The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 May 1934 — Page 1
+ + + ♦ + + the weather rioi nv AND WARMER . * + + + ♦
+ + v +
Slime fortttwo
THE DAILY BANNER “IT WAVES FOR ALL”
* + + + + t ■* + + ALL TUE HOME •* + UNITED PRESK SERVICE •: + + + + •!• + + 4j
CORD VOTE IS INDICATED OVER COUNTY
tSAM (X)t'NTY VOTERS CAST bvllots IN primary ELECTION today
, nV SEEKING NOMINATIONS
rl i«| Contest* For Several Offices \\jll Make Returns Tonight of Interest
Putnam county voters went to the t], j n large numbers today in the unarj' election for the selection of juiidans for the major |Kirtiea in November election. Interest throughout the county, lode of Greencastle, and the inmst of the city was not lessened ,v, centered in the many contests ■ the nominations ajnong the moiratic candidates. Throughout i cunty more than 10 names uptired on the ballots and in all but {e»- instances, there was a hot eontt for every office, even down to at of precinct committeeman and legate to the state convention. In tne city among those interested tally, the primary centered around Republican nomination for mayor th a three cornered fight that has en notly contested for the past s«vil Meeks. In the county it would be hard to ywich of the races was attracting e most interest. There was a hot tht for the nomination for all ofM, including that of judge, prosper, clerk, auditor, treasurer, rerder, assessor, sheriff and commis/ner from both the first and third ♦tints. The sheriff’s contest, with the uniky number of 13 contesting, was largest field in the primary, but ;r.y of the above offices had more in four and five candidates, and it 1 Itake some time to get the votes tilted and tallied, once they are in ) ballot box. (With a total registration of aproxiJtely 12,(XM) in the county, it is be' !**d there will be more than a 75 t cent vote cast. The fact that in M of the townships, there is a const for tri-tee on both the Itemot and Republican tickets is expectto bring out a large vote among farmers, even though they are l ite busy planting com and getting ‘<ty for a summer's work. They arc expected to take time off to go to polls. Every housewife in the ^tmty v | probably be glad to see ? a ) pa mto history, because the numl r of candidates has kept busy answering door bolls and * in (f cards, and in speaking of XUs it is believed that many hunof thousands have been distritM to the county voters since the ■t of the year, when the primary i j began to get under way. The weather was ideal for a heavy I** an, I with a combination of good gather and great interest in the ju 'CIh of the election, a record vote being f. recast by many of the 7itical leaders. vote will be tabulated in the ? 'k’s office as it cione.- in f 1 " t e 3(5 precincts of the county, n d tabulation will probably not 1 'i until sohm t.nne Thu d. hut the winners will be known fiirly Wednesday. The first reI e petted much before n ‘lfht. The Democrat ballots will r.-t and by midnight the ^ ~ 1 'h'ubt will iK'gin to come 'wly from the various sections •be county. 1 crowd is (xp.-rted in (be [ ^ hou p tonight for the tabulation r, ‘t urns and it promises to he | t ' lnn tor all concerned until final tabulation is completed. oclock, the vote as reported Precinct officials from the city *ed the following: I ^ tirst, 130 out of a total regi rat '°n of 413. v.' u,tl ' irst. -75 to 385. , ocood, o«t of MV. I. com), rn out of sra I " 1 rd, 200 out of 871 J. "' h TWrd, i7r. out of 44*;. ♦ s !i! ! >,Urth - 170 «Ut of 335. f ,nu,h F ' ,ur th. 180 out of 388. I * iri: swam Town ,“ ,H - Mi «y « (UP) Flames I, i * ' n , * u ‘ ^ rp station tmlay na '"och (lie business district ( 1 "M’d m business establish* 0b * r-iin* the postoffice. |tv rem " r , hri ' k buildings in the ‘ Htned untouched by the fire. . Roikwell of Indianapolis ►fiv > R° c kwell of Cloverdale * vl “tor g here Tuesday.
GREENCASTLE. INDIANA. TUESDAY. MAY 8. 1934.
CLARENCE HUMPHREY INJURED IN ACCIDENT Clarence Humphrey, residing at Market and Franklin streets, suffered a severe cut on Ms head early Tuesday morning when he was reported to have gone to sleep and his car left the road, south of the National road on state road 43. Humphrey was brought to the office of a local phjsician where it was said ten stitches were required to close the injury. He later was taken to his home.
TO MELT AT ( LOVKKDALE 1 he Putnam Uountv Sporting dub will meet in the Clovt idale high school building Thurs, ay evening at 7:30 otlock. Ira P. Nelson of itho state conservation department will be the speaker and hi.- talk will ini of decided interest to tin farmers. It is hoped that there will be a large audience to hear iMx. Nek on.
$10.01)0 SI IT GROWS OUT OF AUTO CRASH
< I.OVERDALK PEOPLE INVOLVED COLLISION LAST SATURDAY
GARAGE OWNER Pl.MMiri
Cory Man Sues Ikon ( isle ofHanvilton Ohio, For Injuries and Damage To Truck.
RR.AZIL, Ind., May 8—Carl V. Jackson, garage owner of Cory, who sustained a fractured knee cap and other injuries in an automobile accident near liutler school house early Saturday morning h;us entered suit in the Clay Circuit Court against 18m Cisle, traveling salesman of Hamilton, Ohio, asking $10,0<M) damages for injuries he sustained an damage to his truck. The complaint, which was filed by Attorneys Hutchison & McQueen charges Cisle with reckless driving. It is alleged that he drove his V-8 Ford com]*: across the pavement into the side of the truck operated by Jackson and crushed it and that as the approximate result of said negligence the plaintiff was injured and damaged in the sum of $10,000. The complaint sets out that Jackson was rendered unconscious by his injuries, that his nervous system was badly shocke : and injured from which he will suffer for the rest of hi> life. It is also claimed that his lung tissues were badly bruised and lacerated an ' that he sufered severe injuries t-> his head an that all of said injuries are permanent. Both the plaintiff and the defendant in this case are still confined to •Jie Clay County hospital by their injuries but Mi Awril Hurst nnd Vernier Larkin, of Cloverdale, who were with Cisle an I sustained minor injuries have r< turned to their homes. Yuncker Will Take Parh To Komliiros
SPECIAL STUDY OF TROPICAL PLANTS \ND ANIMALS lo RE M \DI THIS SUMMER
Dr. Truman G. Yuncker, head of the science division ft DePauw university. and Dr. A. R. Middleton, head of the biology department in tbe University of Louisville, will conduct a party of graduate and undergraduate students into Central America thi--ummer to study tropical plant and animal life. The Lam tilla station of the Unite! Fruit Company near Tela, Spanish Honduras, will be used as a base. The jungle in this region is dense and typical of a tropical rain forest. Courses and research in tropical botany, tropical zoology and marine zoology- will l*-' offered student- by Dr. Yuncker atid Dr. Middleton. The party Is limited I" fifteen and will sail from New Orleiiu June 27. The trip will cover a period of ten we'-ks and it will be possible for the student to earn ten hours of college credit. It is being sponsored largely by the government of Honduras aJil the United Fruit company, the latter furnishing the boat. Little botanical work has been done in this region and Dr. Yuncker plans to make an extensive collection and a thorough study of this locality.
Members of the city council will hold 'heir regular meeting in the fire department building this evening at 7:30 o’clock.
NO. 174
FUNERAL FOR L N. K0ESSLER ON WEDNESDAY
WELL KNOWN GREKN4 VSTLE M \N PASSED \H \v MONITU AFTERNOON
SUFFERED STROKE ON FRIDAY
Deceased Was Horn at I.imedale. Employed Hy Railroad For Over Thirty Years
Last ritc.s for Louis N. Koessler, age (il) years, who passed away Monday shortly after 5 p. m., will be held from the Rector funeral home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. (lust Carlson, pastor of the Baptist ihureh will have charge. Interment ■vill be in Forest Hill cemetery. Mr. Koessler was born at I.imedale. For more than thirty years he was employed hy the Pennsylvania railroad and was classed as a master mechanic. He ufferoj a stroke last Friday while working at the cement plant and hi- condition gradually grew worse with death resulting. The deceased was a w-ell known citizen and was for years an active member of the Odd (Ftllow lodge. His wife preceded him in death on Nov. 6, 1924. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. E. R. 1 sher, Wadswort , O Mrs. (). A. Allen, Gary. Mrs. J. F. Hirt, city, ind two sons, Henry Koesler, city, and Fred Koessler, Bainbridge.
R. SANDS IS NAMED A I I EN DANCE OFFICER
Township trustees Monday by a vote of eight to two, re-elected H. R. Sands of Bainbridge as county attendance officer for the ensuing year. Although there was some opposition to the election of an attendance officer the majority of the trustees felt that such an official more than named his salary by increasing the average daily attendance on which teaching uits axe based. The county receives $*5*K) for each teaching unit of thirty-five pupils. This money is distributed annually by the state. It was also pointed out that several counties which did away with attendance officers arc now replacing them.
Oxuam To Make Many Vddresses
DEPAUW I’RESIDKM’ MUCH IN DEMAND FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE FALKS
Two university commencement ad dresses, six high chool commencements and four other important speaking engagements are on the speaking schedule of In. G. Bromley Oxnam, president of 18 I’auw university. The two university graduating classes he will addres are those of Kentucky State T< ic <1 > college at Richmond, Ky., May 2*8 and Ohio State university, June 11. The Ohio State eommencenirnt or urs 01, tht -:ime date as that of Del'auw and as 1 result Dr. Oxnam will be forced to use a plane from Indianapolis to (' lumbus, O., in order to (ill this engagement. He will preside over the DePauw exercise- at which Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle will peak during the morning and will him-elf -peak at Ohio State in the afternoon. His high school ,-.mmencements include Portland, May 22; Sullivan, May 24; Bedford- May 31; Pan a, III., June 1; Elyria, O., June •>; and Tudor Hni! in Indianapolis, June 8. Other engagements ineliido th< Mothel’s day address Sunday at the Gubin Memorial church here, the Men’s Brotherhood banquet at Bedford May 14, the Association of University Women at Purdue May la, and the district Epworth League here on June 12.
ESCAPE ASSASSIN \TloN
SAARJEELING, India, May 8 (UP)—Four natives attempted to assassinate Sir John Anderson, gover nor of Bengal, while he was sitting in a box with his daughter tixiay. watching the horse races. The assassins fired four shots point blank hut missed.' The governor's daughter, close by his side, was not hit. Polar cl'-ed in on the issailants, shooting one of them bead, and arresting the others.
Long Exile Ends M
Samuel In nil Sr. < hat less, in center of picture) a. he was greeted by re|><m 1 - and camera men upon his ana ,i in New York .Monday on hoard theS. .-. Fixilona.
SAM INSULI, IS RETURNED TO CHICAGO
FORMER UTILITY MAGNATE HACK AFTER 2-YEAR SOJOURN ABROAD
FACES CHARGES OF FRAUD
Former Financial Power Reported Near < ollanes- Dus To Weakened Heart
Tax I)eliii(|U(‘iit8 Greater This ^ ear
MORE THAN THIIU \ PERCENT HAVE NOT PAID SPRING
TAXES
More than 80 pervent of Putnam county taxpayers have allowed their spring installment of taxes to go ifelinquent, W. T. Handy, county treasurer, announced Tue.day morning. The county trea-urer said delinqU' encies this year are greater than at any isirhsi luring I terms .if office. He said the numb t might he reduced somewhat by tax payments made through the mails, much of this mail having as yet been um>|>ened. Tax payments 11 t Thursday, Fridayand Saturiay averaged $34,000 daily, the payment Monday dropping
to about $17,000.
TWO HIT BY TRAIN Mrs. Wilson Divm and son Mad' were injured w hen the auto in which they were riding was struck by a Motion train at Ladoga Tu-sday afternoon. They were taken to the CrawfordsvilF ho pital.
M ELI JIN KXONIKAIKD PITTSBURG, Ma, 8, (UP) — A federal grand jury today ignored the government's charges that Andrew W. Mellon failed to [ ,y sufficient 1931 income taxes, and returned a “no bill" after hearing t e govern-
ment's story.
The grand jury reported to Judge Robert 11. Gibson at 10 a. m. today that it found no ba-is for the government's charges that Mellon failed to pay all his income taxes in 1931. The exoneration came after a speedy trial ye.-terday. beginning immediately after the May grand jury convened. It heard income tax experts nnd Mellon' aides, and then adjourned today bvau-o all the federal judges hail gene home. Baiiibritlire Has
TERM TUCSON URL REPORT TRl EL HOW
Jus lice 01 I Van
FATE OF SI ILL
KIDNAPED CHILD IN DOUBT; HOPE FADES
TUCSON, Department
CHICAGO, May 8 (UP)—Samuel Instill, a tottering old man who seemed hut a ghost of the iron-fisted iniustri d ciar iChioago m ^emhered, said today that he could not furnish the $200,0(8) bond demanded for his liberty and would go to jail. The 74-year old prisoner, who arrived hack in the city of his triumphs and tribulations earlier today from .1 i two-year flight from the law, announ, "d that he was ready to go to j'il -fter federal Judge John P, Barnes had approved government prosecutors’ demand for bond of
$200 000.
In.-ull, back in the city of his tri* j umphs and tribulations to face crim* | inal trial for the crumbling of his I utility domain, was near collapse ■l-'S minutes after his arrival and his f.-uu- ! dy arranged to have him removed to
a hospital.
While the 74 year old fallen mon- ! arch la\ on a cot in the office of Unite! Stall - Marshal H. G. W. Lau-
Aiiz.. May 8, (UP) — of justice agents today |
branded 1 cruel hoax a purported benheim- r with bin topcoat for a pilsolution to the kidnaping of June low his son, Samuel. Jr., summoned
R bli' whir took three officers into'the family psysician.
M' v and aroused hope that the Tie physician, Dr. Arthur R. Ivl‘hill would he returned to her family.! liott. was told to make all haste to
I he fate - f the little heiress to the the federal huliding.
1 attlo fortune of Bernabc Robles, her| Young Insult, who accompanied his
and: it er, again i M *- father to 1 in igo from New York,
inie the object of apprehensive spec-j said the aged man would be taken to
M.BEH I J. PHI ES I IS BY COMMIsSloNKKS
MONDAY
ulation.
V\ bother she was dead or alive remained a question department of ju.sI the agent.- would not or could not answer as they returned here from V PIN) l NT ED J the border town of Nogales. They did say, however, that what they thought yesterday was a solution to the kidnaping had collapsed.
St. Luke’s hospital as soon as |>os-
sible.
The matter of bail for Insull's re*
lease—the government has demanded
$2*8),00O—remained to Imi ettled. Asked whether he veff hij
father’s conditii n t" he "rave, youn
Insull told the,United Press: “I can’t say. He has a • '< ’• • rt.
DlLUNGER \LARM SKM (H I
Chicago, helieied carrying John Dil
Unger and hi gang.
Lost in eat' mho e.taoin shrdiu aJin In the bustle of traffic, however.;'
On 1 wit 1 lion of the town board of 1 Bainbridge the county commissioners Mon ia\ appointed Albert J. Priest to serve, ns justice of the |ieac« of Mon*
_____ ! roe township “until a Successor is CHICAGO, May 8, UP) ' " 1 "
alarm went out to all police squad ’ petition for a justice of the cars today to watch for two automo- fr ' r Nl ‘’ nn>p township was ignhiles northbound on the outskirts of " ,i b >‘ ° Priest - Alb,!rt AJlen,
and C. E. Steward.
Consideration of rlaiiru was the only oi'her matter taken up by th n com ni ■'.sinners, it was reporte 1 Tuesthe two suspi i led cars were lost. Policemen Don Moynih'in and
George Kamin ky of Whiting were IL '■ MASONS
on duty lief'- the W iling publii
school win n Ihi two cars sped around Stat* d ims'ling, Grecm istle 1 ha))a corner nnd wept past at a high j' , r Medm sday at 1 s’.fl P.
rule of spi ■ i. Moynihan said he recognized the Hoosier doaperado as
one cf those in the cars.
Thortly after the alarm reports reii h d polii i of a holdup in Hammond, Ind., nearby, where four bandits held up John Mattingley in a grocery store ind escaped with $20 after wounding the grocer in tho leg.
I he so-called confession by an Atncr-1 It might last 15 year 10 ,t ,...g..t u nn kidnap su-pi et w hic h inspired a ] not last 15 minutes, lif coure we are
widespread search into Lie northern Sooera wilds, they said, was a f ike. One remaining hope that June still would be found alive depended on the outcome of an official mission into
Sonora hy Chief Deputy Sheriff I and made anoti Oliver White. W • itr and two federal , Dr. Elliott the
worried.” He said his father i.:. . been suffering from a weak hi irt for several
years.
A- the son talked with reporters
telepho" > call to
gray • a p-isoner.
agents drove into tie rugged interior, breathing heavily. Ml asleep on th
Sun lay and upon returning seven cot.
hours
di'putj stated with
later, the . s.-urance:
“l can say with 1 ch ir conscience, that the eirl is still alive and will he returned soon.’’
STATE I MPLOYKS VO IE INDIANAPOLIS, May 8, (UP) — W ith instill''I 11 to support county and state Democratic organization dates, state house employes were given a holiday to vote in the primary election today. Gov. Paul V. McNutt and oth»r 'dertive officer.- voted in Indianapolis where they an required to establish legal residence during their terms of office. 1. sser 1 ffii iaU returned to their homes bo vote.
Fll I KEN INJURED ST LOUIS, May 8 (UP Fifteen persons were injure", some possibly fatally, here today in an explosion an 1 fire at the 2,000,000 bushel grain levator oper ced l>y the Continental Export Co. 'Ilie elevator is one of the largest in the world.
H. T. Ross, H. P. E E. Caldwell, Secy.
Postmaster E. R. Bartley was visitor in Effingluiii, 111., Tue. day.
The Keturn of Samuel Insull
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
John H James transacted legal bus* iness in Or iwford-ville. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donner motor•sl to Indianapolis. Eiyal Rector of Fillmore was a vis* itor in the city. (’. C. Gillen sjieiit tlje day in Bain* bridge. Abe Cohn waa here from Cloverdale
Hit attorney, Floyd E Thompp removed his overcoat and ge j
placed it over the man.
“This is a great ordeal for an old
j man,” Thompson said.
A few hours lute! he again cro.isinl An hour and a half remained l>ethe border into .M xico and today was fore Insull’s scheduled appearance in .■'till missing. the federal court of Judge Philip
—*—— Sullivan to arrange for bond.
Thompson, protesting doggedly
against the goveimnent'- iflemand for I $200,000 bond, said friends of tho one time lord of millions were prepared 1 to post security in the 1 mount of $50,000 or $60,000 hut that a $200,*
000 bond was “preposterous.” Outside the mat dial's office special
j -quads of p« lie,* and federal agents J patrolled the hallway ami “absoluto
I quiet” was ordered.
I Before he droppei] off to sleep, i broken hy quick rousings and twitch- ] ings of his heavy body* Insull drank copiously from a class of water.
SUFI FIFED IMI’RDX ED
Prof. Vernon .Sheffield, of the De* I’auw mu ie s hind, who has been eriouslv ill at the county 'Im-pital, vva reported slightly improved Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Sheffield has ' hen n under close observation at the ; hospital for several day , with an in- | lection on his chin resulting from a ! razor cut. O O O O 0 O O O O O » Today’} Wealher 0 0 and 0 0 Local Temperature 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 Partly cloudy -outh, possibly local showers north portion tonight or Wtvlnesday; s- mewhat warmer.
Samuel Insull Sr. sa he was help, d invn the lad « r of the S. S. Exihma to the Unite,! States customs cuttor Hud-on in hnvvcr New Y n k Bay. A prisoner ixf the federal government, the one-ti ij head of ti $2,* 000(000,000 utility e r pi re was raced bar k to Chicago for trial.
Minimum
55
7 a. m
’.... 62
8 a. m
66
9 a. m
71
10 a.
74
11 t*. m
77
12 Noon ..
s. 80
1 p. m
82
2 p. m