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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - June 26, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana A Tiik weather ,.,h let Yano cooler 9 me forty seven the daily Banner 1 a a United press service a for All the Home news i to it Waves for Allf it Kek Castle Indiana monday Jine l i 1m9. Not a. J1c> �18 attend recreation i first week Wikol and for to Choei had 48h Rrth t pants him a a Pool popular in Iris w a Viii of boys or ii will hold pet Friday Purin t��?o1 l list week 1 a Tion n Greencastle showed an dance a 1648. The total is the lined attendance from the swim a Pool the Ward one playground. Two Tennis courts and Robe in Park. Playgrounds for the younger Wren showed an attendance of participants. The attendance at i Ann Park and the Ward build a taken twice daily. My Ming proved to be the to popular activity closely follow by shuffleboard. Croquet. Bad ton deck Tennis and handicraft. Ibliss bet y Greenleaf has been inducting the i Ider group of girls in Laving handicraft for boys Dur the week consisted of Kite maa instruction in Basket weaving ii be offered when a sufficient uber show interest in this activity. Of the activities of the playground available free of charge to All pie of the Community parents Are invited to come and itch at any time and see How the Jervis i instructions Are Carrie i. The equipment and courts Are a liable ii Quot to. Uly to children but also All individuals and clubs if Are made through miss Kestner and or. Kenneth Gnu Day afternoons have been set for a Story telling period at the id buildings this will be a week feature the feature. Vent for this week is a pit Parade to be held Friday at 10 p m it it be Ann Park. All Siren it of the City arc eligible to Ter any Kin i of Quot in a Itji the cd lion it a horse or Pony. Prizes i be awarded for the following 1 prettiest pet. Ugliest pet. 3 most unusual pet. 4 pet having most spots or stripes. 5-f. With longest Tail. Dog with longest ears. Largest dog. 8 smallest dog. Blackest cat. I0 whitest cat. 1 largest cat. Smallest cat. Will attend a meet at Battle a round or. And mrs. A e. Porter and or. And mrs. Claude Mcclure will go to Battle ground tomorrow for the Northwest Indiana conference which will be held during the remainder of the week. Or. Porter is superintendent of the Greencastle District and will participate in All the Bishop s Cabinet conferences. Or Mcclure is president of the conference Board of education and is on the Board of ministers. Mrs. Mcclure is president of the ministerial wives association and will be Active throughout the conference. Or. Jerome Hixson will also attend the conference. He is president of the laymen a association of the conference and will take a leading part in that organization s meetings. Jagt. Russian in forces fishing Blacktop program May St tipped requirements that win a not move Fence May cause change in roads Nei Trai. Diplomatic dispatches Ake source of information is new win a requirement Farmers moving own fencing and giving right of Way. May or Lylse of work est organization pickets White House , june 26 up. A it Rocis Security federation of a new organization of a played and Relief workers a eted the White House for an i i night in support of its def a $4,000,000,000 annual of appropriation. Be federation organized Here the weekend claims to repro to 125.000 Relief clients and Unem-4 it is affiliated with neither american federation of labor the a tigress of Industrial Orga and is opposed to the a kers Alliance Union of Relief Lew. Flite House guards said no at-5pt w is made to interfere with Pic k Ting which was orderly. Roosevelt is at Hyde Park fleets anti tank Bun of great Force Washington. June 2c Tup United states has perfected an a a tank gun capable of firing a 37-l, la to i Shell which would cripple Al,.v armoured tanks at a distance nearly two thirds of a mile it was Ped today. 11 in War described in an Ord article made Public Over the it was written by Lieut. 1 1 m Barnes a leading ordinance 1�?~1 who said a projectile from Quot p00-Pound Field piece will 1,1 note in inches of the Bestar plate at a distance of 1,000 and thicker Armor at Shorter a. Nucy it court notes and Thompson filed suit Possession against Francis mat w the Shanghai june 26 up a Neutral diplomatic dispatches said today that heavy air plane fighting had been proceeding for a month on the Manchukuo outer Mongolia Frontier Between japanese and russian Ai. Forces. The dispatches the first from an Independent source on the Frontier outbreaks said that russian planes had heavily bombed new japanese Aird Romes and Barracks causing extensive casualties and that the japanese were reinforcing their air Force at Many places in Manchukuo. It was added that there were frequent air alarms in Manchukuo. Japan had for Days been alleging attacks by outer mongolian actually russian air planes and Russia retorted yesterday with a detailed statement of alleged attacks by Jap anese Manchu Kuan air planes and troops on outer mongolian air and land forces. Outer Mongolia is an Independent soviet Republic under russian Protection and nominally at least the air forces called a a russian were outer mongolian ones. As the Neutral dispatches arrived Here the japanese government disclosed that for a year japanese Man Chukuani authorities had been trying alleged communists arrested in a big round up March 15, 1938, and that 10 had been executed seven sentenced to life imprisonment and 97 others Given prison terms of from five to 20 years. It was believed also that 50 alleged bandits arrested with the a communists Quot had been executed. Damaire suit ill re tried in fall be is Lei. Here from Montgomery county the. $15.000 damage suit of Ora f. Proffitt against Orren l. Hartley brought h e r Ltd from Montgomery county will 1� tried during the september term of the Putnam circuit court in now appears. Delay in hearing it was a used by a petition for a change of venue from the judge after the. A a be was docketed Here and advantage was taken of the provision of Law that under certain Circum Star the clerk of the state supreme court shall name three judges from whom the selection shall be i add of the judge hear the Case. The clerk of the state s High court named judge Hue. F Montgomery county. Judg Rice and Martin were struck off by the attorneys leaving judge Hancock As the special judge. In this suit the plaintiff asks damages from the defendant upon the plaintiff. In Montgomery county. The plaintiff. In Offitt. Was a tenant on the Hartley farm and he alleges his complaint that Hartley the owner assaulted him during a dispute. Bainbridge to hold horse show in july Bains rdc merchants Are planning another big horse show and general entertainment for their Home town on three Days beginning thursday july 13 a 1 in inns through Friday fid saturday. Their Shew last year was a splendid Success but the one this year Promise to he bigger and better than Ever before. An unpleasant bit of news for Many land owners in Putnam county is contained in a bulletin received by Mack Ooley spa supervisor for the Putnam and Parke area which is to effect that the spa will not continue to move Back fences for landowners along roads which Are to be Black topped with spa funds. This news was passed on to Chester Ruark county supervisor of loads and he is relaying it to Farmers along roads which Are on the Black Topping program for this county. This ruling Means that unless the land owners not Only donate the land required for the 50 foot right of Way required for spa projects but also move their fences the roads will not be improved with spa funds. This ruling it is expected will about Stop the Black top program in Putnam county As it has been difficult in Many instances to secure agreements to donate the land required without any expense to the owners for moving the fences. There Are Many petitions before the county commissioners now for worn of this character in this county and on a few roads on which the Fence moving has made a Start there yer remain More or less Long stretches of fences not yet bad. This fact May it is said result in the abandonment of the Black Topping projects on those roads leaving some of the fences Back and some not Back. However on s Uch roads if the fences not yet moved by spa labor Are moved Back by the owners the Black Topping program will proceed. This matter is entirely out of the control of local Road men. Expert warns against Early wheat cutting George Enfield. Purdue University Extension agronomist today reminded Indiana Farmers Many of whom already have started harvesting wheat that a wheat is not ready to be combined until nearly a week after it becomes dead the a dead Ripe Quot stage the agronomist explained appears about one week after wheat is ready for cutting with a Binder. The warning he said was Given because a Large number of Hoosier Farmers would use combination cutting threshing machines for the first time this summer. Elevator operators penalized some Farmers last summer Enfield recalled. As much As 5 cents a Bushel because their wheat contained excessive moisture when it was marketed. Local Moose Lodge Host at meeting seven new members inducted in impressive program overt one Hundred attend wins Flag for having ill Licat per cent of present police search for or. J. M. Smith judge j p. Hughes recalls old Cave judge James p. Huges formerly one of the judges of the Indiana state supreme court now an assistant attorney general of the state says he remembers the Quot old Quot a Only several Hundred million years maybe i lock Ridge Cave near Road 43, North of Cloverdale. As a place into which he and other school children of that part of the country used to make at least an annual pilgrimage to taste of its thrills. The judge went to the Granhan school which stood on the Corner of the Road intersection where the High tension Tower now stands. The judge said on one of Thel visits they were Down on their with Oil lanterns crawling through the Small Portal from one room to another when they heard a noise that was nothing like i anything they had Ever before heard and it scared them. They could t turn around. They had to go ahead and when they got into the chamber they found it swarming with bats from whose tiny Littie throats had come the eerie noises that had so frightened them. Louisiana state s president Short several Iii undred thousands. Raton Rouge. La. June 26 i ii state policemen searched the lonely swamps on the East Bank of j the Mississippi River today for or. James Monroe Smith president of Louisiana state University who resigned and left town yesterday a few hours before gov. Richard l. Lech announced that there was a shortage of a several Hundred thousand dollars Quot in the schools funds. Policemen had orders to bring or. Smith Back a in Handcuffs Quot for a hearing before the East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury. The swamps Are the customary hiding place of Louisiana fugitives. Leche who had planned to resign today because of illness and turn the governorship Over to Lieut. Gov. Earl k. Long younger brother of the late Huey p. Long postponed his resignation. He said he would stay and see that or. Smith got Justice. The University Videly known for its magnificent buildings football teams Cadet corps and vast land i holdings was Huey Long s school of revenge. He developed it with state funds to compete with Tulane University. Which had refused him an honorary degree. Long had placed the Bald soft spoken or. Smith in charge of the University when he set out to make Tulane look like a a Hole in the leche and Earl King both said that or. Smith had fled. His resignation they said came at Lech cd a request. The new Orleans states attorney had charged that l. S. U. Materials were taken to new Orleans for a Home being constructed by James Mclachlan. A colonel on the governor s staff who advised him in the Purchase of Fine blooded horses. The Greencastle Lodge of Loyal order of Moorse was Host sunday afternoon and evening to a District meeting of Moose members from Danville 111., Clinton Terre haute and Inton. Ind. About one Hundred meal it ers were present. The crowd was the largest attending at local meeting and during the afternoon the meeting adjourned to the Odd Fellows Hall because of the crowd. The crack Danville degree and Drill team performed there. Seven new me Max is were added to the roster of the local Lodge Anil were Given the work during the afternoon by the Danville degree staff. It was an impressive program. Those taking the work were William dish Row William Newkirk Theodore Nelson Norman Eller Lawrence Brandt Dennis Bastain and Ray Wright. The Lodge offers a Beautiful Flag to the Lodge having the highest percent of its membership As candidates and Greencastle Lodge won Ali Flag sunday. Linton has heretofore held it and the team winning it for the thin consecutive time is made the permanent possessor of it. Greencastle has Hopes of wanning it for keeps As these meetings Are held every two or three months among the four Indiana lodges. Tills was the first meeting of this kind that has 1h��yi held Here. It was also one of the most successful the Lodge has Ever held. G. H s net coach Elson graduate of Pauw and recently athletic director of Madison High school will assume his duties Here soon As director of athletics and basketball coach succeeding Glynn Downey. Or. Elson is no stranger Here because he won his letter in football while attending Depauw University. Japs assert Many claims Vii i Truk s a it Ksir \ is y for Cusk i Entkos lies with britons ii Lii its must lie made soon coi nov off i its. Departments Mist file i sum Tes budget making time for All Public officials is drawing near in Indiana and the following information reveals the schedule to be followed. County officers and departments must file their estimates for the coming years needs with the auditor not later than wednesday. Aug. 9. The first publication of the county budget will be made not later than aug. 26. Which is ten Days prior to the annual county Council meeting. The second publication of the county budget will made one week following the first publication. The county councils annual session will it Ltd a 11011111 old held sept when it will review All j a o of the budget t in fitted by it i officers. For taxpayers to Appeal from the councils action ten or More of them must so not later than sept. 25. J township advisory hoards will meet in their annual session sept. 5. To approve the estimates and levies. Indianapolis. June 26 up a taxpayers will receive ten Days intent on a purging Quot every Congress notice by publication of budgets for Man opposed to the Townsend plan Journ old it i Ltd pension delegates last of 17,000 left Indian a Polis for their Homes today made in formal protest Tashiro also viruses britons of Asili icing an Quot arrogant Quot attitude billeting Hong Kong june 26 up. The japanese naval command at Swatch today announced Complete isolation of foreign shipping at that important South China port a spending the Progress of military operation?.�?� tientsin june 26 up Japan assuming the diplomatic offensive asserted today that britons were exaggerating indignities to britons in the blockade of the British Concession and said that responsibility for the consequences Lay with great Britain. The statement was made in a formal protest by Shigenori Tashiro japanese Consul general to British Consul general Edgar g. Jamieson. Tashiro said that not Only were britons exaggerating incidents Here but were assuming an a a arrogant attitude purposely to cause trouble. He mentioned specifically As Ono a exaggerated distorted Anil fabricated incident the statement a about indignity suffered by a British lady and an insult offered to a British this was assumed to concern the stripping saturday by a chinese woman in the presence of a japanese sentry of mrs. I. Finlay German born British subject. It was asserted that mrs. Finlay was stripped until she wore Only a Girdle and that at the same time her husband a native of Glasgow was stripped naked in an outer room in the presence of chinese and foreigners of both Jesse omens wreck property concerned being nil to of at Hoosier Highlands. 0,1 a Hamilton Are the at approves proposed Townsend amendment Washington. June 26 up the Senate judiciary committee today approved 9 to 7. A constitutional amendment proposed by advocates of the Townsend pension plan. Introduced by sen. Charles o. Andrews d., fla., the amendment provides that Quot Congress shall have the Power to Levy taxes for old age Indianapolis ind., june 26 a up Jesse Owens coloured olympic track Star narrowly escaped injury last night when the car in which he was Riding collided with another machine a few Miles outside Indianapolis. Him. Train does Tirol .11 one of the longest passenger trains to pass through Greencastle in Many months on the Monon went through last Friday when a sixteen car train carrying enrollees from the Stutch of Washington to Kentucky went through the City. 20 years ago in . A. A a a i mrs h. M. Ranck and son Wall Chicago Are the guests of or. Ant mrs. Emest Stoner mrs. Suss Dies mrs. Pink Sluss p. Former resident of Cloverdale died at the Home of her son. Or. J. W. Sluss. In Indianapolis sunday night. She was 86 Yean old. Mrs. Sluss was the widow of capt. I. E. Sluss and had resided in Indianapolis for a number of years. Surviving Are two sons. Or. J. W. Sluss and Ellis e. Sluss of Indianapolis. And a daughter mrs. Sandy Harris of Spencer. Funeral services will be held tuesday at 11 a. M. At the Home of or. Sluss 3657 Washington Boulevard. Indianapolis. A Short service will also be held at the Chapel in the Cloverdale cemetery at 2 p. M. In charge of Donus e. Denny. The Nazarene Church congregation purchased part of c. N. Mcwethey s property adjoining the laundry on East Washington Street. The s. C. C. Gave a Shower for mrs. Will Mcbride at Tho Homo of missed Lith Swift. Mrs Harry Well a was in the receiving line. Miss Dorothy Wells assisted the guest of Honor to her chair of state. Miss Susie Talbott read an original poem and Story on the club life of the Bride. Mrs. George Long won the guessing contest. Assisting in the serving were miss Helen Browning and miss Nina Cook. Miss Ethel Daniel and miss Lelia Talbott served the punch. Lawrence Crump spent his vacation at Louisville. In the Jones Stevens drug store window were displayed some excellent War pictures taken by captian Everett Jones. Some of them were taken from an air plane. For old age pensions the last stragglers of 17,000 delegates who attended the fourth annual National Townsend convention left for their Homes today. Wildly cheering and hailing or. Francis e. Towsend As their Leader until he wishes to retire the delegates at the final convention session roared a tarnation to a Resolution i hat pledged them to support Only congressional candidates selected by or. Townsend after conferences with other officials of the pension organi 1 nation. The Resolution gave or. Townsemd virtual dictatorial Powers Over which candidates shall be Given the million and a half votes which old age pension organizations claims to have. Other convention action 1. Decision to form a third party based on the Townsend plan for old age pensions for the 1940 National elections unless one of the major parties adopts the plan As a platform Plank at the 1940 National convention. 2. Unanimous election of Robert c. Townsend 25-year-old son of the founder to succeed his father As president and Leader of the pension organization if a for any reason or. Townsend is unable to serve in such 3. Taxation of at least $2 per month on every Townsend club in the nation to finance a Trail blazers squads who would organize new clubs in congressional districts where representatives voted against the Townsend Bill when it was brought up in the National House of representatives. Civil cities and town boar is will be approved by the Council Anil boar is on or before sept. 4. Final approval of town and school budgets is due on or before sept. P. These will be reported to the auditor for submission by him to the county adjustment Board which has final jurisdiction Over All levies made in the county. The adjustment Board meets sept. 11 and has until oct. 1 to decide on final rates. R. R. Man known Here. Ill in displays no weight tax tag fined $10 Brazil ind. June 26. Thu first Case for violation of the disputed state weight tax on motor trucks was heard saturday afternoon in the court of Justice George m. Girton. State policeman Walter Rawley arrested David p. Smith Driver for the i Globe trucking company of Indianapolis on a charge of failure to display a weight tax tag. He entered a plea of guilty and was fined $10 and costs. Officer Rawley stated Flint this was the first weight tax arrest to be made in this District but that others would follow if owners fail to provide themselves with weight tax tags. Louis h Giles of Indianapolis a i brakeman for the big four Railroad sustained serious injuries of the head and cheat at Terre haute last night when he was struck by a Cut of cars near the Maple Avenue crossing of the big four. He has friends her among the big four employees. Mam Fain a lies us for postal picnic seven c Oivi a Postoff is represented elect off ers the annual picnic of the Putnam county postal employees was held sunday june 25. At the Stockwell Grove on stat it Road 43. South of u. S. 40. More than one Hundred employees and their families attended the event representing the seven pos offices in Putnam county. These Post offices Are at Cloverdale Greencastle. Bain Bridge. Russellville Putnamville Reelsville and Roachdale. A picnic dinner was enjoyed at the noon hour followed by a Short pro a Gram of readings by Joan Canary daughter of or. And mrs Paul Canary and Donc Mckechan son of or. And mrs. Frank Mckechan. Brief talks were made by the visitors. The remainder of the afternoon was spent in. Playing games. New officers elected were president Earl Etcheson postmaster at Roachdale and Secretary and treasurer miss Elizabeth Ward of the local Post office. Present postmasters in the county Are a. L. Dobbs Greencastle Ivers Bain Russellville Earl Etcheson Roachdale Clarence Stewart Bain Bridge Charles Hill Reelsville w. E. Morrison Cloverdale a. D. Hendricks Putnam Ville. Weary posse men still await sit Fht of Olson Haavard wis., june 26 up weary posse men assured by two weekend incidents that August Buelo 30, alias Ray Olson still was hiding in the Chippewa River Bottoms settled Down tin Lay to the Job of waiting out the fugitive Slayer of two deputies. Guards at All Bridges and roads were doubled after posse men fired at Tho Quick triggered desperado saturday. The suspect escaped by leaping from a Bridge into the Chippewa live discovery of a Deer carcass yesterday hanging from a tree two Miles from the fugitive s Woodland Cabin strengthened the belief he still was hiding in the tangled Timberland. Sheriff George Seehuetter said the Deer had been killed about 24 hours Earlie in ass half Way Mark in Indurani e flight Springfield. Ill june 26 up Wilbur Parrish 25, and Hunter Moody 26. Decatur iii., aviators passed the half Way Mark today in their attempt to break the 218-hour endurance record for Light planes. At 7 40 a. M. They had been aloft in their 55-horsepower Taylor Craft monoplane 114 hours. The present record was set 75y two californians. Parrish and Moody have been taking turns sleeping on the floor of the plane. The wheels of the Craft have not touched the ground since tin fliers took off from the. Municipal Airport wednesday. They have refuelled and obtained food a score of times by contacting a speeding serv Ive truck. They haul supplies up with a. Rope. Last night they reported via radio that a everything is going a if everything Okay we wont come Down until july 4th,&Quot they said o a o o it a 0 e e o today sgt Eather 0 0 and 0 0 local temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 mostly Cloudy probably local thundershowers tonight und tuesday Couler tuesday. Minimum 6 a. M. 7 a. M. 8 a. M. 9 a. M 10 a. M. 11 a. M. 12 noon 1 p. M. 2 p. M. 68 75so. 84 86. 88 90 90 9494

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