The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 June 1932 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIAN A MONDAY, JUNE 13,19311

NO. 206

Sentenced to Death

logansport man succeeds ERNEST STONER AS PRES1J)EN I OF ASSOCIATION

CONVENTION (LOSE!) SUNDAY

Logan^pnrt Also Chosen As Convention City Next Year. Visitors Impressed By Greencastle.

I.oy.infport was chosen the convention ity in h Y the Indiana Postal Supervisors at their closing business meeting here Saturday evening. Office - elected included W. A. Shaitz, Logansport, president; John Balstr, S uth Bend, vice president; Claude Cohee, Martinsville, re-elected secretary. Ernest Stoner was the retiring president of the organization. Resolutions passed by the postal inspectors during their Saturday night meeting highly praised tireencastle as a convention city- In fact they re ported that they had better entertainment here than in any place in which they have met. ,They said the> had better meals, better beds, and Green castle was a better city than any other. They complimented the city and DePauw university and gave a vote of thanks for their entertain-

ment while here.

Fri ia> evening during the business s e siun a musical program was given. It indu ed vocal numbers by Miss Ardith Moore, and LeRoy (Tommy) Gibb ns; with Mrs. L. C- Conrad play

KEPI PiIiCAN DELEGATIONS IN WINDY CITY

T"<) MAIN ISSUES CONFRONT G. O. I*. ON EVE OF NATL < )>.\YEN riON

FHI< AGO GREETS DELEGATES

; Question Of Repeal Plank In PlatForm And Vice-Presidential Nominee Main J epics

Convicted of murdering Sennrits Tonia Casillas two year ago while intoxicated, Miguel Ahumada, son of the late Governor r t the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, ha- been sentenced to be shot at Guadalajara, Ahumada is a gradual, of Harvard University, and the Ma achusetts Institute of Technology. H e admitted he had no recoil. Mon of events at the time of the crime

TRI-STATE PICTORIAL MELT III,El

CHICAGO, June 13, (UP)—The meat mass of delegates to the Republican national convention arrived here today with two paramount <|ues | ’ions in mil: I. The first was, “Will j the platform declare for repeal of the | prohibition law or re-submission of issue to the people?” and the second, “Will Vice-pn -idont Curtis be re ; nominated or some y ounger man be President Hoover’s running mate?”

Oppose 1 Hoover

REPUBLICAN RANKS ROCKED bydra eight

Keady for 'Povv-W ow’

President Hoover’s only contendei for the Republi. an nomination foi President is Di Joseph I. France (above), former D. S. Senator from Maryland. Dr. France’s candidacv has not been taken seriously by

Administration workers-

CHICAGO, ( IN N \ 11 \\|) INDIA N A POMS ( II KS ARE

REPRESEY) ED

Members of the Indianapolis earn-

ing the aciompaniments, and readings ei a , |ub. the ( ip mo iti iub, and the by Mi s Mary O’Rear. This program Ft. Dearborn dim ■; i | g... attend

wa- given in the pallors at Rector hall. A bridge patty was given in the parlors Saturday evening for the

ladies.

Di Oxnam and Prof. F. C Filden were the speakers Saturday night. Dr Oxn n based his talk on the stater it that "Self interest is the

only suffi. lent motive to drive people the Camei . to real achievement,” “Moral right several repr

e l a tri state picto.,al iio . 'ing ludd in Green, astle a id eir i, n over the weekend. Close i > n< bundle I attended the virion, ions if the program sp ii-or»d hv the Indiana polis (dub with 1-ical irrangements in charge of -I O t'aii 'u e k, a member of that orgaidzata> In addition to

club members present, saitati'c of the Da-

On the first, there was a wide dif-l ferenre vf opinion among the dele-' gates, w ith most feeling that resub- I I mission was as far as the party as a [ ' whole would go at this time on proI hibition. On the second, there was a j wide sentiment for a change in the | ticket to permit of an active, forceful, youthful figure to run with Hoover

j in the campaign.

The movement to supplant Curtis I started so late, however, that many doubted it would succeed. Furthernr re, there is no general agreement on a candidate other than Charles G. !

Dawes, whose intimates say he would! Relatives here received word Monnot run under any circumstances. ' 'I a y °f death in Gallup. NewBefore Thursday, when nominations Mexico Sunday night at S:.ti) o'clock will be made, it is possible the Pre-i ■ "f Mrs. Vernon Heath of San Diego, dent 'ill speak his mind on the nib- 1 l '' 1 • Mrs. Heat, was Mi Margaiet t. M my ■ U . - hose so I he: T ” n P rior t0 miige five years also would like to have s me guidance 1 a ^- yh '' <h ' (lHll <f htpr nf K,,win from the White House on just how To,r of " Par thii ’ cit y’ a •’ ,1 j* wpl1 rP ‘

far to go on the prohibition [dank but |

few expect this.

Mrs. Vernon llealli (,nlled By Death

WAS I.NROUTI EAST FROM HOME IN SAN DIEGO. DIED

AT <.AI I I P, N. M.

mu-t AA^-T^wponrKmr-iiecessity,” an-l g'o-ire < 1*

"liai is inevitable."

Th'- speaker <■ mtrasted conditi ns pow and in the past. He showed how the machine age, and the progresmade through invention of labor sav ing machinery ha<l increased the out . put of all products and at the sane time had reduced the labor turnovei by h'df. He showed how self interest is often submerged by the individual and cited single cases to prove hi jxint He showed h w individuals have . allenged axioms that have been t.iken for granted by the ma-ses, an! ti i challenge has aidel human ity One case he recalled was that of a col' ied editor at the recent geneial conference. He said Lincoln challenged the axiom that slave labor wa

a necessity in th tor'- father was i

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w<‘i e guests.

Camera clilh gm -Is began arriving early Saturday aftern n and went immediately to the < mimack stu iio where an inf rmnl meeting was held and where . di play of pictures was

inspected. y saying President Hoover is ready Dinner wa ->1 v» I at Longden hall lun n a resumi-sion platform, at 6:30 after whi !i . program of A cam us of the New Y’ork delegatoasts was given V\ iltei W. BonnsJ tion on the prohibition i-sue brought president of the India apolis club, a vote in support . f the so called pi, sided, in.I Iie ,|i \\ M Blanchard “congressicnal country club” resuh

membered here.

Mrs. Heath was enroute east to Greencastle when taken ill and died

■llie cabinet gioup and other | jn ,, dlup hospita,. The body wil! bt 1 spokesmen of the President meantime , iroURht h ,, re vtednesdav afternoon are saying the administration is 100 at 2;40 over the Monon and f U neral y per cent loyal to ( urtis an I desires, se i. v ices will lie held from the M<his nomination. i furry Funeral Hrune, Wrdrr day if

Secretary of the treasury, Ogden t rrl „‘, )n at 4 o'clock.

L. Mills, announced the closest to the Mrs. Heith i- survive,I by the lius-Pre.-ident in his official family, camel t)nn ,| i her father, three .sisters, Mrs. ■ id last night flatly for the renomina .lames R Engle and Miss Mary Torr, tion of Cuitis. T.iis group is also; [jouisville. and a brother. Chari 1 s

NEW YORK DELEGATION OiI ERS REPEA I PI K N K M N Al ION Al. ( ONVEN 1 HiN I’RtiHI FORCES IN SESSION Four Hours Of Debate Fails To Result In Definite Step Against Repeal Movement CHICAGO. June 13 (UP)—Disputrocked the prohibitionists today is New York delegation offered the fir t formal repeal plank for the Republican presidential platform. Militant women dry- were out-voted by their male colleagues of the prohibition board of strategy on a project to plump a dry challenge on the'White House st ps. Anti-Saloon league men checked plans of the angry women led by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, President of the Women's Christian Temperance 1 nion The women aught to wire to President Hoover a protest and a chall nge After this course was decided on. a reconsideration led to abandonment. Hour hours debate in secret session of the dry strategi ts was said to have developed no d- finite substitute f u the women's telegram. Mrs. Boole wanted to wire Mr. Hoover that it he had been informed the drys would 1 accept re- uhnii "ion ho was mistaken and that they wanted unqualified enforcement of the prohibition law. Erne.-t 11. < herrington. general superintendent ot the Ant',-Saloon league, and his colleague, K. Scott McBride counselled caution. Some observers sayv in this attitude a change fiom th' bold po ition of former day s when any and all were wel corned by the drys in a te t ol

strength

New Y’ork pr jduced its

WARSAW FLIER SAVED FROM OCEAN GRAVE

HAI SNER DRIFTED FOR WEEK ON PLANE AFTER BEING FORCED DOWN

RES< I ED

OIL TANKER

to ; Torr of Green, .stle.

of DePauw university, w is the guest speaker. Dr. Rlanrhard delighted hi- 1 audience y'lth a very happy and appropriate talk after W'lu -i Hillary Bailey of Indianapolis, formerly of this city, was introduced by Mr. i Bones. Mr. Bailey then introduced cich mrtnbei . t t.u* In iialiapolis club,

south. This edi- giving the “low down” in a luimorous

slave but Lincoln way with th introduction.

mission plan. This proposal summits the single que.-tion "f repeal of the 18th amendment to the United States

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The Rev. A. 1 . Tidrick, rvho recent ly resigned a- pastor . f the Bio infield Baptist urch, has .u ' pted a (all to the pa-t .rate of i china a neat Auroni. The l.’ev. Tidri. k was a for mer pastor of he Baptist church of this city.

plank amid the first be steroud( monstration of the pre (invention haw. In a hotel caucus Ru.-.ell Wig gir former count Judge of Point Jervis, \ Y., biought the delegate; up cheering when the sn-calbct ‘‘('in gressional • 'untry l.'lub” repeal plank recently drafted tiy a group ol wet Republican senators in the Cap itil. With a whoop the Caucus adept ed repeal unanimously. Thp plank stipulated that the issue hould b( submitted to tate conventions who.-. { d( legates had been eh i -en at special

j ( lections.

The dry trategy board was s un ironed to meet again today. The leaden insist they do not beliovi Preside! t Hoover would sanction a r< -submission plan. A hint of a third party bolt was, (Continued on Page Two)

Daring Young Aviator Had Attempted Non-Stop Flight From New York To Poland (By ( aptain Wilson) Master. S. S. Circle Shell ABOARD S. S. CIRCE SHELL, off Azores Islands en route to New Orleans, June 13 (L’Pi—Stanislaus .Felix H iiisner was making slow but I favorable progress aboard my ship j today after drifting at sea for a week in his wrecked Monoplane, forced | down on a projected New York-War-

I saw flight.

Hausner was still in a very weak condition, unable to give a coherent accnu it of his experiences. He had | scant rations during the week from 'June t until he- was picked up by I Circe Shell Saturday Fortunately, | the sea had been calm. He has not been able to tell much j about his flight, hut asked to express his thanks for radio messages ent to him and to send his love to his family. Please inform Mrs. Hausner, at i 147 Terhune avenue, Jeisey City, that her husband is exhausted hut un

, injured.

We were f n d to obind n HausI ner’s plane, a red Bellanca, No 7085, at 2200 ONT (10 p. m. Greenwich

Paul Byrd, f Cloverdale, a poultry j niPan time) at Latitude 42 041 north bu > r out ' Indiiinapoli , is wanted longitude 20.004 w 1 (ab'ut 500 in Gay com ty on the charge of «-• n ,j| M 0 ff the Portugese mast)

Hausner male i foicH landing at !) p. m. June 3. When the Circe Shell sighted him it was dark We were unable to salvage his phne. He is preceding with our ship to New Ori leans, wheie we aie due to arrive

! June 27.

The monoplane was last sighted drifting southeastwraid at about one kn t. Hausner a ked that any passing vessel try to . alvage it as he believes it is in fairly g ol condition. The calm -cj unT fine w» ither )irevailing all the time he was adrift i probably prevented the plane from

] gor g to pieces.

One of the early arrivals for the opening of the G. O. P. national convention, Mr-. Ella O. Yost of West Virginia, director of the women's division of the Republican National Committee, is shown at the G. O. P. headquarters in Chicago. Mrs. Yost Will direct the feminine bloc at the

convention.

(,LO\ ERDAI.E MW \\ANTED IN GEA\ CO.

PAl L BYRD \l LEG! I) TO HAVE

III I R M DI D BOW PIN).

GREEN MAN

suing two had checks and swindling Clarence I Norman, of Rowling Gnen, on* of m ut than .{600. Byid has not ye) been found by the police. Byrd app led to be an established

repeal | ! >u V pr po'dtry md tli Norman ha

done bus!no ., with him for .some time. By r t pul by )u- ks and the only one if tin cheek that ever c im“ bark wa . mad good so that Norman was off y lard when Byrd present d him two large checks a few (la; s ago. Nora in jub' ■> load of ihiclers to Byrd amt fool; hi- ch'"'k for more than i lOO. Within a few days, before th'' ilie k liad run through I hr banks. Byrd came bock md bought another j load of similar iz< . giving another J check. Both checks came back and Norman w i unable to locate th'' man, Byrd A wairaot fi r hi i arrest has been ,s ued Brazil Times.

(llaiule Farmer l assie Wav

WEL! KNOWN K \ > | W \>HIN(.

TON S I R EF I RESIDEN I

DIED si ND \t

The Budget Is Balanced!

changed the order of things by his Mi Sti iwn ■ 1 '.n .igo. c h 8 iip, ; gp ! the Ft. Dearborn club, and George Di Oxnam also showed how war Lewis lor tin < in dnnati '• " nation- is inevitable unless Beck >f Or. ' poke o the Da

the, an r :-operate, one with anothei. gui-i i In as states in a nation are doing, an loll "ir. form i co-operative organization that j K UI " 11

"ill ' ” ('fit all crncetned, rather than

dinner program, the

I to the lounge in

Longden hall whore the evening was .-(lent in viewing n seme moving pic-j ture show gi" n by J Rogers, of the'

Indianapolis 1 lub

Sunday morning, 52 guests took | hieakfa-t i) I "iigden hall, with otlier ' members aim ing during the mom-1 ing. Several of the members and their families spent the morning at the beautiful home of Mr. Cammack on east Washing', n treet while others j wer< , “on 1 at ion” near Mt. Meridian

I making - pictures.

A total of 77 enjoyed a splendid, I dinnei at til' Half Way house at Mt. I Meridian, r-turning to “location" afterward , w u re an address was given

7 ! bv Loin ; ' kman, lancing mstruc Fir* destroyed the home of Mr. and , ^ ^ In(Jj _ who sp oke on the

ha'e one attem|)t to override another or wallow up another. His talk wa highly appreciated and thoroughly enjoyed by every visitor, many of *' m had not had the privilege of

hearing Dr. Oxnam before.

Professor Tilden based his talk on the present economic conditions. He cited the similarity of the teaching

(CoHtinurd Or, Page 2)

20 Years Ago

IN GREENCASTLE

Mis. Charles Black on Sycamore •treet Only the houshold contents

"ere saved.

^ P. Sacket was elected to the

•chool board by the city council suc-

ceeding Dr. O. F. Overstreet

Alumni Day was observed today :a

' 'mention with the annual com- '

rt'encement exercises at the univers’ty Prof. F. C. Tilden, president of the alumni association, presided at a dinner served on the lawn at the woDcn’s dormitory. Dr. Salem B. Town, ••presenting the Class of 1870 presented (he school with a large oil fainting of Dr. H. A. Gobin in behalf of Clement Studebaker Jr., of ®° u th Bend The portrait was unveil-

*d by Miss Jessie Gobin.

Included in the list of DePauw Ifaduates of the Class of 1012 are I ,; i Bence, B. B. Town, Mayme NayI° r ' Clarence HazeleM, Walter Bundy

and Mary Ann Baker.

“A.s a Dancer sees Beauty.” Three rf Mr S' kman's pupils acted as models for the eameuamen. Member of the thiee camera clubs were loud in their praise «f Gieen and the Courteous treatment

II KSDA) IS FLAG DAY

/Tuesday, June 14, is Flag day

throughout America.

The \ mem an flag is the third oldest of the national standards Yf the world; older than (he Union lack of Britain or the Tri

C oler of France. •

The flag ««s first authorized *by congress, June 1 1, 1777. Ibis Hate is no» observed as Flag day

throughout America.

PLEA l<) VETERANS

INDIANAPOLIS, June 13, (UP)— A plea that world war veterans “not threaten the government to get th° bonus" w i • voi, • • bv Ralph Gate ,,

Columbia City, .-tate conmmander of On Sun lay afteinion, June 12, at the American I.egi n, in addressing j 5:30 o'clock. Claude Hadett Farmer, the anneal conventi n of the 12th In-1 age 51, >on of the la) Thomas B. and (liana listrlct* \ii tlice liaslett 1 ner, died (• ‘*5 '»<• Legion fax i th bonus as the family lesidem e on east Wash long a it dee - not me "t that our dis- ington street, after an illne-s of nearable I (omi'ide . suffer through lack of ly -i\ weeks. |(e w ,- stricken May

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MMEROl S MMiORI ED SAM RDAY ABOUT Lit.NTS. HR \KES. EK .

State and city ) nlice, who sp' nt ■Saturday checkin;- an on Greencastle and Putnam comity tars, will cont.nue this work indefinitely, it was

stated Honda'

Numerous mo) Saturday an(l , fecti'e lights. 1, pla e identific ■ t spicious ))lace. < up on dnvers’ r The present dn campa gn t'> ri irg hazards a p(

DeinotTal Nan JiiIn ifli Piniii

EVENT TO HI MARKED BV TAI KS B) ' V' DID V I ES FOR

ST A 1 E DFFK ES

The Demon-in lub of Putnam county and the 1 1 moerat Central committee are making arringement* to have a Fou til of July picnic dinner at Allendale. b<-inning at 11

o', lo-'k in the i ’ -

; 4. his left si le being paralyzed. He was born Nov. 27, 1889 and i spent most of his life in Green-.-.istle. j lor several years he was with the l Big Four and the Mnn n railroad compani' , and during this time he had a serious an i lent, fra turing his hip, which practii dly -rippled him for the remainder rf hi-; life. During the woild war he was in the employ of the g-ivernment in ,i muniton plant in Baltim< re. Si"ce 1922 he had spent most of the time with his mother at the f i nily home, wh'ch i- known by the older rr i'lent. o Greencastle as “Sunny Hill," t i. being the former h me rf his gmndfath r, Ri hard M. H istett. To Claude this oil homestea 1 was the deatest spot on earth. During his recent illne lie spoke

cards in a con- of h's mother > many, many times ■ i: dso checked an I said that . v i the dearest and n ujffeur’s license.| best woman ) 11 the x il l and i part of a ~tat tt would caution t ■ e ibout im to take ,'e as many driv. ,aie of hi., nn'tl-e uni not let sny-

thing happen t her.

H° i survive l b I is m the*-. 'Irs. Alice H. Farmer, thre' sistns, Mrs. W. R. Hutcheson, Mrs. Nat Hammond and M;s. Louis Hayes; one half brother and s'»ter, Mrs H. H. Runyan and Mrs. Frank Fnrmei and two half brothers pre eding him. Albert died March 22, 1895. and Samuel Edmond,

January 19, 1924

U. were stopped -'ed to repair de1 etc., and t>

AKRON ON WAV HOME

SHREVEPORT, La. June 13, (UP) —The navy dirigible Akron passed ovei this city early t'day headed east- | w-ard on its homo 'aid flight from the

A rat-didate 1 - inor and other Pacific c mV 1 Vkr m w is flying candidates for -talc tnd national of smoothly at an il.it i! of 4,000 feet lice will he spi-ik* i Music agif en- and quickly di- ipi« nel toward the

teitainment will '-c fuwushei 4f ee - I ea -L