The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 February 1932 — Page 1
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rHE WEATHER FAIR AND WARMER
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* ALL THE HOME NEWS v UNITED PRESS SERVICE
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“IT WAVES FOR ALL'
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eel river dam appears a go, OFFICIAL SAYS
Hope for Peace
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5,1932.
NO. 95
intkm* *<> start construc-! XION WORK BY MAR( II 1. j IF NOT SOONER .. !
LA S0 NOW BKING PURCHASED;
l lovcrdale Citizens Behind Project Which. I hey Hope Will Be Bent - fit to ( ommunity
That tiie Kel liver power tlam pro- | ject will soon become a reality, ap- ! pears certain according to an official I of the American Utilities Security Co., Jn.'., which is conducting negotiations for tiie purchase of land in south Put.i nam and north Owen counties which will be covered by water formed by a ! huge (iam at Cagle’s mill. Cloverdale bus iness men and lea J -, ing citizens are solidly behind the pro-1 ject which they believe will be of im- ! measurable benefit to that eommun-! ity. The Cloverdule Graphic this! week carried a full page of ads paid for b> merchants who are supporting i i tiie project. Other interesting facts i are secured by the Graphic editor in j an interview with W. S. McGTintock,' of tiie American Utilities Security)
; Company, Inc.
Mr. McClintock says, “We have the money, the dam site, and contract to | furnish electric power. It is our in- ! tention to begin work on the Eel river power dam March 1, if possible by' Feburary 20.” In the course of the ! interview he aLo stated than an ef- i } fort was being mad ' to acquire the la:..I necessary for the project by direct purchase from tiie land owners where value could be agreed upon, but J tr.at otherwise the land would be cun- | denmed and the company would allow tr. courts of Owen and Putnam couri I ties to adjust the matter, but that this in no w ay v ould delay beginning aoItud Work on the dam by March i. [However, it i 0 obvious that wherein I* ndemnation proceedings an neves
prof, brooks gives talk on GREENCASTLE
SHERRILL’S STATEMENT
NEW PKOFF-SOK .VI D’PALW GIVE> ROIARIANS HIS f IRM IMPRESSIONS
VIEWS \RK worth while
The appointment of Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura as commander of the Japanese forces in Chinese waters is seen as the first rift in the war clouds that hover in the Far East. Admiral William V, Pratt, U. S. Chief of Naval Opera^ tions, declared that the new Jap leader is a statesman as well as a sailor, and if anyone can r'.ear up tb« delicate situation it is Nomura
New com r ( im Faults And Ad vantages I hat The OI|l Timer Might Overlook
As u member of the County Board I : of Commissioner-, I want to speak i my own personal feelings concerning'' the matter whhh a group of farmers' brought up befor. th • Board la. I Monday. , 1 am hi >mp and invite the taxpayers'to inve-ti-gato matters and I assure you that I, as a public ser\ mt, .dial) be glad to render any assi. tance within my
power.
H. A. Sherrill County Commissioner.
U.S.-BRITISH SHIPS ARRIVE AT SHANGHAI
7 U. S. DES'I ROYF.RS > IT \ W INTO H \BOR RE \I)Y FOR ACTION FRENCH, ITALIANS MOBIUZE
Chuiese War Chief
NIPPON BOMBER SHOT DOWN BY CHINESE PLANE
Battleships Arrive During Heavy Bombardment And Japanese
Aerial Attack on City
Recently f'rof. Fowler D. Brooks id the Uepaitnient of Education at DePstuw, ha talked to local clubs, especially t! Rotary club and the Kiwanis lub .n lii- impressions of
Greencastle. His talk was under the . ——— heading, “What Jlakia Good Towai 1HRII LING "h A BA ! LLE (K t I RS it V, II wo and A BOA l 'll \m.H Al Dl RING fer thi wh were un- BOMBARDMENT ■ able to hear it, we arc reproducing it 1
; in part as follows:
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PILOI
\MH NDKII
I I think most of us can come to an agreement on the things that, make a j good tow n. I In -ize doesn’t make it good. Certainly the size of a community doesn’t determine whether it is a good comin’mitv where a person weald want Ids family to live. To be brief, let’s list some of these things. lake the matter of churches. No
/vlt ■■ r ikiwwT OIUi } ,ere ' vou lJ want to live in a eom- !_/» I I VKBIN I mUn ^T no ’ hurcht.-. Green-
JAPANESE
IN CONTROL
Japanese Ship Crashes In Flames After Machine Gun Duel With Chinese Aviator
NIPPON I ROOFS OC CUPY MAN
CHI KI W cm AI I I R
BITTER FIGHTING
HARBIN, .Man mria. Feb. o. (UP)
castle has some good churches and I think they stand for worth-while things. 1 think they need support: I think tiie ministers and boards of ■ trustees will agree they need sup-I port—not only in a financial way, but in the things they stand for. Even if we sometimes take pleasure in look ing at a cartoon in which the minister
i.. depicted ag a person with
——Thy Japanese completed the uc- disposition, we know this i.- not true, ■upation of Harbin todav during a ' Ve me, “ t ministers and find that they final bitter battle in which Chinese ! of folks and the >' neeJ
troops were routed.
-p, .. . . Second is the matter of schools. I The occupation wa completed at think we have goo 1 schools in Green
12:40 a. m. (E.S. I.) Japanese troops castle, but I do think we are in serious moved into both the old and new danger if we don’t watch out in ham cities of Hai bin after a stiff battle IP*""* our . a<;hci,ls - because, where
i.... • ever there a necessity m retrench-
lasting two hours. ment in a program, one of the fir.t
Japanese tloops Jin>ueii the fleeing 1 things, often, to come up is to re'..hiiie t* forces of Cient riil 'l ing Chow, trench in the schools.
. .. .... ....js It ran be done s try, land owner* would doubtless be I afld extended the area under Japanese there t but , is wit:e ‘ county “obliged to wait, po^.ibly for stars, for superintendent av disuu ing that
recently. Maintaining a very small
I he i,UUo dap: nt.^r residents of school and paying a teacher doe Harbin cl Hie red the arrival of the 'Hot seem a good thing to do. but in forces from home. Thev had been | our here • I understand
living i„ W
and the schools are aflected, 1 think
Itheir money, mitil th« courts had ruled ou d.e. niu.cei. Wiiereua, it they Icouid agree on the purchase price the
■cadi was waiting for them.
SHANGHAI. Feb. 5, (UP)—Aerial history in the far east was made to day when < diine.-e buttle planes shot down a Japanese bomber in the first 1 aerial engagement recorded between planes of the two Oriental nations. Tiie (.'hinese pilot was wounded but
he got ids iionibci.
The thrilling sky battle o uric I above a smoke-shrouded heavy ar-
tilhry bombardment.
The fighting followed appearance of seven Chinese fighting planes at Hungjao airdrome. At 11:15 a. m. (10:15 p. in. Thursday E.S.T.)'• the pilots were ordered to air patrol duty over w i-torn Chapel, and engage tiie Japanese bombers in combat if necessary. Tiie Chinese pursuit planes
carried no bombs.
A Chinese pilot on patrol bet.veen Mungjao in i Chapei encountered a
Japanese plane, lie attacked. A machine gun duel i r Chenju, on tile
outskirts of the A ity, followed. The Japanese munber crashed in
flames.
SHANGHAI, Feb. 5, (UP)—American and British naval reinforcements reached Shanghai today a*, the height of a terrific aerial and artillery boin bardment of the native Chapei area
by the .Japanese.
Seven United State- destroyers ar-
rived from Manila.
The transport Chaumont with 1,000 troops was due before nightfall. The British flagship II. M. S. Kent, with Vice-Admiral Sii Howard Kelly aboard, reached Shanghai after a record run from Batavia. The American and British w i aip anchored in the* Whancpoo river in the heart of the city, greeted by the deafening roar of heavy gunfire 1 which rocked the city in the renewed
Japanese onslaught.
Their arrival was pact of tiie con
jcei.tration in the war zone by these two majgr powers. I hey led the way for others, chiefly French and Halim, also - mobilizing here, to plot* t the
live of endangered nationals. the Chinese troops suffered tre-
mendous losses, Japanese reports in-
licated.
Ten Japanese Lindanes ipuded' with highest explosive bombs flew low over Chapei. Lliey opened up with machine gums over dwindling lines of Chinese, fighting desperately amid ruins of
blackened buil iing.-.
SHANGHAI, Feb. 5, (UP)—The | 31st infantry, tin: fir.-t American ex peditionury foie to China .-in ■ the Boxi r i ■ beilion, a i jrived today • fron Manile at tiie height of a terrific bat lb between Japanese ana Chinese
forces in tiie Chapei sector.
THIRD WARD PRODuenetf IS BIG HIT
I “FEAN LOW N CHOIR” PRESENTED H. S. AUDITORIUM ON PHI KSDAY EVENING
FIFTY-IMO PERSONS IN (AST
Play Directed By Mrs. O. I). McCulleugh and (fiven B> ParejitI eachers Association
Upholstered <as a protection against the intense Manchurian cold, Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, standardbearer of the Koumintang, Chinese Nationalist Party, is shown as he left the Tientsin station on his way to Nanking, the capital of the Chinese Republic. While the seat of government has been removed from Nanking, troops of the Chinese army keep pouring into the city to defend it should the Japanese attempt an occupational move. PREPARING IMPORTANT STATEMENT
LGKIO IO ISSl K REASONS FOR J \PA Vs A< I l\ FLIES IN ( HINA
ft- bomic 1 exploded, demoli-m The mfaJWy? l.Oodi
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J AP AN ESjc ELEC 1 ED
GENEVA, Feb. 5 (UP)-The world [arms conference convened in plenary sc.-w-lon today and elected Tsuneo j Matsudaira, of Japan, one of the I vice-presidents, smoothing over a j < ituatiim in which ihreal I ■ new w Rhdraw al from t ha con [ference had been made unless Matsud-
II ■ n i lotted-
s.MITH LO M AKE SI MEM EM NEW YORK. L'eb. 5, (UP)—Alfred [1 Smith’s decision to support or op It the presidential candidacy of jl ’anklin D. Roo.-.evelt who inadi three Im minuting speeches for Smith is ex |) • ted Saturday afternoon in a “po
iry forces marched on the city, under
General Ilasebe.
The Chinese troops and tlieir coinnanditig officers fled in complete route. General Ting Chow, coimnamlng. and other ai.ti Kirin leaders es-
apod to tlu north.
Chinese force- from Kirin province, avoiing the Japanese, started the Harbin lighting, which biought the fapanese to “protect their nationals.” Heavy fighting maiked the fall of
the last stronghold ol
n north M-mchuriu, witli tiie Japa ie.se using armored cars an 1 tanks.
NEW Dll FH M ill '
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 5. (
tiie mo.-t sensible policy is to talk it over with tiie school peuph- the superintendent and tiie principal. They | are the people xvhu are competent to pass judgment upon it. in matters of retrenchment w> don’t want to I hurt our schools. A'ou cannot have ju good town with poor schools. AVe i need to watch our step on the intangible tilings. At one time the Minneapolis Journal made this tatemejit: "There are people by tiie hundreds, who are competent to tel! just what
* io about the schools, but man of that group who
would think for a minute of making any serious change in his business without calling in experts to advise
' him.”
Besides churches and clioois. there is the matter of local government. 1 think Green asti" is fortunate in that
(jp) respect. I have not been here long
ing tiie plane.
The Chinese pilot returned to Hung-
jao, w ere inspi tion revealed a bullet had p.i-M ii through the cowling of his
ship. lie had a flesh wound. Ihe Chinese :r forces include four
pursuit and three bombh g planes, based on scatG ied fields (o prevent
tion by i Japai b bing p.
attack at Hungj io, their customary
base.
iveu i uc wm ui , .
n 1 we ought to
.Soviet influence, tW isn . t
(lostI\ lilazr Vl
\ir|,jurl
Chiraijfo
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HANGAR AND NEARLY •SCOKF (II PL A N I > DESTROYED BA FLAMES
|liti jI tatenieut” piotni.ed by Smith. ■ New diifii ilti' e,e added to — I itore tax c llei.tors’ jobs today
, . 1 enough, nor gone into it very much, ‘ ial " but f tliink it is good. 1 Jo kow how
si N MK (,K( S NOMIN A LION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, (UP) MPresident Hoover touay sent to tiie Hsenate tiie nominatioii of Andiew AY. HM'llon to be ambassador extraurdiHiiary and plenipotentiary to Great ■ Britain. Within an hour tiie nomination was confirmed by the senate.
. - , , K'i"l-
1,1 u bad it is in some othei pi • s. I feel
ruling liy Atteriiey General James M. sure that local government will not .Igdui that thev must see that store ! aboVt ‘ the duality of citizenship
i-!i u “'iCtt*&
| government and w-tio are found in the
in-
jwner’s poll taxe, are
ing issued 19'.2 stole licenses.
( UK AGO, I b tually destroyed / Continental ‘
SENTENCE BUYS
important lie opinion.
LOY ALLY «Mu h is being said and done by high government officials from Pre.-i eiit Hoover down, to impress on tiie mind of the public, the fact that loyalty to our government will help tiie depression more than anything. Loyalty goes into many things. It will help stop hoarding of funds, will place tiade in its proper channel, will cause people to live normally, by buying and filing, and will bring prosperity quicker than any other effort, but everyone must help d 0 his bit. Gree..castle is more fortunate than many cities. VValh around "Ur quare an; day; »e the nonmrl trade that flown regularly through tiie retail siores; see tiie automo bdes parked on the downtown streets, and above all things see | the happy expression on the faces I of our citizens. It indicates loyalGi and loyalty breeds confidence in our business •institutions and coni, ioiioe assures tiie city normal business and normal business tneans the end of hoarding and the opening of all regular trade channels. Let s all try it and help bring the i at'on back to normalcy. rHL OSSXRVLK.
Rotary group have
fluence in shaping public
Whenever we tliink of government in any community we should not think I of it as an office, something for sUme
II' I 11 i d 'j k\1 \| rr r ri/IV body who is a iri nd. The nffirr \Y I 11 r \A_/ tI .v IJ I i CilA' should be col sidered :i tru-t uml
be filled with a person capable of
atisfactorily. i- that illus-
trated. The situation in Chicago is Iatrubious in many respects. Milwaukee is far lietter oft. As a matter | of fact, a few years ago when the burgiarv rates were being raised in nianv places, they were being lowered in Milwaukee. The crime commission
\ iloi.dip here
BRAZIL Yul IDS EA< H GIVEN TERM HI ONE TO TEN Y EARS
IN PRISON
5, (UP)—Fire vir , the hangar of the!
Continental Air says at the Municipal
in a spectacular
cc.nllagratiou that threatened other
air terminals.
A 11 alarm sent out shortly after the fire was dj.-covered brought more than 25 fire companies to the scei e. Damage was confined to a single hangar but it was feared most of the planes stoied theie hud been de
stroyed.
Firemen were handicapped by freezing temperatures. Heavy snows choked streets near the airport and delayed equipment. The Continental Airways operate a Chicago-YVu hi, gton passenger ser
111,' M i'etH’ .
readied Shanghai on board the trails port Chaumniit. Seven United States de.stioyers airiveii earlier in the day. augmenting American marine and navel force- roncentiuted in Shanghai. The transp, t( Chaumont arrived late t ii .(Friday) evening. It wns | overdue, I aving been expected at 2
( I a. m. E.S.T.). Tiie troop- |
will be lan led tomorrow morning. Ihe American.- will disembark a* the cential cu.-t'iins jetty on the Bund an i null i up Nanki, g loud to the "New AY . to their n 1 Their barracks will be in tie "Now AAoidd Palace,” part of tile o.-tablishment known as
"Shanghai' t oiiey Island.” ”1 PERSONS KILLED IN KIOI
NEAA DELHI, India, Feb. 5, (UP) —Twenty-One peiMRa wete killed and many v> ou • i today w hen Kashmir police fired into a crowd at the town of Kotli, in Jammu 'province, to break
up communal rioting.
TOKIO, l * b. 5, (IT)-- A statement ciiaructorizod as ighly significant and cm bo lying '‘grave decisions” concerning Jap in's activities in t Tii u was being luepni'ed lor immediate announcement, the United Press learned today. A spokesman at tin foieign office -aid that tile statement would give reasons for Japan’s activities in the Shauglm mea. iG said il hould is'
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That the “Beantown Choir” pretented by the Parent-Tem-'r n ’ Asso oiation of the Third ward - hool Thursday niglit in the high's, hool auditorium was a "howling success'.' was the concensus of opinion of all those who attended the production. A total of fifty-two parents, teach|ers and children formed the cast and the entire play went off without a hitch. The old fashioned costumes, the ,devci acting and the humorous jsituatiors and antics of the performers ptovided the hits of the evening. The production was directed by Mrs. O. D. McCullough, who stated that she wished to express through this newspaper her appreciation for the splendid cooperation and assistance given her by the members of the cast. , .The setting for act one was the in- ! terior cf a room of several decades ago where the “Be intown Choir” was holding- a rein ,i sal. Miss Hollis Me- • lung at .the AA idew Woo 1 wa Tally good in her j art as the cruel stepmother of Miss Eula Clay Heath, in love with the minister, portrayed
by Fred Cook.
Mi's.. I ' tie He.- Mc< urty il >ct : of the choir and-Miss Agnes 'Baugh- [ man a.- Hezekiah ,tlie young mischief
, aker 1 '. .' ■
markably well. Mr.-. Olive Baughman was a - team a- a typical oil maid. Mrs. Lawrence Crump provided the main laughs of tile play as the grandmother. .Mrs. Donald, Davidson was goc.i as the chun.ii oiganist. Ah . Jerry Grabill, Mrs. Jacob Hilt .TnJ Nil.-. Clyde Williams were also good a featured singers of the choir and little Sarah Frances McCurry received prolonged syplause for the clever peoeh she gave. The -•■cord act was the scene of a
The statemv t followed an an-
... , ... . i iciation party for the minister, cele-
m umi'inent Ilia: Japan inignt consent
to internatin i il control of the lower Y'angt/.e ' alley if tiie powers suggest such a move. I lie spokesman said that Ambassador Debuchi in AA a ington unintentionally had denied to Secretary of State Stimsi li certain events now hap polling in ( hina. He said the government had not advised its embassies abroad regarding its plana.’ However. Debuchi now lias been advised fully, he said, and presumably ha- infoi tiled Stimsoii. It was admit te i II I Debuchi might lie embarras.c l but -uggestio: he rnigiit resign wi re ridiculed. 'Lite United State.-, and Great Biit ain an, "tiier interested powers, probably will not be informed directly of the government'- “grave decisions” expected to be outlined in (lie state-
completion of two years in tiie villigc pastorate. Discord predominati j in the first two acts but harmony prevailed in the third and
last act.
The culmination of the romanre of Widow Wood's step-daughter an 1 the minister . Iso furnished touching heart inteiest for the audience. -Several specialty numbers wete included in < . ird act, after the ih-ir arrived from the church for a very spectacul ir eoti ert. Prof. Kenneth Umfleet, as an old man, pantomined “W.en You and I Were Young Maggie.” Miss Elizabeth Mullen pantoniined “Last Rose of Summer”; Miss Mary Brandon, “’Wanita”; Mrs. Ben Riley, "Annie Laurie,” and Harold Riley r , “The Quilting Party." Charles Walter Brow n also m&dt a big hit in his pantomirie of “Old Black Joe.” The
in on 'the ehoruaea of
these numbers which added to the en-
Slil<‘s\illr \l;m \sks l or Damajros O
mt'iit, tl’.e Mpoke^man said. .
m 4 4 i choir joined
I h»’ Ytiiimt'iit w . - irfiresuiiU'd as J
, . .. 4 1 i ’ 4 i these numbe holdinir tliat tm power." Jiad l ot ai- , .
vi.-ed Japan before they acted, and ° f tht ' f! P t ’ ttators ' The ta P
Japan would feel constrained to follow lie ini , nt in the present
cri,-}!?.
to
nearby hangars. Gasoline tanks of the stored-planes exploded spreading
the fire rapidly.
report gives Milwaukee a nigh rating.
- , .. .„ ■q,.j n . 1 difference whetlier the mayor of Alii- stroyed in tin- fire with the total loss a»t cent tin' " 1 ’ waukee is a Republican or a Socialist, estimated at more than $150,000. i taxi da her. I'b'aiied guilty to -•<• thsy have gooii government. Their Firemen concentrated their efforts .barge of as-ault and battery n. the government is in such shape this year, jn , |)read of th „ f | am ^
Marion circuit court Thursday and that they have four million dollars in wen i -i nti'ii, d *o the Indiana refor- ^ amortization fund. If their gov-
^ , enmient wag run by politic tliat
matory for tt iin> ui one to ten yeain money would have been pent. The by JudKe Frank Baker. The youths!situations found in New York and an* Thoimi> Davies, 18, and Jack Chicago are very bad ai.d there are Slack. 19. it ported to Ik- members of aiso other place, where politic.- has 01 ’ ci created bad situations. - Ihe impeachtwo of Hi jziI . moat respec e of h governor of Oklshoma be* families. * cause of the abuse of the panion sysTbe \ out!is told the court they went tem is an example. He became very to Indianapolis to attend a picture wealthy through thi system One 10 ; . , , . , mull was pardoned and Ins |)eeple tessiiow, but finding themselves short ol that it cost them seven thou
wt n out and held up a taxi amici five huralred dollars. Findim.' only 30 cents on their If a |own is going to be a good
20 Years Ago
In GREENCASTLE
’none) I river.
‘ victim' thev gave him ba k 15 cents town it should l>e relatively free from vuiim. u ,i n . crime. That statement run- out m a
' good many directions.
Four young Greencastle colored men were arrested by Officer Art Stone charged with “shooting craps"
for their taxi faie. good many directions. It raises the
Dnvi> and Slack also were iden- question of how criminals are dealt in the new postoffice»building.* tilled bv Jess Ellis, of Brunerstowri, with, whether promptly or not. Mrs. Jouephina Lewis returned home
" ^ ha
as t'ne boys who held him up at the point of a gun and took over $50 In money from him. At tliat time tiie two boys were driving a egr stolen from a pleasant Gardens 'nan. Affidavits charging each with robbery are
ui'.c n at.—..- c..', ii-1. c i. * ."I.
visit in Knightstown.
Promptness of handling criminals f lom
seems to be a desirable thing. If , «, ,
personal pull can get a criminal off, George Sagi has donated a room and it often happen.- in local govern- owned by him on the n^rth ,-ide of merit, tliat is very bad business. Not the square to be used as a club room
only i.u* there thi.- matter of crime. (,j (j r M aa tic boy-
but there is the problem of bootleg* j^e Jzrr.^ P. HugiH. vv^ I.fi
1 (FI AL OF $5,300' SOl GH I I DR DFATH OF GIRL ALMiH I ING
FROM HI S
A suit lias been tiled at Danville, against Harry Grossman, of Ten Haute, and I’aul Hamilton of Btilesville, by Samuel Fisher, for $5,300 damage as the outcome of the death of his daughter, Lola Fisher, age 7. when .-tie was fatally injured by Gross-nan's car as she was alighting from a s hool bus, Jsnuki) 7. The charge iss ifies that I’aul Hamilton driver of the school bu while di.-chaiging the plaintiff's chil dren at their home, saw Gro- man’car approaching at a higli rate of speed and knew tliat the hildren would have to cross the road t" reach tlieir lioin' yet Mid not warn the childten, Is da ami Lena, ag' II. "f the apprAuehing danger but al lied the school bu- door and allowed them to alight ii: tie- path of tin ni.-hing car, which resulted in Isala being -truck and f .tallL injun d. Tiie charge also specil'i, that Grossman aw the bus discharging yie childri i and failed to sound Inborn or slacken the speed of hi ciir Fisher ask- for $.>,000 for the 1" at the services of his daughter and sets out that medical attention and funeral expen-i 1 - amounted to $27*!. He asks judgement in the sum of $5 200 Edgar Blessing repreacutc th.
IIDAI KR Y HI NC HI K1ED Funeial services for Homer Young,, aue 7b yeats, wiio died at the home of hi.- son, James Young, southwest of i loverdale, Monday, ere hel I from the Doo Creek i her Ii AVeilnesday inoiningat 11 o’clock. Iiteiment was, m (lie church*ceu ot'-ry. MAiSOND NUT M l. Called meeting ri mple Lodge No. 47, Friday at 7:3U m. F. C. degree. Jaa. S. AYalker, W. M.
dancing or 6 )ear old Jacqtiiline Gribill, dressed in an old-fashioned cos-
tume, also went over big.
'I he marriage of tiie step daughter to th ■ minister funned tiie climax with the Widow AVood arriving too late to prevent tire wedding. This oceurn d much to tht delight of Hezekiah who hud al.-o been tnated'un-
kindly by the widow.
1.0UU UEFORIKD KILLED SHANGHAI. F.-b. 5, (UP)—Total, Chinese miliar casualties in tiie battle of .Shungh ii will ix.'c al I.OtKI, the Japanese e.-tiimn* 1 to ay. The ( Hi
FIND PI AM A HUM'
Two
wounded were in tnli atjonal settlev ( hinese hos-
m-e issued rio hundred Chine.hospitals of tin pient and liu.m.
pituls.
Civili ui casualties could not lie de-
LOh* ANGELES. ( ,1.. Feb. 5. (UP)
Just a week iri i ntur v-Pacific temijned. air liner crashe’d in ti • Idizz;,rd-swept . * Tehachapi mount..in Imdie if tlu* TAMMANY LEADER DIES
eight victims, crushed and charred, I
were to be brought to Ktk. i field to NEAV YORK, Feb. 5, (UPl—John day. R. Voorhls, for 20 years the “grand Six* .lav . •. | twisted skeleton of the phi he on a soriety, died today in his 103 year. S.imiO foot Idll-i < m n le west o! # He had rounded out a full lif He Fort Tejon. Paul Appad< a, Indian s , xv . Hie city of 200,000 grow into the range rider, foui d th, wre.knge. great metropolis of today, and he a The plane hoi -t-ucl w;th tarrific himself became the oracle of Demolorre. Pilot J. A . Sundblorn, with a eratio politics. He died at his home record of 4,000 hour, in tiie air # had OIl Greenwich street where for more ^nad no time to witch off the igni- than 60 years he had resided. In that ^'° n - ;tim£ the once fashionable residential district had been converted into the THE AA FATHER now Bohemian Greenwich village. Fair and warmer tomght; Saturday | Voorbis was retired last October as fair, '.varir.tr :n _-uth and extromt president of the board of elections on Vwwt S.tlW.... I ... USe*l*«. pw.,»’.0—.
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