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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - June 23, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaT f Jzyk weather Rai Anu warmer a. A the daily Banner it i United press service am. The Home news Ujj it Waves for All 9 v a a a mis Putty seven Jakk Nastle Indiana Friday june 1\ 1939. No. J14 inc c1ves impressions Oft Ripolls. Ruler is Given Ruthi is Stic Welcome in subjects Charles Arnold tells of plight of lumber mining Industry in far North of Michigan n Eption moves King clonal arc Wonleh Are carried Utas King arrives in Lun Don june 23�? up Kini in h speech at a Welcome Quot Hinche in to him and Queen a in the a ii Ltd today that his tour Canada and the United states Joni Iii i him that human feel. Was still the most potent of All cps affecting world affairs. Us Sously moved at the warmth d affect i of London s reception. I triumphal procession to the Ric Guildhall in the old Quot City jct an i at the luncheon which red the King said be detailed Story of our travels familiar to you by the daily press news reels and the broadcasting ration which on both sides of Atlantic have reported it with a Urey and sympathetic under ending. Shall Only try to Tell you of Soma the impressions of my journey t remain in my mind. Quot first and deepest is that even in i age of machines and mass pro Sion the strength of human feel it is still the most potent of Alles affecting world affairs. Quot Over All nations a As a North american historian has written ser All nations is humanity. A in no part of the world is that Ith Mere evident that on the cont hot from which i have just re pied. Within its a to limits p men of almost every age and de and divers political faiths. A Quot yet first and Foremost they Are Jian being s Over them All is Hub Silty. I found inspiration too in the Ilza Tion that we 111 these islands v made a helpful contribution to gradual weaving of that fabric a humanity.1 despite the weather the King and end a procession went to the Sil Dhall in an open Semi state Lanti so that the fervently cheering Wils which lined the route Coul 1 them plainly in the narrow Ltd nil nut it Iloh l our special to tin daily Banner by Chas. J. Arnold Little Lake mich., june 23 plagued by a month of Rains which have pai Alyzea operations. The North s depressed lumber Industry faces the Prospect of limited earnings during the next six months a condition already reflected in Relief figures and the general Industrial Outlook for the next Quarter. The lumber and mining industries once Northern Michigan s largest sources of income have ceased operations during the summer months. Ore production is running 40 to 50 percent of Quot capacity approximately one third less than operations of one year ago. The Marquette-e.scanaba-1 r o n Mountain Timber operations scene of the famous Quot Pine steal of 60 years ago have been crippled by heavy Rains transforming thousands of acres of Timberland into Vitual lakes. At Goose Lake mich., the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad main line was washed out in a cloudburst a week ago. Railway officials reported the Lake 18 feet higher than at any time in the history of the Road. The tracks were inundated for two Days despite the raising of the Roadie i last year As a precautionary measure. The City of Escanaba at one time the scene of sonic of the North s greatest lumber activity is Quot dead a industrially forever. John p. Norton publisher of the Escanaba daily press states. Norton is convinced the lumber Industry can never recover from its present Quot pitiful condition and he feels that most of the capital in upper Michigan will go to Southern states where Southern yellow Pine is at present Lxi ginning to dominate the paper pulp Industry. Norton s newspaper which has one of the largest Rural coverages in Michigan is one of the few businesses in Escanaba showing a profit at the present time. I. Stephenson co. Escanaba a last and largest lumber company at present operates Only one Mill. A few years ago the company had five Mills going six months a year. Since 1929, however the company has gradually Abondo cd them. R. B. Goodman president of the Goodman l umber co., Marinette. Wis., reports almost half of the working population at his Model town at Goodman wis., is on Relief. A your last Mill sawed its last log a month Coit Linued on i Biko Thoj reports on Blue grass examination girl. Scouts give interesting report of stay at Gamp Friendly in Mccormick s greek Park Many persons assembled on Boesen Dairy farm for report Aca Purdue represented nine pints of Dond two by four rods in a rent i sed in Experiment methodist leaders meet Here today conference is marked first visit of new Bishop to Despai w in Dii Odist women hold mass meet nil nil gathering at Battle a round wednesday he third annual mass meeting of women of the Northwest i Iana conference will be held at title hound next wednesday in with the eighty eighth Sion of the conference. It is exit a thousand women will attend that number having n the attendance at the two pc jul Quot Tings and among these 1 he considerable number from a Eneas tie. Phe it Iii Pittee on program in a it los mrs j. E. Porter and mrs. Mcclure of Greencastle. Mrs. K. L i Lett of Greencastle is on 111 it tee but is in the West anti Lnu to attend. m Hendricks of Danville a preside at the session which will i 1 1 45 in the afternoon. Mrs. The joint commission of the thru Indiana conferences for the study of the religious needs of methodist students in Indiana colleges and universities was in session Here today with president Clyde e. Wildman of Depauw University and Rev. Claude Mcclure pastor of the Gobin memorial Church Here acting As hosts. This is the second state wide conference of this Type and is being attended by representatives from Indiana. Purdue Ball state and Indiana state teachers College. The Rev. Elmer Jones of Argos superintendent of the South Bend District of the methodist Church a Depauw alumnus acted As chairman. Rev. B. B. Shake of Elkhart is Secretary and the Rev. W. C. Patrick of Connersville vice chairman. An All Day session was planned. Honor guest of the conference was Bishop Titus Lowe new resident Bishop of the Indianapolis area of the methodist Church who was making his first visit to Depauw. The purpose of the conference is to work out a constructive program to meet the religious needs of the methodist Young people who Are in colleges and universities of the state. Discussion Leader for both the morning Ami afternoon sessions was or. Blaine f Kirkpatrick of Lebanon. C. Live a one of Terre haute will a it an address at the opening tie former Putnam county resident died recently Oliver Graves 57 years old a brother of mrs George Farrow and miss Minnie Graves of near Fillmore and a former resident of Putnam county died the latter part of last week in. Danville at the Home of a sister in Law. Mrs. Gien Petty in Danville. His Home was West of Danville but tie greater part of his life after his residence in Putnam county was spent in the new Winchester neighbourhood where he had a farm. His Mother 87 years old lives near Fillmore. T Iyer at the opening of the Quot ii will be by mrs. A. C. North-i1 Quot it Greencastle. Bishop Titus will give an address at 3 Ilock. A dense vigilance As ended dynamite no h dynamite no of fish in Putnam n v has about ceased due very my 1� the activities of game mens in enforcing the strict Laws Dan a such practices. At one time county fish dynamite no caused of Many thousands of fish edition to those that were taken a the Dyn miters the expos under water killing or stunning tish within Range. Mention is called to a Law passed 1933 with which few people Are car. It provides that dealers in cd olives must take the name and Russ of All purchasers of dynamite do the purpose for which the Nani Ite is to be used. Officials j1 orig turd on Page two elect Buis one i Tun senators receives 62 of 65 votes cast in unit adjourns saturday Howard Buis the local american legion s representative at boy s state in Indianapolis was one of ten boys to lie honoured by being elected to the Post of senator. Out of 65 votes cast in his unit Howard received 62. To be a Delegate to boy s state the candidate must be sixteen years old. Howard is sixteen and will be a senior in High school next year. He was a member of the basketball squad the a Capella choir and took an interest in Many other school activities. Tonight will be the big night at the Encampment. It will be stunt night and Buis is the chairman of the stunt committee for his unit. The boy s state of 700 boys will disband saturday morning at ten o clock until it convenes again next year in its annual session. Legion auxiliary elects officers monday eve Putnam county unit no. 58, american legion auxiliary will meet in regular session monday evening. June 26th, at the legion Home. At this meeting the annual election of officers and the election of three members of the executive committee from the membership at Large will be the auxiliary Calendar of activities. June is Fidanc month and mrs. Alpha Scott unit Fidanc chairman. Will be in charge of the Fidanc program for this meeting. It is hoped that a Large number will be present. Lending program r r the following is a report of activities of the Greencastle girl scouts at j Camp Friendly at Mccormick a Creek state Park the senior unit of Camp Friendly or the seven dwarfs took their supper out on Friday. June 10 and had As their guests. Mrs. Winifred Legg. Camp director. Miss King and miss Goldsberry. The girls hiked Down Trail 5 to Trail 2 to Echo Canyon then to Flatrock. Where they made a campfire and started their supper. Following the supper they Sang several songs around the campfire. Ann Nichols read a Story following which they had Good night Circle. On saturday morning plans wore completed for the Side shows for the circus which was held in the evening. A circus Parado around the swimming Pool featured the entertainment in which each girl was dressed up like some animal or a person. In the one ring circus they presented tap dances stunts Etc. A Box supper ended the program in which h the Junior and senior unit presented to be boys and made dates with the intermediate unit girls and purchased the boxes they had decorated. Sunday afternoon several girls parents visited Thorn and in the evening the girls had As their Gueits h a a v v a a a 6 a Vvhs a Civ 1 c i lit i Iii a Ain cured records toeing j of these operations. Will attempt to enact self Luji i dating Public works loan Bill Washington june 23. Up a the first reaction in Congress today to president Roosevelt a new $3,860,000,000 extra budgetary lending program indicated a growing disposition to postpone its consideration until next session. Legislation for the self liquidating Public works and loan program was ready for introduction however and administration sources said every i Effort would be made to obtain enactment before Congress adjourns. Delay would prevent the program from getting started until next Spring. Administration leaders believed that Little time would be consumed in consideration of the program because of the simplicity of the enacting legislation. Chairmen of interested committees in both the House and Senate declined comment on the prospects of immediate action. But several influential senators and congressmen indicated that they believed it was too near the end of the present session to begin work on legislation which probably will precipitate controversy. The Point most Likely to cause controversy appealed to be the Section providing for Loans to foreign countries. There were rumblings of opposition to any enlargement of the authority now held by the Export import Bank. House majority Leader Sam Liay it it Outi Iii in on i Ikic two interesting results of a multiple test of Blue grass land in Putnam county in regard to its reactions to fertilizers of various kinds were announced Friday afternoon at n gathering of Farmers and especially Dairy operators at the Boesen Dairy farm South of Greencastle. There was a Large Assembly of persons whose economic interests Are largely dependent upon the grass production of the soil As pasture age the tests have been conducted by the tests have been conducted by David l. Grimes county farm agent and he announced the figures which he had compiled showing the results of the tests. J. E. Mangus of the Aca wus present and g. A. Williams. Dairy Extension specialist from Purdue. These two men answered queries from the Farmers concerning Jil re full is of dict Points not made Clear by the figures revealed by or. Grimes. Or Grimes april 13 of this year Laid out a series of nine plots of the Blue grass pasture land on the Boesen Dairy farm each plot being two by four rods in area Ami of similar soil character excepting that the plot designated As no. 5, which received no treatment at All. Was in a somewhat lower location and possibly had received top soil washed Down from higher ground making it naturally Richer. These plots with the exception of two received varied treatments agricultural Limestone or ammonium sulphate or the 0-20-0 mix of fertilizer were applied alone or in combination. The grass produced an these plots was Cut Early this week was weighed Green and was weighed kept of All oper it is noticeable that in All instances practically there was a loss of about 50 per cent of weight As a result of the drying process of the grass. Although the tests were made on comparatively Small tracts of ground the figures Here Given Are All on the Arre full acre basis plot 1�?Limestone, four tons per acre produced Green grass. 1220 pounds cured Hay 610 in funds. Plot 2 Limestone four tons and 400 pounds of 0-20-0 fertilizer Green members of boy scout troop 19 of Indianapolis for Retreat. At the first meeting of the seven dwarfs each was Given a name. These were is follows Happy Mary Neal bashful Dorothy fitter Doc Virginia havens Sneezy Edith Green Leaf Dopey Florence Jome sleepy Winifred Cox and Grumpy Shirley Hunt of Martinsville. The dramatic club presented a play tuesday evening in the Dodge of Camp Nawa Kwa a Camp operated by Terre haute girl scouts. Members of the Terre haute Camp were guests of Camp Friendly. A water carnival was held on wednesday tin last d by of Camp. Many water stunts fancy dives and games were enjoyed. Each Day the girls were served the Best food prepared by the Cooks mrs. Roxie Williams main Cook and Willie to Carter assistant. Members of Camp Fil Andly wish to thank these two women for the kind attention shown them. This Camp was greatly enjoyed by the girls who Are looking Forward to this entertainment next year. Girl scout Winifred Cox news reporter at Camp. Authorities strengthen British area Flack Moke guards Entrance to blockaded zone at anti British meets held apparent that japs suffered material Setlur a in South resume Trade Wotli Swaton 4 out i Iii in on rim two summer service held by Church Opportunity for new members to unite with Church Fellowship of Slot machine $100 Glenn Hopper former operator of i ghee scamp on state Road 36. Just West of the Putnam county line was fined $100 and costs by judge Howard l. Hancock in Parke circuit court on a charge of Possession of a Slot machine. Hopper changed a plea of not guilty to a plea of guilty May 12. And the judge took the matter under advisement until last Wcela when he gave his decision. Hopper was arrested in january by state police officers. Hopper is now living in Bridgeton where he is engaged in the operation of a drug store in partnership with Donald Hopper. Senator Nye talks to Townsend a tes n. I it. Solon be Enos in Kusion plan at Indianapolis convention hold presbytery at Indianapolis monday the summer meeting of the Indianapolis presbytery to be held in that City monday beginning at 9 30 of clock in the Irvington presbyterian Church will be attended by the Rev. V. L. Raphael pastor of Greencastle j presbyterian Church and mrs. Raphael with probably some others of that congregation. Or. Raphael is stated clerk of the presbytery. Of Especial interest in Putnam county is the announcement that the luncheon at noon to be served by the ladies of the Irvington Church is to be the occasion of honors to the Rev. H. B. Hostetter d. A. Formerly of Roachdale who has resigned his important work in the Synod of Indiana because of ill health. His son Paul v. Hostetter at this meeting of the presbytery is to be licensed and ordained As a minister of the it hum la on i m. Two the summer communion service of the presbyterian Church will be held sunday at 10 35 a. M. Opportunity will be Given for new members to unite with the Church Fellowship. Parents May present their children for dedication in baptism. A the virtue of Friendship a will be the subject of the meditation. The girls choir will sing under the direction of miss Ruth Daggy. Substitute organist. Church school As usual at 9 30 a. M. Next wednesday 6 30 p. M. There will be a family a pitch in picnic supper at the Church sponsored by the menus service club and the woman Scircle. Each one is asked to bring a dish of food and table service for his family. The Junior department will give a play let a a Surprise or. And mrs. A. C. Covert of Greenwood will show moving pictures of presbyterian Home Mission work in the Southern mountains. The Public is invited to participate in both of these services. 20 years ago in Greencastle Indianapolis ind. Juno 23 up a son. Gerald p. Nye r., n. D., in n speech prepared for delivery today at the National Townsend convention listed two Steps which must he taken Quot to put our american House in first he said Congress must enact the a so called Cost of a eduction Bill to solve agriculture Sills and second the Townsend $200-a-month pension plan must be adopted to restore purchasing Power and end unemployment. Delivering the keynote address Nye headlined the second Days program of the convention which has attracted upwards of 15,000 oldsters from throughout the nation All pledged to a a purge congressmen opposing their utopian plan. Attacking new Deal a pump priming policies Nye declared that a we ought by this time to know that our problem does not react to Pali Ativo in the form of Relief Grants Grants on such propositions As perhaps add seriously to an already difficult Burden. We should be ready to realize that after years of doctoring we Are precisely where we were when we first called for Nye asserted that the nation could not undertake a recovery program a without affording direct and substantial Assurance to the new a Cost of production Bill it Centini Iichi i i Iii two Calls Jap ads too intolerable London june 23. Up lord Halifax British foreign Secretary tonight protested to japanese ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu against a intolerable insults by the japanese army to britons at tientsin. The japanese emissary to London came to tin British foreign office at the specific request of lord Halifax who received him at 5 15 p. M. And was informed of the British governments attitude toward what prime minister Neville Chamberlain characterized As a these intolerable silly Kmitts to sue foreign Secretary today about tientsin Story of growth of roads appears today on Page three of today s Issue of the daily Banner is a Story on Indiana roads reprinted from outdoor Indiana the conservation Magazine. It shows the improvement made in the Indiana Road system during the past Twenty years and some splendid pictures show sections of the new dual Highway in Putnam county. The scene is at the Home of Victor Hurst on Road 40 East of 43 and it also shows the Camp site of Lora Buis. C. W. Otis announced the opening another picture contrasts state Road of the new Hish tension line of the 40 before and after the present Ini London june 23. Up prime minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of commons today that incidents at tientsin China where japanese troops Are blockading the British and French concessions had become intolerable. Chamberlain announced that Viscount Halifax foreign Secretary has asked Mamoru Shigemitsu. Japanese ambassador to see him today regarding the tientsin situation. Halifax Chamberlain added undoubtedly would make Clear what the British government thought about a these intolerable asked about the possibility of reprisals against Japan. Chamberlain said a i do not think we have got to the stage of considering that the insults to which Chamberlain referred included the Ati piping of British men for search by japanese army men and deliberate affronts to them. One British woman at tientsin had complained that japanese sentries ordered her to disrobe for search but that she darted Back into the British Concession and escaped them. As Chamberlain made his statement. News came from Singapore great Britain so Gibraltar of the East at tie tip of malay Peninsula that 60 High British and French army Navy and air Force officers had reached a important decisions in their conference on far Eastern defense against Japan. O. Post m ast ers Washington. June 23. President Ito Sevelt today sent to the Senate nominations of the following to he Indiana postmasters Brazil William w. Houck Lapel Theodore a id red. Marine. Clement a. Kelsey Peru. James Morrissey Warsaw Roy i a. K. Bowen. Beach agreement to Swap Sii it Ilie tientsin China june 23. It British authorities strengthened their guards at entrances to the blockaded British Concession today Las japanese held anti British mass meetings Here and in other key chinese cities. A Gigantic demonstration was planned Here and japanese reports said that demonstrations were held at piping. Tsin Tao Kaifeng. Banking Hankow Canton Taiyuan and other cities extending throughout the vast chinese territory occupied by the japanese army. Apparently the japanese had suffered a material setback in the South if Only for the moment because of the prompt and firm Defiance by United states and British Navy authorities of a japanese order to get their warships merchantmen and citizens out of Swaton. British naval authorities officially advised All British merchantmen in chinese Waters to resume Trade with Swaton. The 48 americans at Swaton had refused to leave As had British residents. The United states destroyer pills Hury and Pope and the British destroyers Thanet and scout remained in Swaton Harbor. Tension swung Hack to tientsin As the japanese suddenly hardened their attitude in their blockade of h i i Nui Butir manorial ser ice will be held Sun. Onual big w in it Baptist Iii inc 11 program to Honor dead rubber bet i i Cotton Exchange to be stored for use in War Putnam electric company from Clinton to Greencastle. Neeley o hair reported loss of a watch from his pocket As he was climbing a Fence at the country club links. Miss Florence Hughes was Here from Muncie to attend the Alpha o convention. Proven ent. Notice the playgrounds at Ward 1 and 2 will not be open on saturday afternoons. The playground at the Park will to open. Kenneth Smith Leona Kestner London june 23 it up it a the United states and great Britain have reached an agreement by which the United states will Trade Cotton for British Empire rubber it was announced today. It was reported that Britain would take 500,000 Bales of american Cotton for an undisclosed amount of rubber. Iver Stanley president of the Board of Trade in the Cabinet announced the agreement to the hous a of commons. To said that the Cotton from the United states would be held in Groat Britain for use Only in Case of a major War and that the United states would hold the rubber for the same eventuality. Stanley and Joseph p. Kennedy United states ambassador made a in n tin uni on in Ike two the annual memorial services of the big Walnut Baptist Church South of pleasant Garden will tie held sunday. With an All Day program. The exercises of the Forenoon will be the regular preaching service at which the pastor tin Rev. Makcen will deliver the Sermon. There will be a Basket dinner at noon. The afternoon program which begins at 1 30 of clock will be featured by the Reading of the list of dead of the Church and the address by tin Rev. Cecil Fellers pastor of the Christian Church of Greencastle. The pastor it of the Rig Walnut Church will Lead in the afternoon devotions there will be songs by the congregation. Special music by Charles Foxx of Greencastle a song by members of the Blair family and a duet by misses Betty Pitts and Virginia cart. In connection with the calling of the Roll of the deceased there will la the presentation of Flowers by relatives of the departed members which is a feature of this annual memorial service. B b b a b b o b b $ b i it today a weather a it $ and b b local temperature amp b b amp b b b b b b b b fair and warmer tonight and set a relay. Minimum 6 a. M. 7 a. M. 8 a. In. 8 a. M. 9 a. M. 10 a. In. 11a. M. 12 noon 1 p. M. 2 p. M. 63 69 73 75 75 75 77 78 80 82 82 i

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