The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 August 1934 — Page 1
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i'GBO TURNED Loose here WAS WANTED
as a public speaker rank him as one J of the most pleasing and interesting I speakers to appear before the local
| Kiwanis club for some time. HITS AT ‘SPOILS’ SYSTEM
| PENDLETON, Ind., Aug. 2 (UP)—
'lANAPOLIS POLICE SEND HE- Accusing the -tate administration of AIK!) MESSAGE TO LOCAL j employing the spoils system in its SHERIFF | dealings, Dan Flanagan, Fort Wayne, j Republican nominee for judge of the )LYED IN SHOOTING SCRAPE a Pl iellatc c ourt * addressed a Madison
I county G. O. P. rally here yesterday.
“The Democratic administration
gives contracts to ‘the gang’ instead of awarding them to the lowest and most reasonable bidders," he charged.
Rratton, 19, Carried I’nloadGun When Taken Into Custory
At Railroad Station.
■omas Bratton, alias Edward Grif-' jl9-year old colored youth of Indjpnlis, released here Tuesday afby Sheriff Alva Bryan, is L ed in Indianapolis for par iciipajn a dance hall shooting scrape >hich another colored man was :ally wounded, it was learned in dated message to the local sheriff J Indianapolis police Wednesday
w.
■atton was taken into custody |
County Corn-Hojr Contracts Ready
SIGN-UP OF SAME WILL BE HELD WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS
the Big Four railroad Monday afternoon by
Vf Walter Bryan and Marshal 0. Dobbs after a railroad conreported he iwas carrying a Bratton at first said his name Griffin but later admitted his
Sty as Brat'.on-
The Putnam County Corn-Hog eon-
station ' tracts are now typed and a sign-up Deputy day w ill he held in the next few days.
Before the contracts could be typed, certain adjustments had to be made, and the producers over the county may not understand the figures on their contracts, in that they are 1 different from the originals they
puty Bryan took Bratton to the j filled out last spring. Thn reasons for na State Farm where he was | these differences are set out below: ged” and finger-printed. These j 1. Corn ground listed in 19:13 must jfication means were sent to In-1 correspond with the producer’s wheat
contract, where one was signed. 2. A flat reduction was made, by townships, in the yield of corn, to meet the requirements of the State
Board of Review.
3. Hog reduction was for the fol-
lowing reasons:
a. Heavy hogs sold too early in
polis police Monday afternoon as as to Terre Haute. WTien no had been received by Tuesday jioon Bratton was released from bdy. Then came the belated anjeement Wednesday that he faces balile murder charge in event rounded Indianapolis man dies, gun carried by Bratton was not d and local officers felt they grounds on which to hold yn longer. It was said Indianapolice delayed sending word because they did not at first Bratton had been involved in
ooting scrape.
Idea Abel Talks ii Modern Greece
L YOUNG MAN SPEAKS FORK KIWANIS CLUB ON THURSDAY NOON
! very interesting talk before the
is club members Thursday Walden Abel who has just refrom three years teaching in
Mia college at Saloniki, Greece,
ed the political and social de-
ments of that nation during the
hundred years and more es'ly since the W’orld War. peace settlements after the
d war added considerable terri- ! to the nation that had been W at the time the Greeks won
independence from Turkey in
Much of the development in' fde farm of ountry, the building of new in- mi lea west
ies, extension of public high-
modernizing of cities, and retion of swamp lands have come
nly since the World war hut to
at extent during the past five As an example of road de-
ment, Mr. Abel mentioned the
1933. b. Hogs listed, hut no evidence to support their sale. c. Sale of sows, could not he counted. d. Evidence that was questionable. e. Dead feeder pigs. f. Feeders that were slaughtered for use on the farm. g. FeedgrsJJiat did not show up in the neighbor’s count. h. Purchase of feeder hogs, which the producer did not
list.
As soon as the typing is checked, the sign-up will be held. Producers and landlords will receive a card notifying them when and where the signup will be held.
Annual Shorthorn Picnic August 8
EVENT TO BE HELD AT JAt K CLODFKLTKR FARM NORTH
WEST OF MORTON
\ Dislocation
WHEN
ARMORY ROOF COLLAPSED
WEDNESDAY NOON
GREENCASTLE. INDIANA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934.
NO. 248
ELECTRIC BOLT IN FREAK PRANK AT HARRIS HOME
LIGHTNING KNOCKS TWO BOYS OUT OF BKI»; DAMAGES THREE ROOMS HOME IS NOT SET AFIRE
F act ’I hat Beys Wede Sleeping < tn Feather Mattress Believed To Have Saved Their Lives
Lightning played a strange stunt at the home of Harley Harris on the cemetery road shortly before midnight Wednesday .when a bolt hit the house, practically destroyed three rooms, knocked two boys out of a feather bed and failed to set the house on fire. Two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harris were sleeping on a feather mattress on an iron bed in an upstairs room when the bolt hit. It threw the bed and the boys across the room, tore most of the roof off the house, scattering plastering all over the house and just about demolished three rooms, but the strange thing about the whole matter was that no one was hurt and the building was not fired. It was believed the feather bed was the cause of the two boys not being killed instantly, as an old tradition says one sleeping on a feather bed will never be hurt by lightning. This incident about proved the saying to be true. The feather bed was on an iron one and this caused more wonder than ever. Another mystery was that under ordinary circumstances the house would have burned hut in this case there was no' fire. Other members of the Harris family were sleeping downstairs and they were literally covered with plaster and other debris that was scattered by the bolt. It proved to be a hectic night for the entire family and Mr. Harris was in Greencastle at an early hour Thursday making plans to repair the damage as a huge hole was torn in the roof through which the rain fell. His loss was believed covered by insurance held by Milt Brown and Sons.
WIFE OF GOV. LANCER TO BE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
The annual picnic of Putnam county Shorthorn breeders will be held at
.lack Clodfelter, two and one and one-half
miles north of Morton, Wednesday, August 8, according to announcement
made Thursday.
All persons interested in Shorthorn cattle are cordially invited to attend. A basket dinner at noon
J and a fine program will be features [that six years ago it took from 1 ot tht ' ,la y-
jriays to a week, depending upon > —■ eather, to travel from Saloniki, Vt/nfL m . m U. lc thens by Lito whereas now this! ” •AIImiII lltl.
trip can he made in twenty
or less.
> speaker commended the Ore-j nation especially for the tre-'
kms feat of absorbing almost a R ' Y F,,,n, , R 'N-"'™"
n and a half refugees from Asia r w ' , hin a |K>riod of six months
^ 'h* 1 Turkish atrocity campaign!
22. This meant an addition of| Ray Fiddler, of Greencastle, one rcent to the imputation of the of three workmen injured Wednesday! r y- These refugees not only noon when the roof of the old Locust ht new industries to the coun-‘street church collapsed, is confined) >it to a certain extent stimula-' to the county hospital suffering from hat industry already present. A a dislocated ankle and an injury to j proportion of this new popula- his knee, the attending physician)
>*as absorbed hy the government said Thursday.
Honing out small ten-acre^ It was first imlieve.d Fiddler was] *' j seriously injured and his condition persistent effort Greece today was not fully determined until an .ds Great Britain as a carrier X-ray examination was made. •''ght in the Aegean and Medi- Donald Lear, also of this city, who nean seas. She is not a pros-! sustained severe bruise, in the crash, nation hut has probably was able leave the hospital Thunripped all other Balkan coun- 1 day morning. Another workman, in effective progress since the Tom Fiddler, suffered minor bruises ** W!,r j but did not require medical atten-
Abcl has spent each winter tion.
•K the past three years teaching: Officials of the Gotlman Wreck-
Mi in Anatoli a college and dur-
BISMARCK, N. I)., Aug. 2 (UP)— Lydia Kady Langer, who never did like politics, will be the state’s next Republican candidate for governor. She was nominated by the state central committee yesterday after her husband, William H. Langer, deposed governor, had withdrawn from the ticket. Langer was ousted from the governor’s office after he was sentenced to 18 months in prison on chargos of soliciting federal employes for donations to a campaign fund. Mrs. Langer, who quit the drawing rooms of New York to come to the plains of North Dakota with "Bill," accepted her nomination at once, thannkig the committee for its faith in her husband. The case paralleled that which elevated “Ma" Ferguson to the governorship of Texas. Mrs. Danger’s nomination was regarded as a desperate move of the Langer faction in its tatter fight with Ole Olson, present governor. Olson, as lieutenant governor, startad action for Langer’s removal at the time of tlie latter’- indictment. He was upheld by the supreme court. I-angcr called out the National Guard and Olson established offices in a ho-
tel.
Langer abdicated after calling the | legislature into session and Olson I stepped into his office. Over his pro- | test, the legislature convened but couldn't muster a quorum for impeachment proceedings against either of the state’s "two governors.’’
) 20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE Clifford. Allen, Dick Harlan and Otto Mecum left today for a week's vacation trip in Chicago and points along Lake Michigan. Miss Dorothea Allen returned home from Rushville where she was the guest of her brothers, Lawrence and
Paul.
Miss Kate Lovett is visiting in
Delphi.
ing company which is dismantling Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Allen Jr. and
•’ summers has traveled exten-! the building, said a faulty truss children Wt this morning on an exthrough Greece and the nations ' caused the roof to collapse carrying) tended trip through the East. *ntral Europe, His recent ex-J several workmen down with the de- Mrs. W. A. Beemer was hostess to
ntes coupled with his training bris. J the Penelope club.
INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK
Dealii Takes Idol Of German Nation
Hogs 7,0<in. Holdovers, 26f>. General steady. 1l>0-19!) lbs. $1.70-14.85; 190210 lbs, $4.90-$4 9.); 210-215 lbs., $6.00-$5,05; few $5.10; 275 lbs. up, $4.80 $4.95; 140 ICO lbs., $3.65-$3.90; 120-140 lbs., $2.7fi-$3.25; 100-120 lbs„ $2.00-$2.25; packing sows, $3.60-$4.35. Cattle, 1,450. Calves, 700. Slow lifeless trade on all classes. Hardly enough trading t-> establish market. Bulk steers, $6.00-$6.25. Common killers down to $3.50. Heifers around $ii.00. Some cows $2.00 $3.00. Odd heads, $3.50. fitters .and low cutters, $1.00-$2.00. Vealers steady, 50c higher. Shorp, 1,000. Lambs, 25c-50c higher. Ewes and wethers, $7.25-47.50. Bucks $1 less. Threw outs, $4.50-$6.00. Slaughter sheep $1.50-$3.00. MINNEAPOLIS AGAIN SCENE OF VIOLENCE
GUERILLA W VRFARE FLAKES AS TRUCK DRIVERS START TERROR CAMPAIGN
PRESIDENT PAUL VON HINDKVBURG
SOLDIERS
ARK
RECALLED
National Guardsmen Return To city Ah Fighting Rrcaks Forth And Property Damage is Reported
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 2 (UP)— Guerilla warfare 1 flared anew in Minneapolis streets today as striking truck drivers renewed attacks on commercial vehicles. Trucks were overturned, automobiles damaged and drivers beaten. Heavy army trucks loaded with guardsmen roared into the city to reinforce 400 men left on duty when Maj. Gen. Kllard A. Walsh withdrew most of his weary army last night for a "much needed rest." Moving hands of pickets struck simultaneously in many parts of the city. Most of the violence was in the outlying sections. Military patrol cars chased the elusive terrorists. A renewal of violence in the 17-day old strike, which has resulted in the deaths of three men and the wounding of more than 48 others, came at a time when prospects for a peace settlement were beginning to brighten. Governor Floyd B. Olson, who declared martial law and placed the 516,000 inhabitants of Hennepin county under a military ’’dictator" a week ago, was a leading figure in the new peace move. While the strikers watched hopefully for the release of their leaders from the military stockade, they continued their planned campaign of terrorism. A seige of guerilla warfare was planned by union leaders a week ago, it was learned. At the sarm time the strike leaders reportedly laid plans for a prolonged campaign of resistance to military rule and the operation of trucks under a permit system. Mass resistance was abandoned as too dangerous. The pirket mg was renewed yesterday after an interruption of five days. Guardsmen responded with a series of raids that sent most of the strike leader to military prison.
Austrians Look Viilli Foreboding On Hitler Move
ADOLF HITLER ASSUMES POST OF PRESIDENT
AUSTRIA IS APPREHENSIVE OF FUTURE DUE TO DEATH OF HIN DENBURG
VIENNA, Aug. 2 (UP)—“What next'.’” Austrians asked apprehensively today when they learned Von
Hindenburg was dead and Chancel-1 that President Paul Von Hindenburg
HINDI MU'KG’S DEATH GIVES NAZI LEADER FULL SWAY
OVER GERMANY
BERLIN, Aug. 2 (UP)—Adolf Hitler took sole command of the German government today at the moment
LAST BAG GKOI NDED
BIRMINGII VM, Ala., Aug 2 (UP) The Navy balloon in the nati ual balloon race which go' underway j
lor Adolf Hitler had assumed full power in Germany. The usual noontime crowds in the coffee bouses talked in subdued tones over the possible effects of Hitler's elevation on Austria’s fight for inde-peni-Jence. An undercurrent of uneasiness was noticeable, in the fear that Hitlor’s sudden assumption of the presidency and Reichswehr leadership might so strengthen him that lie would be emboldened to amplify his campaign for a closer tie with Austria. Austrians long have believed that Hindenburg disapproved of the radio and press attacks in Germany against Austria, and acted as a restraining influence on Nazi extremists. Now that Hindenburg is gone, Austrians fear Hitler might embark suddenly on any rash adventure, with the idea of consolidating his popularity at home. Austrians feel there is nothing they can do, however, except to wait patiently for the protection of the big powers if Hitler decides Austria must be Nazified. Both official and private quarters were uncertain whether Von Hindenburg’s death would affect the appointment of Franz Von Papon as special minister to Austria. It was believed the question depends on events in Germany within the next few days.
DIES FROM POISON I lt)l HR
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 2— (UP) -Charged with selling poison liquor which caused the death of Noah liodg 57, Charles Canner to-
from here Tuesday night landed six day wa free under bond. Hodges’
miles east of Commerce, Ga., last night, taco officials were advised today by Ideut. Charles Kendall, its pilot. It was ’he last of five compe -
ing hags t,» be grounde I.
FISH \RE POISONED
It has been re|r>rtrd that many fish have he 01 killed by poison near Hoosier Highlands in the extreme southwest corner of Putnam county. It is not known just what has killed the fish but sportsmen report hundreds of fine fish floating on the
water up and down the river. BROTHER OF LOCAL MAN
death wa the first from poison liquor
reported here since repeal. BOLT DESTROYS CHURCH
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Aug. 2 (UP) — Ughtning struck the Wesleyan I Methodist church at Lewis Creek
died. He became president-chancel-lor. It was announced th^t the offices would l>o merged. Hitler, "The Fuehrer," the self proclaimed man of destiny, was in the position he picked for himself more than 11 years ago in a Munich beer cellar. The merger was legalized -at a cabinet meeting*lanight by a pecia! law, possible under the emergency powers of the Nazi dictatorship. It was provided Hint Hitler personally would designate his successor substitute as chancellor-presi-dent j n ca.-te cf his death or his absence from his duties. An oath binding the Reieliswehr to absolute b yalty to Hitler as com-mander-in-chief wa promulgated at once. It will be taken by every German soldier. The Nazi machine functioned with utmost precision. Hindenburg died at 9 a. m. At 9:45 Paul Joseph Goehbels, minister of prop i. anda, announced his passing over the radio. Soon afterward an announcer aid: "There will be another announcement shortly." At 10:15, only 75 minutes after IIin lenburg’s death G-aebbels announced that llitb r was president.
John 15. YwhIo l)it\s Thursday
NATIVE OF \ IKGIM \ HAD LIVED MOST OF HIS Ml E IN THIS ( Ol NT Y
HINDENBURG, GERMAN IDOL, PASSES AWAY
WAR HERO AND STATESMAN DIES QUIETLY; NATION IN DEEP MOURNING
HITLER IS NEW PRESIDENT
Nazi Chancellor Takes Over Hinden* burg's Office; Rites To Be Held Tuesday
•lowly to kc' Gradually ’ mist an i the
in
wmth of here early today starting a fire which completely destroyed the structure.
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DIES AT AMO THURSDAY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 George West of Amo, brother of Partly cloudy, possibly scattered Milo West, south of the city, passed i showers tonight and extreme south away Thursday morning at 4:30 portion Friday; somewhat cooler Frio’clock. Mr. West was an auctioneer. 1 day ar.d northwest portion tonight. Funeral services will be held from
the home in Amo Saturday afternoon i
at 2:30 o’clock.
NEW SILVER CERTIFICATES WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (UP)—Immediate issuance of $50,000,000 in i new Silver certificates against free silver in the treasury was promised : today by Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
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John Becht<d Wade, age 65 >«
passed away suddenly about 6 o'clock! ' nE , ' ,n '
Thursday nvonuig at his home east of town. Death was due to an attack
of heart disease.
Mr. Wade »a . born in Virginia but had spent most of his life in Putnam
| county.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
G > rge Rose of Inlianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. E. II. Snider and Mrs.
Andrew Ash, b th of Greencastle. Funeral se rvices wiil be held Friday
afternoon at 2 o’ lock fiom the Me-! ’oontb. ago phyveians plead.vl with
Curry funeral bo re. Burial will proh-I 111 1° pl v *' ■ n nrl 'l C n ably Is 1 in th 1 Masonic cemetery east | proper treatment,
of Indianapohs- : yield.
- j Th" new s wn flashed to tbn expec* SM ALL FIRE D IMAGES taut chancellor:* of Europe, which ROA( HD ALE RESIDENt E awu'ted wit!: <•" ern t be p. Mtig of Minor damage was caused at the the former worrier who had <• ime to honi" of Dr. Cirl Call at R >achdale j symbolize a re training hind in i 8:46 o’clock Wednesday evening Germany on Nazi excesses and a
gas stove caught, on fire. A
NF.UDECK, East Prussia, Aug. 3 (UP)—Hindenburg is dead. Soldier, statesman and one solid rock to which Germany clung in the swirling seas of post-war change, he passed into eternity today at 4 a. m. EDT, leaving his people a legacy of courage and hope which exempiiuec his 86 years of life. The president died with his family at his bedside and all Gei-manx waiting mournfully for the inevitable. The world awaited the news with apprehension, speculating on the effect of Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator, becoming president, chancellor, and supreme ruler of the German people and the German army. Paul Von Hindenburg had been dying for months, uremia sapping hi$ massive frame.. To the end, however, the hero of Tanneberg fought as he had fought all his life, pitting his old age against encroaching death. At last he gave way, and faded into a coma. Among his last acts of consciousness^ he summoned his twb beloved grandchildren to his liedsidfi and stroked their heads with faltering hand. Shortly afterwards he lapsed into his last sleep. The fl:»g over the Neudeck chateau, gift! of the nation to its president, fluttered to half mast. ( The bell in the nearby village church at Freystadt began to toll, an*l thn tolling soon was echoed all over Germany. The nation will bo in deep mourning uittil the funeral on Tuesday and afterwards. Hinplenburg will be given a burial befitting a great soldier, under tho Tamwnherg Memorial near Neu'leck, which marks ’he spot where in August of 1914 he rolled back the Russians ami saved Prussia. Hindenburg often had expressed a wish to be buried in tho small Neudeck cemetery beside his parents, but the nation willed otherwise. It was decided that one of the last of the really great figures of the World War, w',, died on the 26th anniwrsary of it start, should be buried at the enc pf one of his greatest military triumphs. The great Neudeck estate was a scene of peace this morning. There was liple to sh-'w that an event of world importance h I nccurred there. Tattle and sheep grazed in the pas-
tures.
The weather wa warm and at first sunny. After Hindenburg had died, however, a mist arose a. th/mgh symbolic * f the pa -ing of a hero and wrapped i’s* If around the castle. Fr m u diftime the ilf ma ted flag
was barely perceptible.
Farm laborers from the president's estate ml the neighborhood worked in the 'old . hanc ti|g the crops so urgently needed li^- tho Reich. Their work c 'ill mr wait bid they were 1 ubdiied and cnournful. They tried t • do their morning * h ire-, as qiiiptl; i p ’ ble, pofrain-
dion and driving
iwn the imise,
sun dispelled the >t]e emerged bathed
golden glow. The flag drooped on it mast, stirring sightly in a
light breeze.
The president' • fatal illnot-.s was due to a combination of bladder and prostrate di * * * whieh nvrr the course of his de-lining years broke down his rugge i constitution. Seven
to hrd for
He would not
when
member of th. family ha I failed to shut the stove off, it was said. The Roa-hdale fin 1 department assisted in extinguishing the blaze. John Ft. (’ x, Limedale, who recently returned from the Methodist hospital, is reported improving.
force for peace in Europe.
The nation learned of his death first when 45 minutes after his heart ceased bruiting Paul Joseph 0*>ebbi 11, Nazi minister of propaganda,
announced over th* 1 wireless:
“German pc pie! Reich President Hindenburg at 9 a. m. passed into
eternity.”