The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 February 1929 — Page 1
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(IREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1929.
No. 100.
RE DAMAGES ESIDENCE OF ALONZO COOK
V | IKE'I EN CONTEND WITH
(((NKLACKATION WEDNESDAY MORNING.
DR. LOI NSBEKRY TO SPEAK The Kiwanis Luncheon will he held Thursday at the Christian Church at 1 12:15 o’clock. The principal talk will be piven by Dr. L. M. Lounsberry, pastor of the Methodist Temple in’ Terre Haute and a member of the Kiwanis Club of that city.
NEW A. & P. STORE WILL OPEN MONDAY
REAL ESTATE PETITION The State of Indiana on the rela-
tim of Luther F. Symons, Bank Com-j.
— mis-ioner of the State of Indiana HAD GOOD START versus Farmers State Bank of Bain- _______ j bridge is the title of a petition to sell , <... f?..... i. i.' real estate filed in the Putnam cirtllrmTs Turned'In. Damage ! CUil toUrt ^‘"esday. Corwin & Gil-
FIXTURES AND
INSTALLED !N NEW LO( A-
1()N ON SOUTH SIDE.
TWO MEN KILLED
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HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 20 (UP)—| Hammond’s “Deaht Crossing” on 1 1 Forsythe Avenue, claimed two more victims last night. George Reitman, 30, and Mangus Oleson, 32, both of | Hammond, were killed there when a north bcun I Nickel Plate passenger
STOtK BEING ' train struck their automobile. The car
LIQUOR LAW PASSED MEANS
; measure, predicting juries would refuse to convict in the face of such a heavy penalty and pointing to the possibility that high school boys who J take a drink might be submitted to
STIFF PENALTY Sam< ' * IUD ' s * lmcnt ' as hardened liq-
uor purveyors.
The only change made by the drys to meet these challenges was the in-
LOWRY BILL FAVORED IN LEGISLATURE
FT HR DAYS WAR.
\ZL
M. S. MILLER
CHARGE
Is Large.
jlen are the attorneys fo rthe plaintiff. iTh'* real estate involved is located in
| Arkansas and was mortgaged by ire, which was discovered about George W. Knoll and Mattie E. Knoli. o’clock Wednesday morning,! o
damaged the residence of
nzu Cook at the corner of College
nue and Franklin streets. fire, evidently started in the,
c, as the ilames had forced their through the roof and spread ov-1 he second floor before the lire de;m cnt was called. It was not wn Wednesday afternoon whether blaze started from a defective, ,ney or due to faulty wiring. I
Store Will lb- One of Finest In City, With Modern Meat Market In Connection.
• inate between habitual sellers of liquor and ‘‘casual or slight” offender.-.
PROPERTY BOOST TAN.
JONES BILL COMES THROUGH sertion of an amendment authorizing HOUSE MAY BE AGAINST ME\S-
with the bodies of the two men in it, hEN.A I.E. DEBATE AIT F.K courts in passing sentences to discrim- ^ ^E Ol- SALES I \\ AND
was carried on the pilot of the engine 1
for more than a mile before the train
TO BE PUSHED IN HOUSE Th^y contended the increased penal- INTANGIBLE TAX MAY PASS _______ 1 ties were needed by the department
of justice to enforce the law.
crew di-covered it.
“SAFETY DAY” OBSERVED AT CEMENT PUNT
Announcement was made today that the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company’s new store oTT the south side of the square in the room formerly occupied by the Louis Hays Grocery, will have its formal opening next Monday.
Miners Killed In Train Wreck
Krpuhliran Leaders In Congress He-
lic\e Measures Will Become
Low This Session.
Legislature Proposes To Sulistilute
New Tax For One Given
Much Prominence.
CONTINUE SEARCH
•i GALVESTON, Ind., Feb. 20 (UP)
- ! Authorities continued their search toWASHINGTON, Feb. 20. (UP) — day for 16-year-old Pauline Gray, who | INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 20 (UP) - Emerging safely from four continu-j disappeared from her home here Sat- Converted to the substitution of a tax
1 urdav.
AT LEAST 7ft INJl RED IN ACC1- ous days of Senate prohibition debate *urday.
on intangibles for sales taxes and
DENT NEAR PEORIA,
WEDNESDAY.
a time it looked as though the) house would burn. But after four’s hard work the firemen kept! Dames from the first floor. The I
.1. Ml RPHY IS ALBERT SHUEY
TALKS.
The interior of the room has been j remodeled and the remainder of the i week will be taken up with the in-
SPEAKER. 1 Ktallation of fixtures and a new stock ALSO j of groceries and goods handled by
this populal- store.
PEORIA, 111., Feb. 20. (UP)
Four cars of the “Miners’ Special” train on the Peoria railway terminal line jumiM-d the truck md rolled down
a 25 foot embankment three
south of here today, pinning scores of
passengers beneath the wreckage. First reports from the wreck said
that three persons were known to
of
the Jones bill to increase the penal- j Police in nearby counties have been boost in the real property tax, the ties of liquor law violators was on its J enlisted in the search. Her paints; wav- and means committee of the way to the HoU.se today. It left in Its j could give no reason for her disap- Indiana house of representatives prewake a tight legislative jam which is pearance. .pared to report today favoring pajeopardizing all pending legislation. — o (sage of the Freeman-Lowry lull intro-
With only slight modification, the tr /“XT O 1 dueed Tuesday.
Jones bill passed 65 to 18 late yester- , I » | i lJ| Jljr. The measure, bearing the name , of day by the Senate. Republican loud-* _ _ air' George W. Freeman, ers plan to ru>h favorable action in | A | (I I H Kokomo, and James H. Lowry, ind
A \sK4\J t janapolis, replaces the hill Freeman
the House without sending it to
M. S. Miller, who has been in
All work stopped at the Cement .charge of the store operated by the j have been killed and upward
.. i . * Blant Wednesday for the cclebiation j a. & P. Company on the oast side of (injured, at least ten of them top a t ( i< u < n>< "as luin ,,f s a (Vty Day. the st | Uar( > s jnce its opening, will be iouslv that they may die.
„d the smoke and water damaged i Thp Cement Company paid to em-T in charge of the new store, as the old rest of the structure. Payees over .$2100.00 as bonus for i one will be closed out.
ihe firemen remained at the Cook their efforts in preventing accidents. |
until after 2 p. in. This amount of money was paid by , T he new store will not only carry jurniture in the house was carried jthe Company of its own free will. No! a ,ine °f groceries, but will have a jthe plaintiff in the ca
safety by willing helpers. The ( ] a w compels them to do this, but they i ITU,, ' ern meat market, in connection, j versus the Pennsylva ia railroad in Up to the last minute before smoke attracted scoies to the gladly do it, in their campaign to pre- * s announced. | the circuit court Wednesday morning. Senate vote, the wets asiailed of the fire. vent accidents. —mm
Albert Shuey ha- this division of
committee for consideration, because I a similar bill already has been re-1 ported by a House .committee and is :
pending on the calendar.
The warning of wets that the meas-'j uro might fail of its purpose to provide 5 year sentences and $10,000 fin- !
GETS SlOft JUDGEMENT es for wealthy bootleggers went an Judgement of $100 was awarded i heeded by the overwhelming dry ma- (
of Beit Smith | jority of the Senate.
the the
HAS BIG TIME
ANNIVERSARY OF
FOUNDING IS OBSERVED
TUESDAY NIGHT.
FILED SUIT WEDNESDAY Fillip I!. Hutcheson, administrator Vi.' estate of Elizabeth Hutcheson,
\V( rk under his supervision and explained it to the 500 employees. M. J. Murphy, the Company’s At-
us Joseph Sears et al. is the title torney, made the address which was j ^it filed in the probate court P ;ig ( > r |y received by those present, ties iay morning by t. S. Hainil-) The Company’s Orchestra furnished attorney. the music and lunch was served and a j v defendants in th(‘ case waived • day was enjoyed. ncc of the service of summons 0 — - the court ordered the sale of real /’'/"VI rv ite. An appraisment was also filed. ! ^ wl
Northampton Puzzled What To Do When The Coolidges Return Home
V entered Friday. It provides foi ta ing all intangibles at 25 per cent of
their cash value.
"A billion dollars will be added to
ORDER'S the tax duplicate if the hill become.
i a law,” Freeman said, “for we are at least $4,000,000,000 worth of in-
tangibles will be listed.”
Three more bills awaited Governor Harry G. Eeslie’s signature as the legislature today entered the fortysecond day of its sixty-one day session. They included the House bill passed late Tuesday by the Senate, permitting a verdict by ten jurors in
„ prominent i , ' ivil cases u l lon instruction of the
HUGE MERGER ROI’OSEl) WASHINGTON, Feb., 20 (UP) — jtion of four giant railroad sys- - embracing all the lines in eastern ory was proposed today in petifiled with the interstate coni- ? cuntmis.-inn by the Baltimore 1 Ohio and the Chesapeake and rail loads. ie Monon railroad is among the kms lines involved in the proposed ger.
edale Woman Called By Death
n ALICE M’GINMS PASSED " AY TUESDAY. ILL FOUR MONTHS.
THREE ESCAPED OHIO CONVICTS
pat McDermott, murder of 1M)N MKLLETT, AMONG TRIO CAPTURED.
TWO
STILL
LARGE
Trio Who Were Re-Taken Found Only Short Distance From The State Prison.
COLUMBUS, 0„ Feb. 2ft (UP) — 'Whipped into submission by the intense cold, thioe of five convicts who broke out of the State penitentiary at dawn yesterday, were captured last
night and early today.
Among them was the notorious Pat McDermott, the red headed triggerinan who ambushed, and killed Don Mellett, crusading editor of the Canton Daily News, two and a half year-
Alice McGinnis, Limedalc, died kt home Tuesday evening at ft:2ft an illness of four months’ durii, due to dropsy. Mrs. McGinnis thi' widow of 'Brutus McGinnis, passed away 11 years ago. .
is. McGinnis was a life long rcM-I ,and who was Gapped with Mcof Putnam county. She is sur-1 Dermott, and John Busso, sent up «l by three sons, William, Henry ^ roni Cleveland for rob>er>. John Smith, all of GreencastlJ Tracks in the snow led authorities one daughter, Mrs. Elza Butler to where the captured men were hid-
ago.
I The others were Mike Jacco, Cleve-
den.
McDermott and Jacco were taken by deputy sheriffs Charles William and John Crumley before midnight. Russo was apparehended three hours
the McCurry Funeral Home mi j later by constable John Guy of Sha i j jjnited States? day afternoon at 2 o’clock with i C!iV * d<> ' .... ! With a brass hand at the
ptossville. One brother, Charles il. of this city, and one slate.*, Tharles McQuilley of Franklin,
survive.
ho funeral services will be held
I Members of Diamond Lodge, No. '349 Knights of Pythias at Cloverdale observed the anniversary of the founding the fraternal order, with a rousing meeting in the lodge hall on
1 Tuesday evening.
The principal speaker for the oc-
casion was Othniel Hitch
Indianapolis attorney. Music was fuini-hed by the Cloverdale high school orchestra directed by Miss Esther Reynolds, a graduate of the
I’DePauw music school.
Representatives from lodges in 1 Hendricks county and Indianapolis
were present. Among those going. , . . , , ,, , / , „ ,, ,, ,,, , lhat difficulties lay ahead of tinfrom here were J. E. M«d urry ( buries unjf()rm ,. ountv , m1| (ll , lft ,. (l liv Mc( urry and George Reynolds. th( . statl . B<mr(| „ f A{ . C(lll|lts „„ .p Charlos Rockwell, of Indianapoli"., . f . . . ^ , i rcctiun of tai* 1^27 leirislatlin 1 , wa well known former ( overdale | demonstratecl when r^resentativ. of accompanied Mr. Hitch to the j six countipSi th( . ltl<Jiu|la Farm u „ ' , .1 i.- u. I Federation, the Indiana Anti-Saloon Following the program, the Kmghtsj ^ ^ . 1 , ix|iaV( . | ,. enjoyed a big feed and smoker A votcw , ilt
A number of promising candidate- , were guests at the meeting and indi-1 cations are that Diamond Lodge will ) be busy the next few months with i
Initiatory work.
judge.
Passage of the Noll city manager amendment bill was expected in the House today. Senator George W. Sims, Terre Haute, was not yet ready to call his repeal bill out of the hands ] of the Senate committee on cities and
• towns.
Beveridge Bust Placing Feb. 26
SAME MILL BE PLA< ED IN ME HARRY HALL WITH FITTING CEREMONY.
hearing in the House chamber on
Tuesday night.
Anti-Saloon league opposition i< based on the proposal to take the $2.'i liquor prosecution fee away from prosecutors in less populace coiintie Representative F’rank E. Wright, In dianupoiis, author of the Wright Bone Dry act, s.'^id he would attempt to restore the liquor fees amendment.
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KK< U AL I Itl RSI)AY IA EMM, j The following recital will be given I in Meharry Hall Thursday evening ‘by Prof. Leach'and Piof. Sheffield, | which should he of much interest to 1 , music lovers of Greencastli* and ill
are cordially invited.
PROGRAM
Beethoven, No. 5, in F
Allegro
Adagio molto espre.
Allegro molto
Allegro nia non tinppo
isiv
President 4'oolidge pitching hay, top left am pi on before he became pres'dent. top r left inset; the Northampton < mdidge non...
pied by the president’s famly; (oolidge, letter right, as he looks today.
and Mrs. ( oolidge on 'he steps of their home in North-
„ ft raeriltT Mirtham'pH^
Bach, N’ . 5
Adagio Allegro
in h minor
NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Feb. 20.
—Just how does a small town wel-
retiring president of the
later by constable John Guy of Shad-
» .... railway
Rev. B. H. Bruner officiating. In-J The three were placed in ! gtation> a sp eech or two and a parade reaching some soil of definite Dent will be in Forest Hill cemo-jth* H morning. i down the main street? gram.
' ai... .... th** nl hpr
Or with a mass meeting in town . However, is it the .sort of thing Pri
Mayor Appoints Committee J. Hammond, an old friend of the But Mayor Andre is a busy man. family. “The state of Mrs. Coolidge’g He got out of the problem by appoint- health probably will govern their fu-
ing a reception committee. The com- ture plans.”
mittee has met and discussed plans, Thoy wj ,i too, on the health
l'"’" of Mrs. Coolidge's mother.
ro Reached By Mercury
Meantime the capture of the other two—James A. Walton, Cuyahoga
, . \ wnunn L,uvanoira ■ » - Coolidge's” said President William A. r II n i William Young Marietta ’ hall > b > u 50-cent supimr and vl|te r it i zi . n Coolidgn would like? You N( .i| son „f smith college for girls, sitl alls and W Ham ' a reception open to everybody? he an ,| Mrs. (oolidge have T* ... «
lifer-w.s believed imminent. who shouhi bo invited? Who ^ ^ uged ^ th(1 , e grand ( . ollffl ,, s
..1.1 •%r#- In,
POLICE HAVE CLEW
CHICAGO, Feb.
20. (UP)—"Kind
esday night was ONE HE (OLDEST OF PRESENT
WINTER SEASON.
_ ; ,-weetheart,” was the word which went 1 out today from police headquarters as the formula that would solve the ma-j
of seven mem-
; shouldn't be? sional and ambassadorial balls anil _ Or should nothing be done at all gtute ,(j nm . rs that gosh, Northamp-
• th. l ?»ik A r.'n rth z izinzz "* nk "‘** !
is, indeed, a tragic one? Perhaps an
ex-president likes to be let alone. er the Coolidges plan to remain in It Puzzles Northampton Northampton after their return. Italph
chine gun massacre of seven mem-; N rthampton home town of Presi- Hemenway, former law partner of hers of the “Bugs” Moran gang h, ' re , , e ' nt Coo | i((K ,. ( HOOn to be an “ex”, Coolidge, was approached f’>r light 'zzixxt ... ^ . T . I r. K j * * ♦ * * * t
nights of the present winter. w „rth of a Chicago policeman’s liq-l 'Y'"* to h"'' a way ' U b ^ Calvin Coolidge returns to North *
uated at Northampton, "excetit what
1 read in the newspapers.”
A noxt-to-last resort—James W. O’Brien, owner of the Coolidge residence on Massasdt street, for which
The town doesn't even know wheth- the president pays a monthly rental
He ought to know! But
The bust of Albert Veveridge ha arrived at DePauw university and w ill, beformally presented to the Unlver-j sity with s|iecial services on Tuesday morning, February 26. Beveridge is one of DePauw University’s distinguished alumni and benefactors. The bust, a beautiful and realistic 1 piece of work in bronze is the gift of Frederic Bartlett, artist, of Boston. • Mr. Bartlett visited the campus a'
short time ago to select the place for <y >a r Franc k, in A
the bust.
Mr. Bartlett, John C. Schaffer, a ; close friend of the late Mr. Beveridge, | Ur. W. W. Sweet, Chicago university, formerly head of the history department of DePauw, J. W. Fesler, presi- I dent of the Indiana Historical association and also of the Board of Trustees of Indiana university, Mr-. Cath-
I don’t know anything about the erine Beveridge, and
guished and interested persons have been invited to participate in the ser-
vices.
Mr. Beveridge was one of the l niversity’s best students. At the end of his fir.-t year in college Beveridge | had attracted much attention, winning j a series of the University prizes in scholarship, philosophy, science, and oratory. He also won a number of
honors for his University. In uddi- —- lion to his A. B. degree DePauw Uni- FIRST EX Et I THIN OF KIND \Pversity conferred updi him the LL.D. I PLIED TO POLK E Ml RDEREK
of $34.50. he doesn't.
"Coolidge still pays his rent," O’Brien said, “but for how long he intend- to kc-ep his half of the house •
I don’t know."
Supreme Court Justice?
Only F'rank Farrar, retired North-
business man,
Allegretto ben moderato
Allegro
Recitative-Fantasia
Allegretto poeo ino-.o
SUIT ON NOTE
Ellis & Company, local feed and ! grain firm, has filed suit in the Putnam circuit court against W. N. kirk-
other distin- I'a" 1 and J. A. Kirkham for collection
on a n< to, alleged due and unpaid. A settlement of $125 is asked. Frsd V. Thomas is the attorney for the plain-
tiff.
Electric Chair
Claims Two Men
!' sl '»*hts of the present winter, worth of a Chicago policemans nq- ’ 1 ’ atnpt()n millionaire b " r, h of Greencastle a short dis- U or. It suggested that thiz theft may) ' ^mall town precedent ' ' ,l . r ' would venture a guess. 1C. farmer. ,1. 1 m ,aivr behind the mass There is no -mall town prcceueni ( | ( , ma „. E’ven when he hud ns- + . „
’ farmers report their thermom-; have been the motive behind the mass
standing at five and six below murders.
while others near or within the — limits report their instruments MARRIAGE LK ENSE '•re and to five below. j W. H. Tomlinson, Georgetown, 111
he
"Gy, after a warm Sunday, and ■*- continued to go down until the lmum IT| aik was reached during
degree.
Following his graduation Beveridge entered the legal profession. He «a only thirty-seven years of age when he was elected to the Senate and -ent
IN ( Hit AGO.
sold Wednesday afternoon for
sday night.
h" weather bureau • r Indiana to
1 i-o a moderation of the extreme Only me bid for $ff50 was '' Ir| iig the next few days. 'during the morning au K ore.,...* , ... The bankruptcy sale
| for Northampton to follow. Not in + (>|1 to governor of Massachusetts "• cxi.ect to see Mr. Coolidge uprecent presidential history, anyway. ... aml vice p n , s i,| pn t of the United + pointed a member of the United President McKinley died in office. + sta f,„ h( . js . a j,| to have had -States supreme court,” he said. President Roosevelt was a New York- ... mon ,.y. But during hi- Mr. Coolidge’s first job, however,
i er when not a big game hunter. Pres- y pars j„ the presidency, he saved *I* after retiring from the presidency,' DePauw I niversity will lie given ' ident Taft did not return at all to his ... jjjqoooo out of his salary, it is will be something else. He will have' tG’ I nited States Sciiute. home in Cincinnati but became a pro- rf .|, < , r t ) .,j > an d inherited approxV d* to act as temporary curator of the The bust will be placed in the nn he^j^ ^ nt Wilson re- .j, ma t,.|y $100,000 from his father. Coolidge museum, the vast amount of) ' n "ii the light, front, -nG'!, b ,
Washington.
store fessor at, Yale. President Wilson re- + ma t,.|y $100,000 from his father. + Coolidge museum, the vast amount of
The Fred E. Tmld «loth.ng ^ mainw , jn J J
CHICAGO, Feb. 20 (UP)—Chicago
baptised its new Electric chair early
I.r.bl™.. of Kovornin.-I.t Ihere. 1 ' h „ (h.i, ,..b.
was renator from Indiana from l^.*.*
to iDll. ... . The two—Anthony Grecco. 19, mid Another bust like the me given t j ( . hal . |( ., Wa|l( 1}< _ w .. t | kl ,, to , |, Hir
" ' !« few minutes after midnight down
ian aisle of spectators. They were the
die in the electric chair in
il vvennesuay | . . tJ ar ,|j n w ( (i el J
Burgin and Goldstein of Cincinnati/ ^ regarding Coolidge after-inauguration
r,C< With February’s brief days fiittipg plans.
during the morning auction. ‘. . v( a rch 4 l«H>niing ahead, North- “Goodness, I don’t know.” he said. Tko hankrilllti’V salt* WHS COndlU’t^d , ^ ' U) 1 — .. A il “I Iftnir mCTii trvintf
~r lllillfiy IZV/MI inn zavisxrt. * ■iiuam»qsis f -vaov nstsv/uuw xja; ~ ' ( OoR ( Otillty.
And Frew- .j, .j. .j- .j. *j* knick-knacks and whatnots collected Mehurry hall. (jrecco, wIiom* nerve h id failed
before his term
Present winter is proving to be ent # _ _
the stated that all the goods would
, , -- ... ,..„/ing 10 oe 1 he Danxrupicy so.. —| . | ,h " 'nost severe in recent by Hays and Murphy. One of the firm , a ^ ( ^ ^ wh( , ther h( , t . oU | ( |
ill III
severe
everyone is hoping ,l <’f the winter ha
ory.
the T something about jhi- Coolidge homeint,, moved. Some fixtures have " rPm, > ( ^ n)ing buijneW(
‘ l»een sold. 0 . _ 1
Mayor Jesse A. G. “I stopped long ago trying to guess
do what Coolidge was going to do.”
Mrs. Coolidge’s Health Firs! ‘Don’t ask me,” retorted Major T.
by the family during five and one ; gradually as the rounty jail dock half years in the White House. THE WEATHER I ticked off the minutes befor midnight.
Already, 150 tightly (lacked boxes: Partly cloudy to cloudy. Probably' wa- marched to the chair first, fol-
have arrived from Washington, and ^now beginning tonight or Thursday towe l by a F'ranei.scan Priest. Hi th< re are more on the way. (n southwest portion and Thursday in walk became a shuffle as he neared
And he may be a president again east and north portions. Rising tem- the seat, manufactured in the Indiana —president of Amherst college. jperuiure. |State Prison.