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ME THIRTY-SIX.
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. MONDAY, JANUARY 2. 1928.
No. 66.
DEST NEW AR’S SINCE fEAR OF 1864
\ HM’n NEW YEAR.
A MINIMI M OE SEVEN EES RELOW ZERO WAS RECORDED. .
M OE TEN DECREES um of Eive Decrees Was hv Government Instru-
Vt Fire Department.
lie radieal change in weath* bits of Grecnca.stle and Put* hty, experienced one of the in many years Sunday, to Dr. G. W. Bence, New Ly this year was the coldest years wKh the exception of
r ’s Dn> in 180-1.
date the thermometer retminimum of twenty-live deIbw zero. On the two days that cold spell, the Weatherly waim and changed over was not .he coldest day time, but was the coldest r’~ Day. Friday was warm trcnry Saturday was fairday changing early in the ; mercury kept on its trend until a minimum of es below zero recorded on lorning, by the overnment i at the Fire Department, the morning and early in oon the temperature lose tinium f ten oegrees a'oov .• recorded. However, the pcceded Sunday night and day morning and the minirecorded at five degrees heDOES ' EN TUE& L
The Daily Banner, like every other business in this community, is starting on another new year. 1R27 was a short year, according to the way we think the time passed. We hope the new year will bring prosperity and happiness to our readers and to the community in general. The Daily Banner is starting 1R28 with the largest circulation in the history of its thirty-five years of continuous service in the community. The Banner goes into practically every home in the community. To the subscribers and to our advertisers, the following figures may he of more than passing interest: Our Circulation 2100
MARINES WERE ATTACKED BY ARMED BANDITS
BANDITS IN NICARAGUA ATTACK SOLDIERS WITH MILITARY PRECISENESS.
EIVE
W ERE
KILLED
OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOO rvnt T n A HI I A TB'Q HOURLY TEMPERATURE o L/lU Vjl\/\UU A I FaU
in Philippines
» .- r ENJOY BANQUET
!> a. m 3!j'
10 a. m 4' 11 a. m 4% EVENING OF HOOS1EU HOSPI12 m 6 1 1 TALITY ENJOYED AT GOV1 p. m 7'j ERNOR’S PALACE. 2 p. m 8 Vi"
EUGENE GILMORE WAS HOST
NEW YORK IS CRIPPLED BY ZERO WEATHER
MISSIONS IN CITY WERE ALL FILLED ALL DAY SUNDAY-
MUCH SUFFERING.
Besides The Five Fatally Twenty Three Soldiers Were Wounded—Attack Surprise.
THE WEATHER
Increasing cloudiness. Not so cold
Injured gm} M ,uth portion* tanUrht. Tues
day pn bahly snow and not so cold
extreme sou.h portion.
Vice-Governor of Philippines Mas Graduated With Honors From
DePauw University.
Greencastlc Cloverdale Putnamville Fillmore Dainbridgv .*. .. Limedale Mi tor Route (North . . Motor Route (South) . Coatesville Rural Routes Mail, other than above Counter Sales (■rand Total
. 1385 68 . . 20 . . 58 .. 4<i . 21 ,. 51 . 61 .. 31 . 475 . 200 . 16 .2100
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA, Jan. 2 (UP)—The Military preci.-ncss by
FIRE DESTROYS CITY HALL OF SHELBYVILLE
8100,000 DAMAGE REPORTED IN CONFLAGR VITON SUNDAY— DISCOVERED EARLY.
THIS M EEK’S WEA THER
Fair first half of week with period
which bandits attacked a group of 1 of snows or tains about middle and United State- Maiines—killing five again at end <>f week: decidedly coll and wounding 23—caused officer.- to. at beginning, moderately cold duiing wonder today whether the bandits middle, and warmer at end of week. had not had advantage of training
from other than native forces.
After repotts of the engagement at Quilali hud been received by officeis here, they studdied to see if the \v II regulated and systematic way iro which bandits fought the Marines did not show outside aid In tiaining. Howevir, there were no definite evi-
dences to prove the conditions.
’27 BUSINESS GOOD AND BAD CRITICS SAY
ATTEMPT SWUM
TANGIER, Morocco, Jan. 2. (UP) —Mercedes Gleitze and Millie Hudson were attempting to swim the Strait of Gibraltar today. Mis.- Gleitze entered the water at 3 a. m. and Miss Hudson at 10:45 a.
()( ( I PAN I s
Surrounding Buildings \\ ere T hreat ened Bv Fire—Two Firemen
Were Injured.
ES( \PED The temperature of the water was 62 degre - when Miss Hudson start-
ed her swim.
SCHOOLS OPENED TO—START'S SECOND SEMESTER. Ill r < icy -. fnool- wPl |e:r se.-sions Tut - day morncwunl hour after having entile over a week’s vacation, pent- in the city school • a holiday on Monday, alto.inty schools were -tartThe city schools were closed Jay , December 22 and th 11 peol- closed on Friday, D ehaiks the fii-t day of tlv kie.-ter for the ]iu|iil- in the hcol-. Two ''ay.- before the he eh, i d for the < hi istmu kxnminutions were held in [county school-. Th'"c test s first seiii - ter of the ye- i
SHELBYVILLE, Did., Jan. 2. (UP) — Fire destroyed the Shrlbyville city hiTI, threatened surrounding buildings, did s 100,000 damages and ii'jured two firemen here yesterday. The fire was discovered at 6 a. in. Chief of Police John B. Thomas and Fire Chief William Briggs and fireman Robert Williams were inside the building at the time but e cup d. TN* w, ; w t wall o' *ie city hall fell outward, showering bricks on a nearby residence, the First M. E. parsonage on the other side of the building was damaged by flames.
Former Resident Died Saturday
WILL HINNKIIT PASSED \W AY V I HOME IN BLA( KW ELL, OKLAHOM A.
William Hunnicutt, age 6St, a bro-ther-in-law* of Mrs. L. C. Hamilton and Mrs. Joe Farrow, passed away at his home in Blackwell, Oklahoma.
Saturday.
Mr. Hunnicut left Greencastlc about thirty-five years ago. The funeral is
Fireman Ed Hereschader suffered planned Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock three fractured ribs and fireman Rob- a t the McCurry Funeral Home, with - 1 1 Hohnback was stiuek on the head i) r . Towne in charge. Burial will be
fel' A I. AUTIMTTKS
by a falling brick while fighting the flumes. Many of the firemen had frost bitten fingers. The debris will be searched sometime this week for city records that were contained in a fire proof vault. The city hall was covered by 818,000
insu ranee.
1928 QUIETLY RECEIVED HERE
tO, Jan. 2. (UP) The New [ushere I in here with deaths ► bootings, and n geneial lug for crime, police record[ml ay. cere five deaths due to alee elm Karlen, Taxicab driver, Id at his home that “Thi.ni stuff i- til ■ Bunk.” I’m [bed.” He hut and killed few minutes luU i. were seveiul shooting-. A injured by a hotel owner jral persons were shot by W > nogroe- were killed dm rgmneiit which followed a party. Ilal S' Yea I• ■ ■ tiiek place in Cabarets, Ho- ‘ dame hall- Prohibition congratulated themselves on down the drinking, which, d, was Ic.-s than ever befoic
18.
OLD l«)27 AND YOUNIi SPIRE TO <. 1 \ I
BLIZZARD.
1!)28 ( ONBAD
l!)2K was <|uietly received at midnight Saturday night and was said to have been one of the <|uietest ever celebrated in the city. One of the main r n.-on.- probably is that the old y‘ar and the new year conspired to give the worst blizzard and cold wave of the present winter. A number of watch parties were hi Id Saturday night over the city and large i r wds attended the shows giv-
en at both theaters.
in Forest Hill cemetery. Curl Fcrrand, Charles Sage, Ed. Hamilton, A. B. Hanna and Ferd Lucas are the pall-bearers. OUTLINE DEFENSE PLx.xS LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2. (UP) - - Renewed reports that William Edward Hickman would not plead guilty to the murder of Marion Parker on the grounds of insanity followed the visit of three unidentified men to his cell today. The visitors conferred with him for considerable lime It was reported they were helping outline defense plans. The visitors were accompanied by Joseph Ryan, until recently a member of the district attorney’s office. Ryan was retained to assist Jeiume I Walsh, in charge of defense. Hickman will enter court tomorrow to plead. o ; University Opened Monday At Noon
E STIFF SENT EM ES INAPOLIS, Jan. 2. (UP) of 52 years in prison and 875,01)0 face Clyde A. Walb, un S ate Chairman, and Val Weaver, president of the Bank of I.aGrange, indicted by the Federal grand jury, V if , .ni\ let. d " i each ot and given the maximum as former president, and mner vice-president, wei' i charges of violating the lanking act, us result of 1*70,000 in forged paper in will be arraigned before Jdge Thomas Wi'. Slick of ic. Bond has been set at h. Capiases for their arbeliig prepared at Fort
SI I FEKING IN UA.TT
(By United Press)
The new year brought zero temperatures and suffering to the eastern half of the United States.
From the Atlantic seaboard to the day Rockies, even including most parts of H.
the south. Blizzards caused acute discomfort. A rising death toll was expected to reach several score, with more than 30 deaths already reported.
UNIVERSITY HALLS OF RESIDENCE HERE OPENED MON-
DAY MORNING.
After seventeen days of holiday freedom, DePauw University students returned to the routine of classes tout noon. For sometime the T. & E , the Monon, and the Vandalia and the Big Four have been
bringing the students buck to Green- farmers’
castle.
PAST YEAR 11 VD HIGH PEAK AND ALSO PERIOD DE DEPRESSION INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 2. (UP)— Recent weeks have witnessed an eruption of “prosperity talk’’ from a great variety of quarters. The sober observer must have been impressed by tlie conviction that it emanates largely from those whose expression runs with their desires. Conservative analysis whose statements are not based on their hopes but upon careful study of the known trends shown by the various chart- of actual conditions are under no misapprehensions as to the kind of <* year 1D27 has been. In comparison with the President's sweeping statement in his annual message to Congress that the country as a whole has hud a prosperity never exceeded, contrast the following from Brookshire's Review of 11)27: “The year 1327 has beet one of disappointment and i< radiction: dissppnlntnx ,t Invau.-e ■ in liber went so high as the optimists desired nor so low as the pessimists expected; and of continuous contradition since the business phenomena never pointed conclusively in any single direction. High business activity was maintained with falling prices for a considerable portion of the year and business profits on the whole have not been as great as in the preceding
year.’’
Every banker in this section of the country who has kept in close touch with his customers’ condition knows that this analysis is correct. The line of business activity rose sharply during the first two months and a half of the year, since when it has descended with accelerating rapidity until the middle of December, when it was at the lowest point since June, 1324. How we all know that in June and July, 1324, business was depressed. And nine-tenths of the business men and manufacturers know that the margin of profits habeen a steadily vanishing one this year from March 15 to December 15, no matter what the valume of turnover. When we come to examine the 1327 balance sheets the number that will show profit for the year will be
relatively few.
The depression in some industries has been quite serious, but in most lines conditions have been “spotty” both by industries and localities. Thus in the cotton industry, New England has suffered while the southern mills were having good business. The agricultural situation presents another excellent illustration of the conflicting tendencies during the year. Th< price movement has been strongly upward in cotton, wool, corn and beef cuttle, but downward in fruits and vegetables generally, h gs, wheat and other grain. On the whole, however, there has been improvement in the
condition, his income over
the whole industry being about I2 1 '.'
Chicago reported 13 deaths and bt. except Longden hull, which has been
The University halls of residence, per cent higher than in 1326. This
Louis 8. Many cities uf the middle-we : were buried by near-record snowfalls. Highway and railroad traffic was impaired and air mail schedules were abandoned. Several serious railroad accidents have been caused by the storm. No relief was expected for 21 hours. Many rural districts were isolated and heavy losses in livestock were looked for unless the weather moderates. In New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New England th? thermometer fell steadily through ut the night and more zero temperatures were expected again tonight.
open thruugh vacation, opened at 8 this morning. Fraternity and sorority houses are also open. The first classes of the new year met ut 1:30 this afternoon o FIREMAN KILLED. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 2. (UP) Three firemen were killed and four
fact is doubtless reflected in the pronounced recovery in the faun implement business, and to some extent also in the improvement in the textile and leather industries. In contrast with this is the slump in the auU • mobile building, lumber produc.ion, iron and steel production and cur
loadings.
The security markets have had un
seriously injured here new year’s day appearance of great strength. Bond when u wall collapsed during a fire prices have advanced about five point-
at the Montgomery carriage works. The dead were M. D. Edward-, E. M. Jones and G. A. Hogan. Damage was estimated at 850,000.
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MARRIAGE LICENSE Elmer Ader, Greencastlc, to Martha Sweet, Greencastlc.
in the face of an unprecedented ilood of new issues. The stock market has been idulging freely all through th ' year, in easy credit cocktails, and has been on a prolonged “jag”. The sobering-up process is likel> t<> he a - - (Continued on Page 6).
Fellow-graduates of DePauw University in Manila, recently gathered at Malacanan, the governor’s palace .o eat turkey and enjoy an evening of genuine Hoosier hospitality. Acting governor and Mrs. Eugene A. Gilmore were the hosts for the oc-
casion.
Malacanan is the beautiful palace which was inherited by Uncle Sam after the Spanish-American war. It is on the bank of the Pasig river, and one approaches it from the street through wide, arched gates, which open to a large gardenlike lawn luxuriantly decorated by tropical trees, shrubs and (lowers. The halls of this home are decorated with Spanish and American pictures. Several generations of DePauw s.udent- are represented here. Mr. Gilmore, a Delta Kappa Epsilon, was graduated with honors in 1833. Mrs. Gilmore’s Indiana home was at Rockpo it. She is a Kappa Alpha Theta, and of the class of 1896. Miss Mary I.. Dean attended DePauw in 1301-5, and is a Kappa Kappa Gamma. At present she is the business manager of the Mary J. Johnston Memorial Hospital, and treasurer of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society in the Philip-
pines.
Joseph f(. Lloyd, a Delta Tuu Delta, of the class of 1315, has charge of the American Express office Dr. Hawthorne Darby, acting superintend ent of the Mary J. Johnston Memorial Hospital, was graduated from DePauw with the class of 1!'17. She then attended the Univer■ty of Pennsylvania Medical school, where -he received her degree. Later -lie came to the Philippines, where she is recognized as an efficient udn inistrator and successful practit-
ioner.
The Rev. Orville L. Davis, an Alpha Tau Omega, was a member of the class of 1321. He later received his theological degree from the Bos toi; University School of Theoh gland now has charge of the New Testament department of the Union Thoi logical Seminary of tin Philippines :.i Manila. He- is also the pastor of an English-speaking congregation of -indents in the St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, of Tondo. Mrs. Davis, of the class of 1325, has charge of the department of inu--ic at the Union Theological Seminary, and teaches a cour.-e in American literature. Besides these DePauw graduates, there were in the party. Bishop and Mr.-. Charles Bayard Mitchell, Mrs. J. R. Lloyd and the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel W. Stagg. Gathered round the table in the uming room, this group recalled pleasant College days. College and fraternity songs rang in the large n ception room id' Malacanan and formed a fitting part of the program. Mr. Gilmore was born in Nebraska hut the Hoosier state has a strong claim upon him. His father, A. H. Gilmore, lived in Putnamville, near (ireeneastle, and the family made a notrwoi .hy contribution to DePauw, Mis-s Margaret Gilmore, a cousin cf liv Governor, is now assistant librarian at DePauw. .Mr. Gilmore was born in Nebraska, hut his Hoosier father persuaded him to attend DeI uuw. He was a star student ut the Auburn (Neb.) high school. Harrived in Greencastlc with little money and an old fashioned typewiitr, hut convinced the authorities of his ambitions and abilities and typed his way through college. Mr. Gilmore was admitted to the Itnl aim bar and begun practicing law, hot lie was not satisfied. He continued his i duration by attending the Har- - imI Law School. Returning to AuIm;.;, N’eb., lie organized the Auburn In ihiing and Loan Association. After a year in Minneapolis, he returned to Boston, where he practiced law. In 1302 he was appointed assistant professor cf law in the University of W i. cousin and a year later was made professor. In 1322, on the recommendation of John W. Weeks, secretary of war, Mr. Gilmore was appointed the vicegovernor of the Philippines.
SUIT FOR DIVORCE A complaint for divorce, Mary L. Brown versus Harold 1). Brown, has been filed in the Putnam Circuit Court by James anil Alice attorneys
for the plaintiff.
The plaintiff alleges cruel and inhuman treatment to-wit: that the defendant has cursed her, told her that | he did not love her and that he hated her and that on several occasions he
threatened to strike her.
According to the complaint the •
plaintiff and defendant were married NEW YORK, Jan. 2. (L'P)—Near on October 3, 1327 and separated on zero temperatures, coupled with :i December 22. driving wind, gripped New York toBrown wa.- ordeied by the court to ( l a .v bringing considerable suffering, pay $5 a week to the plaintiff and There was little likelihood of relief 825 to the attorneys of Mrs. Brown, today, the weather bureau reported o- firedieting a maximum temperature
ONE INJURED IN U'CIDKNT «'f 20 degrees.
MT. VERNON, HI., Jan. 2. (UP)— The cold wave in the east came in Two Louisville and Nashville passeng with the new year and throughout ger trains, No-. Southbound and yesterday all the missions in the 56, North-bound, collided headon at city, were filled with wayfarers srek5:15 A. M. to lay at Shirley switch, ing to avoid the blizzardy weather.
five miles south of here.
Frank Clark of Evni: \ Tie, !nd., CHICAGO, Jan. 2. ( IT)—Su-zcm Engineer of the noithbotm : train, temp, ratuies today added to the sufwas the only person iniuieo, a -cm '- fering an I death toll caused by the ing to first reports. N . p.-i-.-.engeis blizzard which Satuiday buried thwere injure , officials -ahl. Engine- Midi lewost under a blanket of snow, ami the fist baggage on - of both reported in many sections as the first
on records.
Temperature- a- low as five and 111 below zero may la- expected generally from the Rocky Mountains east as fa. us the Alleghanies, the di.stri'-t Weather bur au hem said. No relief can be expected for at least 24 hourthe bureau .-aid. So far 19 deaths in or near Chicago have been attributed to the col !
wave.
Traffic throughout the Central portions of the country was pi actio ally at a standstill. Galc-like winds drifted the snow and made roads impassable, forced .suspension of railloiiil -ervici* or ba lly delayed it. and cau-ed abandonment of air mail schedule.-.
trains were derailed.
NEW OFFICIALS START OFFICE HERE MONDAY
WILLIS GILL SU< ( EEDS \\ LOVETT AS (OUNTY
AUDITOR.
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EIS BY
IRE USURER
O. A. Dav Succeeds Reese Ituis As ( onimissioner From Second District— Efficient < MTieials. Three new officials -tailed their duties Monday with the opening of the new yeai which marks the end and beginning of the terms of sever-
al county officers.
illis Gill succeed- \V. 1). Lovett a- county auditor, Alva I.t-hy, sue-
QUINCY. III., Repori'd the hfHvie-t -nowfall in th'- history of its wcathe tiineau. Roads wi re buried under snow many feet deep. A vast snow drift three miles north of Quincy w-u leportel holding 47 automobile., their occupants had reached -af ty
after a teirific struggle.
Wil . er as county U * ' h " r - , ’ 1 O. A Day Is ,illir to ' 1 Ark;,.,-a-. TeaR esc Bui- as , i,mn„.-sinner Don, th- A,abam > ^ 1
second district. Mucli credit must he givi n all thr -e men who are going out of office for the capable and efficient manner in which they conducted the work whil;
in office.
The deputies in both offices should nl.-o he given ere lit for the way they completed the work w hile in offic'.
oven
Florida shivers in near zero temper-
atures.
Several train wrecks •.Ti ro cau-fil by the blinding snow. At Chicago Saturday, a Chicago and Alton train fiom Kansas City, speeding irtsiiio the city limits to make up lost time crashfd nto the rear end of a St. Louis mail and pas-engcr train. One
Mrs. Ward Lovett and Miss Katherine w,mlan was km, ' ,i a "' 1 for, >’
Miller were the assistants in the Auditoi’s office and Mr-. Ruel Hean-
ey was deputy-treasurer. Board Ends Up Year’s Business
injured.
A South Bend Interurban train, cany ing New Year’s Kvo celebrants, plunged into tbs rear end of another lnteiurban which had been stalled hy frozen brakes. One person wakille l and more than a score injured. Many other- were Inuis d and cut. At Chen a. 111., Mayor A. .1. Shultz led a ie.-cue party to the relief of 150 Ai.-.sengors of ('hi<(agi>-Slt. larui-
I. VST' MEETING OF 1927 HEM) IN busses man on. .1 for several hour- by
( <>UN I V (HURT HOUSE
SATURDAY.
I’utnam County Commissioners met In the last si s-ion of the year Saturday in order to wind up thcounty’s bu-ines- for the year. No important business came In foie the cnmmi.-sioneis at the final s.--sion. Commi-sioner Reese Buis attended his last -es.-irn a- commis-ion
tie hudge snowdrifts. Five, bundled per-on- were endangered on the Dunes Highway Satuulay wh n their cais became locked in the drifts. They sought iclicf in an abomi ed farm house until aid could reach them. ——o CHICAGO, Jan. 2. (UP)--Rushing home a crowd of new year’s colebrnnts. on a South Shore interurhan
i- expre.-s train smashed into the rear cr from the second district. O. A. Da- ,
end of a local just outside the city
limits yesterday.
of Fillmore will succeed Buis as commissioner fiom the -econd district. W. F. Davis was elected president of the County Commis-ioners by th commi-sioi ei.- at the first meeting of
the year Monday.
Slippery Streets Cause Accidents
One person was killed, .’«> seriously injured and more than , '••ijMlred others cut and bruised. 1 i.n.c f< Iloweil a» the tOO passengers .-ought to escape from the smashed coache.-", several of which burst into flames.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 2. (IT)— Sub-zero weather which ushered in .he new- year caused eight deaths,
• numerous fires and wide-spread suffSEV EK VI. M V< HINES ( Ol.LIDKD ering in eastern Missouri.
SATURDAY—NO SERIOUS
ACCIDENTS.
NEW YEAR’S GUT. A daughter, Betty Jean, was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Russell E. Thomas, Sunday,
At the height of new year’s eve festivities, James N’aughton, 30, burned to death In a ninth floor room of a prominent down-town hotel. One man was instantly kilh-d in un automobile wreck. Ten others were seriously injured. Eight deaths were attributed to the
cold,
FALL ILL AGAIN
KL PASO, Tex., Jan. 2. (UP) — Albert It. Fall, former secretary of the interior, is too ill to go to Washington for retrial of the Fall-Sinclair oil conspiracy ease scheduled for January 16, his physician, Dr. H. T. Saf-
court in the Putnam Circuit Court to ford, announced here today, psy 85 a week for the support of hulls attorney.' will a.-k a continMary Albin. A complaint for divorce ounce of the hearing, it was siie (lair Albin versus Mary Albin was Tin. conspiracy trial was declared filed in the Putnam (’in nil Court'a mistrial a few weeks ago follo-.v-sometime ago. . i»g charges of jury shadowing. ^
Slippeiy streets, due to the snow and ice were responsible for a number of minor uceiJtnts Satuiday. Several machines collided at various street Intel s'etious on aecount of the iee. However, no serious acchli nts were i eported to have occurred in the city on either Saturday or
Sunday.
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MUST PAY ALIMONY Clair Albin was ordered by