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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - March 27, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA the weather a Arlel it and colder a @ Hume forty seven decide festoon of appeasement a a of of a hither farm Rte receive Benefit payments be farm bloc Strong Mari Ilion of 1 Imd Metod sum oud Creaso difficulties on repealing taxes 4shington. March 27.�? up tal question of Economy Ess appeasement depend on to House vote whether Farmers be Given an unbudgeted $250,-j m Benefit payments. Sure App 0val would pass the Tion to a the Senate where the woe is Strong and the Economy comparatively bears directly on ices appeasement because the privation of so Large an Junbud i ram would increase difficulties Ealing so called business deter taxes. The argument against allow is primarily that it would difficult to find compensating Revi other corporation tax Brack Flamier Benefit payments Are Ien by $250.000.000 the Orcas need for Revenue will he in the daily Banister a it Waves for ally _. Greencastle Indiana monday March 27, 193. 0 United a Ress service All the Home news 0 0 no. 138 Indiana to a Krak record recently the governor of Ohio claimed a record when he said he Cut off 500 employees without creating a vacant. They were in the Highway department. On july 1, gov. Townsend will be Able to break this record a lot due to action of the legislature. He not Only will Cut off hundreds but at the same time will divert a couple of millions annually Back into the gasoline fund for Road purposes. We believe it will pay better dividends in building roads than in needless salaries to those who Are of no Benefit to the state motorists who pay the Money. The observer. Many drive Over county Indianapolis livestock hog receipts 8,500, holdovers 53. I Market steady to 10c lower. 160-250 lbs. $7.30-$7.50 250-300 lbs., $6.85 Roans sinvmv$72o 3o�"�?o>��., $6.55-$8.75 100 11 7 uni Al a i 160 lbs. $6.50-$7.25. Sows 10c lower mostly $6.15-$6.50. Cattle 1,300 calves 500. Slow Early on All classes. No Early bids or sales on sters. Indications steady. Asking stronger for heifers Early bids steady. $12.50. Attracted by the Many suggestions that Spring had come Many Bushes in Bloom drop in temperature to around 10 with Strong wind discourages Flowers uni lits Templar conducted kites service for late Andrew Hanna was held sunday at masonic Temple sed by that much and the argue against sacrificing a single y of tax court is will have been durably strengthened. An easy out for Congress would be to Farmers with substantial it checks anti appease business a toning scheduled social secur payroll tax increases which Are effective next year. Or. It velt is reconciled to postpone to of the social Security tax in Anil business welcomes the it. The inst rites for the late Andrew b. Hanna held in the masonic Temple in this City. Sunday afternoon were attended by a very Large number of his friends. Chairs were placed in All of the available spaces of the lower floor of the Temple and All were occupied Many persons being turned away because there were no seats for them. Among the relatives of or. Hanna _ who were Here from out of town $220,000.000 to $230 000.000 Nual Revenue is raised by the 30-i business deterrents including corporation surplus tax which Astly As last april or. Roosevelt 1 As fundamental to our demotic system. He insists that re of those levies be accompanied ther corporation tax increases to de compensating Revenue. Con ional economies in general agree him that compensating Revenue tial. T while the White House has 1 on successive press conference. With or. Roosevelt a emphatic for compensating levies has been no Public White be protest so far against House Bill develop. Its in which con rally More Money than is involve the deterrent taxes is about to appropriated without any promo whatever to raise the Money a inc Renol taxation Bic observers suspect that or. Sevelta a failure publicly to Conn the farm Benefit proposal at time is because also pending heft House committee is his request an additional $150.000 000 for hip Loyed Relief. A Strong econ statement from the White �0 against unbudgeted farm a a rations might easily backfire Capitol Hill and become an equal died ivc Economy statement it increasing immediately ibo unemployment Relief funds. Were his aunt. Mrs. Mary Josephine Milligan and miss Ida Peck Durham from North Manchester the former having lived at Waveland until recently. And the latter being a former resident of Greencastle. Also present were u. G. Vail and family of Crawfordsville the Fullenwider twin Brothers and their wives of Indianapolis w. F. Peck of Waveland will Hanna and family including his son. Andrew b. Hanna named for the deceased i. And s. W. Dodds All of Roachdale. The Rev. Victor l. Raphael pastor of the first presbyterian Church of this City gave the religious portion of the service followed by the burial ritual of the knights Templar. At the cemetery Elmer Crawley prelate of the knights Templar gave the ritual burial prayer followed by the prayer by or. Raphael. The pall bearers All members of the knights Templar were sir knights c. C. Gautier j. C. Brothers Bernard Handy Jesse Mcanally Estel Brothers and Emmet Greene. Cohn growers to meet the Putnam county Corn growers association will meet tomorrow evening at 7 30 of clock in the Assembly room of the court House to hear particularly an address by k. E. Brown Extension agronomist of Purdue University. There will be a discussion of matters on the program of the association also. All Corn growers of the county arc invited to attend the meeting and it will be of Especial interest to the five acc Corn club members. Many residents of Greencastle drove out Over Putnam county roads and some in adjoining counties yesterday afternoon attracted by the Many suggestions that Spring had come. The sunlight was rather vague at times but nevertheless there were hundreds of attractive views along the county a streams especially in those views were ranges of Hills As a background for Low lying Fields and Wood pastures through which creeks and branches wound their Way. Big Raccoon. Ramp by Walnut. Little Walnut Deer and Mill creeks furnish charming views at almost any Point along their course always with an abundance of Willows along their Banks which Are. Just now beginning to show a faint tinge of Light Green on their branches and a slight coloration of the bark. Other Woods shrubbery has the same faint suggestion of the starting of the Leaf buds. Redbud and Dogwood will be the first Floral offerings of the season in the Woods but there is no sign of them yet. Here in town the forsythia one of the most frequently encountered of the transplanted shrubbery has opened its Pale yellow Flowers which brighten the College grounds Ani a lawns surrounding Homes of the City. Crocuses and Jonquil Are blossoming also the Lavender of the former beginning to fade but the yellow of the latter just reaching its brightest. Lilac is putting out its Finy Light Green Leaf buds the red buds of the soft Maple Are out in profusion As hints of the approach of the warmer season. But the drop in temperature to around 40, with a Chilly Northeast wind blowing prevailing this morning. Must have been discouraging to the development of Flowers and Leaf formations. The Virid Sima forsythia which is blossoming just now is said to be the commonest of the five species of this flowering Shrub found in America. There Are altogether ten species. The inter Media forsythia and the forsythia us Spongia will appear a Little later. The inter Media is a deeper Vellow than the Virid Sima. The forsythia is pronounced a for sigh third by botanists and by florists. It was brought to America from China by William Forsyth a scottish botanist. 0k�?~ l o erase memory of killer Diz avs Parent pol Arm after putting Wreath on grave Well Wyo. March 27. Up a Mother and father of Earl r,1r 1 placed p. Wreath on Hin grave i Van l returned to their farm 0 hopeful of erasing the memory 1 fax pc Quot train a who killed four 1 in i himself and whom they did a now. Of a by they had buried their 261 Al l son who loved the Woods mountains so Well that How went when told that he might have yearn in prison for killing Christian Church plans for school eighth District missionary school to be held wednesday prize posters Are announced High school has contest in connection with operetta Quot Daniel Boone Quot a a Quot Quot Hmann steer. Calmly they it in Coroner Ray Easton a fun Pul or and heard a methodist c 11 a a f Ark Goilo a understanding of Lan himself could not under the 8th i Trie missionary school of the Christian churches of Indi Ina will be held at the local Christian Church on wednesday. March 20th. The program which opens at 10 a. With Devot on by the Greencastle Church in As follows 10 10 introduction of the personnel of the school 10 15 his Ory class. 10 45 mathematics class. 11 15 special music. 11 20 civil government class 11 50 review and discussions. 12 50 luncheon. 1 15 Solo by p floor of North Salem Church. 1 20 literature class. 1 45 forum Quot work in Indiana Quot 2 25 missionary address by a returned missionary 2 55 to 3 p. Closing period. Textbooks used Are Quot yearbook of 1938&Quot, a handbook of the United Christian missionary society Quot Quot world 1 the Way of the 1 a r simple ceremony attended persons who wanted to re Mem a re Durand As a simple minded War it 1 bed people and the out. I r instead of As the vicious who killed four peace of prs an a committed suicide Only cornered like a beast while g to Rob a Bank Here. A Survey of services a today Theka Nedom come Quot. The Danville Rockville and Greencastle groups have been assigned to the history class the Rev. H. C. Fellers is instructor in the mathematics class. A member can enter any of the four classes. The ladies of the other Church groups of the City Are cordially invited and the members of the miss onary society Are urged to attend this meeting. Bring one covered dish and table service. Winners were announced today in the High school contest hold in connection with the operetta Quot Daniel Boone which is to be presented by the a Zappella choir tuesday evening. April 4 in the Greencastle High school auditorium. Sponsored by the Art department of the school the project was under the direction of miss Dorothy Knud son. Art supervisor in the City schools and much cred t has been Given the instructor for the excellent posters entered in the contest. The entire student body of the High school voted for the Best posters. And there were Many novel and Elf ver designs submitted by the students taking part in the contest first prize was award ii to Wilu Metta poise. Her prize winning poster was painted on Wood with lettering in Block style of painted Wood. It depicted Daniel Boone in fur Cap and Pioneer attire. Carl Pitts won second prize and Olive Mae Dean third place. Honorable mention was Given Wanda York. Jonathan Houck and a William Ernest. The three prize posters will be on do splay in the window of Sam Hannah a Book store until wednesday even no. Wintry aspect of mrs. J. W. Hazlette a Rock Garden offsets signs of Spring the creeping of the tiny Quot Peeper Quot frogs in water by the Roadside and a flock of a Hundred or so of red shouldered blackbirds alongside another Roadside in Russell township. Sunday afternoon were quite suggestive of Spring s approach hut the yet wintry aspect of mrs. J. W Hazlett s veal cars 50c higher top 1 Rock Garden Between Russellville and Morton offset somewhat the warm Spanish offensive henday. March 27. Up it a nationalist sources announced that Gen. Francisco Quot Franco had opened a new offensive in the Toledo sector breaking through the Republican lines. Sheep 500. Lambs Strong to 25c glow in a fellow s veins caused by higher. Part Load nearly Good 82-lb. I the signs of the impending coming Wool lambs $9.35. Choice recently a loped lambs $9-$9.15 three graduates headline program Cut to return to Campus to address students of Depauw University there Depauw graduates returning to the Campus headline the University program of events this week tomorrow in Chapel. H. Nathan Swaim �?T15. New judge of the supreme court of Indiana will deliver an address. Thursday or. John f. Cady 23. Dean of Franklin College will speak to students in Meharry Hall. Miss Rachel Dean. 32, of Green Mountain Junior College Poultney Vermont will be the featured soloist with the Depauw symphony in its formal concert wednesday night. Other programs listed in club be worship Chapel wednesday in Gobin memorial Church Wiki miss Lucile Calvert As speaker the Duzer do play. Quot night must fall a Friday and saturday n gets in the Little theatre a student acc ital in Meharry Hall at 8 15 thursday night and Marion Sellers Junior Organ recital saturday afternoon at 4 00 p. Judge Swaim is the new president of the Indianapolis Depauw alumni club and until recently had been City Contr Cir Ler of Indianapolis. He will speak at eleven of clock tuesday. Or. Cady who returned to Franklin this year after a leave of absence to teach a Judson College in Rangoon. India will address All the social science clubs of the University in Loai Den Hall at 8 00 p. M., in addition to has Chapel talk at the regular hour. Grandmother is killed in wreck three car collision sunday occurred near Attica Attica. Ind. March 27 up a 79-Yrar-old grandmother was dead today As the re ult of a three car collision near Here yesterday. She was mrs. Mary i Evina Faye fatally injured when a car driven by James Faye her grand Lson. Was struck by a machine driven by John Crawford of Evansville after the Crawford vehicle sideswiped a third automobile drive it to by mrs. Hesse Merrill of Attica. Mrs. Morrill and a her two children escaped uninjured although the in car rout d Over into the a Utch. Crawford was held pm no Ling an in ve8tigition by Fountain county Coroner a. J. Devenish. Barn Burns a barn on Archie Poynter a farm a Outh and East of Broad Park human Early sunday morning the loss including two horse a a cow and a calf. The fire had made to much headway before it was it discovered that the Amateur firemen could not Cope with it. A Rilo Minu Diatel adjoining the barn in which my. Poynter had stored Corn on the oar wan drenched with water and its contents saved. To is said the cause of the fire was a or Itiat of a mystery. 20 years ago in Greencastle of Spring. The Hazlett Rock Garden will be a mass of Rich colors and attractive foliage later which knowledge makes it seem quite drab just now. Nor do the farms of Northwest Putnam show even the Start of roots were heaved out of the ground during thaws that came during the Winter. There has not been enough Snow to protect the plants from the cold either. Speaking of the a a peepers frogs they arc the Little Fellows that live in marshy pools in whose mud they Burrow when weather conditions do not suit them and above whose water surface they project their tiny Heads when the Sun is warm even in january and february. They chirp cheerily and the sound of their chirping is sometimes considered a sign that Spring is just around the Corner but not always so. The red Shou Elered blackbirds now in flocks Are More reliable Harbing Spring work yet excepting in a very Era of Spring than Are the Little frogs few instances. The soil is wet and these Birds Migrate to the South in even the wheat planted last fall and the fall and return when they think now having a Good Start due to the it will not be Long before the Cattail open Winter is yellowed a Little plants will begin to project them which May indicate a surfeit of selves above the water of Wayside test flight of Kig Clipper ship underway ii ton ship is almost As big As a two Story House score of men on Board ship made Graceful Landing at azores after flight from Baltimore Enro uto to Europe water. The wheat plants Are thinned ditches and a of Ponds considerably in some areas where the seed did not take hold properly last fall or where the Young plants later they will pair and next making their Home usually in the Cattail plants with the water immediately them. Jack Benny to withdraw plea will probably plead nolo contender to smuggling charge symphony to re heard wednesday Hollywood. March 27 up Jack Benny radio and screen com Mcdian Sai 1 today he probably we uld plead either nolo contender of guilty to a smuggling charge when his Case is called in new York Federal court next week. A however a he said Quot any final determination will not be made until i playing her own composition a icon have conferred with my attorneys Cert piece in 15 minor for Organ and last formal concert of the season planned by orchestra the Depauw symphony orchestra will present its final formal concert of the season at 8 15 of clock wednesday night in Meharry Hall Umler the direction of professor Bjornar Berg Thon. Rachel Dean composer organist. Will be soloist with the orchestra when i a rive in new York. When indicted jointly with Albert n. Chapeau on Jan. 10. Benny pleaded not guilty and said he wound fight the charge which accused him of purchasing smuggled jewelry from Chapeau. On the ground he did not know it was Benny inv located that his chief new York counsel. William j. Dono Vaji would ask the court s permission to withdraw the Quilty plea and enter one of nolo contender which without admitting quilt subjects one to conviction. That failing he would ask permission to change the plea guilty it was understood. Chapeau. Who was also named in the symphony for smuggling indictments against radio throughout. miss Dean is a graduate of the school of music and studied Organ and cd imposition with or. Van Denman Thompson. At the present time she is the acting in Green Mountain Junior College Poultney. It. And is returning to the Canidu it especially for this occasion. The orchestra will play a very interesting program opening with Mozart a symphony in l Flat. This symphony is unique in that the orchestration does not Call for oboes. Mozart at the time of its writing had become so engross it and enthusiasm to tic about the possibilities of the new-1 by invented Clarino it that he scored this instrument comedian George Burns and against mrs. Elina n. Lauer. Wife of a new York supreme court judge Pleadis a guilty. Burns and mrs. Lauer also pleaded guilty. Although Berny would not discuss the Case further his friends said thac if he entered the nolo contender plea he Sain he would seek the mercy of the court by pointing out that it was not Ria Savable to believe tint a Man who paid is much income tax As he does deliberately would try to cheat the government out of $503 duty and that if any offence were committed the actor was not aware of it. He is charged with buying $1200 and $2000 Worth of jewels from Chapeau on which no duty had been paid. Eight drown Dawson Creek. R a. March 27 up eight members of one family were drowned today when a. Ice Jam at the juncture of Pine and my. Ray Rivers in North Eastom Brit ish Columbia flooded u wide area of ranch lands. City recovering from Celebration nearly 5 000 in Frankfort attended demonstration sunday afternoon the second half of the program will open with Enesco so Roumania i this comp it Ilion. Built on romanian Folk tui i has been very popular with the major sym phones and with radio programs the last few years. Tvs pre. Station will Befu slowed with a evening prayer and pantomime from the opera Hansel and arc Tell by Humperdinck. This number is familiar to All radio listeners As the opening theme of the Ford sunday evening hour. The program will close with the exciting a Polo Vitzian dances from the opera a Prince Igor cd Borodin. Tho Public in g neral has been invited to attend the program. Delinquent tax list is Brief Russell and Marion townships have so property on till list Horta azores. March 27.�?<up a pan american airways 41-ton Yankee Clipper landed in Horta Harbor at 7 07 a. A. Cst., today completing i 2.880 Miles Over water hop from Baltimore in 17 hours and 33 minutes. Carrying 21 passengers the huge Fly no boat swept Grae Efu by Down to the smooth Waters of the Bay almost exactly on schedule after an uneventful flight from Baltimore on Tho first leg of its Maiden terms Atlantis cruise. Under command of capt. Harold e. Gray Veteran trans Atlantic Pilot the big ship came in swiftly from the West the capper made its first landfall at 6 40 a. A. �?17 hours my six minutes out of Baltimore and winged directly into the Harbor. The water was smooth and the Clipper no t As big As a two Story House landed gracefully and taxied up to a mooring buoy. The i Ming was Quick and Busl-Ness-1 be Twenty seven minutes after the Clipper sighted Horta under a slightly overcast sky. The flying boat was Down in the Harbor and taxing to her buoy. Mrs. Mccammack. Succumbed sunday Mother of mrs Elbert head in passed away suddenly near Danville mrs. Rena Hancs Mccammack. Go 65 years wife of William j. Me Cammack of Amo died suddenly sunday morning at Tho Home of her daughter mrs. Carl Vannice near Danville. Mrs. Mccammack was also Well known in Jefferson township where she and her husband resided for Sev Erbil years before moving to Amo. She and or. Mccammack were married 45 years ago. Survivors Are Tho husband four laughters. Mrs k. T. Sallust was Hington. D. A. Mrs. Cirl Vannice of Danville. Mrs. Roger Phillips of Fillmore and mrs Elbert Heavin of Green Arne and Cne son. Dennis mar Ammack of Amo. services will be held tuesday miming at 10 30 of clock from the family residence in Amo. Interment will be made in the Amo cemetery. Will refuse to cede territory senator Luke Duffy announced plans to pave the National Road d m the East state line to Terre haute Quot this Road will be of Perm Molt durable h Shway and its construction will be of the said the senator. Mss Eileen Cammack resigned her pos Tion As instructor in physical training for girls in the Greencastle High school because of 111 health. J. P. Allen jr., a and Edward Hamilton went to Indianapolis for the scottish rite meeting and to attend Quot the Thad Jones received his discharge from the army and was at the Homo of his parents or. And mrs. Mack Jones South of town. Frankfort. Ind. March 27. Up the City of Frankfort today was recovering from a two Day Ccle bration in Honor of its High school Basket Haill team the 1939 ind Ana champions. Nearly 5.000 attended a Demon Stratin in Howard Hall High school in the Forenoon gym. Yesterday afternoon while practically the end ire City joined in a Bonfire celeb ration saturday night after Frankfort had won the t the by defeating Franklin. 36 to 22 at yesterday s meeting coach Everett Case lauded the team that won the title and said it was probably the Moat courageous end most powerful squad he had Ever coached. He asserted that his 1936 team also state champions probably had More finesse. The list of properties in Putnam county advertised to in sold for a be line Cunt taxes As published tors last week end and to be published twice More before the Date of the Sale which is april 10. Is notable this year because of its Brevity. Two townships Russell and Marion have no properties in the list and other townships have Only two or three. Greencastle City has the longest list 22 being named an among the townships the longest is that of Washington whip i has the a same number As that City. As is usual these sales Are for Cash and they will be held at the South door of the court House in Greencastle beginning at 10 of clock Premier edouard Daladier will make radio address wednesday Paris. March 27 it up a Premier Louard Dala Iier. In a radio speech wednesday will refuse to cede an Inch of f Neh territory to Italy but will express willingness to negotiate a political understanding it was re a Porte 1 today. outline i his speech today at a formal Council of ministers with president Albert Lebrun presiding. The Cabinet discuss l Benito Mussolini s speech of yesterday the British a Stop Hitler Quot drive the negotiations conducted during Lebrun s state visit to London. Sufficient Proi it erty in each instance will be sold if there Are purchasers to pay the taxes for the state county township City. Town and schools including the interest charges and penalties. W. O. Mills of Purdue University will be Here wednesday and a that evening will meet with the alumni and former students of Purdue who Are now residents of Putnam county. There Are some 74 of these. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 today a weather 0 0 and a 0 local temperature a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 considerable cloudiness colder in a Mith West and extreme West portions tonight tuesday becoming unsettled followed by rain tuesday night and wednesday. Minimum. 40 6 a m. 40 7 a. A 40 8 a. M40 a a m. 42 k a. Til. 44 11 a. A. 45 12 noon. 47 1 p. A. 47 2 p. A. 47

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