The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 July 1932 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1 932.

NO. 240

CONFRONTED BY WITNESSES TO WHOM HE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE made remarks

STILL MAINTAINS INNOCENCE l" 0 County JaiL Where He Is Held In Default Of $1,500 Rond.

VON GRONAU FORCED DOWN REYKJAVIK. Icelan 1, July 23. (UP)'—Capt. WoltifaiiK von Gronau ind thiee companions were due hero toda\ from Seydi-fjord. where they were forced down late yesterday b\ had weather and a fuel hortaire. The flier and his companions hail intended to hop dire:t to Reykjavik Von Gronau is making his third flight to America over the northern route to Chicago, via Labrad r and Montreal. He left the Island of Sylt in the North Sea yesterday.

CITY SCHOOL STAFF NAMED BY OFFICIALS

FOUR VACANCIES FILLED IN GREENCASTLE GRADE S< HOOL OKGAMZA I ION

SCHOOL TO START SEPT. 12

tharles Query, age about 40 years, Irged in two affidavits with slanof the First National bank of rerdale, maintained his innocence irday morning after being confronted with several persons to whom ^lis alleged to have addressed slanjous remarks relative to the conof the Cloverdale institution. Juery was confronted with perwho said that he had told them |.,t the Cloverdale bank was only lying 5 percent on deposits last yjiri k and was going to close its doors 8a urday night. The hearing was held In the law library of the court house in the presence of Judge James P Hughes and several witnesses. Dew •'Vjjrd W. Smythe. cashier of the hank t; who filed the slander charges against Query, also was presentW After the various witnesses told of th' remarks alleged made by Query, th' defendant was given an opportunity to plead guilty to the charge but he refused to do so. saying that he diii not make any positive state ni» nts concerning the bank and hac only told the several persons wh< Confronted him that the information he was giving them was what he hai ■sard. jS State’s witnesses on affidavits filer’ gg-iinst Query are Paul Hurst, Carlyle Hurst. Willy Marks and Ollie Vaughn Query is held in default of $l,50f honcl on the two charges and must remain in jail until the Septembei term of court before he can be tried p inks over the entire state are in tprested in the prosecution of Query because rumors such a- those alleged . to have been spread by Query have ■resulted in the closing of several banking institutions.

THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight an I Sunday; slightly cooler tonight south portion; warmer Sunday extreme north.

C. E. KENDALL DIES AT HOME SATURDAY AM,

DEA1H FOLLOWS II I.NESS

PRACTICALLY YEAR'S

DURATION

WAS

RETIRED

No Changes In High School Faculty. Miss Talbott Principal At Second Ward Building.

The teacher organization for the local schools has been completed for the coming year, according to an nouneement of school officials.

Funeral Services Will Be Held Sun-

day With Interment In

larone County

Charles Edgar Kendall, 72, died at his home, 620 east Walnut street, Saturday morning about 4 o'clock following a serious illin - of nearly a year. He has been in failing health five years and death w i caused by arterio sclerosis. Hi- a retired

school teacher.

Mr. Kendall was born August 20, 1860 at Thomtown and married Miss Lydia Miller, al.-o of Thomtown,

There were four vacancies to be filled in grade positions due to the resignations of Miss Delilah Miller and Mrs. Frances Browning Allen in the Second Ward, Miss Etta A lams in the First Ward, and Miss Mary

Stark in the Third Ward.

Miss Esther Snider. Greencastle, and Miss Lola Neese, Reelsville, have received appointments to succeed Mrs.

TEACHER -^hen and Mi - Miller. Mi s Mabel

Thomson, Terre Haute, has been appointed to succeed Miss Adams at First Ward, and Miss Mamie Hollingsworth of Belle Union will go to

Third Ward.

All of the successful candidates are Putnam county girls with the exception of Miss Thomson, and all have had successful experience in city sy stems with the exception of Miss Neese. She, however, comes with excellent recommendations and i cei tain to prove herself worthy of the

promotion.

Miss Neese has had twelve ye >r experience. Miss Hollingswort i has had eleven yens experience, which

has be°n connected with the local c.hools for a number of years and her many friends w'II be pleased to learn of her well des-'rved promotion. At Third Ward Mrs. Flossie McCullough. principal, will likely take the fifth grade, on- that she formerly taught for several years. Mrs. Olive Baugh ran will in all probability, take the second grade work, the first grade being divi ied between Mrs. Ruby Hood an i MBs Hollingsworth. It is possible that the enrollment next year at Third War I will he such as to demand a combination of first and second grade rooms rather than the two first grade* as it is now organ ized. There are no changes in the High School oiganizatmn. The opening date for the local consolidated school ha been set for Septembi r 12. Thi date will avoid the usual conflict vuh the State Fair, which is -chedulel tor the week before- It will also ape the irregularity of the week Deluding Labor Day which falls on September 5

$211.111111 SUNDER SUIT IS FILED IN COI KT HERE

MATTIE M. HI T< HISON FILES AGAINST Fl,n\ ALEXANDER GREENt \STLE R. I

PLAN CREDIT TO HELP U. S. HOME OWNERS

Hume loan bank bill will PREVENT FORE(T-OSl’KF.s ON AMERICAN HOMES

BENEFIT SMALL B EVIDENCES

\fleets Only Dwellings Under $20,000. President Hoover Approves Contents Of Bill.

WASHINGTON, July 23, (UP)The government is mobilizing a potential $2,000,000,000 of credit to prevent foreclosure if American homes and to make it easier to build new

will advance initial capital of $125,-' RITPI7 000.000 te the home loan hanks. But W I j 11 nT l\ I a I la’llj

all member- of the banks will be required t .-ubsciibe stock and will

gradually repay this amount. Funds to he loaned will l>e raised

by the home h>un banks as needed by sale of notes and debentures. It is officially e timated the banks will be able to advance $2,000,000,000 within

two or three years.

The home loan measure carried a rider authorizing a $995,000,000 expansion in national bank currency. Mr. Hoevcr opposed this, hut was advised by the treasury “that in the practical working of this provision it will r.ot result in inflation.’’

BILL UP FOR PINAL READING

HOUSE MET IN SPECIAL WEEKEND SESSION TO CONSIDER

PKOHI QUESTION

NO VOTE UNTIL NEXT WEEK

Absence Of 17 Members Of I^ower House Of State Legislature

Delays Final Action

SCOTT COUNTY UWk ROBBED: FOUR SOUGHT

And all of it, under terms of the j home loan bank bill signed late yes- I

- relay by President Hoover, i* to go BANDIIS \\ol NDFD ( \SHIKK IN to the aid of the owner and builder OBI X1NING $4,300 1.001 Al of small and medium sized home# S( o I ISBl RG FRIDAY

The act specifically withholds bene-1

fits from homes costing more than 1 j possE

$20,000.

Mr. Hoover expects the project indirectlv “to immediately increase cm ployment” by stimulating new building. He said a commerce department survey showed some localities could undertake $500,000,000 of home con struction if financing could be arranged. 'The home loan plan thus

M\KES SEAK( H

Four Officials In Bank When Holdup Takes Place. Revolver Shots

Are Exchanged-

IS AN UNUS1 \l,

ImliaJtaprdis Attorney Files I nusual ( omplaint In Putnam Circuit

Court Saturday

SCOTTSiBURG, Ind., July 23, (UP) —Four bandits who robbed the Scott County State Bank and wounded the

will tie in with th.- new unemploy- | cashier late yesterday were sought

I Cars Damaged In Crash Friday Nighl

S I EW ART RICHARDS ANI MARCH HAMILTON DRIVERS OF COLLIDING VEHICLES

Two cars were damaged, and on. of the drivers was slightly cut anr bruised, when the vehicles sideawip ed just south of Greencastle on Stab Road 43, about 11 o’clock Frida) nightStewart Richards, oast Franklii s'icet .driver of one of the cars, wa. nd to have gone to sleep at th. v heel of his car, causing it to side wipe a car driven by March Hamil ton, who wa.- driving south on the state road. The accident occurred near the front entrance to Hamilton’: h- me, it was reported by police who investigated. Richards was said to have beoi brought to the office of a physicist where slight scratches and bruise, weie attended. TWO BEATEN TO DEATH BELLEVILLE, 111.. July 23, (UP) - Apparently deranged, John Kerch ner, 56, retired mining engineer, beat his step-danghter and her four yearold son to death with a gas pipe a; (hey slept today, then ran into the street and shot himself. Kerchner's wife said Kerchner had quarrelled frequently with the step (laughter, Mr.-. Virginia Taggart, e recent divorcee, because she refused to heed his protests against her boy friends.

April 17, 1888. The .me year he has included such city systems .-. Hn went West teaching in a government bart. Gary and Marion. Miss Snh v (i| school for Indians in Oklahoma and is well known to Greencastle peoph. in the public school • of Kansa His She ha- made a pronounced sue.--early education w-a received in the i of her work in (he Indianup.di public schools of Boone county and in , schools for tin past six years. Mi--the old Westfield A.adcim of which Snider was int- iv-te.l in coming to he is a graduate. He served as n Greencastle, making a con-iderable teacher in the s.-h -Is of Boone eoun- salary -acrid to In so in order to ty for many year-. b** ehl 0 to live with her mother. Miss In 1913 he brought his family to Thomson has had i\ year- expci Putnam county for 'The purpose of ' ience. the pas: fivo of• which have

educating his four children, all of been in Ferre H.uit. She i- a grad- " l l " win!, tl •

Floy Alexander Greencastle R 4, defendant in a $2",000 slander suit filed against her in the Putnam circuit court Saturday morning by Mat-

( OMPLAIN I inent relief program in which $1,500, 000,000 is to be loaned for larger con

struction projects.

Here is how the new home loan system will help -mall home owners: A system of eight to twelve discount hanks will he -et up.

throughout the surrounding hill territory near here today, after it was reported they were seen traveling

northward on state road 3.

A large posse, including state po lice and officials of neighboring coun-

theii the search, guarding

members will be savings banks, build- ■

. . Sheriff Wilhur and loan associations, insurance com-

panies and other institutions which loan money on homes. A man has a mortgage of say $1,000 on an $8,000 home. The mortgage is due but he cannot pay. The building and loan association may say it would like to oblige him but it is hard pressed too. It threatens to

foreclose.

Now under the new home discount bank system, the building ami loan association "''f he able to take that mortgage to the home loan hank. It

whom were graduated from DePauw uate of Indiana Stai Teachers col- Deatment all. ad received at a hos- w j|| advance up to 60 per cent of the University, three with Phi Beta Kap- lege and has carried ’lenal work in I''*' 1 ,amount of the mortgage- And the pa honors. He taught for a time in primary education in tie University The complaint for slander is unus- building and loan company thus will the schools of Putnam county but of Michigan. All of h ■ credential ual and one of the few that has ever |„. able to extend the mortgage has been retired for the last fifteen are of the highest ord. md -he has been filed in (he local court. It mav -lead of foreclosing, years, been rated as one of tl- L-t primary romc up for 'rial at the September The new system simil iily will mak. Mr. Kendall was reared in the instructors in the i'< Haute term which "pens September 26, un- funds more easily available for eon Friends church but on his marriage tern. h-ss it is sett d or dismissed before struction of new homes.

According to the complaint the Hutchi-on woman alleges that the defendant on July 4 in a certain disc iur-e and in the presence of other prisons falsely spoke of and concerning the plaintiff certain false and

defamator word

One of the al ■ ge.l slanderou- remarks concerns) relations with a

other was relative to

\mick, who called

the posse, was notified that an auto similar to the one (hah the banditused. was seen near Underwood. Amiek also was notified that an auto similar to the bandit car was found abandoned a few miles from here. R liert Blunt, ca-hu r, was injured when he resisted the bandit . who obtained $4,397. Blunt was beaten lown by a gun butt when he attacked one of the bandits. He seized i gun and fired ggv^gal -hots as they fled. A -h t fifed by the bandits struck

Blunt in an arm.

\\ H. Montgomery, pro- nt. and two bookkeeper-, Mi Margaret • ” Swan ,u;d Miss Hazel Gilh -pie, were

became a member of the Method! t church. He was quite active in church work serving at various times as a member of the official board, as church treasurer and as Sunda; school superintendent. He is survived by his widow, four children, Raymond M. Kendall of Evansville, iMorris Kendall of Pittsburgh, Pa., Mrs Oliver Washburn of New York ( it;, and Miss Helen Ken dall, who is secretary to Dr Henrv B. Longden. One brother is also living, Dr. Addison Kendall of Great Bend, Kansas. A short funeral service will lie held at the re-idence Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock after which the body will he taken to the Friends church at Sugar Plain near Thorntown where services and burial will be held at 3 o’clock.

Many local peoph' will be interested that time. Piesident Hoover in signing the to learn that Miss Susie Talbott ha- The suit wa filed in behalf of the I measure made clear that the governbeen named to succeed to the princip plaintiff by h.ilph I). Thrasher, at- ment itself is not going into busialship at Second WaM. Mi-- Talbott torney of Indimapolis. ness, 1 he reconstruction corporation

“Keep Cool with Coolidge”

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

Je*?e Wells is driving a bus foi Harry Collins. Mr. Wells formerly drove for the old Belnap hotel and it looked natural to see him on a bus

again

Charles Gautier of North Vernon lithe guest of his uncle, Conrad Gautier. Mr. and Mrs William Sutherlin and son are visiting relatives at Russell-

Gang Guns Kill DrpiitN Sheriff

CHICAGO OFFICER Vl( TIM OF MACHINE GUNS MANNED BY GANGSTERS

CHICAGO. July 23. (UP)-Jack A Werner, 28, deputy sheriff working n a detail gathering gambling evi- ^ tence for state’s attorney John A ^ Swan-on, was slain by machine gun fire near midnight la-t night. A burst of machine gun fire from r travelling squad of gangster snipers cut down the deputy as he was driving in his automobile on the routh side. A young woman who ar- I rompanied Werner in the car escaped with a -light wound. Police believed it probable Werner was slain by gangsters against whom he had been gathering evidence in Swanson’s cleanup of gambling places. Another theory was that th" deputy was the victim of mistaken

identity.

Officers had no due to the identity of the killer- w-ho disappeared aftor conducting the killing in typical gang

ville.

J. Fenwick Reed and son left today | fashion. on a trip through northern Michigan — Mrs- Robert L. O’Hair was a visit- Richard Harlan of Gary is here vit or in Indianapolis. j .ting relatives and friends-

al " in the institutimi when the ban-

dit- robbed it.

JIM Ki) YOUTH KIM S HIGH St HOOL S\\ EEI HEART; SELF ■ HICAOO, J 23 (UP) HumUited by tne high hool girl he loved who jilted him because he was a ! cripple, lleilull Souther. 21, shut and killed Mildn d ( ar, 17. and fired a fatal bullet into hi- brain as his successful rival looked on. The girl wa kill" instantly and Souther died a few hours later today

in the hospital.

F"r everal months the youth ha i courted Mildred, hut her parents oh jerted Ik cause he wa- crippled and the girl repulsed i- attentions. After watching her home several day-. Souther came upon the girl as she -trolled down the -treet with Harold

Peterson, 19.

“He’s just an old sweetheart of mine,” the gill told her escort when Souther came up. A moment later the youth drew a revolver an i fired the two fatal shot-. Fred F. Fulls Passes \wav

P N U E M ON 1 \ CLAIMS WELL know \ CLOYEBD M E RES!* DEM FRIDAY NIGHT

INDIANAPOLIS, July 23 (UP) — John F- Ryan, Dem„ Terre Haute, chairman of the house public morals committee, announced shortl;. after the house convened this morning that there would be no vote on the Weiss bill for repeal of the Wright “Bone Dry” law\ Ryan said final consideration of the bill was postponed because 17 representatives were absent. The bill, which would place a tax of 50 cent- a pint on medical whiskey will be voted upon next week, Ryan

said-

INDI ANA POLLS. July 23. (UP)— The house met in special week-end session today to meet a crucial test on prohibition. The Weiss bill, providing for re peal of the Wright “bone dry” law and placing a tax on medicinal whisky, was up for final reading. If passed, the bill will be sent to the senate which todav followed its custom of adjourning from Friday until Mon-

day.

There was a pos.ibilits that sup porteis of the Weis- bill might decide there wa- not enough wet votes in the hou-e ami defer a vote until Mon-

day.

If passed, the bill would repea 1 the Wright law and set up a new schedule for liquor law enforcement in Indiana. It would nermit manufacture of medicinal liquor under federal license and tax it at 50 cents a pint. Penalties for illegal manufacture, sale, transportation or posse-don are set out. Representative John'F. Ryan. Dem , Tene Haute, sail last night he believed therf WiiuM he enough votes in the house to a--ure pa -age of the

hill.

A similar repeal bill is pending in the senate, sponsored by Earl Rowley, Rep., Elkhart. Rowley - dd, however, that he would m t call his hill down for a vote in the senate until after that body i n-ider- the proposal sent over from the house. In previous tests on the Wei— hill, on introduction, coo mittee report and second reading. ■ • uni-e has been divided about 55 t" 15 in favor of repeal.

Fred F. Fultz, age 73, Cloverdale plumbeu pa-sed away at his home in Cloverdale. Friday evening at 7 o'clock, following i five da.vs illness of

pneumonia.

Mr. Fultz who had been a resident ' ofj Cloverdale for 50 years was a charter member of the K of P. lodge. He is survived by the widow, two i daughters, Mr-. Bert Hamilton of | Cloverdale and Miss \N aneta Fultz of Akron, Ohk: and a -on Ray Fultz of Bloomington. A -ister Mrs. Amanda Duncan of Greencastle and two broth- , ers, (ieorge of Salem and James of ; Aurora, also survive-. Funeral services will be Sunday af trrnoon at 3 o’clock at the M. E. church in Clove of de. Burial will be in Cloverdale cemetery.

GOLDEN (.AIK VETS PLAN TO STAY IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, July 23 (UP) — The little legi n of ( ililorma bonus army veteran- who engaged in a dramatic [ticket of t e , apitol a week ago deseited their leader-hip todav in i refused to j arti: ipatc m a proposed political barn-tonning tour of the country. While thiii rippl'd \ ailor 'ea Ier, Roy W. R diert.-on. planned to leave ahum during the ny for Los Angel "-, the h ilia Duel of the 'Meath watch” battalion refused to leave the city and indicate I t e\ would remain here until next Thursday at

least.

Thirty-five Di-trict of Columbia trucks, stocked with food, were detailed to take Rob it.-on men cut of the city in accordance with hi- plan to engage in a political tour. Robertson's or lei to take the road went unheeded. Hi- 3"' men refused to accept the police lift to Frederick, Mi., 'he first stop on a prop ad tr^k by autoim.bile ind box iat to far flung points throagh-ut the nation “We’ve got to stay urnund here ind get loan- on our ulju-tet service ertifi ate*,” aid Arthur S-ott, Los \ngeleg veteran. “We’ll be cot of oere by next Thin day, though." S "ott succeeded Robertson to the iimmand when Robertson made his farewells bet."" •arting to Los An-

geles.

FARM KN< \l‘|

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Elmer Stevens, 31 of New Alban.., end Robert Owen-, 58, colored, of Vanderburgh county, both escapes of the Indiana State Farm, were sentenced to seive 1 to 5 years in the state prison at Michigan City by

—— special judge John H. James in cirJesse D. Hughes of Gary ii'visiting I cuit court Saturday afternoon. Both Dr. and Mrs T A. Sigler, 205 West; pleaded guilty to escaping, Stevens Poplar street. , I on July 22 ,ar.d Owens on July 18.