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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEM BER 2,1931.

NO. 39

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PACK El) FOR ADDRESS BY MRS. BLACKMOKE

DISCUSSES BAFFIN LAND Speaker Born and Raised In Baffin Land. Tells Many Interesting Stories of Arctic

Dressed in native costume, Mrs. Elizabeth Blackmore, of Indianapolis, described further the habits and life of the Eskimos in Baffin Land in her return address Tuesday evening at the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Blackmore who spoke in this city in November was brought back to Greencastle due to numerous requests to the Delta Theta Tau sorority which sponsored her appearances. At the beginning of her talk, .Mrs. Blackmore stated she did not wish to repeat stories and incidents she told about in her first visit. However, she did say that she wanted it distinctly understood that the Eskimos in Baffin Land, where she was bom and grew to womanhood, are not blubber eaters. They dislike fat as much as you do, she said. Of the Eskimos in Alaska and other places she could not say, bu* the natives of Baffin Land, Hudson Bay and northern Labrador do not eat

fat.

Mrs. Blackmore went on to tell of seal hunting and how the Eskimos would spear the seals at air holes in the ice. She said the Baffin Land natives live on raw meat and fish. Since coming to America, she told of ’-eading about the various diets of the Eskimos but never once had seen in print anything regarding the white whale, one of the principal food supplies. In mentioning black whales, Mrs. Blackmore said this specie was very scarce, and that she only saw one during her life in the Arctic. Eskimos in Baffin Land are most sensitive concerning their beliefs or faith. They believe that those who die will be born again, perhaps the second time as a girl instead of a man or as a man instead of a girl. Ther a i <?,. !«hoi U wvkUng-f«3 tivities in Baffin Land, she said. When a man sees a girl he wants, his parents barter with her parents for the young woman’s hand. Sometimes only three dogs are asked or it maybe that new seal skins are needed by the girl’s parents to make a new tent. When the deal is completed the man goes after the girl, who probably had no inkling of the arrangements. Mrs. Blackmore said the girls would yell, kick and bite if they had a chance, this being the Eskimo sign of modesty. Some Eskimos formerly had three wives, she asserted. No native couli provide skins enough for more than that number and the girls have to be dressed as well by their husbands as

tion. L inally they found some ice and melL-d it in the tin box by the heat of the candles ami obtained drinking water. Here Mrs. Blackmore stated that they do not eat snow in Baffin L * nd » it Injur,, their throats. It was necessary to kill two of their dogs to feed the others to enable them to pull the sled and her mother who was ' rapped in a bear skin and lashed to the framework. Finally, the third night, the dogs caught the scent of their home and they were soon safe but it was an ordeal that Mrs. Blackmore declared she would never forget. In closing she told how she happened to come td America, as the question had been asked her manv times by Greencastle friends. Mrs. Blackmore vividly described the death of her husband. With a friend the two were fishing in a canoe which suddenly capsized. Mr. Blackmore, a splendid swimmer, was aiding his friend towand the shore when they were suddenly attacked by shaxks ami lost within a stone's throw of where Mrs. Blackmore was standing. With the assistance of three Eskimos, Mrs. Blackmore went out in another boat

OLD ENGLISH OPERA PROVES MOST PLEASING

“BEGGAR'S OPERA” PRESENTED IN SPEECH HALL TUESDAY EVENING

ENACTED BY LONDON CAST

ROAD BONDS SOLD Hie Morgan and Putnam county road bonds were sold today. The Martinsville Trust Co. bought the Morgan county bonds and the First National bank of this city the Putnam county bonds. They were the only two bidders. The bonds sold at par. The road is on the Ashland township line near the Amity church. Construction will begin next spring.— Martinsville Reporter.

YOUNG WOMAN SHOOTS SELF ACCIDENTALLY

MRS, EDITH LAWSON TAKEN TO COUNTY HOSPITAL WHERE BULLET IS REMOVED IS EXPECTED TO RECOVER

Special Orchestra Music Adds Much To Enjoyment Of Famous Production at University

That there is no depression in Greencastle when something good in the way of art visits the city was demonstrated Tuesday night in the Little Theater when a packed house was present to see the English company present "The Beggar’s Opera.” DePauw has few opportunities to bring to the campus outstanding organizations of this type. A few years ago the Ben Greet players came to the campus with Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and was also accorded a fine recep-

tion.

“The Beggar's Opera" left the audience divided. Some left the theater with a large question mark across

COLOR! 1) MAN ARRAIGNED ON BOOZi: CHARGE

Hammer Of Gun Catches As It Removed From Pocket. Bullet Lodges In Back

OFFICERS FIND HALF FULL FIVE GALLON JAR OF WINE

IN HOME SUNDAY

Three weeks later, the captain of a southbound boat persuaded her to take her three small daughters and go to civilization where the youngsters could be properly educated. After stays in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Montreal, Toronto and Detroit, Mrs. Blackmore and her family located in Indianapolis. During her talk, Mrs. Blackmore exhibited various articles of Eskimo life such as a dogs team lash, a drum, an Eskimo yo-yo and different kinds of skins.

j Mrs. Edith Lawson, wife of Robert Lawson, who accidentlly shot herself I in the abdomen Tuesday afternoon I about 2 o’clock at her mother’s home j on north Indiana street, while handling a revolver, was expected to re- ; cover Wednesday following removal of the bullet at the cour.ty hospital late

Tuesday evening.

It was said the bullet entered her abdomen and lodged in her body. A 1 physician was called and he rushed her to the county hospital in an ambulance where he later assisted an Indianapolis surqeon in an operation to

remove the bullet.

Although it was feared at first that the wound would prove fatal, the at-

about and why. Others were voluable Allison entere a plea of not guilty tending physician reported Wednesday with their praise. At least it w r as , and Judge Jame, P. Hughes fixed his morning that unless unexpected cornsomething unusual and different from bond in the sum of $300 and set his , plications developed, Mrs. Lawson

Mort Allison, age about -15 years, who is said to reside In south Greencastle, was arraigned this after noon in the Putr.,m circuit court on a charge of posset'hon of liquor. He was ai rested Sunday afternoon by officers after they found a partially filled five-gallon glass bottle of wine In a house he owns in Keightl y

and searched in vain for her husband. ‘ their faces w undering what it was all; town.

FARMER IS TORTURED AND ROBBED

LEWIS O’CONNER, 59, BADLY BEATEN IN HOME SOUTH OF CLOVERDALE

Lew-is O'Conner, age 59 years, bachelor farmer living on Eel river be tween Cloverdale and Cataract, was tortured and robbed by a gang of four or five men, Monday night. It was said O’Conner was called to the door of his home about 11 o'clock by se\eral men who forced their way in when he opened the door. Once inside they seized the elderly man, tied him to the bed post with sheeting, and then beat and tortured him in an effort to force him to reveal money which they believed he had hidden

about the premises.

It was said they applied burning paper to the soles of his feet and beat

him about the face and head. They

they were before marriage or the par 1 finally departed after ransacking the ents could take their daughters back ! house and securing $15 which the eld-

the average things seen and heard here both on the stage, and in the mo-1

tion pictures.

Like all early English plays, it was | presented without scenery, the stage : being draped in a neutral curtain with simple doorways for entrances. A few stools, a table or two w r ere the only properties required despite the fact that there were three acts and five different scenes to the last two acts. While the voices were not the best that have been heard here, the characters could be complimented for the w'ay in w-hich they stayed in their various roles. It was difficult to follow unless one were familiar with the time in which the opera had been written and presented. The actions, words and songs were extreme but the

trial date for De imber 11 Armed with c search warrant for Todd Wagner, also colored, who hus evaded arrest or. liquor charges for several weeks, a party of officers consisting of Sheriff Alva Bryan, deputy sheriff Edward Eiteljorge, and Marshal Otto Dobbs and policeman Roscoe Scott, went to the Allison house Sunday aUernoon looking for

Wagner

Marshall Dobbs v ent to the front door of the house and knocked, the door swinging open to his knock. Sitting on a table in full view was the partially filled bottle of grape wine and another jar :n which wine was brewing. The officers also found several bushel bas- ts of wild grapes and a number of empty bottles in the

would recover.

It was said that Mrs. Lawson, who had been living with her husband and one child at the William Anderson home on noith Jackson street was removing her goods to the home of her mother on north Indiana street. It was -aid that she had the gun pushed down into the pocket of her coat and in removing it at her mother's home the hammer caught on the coat pocket, discharging the gun. The bullet penetrated her right side, passing through the abdomen and lodging in her back under the skin from where

It w as removed

ternoon and evening it will be open to local and out-of-town people who 1 will attend the Church school leaders’ i conference. On Wednesday the exhibit 1 will be open to the general public. At 2:30 Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 9, Dr. Warren T. Middleton of the psy1 ehology department of DePauw University, will give a lecture on toys. Everyone is invited to attend this lec-

ture.

A special display of state and fcdI eral literature on children’s health : and welfare will be an added feature 1 of the exhibit. | In the past, most adults have i bought toys promiscuously because l they suite 1 their fancy or their pocki etbooks, without really considering the effect they would have on the recipient. They did not tealize that the child's pleasure was slight if the toy was not suited to Iris age and his physical and mental needs. That the wrong type of toys, too many or too few toys, might have a destructive effect on the child’s character and general development, never entered their minds. The pampered child with nothing to do but wind the springs of expensive mechanical toys has had his imaginative and creative abilities warp(Continued on Page Two) W ABASH R. R. IN HANDS OF RECEIVERS

INDIANA MAN CROWNED U.S. CORN CHAMP

EDD1F. LUX OF SHELBYVILLE WINS NATIONAL HONOR AT CHICAGO SHOW

IIOOSIER

BOY

SELECTED

William Sander®, Jnhn-.-on County, Judged Vmerica’s Hcalthisct Boy At International Exhibit

ACTION RESULT OF PETITION FILED BY MOSS TIE COMPANY

INTERNATIONAL LIVE STOCK EXPOSITION, Chicago, Dec. 2 (UP) —Oakleign Thorne, wealthy New York state stockman, invaded the midwest to win the grand ehampion thip at the stock show on bief te r Vit the com crown remains >n the corn belt. Eddie Lux, grain former from Shelbyville, Ind., is the “Corn Kin: ' of North America. By winning, h keep the title in the fnm ly for the fourth time in 12 years- His broth i. Peter Lux, whose farm is rear II! | die’.-, won the trophy in 1919, 1922 nn 1 1929. Th : N>ur sons of E Idle Lux, Victor, Frank, Maurice and Thomas, are Junloi KingsWhile the judging of live toe’ ! went on in the arena and expert' : pored over the ears of corn at the hay and grain show, the healthiest boy and girl in the United States were being chosen late yesterday at the La Salle Hotel. Gertrude Heikes, 16, Dakota county. Neb., a pink-cheeked Miss who

wears “sensible shoes,” eats three ST. LOUIS, Dec- 2 (UP)—The Wa- square meals a day, exorci es a lot bash Railway company with 2237 and does not drir.k coffee, le alone miles of track in six Mid-Western anything stronger, was adjudged the states, and headquarters here, was in healthiest girl- She scoped 99.9 per the hands of receivers today. cent, the highest mark ever made by Federal Judge Charles B. Davis ap- any' contestant in health contests pointed Frank C. Nicodemus Jr., N. sponsored by the *Four-H Gubs. Her

play had been written as a satire. ; back room of the home

The satire itself was as modern today as in the eighteenth century when the opera made its record breaking ap-

pearance.

A special orchestra was in the pit to play the musical scores. The popularity of some of the “hits” was attested to by the fact that frequent encores were demanded throughout the production. These the actors ob-

Destroying the grapes and brewing wine, the officers seized the glass bottle of wine a > evidence and started a search for ** Allison- They later found Allison at the Bert Woods restaurant and locked him in jail. Allison later was released on his own recognizance but was ordered to appear before Judge Hughes this afternoon after i chemical test of the

Educational Toy Exhibit

tigingly did. The liberette was a bit , w ; ne disclosed that it contained 5.95

difficult to follow although the anticipated English accent to words did not appear despite the fact that it was an English company direct from the Lyric theater in London. The opera ends with the problem of having a happy solution to an otherwise tragedy despite that the fact that the hero finds himself with two wives

on his hands.

percent of ale »hol.

home. In a household where there was more than one wife, the man was spoken about as "our husband” not "my husband.” The man is always the "boss” and although the women may quarrel among themselves, the husband’s decision is law. Mrs. Blackmore described an Arctic blizzard in which she and her mother and two Eskimo guides narrowly escaped with their lives. One Christmas when she was 14 years of age, this little group went by dog team to a mission house, a day’s journey from their owti home, at the urgent invitation of a German missionary’s wife. They stayed until after New Year’s and when they left, the German lady gave Mrs. Blackmore a little tin box containing three Christmas candles

erly man had in his trousers. They also stole a gun. O’Conner worked his way loose from his bonds about 2 o’clock in the morning and went to the home of a brother, Bass O’Conner, who lives nearby. He was taken to Cloverdale the following day for treatment. O’Conner said that four men entered his home and that he believed one other stayed outside. Robbers a week ago held up and robbed a Cataract

store keeper.

10% NAt.E reduction NEW YORK, Dec. 2, (UP)—The Canadian board of consolidations today recommended a wage reduction of 10 per cent on Canadian railroads, according to a Bow, Jones and Co. Ottawa dispatch.

PROHIBITION QUESTION UP WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, (UP)—A forthright effort by administration Republicans to settle the prohibition question during the coming session of congress was believed assured today. The first ray of light on the attitude of Republican leaders was shed by Rep. Snell, Repn., N. Y'. Snell, selected by the Republi ans to stand for the speakership of the house, frankly declared he would seek to get the Republicans to tackle the prohibition issue and "try to get it over with." “I believe something out to be done about prohibition,” he said after a conference late yesterday with President Hoover. "I am convinced the prohibition question is going to have to be met squarely and without too much delay.”

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CHPISTMAS’/) GREETINGS !93l _ r

"»NNI'AI

INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK Hogs 8,000; mostly 5c lower; 160 to 210 lbs. $4.40 and $4.45; 210 to 250 lbs. $4.35 and $4.40; 250 lbs. up $4.20 to $4.30; 100 to 160 lbs. mostly $4.45; packing sow's $3.50 to $4. Cattle 1,300; calves 700; no depend able action on slaughter classes; early movement insufficient to establish quotations; sentiment lower; vealers 6UC lower, $7.50 down. Sheep 1,500; lambs up 25c or more; bulk good and choice $5.75 to $6.00; top $6.25; throwouts $3.50.

physical education TEACHERS TO MEET Physical education teachers of Putnam county are to be relieved December 8 in order that they may attend a health and physical educational con ference at State Teachers College Terre Haute. The meeting has Been arranged by the state department of public iinstruction in cooperation with institutions of higher learning in the state. *

LOCAL MERCHANTS COOPERATE WITH A. A. U. W. IN GIVING

AN EXHIBIT

The city of Greencastle which is I widely recognized as a center of modern education is soon to offer an un- : usual educational opportunity to its . citizens. It is to be one of the first I cities in Indiana to have an edueationI a! exhibit of toys and play equipment. | A similar project was sponsored by I the Indianapolis Branch of the American Association of University Wom-

. -r,, - Mrs. Frances Doan Straight off,

m \| \\r,K

" ^ " ! chairman and is recognized as a pion-

—■ ■ ■■ eer in the field.

The Indianapolis exhibit was highly

successful and has been copied in several large cities. This winter twen-ty-one branches of A. A. U. W. in various parts of the United States, will have imilar exhibits suited to the

assistant general counsel, and

Walter S Franklin, President, as receivers late yesterday on a petition of the Moss Tie company and wfih

t he consent of the railroad. The complaint of the Tie company,

which claimed indebtedness of $49,-

651, alleged the Wabash earnings ercises a lot, eats all he wants, and were in.-ufficient during the year to does not use tobacco or other stimumeet interest charges of $6,806 389 lates. "Yes, I like girls if they’re on $105,947,30^ bonded mdebtednens. nice,” avid WjHjpro

teeth prevented a perfect score, doc-

tors said.

William Sanders, 18, Johnson County, Ind, scored 99.1 per cent and was adjudged the healthiest boy. His teeth were not perfect and he had a small blemi h near his left ear. He, too, ex-

COAST GUARD BULI ETS SINK

CREW OF REVENUE CUTTER RESCUE OCCUPANTS OF

LIQUOR POWER BOAT

WOODS HOLE, Mass., Dec- 2 (UP —Explosion ad fire sank the $40,-

000 alleged r m boat, Star, off horse aee i of their individual communities. Neck Beach early today after coast j The Greencastle Toy Exhibit is guards pump'd machine-gun bullets sponsored by the local branch of the at her during a mile chase. A. A. U. W., assisted by members of The seven members of the Star's | the Pre-School Study Group, the crew, two of whom suffered burns, Adolescent Study Group, and the were rescued by the crew of the coast Mothers’ Study Club, with the cooperguard patrol boat S13 and taken cap- ation of local and In lianapolis mertive to base 18 here 1 chants who handle children’s equip-

As flame.? swept the Star, coast ment.

guards rescued and arrested all seven The following local merchants are members of her crew, two of whom cooperating. Cannon Clothing store,

Liabilities of the Wabash exceeded book values of its assets by $6,00<J,000 and gross earnings for the ten months ending October 31 were $11,-' 200,000 under a similar period last year, the complaint said. The complaint says $4,730,476 of th“ railroad’s liabilities were for material

and supplies.

One of the principal factors in the reduced earnings of the Wabash, it was said, was the affect which the business deptes-ion has had on the automobile industry. The Wabash, running into Detreit, depended a great deal on auto shipments for revenue. Since the 1929 stock market crash reduced shipment® of cars has cut Wabash revenue. Truck competition and the policy of transporting cars to markets under their own power resulted in reduced j'come for the Wabash-

State Farm Is Given Contrail

TO PROVIDE BRICK FOR NEW CELLHOUSE AT INDIANA STATE PRISON

were painfull)' bunted. Coast guard machine gun bullets, spattering into the rum boat's engine room, had caused the blast just as the 813 came

along.

During the 6l3’s pursuit of the Star,

THE WEATHER

Fair, Slightly warmer extreme north j cu ^^ 5 agen’ranT‘po"lice‘ o7shore portion tonight; Thursday fair and ^ arrestin? fjve SU8 pe cte d rumsomewhat warmer. smugglers and confiscating an esti-

mated 2,000 cases of contrabrand, worth perhaps $160,000, which allegedly had been landed by the rum boat.

Rivvaiiis Club To Fete Tiger Squad

WILL HOLD BANQUET THURSDAY EVENING IN HONOR OF DEPAUW GRIDDERS

Thursday, December 3, from 12:15 to 12:45 p. m C. S. T., over the Columbia Broadcasting system will be broadcast the announcement of win-

Luuk Hardware Co., Browning-Ham mond Hardware Co., Hamilton’s Book Store, Hanna’s Book Store, Murphy’s Five and Ten Cent Store, Horace-Link Co., Tresslar’s Store, J. C. Penney and Co., Pitchford’s, S. C. Prevo and Co., The University Shop, and the City Library. These merchants are generously lending such merchandise as toys, play material*, books, magazines, furniture and clothing. Many private families also are lending

equipment.

The exhibition is scientifically planned and wil Ibe divided into nine sections under the headings, the Infant, the toddler, the runabout child, the

Gertrude blushed and declined to answer when asked if she had thought anythin? about a husband. Eddie Lux was slightly ill at a hotel and was not present when the "Corn King” was announced. His brother Peter acknowledged for him Lux’s exhibit was 10 ears of white

corn.

Reserve championship in corn went to Churchill Barr, Tipton, Ind., on Yellow Corn. Both the champion and the reserve champion raised theii corn in yellow clay loam. Lux ploughed his field four times and used a common fertilizer. His crop was estimated at 86 bushels to the acre Thorne, the Eastem°r wko -iw-p t that a retired Wall Street financier i an rais ? a better teer than any other stockman in the country, lives at Thomdale, tb' country estate near Pine Plains, X. Y., CAPT. FRANK H VW KS HAS N VRROW ESCAPE YREKA, Cal , Dec. 2, (UP)—Captain Frank Hawks, holder of manv speed records, today told how he came close to disaster when h" surldenlbecame blind while flying ario s the Siskiyou mountains. Hawks was attempting a record flight from Vatu ouvor, B. C. to Agu ’ C’lionte, Moxic-. roster lav wh n ' became suk while his low wirged monoplane was buffe ed about by

varying win ’s.

"I tried several times to bring the ship down, but I was afraid I couldn’t r ■ 1 !t,” the fam ms fllor said in ha-

bere. “Things would

go black. I tried to find the Montague field, bu* I couldn’t see. I wa.

ners of the International Harvester kirdergartner, elementary school j scholarship contest. Names of the | child, evenings at home, group activ-

10 Owinners will be given at that time.

Members of the DePauw football squad, champions of the Indiana secondary schools for the second consecutive season, will be guests of the Kiwanis club at a banquet in the Methodist church at 6:30 o’clock Thursday evening. In addition to the players, Raymond Neal, head coach, and his assistants, Donovan Moffett and L. C. Buchheit will also be present. Moffett, athletic director of the univer-

sity, is a Kiwanian.

A special program has been arranged for the occasion. Styrt talks

The board of trustees of the Indiana state pi'icon has awarded the contract for 600,000 brick for a new prison cellhouse to the Indiana Stale Farm at Putnamville, at a price of $11 per thousand. A number of firriii,

including two Michigan city and one hospital room

Illinois company, submitted lower

bids than did the State Farm.

According to John L. Moorman, af'aid f era ing. chairman of the board, the contract Hawks collapsed imrpedi.atolv after was let to the penal farm as a mat- he landed hi- ane in a f HM at Gre ter of reciprocity. The penal farm a da, a few n south o: here. Ho buys prison-made shoes and other ^ lifted from Me cockpit,

goods. •

PROBE BANK FAILURES DIVORCE IS ASKED CHICAGO, Dec. 2, (UP)—John

Bain, who came to America as r

Ethel Marie Knauer filed suit in Scotch emigrant lad and built up a the Putnam Circuit court Wednesday i2-bank chain which collapsed la®‘ against Ernest Lovell Knauer, for a j une Nvas held for the grand jury to-

20 Years Ago

In GREENCASTLE

ities, homemade toys, books and magazines. Each section will be presided

over by a committee of women who divorce and custody of their 17-mor.ths jay as were his two sons and a son-in

old child. According to the complaint i aw ^ ..'barges growing out of invest.-

Jacob Kiefer wras in Terre Haute on

business.*

Mrs. J. P. Allen', Jr., has issued invitation, for a thimble party. Mrs. A. E. Ayler was a visitor in

Indianapolis.

Prof. R. A. Ogg is one of the speak-

by the coaching staff and eadi of the J era at the Parkfc county teachers’ in-

players will also feature the banquet, stitute at R*-kv:lle.

have made a special study of their subject and wdll answer questions and given general information to those attending. Posters for each exhibit are being designed by the local art classpr under the supervision of Miss Edris King and will be on display the latter part of the week in windows of the

I stores cooperating.

The Toy Exhibit will be held in the community, hall of the Methodist 1 church on the corner of Locust and | Simpson streets on Tuesday and Wed- ’ r.c^iay, De:. £ a::d 9. On Tuesday af-

the couple was married April 6, 1929 Ration of the bank faiulres. and separated November £f>, 1931. Bain, who has been seriously ill durThe plaintiff charges that her hus- i n g the study of the banking affair' band used intoxicating liquor, called was not arrested. The other thrr" Her vile names'and refused to support were jailed pending posting of $10,000

her and their child. Fred V. Thomas bond.

is attorney for the plaintiff. Judge Michael Feinberg who hr conducted a search for assets of th" ROTARY MEETS defunct chain ordered the four hell The regular luncheon of the Rotary to « :iaiu! ut . on churg s of e , club Wednesday was addressed by H. bezzlemer.t, obtaining money on fal H. Ellis, Greencastle, who spoke on pretenses and operating a confident

the itatc unemployment situation- came.