The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 February 1932 — Page 1
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SECTIONAL SCHEDULES
GKEKNCASTLK, INDIANA, SATURDAY, PEBRUAR \ 27.19;i2.
NO. 11-1
GRAIN ( O. EI.1,( IS OFFICERS
i The board of directors of the Milller' ,Giain Co.j Inc., of Rnlnbridge, met in 1 regular session Friday evening and |
; elected the following officers■
\RK DR 4WN HarleyE - •'l'^' 1 ' 1’iesi Jei.tund gen-
\1\LJ a/unnil eral mmer; H
president; James T. Miller, treasurer
BAINBRIDGE AM) GREEN( \s.; ,n ^ "
jXE DI E TO PLA1 SA IT R- , I{a bt“''t A| lcn u.. , employed to manDAV AFTERNOON | ; ! gu 1 t ‘‘; ^ re '' nc ' orL ' "-hile Ged-
j des Piiest and S:'iii Runion were rej employed to man .g,. t he Bainbridge
RATED S1KONGES1 IN FA FiNT | and Roachdale eh x iiur- operated bv
, this film.
Opening Tilt Friday Afternoon Between Green Township And Bloomingdale Par K e County
M. K. CHURCH CONFERENCE HERE MONDA'i
A schedule of games for the Greencastle sectional basketball tournament next Friday and Saturday was announced Saturday morning by the Indiana High School Athletic Association. The opening tilt will be played next Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock between Green Township and Bloomingdale, and Greencastle and Bainbridge. rated as the strongest teams in the tournament, are doped to play Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Twelve teams will take part in the sectional here and eleven games wil be played to determine the regional participant at Attica the following
week.
Tlie schedule follows:
12 TEAMS
Games Hours
Friday P. M-
1 2 p. ni.—Green Township ami Bloomingdale (1-2). 2 o p. m.—Bainbridge and Bell*
Union (2-1).
3 4 p. m—Roachdale and Union
Township (1-2).
■1 o p m.—Greencastle and
sellville (2-1).
Friday Evening o 7:30 p. m. — Cloveiiiale Bridgeton (1-2). j G 8:30 p. m.—Fillmore and
shall (2-1).
Saturday Morning
7 9 a. m.—Winner Game 1
Winner Game 2 (1-2).
H 10 a. m.—Winner Game 3 am
Winner Game 4 (2-L).
Saturday P. M.
MONTEZl .M V - ROCK\ ILLE
PAVING ( ON I K.UT
Contract for paving g.;j niiles United States highway No. 30 tween Montezuma and Rockville
MID-YE.\K EVENT MILL BEGIN MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O’CLOCK
ATTENDANCE TO 'BE LARGE
.FT
on
be- ! was
S. %eral Speakers of Note to Address Representatives of Seventyfive Churches
I be lepic-ontatives, pastors and
( HICKEN THIIA K- (,| | HOT R1 < I PIION FRIDAY
One man is in the local hospital sufi faring from g n shot wounds and another is the object of a sheriff’s search i.fter tdlegedly attempting to carry out a Chicken theft at the Fid Voiles farm outheast of this city Thursday night. The injured man is Frank Smith, former timber buyer whose home is near Morgantown. He refused to di\ ulge the name ,»f his companion w-h • s iaped as Mr. Voiles
opened fire up >n the two men.
Smith received two shotgun chaiges in the left side of his body and head and may lose the -iglit of his left eye. Mr. Voiles, who fired the shots, exi pressed the belief he struck the other
man.— Martinsi illc Reporter.
MAYORS WILL FIGHT THE UTILITIES
ORGANIZATION PERI E( I I D M MARTINSV11 I K III YDF.I) BV MAY OR S('ll\lll)|
SERVICES TO CLOSE
TO DEMAND NEW LEGISLATION
“'Ihe Municipal Rights League of diana” is Formed hy Thrie Hundred ((fficials
In-
awarded to the J! P. Putnam Com-1 laymen, of the 75 Methodist churche pany of Fort Wayne yesterday by the ' n Die Greencastle district will m et state highway commission. The con- Monday, at 2 p. m., in the local Moth-
tract prize was • 1 ,2.256.82.
INTERESTING DPU CALENDAR FORNE\I WEEK
many FEATlItl' YRE UtKANGED FOR STl DI NTS AT DEPAL M UNIVERSITY
VESPER SERVKK SUNDAY EVE
Rus
Mar-
Simpaon Lectures. Musical Programs, And Duzer Du Production Included in Week’s Highlights
for the com-
The DePauw calendar ing wetk is an active
with the university vespers program in the Methodist church Sunday night. The speaker, John Langdon Daviess, is an Englishman and appeared here in January of 1930, the first year for the vespers programs. He proved a
odist church for the mid-year conference. According to the reports being received by the distri’t superintendent, the Rev. Charles C. F'ord, the attendance will be large. A program of unusual interest and vitality has been prepared. The people of Glee: castle are invited to share any part of the conference. Those de siring to attend the dinner should make their reservation before Sunday night by calling the church office. The program: 2:00-2:15—Devotions, Dr. Henry )..
Davis.
2:15-3:15—District business and announcements—District superintendent. 3:15-4:05—“The Church and the Family,” Dr. C. D. Hildebrand. (Thirty minut ■ address and twenty minutes discussion.) 4:05-5:00—“The Church and the Present Economic Order,” Dr. A. A.
I'l TNAM NATIVE IS \ RELATIVE
Three hundred mayors and other representatives of S7 Indiana citn and towns laid plans at Martinsvillr : Friday to remodel the state utility j laws and the utility business to suit
j themselves.
/ili IV >’ A l ' ■ 11 \ / i^l' , /\%' an alt erna bvc and it w one ( rP M / »N| 11 iNw J. \/!N me * "‘t* 1 M| ii ideiabl. favor
i they proposed to abolish the Indiana
■ public service commission ami return REV. I . I. I \M OF OKL AHOM A ,tn < ■ |! ' i 11 i i l.AlMS FO It) >.|\ 11| local c mmunfl>
( quSIN Evei y candi lat
| dared, will be compelled to state (
clearly his position v. ith reference to
The Sunday evening service marks the d'.- e of the special services being mnducUd in the First Baptist diurch by the Rev. C. P. Anderson, pastor of th Clayton Baptist church. Brother Ander .n will preach at both services in t . In, aj church Sunday. Great coni i cation- have almost completely idled the auditorium evening after cv-; cuing. Twenty nine have actually been received i to the church membership, an I then ave been seven other profes.dnns n 1 ' faith, some of whom will! unite with the church. The church has be. n gri ally revive*! and the visiting mini-tor has done much good for the I! a-list cause in Greencastle. Doubt le-s great audiences will wait upon
hi- mini try Sunday. FLOODS IN
W \SHINGT0N
T\KE TOLL
CHINESE LINE VTTACKED AT THREE POINTS
JAPANESE ARTILLERY AND PL AN FIS BLYST AW AY AT DEFENDERS
HIM (HI NATIVE SNIPERS
Nippon F'orce Rains Tons Of Exposives On Chinese In Heaviest Assault Of War
\\ F.S I ( OAST S I YT E IN (,|{IP HIGH \\ YTER AND \\ Y I. \ N ( HES
SHANGHAI, Feb. 27, (UP)—Japanese airmen and artillery rained tons of explosives on three points along an 18-mile front this afternoon to blast literally an opening through the Chinese line for waves of green clad infantry that went over the top immed-
| lately.
The aerial forces attacked Lion | Forest forts at Paoshan City, the extreme northern end of the battle line, ia short distance north of the Woo- ! sung forts.
opening Heist. (Thirty minute address and
twenty-five minutes discussion.) 5:00-5:15—Epworth League report for the district, Rev. C. R. Lizenby. 0:30—Dinner, served by the ladies
of the church.
7:15-7:45—Combined repoit of the
popular speaker then and a capacity pastors, Dr. A. E. Monger. (Commit-
9 2 p. nv—W inner Game 5 and
Winner Game 0 ( 1-2).
10 3 p. in-—Winner Game 7 am VY ivaiev Game k «2-14. -
Saturday Evening.
11 8 p. m.—Winner Game :• ant
am j audience is anticipated for his return
visit.
Tuesday in chapel the first of the Simpson lectures will be delievered by Dr. Bruce Baxter, dean of the school of religion at the University of Southern California. Dr. Baxter is
■onsidered one of the most popular Present World Situation, peakeisda tM&kV’esi. Classes will be Bromley Oxiwm. shortened to allow an extended chapel I
period on the three days he will be on
tee, A. E. Monger, J. FT Porter, It. M
Selle.)
7:45-8:15—“Christ at Work ii
Our Midst,” Rev. Claude Young. 1 Gir it 'd at th (Stereoptican slides showing the work niont.
of our conference institutions.) 8:15-9:00—“The Church and tin
Dr. G.
The Oklahon: i City Tim s on the first president’ anniversary curried a picture and story of Rev. FT T. Lane, formerly of ibis county, who is a j sixth cousin of George Washington.
The arti* le fofto v
Rev. FT T. Lime, 1521 West Twentyninth street, believes his relationship to George Washington would have bet n more of a handicap than an asset had it bi' ii kn \n all thr o years he bus been in Oklahoma, and so this is the first time it has been revealed
publicly.
Havi g finished a life of usefulness in his own right Mr. Lane is past 81 veal’s ill- lie i of the opinion that “ metimes gr it anteiedants are a handicap. The worl I expects much of th"-e whose nrogenitors have been distil.: uished. We are not responsible for our ancestors. We had no choice in tli<’ matter. Each life must stand
bar of public judg-
forfeit the sup-
no: partisan organiza-
Winner Game 10 (1-2). , he campus. The second lecture will Officials, (1), Clarence Grogan; the given in chapel Wednesday morn(2), Walter Moss. ling, tire third Wednesday evening at
7:30 in the chemistry lecture room in Minshall laboratory, ami the fourth m l final lecture in chapel Thursday
I morning.
un and winnei at Attica DePauw students will hold a mass
Saturday 3:00 P. M-—Winner a* ' Greencastle and winner at Craw fords
ville.
of
ATTK A REGIONAL
Manll 12
Saturday 2 P. M.—Winner at Clin-',
Saturday evening 8:Oo Winner g imc 1 and winner Game 2.
j meeting in chapel Monday morning to onsider a change in the form of stuient government. It is proposed to mbstitute a student senate with house representatives fiom each fraternity, i jorority and dormitory, in place of
FARM HI RF.Al MFT.I ING i lc 0 ] ( j t „un il elected on a political
There will be a meeting o. the | VmD.
Franklin township farm bureau at the Musi al programs for the week inRoachdalo high school building Mon- ; .i U( ( eg the second sonata recital by day night at 7:15 o’clock. | Professor- Sheffield and Leach which The program will include commun-j A .jn i,,. play,, ' j„ Meharry hall Tuesity singing, a mock t-ial and num | j av ev ,.ning at H o’clock; a recital by hers by a male quartet. Speaker- will i le woodwind quintet Thursday night by R. 11. Stevenson who will talk on j lt g o’clock in Meharry hall with
the “Relation of a Bank to the Farmn.” and Bence Daggy who ’.vill use as his subject, “The Hank’s I'lac in
the Community.”
BUYS UOAF, BUSINESS S. A. Hirt announced Saturday that he hud purchased the A. 1). Chew coal |company on north Madison street, and that George L. Conner would manage [the business in the future. lYiml Farm Escape Had Stolen Hors*
110 HEN TAKEN OFF TRAIN HERE FRIDAN NIGHT
t.IYE NAMES J.Y(K TOK.nYTH); \ND WILLI \M 'III I WANTED BLOOMINGTON Two men giving their names as Jack Forsythe, 2(1 years old, of St. Louis, and William Sherrill, 22 yearold, of Terre Haute, were taken off northbound freight train No. 5(5 F'riday evening by local authorities, a I later were turned over to Bloomington police who v anted them on rob-
bery charges.
Bloomington police who came after the men at 2:30 o’clock Saturday morning did not give details of the
tire young men
Mr. La e, w retired from active
ministr in the 1 ai.-tian church when he v a. r>8 yea j old, lives with Mrs. 1 uiae at the V\ Twenty-ninth -tieet addre.~s. A sen, Dr. Fienry H. Lane, is he I i f the zoological department
of the University of Kansa-. “A 1 stall'! in the glow of setting
sun, with liR ’r work e 'led, hut not finished, wit eyes tire I from readin an I hi weary from thinking, I find mysel is old people do, living in thi' past," Mr. Lane reminisees. “I was alwav al of colonial history be, arise of tiaditions. 1 now regret my in liffeieMi e in tarlier years to family historv when 1 had the opportunity' of g ing knowledge of my ancestors fi’i those who were able to impart ,o nc ’ iat information which
I would now neatly cherish.” Mr. f.ane I family records reveal
that In is a ixth cousin (if George YVa-aiiigton, I the family relation-
utility regulation
port of their
tion.
They have raised no campaign fund j as yet, but the delegates were a -aired that the executive committee of the : Municipal Right- League "f Indiana, as it is called, will formulate a plan within a short time and forward it to | the distri t chairman. Mayor George Schmidt, of Martins- ; ville, wes elected pro-blent; Mayor H i Karl Volland, of Columbus, vi r-presi dent; Thomas L. Cooksey, of Craw fordsville, trea.-urer; Ralph K. Lowler, of Martinsville, secretary. Mr. Schmidt had said at the last moeti g i that he could not take the presidency but the mayors were so in istent that he is “the man of the hour” that he ; was forced to yield and a ■ opt th leadership in the great offensive cam 1 paign for fairer utility rates, and new ! legislation which will grant greater protection to the rights of municipalities and return to them some of the powers ai d control they once exer cised in relation to utilities. This VC... i'i(' third meeting held in promoting the organization and each one has grown in enthusiasm and attendance, the climax being is a bed Friday. The i v utive coninrittee, together with the district each represent; an i \V. Vi lent Y’oukey, mayor of Crown j Point, Fii -t; H. FT Orr, city attorney. Plymouth, Second; Neville Williams, city attorney, Michigan City, Third Daniel J. Ilnsey, mayor of I t. Wayne,
It is past these forts that Japanese reinforcements are expected to be transported momentarily to reinforce I the stymied Japanese forces in the
j lines.
I Japanese guns aided the airmen in J pouring shrapnel and bombs on the
" ” ; Chinese defenders of Tazang, in the SKA I I LIT Wash., Feb. 27, (UP)— center of the line.
13 \ It I IMS YRE KNOWN DEAD
—
Warm Weather Melts Mountain Snow
R suiting In Swollen Streams. Inhabitants’ Plight Serious.
Heavy downpours and swollen rivers faced Wi- ngton to lay with its wor t fb , m years, bringing a new tnensi • to stricken farmlands where a va I a in hi Iready have claimed 13 lives. Heavy in intains of o\v, melted
And the artillery practically “went it alone” in bombardment of the Chii ese at Chapei, the end of the battle front noare t the international settlement. Two Japanese units cleaning out Chinese snipe is at kiangwan village
by vnini i.dn into raging torrents established contact 'it opposite sides left a wake >f death and destruction, of the northern end of the village at Rivei ill ! , and predictions were 7 p. m. (6 a.m. New Y ork time.) They for at h tst nnthcr day of rain. Citi- began burning shacks and houses and zens pc oil hurriedly to meet the preparing for a final assault on Ta-
new flood <; : -i i zang.
T t , ata-tiophe ' curred at A Japanese detachment commanded Mt, \Y n • n. \vh' re seven persons by Col. Hayashi fought into the northwen hilled and four homes destroyed western section of the village, when tmis of mud ami rocks tumbled Communication was established .wn fi hi tie mountain slopes into with Col. Tukuno's 35th regiment. It Huxley Civek canyon. Ihad held the eastern part of the vllThe victims and their houses were lage sin.e last Saturday. •anted a n i • c un the canyen and The twu JafKinese units then set left cover'd by ilehri . The known fin- t,» the -iiipers’ positions, attempth i I were Mrs. W illiam Blades and ing to clear the north end of town, i i- ’wo chil : ’ a. Mr . Gus Balder. Tate today (Ti ling Kai-Shek sent Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Moore and Mrs men from his 86th division into the Fi I wool (Taggett | lines at Chapei to relieve the units of W. M. Blake of Snoqualmie, an eye | the tilth route aimy which had dewith said the melting snow loos- fended the area against Japanese at-
ene I a huge mountain section.
itasks
for a month.
“The Tide swept over the railroad tracks and into the houses,” he said. “It was awful. I e homes were toss-
Fourth: A. R. Eikenbary. piusident of I ( .,i down the stream. \Vc found the
the town board, North Manchester, | bo iii Fifth; Dr. C ooksey, Sixth; John W. Ihalf ■ McCarty, mayor of Washington, Tw Seventh; < . B. McGinn, mayor, New ; in ,l I Albany, Eighth; Henry Murphy, • m,
of Mis. Clagett and Moore
mile from their homes." i tliers, George Johnson, -on, Gu ta, 10, were killed
miles from I-saquan, Wash.,
| mayor, Bedford, Ninth; Sidney , n fb u ( | waters eollapsed a log jam
°rof. Inglis in charge; and a music
hajK l Fii lay morning with Prof. Van robbery for which Denman I itompson play ing. were wiyitcil.
Duzer Du will present its most am-1 Marshal Otto Dobb- -ail Saturday iltious play, I ue Criminal Code i n that the men w re apprehended fol ‘he Little Theater Friday and Sat- lowing an urgent < II from Blooming-
ship is traced Col. Wiliia Joseph Ball, grandfather, through wle mate!m l ai i
n this ma: ner. a Ball had two sons, vho was Washington's nd ( apt. William Ball, Mr. Lane traces his -tors.
Baker, mayor, Newcastle, ’Tenth; A. ! C. Dow ning, mayor, Greenfield, | Eleventh, and James FT Decry, city 'attorney, Indianapolis, Twelfth dis
| trict. ' slightly hurt, j The platform included the follow- John.-on's wife
j ing planks: Restore to the - ith- the i|m m 'right to ron truit and manage their
smashed their two-story home. Ri m i’s foun 1 the body of Johnson,
lisping his five ye Hazel, in his aims.
irday nights. The other feature of the week L the appearance here of Senator B. B. Shively, joint author of the Shively Spencer bill who will
dOok HORSE IN M YhING GETAWAY FROM INSTITUTION W EEK AGO
1 lie Horse Thief Detectives assoc jlation is once more out of a job after [a temporary rush in business of two ihor.-e Duels. Geo. Kelly, u convict who -•■wapeii from the Cite penal farm a ’t Friday, was arrested by Terre Haute police in that city yesterday lorning in possession of the fine, plank saddle horse stolen from Jacob] (Pells form t .;i-t ,,f Hanimny |, t -t FH
night. Kelly, who had been sent Marquis, the magician, will show the penal farm from Jasonville, Legain tonight in the high school audJ* 8 trying to sell the horse when itorium u: der the sponsorship of In
ton. He said he believed the young men gave fictitious names as one of them carried a card showing he had applied for aid in Louisville under an-
speak in the chemistry lecture room j other namc on “The I’yblic Utility Law of In
diana and Its Interpretation.” G ANGSTER T<» I’RISON
CHICAGO, Feb. 27, (UP)—Terry Druggan, a ranking gang leader, wa|due at Leavenworth penitentiary to day to start a two and a half year
BYMMIS KILL ONE; Mol ND SIN
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 27, (UP)—Five
bandits who attempted to hold up the fashionble Embassy Club here early to lay shot it out w ith cops and guests leaving the bandit leader dead, three of the holdup men wounded ami one
guest am' two employes injured. T. Phillip Peikins, former British
golf chanii : m, who had advanced to the finals oday in the Dixie golf touiname'i , ws shot through. ,he hip by ore of the bandits who tried ta
escape using him a* a shield.
M YKt<l IS AGAIN TONIGHT
term for income tax evasion. Diuggan was sentenefd * ith his partner, Frankie Lake, Feb. 2 on outran e of guilty plea but had ivoid eil starting his lorm because of hi illness. Lake already is at Leavenworth. When Druggan' attorney a: ko I another continuance, U. S. Distriit Judge John P. Baines ordered Drug gan examined by a physician w To reported prison lif ■ would not be harmful to the gangster's health. The order to transport him to Leavenworth was given immediately and Druggan started last night under close guard.
Muiy Ball, 'laughter of Joseph Ball, IxTume the wife of Augustine Washington and the father of the first president. Samuel Hall, son of Captain Ball, was mariied to Ann Catherine Taloe •uid their daughter, Julith, became the wife of John Hackley. To this coupl' was born Judith Ball Hackley, later tie wife of Thomas Jameson; their daughter Elizabeth was married to Lloyd Thompson and their daughter. Angeline. Iiecame the wife of Hig gins Lane and the mother of Mr.
Lane.
As is shown by the table of geneab try, Mi. Lane traces his relationship ' ties, through hi - mother’s side of the fam-
ily. b . k to ( I. William Hall who set- ( ^ j ^
tied in Virginia in 1659. Col. Ball’s son, Joseph, was father of Mary Ball,
econ I wife of Augustine Washington, The Putnam county lathi contest, in
and mother of the first president. Another .- m of Col. Ball was Capt. William Ball, whose line is carried lirect to the Oklahoman, Mr. Lane. Marrie i in Culpepper county, Vir(Contlnued On Page F’our )
20 Years Ago In GREENCASTLE
In another so tion of the state, 150 miles north of here, a crew of 75 men continued digging through a landslide searching fol the bodies of four
women.
An empty train was wrecked near
of indeterminate permits to Sat-op, W.i.-li., but the crew escaped
injury. A ('. M. & St. P. train out of Spokane, Wash., was floodbound at Garcia, in the Ca-ia"e mountains, for
thiee hours.
More than a i'"re of home were
abandoned in th
rate hearing Churchill ami Bui ficers from Wallace warned of a threatened siiow i Slides are oecurilig witli iii nasing frequency and a maji r catasti"|> was feared unless
all rosi lents eva mte.
Many small budges were carrbsi away east of > kane, and street.were flooded in t uburba of Edwall an t Wilbur. T • towns of Pullman and Colfax were < nilangere*l by the muddy Palouse river, now swollen to
mm icipally ow ned utilities without interferon e from the public sen ice
commission.
Repeal Keotion Job of the Shively Spencer act, which provides for the
issuanci utilities.
Give citie- tiio light to condemn and purchase utility property within their
corporate limits.
Make rate reductions granted by the commission ri trou'. tive to th date
which the petition for
is filed.
Use valuations for rate-making pur poses as a basis for taxation of utili-
I Y 1 IN ( ON I KM
HELD AT HIGH S( HOOI.
The Japanese claimed movements behin 1 the Chinese lines indicated withdrawal from Chapei. Investigation showed that me from the 19th route army were going back of the lines for rest while Chiang’s soldiers
50, moved in.
The fresh Chinese troops immediately ixchange] rifle and machine
gun fire with the Japanese.
'The positions at Tazang remained unchanged with the opposing fronts old daughter, 1 only about 250 yards apart.
She was only With Japanese on the offensive
here in deadly Lahti g already taking
ved two other chil- a toll of 3,000 admitted Chinese cas-
ualtie- thi vv ek. ii. i 1,000 estimated Japanese casualties, there were reports the Chinese planned an offen-
sive in Manchuria.
These reports aro.-c from a movement of Chinese leaders from Nanking to Loyang, new capital of the ccntial government. Conferences weie planned with Marshal Chang Hseuh-Liang and other militarists. Reports said the Manchurian cam paign would start March 1, when the boy emporer, Henry Pu-Yi, is inaugIdaho towns of urattd chief executive,
when county of- [ — ■■■
111 \ST 11! M'S COM MINERS
< ONVK THIN AFTTK'IED
CHICAGO, Feb. 27, (UP)—The United States circuit court of appenr-
the conviction of A!
Pprehended. He admitted to the po- Kappa. Jlrs. Marquis is not a strung Ice that he stole a gra ; horse at i er to Greencastle, inasmuch as her loverdale last Friday night, rode it father via- graduated from Grcencns- today affirmed
8 fur as Harmony and tunic,1 it tie high school. She was formerly Capone on charges of income 1 x pose and took Pell’s black horse! Miss Fay Turner and the family re fraud. . * „ *ieh he rode to Terre Haute. Chief moved to Anderson from Greencastle. Capone was convicted last faU and f Police Nance at Brazil-aid thaf be . sentenced by Judge James H. Wdke, i«l not know whether Kelly would be THE WEATHER son to H years m pnson and fine"
ro ecu ted for horse stealing or tak- * . * u 60 * ,,0 °-
p back to the penal farm to finish Fair; slightly colder east portion the grounds that the Nulutments were
J—' UcJ.-ht, Uui.diy , .uu.ty. •
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bamaby left today for Gr ind Rapids, Mich., for a short visit. Local visit is in Indianapolis were Pro'', and Mrs. F’. C. Tilden, Andrew Du C. J. Yrnold, J. K. Langiion and “Cotton” Burcham. Mis- Ethel Gibson entertained the F. J. G. club. . Mrs. Ernest Browning was hostess Lz the L. C. C. Club.
which every high school in the county took part with the exception of Fill j more and ( lover'lale, vv:i h Id i ilie I Green a-tle 'gh si’lio"! uibli: '.' Sat urday, with Miss Mary Rec-e, 1" d high school Latin teacher, in <' arg'’.
A total !0 contait i
Greenea tie high seho.il > " l : sented hy Junior Tho.ias, William Mi’N'i ff. and Elizabeth Y in The other higli -'bools were rep.i ented hy local winners in each s hoo!. The county winners will not be known until the papers arc graded. Miss Re* .-<• said the grading should be < "in • ’ ibiuit the , iji: ■ ’.t week. The county winner.. w ; l! t ike part in . ii trict contc. t to le ia 1 at
Terre Haute April 2.
FEYR FEU FOR THIRTY WORKMSN in WES1 YIID.lNl v SHAFT
torrential size. Th.’ flood wa- reach- BLUEFIELD, W. Va., Feb. 17, iqg a critical I i on the Olympia (DP)—^ low. reverberating explopenin.sula, where I" v lmils are covered s j on g 0 in Roistevnm
by several leid of water.
( Y I!.' IN ( R \SH
mine about 26 miles from here today and 30 of the 50 men on duty were believed trapped somewhere in the
smoke-choked workings.
The mine is the largest pit of the Poe hontas Fuel Company. It is 21 miles from Minefield, across the Vir-
Judge James P. Hughes was *in Danville Saturday where he i- ttin/ as special judge in a case on trial in
thu li'.uirLF- circuit ecu: 1 ..
F’our automobiles were damaged in two collisions in Gremcastle Friday
evening.
In a crash at Hanna and Locust border. -treets automu u • yriven by Terrill Officials -ai 1 the m ne was nonlb lundei an,i ,l.i n Hammond, Gos- ira-eous. They fear, d the explosion port, R. I, formcrlv of tins city, were was caused hy ignition of powder, damaged, but no e was injured. Rescue crews were in the shaft Both cars weie towed to the McCam- within an hour, led hy Thomas Stockmon (?.irigi l^" nr-. dale, of Bra" well, i West Virginia In an<ith<*r crash at Hanna and district mine inspector. Bloomington .-'.e i<, cars driven by Stockdale -ii*i the air was “exOliver Evans and Clarence Gooch, tremely bad in the shafts.” The exboth of near Grcen.astle, were dam- plosion, he said, apparently occurred | 'yyed, but uwai:: eu i.:.’. ’.vui hurt. about two mi leu Lack in the shaft.