The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 September 1933 — Page 1
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COUNTY TAX RATE FIXED AT 71 CENTS
rfl'NrY COrNClL MEMBERS REdice appropriations IN I \\ O-UAY SESSION
ONE
LEVY stricken out
ontroversy Over Appropriation For County Attendance Officer Marks Meeting.
Members of the Putnam county c'm il Wetlne ;tlay afternoon fixed ho countv tax rate for 1034 at 71 pn tc n etch $100 taxablos compared the n >4 c ' t ‘ ,lt |pvy this y piir he county rate if made up of a 42 t e n t levy far county revenue, 23 cents the county unit road bonds and coupons, and fi cents for hospital In fixing the county levy for next ■ear the council members did away |jjth the 5 cent levy for hospital maintenance and reduced other ap;ropriation a. ko.d for various puro;e5 to th extent of about $13,000. The ’ so tal maintenance levy was lone away with because of an $18,000 alance in this fund which is consid.«d sufficient for maintenance pur-
.cses in 1934.
The county tax rate is subject to ihanpe by the county board of tax idjustment when it meets September 8 tn review all county budgets. Council members began their final rusal of the county budget Wexltsday morning after making a numr of tentative cuts at their all-day
seeling Tuesday.
The pr' pn-ed appropriation of $12,JdO for old age pensions was reduced $8,000 by the board. Although more an 100 already have applied for the (15 a month pension provided for perns over 70 years of age, it was esnisted that many of these would be able to qualify for the pension, slf of this pension is paid by the bunty and the other half by the state. Aruib n.uajuvtb.at'-y-as ‘ n the P |,or lief appropriation for next year, total of $20,000 was asked hut this Ipne was reduced to $15,000. Apjroximately $17,000 already has been ent thi: year for relief of indigents. Following a lengthy discussion ><lni sday morning the council memrs voted to place deputy hire in the fficos of the auditor, treasurer, clerk Jid sheriff at $100 a month, and in ib a recorder's office at $75 a month, o law fixes salary of deputies at a inimum of $75 and a maximum of 125 a month. Some members of the icuncil Ht the salary of deputies 'hould ho equal while others felt that jork was heavier in some offices and Mt deputies should receive more. A mpronue was finally reached with deputies in f"ur offices getting ) a month and the other deputy 75. Salaries for deputies were fixed the last legislature which at the i»mo time took away practically all which office holders received. The a| piopriation for salary of the Urveyor and engineer also was reduc* from $1,500 to $1,000 by the r.vunil mei bers. Several reductions made fi the budget Tuesday' were restored IHne.lay morning. These include I pO for salary of the court house elecatoi , perator and $240 for expen os f the county superintendent. The »tte r appropriation was added m petition of the trustees and could not removed by the council, it was aid The council members were plunged JMo a controversy Tuesday afternoon ’hi h continued Wednesday when on be advice of the county attorney they '.fused to recognize election of an Httendance officer by the county hoard pf education. According to attorney John H. James no record of any such election ever was made by former rounty Superintendent John C. Vermdlion and as a result the council "as U't obligated to appropriate his
SPEED KING
GREENCASTLE. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1933-
NO. 278
SOLDIERS ON GUARD AFTER TEXAS STORM
LUGES C<> OPERATION
James R. W'edell, Patterson, Iowa, business man who turned .'|»ecd flier, and who set a new world speed record of 305.33 mile an hour for land plane-; at the International Air Races held at Glenview, 111-
VERMONT IS 25TH STATE FOR REPEAL
IRADITIONAELY DRY STRONGHOLD GOES WET BV 2 TO 1 VOTE
ALL CITIES IN WET COLUMN Only Eleven More States Necessary To Eliminate 18th Amendment From Constitution
FLOOD FOLLOWS IN WAKE OF HURRIC ANE IN RIO GRANDE VALLEY
100 PERSONS KNOWN DEAD
Damage Estimated At More Than $10,000,000. Many Persons Re. purled Injured
EDINBURG, Tex., Sept. 6, (UP)-! Troops were rushed into the devastate! lower Rio Grande valley today, flooded in the wake of a hurricane which killed UK) persons and caused damage of more than $10,000,000 in Texas and Mexico. The towns of Brownsville, San I Benito, and Harlingen were under |
martial law.
With communications still ini- [ paired to many points, reports of death and destruction came here
from scores of towns in the path of .... , jj , . 1,1,1 i covery (idmimstrator, a- he addressed the hurricane which had disappeared , lU _ t < u
inland today.
Thirty persons were reported dead in MatamoriMexico, across the
Rio Grande from Brownsville. A , . ,, end of tlie dap re n i>v the time
Matamoros cathedral collapsed. ... _ , , , , i snow flies-
Twenty others were reported dead —
in other sections of the Mexican border city where many adobe houses were melted by the rain and rising
water.
Ten were reported dead without confirmation on the Brownsville side of 'the river. Three were reported | dead at San Benito, famous as a citrus shipping center. Two hundred j were reported injured at Mercedes. Forty were hurt at Weslaco and 20
at San Juan.
Many of the injured were so seriously hurt by collapsing houses that they were expected to die. In
Gen Hugh S- J ihns.m, national re-
lume throng at Lie World's Fair at Chicago Labor Da\ Gen. John.-on urged greater C" iq • ration between worker and envpl"yn to assure the
Playing Politics Charged l»\ Leach
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY SHERIFF
AND PROSECUTOR REFUSE TO REEEASi PRISONERS
MILK TRAIN HITS FLIER KILLING 14
BACK IN CELL
VICTIMS IN TWO REAR COACHES OF CRACK ERIE PASSENGER TRAIN
MORE THAN
100
INJl RED
Engineer Of Milk Train Reported To Have Run Through Caution Signals, Torpedoes
BINGHAMTON. N. V Sept 6—At | least 14 persons were killed and more than 100 injured last night .when the! two rear coaches of a crack Erie passenger train were to cj into the air by a colliding milk train. The coaches canv down in a mass of bent and splintered wreckage and mangled bodies. A wooden coach just forward of the -teel ear on the end of the flyer was smashed like an eggshell by the im-
pact.
Passengers in the diner up forward
were hurled from their seats in a Harvey Bailey, charged with the welter of broken dishes. Many of ki(lnar j nK ()f Charles F LTschel, Okthem became hysterical searching for L lh „ nla , i ty oil man, who is being
held in Hilary confinement in Okla-
NEW REGIME UNSTEADILY RULES CUBA
FATE OF REVOLl TIONARV GOVERNMENT STILL TO BE DETERMINED
MANY FACTORS INVOLVED
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U. S. Warships Ride At Anchor At Havana And Santiago To Protect Americans
HARRY FOSTER
IS BANISHED FROM CITY
INDIANAPOLl dept, (i, (UP) Kosciusko count prosecutor and sheriff were cha. ed with ‘‘playing
Harl- politics” by (’apt. M ill Leach of the
ingen, two were killed and 53 were
MONTPELIER. Yt., Sept, fi, (UP) —Wets carried tlds traditionally dry state by .greater than 2 to 1, complete returns from yesterday’s election which made Vermont the 25th successive state to approve rati- : fication of the 21st (repeal) amend-] ment. showed today. Complete returns from Vermont’s eight cities and 240 towns showed: For repeal, 41,026. Against repeal, 20,633. Repealists now need only the approval of 11 states to eliminate the 18th amendment from the constitution. Thirteen state* voting by Nov. 7 are expected to end national prohibition. Maine votes next Monday
injured. The causeway connecting Corpus Christi with lowlands across the bay was washed out. MeCallen
was without water or night. Water also was
state police today
He cited their i- lu. al to release to him three prison' ■ w anted in several Indiana eitie n charges of ob-
lights last ] taing advertising ees for imaginarv tut off in publications. T)*,,.throe are 11. C.
Harlingen, San Benito anil Browns-
ville.
Highways, railroads and airports were flooded in a wide area. Pat Nolan, Pan American Airways
flyer, flew on to S.m Antonio when
Chevalier, fit), Ittroit, and Jane Huffman, 30, and (li ice Loy, 32, both of
Indianapolis.
Leach said I three were arrested in Columbia < ity by State Policeman Roy Ligget and Elmer Hollenbeck
and the following day, Maryland,,
Colorado, and Minnesota vote. So ’f h ‘ !rn Pilc,fic , All of Vermont's eitie., were wet,! R*-™' 1 ! 6 \™ n * as , v . i ii EtonpeH hero. Anothor train was and many of the towns and villages ( M ^ r
whore drys had elected majorities,
Plymouth, I
he arrived over the flooded area from ‘‘ify! taken t»' Warsaw where they aio Mexico City ami found the Browns-j charged wit i fleecing 32 merchants, ville airport under water. When Leach "cut to bring them here Nolan estimated that 5 per cent of f«r questioning about their op-ra-the buildings in Brownsville hud been lions in other dies, Shoiift Harley destroyed, hut said the destruction , Person and Prosecutor Seth E. appeared much greater in flooded Rowdabaugh refused to release the
Harlingen. i prisoners.
High waters isolated several trains. ‘Those two county officers are
Republicans and want
prosecuting these three people themselves/' Loach charged. “1 merely
relatives and friends whom they had left in the rear coaches while they
ate.
The wreck occurred just east of Binghamton as the flyer, due in Jersey City at 12:45 a. m Wednesday, eastern standard time, from Chicago, was just leaving the city limits. The milk train, bound from Hor- j nell to Hoboken with a load, swept down the main line and smashed into the rear of the other train, which had | -top|>ed. Police sai l the caution signal j
had l>oen hung up and torpedoes plat i ed on the track GIVEN CHOICE OF PAVING TWO Ten were dead at Harlingen and) FINFS OR I EW ING two at Rio Hondo These were th" ^ GREENCASTLE only verified deaths. Seven were in , jure,! and in a ho-pital «t Mercedes OI|1KKS ,., K VD GUILTY
and 48 were at Harlingen. 01 the injured at Harlingen 10 probably .will ,
die. [Willie Sligh.
■Motorists, attracted by the crash, begun ■piling the victims, some scream ing, others unconscious, into their car-
and driving for the nearest hospitals- H irry Foster, .V!, ' limed, classed All available ambulances, physic- by Mayor W. E. Denman as a highly ians and nurses sped to the scene undesirable citizen, was given his from Binghamton and nearby Pen- , eheicc of leaving the city for five nsylvania towns. The stretcher and .years or paying fini s and costs totalambulance corps of the Binghamton i j^g iCiin by the mayor in city court
WASHINGTON, Sept, fi, (UP) — President Roosevelt said at the Whit* House today that intervention in Cuba was not contemplated. WASHINGTON, Sept, fi, (UP) — President Roosevelt today ordered two more warships to Cuba and ordered the Seventh Regiment of Marines to concentrate at Quantico, Va., marine base to be ready for instant movement to Cuba. The marine movement to Quantico was underway today, the first contingent departing from Philadelphia
for Quantico.
'The navy department announced
horn a C untv jail following his cap-(that the battleship Mississippi was ture four hour- after he made a spec- |‘‘"route to Cuba an.l that the criuser tacular e cape L ibor Day from the Indianapolis was under orders to procounty jail at Dallas, Texas. j need to the island from Anapolis, Md.
Naval officers said a contingent of 2.200 marines would be moving on Cuba within 24 hours if intervention
Colored, and Arthur
Rogers Fined $10. Albert Rogers
Is Released
or merely such a show of force were orde red. State department officials refused to discuss the possibility of intervention. The landing of armed men in Cuba probably would be the last expedient adopted by the administration. But the four warships ordered yesterday to Havana and Santiago were in.-tructed to protect \merican lives and property even if that duty imposed the necessity of going ashore.
national guard went into action. Hospitals, overtaxed by the sudden emergency, were unable to furnish a c'umplete li t of the dean and injured immediately. Some luidies were so severely mangled it may be day.- b - fore their identities are establi-hed. 'ITie engineer of the milk train, daz- p,.,
were in the wet column.
marooned near Corpus Christi, Two si>erial trains rushed south-
.. .. , c r- i n I ward from San Antonio. One bore . birthplace of Calvin < lolidgo "here ^ ^ ^ ^ under ' <'harg< drys had been certain o vu:U,ry gave ( ( ..fficers to join the 28 votes for repeal and 10 against. , , . r t- . , „ , . * • ,4 *• 'soldiers already on duty from r«>rt Only two of the states 14 counties ' an ■. • , Orleans and Lamoille-were dry. | ^ “t Bw,wns#lle. It cameThe state convention at which the ' the transportation «f
. , , .. .,.,11., injured hack to San Antonio. 21st amendment will be formally. J , j
ratified will be held within J) oi 30 predjcted a death to n Brpa ter us. But it so hapens that everybody
wanted to talk to Chevalier and the two girl t-i s'', what they’d been doing elsewhere. If no more serious •s arose, I intended returning them to W.n -.aw for prosecution. When criminal are caught it’s cutomary' to take a look at what they’ve
been doing lately.
“If the sheriff and prosecutor don’t want to play hall, th it’s okay with
. .. . Jed by the crash, said he did not set
' the red block light warning of the passenger train. He jammed on his brakes a om as he saw a crash was
coming, but it was too late
Most of those killed were riding in the wooden , i h, which was crushed to splinters The steel construction of the end cur, a comparatively new coach, was credited by authorities with having kept the death list from
mounting even higher.
days.
THE WEATHER
Generally fair tonight and Thursday; cooler extreme north portion Thursday.
than 10 upe n the basis of reports of i and his brother from the president army aviators who flew over parts j ,low " cooperating to the limit
of the district.
Albert Lane Dies; Riles Wednesday
Major General Edwin B. Winans of Fi it Sam Houston ordered 150 soldiers into the flood area at the request of Governor Miriun Ferguson. They penetrated the region on a special train accompanied hy doctors and nurses to as t up emergency hos-
to stop the w-ave of crime overrun-
ning the country.”
INMATES ATTEMPT ESCAPE
MATTEAWAH, N V., Sept, fi, (UP)—Four criminal madmen who “wanted to go home," attempted to
pital and relief stations at Harlingen. | ^hoot t u ir way out of the Matteawan The storm was the most destruc- j j nf . ane hospital today with a .22 cali-
. ost
ci.nfi- ated to be Bryan. The youn
Rescue crew - encountered d-ffK Jlty | hi ■ extricating many of the bodies, pin- ^ hii|11)> un ,j ,
ned under heavy timbers and wedged
between steel 1 ebris.
One woman was hurled m >re th in i i0 feet from flic track. She was dead
I when found
Most of the other coaches of the passenger train were derailc I The | locom »tive of the milk train w-as bounced off the track but it- crew
was not hurt.
An immediate investigation irdo the cause of the wreck was ordered by Robert E. Woolruff, vice president ol
HAVANA, Kept fi, (UP)—Cuba’* new revolutiohafy ■YflttxH-nemflf sit unsteadily in the ,‘oit of power today, its fate still to be determine-!. A United States destroyer rede at anchor in the harbor and two more warships steamed swiftly to join it. The destroyer in the harbor was the McFarland. At Santiago was the destroyer Sturdevant. Knroute here were the cruiser Richmond, from the Panama canal, and the destroyer
Bainbridge.
That four warships were ordered to Cuba was an indication of the gravity with which the United States government viewed the new turn in Cuba’s turbulent political .-itu.ition.
. , . American Ambassador Sumner it with a pirt'y filloj gallon jug, . .
I Welles, plainly anxi . declined to commit himself re.’ iriling the executive committee of five men who with the sii| port . f th. unity and navy enlisted men and the police and rural
the provisional
government of Carlo Manuel De
Wednesday afternoon. Foster agreed t) leave town within three days
rather than pay the fineK.
h ■ ter. with three other men, Willie Sligh, 33, i" hired, and Arthur Roger.-. 19, and Albert Rogers, 17,
white, were arre-ted by city poi Roscop Scott and Clyde Mil-
1,■ iturdai night ui liquor charges, ■ the officers found the four men in Arthur Roger, truck on Poplar
■ ■;' liquor.
Sligh and the tw > Rogers boys all p , .ided guilty to ch.uges of posseso n of liquor, with Sligh and the
elder Rogers boy being fined $10 ami , , ., „ ,iii . i i guards overthrew eac’i. Roger' dso had his truck I ....
ill) by Sheriff Alva .
.■r Rogers boy was ' 1 ‘ '
pi mise to remain "Tien army “rgeant Fulgencio out of future R fl tista, new chief of the general
staff, notified him f the change of
ep
Slign dmitted had drank liquor
while the older R o i s boy said he was to receive two gallons of gas free an I part of the liqu< r for driving the party \ ■ st of Greencastlc
w in re the liquor was secured. Mayor Denman t M Foster he had
di ni enough in his life to get the
of government Welle, merely asked what provision had been made to maintain order. In sharp contra-t, Welles aided in every way to f rm the Cespedes government. It wa recognize'! at one*. With the new government’s life d*- : pendent on half a do;" n f ictoi th*
liict on the pro ent charges and was | n^stinn of interventi n was in every-
in umlotoirahlo citizen. Upon Foster
i l»er pistol loaded with blank cart-
DECEASED WAS BORN GREEM \STLE. DIED IN
BILLINGHAM. W ASH.
| live of the year. Some house* at
Harlingen were tossed a quarter °f j ridges. One was killed, another was 1 a mile, according to Deputy Sheriff t wounded and the others were sub- | J. D. Boren who made his way here. ,| U( . d after a tear gas bombardment
"I saw houses explode as the wind lasted four hours, ; struck them,” Boren said. “In a few ,
former cas es the wind whipped the four
the Erie, from th** componjr’s general offices in Cleveland.
Albert Lane, 66 years old,
... Putnam, ami Montgomery count/ real- [ w „Hs up, leaving the furniture and * alar >' Mr Vermillion was eallert lie-1 |)pnti ( , |(h) sU ,„|enly Monday morning . f| 0 ors intact. Many roofs were blown
lore the board Wednesday morning nt home in Billingham, Wash,, ac- of f w jth the four walls collapsing
and at ured them that H. R. Sands of ! n(ril j n(r V( , message received here. | a| „i pinning occupants ” Bainliridge was duly elected in June His death 'svuired at 1:30 o'clock
of this year for a one-year term be- i -|)(1 was rau -,. | by a heart attack, ginning August 1, but that ho had | Mr Iiane W as the son of Mr. and neglected to make any record of it in Michael Lane and was bom at | 0,| ks in his office. Mr. Sands also ap-, Green castle For several years he was peare.'l the board Wednesday ! a resident of Ladoga and .while there ^: n ’[ n K wi th attorney C. C. Gillen attended the Ladoga Normal school.
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
Indianapolis Bank Rohhnl
INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK Hogs 12,000; including 6,000 pigs; holdovers 1«0; 5 to 10 cents higher;
BANDITS USE PLYMOUTH CAR WITH OHIO PLATES TO
ESCAPE
Miss Grace Peiper entertainer! a ■-
nuTrber of her girl friends with a 0rB€IM . ailt | p WPrp no tjfie|
130 to 160 lbs., $3.5(» to $4 00; l«0 to won , Borgia Sewanl, Marie Priest. ; to7l T’lyimmth auton,'’!'
one’* mind.
First was the que.tion of the extent of real support behind the radicals ai I intelertual who, with th* rank anil file of the army, seized
power.
Sc owl was the fact that hardly any leading political figures had declared for the change, and that the powerful ABU revolutionary soviet,' had announced its ‘‘expectant, vigi-
lant neutrality.”
Third was,the tempi r . f the en-li-ted men. The revolution was
., I unique in Latin America in that it
BLOOMINGTON, Ind , Sept. 6- 1 ; " n, ‘ fro1 " boIow instead of from Mrs- Laura Beck, 24 years old, wife , hi * her politicians. The enlisted men, of John Beck, high school basket toll ’ working with the government, were coach at Plywouth, Ind ,'waa WIM. w« pomt, Md Uka-
were injured *lv tf ' be dictatorial. There was grave
when the automobile in which they t whether the non-c mmissionad were riding ran off state road 271 »^'cers could enforce di.-ciplme for
jbe of guilty h, w.i , fined $5iN) and
, .i.q on a posse ;ion charge and $10 .'ed cost on the intoxication charge.
Mayor Denman then gave Foster
I his eh lice of being committed to j prison for failure to pay the fines or I of leaving the city for five years.
Fo ter asked three days to get his
!affairs in shape after electing ban-
i-lniient from the city as his choice. WOMAN KILLED AND TWO GIRLS IMI RED IN CRASH
""h Vermillion’s memorandum of the ] 1>urin his residence at BiUingham l "' itngK. nucking sows $3.15 to I and r j ara MoClurg. i-.* - * were riding ran off state road 27 Final action on the salary he ^ egaee I in the insurance bus- ^.7 ‘o pac K J S C V McWethv'and dfugh-’ bR " k r^bery tn Ind.anapohs. Cunty n , irth ()f here yi ,- tpr | a y and .over- long. ^priation was deferred to the af- ’^s !! ":. united in marriage to $3^, . I Mrs. . N M.Wethy and .laugh aml authorati*. In othor towns *
I *™ oon ses8 ton Wedneaday. | Mauris Burford.
...ii and city authorities in other towns . ...
Cattle 1.500; active and steady; ( , erg returnetl home frww a visit # with surroun i| inK the capital city received ‘^cd three times
^ w ST*; eounfll I - «» »I %£, JS in lh ' — —‘ ”■
daughtei. Mis- ^, unit i utters ifl.26 Hn,,i/, |
Two men robjoed the Massachusetts
Mrs. B« ck suffere i a fractured skull and died before she could to brought to a local hospital. Her com-
tors m the afternoon they were s0n Ralph and a daughter, "•"•I" , eutteri and cutters *1.25; Terre Haute . , . . . . , — ® ° hll, ' ated lo make the attendance Wa | t er W aters, toth «f Billingham. »’’ ’ . () ,. f , nts h i Khe r, bulk p r .,f. |fc A Ogg attended a farm- AvenuP StatP bi,nk thw of an w “'-; I'snl. ns, Mirs F su or D dson of Of ^ " ( '’ r appropriation because he had three brothers, Thomas and Henry ^- 0 “ )o ’ wn , ers institute at Markleville. ! mated $21,000 cash while six heavily | tertoin and Mis- Mary Ho-ey of Ft
it ' ''' p, | a f^quisition with the aud- Billingham, and < harles of ( raw t ” ^ sheep 2 50<); weak to 25 cents c. A. Kelly and daughter Vera are 1 / llis ‘'ff'^e next year. Members dsville, and a -ister, Miss Marie | owpr . hu j k >nd wether lambs $7.00 i n Chicago on a buying trip. p rount ''l signed the budget with-1 ,»f Billingham , ton iT ’S' bucks *1.00 less; Ben King was a business visitor in r nclu ding any appropriation for | The funeral sendees andto. rial took ^ | Bainbridge.
^
f"® “ftendence officer.
armed companions waited outsile
two automobiles.
About »50(> of the loot was in 50 cent pieces, bank officials said.
Wayne, both Indiana university students, suffered only minor injuriesanother automobile crowded the Beck
car too closely as it rounded a curve, j Franco.
In charge of the army was Batista —two days ago a sergeant, today generalissima. Two professors,* a lawyer, a newspaper man and a former hanker made up the executive committee that is the government— Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, Dr* Guillermo IVrtela, Dr. Jose M. Irszarri, Sergio Carbo and Porfolio