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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - May 19, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana0 the weather Dourov and c cooler it i a the daily Banner a it Waves for ally a United press service All the Home news i i i i i pm i 1 a i q like forty seven ire Castle Indiana Friday May 19. 1939. No. 1s1 p Mulins Iri Marks anniversary he purchased Ess of the a. Cook dbl o c company part of Community of Dav or. Mullins received a a a congeal us tons from Friend and associates v May 19 i039�?T marke<1 the Beth anniversary of the r. P. 9 drug store in Greencastle. Or. A came to this City from his in Ilo Binson. 111., and has been f the most progressive and enc merchants during his entire years of dealing with the t Only has he become a part of Unity. Hut he has taken As interest if not More than any citizen in furthering the causes encase e and Putnam county. Movement for the betterment of a Community always finds or. As one of its enthusiastic a Here As an employee of the a of drug co., which had opa store on the West Side of Blic Square under the super of Alonzo Cook for a period of years. He arrived in Green on july 1�. 1917 and was pm a m the Cook store until May sat which time he purchased a us Ness and on june 1. Follow moved the store to its present Ion from the old room in the House. Mullins continued to make Ess in his chosen Field and to the store stands out As one of St equipped in this Section of e it was enhanced in Beauty when the front was re mod and the Interior was likewise modern and today ranks As one i Best drug cutlets in Indiana. G the Lay or. Mullins received congratulations from his friends business associates in Greengas the completion of Twenty years in this Community. Marks 20th anniversary r. P. Mullins laymen to Allenl ministers meet in o Northwest Indiana it inference will be unique this year in that respect the meeting of the Northwest Indiana conference of the methodist Church of which the Gobin memorial Church of Greencastle is a part will be unique because of the participation in its deliberations of an equal number of laymen and ministers the Gobin Church will have representatives present selected on that basis. Bishop Titus Lowe recently assigned to the new Indiana area with residence at Indianapolis is announced As a firm believer in the rights of the Layman to participate in the of fails of the Church and is looking i Forward with much anticipation to the Northwest Indiana conference to be held at Battle ground june 28. The conference will be one of the first in the world at which Lay delegates will be on a fifty fifty basis with the ministers. A a we la get More representative Lay delegates because of the Bishop said a a and have things to Royalty is Well guarded during night Stop s c ii e d i l e d n e a r sleepy Little Village of Caledonia Springs read h Ottawa Canada natives kept Kes artful distance and trains guards had an uneventful Vigil Europe today soldiers and police guard City streets by United press London Brita n ready to make concessions for peace if Germany renounces the use of Force prime minister Neville Chamberla n declares in j commons debate Russia rejects Bri watchful for further out taints latest counter proposals. Breaks by jews angry Jerusalem British soldiers and Oyer proposals police guard debris strewn streets of held without bail Adelphia May 19.�? up. Rose Carina. 45. Many times i Quot woman with the kiss of a in Philadelphia s murder mar dining Syndicate today was held it bail on a charge of Poison to of her common Law husbands ump and bespectacled mrs. A a appeared far from the Glam i adventuress she had been Pic during the investigation of the Ler ring blamed for More than deaths. She listened attentively g the proceedings before. Judge is. Mcdevitt but said nothing Dica Tims that the merchants of obtained in new York their c and other poisons with which killed heavily insured victims seen when assistant attorney ral Joseph Hill of new York indeed to judge Mcdevitt. Harm i with robbery Diana Polis ind., May 19 a the Federal Bureau of in a Tion i office Here and the state announced today that Fri have arrested Byron Piner i Frankfort on charges of parting in the robbery of the Lin state Bank a week ago today arrest occurred somewhere in the exact location being in a miniere As Well As the details ending his apprehension. Ottawa. May 19�? up a King George and Queen Elizabeth reached the capital of the largest British Dominion today aboard their transcontinental train which stood All night on a siding a Quarter of a mile outside Springs a sleepy Little Village of 153 inhabitants. The Stop was scheduled. The Royal train on an 8.000 mile tour of Cana j a and the United states travels Only during the Day. As a measure of safety and Comfort and to enable the King Ami Queen to see the scenery. It arrived on the skiing at 1 01 a. M., it Edt i from Montreal and leaves at 9 a. For Ottawa arriving there at 11 a. It was their majesties first night aboard the streamlined Quot Palace on wheels Quot whose Royal personages and resplendent guards and the clamor they had left in Montreal were in strange contrast to the lonely Countryside in which they stopped. Natives kept a respectful distance and the trains guards had an uneventful Vigil. As soon As the Royal train moved onto the s Ding. Behind the Pilot train. 12 Royal Canadian mounted policemen six railway policemen and six Ontario provincial guards sprang from their coaches and took up positions about the last two cars of the 12-car train in which the King anti Queen have quarters. Special Crew of brakeman and technicians crawled under every car and inspected it. Twelve More mounted policemen were posted on Board the Tram guarding entrances to the Royal coaches. The King and Queen had retired soon after the train left Montreal at ter rioting in which a British Soldier was killed and 150 civil ans injured. Madrid two Hundred thousand troops Parade in gnat military Parade celebrating nationalist Victory in civil War. Shanghai chinese claim they have recaptured Kungpeh. Killing 4.000 japanese in second biggest Victory of the War. British Soldier was killed hit Temes intensified when news received of British Apt lire of shipload of immigrants Jerusalem. May 19.�? up British soldiers and British and jewish police guarded the debris littered any of the wars in which the United unusual interest shown in Putnamville plans the memorial Day services at Putnamville which will be held sunday. May 28. Beginning at 2 of clock in the methodist Church will be Given unusual interest because of the return there As the speaker of the Day. Of the Rev. Charles w. Whitman d. D. Of Vin Cinns who was pastor of that Church some forty years ago. He will speak on Quot the soul of or. Whitman enrolled in the Depauw Academy in 1897. The music of the program will be furnished by the state farm orchestra. A very cordial invitation is extended to All surviving veterans of one killed in collision Friday morn. W1l.mek Madden of pleasant Garden was driving truck occurred near Plainfield the Bishop is in Arden sports tan. It p. were we res from the a of Stoa Chaie has Neon called let a Hie a coast vhf re they were consider added appropriation Franklin township taxpayers to meet May 29 in trustees office a notice to the taxpayers of Franklin township has been published by j m. Stafford trustee of Franklin township that the trusted and advisory Board of that township will meet May 29 at 7 30 p. In the trustee s office to consider the matter of a proposed additional appropriation of funds by the township amounting to $7.000, for the repair and rebuilding of the school building in Roachdale a part of which has been condemned by state authorities. The additional appropriate on. If sanctioned by the advisory Board will be heard by a representative of the state Board oif tax commissioners in the office of county Aud tor Gilbert e. Ogles in the court House at Greencastle. Within fifteen Days the time the state Board receives the request. The notice to the taxpayers of the meeting at Roachdale is intended to give them an Opportunity to appear and express their opinions on the matter. The hearing before the representatives later will also be open to interested persons. A meeting of taxpayers of the town streets of Jerusalem tel Aviv Ami other cities today watchful for further outbreaks by jews in their bitter anger Over British proposals for the future of Palestine. One British Soldier was killed and More than 150 civilians including police were injured Here in riots last night. One British Soldier was wounded by shots fired from a rioting crowd. Police fired Over the Heads of crowds after vigorous charges with their clubs had failed to disperse rioters. Police had to carry special Shields to guard themselves against showers of stones. States has been engaged in past decades. Especially the legionnaires who were in the world War. Week set apart for Canna sin other truck Driver was Given treatment in Plainfield and arrested and taken to Danville Wilmer Madden. 35 years old. Of pleasant Garden was killed in a collision of trucks at 4 40 this morning on the National read a mile and a half West of Pla of iced. He was driving a truck owned by Ray Miller of Terre haute the other truck involved in the Accident was driven by William Matthews. Only meagre details of the Accident were known at the state police Barracks at up name lie this morning. It being said there that the in May 21st is first Day of vesti gation was made by the so ate period for the every police officer stationed at Plainfield member canvass a and tha he had not yet reported the Case in full to the Barracks. The week of May 21st has been set Madden the Man killed is a son apart by Gobin memorial methodist of j. R mad Den. Who is custodian of More than 40 persons were injured Church As the period for the every the school building at pleasant Gar at tel Valv in serious disorder s there including fights Between rival demonstrations of youths. In the disorders Here jewish crowds blew up Many electric Street lamps and Overtu Nied Street Tele phone Booths. A Branch Post office in the religious jewish Quarter was destroyed by fire. The Arab Driver of the czechoslovak count us a automobile was wounded by police fire when the car broke through protective wire barricades around the District commissioners office. British soldiers on duty were somewhat puzzled by the disorders member canvass. The finance com in their Home is on the North Side Mittee has spent considerable time of the National Road South of the and thought during the past ten so hoc1 . A a we thought we Tapie Here to protect jews against an Arab revolt and now the revolt is jewish a one said. A dispatch from Bucharest said that 800 jews including 600 from Frank Woliung Poland arrived on the rumanian Ernest Collins he once played tackle on an Ohio Wesleyan team that held the mighty Michigan team to scoreless tie. Fielding a it hurry up it Yost was coach of the Wesleyan team and As a result of the game was hired by Michigan where he still remains. Speaking of younger ministers who May not temper their remarks with foundation of fact. Bishop Lowe said the new arrangement whereby Lay delegates have equal voice in methodist conferences will tend to give them greater balance. He told the Story of a youngster who preached against the a a profit a a he came into my office the next Day. And i asked him whether he had any life the Bishop said. A the said a sure everybody should have life then i asked him whether he believed the life insurance company merely locked up its Money and refused to let it work. And i told him that every working Dollar is a profit motive Dollar. He had not considered it that quiz .1 Lull \ ii .1. I. I a 1 a adm i which n by Madden was Given treatment in Plain Jimd for fractures of and later was arrested and taken to Danville. Charged with involuntary manslaughter. Or. And mrs j. K. Madden parents of the Man who was killed in the wieck. Survive him. With a sister and Bro her. Evelyn and Clovis Madden. Jesse a younger brother of Wilmer Madden died after an appendix operation at Gary a year or so ago. To was about �1 years old. Clovis the surviving brother drives a truck for l. A. Poe of pleasant Garden. Details of the Accident receive i during the Forenoon indicated the death of Maiden was instantaneous. The cab of the truck which he was m. E. , ed1 driving was badly crushed and his Days in preparation for the financial Matthews Driver of the to visitation. Sunday. May 21. Has been was in collision with that designated loyalty sunday. The pastor will speak at the morning service upon the theme Quot the Church we love Quot and Opportunity will be Given at the close for people to make their pledge to the Church thus obviating the canvassers calling during the week. There will be 12 teams visit ting the membership during the evenings of next week from 7 to 9 p. The teams Are composed of Russell e. Brown. Zol Mcintyre. Glen h. Lyon. H. T. Ross Fay Weaver. A spam Bishop. Howard Williams. Simpson Stoner. C. K. Hughes. Rex Thorlton. D. W. Killinger. Deward smythe. Grafton Longdon j. E. Courtney. J. O. Cammack. Days events. For 10 hours they had town Board for june 6. At 7 o clock. Steamships to come to Palestine. An been whisked through Montreal by to consider the expenditure of a t automobile had heard the cheers of proximately $500 for 2.000.000 in the streets streets in Roachdale. Had inspected troops attended Cere monies and visited historic Sites. Oiling fart exhibit to be held tonight qualifying trials for race Start saturday ting classes will be at work during exhibit hours 7 to 19. Quot i Tea Folio livestock receipts 10,boo, Holdover 215 it i to 10 cents lower 160-. L00 6.607 800-400 lbs., 56 30100-160 lbs., 6.15-56.65 sows to 10 cents lower mostly $5.35 the 300. Calves 800 Market Gen Alfew steady cleanup Trade on Aru heifers steers scarce Load we text steers $9.75 Cutter cows it $4.25-$6 dealers fully 50 lower. Top $10. Pfc a 700 fat lambs not establish arly. Bidding steady on Good to fed shorn lambs. Huhter makes no comment on report Panapolis ind. May 19.�? Felix Mcwhirter Indiana Linker and treasurer of the Recan slate committee today said a Quot no comments to make on committee reports that he was 8e<l in anti semitic activities. Or would Mcwhirter be Quot Quot Washington reports that he a a summoned to appear before a a congressional committee in sating in american student is found injured had receiver severe blow on head from a Blunt instrument Bloomington ind. May 19. Miss Mary Brumblay 25 years Obi. Of Bloomington comely Indiana University music student was found lying face Down on a Toad under a Railroad trestle. Police chief John Rawlings said she had received a severe blow on the head apparently from a Blunt instrument. But had not been assaulted criminally. Her pocketbook with no Money missing Lay beside her. Rawlings said he was told by the Young woman she remembered nothing after walking Down a dark Street in route Home from a theater last night until she found herself still dazed on Railroad tracks above the Road. She was found by three Post graduate students St. Paul Mcdaniel of Bowling Green. By. Ray of gravel switch ky., and Wendell Kinsey of Bloomington who were motoring in the Vicinity. A voice major. Miss Brumblay is studying on the Neizer scholarship and recently took an examination for a $1,000 scholarship to study in new York. Her father is a University building custodian. The annual Public school Art exhibit will in in the High school building this evening. Drawings paintings and crafts from the first s x grades Junior High and High school will be included. There will be two classes at work during the exhibit hours of seven to ten. One group will be from mrs. Mccullough a room fifth Grade at third Ward. They will be working in coloured Chalk and paint under the direction of miss King assistant in the local Art department. This group will include Jane Smith. Clarice Bemis Marion Greenleaf Mildred Greenleaf Maxine of Neal. Vera due. Betty Scott. Donnie Carlin. Bobby Treaner Donald Holt Virgil Seabee Zella lews Martha Rickard. Mary in a Cross. These children will be making original illustrated maps of their own neighbourhoods. Miss Hardy student teacher in the Art department will be in charge of the following seventh Grade student june Alexander Norma Jean Baldwin. Bob Flannigan. Doris Bryan. John Butler John Cartwright. Dorothy Conrad. Jean Feld Wayne Goa bes. Jimmy Taylor. Kathryn Mooney. Rebecca Longdon. This group will be designing and planning color schemes for original rooms. The Public is most cordially invited to attend this exhibit Between the hours of seven and ten Friday evening. Classes be working Only from seven to eight of clock. There will be no admission charge to any of the exhibit. Indiana panhellenic to give a $100 scholarship a scholarship of $100 will be Given to Depauw University by the Indiana panhellenic association which will hold its annual convention tomorrow at Indianapolis. This scholarship will be held by the panhellenic Council at Depauw and will be loaned to a senior girl who a member of a sorority affiliated with the association. Indianapolis ind. May 19 it up it qualifying trials for the memorial Day 500-Miile Speedway race Start tomorrow with at least 12 or 15 Drivers certain to try for the much desired pole position. Cars were being prepared posthaste by others of the 49 Drivers at the track for an attempt to gamer the first spot an i Speedway officials said that As Many As 20 pilots might be ready to cast off in tomorrows tests. Both Drivers and track officials agreed that the 125.768 mile per hour qualifying record set last year would be cracked sometime be tro the race As a result of the added paving to the track and shortened qualifying distance and the improvements in the cars. Democratic editors to meet sept. 15 and 16 Indianapolis ind. May 19.�? a up the a a mid summer meeting of the Indiana democratic editorial association will in held at French lick sept. 15 and 16 with Paul v. Mcnutt u. S. Commissioner to the philippine islands As the guest of Honor. President George d. Critton Berger of the association announced today. Mcnutt., for whom Indiana democrats have started a Boom to obtain the 1940 democratic nomination for president at present is on his Way Back from Manila and will arrive on the West coast june 23. He is due Here Eamy in july. Other 1.600. From Czechoslovakia and Austria were at the Mouth of the Danube also awaiting transport. Bitterness was intensified Here when news was received that British military units had caught a shipload of 300 immigrants who sought to enter the country illegally South of tel Valv. Mrs. Mcferran to attend License meeting mrs. Lillie Mcferran manager of the Putnam county Auto License Branch Agency will go to Indianapolis monday to attend a meeting that afternoon of the Branch a 1 a m a a which time team or in wac. Williams. Omer Bock. Charles Mccurry. Wayne Pell. A w. Crandall. The pastern a committee is composed of Rev c. Mcclure. J. G. Campbell. Ben t. Riley. Claude Webb. O. H. Smith. C. D. W Hildebrand. Demetrius Tillotson f. O. Fraley a. L. Goodenough. Albert Williams. E. A. Browning treasurer will in at the Church every oven no next week to receive reports from workers. The. Final meeting will be at the administration building. Sunday morning. May 28 at 9 00 of clock at which t Nie the committee Hopes to announce every family has been seen and that the budget has been subscribed in fun. Breakfast for the workers will be held at the Church. Monday morning managers of the state. The gathering will be held in the Palm room of the Claypool hotel. Frank Finney Auto License commissioner. Called the meeting the first of its kind Ever held. He said the 1939 weight tax tags the new Law covering certificates of origin for autos and the licensing of motor boats Over 25 horse Power would be taken up. General Branch problems will to discussed too. Governor Townsend and Fred f. Bays state chairman will attend the meeting. Or. Finney said.20 years ago in Greencastle the d. A. R. Met with Ella and Emma Beckwith. Dallas Rissler delivered the valedictory at the Reelsville High school commencement. A Maxwell automobile with four Flat tires appeared to have been abandoned parked by the Side of the Post office. It had been there four Days unclaimed. R. P. Mullins purchased the a. Cook drug co. Store on the West Side. Presents recital captains will receive their ass in ments for the week from the preparations made and the publicity Given the visitation next week promises to be the most Complete in Many years. To continue improvement although not All of the plans of the Indiana state Highway commission for Road improvements this Soa body was mangled. The collision happen i near the Spring Hill Camp it occurred when Matthews driving an interstate truck West passed a West bound automobile from the rear and directly into the truck driven East by Madden. C circuit court notes Everett Everman is. Lee Woody defendant withdraws h a appearance. Katharine Philips is. Walter tin Cher. Damages june 1 set for argument. Glen h. Lyon is. We r. Or Ore it Al foreclosure defendant defaulted and finding by the court that plaintiff should recover $661 wit i foreclosure. Ivan Huffman is Lola Huffman Raab it Al. To cancel deed defendant ruled to answer by May 22. In the suit of the Indiana Liberty Mutual insurance cd Sipany against a number of Putnam county residents. For the collection of assessments made by the company Aga not these defendants Legal firms of the City have been retained by various defendants and other on res of that nature Are yet to be made up a the court docket the indications Aro son can be carried out because of that the collection by the insurance Lack of enough Money the commis company of the amounts named in Sion says it is intended to continue complaint will be of in her last appearance on the do Pauw Campus. Miss Jeanne Schnack Enberg of Chicago turned from her usual romantic Qon Iedy roles to present a tragic fantasy As her senior speech recital. Or. Edward Shad Bolt. Of the Depauw school of music added a piano accompaniment to the product on of Clemence Dane s Quot Como of miss Schnackenber explained in a prologue that the author had provided a place in her play for the relation of musical rhythm with the rhythm of colloquial English. Or. Shadbolt composed a part of the music he played and arranged the rest of it. Too Muc h heat la Porte. Ind. May 19 a up a heat held up traffic on state Road 20 near Here for several hours late yesterday. A ton of lard the cargo of a truck driven by Paul Helman. Of South Bend caught fire. The Blaze was believed to have been started by a cig Aret thrown from a passing car. The truck and cargo were totally destroyed. The dual Lane improvement of the National Road by the construction of such Type of pavement of ten Miles length beginning at. The end of the present dual Lane contract East of Stilesville. And extending to Williams expired suddenly Finkal her vices will 11e held saturday from Home near Cloverdale William h Williams age 69 years a led suddenly thursday afternoon at his Home West of Cloverdale. Although or. Williams had been in ill health for some time his death yesterday came unexpectedly. Or. Williams had been a life Long resident of the Cloverdale Community and was a Well known Farmer. Several Brothers and Sisters survive. Funeral services will be held saturday afternoon at 2 of clock from the Home West of Cloverdale. The Rev. Reuben Masten of Belle Union will be in charge. Burial will be in the Doe Creek cemetery. The Reed funeral Home has charge of the fun ral arrangements. Posed by the persons affected. Hoir to appear the High school a Cappella choir will appear on the music demonstration program which is to be Given in the High school auditorium ton get at 8 o clock. Other groups which will appear Are the Junior band the senior band the French Horn quartet and the boys and girl pubs. # get o a it a o o 0 0000 today a weather 0 0 and 00 local temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 increasing North portion. Local showers South portion tonight or saturday somewhat warmer in Northeast portion tonight cooler in North portion saturday sunday local showers. Minimum 6 a. 7 a. 8 a. In. F a. 10 a. 11 a. 626773757576 81 12 noon. 83 1 p. A. 82 2 p. A. 82

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