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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1932.

NO. 83

machinery OF CONGRESS IN HIGH GE AR

Lady Law-Maker

EXPECT $2,000 000,0ft FINANCE | BILL TO GO TO WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT

hoover ready to sign

— Both Senate And House Push Efforts j To Brine About Relief For United States

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, (UP)— Hoover program for the reconstruction finance corporation to put two bililon dollars into the war against depression completed its journey through congress with adoption by the house and senate of the conference j report, and was ready for the presi- j dent’s signature late today.

WITT CASE NEARS JURY VT LEBANON

MRS. ALLEMAN DIES

INVALID woman proves star R! hi I I VL WITNESS IN MURDER TRIAL

Mrs .Mary Alleman passed away Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. T. Briggs, 712 oast Seminary street. The funeral will be held Saturday at her old home in Argos, Ind.

YOUNG KILLER GOES CALMLY TO IMS DEATH

“Wet** Hat in Ring

TESTIMONY ASSAILS ALIBI

Miss Sue 'hm >cr Asserts Slaying Suspect Did Not Reach Kansas 1 mil After Killing.

ROBBER LEAVES No( LUES JASPER, Ind., Jan. 22, (UP)—' County authorities had r.o clues to identity of three men who lat, yesterday held up Albert Lowenstine, cashier of the First National Bunk of Holland, Dubois county, and escaped with over $1,000 in cash and negotiable securities.

FRANCIS CROWLEY DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR SLAYING POLICEMAN

ROSARY CLASPED IN HAND

State of New York Claims Life Youth Who Never Knew His Mother

REVOLUTION STOPPED LEBAN1 .. Ind., Jan. 22, (UP)—

1 tries Vernon Witt, ac- MADRID, Jan. 22, (UP)—A revolu- ' Ul 1 ' Lafayette Jackson, I tj onarv movement in several towns of

was e\p( | to go to the jury in

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, (UP)— Congressional machinery was geared today to send the $2,000,000,000 reconstruction finance corporation bill to the White House by tonight, barring unforeseen legislative slips. A cursory examination by the treasury department and a stroke of the ]>en by President Hoover are all that remain to make the measure law, ami set in motion the most ambitious vehicle for pumping new life into business this country has ever seen. President Hoover should be ready to affix his signature by tomorrow night. The house was scheduled to take up the conference report, compromising differences between house and senate bills, soon after it convened at noon. Chairman Steagal of the banking and turrency committee predicted prompt approval. The report then will go to t it ssnate where quick disposal is pre dieted. Vice-president Curtis and Speaker Gamer then must sign the measure before it is taken by messenger to the White House and laid on President Hoover’s desk. The president last night sent a brief ,pe ial message to the house, asking prompt approval of the $500,000,00(1 appropriation called for in the bill. (1 airman Byrns of the appropriations ceintnitti'e said he would begin hearings today, with undersecretary of the Treasury Mills testifying. The $500,000,000 appropriation is a corollary to the main bill, which appropriates no money. The second bill probably will be rushed through in

short order.

The chief executive found on his oe.sk today another important measure ready for his approval the first of thu series which the administration is -ponsoring to pour new funds into agriculture, business and industry.

.If you were to sing to this fair lady, “Where are you going, my pretty maid?’’ she’d probably tell you that she was on her way to help make a few laws for the State of West Virginia. She i- Mrs. Lucille Scott Strite, of Berkeley Springs, W Va who inly woman member of the State Legislature! now in «salon at Charleston

BRUNEI! iT ^S PRE-E ASTER SERMON SERIES

CHRISTIAN CHURCH PASTOR

PREP AR1 J iEVERAI INTER ES I INI. RELIGlOI S I YLK The Rev. B. 11 Bruner, minister of

the Chiistian church will preach the

to go to

Boone cii tut court today. , Mi s Su. Sawyer, who was taken from her k bed at lola, Kan., and rushed to the courtroom, proved the state’s star rebuttal witness. Witt’s defense was built on testimony that he and Louis Hamilton, who al is charged with the murder of the chai.i grocery owner, were at

Hamilton’s home in lola last May 27,

•t he day Jack ion was slain.

Catalonia was put down by government troops with a firm hand today.

The interior ministry announced the

movement had been suppressed everywhere except at Berga, where 14 men were barricaded in a house. They were i

given one hour to surrender.

Troops arrived at Berga, the north- i

ernmost point of the troubled area, w '^ out a trace habitual !na\ and surrounded the house, occupied by j !ir * 0 ’ "* s scn, l n ’Y * ove

; n* : fl.1 mot.

OSSINING, N. Y„ Jan. 22, (UP)— Francis Crowley, boastful, hateful, 21 yea rold killer, who fought oni when armed, died calmly in the electric chair last night, his hands clasping a frosary, his last Words for the woman wh sent him that rosary—the woman who bore him, deserted him at birth, and remained a stranger until

death.

“My last wish,” he said calmly and

PLIGHT IN FLOOD AREA IS SERIOUS

UNITED PRESS WRITER MAKES AERIAL SURVEY OF ININ DATED SECTION

FOOD AND MEDICINE NEEDED

Numerous Villages Under Water,. Inhabitants Flee To Hills To Escape Raging Torrent

rebellious miners. Two miners fled j m °ther. * .and were captured- They said their j V ho that mother is, ( row ley did

Mi- Snv .c, v. lives across the com| . ades inside W( , re well-supplied ; not kll0W

Where she lived, he did

street from tiic Hamilton home, said Witt and Hamilton did not arrive un til May 29, two days after Jackson was killed in a holdup in Indianapolis. Judge John M. Hornaday announced he-would not instruct the jury in lesser degrees of homicide. If Witt is found guilty, death will be mandatory under Indiana law providing the death penalty for murder committed

during a holdup.

FIREMEN MAKE RUN

City firemen made a run to the home of Prof H. B. Gough, 1009 south

with lilind grenades. Absorption 01 County Roads Wedekinds Idea o HIGHWAY COMMISSION CHAIRMAN 81 6GES18 PLAN I ()R TAX REDUCTION

CANNELTON, Ind , Jan. 22, (UPi

first sermon next Sunday morning in College avenu*:, Ihursday afternoon j—Abeorbtion of the 40,000 miles of a special senes to be completed be- about 4.45 o'clock, when a flue burn- j county roads in Indiana into the state

fore Easter Sunday. The sermons will 'Off ° u t alarmed resident of the house, be built around the great questions No damage was done. • of the last week in the life of Jesus.

Local Girls In

The following questions will be discussed: 'The Question About Jesus,” "The Question About Authority Ip Religion,” “ The Question \hout Na tionalism -God or ' aesar,'' 'thi Question \bout tin- End "1 the World,” "The Question About the Greatest Commandment, the Que ' tion About Truth” and “The Questioi About Placing Je.-u ” The material

in these sermons will be published in The elimination contest for 4-H club book form by the Ray Long & Rich of Putnam, Vigo, Sullivan and Verard R. Smith Inc., Publish* i of New million countie, will be held at Tern York City. This will be the last spe- Haute Saturday, January 23. Several

j not know. Why sho bore him, he did not know except that he had heard of her love story. It had embittered him, made him a "cop hater” from grade

school days.

Crowley’s father was a policeman. His mother a housemaid. He was un-

wanted-

Today his mother, the story goes, is remarried. Her husband does not ki.ow of her child that paid the ex treme penalty for the murder of Patrolman Frederick Hirsch, wantonly slain when he found Crowley and his sweetheart, Helen Walsh, parked in their automobile on Long Island. Police were seeking the youth for an-

other crime.

The mother until the last day held aloof from her son—and even then she withheld her identity. Eight hours

Declaring that prohibition is “the fi ly constitutional change, in the direction of the destruction o< popular sovereignty,’’ Dr. Joseph Irwin France, former U. S. Senator, of Maryland, has announced his intention of seekin> the Republican nomination for the Presidency The distinguished statesman, who i- also a physician, farmer, scientist and banker, willbase his claim for consideration op an extremely wet platform.

MAY EMI HUT CLOTHING OF TRUNK VICTIMS

STATE MAY FORCE RUTH JUDD TO VIEW GRUESOME KM DENSE

LI I Cliih ( ontest

DISTRICT ELIMINATION CONIl(>r AT TERRE HAUTE

SATURDAY

system, coupled with transfer of the counties’ share of gasoline taxes to the state highway commission, was

suggested bv Albert Wedeking, com- , - j- j u , . . , ; before the young gunman died her nn-sion chairman, as a tax reduction i . . 1 ,. _

nu -sage arrival at Sing Sing prison

measure. , . , , , , > r —the only message he had ever reWedeking, in i speech before the . , . . . ,

, , , , , ceived from her ,n brown package en

local chamber of commerce, aid coun- , , . , , ,, i closing a rocin '-nfol'ied in a note on • \ government pend annuall mon . . .

than $8,000,000 in road maintenance.

cial series of sermons which Mr. Bruner will preach in Greencastle, as he closes his work with the local con-

gregation on Easter Sunday Sunday evening Rev. Bruner will

speak at the union service of the Pres-

girls from Putnam County who won first places in the county will take

part.

A demonstration team made up of Harriett Heaney and Letty York of Greencastle, will demonstrate “Cur-

Transfer of itfis burden to the state would enable local authorities to reduce tax levies in all counties by at least 16 cents, he estimated. The highway commission's program would not be affected by the change, Wedeking said. In addition to maintaining the county mileage the commission could continue to build 400 miles of pavement each year. “Indiana has approximately 40,000 miles of major county road- which, if the counti- spend only $200 a year

which weie -ci iwled the e words;

'’From ypur mother.”

A few hours later Mrs. Crowley, the foster mother he had called “Mom,” left him alone with the rosary. She we|it as her two daughters, Mis. Margaret Kennedy and Mrs. Alice Me Nolly, walked with her through the

PHOENIX, Vriz., Jan. 22, (UP)— Winnie Rut! Judd, attractive 26 year year old blonde, may be forced to view exhibit - today that revolted even | experienced erimi’ ologists who dis covered the bodies of her former girl friends Rapidly pre enting ;ts case at Mi Judd’s trial on the trge that he murdered Agnes Ann* Leroi, thf t ab planed to pres-mt exhibits from the luggage in which the bodies of Mr . Leroi and her roommate, Mrs. Hedvig Samuelson. were sent from Phoenix to Los Angeles. These exhibits included blood-stain ed clothing of the victims, shells of

(Copyweight United Press) JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 22, (UP)— The panorama of a stricken countryside was unfolded to the writer in a 20|) " '- flight from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson over northwestern Mississippi's flood area. The entire flight of more than two hour’s duration wa.-, over inundated land, save for brief intervals. Hunger, misery and despair were all too ap-

parent.

Families, forced to flee their abanioned homes, clustered on every high ground available. Time after time the,-.- people w ived and signalled frantically. They wanted help and perhap- mistook the plane for a bearer of relief. Town after town reeled by, and as the plane penetrated deeper into the network of the Mississippi tributaries conditions grew worse. Flood water were rising. Half submerged buildings became frequent. And on all -ides were scenes of desolation, huge property loss and suffering people. Flooded areas were reached less than 20 minutes flying time out of Memphis. The first town passed, 55 miles out, was Curtis Station. It is a small community on the banks of the Tallahatchie river. Of the village’s dozen buildings, ten were sub-

merged

Then as the village was left behind, a large plantation appeared. The plane circled the buildings, all flooded. A man and a boy stood motionless in the murky waters covering the yard. They seemed too bewildered at the

-ight of the plane to move.

‘ die'll not get out,” one of the pilots scribbled on a note, “unless he has a boat. He probaWy has none. He and

his family are in a bad way.”

Then on and on over the vast lake. M ire farms and plantations flooded. Small setlements teeming with suffering people, who waved coats,

dimly lighted, steel bar red corridors cartridges that took their lives, blankets, sheets and even flags at the

j out of the great prison doors. An automobile whisked the family away in a pouring rain.

I • is the measure authorizing an r - ‘ 1 tains for tHi H per mile for •••nm.-nv- ••. -•

crease of $125,000,000 in federal land at 7:30 in the Presbyterian church o The clothing judging team includes 000 to service.’ Wedeking said. “By

bank funds, with a moratorium pro- the subject, “The Responsibility of the Marcella Myei - of Greencastle, Fran vision for firm mortgages. This ad- Hume, the School, the Church, and the ces Burdett and Marjorie South of ditional capital will permit the land Community for the Religion-Develop Bainbridge. Mi ■ ■ Elizabeth McClure banks to ease up on outstanding ag- "rent of Youth.” This sermon w'U be of PutnamvilQ, now a senior in ricultural loans. the substance of an address which Mr. Greencastle high ,-chool, will compete

Bruner gave recently befoie the

Ln^lish Cabinet Split Reported

As-

sociation of American University Women, a 1 deals with youth. All parents and teacher.- are invited t" this servii <

TARIFF ISSUE CONTROVERSY

CAUSES RIFT IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT CIRCLES

Point I o Reduction In City Tax Ratei

in the dress revue.

Winners in this contest will repre .-ent this di.-tn t at t ne annual Round

up at Purdue university in

The teams will be accompanied to Terre Haute by Miss Lorene Hicks, vocational club leader, and Miss Lu cille McLain, home economics teacher

I in the local high school.

giving the -tale mad department $2,500,00(1 in gas taxes ent to counties, the commission can build 400 miles of high grade pavement and maintain the 40,000 miles of addition-

al highways.”

Wedeking proposed spending $13,500,(0 per annum for construction of j

Credit Group To Elect Directors

EA( H MEMBER TO CAST VOTE AT ANNUAL MEETING ON MONDAY

the spring, pavement and bridges, and $11,750. j Com ^ Credit As ->ciation

The annual meeting of the Putnam

will be

MRS. ANNA HIGGINS DIES

' I Mrs. Anna Higgins, 36 years old,

! wife of Charles Higgins, passed away

PRESEN t BALANCE ,;2O,0OO | ^ j, onie Jn Commercial Place A I IAIN I I) W I PH LOW FRED Thursday. The cause of her death was

RATE OF 5 CENTS ,. ancer

-■ j Surviving are the husband and six City otfi- ia!s pointed to the fact j children. Funeral services will be

Friday morning that the present | held Sunday aftermmr at 2 o'clock at city administration begins its third Gie Lakin funeral home on east Wash year in office with a balance of $20,- ington street. Mrs. Bulah will have 000 in the general fund which ha charge of the services and burial will

000 f i maintenance <>f all state mile age. This would leave $1,750,000 fol supervision, equipment and other ex-

penses, he pointed out.

“If such a program is agreeable,” he said, “it could be placed into

nio.-t immediate effect."

LONDON, Jan. 22, (UP>—A split in Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald’s national government over the tariff issue was announced in an offi-

cial communique today.

The announcement said the cabinet, unable to obtain unanimity on a tai

iff policy, had decided those ministers unable to support the cabinet’s majority conclusions “on the subject of

import duties and cognate matters, , Ix-en attained despite a 5 cent reduu be in Forest Hill cemetery, are at liberty to express their views t>° n in the city tax levy, — by speech and vote.” The communique Present officials reported thd. SIILESVILLE MINISTER

when thev took office the city had a general fund balance of $21,000 aiiu outstanding debts of $4,000. then the city has added new equip

Rov Ki<l<l!e Is Held At Danvill.

held Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock at the Christian Chunh. According to these in charge, an interesting pro-

gram is being arranged.

All members are urged to attend

al- especially for one reason. This year

! the directors of the organization will he chosen tnd elected by the members. Formerly this group was picked by a nominating committee but at Monday’s dinner session each member will east a vote for the new officials.

medical instruments supposedly used in dismembering the body of Mis Samuelson an 1, it was reported, photographs of the bodies before thev were taken from the suitcase ami

trunks.

The ( xhihits were to be identified by half a dozen Los \ngeles witnesses including the baggageman who thwarted the plan to dispose of the

bodies

L AV AL INVITED TO LONDON LONDON, Jan. 22, (UP)—Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald today in cited Premier Pierre Isiv.d of Fiance to visit London this weekend for a discussion of international affairs including disarmament and debts and reparations.

MARRIAGE LICENSE, Douglas H. Burt, engineer, Josephine Sauter, teacher, both of dianapolm

plane. All were excited. Almost every town of any size seemed to have a refugee camp pitched upon some high ground. Boats were plyirg near these make shift • 'Iteis. Most of them were loaded with children. They were marooned victims being taken from their floode I homes to safety at the camp. At Greenwood, the largest town in the flooded area, fewer than a dozen of streets were above the water. The aviation field was inundated. A gang of convicts were work! g nearby. A majority of the homes in Greenwood appeared deserted. I ■ - ■ \ at 1 ti ols by Pilot Lee. McBride, said he had watched the gradual spread of the flood like lava flowing from a volann in eruption Sometimes cieeping along, then the next minute roari g thi-' ugh sc no barrier it had burst. At r flics the Memphis to Jackson (Continued on Page Two)

^iiir of Trunk-Murder Drama

REPORTED IN CUSTODY ON CHARGE OF HAVING LIQUOR

IN THEIR POSSESSION

HANGS SELF IN JAIL

DIES EARLY THURSDAY Elder \V. S Fisher, age 64 year--,

Since for the past sixty years a minister, died at Stilesville Thursday morning,

ment costing roughly $3,000 has re- He was widely known.

paired an oi l sewer at an expenditure of $1,500, and has lowered the citj tax rate 5 cents on each $100. All bonds and bonded indebtedness

| also has been taken care of and there

at

'' as issued after a cabinet session

lasting two and one-half hours.

"The cabinet,” the communique said, is deeply impressed with the paramount importance of maintaining national unity in the presence of the grave problems which now confront

this country and the whole world. Accordingly, it has been determin-

“d that some modification of the usual

ministerial practice is required. The are no outstanding added debts cabinet being essentially united on all this time

ether matter of policy, believes by

this special provision it is best inter MAN KIDNAPPED; SHOT Preting the will of the nation and BY TWO YOUNG GIRLS

needs of the time.” DECATUR, Ala., Jan. 22, (UP)— , , .. . The decision probably will produce a Jack Carter, 19 year old Pulaski, officials here were infromed by their unique situation, in which such min- Tenn., youth taken for a ride and shot stjtlon 0 P erdt ' ,r at Da -vorth over the '•iters ag Sir Donald MacLean and by two vengeful girl friends, was re- teiet>pe system.^

Isaac Fo.t win vote i M Commons ported l .

'gainst a measure of the government 1 A nut?* tcld the Unite jr Press he

u f which they are members.

Funeral services will be held at Stilesville Saturday afternoon at 1

o’clock.

AVIATOR SAFE

EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 22, (UP)— Otto P. Graff, New Y’ork business man aviator believed lost in the desert east of E! Paso, was found safe today at Dalworth, midway between Ft. Worth and Dallas, American Airways

CORYDON. Ind., Jan. 22, (UPlDesmord Straub, 30, hanged himself

Roy Riddle and Edgar Prope were in his jail cell, after being arrested on arrested Wednesday on charge, of a " intoxication charge,

having intoxicating liquors in their possession. They were arrested in North Salem where they were aid to have been causing some disturbance and to have passed a loaded .-drool bus. Sheriff Pounds pursuant to the call found them with the liquor in , their car-—Danville Republican.

Putnamville Girl Dies On I hursday

20 Years Ago

tn GREENCASTLE

PATRICIA ANN TURNER WAS DAUGHTER OF INDIANAPOLIS

COUPLE.

THE WEATHER

L-o-idy to” git i.vj Situ .'day, ;■

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could live only a short time. Carter was found staggering alosj a sesii-coiicious condition near -

.vadhou-*- curly yesterday. He w-s

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ANNOUNCES ( AN D1DACY TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 22,

(UP)—Mis- Emma May, president of the- Indiana Womans Democratic C.uo, u.'..‘.ou..vcJ ..er candidacy .*.'*• T..... - O._0. —C'.*

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court..

Patricia Ann Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mr. . Emmett Turner, of Ind- 1 ianapolis died at Putnaunville Thurs-1 day, and the body has been taken to i

Prof. R. A- Ogg spoke before the the home of her parents at 1115 W. Gentlemen’s Club at the city library Twenty-ninth street, in Ind’anapolis on “Socialism ” where friends may call to view the Mrs. Albert Landes was hostess to remain the Woman’s Christian Temperance Funeral -ervices will be held from Union. the Seventh Christian Churcji, Udell Elsworth Hume, of Enid, Okla., is and Annette streets, Saturday afterthe guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles noon at 2 o’clock. Burial will be in Kelly. Mr. Hum.e is an. uncle of Mr. Crown Hi!! cemetry. Kelly- The bttle girl, only one year old, Will.u_v. Houck wu. iel®cted to divd oi bronchial pm.umor.i-. she had ; • - - ■ • *< > . _***,’. * * u iV.u C ' *.*. *. J. .- V/..—..v*. ^

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Fighting for her life against the charge that she murdered her two friend., Agnti Ann Leroi, X-ray technician, and Hedvig Samuelson, tube-c'u’i' oaticnt, Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd is shown seated at the counsel table :r. court at Phoenix, Aril., as the jury was chosen to t-v h«r. The bodiua of the two slain women were found dismembered • •... bv.-.i »h;pp«d from Phoenix to Los Aneele#.

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