Good Neighbor Attitude Shown In Indiana Politics
Will Hays, former Republican leader and movie czar, writes to Fred Bays, new Democratic state chairman in Indiana. The letter praises active citizen participation and urges strong, bipartisan engagement to bolster democracy. Neighbors and local papers note the friendly cross party ties and advise continued work in politics.
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Will H. Hays
Sullivan
Harding
Fred F. Bays
Democratic Party
Indiana
Hay
Cairman
Nation
Democratic State Committee
Pact details delay as Germany Italy face terms
Paris reports say Germany and Italy struggle to agree on binding terms of their military pact and scope of zones of influence in Southeastern Europe. Hitler reportedly drafted a ten year pact. Soviet Russia rejects Britain’s anti aggression front. Moscow seeks a broader mutual aid accord.
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Paris
U.P
Germany
Italy
Europe
Matin
Adolf Hitler
London
Russia
Great Britain
Moscow
Britain
France
Deep Vein Coal defeats Miners 7 to 1 in Linton
The Linton Miners lost 7 to 1 to the Deep Vein Coal company team at Humphreys park. Fielding miscues and weak hitting with men on base contributed to the setback as Greenwood and Trinkle pitched well for the Miners but were hurt by errors. The Miners next meet the Indiana State Penal Farm team at Putnamville, with a 4 o clock practice planned Wednesday at City Park diamond.
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Linton Miners
Deep Vein Coal Company
Humphreys Park
Linton
Greenwood
Trinkle
Deep Vein
Miners
Indiana State Penal Farm
Putnamville
Park Diamond
Mrs. Alice C. Stark Dies in Indianapolis
Mrs. Alice C. Stark sister of Mrs. Amanda C. Welch of Linton died Sunday at her home 5129 West Thirteenth street Indianapolis. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Flanner and Buchanan Mortuary Indianapolis with burial at Crown Hill Cemetery.
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Alice C. Stark
Amanda C. Welch
Linton
West Thirteenth Street
Indianapolis
Flanner and Buchanan Mortuary
Crown Hill Cemetery
Linton Merchants Reorganize for 1959 Summer Season
The Linton Merchants will reorganize for the summer season of 1959. First practice is at 4 o clock Tuesday afternoon at Humphreys park diamond. Local players wishing to try out are asked to attend the first session tomorrow evening.
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Linton Merchants
Merchants
Humphreys Park
City Park
Hospital Report and Births In Local Area
George Peak of Linton route 3 has been admitted for treatment. A daughter named Nancy Margaret was born this morning to Mrs Grant Wall, weighing six pounds four ounces. James Page was taken to his home Sunday afternoon.
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George Peak
Linton
Nancy Margaret
Grant Wall
James Page
Farmers Warned of Stock Disease across States
Greene and surrounding counties are warned that 1939 may be an epidemic year for sleeping sickness in horses. Data from 1937 and 1938 show extensive horse losses across many states, with transmission possible to humans and other animals. A new vaccine offers about six months immunity, aiding protection as mosquitoes and other vectors emerge with warmer days.
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Greene
Middle West
Indiana
Iowa
Montana
Nebraska
Illinois
Wisconsin
H. W. Schoening
Bureau of Animal Industry
Linton Voiture to Hold Wreck Event Tuesday Night
Linton Voiture 1010 of Forty and Eight will hold its annual spring wreck at 8 o clock Tuesday night in the local American Legion post home. All members of the Forty and Eight are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linton Voiture 1010
Frank Courtney
Local union members urged to attend 7:50 PM meeting
Local Union No 4487 and the U N B of C J F A along with bricklayers plasterers laborers truckers electricians plumbers and carpenters are urged to attend a meeting at 7 50 this evening in the city hall. Leaders say important business will be transacted and all locals should attend.
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U.N. B
Roosevelt plans visit as Mrs Buckner dies in hospital
President Roosevelt will leave Washington mid June to tour the San Francisco Fair with stops at Great Smoky National Park and Nashville before returning for the session close. Mrs Allie M Buckner age 71 of Glenburn near Linton died in Fireman Greene County Hospital after a nine month illness. She is survived by her husband Thomas C Buckner a sister and three stepchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Mrs. Buckner
West
Washington
D. C
U.P
San Francisco Fair
White House
Great Smokey National Park
North Carolina
Nashville
Tenn
Congress
Allie M. Buckner
Thomas C. Buckner
Glenburn
Linton
Roxie Barton
Worthington
Roy Buckner
Leonard Buckner
Sullivan
Nellie Gaither
Newkirk
Newkirk Funeral Home
Pleasantville
Senator Urges Item Veto for Appropriations
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg urged President Roosevelt to seek legislation granting an item veto over appropriation bills. He criticized Senate approval of unbudgeted items in the agriculture department supply bill as Congress debated three economy and wage hour law amendments. The president now must accept all items or veto the entire bill.
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Washington
U.P
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Roosevelt
Senate
Agriculture Department
House
Linton Firemen Contain Blaze at Nolan Lot
A rubbish fire at the Nolan lot on 5389 Eighth street northeast sparked by sparks at about 11 15 this morning threatened out buildings but caused little damage. Linton city fire department responded and contained the blaze.
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Claron Nolan
Eighth Street
Nolan
Linton City
Wage Hour Act Amendment Setback In Congress
May 15 reports show House Labor Committee Chair Mary T Norton abandons plans to bring up amendments to the wage hour act. Norton prefers leaving the law unchanged to avoid potential weakening by opponents. Harrington counters on W P A criticism, defending relief policies while noting room for improvement.
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Washington, D.C
Congress
Mary T. Norton
New Jersey
House Labor Committee
Japan to warn aviators in China safety pledge
Washington May 15 Secretary of State Cordell Hull said the Japanese government promised again to warn its military aviators to avoid injuring civilians and non combatants in China in the latest effort to curb hostile actions.
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Japan
Washington, D. C
China
Cordell Hull
Eva Grounds dies in Lyons rites set at Pleasant Grove
Eva C Grounds lifelong Washington township trustee and Lyons resident died Sunday at 12 15 pm at her daughter Mrs Claude Story home in Lyons after years of ill health She was born Sept 21 1881 in West Island community and later moved to Lyons She is survived by three children two daughters in law and one son plus several siblings four grandchildren Funeral services will be 2 00 pm Tuesday at Pleasant Grove Church of Christ with burial in the adjoining cemetery Davidson and Son Funeral Home Lyons in charge
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Eva C. Grounds
Washington Township
Claude Story
Lyons
Mrs. Grounda
West Island
M. B
Jane Waggoner West
Homer O. Grounds
Grounds
Pleasant Grove Church
Oil Exploration Slowed In State By Weather
Wet weather and minor floods slow oil and gas drilling across the southwest region. The Department of Conservation reports a new gas field west of Rockport in Spencer county and a potential oil field southwest of Rockport. Wells completed this year total fifty with twenty six producers. leasing continues east and northeast of existing fields.
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Virgil M. Simmons
Department of Conservation
Rockport
Spencer County
Ohio River
Indiana
Former Greene county resident visits in county
Dr. Oscar Riddle, a former Greene county resident and former Black Creek school teacher in Stockton township, is visiting relatives in the county today after returning from the Mayo Brothers clinic in Rochester Minnesota where he lectured. He is associated with the Rockefeller Institute in New York City.
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Oscar Riddle
Greene County
Black Creek
Stockton Township
Riddle
Mayo Brothers’ Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Rockefeller Institute
New York City
Open House Honors Rev S E Decker Tonight
Rev S E Decker former pastor of the Linton United Brethren church and Mrs Decker will be honored at 7 30 tonight at an open house at the home of Mr and Mrs Bris Rouseh 410 H Street Northeast Friends of the Deckers are invited to call during the event.
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S. E. Decker
Linton
Greene county music festival opens two night event
The first evening program of the Greene County Federated Club Music Festival will be at the Methodist church in Bloomfield starting at 7 30. A total of 216 musicians from across the country perform in two one hour programs tonight and Tuesday evening with a silver offering collected.
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Bloomfield
Mary Watson Timmons
Guards On Watch As Miners Work In Harlan County
In Harlan Kentucky six of the county's 12 soft coal mines resumed operations under Guard protection after a month and a half shutdown. Union pickets patrolled the area while guardsmen with rifles bayonets and machine guns kept workers from most mines. The UMW contract expired April 1 and local operators refused to sign the union shop pact agreed by a majority of producers with John L. Lewis last week.
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Harlan
Harlan County
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Beekeepers Plan Tuesday Meeting in Switz City
A Greene County Beekeepers' Association meeting will be held at 7:30 pm Tuesday at John Hancock's home in Switz City. All interested are urged to attend.
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Greene County Beekeepers’ Association
John Hancock
Switz City
Plans for Affair Deemed False by High Officials
Reports describe a planned huge demonstration in Danzig with German and Polish tensions rising. Mussolini denied the plan while Poland’s army, over a million strong, remained vigilant and Kasprzycki headed to Paris to explore French armament options.
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Warsaw
Poland
U.P
Benito Mussolini
Danzig
Tadeusz Kasprzycki
Paris
Jasonville Girls Return Home After Week Missing
Margie Dickey fifteen and Dorothy Sexton fourteen returned to Jasonville exactly one week after vanishing. Police traced their movements through the middle west. The girls said they visited St Louis Missouri Louisville Kentucky and Nashville Tennessee before returning between 8 and 9 oclock Saturday night May 15.
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Jasonville
Margie Dickey
Dorothy Sexton
Middle-West
Art Rouse
Fred Sexton
St. Louis
Louisvile
Nashville
Betwen
City Clerk establishes conscience fund in Leominster
City Clerk Charles N. H arden sets up the first conscience fund in Leominster after an anonymous laborer returns ten dollars saying he was overpaid for brush cutting work. The donor explained he was paid more than the job warranted and offered the money to square the account.
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Leominster
Mass
Charles N. Hareden
Harnden
Visit in Linton by Cincinnati couple
Prof and Mrs Dennis Jackson of Cincinnati Ohio spent Sunday with Mrs Mary E Neal of Sixth Street northeast visiting her daughter in Linton.
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Dennis Jackson
Cincinnati
Ohio
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