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NO. 7

COUNCIL AND SCHOOL |

BOARD TO MEET TOMOHT

The GreencastJe city council ani I the memb rs of the board of trustees; ' of the Greencastle consolidated i | schools will have a joint meeting in the office of Mayor Zeis this evening The city council will convene promptly at 7 o’clock and dispose of its routine business, af.e- whxh the school trustees and th; council members will take up their joint budness. It is the intention to adjourn the meeting in tim.‘ for the opening of the Townsend meeting at 8 o’clock. It is undeistood the proposed erection of an additional school bu ’ ling will be discussed by the joint meeting

of the councilmen and trustees. Three Year Old 'Bov Disappear;-

SON OF WEALTH!’ \CCOl NT-

ANT GONE SINCE SATURDAY WITH THE HANDYMAN

£ HOUR BILL toes INTO EFFECT .. sf;s HIOID wage minM aM> ESTABLISHES WEEK standard ll,000,(H)0 WORKERS rtaki' t<» Abolish “Oppressive LitHir;” Enacted l.iist June H1NGT0N. Oct. 24.—I UP)— ederal regulation of wages j generally in interstate inbecanie effective for 11,000.rkers at L!:01 a. m. today ^ New Deal’s fair labor

sis act.

*as a touch of the boisterrfusion and turmoil of early a w as the labor department’s

ji’j hour division came down j Wch to the effective date. NEW YORK. Oet. 24. 'UP

act imposes a rigid wage-min- Authorities of eight states hunted toI establishes a standard work ,| av f 0r three and a half year old It undertakes to abolish “op- son 0 f a wea ]t) lv accountant, and the ■ child labor." It was enacted family handyman. They disappeared

after a political battle royal Saturday,

divided and bruised the New, The boy. blond, blue-eyed son of mocratic party. President j Wilbur D. Tripp, head of the W. D. ^It forced enactment. i Tripp A- Co., was last seen with midnight it became unlawful George O’Connell. :!6, a former mar-'

ine, whom the father took into his !

y less than 25 cents an hour [ nl p ()ainK Floral Park, Long Island, uivalent to workers in inter- i lonie 15 months ago. dustry. j Tripp became alarmed last night! y less than time and one-half j arU | no t[fi ec i Nassau county authorfor all work in any week in jtk, s . He discounted kidnaping hoof hours. j cause, ho said, O’Connell and his son. jmploy children in oppressive G oan were boon companions, or employ a child under 14 j “George had a deep attachment in any capacity in interstate g or p) e;in anc j i' m sure, wouldn’t let }'• j any harm come to him. But I can’t [act became effective with i ma gi ne where they are." bree on small and 'arge inter-! Giving a description of the missing usiness Payment of wages p n j r Tripp told the authoiities how

O’Connell had come into his home. They met at a marine corps function where they found they had a mutual interest in dogs. Tripp’s wife. Edna, 24, raises German shepherd dogs and her animals have won several prizes. O’Connell, Tripp said, accompanied him home from the social gathering more than a year ago and since then

AMERICAN LINER HELD BY JAPANESE PREPARED TO SAIL FOR THE UNITED STATES WITH SII^

VER SHIPMENT MARINE GUARDS

' in excess of the 25 cents-an-ninima even $3 or more an [does not exempt the employe jthe 14 hour standard work W exempt the employer from nt of time and one-half overOr work above that standard, ttiere have been some indica^.atthe wage-hour division will

!y cop * ■ t bed with so-ealjed helped his wife casv<or the dogs.

He was not considered

the household.

a servant in

include, seamen, the fishing ty, and airline, streetcar, mott ami interurban' railway emexecutives, administrators, 'iional persons and persons emin local retailing or as outalesnien. persons employed in

MRS. BERTHA MAY JAMES DIED IN INDIANAPOLIS Mrs. Bertha May James. 52 years old, 2017 North Tacema avenue, in Indianapolis, died Sunday in the Methodist Hospital in that city afUr four weeks illness. She was the wife of Albert L. Janies, a native uf Carpen'ersville. Mrs James had lived in Craiwfmrdsvill t and Rushville before coming to Indianapolis

; 29 years ago.

ABOARD SHIP Funeral services will be h M d 2 o'clock Tuesday aft rnoon in the

Six Bombing Planes Bomb'd Hrlti.sh Moore & Kirk Northeast funeral River Boat And Damaged home of Indianapolis. Burial will be

11 Severely in Washington Park cemetery. Survivors, besides th husba-d

SHANGHAI, Oct. 24. -(UP)— are a daughter. Mrs. Mabel L. Ha.;tJapanese authorities detained the ings, and a son. William T. James. American liner President Coolidge both of Indianapolis, and three b n today as it prepan d to sail for the thers. Bert Hall of Ind ; anap<dis. Cud United States with a shipment of Ha,11 of Indianapolis nd Will am P.

silver. Hall of Crawfordsville.

American Marine guard was placed

on the ship pending instruction* from 111’ the state department at Washington. IfSt * M

to which consular officials here sub-

mitted the question. \fX)r I< Ih-FOI'iIim! The silver, estimated to be worth 1 ' 4,1 111 1 UI U

$4,500,000, cons st d largely of jew-1

r’ry and tableware which Chines< UlCKS \ND GEESE II W E BEEN patriots hid contributed to the gev SEEN AND HEARD MIGRATernment for war purposes, and which INC sol I'll was being Shipped ,to the United j States. j The early bird that, wanted a drink Shanghai customs officials yester- <'• water this morning from the day issued clearance papers to the water pan out in th' chicken yard President Coolidge, a 21,936-ton dol- ha ! to bieak ice an > vhth of nn inch lar liner, includmg the silver which thick before he cout satisfy his was on its wiy to the Chase National thirst. Bank of New York. ! There was a “white" frost very Last night, at the instigation of white, in fact, it coated robfs, walks, pro-Japanese authorities of the Chi- foliage with a crystalline cover that ncse municipal regime, supported by sparkled as the sun arose in tli" Japanese military authorities, the murky astern sky.

SPEAKS TONIGHT

TOWNSEND TO SPEAR TONIGHT

RALLY WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY’ AT 8 O'CLOCK AT HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM

CARAVAN TOURED COUNTY Chairmen And Vico Chairwomen Of Surrounding Counties Have Been Invited

Governor M. Clifford Townsend '.1 scheduled to sp ak tonight at tho High School gymnasium at 8 o'clock. State officers and candidates are expected to accompany Governor Townsend to Grt encasUo where he will speak in behalf of the Democratic party. A caravan of 150 to 200 cars advertising the speaking' tQU’ea tho county today with a loud speaker car. The Fillmore and Coverdale bands will play at the mooting tonight and there will also be an orchestra. County chairmen and vice chairwomen of the surrounding counties have been invited to attend this meeting. It is expected to be one of the largest in this campaign.

Railroad Files Alia lenient Plea

GOV. M. ( LIFFORD TOWNSEND

ship's clearance luthorization was suspended. The result was that the ship wan unable to sail on schedule this morning ag Japanese customs officials refused to release it

The foliage on trees and shrubs which had survived the earlier cold this season, was “cooked’’ this time, and quickly indicated a desire to drop to the ground and merge its tissues with the mulch forme i by tho do

Up the Yangtze, where the Jap- payed leaves from other years. Tho aneso were striking at Hankow', and bright autumn colors in the forests | subjecting it anti its whole area to b a vc changed to somber hues, on

terrible air raids, six heavy Japanese mos t of the trees,

bombing planes bombed the British, xhe coI(1 brought no harm when it gunboat Sandpiper, 185 tons. The p a me, everything outdoors being superstructure was damaged sever- ready for The s aS nning of the ely, two cabins were wrecked and, corn ’ yet in the flelds wm b e hastenbomb splinters tore numerous holes p( , by the freeze wh ether the corn in the ship. There were no casualties | is r , pc or not h ut most of the Put-

nam county crop is n aturc, although

among the ship's complement of 55

officers and men.

British naval spokesmen here assorted that the bombing apparently

had been deliberate.

The gunboat was patroling near

Changsha, in the Slang river, which empties into Lake Tung Ting and

the Yangtse above Hankow. To the complications over the Am-

not of the best quality.

The ducks and geese that summei in the far North, are migrating, some of them being seen as well as heard during the last few days, as they hurried over this area. They stayed in the North later than usual, but

finally were warned of the coming an Implement and hardware business

as they swam in the Canadian wat-

ers.

Jed lalxir” and that division in"s may not seek opportunities We time and one-half overgenefits for workers in upper

rackets. I MRS. LENIE GREENLEE DIES Treas skipped agriculture in Mrs. Lenie O. Greenlee, 57 years Ins: wage and hour provisions, old. died Sunday afternoon at the j labor is the largest exempted j residence, 2340 North Fifth street,

| Terre Haute. She is survived by the

major wholly exempted j husband. Zenie; four daughters, Mrs.

Mae Martin and Mrs. Helen Alexander of Terre Haute, Mis. Bertha Turner of Greencastle and Miss Doris Greenlee at home; five sons, Arthur, Paul. William. John and Guy Green- | lee, all of this city; two brothers, Charles and John Swain of Terre

r service establishments large- Haute, and four sisters, Mrs. Maude W«l in intrastate commerce; Hatcher of Terre Haute, Mrs. Sam -(sons employed in the area of Brumley and Mrs. Mandy Graver of ; ition to hnndle or prepare farm Greencastle and Mrs. Elsie Ellis of

I- 1 '’ 1 Peru, Ind.

jb labor provisions are expected Funeral services will be held from

jkt approximately 50,000 young' the home at 2 o’clock Tuesday after-! .dmost unopposed ad-’ed several small communities.

Thomas Morris Died Saturday

SERVICES FOR WELL KNOWN < LOYERDALE RESIDENT TO

BE HELD TUESDAY

Thomas Hart Morris, age 76 years,

well known resident of Cloverdale and a retired farmer, died Saturday at his home in Cloverdale following

an illness of several weeks. Bom August 22. 1852, northwest of

Greencastle. Mr. Morris was the son of Albert F., and Celinda Hart Morris. He attended Cloverdale high school and later became a student in Old Asbury 'now DePauw) University. After leaving his studies he engaged in teaching school for two years, after which he took up farming. His farm was located in the

there wag added a possible [Portuguese complication in the far south. From Macao, important Poriuguese Island across the mouth of the Pearl river from Hong Kong, came reports that Japanese warships had been sighted east of the island. It was added that Japanese were reported to have landed troops near Wangmoon. with the apparent object of isolating Macao from the inthe Japanese snow and sleet storm in

Wisconsin, Minnesota

By United Press

Freezing temperatures, snow and rain checkered the northern portion of the country today as winter swept

in Cloverdale, later a hoop factory and saw mill. He became well known in this county due to his business

connections.

Survivors me the widow and three

in from the far north and overspread ch iidren, Mary Mabel of Cloverdale,

miriwestern states as far south us

Oklahoma and Arkansas. The cold wave followed

and

a heavy; northern northern

Mrs. Forest Montgomery of Gosport, and Gail Mortis of near Cloverdale. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 10:30 o’clock from

the Church of Christ

in Cloverdale.

“ Some 750,000 adults, large- noon, with burial at Terre Haute. jibe South, will obtain hourly' Irate increases and some 1.500.- MARRIAGE LICENSE rsons will obtain a shorter Lister Odell Crosby, farming, Put["'“k, in conformity with the nam county, and Anna Margaret was said here. . Malicoat, housekeeper. New Mays- . nearest previous federal ap- j ville. They were married by Justice to this wage-hour regulation j 0 f the [Peace Dent Chaney, Saturday

O'ler th” National Industrial' afternoon.

*ry Act which sponsored ne-

ion anil agreement on hours / (I ID as well as trade practices. ^ ( Jl0(T(‘(l I> V invalidated by the Supreme j , . .

Th < administration is mak |^(‘OnOU||(‘ OlltlOOk

new advance toward similar

l* VM ' But New Deal strategy "* .. ., 1 1" deal individually with var- HOPKINS ASS1 RED HIM RE LI El 1 tor and industrial problems in-! EXPENDITURES C OULD BE

of attempting a blanket solu-

in the case of NRA.

CUT THIS YEAR

HYDE PARK. N. Y„ Oct. 24. (UP)—President Roosevelt was ; cheered today by the economic outlook and by assurances that relief expenditures could be cut this yeai. Harry Hopkins, Works Progress 1 1.Administrator, told him that increas-

f resident "of" Pu’^Mn" county, is in K re-employment and steady gains : 'toed as one of the possibilities the productivity of industry were ' . ti n-hii-h based tbe

terior. By do ng this,

would cut off Macao as a Chinesr

supply base, just as they cut off Hong Michigan which disrupted communi- wllh bunal in the Cloverdale cemc-

1 cations, blocked highways and isolat- tory

Tern-:

vance to Canton, th ■ Japanese were; peratures dropped below normal in compelled to slow their pice. They Ohio, southern Michigan, the Missisadmitted that Chinese rear guards sippl and Missouri valleys and the

armed with trench mortars and ma- Great Lakes region

chine guns were resisting mopping up U. S. Forecaster J. K Uoy 1 at operations west and north of the Chicago said tho cold was moving c ity I eastward and predicted a light frost Chinese report d that Wu Toh-Chen tonight in the Appalachian mountain

who is civil governor of Kwangtung area.

province, issued a proclamation to, Chicago saw their first snow of the people of the province, of which winter early today It was mixed Cmton is the chief city, to resist tho [with rain and melted quickly. The

Japanese invasion to the uttermost, temperature was 35 Wu was quoted as saying that thej Light snows wen reported fulling

Chinese army did not surrender at ; a( Minneapolis, and in La Crosse. Canton but withdrew for strut gic^ j j0no ffoeic and Madison, Wis. Rain

fell in Iowa, Michigan, the Ohio an i lower Mississippi v dleys and the Gulf states. A mixture of light snow

i <0*1 Tyaoi

(('hiiIIiiihmI on Pile** TIm***«*i

,l) u i:\ANDER UANDIUK for ORGANIZATION 1 Alexander, superintendent wxils of Parke county and

Farm Durcaii To Meet Monday

OFFICERS FOR 1989 WILL BE ELECTED: LARRY BRANDON

TO SPEAK

2ft Years Ajro IN GREENCASTLE

Miss Edna Curtis was ill at the home of her parents at Putnamville.

She was employed in the office of The annual meeting of the mein- (hp American Express Company of-

,hc Putnam County F.rn, f , cc . wllh 'cn.a.iuv. ty. Cuno.t.y.n

resident of th. Indiana State the indiees on which hc ha • se,l the . t1 ,

er.,’ aL .7 * nninion that less federal assistance hers of the Putnam c-oumy ficc Delation, wh ch con- needed. Bureau will he held in the assembly c , Thomas is seriously 4te for the leadership of the enemies think. ^nnrtine- their selections for the var-

*"<1 powerful orgmization of “The old charge that we shove up j reporting their

Mors.

The Reed funeral home has charge of the funeral arrangements. Tills WI LKS WEATHER Rain over nrtVth portions about Welnesday again about Saturday. Colder at beginning of week; wanner Wednesday; colder Friday; warnin'

Saturday.

Hungary Rejects FzitIi Proposal || \|,F \ MILLION HUNGARIAN TROOPS REPORTED MASSED ON ( /.E( II FRONTIER BUDAPEST. Hungary, Oct 34 , UP' Hungary formally rejected Czechoslovakia’s latest proposal for settling their territorial dispute to-

day.

I The Hungarian answer to Die Czech offei to cede sections of Hun-gariun-po! ulated areas in the dwin 1 ling Republic was dispatched during I the night for delivery to Frantisek

RFC Notes To Re Kelinaiiceil

NOTES WOULD HAVE MATURED ON DEC. 15; ARE TO HE FULLY GUARANTEED WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UP' The. treasury cleared the decks today for the government’s December financing program. It arranged for the refinancing on Nov. 1 of an issue i f $295,972,000 Reconstruction Finance Corporation notes which would have

matured Dec. 15_

Holders of the RFC's notes, series K. will be offered in exchange notes of series P, bearing 7-8 per cent interest and maturing Nov. 1. 1941. Tho treasury will handle the refunding on behalf of the RFC and the notes wi l tie fully and uncon titionally guaranteed botli as to principal and interes by tho federal government. No hint has come from the treasury us to its December quarter flu ancing plans. Coming due on Dec. l’> will lie a $433,460,900 issue of 1 1-4 per cent notes, which very probably

will be refinanced.

Although its cash position at inn

1 present time is considered good, them being $2,084,647,508 in the working' balance, the treasury, in the opinion of some observers, may have to borrow additional cash to finance relief

during the first quarter of 1939. Loral Clul> llrhl Field Trial SumLr PUTNAM COUNT! CONSERVA TION CLUB SPONSORED TRIAL AT GUN CLI B GROUNDS

The Putnam Coun’.y Consi i va’.'ii n club sponsored one of the most jpi ■- ten'ions field trials it has b en onnectid with lately, at the farmer Gun Club grounds south of the citv Sunday. About 50o persons attended Lunch was served on the ground - There were shooters and dogs ft-om a number of points of same distance from Greencastle, and the competi-

tion was keen.

In the skeet matches, in winch the perfect score was 25. the following scores were made: W. O. Grimes.

IS BEING SUED IN TWO COURTS FOR Till; DEATH OF GEORGE

L. HAMILTON

The Pennsylvania. Radroad corporation appart ntly doesn't like tho idea, at ell. of being sued in two separate courts for the same offense, Saturday, It. through its local attorneys, James & All e. filled what is termed, in legal parlance a plea in abate"* ent. What the railroad corporal Cm wishes to almt ' is thrt' suit filoil s giinst it in the Putnam Circuit court* by attorneys Fred V. Thomas and I,yon & Abrams, for Mrs. Laura E. H( unilton as administratrix of the estafe of her husband Grorge L. Haudlton, who was kill d on the Pot nsylvania track at the Tucker cns-ising. east of G’eencastle, tn De-

cember, 1937.

The: argum nt presented in tho plea for abatement is ‘hat the d“f tndant railroad Is also he'n" '■ued ifi the fed rail district court of Northsni Illinois for the dea’h of Mr. Hamilton, and the corporation olnims ’the suit in tin federal court has piriority over th" local suit. The plea presents a copy of a lien filed by William Wallace McCallum, Chicago attorney, claiming one-4hird of any judgment which mighii ba awarded the plaintiff. Mrs. Hamilton. in the suit filed n the forierol court The Chicago lawyer avers Mrs Hamilton contract I with his firm to file the damage suit early in January. 1938. Mrs Hamilton was appointed administratrix only a few days before that date. The suit filed In re avers that Mrs. Hamilton petitioned the local court to approve a contract by her with Mr Thomas to represent her in tha suit filed in tli Putnam court* and that the court dl l approve his: emplovnieal In ’hat ceimec’ion. But: that action was talon August 5, 1038 after the pi ri . od ngx were sta-te d tn the fedoial curt at Chicago. N’t informal on concerning that suit had 1) en rcc vi- d lici" it that time, It

is claimed

POLIC E IN! ESTIG \TE MURKER OF Zi IL\E OLD HOUSEWIFE CHICAGO Oct 24 'UP' Plilica g'.up ( lay investigation o.l tha minder of Mr. M iry Du Vuona,, 27, attractive housewife, after a shot, believe.l intend 'd as a warning, had li n fired into tin- home of her sis-ter-in-law. 3 do shot ■•plinteied a window glass

Greeno.istle, 23: W. Crawley, Green- in the apartment of Mrs.

be j

committee

minister, this morning.

The Hungarian council of ministers headed by Premier Bela Imredy. ban

c . . ... decided that Czechoslovakia’s an Miss Zola Hancock was sick with ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ for terrl . influenza . . i orv was ‘‘not acceptable in its pre--

Mr. and Mrs. Ross Burks received lo, y „ word that their son Clyde had ar-, 61 ’’ fonn ’

castle, 21: H. Kitch, Bowling Gt i. 19; G. Woods, Lafayette, 19; E. Sandy, Greencastle, 19; P. Tack'd, Crawfordsville, 18; F. (Pease, Grcencas’le, le. In the straight trap matches, with a possible score ot 25. the folic,v mg records were made: W. 1). Gumes, Greencastle, 24: H Hitch. Bowling Green, 24: W. Crawley. Greencastle, 24; G. Woods, Lafayette. 21: P. Hawley, Indianapolis, 20.

SPANISH WAR VETS TO MEET A m eting of the membc'8 of th" United Spanish War Veter ms of the

William H Koerstner, sls‘er of the \ ictim's husband. Rosario, 33. No

one. was home at tho time.

o o o o o o © ® ^ O Today’s Weather © O and © O Local Temperature ^ o O O O O O 0 ^ 0 Generally fail tonight and T'Xesdny; not so cool in central and sc rthwest portion tonight, somew hat

warmer Tuesday.

MAV OFFICE HOURS

the relief rolls just before election . ious offices. .... f I wora ln f l ln “ r H, ’' l 1, "'‘ j There was one hope, however, that v\’est Central District will bo held a* j 'and then cut then, down Immediately [ Also, there wiU be election of dele-, rived ^ly overseas Hamn . the dispute would be settled without u , gan8port Sunday, October 30. Ths I thereafter is Just a lot of nonsense." gates and alternate Oiman .. t resort to armed action, although includes the Earl Fisk camp of H^ins. wio left .he summer' —ting of the Fam, ^“jt to-. t „ ^ad^ter vhi.Ung hls^rents. Hungat , an troops w< - r , r ,. enrnstlc . ^ will „ a basket white house last night after a week dianapol.s. N ’ p . MVight was again at his reported massed at the frontier ready dinner at noon, and a business sea'o< .».~n Of th, relief situation to mrch in.o Slov.ifl* U w„ in th. wh eh of,ic.-r, w,l. h- o'«.e

" „om infllfenza. Mr. ah I communique which the cHbinet leaued for ,939. The githering will he- h.i't Mrs. Walter Evans also had been after its 1 extraordinary Sun Jay meet- in the Memorial Home, 7th an

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