The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 October 1933 — Page 1
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;ME FORTY-ONE ATEPOUCE robe INDIANA PRISON BREAK
sTI0N allw.kd actesSORIES OF SIX OF THE i-oNVirrs aN ARKBSTED SATURDAY jfkd a s Woman Who Accom- ■ ir i Pair "ho (iave Moni-y ,o Esrapwl Prisoners DIANAPOLIS, Oct. !). (Unpolice were active but secretive in their man hunt for eight who escaped from the Indiana prison. continued questioning of Saffell and Mrs. Margaret ns, alleged accessories of six of onvicts. hunted for other accessories ing Mrs. Mary Kinder, alleged ve brought the six to Saffell’s the night of the escape Sept, d a man and a woman who went he house and gave the men Behren was arrested Saturt he> home when she returned visiting her brother and husboth of whom are serving bank ry sentences at the state prison. T as identified by Saffell, who inie was forced to house the <onas accompanying the man and n who provided the money, revealed nothing, according to Matt Leach. other woman arrested here yesy -.va. released last night withr name being revealed. > didn't want her,” AI (i. state safety director, exd. “In her possession were il paper wrappers hanks use for ging lulls. She insisted she obd them in Chicago.”
Political Hurricane
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1933.
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NR A BUYING DRIVE OPENS OVER NATION
SLAIN
CBN HI CK JOHNSON REPORTS . WIDESPREAD ( OOPEKATION IN MOVEMENT
CONFIDENT
SUCCESS
Governor Mike Conner of Missis- , sippi, who not only imposed a sales tax on his State but now proposes to rewrite its Constitution. He hopes to consolidate counties, bureaus and departments so that the government may be operated within the revenues the tax payers car, provide, thus separating some hundreds of poli-
ticians from State payrolls. Booze Rumier Has An Accident
" RECKED CAR KM ND ON TION \L ROAD EARL) MONDAY
Y IN EIGHT " I I H Cl \KDS LAHOMA CITY, Oct. (UP)— (Machine Gun) Kelly, accused :e! kidnaper, w as struck over the ye with a pistol in a fight w ith I agents today as he and his Katherine, o trie red the federal ing for trial. ^ent .1. C. White wielded the t fight started when Katherine slapped White, and Kelly with cuffed hands, swung at the [bite , .night Kelly's hands and H tin gangster with his fist. As Jy > "ntnme. I the fight. White drew 1 d ; I tabbed Kelly. hard- kept back a curious, surg'crowd and the two defendants hurried into court.
A car believed used by bonze run
ners was wrecked in ati accident which f 1 _ ,a ' 1 F' 11 ' s -
occurred almost in front of the Indiana state farm gates on the National "" l *'
road, early Monday morning Sheriff Alva Bryan was called to
make an investigation hut said all he found was a wrecked Hudson coupe, a woman’s hat, a broken jug, and a strong i>dor of liquor All identification marks had been removed from the j car including the license plates and
container card.
Sheriff Bryan -aid the ear started to leave the lavement at the penal farm gates and plowed up the sod for some distance before turning a
Believes Campaign Will Serve Stimulant Bti-inesa Needs For Employment
WASHINGTON, Oct. 0, (UP) — | The administration’s buying campaign started today, with Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson confident that it would serve as the stimulant business needs to sustain em- : j ployment and payroll gains resulting | from NR A codes. A flood of telegrams and letters to , Johnson from all parts of the coun- ■ try over the weekend promised co-op-eration, through advertising and spi j cial merchandising campaigns. Manufacturers and merchant.-, ,: large and small, in every field of | business have pledged coopeiation | with the recovery administration and the consuming public in a buying push to ‘‘break ‘.he depression." John
son said.
| “Some, of the letters reveal new NA-! and improved prolucts to he offered the public, others report greatly inj creased advertising budgets as evidence of faith in the upturn, and all pledged their writers to maintenance
PRESIDENT PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION
Seriously III
wil l, force eastern miners TO ABIDE BY BU I MINOCS COAL CODE
LEGAL STEPS IF NECESSARY
President Demands lhat Operators Make Peace With Striking Pennsylvania Miners.
Johnson planned to dovetail his i
the campaign with consid-
eration of retail codes, action on which has be>en blocked by price con-
trol disputes.
O’Hair Funeral i
11(1(1 On Sunday!
HI RIAL Of* WIDELY KNOWN RE-
11KED FARMER VND OFFICIAL HELD AT BRICK CHAPEL
Oma Oversby, 2(l' • ar-ohl Chicago girl, whose body, with that of her funner husband. Rlchar l Alfini, son of a wealthy contra' tur of River Forest, 111,, was found in an automobile on a ron nenr Chic Y> ung Alfini had hot ai d killeh h former wife and then committed mic ale. The marriage of the young "u i* was annul
led lust March.
()\\\M M\ki;s FIRST YKSPER FALK SFNIHY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, (UP) I’resi lent Roosevelt stood ready today to take effective action unless Pennsylvania captive coal mine operators make peace with their -triking i employes. The operators promised the presiI dent Saturday to negotiate “in good faith” with representatives of the I strikers’ own choosing in attempts to I end the long tie-up of the captive
mines.
Mr. Roosevelt was represented as prepared to “put into effect -uch government assistance a may lie necessary” if the negotiations fail to end v the -trike! It was authoritatively indicated I that this “assistance.” would be use "f the recovery administration’s ma- ] chinery for settling labor troubles, hut. if necessary, would include court i action to force obedience to the bituminous coal code.
MARTIAL FWY ;* IS DECLARED AT SULLIVAN
PICKET LINES FORM \ROUND STARBUKN COAL COMPANY mine
SEVERAL HOMES \RE BOMBED
Adolph Ochs, noted New York publisher, who is in a critical condition following a heart attack. The career of Mr. Ochs rivals that of an Alger hero. He rose from newsboy to one of the most prominent places in the journalistic world.
Even in"; School Is Opened Here I OMMERt l \L STI Dl N I s t.l\ I N' OPPOK Il \m K* I VK E TW H ( ul USES
10.2it> TAX RECEIPTS
somersault and . lighting on its wheels
THE WEATHER t' i to pari ly cloudy tonight and Wiy. po sihly light rain in north Vti tonight; continued cool,
Funeral services for Henry O’Hair, Greencastle township assessor and a former city marshal, were hel,l Sunl day morning at ll o’clock from the Brick Chapel church. Dr. J. (J. Campbell was in charge. Interment was in the Brick Chapel cemetery. I Mr. O’Hair had lived in Putnam county during his entire life-time |and due to former busine-s and agri- | cultural connections in addition to I his work as assessor and as a city I official he had a wide citele of friends and acquaintances. The service Sunday was well attended as
responded to the influence of cooler deceased was held in high regard weather. hy all who knew him. Of the 25,900 receipts 12,000 went
direct to packers leaving a shortage on the open market and contributing to the highest top since July, 1932.
headed west- Th- ear was badly I
wrecked
It is believed the load of booze was transferred to another car and taken on to its destination. Occupants of the tar were fortunate if they escaped injury, the sheriff said HOG PRICES HIT IOP CHICAGO, Oct. 9, (UP) — The highest price in more than a.year was paid for choice hogs here today. A top of #5.55 was recorded as prices
DIS( I SSES SPAIN \ND HOW I I l> MEETING PKOI.KBMS OF
WORLD loll VY
ITALY NEXT SINUU N It ,11 I \k to Spain's Fuller, ((men Sahc? (Who Knows) Says Dcl’auw
President in Vddress
“Spain is making ,i tremendous ex-
lieriment in government,” Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, D< I'.iuw president, I said in the first oft j- aerie.-, of ad-
on the university vespers pro
As a result of general conditions
at the present time Greenca-tle high | () 1Pr orders,
school auth iritic- this year are opening an evening school for commejvial students, a course of 2-, le-sons to he offered each Tuesday an 1 Thurst ay evenings for the fir-t semester, be-
ginning this week
Miss Zella Adams, high school
spring and fall tax- j commercial teacher, will I" in charge This figure was sc- ! "f ,h e classes in shorthand and typ-
Yiolence Flares In Urolest Againsf Employment of Non-Union
Miners
,-Wf BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 9, (UP)-* ! Two of the five national guard com* i panics ordered to Sullivan county | coal fields today later were ordered j to stand hy for further orders. The action was taken following a j telephone call from Adj. Gen. Elmer ' F. Straub who told his office that pickets appeared to he dispersing I after arrival on the scene of two I Terre Haute guard companies. Coi. Robeson Hitchcock, a; i tant Adj. Gen., said .Straub told him the situation was not seriou a it first appeared. Hitchcock said Stroub wa flying over the area, watching develop-
ments.
With the two Terre Haute companies on hand, the third was in ving up from Evansville. Those at Martinsville and Attic i were later told to remain ready hut not to move until fur-
Some idea of the amount of work dene in the county auditor and county treasurer offices can he obtained hy the fact that the treasurer next I year w ill write a total of 10,246 tax
; receipts at the paying periods.
cured fiom the number of tax rates in the auditor’s office.
dupli-
Silas A. Hays Funeral Sunday
ing, either or both of which, are open to tho-e who desire to enroll. ( lasses will !h* held from 7 to 9 o’clock on
the evenings designated
Paul Boston, superinten ont of city schools, stated Monday that many for mer high school -tudents who were
SULLIVAN, Ind., Oct. 9, (UP) — Martial law was de, hired today withj in a two-mile square area embracing the Starbum coal mine, scene of an j outbreak tied a ecu union and non-
I union minera.
Adj. Gen. Elmci I • Straub flew to ' ihe scene in an airplane and reported | to Gov. Paul V. Me Nutt that hooting was in progre at the Starbum
| mine.
He -aid picket h; • were forming around the mill" near the Giepne I c ounty line.
I dre:
Gohin SIMPLE BIT FITTING KITES
gram Sunday ight in the
Memoria, muni, “As fo, the fu- ' HELD FOR WELL KNOWN
i turo, iiuirn 8ah< (Wh> knows?)”
is the "
unable thi year to enter institutions, (e vemer MeN’ult >' • n <1 national of igher learning, as well as a num-| j^uard eompanie ' ii • to tlio mine lx‘r of college students, have indi-I from Terre H v *e J ‘ » M^rtins-
cated an interest nj commercial cotirs- \ ilb. and Kvans\ i!b'
es. Many former commercial students N() ono * , . hni ;lt Sullivan but have also expressed a desire to keep i window- in t » lu- mp • f four men
Kellys’ Leaving ( ourt
ll FAILED TO SIGN FDR SCHOOL LOAN EXIKNSIONS Out of 272 persons holding school fund loans in Putnam county, forty- , ne have failed to sign either for loan extensions or for payment in installments of delinquent interest on the loans, according to " A. Cooper, county auditor. Under acts of the recent legislature holders of school fund loans are entitled to extensions on the loans, payment of delinquent interest by installments, and redo ti"n in interest rates from <> to per
cent.
“The fundamental problem
adaptation of the national psychology ' to changing r, anomic and political j conditions in the world today,’’ ho pointed out. “’I Spaniard i- first of all an individualist and naturally against solidarity as a national unit. He is a passionate and emotional type in which patriotism expresses itself in his country belonging to him, rather than himself belonging t" his
1 country.”
Dr. Oxnam quoted several waiters win, compared t ,* typical Englishman, the typical Frenchman and the ' typical Spaniard to show wherein the three differed. Ihe Kngli-hman is a 'man of action, th, Frenchman a man of thought and the Spaniard a man
> of passp n.
The new leader in Spain are faced with the oppo.-h n of three strong groups, he pointed out: I he nobility
Funeral services for Silas A. Hays
were held from the home Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock and many were pre.-ent from the city and from a distance. Dr. A. C Monger was assisted in the service hy Dr. C. Howard Taylor of South Bend, and a nephew. Dr.
Morris Turk, of Portland, Me. The services were conducted in a
simple manner and were a fitting tribute to the life of the leceased. Some messages frtim long-time friends were read as a part of the service, showing the high esteem in I which Mr. Hav- was held by all who knew him. The speakers also related some heretofore untold facts cotuerning t ie deep spiritual life of Mr. Hay- ,nd his attitude towaid-
the present world and the future. Miss Virginia Auyer of Chicago
, sang “Going Home” and Max .Wilson
in training while awaiting for posi
tions to open.
Superintendent Boston stated that only a nomial charge will he made ti cover cost of equipment and supplies.
MW \D.IOUKN CONFERENCE GENEVA, Oct. 9 (C'Pl War talk throughout Europe and a (omplete deadlock between France and German\ on disarmament, brought strong indications todai that the world di-armament conference, scheduled for the next Monday, would he adjourned indefinitely after , brief meeting.
re re shatt, '■ i hv I he bomb . Voscne White, one of the e wh >-e I,,)(»•«» was bombed, d hired that he had not been employ, I f i 21 months and that he thought the charge was thrown into his yard hy mistake Another home bombed was that of Cecil Fox. Violence flared at the •larlnirn mine Iasi week when pick,a alhered near the shaft t> pi ,’e a the employment of non-union w o I , . One man was killed when he w is run down by an autom, bile and in emp|, ye of the mine was beaten.
Ouell .Mine Disorders
or deposed ruling class; the church, j closed the service with a solo, “The
exerting itself in the deep tooted re- Prayer Perfect.” ligjon of the people, and the army The Sigma < hi
Mrs. Jor lawman Dirs On Sunday
which was political in organization. All three have combined to fight the
new order.
| The new leaders, he showed, have
adopted a new constitution that is a revelation in social justice insuring
| the workman a part in profits in ini dustry and the state a voice in na-
tional welfare industrially. The new
! order is attempting through edura'tbn to change the national psychol-
ogy which vacillates between two ex-
F\ Lewman, age 77 treme the individual and
nf Joseph A. Lewman, verse.
Sunday afternoon «it , T'ndei the old vstem her home in Bainbridge i 25 per cent of the youth
fraternity burial
service was in charge of Marshall D. Abrams, and the entire chapter at-
tended the funeral in a body. The Putnam County Bar Associa-
tion attended in a body.
Burial was in‘Forest Hill Abbey.
PROMINENT RESIDENT OF BAINBRIDGE SI ( < I MBS FOLLOW-
ING ILLNESS.
Mrs. Emma years, w idnw passed away 1:15 o'clock at
f, Rowing mi eight weeks' illness. Mrs. Lewman had spent most of her life in Bainbridge "id community ;,nd wa a well known resident. . She is survived by five ehildreu and eleven grandchildren. A 'ster, Mrs.. H. G. Brown, also survives.
uni-
only ibout
rated hy the state, Vi per cent hy at Hoi I ■ and tO per cent not at
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•SHEFFIELD RK< U AL TUESDAY. Prof. Vernon Sheffield «f th* Dc Patre School * f M" will give the
I first of a > series if recitals in Me- ^
harry hall Tuesday evening at X
o’clock. The pi ('grain will include,
three ballads hy Ch-pn. “Themes from Childhood” by Schuman
VMi
Kathryn and (; e( , rttP (Machine Giui) kelly, '‘''' rucvimeir'' ,i ' ' ^
to Oklahoma Citv, Okla. following
alleged (xirt in the Charles F Urschel kidnapm#
trial f’>r
CRACK TRAIN COMING According to John Hellinger, local agent, the Royal Scot, crack British passenger train which ha- been on exhibition at the World’s Fair in Chi- ; -ago, will pass through Greencastle over the Pennsylvania railroad, shortly after 12 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The train will he on display in Terre Haute from 8 a. ii). to 11 a. m. ! and then in Indianapolis from 13" to 9:30 p. in.. Mr. Hellinger .-aid he believed the train would slow up while going thro Greencastle w oh will allow- local people to get a good look at one "f the fastest railway vehicles in the
| world.
Danville on 1 I he la t will "f l.*wi- M H" ishire. well known (ircencastle man, wa- pr - bated' in circuit court Saturday The document leaves the entire estate t" his sister. Mi Clara.Hodshire Craw
♦at the homo of Mi-s Celia Talbott ley, and pr>vid> - that Theodore Craw TV Athletics defeated the Giant*, | ley shall t*e named executor of the 8 Gy 2 in the third game of the World’s estate The will was written by the
do’ceast'd AmrU't 2, 1933 an 1 witn^s
Roach* | HI Hamilton of the poUtoffire force | «ed by Ferd Lucas and Robert H.
20 Years Ago
IN greencastle
transacted business in
Edgar Priv Paris, 111*
Matt Murphy was
legal tk'l-llio-
Members of the S. C C Club enjoyed a hayride to the Half-Way and House *t Mt. Meridian Twenty-one
omller compositions by Hanlel, Hay-jmembera went in the party, meeting
dn, Grieg and McDowell. MARRIAGE LICENSE
Louis Gross, road w orker, and Mary i rerie
Sheckles, at home, both
dale-
j si>ent the day in Terre Haute. | Nowgent
(••nitain H-iriv I • (left) of the lllin-s Natiofal <i •' ! d »"'t mander ,.f.the tr " n Harrisburg area where fifteei n w ; -hot in j b«title between picket an f mine workers.