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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - March 25, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA the it Chuck Lse Quot Quot Coue u a the daily b a nnet1 a it Waves for ally a a a a a a a a a a a a a 0 a press service All the Home news j j Kex it by seven payers Iii Confer on school Greencastle Indiana saturday March 25, 1939. No. 137 of town. F a or to Mph monday 1 evening its easily corrected a Abo i Tkv a it it Al concerning to Tohl Cost Arne Quirck repairs. I Vors s Franklin township i in monday evening at i o clock to Confer on the Situ developing from the recent con la in part of the Roach Dolc the taxpayer met i by Lay and were addressed by or Slid Quot of the state fire lament and inspector Rockwell l 5ta ,. Industries Board. That earlier meeting the state a told the taxpayers that the pre-1 by iding is Quot basically sound. Lid easily be oot i the i ting next monday mation is expected concerning probable Cost of the required returns the changes detailed by the sedative of the state fire de want Are the tearing away of .1 pkg the older portion of the build lid the placing of additional sup a under the Assembly room to eat further sagging of the floor. I of roof drains windows and a Are specified. Seme repair i and further bracing of outer i also included in the list of Jat Mcnary work. Lector sheerer is quoted As a a that in his belief the deter or i of the Clio >1 building has been a to i lie Lack of proper care. The no of the foundation he Attri hit is reported to either the big of Tho subsoil or an i pro unix of the. Concrete at the time foundation was poured Twenty i ago. Election Jules Jeanneney 75. President of fhe French Senate who is a candidate for the French presidency at the election on april 6. He is against appeasement and sternly scored the Munich pact. Far an changed to simple youth isl n t Iii \ g was what had changed him to Savage killer property owners find taxes higher Only Folk taxing units do not have larger payments due to two factors increased expenditure for local poor Relief and county Kate increase Are Causen property owners from All taxing units of Putnam county with the exception of four Are having to pay larger amounts in payment of their taxes this year than they did last Yea generally speaking this increase is due to increases in two factors which enter into the making of the total rate for taxes payable in the various units. These two factors arc increased expenditure for local poor Relief and the increase in the county rate. In most of the individual units there Are other items also which help make the tax payments larger. The total levies on which taxes Are being collected this year on property in the respective tax paying units of Tho county compared with the corresponding levies for last year Are As follows escape of Sam Wheeler from old jail adds to Glamor of Bastile anew military Alliance it was asserted judge s wife mrs. William o. Douglas blonde Bluc eyed wife of the newly named us i it reme court Justice. Doug ases were married when High school teachers in Washington. But. When the officer went to feed Tho prisoner Tho next morning he was gone again. After searching awhile the sheriff went Clown into the basement of the sheriff s residence adjoining Tho jail on the West i and there he found the solution at Tho mystery. Phantom jewel Thiel captured Ian Aba smelt Jamboree 8chki>l i i it april is to 15 can Aba mich., March 25. Borate Prepa ration Are being f for the fifth annual Escanaba it Jamboree to be held on apr 0 15 in this widely publicized re Community in the upper pc in 1 of Michigan. Spawning run of the Silvery it is expected to Start about april ind should be at its Peak during three Day festival which attracts Aldreds of visitors annually from arts of the Middle West. Jere Jamboree event this year will the staging of a smelt and All hip an food products dinner in one Dona dining rooms in Kington d. C., thursday even i april for congressmen fed i officials and capital newspaper lers and cameramen. With about a dozen streams within 5mue radius Escanaba has by widely known As the National it capital list Spring More than Pusan it i tens of the Silvery fish harvested in this area by the i rods who went out nightly with r dipnet8. Cody wyo., March 25. Up the undertaker shaved the Beard and shingled the unkept hair today and made Tarzan Durand i Savage who ate raw meat and killed five men into Plain Earl Durand 26. A simple non led youth who had a bad dream and never woke up. The National guard hauled its howitzers out of the Bear tooth mountains an too men came behind in breeching their rifles. The Hunt was Over. Tarzan bearded woodsman killer of Man and beast was dead. Ami even his parents were glad. To the natives of this ranch country who had known Durand All his life the i understandable thing was Roachdale town what had changed him in an instant Russellville town from an open handed youth who a the state rate loved the outdoors and this wild a Mains 15 cents this year but the tax Clinton twp. Cloverdale twp. Floyd twp. Franklin twp. Greencastle twp. Jackson twp. Jefferson twp. Madison twp. Marion twp. Monroe twp. Russell twp. Warren twp. Washington twp. Bainbridge town Cloverdale town. Greencastle City. 1938 1939 $2.65 $2 00 1.91 2.08 1.51 1 96 1.60 1.79 1.73 2.09 1.56 2.08 2.00 1.97 1 65 2.09 1.51 1.73 2.09 1.83 1.96 2.20 1.74 1.86 1.63 1.94 2.74 2.36 2.41 2.68 2.62 3.00 2 54 3.04 2.60 2.74 d by Law re Mountain country who had Felt confined Aven when he was in a House into a Savoga killer. Until eight Days ago to had had no reputation a an Untra Tawe person or As a a bad not a invites a it Mil a delegation a i Arfst Hungary March 25. R1�?T Hun iry has invited Slop to sind a delegation to Furiato discuss termination of Boa pcs in tin a a Pratho Ukraine front a. It announced today. A 1 Dent la it waa in Anttn i off in int Sivak air planes pc Star a lamed the undefended Frontier cities of Yngvar Rosz Yno and jpy Dcrenza and that the Hungar hot Down seven slovak planes. A was asserted that in retaliation the bombing of the three cities. Fiary an planes yesterday bombed Airport of the slovak City of Iglo. A b. 11anna kites to be held sunday afternoon lust rites for Andrew b. Hanna widely known citizen of Greencastle Anil Putnam county who died Friday will be held sunday afternoon at 1 30 of clock at the masonic Temple. Services will be conducted by the knights Templar and the Rev. V. L. Raphael pastor of the presbyterian Church interment will be made in Forest Hill cemetery. Chamber of Commerce ofic i is reelected k. I. Mullins druggist was reelected president of the Greencastle chamber of Commerce and other officers of the past year were renamed when directors of Tho organization net Friday at a luncheon meeting at tin College inn. Others chosen for another years c a include e. A. Browning vice president Sam Hanna treasurer Charles Mcgaughey Secretary. Fishermen not having much Luck Ami Warden checked hitch a slav afternoon All had licenses pave a Over the county in All taxing units Are feeling the Sharp increase in the total county Levy. That rate last year was 63 cents but this year it is 86 cents. Entering into this increase is the boosting of the county general fund Levy from 13 cents last year to 50 cents this year which is a jump of 37 cents in that fund but that increase is offset somewhat by the reduction in the county welfare fund Levy from 29 cents last year to 15 cents this year. The other county levies remain the same. Out in the townships. Clinton y township has a very noticeable do crease in its township rate. Last year the township levies aggregated $1.87 hut this year they total cents. Decreases in Shailer amounts Are noted in Cloverdale township. Car stolen f a a Lawrence Graham was no at 10 o clock Friday night that Chastain a Buick automobile stolen game thursday afternoon Warden Victor Walter checked 42 fishermen horn2 of them Fishe women. However on the. Banks of big Walnut Creek from the water works southward Down into Washington said movie stars trouble by haying Many jewels i Nite too san Francisco March 25 up1 Ralph Graham. 200 Pound phantom Quot jewel thief identified As a murder suspect in Florida said today that Hollywood movie stars invite trouble by having More jewels than they can use. A these movie people pay fancy prices for their jewel \ Wear it a few times and then get tired of it a he said. A a it Sall insure i so they leave it kicking around any place you done to have to have any inside help on these Graham insisted h himself had not raided any exclusive Hollywood Homes As claimed. Hot said he merely acted As an agent for a gang responsible for the theft of jewels in the los Angeles area totalling More than a million dollars in the past four or live years. Police scoffed it grahams denial of actual robberies and said they would Fly him South to los Angeles today for questioning on the thefts and about names found in a a Little Black with the arrest of grahams wife. Charlotte in Venice cab. And her son by a previous marriage Robert Graham 21, police announced they had found a Litzlb Black Book containing the Nanu not it of Peivi no possibly connected with a jewel theft ring. Arrest of mrs. Graham and her son brought to four the number held with Graham for investigation so far into the thefts. Frank cat or outside whose san Francisco jewelry Tore Graham was arrested in a 90 fistfight with pawnshop detail officers. Was held As the asserted a Morris Wassermann. Hollywood jeweler booked with others in los iving a ting stories of Tho old jail continue to be told and persons who hear them Aro beginning to think there was quite a bit of Glamour about the for bidding looking county Bastile. After All. One tale which has just come to the surface after being quiescent More than thirty yearn concerns the escape of Sam Wheeler who excavated a Hole in the floor of the Dungeon and crawled to Freedom. It happened july 31. 1907. David Maze was sheriff. Wheeler had been put in Tho Dungeon by City police for intoxication. When City officers Stone and Grimes the next Day took another Man to jail Ami opened the Dungeon to receive the new Boarder they found that Wheeler Wasny to there. The Dungeon was known to be an unsafe place to keep desperate criminals but it was used frequently for City prisoners most of them put there on intoxication charges. Its i unsafe Ness was due to the fact that of a Una a himself out in the open. One of the Large stones forming the several Days before that. Wheeler floor had been taken up when work had told mrs. Maze that in scrubbing was done on pipes under the floor the floor of Tho Dungeon he had found and had never been replaced solidly a Hole. She told him a Man had dug under the Dungeon floor was an old a Hole in the partition Wall at that Cistern. Place several months before and had at the time the officers discovered escaped but that the Hole had been the absence of Wheeler they found cemented and no one could get. Out his coat lying beside the Hole in the that Way. However she was Misin floor where the Stone slab had been formed because Wheeler opened up they called him but got no reply and the old Hole and thus secured his the Light from a lamp directed into Freedom through the opening made tie cavity revealed on Trace of him. And used by the other Man. They gave up the search temporarily. Tradition does not reveal whether however that night sheriff Maze Wheeler was Rio in turd or not japanese consider proposal became worried it having occurred i to him that Wheeler could Havo fallen into the old Cistern. He got out of bed. Dressed and went to look again but when he opened the Dun leaders engaged in urgent Goon door thurs stood the Man in consultations Over Side the cell and unharmed. He told Alliance the sheriff he had crawled Down into tie Hole Ami had gone to sleep. A most democratic policy Wheeler had crawled Down into the Hole under the Dungeon had found a Brick Wall under the partition Wall Between the jail and the residence had pulled out several of the bricks and had escaped into the basement of the residence. He then got through a basement window and Tokyo March 25�?< up it a it Jap Lance leaders Are engaged in urgent consultations Over a German proposal for i Broad German italian Jap no military Alliance against any opposition to her policies by the democracies. It was asserted today in official quarters. Surgeons close a it Dav conference ended with health meeting Friday night open to the Public confesses that he killed wife cfnn1ngi1am is eccentric member. Of prominent Oklahoma family Franklin township and Jefferson township. Monroe drops from $1.31 Angelen in u i on of a last year to 82 cents this year. Stolen prop try. To an Intel Bainbridge town reduces from Dory of Ealim with Graham he $1.31 last year to 82 cents this year Aid he first bought jewel from him Greencastle township jumps from 95 two years ago in an outright transcends last year to $1.16 this year. Action and then had been forced. The four units which have decrease when he Learned i f the illicit source in in the total rate collectible on i if them to act As a Fence for him. This property Are Clinton. Jefferson and Momoe townships and Bainbridge town. Graham forced him. He said under threat of expo or to peddle at least $100,000 Worth if stolen loot proc the increases in the tax levies in ious stones and expensive baubles All but four of the taxing units of taken from Horn a in tile a exclusive the county Are reflected in the Fig-1 Bel air District a los Angeles. He urea presented in the abstract of sold them he s Quot i in new York City township finding All with licenses taxes for the two respective years the abstract is a statement prepared in the office of the county auditor showing the amounts of the funds which arc expected to be produced by the respective levies of taxes the Cost match amount which was expected to be raised by t la levies in the entire county last year for All purposes was $436,606.82. The estimate of the grand total for the county. Now being paid to the county treasurer in current taxes is $489 them All Happy and 222.01. An increase this year Over but not All having in Roachdale that wh1t he called Luck. Or not in and the help of the offi fun Jing it was asked. It is a i ten �?T��7 Model License no. R2. Do theft was broadcast p. The state police Barracks at of Navilio saturday the presence i a Jalo of some boys who did f gang there during the Day was minered a f,lo5 with the pos8 Bly to have some con disappearance of them tsp Vav risk to be Quot Kkt state Board of tax commis put has sent work to the auditor i Nam county Gilbert e. Ogles. Ill a representative of that Board l Al the auditors office cd fran Quot re 1 to hear Remon i. F any to the approval of p 1 to Wiship appropriations for May Llo said the happiest of them All was a boy who was using a piece of carpenters Chalk line the Shore end tie to a Willow sprout and the other end tied to n piece of a Brick. There wore two Hooks on the line and he had caught two extra Large suckle r. From that sort of outfit on one i re Remc the equipment ranged to the very elaborate Bass fishing outfits but not alway did the most expensive land the biggest fish he said. Two Hundred and fifty one car old Cirall wore released in Putnam county Friday Gay the eight conservation clubs which received an equal number of the shipment. They were relented it a practically every Section of the county and Are Cid enough to care for themselves in the Way of feeding and avoiding enemies. A Mil turned the proceeds Over to Graham. Indianapolis. Ind. March 2 a a up in a bid for Goodwill the american College of surgeons close i its three Day mid West conference Here last night with a health meeting open to the Public. Lining up eight of ils famed surgeons and speakers the College titled the meeting a health Many women hide a deficiency of Vitan ins when they use paint on the. Fingernails and lips. Or. Charles c. Higgins of Cleveland. O., told persons attending the session. The use of aids by a women has driven the physician to study the blood Stream to determine Lack of vitamins he said. Higgins recommended an a a Ideal diet consisting of a whole meat. Mil it and milk products uncooked vegetables sprouted legumes fresh meats and fruits with an avoidance of which bread Tea. Sugar boded vegetables Margarine tinned meats m l More than 1,000 surgeons and hos Pili 1 officials from six states attended the three Day session during which nationally known surgeons brought Forth the latest in surgical okla science. Cancer Quot take More lives through Cut the world each year a dozen hitlers could possibly asserted or Frank e. Adair of new York. He claimed cancer could be cured if the victims would observe the Quot sufficient Quot warning All cancers give. He urged anyone who observes a sore which will not heal or women who find a Small hard Lump in their breast to visit a physician immediately. 17n Oklahoma City. March 20 up a Roger a. Cunningham eccentric member of a prominent Oklahoma City family confessed Caily today that he strangled his Beautiful informants said that discussions were so bitter that a Cabinet crisis might possibly to precipitated. It was said that at present a majority of leaders were opposed to involving Japan in european matters but w i not willing to abandon the go Man idea unless a better proposition were forthcoming elsewhere. There were indications Here in Well informed quarters that despite the minature yesterday of a japanese Talian cultural pact and other gestures to Germany and Italy Many influential japanese were Luke warm toward the a a Xis and Felt that Germany particularly wanted More than she was prepared to give. One in t important Factor was the Ity for Japan to obtain financial Aid in undertaking the recon i auction of China As it was proposed to do after Tho present War. This Neci sity weighed against any Alliance with Germany and Italy. Information was obtained that r Ert negotiations for a Trade agreement with Germany were fal. By wanted payments in Gold for some of her goods instead of negotiating a barter agreement of goods for goods. Foreign minister Arita was said to be one of tho3e who despite his for a counter proposal for an Alliance limited to the possibility socially prominent wife to death last War with Russia entertained Hope March 6. That some Miro satisfactory solution he directed a sheriffs party tonight be possible than a totalitarian her body which had been buried in a freshly dug sewage ditch Alliance. This alternative would be co opera the body was found face up in a Tion with the United states and four workmen after they had dug great Britain. It was admitted that through several feet of soft Earth in Turre was nothing tangible on which a sewage ditch which had let Een filled to base a Hope for the Success of in March 7, Tho Day after the Worna. alternative just now. Disappeared from her suburban Home. Cunningham according to county prosecutor Lewis Morris said he had a strangled Here a i Don t know Why and had carried her body to the vacant lot through which the sewer ran and a kicked it into the a i must have been he ton Morris after More than two hours of questioning Early today. A it was n hell of a thing to Morris revealed that Cunningham twice had been Hel l for examination at a Hospital for the insane at nor await reply from defense Council Kef Bic ins had been Given time to in Emit leaders to leave fir Emu Llly last year of nearly $53,000 in the following statement of each taxing unit in the county the first figures Are the taxes collectible Fot All purposes in 1938, and the second set of figures Are the taxes expected to he produced this year Canton twp. $21,138.16, $16,691.63 Cloverdale twp., $15,228.39 $16,605.42. Floyd twp. $13.422.38 $17.72592. Franklin twp. $21,143.37 $23. 585.17 Greencastle twp. $65,24648 $80,357.50. Jackson twp., $19.452.49 $25, 727.82. Jefferson twp., $19.694 42 $19,195.50. Madison twp., $17.094.17 $20.901 56 Marlon twp. $32.303.46 $36,13663 Monroe twp., $19,401.14 $17,455.70 t Quot on 11ii if it in l in two in to a Minn its Putnam county latin pupils who wore winners in the local and county meets of the state High school latin contest held recently will compete in the District meet of the contest april 1. Winners of the county meet in the first and second divisions will be entered in Tho District meet As Well As winners of the local meets in the third and fourth divisions us there was no county meet for the last two divisions Tho four divisions represent the various stages in the study of latin. Putnam county meet winners and alternates for the first two divisions Are As follows Nellie Fisher Mary Agnes Spears. Evelyn Skelton and Alice Vanl Imd Ingham Reelsville Dominick Coata Greencastle. Chrystal Hendrich. Bainbridge. Henday. French Spanish front. March 25 up1�?spanish nationalist. Leaders arc awaiting a reply from Tho Republican defense Council n proposals for an immediate end of the civil War and hostilities May cease at any time dispatches to the Frontier said today. A a ill 11 wik a a 11"1117 1 strongly in Dis i Illis patches i by the nationalist and Republican censors the it the nationalists Given the republicans a a reasonable time to permit any Republican loaders who desired to leave Madrid and sick safety abroad before t lie nationalist troops entered. The nationalist government issued or official denial of italian reports that the two named officials of the Madrid government. Wenceslao Carrillo. Interior Minisi and Gen Jose Small fire i Al Art men t Friday it vises Little damage a very Small fire in Hie rear of the Leath rate from cancer of 150. Property on most s Manury 00 in the u. S. Each year could he r Root Friday after Noii Nusum a Cut ill half i i one generation he said. No Pyn a fire department anti also f victims would Hoed the warning broke up a d of club women signs. Tompor drily. Besides attracting the or. Howard Naff Lucr san fran younger population of the pm Media d in. I bingos an Isco president of the american col Vicinity the financial loss was lege of surgeons said the two major Len pm ends in surgery Are chemical ported Early Friday afternoon the firemen took their equipment out on a Call to the Mcfarland property on there will be a special meeting of Lincoln Avenue South of Olive and a Greencastle Lodge no. 1077 b. P. West of co Liege Avenue where grass elks. Saturday evening at 7 15 was burning and causing some alarm o clock to pay tribute to the Andrew b. Hanna. The Crappy or treatment of infections and improvement in the treatment of High blood pressure. Naffziger reported that one surgeon whom he did not identify ache de great decreases in blood pressure in 76 percent of the patients upon whom he operated for hypertension. Reached a i Eure agreement with the Small. Tho manner in which the fire a Quot a quoting. Started was unexplainable it was la notice to elks h e is blamed Washington March 25 up a the British air ministry today blamed ice clogged car curators for the loss at sea Jan. 21 of Imperial airways new York Bermuda flying boat Cavalier. The ministry s conclusions which absolved the Crew of All blame were made in a report an investigation i the Accident which was climaxed by a dramatic Rescue of 10 of the 13 per _ sons aboard the plane. Six of the or. And mrs. J. P. Allen. Jr., eight passengers and four of the Crew misses Ella and Emma Beckwith at 0f five were rescued by the Macri tended the Mccormack Rva ital at can Tanker Esso Baytown after 10 Indianapolis. I hours afloat in the Atlantic Ocean. 20 years ago in Greencastle late As to possible consequences Northwood Gol some More of its dead mss burned Iff late yesterday evening and adjoining property was a a o in it id o protected by the City firemen who @ today a weather were called out about 8 o clock. This a. Wild fire in that part of the City was to q local temperature catch on the West Side of Arlington Avenue on unimproved lots. Commander notice 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a @ showers tonight and sunday colder sunday. A knights Templar will report to the Asylum in Ful-1 in Ferm sunday at 12 45 p. My a to conduct services at the funeral of eminent sir Andrew e Hanna. B. F. Handy comm. Minimum. Quot a 6 a. A. 7 a. A. M 8 a. M. 65 9 a. A 69 10 a. 72 11 a. M. 72

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