief of glandular trouble and abdominal abscess. The incisions have not healed. He has a nurse in attendance and visitors Are no permitted. The petition for the appointment was signed by Eugene w. Huber and Addison Huber the latter being a son of or. Millmann a sister and Eugene Huber being a son of Addison. Eugene Huber was on the witness stand when the petition for the appointment of a guardian was heard by the court and was followed n j. J. Gambold a Coatesville merchant. Or. Huber was questioned by Marshall Abrams of Lyon i Abrams attorneys for the Petitioner. Or. Millmann a interests were represented by Albert e. Williams As county prosecutor or. Millman defaulting in the matter of appearance of himself either in person or by attorney. Or. Huber testified As to or. Mill Man s physical condition the amount of his property the desirability of a guardian and other matters. To said or. Millman returned from the Hospital a few Days before Christmas and had not been out of bed during the last two weeks with the exception of a very Brief period or. Gambold whose Grandfather Mau led a sister of or. Millman. Said he had been called upon to advise with or. Millman regarding his investments and such matters but or. Gambold added a the did t need much or. Millmann a principal need for or. Gambold. The latter said was to act As a sort of us ice policy chief which reiterated the earlier statement Eliut the body to Ikon from the Wabash River at that place sunday was that of w. C. Smith. The first reports of the finding of the remains Ocie to the effect that Street and to obey the policemen in cities. Over 60,000 Miles of paved highways Are travelled this year by 1.000,000 cars As will As thousands a. C. Smith s Home address was of out of state cars. The child must Greencastle but no information Cross roads so it is a Basic thing in could be secured locally concerning such a Man. And it finally became the belief Here that the dead Inan was j. Carlton Smith an itinerant sign Painter who included Green Castle in his route. However it Lias been Learned that j. Carlton Smith died in Lafayette Angus 14. Ii Neil Limiel on 1�?Titae Oliree a Mil i Nuil nut thu the financial report for 1938 of mrs. Jessie m Hawkins who retired january 1 As clerk treasurer of the City of Greencastle makes it quite evident that this municipality although Classe i us a City of the fifth class collects and spends a very considerable amount of Money each year. The grand total of receipts for the year including the balances Forward from the preceding year As will As j Senate committee appoint the current receipts for the period form a grand total of $58. 136.61. The disbursements were $41.640.45. The current receipts luring those twelve months were $41,716.52. The balance Forward at the beginning of the year was $16,620.09, anti the bal senator Lane is named chairman services will to held from the Home thursday afternoon at 2 of clock Addison Hehli age 78 years passed away at the Putnam county Hospital monday about Midnight following a three and one half months illness. The result of a fall and a fractured hip. Air. Heber was the son of Julius and Amanda Heber and was bom and spent his Early life near Richmond a. He had been a resident of Greencastle for More than 60 years his Home being a the Wren Quot cottage on West Franklin Street. To is survived by his sister miss Elizabeth Heber. Or. Heber was known throughout Greencastle. For Many years he was associated with Clarence Vestal and later was employed at Rector Hall. For the past ten years he had lived close to nature working in his Flower and vegetable gardens at his Hong. Love of nature. Friends and Young people were closest to the heart of or. Heber. He inherited the Strong Southern trait of Courtesy and his greatest pleasure was derived from visiting with his friends in his Home and Reading his favorite books including the works of Bui Bank from which he received Many inspirations to re create Flowers in his Garden. From this Garden he made Many Homes Happy with Beautiful Bou cuts such As Only he could produce. His fresh vegetables which he sent out. Glt were Only equalled by i Beautiful Flowers. Or. Hebert a philosophy of life was doing the everyday Little kindnesses and by so doing it brought happiness net Only to hi3 Circle of friends but to himself. He followed the beliefs of John Burroughs his favorite author and saw and Felt a deep spirituality Beauty in All nature. The. Heb r Flower gardens have been visited by Hundred s of people a luring the past ten years and it seemed that whatever he planted 1 or w and bloomed in the greatest of profusion. His in was a riot of 1 cd scr throughout the Early months of i Spring and summer. Its Beauty 1 thrilled All who visited it and he a pea red to be happiest when others i who visited him were Happy Over his mass in growing the gorgeously coloured Flower gardens. The last Flowers or. Heber grew will remain a living testimony to his Art As a coloured motion picture of it was taken last Spring by the daily Banner and it will to made a per Mon it. Exhibit of his love of All things natural. The funeral services will be held from the Home thursday afternoon at Twe of clock with burial in Forest Hill cemetery. The body will remain at the Rector funeral Home until thursday morning and friends May Call there until that time. Rev. V. L. Raphael will have charge of the serviced. to probe school Book situation in Indiana the committee of members of Ali a state Senate appointed to probe the school Book situation in Indiana fleeter senator o. Bruce Lane from Ance on hand at the close of tiie year Putnam and Montgomery count . 20 years ago in Greencastle private Paul Grimes wrote to Hia Mother from Luxembourg less than a mile from the German Frontier. He w. C. Smith was Here just before . A the germans around Here Are the recent election Selling Campaign a 1 . They treat us Fine and emblems in miniature Fonn such As it i univ j have seen All of Europe i Little roosters White elephants Cam want to see. One Little spot any pain whistles and the like. It seems were a the states looks better to to have been his custom to give his Home address As the last place he visited. There appears to be no other connection Between the Man who committed suicide in the Wabash River . Ami this City other than this one visit he made Here. Me than this whole european a car driven by c. C. Huestis was in collision in Brazil with one driven by the pastor of the Catholic Church at Diamond. Both cars had Side sir bins and neither Driver saw the o her. Was $16.896.16. These figures include All funds but those of the general fund from which nearly All of the governmental costs Are met. Aras follows balance Forward from 1037, $13,048.13. Receipts luring year $37,159.15. Total $50,208.08. The disbursements from the general fund were $36,144.48, leaving a balance on hand at the close of the Yea. $14,063.60. These figures vary Only slightly from those of the preceding year with reductions in most of the expenditures. The expenditures from the general fund this year were nearly $3,500 less than similar costs for 1037. The balance Forward at chairman of the committee. The committee is to conduct Ltd inquiry along a wide front. Chairman Lane said a we Are going to try to find out what the actual situation is. The people of Indiana have the right to know All about the schoolbooks to y Are require to the committees first Endeavor will be to ascertain. If it Enn Wyeth 1hxi resident visits City Strother Kennedy a resident of put a am county until 1881 wit vols iting Here today. He came to the county to attend the funeral of his arc a her who died Sud Only a week ago. M. Kennedy left Greencastle 58 years ago but has visited Here a ecu pie of times since leaving. He was Here in 1902 and once afterwards. He recalled Many interesting taints in the City and county while he was a resident hire and was in Joy try his visit with some of the cider citizens of the Community who t m Mory went Back to the time Oihi i own. A a a a a a a a a a @ @ today a weather 0 a and a @ local temperature 0 or there has been any impropriety letting bids. Attention of the com now n North Snow or rain in Mittie has been called to the in f Outh portion tonight and wednes creases in school Book prices in the Day Guguy warmer in extreme state and other matters which members of the state Board of education will be called upon to explain to the a the portion tonight. The close of this year is about $100 committee More than for 1937. Masonic notice Temple Lodge no. 17 f. Amp a. M will hold its stated meeting wednesday evening january 18. Going beyond such matters As these the committee expects to re port upon the desirability of a change in the Powers of the state Board and other details in an Effort to put a Stop to the unpleasant situations which have Arisen from time to time in past years. Minimum c a. M. 7 a. M. 8 a. M. 9 a. M. 10 a. M. 11 a. M. 12 noon 1 p. M. 2 p. M. 32 33 33 33 36 40 39 38 39 39 a

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