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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - March 29, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana0 Mekka tikk k.,n of Snow a vol the Datey Banner a it Waves for ally so a i United press mfr Vav. A the hate news a 4 1$ a by potty seve Greencastle Indiana wednesday March 29, 193. No. 140 Council m in Brief session m s. Rites to be by up. Pro for c oate8viu.m an 5 1/\i\ 1 1v1u Vij to beautify 0, Rev were t pm it Cus ,.\1 i. A a Rimes a re a is in l As clerk tip no a led concitis a 1�?Trin Multeri of drainage to meet april s Nett broke its pm or Brevity of meeting tues evening Clun Dolmen Stan unil in cil clerk Grimes were the former on unavoidable r ii Sim and the two latter in Lun Apolis attending a gathering of i company men who conferred a card to Csongos in rates on exp set vie City attorney Abrams As clerk of the Council Nieset bosc Cut of the Council wore m Stoner Welch and mayor James presided lie business transacted concerned Kip ally lire i is of drainage. One Hies arose from the application a fatal at an earlier meeting of Kauble for a permit to erect a Ilene on East Jacob Street by i Indiana and College with me of tin lot. The latter it to feared. Involving interference die drainage of surface and m water a permit was granted motion by councilman Stoner aided by councilman Welch con onal Upen or. Kauble refraining disturbing the present drainage e City attorney generally speak about surface water said natural Inas Over the surface of the cannot be interfered with by new owner if the water has run Way through a period of 20 a or More. Re Othi i matter considered and i upon was the City a attitude in suit brought lust year by Archie in in connection with ins alleged i tog of title to the lot in North Wood i which the Northwood Clown int company located the Pool which receives the sewage a the Cater part of that Region h soil Origi Riahy filed in the Lam court was sent to Parke qty on a change of venue and is Ding the o the issues in the nit the City s Side were built up he qty attorney Wilbur inner As a part of the plead of i City already a part of the funeral services for Preston t. Long age 87 years of near Coates a lie. Who died tuesday will be held thursday afternoon at 2 of clock from the Home. The Rev. V. L. Raphael _ pastor of the pres but inn Churo Keek Ltd immunity support to this City will officiate. Or is survived by four children. Long president vacationing Washington March 29. A up president Roosevelt left the capital this afternoon for a 10-Day vacation at his Southern Home in warm Springe a. Or. Roosevelt completed unfinished. Pending business and received routine reports of legislative and International situations before hoarding this special train at 2 .�?T10 p. M. Coronation Scot to re Here thursday afternoon the Coronation Scot world famous British Streamliner of the London. I / i i ii Nin Midland amp scottish railways will i a i a it i v s t Greencastle thursday afternoon. 4 the train will arrive Over the Pennsylvania Railroad at 3 13 and will leave at 3 15 making a Stop of heartened by refusal to two minutes in this City. Appropriate farm Par Ity payments advocates threaten to slash Relief carry out extensive improvements Aid of residents is asked project intruded to make Rohe Ann Park Ideal recreation enter for the entire Community labor anti wanes i it re of the Rase there is an Affi-1 it signed by former mayor Char of Zeis which claims under oath t the lot on which the Cess Pool located and which Pool the City off it last year to have cleaned t Wasa upped by or. Allen by ine the property of the City by dictation. By this it is meant a the i a elopement company an icel it had Given the lot to the hut ii we ver without actually Ding it. S a matter of history acting n that belief that the lot was. Is the property of the City the ceiling City administration Laid a to 2,0 10 feet of tile and acquired fact of land for an outlet of the to carry away the fluids from Cess Pool. A Quot i Quot it City Council instructed May be adjusted Compromise Ike a a Teit proposed social Secer Ity ii Anges Washington. March 29. Up Compromise adjustment of new Deal labor and wage policies seemed Likely today to develop in the Wake of proposed changes in social Security legislation. So far As those issues Are concerned the so called business ment program is making considerable Progress although not always with White House support the administration took the initiative on social Security with endorsement of alternative methods of preventing a 1940 payroll tax increase anti avoiding the collection of a $47 �?~00 000,000 or greater Reserve fund. It appears Likely now that both the wage hour Anil National labor relations act May be modified at this session. No change now in Prospect would sacrifice fundamentals of either act. Friends of the labor relations act in Congress seem now to be reconciled to amendment in some degree. Reliable information indicates that there Are committee anti floor majorities assured for moderate amendment in the Senate along the lines of changes proposed by the american federation of labor and opposed by the Congress of ind Stifal organization the wage hour act under the direct Ion of administrator Elmer f. Andrews Aiso is in for amendment. Man Marv l. Norton. D., n. J of the House labor committee announced she would offer a Bill to exempt $2 000 a year White Collar workers from wage hour provisions. Her amending legislation also would include 1. Protection of employers against damage liability for policies carried out under wage hour act regulations which might later be held invalid by the courts. 2. Exemption of Rural Telephone Exchange employees. 3. Lessening of Homework restrictions of puerto rican Industry. 4. Re definition of a area of product a Community wide Effort to bring about extensive improvements to Robe Ann Park was launched today. The program Calls for whole heart a support on the part of Greencastle Community residents. The improvement project is intended to beautify the Park add to its conveniences anti make it a Beauty spot of the City. The Park Board including mrs. Bernard Handy. Raymond Riley and Fowler d. Brooks has asked Community wide cooperation in the vast undertaking at the Park. A several Hundred Trees and shrubs arc needed at Robe Ann Park and it is hoped that residents of the local Community will assist in every Way possible to assure these Trees and shrubs for the improvement a a mrs. Handy stated. The Park Board members listed the following Trees and shrubs As particularly desired Sycamore Tulip pop appease Jan. We Eph no Willow Ash Oak red. White anti Pink sugar Maple Norway Maple Silver Maple various kinds of Evergreen White and Pink Dogwood Redbud Bush honeysuckle Wegelia mock Orange. Japanese Barberry Althea Rose of Sharo Birch. Lombardy Poplar Boi Leana Poplar Carolina Poplar flowering Almond Lilac forsythia and other native Indiana Trees and shrubs. In addition she said there Are Many other Trees and shrubs which would be suitable for the Park. Residents who Are willing to assist the Board in improving the condition of the Park and who will contribute Trees anti shrubs Are asked to Call mrs. Handy. Phone 199-w, or mrs. Perry Rush. Phone 528-w. It was to med out that the Trees and shrubs should not be dug until mrs. Handy or mrs. Rush has been notified. This precaution is being taken in order that the Trees and shrubs will not be left out of the ground for any great length of time and thus endanger their growth. Arrangements have been made to haul the gifts to the Park but the work will be greatly facilitated if they arc dug and made really for their removal to the Park by the persons contributing them. Men working on the spa project in the Park will Plant the Trees and shrubs. They will be ready to receive them next tuesday. April 4 Portland Mills u r receives inc Kpor ution the a Portland Mills. Fish. Game anti sportsman club. Inc.,�?� has received its articles of incorporation from the state. Its address is Given As Judson. On which Rutal Mill route Portland m los is located in part the. Incorporator of the new club Are Anson l Padgett Clarell c Padgett. Leah Padgett anti Paulino Jonkin there is no Ospital Stock. England Abandons Stop Hiller plans seeking secret agreement among key n a tons to Aid each other London. March 29 up great Britain was reported today to have abandoned plans for a Public a Stop Hitler declaration and to be reeking a secret agreement among key nations to Aid each other if they were menaced by German expansionism. The Cabinet held its weekly meeting today ant i was reported to be discussing the following diplomatic program 1 close cooperation of British and French military plans for any eventuality including any threat to Holland. Belgium Denmark or Switzerland. 2 a joint British French Effort to induce Poland Rumania and Yugoslavia to agree to go to each other s assistance if Germany threatened any one of them. 3 a British French Promise to Aid these nations if they banded together for self Protection. 4 to maintain the most Friendly relations with Russia but to leave her out of a official Quot agreements. It was emphasize i in Well informed quarters that All agreements under the program would be strictly secret. The idea of leaving out Russia which has an army now estimated at 2.500.000 men bigger than the combined French. German and italian standing armies was a completely new one and followed efforts to form a British French polish Rusman bloc. Symphony program to re definite la modern the concert program to a Given by the Depauw symphony orches tra m xxx i t i text St Onk third Iii inc action probably pihc<m1 advocates of Larrory Relief in better position Washington. March 29. Up the House deficiency appropriations committee cutting $50.000,000 from president Roosevelt a request for Relief funds agreed today to report a Bill granting spa an Addi Tione $100,000,000 for use until june to. Royalty to visit in Washington u be 3 Washington. March 29 up washingtonians today were or Eiiseo an unusual spectacle june 3 win. King George and Queen Elizabe it arrive for a two Day visit at Tho White House. President an i mrs. Roosevelt wid work meet them at the railway station and accompany them to the in trite Hause. Germany and Italy embark on offensive o n a Post Madrid Quot Trade offensive in Solti America increases concern Here Lilii so Viool convocation Junior and sen or High school Stu a hints were delightfully entertained May Cue Triumph of nationalists to yesterday in their convocation program by the Depauw menus glee club. The group Sang under the direction of prof. C. E. Jarvis. The following numbers were presented Quot Linnig Hting Grieg a who is Sylvia Schubert a a Hookah Day a Arr. Bartholomew. Sweet Arr. Attempt to strengthen econom in political influence Washington. March 29. Up Economy advocates heartened by House refusal to appropriate $250.000,000 for farm parity payment believed today they could slash the administrations $150 000.000 Relief request by at least one third. The House eliminated the unbudgeted parity payment fund from the 1940 agriculture department i pro Pri Atlon Bill last right by a vote of 204 to 191 the Hill As sent to the Senate carried $816.513,613 for the department s activities. The House appropriations subcommittee met today to decide on the amount of the Relief Bill. Rut revenge fill firm bloc leaders announced that they would oppose granting the fund As a retaliatory measure against City legislators who failed to support the parity payment appropriation. Administration leaders have virtually abandoned Hope of getting the full $ 150.000.000 or even a Compromise $125,000,000 votes of House members from Industrial centers where Relief needs Are greatest More than account i for the 13-vote margin by which the parity payment amendment was de Fei cd. City legislators apparently decided after tentative efforts at Lagrou ing to get farm and Urban support behind both appropriations that they could not rely on the farm votes for the Relief Bill once the parity payment Issue had been decided. Rep Leon sacks. I of Philadelphia said Quot we knew the farm boys were against us. So we decided to let them Havo rep. Eugene Cox. D., a. Critic of administration Relief policies said failure of the two groups to Cooper Ite meant that the House would Quot accept whatever Relief Bill the appropriations committee report probably $100.000,000. The farm Quot swing i Huntley. A the of Jericho Arr. Bartholomew. Putnam Villa net Liam entertained approximately 300 attend ranch it honouring High so ii Ooi. i is approximately 300 Iasi dents to a Putnamville Community crowded tie towns High school tuis Duy night to by Honor to Putnamville a team. Sponsored by the Putnamville Parent to Icher association and mothers of players on the team the Community residents were called upon to attend the event and bring Well filled Basket. An excellent respond As Given to the Call. A 29-Pound Turkey with All the rimming. Was prepared by in. George Shaffer and this was supplemented with other varieties of meats salads vegetables cakes pies ice Cream Coffeo and milk Quot there May have been a i Tzier Binquet held in other towns but there was none with More or better food than set on the tables at Putnamville a said a party feast. Two special tables for the Hall players Anil one for the four Junior girls were decorated for the occasion and special cakes baked by mrs. L. Maylo and mrs. George Shaffer formed the Center piece for each Able. Funk Jarrell county superintendent of schools was the principal speaker of the evening and his complimentary remarks were lauded by the audience. Others to respond were l. Mayle principal of Putnam Vil a 8.91 can Plant then from then until a finitely modern and pop. Lar in according to Rio nor Leader Friday. April 7. A few things can by planted monday. April 10, but. The Board is anxious to Complete much of the work Between tuesday and Friday of next week. In addition to the Trees and shrubs approximately 2.500 cubic Yards of dirt arc needed for filling and grading to make the Park usable. Per Tiona a provisions to ease Impact of the sons who have dirt that hey a. Act on localized industries. Willing to haul to the Park should these amendments were prepared or Brooks. Phone 833. It was stated that any kind of dirt can be group will Cut their throats on in tonight in Meh amp Rry Hill at 8 15j,liof.�?� rep Clifton a Avo drum. 1. A of tin House Economy bloc. With Andrews assistance. National labor relations act a a the litigation As it May develop in the basis made necessary by foun-1.it Ion already Laid by the a it no. I imini8tration. This Means Cut to will seek to establish its try of its ownership of the lot. Totag Tut or. Allen cannot collect Wittes from the City nor secure a b i Iii. Order from the court in nation with the City a Effort to an a is Pool. The Case will 10 to at Rockville As soon As cd to t in secure a hearing. Of Sci uni in Welch presented the 11 11 Ance which this time had two claims upon it. The Ordin a it adopted. A claim of w. P. A Quot a for tar via work in the City. Of it in the last administration had up pending More inform in Bainbridge. Years illness a a Council postponed until its a Voiney Abrams to proceed amendments have been proposed from Many directions and repeal efforts also Are pending. Friends of the act arc avoiding Public discussion of problems posed by criticism c Hiltl a my a on i Nup two Francas Mark expired i be slav Kkt Vikuk for Haink Hmok woman to id thursday morning mrs. Frances Clark age 77 years. Widow of Clark died tue Adav afternoon at 3 o clock at her Home following a a verse Quot meeting the matter of the in-"�?�1 of an additional fire plug Quot or to he located somewhere on 1 Berry Street. A Quot 1 meeting of the Council get monday april 3, the body Quot a recently adopted the first and mondays of each month As its meeting nights. Used As Long As it does not contain tin cans. Wire bed Spring trash or other debris. Top soil is needed badly for sub surfacing before Sod Ding takes place. Rock and broken Concrete can be used for rip rapping and sub Grade for the driveway. Or. Brooks said 200 or 500 cubic Yards of this material could be used to great advantage. Rock is needed for building drinking fountains outdoor fireplaces and for the boy scout Council ring. Or. Brooks stated that nearly 400 cubic Yards of cinders will be Nee ted later on this Spring for surfacing one or two of the parking lots and to provide the base for footpaths. Members of the Board said it will be possible to make Robe Ann Park an Ideal recreation Center for the entire Community if All local residents cooperate in the current improvement program. 1-11 club work underway actress slugged 1�?Ti-i.yvvood, March 29,-Iup 1 i Bogart Young across who a a Quot a the pig tailed role of Tomboy m he old a Mickey Maguin teddies mrs. Clark was born March 12. 1862, the daughter of or. And mrs. Wheeler Wright. She was Well known in Bainbridge where she spent All of her life. She was a member of Tho Bainbridge methodist Church and was the Putnam county 4-h club Lead Active in the Church and ladies Aid 0rs Are being selected and plans Are a As Long As her permitted. Being made to Start organization the survivors Are six children Edward program a been worked out and the and Gilbert Clark at Home. Mrs. Vir j Gander of events set up for the Ginia Ellis of Troy n. A. Mrs lil Var Lian Ford and mrs. Naomi Divis of every citizen should help boost 4-h Indianapolis. Ami mrs. Bertha Hines Qiu work. Of Detroit. Mich. Three children have a preceded her in death. Bergethon conductor. One number Quot romanian rhapsody a is by George Enesco whom deems Taylor considers the Foremost contemporary com Poser. Another is an excerpt from the open Quot Hans 1 Ami Gretel a which made its composer. Humperdinck famous overnight. The opera is base on the fairy tale recounting the a i ventures of Hansel and Greet Humperdinck applied operatic technique to the simple legs my. And the result is an open that is delightful to adults As Well As to children. The program will open with one of Mozaras neatest symphonies symphony in a Flat major and is brought to an exciting close Wilh the sensational Quot Polovetz Ien from the opera. A Prince Igor Quot by the russian composer Borodin. The orchestra w 11 present As its featured soloist miss Rachel Dean. �?T32, playing her own composition a concert piece in i minor for Organ and Orch Jeri. The Public is invited to attend the concert. Said Clim nation of the unbudgeted $250.000.000 from the Bill was Quot the Best Job the House has done the i a entirely apart from the merits of the proposition a a he added Quot it shows that Congress is willing to legislate in accordance with orderly budgetary although the houses action a pea red to Promise a total of $300, 000.000 in savings on two a Propri i Tion Bills actually it probably place advocates of a larger Relief fund in a better bargaining position in the Senate which Simc within one vote of approving the extra $150.000.000 when it was first considered. Rep. Clarence Cannon. A. To. Who piloted the farm Hill through the House said the parity vote was a a inconclusive Ami that the Senate Quot undoubtedly would restore tin $250,000.000. The parity fund w is designed to raise the income of producers of Whent Cotton Corn Rice and Tobac of toward a figure regarded As thei proportionate share of the National income. The $250,000.0 h. It was is t i ted. Would have been enough t false the prices of these major crops n Tice All members of the Putnam Lodge no. 45 i o. O. F Drill team please he present at the Hall to leave on bus for Bloomington thursday evening to about 75 per cent of parity by six thirty. The bus will leave Greencastle about seven of clock. Philip Helme n. G. O. T. Ellis Secretary. Funeral services will be held thursday morning at 10 30 o clock in charge of the Rev. H. O. Bratton. Was slugged with a club from the Home in Bains Cige radio proclaims end 2ft v cars a70 in grbencasti.a by a a n j i. Ill Wunjo �?zo7\ Fata y injured on a interment wih to made in the ban the Honor Roll of the Greencastle school included Cornelia Aillen. Mary Cannon. Christine Dietrich Crystal Mcfarland Aithell Mast a. Kina West Larence Wright. Or. And mrs e. B. Tayjor saw the follies at Indianapolis. Sergeant Milton Bachelder was Burgos Spain March 29. Up Here from Camp Taylor visiting his the official radio proclaimed at Slater. Mies Ruby Bachelder. He had 2 30 p m. Today that the War in been in the army two years and 18 i months of that time in France. On growers meet the husky Corn Hunters of Putnam county will have a contest of their own this coming fall if the preliminary plans made tuesday eve Ning by the county scorn grower can be carried out. They met with the county agent. David l. Grimes and had an interest1 no discussion of the Extension program As regard the raising of better com and Dis cursed other matters of interest to them. K. E. Beeson Extension agro Nonast from Purdue talked of the Corn growers problems and also the problems of an association of Corn grow ers. After the discussion refreshment were served which were contributed by the persons attending the meet ing. Washington. March 29.�? up it Germany and Italy were reported today to he Embar King on a a Post Madrid Trade offensive in South Ami Rica. Diplomatic information that Germany and Italy would use the Triumph of the nationalists in Spain to attempt to strengthen their economic and political influence in the Western hemisphere increased concern Here. The announcement of an Argen Tino German barter Deal whereby Germany traded 64 locomotives and Many railway cars for 100.000 tons of wheat and 8.000 tons of Wool had had a disquieting effect. There were reports that other barter deals were pending. Meanwhile the United 8tates counter offensive in latin America marked by recent Success in negotiations with Brazil encountered congressional difficulties. 1. The House appropriations committee knocked out a $250 000 item in the agriculture department appropriate is Bill intended for use in strengthening agricultural representation throughout latin America and to inaugurate scientific research to encourage development of inter american Commerce in noncompetitive such As rubber. Quinine and hardwoods now supplied by the Orient. 2. Senate passage of a sugar Bill for the primary Benefit of Mainland producers was regarded As Likely to damage Cuba and prove an obstacle attending tin to Evl Slon of thai present United states cuban agreement. The drive of Domestic vegetable oils interests for higher excise taxes worried several Trade agreement countries an amendment to defer the proposed increases when in conflict with Trade agreements will to considered by the Senate finance committee thursday. Practical effect of these developments has been to arouse uncertainty in latin America As to How far Tho United states will a follow through Ion its Trade program. Schools Eugene Cooper trustee of commercial authorities believed Warren township cach Cooper who "�44 Industrial recovery in this count urn introduced each player Quot a Quot Ai affording the heat Prospect Raymond Jonca. Captain of the High if mar a Atla factory commercial preschool teem i Pat Ullh latin America in of the Junior team Margaret score. In is of �?T"1 Argentina were up 38 per ranges Shaffer. Dona Roger and. It it in the first two month of this Alice Young the four Junior Girla. Vear a spared Wilh Tho same period Joyd a. Wells nerved As master of of 11 a ceremonies. Larger purchases of the United music for the i a orate occasion automatically relieve the of waa provided by Robert mood cd a Llano a problem in latin America Indiana state farm swing band. Local operetta draw interest while lessening the necessity which sonic of the countries have Felt for 1 entering barter arrangements with 1 Germany. Oli. X used on Street ree reside i descendant old Pioneer Danio i Boone Charles Jenkins a 63-Yoar old Man i who says he is homeless collapsed in the Street in Bainbridge tuesday evening and was c married into the Pool additional Inte St was Given to room where h received preliminary Lay to the forthcoming presentation a by a physician. He seemed to of a Daniel Bonne Quot in i form he suffering from an attack of some by the High school. A Zappella choir sort he was brought to the Putnam when it was disclosed that a local county Hospital by sheriff Lawrence resident is a direct descendant of the Graham and Deputy sheriff Thomas ted h Storic frontiersman to whom Vandevier this morning he was tribute is paid in the operetta. Again in Ida Normal condition. He Lycurgus Stoner. 810 South Indiana to have been Over All of the Street in this Eit \ is a great great to hit his occupation being the car great Nephew of the Pioneer Daniel my for Nice horses. He raid he had Boone or Stoner s Mother was a walked Asfa i Bainbridge from Vira Boone the daughter of dam i Chicago he will be retained in Cus and Malinda Boone Daniel a Natl. J0<v awhile pending an investigation of Harrison county. Indian. Was the son of Moses and Hanna Boone and also the great Nephew of the noted Hunter frontiersman and Indian fighter Daniel by it on who bore us i a distinguished part in the oily annals of Kentucky. Elvira s father came to Putnam county with his parents about 1821 and settled on by Walnut Creek in Washington township Squire Boone a brother of the famous l>3niel Boone at one time owned a farm on Wheeli or. Stoner lived the Early Pioneer Dainel Boone was Horn on the Banks of the Delaware. His childhood i was passed amidst the Solitz Les of the upper Skull kills. In is oily manhood he pushed on into North Carolina where he built his Cabin for his worthy Bride Rebecca Bryan in 1755. Penetrating the l wilderness through a ventures. Sur a Fontinot in on in the two if his past. O o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 today s weather 0 0 and 0 0 local temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 rain in South Snow or rain in North portion tonight thursday becoming fair continued Cool. Minimum g a. M. 7 a. M. 8 a. M. 9 a. M. 10 a. M. 11 a. In. 12 noon j. P. M. 2 p. M. 36 36 37 37 38 38 42 46 45 45 Street Early today Bridge cemetery

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