The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 September 1932 — Page 1
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increase in UNIVERSITY ENROLLMENT
CRERNCASTLK, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMR ER 10,1932.
NO. 280
Named tor Governor
NUMBER REGISTERED SATUR DAY 1389 AS COMPARED WITH 1198 A YEAR AGO men outnumber the women
Freshman Activities Ended Friday And Student Body Goes Through C lass Schedule
COMMERCIAL PEACE SCENE OP TROUBLE
‘HUMES HIGGINS CHARGED WITH ASSAUET AND BATTERY WITH INTENT
USED < I I li |N ATTACK. CHARGE
Alleged to Have Inflicted Injuries to Silas Morrison With Weapon Saturday Morning
WANTED The Welfare organization of Greenrastle, headed by C. ( . Gautier is appealing for supplies for young ar-l old at this time, because they believe many are house cleaning now and have clothing which (he) can dispose of to advantage. If anyone h;s any elothrr.g, especially for hoys of school age. they are asked to bring it to the office over the ( entral Bank or telephone Mr. Gautier, t Inthing in the form of shoes, stockings, under-wear or anything usable, will he of benefit at this time.
SUICIDE OF WOMAN LINKED WITH BERN
LEAPS TO WATERY GRAVE AS FI NKRAL Is HELD FUR FILM EXEC I TI\ E
KNOW N AS DttROI in MILLEI I E
A definite increase in the number j of students registering in the DePauw j I'niverMty college of liberal arts and • the music school as compared, with those on the same date last year re- j vealed Friday night in the report of Vera Worth, registrar. The total num- j her registering! at the university administration building Friday was 138'i j as compared with 1196 in 1931 and 905 in 1930. Registration will contin- , ue Saturday and the final report will j not be known for some time. Freshman activities ended Friday and the entire student body went i through the week’s class schedule | Saturday. The arrangement is new on ! the DePauw campus which has been planned wholly to familarize the students with their professors and to receive as ignments for the regular recitations and lectures scheduled to I
begin Monday.
Friday’s registration of 902 men as | compared with 485 women showed | the men students outnumbering the
en more than two to OtM. The greatest difference in the number ot DEATH TOLL 37 AFTER women and men students is seen in ON EAST RIVER BOA I the junior class. The difference is i NEW YORK comparatively less in the other three ;
Nominated by the State Republican •(invention at New Haven as randilate for Governor of Connecticut, former Governor John H Trumbull (above) will oppose Governor Wilbur L. Cross at the coming elections. Trumbull was described by one of the delegates as being “wringing wet” in sentiment. Senator Hiram Bingham, another wet, was enthusiastically renominated for the U. S.
Senate.
Charles Higgins, age 40 years, | Commercial Place resident, was ai-J rested at his home Saturday morning j by Sheriff Alva Bryan on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, as a result of an altercation earlier in the morning during which Higgins is alleged to have assaulted Silar Morrison with murderous intent. Higgins was lodged in the county jail to await arraignment on an affidavit filed by Grace Morrison, charging that he attacked Silas Morrison with a wooden club wdth intent to
kill him.
According to reptfrts to Prosecutor Marshall Abrams, Morrison is said to
Militia \irinen n. Badlv Injuml
Lived For Ten' Avars \s “Mrs. Paul Bern." Jean Harlow Pathetic Figure At East Rites.
mirror. San Fmn isco officers checked the woman activities while in the city, seking to h arn what communication she may have had wdth Bern or his representatives. The I've of this woman aid Paul Bern wa t Id by Henry Bent, who also gave In- views of the suicide and declared that “Dorothy Millette definitely ha nothing to do with the situation " Henry Bern had no explanation of the note which his brother loft. He said Mis- Harlow was told about Dorothy .Millette before the wedding.
ROBINS SEEN IN CHICAGO BY FRIENDS
OLD ACQUAINTANCES CONFIDENT THEY SAW MISSING CHI SADER THl RSDAY
POLICE SCOUR MINDY CITY
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 10, (UP) While police sought the body of Paul Bern’s "other wife.” believed to have j follow’ed the screen executive in selfI destruction, the veil was lifted today
PLANE ( KASHI - NEAR ( FIN ION f tom bewildering mil mysterious cir M UOK TAYLOR BEL1EA ED ,, umstdn( ,. s of Bern’s tragic end. the
I ATAI.EA HI Rf.
FOUR PROBES UNDERWA'I IN SHIP TRAGEDA
suicide which left his glamorous
— bride of two months, Jean Harlow, a
CLINTON, U|d Sept. 10 ( UP)—i widow
Physicians at the Vermillion county As the silvery-haired star, dis hospital said toda\ that Major Rich- fraught and weeping, attended the ard F. Taylor, commander of the IFF private funeral services for her th observation quadron, would not strange husband, San Francisco and live “more than i few hour- " j Sai ramento police were investigating Major Taylor was injured when 1 the reported suicide of Dorothy Mill- , plane he was piloting in patrol duty ette, one-time stage star who for te
ha\e gone to the Higgins home about r , ver the coal mine area crashed near yeai - curried the name of "Mrs. Paul t> o clock Saturday morning after a was brought to the Bern,” and who was the beneficiary of
16 year old daughter who Higgins | Vermillion county hospital here with a j his will.
wn.-i alleged to have kept out all night skull fracture and other injuries. But if mystery surrounded the dis-
It was said Higgins objecte i to gi\ Sergeant 1). B. Vickery, who was appearance from a Sacramento river plants it had taken for publication in ing up t le giil and in the aigument with Taylor, was reported recovering, -teamei of this woman in Bern's past, advertising matter was issued today state I he would kill the girl, Morrison pheir plane crashed from a few hund- it remained for Henry Bern, his by foreign minister Uchida after a
U. S. BANK IS ABSOLVED OF NIPPON PLOT
Hospitals, Hotels, Lodging Houses Uhecked. May Be Suffering 1 rom Amnesia Latest Theory.
PHOTOS OF JAPANESE INDUSI RIAL PI VNTS FOR ADV ERTIS-
ING PI KPOSES ON LA
ICHIDA ISSUFS STATEMENT • tears National City Bank Of ( barge
I hi t Photos M ere For 1 8
Mar Department
TOKIO, Sept ID, (UP)—A statement ah- King the National City Bunk of suspicion in connection with a son - of photographs of industrial
classes.
Increased campus activity was seen Friday night with the opening of the j fraternity rushing days. All fratem-1 I i\ houses were open for both dinner | lad evening engagements with the i
' first year men. The period ends Sun- —— day evening with the sorority rushing I NEW YORK, Sept, in. M l’ beginning Saturday night and cor.- j investigations of tin terrific
AVAS INSPECTED ON .11 EA .’Nil Investigators Hiai Reports of Over-
Crowding, I nsafe Practices And Other Dangerous ( onditions.
and himself unless the girl consented
to marry him.
When Morrison was said to have
PI. AST in.-isted on his daughter accompany\T > n K him home, it was reported that
Higgins seized a baseball bat and at tacked Morrison, beating him severely. Mrs Morrison later filed an affidavit against Higgins on which a warrant for his arrest was issued. The altercation is said to have occurred within a short distance of the
red feet when it struck an air pocket, i brother, to bru.-h aside the veil which conference with Joseph < lark Grew,
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Four explo
hid then life together.
The plane in which Major Taylor San Francisco police reported that and Sgt Vickery were critically in a woman who took the river steamer jured when it crashed near Clinton Delta King for Sacramento Tuesday Friday, circled over Greenrastle twice night was not aboard when the boat Thur.-day noon. The No. :t on the do ked at California's capital Wednesplane was cleaily visible to several | day morning. She had checked out of local residents a.- it was flying low, the Plaza hotel, San Francisco, Tues-
they reported. day.
She had lived there since May 4, M’KKE HEADS KIAA ANIS when he registeird a- “Dorothy Mill-
home of Mrs. Lillie M. IBennett when-I FRENCH LB K. Ind.', Sept. 10 ette, New York” She reserved a Ruby Douthitt is alleged to have (UP) Paul AA McKee, Hartfori stateroom aboard the Delta King sailseverelv cut Mr . Bennett and four J Gjty, today was elected governor of ing fur-day evening.
CHICAffO, Sept. 10 (UP)—The ; hunt for Raymond Robins, -ocial and , prohibition worker who di appeared en route to a luncheon engagement with President Hoover, wm redoubled here today when two friends of the missing man rej>orted they saw him
here Thursday.
AV. W Haupt, and old friend of th» prohibition crusader, told authorities he saw Robins and spoke with him just half an hour after the time he w'as reported seen by Mrs VAC Requa Bryant, another long-time acquaint-
ance.
The two meeting- occurred a block apart on busy State street Thursday afternoon. Haupt's revelation set police, department of justice agents and many of the social worker's friei ds to checking closely through the districts with which Robins was familiar here ..everal years ago as a svn’ial worker. Hospitals, hotels and lodging houses were scrutinized. It was believed Robin- might have come here iffer ing from amnesia. In such an event they believe it likely he might h i e returned to the tenement neighbnr-
United States ambassador to Japan. Ambassador Grew lui'i called upon the minister for a c miplete investigation into charge- published by the vernacular press that the photo
graphs were for foreign military use. hoods where he strove to bettei - onCertain Japanese believed the pic-j ditions in the years following the turn
tuies were taken to help the Amer-J of the century.
Haupt told police he wn positive the man) he met and spoke with w is
tinuing through Friday for one week ; 8 j on 0 f the ferry Observation, which F ,ust Miss Douthitt is now held of rush parties. Up to date all frater- ; previously caught file twice and ank in the county jail on a charge of asnity and sorority houses are opened I twice, tried to fix the blame today for ( , eult and battery with intent to kill
other persons in an altercation Au-1 i n( jj ana district Kiwanis clubs in con
vention here, on the second ballot.
for the school year.
RUSSELLVILLE MAN ATTEMPTS TO END LIFE
JOHN CARRINGTON. 75, (UTS THROAT. MIU. RECOVER HOSPITAL REPORTS.
John Carrington age 75 years, well known northwest Putnam resident, attempted to end his life Sat-
! the death toll ot 37 or more. I As the usual after-the-tradeg) in- ; vestigators began their work, reports of warnings, of protest against over- | crowding, of unsafe practices and of j dangerous conditions cropped out to make bitter the heart of grieving
relatives.
I But no actual knowledge of what l caused the 41-year old excursion steamer to blow up in the East river yesterday while loaded with 150 men going to work, was forthcomi g “It might have been dynamite, for
! all we know,” John L. Cl ne of the don't fed so badly ihout it U. S. steamboat inspection service. . , ,
' said.
j The steamer had been “thoroughly
FRENCH LICK, Ind., Sept, it) (l F
! following a not guilty plea to the |j M field My.*-. Anderson, today charge befoie Judge James P. Hughes wa „ p| e ,. tw | treasurer of the Indiana in circuit court. Kiwanis district at the annual con-
! vention here. He wdll serve for the
MOTHER KILLS TWO sons nth con.-ecutive year.
MILWAUKEE, Mi Sept. 10 (UPl Lieutenant governors elected are:
icua army in case it should bombard
Japanese cities trom the air. (.lew today asked for a formal
statement from th. imperial Japanese government repudiating such
(barges.
Sections of the Japanese press claimed that the National <'it> hank t ok the photograph- of industrial () ika for the Amen, in war depart
inent.
The intense ’suspicion of the mili-
— Mrs. Martha J‘>n. -. 41, wife of prosperous engineer, -hot her two sons to death and then killed herself with a revolver bullet t wlay in their fashionable home at AAhitefi.sh Bay. A note left for her husband .-aid: “It’s the only solution to our prob lem with Sonny and Jimmy and I
But (’apt. AV. J. Vtthog, the ves-el's master, reported that her lied was found undisturbed after the ship docked, that her clothes were heaped in confusion about the cabin, and that a pair of stockings and shoes were
found in the companionway leading l:ir y of all foreigners taking photo from her cabin to the ship's rail. in tph- in Japan; a possible effort by Authorities believed this indicated European business interests here to she had leaped to her death perhaps "rofit at the expense of an attack on
Division one, Arthur Jones. Elk shortly after the Delta King left San American bank, and resentment in hart; Division two, John Beamer. Francisco and darkness shrouded the j "ne quarters of the ratio of the yen Waha.-h- Division three, Arthur Sul slow flowing waters of the Sacra Gie American dollar combined in lins, Lafayette; Division four, J. E. I mento. .expanding the minor incident into a Watts, Anderson; Division five, Fred! Discovery of her clothes and the object of diplomatii protest.
V. (’hew, Bloomington; Division six, discarded shoes and stockings led to Walter Isiwe, Greensburg; Division the belief that she may have ended seven, Ben Curtis, Rockport; Division | her life unclad, just as Bern shot him- , eight, James N'evin, Bedford. I SP * f ' while standing nude before a
urday morning at the home ofhl* L ;| ^ „ July . ., ajghter, Mrs. Lora H. . c aug ey j en ^. everything was ship shape ln Russellville, In sla» mg is; However, the Ornamental Iron tkro,t . He is expected to recover, it ] WwkeJ Union w ho M memberi were was said. . , ■ I forced to use the ship because the Attendant* at the hospita in j 1T g U | ar municipal ferry was overCrawfordsville, to which he was , crowdedi hail protested 'that the Ob taken, stated that Carrington was, , ove r 01 owded, “unn an-
brought to the hospital about 11:30 1^ am| un> ,, iw „ r thy."
* m " suffering of cuts about the j ^ nd PtU rjneer whose name was • Although his condition mild ,. p,, wn* quoted by ft on stnous as a result of his advanced , workers a# . iyinK that “Harry Hires, : ge and loss of blood, he is expected > engineoi of the Observation, quite i
,h '-> m nln - foot on (
b was reported that Mr. C arring | va j ve ma ke sure of enough steam tor's health has been failing rapidly ■ t(j pu)1 thp boat out 0 f ,h e dock." past few years, he having beer | Hire3 wa8 i,., t ed among the miss-
•tricken blind recently. Despond ■.
enry 0V er his physical condition and , Aslde from such an unverified dan-
Another Total Eclipse
geron- practice as reported by the unidentified engineer, there were these possible cause-- of such a terrific explosion: Use of salt water instead of fresh water in the boilers because of its convenience. Salt water weakens the
| seams.
To much steam pressure, the re-
inability to see was believed to have 'auseil the attempted suicide. Details were not learned but it '’ a- said that the aged man used a razor or other sharp knife to slash '’s threat. He was rushed to the hospital as soon as his act was dis-
covered.
Mr. Carrington has spent his en-
Drt life in Russell township, retiring ’ ^ of d( ,f r ,.tj V e afety valve* or several > ears ago from his farm | car *| e „ nMg in watching the guage.
"-bnm MIMtorjr. Hr W»l sc-1 Uhl| ,. t ,
,lve ln lhe Republican party and was , way to d< . tP , m] ne if negligence which « member of the Putnam county mi ght result in manslau, itei charges i foard of review a few years ago. aga i ngt thos( . re.spon ible, the steam-
er’s captain lay injured u- der guard.
His father wa- killed.
] Alexander For-ythe, the captain i24. His father. George, was 66. They | had owned and operated the combina-
... tion excursion steamer-ferry for se\
-'•:.-s Margaret Gilmore spent the ?1 . a | y eaIf ;.
day in Indianapolis. Jt wag dou btful if the exact cause ‘Hries Rockwell was here from ‘ and re.ponsibility ever would he de'overdale on business. teirific was the force of
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
Miss Bonnie Miller is visiting — T *rre Haute. Miss Mildred Rutledge, a membor ‘■f the DePauw Music School faculty, -a- been granted a year’s leave of 3 ® nc «. She will spend the year 8 "dying in the Fist. ^ Mrs Racer Bittles and family have !. turne d home from a visit in Dun lurk.
t
termined, so terrific was the force the explosion. It virtually splintered the wheezy 'd<i steamer, and it sent some men’s bodies whirling more than
100 yards.
the weather
Generally fair tonight and prob'ablv Sunday; little change in temperature. ]
Robins. “I was walking north on State street,” he -aid, “and met R -bin- just as I was passing the Palmer House. I recognized him and said, ‘Hello, Mr Robins,’ He anaweied my greeting, nodded and continued on Ids way. “I hmi seen him just a few weeks ago at the time of the national |>"litical conventions and thought nothing of his failure to stop and chat with me. “Robins was walking a] ne. He carried no brief easel or itchel. He wore a black slough hat and gray suit.” Mrs. Bryant previou-l\ had tol l authorities of seeing Robins about
half an hour earlier Thursday after-
F'oreign minister Count Uchida noon >t State -ind Adams streets, a wa- understood to have intimated to block south from where Haupt re-
the ho tile editors that their attack ported meeting him
wa liaiinful to Japan.-se-American . “He was pree ■ upied," Mis Rr.int relations after Ambassador Grew said. "He w-as hunying along and
asked repudiation of the charges. Members of the Japanese gendarmerie were understood to he confident that the -photographs were for war purposes. The war office, which controls the gendarmerie, told the United : Press it was confident the photo1 graphs were not for military use, but : -aid it was alway possible that photographs might be taken for a , hostile purpose 'i he war office therefore requested the hank to avoid
appeared worried. I was about to speak to him when tot 1 Iraffir light changed and I had no opportunity." Both Haupt and Mrs. Bryant have known the missing man for nearly 29 years and weie positive they could not have bee i mi-tak-m in their lentifieation A night long search of Robins’ old haunts failed to biing «ny trace of him. Adding to the belief of investiga-
photography in the future. i tors that Robin E iitors of responsible paper- real 1 Hie fa r t he had
i- in rhi ago was appointment here
1 ized that the charges were absurd. Katsuji Debuehi. Japanese ambassador to Washington, now in Japan, deplored the campaign. The ex.-itement among pait of the I native press, h iw-ever, was even | gieater than that of last year wh°n ' Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon. , American round the world fliers, were accused of taking motion picture;, of Japanese fortifications
MURPHY RIlF.s SUNDAY The body of Thomas F’rancis Mur
phy who died in Chicago Friday of heart trouble w as brought to the old 1 home on Jack-on street Saturday af
' temoon over the Monon railroad and , ,
neld from! 0 " stnmP vessel, going only for
the sea trip.
early this week with diy workers. He fade i to appear at 1 ference. Robin; a!- - lad been scheduled to atte d a prohibition convention here late th s month and make several addresses.
MALKER SAILS
N E AV YORK. Sept. 10 (UP)— Former mayor James J. M'alker sailed secretly today on t ie liner Conte Grande bound fnr Italian ports He made no announcement of his plars. His departui was announced by steum.-hip officials after th- ship
had s a i|pd.
It was understood he voull return
HODSIER El Rt TFD
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept 10 (UP) —W B. Stephenson, of Marion, Ind., was elected presi lent of the Cycle Trades of AmerDa as the annual
the funeral service- will
I the St. Paul's < atholic church Sun day afternoon at half pa-t two o’clock | with Father Mullins in charge. Bur lal will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Mr. Murphy had been living in Chi- ! cago for the past fifteen years, hav ; ing gf.re there from Greencastle. He
was doing railroad work in that city, "onvention ended here, succeeding M. He h.d been in failing health fori »• Tisne, of Brooklyn. Delegates de1 some time, but his condition was not. 1 '” e * on a JJ 11 9,000 advertising am* ; thought to be -erious. He was taken | P ai K n ’ m ‘> 8t »y in newspapers. It was t„ the hospital late Wednesday and ho i' ed to increase business 20 per
never rallied. He-is survived by the c * nt -
1 widow, Mrs. Bernice Stewart Murphy,
one daughter, ard a brother, Tim F MeCAKDLt TO KI.IIRE Murphy of this city. He was bom INDIANAPOLIS., Sept. 10 (UP)— and reared in Greencastle and ha-1 Chairman John W McCardle of the many friends here. He visited here Public Service commissica will retire early in August. w hen his present term expires May 1, The body left Chicago Saturday 1933, he announced today. \ morning, following a funeral service McCardle will have completed four held from the Cnapel to St. Dorothy’s' temusof four years, mo-t of wliich he church at 8:30 o’clock. » I served as chairman.