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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - July 15, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA a a a a 4�l of. Weather it fair and warmer a Ltd i to 0 forty seven the daily Banner us United 1>11kss service a All the Home news 0 $ it Waves for All 9� Greencastle Indiana sati Day july 15, 1 a it. 2 strike to cause Ore deaths a Lis situation is serious my m \ v it n withdraws try is i l Ort All kits Are closed. A a riot at saw Iii project Lite Uri Ilan a resulto in Many injury a it and a a a Iff another death 1iinneap Ilis minn., july 15 u pm mayor George Leach an today that Quot in order to Avert civil War Quot the City no longer w Mil be reap Nabih for the operation of spa project he said the the turbulent spa strike Ai Tualii in which one a t Wax killed a in i a to injured in Street rioting last Lai to lib was the problem a of the Federal government. A i contend and submit to he said in a Radii i her it la now or later the Federal s government must clean up the mess a it has brought a he said he would not ask gov. 1/ Harold e. Stassin to declare martial w maw because of the expense. He govern 11 answered promptly through c. Glotzbach. Stale spa Admani Rator. He said Minneapolis proof i a which have been insult uts Ano operated at the request of the City would with exceptions fio open on monday. Focal Point of last nights Battle Between must a and strikers was a spa sewing project scene of two a i Jother riots Hun week where women have continue working despite the a spa strike against the new 130-hour work Rule. Policeman John Gearty 40, died of a heart ailment a and two Polk Ien anti a non striker were injured in a hot at the project monday. Rev it n persons were injured in one yest Day afternoon. Violence flared for a third time last night utile 55 patrolmen escorted 119 non Quot tanking women completing a shift at the project through a crowd of approximately 4.000. The majority strikers but including Many spectators. Fought along two blocks the Battle pitted the bricks Sticks and Slingshot missiles of the strikers against the tear Gas night Sticks riot guns and revolvers of the policemen. Police officials charged that at least two strikers carried rifles. The strikers howled and jeered when the Koimn marched out Between the policemen. Suddenly they surged Forward rushed past armoured police Cara an 1 broke through the police lines. Bricks and Sticks flew. There was a barrage of gunfire and tear Gas Itom police and Emil Berg extrom 60, an unmarried Relief client Lay dead Al Lect through the head. Bight prs it is including a child suffered gunshot wounds. None believed to a oneilous and 12, including six policemen required Hospital treatment forc other injuries. Hoosier spa operations had returned to Normal today As striking workers ende it protest strikes against new National works projects and 1 ministration rulings and agreed to 4 join a National one Day protest movement july 20. Less than 2,000 workers were still on strike today As county units at mass meeting i decided to return to work and eliminate any Chance of cumin i 11 on i Tiitu Moi Indiana prison convicts believed guard killed win a stiffens strike policy Washington july 15 1up1 a spa officials stiffened their attitude toward striking Relief workers today. A firmer policy of discharging workers who remain away from work in protest against abolition of the prevailing wage scale was indicated. It resumed from last night s rioting in Minneapolis and president Roosevelt s declaration that a you cannot strike against the Federal spa commissioner f. C. Harrington had issued orders to state administrators to discharge thousands of strikers who have remained away from work five Days and to fire also these who seek to evade that ruling by a any farm Bureau picnic to be held sunday la Bay meeting with Imp dinner will feature county organization or. Mcclure to service Wil he held at 11 a. M., Many will attend meeting at Stockwell Grove Smith indicted on 20 Fil Arles three other present. Former l. S. U. Officials also named by jurors Baton Rouge la. July 15.�? or. James Monroe Smith former president of Louisiana state University was indicted last night on Twenty separate counts of forgery and falsification of Public records by the East Baton Rouge grand jury which also returned indictments against three other officials and former officials at the school these included or. Clarence a. Lorio state senator and member of the University Board of supervisors who was charged with knowingly receiving and having embezzled goods in his Possession. Or. Lorio is j official physician for the University i and a prominent state political Leader. E. N. Jackson business manager of the University was charged on two indictments one alleging four counts of knowingly receiving and having embezzled goods in his Possession. And one with having aided and abetted George Caldwell in the embezzlement of materials. George coldwell former superintendent of construction at the University was charged twice with embezzlement. A total of Twenty eight indictments were returned against the four men. Smith already was in Ler indictment on an embezzlement charge Here while Caldwell was charged in new Orleans with diversion of spa materials to private use. The farm Bureau meeting and picnic at the Stockwell Grove on Road 43, half a mile South of the National Road sunday will begin at 11 o clock with the invocation and scripture Reading. Maurice Kersey will sing and the Sermon will be delivered by the Rev. C. Mcclure pastor of the Gobin memorial Church in Greencastle. The noon hour will be devoted to the picnic luncheon. At 1 30, the Greencastle High school band will play and the Home economics chorus will sing. Miss Helen Wallace of Cloverdale will give a Reading and Paul evens and Eleanor Sweringen will talk on their experiences at the Rural youth school at Purdue. Mrs. Maud Mcnary of Greencastle will give a history of the Putnam j county farm Bureau followed by a report from Oscar Larm District farm Bureau chairman and a. A. Tomey of the livestock marketing division of the farm Bureau. Hospital improvements near completion queer weather in Community the above is a View of the Putnam county Hospital taken from the North East which shows the completion of the new Wing White is being added to the institution and which will soon be Toady for occupancy. The exterior work has been completed and the Interior is in process of completion As Are the furnishings and the new heating Plant which Are a part of the general improvement of the Hospital under the present plans. Putnam county has experienced some unusual weather so far this Sunicki. A week ago. The thermometer soared to near the one Hundred Mark for one Day dropped the next and then shot upward again. This queer action has been continued. One Day this week it was Cool and the next it was hot. The Peak was reached thursday when the High Mark for the year was reached with 100 degrees. Friday it was Cool and again today the sky is Cloudy and the temperature pleasant however the forecast is for a continuation of the hot weather. Blockade of blends toward Hong Kong a ii a a Fine horse show everybody pays Fannie Brice asks $750,000 damage Chicago july 15 Fannie Brice screen and radio comedienne filed suit in Superior court yesterday for $750.000 damages against the Twen-1 Teeth Century Fox film corporation. Tyrone Power and a1 Jolson firm actors Alice Faye film actress eight theater companies Anil officials of the film corporation. She charge i defamation of character use of her life Story without permission and invasion of privacy in connection with the production and showing of the film a Rose of Washington miss Bra try 1 Evans Dies House acts on lending measure favourable committee action seen As brightening programs chances it is Only when the great Public become tax conscious that politicians begin to act like statesmen. Most of the legislative ills of the country have been saddled on us because people Are not awake to the fact that every new Law takes Money to enforce and to it requires More office holders. Now the Only Way to raise this Money is to tax payrolls and pay in veloies. The Gallup american Institute of the Public opinion has just revealed As the result of a countrywide poll that 25 per cent of the adult population of the United states Are unaware that they pay taxes. This 25 per cent Are mostly the report says found among those who earn $ 20 a week or less. These person actually suld they were not taxpayers. As a matter of fact most of them Are making Only $20 a week or under just because they do pay taxes. They pay taxis without having the Money visibly taken from them. Recent studies show that a it or sons earning $20 a week pay about $100 a year in taxes conservatively estimated. That is almost $2 a week. They pay on everything they buy. Adjournment of Congress is a sight in splendid animals shown in ring Friday during contest or. T. \. Sigler was judge Manx at usual show brought out Large crowd for All events on Frida Jai Nese increase zone of hostilities food shortage Felt neutrality Issue my not be settled but end of session is near m Ripi Al. Senate is emm Ted to stand about As foreign relations committee voted Michigan City ind., july 15 t7ir� convict who made a desperate but utile attempt to escape from state prison Lune 27 by holding a woman visit As hostage believed they had killed a guard before they a negotiated with the Warden for their a Todo Hito wan a sed today by Warden a Tod Dowd who talked with iter they had barricade j and mrs. Ruth Joiner a tile welfare worker in the plans office. They threat to her ten oat unless Given Tiv creation. Warden Dowd mentioned the wounded a. Isnit he a queried one of the bit to. A no he i he 8 badly Hurt a the Warden said lie replied. Guardsman wished into the office and rescued mis. Joiner Whilo Dow i talked with the prisoners. She was wounded As were the three men. A fourth prise nor forced into their scheme and the wardens Secretary. Mrs. Joiner recuperating from her wounds in a Hospital Here May return to her Home Early next we Eek. Word was received Here shortly j before noon today of the death at j Indianapolis of miss Beatrice eve ans daughter of mrs. T. E. Evana. A she had taught in the Indianapolis i schools for the past several years. She is survived by her Mother a brother and a sister. Or. J. E. Porter will be in charge of Short funeral services at Indianapolis Early monday afternoon after which the body will be brought to the Evans Home at 416 East Hanna Street where the regular services will be in charge of the Rev. C. J Mcclure. Mrs. Porter will sing. Interment will be in Forest Hill. Mine blast in Kentucky Washington july 15 up prospects for enactment of presiden Roosevelt a Multi million Dollar lending program before adjournment brightened today As a result of House action a a Senate approved housing Bui. That measure which authorizes an increase from $800.000.000 to $1.600,000,000 in the Bond issuing authorization of the United states housing authority went on the House Calendar carrying several amendments but bearing approval of the House banking and currency committee previously it had been reported that the Bill might languish in the committee. But a favourable report was voted by the group last night. The housing Bill is one of two measures implementing the lending program. The committee will resume out Inird on a a a a a a two some rescued during Early morning hoi is. Others trapped Providence ky., july 15 up Rescue workers digging furiously through debris in a deep Tunnel of a Coal mine toward the prison of 30 trapped miners found three of them Early today and sent them to the surface. They hoped to reach the other 27 men soon. Thirty men were trapped by i dust explosion last night which closed the Tunnel 181 feet below the surface with a Wall of Stone and Din. Six other men working in the Tunnel escaped to the surface. William a Cyan 1 is. Who had been working near the Shaft far removed from the explosion also came up unassisted. Two of those rescued Ernest Johnson and Douglas Cates had been caught underneath the fallen debris and were injured. The other Dennis Walker was not Hurt. The blast occurred about two Miles from the Bottom of the Shaft. The 27 still missing had been working about 1,000 feet beyond the Point of the explosion. Mrs. W. V. Lytle Given a divorce former id Pauw professor now living in new Haven involved in court a quaint Little Story of former residents of Greencastle. One of them a teacher in de Pauw at that time comes from new Haven conn., Over n press route. The former Depauw instructor or. It Vernon Lytic taught psych logy Here from 1927 it 1931, resigning under the regime of or. G. Bromley Oxnam. The press dispatch says judge Patrick b. Of Sullivan granted a divorce today to mrs. W. Vernon Lytle and approved an agreement whereby he resigns As president and treasurer of the woman a College of new Haven inc. Under the agreement the College head will use his vote As a trustee of the corporation to have mrs. Lytle elected As his successor. He also agreed to turn Over to her All propel to of the College corporation. The divorce was granted on the grounds of intolerable cruelty. The couple had been married 21 years. Custody of five of six children was awarded mrs. Lytle. British a scripts go on duty today youths Sui mkt to to Call by Khz in it it As world War ended London july 15. Up thirty four thousand who wore born is the world War ended reported for duty at regimental depots Torlay under the new conscription act. They arc the first of 200,000 youths of 20 years subject to Call this year under a compulsory service act which perhaps More than any other single thing awakened Europe to the fact that the British government was really making urgent preparations to meet any emergency. In the world War Britain did not resort to conscription until nearly two years after the out Brouk of Lios til tied. Labourers clerks mechanics youths who had never found a Job Public school boys University students and budding Young men about town boarded special trains for designated depots to begin six months of military training. Officers and non commissioned officers at the depots had special War office instructions to be Friendly to the recruits and sell them the idea that a soldiers life could be a Happy one. Queen Mary awaited one group that designated for the Shorncliff Royal armoured corps of which she is honorary colonel to bid them Welcome. 20 years ago in Greencastle Harry Moore purchased a Columbia six. Harrold Stewart went to Newmar 111., to vast the roller boys. Richard Whelan of the ?toffic2 Force was on his vacation. Milt Brown of Bainbridge purchased the former Vermillion property on East Seminary Street. Or. Brown expected to m give Here. Washington. July 15 it up Senate leaders pointed Congress toward an adjournment in the first week of August today. They had Little Hope of reviving president Roosevelt s neutrality program. Adjournment fever increase i both in the House and Senate despite another Appeal by the president and Secretary of state Cordell Hull for repeal of the existing arms embargo. A they will have to build a Fence around Washington to keep senators Here much longer a said sen. William e. Borah r., ida., ranking member of the foreign relations committee which tuesday voted 12 to ii to Shelve the neutrality Issue until next year. There was no indication that the administration s Appeal had changed committee sentiment. Sen Hiram Johnson a calif., charged that the neutrality program outlined in the Roosevelt Hull special message to Congress yesterday would embroil the United states in foreign wars. A it is intervention or military Alliance Anil we want none of it a Johnson said we want intervention even if called sen. Walter f. George a. Ga., who cast a decisive vote for postponement of the question said he believed Hull s views were worthy of careful study but that in his opinion the question had been settled for tin present. Administration leaders had Hope i that George might reconsider his vote Ami permit a neutrality Bill to reach the Senate floor und run agreement whereby it would not but acted upon until the next session. Reaction to the presidents Hull s Appeal generally follow i that lines of the 12-to-ll division in committee. Advocates of postponement j argued that the United states ought to stick to the mandatory arms embargo affecting All foreign nations. Administration supporters claimed that tie Appeal was a a unanswerable and ought to he acted upon. Or. Roosevelt a message said the present embargo encourages Quot a general state of War both in Europe and Asia a and should be repealed a for the cause of peace and in the interest of american neutrality state police to lose Harrison. Ini dog track Indianapolis. July 15 despite a Dearborn circuit court injunction restraining local authorities from interfering with operation of a dog racing track at Harrison Don f. Stiver. State police superintendent said today Indiana patrolmen would close the track. At Lawrenceburg special judge Marshall Alexander ruled the proposed plan of operating the track later this summer was not in violation of state Law. Operators of the track permit patrons to Purchase a a options on the dogs and at the conclusion of each race the management buys Back the patrons interests. A some time ago a Stiver declared a officers in that District were ordered to halt any attempts to operate dog racing tracks and that order still stands tientsin China. July 15 a up japanese Navy authorities closing in steadily on great Britain a naval base at Hong Kong announce today that they intended to blockade several ports on Tho province coast. Notifying foreign consulates at Shanghai they intended to include i the ports in the zone of hostilities against China the japanese asked that citizens and ships be evacuated from the ports and said that they could not in responsible for their safety after tomorrow. Three Days ago the japanese announced that they intended to blockade Changchow Tangshan and Chao an on the coast of Fukien province which is immediately above Kwang Tung. Hong Keg however is Midway along the Kiangtung coast and thus presumably ports both South and North of it will be blockaded. Even before today s notification. Hong Kong had Felt the beginning of a food shortage because so Many chinese ports had been blockaded. It was announced officially a Shanghai that britons were evacuating half eng on the yellow River Between Hankow an i piping because a a japanese sponsored chinese mob culminated a month Long series of demonstrations with a demand that ail britons evacuate China within four Days. It was understood that n dozen or so britons already had left Kaifeng for piping. At piping the american embassy handed the japanese embassy two protests covering japanese operations which it was complained endangered american lives and property during june. The big horse show and carnival staged Down town by the rain Ridge business men will come to a closet is evening. Friday was a gala occasion for All who attended the various events on the program and the town was thronged with visitors from Early until late. To Many the horse show was the big attraction during the afternoon and some Classy animals were shown. Tho following awards were made by or. T. A. Sigler who acted on judge Light harness Mare or gelding. 3 years old or Over first. Mary Turner second. C. E. Johnson third. John Mccabe. Light harness Marc or gelding Twoy Ais old first John Mccabe second. L j Steele third John Mccabe. Light Harin As Maiv or gelding. I year old. Harry Mccabe second and third John Mccabe. Light harness sucking Colt first Hany Mccabe second third John Mccabe. Mare and Colt first Harry Mccabe second John Mccabe. Best Man rider 50 years old first l. J. Steele second John Mccabe third j. G. Mannis. Best lady rider first Eleanor Collins second Mary Turner third Anne Steele. Best general purpose farm Saddle horse first Joe Elliot second l. J. Steele third. Lawrence Cox. Best 5 gaited Saddle horse first l. J. Steele second Wilson Handy. Best 3 gaited Saddle horse first Mary Turner second Jesse Cox. Best Light harness stallion first Harry Collins Sec Amend. A turf Keller third Harry Mccabe. Best Saddle stallion first Harry Collins second. Don Keller. Sweepstakes John Turner. Youth Slayer being hunted Elgin i. July 15 a Man identified As Jack Russell Cowboy sex convict from Oklahoma who is ought As the Sla i of William Scott Hamilton kidnapped a youth at Kenosha wis. Last night and released him Here today. He took the youths car and said he was a heading for Chicago to meet so no Frank Jam la flans from brain schools of instruction i of janitors and Iii s Oki vers will be held among the announcements of interest from the office of Frank Jarrell. Superintendent of schools of Putnam county is one concerning a new event in the county a school annual program which is a school of instruction for All janitors of county schools which will be conducted by the county superintendent in connection with an instructor from Purdue University. The Date will be announced later. I. Jarrell also announces a school for All school bus Drivers of the county. September 19. The Drivers will gather in the Assembly room of the court House. The state police department will have representatives present for the event and they and or. Jarrell will be the speakers. Another announcement from or. Jairell is the Date of the Putnam county teachers Institute which will be held wednesday August 30. In Tho auditorium of the Greencastle High school. The county schools will open August 31. Baljit Call want no honors Madison township \ of i ii elected to uti e honorary in Futi Farmers the chapter of the future Farmers of America from the Greencastle High school met Friday evening in tin Greencastle High school building and elected Ralph Call. Jr., of Madison township to an Active Hoti Crary degree in that organization. The degree will it a a officially awarded Friday evening july 21. The initiation will be conducted by officers vet non Singleton. Tim quark Mour ice Kivitt Willard Abbott and Bob Moc . Or. Call has been an rut standing my club member for several years recently won the District Dairy judging contest was a member of Putnam county s second place judging team at the state fair last year was fourth place horse judge in the Slat fair last year was sixth place Dairy judge exhibitor of the grand Champion in f Heifer at the last county exhibit Junior Leader of Madi a on township 1-11 club and has been the official Delegate to the Purdue 4-h club round up and the boys state fair Camp. In addition to these agricultural activities he has been Active in Schlic of affairs prior to his graduation lust Spring from the local High school. This is the first degree of it kind offered by the local chapter. Ii is an exceptional Honor to be won a. Young Man. 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 today a weather 0 0 and 0 0 local temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 fair saturday and sunday somewhat warmer saturday warmer sunday. Minimum. 62 64 7 a. 07 7576 10 a. 79 11 a. 79

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