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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - June 9, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaT a a the a eat Heb a Tttus and cooler a a the daily Banner a it Waves for ally a Jjo for United i�?T1c Ess service f All the Home news q i i a i a i i 1 i d a i Mij f0i1ty-seven 1rkkncastle, Indiana Friday jink a 1>39. No. 202 Cement Cham Here to underway v with meeting of to Boa i of trustees and visitors seat new directors Chapel scheduled for Satur Flo Ringi directors will meet tonight Pauw University s one Huml commencement week program Derway this morning with the ,1 meeting of the joint Board a Steis and visitors. The Board the annual report of president and considered the univer budget for the coming year Picht tin annual meeting of the a 0f directors of the Depauw association will be held in Mculty room of the adm Nistra us Ding. Ford c. Frick presi of the National league of . Will preside As president. Association. Russell Alexand a ecu Tive Secretary of the Asso-1 for the last several years will his resignation to the Board is meeting in the University a department of Public relations Lexander will devote his entire to the publicity office i newly elected directors will ated mrs. I a1 no re Allman a and James Pence of Green k. Foster Clippinger Harvey in Stock. And John d. Hughes of Apolis h. Philip Maxwell of to and Robert c. Hixson of Colorado. A urday will be the big Day As Depauw graduates and for Stu Lents Are concerned. It will uni Day and hundreds Are sex Back for the program. A big a ration tent Lias been placed the Boulder on East Campus Large bulletin Board has been id to carry the names of those hum As they Are registered. Traditional alumni Chapel is ruled for 10 of clock in Meharry president Frick will preside i Charles focal Winner of the presidents scholarships sing on i to program. During >11 Call of classes those holding is will have an Opportunity to <1 in some manner. Silver will lie presented members of ass of 1014 who arc Back for Silver anniversary and the cont Isimal i Nice Smirl retired officer sent to penal farm Alva Pierce 40 years old a retired officer has been sent to the penal farm at Putnamville for a ten Day sentence by judge Hanna of the Hendricks county circuit court for Drunken driving. Pierce s Home is at Rockville. He was arrested on state Road 36 near Avon. He please i guilty when arraigned. His Driver s License was suspended Lor 30 Days. He had started for his Home at Rockville from Indianapolis hut got turned completely around i l when arrested was driving East the members will attend meet monday Roundup at Purdue will continue into wednesday of next week Hendricks judge sets trial Date William Williams rest or Cromwell lilt usted following a Ibert in the Hendricks county circuit court judge Horace Hanna has set july 5 As the Date of the trial of William Williams 22 years old and Hester Cromwell 21, of Mansfield Ohio who were arrested i by state police officer George Sheeko of Greencastle sunday following an Accident in which they were involved near Stilesville. Their companion de Hendricks of Springfield was also held for a Short time to answer questions. It is alleged that Williams accompanied by his two friends ran into the rear of a car driven by George Payne a Farmer living near Stilesville. The Accident happened on the National Road near Orchard Terrace tourist Camp a Short distance East of Stilesville. Hiding with Payne was his wife and daughter. His daughter mrs. Lorna speck was carrying her 10-months-old baby on her Lap. The Impact hurled the Payne car off the Road on the South Side and it finally came to a Stop in a Field several Yards from the Road. Mrs. and her daughter were injured to some extent but it was not necessary to take them to a Hospital. Williams the Driver of the car was officer Hecko who was the first officer to arrive on the scene after the Accident. Hecko also placed charges of intoxication against Cromwell Hendricks was taken to Plainfield following the Accident hut he was released later without charges. Koval arum chapter plans dinner party regulates Arm trespassing no ring necessary Nish Able by sentence and Fine of the statutes passed by the state legislature at rec a Sion Puta Teeth into the Al 1 existing regulations concerning a a a sing on farms and makes the be much More serious. A Dew Law will be in effect in a the copies of the piloted jets have been received by All v clerks of the state and that promulgated by the Secretary of we is House Bill 317, reads get whoever shall wilfully or it right enter. Any farm a s a it a farm land or another notice. Forbidding. 1 a has been conspicuously i a a a at the main Entrance. Farm land shall be guilty of a Eleanor. And upon con Viejal be fined not less than five nor More than 50 dollars to May be added imprisonment in it unto jail fur no More than six the claimed that under the old Law Perty owner even though he is land posted against Trespas Coull not cause the trespass rest unless he first had warned off the place. Now no warning Pessary. Greencastle chapter of Royal Arch masons will hold a dinner party wednesday june 14th, at the masonic Temple for All masons and their ladles. A dinner will be served at 6 30 by the Eastern Stai after which the guests will be entertained with music and dancing by the Indiana state farm orchestra. It is imperative that reservations Ito made by tuesday noon. This can be done by calling the masonic Temple. The committee in charge is anxious to have a Good attendance As this Wili be the last entertainment until the fall meetings. To participate in contests a roup winning achievement in their work to attend miss Schott will in present the 4-h Roundup at Purdue beginning next monday and continuing through tuesday and into wednesday will be attended by a group of 4-h members from Putnam county some of whom will participate in the contests of the Roundup. Others of the group will be spectators Only. Madonna cull will enter the clothing judging contest. Contesting in the livestock judging will be a team from Putnam county composed of Ralph Call jr., Russell Grimes and tim Ruark. Putnam county scorn judging team will be Melvin Shinn Victor Saltin. And Willard Abbott. Attending the Roundup will be a number who won awards in the last county fair among them being food preparation Colleen Hunter baking Dorothy Etter Canning Bonnie Ruth Shinn room improvement Kathryn Arnold. Chrystal Hendrich and Juanita Mcclure will attend by reason of their work in girls demonstration. Also present at the round up will be a group who won achievement in their work among these being Betty Lee Baker Helen Allee Frodia Sims Edith Nichols. Mary Knauer Howard Mcmullen Forest Mace Akers Robert Phillips and Dale Bushong. Miss Mary Lou Schott teacher in the Greencastle Home economic department will also attend. John Irwin Dies at Colorado Home mrs. William e. Thomas of Madison township has received word of the death of John Irwin a former resident of Western Putnam county. He died june 1 at his Home near Holly Colorado of heart trouble. Survivors Are the widow mrs. Anna Vandiver Irwin a daughter mrs. Velma Lapel three sons. Roy Edgar and Harry four grandchildren and one sister mrs. Florence Tilly of Des Moines Iowa. He was a son of John and Theresa leather a a Irwin. On May 30th mrs. Irwin was 74 years of age. He left Indiana when a Young Man with his Mother brother and three Sisters All of whom have died except the one sister who now lives in Alta Vista Kansas. About l0 years ago he moved to Holly. Colorado. Or. Irwin has Many relatives in Putnam county. Some of them in c Wood mrs. Oscar Irwin mown Scott Thomas. Mrs. W. E. Thomas cousins and a Nephew Clifford Thomas. 0�oeen and King visit War shrine pledge Anglo ae it i c a n Friendship and ii Ope for peace today Queen affected by heat nursemaid ill answer share held for kidnapping and holding for Ransom five year old boy Hiiop lifter apprehended during the opening and the Large j crowd at the new Montgomery Ward company store thursday one Young Man was caught taking some Small charged with., a clips .1 driving by articles from the based Nunt. The company uses a detective system Imong employees that prevents any shop lifting and the working of it during the opening Day caused grief to this one Young Man. The system has been in effect for some time and has resulted in arrests of numerous Petty thieves in towns where the company operates stores. Masonic notice called meeting Temple Lodge no. 47 this evening work in m. M. Degree Given by tin masonic members of the menus forum of the Christian Church. , candidate. Chale reports singular incident a Bif Iular incident is reported near Roachdale. In 1918, Wil Yiming was struck and Killednon freight train North of Bdale. He was wearing Gecta at the time but members of his it a could not find them after the _ 1at. However his grand Daugh is Esther Holland working in Lalo Patch adjoining the scene death of her Grandfather the spectacles in the ground a o not broken but the Metal e was tarnished from exe to the soil. Property removal improves Campus stiff is it ild1xg Puim Hahka by Church a d University cleared one of the finest improvements on the University Campus will be noticed by commencement visitors in Green Castle this year. It is the removal of the old shocks property North of the Gobin memorial Church. The old building was purchased recently by the Church and in the removal agreement of it the University has undertaken the cleaning off of the lot and the landscaping of the same to make it conform to the rest of the Campus. This work has gotten Well underway and the Trees and shrubbery that surrounded the old House have been removed in part and visitors arc now Able to see the North Side of the methodist Church something that has never been possible before. In another few months the site of the old House will be entirely obliterated and grass will cover the Corner adding still More Beauty to the Campus and to the Church. Say demonstrations caused by agitators Mexico City june 9 up Al a legation were made today that student demonstrations against the United states in connection with the air plane death of Juan Sarrabia had been fomented by nazi and anti a jewish agitators. Gen. Federico Montes chief of police said investigation disclosed that the students did not hold tin demonstrations a of their own he sent out an alarm for the arrest of an anti jewish Leader As having been responsible. The Man sought was alleged to have aided in organic j ing an anti jewish riot january 26. Vicente Toledano Lombardo head of the mexican confederation of labor asserted that if azi agents promoted the demonstrations and said that a nazi spies Wert working in cooperation with italian and japanese agents As Well As members of the Spanish Fala Gist fascist organization. San Francisco june 9. Up a a pretty 19-year-old Brunette who Calls herself Graham Gaylord but admits that Isnit her right name appears in court today to answer a charge of kidnapping and holding for $1600 Ransom the five year Oil boy for whom she was nursemaid. She insisted she would do the same thing again if circumstances were such that she needed the Money to protect a the life of one very dear to miss Gaylord refused to say whose life she was protecting and How the $1600 would do it. If she is convicted of kidnapping the mandatory sentence in California is life imprisonment. The attractive Young woman and her charge. Krehe Osborn were found in a san jew hotel late yesterday 30 hours after they disappeared. The child was unbanned and did not seem to have missed Mother. Miss Gaylord in a neatly written and Well constructed Ransom note had threatened to kill Krehe if the Mother mrs. Mabel Osborn notified police or the newspapers. When arrested however she said she had no intention of harming the boy. Miss Marcia Hamilton to give recital Fri. Diplomats renting Between Unes ail Fulling Toast proposed by Roosevelt a a a political Toast Quot Washington. Juno v. Up a King George and Queen Elizabeth pledge of Anglo american Friendship and Hope for peace today at the shrines of our hero dead in a Virginia Glade where George Washington lies and at the Tomb of the unknown Soldier. The King and president Roosevelt last night raised their glasses to that Friendship and desire for peace. Everyone hoped for cooler weather because the Royal guests Are wilting or. The heat. From 10 a .m., until 11 30 tonight when they depart their majesties often will Tutti Back the pages of history As though to re write it treading ground scarred with bloody collision of British and american arms. But in Arlington National cemetery memories of those violent misunderstandings will dim As the King honors the unknown Soldier his fellow lighter who died in the first War in which the United states the Empire fought As one. The guests liked the show and stayed until 11 55 p. M. In Champagne and sincerity the White House company drank the Kings health proposed by president Roosevelt with a renewed plea for a methods of peace Quot and a scarcely concealed thrust at aggressors. Diplomats already Are Reading Between the lines of the health proposed by or. Roosevelt and Are calling it the a political his majesty who Speaks in his own voice but Only the words of his ministers was less forceful than or. Roosevelt. But he responded that he had brought from Canada a tin warm greetings of a neighbor and a trusted Friend Quot and from the United kingdom and the Empire a expressions of the utmost cordiality and a and i Pray Quot he said a that our great nations May Ever in the future walk together along the path of continued on i Iii pour miss Marcia Hamilton daughter of or. And mrs. De Hamilton will play a piano recital tonight at 8 15 in Meharry Hall. Marcia who has just completed her freshman year in High school is a very promising pianist. During the past Winter she has played for h go school convocation on several Depauw music school recitals and recently was heard As soloist on the Depauw univ Orsita broadcast from a fam. She is a Pupil of miss Leah cum Utt of the music school faculty. The program is open to the Public and friends Are cordially invited to hear this Young Greencastle musician. Friend shocked by tragic death delegation asks Extension of roads the Board of commissioners of Hendricks county were addressed at their meeting this week by a Large delegation principally banners from the Vicinity of Coatsville who asked the cooperation of the commissioners in securing an Extension of state Road 75 by 23 Miles in length and in the main to follow the Road which now connects Coatsville and Jamestown if and when it is completed. The state Road will have to be wider than the present county Road and some of the Sharp turns May have to be eliminated. Await exaction of nazi vengeance schools Ltd Osel and la i Blic activities banned until killer found Prague. June 9. Up people of Ladno with All their Public activities banned schools closed and a Stern curfew imposed awaited the exaction of further German nazi vengeance today for the killing of a German policeman. The nazi deadline for arrest of the policeman a killers expires at 1 p. M. Cost. After posting a 30,000 Crown $1,050 Reward for the arrest of the killers nazi authorities announced that unless they had been arrested before the deadline further restrictive measures would be imposed. Czech police had been disarmed. In their Stead reinforced patrols of nazi police moved through the streets keeping watch for violations of measures already ordered. Nazi police arrested Many persons for questioning. They said they suspected two strangers seen at a Ladno hotel a Little time before the killing. Roller Carlos son is bitten by i of a dog at the Home of Ernest f. Siddons 1002 South Crown Street bit a Small son of Robert Garl yesterday. Through the Cheek. That evening the dog was killed by the City police anti head was sent to the state health departments Laboratory to be tested for rabies. There was but Little indication the dog was mud beyond t in sudden viciousness it displayed hut the parents of the boy wanted the test made so that they could know what course they should follow in regard to the boys injury. Suspend publication �?~4 e Ellettsville farm funeral services for Delbert Iii \ of. Rec k victim. To be saturday the tragic death of Delbert Norman Heacox. Who was instantly kill a i when he was thrown from his car in a collision at the Junction of the Reelsville Road with the National Road at pleasant Garden wednesday evening caused a deep Shock among his friends and relatives at knights Villo where he had spent his entire life. He was Horn near Asherville april 25. 11� 14. The son of James a. And Emma Wolfe Heacox. During the past year he had made his Home at Knight Seville and was widely known in both Jackson and Van Burn townships As w Ell As in Brazil. He had recently entered the employment of the maintenance department of the Pennsylvania Railroad and wednesday he had gone to Knightsville to get some of his clothing which he had taken to the work train near Reelsville. The Accident occurred As he was returning his car to Harmony where he had arranged to store it during his absence. The deceased is survived by a sister miss Pauline Heacox and two Brothers Harold a. And Andrew j. Heacox All of Brazil. Funeral services will prot ohly be held saturday. Pageant will be feature of Centennial Ulo Ekdale will celebrate i0uiii anniversary of founding in july plan legion Home coming Community at it rec in represent cd on committees planning event truck blocks Railroad a Low Hung platform truck transporting a steam shovel with a Cater Piller tread and a 50-foot Boom which was on Way to do Grade work Southwest of Cloverdale on state Road 42, it was reported Quot mired Down in the looses ashes and gravel at the South Walnut Street crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Brazil wednesday afternoon and for More than an hour blockaded traffic the railway. To toy american Moscow june 9 it up a mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens american involved in one of the biggest espionage passport fraud cases in recent years to let a tried openly in the municipal court at once it was understood today. There was a possibility it was said that the Case would be reached today. Redskins soon will prance Down the streets of Cloverdale on land where More than a Hundred years ago. They followed game Trail through the dense Forest and waged War by Arrow and club against their enemies also redskins. These red skins will he White under their red pigment and will lie Well known present Day residents of Quincy and Vicinity but with their yells and Thor paint and trappings they will represent in pageant form the first chapter in the portrayal in graphic representation of the one Hundred years of the history of the town. Cloverdale. This pageant now being prepared will be a feature of the Centennial Celebration at Cloverdale beginning july 27th and continuing four Days. Thore will to Many other features making the one Hundredth anniversary one of the outstanding celebrations of that kind in the entire county. It should be explained that the redskins will be imported from Quincy because there is a Lodge of the red Many a order in that place and they have the accoutrements needed for the picture nation of Indian life in Putnam county. This Centennial is being merged with the annual Home coming managed by the american legion Post of Cloverdale and the legion Tali ing an Active part in All features of the program but the Community As a whole is participating also. Other scenes in the pageant will picture an old time school a log rolling. A Square dance and a political meeting. J. E. Mccoy is president of the Centennial association. Jean Mccullough is vice president and other members of the executive committs Are Gilberts Mccoy Charles Rockwell Bryl Sandy Adrian Morrison and or. Clyde Gray. Other committees Are the following music John Logan John o Neal. on in two Welcome planned for Paul Mcnutt will of Stag fit on famed Monument Crim be june 29 of 311 Eastern a chickens killed Twenty five chickens at the Home of Luthur easter on the South Jackson Street Road were lifted yesterday by a dog in one big wild Jamboree. The dog or. Easter says belongs in the neighbourhood. The fowls although killed by a worthless dog. Will have to be paid for by the township being classed with sheep and other farm animals that Are killed by dogs. 20 years ago in Greencastle George Christie miss Catherine Allison and or. And mrs. Fred Good Winc attended the shrines convention at Indianapolis motoring Over in or. Christie s car. Lawrence Crump and Glen Cook visited in Bloomington. Otto Dobbs end Clarence Vestal went to Bloomfield to sell cattle at auction. The marriage of miss Ella Bowman and William e. Mcbride was solemnized at the College Avenue Church parsonage the pastor officiating. Or Mcbride was employed at the Cement Plant. The Bride had been employed in the real estate department of the Central Trust company. Bloomington ind. June 9 a up William b. Harris sr., 83, Dean of Monroe county publishers announced suspension of the Ellettsville farm a weekly newspaper with tide week s edition. To founder the paper 67 years ago. Publication rights of the paper Here sold to the Bloomington daily Telephone. Scouts to learn senior program May avoid Plainfield it is reported in Hendricks county that the Indiana state Highway commission May decide to give Plainfield the Quot run around Quot in the rebuilding of the National Road into the dual Lane Type which has been adopted in Putnam county. The avoidance of that town if it occurs will be due to the narrowness of the Street which is now transverse by the Road passing through the place. Mic. Stoner re elected the county representatives of the seventh conservation District held a meeting thursday evening at the Crawford hotel in Crawfordsville. Those attending from Greencastle were Ernest Stoner Albert Dobbs and William Crawley. Or. Stoner was re elected District conservation representative for the third term. The seventh District is composed of the following counties Boone Hendricks Fountain. Montgomery Parke Putnam Vermi Kian Vigo and Warren in ounce scout masters to be used lamp Ocee will be june 12, 13, 14 the boy scouts of Putnam county will learn about the senior program of the boy scouts it it of America at the Camporee to he held june 12, 13, and h at the scout Cabin. The following men will be in charge District chairman will e. Edington and camping chairman e. R. Smith. The senior program of the boy scouts of America is for boys who Are 12 years of age or Over. The following scoutmaster will be used in the senior scout program Howard Wilson Richard Lawrence John t. Goodhart Herndon Irwin Theodore Brown Loren gamer Robert Etter and w. J. Baynard. The Putnam county Camporee will Start at 3 p. A. Monday june 12, and close at 10 30 a. In. Wednesday. Juno 14. The scouts will Camp in tents of their own design and a very Active program will be enjoyed. June 12 there will be a campfire during which time the various patrols will present of stunts. John Vaughan a Young Indian dancer will present several features of the Indian lore Merit badge. He will dance and exhibit his costume for the Benefit of those interested in this Indian lore. Every scout in this District is encouraged to attend this outstanding outdoor rating. Indianapolis. Ind., june 9. Up a tremendous Welcome will to staged on the famed Monument Circle Here for former gov. Paul v. Mcnutt High commissioner to the philippine islands when he returns Here june 29 or 3.0 from Manila it was announced Here today. Mcnutt is regarded As a leading candidate for the democratic presidential nomination next year and a Campaign is underway on his behalf directed by Frank Llano Indiana s democratic National committeeman. The exact Date of the Celebration will depend upon time of arrival of to Ontl Rimml on i nut it believe prisoner is penal farm escape a Man who gave the a of Sylvester Klonsky. 32 years old who police believe is Irvin Hostetler escaped penal farm prisoner was arrested late thursday night at Terre haute and held pending further identification. Hostetler sentenced at Terre haute dec. 9, 1936, to the state reformatory for a term of one to ten years on a vehicle taking charge later was transferred to the penal farm where he walked away last May 7. A a a a a a a a a a a i a today a weather a a and a a local temperature a a a a a a a a a a a a thundershowers this afternoon or tonight saturday cooler. 68 c a. A. 7278 8 a. A. 80 i a. A. 83 10 a. A. 85 11 a. A. 85 12 noon. 88 1 p. A. 2 p. A

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