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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - October 24, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaThe weather 4 Cloudy and warm a. 44 444 44 o the daily Banner a a a a a 4 All the homr news 4 United press service 4 m a it Waves for All 9 u me forty eight g ree cast , Indiana tvs Day october 4, 1 no. Gold Day titties to Cli de opera j. W. Cose died sunday it it Brazil John Wesley Gose. Died sunday in Brazil of paralysis. The deceased was born in Owen county resided for Many years in Putnam county and had made his heme in Brazil for the last 16 years. He was a member of the Baptist Church. Net Wing of Hospital to be dedicated room furnished by tri Kappa sorority a Herberts a naughty Marietta Quot will be presented a Hony Mill accompany Neimout of cast is made horus i Quot 44 voices will be included a part of the Homecoming fess at Depauw on old Gold Day student executive Board of de University is sponsoring the tation of Victor Herbert a opera naughty Marietta no a 3 and 4 in Little theater production is directed by miss bibles of the music school j a assisted by miss Lucille Cal-1 the speech department. Miniature symphony orchestra j sed of members of the univer Glt Henf Astle people will symphony. Will accompany the j attend meeting at West finance under the Baton of rooms Uuk shei by lbs. Vaughan. Till Kappa and b and pm club or. Gose is survived by two Daugh kx1.wt an v to visit Sun is Muld t Hanna of to a \�41 and mrs. N. J. Lloyd of Brazil Clarence r. Gose. Of Cardonia Alfred Gose of Brazil also six grandchildren a brother and sister Charles Gose of Terre haute and mrs. Willis Rollings of Poland. Funeral services were held tuesday with burial at the Harmony cemetery. Tuesday afternoon Valri pliers of two clubs were a i Elul a nests of the Hospital Herman Berg of the music j faculty. Beth Campbell Soprano and Lacy Tenor will head the cast Erberts immortal musical com the supporting roles will be by David Stevens baritone Neil Reynolds Soprano. Virgin Chanan. Mezzo Soprano. Wen. Bourn baritone. Frank Mackeand Louis Mcnutt baritone picked chorus of forty four will Complete the cast for mighty i Campbell will sing the role of utta i it Altena. A girl of French the new Wing to the Putnam county Hospital will be dedicated sunday afternoon it was announced today. It will be thrown open to the Public from two to four during the afternoon and Many arc expected to visit the new Wing As Well As other sections of the Hospital which have been remodeler during the past year the work has been under course of construction. Tuesday afternoon members of the tii Kappa sorority and business and professional woman a club were special guests of the Hospital in the i new Wing in which rooms have been the Northwest Indiana conference j fitted up by them along with other j m. E. Missionary conference set Lafayette woman a Home missionary society j individuals. Of the methodist Church will have its j the room pictured on this Page fifty fifth annual meeting at the waa furnished at the Putnam county first methodist Church West Lafay j Hospital by tri Kappa sorority. It Ette beginning wednesday morning j is one of three in the new Wing which at 0 30. Mrs. E. R. Bartlett Confer-1 to be dedicated sunday october ence president and mrs. Lester m. J 29, that was furnished by an organi Jones. Vice president left today to nation or an individual. Mrs. Noble attend a preliminary executive ses-1 Vaughan and the business and pro american Stiie taken by germans it Rev or Flint in red on High seas and taken to russian port Kepi it i scions e \ in dec t f. D Sion at which time the plans for the new women a division of Christian service of the United methodist j Church will be discussed. Mrs. Leonard e. Hoover. Lincoln. To who is disguised As one of 1 Nebraska Secretary in charge of All Louis Xiv casket girls. Miss \ woman a Home missionary society Bell a senior is from Brazil. A work with the indians is to be the Junior from Aurora Ohio principal speaker. Others on the fess ional woman a club gave the furnishings in the other two. One room was furnished by mrs. Noble Vaughan and her parents. Or and mrs. Albert Wallace in memory of Noble Vaughan who. When a patient at the Hospital remarked that he would like to furnish one of the rooms himself in recognition of county shares in fire Danner serious damage by result from casual throwing of cigarette play the part of Captain Rich a program a it Gilbert Collins super-1 the he p he had received chore. A Warrington Captain of a group Ray american frontiersmen the furniture in the tri Kappa room is mahogany and the upholster intendant of Campbell settlement Gary or. B. D. Beck District super-1 role of Etienne a French intendant of the Lafayette District. Eng on be two chairs and hassock Man who in realty is Brasler Stee a 1 Lle pastor of tile is lowered tapestry in soft Harmon j a a dangerous Buccaneer. Will lost Church in addition to those who a Ous c0ors. The Metal Hospital room Ken by David Stevens a Junior represent the various phases of the lamp has the indirect lighting As Well Denver. Colorado. Miss Rey society a program. As a night Light which is helpful. Junior of Gary is cast As i preceding the All Day conference the Cabinet has a Glass top and on Putnam county is sharing Wilh thir counties of the state which i in pc Forest areas the dangers it a fori cat fires. Leaves that arc thick i tin ground fallen from i he Trees Aro i As dry As tinder and to Start i fire among them All that is required in Many places is the dropping of a blazing match or the ignited stub of a cigarette or Cigar along Many roads especially the narrower county roads fence., have caused the collecting of thes dry leaves in windows in which a Nink could Start a raging fire very easily and quickly. Such a fire could run along the a ground a Long ways in Many of these to. A casket girl a out for a Hus-1 meeting there is to be a banquet for. The in de space for �11 the heres Burn no a Dond Trees. Young people this evening at which Bary utensils. The Roomy Dresser Buchanan will portray the mrs Hoover i Quot a so be the up Republican women to meet wednesday Many members of the women s Republican club of Putnam county arc expected to attend the meeting of the club wednesday evening in the Gre Enca atle City Hall deep interest being shown in the election of officers. Especially. The hour is 7 30. In addition to electing officers of their organization the club will also elect two delegates to represent the local organization at the meeting of the Indiana federation of Republican women a clubs to be held monday october 30. At the Claypool hotel. All Republican women of the county Are invited to attend this meeting and to enrol As members of the organization. Endurance slip in Muncie lands Aker. Mrs. H. L. Jome mrs. William Bish Florence Jome Eleanor Brown. I Mary Neal and Barbara Bartlett Are a a slave girl. Adah belonging i Tienne. Miss Buchanan is a sen up from Chicago. Wendell Osborn. It Pho More ______0_, As Silas Slick an a up and com Greencastle. A number of local to american. Frank Macek. Men. Plaa to attn a the meeting to if great Falls Montana will be Moryc it a italian Marionette lends Charm to the room with its inc it to fits Telephone polo., Cresso i ted electric line poles and. Most Cost carved Mirror and unusual handles j y it f in hefty an be destroyed by on the drawers. The business and professional also from Chicago is attending this youth meeting from woman a room is furnished in Cherry an i Nan and Louis Mcnutt is the a by police Issue tenant governor. Mcnutt Home j customary warning Hudsonville Illinois and he is a r. I the City Polico Are issuing the customary warning concerning halloween depredations in the City. Such offences arc malicious Tress Fessia demands Iri a 1 v i 1 j passes in the eyes of the court with Lull list islands a a considerable penalty appended upon conviction. A special watch will be kept this year and offenders will lie arrested and jailed without regard to identity the chief of City police Edward Maddox says. Of finnish delegation we Fob Home to consult government i08c0w. Oct. 24.�? up a rus has demanded three finnish is off Kronstadt the russian a i Bas in the Gulf of Finland a share of control in the Aland is Between Finland and swed it was reported today by Best i sources. Be demands were said to have explained fully to finnish be actors in an All night conference he Kremlin with Josef Stalin and Mier foreign commissar v. M. Otoe. T was announced that one Mem of the five Man finnish Delegawl us i leave for Home tonight to ult his government on the pro la. Ussia s interest in the Aland is a. Commanding entrances to both Finland and bothnia gulfs was make sure that they were not tidied. The islands have been a Ltd source of trouble for Russia and and Sweden. We loaders of the finnish Dele Lon 1 k. Paas Kivi and finance Ester v. A. Tanner conferred a Stalin and Molotov for two is in the evening and were called k at Midnight for a conference lir a several hours. And mrs. Vaughan a is Prima Vira the sliding table May be put across the bed to serve for Reading writing eating and Many other purposes. The drapes and the bed spread Are natural color tapestry made by mrs. L. G. Stellings. Those in the business and professional woman a room Are similar and were made by mrs. Frances Hoover. A Traw stacks could the flames started possibly from one match or stub. In some parts of the state especially in the Southern half in which Forest growth is especially thick there has been serious loss already this autumn from these fires and cigarettes and it cigars thrown by careless automobile Drivers and Paasch Gers Are blamed Lor the greater Pait of them. Reels i i a to get recreation Center Parent Tkac her so it Tion sponsors program which is to i free get reductions Are All approved he state tax Board has notified Quot Vitor Gilbert a ogles that the Board has approved All of the res recommended by the boards a native in his recent hearings r in regard to tax levies in the a Quot to this refers to the county. No p town City school and uly levies. Kenneth Smith Putnam county recreational supervisor announced today that a recreation Center will open at Reelsville about the first of november. Present plans Call for the recreational Hall to be located in the reels Ville High school. The Center and All its facilities will he available to All people of the Community free of charge after school hours. The recreational Board has been announced and on it arc Lester Cline chairman Donald Thomas vice chairman mrs. Glendon right sell Sec treas. R. H. Cough ill and mrs Edward Chow advisors. Sponsoring the program of recreation in Reelsville is the Parent teachers association. In charge of the program As recreation supervisor will he Curtis Strain. The program will consist of table Tennis handball handicraft boxing quiet games and Many other types of activities. One of the features of the program will be the free Public Library. At this Library books will be is Lane pleads not guilty to charge Wheeler Lane arrested Early sunday morning by City police following the shooting of Howard Evans at their jointly occupied Home on Sycamore St., was before judge William m. Sul Helln of the Putnam circuit Couit this morning charged with Quot assault and Battery with intent to commit a he pleaded not guilty. The state was represented in the arraignment by Wilbur s. Donner formerly judge of the Putnam court. In the absence on vacation of Alber e. Williams county prosecutor. Lane was bound Over to a later session of the court on a Bond of $1,000. Fred Starr is named commander honors came to Greencastle at the District meeting of the United Spanish War veterans at Crawfordsville. Sunday afternoon. Not Only was Greencastle named As the place for the next meeting the third sunday in May. Next year but also the principal officers of the District for next year arc Greencastle veterans. Starr was tamed District command j or and Frank a. Ashworth was made District adjutant. Or. And mrs. Starr and or. And mrs. Ashworth attended the meeting at Crawfordsville. Workmen return to Gourd House extending elevator Sill i to Foi Kwh floor will Kelt i five Davs germans claim re ship carried contraband goods which wakes it liable to apt11re Washington. Oct. 24 up a the White House declared today that j the american freighter City of Flint was on a Legal and lawful voyage i when it reportedly was intercepted by a German warship. Copenhagen Denmark of 24 up an Ocean mystery one of the iranian of the new War developed today Over the seizure of the american freighter City of Flint by a Gunnn warship. I fragmentary reports of the ships arrival at the russian Artic Kola Bay alter a halt at Romsoe Norway. Indicated that its seizure might prove to have repercussions All the Way from the Artic to the Equator. British sailors who had Neon picked up near Bermuda from i ship sunk by the germans were Quot d As saying that they had been aboard a German Quot Cruiser for about five Days before the City of Flint was righted and they were Transfer. Cd to it. Thus i he possible area of operations of German raiders on the High i. We Quot to extended from the role workmen who the first of last week started the Extension of the Al i Evator Shaft at the court House in j Greencastle to the four floor and who stopped that Woik to go Iso j sub tropical Atlantic where after a few Days work he to j hot we Rev the reference to Bermuda returned to the Job in this City this brought recollection of the san Mig morning. They say five or six Days a be British freighter Cleme it of will he required to Complete the j to bar 2 off the brazilian coast by a work Here. The Extension of the j help described variously As being a elevator service to the fourth floor i submarine an armed merchant my has been desired by Many persons tend a Cruiser or pocket battleship who had business on that floor lbs at Midnight last night at Moscow i u but it Wae male More be pm la a to a Quot new Quot a a buted the i >1 nary by the moving of the farm con j a a Wing communique which gave the ser vation program committee Roou a first word if the new adventure of to that floor recently. City of mint on it i joint meeting to he meld thursday the menus forum of the Christian Church will hold a joint meeting with the ladles Union and missionary i society thursday evening at 6 .i0, the theme and purpose of this i meeting Are in keeping with National peace week. Rev. Claude Mcclure will bring a message before this group which will be of vital interest to everyone. The committee asks everyone to bring a covered dish sandwiches and table service. The menus forum extends a Hearty Welcome to the husbands of the members of the ladies Union and missionary society which in turn extends the same Welcome to the wives of the members of the menus forum. It is the intention to make this meeting one of the biggest of the year. 20 years ago in gkeenca8t1.f. Five babies die Perth Amboy. N. J. Oct. 24. I up i authorities today investigated the a steam deaths Quot of five babies a us a for two weeks with no charge a in the Nursery of Perth Amboy Gen for the first two weeks. This will eral Hospital. Be run the same As the libraries in i four of the babies were Asphy lat be run the san a once by steam that escaped a the hours for opening and closing from a blown out a team valve. A the Hall will be announced later fifth did last night. Mrs. Laura Christie Moag was Here from Indianapolis visiting or. And mrs. Earl Ellis. The marriage of miss Catherine Esther Black and Frank Cannon was solemnized in the St. Mary s Catholic Church at Rushville. The bridesmaids were miss Anna Cannon and miss Helen Black. John Midden was Best Man. Quot the Bride is a graduate if Depauw University in the class of 191 and has Many friends in the Civ. The Groom is one of greenca3tr s 1 popular Young men Quot said who newspaper of the Day. Mrs. Grant Scott entertained for mrs. Paul Butler formerly miss Olive Mickler. Two fliers Iliad Iteen in Allt �85 hours. Mill in fair condition Muncie ind. Oct 24 up Indiana a endurance fliers slept in Beds today for the first time since oct. 1. Kelvin Baxter 26, of Richmon i. And Rob it or in wills 2�. Of Muncie nod their flight in search of the endure a record for Light air planes a i tis p. In. Yesterday at the Muncie ill port 535 hours and 45 minutes Afler they took off. They were greeted by a cheering throng of approximately 15,000 who urged about the plane and for a time prevented mechanics from moving the ship into the Hanger. The crowd listened avidly As the two pilots told their Story to the newsreels and the press before be in taken to a suite of rooms reserved for them at a Muncie hotel. Quot Vve enjoy i the flight but tie first three Days were the worst a Baxter said. A a after that it was pretty easy until the last three Days. They wore us Quot id like to borrow a Dollar to Talo an air plane ride Quot was Baxters first remark when he stepped from the plane. The fliers said they decided to land late yesterday when their arms m l legs became too stiff to operate the ship properly. Earlier they hid reported a Knock in the 55-Horsc-Power motor of their Piper cub monoplane but ground Crew work ers Sai 1 alter the plane landed both motor and ship were in Good condition. The office of township Tiu Atee John Able is also on that floor and it is visited nearly every Day by a number of persons. Halloween to Lee observed Here it and iia Mitek of Commerce in Lan m sked Parade and dance Greencastle City and the Chamb of Commerce announced today that halloween will he observed in the City next tuesday evening with a masked Parade and dance on the Public Square. Cash prizes will be awarded the beat masked specialities which will f Parade from the High school gym Nus Public judges stand on the East Side. The High school band will furnish the music. Following the masked affair a dance will it a held for those who care to participate. It is hoped the affair will be entered into by All from the county As everyone is extended a cordial Welcome to attend. I Tho the ships which rescued survivors from the torpedoed liner Athy a iia in the opening Days of the War. Tho Tass communique said Quot according to a report from Mur Mansk on the evening of october 23 a freighter under the German mag arrived at Kola Bay. North of Murmansk without a russian Pilot. A inspection revealed it to be the american Steamer a City of Flint displacement 5,000 tons sailing from new York t a Manchester and detained by the Crew of a German Cruiser numbering 18 men who brought the Steamer to Kola Bay. Quot the German Crew regards the cargo As Conti aban i tractors Grain fruit leather Wax Etc altogether 3,700 tons. A Murmansk port authorities for a a Intini Iril a in Pitt Tny i cum at seven of clock to the Square and thence past the to re killed in switch engine plows into passenger train near Union depot Bishop Lowe will speak at meeting the address of Bishop Titus Lowe of Indianapolis at this evenings session of the fall meeting of the District conference of the methodist Church in the Gobin memorial Church will be on the topic. Quot the biggest business in the the Bishop s address will begin at 8 of clock but. At 7 30 the Depauw University choir under the direction of Van Denman Thompson will give a program of concert numbers. The Gener Al Public of the Community is most cordially invited to attend evening program both the j chorus concert and the address by the Bishop. The District conference will close with thin program. Contest winners make 11 i a Scon Winner of 85.00 first i. It e award picked 20 of 22 games correctly As the football contest closes its fourth week we have an undisputed Winner of the first place award of $5 00. This person receives the prize undisputed Day As he guessed the win nor of 20 of the 22 games n id his name is Charles Duncan of 630 East Walnut this has been the Best prediction that we have received to Date and if or Duncan this up he will he a professional predict ii before Long for with his 20 wins there Are two perfectly accurate scores one being the Pri Iceton coi Umbria game which most of our contestants gave to Columbia Anil the Purdue is Michigan state game equally undisputed is the $3.00 award which goes to Chester Goodman of 207 South Vine Street. Chester a placed on three of the games and two of these were the same As Thooe missed by or. . Those two Pitfalls were the Wabash is Hanover game and the Carnegie tech is new York u. Game. Or. Goodman also missed the Princeton is Columbia a full mind in Len Ltd two fort Wayne ind. Oct. 24 up two person were killed and ii injured. Two seriously Early today when a switch engine Backe i into the Side of a Chicago new York express of the Pennsylvania Rad Road at the downtown depot. The passenger train the mid cd express left Chicago last night at 11 40 p. M. Cost. And would have arrived at new York City at 7 50 p. M. Est when the Accident occurred it x is pulling into the Wunsh depot. Per it oratory to switching Over a Section of its cars to the Wabash Road for rerouting to Detroit. Polico sail1 that the switch engine backed into Tow passenger train at a switch. A a amp amp $ �90000 a today a weather a a and a a local temperature a mostly Cloudy tonight and Wod mesday with occasional showers a warmer tonight and in Northeast and extreme East portions wednesday. Minimum 49 49 7 a. M. 48 8 a. A. 50 9 re. 55 10 a. M. 60 11 n. In. 66 12 noon. 70 1 p. A. 70 2 p. A. 70

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