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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - May 25, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA tub weather cd l 1 y and warm the daily Banner 5 t t 0 United press service jul the Home news 4 t t a so 44 u mrs Welty seven it Waves for All a a Ireen cattle Indiana tilt hasday May 25, 1939. No. 189 Akong on 1nterurban ase opens to to occupy All of a a Buday a continuance was denied circuit court. Room in of attorney were present ind other directly connected with operation heart nor conducted by the ind Public service commission in Castle in connection with the <1 discontinuance of operation be Terre haute division of the inn Railroad system opened at clock thursday Forenoon in the lit court room of the court present being a number of at-5vs and others directly connect Ith the operation of the Railroad in the audience were represent Froni towns in this area served Railroad. Hearing was conducted by Kay it an examiner for the Public 1 commission. Among those it from out of town and Partl no were Talph Hanna Public gel or. Who represents the enter of the Public before the co nuns at Tomey Edward Hebe and it Patrick of Indianapolis rep. Ling the receiver of the Railroad a Ami Iai uis Rappeport Gen auditor of the Indiana Railroad to. Rex a. Boyd of Greengas Deputy state attorney general he state was an interested but participating Spectator presenting the protestant were k Abrams for the Railroad Mien s Union and Hamilton to Ilton All of Greencastle. Repro others interested in the con nce of the interurban service e hearing was for the purpose faring facts connected with the mile usefulness of the Interr to this and other communities y. One of the important wit i was Dean g. Herbert Smith. Pauw University who presented i As to enrolment the Estonia to. Plumber of students using the tic Railroad and the Iatter s Gen importance to the University. R witnesses for the protestants r. P. Mullins Jacob Eitel by Allan of Greencastle Rev. Up and George Akers of Keels Marvin Robinson Joe Sullivan a buckles Cyrus Stanley and us by Coatesville messes. Scott and be Fer of Clayton is Hunter and Harold Pruitt of Ore and others. Is hearing was solely for the of hearing the protestants. Intentions of the receiver Bow elder were presented at the hearing of the matter before commission some three weeks of Indianapolis. The receiver 10 witnesses present at this no. Excepting the auditor or. Report. The opening of this hearing Lital Abrams of Lyon amp is for the trainmen s Union 1 11 continuance on the grounds his firm had but recently been by their client and had not we to prepare their Case. The n was overruled by or. Gilbert a Aid he thought sufficient notice Peon Given for All interested to was believed the hearing would Quot eluded this afternoon. Final plans made for dedication services final plans have been made for the dedication of the new try county Community Church two and one half Miles Southeast of Belle Union which is to be held sunday May Gatli. There will be an All Day meeting and a pitch in dinner at the noon hour. T he dedication address will be Given at 1 110 of clock in the afternoon by the Rev. O. E. Hall of Lafayette. Everyone is invited to attend both the morning and afternoon sessions. Complete draft of russian note informing soviet that eng i and is ready to join in Mutual Aid treaty London May 25. A up foreign office experts today completed the draft of a note informing soviet Russia that great Britain is now willing to join it in a Mutual Aid treaty to oppose expansionist Aims of the Berlin Rome Alliance. The treaty would also include France. It was hoped that after approval by prime minister Neville Chamberlain the note might be dispatched to Moscow tonight for delivery by sir William seeds British ambassador to Viacheslav Molotov. Russian Premier and foreign minister. The note was reported to include not Only the Mutual Aid proposal hut acceptance of Russia s demand for consultations by the British French and russian general staffs on defense problems to Start As soon As a treaty has been concluded. There were indications that the completion of negotiations on the my. Tual Aid pact whose Success was now taken for granted would Sec Britain France and Russia Allied As they were in 1914. Forming the Keystone of an anti aggression Alliance including Poland Rumania Turkey and Greece As Active members and in and. Edition guaranteeing the Security of most of the smaller nations of Europe. Four selected by i wan is club 1-11 Junior leaders to attend Junior leadership Cami kit vows had Junior track meet Large crowd was presen 1 wednesday afternoon at Blau Kotouk Field was riot of Enjo Meni event want a a minored let a miss re St Cdr and Glynn Downey assist by Ion c mrs. Lin me Tapp died at Ladoga mis. Linnie Pierson Tapp 71 years old died at Ladoga where she resided wednesday. She registered in the Depauw school of music in 1886, As Linnie Pierson the family living Here at that time. She had lived at Ladoga since 1889. She was born near new Winchester the daughter of William and Angeline Flynn Pierson and was married to Perry w. Tapp at Ladoga in april 1894. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1 30 of clock. Details for plans sunday Are Complete Many organizations have signified intention of participating town to be decorated cd Vontress died wednesday ices will be held Cut a morning from Lime Bale Church a Ethel Vontress age 45 years of evil am Rufus Vontress died set a afternoon at her Home in tic following an extended 111 Vontress was born in Ken member 18, 1893, the Daugh Tonias and Elizabeth Howard in the Vontress family is Nown in the Limedale common. Quot Ere or. Vontress operates a co station. 7vor8 Are the husband one in Wanda Fay age 8 years sister mrs. Catherine vontress0 a rollers Delbert and Thom-nille88> 11 of Limedale two and one Uncle residing in Ken a and other relatives. Ertl vices will be held Fri if it ring at 11 of clock from the Church in charge of the men Masten of Belle Union the Greencastle kiwanis club is sending four 4-h Junior leaders of Putnam county to the 4-h Junior leadership Camp May 31 to june 3, at the Indianapolis boy scout reservation. Those selected to go Are Vernic Zeiner Fillmore bussed Grimes Greencastle Edith Nichols Banbridge and Mary Ann Newgen. Greencastle. Three Hundred Junior leaders Are enrolled for this Camp a3 guests of other kiwanis clubs throughout the state. This is the eighth annual 4-h club Junior leaders training conference to be sponsored by the agriculture committee of the Indiana kiwanis District in cooperation with the 4-h club division Extension department Purdue University. The conference w 11 Start officially on wednesday with lunch at noon. All delegates arc expected to arrive at the boy scout reservation during the Forenoon. Lost year every kiwanis club and every county in the state was represented. It is expected the same record will be maintained at the 1939 conference. The instruction program St casing Junior leaders problems to been outlined by the 4-h club staff. Purdue University under the direction of or. Z. M. Smith. Recreation and entertainment has been planned jointly by the 4-h club division and the kiwanis agriculture committee. Expenses of delegates will be paid by kiwanis clubs of the state. The District committee responsible for the Camp includes Scott w. Mulligan Richmond chairman k. L. Zell. Brook Ville o. Reden Bache i Terre haute p. J. Davis Elwood Charles Byers Nap panic j. F. Hull. Evansville and j. E. Wylie Peru. Lile Hub Ltd int win be made in the Boonee in cemetery. The track meet for the Grade schools division of the Little kiwanis track meet for the grades of the Greencastle schools which was held wednesday at Blackstock Field was a veritable riot of enjoyment for the 100 or More contestants and for the spectators. It was the first event of that kind for local participants and had the interest of Novelty for All who took part or saw the program. J the event was sponsored by miss Kestner and Glynn Downey of the Greencastle High school staff assist cd by boys and girls from the physical education classes of the schools. 30 cd. Dash for 1st Grade boys Wilbur Smith Junior Turner Jack Grimes. Sack race for 1st Grade boys Melvin Reynolds Benny cation. Richard King. 30 or dash 1st Grade girls Patricia Reisburg Evelyn Williams Joyce Alexander. Sack race 1st Grade girls Velma Knauer Patty Reisburg Esther Phillips. 30 cd. Dash 2nd Grade boys a Charles Ewing Bruce Wilde Jackie Sears. Sack race 2nd Grade boys Billy Parrish Jack Bullerdick Charles Ewing. 30 cd. A lash 2nd Grade girls Dorothy Reeves Mary june Albright Marian Haskett. Sack race 2nd Grade Girish Lucille Sillery Dorothy Reeves Gladys Pritchard. 40 cd. Dash 3rd Grade boys Lloyd Grimes Frank Scott. Sack race 3rd Grade a Betty mumble Frank Grimes Ruby Saath off. 40 cd. Dash 3rd Grade girls Marilyn Renfro Wilma pearsons Maxine King. Three legged race 3rd Grade Richard Conrad and Frank Grimes Madeline Alexander and Mary Lou Gardner Betty Call and Marilyn Renfro. 40 cd. Dash 4th Grade boys Paul Blue. Donald Monnett. Charles Dew. Sack race 4th Grade Edith Wood Paul Blue Marian Frazier. 40 cd. Dash 4th Grade girls Freda Higgins. Ramona Albright Charlotte Patterson. Three legged race 4th Grade Elda Wheeler Ami Stanley Sears Donald Monnett and Paul Blue John shillings and Harry Mccowan. 50 cd. Dash 5th Grade boys Ronald Hanlon Howard Harris Claude Monnett. 65 cd. Dash 5th Grade Hoys Ronald Hanlon Benny Dean Robert Chi loft. 50 cd. Dash 5th Grade girls Jasmine Ernest Rose Ellen Smith Margaret Knight. 65 cd. Dash. 5th Grade girls Jasmin Ernest Margaret Knight. Rose Ellen Smith. 50 cd. Dash 6th Grade boys Tom. My Bittles and Junior Fry tie Donald Roberts. 65 cd. Dash 6th Grade boys Junior Frye Donald Fox Junior Curtis. 50 cd. Dash 6th Grade girls Anna Mae Cancilla Ann Buchheit and Christine Orrell tie. 65 cd. Dash 6tli Grade girls Anna Cancilla. Lillian Taylor Paula Eitel Jorge and a Marilyn Cox tie. High jump 5th Grade boys Roto it until nut it on Pune two vocational agriculture contest held All organization in Are asked to be at assigned place at 2 o c lock to join Parade Grok go la swell sent to penal farm first place in Public speak contest red to Vernon Singleton Buffet supper was served tim quark won second place and icus Mell Grimes placed third Arthur Cash Given honorable mention a new method Logansport ind., May 25-�?� up the Quot hunger strike a which Walter Betzner 35, a Blind Man entered to Force larger benefits from the state appeared a today. He was notified by the Cass county welfare Board that it had rec come ended to the state welfare Dement that he was entitled to Blind Aid assistance. Betzner concluded his a a strike May 11. He was protest no his 516 monthly pension and demanded a $25 month sum. The Public speaking contest sponsored by the vocational agriculture department of the Greencastle High school held in the High school build ing wednesday evening was attended by the families of the contestants and others interested particularly in the work of the vocational agriculture classes of the school under the direction of Eugene Akers. There was a Buffet supper prior to the speaking. There were nine contestants in the speaking contest All having a theme connected with farm work. Fiatt place was awarded Vernon Singleton 15 years old who is the son of or. And mrs. Willard Singleton and lives just West of the Putnam Parke line on the Extension of the Brunerstown Road. He spoke on the importance of Wool As a farm product and he talked from personal experience As he has a flock of registered Shropshire s who have won prizes for him during three years in the Parke county fair. The Wool from this flock is regularly consigned to the co operative association of the farm Bureau. Vernon is president of the future Farmers of America. Second place in the speaking went to tim Ruark 16 years old son of or. And mrs. Ivan Ruark. Of Madison township. His theme was a sanitary milk third place was won by Russell Grimes son of or. And mrs. Dallas Grimes of Madison township. He spoke on a Swine honorable mention was made by the judges William Bishop. David l. Grimes and Reese Hammond of the speech of Arthur Cash son of or. And mrs. Clayton Cash of Greencastle township and the judges com Plim cited All the other speakers upon the excellence of presentation and thought in their addresses. The others were Maurice Kivett Robert Evans Laurence Acton. Cecil Tunget and Willard Abbott. The details of the Observance of memorial Day in this Community next sunday were worked out at a meeting of committees wednesday evening and it is now assured the event will be the most generally Obj served in Many cais. Many organizations already have signified their intention of participating As bodies and others Are expected to appear and Are most cordially invited to so. Many persons will come from outlying parts of the county to be spectators and listeners who not hav. Observances in their own communities. Or who have an t special interest in the proceedings at the county seat. The Down town strict and the residences of the town generally will be decorated with the National colors in flags and Bunting and most of the automobiles participating in the Parade will be richly ornamented also. The general committee has arranged for a prize of ten dollars for the Best decorated automobile or float taking part in the Parade. The nucleus of the Parade will form at the american legion Home at 2 o clock and at that time All organizations who participate Are asked to be at their respective assigned places of gathering along the line of March to be ready to take their assigned places in the Parade As it reaches them. At the legion Home Walnut and College Avenue at 2 o clock there assemble the american legion colors the Greencastle High school band the a Cappella choir the american legion firing squad the legion itself and the car in which Samuel Hartley the civil War Veteran and the guest of Honor of the Day and the Spanish War men and their auxiliary in vehicles. These will Parade East to Locust Ami South on Locust. Pedestrians w la March in the front of the line and vehicles will follow the pedestrians. At the South Side of the Glt a a in memorial Church the vehicles will pause while the girl scouts fall in at the rear of the other pedestrians. At Anderson Street the boy scouts will fall in Beh and the girl scouts. At Hanna Street organizations will fall in who have not by that time contacted the Parade committee and received assignment of other a Inelli Nril on i i if tool George Laswell 38, of Harmony has won for himself a six months scholarship at the Indiana state penal farm All expenses paid by reason of his achievements in drinking rubbing alcohol. He not Only drinks the rubbing preparation but likes it a my above All he lives through the experience. In fact he cries for his rubbing alcohol. He has been asking for bottles of the fluid in drug stores opening them to see if the contents Are what he wants and drinking the contents then and a there without paying for the bottles so it is claimed. 33 men were taken alive from squalls v diver made last trip to make c Ertain other 26 were dead Tell of superhuman feat Ekit Oleian n mate hoisted emergency door Luil against in Kuril no Wate. Store closing to re observed St Awn Home damaged by Little Rock storm word has been received in Green Castlo describing the damage caused to the Home of or. And a mrs. J. W. Strawn by the disastrous storm in Little Rock Ark. The Arkansas Democrat says a probably the greatest damage to a private residence in the storm area was done to the Home of or. And mrs. J. W. Strawn about five Miles from North Little Rock when the huge Brick Chimney crashed through the roof a the height of the storm. A the wind entered the Hole and lifted a Large Section of roof on the other Side resulting in More than half of the House being a roofed. The entire House was flooded by the rain and water stood several inches deep on both the first and second floors. Several Trees nearby and shrubbery were mrs. Drawn was alone in the House when the storm struck merc Hants will close places of business on tuesday for memorial Day it was announced today that practically All places of business in the i y will be closed either All Day or part of the Day on tuesday As a tribute to memorial Day. If there arc any merchants who not have flags they can be secured by getting in touch with Perry Rush commander of the american legion and it is requested that Oil places of business display the Flag on sunday As Well As tuesday. 20 years ago in gee Castee appeasement tax Reform is certain president has not agreed to the program but is be coming reconciled Washington. May 25. It up a drive to adjourn Congress in six weeks made business appeasement tax Reform a certainty today but probably foreclosed amendment of the National labor relations act or change in neutrality legislation at thin session. Chairman Robert l. Doughton 1 n. C., of the House ways and Means committee sail the tax sub committee probably would meet this week and hear Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau or. Soon. He assured questioners that the Bill would be sped through Congress. Doughton rep. Jere Cowper d., tonn., chairman of the ways and Means tax sub committee and a Morgenthau discussed taxes and pro Medure to be followed at the committee tax hearings at a meeting late yesterday. Treasury officials said they expected a the hearings to begin tuesday or wednesday of next week. Doughton understood that Senate democrats would caucus before debating the tax Bill and attempt to agree among themselves to prevent repeal of business deterrent levies being jeopardized by encumbering amendments. President Roosevelt has not agreed to the program but apparently is becoming reconciled to tax revision including abandonment of the graduated tax on undistributed profits of corporations earning More than $25,000 a year. Will investigate jewish conspiracy Dies committee plans to examine a documentary evidence in w. Virginia the Boston club met with mrs. F. Zeis. Keith Roberts arrived from Over the seas. Mrs. George Landes received a fracture of her right forearm when she tripped on a Rug and fell. Otho Vermillion was commander of the Spanish War veterans. Prof. L. R. Eckardt gave the address at the Monroe township sunday school convention. Mrs. Charles her Drichas spoke on Quot Mobel zing the sunday school prof. Blanchard spoke on a the chemistry of the Washington May 25. It up the Dies committee planned today to Send investigators to West Virginia to examine a documentary evidence of an International jewish conspiracy which an advocate of fascism claims he buried there. George Deatherage head of the knights of the White camellias told the committee yesterday that he Hall a two tons of such evidence buried a in the Hills of West he agreed to permit agents to study his the committee studying an alleged nation wide anti semitic and anticommunist movement patterned along fascist lines was in recess today. It will hear maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley retired army commander who was proposed As military Leader of the organization next week. Deatherage told the committee that he had conferred with German embassy officials to determine How Adolf Hitler financed his nazi movement in Germany. He said he was informed by a German embassy attache that there is More anti semitism in the United states now than there was in Germany before hitlers Rise to Power. American millionaires including Howland Spencer he said contributed to his movement. Spencer recently sold his estate across the Hud. Son River from president Roosevelt a veterans urged to buy poppies will be sold saturday by members of auxiliary As volunteers world War veterans of Putnam county were urged to remember Ami pay tribute to their comrades who died in the War by wearing a poppy on poppy Day saturday. May 27. In in Appeal issues a today by Perry m push commander of the Putnam county Post of the american legion. A the poppy is the memorial Flower of the world War dead a said commander Rush a Anil brings Back visions of the poppy studded Fields of France and Belgium where so Many of our comrades gave their lives in the nations service. It is very fitting that once each year to should put on a poppy to show that we still remember these dead and still Are devoted to the ideals for which they gave their lives. A every world War Veteran of course will join with the other patriotic citizens in wearing a poppy on poppy Day and contributing As generously As his Means will afford to the welfare of those who Are still suffering from the War the go Sable veterans their families and a the families of the dead. The Little red Flowers of remembrance will be offered to us by the women of the american legion auxiliary our wives mothers Sisters and a laughters who will work through the Day As unpaid volunteers. We veterans should set an sex Portsmouth n. A. May 25 a up a a liver made a last trip today to the sunken Jub Marne Squal us. From which 33 men were taken alive to make certain that the other 26 were dead before the hatches were sealed and the slow process of Rais no the Craft by pontoons is begun. There was Only the slightest Chance that even Cue of the 26 was alive. Their a loom seemed to have been sealed when by a superhuman feat of strength As the squalls nosed Down at nearly a 45-degree Angle her after Section filling with water from an open valve Lloyd r. Man Ess electricians mate saved the lives of the 33 men in the Forward half of the ship. After having brought up batches of seven nine and nine men in three Descel is the hell was held fast More than half Way Down for four hours on the fourth to p. The c get survivors in it were Lieut. Oliver f. Naquin the submarine s commander who in the seats Trad t on had remained to see the last living Man of his Crew precede him to safety. Weary cold hungry and haunted by a 40-hour ordeal these eight men finally were hoisted a onto the Falcon at 12 30 a. M. A Edt it tot Lay and placed in decompression Chambers. On each of the Tulier trips. Lieut. Yuquin had selected the weakest men to go ahead. He Stock in the cold dim i get of the Forward torpedo room with his men assembled about him every time the diving Bell appeared overhead at the escape Hatch and studying the weary expressions a in tin so vering menus faces had pointed to those who appeared to be in worse con it lotion. They obeyed without a work a climbed up into the div no bed and soon afterwards were stumbling across the Falcons deck. Titiro was heroism during Tho a 40 hours after the squalls went Down at 9 40 a. M. Tuesday that never will be told but out of the first confusion of the rescues cime the Story of Manes feat to which each rescued Man a Rcd ted his life. The Story was to a i by lieutenant r. N. Robertson third in command of the squalls. He said that the ship was going Down fast and seemed almost to be staining on end. With water gushing Down upon that Middle a n �1 Forward compartments when Manas the Only one within reach of the tremendous steel door seized it and a heaved it upwards. Had his strength failed in fore he Hall Tho door la Kkt. Every Man on the it Squal us would have Boon drowned within a few minutes. The rescuers believed that nothing More remained to he a Lone for the Squall so Crew that All had been saved and Early Unis mov Naig the following message was dispatched from the Falcon to the Navy department in Washington Quot completed Rescue of All known survivors. Investigation of flooded compartments wll proceed As a a Wjk Muir Tiou Aly jus possible. Suspending operations for n get due to damage to Rescue chamber a living belly Whlon must be repaired before further 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 today a weather 0 0 and 0 ample by being among the first to 0 local temp creature 0 000 0 0 000000 partly Clouris tonight and Friday possibly thundershowers in Southwest portion not much Chango in temper Skaden Funkai to he nature. Held Friday afternoon have a poppy on our coat in Honor of our fallen funeral services for mrs. Mary Anna Braden wife of Ott Braden who died wednesday at her Home on Elm Street will be held Friday afternoon at 2 30 o clock from the Hector funeral Home. The Kev. M. Mcclure pastor of the Gobin memorial Hyde Park Home to father divine j Church will officiate. Interment will negro religious Leader. Be made in Forest Hill cemetery. Minimum. 68 6 a. M72 7 a. M70 8 a. M83 0 a. M. 85 10 a. A. 88 11 a m. 80 12 noon. 93 1 p. In. 83 2 b a. 83

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