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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - May 22, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaT a a be weather ool do and warm 4, a l Jik f0b1y-seven the daily Banner to it Waves for All $0 United press service 4 the Home news a a i a -i-c1hkkncastlk, Indiana monday May 22, 1 a it. No. 1st Numen is evidence of deep respect be Center of memorial a exeiuise8 sunday afternoon ted by contributions f work if raising fund and is for detail was in hands 0f association soldiers Monument at Forest cemetery which will be the Cen of the memorial Day exercises wet sunday is not Only a me-.,110 the Soldier dead of the com. But it also is a tangible Evi of the deep interest of the i of the Community in matters tiling to their veterans of the War. E Monument was erected from to buttons from the people of the the Active work of raising funds and caring for the details e matter was in the hands of embers of Quot the Putnam coun lid Erst Monument Ich colonel John r. Mahan was int. William d. Alien Treasur-1 David Vav. Jones Secretary Lias d. Jones a sculptor of innate. Designed the Monument supervised its making. It stands i elevated land at the South Side i cemetery the figure in heroic of the infantry Soldier which Lounts it faces the slope of the Tery toward the North Low the soldiers figure there is Vestal eight feet High with pan a its cylindrical Side on which inscribed the names of 320 sold Odeail. With space unoccupied for Rudi tonal but apparently no a have been placed upon it since As cast. Many of the names Are almost illegible. It Monument was dedicated july to the address of the Day Belli live Rod by Richard w. Tho nip of Terre haute with speeches by governor Conrad Baker and a e. Williamson of this City i then attorney general of the. A a soldiers burying plot lies in t of and at the sides of the Ament. A number of former Mem of the civil Spanish and lid wars Are buried there. One Quot sting detail is that by the Side grave of Corporal Wyatt to co a 28th u. S. C. Inf., in civil War there is the grave of bleat son Guy James 24th u. S. Of the Spanish american War not far away is the resting i of Ollie James younger son of to a private in the 809th Pioneer in the world War two Genera of the James family in three respectively. Ere Are four Small Bronze Cannon ted at the four Corners of the three of which show they were a by n. P. Ames founder held mass., in 1845 and 1846, at they Are now almost a Hun years old. Back in the bore of of the guns the other Day a by of Young Birds begged earn for food. Rural youth of county to meet tuesday the Rural youth of Putnam county will meet tuesday evening at 8 o clock in the Assembly room of the court House to organize themselves into a club along lines of similar organizations elsewhere. Cyrus Dyer of the Indiana farm Bureau has been asked to be present at the meeting and talk on the possibilities of the proposed club. Officers Are to be elected and two delegates Are to be chosen to the leaders training school at Purdue june 19 to 24. The expenses of these two delegates will be paid by the county farm Bureau and the farm Bureau co operative store contributed soldiers in mexican War shooting f nazi citizen causes unrest anti polish demons tip tons reported in towns of Danzig area troopers smash windows established that fatal Sling ump from an occupant or commissioner s automobile Home guard company was known As the Putnam blues also had yellow jackets to observe 85tli anniversary Legate Lodge no. 155, f. A. Fillmore to meet wednesday Legate Lodge no. 155, f. Amp a. Fillmore was chartered on May 1854, with Erasmus Hudson As master. Or. Hudson was the a father of Abner b. Hubbard of Tore. Wednesday evening May 24th a tors of the Lodge and their fam Meibers of the order of East Star and families and friends will 1 m the Lodge Hall at Fillmore to rate the eighty fifth Annever w Deputy grand master John hitter of Terre haute a Planta attend if possible this is the last Day of the sessions of grand Lodge and or. Hunter is line to be advanced to w. 1 master of the grand Lodge of or. Hunter has promised to a it of possible for him to get in time. Other speakers will be tilt. Mog ate Lodge has thirty four past masters the oldest being s. Cowgill who was master. The oldest member of the a Henry shuck who is ninety years of age. Morris s. Hunter present master of the Lodge expected that there will be a Tendance. Danzig May 22.�? up angry anti polish demonstrations were reported in towns of the Danzig area today As the result of the killing of a Danzig German citizens by a polish chauffeur who fired from a motor car of the polish commissioner to Danzig. Danziger gathered around the polish customs building at Sieckel near the East prussian Frontier and loudly denounced poles it was reported. A window of the building was smashed by nazi storm troopers one of whom brandished a Dagger. Demonstrations were reported also at warder in the Corner where Danzig Poland and Germany meet. The polish representative Here handed Danzig authorities two notes on yesterdays shooting. It was believed they amplified the polish version of the incident. An official Danzig government communique reporting the shooting incident and announcing a protest to polish officials said a on the night of May 2021, a citizen named Gruebner was shot by a polish citizen a chauffeur named Murahaski. The shooting was without reason. A Arthur Arciser president of the Danzig Senate requested minister Marjan Chodacki the polish representative to visit him yesterday afternoon. He handed Chodacki a note in the name of the free City protesting against the conduct of polish extra territorial officials and demanding an explanation of the affair and Steps toward compensation. A according to the note the conduct of polish customs inspectors at Kalthof toward German Danzig women stirred Crown is to demonstrations before the polish customs House there. No polish property nor persons were damaged in these demonstrations. Police intervened and the affair Wax liquidated and the polish diplomatic representative was advised. A nevertheless polish Counselor of legation Perkowski with several customs officials went to Kalthof chill nah on a a a two sundays rain helps the crops rain was heavy in North and Central sections of county eight tenths of an Inch of rainfall most of it com no in one hard rainstorm during Tho afternoon blessed the dry Earth sunday causing Farmers particularly to be glad. Their Fields had become dry. The dryness checking the starting of the growth of the Corn and also holding Back the growth of Oats and wheat. The amount of rainfall was not enough to wet the soil thoroughly but it brought a moist condition All Inch or so deep and was a help the Farmers say. Most of the com that is to be planted in Putnam county this season is in the ground now but there Are a few tracts not yet ready. The prolonged wet season of the Spring held Back the cultivation of a Quot ground. The rain Wax heaviest in the Northeast part of the county but the Central sections also were a sited. How Ever the rain did not extend far South until late in the Day and then it was much lighter than in the North. Roll it if officers and men interesting is Many were Early members of families Here now the soldiers sent from Putnam county into the armes of the United states during the conflict Between the states beginning in 1861, were not the first troops contributed by Putnam for service to their country on june 20, 1840, the Home guard company known As the Putnam blues was mustered into the serv be of the United states and marched j away toward Mexico with which the United states was then at War. Many of those Putnam men an i boys who engaged in that conflict were interred in Putnam soil at their death and their Graves if located will receive the honors accorded other veterans of United states army and Navy service on memorial Day. There was another company of Putnam county guards which was a quipped and drilled for service at the time the Putnam blues were called out but it was not called upon. It was known As the Putnam jackets of which Captain Applegate was commanding officer. On the Day of departure of the Putnam blues the company assembled at the court House in the presence of a Large crowd and with Colora flying set out for the wars. The company marched Fouth on the Bloomington Pike now stale Road 43, and it was followed for Miles by men and boys widely thrilled by the music of the Fife and Drums and the armed uniformed soldiers. The Putnam blues marched to new Albany where the company was honoured by being made company a. First regiment Indiana volunteers. Delana k. Eckels a prominent Putnam county attorney was made commissary capita n of the Reg ment. William Albin was made Guarter master sergeant. The Roll of officers and men is interesting today because Many of them were Early members of families represented among our c Mizens now the officers of the company were John h. Roberts Captain who died february 19, 1847. And was succeeded in the command of the company by Daniel a. Farley first lieutenant. William l. Farrow second a lieutenants. R. W. Jones and Abisha l. Moral san sergeants John c. Walls Benjamin e. Crooks Thomas s. Hancock and Merritt Redding corporals. John cad. Wesley i. Bank Lewis h. Raid Jill and Joel w. Mcgrow. The privates were Howard Abbott. Lafayette Atkinson. Andrew i. Akers Thomas s. Bridges. Sanford p. Bur k. Samuel much. Brooks James Craig. Lafayette Cornwall Henry c. Crook Samuel Francis. William a Farley John Ford John Gray Abijah Grimes Jesse a Hamrick. Martin Heath. Alfred k. Keller. William r. Keller Wllliam Knipe William Lane Humphrey g. Mav Floyd Mills Isaac Mcman noway Samuel Purcell James Pickering. John Pickering Joseph Roberts Lewis Solomon James h. Summers Daniel t. Summers Solomon o. Sid Dena Jesse a. Shepard. Abram n Stringer Mason Vermillion. Robert c. Wilson. Peterson m. Wood Robert Walls and David Young. Those who died in service were Henry Hiatt Samuel e. Newell George West James Mccall. Samuel c. Moris. Clark Powers and Henry a. West. Fifteen others were honorable discharged by reason of expiration of term of enlistment or disease or other disability. Military agreement was signed German italian diplomatic a a Xis converted into formal Alliance spans Atlantic easily hopping the Atlantic Here is the huge French flying boat. Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris squatting at port Washington l. I. Lower panel shows Crew left to right Georges Bouchard. Marc Canon. Captain Henri Guillaumet. Jacques Neri and Paul Comet. More than $10.001 Given to seniors Joe Baric of us Knell received most valuable scholarship interurban hearing to re thursday More than $10.000 in graduate scholarships have la to a received by Depauw University seniors to enable them to continue their courses of study in graduate schools. The most valuable a Grant of $1,250, was received by Joe Barr of Bicknell president of the senior class who plans to study in the London school of economics next year. Or. Barr was a candidate for the Rhodes scholarship. Richard r. Overman of Richmond has received a $1.000 Grant for research in endocrinology in the biology division of Harvard University. Herbert Kixmiller of Vincennes has a scholarship valued at $s00 in the National Institute of Public affairs. Washington d. C. Joseph c. Merrill Vermillion 111. George Olmsted Greenwood and Edwin Lindsay Detroit. Have $600 giants for graduate work at the University of Illinois medical school the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota. Richard Corson Elgin. 111. Carle ton Hodge Springfield. Iii., and Elmer Hillman Shelbyville have $450 awards for graduate study at the University of Wisconsin University of Pennsylvania and Iowa state College. Others who have received Grants include Howard Castle Barrington. 111., $300 scholarship at Northwestern University Law school John m. Warful Marion. $275 scholarship to Northwestern University Law school George d. Howard Santiago Chili. $250 scholarship in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvan Elmo Ray Paff Goshen. $225 Grant by Chicago theological Seminary Robert Roy Wright. Onarga 111., $200 scholarship to Yale divinity school Harry r. Warvel Gary $200 scholarship in economics at University of Wisconsin Raymond clutter. Evansville $200 scholarship at Northwestern University Law school and Howard b. Schor Camden. N. J., $150 scholarship at University of Pittsburgh. Tuition scholarships have been received by Dean c. Rogers London Ohio for the University of Iowa and to Frank e. Duddy jr., of Cambridge mass., in English at Boston University. A Large percentage of Depauw a 1939 class plans to enter graduate school next year. The Field of Medicine led the list with business and social work placing second and third. Several plan to secure teaching positions for the coming year. Expect Large n i beit to be present at c ourt House at 1� of a Loc k freight service is needed Hamilton and Hamilton have born employed to present Cuse residents need passenger service Church canvass started monday 81 men Selec ted were present at breakfast at Gobin c Hurch it is expected that a Large number of business men. Farmers and citizens generally from Clayton. Coat Seville Amo Grcic Castle and from the Rural area extending West from Greencastle some fifteen Miles will be present thursday at 10 of clock a. M., in the circuit court room in the court House at Greencastle when the Public service commission of Indiana opens its hearing of protests against the proposed abandonment of the electric traction line Between Indianapolis and Terre haute. The protesting business men of Greencastle and towns cast of Here will ask the continuance of the Road principally in order to keep in operation the height service which the Road has furnished them. The residents of this Community and others As Well As the banners living along or near the Road in the fifteen mile Section extending West from Green Castle to Harmony will protest because of their need for the passenger carrying facilities of the Road. The residents of this fifteen mile stretch will show the Public service commission that the interurban line is practically their Only Means of travel away from their own neighbourhood. This area has no arterial Highway leading in any direction. It will not be served by buses that May be substituted for the interurban service the residents claim. The protestants have employed Hamilton amp Hamilton to present their Case and any one who desires to participate in the protest is asked to communicate with that firm. The commission will be addressed also by representative men from the business circles of this City and other towns and among the Farmers. It is considered that upon the sentiment displayed at this meeting and upon Tho facts presented will depend largely the Fate of the Terre haute division of the traction organization. The every member canvass of Gubin memorial methodist Church got off to a Good Start this morning. There were 31 of the 36 men selected for the canvass present at the breakfast served at the Church. Russell e. Brown chairman of the finance committee announced that practically on third of Tho budget had Al Cady been subscribed before the actual canvass had started. The teams received their assignments and visitation proper will begin this evening at 7 00 of clock. The teams will be calling every evening this week from 7 00 to 9 00 p. E. A. Browning treasurer will be in Tho Church office to receive reports each evening at 9 00 p. There Are 402 families to make pledges. The spirit of cooperation was never finer in the Church than at the present time. Members and friends announce ready for War proclaim indivisibility and invincibility of pact big crowd waiting it Beers leaders Berlin. May 22. Up a Germany and Italy signed a military pact today converting the r dipl mate a a Xis into a formal Alliance and announced that they were ready for peace or War. Joachim Van Ribbentrop foreign minister and county Galeazzo Ciano. Italian foreign minister signed the treaty at the ornate new chancellery at 11 07 a. <6 07 a. Edt it in the presence of Adolf Hitler and German and italian military leaders. Immediately afterwards in Brief speeches they proclaimed the indivisibility and invincibility of the Berlin Rome Alliance and asserted that its 150 000.000 people stood United against any rival blocs. A both nations under the leadership and Genius of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have assumed leadership in Europe so As to preserve its order and said Ciar a. A and today they form an unbreakable bloc of invincible strength and a if democratic War mongers have attempted to create a highly complicated and highly dubious pact system in order to attempt to encircle Germany and Italy so is this pact our determined answer a said Ribbentrop. A in future both nations stand together come what May Ever ready to extend the hand of peace to a Friend but with Iron determination to preserve and protect their vital right the signing ceremony was Brief and purely formal. Ciano. Ribbentrop and Hitler sat at a Long table at one end of the ambassador s Salon in Hitler s new chancellery with Hitler in the Middle seem very and Solis to have the entire budget pledged in full for the com on of three Large chairs drawn up ing year. Most of the subscribers to the budget have increased their pledges for the new year. Many new members have been received into the Church during the present Church year. The goal at the beginning of the year was 100 new members during the year. With the Fine class received at the Twilight membership service yesterday afternoon the total received so far this year is 104. Mak ing the total membership 1211. The Church has planned an outstanding program of activity for the new Church year. Royalty meets quintuplets British Queen kissed each of Dionne at first meeting monday Toronto ont., May 22.�? up it a the Dionne quintuplets saluted Queen Elizabeth today with five moist kisses in one of the strangest audiences Ever granted by British monarchs. The Queen forgetting Royal custom and tradition leaned Over and put her arms around each of the Dionne children and kissed them Back. The quintuplets were dressed in Angle length court dresses of White and wore Little White poke Bonnet. Circuit court notes the divorce proceedings of Thelma Gladys Schwomeyer against Joseph Preston Schwomeyer in which a Cross complaint had been filed by the defendant Lias been dismissed by agreement of the parties the Cross complaint being dismissed As Well As the complaint. 20 years ago in Greencastle the state Highway commission started plans for the paving of the National Road from Terre haute to five Miles East of Stilesville. Among the members of the High school senior class Lillian Velma Daniel expressed a preference for Central business College for her work after graduating from High school Pearl Margaret Gibson named Depauw Harold Holland Newgent. Depauw. Pendergast in a guilty plea Kansas try political Boss faces heavy Fine and prison sentence Kansas City to May 22.up Tom Pendergast the democratic political Boss of Kansas City for Many years pleaded guilty in Federal court today to a charge of evading payment of income taxes. The plea was accepted by judge Merrill e. Otis who said he would allow each Side an hour in whip i to present arguments. Pendergast his round face slightly flushed did not go to the bar. The plea of Quilty was entered by on of his attorneys and then medical testimony was offered. Pendergast the fallen Boss of the democratic political organization Here was sentenced to prison for one year and three months. He also was fined $10,000. In addition to the prison sentence assessed on the first count of the indictment and the $10,000 Fine assessed on the second count Pendergast was sentenced to three years in mall Inird on Page two Ford c caravan will Stop in City this evening a caravan of trucks and commercial cars now on a 1500-mile tour of principal cities and towns of Tho Ford motor company s Indianapolis Branch territory is on exhibit Here today at the King Morrison Foster co., or. Foster said . Visitors May inspect the caravan Between the hours of 4 p. M monday and 9 u. Tuesday or. Foster announced and operate the various units which include school buses big for l freighters one tonner dump trucks Sedan delivery and panel delivery trucks some of these Are not usually carried by the average dealer. The seven week tour which started in Indianapolis april 24. Will end at Mooresville ind., june 8. In addition to 65 Indianu cities on the itinerary. Tho caravan will visit nine i it ints in Southern Illinois. Bunion. 79, expired sunday funeral services will be held tuesday at new Providence c Hurc h for Tho signing. Copies of the treaty Lay before the foreign ministers. Ribbentrop Curneil v Hitler Ami asked his permission to sign. Hitler nodded and the foreign ministers simultaneously signed their copies of the treaty then exchanged copies and completed the signing. They were out on a Balcony of the chancellery to be cheered by the big crowd waiting in the Wilhel Strasse. And then made their Brief radio speeches. Eastern Star to have Danee to mrs. Members and their immediate families Are invited to attend the order of the Eastern Star will sponsor a big Spring dance thursday night. May 25th, at the masonic Temple. A splendid entertainment has been planned with u l Doell and his ten piece orchestra furnishing the music for the evening. The Entile first floor of the Temple will let a used by the guests. Any Mason or Eastern Star or members of their immediate families with escorts Are invited to attend the Fine manner in which All committees Are cooperating assures one that there is every reason to anticipate a very successful event. Members from these fraternal organizations in adjoining towns Are cordially invited to attend and enjoy the evening wit ii Tho Greencastle masons end Eastern stars. William Jefferson Bunten age 79 years passed away sunday evening at the Home of his son. Clyde Bunten in Indiana pops. Or. Bunten was will1 known in the it. Meridian comm i Ity where he spent most of his life. Survivors Are four children Clyde of ind Anapolis. Artie of . Mrs. Reggie Wildman of Jefferson township and mrs. Irene Meek of Greencastle two Sisters. Mrs. Lou Resse and mrs. Eva Ogle of Fillmore one brother John Bunten of Danville. Funeral services will be held tuesday afternoon at 2 of clock from the new Providence Church South of it. Meridian. Friends May Call at the Home of or. And mrs. Cd Aronce Wildman in Jefferson township. $ a a a a @ a a a a a today a weather 0 a and a a local temperature a mostly Cloudy tonight and tuesday. With local showers or thunderstorms in Central and North i it options tuesdays warmer in extreme Northwest portion. Minimum 60 6 a. 64 7 a. A. 68 8 a. A. 72 0 a. A. 75 10 a. A. 77 11 a. A. 80 12 noon. I 1 p. A. 81 2 p. A. 81

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