The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 September 1933 — Page 1
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GRELNCASTLL, INDIANA, SATLRDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1933.
NO. 275
COUNCIL TO MEET TUESDAY TO FIX LEVY
ml NTV TAX RATE OF 87 CENTS SOUGHT IN PUBLISHED
budget
jfACE INCREASED EXPENSES jfojr,) of lax Adjust m«i»l To Meet Last Of Seplwnber To Reviow
All Ta* Budgets
Much interest is being manifested by taxpayers in the session of the county council which meets next Tuesday to consider the county tax budget for next year and to make special deficiency appropriations totalling
{3323 for this year.
The council will have before it a Jccimty bu get calling for a tax rate I next year of 87 cents compared to the 134 cent levy in effect this year. AlIthough the council members may I make some reduction in the levy, I county officials state that they ipared I the expenditures for next year to I the limit in making the budget and I any further reduction will result in I inability of the county to meet its
(bills m 1!>34.
I In addition to regular expenses Ine.a year the county oiu.-t raise sufJficient funds to retire the principal ■ due on county unit road bonds which ■ was defaulted this year- Other added
NEW BLUE EAGLES Additional firms in the city that have come under the insignia of the Blue Eagle are as follows: F. C. Schoenman, Fleenor’s Drug stores, R. P. Mullins, Dora Hunter, Lueteke Brothers bakery, R. O. Scobee, J. L. Ellis, Indian Refinery, Babcock Lunch room, Hess Tire & Battery ship, Cedar Cre t, John D. Cook, H. N. Bennett, Cities Service Oil Co.', Harry Talbott, I). W. killinger, F. S. Hamilton, Edgar Hite, John Tharp, George E. Frank, Isaac Harris, C. W. Pfeiffenberger, M. H. Decker, Schlosser Bros. Creamery.
Letter Men To
DK. BLANCHARD TO BE HEARD
DEAN of UNIVERSITY TO BROADCAST FROM STATION
W'FBM ON SUNDAY
LAST
OF COLLEGE
Dr. W M Blanchard, dean if the
j college of liberal arts at DePauw, w ill
I) . C.,, | Q be heard over the radio Sunday after HI I lx M | i’( hi. 0 noon, broadr,isting from stati n WF
| BM in Indianapolis from 5:00 to 5:1G- ' He wall talk on the subject “What
J DEPA1 VV FOOTBALL < ANW- Mu . One I ect From College?’’ DA I ES EXPEt I l■.l( TO i This is the ixth and la t ,>f a .-eric: Nl MBER FORTY-FOUR of talks giv< n over this station each | Sunday afternoon. Dean G. Herbert If every DePauw University foot- ' Smith ma,i, ' lhe first f,,ur " n ball prospect to whom Coach R«v- ' ,ho ,o,,0win * " Wh 1 should
" y j Go To College?”; “Choosing A Cil- • r > rt * , lege,” “Choosing a Course,” and “Can
I Work My Way Through?” Last Sunday, Russell Alexander,
BAIN BRIDGE H. S. GRADS WILL ENTER COLLEGES
An unusually large number of Bain- | bridge High School Alumni have made
I\T I) 4 lYfi X rix i|i r i arrangements to enter college this || A|l|( 1 I A I .|V y' ar - 'I 10 majority of th se planning
to enter are of the Class of 1932, all
| having stayed out of school for a
year. ,
The list of students is as follows: Julian Sutherlin, Wilmer Sibbitt, and Ruth Anna Caywood, to Purdue University; Margaret Coffman and Mary
SERIES || de t.i Central Normal college;
Eleanor Hosteller to DePauw University; Presley Clinton to Miami University: Marj"iie SouOi to Nurses Training school, l.ong hospital; Stan-
ley O'Hair to Indiana University-
Among th >se w ho attended college last year and expect to return are Kugei e Akers to Indiana State Teachers college, Terr Haute; James Sutherlin to Purdue University; John Turney nnd Doyi"' rollings to DePauw University. Doyre Colling,, has spent the last several weeks at W aids Hole Mass., where he has been doing biological research work on a scholar
-hip from DePauw University
TWO SUSPECTS CONFESS PART IN SLAYING
ILLINOIS PEOPLE TORTURED AND ROBBED HY TRIO OF MEN
ONE
\ ICI IMS
DIE
Blanchard To “Go On The Air”
At 5 O'clock Sunday
Afternoon
mond E- Neal has sent a letter, reports for practice September S. Coach Neal will have a squad of firty-fout men from which to choose his starting eleven. Competition for places will
Woman Has Narrow
^s(*a|M‘
ROACHDALE WOMAN CUT \M»
BRUISED WHEN \1 H»
OVER 11 R\s
NORTH SALEM. Sept. 2—Mrs. Cecil Johnson, o: Roachdale, suffered
director of publicity, who arrange I
mg eleven, oompeuuon lor places win the usinK as hi , to p ie will te keen as there are fifteen let- 1 » si ,i € sh , nv . of College ” Dr. Blanch ter-nxen left from last years squad- a rd, in hi> a 1 dross, plans to summarFhe prospect list includes ten seniors, | ige just what the student may expo : fourteen juniors and twenty-nine j college to give him during the four sophomores- i years he is on the campus. Seniors—Bruno Ave. Clinton; Rob- During ihi. complex period of thi
I ert Bradley, Fort Wayne; Harry Hag- ’! world’s history when literally thou- | numerous cuts and bnn-e, when the .Times they Icompulsory expenditures next year ^erty, Muncie; Donald Hartline. In- and °*’ college trained men are withinclude increased poor relief costs, j ,;j ana( „,]; s . Glenmore Horein, Waka- out employment, something more than
a vocation must be offered by th"
colleges of today.
All talks on the series were designed primarly t" lie of interest to prospective college students everywhere. The response to these programs have
been unusual.
Iho-pitaluatun of children, registraItion of voters, old age .pensions, elec■tions. and tubercular tc.-ting of
Ica'tle.
.Members of the council are John kinclair, H C F'oster, H- C. Morrison, JOm!-!»s M.Terran, (ieorge Fn.-ign, l(rf'rge Akers, and Milton Edwards- | HM time next week advisIcn, b irds in all the townships will Ireet with trustees to pass on town-
rusa; Frank Kothman, Dayton, O ; (ieorge Lortz, East Chicago; R.diert McCullough, Indianapolis; Lianiel Simpson, Tipton; Alvin Vdkman, Evansville, and Robert Stapp, Wheaton. 111. All are lettermen except Hag-
gerty, Horein and Stapp.
Juniors—Homer Bishop, Kenasha, Wis.; Daniel Blake. Gary; Roger Bl.rjmfield, Chicago; Kendall Bradley, Pecatonica, III ; Chester Elson,
Wiip budgets, many of which call for Indianapolis; Thomas Ewing, Danville
■increa ed levies next year However, a higher rate, less is being raised ■for the year than was spent this year rThi- 0PMM '-tie ■ i'y . -'uncil ar'd the ■Greenca Ale -chool boanl d<* not meet luntil later to consider their budgets If 184 In Green, astle city a tax’ |: • '.oil Although decreased valuations in l‘ turod wow incrMtM En tax h vie#, most of the advance in Inti- will be due to the fact that all It 'nshij defaulted the princi|>al due J: m townaUp roadbonds. This 1'iefaulted principal must lie paid in
|1934.
All the tax budgets will be reviewed Bh the county board of tax adjust ■ ' lining the third Mondav in September. This board is comp<jsed of Lhn Sinclair, a member of the counb ' mcil, and six members appointr! by Judge Wilbur S. Donner They Id ('hew, trustee of Washington
111.; Joseph Fisher, Ann Arbor, Mich ; Robert. Fribley, Newcastle; William Hendrikson, Chicago; Wendell Kay, Watseka. III.; Francis McOovm, New Albany; Earl Pierce, Kenosha, Wi .; Wayne Schroeder. Tolone, 111 ; and Richard Thompson of Indianapolis
CAUSE OF SLEEPING SICKNESS BELIEVED FOUND BY WOM\N
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2 (UP)—Discovery of the cause of encephalitis, which has defied -ome of the world's leading scientists, has been made by a woman pathologist, Dr. Margaret
G. Smith, assistant professor at the i other car at tty ( top of the incline,
Washington University Medical
car she was driung late Thursday afternoon went off the oveihead railroad bridge ;md down a 20-foot embankment. The automobile, a nv del T Ford, v demolished and a RoacMale wrecking crew salavaged only batteries and < pare tire from the debris. Mrs. Johnson was taken In her home in Roaehdale after receiving medical attenti n from a lo-
cal physician.
The bridge is rather high at the point where it pans the B. & O. lailroad and ha been the scene of numerous accident-, Mrs. Johnson as.-umed the blame for thi- one, as she was in the • middle of the road and when she rfas about to meet an-
John Allen, 19, An.) Harry Shelby Both Identified By Aged Man
And Niece
ROBINSON, 111.. Sept o Two of the three suspect-, held here have >igr:p.l confessions, officers said, in which they admitted taking part in the robbery attempt that culminated in the slaying of Mr Mary Schraeder 82-year-old Jasper county farm woman, and the serious mistreatment of h< r brother, Bernard Weldom, 84, and her daughter, Anna Schraeder, 47. John Allen. 1!) years old, of Danville, was the first to break after a 12 hour grilling by Jasper and Crawford county authorities He signed a statement yesterda after he and Harry Shelby of Tilton, 111 . had been identified by Weldom and his niece Shelby confessed several hours later Both Allen and Shelby t dd in detail of the plot to roh Weldom. who is a wealthy farmer of near Newt m, but both denied taking part in th" torturing of the trio or the criminal attacks on the two women. These
laid to a mysterious
STEAMSHIPS COLLIDE NEW YORK, Sept 2 (UP)—The Dollar passenger liner President Wilson collided with the tank steamier Colo water 150 miles east of Cape Fear, N. C, Radio Marine reported todayThe Coldwater caught fire and presumably sank. Awaiting further word as to the collision, shipping men assumed from the tenor of the message that the President Wilson and Coldwater collided in fog and that the Cokiwater's crew of from 35 to 40 men have been saved. The President Wilson left New York Thursday for Havana the canal, the Pacific coast and Honolulu and the OrientThe Coldwater left Jacksonville, Fla., August 2<i for Brunswick, MeSTORM HE \DEI» TOWARD TEXAS HAVANA, Sept. 2 (CP)—A hurricane moved ,it a rapid speed across the Gulf of Mexico toward Texas today after ripping a path from east to west over Cuba, causing great damage but taking little toll of human
life.
GRKFNCASTLF , HAS PART IN CELEBRATION
CLARK MEMORIAL AT VINCENNES ERECTED BY LOCAL CONTRACTOR
MRS. PORTER ON COMMISSION
Dedication Exercises For Historical Structure Will Be Held Sunday. Prominent Men To Speak. (
List ('ro|> Uses For Wheal Land
Greencastle comes in for a just share of the honors at the dedication of the George Rogers Clark Memorial at Vincennes tomorrow Sunday, September 3, with Mrs L L Porter, vice president of the George Rogers Clark Indiana Commission, and th* W. R- Heath Construction Company builders of the Memorial proper. Mrs. Porter succeeded h.'r mother, the late Mrs- Anne S. Carlisle if South Bend, as a member of the commission. She has Ikm’ii a faithful and devoted member, and upon its reorganization just recently she was named vice chairman of the commission. The George Rogers Clark Memorial Commission was formed by the Indiana Historical Society. Its primary purpose was to acquire and dedicate to the public as a memorial site, all the land upon which the old post, Fort 1 Saekville, was situated, and erect
Seven different methods of hand- j therpon a suitable monument to
KtranKer, .horn ihey ..id they <1 "‘
SEVEN ME I HODS OK H ANDLING RE 11 RED \< RES LISTED
BY DIRECTOR
the terms of
only as “Bud”. They absolved Harold j thp wh ;. n a(ijustment contracts have i Peck of Indianapolis, the third su#-j bee|( anoulued a8 -approved practi-! iswt, but he had not been released , by Chester C. Davis, director of p.. l!,st , ""* u th< production section of tin- Agri Weldom and Miss Schraeder cm-; Al .|j us t me nt Administration, fronted the three suspects at noon I hp a| , pioVP(1 practices are in ac-j h riday. Althmgh both are in a ser ‘j rord with the provisions of Section 6. ious condition from the beatings re j of th( . t „ ntrauls that. “The j ceived at the hands of the three rob I contracted acreage of 1934 and 1935
desire to face
Clarence and
of
school, according to an announcement of the St. Louis Medical Society to-
Bishop, Briciley, Elson, Fribley, Kay, i '* a - v ' After a month of frenzied activity on the part of city, county and feder-
MeCoun and Pierce an' lettermen Sophomores— Embert Almcrantz, Chicago; Arthur Bailey, Evanston, j 111.; Warren Beach, Oak Park. 111.; Donald Bollinger, Seymour; Paul Bunn, Lorain, Ohio; Lowell Cates, j Covington; lister Coleman, Stanford, ] j Conn-; Vernon Copeland, Indianapolis; j | George B. Davis, Greenfield; Marion | 1 Deuth, Forresto, III ; Wilbr-rt Ebert, 1 Evanston, 111.: Norman Frees. May1 wood, 111 ; Walter Coes, Chicago;'
[ John Harding. Richmond.
Durr Hupp, IsiPu-te; William KinI nally, Gary; Joe Kopta, Robinson, 1111 John McKirv-tray, Indianapolis; Murl
t’«nhip r Orville Evermwn. president! Messersmith, Francisco; John Miller, cf the Liard of trustees of Russell- ; Indianapolis; Thomas Nicholson, hll»: Harrv Wells, of the board of, Evanston. Ill; William Osborn, Chi-
cago; Seth Pope, Falls Church, Va.; Everett Scott. Fort Wayne; Robert Shafer, Mishawaka; Paul Turner, Modoc; Robert Watson, Corydon; Eldon Webber, Gloucester, Mass., and
Byron Wise, Middlebury.
All th*ve soph.wores earned their i class numerals during their freshnian year as memliers of the rhinie f >ot- ,
Harry Wells, of the board
|f -(ration of the school city of (ireenItadlc. ,ind Charles Hanna, Franklin I town ship, William Moser, Jefferson I township, a nd Benton Curtis, Green
Icastlp
j 1 ndei the state law it i.- the duty
th board to limit the total of aB
TUx lp\ii> s to $1.50 in towns and $1 00
in t"'vnships of the county It is prob■dde. however, that emergencies will to declared in every taxing unit un der which total levies greater than d* above figures can be fixed
a! health authorities the announcement that a "filterable virus” had been discovered by the young woman was hailed as all important in halting the sleeping sickness epidemic which has taken more than 50 lives and stricken 425 persons since July 20. A filerable virus is one that is not discernible through the most powerful microscope and will pass through a porcelain filter. MARRIAGE LICENSE Roland Nevins, and Elsie Wood, both Quaker Maid factory employes of Terre Haute.
she swerved h-r’diiH' hinp to the right, lost control of it ami went over the
embankment into a field below. The other i ir, a Ford V-8, was
driven by Dan Hackard, a grocerysalesman fr-iii Indianapolis, who stopped within a few feet of the accident on th'- opposite side of the bridge. He t ok Mrs. Johnson to the office of Di Wisehart and later to her home in Roachdale where -he was returning from taking her husband to hi- employment with a 'mi-
. t ruction crew near Danville. Mrs. Johnson was injured about
the face and suffered a deep cut just above the knee. According to 1 ist reports she i- recovering fern -hock
ns well as her injuries.
The Elks will have a fi-h fr> at their club hmi-e tonight. All mem-
bers uiged to attend.
i hers they expressed
| the suspects.
Two young boys, , tural Ralph Schackmarn, sons of a farmer 1 living near the Weldom home, identi- 1 l ied Shelby as one of a trio who came to the Sehackmann home last Monday evening and inquired about Weld mi. Before the boys were permitted to see Shelby at the jail they told officers the man who came to the home Monday evening was minus a thumb on his right hand, which they had noticed as they talked with him When they were brought into the room with
the victory of his small hand of soldiers in the capture of Fort Saekville, and acquiring for the -date of Virginia the Great North West Territ-irv which later became a part of our
United State-
Through the effort of the Indiana Commission, congress became inter-'v-ded in the project and a Federal commission was authorized; later th*
snail not be used for the production | government took over the building of
any nationally produced agriculproduct for —They are based upon the suggestions of Joseph E. Cox, chief of the Replacement Crop Section of Adjustment Administration, and approved by the Ad
ministration.
Under the approved practices, a farmer may permit his retired acres to lie unplanted, where it can lie done without serious erosion loss, controll ing n ixnous weeds if necessary by mowing before seed develops. He can practice summer fallowing, particul-
Shelby they immediately said he was , aHy ^ ^ . s an estab ii 8hed {>ra( ,
| tice and where there is a minimum of
the man Shelby was requested to put out his hand- and he had a similar
deformity.
The most important disclosure in the confe- ioiis of Allen and Shelby was their te-timony that Harold Peck of Indiana; dis, owner of the car u-ed in the transaction, was not present at the Weldom Tuesday night, nor did ho have iux knowledge of the occurrence Allen -aid he borrowed IVck'coupe, presumably for a date, and that he wa- arcoinpunied to Jasper county nly by Harry Shelbj an a (stranger, who he knew only by the name of “Bud’’, Th' -ti mger i- not in custody'
Spirit of ’33
Df Paul Frehm
soil erosion. The farmer may plant to permanent jasture, with the provi-ion that land -o planted is not eligible to be counted a- contracted acreage during the second season when u-ed for pasture or a hay crop is harvested- Other a res must then lie substituted and u- d to conform with the wheat contract. Or he may plant to meadow erops, with similar provisions regarding the second year Special weed control measure- may he practiced on the retired acres with a system of cultivation, chemical treatment, or other effective measures used in such control
the memorial and made necessary ap propriations to supplement the Indiana fund. The contra t f >r the construction of the memorial was awarded to Walter R Heath of this city through competitive bidding, and work was started in October, 1931. This, contra "t was completed and turned over to the Commission and was accepted the latter part of May thi- yearThe structure, of large granite blocks totaling several thousand tons stand- upon the site of the old fort, on the hank- of the Wabash The interior is built of Indiana limestone with a marble base, with provisions made for mural paintings and a statue I of George Rogers Clark The building 1 was designed by a New York \rchi
tect-
' Many favorable comments have j Ih-pii made on the beauty and grandj our of this building and it- careful | and excellent construi lion Thousands of visitora have alrcavisite 1 the ! memorial and e.\pic--ed the opinion ! that it ranks in beauty .si tting and onstruction with the threat Lincoln j Memorial in Washington, D. C I Sunday marks the dedication >f the | memorial's completion, also the de iI cation of a new bridge which -pans I the W.iha-h at the Im-i of the M* 1 ""-
E Um-
■ AVIATOR DIFS IN FLAMES WHEN AIRPLANE CRASHES FLOYD BENNETT FIELD, N. Y.. I Sept 2 (UP)—The spectacular ca- ■ feer of Francw-co De Pinedo, daring
■ aviator, ended in
hiiiix whep his Bellanea monoplane I crashed a. he was taking off on a
non-stop flight to Baghdad.
1 be famous Italian pilot had • inn hed his heavily loaded plane '' v n t ie concrete runway at 7:01 a. ( n It attained a terrific speed, than •Kan swerving under its cargo of '■ 021 gallons of gasoline. Once it bf' the runway, hut De Pinedo, without decreasing his speed, brought
it hack
l>all squad under coach W
breit-
As fas as veteran material is con- I corned. Coach Neal will have his re- I turning lettermen rather well dis- , tributed: Ave. Pierce, K Bradley. Bishop and Fribley play half-back; Elson and R Bradley are fullbacks; Kothman. McCullough and McCoun are tackle"; Hartline, and Simpson, guards; Kay and' Volkman, en Is, anil
Lortz, center
DePauw will Ire without it “ghost”,
a hurat of flames | ^ n ^ b eat m, probably the greatest
half-back that ever played at the Methodist school. Wheaton was given All American mention and set the record in the United States for the j longest run from scrimmage in 1931 Beler, quarterback; Williams, regular . end; Shirey. guard; Stout, quarterI back, and Pope, end, were others lost
to the squad by graduation. DwPsuw's schedule is made up en
( lirely of In iiana secondary colleges,
1 the Tigers playing Ball State,
Earl-
An instant later, it lurched off its : ham, Manchester, Hanover, Franklin.
:| gain. DePineiio strove) to r ( ^ 11 back, but had lost control. * plane missed the administration 'ling, where a number of specta- ^ r * ’"re gathered on the plaza, and gashed against a steel fence. There (“i a flash of flame as the gasoline
c *ught fire.
j rel,CUB De Pinedo proved
Evansville and Wabash The fir-t five tilts are scheduled for Black-dock j Field and the last two away front ' homo. Manchester will lie the opponent for Oi l Gold Day, DePauw s Homecoming celebration October 21 It will also be Dad’s Day on the
campiis
No additions have been made in th" poaching staff for thia year.
The acres ma\ be planted t.) forest
trees for windbr- ,k or farm use, and | l,ril ' 1 ' '""1 which Is dso a part of the comply with the term- of “Section « " ! • ,ro J« ct - " f ^th the state of Soil improvement crops to he ployed Indiana and Illir >i . and 'he Federal
under may be planted in accordance
with adaptation.
T
wo
government will participate in this
program.
There remain- some w irk -f lan 1scaping, etc. before the entire project is complete !, which will probably
require a year longer-
Greencastle is proud of her sh ir in f rovidii g the Memorial that will stand f t hundred- of years, and proud of the fact that we are ably repre-ented on the commission by
with adultery They ' Mrs. I.. L PorVr, and that the treat
Uham‘<l
With \(lultm
Two Barnard re-i ients Saturday fared affidavits filed in circuit court
charging them
were Cora Clark and Leonard Little. According to affidavits filed by 1 George S Clark, husband of the woman. the couple is alleged to hu'e I lived in a state of adultery at diver-
1 times since July
| Warrants for their arrest were 1 placed in the hands of Sheriff Aha
; Bryan.
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
I Mrs J. E. Duniavy was a visitor in 1 In lianapolis. The Fortnightly Club , met with Mrs Frank Bittle ; J el Denman has arrived home from ' ( amp Oxford. Me , where he s)«ent the
I summer-
Miss Edna Bence left today for Panr'lle, 111., where she will teach this
; winter.
| Mr and Mrs- Ed Black motored to ’ Lafayette.
Miss Jane Farmer went to Ander"on wo» re she w M teach the coming
year-
re i "ii biUty for th istruct was placed with Walter R Heath, who has acquired nati >nnl recognitii t: for this workThe celebration of the Sesquieentennial of the Peace of Paris, 1783, at the George Rogers ( lark Memorial Sunday, is to be the last of the oa tioiial celehrati m- of the one hundre-I and fiftieth anniver iry of the various inn port ant events of the American Revolution. Beginning with the repetition on April 19, 1925, of the ride of Paul Revere and hi ( miranion. Rufus Dawe , there base been celebrations of the Declaration of Indefiendence, of the capture of Fort Saekville by George Rogers Clarg, thi buttle of King's Mountain, and the surrender of ( ornw illi it Yorktown. They have been of great educational value, us well as of speitular inter-
est.
The signing of the definitive Peace at Paris on Septemtier 3, 178.3. was of equal importance, if n-d greater importance. than any of these other events. The signatures of “D Hart ley”, British plenipotentiary, and (Continued on Page Two)