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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - May 26, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA the w i a the us a us a it warm a the daily Banner a it Waves for ally 0 4 45i United a kiss ski Vul r All the Home news 1 Fuin a seven keen Castle Indiana Friday May 21, i a a. No. 100 h school Ervi Casto Ali i i sunday Loti i hmm Wax tkv. Fe1.leks at Iio Iun hit chill Vonu class will Kluvo in Art in mis ii Alluh by Kinh let 7 s. O Jock we i Soli Quot baccalaureate Servil i sunday evening. Cobin memorial to 0 of clock. There Are l i u iles in the class Kev h. C. Kellers pastor or Iszlai Church will deliver r. Entire program is bus prelude Quot adagio from Ionato Quot Guilmant. L in n rial Quot Marche Pon Widor. I Denman Thompson organist a Igat Lonn hymn. No. 106 a ship the Rev Victor l. Raphael inn from a twelfth mass a a High school choir Gure Reading proverbs Viii. A Kev. .1 drover Forward. Ration Quot Christiansen Schnol choir. On Quot cisterns and Wells Quot. C. Miera. it Ingre gation seated i Claude m Mcclure. Reo m Nal i congregation seated former Fincastle my died at m kit i . Mis. Marshall s older Lias received word of the death of her Uncle e i Gar Porter of Marshall or Porter a former res Dent of incas be. Passed away at his Hong thursday noon. He is also an Uncle of Oscar Obenchain of this City. Funeral services will be he d saturday afternoon al 2 o clock at shall. Burial will be in the Roachdale cemetery. Notice All persons having flow is to distribute for memorial i of Are requested to bring them to the or department or the american la Gion Home sunday morning before la o clock. If anyone is unable to get the Flowers to either of the two places someone will Call for them if you Telephone the legion or the fire department. Merchandise for new store is due month Meitl Ward store opening Une 8, Iii Sipi ice in the City a ill a Noel a of exhibition jes Timi demonstration in he h k v it o let is Day afternoon it Foty a it the highways was he of the demonstration give slay afternoon on the North the Square by col. Hay Hen it a the auspices of w. A. I of Green Castle motors. A Ron i witnessed the Demon i Ami. \ Ryone got a thrill performance. Tires were out wit i dynamite at 50 Miles will it the slightest Shock in thi car. A Lummy was onto he Street ahead of a the new Montgomery Waul company store which will open its Doma on june 8. Was a Busy Pla a today when the first group of store a employees began working in placing merchandise which has begun to arrive c. C. Yva Gamot. Manage to and h Phillips in charge of the in Chandis ing of the store were Busy placing the now employees and they in turn were Busy placing the newly arriving Stock. Workmen who have been remodelling the three f oors of the Prevo building for the past month a near Jing the end of their task which big one and about 90 per cent i the work is Complete. The remainder of the work will be completed within a few Days. The size of the new store can be realized when it was stated by or. Walgamott that 40 car loads of merchandise will to requited to Stock it some of this merchandise is now stored in the City and the remainder is Enro Ute. Program for memorial Day is completed As soon As is entire la in mkt key it will u18se mule hit. will speak Kev. Kup Lical will Iive Benediction Spanioli american War veterans will participate. Oiin White oils the death of an italian Maxi commonly known As John White but whose real family name is said to be Ling i a to. 25 and 30 Miles Bianco occurred at the Putnam coun j of a a a the ability to Stop to Hospital thursday afternoon a ? Speed he was not having been taken there sick Only or Speed but at 30, he was Given a it. It Quot lined children to be quoth Ali treets and highways. Hensel of the opinion that jux Wale would be safer in a Lif they let the car steering rather Mian try to keep it 1 h o approves the use Fety Wilf m driving. He by most it plot it Are injured in 1 by in ing thrown against no a Belt would hold them a eat. His demonstrations col. <1 Stock Model 1930 it l Ioor Sedan. This a d f a vent eth demonstrate the unc car. Crew ski in our cat danger a it Sij it to Ltd heart attack k my \ m Uuno end 01 i tii tour Oak Paderewski is in 1 a anger after a a a slight 11 a is admirers gathered in t hear him wept when Noah n Taring the end of 11 leu of the United states n 1 Rod of 40 years Var a Quot Quot not 11.-i i been Given for his 1 a a 1 n retirement to appear v 1 More concert audiences. As be needed the Money a a Hitri Buthod vast sums to the Dun of his beloved Poland a philanthropic enter Ai in a Wah Bat having play a Din in Public almost All his get Happy in retirement a Ltd of Fellows meet i hers of the Fillmore Quot a 798 i. O. O. F. 1 a Pate in decorating the f deceased Brothers please 1 big Hall at 8 a. M. Sunday and Rebekah will 1,1 Hall at 1 30 o clock for at the cd dietary. An official Lodge will speak. Muho furnished by the Fillmore Day before. Bianco was practically unknown in Greencastle among his fellow countrymen. An attempt to secure the co operation of the its Ian Consul at Indianapolis in finding relatives information As to insurance and so on was not successful. The a it Mains were taken to the Hector fun eral Home and last rites will be held at the st. Paul s Catholic Church at 9 of clock saturday morning with in torment at Hill Bianco was understood to have be n a Veteran of the italian army in the world War. He appealed to be about 45 Yea. Old. To compete for sat. Dean a. Herbert Smith annoy not i Wink re and is in. H Roe More than two Hundred Seniora from High schools in Indiana and surrounding states will lie on the Depauw University Campus tomorrow to compete for scholarships. Nearly $3.000 in tuition awards arc available each year under the president a scholarship Competition. Ton scholarships arc available in the College of Liberal arts and four in the school of music. All Are valued at $200, the amount to apply on i tuition for the freshman year. Written examinations personal interviews and aptitude tests Are Given the contestants and the awards made on the basis of these tests. The program will open with a special Chapel at 9 o clock at which president Clyde e. Woldman will make an address of Welcome. All contestants will be guests of the University at a luncheon. Announcement of successful candidates will he made Early next week by Dean g. Herbert Smith who is in charge of the Competition. The program committee for the local Observance of memorial Day next sunday afternoon at Forest Hill cemetery has completed the program for the event. The program will open immediately after the arrival at the cemetery of the Parade which will Start at 2 o clock from the american legion Home up town. As soon As the Parade is entirely within the cemetery grounds it will disband and those who participate in it. And other interested citizens will gather at the soldiers Monument on the High ground toward the South Side of the cemetery. The Bergethon marching band will play for the assembling of the audience. Their numbers will be followed at once by the presentation of the memorial any ritual of the grand army of the Republic in which line parts will be taken by two veterans of tin War and two from the world War veterans. The firing squad from the legion Post will fire the Salute to the dead. The band will play the invocation will be Given by the Rev. C. M Mcclure of the go bin memorial Church. Perry run. Commander of the american legion Camp will present John Mundt who will read the Lincoln Gettysburg address. Then or. Rush will present or. Bergethon. Director of the marching band and of the a Cappolla choir and two numbers i ill be Given by the choir. Or. Clyde k. Wildman. President of Depauw University will be introduced As the orator of the Day. The choir will sing again then there will be a few Momert a of silent prayer the bugles will sound taps and the Benediction will be Given by the Rev. V. L. Raphael pastor of the presbyterian Church. The band will give the closing numbers. A loud speaking system will be used to transmit the vocal and instrumental parts of the program to the outermost parts of the audience As Well As to those nearby so that no one need fail to hear int Fiu Rijan proceeding continued Pix to Start Alain thursday \1 10 of clock in Indianapolis i i it kit Cross examination Rescue ships at right is the submarine tender Falcon that sped under forced draft from new London conn., to Aid the 59 men aboard the sunken submarine Squairs off the new Hampshire coast. The Falcon carried the diving Bell one of the Navy s newest Marine devices and other deep sea equipment. Vessel at left is sub tender Bushnell. Local firm Gien Highway contract Rorert i \ y Uko it i \ m \ i Ion Sij Nalus becomes Job for Salvage diver reached after torpedo room and found it flooded to the Hatch Point Oil company to it k n i is i Oil. Am Aso i ine next y ear the High Point Oil company whose of i i a he a in Greencastle was thursday award d the contract to furnish the motor equipment of the Crawfordsville District of the Indiana state Highway commission All of the Oil and gasoline which will be used in that District during the next fiscal year. The High Point is one of six companies which were Given the Oil and gasoline contracts from among 14 bidders for the entire state. The total amount of the contracts Over the state is about $3.000.000. The Crawfordsville District includes the Greencastle subdistrict and a number of others having upwards of a thousand Miles of state highways and much motorized equipment. In a proclamation i sued today by mayor a i. James. Saturday May 27. Was designated As poppy Day in Greencastle. The proclamation asked All citizens to observe the Day by wearing a memorial poppy in Honor of those who gave their lives in the world War and to contribute for the welfare of the disabled veterans. It stated a whereas when the forces of ruthless autocracy committed aggressions against the United states in 1917. The Best Young men of this nation offered their lives in the nation s defense and a whereas among these Young men were Many from Putnam co., who served gallantly and sacrificed great Michigan by in the conflict and a whereas More than one Hundred thousand Young americans were called upon to sacrifice their live that America might be secure As the land of Liberty Justice and democracy. A now. Therefore. I w i. James. Mayor of the City of Greencastle. Believing that the memory of then High patriotic sacrifice should be a it Bright for the inspiration of is Michigan a Mioi Arthur \ 12-Man Deuel action i by Mously n \ i d him i of id id nomination Washington. May 2 a a up1 the 12-Man Michigan Republican congressional delegation today unanimously endorsed sen. Arthur h. Vandenburg rmich., for the 1940 Republican pics identical nomination. The move abruptly a a it Stan Michigan against trespassing by other contenders Anden Berg now is certain to be the favorite son candidate of the to the Republican National convention next Yogi he has not announced his candidacy but this week informed a questioner that a of course i would not decline the nomination but i do net have the remotest idea that the situation will develop any such political Washiington appreciates the senators modesty but properly j counts him As a hopeful and Likely candidate for then Nina Ion. The Portsmouth. N. H. May 26. Up with 26 dead men sealed in her flooded compartments the sunken submarine Squairs became today a Job for Salvage a Job that will Lake Days perhaps weeks but which must be done before there can be any explanation of her fatal plunge in 40 fathoms during a routine submersion. All evidence indicated that the main air induction valve had failed to dose when the Squairs dived and had let in enough water to swamp the after half of the ship. Rut machinist mate Alfred g. Arlen the Man at the controls and the one who among the 33 survivors was in Best position to know insisted that when the Squairs tilted backward at a 45-degree Angle and plunged Stern first toward the Bottom a i was still looking at the control Board and could see that All the lights were i and this meant to me that All the valves were a ranking officers of the Portsmouth Navy Yard conferred most of the night on methods of Salvage but none would offer any theory As to the cause of the disaster. A diver from the Salvage ship Falcon reached the after torpedo room of the Squairs last night. 58 hours after the $5,000.000 undersea fighter went Down and found it flooded to the very Hatch. It was the last Hope for the 26 Man. If any had survived they would have been in that compartment. Farthest in the flooded Section from the open valve. Until the diver telephoned to the Falcons deck there had still been a faint Glimmer of Hope. That moment was menus forum meeting the menus forum of the fir. T America urge Ali citizens to Wear United press is informed that a Deal Christian Church held its regular their memorial Flower the poppy on has been arranged a by District monthly meeting last night in the saturday May 27. And give for the attorney Thomas k Dewey a if n a dining room of the Church. Of lowing poppy As generously As they Are Abl i York will not attempt to poach on uie dinner or. A Rock Smith of the q Jtj Jle War s living victims the i Vai Lenbergs Michigan preserves geology department of Depauw gave Usab cd veterans and dependent. Dewey was born in Michigan an interesting an informative m al families Sage combining geological facts an i a a to that ui.po8cto hereby pm a number of superstitions prevalent in c film Salu a May 27 p our Day. Records of a a witching a for water in the Middle Ages in which religious incantations played a part were read to the group. A demons i lion of a switching far water Quot was Given after which a Coral men tried finding that each one had a the Power. A number of personal experiences related to show the fallibility of the sui>cr9titian, completed the address. The next meeting of the forum will la in the form or in outdoor meeting closing the Spring of meetings. Day the City of Greencastle. Two attempts Mude to kill Mussolini omit Iona rooms to re furnished Paris first newspaper attempt was on april 7 mrs. Y i Liiva my. And Max. Walace b. A in \ to All Iio spi a. Relie forecast from Ileal notice to Moose members All members of the Moose Are a raked to assemble at the Moose the denouement. The tension among Home at 130 sunday afternoon to Rescue workers relaxed into despair take part in the Parade and the sex the divers came up and operations excises of memorial sunday. Y is i euday is temper i i res highest a Krul Okrei for this ii me of year a forecast of Rhc Wera for today promised Relief from the pre summer heat wave which yesterday sent the Mercury to within a degree of Ull the All time High for May. Highest temperature recorded yesterday was 92 degrees the second time this Point had been reached this week. The hottest Ever recorded for this particular time of year was 93 degrees in May 1935. Mason notice Temple Lodge f. Amp . Will Confer f. A. Degree this evening at 7 30 o clock. It i Aims persons Especial i i i 1 in the made and equip a d a i the new Wing of the. Putnam county Hospital were made g and this we k by the announcement of the equipment of additional rooms in that w ing following the publication recently of the fact that tri Kappa would Supply the furnishings of one of the rooms. One of these additional announce Menta is that mrs. A Quot me Vaughn an i her parents or. And mrs. Wallace of Cloven late Rural Toute 2. Will furnish a room in the new Pait j of the Hospital in memory of Noble death occurred a year ago. Or. Vaughn a patient in the Hospital at the time the plans for the new Wing were being perfect j. the Paris soil dispatch said that la. Rxrre8jk1 a Desi Quot at that time to Paris May 26. Up the newspaper Paris soil in a dispatch from Nice claimed today that two attempts had been made to assassinate Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy. The dispatch to the newspaper said that the first attempt on the fascist premieres life was made on april 27. The second attempt according to the dispatch was made Early in May Vaughn who before Mussolini begun tils tour of Piedmont which carried him close to the fortified French Frontier. By Otnott took stand thur Day afternoon attorney described coads to lie Sod the hearing of protesto the proposed abandonment of the Terre haute division of the ind Ana railroads which was started in the circuit room in the court House in Greencastle was continued until thursday morning at 10 of clock in tin Forenoon in the offices of the commission a Indianapolis. At that postponed hearing there will be further Cross examination of Irmis Rappoport general auditor of the ind Tena railroads who was on the stand late thursday afternoon and also at the Afler supper ses Ion and some rebuttal testimony. Or Rappoport although a witness for the receiver of tie Railroad Bowman elder at the first hearing of the petition for abandonment at Indianapolis. Several week so. Was called to tiie stand Here for the purpose of Cross examination by the a tourneys for the protestants. Principally Ralph Hanna Public counsellor. All other witnesses heard at the hearing Here were these called by the pro est ants to give original testimony against the proposed abandonment. Among tin witnesses on the stand thursday afternoon were Rosco Scott Harry Allan mrs. Justin Godwin. W o. Hollowell and attorney Francis Hamilton took the stand to get on the record a description of the highways which would be used by the proposed bus line and by private Drivers if the traction line were to be abandoned. It was stated during the hearing that the Indiana railroads proposes to substitute for the traction service a bus line which would leave Indianapolis on the National Road go to Clayton from Belleville thence West Over county roads to Amo. Coated Ville Fillmore and Greencastle then Fillmore and Greencastle. Thence to Manhattan and on to it it Terre haute on the National Road. Evidence was introduced by the protestants to show that the roads thus travelled by the buses would be unsuitable for the purpose. At the elegy of the hearing thursday evening there seemed to be a general belief among the protestants that a Good Case had been presented against the abandonment of the traction service. The record of the hearing will let a transcribed by the reporter and on it As Well As on the evidence presented at the first hearing in Indianapolis and that to be presented a the Cunt need hearing May 31, will a a Bas it 1 the ruling of the commission in the matter an no unc ement of which will possibly be made in june. 20 years ago in greenca8tle club met with the assailant in the second attack on Mussolini was seized but he refused to give his name or to indicate his supporters a despite severe pres �?o1 knew in Advance that i would die. But 1 decided to sacrifice my life to rid Italy of her oppressor a the newspaper quoted him As saying. A we Are several Hundred st Rong. We All took the same oath and 1 Hope one of us Braden kites held funeral s a vices for mrs. Mary Anna Braden were held Friday afternoon at 2 30 of clock from the Rector funeral Home. The Rev. C. M. Mcclure was in charge of the services with interment in Forest Hilt cemetery. Pallbearers were Fred Braden David Braden Edgar Braden Oscar o hair William Herod and Roland i Ane. Flower bearers were Betty Ann Stoner Charles Hall. Josephine Helen Lane. Gale Arnold. Were called off for the night. The Washington mrs. De Dalby. From Dunbar a Herbert bos Well has been hauling gravel and Sand Stoner for Fred Lancaster and Fred Mary Thomas. Ruth Baughman. Mrs. Misses Nelda Werneke and cathar Lee Masten. Mrs. Gene Crawley ine Bauer returned from Jackson mis Paul Hester mrs. Ross Tusti miss. Son and mrs. Mary Mckamey. Furnish on of the new rooms in addition to Lii announcement there comes a similar the Greencastle Chapt iness and profs is cd women s organization to the effect that their group will furnish another of the rooms in the new part of the Hospital. They have designated a particular one of the rooms for that purpose. It is not far from the room which will be furnished by tri Kappa. Siiss \ Era Martin to be awarded it i k Iii Luaiki miss Vera Martin of Bainbridge will to a member of a of Twenty a line students of the butter University College of education Why will be candidates for education certificates to be awarded at the closing of the semester according to an announcement by or. William l. Richardson Dean of the College. Miss Martin will to awarded the primary certificate at exercises to be held Friday afternoon. June 9, in Arthur Jordan memorial Hall. She is the daughter of or. And mrs. John j. Martin r. R. 1, Bainbridge. It i in i it of it note a petition asking for a change of venue from this county in the suit of the state of Indiana e Rel Laurence f. Sullivan auditor of state is. The Greencastle water works company it al. On account has been filed by attorney Clyde h Jones repenting Charlrs a Edwards George h. Alexander and Benj. Perk former owners of the mock of the old water works company. In the petition for a change of venue the usual allegations Are made to the effect that an Quot odium attaches to their defense on one regarding account of local prejudice. This is the t the bus mint to collect fees assessed some years ago by the former Public utilities commission of tin state for examination and appraisement of the water works property in pay t years at the request of local citizens. A a a a a a a a a a a a today a weather a a and a a local temperature a a a a a a a a a a a a mostly Cloudy tonight and saturday. Prop Ahly local showers or thunderstorms. Little change in tempera ture. Minimum. 71 6 a a. 1 7 a. A. 73 9 a. A. 85 10 a. A. 87 11 a. A. 90 12 noon. 95 1 p. A. 94 2 p. M. In

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