The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 June 1924 — Page 1
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VOLUME THIRTY-ONE
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1924.
NO. 193
208 ENTER FOR THE NEXT EIGHT WEEKS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY CO-ED I \ILS TO COMMIT SUICIDE ‘
Popular Sorority Member at Indiana Drank (Juanity of Wood Alcohol After lieinj' Criticised
MRS. MARTIN CHAIRMAN OF
GOT A BIG KICK
SPLENDID MATRICULATION FOR DTAIVV SUMMER SCHOOL DURING VACATION PERIOD
good TEACHING STAFF
Headed by Many of the Leading Professors of DePauw and Greencastle High School
DePauw University closed its regular registration period for summer school Saturday with a total of two hundred students enrolled for the twelve weeks course. A large number of teachers returning for summer study after the closing of their teaching year, will arrive within the next two weeks. The enrollment up-to-date consist’ mainly of DePauw students and townspeople, only fifty of the present list being recorded as teachers. Despite this fact, the department of education is by far the most important offered and shows a much heavier registration than other courses due to the fact that many of the regular students are working off requirements for the life license for teachers in Indiana. Courses in Biology and English are also popular.
PHILADELPHIAN
University society circles has had a sensation this week in the attempted I WOMAN HEADS
suicide of a popular co-ed—a member COMMMITTEE FOR FIRST
of one of the leading sororities. The I TIME IN HISTORY attempted suicide is said to have
taken place Monday when the young lady drank a quantity of wood alcohol, i She was only saved from either the loss of her eyes or her life by the immediate discovery of what she had done. Help was summoned from a neighboring house and milk and other counter-activities were used to
save the girl.
CRAWFORDSVILLK, lnd„ June 7 —Herbert Cunningham got a big j i “kick” out of a glass of water at his i
A COMMITTEE ’ ! water faucet when lightening jumped
/ * fr0m an empty light socket above his
. , * 1 h ea( l th 6 stream of "iter. The shock temporarflj paralyzed
his right side.
GATHERING FOR A RIG CONVENTION
AUTO HIT BY TRAIN W IPES OUT A FAMILY
Killed in Crash Near Greenville, Ohio, Friday tn Passenger Train
ADVERTISES BIDS INDIANAPOLIS, June 7-
CLEVELAND IS SEETHING W ITH CONVENTION CROW D GATHERING FROM THE STATES
-Robert
POLITICS IS TALKED
Announcement Made of Her Selection PrePar - By William Butler,' Spokesman : f 1 ' 1 ^ l 'T r n loan of $2,500,000 autnorized b\ the
for President Coolidge i ^ ’ ,
I state finance board.
j The new r loan is to repay the $2,For 500,000 in notes purchased by the Un-
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 7.
the first time in the history of either ion Trust company of Indianapolis on
It is said the attempted suicide was P 0 l'tical party, a woman is to head January 2, for a six months period. caused by criticism of the young lady an important committee of a Repub o and the company she was keeping. lican national committee - | COOLIDGE SIGNS BILLS Out of danger from the alcphol the | On the recommendation of Mrs. Al-, WASHINGTON, Jure 7—President girl was glad that she had not been i v * n T. Hert of Kentucky, who succeeds | Coolidge today signed the following
successful, but was terrified that the Mr*- Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio : bills.
story might get to the University! 11 * v > ce chairman of the national ex-; The bill providing for construction authorities. Later she was informed, ecutive committee, Mrs. Elizabeth D. of a dam on the Gile river in Arizona it is asserted, that it had reached the Martin of Philadelphia, a delegate at 1 at a cost of 5,500,000 to provide irriears of Dean Wells and she immedi-, ^ ar Ke, from Pennsylvania, is to be ; gation water for the Pima Indian reately disappeared from Bloomington. ; ma( * e chairman of the convention ' servation. Senator Ashurst, Arizona, Yesterday the girl’s parents were i eomni ' t ‘ tee an ^ permanent organiza- 1 recommended the dam be named
here from the home in Knox county ; t * t>n - 1 “Coolidge dam.”
and were much alarmed when they j Annouement of Mrs. Martin’s se- J The Foster bill providing' for the could not locate her. They were con-! ection was made by William M. Butler ; appointment of a commission of the tinuing their search. Friends of the . the president’s spokesman in his daily ! secretaries of labor ai 1 interior and
And Main Question Seems to be a \ ice Presidential Candidate. A i Coolidge Ratification < LEV ELAND, Ohio., June 7.— Cleveland today was ready to welcome 1 its first great political convention. An air of expectancy pervaded the city. The Repubican headquarters boiled with activity. Hotels hummed with convention chatter. Already a vast host of strangers were here for the great event. Sunday and Monday trains will lumble into town with the Republican army of delegates from all
parts of the nation.
Tuesday, John T. Adams, chairman ting fire
of the Repubican National Committee,! —o wall raise the convention gavel in ; TO ATTEND CONVENTION
GREENVILLE, 0., June 7—A fast east bound Big Four passenger train wiped cut six members of a family near here la. t night, when a stalled automobile was hit on the crossing at Dawn, nine miles north. The family was that of Adam Pittman, of Bradford, and the dead included Mr. Pittman, Mrs. Pittman, his wife, their son Adolg, his wife and two others, a son Edwin and a daughter Kffie. Another son, Glenn, two years old, is the only survivor of the disas-
ter.
The family was enroute to their home after attending a birthday picnic for the surviving son, and apparently the driver of the car became confused as the car approached the crossing and two men attempted to warn him of the approaching passenger train. He stalled the engine as the car reached the center of the tracks and the train crushed the machine like an egg. As it hit, the gasoline tank on the auto exploded, set-
to the wreckage.
MRS. LARKIN HOLDS NEGRO WITH A GUN
PLUCKY. RESIDENT. OF NORTHWOOD HOLDS YOI NG N1 GRO AFTER HE ENTERED HOME
girl do not believe that she has gone on with her attempted suicide but think she has only left Bloomington because the story leaked out.—Bloom ington Telephone.
Dr. Beyl is again Dean of the Summer School and has under him a faculty consisting of sixteen members. They are: Professors Smith, Lowell, Nichols, Yuncker, Sherman, Gough Tililen, Mitchell, Bundy and Mr. Xulle of the regular faculty; Supt. Kelly, Prin. Busenburg and Miss
Stoops of the Greencastle High {^t^SOCI VF ION
School; Miss Strain, Miss Myers and i Cohen Pierson, who was formerly a | teacher in the Greencastle High j School and was a student at the Uniwsity of Illinois this year where he ms awarded the degree of Master of
[Ms.
WOOL CLIP DID NOT SELL
Cleveland Public Hall.
And, as the gavel falls, perhaps
conferene with newspaper orrespond- ] the attorney general to -elect a site audible to the 13,000 delegates and ents. ^ for the construction of a “national j visitors jammed in the great audio ' 'penal institution for women.” ,torium, more than 1,000 trained vvn-
o — j ters and, for the first time in hib-
, tory, the radio will start reporting .to the world another chapter in
American political history.
ANOTHER VETO
ASKED FOR BIDS I
SATURDAY BUT NONE WAS i
SUBMITTED
The Putnam County Wool Grow-1 ers Association which pool their wool |
. each year, failed to get a bid for,
Mansfield Hall is being used as e ^ e j r en ti re c ijp i Saturday afternoon,;
when bids were asked for at the of- j fice of County Agent McNary. Here-
WASHINGTON, June 7—President; Coolidge vetoed the postal salary increase bill. The bill would have in-1 creased postal salaries of 300,000 * postal employes an average of $200 < each, involving an expenditure of'
about SOO.OOO.OOO.
Attached to the measure as a rider ^ was the Cable corrupt practices bill j [ wqhich would have had provided a I ; complete system of regulation of I campaign expenditures. This also
i killed by the veto.
RED STRIKE IN LONDON
INDIANAPOLIS, June 7—Frederick Van Nuys, Democratic state convention keynote orator will attend the national convention in New York as alternate for Mrs. A. R. Erskine, South Bend, it was announced today. Mrs. Erskine, named Thursday as a delegate at large, is unable to attend.
Cleveland today speeded to completion the last-mi ante preparations
for the convention.
' | The city put on a holiday garb. LABOR PREMIER WILL TAKE The downtown district was decked ACTION TO END SUBWAY (out in miles of red, white and blue WALK-OUT hunting. Flags were flying from i most every lamppost and building.
CONGRESS TO ADJOURN FOR THE SUMMER
J. W. ROBE. IS LOSER
residence hall for women students, hinder the supervision of Mrs. Lola Peyton Heaton of the DePauw faculty, who is acting Dean of Women. Rosa Bower is open to men students
for summer residence.
John W. Rohe, who owns a large farm south east of this city was re-
toforo several bids have been submit-' ported a loser in the electrical storm
ted the Association and the failure I rounding country on Thursday night. was created. The committee wa em
LONDON, June 7.—The British la-
bor government Intervened today in the “red” strike of poweihouso workers which yesterday put most of London’s great net-work of ubway
systems out of commission. A plenary strike committee to deal
with the revolt of the “rank and file” against responsible union leaders who had opposed the walkout,
JURY VENIRE
IS
SPECIAL LIST OF JURORS ANNOUNCED FOR THE
COX TRIAL
The case of Dow Cox, charged with to the delinquency of a local girl is be held soon in the Putnam Cirit Court before special judge Thos. ^ • Hutchison of Brazil. The folinp special venire was drawn Saty morning from which a jury will
selected:
George R. Boyle, Greencastle tp. | Fred Boatman, Monroe tp. John A. Rightsell, Washington tp Carol K. Priest, Monroe tp. Robert Hoffman, Grreencastle tp
H. D. Goodwin, Floyd.
Emery Collings, Jefferson tp. Harry A. Alter, Marion tp. Clarence Rowings, Madison. George Aker, Washington tp. Edward Stoney, Monroe. John L. Bridges, Franklin tp. • Prank E. Peck, Greencastle tp. P- R. Christie, Greencastle. Charles Heath, Washington tp. T M. Roberts, Washington tp. L James F. Elliott, Warren tp. Prank Sutherlin, Warren.
o
OPEN CHURCH BIDS
j to get a hid this year was a surprise
j to the producers.
j The price is reported approximateI ly 30 cents per pound and the Put- ! nam county clip will total about 2,000
ITtO A f' eecos - • Tn ' in W. Robe, chairman of UKAWIN tlie Association, asked that each man
! hold his wool and this was agreed to,
and each member was appointed as a
IS committee of one to write some buyer seeking prices for the Putna mclip. ' If any are received, an effort will be made to sell the pool next Saturday. It was said wool is selling for 33 cents at Russellville and 30 cents in Fillmore. No quotation for Green-
castle was made.
which struck Greencastle and surMr. Robe has five head of cattle killed when the lightning struck a tree near where the cattle were standing. Two of the cattle were killed togetlied while the other three were scattered over the lot.
r powered by Premier MacDonaM to
“take any necessary steps.’
Merchants had their store windows scoured and place their newest stocks in pleasing airay to catch the eve, j for it is well ‘known that with a national convention comes a deluge of gold. It is estimated that more than half a million dollars will be spent here next week. | Scores of venders counted their renewed stocks of noveltie . Strange j out-of-the-state faces thronged the 1 streets—official-looking men, hand- 1
HAD FORGED CHECKS
Theodore Kdmunaon, Entered Larkin Home While Mrs. Larkin Was at the Hospital
BOTH HOUSES WILL TAKE VACATION BEGINNING TO-
NIGHT AT 7 P. M.
Theodore Edmunson, colored, of Indianapolis, but formerly of Greencastle, was arrested by Sheriff Leslie Sears Saturday morning at 10 o’clock after the young man had broken into the O. J. Larkin home on Northwood Boulevard. Mrs. Larkin had gone to the County Hospital, and upon her return to her home found the colored man in the house in an upstairs bedroom. At first sight of Mrs. Larkin Edmunson started to run, but a 38 calibur revolver in her hands soon brought him to a stop. She then commanded him to be seated in a chair while she called the sheriff. Then Mrs. Larkin marched her prisoner out on the front porch where they awaited the arrival of the officers. He was placed in jail to await trial. When taken to the jail and searched. the officers found a forged check in Edmundson’s pocket for $22 payable to him and signed by Ellen Ewing, stewardess at the Theta house. A blank check with the name of Miss Ewing printed on it was found in another pocket. It is said that Edmunson asked neighbors if there was anyone at the Larkin home before he forced his way into the house. The police are working on other clews before an affidavit will be filed.
ATTORNEYS ARE BUSY
! somely gowned women, gaudily dres-
Leonard Akehurst, secretary of the . . .... , ;gars. VU were ii
unofficial strike committee, annoui < »?d ,
show
this morning that the strike was ^ ‘ more successful than ever and might
be expected to spread to other cities , * )t t "' <,on
j and predictions of city officials that .the convention will be “bone’’ dry. Rumor said the city will ho the
JAP CABINET RESIGNS
TOKFO, June 7—The Japanese cabMAY CONVENE IN SEPT. • inet of Premier Kayorea resigned late j today. It is Thought an Extra Session May j Tl,e action ' vas a r ‘ ,; ' u,t of iV recent Be Necessary Then. Regul elections in which Kayorea’ i
Meeting in December
| Viscount Kato, leader of the Ken-
seikai party, may attempt to form
a cabinet.
today.
MINERS DIE IN CAVE-IN
CHICAGO, June 7—Both state and defense in the trial of Nathan Leo- | pold and Richard Loeb, confessed slayers of 14-year old Robert Franks, today were digging trenches from which they are to stage the greatest legal battle in Chicago’s criminal his-
tory.
While State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe and his battery of aides were preparing two “air tight” cases against the two young intellectuals,
BOYS CAMP WILL OPEN
WASHINGTON. June 7— Congress adjourns tonight for the summer. The session the first of the fifith congress which began amid stormv
was a wide va>inner today scenes and raged through six month
is going out in the mildest fashion
at 7 p. m.
Members will scatter to the conventions and then to their states to prepare for the convention. There is some talk of an extra session in September but they will await
CLEVELAND TO HAVE A STRIKE
wettest in history and that liquor in almost unlimited quantities will be
available.
j STREET CAR WALK-OUT MAY H VNDICAP THE REPUBLK AN CONVENTION
EXCELLENT COURSE OFFERED AT CAMP ROOSEVELT FOR OUR YOUNG LADS
A chance is offered to boys from • all parts of the country to enjoy the)
Safety Director Edwin Barry still developments of the campaign. Their held to his forecast that the conven- next regular meeting is scheduled for tion will be “the dried in history.’' Deember 1. Finishing touches in the decora- ( 0
tion of Cleveland Pull' Hall, where the convention will be called to order next Tuesday, were be'ng rushed to-
day.
The great auditorium—simply
an
DURBIN IN A REFUSAI
finest kind of summer’s outing a*, elongated howl with a roof covering
ANOTHER TERRIBLE MINE TRAGEDY HAS OCCURRED IN
PENNSYLVANIA
—one a charge of murder, the other Camp Roosevelt, on Silver Lake, Ind 'L is draped outside ! in of kidnaping for ransom, parents of iana, for $10.00 a week. This cam; . J na tional colors. The auditorium wi! 1 the two boys made a strong bid for which is conducted under government j * eat more than 13,000.
supervision as an auxiliary of
th’’ : leading to the Public Hall, is a veri-
and red, white
FORMER INDIANA GOVERNOR EEFI SES TO ATTEND REPI R LIC AN NATIONAL MEETING
public sympathy
Should Leopold and Loeb be ac- Chicago summer school system, af- table arch of flags
quitted of the murder charge, “or j fords boys from 10 to 16 opportun- and blue bunting, even be found insane,” the state will ity to take part in either the R.O.T.C.
on
Pa., June 7— dead, three en- 1
I tombed with little chance of being 1 r y death penalties. ] swimming and surf-board riding, or*rescued, and seven others are in the j A brief statement, the first official ' campcraft, morning hours devoted to The hall is lighted
hospital today in a serious condition | word from the defense, was made lessons for those who desire to earn of 200 watts each of v.hite light, lo-
the result of an explosion of gas public last night by ' "
■ WILKESBARRE. Eleven miners are
INDIANAPOLIS, June 7—Ropubli-.
Inside the building the seats, rising can state headquarters today with-
j immediately demand a new trial on (military), the summer school or th- one above the other tl stadium , the kidnapping indictment, it was said Junior Camp Divisions. The pro- like oval structure, st, out in black at Crowe’s office. Both charges car- gram includes athletics of all kind relief amid festoons
national col-
in the Loomis mine of the Glen A!- two boys . The fathers, Nathan Leo- 1 home school in den Coal Company, in Hanover town- pold, Sr., president of the Morris | exercises, and
ship.
held any comment on the refusal of Winfield Durbin, former governor of Indiana to attend the Republican national convention at Cleveland as a
delegate at large.
Durbin was one of the delegates
fathers of the credit for advanced standing in their cated behind a field <> glass panels nanl1 * nl " ' ' “‘
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 7—A strike that will paralyze street car traffic, beginning at midnight next Tuesday, the day the Republican convention gets under way was voted almost unanimously by motormen and conductors of the Cleveland railroad company early today. Decision to strike followed refusal of the street car company to grant a tw r elve cent an hour increase with 15 minutes pay for making out accident reports, which was awarded by a majority vote of an arbitration boar). Maximum pay would be increased from 60 to 72 cents. Day crews voted to strike at a meeting last night. The night crews ratified the decision to strike at a meeting at 1:30 today. The vote was 1,587 to 532.
at large was increased to 14 and each given one-half a vote because of
the fall, setting-ur. in the ceiling 80 feet above the floor, entertainment pro-j More spectacular is the scheme of
Paper Box Company, and Albert H.' grams. | colored lights. There are amber, red inability _ ot hepu . man factions to Rescue w., M frugally | ta £!
declared he
..|J oears-lweuuuiv cum VyUIIipauy, l • oupci* V in mv. ~
night to reach the men suu | themseWes to make no attenipt to Junior Camp, while his older brother | a dimmer, so that a -oft amber or
tombed but a cave-in following the
’'V committee on remodeling the \ explosion, held them back and today hstian Church held a meeting Fri-! little hope was held out that any of - evening at which time bids for them would be found alive,
lew heating plant were received
■ <>
defeat justice.”
ONE KILLE IN AUTO CRASH
were
considered. The committee conP of Dr. W. R. Hutcheson, W. J. ro, i’ E. R. Bartley, Luther Easter r harles Rector. Three bids were Reived. They were from O. A. NIpo, Terre Haute; W. J. Beemer ! td Richard Cowgill, of this city. *° bids were submitted by each on ’‘Por steam and Airtight steam.
NEGRO WAS CONVICTED
■will learn how to stand upright and : brilliant red may diffuse the great how to obey promptly the orders ! chamber. The lights are so arranged givqn by officers and norl'ommissioned | that a section of the hall may be 'officers of the U. S. army detailed blocked off in white light, a second : to the camp by the War Department [ section in red and a third in blue or In an f or this purpose. ; amber. Or, the colors may be comThe summer shool division includes binod to produce various tints and
did not want to go to Cleveland and cast only half a vote for the renomi-
nation of Prc Merit Coolidge. Durbin said Wililam Meerches, of
Amlerson, an eighth district delegate
also would not attend.
HISTORIAN PASSES AWAY
WRITER OF THE AUTHORITATIVE HISTORY OF INDIANA IS DEAD
SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 7.-
attempt to avoid a collision with
another auto, John Knight, 35, drove ^.venth and eighth grade and com-, shades.
his auto over an embankment late pjete high school courses. Lights placed about 12 feet apart yesterday. Major F. L. Beals, U, S. A., who under the lower balconies illuminate .... . T louden a The ^ ar turne '’ over tw >ce, killing 0C j U pi es t h e position of supervisor of , tbe arena.
k Inrlinnnnolis police ^ rs - > Charles KJettke and seriously physical and military training in the' A P'P e or g an of 10.600 pipes and of the P ■ injuring Knight and three other oc-jChicago public high schools, is a well 150 direct speaking stops will furnish
j known leader among workers with. mU8 ' c during the convention. | boys. He is at the head of Camp, The stage upon which high offie-
1 Roosevelt, and his long experience : ials of the government will occupy at his home in McClarry, Washington, i In boy education has made him an|tbe seats of honor and from which The Pall bearers, were as follows, — 'ideal head for such a big democratic 1 they “keynote” and nominating speech Roy Abrams, E. R. Bartley, O. L.
Increasing cloudiness. Probably i j ns titution. Major Beals keeps in or speeches will be made is exceed- Reeves, William Graham, Reece Mater a dvisement and did not award'j, ours deliberation. Twenty-four bal- followed by showers late tonight orU ouc j, ^th eac h boy entrusted to his 1 iugb’ spacious, measuring 104 by 50 son and Vernon Robinson. The short •fcntract Friday evening. i ots were taken before a verdict was Sunday. Not much change i n tem- carc and is never too busy to go I I service was ir. charge of Rev. Levi reached. “ perature. 4 thoroughly into each individal’s case. (Continued from Page three) Marshall.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., June 7 — Convicted of second degree murder for the killing of Jesse Louden,
member of the Indianapolis P°* ,v - v injuring Knight „
—a j-urnKin, force, Charles Henry, colored, t0 a V C p an t s 0 f the car. bids were as follows: Mr. Toelleo ; awaited sentence of lift inipn. < n ™ ea ^ or . $5246; Airline, $4770; Mr. jin the state prison at Michigan City. I r mer - Va Por, $3987; Airline, $3489;! The j ury in the trial of Henry fouijd >
Cowgill, Vapor $4492; Airline, 1 j,; m g U nty and reommended life imThe committee took the bids | pri SO nment late yesterday after 24
JOHN MORRIS FUNERAL
The body of John Morris, who passed aw’ay Sunday afternoon arrived in this city Friday night. The body was taken to the Forest Hill cemetery where a short service was held at the grave this afternoon at 2:30
o’clock.
Mr. Morris died Sunday afternoon
THE WEATHER.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 7—After an illness of only a few days, Jacob Piatt Dunn, Indiana historian, died here last night. He returned from Washington a week ago where he was serving as secretary to Senator Ralston suffering with an attack of jaundice and a severe cold. Dunn was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, April 12, 1855. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan and had practiced law and done newspaper work in Indianapolis for a number of years. His history of Indiana published in 1888 was considered an authoritative work.