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IN CIRCUIT COURT BY & PECK, EXECUTOR OK KEEL I A. B. HANNA WILL
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TAXES
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Pterce Joined With Exemtor •i Mnkfcv Report; No Tax On *t a (J Bequest To Church
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I- • > mt the total gross value of the Qi^te of the late Andrew B. Hanna, ■e death occurred last March, is ,388.43 la shown in the report ' ^ 111 1 filed with the Putnam Circuit Elhl ^ ^5y William B. Peck, executor ,f lli ' he will of Mr. Hanna, and Robert jpg^lerce, aaoeaaors of Putnam coun‘'■W gross personal property is d at |152,338.43; the gross real Kjbto at 829.050. The real estate |n this report consists of 403.75 If of land in Greencastle town-
,and 'soane town property.
^la report la for the purpose of Ilf the amount of taxes under the MtMM nnd transfer laws, and J total amount of such taxes are
^mitaad to bo 17,427.
he taxes on bequests are paid hy 8"fIlf.estate, but are deducted tn>m • A ’ amounts paid to those receiving „ bequests before the final settle'UNwt between them and the estate is
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T|ere are fourteen bequests of OND'U* e»e|i and the tax on each is
iracaBttJiv
fare are three bequests of ' the tin on each Is $203.
' here are five bequests of $5,000
h and the tax on each is $343.
iftMie Is one bequest of $2,500 on
- _ JK the tax la $168.
here la one bequest of $10,000 the tan levied against it is $693. here la no tax on the bequest of ,ffp to Em Greencastle Preshyterehurch, that of $14,684 42 to the ionic Tample Association, and a on thn 824,043.20 gin to the
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LOSS SUSTAINK1) AT ZINC MILL
DEPUTIES TO ER\M:i: READY TO TRY
Plans are underway to reconstruct the burned building of the American Zinc Products company which burned Friday morning about 8 o'clock. According to C. W Martin, head of the 'ocol company work will probably be resumed next week. The fire started from the explosion of the fuel in the oil holder used at the largest melting pot which was located in this part of the building A great mass of flame shot out sideways from the burner and then curved upward in to the top of the building where the timbers of the roof were ignited almost instantly. No estimated am ount of loss has been made.
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score of Polish towns and cities; Poland claim.i its troops are holding , Beilin Had first War Time Bluck-
Ihlladler Ma> Reform t ahinet On Broad National l'nit.\ Lines To
liulude All Parties
PARIS, Sept. 2 of thousands of
■treamod through the
(UP) Hundreds army recruits city today and
attai dug points.
Germans at all border
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Proposal
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IX REMAIN FROM bombing UNBEVRNDED CITIES, IT WAB ANNOUNCED AX Life: - •ERLJN, Bept. 2.—(UP) KuehAdolf Hitler has agree, 1 uncondiixlly to President Roosevelt’s pro■81 that the nations refrain from nMlit undefended cities or anyqg but military objectives, it was loimced today. ■the air force destroyed numerous imy airplanes in attacks on Poi airdromea, the communique said t was announced that German .1]^; Ope had occupied Teschen. in the na area; Klobuck, northwest of satOchOVO, 12 miles inside Poland; aruaaow, east of Kenten, and id '»*w h «nr«
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iDKE DEATH PENALTY FOR “FALSE REPORTS BERLIN, Sept. 2.—A decree flxf the death penalty for spreading Use reports” broadcast to Uermy by foreign radio stations was ued today. listening to any foreign station is ‘bidden, but the death penalty Is terved for “aggravated cases” of aeminating statements by foreign
tlona
The decree was^ issued after a iraaw station. In* an English langje broadcast, reported that Wardr had been bombed by German ers and that the city was burning Berlin authorities said only milry objectives had been bombed.
BENDIX WORKERS STRIKE
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SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 2. Apoxlmately 3,000 employes were idle lay at the Bendix Products Corration and the plant was heavily iketed aa the result of a strike lied by Bendix Local, United Auto>blle Workers of America (C. I.
)
The strike was made effective last dnight after union and company flcials failed to agree on a conict Shutdown of the plant also forced spenslon of the Bendix Aviation irporatlon, an allied firm which mufsetures airplane equipment id which Is reported to be holding tr plane contracts.
RUINOUS” WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. (UP) Today the first phase of ,i program designed to protect farmers and consumers from wide price fluctuations as a result of European hostilities was worked out. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. W'allace appealed to farmers to plant within their 1940 acreage allotments and warned that an increase in plantings might ‘‘ultimately be ruin-
our.”
The program worked out in strategy conferences which began a year ago is ready iti put into effect gradually as conditions warrant, officials said. Details were kept se-
cret.
Officials emphasized that no “hard and fast” program has been put on paper, but said that ‘‘it will be adjusted" to meet conditions as they arise. Increased federal control of production and marketing are expected to prevent wide fluctuations
in prices.
Wallace returned suddenly from a summer vacation at his home in Iowa to make the first official administration radio broadcast on American action in response to the European hostilities. His speech was directed at farmers. “I urge American farmers to proceed with their production plans as If (Tie outbreak in Europe had not occurred,” he said. “The primary effort ... of the administration will be to keep this country out of war. Secondary ... to protect Anieriean farmers and consumers as fully as possible against the effects of war
abroad."
Confesses Slavinir Sweetheart's Sister HOUSE 1’ \INTER SAYS SISTER WRECKED ROMANCE; BODY
IS FOUND
CHICAGO. Sept. 2. (UP) Lieut. Thomas Kelly of the state’s attorney’s police announced today that York Bodden, 24. a house painter, had confessed he killed with a hammer Anna Riermaied. 25, his former sweetheart's sister, because she wrecked his romance. Miss Riermaier disappeared Aug. 11. Bodden, Kelly said, directed police to a culvert near Volo, 111., 40
LETTER WARSAW. Sept. 2. (UP) German airplanes bombed cities all over Poland today but the government reported that the Polish army was holding its own against superior German forces on the frontier, where fighting was general. It was asserted that Catholic churches had been hit at Grodno and Bidlapolska. Grodno is in the far northeastern part of the country, only 20 miles from Lithuania. In addition, bombings were reporteii unofficially from Poznan, important industrial city in the northwest with 246.000 inhabitants; Lwow, where it was said many were killed and wounded in three raids; Warka, 40 miles south of Warsaw; Lvov, where mdre than 60 were reported killed. It was announced that the Slovak charge d’affaires here. Ludwig Szathmary. had sent a sympathetic letter to Foreign Minister Josef Beck, denouncing the leach rs of his own country. The letter, which Szathmary was said to have asked Beck to publish, read: “I express the sympathy of the Slovak people to attacked Poland and I protest before the whole world against the disarmament of the Slovak army by the German army ... 1 protest against the Slovak traitors who admit that Germany is using Slovakian territory in order to attack Poland.”
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•POI.AND’S IN\ VSION MKANS \ NOTIIK.il (j! \K I I K < I N i l l{\ OK I M1*0\ ERINIIMENT”
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 2 ‘UP’ Former President Herbert Hoover said today that if 1 iemocracy is to be preserved the United States must
keep out of war.
“We can keep out of war if we have to resolute National will to do so," he said in a statement. ‘‘We can
as many civilians fled to the country side as the Chamber of Deputies prepared to meet to decide who the.' France goes to war. Virtually all normal pursuits were halted awaiting the hour when Premier Kdourard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet inform the Chamber of France's futile efforts to avert the German attack on Poland, and declare that France is pledged tc go to Polnad's aid. Albe-bodied men of all ages and ranks were responding to general mobilization to give France an army of 6.500.000 men, every one with at least two years' military training. Many were streaming to the German border, in and behind the Maginot iine. The civilian exodus clogged the reads and railways. The government had insisted that everyone without urgent business leave, and they left by special trains running every few minutes all night, by automobiles in such numbers that they interfered with military traffic, and afoot to
BERLIN Nazis claim their invadvig forces are attaining all objectives; declare Germany will fight Brit aia 10 years if necessary. ROME Italy adds i.OOO pilots to its great air force; Observers believe Italy may give Germany military aid if Britain and France go to war. LONDON Cabinet and pailinment meet to decide issue of war. Southern England darkened In impressive air raid blackout. PARIS Chamber of Deputies meets on war issue; civilians stream out of Paris a,nd troops pour in on w r ny to the front; French radio oroadj east says Germans are losing heavily in Poland. OTTOWA Canada orders censorship under war measures act. CANBERRA Australia declares state of "danger of war" and goes on war basis. AUCKLAND New Zealand pledges full support to Britain. HAILAR Heavy Japanese reinforcements .sr.'it to outer Mongolian
out Ui>.t Night and Its First Air Alarm For Practice It l I. I. E T I N PARIS, Sept. 2.- (UP) The Polish transcontinental service published an official communique today saying Polish troops had destroyed 100 German tanks and that anti-aircraft guns had .shot down 34 German planes.
PARIS, Sept, is faced witb a man aggression,
and strength of the United States for use In the period of peace which
must sometime come.”
He appealed for National support of President Roosevelt and congress "In their every effort to keep us out." “This,” he said, ‘‘is one of the saddest days that has come to humanity in 100 years. The situation In the world is not the act of the German people. It is the act of a group who hold them in subjection. The whole Nazi system is repugnant to the’ American people The most of American sympathies will be with the De-
mocracies.
"i But i whatever our sympathies are, we cannot solve the problems of
the outlying districts, some taking j border as Japanese report 20,000 household goods in wagons nnd carts. | Mongolian troops in Munchu
The mobilized men were cheerful, I nnd in spite of the tears of their I
wives, sweethearts and mothers, they | WASHING I (>N President I loosemanaged to revive a little of the nor- I '’elt to address country by radio to mal carefree Paris life as they await- I allay national anxiety over wai sltube of more service to Europe and . , , ... ,, . ,, . , led trams. I hey paraded in the boule- atlon.
humanity if we preserve the vitality
vards, singing, haversacks on their —
hacks and steel helmets slung over their shoulders. They crowded the restakirants as long as they wer<‘
open.
i 'Otherwise, the city was in deep gloom. Most movies were closed. Projectionists had been among the first called to the colors as specialiststhey are usually engineers. The racing meets at Vincennes was canceled. Rarely was a taxicab to tie seen. Bus service was drastically reduced, buses
having been requisitioned.
The women and children remaining planned to stay long enough to bid the men of their family farewell before they entrained for the fontier. At sundown yesterday a balloon barrage went up around Paris. The
network of traps. The
city was "blacked out" and dinners I notable advance but the
were eaten in the dark on cafe ter-
Kcport Ormans Sul In* Fosses
UNABLE TO TAKE \D\ ANTXGK
OF SURPRISE OFFENSIVES ON POLISH I'KONTIER
2. (UP) France
new threat of Ger-
Vlce Premier Ed-
ouard Ih'i'i iot told the Chamber of
Deputies today.
“After 20 years of labor which has not effaced the disaster of the last German aggression we are faced with a new threat,” Herriot said. PARIS. Sept. 2 (UP) France is \ ready to try again for conciliation of lighting between German and Polish troops In Poland ceases, Premier Daladier told the Chamber of Depu-
ties today.
"Eevn at this late stage France !■ ready to try conciliation if fighting stops,” Daladier said. PARIS, Sept 2 (UP’ A train crowded with refugees from Paris collided with another refugee train standing nl a junction near Orleans this morning. Thirty-five were reported killed and 50 injured. BERLIN, Sept. 2 (UP) A German high command communique said today that German troop advances is.' tinned everywhere and that the Jablonka Puss, at the southwest corner of Poland, had been stormed
quickly.
LONDON, Sept. 2 (UP* The British parliament met today in an historic session that may determine
Hope Bremen \ol Stopped l>\ British I EEL SHIP WOULD HAVE UOMMl Nl( ATED II \D IT BEEN MENACED NEW YORK. Sept. 2 (UP) North German Lloyd Line officials were hopeful today that the continued silence of the $20,000,000 luxury Liner Bremen was evidence that all was well and that it had not been stopped at sea by a British war ves-
sel.
The Bremen left here last Wednesday night ostensibly for Europe although it was reported that once out to sea it changed its course for the greater safety of a neutral port in
South America.
One unconfirmed report that fol-
mlles northwest of Chicago, where j j oweJ the Bremen out of the harbor
was that the British cruiser Berwick, which earlier had slipped away from Newport. R. I., had been assigned to trail the great ship and take it captive if Britain declared war on Ger-
Europc.”
Poland's invasion and the probabll- j "
' balloons, attached to
itv of it causing a general European I . . J ‘ | cables, serve as airplane
war. Mr Hoovei aid. "means anoth- 1
er quarter of a century of impoverishment to th< whole world. ‘‘It will likely tie a long war. It is possible that Pi land may be overrun in a few montli But there seems no point of access Horn which a.n overwhelming attaican be delivered from the British and French on one nlc ;(nd the Germans and Italians on the other, which might quickly end
the war."
KKEI/SYIEEK WOMAN IS
SISTER OF MAN MHO DIED Mrs. Frank Paseka, Reelsville rural route 2. is a sister of Eawrence Roscoe Truelovi 59 years old, a farmer living north of Washington, in this state, who was fatally injured Friday when a scaffold on which he was working inside silo, broke and he fell 30 feet. He suffered internal injuries, a crushed left arm, and a
broken left hip Two other men with | ,,,
him were seriously injured. Mr. Truelove is survived by the widow, five children, a brother, besides th"
sister in Putnam county.
PARIS. Sept. 2 (UP) A French
. , , ... I whether Great Britain goes to war radio broadcast from Waisaw today | _
said that Germans had been unable to take advantage of their surprise offensives on the Polish frontier and
were suffering heavy losses.
The newspaper Paris Midi said, "The German army has been unable to penetrate the Polish defenses anywhere on the Polish-German
front. The Germans have made no BERLIN, St pt
bombard- i Kail1 J ubil “ nt, y toda y
troops were attaining
Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that the house would meet again at .noon tomorrow. Prime Minister Chamberlain will make a statement on the International situation later today, Simon
added.
races. Dance halls were open but dimly lighted and the windows wer;i
screened.
Large blackboards at gathering places instructed the mobilized men
I ment of cities has caused severe cas-
ualties.”
Polish Ambassador Eukasiecz anI nounced that “reports fighting has ceased are wholly wrong. The German army this morning tried unsuc-
(UP) Nazis that German all objectives
Poland and that to fight Britain went to Poland'?
vvOiore, when and how to report for t .«.ssfully to break through Polish deduty. j fenses and was repusled everywhere. The whole country’s attention was, “Two German attempts to bomb riveted on the Chamber meeting. ! Warsaw from the air between 5:45
The D. A. R. cabins at Robe Ana irk will be open from 2 to 4:30 Jock Sunday afternoon.
her body was found early today. Bodden disappeared the day after Miss Riermaier was reported missing. Police seized him last night at
hir home.
In his confession he said Miss Riermaier had convinced her sister, Florence. 22. that she should not see him anymore. He admitted luring the victim into hts automobile the morning of Aug. 11 under the pretense of driving her to a plant where she was employed as a stenographer. FLIGHT FROM PARIS PARIS. Sept. 2 Americans today resumed frantic efforts for a hurried exodus from Paris, flooding the United States Embassy, travel bur-
20 Years A^o IN GREENCASTLE
Mr. and Mrs. Charles MeGaughey and daughter and Dr. and Mrs. W. M. MeGaughey and family motored | to "Stilesville.” the paper said, to at-
said they felt the Bremen would have yj e McGaughqy family reunion communicated with its headquarters Universalist church grounds.
many.
North German Lloyd line officials
had it been menaced. They assumed it was refraining from wireless communication to conceal its position. Fifteen of twenty German, French and Italian vessels were held in porti today or were speeding homeward without passengers, a survey showed. Dr. C. B. O’BTien of this city
eaus and shipping offices with quer- underwent a major operation at the ies on the best and quickest ways to j Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis leave. 1 Saturday morning.
Dr. J. A. Throop's office was robbed of gold fittings valued at $50. Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Rhea were here visiting the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lloyd on their way from Washington, D. C. to their new home in Tacoma. Wash. The Martha M'ashington “club met with Mrs. Ed Dalby at her home on Beverage street. Mrs. Rail Italic, soon to move to Washington, D. C., was the guest of honor.
France, as Great Britain, already had j addressed a virtual utimatum to Hit- j ler, demanding that he recall his | troops from Poland. Nobody expected I
that he would.
It was believed that Daladier
might, after outlining the whole sit- j nation, reform the cabinet on broad, national unity lines to include all ; parties, from the Socialists to the j extreme Rightists, but excluding the j Communists. The Communists hail \ been violently denounced since the I
of the Gcrman-Russian |
treaty, and there was pressure In the
chamber for their dissolution.
The Senate also was meeting but j attention was centered in the Cham-
ber.
It was the gravest day for France i since the world war. Newspapers unanimously blamed' Hitler for the crisis and some of them termed it a fight of “barbarism against Christianity;” "democracy against dictatorship.” The latest news from Poland, reported by the Polish Transcontinental News Service and relayed here from London, was that the German army had resumed its attack on the Polish border at dawn and that the Polish army was resisting effectively.
in their drive into they were willing for 10 years if she
aid.
Ministers presented to Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbenthrop last night their government's joint demand that Germany at once with-
draw its troops from Poland.
it was believed that both Ambassadors would leave for their own
countries during the day.
Berlin had its first war time blackout last night and its first air alarm was purely a practice one. though no announcement was made. At any event it sent Berlin's 4,000,000 people scurrying to shelters. The blackouts are to be held nightly now. Sculptures ami other similar art treasures in museums were covered
with sand hags and paintings were STATE DEPAIM'MEN In PROGRAM ‘'""'d in cellars and vaults. OF KVAUI \TIN». \MERI( \N The official news agency, leading CITIZENS PROGRESSING ittack on Britain, alleged that
t Britain was an "aggressor" and wan-
WASHJNQTON, Sept 2 (UP* | ted an European war.
The state Department said today the
a. m. and 6:30 a. m. were repulsed. German bombers were unable to reach Warsaw. They unloaded theli bombs on a suburb and were driven off by defense batteries and defense
planes."
Hasten Exodus 01 U. S Fitizrns
UOI KT HOUSE OFFICES TO BE CLOSED MONDAY
All the offices of the Court House* it is announced, will be closed Monday, Labor Day. with the exception of the auditor's office, which will be kept open in connection with the meeting of the county commissioners.
United States government’s program of evacuating Americans from Europe was progressing with great success. "The success of these government measures," the deportment said, is evidenced by the fact that, according to a report from the embassy In Ixtnlon yesterday, passenger accommodations on vessels sailing to the United States from Great Britain exceed the deina.n I for such accommodations.” Some 9,300 passengers arrived in United States Atlantic ports from Europe for the week ending Sept. 1. Jn addition to these. 1,200 passengers arrived in Canadian ports, a large percentage of whom were possibly Americans. Shipping concerns have I icon cocperatlng by making necessary changes in schedules and itineraries, it was stated.
liONDON, Sept. 2 'UP) The lights of London went out last night, not alone hy air raid precaution orders, but in dread of a wlnged-terror
that might fly in the dark.
Three weeks ago London had a
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