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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JULY 5,1932.

NO, 221

DR. WILSON OF D'PAUW DIES IN LOS ANGELES

STROKE OF APOPLEXY CAUSES DEATH OF DKPAUW COMPTROI LER MONDAY

LEFT RECENTLY FOR VISIT

LAKE BEING PUMPED DRY TKp “post-offk'e lake" which has formed twice since the excavation work was completed, was being pumped dry again Tuesday morning, following the heavj rainstorm of Sunday night and again Monday night. This is thu second time it has had | to be pumped out since the excavation was made, it having filled with a j foot or two of water about the time i the hole was completed. Much less ; water was in the place Morula and | Tuesday than before.

THE W FATHER

RECEPTION IN HONOR OK ROOSEVELT

SUPPORTERS OF AL SMITH JOIN IN CELEBRATION FOR NOMINEE

Wire From Dr. Oxnam Today Said

Death Came Suddenly in Los Unsettled; bower and thunderAngeles Monday Night j storms probable tonight and Welne--

! day; slightly warmer tonight in,

, , -r i k.. northeast and east-central portions- i

A wire received here Tuesday by

Dr. Henry B. Longden from Dr. G. . ,, ^ Bromlev Oxnam at Los Angeles, ( al., I M l I. I |< I I |i V said Dr. Byron H. Wilson. DePauw * ^ llll ViIVO

comptroller, who had gone there for the summer, died suddenly Monday evening of a cerebral hemorrhage. No other details were received by Dr. Longden- ,

Dr. and Mrs. Wilson left here about

ten days ago for their former home Kill K HI KT WHEN VEHICLES

in L-s Angeles, expecting to spend COLLIDE WITH TERRIFIC the summer vacation there and to re- IMI’\( T TT ESI)AY

turn to DePauw this fall Dr. Wilson

the capacity of

CONVENTION WOLNDS HEALING Plans for “Homecoming Reception” of Democratic Candidate Indicate

Rift Will be Forgotten

York told questioners that regardless of th» outlook of charges before Roosevelt seeking his removal he will “vote the Democratic ticket as I have always done.” John H. McG oey, Brooklyn Democratic leader, a sored reporter that B'rooklyn Democrats would get j n to action fast to help bring a ‘'Roosevelt landslide.'' Smith himself comment on his plans for the campaign. Roosevelt, asked if In planned to see Smith soon, told reporters “I'll tell you tomorrow.”

MARK CALENDAR!

PROHIBITION PARTY OPENS CONVENTION

DELEGATES \SKKMRLE TODAY FOR N ATION \I MEEIISG IN INIM \N M’OLIS DENOUNCE HFRIM RT HOOVER

National Committeeman Spaaking In Cadle Tabernacle Declares liornh Will Poll Man\ Votes

COLEI 1)1'

NATT

ON

ROAD

ALBANY X.Y.. July 5. (UP)- NJI^ ,)(' POST\(,E Another in ii( otion that Democratic convention liattle w unds are healing L) \ r Pp , ^ I was seen here today in plans for a » l LA I \ r 1 a “homecoming reception” for Cover-;

came to DePauw in

comptroller following the election of Dr. Oxnam as president, and since i>e ing here, he has been named alumni secret an and has been quite active

Four persons were injured, two seriously, in a hcadon collision of two trucks one mile east of Manhattan on the National road about I '0 o’clock

in his contacts over the middle west Tuesday morning.

in various ways.

E. A. .Goodlink and son of Pales-

His death comes as a great shock ^ • wcrf ‘ m "' t ' piously ' n ' to his many Greenca-stle friends Mrs. jured, suffering cut al the face Wilson, the message says, is located an 'l severe body eniise L. tombs

at 845 Stanley, Los Angeles.

OLD TRACTION CARS BACK ON GREEN! AS TEE DIVISION

The old type cars on the traction line which were recently replaced by the new type of high speed cars, have

and B Thomas of Ca-e\ 111., occupants of the other tru' k vere shaken up and scratched, but i le to return to their homes following the accident. It was said Conilis and Thomas driving a Chevrolet dual-wheel tractor truck, were enrout cast when they overtook a fruit tnu k. To avoid 1 a collision they applied the brakes

been replaced by the old ones because am ) t t u , tm* skidded into the path the company officials found the trol-1 of a stork tr uck occupi. d h Goodly wire several feet too high for the ' ]ink and hjs son T |„. ; nip . |( . t nf thp new type which are much lower than two trurk . was terrifie. both vehicles the cld ones. | b e j n j, badly wrecked but tht occuOn the test run. the trolley woikei j p an t s escaping with min r injuries, well, but in regular service it was not , Good i ink an(1 hi son wen taken

Hospital for

treatment but Combs and Thomas were not seriously enough hurt to require hospital treatment. The damaged trucks wen taken to the National garage at Pleasant Gar-

dens.

successful and did considerable | to thp Putl , aIT1 Count

damage. The same schedule will be

maintained as formerly.

nor Franklin D. Roosevelt, sponsored by political factions which supported former Governor Alfred K. Smith for the Democratic presidential nomina-

tion.

The governor returned from the Chicago convention last night. The official reception ’>y the city, planned and organized by Edward J. and Daniel P. O’Connell, will he Wednesday, or possibly later. The organizers are ardent Smith partisans. Oth°r weekend developments which indicated the Sinith-R o.-evi • breach would bo healed during the , qiaign for the presidency, included Roosevelt's Independence (lay greeting to the Society of Tammany was read before Tammany members and applauded by all. including Smith, an official. Smith himscU u given a more enthusiastic greeting Roosevelt'- mes-n 'e closed with t ,o statement that “I am assured the Society of Tammany will follow the banners when the arise oft real der

cracy is at stake.”

Mayor Frank Hauge. returning * •

his Deal, N J.. summer home, t dd There are three of the new .‘{-cent reporters that “Of cour-e I will not tamps, two bearing pictures "f bolt the party. I’m a Democrat who George Washington and the othn f.ght s ha ■ «au e, but I « • > >‘ ou< h<ng runways have been a Democrat and I'll lier 111 recognition of the Olympic .stay a Democrat " Hague had lei £“»'*■' >ri Fos Angeles this year, the Smith faction’s hitter fight n| 0n , hp , aBM . date , the

Roosevelt.

POSTMASTER BARTEFY W \RNS TH A I I K O! POST \<, E

MILL DELAY MAIL Mark your calendar!

Effective tomorrow the rate on first class mail, except postcards and private mailing cards, will he incre i ed to 3 cents for each ounce or fraction thereof- The new rate will re main in effect until July !, 193-1. Business men and other mailers were warned T uv-day by E tma t< ! E. K. Bartley to watch the calendar and u.-e three-cent tamps on <11 mail tomorrow, otheiwi.e the mail will be delayed until t!" deficient c istage is

paid

Recognizing the fact that most

business men will follow the habit of stamping their mail with at 2 cent

tamp, the postmaster reiterated hi

warning that unleY it is lemembered

that the postag' i 3 cents after t<>

morrow the muds will be cluttered

witli mail held up for postage.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 5, (El') — 1 Prohibition party delegate cntlicied here today for th<'ii national convention, with the denunciation of Presi ,dent Herbert Heovei a “the mo t conspicuous turncoat sin e Benedict i Arnold,“ ringing in their e irs. Dr. Leigh Colvin, natiimil commit-| teeman, told his follower in Cadle tabernacle last night that U. S. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho would i poll 10,00(19.0(1 vote if he cho-- to ^ run for president on the pr hibition j party tiiket. He w old not say, how j ever, wliat c icouragemcnt. if any, Bvirali gave him , ; their confioence in W ishington Sutur ay. ' “The Republi an wet plank n eans that Mr. Hoover, who ipprove I it and whose di ■ •! cites and ap pointees drafted it and whose advisors promoted it in their c mven tion. is the in st con picious tun'/"> it since Benedict Arnold.” Colvin ai i “Four years ago he received in unprecedented majority because lie stood for the maintenance and enforcement of the |Hth amendment. Now he stand- uierclj for the (>n fnreement of t v, at which in- party inot committed to maintain. He has

failed in performh

oath to ‘pre erve, defend and protect

the constitut ion.’ "

Colvin chained In a! the t a major parties have “catered t'i the wrt vot ers, hut fin.illy nne to n ak' alii

ames with them ”

Both major politi il put' liavi cunt in led half wet and half dry." ( nl\ in - lid. “V\ . m ed a e il i tni'ent in American polit W 'a ■ tl 1

BANDITS SLAY BYSTANDER IN BANK ROBBERY

DEAF MUTE SHOT DURING HOLDUP OF SAN PIERRE

STATE BANK

LAPORTE Ind., July 5. (UPl — Five bandits fatally wounded a by-

INDI \N \POLIS LIVESTOCK Hogs 6,500: holdovers 09; market 15c higher; 160 to 210 lbs., $5.20 to I $5.25; 210 to 235 lbs., $5.05 to $515; 1 235 to 275 llis., $4.95 to $5 00 ; 275 to 326 lbs., $485 to $4.00; 325 lbs. up. : $4.75 to $4.80; 14n to 160 lbs., $190 | to $5.00; 100 to 140 lbs.. $4 65 to $4.80; packing sows $3.50 to $4.2’’ : -ome $4 50. Cattle 1.300; calves 500; market

postmaster

stated, postage on mail carried by! problem of inal.i' ; Vnur an g in

It was pointed out that on June 13.. airplane will be eight cents for the mt , n t , ,,, t i ti i Smith and other Depioeratic leaders fir t ounce • < fraction thereof, and j ,, sts „ t - thp v \\ , , ta |, signed a pledge to supi i t the party’ thirteen cent for e ich additional |j s | led pro hihitiim rnd ha\ made it nominee. It was an •’d for con ounce or fiction thereof regardles i|mo-t unrepi ablr

of distance.

tributions to the camp gn fund, and pledged that “whatw r t e result of the convention, the Ins ■ rat- will get behind their noinim ml supp rt

him loyally."

Former Congressman Mever Jacob--tein of Rochester m. 1 the governor that “the Sinit - here feel fine." Jacotistein v •' ( for Smith Mayor James .! \V ilker of New

Increased es on registered mail went into it'"Ct at the local po-t-office last I lay, the new rat' lie ing intendi o reduce a $8,516,387 lo- on regi red mail last y .u Except in the ire of pieces valued between $90(1 id $1,000, the fee - for the lower-' t ied letters and p irkag es will l)< in -easeit throughout.

slander at San Pierre t lay while steady, 15 to 25 cents higher; several escaping with an e-timated $2,000 loads $7.40 to $8.2.i; lightweights

strilen from Vie San Pierre State

bank.

The victim

$8.50; i he stock little changed except some strength on good and choice

Rain'Onjthe Roof!

! a man named , heifers; top $6.85; some $7; bulk un-

Swjiher, who is deaf and dumb. He , ^ er common and mediums $3.50 was standing in front of the bank. I * 60 °: no imprmenient on gra-s The victim, about 50, died enroute ! ca Gle, mo.-t ■ w.-. .ri.i.i to $4910; bet

l' ■

to a hospital from wounds received when he ignored the bandit's command of "hands up," as they ran from the bank. He had been shot in both lungs and in the abdomen. Thomas Daly, cashier of the bank, j and his assistant, a woman, had just opened for business when the robbers , enteredDaly an I his assistant were terrorized and compelled to stand aside while the bandits scooped up all cash. As thev fled, they fired at Swisher, ' apparently mistaking him for an officer. 'The bandit automobile was a blue Chrysler sedan. It bore an Indiana license, but the number was not ob- ' tained,

ter kinds negligible; low- cutters and cutters $1 25 to $2.40; vealers steady,

$5.50 down.

Janies Loii<: Dies At Lafayette Home

WA> FORMERLY OF THI'y CITY \ND BROTHER OF GEORGE LONG, DIED TT'ESDAY

ROOSEVELT lo FAKE VACATION ALBANY, N Y . July 6, (OP) Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic presidential nominee, will don rugged clothes and go for a seven day ocean eruise next week with his four sons in a 40-foot yawl rented for $150, he announced today.

Word was received here Tuesday mornirg of the death in Lafayette of James Long, age 40 years- His death followed an illness of several months duration. Deceased was born and reared in this city, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Long, now residents of Lafayette. Mr Long is survived by the widow, one daughter, yis parerC-, four nrothers. George, John, Charles and Harold and two sisters, Miss Mary Long and Mrs Margaret Hayes

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

Fillmore Has A Big Crowd Monday

Mrs. E. B. Evans was a visitor in Indianapolis Mrs. Frank Crawford returned home from a visit in Terre Haute Mrs. Harley Pitrhford of Fillmore spent the day here. Henry Sweeney, of Harvey, 111., is the guest of his brother, Andrew Sweeney. C. D. “Babe” Conklin; has returned from Michigan where he umpired in a baseball league in that state.

MORE !H\N 600 ESTIMATED TO H WE ATTENDED JULY IIH CELEBRATION

Mere than 600 people were estimated to have attended a Fourth of July celebration at Fillmore, seven miles east of Greencastle, Sunday. In addition to a baseball game there was a greased pole and greased pig contest, a baseball game and boxing matches. The) day’s program w a.held at the baseball park

Vpc (ifM . ' 9 - 5*: ,,mS>«(!,(('.. f"

the k ’ .L te address today Harley t W. iof. Vermont, was chosen |

temporal', ecretary.

MR M’FORM It K DIES VERSAILLES, July 5. <LT)— Mi Katherine McCormick, mother of the 1 igo puhli her, Col Robert li. McC< rmick. died early today from ,i heait attack at her residence here. Mrs. McCormick reached Fiance in May "ii her annual summer visit and took a house for the -ixis'in here. Dr Edmund (ii- ss, head of the American hospital in Baris, rushed to Versailles after Mi M ( ormick was stricken, and attended her until -he died. It w i understood that Col Me-j Cormick in Chicago would make the

funeial arrangement s.

II\BI.\N III BST TRIAL II \S AN \BBI IT EM)

ARMY FLIERS AFTER GLOBE TRIP RECORD

J \ M ES M \ I rER N \ N D BEN F. IT GRIFFIN TAKI OFI nv DAR-

ING WORLD FLIGHT

HARBOR t.RAt E FIRST STOP

Seek to Lower 'lark of less Than Nine Days Made By Post

ami Gatty

GILLEN \Mt S. ('. KIVETI REPRI SEN l Aid NG DEE END \M

ST. JOHNS, N. F„ July 5. (UPA — A plane. pr< -umably t it of Janies Matte in and Bennett Griffin, bound from New Y Tk on a flight around the wnnl I, wandered in a heavy fog and rain er Newfoundland today, seeking a landing place. At 1 p ni. E. S. T., the plane droppe da note over t'lpe Freeh,150 miles north of St. John.-, asking for direc-

tions.

"Point us out the direction of the landing field at Harbor Grace,” the note said.

( II ARCED \MIII I OWE THEE I

The plane hovered 1 w and men on the tape hastened to reply, ugnailing

■ ! by a white flag the direction south Defcns! Eseg V-e-sinem Sheets To to Haihot Ora.". The plain headed Show George Bennett Did Not jin that diiection but it u, ( not erOwa Poultry Involved I tain the dgnal was understood.

Trial of the (aso of the State of Indiana against H irlan Hurst, 23 years old. Jefferson township, charg

ed with petit larceny in

FLOYD BFANOIT AIRPORT. New York, July 5. (UP)—James Mattern and Bennett Griffin, two

connection ‘■rmy fliims from the -outhwest dop-

Ki James A. Crar . secretary of the board of tempf i in c an t -'id welfare of the Di- o lo of ( hr > brotherhood, < uiirman f la ' niadt'c meeting, -aid the .it> v t ng reng'' of tin country is “tietween 7.009.IIIMi

and 15,000,000.”

Dr. ( lint m N. How ud B- 1 -ter. N. Y . wa on”i"d t mpor.i 1 y hai man of the convention. He Iclivered

with the theft of ten chickens from a ' ueigJhbor, Geoi'ge He’inett, ended abruptly in circuit court Tuesday ’ morning when Judge James P i Hughe sustained a motion to dismiss the ca-e for lack "f evidence. C (’. Gillen, ('iim>ie sman from the 1 old i'ifth di-tii t. an i S. (' Kivett, ot Ma rt in-ville, defending Hut st, intro I dll'ed ( \idence to - ii -w that Bepnet' j wa not the owm i of t i poultry i ■.viin ti lie iiientified at i poultry hou-< ] wlier* Hur t wa- illegi'ii to have sold them I witni • ■ th its bee neaid when th* dramatic enn clu m of the tiiai came. Bennett he t tifiod, to i lent if mg th* tolei n n and W alt"! Hayne , p. altry d' r at B'dle Enirm, had t* -t 'ie( Hurst old li n the chick' ! 1 or March 18. cr -s-examining Bennett dtnr

for the It tense inti i e' • sment -h a'ts to .-.inw ' ■ t Ben tt had mad itfadavit t ir d| the oultiy on the J L. E lm 1 n farnr . he livt n mon Sheriff Alva Bryan ide ati affidavit charging that • t had -i den the chickem Bt nnett, ■ delta th" ... i i ds showed it Bennett ha 1 mi ■ -woin state

ment that lie ilid not o eiis on tile date of t • -ale.

Sum ■ time wms -pent Tuesila; moniing in .-'dectin. a jury, tho.-' finally ho ,n bemg II mer Morrison Shelby Moler, ( irli Webster. Oliv cl Bit iick. Williari II uck. John Hi not'. ( any Iiilliru"!'. Walter Brann Ott Herod. Tht id re Shinn, Dolby

Collins, and .1 e Rotlgei

Hut -t well groomed, wel! educat ed, a former < ho d t acher, and tie only -on f Mr and Mr-. Sylva Horst prominent redents of Jefferson t wnship. sat with his attorneys while the juror., were examined, and the

two witne.-re- testified.

It w is In ught out in the testimony that Hu;-t hid ' tile I on Bennett’s daught r the night of th" alleged theft it wa il-u -hown that the Huist- a l <e me I -etting eggs from Bennett, indi atin: tliat the defense also would ave tried to sh w that H'Ji.-t had soil chi kens belonging to his parent- and that Bennett had been nii-tak"n in ids identifi‘ition of

the fowl- s II by Hurst.

A 1 irge crowd of spectators from I off 11 - in town-lap ml over the conn ty wa pre.- nt whm the trial ended

abruptl

I RI SILL f(» PH NIC Townshi)) trusti e and their famil ic. of Putnan' county will hold theii annual pi nir it Kiger’s camp, 12 miles northwest of Indianapolis, sometime in Aiu it was reported fue.-day hut th- • ■ ict date has not

yet been chosen.

pel off today on the first leg of a flight planned E beat the round-the-world time of their friends. Harold Gatty ami Wiley P -t. Their plane droned down the runway lifted, an I roared over Long Island at 9:61 a. m E D. T,, heading for Harbor Grace, \ft. where the huge wing tank that helped the Winnie Mac break the world flight record were to be refilled if in" ba ' fliers 1 lifted .-kyward t t, morning with no floats for landing in the cean, no parachute- for troulde via land, no fire extinguishes or fl.ti• ire successful, thev wi, • place down here agon w 'h n • uht In-. 15 horn- i' 51 no J P V. H‘inmulier. a National Aeroiia iti al h (ii w a- at the field to (heck the tune of their departure and ■ ■ ■, AY' ill er rep'rt ■ a ! • r ha t indi'•ated good we.i’ ■ eni ate, but just before the tak"o f f it was learned weather was i t" Harbor Grace,

but i io.

The fliers planned Grace as soon i- po

, , ! fljgnt 111 Bt i lin

it any cric k ; 1 hey hope to

rea

crui ing

plane's

mile

A few sail vi

some coffee an I h

no bottle , ltd .’pe i f pa was tak"n iking t a iators in . ■ i d i t . ried 50 letter to friends “xpeeted to mail in - t".

Roth Mattein dinary b 1 d'o

leather u indie r rs f r ‘We just have 'o make

-aid. The

of Post and Gatty. , 'auk- from t eir worl An! their flight, |ik Winnie Mae is fina" i dl men, dth ugh the by Mattern. The 'u, E. Turrei, Oklahom.i

Alal'pe. Tills ,

Post was so odi tCo

f Hre that he warn'd ti hospitality of M o *o establish a ret o

-h ittered there by Scvlet offiri ils th dined before >0 co The two Pier, v ha' e h’gh hope i because the Winni one pilot an i one

o leave Harbor ilde in a d : rect • \ fail in that. Ireland. Their Tins is 3.100

v f ranges,

iter in therconcentrat“d ' kt t p the

Thev <Ar

- which they

nt'in wore orreinforcpil by for their trip, ik it,” (iriffin n ti’e good will "i'll as the gas ir ling plane. ' that of the 1 by Oklahoma plane - owned •ms ire Henry ( 'ty. and John of their welem igaiist the

hope

the

he

,pence of ined an t

i fl t

, l i i took off today !' ating the record Mae carde i only na'dgator—making

-Hep necessary to the

( Alt HE' Hii,

•■i'ne out for

pilot.

B th Mattet”. G 1 if f in are pilot*. And both ar* n>- .atoi-, although not considered so pr ’fieient as wa* Gitty, regarde 1 as ^he finest in the

country.

Their rout?, drawn up after consultation with Po'-E calls for refuel-

Claude Wimmec of Greencustle, . if, .g in Ireland England, the Netherwa- convincing - friend* Tuesday lands, Berlin Mof ", Omsk, Siberia

tory. R* 1

ed a 34-pound '• itfi h while fishing in Alaska. B’dtnon* 'i, at ‘da the Wabash river 'ir’day. The story Extensive preparations preceded war supported by h - wife. Mr. and the take'ff For i month since their Mrs. Lee Wood an Mr. and Mrs. arrival here, me m s have w rke i John Laym m ( t of the city. on th • plane about 26 hours daily. A »ilvir hoo k" at used by^Wimmer-1 Exhaustive test, ‘ ere satisfactory*

( A I FISH

f Green ustle,

*