The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 August 1934 — Page 2

HUE BELIEVES UNIVERSE ONCE • COSMIC ATOM

FAMOUS BKi r.lW XSTItoVoMUH AND M \ I HI M \ I K lAN OFFERS THKOKY. —• NEW YORK, (UP)—A gigantic super-rai'ij-. n .i tiv>' cosmic a om may have been an original universe. Such a jiieture i presented if a theory pro))osed by the famous astronomer ant mathematician, Abbe 1 .email re, is carried to i' full anti logical conclusion. Billions of years ago, it is qu:‘e possible that either all matter war in

this problem. Dr. Robert Millikan suggested that cosmic rays are emitted in connection with the synthesis of at'flns in interstellar space.

scientists, will provide an answer to | TtJg -DAILY BANNER i Miss Wilma Miller oft i his city has

1 returned home from Bay View, Mich.

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Peggy Miller of near Morton entered th'' county hospital Tuesday for treatjjnent. Mrs. Fred Pease, 10 Borry 0 street is confined to her home due to a severe sprained ankle.

HOOSIKR RETURNS TO POST AT TURKISH GIRLS’ SCHOOL Miss K. Jeanette Odell, a native of Indiana, well sail from New York tomorrow for Turkey where she has been for the last six years head of the American School for Girls in Merzifon according to a bulletin from the Ann.rican Board of Commissioners for | Foreign Missions. Miss Odell has been j in this country on furlough, speaking in a number of cities as an “unofficj ial ambassador of goodwill” from . Turkey to America. Miss Odell is a evaduate of DePauw University. She

.T-lOd Roosevelt avenue, is a physician. Mi Odell os a sister of Miss Helen ('. Odell of Greencastle and Mrs. A.

C. Chittick of Chicago.

th'. foim "t ne » 1 •• ’ 1,0 and , , , visited in Indianapolis many times protons, which pro<. • ersively evolved a brother, Dr. Thomas! A. O’Dell,

into such simple atomic combinations as hydrogen, then helium, and gradually more complex iloins, or as uggested by the note Abbe Eemaitre, of Belgium, rhe jiroceBs right liavo 1

been quite the opposite.

Conver ely, according to his hoory the first chemical units in complex and have been distintegrnted slowly to form more elementary atomic pat-

terns.

Supporting this theory, an observation of some of the present known 93 typos of atoms will - how that they ffre disintegrating at a '‘very, very rapid rat form a cosmological point of view,” according to Dr. Merrill, of Carnegie Institution to form lighter and simpler atoms. Such hypotheses carry the implication that a chemical unity exists between those sections of the universe examined by astronomers. In turn, one might speculatively suggest that the atoms are eternal; that the atoms

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PERSONAL AND LOCAL NEWS

THEATER AT ( LOVF.RDALE KE-OPE.N1NG WITH NEW NAME Hie* motion < ire theater at (3overdale, which ba operated under the title of The Dream, will re-open on Uri ay, August IT, und»r a new name, being called “The Music Box Theater" The theater was opened in February, 1933 by James Denny and Walter Bryan. loiter Mr. Bryan sold his interest to Mr. Denney who has continu-

ed to operate it.

in ad lition t > changing the name, Mr. Denney ha< installed new sound apparatus and has hooked a series of new pictures for the coming season. The theater will operate Friday and Saturday with a change of pictures for the foil iwing Sunday, Monday and

which constituted the universe in th<

promeval past are identical with those | Tuesday,

which compose the universe today.

Cosmic rays, it is believed, by some 1 BANNER WANT

ADS PAY

Bancrofts at Alimony Trial

A strange marital mixup arose in a Los Angeles court when George Bnifcroft, big-muscled character film actor, testified vaguely about li<t first marriaigQ to and reported subsequent divorce 20 years ag« from Mrs. Edna Bancroft, who sued for alimony. Here is the movie star showm witTi hi# second wife Mrs. Olivia Broske Bancroft, a’ d their 17-year-old daughter, Georgette, center.

Maple Chapel Prayer mrdipg this evening at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Clara Sheets, Berry street is in Chicago visiting relatives. Howard Denny, 1023 south Indiana street is confined, to his home by ill-

ness.

Mrs. Harry Gorhami is in Indianapolis thi i*week visiting her on Frank Gorham. Rev. and Mrs. .V. L. Raphael have returned home after visiting relatives in Holley and Walton, N. Y. Miss Eleanor I<ong of Manhattan underwent an emergency appendix operation at the county hospital, Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Otha 'Bales and Mr. and Mrs. John I-eaton of near Finca tie spent the weekend in Chicago when* they attended the Century of Progress exposition. Mrs. J. L. Beyl of Tulsa, Okla., who is enroute to Syracuse, N- Y. to visit her : i*n Herman ('. Beyl stopiied here for a few days visit with Mrs. Ed. Dalby, south Indiana street. There will be a inerting of the Re* publican Woman’s club of Uie city and (i.iflity at the court hou: Saturday afternoon, August 18, at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. Frank Donner will review the president’s latest book, “On Our Way.” All Republican women are urged to be present and any others who care to hear the review will lie w'ol-

Evangelist Walter E. Bailey is holding an old fashioiie.l camp meeting under th" auspices of the Caanan Methodist Church two miles wfst of Reelsville on State Road 40. The meetings are being held under a large tent which is locate ! on the north side of the National road and just one fourth of a mile east of the Putnam Clay Count? line road. These meetings will interest any and all regardless of denomina’ional affiliations an.I every one is invited to come and hear the old fashioned rugged truths of God's wor i preached without*fear or favor. Services start each evening at 7:4i). The meetings will continue throughout this week and v much longer as interest permits. jCome, yotf will enjoy it.

SHOES-

Forced Out of Business

-SHOES

All Fixtures- CLOSING OUT SALE -Entire Stock o ° o Krnest A. Browning' hawing leased this room, I am forced out of business. There being nt) other location available, suitable for my high grade stoj*e, I am eompelleti to (jnit. My loss is your gain. Hi-grade Shoes a< less than ever sold in (ireencastle.

SPECIAL LOT WOMEN’S . OOLOSHES 25c & $1.00 S j:i fur $1.00 and $1.97

Women’s Comfort STRAPS AND OXFORDS The Rest in America $1.85 * $2.25 HUY SEVERAL PAIRS

BOY’S OXFORDS Just Like Dads tf’l.oo GRADES Sab* qr Price The Hen( Kind For School

WE.YENBERG SHOES AND OXFORDS . FOR MEN $2.45 T ° $4.95 # Formerly Priced— $3.00 To $7.00

BARGAIN COUNTERS 50c & $1.00 Women and Children SHOES DON’T OVER Look

Included In This Sale Are All * Fall Shoes °Straps, Pumps and Ties—Latest Styles. NEWEST LEATHERS * All Sizes from I bo 9—AAA to E widths SStir**?'. .$1.95 ■'"■$4,851

Don’t fail to buy Shoes for entire family—Now is the time to buy Fall Shoes— and too at the lowest prices ever offered in Greencastle.

ALL SALES CASH — NO REFUNDS — ALL SALES FINAL I’ve .sold ygu Shoes for 15 yeai-s—always good Shoes—Well folks the same is true of every pair in this Close Out Sale. Sale Starts Saturday, August 18 HARRY W. MOORE

8 E. WASHINGTON STREET

GREENCASTI E, IND.

{Ethel Jean Shuey underwent a tonsil. operation at the county hospital, Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cherry, west Walnut street, have returned home from a visit with! relatives in Detroit. Mr. an 1 Mrs. James Tobin of Anderson spent the week-end with the later’s mother, Mrs. James Tate, Hanna street. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Swahlen and Dr. Percy H. Swahlen of St. Louis, Mo., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Allen, Jr. Several from Greencastle went to New Maysville W* dnesday to attend the annual picnic held in the Summers grove. Mrs. Mary C. Brumfield of Russellville, who has been a medical patient at Culver hospital at Crawfordsvolle for th" past four weeks, returned to her home buesdayMrs. Hugh Walker, Miss Geneva Brown and Miss Rutli Hutchsins who are furnishing music*^it the Hotel Severn in Indianapolis, spent Tuesday with relatives here. ° Miss Lucinda Jane Jones and Marion .Franklin Risk, both of Danville, 111., were married nere Wednesday morning by Robert H. Newgont, justice of the peace. They were accompanied by Mrs. Anna Jones, mother B f the bride. The bridegroom Is a young coal miner. Among those from out of town who attended the funeral of Mrs. Samuel Farrow, Sunday, wen* Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mathews of Danville, HI., Mr. and Mrs. George Scott of Rockville, J. M. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Duree of Bridgeton, Mr. and Mrs. Howe and jkfr. and Mis. A. D. Moore of Indianapolis. “The boys ill blue’’ u ill be I, ;° . , on Saturday, Aug. 18, when an allday meeting of old soldiers and citizens is held at Poplar Ridge in Parke county, East of Mansfie' ' Henry C. Rogers, civil war veteran and chairman of arrangetyi nts for the meecing, announced yesterday that a number of speakers have promised to take part in the program. O Frank E- Stoessel, Dr. C. C. Tucker, Judge W. S. Donner, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brackney, all of Greencastle, and Mr. and Mrs. Herschell HiAst of Cl.ivertlale, attended a district Legion meeting he© at Crawfordsville Tuesday. The local men reported a splendid session witji addresses b> the present state commander and others who are candidates for this post. Richard Humphreys, of Martinsville who received his B. S. degree from DePauw with the class of 1933, ha received a«graduate assistantship in Syracuse university, Syracuse, N. Y., and will take up his work as a. member of the science faculty about the middle of September. Mr. Humphreys will assist in the physics laboratories and will also work on his Master’s degree. Funeral "services were held at Eminence Wednesday morning for Mrs. Carrie Watson, age 87 years, a well known resident of north Morgan county. Mrs. Watso also was well known in south Putnam county. Thro** children, (‘hark s of Port‘Jarvis, N. A' Claud E. Watson of Mooresville and Oscar Watson of Eminence, survive. Tlie husband, George Watson, die^i.*. 1923. e *

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Henry Ostrom has concluded hi i work for the season at the Montrose, l’a., Bilde conference, where some seventy pastors, representing fifteen denominations, were in attendance besides their wives and the general public. On Thursday of this week he is announced to speak at Winona Lake on the evangelization of Jews, and next Sunday at Cedar Lake, Indiana, where he Ixgins a ten day engagement.

GIANT SKELETONS FOUND WINNIPEG, Man., (IIP) — The skeletons of two giant lizards which live | in the Cretaceous Sea millions of years ago have been found near Thornhill, Man., it is reported here. The discoveries were made by C. M. Sternberg, who was sent to Thornhill by the geological survey of the National Museum at Ottawa to search for the Mossasars, marine lizards that lived in the Cretaceous Sea 70.009,000 years ago. The skeletons . will he excavated and sent to the National Museum where they will be assembled and placed on exhibition. The largest of the two skeletons is 35 feet long. The skeletons are the first complete ones found in Canada, although many specimens hate been uncovered in Kasas, Sterberg said.

Recent Bride / Honored At Party 0 Mrs. Floy i Buchanan, Hanna Court, entertained with a party, Tuesday eveing in honor of Mrs. Merle Hoelscher. The guests included, the Misses, Juliana Gardner, Retha Webb, Katharine Long, Janet Crawley, Elizabeth Stoner, Mary Louise Throop, Betty Lyons, Mary O’Rear, Mrs. John Etter and Mrs. Harold Duncan. •7« *!. »T« Browning Reunion Held „ At Milligan Park Sunday The annual Browning reunion was held Suday, Aug. 12, at Milligan perk in Crawfordsville. The following officers were elected for the coming year: president, Clyde Gentry; vice-president, Austin Browning; secretary, Mrs. Ralph West; treasurer, Mrs. Raymond Herod. A basket dinner wa served at noon. Seventy-five relatives and friends were present. A letter from Edwin Y. Browning of Alberta, Canada, was read, in which he told of the condition of crops in that province. In the afternoon a program was given. The reunion next year will be held at the same place and time. •!• 4* •!* *1* *F ■!• Tri Kappa To Meet Thursday Tri Kappa will meet Thursday evening, at 7:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Gilbert Rhea. »*« •*« *T« *J« *T« *T« Crescent I odge To Meet On Thursday Crescent Rebokah lodge will meet in regular session Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. The degree staff, Shining l ight No. 321, Rockville, will he present and confer the degree. All members and Rebekahs are welcome. •!• *F •!• 4* 4* 4* Nelson Reunion To die Held Sunday The Nelson reunion will he held Sunday, August 19, at the homo of David Nelson, west of Greencastle. A goo7 program has been arranged. All relatives and friends invited to attend.

4* v 4* 4* 4- •# 4* 4- BETHEL 4* 4- 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* Lawrence Applegate and family Indianapolis visited Marion Cline and family Friday night and Saturday. Fred Heavin and family sjient Sunday with Mrs. Maggie Storm. Mrs. Helen 'Bufften and Mrs. Elsie Griffin and son Duane of Long Beach, Cal., are visitig Mrs. Alpha Bunten. Miss Beni lee Vaught is spending a 8*w d’ys with In r i.-ter near Lena. Mrs. Lydia Cl^ne and Chester Cunningham attended the Harlan reunion at Coatesville Sunday. Mrs. Cora Applegate is spending i he week* with .M, . amPMrs. Lawrence McGinnis. 0 The Christie reunion will he held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence McGinnis next Sunday. Miss Myrtle Vaught is visiting Mis s Mary Hicks this week. Brace Richanl on and family aU* tended the Harlan reunion at Coatesville Sunday. Mrs. Fr^tan Buntc n and daughter called on Mrs. Edit!) Brown at Limedale Monday. Mrs. Zora Storm and Ml?. Mary Storm called on Mrs. Nellie Heavin Friday. Noble Storm and Marion Bunten are at Camp Knox, Ky. 0

emitted a piercing whistle. From under ledges and from the depths of caverns came curious lions and lionesses, showing their pleasure in meeting this man who knew how to give the proper greeting in the correct manner. o Chris and his friend, John T. Mil len, director of the zoo, went on, over an embankment and into the*the french encircling the rhinoceros enclosure. “Ki Feru!” Chris called, and a whimpering sound came from his throat, "Ki Feru!” There was a stir as of mountains heaving at the far eiido of the pen, and two war tanks in full regalia hirged toward him. They were Hans and Greta Rhino full of memories of their babyhood when Chris took them from their wilderness home. “They were the cutest little pair,” Schulz told Millen. “Strange, isn’t it, the most affectionate pets in Africa # and also the most dangerous and fierce of African beasts. They have the keenest scent and the poorest eyesight. Gretel’s mother nearly killed me and we had to shoot her at 20 feet. “I remember h.>w we had trailed tlie mother and the youngsters for five days and we were going back home when there she stood in front of us with her head down. My son fired a; I did and Iwth our bullets struck at nearly the same spot in the neck.” o Schulz is on his way home to his ranch at Arusha in Tanganyik, which formerly was German East Africa. Born in Harburg, he began his life working as a steward on a German boat sailing along the coast of West Africa. He entered the animal busine s as a youth and when his interest in animals grew through trades with natives.

ADMIR \E BYRD REPORTED RECOVERING FROM ILLNESS LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, Aug. 15, (Via M.ickny Radio to UP) —Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd is recoverirtfc from illness which threatened his life in his hut 123 miles out on the Ross ice barrier, Dr. Thomas ('. Ptulter reported by wireless. P niter and a crew of two in a now tractor^reai bed Byrd, it was revealed to find him seriously ill, and extremely weak. i* umes from his kerosene stove poisoned him in June. He was so weakened that he was unable to prep ire his food properly—a grave thing in the Antarctic where a balanced diet is necessary. Toward the last, he fore Poulter reached him, Byrd was forced to spend half the time in his sleeping bag, both because of his weakness and because he was afraid 0 tove for suffk ientiy long peri ids to keep his little hut heated. It was found that lie was to 0 weak* to crank longer than a few minutes the emergency wireless generator he used to communicate with the base, and this accounted for fragmentary renorts from him. it appeared also that his wireless receiving set had been out of order for a long timo,*md ho had lieen expecting the tractor for many days before it arrived. Poulter reported that he anr his crew would stay at Byrd’s hut until Byrd

had fully recover d, rather' the 1 ng journey back tfo .1) winter darkne s. Poulter has converted i>;*aI into a me* eornlogir.il . der to study the meteor sho»r to Ci mpare weather report; * b® He toek with h : i an 3 instrumen* of hi own n for plotting meteor trade. COURT ACTION M \Y <Tnp COXTROVERSIAI. I'm ^ INDIANA? Court action today threaten^! the state highway cnnim!;.^ proval i f a hid to pave U. S.te 31 between Greenwood and fj A storm of proto t o along the hi J ioit h of India' ■ J tile roimnissk n a* ; J b had arced'd ■ . J Paul V. McNutt th * • -J paved with bi i< 1 J Although th"' 1 , * x signe 1 until t ; e 4J its customary in. r (igathi low bidder’s qiialiU-iti .’igenerally com i'led tl d nor’s wishe would fulfiM The low brick hid w: ! the Hartman-Chirk !v! ' oria, 111. T 0 ( yesterday that lively awarded the i"ttr * ^ Roads Resurfacing Co, i •'Ibid ton, whose concrete bid wn | k*wer. The governor favored -J boost Indiana bus' ■ The Peoria com ern int nd *j| chase brick from a nkmt at Mg ville, home town of Gmsmnrl Threat of court action apaid governor and die I'. rhwav ti^ sion came from K d (ir:v 1 land, one of :r ■ i d 1 i ’id al mg u. S. 31. c remonstrators woiilil eiganiwlil the brick award. The renfuistrale' foot concrete hi hw y i.nwl tructed for ° I foot brick rond and ab d ■ "I brick is obsolete as a hishwijl terial. The highway 0 ° \ in the charge, stat •/ th * much li>*lay a f nr 1 road as a comph 1 costs.

d’he 27th annual reunion of the Brown family will he held Aug. 19, at So.nor sot church. Misses Edna Cera Wine and Betty Ann Judy are spending this week in Indianapolis with their sisters Gail and Waneta Judy.

Adjacent but 5,000 Years Apart

Matthew Bowman, serving a one * ve ye»r term at the state rcf' rmatiiry*at Pendleton fo* escaping from the state farm has a petition for parole befi re the state clemency

commission.

Ben Swahlen, accompanied by Mrs. Swahlen and Dr. Percy Swahlen of St. Louis, stopped off today to visit Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Allen, Jr., enroute to the fair at Chicapy. COIN DECIDED ELECTION ° CHINOOK, Mont. (UP)—Blaine eounty voters, were saved money at a recent election. The only two candidates for office flipped a coin to decide who would win, and the vote was cancelled.

ZOO INHABITANTS WELCOME VISITOR FROM THEIR ( OUNTRY

DETROIT, Mich., (UP> — A lean, bronzed man In his late 50’s hurried from section to section calling to the occupants of the African veldt at the Detroit zoological park. '* The visitor was Chris Schulz, known the world over as Africa’s most sureassftil trapper of wild animals. He hurried to the lion exhibit and

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A spectacular climax his been found in the drama of nrchco Puda, where closeby the ruins of the city of Persepolis sallies of ancient Persia, archeologists have found the remfli' stone age village in an excellent state of preservation—a •‘ ,w 0,000 years encompassed in a single neighborhood. Here an of the two discoveries, made by the Persian expedition of the C Institute of the University of Chicago—top, n view of P<' r

iidobc walls of the stone age village, believ#ii to hi*

in existence about 4.000 B. C.