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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - September 6, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana44 4 a weather Quot a and warm the daily Banner j Ltd 4 . The Home news 4 United to tests service 4 4 Iii Waves for All 0 la it to 0 9 Lump forty seven Indiana wednesday Scitem her a no. 71 y schools a opened her ii Tobe sept >11 a i report at Ink matters issues will begin tuesday Aie seriously Oon Verneil Post ibo it of crowded con Dot Lou to Ward school departments of Greencastle it pc schools will open next monday Ember la following the Trail custom of beginning on the and monday. Ludens will report to their Rem Wildin. And rooms at the sir time 8 a a schools will be on monday Only Long enough a Roll students distribute Book Gad to take care of other routine ters incident to school opening a class work will begin on Jay tool offie. Is Are seriously Conover the possibility of crowded 1 tons especially in Ward schools. \ known that Many new families been added to the City s popu during the summer. The Ward have already reached the 10 congestion during the past years. In serious condition following acc ident a newspaper special from Brazil a ays the condition of mrs. Myrtle Skelton Beauty shop operator of Jackson and Sherfey streets. Brazil and George fagg Terre haute business Man who were critically injured 1 about 3 of clock sunday morning in an automobile Accident just West of Brazil was announced As unchanged today. Mrs. Skelton who had her head almost severed is suffering from loss of blood internal injuries and severe Shock and her condition is critical. Fagg suffered a vere Gash across the head broken Chest Bone both eyes blackened and severe Chest injuries. Some unaware of extended Power Polk i May preserve Peac e a no disperse disorderly assemblages the jurisdiction of a City government is permitted by Law to extend beyond the City limits in a number of Inri Anees some of which May be unsuspected by the persons living within those zones outside the City or carrying on some sort of activity possibly immoral or illegal in that outside area. One outstanding example of the extra Boundary Power of the City is w teachers for the City school the Extension of police Powers of a give list of teachers for county compiled in office of county school superintendent Frank Jaskell. I.1st May not be Complete several teachers have More Thun one school to which they must a a a noun i a us follows High Ralph Koss mathematics. Lois Fin Ley latin English e Davis English geography visors Chester Elson physice.1 nation Gene Pennington music d Mary Emma Jones school Esther meryl Michael first Delilah Miller school miss Bradfield will be transiere j certain character four Miles from tie City limits. Among the police Powers thus that distance Are to preserve peace and Good order prevent vice and immorality quell riots disperse disorderly assemblages. To prevent cruelty to children or other persons or to animals. To suppress gaming and gaming houses and places or houses of ill the Martha Jane Ridpath school Fame and assignation or houses teach the second Grade children will be replaced at the third by miss cola Moore who is re ing after a year s leave of a it there Are no changes in the Maple a hts school. A pert annual influx f students am Strain appointed in department of English kept for any immoral purposes. To prohibit gaming and to destroy any instruments or devices of gaming and to restrain or prohibit All tables alleys machines devises or places of any kind for sports or games. To restrain und punish vagrants mendicant Street beggars common prostitutes and their associates thieves criminals and persons known or reputed to be such. Urie growers to r take out insurance Hie annual inf Iii of new students open Tail to arrive on the Depauw realty Campus this weekend in a ution for freshman week be which begin monday. Members of the varsity football will be the first to arrive As Raymond it. Neal has an that the initial practice is de for Finlay morning the a it Date allowed by Indiana a Strace rules. He huge of getting the Camp build mrs shape for class work Piet locally Splete. Work a be itched on the Kappa Kappa Roa Sor r. House in an Effort Lave it i. A for Rushing a tiv the i Louse is undergoing Welins that will completely a turn and add a 31 Story to its height. Host of the. Leu Ltd members have Wheil to the Campus from their Quot a vacation and or. Glenn w. Ills to the Dean men. I111 1 hos a forty to act As to incoming freshmen legit ution week. More than hew students have had applicator admission approved. This in pages favourably to the Large an enrolment of last year he saw a a increase among students. A follow cel let Iona changes in la cult by Wen announced by Dean Blanchard. William Strain was _ led instructor in the depart Quot Quot ish to take the place is Christensen who has just he a to take a place on the fact 1 Hersity of Southern Fri a. Or. Strain was Grad a from Depauw with the a. B. A a Hgt a 1823 and received his m. Fee from Indiana state teach-1 a 1833. He is a native of a Misti Quot an Asj year was Prin a the High school at Durand. In. Uel.�?�-, Armor has been ape a resident head of Johnson diversity residence for Monts she attended go Uehr and was resident head of a it Oberlin College before toil tie Pauw mrs. Louise n Middleton wus named Clr Hrar 1 a33,s int on the University so Aff for the first semester. Applications must be received Ani Premium paid before crop seeded Putnam county wheat growers Are a urged by Ora a Day. Chairman of i the county agricultural conservation association not to be Quot left at the Post Quot in getting their applications for a fall risk Quot wheat crop insurance on file at the county office. A under the 1940 program applications must be received and the Premium paid before the crop is or. Day said. Quot All growers have been notified of their insurable yields and their Premium rates and the insurance can be taken care of in one operation by indicating the number of acres to be seeded signing the application and paying the or. Day said that deadlines for applications and Premium payments arc september 30th or Date of seeding which Ever is earlier. The deadline represents the last possible Date at which the grower who has not needed can get insurance since the Federal crop insurance corporation has adopted a Rule that All premiums must be paid prior to the seeding of the crop or by the deadline Date whichever is the earlier. A crop insurance protected 174 Farmers in this county in their 1939 crop Quot or. Day declared adding that �?o60 of these insured growers suffered crop losses and collected or will collect 4000 bushels in indemnities. However some growers who wanted insurance did not get their premiums paid in time last year and consequently were not protected. Some of them lost their crops. We done to want that to happen this year. We want every grower who desires it to have crop insurance protection.1 he said. A list of the teachers of the schools of the Putnam county system outside of Greencastle As compiled in the office of Frank Jarrell county school superintendent is As follows. Insofar As completed Clinton township Clinton Center Edgar Porter principal mathematics. Physics agriculture Greencastle. Edna hand mathematics biology Home economics Bainbridge. Helen Jarrell music Greencastle r. 2. Sanford Roziine English social studies Judson r. A. Fleta Bell. 4-5-6. Greencastle r. 1. E3lellc Hall 1-2-3, Greencastle r. 4. Morton Eugene Knauer 5-6-7-s, Greencastle. June Martin 1-2-3-4, Bainbridge. Cloverdale township Cloverdale a e. A. Downey principal science safety physics English Cloverdale. Vernon Cochenour history arithmetic. Geo., health manual training Cloverdale. E. N. Cooper physical education geometry u. S. History health safety geography Cloverdale. Herbert Glover music history Cloverdale. F. G. Hurst English geometry. Latin Cloverdale. Lloyd Hurst salesmanship bookkeeping general business typing Cloverdale. Beatrice Lehman physical education English. Ellettsville. P. E Heavin 6. Cloverdale. Cora Cline 5, Cloverdale. Esther hedge 4, Reelsville. Louise Knauer 3, Greencastle. Bernice Lewis 2, Cloverdale. Mamie Cline 1, Cloverdale. Floyd township Floyd Center Jewell Smidley 7-8, Coatesville r. 2. Madeline Ruark 4-5-6, Fillmore r. 1. Ella Hazel Pickett 1-2-3, Fillmore r. 1. Groveland Raymond Beck 5-6-7-8, Bridge. Frances o hair 1-2-3-4, Bridge. A Iklin township Roachdale a Frederick l. Of Neal principal mathematics Roachdale. Robert Hanna social studies Roachdale. Harold Garlott English latin Roachdale. Glen Steele science health physical education Roachdale. Lethia Wilson Commerce Roachdale. Glen Smithson vocational Home econ Mica Roachdale. Bert Keene Industrial arts mathematics Indianapolis. Charment Lynhart music English Terre haute. Eston Cooper 6, Roachdale. Billie Mcclure 5, Roachdale. Mary Hale. 3-4, Roachdale. Ruby Perkins 2-3, Roachdale. Gladys Sutherlin 1, Roachdale. Jackson township Barnard Helen Allen 7-8, Roachdale. Verona Clampitt. 4-5-6, Roachdale. Agnes Claudine Dodds 1-2-3, Roachdale r. 2. New Maysville v. V. Mccammack 6-7-8. Roachdale. Maxine Krutzsch 3-4-5, Roachdale. Imogene Wilson 1-2-3. Danville. Madison township number 10�?�?� Ida Shetrone 1 to 8, Greencastle. Number 2�? Letha Spencer 1 to 8, Greencastle r. 4. Brunerstown Ray evens 1 to 8, Greencastle r. Continued on is a two fori Scribner ill at meeting Ford Scribner living East of Russellville and representing the first Council manic District of the county on the Putnam county Council fainted from weakness in the court House this morning after he had arrived there for the meeting of the Council. He was Given temporary treatment by a physician in the office of the county auditor and. Later was taken to his Home by sheriff Lawrence Graham and Deputy sheriff Tom Vandevier. He became better on the trip Home and when the officers left him at his Home he was considerably better. He has been ill for a year or More but made an Especial Effort to attend the present sessions of the county Council be developing far reaching defense plan War in Brief bks ident leaving Little for Congress to in by t debate re i81qn London British warships wag a War against German submarines i 1 North sea britons tighten economic warfare against Germany British. Cana la an and americans cooperate to establish definite Athenia carnal a i planes to bed Hack be Folie blast of warplanes strike at londoners less Kagil for session cause of the importance business before that body time. The this find Lif e buoys from liner Bremen German War ministry announces troops sweeping into Poland Daladier remains in offic e French advances presumably on Western front announced in French War communique new York sept. 6 a up first program based in part on the a never ready defense policy proclaimed in annual message Washington. Sept. G up president Roosevelt today is developing a far reaching emergency defensive program leaving Little for Congress to do but debate neutrality act revision. But once Congress returns to the Capitol it can legislate As its majorities please without limitation from the White House other than veto. The president feels however that practically everything necessary except changing the neutrality act can be accomplished under Powers he already possesses. He appears less bag. R for a special session than had i Wen anticipated. His program is based in part on the a never ready defense policy pro ties with latest figures shewing 1,220 known survivors and 198 unaccounted for. Warsaw polish troops rally for defense of Warsaw while government establishes provisional capital artillery fire heralds approach of germans poles expect major Battle at Junction of Vistula and hug Rivers. Paris Famce assured of Mph foot for Long War air defense arrangements increase As new alarms put populace in underground caves censorship blankets operations on Western front. Berlin victorious German troops threatening Warsaw and consolidating grip on polish communications and Industrial centers admit polish guerillas Are grave problems germans insist All quiet on Western front. Rome italian business booms encouraged by increasing indications government is serious in its neutrality policy Pope presses for human j Ity in wat fare while continuing to anti aircraft fire no damage been reported government started naval and air War against nazi submarines in North sea along coast claimed in his annual message to Congress last january. It has been j explore peace possibilities implemented by tremendous appropriations and authorizations. Congress appropriated $1.645.000.000 for National defense in 1940. Moscow wide speculation called by indications of important military conf Croce in soviet capital Security of frontiers believed under from the last session of Congress j a discuss Jon. Or. Roosevelt Gou everything he j Washington president Roost wanted for National defense except $5,000.000 to begin fortification of j velt develops extensive emergency hint of what May have happened tothe Island of Guam in the Eastern the ghost ship of the european War the German luxury liner Bremen came today when United states coast guardsmen revealed that two of the life buoys of the $20.000.000 vessel had been washed ashore by Massachusetts surf defensive program leaves Little to Congress except new neutrality legislation As u. S. Enforces arms embargo and presidential neutrality proclamation. Pacific. Congress called that a pistol at Japan a head and refused to Appi opiate the Money. Immediate defense plans involve strengthening military forces in the ill canal zone and puerto Rico bring 4 jilt is ing the Navy up to at least maximum j 4 w peace time strength and restoring to j Paris. Sept. 6 it up French and service scores of world War destroy j Vanees against German troops pro j ers f0j patrol duty sum ably on the Western front were the scale of unprecedented peace announced in French War commune j time armaments appropriations of que number five at 10 45 a. M. Today stained from Congress by or. Roose-15 45 a. M. Edt its publication velt in the past six years probably coincided with a new air raid alarm i will not be greatly increased by the Bain Bain which temporarily closed Down communications and sent parisians spurring to underground shelters. Premier edouard Daladier remained in his office at the War ministry during the alarm while others descended to shelters. American ambassador William c. Bullitt and members of the embassy staff All descended to their shelter. Americans in the Vicinity also used the embassy shelter. The City resumed its Normal activities immediately after the All Clear signal. Traffic restarted and people hurried into the streets. Sudden to for emergency. The president said yesterday that additional appropriations would not be necessary until the regular session of Congress convenes next january. Special session plans remain obscure despite indications from or. Roosevelt soon after Congress adjourned last month that War on the existing scale would require legislators to return. When the president refers to the act which Congress refused last session to revise at his request he describes it As the so called neutrality act. He invoked that a. In the present european War Lala expired tuesday services for Well known woman wiil be held thursday afternoon mrs. Laura b. Collings age 88 years widow of w. B. Collings Tod tuesday afternoon at 2 45 of clock at her Home in Rockville. She suffered a stroke of paralysis about two weeks ago which resulted in her death yesterday. Mrs. Coding was by Webb Miller London sept. 6.- up a nazi warplanes struck at England today but turned Back before a blast of anti aircraft fire. The ministry of information announced that the a enemy aircraft. Did not penetrate our defences at any Point and no damage has been the air raid alarm sent londoners and thousands of others scurrying underground at 6 42 a. M. As they ran for shelter the people could see the Silver tubes of London a balloon barrage defences hanging against a Blue windless sky. Then gunfire broke out toward the East and. Unofficial reports from near the Chatham naval dockyards said a Fleet of nazi planes heading for the naval Center was met by a curtain of anti aircraft fire that forced them to turn Back. Git fir and heavy Earth shocks also Wen reported from the cast and West of London but no German planes could be seen from the Center of the City where wailing Sirena warned the population of danger. Although the air raid alarm continued Iii effect until 9 02 a. M. <2 02 a. M. Cost Many people came out a it of the underground shelters to stand on Street Comers and scan the sky j for plat that did not come. Can while the government started a naval and air War against nazi sub Marim s in the North sea. The j English Channel and along the at lactic coast. The ministry of info tuition announced several attacks a on a boats Anil said that official Silenc a did not mean the attacks had failed. The radio announced that the Roye 11 r Force Hud attacked several submarines. Another radio announcement of news dispatches reported a heavy bombardment by the allies on the German Rhineland Frontier born near Portland Mills july 3., formation of a ministry of eco-1851 nomic warfare was described offi survivors Are three sons. E. Guy j creation of a a vital Offen f b in the by a n War de Collings of Rockville h. Banks c of break Down German econ Lings of Washington d. A. One j omy and a to repeat the blockade daughter mrs. Carl Sander of Bir starved the germans out in yesterday. There is no doubt Here Zurich in Worlund sept. 6 j that in intends to press again upon App rail Italy authorities Iconis the desirability of changing have closed the Franco Swiss Border is so that the european democratic from Basle to Geneva the Swiss Mingham Mich two Brothers. Or it world a. A a ,.iu. I a 1. Lynns Gllnn i Ltd Iii a ii ill la Pisiki Tny a Clint in licit i mrs. Mort Lvon died wednesday Al Nekai services . Be Friday afternoon . Since september mrs. Clara Jane Lyon age 70 years wife of Mort Lyon who resides on the Rockville Road just North of Greencastle died wednesday afternoon at 12 40 o clock Short july after being admitted to the Putnam county Hospital. Mrs. Lyon had been in ill health since last september. Survivors Are the husband one daughter mrs. Lockey Hurst Greencastle. R. 3 to Irene sons Guy Lyon and James Lyon both of Indianapolis and Arthur Lyon of Greencastle and two Sisters mrs Lilly Truax of Gosport and mrs. Spratt of Indianapolis. Funeral services for the Well known woman will be held Friday afternoon at 2 of clock at Hudson Hill Church in Owen county. Burial will be in Hudson Hill cemetery. Lando Hamilton and Alva Hamilton both of Goshen two Sisters mrs. Etta Mahn of Goshen and mrs Martha Smith of Monticello Nin grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Her husband preceded her in death in november 1932. Funeral services for the Well Berlin sept. 6 up the Berlin radio announced today that German troops were advancing rapidly upon Warsaw from the North. Southend England sept. 6 up the first Aerial dog fight of orders destroyer patrol Washington. Sept. 6 up president Roosevelt today ordered a patrol by destroyers coast guard vessels and air planes extending several Hundred Miles off tur american coastline. The patrol is to gather ill information leaking out Belfast. Northern Ireland sept 6 i up i Thomas Gibson Henderson asserted today in the House of commons that defense information from a number of sources was being con a a a a activities of Bellig eyed to the German minister to Eire last is ta81vuj a la inn and transmitted to Cor a. S. Neutrality in the european War. Many. 20 years ago in Greencastle mrs. Sarah weight was a Lect 1 president of the woman s foreign missionary society of the Locust m. E. Church. Mrs. J. E. Courtney was Secretary miss Ella Adams treasurer mrs Fred Thomas assistant treasurer miss Etta Adams Secretary of the mite Box. Emmett Green went to Philadelphia for the knights Templar conclave. Building planes in spite of act representatives St a t e in Tinea Mere going to obey proclamation los Angeles. Sept. 6 up a Assembly lines in big and rican air-1 Craft factories turning out 100 warplanes a week for France and Britain were humming today despite president Roosevelt a neutrality embargo. For the time being the ships will be stored in warehouses. A representative of one of the three plants Here holding $33,000.000 in orders for France and Britain said provision had been made in the contracts for the eventuality of such an embargo. The factories Are to Complete the orders whether or not the ships Ever leave american soil. Quot we Are going to obey the s proclamation to the letter Quot the representative said. A but regardless of what happens we will go ahead and build the air planes. Its up to Britain and France to figure out How the planes shall be delivered to them. That s in the known woman will be held thursday Jap War Over English soil was fought afternoon at 2 o clock from the methodist Church at Rockville in new department it Mill have opening formal opening of a new enlarged curtain an i drapery department at the Horace link furniture store will to get held tomorrow. Thursday with free Flowers for ladies in attendance. Addition of an extensive Ling of Reddy made drapes that is equal to service of stores in larger cities is a new feature of this deportment according to an advertised announcement that appears elsewhere in this Issue of the Banner. Charge of the Rev. Lyninger. Burial will be in the Rockville cemetery. Funeral services Foi mrs. Coiling will be held at 2 o clock thursday afternoon in the methodist Church at Rockville. Brazil Lodi or to be hosts Moi lax Dis Kkt Xiii tim. Of cd i it Fellows w ill be last of year the District meeting of the Independent order of Odd Fellows which is to get held monday night. Sept. 11. Will be the last meeting of the year before the grand Lodge meeting in october. The meeting will be held in Brazil with Brazil Lodge no. 215, acting As hosts to the meeting. The grand master. Clyde Flory of Bloomfield will be the speaker of the evening. H. L. Moss of Ashboro will preside at the meeting assisted by the District Deputy grand master l. K. Mcneely of Greencastle. Special business is to be brought before the meeting that will be of interest to All lodges in the District. Election of offices for the new year will also be a feature of the meeting. Lot Ges from Clay and Putnam counties comprise the District and it is asked that All lodges Send As Many representatives to this meeting As possible on account of its importance to the coming year in District business. A special program has been planned by Brazil Lodge for the evening after the business part of the meeting is Over. Between English and German air planes about twelve Miles from Southend today and Eye witnesses it Mill ii Ziril in liar twin former resident succumbed tuesday mrs. Hose Alice Spurgeon. 64. Formerly a resident of Greencastle. Wife of Sanford Spurgeon died tuesday afternoon at her residence in Brazil after a lingering illness. She was be fast for the last three weeks. Born in Clark county she spent most of her life in Putnam county moving to Brazil in 1912. She was a member of the first m. E. Church the american legion auxiliary and the woman a Relief corps. The family survivors Are the husband and three children Earl of Martinsville Kenneth of Colorado and Madona at Home besides the Mother. Mrs. Cora Roberts of Brazil and two grandchildren. O o q o o a a a 0 a 0 today a weather a a and o a it local temperature a increasing cloudiness in Central und North portions tonight and j thursday probably scattered showers thursday. Minimum. _ 60 02 65 m. He v a. M. 74 a. I. 79 11 a. A. 82 12 noon. 85 1 p. A. 87 2 p. A. 87

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