The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 April 1932 — Page 1
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PUTNAM AMONG COUNTIES WITH TAX DECRE ASE
interesmng statistics are , oMPILBD HV TAXPAYERS’ \SS(kiation secretaky
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1932.
NO. 151
COUNTIES SHOW INCREASE
jtaU’ Organization Is Extending Every Effort To Bring Tax Levies Still Lofcer
INDIANAPOLIS, Apnl 9.—“Despite the universal cry against high taxes,” says Harry Miesse, secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, “sixty-four Indiana counties will collect less in taxes this year than warcollected in these counties in. 1923, when our association of taxpayers was formed. The existing problem is
failed to provide support for the econ-
omy campaign.
“We are making no effort whatever to confer upon the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association all the . redit or glory that gees wit hthe knowledge that citizens and public official- in a majority of the counties of Indiana have lowered their taxes and thereby lightened the burden. But we do feel that our association has point d the way and that it lias gained the confidence of the public in ten year of hammering for one thing—the elimination of waste and extravagance. The people through their c-wn efforts, have been winning the fight and in nearly every section of the staU they have been led and aided by the newspapers. It was the co-operation of the press that made gains in behalf of economy in governmental affairs possible. The Indiana Taxpayers’ Asosciation, is proud ef this record and it has no intention of abandoning the fight. It can cite its activities in behalf of an peals to the state board of tax commissioners that saved $21,712,111 to
CHOIR WILL BROADCAST
FRANKLIN W VIKit RATES REDUCED lo M MINIMUM
Reduced water rates fur the city of
i rp i ! Uianklin were approved yesterday by \l (iHH 4(t() tht> l iub,ic sendee commission. The
j rates were effected through an agreement similar to that made in connec- j
tion with rat- in Indianapolis. NATHAN
FARMER DIES SUDDENLY OF HEART ATTACK
give program over radio STATION WGN SUNDAY
AFTERNOON
CALENDAR
much high taxes as it is the ! the public in ten years and its ob-
not so
inability of the people to provide money to pay the prevailing rates and for that reason we are doing all in our power to bring the levies still lower. It is with the disposition of a few counties to continue spending the people’s money at the same rate expenditures were made when conditions were normal that we will have to deal. With sixty-four counties down and twenty-eight up, the total taxes to be collected in Indiana this
year will be $1 10,094,645.
“When the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association was incorporated in 1923.1 85 of the counties in the state in- j creased their taxes and seven showed : decreases. The total bill that yea’was $128,510,254. For 1924 there was a total of $130,896,941. Forty coun-j ties went higher and reductions were j made in 52. The 1925 levies amount j cd to $133,897,825, with 47 counties | incteasing totals and 45 boasting oj decreases. Some relief was accorded I the taxpayers in 1926, the total drop- j ping slightly to $132,148,430. Thirty- ' four counties increased taxes that | year and decreases were shown in 58. i There was another orgy of spending j
in 1927 with the result that
went up to $l40,49o,619 us bl counties increased their totals and only 11
jections to bond isues effected an additional saving of s;!3, 131,804. These sums, coupled with what the taxpayers pruned from their budgets at
Chapel Speakers And Other University Features For Coming Week
Are Listed
The DePauw university choir, under the direction of Dean R. G. McCutchan, closes its spring tour in Chicago Sunday with three engagements, the most important of which as far as Greencastle persons are concerned is the broadcast over radio station WGN which will be from 1 to 1:30 Sunday afternoon. This powerful station will carry the voices of these DePauw students to almost every corner of the United States. The calendar for the remainder of the week has been announced by the university. The chapel periods show
Franklin is served by the Interstate
Public Service < ompany.
The minimum monthly rate was set
ANNOUNCED j at jfi. Savings to ill classes of con-
sumers totalling $1,172 will be eftected by the revised rates which apply to
991 patrons, it Was said.
HA M MUM)
STRICKEN W HILE W ALKINO ON FARM FRIDAY
WAS WELL KNOWN FARMER
W IKK Ol FAMOUS At THOR . ATTEMPTS SUICIDE TODAY NICE, France, April 9, (UP)—| Elleiemae Bjorkman, wife of the Swedish-American author and journalist, Edwin Bjorkman of Asheville, N. (’., attempted suicide today In slitting arteries in her wrists and drinking a hair -dying preparation. Physicians .-aid her death was a matter of hours. Mrs. Bjorkman asked that her bus- ' band and Elizabeth Pease, 121 Third | street, N. E., Asheville, be notified.
BABY LUNDY SEARCH AT STANDSTILL
PROGRESS REPORTED AT ANY POINT IN NEW ! I RSEY KIDN APING
NORFOLK I RIO MARKS TIME
home, makes the record a notable one, i a varied and interesting array
even if 28 counties have refused
join the procession.”
FARM BUREAU TO ENTERTAIN BUSINESS MEN
M. ( . TOWNSEND TO ADDRESS MEETING IN COURTHOUSE MONDAY
M. C. Townsend, state director of organization of the Indiana farm bureau, will address a meeting in the assembly room of the courthouse Monday evening at 8 o’clock, at which the Putnam county farm bureau and the Purdue-Putnam Agriculture association, wil lentertain Greencastle busi-
ness men.
In addition to the address by Mr. Townsend a short program has been taX '‘ I arranged in which O. A. Day of Mar- ! ion township will give a welcome talk, the Franklin township quartet will
were able to show decreases. In 1928 ^ a ^ trio from Monroe townthe total amounted to $143,848,53;. ^ wjl give aeveral numbers, and but the increases and decreases went j Mr ._ Galvin King , wn give a reading, back to the ration of 1925, 47 counties j The buginegs nlen AvilI e i ect one 0 f going up in taxes while 45 went , Gle j r number to give a response, down. The peak in tax expenses came , ^ goo j turnout of the fanners an ! in 1929 when the total was $150,468,- j buginesg metl is anticipated as Ore talk 477. That year 66 counties increased , by M[ . Towngend w in be well worth
their taxes and 24 reduced. By 1930 ' jj ear i ng
• .i ■ had turned the other win Hid J
the total dropped to $145,647,092. with sixteen counties increasing and 76 making reductions. The taxes for 1931 were $140,094,645, with six coun tie.-, increasing tax receipts and 86 making reductions for the benefit of
the taxpayers.
‘The decreases shown by 64 counties this year, compared with 1923 run all the way from $3,085 in Orange
speakers. Monday morning Coach D. 1 C. Moffett will speak. With the suc- - cess of the basketball season just | closed to his credit and a general up i trend in athletics in all departments, his audience is assured. Tuesday i merning President Oxnani will speak. | Wednesday, Prof. T. Carter Harrison, , a new member of the faculty, will ad- , dress the student body aud Thursday ! morning the music school will have j charge. Edward R. Tritt, a sophomore, ^ will present a violin program. Friday, Prof. B. H. Graves will speak. A feature of the week will be the open meeting of the Science club in the chemistry lecture room of Minshall laboratory Wednesday evening at 7:30. The address will be given by Prof. Carl Moore of the University of Chicago. Everyoii- 1 ig invited to hear
Professor Moore.
ON RETLUN FLIGHT PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, April 9, (UP)—The Graf Zeppelin was enroute to Freidrichshafen today on the return flight of the second commercial trip of the season.
Leaves Widow, Brother, and Sisters. Funeral To Be Sunday
Five
DEATH CLAIMS HORACE PITTS FRIDAY NIGHT
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL HELD AT BIG WALNUT CHURCH MONDAY
BE
William Horace Pitts, age 50 years, died at his home near Mt. Olive in
Greencastle township, Friday evening , 3, 1875,
at 10:25 o’clock, following an illne>.s , ’ which dated back to March 1 when he fell from a load of hay and suffered a
fractured hip.
According to the attending physician death was caused by a blood vessel obstruction, a complication result ing from the enforced confinement following the injury. Born in Russellville September 2, 1882, Mr. Pitts has lived his entire life in Putnam county and had been a resident of Greencastle township for
the last 25 years.
He was a carpenter by trade and
1 Stricken with an attack of heart j trouble while walking in his farm, five miles east of Greencastle Friday j afternoon about 2:45 o’clock, NathanL. Hammond, 57 years old, died U-fore medical ai 1 could reach him. i He had been suffering of heart disease for several years which had - forced hiln to give up active farming
operations.
He was walking on his farm, south ; of the county farm, Friday afternoon ! with Glen Clark and son, Ivan, when
1 stricken.
His death came instantly while he
was engaged in the usual activities of his home. This was a fitting close
to a life of strenuous activity. Bom in Putnam county, February he had spent his entire life
here, residing on a farm during his
life.
Mr Hammond was the tenth child of Nathan and Margaret Hammond.
DARROW MU INJECT PLEA OF INSANITY
sw if r com li ■'Ion i o honor SI \Y ING MTP \R - REM01E AS RESULT PSYCHIATRISTS ARE SEC I RED Clarence Harrow, Nn’i"! Chicago At torney. In Introduce Medical 1'csti mony In Behalf of Clients HONOLULU, T. 11., April 9, (UP) —Swift conclusion to the honor -laying trial of four Americans appealed remote today as a new conflict arose over introduction >f medical testimony for a defense of temporary insanity. Prosecutor John Kelley, who on gaged Clarence D trrow in a four da\ battle over the “melting pot” jury, an nonneed he will demand the services of as many alienists as appear for
Of this family of eleven children, nine 1 the defense.
The women’s debate team will be in I belonged to the ; cal carpenter s action Tuesday evening at 7:30. The , union. He was superintendent of the DePauw debaters will meet a team ■ Dig Walnut chuich Sunday school at
giew to maturity. Two brothers, John ! and Edward, preceded him in death in j
1888 and 1925.
He was bom and reared in Gret castle and received his education in the public schools of this community He was married Nov. 2, 1904, to Emil; May Farmer, who survives. To thiunion were born two sons, who dh' i in infancy; Robert in 1905 and Rich ard ■Nathan in 1908. Mr. Hammond wa- a lifel ug men her of the Methodist church, have .r
Admittedly unprepared to meet this type of defense, Kelley made his announcement when he learned two prominent Is - Angelc- psychiatrists had arrived In re with the apparent intention of -ei-vi ig t . defci so when the trial resumes M<ind i>. “If Clarence Harrow us' .s them for the defensi I'll most certainly ask for a continuance in order to bring equally fain i- alienists from t ,• mainland,” the ruddy-face! prosecu tor said. “I had hope 1 to finish the
from St. Mary’s-of-the-Woods in the Little theater. The following o’ganizatioris will aUj hold meetings: The
the time of his <lt nth. Funeral services will be held from the Big WaliiY. church in Washing i
Ancient and Modem Language divi- ton township Monday afternoon at
sion of the faculty, 4:00 Monday in Studebaki r hall; the Student Affairs committee Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 and the Religious Education club at 7:30 at the Alpha Gamma Delta house; all freshman women will meet in Meharry hall at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon and the History club will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 at the Delta Zeta house. The music school is offering two fine programs, Prof. Van Denman Thompson in his regular Wednesdaj afternoon organ program at 4:30 in the Methodist church, and a full concert by the university orchestra in Meharry hall Thursday evening at 8
o’clock.
MELLON PRESENTED TO KINO
county to $372,055 in Montgomery ; ' ,7” .. i
county. Other counties where marked ! herald Carter, Del auw university wl NDSOR, England, April 9. (UP) reductions were made are Putnam, I sophomore, wuo was stricken with a _ Amlrew w . Mellon presented crediBartholomew, 1850,691;' mysterious malady in gym c l*“»* | ent i a ls to King George V today
—. ■ - critical con-
Student Remains Mysteriously III
GERALD CARTER STRICKEN
YVITH STRANGE MALADY
IN GYM CLASS
o’clock with the services in charge of Rev. John A. (Jack) Caldwell of Crawfcrdsvilh and the Rev. Dallas Risler of Rerisville. Interment will be in Forest Hill cemetery in Green-
castle.
Besides the widow, Mrs. Dora Alvord Pitts, he is survived by eight children, Mrs. Glen Hodshire of Man-
united with the I,ocust Street chur territory'- casi m three il;'> , but it in early manhood. After having mov the defen-' i- goiiur to rhu: it. to.ed to Mario-! towyis'nip in 1997, hi' tics I’ll ask the c uity -up a iv .r. lor transferred his membership to the j money to hire our own expert Mt. Meridian church where he serveil j Montgomery Winn, associate de continuously in some official capacit.y fense counsel, guardedly admitted to the last. I Dr?. Edward H. Williams and James Besides the widow he is survived by Oibison were here to 1" Istei the case a brother, William, Greencastle; and: of Mrs. Granville Eortescue, New
five sisters. Mrs. John P. Alice, Mrs.
“Period of Watchful Waiting" Negiotiators for Famous Flier Announce Saturday Morning HOPEWELL, N. J.. April 9. (UP) Search for the kidnaped ? n of Col. and Mrs. Charles A Lindbergh was at a standstill today with no pr gress reported from a y of the points where clues have bee n investigated. The three Norfolk negotiators, through their spokesman, Rear Ad- ! miral Guy II. Kunage, were inactive. .“This is simply a new perio 1 of watchful vaiti; g," the admiral said. At the II 11, well estate of Col, Lindbergh there w re few visitors during the lust 24 h uis. One caller wa- a seafaring mar. from Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. He was understood to have told a story of watching a mysterious -hip off the New England coa '. unably a i urn runner, and that one day he saw drying on the decks w it he believed to be an in- \ fant’s clothes. Col. 1.indiii rgh v reported by a neighbor to have left his estate yesteray morning, but it w. s nut establishel whether the flier left hi., home or
not.
In the state puli.' bulletin la.-t night, Col. H. Norman Schwaitzkcpf refused to disclose the name of the poliee 'epartme t w li a had given information concerning Harry Fleischer, Detroit Purpl gang member, and ids New York aide. Abraham Wagner. Both are sought for questioning as their actions foil.wing the kidnaping March 1 have been called suspicious. Reg.uding the investigation of the biush fire near the Lindbergh estate ■ vc al day ago, t ol. Schwartzkopf said; T'l 't ■ i 'in not believe that the fire was set vindicatively or that it had been the work of persons who kidnaped the baby.”
hattan, Mrs. Ross Bullerdick and Mrs. Raymond Skelton of Pleasant Gar
Edward Eiteljcrge, and Mrs. Charlotte Greggory, of Greencastle, Mrs. Walter Matthews, Danville, 11!.; Mrs. Otis C'osner of Jefferson township. .(Several nii.es and nephews also su'-
' dens, Donald ' Pitts of Greencastle township, and William, Wayne, ( arl and Walter, all at home. Four sisters, Mrs. Lloyd Dykeman and Mrs. Claude Hocsier, of Indianapolis; Mrs. I William Pace, of Danville; and Mrs. Ralph Call, of Terre Haute, also sur-
I vive.
vive.
The interests of hi? entire life wen centered in an intense loyalty and enjoyment of his home, church, large lelationship and friends. The funeral will be held at the
Y’ork society woman; her navy officer son-in law, Lieut Thomas H. Massie, j and two enlisted men, Edward J. Lord and Albert O. Jones.
M YKKIAGE LH KNSE
William Cully Price, fanner, Gn on j castle R. R. 3, and Doris Mao Oakley. | at home. Roaohdale R. R. 2. Kenneth D. Ashworth, iabotor. Greoiuastle, and Lucille < "per, at
home, Putuamville.
JAPAN I ELLS LEAGUE SHE UA N NO I WITHDRAW TROOPS
$355,023;
malady In
Wells, $231,385; Hancock, $258,580; ' Thur:illll > ’ 'emum'd in a cmicai con- | Unitetl ambassador to the court
Randolph, $216,031; Adams, $215,626: ! fi™ the county hospital Saturday. „ f st . Jame s.
Cass, $211,888, and Decatur, $204,844. Hls P are,lth ' Mr - und Mrs * J ’ C ' V The ceremony took place at historic
Mr. und Mrs. J. C. Car-
These counties are making reductions , ter ’ o f H'- nr > vl 'l e - arnved al ^ U:d ' [ Windsor castle.
In gym class
side Friday.
Carter collapsed
in the burden of their taxpayers that,
r ;» t E. Search discuss clasework. A phy-
per cent. Total reductions in the 64 .
sician was summjned ami C/Jiter
com ties amount to $<,248,Sob. ] ^ th( , t . ounty hospita , wher e , Well Known South Greencastle Man “The other ,-ide of the story ,? ^ made to diagnose * w, “ l “
sh .-wn by the 28 counties where taxes I hU A socialist from Louiscollected this year will be higher than ! ^, le llxanliTlei i him Friday but was the levies for 1923. The total increase ' ^ ^ (ieUl . r , line the exact cause
o'er 1923 in these counties will b® I 0 f 1,)^ collapse.
$18,803,247. I he sums are relatively preliminary tests by phy sicians small for some counties as Steub,!n ’ s 1 y atult | ay indicated that the young increase is but $705 and that of Perry wgg offering „f tubercular men-
UKLANDO GORHAM DIED SI DDENLY ( 1 n THE STREET
Mricken Mith Apoplexy Y'Hilc
Near Locust ( ullage
Orlando Golhum, age about 71
10, at 2 p. m. with Mr. B. H. Bruner, and Mr. Floyd Crocker, pastor of the Mt. Meridian church, in charge. Friends are invited to call at the
Rector funeral home.
! Albert Allee, Lawrence Hammond, GENEVA, April 9, (UP)—Japan Raymond Hammond, Walter Ma submitted a long statement to the ; thews, Edward Eiteljorge Jr., an 1 League of Nations secretariat today j William Cosner, all nephews, will a t which was understood to maintain | ag pall bearers. The burial will be :n that Japanese forces could net be f Forest Hill cemetery, withdrawn from Manchuria under ex-1 - - —■———
. isting cunditi us.
The statement outlined the progress | of fulfillment of the league’s program for evacuation of Manchuria. The text will be published next week. A second Japanese communication to the secretariat said Japan could not decide on its armament requirements
First Christian church, Sunday, April Roy Hearing, Kiug.iu employoi', In-
dianapolis, an I Ethel home .Greenca-tle R. 1.
Farrow,
WHKAI SI VGES COMEBACK CHICAGO, April 9 (UP)— Wheat shot up 2 to 3c as the board of trade opened today fully regaining yesterday's sharp lo.-s. The sensationally mlli.-h character of the Government crop report brought a rush of buying orders and short I' Vuring that turned the pit into pandemonium. Liverpool also came strong and stocks rose sharply adding to the bullishness of the situation. Corn surged upward with wluut but the great activity in the major pits lir ted the action in oats and gains weic small.
QUEEN OF DEPAUW PROM.
Mrs. \li<r Word (lalled l)\ Death
county is $1,403, but in Lake county ing j t j s a non-contagious form of disthe increase, is $7,013,785; in Marion | ( . asc D e fj n jte diagnosis of his ail-
study of the figures shows that over 80 per cent of the increases in
tax levies comes in Lake, Marion, 1 J“30. C few lights ILSsT226"to 250 lbs.
at the comer of College avenu.* and Poplar street, Saturday aftern on. ao ddit-d soon afterwards after being
curried into a nearby home. Mr. Gorham le.-ided on Road 4.>
years, suffered a stroke of apoplexy | until China furnishes the disarma-
ment conference information on its military, naval, and air forces. The league was urged to request China to provide the armament stalls tirs. Failure to do so, the Japanese
county it is $3,868,655; for St. Josepli however, had not been made by : south of the Airport road an I wi commuiiatioi said, “might interrupt county it is $2,039,445; Allen county’s , ^ physicians. evidently on hls way uptown when | the discu-'ions of the conference by increase is $1 439 027 and that of Van- ’ stricken. His body was removed to tne causing “other cojiuries' to hesitate derburg county is $941,524. t „ (1I Iu , .. K McCurry Funeral noms. No funeral in making known their minimum de-
-A ,Wv .! U„ n™. .how. th« Holdover. S7,' ^
market steady. 160-226 lbs., $4.20 to T’l^‘ Greencastle Bund, now undei
fense needs.
Joseph, Allen and •Vanderburg coun-
84 10 to*34.15; 250 to 300 lbs.., -3.90 t h e Auspices of the American Legion,
ties, leaving $3,497,311 of the $18,803,-. „ w) ibs up> $3.70 to $3.80; 100 wi || p i ay at the annual 500 mile auto 247 increase to be distributed among ^ lbg tu ^4.15; packing sows, race ut ‘the India: apolis Spee''way 23 counties that are found on the in , ^ ^ $3.65. again tnis year. The race is held each crease side of the ledger. 1 (j at t| e 60; calves 200. for the week: M elTlor j a i Day and it will mark the ‘In virtually every county where a iS | aug i, t( , r classes steady to 25 cents' ..j^th consecutive appearance of the decrease in tuxes is shown we had b j ghe r. Better grade steers and light loCal Ol -g an i za tion at the famous auto
been able to bring about the formation heifers up most. Top steers $7.75; j erb y i
<>f an organization of taxpayers or other (le sirable mediums and heaviei, Accordi . band officials, this else worked with local groups through $7 t0 $ 7 .60; bulk lights $4.50 to $6.00; ^ contract eal i s f or a twenty-five
°ur field secretaries. We find in- 1 ~ *" * 1 14 9; ' to '’
creases in industrial communities where It was difficult to interest the people in their own tax problems and
0 "e find increases as well in various $1.50 to $2 75; vealers steady
down. , „ .J _ .,
No wiit oi 1 v 1
2C Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
Cows, $3 to $4, several $4.25, top
$4.50;
rural counties where there was lack rt Of Vy l.W-C ■-“-
f; , « «. ’ Liirht , piece band. The popularity and ability 1 ! R0- low cutters and cutters' famous brick oval Is proved most eor.under $4.o0, low cutters cutrer ( ^ ^ by tbe fuit that 8ince 1924>
the local band has been invited to play
$6.60
William Sutheilin, county prosecutor, loft today for Missouri on a bu?i nes scrip. Theodore Crawley wan a visitor in Bloomington. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donner motored to Crawfordsville. 1 W. L. Denman assumed his new duties as manager of the trust and loan department of the Ben-Hur Casualty Company with his office in j a»v»v-V.y»-.
LO< AL YYOMAN l’\S>ES AVY AY AFTER ILLNESS OF FOUR Y EAR’S DURATION Mrs. Alice I. Acord, age 59 years, passed away at her homo on north Madison street, Friday afternoon at 4:40 o’clo< k. Mrs. Acord has been ill of rheumatism fur the past four
years.
She was a member of the Presbyterian chuich. Surviving are .the husband, Morton Acord, a si-t w, Mrs. Harriet Hampton, and two brothers, George Kean and Albert Kean, all of Green.-astle. Funeral seivices wdll be held from the residence, 709 north Madison street, Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clo -k. 1 The Rev. V. L. Raphael, paster of the ' Presbyterian church, will he in | charge. .Interment will be in Forest 1 Hill cemetery.
1 HE WEATHER Fair tonight, light frost probable in north portion; Sunday portly cloudy, slightly warmer in south und cast f 1lowed by showers at night in south
ivl I Pauw fo Junior cl
ELAINE KEN.NA AND NED BKVIIFOBD, Ken .1 was ohcuro queen of the Jiiior class prom at Detoni. ht’s annual dance, by Ned Bradford, president of the they will lead the grand march at the opening of to*