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THE DAILY BAN^NER “IT WAVES FOR ALL”

UME FORTY-THREE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1934.

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NO. 7

INFERENCE IN PRE ACHING NEXT MONTH Lions at Indianapolis Hi KOI THREE DAVS, NOVEMBER 7-8-9 SPONSORED BY DEPALW

i, or . From Five Ontral Staten m U Attend. Outstandiiiff S|Ri»kerit Are Secured.

Floyd’s P«d Held

195 KNIGHTS TEMPLAR AT MEETING HERE

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Adam Richetti Adam Rechetti. held in the Wellsville, O., jail after a gun battle with police. He was a pal of Charles 'Pretty Boyi Floyd, who was killed by federal department justice agents a few days ago. Richetti is also wanted in connection with the mass slaying at the Kansas City Union station in which four officers and a prisoner were killed.

Files Pelilion For \ Mimdale

TOWNSHIP TUI STEI U.I.EOES .11 STM K OF PEA< I H \ KEFI'SEU TO \( T

greatest conferences on "hing ever held In the middlcC wj |i be held at Indianapolis NoWr 8. and 9. Ministers of all animations living in Putnam «ty arc invited to attend. The [fenmee is being sponsored by Delink ersity as its contribution , sesquicentennial of the MethEpiscopal church and outstandl"speakers have been secured for ),v session Pastors from Indiana, Lgan, Ohio, Kentucky and Illivdll attend. Bie conference will be held in the adway M E. church in Indianai and due to the limited seating acity admission will be by ticket. . m ay be had without charge by |ting to President C. Bromley Oxat Greencastlc who has charge Arrangements. Being interdenomjtinual pastors living in Putnam Lv are uiged to make their res[ations early as only l.r>00 tickets

| available.

twelve outstanding speakers I the program are: Louis Unterlyef noted poet, who will talk on Place of Poetry in Preaching"; ; Henry Hitt Crane, pastor of the Park M E church at Scranton, whose topic is “Clear Thinking Confused Times"; Dr. Ralph W. Ickman, pastor of the Fifth Avenue |E church in New York City, who speak on "Some Perils of the kpaets"; Dr Ivan Lee Holt, pastor |St John’s M E. church South of [ Louis, Mo. whose subject will be Reaching Today in Preparation for morrow''; Prof. Edwin Lewis of lew Theological seminary, who will |!i on "The Place of Theology in

(eaching."

Bishop Edgar Blake of the Detroit of the Methodist Episcopal Urch, will speak on "A Lost Eletnt in Modern Preaching"; Dr. krl S. Knopf, professor 67 Biblical Vrature and archeology at the Unigsity of Southern California, whose ^>c will be "The Place of Old TesInent Research in Preaching"; Dr karles C. Morrison, editor of tne knstian Century, who will talk on pe New Renaissance”; Dr. Fredf 11 fisher, pastor of the Central M. church at Detroit. Mich., and a ►nor Methodist bishop, will discuss That Place Has the Preacher in bdem Life?”; Dr. William E. ockmg of Harvard university will p " n New Approaches to God” r J i’ r Keinhold Niebuhr of Union geological seminary will discuss Tic Minister as Religious nterpreter

[Current History."

[The conference will reach a fitting f>ax on Friday night when the DcBuw university choir under Dean [C McCutchan and with Prof. Van •iman Thompson at the organ, will the sesquicentennial oratorio

* Evangel of the New World” for > had been unable to agree on a speeonference. This is the only sea-' ical Judge.

** ^‘*1 will lie open to the general |

. there will he a short devotion- j

These will be It'd by Dr. j " —

THREE KNOWN HEAD; MANY

ORDER OF THE ItEU CROSS CONFERRED BY TERRE HAUTE COMMANHERY

COMMANDEKIKS

INSPECTED

Women Entertained With Hingo And Bridge At Studio Tea Room During Evening.

A total of 195 men and seventy-two women attended the Knights Templar group meeting held in Greencastlc Tuesday evening. Commanderies at Indianapolis, Greencastlc, Terre Haute, Brazil, Clinton and Bloomington were inspected at the conclave at which the local commandery was

host.

The evening program included a dinner at the Masonic Temple for tiie Sir Knights served by women of the Eastern Star after which the comcandery was opened in full form by Raper Commandery No. 1 of Indianapolis. The order of the Red Cross was exemplified by Terre Haute Commandery No. 76. Inspection was conducted by Elwood Barnard of Greenfield, inspector general, and Walter G. Rice, grand warder of the grand commandery of

Terre Haute.

Mrs. Ralph Howard entertained wives of grand commandery officers at a dinner at the Studio Tea Room. Other visiting women also were guests at‘ the tea room. P’ollowing the dinner the women played hingo and bridge at the tea room with sev-

elephant prizes being

awarded at bingo and the out-of-town bridge prize going to Mrs. J. A. Bard of Brazil and the local bridge prize being won by Mrs. Charles Mc-

Gaughey.

In addition to the commandery of-

ficers participating in the group session a number of grand commandery officers were present for the occasion.

Grand commandery officers here

were Roy D. Smiley, Washington, grand commander; Ralph Howard. Greencastle, deputy grand commander Rev. Lewis Brown. Tndianapoolls. grand prelate; and Walter G. Rice.

Terre Haute, grand warder.

i •ervice

■r ry B l-'Ongden, Dr Walter E. Pr "f F. C. Tilden and Dr. L.

Eckardt.

IVII ICI D FOLLOWING TV\ INTER

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Poultry School ,TV "I < Ol NTV C OMMITTEE MELTS IN OFFICE OF

COUNTY AGENT

( 1 ""‘ c Ung of the Putnam counNhtry committee in the office «a' ' " Ba,<er ' county agent, Tuesj. Wni,, K- plans were made for the "' ll poultry school to be held

[""'-ary S .

, t Include an egg show, , “ ' l ‘•If'her, and various contests J’" 0 * •ttending. CM,:: attcnd * n K the meeting In•itv m , '' 0n of i’urdue unlverWatp r Bakpr ' an ' 1 Mrs Zclla Cleartfr ' a hd Jean Sears. Ky''" l ; loy ' J Thomas of Louisville, Parent V ' flitin £ a T ew days with her Pruitt" i, Mr and Mrs - Phylander Hanna Court.

MARYVILLE Mo., Oct. 21, ' HP' — l This northern Missouri city of 3,000 ] today began to count the cost of an | autumn tornado that struck last night with terrific force over a small |

I area.

Early today two CCC workers were i dead and two were injured so severe-

was that in the past six years, the

commission has spent J 1,690,000 in

Putnam county for highways, new and old. maintenance and other expenses in connection with the build-

ing and maintaining of the 90 miles

of state roads in this county. Mr. Adams has launched the com-

mission into the important program of more safety on the highways, and he compared the deaths from auto accidents annually to the 15 years of

the six major wars of this nation,

and showed that as many people are killed annually in America today an were killed in all of those 15 years

of war.

He said 1200 will la- killed in Indiana this year. This, he said, was too many. Il< showed how the commission is widening the highways, the shoulders, the bridges amt culverts I and he also gave figures showing Low these wider roads are cutting down i fatalities, ust this week, he showed how 17 had been killed over the

I weekend.

Indiana’s increase in fatalities during past six or eight months has been only 8 per cent, where as the percentage of other states has been

as high as 20 per cent.

Mr. Adams is appealing for more

the highways, and said

DIVORCE IS ASKED 1 ola Myles filed suit for divorce in circuit court Wednesday against Chn'nicr Myles on grounds her husband treated her in a cruel and inhuman manner, told her he did not love her and threatened to drive her from their home. According to the complaint the couple married May 2.'5, 1922 and I separated Oct. 23, 1954, on which last named date the plaintiff went to the home of her parents in Cloverdale. The plaintiff asks a divorce, custody of two children nine and seven year sold, S3.000 alimony, and $8 a week support money for the children. | W. T. O’Neal is attorney for the plaintiff.

HAUPTMANN’S TRIAL IS SET FOR JAN. 2ND

Sold ‘Trelty Boy” Floyd Final Dinner

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II INJURED WHEN TRAIN IS DERAILED

FAST BIG FOl'R PASSENGER TRAIN .MM PS TRACK NEAR LABI. PARK TWO ARE CRITICALLY HURT Eighteen of Injured in Unspit.il. Train Enroutc From Chicago To Cincinnati

Alleging Robert H. Newgent, jus-

tice of the peace, has refused to act ( ^ ( in two pauper cases filed in his court, j ' , .

a petition for a mandate was filed in circuit court Wednesday by the State of Indiana on relation of Harry L. Wells, trustee of Greencastle township. as overseer of the poor in said

township, against Newgent.

Wells alleges in his petition that in August. 1934, he filed complaints in Newgent’s court against two paupers whose legal residences were believed to be in Cloverdale and Clinton townships respectively. The complaints are said to have asked removal of the paupers from Greencastle township to the townships responsible for their

care.

The petition filed by the trustee alleges Newgent has failed to set said complaints for trial and also has neglected to make trustees of Cloverdale and Clinton townships party defend-

ants as requested.

The petitioner further alleges that unless said matters are tried within the next few days the petitioner will lose valuable rights and the defendant paupers will have acquired legal settlement in Greencastlc township. Wells asks that the jutice of the peace be required to set the cases for trial immediately and the proceedings be ordered to be disposed of before November t. Ho also asks that the

justice be required to make the tms-j ed the club members and guests. One

toes party defendants.

Frank E. Stoessel filed the petition in behalf of the township trustee. Justice Newgent stated Wednesday afternoon that he had disqualified himself In the cases some time ago and and that they had never came to trial because the trustee and Prosecuting Attorney Theodore Crawley

LINDY KIDNAPING SI SPELT ENTERS NOT GFILTY PLEA

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FLEMINGTON, N. J. Oct. 24 lUPi ! — Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Bronx; carpenter, will go on trial January i 2. 19.35, charged with the murder of ! Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s infant i son. who wan kidnaped from the Lindbergh home at Hopewell in 1932. , Hauptmann eat her pleaded not j

guilty wnen arraigned.

Justice Thomas W Trenchant of the New Jersey supreme cour t granted the delay in response to an appeal for time by Attorney James Fawcett, chief defense counsel. The state, represented by Attorney General David Wilentz, had asked for an early trial, and sought to rush the case before a jury next month. Neither side desired a "Christmas holiday” trial, and had the trial been postponed until December 11. as first requested by Fawcett, it would have dragged through until the holidays.

EARL PARK, Ind.. Oct. 24. <UPi - Two passengers were injured critically and 42 others were hurt early today when six cars of a Big Four express train left the track one and a half miles east of here. Eighteen of the injured still were in the hospital today. The two critically hurt were Silas Dodd, 42, Indianapolis, who suffered a broken back and Mrs. Frank Fisher, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Shown holding the tray on which she served Charles A. "Pretty Boy” Floyd, his last meal, Mrs. Ellen Conkle, above, was a startled witness when federal agents tracked down America’s wounded “Public Enemy No. i" to her farm neai Upruccvale, <>.. and killed him with 14 slufa. "Pretty Boy" paid her a dollar for the. meal which brought death.

Janies Adams Is Rotary Speaker

( HAIKMAN OF STATE HIGHWAY

COMMISSION APPEALS FOR SAFETY ON HIGHWAYS

James Adams, chairman of the Indiana state highway commission, was the guest speaker at the weekly luncheon of the Rotary club Wednes-

day afternoon.

Mr. Adams brought to Greencastle some important facts which interest-

FOI R PLANES SEEK PRIZE MELBOURNE. Oct. 25 (Thursday) (UP>— Three wi-ming airplanes in the England-Australia race were safe here today and a fourth, eligible for the $8,000 handicap prize, sped across Australia toward its goal. The winning planes and their prize money in the 11.300 air line miles race, half around the world, were: 1. C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black, Great Britain. Dcliaviland Comet, Gipsy VI twin motors, $40,000 'Official elapsed time, Mildcnhall. England, to Flemington race course. Melbourne, 71 hours 18 seconds'. 2. K. D. Pam intter, J. J. Mod, O. Van Brugge and Bouwe Prinz. Holland, American built Douglas Air Liner, Wright Cyclone motors. $6,000. (Official elapsed time 90 hours 18 minutes 51 seconds.) 3. Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn. United States. Boeing Transport. Pratt and Whitney Wasp motors, $2,000 'Unofficial elapsed time 93 hours 7 minutes and 15 sec-

onds.)

The British and Dutch planes were eligible alternatively for cither of the two handicap p: izes, $8,000 for first and $4,000 for second. The Americans entered only in the speed section of the race. The handicap winner will he determined after calculation of plane area, engine power, pay load and similar consid-

erations.

Going strong on the last stages of the flight were Lt. Cathcart Jones and Ken Waller Great Britain, in a DcHaviland like that of Scott and

Black.

MANIAC SLI GK C'OI DS; POLICE TRAPS FI I ILF BOULDER. Colo. Oct. 24 Nine ! coeds at the University of Colorado 1 have been slugged, apparently by a ! madman, as they strolled about the ] secluded campus during the past few days, it was disclosed today. University officials have ordered girl students to stay off Boulder streets after dark unless accompanied by u male escort, or unless they go in

groups.

Chief of Police R C. Prater said he kept news of Die attacks quiet in an effort to trap the slugger. “None of the girls has been seriously hurt.” Chief Prater said. “The slugger, except for striking them with his fist or a blackjack, has not assaulted them and no attempt at robbery has been made. The girls in several instances were left unconscious on the sidewalk.”

PurnHI To Speak In Citv Friday

EARL PARK. Ind., Oct. 24. 'UP' Thirty-four passengers on a Big I Four express train bound from Chicago to Cincinnati were injured to1 day when six cars left ihe rails and

i overturned.

Only one woman. Mrs. Frank Fish1 or of Cincinnati, was injured serious- : ly. Physicians said she suffered inj ternal injuries. Other injured persons were taken I to the Bundy Keefe hospital from the ! scene of the wreck, two miles east of . Earl Park. Physicians said most of them merely were cut and bruised and would be able to leave the hos-

I pital today.

Officials of the Big Four from ChiHODI id "PRETTY BOY" FLOYD cago and Indianapolis were unable to ENKOl IE TO RELATIVES determine th< < ium of the wreck. IN OKLAHOMA | Conductor Ralph Patterson of Cincinnati said he believed a defective

rail was responsible.

Outlaw In PiiiF Box Starts Home

EAST LIVERPOOL. O. Oct 24. 1 UP They sent Pretty Boy Floyd home today in a plain pine box. The body of the notorious killer, riddled with bullets from the guns of federal agents, was shoved uncere- i moniously into an express ear and be- j gan the journey back to his clans-

men in Oklahoma

In Wellsville, three miles away, police put manacles on Adam Richetti, j

An inspection

was impossible until after wreckage

was removed.

Cars of the speeding train ploughed up the ground for hundreds of feet. A mail car which leaped a six foot ditch stopped on its side across U. S. highway 41. blocking traffic. Railroad traffic was rerouted over the New York Central and Nickel

Plate roads.

Pretty Boy’s latest partner in crime, | and bundled him off to the county \KDN LAND SAFLIA jail in Lisbon to stand Inal for shoot- AFTER SUCCESSFI L F'LIGIIT

ing with intent to kill

The transfer of Richetti whom Police Chief John Fultz has refused to turn over to federal or Missouri authorities for trial in connection with the union station massacre in Kansas City was made without incident.

CADIZ, O.. Oct. 24. 'UP' Jean and Jeannette Piccard, recovered from a balloon ascension that took them 10 miles above the earth’s sur- - face, packed their dozens of scientific instruments today, confident their flight would contribute much

CANDIDATE FDR CONGRESS TO ADDRESS G. O. P. RALLY AT < OLRTHOlSE

Thousands of persons who swarmed new knowledge concerning the nature

Fred S Purnell, of Attica, candidate for congress from the Sixth district. will address a rally of Putnam county Republicans in the courthouse here Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Additional speakers will include O. D. Lane, of Bainbridge. candidate for joint-senator from Putnam and Montgomery counties, and Charles K. Zeis, candidate for mayor of Greencastle. As the general election is rapidly approaching and with Mr Purnell as the principal speaker, a large crowd is expected to attend the Friday night meeting.

through the Sturges funeral home here after Floyd was shot down Monday. apparently had no further interest in the outlaw' today. They were conspiciously absent when the !wix containing his body w as taken to the express station, tagged, and started on its journey. No one accompanied the budy back to Oklahoma. Floyd relatives were unable to raise funds for the trip here.

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Hciuchel Nieholr, 4 II < lub member,

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INDIANA. Pa., Oct. 21 A New York-to-Chic.ago bu turned four times near hen

and landed in a sum I! strean

crumpled mass of wreck .ge.

Floyd township 1 n vvas reported that at least Lvo is one of the prisons were killed and seven inrkn.iiv.on potato growers of Putnam jui r,j, some seriously,

county, having grown 200 bushels of potatoes on his hall-acre plot this

year.

ALLOW CLAIMS \NI> KLPAIK PERMITS AT MEETING Tl ESDA$ NIGHT.

Members of the , Junt session in the

•oiincll held a hall Tuesday

night, confining then business t<> al-

of the stratosphere and cosmic rays. Their instruments were unharmed in a rough landing near here yesterday. Tne huge balloon that lifted them in their global gondola from the earth at Dearborn, Mich., airport yesterday morning had been ripped to shreds by sight-seers and souvtnir hunters. The gondola was not badly

damaged.

Both the Picards considered the flight a great success. They rell short of equalling the altitude record by at least a mile and a half, but they had no desire of exceeding it. They wanted only to get up around 10 miles which they considered high enough to study cosmic rays Their exart maximum height and the complete scientific results of the flight wil not he known until all the instruments arc checked and that may take a week or more. The balloon came down in a tree which broke the force of a rapid descent. Before Mi-s Piccard would describe hoi experience, she serfl a message to then children. Paul. 10,

lowing claims and repair permits.

After authorizing the city clerk to and Donald. 8. of then safe landing. pay several minoi bills, the members .

granted pernifls to It. E. Richards.

INDI WU’OI IN I I\ I NlO( K

|y they were not expected to live. A ! Maryville resident waa believed also

J fatally injured and two score persons j Hafety on

| sustained minor injuries. Property j increased speed of automobiles, damage was estimated at $100,000 in effort must he made to cut

the first survey.

Dead were Guy Allan. Shelbina, Mo., and Ralph Hare. St. Louis, Mo. Believed fatally injured were Hugh Newton, Pattonburg, Mo., John Stack, St Louis, and Sterling Run-

yon. Maryville.

Most of the others injured were members of the CCC camp engaged in a soil erosion project. The camp recently bad been moved here for Vinter quarters from Grant City. Mo. Physicians had treated 16 persons for injuries In the Maryville hospital.

accident tolls, because he said an auto manufacturer told him recently the new automobiles coming out will have a speed of 120 miles per hour. Mr. Adams says it will require the effort of nil to keep down fatalities and he is aiding in this worthy cause to the utmost. It was the outstanding meeting the Rotary club has held this year. • Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Murphy, Jacob street, are the parents of a daughter born Tuesday at the county hospital

Suit of Walter Keller against Jef- 1 •''K 3 IMWO holdovers 1.061. genferson school township in which Kel- « ra| ly 10 to 40 cents lower; 160 to lor is seeking $1,120 alleged due be- IH0 lb.' D> 15 to $5.20 180 to 210 cause of cancellation of his contract 'hs $•> 30 •<> '•> -•0: 210 to 300 lb.-; , to teach in that township, was veil- ' $560 to $•> iu; >00 lbs. up. $5 30 to LAI (<118 ued from Putnam county to the Men- -$5 50; 140 to 160 lbs $4.50 to $4 75; drlcks circuit court Wednesday. ] to 140 lbs , 5 .»0 to $4.25; 100 to

j 120 lbs., $2.75 to $5.20; packing sows

: $4.25 to *3.00.

Cattle 1.200; calves 600; lower

east Franklin str> • t. to reroof and paint a ham. and to Mrs. Alice Wcrnrk'\ 505 east Columbia street, to re-

roof her home.

The meeting was one of the briefest held by the council members in

some time.

Mr. .md Mrs. J. J. Ector and son who have been in .Seattle for some months, are here for a few days before going to Tucson, Arizona where

they will reside.

AT BANK tjl ESTION 8

20 Years Ago

IN GREENCASTLE

WASHINGTON Oft. 24 (UP) President Roouevelt today laughed away questions as to whether the government ha I under considerm-

trend on all classes except low grade tion plan i foi the creation ol

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Uarnaby cntertained the Dinner club.

cows; choice steers hold up to $9.00; most early sales $3.50 to *6.00; one load 686 lb. heifers $6.50; few cows $2.50 to $5.50: low cutters and cut-

Charles Rockwell was a visitor in 1 l crH $1-25 to 2.50; vealers steady $8 the city from Cloverdale. i down. Lee McKee of Bainbridge transact- Sheep 2 00(1, lambs little changed; od business here. ! ewes and wethers $6 50 to mostly Gosport defeated the Greenyustle $6.75,^some held higher; bucks $1.00 high school football team. 12 to 0 on threwouts *3.50 to * *5.00; McKcen field. * slaughter sheep *150 to $2.50. • • 1

trsl bank. The president dismiss'- I the question by inquiring who raised that ghost. Rumors that such a central bank might be established have circulated in financial circles for months. Central banks! in charge of all banking transactions and most f ! scal affairs, now operate in a number of European countries.

& Today's Weather ft and ft 0 Local Temperature ft 0 O O O ft ft ■:; > 0 ft ft ft ft Partly cloudy, somewhat warmer In east, possibly showers in central and northwest portions tonight; | Thursday generally fair, cooler In west and central portiona.