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51 TROOPS [0] CLOSING | IN ON WARSAW I6I1 ,mmtm. "as B0MO P!\ti:i>; MKiiiwAVs < log(itl) WITH ( IVILIANS . v BArri.KMiH- dama<;ei! I perton sl ot For KfifUHing in Accordance W ith War pelenM- Itcgulations bijlmctin mr YORK, Sept. 8 (UP)—The ^ne corporation today said received a report that a subhad torpedoed and sunk the ggh stcanicr Recent Tiger. IaSHINGTON. Sept. 8 (UP) Lent Roosevelt today proclaimUtate of limited National emerg-
UtUN. Sept. 8 (UP)-An anteement by the German high mand today said Nazi troops ling up from the southwest had died Msczmmow, which is 25 i southwest of Warsaw.
|>AR1S. Sept. 8 (UP) The war , announced today that import1 fains had been made on the Hnot-ltnea front. bERUN. Sept 8 (UP) The army I command announced today that ■man troops were closing in on )rsaw from two sides; that they ■ less than 30 miles and only 27 isouthwest of the city. It was announced that the Polish nta! was beiiiK rapidly evacuated pthat highways were clogged with ting civilians i regards the hostilities with lain and France, the government that British airplanes had bagel the pocket battleship Gneis- | during a raid on the Kiel Canal |ion early in the week. A Swiss ) station had said the ship was
FORMER DEPAUW PROFESSOR ON LINER Dr. and Mrs. George L. Bird were among the passengers aboard the ill-fated liner Athema when she was torpedoed and sank 200 miles off Northern Scotland. Dr. Bird was formerly a professor of Journalism at DcPauw University and was married in the summer of 1927 to Miss Jeanne Pinard of South Hadley, Mass. He is the author of the book, "How Life Begins." They are now living in Syracuse where Dr. Bud is m assistant professor in the School if Journalism, Syracuse University. Their fate has not yet been learned.
Report Italians To Try For Peaee
EXACTLY HOW SU( II \N OII’EK WOULD BE MADE II \>> NOT VET BEEN DEFINE:!) HOME, Sept. 8 (UP) Reports increased today that another Italian peace attempt will tie made soon. They apparently were based on: 1 Press dispatches indicating that Warsaw may fall within the next
five days.
2 Belief in usually well-informed circles that if an effort toward peace were made, it would come immediately following the fall of Warsaw. 3 Persistent reports during the last few days that Premier Benito Mussolini may make an important speech this week-end. Such an effort, according to usu- j ally well-informed circles, would be j aimed at bringing Britain, France, I Germany, and Italy to a four-power t
conference.
Exact'y how such an offer would { be made has not yet been defined, j although it was pointed nut that Mussolini would seem the logical man to undertake it since he has been praised by both England and France
for previous peace efforts.
On the other hand, Italian quarters were inclined to feel that Mussolini would not care to embark on another venture following the disap-
pointing results of his first.
Some quarters understoo I that the
ILL FATED LINER
TWO WOMEN EXPIRED AT RUSSELLVILLE
KROGER COMPANY BUYS OAKLEY STORES
MBS. OLIVE POUTER < OMPTON DIED AT HER HOME OF PAR-
ALYSIS THURSDAY
FI NEKAI. SERVICES SATI RDAV j Miss Ida Emily Ouilliams, School Teacher, Died Wednesday But Death I nkaown I util Thursday
CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 8.—(UP) Kroger Grocery and Baking company today announced the purchase of 58 retail stores operated in western Indiana by the Oakley Economy Stores Co., of Terre Haute. The announcement by Kroger general offices did not disclose the amount of the financial transaction.
RITES SUNDAY AT 3 0CLOCK FOR DR. O BRIEN DIED <)I IETLY AND WITHOUT PAIN WIIH II WAS EMINENTLY’ FITTING
HAD KETFKNEI) FROM TRIP
Purchase Confirmed Here
Raymond Riley, manager of the j Dud Practiced Medicine and Surgery
FIRST SUNK IN WAR—British liner Athenia, with 1,400 aboard, reported torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine 200 miles west of Scotland. Ship carried more than 300 Americans. Germans denied blame.
Assure \\ ives No Need For Increase
WARN THAT VK.OKOI S ACTION W ILL BE TAKEN TO PREY ENT PROFITEERING
Thermometer Near 100 Dearer Mark
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j Death removed two of the best I known of the older women of Kus- | sellviile, one, Mrs. Olive Porter | Compter*, 8.’! years ol I, passing away I Thursday, aud the other, Miss Ida ! Emily Guilliams, 70 years old, being ] found dead in her heme Thursday evening, her death having occurred the day before, it was thought. Mrs. Compton was born September 15, 1856, at Camp Point, 111., the daughter of John and Mary Grove Porter. She became th 1 wife of Wili liam C. Compton, of Earl Park, he
j dying in 1927.
Mrs. Compton became ill Juno (5, | 1939, and her death was due to paraI lysis, at the home of her husband's j adopted son, William F. Compton, of ' Russellville. She passed 12:20 noon, Thursday.
Greencastle Kroger store, confirmed the report from Cincinnati of the purchase of the Oakley interests by the Kroger company, and he said the j deal includes the Greencastle unit of the Oakley interests. However, lie said he did not have information as to the intentions of the Kroger company in regard to the Oakley store
in Greencastle.
I\n|uir<‘ Six Wirks To Kuturn (jliznis
*OME RESENTMENT EXPRESSED OVER "BAWLING OUT” l)El.IVEKED BV KENNEDY
away at
FRIDAY THE TEMPER \TEUK I NTH. NOON W \S THREE
DEGREES HOTTER
I was idiruttc'! that a considerable idjoLgng the French border ton evacuated "purely us a preSon." but a spokesman said "the :h have done the same thing to
frontier zone.”
Df course we do not know whether French actually intend to bomb-
German territory and we have moment. Mention of bombarding them un- 1 11 was ] France were practically certain to
WASHINGTON. Sept. 8 (UP) — The government assured housewives today that reserve supplies of foodstuffs are ample and said there is no excuse tor any sharp increase in prices. It warned that vigorous action would be taken to prevent profiteer-
ing.
The price of sugar, meats, canned fruits and other commodities has j risen markedly since the outbreak of
' war in Europe.
Officials said that some increase j ill living costs might be expected as a j result of the war, but that the sudden upsurge in prices is unjustified. J Especially in the sugar market, j where retail prices have risen more I than a cent per pound, is the increase ! without reason, experts said. They added that there was no danger tha:
A maximum temperatur grees reached yesterday
of 99 deafternoon
WASHINGTON. Sept. 8 (UP) At least six weeks will be required to evacuate Americans desiring repatri-
Mrs. Compton was educated in the j at , on from Ruropean war areas , a
maritime commission official esti-
Ulinoia schools, graduating from the high school at Springfield, 111., She was a member of the Eastern Star at Earl Park, and of the Methodist church at Quincy. 111. She is survived
In Greencastle In Partnership YYith Fnele Since 19'M “He went to sleep, quietly and without pain.” 'These words, spoken by Mrs. Cora O’Brien, described the peaceful death of her son. Dr. Cecil Bower O’Brien, In a hospital at Indianapolis. at 2:20 o’clock. Thursday afternoon, it was eminently fitting that the last hours of this young physician, who had brought healing and easement from suffering to so many persons in this community, should have been like that. Dr. O’Brien had just returned from a vacation trip with his wife and daughter which took them to the Pacific coast and he had enjoyed the delightful trip to the utmost, but it was an unexplainable working-out of Providence that, Immediately after he had arrived at his home, ready to engage again in his practice. that he should be stricken down with malady which the surgeons
could not relieve.
Dr. O’Brien had practiced medicine and surgery in Greencastle in partnership with his uncle, Dr. William M. O’Brien, since September 2. 1924, and it was a noticeable coincidence
mated today.
Some resentment was expressed among officials here over the “bawl- j ing out” which Ambassador Joseph j P. Kennedy in London delivered by i
the complaints that wore heard con- ( l^n, ana by mice nieces, iwo nepnews trans-Atlantic telephone to Max O’- j * ,tle 0 P IM ation which was undercerning the heat. That high point of Chicago. Roll Truitt, maritime commission la ken to lelieve him should have was reached by a steady climb from Funeral services for Mrs. Compton member, for alleged delay in carrying i t,epn pe> formed on the second day of 71 degrees at 6 o’clock that morn- : will bo held Saturday at 12:20 o’- out thp repatriation program. | Sf 'P t,,mt >cr. also - He was born Seping. | clock, at the home of Mr. Compton. indignation was keen at the State | U ' mbel ' l:! ’ ut Fillmore ’ hia P ar ' And, folks, today started hotter j anil the interment will be in the department where one official said i ents bcin L r Dr. and Mrs. Charles than yesterday did. but a breeze : cemetery at Earl Park. ! that Kennedy was "talking through ° Mrien He atu ’nded school at Fillwhich started during the forenoon, Mrs. Compton was a dress maker j hifi hat.” Truitt and other members more ’ B ra,lu;lte<l fl ’om the Grcenapparently spoiled the chances to in the mercantile house of Marshall j 0 f th e commission declined to com- ‘High School, from DePauw break yesterday’s fine record. I Fields, Chicago, for many years. : mP g C n Kennedy's rebuke but one re- 1 mvt ‘ , '-‘' i ’y an<1 fr om the
, . . , , University Medical College.
| marked that we re too busy here do- 1
Veteran Teacher Dies inR ..... l... .mm, .... an interne at the City hospital at
The night’s temperature was too , high to permit comfortable, refresh- !
Indiana He was
ing sleep for most persons, and, at ! Miss Ida Emily Guilliams, who, as 6 o’clock, the reading was 5 degrees u public school teacher, had come in above that of the same hour yester- contact with the lives of hundreds of day, and the houily readings from Putnam county young people in a
job to think up answers."
On the basis of the best available information received by the commis- | sion and steamship operators on the l number of Americans desiring evacu
' Indianapolis, following his completion of his medical college course. H - entered Indiana University medical school with a scholarship, and
today, were corresponding
hours,
i they begin it," he said.
It was reported that the city of Vbrueken, only a mile from the pcli line, had been evacuated enply along with several nearby fees, In tin belief that the French pt strike there first. Many refusfrom that area were arriving in
frlin on sp. lal trains,
pliile not denying French reports ptaction had started on the wost- * front, the government announced Jit there was .still no change." |ltwas annuiii i ed that an unname.i bon had been shot for refusing to (in accordance with war defense [illations making it a capital of- ■ to avoid necessary labor. The. pnse mini ’ry issued new laws PJthenhg u hours of work and plinE it ’ difficult for workers Jthange job All regulations eovpS working hours for males ovoi 1 * ere cancelled and ship crews fr* ordered to help load and unload p when necessary. Special perP*on must be obtained from the woffice • change jobs. The same feremer.t formerly had applied Py to thorn in the mining, metals,
Nile and building trades.
P'wspapers said that Nazi party p’Mts units ware accepting voli f ' rs for w. rk on farms and urged
toen to an list.
reason the speech has not been nn- | either hyst eria or monopolistic connounced was due to the possibility ^ ro j wou i,| send the price of sugar
to the he ghts of 1918-19, when R was rationed out to the public at 20 cents a pound. Before this would be permitted, they said, the market would be regulated by the lifting of
that 11 Ducc wants to time it with the most favorable international
admitted that England and
that time on, than those of
yesterday.
At 10 o'clock today, the reading was 91, contrasted with 87 yesterday at that hour, and at 11 o'clock there was the same difference between the
two days.
At high noon today, the temper-
higher j helpful way and who had taught in I a tion and there appears to be a def- !
other places, also, died alone in her home in Russellville Wednesday and her death was unknown to her relatives and friends until (he evening of the next day, when Mrs. Mont Hazelett and Mrs. Oliver Whitson, neighbors who had become alarmed because of her non-appearance, entered
reject ray peace terms, while Poland j im p or t restrictions,
still is fighting, but some German | Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. quarters thought the situation might Wallace blamed the general Increases be changed if Poland should be crush- ; on .'middlemen” and asked the jused and the German soldiery in Pol- j tice department to study methods of and became a definite threat to Uie . preventing profiteering. Farmers. Un 1 Balkans. ] said, have not benefitted by the in-
This Balkan threat was regarded in | C reased cost to consumers. axis circles as consolidating Ger- J ,
many's position in any future diplo- i
ature reading was 95, and.
1 ! her home and found her.
o’clock, it was pli, both of which figures were above those of the same hours yesterday. But the indication announced to-
wn on honor i.tudenl in bin medical
inite lack of accurate data offici- 1 m ^ * _ , ,
, , ,, i His marriage to Edna Louise Kosa,
als here were confident that their re- _ ,
_ . , , , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ed-
moval from European ports could be i , ward Koss of Indianapolis, occurred completed in six weeks. ,
,. . , i January 20. 1926. Thev became the
officials estimated . , parents of one child, Marcia Louise,
day for “cooler.’
tomorrow’s temperature is
malic activity.
BULL FROM BOESEN DAIRY FARM WINS
The big Holstein-Friesian bull
J. CAMERON MOAG SENTENCED TODAY CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. Sept. I 8. (UP) J. Cameron Moag. New York broker accused of being an ac- 1 cessory to embezzlement, was con- j
Circuit
By I niteil I’less
Indiana looked forward today to another 24 hours of sweltering weather that already had seen Sep-
(< onliiiu«*«l dii Two) TWELVE HUNDRED PERCH PUT IN LAKES
The twelve hundred baby yellow
Miss Guilliams taught in
schools of Putnam county, especially i a the northwest part of the county, but she also taught eight years in j the school of Ozone, Fla., and for ' some time in a mission school at Tucson, Ariz. She attended normal
school at Danville, this state.
Miss Guilliams was born August 26, 1863, in Russell township. She was the daughter of Daniel an.I Clarissa Guilliams. She leaves on" sister, Mrs. Ella Ford ice, of Russell township, one brother, John Cui'liams of Chicago, and ncices and
nephews.
Commission
that sufficient accomodations will be available on American ships to evacuate 8,000 Americans in the next four weeks. Several thousand others
many j wprp expected to obtain passage on
ships of other neutral countries.
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Mrs. Moimrtl.
Takes Life Frida\
from the Boesen Dairy farm south | v * ctet * b y a Montgomery court jury today after 19 hours of | perch which were inducted into three
of Greencastle, who is proud of his name Hidden Gold Papoose Count brought honors to Putnam county this week by winning third place in the 3 years old Holstein bull closed class limited to Indiana-owned animals, and by winning, in addition, fourth honor in the same class open to competition from the world. There were 10 animals in competition in the closed class, and 12 in the open. Mr. Boesen exhibited the ribbons won by the bull to friends in town today, and received congratulations from them because of the showing
the animal made.
deliberation he was fined $500 and sentenced to 5 to 9 years in prison by Judge Howard HaJcock of Parke
county.
Moag was accused of helping Margaret Cheney, fotmer secretary of the Tippecanoe Loan and Trust company of Lafayette, falsify the bank’s records to cover a loss estimated at $600,000. Miss Cheney is serving a four year term in the women’s prison and testified briefly in Moag’s trial.
TWO IN H RED IN AUTO ACCIDENT FTTTOAY MORNING
GUESS WHO?
Guessers ha I a hard lime last week
figuring out who the picture represented. It was J. E HocJ, operator of the Star Barber Shop on East Washington street. Those who studied th ■ picture carefully and those who knew IB , iicalled the expression. The prize of two free tickets, from the city went to Mis. Callic Arnold; from outside the city, the
winner was Miss Louise Chadd.
Today, we have another
you to guess on. There is
semblance between the picture show ., taken some 50 years ago. and the prominent citizen of today. Guess who and go to the Von castle free. His identity will be revealed next Friday afternoon The feature at the Voncastle this week end .is Shirley Temple in “Susan-
nah of the Mounties.'
Miss Beulah Clodfelter, west Columbia street, suffered painful injuries and face lacerations in an automobile accident Friday morning at Spring Hill tourist camp near near Plainfield. Miss Clodfelter was brought to the Putnam county hospital for treatment. It was said that Miss Clodfelter was riding in a catdriven by Herman Wallace of Belle Union, who suffered minor injuries. tTUC’UIT COURT NOTES
Mrs. Madonna Stoner has been appointed executor of the will of the beaut" for j i a t, e Ernest Stoner,
great re- Ralph Winans has been named ex-'
ecutor of the will of the late George
P. Winans.
James White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles White of near Belle Union, who has been a patient in the Putnam county hospital for several weeks, was lemoved to his home Friday.
Onr Killrd In
l>us. Truck \\ m k
hikes nearby Gn eiicastle, Fiiday. by Game Warden Victor Walter were received with open arms by older fish of that species in those bodies of water, who had been longing for
babies to care t"i'. They went into y II <) 1 N I> BURST INTO
the Thomas, cement plant and Ik-Mui lakes GOO to the first, and 300 to
each of the latter. The infants came from the federal hatchery at Rochester and inasmuch as these arc from a federal plant they can be and were placed in privately operated I bodies of water, not open to the public. Also, V. L. Larkin, representing the Cloverdale Conservation club, Friday morning received fish from the Rochester hatchery, hut his were channel cats, 600 or.800 in number, and they went to Mill creek.
FLAMES YFTER OVERT! UN ING; TWENTY IN.Il'RED
SHOT HERSELF IN THE C HEST YYITH Y SHO’n.LN AT HOME
IN MAI’I.I. HEIGHTS
Mrs. Harriet Louise Monnett. age 38 years, wife of Halton Monnett, i 1 ended her life at 7:45 o’clock Friday j | morning by shooting herself in the I chest with a shotgun. This occurred at her home in Maple Heights. Russell Shannon, Putnam county coroner was called to investigate. Mrs. Monnett has been in ill health for seven months and that was believed to have been the cause of the act. Mrs Monnett was a well known resident of Fox Ridge. She was
Dr. Cecil B. O’Brien was the son ' <'f a physician, and the nephew of three others engaged in the same profession Dr. Thomas O’Brien, Dr. Bert O’Brien, and Dr. William M. I O’Brien, and he was a cousin of Dr. | Tracy O’Brien, of Clayton, son of j Dr. Thomas O’Brien, and a cousin, | also, of Dr. Cecil S. O'Brien, eye I specialist, of Iowa City, son of Dr.
! William M. O’Brien.
Dr. O’Brien was a member of Phi 1 Gamma Delta, social fraternity; Phi j Rho Sigma, medical fraternity; Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary med- ! ical fraternity; (ho Masonic order ! and the First Christian church in
Greencastle.
The home of Dr. and Mrs. O’Brien and their daughter has been at 501 east Washington street, in this city. The immediate surviving relatives in this community are the wife and daughter, and the mother, Mrs. Cora
O'Brien.
The cause of the death of Dr. O'Brien is given as an acute ilius condition, arising after the operation he underwent, one effect of which, in
born in Putnam county February 22.
1901, the daughter of Mary Combs case, was the stoppage of circul-
Paris and John Paris.
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
Miss Beryl Sandy (now of Conncrsville) was a new teacher In the Greencastle high school. World war soldiers back to complete their school work included Isaac Browning, Paul | Gibson, Gordon Schmidt. Paul Bryan and Frank Young. Reuben Stwalley, of Putnamville (new postmaster at Cloverdale) enrolled as a senior. Alton Hurst, Mt. Meridian,
was an out of town student.
Mrs. Elmer Strattan entertained the Boston club. The Crescent club met with Mrs. Fay Hamilton. Th)
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky„ Sept. 8 (UPi One person was killed and twenty others injured early today when a Greyhound line but was hit by a truck and burst into flame after overturning on U. S. Highway 41
four miles north of here.
William Barrett, 29, Fort Branch, driver of the Emge packing truck
was burned to death.
The bus. enroute from Nashville, Tenn., to Evansville, Ind., carried 18
passengers. Its driver, E. L. Baggett. , ..... .h ye
Nashville, who suffered lacerations, j ® ® ® ® ^ ' evening until 2 o’clock. Sunday aftergald the oncoming truck crashed n:- 1 -3 Today’s Weather O noon, -it which tii ket will
to his bus after he pulled to the side zgj and ® load and stopped when he saw it. ^ Local Temperature 3
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Survivors are tne husband; one daughter, Marie, at home; one sister Mrs. Ella Chadd of near Clinton Falls and a brother, Glen Paris, of
Muncie.
Mrs. Harold Talbott was called to Eaton Thursday morning by the sc"ious illness of her mother, Mrs. Mary
Butterfield.
when he
swerve out to pass and automobile. The truck and bus burst into
flame, and passengers escaped by | Fair tonight and Saturday, except breaking windows and leaping to the | mostly cloudy in north portion to-
ation in that part of the body. The funeral services for Dr. O’Brien will be held at the Masonic Temple in Greencastle. Sunday afternoon, beginning at 3 o’clock, in charge of the Rev. V. L. Raphael, pastor of the Presbyterian church of this city, and the Rev. Cecil Fellers, pastor of the First Christian church of Greencastle. Interment will be
in Forest Hill cemetery.
Friends may call at the O’Brien residence after 6:30 o'clock this
be open at the Masonic Temple until time for the beginning of the ser-
vices.
ground. FORMER FINUASTLE MAN DIED AT INDIANAPOLIS
night; much cooler tonight and in |
scuth portion Saturday.
Funeral services for Harvey Gardiner, age about 70 years, a former resident of Fincastle, who died Wednesday at City hospital in Indlanap olis, will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Fincastle Uni-
Veronica Ladies had their annual pic- versalist church. Interment will b» nic with Mrs. Oscar Sallust. made at Blakesburg cemetery.
Minimum 6 a. m. . 7 a. m. ... 8 a. m. ... 9 a. m. . 10 a. m. . 11 a. m. ... 12 noon 1 p. m. . 2 p. m. .
71 76 78 81 86 91 03 95 96 06
PLANS FOR RETURN OF WINDSORS NOT COMPLETE
LONDON, Sept. 8 (UP) Th 1 ) ptoss association said today that plans for the return to Great Britain of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor had not yet been completed and that ^ they definitely would not return to-
| day.
Reports from Paris were that the ! ftuke and Duchess would motor from 1 the French Riveria to a channal port today, to return to Britain.