The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 May 1932 — Page 1

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VOLUME forty THHKE PLEAD (ilHTY IN |,OCAI COURT

>EN IEV E WITH H EM) I Mil joM)\Y MORMN(. HY Jl IK.K HIOHES U l \ltMII ( RIME A< TIVTIIKS Hobatl K>an, James Pyle, and Walter Gtiald Vre Young Men Involved In Petty 1 hefts

that he did not feel i'i-tifiM in releasing them and turui them hark U|i n their communito ll< ail he would have to stud> t - r ( ises further before passing < I n Relatives a:d friend f the yning men, .-everul of them i etis whom they had robbed, vep. . j,, their

be half.

I HE WT \ I HI-It Probably s lower- in i ing ♦ niglit or Saturday, except m a I udi ties- tonight notth | o.t n, not much change in tem> 'ratu <

THE DAILY BAJN NER “IT WAVES FOR ALL” GREENCAKTLE, INDIA V \, FRIDAY, MAY 20, l!l 2.

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NO. 186

POLK E \\ ANT MINISTER TO fut; a in is

NOltHII K P\ liilt RKFI'SEs (.t> In HttPEWKI.I. IN KIDS VPING PROBE

7hi r hamefaced young men, all unlrr twenty, were taken back to the fount; in11 to ponder the evil of their •va Her pleading guilty before Ju ly- Janies P. Hughes in circuit four! Friday morning to brief careers of pelt) crime. Judge Hughes said

lie would determine what punishment ~ the\ imuld be gicen when they are 1 SOLO I I.It,HI

WI ATKIN TO ATTEMPT DVSII \CROSS OCEAN

TO |- I ItOI’E I’l \N-

NKII MY WIKI I \ I \KH \ It I

ITTN \M

I RIM PI \NF, Pol 'FTi I OR HOP

Noted Wrman Fliei ' onlinue^ Harh r (.race on tnniversary

of I indhergh's I light

brought hack before him Monday

morning.

Tin young men were Hobait Ryan,! 16. -enior in Raachdale high school; Jhhii- Pyle, 20, of Scott township, Motngimery county, n Ladoga high h""l graduate; and Walter Gerald, lit, living one and one-half miles outh of Ladoga in Montgomery r uuty, who said lie had attended La- , dag 1 high school for one year. Ryan and Pyle were taken into cus- , tody late Wedne.-day by Sheriff Alva Bn while Gerald was arrested

Thin -day afternoon by the same offi from where -ho pi it cial, following an investigation of do flight ncri the

nun i "i store robberies and petty thelt: at RoachTale, Raccoi n and La dog All made ••mfession- of their acti ties while in the county jail and repeated their statements before Judge Hughes in circuit court Friday

morning.

Ryan and Gerald were charged in affi lavita with the theft of a peanut 'ending machine from the Miller Grain ompatiy elevator at Roachdale ml Pyle wav charged with the theft of (Mi tires from the Melvin Frazier gang-. All pleaded guilty to the-e

affidavits.

After enteiing guilty plea-, the

sta ilat the request of Judge Hughes^ ,. n|rpr . she I pe to he the

.ml v re tolrl to relate their criminal

I JOHN, New Rimi-' , iik, May >0, (I P) \meli' Firhar" Put am ■ontinued for Hartior Grn'i at H:‘J3 t. ni. Atlantic stand ud time today,

to attempt a

Ulantic.

ST. JOHNS, New fi.imdl in I, M i' 20 (UP) The DOX. gian* Gerran sea plane, larded at H lyrood, in Con ception Bay, at 5);10 A. M. ESil.. to-

lay.

Sf. JOHN. New Brunswick, May iO, (UP) Favorable weathei will permit Amelia Enliart Putnam to fly •o the tilting p mt of her prop ised solo llight to Europe, Harboi Giaie, in the anniver-ary of Charles A.

Lindbergh’s In flip it to Paris.

I.iiidbeigh' wa- the tir-t solo t'ight

icross the Athuiti The

w umati

a ti'lties. Pyle, the first to testify,! tate I that all time of them robbed th> R ecooii store, the Miller eleva I i and the Frazier garage on the fii 1 night of their criminal career-, f > iiettes, .pennies, candy and pea nut were all they obtained, it wasai Pyle admitted that he and Gerdd l it; r e tered 'he Clark -tore at R. n In) l(. and secured a few pennies, be laid md Pyle still later took a tire arid a rifle from a parked car in R i Male, Pyle continued. Pyle and R, m done were involved in a rob If i of the Duekw • rth stole at R ah le wdieie t.!iey obtained cig'i etti ii] ( | candy. Gerald and Pyle wcm involved tn the theft of a tire and wheel from a Ford car in La

dog..

1 stated tha‘ he (done stole t ,v o t’. a tube, end other auto a-e Crom the Frazier garage in a ' I ; i bbe'y st this place. I e (thet tw ) voung men were II d i, the stand and verified Tv.' tatemeati with the exception f dlegations by Pyle relative to the vho had suggested the robberies, f ■ of the other two boys said they I gotten t gel her and discussed tin > -e i of spending money and had do. i c l on the thefts as means of if /'■ g this need. Both Ryan and '.■raid aid that each was equally to II mi in the robberies. 1 le and Gerald provided the auto le ured in t <• trip- to Raccoon •m about Roachdale, it was stated. '. ni, who apparently was the most ■ r f' ted by the acta they had com nutted, was recalled to the witness ' r by Ju Ige Hughe and admitted he had been active in Sunday school w 'I at the sa'ne time he had been c ; iging in burglaries. hollowing statements by the young ni* Judge Hughes delivered a lee lure and sent them hack to jail until Mo- ay morning. Judge Hughes c ’e l that their acts had placed him ■f i hid situation inasmuch as they ell ' ame from good homes ai d hud ■d the advantages of education and home |ifp and apparently were n t eriminals, yet their acts had been the (arm. as those used by other gang ■ lers when they began careers of 1 rinip. He stated that ha I they not caught early they no doubt ' "uld have continued and ended harden, d criminals. He said they had '"anted money and were determined ,0 get it. tegaidless of the con M ‘quences. He said it was his custom help first offenders hut that they

JAFML ( R V( h t NDER >1 R \ I N Ur. t oiibm. EH.ilv Lindy Negotiator, Radiy m NrcH of Rest Due

to \ctivitics

NEW YORK. May 2', (UP) Dr. J dm 1*. ( on ..it. "J;ifsb.’’ in the my. i teiious negoti.i'i ns for i an-omi :g the Lindbergh hahy. was asked to and did sign a wir.e,- ,.f immunity when lie went hefop the Rronx grand jury to tell of his exj i iiences. HOPEWEl L, J., M • JO, (UP) —Dr. John F. ( omli.n, the mysteriouJafsie of the Lindbe:irh kidnat'ing, l) fared il.efon Ih.. Rronx C(uinl> grand jury today . New York t tell in detail all lie knew of the tragic so quence that began with the kidnaping of Uharbs Align to Lindbergh. Jr., and ended with the fi ding et his 'body in a -h ill " grave in the New

lei »y wood

HOPEW FT I V J . M .y 20. 11 P) -State police want .bdi Hughe ( ur tis, Lindhoigi faker, t" fee Dean II. Dohson-Pe nek wh i N rl Ik chuich rr.eml" i p fei lo (he police as "hungleis, tritfn op . and n t. very good traffic cop- it that." Colonel II. Norman Schwartzk pf, commander of the pcli e, amioun o d last inght that “i* i- par'e ul irl; <le -iruble now t confroi.t Mr. (hiitis

with Mr Pe i k."

The | oil e w .mt to ' lear up e Iuin unexplained details in the eimfe -ion they they obtained ' i >m Curti . among t.liem a irqne-t for i $25,000 deposit as ‘ eainesl nvuie .” The Norfolk minister w ho e name a d reputation were u.-e I with that of Rear Admii il Guv IT Blirrage to lend credone tn ('uidis' tieti nil tie g tiatien., hi; lefu-ed to coni' to Hope.ell |.ut a offered to ubrnit

to (piestio'iiiu in Norfolk.

And whib N udnik negoti.ato s and the stall poljee i|iiari'led over alleg cd eff it to pi ne lesponaihility for failure of the kidnap hunt on .re uiother, the tiail ot the tetual kidn i|. ers and murderei - o( ( harle- \ l.ini-

bei gh. J)., giew c older

Curti- had been fingei printed, K. hwartzke; I amuiUlleeil. hut ha- Il I

-sion a nounceil I he colonel aid

was conviiic‘ d Cuiti- " ; nothing

with payment of F. Condon (Jafs. 1

kidnapeis.

(h iulon, in the i mg from the effta 1 activity. He is 7 terday it was at rest for a few da his examination p! t graphs. But He visited West I some lecord.s thcr visit- to Bronx p •lid he look time u Mary G. Ford, o

"i by Di John to the alleged ntime, is suffer'd his strenuous .ears old. Yesmced he would before re timing r goes gallery

didn’t rest,

d. t to look over lie made several e hen Iqua i tei s; to explain that • ti ned itv polii e

in another matter .. ne f ninny I who had tried to I ow monev freoi | him after his run h id hren men tinned in tile Lind . invi sti.-ition. Mrs. Ford is a I t* tcher, 1 . years old, with a ■ -.ear old laugh ter. A telephoni v ill to Con Ion traced to her res iled in vague in mors that .-he w inv dved in tie Jafsie neg tiations Condon was ex ted to go today before t.ie Bi ox unty gra il jury j investigating the extortion . a. <■ in which ho vv is the i'.termediary Hmv ever he was expect'd I" tell hi -liny last I'u lay and t land jury all ml almost everyone ut him. \iiother

postp mement may Henry ( Re 11 Jol

the Lin theigh mirf

i surprise va-it

headqu iters ye tei with a man In lpi . tion of a hook de-

iem es. He is held

ities as an alien

country.

And a! EngleW. Mr . Lindbergh's

home "i Hi in v Ji h i n. a hole I k< (Continued on I age Two)

I’lLLRIM \I,L TO DEPAI \\

I N I il \N \ RRANt H ni (Hii, \ N I/.ATION H> MEET HERE SATURDAY GOOli PROGRAM IS \HR\M,EH

Indiana Penwomen Plan Pilgrimage to DePauw

result today,

ison, sweturart »>f . Betty ( SrOMV. paid '» Newark p< li •

ty m compui

. him in

nhimr hi exper iv federal autliorille^ally in tin.

<1, the familv,

home of Hid the

P-

Cars WrerkeJ In ( rash \l I imnlal

M mv Prominent Uenun cf State Expected to Attend. Sesninnu In DePauw Ituil'hngs Final arrangements for the pil grim.tge of tlie Indiana branch of the l.eagu of American Pen Women to the DePauw university campus in Groin tie Saturday have been com-

pleted.

A Oil dm ■ meting w ill bp held at l*i .'.o i. lock it Stu ohaker Memorial idmini. tration building. Various oh.iirnieii will submit reports. Ih D I’rivv university choir, di i' t-d b, Dean R. G MrCutchan, will give a recital in Meharry hall at ,11 .;(), lo wiii’h tie public is invited.! \ |iiiich.’"ii will he rved in Lucy Rowl.aiul hah it t (lock, and a numhei I pe ill featuies have been lli I"- 1 Kepi I itives of tin 1 (in on- i tie' w men's dubs have b*-en invited tn at'ernl the sessions

dur ing Tie day.

Dean K at he line • prague Alvord -.ill ; i. ' tl... t -li' nf welcome at the Inn ' eon, and • re-pon e will he give-i liy Mi Oviil Rutler James

pn t

I re

the

C. GILLEN FLAYS BLOCS IN CONGRESS

RAPS “CRAt lx THF-WH1P" METHODS OFIKN ATTEMPTED ON LEGISLATORS WRIIKS I Et.lON EXECFIIVE

cal Repre entative Expresses His A lews In Letter In ( ommander Ralph liates

MRS L D. OWENS.

by Mr

I'U 1 id. I an I n 'I ional . tate viceden' 'li Ih zabet h \nie- and .I'lui Mill r. eh alter members of ii G m- n i t e 1 v. (linen' club,

C I

II I 1 N( It I HI I II E

VM) (illlo \ M1U I i 11 i ctn ( U'E inji in

ih nt.

vt 'll

11 "in

iiiul

man passenger. Sh

first woman t > make the solo flight. She narrowly aveited a crack up lere yesterday on the tii -t leg of Die light, pil Me i by Bernt Hal hen. Comuander Byrd's pil t Tiiey had taken >ff in midalt'-i n'"ii from Teterboro

airport. New Jersey.

The i i iin-' n mon plane appeared t' 1 >e beach'd for a fatal crash as it ca

reened and humped across the shorter added to hi- (onf runway of the in i i"ipal airpoit here, antncanci d Tue-dav

I he plane w l ighted and brought to he

i halt while -|>' 'atois gas;el. t da with the

Fur ; nxu a ond the i ro.vd i feared that Mi-c Earhart’s |)l:ine votild uffei tt" fate that overt-ink Ruth Nu’.."I when he landed here ast summer. Mi - Ni h Is machine lath'd int i t!>' wo ds, injuii 'g the

ivlatiix.

But Bakhr ', eteran airman who il, ted Admii .1 Ri h r I A. By rd over thp south pole, hiriught his ship i

iafely. He nd 7') mile

O a opant

which were hadly

on the M nhatt. itx m} about h:MO 'il",’» iTTi

es ap- I injury.

vo a atom bile naged in a i t i oa 1 at I iim i ih' hrsilay -evening;

I kiln iping, or

Driver of onr r ir vva

. W it. 1

’•ul

yp.t i s

lips of ('incim iti, an 1

thp oth* *

PH T

Ail

w i' Hiivf ii b\ \N H Rlnibottoni.

1 ."lig,

Mt. Ver; on, Hi.

1 'lira

it vvi's sinl • " lllir

loifc car

vva

Mis. ’

for’r'l out of t.hu line

f ti itTit'

into

t 1 "' patl of the Ohio (i

ir when

car;

Emm:

ill front of the lllini i-

machine s

t p

S ott,

pd sudd* nly.

! (»i ;h'p

P ullip- ha 1 l" i it

t iken t"

t hp

All

M l',mill n gaiam* for

re pail > vv

lnle

\ ,1 1 ' 1

. the otliei vein 1, wa-

taken to

the

1 i

local Fold garage

(b ml'

eeting "f welcome. Mrs. M' V Ini I, i. honoi nrv presi i fnrmi i (iiei ic.'i tie woman il i the subject, “Bak after wTii, h Mis . Eucile Cal-

-iit tin Sp h | ailment will I i' cut a lecture re ital featuring ; nts ol her lo gei lecital, "Flame

Through Smoke."

Am ; r I -• e e ;;.r te l fiout In h-

•ii li - i Mr Owen, M rs. Ovid H i.i i ..J F.e#*uu' ti iioilal xjte (iiesi .1 i 1 • i Ind] ma. who spent several

f In giil ioi.'l in Greenca-tie; 1 Felix I Whirter. Mrs. W. D. Mi i; ■ " i g, I’Kilip Meier, Mi • - i ■" th, Mrs. J M Williams, Mm o (ID William , Mr . O. Mi li, Hii.ia D" Taney, Airs, i .-angei i" im, Ah-- Margaret , AD I ink N Walli’e, Miss Shonp, Mrs. (). M. Pittenger,

tin an. Mrs. J T Ed i ne Linn Sandy, Miss I out, Mis i Margierite i harle,- A. PfatTlin ami

Mrs Maigaret Noble. Mr Edith L mhard Squires of Ri, hmoTi I a! I Mr-. II A'. Sheridan of Frankfort will join the Indianapolis delegation. Mrs. Ethel Arnold Tilden, wife of Profess i Francis t Tilden i- chair man of the t mmittee for arrange ment and program. Other members of the committee are Mrs. R. A. Ogg. Mrs. Earl Ellis, and Mr.-. < L. Zar-

itg.

CLASS SERMON \T METHODIST ( III RCHSUNDAY REA A I . It APTI A El It) DEI IA ER SERMON ON "GO AI S AND (,<) \DS" Mil PKOC.R \'l Is ANNOIM ED All Grrenra-th' • hurches lo Hold Union Service In Honor of ((i casion

S 1! 1

Viigim i;IT. Mi

Thunder and Lightning 1

Rev A L Raphael, | astor of the Tn t Pro-l.yteiian ■ Ivirch, will be the leak.' before th* members of t'.u Ip.iJ gra fioituiK i - ot (ireem a-tic high -cho I, at ( " 1 Inc aTuireati service m t e Meth' i t c'auich Sun day evening .at 7:30-o’clo-k. Rev. K-iphael will talk on the . uh je t, “G al. aid Goads." Othei Gnoicastle niini-tei will also take part in the proaram, vvhiie the mush will he furnished bv th- Purple Robed Junior chon umbi t a buection of Kenneth R. Umfle* t. ('nngiegations f all the Green ca-tle hutches will join in the ser vice in ho; or f the occ asion. ( onimence nent exercise- for the high i hold gi 'dual' will lie hel,' in the iiigh 'di u| gymnasium next Fri

lav i veiling. May

d vvn. A fr* ■ I under hi I*’ d-Veo-l I

ring at bet m en 6 1 hour when he ii e I mug cross wind honk ■t wing and the L" k cril is dame ovei

'he ru’iwav Mis E" ; n >nic Edcln '

mind the Ian mg Ralclieii 'id ‘L

HaFhe’i an I me Ii -ki id not seem t

AGanti'

Eariait's chan ’(s lii t woman to fly to were "it'.t out of

the

I 10U.” K|g i • i In fine ipirif and appealed - mfident. Ihe first i pei am I gri t her was 1 spe tor Horace M 1/ weighs 824 pounds and i ix and a iialf feet

tall.

“Well, ' e here.” Miss Earhart told the inspe tor. “My. but you're

a big man," -he adde i in as she gazed at the hulk

! "Tlie Bo.-ton police force hi. n i sir'll

(Continued on Page Four)

admiration f the law-.

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE Edgar Harri- received a telegrn n today announcing the death of John J. Cole, president of the Cole Bi •

factory here

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meikel at tended a meeting nf the Rebekah

lodge in Indianapolis. Miss Nina Cook, who school in Indianapolis,

home folks.

S. A. Hays' went to transact legal business Miss Alma Utile of

is atteiulin.' is visit’o,'

•

Danville * Clayton G.

ha 1 admitted repeated offenses and | vi-ituig

Hammond.

I he complete Im alaureate pro- |

gram follows;

Pi rind - Prof. V I). Thompson, i

organist.

Pro > -sion;il

I v Iv A "pear ("T he Re lcmp tu n"), (. mm 1 - I'niple Robed Junior

! Choir.

Hcnpture Re. A F Alo 1 ger. What Go I Doc I Well |)"ne, Gatoiio Radi Puiple Robed Junior

I ( h dr.

Prayi Rev. AA J. ( rowder. Hyin.i No. Tnk Uongregation. ; 1 mdn, 'Goal nd Goads” Ret IV. I . Rii.'h " I.

B"lie li, tion.

Hlt.HI ' H NFRAI I DO A A East rite for David (' Hughes,

well known rrsi h t of this city, who

died AA‘ dnesday m cuing at his home ,m Popular street ere held fiom the

! Rector fuilt al ho" at 2 o clock. I>r tor of the Met' 1 i n| tii service Fore t Hill eno 1 ; were AA illiam St» , E. .Willi ims, t it i a vv for I ami 7 d

Representative in Congress ( . t Gillen, Indiana, today declare.-! it is high tnr)e a halt vva. called upon representatives of organization- md aloes representing minority groups '.hat attempt to shape legislation byinferred threats and by < ntinually holding a “menacing club" over the heads of members of congress. Mr. Gillen .aid a member of congress w<d •oms the views of any rganizathm >r any citizc"; presenting the merits >f a proposition in which they may be interested, but that he -hould he re--entful of "crack thewhip methods” that are too often employed in an attempt to coerce a legislator. Representative Gillen made hi. ctatement in a letter, forceful and vet dignified, t • Ralph F. Gates, commander '>f the Indiana American legion, who had wired to Gillen and ! other members of the Indiana con gre.-sional delegation that "an exolanation w-jll ),p demande i" should they fail to provide adequately for naintei ance of least pre .ent, ormy, lational guard and re civa <lenient the Gates telegram w i dir' ted igainst leduccd a|ipri priatiou f r

Ihe army.

“Knowing that i minority ■ rganzation controls e ough votes," wi te Representative Gilkn, "eit'ier to elect ir defeat, the temptation comes to , n Id to the demands for | litical pur poses. Some representatives of or raiuzed mmol dies boldly attempt to rse this as a club to coerce legisla-

'ors into line."

, Gillen’s stand yiai t representa ives or oigmi/ition.s Ui ' by infer■nee. thre den |iolii < ;l reprisals is di ■e'ted alik" toward any and all minrity blocs, be th" ex-service men. nanufactureis, labor groups, farm

j mreaus, wets nr dry

Mr. Gillen takes t ’e ta!d that a i eful purpose i- served when an org miz ition of any kind seek- legi-la tion on merit, hut, he declares in his 'letter to Giles, "a demand such as v on have made cannot be defended." The I liana legislator as-erted that I the pei pie are tax burdene I tod iv be . an-i minority group- in the past lave used '•pressure” upon ngre.-s or the e.-tahlishineoit t o-e|i s Imr•aus md for inerea., -| ipproprii tion- for various g- "i-nment activi lie.-. Mr. Gilleo, f rmirse, i for ide quate national def' e, h it he objects vigorously tn the I ing iage, the unfor 'un de language, n.-ed by Command >r Gates Mi. Gillen has v tel foe reduce I gove mi ent exp''ndituies,

'laving in min I tlie I . 1.1 nt if taxpayer- for ei nomy fresident’s -tatenent th •' h must he sp nt f' r "es enti I

i . non e senti il Representatiy >- (’ommander (iat (iate- telegram, "The practice ting their c"in views on pnhli mendable one, • your comme t

'Utlined in you) in a • “How ever, t : 'e ue th I u

in attempting t

d"tnands and t e m ivy as well

the

Gill"- '- lettei after qu ting ids as follows:

th' pe ipl ’ in let small know their 'lestioii ;i it mI I th.mk you f u th- subje-t matte)

Friday aftern on ''i"*' on your

A E. Monger, pa--t rhmeh, ndiictliitcrinent v.a. in v I'all beirerr ■ t. ,1 dm < ir iv, H T (i utier. T'reil

..I lietyre.

Dt it, 1 H AT Bit "" K A I BELLI l NliiN AA A - M Al)

A dig that bit livc-tock in the vhinity of Belle I in n about ten days ago was guff' ring "f jabies, according to ai report fr"iu the state ^

hoard of health. It vv.e- suid a valu- rive at able sow and a littei of pi" - fielong- having

inq to W. R. Walker. well as other minority group Vnirk t ■ whip.'

coerce favorable acviews camr t be too

tr ugly (ondemne ! refer to the veiled th'eat y u c l in tlie follow leg language; ‘Exp! ii dion " ill be de nun led if you fad t ' i r i t ite for

'naintenance, etc.'

‘It is high tin"’ the p< p' i>e in

fo.med of the club ) t i ontinually being hell ovci tin hii ‘ I "i la 'or by tlie i" pre „ nt itivi nf orgin

ized minorities in tin- .ountiy "There is just ne yardstick by

vhich a legisl'tiv pie .tion hold ' he me isurci, and that i n it. merits. It is difficult enough nt 'imes to ar-

a corre-t concluGon without the rept" “iitative of s me

stock, were hittec by the rabid aninml F'armer; hav been warned to take precaution;!i n i uies to pr"vent further outi>r> ak- among their

stock or dogs

"Tlie people today are suffering from excessive tax tion brought on largely by minor by group rule, many instances unrlr-s bureaus are •he utgrowth "f ' ' "d in ole by blocs create! "lely for t " purpose

At the regular ni" 'mg of Crescent of putting oven* their particular pet Rcbekah No. 763. on Thursday eve 1 “'hemes, ling, Mrs. W. D. J w:,s 4,'lc ted* Knowing that a m^rity iganiza noiile grand and Mi Bessie Ash- tion controls enough \ tes Alther to worth vice grand. ^ (Continued yu Tagv Foi* )