The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 July 1932 — Page 1
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(iREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JULY 12,1932
NO. 230
FAMED CIRCUS MAN ILL
I NEW YORK, July 12. (UP)—John , Ringliiii?. la t of .seven brothers who for a quarter of a century have dominated the circus business of North j America, is critically ill at a private
I hospital and both Lg. have been amriPH ROITTF CONSOLIDATED Plated, it was learned to lay. MEANS SAVIN!■ OF *! 080 ; Uonfinnation of his illness was ob
TO TAXPAYERS
ILL REDUCE
RURAL ROUTES HERE TO FOUR
SHOE MAGNATE IS KILLED IN PLANE CRLSH
EVANS. WOODKl M
t iined at hi> home here. The hospital
is near Seagate, N. J.
He is said to be suffering from a TO RE1IKE form of blood pni- ning.
I H O M A S B A T A EUROPE’S “HENRY FORD” DIES KNROUTE TO SWITZERLAND
NATIVE OF CZECHOSLOVAK A
Four Carriers Will Each Handle Miles of Territory Every Day
Rural mail routes from the Green castle postoffice, numbering eight less than six years ago, will be redttct'l to four by next April 22, affording an annual savings of $4,320 to the postal department. E. R. Baitley, postmaster, announced Tuesday. Rural route patrons of the Green
STIMSON DENIES REPORT WASHINGTON. July 12, (UP) Socretaiy of State Stimson, on leaving a cabinet meeting today, denied 'there had been any conversations between representatives of the United States and other governments on reparations or downward revision of ! war debts.
Accident Victim One of Europe’s Richest Men. Advocated Mass Production Methods
WINS CONFIDENCE VOTE | v,—— - PARIS. July 12 (UP)—Premier i Edouard llerriot won his second vote | of t .mfidence in t he chamber of depu-1 J tie- today, whih an all night session; continued well toward noon, when the government’s financial reform program was approved, 385 to 201. The socialists had announced the/ would withdraw their support because lb riot sought uppart of moderates on the first confidence vote It rejected a socialist demand for . oppression of m litary re l ives.
FULL SESSK >N INDICATED BY SENATE VOTE
UPPER HOUSE RI.rOMMl.NDS APPROPRIATION BOOST FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY
MANY TAX
RELIEF BILLS
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, July 12, (UP)—Thomas Bata, Czechoslovak lan shoe magnate known as “Europe’s Henry Ford” and one of the richest men in BUrope, was killed today in an airplane accident at Ortokowitz. Mon-
rovia.
THE WEATHER
, Fair tonight and probably Wed- Bata had started a hurried business
castle postoiliie now an s ‘ 1 '' 1 ' j ne-sday. Slightly warmer Wednesday trip to Switzerland when his pilot
and in north portion tonight. RICH YOUTH'S DEATH REMAINS DEEP MYSTERY
six rural routes but these will be reduced to five within the next t>0 days With the retirement of Walter Evans on the disability list- Next April 23, the five routes will lie reduced to four when Walter Woodrum retires be-
cause of the age limit.
; Each of the four rural carriers will then travel a distance of 60 miles daily. Good roads and better means of transportation, however, will permit the four carriers to handle the routes easily in a few hour- time, it
was said.
A saving of $1,080 annually is af
forded by each reduction in the number of rural routes. The first induction wa made November 16. 1026 when John Gray was retired by the
age limit. On September 1. 1931
Charles Crawley was retired on the •ge limit, -ix carriers handling the
ruial routes since that time. •The six rural carriers now working
and the numbei of families each *er' e t»re John C. Knight. 223; Wal-
ter Evans, 211; Walter Woodrum, of the dead heir to million bared 19"; Ben King. 387; Wallace Long, public their most intimate erret
OPEN BVITUK BY MINERS \\B OHIO TBOOPS
Income Tax Levy One Of Chief Items Before Special Session Of
Legislature
INDIANAPOLIS, July 12. (UP)
1 With more than 100 tax relief bilE “'V”
'already on its calendar, the special ession of the Indiana general asombly pressed forward today it an ugh still more measures designed
—; — to lighten the taxpayers’ load. Into FIGHTING NEAR ATHENS, ()., ' e legislative hopper scores of adFOLLOAV8 NIGHT OF RIOTING ! ditional measures were scheduled to
AND INCENDI AKINM , hi forced.
; to pay , poll tax was offered by John
Niblack, Repn., Indianapolis, in the senate. Glenn R- Blanker, Repn.. Monti ello, introduced a measure which wnull force utilities to base assessed valuation cm the same sched-
j ule as the one used for rate making-
The ii nate's opposition to bills not
I strictly relief proposals was voiced I when Frank S. Southworth, Repn.,
Plymouth offered n bill which would repeal the 1931 Indiana statute forcing state institutions to use Indiana coal. Sen William B. Handley, Repn., Bloomington, proto ted against the bill on the grounds that it was not a lax relief program. The senate voted 27 to 18 to accept the bill. “This hill wod.ld save 'the --t ite thousands of dollars.” Southworth “It means as much of a saving to taxpayers as many other pro-
posals.”
HUMOROUS .j(. EVENTS OF l EARLY DAYS
SALOON MEN HAD TO COPE WITH BRIGHT MINI)- IN DISPENSING. •BEDFORD, BY 111 < h ’, S AID HE
Time Taken In Those Days For Fun Along With Stern Daily Living
property wa- contained in a house
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"PERSON OR PERSONS UNKNOWN” CAUSED TOBACCO HEIR’S DEATH IS VERDICT RELEASE WIDOW, sit RET ARY Coroner's Jury Deliberates for Six Hours. Intimate Secret Revealed
In Testinionv
WINSTON SALEM. Juh 12. (UP) —Mystery in the death ot Smith Reynolds remained as deep , over today, despite a coroner’s jury verdict re turned after the widow and friends
in
375; Robert Best. 342.
According to Postmaster Bartley it has been the mactice of the postal department to consolidate rural routes when carriers retire or are unable to continue their routes for some . ctho* leason. rather than give (heir
route to another carrier.
The jury near midnight repented after six hours deRlvi ation that the heir to the R. J. I, 1 ' ynolds tobacco millions “came to hi death by a gunshot wound infln K d by a person or
persons unknown.”
That verdict left the pos.ability of either murder or -uicirlc hanging over the death Investigation just as it was six days ago when Smith died from a bullet wound in his right temple. Two courses are now open to the
t investigating authorities. They may duly 1-, (II) The oon tinjp the investigation and pla •
the case before the grand jury, oi they can drop it as a mystery too
Wire Flashes!
MONROE La
charred body of a white man found in the blazing wreckage of an automo-
bile in ' , ” 1 8 P°‘ 12 deep for solution.
miles northwest of here was tenta Thp Kram , jury wag set to meet tively identified today as that of J. S. today ,. ut thpre waR no assuralU e it Basket!. Louisville. Kv.. cigarette (r ,, th< ,. a immediately, salesman. Authorities Investigating Xhe testimony i n
the man's death, had made no an- |, owever
* 0un Wheth ' « ,h ”V b€li * V ® d It I with amazing frank-. the man was slain or had committed Libby Ho | man Reynolds' story of her jpukide. youthful husband's courtship, their
love and the glowing inferiority com-
INDIANAPOLIS, July 12. (UP)- pl „ of Smith . To show a pLiMe Shortly before the noon adjournment motive fnr sui( . i(lei Kir , ha<1 t(lId members of the house of representa- thp ro , cn( , lV jurv ye s terday of lier
became Inst in fog outside the Ort - kowitz airport. The motor failed as the pilot, Broueek, tried to land, and the marhine crashed from an altitude
of 1,000 feet.
Bata died from an internal hemorrhage as he was being taken to a hospital. The pilot was killed instantly. Rata rose to fame and fortune after I the world war from proprietor of a small shoe shop to one of the out-!
| standing industrialists of Europe. |
He owned shoe factories through-1
! out Europe and was preparing to ex-'
tend his activities to other pait- of t he world, in duding Engl and and InIdia. He used the mass production methods made famous by Henry I Ford, and raised the daily output of his shoe factories to 100.000 pairs. Bata was recognized as the leader of the Americanization of Eur p< an industry. He owned approximately 2,000 retail shoe stores in Czecho -lovakia. and several hundred oth'-i in various countries of Europe. Bata planned to increase his hold ings in the United States, where he had a few stores. Twelve of the c
are in the Chicago area. ( l TUNG NEW ROAD
Consider abb interest is being shown on the new route of road 36 through Bainbridge between Road 43 and Groveland. The new right-of-wa-misses the main stru t r Bainbridge and passes to the north "f the business section. Workmen Monday cut down an old maple tre one of the landmark- of Bainbridi • , in laying out the new route between the homes of Kstel Minniek and .l.une- Miller. Paving of the road i expected to start within a few weeks. Much of the material for (he hard surface is
already being hauled.
ATHENS. O., July 12. (UP)—-A night of rioting, incendiarism and dynamiting near Chauncey. was climaxed early today by an open battle between triking miners and national guardsmen in which Ray Freeman, 18, was killed.
Indication that the senate believes the -ession will run the entire 40 days was given when it voted 44 to 2 to boost appropriations for the assembly | fiom the $50,000, recommended in a house bill, to $120,000. The bill now returns to the house.
TERROR REIGNS IN UPRISING AT PERUVIAN CITY
Fneman’s dea h was the second in 48 h»nrs. Steve Bowen, 40, died yes
terd y in a hospi al from effects of a| introduced
bulle wound.
A bridge on the Kanawha and Michigan railroa i ear Fisher's sta tion v.is fired shmih after midnight. Kerosene was i> I'd to stimulate the flame-. Person, living nearby extin guished the fire bef. re it g'd a good
i tart.
Tht New York Central railroad biidg’ over the Hocking riser at Chauicey was wrecked by dymainite at 2 a. m The mi idle section was hlnwi out. Offi ills estimated that 100 piunds of dynamite were used. Tin battle in Chauncey terrorized I resident • who were iwakened by the
h up craeking of rifle fire.
Singly and in pairs, armed men
strode nut of the hill (’hnun • y. to gai her in
One of the major revenue raising measures of pre session programs was on the calendar today in a bill
by Rep. Karl Crawford,
Dem„ .Milton, providing for a personal income tax. Crawford’s pro posal would tax incomes up to $1,00(1 at 1 per cent, up to $2.00n at 2 per cent, up to $10,000 at 3 per cent and
over $10,000 at 4 per cent.
The income levy proposal was one of the chief items in the tax program sponsored by the citizens’ tax com-
mittee.
Three dozen measures were pieented to the legislature in brief ses
,-i' ns y esterday afternoon.
The senate opened it assembly with a talk by William D. Upshaw.
Ml RDER. LA NCHING AND IOOi l\(. I m I) BA REF I GEES
FROM TRUJILLO
I AIE> OF HORROR RELATED
LIMA. Peru, July 12, (UFA —Re-
ports of murder, lynching, looting, and ai n during occupation of the city of Trujillo hy communist and Apia party rebels were brought here today by eye with ■to the federal
troops, recapture of the city. Witnesses said i d guards were
with a talk "v wiinam o upshtw.
, .I,., , . stripped and lynched in public squares recently nominated by the prohibition | ^ ( i i ,
party as candidate for president of
the United States. Senatois h< ard
surrounding 1 Upshaw plead for “adherence to the small (>i nips constitution and personal and nation
on the treet corners. The Bowen shootim hid a i used high feeling. Pi to! . rifb ji .shotguns were in
ovi len
Then about midnight there was a general com ' -d movement in the
dilection of camp. Sonn gling shots was in progi i ifle file fla After thi found lying Wrunded. I Four men Wayne Win men after tl
al sobriety."
A bill including maintenance and repair of streets in wotk for which cities may expend gasoline tax reve nue was repotted favorably, as was i hill providing 'hiit all taxes hit] he due in two installments, with the penalty for delinquency on the first
installment at 5 per cent
Sen. Ralph Adams Repn.. Shelby
. ville, presented n measure whereby 'attle Freeman was common schools would not lose rating a cemetery , fat illy by failure to obey instructions of the ied in a few minutes, j state board of education. It would -e arrested by Sht riff virtually remove all schools freiu diand national guar Is-j rect tale school board control.
national go r (.-men's fired. A few stragvered. Soon a battle Guard-men fired at
“In da., s gone," -aid Jas Merryweather, “one patron of Layton’s saloon (on the east side of the court house square near Franklin street)
Another effort to tax intangible . , . . r .
•sited Layton if he had some good whiskey, and smacked his lips over a sample drink which was drawn from
a barrel.
“Fill that bottle, will you!” he demanded, as he drew a quart-size bottle from his pocket, which request Layton complied with, handing back the bottle, filled.. ‘”Er, I guess you’ll have to charge this, I'm short just now." “’Nein' Give me back that whiskey! I don’t charge noddings". “The customer drew a full bottle from a pocket, with exptessions of great dislike for the saloon keeper, and the contents were emptied back into the barrel, whereupon the customer walked out seemingly deely offended. Outside, however, ho drew out a full bottle of Layton’s goad whiskey and regaled himself and
friends.
"He had switched bottles, and the dealer had poured back into hi- barrel a, quart of cold tea. This was related hy others, md it is said layton’s fancy r: e took on a peculiar
flavor, in the course of time.” The AAay Gieskc Walked.
On another day a patron of Layton called for. and received, a quart of
rye, slipping it into his pocket
Trujillo “Did you ever see the way old
Gieske walks'.’” he asked
suddenly
“Nein! How?" “Thiq way" and the patron walked rrab-wiae across the floor, out through the door ,t> d int the street, closing the door hehim/ h e “K*oin gott, mein gott. he didn't pay”, bewailed Layton.
Streets Littered AA ith Bodies of Dead and Wounded Many Build
ings are Burned
'attle.
A bill which would force all person-
lf Mr. Hoover Has His Way
lives started wrangling over cost- of the special session and as a result withdrew its previously approved cencurrance with the senate amendment to the appropriation bill, allowing $120,000 to defray costs of the ses-
sion.
WASHINGTON. July 12 (UP)—A movement to frame an unemployment relief bill acceptable to President Hoover was underway today. A substitute measure offered by senator Wagner, Deni , N. Y., appeared to be the most likely to take the place of
the one vet-ed hy the IWdent - • Walker hail been
terday.
WASHINGTON. July 12 (UP)— Senate majority leader Watson an-
husband’s dis ouragement over physical inadequai ieand had pictured him as so mood , that he had threat
ened several times to kill himself. In the meantime, Libby Holman,
the Broadway 'age star widow who played on the heart strings at the inquest yesterday with her touching protestation of love for her young husband, and Albert ( Ah) Walker, I
his intimate friend, are free. The two had been held as intimate
witnes es. Libby was held at Re,, nolda the great Reynolds’ estate near Winston Salem, a guard at her door
held in jail until
last evening. He then was permitted i to stay at Reynold* under guard. When the jury's verdict was re-
turne 1 order.- were telephoned to
nounced in the senate today he would Reyno i da , 0 r e m ov» the guards im-
vote at any time in favor of a reso- me( jj a tely.
lution re-submitting to the states the “We cannot iv what will be done fate of the 18th amendment- next," raid as-istant solicitor J. Erie
_ ^ McMichael. "until we discuss the sit-
LAFALETTE. Ind., July 12 (IP) ua tion. We will have no announce-
! —Henry Beckman, 51, janitor at the National Guard Armory, wa - found dead in the armory today. He had hanged hitnself. Illness was believed
i responsible.
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
Mr. and Mrs. George Long are vis-
j- iting in Lafayette.
Miss Ruth Rector and Miss Mabel H Confer are assisting in the “clean-up"
u sale at the Model.
Miss Tessie and Miss Beatrice 3 Evans spent the day in Crawfords-
I ville.
Gilbert Cole was a visitor in Ind1 ianapolis. Mrs. Catherine Spears of Evans-
ville is the guest of Mrs E. B. Evans | Uce.
merit until tomorrow. He .ind other prosecuting officials, who have been almost sleepless for days, retired for rest immediately. At least some additional investigation will follow. It was doubtful if the case would lie closed immediately. The verdict came at the end of a , day so packed with drama that those who followed it closely were left blinking and bewildered. Libby Hoi- ] man. exotic as ever, for one hour poured out her heait to the Jury.
bandit dies
SOUTH Bh ND, Ind., July 12 (UP) —James O h cfi*. ali as James Storey, 25. St. Paul. Minn., sought on a charge of murder of Ohio police, died in a hospital here last night of bullet wounds inflicted by South Bend po-
an i that two young uighters Pedro Lariva, prefect of were murdered in ’h'dr hon"
The reels of Trujillo were filled with dead and wounded, the eve-wit nesse- aid. The rebels feund ambush ui roofs of private hou-e and in i srapeWt ciHU'< h towels, and “ftjc" buil ling . The rebels let the federal' tr |i enter the city unmolested then "I • ne l fire from their concealed posi ti"’ and staited conflagration' by
p i arranged signals..
Officers and everal men of the Hr-t artillery, siati ned at Truiillo wi t' carried off when the rebe fled fnun the city. Several pro" uent n -idents of Trujillo were mi-.-: , af ter the rebel evacuation and their
I ite w is unknown.
< ol. Ruiz Bravo, commander-in-hief of the northern army, and his i le, Lieutenant Manuel Escalante, had a narrow e-capi when rebels Hied on them from house tops. Col. Bravo ordered two army planes to bomb the rebels on the house tops, and the snipers and their nests were
blown away.
Capt. Andrade, wounded in the fighting, was hi aught from Trujillo to Las Palmas airdrome here by airplane. He said several troops com pie ted the occupation of Trujillo early Monday morning an I that airplane, were pursuing t ie rebel - outside the
city.
Layton
“So This Is Bedford" In former day when the Indiana (Continued on Lage Two) Car Ovrrlurnrd: Two \re Injured FOUR AVOMI N I < APE SERIOl INJURY WHEN CAR MAKES DOl BLI II RN< >A LK
Farm Escape Is Shown Clemencv
JAMF- GOODI’ASIER. 17.
Four Greencastle women who drove to Crawfordsville Monday afternoon, escaped serious injui through good fortune, when the rutomobile in which they were liding 'kidded when i tire went down and t a ned over
( vice before coming to i -top.
Mrs. Rome Gorham w a driving and when the ait went out of the tire, it caused the car t kid, and before it could be stopped "in ,f the rear wheels struck a low place and it overturned. Riding with her were Mrs. Paul Wright. M . kathryne Miller and Mr-. G irold Handy When the car stopped lolling, all four women were piled up together in the car ^ Mrs Handy was on the I dtom of the group and suffered a severe spine
AL- Lhtrain ah Wright
LOW ED TO REIT RN TO FARM
TO FINISH I EHM
cuts on her body and a bad bump on her head. Mis. Gorham and Miss Miller escaped injury. Men who came along righted the car, made the necessary 'ire repairs and Mrs. Gorham drove the ear back to Greencastle. The accident occuned about seven miles south of Craw fords*
ville.
PULPIT As. -HiN M F\ IS
For the fourth sumtnei the pulpit of the local Presbyteiian church is to lie supplied at thi morning services by laymen from the membership of the church during the absence of the pastor on his vacation. For many years it was the custom to engage ministers from nearby cities to supply the pulpit. The first time the experiment of using laymen was tried
State farm authoritiea brought him ; tt proved succe ful n m every -tandhefore Judge Hug if on the escape point and the atteiuiam e.-. were, largcharge but agn ' I to let him return or than former] I wh" -vi11 to the farm an I finish his term, speak this year are: Gcndpaster said h would be glad to July 17th, D< in ! II. Dirks, return to the farm rather than go to July 24th. Elder ti. T Blai k. the reformatory. July 31st, Dr. AV E. Edington. It was said to*be the first instance August 7th, C iptam 1 H. Comof a penal farm escape being peimit stock. ted to return i that institution to The pastor will "turn August 10th tad sentence. * llai wtt M 14th.
James Goodpaster. age 17 years, of Aurora, who e- aped from the In diana -tate farm June 30, with 43 days of his teim for stealing gasoline at Aurora unserved, pleaded guilty to escaping before Judge Jame- F Hughe- in lircuit court Tuesday morning and w is given a one to five year sentence to the -tate reformatory. Judge Hughes, however, suspende I the term and allowed Good paster to return the farm to
comple'e his sen' me.
Goodpaster left the farm while sho king wheat me day to return home and visit his -ick mother, it was said. He wa- brought bark to
j the farm by relative-
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