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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - July 26, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaJ i the weather Anu via Hokk a a the daily Banner it by Fly a un1tf.b fess service a i. The Home news 0 tit Waves for All k forty seven 5heencastle, , wednesday in 2 5, 19 a no. 24i or show held lug St ii 12 medical society Case dismissed i Nduku auspices of la it it my economics a club \ i a Enol n in let it ii to Amateur a Row Kny Mill hold display in a Ovid Ward building a team county Flower show eld in Greencastle. Friday i Day August 11 and 12th. E auspices of the Putnam Home economics club. The id regulations Are As follows the entries arc open to am a Owers Only. The entries Are up for artistic arrange bowls vases baskets or any Stainer a Plain Container pre which must provided by Bitor. Flowers entered in this to judged on the merits of Al Hal Quot wer and the Way in which a an1 displayed. The Sizow second Ward held in the building. The Amateur grower and Ial grower will not compete each other. A commercial is one who Sells Flowers or a capitalizes on them in any to limited space it will not ble to Tell if there will or any commercial exhibits ter the entries Are made and entries May made from i it thursday a. Until 4 00 Irskay August 10th. The and awarding of ribbons will Taft Tbs c either late thursday or Day August 11th. Ife. 4 the entries Are to left in a a until 9 00 p. M., saturday 12th, and if the Flowers Are Good condition and with the on of the exhibitors they distributed to the patients in Tail. There will Given n 1st, 3rd ribbon for each division of wet listed b Ila reification turn url v win 6 trus clusters of Flowers. T 6 blooms of each of the j in one or assorted colors Praia giant flowering 2. I Kering 3. Pompon flowering flowering. Vidula 1. 6 blooms of Orange bins of yellow. Washington july 26 it up it Justice James m. Proctor of the District of Columbia court today dismissed the government anti Trust proceedings against the american medical association held that the practice of Medicine is a profession and that the Sherman anti Trust act does not apply to it. The act said applies Only to businesses and trades. Adjournment plans upset by rebellion i some Iii St democrats bring Surprise move for party Ait i s propose new rates for Greencastle Northern Indiana Power company pets idea before commission wild co \ Tion matter of housings a Ndang i Miil ing and furl in a Relief legislation will then conic i p new electric rates were proposed to the Public service commission today a the Northern Indiana Power company and tin1 Uhlie service i Oman of Indiana which both companies estimated will save Consumers More than $236,000 annually. Maximum savings Are estimated at 7.7 percent to Small customers. There will in a reduction of cent Leer kilowatt hour in each of two Steps and a change in the Mill ice of kilowatt hours from 30 to 35. In cities designated As lass a residential and commercial rates would lowered from 61 it to 6 cents per kilowatt hour while in smaller communities known As a Hiss b the rate for Industrial consumption would drop from 7 to 6 a cents per kilowatt hour. Iii Rural territory customers would also receive a reduction of >2 i lit per kilowatt hour in each of the two Steps. The new rate for the second step in All residential and commercial schedules would lie 4 cents. The Northern Indiana Power company reductions would ire come effective aug. 2k according to president i., b. Schiesz. Dual Lane Brazil. Miami ready to pave the construction of the Grade for the new dual Lane right of Way for u. S. Road 40 Between Brazil and Miami West of Brazil has been completed and is ready for paving. The work of putting Down the Concrete pavement on this end of the Road is expected to Start this week. Laying of the two lanes of the new National Road Between Brazil and Miami is expected to completed before the first of september an 1 the new Road will probably opened to traffic before october 1. Washington. July 26 up rebellious House democrats endangered congressional adjournment plans today with a Surprise move for a party caucus to compel action on housing spending lending and further Relief legislation. Congress is in u pre adjournment a tangle but is eager to quit August 5. House leaders were reported trying to head off the caucus plan which might Lead either to a free for All party squabble or w Reck adjournment plans. Senate republicans meantime claimed a a fair Chance Quot of debating president Rooselvelt a $2,490.000 000 b spending deriding plan. The democratic opposition was less optimistic. Senate majority Leader Alben w. Barkley d., ky., warned senator they could not go Home unless they j voted on the Bill. The caucus bloc jarred the House with their proposal and followed with a plan to put party members on record with respect to housing spending lending legislation and amendments to ease the 1939 Relief act. Unless the move can headed off. The caucus must held this week probably tomorrow or Friday its decisions Are binding on party members unless they make written request for Freedom. A it is the sense of the members signing the Call for the caucus Quot said rep Raymond f. Mckeough d., ill their Leader. A that non adjournment take place until this necessary legislation has Boon passed or responsibility for the failure so to pass is properly placed upon the reactionary coalition consisting of a Small group of democrats and practically the entire Republican membership of the charged that the Quot coalition Quot arrested Glen l. Keller whose Home j sought to Quot sabotage and destroy Quot Lais at Chesterlin Ohio for securing j j of. An j Liberal legislation. Others Hunting and fishing License with a Saij the caucus also would seek to j misrepresentation of place of Resi prevent a destructive Quot amendment of Dence. The game wardens had sewage hours act. 1 nmn ninth ref fun Van a Lim it of .1 1. Cd 111a wed is taken in Texas Gainesville historians discover mystery of disappearance of Virginia dare in 1587 arrest Hunter w to fakes residence Victor Walter it Nam county game Warden and Clifford Silvus Montgomery county game Warden. Ohio prisoner Wiio is it h for East f1jng to foe nil in Dallas. Tex., july 26. Up Velma West a girl who murdered her husband with a claw Hammer and escaped from prison to have a a last fling at life Quot was Back in jail today satisfied with her fling. She escaped from the Ohio women a reformatory to Marysville of. June 19. And was arrested Here last night. One of the three girls who escaped with her was also retaken. Quot i had a Good time and it was Worth she said a i got the Bug to escape when i went before the parole Board after seven years and was told that i would have to spend the rest of my life in prison. Hell you can to that to a Young woman. I waited five years for my break and i did no to Muff she was asked about t. Edward West her husband the son of a wealthy and prominent family whom she killed in 1927. Quot Tab she said Grining. Quot i married him when i was 18. lived together about a year and a half then started fighting constantly i hit him playfully on the head with a Hammer one night and that was mrs. West 32. Was slender blonde and demurely handsome in the police station where she was questioned before she was locked up. Police found Gainesville. July 26. Up two historians announced today that they had solved the 350-year-old mystery of the disappearance of Virginia dare first White child born in North America and the other members of the a lost Colony Quot of Roanoke Island. Or. H. A Pearce president of Brenas College and his son. Or. Haywood Pearce of Emory University. Had discovered on a wooded Hill near Greenville s. A. 13 rudely carved slabs of Granite and Sandstone. These the historians said apparently marked the Graves of 6-1 members of the Colony whose Fate has been a question Mark in history. The reason they thought so was because names and messages had been carved in some of the stones. These messages were spelled in archaic elizabethan English such As was current at the time the colonists disappeared. They believed however that further research would necessary to establish their authenticity beyond doubt. John White and 121 other colonists established themselves on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina on july 22. 1587. had a daughter i Hanoi. Whose husband was dare. Their daughter was born Gokh t1aughi with i a Dak Benton 111., july 26 up George w. Gore jr., 32. Son of a prominent surgical specialist was charged Torlay with the murder Ltd of his step Mother mrs. Nancy Gore 45, who was shot to death in her Home Early sunday. At Roanoke on August 18 1587. And was named Virginia for the vast Section of coast wilderness which had been named for Elizabeth the a Virgin a Short time later. White a turned to England for supplies. did no to go Back until 1590. The Colony was deserted and the Only Trace found of the 122 had left a year before was one word carved on a tree. That word was crop turn a which presumably referred to the Indian tribe of that name nothing More was Ever heard a i the colonists and of the baby. Virginia. The historians found the grave stones 350 Miles Soutsi of Roanoke Island. There was another Stone near them and on it was a message from Eleanor dare to her father. It said that she and six survivors presumably including Virginia Wen continuing southward with four a the men Quot believed to tile elizabethan word for Liege men or vessels. And thought to refer to the Friendly Coatar indians. The pearces started their inquiry in 1937 after discovery of a larg it piece of carved Quartz on which was a message from mrs. Dure to her father telling of the virtual destruct i Outlin Titzl 1111 i tit i no armed guards a go Iii Loii Iti Omas Boyce m i l in l l n Tain i Xii pending i Lile on my Keek it ii Community picnic at roue Ann Wiki. iiel.neat tuesday with Mam Fine enferme is on program 11 �011 trouble causes Decalli min i Mon Lait Lilic admits si.a1 in. 1 Mon m \ n in a Kishie Battle bomb 1. Crested Type 1 a Iionka a Highway Northeast Plumy feathery or Chi Lindria los -12 blooms of assorted i anthemuni�?6 blooms in i a it or assorted colors. Put psis yellow perennial12 passed by both houses Are deadlock of Raccoon and. While on the watch j la j in conference Over the proportion recently they found Keller driving i 0f Federal contributions to old age along that Road with a .22 Cal. Rifle j pensions. In his car. said was shooting groundhogs. Keller had a Montgomery county License which gave his a residence As i Ladoga route 1, but. On questioning 1. Shasta 12 Bio mis 2. Jalc admitted the automobile was Al daisies. 12 blooms assorted j driving with an Ohio License plate was his own and that lived in that As 1, single a blooms of but had Given his father s add provision which compels or. 2. Single Cactus. 3 blooms j dress As his own when secured his Hunting License. was Here visiting his father said and the father lives at the Ladoga address. The matter Cost him $23.50 in the court of Justice of the peace a. A. Watts at Crawfordsville. I color 3. Cactus double flow a blooms of any one color 4. In or show types 3 blooms it Unton tical on piste two congressional peace is threatened by proposed Senate efforts to ease the 1939 Federal Relief act by attaching riders to the spending lending Bill. The riders would seek to restore prevailing wage schedules for skilled workers for which pea clients struck this month to soften the a Pep Day vacation for any Relief worker who has been on the Rolls 18 months and restore Federal theater projects. But word came from House and Mili Kersburg. Ind. July 26 up sheriff Gus Barclay said today that George Felk. 45, a non Union labourer had admitted the slaying of John Pinkelton 35, a Union member who was shot and killed yesterday during a Battle Between Union forces and non Union workers at a Bridge construction project. One Man was Phot in the stomach and six others All non Union labourers. Received minor wounds from Shotgun pellets and heating during the Battle. Barclay said Folk told him shot Pinkelton in self defense. �?o1 did no to mean to kill him Quot the band has \ More finished Soi and biter Mani but 1 1 Reinie saes excited and shot Barclay said witnesses told him her and Mary Al ii Richards. 23. In a Rooming hous it mrs. West just entering it with a Man she had met a Short while before on Market Street when detectives took her they had been tipped by a girl she had met since coining Here. Third Gomert thursday eve met prices at 1934 level i nations booming hog Indus-1th pig birth rates breaking All jus records except for one year la biggest Supply of Corn feed pus in history today had Swine j Back to the level that pre Valiere the 1934 drought Pite the Price slump of better k per cent in the past two Best hogs Selling close to $7 hundredweight continued to retrofit on the Corn on which were fattened. This enc our Ogas Well As com production. Prices Are the lowest in six around 40 cents in Chicago population of hogs was Esti to approaching the level hich the government i augur its Price raising program in average Price of hogs at the j of trading last week was i $5.60 per hundredweight a Fogo it was $8.70 two years ago. In july. 1934, just before the of drought and the govern i program were Felt hogs sold at a a a to of in late they had slipped to around $3. Manchi Skigin govt. Invokes measure fees on defense act after Gen Era fighting on Frontier the third in the series of hand concerts rendered by the Greencastle City band will take place thursday evening on the North Side of the Square. Gene p Ennington will the director. The band has just received a group of new numbers of a popular variety l us Wuhu Laillet 1 i will Ilu Uoc i a Ai and will give a pop Quot concert in the. �,.,1 Senate today that the log Jam May ,.e is ales .6, .1 i no a future. Among the numbers guff Rcd a Rlou co Lleta 11 on Minim in 011 Theta Lead groups "1 enjoyable to is Violak Shii standings is sell a Ionia Ksita edit the past semester tue to get Mcnutt place sitting ton. July 26.up Lent Roosevelt today nominated Hunt Secretary of state Francis Yre to u. 8. High commis of the Philippines. Tokyo. July 26. Up the Manchu Kuan government invoked its National defense act today after continued general fighting on the Manchukuo outer Mongolia Frontier. Soon afterwards the japanese supreme War Council met Here to discuss the Frontier situation and the chinese japanese War. Gen. Chang Ching Hui. Premier of Manchukuo proclaimed the National defense act. Dispatches said and there by imposed what was regarded in diplomatic quarters Here As an emergency regime such As would operate in War time. Under the defense act the following measures were prescribed. 1 strict air defense precautions. 2 increased Powers for military police. 3 restrictions on speech publications and Public meetings. 4 prohibition of Possession of rifles explosives and other weapons. 5 restricted communication and transportation by land and water. The supreme War Council met Here to hear Gen. Seishiro Itagaki. War minister report on Manchukuo and it ont Inual on pm a two Beta Theta i and Kappa Alpha Theta Lead the National fraternities and sororities respectively in the second semester scholarship report issued this week by the Depauw University registrar. Men s Hall association Heads the list of organized groups and the residents of Florence Hall menus dormitory top the entire rating Sheet of student groups. The entire list is As follows Florence Hall Independent menus Hall association Independent Beta Theta i. Kappa Alpha Theta a sorority Phi Kappa Psi. Lambda Chi Alpha Longden Hall Independent Sigma Chi. A Pha Phi sorority Phi Gamma Delta. Delta Chi. Delta Zeta sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority local women residents Delta Upsilon Phi Delta Theta Rector Hall a women Lucy Rowland Hall a women Delta Delta Delta sorority off Campus men Independent Alpha Omicron i sorority Sigma no. Alpha Gamma Dolta sorority. Delta Kappa Epsilon Delta tau Delta. Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Off Campus women , Alpha tau Omega local men residents ind.�. Locust Manor a ind women Johnson House ind women. Aie Many that Are Young and old alike. Under the capable leadership of Gene Pennington the band has smoothed out Many of the rough ots and is now capable of furnishing some very line musical renditions. The program tomorrow night includes Gloria March Loschy. Bells of St. Marys Adams. Trombone smiles Jewell. Memories of Stephen Foster. Stars and stripes forever Sousa. Intermission. March Militare Talbott. American legions a overture Skaggs. Barnum and a Baileys March King. Cinderella overture a Rosen Krans. National Emblem March bog Ley. 20 years a to in Greencastle Frank a. Ashworth City mall Carrier. Ami his wife and son. Returned Home from a visit at Crandall. The country Reading club met with mrs. E. R. Bartley. Or. A. A. Broadstreet went to Rochester. Minn., to with his brother Verlin. Who has to operated upon for abdominal trouble. Thomas Harris came from Baldwin. Kas. To join his wife at the Home of her parents. The Battle raged for 20 minutes and that at least 15 Union men. The labourers and several bystanders were involved. Shotguns pistols rifles and clubs were used. When the lighting waned Pinkelton Lay dead and geor Hammond 45. Was suffering from a i Shotgun wound in the stomach. Ger non Union labourer ious head Gash. Barclay said Pinkelton and Hammond wore employed on a Road being built in connection with the Bridge. identified them As members of the Hod carriers and Gommon labourer so Union Evansville local 561. An affiliate of the american federation of labor. Last night arrested John so a Ucie 44. Union organizer who was present during the Battle on a charge of rioting. Soucie was released under Bond of $500. Barclay said ill feeling has been brewing since Spring when o p. Olinger. Huntingburg ind., was awarded a contract to build the Bridge. said Olinger had received a warning to hire Union members or abandon the Job. Memorial Day a fire Ltd undetermined origin destroyed a temporary Bridge Olinger a men had erected. Recently the project had been shut Down and work was resumed Only last monday. I Soucie told Coroner William Moser that went to the project with 15 men to form a picket line. said appealed to Roy Jones Bridge Foreman. To use Union labor and that while they were talking one of the non Union a labourers started to attack the pickets. said a Man could not identify ran to an automobile obtained a Shotgun and Rifle Ami started firing hitting Pinkelton and Hammond and driving away his other Mem. Barclay said would hold Felk Covington. Ind., july 26 up armed guards paced about the Fountain county jail today in a determined attempt of state and county officials to protect Thomas Boyce 27-year-old Attica greens keeper charged with the attack slaying of comely Elizabeth Debruicker of Attica last week from any possible violence by aroused citizens. Boyce was quietly taken to Covington yesterday from his cell in the Marion county jail at Indianapolis to appear before Justice of the peace James a. Neal on a manslaughter charge which Lias been filed against him. demanded an attorney when to appeared in court however and refused to enter any plea until counsel was secured for him. Neal took him to the county jail for the night and scheduled another appearance Fot late today. Armed guards were immediately deployed about tin building a crowd of More than 200 had gathered at tin court House when Boyce arrived from Indianapolis Boyce outwardly Calm was escorted through their ranks into the court House. Approximately 20 men Oil officers or newspapermen were permitted in the courtroom when appeared. Boyce was charge i with killing it in i Nitro the i Ilanon or. \ a mrs i Kobe act Levities Start at four of in lock with it 1111 i 1 Mii \ sing Meert etc., to keep things Robe Ann s Park Board in con auction with the Greencastle recreation Board today announced that u Community picnic will held tuesday. August 1. At the Park in Honor of mrs. John w. Robe and her deceased husband John Robe. There Are some elaborate plans under Way to make this a huge Community sum is. It will not Only a Day for friends and families to get together but it will a Chance for people to become better acquainted with other people in the Community. Activities will Start at 4 p. With tin picnic scheduled for 7 p. One feature of the program As planned will Community singing. This is a Type of entertainment that is rapidly growing in popularity throughout the entire country. An amplifying system und to o screens for displaying words of the various a mrs will installed to help insure the Success it it i this part of the program. Another feature will the playing of the Greencastle High school summer band under the direction of Gen Pennington. There will also a German band As a Novelty part of the entertainment. Or. Bamberger will take coloured movies of the picnic so that there will a permanent record of this Fine Community function. In the Way of entertainment there will also several tournaments directed by the recreational supervisors. The one tournament will a father and son Horseshoe tourney another will Between Mother and Daugh croquet while the a family tourney of ter and will third will shuffleboard. There will new method to to Cali child i a facts of life Quot Ltd taught in Kinder. Ten in. Ither activities available such As Badminton softball. Volleyball and deck Tennis that will not supervised by a recreation. Head. Part of the afternoon sometime after four will devoted to it it wheel Day events with anyone up to and including seven years of ago being eligible to outer tiny first event will a tricycle Ray t this will or divided into children up to and including four years of age and children up to and including six years of age. Thu second event will a Wagon race which will consist of coasting for distance. Here to Ltd it there will entrants divided into those up to and including 1 years and those up to and including 7 years. The third event will a Scooter rare with All entries classed in one group of up to and including seven years. Each family will furnish their own food but tin if will by Light refreshments anti drinks sold at the Park. In i it of r i no i i s new York july 26 up Columbia University announced new method of teaching Quot the facts of life Quot to kindergarten children to Day. The method is to a introduce them to a Rabbit Lefoi and after she has had Young. It was tried out on 16 boys und girls of four to six in teachers colleges kindergarten demonstration school. The rabbits Nann is Molly and she has been in a wire Cage in the Center of the class room for weeks. Ruth c. Gamble had explained carefully to her charges that Molly was going to have babies and were there Uny questions there were quite a number and miss Gamble answered each one truthfully. Each a Lay the Little boys and girls fed Molly cleaned her Cage and wondered when Molly a babies would show up. Yesterday when they went to school Molly had one baby. Gamble exhibited it with some Pride am. Asked if there were any questions. A yes a said a five year older a where s the father a miss Gamble when she got through answering questions explained How Molly would feed her baby. Then with a Small nursing bottle permitted several of the children to feed Molly. They found it Anna Frances Blaydes is plaint if for divorce Fri an James Oliver Blaydes. Their marriage occurred april 18, 1939. Id they separated july 21. She alleges a hire a if support. Cunning and no Effort to make a living. She avers is the father a of her unborn claim and asks support for the child Frank g. S Vocase i is attorney for the plaintiff. An entry on the court docket shows tin Wilin Lawal of Albert n. Williams us attorney in matters growing out of divorce proceedings of Helen c. Pitts against Donald f Pitts. 0 0 0 0 o 0 o 0 o 0 0 o today a weather 0 0 and 0 o local temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 generally fair in Nort invest por miss i Tion somewhat warmer in Northu Tibt portion tonight and in cast and South portions thursday cooler in extreme Northwest portion thursday. For grand jury action and that All very exciting but some were Dis was considering filing rioting Char i appointed. Molly had Only one baby Gei against a about 40 other and a they had us least 10. Minimum 69 i in. To 7 a. In. 71 8 a. A. 77 9 a. A. 82 10 a. A. 83 11 a. A. 66 12 noon. 66 1 p. In 2 p. A

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