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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - March 20, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana0 a Taheb fur at it rare it v 0 Lemk forty five the daily Banner a it Waves for ally a up United toes ser Quot t All the Home. N s 0 a a a p m w to erect new science Hall h he Krison was prom a est news a in Elkman be it e a i it y in my it Are nil i Nile ton and car path terr i Quot a it at ammo Crement a a h. Harrison Hall a new 000 natural science building for a a a a University. Will be added am a hiring the coming it was announced today by Lent Clyde k Wildman. Work 2i�?zg Middle College on whose in new building is to be erected a tart at once. Plans Are nearing Jetton and the Cornerstone for a Hall will be Laid at com nent. It is to be ready for by september of 1940. New building is the gift of the John h Harrison prominent he Illinois newspaper publish to died in 1930. He was an mus of Depauw with the class of and was a member of the Una itys a joint Board of trustees and ors at the time of his death us was made residuary Legatee s estate valued at More than 000 at b ast $250,000 of which a designated for a building. New Hall Wilt House the Lents of psychology zoology by and botany. It will be of late colonial Type of architect which has been adopted by Theirren Rucastle Indiana monday 20, Liki. Night 1 12 donor of new Hall one killed in Accident on Road 43 Putnam county s 1939 beat ii toll rises companion critically injured w. C. Davis was killed Young woman of Kloi ii in hoi pm tel with serious injuries from wreck John ii. Harrison clubs lose to Anderson were complimented by the Large following for Tiisik performance despite their loss to the Anderson indians in the Semi final basketball tournament at Indianapolis saturday afternoon the Greencastle Tiger cubs today were complimented by a Large following for their performance in tourney play. Coach Glynn Downey a boys gave the Mammoth crowd of net enthusiasts a great demonstration in the favorite Hoosier sport for More than three quarters before a last period spurt put the indians out in front 32 to 25. The tribe from Anderson Ersita for All future Depauw v it will have three stories to hav Ltd spent a Quot a a tricks the ground. The third floor Given Over to the department by cology to hts second floor to Ami the first floor and id floor to botany and geology. Middle College one of the is landmarks erected in 1884 at time tie University expanded go the gift of Washington c. Us. Has not been in general use lass rooms since it was abandoning. At the present time the apartment has been using the floor and prior to that it housed Tennial development fund of Art classes will be moved to Lusic school Annex. New building will face Larra treet on the South and the West a us quadrangle on the North. In Ion to Middle College the Unity garage and the old heating will also be razed to make a e new building. Harrison whose name the new Jing honors was a native of inhaling been born at Lebanon inner 0, 1863. After attend Depauw he worked on the staff a Fath in a newspaper and later i to newspaper Field for him he is Best known for his work Isoli Biating the four newspapers Anville. Illinois and developing Fonn racial news from a circular of 900 to More than 25.000. Was a National record for circa a in a town of its size. Hair Sony a life was character by Many philanthropies and Juris lifetime he presented the City Anville with its City Park and a try club. His widow who now in Evanston Illinois was also by paper worker and Magazine or she has cooperated closely Depauw in carrying out her in a wishes in the matter of hew building for the Campus announcing that work would be cd or Harrison Hall immediate Fregi Dent Wildman said a is indeed fitting that the Corone for this memorial to a alumnus should be Laid at action time. Depauw will be ing her 100th commencement be. Two years ago the uni or observed a great Centennial a ago Depauw conducted a Suc gtd uen Donnial development fund now Vve Are entered upon our 1 Century and this building sex Jiffies Dopa we a next step for into in expanded educational i i c. I i tote or alumni and Friend can take the fact that this new build. Tho rift of an alumnus. Our is can take Pride in the fact or. Harrison served on their 1 Dur students can take Pride or. Harrison was once a it fun this Campus and our fac Wili be grateful for this Shenean which offers the departments up this new Structure greatly facilities. A those who knew or Harrison a to l the serve a a whack he a Depauw throughout his it a Depauw in turn will end a to make of Harrisan Hall a to his memory and a tribute things for which he and Energy against Greencastle. For saturday night the cunning Ness of Archie child s boys failed against the Franklin grizzly cubs. Franklin. Who had won Over Aurora in a thriller in the afternoon outscored Anderson 16 to 13, to win the tourney and a place in the a big four a at the state finals. The Tiger cubs got off to a Good Start against the redskins with George Taylor dropping in a Basket from out in the court. Then Carl hover Rale retaliated for the tribe to knot the score but Taylor connected again to return the Lead to the Greencastle club. Hovermale again sniped one from afield to tie the score at 4-All, and Klee dropped in a fielder and Pate a foul goal to give Anderson a 7 to 6 Lead at the end of the initial Quarter. Raymond York started the scoring in the second period from out in the floor to bring the cubs within one Point of their Indian rivals. Klee a came through to answer Chadds prayer from the Bench but Taylor tallied to keep the Downey netters on the heels of the Anderson outfit Ora Davis big Center was next to count followed closely by Klee and the indians took a five Point Edge. Ben Hanlon started closing the Gap by connecting for two Points from the free throw line and a Basket at close Range. It seemed to he Andersons time at the rim and Pate was the one to it. Don Fraizer took aim at the netting from out beyond the foul line and his shot was Good. Anderson at the half held the Edge by the thinnest possible margin 17 to 16. The third period was just another round of that excitement which caused the heart to pump at top Speed faces to flush and turn the 4,500 spectators into a highly keyed mass of basketball fans. Each team was battling with All its might for the Lead and a Chance to sprint to the finish. Johnnie Koessler was awarded a free throw to open the third round anti he made Good the attempt to deadlock the fight at 17-17. Pate got Loose under the Indian Basket and connected to put the redskins ahead. 19 to 17. Ben Hanlon found the hoop to even up the score. Frank Klee came through at this thrilling moment with a Basket to give Anderson a 21 to 19 Lead. Klee s hot Streak carried Over to the fourth period and he opened up the final round with an easy shot under the netting Hanlon hit again for Greencastle and it looked like the Sce saw affair was Back in running order. Frazier s shot from the free throw Mark was Good and Andersons Lead was Cut Down to one Point. 23 to 22. Yates had an under the Basket shot and made it and Frazier tallied again when an Indian committed a personal foul. Ora Davis was rushed Back into the Anderson line up. And his return set up the continues on pos Fourl another Mark was chalked up to a Day in Putnam county a 1939 edition of a death on the Highway a the week end victim was 23-year-old Wilbur Clark Davis. 2309 Carrollton Avenue. Indianapolis. The Young Man met sudden death late saturday night when his automobile went out of control and crashed into a Concrete Culvert on state Road 43. The fatal mishap occurred where the state Highway curves a Short distance North of Cloven Lale. Miss Emil Sargent 32 years old of Linton was Riding with Davis in a new 1939 Hudson Coupe. The woman was critically injured and pushed to Putnam county Hospital in this City for emergency treatment. Howard Williams of this City who was at the scene of the Accident soon after the mishap brought miss Sargent to the Hospital in his car. She suffered possible fractures to both legs serious cuts and bruises to the body and head and possible internal injuries. The terrific Force that the new Coupe hit the Culvert was shown in the wreckage of the automobile. The left Side of the car. The Side striking the Concrete upright was forced through the Strong steel Frame work to the opposite Side of the automobile. The Davis car was travelling North at the time of the fatal crash and it was believed that the couple was in route to Indianapolis from Linton. Officers Walter Howard Ned Woodward and it ufus Finney of the Putnamville Barracks of Indiana state police and sheriff Lawrence Graham were at the scene to investigate the Accident. Coroner Russell Shannon said Davis was killed instantly a broken neck internal injuries leg Ami Arm fractures causing his death. The crash victim is survived by the widow mrs. Thelma Davis of Indianapolis and his parents or. And mrs. Daniel c. Davis of Indianapolis. He was employed by an electrical company in Indianapolis. His body was returned to Indianapolis sunday afternoon for funeral services. Entry recorded in civil suit divorce Hitt was filed in february 1927 and granted in april attempt to unite Russia with England plunge into series of con Erenies with diplomatic leaders a Stop Hitler Camparan Hitler s Empire three stages of Germany in 25 years Are illustrated in this map. Dotted line show pre War Germany Diagonal shading indicating the areas occupied by her then but taken away after the War. Heavy line shows Post War Germany As Laid Down by the Versailles treaty. Stippled areas indicate recent expansion including annexation of Austria Moravia Bohemia and Slovakia. Four involved in wreck sunday men taken to penal farm women Are in Putnam county Hospital in a 8mash-up of an automobile 150 Yards Oist of the state police Barracks on the National Road at 4 o clock sunday afternoon two women from Indianapolis were Hurt and two men also from Indianapolis escaped injury but were placed in the lock up at the state penal farm the men Are negroes and one of the women is of the same race but it is claimed the other woman who wus the worst Hurt is White the women were taken to the Putnam county Hospital. The Driver of the car which was wrecked is Albert Miller 49 years old and he will be charged in the Putnam court with driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated anti the other Man will have a charge of Public intoxication placed against him. State police from the Putnamville Barracks made the investigation and the arrests. The car was headed East and turned Over on a curve getting out of the control of the Driver because of the High Speed it is said. It rolled Over several times and was badly damaged. The party had been in Terre haute and were returning to their Indianapolis Homes. Douglas named i of supreme uni it be a get 11 Washington March 20. It up it president Roosevelt today nominated William o. Douglas As associate Justice of the supreme court to succeed Louis Dembitz Brand is who resigned. The president sent the nomination of Douglas no is now chairman of the securities Exchange commission to the Senate for confirmation. Services held for mrs. Hit taker had been ill for a St sex eral months. I i \ s held monday annual meeting planned tonight ambassador recalled Berlin March 20,�? up a a count Johannes von Welcheck German ambassador to parts has been recalled a for it was announced today. The oldest civil suit remaining in the Putnam circuit court docket received another entry monday. It is the divorce suit of Evah Wallace against Herman Wallace Cloverdale route filed february 15, 1927, in which the divorce was granted the plaintiff april 27, of the same year at the time the couple had a daughter 22 months old. And the father was ordered by the court to pay $4 weekly for the support of that daughter. The complaint filed monday says that daughter is now 13 years old in school and needs the Money the father was ordered to pay for her maintenance that $800 has been paid and that $1700 is now unpaid. The complaint also avers the father has been married and divorced twice since the Date of Evah Wallace a divorce from him is now single is but 32 years old is Able bodied and o a Pable of making the payments ordered. M. J. Murphy is attorney for the plaintiff. Expect attendance at beef cattle Toi k county farm agent David Grimes expects a Large attendance of beef cattle men of the county to participate in the beef cattle tour which will Start Friday this week at 9 o clock in the morning at the Webb Evans farm North of Greencastle on state Road 43. P. T Brown of Purdue will be the lecturer on the trip tha farms to be visited in succession Are those of Hall amp Evans Mort Smith. Warren Caywood Ralph Clodfelter Bruce Lane Earl Suther Lin and Claud Crosby if possible these will All be visited during the Forenoon but if necessary the final visit will be made after the noon luncheon at Ujj amp or sat the intersection of roads 36 and 43. Or Brown will talk to the members of the tour at the luncheon hour. Chamber of Commerce dinner scheduled in the m. E. Church a Large crowd is expected to attend the annual Greencastle Cham it or of Commerce dinner meeting at 6 30 of clock this evening in Gobin memorial methodist Church. William r Allen personnel director of l. Sayres in Indianapolis will be principal speaker at tonight s gathering. Or Allen is widely known As an authority in his Field. Hts topic this evening will be a current personnel last Spring or. Allen appeared in this City As one of the leading speakers at the Panal a cushions held at Depauw University officers for the ensuing year will lie elected at a Brief business session at the meeting. Funeral services were held monday morning at in of clock from the Chastain funeral Home in Rochdale for mrs Cora Ethel Whittaker wife of George Whittaker who died at the faintly Home North East of Bainbridge saturday. The services were in charge of the Rev. Samuel Smith of Indianapolis. Burial was in the Roachdale cemetery. Mrs Whittaker a death was due to a complication of diseases from which she had suffered for the past several months. Deceased was born in Pulaski county. Kentucky june 24, 1897, and was the daughter of Elija and Mary Catherine Woodall. She i survived by the husband her father three daughters mrs. Marie o Blair mrs. Irene Saylor and Ethel f Whittaker six Broth is and two Sisters. 4 or i it court notes rocked plane is investigated took Heye Kal instruments from the twisted control Cabin greatest interest i enters on at t i Iulo of Kihnu 11 it in a moving that Way London. M Rich 20 up great Wiitam s Cabinet Kiihul today to make an intensive Effort to bring soviet Russia into a Al rms a United front against Adolf Hitler. Prime minister Neville Chamberlain government plunged into a series of conferences with British political leaders and foreign diplomatic representatives which appeared constantly to be widening the scope of the a Stop Hitler Campaign. Greatest interest for the moment entered on the attitude of soviet Russia which boasted last week of a red army of 2.500,000 men and toward which diplomats have feared the nazis were moving by Way of Hungary Rumania the polish corridor Ami the autonomous Little lithuanian state of Memel. A preliminary and close discussions with Ivon Mai sky the russian ambassador regarding the situation in All of its aspects May be expected to continue a a government spokesman said in the first official utterance even admitting that efforts were being concentrated on russians attitude. Before and after the Cabinet meeting the conservative government leaders consulted with sir Archibald Sinclair Leader of the Liberal party Clement Attlee Leader of t a labor Seattie. Wash., March 20. A up die civil aeronautics authority directed an investigation today into the mid air demolition of a $500,000 Boeing sub stratosphere a transport which killed 10 persons Frank Caldwell chief of the authority s investigating Board took several instruments from the plane s a opposition v. V Tillea. The rumanian twisted control Cabin but said no min Beer sir Erie Phipps the Brit at 9 o clock monday morning the put tim circuit court began its application of its new rules for the conducting of the court As regards the introduction of motions petitions and so on. Judge Gillen called the Roll of the 18 or 19 Active members of the Putnam bar. Instead of calling the docket of cases. There were but seven of the attorneys present an 1 some of them had no new business but others had several items to present to the court. At the conclusion of the calling of the list of members of the bar judge Gillen Oleo it 1 the docket with a snap and announced a thus end eth the Reading a Glenn h. Lyon trustee is. Myrtle e. Garton. Foreclosure dismissed. Clue had been found pointing to a cause. Hie prevailing toe def was that the plane lost a Wing while in a Power dive saturday afternoon for the Benefit of a Netherlands air Mission two of whose members were aboard. Eye a stresses said that once disabled. Whether from the Sheering of the Wing or some other structural disability the air liner plunged Dike a dead weight scattering parts Over a wide area. Those aboard were crushed when the Cabin demolished itself on the slopes of it Rainer near the town of Adler. The left Wing was found 150 feet from the main body. The outer port Side motor one of four powering the Craft was wrenched Loose 1,500 feet in the air. The left Laid Sketlon was 50 Yards from the fuselage. Strapped in the two Pilot seats were the bodies of Julius a. Barr. Boeing test Pilot and former Pilot for Madame Chiong Kai Shek in Ghina and a. C. Von Baumhauer of Amsterdam. Holland aeronautics Engineer for the Netherland government. The eight others we re standing in the Cabin weighing 20 tons and built to carry 33 passengers and a Crew of five the plane was being tested prior to the installation of seats for passengers. Ish ambassador to Paris sir n Ville Henderson the British ambassador recalled from Berlin and couty Edward r. Raczynsky the polish ambassador. Lord Halifax also Eon red with King George i. Introduce Hill for railroads would revise reorganization in Kou Dukk to rehabilitation Washington March 20 up a Sena. Burton k. Wheeler d., this weeks weather rain tuesday and probably wednesday and Aji Uin about saturday. Warmer monday with temperature above Normal until wednesday or wednesday night when the weather will become colder warmer again near end of week. Mrs. Wright 87. Passed away today 20 years ago in Greencastle Blue Pruitt sold his property Corner Bloomington and Morton streets for $3,500. Or. And mrs Rex or ask residing in the Ranney House on West Walnut Street heard a baby cry at 10 30 that night and found a baby about 1 mid West Rock products Eom a any Mont. Und Harry 8 i Ruman a. To filed a complaint against William introduced in the Senate today a Bill Newark of this county on a claim a it Ould a Vise Railroad re organi of <140 79 nation procedure to protect investors and Speed rehabilitation of the Railroad Industry. The measure drafted with the cooperation of the interstate Commerce commission and other government officials provided for creation of a three judge Railroad court to expedite reorganizations under a new set of Laws. Wheeler is chairman of the Senate interstate Commerce committee of which Truman is a member. The two senators said in a statement that the measure was designed to a insure the soundness of the financial structures that will emerge from the reorganization process and. Expedite and facilitate the reorganization procedure Berlin. March 20 a up Adolf Hitler consulted with his advisers today on the urgent problem represented in the open hostility of the Western democracies and Russia to his March into Czechoslovakia. Great Britain a formidable a Stop Hitler program and life american 25 per cent Tariff boost against German products startled the nazis and left them in no doubt that this tune there would be no acquiescence to their expansionism it was expected that Hitler would summon the Reich Stag for an Early meeting possibly tomorrow and would report to it on his March into Czechoslovakia and his future intentions. The nazi fuehrer had returned to Berlin last night after n tour of czech areas and stops at Vienna and Linz to a conqueror s Welcome. One Hundred thousand germans had yelled their acclamation to him As they crowded in the Wilhelm Traase before his ornate new chancellery. Field marshal Goering. His right hand Man. Said in the address of Welcome a you receive from the entire German people a pledge which to us is not an empty phrase come what May never to aban Ion the Power and greatness which you have achieved with unique courage. A if envy and jealousy stand before us we shall fact it squarely for it in impossible that the nation which stands behind such a heroic Soldier should itself not be heroic. As a Leader so is a people. A by a Gnu. My fuehrer have made this people free again honorable courageous and great. To maintain and guard Over this is in this hour the oath of All at least that seemed to be the determination of the nazis who assert it re Nti mum in i Flke two m s. Samuel b. Weight Mother of Ouy Wright of tills Tow Tisha a and five others or e p. Wright Bol vide re 111. Joseph Wright Putnamville mrs Charles Heath. Reels Volle Emmons b. Wright of Reols Lue. And Clarence Wright Center Point died at 12 35 today at her Home at Putnamville at the age of 87 years. She had been 111 several weeks with influenza and also with the effects of an attack of apoplexy which occurred earlier. The funeral services will be at the Rector Funell Home at 2 of clock wednesday afternoon with. Interment at Forest Hill cemetery sub month old on their front door step it was warmly dressed and with it Jet to change later was extra clothing and other things j friends May Call at the funeral w needed by babies. There was no note Miyei div and we Fth Sedav in of or other information with the baby. @ c o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 today a weather 0 0 and 0 0 local temperature a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0o000 fair tonight and tuesday somewhat colder to East and South portions tonight rising temperature in Central and North portions tue Day. There Are a few vacancies for Elf a Olinc to be Given by the Putnam county tuberculosis association on wednesday March 22 in the office needed by babies. There wus no note a Homo tuesday and wednesday in a o a county nurse in Hie court til time for the services. House cell 631 for appointment. Minimum 41 6 a. M. Ii 7 a. M. 41 8am 43 9 a. M .47 10 a. M.50 11a to. 52 12 noon. 53 1 p. A. 53 2 p. M. A 53

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