The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 May 1934 — Page 1
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OUNTY clerk (JETS BALLOTS for primary
lMO OFFICIAL BALI/)TS NECESj VRV for election on TUESDAY
CANDIDATES LISTED
Bfrouti Chanires Required By Law In Printinir Of Ballots I his Year
Ballots for the primary election to held next Tuesday. May 8, were livered to John W. Herod, clerk of , Putnam circuit court, Friday by Daily Banner. The printing of ballots has besB underway for the t two weeks, and it proved to be of the most intricate jobs we a ever undertaken. Not only were them thousands of Hots to print, but them were thound? of changes to be made in the Hots during the time they were belt printed. The primary election law requires nt where them are four or more -didates for any one office, the for this office must be “ro‘ed." This means that in seven of i county races on the Ihemocratic ket this year, the names had to be tated. The law fixes the highest tuber of candidates for anyone ofas the base of the rotation, and this primary, the base was 13 bethere wore that many candites for the Democratic nomination r sheriff. Then other offices to be tated were auditor, clerk, treasurer, mmissioner first district, and asssor and in sevefn of the 13 townips, the name of the trustees had be rotated on the Democratic ket and about that many on the am ticket. In the city of ncastle, because* there are four r city clerk, there were 600 rotans necessary. For the Democratic primary a tolof 10,245 ballots were printed and rthe Republican primary a total of 55 were required. In addition to is many ballots a total,,of 7,190 roions were made, the ehabjfe being every thirteen ballots. This ro'tion makes it possible for every adulate for sheriff to be at the top the ballot a total of 770 times for entire county. The numbers here the names of the candidates do change on the ballot, but the sition of the names change every 13 ballots wdre printed. It is a ■ of the last shall be first agid the Jt shall be last.
Killed
GREENCASTLE. JNDIANA, FRIDAY. MAY 4. 1934.
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mm* t ■■n Representatives Sol Han ly, member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the Thirty-fourth District, who was found shot to death Thursday in a wooilsheel behind his home at Marshall, 111. His shotgun was found beside the body.
illiam A. Mace Dies Thursday
TIVE OF I’l'TNAM COUNTY SITU MB* IN ST. LOITS HOSPITAL
William Albert Mace, aged 63 years rmerly a resident of Putnam county Poland, died early Thursday : "bng i„ the City Hospital at St. uis of injuries he receive i four nth.- ago. Mr. Mace was a city em- > and suffered injuries to one of legs while at work which resulted bloo'fl poison. Tbe deovised was born in Putnam j1, y ® n, l was a son of Jas. Mace, inw farmer of that county. He is n ^ed by four daughters an t three >l * Hl iline, Uenieve, Marie, Lucille, n, Howard, and Horace Mace, all •''> louLs; also two sisters, Mrs. n <‘ Skilker, of St. I/mis, and Mrs. iW! Johnson, of Reelsvi Lie. ? holy was brought to Brazil m, ’ r,1| ng and Liken to a fun[lending funeral arrange-
TUCSON CHIU) MAY BE I REED TODAY, BELIEF
6-YFAR OLD JUNE ROBI ES F.XPE(TED TO BE RELEASED BY KIDNAPERS
TUCSON, Ariz„ May I, (UP)—Return of June Robles, 6, cattle fortune heiress, was expected today, the United Frees leariiqd from a source idose to the child’s family. Secret negotiations for payment of ransom, probably the $ 15,000 asked by the man who abducted the girl nine days ago, were reported near conclusion. Al Aguirre, frieml of June's elderly and wealthy grandfather, Bcmabe RoFiles, and other persons, were said to tie. acting as intrrmnliaries. Federal, state ^ -1 county authorities, meanwhile delayed resumption of their investigation into the kidnaping to allow the negotiators an opportunity to effect release of the child. Police activity was halted several days ago at the request of the Robles family and on demand of the kidnapers. It was bedieveil that Aguirre was in Sonora, Mexico, where he had arranged final ransom negotiations. He has not been seen here since Thursday when he Hi-appeared from a bus be lioanh-l at Nogales. The elder Robles and the missing girl’s father, IFernando Robles, exhibited confidence and Ixilief as the time for a climax to the kidnaping drew near. Their tenseness was gone, but they continuer! to refuse to diseuss their plan. Department of Justice, officials in charge of investigating the case indicated they immediately will step in and renew th ir ■arch for the abductors if present negotiations collapse and the child is not returned today ns expected.
II \ N h TO CLOSE Both Green i-tlo banks will be dosed next Tuesday, election day, it was announced Friday.
Ohio \ouths Ait Released
PARENTS OE YOUNG MEN SETTLE FOR <• VSOLINK TAKEN FROM STATION
Todty’i Weather and @ Local Temperature ® tl h ' y l0Cal 8howprs and f, xeept gemma I ly fair east tonight; not much change in Perature. Minimum .. " «a. m “ 7 »• m. ; :*•» ;; ;; a.m.. 82 Noon 84 P. m. 86 P- m, 85 87
Three Ada, O., young men, Wayne and Jack Tripplehorn, and Charles Jameson, taken into custody at Mt. Mwidinn Wednesday night after they had taken some gasoline from a filling station, were released Friday morning to their parents, following settlement of the damage at the station. The three young men, enroute to Oklahoma broke locks on a pump at the Sylvan Vermilion filling station, and took a small quantity of gasoline. They were seen and captured by Virgil McCimmack who turned them over to Sheriff Alva Bryan. Investigation revaaled the young men .were from prominent families in the Ohio city nnd their release was effected following settlement for the damage they did at Mt. Meridian.
PRESBYTERIAN MEETING HERE THIS WEEK-END
YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONFERENCE AT LOCAL CHURCH OPENS SATURDAY
TWO-DAY SESSION PLANNED
Program For Meetings Saturday And Sunday Announced Friday Morning
The Presbyterian church of this city will entertain the spring conference of the Young People’s League of the Presbytery of Indianapolis on Saturday and Sunday. Those attending the meetings will be entertained Saturday night in the home* of the community and in the student houses of residence of DePauw university. Mothers of local Tuxis and student group members will be in charge of the conference supper Saturday evening. The theme of the gathering will !>e “Adventuring for Christ.” The program is as follows: Saturday 2:00 Registration. 2:3(1 Worship. Grover Hartman, leader. 2:45 Youth budget plan. Rev. D, Robert Hutchinson. 4:15 Business. 5:00 Recreation. 6:00 Supper. » 7:00 Worship. Troub Memorial youny; people. 7:30 “Adventuring for Christ In My Relationship With Others” School, Betty Ferguson; business, Norman Boron; social, June Woodworth. 8:00 Play, “The Color Line.” The West min ister 1 ’layoffs. 8:40 Candlelight service. Sunday 9:30 Five objectives of youth spiritual emphasis. Dorothy Cleland, Margaret Schofield, Rev. Douglas Vernon, Cliff Bradley, Ruth Williamson. 10:35 Worship. Sermon theme: “Adventuring dangerously for Christ” Rev. Victor L. Raphael. 12:00 Dinner2:00 Address, Rev. G. A. Frantz, D. D. 2:45 Installation of officers. 3:00 “My Committment,” Rev. R. J. McLandress, D. D.
SPORTING CLUB HELD MEETING THURSDAY The Putnam County Sporting club held an interesting meeting at the courthouse Thursday evening. Thirtyfive members were present. Thu principal speaker <.f the evening was Game Warden Riley who spoke on violation of game laws He said that dynamiting, using nets, seins and traps were forbidden. Use of any kind of a seine between April 25 and July 15 is a violation of the state law. According to Mr. Riley -caning in small streams for minnows destroys the nest of the small fish and tends to make them scarce. He recommended the use of minnow trap for catching bait. The speaker told of a case where four men were convicted of dynamiting fish in Green county. He said they got forty pounds of choice fish for a fish fry, but that t io ultimate cost was $25 a pound. Fred Pease, president of the club, told a story which he said Mr. Moore, Mr?. Fuller and Mr. Denny could verify, of seeing a fish jump three feet out of the water. Hu added that the gills were barely showing. Ira P. Nelson of the state department of conservation will be the principal speaker at a smoker to he held in Clovcrdalc May 10. The public is invited to attend this meeting-
MARRIAGE LICENSE Jack Moffett, merchant, Indianapolis, and Mary Akoman, cashier. Greencastle. Julian H. Schone, cattle buyer, Atwood, and Gladyt Jackson, at home, Richmond. P0ULTRYMEN MEET Putnam county poultry officials: fil'd b' Ihe assembly room of the court house Thursday evening to drake plans for the annual picnic to *.e held the first half of June. Com-’ niitlees were appoints and other plans made for the cvenit. A basket dinner will b» one featur whil - talks by Purdue specialists and other poultry experts will he on the day’s program.
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state Road 43 work
Preliminary work on the state road 43 improvement on Washington and Jackson streets in Greencastle began Friday morning when the streets were blocked off and preparations made to begin excavation of the present surface. A shovel for the excavation work arrived Thursday evening. W. E. Pickens, contractor, expects to rush the work through to completion as rapidly as possible, which will be within a short time, judging from the speed with which Mr. Pickens and his associates completed the paving of the nine othqr blocks in the downtown district.
Morgan County Youths Hold In Extortion Plot
TWO PARAGON MEN ALLEGED TO HAVE DEMANDED MONEY UNDER THREAT INDIANAPOLIS, May 4, (UP) — Two young men. sons of prominent Morgan county families, were -arrested at their homes today by Indianapolis police and federal agents on charges of attempting to extort $25000 from an Indianapolis business man. The suspects, Carlos McNeil, 26, son of a Paragon physician, nnd Jamefs Woods, 23, also of Paragon, will be brought here later today, police said. Identity of the victim of the attempted plot was withheld by police. The (demand for the money was contained in a letter which instructed the intended victim to take a train from Martinsville Tuesday and drop the package when ho sighted a flag on the south sHc of the tracks near Vincennes, police said. The letter had been mailed from Martinsville Sunday night. Two Indianapolis detectives accompanied the Indianapolis man and left the train when they sighted a large white flag attached to a tree near Fkragon. Whe no one spreaerd at the scene Tuesday or Wednesday the detectives began an investigation which revealed the flag had been stolen from a Paragon church. McNeil and Woods were arrested after it was learned they had visited .Martinsville recently. Both were said to he college graduates.
H. R. Krehl, West Columbia street has returnedl to his home from the
in Indiana.polpt.
| Methodist hospital
Two llralth Talks Are Given Here
DR. THURMAN B. RICE ADDRESSES STUDENTS AND PARENTS Dr, Thurman B. Rice of Indianapolis, gave two excellent addresses In the high school auditorium Thursday as a filling climax in the local school's qelebi .utlon of National Child Iballh Week. Through the courtesy of the locai Kiw an Is and Hotary clubs, the high school Htudmt body was permitted to h'VU' Dr. Kiio in a special afternoon convocation. Dr. Rice (alken frankly and impressively to the stu dents about the care of their most prim less possessions strong minds in strong bodies. 11“ made It clear that the ultimata happiness of their family lives as well as the ptopogatlon of a strong race, would dep. ml upon this respect for tlrdr bodies. in (lie evenliKB, through the sponsorship of the high school P. T. A., Dr. Rice addressed the parents upon essentially thi hhiiic topic, but In which he stressed the parents' responsibilities in the matter of giving their child proper Informatlm about the problems of life and in er«atlng a wholesome, truthful honi" environment. Dr. Rice was entertained with a dinner by members of the local Mi dleal association. 20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
Dilliiitfer’s Girl Leaves Court
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DILUNGER IDENTIFIED IN HOLDUP
INDIANA OUTLAW AND COM* PANION ROB OHIO BANK; KIDNAP TWO EMPLOYES
LOOT ESTIMATED AT $15,00(1
Bandit,! Shoot Way Through Foatorld Police Using Employes as Shields' Officer Badly Wounded
John Dillinger’s Mviytheairt, the black-hairid
pant Ini San Evelyn
Freschetti, pleaded net guilty in Judge M. M. Joyce's gun-bristling Ki d eral Count in Fi'., Paul to the ehargt .if havlmnig Public Enemy No. I. Never has a des|>erae criminal been guarded in.ire carefully than wa^ Evelyn! Four heavily arim i .leputy marshals it with her in th,- car that, took her the three bloeq from the Ram-y County jail to the Federal Building. Ten offic, rs redo behind her in, two other cars. Still others 1 , stood at po along the curb. Picture -hows Evelyn Fre < hotti, shielding face from photographer, as she wa- leaving the Foil ral
Building.
Sanders To Resign G.O.P. Post June
WATSON MENTIONED \S NEW CHAIRMAN OF N ATION \L COMMIT! EE
eration of Indianapolis. Two children, Miss Charlotte Brandon Howe, connected w ith the administration of Bryn Mawr college, I'hila lelphia, Pa., and Thomas Carr Howe, Jr., of the San Francisco, Cal., Art Museum, were expected to arrive here today. Another son, Addison, i- a student at the Indiana Law School.
WASHINGTON May 4. (UP) — Political gossip today put former Senator James E Watson of Indiana | in the forefront of a scramble for chairmanship of the Republican national committee w’hieh will ho vacated June 5 by Everett Handers. Watson is one of a dialf dozen eligihles in whose behalf various party factions are maneuvering. Announcement last night of Sanders’ intention to resign was not preceded by an agreement regarding a successor. Watson came to congress in 1K94 and entered the senate in 1916 after political apprenticeship under the late Speaker Joseph Cannon, lie is 70 years old. When he was defeatiri in the 1932 elections, Watson was Republican leader of the senate. Four years previously he was one of the Republican old guard which sought to prevent nomination of Herbert Hoover for president at Kansas City. Sanders’ retirement next month will end the Hoover-Mills wing of the party since 1932. Hoover's friends are convinced, however, that thci former president is determined to fight to retain some share of authority in shaping party policies toward the 1936 presidential campaign when the Roosevelt new deal will be up fur referendum. Sanders, whose illness in recent weeks had given rise to widesprearl reports that he would resign, called a meeting of tdiq national committee for June 5 it Chicago to pick a suc-
cessor.
Skirmishing over Senders’ chairmanship has lieen going on for some time between the wing of tin- party loyal to Hoover and other elements. Sanders managed Hoover’s campaign in 1932. Among probable successors other than Watson are Colonel Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, former Senator Walter E. Kdgn of New Jersey, former Senator George Moses of New Hampshire, Charles D Hilles, New York enmmittueman- and Henry P. Fletcher, former ambassador to
Italy.
PRE-PRIMARY CAMPAIGNING NEARS CLOSE
INTEREST CENTERS \ROIND RACES FOR CONGRESSIONAL NOMIN A I IONS
INDIANAPOLIS. May 4, (UP)—A pre-primary campaign in whieh one out of every fifty v tors in the state is seeking nomination drew rapidly toward conclusion today. A few rallies and speeehe, are scheduled over the weekend hut a majority of thq i.and dates are ready to await decision of the voters. The “new deal” idministration of the Democratic party will receive Its first test in Indiana enly insofar as it comparison of vote- is i nneemed. If the Dentin ratic v-ite total compares favorably with that of the 1932 general election, the ‘new dealers” will feel confident of election next
November.
Repuhliean and Do rorratie candi-
dates for congn (ate legislature, city, county and township offices will
Ite nominated in (he primary. Iteliygates for th* .-tute Democratic
and Republican *'-riventions next
month also will he nominated. A survey of '.rj Indiana counties i
showed that 3i'-.'i(>0 i andi-iates are | ,
-CHICAGO, May 4- (UP)—An army of 10,000 police and federal agents turnevl toward roads leading from northern Ohio and Indiana today ns the result of identification of hunted John Oillmger as one of two bandits who robbed a Fostoria, O., bank of $15,000 and kidnaptvl two hank employes. Diverted from the concentrated search which swept through ( nicago gang haunts after discovery here of a blood soaked automobi! len bv Dillinger gin gators neai St. Paul, the man hunters bent ever, effort toward interrupting the outlaw b r ho doubles hack to Chicago from tho scene of the latest crime nttri. jtc ’ to
him.
Ralph Barbour, assistant en h er of the rnbb°d First National bank, was positive in identify ia e .i ier of the two bandits as Dillinger “It was him, w ,ut any jestion,” Barbour said, “only h, w.-re no mustache.” Mi-s Ruth Harries, bookkeeper wh' wa . used by the bandits as -a livi shield against bullets of a posse 1 police, also believivi one of her captor- was the much wanted outlaw. “I can’t he positive," -he said, “hut I noticed the peculiar expression of his mouth and I think it was Dillin-
ger.”
Ohio and Indiana police were mobilized by radio to blockade reads after the bandits -hot their way past police who attempt)*! to lork them in the hank. Chief of Police Frank P. Culp, 69, was critically wounded in the battle. More than 10(1 shits were
exchanged.
Three otilei iiersniis, including Ed [ Walters, 62- a former policeman, I wore wounded. The others were Roy Feasel. farmer, and an unidentified
bystander.
Fleeing the hank through a store opening off thq lobby, the bandits held Miss Harris and William (5. Daub, assistant cashier, in front of them as shields. Daub was forced to carry a hag of bonds and currency snatched from tills. Swiftly hut calmly loading the loot into the rear seat of an automobile waiting at the curb, the bandits maneuvered themselves into the car behind Daub and Mis- Harris, compelled their hostage- to mount the running boards and escaped. Police were helpless in the face of a machine gun and revolver, trained on their ranks from behind thiy two hank
employes.
Federal agents leading the search for Dillinger here did not abandon a belief that the outlaw may be hiding on Chicago’s south side nursing three serious bullet wounds, although they concentrated their efforts toward preventing his re entry to the city if ho participated in Hie Fostoria raid After two days of futile surveillance of every criminal haunt along 300 miles of lake front communities, i authorities already had reached the om lusinn that Dillinger, or mem*
. hers of his gang who abandoned
seeking nominatin' The total vntP I Tue.- lay the car found bore was hid-
in the 1932 general elect(on wu.l,^ in -xihurbs. 1,576,879. j - rhf> fHct th t th ,,
State
on the the 12
wide inti'ti t will he centered race for congr* s with all of Democrati' im unibents -eek-
Georgo Christie was a ilsitor in Martinsville. Churles McGaughey was here from Roachdale. Miss Kate Oliver wait a visitor iti th* city from Fillmore, Mrs. Jess Bi'°nier was hostess to the Penelope cinb. Elmer Vaneleave and Harry LaUue attended the D“Pauw-Wabash baseball game at Craw lordsvllle.
DR. HOWE INJURED INDIANAPOLIS, May 4 (UP)— Dr. Thomas Carr Howe, 66, former president of Rutler university, was reported in critical condition at St. Vincent's hospital today from injuries received when he was struck by an automobile in a street near his home. He suffered injuries about the head and body. Dr. Howe wais president,of Butler from 1908 to 1920. He is president of tho pension fund of the Disciples of Christ and two days ago wps reelected president of the Church Foil-
ing renomination.
Interesting eonte-t have developed in the seventh, sixth, and fifth congressional districts. In the seventh, tin) veteran Arthur Greenwood, Washington, is Iming closely pursed by Floyd L. Young, Vincennes attorn* y. Greenwood is said to have lost the favor of the ,-tate administration while Young is claiming sponsorship of Gov. Paul V. McNutt and other influential state
office holders.
Two other Deni' crat - and five Republicans are candidates for nomination in the seventh district. Mrs Virginia Jenckcs, Terre Haute, Indiana's first and only woman member of congrq-s. has strong opposition for the ixth district nomination in Charles C. Whitlock, Viga county prosecutor.
Mrs. Mamie Reed Of Cloverdal who was serious!) injur'd In »'• autoniohll ai* ident, recently, was reportid Improving ‘at (he count) li'wpiml Friday.
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the north side of th- 'i f \ ‘he- argued- indicated in it i tiiat the wily outlaw was not in tha vicinity by the time it was dis ovi-rcd. INDIANAPOI.'S LIVESTOCK F 6,000; h.-nlmi ■ 163; mostly 5 cents higher; - Icr/i i' lead), 160 to 200 lbs., $3.75 1 $3.80; 2bO to 300 lbs largely $3.85; -everal $3.9o‘ 300 lbs. up,.$3.60 to $3.80; 1 40 to I'*'' lbs., $3.25 to $3.50; 120 to 140 ’ $2.60 to $3.00; 1 it) to 120 lbs., $2.0 • $2.25; parking s’i'V- $2.75 to $3.26 Cattle 300; calves 700; sG ers and heifers negligible, cow-, sternly; hulk $3.00 to $4 50: lew cutters and cutters $1.75 to $2.75; ve tiers 50 cents higher, $7.00 down. Sheep 300; -toady; shorn lambs $8.00 to $9.00; clipped sheep, $3.'Ml to
$4.25.
There will he a meeting of the directors and committee chairmen of the Chamber of Commerce at the First Citizens bank this evening at 7 o'clock.