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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - March 10, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA the weather l in Ano warmer pouty Sev a a the daily banned a it Waves for ally a of a United press service ale the Home news a v i v v a a a 1 >ifhkncast1 a be Indiana Phil a Matth 10, 1939. No. 124 Unsky and a Bobbitt a talk fest l. M \ might the other with Hill i Kkt the a Tate a legislature a mints Are issued la a. in their in a Coos Gnu. Tin Ink let Ade ship fur failure Janapolis. Ind., March 10. L guv m Clifford Townsend n Bobbitt chairman of publican state committee re the i verbal Battle Over act. Uta and failures of the i in statements issued Al trait governor declared that a i am a fru a bully or a Coward sincere agg resolve opponent a n common ground upon responsible persons or a party get irresponsibility y that was the problem which the state administration in with the Republican majority Llo due of representatives remit in. 61 Days of the Gen a Assembly Bui Utor Ted that the Republic of passed measures increase distribution of motor vehicle to local units repealing the it tax on trucks and abolishing Fanions two percent club Quot but i Cwm killed in the democratic Tel speak Sil it Chamberlain will attempt an arms Imit �1 of Lin rites planned for saturday afternoon let a. John a. Benson funeral Sei vices for miss Rose Joslin Foll known retired school teacher who died thursday morning will be hold saturday afternoon at 2 o clock from the Home at 514 South College Avenue. Or. L. R. Eck Ardt assisted by the Rev. C. M. M Clure will be in charge Rural will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Pall Boa Aik Force limit to be first Era will include will Irwin Fred o hair d. O. Moffett. Or. D. A. Kill Relief held that of arts to Lim Itinger Edda Buis and prof r. K Relief funds brings leaders in conference prime minister of England to m Are Effort kit mir War preparations pres. R o o s e v e l t called House democrats into meeting today re 1.111 x1essxge 1>1 e monday All armament will come this summer governor boastfully claims for preventing a any raids on a a payer either by new taxes or in he forgets Anapolis. A ittle provision in the cons Titu Toat requires All Revenue raising ses to be originated in the of representatives. The retail House did not pass a single tax raising Bill to pass on to democratic Senate. Democratic Senate however is the Only additional tax-Rais-1 it wrote into the Beer Bill ution increasing the tax on Beer Finis it of a cent a gallon Quot Bob a sorted. A Send declared that Quot it was us ate that there were no response hers among the membership House majority who could with authority for All. To the a an we were forced to Confer i individuals. Many of who n actuated Only by political or \ motives and who had no idea problems or needs of the j. C. Benson to speak on Sun it la spot. Of m. E. Hospital will preach at Gorin m. E. C Tir Iten or. John g. Benson will be the guest preacher sunday. March 12. At the 10 40 morning worship service of Gobin memorial methodist Church. He will speak upon the theme a the abundant or. Benson a do Pauw alumnus has been pastor of first methodist Church. Brazil Union methodist Church new York City Wesley International Church. Detroit. Michigan. He was for a number of years superintendent of the White Cross Hospital Columbus. Ohio and at present is superintendent of the methodist Hospital. In did. Benson is in great demand As a commencement and after dinner speaker. He is a preacher of ability. As a platform personality he has few equals. Congregations await his appearances with eagerness. Sunday will be Home coming for or. And mrs. Benson since or. Benson received Scholastic training in Depauw and married a Greencastle girl. Henrietta Jordan. Rev. Claude m Mcclure will be in charge of the service and the morning prayer will be offered by or. Clyde e. Wildman. President of do Pauw. The Public is cordially invited. London. March 10.�? up prime minister Neville Chamberlain intends to sound out opinion in world capitals soon in Hope that an arms limitation conference May to held before the end of summer it was understood today. It was reported that he sought first to negotiate an air Force limitation agreement with the principal european Powers and then to Widen negotiations to include the United states and other world Powers Williams. Friends Sofii n residence. May Call at the Highway suits a re from Lav indications Are that $150,000.000 will re sought by w. I. A. Head Washington. March 10 lljp1 pres. Roosevelt preparing to ask Congress for More Relief funds to Lay arranged a conference with the democratic committeemen of the House who Cut $150.000,000 from his original request. It was understood that he has invite 1 members of the House appropriations subcommittee in charge of deficiency appropriations to discuss the Relief situation with him before to sends a new request for More it was intimated in inspired Quad this county from Clay county on Quot works Progress administration funds hoped to discuss Lime change of venue affect lands which o cons,.es8 monday. At his tuesday press conference he said he might not ask for restoration ticket Sale indicates a record crowd Region a Tot Arney will re staged on local floor starting tomorrow re the favourites Georgia grand jury fails to indict Gilbert Wellman a grand jury which adjourned last saturday in Calhoun. Georgia failed to a Cairn an indictment against Gilbert v. Wellman held under Bond in connection with a fatal Accident in which the truck he was driving struck and killed a Georgia school girl in january. Charges of manslaughter were placed Aga not Wellman pending an investigation by the grand jury. Wellman still faces a damage suit cubs in the Georgia courts brought by that parents of the i 1. Naming both Well Mai and the Driver of the school bus from which the girl was alighting As defendants. A hearing on the suit is set for the March term of court. Indication today Point to a cd mrs Wellman son and daughter Pac to crowd for the regional Bas returned to Danville last week and Kobball tournament to be held Here tag Ltd will open hostilities with \ ill leg at p. In night game to be final v condemnation proceeding s vented to Loc Al court from Brazil court two condemnation suits which were brought to the circuit court of ters that he hoped to discuss Lim \ change of venue affect lands which tation of All sorts of armaments in Tlle Indiana state Highway commis the big conference and to include Sion desires to acquire from Clay Nderson Troci Ted such conditions. Townsend obviously no orderly or do pm Gram could be completed. A m very sorry that the obstruct Primicy of the Republican party de passage of the direct Prit 1 Vernor and United states m tax Relief for retailers and a businessmen return of truck collected in 1938. Minimum of Quot Indiana workers additional it it i it w of state funds to local i its for roads equalization a vehicle fees and Extension r Purchase of Auto License Tucker prison farm. Ark. March 10. A up Joseph b. It Smokey Joe Anderson sex Gambler and accused Slayer of four men was Al citric used at Dawn today in the Arkansas state prison. The son of a former prominent Little Rock family Anderson was sentenced to die for the Kidnap slay ing of Eldon Cooley. Hot Springs grocery official last september. He was also the confessed killed of two men in Michigan and a taxi Driver at Gary ind. Cd a Kcal it >11 de Wol need economic problems. This would mean county owners for Highway improve of us full in to 000,000. But spa discussing Germany s colonial claims Niento purposes on the National Road. Administrator. Col. Francis c. Haras part of a general european appeasement agreement. A wave of optimism for which diplomatic quarters sought in vain to find the reason seemed to be sweeping great Britain and France alike As regards the general european political Outlook. Chamberlain particularly was represented As believing that the prospective end of the Spanish civil War would improve the situation materially. He was said also to be convinced that Benito Mussolini a claims against France tor concessions in colonial Africa would be much More limited than was originally indicated All London newspapers carried inspired articles this morning reporting Chamberlain s Hope of calling an armament limitation conference. Louisville. By March 10. A circuit judge Church .11 hum i prey. 53, wounded in the leg by 3 a n l claimed that the reduced Man who pretended to be delivering a budget Bill Quot crippled or Des briefs told police today that his As veral departments Quot which sail ant was a disgruntled recent 11 \ Nable service to the people a h t Quot we will make every Effort. F ourselves satisfactorily to it flt Wigant whom he could identify. Police chief John Mauer said a Quot expected to have judge Humphrey s assailant in custody today with the Bitt discounted claims of town-1 Aid of a careful description. The Man that the democratic party a was a Aid to have been involved in a i receive credit for passing he terms administration Bills become included in this j Ore the marriage Bill the liquor i measure and various Public Hills. Prison made goods cause stir in Vigo co. Terre haute. Mar. 10 Homer Stonebraker superintendent of sales of state institutions of Indiana and r b. Hite Salesman in this District for the state institutions industries returned to Indianapolis thursday afternoon to seek advice from the state attorney general after meeting with Vigo county commissioners to learn Why county officials had not been purchasing county supplies from state institutions. At the special session hit a. Citing an attorney general a opinion on a 1917 statute that counties should Purchase certain supplies from prison industries told local officials they had violated the Law by purchasing certain supplies on the open Market. He said Vigo county had not bought from state industries during the past two years. Attorney John f. Of Brien representing the county commissioners cited an apparent conflict Between the 1917 act and one passed in 1933. He said in his opinion no Laws were being violated and said if the governor and state officials wanted to Clear the controversy the Best thing to do would be to try to prove Vigo county officials violators of the statutes through a test Case. Casassa and Margaret Casassa As defendants they being the owners of the land and the other suit mines Asa e Winkle lock and Christine e Winklepleck. As defendants. The condemnation proceed nos followed the usual routine in such matters. In the Clay court up to the Point following the reports of the appraisers the amounts allowed for the condemned land being unsatisfactory to one party or the other and an Appeal was made to the court followed by ringtone declared yesterday that he needed the entire sum. And needed it or. Roosevelt apparently hoped of smooth the Way for his new request by discussing it in Advance with key members of the House appropriations committee and presenting to them a the latest spa data. Harrington said that severe reductions in the Relief Are making their Villo Republican. Home Here a pan Rolls would have to be ordered in a week. The time of the conference was not determined yet but it probably will a motion for a change ,�8 afternoon those invited to of venue from clan county. The wealthy woman found murdered v v assessor clerk relieved killed by robber on sunday Mineola. N y. March 10. A up the murderer of Anna Louise Mckee. 59. Wealthy Republican Leader and assessors office clerk probably was a burglar familiar with the two and a half Story House where fhe lived alone. Police inspector Harold s King said today the killer s weapon was not found. King belied it was a Ball top Hammer. Blows had crushed the spinsters Skull in four places. Her hotly Lay undiscovered on the living room floor from the time of the murder probably last sunday night. Until yesterday afternoon. There were evidences of a furious struggle in the living room and in an adjoining amount allowed for the Casassa inn 1 was $5.994.50, and for the Winkle Pleck tract was $ .805. The suits were filed in the name of Omar Stokes Jackson attorney general of state. Jack Grandt is Given transfusion rare illness it tasks Sophomore blood from Gitlic Ted persons Soi a ii i Jack Grandt Depauw Sophomore who was taken to his Home in Chicago last monday suffering from the effects of the injuring of the skin Over one knee in a basketball game Here eight Days ago. Is in the holy Cross Hospital in Chicago. He has been declared by physicians to to suffering from the unusual infection streptococcus Viri Dens which is usually fatal in its results. There have been Many offers to Aid in blood transfusion for the a Benefit of Grandt the physicians a sire to take the blood from 3 person who has had the disease and recovered Craig Isle is Eivin the White House were understood to include Hep. Edward t Taylor a. Colo., chairman of the House appropriations committee rep Clifton a. Woodrum. A. Vul. Chairman of the subcommittee in charge of deficiency appropriations and rep. Clarence Cannon i. To. Woodrum s subcommittee initiated the original reduction of the presidents emergency spa budget for Relief this Spring l Roni $875,000,000 to $725.000.000. Additional tax Lav be levied Ruda ikast saturday t tue University will be featured a a radio broadcasts saturday an both Over station vhf by a b Polis. The first program will regular Depauw music school each saturday afternoon. T it a 00 o clock and will present or Henry rolling pianist. Edmond Jarvis baritone a cond program will follow Dia Cly and will be a fifteen the broadcast. 300 to 3 15 p. A. Vol feature the Depauw Chap Phi Delta Theta fraternity m iter hour of fraternity and to songs Sung by members of it Cal chapter who will be in in i Olis for the regional meeting Fet fraternity. A ical numbers on the Phi delt were arranged by Gene Job ton. A senior who also train group of some forty five men n excellent musical Organiza approaching glee club Perfec divorce suit. Recovering at his suburban Home judge Humphrey assured friends that he wis in no danger. Anti tetanus serum was administered. A it could have been worse Quot judge Humphrey said. Former ministers Oil commissions itis Lior his i s. A Tiv am Rock on consolidation hoards among the Many ministers an i laymen of the methodist Church who were named on the nation wid Quot committees and commissioners to draft the articles putting into effect the Union of three branches of methodism in the United states Are the Bev. Bert d. Beck of Terre haute Ami the Bev. Johr. W. Walker of Bloomington Quot who Are known in Greencastle. The committee Meme s were named by the members of to a general conference commission on interdenominational relations meeting in Indianapolis this week. Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes former president of Depauw. Is one of a he five Bishops on that commission. La Imit i Pon to inti pet m v ii it of police opts Mil Kok period within Raddox it a Kkt Ity 10 i up los Angeles. March for the first time since Congress passed the espionage a it during world War Days a judge was called upon today to define a National defense a under its provisions. Which will he framed Iii Griek income tax Del if profit tax is taken off Washington. March 10 it up administration plans to remove ob-1 Staples to recovery from the tax Structure opened up today the possibility of a slight increase in Normal corporation income tax rates president Roosevelt and congressional Economizer agreed that some i Means must be found for maintaining the present level of government a income if certain taxes Aro Cut. Leading proponent of a move to substitute a single Flat corporation lax for other existing ones such As the undistributed corporate profits capital Stock and excess profits taxes is undersecretary of the Treasury John w Hanes. If Hanes a Sells Quot his proposal to the administration tax experts believed it would be necessary to boost the Normal corporate rates. At present the rate ranges from 121 a to 16 per cent on incomes from $5.000 to $25.000. Above that the rate is 16 j per cent plus a sur saturday afternoon and saturday night. Large delegations Are coming for the meet from the three cuts de sectional centers including Clinton. Pine Village and Waveland. Tickets for the regional Are All i reserved and those remaining unsold at Mullins Diug store at eleven of clock. Saturday will be withdrawn at that time and after that hour. They will he available at the gymnasium Only. William Bishop principal who is in charge of the Sale said today. Greencastle will be Well represented at both the afternoon and evening sessions and everyone Here is forecasting that the Tiger cubs will emerge from the play As winners of the regional they a int to their record during the Acari a and Especio Iilva during the sectional Piny and believe that the Odds n e considerably in favor of the local team although Many up sets May be expected in play Here As Well As in the other sixteen regional centers throughout i the state. Of local fans Are going they had better make arrangements at onco j for their tickets As All arc reserved hallway where a wooden panel had a and Only the capacity of the build been dented by two Hammer blows ing will be sold that evidently had been aimed at miss Mckee and leaders meet the House had not Ticen ransacked and King believed that the intruder had found what he wanted without difficulty. Jewelry that miss Mckee had worn habitually for 20 years was missing but her brother Charles Mckee who found the body when he went to inquire Why she had not been at work did not know whether she had kept any Money in the House. Ual Morgan Radi x Hirt when Virl it t id at to Cal Morgan about 65 years old. Suffered Serif injuries thursday night when he was accidentally struck by an automobile As he walked along u. S. Road 10. About one mile East of the intersection of the National Road with state Road 43. George Kennedy it it i Terre haute Driver of the Cai immediately stopped his car and took the injured Man to Bon ton diner no. 2. At the intersection and from there Morgan was brought to Putnam county Hospital 1 used the Pratt j in this City in a local ambulance. 1 plan to unite the a i Morgan was Vipo itch to a have suf 1< pendent Railroad uni new York March 10 up a american federation of labor negotiators had their own labor Unity proposal today and it a i said to contain major concessions to Industrial unionism. It May be presented when the peace negotiations resume at 8 p. M. Tonight to consider the plan of then it nor of Industrial organizations to end its three year old struggle with the federation to creating a american Congro. A of Labory which would contain All unions. The Cio proposal is put Lack on the Agenda upon the insistence of i silent John l l was. Who was angered by the Al s summary and Curt rejection less than Throe hours after its to president Roosevelt and the joint committees a their first meeting in the White i Louse tuesday. High Al sources id today that federation committee members still f try Cio l7io and in-4 in one or Fer cd a dislocated hip. Fractured Pel gang nation before it vis Ami head injuries is fictional dispute Kennedy reported the Accident to Ilso that the All i state police at the hat Racks and after i it a a i no lasting to it a an investigation by the officers he was released. It was said Morgan was walking id nce in it. Mor of the mishap. Id to his place of i a a Idian at the time without subs Tanti. The a one big Union Quot Lewis and partial Al at the Atlantic it it vent Ion in 1935. Ling their Jur Bui they Suid negotiators Bee was possible recognition kit of a a espoused by refused by the n. A. Con a Cert Ifica and placed in a prominent position tax of 21l per cent on undistributed the Greencastle City building is that awarded Greencastle for its splendid record in the matter of re a a a e. I during traffic fatalities during to the ruling vitally affects the Fate of two men and a woman accused of a a a espionage to Aid Russia. To will also indirectly Val Date counter espionage activities of the United states. Hafis Salloch an americanized russian. Former naval intelligence attache. Admitted handing Over secret reports to Mikhail Gorin a soviet travel agent. The defense contended the reports dealt Only with the japanese and therefore did not endanger this country a National defense i hence no espionage was committed y judge Ralph Jenney Wilt clarify the matter in his final instructions to a Federal court jury of Middle aged business men and Industrial leaders who must decide the Fate of Salich. Gorin and the Latte re a blonde russian wife Natasha. The jury was expected to be Given the Case by noon. A profits. Supporters of Hanes plan contend that business would prefer a slightly higher Flat corporation tax. They argue that even if the increased Cor the Cert if i it at was Given t a mayor Portac Levy should fail at first to prow. D. James and police chief Ed-1 Duce As much As All the existing Cor Ward Maddox at the banquet at the portion taxes the removal of the Indianapolis athletic club. Thursday j a deterrents Quot to business expansion evening. The invitation to the banquet was Over the signature of governor m. Clifford Townsend. Sheriff Lawrence Graham also received an invitation from the governor and was present at the banquet would stimulate recovery to a Point where the government losses in Revenue would soon be wiped out. Indi x a Polis livestock martial Lau Niami Toda it err i. Or Sio i i 11 Ems today a it Kodino to reports Italy m Ykes hem nos London. Match 10. Up Baly at last has officially form Olalo it a 2 1 y. Cars in ago Geroev ill new Yolk. March 10 editor Beret in arrived with Charlie me car Llu t receipts 6 000, holdovers so Market generally 10c lower. Top $7.00 on .�00-210 lbs. Sows 15c lower $6.50-$7. 160-250 ids. $7 70 $7.00 250-300 lbs$7 35-57 65 300100 lbs $7.05-$7.25 100-160 lbs., i $6.75-$7.50. Or. And mrs. Orville o Neal went cattle receipts 300. Calves 400 to Detroit mich., to reside. Generally steady clean up Trade Odd the Crescent Clute met with mrs. 0ts steers $8.50-$ll. Heifers $7 50 oils Browning. $9.50. Veal cars steady top $1150. Ola Ellis became ill with influenza Sec a 1,000. Fat lambs 15c-25c Aaron Thomas at lower. Good to Choice heavy weight fed lambs $9-$9 15. Medium Grade $8u. Oil for classes j exas lambs scarce. While visiting Zeis returned Home from thy from the West today and was Indianapolis where he had Bee a treated in his hotel suite for what Page during the left thirty Days of e his doctor described As a slight a i the state legislature acs Jpn. He Hail or and mrs. E. A. Brown Fig Lett tack of influenza. A nurse said to work 18 hours the last Day of the today for St. Petersburg. Fla., where Bergen probably would be All right. I session. 1 they will remain for several weeks. Of o Prague 7a a i Lov Nikki March 10. Up martial Law was re claimed today at Bratislava capital of the Genii autonomous slovak Govi Annun and czechoslovak troops occupied Public buildings of Bratislava Pisty-1 an. Bystrick and Trent in a sudden 1 government move to crush separatist activities. It was announced that the Central government had appointed a czech general to Quot Aid and counsel the slovak governing it the Central governments action came immediately after the dismissal this morning by president Emil Eucha of the Premier economics minister and labor Minbu or in the slovak Cabinet. Martial Law was proclaimed at 11 a. Or. By Means of a radio broadcast in which the government urged the population to maintain order and a it obey the authorities. At Bratislava the situation had become menacing. Several shot were fired this morning when several thousand members off thu separatist Hlinka guards an it workers assembled to protest against dismissal of the ministers. The origin of the shots was not known. Territorial demands a note presented to the j Niento on wednesday worthy diplomatic the note was a statement of Ita y h in the pert of i j Somaliland and the i from the port t a also to italian i Tunis. N France in a French Golem i usually Trust Urce said today. M to include a claims to rights Bouti in French railway leading a Lis Ababa and minority rights in last rites for m s Emma Mcferran Mother of Albert Mcc run of this City were i a id from tin Cha. Tain Funchal Homo in Roachdale in charge of the Rov. Wilbur Day of Delphi burial was m the it celery. O o o o o today a weather and local temperature Vii 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 occasional rain tonight and saturday rising temp Ratut minimum 0 u. M. 7 a. M. V u. M. 9 a. M. 10 a. In. 11 a. M. 12 noon 1 p. M. 2 p. 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