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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - October 30, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaWatte a Ash. A a the weather air Ani warmer Ltd a the daily Banner <5j f All the Home news 4 United press service 4�?oit Waves for ally ump , Indiana monday Mandikini i0, 19119. No. 19 Icher in a l qty for a years Dies to of miss Ella Adams purred at Elwood saturday followed illness for teaching Veteran will h,.1,1 from Gobin Church tuesday i Ella Cynthia Adams a vet Feacher of Putnam county Home was on East Washington Greencastle died saturday at 6 o clock at the Home of i mis. Burns at Eiwood complication of ailments. Old Gold Day Queen Indiana Man to be charged with murder keep your red Cross ready Ernest a Letell Arite Stei near Bloomington sati a Day Hak ii with Murduk k1llu it a flying instructor Frankfort Man who gained Waldo Notor qty last summer again in Tiu of Imp cheery Box mo., oct. 30 up Ernest Pletch 23, whose insatiable urge to Fly apparently caused him to murder in midair chooses today the prosecutor who will demand his execution. One of three Missouri counties will Margaret Lancaster Kappa Kappa illness of five months. She j Gamma Junior who has been se-1 prosecute him and Only Pletch can be daughter of e. C. And ser elected by de Pam men to 1m the determine the decision he was to be a Queen of the annual old Gold Hay Celebration next week end. Youngman Adams and was Putnam county october 19. I she spent All of her life in Lunty. And had lived in the Hgt on Street Home about 37 miss Adams taught Many in Putnam county schools. Adams is survived by one i miss Etta Adams three other 1 having preceded her in death. Iriving is a Niece mrs. Ray at whose Home her death of there Are two surviving i Chester Pickett of new Lle and Roland Pickett who with the misses Adams. Adams was a member of the memorial Church Eastern coterie Art needlework club Boston club feral services will be held at 2 tuesday afternoon at the memorial Church in charge of the Rev. C. M. Mcclure. A will be in Forest Hill Ceme the remains will be at the from the time of its arrival of which will be at about of clock tuesday. Fount of building Ilder dam Given City s Celebration of halloween set Parade band music specially acts will be featured on program asked today at exactly what Point n his wild Friday evening air plane flight from Brookfield he put two pistol bullets through the head of Carl Bivens whom he was holding prisoner is Bivens Small yellow monoplane. He had confessed saturday night to the fantastic Kidnap murder of j Bivens Brookfield flying instructor. I he said in the confession that the i murder was executed in self Dei sense while the plane plunged Union _ a a a a trolled toward Earth Over Macon Greencastle will observe halloween. Law n or a a county just across the Linn county i line from Brookfield. But capt. W. J. Ramsey of the 1 state Highway patrol who brought i him Hack Early this morning by automobile from Indianapolis was not a i satisfied and said that after the in quest Here at 9 a. M. Today Pletch j would be pressed a to Tell the Bivens died some time after the Road representative folks on special Chapel program today tomorrow evening in a big Way when a Celebration county wide will by staged on the East Side of the Public Square under the supervision of the chamber of Commerce and the City. Twenty Cash prizes Are being offered for the Best stunts and Best halloween dressed individuals for the evening. The High school band will Fea ,. Tiny sport plane he piloted and in Ture the Parade and several musical which occupied to specialities will be Given following a a of off from Brook eld no la 4 p the Parade. I m Friday he died before Patch Cash prizes will be offered for t # n f i brought it Down in a pasture near an hour later. The plane had flown out of Linn costume. A. Children 8 to 14 years Cleverest costume. J p0gec 0f Bevins body. Children 8 to 14 years for the most Lynn county pro8pcutor a Derk comical costume. I Grcen certain Pietch held his .32 cat character portrayals including her automatic to tieback of Blvins Uncle Sam. George Washington Martha Washington. Abo Lincoln Auto crash victim had relatives Here i Allen r. Lawson 20 years old whose Home was in Indianapolis or who was critically injured in an automobile Wret sunday on u. S. Road j 431 at 86th Street Indianapolis is _ related to the shuck family of this county he being a Cousin of Misa Evelyn shuck who has a position in j the court House. Two Young people who w Ere killed in the mine wreck were Herlbert c. Maicach and his Fiance miss Milli cent mouser. Lawso i was i wig in the car with or. Mahach and miss mouser. His injuries were on the head principally. Tax levies Fob to Given by the auditor cd amp lations made by Mic ogles some show decrease others Are i p majority show increase a few in jew in county will pay be Blit final coir dilation in of interest diplomacy still overshadows Wavriv the tax levies of the taxing units a of Putnam county in their final to Vised form and As they will be used in the office of the county auditor in a figuring taxes collectible next year along with the rates in effect this car. Are As follows tax unit arrival of Winter on West to Quot it front irkssa4.es Long in Ltd to a stalemate i Roach la a 1 own i Russell twp. A a. Russellville town but i United press Europe waited stolidly today forint Ltd a it the Long threatened holocaust of Uit. .1 Bainbridge town Tali tarian War and still it did not Floyd twp. Come. J 1 twp. Two months after the formal dec in r Greencastle i we. La ration of hostilities the diplomatic Best in the following groups children�?3 to 8 years Cleverest this striking painting or a item Cross nurse keeping the Symbol of mercy flying is the keynote or the 1939 Appeal for membership in the american red Cross. Faced with the need tor strengthening Dally red Cross services ill 3,700 chapters and with its chartered obligation to Aid in some measure in meeting the i a Ress or the men Botnen and children refugees in War torn countries Aero. The sea. The red co Oss asks every mail and woman in struggle still overshadowed the occasional Aillery barrages of the Rhineland front and the drone of isolated warplanes Over the North sea. Winter closed in on the Western front. Snow blocked the Alpine passes. Icy flood Waters of the Rhine resulted in a Call by the Duke of Windsor for the women of France and Britain to Speed up their knit \ ting Needles because the Hoys in the front line need Woolen comforts. Ice Greencastle City Madison twp. Washington twp. Warren twp. Jefferson twp. Cloverdale twp. Cl9verdale town 1940 1939 $1.76 $2 08 2.12 1.79 3.27 3.04 1.92 2.20 2.52 2.74 1.75 2.00 2.16 1.83 2.36 1.68 1.96 1.61 1.73 1.97 2.09 2.91 3.00 l 88 2.00 2.35 1.94 l 67 1.86 2.15 1.97 2.45 2.08 3.20 2.68 Louis j. Phillips died on monday Ennis j. Phillips age 61 years life burdened the wings of Deconna Isacc Long resident of Coatesville passed planes and. According to the official away monday morning at 9 of clock communiques the a night was a at his Home in Coatesville. Death Only Over England now the Only was due to heart trouble from which real enemy the nazis recognize dial he had suffered for the last year. County across Macon county to land in Shelby county where Pletch it Lis Hospital a in sunday tin nation Able to to so to join As a member this year and America s official voluntary Relief Agency. Ruskin Williams a distinguished artist is creator of this Ideal co cup ton of the nurse heroine. The Roll Call for members will be held november 11 to 30�?join through your local chapter a help your red War Pron a fresh alarms. Air or. Phillips Early life was spent in v.1 t8.8.mm-��i?11 re Al warnings shrieked in London farming and later employed with and along the cast coast. Nazi planes hummed through coastal Haze and Royal air Force seven years was employed by Allen fighters went up to meet them. Campbell funeral director and Mer anti aircraft guns blazed and the chant of Coatesville. Rattle of machine guns attracted survivors include the wife mrs. Many thousands of persons in the Mary Wolfe pal lip and one brother. The millions who will add their Tia mus to the Roll of fat aut and j. J. Larkin in Road building and for the last lookouts watch for City 01 Flint j Charlie Mccarthy. Popeye tallest. I fattest. Movie actor. Movie actress. A a. Kirkpatrick represent Ferdlnand the Bull. Scarecrow. Lari tin Union Pacific Railroad. A get Fame a. Best dressed couple i vivid Story of the building of fut jest costume Cleverest Cosier dam. In a special Depauw Tump a Rosity Chapel monday. A Bou. A the High school German band will in was built primarily for put ral specially i control by tote people of the i whose farms were threatened inundations of the Colorado he said. I giving the geological history great american desert and Brand Canyon of the Colorado in Lular. Or. Kirkpatrick outlined first step in construction. The Pera stopped the flow of the do River and diverted it into visited new addition As Well As other farts of building during Day head and pulled the trigger twice 1 shortly after the Takeoff filed Murmanis Der kidnapping and plane stealing charges. Macon county prosecutor Vinco to Moody. Holding Plotch s confession authentic As to the murder location claimed jurisdiction and filed murder charges because Bivens body was a found in his county. T twisty acts following the Parade. It prom a among Brookfield s 7.00u j Wal it Othi r uses to be a feature of the evening. Lots did no a Abate a cd la , every visit it admired the new Sec along with several others which Are Pietch waa being kept Macon s Tina and a 1. Equipped rooms being arranged and some which May j modern con Etc and Auppl Jan a 33 i several of which i Ive been fur shod be Impromptu. Everyone is invited to j Alloa from the Rau Road division town by individual i organization and these were of special interest friends. Miss Milburn attend and participate in the festive ites. The new Wing of the Putnam county Hospital was officially opened to the Public sunday afternoon and Many took advantage of the oppor visit the new Section As of the building. To belief now is that seized freighter sailed before Anno need a. O. Phillips of Coatesville. A Phillips preceded funeral arrangements will be in Countryside some of whom reported that one enemy flier apparently was brother. Henry forced flown at sea. Several coastal him in death. J towns from Kent to the Firth of i Forth reported seeing Aerial combat. A bounced later. Copenhagen. Denmark. Oct. J but visibility was so poor that it was 30 up lookouts along the coast difficult to Tell whether there were j Taft in state of the narrow danish Straits watched few or Many invading planes All a j today for the american freighter patently on reconnaissance. 1 a r n. To t i Indianapolis. Ind., oct. 30. Cite of Flint believed hended for on the Norfolk coast the body of. It. A a i up senator Robert a. Taft of these storm and mine infested a a nazi airman was washed ashore. I 4i 44. A. A a a Ohio declared at a press conference ters on route to it it Germany in charge indicating that probably at least one of a German prize Crew. More plane than counted by the Brit a ish had been brought Down at sea masonic notice e called meeting Temple i Lodge no ,47 f. Amp a. M. 7 30 p. M. Monday. % constructed tunnels so that of. 30lb work in m m. De could Progress on the floor of. A free Pinyon. _ t. Said or. Kirkpatrick the a r a a i it 11 is were faced with the problem a Sutra Lite Mil moving Loose gravel fissures in Nyon Walls and dangerous rocks unstable positions. A it took men two and a half years to do he said a after two and half spent getting the men act the intense then alls were fortified by placing Cen int into holes drilled far into the Rock. Or a year of surveying the Rock goes to House flies. Roosev s measure to be debated in House expected to pass on hand to Fessl to i done by Man. The build Fth. Dam itself finally began. I Structure was built in sections Perete from a special mixing four and a half City blocks i which wus never run to Capac although it set a record of profit 22.000 tons of Concrete in 24 or. Kirkpatrick continued f the russian Dnieper dam. Mus Shoals and All the reclamation it a the United states were Farrl into the grand Canyon they out make enough material to i Boulder dam or. Kirkpatrick audience As he showed the Washington oct. 30.�? up a president Roosevelt s neutrality re vision Bill repealing the arms pm by or. Kirkpatrick the Hargo started through the Maze of House rules today As administration supporters and isolationists intensified their efforts to convert doubtful representatives on the vital embargo Issue. Both sides conceded that the House vote expected wednesday night or thursday would be close. Administration leaders said their polls indicated a repeal majority of not More than 30 votes. Rep. Hamilton fish. A. N. A. Opposing repeal predicted the embargo would be retained. But by less than 10 votes. The House rules committee meets this afternoon to approve a Rule for a titty of the project. A a Thorp is consider Atlin of the Bill with debate he water in the Lake behind it to a beginning tomorrow. The rules com. A u i 4knf red a my person in the world 5.000 Kirkpatrick concluded with a a of the dam s uses for Rrt of n Norvl electric Power and an act of the financing of the under j a Tergast indic ted Pensas City. Mo., oct. 30 up Pendergast and his former ionian r. F. Of Malley were in f"1 today by the Jackson county on Bilbery charges. Superintendent and t the Hospital were wer questions and make pleasant tin trip of the guests during the anti in Ltd a and Many went away with a Irette idea of the value of the Hospital t the Community. Gobin men s club meets on wednesday tile men s club if Gobin memorial Melon debt Church will enjoy a Dimer meeting wed i div in Community Hall it 6 to o clock. A sum priors Dinn. I. Bring Prepon i by i where Bivens was a popular Auto Mechanic and flying instructor. I a bring that boy Here and i m a afraid they won t need any Lle let narc sail Brookfield s night police chief Clyde a Cassidy said but a statement Early a today from mrs. Etta Bivens widow of the flier was expected to have a quieting effect. A take Good care of that fellow she said. A i want him handled by the Law so he can never do any harm to anybody else. But i do not want a to get him or any Quot at one time i would have thought it would be All right to a fellow like that but now that this has happened i feel different about Quot there in t any tangible evidence of feeling Quot Cassidy said Quot Hue i mrs. Clyd. W Quot of a and he com the undercurrent is i a Nitto. Reservations should be made Tetch. Christened a the flying through the a Hugh office or Charles Sichl nver Quot last summer when he me Curry the program or Misc to kidnapped in n stolen plane an Illinois i a to t a a a of Ling one Ward ii. Farm girl he wished to marry a Goodwin local business Man. Who geared Calm in his cell after an All night drive from Indianapolis he had been captured saturday a Tures made do in stay on the Light n Hillside near Bloomington islands the evening promises to be where he had landed the Stolon a one of delightful Fellowship for the pm Ane a few hours after stunting it Over the farm Home of his parents at Frankfort ind. His Mother mrs. Guy Pletch sent the information to Indiana police which resulted in his capture. He Hail come roaring out of the Southwest j Over their farm Home and put the plane through barrel Rolls loops Wing overs and inverted climbs. It at Moscow. Tass official news Agency Len red that the ship had left il1 combat last week. Murmansk North russian port on i on the seas the nazi offensive a saturday on that basis mariners j continued against the British Navy estimated that she could not reach a Quot it the Allied blockade. The British 1 j spent eight and r half years the a went Indian will present i of of the Church and Community. 20 years ago in Greencastle the s Vicinity before wednesday however there was a feeling that she had sailed several Days before saturday and that the news had been withheld to confuse British warship blockading the Entrance to the Baltic. Neither the russian nor German j governments would give any info j mation on the status or destination if the City of Flint hut it was be j i evil that she had left Murmansk ror some German port probably flying the nazi Flag with the american Crew of 41 aboard. That ship bound for British ports Voth a cargo partly classified by Germany As contraband was captured by the Grman pocket battleship deutschland and taken to Murmansk u Neutral port for a repairs Quot by a Germar prize Crew. If the ship were bound this Way. A he most Likely place to observe her would be when she passed Elsinor i of the narrowest Point of the Strait Between Denmark and Norway going from the Kattegat to the Bailie. Danish coastal lookouts said the ship might already have passed unnoticed in the darkness and Stormy weather. Steamer Malabar of 7.976 tons Wasa that a the United states is sure to stay out of the present european Taft was Here to deliver an address tonight to the Indianapolis bar association. Glass resorts to Slang sunk in the Atlantic with loss of five a men trapped in the engine room. Seventy were saved. The sinking 1 Washington october 30 raised the toll of British shipping to senator Glass Democrat Virginia 30.000 in the last week but october a u l an old English colloquialism to Quot toll was sharply Down from that of Day to describe Adolf Hitler. J a this pledged Glass said a is not Worth a Throp Quot in British Slang Throp is the term for a three Penny piece. New i a i i i i Del s Muttee will recommend that the House refuse to agree to Senate amendments to the House neutrality Bill which was passed last june 30.this will Send the measure to con Ference with the Senate. Although the House technically will be rejecting the administration approved Senate Bill by adopting the rules committee report tomorrow the action will not be significant since administration leaders a a in if a Tinl Bainbridge Man fined for improper plates charged with driving an automobile with improper License plates Maurice Chiles 26, of Bainbridg pleaded guilty in City court saturday and was Given a Fine of $1 and costs or $11. He was arrested earlier in the morning on the Ladoga Road by a total procedure to make pos state officer James Gilliland and agreed to t p _ Emba,.g0 sheriff Merle Sable a Clear Cut test on Issue Ville journal and review. Mrs. Guy Williamson was one of the hostesses for a Shower in Honor of miss Laura Hinton soon to be married. Miss Elizabeth Lockridge helped arrange the program Given by the Musicale club. Miss Craig was one of the performers. Mrs. E. B. Taylor went to Indianapolis to attend a meeting of the executive Board of the state Parent teachers association. Prof. F. C Tilden attended the meeting of the executive commit co of the school masters club. Mrs. William Sutherlin was in Indianapolis. Marcus Leucas Hurt As car leaves Road Marcus l. Cucus 79 years old and living in Washington township West of the Indiana state farm waa slightly injured and his 37 Dodge Coupe was badly damaged at 7 30 of clock this morning when his car turned on its Side in the ditch at the Maurice Kersey place on the Man Hattan Greencastle Road and hit a tree or. Cucus had turned out to meet another car approaching from the North and the wheels of the right Side of his car slipped off the narrow Herm of the Road letting the car people who heard the firing rushed slide Down into the ditch. Into the streets to watch the fight. It Ltd Pitini Feml on pour two air warnings sounded Loday new York. Oct. 30.�? up London Given thrill by 1 no Larvy w. Devoll 4x. Numa Irik of planks came two planes a tor of the Nuvy York daily news fight on coast i in it it of Tho his Host paid newspaper a a a a executive in the country died of a London oct 30. Up air j iut Art attack late yesterday raid warnings were sounded today in 1 in by Jug Deuell was paid a salary parts of London and in four towns i of $140,400. In Kent. All Clear signals followed the car Deuell was driving to in a few minutes and no enemy plan work crashed through a Fence and is appeared Over the Metropolis. A own an embankment near Teaneck fight Between a German and a Brit i n. A. When he suffered the attack ish plane was reported in Northwest had been ill of influenza 10 England. Months ago and this weakened his the London alarm caused motor a heart its to curb their cars and sent Many \ pedestrians to shelters but there was a minimum of excitement and within j a a a a a few minutes after the All Clear Sig 0 Nal. Traffic waa moving normally 0 again. People at a town on the northeastern coast who saw the two planes did not notice their nationality Anil Weie surprised when they began firing machine guns. The planes were flying Low. One Spectator said that apparent-1 tuesday. A one of the planes was German and the Ether British Anil that they w Ere firing at each other. Bursts of gunfire had been heard in the South before the planes appeared and More firing was heard northward As they disappeared. No air raid warning was sounded in the Northeast. School children had not yet left their Homes. 6 a a a a today a weather 0 and a a local temperature @ generally fair tonight Ami tuesday cooler except along Lake Michigan. With Light to heavy Frost to rising Teni Pesature a night slowly 43 43 44 45 9 a. M. 47 4951 12 non. 50 1 p. A. 51 2 p. In. 51

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