Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 April 1928 — Page 1
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VOLUME 23
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4. 1928
THE HOME PAPER
SA Y! (By CHARLES J. ARNOLD)
Mr. Frank J. Cannon and Mr, Charles J. Arnold of Greencastle, vfre in Indianapolis, Tuesday evening the special guests of the Indianapolis American Legion at a reception
HAYS TO BE GRILLED IN OIL INQUIRY
NOTED LECTCHER TO SPEAK HERE THURSDAY!
Dr. Charles Rogers, professor of
ud entertainment given by that org- ( comparative physiology at Woods anization in their honor in the Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Armorena . Indianapolis’ newly; in Massachusetts, will come to De-: tr e,ted armory on north Penn- Pauw uinversity Thursday evening to | ]v a nia street. Mr. Cannon and Mr. I lecture in Meharry hall, at 7 o’clock, | Arnold left Greencastle at 3:20 o'clock on -‘Physiological Evidences of An-! Tuesday afternoon and were driven to i inia * Relationship.” Dr. Rogers is well j Indianapolis by Walter Albaugh, in j known for his experiments and disone of the T. H. I- & Eastern spacious coveries in the field of animal evoluand (omfortable traction cars. The rion. Biology student are being asked tnptolndianapolis. through the beau! tf > attend the lecture. The public is tiful country side, although tedious! also invited to hear Dr. Rogers. Pol-
and tiresome, was most enjoyable, the beautiful spring sunshine and balmy air lending much charm to the beauty
of the day-
Aniving in Indianapolis at near 4 30 o'clock they were met by a reception committee of traffic officers, appointed by Mayor L. Ert Slack, and from the minutes of their arrival in the metropoilis until the wee small hoars ot the morning their stay in the I city was simply a whirl of entertain- j
ment and pleasure.
Immediately following their arriv-1 al in the city they were entertained SENIORS OF HIGH SCHOOL TO PRE
LEON TROTZKY SHOT IN BACK BY ASSASSIN
ONE OF DEPOSED MASTERS OF SOVIET RUSSIA REPORTED DYING IN EXILE SOMEWHERE IN RUSSIAN
TURKESTAN
lowing his lecture at DePauw university Dr. Rogers will go to Cincinnati, Friday to talk before the Ohio Acad-
emy of Science.
SHOOTING SHROUDED IN SECRECY
REELSVILLE CLASS PLAY ON FRIDAY
Story Based on Rumors Which Have Been Current For Several Days —Semi officially Confirm-
ed
F-L-A-S-H-E-S BUD TAYOR WINS !APPELLATION "TERROR” LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 4.— (IN i The appellate regarded today as befitting Bud Tay- ! lor, bantamweight ruler, of Terre | Haute, Ind., following his ten-round victory here last night over Santiago Zorilla, Panamanian featherweight. Although ho took a severe sheilasing in the tenth round of the melee, the little Hoosier battler had managed to garner enough points in the preceding rounds to win the referee’s
decision.
TWO MORE BOMB EXPLOSIONS ROCK CHICAGO
DETONATION IN AUBURN PARK HIGHLANDS DISTRICT SENDS HUNDREDS TUMBLING FROM BEDS IN FRIGHT
GERMAN PLANE STILL WEATHERBOUND AT 1)1 Ed IV
SECOND BLAST IN RESTAURANT Democratic Ward Leader And Family Escape Injury As Blast Throws Them From Beds
WILLIAM HESTER WINS DUPONT SCHOLARSHIP Mr. ami Mrs. J. P. Allen .Ir., have received word that their son-in-law, William Hester, of Boston, Mass., has been awarded the Dupont scholarship at Harvard University. This is the highest award and honor that can be given a student in Harvard and comes to Mr. Hester as the result of his excellent scholastic standing. The scholar ship is given each year by the Dupont Powder Company. Mr. Hester will use the scholarship next year for further work toward his Master’s degree. He is a gr aduate of Greencastle high school and DePauw University.
SENT "GOING STRAIGHT” AT THE BUILDING THIS WEEK END - CAST HAS MADE FINE
PROGRESS
at a theater party at the beautiful Indiana threater by Mr. Cannon, following which they were lavishly entertained at dinner at the Guarantee Cafeteria ,as the guests of Mr. Can-
non. A menu of fish, potatoes, coffee' The Senior class of the Reelsville ! and pie was tastefully served. Fol-' n^h School will present the popular lowing the most delightful repast the ,,i av , “Going Straight,” at the high! guests repaired to the lobby of school Friday evening April ti. The J Indianapolis (banning hostelry, the p| a y is a comedy of love, laughter Claypool. where they snatched an and sudden riches in three acts.
The cast selected for the play has made fine progress in its rehearsals and all of them are playing their parts in fine form. Special prices are
hours rest before entering into the
pleasures of the the evening.
It was about 8 o’clock when they alighted from a highly colored auto- .
mobile at the entrance of the Armory. 1 offered and the public- is invited to at-
tend. The east is as follows:
Ed Judson, village barber Wm. Me Elroy Elmer Bank, sport Forrest Hutcheson Samuel Miles, the mayor | Elwood Pollom Leota Miles, his daughter Barbara Pickett Myrtle Snook, clerk Louise Hutcheson
Cecil, negro porter
Wayne Hutcheson I Harrison Kipp, stranger Marion Sendmeyer
LONDON, April 4.—(INS)—Leon Trotzky, one of the deposed masters of Soviet Russia, today was believed to lx? dying in ex le somewhere in Russian Turkestan as the result of an assassin’s bullet which lodged in his
spinal column.
Th< famous Russian leader was shot in the back by a member of the “Young Comunnists,” an ultra-radi-cal organization of the Reds, according to advices received here Today by
the Morning Post.
The shooting is believed to have oc-
curred last Saturday. The assailant was variously reported as being a
Caucasian and an Armenian. The Stalin government has made
every effort to “hush-up” news of the shooting. Because of this no further
details of the shooting are known. Rumors of the attack upon Trotzky
have been current in Moscow for several days. Late yesterday, various embassies in Paris are reported to
DUBLIN, April 4.—(INS)—With ' the Bremen still weatherbound, confirmation of the selection of Comi mandant Fitzmaurice as relief-pilot j by Berlin backers of the projected | trans-Atlantic flight attempt was be-
! ing awaited today.
LIVE PRISONERS MAKE P \RING BREAK TODAY
SYRACUSE, N. Y„ April 4.— | (INS)—Five prisoners made a daring break from the Onondaga County penitentiary at Jamesville today, four j of them successfully eluding a large j posse of guards and deputy sheriffs who were ordered out to conduct a 1 manhunt throughout the surrounding
| country.
Tntfring the Officers Club Room. | they were met by a reception com-1 mittee of DePauw Alumni, consisting of Neal Grider, graduate of DePauw ! of several years ago, Capt. Clark of Ft. j Benjamin Harrison, who attended De
Pauw in 1910-11 and others.
Following a hearty reception ,the ' visitors were invited into the spacious annory, where there were to be sev-1 end boxing matches, arranged for the special entertainmnt of the guests by ; Capt. Clark. Besides Mr- Cannon and Mr. Arnold there were about
3500 other guests, all seated in
l THOM \S TAGGART JOINS FRANK (’. DAILEY FORCES INDIANAPOLIS, April 4.—(INS) —Former United States Senator
V*— v 7 w I Thomas Taggart, who heretofore had have received semi-official confirma-! , . . , , . ,, ,,
been considered neutral in the Dcmo-
CHICAGO, April 4.—(INS)—Two 1 more powerful bomb explosions j rocked outlying districts of Chicago !
today.
The first one detonated over the Auburn Park Highlands district short ! ly before dawn and sent hundreds of i terror stricken residents tumbling from their beds to the accompaniment!
of shattering window panes.
It was exploded in a vacant store- 1 room next door to a shoe repair shop. ! The second blast was set off in the ! doorway of a restaurant on south j Kcdzie avenue. Joseph Klak, oTmer > | and a Democratic ward leader, lived I j overhead. He and his family were I i thrown from their beds but all es- !
capcd serious injury.
Investigators were unable to agreed on the cause of the bombings. The 1 first was believed inpsired by labor I | troubles. The second was believed to 1 have heeri an effort to intimidate KlaV for his political activities.
RECEIVE PLANS FOR NEW SECOND WARD BUILDING
SPECIFICATIONS AND BLUE PRINTS OF ARCHITECTS CALL FOR STRUCTURE 143 FEET LONG AND 73 FEET WIDE- TO BE COMPLETED BY FALL
MOVIE CZAR TO FACE SOME REAL QUESTIONING
COMMITTEE MEMBER SENATE TEAPOT DOME PROBE PLAN TO HANDLE HAYS WITHOUT GLOVES ON NEXT APPEARANCE FIND BONDS IN SULLIVAN BANK Will Be Interrogated On Four Important Points—Now In Europe For Tour
tion of the shooting from Moscow. Should Trotzky die. it is not exncc* ed his death will be known for some time afterward because of the Soviet government's shroud of secrecy. Just where the shooting occurred can only he conjectured. In January, it was reported Trotzky had boon sent to Vierny, near the Chinese bor-
ders of Turkestan.
cratie gubernatorial race, today was on record as favoring the candidacy of Frank C. Dailey, former Kederal district attorney.
MILL GI IDEWELI FILES PETITION FOR DELEGATE
tittle around n raised platform in the
tenter of the large room.
Sam, driller for Kipp .. Robert Cassaday
», ,, i Mary LeClark, a widow Mortly atfer 8 o clock the program Hazel Pelfrey hu and in the two hours of enter- Mrs. Banks’, 'hotel keeper ‘ „
tainmtnt there was not a dull mo-1 Violet Harris i P u i rcaU ’ a t>
Tom Hughes, an oil man Eugene Cooper George Phillips, Texas sheriff . .. Elvin Williams
HOWARD HOSTETTER NAMED FARM BUREAU PRESIDENT
FILLMORE GIRL WINS COUNTY ESSAY CONTEST
Will Glidewell, of Putnamville, has
filed a petition with the County Clerk for nomination as delegate from War ren and Madison townships to the
Democratic State convention.
Howard Hostetler was elected pres- i
ident; Sam Nelson, vice president. MISS PEARL SNAPP WRITES WIN-
M The boxers, dressed in highly (oloml and beautifully monogramed tranks displayed ability and cleverttfisin the demonstration of the man-
ly W of boxmg. The main stunt of Kiviry Banks, daughter of Mrs.
me program was a contest for
supremacy between Mr. Al Foreman, ot London, England and Mr- Janies Hatkley of Los Angeles.. The event proved highly entertaining and caus■d quests to cheer with enthusjusni until it was marred by a mishap, during the third period, when Hackley struck Mr. Foreman very ard on a portion of Mr. Foreman’s snatomy. below the waist line, which “pparently (aused the latter much P a ra and discomfiture. Under the roles agreed upon prior to the cones t it was unfair to strike below the and. although Mr. Hackley was Miry t hat he had made the mig . | ‘ a o, which we believe was more of error in judgment than one of in- j n. Mr Foreman did not feel well oHowmg the blow and it was agreed . "a rt would not be advisable to
continue the contest-
. ^* e un l°rtunate affair closed the pecial program of entertainment. Re-
Pairing to the Officers Club
Banks Maddona Hutcheson Luther Henshnw, a loafer Darrell Hutcheson
and Tom MeKeehan, secretary-treas- i urer of the Monroe township Farm
Farm Bureau meeting
held at Bainhridge Tuesday night. Membership in the County Farm Bureau is already over 500 and the mem-
bership drive is continuing.
NING PAPER ON "WHY OBEY THE LAW” — DENNIS MAT THEWS OF GREENCASTLE IS
SECOND
Complete plans and specifications and blue prints of the new Second Ward school building, were received Wednesday by Paul Allan, trustee, from McGuire & Shook, the archi-
tects.
The j Ians cal! for a building 14.'! feet long and 7:5 feet wide with the main entrance facing Anderson street There will lx> a large stone entrance and the basement will extend above the ground similar to the Public Library basement. It will be of brick with a composition roof of hip
style.
The principal's office will be on the west side of the main entrance and a teacher’s rest room on the east side of the entrance. Two class rooms will be on each side of the main entrance next to the rest room and office, facing Anderson street. A corridor runs the full length of the hall and the ass cm Id' nr exercise room is on the south side of the corridor. A class
The Greencastle Rod and Gun Club j room is on each end of the assembly will hold a call meeting this evening j hall. The assembly room will be 57.10 at 7o'.dork at Roy Hillis’ office,, feet long and 28.4 feet wide. All six Vonea tle Building. Very important J ( -l aSf( rooms are 23.2 feet by 28.8 feet busine; is to come before this meet-1 iln ,i each will be equipped with a coat ing. All members are urged to attend. 1 closet which can only be reached from
Roy Hillis, Pres, the class room.
IMPORTANT .MEETING
By WILLI\M K. HUTCHINSON I. N. S. Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 4.—Will H. Hays, former Republican National Chairman, now czar of all moviedom, will face a real grilling by the Senate Teapot Dome committee on his next and fourth appearance in the witness chair, members said. Hays will be called, shortly after he returns from a trip to Europe, to explain a number of matters not touched upon or omitted from his testimony on three different occasions since 1924. Committee members planned to handle Hays without groves when he makes his next appearance as a witness. Hays will be interrogated on four important subjects: 1. —Albert B. Fall’s charge that Hays Influenced him to say that the notorious $100,000 “loan" came from Edward B. M.Tx'an, Washington publisher, instead of from Edwin L. Doleny, the actual donor. 2. —The discovery of a large number of 4% per cent Liberty bonds in Hays’ private banking account at Sullivan, Ind., deposited at u time when Hays was reported “broke” due to speculations in the stock market. 3. —The statement of Hays that Harry F. Sinclair returned to him $08,000 in Liberty Bonds when James I). Connery, the “go-between,” swore that Hays only got a few r thousand, the rest going to pay off his stock market debts. 4. —The charges of the late Senator Edwin K. I .add (R) of N. D., revealed through other senators, that Hays tried to influence him to block the Teapot Dome investigation whihv Ladd was chairman of the Sentite public lands committee.
DEPAUW BEATEN BY PURDUE, 12-1
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♦ k. p vr.in.ciS VIUU IUUI IPPnc astlf g-uests engaged in al conversation with their hosts, t
Romi n " man an< * two sons, noi* si and Trac y Cox, who are
widely known i, „ circles as
A slashing first inning, in an abbreviated contest, during which six runs were tallied gave Purdue’s base- i ball aggregation a big edge in their 12 to 1 victory over DePauw here Tuesday afternoon. The game was called at the end of the seventh frame on account of darkness. It was a return match, the Boiler Makers having nosed out the Tigers, 6-.>, at La-
fayette Monday.
Purdue collected runs in the first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth innings. DePauw’s lone tally came in the sixth inning, Costello scoring on Mes-
sersmith’s sacrifice.
Harmeson, Snodgrass and Sindelar looked best at hat and in the field for the Boiler Makers. Spidell and Myers
_ _ worked in the box for the visitors. Indianapolis 1 Fowle, Starke, McCullough and Bow-
Miss Pearl Snapp, of Fillmore high school, won the county essay contest on “Why Obey The Law,” according to an announcement by County Superintendent John ('. Vermillion. The contest was held in connection with the oratorical contest on the Consti-
tution.
Second place in the contest was won by Dennis Matthews, of Greencastle and third was awarded to Helen Shields of Putnamville high school. Other Contestants were Mary Wimmer of Bainhridge; Alta Williams, of
GREENCASTLE ATTORNEY. WHO | cioverdale, ami Hubert Clodfelter, "f
HAD ANNOUNCED AS ASKING
FAY HAMILTON WITHDRAWS AS A CANDIDATE
THE NOMINATION FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY WILL NOT SEEK PLACE Fay S. Hamilton, Greencastle attorney, who recently announced that he would ask the Democratic nomination for Prosecuting attorney, today withdrew from the race. Mr. Hamilton, in his statement withdrawing from the race, says that he is doing j so because of bu ness reasons and in the interest of Democratic harmony. ; His statement is as follows: Greencastle, Indiana,! April 4, 1928.; To The Editor of the Herald.
Dear Sir:-
Please announce through your! paper that 1 have withdrawn as u
I Clinton Center.
Miss Snapp’s essay will be sent to the district contest at Terre Haute where it will be entered against papers by other county winners. Miss Snapp’s winning essay appears elsewhere In today’s issue of
The Herald.
BAINBRIDGE TO GRADUA1E U SENIORS
CANDIDATES FOR GRADUATION FROM MONROE TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL ANNOUNCED—OTHER ELIGIBLE GRADUATES GIVEN
There will be outside eiftranca. at each end of the corridor and the basement stairways lead from each end of the corridor. The basement will be equipped with two play rooms 23.5 feet by 38.8 feet. One will he for boys ami the other for girls. The boys’ and girls’ toilets will be located next to the two play rooms. The boiler room and the janitor’s stur age is to be located on the east side of the basement to the rear. It is planned to have the building ready for occupancy next fall.
FOURTEEN WILL GET DIPLOMAS AT REELSVILLE
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY. APRIL 18—BACCALAUREATE SERMON TO BE DELIVERED SUNDAY. APRIL 15
PHI DELTA KAPPA ALUMNI WILI MBE1 HERE M W
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j. v.. na high class boxer, man were used on the mound for De- candidate before the Democratic pri-
‘ J, ^ !a lph Elvin, who, although not Pauw. Both coaches substituted fre-
afir»« WHO, aiinougll not rauw. limn Wl th " castlp nian -Bdmits association i qu e ntl y during the matinee. The
r ]. 8S ' c Sayers, and many other *core:
, and Pertaining gentlemen- Purdue 6101130—12 13 1 autnmu i h ° Ur the y were taken in an j DePauw 0 0 0 0 0 0 1- 1 2 6 lobile and whirled to the sta- Batteries — Spidell, Myers and
niPht ! he ”' fol,ow ‘ng a hasty mid- Hamby; Fowle, Starke, thev th ° f C0ffep and doughnuts! Bowman and Sc
“'ey entrained for home Arriving in
McCullough,
Scheiner, Sehults.
Greem
castle at
r home. Arriving in a late hour Mr. Can-!
respective residences.
WEATHER FORECAST
UNSETTLED, COOLER. Sunrise, 6:24. Sunset, 6:12.
mary, for the office of Prosecuting At
lorney.
I make this decision in the interest of Party Harmony, and for business
reasons.
I wish to thank my many friends for the interest they have shown in me, and because of fliat I regret the necessity for this step. I wish only the success of the Democratic party. Yours Truly, Fay S. Hamilton.
Bainhridge has twenty-three seniors eligible for graduation at mm-, meneement exercises to be held this i spring. Fillmore high school will i graduate fifteen and Clinton Center | has five seniors. Seniors elegible for j diplomas this spring from the three
schools follow: BAINBRIDGE
Nola Barker, Virginia Boatman, | Lucile Brackney, Pauline Booher,! Howard Chadd, Bernice Crosby,, Wayne Coffman, Osbourne Dickson, | Mary Eads, Aline Goodwin, Edith ( Hale, Howard Long, Faye Long, Rex Moffett, Margaret OTIair, Raymond j Reeves, Harold Sibbitt, Mildred Shamel, Marjorie Sands, Myrtle Sheets, Bonnie Tate, Jewel Wright, and H. E.
— I Williams.
The Century Club met at* the home ’ FILLMORE of Mrs. Marquis this afternoon. | Lois Ader, Evalene Clark, Naomi
; Carpenter, Esther Punlavy, Elizabeth
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20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
From the files of
THE HERALD 20 Years Ago
To-day
The death of Thomas Virgil Peck, age 74, occurred at his home last
night.
Miss Lelia Talbott is assisting Vermilion’s today.
Miss
Grace Oakley will spend tomorrow in Roachdale.
Major and Mrs. J. G. Dunbar
moving from east Franklin street
their farm, west of town.
are
to
McNary, Louise Pickett, Ruth Sublett, Leo Downey, Ella Sutherlin, Kenneth Hunten, Norman Clark, El-
bert Huber, Artie McNary, Zeiner, and Kenneth Byrd.
CLINTON CENTER
Elizabeth Eggers, Ivan Hnrbison, 1 Henry^ Thomas, Marion Thompson,
and Neil Stinson.
Prof. O. II. Williams, Dean L. H. Dirks, and F. L. Busenburg, principal of the city high school, attended un informal meeting of members of Phi Delta Kappa, national honory educational fraternity, Tuesday evening at the State Normal college in Terre
Haute.
The purpose of the meeting was to consider the organization of an alum-
na! branch of the society.
A tentative organization was formed, to be known as the Phi Delta Kappa of the Wabash Valley District, j which district will hold another meeting at DePauw university, May 4. Re- I presentatives from all the surround- j ing cities and towns, including Terre | Haute and Crawfordsville, will gather for a dinner and informal discussion of educational problems and the completion of the organization. The society of Phi Delta Kappa originated at Indiana university more than u quarter of a century ago, and
Lois ; is now represented in twenty-six of
\ the leading universities of the coun- ! try. It has a membership of
Commencement activities at Reels I ville high school will get under way (Friday, April 6, when class day exer]cises are held l>y the Senior Class, i According to Principal Frank Jarrell, fourteen seniors are eligible tor diplomas at commencement exercises to be held Wednesday evening, April 18. The Reelsville baccalaureate sir mon will be given Sunday, April 15. Seniors eligible for graduation from the Reelsville high Hchoil this
year are:
Edwad Pollom, Delmas Canada, Hazel Pelfiey, Iziuisa Hutchins, Barbara Pickett, Robert C rsiady, Wayne Hutcheson, Marlon Pti. Imyer, Darrell Hutcheson, William McElroy, Elvin Williams, Forest Hutcheson, Violet Harris, Eugene Cooper.
A splendid Farm Bureau meeting more j was held in Floyd township Tuesday
than 8,000 persons, including the lead night with motion pictures and a ing college and university teachers of j talk by Robert H. Stevenson, county education. agent, as features of the meeting.