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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - May 2, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA fun weather fair and Cool 4 the daily Banner a it Waves for ally 0q a a United la Kess service All the Home news a l1-me forty Indiana tuesday May it Ida no. o do Bois us speaker monday night Rel sol he 1.0 in Gobi me-m0k1ai. Church Many questions asked interesting facts distinction Between producer co Oli eruptive and consumer co operative Menean co operatives and com list were definitely tied up to or in one of the finest talks a a a Creen Eastle monday night. A a the Putnam county credit As a Tion. The Chat it or of Commerce business and professional men women held a meeting in the memorial Church to hear Ray ois. Rep Quot setting the Bureau of it insurance agents. In Dubois Laid special emphasis the work of the co operatives in jobs churches and in government did not single out any Church or school but he showed the Dang trend in these organizations cited specific governmental in a fees where Aid is being Given the Monistic co operatives through emment Aid and of course such the generous use of the taxes Mon he cited the depart of labor and the department a agriculture in this connection. A Aid is is ing continued he Indi a. S Drew i distinction Between the or co operative and the con her co operative. The former he a was formed for the purpose of lung a hotter profit on what was % sold while the latter was led for Tho pure a of destroying profit business. Or. Dubois read Tho report of the president of 1 american co operative Assoc a. In which mention was made of possible destruction of the Len can system of government and formation of a nationalistic co native system. Dubois is a Good speaker s his subject and has lots of in action available on the subject said it has grown rapidly through churches and the schools and to there Are people supporting them do not know their in american Lude or Tho in american ideas of it court notes Harry Ramsey asks $100 damages for injuries sustained by his �?T38 Dodge Sedan when it was hit by a car being driven by e. E Richards feb. 24. 1939. The Ramsey car was being driven out of a private drive Saddle club to Complete show plans on the Ramsey farm onto the rus members to meet wednesday a Ell Tlle Waveland Road when it was evening to mind up struck by the Richards car according to the complaint. The complaint Stales the Ramsey car was partly on the Highway but was stopped by its Driver As Toon As he saw the Richards car approaching on the Highway. Lyon amp Abrams Are attorneys to the plaintiff. Kid event set for sunday Bankhead alls for adjournment drafts Resolution to postpone action on controversial legislation Public invited to in guest of club for show at the Zaring Kuling farm feature planned. Monday night minimum was 87 Washington May 2 up sen. John h. Bankhead. D., ala., drafted a Resolution today calling for adjournment of Congress june 15 and postponement or til 1940 of a a Tion on neutrality and other controversial legislation. Bankhead said he believed legislation could be worked out to save president Roosevelt s reorganization plan. Under existing Law it could not become effective if Congress adjourned before june 25. Overriding democratic Lea lers who customarily control adjournment resolutions Bankhead proposed to scrap neutrality tax revision and social Security legislation. Senate in 1 House committees in charge of those subjects would be authorized to continue hearings through the summer and fall and be instructed to report them at the opening of the next session Jan. 3, 1940. A those three measures would keep Congress in session until late in the summer a Bankhead said. A i m not in agreement with a leadership that wants to keep us Here All summer so that we can act on them. A we ought to give notice now when we intend to adjourn clean up remaining Supply Bills including the work Relief appropriation for 1940. And go Home. We ought to give the people a he said he had not placed proposed amendments to the Wagner labor relations act on his list of subjects Heads of them. He cited the Likely to cause delay because he my of one at Earlham college., understood that a there is no Dispo asked. How the professors Start Slation on anyone s part to hold us in it could be paid if everything in session merely to consider amond was operated on the cognitive business. But he said the edition is growing in Richmond because it is being pushed in school. Air. Dubois cited the governmental i at Greenbelt md., where All fits of the town go into a Corat la he said they lost about too the first year of operation. That 1 was made up by govern it Fui he cited another Caser Cincinnati and said a co oper be housing project is being Conti near Vincennes now. This ill Lici i a Lone on the Money of the �pay�1 none of the co opera pay Federal taxes or. Dubois none of the 57 hidden taxes. Y 1 pay state taxes he said. Allowing his talk the meeting us it n open to the audience for a Linn and quite a number were it proved to be one of the int ii ting As Well As educate d i Tings that has been held cont Yeara. Mrs. Colluccio expired monday funeral services will re Condi ted thursday morning it c Hurch final arrangements for the Putnam county Saddle horse club show scheduled sunday May 7 at the Zar ing Riding farm will be completed when members of the show committee meet at 7 30 of clock wednesday even no. The committee members will Convene at the King Morrison Foster co showrooms on West Washington Street tomorrow evening and at that time Aill last minute details for the elaborate program will he worked out. Those in charge of the wind up meeting have urged All members to to present. Many members of the Saddle horse club Are to take in the festivities leading up to the big show next sunday. The club members will enjoy their first ride of the Spring season Early sunday they will leave the Frank Deer Bam Berry Street at 9 of clock sunday morning and Rido to Tho Zaring farm on Tho Manhattan Road. At the Zaring place there is a three mile bridle path wind no through Woods and streams. The path at this season is one of the prettiest in the state. Dinner will be served at the a i at 12 o clock sunday noon and it is the Hope of those in charge that the entire club membership will be present for the get together. The show will open promptly at 1 30 o clock sunday afternoon awards will be made to the winners of the first three places in each event. The program Calls for nine events including Pony under 42 in. Shown under Saddle Pony Over 42 in and a under 14-2 shown under Saddle Model class shown in hand conformation Only to count boy or girl rider 16 years and under horse not to count three gaited class conformation 60 percent and performance 40 percent lady rider class hands and seat horse not to count cow Pony class with proper appointments conformation 40 percent performance 40 percent Nad appointments 20 percent gentlemen rider class horse not to count five gaited class conformation 60 percent and performance 40 percent. Tho Public has been issued a cordial invitation by the club to attend the show and enjoy the fun and excitement. Anyone wishing horses for the Day should ca.11 mrs Frank Deer phone 641-m. Miss Martha Hurst has charge of the dinner reservations and those wishing to make reservations should Call miss Hurst at 586-j, contrary to the belief of Many local residents the Low temperature of last night was three degrees below the Low Point of the preceding night. Last night the minimum was 37 degrees As shown on the daily banners registering thermometer in the custody of the men at the Northern Indiana Power company a North i Madison Street Plant in Creen Eastle. A thermometer at the Home of Leo Hazlett. Living West of Clinton Falls indicated 32 degrees Early this morning and there was a Light Frost in. Places. City Council held melting monday night Check cars at Street intersection peace front matters of drainage occupied part of time of Council members Shok pest session recorded masonic notice called meeting of Greencastle chapter no. 22 Royal Arch masons tuesday evening at 7 30 of clock. Work in the Royal Arch degree. A nest Ion arose in discussion of u gets City Lias where Street water runs onto property men s club a Cut for big a meeting Chicken dinner. Talk re Don lash scheduled for thu sax Bert of Brien be embed monday Quot thit of ids. In. M. O a Kin a Kalt to Ltd in Hon disc is county lot m. O Brien. 58 years old. 1 i practice Medicine in Henky county since 1903, died Mon St Danville. A in near Greencastle. He was from Central Normal Coland tip. St. Louis to College Vii inns and surgeon. He was Quot Rmer county Coroner and was a her of the modern Woodmen. S Quot Hows and masonic lodges Ami Christian Church. A riving Are the widow a Daugh sons and a brother. Or. W. 0 Brien of Greencastle. Mrs. Anna Cal Luczlo. Age 50 years. Martinsville Street the widow of Pat Colluccio. Died suddenly monday afternoon at 1 t0 of clock at the Rollert Long Hospital in Indianapolis where she had been a patient for a week. Although mrs a Luccio has been in ill health for some time her death yesterday came unexpectedly. Mis Colluccio a native of Italy had spent most of her life in this Community. She was a member of the St. Paul s Catholic Church. Survivors Are one daughter. Mra Rosie Billingsley of this City and a brother and Sis or. Residing in Italy funeral services will he held thursday morning at 0 o clock from the St. Paul s cathode Church in charge of father Thomas Mcgrath interment will be made in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends May Call at the Home at 2� Martinsville Street. Paige Speaks to Chapel tuesday noted author and minister said allies produced Hitler and mra. A. J. Duff have re a a a to their Home in this City of an a tended trip in the South. A Wert As far South As key West were unable to reach their action Havana. Cuba because a trikes of longshoremen. Four sentenced in liquor trial men chair ski with Oak stat ing 1,500 still in Pakki county four men have been sentenced in Federal court in a liquor Tirui reminiscent of prohibition Days. All were charged in connection with the operation of a 1.500-gallon still on a seven acre farm in Parke county. Judge Robert c. Baltzell fined Alex Mann. Chicago. $1,000 and sentenced him to three years in Federal prison Philip Segal also of Chicago $1.000 and two years in prison Roy Powell Parke county $100 and six months imprisonment and James Shannon. Clinton. $100 and a year an 1 a Day in the Federal reformatory. The judge suspended Powell s Fine and sentence. A Tho ail los have produced Hitler,�?T1 said Kirby Paige minister and author. At Depauw University Chapel tuesday. A the International crisis is a result of the desperate political and economic conditions in Germany As a consequence of the Versailles treaty and of the example of aggressive colonization set by the English speaking or. Paige said that even today great Britain quells resistance from subject nations by Force and has done so in India every year since the world War. A she has always used just As much violence As necessary to keep her a America can Stop Hitler Only by confessing her own past imperialism by calling a new world economic conference to open the Channel of world Trade and by cooperating in some International Board such As the league of nations or the world stated or. Paige. He added that our temper of self righteousness a hindered this. A War is the worst possible evil even the oppression of Freedom would be heightened by said or Paige after he had Laid before his audience the picture of a new world War. A if the democracies take up arms against the dictatorships they will get Slaughter and destruction of property and whole populations in every country the same world wide f. Cling of vengeance we have now. Inevitable economic depression and class conflict and some kind of Dic everything was in readiness today to entertain at least 200 pets it is it the father and Bon banquet meeting at 6 30 of clock thursday even no in the Goblin memorial methodist Church. Planned by the menus club of the Church the e vent promises to be one of the most interesting meetings f the season with Don lash americans outstanding distance runner As guest speaker of the evening the feast will be Fried Chicken with All the trimmings. Tho appearance of Don lash is expected to Appeal to the Largo assemblage of sons and fathers. The unassuming Young Man has had one of the most Brilliant careers of any athlete in the state or nation. As a farm youth at Auburn he set a new state record for the mile in Indiana High school Competition during his time in Indiana University he Brok the state Ami big ten records for the mile and two Mill runs and in 1936 set a new world s indoor record for the two mile run of 8 58.3. That summer he qualified for the u. S olympic track team running the 5,000 and 10.000 meters events. In indoor Competition in the Winter of 1937 lash set a new indoor world record of 8 58 for the two mile run. Which record still stands. In his senior year of Competition at Indiana he was a member of the worlds record breaking distance Medley relay team and the four mile relay team and ran has fastest mile in 4 07.2. Lash s talk to the fathers and sons and guests will be unusual in Manv respects. In addition to talking on athletics and training he will discuss safety and other phases of police duty relating Many experiences encountered in his role of a member of the Indiana state police department. He too will Tell of his plan for entering the olympics in 1940 and his procedure of training for the world s track Premier. In addition to the athletes scores of triumphs. Two years ago he was selected As the outstanding athlete in the big ten. And last Winter was selected to receive the annual Sullivan memorial award g Ven to the outstanding Amateur athlete in the United states. The menus has issued an invitation to All persons in the Community who Are interested in the remarkable program to be present thursday even no. The Quot shortest session on record in this present City Council was that of monday evening All the members assembled a 7 50 and formally adjourned at 8 30. There was not to a j Reat Deal of business before then. A report was made that Tho so pm tank at Northwood has been cleaned this being done by an understanding reached Between the City administration and Archie Aillen. Who has i deed to the North cod lot on which the tank is located and who. Last year sought an injunction to prevent the i y employees enter no upon the lot to clean it. That us t and litigation arising in the same connection yet being in court. In Parke county. Matters of drainage occupied p. I Art of the time of the Council members. City attorney marshal p Abrams reiterated his previous statements to the councilmen that natural flow of water either in the form or a Stream or rainfall running off of the surface of the soil cannot be interfered with under the Law. Tho question arose in a discussion of the rights the City has in instances in which Street water runs onto private property following the natural watershed and in which the owners of the private property have filled in the water Channel. Councilman Ensign read the claims moved they be approved and the motion being seconded it was adopted by the Council. Harry w. Voltmer asked a Peral to erect a dwelling House at 021 Hidge Avenue. Northwood the proprietor of the Whittaker filling station. 711 North Jackson Street asked the priv lege of erecting an add ton to his present building the head of the Quot farm women s Market nine Indiana Street asked permit to put up a sign Over the sidewalk James Albin requested a Perm t to re Root and Oltha wisc improve oils property on East Hanna. Formerly the Denny Home mrs. Edna Best desired to excavate a basement at 806 South Indiana Street and do other work there. A 1.1 of these requested permits were granted. Councilman Ensign asked if Mayo James had been using a City truck to haul by a bats away from the building on his lot on Jackson Street just North of Franklin Street. The mayor explained he had allowed the truck to be stored in the garage now being wrecked All Winter without charge but that he was ready to pay the City rental for the use of the truck in removing the debris from the place no disposition was made of Tho matter. Police chief Edward Maddox this neg0tivtions morning from 8 to 9 of clock made another Check of traffic movements 4 d l1 r�tp�f1 a j at the intersections of Washington ill la Iii 1 ii in and Bloomington streets in Greengas a. Tie and found a marked betterment British government is re of the driving through that intersect m mutant to risk Ament Uon. It is the Point at which state i it 4 a pan Road 43 enters Washington Street from the South and turns Westward publish conscription text on Washington a Busy place. The a a. Police chief checked 80 cars during polish news Umlor impose boy Cott the period he was there and was against Gorman newspapers As very much pleased to note that out answer to demands of the 80 there were Only nine Drivers who did not Stop their vehicles London. May 2up British in abeyance of the Stop signs. At negotiations to bring the soviet the time of the previous Check. Union into its a peace front Are a which waa at night them were 96 preaching a critical Point it was cars which did not Stop and Only four today because of the that did. Five Bishops to retire this year Bishop Edwin Holt will attain the be of 70 before next Meetin. It is announced at Kansas City. I where representatives of three branches of methodism Are e inferring on de Tams of the merger into one Church that five of the b shops of the methodist episcopal Church now on the Active list will retire from their High office at or before the next general conference of the new single Church next april and that among these five Wim be Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes now acting senior Bishop of the m. E. Church. There five retire because they will attain the age of 70 years before the assembling of the next general conference. 20 years a it to in Greencastle chapter of life 01 i liner Pope finh left Box so dormitory Plainfield some ten Days ago governments reluctance to risk i alienating Japan and sending it into in German italian Japan est military Alliance. A russian authoritative your up told to a United press that unless Britain and France agreed to a triple Alliance Russia would refuse to adhere to the a Spence front on its present basis Iii goes ate ,1 Fiche for a russian British French pledge of the Security of Latvia. Lithuania and Esthonia. Russia would withdraw its offer to join Britain and France in any War to protect Belgium Switzerland and Tho Netherlands. The government published today the texts of its conscription anti Reserve auxiliary forces Bills introduced in parliament yesterday. The conscription Bill applies to every British male of the United kingdom at the age of 20 years with the exception of Northern Ireland the Isle of Man to which it May he extended by Royal decree. The ministry of labor will take charge of men who Are registered and accepted for militia training. An important provision is that employers must re Instate conscripts in the others in the group who Are to retire Are John l. Ukelson. Geneva. Switzerland sen or Bishop Char a their jobs when training is complot Des l. Mead. Kansas City Edgar Blake Detroit and we Allace e. Crown. Chattanooga Tenn successors to the retiring b shops will be selected by jurisdictional conferences to follow a year after the general conference. Under the. Plan of in on being adopted by the United conference Here the Church is divided into six jurisdictions. Five of these Are geographical and the sixth known As Tho Central conference w 11 be made lip of negro Church which jurisdictions will select the new Bishops will to determined by Tho assignment of Al current Bishops. A problem yet to be worked out. Uniting conference delegates divided into six groups tonight to begin fixing boundaries for the geographical sub div Sions of the six jurisdictions. . If they fail to do so they must pay a Fine of .$250 in addition to paying the employee four weeks salary. Warsaw. Poland. May 2. It up a Boycott was imposed against German newspapers today by the association i polish news vendors As the government prepared a vigorous answer to Germany a demands on Poland and to Adolf hitlers denunciation of the polish German Friendship treaty. As the association controls the greater part Quot of newspaper Carcifi amp Tion throughout Poland the Boycott Means that distribution and Sale of g Man newspapers on news stands throughout the country will be curtailed sharply effective today. The association voting unanimously to impose the Boycott Basing its action on a the insulting tone of the German attend hearing in Indianapolis other communities i i a it Tion uni also sen 1 delegations Warsaw. Poland May 2.�? a up it a the government decided to ask parliament to Grant president Ignacy Moscicki emergency Powers until n x. Nov. 1. Under the emergency Powers. President Wosicki will regulate All economic financial and defense matters without parliament action except changing the Valuo of the zloty a delegation of Oreen cattle bus level. Tie end has come to another Chap ter of the weird life Story of Little Omer Pope. 11 years old. Chronic seeker after a 1 Ven Ture. Who with Ralph , 16. Of Jasonville left the boys dormitory at the Plain Field schor.1 for boys some ten Days ago. Clad Only in the r Little nighties and trekked All the Way to Amo night thusly attired leaving there with clothes acquired so it was claim i. Without the permission of the owner. These Are the two Little Fellows who Eslaba shed a Lair in a Cave in the Eastern Edge of Parke county. Ness men went to in it iia apr s to it Day morning to attend the hearing before the Public Servo comm s \ r sign relative to Ali iban i it Gnu it the traction railway system operating Indianapolis and Tern haute. Other communities along the Lino sent in Delegat on. A a protesting against the proposed abandonment of the system. The line Means a great Deal More to Greencastle and pm tit Nam county than the Avera citizen thinks at this time it will a too late to find out How important a let was after it has been abandoned Alonzo Cook began the remodelling of the opera House for moving picture purposes the improvements to Cost Between $12,000 and $15,000. Class chairmen named to arrange we8 of Visalia in Putnam county for the High school alumni banquet an j who were sought by sheriff included Grace Farrow class of 1885 Lawrence Graham and Deputy Sher Edith Browning Maude Mcnary Iff Tom Vandiver and guards from Lola Walls. Earl Ellis Clarence hoi the school. The officers gave up the lick Maud Cosner Moore Estella Chase finding the ups and Downs of Gifford Black. Madonna Stoner. Mrs. Travel Over the terrain surrounding Lawrence Graham. Gertrude Haw j the boys hideout to be too strenuous. Kins Crawley Louise Kiefer Confer. Jennie Farmer mrs. Fred Thomas. Robert Huffman. Lucille Torr. Vera Kelley. Helen Browning. Ova Daniel. Grace and Gretna Mathes. Kathleen James. Benton Curtis was moving into his new Home on Seminary Street. Or. And mrs. Charles Broadstreet also moved into their new Home on that Street. Or. And mrs. Rex Crask moved to West Lebanon to reside. Many miss 1 from the stand a Pic legs. . _. 1 to i. Brothers i n it de a press dispatch from grand Island. Neb. Monday said four Berry Brothers Only surviving members of a family that grew up at Greencastle. Ind. W. Re United there the it Day for the first time in 52 years. George Ellsberry of Louisville. Colo., arrived at the Home of to j. Ellsberry former mayor of grand Island and there to it it in d him were two other Brothers Walter of Ocean and Henry of Omaha As we As mentioned before the officers made Good use of a map of the neighbourhood drawn by Pope at the school before he left the map to be used by the boy if he was separated from Young Pope but they left the school together and the map was not taken. It was found at the school by the officers. It was a Good map. Too. Locating All of the important features of the Region locating three caves in continued on Page i Bevc Point of transportation and the Gap they May leave in the matter of payment of taxes in Marion. Greencastle and Madison townships will his to be made up by Ether tax payers of those units once it is abandoned. It was because of these facts that the local delegation attended the tuesday morning hearing. Those going were Frank Cannon. Harry Allan. R. P. Mullins. H. C. Foster. S. R. Rariden. Otis Gardner Francis Hamilton Russell Brown. I j. Hammond and several Road employees. Delegations from Greencastle. Coatesville Clayton and protested to the Public service commission against abandonment of the Indiana Railroad and substitution buses. They asked for a special hearing at Greencastle which was granted but no Date was set. Louis Rappaport. Railroad auditor was the Only witness. He said the line lost $40.972 last year and would need $84 000 for improve it it but there was not enough business to justify it. Neb. Prof. F. A. Slaute today speak r at tin luncheon. Tilden was in Terra where i was the Terre haute rotary o00000000 today a weather 0 and 0 local temperature 0 0 is 0 0 0 is o 0 is fair and continued Cool tonight Plainfield and wednesday Light Frost tonight. 0 0 0 0 s minimum 37 6 a. M. 47 7 a. M 0 8 a. A. 50 9 a. M. W 10 a. In. 57 11 a. A. If noon 59 1 p. In. 60 2 g. M 60

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