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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - March 17, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana4 Tice we at Attr Faik avd warmer to the ol11mk forty seven Daicy banker a it Waves for ally i0ts occur at numerous Border Points Willis Norritta sued Terre haute ind., it Larch 17.�? it up it a Raymond e. Wih1�, Defeated Republican nominee for the u. S. Senate in the last elect Lon Arch n. Bobbitt state Republican chairman and Charles Van Camp were sued the avd others seek to for $100,000 for slander today in a Orbe Nastle Indiana Friday mar to 17, calendars wrong for saints Day 0 5 up rvs tit it muss service a All tolf Home news Ujj 4, 4 no. To escape new German nazi regime Jass of escape closed visit d czech National a Nick and took away is of Gold bulletin Washington March in. A up i president Roosevelt declared today at the United states needs new neutrality legislation particularly in e Light of i Uro Pran developments the last few Days. Complaint filed in the Vigo circuit i court by a former spa supervisor. Washington. March 17 up the United states government to a denounced German aggression inst the former czechoslovak government in bristling terms. Prague March 17�? up a riots be occurred at numerous Frontier into As czechs and others sought Eso Spe the new German nazi re me it was reported today. All Means of Csc ppe were closed d it was understood that persons o sought to Cross the Frontier been turned Back by German azi and military guards. Agents of the secret police the Elded nazi Gestapo swept Down houses All Over Prague in raids Chas those Germany. Austria and sudeten and in turn had experienced d persons regarded As Quot enemies of regime had their first taste of e methods of the Gestapo and of e Black uniformed Quot is Quot nazi body Ard troops who cooperate with pm. Thousands of persons were Underwood to have been arrested and any apparently had been rent Al Ady to Germany and concent a on Camps. Nazi Quot is Quot and "8a�?� troops vis Ted e czech nation Quot rank yesterday d took away 16 True loads of id. According to witnesses. The no s assets which go to Hitler in about s81.500.000 in Gold and 1.500.000 in foreign currency hold is it was understood. There were unconfirmed reports re that despite Poland a apparent activity there was tension along e czech polish Frontier and that Fie shots had been exchanged Heneen German and polish troops. People of Prague settled Down Der nazi Rule but there was every dictation that their bitter recent ent remained unchanged. Hitter had left Prague yesterday thou showing himself to the peo who had booed and h used his Ops and spat on the window of a than travel Agency which show his picture. It was the first time had left a newly won City without iving slowly through the streets knowl edging the cheers of welding throngs. His entry and his parture were unnoticed. And not Ore than 1,000 germans even had a there before the Radzin Castle he remained during his Brief h. To cheer him when he appeared icily on a Balcony. Circuit court notes Roscoe Scott is asking the courts Aid in Clearing the title in his favor to the property occupied by the former Monon restaurant North Jackson Street naming trembly amp Williams and the Monon Railroad company As defendants he says in his petition that they claim rights which arc Adverse to him Sutherlin amp Sutherlin Are his attorneys. In the partition suit of Ada f. Mccullough and others against Mary e. Job and others the commissioner filed a report of the Sale of the real estate which report the court approved and the court also approved the deed. St. Patrick s Day dawned Clear riot with Low Tom pm nature predicted warm weather not Many Putnam residents adhered to practice of planting potatoes i notwithstanding a calendars pre a diction made a year or two ago that today would be a warm a St. Patrick a Day which dawned fairly Clear As far As obscuring Clouds were concerned had a temperature some twelve degrees or More below freezing and the Calendar was quite wrong. The signs used by the Calendar editors As guides in predicting the weather a year or More ahead missed fire or else the compilers misread the signs. The chill Laura b. Elless has qualified As ing wind from the Northwest gave executor of the estate of the last j 1 0lnt to lne fact hat Sprink has not will and testament of Albert j. Al yet come and wont come until less deceased. H. Ney. N. Fine is Attar blame groundhog for dam failure vast volume of water suddenly released at Frank Thomas Lake the failure of the dam at the Frank s. Thomas Lake in Madison township whereby a vast volume of water was suddenly released to flow Down the Small Stream bed below the Spil Wuy is attributed to the presence in the old big four roadbed which was utilized As a dam. Of innumerable ground hog Burrows which have been there from a Timp Long before the abandonment of the roadbed for Railroad use. The roadbed is constructed largely of gravel other rather Loose material and when the water began to seep through the perforations in the roadbed made by the groundhogs it was an easy task for it to enlarge the openings so greatly that the embankment finally collapsed under the High pressure of the head of water. The water was 40 feet deep at the spillway and the entire area of the Lake including both West and East divisions which were connected was said to approximate 40 acres. It had been filled almost to the top of the spillway by the recent Rains. When the dam gave Way under the pressure of the water a great tidal wave rushed Down tile Small Stream Channel which runs under the new big four tracks through a High Culvert which also is used for Highway purposes. The Highway at that Point was washed out. And the water rushed on Down the Channel into Snake Creek which flows through the Happy hollow neighbourhood past Fern Cliffs and into big Walnut. On its Way to the larger Stream the water spread out Over adjoining farm lands in the Snake Creek Bottom. And caused much damage. Next tuesday a twas a cold Day for the planting of Irish potatoes and not Many Putnam residents adhered to the old practice once pretty generally followed of dropping their seed spuds into the ground on St. Patrick a Day regardless of the temperature. The ground was Frozen hard this morning. The Day in Greencastle had much less Observance than it had in years gone. There was a time when one and sometimes several brass bands participated in a great Parade in which citizens generally joined which headed for bakery a Woods then the picnic ground of the Community where speeches were made by Irish orators and others where there were refreshments served of an appropriate character and where one and All had a Good time which approach the hilarious in its character. Greencastle has had Fine citizens of Irish extraction and yet has. Today the significance of the Day devoted to the memory of that Fine old Man 8t. Patrick is suggested by Small shamrocks worn on the coat Lapel the wearing of Green in dresses and ties to a certain extent and the favors at parties coming around this Date Are Green. The Community As a whole joins with its Irish citizens today in exclaiming. Along with them Quot Erin go brag Quot parking rules the following parking rules have been promulgated by mayor James no double parking. No trucks parked on or within one Block of the Square. A All cars must Park in line with marked spaces. Business men not to Park on or within one Block of the Square. Delivery trucks must use alleys. One hour parking on saturday in business Section. We Hope everyone will understood these Park no rules and help others who Don t know the rules. There is a state Law against double parking in any City because it obstructs fire to Section blocks the fellow who is properly parked and wants out and finds the car behind him locked up with All bikes set., then the party that wants to go Home or he on his Way. Calls on the police they go to help him out and find the double parked car All locked up. It takes one hour or More to final the Driver of the car that is blocking a lot of traffic. Please obey the parking Law and you Are sure not to Embarrass your Best Friend. Michigan governor did thurs. Crowds Hope to acclaim Hitler was expected to appear in some town for Friendly reception lox Wortley 65, i in Alabama graduate of Depauw University arrangements not announced or. Frank Wilbur Foxworthy age a a graduate of Depauw University 1,1 the class of 1894, died at the of his daughter mrs. William Kennedy at Florence Alabama mesday. He had been ill two he was a member of the us chapter of Phi Delta Theta. Shrine the scottish Kite and 0 the Meridian Street m. E. Us a in Indianapolis in which City a resided from 1901 until 1925, he removed to Miami. Fla. He a Horn at Kentland. This state. H of worthy had several years put graduate work in Medicine a Siope following his graduation Nie it Cine from the Indiana univer a school of Medicine. He served a that 160th Indiana volunteers no the War with Spain in 1898, was commissioned a major duration on the mexican Border. A in roving Are the widow the Torr Leila Thomas the daughter a 7 dred w. Foxworthy of it. Cal., and two grand Chil paralysis Case alarms residents Quot nral a arrangements had Quot Quot a to this morning. Not Carrara Robbins Roach Dale May have contracted infantile paralysis the development of a Oase of infantile Para Lysis at Roachdale has caused much concern among school patrons particularly. The patient Barbara Robbins daughter of or. And mrs. Jack Robbins of Fincastle. Is a Pupil of the first Grade. At first her illness which began last thursday. Was attributed to influenza. Reports thursday from blood tests taken of the Robbins girl indicated bit her illness May be due to some other disease however she has been quarantined. Acting upon the advice of health authorities of the state trustee Swafford had the room used by the first Grade pupils thoroughly disinfected in the manner prescribed by the state Board of health and the school was not closed. The county health nurse miss Antoinette Friedman has been work no with the Roachdale school authorities and also the parents of the it to dents in. Connection with the alarm caused by the appearance of the ease and in effecting preventive measures against a spread of the malady. School principal Frederick of Neil states several Pup is have been kept out of school by the parents because of the fear of further inroads of the disease. Berlin March 17. A up a crowds massed in slovak and German Quot language Island Quot cities in czech Moravia today hoping to acclaim Adolf Hitler but anger and alarm mounted in Europe because of his new triumphs. Hitler travelling in Complete secrecy was expected to appear today in some town in his new a a protectorate territory where he would he certain of a Friendly reception. Great Britain showed More anger and anxiety Over Hitler s a self preservation Quot absorption of czech territory than she had shown Over any previous move of the nazis in the six years of hitlers leadership. In past instances there were people to say that after All Germany had some arguments on her Side that she was taking her rightful place As a great nation by rearming that she wan taking Only germans and German lands when she absorbed Austria and sudetenland. This time she had no defenders even the British government. Britain and France were in close consultation on the advisability of following the course the United states took in Germany a anti jewish Campaign and withdrawing their ambassadors from Berlin leaving their embassies in care of charges d affaires. It was increasingly certain that the state visit to London next week of president Albert Lebrun would be made the occasion of an important conference on self defense. It was indicated that not Only French foreign affairs minister Georges Bonnet but Premier edouard Daladier and High officers of the French general staff would be in the delegation. Already there was talk of hitlers next move. Striker shot 8 arrested Evansville ind. March 17.�? i up a a striking worker was shot lat night and three persons arrested following outbursts of violence at the Servel. Inc., Plant Here. Leonard Johnson 25, one of the strikers said he did not know who shot him. Circuit judge John w. Spencer jr., ordered the arrest of three organizers for the United electrical. Radio and machine shop workers of America. He said the men Quot violated Quot an agreement they made with him that there would be no violence. Police held miss Pearl Lindsey 54, for questioning after she was named by the wife of an employee As one of the strikers who struck her after Pui Ling her from her car. Heart attack proved fatal to governor Frank let. Fitzgerald Only few tickets left for Semi final tourney Dickinson to succeed him Rose in Twenty two years from Humble clerk to government head watch Border for finance attache operates Confidence schemes in nine countries including to s. San Bernardino. Cal. March 17.�? Hpe a a men state troopers and the u. S. Bolder patrol blocked All roads leading to Mexico today in an attempt to trap or. Otto Benjamin Leo Ritter suave self styled a i finance ministry attache described by his a Secretary a and alleged accomplice As an International swindler with Multi million Dollar bunk deposits in new York and elsewhere. He was sought on two warrants one issued by the government charging immigration it regularities the other sent Here yesterday by new Jersey authorities charging him with a swindle. He was last seen thumbing rides his hands clutching wads of currency along roads adjacent to the u. S. Side of the Border. Authorities hoped to trap him As they had his american Secretary bodyguard Charles d. Winters 56, who was cited in the new Jersey warrant As a co conspirator in the swindle. Winters was caught late yesterday As the pair fled southward toward the Border from Brawley Cal. Ritter a Trail was lost after officers had followed it through several towns to the South. They believed he intended to Cross the Border into Tijuana mex., and they were concentrating their forces today along that Section. Winters said Ritter who also used the name of Oscar Schroeder was the key Man in a Syndicate which operated Confidence schemes in nine countries including the United states and which had deposits totalling $33.000,000 in a single new York Bank. These deposits and other smaller ones elsewhere he said represented profits mulched from investors. He said he had been promised $300.000 for his services during the next few years. Grand ledge. Mich. March if. A governor Frank 1. Fitzg crap a d de from a Hort attack at his residence Here last night. The Republican governor had been suffering from influenza. Governor Fitzgerald was 54 years old. He began his second two year term As governor of Michigan last Jan. 1. He was the first chief executive of the state to return to of fice after being Defeated for reelection he was elected last november defeat no Frank Murphy now u. S. Attorney general. Fitzgerald first was governor in 1934-35 but Murphy captured the office from him at the end of Hia first term. Two years later Fitz Gerald turned the tables on the Democrat. Who was appointed to president Roosevelt s Cabinet at the expiration of his term. The governor was ordered to bed monday by his physician. Or. E. M. Mccoy who said the influenza was aggravated by a lung and circulatory condition left by pneumonia five years ago. Fitzgerald was the first Michigan governor to die in office. He will be succeeded by Lieut. Governor Luren Dickinson who will be 80 years old next month. Dickinson is serving his seventh term As lieutenant governor but has not been in office continuously. Dickinson himself is confined to his Home at Charlotte with influenza and it was Uncertain yet when he would be sworn in As governor. Governor Fitzgerald role in Twenty two years from an Humble clerkship in the state government to its Heid in 1934. Lone Star Cement official Speaks g. E Pierson addresses Mem be its of i Yaxis club at luncheon 20 years ago in Greencastle mrs. Joe Mccord and mrs. Kenneth Bennett will attend the Kappa Alpha Theta state luncheon at the Columbia club in Indianapolis saturday. The Greencastle Golf club reorganized and in the election of officers e b. Taylor and de Hamilton were made director. The membership committee included Roy Abrams Elmer Vancleave and de Hamilton. The Muddy water from the Mains a of the water works system was the newspaper said. Charles Kelley purchased three Loti on East Anderson Street from the Hopwood estate. Quot the drama of Cement making Quot was the subject at an interesting talk Given at the thursday luncheon meeting of the kiwanis club by o. E Pierson of Indianapolis vice president of the Lone Star Cement corporation. In an unusual manner or. Pierson traced the process of Cement making giving a dramatic touch to each step from the time the Stone is taken from the ground to the finished product. The speaker pointed out that port land Cement was originated in 1824 by an englishman and that the name was adopted since the finished product resembled Stone taken from the Island of Portland. Tho first Portland Cement Mill was erected in the United states in 1872, Pennsylvania being the state and it was not until 1897 that America was Able to produce sufficient Cement for its own use without a flying on imports he said. Or. Pierson pointed out that the Metal Lone Star Plant is one of the organizations 15 plants and that the unit Here has a capacity of 2,500.-Uoo barrels per year. Altogether there Are 162 Cement plants in a 5 states in the s nation capable of producing 256,000.000 Barry is annually. The speaker gave a graphic description of the Many uses of Portland Cement saying that it is used to make everything from fireproof hotel and quake proof schools to honeymoon cottages. Or. Pierson expressed gratitude to the Community for its helpfulness in the local Cement Plant s operate on it was announced that prof. H. E. H. Greenleaf and or. R. W. Vermillion had been named delegates to the kiwanis convention in Boston. Marshall Abs ams and h. B. Walls Ore the alternates. In addition to or. A Pierson guests on pint a two chamber of Commerce meeting March 20 plans have been completed for the annual dinner meeting of the Greencastle chamber of Commerce which will be held in the Gobin memorial Church in this City. Monday evening March 20. Directors for the coming year will be elected Anil an address will be Given by William r. Allen personnel director of l. S. Ayres India Zapolis. Only a few ticket were available her today for the Semi final Basket Hall tournament saturday at tech gymnasium in India Molln. Where Greencastle Tiger cubs will compete Lor the right to enter the state final tourney. Of the 702 Semi final tourney tickets received Here Gree Nintle fans had purchased nearly 500 by noon today. The remainder of a he tickets Aro available at Mullins drug store but at 6 of clock this evening the Sale of Advance tickets will Stop in thin City. Tie tickets that an left in event then should be a Orne will in taken by Anderson Antn Kelhi or Aurora fans. Local fans Are hopeful that Tiger c us backers will Purchase All of the tickets in the Greencastle Section. Franklin township taxpayers to meet to Osiier recent condemnation of Roachdale school a meeting of Franklin township taxpayers Nas been called by township trustee j. M. Stafford for this evening to consider the recent condemnation by the state building inspector of parts of the Roachdale school building. The condemnation affected particularly the Assembly room the gymnasium and the gym Shower room. The use of the auditorium for study purposes by classes was for Bidden and the upper six grades of the school have been using other quarters than those to which they were assigned at the opening of school because of the inspectors action their usual quarters being considered unsafe. The resulting congestion in the rooms now being used is very inconvenient and interferes seriously with the work of the school. It is now the practice for one class to recite in the front of a room while another class is seated in the rear studying producing a condition very much like the old one room school Louse of Rural Putnam. The original part of the school building was erected in 1898 and the Assembly room and the gymnasium were added in 1910. It is reported that the foundation under the 1919 addition is cracked in several places. The floor of the Assembly room has sagged several inches according to reports. There Are cracks in the Walls also. The meeting this evening will be held in the town Hall. It will be attended by state health Board authorities and state educational Board members who will explain the situation to the taxpayers. Cubs All set for Anderson five saturday game Marks opening of Semi final tourney at Tuii tigers m is Given Send off enthusiastic a Pep a session held tills afternoon Large crowd to accompany Trail to Indianapolis Townsend backs Tucker Indiana oils ind., March 17 up a gov. M. Clifford Townsend a Democrat today hid backed his Republican Secretary of state James m. Tucker against action by one of the governors appointees in re issuing a License to Tho Fidelity investment company of Wheeling. W. A. Chester r. Montgomery site securities commissioner re instated the company Tucker was in Washington d. C. Learning of Montgomery a action Tucker wired governor Townsend who is vacationing in Florida demanding Montgomery a dismissal and revocation of the per Mit Townsend telegraphed on order cancelling Montgomery a action but withheld discharging him. He said he would hold a conference with Montgomery and Tucker when he returns. A beat Anderson a that was the phrase that echoed throughout Greencastle today As the Tiger cubs prepared to go to Indianapolis to meet the Anderson indians in the opening game of the Semi final basketball tournament at tech gymnasium. The Guys and coach Glynn Downey were Given r rousing Send off this afternoon when hundreds of students and townspeople gathered in the High school gymnasium for an enthusiastic a a Pep session. Talks yell and songs instilled into the cub players a the whole hearted enthusiasm of the crowd. There was no doubt in the minds of the Tiger cubs about the Greencastle support for Assurance was Given at the a a Pep session that the entire Community is with the purple and Gray team and boosting the cubs to the limit to beat Anderson and then take the Winner of the Franklin Aurora game in the tourney finale to go to the state tournament. Coach Downey and his squad including Don Frazier Raymon 1 York. Ben Hanlon. George Taylor Johnnie Koessler. Floyd Goodman Howard Buis. Dick Coffey Carroll Hammond and de York will leave for the b ittle scene saturday morning. The team will be followed by hundreds of Loyal Greencastle fans the majority going by automobile with the of \ making the trip by traction b or train. While the 700 tickets sold hero will represent As Many Tiger cub fans Many persons in the cheering sections in the tech gymnasium will join the Greencastle boosters at the tourney to Back the Downey five. All but a few of the 702 tickets allotted this City had been sold by this afternoon and belief was expressed that the entire allotment would go before the Advance Sale closes at 6 of clock this evening. The slight advantage Anderson has in height will be made up by the cubs with 8pei i. The Greencastle boys took the measure of the indians on the Anderson court during mid season play and have made plans to repeat the feat tomorrow afternoon. Out of town basketball followers have been divided in opinion As to the outcome of the Greencastle Anderson game but the Tiger cubs will take the floor determined to make the count two Over the Indiana in their engagements this year. The Tiger cubs and the indians will meet at 2 of clock tomorrow afternoon. Franklin and Aurora will tangle at 3 of clock and the winners of the two afternoon tilts will clash for the Semi final Crown at 8 of clock saturday night. Cloverdale motors inc., is organized horsemen elect association Heads met thursday to discuss horse show in connection with fair the executive committee of the Putnam county horsemen s association met with the county farm agent thursday evening and i souped the horse show which will be staged in connection with the county fair this fall. The two events will be co Ordyn ated As to Date and other det amp is. Which will require a joint meeting of the association Board and the fair Board later. The horsemen s association committee will meet april 26 for a further discussion of a arrangements. The comm tree elected association officers As follows chairman Carl Arnold. Vice chairman. Harry Collins. Treasurer Walter Doriott Secretary. Eleanor Wilkinson. Announcement is made of the organization of a firm to be known As Cloverdale motors. Inc., operating at Cloverdale for the purpose of Selling and servicing Dodge and Plymouth automobiles trucks and commercial vehicles. The organization consists of the following stockholders Anil officers Leslie a Billie Cooper. Pres. Charles b. Pickens. V. Pres. Estill Meek. Secy.-treas., and Leslie Cooper Estill Meek. Charles b. Pickens and Ellis Yanders directors. All four members of the firm have been identified with the automobile business in Putnam county for a number of years. A today a weather 0 a and a a local temperature 0 generally fair not quite so cold in Northwest and West Central portions tonight saturday inc rear a cloudiness. Rising temperature. 18 a. 19 20 8 r. A. 21 0 a. M. 10 a. A. .25 11 a. A. .2528 j p. A. 2 p. A. 39

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