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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - November 18, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaT��l9 the weather 4 1 let a and 1001.1 4 4 4 a a 444 the daily Banner it me forty eight it Waves for ally 0# 4 am. The Home news 4 4 United press service 4 a 4 4 4 44 4-44 4 4 44 to Board insiders a land Trade to took farm May go i it a Hutcheson in a a k Vrlik agreement id ked at meeting ,.i,i special session saturday of insider Transfer i it Eal with neighbor Public indifference Indianapolis. Ind. Nov. 18 up Public indifference on election Day is one of the greatest barriers to improvement in government Aaron b. Cohn. Toledo municipal Reform Leader told the closing session of the 45th annual National municipal league conference Here yesterday. Quot to elect men and women of a higher Type than those who win at. The Box office today is what All of us want a he said Quot but we must get out the vote to do , Indiana saturday is 1 it a bandits hold ins of no. Isirdo of commissioners of the i met at 1 50 this afternoon to a a proposition from or. Vav. Icon son whereby the county l doctor would Exchange tracts adjoining the county farm Funty to give him eight acre would give the county 12 matter was suggested to thu at their last regular p and the commissioners said Kew no reason Why they i t a Swope with the doctor. H. James county attorney knew of no Way whereby run i shop. He said they have i the doctor the county s eight and the doctor would have to county his 12 acres Likely the Deal will be hand that manner but it will be no or less than a shop As neither fill receive anything of tangible As a consideration. But the sinners feel they Are a skin a the physician in the Deal As give up eight acre to get county a eight acres Are on both Side of the Greencastle Lille Load opposite the county a making an indentation into the Leson land along there and the s which the doctor proposes fed to the county Are South of Lunty farm somewhat detached a other Hutcheson land. La Toile encouraged Judon. Nov. 18 up Jan Masarky former Czecho minister to great Britain said a Lent demonstrations in Prague lot been encouraged by exiled officials because any general now when the War has t Illy started would be Quot stupidly Gary Man to Aid science professors to Trimi too m1th to test drink creation up Burlington train this a. M. Seven mail pouches from train at Monroe c Ity to. Station bandits highly effective worked in True old fashioned style no one wan injured in Holdup. Again consequences of the european War Are showing their effects on the supposedly quiet life of the Depauw Campus. This time it reaches the very Structure of our University the construction of the new Harrison Hall. On october 15. According to contract the steel of the roof of the new Hall was due to arrive in Greencastle today one month later according to or. R. E. Schenck. University comptroller the materials have not yet been shipped from the factories in Pittsburgh and Bethlehem. Pennsylvania. Not Only Are the orders on structural steel being withheld because of Monroe City to. Nov. 18. J alleged War demands but other Mph i up i mask Crl bandits with sawed a. Str products such As Holts Ami off shotguns and Side arms held up Warp Aie Wencus behind contract do the Burlington railway station to Day and escaped with seven u. S i mail pouches. In a style made notorious and i highly effective by the desperado i Janies Brothers in the same Section. Of northeastern Missouri a Hall cent Tury ago. They swooped Down on the station apparently advised in ad-1 Vanee that two trains which pieced cd them by an hour had left valuable mail pouches. Their loot included i three leather bags chained and lock red. Containing registered Matt Olden times corroborated records come to l1g1it c on Kerning Story printed by Banner 10 yrs. Ago Story about g i a n t Gary. Ind. Nov. 18 up Richard s. Kaplan. 40. President of the Gary safety Council plans to sit Down with a bottle of whiskey today a for the cause of Justice science and safety and get Quot blotto Quot As possible. His purpose will be to test a drunk of meter. A device to determine whether a person is intoxicated. Its use has been a. Point of Issue be 1 such As business concerns use Lorth a tween the safety Council and police i Transfer of Money department on one Side and judge two of them state police believed William Fletcher of the Gary City there were at least three in the raid court on the other. Quot judge Fletcher does no to were masked of such tests should not be acceptable 1 Shotgun which Squires said a looked As Kaplan said. A your Safe As big As a Cannon that Early the to Council has been carrying on a a the other held two re Many attend football Fame i ing party entered station master consider i a. G. Squires office at 3 a. In. Both the test accurate and believes results a Well masked. One held a sawed off sincere fight so that the pop ice can present results of the tests As evidence. The police believe they Are accurate. Quot to propose to end the controversy today. This is not a gag. But a sincere Effort to determine who is right solvers. A put up your hands brother and keep your Mouth one ordered. A and turn your Back now a Squires complied utes. He said they had what they a had come for. The entire mail Deposit trains one that a n 1 a contest Between Depauw and w Bash being played at raw Fordsville there was a general exodus of Greencastle people and Depauw students to Lay shortly it before noon. All were bound for Crawfordsville to attend the final football game of the Depauw schedule against Wabash which is being playe i on Ingalls Field this afternoon. This game is always the big one on the schedule for both schools and is largely attended by alumni and football in this Section of the state. The Odds on dope favored the i tigers to win by two to four touchdowns but dope always goes wrong i when the tigers meet the Cavemen furthermore please understand that of two Burlington i am not a heavy j reached Here at 1 30 a. M. And the four of tin pouches 1 Al three Man Quot i and today a Content May be no exception. Although no one in authority i expected any u a set. Roosevelt asked to Aid w. Coast Mill it reek township character made Cannon from an old log and faced his enemies ten years ago last january the daily Banner printed a Story of its series of stories of old Days in Putnam county which particular article concerned the remarkable Man Norman Nunn who was known As a who was n bully besides and who made a Cannon from a log of Wood mounted it on a stump in his front Yard loaded it with horseshoes and other scrap Iron and dared his enemies who were Many to come on. That was in old Mill Creek township. The other Day. A curious corroboration of those traditions concerning the old time Putnam county giant was encountered in the record of the Putnam circuit court. Madrigal group sings in music Chapel the Depauw Madrigal Singer under the direction of miss Edna t. Bowles presented six numbers Tolj morning in music Chapel. The group Sang first two madrigals. A Welcome Sweet pleasure by weeks and Quot Sweet Ivovic Quot by Wilby. Folk owed by two american Folk song. A Jesus Boin in Bethlehem Quot and Quot poor wandering wayfarer with Irving Lacy As so Oist. Two Early americans songs by Stephen Foster. Quot Nellie was a lady and Quot Jeanne a with the Light Brown hair a con Clu led the program. Czechs shot to death after student strike German m ii. Lit Alt y a uts <�1 l Kly following rioting of anti Hitler group i a to be Given Simla 1 1 Zer 111 to present pro Gram at Gobin memorial Church sex ii Wiges fight Case in using the drunk of meter. The other at 2 a. M. Subject blows into a Little Baloon. I seized were of the Ordinary rip Cord his breath is Analysed and the per a variety containing first class mail cent age of alcohol in the blood is do the left Squires without another ter mined. According to scientists a 1 word ran Down the station Tinni person is considered intoxicated when a and apparently took stairs Down to to Bridges alien labor the alcoholic Content in the blood Pas the Street. He believed they made Lka a or accused of being ses .15 of 1 per cent. Their getaway in an automobile. Head of strike a a in la take a couple of Kap Highway patrol men said after a Lan said Quot then ill blow into the a i preliminary search of the station san Francisco nov 18. Loon and a test will be made. A Little \ Yards and surrounding streets that, president in Tevelt was ask later ill take a couple of More drinks a the Bandit gang had probably parked cd today to intervene in a labor Dis and and another test will be made so on until in a really As a precaution perhaps the test will be conducted in the office of to i lice chief William. Linn. Kaplan former judges of the Putnam my Fletcher Romborg of Tho polic James p. Hughes an i department and other officials of the safety Council would be present. Their car a Block from the station put0 which had tied up san Francis lit court Gillen opposed one another in Lal before judge Edgar a. Rice Montgomery circuit court sit on Tho Bench of the Putnam Cir. ,. ,. Tired the county Hospital saturday court today. It was the Blay r ,.j i morning for treatment s Steuart Case from North put-1 county a proceeding to Stab went a minor open and that one of the gang stayed in waterfront for eight Days at a it was a part of Quot pleas before the honorable the judges of the court i Putnam on the 18th Day of May. 1929. The suit was entitled Quot state versus Norman Nunn who a upon one Russell broaden did make an assault on the said Russell broaden then and there in a rude angry and unlawful manner did touch strike sit Bruise wound and ill treat and do other enormities 1 to the said Russell broaden Quot in the words of the grand jury indictment As presented to the court by John Law prosecutor. I. B. Humphrey was Foreman of the jury and Daniel Sigler was sheriff. For that enormity committed upon Russell broaden. Nuna was fined $2 Quot for the use of the in that original article concerning Nunn ten years ago it was related that Norman was once brought to Greencastle and was tired in the old log court House near the yet West earner of the present court House a in heaven and Earth a peace play will be Given by the student forum of go Hin memorial methodist Chuich in Community Hall. Sunday. November 19 at 7 00 p. M. Rosa Neil Reynolds Well known Duzer do actives. Is director of the play. Miss Reynolds has appeared in both Duzer do performances of this year an i is very competent. The one act play of three scenes written by Dennis Pii Miner. Is produced by special arrangement with Samuel French. Pacific ism the theme of the Pla centers around Ray Maynard who is editor of his College newspaper and a pacifist. When War Breaks out he is deserted by All of his friends and future hostility expected Only action in War apparently is from Interior of Germany where there is much unrest Prague nov. 18 up ten thousand imported German storm troopers ruled this capital of the nazis Bohemia Moravia protector e today suppressing the czechs demonstrations Quot for nine students suspected of Antinazi outbreaks had been executed by firing squads and 1,200 More were under arrest. Well informed persons said Ros Tiese czechs could expect punishment to in extended to Quot other spheres of their following the arrival of the storm troopers by automobile and motor Eye a from the Reich the City was quiet As death All night. Czechs kept off the streets avoided Public places. German quarters announced that the executions Woer punishment for wednesday s demonstration in the streets in which several Hundred shouted Quot for nothing was said about a Demount rat i i thursday by czech fascists who gathered in Defiance of an order by the czech police forbidding their meeting and shouted a away with the government which is being paid even his sweetheart Norma. The i by the English. The czech to ice a a i Story follows Ray through the terrible experiences of War a As he maintains his ideas against terrific Odds. Charged Hie fascist meeting a counter demonstration to that of the anti Naz students the Day before and the cast of the play includes a clubbed 12 of them seriously. But to to liar Pittenger As Ray Maynard Day storm troopers and German be Norma Louise Wooteon Ash a. Cret police were in charge and the Scot heart. And Bab Snyder George Zech police were subordinate. Lockwood James Robinson Bob i the germans announced that a l Crocker. Boh Pittenger Jack poo a a czech universities were closed for Fred Tewell. Harry Larson. Edgar i three years because of the students Blake and Mary Kerr. The play is Quot acts of they blamed Laid in the near future and the to i the disorders to czech Quot intellectuals Quot Tion takes p Ace on the Campus of a Large metropolitan University. There will be no admission charge but a free will offering will be take a to help cover Royalty on play. Tho inn alleged lost will. Judge Gil a ppm ared with James a Allee die plaintiff and judge Hughes a Rod As a member of the Jirm a Sutherlin amp Fugh Eskwith Irthy Hornaday from it ref Ion. Fire history a a Ven founding of the town of fill a in related by mrs. C. J. Ferrand in following article which was at the Centennial Observance of Christian Church of that place i week town of wide shaded streets. Iret Entous Well kept Homes. §1 to citizens Law abiding and a sir to the care that a Fillmore Fillmore is situated in Putnam to Marion township thirty of Miles Southwest of in Diana six Miles Northeast of Green la in the Center of a Community noted to agriculture. To is situated on the Pennsylvan it while the others executed the hold i Cost of $200,000 a Day. Up. Harry r. Bridges head of the Squires said it would be almost in Longshoreman s Union and Congress possible to immediately determine the. Of Industrial organizations director value of the mail pouches. 1 for California was accused of re a it is certain to me Quot he said. A that a a possibility. He was defended by they operated under a plan and at the striking Union. Mrs. Florence Miller. Spencer. I left thought the pouches left Here. Mayor Angelo Kossl. Who appealed Early this morning contained big to the president to take a a personal i Money a interest in this matter to the end i a they meant business. I did no to that docent american citizens May Donald Stewart. Roachdale. time and i did no to care to take be Given an Opportunity toll came action at the county i time to get a goo i look at them. Progress. A charged that the alien anon at the county g8wod off wag Lac first Harry Bridges had paralysed the i i Ever saw its a mean looking piece waterfront. I of machinery. I did t mind turning the Mann. Kireff water tend my Back at a Quot. Oilers and wipers an i depend Monroe City is a town of 1 800. A 14,111 Union i regular Stop on both the Burlington and Wabash lines. It is situated in i the northeastern Section of the state 150 Miles due East of Kearney Tho Little a farm Community from which Jesse James led his Hospital saturday morning. Fern Terry. Greencastle returned to her Home saturday from the county Hospital grounds but that he went on a ram pubic is cordially invited to attend Page and nearly tone Down the Temple of Justice finally throwing the sheriff and his deputies into a vast in Dhole in the Road in front of where the Central National Bank is now located. That May have been the occasion upon which he was tried for ins assault upon broaden. With Norman Nunn lived his daughter big Sal. A sort of Giantess neighbors sought to induce Nunn Ami his daughter to leave the Region and threatened him with forcible ejectment. It was then that he made his wooden Cannon from a Black gum log. Handed with Iron and the neighbors stayed away. Nunn was a blah a Marion township is article by mrs. A. J. Ferrand Honnon $400 which was All the town brought. Most of the people left going to Fillmore where they were not afraid of a Railroad running Over their Homes. Nic Olsonville was about a mile and a half East of the Fillmore Stop on the big four. When it was Laid out. The travel Between Greencastle and Danville was on that Road Long before the big four was built. The plat of Nic Olsonville is on the old plat Book of Putnam county. It was Laid out in 1837 by Carter f. Nicholson. Abraham Wise James Allen and Jacob Wise. Years ago there was a Hoard walk i on the West Side of the Street in fill More or As it was called i then. Later Darwin was changed to in conspiracy with edouard Bene a. The last president of czechoslovak before a a German Fec it spation who he a made Ira in he England. At Berlin a High official said that while the execution of the nine students Quot May seem harsh Quot it was necessary because Germany was at War and Quot can not allow the czech people to be contaminated by a few he said it is Quito possible similar occurrences May take place in the occupied parts of i Paris yesterday. Stefan Dusky. Czechoslovak minister Antoum led the formation of a czech National or. Tom Noble of Indianapolis committee in exile headed by Bones a howl a Serias of Sli Ilos Friday a a a Lasp a a ,.,.h army Tell Flat pm wll Entong at Depauw University Lllus-1 France also it waa reported that. Rating trip through n Rayon in pm a army of Nevera thousands Heade i by Gen. Wladislaw Sikorsky or. Tom Noble shows pictures i m ii ices of pm shown to interesting a diem i on amid i s Arizona that is near the grand Canyon and is the Home of a tribe of i Thoad. The St. Lout., Divi Aton of no a Fillmore and p our Rall Roa it i a Quot re a he i now is included in Fillmore. Railroad traction line the High Are in Good condition built As y Are of Stone since quarries a e let Only a few Miles away. A Kil Mility is one of its chief recon actions. Quot in Ulmore received its name from Trident Millard Fillmore. A Ichols Onville received its name i Carter f. Nicholson he being Onk the first settlers. Nicholson la was located just where the big Quot in line crosses the line Between Don and Floyd townships. The in was in Marion but across the Banville Greencastle Road there 3 a log Cabin which Hus Long ago a Nyblod into dust. When the big or Railroad was built it ran right f r the town with its Hundred foot but of Way and there Wasny to 10ut of the place left to build an in n. Bah anon owned 4 acres t which the big four ruined. Elisha Cowgill one of the Np-a�8ers of damages allowed to to the West of the main Street through the town is located the Fillmore cemetery. The first part of the land comprising one acre was donated by my great Grandfather. Richard Sinclair. His daughter Emily was the first one to be buried there in lk40. Since the first acre was Given there has been bought three additions. The cemetery a been Well cared for. And Many of our loved ones Are placed there Fillmore was Laid out in 1852 by Benjamin Nicholson. James Sill and Leonard c. Catterlin on land owned by them but formerly forming part of Richard Sinclair a farm. The Arthur Lisby a have just recently moved to the old Sinclair Home. Marion township one of the first townships settled in Putnam county Nas a gently rolling surface. The township is drained by Deer Creek which crosses it void overwhelmingly to end the coast rde strike started nov. K against steam Schooner operators engaged in the Lun re Trade. But the principal strike was that of the ship clerks association Al train robbing i Fli late of to warehousemen against a a a a i the Dock checkers employees Asso anal despoiling gang m raids Over m elation which represents about 50 several states. R rent of the hhip>er., who hts Hole _ 1 15 per cent of he water borne com Merer on san Francisco Bay. Or. R. W. Brown to it involved four Points Prol Cheri speak in Chapel tial hiring equalization of wages. Registration of All Dock clerks and polish Premier was established on Tho French front under the poli Smith and made his own firearms. Navajo indians. Or Noble alternated he was very particular about his shots of the Beautiful scenery of the Flag and wearing the Spanish Bast. A Squirrel rifles. If one of them sent Region in color with slides of the in p berets with tin Eagle a of Poland or. Rollo Walter Brown of Cambridge. Mass will deliver an address at a special Depauw University Chapel tuesday in go Hin memorial Church. It will be a lengthened Chapel and will begin at 10 110 a. Mar. Brown will speak on a do we want a creative spirit in America a the author of several novels and limiting the hours of monthly clerks to 42 hours a week. Two percent officers Indianapolis ind., nov. 18. R tip i Frank Mehale Anil Bowman elder two of Paul v. Mcnutt a closest advisers in his Campaign for the numerous critical essays or. Brown democratic presidential nomination has been a Pioneer in behalf of the creative spirit in american education and american life. His biographies include a volume on Harvard University a famous Dean Briggs and a Book on a lonely recently his Quot on writing the biography of a modest Many has been published by the Harvard University press. Or. Brown was born in Southeastern Clio and has written of that Region As representative of the Middle West. He has lectured extensively Over the country and has spoken before a Depauw audience before. Or. Brown recently spent an entire week at Iowa state University and presented a series of lectures. Novels by or. Brown Are a the fire makers. A toward Romance Quot and Quot the his essays have been collected in Quot the creative spirit and Quot the writers retired last night As officers of the Hoosier democratic club better known As the democratic a two put a cent club. Mehale manager of the Mcnutt Campaign was a director of the club and elder was treasurer. Their retirement was announce at a party for club members at which new officers for the coming year were elected. The Bullet into a Squirrel s Abdomen for instance instead of the head he threw the gun away. The quaint Sta item of it All is that when Nunn finally moved to Iowa he was elected judge of the circuit court out there because of his great stature and it was his custom to enforce his own sentences. Shipments of air planes scored ii Berlin Berlin. Nov. Up the United states state department s announcement that air planes built for Tho allies could lie flown to the Canadian Border and then shipped into Canada was denounced today by the newspaper Sokala Zeiger As Quot the Shab Biest kind of Quot its really putting it on thick w Hen a government consents to circumvent its own Laws in such an insidious manner a the newspaper said. A a unworthy is the Correct expression. The lust for Money and big profits sweeps aside All compaction. Dirty tricks doubly filthy when the government indulges in them Quot Diane to Learned to know. The daily life of the Navajo was described graphically by or. Noble t he told of the indians insistence on Beauty in his life and showed the on 1 Jove by pictures Ever liken of their annua1 ceremonial dance. A Navajo blankets Are the work of a single woman who lid and explained How she raises the sheep and shears them makes her own Dye and her own design and weaves the entire Blanket herself. Or. Nob e wove hits of Indian legends into his narrative. Cloverdale will celebrate the Holl in. Noble presented his slides in a Days with a thanksgiving a to that Dor the auspices of the anthropology will be one of the outstanding social and sociology departments of the uni it events of the year when the recce Versley. Action Board and the i american legion Post opens up the British planes turn Ell Maurford canine on weds Lay cof a Berlin. Nov 18 up the i november 22. To the entire population army High command announced a a of this Southern Putnam county Day that three British air planes had town Lair to Mold thanksgiving Darla immunity Celebration to be on a Ehn esd y \ i \ i my. Attempted to raid Wilhel shaven. German naval base but had been Quot thwarted Quot by anti aircraft fire. German Pursuit planes chased the three raiders after anti aircraft gunners had turned them Back bul were unable to catch them the communique said. Janies Hill. Green caste. Returned a Well i never seen the Ocean nor Home today from the county hour ital. Continued on pne of eos 20 years ago in Greencastle the Indianapolis Star said Quot the first of a series of four studio teas in Honor of the artist Louise e. Zar eng of Greencastle. Was Given yesterday afternoon by mrs. Burnet North Pennsylvania Street. The entire lower floor was Hung by paintings by mrs. Zarling. There were 36 Wabash Man captured on Fie Pauw Campus has face fainted Green and does House work is his face Green a Wabash soph portion ate lengths. Festivities arc so lie ruled to get undo Way Art und 8 30 p. In and on the program n the state farm ban i with music and their floor show. There will also be Many different types of thanksgiving games and prizes. Dancing will be held to the strains of the state farm band and it is expected that approximately 4 people will attend this Holiday Celebration. Omory one of a horde that descended in Greencastle last night was caught by the vigilant Depauw freshmen who painted his face with the Samo paint he had brought along to adorn Greencastle. Later he was taken to the Phi Psi House where enterprising Phinies made him Start in on their saturday morning House duties. Only his pleas that he would be expelled if any permanent disfiguring Mark were found on him saved him however other Wabash students a a by q q q q a escaped the police guard set by the Home freshmen and painted four Pink a a we a Quot on the columns of Locust Manor. One in front of the double Decker w and one on the traditional owl. In addition Green paint around the base of the owl made Good stiff work for Depauw janitors this morning. The Only excuse offered for these blemishes is the High percentage of freshmen who have dates on Friday from having his hair Cut in Dis pro night and could not be bothered minimum 6 a. M. 7 a. M. 8 a. Pi-0 a. M 10 n. M. 11 a. M. Today s weather a and local temperature a. 51 51 51 55 55 55 55 id s a

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