The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 June 1934 — Page 1
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ibilee ends OGRiM WITH 1 HUGE CROWD
ESTIMATED number in CITY IT OVER 3,000 PEOPLE FREE ENTERTAINMENT r of Commrrrf* and Ruxuveas Hf rn pl.Ms<‘d Wilh Rraulta of Celebration
GREENCASTLE. INDIANA. THURSDAY, JUNE 28. 1934.
NO. 218
NEWS^YPERS THREATENED SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 'JH, (UP)—Private detectives nuard San Franci:«o newspaper plants today after the Chronicle received notes threatening to bomb its building unless it chaaged its attitude toward the Pacific coast maritime strike. San Francisco’s other newspapers, the News, the Examiner at,I the bulletin, were guarded. The publications refused to suport the <trike, although none has condemned seriously the demands of strikers.
STATE MADE DEFENDANT IN COMPLAINT
JOHN HAMILTON SEEKS TO SET ASIDE JUDGMENT OF LOCAL COURT
-ncastle's ohe day jubilee cele- , jn recognition of the complcofthe 12-block downtown paving a came to a grand climajc ylay evening with one of the crowds in the city’s history , for the dosing program. -ngh intense heat kept down H ported attendance during the Dip crowd Wednesday night filled fcwntown streets and cars were ; for several blocks in all direcfrom the square. j was conservatively estimated 3,000 people or more were presWednesday night for the proof acrobatics, dancing and other “ents. Kg evening program opened with balloon ascension and triple parae jump. The ascension was made the vacant lot back of Perry plumbing shop on Franklin % The jumper landed just south of county hospital while the discardparachutes fell just south of the ; of John Boyd in Northwood. empty gas hag fell nearilto. It wa> said the jumper landed :ily and had his parachute folded within a few minutes. The program continued with across by the St. Julian company of oja from a stand on the northit comer of the square, and climaxwith square and round dancing the new street at the southwest :r of the square. Music for the 'ring was furnished by the Nelson "Uters and the Tincher family. C. . Gillen opened the square dancing i by culling for the sets In the rst dance.
MAYOR DENMAN RK ELECTED BY HEN HUK ASSOCIATION Mayor W. L. Denman, who returned Wednesday front the national conventi m of the Ben Hur Ufci Association, held at Crawfordsville announced that he had been re-elected a
NOM HELD AT STATE PRISON
Mleges Judge Who Passed Sentence Told Attorney He Would Have to Serve But One Year
John Hamilton, of Greenoastle, now serving a one to ten year sentence at the Indiana state prison on a charge of assault and battery with intent to commit a felony, filed a
in
member of the executive committee of ; complaint in circuit court Thursday the Association. Mayor Denman has I through his attorney Fred V. Thomas, been active in the work of the Ben I in whioh coot.. •« v,-.— *'—
DANGER RECEIVES BIG VOTE BISMARCK, N. D., June 28, (UP) —Gov. William II. linger, convicted two weeks ago of a federal felony and facing a possible penitentiary sentence or heavy fine, apparently had won a .smashing victory today in his fight for renomination and papular confidence. In partial tabulations of balloting in the state primary yesterday Danger raced far ahead of two Republican opponents.
TEMPERATURE SOARS TO 101
GREENCASTLE SWELTERS DURING NIGHT ALSO AS TEMPERATURE STAYS HIGH
Girl Consul Represents Colombia
the Ben
Hur life Association for many years.
Donald Muchmore Taken To Prison
INDIANAPOLIS Yol ill MIST SERVE ONE TO TEN YEARS FOR CRIME.
All refreshment stands and amuse--jit devices reported a rushing liness nil evening while many :rriiants, especially those handling cream and cooling drinks, stated Mness was the best since 1929. The downtown improvement startseveral months agw when Mayor , L Denman went before, the state tway commission and induced this to pave three blocks on state id 43 in the downtown district, ii started the movement to pave rest of the downtown district, JtMis being carried by the Chamber Commerce among the property siers who signified their willingi to stand the expense by an alst unananimou , signing of the pe-
JMi
Contractor W. E. Pickens and his "♦agues paved nine blocks of the Movement in record time and later oml the contract for the threetk state job which was completed
%
Hayir Denman is in receipt of the 'linrig letter from M. R. Keefe, engineer of the state highway T *ission, in which he is cemmendV bis part in securing the local
tfk'fay improvement:
' wa ■ very much pleased to hear * tbe practical completion of the "W' pavement being constructed Creencastle hy the state highway •rtment, as well as the satisfacch has Wn expressed by ritbens for this improvement.
"Due
Donald Muchmore, Hi years old, of Indianapolis, was taken to the Indiana state refonnatory Thursday by Sheriff Alva Bryan to .ervv a term of one to ten years imp" ed i’ circuit court Tuesday when he pleaded guilty as an accessory after the fact in the theft of a pocketbo >k belonging to Mrs. George Frank, June 18. Muchmore was comimitted to prison late Wednesday afternoon hy Judge
Wilbur S. Dormer.
Muchmore and .Freydis Graham, also of Indianapolis, admitted the theft dhiring trial of Mrs. Helen Broderick of Indianapolis, sister of Muchmore, on a charge of taking the pocketbook. Their testimony resulted tn discharge
of Mrs. Broderick.
The Graham girl iwas taken to prison Wednesday morning while Muchmore’s committment was held up until lute Wednesday. The Graham girl will serve one to tap years in the Indiana Woman’s prison.
in which he seeks to have the judgment, imposed in the local court Oct.
1, 1932, set aside.
Hamilton alleges as grounds for hi.; complaint that he pleaded guilty upon the advise of his attorney “with the understanding that he would have to serve but one year as far as the presiding judgn was concerned.’’ The prisoner alleges, however, that upon presenting a petition to the clemency commission the latter board showed the prisoner’s counsel a statement given it by the judge who sentenced Hamilton, wherein the judge stated: “This defendant is a criminal
at heart."
Hamilton alleges that his guilty plea was obtained through fraud and deceit by reason of the arrangements he believed had been made and would be carried out, and that “hy reason of the fraudulent judgment and hy the action of one of the parties thereto this plaintiff is still confined to the prison at Michigan City."
Death Near For Marie Dressier
LITTLE HOPE HELD FOR RECOVERY OF FAMOUS SCREEN AND STAGE STAR
AFFIRM DEATH SENTENCES MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 28, (UP)—The Alabama supreme court today affirmed conviction and death sentences of Haywood Patterson an/d Clare Norris, negroes, convicted last November of complicity in the Scottsboro assault case. The high court set execution date for Friday, Aug. 31. Patterson and Norris are among nine negroes accused of criminally assaulting two white girls aboard a freight train as it rumbled through north Alabama near Scottsboro in
1931.
Patterson was convicted three
times.
Wednesday’s heat mark of 100 degrees at 3 p. m. was passed at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon when The Banner thermometer registered 101 degrees. The mercury was expected to soar still higher before the peak of the afternoon was reached, surpassing the summer's heat record of 102 degrees on June 1. Grcencastle sweltered Wednesday in a temperature that hit the 100 degree mark at 3 o’clock in the after-
noon.
Through the day and afternoon the mercury steadily mounted and hovered close to the maximum mark most of the latter par* of the day. Although the temperature has hit the 100 degree mark here once before his month, the heat Wednesday seemed to make itself more strongly felt and residents sweltered throughout the afternoon and evening. During the night the mercury only dropped to 80 degrees and many slept in cool spots outdoors rather than on indoor beds. Several persons were reported to have become ill because of the heat Wednesday but n<> prostrations were reported.
CITY DRINKING WATER IS PURE REPORT SHOWS
ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES MADE BY STATE BO\RD OF HEALTH REFUTES WEDNESDAY RUMOR
Water Tested Monday At Indianapolis Following Break In Filter Bed After Recent Storm
Consuela Prado, the only woman tn repren nt the republic of Colombia in n diplomatic capacity, is pictured at Miami, Fla., chatting with retiring Consul Juan Calvo, whom she replaces. Be hies thoi post as consul, the attractive 21-year-old senorita is director of the Bureau of.Pan-Anurican Relations recently established in Miami.
QUARREL ends IN DEATH
SANTA BARBARA. Onl., June 28. —The condition of Marie Dressier, veteran actress of the screen and stage, who is confined at the home of friends here suffering from a complication of ailments, took a turn for the worse last night. It wag announcad little h«qie for her recovery was held. A constant vigil was being maintained at her bedside. “Miss Dressier has failed during the past few days," said one of the medical men attending her. "We do not believe there is immediate danger of death but <we dare not say there is not that danger.” Miss Dressier is suffering from a heart and kidney ailment. She has been in ill health for more than two
years.
Several months ago she compelled to abandon her .studio work and go to the home of her friends j here, where she endeavored to regiin I her health.
FOLK BURN TO DEATH
HANFORD, Cal., June 2.8 (UP) — Four persons were burned to death j today, three of them within a few
safety, when fire trapped four-room ranchhouse near
MARION, Ind , June 28, (UP) — Leo Mathews, 34, died rn Grant roun ty ho pital todiy from bullet wounds said to have iw>en inflicted by Miss Devona McCall, 29, during a lovers’ qua rrel. Miss McCall was arrested and charged with shooting with intent to kill pending investigation by Coroner John L. Loomis.
LAWNES8NESS TO HK, PROBED iBRAZIL, Ind., June 2s. A veritable bombshell was dropped Wednesday into Clay circuit court when Judge John A. Baumunk called in the grand jury and ordered that it get at the bottom of the reign of lawlessness and crime in Brazil and Clay county, or return to him a written statement why the jury had been un able to get such information. The court admitted that such a step has been made necessary in order to give the young of the community a chance to grow up in decent environments and because the people must not allow the enforcement of the law to break down. The county-wide use of slot machines was called to the attention of the grand jury as open violation of the law. Creosote Is Received Here
feet of them in
here.
The dead: A Kolff, 47, rancher; 1 Matthew Kolff, 10, a son; Jennie Kolff, 11, h daughter. Mrs. Jennie Larkoff, 45, housekeeper. Albert Kolff, 13, eldest son of the rancher, at first believer! to have been trapped with others of his family, was located in Lemoore, where he was visiting friends. Band Coinrrls May Slarl Soon
Brothers Start Trans-Ocean Hop
PLAN TO REFUEL AT HARBOR GRACE; TAKE-OFF FROM NEW YORK
AVAILABLE IN BA 1TLF AGAINST DESTKl (TTVE CHINCH BUGS.
211 Pensions Arc Approved j
OMi \M Am M \NTS TO HE
CEIYK FROM >2 To $1
E V( II MON III
A total of 214 applieat|rns for old age pen ions were approved hy the board of county commissioners in a special session in the court house Thursday. Several more applications were under consideration ar.d may he approved by the commi: A'ncrs. The heard of eotninissipners also approved monthly payments of $2 to | $4 for each of the applicants, payments to start with the meeting of th< c onen Monday, July 2 Only $4,000 was appropriated for old age pensions in I'lJtnam county this year but all of thi.s sum will not he available .|ne to iktlinquencies in
spring tax payments.
Old age pensions are granted under a 1933 art of the Indiana general assembly wh 1 h authorized monthly payments as high a $15 for persons over 70 years of age who have no
means of support. .
OFFB IALS SAY FIRST SUMMER PROGRAM M AY BE GIVEN
NEXT THURSDAY
NEW YORK, June 28, (UP)—The brothers Adamowici took off from Floyd Bennett field today on a projected flight to Warsaw, Poland. They will stop at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to refuel before venturing out over the Atlantic. The brothers, Joseph and Benjamin, expected to reach Harbor Grace hy 3 p. m. today. They hoped to hop off on the 3,800 mile ocean course toward Warsaw within 24 hours thereafter. Preparing for the flight a ye tr ago, they cracked up the same plane they Dew today at Har-
bor Grace.
Today’s take off was perfect. The Bdlanca monoplane powered by a
Twelve barrels of creosote, provided by the federal government to fight the destructive chinch bug, have been received by C'/unty Agent F. W. Baker for distribution in this county. The creosote is free to those far men who apply for it, the only cost being the freightage. Chinch bugs have been reported in western Putnam county but their numbers as yet are not alarming. In the event ,>f continue' dry weather, however, the county agent said they would increase and do much damage to crops, es|)ecially com. So far they have been tc|k>ited only in scattered sections and in • i . ill numbers. Plowing of furrows with the adi'iti-m of a strip of creosote has l>een foun I to be the most effective method of combatting them.
K1W A NTS 1 I N < HEON
Sparkling bits of reminiscence from the pi.t collegiate year fea tured a talk given by Russell Alexander, publicit y director f >r DePauw univei ity, i rhursday’a Kiwani’.; meeting /t the Christian church. New . item of a humorous nature from c"||cge all over the country were u ed to good effect to keep overh tied Kiwanian. in n
A wild and groundless report was in circulation here today that “59 per cent” of the Greencastle water was bad, according to a telegram received some time Wednesday evening from the state board of health. The report circulated quickly over the city and was entirely untrue. No telegram or report was received in the city on tha
water.
As a result of the report, Dr. W. M. McGaughey, city health officer, called the State Board of Health this morning and the report taken Monday was given him, which showed the w-ater to be as good as it has been during the past five years. Only one bad re- } port in the past five years has been ! received and tha$ came as a result of : the filter break last week. All others
| have been good.
Th. hy giene division of the state board told Dr. McGaughey this morning that they were of the opinion that water at every outlet in Greencastle was g<*r>d, inasmuch as all hydrants have been flushed and water which came into the mains during the filter break, has bo“n drawn out at
all points hy this time.
This opinion was based on samples taken frun Greencastle Monday by a representative of the board of health
who visited the city.
The representative of the State Board of Health who visited hero Monday decline ) to sen a representative of 'I he Banner while in the city and said he would not make a statemortt, because newspapers usually said what they wanted to say, took away, and added to his statements, and other wife iried to misquote such esteemed gentlemen and employes of the people as himself. Evidently he thought himself supreme in all his power, and did not consider the people of Greencastle in his refusal to make a statement concerning the water. In all probabibty his guess of the water from looking at it was no better than anyone else, and in all liklih >od, he will continue | to go around i|/emling the people’s money, as ho i.> on the state payroll, and declining to give the people information they .re ontitled to receive. It was tho tii t time in our history that a representative of the B< ard of Health h i high hatted us in this way, as Mr Boole who usually comes here is very considerate and is glad to give the information people are seeking in such times as we have
Mrs. Roy Mi I In* J Dirs Thursday
succeeding Leo II ile who has lecent-
ly moved to Indianapolis. FOR Dll I INt.KR < AKEER
(I P) The
PASSES AW \Y Al HOME NoKIII OF (TTY, FUNERAL AT ASH BORO.
credit should he given to: ^ r Hf for having visited our office i II
, ‘*rly September last year and im- j ^ '
upon this department the tic e Hy for the improvement •Gut. road 43 through your city. 'I am sure 1 voice the sentiments 1 flic highway commission when I "VGat we arc very grateful for the ^''iirahl. reaction of the citixens of
town."
Agrees
-ingle Jfi'i horsepower Whirlwind en-
; : gine and christened the Gity of WarFirst of the summer concerts by | ;;aw ' * IHed down thp n,nWH y undpr 8 the Greencastle band will bo given j ^ ht load and rose without difficulty
next Thursday night if pre.-ent plans i 1 ’' ’’Tb a. n . EDT.
of the local organization work out K,d, "K ■" ' hp P lanp ^ a Pa^nger
- • ■ ) was Holger Hoiress, Danish flier,
I who has
out
To Leave (lilyI 'lt was’.-i'd a^mnl JoiTAl men ' ha < thPlr advit()r ,hi <
J I chants already have promised finan 1 Hprmg and wil 1 asri.t m preparation dal aid nod that others are expected at "arbor Grace. He will not make
i the ocean flight. Hoiress flew from
ARRESTED MONDAY NIGHT ON
CHARGE OF PUBLIC
INTOXICATION
to support the concerts this summer. t —
Local hand officials said today they * yPW York to Denmark several years
would know definitely by the first of ■ K 0 '
8lGNs housing bill
Lester Hinshaw,
the week whether or not the pro-
of Greencastle, | grams will stait next week. arreste 1 Monday nighi hy city |H>lice j Completion of the downtown charge of public intoxication, streets has provided plenty of parking
Wednesday j space and larger crowds than ever
l»ected to come to Greencastle
the event they are
on
was released from jail
afternoon hy Mayor W. U Denman on j are
^ '^u l |n' ,, | 0 | N ' Juno 2H < (HP)
C^ln^f bj|| Of]p f L i **** UTI Iixrxea* ^
r ’ 8 tn th,. admini ♦ !,• ,* ma i or | his jiromi.se to leave the city with his | for the concerts P M *ram, desjot.^T # ,0n 8 - pecov * I family each walk a they have I/ecu ration through f ° a * lmu * a * e | Hinshaw was at liberty under a the past few years,
today hv J> U j * na " on >' suspended sentence at the time of his I
resident Rooso- | Jwt HrrCK f | >u t Mayor Denman felt
of his family hr
The brothers are bitters manufacturers. Their flight is a patriotic gesture toward th»ir native Poland.
20 Years Ago
in greencastle
Wt.
is no indication- as yet, hnw- *» to the jwrsonnel of the board ^ will a-hninister the measure. T'ic hill provides for improvement * standards and conditions * u '' » system of mutual mortgage ®®*r*ncc.
SLAYER SENTENCED
that for (he sake
would give him an opjmrtunity to leave ’the city rather than serve a
penal farm sentence.
Hinshaw’s last arrest followed an alleged family altercation at a small restaurant he operate I „n south l/icust street, .
GREENFIELD, led., June 28 (UP) Willard Ewing. 39, charged with the seven year-old murder of his wife and her step-father, was sentenced to life imprisonment today by a Hancock cirluit court jury.
Wilbur Donner has gone to Camp Oxfoid, Me., to sjrend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Gray Potter sjient the day in Indianapolis. William Sutherlin transacted business in Russellville. Mrs. Jesse McAnally and daughter Maxine are visiting in Chicago. Miss Margaret Maloney in the guest of relatives in Lafayette.
Mrs. Violet F. Miller, age 3<i year: wife of Roy Miller, died at her home just north of the Water Work,, pumji ing station, Thursday morning at 1:30 o’clock, following an oxt'ivlel
illness. Mrs. Miller was lairn ami | ci.il reform,
reared at Ashboro hut had made her home here for the past several yeai where her husband is employed hy the Greencastle Water Company. Besides the husband she is survived
by three children, Geneva, Carmen, ado’
anil Marian Lee, all at home; her pal ents, Mr. and Mrs. Uriah Butt., of Coiy; and four sisters, Mrs. Olive Wright, Flint, Mich.; Mrs. Curti. Neese, Terre Haute; Mrs. Austin Funk. Greencastle; and Mrs. Walter
Jackson, Brazil.
Funeral arrangements had not l>ocn completed Thursday but it was said services and burial will he at Ash
boro.
constant uproai if laughter. O. W.j us t g-ypp through. Hollowvil, a. chairn in of the pro | gram comin/tte-. introduced th<'| INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK
speaker. Hollowell was also intro- j
dueod as a new director of th.- club,! H,,.,., 7,1101,; holdaver, 1,107; most-
ly 20 to 25 cent i wer, underweights 25 to 35 cents off; 1150 to 200 lbs., $4.50 to $4.60; 200 to 350 lbs., $4.70 to $4.80, laiter for most 225 to 325 Ihs , small 1 0s $1.85; UO to 180 lhs„ $3.75 to ll.oii; JL’ti to 140 lbs.,
, < IIP AG'> Jin • '8, UP| The,$3.15 t„ pi. |(,o to 120 Ihs., $2.75 ' date of lod: ina id- John Dilliogcr to $.'t(lO; good pa king ow.s $3.50 to
j the n it <m’. public enemy No. 1, $4.00.
| Wayne (toy, etar\ of the .dale t ittle 70m, , live , !>O0; I inghter , 11'inemy coin .ii-son, told the ten 1 < la , e i fair! ictive, toady; steers i tral St ites B .1 .>• confeienee here to-| mindly odds and end. from $4.25 to j day. I $6.60; better kindr. negligible; three At the iisine time Coy an.» r uncpd I its of ihoni 73" lb. heifers $7 00; that 1 weeping inve tigation of In- part In -d nt or:, mostly $3.50 dun 1 penaL 111 tdution; will be con- tn I'i.Ol); hulk ".i.; $2 75 to $4.00; ducted hy ifveti nationally known ex few $125; low cuttei . and cutters, pert in the fn Id -jf penology and o- $1.60 to $2,5 . v ib r . sternly, $4 50
1 down.
Hea ling the < mmi:.;-ion invited by Sheep 1,200; lamb !>0 cent ; lower; Gov. Ca.ul V McNutt will be Warden hulk good ewe and wether.. $8.50; Lewis E. La we of Sing Sing prison, buck $7.50 d wn; thr iwout; down to In blaming the state for Dilling r’s $8.00; laughter Jieep $| 50 to $2.50; criminal career, Coy aid the Tesper-| breeding ew> $8 and slightly above. life W"iihl have lieen entirely — different ha-1 the id.ninistration of ® ® ® ® # ® ® O ® # @ ® histi e in hi:, ci and in the case of $ Today’i Weather 0 his partner in his first crime, Iren q ar)( j ^ comp .. able con Jdering their previous ^ i pmper)lture @
'Toy'pointed out that Dillmger was G G O ® 000® sent to prison for 10 Ii 21 yriars on G nerally fair tonight ant Friday;
charges rf illempting to rob a ^ not Mooresville grocer. Killinger’s com-j
warm neai Lake Michigan.
MASONIC NOTICE Called meeting Temple ls>dge No. 47, F. A-A. M„ Friday, 7 p. m. E- A, degree. C. F. Mathes, W. M. E E. Caldwell, Secy.*
panion In the crime, Edward Singleton, received only a 2 t.i It year s’n terne Singleton was paroled at the end of two year- while Irill nger erv.T nine ye n b-'fore being grant-
ed a pan le.
The offense was the first for f)il-|
linger while Singleton had served a
i\ year term previous to the M ioresville ho! lup Coy pointed out.
Minimum
80
8 a. m.
84
7 a. in.
87
8 a. m. !) a. m. ... 10 a. m. . 11 a. m. 12 Noun
91 92 95 96 ... , 98
1 p. tn.
100
2 p. m. ...
••••■* n.
101