The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 October 1939 — Page 1

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CO. REVENUE REDUCED CIS. BY EXAMINER

II,S TO V. S. ‘ T , ( appeal to reds gainst domination STILL PREPARING

WailHblo Defense Has Been I, Rut Can’t Compete With

.Mighty Russia

SIN’GFORS, FINLAND. Oct.

and Mrs. Hancock of Rockville for

historian.

Other officers unopposed were Mrs. J. Harold Grimes of Danville, vice-regent; Mrs. Charles A. Priest of Marion, chaplain; Mrs. Voyle Mar-

I Hope rose throughou- Pin- , tj n( j }l ] e n f Cambridge City, recording day that diplomatic act'on oy ' secretar y ; Mrs 3 Urns of Mentone, lited States and the Scandi- , treasurer; Mabel Claxton of French countries might save the registrar; Mrs. T. C. Frazier from Russian denomination. of Warsaw, librarian; Mrs. R. W. nspeople in the streets, volun- Richey of Fast Chicago, north dirjrilling on country roads, and ! ector; Mrs. Oran K. Ross of Winohesg on emergency gaurd all ov- ; ter, central director; and Mrs. Louis country excitedly discussed 1 D. Keck of Mount Vernon, soutli

that the United States. Swe- j director,

icrway and Denmark had takwould take diplomatic action j

. of persuading Russia to make i m * |> 1/ I) I 4 I \T mands which would infringe l^fl/XiTI jlXL/Xl ; 1 " ’ ov “ c "" : REJECTS HITLER

PE ACE PROPOSAL BRITISH PKEMIKK SAVS ACTION

AND NOT WORDS MI ST

BK CONSIDERED

reports as circulated here were eparate but similar notes to , would emphasize the imporof respecting Finland’s integ-

The Welfare Committee received $305.20 from the clubs and organizations as their gift to the milk fund. 25,707 bottles of milk were served in tile schools at a total cost of | $773.91. There were 12.470 bottles' of free milk dispensed at a cost of $374.10. After buying two cartons of straws, stamps for the mailing ’.ist there is a small balance to begin

the new year.

When the Welfare Committee was first organized many years ago they sponsored a varied program. Among other things the records show they . bought spectacles for needy children and set aside a fund for the school J nurse to use as she saw it was most j needed. Since the depression years , I so many new cases of malnutrition I are evident that the need for milk

RUSSO • FINLAND BORDER — Four languages on sign Finland’s most northern frontier tell strangers that the other side is Russian territory. Feeling was so tense, as Soviets massed troops on their side of border, that to cross it would be to invite bullets from Sovet guards. Apple Harvest German Forees Iroquois Lands

Time In Indiana Attack Outposts

\\ ith 577 Refugees

was mystery still as to ihc and extent of the demands to jdc by Russia today to J. K. ivi, Finnish special envoy •rived at Moscow yesterday, jrts of foreign diplomatic aid served to ease tension. It was ed that a squadron of 21 Rus|war planes had reconnoitered the Finnish coast last night, hr ccastal cities of Borga and

III HE CROP OF IIOOSIER AP- PARIS SAYS ALL WERE KEPULS-

has increased until it takes every ,. hKS NOW |}KEN<i SENT TO ED WITH HEAVY LOSSES penny collected to pay for the free ' CONSUMERS | TO THE AT ACKERS milk. However the other needs have t |

PASSENGERS Dll) NOT THEIR TRIP HOME; WERE

ESCORTED IN

i also increased with no funds to meet i.jt's .qipie

! them. Children were forced to re- i n tpp 0 i ( i Hoosier state and as I official naval sources said today that 577 refugee passengers of the Ameri- all instances, above the maximum

harvest time oncel LONDON, Oct. 12 (UP) Semi- NEW YORK, Oct. 12. (UP) The

FIKIJ) MAN FOR STATE TAX BOARD CI TS SEVERAL TOWNSHIP BUDGETS TAX INTACT

, Township Schools Will Keel Drastic Cuts If Recommendations Stand

If the State Tax Board followa the recommendations that will be marie to it by Orville Schock, field man for | that board, as a result of his snanI nmg of budgets in Putnam county. I Wednesday and Thursday, there vill | be reductions of tax levies in a ruimI bei of tax units of the county, in

I force next year.

j Mr. Schock worked rapidly WednesI day, the first day of his examination of Putnam county taxing units' | budgets, and went through the estimates of more than half of the units ! in the county. In some of these, he will ask the state board for reducj lions in levies. These requested reI ductions arc chiefly In school levies. | The state board has no power to cut levies in taxing units that come LIKE i under the maximum totals set out

i by state law. which are $1.25 in rural taxing units and $2.00 in towns and cities. But, in Putnam county this year, the levies asked were, in

AELIES STAND TOGETHER main home from school last winter

fine a crop of fruit as ever grew is'the 13,615-ton German passenger can liner Iroquois, who shrieked and permitted by law excepting in cases moving to market.” Monroe Me-j liner Cap Notre had been captured danced last night at sight of the of emergency. It was thought, at Gown. Purdue University extension somewhere in the south Atlantic. Statue of Liberty, complained nng- ■ the first scanning after Mr. Schock

| few weeks ago because he has al- fnj j t specialist, reported this week.; 1 rily tooay against the performance , pa 1 announced his reductions, that most lost his eyesight due to a badly Consumers are'being ofTered a wide j PARIS. Oct. 12. (UP)—Germans and management of the ship that j s ome of the units’ total rates would j needed tonstlectomy. It ds to be c | 1() j cc nf a ppi e varieties for use in attacked French outposts in the had brought them safely through the | C ome under the maximum.

Pnmc ,. Hr nesUy hoped that some way will makin g pies and in preparing other 1 Moselle river corridor in force today perils of storm, bomb and submarine.

, v.wco y,. ...... be worked out 80 ,hat a11 ot lhese tasty foods j and were driven back by a withering They had known since Sunday, onWSO^mncTeMt of Heb.ng- the HoUS * ° f t ' lat * uncler Privileged children may be It was e Stimat e d that Indiana ap- French fire, carrying their wounded when (wo American destroyers and

J “ is imnossiblo for Great Britain to ac- rnred for .....

ca.cu ■ I p le producers will spend nearly

l because they had no s/.oes or over-

l 1 ranee Had Already S|mkon And !'• | shoes. One child stopped school a

Now Backed Up By England. Germany Is Disnppoinled LONDON. Oct. 12 (UP) minister Neville Chamberlrdn

: Ji ~ . forces, ncmoa by tanks and heavy ar-

ia impossible for Great Britain to accept Adolph Hitler's peace proposa'.

following organizations thlra of a milUon do n at . s m harvest-! the battlefield, it was announced.

with them and leaving the dead on : a coast guard patrol boat arrived

Chamberlain addressed a crowded who donated in the past year we aic j n g packing, and delivering the 1939

has (ft v

't.Si,

crop to the central markets where it

Mothers’ Study Club. $2.00; Amer- wm be made avallablo to consumers,

ican Legion Auxiliary, $10.00; Priscilla Club. $5.00; Progress History.

viously been reported Houso of Commons, with Soviet ' lnl - I the Fi.Alsh-Russlan frontier. ' bassador Ivan Maisky and many famous civil volunteer corps, other dl P lomats in thc &allery -

Rising 120,000 young men began The Hitler proposals are import $7 50; Tri Kap p a $35 00; Tuesday 4 in villages and along roads ble as a basis for peace, Chamber- Read j n g C | uh $5 00; Delta Theta day, ready to reinforce the ar- lain said, unless Great Britain were Tau $15.00; Women’s Union Chris-

i M55 f 0 ’ Members of the wo- 1 willing to “forfeit her honor and tian church, $5.00; Penelope. $2.00; ^7 X'^)g^^7quin ! me , n't.s' , of the

U. S. No. 1 grade.

McCown released the following in-

Federal inspectors examining scores of Hoosier apple orchards this summer have found the fruit so free of blemishes and so highly colored that more than 90 per cent of it has

auxiliary corps provided them abandon her claim that international Business and Professional Women’s meals and prepared billets for j disputes should be settled by discus- C | u) , $5 oo; D. A. R„ $5.00; Teach-

. , , , , „ (U slon and not by force.” | ers’ ' Federation. $10.00; Cent U ry formation for the of house,

ll.oad unnels, bridges and jlher , -We niust take it that the propos- , Club. $10.00; Boston Club, $5.00: jtgic po.nta were heavily gaurd- a | s w hich the German chancellor Monday Club, $3.00; Coterie, $2.50; troops and many of them were ' p ut forward for establishment of Women’s League M. E. Church.

^Barbed wire was strung along what hc can . s . the certainty of Euro- . $10.00; Monday Book Club, $2.00; , ready to serve as barriers, and pcall .security’ are to be based on Women’s Circle, $5.00; DePauw Wopieces of timber were stu:k in- • recognition of his conquests and his men’s Club. $10.00; Ear! Fisk Aux1 ground to stop tanks. j right to do what he pleases with the 1 iliary, $10.00; Eastern Star, $5.00: ^ins. buses and private motor conquered," the prime minister -aid. Kappa Delta Phi, $5.00; Martha j evacuated women, children and j „ It ig after this wanton acl of a£r . Washington Club, $2.00; Women’s mi ill persons from the big cit- | lon which C0Ht so many v ,i j3 h R c > ief Corps. «5.00; Council of Clubs. ^ a ' 3 were jammed with outgo- , ^ German lives sacri fi ce d to sat- * 15 00 ; Veronica. $3.60: Crescent.

,raffic It was estimated that • hi( , own insi8tcnce on the use of 52.00; A. A. U. W.. $5.00; Women’s, stayman. and Winesap

refugees left Helsingfor. yes- ^ fhat thc Gf , rman chancellor I Club. $5.00; Kiwanis, $10.00; Now;

wives on apple varieties and their

best uses;

Pies: McIntosh, Spy, Stayman Winesap, Turley .and Grimes. Baked apples: Rome. Turley, Stayman. Delicious, and Jonathan. Apple sauce: Grimes, Stayman, Golden Delicious. Spy. Turley, Wine-

sap. and Rome.

Red apple: select medium sized j fruits of Delicious, Jonathan, Rome.

Thc German losses were said to have been heavy. The Germans carried automatic arms, and their artillery blasted the way for the advance which, authoritative French sources said, "achieved no appreciable result.” The French described it as “a bitter en-

gagement.’’

Other French advance guards

! alongside, of the German warning ; that the Iroquois would bo sunk as it neared American shores, but by that time everybody was in such a

These budgets all have had revision before the}' reached the representative of the state board, the township budgets first going to the respective advisory boards, then to the county tax adjustment herd then to the state tax board. Tin municipal and county budgets won’.

state of excitement over storms and t, 0 th e county council, then the tax rumors that it didn't disturb them, j adjustment board, and thence to the

Now that they thought back over s t. at .

it they were angry. J Mrs. Schock will recommend the “They treated us like cattle, made following reductions in levies: some of us Bleep on the floor, water- 1 Cloverdale township cut in ruled us tluee times a day only, charg- tion f und f r0 m 20 to 16 cents, ed us first class fares on the cabin- j Franklin township—cut from 30

big suites | ( 0 20 cents in the special school

ing continually along the Rhineland front for 24 hours.

were said to have beaten back Ger- ' L ' la " a ,!oat and ke P l ri^

man patrols which had been raid- that c<>uld ' ave accommodated six j levy; cu t from 46 to 44 in tuition

entire I P ersons locked up.” said Mrs. Thom- - levy.

j as Murphy, New York. Floyd township cut from 25 to 12 o-.-ontnr "The ship acted like a flat-bottom- k on | S | n tuition; cut from 50 to tO

"Enemy patrols showed greater | pd dory ,. said M Clifford, Denver, j £ ents ln speclal 8ch ool.

Colo. "In the rough weather we had Jefferson township cut from 53 on the early part of the trip she be- 1 f 0 34 cents in special school; cut haved like a cork on the water.” from 63 to 58 cents in tuition.

, , ... . .. u Era $3.00; S. C. C., $5.00; Women’s I now puts forward his proposals, hc| E ” <1 ' v _ _ . i

persistence than heretofore, especially pressing the French in the Moselle, Saarbruecken, Ohrenthal and South Pirmasens sectors,” a French spokesman said. "Patrols also appeared in the Wissembourg sector.” The Germans still had failed to take a French prisoner, it was said, although that semed to be the object of most of the patrol raids. Heavy artillery fire continued on both sides. Rains were said to have

y alone.

fu-s of people waited before ! ,UIWlU u ma { study, $5 00; Needlecraft, $2.00; Fri- RAYMOND JONES IS and other shops to buy neces-! a 6 ' . . 1 day Circle. $3.60; Twentieth Century, j RETURNED TO CO JAIL before leaving for other places I If thorc pxist ‘‘ l1 anv 0X P l ’‘ a ' " I $5.00; Fortnightly Club, $5.00; Do-

tfety. I ‘hat in these proposals would be | mestic ScienC e, $5.00; B. P. O. E„ j ••what’s this nil about, boys?” kp P‘ German reconnaissance planes riisands of people sat quietlv on cluded sf ' nlc attom P t to makl a “ ien, ' H $50.00; First Ward P. T. A.. $30.00; allUed Raymond Jones, as Sheriff grounded although French planes refers of railroad stations, wait-I for lhi8 Rrievous crime against hu- Sccond Ward p T A ?: . 0 . 00: Third ] Lawrence ' Graham, Claud Wimmer turned with "most important photoheir turn to go. The women’s mani,v ’ follnwinB 800n ll|i "" tbe Ward P. T. A., $30.00. and Jones started back to Greencas- graphs of concentratfon points ” it Jiarv corps fed them. There was ! violation of the rights of the Czech- | | Uc fron) p endleton . Wednesday noon was announced. One German recon*h.g laughing, hut there was ! 03lovak nat ‘ on ’ ‘ t „ haa bCP " , roV(nlIrs , FV1 , KI , S I J«nes being returned here from the naisance plane was reported to have of fear. Occasionally someone ,0 d > aa PPointmcnt. Chambeila.u dc- HOME E( ONO ''^ S , . . T i ri» \Y ‘ate reformatory on an order from been 8 hot down Tuesday sta.t singing a folk song and , clared ’ I T ° MEET " ! the local circuit court, for retrial. Hr The military expert of the newsnearby would join Moro Ire- • H 0 sa * d “ ia ‘ Hitler seems to ie-j . . . ... tv I had liegun to serve n sentence from paper Petit Paiisiinsaid tin f,< nnan ;«y the Lutheran hymn, “ A 1 gard that fate of Poland as p xc!ua. | «»n>e Ec ' p a‘^ « f thw county ^ on a petll larceny char g e , patrols were operating mostly at ty Fortress Is Our God. ’ would ivel y of German interest. 1 ' ^ tirno . rBm Mjss 1> , l . t ; when a petition was presented to thc nights am ^ eai }

The only praise came from

Roachdale town cut in general

Catholic priests who signed a state-| corporation tax from $1.11 to $1.00,

United, an( i taken up by thour.- ' f people until it echoed through

e areas of the city.

for an all-day program.

“Acts and not words alone must be E of purdu{ , Unlv ers it y. will | 1, cal cr ’ urt bv his fatfter ’ setUn ^ l T forthcoming before we or France I; herp to meet thp women of t he | tho s ™' s ignorance of court procedwould be justified in ceasing to wage eou who attejld lhe meeting. She ! ^ awareness of what was in-

general expression of . war to the utmost of our strengtn, fri ov er the possibility of a sill- I Chamberlain said. Wal with Russia was that the j

Olympic games scheduled to he ’•here might have to b-; held I Mere. Helsingfors had looked

* ar d to the games to make it a. ' ria I IF/ 1 I

'I cily, its streets had been wid-j J

• its square enlarged, new build- | u '>I ho’els had been construe-! JOHN tt SHANNON’S AUTO STRUCK MAN ON HIGHWAY

SATURDAY NIGHT

Injuries Are Fatal

• M.S. To Meet ^ ^ est Lafayette

' HGI’I.E WILL APPEAR ,N TWO DAY SESSION OF

ORGANIZATION

will introduce the themes of the day, "Safety at Home” and "More

Liveable Home Grounds.”

In connection with the first topic, Miss Antionette Friedman, county nurse, will present to the women

list

Smaller German patrols, in quest of French prisoners, were seen frequently hopping across no man’s

. . . , ... , , land the expert said. French ar-

volved in pleading guilty when he 1 , , , ,, tillery usually aid down a barrage

was arraigned here early in the ^ ... . . . .

month, when hc pleaded guilty.

Jones, who served a term at the , , , , . . ... , , got past the barbed wire, however,

state penal farm before this last B '

at them but they advanced in spite of losses. The writer said they never

, .. . .. and had taken no prisoners, trouble arose, contrasted the table „ ‘ . ,

French and British guns

were

* .. fi,ut oirf wit to Tare of the state farm and that at ...

of articles for a first aid kit to . rl . mllrh . , hn HU . pounding Saar valley roads, cutting

Janies Welch, 63 years old. who was hurt critically early Saturday

night when he was struck by aaa “* I gardens'"at" S( ‘,me'homes, were reInmnhite while walking ell State t . . . , , , „»

be used when minor accidents occur, and she will talk on what to do until the doctor arrives, in more serfaus

happenings in the home.

Here in Putnam county, there is a revival of interest in the home flower garden .and the care of farm home lawns, as well as the old fashioned herb garden. Remnants of these old

vived last year

local leaders of

RU”st speaker at

:in, ml meeting of the Woman’j

• ■< :ety of the

," Ind'anu Conference will

he’ 1

tomobile while walking on

highway 43 .south of Crawfordsville, I bome demonstration clubs stud-

died Wednesday at Culver hospital ^ the subject

•a* Craivfordsville as a resu t of in- j

juries suffered in the accident. The machine, which struck Welch,

the fif.y- | was driven by John W. Shannon, age

70, of Roachdale. who said he was , Walter S. Campbell is plaintiff In

the reformatory, much to the dispat agement of the latter. He pa."tuclarly did not like the idea of having but two meals a day at the reformatory, and he did not like thc tcugh b-ead. and there were otner things at the reformatory that did not measure up well, with him.

communication lines and trying to batter down the block houses of the Siegfried line on the hills beyond the

Sarr, it was reported.

Gen. Albert Niessel, one of the best known French military writers, 1 said in a Paris Midis article yester-

ment o fthanks to the United States government for sendin gthe convoy. ! There was a profusion of black! eyes among the passengers who had , been rolled from cots and deck chairs ]

during the storm.

The 12-year-old. 6 000-ton Iroquois, | a coast-wise cruise ship when the , war broke out, had been hurriedly refitted fo ran ocean crossing to return some of the Americans stranded in Europe by the war. Chartered by United States lines from the Clyde-Mallory line, she left

Marion township cut from 22 to

8 cents in tuition levy.

Clinton township-cut in speiiai school levy from 45 to 43 cents; cut in tuition levy from 24 to 20 cents Monroe township cut in special

school from 40 to 36 cents.

Russellville corporation cut in corporation tax from 67 to 60 cents Jackson township cut of special school levy from 48 to 47 cents. The Putnam county revenue fund

was cut from 37 to 32 cents.

Mr. Shock completed his review of

New York Sept, 13 with Capt. Edgar thf> bu , Kets with lheb . p r0 p 0sed levy. A. Chelton, veteran of World warl du , ing the foronoon He 8aia a fe , v transport ships, in command. She , ltcms of thc budKetg may attract tlle loaded 37 passengers at Liverpool, , particular attontlon of the m .. mhfra Get. 2. 540 at Cobh. Oct. 3. and start- of the 3ate tax bo . ir(1 in addition to

ed home. Every one o fthe passeng- j lboS( ,

ers and crew of 211 was an American j t . b . PS

citizen. Most of the passengers were j ‘ Irish-Americans who had been visit-

ing the Old Country.

in which he wifi recommend

TEXAS CHRISTIAN SQUAD WORKS OUT AT BLAUKSTUK K

I Silk'S j The Texas Christian college foat- . . ■ T I t )a " • s{ ) uaf t’ stopped off here this afI ri(TS \F’(‘ l. 1) • tornoon enroute to Philadelphia, Pa,

where the y play Temple on Saturday

\T CHAR ! afternoon. The squad stopped here

and worked out on Blackstock field. Texas Christian has had some of the best football teams in the southland

Clarence Vestal, of Grconcastle, t 0 i* several yeais and such stars as was an onlooker at the public sale | Sammy Baugh and Davy O Brica

CORN AND HORSES

LES HARRIS FARM WEDNES-

DAY SOLD FAVORABLY

j day that France was well protected ■ 0 f the personal property of the late j came from their campus,

against any direct smashing attack j Charles Harris at his former farm

UIRUUIT COURT NOTES

20 Years Ago

IN GREENOASTLE

or flank attacks by Germans through home three miles east and 2 miles

either neutral Holland or Switzer- south of Roachdale, Wednesday. Mr. ^ Today’s Weather

land. He estimated that 500,000 Vestal was particularly interested In ^ Germans would be slain in any front- the sale of a thousand bushels of

al attack oft the Maginot line and

I three suits on notes against Eric S.

i,u-t and Charles, and Miss ,iet Reynolds motored to Indl*

blinded by the lights of a car ap- ■ mice **.. ..****•* -o j preaching from the opposite direc- Vermillion, Roy Odell and George 1

v ‘he First Methodist | t on and that he did not know Young, respectively. M. J Murphy ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

J ''est Lafayette, October 24 I Welch was on the highway until af- is attorney.

"lie district superintend?n’. is ter his machine hit the pedestrian

that according to the usual ratio of

(From Somerset.) Frank Coilins six wounded to one killed. Hitler lias moved south of Greencastle. | would gamble with thc lives of Mr. and Jrs. Thomas Sage and | 3.500.000 Germans in a frontal at-

11 Beck. Thc theme of tha 1 Trails Across America.”

11 '5. the first day Mrs. E. K.

Shannon immediately brough’; Ini machine to a stop, ami walk ng hack along the road found Welch lying at

MARRIAGE LICENSES

William Heather, labor, Indianap-

T Greencastle” will discuss the side of the highway. He aum-, oils, and Agnes Johnson, housework.

1 n it and West.” The noon- 1 moned an ambulance from the nearby , Greencastle.

. ■■ that day, will be con- ! farm home of James Parks anr. then Lester Roy ^“ nca "’ armer ' "

bv Mrs. Mary Ostro-n of notified police headquarters at Craw- more route Land Alma , lcasUe . - fordsvllle. P - rPPn

E. Hill,

housekeeper, Greencastle route 2.

/.•n.’.ouncemcnt was mad? that the ma riage of Miss Ethel Douglas o. B-anil and Herbert Williams, son of Mr. nnJ Mrs. Ben Williams, occur* re-’, in the Presbyterian church at

Ttrrc Haute, October 2.

Hany W. Moore sold a lot In Greencastle to James W. W'l mmson

.or $1 000.

tack.

JUSTICE OF PEACE COURT Mrs. Mary Buckner, of Ohio street, Greencastle, was found guilty in the court of Jusftce of the Peace Newgent, to a charge of assault and battery, in which the prosecuting witness was Mrs. Lillian Pence. The fine was $10, with costs added.

and

corn, not yet picked, but sold “shuck- | ® Local TcrnpcratUTO $

ed down,” which means it will

picked and shucked by the estate, i Fair, cooler in extreme west-cen-and thrown into the purchaser’ll wa-I tral portions, scattered light frost In gons if they are there to receive it. north and central portions tonight;

Th ! s corn sold at 44 1-2 cents, starting at 35. It was bought by Henry Clay, a feeder of hogs, whose place is near North Salem. Eleven sows with litters of pigs “fetched” from $31 to $49.50, the latter price being paid for an unusually heavy sow with eight pigs. One pair of 3-year old draft farm horses brought $240 as a team. A total of $235 was offered for them individually.

Friday partly cloudy.

Minimum

6 a. m

7 a m

8 a. 'm.

9 a. m

r.o

10 a. m

11 a. in

12 noon

1 p. m

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