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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - September 19, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana, 1 the weather Jam it forty seven re met the daily Bannerji 4ji 4 All the Home news 4 United press service 4 444 4 4 pm it Waves for ally Indiana to la essay ski Tembek lil 1kk. No. 282 10 get action from Council in .1 him it Saku Bejec to Quot i Resolution he Hai presented t0 remodel Home a. 01 Wali a w works depart Tell a kid authorisation to Transfer to get action of some i rom City count the partition of aft lot on North Vine Street was purchased jointly by the i a More than 80 Ajo. Jul Llly h James former in a 7 and now coun Twomey. In i the rejection of a a in a Liili i Hail presented in meeting two weeks ago so i Imit a new Prophet i which to mud he thought could led upon without delay. The ins proposition had been before ounce sine a in july. He said e hitch lot lies across the North i Street legally v with i until line of Liberty which extends East and West Var there is a Lane like sort of Tsion of vim Street which con on northward through the i lot to jul u Street running a and forming the North i of the hitch lot. The Council i have expire eyed concern the partitioning of the hitch lot l result in a closing of that it the meeting monday evening l the Memi Eis of the Council had isted they would take More the proposition mayor exaum 1 fou be had this before you Aller. That Man is entitled to a Ion so he can go ahead with i either reject it it Emty attorn y Lames said i can do just what you please on Don t adopt this Resolution meet next monday and ill is suit to h to the court ordet partiti9ti -. the City will inn. Pay its share of the costs of the 1 us costs. Attorney James said lately would run Between $50 i �75. A f the lot was asked a p a i. Contractor who i sought the county s undivided if rest in the lot and desires to three discuss activities and present activities of a old Oto it. Meridian a she has 65 a she did have As Many As 80.�?� we three Quot judge Arthur Reat Floyd e. Knight and a Pencil Pusher from the daily Banner were discussing the past and present activities of a old the 65 and the 80 were not the number of Kittens the old cat has and has had but instead the number of persons counted As residents of it. Meridian. A old cat is a sort of pet name for that town on the National Road. It came into existence when the Post office department in an old Day refused to acknowledge Carthage As the name of the National Road settlement because there was another Carthage in Indiana. A Loki cat is a contraction of Carthage and is an example of our fathers habit of calling persons and things by nicknames rather than by the real names. In girls Ark pledged to sororities Smuch As Carthage could not stick. It. Meridian was chosen. Lots of people Call it cat yet. Do you remember the time that Ott Webb living not very far away went to a democratic National convention Down in Texas and enthused by the i exhilaration of the occasion and his love for the Little place electrified the Assembly was it a committee Only by extending a ringing by expressed invitation to the democratic party to have its next National convention at old cat he so it was said by other Putnam county men Depauw University a eight nation who attended the big gathering of Al sororities today announced their feed free hospitality to All Comers in a pledges. One Hundred and sixty the name of the residents of old cat. Three took pledge ribbons following it would have been a big Day in old p. Week of Active Rushing. Informal cats history to have entertained the pledging took place at the various thousands who would have come for chapter houses last night. The list War in Brief Danzig Hitler arrives 5 p. M., London officially disclosed air City prepares tumultuous Welcome Force attacking Many German sub missing eight National Sookok Wiiks pledged one Iii miked and sixty the e girls followed week of in suing informal pledging took place various c chapter houses monday evening and expects important speech possibly further explaining German and russian Aims in Poland. Moscow soviets announce red columns approaching Sipia in northeastern an l Lwow in Southeastern Poland russians charge polish submarines hide in Waters of certain Baltic states alleges estonian authorities aided one to a escape Quot. Paris Furcich repulse German attacks East of Saar Region after heavy German artillery bombardment. Polish quarters assert poles the big meeting. Continued Oil i Nair four i a tigers credited with rest of two Bloomington youths it 1iaug Al with stealing i Welky at last Derby two of the state police officers assigned to the Putnamville Barracks Are credited by Captain Walter Eckert of the state police department with the arrest of two Bloomington youths who it is charged stole $20, 000 Worth of jewelry at the last Derby race at Louisville by. The officers Are Corporal Verle m. Clark and officer Walter Howard. These two men were sent to California to return the Bloomington youths to Indiana for trial. The fugitives a Hail been traced to the California City by the Indiana officers. The Bloomington Young men Are Amos Hayes and Eldon Covington each 19 years old. Idle jewelry was taken from a room in the Kentucky hotel at Louisville on the night of May 6. C. Andrade wealthy Eastern sportsman and mrs. Andrade were owners of stolen jewelry which included Diamond rings jewel studded bracelets and other costly articles. The police received a a Grapevine reports that a Bloomington Man had been Selling several items of jewelry. The two officers located the Bloomington Man whose name was withheld according to capt. Eckert the Man admitted Selling the jewelry and named the two youths As the. A persons he represented. He asserted storage buildings for equipment i 1 1 that he did not know the jewelry j follows a Kappa Alpha Theta Betty i Lou Bowen Wanamaker Laura Ann Bridges. Greenfield Phyllis Craig East grand rapids Mich. Helen Crider Dixon. To Virginia Daus. Evansville Mary alien Dwyer Gary Jean Foster Marion. Ohio Elizabeth Hedges. Chicago Barbara Ann to Gate Scarsdale n. Y. Nancy Ann Jones Evanston 111. Ruthanna Knoff Bluff ton Mary Lamoree. Chi a Cago Geraldine Meyer. St. Peters at the High school convocation at i Burg. Fla Joan Mick. Indianapolis Elinor Oswald Lagrange. 111. Martha Corine Pulliam. Lebanon Lii Ali school team v. Awarded sweaters livestock judging team appeared in Many contests in state 11 30 of clock today a ceremony new to the local school was observed. It was the awarding of sweaters to the j Wilma Rothenburg. I Indianapolis High school livestock judging Oiin Thompson. Leonier Var team which has appeared in Many marines has sunk some from aircraft Carrier courageous now Sel at 462 prime minister to make important statement on Russia to commons tomorrow polish government considers establishing itself in London. Berlin army High command admits poles still held Warsaw but claims breakup polish army groups proceeds rapidly poles still hold Lemberg Lwow but germans deman i its surrender. Bucharest food shortage and danger of epidemics increase As pol still hold Bialystok. Both Banka of ish refugees throng rumanian bord Bug River at great Litovsky Hills Beer towns polish government Cyffic i tween Lemberg and Przemysla and gals including president Moscicki and i line from Lodz to to. In. President marshal smugly Rydz Given Refuge. I Hitler tells world England is w a cause speech made by dictator at Danzig today Broad a ast to world greeted with enthusiasm says Poland should have listened to him instead of listening to London Washington Roosevelt t 1 Danzig sept. 19.�? up Adolf Hitler Back from his Conquest of Poland declared in a world wide radio address today that the former free City of Danzig a will remain a this soil will remain German a Moscicki issues proclamation asserting poles still fighting and that gov graph to Vicki indirect it calling j the Kuehr i told a wildly cheering emment has been transferred to upon Hitler to make Good on pledges throng in a speech welcoming Dan a where conditions prevail for exer to refrain from bombing civilian tigers Home to the Reich. Populations. I Adolf Hitler offered Europe peace i on his of n terms today but warned j great Britain and France that Ger to fight six Cise of full Caroline Thompson Idonier Vir Ginia Ridpath Smith. Indianapolis and Elizabeth Wheeler. Paris. 111. Kappa Kappa Gamma Kathryn Boston. Greencastle Susanne Clark. Indianapolis Barbara Cline Columbus Marcha Cline 1 Adeleen Adarfah Shaker Heights. A Ohio Patricia Emlson Santa Ana. Calif. Marguerite Erdman Green a Castle Elizabeth Fellows Lake Forest 111. Anne Franklin. Warsaw in Yuba City Calif. Sweater of the Captain this last a a Mooresville Margaret Honor went to Ralph Call ., who is judging contests in the state this season. This is the first livestock judging team of the local sch in Odili a Quot has Ever had this Honor accorded them. The sweaters Are Silver Gray in color and on one Arm of each sweater Are bars indicating the number of years of membership on the team and there is a Star in addition on the \ a in this last by Viil Grce Kwh s half a soon As he can get Council action court action Ning his half. The City has build Ion the it St part and the county Eeast part but there has never a determining of the ownership path i party neither part. Early t Summa . Rigdon asked the Kil to define his half but the Funcil mend it is have deferred acc from meeting to meeting. Now. To on l not a two i had been stolen and had accepted their stories about finding it. Capt. Eckert said a Large part of the jewelry was sold in Indianapolis. Apparently the youths received less than $1000 for the loot. Capt. Eckert quoted the Bloomington Man As saying he was told one of the youths found the jewelry while working at a soft drink stand on the Churchill Downs track grounds. The method by which the iwo Young men were traced to the Cali. Harold Zink author of Book j in Kok Lissok of political Scitem i Depauw University Harold Zink professor of pop Scien Ltd it Depauw University a new text Book to i used in the University a class in Fco pal government this year. The the government of cities in i United states a a was published by Macmillan company of new City this month. A tical comment Calls . Zinkus j a carefully integrated Treal of thi rut lure anti functions lmuniciji., government it Ino Lud s significant changes in the Field �?~88 the enlarged role of the fed-1 government in City affairs the of Large scale Public Relief notable expansion of supervised Allan the added interest in pub a using la the considerable pro-il1 municipal police admin Strala Zink has Given attention to the a City planning municipal ups Public reporting and Munici of Crement. He discusses the Anee of precinct committee to 1 i analysis City Bosses and 1 Quot s the material on the coun-8�r form of government he personnel practices and it an traction is based on i 3 Niale the american put jape association the civil Assembly of the United Fiul it Ana la Anc the Antenia City managers association. Fornia town was capt. Eckert. Not revealed by now enrolled in Purdue University for agriculture instruction. Another sweater was awarded tim rubik two year member of the team and a Junior in the High school this year. Another went to Willard Abbott first year member and a Junior in school. The remaining sweater was awarded Russell Grimes first year member and a senior. All of these four have been students in the vocational agriculture department of the Greencastle High school. The sweaters were Given the Young men by Paul f. Boston superintend Hussey. Indianapolis Mary Johnson Indianapolis Jane Mackimm Chi draw jurors for the coining term grand jury Petit jury and both Alten vies Are named the list of jury members for the september term of the Putnam circuit court which begins next monday have been made up by the jury commissioners. P. Mullins and d. O. Moffett with Homer c. Morrison serving As clerk in the drawing of the names. A list was drawn for the regular members of the grand jury and alternates and also the Petit jury with alternates. The first six names in the appended grand jury list will be the members of that body unless excused by the court and the first twelve no flies of the Petit jury list we Lar the regular panel unless exit Force Soi \dr0ns sink sirs Cago Barbara Meyer Gary Helen houses Are granted. If any on the Jome. Greencastle Virginia Niven a regular panels arc excused the next Indianapolis Carolyn Radeke. Kan names As they appear on the lists Kake. 111. Carlyn Steele. Cincinnati. Will be drawn upon to fill the vacant Ohio Miriam Stuart. Indianapolis Suzanne Ulen Lebanon Marilyn Whitaker. Indianapolis Geraldine Wolaver Springfield 111. And Phyllis Fry. South Bend. Alpha Chi Omega Bettyjo Biggs Evansville Elaine Brown Muskegon. Mich. Jean Carroll Chicago Jane Chapman. Aurora Iii Roberta Clover Muskegon Mich. Cues. Grand jury regular a Walter Crawford. Greencastle Straude love. Clinton Melvin Reeves. Monroe Alvah Jones. Warren s. O. Ensor Clinton Wayne Branneman. Cloverdale alternates Kathleen Doud Wabash Marjorie r Luca Washington ,.,. Want -. A. Ent. Sweaters have awarded in Dunkl t Sulu b,.�?zd Mary Margaret a to Rug a other years for athletic honors but not before for such distinction As this. Into Tijiane death of a tier Fisher widow found dim i it on set lot s on Dank of a Kekiwi a Home an investigation has been started he Marion county authorities of circumstances surrounding the cause of the death saturday night of Walter l. Fisher age forty three. Stiles Ville at the United states veterans Hospital in Indianapolis. . Norman h Booher. Marion county Deputy Coroner said death was due to a fractured Skull. Fisher was taken to the Hospital unconscious. September 8 and did not regain consciousness. Authorities Learned he was injured september 4. The widow told . Booher she had found him unconscious on the Bank of a Creek near their Home the morning following a Dice game. She said had left Home the preceding night to join some men in the game. She started a search when lie did not return. We Lisle Stuart. Hendricks county sheriff said no report of the Accident had been made to his office until five Days later. It was said by persons in the Community that a Man described As a virginian May have been involved in the Case. This Man since has left the neighbourhood. May celebrate three thanksgiving Days Elkader. La. Sept. 10. Up Elkader May celebrate three perhaps five thanksgiving Days this year. President Roosevelt proclaimed nov. 23 As the official Date nov. George a. Wilson designated nov. 30. The traditional Date yesterday the Clayton county Elkader Board of supervisors pro clan Metal a third Date. Nov. 18, a so As not to conflict with the dates set by the president and the in addition. Local politicians said the township trustees were considering a proclamation for a nov. 9 thanksgiving and town officials for nov. 2. Elmer Harmon Dies at Indianapolis Home Elmer Harmon age 57 years died at his Home in Indianapolis monday night. He was a brother of mrs. Arthur Walker who went to Indianapolis tuesday Nior King to by with her brother s family. The funeral services will be held from the Royster and Askin mortuary thursday afternoon at two o clock. Burial will be made in tile North Liberty cemetery. . Harmon is survived by the widow three daughters mrs. Dan Radcliff and mrs. Andrew Maple and Wanetta and two sons. Waiter Harmon and Charles Harmon. Dyar. Indianapolis Grace Eberlin. A i on linux in a ii in Nise two . J. Fuson coming to Ity widely known Catela , physician to locate in o Brien s offices announcement was made today that . W. J. Fuson. Of Coatesville. Will Como to Greencastle within the two weeks to begin the practice of Medicine lie will occupy the offices of . O Brien in the a building. . Fuson was Horn and reared in Hendricks county and has a wide acquaintance there As Well As in this county. He was graduated from the Indiana medics i College is 1927 and has been actively engaged i the practice of Medicine in Coates Viil since september 1928. He holies to open his offices Here by the first of october and will also move his family to thi City As soon As a Suttah c Heine can he obtained. . Fuson is Well known to All physicians Here and will lie Welcom i to the Community by not Only the medical profession but by Many intimate friends. I Many was prepared years for Victory. Germany in agreement with soviet Russia that Poland a shall never Rise wanted to create a a lasting peace in Europe the nazi Chancellor told a cheering throng. A if others say that they have lost Confidence in the assurances of German statesmen then we have the right to say that we have none in their assurances a Hitler said in reply to Britain s that the courageous had also sunk several / 1 u h a Quot fuehrer s submarines engaged in Mercl Wold. Less Hunt for raiders i that a Wulc stupidity of the _ i so called peace forced on the world at Versailles caused doubt As to whether a the men who made that peace had their fall of those territories invent to have attacked Many German Summa. Poland were German a he said. British \ Vanoi m e of i i . A that 1 Ivey operate i rom special command await c Arrier is Kuvers London. Sept. 19 up British Royal air Force squadrons operating from a special coastal Comman i Rines and have sunk some of them it was asserted officially today. A they owed their cultural in fort Castle Albany Farmer Cloverdale Petit jury regulars b. Frank Jones Warren Harry Collins Greencastle Johnie ogles. Jefferson William c. Spencer Russell j. E. Courtney Greencastle mrs. Nellh Williamson Greencastle Mont Bridges Washington Ralph West Greencastle Albert Hunter Marion Fred k Boatman Monroe Chas. Rockwell. Cloverdale Elmer Finney Cloverdale alternates zo1 Mcintyre Greencastle Vav. J. Allee Greencastle John Arthur Friend Greencastle miss Hazel rambo Greencastle Ben Wells. Madison Thad Jones Greencastle Melvin Ruark. Marion Fred Beck Floyd Bert Brattain Madison Layman Hepler Madison Arthur e. Pickens Cloverdale b. F. Vaughn Greencastle Don lash Speaks to dus Driver was formerly stationed at Putnamville i Arr auks working for degree ,. R in Ance to the German people alone. As additional survivors of the 22. 1 ,. Nobody in those territories wished to 500 ton aircraft Carrier courageous ,.abecome part of sunk by a a boat were awaited in. A he said that another 50 years port today the ministry of inform. ,. A. 1it might have thrown these territories Tion made it known that in addition. A Aback to to warships and their aircraft oper i. 4_ ,. ,1 a the lot of germans in Poland rating against submarines the coastal ,. Was terrible a he said. Quot a nation of command planes were engaged on a. A a 1 a less cultural importance was Given merciless Hunt Fop the undersea raid 4. A a the right to govern a Superior Era. further the daily Herald reported., a j Germany Hitler pointed out re Itiat the courageous itself which ,. T Maine a great Power in spite of the went a town with a Crew of about 1. A a ver8atues treaty 200 of whom 438 had been landed i this it Pawol. Ato ook no a yesterday bad Ruelf with its do Hue jts not Loncala Werc Mastrek cd Stroyer escort sunk several Sumbur y in of prior nation he Gald. ,.no Ules j other Power would have tolerated the French High command in its such a state of Aff Alrh As on As official War communique last night. A Ermany Iii wonder what eng said Quot our naval forces successfully an j franc. 0,. Can would an enemy Hay Man a Aln 1ar silk anon details were issued of tile sinking j ,.r Galu that he con., his of one German submarine by a Young a .p�?zaal. For solution of the polish South african Mem cd of the Royal a ,.over i i out til ill la in Liko 1�� Rev. Porter to have charge of service Rev. J. E. Porter of Qreen Cash superintendent of the Greencastle District of the methodist Church will have charge of the services it the laying of the Coiner Stone of the new Epworth methodist Church in East Brazil sunday afternoon. The 20 years ago in Greencastle . 11. D. Longdon is Chapel speak Vic e president emeritus ski Vou Cut i n and women Sekimi Fri est ions i problem a i wanted to spare the German people and also the polish people Quot a he said. A i wanted to spare them a i solution by other than peaceful j he then repeated his demands on Poland which the polish government rejected. A i done to know what was the state of mind of the polish government a Hitler said. A they rejected my proposals. I cannot understand Why they did not Quot what Are you doing Here a . Henry b. Longden vice president. Accept. My request to the polish emeritus asked Depauw University 1. I foreign minister col. Josef Beck to students in the Sec and Chapel of the. V .1, visit me in Berlin Lor a talk was re year tuesday. A nothing is More j beneficial than a quiet time of med a cil. U Ai a instead he went to London station. When you a i let yourself what j 1 Hitler said that he had asked him k a ill Nury a in in Nui Twne you Are doing what you will get Here and what you will do with it Roosev Elt to Cpl exr when you get . Longden reported from forty j _ years experience that a definite ser a Washington sept. 19 up ions answer to these questions was. Phe White House said today that impossible to formulate. A usually i president Roosevelt Plana to appear a student answers with e. Wise crack j before a joint session of the Senate does not understand the serious i Aruj House at 2 p. Thursday terms he uses who explained. A it is also hard for me to Tell you what you will get Here a . Longden among the basketball men of i lie High school who met to organize for the new season were Louis Hilt Clark Brackney. John Stoner i Xiatou Talbott Frank Irvin. Eugene Peck. Jacob Hirt Frank Young. Rol it Stoner Anil James Zeis. At a meeting of the Junior class Eugene Peck a its Elee Teil vice president James Zeis class editor. Mrs. Fay he Ilion returned fam a visit with of i ves at Bedford. From a a Gnu work was la Robert Howie t a no address a Rill be Given by the Rev. R. O a a w Michel pastor of the first meth gently Begu on was turned Over to state to f cd of Bra ii a by pa9tor of i new residence. An investigation also will he made Odi do in a u e Rcv. To j Marshall Abrene was elected Pic by Hendricks county authorities and t n f the 30rior class evidence presented to the grand jury. G. Strong. Don lash. Indiana state police officer who until recently was stationed at Tito Putnamville Barracks and who is a Winner of honors in the world wide athletic contests known As the olympics is taking special at Indiana University As a candidate for his master s degree. He is yet connected with the stall police department however. I. Lash is also in training for the next olympics to be held in Finland hut whose Date is Uncertain because of c on Dillons in Europe at this time. Lash is lecturing for the state Povic department and appeared before the schoo. Bus Drivers of Clay county at a meeting in the court House at Brazil. Monday. This Forenoon . Lash appeared before a gathering of Putnam county continued. He told the students stories of some of Depauw s great men but also mentioned failures who Havo gone out of Depauw. He called their attention to the portraits of the former president and faculty which hang on the Walls of Meharry Hall and placed them in Depauw s history. A truth has been Departmentalized on the College Campus a charged . Longden a but the lines of differentiation Are growing thinner Viesti to deliver in person his request for revision of the neutrality Law. A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o 0 0 today a weather 0 0 and 0 0 local temperature 0 00 0 0000 0 000 harder to define the professors position on Campus he said but added that the professor now pays More attention to the needs and welfare of his students. . Longden closed with a quotation from . Glenn Franks prayer for College administrators a we should have been guides to unborn generally fair tonight and wednesday except unsettled in extreme Southeast portion tonight not so Cool in Central and Northeast portions to it is night somewhat warmer wednesday. Tomorrows May we be shepherds of a of p t Fly we 1 Maat Cra 0 the school bus Drivers in the Assembly on i utti1 minimum. 50 6 a. A. 51 7 a. A. 53 8 a. A. 61 9 a. 71 10 a. 74 11 a. 76 12 noon. 77 x p. 78 2 n. 78

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