The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 November 1933 — Page 1
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M STRIKE Sri’UATION IS TENSE TODAY
WEST FARMERS TIGHTEN icket LINES IN C AMPAIGN FOR RELIEF
LENCE IS REPORTED
g Appear* To B** OnU-r Of Fight Being Waged For Agricultural Aid
ES MOINES, la., Nov. 7, (UP)— ball led mid western fanners drew ■et lines tighter about market centolay i» an effort to force immeacquiscence to their demands imreased prices of farm products. many sections striking farmers :(J the highways with violence. men have been killed and more i ah injured since the strike was rated two weeks ago. Thousands ollars worth of property has been troyed. second railroad bridge burned the past 24 hours was reported on main line of the Illinois Central seen Cleghorn and Meriden, la., -y Origin of the fire which deyed the 60-foot bridge was not wn. A bridge on the Great Northlino near James, la., was burned terday. wanting of governors and law orcenrent officers and counsel of organization leaders to avoid nice have been met with additioniolencp. In many places sheriffs’ have born helpless. ,ill ah'iig the “western front’’ bellifartn forces figuratively “dug for a Ioiik winter’s fight. Fiery mar balled a force estimated 110,000 to 250,000 active.pickets in r stales. Hide depleting destruction of tietiy and disregard for life Milo Jo, Farm Holiday association presiurgel the farmers to continue | strike “with all the power you
ess.”
strike, Reno said in a stateJf, "wit/ pephaps l>o a long and Itr irurcle ami no man can fore- | the end " The president, he said, I "'definitely and deliberately gen his pre-election ranspaign Pge" to the fanners. “It is foolish temp'-ri/.e longer with the sitnaRefusal of President Roosevelt to ede to demands of five mid-west-g seniors for the pegging of i prices, inflation and a morafum "f farm foreclosures, .added *o years of smouldering disconf‘b | d help us then, for the war is one Wisconsin strike leader exlimed when informed the federal Jternment bad refused to alter its fm relief policy. “We are fighting defensive, not an aggressive war" Governors of farm states Where the nk" has centered watched manifeslimis of violence with growing apthenaion. Gov. Clyde Herring of R’a declined to order troops into p strike area about Sioux City. Fit a cattle train was halted and ip*ied, two railroad bridges burned
■i highways blockaded.
After a conference with state legistor- and representatives of the Wx City area, the governor said be •hat sheriffs’ forces could cope M the situation. '“If the sheriffs mini enforce the law, then I’ll call
r ndlilia," hr said,
hn tight wins the blockade drawn •"'P Sioux City that only 1!* head
TO USE STATE POLICE INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 7, (UP) - Preparations are under way. to displace the national guard road blockade unit with stale police, A1 G. Feeney, state safety director, announced today. The guardsmen and state |K»lice combined in two barricades last night, one on the Na-tiohal road between Tene Haute and the Illinois line, and the other between Terre Haute and Clinton. State policemen will displace the guardsmen either tonight or tomorrow night, Feentjy .-aid.
DEATH KNELL FOR DRV LAW IS EXPECTED
CREENCASTLE. INDIANA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1933.
LOCAL SCHOOLS SHOW A GOOD ATTENDANCE
NO. 332
MARK OF 118.17 PERCENT AVERAGED FIRST SIX WEEKS OF SCHOOL
OTHER STATISTICS GIVEN
Grecncastle Dualities Fur 13 l nits Under State Plan For Itetermining Aid
END OF I8TH AMENDMENT APPEARS PRfkBAKI.E It) TOMORROW MORNING
Superintendent Paul E. Boston ls‘lieves that perhaps a new record for consistently high attendance was established in the Greencastle schools for the first six-weeks period. The attendance percentage for the entire school system was 98.17. The remarkable consistency in attendance was reflected in the fact that no building fell under 98 liercent for the period Following is the percentage attend- j ynce distributed by buildings anti sex: '
COED CARRIES GUN To CLASSES AFTER THREATS IOWA CITY, Nov. 7, <U1’)— A pretty University of low* coed, Margaret E. Hise, IS, West Liberty, la., carried a gun to classes today to protect her against the writer of extortion letters threatening kidnaping. While police considerel the thioe notes and four mysterious telephone calls Miss Hise has receded as the work of a practical joker, precaution- were taken yesterday and a guard was maintained at Delta Delta Delta sorority last nighi Police Chief V). H. Bender ordered an investigation and granted the girl a gun carrying permit. Three typewritten warning notes asked Mis- Hise to “get $10,000 from your father.” She is the daughter of a newspaper editor. The fii t was received Get. 26.
R ACCOON TO
BE GIVEN AN OUTLET
ISAAC SKELTON TO IMPROVE ROAD WEST TO NEW STATE ROAD 1.1 APPROVE SIDEWALK REMOVAL ( onunissioners Go On Record As Approx ing Removal of Curb Around Courthouse
and
ONE ELECTION Bainbiidge was the only town in Putnam county to hold an election today, with two candidates for township trustee, and clerk, on both the Democrat and Republican tickets. Two Women, Marie Bratton anl Muriel Nelson, are running on the Republican slate. FARM Bl REAL TO MEET Farm Bureau of Madison twns’uip will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock at No. 10 school house. Mrs. Lillie Scott will be the speaker. An excellent program is also being pre-
paieid.
All Farm Bureau members are urged to be present, and others are wel-
come.
TRUCK CRASH IS FATAL TO W. C. SHULL
MADISON IOW NSHIP M \N IN ItoBEin W LONG HOSPITAL
OILS
SUFFERED BROKEN
NECK
SIX STATES VOTE TODAY Only Three More States \rc Needed In Wet Column To Ratify
Repeal
Boys Girls
First Ward 98.12 98 62 Second Ward 1)8.66 98.06 Third War I 98.07 98.L’I -Maple Heights .. <)8.58 98.69 High School . 98.04 98 37 The attendance for five individual
I rooms went as high as 99 per cent j or higher. The.-e were Mrs. McCul-
lough (Third ward, grade five) 99.39
Total 98.34 J 98.33 | 98.09 | 98.05 ' 98.25
(Copyright, 1933, by L'niteil Press) Tile end of the 18th amendment and
one of history’s great experiments in
nrass compulsion by sunrise tomorrow | per 1 ie " t: MlHS Snider < Second ward < appeared likely today when voters of \ ^r 7 ,,CT . l-c . nt; !
six states passed on ratification of
the 21st (repeal) amendment.
THREE SULK NEW YORK'S MAYORSHIPS’"
TWO MILLION FAPECTEI) t AST BALLo l S TODW IN (HUH \M
TAMMANY HAM
SPOT
Thirty-three states already have repudiated the legislation that 13 years ago launched America on an
ley (First ward, grade two) 99.24 per cent; Miss Pitchford (First Ward, grade one) 99.09 per cent, and Mrs. Baughman (Third ward, grade two)
99.00 per cent.
The total average daily attendance
unprecedented police crusade to end 1 for (he period was 1358.08. ’This was the evil of drink. Only the repudia- divided 992.11 for the first elemention of three of the six states voting j tar> grades 1-8 and 365.97 for the today was needed to signal the end high schol grades 9-12. of prohibition. Under the state plan for determin-
ing the number of teaching units for
The states voting today were Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Utah. Results in Utah, North Carolina and South Carolina were exj»ected to be
close.
If the repealists are victorious, their objective cannot Irecotne an actuality until Dec. 5 or 6. Today’s elections are to name delegates to state conventions which will either ratify or refuse to ratify the repeal amendment The last of these conventions will he held Dec. 5 and 6.
which a corporation will tie entitled to state support, Greencastle will qualify for 43 units. This is three more than was originally anticipated and suggests the commercial significance of attendance under the new law. The number of units upon which the state- will make the first payment in January will he based upon average daily attendance up to and including October 1. The splendid record of the first six weeks was due to an unusual freedom
. frt m contagious diseases and to a
Not one of the 33 state* that voted L pIt . |1(li(1 spil . it of t , wp era t ion on the previously stood by the dry cause , (wrt of pllpiu am , paroMt s.
Assuming that the unbroken trend | will continue, the end of prohibition
will mean:
Employment of many thousands of workers direety in the liquor indus- I try—there were ovqr 72,000 so eui ] ployed in 1914—and jobs for many
others in allied lines.
New markets for farmers’crops. | many of which -how unprofitable sur- '
pluses. Expenditure of millions <»f dollars [ Saturday and Monday, the final
to rehabilitate breweries and distil-• two days of the fall tax paying pelories and to build new ones. J riod, were busy days at the county
The saving of money spent on en- | treasurer’s office, W. T. Handy, treas-
forcement—estimated at a total of ] uiar, reported Tuesday On Satur$500,000,<>00 for tlie prohibiiton pe-|day a total of $34,000 in taxes were
j collected while on Monday the total
Addition of an estimated $700,000,- j reached $2-!,OO0.
000 a year to federal revenue in | Delinquencies in tax payments this liquor taxes. Aready the taxes on i fall will la- less than 20 per cent, the beer have poured ,,n average of $17 - 'treasurer estimated. Delinquencies OOOJKM) a month f a yearly rate of i -wire greater among residents of the $204,000,000) into the national treas-i county than in Greneastic, It was U) . y 1 said, indicating that farmers had a The Volstead act. enforcing meas- mon- difficult time in meeting their
Collect $. r )7.0llll Taxes In 2 Davs
TREASURER redouts big days AT OFFICE SA I URDAY AND
MONDAY
Two Men In ita'ee \re Foes Of America's Mofti Tanunis I'olitiral Organization
NEW YORK, -V . 7. (Ul*>—Two million citizens of New York, divided into threo Iwstilf (amps, cast their ballots today in a municipal election, that, in its liewildenng promises anl confused issues, hi- no narallel in the history of America's largest city. Chiefly at stake iv;i the hold Tarn-
Removal <if the sidewalks
curbing around the courthouse w-as approved by the board of county commissioners at their meeting Monday-
The action followed recent agita-
tion fer removal of the sidewalks caused by decision of the state- to pave the south and west sides of the public square along the route of state road 43 Removal of the sidewalks and curbing (would give the state a much wider thoroughfare through the city and would also provide downtown Greencastle with much needed park- .
g space.
The coimnisisoners in appi >ving the sidewalk approval merely promised the!) cooperation with the city j and -tatet in any action they may
take in the matter.
Approval of a petition (presented by-
Daniel W. Fisher and forty-three j , other Raccoon residents asking for; j| r s, Maggie Scott. 2*> Beveridge improvement of a road known as | street, wa- called to Indianapolis * entral avenue in Raeco n from its I Tuesday morning by the dentil of her i intersection with the old route of i brother, John E. laigle, 53. who died load 43 to the intersection with the j of injuries suffered la-t Thursday new route of road 43. and repair of j night in a $45 hammer robbery at Railload street in Raccoon one block I the Cicoe hotel, where he had made s <"itli and one block noith f its in-j his home for several years. Death oc tersection with East street, was an | cur red at the City hospital where he | other important action taken by the I was taken 'following the robbery at j
i commissioners. j t ick
Improvement of Central avenue Resides Mrs. Scott, n brother, Athol •
will give residents of Raccoon an | Regie of
BROTHER LOCAL WOMAN DIES OF H AMMER ATTACK
MRS. M AGGIE SCOTT C ALLED TO INDIAN AI’OLIS (TUESDAY
MORNING
ASSAM.AMS UNDER VRREST Mr. Vnd Mrs. Howard Harding Alleged To Have \ttacked Man
For $15
Acrid.'nt Occurred On Old Big Four Right-Of-Way When I ruck Overturned
Wr'illiami C. Shull, age o9 yrnrs, living west of Gremlin tie in Madison township, is dead in the Robert WIxmg hospital at Indiana) ohs wh?re he was aken OiU'ber 22, following an accident in which he suffered a fiac ture l vertebrae and severed .pinal
cord.
Shull wa- injured when the truck in which he was riding with hi son, Kenneth Shull, overturned on the old Big Four railroad right-of-way, northeast of Greenca tic, pinning him in the oab The son, who wag driving escaped injury Shull was first renuved to the Putnam county hospital where attending physicians held out no hope for Ida recovery ( tie to the .-.eriou-nes f hi ' injure'-. He later was removed Itr the Long hospital The Shull family formerly lived in Indianapolis, removing to Madison township two years ago. Funeral er. vices and burial will be held in ndlianapoli at 2 o’clock Wcdnev-aV afternoon
MARK), SEPARATE SAME DAY
Suit for divorce was filed in the Montgomery circuit court Monday by Vera L Miller, of l.ai|oga, against her husband. Wayne Miller Tb"
Indianapolis, and several I complaint charged cruel and inhuman
outlet to r ad 43 to the south. Such j children, also survive. I treatment, desertion amf failure to
Hel I I t the hammer attack ale \ »)p,vute It stated the couple was marHoward Harding and his wife, Emma j ra ,,i Q,. t i5 ) u „d u rated the
over
with few 20 years.
May Harding, who weie arrested , j a y
political interruptions
an outlet has tieen sought since the
many Hall, most fnmmo of American • R & 0 rair<lild l . 1((ged , „ )Utc political machines, has ma.nta.ned <)f tom| w , l( , ro it w ,. nt un(lar th „
I railroad tracks at the south eige of
\ Raccoon.
- , » Commissioners will use gasoline. The election w»S„f a e-unplete <'0.T j fuml(j mak( . ilnpM , v ,.. administration ...d was culminat.on , mP1|ty jt was thf . w ,, rk of three years - sensation and scan- an)|pr KUpprvisioll „ f UilH , skn ,.
d»l. exposure - f municipal corrup- - ton WHshinfrtoM ,„ w . nship ,, ll)trat . t „ r . |
tion. and its iofl‘*ct»on in the most . .... r c t n I
vivid crusade for civic righteousness r A S * “"'pb' FRANK \SHWORTH RESIGNS
.. . for permission to nreet a pair of ten-
since the flush era of the gas-l.ght , t()|1 truck sca)et! fo| . pirtllic uae „„ t| , p
and gang-graft. I Excluding the monentities whose
shortly after the attack by capital j city police in assault and battery with intent to ki'l charges. iBoth are in jail under bond of $10,000 ca(h. It is said Mr. and Mrs. Harding
confessed the attack.
Coiitrivnr Ivsialr Tuesday
AS V F. W. COMMANDER Jl
ura* of the 18th amendment, will go!
. out with prohibition, according to a _<a tie were marketed in that busy ru , inK by ^ torri ,, v General Homer S. pst-a-k center yesterday. Milk an 11 Cummill( . Tber ,. .till is some legal
iner f< iKlstiifls were shipiied in by; , , L:„ ... . controversy on this p.»nt.
puns on whicb armed guanls rode, j
H" Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ne-j ^ ouUUn j i|1J? p l( ,blem will la- th.
P'Kh ♦ rucks bcannir th* farm prodIts were halted and tlieir contents
lax debt.
THE HEATHER
Fair and colder with heavy frost
| tonight: Wednesday fair.
If today's balloting brings repeal,
! regulation and manufacture. »*l r ,' TWO S*Iltt*IlCCd
{and consumption rf alcoholic heverI agep which will la* left to the individ-
ual state-.
Regulatory proposals are almost a- i .
numeious as the -tales, hut virtuuHy ' k | hew IMlWM \N AND ELMER
all seek to prevent return of the dd
Imped.
H n *o this maelstrom of festering M'onlent and resentment, of fedeial bun pollries, rode Gen. Hugh Jtfhnr n , ''hief of the president’s recovery
N r ’»n, today. At Minnoapolis he . . P ; irhl to will over farmers to a “fair I lUnft s: ' uol>
L|., , ‘ larmers to a . tan Al ,iong the ma.-s of measure unP • ->f •„,« government’, compre- , ( , nsi(i ,the Canadian sys-
piisne recovery program
For (oorn Theft
tern of package purchaae sterns to Isi
[PLAINFIEI.iV'*1 ml 1 ”^No^'' 7 - j ThiH the SHl, ■ ^
r r| ng Hill tourist cam'll), twx> miles > l 1, l u '"' s u l’ * N -«f here on the r,. u .t 1 «»» e l»‘‘*»K''' ,or
MrCAMMACK DR AH PENAL
FARM TERMS
Mathew “Jack" Bowman, charged with the theft of corn from Ed Elliott in Morgan county which w-as later
12 bottles, comprising w »'ter Wright at Fillmore.
, unt . l , awvoRr nsumptlon in one’ , was found guilty of petit larceny by
on the National r< ’ ad 'i , ' „ r hot ,,i room. It bans the sale ' Special Judge Donald Rogers of 1 held up early Monday by five, jr )n htltc , dining‘rooms and HI «mingt..n st M.rtinsv.lle Monday. * 1 ht» w h ( , k nockn(| George Ireland.; ** , and was fined $1 and costs and senL'77’ •" ,h< “ hfw4 With H ‘ rUn ; ; ^‘“e™"tl’t,*. have adopted this On- ‘bPH-ed to serve six months at the lnPj stole mx boxes of cigars, several i ’ ^ „ r a mmlification of it, <1^"« "' onth - of
o, have the system under cenaidera-Uhc sentence were suspended,
tion.
Elmer McCammack of
Jefferson who was
r rt ' m ' of cigarettes, $16 in money r’l radio. TYiey also tore the tele-
off the wall and tore ui' the | ,-.iniiHlnv sales i township, Putnam county, h-v Twi, pf theni wejP masked- and I implicated, with Bowman in the theft, the license number, which in-1 state statP " stH ,e costs and sentenced to sene 30 day.
r’ligation showeidi was issued for an ■ g 011 -
P'iianaixdla car-
controlled liquor storea.
on the penal farm.
names were on the ballot as one-man candidates for mayor, the voter- had three leaders from 13110111 to choose for mayor. They were: Mayor John 'P. O’Brien, the candidate of Tammany Hall: n portly humorless gentleman of irreproiirii- | able morals and unimpeachable home ,
life
Fiorello H. LaGuardin, candidate of the, Fusion-Republican party: a fighting politician of amazing energy and a record of political independence: • sworn foe of Tammany. Joseph V. M Kee. a “'regular’’ l Democrat who created a furore last year when, a- acting mayor for three months a- successor of Jimmy Walker, he rod*' to amazing popularity on u program of municipal economy. The (municipal campaign began, strictly speaking, when Samuel Seabury, an ancient enemy of the Tammany wigwam although himself a Democrat—conducted a pitiless exposure into the methods hi which the hall maintained its political dominance over the city. In the Scab'' y legislative invest!- | gat ion this 2b-year hold on the city was first definitely broken for the second time since Or. diaries Parkhurt ranged New York with his lieutenants and dug up his shocking evidences of the liaison between polities and vice. Heads fell like slates. A score of detei lives and policemen went to prison or were thrown off the fotce Magistrates resigned or were ousted. The New York sheriff was stripped of hi- office hy the governor Frank- ' lln D. Roosevelt. And finally. Janies J. Walker, under fire, resigned, find to Europe, i and settled down to a more felicitous , (Continued on Page Two) 20 Years Ago IN GRLKNCASTLB
stockpen road in Fillmore, also was approved by the commissioners. Allowance of claims against the county took up considerable time of the eomnii- ioners at their meeting
Monday.
Frank Ashworth, charter member 1 of Jesse M. Lee Post 1550 of the ! Veterans of Foreign Wars, who served the post, two year- as the first a Ijutant. resigned his office as commander for the coining year, due to ilt health. In a letter to the post Mr.
CHANGE IN LIBKAKI\N A-hworth expressed regret of being INDIANAI'OLIS, Nov. 7, (UP) i unable to .-ervi Sanford Ramine Mrs. W. I! D uglas.x, Shclbyville, to- 1 was elected to fill A hworth’s place, day replaced Miss Jessie- Boswell us j Mr. Ron.ine has been active in vetlibrarian i f tiie stale legislative bu- erans affairs since tbe war. reau. ' —
The chance was made by Pleas E. Greenlee, also of Shelbyville, secretary and patronagQ chief to Gov. Paul
V McNutt.
Reports 1 ml Dr. Charles Kettleborough was to be dismissed as director of the bureau along with othei released employes wore denied by Gmydcc, who aid, “He's all right.”
It A MASONS State, meeting Greeneastle chapter No. 22 Wednesday a 7:30 P M. Jas- S Walker, II P. E E. Caldwell, Sec.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO MD F.\« ISE DIRECTOR INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 7. (UP)
An advisory c-mmittce will be nHme<l to aid Paul P Fry, state excise director, in drawing up Indiana regulation- of whisky after repeal. Gov.
Paul V. McNutt said today.
The committee will lie composed of five or seven members and probably wall in,dude one minister, (he governor said. It will lie non-partisan. Serving in an advisory capacity, the committee may be made a )>ermanent
body, he indicated.
18.E DON NEK OVERRULES MOTION TO DISMISS PETITION
Hearing m a petition by Winfield S. McGregor and other heir of Belle F. McGregor, late llra/.il w'i«an, for an accounting by the executor of income from her estate over a |ietiod of several yeais, opened before Judge Wilbur S. Donner in rirruit court Tuesday morning, after he had overruled a demurrer to the' petiti-on filed by the executor. Judge Doimer also overruled a metion to dismiss Argument.- on the demurier and motion were heurd Monday. Heirs to the e-tste of moie than $300,000 are alleging in their petition that John M. Raw ley, executor, has failed to Iraki' an aivoiintlng of in-c-wne from the estate over a |iuriod of four years while the s,'n,e was in hi- hands. It is said I he} claim some $20,000 is unac (Tinted f-r. Attorneys from lliazil, fiom wliere the case was veimed, lndiana|ioli-, El wood, and Greqm astle, are involved in the case which pie cuts erme unusual legal points.
Iowa Farm Strike Pickets
William Kreigh was in Brazil <m business. Frank Allen and son Raymond spent the day in Indianapolis. Mrs. Kenneth Pock was hi ales* to the Pris dlla club. Mis- Elisabeth Treat of Clayton i* her^ visiting relative*.
The angry mo.»l of the Iowa farmer* wdw> have i.'en dumping live stock and butter truck* is shown in this picture of a picket group on one of the mai n highways lea, ing into Sioux Oitv, I -wa. All !he st ite and federal highways leading ifiUi this important Middle We t live stock and agricultural pi •duet* center are now effectively blockaded by farm striker pickets, who am determined that n 1 pro nets to move to market until the fanner* are assured of cos t of production prices. The pickets use large railroad ties t« barcude the highways.