The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 April 1937 — Page 1
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GREENOASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1937.
PROGRAM FOR CLUB MEETING IS OUTLINED
s pMS<; SESSION OF PUTNAM federated chibs in CITY TUESDAY
NO. 150
u first ( hristian church IcJi-In Lum heon At Noon Hour One Of EeaturoH Planned
For Club Women
plans for the annual spring mect-
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DISCUSSED AT LUNCHEON Dr. Coen G. Pierson, Associate S Professor of History at DePauw University addressed the Kiwanin Club Thursday on the topic of the govern-
ment of Canada.
“Canadr." said Dr. Pierson, “in a dominion of the British Empire, but in reality it is a free nation.” Its only tie with the Empire is the symbol of the Crown, but, as in England, the King or his representative in Canada has no power except to act on the advice of his cabinet ministers. With this independence, Canadians have no desire for union with the United States although they
COURT PLAN FATE UP TO THE PUBLIC
PRESIDENT’S PROPOSAL TO BE DECIDED BY PUBLIC OPINION
SO SAYS WILLIAM S. NEAL Ace Washington Correspondent Speaks Before Hoosier Press Association
KITES FOR MARY DENNY TO BE HELD SATURDAY Funeral services for Miss Mary Denny, well known Ureencastlo woman who died suddenly Thursday afternoon, will be held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock from the Gobin Memorial Methodist church. The Rev. ' Claude M. McClure will be in charge. Interment will be in the Stilcsville cemetery. The casket will be open one hour preceeding the services. Friends may call at the Rector funeral home.
Popes First Public Appearance t
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., April 0
jug of the Putnam County Federation want to ^ very clf)8e frienUs wilh Public opinion ultimately will deter- -< Clubs to he held Tuesday. April " ‘ - -
i: in the Christian Church in Greencastle have been completed. The teencastle club women will be hostesses for the all-day meeting. Each ‘ederatetl club will bo allowed two delegates for the first twenty-five
members or fraction thereof and one cases arc referred to the judicial
our government.’’
In view of the present Supreme Court issue in the United States, Dr. Pierson contrasted the situation in Canda. There the Supreme Court enjoys little prestige and important
for each additional twenty-five memIgni or fraction thereof. There will be an election of treasrer and vice-president. AH women who are interested in club work whether they are federat1 or not are cordially invited to at-
enJ this meeting.
A pdcli-in luncheon will be served at 12 30. Everyone is asked to bring her table service and a covered dish
committee of the Privy Council in London for final decision. On the other hand, the powers of the federal government in Canada are much greater than in the United States. Here the residual powers arc vested in the several states and certain powers are specifically delegated to the federal government. In Canaria the opposite is true; the residual
Heavy Fijditiiiii In Madrid Area
, 0 'offensive! ZERO IIOUR 1 ' 1 Democratic majorities In both houses, j in Long(icn Hall at noon.
W’AS 4 A. M.
powers are vested in the national
Club presidents are reminded that i government and only a few specific eir reports are to be written. These powers arc delegated to ttie nine pro-
ports should be about two minutes vinces
in length. T-p,,, program was presented by the Program for the meeting. committee on International RelaMorning Session tions. Paul Blake was chairman. 9:3l>-Registration. j
10:00—Assembly singing. Mrs. L. C. Conrad, pianist, Mrs. J. E. Porter,
leader.
Invocation -Mrs. Robert Beck. Flag salute -Led by Mrs. Roy
Newgent.
Greetings Mrs. R. T. Stephenson. Response Mrs. John McCabe.
Reports- -
Secretary and treasurer.
Department chairmen (2 minutes) j MADRID Aprll 9 ,UP> - The SpanRoll call -Club presidents (2 min- Loyapgt army opened a general utes) ’ offensive at dawn today against the Music Mrs. J. E. Porter. : Nationalists who for five months had
Preview of State Convention—Mrs.
Lafayette Porter.
Introduction of State and District
officers.
Graco preceding luncheon—Mrs. Edwin Canine. 112:30—Luncheon.
Afternoon
|1:30—Organ selections—Mrs. How-
ard Jarratt.
|1:45—County chorus. Club collect—Let by
Farmer.
Bainbridgn Chorus.
mine the fate of President Roose
velt’s Supreme Court plan, William S. Neal, ace correspondent of the International News Service, declared in an address before the Hoosier State Press Association’s annual
meeting hero this afternoon. “In the final analysis, the weight
of that opinion or what Congress believes to be the opinion of the country—will determine the issue,” Neal declared. “In neither branch of Congress has a clear majority been committed either for or against the plan to add a possible six justices
to the tribunal.
Neal, who was born at Noblesville. uas covered the United States Supreme Court and Congress for many years as a staff writer in the Washington bureau of I. N. S. Other important speakers today included John Benson, president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and A. E. Johnston, of Cincinnati, O., advertising director of the Kroger Grocery and Baking
Company.
Outlining the contentions of both sides in the court fight, Neal said: “Those who believe that the plan will become law point to the huge
A MUSICAL ( HAI’EL Prof. Herman C Berg of the DePauw Music School presented a program of violin music in the DePauw university music chapel Friday morning. Professor Berg was accompanied by Robert Sheldon, piano instructor. He played “Blues" by Ravel, and “Gypsy Airs” by Sarasate.
Mathematics Section Contest
TWENTY-EIGHT HIGH SCHOOL
PUPILS GATHER HERE SATURDAY. DEPAI W GUESTS The high school mathematics sec-
tional contests of the state will he held on Saturday, and Greencastle is one of the sixteen centers in the state where representative of high schools will assemble to determine the fifty contestants who will compete in the final examinations to be held at In-
diana University two weeks later. Four representatives from each of
seven high schools in Putnam and Hendricks counties will take the preliminary examination at DePauw Saturday morning and will then be guests of the university at luncheon
MOUNTIES’ GUARD G. M. AUTO PLANT
CRACK CANADIAN POLICE ON Dl TV VT OSHAWA, ONT., FACTORY
S U M M O N E l>
PREMIER
Northwest Mounted And Provincial Police Take Hand In Auto Strike
Showing unmistakable evidence of the suffering he has undergone since he was stricken last December, Pope Pius XI is shown as he took part in Easter Sunday services in Rome surrounded by church dignitaries. _jrhls_was his first public appearance since his illness.^
They mention the thumping popular victories of the President at the polls. They cite the potent influence of patronage and the shadow of coming i
elections.
“One third of the Senate must face election each two years. It was noticeable during the long fight over
The examinations will bo in charge of Professors Will E. Edington and
W. C. Arnold.
Following are the names of the high schools that will be represented here together with the names of the contestants and th«ir teachers: Amo—John Ellett, Madge Mc-
hammored vainly the city’s gates. Gen. Jose Miaja, the imperturbable,
be-spectacled commander-in-chief of the soldiers’ bonus that those facing cloUf j ,joan East ham. Crystal Ham- Flames were shooting from
the Madrid front, sent into the battle an early campaign were Inclined to mond; Uavifl H Albright, teacher, the pick of his men, Spaniards and favor the bonus. Some senators with Bainbridge — Frances Hendrich, anti-Fascists of many nations. an election four years away opposed Wallace Etchison, William Ader. The Loyalists went over the top at the bonus. When their election was 1 Helen Miller; Madonna O’Hair and
4 a. m. after a night in which Na- less than two years away, they fa-
Mrs.
tionalists, sensing the imminence of 1 attack, blasted their lines with artillery and machine gun fire to cover Maud ! the arrival of reinforcements. Fighting was general, along the 1 whole western side of the city, where
Introduction of speaker, Dr. Gil- the Nationalists had attacked so Iwrt D. Rhea many times in hope of driving Films Social Hygiene for Women, through the city’s heart, the Loyalists
Address Dr. A. F. Weyerbacker. were on the attack.
Double trio from Morning Musi-1 headquarters here at Lie
vored it.
“Those who believe the President will lose the court fight say that be | cannot risk a party split. They in- | sist that a majority of Congress will fight the plan either because of a 1 conviction or because of their regard for public opinion. “There always is the weapon of filibuster for the minority. At the present time there is not the two-
cale Mrs. F. M. Vreeland, Miss C’asa Dc Campo, directly west of the third;1 majority necessary to enforce
Ardith Moore, Mrs. Robert Wil-1 mai “ I ,art of thc city alonK thc Hams. Miss Mildred Dimmick, Mrs. , zanan ' s river ’ sal<l that * m P ortant
L. C. Conrad, Mrs. J. E. Porter.
Reports of committees.
Resolutions. Invitation.
Adjournment.
Five Or Six’’
gains had been made on thc west
Nationalists skip of thc city.
The Casa Do Campo is a great park, formerly a Royal park, just across the Manzanarcs from the
T ... . , , Royal Palace. Here, among the thick Icmintv !" n<JnnR Mra ' J H Pitchford, tree8 an(| shm bbcry. ami in the west | un y president, given by county de- to lhe nor theast, on the river, | artment chmr,nan. Music furnish- thc fighting waa heaviest.
| e by Mrs Jcrvin Fulmer, Mns. j
'•"aynip Bundy, Miss Virginia Har-
| low and Miss Leah Curnutt. ^ n/r mi I'' ; ty ere | 1(Te lour
A LARGE DEFICIT
Washington, April!) <up>—i A ^ral interpretation of administra- ;
L° n co nimitnients would require ’ — ffsident Roosevelt to recommend who KNOWS NUMBER <1111. Il1 '" "r curtailment of govern- DREN IN FAMILY. IF THEY "■'•nt expenditures next week when he 1 DON’T KNOW r °Ports on the prospective 1927 de-
I licit.
A deficit of at least $,'1,000,000,000 p |l!ohal >le for this fiscal year. Mr. j • ’oseveit estimated in his budget
ITSf; Januar y that the defic- ; wrole to County clerk Homer C.
ation of * 2 ’ 6W ' 000 ' 000 A combin -1 Morrison:
oi lagging tax receipts, the vot-1 „ Therc arc fotlr „f U s children that under «Hl Ud * eted cx P enditurcs an ' 1 share the seventy-five dollars ” quireniom 0f 1937 relicf re ' Not long afterward, another one 'Cred'efTelL 0 " t0 ^ Wr ° lU: ,cl1 ’ “There are five of us, to get the
limitation of debate. Some of the Senate leaders say cloture will not be invoked. While opponents of the court proposal talk little of filibuster, there is believed to be a band of at least a dozen senators who have pledged themselves to conduct a lengthy and determined fillibuster,
if necessary."
Neal pointed out that presidents have been defeated in thc past on startling proposals and cited the batllos on thc League of Nations and adherence to thc world court. He added that President Roosevelt had been beaten in Congress on the latter issue, despite r. large; party majority
|*«iiir Four)
Francis McClure, teachers.
Danville—Bertha Stanley. James Biehl, Harvey Higgins. J. E. Ever-
hart; James E. Moore, teacher.
Fillmore—Vernie Zeiner. Betty Pointer, Roscoe Jenkins. Martha
Knetzer; Frank Ogles, teacher.
Greencastle - Doris Williams. Anna Louise Moore. Randolph Bartlett, Barbara Yuncker, Frank A. Ross
and R. E. Michael, teachers.
Whitestown—Stephen Harvey. Eugenia Laughner, Claudius Shaw, John dingier; Ernest C Harvey, teacher. The names of thc contestants from
STOKE HAS CLOSE CALL FROM FIRE EARLY TODAY Smoke from thc Owl tirug store caused W. C. Glascock, who resides in thc apartment above his store next door to the Owl to summon the city firemen about 1 a. m. Friday. t Thc firemen found the drug store filled with smoke and it was necessary to wear masks in hunting the source. It was found that a motor in the basement, connected to the soda fountain, had burned out but had not blown the electric fuses.
thc
motor and had ignited the wooden beams and had not Mr. Glascock noticed the smoke when he did a serious conflagration might have re-
sulted.
New Home Ec. Club Is Stiirln!
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP II\S SPLENDID REPRESENTATION IN THAT PRACTICAL WORK
A home economics club was ganizerl in Washington township Thursday night, with a large and cn-
Cynthiana high school have not been thusiastic membership. The organi-
sent in yet.
Auto Supply Store To Open Saturday ASSOCIATE WESTERN AUTO CO., STOKE TO HAVE FORMAL OPENING APRIL 17
< 1 11111lolled On
Some time ago one of the heirs
i woman who is in an estate that
left about seventy-five dollars in cash to be divided among the heirs,
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money.” Now again comes the first “child”
F. A. Anderson of the Western Auto Supply Company of Kansas : City, arrived this morning to assist 1 Fred B. Haskell with the installation of fixtures and merchandise at the new Western Auto Supply Store on the south side of the square, which
will open Saturday.
The Western Auto Associated Store hero in Greencastle will carry the same general line of supplies, acees
sorieii and tools.
It is stated that the new store offers one of the largest and most complete stocks of auto supplies and
That thc athletic spirit bums accessories in this city. Every item is brightly in Washington township was i of selected quality and backed by indicated Thursday evening when the 1 Western Auto's guarantee of "Satiscommunity at large and thc school faction or Money Back.” gathered in foice for the banquet ten- The new store will open for busdered thc basketball squads in the 1 iness, on Saturday, but April 17. will Reclsvillc high school building at 1 be "Official Opening Day .
Pleasant Gardens. The individual members of the High School team
Banquet Given Keelsville Boys
BASKETBALL St{U ADS AND
COACHES ARE GUESTS
OF HONOR
F ’ alr l °niKht and Saturday; ' 0C001 Saturday afternoon.
Minimum 6 »• m. . 1 n m. f’ ® m. 9 « m. 10 a. m . 11 a. m . '2 noon 1 P m ^ m.
22 35 37 39 41 44 45 46 48 50
and writes:
“Mister, there are six of us chll- © ,lren and wc want our money."
** Mr. Morrison thinks it advisable gave shoI . t talka brief talks also ; not for him to go over to Marion county, were gj Von by the respective coaches where they all reside, presumably, of lhe hlgll sc hool and the grade
and count them. teams,
i The estate was opened almost ten coach Chas. Hoskins, coach of the years ago, and, if there is any money hlgh sc hool, was tendered a camera belonging to it at the end of the ten- py the community and thc school, and year period, it reverts to the state the team gave him a brief case. A j of Indiana. All Mr. Morrison asks Is ca mera also was presented to Kenneth that he have definite Information as Kersey, coacn of the grade team, to how many shares the seventy-five The high school music department, dollars is to be divided, and he will under the direction of Miss Barbara forward to each his or her respective Pickett, gave a program of songs, p ar £ . ( with tap dancing numbers.
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
zation was effected through the cooperation of Guy T. Harris, county agent, and Mrs. J. B. Hall, connected with the adult educational project ol th-i county. Officers elected were the follow-
ing:
President Mrs. Glendon KighUcll Vice president Mrs. Forest Akers Secretary-treasurer — Mrs. Osn Shinn. Social leaders Mrs. Ruth Rollings and Miss Barbara Pickett. Substitutes: Mrs. Fred Boyd and Mrs. Reese Huffman. The members of thc new club am the following: Mrs. Fred Boyd, Mrs Glendon Rightsell, Mrs. Emm,-. Akers, Mrs. Forest Akers, Mrs. Harry Bond. Mrs. T. H. Harper, Mrs Samuel D. Duzan, Mrs. Win. D. Yount, Miss Marie Hatch. Mrs. Lola Rissler, Mrs. Mary Hapenny, Mr: Wm. Boone, Mrs. Chas. Harris, Mrs Joe Rollings, Mrs. Osa Shinn, Miss Barbara Pickett, Mrs. Reese Huffman, Mrs. Alva Allen, Mrs. L. A. Poe. Mrs. Edward Chew, Mrs. John Rightsell, Mrs. Glen Skelton, Mrs. Pete Holsapple, Mrs. Ola I’ullum, Mrc. Sam Chadwick. The leaders from this club will attend the county meeting of leaders to be held at the county agent’s office in Greencastle, April 27. (TRUITT COURT NOTES
Presbyterians In Animal Meeting ENJOY SUPPER IN DINING ROO v FOLLOWED BY ANNUAL RE-
PORTS, ELECTIONS.
The annual congregational meet ng 01' thu Presbyterian church oi Greencastle was held Thursday evening in thc social rooms of the church, wit. a large attendance. A supper wai served in the dining room, and. afte its conclusion, thc business matters o
thc church were taken up.
The pastor, the Rev. V. L. Raphae directed the attention of those pres ont to the sotting of Lie stage, or which plays are given by organizations of the church, from time tc time, but which, on Thursday niglU pictured what may well have been r repllica of the living room in thc home of Isaac Reed, the founder ol the Greencastle church more than b hundred years ago. The date of the meeting, Thursday night, was close to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Reed. The settings of the stage included antiques in the way of a spinning wheel, a chair with horsehair upholstery, tables, and such, all of which had come from members o! the. Worthington Williams family ol this county, related to Mr, Reed, with the exception of thu andirons, which
were from another home.
At thc meeting, reports of an in-
teresting character were presented from all of the numerous organiza.ions within thc church reviewing the ictivities of the year just ended, the series of reports being brought to a
close with that of the pastor. At the election of officers, Elders |
tV. (). Timmons amf Geo. B. Manhart were reelected to succeed themselves. 1 Elder C. C. Huestis. mow a resident of Youngstown, Ohio, was made an ; Oder emeritus, following a tribute to the fine character of his services with , the church in past years in a number of capacities. Deacons L. R. Cnapin,)
OSHAWA, Out., Apr id 9 (UP’ — One hundred Royal Canadian Mounted and 200 Ontario Provincial police were concentrated in this area to1 day to assist the General motors corporation of Canada if it decides to try to re-open its Oshawa plant, strike-closed since yesterday. Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn, at whose ! request the mounted officers were stationed in Toronto (armories, offered pf'.icc aid to the corporation and declared the government would j stamp out agitation of the kind I which he said had "brought the United States almost into a state of anarchy.” "If necessary,” ho warned, "wo will raise an army to do so.” Counpany officials, who refused to recognize the United Automobile Workers of America, an international union affiliated with John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization, were expected to indicate today whether they would accept the premier's offer. Strike leaders answered thc threat by strengthening picket lines at the
plant.
“The question at Oshawa. "Hepburn said, "is not a matter of wages
HINT SKI FORD MINIMUM NEW YORK. April 0.—(UP) — Agents of Henry Ford in Washington believe that the motor maker soon will announce extensive wage increases and improved working conditions in an effort to prevent unionization of his workers by John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization, the Daily News will say tomorrow in a dispatch from Washington. The dispatch recalled that Ford startled American Industry twen-ty-five years ago when he announced a $5 a day minimum wage for all workers. This time, it is said, he may announce a $10 r. day minimum.
but a clearly defined Issue of whether or not agitators, wlvo have already brought the United States almost into a state of anarchy, will attain th^’r goal of smashing our
■xport business.”
Ho said "agitators’’ were working their way into dumber camps, pulp mills and our mines.” "That has got to stop-and wc are going to stop it,” he said. Hugh Thompson of Detroit, U. A. W. oranizer, greeted Hepburn’s threats with the charge that the premier was "acting like a dictator." "His actions are more fascist than democratic," Thompson shouted to 3.000 strikers at a mass meeting, "and are winning ns more friends than anything else coujd have.” "General Motors can’t win," Thompson asserted, “even if they have 10.000 red coats to do their
bidding,”
Homer Martin, U. A. W. president, was temporarily prevented j from coming here to assume charge of the strike by bad w*'athcr conditions which forced Ills airplane to
C. C. Gautier and E B. Lynch were turn back to Detroit. It was bereelccted to succeed themselves, and lieved he might reach here later to-
A H. Richie was elected deacon to day.
succeed the late Eugene Light. Trustees W. B. Peck and W. O. Timmons were reelected for the same work.
Strikers at the mass meeting booed mention of Hepburn's name and cheered wildly when speakers called upon them to present a “united front" against government efforts
to “break the strike.”
The General Motors plant employs 3,700 men. Thc United Automobile Workers Union, which had vim recognition from General Motors,
'phe final report of J. Walter BooN. C. O'Hair transacted business p or administrator of the estate of
M Booher, has been filed in
in Indianapolis. Henry M Booher, has been meu in Mrs. Fanchon King, the instructor’s The Bridge Club met with Mrs. court . | wife, found the body when she bcC J. Arnold. The executor of the estate of John j came alarmed at his failure to return
Mrs. T. E. Evans was hostess to R . Robe was given permission by the the Art Needlework Club. court to sell personal property. Miss Lillian Hays is in Gary, the Lillie Day Reeven, administrator guest of Miss Frances McGregor. of the estate of Charles F. Reeves, Miss Katherine Sears is here from has filed a report of the sale of per-
I.NSTRI T TOR’S DEATH PROBED INDIANAPOLIS. April 9 ’UP) — Mysterious circumstances surrounding tlie deaLi last night of Michael A. King. 37, vocational instructor at thc Indiana Boys’ School, Plainfield, to-
day prompted an investigation to de- cTirys'.er. Hudson, and the Roo mottcrnilnc whether lie was slain. or car company in the United Staten King was found, his head in a |>ool waa determined to continue the °t blood, near a small outbuilding at stj-ige until the Canadian conceni his home. granted its chief demand—union reDr. Norman Booher, deputy coron , cogn jtion. cr, said King apparently died after a Company officials announced that blood vessel burst. He said he would they were willing to negotiate hours hold the verdict open, however, pend- , in ,| hut that union recognling investigation by deputy sheriffs lion definitely would not be consid-
Indianapolis visiting relatives.
sonal property.
to the house. She said her husband had not suffered any serious illness
and had no enemies.
Dr. Booher found a bump and scratches on the head but said they could have been caused by the fall.
ered. DETROIT April 9 'UP’ The United Automobile Workers Union redoubled efforts to recruit meml>ers in Henry Fords plants today while 11.000 Hudson motor car company employes prepared to follow (Cutitlmied ou I'iimv Two)