The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 July 1932 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1932.

NO. 237

ARLES QUERY BARGED WITH BANK SLANDER

UN U S U A L CHARGE PLACED AGAINST MAN AS RESULT OF STATEMENTS

BANK

PRESSES

CHARGES

De*ard W. Kmythe, Cas-Kier, Files '^Affida'ils as Result of Slanderous Remarks

tarles Query, farmer living near Clofcer lale, was arrested Wednesday ^lling by county officers, charged th slander of the Cloverdale bank result of remarks he is alleged to have made last week relative to condition of the First National Bank

Boverdale.

[nerv was taken into custody on rants issued on two affidavits

LEGION BAND TO PLAY VI7TC 4 CU AT LADOGA ON THURSDAY V L I O LLAtjil

The American Legion band of this city will give a conceit Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at Ladoga. The Greencastle organization is composed of twenty-five members with Ray Trombly as director Last Sunday night the local musicians played at Brazil. Their program was highly pleasing to the Brazil audience as evidenced by the applause which followed each number.

RELIEF HOPED FOR AS HEAT BURNS CHOPS

WITH POLICE AT CAPITOL

BONUS ARMY INSURGENTS ATTEMPT TO TRESPASS ON \\ HU E HOUSE GROUNDS

STRICT GU MM) ESTABLISHED

Officers Isolate White House By Announcjng Deadline On Streets Surrounding Executive Mansion

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WASHINGTON. July 20. (UP)— Police and insurgent veterans comprising one of the bonus army groups,

j clashed near the White House today DEATH TOLL AND CROP DAMAGE ' ’" ’ h ' ' .pt-d to apINCREASES IN VAST \RKAS ' ,,roa<h thp (,x, '‘ utive mansion for “

OVER NATION demonstration.

i The veterans were met a block CHICAGO, July 20 (UP)—Cooling from tho executive mansion by police

Inspector Headley, who ordered them

t hv Deward W Smvthe. cashier ! breezes we,e ho l”' d fur within 30

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the first of this nature ever to <lettlh an ' 1 C1 "P • ia *» a Ke to v..-t areas tfiaj-ped him hs the throat and began

0 f the country. ! ’^ishinf? him bark. Tho police official Temperatures rose steadily today:upon his men to see that toward new records in must of the v eterajis progri -sed no further tostates east of the Rock. Mountains.! ward the White House.

•were

lie filed in this county or in this section of the state. Jj'lQ if ry is alleged to have made ■ta', nnents to Paul Hurst, Carlyle Hurst. Willy Marks, and Ollic Vaughn, to the effect that the Cloverdale institution was paying 5 per cent on deposits last Friday and Saturn iy end wmuld close its doors Sat urdov night. '^According to one affidavit. Query “on or about Jul> 15. unlawfully, wilfully, and maliciously made, cir culnted and transmitted to one Paul Hur^t and Carlyle Hurst, a false etatcment, rumor and suggestion by word of mouth that the First Nationel Bank of Cloverdale would pay five (&' ) percent on deposits on Friday and Saturday, meaning July 15 and 16, and would close its doors Saturday night for good, meaning July 16. when said false statement was

The death toll for the tropic weather

mounted over 150 today.

Many deaths occurred in Southern | states where succe ive days of 100degree temperature have been particularly oppressive. The t il wa divided almost evenly between deaths by

drowning and prostration.

Crop experts said thu tar serious damage has not been dmif to growing lields. But in many vicinitm. surface moisture was nearly exhau-ted and serious damage will come (juickly if the heat continues, thev reported. The hottest point in the country was Phoenix, Ariz , wltn lOn. Pierre, S' D-, had 10G Tempi ratun of 101 were reported recorded at Huron, S. j D.. and Moorhead, Minn., md 100

A few moments before the White House gates had been clo-ci and orders issued hairing all visitors from

the ground .

posite the executive mansion. The police then established a strict guard around the White House area and allowed no one. not even a civilian going about Ids ordinary activities, to come wfthin a block of the executive mansion. The veteran* took their repulse without anger, apparently having expected a reception of thi» kind. Lafayette Park, directly across Pennsylvania avenue from the White House, was kept cleared and the streets bordering it were established as a deadline. No one was permitted to cross to the White House side of these streets. The area back of the White House also was closed to traffic. This polite maneuver left the White House the center of an isolated section of the city about one half mile square. SCHOOL BOARD HAS A MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT

ward circulation than the bank vaults.

Senator Reed, Repn., Pa., followed

1 such a line of argument in his unavailing plea to the senate that the amendment he rejected. Reed conj tended that expansion of national | bank note circulation is a “step back-

________ ward” in federal fiscal policy.

GOVERNMENT LEADERS WARN th '' flrst pla “ He °? cxp !“ ,n * AGAINST LARGE Cl RRENUY We ^ not ,,ee<i tt !‘ 8 " xtra b,lll0 J n

, . dollars of currency. If the demands FjI ^^ I * /| I o* e a j ,. ..

| of traoe call for more currency, we

’™”~“ | have

TAKE ISSUE WITH BORAHS PROPOSITION

BILLS FAVOR » ‘ REVIVAL OF' HOME RULE

SMOOT MAKES

perfectly sufficient method of

STATEMENT getting it through the federal resene

I system."

STATE SENATE PASSES MEASURES GIVING LOCAL OFFICIALS MUCH POWER MILL ELIMINATE OFFICES

Chairman Of Senate Finance Committee (irants I nited Press An Exclusive Interview

WASHINGTON, July 20, (UP)—I j Administration leader.- today warned I emphatically against continuing cur-| rency expansion beyond the $1,000,-; 000,000 authorized under the BorahGlass rider to the home loan hank loll.

OUTBREAK AT FEDERAL DAM

IN ILLINOIS

County And Township Assessors, At tendance Officers And Others Face Loss Of Jobs

BIDS FOR OPERATING SCHOOL BUSSES REV I EM ED LAST

EVENING

They took issue sharply with Senator Borah. Repn., Idaho, who de dared expansion should lie carried "much further” in an effort to increase prices.

UNION WORKERS KILLED WOt NDED IN (.1 NFIRE \ I

MARSEILLES

FEELING IS EXTREMELY TENSE

At a

“Ju-t observe the history of na- ! tions w hich to any great extent have

expanded their currency,” said Chairspecial meeting last evening. ! man Smoot of the senate finance

The veterans walked to the White

House from their camp a

away after police superintendent Glassford warned them they would not be permitted to proceed in parade

formation.

The clash occurred in front of the treasury building. The veterans of fered no resistance, aside from a few cries of protest when their leader was pushed forcibly back among them. The police who had followed the veterans from their camp closed in quickly and began pushing the vet-

the local school trustees reviewed bid- committee in a United Press interfrom twenty-eight persons for four view answering Borah,

contracts as bus drivers and one contract for driving and furnishing chas-

sis. There wen

the first (da.ss and fifteen in the

State Police And County Officials Stri\e To Prevent Additional

Bloodshed At Dam Site.

INDIANAPOLIS. July 20, (UP) — The bill of Representative Delph McKesson, Dem., Plymouth, providing for re-distribution of state gasoline tax collections, was passed by the AND] house today by a vote of 85 to fi. The bill would give one-half the total collections to counties and citie-, and the other half to the state highway commisison. Distribution between the counties and cities would he on the basis of road mileage except in Marion county where one-half the funds would go to street maintenance and the other half to road

maintenance.

Smoot had in mind particularly the

, i vicious < ircle of inflation in which

? twenty-five bids in , , ,

, .... ,, several European nations became en

nd fifteen in the sec-,

, , i , r i .l tangled after the war. Some hilf °nd, several have hid for both eon i

tract- The bids received this year tri ^ , ,,ut . the,r " r, '‘" nK pr ‘' S8es

were decidedly lower than those of a wo,k ur "‘" K out unsecured currency construction job. It was revolver and

| in such volume that it soon became I shotgun fire from their ranks which

coun-

to

MARSAILLES, 111., July 20. (UP) —Electrically charged wires and armed deputies guarded a federal dam project on the Illinois river here today after gunfire from the con structi >n camp had mowed down 18

demonstrators, killing one.

Jamming the county jail at Ottawa were 128 non-union workers from the

feectly and by inference derogatory toi-the financial condition and affect ] ed the solvency anil financial stand i ing of the First National Bank of Clov erdale, Indiana, the n and there ! doing business in the state of In

diaoa.”

lDr-Th« seewti '•ff'de.i charged that Que^y made the same statement to Willy Marks. State's witnesses on the two affidavits are the two Hursts . M uk .and Ollie Vaughn. Arraigned in circuit court before lodge Janies P. Hughes, Query plead not guilty to both charges and was tent *o the county jail in default of ! J' 500 bond on each charge. I Query admitted he had told various p< r ons that he had t eard the Clover I dale hank wa.-, going to close, but ! 1 denied that he had made any direct statements to that effect. In the event Querv is unable to provide bond, he will have to stay in jail until the September term of court op* ns September 26. Query appears to be about 40 years 'old and is said to have a family de- ; pendent on him. He was taken into custody by Deputy Sheriff Edward Eiteljorge on State Road 36, west of

Bainbridge.

The penalty for the offense is said to be imprisonment and a fine not to

exceed one year and $1,000.

In many recent instances closing of ianapolis,

hanks has been attributed to the cir- It wa.- said

Sculation of false rumors relative to

H their condition

were marked up .it - 1 ■ 1 ' • erans back, forcing them to walk up El Paso, lex., Pui n \ 1 olo and a fifteenth tieet. away from the number of smaller a in the (Jen \yhite Hou c. In the swift closing-in tral states. t 0 j police, civilians waiting for street In Chicago laik hoard officials I can and pa by were herded in estimated nearly >00,000 persons a Hie veter n- ami moved out of

day were seeking relief at the city’s 1 t h e , ir( , a .

Lake Michigan p i' hi s and swim- police superintendent Glassford di

year ago. Drivers’ bids ranged from a low figure of $1.20 to $1.95. Drivers ! furnishings chassis ranged from $3.oo

tt $4.00.

The first four low bidders for driv ers' contracts were Gerald Ashworth, Virgil Grimes, John P Patterson nml Tommy Wright. Eugene Dorsett was ] the low bidder for driver and furnish

practically worthless.

“Under condition- existing today," Smoot said, “it would be the wisest policy to indulge in a limited expansion such as was authorized in the Borah amendment. But 1 am convinced the policy should go no fur-

drove off the demonstrators, leaving Stephen Sutton, 45, Joliet. 111., dead, and several others in critical condition. The demonstrators, all union men,

INDIANAPOLIS, July 20, (UP)— Five new relief hills passed by the sen ite, including a sweeping proposal to revive home rule, were sent to the house today. The home rule measure, spon-ored by J. Clyde Hoffman, Repn . Indianapolis. was passed hv the senate 30 to 14. It would give local authorities almost unlimited authority to -lash sal iries and abolish offices, including those of county and township assessors, attendance officers and all others except township trustees and constitutional offices, (t also would elim-

said they went to the camp to protest inate the teachers’ minimum wage

employment of outside workers at a

thor. Further expansion is not nec | ow rat e 0 f pay while union members

ing chassis. Those persons will win

ming pools. Seven deaths were attributed here to the heat in the last

24 hours

qualifications to lie approved by thi board, in ease of any defaults, next lovvi -t bidders in the two respective

das rs will Ire considered.

Tin local consolidated schools op-1 crate nine busses The contracts for opeiating four of these were let last

year for pen:,, of four years.

were unemployed. R. E. O’Neil, Coal i City, III., leader of the union group,

saiii Ids men were unarnud

county

] essary. It would he unwise.”

,, , The United Press was informed ' 0n Vs;^: P T^ n f. the treasury view of the Borah

Glass amendment is that it will be | St;lte police and county officials re-allocating

ineffectual both in expanding the > oxer ted utmost caution today to avert

'reefed his men fr"m a post in front I of the White Hou-e. He wore no ! eoat. He was clad in a white shirt, policeman’s cap. black puttees and

j blue trousers.

The police riot cai patrolled east I and west executive avenues. Pennsylvania avenue was (dosed to

jail traffic from tho treasury building I

at 16th street to 17th troet- Police > announced alter the jury trying him

FRANK HIESTAND AND DON ALD . W ere parked in> I’ennsylvania here wa di.. i. irged.

A. TICKER INVOLVED IN

Assault Case Is Aired In City Court

NEM TRIAL PLANNED

LEBANON, lnd„ July 20. (UP)— A new trial foi Louis FT Hamilton, on a eharge of murdering Lafayette K Jaek.-on. Indianapolis chain store owner, will he ueld next fall, officials

currency and in raising commodity prices. Treasury officials are pre- ' paring an analysi- of the project for j President Hoover, who has delayed

signing the bill.

'The treasury viewpoint is that the expansion mea-ure will be insignificant in its ultimate results. This theory is based on the belief that no demand exists for additional currency. It was suggested that some national banks may and probably will avail ihem-elves of the new privilege of issuing more currency against gov ernment bonds. But it wa- pointed out that unless customer- come to the

another outbreak. Feeling ran strong in the community today against the workmen charged with firing at the union group. Demonstrators were taken to Ottawa to view the 128 men comprising one entire shift of workers at the lam. Police were seeking to segre giti those believed to have fired the ho' which struck the union group. The five wounded demonstrators whose condition was most critical were being treated at the Ottawa hos

pita).

Dwight Wallace, New Orleans, one f the 128 dam worker- w.i identi-

< ASE TODAY.

avenue in front of the White houseSquads cleared Lafayette park op-

A hopeless deadlock in the jury waa banks to hoirow the idditional do| | )y Charles Mendel-on. Morris,

reported after 26 hours’ deliberation, lars, they never will ret further

An altercation between Frank Hu - ]

stand, south Greencastle. and Donald A. Tucker, living north of town, which occurred at the Tucker home Tuesday afternoon, was aired in city court Wednesday morning before Mayor W. L. Dt nnian a- a result of i a eharge of assault and battery filed

against Hiestand byt Tucker. Following the hearing Mayor Den-

man dismissed the charge against Hiestand, who it was understood is leaving Greenra tie to move to Ind

The Voice of the “Pee-puri

III., a demonstrator, hot down Sutton, doing any shooting.

i (lie man who Wallace denied

taw.

The house today had before it several measure- for final reading. A battle between urban and rural repre sentatives broke out before two hill.

state gasoline and auto

license fees were sent to engiossment. Charges of “handout” and “gag rule” were heard when attempts were made to re apportion the amount which lo-

al goxernments will leceive.

Cities may spend their hare of the gasoline and auto license fund <m maintenance of streets under provision of a hill passed by tho senate, 45 to 0. It re-defined purposes for which the money may tie expended. Road bond interest under the threemile gravel road law was cut from 2 per cent to 1 per cent of the total assessed valuation of the county, under another bill p > ■1 by the senate and sent to the h > i-o It was sponsored by MTII Brown Repn-, Herron. Eased payments for delinquent, taxes was provided in another bill passed unanimously by the -enute. It

H MIDOW FOUND MURDERED CHICAGO. July 20 (UP)—The '■ ly of Mrs Catherine Lents. (7 V crippled widow who owned considerable property and lived alone, wa> wound clothed on her bed today, where it had been tossed after she v as murdered.

14^KILLED IN CRASH MEXICO CITY', July 20 (UP)—A railroad train and a street car collided today in Taeuba, suburb of Mexico' City, killing 14 persons and injuring , 14.

was said trouble between the two men resulted over the purchase by Tucker of two tires fiom Hiestand According to Hiestand’s story. Tuck er failed to pay him $30 for the tire-. as promised, while Tucker told the' court that he was to pay for the tires when he wi.; able under an agreement

made with Hiestand.

Hiestand said Tucker had agreed, to do some hauling for him in work ing out the price of the tire-. It was said the tire deal reached a climax when Hiestand a ked Tucker to haul his household goods to IndiaiupoUs,

and Tucker refused.

Tucker alleged that Hiestand struck him, while Hiestand. who is said t > be an ex-prize fighter, alleged that Tucker made the first move to strike

him.

20 Years Ago

IN GREENCASTLE

POLES DAMAGED BY NOON FIRE MEDNESDAY

Poles belonging to the Wabash Valley Electric company, stacked

Fire, during the night, destroyed near the Monon tracks in north Greenthe supply house and blacksmith shop ] castle, were damaged about 1 o'clock at the O. A 1 quarry The Loss was j Wednesday afternoon when a grass i c. timated at $4,000. The flames were fire spread to them A two-wheel 1 ‘Uscovered by the night watchman pole trailer belonging to the Electric hut were beyond control. company- also was damaged by the The remodeling of the old Catholic ' flames. The burning poles . et up a , school building on east Washington dense .-moke. City firemen Lid a Une street which is to be the home of the i of hose to extinguish the blaze. new music school is rapidly nearing ronypletion. I THE WEATHER f orr.elis daughter of Mr md Mrs. Genyail fiir and continued 'vitrm J P. Alien, Jr- entered a number of’tonight nnt T1 n follo-ved her jjttlc fnerds at her home on V *i- thunderstorms and cooler Thui ir . ■ nut straat this afternoon. night or Friday.

It was revealed today the conflict , would make tax*'- due in two inst illmight nave been avoided had the un ] ments with the delinquency penalty employed men realized a contract had : 5 per ient instead of 10 per cent, just been signed to unionize the pro- j A measure introduced by E >rl i ject- : Crawford, Dem.. Milton, which called Herbert M Miller, superintendent for abolishment of county ,md town- , of the construction work, and Pony hip assessors i an economy mei-

Augustino. union agent, had met hortly before the demonstration and agreed to formation of a union contract with a 40-cent an hour scale As Miller returned from this conference, he met th" demonstrators advancing on the dam. He said the demonstrators -cize-i and began to manhandle him. This, Miller asj erted. caused the construction work- ] ers to open fire. They feared. Miller j said, that he would be seriously inI jured or killed by the union group. Ill feeling over conduct of the eorv I struction work has been widespread jin the community for some time. Un- ] employed union workers charged the contractors. Stevens Brothers an! Miller-Hufchins >n Construction Co , both of New Orleans, with importing

sure, wa.- voted down by the hou-e,

44 to 42

‘By a unamious vote the house passed the bill of E S. Priddy, Dem., Marren, which amends the 1931 law requiring county commi inner, to invite at least thiee c ontractors to ubmit bids on county bridges costing under $500 The house also engro.-ed the bill of G. M. Bate, Dem. Indianapolis, which require that the state tax board assess the property of utilities at an amount not less than the value estabh.-hed by th" Indiana public service commission for rate-making

purposes.

INDIANAPOLIS. Inly 20. (UP)— The amended Wei bill, "hich would

workmen from distant points and leyaliz* and place i tax on medicinal hiring them at low wages rather than I whisky and also provide new enforceseek employes from the unemployed ment mra ures to replace the Weigh 1 : of the community. ‘hone dry" law, vvu still on second reading in the house to<iay.

House wets, fearing that passage ! of the bill would he endangerr-1 if substitute enfoi cement measures

LOCAL PASTOR ON RETREAT PROGRAM \P MARTINSVILLE

On Friday there "ill be an all-day Retreat of the Southern Indiana Christian Mini-ter- Union at the Christian Chur h at Martinsville. Vital problems relating to the church I and its activities will be discussed by ; various church leaders of the state. Rev. Robert T Beck, pastor of the | First Christian church, Greencastle, is on the program His address is entitled ”Meeting t.'.c Problems of Modern Youth ”

MARRIAGE LICENSE

William Arthur Toile , coal miner, and Aibe ta . tar.-' “ h^ eke*>p b«’.h of Evansville.

ware not provided, decided to include them in t ie repeal rre i ure itself It previously had been planned to introduce other hills to up an enforcement system. If the bill is passed, it will create an enforcement sv stem which was superceded when the Wright law \v»nt into effect. The bill prc”iie» for a tax of 59 cents a pint on medicinal whisky. Penalties of $1,000 fine and impnson1 ment of from two to 14 years are pro'ided. When the Wright law war em*t f i* nullifi-d all ex .', rg enforcement . . . ■ • o' ld again becom effective with only slight alteration* c „ ®