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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - May 12, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana0 the weather and Cool fair the daily Banner �?o17 Waves for ally 04�4> it of a a for Al United press service a All Tiff Home Kiwi 4 4 a forty seven a Kek Castle Indiana Friday May 12, 193. No. 178 l i Frick is speaker to i Niquet 1v,i<1, dinner was held a Quot Quot a Quot to at Long i in ii \1-1 to Lufti to killed Sigma a pita High in a nil is to de Miike of do fourth estate i go a Newspaperman is always Jerter no r Der How High he i i k president of Natwora i. Of professional i president of the Lalun association at their held in Longden t a in this age High pow rim publicity Organis color the news and Tell half. Then must be a new school of my that can e the facts and Pizzo to added. Lerica must learn to think to a out of her difficulties she can-1 depend on emotionalism or on Quot i columnists to form t. I Frick continued. He Itri but. To the graduates of de Kwh Quot have had marked Success Juma Listic Fields without the or provi i by a school of Jour urge Brandenburg National Lent of Sigma Delta Chi and it correspondent of editor and Pher in a founders Day add 1 e Jour Wallat in frat in Call its members to a de a of the fourth estate and of a i press. Sigma Delta Chi s nine Sand members include both pm and employees a he said r believe in their motto Talent. And ? of the nine founders of Sigma Achi Eugene s. Pulliam owner tation wire in Indianapolis and Lent of Central newspapers toastmaster at the banquet. He of the founding of the Frater i the Depauw Campus in 1909 of his Pride in the place it has attained Paul Riddick an a founder was also present. Dean Sybert Amith presented awards a behalf of the Board of Publica to outstanding students on is of rumpus publications. T banquet closed the journalism of Quot Rance which was held in Gobin Norial Church during the after students faculty and Active a paper r a to participated. Prin ii addres s were delivered by or. Edenburg. One of the banquet f and Tom Wallace editor Louisville times Tures in journalism can never want the intelligent detail of the inv. Aid or. Brandenburg p graduate can expect in ilium a vital profession with i Tantle n my standards which i satisfy his urge to write sub Kite Hai gift work for routine a i it a vide a comfortable Liv we. Said a the newspaper be will hire people who b 1 n trained primarily Totlis reporter must have a culture to Contact people to Ferstand ui3 implications of the he a rites and to give a Mii covering of economic and Scien no a or. Wallace predicted a Quot Liing. Quot what does Jour exp it of the College Grad 11 an to adopt child after acquitted by jury new York May 12. Up it Louis and Anna Greenfield planned today to adopt a child to replace their in imbecilic son Jerome whom Louis chloroformed after they had devoted 16 of their 18 years of married life to a hopeless struggle to relieve his misery. They were free today of the Long anguish that the suffer a helpless child caused them the grief Over his death and the consequent of it. A jury of married men a i women All but one of them parents of healthy children a equity i Greenfield of a manslaughter charge last night. Men adrift on open Atlantic 8urviaoks of two fishing schooners Wirich collided and Sank Yarmouth. N. S. May 12. It up two vessels not Are 1 Nova Scotia ports today with 27 missing sailors from two fishing vessels which collided and Sank i a fog 150 Miles Northeast of Boston wednesday morning. The coastal Steamer Keith Cann advised it was coming into Yarmouth Harbor with 20 survivors f the crash that Sank the fishing schooners Isabelle Parker anti Edith c. Rose. Almost simultaneously it was learn a that a fishing vessel out of Freeport had picked up seven other sailors Early today and was proceeding to Meteghan from whence they will Como Here by bus. Forecasts All mines open monday Hill be under contract with i United mine workers of amoebic a renew provisions t years Indianapolis librarian addressed local groups recognition Chapel held on thursday in South Aline owners remain Adamant against a Union shop a met today to draft agreement new York May 12.�?<up> a John r. Steelman government mediator in the National soft Coal tie up forecast today that a fall or practically ally bituminous mines would resume operations on monday under contract with the United mine work Ero of America. The threat of a crippling fuel miss Mabel Leigh Hunt of the in Ili Anapol is Public Library was in Greencastle thursday afternoon where she spoke before the High school and also before a group of women in the Greencastle Public Library. Miss Hunt is the author of several Best Selling children a books and spoke to women who have Given their services to a a Story telling hour a now bring organized As a part of the program offered by the Greencastle Library for the summer months. Miss Hunt was brought Here by miss Genevieve of hair librarian. As a feature of the Spring Edward Lindsay Depauw senior Book festival being celebrated from from Detroit. Michigan won top Hon Edward Lindsay received Walker and Sigma Delta c Iii cups pledges were presented glue key Inonu need that 11 ims withdrawn from National Organiza to on to be called Gold key joint meeting a joint of the conservation club and the boy scout troop of a to Alsbridge was held monday evening in the masonic Hall. The object of the meeting was to interest the conservation club to sponsor the scout troop. Prof. Edington of Depauw. Who is county chairman of the boy scouts gave an intere3�?~inj address on. What the conservation club and boy scouts of America have in John Goodhart is 3cc.ut master of this troop. There was a Good attendance of both clubs. Program for commencement is presented Hundredth annual exercises will begin Friday morning june 9. Alumni luncheon saturday president Clyde e. Wild Nan to give baccalaureate Sermon Charlea Gilkey commencement speaker marriage License Marion i Hurst service station operator. Greencastle and Lorene May 7th to 13th. Crippling shortage which Hung Over the nation 7. _. V a Igried 12 pol n is and in for six week a is definitely Over. A he said and nearly 500.000 miners will j return to work. All indications were that the soft Gar is caught by Paul Rei in it i Yarmouth. N. S. May 12. It up thirty eight living men and a dead Man were adrift on the open Atlantic in Small boats today and three United states coast guard boats and a coast guard plane were looking for them. They were the survivors of the fishing schooners Isabelle Parker an 1 Edith c. Rose which collided and Sank 150 Miles Northeast of Boston wednesday morning. They had been adrift in 10 dories since then 48 hours at 6 30 a. M. Is p1 with Little or no water and food. Nothing was known of the Accident until the motor ship Amicitia put into port last night with nine cod fishermen who had been picked up in a Dory 35 or les from Here. A Kintly had been living Well on other fish of a in Depauw University recognition Smith stenographer. Greencastle. Chapel thursday morning. He received both the Walker cup for the senior who brings the most Fame to the uni Verity and Tho Sigma Delta Chi cup for the outstanding senior athlete. Lindsay is a Veteran of the basketball team and state intercollegiate Tennis Champion he has an assistant ship in physics at the University of Minnesota next year. Jean Woods of Evansville received the Theta Sigma Phi cup presented Miller released from penal farm men Down town gave him enough Money to Reti in Home wed. From april 1 in the East and from p. Week ago elsewhere was near an end except in the South where mine owners representing a Large proportion of appalachian tonnage remap Ned Adamant against the a Union contract negotiators for 2.000 operators of the eight state appalachian Region key bargaining unit for the $1000 000.000 Industry met today with John l. Lewis president and other Jmwa officials to draft a working agreement to which most of the Northern mine owners were expected to adhere. The proposed agreement it was indicated will renew for two years the wage hour provisions of the 193739 contract which expired March 31. In addition it was understood the agreement will contain a a Union shop provision in the form of two sentences added to the enabling clause. A Gar 50 inches from the tip of Ita ugly Mouth to the extremity of its unlovely Tail was caught in big Walnut thursday by Paul Reising. Of Greencastle mile below the West Road Bri Ilg Phlete in the senior class. Alpha by or. Reising and h s companion Lambda Delta freshman women a with a snare but before the snare honorary presented a new award to could be brought in it it operation the Gillian Applegate. Thorntown. Who fish had to be mane Vered into a maintain Tho highest average for place where it could to reached by years among 1m9 Coq j8 Charlie Miller each year to the outstanding senior from Indianapolis woman. Betty Macy of Indianapolis bit foot at Home when he started on won the woman a spoil association a trip from Indianapolis to Terre it was captured a cup Jvon to tale Foremost woman haute about a month ago. With an Road briilg1 Ira Wnm re a Nina other coloured Man and his wife As passengers. The engagement was for the round trip and it was successfully executed until on the return trip. Miller s car headed into a had Wall almost at the Entrance to the penal farm on the National Road and was wrecked. The passengers received minor injures but Miller re the one Hundredth annual commencement of Perciso was be held at Depauw University Beglin no Friday. June 9. And continuing through monday june 12 programs show no i the a Ivi ties scheduled for the four Days have been issued. Tho annual alumni luncheon wll be served in. The Bowman memorial budding saturday. June 10. At 12 15. Tables will be reserved for Clas is holding reunions and reservations Are limited to 500. Advance reservations May be made by writing to Tho coloured Taxman of the comptroller at Depauw Sho left he Rab am enclosing the Money for the tick the wire Loop. This one weighed 12 pounds and was fat an indication it has been living Well on other fish of that Stream which form its food. A Gar of that size devours thousands of other fish game fish As Well As others in the course of a season and they Are considered one of the worst pests in Indiana Waters. This one was displayed up town and attracted much attention. New i official track record set Indianapolis. Ind. May 12.�? it up it a new unofficial track record of 131.58 for the 2 1-2 mile Indianapolis motor Speedway was set late yesterday by Rex Mays in an Alco they too survived the collision and hol powered 6 Cylinder racing a Hall drifted about until the Amitia Chine owned by Joe Thorne sighted them. Neither fishing vessel Mays from , cal., drove carried a radio. The Blue machine around the track three coast guard cutters put out in its first workout since it arrived from Boston Early today and a coast Here. Earlier trials were delayed guard amphibian followed several pending arrival of a government per hours later to arrive in the area nit to use alcohol for fuel where the dories May be found at the car was tested by Jimmy Dawn. The Canadian mounted police Snyder earlier yesterday before Mays Cutter Arrow and the fisheries a set the new Mark. Snyder tooled it tool boat capelin put out from Here to an average Speed of 127.12 Miles to join the search. Per hour. Blue key senior menus honorary announced through its president Wendell Martin of Lebanon that it has withdrawn from the National or Cei Ved a fracture of one of the cer a animation and will be known Here Vical Vertebra causing him to be after As Gold key. The following a patient in the Hospital some time Junior men were tapped for member from which he emerged with a Plas ship Park Wiseman. Defiance. Ohio Ter cast which encircled his neck up Glenn Hager. Barrington 111. James to his Chin and extended downward Wagner Lorain. Ohio James and onto his Chest permitting Only a very news Hinsdale Iii. Harold Cook slight rotation of his head. Mishawaka James Erdmann Ham notwithstanding that punishment mond Arthur Gardner Alexander he was also sentenced to serve a n. John Garrabrandt Belmar. Thirty Day term at the state farm n j. Angier Steele Robinson. 111. From which he emerged this mom a a a i i u i Bill Welch. Logansport William Bel ing. Wearing his plaster cast and Vars. Mailum \\3ltoil a Haw Hammond Greig Ward Brad lacking enough Money to get him j Ford. 111. And Jack Pearce Terre Back to his regular stamping ground haute. A the states capital City. He was Mary Jane Mcgaughey Indiana helped out by some of the men Down Olis president of the association of town and Glt to himself started Back is Dent a Home. Women students announced that Betty mobberley., Cincinnati. Ohio and Jane Mohler Hamilton. Ohio will Wear the senior and Junior rings respectively next year. They were chosen by class mates As the outstanding women in each class. Mai tha Stewart Pelham n. Y., received the aws scholarship to a Junior woman and Alice Hankins Indianapolis. Was awarded the Sophomore Owca scholarship. Menus Hall association retained Tho Alpha Delta Sigma cup for the organization with has panne d a or it a Dutiful Nurt in officers arrest struck mrs. Underwood on the face and knocked her unconscious ets. Reserva cons for rooms May to made with mrs. Katharine m. Mills at Longden Hall. The Complete program in As follows Friday june ninth 10 00 a. M annual meeting of the joint Board of trustees and visitors. 7 30 p. M mooting of the Board of directors of the Depauw association in the administration building. Saturday june tenth alumni Day 9 00 a. M. Alumni registration at the Boulder. 10 00 a. M alumni Chapel in me Harry . Presentation of Semi Centennial medals. 12 15 p. M. Alumni luncheon at Bowman memorial building. 2 00 p. M. Laying of Cornerstone for John h. Harrison Hall on West Campus. 2 30 p m. Reunions of a fares 1938, 1936. 1934. 1929, 1924. 1919, 1914. 1909. 1904. 1899. 1894. 1889. 1884. And All previous graduates. 8 00 p. M. Orca Dent s reception to the friends of the University pre Home. Quot kill i,., >11 111 in two i i Luse to talk let croat Brilain wet no necessity Fob p jail is it to status Hun May 12. It up inspire t 1 sources Sari angrily today 1,1 v would refuse to enter and it Salon with great Brit a Mcming the status of Danzig. Attitude was even More pm Danzig itself where the 11 nazi newspaper Organ said or t Only would any British station Quot be refused but that was no necessity for a pm Bis a Termine Danzig s status be Kerlin would determine it. Organs complained that the of pro me minister Neville 1 Dain warning that Britain it it uht if polish Independence f a Quot a tend by an attack on and t i declaration of policy to the French chamber of by Premier edouard i it a thing to Clear up euro Pri Blenis. Both Cham Winin 1 Paladin led an Quot Ler. It was held merely de encirclement policy and in it laments program. Irvin Schenk state president of future Farmers of America Irvin Schenk who is grand president of Indiana of the future Farmers of America and William Haase the instructor in vocational agriculture in the Reitz High school at Evansville Are Here today for the purpose of installing f. F. A. Chapters of this District at a gathering of members of this youth s organization in the Greencastle High school this evening beginning at 7 30 of clock. Approximately sixty boys engaged in vocational agriculture work in the Van Buren Concannon Otter Creek. Honey Creek Brazil Tangier and Greencastle schools will participate in the meeting a group of youths of outstanding character and personally the presiding officers at the meeting this evening will be the Greencastle officers who Are president Vernon Singleton vice president tim Ruark Secretary. Maurice Kiv Ett. Reporter. Bob Moore. Other local boys who will be William Haase vocational agriculture instructor Reitz High school Evansville awarded the Green hand degree for proficiency in vocational work will include Estel Cantonwine. Lawrence Acton James Bruner Melvin Shinn George Goldsberry Billy Templeman. Arthur Call Russell Grimes and James Cofer. The service of initiation will require about an hour and a half after which the charge will be presented by k. W. Kiltz. State executive treasurer of f. F. A., of Purdue University. Immediately following the initiation. Tho entire group will participate in social hour the entertainment being athletic games and contents in the gymnasium. Special guests for the event will be or. Z. M. Smith state 4-h club Leader Harry Baldauf vocational instructor at the Van Buren school Morris evens senior in the school of agriculture at Purdue Russell Mendenhall. James Mccoy and Walter Webber from Vigo county William Bishop. Paul Boston and Walter Goldsberry of the Greencastle school system. Mrs. Mandy Walton a coloured woman living on Berry Street East of Crown was arrested by night police officers Berkley Watson and Logan Wood rum. After the officers had been called to the crossing of the cemetery Road and the Pennsylvania tracks at 7 30 wednesday night. The officers found mrs. Emerson Underwood unconscious from a blow on the Side of her face from a piece of 2x4 three feet Long which it was charged had been wielded by mrs. Walton. The injured woman a husband it was said witnessed the affair. The coloured woman was taken before Justice of the peace Robert now Gont on a charge of assault and Battery with intent and was released on Bend Pond no the outcome of the injury received by mrs. Underwood she could not testify against mrs. Walton at the prelim nary hearing. There will he a trial of mrs. Walton As soon As the prosecuting witness can appear. The Assaul on mrs. Underwood p is reported followed an objection voiced by the underwoods to the trespassing of persons in the former Wetz Garden on the South s do of the Pennsylvania tracks which Garden the underwoods Hail rented for the season. It is said that mrs. Walton was angered by the closing of the Garden s area to outsiders and that pm exclaimed a a in la fix As she approached mrs. Underwood. A hurdles plan suit la services impressive mothers Day Observance to be held at All churches gob n memorial method St Church the highest Scholastic average. Jane Naus of South Bend was give Tho old Gold Robe by Katherine Olds. Warsaw. The pledges of mortar Board and Kappa Tau Kappa inter fraternity Council were presented they were chosen earlier in the Spring. Recognition Chapel is the second in Tho senior week series. Wednesday members of the class presented the annual mock Chapel in which they added to the traditional imitations of professors an amusing farce on founders and benefactors Day. I Walter e. Bundy chosen by the Depauw University seniors As Pressie mothers Day service for , May 14 the service will be held in the Church Sanctuary at 10 10 a m. Rev. Claude m. Mcclure jul have for h s Renton subject Quot Mother s Coronation Day or. W. S. Rader will offer the morning prayer and the m mistry of the word will 1 he read by or. H t Ross mus e will he provided by or. Thompson and the Church choir a boautifu.1 Art bulletin will announce the order of service and the App intents of the week. When the idea of a Day set apart to Honor mothers and dead. Sunday june eleventh laconian Rente 10 30 a. M. Special services in All Greencastle churches. 12 30 p. M. Rector scholar alumni luncheon at Lon Den Hall. 4 00 p. M commencement concert in Mcharry ha1. 7 30 p. M. Baccalaureate services in Gobin memorial Church. Address by president Clyde e Wildman. A. A. S. T. A. Pm. D d a. La. D. Monday june twelfth commencement 10 00 a. M. Commencement exercises in Bowman memorial building. Address by Charles w. Gilkey. A. A. A m. B d. D. D. Corp erring of degrees. President Clyde e. Wildman. Albert f. Ricketts died at Shel Wille Albert p. Ricketts. 67 years old. Who entered the Depauw Academy in 1887. Died yesterday at the main Hospital in Shelbyville in which c to he resided. He had been organist at the first Christian Church in Shelbyville. For several years he waa pianist f St came to i s Anna lands in Tho faculty speaker for their Cap Ami Philadelphia in Lilii. She Little dream for at. Orchestra t the Claypo 1 hotel gown Chapel Friday compared the 1 11 Quot f d Sonn Quot can Quot world wide. A . Server under College graduate to a new hat rid a school Assoc la Ollai Montani he later Reeves As Ter in a baseball game against sea l0n 1s"ed a cal1 f a he Universal Organ St at the old Empire and Al toned pitchers. Quot however the Grad let its it n Anc Ltd to her s Day. And in Tamhra theatres in Indianapolis and Congress voted recon not on. And since at the Ohio. Zartig and b f. Keith then pros dentil proclamations have theatres. Shell Home damaged by fire Friday noon the fire department was called around 12 30 Friday to the Home of mrs. W. A. Shelly in North Wood. The fire started on the inside of tie House and was believed to be due to defective wiring. Considerable damage was reported. 20 years Ajo u in Greencastle mrs. Arthur Plummer was among Tho sick. Tho Crescent club met with mrs. John Cookjr. Lieut. Gordon Thomas was Here from Philadelphia visiting his parents or. Anal mrs. F. J. Thomas. He War. In medical corps. Presbyterian ladies met with mrs Jacob Eitel. Mrs. Fred Thomas was hostess for the ladies Aid of Locust Street Church. Uate has More than Book learning for a Bat a said or. Bundy a the has actual learning about life through books and College after reminding the seniors of the value of honest hard work in combating the pitchers of adversity Anil i Alki two i null mini ii degrees i Low for Friday was no report of Frost in City and Rural areas unseasonable drop a temperature of 41 degrees above Zero at 4 of clock this morning with Only one degree higher an hour later and not much higher than that at the common hour for the greater number of the residents of this Community to arise and go about their daily labors brought Shivers 10 those who fared Forth into the open air before the suns warming influence became effective. It was an unseasonable drop in the temperature. There was no report of Frost in the City and none in the Rural areas unless a Light Frost added to the prestige of the occasion it is a great anniversary Day for it come close to the heart of men. Women and Camdren. Few impressions Are deeper last longer or More def nicely affect character than those which a Mother creates. I it us express our love and appreciation to the mothers of the world for their unfailing courage Faith and under 47, f. Amp a standing by attending a service plan Ned in their Honor. Music will have a prominent part in the mothers Day service at Tho presbyterian Church at 10 35 a. M. Mrs. Harry j. Skornia will be the soloist and mrs. B. W. Bergethon will have a violin selection. In addition the youth choir will sing. Opportunity will he offerer parents to to also had been organist at theatres in Logansport new Albany and Jeffersonville and Springfield 111., and for several years he was organist at the famous Maxwell House at Maxwell Tenn. Lodge notice called meeting Temple Lodge. No. M. Friday 7 30 p. M. For work in master Mason degree. O o o a o o o o o o air it today a weather a 0 and a @ local temperature @ 0 o 0 o o 0 0 0 o o o fair tonight and saturday continued Cool tonight possibly Light present children for dedication in Frost on Low ground in North and baptism. New members will be received also. Floral tributes May be placed in the pulpit in appreciation of motherhood. A mothers of the Temple will be the subject of the message by the pastor. Rev. V. L. Raphael. Ernest h. Smith superintendent of the Church school has arranged a special worship service for the department at 9 30 a. M. Everyone should attend some Church ser in some Small areas which was not Vicc in the Community in Honor of injurious. His or her Mother. East Central portions not so Cool saturday fair and warmer. Minimum. 41 6 r. A. 46 7 a. M. 51 8 a. A. 53 c a. A. .58 10 a. A. 61 11 a. A. 66 12 noon. 68 1 p. A. 68 2 p. A. 68 Coal production suspension dating a

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