The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 October 1939 — Page 1
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iRV PERDUE ACED FIRST Ifor HUSKING HIGH SCHOOL AORICHLj\l VOCATIONAL HUSKti(i CONTEST FRIDAY \T FRANK DAVIS FARM pvaiiH of Ciroen Township Third But Him! More Weight Than Others
first high school agricultural ^nal husking contest staged in county, was held Friday n at the Frank Davis farm Jof Roadhdale with thirteen schools from the Tenth district, j comprises Putnam, Montgcmlarke and part of Boone county,
part.
i Akers, chairman of the agrigl committee of the Roachdale [ Club aided materially in the fct by furnishing wagons and , while the Farm Bureau supthe motive power in the form Ictors and two teams of horses. Iry Perdue of New Richmond
FORt'M SPEAKER
Dr. George 1$. Manhart
Dr. Manhart Will I5e Speaker Sunday PRESBYTERIAN ( III K( 11 FORUM MEETS AT Hi O'CLOCK;
SECOND OF SERIES
Dr. George B. Manhart, professor of European History of DePauw University, wilt speak on Sunday morn-
ligh man in the contest, his net i ing at 10:00 at the Presbyterian [t being 59G pounds. Donald Church Forum.
This is the second of series of 30 Sunday morning discussions on pop-
of Green township who was placed third, had more weight
DR. C. S. ELL NEW HEAD OF UNIVERSITY
IS PERMANENT PRESIDENT OF NEW ENGLAND DEPACW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FROM STAUNTON, INDIANA Men '; -r Of Phi Delta Kappa; Daughter Is Graduate Of Del'auw
University
BOSTON, Mass., Oct 7 Dr. Carl Stepht ns Ell, a native of Staunt r j, | Indiana, and permanent President 3f j the New England DePai'.w Alumni | Association, has been elected Pres-| ident of Northeastern University, it j j was announced here today by Robert I G. Dodge, chairman of t'v board < t |
tiustees.
Dr. Ell, at present V ; • President : in charge of the Day Division at i Northeastern, will assume his new office on June 30, 1940. He succeeds ■ Dr. Frank Palmer Speart, Northeastern’s president fo • the past 4 2 years, whose -resignation will take effect at that time. The new president Tins been a member of the Northecsii rn facuitv I since 1909, when he was graduated from DePauw University. He has
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SWEEPING THE SEA—Nails plant mines In the North Sea and the British take them up. Hero are British mine-sweepers in "sweeping formation," as they clear an area of the deadly explosives. After operation, area is marked by buoys, to indicate it is free of mines.
(any other contestant, but hejular subjects to be presented by j been in complete charge ct the Day
Division since 1917, when Northeast- | ern was reorganized. i Under Dr. Ell’s direction, Northeastern’s single Day 'College of Engineering has grown from a student
tore corn left in The field and authorities. This is one of the most husks. The penalties applied! outstanding scries of programs that
finally put him in third
contestants and the place in
has been presented for Greencastle
residents.
Dr. Manhart will speak on the
they finished were as follows: I changes taking place in Europe to-! body of eight to its ..resent annual pry Perdue, New Richmond, I day as affecting Christianity in the | enrollment of approximately 2200. B5 lbs. j various countries. His talk will not He also has added the Day Colleges
[ward Whight, Thorown, 590.325 only be informative but will prepare
the listener for the future programs
township, I to be presehted on conditions in Rus-
|na!d Evens, Green
lbs.
Canine, New Ross, 541.605 lbs.
fnald Knauer, Greencastle, 539.82
Denny. Advance, 519 lbs.
Chandler To Be Appointed Monday WILL RESIGN AS GOVERNOR TO BECOME UNITED STATES SENATOR
Hl-Y CLUB PLEDGES ELEVEN NEW
MEN
sia, Germany .and England, to be given on successive Sundays. The program commences at 9:45
each Sunday at the Presbyterian church auditorium. The speaker | gineers, and a licensed piofessional ' Long. New Market. 451.5 lbs. starts at 10:00, and his talk is followJnes Shera, Jamestown, 438.6, ed by discussion and questions. A
| hearty invitation is extended to
^rold Gray, Waveland, 419.64 lbs. i everyone to attend these programs. *ph Hammond, Reelsville, 407
FRANKFORT, Ky.. Oct. 7 Albert Chandler's career will puss another milestone Monday when he resigns as Governor to be appointed to the United States Senate by his successor, Lieutenant Governor Keen John-
son.
PC: = Offer May
I lbs. - •*-- I krold Fulwider, Wingate, 262.05 j
Alienate Italy
of Business Administra':on and Liberal Arts, so Northeastern's day e,v rollment totals approximately 3500. Dr. EH Is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, an Associate Member of | 0ll that ,i ayi a high official source the American Society of Civil E.i- j disclosed, Governor Chandler, who I gineers, and a licensed piofessional j nine yea ,.„ a> , 0 assumed his ; engineer in New York, Maine, and | fjrst public office as a state senator, j Connecticut, although he docs no j submi t his resignation, make a more active work in the f.old. I public statement and, with Johnson’s He is also a member of the Ameii- appointment in his jHicket, board a j can Society of Mechanical Engineers, | train for Washington to take the late j the Boston Society of Civil Engin- | M M Logan s seat.
I eers, the Engineering Societies of' | New England, the Haivard Teaeh- | ers' Association, the Massachusetts | Schoolmasters' Club, the New Eag-
The local chapter of the Hi-Y club, at it meeting at the high school on Thursday evening, passed on the names of eleven new men for membership into the organization. The present club is composed of thirteen members and at the meeting they agreed to accept eleven new members. These men were pledged and will be initiated on Thursday evening at the high school. The men now serving as pledges are: Bob Bills. Harold Quebbeman, Felix Cook, Charles Conklin, Dean Chapman, Bob Agnew, John Bamberger, Bill Mosely, John James, Wallace Martin and Frank Huestis. At the meeting Thursday the club
i also decided
Solution Appears To Sewer Problem
>1 FETING CALLED 15V MAYOR JAMES ATTENDED I5\ NEAR-
LY 25 PERSON S
The meeting called by Mayor W. D. James to be held in the city council chamber last evening, to consider the court house sewer matter, was attended by approximately 25 interested persons, and out of its discussions it appears a solution of the problem which recently has been confronting a number of property owners in the rfbrthwest part of this
city was reached.
The perfection of the solution,
WILL MAKK PROPOSALS IF FDR AIDS
IIITI.FR WILLING TO MAKE SPECIFIC OFFER WITH MEDIATION OF PRESIDENT DISCI ss DESIRABILITY FREELY I Leaders Feel \ ( all For An Immediate .Armistice Mould Be First
Move
BERLIN, Oct. 7.—(UP)—Adolf j Hitler is willing to make peace proI posals in specific form if President i Roosevelt will mediate between Ger- | many and the allied nations, influeni Ua! and responsible Nazi sources
said today.
i The “desirability” of mediation by ] the President, on the terms laid I down by Hitler in his Reichstag | speech yesterday, was freely discusi Bed is leading Nazi circles. A call for an immediate armistice I would be the first move in any peace 1 program, as they saw it, with an in- ; ternational conference to follow, j Nazis said Germany would accept ; the presiint status in Europe and to | ask for herself only the return of the | colonies taken from her as the result
; of the World war.
They said also that Germany | would agree to immediate drastic reduction of armaments, to be effect-
ed by all powers.
Despite the almost decisive rejection of Hitler’s “peace” speech ii\ a and Paris, author! tativt quarters, Nazi informants, in position to know the attitude of the gov. eminent, professed to believe that Great Britain and France would not "remain cold” to mediatory offers. Coupled with the suggestion that it would be nice if President Roosevelt cooperated with Hitler in arranging peace on Nazi terms us outlined in his Reichstag speech, the Nazis hinted that if the President failed to take advantage of his op-
to elect an advisory i however, lies with the members of p ortun[ty a - “peace move” by Benito
The 41-ye(U--old Governor busied himself in his office today, eeekig scores of visitors, making numerous last-minute appointments and clean-
ing out his desk and files.
In high honor, Chandler remarked j he would carry an umbrella when he : introduces Barkley. "That’s appease-
j land Association of Colleges and
winner husked 660.5 pounds, g( , OR jy \\d DERISION WERE I Secondary Schools, and tin Masrikr his 40 minute period, but was HEAPED UPON FUEHRER'S j chusetts Civic League. ^lized enough to make his net; REICHSTAG SPEECH * I Aside from his educational and 596 lbs. i professional affiliation';, Dr. Ell is }
H. Coughell of Reelsville was 1 LONDON, Oct. 7. (UP) —Adolf Vice President ami a Trustee of the | ment for y ,,u ’ h< ‘ chuckled. Barkley man of the committee having! Hitler , s .q lnal p oace offer" not only I New England Deaconess Hospit iLj was opposed by Chandler lor ronouicontest in charge and it proved | faccs r( .j u<>c tion by the allied powers' trustee of the Newtonville Methc-j ination last year in a spirited cam
dem-| t)Ut jt may wUll , n an apparent gapjdist Church, and a m''nr.her of Phi j paign.
farm between Germany and Italy ,it was Delta Kappa, Delta Un-don, Univer-1 For Johnson, too, MraJay will be u understood today. i sity Club of Boston, Boston Chamber j red-letter day, for he will have the
Scorn and derision were heaped of Commerce, and Cl.iflin Club of
j upon the Nazi Fuehrer’s Reichstag j Newtonville.
| speech in quarters representative of | His daughter, Dorothy Ell, ia a
I British national opinion. But no- | graduate of DeTauw.
body here, taking the government j and the people as a whole, had had j I I I the slightest idea that the speech! LtlllCCLlOU
would be acceptable. I tv m n 1
More Important, it was understood, l^iw* I SlllintilCFI' that Hitler made his "peace” offer 1U OtlllUUI^n
against the strong advice of Premier j
Benito Mussolini, and that Joachim i ( \I*TAI\ WIRELESSED HE HAD von Ribbentrop, German foreign} TAKEN NECESSARY I*RE-
committee in addition to the sponsors. This committee Is made up of Mr. Boston, Mr. Davis and Mr. Kncbel. The sponsors are Mr. Elson and
Mr. Ross
Prolonged Case Conies To An End
ENTER JCDGMKNT AWARDING COMPENSATION IN CONDEMNATION CASE
the board of commissioners of Putnam county. These county commissioners will be asked not to sell the one-acre tract of land in Baker’s woods, north of the Big Four railroad depot, but to retain ownership and permit the cleaning of the cess pool into which the court house sewer empties and its continued use by the
Mussolini, in collaboration with Pope Pius and Gen. Francisco Franco, Spanish nationalist leader, would be
essayed.
The Italian-Vaticnn-Spar.ish peace move 'really was "Imminent.” the Nazis hinted but ’ the President would have time to act if he did bo quickly, and would really be best
lily successful as well as it Iratod that the modern 111 is a good corn husker.
-tition Filed In Court Friday pits OF LATE JACOB CROUpOKF NOT SATISFIED WITH
SETTLEMENT
dissatisfaction held by some [thi' heirs of the late Jacob Crous- ) *ith the settlement of his estate l r h were the cause of an extended p 1 in the Putnam court last term, in which a finding was entered [the court at that time, is the pground for a petition filed in court Friday afternoon asking ■ the final settlement of the eshe set aside. The suit is filed I Hodson, Lucas & Hillis of Koko/he plaintiffs in this suit an P Robert, Fred, Philip and Def h Nell CrousOre, Nine Belt. Mabel lopor and Maude Woods. Theodore
of j unusual experience of becoming Govj ernor two months before he hoped ho would. If elected Nov. 7, he will be the first Kentucky Governor to suc-
ceed himself in 36 years.
Because Logan died less than 90 days before a gc ieral election, Chandler will serve until the 1940 election.
minister, had aside a program
brusquely brushed j offered by Count!
t ACTIONS
SAN PEDRO, Cab, Oct. 7 (UP
Galeazzo Ciano, Italian foreign min-j
ister, in the name of his father-in- A u leaves of sailors aboard the batlaw. Mussolini. } tleship U. S. S. Arizona were canWell Informed embassy quarters ce iied today, reportedy because of reported that when Ciano went to j evidence of a sabotage plot aboard
Express Belief FDR May Mediate
PITTMAN BELIEVES PRESIDENT MAY OFFER SERVICES FOR
EUROPEAN PEACE
Berlin Oct. 1 aC the invitation of the German government (it was reported also that Mussolini was invited first and declined to go) he conveyed to
Ribbentrop and Hitler a conciliatory g^, the big dreadnaught.
the warship.
Naval authorities declined to make any comment on a report that an effort had been planned to dam-
peace plan Which Mussolini had worked out. providing among, other
The spokesman for Admiral C. Bloch, commander-in-chief of the U.
things for the re-creation of an In-j s. fleet, refused also to comnfbnt on
size. Its Integrity to be guaranteed by all the great powers of Europe instead of by Germany and Russia
alone.
kwley as administrator of the dependent Polish state of restricted j r p port th , lt a casualty occurred
M Crousore estate, is named as'
pendant.
116 complaint claims that there considerable property—real and P sona: In the estate which was I* or was not sold to the best vantage, whereby, it is claimed, P bcirs did not receive as much I tl ’‘ ^‘ str ibutlon as they should. circuit court notes
^ more State Bank vs. Herbert ‘' Vson ' ( f‘led Nov. 17, 1933) dis''1 Same plaintiff vs. Claude '' s, ' n an d Robert Lawson, dis-
i; * ,ed at costs Of plaintiff.
*rif< rd insurance company of ■' i r,f " r '■ Conn., vs. Carl and Emma # , kHhir e. dismissed at plaintiff's ''' lison E. Masten vs. Philander
^ dismissed.
■pny-Vacuum Oil company, Inc., (i -'nest Miller et al, condem-j °f land, the defendants Miller hiotion that their objections to appraisers’ report be dismissed,
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20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE Among members of the W R. ( • who went to Danville for the district meeting were Mrs. Lmcoln Snider and Mrs. Walter J. Ashton. The Veronica club met with Mrs. Otis Gardner. Harry Hawkins purchased the Cloverdalc garage. Roy Herbert was to opd *t® It for’Ml 1 lawkins. L. R. Eckhardt was assigned to the Fillmore and Bainbridge charges by the Northwest Indiana Confer-
ence.
(From Fincastle.) Milligan \oung and family of Greencastle spent Sunday with Elmer Watson and wife. Jacob Hirt, Jr„ was confined to
aboard the ship in connection with
such a plot.
Orders cancelling leaves aboard the Arizona also brought all shoregoing members of her crew back aboard the ship. After a week of target practice in the navy’s drill waters off San Clemente Island, the Arizona had returned to the fleet anchorage in San Pedro yesterday:
METHODIST UHURUH CONFERENCE .MONDAY The first Quarterly Conference of Gohln Memorial Methodist church for the new year, will be held Monday evening at 7:00 o'clock. Heads of the various departments of the church will present written reports. Dr. J. E. Porter, superintendent of the Greencastle district will preside.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UP) Chairman Key Pittman, D., Ncv., of the Senate foreign relations committee expressed belief today tha^ President Roosevelt would again offer his services for peace in Europe but would delay until a "spirit of
adjustment” is apparent. Pittman, leading the
lion’s fight to repeal the arms embargo, gave his views to the United Press while the Senate began a week-end recess of its debate on
neutrality.
"There is no doubt that the people of this country would welcome peace in Europe and that they have approved in the past the President's efforts in such behalf and would approve future efforts for peace by the
President,” he said.
"They must realize, however, that no such efforts would be effective unless welcomed by both sides to 'he controversy. Until the spirit o* adjustment between the warring parties is definitely manifested, it probably would be considered by one or both parties engaged in war as an impudent interference in an existing war, if not uncalled-for interven-
tion.
“Such matters are governed by the rules of diplomacy and international friendship and the President
One of the most prolongc I and expensive condemnation cases which has boon tried in the Putnam Circuit court in recent years that of the State of Indiana vs. Juanita M. Bly. Ernest Bly and the Home Owner •- Loan Corporation, of Plainfield came to an end, apparently, in the Putnam court Friday afternoon when the court entered a judgement awaiding compensation totalling $2,000. The word ‘‘apparently’’ is use i for the reason that the case seemed to have died once before but came to life again and hail enough strength to fight vigorously through another
bout in court.
The case was heard twice by juries, the first time the case being taken from the jury before completion rnj temporarily dropped, after a twoday hearing, but on its second appearance before the jury the latte> was engaged five days or so and
then disagreed.
The suit arose from the appropriation of a strip of ground along the side of a residence lot in Plainfield, needed, so the Indiana State Highway Commission claimed, for the widen-
administra- ir| g of a state road extending north
in that town from the National roa I Judge Jacob B. Lindsey appeared for the state’s attorney general, with John H. James and Hughes and Hughes. Local attorneys for the defendants were Matt J. Murphy and Roy C. Sutherlin, according to the
notation on the docket.
In the finding as entered upon the docket the H. O. L. C. receives $1500, of which $100 Is to be paid their attorney. Roy C. Sutherlin. Mrs. Biy receives $500, all of which is to be distributed amoung the four attorneys who represented her. Mrs. Bly receives nothing for herself.
fifteen or more propel ty owners who qualified as head of a leading neutral
nation far removed from Europe. Lu\i S. Worrell Su(Tiiinl>e<! Friday
U \S VETERAN OF U. S. ARM A’
CAMPAIGNS AND DIED AT
UKAWFORDSA IEEE
Levi S. Worrell 87. retired farmer and a veteran of the U. S. army campaigns against the Indians, died in Ctawfordsvillo Friday night at 7:40 o’clock. He had been ill for the past six months with a complication
of diseases.
Mr. Worrell was a member of the United States army from 1878 until 1883, during which time he saw action agai ist the Indians in western
states.
lie was born July 19, 1852, in Virginia, the son of James and Sulioyd Worrell, He was married many years ago to Louisa Fields,
in 1914. He
was married a second Uni ■ to Mar-
are now' using it.
I The sale of the small tract, on which the cess pool is located, lias [been advertised for October 28. but 1 the commissioners, according to the' plan formulated at the meeting of | property owners Friday night, will be brought together before that date to hear the plan adopted at the Fri-
j day night meeting.
At that called meeting of the coun- ; ty commissioners, a committee of in- ; terested property owners Will present the plan and ask the co-opera- > lion of the commissioners. That | committee, named at the meeting 1 Friday night consists of Paul Boston, superintendent of the Greencustle schools; Robert Black, John Trembly, Joe Bamberger and Alva
Early.
If the board of commissioners give ^ ; their assent to the plan, the pool will be cleansed of its solids, and latteral, tile dtains wall be established to | drain out the fluid as it accumulat-l es, into the adjoining soil. Supt.
Boston was placed on the committee | because of the present use of the J
court house sewer by the First Ward| whog „ dcath ocl . urrC(1
school building. The court house it-
self, however, is not now attached toj ,, ., the sewer in question which was | |V> , built, originally, to cany sewage; from it, before the city's sewer sys-j
tern was built.
Stringer, who died Nov. 3,
The High School and Intermediate Epwort.h Leagues of Gobln Memorial Methodist church held their annual
hnvride and wiener roast last night.; is best able to determine when conTliere were 232 young people in at-! ditions are such as to justfy him in
Four Destroyers. Cutter Near Shij>
N \\ XL AUTHORITIES DECLINED
TO M XlvE W X < OM MENT
ON REPORT
LEGION NOTICE The firing squad of the American Legion is asked to report at the Legion home Sunday afternoon at one o’clock to go to Roachdale to attend the military funeral of Levi S. Worrell.
The Putnam County Tuberculosis Association will meet at 12 o’clock Tuesday, October 10, at the College
Bw.i ., ' ^ ‘ l-
f l n« court sustained the motion, his home by sickness.
tendance.
offering his services for peace.
Inn.
Mr. Worrell was a member of the I Uoachdale Primitive Baptist churcn | and of Roachdale Lodge, No. 602
! F. & A. M.
Survivors include a daughter. Mis I Otto Stewart, of near Roachdale; three grandchildren; one greatgrandchild and a brother E. D. Wor-
rell. of Lebanon.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Chastain Funeral home In Roachdale with burial in the Roachdale cemetery. Rev. Hancock of Orleans
WASHINGTON. Oct. 7 (UP) j will be in charge. A military service Four U. S. navy destroyers and a will be given at the grave.
Coast Guard cutter neared the S. S. I Iroquois In the North Atlantic to lay, I
ready to accompany her home in the ® ® ® 0 ® ® ® face of a German assertion th ’ Today’s Weather 0
Great Britain intends to sink the 1 American-owned vessel before it
reaches a U. S. port.
Capt. A. E. Chilton, master of the Iroquois, wirelessed the ninHtime commission that he had taken necessary precautions to protect the vessel, and that a thorough search disclosed no explosives aboard the ship. Officials kept the Iroquois’ position secret but it was believed the destroyers would reach the shin sometime today. The Iroquois left
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