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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - June 24, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana0 the weather Loi l v and cooler i Ltd 0 the daily Banner 0 i United press service a All the Home news 0 i a a 0 Oll my a forty seven it Waves for ally Keeno Antuk Indiana saturday june 24, 10.59. Not it. 21 a get a for f ship toll British 0i, met situation is Tekl ten Lynli in Che Foo a a Hills from tientsin a it ii British parades place throughout nor Tiern of China Blu jackets injured Provine fleets to. Jun 24�? up Brit con aulm authorities at Che Foo Pilles across the Gulf of Chihli j Cintrin appealed to the Brit admiralty today for a warship to text Brit h subjects a due to the Leitenis u political anti British parades and mass 1kg.in.sed the consular auth a to act. Japan a sponsored manifestations Plai pc. Ter Day throughout the therr. Provinces of China. Japanese reports from Hankow up t Yangtze River from Shanghai id today that two British Navy be jacket had fought with Jap iese sentries. The Bluejacke to were Riding in Shaws. Cording to the reports cd engage in an a argument and adv with japanese sentries who jetted them. The Japan reports said that a doctors were summoned to it at the Blu jackets but that they used treatment. T was not known How seriously British sailors were Hurt or Lether they were detained. Japanese newspaper dispatch Ltd that one Ltd the Blu jackets a. Japanese sentry. Kokomo officials Liml i my my Ukiah Kokomo ind., june 24 shorties of Between $12,000 and $15,000 a the 1938 a it Mats of former Koko a City officials were reported today state Board of accounts Field a miners. alleged shortages Werc found the accounts it it of six men convicted Kintly in Federal court at Indi Zapoli of conspiracy to defraud the ivern Niento by using spa labor for i enterprises. I foot of the shortage was attrib to the off of Mel Good former clerk. Others accused of Short through Purchase of supplies lout contracts and irregularities i pay Rolls a l travelling expenses a reformer mayor Olin r. Holt ice City attorney Carl Broo ice City Engineer George mor jew former ass Stant Engineer urge mix ind Lincoln record Ner spa Street supervisor. Events leading lip to first murder and suicide in Putnam county Are recalled Cloverdale township whose history is now somewhat in the limelight because of the approaching Centennial Celebration has the distinction of having been the scene of the first Murdo r in Putnam county of which there is a record. There was not a Legal execution of the killer in this instance because he took his own life soon after he slew the mat. Whom he thought was his enemy. The Region surrounding the scene of the killing and suicide was not then within Cloverdale township because that geographical division of Putnam county was not formed until the year 1846. Making it one of the youngest of the county a townships. It was formed at that time by an operation performed upon Jefferson and Warren townships by which enough of their original territory was taken from them to make Cloverdale township As it is now. That made Cloverdale one of the largest and made Warren the smallest. The Story of the two deaths by violence the murder and the suicide was once told by Captain h. B. Martin formerly a Cloverdale resident and editor who was Well informed of the details. He wrote about it As follows in part Quot among those who settled in Cloverdale township in 1824 were Thomas James James Robinson Ambrose Bandy John Macy and Andrew Kilgore. The first name i of these Wai the victim and the second the Pei Petra tor of the murder and suicide. Quot James was living with his wife and three children in a Small Cabin situated near what is known As Granny Nelson s Spring he had entered a Quarter Section of land lying West of his temporary Home Anil embracing the ground now occupied by the Cloverdale cemetery. The land was then covered with huge Ard towering Walnut Poplar Ash and sugar Trees and was considered one of the Best locations in the county. Quot Robinson had settled and built a Cabin on a Choice piece of land one half mile South of James and was living there with his wife and children. Quot in that Early Day every article of clothing worn by the settlers was spun Woven and manufactured at Home. It appears that Robinson s wife had employed Bandy s wife to spin some flax. After mrs. Bandy had returned the spun flax. Mrs. Robinson weighed it and told som of the neighbors that the Quantity returned was Short one this reached the ears of the parties accused. Ambrose Bandy the husband became much incensed and threatened to sue Robinson and his if for slander. This in turn enraged Robinson who was a Quick tempered Man. He became unfriendly with every one whom he suspected of having Friendly relations with the bands this including the James and it Wullum i on 1�?~iiur ten try to get tandem for Cloverdale on finding owner talk of bicycles loss is uncovered former rider now 71 Telia Story of his receiving High Wheeler first ride front wheel 52 inches. Moa a i trial opens and is postponed one in Kosiw i Tivi juror is it Asti Onkit be foul action is Takt \ Liuch a Mil la port to British a a a 8 i. Tie 8 kist from out cation of 111 silted Uitz Iong Kong june 24 it up it a Nese naval authorities at Swa of have agreed to the right of Khz sin filing to enter blockaded Tow a it i 11 be at noon today 10 i 1 Friday Standard f it w. Announced officially. R1 Al and passengers will be at in blockaded port today 8 said. Aniis. In Ouaceil that Twenty Sipai were killed and forty r wound i during wednesday s a path a of Swaton. Chinese losses my Utt a to dead and ninety eight Ped. Jan. U be starting a new drive to atm asked Quot foreign citizens Lori merchantmen and foreign of 1 get out. The american p commander in chief in the far admin Harry e. Yarnell and a a a authorities at once notified it that they would not a the i it senators a a threaten Fili busted Shin ton. Juno 24 up la Quot senator rejected today 11 in strut Lon offer to continue sex months the present Price of 11,1,1 served notice that they in Quot a lock Quot must Quot monetary 1 1 us til they get a higher i 1�?T majority Leader Alben w. a announced the "ap-1,1 a Fri a last night in an of the filibuster being or. Wes Ern senators. The an a ent came after president Auh Wall advised of the a Hua. Conclusion of a conference us l 1 live la l departmental add one v lending program. Trial of j. Cameron Moag. Former local youth on a charge of being an accessory before the fact in making false entries in the books of the Tippecanoe loan and Trust company of Lafayette opened in Montgomery circuit court Friday but was postponed until aug. 21 after one prospective juror had been questioned. The Case was Cut to Crawfordsville on a change of venue from the Tippecanoe circuit court where Moag was a principal figure in the trial of miss Margaret Cheney former Secretary of the Trust company who was convicted of making the false entries totalling More than $600,000 and who now is serving a j four year sentence in the state woman prison. Special judge Howard Hancock of Parke circuit court presided today and will hear the Case when it is reopened. The brokers head of Cameron amp co., new York and Chicago firm is charged by the state As having acted with miss Ghent \ to make the false a entries when lie already had disposed of stocks and Bonds which she had turned Over to him. The trial of miss Cheney was coloured with Lett us Between her and Moag which contained a mixture of love and business. Moag first entered the Case in february. 19.�?T15, when he was arrested in new York in connection a with the elis App Nance of 4,000 in Bones from the. Trust company. Him you ills Hurt in crash maid turn i Tornek pm to Maul i too fast 0\ Lili i ii Neil i Hinh Speed Quot of a ply ninth Coupe carrying three youths from Stilesville i resulted in its he nor wrecked and one of the occupant a patient in the Putnam county Hospital Friday evening. Byrle Elmore owned the automobile but the three occupants were either confused or declined to talk much following the Accident. They failed to make Clear who was driving the automobile which went West on Walnut at a rate of sgt old too great for the Driver to make the turn North onto Market Street. As the car swerved to make the turn it overturned. With Elmore were two Brothers named Clearwater also of Stilesville. One being injured and was sent to the Hospital where he required surgical treatment to close a bad head Cut. Robert Clearwater was admitted to the Hospital following the acc there it was said he was suf meeting at in Olsen farm Well attended the attendance of Farmers and others interested in Dairying in Putnam county and in pasturage conditions generally at the meeting at the Boeson farm South of town Friday afternoon was considered Good in View of the amount of work on farms at this time. There were 7. L persons present. The results of the tests of the benefits of agricultural Limestone and a few other soil stimulants. Which had been conducted by David l. Grimes. Putnam county farm agent were announced by or. Grimes and a it re heard with interest by the audience. The use of pulverized Limestone on Putnam county farm soil is becoming More general it being made easy by the location within the county of Quarry plants which make the agricultural Grade of Limestone one of their regular products. Other tests will be conducted to demonstrate the comparative values of fertilizers from time to time and interest in them will increase from year to year. A More detailed report As made by or. Grimes appeared in fridays Issue of the Banner. Noting the desire of the pageant committee of the Cloverdale Centennial Celebration to it it have a tandem bicycle Ridden in the big Parade and. Also As a Mark of appreciation of the Many courtesies the daily Banner receives from residents of Cloverdale that newspaper conceived the Beautiful thought of securing the Entrance into the Cloverdale Parade of an old High when l bicycle As something even older and More picturesque than the tandem vehicle. Of course the High Alieel was to be Ridden by its owner. Naturally the idea was to get Louis Angustus Schachtel one of the oldest residents of the Green Castle Community to a it Edal his old High Wheeler in that line us attractions at Cloverdale. But it is revealed by or. Schachtel that without doubt his former pleasure vehicle is nonexistent now and he himself is 74 years old Ami bicycle Riding has lost its Glamour for him even though he does clamber up and Down ladders and around Over House roofs in his daily work. He lives on Martinsville Street. Quot the last i saw of my old bicycle was when i loaned it to Carl Bell to put in his shop window As a sort of advertisement a or. Shachter said Friday evening. Inasmuch As Carl Bell dates Back Many years it is quite Likely that the old wheel is quite defunct. So it is not Likely there will be a High wheel bicycle in the big Parade at Cloverdale from the Green cast Region. Quot Henry Renick bought the wheel for me while i was working for him Quot or. Shachter said Quot Charlie Moltzer and others held it for me the first time i got on. They let go and i fell off it every Day while i was learning to ride it. I found i could get along pretty Well while i was learning by on 11 Nii Uil 4iii Quot Nice i t4i Council fleets tax Hoard member i in i it is i inks Iii i Foster 111 John Sinclair served on Board before the Putnam county Council has named one of its members John Sinclair to represent it on the county tax adjustment Board. Or. Sinclair had served on the tax Board a number of years but had to drop out last year because of poor health his place that year being filled by her Schel Foster also a member of the county Council. The tax Board Meels the Middle of september. Vit Emit to raise income All business Rogosia get and Legi Sacivk spokesmen plan priming up to $3,860,000,000 introduce e lending program Mabo modified if undertaken this year As president wants \4-ti011 now seven dead scene in heart of new York s Chinatown where fire in dryers Street tenement House caused at least seven deaths. Firemen encountered great difficulty because of narrow space in which to Man Euver apparatus. H ail 1c i Beer Cotton Trade As step toward Aid in War William Ogg ends forty years of service to i. U. William r. Ogg. Ago is. Has decided to conclude his 40 years service to Indiana University As keeper of the grounds caretaker and Quot guardian of the botany greenhouse on the Campus. Last March when Ogg observed the 40th anniversary of his University service he planned to continue his greenhouse duties of the past two years until next fall. Rheumatism got the upper hand however and the kindly oldster has been forced to abandon his work with Campus shrubs and plants. During the last two years he had been allowed to work at whatever he pleased on the Campus grounds. To the Many who knew him As a traditional Campus figure Ogg has been a Quot very quiet conscientious worker and very Nice old Ogg lives at 1200 Atwater Avenue Anil has a daughter miss Grace Ogg As his guest this summer. Prof. Frederic a. Ogg his son. Is a member of the University of Minnesota political science department. The late Robert Ogg a former trustees of Indiana University was one of his Brothers. Catering Agency to serves Towend Sites Indianapolis. Ind., june 24 up a local catering Agency has been working on a 24-hour basis preparing to serve a banquet tonight for 5,000 delegates attending the National convention of the Townsend old age pension organization. Here Are some of the figures on the banquet the dinner will be served on two Miles of tables covered with 5.500 Yards of cloth 30.000 pieces of silverware. 35,000 pieces of China All matched 15,000 pieces of glassware 750 Salt and Pepper sets and 750 plates for relish. Chefs will prepare 2,500 two Pound broiled chickens 250 Gallons of fruit cocktail. 250 Gallons of Green peas and 60 balloons of French dressing. Also to be served Are 30 Gallons of olives 1.800 stalks of celery 10.000 radishes 2,500 pounds of new potatoes 1.500 Heads of lettuce 150 Gallons of ice Cream. 300 pounds of crackers 10.000 Rolls 10.000 cookies 1.200 pounds of bread 300 pounds of butter 150 pounds of Coffee. 60 Gallons of Coffee Cream 100 pounds of Sugai 15 pounds of Pepper 30 pounds of Salt and 5.000 pounds of cake ice. Troop mov a in lilt along Frontier germans prepare for Sim Meli Maneu vers along fortified one Dent. Fering from cuts about the head but not serious injured. Or. And mrs Edgar Prevo left saturday looming to spend a vacation in California. Washington. June 24 Lull administration officials today hailed the United states British rubber for Cotton barter As a Long step toward the proposed goal of equipping both nations with strategic War materials in event of an armed Force showdown in the near future. They believed that the Exchange of 000.000 Bales o this country a surplus Cotton for approximately 85.000 tons of British rubber might become an important Factor in events in the a far East where officials of both countries believe a showdown Between the so called democratic states and Japan appears imminent. 20 years ago in marriage License Luther Elmer Dillion aviation Pittsboro and c. Evelyn Mccullough teacher Greencastle route 4. Wax. Donald Baird Grain dealer. Jamaica. 111., and Mildred e. Pitch Ford teacher. Greencastle. Rof Coe t Moore Cement Plant employee Greencastle. And c. Dooma York at Home Greencastle. Mrs. Oscar Obenchain anti mrs. Slevc Thomas entertained with a miscellaneous Shower for miss Verna Lloyd soon to marry Claude Burk of Morton. Miss Helen Browning and miss Nina Cook spent the Day with friends in Crawfordsville. Sam Holbert janitor at the Post office was enjoying a few Days vacation. Andrew Hirt and Fred Thomas bought from or. G. W. Bence the former Quot Depauw farm on East Franklin Street for it reported 1 a Quot near $200 an acre. Miss Helen Jones left for new York to sail for constantinople to engage in y. W. C. A. Work. The Greencastle water work company property was assessed at $150,-000/ Gordon Sayers was ill with the mumps. Paris. June 24 up big scale troop movements along the French Frontier in preparation for summer Maneu vers and intensive fortification of the Mountain zone whore France. Germany and Switzerland meet were reported today in French dispatches. Troop concentrations were observed especially Between Trier and Saa Bruck. In the Region opposite the big French fortified zone Between Bitch and Wisse Bourg on the Northeast Frontier it was said. German troops were reported to be already in Man Euver position in Baden province opposite Colmar Mulhouse and Erstein along the Rhine. It asserted that the germans had already re fortified the Stein Krotz Mountain Region opposite Belfort where France and German join Switzerland and that the germans intended to make the area one of the strongest in Europe. Attend insurance meeting \ made i mandant former son in Law so a damages in sum of $50,06� of theater owner Simpson Stoner and Morris Hunter Are at Home from Lake Lawasee where they attended the mid year conference of the Indiana association of insurance agents. Wellington Potter of Rochester n. Y., was one of the speakers. He stressed the dire need of a Trade Mark on every insurance policy at fridays business meeting. He said a Trade Mark on an insurance policy is As essential As it is on any line of merchandise. He said the Public today in Quot looking under the tent a when it comes to insurance. He said cheap insurance is like cheap merchandise. Bloomington. June 24 claiming that his Good reputation has Ihn damaged by alleged slanderous statements made by or. And mrs. Harry Vonderschmit the parents of his former wife Robert c. Smith son of a prominent Bloomington physician today file.1 a $50,000 slander suit in Monroe circuit court. Named defendants in the suit Are Harry Vonda Schmitt and his wife. Mrs. Nova Vonderschmit. Or von Derschmidt operates a Chain of motion picture theatres in Bloomington Bedford Washington Seymour. Greencastle Crawfordsville i i Nobles vile. It is alleged by the plaintiff that the parents of his wife assured him that they would take their daughter into their Home and also their Grain laughter Barbara i get Smith daughter of or. And mrs. Robert c. Smith. The plaintiff also says the defendants assured him that la would be allowed to visit with his laughter As if there a i never been a divorce. With these promises in mind tin plaintiff states he did not contest the divorce suit. After the divorce the plaintiff charges the defendants conspired to ruin his Good reputation by making false statements about his drink ing and in regard to the condition of his mind and other habits. It is us leg cd the so statements were to a the effect he was of unsound mind drank to it excess Ami had other bad habits All of which is denied. It is stated in the complaint that the defendants Art Worth approximately $500.000 and i hat As a result of this they exert much influence in Southern and Central in Liana. The plaintiff charges that As a result of the allegedly slanderous statement of the defendants his reputation As a competent person has suffered great humiliation and that he has been harmed in a business Way. Harriers making new \ Ork trip sin c Ity carriers and two motor carriers of Banner news to fair six City Carrier boys of the daily Banner anti the Indianapolis news and two motor carriers will leave tomorrow morning for new York where they will spend a week enjoying the world s fair. They will join others at Indianapolis and leave during the afternoon on the fast Pennsylvania train they will be housed at the new yorker hotel during the week and will to Able to see about everything there is to be seen. The daily carriers going Are William Shelley. William Quebbeman. Frank Donner. Orville j. Stewart Phillip Cook and Bob Bills. The motor carriers making the trip Are Harrold storm Ami Dennis Perry. They will return next week end. Washington. June 24. Up a president Roosevelt and his legislative spokesmen planned today to proceed immediately with a pump priming $3.860 000.000 lending program in another attempt to increase business activity and raise the National income. But powerful opposition was developing against action on it at this session. Senate majority Leader Alben w. Barkley let. Ky., announced last night that simple legislation to effect the 1939 lending plan would be introduced in the House and Senate next week. He Ami House majority Leader Sam Rayburn. D., tex., will sponsor it. There is considerable likelihood that the program will be modified if undertaken this year. Or. Roose velt wants action now he told a White House conference group last night before leaving for Hyde Park. But two or More of the congressional conferees came away grumbling that it would delay adjournment plans. Another said there was Little congressional enthusiasm for the plan. Barkley was confident the required legislation would not meet general opposition and could be disposed of in less than a week. He and others told the president however that it would not be possible to attach the a lending program to the Relief Hill now awaiting Senate approval. The last comparable program of this kind was 14 months ago when president Roosevelt revived Depths of depression tactics with a $4.512,000.000 b ending spending Campaign hacked by what was estimated at the time to aggregate $39.000,000,000 of potential credit expansion. Legislation to effect the 1939 plan would provide for Issue of government guaranteed Bonds to raise funds for construction of toll Bridges anti highways construction of Railroad equipment expansion of Rural electrification projects assistance to tenants in Purchase of farms Short and Long term Loans to foreign governments and expansion of u. S. Housing authority resources. I n s i id ent town sen Sites m Bre i from parents Indianapolis ind. June 21 up resolutions demanding the Quot liquidation Quot of All congressmen opposing the Townsend p Sion plan were ready for presentation at the National convention today As insurgent Townsend ites moved to break with Tia Parent organization nne to conduct a National convention of their own within the next month. All congressmen who voted against the Townsend Bill Defeated in the National House of representatives recently Are consigned to extinction according to the resolutions. To receive particular attention Are about 50 representatives who or. Francis k Townsend founder of the movement claims were elected on a Townsend platform and then failed to support the movement. The revolt against or. Townsend a organization is being led by Townsend followers and local officials from new York Pennsylvania Ohio and Kentucky who charged that the movement has been Quot dictatorial with All the Power resting in the hands of or. Townsend his son Robert anti a few trusted aides. Start air service port Washington. N. June 24 up it the Yankee Clipper giant flying boat of pan american airways took off today starting regular airmail service Between the United states and England Over the a Northern Atlantic route. 0 0 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 and warmer saturday sunday partly Cloudy showers Anil cooler in West in ortion sunday afternoon night. Minimum. 61 6 a. A. 70 7 a. In 7s 8 a. A. 79 a i m. .80 10 a. M. 82 11 a. M82

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