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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - July 13, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA a a a 51 Ink Weathern b cd Iouli am cooler a a the daily Banner a Al a Nisei press service a All the Home news t it Waves for All m a a forty seven Ikee Nastle Indiana Tiu Kasday july 13, 1� 3. N. 1231 Bureau was of huge Success Ima Tebe contest n Madison town id wednesday .2 Drew Large crowd a veg Yonk enjoyed show on tests in r lot of fun a i and Beer Lallino it for Largo Alt ailing 2 Ain seven Hundred persons attended it Amateur entertainers contest at he no. 10 Sligo i Hou e in Madison i own help. Yogt inc Day evening. The Quot m program was even out of doors an i i he crowd a so Large that the space Ava Ilab s for the audience was jacked Moat of the audience stand no through a the nearly three hours it of entertain a it. This is tils second affair of this nature Given Gay the Madison township farm by eau. This one was prepared by a committee of which mrs. Ray evens was chairman. Alton Jurat was master of ceremonies and l announced the. Many numbers on the i. Program. The grand Irise was awarded to Ralph Spant iof Russellville for his Novelty entertainment acts. Or. Spencer la 4-ii Leader for Putnam county. The second grand prize was 0 won by Mayl be Johnston and Emilly Lade of a the Prises were contributed by business men principally those or her l they were All very the winners. There were Many Fenti ants in each event f but the Wynn s of prizes were As foil lows hog calling 1. Boh Irwin. Madison twp. 2 Ralph Spencer. Russellville. To accordian player 1, Reba Randall Ore enc tie 2, Jane Salmon. Green Castle. Lady vocal soloists 1, Minnie Merland Len 2. Virginia Grimes Grcen cattle 3. Betty Van Landing Ham. Greanya n instrumental duet 1, Reuben Cain and Otiest Gardner Greenaa tie resp Jar Tro gtd Abc Ham rip Well lie 3. John and Estel Cantonwine Greencastle. Oldest contestants Charles Boatwright Madi m twp. Youngest contestant Delilah Jarvis . Vocal due 1. Maybelle Johnston and Emily Lane Greencastle 2, or. And Mia. Eugene Sutherlin Greengas tic. Male Rolo Eugene Sutherlin Grcen cattle. Lady anti Talner Minnie mor land. Vocal Trio Miller Grain company Trio Greenya Itle composed of Russell Clapp Klimt Miller and William Padgett Solo Gene Harlan Grcen cattle instrument group 1 the ramp Ioctl a in l we a two w. F. Pickens retires from Active life so far As roads Are concerned w. E. Pickens whose farm Home is c. Mile South of Bello Union announced to his old Friend. A daily Banne reporter that he has definitely and positively retired from his former principal business Road contracting anti Stone crushing. He became 75 years old last april 25 and dels the weight of those years. He has More than one farm and they will keep him Busy he says the remainder of his lifetime without fussing around steam engines Stone crushers Rock drills trucks and other things that formerly made life interesting for him. Or. Pickens quits at the end of 40 years of Road and Stone contracting. He had Many contracts some of them with counties some with the state of Indiana and his income from All those jobs was not very far from $875.000. He thinks. Much of that Money he paid out As wages to his men. He has had Many men working for him just How Many he can to even guess. His activities during his contracting years extended not Only Over considerable of Putnam county but also into adjoining counties. The too he had a Road Job near Vincennes Grade and paving which brought him in More than $100.000, but his expenses were heavy. Asked to give an estimate of the number of Yards of Stone he has crushed during his lifetime to replied he could t guess but it would run into p. Big figure. Or. Pickens father was James d. Pickens a civil War Veteran who died at the age of 97. And who thought so much of general Ells Worth of War Fame that he bestowed that commanders name upon the infant that came into the Pickens family naming the baby William Ellsworth. And he is the w. E. Pickens we know this John d. Pickens farm where w. E. Was born is a Little South of where the latter now lives. At the Road Corner where w. E. Pickens lives there was once quite a settlement which merged into the Belle Union we know. Unde Bob Mccammack had a store there or. Pickens recalled. Or. Pickens and his son in Law. Walter Dorsett. Quit contracting during three years of the War and devoted themselves strictly to farming luring that period and made big Money. Those three years were bumpers As far As the wheat crop was concerned both As to bushels and Price. One year the two men received $7.000 for wheat Only. Roosevelt and Sec. Hull done to agree president wants to Send St Tong message to hostile Senate on arms fireside Chat possible administration desires change in arms embargo. Senate committee halted action War correspondent Arnold writes of bus trip through mountains Washington. July 13. Up president Roosevelt and Secretary of state Cordell Hull were reported in administration quarters today to j have disagreed on the language of taking sights to last he a week a neutrality message the president a a least. A special to the daily banners by Charles j Arnold Taco. Igro. Mexico. July 10 american tourists come Here to so a the indians and the indians come to Sec the americans. It Isnit the most attractive set up in the world for a los the mexicans have established a Haven for the americans and his Dollar in this Small Village which is stamped precariously on the Side of a Mountain deep in the Sierra Madress uth of Mexico City. It perfect views of magnify cent Mountain scenery the trip from Mexico City to Taco v a Cuernavaca offers any tourist enough breath two per cent huh comes 11> Ken atoms Ikid Kos mgt Minton 1ikhate matter in Mim to confirmation within the next two weeks. Putnam Bounty trustees and advisory boards will award contract for driving of school buses during the coming four years. Lul bidders will then buy equipment to fulfil their equipment will be paid for by the tax ing units in the form of pay Hents in conformity to bids submitted of Cours the owner will pay for his equipment directly. But in the Long run. The taxpayer will foot the Bills by paying the successful bidder. All of bbl Money will come from the Kho in turn will get it met the tax payers. There is m sound reason Why any Success de should go beyond the Putnam county to buy a pent. He will get his a from Putnam county Pul we believe in nil fair buld spend his Money in a county with any Auto paler with whom he wish business. County dealers Are As pc is any in the state. I close to Home. They have in service possible Avail if Hort notice. They can give any successful bid. Qual to any in any a can Only urge the trustees and the advisory boards to urge the air successful contractors to buy it Home and thus help the he my Community instead of sending thai Money away from Home with no View of Ever getting any of a Back so far As the tax pay Ern arc concerned. The observe Ful limit his More to Washington july 13. Paul v. Mcnutt was confirmed by the Senate wednesday As Federal Security administrator without a record vote after a blistering attack upon his record As governor of Indiana by senator styles Bridges new Hampshire Republican. Bridges described the Indiana two per cent clubs which assess democratic state employees 2 per cent of their pay for democratic party Campaign purposes As a one of the most Brazen examples of political racketeering in the Bridges introduced a Resolution in the Senate to prevent Mcnutt from organizing a a two per cent club on the Fra. The Resolution read a resolved by the Senate of the United states of America that it is the sense of the Senate that Paul v. Mcnutt shall not be permitted while serving As Federal Security admin Stralo to establish a so called two per cent club of employees of the agencies in the Fra for the purpose of assessing their salaries for political when Bridges offered his Resolution. Democratic Leader Barkley d. Kentucky moved to table it which was done. Bridges said that action put Quot democrats of this body on record in favor of 2 per cent club a adding a i know Paul Mcnutt and i think he a a Fine fellow and a handsome fellow but this thing Quick defense of Mcnutt was voiced by senator Sherman Minton. Indiana Democrat who admitted the two per cent clubs of Indiana were i �iit11nii�<l on i Iii amp i i our i dismiss 13,000 spa a men for striking1 Washington july 13 up works projects administration officials dismissed More than 13,000 spa workers today for striking against abolition of the prevailing wage scale for skilled labourers on Relief. Reports from strike areas showed that 13.307 persons already have received discharge slips for violating spa commissioner f. C. Harrington s order that no spa worker j shall remain away from his Job for More than live Days. Move guard. In strife torn a gov. Handler denounces Union Leader and asks indictment Kussell dimes talks to rotary Harlan. Kyd a july 13. Up National guard reinforcements moved into a a bloody Harlan county with Leavy War equipment today to Aid in maintaining Law and order in the strife torn Harlan Coal Fields. Gov. A. B. Happy Chandler denounced Union leaders and ordered i the troops to the scene after a Day of fighting in which one striking Miner was killed and two guardsmen five miners and a woman were injured. The new troops were members of two machine gun units and numbered about 200. I they were accompanied by two i Militar y tanks and reinforced 3001 troops who have been Patr Olling the j Coal Fields since a breakdown month ago in negotiations Between i mine operators and the United mine workers of America affiliate of the of Industrial organizations Over Union demand for a closed shop agreement. The fighting occurred in a pitched plans to Send to Congress. Or. Roosevelt according to these informants wants to use forceful language in reiterating his demand that Congress revise the neutrality Law at this session by repealing the arms embargo. Hull was said to oppose a message that might anger a the Rome Berlin Axis and further antagonize an already rebellious Senate. Sources close to the White House said the message probably would be sent to the Cape Tol before the end of the week but that if congressional developments warranted or. Roosevelt might change his plans and Uso some other medium possibly a fire a Side Chat to make his views known to the country. While administration leaders searched for a Way to revive their neutrality program shelved by the Senate foreign relations committee tuesday the president and Hull conferred on the language to be used in a reiteration of their stand. The president it was said was irritated by the Senate committees i action. In his message he would review the european situation pointing out that the existing Law gives Comfort to aggressor nations and accuse republicans and some conservative democrats of making a political Issue of foreign polity it was reported. Administration sources said Hull was urging the pre ident to stick to a Broad general statement of his neutrality views and to refrain from attacking any group or groups with a in the Senate. While or. Roosevelt and Hull Dei bated. Chairman key Pittman. I Nev. Of the Senate committee cd tended a pledge to isolationist senators that if the committee approved his proposed arms embargo against nine Power treaty violations he would oppose any attempt to attach to it part of the controversial Neu con Nuril on two Jack Lynch killed sudden la accompanied by a Don Fredrico Quot Frankenfield. Chicago chemical Engineer and Senor Pablo Ocampo of Mexico City we left the City a great Almada Early saturday bound for Cuernavaca and whatever the Day might bring. Ocampo who a ses bananas on a a Rancho Quot several Hundred Miles from Max inc City advised tin bus As being not too comfortable clean or speedy. A for he said a alright but twice no a he was right. Nephew of Ernest and Andrew Stoner killed in Ai to wre it k in West word was received Here thursday morning of the de. The of Jack Lynch age 39 years of Laramie Wyo. A former resident of Greencastle who was killed in an automobile Accident wednesday evening. He was a Nephew of Ernest Stoner of this City and Andrew Stoner of Reelsville. Or. Lynch was the son of the late Battle Between Jmwa pickets and or. And mrs. James Lynch former Rural youth Leader Tom club of experiences at Purdue meeting Russell Grimes a Leader of the Rural youth organization in Putnam county who was sent to the state conference of the organization at Purdue University by the rotary dub. Was the guest speaker at the weekly luncheon wednesday afternoon. The Young Man outlined the program which he and nearly 300 other Indiana Young men and women enjoyed during their weeks stay at Purdue. It included various forms of recreation study lectures and other educational features. The farm Bureau also sent two Rural youth members to the same conference and they were guests of the rotary at the luncheon. They wet Paul evens and miss Eleanor Swei Ingen. Who also spoke briefly. Ralph Spencer president of the Putnam county organization also a. C. Guest and he outlined the objects of his organization which now i is sixteen Active members in the county and it promises to grow As the work it is attempting and is accomplishing. Promises to be among the most essential of any youth organization in the county at this time. National guardsmen who were protecting non Union miners at the Mahan Ellison mine at Stanfill nine Miles Southwest of Harlan. The guardsmen arrested about 200 miners and marched them to Harlan. The marchers broke ranks and another Battle followed on the streets of Harlan. Chandler charged that an a a incendiary speech made sunday by William Turnblazer president of District la it of the Jmwa was responsible for the outbreak. He said Tum Blazer had urged strikers to resume picketing and to Cut off production at non Union mines. He also condemned activities of George Titler Secretary treasurer of District 19, who. With his wife was arrested at the Stanfill outbreak. A a before that Chandler said a the situation in Harlan was quiet. In a going to ask the Harlan grand jury to indict Turnblazer for inciting to riot. Titler should be kept in jail. A their methods Are typical of violence advocated by John l he said he would permit a peaceful major Joseph Kelly acting commander of the Kentucky National guard at fort Knox who ordered the new troop movement on chandlery a order said be would a Send the whole National guard into Harlan if necessary to maintain residents of this City and Danville where the family resided for Many year. Or. Lynch is survived by the widow and one son. It was stated in the message received Here that the body will be sent to Danville where funeral services will be held. Corrigan Cost Del Rio. Tex july 13. Up Douglas Corrigan a wrong Way flier was reported missing today on a flight through storm Ridden country Between Dryden and san Antonio. Corrigan who was forced Down at Dryden last night when he flew into a storm while on his Way from Elpaso to san Antonio took off at 7 ?0 a. M. Today. The trip should take about two hours but before noon friends in san reported he had not arrived from the 250 mile flight. By mexican Law. The capacity of bus is 18 passengers. Apparently mexicans like to travel. At no tiny wore there be s than 23 persons a rammed in the buses an Assort nent of indians mestizos and Arne cans but for the Day nil mexicans two hours ride from Mexico City a Cuernavaca. The bus mounts the Mountain Ridge South of Mexico City Over twisty Mountain roads and thu Ide offers Gra Desque views of the Valley of Mexico with Mexico City squatting Black and White at its Southern tip. From the top of the a a Ido the City of Cuernavaca May be Een 7,000 feet below. There it is hot and the noon time Sun boils Down Mercill ssh a on tile roofs. Outs Anding visiting Points in Cuernavaca is the former summer Youlace Al Maximilian and Carlotta now occupied by mexican government offices. The building was Start d in 1529 by the colonial Spanish. Eight years ago Diego Rivera mex cons most famous artist was paid $20 000 pesos to paint murals in the building. These immense murals de oct the his or y of Mexico from the Conque t to 1931. They have a remarkable perspective not easily appreciated by the Layman but expert i a a if Iii cil on in Iii two coi qty fair boards named pow s started Homer Jackson diff at Kokomo William Jackson received word thursday morning of the death of Homer Jackson a Nephew at Kokomo where he had lived Many years. Or. Jackson died Thiv wednesday afternoon. He was a son of the late James Jackson Well known civil War Veteran of Greencastle. La is survived by three sister or. Edith Hubbard. Miss Grace Jackson and mrs. Mill r allo it Indianapolis the b via will be brought Here Fri Day for burial in Forest Hill cemetery. Do tax will help Tow a slips state sends c i c ii from ski has state dog vol Lection Fini again the dogs of the More thickly populated areas of the state have come to the Aid of of Putnam county s townships to help pay the damages on livestock in those coun ties inflicted by canines who think it sport to kill Domestic animals particularly sheep. This assistance to Putnam county in this matter came in the form of a Check for $3,176.12 i received by the auditor of Putnam county from the auditor of state. The Money is Putnam county a share of the dog tax surplus in the state contributed especially in areas in which the returns from the dog tax were More than sufficient to pay the claims against the local fund in those areas. In Putnam county there Are no claims outstanding against the dog tax fund in Monroe Greencastle and Warren townships. Distribution of the amount of the Check received from the state has been made to th-1 trustees of the remaining townships of Liia county As follows Jackson township unpaid claims May i. $394.50 this payment. $22092. Franklin township unpaid claims $289.33. This payment $162.00. Russell township unpaid claims $727.10 this payment. $107 18. Clinton township unpaid claims $838.75 this payment. $469.70. Floyd township unpaid claims. $360.10 this payment. $201.66. Marion township unpaid claims $1,479.26 this payment. $828.38. Madison township unpaid claims $60.80 this payment $34.05. Washington township. $139 80 this payment. $78.29. Jefferson township unpaid claims $1,282.00 this payment. $717.92. Cloverdale township unpaid claims. $100.00 this payment $56.00. Roiti Black named to Board in old a l. Xii resident of town a Iii la Ltd on Consoli i Viii set Hool in it a the advisory Board of Greencastle township acting under the provisions it of the original 1925 Law wednesday decked Robert Black of Greengas tie township a member of the Board of trustees of the consolidated schools of Greencastle City and township. For a full term of three years beginning August 1. Or. Black resides in the Bridges Home in West Columbia Street Road and is a resident of the township he is a Democrat and takes the Placo of Guy Wright. Republican. The Law requires representation of the two dominant parties on the it Hool Hoard and the election of a Democrat or Republican depends on a he politics of the trustee. The members of the Greencastle township advisory Board Are j. C. Trembly e. R. Bartley and Maynard Grubb. The members of the school Board when the change occurs August 1, will be John Abel township trustee ii e. H. Greenleaf. And or. Black. Lewis Slis ii Eli big m i a w ill be ii Eli in kob1 Park on aug a St in t and 13 Lynn brow \ p r e s i 1 e n t executive committee and directory will meet tonight to further the plans the executive committee and the director Ltd the Putnam county fair association will meet this evening in the office of the county farm agent in the court House to consider details of to lug coming fair August 1c. 11 and 12. The officers Are Lynn Brown president John poor vice president loin Arnold treasure and Gene Akers Secretary. Other members of the executive committee Are Carl Arnold of the horse association did Vid grime county farm agent Ralph a Nch i county Leader of 4-h and Rural youth organizations and Wilson Handy of the Saddle club. The directors Are Paul Boston of the chamber of Commerce Charles Accuu a a it rotary club Elvin Harlan farm Bureau Oren Kelley Russellville boosters club Carl Arnold Lions John poor kiwanis club Vilson Handy Saddle club mrs. Raymond Wright farm Bureau auxiliary mrs. Walter l or Vett Horn economics club Omar a is a it Ach lie Lions e us toe. Amos Hunter Fillmore business menus club Wayne Granneman. Clo Verdale menus club Kay Etcheson Bainbridge business menus club miss a Rio Browning business and professional women s club David Grimes county farm agent. The Folh via i committe. Members have been appointed for the fair housing Maynard Grubb chairman Harry b. Mccabe. Hugh Caughill Ivan Ruark David Grimes. Publicity Eugene Akers. Chairman. Kennth Bennett Edwin Black. Advertising Ward Mayhall chairman to Hadley. Bill Padgett. Premium list Wilson Handy. Riith Spencer Carl Pitcl chair John of hair. W. J. Washington july 13. Up president John l Lewis of the Congress of Industrial organizations today asked that the Federal government intervene in a bloody Harlan county Kentuck it to protect miners from a a politically disappointed and a angry notice Between the games on to esd evening at Robe Ann Park tin Greencastle High school hand will give a concert. There will also be a lantern Parade by the youngster this Init of the program is being sponsored by the recreation program. Rejected suitor Kidnap Oxild \ lot \ \1 \ \ Mai i a i like sent enc Echt a t to i Illic i Charm Arnold. Concessions Jacob Man Jacob Hirt. Industrial concessions Rightsell chairman Fred Walter Ballard Bert Miller w Eisner. Grounds Fred Pease a chairman Guy t Wright Russell Vermillion. Entertainment r p. Mullins chairman mrs. J. B. Wright. Cloyd More. Home economic a miss Mary Lou , chairman miss Evelyn Scitz miss Hess. Membership Milton Brown chairman e. K. Bartley Russell Brown. Flower show Kenneth Pitcl chairman mis. Denny. 20 years ago in greencart1 e or. And mrs. E. B. Taylor and family and or. And mrs. Heb Reich motored to the shades of death. Floyde j. Yeager went to new York on a business trip. Or. And mrs. Paul Allen and sons wore Here on a visit from Inch Nap Olis. Indian my oils livestock hogs 5,500 holdovers c8 Market generally x0c higher 160-300 lbs. $6.25-$7.25 300100 lbs. $5.65-$5.95 100-160 ibs. $6.50-$6.85 sow Market no established Early bidding 10-25 lower. Cattle 600 calves 600 All Slaughter classes generally steady bulk Steirs $8-$o.75 most heifers $7-$8.50 Vollers steady top so.50 sheep 800 Spring lambs Teady to 5qp lower most off on lower grades bulk Good and Choice $8.50-$9. Vancouver. Wash. July 13. I up Maurice lies. 20. I farmhand wanted to marry mrs. Alice Winston a pretty Young Divorcee so he stole h r 18-month-old baby to scare her. This was his Story to police today and he said it had All been a joke. Mrs. Winston notified police that she did no to Wunt to prosecute him hut he was held in jail and prosecutor Eugene Cushing Suid he might change him with kidnapping. Under Washington Law a person convict no of kidnapping can be sentenced to death or life imprisonment. Mrs. Winston notified police yesterday that her baby. Teddy had been kidnapped. She said she found a not notifying her that unless she consented to marry lies. Teddy would be killed. Several hours later police found lies driving around in bin car with Teddy who had not been harmed. Lies made a deposition for police in which he admitted taking the baby hut said he had had no intention of committing a crime. Scholarships a Ivan fit a it fun eighteen 1> is i v University students have earned Rector scholarship a a result a if their freshman work last year it was announced today by Dean g. Herbert Smith Der a a a a a a a of the tor scholarship foundation any freshman who maintains a b a rage is eligible for a full tuition scholarship for tin rest of bin Depaux career. Tiie recipients Are Louis Defilippis. Newark. New Jersey Giles de Luyo. St. Thomas. Virgin islands a Ohn b. Gross. Lakewood. O. John l. Mvi Kippley Iowa Robert e. William a Nicoll Robert k. Snyder and Claude Vink Elhak it Chi Eigo. Iii. Nurin Henry. Buckingham Iii. Robert Kimbrough Logansport Dale Leslie Lambert Springfield. Iii. Robert Pendarvis Oak Park 111 Paul h. Reed Brook William ii Ripkee and Tipton s. Ross in Lianopolis k. Neth Rogers Cincinnati. Ohio Ted Rohm. Fountain own. And Jack ii Wolf. Wabash. O a it a it o o o o o o <3 0 today a weather 0 0 and 0 0 local temperature 0 0 o 0 0 0 o a 0 0 0 0 partly Cloudy in North position local thundershowers in South portion tonight or Friday cooler Friday. Minimum 6 a. In. 7 a. In. 8 a. M. 9 a. In. Id a my 11 a. M. 12 noon 1 p. M. 2 p. 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