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(iREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 22,1932.
NO. 239
RICE FREES 27 IMPRISONED COAL MINERS
PEACE IN DUGGER MINE AREA ARRANGED BY GOVERNOR
HARRY LESLIE
iPJARDSMEN MAINTAIN ORDER
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If Starved Mine Crew Leave Be- » sieged Shaft After Pickets
Return Home
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SlNPIANAPOIJS. July 22, (UP)— Harry G. Leslie returned here m Dugger, this morning, scene of miners’ conflict, and immediately arted for his summer home at ies state park, near Michigan City, said he would return Tuesday. he governor intimated that if any
his five deputies to arrest them. “You’ll have to feed us then," the men shouted. “We’d rather be in jail than starve." Williams who regarded the situation as dangerous as a tinder-dry for est called on Gov. Ix'slic for assistance. Meanwhile the workers at the mine refused to show themselves. Armed with machine gun- and rifles they were prepared to si 11 their lives dearly. West, one of the confeiees, described the long vigil in the mine. “All we did wa wateh and wait,” the small gray-hairec veteran of the coal mines said. “Sometimes when we saw the number of pickets mill ing around the outside grow to more than 1,000 we thought we were done for.”
PRESIDENT SIGNS HUGE RELIEF BILL
Slain Labor Leader
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WILL INJECT NEW LIFE IN BUSINESS
BILL WILL CREATE WORK
Measure Provides Relief For Unem- 1 ployed And Needy. May Bring Turn In Depression.
Large Crowd Out For Poultry Picnie
developments arose in the n section he would probably
by airplane.
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I LEON TODD AND JOHN .1 PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS
IRWIN FARM
LACY AT
DUGGER. Ind.. July 22, (UP)—A I rmal truce calmed the strife torn ine area today and brought freedom 27 miners imprisoned 36 hours in coal mine shaft by 1.000 union
lekets.
A splendid crowd of Putnam county poultrymen and their families turned out Thursday for the all day picnic at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irwin, eight miles west of Greencas-
f Out of the clammy coal pit climbed tie, where talks by Leon Todd. Pur-
due poultry speciali-t. and John J. Lacy, associate editor of Prairie
were features of the pro-
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the grimy, half starved crew of min«rs Behind they left the machine fun nests and snipers’ posts manned | Farmer through the long seige. in case angry gram.
pickets might storm the mine. j M thp noor) hour tables lftden with
The peace was arranged by Gov. ^ chirkpn ^ othe)
Harry G. Leslie while three militia companies stood by not far away! reedy to march here if violence broke
fu*
J <By terms of the truce the troops j Will come here today to help main- j Uin order Martial law will not be
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Mtablished, however.
When word came that “peace" had twen declared, the pickets, weary of tile siege as the mine defenders, ilghed with relief. They emerged from posts behind bushes, trees and locks and started down the dusty
roads toward home.
'“On their shoulders were long rifles, gleaming dull in the darkness of early
Morning .and
WASHINGTON, July 22. (UP)—1 The federal government was readytoday to unlock billions of dollars to help feed the hungry, create work for the jobless and inject new life into ! business. President Hoover’s signature of the ! $2,122,000,000 relief bill launches the government into the war against depression on an unparalleled scale. The reconstruction finance corporation, administering $1,800,000,000 of the vast fund, expected to begin granting emergency relief loans to the states with little delay. It believed it could have the entire program in full swing within a few
weeks.
The corporation’s capitalization is increased to $3 100,000,000. It is authorized to loan the states $300,000.000 to help them feed and pay their school teachers and other civic work ers Urgent need for the money mud be shown and no state can borrow
more than $45 000,000.
A vast fund of $1,500,000,000 is to
be loaned to states, cities, and im provement districts for construction of bridges, tunnels, waterworks, and other revenue-producing public works
For highway construction and other works, $322,000,000 is pro-
HEAT WAVE CONTINUES; TOLL HIGH
DEATHS MOUNT DAILY OVER NATION AS HI IS I ERING SUN BEATS DOWN
DROWNINGS HEAD I A l AI.ITIES
Other Causes, Both Natural And Accidental Claim Viclinis As TorWeather Conditions Hold
Patrick BerrelL powerful Chicago labor leader and ' r president of the International Brotherhood of Tcamsteis. Local 25, t hicago, who was shot and killed Thursday by machine gunners at a roadhouse near Shawano
Wisconsin.
THREE WOMEN FOUND DEAD IN MINNESOTA
out that legislation and letter prices i were marking an upw ard turning ' | point for farm folk in general. Smiley 'Irwin and ■ ther poultry raisers also gave h>>rt talks and ! numerous poultry (pi- (tons were ans-
| wered and discussed.
Those present at the close of the
,, , . , , , 1 day expressed tin ir appreciation to
old weapons which had i ,, , „
,, , .. .. . ... ... Mr. and Mrs. Irwin for their fine
flSW»»t*«d hi the nrtl giu*, of the picket
lines during
good things
to eat and drink, weie the principal
attraction.
Mr. Todd conducted i culling demonstration and gave m interesting discussion of the poultry outlook, diseases and general ore of the farm
flock. Mr Lacy also talked along federal this line, enlarging his topic to point vided.
Federal authorities estimate that the con.-trurtion work to be undertaken may provide a year's work for about 2 000,00 men. The inert ased demand for building materials and the heightened pun basing power of the workers i expected to give general business a mighty*impetus.
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the deadlock.
'The men. many of them with wives and children by their side, seemed happy the fight was over. Joking and ; laughing, they started hack home. I’hey accepted without question the ision to allow the trapped miners I
to emerge unharmed.
■ The besieged band was still hesi-1 taut about leaving the coal shaft. 1 they lingered, eating provisions brought them by Sheriff Wesley Wil-1 liams, until convinced the pickets had i dispersed. Not until told the national guard was ready to enter the area were they reassured as to their safe
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For hours the conference was de yed as Sheriff Williams tried to ffsuade some of the besieged miner.leave their dark fortress under his rotection. Finally Harry West and elson Haupt accepted his offer of fe conduct and made their way Btrougii the -ullen barrier of unem-
ployed pickets.
The truce, accepted by the mine
hospitality.
Evict ^ar Vets From Buildings
CAPITAL POLICE IN SI RU( TED TO MOVE BONUS ARMY OUT OF QUARTERS
WASHINGTON, July 22. (UPlPolice planner! to evut homeless 'iiv veterans from government Imildingat noon today with Commander Walter Waters of the bonus army demand they be given new quarter The eviction will be complete I with “careful observance of legal right ," police chief Pelham Glassofrd said, in announcing ho would comply with j written orders received from district
i commisisoners.
; The police arc not to be made into n military organization. We will avoid the use of force except in making arrests or in case of riots.” President Hoover late yesterday signed the Bacharach bill reducing , the in'erest rates on adjusted service
.v.i,.- certificates loans from 44 to 3V4 per Should no agreement be arranged . t, , , . , .,
a * .ont The bill eliminates the previou-
FARMER HEARINGS HELD A Farmer's hearinv was being held in the assembly room of the court house Friday under th'- direction of Dr. C. C- Ford, superintendent of the Greencastle district, and Dr. Carl Hutchinson, Chicago ^wither similar hearing will be held tli ■ evening beginning at 8 o’clock. Farmers will be given an opportunity to air their troubles in an effort of those back of the movement to get at the root of th> farmer’s present situation. Similai meeting- have been held in four different states. Data gathered at the hearings is in tended to be used to aid the farmer t irough legislation ind other relief
agencies.
Virgil Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe S imiers of Washington township, underwent a major operation at the
county hospital Thursday.
MINNESOTA POLICE BAFFLED BY MYSTERIOUS DEATHS OF THIli I WOMEN LAKE OliTY. Minn., July 22, (UP) —An unidentified woman was found -hot to death today a few miles from Ryans bay in the Zumbro river, where the bodie- of two young farm girls who died mysteriously were dis covered yesterday. The woman, shot in the head, sat upright in a parked automobile holding a bottle of beer Harrassed county officials charge 1 with determining the cause of death of Louise Prigge. 22 and her girl friend, Francis Polikowski, 21, were iu-t a mystified by the slaying No wcapo i was foun I. Th” utoinobilc 'a traced through its li eii-c number to Miss Agnes St< < 9fen( ■ i Hall. I nivei ity of Minnesota. ne dead woman was
about 24.
County auth rities were inclined to consider the tuo tragedies as separate cases, an 1 did not overlook the circumstances that the death occurred a few miles apart and followed automobile rides. No cause of death had been determined in the case of the two farm girls. After preliminary investiga tion Coroner \ C. Schweiger of Mill ville said only that the girls had not come to theii death.- through drowning they wa re last seen alive Tuesday night w cn they went riding w ith two unidentified men. Red Wing md Lake City authorities oi icrrd n thing disturbed at the plaee when t c girl was found dead
today.
A deputy heriff later found a .38 caliber automatic pistol from which one bullet had been fired. The girl had died a the result of a bullet wound just r the heart.
CHICAGO, July 22. (UP)—The na-tion-wide heat wave which has taken a toll of 250 deaths in a 12-day period continued unrelaxed today except in a few midwest sections where temporary coolness was accompanied by
additional deaths.
While Great Lakes cities and points in the northwest obtained relief, the heat wave broadened to include both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, which I hitherto had escaped suffering. The sudden rain and wind squalls which stiuck the midwest reduced the temperatures but weather forecasters .-aid more heat wa- due shortly. Between four and 15 persons were believed drowned .it Pontiac, Mich., when a sudden storm trapped them in small boats on Lake Michigan. A similar stoim struck Chicago. One bather was killed here when a lightning bolt struck a Lake Michigan i beach. Several others bathers were I stunned and burned. A near tornado hit Lerrmnt township in the Chicago district and tied up suburban railroad
service.
The fatalities for the heat wave neared 100 in (.'Imago alone- Another huge toll was taken in southern cities where excessive heat has been
I tinuous.
FORMER POLICE CHIEF GETS
SIX YEAR SENTENCE;
! COMMITTEES REPORT BACK MANY RILLS
INDIANAPOLIS, July 22. (UP)— Claude M. Worley, former Indianapolis police chief, w'as sentenced to six years in prison, by federal Judge
Robeit C Baltzell. today.
Worley recently pleaded guilty on a charge of income tax invasion. Five years of the term is to be spent in n federal prison and the sixth
in the Marion county jail.
— WEEK END RECESS PLANNED RE 11 RED PHYSICIAN DIES MLN< IL, lud.. July 22, (1 I ) Dr state Legislators Work On Various Lucius L. Ball, 73. retired physician Tax Revenue B.lls As Special and associate in the Ball brothers iV8gjon Continues
glass manufacturing company, sue cumb d here today to an illness of |
ACTION ON THESE SLOW INTRO-
DUCTION OF NEW MEASURES IN LEGISLATURE
here today to
several yeais duration.
Sarah Ball, the widow; Mrs. L'daml Robinson, Brownsville, N. Y-, a daughter, and two brothers, Frank G. and Geotge A. Ball, with whom he was associated locally in the manu-
facture of fruit jars, survive.
GERMAN \IK ACE STARTS CHICAGO HOP
INDIANAPOLIS. July 22, (I P) — Action on a number of hills reported back from committee occupied both houses of the state legislature today as a gradual decline in introduction j of new tax raising measures began 'Prospects of adjournment for the | week-end at noon spurred scions into
high speed.
In both houses yesterday efforts were made to remove control of muni- ‘ cipally-cwned utilities from the supervision of the public service com- | mission. Tax raising measures were
i acted upon by both
In the 22 new measures introduced in the house yesterday and the seven | proposed law.-, added to the senate cal- | endar, diversion from the general i widespread tax reduction and budget
... - | slashing moves to more localized reof Sylt, North Sea.' lipf measures was evidenced.
A bill by Cy Ido Hoffman. Rep. Indianapolis, providing a one half of l per cent retail sales tax. which he claimed would make possible a reduction in the state tax levy from 29 cents to 15 cents without a deficit, was passed to third reading in the
senate.
A tax of 1 per cent on gross in-
VETERAN FLIER ACCOMPANIED
BY RELIEF PILOT AND
R A DIO OPERATOR
LIST, Island
July 22. (UP)—Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, German flier who made two seaplane crossings to America via the northern route, started for Reykjavik, Iceland, today enroute to Chicago. Von Gronau flew a Dornier-Wall sea
plane.
The flier used the same ship in which he tw i -p crossed the Atlantic !
con- and carried out extensive mapping comes of individual and corporations operations over the northern air instea i of net incomes, was proposed
Metamora Bank Rolilieil 01 $121)11
j TWO BANDITS LODI PRIV ATE INSTI1 UTION ; M AKE CLEAN
GETAWAY
METAMORA. Ind., July 22, (UP) Two men. one wearing a chauf feur's uniform, fore I George I^’n nard. cashier of the Farmers bank, a private institution, to give them $1,200 today, locked Lennard in a di- | rector’ sroom, and escaped in an auto. One bandit approached Lennard, ; who was alone in the bank, on the i prtext of negotiating :t loan. He then ordered Lennard into the vault to (fet i the money , and wa joined by his livI ried am mplice. Lennard broke i gla.-s in the door | to spread the alarm, but the bandit-
route Von (ironau was accompanied by second pilot. Chert von Roth. I mechanic Franz Hack, and radio op
[ orator Fritz Albrecht.
The sea was calm, and von Gronau taxied considerable distance in the vake of another and larger enplane before he got his own heavily loade
machine off the water.
He intended to fly from Iceland to Ivigtut, South Greenland, then to Labrador, and finally to Chicago, po.siMy landing at Montreal enroute D the weather was favorable between 1 ' land and Greenland, von Gronau
might fly directly from , v >lt to Ivig- [ de presented tut i 1 stiff levy
1 in the house hy Miles J. Furnas, Rep.. Winchester, and Fabius Gwin, Dem.,
j Shoals.
A promi e of a “living wage" fop I the hundred- of men employed in Indiana highway and bridge construe- | tion and maintenance is provided in | i bill by Jacob Weiss Deni . IndianaI polis. The bill provides that at contract lettings minimum wage rates should be fixed by the contracting
parties.
Although seriously ill in an Indianapolis hospital, Fted Galloway. Iniianapolis, represent itive, caused to
another bill calling for on operation of chain
had obtained Two years bed of $7Ui)
u good tart ago la t,nard
the b ink-
was
rob-
IIIE WEATHER Probably thunder storms south por tion tonight an I Saturday and this nfti moon ei tonight north with gen I erally fair .'-aturday; co der tonight
hperators, pickets, workers and offiflhls, provided the mine should not be forked again until final settlement wage differences by union and
on-union officials.
Scene of Indiana Mine Strife
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bn litmus will
latu..
' Announcement
revert to the present of the peace sent
cent
provision that loans could not be made until two years after issuance
. ■ , .... , . , of certificates. All veterans holding pic e s an t mr an ' am ‘ certificates can immediately borrow wearily to their barren homes. up to 5p ppr rent nf the amount ^ ue
he pickets were union miners un ,,, ■
ployed since expiration of a wage
freement March 31. Defying a court injunction prohibiting interference with mine operations, Ihe union miner*, hungry and in distress. swarmed to the Hoosier mine When word spread that non-union ■ainers had descended the shaft. ^ Revolvers on their hips, the men Jcflclngly urged Sheriff Williams and
Local Team Will Meet Cloverdale
GREENCASTLE MERCHANTS TO ( R088 EATS WIT* sol IH PUTNAM SLUGGERS
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Caldwell have tone to Jersey City, N. J. on a two
watk’s viait.
t Fted O'Heir, of the Central Bank ia Confined to his home by illness. The first new wheat arrived in the city today from the Bicknell farm Just north of town. Prices at the Big frour elevator were 95 and 93 cents Jeise McCoy, of Cloverdale, was a
buiiness visitor here.
The Greenca. tie Merchants, recently organized semi-pro baseball team will cross bats with the Cloverdale Greys at the south Putnam park Sunday afternoon. The local club has new | uniforms and have won six out of eight games meet iig some of the best competition in their class in the state. Rollings and Black will form the batter;, for the Merchants while Williamson will hurl for Cloverdale with Stoker behind the plate. Reb. Russell, former big League star, holds down
first base for the Greys.
! With both organizations boasting
and Mrs. C McWethy and strong lim-ups a record crowd is exdgn^htors returned home from a trip peeled at Morrison park for this con-
^■btersburgh, Ky |tMt
BOSTON IO SPEAK Paul Boston superintendent of the (iicencastle schools, will be the ves p« i peaker at the t H elub camp at .* ukamak stale park, Wednesday, A igust 3, it wh announced Friday. Putnam county 4-H club members will attend camp at the state park Auuu-t 2 to 6. iml will put on stunts Pie -ame evening that Mr. Boston, making that, evening' program al most entirely by Putnam county per sons. Club members from Clay, Sullivan and Putnam counties will attend the dub camp on the above date SIX LEGGED FROG A fmg with -ix legs instead of the customary four, was b-ing exhibited Friday by Frank Masten, local insurance agent. Masten caught the frog on Big Walnut creek Thurs iay evening. Ma-ten, however, was be wailing the fact that the extra legs were front legs instead of the edible
rear legs.
The trng apparently is normal except that it ha.- two extra legs fastene I to its bodv just back of the left fri nt leg. The extra leg,- are slight ly smaller than the regular legs and j point to the left instead of to the '
front.
Death Summons William A. Dodd
-tores. Store licens- fee- are fixed
as follows:
One store. $5; each; three store stores, $100 each; stores, $500 <'u< h,
two -tores, $100 $300 each; four and five or more
Wire Flashes!
The Hoosier Co-iperative Mine at Dugger, near Sullivan, Ind., to which Indiana National Guards (••or* orrieri d w**®« 1.200 union miners and sympathizers surrounded the- -haft l» non oi are barricaded inside the mine Lower left, John W Price (left) an<^ A. A. Church, guards at the mine, c-owe.- rignt, She rift Wesley WilLarr.:- of Sullivan County. Ir.ifana. who wired C ■ r Leslie that the mine situation, as result of w^je djsv'ut®, wa* beyond hj* control and that trc-. - »h uld be scat.
LIFE LONG RESIDENT OF FINCASTLE EXPIRES WEDNESDAY EVENING William Andrrson Dodd, life-long resident of th* 1 Fimastle community, died a* his home southeast of there, at 6:10 o’clock Wednesday evening following an illnos- of ten days due to complications. Mr Dodd wh- born Aug. 1, 1874 on the, farm adjoining that on which he died .He was the son of John H and Anna Dodd. He was never married. The survivors are a sister, Mrs. Lon Lookabill.and a brother, Brode Dodd, both of near Fincaatle. Services were held at 10 o’clock Friday morning at the Dodd home, with the Rev. C. L Airhart, of Crawfordsville. officiating. Burial w-as ut I the Roachdale cemetery.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass., July 22, Governor Franklin D Roo-ovelt will open hi- presidential campaign w ith a speech at Sea Girt, V J , August 27. lames A. Karim hi- campaign man-
ager, announced hete toda\
WASHINGTON, Jul 22, fUP)— I he navy depaitment w i advised tot lay that a gcup nf Nicuaguan in--urgents had i ,<-( two store.- in western Bluflied-, p i • in Nn uvgua, killing right empl ye Three of the lead w*re thoug t to have been Brit-
ish.
HARRISBURG Pa July 22, (UP) |—Barney Go leski. 31 elf nfcsseil j slayer of hi- three small children, I fashioned a n cue out of his shirt, | jumpe 1 from his cot and strangled himself to death, Dauphin county jail
' officials announced today.
OSSINING, V Y., July 22, (UP) — ! Three men were pti* to death in the electri’ chair in Sing Sing prison List night within the pace nf 17 minutes The trio, Luigi Riffa 1. 11 k»t?ff and Frank Mayes, all of New York City, went to their death stoically. COQUILLXRS GOLF COURSE. South Bend., Ind., July 22, < UP)— Mrs. P K Skillern of South Bend today won her first Indiana woman’s golf championship with a 2-up victory over Alice Belle English. La. fayette, twice runner-up champion.
FORMER RESIDENT DIES Relatives have ie eived word of the death if Mrs. Harriet Talbott of Dan - ville, 111., Thurs 1 iy. The tody will ho brought to Greencastle Sunday morning and sh"r‘ funeral services will be held at the grave. Dr. S. B. Town will be in charge. The family formerly lived here She died at the home of h r daughter, Mn- BUika* Talbott Parr w.