Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 November 1928 — Page 1
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VOLUME 23
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1928
THE HOME PAPER
. New York chorus girls today are selected for intelligence as well us beauty. And present-day salaries attract a different sort- In one musical show which is noted for its beautiful women there are two girls from wealthy families in the mid-west, one from a society finishing school and a fourth who up to a month agt) was a ro.tived Sunday school teacher upstate. There is no more $25-per chorus girl and there are few appear-
ing in the better class ~
CENSOR CREW OF ILL-FATED LINER
LOCAL ATHLETE HAS WITHDRAWN FROM SCHOOL
Raymond Sears, former high school track star, has withdrawn from DePauw University where he is a sophomore, it was learned Wednesday. Mrs. Alex Sears, mother of the noted distance runner, said that
GAS COMPANY OFFICIAL IN ADDRESS HERE
SCULL TO SPEAK
C. S. Scull, department commander of the Sons of Veterans, will address the Sons of Veterans at the Fire Department Council chambers Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. All members are urged to be present.
Sears was working at home. She said
Broadway j she thought he intended to return to
shows who haven’t something left | school the next semester. over at the end of the week for thej —
savings account-
HOLD NO HOPE FOR MISSING PASSENGERS
BATTEN AND DEVORE AMONO LOST PASSENGERS
LIFE BOATS OF SUNKEN VESTRIS WERE SWAMPED
CITY COUNCIL PETITIONED TO OPEN NEW STREET
T. J. KELLY OF NORTHERN INDIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COM-
PANY SPEAKS TO LOCAL ROTARY CLUB AT WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON
TELLS
IMPROVEMENTS
You remember last summer I told you about going down to Martinsville to see a herd of Jersey Heifers, owned by Horace Abbott, county agent of Vigo county, and breeder of registered Jersey cattle. You remember, no doubt, that after hours of tramping
around in the hot sun trying to corn- _ er the heifers, we gave up in utter dcs j j Sneak ini? before the Greencastle nair and returned home with only a DANIEL C. BRACKNEY SEEKS TO 1 „ . . . (,r ^ nc “ atle pan ana iciuincu uuuic wim umy a u.y-p Rimnnur rnmc vr i Rotary Club at its noon day luncheon
INSTALL NEW CABLES AT BAINBRIDGE
— CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS BELIEVES MISSING OF SUNKEN SHIP VESTRIS ARE
DEAD
Local automobile race fans will be | interested to know that a revised list of Vestris passengers and crew unaccounted for aboard the four rescue ships, compiled at the Lamport and [
Holt office in New York, contained | the names of Norman K. Batten, of GRIM FACTS OF TRAGEDT AT SEA Dayton, O., and Earl F. Devore, of BROUGHT TO PORT BY SUR-
SURVIVORS REACH NEW YORK
Los Angeles, well known automobile racing drivers. Batten will be remem bered for his heroism in a flaming car in the 11(27 500-mile race at Indianapolis.
(Assures Greencastle Consumers Of First Class Service In Future— New Mains And Tanks
Installed
TELEPHONE COMPANY MAKES BIG IMPROVEMENT IN APPEAR- 1 ANCE OF CITY BY REMOVAL OF I ALL OUTSIDE WIRES AND POL-
ES
(Large Number of Children Included
Among Missing—217 of 328 Aboard Have Been Ac-
counted For
fleeting glance at the said cows. Bob Stevenson, our own county agent, was j with me and it took both of us to see i those heifers. Bob would say: “Here they come" and I would say: “There they go-” Now this after Mr- Abbott who was along that day had told me that they were gentle , quiet little things and we would have no trouble in getting near them. Well, this is all preliminary, to what I want to tell
™^EN mSfsiiS AN!)! « f jC hr i st i a n Chu rch Wednesday, j MELROSE AVENUE MADE AVAIL r 1 ;,:'- K ‘ l y ' Ke ". eral x, ABLE BY OPENING OF STREET ! ° f U '“ southern dlv,s,on of the Norlh - 1
nainhridge will be Improved In ap-
Nov. 14.—(INS) — that Captain Carey
— OTHER MATTERS COUNCILMEN
BEFORE
pearance by the installation o; new telephone cables hv the Bainbridge
ern Indiana Public Service Company, | Telepone Company. The Telephone
system at Bainbridge with the excep
A petition of Daniel C. Brackney and Sarah Brackney for the opening of a street, from Higert street south to Melrose avenue, through the Braca
you today. This morning I had a nice | ney pasture lot was tabled by the cityletter from my friend. Mr. Abbott, injcouncll Tuesday evening without acwhich he tells me that he would like jtion. Councllmen will Investigate the me to go to the same farm, on which j proposed street opening and grant or reamed the wild herd of Jersey hflif* I turn down tin- request at the next
ers, and look at a bull. Can you imag j meeting.
ine that- So I sits me down to my
It is said Mr. Backney desires to.
trusty typewriter and pens him a (have the street opened through his hasty reply, in which I said some- pasture lot in order to make available thing like this and more- I says, to for building sites, the land which Abbott, says I, in part as follows, to wou i () | ace the new street, wit: "If it is the same “bull” you had a petition of J. G. Cole to build a last summer when I went with you to ' 20-apartment building on lots 2C and see the heifers, I’ll not bite. What is 27 on east Washington street, was
the answer?" Right now I am pondering whether to take a chance on a trip to Martinsville or not. For if the
granted by the council members. The lot has already been surveyed and the large brick apartment building
bull- is correspondingly as gentle will be started soon. H. C. Callender
as the heifers—well I am no "Bull lighter” and I know Bob Stevenson does not desire to assume the role of a “toreador"—or, however, you spell the name of the man who waves a red shawl at the bull to get him SO mad. But there is one thing certain, if I do go down to see that bull I am going to wear my running shoes or
ride a horse.
The Weather—Not so good for B.
D. Vs.
Here’s to the winter, I love it Here's to the cold, wind and snow The zero, days, Oh, how I love them When they are bout 16 below. Here's to the old fashion undies
Ked Flannels that keep the cold out hiial certificate on Washington atreet Tis true, they sure irritate you ' was $4,573.29 and on College avenue
But keep 'way colds and gout. $4,1 42.40.
Jr., of this city, is architect for the
new structure.
Included In the claims allowed by the council members were a Anal pay ment of $3,685 for the new file truck bought from the General Maim factoring Company of St. Louis; an I $185 to Edgar Blessing, attorney for the city in the recent water rate hearing before the Public Service Cominis
sion.
Assessment rolls on the College avenue and east Washington street Improvements were filed by the city engineer. Property owners cun see the rolls at the city Clerk's office. Final certificates of payment to the contractor, W. E. Pickens, for the two streets were also authorized. The
Here's to the ice and tne sleet storms Hut, honestly folks, this is bunk Foi really its' summer I like folks For when wintes time comes I am
"sunk.”
A preliminary resolution for vui lion of an alley in south Greencastle
said:
“We were very much pleased to receive the invitation to speak before'
NEW YORK | Another belief
land Radio Chief O’Loughlin perished j when the Vestris foundered as voiced lover the air today in a radio mesi sage from the steamship Voltaire,
tion of
., , i i sister hip of the ill-fater lined. The
the switchboard has been en-
tire members of the Rotary Club relative to the improvements to the gas plant at Greencastle. A couple of
months ago, when the Greencastle, bri(|(?e patrons. All poles and over-
message said:
fourl “Makeshift raft still missing and , I probably broken up. We now crossways trom the mam office supply 1 telephone connections to all Bain-
I tirely replaced.
Underground cables leading
plant was tinned to us for operation, we made a trip down here and after a superficial inspection and a tala with Mr. Burkhalter, the local manager, relative to conditions in Greencastle, we were very much surprised that the local company had any customers. The Gas Company at Greencast'e had not progressed with the i
rest of your city.
“In driving about, wo found homes j the equal of homes in any town in j which we operate. The spirit of pro- | gress was in evidence everywhere except with the local gas company. We found that the former policy of! the company was that the manager | be in other businesses in addition to the gas company. Our company be- j
lieves that if we center our effects on 'DIRECTOR
giving the citizens of Greencastle gas service equal to that which is enjoy- j ed by the citizens of Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne or any other large city in Indiana, that the furniture and other dealers will bo able to take care of your require-
ments in their line of business. “We found many things
soon
is
head wires will lie removed
as the new underground system
put into service this week.
Former city marshal David Braden has been connected with the installation of the underground cable systems at Bainbridge and at Wave-
land.
ling track of disaster; not yet seen I anything around except the seareners, I Looks like Captain and Radio Opei -
jator went down with ship.”
MARTINDALE TO ADDRESS FARM BUREAU
BRITISH WOMEN DEFEATDEPAUW COEDS IN DEBATE
OF ORGANIZATION
WORK TO SPEAK IN ASSEMBLY ROOM OF COURT HOUSE SATURDAY—EVERYONE IS INVITED
and necessary before you could have what is known as bang-up service 1 free from interruption. In the first! place, repairs had not been kept up,
Putnam County Farm Bureau members and others interested in Farm Bureau work, are invited to attend the annual meeting of the local
lacking! Farm Bureau organization in the As-
sembly Room of the Court House Saturday afternoon, beginning at
1:30 o’clock.
An address by W. T. Martindale, of
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—(INS) —Admiral C. F. Hughes, chief of naval operations, informed International News Service today that he regard
ed the rescue of further living mem- hal1 UM ' U ' r h ; lmUiU ' ,uk ‘ s -
hers of the crew or passengers from the sunken Vestris as “practically
impossible.”
“The weather was not awfully cold following the wreck,’’ Admiral Hughes said, “but I do not believe any survivors could have escaped drowning in the high seas which have been running since the wreck.” Hughes declared the Wyoming | I would be kept in the vicinity of the I disaster as long as there was even a I faint possibility of further rescue. He was awaiting a report from Vice Ad- | miral M. M. Taylor, fleet commander j on the Wyoming before issuing in- ! structions as to how much longer the rescuing battleship would remain on
the scene.
He considered it extremely unlike1 ly however, that the Wyoming would remain longer than dusk today.
AUDIENCE GIVES VISITING ENGLISH GIRLS 414 TO 220 DECISION —PRESIDENT OXNAM PRESIDES AT CONTEST IN MEHARRY
HALL
By an audience vote of 414 to 220, the English women’s debating team defeated the DePauw team Tuesday night in Meharry Hall, on the question, "Resolved, that Democratic governments must depend upon an appeal to prejudice rather than to reason." The result to a certain extent avenged the defeat on December 7, 1927, of the British men in the same
However,
the vote for DePauw last year was by a greater margin than that yesterday,
being 461 to 181.
Miss Nancy Samuel, of Oxford, open ed the debate for the affirmative. She stated that reason must be based on fuels and that the facts in any o.ie political question ol today ur>- too much for the average mind to grasp. Also, they usually are not interested, so party managers are forced to excite
VIVORS OF ILL-FATED
J.INER
NO DISCIPLINE AMONG CREW Women and Children Co down with Boats—Delay in Sending Out First S. 0- S. Call By International News Service One hundred and fifty survivors from the sunken liner Vestris were landed at New York today by two rescue ships. The American Shipper had on board 127 passengers and members of the crew; the German liner Berlin carried 23 survivors, including five passengers and 18 seamen. The French tankship Myriam with i an indefinite quota of survivors is I due at New York late tonight. A recheck at noon nut the number of persons unreportid, at from 105
to 115.
By DAVID P. SENTHF.R I. N. S. Staff Correspondent NKW YORK, Nov. 14.—Of the first three life boats that put off from the stricken Lamport and Holt liner Vestris containing women and children, two sank and one capsized. While the launching of the boats was in progress the Vestris turned over in the water and panic-stricken passengers climbed from the water upon the keel, clinging there until the hulk sank. These grim facts were brought to port today by the five passengers and 18 seamen who were snatched from death by the North German Lloyd liner Berlin. It was the old order of the sea— "women and children first”—that
emotions and prejudices to get votej. | cost so many lives among the women For instance Prime Minister Stanley { and children on the liner. And it was
the irony of fate that the order which usually is the salvation of women and children should have brought them doom in the foundering of the Ves-
tris.
The survivors on the Berlin
Baldwin of Great Britain was ••locied on the strength of u common brlai
pipe.
lit defining the terms of the debate Miss Lillian Dale of DePauw cited rare prejudice as an example of that
term, ineauing the feeling of superior-I brought a grewsome picture of the
at the plant. At considerable expense ! Indianapolis, well known here and we have had some of our best engin- | man who has been connected with the eers from our larger properties here Farm Bureau since its beginning, in Greencastle for weeks past, assis-! will he the principal speaker. Mr. ting Mr. Burkhalter in putting the 1 Martindale is now director of Farm manufacturing plant in shape. Bureau organization work in Indiana. “Another matter that required ini- A report of the year’s business and
mediate attention was that of a reliable gas supply. The gas storage in
The alley separates lots owned by A. ! L. Nichols. Mr. Nichols was also ! given a permit to erect a house on i he
I vacated alley and lots.
Here is one that conies to me un- no action was taken on a plea of solicited through the mails: “The ' t j, e c ity clerk for additional funds for leason Ed- Eiteljorge got so many vot- ! advertising purposes, fs lot Sheriff was that the women all The council discussed at length a put a cross in the circle containing K i tual i un 0 n south Indiana street the rooster because they believed they ! which is holding up the assessment
was confirmed without modification. Greencastle was inadequate for the
needs of your community. We immediately let a contract with the Stacey Mfg. Co. of Cincinnati for the erection of a tank for the storage of gas. This tank is now about completed. It is 20 feet in diameter, 70 feet long
election of officers will be other features of the program now being arranged. Present officers of the local organization are Raymond Wright, president; Paul Alliin, secretary, and Andrew Stoner, treasurer.
NKW YORK, Nov. 14.—(INS)— Out of the tale of horror which came up from the sea today the outstanding note of tragedy was the large number of little children, helpless against the surge of storm and human strife for life, who are missing from the lost Lamport and Holt liner Y< stris. Of the 105 persons not reported today about a score of them were children, whese parents a.so were passmgets tn the ill fated ship. Tiie first of the survivors, still shak en by their battle against death tn
ity as one color or one culture ovc :h3 others, the sentiment which has always underlain wars. As to reason, she quoted Professor James T. Shut well as saying that "democratic guv - erninents have just begun to realize that they can perpetuate themselves only by an appeal to reason.” Defining deinoeiatle governments as tb.agencies which control the affairs oti
tragedy which followed the launching of the open boats. The passengers, while on shipisiard and in the face of danger, remained calm. But panic followed the disaster to the life boats
in the water.
As the rolling seas swamped and sank two of the boats and the other turned over keel up screams of agonized fear came from the water—filled
the state, she cited American admin-1 with wreckage and struggling forms
| darkness and fog on the turbulent Rev. Victor L. Raphael, pastor of Atlantic, arrived here this morning
and will store approximately 60.000 the Presbyterian Church, has been at the North German Lloyd liner feet of gas. This is a full day’s sup- j tending the retreat of Protestant Berlin. They brought with them a
were voting for the safeguarding of the chickens of the county ” Enough
said.
Governor A1 Smith, in his radio talk last night, certainly stamped him self as the big man, the Democratic leaders claimed during the camcampaign. Mr. Smith in his talk urged the Democrats to stand solidly behind Hoover in his administration. He declared it was his party’s duty to carry on »nd vindicate the principals for which it had fought. It is an interest- ■ n g fact that the Republican victory was not as crushing as the press of the country indicated, for a change ol 10 percent of the votes cast would have given a Democratic victory- A change of 10 percent of 50 miUion v otes. would have been sufficient to elect Mr. Smith to the presidency. r,) GRANADA THEATRE PATRONS The Granada Theatre will not give a program tonight account installing a new heating plant, but the regular program will be shown Thursday as u *ual.
roll on this street. A high place in the pavement near Beveridge stree*. Is causing water to back up In yards. Mayor Charles McGaughey recommended that the city engineer take the street committee and view the sPuatlon before the next council meet-
ing.
REXCRASKBUYS RANDE1GARAGE
Rex Crask, local garage man, announced Wednesday that he had purchased the Thomas Randel garage building at Jackson ami Columbia streets, and would take possession November 16. He will continue with general repair work and battery service and will also have available much storage spacqq THE WEATHER Rain probably tonight and Thursday. Warmer tonight and cooler
Thursday.
ply for your town. It would be well worth anyone’s time to go down and take a look at this mammoth tank as you can scarcely visualize the proportions of same from a mere de-
scription and figures.
“We also found that the distribution system of pipes was inadequate for Greencastle. The system was probably old at the time when Green- j castle was more or less of a village, and when DePauw had a couple ot hundred students. This required immediate attention. We have laid some new gas mains and repaired others and know that today we are in position to give you a service such as you have never enjoyed before, but I might say in passing that while we feel that these improvements have put Greencastle on a par with other towns, we also feel that when the citizens of Greencastle become acquainted with the fact that they have a sufficient supply of gas at any time during the day and every day in the year that they will turn again to using this superior fuel which no doubt some of them gave up in the
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ministers at Indianapolis for the past: narrative both thrilling and‘pathetic.
three days. 20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE From tho Pilot of THM HERALD M0 Ytmo Ago
To-Uy
Evans Brothers will begin their moving picture show tomorrow night on the east side of the square in the room formerly occupied by Warden’s
Bakery.
| The Berlin reached quarantine at, 1 5:45 a. m. and prepared to proceed as ] quickly as possible to her pier where j relatives awaited the refugees from
| the Vi stris.
United States Navy and coastguard ships reported by wireless at daybreak that they were still conn*' ing the surface of the sea at the scene of the tragedy, 275 miles off the Virginia Shoals. But up to 7:30
ist rat ions and British and French cab nets and asked whether they need ed prejudice to perpetuate themselves. “Democracy is designed to satisfy prejudices. Who says that reason and wisdom reside in all men?” said Miss Leonora Lockhart, of Cambridge, s“ r - ond British speaker. "The myth *iia» public education is the solution is dispelled by Psychology, which teat lies that half the people have the nn ntallty of fourteen-year-olds*’. Miss Helen Stokes, second DePauw speaker cited examples from both Eng lish and American tiistory where governments and people had been ruled by reason, saying that bait pre judice prevailed, neither England nor Germany would have had part in the Locarno treaty. She concluded with the question “How do you tell wheth] ci a vote is bused on reason or pre-
judice?”
Miss Margery Sharpe of London
o’clock this morning they had not re-1 University, was the hit of the even-
ported the discovery of either sur-
vivor- or dead.
A revision of figures by the Lam1 port and Holt line, owners of the Ves-
| tris, put the number of persons The Acts of Gov. Hanly’s special 1 on hoard the lost ship at 328—129
legislative session has been received in printed form at the Clerk’s office.
Reese Matson who has been absent from “The Model” for the past several days on account of illness, has returned to work.
Who will next be appointed Postmaster in Greencastle is a question which is being asked by many just now.
passengers and 199 members of the crew. Of this number 217 were picked up by four ships. Six persons are known to be dead. This left 105 persons, including nearly 20 children, still missing. The quotas on the rescue ships are: American Shipper, 123. Myriam, 64. Berlin, 22. Wyoming, 8.
lug. and kept the audience luughliig at her witticisms. She answered Miss Stokes’ question by saying “But they never vote by reason.” She computed politics as a hobby with her own hobby of goldfish, saying that she nev er tried to make people take interest In goldfish, although. "A gold fish ii so much more attractive than a politician.” People are Interested in politics because they have some oth i' Interest, and "The persons who likes politics for politics’ sake is a tare bird, and deserves a place in the mus-
eum with the mammoth."
"Democracy is based on the oppor-
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of women and children. Carlos Quires, Chancellor of the Argentine embassy, Washington was strong in censure of the life saving operations on the sinking Vestrrn. "I was astonished," said Quiro=, “at the lack of discipline among the crew of the Vestris at the launching of the life boats. The work was very slow and sloppy. “One boat they got lowered had a big hole in it. The crew started nailing and patching it up. It sank within from 50 to 60 feet of the ship. "All the boats wrro overloaded. Twenty-five persons in one was am-
ple.
“I started to get in a boat which I think was number eight. I got one foot in and saw it was overloaded so I stepped back and leaiied into the sea.” Quiros was later picked up by life1 boat number thirteen after swimming in the sea for some time. There were 23 others in boat number 13, he said. While he swam about in the wreckage-filled sea, Quiros said he saw many people swimming neat him. O. L. Maxey, of Richmond, Va., a survivor on the Berlin, and other passengers also criticized the slowness of the crew in getting the open boats into the sea. They said it requir ed two hours to lower four life boats. “If the first SOS had been s«-n» out the night before I believe there would have been no occasion for loss of life," said Maxey. Maxey told what he had learned of (Please Turn to Page 3) Continuation D