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CrREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1932.
NO. 250
64 IMPRISONED MINERS RESCUED BY GUARDSMEN
ONE WOMAN IN OROl’P BESIBI'. ED IN DIXIE BEE SHAFT NEAR TERRE HAUTE
UNDER FIRE FOR 29 HOURS
State Troopers Take Wounded Men To Hospital- Soldiers Arrived In Nick Of Time.
TERRE HAUTE. Aur 4. (UP)— National guardsmen rescued 64 grimy hunger weakened men including four wounded and one woman early today from the Dixie Bee coal mine where they had been besieged by 3.500 angry union pickets for nearly 48
hours.
The line of pickets surrounding the bullet pocked mine property melted away in the darkness as the 250 troopers approached. Firing on the mine continued until the guardsmen were within fifty yards of the scene. The powder-begrimed band of mine defenders told the troopers they had
arrived just in time.
"We had given up hope of a rescue," the miners said. “Our ammunition was nearly exhaused and the fire from the picket lines had grown more fierce. If they had attacked us
miners claimed to have wounded sev erul of the snipers with nlle fire and bombs. I he national guardsmen rode into the four mile area which has been proclaimed under military rule but not martial law in the same busses that brought them here. A the troopers approached the mine scene, the asnes of recent camfir-s could be seen glowing in the urkne-s. An occasional shot rang out in the direction of the mine. No pickets were seen by the guardsmen, but it was evident many of the men who ha-i it. j the mine still were in the vi-inity hiding in the darkness. The miners said a terrific attack (Continued on Page Two) TROOPS PASS THRU Cm ON WA> TO MINK
THREE HI S | (IADS <)1 (iUARDS MEN ENKMUTK TO RESCUE OF MINERS
MINKR TELLS OWN STORY OF SH AFT SIEGE
JAMKS.F. LYNCH DIES
James F. Lynch, 56 years old, brother-in-law of assistant postmaster Ernest Stoner of Greencastle, died at his home in Laramie, Wyo., Thursday morning at 1:30 o’clock, ac-
I cording to a messagge received b>\ BUGLE NOTES “SWEETEST MU- Mr ' Sto,,er an,i ° lher r ‘ !lati ' es hc,< ’- SIC’ WRITER EVER HEARD ^ rs ' I ' yTU ' h 18 a dau K h ter of Mrs. lib pFCI \l!FS Mary Stoner, residing west of Green-
i castle.
Mr. Lynch had been in failing health M \ l> E D ^ N A M I I E BOMBS f, )r sf)mo time and his death was not unexpected. He was well known in
OGDEN RULES TWO MEASURES ARE INVALID
AUTO LICENSE AND GAS TAX BILLS UNCONSTITUTIONAL SAYS ATTORNEY GEN.
BOTH ON GOVERNOR'S DESK
Several hu- loads of nation'll guard troops from Ladoga, Delphi and Darlington. enroiit" to the rescue, of be Sieged miners in the liixi,. Ree mire at Terre Haute, passed through Greencastle late Wednesday evening. The troops did not stop in this
Arrival of National Guard Forces Timely as Ammunition and Morale of Defenders Were Low
again, we could not have beaten them < '*- v f° r
c ff« i Other national guardsmen enroute
! to the -<ene of t ie mil e trouble passed west on the National road lute Wednesday. It was slid everal citing places on the highway were clean rd out by the troops when they made
I stops.
The troops passim, through Putnam
The four wounded men, struck by bullets in one of the fiercest exchanges Tuesday afternoon, had re ceivcd no medi al treatment until the
guardsmen arrived.
They were John Fulman, 31, Terre Haute, shot ill the side and dangerously wounded; Len Grossman, 21, Terre Haute, shot in the leg; Gerald | Grable. 27, Sullivan, shot in the right knee, and Elmer Bedwell, 26, Sullivan, shot in the left arm. The men were brought to a hospital
here.
The miners were nearly exhausted after being under fire almost continuously they sai I, for 29 hours. Every man was armed with a rifle, revolver or shotgun and stacks of had made dynamite bombs were piled ready to throw a* any’ pirk“* who ventured too close to the mine property. The entire group had been deployed in the defense of the various build-
ings.
The mine buildings were riddled
with bullet hol'-s. Twenty-five auto- ! his cabinet mobiles which had brought the men 1 ically and
to work the morning the siege begun w’ere torn and battered by the heavy
The following description of the siege of the Dixie Bee coal mine during which 64 miners stood off 3,500 pickets for 29 hours in a terrific exchange of rifle fire was given to the United Press by Haloid MdFadden. Sullivan, Ind , one of the mine defenders. PIMENTO, Ind., Aug. 4.—The sound of the guardsmen’s bugle as they approached the mine this morning was the sweetest music I’ve ever
heard.
For 29 hours we had been under fire. Our amunition was just about gone. We were hungry. None of us had slept. The water from the boiler —all wp had to drink—had begun to make some of the men sick.
Greencastle having visited here numerous times, the last time in the summer of 1931. He wa> horn and reared in Danville. B< ides the widow he leaves a son Jack who attended the Greencastle schools and who has been associated with hi- father in the operation of a chun of motion picture houses in the wo t
Proponents Of Two Bills Seeking Ways To Save Measures From Ilefeat Today
F. T. 0*1 lair Dies After Short Illness
PROMINENT P \RIS, ILL., M AN GRADUATED FROM DEPAUW AND WAS WELL KNOWN
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 4. (UP) — Proponents of the two hills calling for diversion of half the auto license and gas tax revenue to local units, which were held unconstitutional in a report by Attorney General James M. Ogden to Governor Harry G. Leslie, were seeking ways today to save their measures from defeat. Both are be fore the governor. Upon the outcome of the struggle depends whether some $10,900,000 nowbeing spent by the state commission shall remain there .or go to the counties, cities and towuis.
FRESHMEN IN rj
DEPAUW DUE HERE SEPT.
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BK\ FRIDGE STREET CIRCUS The Little circus held on the Harry Foster grounds and composed entirely of children of Beveridge street was well attended Wednesday evening. It apparently was a success as 130 tickets were sold. The two oldest boys were 1:{ and 14. the two youngest, 4 and 5. Real talent was shown in the show at 7:30 o’clock which followed a south side street parade in
the afternoon.
Those taking part were Judy
Baker, age four; Georgians Parker,
tight-rope walker; Janet 'Baker, | ■ speaker; Richard Foster and Billy . Upperclassmen to Arrive in City on Sweet y. ball player ; Roland Lagle,' Sept. 9. ( lasses to Start clown; Junior Hutcheson, dancer and! Sept. 12 trapeze; Betty Heavin, gypsy girl.
Walter Foster, Carl Baker, Johnny j
M.nshall Foster and Jimmie
LARGER ENROLLMENT OF FIRST YEAR STUDENTS EXPECTED
» BY UNIVERSITY
MANY SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN
Fisher, Heavin 1 Ford.
gave an imitation of an old
GUARD SLAIN; I Will M)i;i) IN PRISON BREAK
Frank T. O’Hair, one of the most Veto g{ both bms by thf prominent men m publ.c and civic life in thejl . presen , form
in Paris, III., and one of the leading lawyers of eastern Illinois and western Indiana, died at 8 o’clock Wednes-
If the national guard hadn’t rescued ! * a >' evening at the Paris hospital folus today, we couldn’t have stood out ,ow ing an illnes of only three days, much longer He suffered a stroke Sunday ami was We had been rxneetinir trouble for I taken to the 'ho-pital Monday. Hi-
SEVEN ESCAPED ARKANSAS
CONVICTS DI't RIBED AS DESPERATE \LL ARMED
county were only | nt of the 1,000 troops ordered out In G i\ei or Harry | G. I>--Ii( Wednesdo afternoon fol-| lowing repeated app< iU by relativeof non-union miner besieged in the j Dixie Bee mine my union picketeis. Uhapin Named To Hoovers Gabinel
MICHIGAN- AUM* MAGNATE POINTED NEW SECRKI ARY
OF < OMMKRt E
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UP) President Hoover has -drengthene-l
at a critical time econom politically by appointing
Roy D. Chapin of Michigan o m cp
tary of commerce.
had been expecting trouble for ,
days but when we came to work' Tuesday .things didn’t look any worse than u-ual. Of course earh of us carried a revolver or gun. When we came jp from the lower shafts that
aftern on, hell broke loose.
The pickets wet“ all around us and they laid down a barrage. We rushed to our t.ition . and returned the fire. Some of our men dropped wounded •ind I saw several of those firing on
us fall to the ground.
That was just the start. Bullets kept whistling about us for hour.-. We didn’t lire mu. h because we knew if i it was a long su ge our ammunition 1
would run out
The night boss took charge of the defe- sc. He put 'line of the men to ( work making horn 1 of dynamite. We ■threw the.-e at sniper- who tric’d to crawl in dose and take potshots at us. | The worst spot w.c- the mine tipple. | The pickets directed most of their
governor,
was looked
upon as a virtual certainty, in view of the legal opinion Otherwise he had been expected to sign them, although they ran counter to his oftenexpressed opinion on expenditure of highway funds.
death was due to uremic poisoning
and cerebral hemorrhage.
O'Hair, a first cousin and intimate friend of Judg James Swango of Terre Haute, had many friends among the bankers ami lawyers of Terre Haute as well a Paris and commun ity. He was the senior member of the law firm of O’Hair and McClain and dean of the Edgar county bar. He was also a director pf the Illinois
Chambei of Commerce.
He had served one terrw-in-congress ifter the 1912 election. In hi- race for re-election the Hon. Joseph G. | Cannon defeated him by over 1.200 j votes. O'Hair was the only man who ever defeated “l ode Joe” Cannon for
congress.
O’Hair wa greatly interested in agriculture a- 1 ,-tock breeding and fee ling and > aid the farmers he agreed to reenter political life. At the time of his death he was the Democratic no ninee for congress. He
f the Democratic lead-
TUCKER, Aik., Aug. 4 (UP)—One
guard was killed instantly anil one wounded when seven prisoners escaped from the Tucker -tate prison
Camp No. 2 near here today’. The men, described as "desperate,”
stole all ammunition at the camp and
l nconstitutionality was claimed by urmed tlum-elves well before they Ogden on the ground that they vio fit-d on horseback for the woods All late provisions prohibiting the tat< gu n , . t wen mad< useless from assuming ( e debt »f any coun Else I . 26, guard, wa killed ty> town, township or corporation ,vhen he attempted to stop the break. The bills provide that local unit- may | || r w ., s (,„ t w j t j 1 ,>j s to|.
fire the tipple. It’s all shot to pieces.
The worst time came at night. Then ! ^ ad <,m
ers in Illmoi- ind had been a delegate
nearly eveiy
fire of bullets. i Chapin James Morris, night superintendent lindustiy
is an ace in the automobile
you couldn’t tell how close the pi had worked in. WeM fire a round or two just at random to m ire them off. When the airplane- -tarted to fly
at the mine who took charge of the miners' defense when the first attack
began, described the siege.
"I stationed nty men at each side of the property with instructions to withhold their fire except when the pickets approached so close there wa-
His appointment wa ai over yesterday afternoon wo thought
pounce 1 by President Hoover yesterday when he made known the resig nation of Robert P. Lament of Illi mis It wa - explained that Lament's private affairs required his attention. The ne csrity of ids getting back to Chicago gave Mr. Hoover opportunity
danger they would storm our posi- to bring i ow blond to Washington tion. [ Chapin is expected to take office in
“Part of the group was ordered to j about ten day s.
carry fresh ammunition to the men when the filing became heavy. We were engaged in as close a thing to war as could he imagined. “We had no food. The only water we had was from the boiler. We tried to care for the injured men as best we could but there was no medicine or dressing for their wounds. We placed them in the brick boiler house and stationed six guards there to protect them.’’ The miners said the pickets employed Indian tactics. Snipers would creep jp through the heavy grass and under cover of darkness to within 50 feet of the mine buildings. The
Chapin’s appointment i; significant for two rea n-. One is economic. The otlici i- political. Economic illy, the admini (ration believes the turn has come. It is afraid to make another optimistic prediction but hopes are going up daily. At thi- decisive time Chapin, an aggressive orea-izer, salesman and promotion m in. with business contacts extending far beyond the automobile industry, is brought into the department of commerce. His job is to stimulate activity and key up shell shocked business. Just before he wa- appointed, Chapin issued a statement predicting better times.
that meant the end of the fight. Instead it got wor.-c Apparently the picketeis were out to get us before the troops came r They started a terrific fire. Ic took nearly all the ammunition we hod left to drive them off when they started to crowd in closer. Each time a plane appeared the firing would die down. When the -hip flew away, it would start in again. All during the early evening that kept ,o>. We looke 1 for i big attack at dawn today and if we hadn't been rescued there wouldn't have been much chance for us. W \R SI | U ATKIN FAVORABLE GENEVA, Aug. 4, (UP)—Bolivia accepted aibitration of the Gran Chaco dispute with Paraguay today, conditionally, in a note to the League of Nations secretariat “I am quite satisfied with 'Bolivia's reply,” Jose Matos, president of the League council, -ni l. ’ The situation is now favorable.’’
to nearly every Democratic national
convention ho 25 years.
He w-.ns born in Grandview township, Edgar c inty, Illinois, on March 12, 1870. and was educated in the public schools of 'he county and at De Pauw univerMty where he was graduated in 1894. He took his degree both in the , 'e^e ( ,f liberal arts and law. Immediately thereafter he began the piac e of law at Paris, 111 , where he bad practiced ever sin -e. He wa. ma lied to Miss Ruth Huston. daug’itci of David D. Huston of Paris, in 19 '- and is survived by his widow and - i.iughter, Ruth FranceAshrr, of < icago; a son, Huston Harding OTI r of Paris; a grandson, Jackie Asher, of Chicago, a brother. W. S. O’Hait f near Paris, and a sister, Mrs. W I. Overstreet, of Paris,
France.
The funei d will be held at 4 o'-lock Friday afternoon.
use the diverted fund- in paying bonded indebtedness. Title- of the bills likewise were found faulty. Friends of the bills hoped that, in the eight remaining legislative days, they would be able to repair the flaws in both bills and obtain pas-age under suspension of rules. Unless they could be recalled, it appeared that an effort might be made to pa. them over the governor’s veto. In this re | speet it wa- pointed out that “saving I j clauses’’ would make both bill- effec | i tive, excepting for such portion- a-| might be found unconstitutional In the face of the opinion by Walter Myers, Dem., Indianapolis, speaker ot the house, that the bills could md he 1 recalled, efforts were considered to pass substitute bills, eliminating th objectionable provisions, and correcting titles, but otherwise remaining the same. It appeared extremely doubtful, however, that -ubstitute would have time to complete the leg-
islative circuit.
Orientation of DePauw University freshmen will begin Wednesday, September 7. “Freshman Week” will be of four days duration this year. Upperclassmen will not arrive on the campus until Friday, September 9, thus giving the first year students full control of the campus for two
days.
The freshman class is expected to be slightly larger than last year. ' More than 350 Rector Scholarships j have been granted to honor high ■ school graduates and registration for .rooms in the tive University dormi- ! lories indicates that all rooms will be taken before school opens. The fir-t day that the freshmen ar i rive they will be assigned to a counsellor by Dean L. H. Dirks. Physical examinations will he held in Bowman gymnasium under the supervision of Lloyd Mes-et.smith. Rector Scholar* will report to Dr. Henry B l.ongden, vice-president of the University and director of the Fountain A . peciM 1 freshman chapel is scheduled for 11:30 that morning with Pre-ideal Oxnam giving the address. Prof. F. C. Tilden will lecture on the u e of the University library in the afternoon and in the evening a concert and college sing will he hel l in Meharry hall under the direction of Dean R. G.
i MeCutchan.
The second day registration for classes will be completed and the placement tests for Engli-h Csonposition held. Those arriving on the campus will he given the opportunity to have their pictures taken, pas* physical examinations, make out class cards and receive instiuction on the
■ i | ■) I use of the library . Informal parties I IOJHOYY tH*! I hOUIKl W ill be held at the v/nnu dormi-
tories with fre-limen men is guests
during the evening.
On Friday the uppercl i nen arrive and will he registeied while freshmen are being given their
— psychological examinations. ImportJOHNSTOWN. Pi Aug 4 (UP)— ' ,nt meetings of freshmen men, freshI he second trainload of homegoing j men women and Rector Stholar s will i veteran eft Femdal. at noon l ”' held durin 8 ' ’ ' -• ’ today. There were 1120 in fourteen feature of rcgi-tr.itcm this year will day coaches. The train was bound for | **' twenty minute das.-e all day Sat-
St. Louis. Food will be given the men | urda Y
Officei from Pine Bluff, the state pentit-ntiary at Little Rock, and noaiby prison camps searched the
woods.
A po.-se took tile trail, headed by bloodhound-. Aft> r an al morning chase they ran the convicts into a field where they began fighting. Three of (he prisoner- fell .lead. Bonus Army \ ids
I R \IY> TAKE F\ '<»l PIERS OUT Of JOHNSTOWN, PA., EN-
ROL TK \A EST lop AY
ADMITS GIRL'S Ml RDFR
and other points en 356 in the first
Figure in Dixie Bee Mine War
B D. HI DSON TO SPEAK iB. D. Hudson will be the -peaker at the B. Y P. U. meeting Sunday evening. August 7. at 6:4a o'clock at the Fir-t Baptist church. MrHudson being an ex-school superintendent has had many years experience with yung people, and much experience peaking before the public. Mr Hud an is now a field repre-.-entiative of the Standard Oil Company and liv - in this city. Y'ou are al ; cordially invited to hear him
TRAVERSE CITY. Mich.. Aug. 1 (UP)—Francis Nash, 32 year old farmer, has confessed lie murdered 17-year-old Evelyn Sanford, a neighbor. according to police and prn-ecu
tors.
Prosecutor P. R. Von Spreekor, Sheriff George L. Oolyer of Mason county, (apt Earl J Hathaway and j Corporal ( alburn Munger of the state 1 police, heard his story. The officers had brought Nash here from Manistee late yesterday to ) avoid danger of mob action after it liecame known that the girl's body I had been found in a cottage whole Nash was i iretaker Nash pleaded guilty today to first I degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in Marquette penI ientian.
at Connersvill route. There were
train.
Officials of the B and O say that no bonus voter m trains would go eastward. It was presumed this order wa issued be< iu e all B and G trains 'eastward run through Washington.
in which all instructors will
meet all the cla • ■ . outline courses, assign texts and h "ns that claS* work proper i in la gin Monday morning. S«>|it(.|iiii,.r 12 with full periods and full leitui' The u<ual Sunday services will be held by the local
churches and the Univer ity.
HAMPTON FINER \! FRIDAY Funeral -ervicr- for Claude H imp
STO< K AT PAR ton who died Wtdie -fi\ muni g at
i the county hospital fr n inj udo. jus-
NEW YORK, Aug. 4 (UP)—Amer-, tsined Sunday when he i' ll from a icon Telephone and Telegraph stock cliff at Turkey Run '.it pork will reached par shortly afternoon todiy. j be held from the Stile villo Christian up 29 3-4 point from the low of the church Friday aft* nm at 2 o’clock, year which wa- set on July 11th. Pallbsarers and flowei girl- will be Meanwhile the entire market was ' members of hi high --hcol gradualracing ahead in a wave of buying, ing class.
Two million share had changged
hands at noon, practically assuring that the day’s trading would surpass Parti, 1 the previous record for the . ear, the slightly 2.700,000 share day of la-t Thursday, night.
THE WEATHER
cloud tonight and Friday: warmer south portion to-
The Dixie Bee Mine
The annual Stoner reunion will be held Augu-t 14 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar O’Hatr.
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
Left to right: Ralph Butler, superintendent of the Dixie Bee mine near Pimenta, and one of the ■ nonunion workers badly beaten nip last April; Deputy Sher-ff Samuel S. Mooneyham, one of the perBmanent guards; Charles Moss, bookkeeper at the mine, al o beaten up last April, and Deputy Sheriff L. mt>. Mooneyham (father of Samuel S. Mooneyham). another of the regular guards at the mine.
Mr. and Mrs. John McFarlane and Mr. and Mrs J. Denton have gone to Montana for a visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs.Roy Abrams are visit ng in Lowell. Mr. and Mrs C A. Kelly and dcughters. l-ecna, Vera and Lucille, motored to Monrovia. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hixon pent the day in Roachdale. Charles Rector was a visitor in Cloverdale. i
View of the Dixie Bee mine near Pimento, south of Terre Haute, where a force of I union miners armed with clubs and guns 1» s eged thirty-five nonunion workers and guard* Bee mine has been operating under a federal injunction and 200 union miners are awaitlTig trial in connection with the April riot in which 40 men beat up thirty-three nonunion workers.