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GREBNCASTLE, INDIANA, TIUSDAY, .ITNK ir>, l!).:?.

NO. 205

UHED AS

MOB RUSHES STEEL PLANT

PARKING CONDITIONS BETTER

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The congestion in the down-town parking area, which has been a serious problem for automobile drivers and for the city police force, has ; been relieved to a small extent by ! the recent effort of business men and

REBELS MASS FOR DRIVE ON

COMMUNITY BARGAIN DAY TO BE SATURDAY, JUNE 26 The next Bargain Day in (Jreencastle will be held Saturday, June 26. it was announced today by Richard

DA^kOlII'T riTY Sandy, president of Greencastle DAdyUEj IT I I Chani foer of Commerce. '' - Merchants cooperating with the

net AT BETHLEHEM WORKS the chief of police, to induce business READY TO CONSOLIDATE FOR Chamber of Commerce in sponsor-

Hushand Appeals To Kidnapers

TENURE LAW IS EFFECTIVE IN SCHOOLS HERE

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TEAR GAS bombs

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VIOLENT DRIVE

Kir Results In Arrest of Four pickets on Charge* of Assault, Battery

JOHNSTOWN,

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and professional men, with downtown places of business, to park their cars away from the business

center.

It is observable that many more cars are being parked along residential blocks ami it must be believed that the pressure on the parking spaces in the business blocks has been relieved to a similar extent,

VICTORY OVER FOES AT

BILBAO

■en men were injured, two critical-^ (nl t there is much to be done along

shortly after midnight today crowd of men and boys

that line, yet.

Business men are interested in the

MAY FORI IE

Prefers Such Action To Preserve Historic City From Entire

Ruin

ing the monthly sales event in this city already are planning to make | the June Bargain Day an outstand-

EVACUATION . ing feature. Literally hundreds of shoppers

from this wide trading area are expected to be here to participate in the Bargain Day special. The May feature, presented by more than thirty Greencastle business establishments, was regarded as the most successful In the history of the event. With the popularity of Bargain Day

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Rl LING OF HIGH COURT REIT NITA ON TENURE NTATl IT: EFFECTS CITY ■*

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By Webb Miller

NATIONALIST FIELD HEADQUARTERS. OUTSIDE BILBAO, June 15.—(UP) Jubilant National-

ed police at a gate of the Beth- ma tter because out of town cus-1 1st troops massed in thousands along j increasing, the June sale gives promn <•-. i.— .. the roads leading into the suburbs ising of capping other such occasions

of Bilbao today, ready to consolidate ! here,

their greatest victory since the Insurgents reached the gates of Madrid more than seven months ago.

Steel Corporation s Cambria t omcr8 ,| 0 no t ngp t 0 | mvo („ p ar g orks here j their cars at a distance from the The police hurled tear gas bombs ; a ( oros | inv ing to carry their puri the crowd as it surged forvsanl . c |, ases 0 f merchandise from the er police had opened the gate to , ,( ort , a u u> cars several blocks miit entry into the plant of two awa y n mR y pp Such a condition

operates against the improvement of ci8C0 Fl . an( .o, the Nationalist coin-

trade in the town.

;n in an automobile.

The two seriously injured men « Tony Handas and an unidenti- , ed man whose skull was fractured. I

One of those injured was Charles . I) l* lit ise, Johnstown policeman. eJH.UU l\6lUlKl Ull

It was the second flare of violence j

of the night at the Cambria plant, ^ Dllir r | , llY

involved with a C. I. O. called, iTIUiU, A aA rihe Pickets and state police :

-luhed last night at another en-j TRUSTEE EITEUORGE ISSUES ranee to the huge works. One man NOTICE THAT ALL WHO PAID

was injured and four were arrested, j RECEIVE REBATE Last night’s melee broke amid ,

tension over the public statement of j An announcement which comes (trike defiance issued by Bethlehem | from the office of Edward Eiteljor-

ge, trustee of Greencastle township, which is very pleasant news to dog owners of that township who paid a $2.00 tax on male dogs this spring. The news is that such taxpayers tiave coming to them a rebate of $1.00. and Mr. Eiteljorge announces that such persons to call at his office between 8 and 11:45 o'clock, in the forenooais, up to July 1, to receive

the refund.

The mix-up was due to the lateness of the arrivals of instructions from Indianapolis as to the dog tax rates. The Putnam county comnrssioners fixed the rates on these an< mals, prior to the starting of the assessing of personal property, the

It seemed evident that Gen. Fran-

Steel officials and the strategic move of John L Lewis, C. I. O. chairman, In calling out 10,331 coal miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia mines owned by three independent iteel companies Bethlehem, Republic and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Five persons, including a girl and in 8-year-old boy. were injured. The battle, fought in a blinding rainstorm, resulted in the arrest of four pickets on charges of assault and battery, inciting a riot and dis-

orderly conduct.

The disorder broke out at the Franklin entrance to the huge mill. (here a wofficr boldly left the gate md attempted to board a street car.

Pickets pulled him from the car and i male dog rate being fixed at $2 by

State WPA Heads W ill Meet Quota

READY TO SHIFT 8,000 PRIVATE EMIT.Ot MENT

FROM RELIEF

mandcr-in-chief, would prefer to force evacuation in order to preserve the historic city from entire ruin that has overtaken so many of

Spain's beautiful cities In this civil .

wa r- INDIANAPOLIS. Ind , June 15 Their capture of Bilbao already j ■ 1 TP I State officials of the works discounted, the Nationalists looked j progress administration ami the U forward to a leisurely pursuit of the s employment service today comple Loyalists toward the west and the ted plans to shift approximately 8,release of tens of thousands of men 000 Indiana WPA workers to private

— flushed with victory— for a new industry.

and terrible assault on Madrid, the Under a quota set by the Federal national capital. Government at Washington, IndiWe now are on the heights over- f ana’s roll of 55,000 \\ PA workers

clubbed him over the head. The milling crowd smashed the windows of other street cars with clubs and pulled trolleys from the wires.

Laws On Sale Of Fireworks Issued

the commissioners, and all persons assessing in Greencastle township, as well as in other townships of the county, collected that sum from all

Then police came running. They J owners of each canines, of the mascut loose with their long riot sticks. J culine persuasion. Some time afLr winging them lustily at half-seen *be assessors had been collecting the forms in the darkness of the storm. , * 2 tax, the state board sent out notThe victims were: j icpa that 51 on,y shouItl bo collected

George Ofsanko, a picket treated tor male dogs.

for severe scalp lacerations. j

Sara Dukovich, a passerby, hit on the head with a club during a picket

charge

Paul Gelle, 8 years old, of Conemaugh, bruised and cut by an automobile attempting to dash through the picki t lines. John Yrchax, hit on head with a

rack.

To the rallying cry, “They can't make steel without coal,’’ Van A wjth lho a pp ro ach of the fourth of Bittner, Chicago C. I. CL leader, an- Ju|y the slaU> )ias i 8SUe d safety ornounced a projected nationwide em- ( , ers g 0vern j n g the display, sale ami bargo with a threat of more strikes use of fi rewor ks. Copies of the regu--on the shipment of coal by outside | at j ons ), av o been received by Fire companies to the strike-harried steel chie f Harry Ragsdale and he has announced that all provisions of the or"Any mine attempting to ship coal j pn , wi n p e enforced in this city, to any steel plant now on strike will 'p^ e s t. a tp ) a w prohibits the dist* immediately closed,” Bittner de- p j a y 0 f fireworks before June 10 and clared and he predicted that 600,000 a j] displays must be arranged in such bnited Mine Workers of America | a n , ann er as to eliminate all danger

may be

SAFETY RULES GOVERNING

DISPLAY AND SALES RE ( LIVED BV FIRE CHIEF

looking the suburbs of Bilbao. From the north, the nortneast, the i

east and the southeast the National- s ists have moved inward along all 1

roads, slowing their pace only to match that of the men mopping up the hills between to make sure that no Loyalist units of moment are left with arms to ambush the advancing

forces.

All the little suburban towns which almost encircle Bilbao from northwest to south along its eastern side are reported safe in Nationalist j hands—Galdacano, with its famous powder factory: Derio, Bcgona ac-1 cording to advices which reached us

here in the front lines.

Many thousands of Loyalist pris-

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William II. Parsons and Frank McDonnell Fearful that the supposed abductors of his wife may have munlerei. her, William H. Parsons, left, appealed to the kidnapers to return her without doing her bodily harm. The missing woman's brother, Frank McDonnell is shown al the right No word lias been heard of the Long Island socialite since finding of the ransom not demanding $25,000.

EIGHT NOT UNDER THE LAW Ml Olliers, Some Whoi Had Beoit Dismissed Will Have To Re Re Employed It appears that the recent ruling of the Indiana Supreme Court on the 1933 teacher-tenure art has the effect of placing all of CJreencastlo consolidated school teachers, excepting eight, on the tenure list. There are 47 teachers oui the staff of the local consolidated school system, and, of these, 39, apparently, become eligible to automatic renewals of their contracts, year after year, until they become disqualified for such teaching contracts by reaioii of provisions contained in the original teacher-tenure act of 1927. That original acl provided that if a teacher had taught five years successively, and had a new contract for the sixth year, such teacher automatically became protected in his or her position by the tenure law, and could not be discharged, except for , cause. Such a teacher was protected against a reduction of salary, also.

oners are on their way back through ,) lree

the Nationalist lines.

must tie cut to 47 000 by July 15. ; John K. Jennings, State WPA direc-

j tor, said.

Jennings and Martin F. Carpenter, State Director of the U S Employment Service, drafted orders to the five district directors of the WPA. The orders provide for daily contact between the two organizations , in various state cities, according to ! Jennings, and for recommendations I by foremen and project supervisors j for transfer of relief workers best

suited to industrial work.

Workers who take jobs in private industry but lose them later through no fault of their >wn. will he placed ! back on WPA rolls, the state WPA

i director indicated.

He also announced termination of

POPE l’>sl I S NOTE VATICAN CITY, June 15. (UP) The sacred congregation of the Vatican holy office, in a degree addressed to bishops of the Roman Catholic church throughout the world, warned today against intro duction of new forms of cults or devotion and urged removal of present abuses. The decree said: “Especially in recent times (to the scandal of non-Catholies, who have not hesitated to decry the practice) novel forms of cull and devotion, at times ridiculous, consisting nearly always of futile copying or even contamination of similar but legitimate and established forms of devotion, are becoming increasingly popular.”

LOMN CIIUliCN CLOSES \ YEAR OF FINE WORK

REV. M’CM'RE WENT TO BATTI.i: GROUND CONFER I NI E I nil \\ FOR I Hi: W I I K

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I'imnieial Condition of Church Reported Best Since New

Structure Was Built

Federally-sponsored projects i and curtailment of a fourth on June

West of Bilbao, Nationalist recon- j Approximately 409 workers will naissance planes report roads crowd- be affoctcd by the a( . lion . ed with fleeing soldiers and civilians. p rojcct8 to hp eliminated by WPA women struggling along with their al ]t b<)r jnp H include a supplementary crying children. staffing of the Indiana Slate PlanYesterday the Basque resistance, n j n g Hoard, a survey of Federal stiffened a bit, and the Loyalist bat- 1 ^ rcb ives. ami tha American Buildteries occasionally dropped a shell a j j nf , a survey. few hundred yards from us. p ro j PC t s which includes the Last night the riflemen became ac- f P ,i Pra | theater, writers, historical live, and there was lively firing in ^ r p Por ds surveys and art and music the high hills northeast of the city, nctjvities will operate on a reduced To our south, bombs swept down q U0 t a after June 30, Jennings said

on the remaining Basques in their trenches, the bombers’ machine guns

blazing and the Loyalists, crouching UNION ORGANIZER TOLD under the parapets of their trenches, TO QUIT INDIANA TOWN replying with rifles. CALUMBUS, Ind., June 15. (UP) From a magnificent vantage point —A crowd of persons hostile to 1.500 feet above the valley, we look-1 union organization late yesterday ed down today into the southern escorted Miss Kay Lascelie, Richsuburbs of Bilbao, including the Fire- , niond, Va., organizer for the Amalstone tire factory and the dynamite gamated Textile Union, out of the factory of Don Caminos. i city. Both men and women were in We are advised that the Basques the group,

intend to blow up the dynamite factory as the Nationalists enter the

city.

Through field glasses I could see

Davrv Shows Hopr For Strike IVare

I was unable to see a single human being or any movement in the streets. In an hour of searching with the glasses I saw only two men

and two motor cars.

manner

affected throughout the 0 f g 00 ds being exploded. Attention

country by Saturday. J j S palled to the fact that sun rays In Washington Chairman Lewis of sb j n ing through glass panes has

toe C. I. o. declined comment on caU sed explosions.

Bittner’s statement that the strike state Jaw further prohibits the might spread to other U. M. W. A display of fireworks on any street, "liners aside from those already sidewalk, alley, vacant lot. or any called to strike in company-operated other such place, and prevents the "lines owned hy Bethlehem Steel, display or sale of fireworks within Republic Steel and Youngstown 25 feet of any public highway. All Sheet and 1 ube Company. fireworks must be kept in non-ln-Lcwis, in a statement, said he had fianiahle containers if the original Warned commercial coal companies shipping cases have been opened or

"’’I to supply fuel to the struck mills, unpacked prior to June. 19.

Moreover, he added, wine workers No fireworks may be sold before

“oppose" any such action and would July 1 nor after July 5. Orders may , vance they lay sprawled inert sound ""t load such shipments. be taken prior to July 1 but actual asleep in the hot sun oblivious to Lewis claimed the coal strike was deliveries cannot be made until July j the firing of the artillery batteries per cent effective” among 9.500 i. No sales or deliveries may be made | just behind them-l.ke so many U - M W. miners in the seventeen to any child under 12 years of ag“. | American soldiers I saw in the World

"lines of Bethlehem and Republic No. fireworks may be sold or explod-1 war.

Steel. | e d at any filling station or other lo- j

Officials of Republic and Youngs- cation where inflamable liquids ar-

,0 wn Sheet and Tube pointed out. handled or stored,

however, that their mines had al- Fire Chief Ragsdale will Ibe In rea(| y been closed by company order, charge of local enforcements and he

EXERTS ALL TRESS! RE AT COMMAND TO PREVENT COLLAPSE. COLUMUS, O. June 15 'UP' Gov. Martin L. Davey today propose. I that thf> question of whether the Steel companies shall sign a conraet with the committee for industrial organization union be submitted to the National Labor Relations Board COLUMUd,’O., Juno 15 <irp). Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio exerted (ill the pressure at his command today to prevent a collapse of negoliations looking toward settlement of the Steel strike. Should they collapse it was feared that new clashes on the picket lines would result immediate-

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Dav n y indicated that he intended to advance some new proposal in an

pack her baggage in her automobile pffor( h() |d the committee foi in and escorted her to the village of dustrial organization amt two imle

the red flag flying in this suburb but j Hope, seven miles east of here, where; p rn dent steel producers in line at the

Rev. Claude M

of Gobin Memorial Methodist church, left for Annual Conference today. The annual mooting of the churches of (he Northwest Indiana conference will be held at Battle Ground this week, closing Sunday afternoon. Rev. McClure will -return to Green

The legislature of 1933 sought to relieve township school boards of tins operation of the tenure law, by exempting such authorities, whether township trustees or school boards of consolidated township-town schools, form its operatiodi, leaving it effective only m cases of school systems which were not connected with

townships.

However, the recent finding of the state higher court leaves the 1933 statute apLlicahlc only to township schools which are controlled entirely hy the trustees, giving such trustee (lower to “hire and fire" at will. But, according to that ruling, consolidated schools, such as those of GreencastD, | are not affected hy the 1933 statute,

McClure, pastor and, In them the prigma.1 tenure

law is in effect, the high court ruled. The Greencastle school board, acting under the 1933 statute, did not renew contracts with several teachers of the local staff, this spring, and it is said, had negotiated with new teachers, to succeed those

HI RETCRNED HERE

castle Sunday and preach Sunday, who, the hoard, believed, would not morning at the regular worship set- again teach. But the ruling of the vice. Sunday is Father’s Day and ] high court, it is claimed, automattthe theme will Father in j rally brings to a close all such the Home." Sons and daughters of negotiations, and restores to the the congregation an- urged to honor teaching staff those witli whom the father by attendin;; this service with hoard had not contracted for the new

At noon about 35 persons went to Miss Lascelle’s home, ordered her to

she was instructed not to return When the crowd left Miss Lascelie returned to Columbus to report the affair to police. Again she was met as shf* left the city hall and this time

Much of the city, straddling the' the escort did not return to the city

Nervion river, is hidden from us by , before dark.

a line of hills to our right front. Miss Lascelie has been trying to Red bereted Nationalists “re- organize the workers in the Reliance quetes,’’ the Fascists, are massed i Manufacturing company,

everywhere waiting for the order to advance. From the front line trenches here we can see them on the brow of the hills outside Galdacano. As the men waited for the order to ad-

20 Years Ago

IN GREENCASTLE

second of his joint conferences with their representatives at 9 a. m CST. His show of hope for peaceable adjustment was not shared by either Steel companies or the C. 1. O. Steel Dnion, and the Governor’s next move, if his conference fails, may he to send the National Guard into the embattled steel centers of Ohio, at the present the focal center of the strike against four independent producers in plants located in an area extending 1.000 miles from Pennsyl-

vania to south Chicago.

Beyond the immediate range of Davey's conference was the picketed

council ap- p] an t of the Bethlehem Steel corporarepairs of non at Johnstown, I’u., where, last because of night five men were injured in the Among third outbreak of fighting between

school year Just where the new teachers whoi (have been employed will lie stationed has not been an-

nounced.

their fathers.

The local church is closing a most .successful year. The tinancial report at the last business meeting of the official board, was Hie best in years. During the (last fifteen months one hundred and fifty-four members have been received into full membership. bringing the membership of the < huri’li up to i lev'i’ii hundred and twenty-three. The physical equip- 1 ment added during the year, adds considerable to tin' atmosphere of worship. The memorial window installcd during the year, the lovely altar cross, and the beautiful light above (he picture of Dr. Goliin. are all conducive to a spirit of reverence and worship. The societies and organizations of the church report splendid achievements for the year. The student department of the church closed a most successful year with the best attendance in many years. No other Methodist church in Indiana has more young people passing through ds doors each week than has Gohin Memorial church. The average for the school year just ended was 1445 per week. The stu-

dent department is being developed Collins, Indianapolis, president of the

SPORTSMEN CELEBRATE NEW GAME FISH SEASON MONTICELLO, Ind., June 15.—

(UP) Approximately 250 sportsmen from Logansport. Fast Chicago, Delphi, Lafayette, Marion, and Indianapolis gathered at Lake Freeman last night to celebrate opening of tha 1937 fishing season in Indiana to-

night.

A banquet officially opened a sports carnival sponsored by the Monlicella Conservation club. At midnight tonight a bomb will he exploded announcing the official open-

ing of the season.

Speakers on last night's “pre-sea-son" banquet included Kenneth Kunkel, director of the fish and game division of the state conservation department. Judge O. Hills, Logansport, national director of the state Izaak Walton league, and William

The'Putnam county propriated $13,169 for bridges in the county,

damage from high water,

the members of the council were W union and non-union men there since S. Burris, O. A. Day, John Sinclair, the strike spread to that plant last and W. F. Davis. Friday.

asks that all persons cooperate. Fr

quent checkups of dealers will be ; on the annual listing

i GREENCASTLE STUDENTS AT Charles H. Barnaby’s acceptance In Monroe, Mich., where last week STATE TEACHERS HONORED of the Red Cross chairmanship of pickets were driven away with tear

j the county has given increased im- gas, permitting the first reopening

1 Three Greencastle students appear pelus to the Red Cross work, of a strike closed mill since the

of academic Among the Red Cross speakers were strike began, mayor Daniel A,

r . ‘.u- display and sales honors at .Indiana State Teachers I Dr. W. F. Switzcrm. Prof. H. B.; Knaggs promised to confer with C. I madn dun g ^ ^ ^ vjo Collpgp Tjlo yd Hurst has been elected Longden. Prof F. C. Tilden, Mrs O. leaders concerning arrangements

to membership in Pi Gamma Mu, Frank Donner, Mrs. Earl Ellis and for a resumption of “peaceful picket-

national honor society in social stud- Prof. Gough. ' n K-

hospital report

period to see

M rs. Eugene Crawley of this city lations of the safety orders, was fr. i . . .v.’ oalp of fireworks will last

tornoon^ ^ ^ h ° me ^ f d iv longer this year than usual since ies; John McCullough to Epsilon Pi The engagement is announced of T ‘ a a w ill come on Sunday and the Tau, national honorary society in in- Claud Squire Hurst, son of Mr. and Sunrin awyor * of Quincy, injure . u > holiday will there- dustrial education; Charles Hutche- Mrs. Squire Hurst of Mt. Meridian.

■“ ghUy ,m - on -«.v.d a coaaci, lo a Brl^porl. Cn„

Bridgeport, Conn., young lady.

Miss Janet Hardin of Knightstown was the commencement guest of Miss Julia Crawley.

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1 from the pattern of the Wesley Foundation, though without its attendant financial maintenance by Hie denomination at large The program in church-centered, and is definitely educational, missionary, social and religious. Officers for next year have been clcctc I and installed. MRS. <11 \MP CI.VKK DIES NEW ORLEANS, La., June 15 • UP' Mrs. Champ Clark. 82, widow of the onetime speaker of the House of Representatives and mother of U. S. Senator Bennett C Clark of Missouri died today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James M. Thompson. 41 \SON 1C NOTICE State meeting Temple Lodge No. 47. F. & A. M. Wednesday. 7:30 (>

m.

J. C. Brothers, W. M E. E. Caldwell, Secy.

state Izaak Walton organization.

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