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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1932.
NO. 270
five suffer KNIFE WOUNDS; WOMAN SOUGHT
ClITING SCRAPE MONDAY MGHT AT BENNETT HOME IN COMMERCIAL PLACE I KNIFE WIELDER IN GETAWAY
Attack Victims Rushed To County Hospital Suffering Considerable Loss Of Blood
As a result of an altercation at the home of Mrs. Lillie Bennett in Commercial Plate Monday night, five persons were stabbed and ..lashed by a knife allegedly held by Miss ICiby Douthitt, who escaped in the darkness and was being sought Tuesd < by Sheriff Alva Bryan and deputies. (he injured are: Mrs. Bennett, Pauline Bennett, Evelyn Bennett. Mrs. Maynard Alspaugh and Maynard A!"-)tatigh. AH sustained cuts about tho shoulders and arms. Mrs. Bennett's condition was the most seriou as- she suffered loss of a considerable amount of blood, due to the severing of a large vein in her shoulder. Howe>«r, a report from the county hos pital where the five were taken, stat cd that Mrs. Bennett was improved Tuesday morning and would probablv I ro ver unless infection or other complications set in. immediately after the attack, the f” e were brought to the office of Dr W R. Hutcheson and Dr. Gilbert Rhea. A large crowd gathered as the girls in the group were hysterical Tire physicians after a hurried in-
WIFE OF tUDV \ \LLEE . ( ONTKMPI, \ 11\i, DIVORCE NEW YORK, Au. :o (UP)—Rudy Vallee’s "one girl in the world” will start for California Inday with a one-way ticket p> i nitting a possible, stop-over in Reno. The former Fay W ■ 1,1,. w , 10 became the crooning star' > M< j, year a(?0j is "contemplating , divorce,’’ according to the glum anneuncement of the Vallee attorney, Hem an Bushel. "Mr. and Mis. Vallee have had marital difference .' Bushel said. 1 KILLED; 8 IN.MTJEH IN \\RE( k
FARM LABORER USES HATCHET T< I KILL WOMAN
FOR HOI'OVER
yoc.ng man admits brctal SLAYING OF WOMAN WHO SPURNED HIM
SCOTTSBURG, In Aug. 30, (UP)
-One per ion wa
jured, one critical :. n an a , idem
VICTIM WAS SCHOOL TEACHER
gomery county farmer, died recently |)| 4 \11? lICl.'IV in an Indianapo . pital from com- I Lj/nilEi I
plications that nsulted from an a\ woul d in the I s inflicted accidently
by his son.
Miss Jones is irvivcd by her parents and a brol e-r, Cecil Jones, employed by the li'dland Furnace i "m pany in Indiar moli.-, and a sister, Mrs. George C.M.k, of Birdseye, at whose home ti. parent , had bcu
visiting.
' that-it t'l.ik me some little time to get
I down."
Molli op telephoned his wife, Amy John v ising her of his progress, and snd lm would talk to her again
ATLANTIC tod- Harbor Grave.
< APT. MOLLISON FORCED DOW N
BA S LORM NE \R Si DN I A
NOVA SCOTIA
Murder Took Place On Farm Koachdale. Breaks Ihrwn I nder (Riestioning.
Near
To Nanie Now Tax Board Mrinhers
Jl IH.p HUGHES TO NAME
THREE AND ( OCN I V Cul NCIL TO CHOOSE THREE
speetion of their wounds, rushed the
knife victims to the hospital, where i uiittre fhe
■'ith the aid of Dr. Wiseman, surgeon, they concentrated their efforts or Mr?. Bennett in order to save her
. frvm bleeding to death
Sheriff Alva Bryan was notified of the trouble and went to the Bennett
I k Miss Douthitt had disappeared I Wednesday iiursnun a
and could not be loeaterl rluring th* night The. sheriff was of the opinion that the woman had used a razor in h'r attack. One of the girls w ho wn a victim of the woman’s fury declar-
ed rmed S' com Knife.
According to March Hamilton, a vitne.'s to the affair and who was qj'zzei by Prosecutor Marshall Ab-
CRAW FORDSVILLK, Ir.d Aug. 30' —Morris Green, 32 year obi farm la I
near here in whi h four automobiles 1 l,oier ' confessp d last night. Sheriff figured. L- Bowers said, that he hacked j Xiah p und . ng MUe ■ Mi - Lila Jonea, 38, taken to a Louisville hospital Miss! teacher ’ ‘ lurin> ' a stru KK ,e that fo1 Helen Layton, 17, Madison, was in a lowed 1,is * ttem P t to ,otce his :l ""' critical con lition in a i.nui-ville hos-i tion3 upon her at her farm home , " >ar pital. None of the other injuries herP y ester,,a > r mor,lin 8were serious Miss Jones, who had taught at the
Joseph Moore school at Richmond for the la-t four years, died Monday afternoon, several hours after young Green had reported finding her mutilated body in front of her home She had been hacked four times with a hatchet and officer.’, said bruises on her body indicated she had been kick-
ed and beaten.
Green, employed near the Jones farm, said he went there this morn ; mg for a tool kit. The young woman
Three members of the county coun- was a | 0I|e at home> her'parents hav I the new tax adjust- j n>? gl)l t() Hi r .| ?f ,y P| j n Dubois coun-j
ty, for the weekend. He talked with Miss Jones for a time, Green was quoted by officers as saying, and finally attempted to force iris atten-
tions vipon her.
z>he struggled with him, according to Green’s confession as related by | officers, and fell off the porch of the home ento a concrete walk, the fall inflicting a scalp injury. Green said, according to Sheriff Bowers, that he became enraged and decided to strike
INDIANAPDI Is u\ ESTCX K Hogs li.aOO; htrhl. vers 224; 'eady t r 20c off; most 1" on lights and mi derweights; Ifih t. 2K0 II,-.. yi.3(i to $1.40; 2X0 to 3!- | i Hr $U0 to $4.2.,
100 to 160 lbs sows $3 to $3 7.,
Cattle 2500; Calve 600; steer supply excessive, , biding nun , ms loads to sell fr. n $s to $!•; Iietter kinds lielii arourel - '.50; none here to command e.xtreni, value; ill Imyr r , going slow wit irearish ideas; she stock little chan several iv ifers above $7; low grade $4. to $5.25; most cows $2.5< l $4; practical t,,,r $4.50; low tilth and cutter 1.27 to $2.25; veal idy to $7 dowi Sheep 2300; I: . around 25. u . good ewe and w thers largely ,, v eral $625; Iruek 1 off; throw at
down to $3 and below.
Will OHrml Bui (loiitnils lli<l<lrn
HUTt HINSON FAMILY ALOFT
Start Flight Across North Atlantic Via Greenland, According To Telephone Reports
cil to serve on
merit committee created by the recent session of tire state legislature, will be named when the county council convenes in special os-ion here We i_ nesday In addition to naming three of its. members to serve on tho com-
council will p-ake defi
:’ency appropriation *re.n the coun-
ty gc.rtral fund.
Three other members of the tax committee are to be named b\ Judge James P. Hughes. He is expected to
name these three appointive members | her with the hatchet. Then he report-
tin 1 board to officers he had found her body
members are to he -elected before vvhen Ire went to the Jones home to
September 1. Tire county auditor borrow the tool kit.
serves as secretary ol the board. He was immediately taken into cusTho tax adjustrm lit committe was tody and held for -everal hours be created to take care of situations | { ore Sheriff Bowers and other offi where officials of faxing units appeal 1 c^rs questioned hint last night. The for a higher rate than i permitted confession came, Sheriff Bowers said, under the $1.50 tax limit law. Five after about 15 minutes of grilling members of Lie committee can refuse fhe young farm laborer indicated he
ra'i.' Fuesday morning, he was at the j to allow an increase over the $1.50. w-oold plead guilty, linw. r assoited. Bennett home when Miss Douthitt - rate if they reach the conclu ion that Th/ 1 habhot with ■ ici. ffjeer
j this rate should not he exceeded In said Green confes.-e l tnking Mievent the committee grants an in- Jones was found in r am at the
J crease I rate, ten taxpayers who may i f arm . Sheriff Bower ,id it had been
he opposed to mch increase- can ap- washed, apparent!' to r ..nve blood peal to the state tax board. stains, and was still imp when he arrived to investiga* the killing.
Green’s father, Vm wi a Mont-
MONTREAL, Aug. 3fl (UP)—Tire "Flying Hutchinson” family left Port Monier, Anticosti Island, at tl;05 A M. (EST) today on their flight across the Atlantic via Greenland and leeland, according to a message received by the Canadian Nation Telegraphs. A’DNEY, Nova Scotia, Aug. 30, (UP) ('apt. James A. Mollison [ilanned to take off today for Harbor (trace, Newfoundland, starting place for hi.; aerial jaunt back home in
Europe.
The gritty little Scotsman, first to make the westward crossing alone, flew to Sydney from St. John, New Brunswick, late yesterday. He en countn-e I such a severe storpi during tire last 70 miles that he hari to land on a farm three miles outside the ' it' it was tht> third time since he left Britain that he has been forced
to come down in a pasture.
Dense fog made it impossible for him to find the Cape .Breton airport in Sydney. • He Vniisr-rf over this area
n 1 ' ' i for an hour before bringing his little 1 "" ", p ' "" monoplane, the "Heart’s Content” to u 1 1 ' 1 a -afe landing in a field near the
o urt Monday at .stewart river.
itlr a $20,000 bond |
said to have been Captain Mollison’s plane was
named executor in the document. guardel Inst night by ( anadian Due to the i. t that Guy M ntin mounted police Today the trons-At and 1! sie Steer children of the tie lantic flier was t i have hi; motor
ceased, have fil proh.at of the X'
DOCUMENT FNFJFTED JAN
I ARA 24, 1U0. AA FI HHFI D AFTER HI ING OFT FRED
The alleged L
Martin, Cloverd ,
who Hied last v
pr drate in circs ’ ternoon together v
for Estes Dime
INA | | IGATE A Cl IDEM TERRE HAUTE, Ini., Aug 30, (UP) M , Munatt, 52, Chi. ago was being held re today pending an investigut i n hy state police of the accident i which Mrs. Katherine Wainor. . i linton, "a- injured fatally. Mi . AVainor was ri'ling in an antomobili ilii'en iry M’ John Naujok aitis. Ciinton, which crashed into the rear of a produce truck operated by Manatt. Airs. Naujokaitis was injured .-eriously. RAKER IS NAMED WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (I P)— The White House announced today that former secretary of war Newton T. Baker, would be chairman of a general relief conference which will meet here Sept. 15 to plan winter activities. WtilkiT Mriirinfi IVomlmv Held I iiLiir By Court
DE< ISION HOVA'EVER DENIES PEE A to II ALL MAYOR’S (M SI I R < ASE
YOUTH KILLED } . IN ATTEMPT TO BOARD Fh.
WILLARD SMITH 18, TRYS TO HOP TRAIN A1 LOCAL MONON STATION
( ARS PASS OVER BODY
John l.rndamood, I rude. Is AA it ness To Early Morning Tragedy In This City.
ALBANY, N. Mayor James against on ter new life today
Y . Aug. 30, (UP)— J. Walker’s fight charges was given bv a court decision
I (objections to the 1 I. it was not admit-
ted for probate i d did not l» nine a part of the court records Mond ry Sub. eiibing v, trie- es to tire rl leged will, exect; 1 January 24, It'JO,
cheeked in Sy ln»y, and replenish his fuel before taking off for Harbor Grace. He said he would head for England a* soon is weather (rermits 'Before retiring at the home of Dr. F reeman O’Neill, Captain Molli on
arrived. An argument followed and Hamilton told the prosecutor that the Bennetts tried to get Miss Douthitt I to stay. However, -he proceeded to ! wt her way out and Hamilton took 1 her to her sister's home east of the ody She would not stay there, he said, so he brought her back to Green castle and she got out of his car on L'e Bloomignton road just south of the Pennsylvania railroad tracks Hrmilton told Mr. Abrams he had not 'een her since and did not know " ere she intended to go. Hamilton told the prosecutor that he aske t woman what kind of a knife she n-’-d but that she refused to tell him.
PICKETS INCREASE
PLEAD NOT GUILTY
NEW YORK, Aug .30 (UP)—U S Senator James J. Davis, prominent in the Moose orde’r. and Theodore G Miller head of that organizaUons propagation department, pleaded rnt guilty today to two indictment?., charging them with conspiracy to operate a lottery and operation of a lottery. Tlu pleas were made before Federal Judge Robert P. Patter-on
are Neva ia 1
wofl.
A coni rover local court o',
dren alleging that the willow is not to receive any part of the estate because of a pre-nuptial agreement, while '.t is ireli' ved the will h avr her a share of tire estate said to amount to $13,000. 1 tie children allege their father wa in ipable ( ,f making a will at tire time ii was executed and that undue i 1 f I tie t • wa exerted in getting him to draw up the document.
anil (i. B. Rock told the United Pre.-s:
Iras developed the “ r lpft St J,,h " with {o « ^ the will, the two ehil-1 1P cna ' it ’ ,,,,t 11 was comparatively
clear inland. I was about 15 mile inland along the coast, but when 1 was about 20 miles south of Mongto’ . the fog started to drift inland. “I was forced to climb above the clouds and when I came out agaii
which denied a plea to halt the hear ings, but criti i?.ed the procedure as
“unfair.*'
Supreme Court Justice F'Jlis J St rley ruled agar . t the mayor, win .- ught to prohibit r. v. Fianklin D Roo.-evelt from removing him, in n 3,000 word inemor.iiulum handed down late yesterda' i'r.e governo' “is r* ponsible, n t t,, (In. courts, but tu the people a id hi- own conscience,’ tire justice held In • very other n pert, however the ruling seemed a virton for th' embittlrd may" . It appeared to up hold AAalker in (hie. major conten tion . i- follows; That the gove.ti i should have amm rned witne against t'.u mayor and allowed him to cross ex amine them insti id of ae epting th' ex pane testim before the Hof larUer legislati'i • ommittee, nr
Just a Museum Piece 1 ?*
Demands Chair For Wife Slaver
TAYLORV1LLE. III., Aug 30 (HP) I ket lines around two mines of th r r abody Coal Company at Langley d Hewittville, near here. »'ere in r, -ased today with the arrival of ners fiom Pana and Nokomis who i
' ight to aid local pickets in per- FATHER OF MRS. HI BF.R F MOOR s"ading the few men at work to quit INSISTS ON A LIFF. F3)R and join the protest movement again A LIFF, the new contract. ■ ■ ■ -
MARSHALL, 111., Aug 30, (UFA— The Rev. A. E Wrentmore, pastor of
— 1 the Christian church at Indianapolis, MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 30 (UP) i demande( | a pfe for a life today in' ^ bank messenger and a guard were | hjs ins j steru .. t it the state of Illinois
totbed of $21,000 in cash and 000 electrocute the man who killed his
checks today by three machine gum I daUK p ter
— J; ‘- A heavy automobile carrying] „ Thp f!eotri . c ' la j r , ton good for
bank MESSENGER ROBBED
-mdits
’• bandits forced the lighter ma‘une of the victims to the curb on McKinley avemue as they were on ♦heir way downtown from fhe Badger
State bank.
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meikel motorr d to Harmony and attended the
,r eet fair in progress there
Mrs John Cannon and daughter, dary r atherine, returned from a vis-
it in Gary.
Robert Newgent is confined to his
by illness.
C. iiayers was a business visitor 10r a
ln L'dianapolis. j Moor ha.- asked that he be impns (hermometers registered 92 n ned fer lif .■ and he allowed to pr
him; I’m opposed to life imprisonment,” declared Wrentmore when j told authorities considered recommending a life -entenee if Hubert C. Moor would plead guilty to killing his j wife, Marjorie, daughter of the min-
. ister.
Moor ,a 30 year old high seheol, teacher of Robinson, 111., confessed, authorities -aid, that he killed hi?
i wife on August 14 because of jeal-;
ousy over hi.- belief that she was j
1 better teacher than he was and re 1 ] sentment because she ,was not a good j housekeeper ]
The Rev. Wrentmore and his wife! hurried here when informed that Moor had co: fessed- Both said they
would fight the life imprisonment]
recommend*'.i n and demand
life ]
'R-v’rces in th#
a Itvmoon.
-hid., i-, 2 o>l'><-l»*hi
i his ‘VF W [ prisoners.
* n soi*iPt\” hy teaching
, .1 Fi. t" i, Nor , S otia. I flew whi< 11 ,hf ' ous, ’ ' '' ’’
over Piet m, • led utl " " • * ' ' IC P , * 1,
the lakes of Cape Breton. Wlien | ; a" '>
reached Syrlney the fog wa.- so thick! 1 ^ the g ' nr >i iv ceded hi power in holding tie mayor, row serv
ir the latti ’ '• to -econ ti r m, i-eountai)! f e' the ffii ial act of omissiona of his first term. I it charge- 'dating to “personal affairs,” not wit tin the cope, or af fe trg official i; tion, unles.- sur 1 ( amount to > r d tupritude," art prei lu led as gi eunds for removal
ALMOS'I A OIL I A TOR
BERLIN, August 30, (UP)—Presi ] dent Paul vnn Hi denburg grante J his chancellor, Franz von Papen, to 'day powers alni"-t of a dictator, ir I authorizing him to disband the Reich-
1 .-tag at his di^ reation
ANNOUNT E SPEAKERS FOR
I E '( HERS INSTITUTF
Speakers for the Putnam County , teachers' institute to Ire held in the , Greencastle high school auditorium i tomorrow wer announced Tuesday j i hy John C. Yermilli n, count' superintendent. They are Prof Earl Row ; : man, DePauw university. R W. Him- 1 elr k, Johnson Publishing company. ■ an i Slater Bartlow, state department of education. The Roachdale-Bain-1 bridge school hand will appear on the
i morni g program al«o
County school children will meet 1 at their respective -drools Friday for book lists and cIjss organization and i classes will beg n next Monday.
Willard Smith. 18, 2214 . heridan street, Richmond, was ground to dea’.lr beneath the wheels of a nrthbou id Monon freight train at the local sta tion at 6:23 o’clock Tue.-day morning. John Lindamood, 3.1. uncle of the boy, was a horrified witness to the tragedy. Smith, it was said, was unable to secure a firm hold on fhe fast rnov mg train md was swung under 'Ire wheel.-, fifteen cars pa mg over his body. One leg and arm "a - ground off and he wa , also parti illy decapi tailed Lindamood, horror stricken foe a moment by the tragedy, notified trainmen on the caboose and the train was brought to a halt. After a delay of a few minutes the train proceeded south and the body wa re moved to the MeCurry F'unertil lm r v Lindamood said he had tried to prevent his nephew from hopping the train and twice had pulled him i" ry from the fast moving cars. He sai I he turned away and started to walk back toward tire depot and looked around just in time to ee Smith make a grab for the rear of a box i av. catching hold with one h-md, then dipping under the wheel.. According to Lindamood he and hi( nephew left home late Mondiy •vening to hitch hike then wav to the home of an aunt, Mr \l in Smith at Wallace Junction Smith's father formerly lived at Quincy. Fhey arrived in Greeiicastle rfter aitching two ride on trick during (he night. They went to the Monon -tation Tuesday morning in an ef for to get the dispatcher to call tire vVallace Junction operator and have Alvin Smith di.ve here after ti" 1 Undawood said neither he nor his rephew had a dime between them. F’ailing they had walk ,1 down the -.tation platform "lien the f i.-.t movng freight went through. Leiith wanted to hop the train but Lindanood thought he had di nailed tho hoy. The accident .. lined near the. Madison street cro, m. The Monon train. No 69, was in barge of cond rct r John llehsley of l^afayette. Smith’s death i the fourth in the family in recent moi.ths I.indam id said. Last Decemhc, m older brut! ar died of tuhereul , in March ii nother died and in June In yo n.g irother was claimed by death Fi surviving are his fatlui William M Smith, who recently rffeia I two -trok s of apoplexy and a tit m i hree brother all of Richm ■ i The body will b t ik n to Hi nnord Wednesda'. af’ 1 n’ • m. THE AA I A I HER Fair and continued warm tor,ight; Wednesdav parti', cloudy.
Oral Saml\ L
Takm To
OMAHA ROADS PICKETED OMAHA, Neb Aug. .30 (UP)—
NAME ACCOM-
PLICES IN HOG IHFF F. IF
ANY AIDED HIM
Oral Sandy, ag- 7 y •»> -. ■''■•’ erlalr, was tak n 1 the Indiaiu -tate I tri.-op at Michigan (Tty Tui ' lr hy ! leputy .-I'eriff-, E lwar l F'.rte!; age | md Jame- Terry, where he " ill ■ i i- . me to ten years T r (hr al'egi > th>- f ’ of eight hog- from F. irl Wiley, Martion township farmer on Augu * 1' Sandy admitted the crime and waj sentenced by Judge Jam P Hughes in circuit court August 23. He has been held in the cmrnty uil by aut’h-
him in an
Moving stubbornly ahead with their ^ have qu. Moned plan, despite opposition of law effort to se-ure the nam.^ e h, , - , , ... , complices in the theft. Srndy, !u"v-
I forcement offuer. of two states,, 1 ever, has stea itastly rrfu. i' to gi e
striking farmer, today picketed every road leading into the Omaha market. Advancing under cover of darkness ' picket groups, in the hours before dawn, established their camps on
Nebra. ka high" a; w hich until today ! - ave caught ^ an.! had been held open to trucks. !l0 £ s - Hfc fooR the
oficers the name- of tho • wh, ire thought to have 'lelped him. Local authontie- uv it would have been impossihl? for Sandy alone to
loaded the eight ; to the fam of
Within a few urs tire new offen- Oe^vife U.iwi.e i r J. : • r- m t iwtasive was reflet • u on the Omaha ship but later returned them to Wiley (live; nock murk, t, where* only 300 when suspicion was aroused against sheep and 1,000 cattle w-ere received buti. He ha a wite and two , by truck. „ | viiildren in Clover dai*.
e