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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 19 32.
NO. 197
“PORK BARREL LEGISLATION” EIGHT OPENS
17-POINT BASIS INDIANAPOLIS, June 2.—Here are the "17 points” agieel upon by the special conimutee designated to draw up a working basis for tax re- | lief and governmental economy for an extraordinary session f the legisla-
ADMINISTRATIVE FORCES ARE ture: marshalled against garn-
er RELIEF HILL
CARRV FIGHT TQ CAPITOL
Twr Cabinet Members Appear Before House And Senate Committees Declaring Opposition
WASHINGTON, June 2. (UP)— The administration marshalled its forces ( day against what President Hoover calls "pork barrel legislation” an i ent Secretary of War Hurley
A personal income tax.
Taxation of intangible-at 25 per cent of their aase.-se i valuation. Twent.-five per cent increase in the passenger automobile license fees and 10U pet ent increase
for commercial vehicles.
Spe ial tax on motor vehicle com-
mon carriers.
Transfer of township highways to ccur.ty jurisdiction.
MISS ADAMS IS HONORED BY PROGRAM
TRIBUTE PAID LOCAL TEACHER BY FORMER STUDENTS AND FRIENDS
I FAIT RED IN H AY
TAUGHT SCHOOL
YEARS
Many Glowing Tributes Paid To Widely Known Greenc.astle Woman On Wednesday
Miss Etta Adams, who retiied in
Repeal t,tree mile gruel load law. - May after fifty-one years of teaching
service, was hone re 1 by a special pro gram Wednesday evening in the high school auditorium. Foity-two years of her teaching career were spent in the First ward school as instructor in the elementary g"ades and she is known an ! lov»d by hundieds of former pupils as well as a vast circle of
friends.
The stage of the auditorium was
Two year moratorium on issuance of county unit highway bends. Abolition of county road superin-
before the house ways and means ; tendent and transfer of his duties to
committee to testify against the Gar-' county surveyor,
ner unemployment relief program. j Diversion of nine twentieths of gasTen minutes later Secretary of the 'iline tax and automobile license fees Treasury Mills earned the adminis to counties for highway puiposes; one trstions fight into the other wing of twentieth to cities and t wns, tenthe capitol when he appeare | before I twentieths to remain with the state
the senate banking and currency roni 1 highway commission and abolition of ! adorned with many beautiful floral mittee in opposition to a Democratic county road taxes. | tributes. Mrs. £. R. Bartley, prin-
of all bond issues to 1 cipai of the First ward school, pro
sided and introduced G. K. Black, the
Repeal of local mandatory appro- first speaker. Others who paid tri pritation and levy laws. > bute tc this splendid woman were Creation of biparti i in ■ unty coun-| Vincent Confei, a Timer pupil and cils with power to fix local salaries! now a student in DePauw university; and number of official assistants. Prof. R. A. Ogg, who ha.- been conLimitation of all budgets for three j needed with the city educatin' il sy-
years to 1952 figures.
Ten per cent reduction of all public
NEWELL TARR ARRESTED ON LIQUOR ( II \RGE
Heads New Party
RAID BY SHERIFF AND DF.PU TIES NETS QUARTS AND Di PINTS OP BEER
ENTERS
PLEA
Gian
Eva Robinson Miss Robinson, a local girl, has one of the leading feminine parts in the DePauw onioi cl i . play, ‘ The New Poor,” which will lie presented in Little Theater Friday and Saturday nights.
relief plan ' peelfying the is nance of Submission
I 1
1500.000. 000 in bonds for federal con- referendum,
stm’lion projects. The bill cariies a total approptiation of $2,500,0(10,000. A dramatic session was forecast at the house hearing when Speaker Garner arrived ready to defend his $2,309.000. 000 bill, whi h includes $1, 309,000,000 for a public works pro-
gram.
It is around the public works phase salaries of more than $1,400. of the hill that the sharp controversy Consolidation oj po i relief work between Garner an i Mr. Hoovei has ' in hands of county commissioners, developed. Permissive consolidation of town The tanned, athletic secretary of Permissive consolitation of townwar began a vigorous exposition of ships. the administration's opposition to the Stiei tific survey of governmental hill. I structures.
He submitted charts prepared by
army engineers to how the extent to ^Y) ('olltM'l
IDENTIIA LOI R AS ROBBERS OF THE AMO BANK
REI.F ISED ID DANVILLE AUTH GRIMES WEDNESDAY FOR
TRIAL
tern fer years; Mrs. H. R. Krehl, and Paul Boston, new superintendent of the public schools. Mr. Black in hi .
closing remarks read a touching tri-! INDIANAPOLIS, June 2 - hour al bute to Mi'S Adams written by Mrs. I»'sre-t Amo St He Bank bandits, one ai John R. Miller, a close friend foi woman, who were arrested heie Sun- i more than half a century. } day were released <o Hendricks eounOthoi features ou the pi gram in- 1' authorities yesterdar on order of eluded a group of vocal selections by i I' 1 ' d Simon, chief ->f detective. , aftei Howard Isley, practice teacher frem they had lieen identified by official' the DePauw music school, accompan- , t' the bank as members of the robber
which each st:de now is benefitting under war department river and harbor and flood control projects. Hurley sought to how that a negligible amount of employment would result from this phase of the Garner
measure.
Alabama, for example, he said, under arm., y/oje'ts !.«» found employmem for 308 men, and under the Garner plan the miximum employed would be 778 men. (The per capita expenditure would rise from 19 cents
to $1.01.
The Garner Bill provide for expenditure of more than $300,000,000 in rivers and harbors and flood control
projects.
Hurley estimated that this was only 184,469,900 mere than would be sprnt un !er the wai department pro gram. He said the increase would give employment to only an ad iitiona 1
IiisuraiMT Policy
PEARL S. MAHONEY DEMANDS $750 OF METROPOLITAN
LIFE INS. (O.
A demand of $750 is made by Pearl S Mahoney of this city in a suit filed in circuit court against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to collect insurance due under a policy alleged held bv her husband, Robert Mahoney, at the time of his death
December 2. 1931.
According to tire complaint on March 2, 1931 in consideration of a
ied by Ross Stoakes at the piano; “An Old Fashioned Garden,” by Mi . Lee Reeves; a piano solo by Jack Gillespie, and a vocal number, ‘A Garden cf Roses” by Miss Margaret Aim
Inman.
As n token of their appreciation and e.-teem, the Parent-Teachers’ As sociatiun and the First ward students presented Miss Adams with a beautiful talde last week.
gang.
They are William Behrens, alias Johnson, Detriit, Mich.; Ids wife. Mis. Margaret Ann Behrens, alias Smith; (daude Parker, 24 years old, of l‘l ■ infield, and Shitley Patterson, 42 years old, 16 Lenore street. All were arrested in a raid at the 1-enora s'rem addi '- -ii and later they were identified attire Amo bandits, although they denied implication in
Mayor Denman Takei C ase I nder Advisement Aftei tpoearame In City ( ourt Charged with being the owner of (>4 quails and 16 pints of brer found in the upstairs part of his home, three i miles south of Greencastle, Newell Tarr, 36 years old. was lodged| in the county jail Wednesday afternoon on a charge of possession of illicit li
quor.
Tarr was arrested by Sheiiff Alva Bryan and deputies Edward Eiteljorge and Walter Bryan, who search ed Tarr’s home in the afternoon after a search warrant had been issued for
the premises.
. Sheriff Bryan said that Tarr had I part of the beer cased in boxes while | the remainder appaiently had only j recently been bottled. A ten-gallon | jar of brewing beer was destroyed by j the shetiffs party while two other j jars and a siphoning tube and capper
| were e nfiscated.
'Fair, who said lie was out of work : and making the beer only for his own | use, was brought to Greencastle following discovery of the Ixf i and lodged in pail to await arraignment, in the Putnam circuit court before
Judge James P. Hughes.
Tarr pleaded guilty tot a charge of possession of liquor when arraigned before Mayor W. L. Denman Wednes day evening in city rourt and hi case was taken under advisement un
til Saturday-
SENATORS IN SHARP DEBATE OYER ECONOMY
SENATE \ROUSED BY PROPOSAL TO SI ISH BAI Mill \!.l DOWN THE LINE
CONFER
TAX MEASURE
Senate Conferees Meet With House Members To Speed Final Enactment Oi Tax Bill
IVith a platform of “better governnent at a lower cost and repeal of he prohibition laws,” the "People’s Ticket,’' a new third party, has come nto being with W. W. O'Brien (above), well known Chicago crimi-
• WASHINGTON, June 2, (UP) — The senate was spinning into a sharp dispute over eeonomv today while its conferee met with those of the house | to speed the $1,116,000,000 tax bill to ! final enactment.
innnvei, wen known < mvagoennuaal lawyer, making his rolitical deant ns candidate for Governor of llinois. O’Brien wail oppose former jovernor Len Small. Republican, ind Judge Hc iry Usrner, Democrat.
' the robiaery wh>n questioned by DePOLICE SHOOT ROBBER tertive-. Roche md F ssati. PERU, Ind, June 2 (UP) A man The bandits were aid to have abidentified as W. R. Miller, Columbus, tabled $1.40d in the holdup.
O., was shot to death here today
34,178 persons. , , i • The present program “is as sound '^ant agreed to pay to the plaintiff and wise economically as the fiscal I u l' on T"'" 11
condition of the nation will permit,”
Hurley said.
The senate Democratic program in-
police halted a gasoline station rob-
bery
Police said they saw the victim in the station He fired on them when
, . „ . . , j | they commanded him to surrender,
cash premium of 50 cents and weekly , , ,, ,, ; they reported Police leturned the tire payments of 50 cent- thereafter, the i • r
defendant issued to the deceased a policy insuring his life It is alleged that by terms of the polie the de-
death
Robert Mahoney the sum of $720. it is alleped the insurance companv has refused to pay the amount due
elude,: direct loans to states for pn-; ""^'m'k'(!''St'cessel is attorney for
empic ment relief totaling $300,000,
| Frank G. Stoessel is attorney
th n plaintiff.
000; issuance of reconstruction fi na-’ce corporation debentures aggro gating $1,460,000,000 for financing self liquidating public works; issuance n f $4,000,000 cf tin -ame debentures for firancing sales of agricultural products in foreign markets; a $500. 000,Of9 bond issue for construction of hithsrto authorized public works.
HEAVY RAIN FALLS
Heavy showers Wednesday night pioved invaluable to Putnam county (oops which were suffering from lack cf rai' fall. Lawns, gardens and field crops aver the entire county received hare of the moisture although the tainfall was said to have been heavier in the south part cf the county. A ; evere electrical storm early Thurs-
da\ morning was -aid to have caused the fastest elec tri- cars on the line,
solve lamage to the light system of
the city when a b dt struck a trans . R)iE ^ x r E DISMISSED
former.
and four shots struck Miller The identification was made by
papers found in the victim's clothing.
TRUCK I AW UPHELD INDIANA POL W, Jun- 2 (UP) The new Indiana law limiting the weight and sizi of trucks on Mate highways was uphtld today in a ml lug by Judge Ruasell Ryan In '• ipei ior court.
The Old Manhattan Hat Trick
REPORT ONEM\N CARS TO GO ON HERE JUNE 101H
One of the new one-man interurban cars was being tried out on the Indianapolis an I Terre Haute electric line yesterday, a gioup of officials mak ing the flip from Indianapolis to Terre H uite a d return. It is reported that the one man cars are to be put in service between Indianapolis
and Terre Haute on June 10. On the trip from Indianapolis to
Brazil in the niorring the ore-man car made th~ tun of 57 miles in an hour, m iking three stops enroute. This is about 30 minutes faster than the trip is mad. by the Highlanders,
George Harris, south of town, suffered a lacerated right hand. Thuis6sy morning while working at the
Sand Plant..
HAMMOND. I d.. June 2 (UP)— Charges against four youths implicated with Virgil Kirkland in the death of Ailme Draves have been dismis.-ed, it was dircPsed here when a divorce was gianted the wife of David Thompson, one cf the youths. It was re ailed that after Kirkland was senten c l to one to 10 years at a se-rnd trial. Prosecutor Robert Estili said he would nsk that charges
C. C. Gautier and Dr. G. W. Bence UR3 in-t the ethers he dismissed. Inare in Chicago cn business. vestigation revealed that they were
R’J* ! ell Newgent was a visitor in June fi . 193 L
Indianapolis. , Implicated with Kirkland
DePauw hnmbh-d the Butler base Thompson were
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
1 all team, 4 to 1.
Charles Moore, of the editorial staff r f a Louisville, Ky., paper is the guest
“f home folks.
Miss Pearl O’Hair’s pupils cenduetM sn art exhibit at the studio, corner Poplar and College avenue.
Paul Barton,
and
L<» n
Stanford and Henry Shirk.
THE weather
Showers probably tonight and Fri- j day; Little change in temperature.
The seriate was aroused by its economy committee’s proposal tc apply a ten per cent salary reduction right down the lin - from cabinet officers and congiessmen to stenographers an i charwomen. About $122,000,000 word I be save I by such
^ a cut. This is more than half of the \IalvCS Solo *‘- 38 * 6< ' 5 ' 0,l ° of "'tig in the
riovrrdiile Bov
suie, which supplements the
to balance the budget.
mea-
tax bill
WII LIAM I INI KY IS CONTEND ER FOR YOI \GEST LICENSED
INDIAN \ PILOT
William Lhley of Cloverdale, prime . nte lei for the title of youngest licenre.l ,.ii plane pilot in Indiana, made hi fir t -oi . flight at the Capitol air put in Indianari li ye-terday. Young Linley, who will !.• a junior in Clover lale higli chord next fall, is assured that no one will take his title away fiom him unless license examinition age limits are revised downveid , for ic began his work for a
Considerable sentiment has devel- | oped for a graduated salary cut, tak | ing more than ten per cent off the big salaries and vary little from the 1 $l,on(> a year charwomen. Others wanted to follow the example of the house and reduce only those saiaiies in exce.-s of $2,500. But this would save only about $9,000,000. Champions of the (Tat ten per cent cut insisted it was the only feasible way of making the requisite saving . Protests ranging around the pay cut will be outdone by the fight developing to protect the $1,000,000,000
pm ite pil 1’ lieen -e on his sixteenth war veterans’ apropriation. The econ-
MRS. SARAH Kl\ 111 DIES MARTINSVILLE, Ind.. Jure 2Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Kivett, 75 year-, old. died at her home yesterda' aftei several weeks* Hlne ■; with qi lieai t disability. Mrs. Kivett and her husband. Eli KiveC, resided near Wilbur for many years After his death in 1914 she and her on Grafton made their home in this city. Surviving are four sons. Wesley of Jefferson town hip, Frank' of Emin ence and Silas and Grafton J. of Martinsville. Mrs. Kivett was a member of the Christian Church at' Hall Funeral services will be held Fri day morning at the church at Hall.
birthday tv the ago limit.
The youth sh old complete work for Co li • use ' ithin three weeks, Harry Boggs, hi in truct >r, said yesterday. He avei money he earned at odd job ,ii"Und ( lovei lale to pay for his nvi,ili"o couise. Hi - mother, however, has planned t V Ip him buy a plane and may even help establish a com mercial flying field for him in Clo-
vei dale.
Uiickeii Thieves
ETHRIDGE HE IS COOPS LOOTED
OI 211 OW LS TFESDAY
• NIGH I
week ; ag >. Sixteen Is omy committee recommended a re-
duction of $18,090,000. This touches
delicate political nerves.
The tax bill fonferes, meeting in secret, had before them the revenue bill as pasesd by the senate and by the house. Linder emigre-sional rules, the items arc inten hangable and may he reduced, but iio'mng > m be put in the final niea«'ire v.hi ’h does not appear in either house or senate lulls. Democratic Lea ier Rainey, one of the hou.-e conferees, said he would fight to strike out the oil, lumber, coal aod copper tariffs in the senate ; bill. Other difference to be recon-
ki , j I I li ii'il TiitU) tiled are the highei im- me levies and iTII IIYl 1 11111.1 l llllA |owhr sack market tax adopted by the
_______ i senate.
Chairman Smoot of the senate conferees predicted the compromising would lie done quickly, the measure approved in the final form by House and senate and dispatched to the
Presidei t early next week.
In an hour yesterday the senate agreed with scarcely 20 minutes debate to accept reductions aggregating $1,700,000 in the legislative appropriations bill. The economy program is a “rider" on this bill. When it was reached, senators weie aroused to
oratory and pi test.
More than a fort'. ight of long hours and late ses. ions have rt senatorial nerves to jangling. Vico president Curtis leflrctei the impatient spirit of the senate when he repeatedly gavelled the senators Into somewhat sullen silence and finally refused t rec ognize Benutir MeNary, Repn., (Ee., the assistant Republican fh i lender, until every person in the chamber had taken his seat. Curtis threate ed to clear the galleries when incisional hubbub gieeted protests agimst the proposed 10 per cent salary cut. Senator Norris, Repn., Neb., suggested that the senate wa “in no condition to delibe-ate” nr I for the f irst
For the third time within the past two n nth:-, chirk m thieves Tuesday i ight looted th hen houses of Ethridge Buis, in Marion township, tak mg 24 chi kill-, White R ek breed. Mr. Buis did not miss the chickens
until Wednesday evening.
ijeveial weeks ago thieves raided
the poultry hou. c:. of Mr. Bui> and took 140 chi' I;- n . I.ater in a second raid ('0 eh' ken were stolen, while in the third raid aim ist all the remain
iler if his poultry was taken. Mr. Buis stated that all the poultry
left him were a rooster and a few
j setting hen and little chickens.
Id BOARD SPECIAL
LAFAYETTE. Ind., June 2 Alumni j of DePauw I'niversity will be given a sample of Purdue hospitality on the i morning of Srturlay June 4. when Pi -i lent Elliott will head a delega1 Don of l'nicer, ity offii ials ard others to grot DrPauw dumni a they pass through I ifayette enroute back to
Greencastle for commencement exer
cist Mel dist a - Igo 1
ard vicinity will go back to Green-1 adjournment with the sun still
castle on the Mono’!, using the “Ijong den Spe: i ll,” a s; > ial train named to honor Dr. Her ry B. I.ongden. vicepresident of the 1 ni ersity. who is completing B0 j“ ii« f service- thl-
year.
President Eoui H Hopkins of Wa iiH'h College will like-' se head a delegation from thH* i liege and from Crawfordsville vi ' th“ train stops there to drop a ra of two or two of \\ ibash giads comi’g hack here for commencement. Bishop Edwin H >lt Hughes, former! president of DePauw and now residing in Chi- ag . lodge Will M. Sparks of the U Circuit Court of Appeals, and Judg* James H. Wilk nson, of the U. District Court at Chicago, are strong the notable DePauw graduates who will lie on the
train.
Mrs. Ella M-rsten of Coatesville, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. F | Jamison the last few days.
high.
WASHINGTON, June 2, (UP)— Demo rats are pr.'esling tint President Hrovor receive un up c redi* for the lenr e’s quick . tion in pissing the tax bill. Mr. Hoover went to the senate Tuesday noon r-d made an ui gent appeal for hs«te. Twelve hours later (Continued on Page Two) KIWAMS I CM HKOV R, J. Duke, di e t r of Camp Bedford for the c >s» nine reasons was the guest speaker at the weekly luncheon of th“ Kiwanis dub Thursda • noon. Mr. Luke discussed in a most irteresting way the a tivitiss and aim.', of the Yc ng Men’s Christian Ass ociation. He told of its organization in London eight - .-seven years ago and how the membership had grown and spread into many coun- | tries.