Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 April 1928 — Page 1
All The News That’s Fit To Print VOLUME 23
GREENCASTLE HERALD
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF PUTNAM COUNTY WEDNESDAY. APRIL 18. 1928
Full Telegraphic News Service
THE HOME PAPER
5,4 Y! (By CHARLES J. ARNOLD)
\y7iT :iiv old friend Ed. Hamilton kkM in this before noon with his ■ Number 2" Country Club news bul-!
tin and it was much different from’ n If I)|| ft/irri/ the first number for I had no trouble |[\fly'll
reading it. at all. The only kick I i^ve coming on the issue is that he stole a bit of my "blunder” by starting the thing off with "Say.” Not! that is nibbing in a little on my pri-' rate property and I would suggest that hereafter he use "Hey” or some ’ o-her word as a lead to his chatter. ,
EX-LOCAL WOMAN PICKS PRISON LOCK
FOUND GUILTY OF BLACKMAIL
GANGSTER MUST PAY WITH LIFE
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Ed’s letter is so interesting and informing I am reproducing parts, i Which 1 believe will be of interest. So hold everything, here they is: SAY—That man Abe sure did j get a fine—scald—on the walk aiound the pool, if you haven't seen it you had better go out and give it a survey. One of our loyal members has set an arbor at the South side of the yard, this in time will become a bower of roses. Another is in the pirating business of finding 'eklipment” for a playground so the little folks can have a good time. Who said these fellows that are unattached are of no value ? Grass and shrubs around the Club are growing right along. Abe will have the greens all top-dressed in a few days and ‘wind and tide being with us" we will be able to open the grounds and course
pretty soon-
The "Shrub Committee" found some Ramblers to put along the South Road fence and in a year or so that will be a mighty pretty sight to travelers along the road as well as the members. Gun Club looks fine, the boom of their guns will soon be heard in the land. ‘Oats looking fine
this vicinity.’
OWEN COUNTY JURY OUT TWO HOURS TUESDAY EVENING IN CASE OF CATARACT MAN. CHARGED WITH THREAT TO STEAL
CORPSE
GREENCASTLE MAN RELEASED
Case Attracted Many Persons From Putnam And Owen CountyMan Wrote Threatening Letter
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GERMAN FLIERS AVOW INTENTION TO FLY IN BREMEN
JUST HOW BADLY PLANE IS REALLY DAMAGED STILL MUCH OF MYSTERY TAKE SEVERAL DAYS TO GET PARTS FITZMAURICE TO BRING REPAIRS Two Stranded Men May Be Taken To Murray Bay by Relief Plane And Then Go To New York In Sister Ship
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FORMER LOCAL WOMAN ESCAPES FROM PRISON
1 FLASHES
a vr WAR ( I.Ol ns HOU R OVER ( ni.NKSE HORIZON
LONDON, April 18.—(INS)—War
clouds loomed darker over the ' hi- MRS. MAGEIJ.A THORNBURG AND n< se horizon today. ANOTHER PRISONER PICK Sanguinary engagements between) LOCK ON CELL the Nationalists and Northerners are DOORS being fought along a 400 mile front, | _____ according to a dispatch to the I'aily MAKE GETAWAY EARLY TODAY Express from its Tokio correspond-1 - ■■■ —
Was Serving Sentence For Shooting
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SPENCER, Ind., April 17.—Ralph! Meek, SO years old, of Cataract, Ind., j was found guilty by a jury in the! Owen Circuit court late today of a charge of blackmail. Meek was chart; ed with having written a letter to Mrs. Morris Haltom of Cataract ’ threatening to steal the body of ?.er husband from its grave if site did not leave $200 in a designated spot. The jury, out front 3:30 to 5:45 p. m., took four ballots. Ora Turner, also arrested in the case was released for
lack of evidence.
The case was brought about by Mrs. Haltom receiving a letter postmarked Cloverdale, lnd„ February 8 written by an apparently poorly educated person and purported to be from professional grave robbers w’hu said they had been offered a nice sum i for the body of a man about the size of Mr. Haltom and warned that the body would be moved unless $200 was left “under a glass jar at Iho southwest corner of the big red stor, across from your barn” or if the auth
orities are notified.
Meek, who is the son ol Dow Meek and Ora “Curley” Turner, his broth-er-in-law, both about 30 years of age, were arrested a few days alter
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Charley Birger, former outlaw gang leader hanged Thursday morning at 10 o’clock, as a
sane at Benton, 111., Tuesday, after ten minutes deliberation. Birger and his two children taken at the time of the trial, when convicted for murder ol Mayor Joe Adams of West City, 111.
My day sure started off fine today. For the first thing my eyes lamped when I ran through my mail was a letter from my old “playmate" James S, "Jimmy" Albin, former Greencastle resident but now cashier of the Ladoga State Bank. Jimmy and 1 never were able to gree upon politics or religion and always managed j to disagree about everything else, so onr friendship really was a productive one, as we each had ample opportunity to express our view's to the other. In our later years we have ihecome most complimentary regard-
each other, and now I always re-j a go for the ■ let to Mr Albin as the cashier of the i evidence,
host bank in Indiana and he comes Turner, who is now working in nght back with that “Editor of the I C.reencastle, attended the trial this best newspaper in Indiana,” so there ; niomiiig but was not called to the i rou are. Jim says he gets a lot of | witness stand. On the defense table Sickout of “Say", In fact he says he i ily a huge map which showed the ioknows of only one other thing which ! cations of the road ami barn under
has more kick in it than “Say" but US’ he is a total abstainer he simply subscribes for THE HERALD and lets
£0 at that.
MATERIAL FOR NINE LOSE FILLMORE ROAD LIVES IN CAUSES STIR THREE FIRES
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ISAAC SKELTON. CONTRACTOR.,SEVEN CHILDREN DIE IN WEST
QUEBEC, Qtie., April 18-(!NS) — I How ami when Captain Hermann j Koehl and Baron Ehrenfried von Huenefeld will leave Greenely island, upon which they have been isolated I since their epochal :iti hour flight I westward across the Atlantic, were the main topics of discussion here to-
day.
The German fliers have vowed their intention of flying to New York in the Bremen. But their plan may not
in Minin'i n ..ini...- "in p rove feasible and may delay their ar
result of a Jury finding him! ,, lval for somr time . 1 hntn s ows | j us t how badly the Junkers trans-
j Atlantic monoplane was
when it made its forced landing or ! the tiny lake near the lighthouse on i the ice-bound island was still very
much a mystery today.
ent.
British vessels have been fired upon j nine miles below Hankow, aeconTing! to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Hong Kong.
southern Illinois will tie
METHODIST B1SHOI* DIES AT I.Ol'ISVILI.E LOUISVILLE, Ky„ April !8.— (INS) —After an illness of several weeks Bishop James Edward Dickey of the Methodist Church South, was dead in a local hospital today.
CONTENDS THAT COMMISSIONERS HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHT TO INSIST UPON USE OF JOHNSON;
EMULSIFIED ASPHALT
Alleging that he will not carry out
the receiving of the letter by county j
offlers after they had watched the.™ 8 oontrart to •""M " ,0 ^'Imore places where the money was directed mud Improvement, unless the cottnto be placed. There, they said, they ty commissioners agree to permit him saw two men who they thought to be t0 use Burlier emulsified asphalt, inMeek and luinei, piowling al0UIH *-Lj ea( j of Johnson's emulsified asphalt. Turner was released several ,he construction of the
VIRGINIA AND MAINE CONFLAGRATIONS — TWO ARE BURNED TO DEATH IN PHILA-
DELPHIA
reason ol insufficient
which the money was to have been
deposited.
The trial has been largely attended the court room being tilled most of the time. The trial started Monday
morning.
KIND SHERIFF SENDS M’CALL TO FREEDOM
Some kindly individual sent me a P^r of sox-1 beg your pardon I mean , hose—through the mail this mornifrg "od I have been trying to figure it i oir ever since. Funny to send sox *hh the "bare-foot” season right at j hand Dandy sox, all right, feet in
hem and everything.
Charley Jewett, erstwhile DePauw hmv»risty student now a candidate)
‘Oi the Renubliean nomination for oyernor, is suffering the first cam- PARKE COUNTY OFFICIAL HAD
Poign casualty. Charley is suffering an '“footed hand .the result of too ! '"'ich hand shaking. Probably after i h" primary the hand will have an 1
opportunity to rest.
MAN IN CUSTODY. IT IS SAID. BUT ALLOWED HIM TO ESCAPE BY LETTING HIM GO ON OWN
RECOGNIZANCE
--- I The kindness of Shell ff Jake THE ARGUMENT ! Smith of Parke county Is said to have The Lady: “Count yourself again, [been responsible for the escape of in S hoy, you ain’t so many.” Clarence McCall, formerly of Wash-
The Gent: ‘Stick a thermometer in I° l|r lips, baby, you ain’t so hot "—
Texas Ranger.
DOCTORS DON’T TELL ompous physician (to man plas,l nng defectiv e wall)” "The trowel U P a lot of mistakes—what ?” ® rltman: “Yus, gov'nor—and so d0 the spade."—Exchange. WHERE PLUCK WINS “fket-Shop Proprietor (lecturing corps of salesmen): "All my Sues' all tny financial prestige, I owe thln ff alone—pluck, pluck, ! . ^tonan: "But how are we to find change^ P '‘ 0ple to P luckr ~ Ex -
ington township, wanted on a charge of criminal assault in this county. According to Sheriff Edward Eiteljorge a telephone call from the Parke county official Saturday announcing that the Sheriff of that county was sending McCall to Greencastle to give himself up to the
loral officer.
Evidently the Parke county officer sent McCall unattended for the man never reported to the local officer. From the local Sheriff’s viewpoint tt would have been the height of folly for McCall, who faces a ten-year prison sentence to surrender In. such an easy manner. The local official severely criticised the Parke county i official for not holding the man until ^ he could come after him.
road are temporarily halted and may get into court before a settlement is rnched. The plans and specifications for the improvement call for a top hinder of emulsified asphalt. Mr. Skelton, was low bidder and was awarded the eon tract. The contract provides that Johnson's Emulsified asphalt shall be us-
ed.
After the contract was signed it Is said that Mr. Skelton ascertained that Barber & Co., emulsified asphalt could be purchased at a lower cost than the Johnson's mixture and insist led that the commissioners permit J him to use the Barber product. This they refused to do, and he then anI nounced that he would not proceed | with the work. The bonds for the improvement have been sold and all is In readiness to start the work. Mr. Skelton has secured the services of attorney John Rawley of Bra zil and'insists that he will fight the case to the end. He contends that the Johnson product is made under a patented formula owned by the Barber people, and that the Johnson company has to pay a royalty on its product to the Barber Co. The Johnson Company manufactured Its I material in New Jersey, while the | Barber people have a plant near Sf. Louis, affording a lower freight rate. As the material is exactly the same and can he purchased from the Barber people at a much lower eost, Mr. Skelton contends that the commissioners are exceeding their authority when they insist that the Johnson
product be used.
PRESQUE, Island, Maine, April 13. — (INS) Three children were burned to death and their mother amt it tytlf brother of their parents were si i iously injured here today when gasoline was mistaken for kerosene In kindling a fire in the kitchen stove. An explosion rocked the country sub shuttered the house and set it afire.
DEPAUW GRAD PINCHHITS FOR BROTHER
| INDIANAPOLIS, April 18—(INS) | —Pinch-hitting for Charles W. Jew-
. I ett, Republican candidate for Govori amar (■ | nor w y 10 j s <! U tf er i n g- from an infected
hand. Chester A. Jewett, his brother, will fill the candidate’s speaking) dates this week in Northern Indiana, j
it was announced here today. “We are lucky to have Chester,”
of the
Jewett-for-Governor Club. “When both boys were students at DePauw University they succeeded between them in winning a half dozen oratorical prizes and now that we can’t send the candidate, we have an able
substitute.”
Because of adverse flying condi-
tions and the island’s inaccessaihility, • , . ,i i> . -i by land and water, it is believed it!?' 1 ' Baxter, Present
will take several days to bring the : necessary replacement parts to the ! fliers. To make the repairs will also
I take some time.
Confidential reports reaching here I revealed the true purpose of Major l itsmaurice’s departure from the island in Duke” Schiller’s rescue plan and laid at rest rumors of dissension between the Irish flier and his two
German companions.
Fitzmaurice is now at
j Que., after making a two
mile flight from Natashquan where he I
land Schiller spent the night.
Robert Yopp—Made Escape Once Before But Was Recaptured INDIANAPOLIS, April 18—(INS) — Picking the locks on their cell doors two women serving long term sentences in the Indiana Woman’s Prison escaped from that institution ear-
ly today.
The fugitives were: Mrs. Elizabeth Irene Aspinwall, 25, of Peru, Indiana, serving a 10 to 21 year term for automobile banditry. Mrs. Magella Thornburg. 30. Indianapolis serving term for shooting an Indianapolis man. The prison break was reported to police by Mrs. Margaret Elliott, superintendent of the Indiana Women’s
I Prison.
The two prisoners occupied cells on the second floor. Mrs. Elliott described Mrs. Aspinwall as being 5 feet, 5 inches high, weighing 150 pounds, having blue eyes, dark hair and wearing a prison uniform and a blue and white bathrobe. Mrs. Thornburg has a sallow complexion, brown eyes, black hair, is 5 feet and 2‘£ inches high and weighs 115 pounds, according to Mrs. Elliott.
ENGINEER FALLS DEAD AS TRAIN NEARS TOWN
NORTH VERNON, Ind., April 18— i William Sullivan, age fifty, an engin-
IU ('* i'*^i j e< ‘ r 0,1 'l 10 Baltimore £ Ohio railroad, ium iii | j the throttle of his engine as
his freight train approached this city
, from Cincinnati today.
From Clarke City came reports H< . blew the whigtle for the 0 aktlmt Fitzmaurice came out of h.s iso- , (la|(> ( . ros8i just out of tl)Wn and lation merely to get repairs for the: , , , . , ,
1 as he released the whistle he toppled
over.
Mrs. Thornburg is a former Greencastle woman and was serving a term for shooting Robert Yopp, former resident of this city, who now also lives in Indianapolis, it is said. Mrs. Thorn burg escaped from the prison once before hut was recaptured.
Bremen ami arrange their transporta- i tion to Greenely Island. These reports dated that tie intends to fly back to
I’he dead: Beth barley, 6. Pbyllh j s | im ( when he has accomplished
Earley, 3; and Georgia Farley 1. I Those in the hospital: Donald Far ! ley, 5; the mother, Mrs. Hazel Farley and her half brother Archie Farley.
SI8TERSVIDLE, W. Vu., April 18 —(INS)—The charred bodies of foui children were removed from the ruins of their home at McElroy Creek, Tyler County, 15 miles from here, today, following a Are which swept the upper story of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Denton Tennant. The {dead: Vonda, 8; Brooks, 10; Garnet.
this task and rejoin his companions) for the flight to New York in the )
Bremen.
Fitzmaurice is expected to fly to I Murray Bay sometime this morning. ) It is believed he will be met there by |
Miss Herta Junkers and will confer ! with her upon the arrangements to he | I made for the shipment of the replace-
| mont parts.
i There is some talk current that the j German fliers will be taken to Murl ray Bay by a second relief plane reI ported to be headed towards Greenely j 1 Island. At Murray Bay, according to |
PHILADELPHIaT April 18.— ; this rumor, the fliers will go to New ; (INS) - Risking their lives by enter- York in the Junkers F-B), sister ship J ing a burning shack firemen today j of the Bremen which is now at Mon-1
carried out the charred bodies of
7; and Betty Lee, 3.
James Lindsey, 32. World War veterand Andrew Garmley, 35, of Maple Shade, N. J. The wooden structure In which the men had been trapped while asleep was burned to the ground. Origin of the blaze is unknown.
J. K. ( ASH BUYS GRADY PROPERTY; WILL REMODEL I The two-story residence property on south Indiana street, at the corner) of lyiurabee street, was sold Tuesday by the Central Trust Co., administrator of the estate of Hanna Grady and Jennie Grady, to J. E. Cash. Mr. Cash will remodel the building,’ which is a two-story brick, into an apartment house, according to his
present plans.
SHERIFFS KILL MAN IN CHASE OF RUM CARS
SIGMA DELTA CHI KEY AWARDED TO CHARLES ROBBINS
DEPAUW STUDENT HONORED AT FOUNDERS' DAY BANQUET OF ORGANIZATION IN INDIANAPOLIS — FORMER STUDENT ELECTED SECRETARY-TREAS-URER
treal. The F-Ut was brought to Mon-| treal by Herta Junkers and Fred Mel-
chior.
The German fliers have only two al- j
tematives from which to choose^ if THRILLING 60-MILE AN HOUR
RUNNING GUN FIGHT STAGED ON STATE ROAD 67 NEAR MAYWOOD EARLY TODAY—DEAD MAN BEUEVED TO BE CLARK
WILLOUGHBY
they expect to leave the island before ] j the spring thaws. They must either go i by air in the Bremen or in a relief | plane, or they will have to resort to
| dog teams.
SOUTH BEND YOUTH KILLED BY TRAIN SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 18.— (INS)—Robert Hartman, 17, son of a prominent local coal dealer, was instantly killed here today when his automobile was struck by a Grand Trunk train. Hartman’s death was the twenty-first automobile fatality here since January 1.
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE From the Files of THE HERALD 20 Years Ago
To-dey
C. C. Hurst, Alec Lane, Charles Arnold and John McCabe attended a banquet at Rockville lost night in honor of the 105th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. Sam Purcell is reported to be looking up popular summer resorts, preparatory to his annual midsummer'
outing.
Miss Maude O’Hair of Brick Chapel I was in town today on her way to | Crawfordsville to visit friends.
SCHOOL CLOSED BY DISEASE
Dr. Cecil O'Brien, county health officer, reports the following cases of scarlet fever in Washington township: the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Skelton; two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Aker: a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bullcrdick and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Anton. The school has been closed in that vicinity due to the disease.
John Brannani of Cloverdale was in town today on business.
COLLECTS TAXES County treasurer Alva Lisby was in Roachdale, Wednesday, to receive tax payment collections and will be in Russellville Thursday, for the same reason.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 18—(INS) —A fiO-mile an hour automobile chase and running gunfight between deputy sheriffs and alleged liquor hijackers on State Road No. 67 several miles west of Maywood, early today came to a tragic end when a bullet fired by one of the pursuing officers killed j the driver of the fleeing machine. The slain man was believed to be ' Clark Willoughby, 23. His companion,! Orville Day, was arrested. 'About twenty shots were exchanged in the furious chase which started when Deputy Sheriffs Brown and Bell cruising in a high powered car on the lookout for rum cars, spied a machine travelling at high speed with a rifle muzzle protruding from the rear seat according to the officers. This was the second man shot to death by deputy sheriffs within three weeks here in their chases of alleged
rum cars.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 18.—(INS) —“Considerable proficiency in the cleansing of the lowly cuspidor," was the starting )>o.nt of the journalistic and literary career of Meredith Nicholson, distinguished Indiana novelist, h€> told 150 active and alumni members of the Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic fraternity, at the annual Pounders’ Day banquet here last night. Nicholson related a colorful story of past association with James Whitcomb Riley, Bill Nye, Eugene Field, George Ade and other men prominent in literature. The story held the newspaper men enthralled for more
than an hour.
The author warned the fraternity members that the country was in peril “from the interlocking of government and business.” James A. Stuart, managing editor of the Indianapolis Star, and national president of the fraternity also spoke. At the close of the banquet the large alumni chapter of the fraternity elected the following officers: Dudley Smith of the Indianapo'is
News, president.
Jack Cejnar of International News Service, vice-president. Robert C. Anderson of the Indianapolis Star, secretary-treasurer. National officers of Sigma Delta Chi announced that Dixson Trublood of Marion, Indiana, an Indiana University student, and Charles Robbins of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a student at DePauw University, were awarded the scholarship keys of Sigma Delta Chi.
WEATHER FORECAST Unsettled; Warmer. Sunrise, 5.03; Sunset, 6:26.