The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 March 1939 — Page 2

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Motor Failure Cause Of Crash

ALSO SAID VISIBILITY “TOO HAZY” TO ALLOW EMEROENCY LANDING

530 actors and actresses and requires two hours to exhibit. This picture—it is said—has turned away as high as 500 in a single night unable to gain admittance, so you are advised to go early to get a good seat. It will be exhibited every night j at 7:30 o’clock, until April 1, inclusive. |

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 27.— (UP—A preliminary investigation indicated today that the takeoff crash of a Braniff air liner which killed eight persons and injured four others early yesterday was caused by motor f vJure and visibility "too hazy” to allow a successful emerg-

ency landing.

Co-pilot Malcolm Wallace, who, with pilot Claude Seaton and two passengers managed to crawl from the wrecked pline only a moment before it exploded, said the left motor "failed immediately after the takeoff" from municipal airport at 2:42 a. m., Sunday. When the motor failed, he said, both he and Seaton knew they would hive to land and so advised the passengers by flashing an electric sign In the cabin ordering adjustment of

safety belts.

"If the weather had been clearer,” Wallace said, “we might have gotten down safely. But a light hize made it

diff cult to judge distance.”

Wallace was unable to explain the origin of a fire which licked up through the floor behind the cockpit when the plane, after bounding several hundred feet in a field a mile from the •a'rport, crashed into a fence. The ignition and gasoline lines hail been cut before the plane crash-

ed, he said.

This fire evidently was responsib’e for the three gasoline explosions which completely destroyed the plane and turned it into a roaring

GILBERT NICHOLS DIED SUNDAY AT ROCKVILLE

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of Mrs. Marie Nichols, east of the | city, died Sunday evening at 8 o’- J clock at the Rockville Sanitarium,

following a four years illness.

Survivors bo .sales the mother are one sister, Kern, and two brothers, !

Robert and Walter Nichols.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the!

Rector funeral home in charge of session Tuesday evening at 8 o clock. the Rev. Cecil Fellers of the Fust George Harris is reported quite ill

at his home on east Washington

PERSONAL AND LOCAL NEWS Elks Lodge will meet in regular

Christian church. Burial will be in the Stilesville cemetery. Friends may call at the Rector funeml home.

RECEIVES PAROLE TO ATTEND SON’S FUNERAL MICHIGAN CITY. Ind„ March 27. — •UPi A foimer railroad official serving a one to 10 year sentence at the state prison left his cell today for the second time in a week. He thought he was returning to the bedside of his sick son. Instead his son’s funeral awaited him. Last Monday prison officials permitted Eugene Roby, former official of the L. & N, Railroad at Louisville, a week's temporary parole. His son, Kenneth 18, was seriously ill at New

Albany, Ind.

Roby spent the week constantly at his son's bedside. Yesterday morning friends tried to reach Gov. M Clifford Townsend to hive him extend Rcby’s parole. But they could not locate him immediately and Roby

death pyre for seven passengers and j returned to prison.

Roby’s friends succeeded in finding Gov. Townsend who granted a

second, three-day parole.

Prison officials handed the permit to Roby about 6 p. m. at the other end of the state, his son died a few

m'nutes Inter.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cox of Northwood are the parents of a son bom ^Sunday at the Putnam county hospit-

al.

The city firemen were called to 207 south Vine street in this city last evening where the soot in a flue

burned out.

Dr. and Mrs. C. B. O’Brien were among the local people who attended the state final basketball tournament

in Indianapolis Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Lon Nichols and Mr. and Mrs. Len Richardson of Mt.

^ySOCIETY

Prewtit Day Club To Meet Tuesday

The Present Day Club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Russell

Brown, Northwood.

Miss Mary Elizabeth Royoe To Wed Carlos Becker, Jr.

Mrs. Clarence Royse of Terre Haute announces the engagement of her daughter, Mary Elizabeth, to

Meridian were Sunday guests of Mr. ^ a| .| os Recker, Jr., son of Mr. and and Mrs James Estep and family. | Mrs Carlos Recker, 3138 North Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Baker of New Meridian street The weeing wiil

/. i u4-sv» ' takp nljice in June in Term ridULe. port are the parents of a daughter | * born Saturday night at the Putnam Royse

county hospital. Mr. Baker was form-

erly county agent in this county.

the stewardess.

INTERESTING PICTURE SHOWN AT CHURCH

A large and deeply interested audience enjoyed seeing the "King of Kings” which was exhibited at the Gobin Memorial Methodist church, Greencastle Sunday evening. It is said that this marvelous picture contains a thousand scenes of beauty and power that will live forever in the hearts of mankind, 5000 people.

The members of the Friendship Home Economics Club arc requested to meet Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at Gobin Memorial church in regard to practicing for the county chorus.

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Mrs. C. F. Reeves ,312 West Walnut street attended a dress style show at Terre Haute today. Charles Perkins, south Indiana street attended a clinic at the Robert long hospital in Indianapolis toady. Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Phelan of Chicago were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Harris of Northwood. The choir of the M*. Meridian Methodist church will hold its regular practice Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock at the church. Miss Norma Broadstreet of Indianapolis was a week end guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Broadstreet of near Belle Union. Word has been received here that Mr. and Mrs. James Goodwine are the parents of a son. James Frederick, bom Saturday, March 25th at Frederick, Okla. Mrs. C. F. Reeves, west Walnut street was in Anderson Sunday to visit her niece, Miss Lillie Roberts, who recently underwent an appendix operation. Miss Roberts is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sublett of Fillmore visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bordner at Noblesville, Thursday and Friday of last week. Mrs. Bordner’s the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Sublett.

Sterling [Parker, who is attending mfdical college in Chicago, and Miss Beryl Parker, who is employed in the state house in Indianapolis, were week end guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs G. C. Parker of Jefferson township. Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Parker were Mr. and Mrs. Tressman L. Parker and family of Stilesville. Two students from Putnam county who are enrolled at Purdue University were among the 430 who gained a place on the "distinguished student” list or honor roll for the last semester, which was announced today. The students from Putnarrl county on the list were as follows: Walter M. Goldsberry and John H. VanHorn, both of Greencastle. Jerry Scott, 82 years old and born in Putnam county, died Saturday at his home in fPittsboro, in north Hendricks county. He had lived in that county practica.lly all of his life. He and Mrs. Scott celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary recently. Surviving are the widow, eight children, a brother and sister, 19 grand children and nine great grand children. Daniel Voorhees Sharp, who died Saturday night at the residence of his son. Janies Sharp, 2208 North Thirteenth street, Terre Haute, was a member of the Cloverdale lodge of Knights of Pythias, and of other organizations. He was a brother of Robert and Frank Sharp of Quincy, and he had two sisters, also. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock in Terre Haute. Burial will bo there. The Bainbridge school and the Parent Teachers Association are sponsoring an “Open House" to be given Wednesday evening. March 29. Classes will be held in the school building from 7 to 8 p. m., which the | public is invited to visit and observe. These will be followed by a free entertainment in the gym, from 8 to 9. by Mr. Jimmy Trimble, a magician of Terre Haute, Ind. Every one is

attended Swarthmore

College and is a graduate of DePauw University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. Mr. Recker is a graduate of Park School

and of Brown University.

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| Meet At DePauw

Mrs. Edwin I. Poston, president,

The high school parent-teachers association will meet in Room 6 at the high school building at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday, March 28. Mem- I

bers please note change of meeting j^ 11 ’ ,

place.

Saturday evening dinner guests of | federation of Clubs', has anMr. and Mrs. Dallas Huark were ^ u as ^ date 8ched . Miss Gertrude Cummings of Craw * ■ uU . ( , for lhe woma n’s conference to fordsviUe, Carlisle Scott. New Mar- ^ heW at DePauw Unive rsity. Mrs. ket; Dr. E. M Cobb, John Crook, p ogton is a mem i) er of t he committee and Miss Suzanne Elvie of Indiana-1 of the conference D ,,p auw P 0 ’**' 1 ’ 1 members of the committee are Dr. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Hogan an<1 vvildman, president of DePauw son of Indianapolis. Mr and Mrs. R l and Helen salzer. P. Grays and daughter, Jo Ann of | Thp gencral t h e me for the conferRockville and Mr. and Mrs. James ence wil| be .. Wo men Take a Look Rubush of Chicago were Sunday ^ the Llberal Arta college.” Judge guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mayhuer Florence Allen Q f Cleveland, O., nabush, east Walnut street. !tionally-known woman judge, will be Wednesday, at 7:30 o’clock, in the ; p rinc .jp a] S p ea ker at the conference. High School building, will be held Qp en discussions will follow the another conference between school ^1^3 xh e conference will be open

to all Indiana women who are inter-

ested.

Mrs. Conrad To Bo

bus drivers and the state police. This meeting will be in the hands of Sergeant Watts, of the traffic squad of

the state police department.

A combined meeting of the board Hostess Tuesday of Christian education and Sunday j The Progress History Club will school council of the First Baptist meet Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 church will be held this evening at| 0 * c ]ock with Mrs. L. C. Conrad. 7 o'clock in the Sunday school unit I of t:>3 church. All officers and teach- Mrs. Wildman Addressed ers and board members are urged to Woman’s Chib, Saturday bo present. "Art Treasures of DePauw” was the topic chosen by Mrs. Clyde E. STUDENT RECITAL j Wildman when she spoke before The The piano recital of Asta Beck, Woman's Club Saturday afternoon. DePauw student, assisted by Dorothy she began her discussion by tolling Kline, organ student, was well re- something of the group of Studeceived Saturday afternoon in Me- baker children in the Administration harry hall. Especially enjoyable was Building, which was sculptured from the Symphonic Piece for Piano and a piece of flawless marble by Lorado Organ by Clokey, one of the few ( Taft. Since the group depicts Mrs. L works written originally for this l. (Porter's mother and her uncles combination of instruments. The ex-1 when they were children. Mrs. Wildchange of simple melody in the Dia- ^ man read a short sketch written by logue, the humor of the Scherzo ^ Mrs. Porter concerning this group. A movement which bore out the defini- little Budha was then displayed. This tiem of Schertzo (musical joke), and was given to Dr. Gobin by a Japthe stirring Fugue which was an ex- | anese student in whose family it had citing finale to the entire recital, been a possession for three hundred made this a liappy choice for a re- J years. Since it was Dr. Gobin’s wish cital program. j that it be presented to the univerMiss Beck's playing is somewhat sity, it is now kept in the Dean of militant and not without technical ( Women's living room in Rector hall, imperfections. However, when one The cloisonne vase which is in the considers the tremendous amount of University Library and which was study that precedes the public per- j presented to the university by the formance of a work of reasonable Japanese government at the time of difficulty, one bis only sincere ad- j our centennial celebration in 1937, miration for the recitalist who gives was described by the speaker, a pleasing program. Miss Beck was | Among the pictures displayed perhaps at her best in the Prestis- j were two paintings of the interior of simo movement of Beethoven’s So- the old Simpson home, which stood nata, op. 2, No. 1. Her home is in j on the site now occupied by Rector Basin. Wyoming, and she is enrolled Hall. One of these was painted by

Professor Mills, then Dean of the

Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Presbyterian Manse. The single ring seremony was read by the Rev. V. L. Raphael. They were accompanied by Eva Slavens and Josephine Smith. The young couple will make their home in Indianapolis where Mr. Brown is employed. ++++**++ A. A. U. W. To Meet , Tuesday Evening The Greencastle branch of the American Association of University Women will meet tomorrow evening at 7:30 at the Alpha Omicron Pi House in their regular March meeting. Doctor Fowler D. Brooks of the DePauw university education department will speak to the group on "Recent Educational Trends.” In addition to the regular business and the speaker, the nominating Committee will present its Silate of officers for the coming

year.

+ + + + -^ + + + Alpha Phi Honors Frances Willard The memory of Frances WilHrd, one of America’s most famous women, and a member of Alpha Phi, international woman’s fraternity, was honored by the girls of the DePauw chapter Monday at Chapel time by the planting of two evergreen trees, one on either side of the walk in front of their new hous-\ Mrs. Maribel McKnight Parker, district governor visiting the chapter, spoke a few words on the life of Frances Willard. The Frances Willard centennial wis inaugurated last September 28th, on the 99th anniversary of her birth, with the dedication of Willard Haill, a new women’s dormitory at Northwestern university, Evanston, Illinois. + + +*"*• + +* Lucille ('line Bride Of Phillip Evans Phillip Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Evans of Floyd township, and Lucille Cline, daughter of Marion Cline of near Fillmore, were united in manage in a 6:00 o’clock wedding Saturday evening March 25 in the Bethel Baptist church nea’’ Fillmore. The Rev. Dallas Rissler, of Reelsville, officiated at the ceremony. The attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pritchard of near Danville. Mrs. Pritchard is a sister of the bridegroom. The bride was lovely in a baby blue gown with coral pink trim and both bride and bridesmaid wore corsages of red roses. Immediately following the wedding a wedding dinner was served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Cline. Guests were the bride and bridegroom, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Cline, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Evans and daughter Rosemary, Rev. and Mrs. Dallas Rissler, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pritchard, Mr .and Mrs. Phil Scroggin and son Carlyle, Mr .and Mrs. Rendyl Cooper and sons Lorin and Conrad

Lee.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Evans are graduates of the Fillmore High School. In about two weeks the young couple will be at home to their friends on a farm near Groveland. COATESVILLE MAN HITS POLICE CAR

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TWO PLK \l) m u tt I Two Roachdal' men ar ,s-(J Friday night or charges of pu j toxication pk ad I or Thomas L. Cooksey in cry I Saturday morning and wen j fines of $1 and costs, or sn | They were Clinton Pai;:-- ; -.7 as VV. Lingefi ltei ThcyorJ up in the 100 bio, u n„ n •[, j ington street by Capt. Paul ] ton and Officers Paul Br:n Kenneth Cavi ,| nal and Review.

as a special student in the DePauw School of Music, studying piano under Edward Shadbolt. Miss Kline, a sophomore, is a promising organ major and is always heard with

pleasure.

Cecil Poynter, a young man of Coatesville. who was hurrying, he said, to get himself and him wife and

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Cecil Stevens, living on state road 136 a mile and a half east of Raccoon, which is on state road 43, pleaded guilty in the Putnam Circuit court Monday to a charge of driving a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. The affidavit was filed by State Policeman George Hecko, who arrested Slovens while the officer, along with Sheriff Graham, were aiding traffic on road 43 at Fincastle Saturday afternoon prior to a largely-attended

funeral in that town. Society News Federation of Clubs To Meet April 18

The Putnam County Federation of Clubs will hold an all day meeting at Gobin Memorial church on Tuesday,

urged $0 be present as this promises j April 18. Registration will be at to be a worth while entertainment. nine o’clock and the business session

will open promptly at nine-thirty. During the morning session the club can I P resiclen *- s an<l department chairmen will give their Deports. The district officers will be guests. There will

bo a pitch-in luncheon.

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GREENCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL A CAPPELLA CHOIR Presents “Daniel Boone” Reserved Seats At Sam Hanna’s Book Store

TODAY—MARCH 27 First conversation over experimental long distance telephone line between New York and Boston, 1884.

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Art School, and the father of Miss Ermina Mills, and was kindly loaned by Miss Mills. The other, a very similar one, showing the same fireplace and clock, was painted by a friend of Miss Margaret Gilmore and is now owned by the latter. Another picture of particular interest was one pained by Sir Thomas Lawrence, a beautiful portrait of a young English boy, which hangs in the President’s office. Miss Gilmore and Mrs. Cooper told of some of the treasures which were included among the books owned bv the university. These included a Shakespeare folio; a volume on Napoleon, written by a citizen of the United States and published in! Salem, Indiana, in 1818; and a hymnal which was presented by John Wesley to Bishop Asbury in 1783. The club is indebted to Mrs. Wildman and those who assisted her for a delightful and instructive program. •!• + + + +4.’+ + legion Auxiliary To Moot Tonight Putnam County Unit No. 5R American Legion Auxiliary will hold its stated meeting this evening at 8 o’clock at the Legion Home. A go<_ attendance is desired. Rachel Buis, Pres. Phoebe Brown, Sec. ++++++++ International Group To Meet Thursday The International Relations Study Group of A. A. U. W.' will meet Thuisday morning at 10 o’clock at the home of Mrs. John Boyd, Northwood. + + + + Couple Married Hero Salurday Miss Josephine Haddan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Haddan of Cloverdale and Arthur M. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Brown of Indianapolis were united in marriage

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