The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 July 1932 — Page 1
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iVOLUME FORTY i LEGISLATURE IS BUSY WITH TAX PROBLEMS
OREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 8,1932.
NO. 227
SLASHING OF GOVERNMENTAL COSTS HOLDS ATTENTION OF SPECIAL SESSION
PROHI BILLS ARE INTRODUCED
Measures Seeking Repeal Of Bone Dry La** Referred To Committee On 59-33 Vote
LOCATE MISSING MAN George H. Long, 8i! years old, sought by his daughter, Mrs. H. C. Conyers, of Elkins. W. Va., was located Thursday by Postmaster E. R ; Bartley through John Tha.p, local barber, living in a log cabin on the west Walnut street road. It was said I the necessary arrangements to send him to the home of his daughter will be made Saturday through the trustee of Madison township. Mrs- Conyers wrote the local postmaster requesting him to locate her father.
STORM DIPS INTO PUTNAM ON THURSDAY
CHICKENS.ARE STOLEN
INDIANAPOLIS. July 8, (UP)— Slashing of governmental costs hel l precedence today in the special session of the legislature over proposals to raise new revenue. Of the 36 bills presented in the first day s ses-ion. only two provided for new forms of
taxation-
I Following unusually swift action during the opening day, both houses i, today delved into new measures designed to ease the state’s tax burden. One bill, introduced by Senator J , Clyde Hoffman. Indianapolis, was reported favorably from committee and . was ready for second reading. The i bill would empower budget making [ officials to reduce whatever salaries [ they saw fit and abolish whatever offices thev deemed necessary. It was reported by the finance committee. The opening day’s session saw a concerted attack in both houses on public officials’ salaries, the threemile gravel road law and the allocation of gasoline and auto license funds Sixteen of the proposals dealt
with these issues.
A favorable leport on a bill that would allcate half of the gasoline tax and half Die auto license fees to the highway commission and the remainder to coun ies, cities and towns for retirement of road bonds was virtually assured by he house ways and means committee, tn debate over the bill, the committee considered only how much should g > to each of the
local units.
PROPERTY ON I'll REF- F ARMS IN EAST JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP DAMAGED
NOBODY INJURED IN STORM
Garages, Barns, And Trees Feel Ef
fects On Alva Foster, Versa! Roy MrCammack Farms
r
A Mr. Musgrove, living on the Lie Eastham farm, two miles west of Coatesville, reported to the Sheriff’s
office Friday that thirteen White A wind and rain storm which de Leghorn hens and ore red rooster,; higed Greencastle about 11 o’clock were stolen from his poultry house Thursday morning dipped into Jefearly Friday morning. Musgrove said ferson township with more disastrous he* was awakened about 3:40 o’clock | ^cts on its m ay southeast, it was Friday morning and he believes that I'earned here Friday morning. No one a noise made bv the thieves awaken-1 was > n .i ur, ‘ , L it was said, ed him at that time. 11 was »ei">'ted that at the Alva I Foster farm, one and one-half miles
north of Belle Union, the storm wrecked a garage, corn crib and about
53 rods of rail fencing.
Moving east the wind again struck at the farm of Versa! McCammack where it flattened a barn and set his garage up against the west end of his residence. An automobile in the
garage w’a- overturned.
Still further ea.-t the cyclonic wind bhw a large beach tree over on top of the home of Roy McCammack, doing damage to the house. It took several hour to remove the tree from
the residence
Here the storm apparently lackened, hut left a trail of flattened trees in its .-outhea.'terly course \ roof on the home of George Wallace Was said to have had shingles blown off but no serious damage was done In Greencastle the high wind and deluge of r tin strewed limbs over th" streets and tore a few light and telephone wires from poles hut lid
BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC TO HE HELD SI NDAY Members of the Baptist church Sunday school * dl hold an all-day picnic Sunday at 'hi home of Mr. and Mr.-. Fred Bitfles south of Greenlastle on state road 43. A big basket dinner and swimming will be features of the day. Sunday school will he held at the church at the regular hour following which members will go to the Bittles home in cars. The committee in charge has made arrangements to furnish transportation far all those who wish to attend Sunday school i members are aske I to bring their own table serve e for the basket dinner.
GLOBE FLIEKS FORCED DOWN NEAR BORISOV
MAT 1ERN AND GRIFFIN ONLY SLIGHTLY HURT WHEN PLANE CRASHES
I HER IS MISSING
WILL GO BY TRAIN TO MOSCOW
Pneumonia Fatal
Forced Landing In Rain Storm Necescary When Caintrols Lock On “(entury of Progress"
MOSCOW. July 8. (UPt-^The atI tempt of James Mattern and Rennet | Griffin to beat ’he round-the-world
Yq Huffman fl ' lrh, re ‘’ on ' ° f ,,osit 3,1,1 (;,u - v rn ' 1
VERNON. INI).. CLEARS AWAY STORM DEBRIS
TORNADO DOES HUGE DAMAGE
IN INDIANA CITY ON
THURSDAY
BUSINESS SECTION H MU) HIT
DEATH OCCURS AT COUNTY HOSPIIAL FRIDAY MORNING AT 2 O’CLOCK
j State Police Patrol Storm Area To Prevent Looting. Sneral
Residents Injured.
VERNON, Ind.. July 8 (UP)— Wierkage of V»rnon’' business section, damaged by a tornado that struck yesterday, injuring several pet sons, was being cleared away to-
day. It was estimated tha* homes of no s prious damage
at least 25 families in the portion of
Bert H'l'Tnian. age 48 years, died at the Putnam county hospital F'riday morning at 2 o’clock, following an illness of pneumonia. Mr. Huffman
was a native of Floyd township but frontier,
for a number of years had resided
in Kalamazoo, Mich
An injury to his foot which devel oped into blood poisoning caused him to return homn. n < • ntly This illness cleared up but pneumonia developed and resulted in 'is death. Besides ’hi 1 wU >w, Mabel Huffman, he leave- his n nther, Mrs Alice Huffman and a brother, Clyde Huffman, both of FI yd township. Funeral .service will be held from the Christian church at Fillmore Sunday aftemooi at 2 o'clock.
, ed at dawn Thursday in a rain storm i when the fliers crashed in a forced
landing near Borisov.
No word of the fliers had reached the outside world for 37 hour.' since they left Beilin Wednesday night The fliers had completed half the third lap of their schedule, the pro jected non stop flight from Berlin to Moscow, when thiir controls jammed soon after they crossed the Russian
CHEYENNE Wyo , July 8. (UP) 1 —Captain I,' .ms A. Yancy, New York to Rome flier, was unreported early , today many h :urs after he should have lande I here on a 200 mile flight from New (\i Me, Wyo. It was fear ed the flier had been forced down in the mountainous country over the 200
mile stretch.
CHICAGO M AYOR IN HOSPII AL CHICAGO, July 8, (UP)—Mayor Anton J. Cermak. who entered a hospital yr.'terday to recuperate from the ..train ■ recent activities, showed little imptovemen* toda>, Dr. Frank J. Jirka. hi physician reported. Jirka sai l Lie mayor had a slight fever ind must have complete quiet and relaxation. All visitors were barred Gasoline Stolen \l l.oeal Elevator
FRENCH SUB IS LOCATED ’ IN DEEP HOLE
NO HOPE HELD FOR MEN INSIDE OF II LsFATED UNDERSEA (RAFT
-1 RVIVORS REI VIE TRAGEDY
The storm here evidently was the
MRS. DONNER IO V DDR ESS REPl BI R \N MEETING Mrs. Frank D 1 inner, of Greencastle, will address 'lie members of the
the residential district struck by the same which gained cyclonic proper Montgomery ( oum d of Republican
INDIANAPOLIS, Jjly 8, (UP)— The fight over prohibition was thrown squarely before the special session of the legislative today de spite Hioile inis to limit the assembly to consideration of tax re-
lief proposals.
In the first day’s session, two bills ‘ damaged stores and homes to prevent
were presented seeking repeal of the ! looting.
Wright ‘‘bone dry” law, the state’s Governor Harry G. Leslie m b red
30 members of the 15flth Field Artil
storm, will have to be rebuilt | tions when it reached the town of The Jennings county courthouse Vernon, south of Indianapolis Thins
suffered the brunt of the storm, which ,j a y_
dipped into the city fiom the north • west. The roof wa, torn away ami OLD LICENSE GOOD
manv windows broken. Damage to the
structure, an old brick building, was Frank Mayr. Jr., secretary of state
estimated at U"0.
State isdice under Lieutenant P’red Jones ot Shelbyville patrolled the
at the present time.
Under the law the -ccretary of state had the option of calling for a reissuiinee of drivers’ li ruses this
liquor enforcement act. The first was | 3" members ..t me loom nem aiim |m)nth Mayr „ ajd jt ha(| t,,,,,,, decided introduced in the house on the initial j ler y> National (luard, from ( olum >u ^ g|)are automobile owners the ex-
pense of taking out new licenses. The
wc men at a meeting to he held Satur-
day afternoon.
The meeting w 'I be called to order
promptly at 2:30 p m. in the circuit!
rourt room at thi ■ ourthouse. Officers of Uv organization invite
all Republican v* oen of the county
The or-
reissuing”autoinol>iie drivers^" licenses I ganization' is ••fating to take an
active part in 1 campaign to be held this year. — ' lawfordsvillp Journal
has announced ho has decided against, ,0 h '' 'r sent H ‘ e ..: . .. ...I • i: ganization' is >ti>ectir.g to
They were forced to come down in Soviet territory near the Polish frontier. Their machine was wrecked. The men received only superficial
bruises.
Mattern and Griffin received treatment for their bruises and preceded to Minsk, from where they expected to start for Moscow by train tonight. All hope had been abandon'd here that the men would reach Moscow, when they were almost 30 hours overdue. A careful check by Soviet of fh ials to the east, and by airline officials between Moscow and Berlin, brought no news of them The “( i n tury of Progress" should have foil w ed the lighted airway to the east Prcssian frontier at K enigsberg. but
wa snot sighted.
It was feared the flier- might have passed Moscow to the cist ami 1 omo down in some remote section. Some feared they had gone suffi iently j north of their c urse to come down in
the Baltic sea
Soviet officials waited at the VI• cow .airdrome with fuel upplie.- in case the men waie fonnd.
Explosion Plunges Submarine to Bottom of Channel. According to Seven Rescued Sailors CHERBOURG, France, July 8. (UP)—Seaplanes droned overhead, and seacraft swept the channel here today as seven survivors told how they were thrown into the choppy waters that swallowed the submarine Promeihee and 63 men yesterday, the worst submarine disaster in French
history.
Sean hers found the submarine lyTWO MEN ESf \PE WITH QI AN- m,r :i ' 1, “ ep hole on tl,P be 1
in 230 feet of water. A telephone from the submarine, one of the devices released automatically in the event of trouble was found floating
Two men who broke a pump at the j on the water and led to the discovery. Putnam County Farm Bureau eleva i Divers went down immediately, but tor on west Elizabeth street, in north the position of the -ubmarine left lit-
Tl I Y OF GASOLINE AFTER
BREAKING PI MP
Greencastle, late Thursday evening escaped with a quantity of gasoline
estimated to be between ten and 1 recorded no signs
eleven gallons. Sheriff Aha Bryan shipinvestigated the robbery Friday
morning.
It was said two men *■’«*••«> seen t" break the pump and take the gasoline but were not known to the persons who witnessed the robbery.
tie hope that it could be raised. Microphones lowered near the hull
f life inside the
Hysterical women and weeping relatives thronged the beach where two native fishermen had brought the survivors—exhausted seamen who had drifted an hour at sea with only
two life belt- among them.
The ship had gone down within twa minutes—so quickly the radio operator didn’t hive a chance to flash : word of trouble. All hope for th-*
LONDON. July a , (CP)—The Rev men has been abandoned.
ENGLISH PREACHER FOUND GUII/n OF MISCONDUCT
R. W
roll call A few moments before. Gov. j to assist in rehabilitation, imHarry G. Leslie and Speaker Walter I mediately after he and Adjutant Myers had implored the representa- General Paul E. Tumbaugh had touitives to consider no proposals except 1 ‘ 1 l ' 1, ‘ stricken area last night those dealing with relief to taxpayers. Jack Vaughn. Madison, Ind., mi The house voted 59 to 33 to permit i fere ‘' 'h*’ wo ' st '"Juries. A building introduction of the bill, which was of- ' 1,> " ar ' taken refuge «
pre-ent licenses havt in effect
three years-
The cost to each driver for a license is 50 cents of which 25 cents is
charge for a notary fee.
Review.
MARKS IS HOME AFTER Al I" A( < IDEM
OATS HI BOTHERSOME
LADOGA, July 8— Robert VV Marks who had been in the M. E
Oats bugs a lech invaded Greencas- hospital since lieing injured
tie and Putn county by the mil-1 automobile accident last Thin lay. lions are can ng considerable annoy- , has been taken to his home here and ante to resid- s. Although small, is getting along nicely, the insects giv one the creeps as Jehu M Staple who wa al > ser-
h they crawl a nd on bare skin or in | Sou-sly injured at the time wa report-
one’s hair. ed to be getting better.
fered by John Bold, Henry Monnig and Jacob Rmsinger, all Democrats of Evansville. The second was introduced by Fred Galloway. Indianapolis. Doth were referred to the committee on public morals. "We will fight our bill through to the end," Bold said. “This law must be repealed before a bill for tax on medicinal liquor can be considered. That warrants consideration by thi.' special legislative session.”
lapsed, inflicting rib amt shouldei fracture*. Senegal jicrsons were
treated for minor injuries.
Three block' of the downtown seci tion were swept by the storm. Nearly | every business structure wa* damag
| ed.
F’rom Vernon the storm proceeded to Muscatatuok state park, where it | destroyed thiee cottages and uproot-
i ed many trees.
The Vernon furniture manufacturI ing company , the town’s largest in- ! dustry, was damaged badly.
Bloodless Surgery
TRICK IN ( RASH
Trucks driven by C R. McCloud, of Brazil, and Frank Hender.'on, Coates- 1 ville, were damaged when they collided just west of the old Big Four railroad overhead bridge on west Walnut street, about 10 o'clock Friday morning. Neither of the drivers were irjured. It was said the Henderson truck j swung too wide in coming out of the road leading to the O & I. stone quarry, and was struck by the McCloud truck’ which came over the bridge from the east. A load of stone on the flerderson truck was upset. THE WEATHER Fair tonight and probably Satur- ; day; title change m temperature.
FAIL TO AGREE WASHINGTON, July 8. (UP)— Senate Democrats adjourned their confeience today without reaching an agreement whether to suppoit Speak- | er Gainer in his dispute with Presi- , dent Hoover on the $2,122,000,000 re lief bill. The conference was called by min j ority leader R ibinson. He announced after a session lasting almost two hours that “no definite decision has been reached on the action to be taken on the conference report " The meeting will he resumed tomorrow morning. The report, which pa.-se I the house yesterday, will not be tak^n up in the senate today. Rob inson said.
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE Mrs. William Sutherlin and son ! spent the day in Indianapolis. John Cannon transacted business in Anderson Mrs. Harry Moore ard daughters are the guests of relatives in Chicago. Representative John McCabe was here from his farm near Morton today. A. L. Boomer returned home from a few days’ visit at Lake Maxinkukee.
MAY ( ALL SPECIAL SESSION WASHINGTON, July 8. (UP)— President Hoover will call a special ses-ion of congress if that body adjourns without passing relief legisla tion acceptable to the administration The President, in open battle with Speaker Garner of the house, believes | relief legislation is the most vital question befoie congress. He is not willing to see adjournment before action is taken suitable to what he sees ' as the needs of the nation. He does not intend to back down in his fight with Garner. He declared in a statement earlier in the week at tacking the fieiy speaker's stand on certain phases of relief that he would not let congress get away without pas-sing some aid to the country ’s j need*. j
Lieutenant Goiiespel Dumesnil, commander of the submarine, told
Admiral Malavoy:
“About noon, 1 heard a noise above me. I rushc d to the deck and felt the ship literally sinking under my feet. I was immediately blown into the water with the six other men who weie with me on the deck I fear that the craft sank .so fast that ther« was little chance for the men below to extiicate thoni elw*.’’ The men, stunno ' by th‘> explosion and forced to wat. h the submarine iisappear with theii comrades aboard, agreed to share the two lifebelts. Three men hung t ne belt and four to the other. Each man took turns holding on to a belt foi the belts were not strong enough io upport all the
men at one time.
The channel wa'ers were unusually calm, and th<- men houted for help, until two fishermen, almost a mile
away, heard their cries.
The fishermen, Yves Nicole and Joseph Colin, became the heroes of Cherbourg and all France. The government planned to hmi r them with medals and <diier recognition for
lom F.aily, a veteian bear-keeper, | rre3CU( , of the commander and
six men. But they took it all calmly.
Harold Franci David >n. 60 year old re tor of Stiffkey ( pronounced Stewky) was found guilty today of itn Imoinl conduct and inrpi per relations - during his “rescue work” among young London girls. The rector was found guilty on three charges; the first of alleged im moial < onduct and relation with Ro e Ellis, alleged by the pio ecution i have extend*- I over a period
,f It) .Kars.
Th secomd, of misi($nduct "'h
wait io,; es in a tea drop.
The third, of misconduct with a gnl in a iBioomsbuiy restaui int I vo other similar charges again t tin rctor had been withdrawn re ci ntly, but the chancelor foun Divid-on guilty of them ah- He w.i al-o found guilty of misconduct
with Barbara Harii-.
BEAU KILLS ZOO \ I I KNDANT CLEVELAND, July - (UPi —A huge grizzly bear a' the Brookside park zoo here, today turned on his keeper and clawed him to death.
entered the cagi t the bear to feed : him when the animal, usually tarn* i and gentle, turned on him and struck Early viciously with hi paws, claw
ing him to death.
Rt:( KEFKI I I R !i;i dODAY TARKYTOWN. N. Y„ July H (UP) —John D. Rovkefellei Sr., got up at 7 o’- lock (his morfling, ate a hearty breakfast and huniel out for nine holes of golf, disregarding the fact that it was his !)3r:l birthday.
Mrs. McFaddnfs Riles Saturday
$1,000,000 SUIT FILED INDIANAPOLIS, July S, (UP)— Suit demanding $1.000,"On judgment for alleged breach f pior i-.e was on file in superior rourt V- 1 here today tgainst Arthur I i in. wealthy Indianapolis rapi di t. The suit, filed in behalf of Mrs. Margaret E. M<lt't, Go h n, charges tha* on Aug. 25, 102*. Jordan asked her to marry him m l that when wedling arrangements had been made h« refu.-ed to cairy out his promise.
A PARTY
WE! !. KNOWN B UNBRIDGE
WOMAN DIES THURSDAY FOLLOWING STROKE Funeral services foi Mrs
McFndden, ag" 7" y ears, who died at the home -f hei laughter Mrs. Ray Miller, ,-outh of Rainbri lg“, Thurs , day morning, f ill - 1 mg a stroke, will
he held from the M. E chureh in! of Borah’* •
Rainbvidge Si'upUy afternoon at 2 o’clock, conducte I by the Rev. Roll-
man of Green* i:- , |e. he in the Rainbr lc Mis. McFaddeo i
| children. Mrs. Aim * f h idd, of Tenne> ee; Dwigh* Urb i lden. Chicago
MV\ W I THOU I
WASHINGTON. July 8. (UP) — I Senat r William E. Borah o Idaho is 'fast becoming a 'man without a party” in the pr* sidential campaign. Th** Idaho senator announced recently to the senate that he could not j upport President H over because of ! the Republican patty’s prohibition re-
Icura submission plunk.
Today he marie it | lain that he would not bolt m t -uppot the Demorratie ticket headed by Gov Franklin D. Roosevelt, the lour-e taken by one
i’o , S nator Ge :rge
VV Norris of Nebia.-ka.
The Idaho senator will make
Interment will known in a fcv. days what cours-* he
cemetery. will pursue^
urvived by six
CHILEAN ( VHINFT RESIGNS SANTIAGO, Cii le. July 8. (UP)—
Heights; i’aiil I I ulden, Bedford;! Chile's rabire- n-l two members of Mr- Etta Colin arid Mrs. Ann* I the governing junti hr n led by Carlo* Mdi* r, Bainbridg mil Miss Gladys 1 q. Davila r* ign *1 * i ly today. I av MiTad len, India' ' "li . and several mjj Davila fr'-e t become provisional grandchildren. president, coeperating with ex-Dicta-Her hushanu and U * children prt- tor General ('trio Ibanez who rere led her in H* at Mr*. McKadden turned from exile by airplane yester-
was born in Putnam county and spent day.
her entiie life her" She was a mem* Although Ibanez lenied that he had l her of the Bainbiidge Methodist i any He ire to return to p wer, the churcfi and was well known in Mon- nationalist shift n the government [ ioe township and ever the county. ' J coincided with hi* known )>olicies.