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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - November 27, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA a a the weather air and warmer 4 0 the daily Banner a it Waves for ally i my forty eight 6�t0 a All the Home news 4 United Tress service 4 s. A. Keck eks court Aid on will n township Farmer s interesting Case in vim circuit court for interpretation it by his Mother left fails son during his lifetime then to children t. Resting complaint has been the Putnam circuit court in Harles a. Keck asks the interpret the meaning of the Ellen Keck of new Maysville. Mother of the plaintiff. It it in the complaint that mrs. A Eck made a will which War rotated. Which gave her son a. Keck the plaintiff in this tracts of farm lands total-375 acres in the Vicinity of Claysville and lots in that for life Quot and that the will also that the lands left to Char Keck should descend to his at his death the children Ida Jane Keek Kenneth Euck and Robert Allen Keck. Roachdale Bank is executor of i and is named As a defendant Ith the children of Charles a complaint of the plaintiff says on has been raised and doubt a to the True meaning of til. Being claimed and asserted e defendants the children of a. Keck Are owners in fee of the lands left to Charles k subject to life estate of Ather in All of the lands left plaintiff asserts and s.1&Quot&Quot y the terms and provisions of ii he is the sole and absolute in fee simple and holds title said real estate and that his a have no interest nor title Ever in any of said devised estate notwithstanding the ors of the will of Ellen Keck Ore. The plaintiff prays the for its judgment construing Del. That the doubts ,.c existing the True meaning and Legal of the said provisions and Condi herein set a Alice Are attorneys for Jain Tiff. Dean g. H. Smith to be Delegate Dean g. Herbert Smith of Green Castle. Will represent Depauw University at a meeting in new York City during which the relationship of col Ege fraternities to the id to democracy and to the co Leges and uni vets ties of which they Are a Pait will to discussed at the thirty first annual meeting of the National inter fraternity conference at the h i Lel Biltmore december 1-2. Officials of 60 Nat onal fraternities representing 2368 chapters and undergraduate delegates from a Hundred co lege and University campuses w 11 meet with Many presidents and Deans t men from leading educational institutions throughout the for the conference. Indiana monday november 27, 193. Sixteen county a Day Russia and aaa members. Meet in City no. 34 committees met to get new instructions o n Loans by gov Kment Depauw University students will l. Us to Nosce tuesday morning at 8 o clock after a vacation to cel Ebi ate thanksgiving and the Victory ovo Wabash. A week of interesting Finland on verge of War Heleas Corpus Case heard in court. 1 Over Wabash. A week of interesting i , i i in v chapels awaits them. Branch Rickey. I la Dyer week en1� May a a in a v be presi Lent and manager of the bring serious results Sav a Lee Patrick the speaker former Eminence Man now Heads organization in 16 county District including Putnam count y mayor Maverick a ors on Tria Texas mayor and former confess my charged with illegal vote getting san Antonio tex., nov. 27-Iupi mayor Maury Maverick. Etc form mayor and former new Deal congressman went on trial in court today charged with Nav no paid tile poll taxes of Union garment workers who presumably voted or him. It was expected that his co defendants. Two officials of tile International ladies garment workers Union would ask and obtain a Severance Anil appear As state wit newel. They were George Glass a business gent and mrs. Rebecca Savior. Both had male statements to Dot str it attorney John Shook an l also it was said to the grand jury. The indictment returned by the Bexar county grand jury october 16, contained five felony counts. Each charged that they provided poll tax it s for garment workers before Mavericks election a year ago. Maverick described the indictment As an attempt at a Quot political smear cheap and when informed Lily co defendants might testify against him he asserted Quot i Don t give a Damn who they get to a poll tax is imposed in Many other Southern states. It is a hold Over from reconstruction Days when the South wanted to keep the negro trom Vot no. In Texas it is $1. It is a Pris and manager of the St. I. Luik cardinals. National league baseball us. A Del speak tuesday morning at 10 30 in Meharry Hail at an sex ten Ini Chapel. Wednesday s worship Chapel will b Muir once i. Wood Depauw graduate of 1936, who is now a lawyer in its via Ai Chicago. Or. Wood is a native of a a Len counties Adio Nung or ctr a a i it a i an 4 Gree by Colorado. He was a member1 Putnam county sent repress a a tar a k of Alpha tau Omega Phi Beta Kap for an it a an it 1>uz<�?T1 whue 011 Campus must withdraw troops from the Sov and i Epsilon Delta and Phi Delta Iet Frontier a for we will throw them from the aaa committee of each county to Greencastle Toda All Day District meeting whose principal purpose was to Tran am t to these workers the new instructions in Corn Loans and to review Tho instructions already made known to these committee workers and in operation. The meet no was held in the Assembly room of the court House. It was addressed by Lee of Lafayette and. J. Mccormick o Indianapolis. These men authorities on matters connected with the pm tical operation of the agriculture adjustment administration Gav the committee men from each county at tailed instructions particularly in the making of Loans on the Core. Crop. Tho members of the local a committee headed by Ora Day As chairman were hosts for the visit not nun extending the Well known Putnam county hand shake to All. In his statement or. Patrick pointed out the advantages of seating com during years of Low farm pries and excessive supplies. The crop this year. Or. Patricks statement showed is 3.152,000.000 Bushen. A considerable increase Over the of 1938. In 1938, there were 257.000 000 bushels under loan that number 11-cluding 30 millions Ltd 1937 Corn. The loan rate in 1938 was 57 cents p r Bushel and that figure is in this year also. The instructions for preparing Ard the making of 1939 com Loans Are in general similar to those Peli i ing to 1937 and 1938 Corn Loans. A he main d Ference will be in the Han 1-Ling of the chattel mortgage in the county office. Russian reports mass meetings Are Russia apparently attempting 10 reate condition which will j ratify attack 011 Finland b it l l e tin Moscow. Nov. 27 up Finland Phi in Law school at Northwestern University. Or. Woxie received has doctor of jurisprudence degree in 1 1939. He is married to the former that a Hanning. 39. Depauw Alumna and lives in Highland Park Illinois. The student Chapel committee will have charge of thursdays Chapel 1 and miss Edna Tyne it Bowles of the music school is scheduled for Friday. 1 an important faculty meeting will i be held tonight at 7 of clock in Hall. Back a russian workers and students declared today in resolutions adopted at mass meetings demand no Stein action against Quot the finnish the Effort of Thomas w. Stratton sentenced to the Indiana state penal j farm from Perry county for is undo a fraudulent Check to gain Hui Freedom by Means of a Hareas Corpus Itie a was denied by judge William m. Sutherlin in the Putnam j circuit court. Monday for Enron. Rexell a. Boyd Deputy attorney general of the state residing in this cd to appeared for the attorney Ger Etc Al an 1 h. W. Stewart of Indianapol s. Represented the Petitioner. It was the Contention of or. St Wirt that his client Stratton was 1-Egally sentenced when the sentence was that he should serve Quot not less than to nor More than 14 Yea so whereas the petition said the statute requires a sentence of from one to ten years. The court granted an exception to the attorney for the Petitioner. Stratton was remanded to the custody of the superintendent of the state farm. Helsin fors. Finland. Nov. 27 up the government announced today that soviet troops had been firing Trench mortars along the Fin-1 Nash Border and that if any soviet troops were killed As reported in Mosco their own shells killed them. Safety hints for w inter driving r with Oming of it old weather at least ten hints issued Fob Moke safety London. Nov. 27. Up the Moscow radio was heard at 9 05 a. A 4 05 a. In est1 broadcasting wounded Man lived in county re resident taken to Hospital in serious condition from gun that a a May a indignation had sweet1 the a what Ltd Eldridge 50 years old the soviet Union Quot As a result of me who we of i Friday evening to j Lee in a dangerous condition in the j methodist Hospital at Indianapolis from a Bullet wound in the head. Is believed in the Vicinity of Fin Castuto be tie Man of that name who Liv alleged attack on the Border by Fin Anish artillery yesterday. W warfare on sea causes heavy loss week end sinking and storm loss creates havoc with British shipping polish is sunk Neutral shipping also continue it a protest against iritis i bloc utile Bui o Der islands a Calendar that was printed a year1 Coin j or Mere ago laconically remarks that today is Quot cold Quot and made a Good guess at it. If a Low temperature of 27 degrees above Zero should be thu described. The air this morning was j Crisp and bracing with a hint of i Snow. 1 How. Ver the United states weather department announced Quot not quite i so sold monday j there was an increase in demand a this morning for anti freeze solutions 1.7, categorically denied for automobile Rath Dors the car j owners being somewhat alarmed by a the chilliness of by. Air. Some Rad j gators suffered from a congealing of i the water in their insides but there i producers May procure Loans a a m t much Lama from 1 through local lending agencies which that Raum i Long do Pute Over Russia s demands have been approved by the Chica. Moscow. Nov. 27 up work a ers were summoned to mass meetings throughout the soviet Union to Day to to told that Finland was pro-1 voting War by attacking red troops on the Border. It was charged that finish Artil j Lery Fin Hud killed four and wounded nine soviet soldiers. Premier foe Ign minister v. M Molotov already. Tha i i i i i in Brownsburg. Hendricks oui Hud handed the Honni Fly minister a. J to. Was taken to the Hospital with a Rifle Bullet in his i and authorities were reported to have de on the Charles Crodian place t a of Fincastle. And before that on the j Marshall place West of state mad 43, j at the intersection with Road 30. That Man was known to have live i in Johnson county also As did the j Man in the methodist Hospital. Eldridge who has had a h note demanding that finnish troops i,/1 .12-calibre be withdrawn Quot without delay from Herlin Auto found strip ipod stolen several weeks a abandoned in South Art of Indianapolis. Sutherlin a Ford v-8 Auto which was stolen some Days Tom in front of his Home on Siml nary Street was found on Avenue in the South part of Quot Apo is saturday. It had hour n some 3,000 Miles and Abrand with practically everything de from it that was remove to. Quot carnage was put at $200 by or. Clin the gasoline tank Cap ted electrically secretly by tii of the car the thieves could remove hut they had punched a in it and had inserted a Hose re the Hole to Drain the Gas a a a Mother person s poll tax. And r mis demean r for any person to give or lend Money for the tax. Licenses permits void after dec. 31 he world War 25 years Aco today by United press tish stage air raid on Zep Palm a at Friedric shaven. Germany a Rinish near Suez canal. And permits and licenses issued by the division of fish and game become void after december 31 and applications for 1940 permits and licenses should be filed Lief Ore that time it was pointed Ltd it today. The Only exception is the permanent Hunt tag and fishing permit issued to certain veterans of the u. S. Military and naval forces. Licenses which Are a id Only during the Calendar year include for Hunting fishing and trapping commercial fish no buying furs possessing certain nets taking mussels commercial game Breeding , taking game Birds or animals for scientific purposes and possessing ferrets. Permits which must be renewed annually include those for use of Seina in private Ponds for po3-f or dealing in minnows for keeping a game animal or Bird As a pet. And others. With the exception of the reside d and non resident Hunting fishing and trapping licenses which can be obtained from Tho director of the division of fish and game 40 j state Library building Indianapolis i offence for an office seeker to pay office of the commodity credit corporation or directly through the commodity credit corporation a Cago i Lino is. State and county committees wid to governed in the inspection and Selling of Corn collateral for Corn Loans by commodity loan regulation 4v0. 1, As amended october a 1939, Quot regulations governing insole it on and sealing of agricultural Cost modifies on the farm to be used ools lateral for Loans and comnale Pinr \ of loan documents pursuant to the provision of the agricultural add to ment act of 1938. As amended and 1939 acc com form 1 producers having More than one crop under Seal and who May plan to release such cribs at different times Shou d place India Ithial cribs under separate mortgages. The loan rate on 1939 ear Corn incas not much actual that cause. With Snow and sleet in the offing j with freezing of moisture on pave merits automobile Drivers Are again 1 being warned of the need of using i care in driving. A the Frontier on the Narolian isthmus j at Helsin fors. Finnish officials that finnish Border troops Hail attacked and add a hat Quot in no Case will there to uni lat a eral withdrawal from the Frontier i the grave turn in soviet finnish relations was the culmination of a expressed the belief that he shot a himself in bed but Eldridge denied it. Another Bullet apparently fired from the same revolver was found a 011 Tho Wall in the Edridge Home. It Siut it cd Oitt notes the Bushel for eligible com produced in the commercial Corn arca a i 43 cents per Bushel for eligible com Pio diced in the non commercial com area except that com other Wlch eligible grading mixed in Jaccoi Lane with the United states Grain stand Ards shall have a loan rate of 2 cents per Bushel less than the Appl Caol 1 ate stated above. 1939 com Loans bearing 3 per cent a in Luneil a in no to Terri Gram to increase motoring safety during the months that Snow ice and lessened visibility add to Highway hazards has been proposed. Included Are 1 Check electric and exhaust sys 1. A i Furtch terns Windshield wipers and brakes keep tire chains defroster and other equipment in Good condition. 2. Drive at Low Speed on ice even with chains or when abrasives have been spread Over the ice. With these safety factors 20 Miles per hour on ice is reasonably Safe. Reduced tin pressure gives Only i slightly More traction not nearly i sufficient for All around safety. A 4. Chains on rear wheels reduce j Momic j stepping distance on ice 25 to 35 percent. And on All wheels 40 to 50 percent Over Bare tires. The effect on packed Snow is Only slightly greater. 5. Maintain adequate vision and circulate fresh air through the cowl \ Nti Lator rather than opening windows which May suck exhaust gases through the floor. 6. On wet and even dry pavement indic Ipac ice on Bridge floors in shaded spots around curves and Over Hills and when temperatures Are dropping after a thaw. 7. Start by releasing the clutch r lowly and accelerate cautiously. Allow at least a half mile of Clear a it id ahead to overtake and pass vehicles on icy roads. 8 pump the brakes in stopping Ever when using chains to keep the wheels turning and slow Down in a or before releasing clutch. 0. Keep a steady pressure on the accelerator to avoid spinning the rear wheels. If a skid stars turn front wheels in the direction the rear it is skidding. 10. When the surface is Slippery try out the brakes occasionally to inn Diann on i if two i for territorial concessions on the finnish Mainland us Well As in the Gulf of Finland. Tho outpouring of soviet workers from factories to mass meetings in a dictated that Public opinion was being 1 prepared for important measures. I at a typical m a ting in a Moscow i automobile factory speakers Sai l. J Quot the soviet Union should give the i finnish provocateurs a lesson and j make tin soviet Border Safe from j a is workers passed resolutions 111 a 1 eluding inc Reading Quot the finnish i attorn y ruling classes Are leading their coun a try to ruin and provoking the soviet. Union to War. The soviet Union stands for peace but must hold the finnish government responsible Lor a new suit of that of John j. Hamilton against John j. Turner to collect $300 damages for alleged dam Ages to a an automobile in a collision i at the intersection of Vine and a. I rut streets in Greencastle. Fret Thomas in attorney for to to Christine Austin is plaintiff for div it rce from Eirl Austin in a com pm aint filed in the Putnam circuit court. Saturday afternoon. They were married March 28. 1034, and separated in april 1938. Failure to alleged. Fred Thomas in clubs meet on tuesday hid program planned for achievement Hay event to be held in try the Home economics clubs of Putnam county affiliated with Purdue University will hold their annual achievement Day program tuesday in the Community Hall of Tho Gobin methodist Church. The meeting will open at 9 45 of of Ock. The speaker of the morning will be v. H. Gebaur from Marottis shoe store Indianapolis. His subject will be Quot your f of and their the morning program will also include a talk by the Indianapolis livestock hogs 14.000 25c lower 160-230 lbs. $5.55-15.75 230-300 lbs. $5 20-$5.50 300-400 lbs. $4.00-15.10 100 160 lbs., $5.15-15.65 sows 15c-25c j lower mostly $4.65-$5. J cattle 2.000 calves 700 few Early j steer sales around steady most bids weak to lower bulk of steers to sell from $8.50-$ 10.25. Nothing done Early on heifers Cunner and Cutter cows steady fat cows slow dealers 50. Lower Good and Choice $9.25-$9.75. Do la plants heavily picketed workers massed at main Plant this morning to prevent Back to work plan Detroit. Nov. 27. Up the Congress of Industrial organizations faction of the United autor Iii i workers masked pickets at the county agent David Grimes or is j Dodge Plant of the Chrysler corpor dents talks and entertainment by j Atin today to frustrate Quot a Back to various clubs. 20 years ago in Greencastle work Quot movement sponsored by Tho american federation of labor faction. Chrysler plants have remained closed As Well As a Plant of the Briggs manufacturing company which makes bodies for Chrysler. In ail 60,000 men have been made id but negotiations for a new contract have continued and the corporation sent Auve of the occupational the and Una k1 repre8cntatlve, Mil again luncheon will to served at 12 00 by ladies of the Church. The after noon session w l open at one of clock the singing of the county Homo economics chorus directed by i s. J. E. Porter. The speaker of the afternoon will be mrs. John w. Craven 3 of the Riley Hospital. A repro London. Nov. 27 up a a owing week end of sea warfare it a and collisions ended today with 18 ships reported sunk Damag d or missing and More than 320 lives lost. Most of the casualties were to Germany s mine warfare which had readied a new fury he eve of great Britain s invocation of a blockade on German exports. Two major disasters contributed to the week end havoc the it of the British merchant Crutter. Rawalpindi. 16.697 tens with the Oss of All hut 17 of its Crew of and the sinking of the 16,000-ton. Polish liner Pii Sudsky. With a loss of e get lives. 1 he Rawalpindi had been a luxury intr before the War on the Orient run of the p. And o. Steamship company it was taken Over by the Admira to at the outbreak of the War and heavily armed As an auxiliary Cruiser. She was the ninth British wars a no Tost a the War and tier casualties raised the Navy s total to 1,800 officers and men. The cause of h w sinking was disclosed but was a. Ieve to have been a mine. The Pilsudski. Taken Over by Britain after the collapse of Poland flew the Union Jack and was the largest merchant ship so far lost. Survivors reported two exp sons that might have Hern either mines or Torpe Loen. Both ships were on tile German s list of armed merchantmen Subjec. To being sunk without warning. A thud disaster was the sinking by a mine of a by tish Pilot Hoa. Southport with a less of 22 it of is Crew a helpless crowd stood on tie Shore watching the boat go Down Yards out. A raging storm kept them from sending help and overturned two lifeboats on the Way in. Some tiled to swim ashore othes pushed themselves to the rigging a Tho ship settled until its deck was awash. Seventeen were warned ashore. Fourteen or them were a cad and three were revived. Those issued to the rigging i and to wait 10 hours for the storm to subside to b a rescued. In addition t he losses so was suffering at sea Britain was getting Zeikus pro Esta from Neutral it unites against the a ejected Export blockade. There had Bee i protests from hoi and Belgium Italy. Japan Sweden and Denmark and Ita Ian newspapers in particular pad begun a bitter attack on British pot icy. Benito Mussolini s newspaper i a pol it a a italia at my an charged hint jews woo responsible for the Anglo French Export blockade. Mthr. It i. Ian newspapers said Quot Britain Nas gone too fat Quot and ruled the attempt to strive Germany into , Quot a shameless violation of International in spite of 111&Quot protests it was asserted both Here and in France iliac the allies were going to apply Tho a port blockade probably tomorrow an i the French emphasized that neutrals should understand that then Trade losses were sea l in comp Artson with he immense Effort Britain and Fiance were accomplishing in piping in in i to German aggression in Europe. Masonic notice called meeting of Temple Lodge to. 47 at 7 30 o clock this evening. Work in e. A. Degree. Apy department at Riley a Del show today to Giacusa the last Issue Block Quot three Wise men float the ing attracted11� the Star in the East child and to bring him gifts of god e Vise Mei Luid their camels�-1 a re arming to worship the Christ and myrrh. County clerk Moore sold Quot fourty Quot the newspaper said i Hunting licenses to Hunters preparing to observe thanksgiving. Or. And Hylra. Octto Dobbs spent thanksgiving at iwo Maysville. And explain coloured Eldes depicting link an the que Salon of at Tho Hospital. Wage increases. The Quot pubic is cordially invited to representative Clare Hoffman a. Mich., entered the situation with u City Telegram to gov. Luren d. Dickinson attend this meeting. There will be a torn of the and environs after the noon Dunckon and at 1 of cd Ock the county Hong dec. Chorus will song. There Wal acc features by the West Madison of that said Quot the workers have to fight to get Back into the plants. Nor should the state have to support Idle workers who wont to 0 today a weather o 0 and 0 0 local temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 fair and continued cold tonight tuesday fair and somewhat War me. Ferson West Floyd and Monroe Cubr. Return to their minimum. 27 6 a. M. 27 7 a. A. 27 8 a. M. 31 9 a. M. 35 10 u. Ill. 30 11 a a. 3b 12 noon. 39 1 p. A. 43 2 p. A. A 4i

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