The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 July 1934 — Page 1
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THE DAILY BANNER
ALL THE HOME NEWS UNITED PRESS SERVICE
VOLUME FORTY-TWO
IT WAVES FOR ALL
GREENCASTLE. INDIANA, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1934.
NO. 245
youth is held ON ATTEMPT TO ATTACK WOMAN
HERMAN PETTIT LODGED PUL LATE SUNDAY HY DEPUTY SHERIFF
YOUNG MAN DENIES ATTACK
Gertrude Hadden Is Prosecuting Witness In Case. Man Alleged To Hidden In Outhouse.
Bobby Goes Home
Herman Pettit, age 21 years, ■of putnaim-ille, was held in the county Mail Monday morning on a charge of [attempted criminal assault following fis arrest late Sunday evening by deputy sheriff Walter Bryan at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Pettit. Pettit is alleged to have hidden in hn outhouse at the home of Mrs. Frances Bowen at Putnamville late Funday ami to have accosted Miss (Gertrude Hadden, who is employed Mrs. Bowen, when the young woInan entered the building to empty a
fessel.
The girl is alleged to have scrcm^.1 when she discovered Pettit in the [muse and the young man was said to! Live fled to the home of his parents [rhere he was later found by the j leputy dieiiff and a group of Put Limville citizens attracted by the hirl’,- outcry. | Miss Hadden is said to have told | kho officer that Pettit gripped her Ly the arm when she entered the ' luthouse but that she broke loose ppm Ids grasp and screamed. Petti! j said to have fled from the scene ! Ifter warning the girl not to “tell on
|im."
Pettit is said to have admitted t<> | leputy Bryan that he was in the luthouse but was said to have denied hat he touched the girl or made any Wvances to her.
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Fully recovered from his experience of spending five days in a woods near his home, Bobby Connor is shown greeting his mother, Mrs. Charles II. Connor, at their home in Hartsdale, N. Y., after the baby was returned from a hospital. Bobby, now as robust as ever, had been reported kidnaped.
DOOM SEEN FOR AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT
REORGANIZED < \BINEI WILL EVENTUALLY DISAGREE IN STRIFE-TORN NATION
PLAYGROUND SURVEY OF CO. SCHOOLS MADE
among the high school pupils that injuries are often the result. If yeu can imagine a child having for his p ayground 12 feet square a space you will have a picture of 'he average playg.’ound space available for each school child in INitnam county.
Fliers Leap To Safety m 0^
RALPH CLEVENGER DOES WORK AS PART OF GRADUATE STUDY AT I. U.
GROUNDS ARE INADEQUATE
Only 12 Square Feet Of Space Available For Each School Child In County.
ALLEN PH ARES DIES Alleu Pharcs, age 30 years, nephew of Mrs. Ernest St ner, city, passed ; away Sunday mrrning at 3:45 o’clock J at the home in Tipton. Mr. Phares was the son of Mrs. Minnie Phares, sister of Mrs. Stoner. His father , preceded him in .death last Scptem- \
her.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the
As part of his graduale work at i
Indiana University, Ralph Clevenger,' Ti P ton Methcdist church. Interment
torn Damaged By The Heat
I'lNDIT'ION OF CORN CROP IN THIS COUNTY IS BELIEVED TO STILL BE FAVORABLE Putnam County farmers who were ■ Saturday, when questioned about damage the intense heat wave hich enveloped this county for wo *ecks had done to the corn crop, were different opinions, but in practicly all cases, they were of the opinthat more or less damage had
>en caused.
.Sume farmers said Iheir corn had damaged probably to the extent
VIENNA, July 30 (IT)--Strife-torn Austria header! anew toward .Fascism and Monarchism today under a reorganized government whos*members seeme I doomed eventually
to disagree among themselves.
Remnants of Nazi revolu ionists were entranched along the frontier, seeking to enter Jugoslavia. The government maintained heavy military, police and Heinrvwehr guards here and at all towns, fearing new plare-ups. Kurt Schuschfngg, professional criminal lawyer of 47, took up the job of Chancellor in succession of the Martyred Kngi Ibert Dollfuss. Prince E.nost Duiiger von Starhemberg, Heimwehr leader, continued as vice Chancellor. Major Emil Fey, hi: chief aide, took the important post of Minister of Interior, which includes
control of the state police.
A state of alarm was proclaimed during the late night cabinet meeting at which the cabinet was reorganized an i around the chancellery were post- ! ed strong guaid> in grim*’ evidence of the unhappy augury under which the
n* w government s-tarted its task.
Bainbridge High School teacher, has made a survey of the reboot playgrounds for the nine county high schools. The following is a brief summary of his findings. “Along with the growing interest and emphasis in the physical education program in our public schools we are finding drastic j improvements in our playground fac- j ilities. 'I his is possibly due to the fact | that we are stressing so heavily the | health of the child in our modern educational program. A quarter of a century ago school sites were slightly larger than the building itself; today sites of 8 to 12 an I even 20 acres are being sell cted. The beneficial results of such a change are obvious
even to the general reader.
It is difficult to state just haw large any chool playgroqnd should be but a few standards will be given as | a means of comparison. The American School and University Magazine in 1932 recommended that for a school of 500 pupils there should be ample space of 10 tennis courts, 4 volley hall courts, 5 soccer fields, 9 basketball courts, 22 handball courts, a running track, several indoor baseball courts, space for field events and primary grade equipment. To do so would require a space of 5 acres or more. George I). Strayer, Columbia University authority on school grounos, recommended that there be at least 200 square feet of playground space for each elementary school child. The Great Britain Board of Education in 1930 ruled that no school building should be erected on a site which did not provide at least 3 acres for playground space and if the. enrollment was above 300 pupils
there should be at least 5 acres.
If we use any of these recommendations as a comparative standard we find the average playground in I*utnam county shamefully inadequate. This inadequacy is probably due to the fact that these school sites were selected several years ago when the playground facilities were not emphasized. Belle Union is the only school in the county which would meet the requirements adequately. The i playground facilities for each conr
will be in the Goldsmith cemetery.
ETCHES0N TO HEAD COUNTY POSTAL GROUP
ROACH DALE MAN ELECTED AT ANNUAL PICNIC HELD HERE SUNDAY CONTESTS, DINNER ENJOYED Postoffice Employes Of County Had Big Time Sunday During Meeting At Allendale
Cap'. A. W. Stevens (left) and Mai. William E- Kepntr, two of the three daring army aviators, whose exploration of the stratosphere was cut short at approxixmately eleven miles by a damaged balloon. On To New Heiebts
ASK INSURANCE ON SON MISSING SEVEN YEARS
EVA HERBERT PLAINTIFF IN ACTION AGAINST INSURANCE COMPANY SON DISAPPEARED IN 1927 Ralph N. Herbert. Former Putnam Man, Was 32 Years Old At Time Of Disappearance
Earl Etcheson, postmaster at Roachdale, was elected president of the Putnam county postal employes association during the annual picnic hel 1 at Allendale Sunday. Other officers elected for the coming year are Elizabeth Ward, of Greencastle, secretary-treasurer, and Ray Herbert, Greencastle, chairman of the program committee. All postmasters i of the county will act as vice-presi- ! dents of the organization. More than one hundred attended the outing which had as other feat- | ures a big basket dinner at the noon | hour and a number of contests during the entire day. Postmaster Ivors Bain of Russellville won the prize for having the largest delegation present, Greencastle being excluded. Jesse Potter, also of Russellville, and Frank McKeehan, city, were the horseshoe champions. Mr. Potter was awarded the prize in the balloon contest.
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MARTIAL LAW ENFORCED AT MINNEAPOLIS
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A Heimwehr pokesinan said that binmi elementary and high school in
the state of alarm was caused by the
10 to 50 per cent, while others demand of 15,000 men of the Schutz"I their crop was in a better con-! corp organiza inn that Starhemberg r ition an i some even estimated as bw ; named Chancellor. They announced
’" n pw lint., MMM were abo "I (Inv would 1 r. ■ \ • opinion that where the heat had he hei <‘d the goverment. Starhem
1 hried the bottom of the stalk, | berk himself left the "ahinet meeting ■i the damage would be over-c.:>me | tt nd pleaded with them to go home
tho good rain which fell Friday in , Some left early today,
my sections of the county.
Prior to the coming of the heat j ive, everyone was predicting the eati' t com crop in the history of county, and some still believe! m ' will be: mere than an average j ' l l in this county. Many say it iffficult right now to really estin "ite
• damage that has been done, hut CHARLES “DM k" MUNDAY W \S some cases where the ,-rop was J CHARGED WITH PROFANITY ght just right, the heat did dam- [ AND INTOXICATION
1 that cannot he overcome by fav- I
Me wea'h'T of the next few week’. 1 ^,, , ,, i , xt i n
Charle (Dick) Monday, age .).! years, of Clov rdale, was fined a total of $2fi by Mayor W. E. Denman
in city court
Clovm'ale Man Is Fined $26.(10
pi’ES FOR MRS. MARY COX HELD MONDAY AFTERNOON [Funeral services for Mrs. Mary ice ( ox, age K4 years, well known f'cncastle woman, who died Saturat the home of her daughter, • Homer Wright in And“rson, -ir held Monday Monday afternoon 1 o dock from the McCurry moral Home. Dr. A. E. Monger, ■tor of the Gubin Memorial Metho- [” 'hurrh, was in charge. Inter'nt was in Forest Hill cemetery. iMrs. Cox 'was also the mother of Washington Wright of Jeffertownship. Her death occurred
the county arei as follows: Belle Union, 1137 square feet per pupil. Clinton Center, 700 square feet per pupil. Reelsville, (581 square feet per pupil. Cloverdale, 273 square feet per pupil. Roachdale, 196 square feet per pupil. Bainbridge, 103 square feet per pupil. Russellville, 140 square feet per pupil. Putnamville, 117 square feet |)er Putnamvilleft 117 square feet per pupil. If we Like as our conservative standard 250 square feet .per child we find that but four county schools have ample playground space. Ad ied to this inadequacy we find that much of the space is not used for playground facilities because it is cut in
CITIZENS Ml ST OBEY MILITARY RULES: COURT MARTIAL THREATENED
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The rtratoirpherc halliX n in which Maj William I . K< m r. Cant. All>ert W. Stevens and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, hop. to r.- into he stratosphere fiom he Black, Hills of South Dakota. K ,n ho Im lo.n at a height of ten and a half miles above the oarth en ed ’he gieat adventure into the upiicr ether.
MINNEAPOLIS, July 30 (UP)— Adjutant general Ellard A. Walsh, tightening the steel grip of martial law, today warned Minneapolis citizens that they will be imprisoned in a military stockade for any violations of his "dictator” rule. Court martial under wartime methods will follow any infractions of nearly 800 “military rules for citi-
zens,” he said.
Previously citizens taken into custody were released after a warning. Military records revealed about 1,000 persons have been arrested principally for violation of a 7 a. m.
Eva Herbert, Reelsville woman, 'iled a complaint in circuit court Monday against the Prudential Insurance Company of America, to collect insurance of $375 on her son, Ralph N. Herbert, who disappeared from a (arm at Vandalia, 111., March 17, 1927 and has never been heard front since. Mrs. Herbert alleges that effort* of herself and the insurance company to locate the mi. sinf' man have failed and that he is dead. She makes a demand of $375 alleged due ■on the policy and $8 additional alleged paid in premiums since his disappearance. Survivors of the misJsing man at the time of his disappearance are given as a 'daughter), Izma Lynn Shan easy, Cloverdale; three sisters, Crystal Albright, Hafmony; Mary Hicks, Brazil, anil Gejneva Rockhill, Reelsville; two brothers, Clark Herbert, Reelsville, amli Roy Herbert, Terre Haute: the fathpr, Luther Herbert, R "i-viile, and tjie mother, Eva Herbert, of Reelsville-, now temporarily living in Brazil.
Wrpts P< jst At Greenfield
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ALBERT W. HEAI IN Tf) WORK
AS PRINCIPAL OF RILEY SCHOOL AT /.REENFIELD
Nathan Hulett Funeral Monday
rites are conducted at ROACHDALE CHRISTIAN ( HFRCH BY REV. PLF.AV
Funeral services for Nathan Ilullctt | ’ uv' vo . jert; ■87, retire! farmer, who died Satur- window tn th I day, were con ucted at 2 o’clock Mon-1 guished the | day afternoon at the Roachdale Chri'- men arrived. J tian church in charge of the Rev. te- | Quick WO rk
to 7 p. m. downtown parking ban, land Piey was made at the North Sal- „ y;,,-,,]. .
FIREMEN ANSAYFIt IVAO ( ALLS City firemen had two alarms over the weekend but n-- ther fire d | any great amount of damage. Monday
■'clock the firee home of Willi- ward street, might fire from f the family, urtoin from the and had extin-
morning about 7:1!
men were rolled to
limn Carpenter, '11
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w!ien th" fire
AH- it W. He.-i z n, principal of the Bainbridge schooj for the past several years, has a f-ented a pogiti-on as principal of the Riley Elementary s' -hnn] ut Green j.-ld, e announces in -a le'ter to The Banner. Speaking of his new positinni Mr. Heavin says: “I signed a r -ntrart last week to ' rk as prim- f . of the Riley Eleentar f Gr< nfield, IndlaAa. Although we 'regret very much to ■ Bainl » ■ atm that I shall like my new work. “I wish to take this opportunity to ' . i
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with ut d : fTiculty tho strong feeling J long existed between Greencastle and Bainb’jlge. Its p.- mg ha- been due for t v f most p: rt t - the close friendhip ft th< facult I two I # Ihi ttitude of tho * prop r re:- gn tim also been a e o I ributin. f • tor ‘♦l : t 11 ■ ■ h School class of 19 It. With all due I respect to other classes, this is the
prev
Monday morning when I - sma11 tra< ‘ s b Y buildings and he pleaded guilty to charges of pub- f* ncc »- For instance, at Bainbridge we
fur: a strip of ground m-rth of the
A, coniine to affidavits filed by | KY^asium which is approximately
E'hli* Turner, the defendant was al- j leged to have been intoxicated on the streets of Cloverdale Sunday and also to have used profane and oh-|
seme langur-ge in the presence j buil , inf , s are ^ p , ace; i that the playZelma I urner. i prolln ^ s are t . u t jnto small strips on On th- intoxication charge, Mayor | ^ gide of the build1n(f g. obviously Denman fined Munday $5 an I costs,; thig lfa)Jtg the pi ayK r,,und facilities, amounting t ■ $15, while on the sec Q n |y two sc hi>(,l s have ample room ond charge the mayor assessed a | f or a regulation baseball diamond
10 feet wide and 120 feet long which can not be u'ilized because of its narrowness. Here are 1200 square feet unavailable for playground purposesAt Fillmore and Putnamville the
o’clock
the cuiomob when a back ignite ! gre ■ fire started
since martial law became effective, em cemetery.
five -days ago. j Mr. Hulett ex)iired following a five Despite orders prohibiting picket- day’s illnes at 6 o'clock Si urday ing, striking truck drivers continued evening of heart disease and the into interfere w ith trucking operations , firmitii - 1 f old a K p - He '-ied at th"
it was said at military headquarters, horn here of his daughter, Mrs. Cecil tempted to Employers, whose refusal to ar- Click- The decease''was a member of vv: , s par j.
cept a federal peace plan resulted in the Bethel ( hristian church, declaration of martial law by Gov.; Mr. Huh't was bom Sept. 28, 181(5; Floyd B. Olson, likewise violated j n Montgomery county, the son of military orders, General Walsh said. jj| son an d Winnie Claik Hulett Ho “There will he no more leniency with wa8 married March 2(5, 1868 to Mary
wilful violators; martial law cannot Grantham-
he evaded with impunity,” he said j Surviving, besides the. daughter at At the same time new orders gov- who e Iv mo he died, are two othor erning the movement of trucks were daughters, Mrs. Robert Hicks and issued. j Mrs. John Dean, both of near laidoga; Beer trucks were prohibited from a half-sister, Mrs. Lou Kennedy’, of operating. Operation of trucks car- 1 South Bend; thro" grandchildren and
n toe part of the firepi ruing about 8:15 id rimi dam :g" to
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t . hurotorj -itor. IT-# i Mi . Z-iring :»$. ir' I'm auto while it Vine street.
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WORK TO SI ART SOON
Officials .of tb< Recovery • an--r O., hwc and' d start work t n thi which ti e city
zer known, twenty-nine scholarships learning. I fmm them. 5 inner staff
TO (JET DIVORCE
RENO. N. v., July 30 (CP)—A divorce will be granted Mrs. Curtis Dali, daughter of President Roosevelt, at Minden today in a secret court hearing. It was at Minden that Mrs. Dali’s brother. Elliott, obtained
his divorce last year.
'miri.an -invent iun of C '1 embus, in Greencastle to
nc u-wi'r project - — ■ - ii is hu 11 ag at v:> O O O a 4 O O 0 4 4
ddenly while visiting her daughter fino of ll '" 1 ' 1 r, > R | s ' 'mount.ng^ to and only four have room enough for a ryjn(r mineral water> fi our , outdoor five great-grandchildren.
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
Anderson. ” | $11. Ora Finmy, Clow.dale marshal, gmall playgroun( , b . d , C0U rt wRhout ice-cream and dairy!
and pros,Turing v dne-s in the case knocllin|f the ball onto o’her penmn’s wjuc wiU ^ al|owed> under |H?r . 1
waived witm fees which redu ed praperty or into the strMt Only two | r
th- costs several dollars. school* have soccer field, and one oj bgn o|l j^fte trucks was Mun 'ay w is returned to ya.l pend-1 these is far too small- Only j lifted in an „rder issued today,
inpr payment the fine. In the has a tennis cour, only one has ^an ,
totbnll court, uti mfkt Muiphy transactcxi legal bus- friends. Munday will he committivl has a volleyball court. Not a single V 1 * in Indianaimlis. to the pensl farm to serve out the school has a handball court. In all Alias Thelma Koessler la visiting in tot d amount. cases the primary playground apace Vy, 111. Munday wa committi' l to the and equipment y aomtKvhat limited- It *• T. A- Sigler -went to Oaktown state farm Monday afternom by is needless to say that where such is a days. He is assistant stats Mayor Denman when he failed to the case and the primary .ml grade terinarian. , ! mttkc arrangements to pay the fine, children are forced to play with or
V V< AT ION ENDS IN DEATH
a rost of apnr ximatch $'n/Aoo. 0 Today’s Weather 4 AcMvp work is expected to get ( ^ underway this week and it will re- ^ Local Temperatore 4
quire about fixty days to do the' work, it is rep'rted. The city council awe ded tli" contract to t ie Cdumhus corpora-i m early in July. The new sewage 0 - al plant --'ill he ! constructed on th" site of the pres- | ent plant immediately northwest of the city and vill .fford employment fo. ■ .i.l •: • "i Turin-.' i the remainder of the summer.
4 O •*> 4 {-t ?} /> O 0 0. 0 0 Generally fair an 1.warmer Tues-
day.
COUNCIL BLUFFS U, July 30—j I (UP)—The vacation of Ralph Rector,; and wife, K - kville, Ini., ended here
TO WORK ON BUDGET today thoy turned homeward with the body of their 2-y«ir old daughter l
Memliers of the board of county Patricia.
eomraiMimeci met Monday ■fUrwon The child wee killed when the Rec- j Al |RRIAGK ( LI< EINSR to work on the county budget of ex- tor car collided with another machiae Harvey C v - t, ide' k, and (3etas penditures for next year. on a highway near here. Huber, at home, both of Coatesville.