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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - March 18, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana0 1 tote we other fair a Wab Mei. A 4. I 4 a 4 or 1 0 Lote Folk to so Van the daily Banner a it Waves for ally 4�� a a a ten then Tress service a 1.1. The Home news 0 a a Al 5t0p hit lk1t meeting May be sponsored to bit a Gay Ian to nation la on Keren e next week a , Indiana saturday March 18, guest is Kakkak sunday no. Krait it i i i ii in Iii Lei in Ltd a stand against eve re it it �?T1 1 Roll re a or nazi Germany a London March 18 it up a great i. Ensor an Intel Nat it Nal possibility of a United trait Quot a Pansi Onist policies of cd a it was reported to Al v/2 an a 1 toe 1 that the govem-1 no Only an expert the j l n Yvo \ it Hitler to it Lay or to nov of sending a stinging i to Ordie Omati 1 ads its anger an i Hor r at in exertion of protector Ove. The czech state and a Akia to i s. H ver. Would to Only a St in britons now seome 1 Jay to consider deliberately the aspect a fight to a finish against Izi Germany and if necessary its Ritner in the Berlin Rome Axis a schist Italy. It was freely reported that the it move would be a reorganization i the British Cabinet on a wide no Nal emergency basis which Peris would bring opposition Liberal labor party representatives into ministry and certainly would inc bark Anthony Eden who reel As foreign minister because held that the government was tickling under to dictators. But there were Strong indications it the government hoped to receive a our gement for summoning an in hat Iona conference of a peace Lov re nations in Hope that a common int could be formed against expand Mist nations. Tamberlain in his speech at Mingham last night asked of hit fun latest move i i p i tor curl of an old Art Natur it it the beginning of a this the last attack upon a Ball it a or is it to be followed by Biers is this in fact a step in the pc t a i of an attempt to dominate to Well j by Force a Spring Plains arranged by local shops Bic. Opening feature is set for wednesday night by Mek Hants of Katcka . He i Nisi Ai. , b. Hanna is reported critically i of pneumonia in the Putnam into Hospital. I in prepares Hillins reception a is deeply shocked and a i i red at speech by chamber a in n. March 18. Up news at Britain had taken a stand nazi expansionism swept p Germany today As Berlin 1 to give Adolf Hitler the a i a Eption of his career on his or Here. Were a Oopik shocked and at the speech of prime min a Neville Chamberlain. They were 1 surprised at the criticism of i1 it ves by tie United states Jve mount. In i Chamberlain s speech was simple Lely unexpected and it came a i m it when nazis were Eon jail inti. Themselves Flat the Lead-1 european democracies had a cent Quot i Hitler s absorption of the without a murmur of protest. dismissed the recall of n vile Henderson the British Cassador Here As a routine move j lie mum report to his government phut attitude was impossible now was expected that Hitler would Quot graph orders for the recall of a Ibert von Dierksen his Ambas a London even before he Rei to Berlin. Mix Robert Hann died in Brazil i John Robert Hann. 67 years old t l father of Arthur Hann of near Pels Tlle died Friday at his Home at p4 West Logan Street Brazil. He f be it it is it cd for a year. He was p a in Danville. 111., and had Reid in Brazil 23 years other rela of Quot who survive Are Hubert of f an. Mich. Floyd of Linton John at Home mrs. Helen Schepper 11 mrs Juanita Ehrlich Brazil f a hair Nicoson of Indianapolis r ploy Hann at Home. I funeral services will be hold a Pas Odence monday afternoon at i .0 i or let conducted by the Rev. R -1n�0 8. Interment will be Ina a Moriah cemetery near Bell Bishop Edgar Blake Bishop Edgar Bilake d. I a l. D. Of Detroit. Michigan will be the guest speaker at Gobin memorial Metho list Church sunday March 19 a it the 16 40 morning worship server a. He will speak upon the theme Quot a Blue print for a new Bishop Blake resident Bishop of the Detroit area and member of the Board of trustees of de Pauw University is one of the most dynamic leaders in the methodist Church today. He is a member of some of the most important commissions of the uniting conference convening in Kansas City april 26th. Thus will be the greatest event in methodism for two Hundred years and the greatest Union of protestant churches that has Ever taken place. Bishop Blake will have much to say about the policies and discipline of the new methodist Church. Rev Claude m. Mcclure will be in charge of the service assisted by or. J. E Porter and or. Harold Zink. Music will be provided by or. Van Denman Thompson and the University Church choir this very important service should be heard by every member and Friend of Gobin memorial Church. United states challenges nazis moved Quot but Short of War to Stop aggression Washington March 18 up a the United states today moved vigorously Quot but Short of War Quot to Cha Leige nazi aggression. Plans which had been formulated to return United states ambassador Hugh it. Wilson to his Post in Berlin were set aside. The three Czecho slovakian provinces Over run by nazi troops went on the United states title Quot Black list Quot at 12 01 a. M. Mail service to what was Czechoslovakia was suspended to permit letter writers to retrieve communications they might not want submitted to the examination of nazi police. Relations were further strained Between Washington and Berlin but there was no threat from either Side to rupture diplomatic relations. That would be close to the extreme of peaceful Protection suggested by president Roosevelt in his annual message to Congress on Jan. 4. A War is not the Only Means of commanding a decent respect for the opinions of he said then. Quot there Are Many methods Short of War but stronger and More effective than Mere words of bringing Home to aggressor governments the aggregate sentiments of our county infirmary Heads to meet county infirmary superintendents and matrons of the West Central District will meet in the City Hall at Crawfordsville on March 30. Counties in the District include Boone Carroll Clay Clinton. Fountain. Hendricks Montgomery Morgan Owen. Parke Putnam Tippecanoe. Vermillion. Vigo and Warren. The morning session will begin at 9 30 and luncheon will be served at noon a Short afternoon session and a tour of inspection of the Montgomery county farm is planned. Commissioners councilmen. Township trustees and any other interested officers or citizens interested in the county infirmary Are invited to attend. These meetings were first held in 1934 and were regarded As training schools for the new superintendents and matrons. Everybody is invited to it Green Axtle net wednesday night for outstanding event. Plans had been completed Here today by the chamber of Commerce and at least i score of co operating merchants to pies int the 1939 Spring opening of Greencastle stores nex wednesday night March 22. Arranged by the chamber of Commerce As an event of Community wide interest All persons in the local trading Are i have been invited to to n with Greencastle residents to visit the downtown Section of the City next week for the unusual feature. Several Hundred persons ure expected to crowd the shopping Section of the City and participate in the novel Spring opening festivities. The unveiling of the various shop windows of cooperating stores at 7 o clock will launch the opening for the new season. The Depauw University band will Lead a Para tie through the City streets to supplement the unveiling of the store windows. Local automobile dealers Are cooperating in the demonstration and ill the latest Model cars in their Bruant array of colors will add to the attractiveness of the Parade following the March through the downtown Section members of the popular Depauw band will g be numerous erections from the court House Square. Considerable interest is being displayed by shoppers in the contest accompany the unveil no of the windows in the Spring opening. Each of the merchants cooperating will give valuable merchandise prizes to the person guessing nearest the actual Selling value of merchandise in the windows in the contest. The contest opens at 7 o clock Anil closes at 9 o clock that evening making it possible for visitors to inspect each window entered in the contest and submit guesses to the stores taking p3rt. The local stores to Ning with the chamber of Commerce in sponsoring the Spring opening will be opened Between the hours of 7 and 9 wednesday evening. This will enable the shoppers to inspect the Fine assortment of new merchandise in the progressive local stores along with giving them an Opportunity to take part in the window unveiling contest the stores will sea their windows of. He contest sometime during the Day wednesday and the unveiling will take place promptly at 7 o clock everybody is invited to come to Greencastle next wednesday even no come Early and stay late and enjoy the outstanding Spring feature. Miss Edna Tyne Bowles head of the voice Depar Migit of the Depauw school of music will appear in a program of music at the Broadway m. E. Lurch in Indianapolis sunday evening at 7 30 of clock. A string ensemble Wall play and miss Bowles will be by mrs. John English organist of the Church. Greencastle follows cub five to meet hundreds from Beitf. Go to Indian Polis for semifinal tourney leave Here Early today loyalty it to coach Glynn Devn it an to per cd us sex ired on every hand Bridge bombed this is the Frontier Bridge connecting Bratislava. Czecho Slov Alcia with Germany where a bomb exploded during the anti czech demonstrations in which six were killed. Explosions were believed aimed to give Germany an excuse to Send troops Quot to restore rejects enlarging a a social Security wig ambling crusade continued Gary ind. March 1.�?<up>8 As the trial Date on contempt of court charges against three officers of the Gary Post Tribune was set yesterday for March 30, the paid or resumed its anti gambling Campaign with a front Page editorial. Contempt of court charges have been lodged against j. R. And h. B. Snyder publisher and editor and a. Myron Harris managing editor by City judge William Fletcher. Fletcher termed As contempt an editorial printed wednesday which criticized his handling of gambling cases. Or. Martin accepts position for summer or. Walter e. Martin assistant professor of zoology at Depauw University has accepted a position As Junior on Marine invertebrate zoology at the Marine biological Laboratory Woods Hole. Massachusetts for this summer. There Are six senior instructors and two Junior instructors at Woods Hole which is one of the important research centers in the Field of zoology. In offering the position to or. Martin or. T. H. Bissonnette in charge wrote a we feel that your research activity interest in the m. B l. And in the course when you took it and your ability to work harmoniously with the rest of the staff Are Large factors in our reserves mobilized Pretoria South Africa. March 18 up a urgent orders have been issued mobilizing All South african police reserves including europeans. Asiatics and africans it was Learned today. Asked to extend immediate payment to �,000,000 workers Washington March 18 it up it a immediate Extension of social Security benefits to 6,000,000 Domestic agricultural and religious institution workers has been rejected unanimously by the House ways and Means committee which is considering revisions in the Law. Suggestions that the act be amended to embrace such workers were made by the social Security Board. The group s action was one of three developments touching the question of Pona Ion s. John t. Flynn economist and writer attacked As a be lab rate fict4on�?o the proposed $47,000,000.000 full Security Reserve fund planned by the administration an l pro listed that the Money would to spent for battleships patronage projects and general Federal expenses. The committee questioned Flynn extensively. He used Federal statistics to show that by 1980 the government will have collected $111,000,000.000 in taxes under the Law and will have a d out Only about 57 per cent of it the remainder he stated will be used for other purposes. Students give Keu ital two of Herman bergs violin students give tin Depauw c Hapel program Friday. They were Lucich Blayney. Senior and Kathleen Corbin Sophomore miss Blayney who can always let a relied upon to give a Good performance played three sharply-contrasting1 numbers that won unqualified approval by her audience. The program was opened by miss Corbin playing a Siciliano Rig Audone by Francoer Kreisler. Both students Are members of professor bergs string symphony. Instructions sent throughout Italy o v told Pei How to act during air raid drills Reserve officers called Rome. March 18�?iup instructions were sent throughout Italy today telling the people How to act during air raid drills and it was reported persistently that Reserve officers were being called to the colors. Every fifth Street Light in Rome was painted Blue in preparation for Quot Black outs Quot expected to Start in the next night or two. During air a d drills and in War time except after an air raid alarm when cities Iare darkened completely the Blue lights Are left on to afford a slight measure of visibility. 2ft years ago in a a babes Conklin a a former baseball was to coach the Depauw nine having been allowed time off for that purpose by the Zinc Mill manager. Harry Collins was struck by an automobile and suffered a slight concussion. He was Riding in a horse drawn cart and the animal and vehicle were dragged some distance by the automobile. Constables we i i is fight for Speed thai s South Bend ind. March is. Northern Indiana constables and justices of peace Gin led today for a Battle to invalidate the 1939 ant Speed trap Law. Justices of be ice and constables were stripped of their Power in traffic violation arrests and trials under enactments by the recent general Assembly. Joseph e Talbott attorney for the demonstrators expressed belief the statute was unconstitutional since it deprives justices f peace ind constables of authority it sted in them by the state Constitution game Warden does not accept theory Victor Walter v Xii not less than �?T�?T7.000 fish escaped from Lake Victor Walter Putnam county game Warden who has been in close touch with the Thomas Lake project from the time of its inception said thursday evening that he cannot accept the theory that the collapse of straights of Magellan we the dam at the Lake this week had Back towards Home. We i Creer Castle Community was solid in its support of the Tiger Cus to a Day. We n net charges of coach j Glynn Downey went to these Ai final j tournament in. Indian Polk i the cubs winners of the Section Al and regional tourneys in this City. 1 this afternoon at 2 of clock seek to i continue their drive for of state honors. Anderson indians conquered once by the Greencastle club this a n pro vide the opposition in t tourney Ope no. J approximately 700 Greencastle j fans purchased tickets in Advance for i the net classic and this crowd plus j Many others counting on getting ducats at the tech Gate began emptying the City Early this morning. Cars loaded with Loyal cub boosters lined the highways out of the City. Special traction cars also were loaded with basketball fans Bent on seeing the Cuba carry the purple and Grev colors to Victory Over Anderson. The distinction of being a Good sail Many other .od.in.th0.nvoo cub supporters took to bus Anil train while Many c the younger set were Hutcheson Are enjoying cruise local i couple Good sailors on 56-Day trip plan return april 1 on goes to or. And mrs. W. R. Hutcheson local residents now on a world cruise who report to friends Back Home that they inv missed a meal or lost one yet in their lengthy Ocean voyage. Their conf ont their a thumb methods of Ven t transport a Tion would get them to the port Tion would get them to the scene of Batth on time. The cubs were the Foremost in All on about april 1 the Hutcheson Dircus dons in this common today will return to new York on the that was not Yunusi Al. Tor the talk grip Holm. Ocean going vessel of the in the shops in the Street in the swedish american line to Complete schools and in the Horn had been their 56-Day cruise. They Are ex-1 the cubs for a. Loyalty to the ceded to visit the worlds fair in cubs was exp used on every Side. New York for a few Days before re it we assured that the Greencastle turning to Greencastle. I fans were s idly behind their team a letter sent to the daily Banner c0fch. From Rio de Janeiro when the local a los afternoons lineup George couple stopped there March 9. Fol Raylor and Donal i Finzler. Forward own. And guard respectively Are the vet Erans of last years Tiger cub team which went to the Semi final tourney in Indianapolis. They Are capable assisted by Ben a Don. Cent Raymond York guard an 1. Johnnie Koessler Forward whom coach i Downey has seen develop into a Fine i working Combina n this season. ,. Thought per re Sorvo Atron i. The local men its Start with the s Oping of the Buenos Aires in Argentine wad the water through the groundhog Bur most Beautiful City we have Ever rows which perforated the dam. The 8ren Anco then month vedic in Ura-1 former roadbed of the b g four rail Guay. But when we came to Rio de through under fir , in All directions Janeiro we changed our minds. A a Crown of ,-00 we a certain at a yesterday we had some wonderful the games. The Tiger cubs Are Hope a a few lines to let you know How to Are getting along. We feel like to Are almost Home now As South America is a Long country and after visiting the most Southern City a puerto Arenas i in the world on the started tor was count g or Flovil Goodman a Howard Luis d cd Coffey de York land Carroll Hammond to come Ful of giving this multitude of basketball follower.0 r thrill by dropping or. Walter announced that works Progress admin stration labourers r rips going up it Corcovado on a will Start at me rebuilding the dam cog route train part Way by elevator not inter than monday. This info 2300 feet to a statue of Christ. 100 the indians and then going through motion came to him from h. I. Oldham. District supervisor of vipa. Federal engineers hive planned a sugar Loi f in Llie Cage and Basket new Structure on the site of the old. Which will utilize what is left of the old for the main port. But the spillway will be equipped with a Gate by which the level of the water Back of the dam can be reduced if advisable either to take care of excess inflow from rain fall or to permit a partial dra Ning of the Lake for cleaning or other purposes. In addition to the improved form of the spillway. Or. Walter said the new dim will be thicker to provide greater resistance to the outward push of the impounded water. It Wittl have a base More than a Hundred feet thick. A much lower estimate of the amount of damage caused by the Rush of the Csop no Waters As it rushed Down the Snake Creek Bottom through Happy hollow past the Fern Cliffs was made by or Walter than others had reported. He spoke of com stalks lodged against fences As the most prominent evidence now that there had been an overflow of the land. Or Walter said not a less than 27 -000 Young fish escaped when the dam gave Way. These were principally the minnows which have Iven placed in the Lake this year but along with the minnows were a a considerable number of 8-�?Tnrh Bass and some larger which were transferred there when the Bottom fell out of e. R. Feet High. Thu statue Cost $240,000 the Winner of tin Franklin aun a today we Are going to the top of tilt in the finals saturday night. Ine cubs will do All in their Power to Urke tournament an As the a we like the cast coast better than Peru or Chile. Chile 1� More like Switzerland but any Way to Are having a Good time and both Are Well. We have not missed a meal a or lost one yet. The trip of 1 400 Miles Down from Valparaiso was rough but we got along Fine. Must hurry to get this letter off by air mail. A with Best wishes to All of our or. And mrs Hutcheson local Lodge to be hosts at meet a ocal players a of birr Vood Thev will in 1 is on hand in 1 a ing them to the limit. I the hard Gre Natalle fibres Back l. Mor to be x Nepal old Sun Day District meeting of Odd Fellows to be held March 21st funeral services we Russellville Christian afternoon at 2 of clock Login Morris funner occurred thursday e Home West of Milliga bom in Putnam county the son o Jacob w. And Ilary Jane morn to deceased had devoted not of i be h d at the a Hui h sunday Quot Charles i Ose death in at his f life to farming anti for a number of years was a resident of Kansas having returned to this Community Only recently. He was a member of the Waveland Christian Church. Putnam Lodge no. 45 Independent surviving Are the widow one Ion order of Odd Fellows will be hosts to a pm. Of East Chicago two a tra Illo District meeting to be held in mrs. Alice Wood rum of Roach e Greencastle on March 21st. Al seven Nunci miss Mac Morris and a Niimd thirty o clock the second meeting of daughter Mai Ann Morris the year will to held in Greencastle the fun. 1 server Quot will in in on March 21st in Putnam Lodge Hall charge of i v air Elln the pm a this meeting is being planned for ment will be at the old Surg Over a Hundred members from Clay and Putnam counties. D strict lodges represent will be Brazil. Cloy City Cory Ashboro Bart eyes Pond in Madison township. Coalmont. Carbon Harmony. Bowl and others which were rescued by ing Green Fillmore it. Meridian. Game wardens from pools left by the receding High water following floods in this Vicinity. New Bridge open the state h Shway commission u announcement of detours in effect on state roads this morning indicates uie new Bridge or. Road 40 at the West Side of Stiles Volle and also the use of both lanes on the same Road frown five Miles West to three Miles East of Stiles Volle Are open to the Public. Russellville and Greencastle lodges. Cemetery. 0 0 0 0 0 .0 a 0 0 0 0 0 today a wac her 0 0 and. A it 0 local temperature 0 Generali fair in North Cloudy in South portion warmer sunday. The will be degree work in the third a degree. H. N. Moss of Ashboro pro a. Silent of the District will press de at the meeting ass sled by l r concely of this City a special business will be brought before the District at this meet no. The committee from Putnam Lodge has planned a special entertainment As Well Aser Largi feast after the meeting. All Odd Fellows Are welcomed to this meeting. Minimum 6 a. M. 7 a. M. 8 a. M. 0 a. M. 10 a. M. 11 m. 21 24 25 c5 2525

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