The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 June 1932 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 19 32.

NO. 199

CAMPUS AND CITY UNITE FOR ALUMNI DAY

D.P.U. ALUMNI WELCOMED BY L ARGE CROWD

SPECIAL TRAIN FROM CHICAGO ARRIVES IN CITY AT 9:40 A. M. TODAY

p\RADE FOLLOWS ARRIVAL

Visiting Alumni Escorted To Univer-

gjty Campus In Procession Headed by DePauw Band

The “'Longden Spacial” run over the Monon lailioad ties from Chicago to Green astle. reached the city about 9:40 Saturday morning amidst the strains of the DePauw song by the DePauw band and the cheers of a large crowd which had gathered at the railroad station. The train pulled in under the dire-tion of Dr. W. W. Sweet and Wilbur Helm, who 10 le the big loromotive all the way from Chicago. Judge Will M. Sparks acted as conductor. Roy O. West was brake man and Phil Maxwell was the master of ceremonies for all occasions. The train left Chicago at 5 o'clock and carried 44 loyal alumni of DePauw. Breakfast was had enroute and a .-pe-ial mei'.« was given out and was preserved by many as snuve irs. At Lafayette. President El lictt of Puidue university and n large delegation met the train and welcomed them to Indiana. The same wa« true at Crawfordsville where of fhials of Wabash college also wel c n>ed the DePauw boosters. At the lat ei pla"e a special delegation fr tn G'-een .istle met the special and rode home with them. It was a real greeting and the trip home was a real pleasure as the visitors were made to feel qtpte at home while nearing the sitotfjSL u A large crowd had waited for »ome time in the hot sun at the Mo non station, and a large number of aut' mobiles were on band to bring the visitors up town and to the campus, where they were able to sprea 1 cut under the numerous shade tree and to get cool cnee more. At lb o’clock the regular alum i chapel nro gi ■ r was hell in Meharry hall an l it was a rousing chapel meeting Ti e itinning of the spe.’ial wa« the only event of its kind ever undertake i by DePau v alumni and the siv'i - of tiie whole venture was due t the untiring efforts of Phil Maxwell, a former Greencastle boy, who is now piesident of the Chicago Alumni as

an irtion.

A picture of the train crew as printed in The Banner toda\ was one of the chief pieces of publicity us‘d in promoting the train and it ran in all the Chicago papers as well as many ether metropolitan papet which it was said had a total cir ulati n of upwards of 11.000,000.

WASHINGTON. IND. Bl Y>

THIBD I III,11 Y PLANT i

WASHINGTON, Ind„ June 4.-The

1 <dty of Washingt ipiiip 1 its third 1 utility today with • < mircha e of the water plant from tin Indiana Water Works comptany. I he ity council

paid $650,000 for the pi m. At a sptecial elec'ion ■ ver.il months

: ago th-‘ citizens vote 1 to acquire the I water works. Wa ington alteady has a municipally owned electiic light

plant and street railway -ystem.

DELEGATION WILL FAVOR

REFEIiLNDIM

Crew For Special Train From Chicago

STATE REPUBLIC \N DELEGATES TO BE LIBERA I \! \ \ I IONA L CONVEX HON DISCUSS PLATFORM PLANKS Only Two Member- nf Indiana G. O. . P. Committee Spoke for Prohi-

bition Plank

INDIANAPOLIS. June 4. (UP)— Indiana's delegates to the Republican convention will favor a referendum on piohibitio . T day members of the state Republican committee dis-u sed with tueir ! di.-trict committees the referendum plank which was drawn up at a parley yesterday. It will lie submitted to the convention resolutions commit ; tee which meets text Wcrlr e- lay evening. the eve of tire state convention. The 27 committee members spent the entire day di.- us ing the prob able platfoim planks. More than half of the time, however, was spent discussing prohibition. The Republican*, as in the last two I rierade-. .again,will h ok to Senator James E. Watson, to instinct delegates. Although Watson has announced that he will be unable to attend the convention, leaders looked for the fiery statesman to address th e Thursuay session, at whi h he i« expect* i to be re-nominated. “The Indiana delegation will go to the national convent! n instructed to v-te for President Hoover if Senator Watson says so," Ivan C. Morgan, sta'e ? lairman. told the United Press. The majoiity of the state onimit-t*-e favoted 'he semi-wet platform, leaders sai I. Only two spoke for a

dty pl.vk.

Govern r Harry G. Leslie. George A Ball of Mancie, natj 1181 commit-

Darot

i i ra , Indiat i| national •• < »m

mitteevnm

: a Ivisory cap

Taxation "

CONFERFUNERAI SATIRD.\\ U TER NOON Last Rites for Ralph A. Cottfer, who passed away Thursday were held from the- residence on north Indiana street Saturday afternoon. Charles Hale of Indianapolis conducted the services. The pall bearers were; Harry Fields, Hugh Hammond, W. T. Handy, R (' Moore, D. | O. Moffett, and Bruce Shannon In terment was in Forest Hill cemetery.

GRADS RETLRN FOR REl NI0NS ON SATURDAY

MEETING OF AIT MM COUNCIL AND CHAPEL ARE MORNING FEATURES ALUMNI OFFJCEK* RF. ELEC FED

STATE TROOPS \RE RLOl ESI’EI) \T GLEVEUAND

Noon Luncheon and t las^ Reunions Precede Reception and Senior Class Play

Hundreds of graduates and former students of DePauw University were upon the campus today for the annual Alumni Day program. Alumni living in Chicago armed on a special train ami was met by th I niversify* band and more than a hundred cars

— which formed a parade to bring them ARMY' STORM: ROUNDHOUSE I to the campus. The h n i ny ifor the special included Wilbur Helm

and Dr. VV. W Sweet as fireman and engineer, and Ro O West and Judge Will M. Spaiks as < inductor

and brakeman

BONI H : MY M ) R< HERS MK1

POSSESSION OF PENNSY YARDS; HALT TRAFFIC

All Available Police On Duty Rut

l liable To Cope With World

YVar Yeterans

l eft t*> Right--" ilbur Helm, .lui’ge Wilkeraon, .In Hge stalks and Rov O. Wpst. The official train crew appointed by Phil Maxwell, president of th, Chicago Alumni Group included Judge James H Wilktrson. commentement speaker, as engineer; Wilbut Helm. ( hirago broker, as fire man; Roy O. West, president of the Board of Trustees as brakeman. and Judge Will M. Sparks, as conductor.

CLEVELAND. O., June 4. (UP)— Leaders of the 1,200 world war veterans who took possession of the Pennsylvania yards and stopped freight tiaffic for 14 houis in an attempt to get transportation, decided today to m ve their army on foot ta ward Pittsburgh, enioute to Washington. D. ( Police weie asked to furn

ish an escort for the start.

The meeting of the Alumni Council with Loui- S. Hinkle presiding, elected the same officer for next year, Mr. Binkley a chairman, 11 F. Sutherlin, Indianapoh , ‘ > t, II vice-chairman, and Russell Alex.ind'i, Greencastle, secretary

GRIM ATLANTIC HOLDS FATE OF STAN HAUSNER

NO "ORD OF DARING AVIATOR ON ATTEMPTED FLIGHT

ACROSS OCEAN

LONDON, June 4- (UP)—Poor flying weather was reported todav by th' a j r ministry as Stanley Hausner, a • unknown Poli-h American flier, j was believed piloting his big flame I colored plane, the St. Rosa Marie. I ever the Atlantic on a projected flight I

fr m New Yolk to Warsaw.

Heavy clouds between two and three miles in the middle and eastern Atlanti . and wind between northeast j and east with a v**l city of 16 to 2b

miles an hour, were repoitcd.

Then at 9 a. m. British summer time (4 a. m New Y ik time) the air ministry reported overcast weather

ittended the se-sions in gnj a drizzle In th* Atlantic fr >m 60b 11jpg, ! to 70o miles off ential Irelmd. Vis* . the other outstanding jbility vas about 12 niilrs with mod-

TIIE NEW POOR PRESENTED BA SENIOR CLASS

FIRST PERFORMANCE FRIDAY MAKES MIG HIT WITH AUDIENCE TO RE REPEATED TONIGHT ( bias Play h\ PePau'’ Graduates l« Farce On Pseudo Russian Ncbility

TWO ESCAPE WITH BIU1SES IN ALTO CRASH

TERRFIL BOLAM)F,R AND F.YRI IWM VfCTfMS OF ACCIDENT IN NORT H" OOP

Cl EVELANP. June 4. (UP)-Offi

The regular Alumni Chapel v. \s held in historic Meharry Hall " i* \ every available seat fillr I. Harvey B. Hartsock, Indianapolis. | rr • lent,

rials of the Pennsylvania railroad to- 1 „f the association, was in chaige. day appealed for state militia to drive | Silver meals were awarded to all out more than 1)00 bedraggled but | graduates who had beou out of school determined “bonus mar'diem” who | fifty years or more. The presentation took po .i n of the railroad's yard j was made by Dr. Henry B. Lot gden, here, temporarily ying up all traffic I vire-presid* nt of DePauw and a mem-

ber of the class of 1KM.

Three bundled police reserves, every available policeman in the city, were

proposition b f re the committee. Re Henchmen' n public expenditures and more equitable distribution of the tix

erate northeasterly "inds.

FIVE DROWN IN OHIO RIVER ROCKPORlT. Ind., June 4, (UP) he members of two families weie rowned, one swam ashoie. and two nildren saved themselves by clinging improvised life preservers, when be b rt in which they were riding on be Ohio river late yesterday, over umed. Mr. and Mrs. Veinon Lynn and a 0 year old son, and Mrs. Louis Par~sy and young daughter were Irowned Parsley swam ashore after failirg n efforts to rescue any of the others >nd his eon, Billy, 8. and a nephew of nn s^ved themselved by using in lat°d inner tubes for support until ie!p arrived.

bin den *ei the detail ■ for the leg < b was n rnicT a report of submitted t tee. Senator upon by m . to be temp ing sp k)

Fiom outhern Ireland to 300 miles at sea. rain, lew clouds, and some fog

prevailed.

There was poor visibility, with rain

and b w clouds in southwestern F.ngland. The weather in western Ire-

. i a nd was "reasonably decent," with ••“solutions commit- B00< j visibility beneath high clouds.

guards tbiough Ir land kept

agreed upoa oltlr ugh I* the program weie left

aluie.

nt, Lafayette publish' i ,y the group to draw up uggested planks to be

the

CiA’i

• hurM Robinson. looked ( for Hausner without sucas a “dry, is expected , » g The air mt 1|Mry< offi dais at .uy chairman and open- air . )romp near London, and „f the state conclave. ^ Ba |. Jo nnell airdrome near Dublin

hail no news of th“ flier.

The first perforuianee of the it-nioi ilas? pla* "1 ie New Po r, whicli w .s piesented in the Little Theatei Uiiday night before nn appre. iative a lien e off' ially ushered in th" mmencement perio I which centin m . t day with the alumni activities *r: e east wa= well 'hosen and the play vi'h its i omb natien of mystery an I roman e was an excellent vehicle foi : the players, n )*t of whom have been fsvorit c s in other plays and aie

menbers of Dozer Du.

The play, a hilarious farce in three a t . will he repeated again t might . ' for campus visitors, alumni and foi | mer Indents as well as parents of , DePauw seniors who are on the cam | pus to see their sons and daughter graduated. All three ac ts take place in the living room of the Welleby

••ou: try home near a city.

Eva Robinson, a local girl, plays the I part of Mary Maudsley, a famous writer cf detective stories, llei auspicious are aioused by the queer actions if s** me Russian servants in the Welleby home, these servants sub-e quently pioving to be of the Russian I nobility. She discovers a famous

Terrell Bolander. son of Mr. and Mr' Glenn P. Bolander, 632 east Washington street, and Eail Isom, living north of G eem astle, es aped with bruise- ah ut midnight Friday night, when the Bolander Chevrolet eoadr left the pavement and over turne I o a curve on Arlington ave-

nue in N'oithvvoed.

it was reported that Bolander, who was said to have been driving, failed to make a sharp curve in the road. The cn overturned in a field, skidding f r more than 35 fe"t on its t p and

ladiat 1 i in soft clay dirt.

Fortunately i o glass in the car was broken and Bolander and Isom e«rap e l with a '.t e e iking up. The <ar u* ’s badly damaged ib ut the top. radiator, and fr mt axle and wheels. A wrecker from the McCammon | garage towel th * damaged car in for

repairs.

I wo Dniy (jiiili In \mo Robben

At 9:46 a. m. (EDT) the blue-eyed, painting has been stolen and calls in a sandy haired little amateur flier, fir- detective to solve the mystery. When

RUSSELLVILLE MU TH HELD ON TIIKIT CHARGE

RA N'DAI I <IY1P* 0\' VI I F.GFD TO HAY F NTOLF.N PROPERTY

FROM »■ A RAGE

Randall Simpson, age 23 years, ar-!e-ted at Ch M\vfoid*vil!e in connection

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

Mrs Ralph Crawley wa* called to ndianapolis by the illness of her sis-

»r.

M. Houck was a business visitor i Indianapolis. Fred Hixon and family of Roachale are moving into the George Hack property, corner of Poplar nd Jackson streets. C. D. Conklin left today for Sagi 'aw, Mich, to serve as umpire for he Southern Michigan State baseball eague. Gilbert Cole, Albert Huffman, Ld Sharnel and Jack Bridges are pend* eg a week camping on Big "almit reek near Bainbridge.

have been 24 hours out from Floyd Hoine't airdrome. New York. I he

St. Rosa Marie carried no radio equip

..iv YVIFF RETURNED lo JAIL. m ent.

' ’ 1 A( KING $10,000 Hausnfr's take-off was at 9 4h a. B(*ND lm., Friday. Hi* Wright-motored Bel

' lanca plane made a graceful run down danvii 11’* ,nd - Jun * 4 t", 1 * 1 Ham Behrens, 29 years old, and b,s “ife Miigaret. 19 of Detrort M.ch . suspected of ro.qplirity in the Amo „. a , bm k holdup were arraigned before Judge A J Stevenson in Hend-

smav Jiairea - — - - *

mevlv 1 motion pi ture operator, will the mystery is nicely solved, the love with t “ th ft of property from

—. i ) . - 1 - r • o s-'l rr . .. > cm af PlWfl

th“ innrrete runway and sriled out

into the Atlantic mists.

POLICE HUNT BANK ROBBER

affairs of the younger members of Ravin & C'"mon* gm 'ge at Russell the household have be ome so invcl- ville. i*i • I . uuirv. was returned to ved that another solution is neoes the Pu'' " ('"'intv jail Srturlny by

ordered to the yards by afety director Merrick early todav alter polUe Lieut. Harry Weiss had been pushed aside by a me b that stormed tire

roundhouse.

Governor George White and adjut ant General Frank B. Henderso*. at Columbus, ha l aligned C l. William L. Martin, commander of the 145th Infantry, Ohio notional guard, o' Cleveland, to remain on the scene as

a observer.

The inva let s, most of whom were I ft mi Petr it and Toledo, had pro posed to keep court 1 of the yards and roundhouse until the railroad accepted t irir demand Ur freight transportation, enroute to Washington. D. C., to pr sent their demands for payment ^

of the bonus.

J hn T. Pace. Detroit, was in com mand of tire veterans. The request f r national guard as sistari' * v. is nr tde after the veterans had demanded free transportation “or no train will move out of the yards." They -caree led in delaying a passe i ger train while a onference was held with railroad officials. Ordei was restored temporarily when leaders of the mar hers were persu r led to make no attempt to step trains and deput.* police inspector Ste; !ie*i Murphy tol l James C, Poff enberger, division superintendent of the Pennsylva ia railroa 1 that he would not order police to clear the yards unless there was violence. T ! *e ex-soldiers gathered here yes tei day fr nr Pert it and Toledo and were augmented by approximately 400 Clevelande' They obtaine i free rides cn 10 freight cats furnished by

At th» noon hum ar. alumni luncheon was serTttl rt) thoie than WXFrrt Bowman Gymnasium eating was by classes with no speaking program In the afternoon all rein ion clisses were scheduled to hold their meetings in the campus with id'at weatlvo conditions prevailing. < lasses endn g in two and ceven were scheduled t>

meet this year-

The reception by President ml Mrs. Oxnam and the «e, M1 ,| ^ _ ance of the senior class pla ' i'l complete the program tinicht. Hi alaureate will bn GjncUy iiiorring if 10:30 in Bowman Gymn.i ' i'b Pre blent Oxnam the r il i I Commen ement cxen . will bo bell Monday morning a* 10 "'doc k ■' the same place with Judge James IT. Wilkerson of Chicsg", as speaker.

Wry. M.u a Harnrtt ( alkd B\ Dratl’

I ONG II I NF I A I A! I(> " ELL known grffnc V HI E WOMAN

*ar>,

o’-

links Circuit Court where the*. \AemU^ lke 1(1 - t ,heir

e l not gmlty to * charge o bank banditry TH-y bedng held m jail

■ a of $10,000 bond.

"ciaude Parker of Plainfield an! qhiilev Peterson of Indianapolis, who

“nested with Behrens and hit

"T ■ i,ot suspected of connection Z'Hh tJe ho.d«P but are being held for

"“s^S

at ,he Hobbs Nursery at Bridgeport where he was employed, have offered H (Continued on Page Two)

INDIANAPOLIS. June 4, (UP)—

aid today in

search for a thief who robbed the Fnrmeis and Merchants bank at Boswell. Benton county, of over IT.OOO just as W. E. Walker, cashier, was preparing to close yesterday after-

noon.

PoUco were notified by Palmer that a man of medium build accosted him just as he emerged from the vault. , and to k the money, all ' ,f whi h was in btlls of large denomination*. Only , a small sum of money was overlooked.

sary.

Franklin Took*. Fort Wayne boy. leads the little party of Russians a< the Grand Duke Boris IgcroviUh. The w rk of these students. To-ke. Fred Chriest, R nald Evans and Jean Clapp, was excellently handled de« pile the difficulties of speech to be encountered in sttrh parts as theirs. Another fine audience is anticipated

for tonight's performance.

The students’ trio furnished the music of the evening. This trio has been beard at Duzer Du performances throughout the year and is comp^s-d of Dot thy Moore, cello; Margaret Jones, Ti diii. and Jean Miiggce. piano. The play was directed by Prof. H. B Gough, and Prof R. E. Williams Vergil Miller i business manager for the play. Thi- marked the final appear ance of Sarah Ann Bond who has

Sheriff Ab a Bryan on a chirgf* of

petit larceny.

Sheriff Hi. an coveted with the arrest of Simpson two radios, batter ie«. spnk plugs, repair kit«, garage soap, an ele ’tic fun, and other mis-

tirles.

ho was living with hi* ' ben “nested, s Imitted the gnage, it was said, ill to have crawled into office through a small king the ticoi from the nd then removing the articles,

iff Btyan " id Simpson prob-

cellane. « '* Simpson, * young " ife bteaki 1 c int'

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arroigne I in court

i'HE " F AT HER

(Continued on Fage Two)

Firtlv d udy tonight and Sunday; possibly showers rorthweat portion; little c.iangc in temperature.

the New York < “ntral on the trip ^ , from Toledo I hr iim, they said. a[( j Bniiett

was to obtain n ride to Pittsburgh on the next lap n their journey to. Washington t. support bonus legi«la

tUn.

The “army f o ipation” was tattcied and hungry, but moved with military pn i-ioi uid discipline as it took over the nilroad yards and roui dhouss I 'st niaht, A bugler sounded "assembly and the men fell into line while Field Marshs! Pace made a short talk, assigning various gr ops to their posts ^ About 160 men employed In the r undheuse and ns' hine shops were Did to lay do n 'h r tools The invaders Instructed the employes goodnaturedly that they might remain if j they wished. Most employes of the roundhouse remained ch itting genially with the s ore of ex service men assigned to (Continued on Page Two)

Mrs. Mary Barm-tt, m well known Green a-tie died Saturday ni Tnin 't

cl rk at tiie hon.e if I ' - 'tar,

Mis. Janie Pr* " ' .

)'cst of tire*m * st b I*' 1 1 ■ i'ised by a complicati"i "f d , - 1 - '* 1 '' had been seriousl. il! f tl past two weeks although sh“ bad u i 1 ' failing health for the pa-t yen She is survived by six children, Mrs. Myrtb R r - bis *t *1 - 1 h"no she died; ,R ijtrt Bam tt of Fern; y|is. Go rdf e M 1

tireeP'S-i'le;

and Mis. Bes«i“ ' ell Y’sb' of ( tinton. Three children pre led he’ in death She is als > s u r.-ed by -eyei 'l grandchildren and great gi s' drbild-

ren.

Mrs. B'irn»tt was 'urn July 1866 in Kentucky, but had mails her home in Gieenrastl# and vicinity for many years. Funeijl ST 'i “« 'ill !)e held Mm* day afternoon st 2 o' lock at t ie Rector Fun-ral H ie.

OFFICIAL BE! !E> ED SUICIDE

JACKSON, Mi s, June 4. Adjutvt Gene' 1 Jev F 1 sissippi. was found hot to the armory of the niti n il r. tachme. t here to ay. Tv found be-ide th bod\ in may have committed suicide

(IT i— of Mjs ■ leath in u ird de ,> note* ate.! lie