The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 April 1931 — Page 1
+ * + * f llll " ' ^ F ' ,! e I \IU ’ ouL
THE DAILY BANNED
+ IMITBD PRESS 8ERVHH # * ALL THE HOME NEWi ♦ ii ^ H
yLUMETHIMY-NINE 'Sh, ASKS f
FOR RIDS ON llt\M STRICT
UREENCASTLE, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1!C1.
NO. 1G0
SOCIETY LEADER DIES
I NICK, FRANCE, April Mrs. Whiti'law Itckl. New
■“i (LT|— York so-
ciety leader, died today at the home , of hei daughter, Lady Ward, at Saint j Jean, Cap Ferrat. It was announced that the body
WILD GUSHER AFIRE; NINE WORKMEN DIE
rj,; 11,’KN Kl> XT Sl’KCI \l, ( ^ uld Ukcn l< > N ‘"' Yurk ^ »»"• I u , L u K L L H U K N S INt ON ' ' •II I I I \ \ V IC II I > l<il- T IF i »I I I.' I k 4 ' 4 I ' w' I IkL' 4*1 II C
MLFIINL Ilf 11*' ' NILHI,
M A ^ 15
yi’KOl’RI' 1 |ON nuA ‘ ,,xssl -" ful.
| ial
j Mrs. Reid's son-in-law and daugh- : ! ter. Sir John and Lady Jean Ward, i were at the bedside. Death was peace- I
IKOM.KI) CACSINt; DKATHS
AND HKAVY DAMAGE
— l "D MEN I!ADl.Y HI USED
cel I it'h•> are Diaeussed and Mailer Is Referred To Public l tilitics Coinmiltee
I H K M KAi HI If
(ienerally fair tonipht and Thursday: cooler tonight in central and south portions, with probably frost in
l*o Other Texas Oil Field Workers Missing. Tool Ericlion Spark Causes Conflagration
jny unanimous vote the city council j | lor ^|| . lll( | som ,, central portions; not
so cool Thursday in north portion. V. F. W. POST RACKS OXWM IN RESOIATION
POLICEMAN, BANDIT WOUNDED ! CHICAGO, April Jp (Ul’l A policeman who was visiting his brother’s restaurant while oil duty f ikght a gun duel with a holdup man today ami both were injured seriously. The officer, Detectivt Charle- Ki I ly, stopped on his way home from work this morning at the restaurant of hi- brother, William. A man idea tiffed as Charles Ryan, :;5, entered! and ordered the Kellys to hold up their hands. The detective drew higun and he and the bandit tired simul-
taneously.
Itoth men fell, Kelly with two 1mllet> through his shoulder, Ryan with a hole through his log. Ryan was captured by other pvicc.
PROGRAM OF \M ERIC A IN ISM
FISH SE VSON III CLOSE
GOV. LESLIE .i PROBES PENAL
FARM CASE -*»)
GLA DEWATER, Tex., April 29, (LT)—Fire raged uncontrolled about
a wild oil well near here today, claim- r | 1 ||||^ , V S Ik ( lift ing a heavy toll ef life and plofs-rty. ! A llALi » LjO It* fif
At least nine oil field workmen had i perished at the foot of the blazing column. Two other- were so seriou-ly ! burned they were not expected to recover. At least two unidentified men
are missing.
AD.ll I ANT OF POKI ISSCES SI ATE.MENT M EDMSliVk
MORNING
orkmen had little
regular session Tuesday evening ^cd a motion to give notice to collators that lads he received for the vingof H 'lina s' reel from the west * ,, r t v (in,. H.aana .-I reel to the At property line of Jackson street, ds will be opened at a special moetuf the council Friday evening, I
yv 15, at 7::t(i o’clock,
ffliis action was taken by the conn- !
after a second remonstrance'
Niiiet the proposed improvement) Tleil to materialize. A first remon-j
■amc w hir 1 lacked suffieient names i propiTty owneis on the street to! effective, wa- overruled by the) -ncil and notice was given to the re-
Nn-trators tiiat a second remoii-
thiicc could he filed which must have ■ ' ••.■ecty <*w II" • Ih Ig llll the street as signei s,
^pMiiiiatcd cost of the various types He. t" property ownei - i. n3"»- : ! ^ I Block I'aving $42,7K'.2.*>
i k Paving $.'ir>,-'22.’_\5 I
Hun i Paving *2:tJ<K2.2*, ■•"I Asphalt *27.602.2.', ■I 1 -’.iited, however, that these H 1 lelely the engineer’s Ht III i that bids must lie jess ■ In y i ,i i!d not he accepted. In i'- 1 dl on ' eti . t.s t he |, ..st mo H iimve tlie popular type of pave ! ■' ' in Greencn tie, it i- |irobable ( Hi tieet will !»■ iard surfareil j
■'
It , inii'ii also passed l>y unan- ' J 1 "** 1 '' r "' themselves the kind of lives j . (t nt , Hr by towns. Four bodies dropped Hi ftpecigl appropriation) * ke- ' M ve they are all tlll . pj t There wa slight hope
■ calling for additional appro Amerienn*
A of | '.n pi to meet deficien- Th * t " ,,r , ’ r '- tl "' r WfuniiaUon, th< 1 ■ ral fund Mnyoi W I v **«*•• of p « tn “ m I -.o the appropriations wen tount - v , ’ a ' 1 ^ l K ' , ' f t'' ct ' iirhl t " :lsk th "
univt rsity to Iumi 1'i.al McNutt, pa'*
CLOVER!)\LE ii\ri)\\ \m; co.
Ill a resolution adopted hy the local post of the Veterans of Foreign War-, President G. Bromley Oxnam is supported in the controversy arising out of statements by W. P. Evans. The
resolutions are as follow-:
That President Oxnam of DoPauw university i- a minister of the go-uel and is a firm lieliever in pence and strives in every way po.v-ible to maintain the peace of nations and tiiat only through international trades of I
Fed by tremendous pressure of oil and gas, the Sinclair Company's No. 1 Cole loared defiance to the men who fought feebly to control it. Hope for taming the gusher wtihin two days wa- -light, veteran oil field workers
said.
Spontaneous combustion of a spark
from tool friction was believed to have "‘tl't obtained a Lulu., ac, m ling to an set off the flames, which instantly on- j , * ,1 > morning che kup VV'- lnesday
Velopisi the well. So sudden was the i niorning I'N Je-se Mi 1
RADIO MISSING UCORDING ID K YKI t CHBCKI r HY STORI
M \NACER
Thieves who entele i , ( lovenlale Hardware and Lumbei ( ompany e--tahlishment in Cloverilale Toe day
11pen season on game fish will close { in Indiana at midnight Thursday, Walter Shirts, superintendent of the
Al-? I LT '|i )1\ '' >k '" ld R' i ‘ n ’ , division "t the -tate
* v/l* conservation department, announced i
1 Tuesday. Shirts said the law woul'l i
pri'tect bl;, k bus-, i»ck bass, blue i > I AKKS |N'«|UIKY tSTO RELEASE
> \ appics, \Ciln\s pru li, silvrr | | ^ y|
I Isis-, wall-eyed pke, pickerel and red- I IMl EXPIRES
| eared sunfish until midnight, June Hi,. ! when the -eason again will he opened. I I RI S I EES BEHIND HOWARD
1 ItOAt HDALE MOMAN IS Congressman Recently Mlcgcd Legion ' *.KI.N ID HOSPI I \L Supcrinlrndent H.icked Hy Hoard lit Was Inactive In Eighting t om- Wtion Releasing Fonner munislir Propaganda Mr- Jana Talhott, 74-year-old Net ( ouch ______ 1 re id, at of Rouchdale who was in- ______
... I jured when site fell off a chair at her INDIANAPOLIS. April 29. <Un-| ^ ^ W( . (>k sht . „ as mlju , t .
K CSS ELL ( (»OK (>C I LINES 1*01 It t OF I.KG ION N \ I It ES FOR
I HE FC I I RE
\\ WwW EK TO t II \ K (. E S
A constructive program of American-, . . . . , .
[ me window curtains, was taken to the
i.-in bv the American Legion was out-,,. . , ...
I Culver hospital m ( rawfoixlsville lined todav In Russell ( o k, bead ol ... . Tuesuay morning for an x-ra> exam-1
iimtion. It is believed po-silde tiiat she
Ralph Howard, superintemlent, and two trustees of the indiann -tate farm at PutnamviHe, appeared on i all liefore Governor Harry G. Lc.-lic to exI plain why Kenneth Hauk, formei bu -
legnm' tmeri in |ooeiam,
an an.-wer to charge- made bv Con-1 . ... , ,, .. ,. , , : I is surrering fixim a fraetuced hip. I he I .
gres.-man Hamilton hish. Jr., tiiat the tl t I t I I 1 , ' as '' , ‘ r, 'centlv from the state farm
kethall coae at .Merrillville wa
We
morning hy Je.-se MeC y, managei n! j Rivvs, and had warned all memher- to of the place. ! inaiiitaiii close watch on communisth
Entrance was game.I hy breaking; i,i etings -et for May I.
i out a I lack window, it wa- said. I I'ui'ks j Indiana communist- are reported *u ! indicated the thieves had driven up t" |„. pl aining a mar. h to the -tate ' the back of the'pin. in an lUtomobili )i,ili , t" demand relief frnm t. .\einor and had loaded the ladio and driven i j|aiT, G. Leslie, a a part of the na-
away after removing it from the | tion w.le program,
store.
No trace of the thi"v. - had lieen "htained early Wetlnesday and t ■ y l"tt only meagre clues t r Sberitf Mv a I try an and county Hiithorities to work Sheriff Itiyail wa- called to Clo
legion is inactive in fighting commun-j
istic propaganda.
“The legion believes it is more effective to battle propaganda with constructive work than by open, -tr ng-
handed methods,” Cook said.
Communists’ organizations planning demoii-trations May I will be repulsed by the legion if they over-top tile
hounds of free spoorh, t ook said.
He announced he had informed all ______ an listrict - i ega riling "bat | N( () |{|.;s KNOWN HEAD \ N D
• on.-'tltutfs infraction of froo simmh’Ii
full M*ntf*nio ha i ln*) |
DLAKES T\KE HEAVY TOLL NEAR MOSCOW
disaster that chance to esca|>o.
The fire was the most tragic of several recent blazes in the new and booming ea.-t Texa- fields, where IP persons have died within the last two
| weeks.
The well blew in beyond control
thought and friendship can peace be i Sunday night. Crews were trying to maintained, | subdue it, and were on the verge of
That he and the university have a perfect right to select any speakers nf any religion, creed or country they choose, to speak iieforr the student
body.
That the -indent body is composed of American citizens who are able to
success when the flames leaped around it last night. Its flow wa- estimated at 18,00u barrels of oil and 8,0(10,000 cubic feet of gas daily. As rapidly a.- the victims were dnigged from the region of intense heat the) were removed to Im.-pital-
on.
verdale as >0011 as eovered.
the thef: was di.s-
III REF. Nd. :.29;i
“The legion’s policy is to avoid violence," 1 00k -aid, "bit Legionnaires sl'.i'iild attend lommuiiists’ meetings,I t|uie!ly summon aiith lilies if laws of' I n e |n .' 1 are violated, all I then In'll)' in proseeutiun of tin leaders to the
full extent.
Cook predieted that hy -ueh action communists would nsoivo a sevcie Ids.- 111 the United State during the
-ummer.
before his
! served.
Governor Leslie iii(|tlii'ed into the Hauk release case a - a result of a personal visit to Indianapolis made by Judge E. Mile- Norton, of the Lake county circuit court, in pretest of the , parole action by the state farm of-
I ficiuls.
Records on the Hank ea- ■, presell!ed to the governor, showed the release was re ommelideil by the stale ( farm -upeiintendent and trustees ajter In had served do days of 1 (III 11 ^y sentence liei au-e it wa- the o|iinioli <i f the ffivials that he had not reeeiviid
MOSt ()\\. Xpiil 2P tl 1 1 ) I wo a toil trial. Judge Norton protcsUyl erious eartluiuakes have taken a before the governoi that llauk lur.d heavy toll of life and done wide dam- not been tried before a jury, out bald age in Trails Can asia. pleaded guilty to charge of contiilnrt Glviees leieivod today said (id per-j iuu to the <!flin<|ueiicy of Merrillviljo
mis vveft‘ know 11 dead, hundreds were
HI (.1 I’RDITRIA D \ M \(.l
IS REl’DRIED
P* time beiati-i of th. ity 0 (lay ing a special claim of
d" to Martha H. ('lark of Craw- , 1 .1 . ,
I body, and that tile
jilsvjlh to retire street improve-) _ „
honils wiiich she held. The other •|hii'ii|iiiatioiis were made at the same
Hi" to save further expense of no-
■ ' - to taxpayers later in the year.
Hi bi special appropriations were
1 In foi the Martha II. Clark bond-; o for -treet labor; $2U<l for public ‘rintiiig; S.vin for miscellaneous exand $100 for the fire tiuek
Jill.
I'M Hanna street residents peti-i i"iieil the council to rescind a pro- (
ion- order to removt
)'-t of Crown street on Hanna V'.'t and eight residents of
of recovering them.
The pillar of fire, more than 200 feet high, was an awe-inspiring spectacle through the night. Gladevva'.er, mtishioom oil village four miles aw ay.
national commander of the American 1 was swallowed up by the billows of Legion, to speak beforethe student j heavy smoke which -pread over the
St I
perfect right to refuse the request That the chapel committee on programs refused the legion request and the President Oxnam had no part in
the chapel programs.
That officers of the Jesse M. Let* L st 1550 V. F. W. has interviewed Picsidcnt Oxnam and find him a loyal supporter of America and American ideals. That through such men «.- President Oxnam there will he better understanding between nations and wars few and far between. The mem-
Vetcraii- of Foreign War-
university had n | countryside, intensifying the black
street light , . ,
i bers of th<
north ' kavc s, ' , ‘ n " iir ' war, lived the lives
» street (mtitioned the comlcil i ,,f s " l,,irr ' in mwl irr, " h '-'- , "' t fight at the corner of Daggy and ,lp '* s uniforn ’ s ’ an,i im> for anv I**** 0
,a ' liM "i streets. After a discussion
' mayor referred the light petitions the public utilities committee con-1 •'ing of eouncilmen lleamer Haven.-, j F Lukin and Otis Gardner, for aii| vc-tigation and report. A permit wa- given to Ott Hradoti a garage at :|05 Elm street. 1 ouneilmen were informed tiiat an (I'lditional chlorinator liad lieen inallei! at till' pumping plant of the) I'lrceni a.-tlc Water Company as reinmeialed by a state board of health J [wgineer. I Other business included the allow-! |r " "f regular claims against the [city. DillowiiiL' the regular meeting the U uncilmeii held a session behind 111 ' .I do rs w ith local business men. Gn nature of the conference was not 'livtilged. Husine-s men present in"(ded Frank Cannon, Gray Potter, Ih r-i ,el Foster and Paul Cook.
moves which do not endanger the re--pret of our glorious country and flag. That we are against any war or show of power such as Germany
showed in 1911.
That the local patriotic order- can handle their own local affair- without the aid of outsiders. That if President Oxnam and DePauv* university are so opposed to national defense and so opposed to Vmerican ideals, why do they maintain .111 R. O. T. C. and urge student-
to take the same.
No other flag ha- ever flown over the DePauw campus except Old Glory
nes- of the night.
\V. Tom Cole, owner of the plot on which the well was tapped, was the outstanding hero of the early hours of the uneven battle with the flame-. | Several times he went into the inferm to drag out bodies. His own burn
sent him to a hospital.
Glen Harrouil, head of the pioduction department of the Sinclair company, v»;i' directing the worker- when , the fire broke out. His brother wnimong the dead. He wa- uninjured. ! Stories of horrors came in from the I scene of the fire. One ImsIv was found j between the boilers. Two men leaped into a slush pit for protection, hut ‘ were boiled in the oil. A woman watched her husband's body he con-
sumed hy the flames.
An offsett well, 500 yards from the gu-lier was threatened hy the flames hut workmen believed the fire would not spread unless a higli wind arose. Veteran fighters from the Oklahoma fields were summoned to Ivlp in the -tniggle to throttle the well. KIRKLAND AGAIN ON TRIAL
MARQUETTE, Mieh., April 29 (UP) Convict No. i29:i otherwise known as Fred Hurki . allege ! prol'esional machine-gun killci toeay started the first 24 hours .a a liP ■ n tence in Marquette -tate peuitentiar.. liurkc who pleaded guilty in Joseph Monday to t . minder .. I policeman—was "ilre-sed in" sliortl; after 7 p. 111. last iiiglr, after officcrhad liroiight him here on a a' ii-mile
automobile trip.
He must -pend t least tin lo xt *,"11 or 12 years of his life hehind the walls of the brain h pri- n. known as ^ j one of the bleak 1 -t penitent ia t i - in the country. With good In avior, lie will he eligible fnt parole in 12 to 15
years.
Simlrn! Iturnnl In PovmIh' llliisl
VALPARAISO. Del., April 2!» (UP» Choosing definitely to stake bis life
POLICE HOLD THREE CHICAGO, \pril 29 (I’Pi Josep "Yellow Kid" \\ eil, iiotol ion - 1 n deuce man, and two a.'qii lintanee were held by poll e today a uspe tin the swindling of $ !7.imi) from Mathew Reinart, 75. Reinart wa.- to view th. trio in an attempt to identify them a the gang that took the money in Toledo,
0„ April 2'!.
Reinurt -aid • met “J. A Kill,” at a Martinsville, Did., sanitarium an I drove with him t" Indianapoii There they met “G. It. Mayo” and the three j of them played the stock market for I *.'11)11,0(10 profit ""(( paper." 'Tin y plan I ned further -pc. ulation, Reinar' said.) hut the other- had no money ai d he agreed to put up his $:|7,00" .. . n! |
i lateral.
EDWIN HOSM KI I. SAt ED FROM HI INDNESS ID (,l YSSKS IN POWDER EXPLOSION Ghis.-i - woin hy Edwin llo.-well, DePauw athlete, when powder ex plodcd Tuesilay afternoon, will save him fi ni) hlindiie -. ii.eording to Dr. John V Egan, t - attending p y -leiari, llosvvell vv .1 eV' i ely liarni d anollt t ie face and hands when gunpowder exploded while Roswell wa- engaged in military maneuvers of (he DePauw R.
O. T. C. unit.
'The blast s. aied hi> fan' and hands, burning off his eyebrow- and eyelashes. G la - -e - which he won were film kei.e I init I'm tunutcly were in a position to keep tlie lire from reach-
ing the eyeballs.
Roswell was taken to the office of Dr. Egan vv ere In* wa- given relief and later removed to the Putnam comity hospital. Dr. Egan -aid that although tin hums were painful they were not expeited to leave sears. Roswell i- a iiicinbcr of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and a -enior
in tlie university.
RE I S u: \ R’S S W. ARY
injured and many villages had been
destroy ed.
The KnrthiiO'ikes .lid great damage 111 the Tifli and Nakhitchcvan r<aei"li-, altiomg the city of Tifli- was not seriously damaged. Tiflis, capital of the mountainous Geolgia ii'gi"ii ill Caucasia, lie- between the Rlaek sea and the Caspian sea It i- an oriental city with many fine religious and iminieipal buildings. The population 1- about •'>27,000. The legion 1 the birthplace of .1 ,-ef V. Stalin, the Sov iet dictator, and member- of his family live there. N'akhitehevan, lying some IH(| miles south and slightly east of Tifli-, is situated in a Fertile region of Armenia near the Per .an frontier. It is the t'ity which hy tradition has heen called " The Oldest in Die World." The ! tenants of the Ark in which N’oall j e-caped the flood described in tile j P.iblc, vvi'le -uppo-cd to lia.e lived there, it was » famous city "f the
| A1 mciiia 11
ages.
'Tin population at about 7,000.
high -chool youths.
Roy Mrrams, Greencastle, and I 111 G. Klinger, llrazil, the tat. farm trustees vv .0 accompanied Supcrid tend, nt Hovv ar.l to the governor'- of fiie, indicated that they would land by their original lecomiiiendntion- in
tile Hank c.'i e.
l ; riii<r 01 \\ah‘s lloinr I mm Tom
HEIR Ml ({RU'ISH I HltoN I. ( oM PI I- I KS I RIP TO Sol III \ M ERICA
kingdom in the iiiiddl''
present is only
will never live to sec their Illness Fatal To Mrs. Ilrnrv Gash
P VSSF.s \W AY AT t lU N I Y HOSpil x , WEDNESDAY MORNING.
DN RESt UE FLIGHT I LNKRAI. FRIDAY MALMOE, Sweden, April 29 (UP)] f ’npt. Albin K. Ahrenberg, noted | xk vears old, wife "edii-h flier, started today fori Mrs. He.-, u t •' ’ ^rve miles
(liind, on a rescue mission on j nf Henry a ^'^ (lt the ^' lialf of a Hritisli explorer maroon-, northeast «'■ ( o-uital Wednesday ''d ")i tiu> ire cap in the interior ol Putnam .< aunty after an illness "" Arctic island. morning at '• ’|j c(l tions arising
Yugustine Cnurtauld, son of the. i f diulietes am <tie underwent an
British silk millionaire, has been iso | from this disea.-e. • ^ w |, ic h an
■ itc.l all winter in a meteorological I operation two . sheen* '"it on the ice cap, and was feared to I infected ' im '' ww .ks ago. m il. -pniate plight and in danger tered the inx-pi " i u . -or
"t starvation. A relief expedition has
' H ' , ')i unable to find him.
and those who wait for another, they 1 against possible freedom rather than I m 1 >v*■ to -ee their wi-h. accept a life sentence. Virgil Kirkland,
former Gary high school athlete, today faced his see..ml trial on charges' of murdering Arlene Draves, his 18year old sweetheart who died after a drinking party last November The youthful defendant, sentenced to life imprisonment mi the count tiiat Mi-.s Draves had died as the result of his hitting her, faced only two charges in the new trial murder by attack and murder by attempt to attack. Conviction on either count carries a mandatory death sentence in
Indiana.
A panel of men and one woman, Mrs. Ella Shelburne, W. C. T. U. worker, was called for prospective jury duty.
to no it 1,'Kin THIEVES IN OTIlKli' COI IMS
ST. I.Ol'IS, Mu., April 2* (I P)
Si. Louis Poat-Dfs-
Isaue D.
PUTN AM COIM Y SH E R I F F FAIL* i" ' l l TWO MEN M \N I ED HERE
John T. Roger
patch reporter to whom Dr.
Kelley, victim "f kidnapers, was released, received an entire year's salary as a hoiiu- for hi.s work on the disappearance rase, it was learrned today. . Rogers Long has Immui considered one of tlie outstanding reporters of 1
middle west.
MdRK UNDER (.1 MID ! HARLAN, Ky., \|»il 29 (UP) Shrriir .1 aid that nniilMyi'cs of the I'du Jtl;i( k Mountain coal mines went to work to iay under the |mote. tioli of armed (je|Mltn > with llo effort heinvr made to |ni. i vent them from
leachint* the shaft.
“All is (jiiiet." Blair said, and added, In did not expert an immediate recurrence of yesterday's outbreak in whieh hundreds • f shot- were tired it employes, and returned hy deputies with no known cuMualties. EX BEAUTY QUEEN MAY BE TRIED FOR KILLING SPOUSE NICK Kraiice. April (I’lM Mrs. (luiilott)’ Nixon NirdliiiKer. St Louis beau! \ ipieen held lor HllOOtillK lier tniMlmml to death. ina> he tried hy a jury which includes a nobleman and
a new spa per i »*po. ter
The panel was drawn in AhhIxom t'oillt lot the May session The op eidn^ of tin* teini is set for May IX and tin* American woman's trial wifi prohanly in* reaeiied three days lah*r.
WINDSOR, KN’tiLA\I>, \pril 2!) . I P) The I’rince of Wales came fly injf home t<»da> after a threr montli'.t tour of South Vmerica in the interi ds of Itritish Kmpire ^eixis. \ceonipanied i»\ I’rince (n'or^e, the llritish Heir < nd< <| In- trip o| more than 20.0110 mile- when lie arrived hy airplane from Paris and landed on Smith’" Lawn at 1:00 I*. M to iro at oiu'e to \N indxjr ( a."tie, where the LiiiLT and t^ueen ale in result me. Moth Prince- wen* in u »od health and apparently happy to he hack after their lonjf journey through e\en Latin \men« a an Iwepuhlics. Today's homecoininir united the Koval family ai»ain and was a threat day for little Princess Kli/.al>eth, \ is count I ascelle- and the lion. Herald Lavellrs, to whom the Prince of Wah - is “I’m le David. The kiiur ;hmI i|Ueen and other memher." of Hi" family have heen here since the fir t week of this month. r'ie Moom* hnljje will me* ♦ in regular session t’d- evening at X o’clock. All niemhei - mired to he pre cut.
Ki;\ i iL I KLAKKS
j \mi:s j. i.\sii. DIES Tl ESI) \Y
by five children. Nirg^ (f B „, |e
* nurtauld i- a member of the H. G. I ville; Mr.-. ' ai ' f riuvertlale’, •"")
'Gitkin- llritish Arctic air route ex- Union; Trank ' •' 1 Stella Pol-
'iitiun to Greenland. He was left in j Mrs. Ruth ‘ J • Iniiely observation post at a eon-1 lard, both of Sin > _
:iu post at a eon- , - - ... ' Arable distance •from the expedi-1 Funeral service.-' ' 1
S11A N k 11AI Open revolt
China. April against llie
are . wi"'i. i 1 - -—
affi- 1 Dictatorship” of General Chiang Kaieireuit; Shek at last has broken out in China
SHIP IN DISTRESS
held front
I Ulll llll- J - u j.
""' s with piovlaions enough to the Union Valley chunk near Heile
Th ‘‘'"‘l-iition’s air- ’ at lk 0cloC,t
'•"g-sled
out of commission anti a search party was unable d"
ov.
Union Friday morning at^U^^ten in charge of the R' . oil,.-ville
will be in the Milesunt
Interment ceihetery.
I’ERTH,‘Australia, April 29 (UU) The British steamer Demosthenes reported hy wireless today tiiat she was afire anil making for the port of Freemuiltle, Iwluw Perth. The fire was in the forward coal hunker and the situation was serious, the itfcssage said. The Demosthenes, an 11,223-ton steamer, sailed from Freemantle last Saturday for Liverpool. Her home port is Aberdeen.
Jesse Taylor and Curtis Taylor,j both of Marion county, who are charged with grand lareenv in
davits filed in the Putnam .
court by VV. M Staley, will 1» tried (after months of suhterrrunean rrumb-
in other counties, according to Sheriff. linngs.
Alva Bryan who returned from Imli-j Powerful political figures supportanapolis Tuesilay evening w • i'c *hi ed by military war chiefs throughout men were arrested. The local sheriff the laati, have joined in an attempt to failed to get custody of the two men. | overthrow Chiang hy hloodle.-s means Sheriff Bryan said one of the men [is possible, hut hy fighting if neee—
was taken to Johnson county where I-ary.
he was alleged to have stolen ponl'rv. while the other man would he t)>"d in Marion county, where he received nd held the stolen poultry and turkey-
on a farm. The funeral of Woodrow Webster, The two nuni were alleged to hive'who died Tuesday morning will lie stolen *150 worth of turkey from the held fiw.n the Providence chun in Staley farm, near Cloverilale, March Jefferson township Thursday m rn17. Part of the stolen turkey- u.'g. ing, with bin .Win Providenn . emereeovered i»y MW Staley aftei In- i "ii taiy. Tiie Rev. VV. E. Gill will be in
Jtified them in Indianapolis Monday."charge.
29 (CPt
IhihdIIhI MVNVGKR OF VVESIKRN I MON
OFFICE lo Bl. Bl HIED
COLFM HI'S
VI
El NEB VI- TH CHSDAY
James J. La-h. age li7 yi'ais, managin of the Western Union telegraph c* inpany ’ Jiere, passed away at his home, Iffo Arlington -treet, Tuesday evening at 6:0.5 o'clock following a -hurt illness of in'luenza. Mi. Lash had lieen manag. i of the Western Union office here -ince January, PJ.'IO. He came here from Columbus, where the body was taken for burial. M> is survived by the widow and several ’children. Funeral services will lie held at Columbus. H<' had lieen ill I r some time, hut a few days ago returned to work and ggain became ill. He made many friends in Greenea-tlc during his tesidence in thi., city.
GKKKNC 18 I I E VV EEK We found a “gem" at home T. I night. D was a circular of in In dianapolis - tore a d v c r t i s I n g "(irecnciistle Week." 44li- -toM pays no taxi 1 - in I'litiiain county. Il novel paid a cent to maintuiil our cement pavement on-l «if Greencastle, yet it sny- it will do liver free, over thi- read, any irtide we vv ant. In the circular we found this “IVe have piantied tin- event lie cause we already have -o many customers in your town and they have proven -uch very ilesirable patron- that wc ii re now after tlie trade of every resident in .r near your city. It will he a big week for your people." And again it says; "Mention thi* fact that you ire from Greencastle and you will r<* reive special attention." That special attention is pi iliably to sell us some merchanil’-e tiiat we can buy cheaper at home than in Indianapolis. Huy from a h.cai merchant win, helps ns o n our taxes, who spend- hi.- nuniev with u- and others and one who has an interest in Greenca-tle other than the dollar- and cents we might have to -pend will) him. , I'hc Indiiinaii.di- fellow "iilv want- [ our cash.--lYie Observer.
V
o